25: Spider Battlesuit Inspiration, George's Attitude

Gwen's house.

After showering, Gwen stepped out of the bathroom in pink pajamas. 

Seeing her mother still knitting, Gwen asked, "Mom, is Dad not back yet?"

Gwen's mother shook her head. "He's been so busy lately."

Just then, the door opened. 

A displeased George walked in.

His stern face softened a bit when he saw Gwen home. 

If he knew Gwen had just returned, he probably wouldn't look pleased.

Gwen noticed George's odd mood and asked: "Dad, did something happen with Stark Industries?"

"Obadiah's presence has calmed things at Stark Industries."

"This time it's mainly Daredevil..." 

"Daredevil?"

Gwen didn't understand why Daredevil bothered him too.

George entered the room and said, "There was a reported gun robbery at the station tonight." 

"By the time we arrived, Daredevil had already taken care of the armed thieves."

Gwen asked back, "Isn't that a good thing?"

"Good thing?" 

George frowned. "He's a criminal abusing vigilante justice. Don't let me catch him!"

Hearing this, Gwen grew upset too. 

"How is it bad that he helped people?"

"If everyone acted violently like him, it would just perpetuate this cycle of violence!"

George's words left Gwen speechless. 

As police commissioner, he was most against this kind of renegade heroism. 

Daredevil embodied it in his eyes.

So he disliked the man. 

"Well, if I had abilities like Daredevil, I would choose to help others."

Gwen headed upstairs, not wanting to argue further with George. 

Watching his daughter depart, George could only remain silent. 

As her father, how could he not know Gwen's true feelings?

He knew about her secret martial arts training. 

They just pretended otherwise.

As an old hand and director in New York for decades. 

He understood too well such maverick heroism often ended badly.

Either hurting loved ones...

Or harming oneself...

"Sorry for being late. Is there any food?" George asked his wife.

"Sit, it'll be ready in a moment."

Gwen's room. 

Gwen sat at her desk, browsing info on Daredevil online. 

Including some photos citizens had secretly captured.

In them Daredevil stood imposing with his billy clubs, bad guys punished at his feet.

Whenever she saw these, something seemed to awaken in Gwen's heart. 

She opened an old notebook on the desk.

Gwen flipped through until she found a childish sketch of an outfit, lines uneven and clumsy. 

Signed by Gwen.

Gwen's mouth quirked looking at the amateur drawing. 

Because it was a police uniform she had designed for herself. 

When grown up, she would wear it fighting bad guys alongside her father George.

But now...

Suddenly, Gwen's eyes brightened. "Wait, now I can do it, I have great power already!"

Gwen clenched her fists. 

With these super abilities, she was no longer ordinary.

She glanced at Daredevil on the computer again.

Then at her crude police uniform sketch. 

"Hey, I really could..."

Gwen grew excited, starting a new drawing in her notebook. 

This time, she wanted to design a "uniform" just for herself...

"Wonder if he would..." 

In her mind, Andrew's figure flashed.

Gwen decided to tell Andrew her thoughts tomorrow, showing him the outfit she devised!

With her plan set, Gwen continued designing eagerly. 

Two hours later...

"For the colors..."

Gwen pictured the athletic wear Andrew had given her today, instantly envisioning a color scheme...

...

Andrew's house. 

With the two locations' coordinates, Andrew teleported straight back and removed the Emperor's armor. 

He came to the balcony edge, pondering, "Don't know when Gwen will design her Spider suit."

He anticipated seeing Gwen in that iconic white spider outfit.

On the S.H.I.E.L.D mothership. 

After Hill exhausted every resource searching, a report was finally handed to Nick Fury. 

"After vanishing from our sight, this is the last location the golden mech appeared." 

"There?"

Nick Fury didn't read the report before him at all. 

Hill immediately replied: "The Middle Eastern desert area."

"Desert area?"

Nick Fury looked puzzled. "Find out what it did there?"

Hill shook her head. "Nothing, just spread its arms and teleported from the spot." 

Nick Fury frowned hearing Hill's account. 

He had never dealt with something so inscrutable. 

What was that golden mech's purpose? 

Might it pose a threat?

Could it join the Avengers? 

The more Nick Fury pondered, the more lost he felt, until Hill added something else.

"But we discovered one other thing." 

"Tell me."

"Where the mech went is precisely where Tony Stark was ambushed and disappeared by the Ten Rings not long ago."

"Tony Stark?" 

"Is this golden mech connected to the Stark family somehow?"

Nick Fury tapped the railing, deep in thought. 

"What did Phil Coulson find?"

Hill agent shook her head. "Nothing so far." 

"It'd be easier if Natasha Romanoff was present." 

Nick Fury considered briefly, then instructed: "Contact Kingpin. I'm going over now." 

"Have him do us a favor. If unwilling, send all his criminal evidence to those hunting him." 

"Yes sir!" 

Hill would act immediately. 

Soon after, Hill returned: "Director, Kingpin agreed!"

Nick Fury flicked his black trenchcoat and left the control room. 

"Hill, follow me."

...To be continued.