Issue 54: Secret Wars Part IV

The middle-aged man looked around and said, "Odd I could have sworn I told you to bring my test subject back with you."

Peter looked at the man finally recognizing who he was, "Maynard Tiboldt."

Maynard Tiboldt is the son of Fritz Tiboldt, the former Ringmaster of the Tiboldt Circus during World War II. 

After his parents were executed for their failures in infiltrating the U.S, Maynard, who did not share his parents' sympathy for Nazism, became the leader of a circus and decided to move it to America, far from the scene of Hitler's rise to power and his parents' deaths. 

It appeared in this timeline he chose to follow in his parent's footsteps and joined Hydra. Peter knew his powers well, and of course it had to be Mind Control, one of his most hated powers.

"Oh, you know my name?" Maynard smiled as he approached Peter, "Your protégé didn't make it. She died while I attempted to extract the Symbiote."

Maynard sighed, "Oh darn, what a waste, oh well, she isn't my only super-powered experiment."

Peter looked around and attempted to invade the mind of his foes, but the Symbiotes managed to block his ability. Luckily, Maynard never would have guessed Peter gained a new power recently. 

He dove into his mind and saw everything that he needed to know. In less than a second, Peter felt sick as he shuffled through the Hydra scientist's head. He saw him performing countless experimentation on innocent people, dissecting them alive, and even creating a few super villains.

Peter wanted to throw up. He thought that it couldn't get any worse but suddenly he saw his parents, they looked malnourished, tired, and beaten. 

Maynard was called in by a superior to force the answers out of his parents. However, as previous Shield Agents, they knew of Maynard's abilities, and they actually gouged out their own eyes so he couldn't control them.

Unable to pry the information from their heads, the villain kept them held up in a cell, waiting for the day that he could break their spirits. Maynard constantly used the threat of killing one of them to coerce information out of each other, but that would never work. His parents knew that if they spilled the information, they would be disposed of.

Their refusal often resulted in him physically harming them or torturing them in various ways.

Peter gritted his teeth. He saw the suffering he put them through and felt he had seen enough. Next, he scoured his brain, trying to locate where they were keeping the rest of his family. He finally felt a bit of relief when he saw that MJ's parents and his Aunt and Uncle were still safe. Lucky for him, the crazed Maynard had kept his word for the most part. However, he intended to use the Symbiotes to control them in order to torture his parents. 

After reprogramming Maynard's mind for a preset of actions, Peter sent a message to MJ telepathically and she responded almost instantly, "Okay, I'll go get them, what about you?"

"I'm going to let him take me, once he leads me to a base, I'll start ripping apart Hydra from the inside," Peter said as he walked over and held his hands up, "Take me, just let my family go."

"Of course, we will," Maynard replied, Peter obviously knew he was lying. The scheming rat that he is, would never hand over leverage that he could put to use.

Peter had a pair of cuffs slapped on him and he felt that all his powers sealed, it even forced his Symbiote to retreat inside his body,

"These are specially made just for you. It took a while to make, but we managed to find someone to figure it out."

Peter knew he was referring to the Mutant known as Forge, one of his slaves. Only he could invent something of this level right now, after all, who else would be able to create equipment to deal with Spider-Man's powers without actually ever meeting or knowing of them?

Peter still had his magic though, and that's all it would take to shatter these cuffs and wreak havoc. He was led into an invisible ship and began flying towards the ocean.

MJ ran off towards downtown Manhattan. She had to hurry because once they had Peter, they were going to load up the prisoners and transport them to a holding facility along with Peter's parents. 

MJ arrived at a large high rise with a helicopter pad on top of it, she then began looking through the building. Using her Spider-Sense she crawled through the air ducts and homed in on her family and found a group of people who had black sacks covering up their heads. They were surrounded by armed guards that were each wearing Hydra developed combat armor.

MJ wanted nothing more than to bust out her family right now, but she knew what she had to do. She focused on her senses and heard them speaking on their radios. 

"Target acquired, move the packages to the black site."

The Hydra Agents started getting to work. They forced the hostages to start moving, and as they worked their way to the roof, the agents revealed a cloaked jet that could carry a small platoon. 

The hostages boarded it at gunpoint while MJ hid in plain sight, walking along beside them without making even the smallest of noises. Once she saw the pilot enter in his destination coordinates, she made her move. 

Spider-Woman webbed up every one of the Hydra Agents before the jet could even leave the ground. She then hacked into the onboard computer using her Symbiote.

Once she shut down the jet and locked it out from being able to be remotely controlled, she transformed her image into an adult version of herself and walked back to the where the 13 people that had been brought here against their will and started removing the sacks over their heads, 

MJ found her family, and yet instead of relief, she felt her blood boiling, Aunt May had a bruise on her eye, and Ben and her father's faces and bodies were beaten black and blue, her mother had a large bump on her head a bit of dried blood running down her forehead.

MJ felt like she was going to explode, she wanted to hurt someone, hurt them badly, she took a deep breath and reigned in her emotions as she placed Symbiote over them to cure their wounds. 

When the first person regained consciousness they shouted, "Spider-Woman!"

"Were saved!" Another of the captives said as they noticed the situation around them, MJ raised her hand and said, "Keep quiet, it's not over yet, I still have to take care of the bad guys in the building." 

MJ couldn't stop seeing the damage the Hydra Agents inflicted on them and gripped her fists so tightly that they cracked her knuckles. She then turned to her family and said, "Watsons, Parkers, I'm sorry we had to meet again like this." 

Her family members looked at her when they started shouting "Peter, Mary!" 

MJ smiled and felt a sense of warmth, she wanted to hug them and tell them she was right here. 

"Your kids are alright, they actually called us for help, so treat them to something good when you get back home." Hearing this they began to calm down, MJ moved to the tail end of the jet, when MJ's mom said, "Excuse me, I know this is gonna sound strange, but I...Do I know you?" 

MJ laughed and said, "Of course you do, I'm your friendly neighborhood Spider-Woman!" 

As she opened the jet drop gate, she turned back to them and said, "I promise…this is almost over. Stay inside the jet, and I'll come back to let you know it's safe."

MJ looked fondly at her family as she stepped outside and closed the jet, calling up her favorite bald cyclops, she took a deep breath and said, "Fury, got a squad of Hydra agents and kidnapping victims at the location I'm sending you. I need you to round them up when I'm done with them."

"What!?" Fury almost spit out the coffee he was drinking, MJ turned invisible and started walking towards the roof entrance, "Fury, they took our family, Hydra knows our identities."

"I'm sending over a cleanup crew, you alright kid?" Fury said as he contacted Agent Hill and sent out his orders.

"Yeah, oh and Fury bring a few medics as well!" MJ said as she started walking down the stairs while Hydra Members scrambled all throughout the building.

"Are the hostages injured?" Fury asked.

"No, but the Hydra Agents are on the verge of death." MJ hung up as she opened up the door to the top floor and started moving towards the nearest Hydra operative. 

She rushed forward with her fist ready to do some damage and performed a running punch into the guard's chest, shattering the combat armor before sending him flying into the wall. She webbed him up seconds before the rest of the agents in the area were alerted to her actions, 

MJ dashed forward to a group of three and jumped on the neck of the guard in the center. She then her ability to stick to surfaces to flip him into the air using only the soles of her feet while webbing up the remaining two soldier's faces. Then as she spun mid-jump, she pulled the web lines, smacking them into each other seconds before the first guy's face slammed onto to the ground. 

MJ webbed them onto the floor and continued on throughout the building absolutely crushing every Hydra Agent she came across.

As she spotted a new group she jumped over some railing and sent one guy flying into the ceiling with soaring uppercut and webbed him in place. One of the men tried to swipe at her with an electric rod, but MJ was too fast. Ducking down she kicked out the back of guy's legs and webbed the top of his foot before throwing him onto a wall and punching him through it. 

A Hydra agent pointed his gun around not knowing where to aim when MJ placed her hand over the barrel at the same time he began pulling the trigger. 

Without a seconds notice, MJ crushed the barrel and punched the Hydra agent straight in his jaw knocking out his teeth.

The rest of the villainous agents discovered someone had come as was picking off their operatives and started opening fire transforming the building into what can only be described as a scene of pure chaos. 

From outside of the building, the only thing one could see were flashes of light from the gunfire accompanied by the screams of dozens Hydra Agents crying out in pain. 

As she made her way down the high rise, she continued to destroy every last man and woman that dared to aim a gun at her. No one was getting off easy for what they did. This night, MJ wasn't fighting criminals. No, she was hunting animals and making sure those that hurt her family would pay.

Some particular men were sitting inside the security room, watching this go on, one of the men was a large bald man standing around 6 feet 4 and built like a tank. He held a thick metal link-chain around his chest, wore no shirt, and had long blue jeans with steel-toed boots. 

He stared at MJ's current location on the monitors, but he couldn't see her image, just the blurs that proceeded their beatdowns. However, that wasn't what interested him, what drew his interest wasn't the Hydra Agents dropping left and right, but rather the organic webbing MJ used.

"What an interesting material," he said as a tall well-built beautiful woman standing at 6 feet 7 wrapped her arms around his chest and smiled. 

She had chestnut brown hair, and a wore a revealing legless black and blue leotard that was covered in armored padding, and full-length arm gloves, and long black boots that also had armor plating on it.

"You want that, Baby?" The woman said when a large blond-haired man walked up next to him.

He was wearing a large tan Trench coat, with a single striped shirt underneath it, blue jeans and leather boots. He was carrying a crowbar that he was slapping against his hand as he said. "We can go get it for ya boss. Just leave this intruder to us."

A smaller person around 5 feet 4 and built like a professional bodybuilder was wearing an outfit similar to the Juggernaut slapped his hands together before saying, "Yeah, let's crush em!"

Next to him was 6 foot 4 inch man wearing a white tank top and a pair of combat pants and boots, he had spiky blond hair and looked like a Spartan in his prime. "I don't know who's dumb enough to attack Hydra, but they just made a big mistake."

Another bulky man around 6 feet tall and wearing a green and yellow tracksuit, pulled a link chain that was connected to a heavy metal ball the size of a wrecking ball, walked up next to their leader, and then laughed before saying, "We're going to wreak them." 

The man's ball and chain hit the ground causing the ground beneath them to fracture.

The shirtless man with the chain around his chest smiled and said, "Let's show this mere intruder what the Sinister Six is capable of."