Spider-Man is swinging through the night on regular patrol
when he spots a quartet of costumed babies running across a snow-covered roof,
a jeweler chasing them. A hood fires a shot at the man so Spidey swings down to
hustle him to cover, surprising him as the Saily Bugle says Spider-Man is a
menace. Spidey thrashes them all but his Spider-Sense detects their leader
behind him: the Silver Samurai attacks the hero with a sword that emits an
anergy field. The baddie hurls Spidey against a stone chimney, stunning him….
Summoned by Nick Fury, the Black Widow arrives at the barbershop
which is the secret entrance to SHIELD’s secret HQ. Surprisingly, no one is
there so she takes the chair-elevator down to the main section. The entire HQ
is deserted though with signs that someone was there only moments earlier. Leaving
the building, she sees an energy flare in the distance and flies the Champions’
aircar over to investigate….
Natasha arrives just as Silver Samurai is about the deal a
killing blow to the unconscious Spider-Man. She rams the villain but he hangs
onto the hood, making her an easy target so she dumps him at the base of a
nearby building. SS recognizes Natasha and they spar, her avoiding his deadly
slashes while fighting back with her Widow’s Bite. Nat is cornered when Spidey
arrives to clout the baddie. To distract the heroes, SS slashes the building’s
main utility core, shaking the fifty-story structure and hurling a workman from
the top floor. Spidey dashes upward to catch him, applying the laws of physics
to rescue the man without being yanked off the building to his death. The man
tells him that the core pylon is one of four supporting the building and the structure
is starting to collapse. As Black Widow continues to engage Silver Samurai,
Spidey races to the damaged pylon and begins placing girders against it and
webbing them in place. By the time the building is stable again, Spidey has
webbed over thirty girders to it and is now exhausted and out of webbing. The
two heroes together then knock out the villain. Spidey searches the Samurai to
find out what had been stolen—and finds a small clay statuette. He and Natasha
feels cheated….