Mission
“Now tell me what the mission is again so that I know you understand.” Coulson stood at the front of the circular desk surrounded by the young spider teens. Spider-Woman spoke first
“A team of HYDRA agents are planning to infiltrate a S.H.I.E.L.D armory.”
“Those dudes wanna make off with some pretty big guns.” Agent Venom added
“Our mission is to stop them before they can get away with anything.” Kid Arachnid said
“And if possible capture one for questioning as to what they are planning.” Iron Spider finished.
“Correct.” Coulson turned to Spider-Man who had been silent the whole time. “Spider-Man!”
He jumped and looked up to Coulson who gave the teen a stern look “Did you get all that?”
“Huh? Oh yeah. HYDRA agents, S.H.I.E.L.D armory, stop ‘em. Got it.” and Spider-Man went back to staring at his hands. Coulson and the other Web-Warriors stared at him for a long moment all confused looks on their faces. All except Scarlet Spider who’s the only one that knows why he’s like this.
Coulson sucked in a deep breath and let it out Deal with whatever it is after the mission. As long as he knows what to do and doesn’t screw it up it doesn’t matter right now.
“Head down to the landing bay and prepare to depart. Dismissed.” and he left.
Spider-Man was first to leave the room with Scarlet Spider right behind him. The others still confused snapped out of it and ran after their leader. They came out see the two already quite a few feet away and Scarlet with his hand on Spidey’s shoulder.
Something’s wrong I know it. Spider-Woman thought watching the duo suspiciously as she caught up with them. She was walking next to Spidey now and opened her mouth to speak but closed it as she felt an uneasiness coming from her boyfriend. Yeah something is ‘definitely’ wrong here...But… She glanced back and noticed Iron Spider about to grab Spidey’s shoulder and she quickly and very quietly stretched out her arm stopping his before it reached its target. Iron Spider as well as the others looked at her in confusion but she just shook her head. Iron Spider just scoffed and tried to move closer to the spider in front of him only for Spider-Woman to tighten her grip on his arm and glare at him. He shook with fear and pulled his arm back to where she let go giving him, everyone one last glare before facing forward.
Whatever it is bothering Peter we can talk about it after the mission, but what he doesn’t need right now is someone pressuring him into talking. And if the guys know what’s good for them they’ll let it go for now.
While in the Spider-Jet, Spider-Man kept quiet the whole trip as did everyone else, no one said a single word mostly because they knew if they tried Spider-Woman would objected. The silence broke as they came up to the S.H.I.E.L.D armory and Spidey had to force himself to put Bryan aside for now as they focused on the mission.
“We’re approaching the armory. Web-Warriors be alert we don’t know if they are already here or not.”
Just like Spidey the rest of the team pushed their worries aside for the moment as they focused on the task at hand. The team left the Spider-Jet and began their trek to the large building holding the many dangerous weapons of S.H.I.E.L.D. It didn’t take long until Scarlet’s spider-sense went off and he quickly pushed Spider-Girl out the way as a blast hit the spot where they had previously been standing.
“Alpha Team Attack!” came a voice from the distant and all at once everyone’s spider-sense went off as a group of HYDRA agents came running out of all directions!
“Web-Warriors! Divide and Conquer!” Spider-Man ordered and everyone scattered taking on the agents. They were outnumbered a bit given that there are 10 agents and 7 spiders, Spider-Woman was dealing with three while Agent Venom had two on his back, literally.
Come on buddy where are you? Spider-Man scanned all around trying to find the source of that voice he knew for certain had come from the leader. Spidey-sense! Spider-Man jumped dodging a kick as he landed next to his assailant.
“There you are! Any chance you’ll save me the trouble and just give up and tell us why you’re here.”
“Heh. Not a chance Spider-Boy!” he ran up to Spider-Man swung his fist, Spider-Man dodged it easily
“That’s Spider-Man to you.” and he kicked the agent in the back knocking him into a tree.
“Really? Cause you sure don’t look like a man to me!” as Spider-Man got closer he kicked him hard in the stomach sending him backward
“Hey! You’re one to talk! You’re no bigger than me...Wait...what?” It was then he realized that all the agents, their figures and their voices “They’re all kids...like us-Ouf!” while lost in thought Spider-Man was knocked down by the agent who now had him pinned to the ground.
“Maybe so, but I wasn’t the one who dropped my guard so easily.” and the agent reached for Spider-Man’s mask, while he had a mask on himself. And though he couldn’t see it Spider-Man could tell he was grinning.
Dammit! He isn’t..he is! I gotta get him off me now!
Spider-Man struggled to get free but the agent was strong. There ain’t no way I’m being unmasked by this guy! Not this easily! In a desperate attempt to get free Spider-Man swung his head forward and smacked the agent as hard as he could. The agent cried out and a hand went up to his forehead, Spider-Man rolled over and now he had the agent pinned down.
“Now tell me why you’re here before-” the agent smacked him in the head as he did before.
Ok. I’ll admit I should have seen that coming.
The agent tried to get up and run but Spider-Man grabbed him by the leg and pulled him back. The two wrestled for a long time, multiple times the agent went for Spider-Man’s mask. But Spidey wasn’t about to let that happen so easily. In the end Spider-Man had him pinned once again but this time the agent had manage to get one arm free and gripped Spider-Man’s mask tight.
Grrr! Alright fine you wanna play that game so can I! Spider-Man gripped the agent’s and at once both masks went off!
“That’s it! Now who-” Peter froze as he stared at the agent under him finally seeing his face...and it looked all too familiar.
“I...I...N-no...this...this can’t be real?!...This has to be…”
Peter shuddered not sure what to say or think as the kid with the light brown hair and dark blue eyes glared at him. The agent stared at Peter with just as much confusion then knocked Peter back and stood up, but he didn’t run instead both boys continued to stare at each other.
“B-Bryan?” Peter asked and the agent immediately took a couple steps back.
“How the hell do you know my name?!” Bryan asked but he didn’t have time for an answer before-
“SPIDER-MAN! WE’RE COMING!” came the voices of the Web-Warriors, when they arrived all gasped in shock at the unmasked HYDRA agent.
“Hey genius snap out of it!” Bryan snapped out of his shock and turned to see the rest of his team behind him.
“What do we do now?!” another asked. He looked back and forth from his team to the Web-Warriors then taking one last glance at Peter.
“Everyone Fallback!” Bryan shouted as all the agents threw down their smoke bombs causing all the spiders to cough and sputter.
The smoke cleared and of course the HYDRA agents were gone. But that was the least of their worries, everyone turned to Peter who was still holding the mask in his hand his own having been dropped layed on the ground in front of him as he continued in to stare in the direction where the agents had been, where his brother had been…