Caught In A Web (Peter Parker/Tom Holland)

Chapter 22

Me and Peter got back to Avengers Upstate about an hour later. I led Peter to my room. After entering the room I closed the door and locked the door. I look over at the still, suited up Peter takes off his mask.

I then feel Peter pull me into him. He then kisses me, hungrily. I kiss him back immediately. He then leads me over to a couch. He sits, not breaking the kiss, and pulls me onto his lap. After about thirty seconds of us making out, he lays me down on my back and he hovers over me.

We continue our make-out session until Peter accidently bumps the TV remote, turning it on. He continues to kiss me as the TV starts to play.

"It seems like Spider-Man has a lover, see the full story here on News 4," I hear. Peter breaks the kiss and looks over at the TV. His eyes widen and he gets off me. I sit up and look at the TV.

I see a picture of me and Peter kissing. On the TV. My face wasn't shown. It was the back of my head. My hair.

"Shit," Peters mumbles. I feel him pull me into him and he wraps his arm around my waist.

"One of our helicopters spotted Spider-Man with a girl on the top of Brooklyn Bridge around 1:30 today. The couple were seen kissing!" The news anchor exclaimed.

"This isn't good," I mumbled and buried my face in my palms. The news channel then went dark for a moment and then came up again. Peter tensed up.

I looked and saw that there were pictures, all different people, on the screen. The caption at the bottom of the screen was breaking news.

"On a related note, four individuals have gone missing in the last couple of days," The news anchor said. The screen showed a guy around his twenties. "Fredrick Johnson, aged 24," Then a picture of an older woman. "Mary Sage, aged 57," Then a picture of a middle-aged man. "Drake Ross, aged 45." Then a picture of a little girl. A small little girl. "Lastly, Katy Foster, aged 9."

I looked over at a worried Peter.

"If anyone has seen these people, please report it to the police," The news anchor says. I grab the remote and paused it when the screen showed all four pictures.

"Peter, you might need to look in on this," I say. He nods his head while examining the photos. They were all of them in family photos, the rest of the family was cropped out. "You think this was HYDRA?"

"No, I think we've scared HYDRA off for a while. This is someone else," Peter says getting up from the couch and moving closer to the TV, exmamining the photos closer up.

"This might be a little more serious then the public knowing Spider-Man has a girlfriend," I mumble.

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Peter had gone out to start searching for the missing people. He looked up the places each person was last seen at and wrote it down. He said he was going to go search every place he wrote down. This seemed a little more serious then the last two guys Peter was against.

Sure, they both kidnapped me, but they didn't, mostly Toomes, kidnap others. These were four missing people. Someone had made an effort to kidnap these random people.

Their families must be worried sick. I understood what it was like to loose a family member and it was awful.

I was sitting on the couch searching through more news channels. None of them were talking about the missing people, they were all talking about Spider-Man's secret girlfriend. I rolled my eyes. No one cared about the missing people, they only cared about the drama that happened in Spider-Mans life. They have no idea.

Then my phone started to ring. I looked down at my phone. It was Peter.

"Hey, find anything?" I asked.

"No, you?" He asks.

"Nothing on the news, all they're talking about is Spider-Man's mystery girlfriend," I say annoyed.

"Oh," He says. "I keep thinking I'm about to find something but I never did."

"Where are you right now?" I asked.

"At an empty playground, it's where Katy Foster was last seen," He says.

"Oh, well you should probably," I was cut off by the noise of static. I looked over to see the TV was static. Then a video popped up. "Um, Peter?"

"What?"

I didn't answer. I stared at the TV in horror. It was a live broadcast from somewhere. I quickly grabbed the remote and paused it. It somehow paused.

"Y-You need to get back here, you need to see this," I stuttered in horror as I stared at the TV.

"On my way," Peter says then hangs up the phone. I lowered the phone and continued to stare at the TV.

It showed a room. Four figures were slumped over in chairs. A figure in a mask with X's over the eyes and a smile over the mouth.

He looked menacing. He was pointing towards the figures behind him. I was making a guess on that those were the missing people.

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Twenty minutes later I hear a knocking at my door. I open the door to see a fully suited up Peter. I smiled and gestured him in.

I closed the door quickly and pointed to the TV screen.

"Holy shit," Peter mumbles.

"I know! This just appeared on the TV," I said before pushing play.

All I hear is a menacing laugh. The man got closer to the camera.

"New York City, I'm glad to meet you," He says. He sounds insane. I feel Peter pull me into him as we watch. "Many of you all know that four people have gone missing. I don't consider them people anymore."

He laughs as he moves towards the figures. He holds one up, the one we identified as Fredrick Johnson. His throat was slit and his mouth sewed shut. I gasped in horror.

"Fredrick Johnson liked to talk, so I sewed his mouth shut, then he thought he could try to leave me, so I slit his little throat," The man laughed.

I looked up at Peter, he had horror in his eyes.

The man went back to the camera.

"I don't have anyone else to show you as of right now, but," He says before getting closer to the camera. "I intend to mangle every single one of your bodies, sooner or later New York," He laughs. "By the way, I'm the Mangler."

The broadcast cuts off. Peter was tensed up. He let go of me and paced the room.

"He killed one of them," I mumbled. I couldn't believe this guy. He was insane.

"V, this. This is bad," Peter says before he stops pacing the room. "I gotta stop this guy."

"Wait, not yet, you don't know anything about him," I say going up to him.

"I know, not now. But, I will stop him before he kills anyone else."

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A/N:

So I created another original villain. I decided since we won't know of any other conflicts with Spider-Man until Infinity War, I created the Mangler. He'll be an interesting character to write, so yeah.