Secrets of Iron

protocols and strange alarms (good she's excused for school...)

This was a sticky situation. In every way. It had looked like a regular robbery but now there were hostages. He couldn't fight the bad guys without putting the hostages in more danger. Plus he had to fight his way up and he was now 2 floors away from the civilians but he couldn't fight the guards on this floor alone. Man, how big was this gang?

Webbing up some of them he switched to taser nets. It was a bit easier but he still would need help. Or a damn good plan.

Only a few guards were left on this floor. They were standing with their backs facing the windows. Standing behind a column he tried to think of a way to get past them as he heard the windows shatter. Did they jump out the windows or what happened?

He climbed onto the ceiling and snuck closer to them. Just to see the fully armed guards laying unconscious on the floor. He looked around and found the reason why leaning against the wall next to the broken windows. Even though the silhouette nearly melted into the night he saw the slight blue gleam lightning up the floor filled with cracked glass.

Her dad was just as good at making entrances as Emma but this sure felt epic. The only thing beating the darkness were her own thrusters and the moon outside.

“You called?”

The Spider walked over to her. “So this is the 'caught in the dark' protocol...”

“Couldn't find a better name while talking with you...” The two masked teens stood there taking deep breaths. One grateful for the break he got the other one happy to get out of her room. “So where did you get stuck?”

He explained how he got on this floor and why the protocol had been activated by his suits AI, Karen. She had analysed the situation and simulated the most likely outcome and had activated the protocol since Peter had lost in every simulation she had done. “Wait. When did you install the protocol? The only one I know would be able to do this is Iron Man.”

“He's not the only one able to hack into your suit. It's actually pretty easy.” She walked around the room scanning everything. She looked at the ceiling. “How big is this gang?”

“Pretty big. They got hostages two floors up.”

“And what are we gonna do about it?” She turned to look at him.

“We?”

“Yeah. We. So?”

He looked around the room. It was quite dark but that didn't bother him. Heightened senses. “How about...”

Peter snuck out of the elevator crawling across the ceiling. Some of the bad guys turned but the elevator seemed empty to them.

“Lift seems to be broken.” He talked into his walkie talkie. They were even stupider than the two vigilantes had thought.

While Peter made his way to the staircase he snatched as many of the guards walkie talkies as he could. Instead of carrying them around he webbed them to the ceiling or on top of some shelves. As he reached his check point he had collected everybody's walkie talkie.

'@ ma position'

That was Emma's sign. She kicked open the door to the stairs to get the guards' attention. Some of them wanted to grab their walkie talkie but they grabbed air. Before they realized what was going on Emma had already attacked. She grabbed the taser of the first guard and used it to shock him and his colleagues.