Spider Luck

A purrticular thief

When I arrive near the villa where the robbery is taking place, I see numerous patrols heading in the same direction as me on the street, something that highlights how important is the family that lives in that house to receive this special treatment.

Since the police raided the house, I'll stay back and search the perimeter to prevent the thief from having a chance to escape or, if he's already outside the villa, to be ready to track him.

As soon as I move my gaze to see if there was any sign from the police that the house was empty, I see three windows on the second floor opening and from them I see three figures, each with a bag, coming out using grappling hooks.

Because of their dark clothing, which also includes a hat and a mask that covers their mouth, and the scarcity of light in that spot they specifically chose to escape, there is no detail that helps me distinguish them except for their build.

In the meantime I reach them, I shoot three webs when they are halfway to put their feet back on the ground. Each one of them hits their pistols precisely where the grappling hook starts and, in this way, all three find themselves suspended in the middle as their hands are tied to their grappling guns thanks to my webs.

After that, I placed myself on a light pole in front of them but, before I could confirm their capture, one of the three thugs, with a quick gesture of his hand, managed to cut the cord of the grapple and, without any difficulty or damage, landed elegantly on the ground.

Seeing that their colleague managed to escape, the other two also do everything to get rid of their respective webs, however they do not come out unharmed from their fall as in the first case, one seems to report a damage to the leg while the other remains on the ground sore.

I try to block their escape, however, the two who are still standing manage to avoid the cobwebs that shoot to limit their movements and, to make things more difficult, both of them are going in different directions.

Before I go after them, I make sure their abandoned friend is okay, only after I make sure I immobilize him and warn the police about his location and his share of the loot, I track down the two runaways.

Taking into account that most likely they will not attempt to escape with a vehicle, but will try to blend in with passers-by, I pay attention to any detail that may betray them, such as the limp walk of one of the two.

I'm swinging from one building to another in the direction the limp thief was going, but there's a lot of people on the street right now, so I'm having trouble finding that robber.

At some point, before I momentarily abandon my research to see if I can get any information from their colleague who is now in police custody, I hear a scream of a girl coming from an alley near me.

When I turn to the source of that scream, I see at the beginning of an alley a person slumped to the ground and the robber I was looking for, who, after pushing the girl away, is going deep into that alley.

Immediately after seeing this, I climb on the roof of a nearby building and, immediately after, I accurately hit with each of my webshoters my target.

As soon as my hook catches the fish I was looking for, I hang him on a cornice of the building on which I stand, so that it does not run away a second time.

As he was taken aback by my capture, the man drops the bag with his share of the loot and then starts yelling insults at me that I caught him and, for some reason, the white-haired girl he pushed.

"Daddy Spidey does not accept this behavior of yours, young man, for punishment now you will go to stay in a cell for a while so you can reflect on what you have done and especially on those ugly words of yours. Don't you think about how your mother would feel if she knew her son was so foul-mouthed?" I say, then I shoot a web in his mouth to stop him talking.