Laughter in the Moonlight

Spider-Man was sitting on the edge of a crane platform with a box of donuts and coffee along the Manhattan harbor. His sight was fixed on a small out of place yacht being guarded by armed gunmen. A few large shipping crates were placed to obscure the activities near the yacht and turning the area into a makeshift fortress. Peter had let Felicia make contact with Luther’s agent and leader of this operation to set up the exchange. It was his job to catch the villains red handed and web them up for the police. His feline partner had concerns over the number of armed goons and potential villainous muscle they would have to face down.

But Peter was prepared for that possibility. As he sat on the crane, he felt a breeze in the air and turned to see the girl of steel had flown in behind him.

“Donuts and coffee, really?” Kara said glaring at the web-swinger.

“From the best bakery in Queens. I saved you the best ones.” Peter said gesturing a place to sit.

“How long have you been up here?”

“20 minutes, why?”

“With this kind of setup, they’re gonna have snipers.” Kara said with concern.

“They had one sniper, but he got pretty hung over.” Peter said casually pointing at the arm of the crane. Kara saw a man cocooned and ****. She giggled at the sight.

“I can’t believe you set this all up for me.” Kara said with a smile that made Peter hot under the mask.

“Well I’m not interested in having another rich bald jerk take hold of my city. But you did kiss me that day so I was definitely motivated.” Peter told the girl of steel, who couldn’t help but blush.

Peter looked back down to the yacht and saw Felicia approach the boat under the watchful eye of the guards. The thief wore a fur trench coat and looked absolutely stunning Peter thought in his head.

“That’s the Black Cat?” Kara sounded to Peter. “You’ve got good taste in partners Webbs.”

When Felicia made it to the boat, a woman in a business jacket and skirt holding a brief case left the yacht with an armed escort and approached Felicia.

“Is that her?” Peter looked to Kara.

“Mercy Graves, yeah that’s her. These mercs look like the ones at the warehouse too.” Kara replied.

“Any surprises hidden on the yacht?”

“It’s lead lined. Typical of Lex.” Kara cursed.

Peter sighed and put his mask on and tuned into the conversation.

“The data is all there. I grabbed it from their main servers.” Black Cat boasted holding the data up for Mercy to see.

“We didn’t expect someone of your reputation to have taken this job.” Mercy said bluntly.

“Nothing is beneath me.” Black Cat. “Now how about that payment?”

“The data needs to be verified, then you’ll get payed.” Said Mercy before snapping her fingers. Someone with a laptop in hand approached and Mercy reached out to collect the data. Felicia scoffed and handed it over. The data was plugged in and was analyzed.

“The data’s good. It’s all there.”

Mercy nodded and lifted the briefcase in her hand. She opened it to show Felicia the money and quickly closed it. Felicia grabbed the case and smiled.

“Well I think this closes our buisn—

“Hold on, The data was opened before! There could be a tracer!” The technician sounded.

Peter cursed in his mind. “Kara we need to—

But Supergirl was already moving. The goons raised their rifles at Felicia. The triggers were pulled and bullets went flying. They hit, but it was the wrong target. Crushed rounds fell before the girl of steel. Felicia had felt the rush of hair and was stunned briefly by the save.

“YOU!” Mercy growled.

Supergirl only winked at the woman before grabbing the guns from the bodyguards and crushed them, throwing back at them hard.

“We’ve been compromised!” A goon shouted “waist them both!”

Black Cat grinned and shedded her coat to reveal her black suit. “Time to dance boys!”

The men raised their guns to the master thief but then they were quickly yanked away by web-lines.

“Now how are you gentlemen gonna dance with your hands full!” Spider-Man commented in front of the surprised goons. One took a swing at Peter which he dodged and countered with a grab and throw that sent them flying towards Black Cats incoming kick.

“I’m sorry, am I stealing your spotlight!” Spider-Man asked Black Cat who pounced on two other goons.

“Less quipping, more punching Spider.”

Peter shrugged and webbed the down goons to the ground. He web kicked the next set of mercs and looked over to Supergirl, she was busy with the gunmen on the shipping crates.

Mercy Graves surveyed her situation unusually calm. She took a phone from her pocket and clicked it on.

“Situation Red. You have your green light.”

Just then, a white cloaked figure emerged from the boat and triggered Peter’s Spider-sense. The figure carried a sword and shield, had a bow and arrow slung on his back, and had a skull mask on.

“Taskmaster.” Peter sighed. Peter then saw Mercy book it to the boat holding the laptop.

“Cat, the laptop. I’ll say hi to skull face.”

“Got it.” Felicia dashed to cut off Mercy. Peter then webbed to the boat to confront the villain mercenary.

“Hey Skeletor, you’re a long way from the convention center.” Spider-Man quipped.

“Spider, the client said you’d be here. I’ll be getting bonus pay for killing you and the alien bitch.” Taskmaster said with satisfaction.

“You’re not saying it right. It’s ‘NEEEH I’ll crush you HE-Man!’” Spider-Man again quipped.

Taskmaster swung at Spider-Man with his sword, Spidey dodged and shot a web-line but Taskmaster sliced it mid-air.

“I have your every move on memory. You heroes are to predictable.” He grunted.

‘Right, gotta try something new with this guy.’ Peter looked around the Yacht and started throwing objects at Taskmaster. Most were slashed or blocked away by the mercs shield.

Mercy was about to reach the boat when Black-cat stopped her dead in her tracks.

“I believe we weren't finished with our business.” Said Black-cat.

Mercy pulled a gun, so Black-cat threw a Bolas knocking the gun out of her hand.

“You’re out of league. Drop the laptop!”

“I’m not taking orders from a Catwoman stand-in” mercy remarked. Felicia’s blood started to boil at those words.

“Oh, now I’m pissed!” Felicia dived at the woman. Mercy was ready for her and the two exchanged blows. The two were evenly matched in combat much to Black-Cat’s surprise. But two refused to give an inch and so they kept at it.

Supergirl finished knocking out and the remaining gunmen and saw the two fights happening concurrently. Black-Cat was in a tense hand-to-hand dual with Mercy, but Spider-Man was in a predicament with a villain Kara did not recognize so chose to aid him.

Taskmaster chucked a grenade on both sides of Spider-Man leaving no room to dodge. So leaped forward right into Taskmasters shield bash downing him.

“Now stay down puny Spider so I can squish y—

But Taskmaster was hit by a **** so hard that he dropped his sword and shield and flew off the Yacht and landed on the pier. He got up and began starring right up at the girl of steel.

“So you’re the Boy Scouts cousin? I’ve studied his every move.” Taskmaster scowled drawing his bow.

“I’m allot more different from my cousin then you think.” Kara boasted.

Taskmaster replied with a quintuple shot of arrows right up at Supergirl who froze them mid air with ice breath. But Taskmaster kept shooting arrows at her. The Kryptonian moved to fast for any of them to land before Supergirl had enough and landed in front of the mercenary and broke his bow with her fist.

“Let’s finish this up close and personal.” Supergirl greeted.

“Exactly how I wanted it.” He said pulling the pin off a grenade in front of Kara shocked expression. But instead of a boom, a cloud of green smoke burst out. Kara started coughing and her body began to grow weak.

“Kryp…*cough*…Kryptonite…dust.” Kara said before fainting to the ground.

“Supergirl!” Spider-Man yelled. Thinking quickly, Spidey grabbed a bucket from the yacht and jumped from the boat to the water. He quickly scooped some water from the river and swung right at Taskmaster splashing him in the face before he could make a move on Kara.

“How about the head of yours records this!” Spidey yelled priming a electro-charge in his web-shooter and fired it below Taskmaster. The shock made Taskmaster stunned and in pain for Spider-Man swing kick him right to the head and downing him. peter thoughts and attention were now on the down Supergirl.

"She's breathing…a little…thats good I guess." Peter said panicky

"Spider! a little help here!" Black-cat yelled while in a lock up with Mercy.

Spidey sprang up to act, until he heard a sound he recognized before.

A laugh.

A very familiar laugh.

'Oh no.'

Suddenly, a glider flew in from the night sky fast as the wind. Pumpkin colored balls reigned over the dock and on to yacht

*beep*beep*beeeeeeeep*

Spidey moved himself and the **** Supergirl away from the explosions. Black-cat and Mercy were **** to break away and run for their own safety. The Yacht was lit up like a bon fire along with most of the harbor. Spidey looked around to find Felicia. But couldn't find her or Taskmaster. His ears only heard three things, the fire, the sound of a jet-ski, and that awful Goblin laugh.

"Felicia!" he cried out several times fearing the worst, five minutes pass before suddenly a van rolled up.

"Grab your girlfriend and let's get the hell away from here!" Felicia yelled and Spidey acted quickly with putting himself and Kara inside the van. Felicia drove them out of harbor and on to the street. The sound of fire trucks became audible in tue distance.

"I spotted this van when i arrived at the bay. Good thing I'm a fast high-jacker." Felicia commented. But Peter did not respond.

"Is she okay?…are you okay?" Felicia asked looking back and seeing an unmasked Peter. She saw his anger.

"Norman." Peter whispered while tending to Supergirl.

"wait…I couldn't see him…but that was Norman Osborn who did that?"

Peter nodded. "The Goblin is back."