Chapter 30
Fisk?
Tony looked at the large man smirking at Peter.
Fisk. Where had he heard that name before?
"I truly hope your worth the time to me. I wouldn't mind getting rid of you as well, but I promised Osborn I'd leave your fate to him as payment."
Tony watched the white eyes of Peter's mask narrow. There was something he was missing here.
"You realize you've got the entirety of the Avengers and the vigilantes of New York looking for you?" Peter sneered.
"Oh, I'm fully aware that all your little friends are looking for Osborn." The man smirked.
Suddenly, it hit.
Fisk! Wilson Fisk! The rising 'star' from Hell's Kitchen.
Tony had never really paid the man any attention as his business was pretty exclusive to Hell's Kitchen and improving it. He was technically small time to Tony, but did have promise if he decided to start expanding, which Tony had assumed he would.
Still, what business did Wilson Fisk had with Dea-
Tony froze.
How could he be that stupid?
Peter wasn't a bait for Deadpool.......he was a bait for Daredevil.
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Harley followed silently behind Wade and Daredevil. His head was spinning with the new revelations.
Peter Parker was Spider-Man.
The cute guy he had been desperately trying to win over was the same man he had been feuding with.
What a mess.
He glared at the back of Wade Wilson's head. Perhaps, if he had gotten to know Spider-Man and Peter before the mercenary, things would be different. Maybe if he had actually taken time to better figure out the story between Peter and Tony, things might be different.
Not that he was sure he wanted to know the story between Tony and Peter.
When it was just Spider-Man, with his attitude, it had been easy for Harley to hate him. Knowing now that it was Peter, and having spent a little time with him, Harley couldn't stop the nagging feeling that maybe Tony wasn't at innocent as he thought.
Still, Harley respected Tony. He looked up to the man and really couldn't find it in himself to believe that anything he uncovered between Tony and Peter would change those feelings.
Because it was obvious Peter didn't want it to.
He could have ousted Tony for whatever had happened, but he didn't. So either the problem wasn't all Tony, or Peter was really just that intent of keeping it between the two of them.
He had to respect Peter for it.
Anyone else might have jumped at the chance to get people on their side, but not Peter. Sure, he obviously had his vigilante friends and family, but it was also clear that they trusted Peter and left the choice up to him. Whatever he decided, whether they liked it or not, they respected it.
"You keeping up back there, brat." Wade tossed over his shoulder.
"Don't push your luck, mercenary." Harley sneered. "I'm only working with you for Peter's sake."
"Don't tell me you still think you have a chance with him!" Wade growled.
"Shut it! Both of you!" Matt hissed. "I don't have the patience to hear you argue."
Both men closed their mouths as Matt seethed next to them. Wade imagined he could see the ground smoking under the man's feet.
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"There's no way all these tunnels will lead to where we need to be." Natasha frowned. "Spider-Man and Tony are gone. We're not all going to end up in the same place."
"We've been walking a while." Clint replied. "Even if we turn back and take the tunnel they did, there's no way we'd catch up to them."
"Then maybe we need to be thinking outside the box." Natasha said, stopping.
"What are you thinking?"
"Maybe these tunnels aren't as clean cut as they look. I mean, if I had an elaborate system of moving goods, I'd also have contingency plans."
"You think the tunnels all connect?" Clint asked, looking around.
"I think it's worth keeping an eye out for possible side routes, or even the ceiling."
"Well then," Clint grinned. "Let's put these spy skills to use."
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"Keep an eye out for side or even top exits from the tunnels."
Clint's voice came through the comms.
Felicia looked over at Bucky as he stopped and looked around. They didn't notice anything where they were, but that didn't mean they wouldn't come across one, or more, if they kept going.
"I hate to tell you big guy," Felicia smirked. "But I can promise you my eyesight is better in dark and dim light than yours."
Bucky raised an eyebrow and Felicia turned, making her way further down the tunnel.
"Enhancement?"
"Night vision."
Bucky stopped as she threw a saucy wink over her shoulder.
"Trust me, it comes in handy.......at the most interesting of times."
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"So, he goes through all this trouble of capturing us in the room......and never considered the strength of the actual walls?" Luke groaned, running his hand down his face as Jessica punched at the steadily crumbling wall.
"A few more well placed hits and we'll have a hole we can get through." Jessica grinned.
"Get to it Cage. Danny and I aren't gonna do it all."
Luke smirked, cracking his knuckles and throwing a punch. The walls cracked and crumbled sheet rock busted away.
"Looking good. I think you and Rand can handle it from here." Jessica smirked, settling herself against the opposite wall and watching.
"Chop chop boys."
"Well, you heard the lady." Danny shrugged.
It didn't take long to bust through.
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Frank Castle didn't do subtle.
Kicking the door in, he stepped into the dark inside of Fisk Tower. He hated crooked business dealers.
He hated them even more when they went after people he actually liked.
Picking up his duffle, Frank strolled down the long corridors, ignoring the cameras "hidden" in corners. So what if anyone knew he was coming, it wasn't like he had a problem playing dirty.
"Big shot billionaires." Frank scoffed. "They're either disgustingly crooked, or arrogantly obnoxious. Now, if I was an insane, serum high piece of shit, where would I hide?"
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Tony watched as Fisk circled Peter, analyzing him.
"I wonder just how old you are, Spider-Man. You've been under the red menace's watch for some time now. Long enough to make you the perfect bait for luring him to me."
"I hate to tell you, Fisky, but Daredevil isn't coming. He's not that stupid."
Tony could hear Peter's smirk behind his mask.
Fisk chuckled as shook his head.
"I think you and I both know that's a lie. In fact, I look for him to show up very soon. We already have a few of your little friends locked away."
Peter tensed.
Tony frowned. He knew it couldn't be any of the Avengers, which only left the vigilantes Peter was always with.
So much for backup.
"Boss!"
Norman and Fisk looked up as a bloody guard stepped into the room. His right arm hung loosely at his side and his left leg left a trail of blood behind it.
"We....we have a pro-"
A bullet through the man's skull ended his warning.
"Good. I haven't missed any fun."
Peter gasped under the mask as Frank Castle, bloody and grinning madly, strolled into the room.
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"Who the hell hires all these guys?" Danny shouted, punching a guard in the face.
"You're telling me you don't have a mass of evil underlings, Rand?" Jessica cackled, slamming another into the wall.
"I don't need underlings. I run a respectable business!"
"If you have employees, you have underlings!" Luke huffed, throwing a larger man into an oncoming group.
"Whatever, let's just move. We gotta find Osborn be-"
A vent falling out the ceiling stopped the group as two people dropped down.
"Starting without us?" Clint grinned.
"We hate missing all the fun." Natasha smirked.
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Matt stopped, an odd sound ringing in his ears. Holding out his hand, he stopped Harley from following behind Wade, just in time to watch the mercenary go flying into one wall as a hole was knocked into the other.
"Holy shit!" Harley yelled, immediately encased in the Iron Lad armor.
"Matt!"
Harley watched in shock as the platinum blonde woman and Bucky Barnes stepped into the tunnel.
"Felicia. I want to be surprised, but I'm not." Matt said with a small, but relieved smile as she wrapped herself around him in a hug.
"We have to find him, Matty." she whispered.
Matt didn't reply. There wasn't a need to.
"Where's Wilson?" Bucky asked, looking around.
"Over here under the rubble, you Sebastian Stan wanna be lookin' asshole!"
Bucky rolled his eyes, walking over and pulling the grumbling mercenary out of the rubble.
"It's not like anyone could do any more damage to that head of yours."
"I'll have you know, Petey likes my head just the way it is."
"I never said the kid had good taste."
Wade gasped as Bucky turned and walked back to where Felicia and Matt were talking.
"Lose the suit kid." Bucky grunted, passing by the still suited up Harley.
Harley glared at his back as the suit retracked.
"Let's get moving." Matt instructed. "Peter and Stark were taken in this tunnel, I'm not deviating from it."
The group nodded, moving forward.
They walked for a while before coming to a dead end.
"Are you kidding me?" Harley huffed. "No way this tunnel just ends like this."
"For once, I agree with the brat." Wade grumbled, looking around.
"Because he's right." Matt said, moving back and forth along the wall. "I can hear air hissing through the cracks."
"Are you seriously telling me there is a secret door to and out of this tunnel?" Wade asked excitedly.
"Are you seriously telling me your getting excited over something this stupid when Peter and Tony are missing?" Harley glared.
Wade ignored him, instead choosing to study the area.
Harley looked over as Felicia put her hand on his shoulder.
"Trust me, he's worried, humor is just a defense. Besides, Peter would most likely be the same way."
"Think I found the key." Bucky said, drawing everyone's attention as he pushed into a few bricks, noting the slight give.
"Suit up, kid." Matt tossed over his shoulder to Harley. "We don't know what's on the other side."
Harley felt the nanites run over him, sealing him inside his armor.
As Bucky pushed fully on the trigger, the wall began to slide to the side. Wade clapped in delight at the absolute cheesy evil villainy of the event.
As soon as the door completely opened, the sound of gunshots rang out in the area.
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Peter watched as Frank fell to the floor as a group of men ran into the room, tackling him to the ground.
"It seems as though you didn't do as through of a job of dispatching my men as you thought, Mr. Castle." Fisk smirked, his smug expression only serving to infuriate Frank more than being caught off guard.
"Perhaps your lack of proper planning should be reconsidered."
"Of let it be the perfect distraction."
Peter broke out into a grin as Jessica Jones flew into the room, a flurry of excited punches and kicks as Luke, Danny and, surprisingly, Natasha and Clint, followed behind her.
"Osborn!" Fisk growled, "I thought you said they were secure!"
"You started without us!"
Tony's eyes widened as Wade Wilson rolled into the room, guns firing. Harley flew in behind him, repulsors blasting the equipment in the room.
More guards flooded the space, trapping Bucky and Felicia right outside the door they came through in combat.
Norman growled, rushing over to a side table and picking up a syringe.
"I won't lose you again so quickly this time, Peter." he said, stabbing the needle into the side of Peter's neck.
"Peter!" Tony shouted, struggling to break out of his bonds.
Peter slumped forward, Norman catching him as the restraints were undone.
"You just always seem to be a few steps behind me, Stark." Norman sneered, throwing Peter's limp form over his shoulder.
"Put him down or a swear-"
"You'll what? You seem to be missing the picture here, Tony. Your little band of resc-"
Norman's words were cut off as another wall cracked and burst open.
Wanda, hands glowing red flew into the room, followed by the remaining team of Avengers.
Tony had never been more happy to see them.
Grabbing another syringe off his cart, Norman stabbed his leg, the green liquid flowing in.
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Fisk glared at the fighting as he stumbled back into the shadows. If he wasn't killed or captured, Norman would pay heavily for his failure.
Pressing a button, a panel opened up and he slipped inside. He had prepared for the possible problems of Norman's scheme tonight, and a helicopter had been stationed on the roof for emergency evacuation.
He couldn't be charged for a crime he wasn't here to commit after all.
"Going somewhere?"
Fisk jumped, spinning around to find Daredevil standing behind him.
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Norman cackled gleefully as the serum coursed through his veins. He could feel the raw power it provided, raising him from a normal human to something more.
"How cute that you think you'll win so easily." Norman grinned madly.
"Put Spider-Man down!" Steve shouted, shield up.
"You're so demanding, Captain." Norman laughed. "But I've worked far to hard to get to this point.
Shoving his hand in his pocket, Norman pulled out a small remote.
"Let's even the field a little bit."
"Watch out!" Sam yelled, pushing Steve out of the way as the goblin's glider flew right through where he had stood.
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Tony struggled against his bonds. He had to get out and help!
"Tony!"
Tony's head snapped to the side as Harley ran up to him, pulling the straps from him.
"Where's Peter?"
"You know who he is?" Tony asked, rubbing his wrists.
"Yeah, Daredevil spilled the beans on both his and Peter's identities when you two fell."
Tony nodded, looking around. He grinned as his eyes landed on the nanite encasing arc reactor, snatching it off the metal cart.
"What do you say kid," Tony started, attaching the reactor and hitting it. "Let's do some damage."
Harley grinned, helmet covering his face.
"FRIDAY, give me a scan of this structure." Tony said, as his helmet incased him.
"Tony, wha-"
"Get to blasting kid." Tony ordered, firing up his suit. "Scans show this place isn't supporting Fisk Tower, and we can't have anything leaving this lab. Osborn is keeping stuff here and we don't know what all that is. It's all gotta go."
Harley nodded before blasting off.
Tony snatched up the syringe Norman had stabbed Peter with.
"FRIDAY, give a reading."
"It's a strong sedative. From what records I still have of Peter, he'll burn through this, but will be sluggish for a bit."
"Great."