Conflict with Vulture: Back to New York

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by Tam_Skylonobi

by Tam_Skylonobi

In the wake of the events of Washington, D.C., Peter returned back to New York City where he had delighted at seeing of all of the new positive attention being put on Spider-Man following the success of the Rescue at the Washington Monument. As he walked down their school's hallways, Peter saw school news reports by Betty Brant and Jason Ionello discussing Spider-Man's heroic actions.

While Parker was making his way through all the school's hallways, he was then greeted by Ned Leeds who questioned what it was like being famous without anyone actually knowing it was him, as Peter told Ned once again to not tell anybody the truth. Peter revealed he was not going to class, noting that he figured out Vulture was using the technology stolen from Damage Control to make weapons and all he had to do now was catch Vulture in the act.

As Peter expressed his belief that Tony Stark would soon recruit him into the Avengers and therefore he did not have to worry about the school, Morita overheard and then gave him detention for planning on skipping class. In detention with Michelle Jones, Peter watched a video of Captain America before decided to walk out, with Mr Wilson not even bothering to attempt to stop him, who had proceeded to collect his hidden Synthetic Webbing and left the school.

Returned back home into the Parker Residence, Peter immediately resumed his hunt for Vulture as he donned the Spider-Man Mask and spoke with Karen. Parker asked if Karen could help him identify the men he encountered under the bridge, as she revealed that she had access to video files through the Baby Monitor Protocol. He then watched the footage, seeing Jackson Brice and Herman Schultz as they threatened another man before Spider-Man had stepped in.

Spider-Man had learned from Karen that the buyer was Aaron Davis, a criminal who was living in New York City and Spider-Man then went to confront him. Using the Spider-Drone to find Davis in a car park, Spider-Man proceeded to use his Web-Shooters to trap Davis to his car bonnet. At Karen's suggestion, Spider-Man put on intimidation mode which had amplified his voice into a more intimidating one, but Davis soon saw through the deception as Parker turned it off.

Spider-Man demanded Davis tell him Vulture's location, insisting that he needed to know where to find the weapons and threatened Davis if he refused to tell him. Davis, however, was not intimidated and slammed his car bonnet down, making Spider-Man jump. Davis then questioned if Spider-Man had ever interrogated anyone before and then asked if Spider-Man knew about Delmar's Deli-Grocery, noting his own shock went it had been destroyed during a robbery.

Grateful for saving him the other night when Schultz had tried to kill him, and caring for his nephew's safety, Davis informed Spider-Man about another weapons deal that would take place on involving Vulture and Mac Gargan. In his excitement at getting a lead, Spider-Man almost left before being told this was happening on the Staten Island Ferry. Davis had advised Spider-Man at getting better at being intimidating before he left Davis stuck to his car.