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[ chapter six ]

This wasn't exactly how Andi planned for her evening to go.

Still down on the ground, she looked up to see Spider-Man moving to disarm one of the other guys. Meanwhile, the man that Andi had gone for initially was now scrambling across the floor to grab the gun that she had knocked out of his hand. Spider-Man had swiftly webbed the hand of the man he'd gone after to the wall, so he was unable to use his gun. By the time he turned around, however, he had a gun aimed at him.

Two of the three masked men were out of the picture, but now things became a little tricky. Andi, of course, was not aware what Spider-Man was capable of. Not completely. She knew there was webbing involved, which paid homage to his name, and he seemed pretty quick on his feet, based on the many videos she saw. She did not, however, think he had quick reflexes. It didn't cross her mind, so when she saw a gun being pointed at him, Andi knew she had to do something.

In the second that passed since Spider-Man turned to face the last man standing, Andi reached one hand out in the man's direction and focused on the gun. In a matter of moments, it flew from his hand, clattering onto the floor a few feet away from him. Thank God guns were made from some metal variant, or she might not have been able to do anything.

The distraction she caused was enough to confuse not just the man, but Spider-Man too, since he probably wasn't sure how the gun just flew out of the man's hand. Nevertheless, Spider-Man acted first, shooting some webbing at the man's hand and sticking it to the deli counter.

Andi took that opportunity to slowly stand up and see all three men now struggling to get out of webbing, and something told her that they wouldn't be able to. Not any time soon anyway, and Andi could already hear sirens in the distance.

Andi dusted off the rest of the shattered glass that had fallen on her when Spider-Man crashed through the doors. Then she moved forward, attempting to help one of the women that had fallen to the floor when the men first came in. When she did that and turned around, she came face to face with Spider-Man.

"Are you okay?" He asked her. Andi felt like the voice was a little familiar, though it was also partly muffled by the suit he had on.

"Uh, yeah," Andi nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine." She glanced toward the other three people in the store who had now stood up and were moving to the door to get out onto the streets, where two cop cars had pulled up. Someone must have heard the gunshots and alerted the authorities.

Spider-Man looked toward the door and then back to Andi. He seemed fidgety. Andi then realised that he didn't want to stick around while the cops were there.

"It's okay," she told him, before he could say anything. She was letting him know it was all fine and he didn't need to stick around. She didn't want him to get caught by the cops. Andi still wasn't sure how they'd see vigilantes, even if the Accords hadn't been ratified yet.

Spider-Man nodded after a moment and backed away. "T-take care." Only after speaking those two words did he move to leave. He simply jogged out the front door and used his webbing to get to the roof of the opposite building, and then he was gone.