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[color=black][b][u]12:14 AM; July 7th, 2018
One of Many Side Alleys; New York City[/u][/b][/color][/center]
Dave's isn't far from here. Just another street or so, and I'll be able to relax, or at least be away from constant gunfire long enough to come up with some sort of game plan. I was thankful I was smart enough to stash away all the guns I had... [i]Acquired[/i] from Emil Greco, somewhere safe. At least I didn't have to worry about having to use a half empty Glock with no other ammo for the rest of my crusade. I'd also have to find some place to lay low, like a warehouse or an abandoned building or something.

I hear a scream emanating from behind me. I stop and turn my head, seeing two silhouettes, a womanly figure pressed up against a wall by a larger, masculine one. Mugging, rape, whatever it was, it didn't involve me. It didn't involve me. I was being chased by cops who were hellbent on me getting the gas chamber. I just needed to get to Dave's house, it was only a few streets away. 

It didn't involve me. 

I didn't have to do this.

[b][i]*BANG!*[/i][/b]

He drops to the floor, bits of his skull decorating the ground around him and the woman. The woman looks in my direction, before running. I look down at the pistol in my hand... [i]Idiot![/i] They're gonna be all over you now! But you just had to let your white knight complex fuck [i]everything[/i] up, didn't you? Just shut up, Frank. Keep running. Don't stop until you're inside Dave's house. Keep your gun out just in case someone comes at you.

[i]*Thwip!*[/i]

... Or have it snatched out of your hand.

I look up at the direction of the spiderwebs that pulled the Glock from my grasp, there standing a woman in a costume, the details of which I can't make out in the moonlight beyond the hood pulled over her head. Then again, spiderwebs and a woman wearing a hooded costume; it was a no-brainer. Looks like I was finally meeting New York's friendly neighborhood Spider-Woman, and I can already tell why she was here.

[color=black][b]"I'm giving you one chance to walk away. I don't like hurting girls. But if it comes down to it, I [i]won't[/i] hesitate to break you,"[/b][/color] I say, readying myself to avoid any webs she slings my way. Her style was to quickly ensnare and incapacitate her opponents, and leave them there for the police to find. I wasn't going to be the next 'criminal' she captures, and if I was, I'd be damned if I went down without a fight...
[center][hr][b][h3][color=black]PRELUDE TO ISSUE #4[/color]
[color=ec008c]THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-WOMAN[/color][/h3][/b][/center]