Flash Sentry The Spectacular Spider-Man Issue #4: Double-Trouble
Civil Discord at Fisk Towers!
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Spectacular Spider-Man, otherwise known as Flash Sentry has had one of the most wildest summers imaginable, though
Spider-Man was enjoying his time back at Canterlot City, being able to catch up with friends like Soarin, Micro Chips, Sandalwood .He'd also had gone on a few dates since he got back with Sunset finally feeling the romantic connection they once had in high school. But all good things must come to an end.
Police sirens squealed through the city and fast, Spider-Man glanced down, "Odd? If I'm not pulling my leg there's not a robbery or mugging in sight." He was indeed correct but what he was going to stop was no mere robbery, it was something much bigger.
Spider-Man dived down, only to fire another webline but this time being more closer to the road and tailing the police cruiser, he began to listen in as to what was happening, ## "FIRE FIGHT AT FISK TOWERS, I REPEAT FIRE FIGHT AT FISK TOWERS! WE NEED BACK UP!" ##
Spider-Man's lenses squinted, "Hmm? So a bunch a loonies are off at Fisk Towers shooting at people?" Spider-Man sighs, putting his index finger and thumb on the bridges of his nose, "Some things just never change!" Spider-Man arced his webline upwards and fired another one, he needed to get Fisk towers pronto!
Spider-Man out sped the police, swinging right past them, he glanced down to see two of his, 'acquaintances', "Mornin' Hothoof and Whistles!" Spider-Man saluted them with two fingers before swinging off.
The couple looked at each other in some disbelief, "Looks like the Wall-Crawler's back in town!" Bow Hothoof pointed out, "Wait wasn't he in Japan or something?"
"Well he must've left on vacation or something, good to know he's back though!" Windy Whistles said, "I kinda still like his presence, he kinda makes our day."
Bow Hothoof shrugged, "Agreed."
Meanwhile Spider-Man swung around a pole at the top of a building and flew into wall of a skyscraper, clinging onto it and looking at the scene below. "Oh my god." He gasped, it was a violent scene, his lenses widening in pure shock. He saw two sides shooting at each other, none of them being police. They all wore suits like they were a part of some mob or mafia. On another side were the police, using vehicles as roadblocks they had to bring in S.W.A.T Officers to help calm down whatever was going on.
"Looks like a civil discord!" Spider-Man said to himself.
The two sides were using cars and other debris as cover as they continued to fire their heavy artillery at one and other, unknown to Flash tis wasn't just some gang war, it was the war between Kingpin and Big Man ensuing right in front of his eyes.
He zoomed in on the scene to get a better look, it was at that moment he wished he had some sort of identity scanner or something so he could maybe figure out who these people are or what their deal was. "Well I better do questioning the old fashion way!" He also took his camera out and webbed it onto and angle in which he'd be able to get good pics, "And Jameson has been breathing down my neck recently so pictures wouldn't be the worst idea."
Spider-Man leapt off the skyscraper wall and fired a webline to get onto the wall on Fisk Towers. Swinging towards the tower he knew he had to make a scene of his own to catch their attention. Maybe I should disarm all of them, it's a bit lopsided but it's worth a shot!
Spider-Man, once he got close enough let go of his webline and stood midair, it was gonna be tough but he had to try disarming them. Extending both arms in both directions he shot out multiple strands of webbing and caught all the machine guns by their muzzels and pulled all of them out of the grasps of each thug. Webbing up all of them he threw them towards the police and landed in the middle of the 'battlefield', standing between both sides.
"Come on guys?!" Spider-Man sarcastically scolded, "Shooting each other in broad daylight-- well I mean not because I'm a criminal but still come on? You'd have more effectiveness by striping nak--"
"IT'S SPIDER-MAN! GET HIM!" It was clear that they didn't listen to any of what Spider-Man was saying, prompting them to all run at him and prompting him to leap into the air and onto a wall. Gee, so much for formal introductions!
All the thugs ran into each other and started shoving one and other, starting to fight themselves instead of go after Spider-Man, Spider-Man sighed, putting his head down and placing his palm onto his face, "These guys sometimes!" He shook his head, "They are just not the sharpest tools in the shed!"
Spider-Man, supporting himself on the wall with just his feet, outstretched his arms again, fired two weblines at two thugs within the mosh pit of fighting gangsters. He tugged them out of the mosh pit and stuck the weblines onto the wall, "Hey do me a favor and stay up here.
Spider-Man took a deep breath and jumped onto the ground, he went up near one of the officers and took a flash grenade or two, "Uhh hey could I borrow these for a moment? Thanks!" He threw them towards the mosh pit of gangsters, taking off each cap.
This caused everyone to see white for a moment as they could hear ringing in their ears, also displacing them and scatter them everywhere.
Spider-Man, knowing from video game experience that he had to act fast, did so, sprinting towards them and eventually diving towards a whole group.
"Okay it's show time!" Spider-Man straightened all his fingers together and drove a knifehand into one of the thugs from an unknown side of thugs. He pivotted and raised his leg, high kicking another thug behind him, sending him into a few displaced thugs. "Come on fellas that can't be the best you got?"
That angered a few thugs as they began rushing towards Spider-Man, that made him smirk, "This is gonna be baby food!" Spider-Man dodged an attempted grapple made by one of the thugs and countered back, backhanding him and leaping right to his face only to kick him square in it.
Spider-Man had still known all the martial arts moves Master Akira had taught him and vowed to put them to good use, so he did as he began taking on all of the thugs he possibly could.
Spider-Man leapt up in the air and fired a webline that wrapped around a street light. Spider-Man began swinging away causing the thugs to become confused. But it turns out Spider-Man wasn't doing that to leave but rather to attack them from another angle. Spider-Man let go of his webline and fired another one in the same sequence, changing his direction. He began swinging his way back towards the thugs, outsretching both his feet.
Spoder-Man rammed his feet into the back of a thug! This caused the him to fly into even more thugs and be knocked out completely. Spider-Man let go of his webline, there was still a lot more criminals to be fought at the scene, but Spider-Man was ready.
"My Spider-Senses are going crazy over here! I--" Spider-Man's lenses widened, he turned around to see a fragmentation grenade up in the air, and it was coming his way. "Woah!" He leapt into the air and shot a strand of webbing at the grenade, thinking fast he threw it into the air and watched as it exploded in the sky.
"Man if I'd not have my Spider-Sense then that would've been the closing curtains for me!" As Spider-Man began to fall back down he could see some thugs entering Fisk Towers, his lenses squinted, "The Mayor might be in there, I have to stop them!"
Spider-Man fired a webline towards the window of the building and swung inside, leaving the police to deal with the other half of the thugs, whether or not this was a good idea would be reflected if any officers got injured or maybe even worse get killed. But at the same time he was very confident in the police force.
*CRASH!*
A window being shattered was the only noise that the thugs could hear, as they were grabbing more amunition and firearms they heard a window being shattered, "Shit! Looks like the Web Head's made his way in here!" One of Kingpins thugs pointed out.
"Well, he's entered our turf!" Another thug replied, He's dead meat as soon as we see him!"
Spider-Man had in fact crashed in through the window shattering it, landing into an office room or suite of some sort, and had also heard everything the thugs were saying about how'd they would 'Get him'. Spider-Man however wouldn't play the all violent route, he'd go the sneaky route as it would be much safer for him.
But before he could react, two thugs came rushing into the room holding firearms to check on what happened upstairs, "Oh for the love of--" Spider-Man fired two weblines at their guns and pulled them away from their grasp, he then fa bunch of webbing on the two men, encasing them in webbing and shooting both their mouths with webbing, shutting them up and keeping them tied up.
Then even more thugs came Spider-Man's way, lunging towards him. Spider-Man leapt in the air and landed behind the two. He struck one of them with his knee and the other one with his elbow, all in one sequence, knocking them out.
No reason to see why I should just run in there! He leapt onto a wall and slowly made his way on the ceiling, If I've learned anything from Uncle Flare it's 'being sneaky isn't always a bad thing' He began crawling on the ceiling, keeping thigs really quiet and leaving the two thugs there.
He'd made his near to what he could assume to be the lobby due to how similar it looked to a high class hotel lobby, this is where he'd also see multiple thugs, now having artillery again , he wasn't quite sure as this was the first time he'd enter Fisk Towers. "Hmm... this is a huge place?" He mumbled quietly, "This is gonna be tough but I think I can take out all these guys!"
Spider-Man took a deep breath and realized, 'he had to make a diversion to lure a few thugs near him' Spider-Man, leapt onto a wall and made his way to a shadowy corner, not being seen by anyone or anything. Okay! How am I
gonna do this?
Spider-Man surveyed the area, looking for something that he could smash or something, of course it was a very nice lobby so he didn't want to go for something like a glass chandelier but at the same time he was running out of options. Then he saw it, the thing he could use as a distraction, a plant pot sitting at an intern desk.
Bingo! I should probably get close to the thing so I can actually do something And with that Spider-Man, quietly, crawled towards the intern desk. Once there he angled himself so he could hit the just slight above the edge of the plant pot, he took a deep breath, Okay Spidey! This is nothing out of the ordinary for you!
Outstretching his arm, he shot a web bullet at the plant pot, knocking it over and making fall onto the floor, shattering! Crawiling away from the scene and lunging up towards a ceiling.
*CRASH!*
All the thugs turned around, glancing away from the directions they were pointing their machine guns at after being startled by the plant pot, falling and breaking onto the ground, "WHAT WAS THAT?!" A thug began pointing his gun in multiple directions.
Another one clenched his teeth, "He's here! Spider-Man is here!" All of them glanced at one and other for a moment before glancing back at the broken pot, "Let me check this one out!" The thug walked slowly towards the pot, pointing his gun up and back as he walked towards it.
When he got close enough he kneeled down to inspect the pot, picking it up he began rotating it around until he found that one of his fingers got stuck to something, "What the hell?" He tried lifting his finger up only to see it was stuck onto some white gooey yet strong substance.
But before he could even further react, 4 strands of webs were all shot towards the thug, snagging him up into the air as he began screaming and suspending him from the ground.
At that point the thugs were stunned by the sudden action and it even prompted one of them to shoot their guns up in the air. But then it happened again! The same 4 strands of webbing snagged onto the thug shooting his machine gun and suspending him up in the air.
They all looked shook as they'd just watch all of that in one sequence. "Hey guys? Havin' a slumber party or somethin'?" They all turned around to see Spider-Man, hanging on his web upside down being offly close to them.
"YOU!" A thug snarled, "THIS TIME I'M GONNA DO THE SHIT ELECTRO COULDN'T!" He, including his eight other thug allies all pointed their guns at Spider-Man.
"You know at this point I get that a lot!" Spider-Man shot a bunch of webbing at them in a fast motion, stunning them for a bit. "But at the same time, I'm gonna have to do the shit I always do to people like you." Spider-Man fired another webline and began swinging across the lobby as they all began to shoot at him, not one even being able to shoot at him.
Spider-Man fired another webline and swung towards four of the thugs, shooting a bunch of webbing their way, he ended up shooting webbing into their eyes, hands and chest before crashing his elbow into one of their faces and landing behind the rest of them.
They all charged at him, knowing that guns were just way too pointless and they'd have a better chance all ganging up on him, but that would be they're worst mistake. Spider-Man extended his arms and shot two strands of webbing at an oncoming thug, tugging on the webbing and sweeping him off the ground, making him land on the back of his head.
"You know, it really baffles me that you guys never really think before you act." Spider-Man blocked one punch from a thug using his left forearm and hit the thug with a side kick, knocking him into two other thugs. Spider-Man shot webbing towards the thugs on the ground and webbed them to the floor, trapping them.
Spider-Man's then caught an attempted kick by a thug and he threw him towards the wall and shot some webbing at him, trapping him onto the wall.
Spider-Man's lenses squinted, My Spider-Senses are tingling! He ducked down as a thug attempted to swing at him, Spider-Man in retaliation elbowed his stomach and got up, he than jumped in the air, driving a spin kick into his cheek, knocking him out.
This left three thugs to try and take Spider-Man, they got scared though, but they knew they had to do something because they were to prideful to pussy out. But Spider-Man acted first. He lunged towards them and fired weblines from both his wrists, grabbing a thug by his chest.
Spider-Man pulled the thug towards him and then hit him in the face with a backfist before driving a knife hand into his stomach, making him drop to his knees, "Hey boys! Catch!" Spider-Man grabbed the thug on his knees and threw him towards the thugs.
Spider-Man webbed them all to the ground, shooting blanket of webbing on the ground trapping them onto it, "Wow you guys barely gave me a workout, but than again, you guys also lasted longer than most crooks I go up against, so good job!" They all were either unconscious, mad or to exhausted after getting the pulp beaten out of them.
It didn't take long until the area was cleared, this no doubt will be talked about in the news all day and Mayor Fisk will definitely have to address it, but still no doubt crime has been stopped and it was all thanks to Spider-Man.
"Thanks Spider-Man!" An officer shook his hand, "You know you're not as bad as the media makes you out to be, especially Jameson!"
Spider-Man smiled, it was nice to have some people on his side, "pfft what? Jameson is basically one of my biggest fans!" He joked, "Clearly he's just to obsessed with me and is shy to admit it!"
The officer laughed, "Rrrrright! So is there anything we can do to pay you back?"
Spider-Man shrugged before running off, "I'm just doing my job!" He fired a webline and swung off into the distance, it was a pretty eventful morning in Canterlot for Spider-Man.
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Flash landed on the ground and took off his mask in a nearby alleyway, "If Jameson doesn't like these than I don't know what will!" He was looking through the pictures he took of the huge fight, "Speaking of which what was all of that? I've heard of fire fights but that was downright insane!" Spider-Man throughout his short career has never witnessed a Civil Discord, especially not with two gangs so it made him beg questions, "Were they a part of the same gang and having disagreements about something?" He began crawling up the walls to a window, "Or Maybe two separate gangs shooting at each other, just like GTA or somethin? Heck even Mafia II."
He opened the window and crawled inside into his apartment, "And why Fisk towers of all things?" Flash closed the window and went to his closet to change out of his costume, "I might have to do some digging around later"
Flash changed into a grey sweatshirt and black jeans, putting on some socks and some red shoes to finish his ensemble, he was now 'Flash Sentry' well he always was Flash Sentry but you get the picture. "But I also have to grab breakfast, sooooo."
Flash threw the costume in his closet as he'd comeback later to get it, he pulled out a piece of paper from one of his jacket pockets in his closet and read it. It was the address to The Rainbooms huge Condo. Flash had been given the address by Sunset, inviting him to come have breakfast with them on this fine morning, so he'd take up the offer and gave Sunset his word.
Flash grabbed his car keys, he'd never actually been to the place before, all's he knew was Rarity had bought the place out and made it the primary home of The Rainbooms. Flash looked to his nightstand where his car keys were, he had the urge to fire a webline and grab them but ultimately didn't as he feared he might damage the key or accidentally open the car.
Flash grabbed his keys and headed for the front door. Locking it and heading towards his car.
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Author's Note
Okay so this is the second Chapter of FSTSS ISSUE #4: Double Trouble. This was a tough one to write as I was trying to find words I could match with what I was imagining but I liked how it turned out.
So in this chapter, Flash or rather Spider-Man, is swinging through the city after not doing it for a while, getting that sense of being Spider-Man again, when suddenly he has too stop a bunch of thugs at Fisk Towers who are shooting at each other. He ends up making his way inside the buidling where he stops more thugs hiding out there and eventually handing them over to the police, creating a positive image for himself in front of them.
So in it, (If you haven't read issue #3 or have forgotten about some of it) I summarize, essentially what happens in issue #3 before transitioning to the main event, to eventually Flash heading off to Sunset's new place.
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