In The Web Of Gotham

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The suped-up muscle car like vehicle parked itself into the reserved parking space it has. The hatch opened, as the large shadow of a man leapt from the automobile and trotted his way into the precinct. Batman had gotten a call from the GCPD, asking for his assistance about a case that's been baffling them for the last few weeks. The first face he saw was the GCPD's new detective, Peter Parker. He was a timid teenager, who wore a pair of prescription glasses. He had brownish black hair, brown eyes and pale skin. He had some muscle on him, but not enough to make it seem like he knows how to fight well. He seemed the analytical type.

From what Batman saw, Peter would usually be the one that would go on coffee runs, but he also aids investigations with some of the mental gymnastics he's able to pull. He didn't have very much conviction about his gymnastics though, he would call them theories. When Peter realized Batman was here, he immediately got out of Batman's way.

"Oh! Hello Batman! Commissioner Gordon is waiting for you," Peter said with his nervous tone. It was obvious that Peter is intimidated by Batman, as he hesitantly followed behind Batman to join the police force as they were all huddled around a corkboard with thumbtacks pricked into a bunch of locations around Gotham City.

"Uh...Mr. Gordon? The Batman is here," Peter replied shakily. The commissioner turned to meet the caped crusader.

"Batman. Glad you could make it. We've been trying to rack our brains, and we thought you could give your input," Gordon said as Batman walked towards the corkboard.

"Catch me up on what's been going on," Batman asked, his tone obviously being augmented by a voice modulator. To what degree the voice is being augmented the GCPD are unsure.

"Parker, brief Batman about the...Spider Man case," Gordon ordered the deputy detective.

"Yes sir," Parker complied as he rummaged through a filing cabinet and pulled the file out of a drawer.

"So...for the past week, while you've been handling your own rogue's gallery. It seems another vigilante has been apprehending smaller scale criminals. One of the stranger parts is that he would not only restrain the criminals in what chemical analysis could only describe as spider's silk," Peter began, showing Batman the case file photos that showed the state the criminals were. They were bruised, and suspended in varying positons. Along with that, he showed Batman the limited amount of chemical analysis was perform on the substance the criminals are shown to be suspended.

"Our methods obviously aren't as advanced as your. We couldn't exactly break it down to each individual molecular compound," Parker added as Batman looked over the files.

"Then how do you know that it's comparable to spider silk?" Batman asked the young detective.

"With what limited methods we have, we compared it to other known adhesives that have this sort of tensile strength. We couldn't exactly do much with it, it started chemically degrading after we started analyzing it. We assume it's some sort of exposure based degradation," Parked explained further. Parker then took out a sheet full of random phone logs, scattered throughout Gotham City.

"The way that this vigilante would bring police to the scene is by making calls through nearby pay phones, they would call 911 and then just stay silent. Officers that arrived on scene would see that the phone was dropped, which would make loud enough noise to alert the operators to send over police," Parker continued as he let Batman take the phone logs and look over them, as if going through them with his microscopically fine toothed mental comb.

"Have you tried lifting fingerprints off the phone receivers?" Batman suggested.

"We did, whoever this vigilante is...they know better than to grab with their bare hands," Gordon interjected.

"Have you tried seeing if there's a time based pattern to when this vigilante arrives? Certain times of day when this person is more active or less active?" Batman suggested again.

"The time spans are too sporadic. Sometimes they're active at 6:30 in the morning. Other times, they'll wait until 8 in the evening before making their first phone call," Another officer said.

"What about pattern recognition on the criminals they grab? Anything in particular? Could detect a facet about the personality, maybe a personal grudge against a gang or type of criminal?" Batman brought up, something no one in the room had thought of at the moment. Gordon immediately turned his attention to the young detective.

"Parker, get to work on that. Go through all the incident reports involving the telltale signs of the spider man. Get as many names of the criminals as you can, cross reference them and then report to Batman if you start noticing a pattern," Gordon instructed.

"Yes sir," Parker confirmed as he started rummaging through the incident reports to try and gather all of the correlating reports. Batman walked up to the corkboard.

"These are all the places the vigilante have called from?" Batman asked. Gordon poked the little blue X's on the board.

"Those are the payphones they called from. The tacks are where we found the actual criminals. I'll be honest, if we didn't know any better. Some of us thought this was your handiwork with a new gadget or something. You wouldn't just use a payphone though," Gordon confirmed.

"So we're dealing with a vigilante who has a unique chemical arsenal, involving a strong spider like adhesive and the know-how to avoid leaving any trace of them ever existing," Batman surmised.

"Some of those parts sound like someone I know," Gordon joked. Some of the officers had a chuckle, Batman stayed stoic.

"Send up the signal the next time you get a phone call that has dead air. I'll be able to get a sample of the adhesive and run a full chemical analysis. We can figure out where the source of the chemicals came from, which narrows down the area we need to search. Narrow the area enough, we find where this Spider Man lives and who this Spider Man is," Batman instructed.

"Got it. I'll have Parker blink the signal on and off if he finds a pattern," Gordon added.

"Good. I'll be in touch," Batman said as he swiftly turned around and he walked off. Leaving the precinct and hopping back into the Batmobile, which roared to life as the hatch closed and the car reversed and peeled out of the parking garage.