Flash and his relatives came back from the movie theaters in the afternoon, "Man who knew Dora the explorer could be such a action packed movie!", They'd all gotten back from watching Dora and The Lost city of Gold

"Alright!, This time I'm gonna take a back seat and Spark is cooking!", Aunt Spark crossed her arms angrily

"How was I supposed to know that stupid monkey would talk, and have a deep male voice! That's So Bull!",

Aunt Thunderstar chuckled a little and kissed Spark on the cheek, "Have Fun!", Aunt Thunderstar walked into the living room to watch some daytime television with Snowstorm meanwhile Firestar gestures Flash to his room so she can continue to ask questions about Spider-Man

Flash let out a shar exhale and lied on his bed, "Okay So I assume you want to know more about Ol'Spidey right?"

Firestar nodded her head in excitement and interest, "Yup!"

"Okay Shoot!"

"So what was your toughest battle ever? I mean you must have thousands right?!", Wow she really has no idea of how long I've actually been doing this thing

Flash chuckled at his cousin's cluelessness, "Well considering the fact I've been doing this since October or somethin' and I've only gone up against two real threats in Canterlot, I'm gonna have to go with the one that happened recently, you know with Electro"

Firestar was really excited, "Oh, Oh tell me what happened! Pleaaaaasssse!"

"No", Flash shook his head bluntly, "Look Firestar you're kick ass and all but it would be way too irresponsible to tell you a violent story, which though ended in one of the most interesting ways ever" Flash was relatively uninterested in telling Firestar about his Spider-Man anecdotes for the sole purpose of not wanting to scare her with the things he's been through.

"Oh come on! You sound like my Moms", she said letting out a sigh of annoyance, "Please!" She really, really wanted to know about Spider-Man's fights and protested.

"No"

"Pretty Please!"

"No!"

"Pretty Please with a cherry on top covered in sprink--"

Flash got annoyed and let out a deep sigh, "Fine I'll tell you one part, ONLY ONE!", Flash sat up straight and stretched his arms

"Okay", He groaned, "So me and The Green Goblin had been fighting at the Canterlot Towers and he had knocked me into a wall with a piece of debris an--"

"Wait?!", Firestar interrupted Flash, "You guys fought at a hotel!? AWESOME!" She was already enjoying it too much

Flash rolled his eyes and sighed but he continued with his story, "Annnywayyys!, Goblin had was about to stab me with a sharpened metal beam while I laid on the floor feeling super weak!"

"Then what happened!", Firestar said anticipating for the story to continue

"Okay Geez", Flash laughed, "You are more hyperactive than your sister I swear!" Flash continued with his story, "Goblin was about to stab me with his quote on quote spear but luckily I caught it! with all my might I caught it but I was hesitating to keep it away from my body I legit thought I was gonna die!", Flash paused for a minute to catch a breath as he had somewhat startled Firestar with that statement but she gestured for him to go on. Flash took a deep breath as this moment was something he still thought about sometimes"Alright this next part is still something that has always stayed in my mind so brace yourself." He cleared his throat and began to speak, "So as I was trying to keep that bloody spear away from me Goblin told me something that would make me completely snap!"

Firestar nodded her head in anticipation

"He told me that he would kill me! and then mom! and anyone else who was close to me, he would find them and kill them! And that was what set me off and gain the upper hand!"

"WHAT?! REALLY!?", Firestar blew up inside scaring Flash a little, "DUDE! WHAT DID YOU DO TO HIM! TELL ME! TELL ME!", Her eyes widened and her smile only grew bigger

"OKAY CHILL!", Flash said trying to calm Firestar down and also trying to keep the conversation at a low as he didn't want him being Spider-Man to spread in the household like wildfire "I grabbed his neck! I began choking him! throwing away his weapon and letting all my anger get the better of me! I threw him across the destroyed hotel room and began to really pummel him!"

"So then... What happened to the Goblin then after you won?"

Flash paused for a moment, he knew what happened to Goblin he'd watch him unmask himself and find out that he was Micro Chips, his best friend, Flash couldn't just say that all to Firestar, she'd probably not understand, "Well.... he was arrested by police and taken away far, far away from Canterlot! Never to bee seen or heard from again!" Flash made it sound convincing but whether or not Firestar would buy it was the real question.

There was 5 seconds of silence but then Firestar spoke, "That......Was...….AWESOME! No wonder you inspire so many people!"

"Really?! Because most people in Canterlot still hate Spider-Ma--, w-well me, most people hate me, well so to speak", Flash looked offly confused

"Are you kidding me", Firestar said, "Everyone in Japan loves you! Even adults, in fact I kinda like Spider-Man now, and I hated him before, um, well no offense!"

"Oh um okay!"

Firestar was filled with so much excitement she had to ask Flash one more thing, "So why'd you really come to Japan huh?New foe? Taking down a crime syndicate? What, WHAT?

Flash chuckled a little, "Well I still came here to have a vacation, but, there's some new villain or whatever that I kinda have to turn in to the police"

"Who?", Firestar asked

"Some Guy named Serpent, I-I think he's called himself the Golden Serpent, I don't really know", Flash shrugged but he soon stopped when he saw Firestar's eyes had shot up wide opened in disbelief

"You've gone up against the Golden Serpent? Dude! He's the most wanted Hitman in Tokyo, he's the master of so many forms of Martial Arts even from other countries! He even has some Yakuza contacts, he's not just some guy--"

"Alright, Alright I get the picture", Flash said calming his cousin down, "But even so it's not like he's a lunatic with powers, but I gotta admit he is really good at hand to hand combat"

Firestar sighed in relief to know Flash acknowledged Serpent's abilities, "So uh, how do you plan on taking him down?"

Flash shrugged, "I have no idea, it's not like I have is location, and plus this is a huge city it'll take forever to find this guy!"

Firestar agreed but then realized something, "Oh I got it!", Flash looked at her interested, "Like I said before Serpent has contacts with the Yakuza, and if I'm not mistaken most Yakuza members hang out at Shinjuku area"

"Go on!"

"So, we track one of the Yakuza members and if they get close enough to Serpent then we'll be able to track him !"

Flash liked the idea but then thought about the flaws in it, "Well it sounds good, but here's the thing", Flash began to list the flaws, "A. Finding a Yakuza Member will be hard because I have no doubt in my mind they dress in regular clothing, B. I don't have any sort of tracking device, and smartphones are way to big and noticeable and C. I don't know where the Shinjuku area is"

Firestar closed her eyes and looked Mary Sueish having an expected smile across her face, "Don't worry I got you covered", Wow that's the first time I've heard someone say that sentence

"This may sound a bit weird but I know one person who is associated with the Yakuza", Flash's eyes widened in shock, "He's our next door neighbour and I've heard him have numerous conversations with Yakuza members over his phone, and I've seen him hangout with a few Yakuza members at his house, so there's one lead"

Firestar and Flash went to her room for a quick minute and she grabbed a small fly, "See this?", Flash looked at it as if it were a no brainer

"A Fly?"

"Not just any Fly", Firestar assured Flash, "This is a robotic fly, something that can be tracked with any of my devices and it has cameras in it so I can see what's going on, I call it Smoll ", Flash looked impressed, even though he loved robotics he didn't think of the endless possibilities the subject had

"And I know where the Shinjuku area is so were all set", Flash had a skeptical look at Firestar

"Look I'm not one to doubt or be a party pooper but, this Superhero stuff can get dark sometimes, are you absolutely sure you want to actually, well invest time in any of it?"

Firestar nodded her head instantly, Flash knew he couldn't argue with someone as headstrong as her but at the same time he was really, really skeptical on letting some kid do something that sometimes gets really deep and dark

"Oh yeah!", Flash realized, "This may sound odd and a little cliché but I need to learn some Martial Arts!", Firestar looked confused as this had come out of nowhere but she kept listening

"Okay so uhh, Serpent, like you said he's really skilled in Marital Arts right?", Firestar nodded, "Well see, I need to be in contrast with all of his fighting styles so, do you know any teachers or something?"

Firestar stroked her chin and one teacher in particular popped in her head, "Oh! Um Okay, so there's this guy right, some people call him The Master! He's been teaching Martial Arts for years, he's even taught my Mom Spark and me well he taught my other Mom a thing or two", Firestar went into her drawer again and pulled out a paper she had from 5 years ago which had the address to "The Master's" School

"Go here!, and don't worry he's taught people from other countries so he speaks English", Flash took the paper, "Anyways, here's what were gonna do"

Flash and Firestar were talking about how they were gonna execute everything before night fell

*****

"Okay, were on!", Firestar and Flash were monitoring Smoll and controlling it with an Xbox Controller, luckily the small robot didn't have fly vision so everything was pretty crystal clear

"Wow this is like a video game about a spy movie, this is cool!", Flash said, "So uh what now?"

"Well we wait and see", Flash and Firestar continued to watch the live feed until they saw a man wearing a black trench coat and black fedora walk past Smoll

"Is this lucky guy?", Flash asked

Firestar nodded her head and controlled Smoll to follow him, Smoll followed the man to his car, Smoll made it's way into the car and hid in a gap between the headrest and the rest of the seat

"Well were gonna be waiting for a little bit", Firestar informed Flash, "Sooooo, wanna play Go (囲碁 igo)?", Flash had no idea what that was

"I have no idea what that is"

"Its a board game, here I'll show you how to play", Both Flash and Firestar were playing the board game for around 20 minutes when they heard the Car stop, Firestar knew exactly where the man was, a random Shinjuku Alleyway, and she heard the voices of other people having a conversation about stuff

"Finally!", Flash said relieved he didn't have to keep losing at a board game

Firestar controlled Smoll and moved it out of the car and flew into a corner of the alleyway and she zoomed in to see what the Yakuza were talking about

"So, what's the deal?", Flash asked very hastily, "Anything about Serpent?"

Firestar nodded her head, "No not really, it's juts mainly some hit lists, drug rackets, trafficking, you know the normal gang activity I guess"

Firestar and Flash, well mainly Firestar listened in but came up empty handed in their search for Serpent, "So know what?", Flash asked

"Well I guess were gonna have to keep gambling, my best bet is to have Smoll follow one of these men", There were 3 other people who were talking to Firestar's next door neighbour

"I'm gonna put my bet on Mr. Mustache, he seems like he would know Serpent", Flash said with a quizzical look

Firestar shrugged in agreeance and flew onto Mr. Mustache's back, "Okay so we have one thing possibly done, now it's time you met "The Master""

"Okay, Shoot!", Flash said

"Okay so, he's been rumored to have learned all forms of Martial Art during his life time, and he's taught, hundreds if not thousands of students."

Flash stroked his chin in curiosity, "But even though he has taught so many, a lot of his students have also either dropped out or quit", Flash's enthusiastic smirk flushed away after hearing that

"Why?", He asked

"Flash, Marital Arts is not something you can learn in a day, you have to have the patience to endure the trainings", Flash thought about it for a moment, he knew Firestar was right and now he was contemplating whether or not he can learn a form of martial arts in time, despite the fact he's only been in japan for a few days he realized that everyone has a
different learning level and by the time he masters a form a martial arts it might take up more than a month

Okay, so I keep underestimating things, but can I really do this? Do I really have the capabilities, Spider-Man or Not to learn a form?, Flash was in deep thought for a while leaving Firestar bewildered on what Flash was thinking about, but Flash came to a conclusion

"Alright, what time does he open or close?", Flash asked

"I don't remember, but it's only 8 so you might have some time", Flash nodded his head and got up but before he went to his room he had one question, "So what he teach you anyways?"

Firestar got up and got into an offensive stance, "Judo!", Flash kind of laughed at Firestar because to him she looked kind of silly

"Oh man that stance just came out of nowhe--", Flash's Spider-Sense went off and he saw Firestar about to high kick him, Flash ducked but then his Spider-Sense went off again and Firestar put him in a chokehold, Oh I have made error, Firestar preformed a Judo throw throwing Flash behind her knocking him into the ground, Flash could've done something but he could've hurt Firestar so he decided not to do anything

"Don't underestimate Judo!", Firestar said smugly

Flash put his index finger in the air, "Point taken", He groaned

Flash got off the floor and ran into his room, "I'll be right back!", Flash got into his room and closed the door behind him, he got out his Spider-Man costume, his jacket and shorts and put it on only holding the mask in his hand, and he ran back into Firestar's room

"Wow!, it looks even cooler when you put it on!", Flash smirked and put on his mask

Spider-Man's robotic lenses squinted and widened signifying that he was just testing them to see if they still worked, "Okay I won't be gone for too long", Spider-Man opened Firestar's window

"Wait!", Firestar said abruptly stopping, you might need these, Firestar handed Spider-Man an earpiece and a small 360 degrees Camera, "Just in case, I can warn you"

"Well I don't have any bars, my LTE plan doesn't cover overseas"

"Not to worry!", Firestar went into her drawer and handed Spider-Man her extra phone which had LTE

"Oh uh thanks, wait why the camera?", Spider-Man asked inspecting it

"Oh well I can't see through your Lenses because your suit doesn't have any cybernetics of any sort for me to see through your lenses like Smoll, and also because I want to see what it's like swinging through the air like Spider-Man", Firestar gave Spider-Man a nervous smile

Spider-Man took off his mask for a minute and put on the earpiece, he put the mask back on and put the phone in his jacket pocket and zipped it up and put the Camera on the belt buckle of his pants

"Okay I'll be back', Spider-Man said before jumping out the window and swinging off, Wow who knew Firestar, if not anyone could like me that much

Author's Note

Okay so I'm speaking from November 2019 and this was like released all the way back in September, and to make things even more nostaligc for me I wrote this chapter in August, 3 MONTHS! Time flows fast!

I remember spending nights writing this, I was just so excited to be writing this in a different setting and because I was, and still am a new writer.

So now to the biggest question, why I changed it, well ISSUE #2 rebooted is not released yet but I took out that scene that was in the original version of this chapter as the story took a different approach.

So uh yeah!