Believer [Peter Parker]

23 - Arms Dealers

A few men were standing around the trunk of a car. Hannah held onto Peter silently crawled down the side of the bridge.

"Okay, okay, okay," one of the men said. "I got what you need, all right? I got tons of great stuff here. One sec."

Peter and Hannah hide as they watched the man walk up to his van to look inside. Hannah and Peter narrowed their eyes. The back of the van is full of machinery and weapons.

"Okay, I got, uh, black hole grenades, Chitauri railguns..."

"You letting off shots in public now?" another man said. "Hurry up. Look, times are changing. We're the only ones selling these high techs weapons."

"This must be where the ATM robbers got their stuff," Hannah said, quietly.

"Yeah," Peter agreed.

"I need something to stick up somebody," the third man said. "I'm not trying to shoot them back in time."

"I got the anti-gravity climbers," the first man said.

"Yo, climbers?" the third man said.

A yodeling ringtone played suddenly. The weapon dealers looked around, alarmed.

"Okay, what the hell was that?"

"Peter," Hannah whispered. "It's your phone."

"Alright, alright," Peter said.

Peter took his phone out to check the caller ID. It was Ned.

"Did set us up?" the second man said, aiming a gun at the third man.

"Hey, hey, man.

Peter flipped off the wall and landed on the ground.

"Never do that again while I'm holding onto you," Hannah said.

"Hey! Hey, come on," Peter said. "You gonna shoot at somebody, shoot at me."

"All right," the second man said, without a second thought.

The man turned the gun on Peter, but Peter and Hannah shot a web and electricity, disarming him, and charged. Using a high tech gauntlet from his van, the first man punched Peter with a burst of energy. Peter slammed into the side of the bridge and lands on the ground.

The man tried to attack Hannah, but she dodged. She punched him in the face.

The second man jumoed into the van and started the car. The first man punched Hannah and pushed her to the ground. He laughed triumphantly and jumped onto the back of the van as she accomplice drives off.

"What was that?" Peter asked.

He shot webs, attaching it to the weapon dealers open van door. Peter tried to grab Hannah as the van dragged him, but failed.

"Peter!" she called.

Peter shot a web at Hannah's hand and like Peter, she was being dragged. Hannah grabbed the web with both hands and Peter tried to pull Hannah towards him. She would try to pull herself forward, but it was hard when the van is constantly turning.

Hannah noticed how Peter was struggling to keep balance and make sure he didn't let her go.

***

Peter is still being dragged through the neighborhood, clinging to the back of the van.

"Oh, my butt! Unh!" Peter complained.

One of the men, Brice, powered more energy blasts at Peter, causing him to lose his grasp on the web. It led to a small collision with Hannah and Peter.