Misunderstandings

[New York, Hell's kitchen, 6 hours after the incident]

Marc was running, jumping from roof to roof, making his way to the harbor of Hell's kitchen.
The full moon in the sky was making him overflow with power, his strength and durability increasing immensely with every minute the moon shown down on him.

After Jake's shit show a few hours ago he had quickly taken back control and started the search for the serial killer.
He would have liked to leave New York as soon as possible with the police being on his trail, but he and the others agreed that they should find and stop the serial killer before leaving.
Even Khonshu had agreed with them, saying that scum like that doesn't deserve a place in this world and that it was Marc's duty as his moon knight to get rid of him.
Children were travelers of the night as well after all.

With Jake's help, especially with several contacts in New York from old times, they had quickly found a lead to the serial killer, now apparently serial killers if their intel was any good.
Same intel guaranteed that the men were going to be at the harbor in Hell's kitchen this evening, apparently receiving a weapon shipment there.
Marc had wanted to arrive early to scout out the area and get a quick overview before he had to fight.

He was also concerned about the famous vigilante that considered this part of the city his own turf, Daredevil. Honestly, he didn't know what to think of the devil of hell's kitchen.
The man was brutal, ruthless but also kept to a moral code, never killing anyone.
Marc couldn't say the same about himself...
But in general the guy seemed decent, and he was able to work with that.
At least he wasn't murdering kids for fun.

So as he was making his way across hell's kitchen he kept out an eye for the horned vigilante, not wanting the man to take him by surprise.
He had heard the devil could get really pissed about other heroes or vigilantes roaming around his city part, and he really didn't want to get into any more fights than he had today.

"We're almost there." , Jake supplied in his mind, knowing New York the best he was able to tell where they were even in the dark.
And just as he said the harbor soon came into view, making Marc stop at the edge of a roof, white cloak flowing in the wind behind him as he stared down at the ground.

It was unusually quite , he thought, but maybe it had something to do with the feared vigilante's presence here, who knows.

As he continued surveying the area he suddenly felt a shiver go down his spine, feeling like someone was watching him.
As he turned around it was only the full moon that greeted him, so he turned back, mentally smacking himself for his paranoia.

"Someone is coming my son." ,Khonshu said, suddenly next to him and his words were all he needed before he spun around, blade held at the throat of... Spiderman?

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[New York, Queens, 6 hours after the incident]

[Iron dad]: Hey kiddo
[Iron dad]: was wondering if you will come over later?

[Spider-son]: I was planning to! I've been waiting for lab day all week.

[Spider-son]: Also May asks if it's ok for me to stay the weekend. She wants to do a trip with her friends from work

[Iron dad]: sure kid you can come over
But lab day will be difficult sorry
[Iron dad]: :(

[Spider-son]: Whyyyyyy??

[Iron dad]: Coulson called a meeting with all of us Apparently a super-powered serial killer is in New York
[Iron dad]: oh hey Thor is finally here, meetings gonna start soon

[Spider-son]: Ok! :) I will let you to it

[Iron dad]: nononono
Don't you dare leave me alone in this meeting
You know how much I hate them!

[Spider-son]: But isn't this important Mr. Stark?
[Spider-son]: You should probably pay attention.

[Iron dad]: .....
[Iron dad]: fineeeee

[Spider-son]: :)

[Iron dad]: this guy is apparently connected to the night sky incident

[Spider-son]:THE night sky incident?
The one where the sky was tripping on acid?

[Iron dad]: I... I guess??

[Spider-son]: So anything important I should know about this guy you're trying to find?
I'm an Avenger now too!

[Iron dad]: yeah kid Imma send you a file later...

[Spider-son]: Thanks!

[Iron dad]: shit shit Gotta go now bambino, we found his location

[Spider-son]:Where?!
[Spider-son]: Dad!! Where is it!!??
[Spider-son]: Hello??
[Spider-son]: Tony!!!
[Spider-son]: Mr. Stark....

Peter sighed, putting his phone away.
Where he put it while wearing his Spider suit?
That'll be a secret for now, so shhh.
It was time to go back patrol anyway.

He had planned to visit Hell's kitchen today, hang out with DD if the man was around.
It was still strange to know that he was actually welcome over there now and didn't have to fear getting his ass kicked by the devil of Hell's kitchen.

The guy was actually super nice once you got to know him! Or maybe he was just nice to Peter because he saw him as a kid...(which he was NOT. He was almost 17!)

Ever since they met that one night, Peter bleeding out in a dumpster and DD patching him up in his home, they had kinda become friends.
They teamed up regularly (unknown to his dad and the Avengers duh), mostly fighting low rank gangster in the streets of Hell's kitchen.
He knew the older man was only going on easy missions with him, doing the dangerous ones himself , and even though Peter wanted to complain he understood that DD was only trying to protect him.

And maybe, just maybe, the more missions they'd do together, the more Daredevil would trust him to take it up with the big guys.
Maybe.

When he arrived in Hell's kitchen it was quiet, unusually so. Most nights he could at least hear some bad guys getting beat up by the other vigilante or some people talking inside their homes.
But now?
It was dead quiet, as if this part of New York knew something was going to happen this night, as if they were hiding.

The silence would have made him nervous normally but his Spider-sense hadn't gone of at all, staying quiet as well.
So it was probably fine...right?

Something in his peripheral vision moved, making him jump for cover almost instinctively.
A white figure was jumping from roof to roof, making no sound at all when their feet hit the rooftops.

Intrigued Spiderman started to follow, keeping a healthy amount of distance between them.
They didn't really look menacing or like a villain, so it was probably a new vigilante!
Oh Sith spit!
He could be the first one to meet this new hero!
Time to make a good impression Peter!

And with that thought in mind he dared to etch closer and closer to the man in white, who was standing ominously at the edge of a roof, scouting out the harbor of Hell's kitchen. As he was just a few feet behind him, his Spider-sense started tingling, alerting him to something.
What that something was Peter couldn't figure out before his attention was quickly captured by the guy turning around, moon-shaped knife thing now pointed at his throat.

"Ehm..hi?" , he squeaked out in a voice that was way higher than he had intended it to be.
Dammit.
The white eyes staring back at him were blinking in confusion but he didn't remove the knife and oh God maybe Peter had made the wrong assumption about this dude being a good guy- and oh thank God he was putting the thing away.

The man was now shaking his head muttering something under his breath not even Peter could understand before looking back up at him and tilting his head in confusion.

"Spiderman? I didn't know that you operated in this area."

He huffed out a breath.
"Yeah this is usually DD's turf but I hang out here some time, helping him or just doing my own thing."

There was a little nod from the man before he turned back around, looking down at the harbor.
Peter stepped up next to him, looking for the thing the man was watching.

"Sooo...are you some kind of new vigilante?
If you are new I can introduce you to the others.
We small heroes have to worm together after all!
We even have a group chat you know. I can add you.
Also, what's your name?
Real or made up is both fine, doesn't matter.
We understand the need of privacy, so we mostly only know the made up names of each other."

"It's Moon Knight, kid."
The man- Moon Knight huffed out in an amused laugh.
And ugh, had the guy just called him kid?

"Why does everyone think I'm a kid?!"

"Because you are kiddo."

"It's actually Spiderman. Hear that?
SpiderMAN, M-A-N."

"Whatever you say Spiderman."

"What are you looking for Moon Knight?
I could probably help! I know my way around here."

The man seemed to think about something before he exclaimed: "I'm looking for 2 guys that should arrive here for a weapons deal soon.
I have business with them, they need to pay."

Ah, so Mr. Moon Knight was on the more extreme side of the vigilante scale.
Peter was sure he couldn't be extremer than Deadpool but you never know...

"What did they do for you to hunt them like that?", he asked, because it was probably important to know why the new guy was killing people before he decided to judge him.

He heard Moon Knight gulp before silently telling him about the dead children.
It was a lot.
Especially when those 2 apparently did something like that regularly, just for fun.
It was sick. And not in the meme kind of way, in the real, disturbing kind of way.
Duddenly he couldn't care less if the man next to him killed them or whatever he planned to do with them.

"I can help you take down the weapon dealers if you want.
I and DD did take down some last month. But I'll warn you. I'm not gonna kill or seriously injure anyone so if you're going to get annoyed at me for that, tell me before the shit show starts."
He half expected the man to tell him to leave if he wasn't serious enough about the job to kill, right then and there, but he simply huffed out a laugh.
Peter could swear the man was smiling under the mask, but it was hard to tell.

"Nah kid, you're good. I guess you can just wrap them up in your webs or something."

"Great! When is this thing supposed to start?"

They suddenly heard cars coming up, voices accompanying them.
Moon Knight stiffened.

"Now."

"What's the plan?"

The vigilante seemed to look at the men exciting the vehicles before his gaze lingered on a pair of men, both dressed in black pants and green jackets.
"See those 2? The two in the green jackets?" , he said gesturing in their direction.

Peter nodded.

"Good. Those are the 2 I'm here for. Let's go."

But before the vigilante dressed in white could jump of the roof Peter pulled him back.

"Wait a second!
How do you even know that these 2 are the killers?
It could be any of them!"

Moon Knight looked behind him, but when he turned around, no one was there.
"I have my sources." , he said before jumping down.
Wow. That didn't sound ominous at all.

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[New York, Hell's kitchen, 6,5 hours after the incident]

Looking back over his shoulder, Marc could see Spiderman following him.
He was thankful for the help.

'He shouldn't be fighting with us Marc.
He is only a child...'

'I know Steven but...he has been doing this for a while now. And I doubt he would have left anyway.
Better he fights with us here to protect him, than on his own.'

'Marc is right Steven. The kid is safer with us.'

'I guess you're right...just please leave an eye on him Marc, yeah?'

'I promise. I won't let another child be hurt...'

When the goons advanced on him he quickly fell into the dull motion of punching and throwing, as Jake would put it, his 'random bullshit'.
It really wasn't that hard to fight them all as he had expected.

'Guess we're just used to weirder shit.' , Jake spoke up inside their mind.
'Probably.'

He used a pause in the men's advances to look over to Spiderman, checking if the kid was ok.
The teen in question was currently webbing up several armed men, all the while making jokes as if he wasn't fighting people trying to kill him.
Spiderman then spotted Marc looking at him, excitingly waving in his direction.
Marc hesitantly waved back, something in his chest warming.

'I like the kid.'

'He is so sweet!
Oh Marc! Please let us adopt him!'

'I have to agree.'

Marc chuckled.
Steven and Jake had a point, the kid was charming in a way.
He kind of reminded him of...of...
No...he couldn't think about that now.

"Hey kid!" , he called out as he punched someone in the face.
"How are you holding up?"

"I'm great Mr. Moon Knight!
You're a great fighting partner, we should team up more often!"

"Thanks kid but I don't think I'll be staying much longer in New York." , he answered apologetically.
At the kid's sad expression (it was still weird to see those eyes convey the so much emotion) he quickly added: "But you can add me to this chat you said you had. The one with the vigilantes?"

He could see that the kid was going to happily agree but before Spider man could get another word out of his mouth, a robotic voice rang out through the air, making them both startle:

"Yeah I don't think so Mr. Toilet wrap. Put your hands in the air and all that shit you got it?"

Not again...