Sandman, or rather Flint was on the phone with Big Man, after finally being able to control his powers he called up Big Man to get orders from him on how he was supposed to find the web head, "Big Man, it's me Flint!"

"And Rhino!" O'Hrin or Rhino as he called himself, was also with Sandman as they both worked together as a team.

"Yeah and O'Hirn!" He rolled his eyes.

"You better be calling for a good reason! I've just gotten word that our men have been arrested, our attacks at Fisk Towers have failed!"

"So uh? Where are we supposed to find Spider-Man? I mean it's not like he's always hanging around?"

Flint couldn't see it but Big Man was massaging the bridges of his nose in annoyance, "I don't know?!" He let out a sigh, "Check the Bugle or something, I heard there was a photographer that took pictures of The Wall-Crawler, I think it was Sentry or something, just go!" He hung up on the phone.

Marko turned to O'Hirn, "Got a word from the boss, he said to check the Bugle and get his whereabouts outta a photographer."

"Well then what are waitin' for?" Rhino began barreling towards the street and towards the direction of the Bugle while Sandman turned himself to sand and blew in the wind as his form of transportation.

Meanwhile at the Daily Bugle, Flash with a duffle bag slunk onto his shoulder walked out, of the elevator and towards The Chief Editor's office, otherwise known as the office of J.Jonah Jameson, the chief editor of the Daily Bugle. Everyone was busy as usual, working at their desks typing out stories for the week.

Flash approached Betty Brant, the secretary for Jameson, "Hey Betty!" Flash greeted, "Long time no see?"

She glanced away from her computer and looked at Flash, "Oh my god, Flash! When did you come back from Tokyo?"

Flash chuckled, "About a week ago." He leaned on Betty's desk, "So uh.. How's J.J?"

Betty laughed and shrugged, "Well.... he's Jameson so I'm gonna let you guess that one."

Flash and Betty both could hear J.Jonah Jameson screaming at his phone making both of them laugh, "I better go give see him." He began walking to the office, opening the door and entering inside.

Jameson glanced at Flash, with a furious expression, "YOU! YOU HAVE SOME NERVE TO BARGE INTO MY OFFICE AND NOT HAVE ANY PICTURES!"

Flash rolled his eyes, "So... these?" He pulled out the pictures of the events that took place earlier out of his duffel bag, "I was in the area."

Jameson took the pictures from Flash, "GIMME THAT!" Flash was smirking crazily, it was pretty funny to him to see Jameson acting up this much. "Hmph… you're lucky I haven't fired you yet. BUT DON'T THINK IM CUTTING YOU ANY SLACK BECAUSE YOU WERE ON VACATION SENTRY!"

Flash shrugged, "Okay, soooo what do I get?"

"The Usual rate!" Then Jameson stopped himself and had a better idea, "Actually $150 less the usual rate!"

Flash's grin vanished almost instantly, his eyes widening he was baffled, "$150?! But.... whyyyyyy?" He almost screamed at the top of his lungs, he usually earned $400 per photo he gave, it was enough to pay the bills, but any amount of money taken away sucks.

"Sentry! You gotta understand that I don't pay you to go on leave for so long and come back thinking everything is a bed of roses!" He handed him the check gestured towards the exit, "There's the door." Flash took it half heartedly, Man I knew should've just taken the job at the Globe! They would probably pay me handsomely for my photo--

Flash stopped, his eyes widening, his Spider-Sense went off, but there was nothing there, what danger could be lurking around the--

*CRASH!*

Flash shielded his eyes before any debris or glass could hit him, when he moved his arm off his hands his eyes widened, a huge figure that looked almost like a gigantic Rhino clutched Jameson in his hands, What in the world is that?

J.Jonah was freaking out for his life, "AHH! WHAT!--PLEASE I HAVE A WIFE! AND A KID! PLEAAASEE!"

"WHERE'S SENTRY!?" Flash's eyes widened at hearing the gigantic beast-man hybrid say his last name.

Oh no! Please don't say what I think he's gonna say.

Jameson was blinking crazily as his scared expression grew, "I-I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT! HE DOESN'T EVEN WORK HERE!" He briefly turned his head behind him and secretly gestured Flash to get out of the office room immediately, this was almost unheard of to Flash, Jameson actually caring about other people besides himself and his family but he didn't question a single thing and nodded, running out the office.

"YOU'RE LYIN' I CAN SEE IT!" Rhino began heavily breathing through his nose like a bull, "NOW I'M GONNA ASK YOU ONE MORE TIME, WHERE'S SENTRY! HE CAN BRING ME TO SPIDER-MAN!"

"I SWEAR I DON'T KNOW!" Jameson whimpered, "PLEASE!"

"DO I LOOK STUPID TO YA!" He raised his fist in the air, this wasn't gonna end well for J.Jonah Jameson, if that fist hits him he'll most likely end up decapitated.

"Well you're dressed stupid!" Rhino glanced away from Jameson and turned around to see Spider-Man hanging on a web, "What do you want with Sentry anyway?"

Rhino threw Jameson aside, "Nothin'! Just you!" He looked fierce threatening as he pounded his one fist into his hand.

Spider-Man's lenses squinted,Looks like I was probably just some catalyst for his scheme to capture me or something. Spider-Man let go of his webline and dived towards Rhino, outstretching his leg out. But. As soon as Spider-Man's leg collided into Rhino's stomach, nothing. It was almost as though Spider-Man had been kicking tungsten, one of the hardest metals on earth.

His lenses widened to their brim, "Uh oh!"

Rhino gave Spider-Man a villainous grin before grabbing Spider-Man's legs with his oversized hands and throwing him into the wall! Resulting in Spider-Man crashing through it. The screaming Spider-Man landed on a desk, his lenses almost twitching a little, "Uhh…" He groaned. Everybody else meanwhile were running for their lives, desks either falling to the ground or papers flying everywhere.

Spider-Man regained his stance however and his lenses got a hold of themselves, they then squinted as he gritted his teeth under his mask, I don't believe it! He was immune to one of my shots!. Spider-Man then watched as Rhino barreled trough the rest of the wall without even a scratch, no less even hurting him.

Spider-Man jumped onto a wall, clinging onto it before Rhino could even collide with him. "Gee Big guy? Why such a sour expression" Spidey scoffed, "You almost remind me of Jameson! Especially on Monday Mornings."

Rhino pointed his index finger at his face, "TAKE A LOOK WEB FOR BRAINS!" He snarled, "DON'T YA REMEMBER WHO I AM!?"

Spider-Man had a confused look on his face, one of his lens being closed while the other shot up wide open, "Uhh? Was the answer you were looking yes." He shrugged in confusion not really knowing who this guy was or what he possibly could've done to him. "Yeah.... I know a lot of people you're gonna have to help me with this one"

"UAGHHHH!" He ran towards Spider-Man who jumped off the wall and landed onto the ground. Rhino however, could not find the ability to stop himself and rammed into the wall, smashing through it!"

Spider-Man's lenses widened, "OH NO!" God knew what could be down there and adding Rhino to the mix could most likely end up as squashed putty. Spider-Man dived towards just the edge of the hole Rhino created and could see Rhino, he wasn't flailing In the air or diving either, he was just in a straight standing position, as if he were sinking like a rock. Spider-Man looked even further down and could see vehicles driving at the point Rhino might land at, and there's no telling what type of damage he could do!

Spider-Man's lenses squinted, he extended both his arms out and shot out two strands of webbing which caught onto Rhino! "Come on! Come on!" He was trying to pull Rhino up or at least away from the ground but it was like lifting 1000 tons x it's weight x 5! It was a lot to try and lift. Spider-Mans teeth clenched behind his mask, his back arching slowly. "Come.... On!"

Then it snapped! His webline snapped. The weight of Rhino was too much for him to try and lift and it all snapped. His lenses widened, "NO!"

A driver was driving his car, he was driving across the huge intersection at Canterlot when he noticed a shadow slowly casting in his car, "What the hell?" He stopped driving for a moment and rolled his window down, he popped his head out and glanced upwards where he could see two giant feet coming towards him!

"OH SHIT!" Popping his head back inside, he opened the car door as fast as possible and ran out of his car. As he did so, he felt strong winds blowing right into him, making him stumble forwards and onto the ground.

Those strong winds were caused by none other than Rhino! He fell right onto the car and went a bit further down into the street causing a huge sinkhole in the intersection. However Rhino wasn't even phased, he felt fine, he chuckled, "Heh! Joyride!"

Spider-Man leapt out of the hole and dived straight towards the ground, as he was falling, he fired a webline onto a building so he could swing down and maybe try to attack him as he swung.

Rhino leapt out of the sink hole he was in and onto the street, causing cracks to be formed as soon as he landed. He glanced up and could see Spider-Man, and he was coming fast swinging right towards him.

Spider-Man let go of his webline and attempted to collide his feet into Rhino's face. But he was stopped by Rhino who grasped bot his legs with just one hand and slammed Spider-Man into the ground. "NOW SAY GOODBYE WEB HEAD!" He raised both his fists in the air and was about to pound both his fists into Spider-Man's chest.

But luckily, Spider-Man was able to intervene, shooting some webbing into his eyes, causing him to grunt as he began to try and take the webs off of his eyes. Spider-Man leapt up and backed himself up before charging at Rhino.

Rhino ripped the webbing off of his face only to get jabbed in the face with Spidey's fist, stunning him for a tiny moment.

Spider-Man jumped onto Rhino's back. Rhino turned his head as he'd felt something on it only to be punched by Spider-Man again. This made the short tempered mammal to grab Spider-Man and throw him off of his back.

Spider-Man though, landed just fine, I need to get this hippo off the street before anyone gets hurt. He fired a webline and began swinging away. "Hey Rhino, if you're so great than why don't we play a game of Cat and Mouse?"

"OH NO YOU DON'T! GET BACK HERE!" He began chasing Spider-Man, his huge stomps could be heard from buildings up above.

The two both ensued on a chase, Spider-Man being the Chased and Rhino being the Chaser. Spider-Man was having an easy time, swinging through everything with ease. Rhino however was a different story, he was crashing through so many vehicles, walls, everything in sight. He was also beginning to look noticeably sweaty.

But Spider-Man was not focusing on that he was just trying to focus on a game plan, but before he could his Spider-Senses went off, Oh no! Now what?. I'll tell you what, a semi truck was just around the corner and Spider-Man was gonna be ran over if he didn't do something.

Spider-Man leapt onto the hood of the truck before climbing up onto the cargo box and eventually jumping off. "Whoowee!" Spider-Man had no other words he could think of after doing that, than he realized somethin, "Oh my god I just sounded like Applejack!"

Meanwhile Rhino collided into the front of the semi-truck, stopping him in his tracks, "GAH! STUPID TRUCK!" He began destroying it to pieces, pulling of the hood and eventually taking out the engine itself.

Spider-Man watched as it happened, "Hey now! Blaming automotive vehicles aren't gonna solve your problems!"

Rhino looked at Spider-Man, "TAKE THIS!" He hurled the engine at him. Spider-Man leapt in the air dodging the vehicle engine.

He fired two Weblines at it and threw it right back at Rhino, "Right back at ya!" But Rhino caught the engine with the horn on his forehead and viciously threw it aside. Rhino then charged at Spider-Man.

"YOU'RE GONNA PAY FOR PUTTING ME IN THE SLAMMER!"

"Yeah, if only I knew who you were."Spider-Man slid past Rhino and leapt onto his back again, causing Rhino to stop. Spider-Man began crawling all over him and began covering him in webbing. Spider-Man then fired a bunch of strands of webs around the web entombed Rhino. Spider-Man, once finished jumped off Rhino and smirked under his mask, "You know Rhino! You'd make an excellent Butterfly!"

Rhino could feel the rage build up inside him, "SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!" He broke through all the webbing Spider-Man put around him.

Spider-Man's lenses widened, What?! B-But that can't be? I thought Spider webs had strong tensile strength I-?" He leaped over Rhino who was charging at him and fired two weblines at him. He was trying to throw him to the side and into a building as he was running out of options.

But it was impossible, the last time he'd ever tried to take on something with such weight was the Water Tower a few months back, and he had just as much of a struggle than he did right now! Rhino could see this, he grinned and moving his body with force he was able to send Spider-Man flying into a construction site.

Spider-Man screamed as he slammed into a crane, denting it and falling to the ground. The ground was mainly made up of sand, most likely left there by the workers. But that may've not been the case.

Spider-Man gasped, "My Spider-Senses they're--" Suddenly his arms and legs were grabbed by the sand, but it was strong, he was being held to the ground, he couldn't move his body!

"Hey Webheaad!" Another voice spoke to him in a very mocking tone.

"Oh come on--" Suddenly the sand struck him in the back sending him flying into the air, he clenched his teeth in pain, Oh man what now?! Spider-Man fired a webline towards a building. He swung down and was close to the building but he was stopped again by Rhino who drove his fist into Spidey's face, knocking him to the ground.

Spider-Man groaned a little in pain before getting up and leaping onto a street light pole, "Okay either I'm going crazy from fighting the biggest turtle alive or that really just happened, there is no way a bunch of Sand could just attack me like that!"

"Believe it freak!" Soon a some sand ran through the ground and began forming a person, someone Spider-Man was able to recognize.

"Oh no! It Can't be!" Flint Marko grinned as Spider-Man uttered in disbelief, "N-No!" He began stammering, "It can't.... It Can't be you.... You were arrested and put to jail!" Spider-Man knew Flint Marko not by his name but by his physical appearance because he was a part of the plot to assassinate Mayor Fisk and his associate Filthy Rich at Canterlot Towers.

"Ya mean we were in Jail!" Flint laughed.

Rhino laughed, "Remember you're little run-in with Electro? The one at the Big House?"

Spider-Man's lenses widened, the night he and Electro squared off against each other, the night he lost his powers almost for good, "No!"

"That's right Web-Head, Electro had come and freed us! And then while you were tryin' to fight him, we both were escorted away to Big Man's personal office!"

Spider-Man was confused, not by how they escaped but by that name, "Who's Big Man?" He demanded"

Rhino scoffed, "he doesn't even know who he is! Hilarious!"

Spider-Man glanced beside him, there was a huge dumpster bin that was sitting there in an alleyway, Spider-Man fired a webline at it and threw it towards the hysterical Rhino, this knocked Rhino off his feet for a minute and that left Sandman wide out in the open for Spider-Man.

Spider-Man leaped towards Sandman. Landing right in front of him, it was Sandman who attempted to swing at Spider-Man first, but Spider-Man had great reflexes on his side and dodged the first punch, ducking down. Then it was Spider-Man's unofficial turn, he straightened out his fingers and attempted to drive a knife hand strike into Sandman, only for it to go right through him, but no guts or blood was gushing out of him, instead it was sand.

Spider-Man glanced up Sandman who created a huge sand fist in his hand, "Oh come on!" Spider-Man was punched by Sandman in the stomach sending him back. Rhino rose to his feet, he wasn't gonna let Spider-Man get the better of him, not this time.

But Spider-Man's Spider-Senses went off again, as he was flying back, he knew it was most likely Rhino, so in retaliation, he shot some webbing behind him, hitting Rhino's eyes again and fired a webline onto a traffic light. Snagging the webline he landed right on top a traffic light, grasping onto it with his hands and resting his feet on the pole.

Spider-Man looked at the both of them, trying to analyze what could possibly be their weaknesses, "Okay Spidey think!" He looked at Rhino, finally noticing how sweaty he'd look, "Hmm? Maybe I could tire him out!" But he glanced back at Sandman, "But as long as he's here I'm basically outnumbered 2-1"

Spider-Man however didn't have time to continue thinking as Rhino began to pick up the whole Traffic light pole in hopes of knocking Spider-Man off and to the ground. Spider-Man knew this so he jumped towards the wall and went to go cling to it.

However he was stopped by a wind of sand and fell to the ground, I swear I'm being treated like a ragdoll . Spider-Man was near exhausted, he was non-stop this morning, but even so the whole incident at Fisk Towers wasn't anything as big as this, what he was going up against was twice as big.

Both Sandman and Rhino approached the laying hero. Rhino without any second thoughts, grabbed Spider-Man's head with his unnaturally big hands and threw him into a cafe as hard as he could! They watched as Spider-Man's back collided into a brick wall, making him fall to the ground with rubble falling on top of him.

Rhino and Sandman both grinned, "Good Riddance!" Sandman viciously uttered believing that Spider-Man was finally dead. Both of them left the scene with Rhino charging into the distance and Sandman becoming sand blowing into the air.

However, Spider-Man had been through worse and was far from dead, he quickly emerged from the rubble, rising quickly to his feet and brushing it off. Spider-Man quickly ran outside towards the street but, Sandman and Rhino had long been gone by then.

He ran into the middle of the street and looked everywhere, from right to left and eventually up into the air but came up empty handed. Spider-Man's shoulders dropped as he let out a sigh. He leapt up and fired a webline, swinging off towards his apartment.

***

Flash crawled through his bedroom window. Taking off his mask, he tossed it onto his bed and eventually collapsed onto the bed as well, "What was that and more importantly, who's Big Man?" Flash sat up right after a moment, "Hell, maybe the question might be what is Big Man? Is he like some sort of criminal or something?"

Flash was trying to process everything he'd heard from that fight, "Is he responsible for making Electro and whoever those two were?" Flash walked over to his closet, "If that Sand Guy or whatever merely mentioned his name than he clearly holds some sort of importance."

Flash sighed as he grabbed a towel, "Why does this city always have some sort of huge threat every so often?" He walked towards his washroom and closed the door behind him.

Sandman and Rhino had retreaded towards an warehouse near the Canterlot Docks, just one of many that Big Man is in control of. The reason they had retreated to that specific location was because they were to meet with Big Man and some of his men, to discuss about their mission.

Rhino and Sandman cautiously crept merely just towards the entrance of the Warehouse. They could see Big Man, surrounded by some of his thug bodyguards, one of which was a man with a huge muscular frame, being almost 6'7, the same height as Kingpin, this was Ox. Walking in front of the two men, he asked, "Is it done?"

"Yeah it's done!" Rhino lightly shoved the bodyguard away.

Sandman ignoring Rhino and Ox's feud he turned to Big Man, "So what now boss?" He crossed his arms, waiting for an answer.

Big Man stroked his chin not feeling fully sure if they really killed Spider-Man, "Are you positive that he's been squashed?"

Sandman grinned wickedly, feeling as if though this was probably one of his biggest 'accomplishments' in his life, "Boss! we tormented that freak real good and we watched him as rubble fell on m'. Boss I have no doubt in my mind that Spider-Man is gone for good!"

Big Man smirked, he knew he could trust his men, after all if they were probably the most powerful superhumans on the planets, "If what you're saying is true then that will mean our war against Kingpin might go more smoothly, with Spider-Man out of the picture then we wont incur any more interruptions." Big Man turned to the two thugs behind him, "Daniel, Montana, see to it that you pay these men handsomely for their service!" Turning back to Marko and Hirn, he had one final order for them, "Meet me here tonight! We have a mission and were gonna have to go all in on this one!"

The two both nodded. This was bad, Spider-Man had a hard time just trying to keep his ground against those two, but now, now there's no doubt that he'll have to face them again at some point.
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Author's Note

Okay so new chapter, this is the fourth Chapter of FSTSS. In it Spidey get's one of the most brutal beatings of his career.

So it starts off at The Daily Bugle where Flash hands Jameson some pictures of Spider-Man only to get $250 for all of them. That's when the Rhino suddenly crashes into Jameson's office uninvited and viciously questions him about where Flash is, believing that he could bring Spider-Man to him. That's does happen as Spider-Man saves Jameson from being pummeled by Rhino and soon a fight ensues.

Eventually while they fight, Spider-Man encounters another foe that he recognized from Canterlot Towers, Flint Marko, now known as the Sandman. Spider-Man tries his best to fight both of them at once but getting defeated as he is thrown into a brick wall and rubble falls on top of him, making Rhino and Sandman think he's presumably dead.

So this was a bit of a tough chapter to write as I was figuring out how it could move along the story and how the fight would pan out.

Something else I added into the story is the criminal group known as the Enforcers, (Obviously Big Man is the at the helm of the group with his men Fancy Dan, Montana and Ox!)

Tell me what you think in the comments and he maybe even leave a like, I don't know 🤷‍♂️