Look on the bright side. I've always wanted to show that cocky web-spinning amateur what a pro could do with powers like his.

-- Paladin

Appearing in the 1st StoryEdit

Featured Characters:

• Heroes for Hire
  • Misty Knight
  • Paladin
  • Falcon (Sam Wilson)
  • Gargoyle (Isaac Christians)
  • Silver Sable
  • Shroud (Maximillian Coleridge)
  • Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff)
  • Elektra

Supporting Characters:

• Luke Cage
• Black Cat (Felicia Hardy)
• J. Jonah Jameson

Villains:

• Chemistro (Calvin Carr)
• Nightshade (Tilda Johnson)
• Copperhead (Lawrence Chesney) (Behind the scenes)
• Mr. Fish (Mortimer Norris)
• Spear (Jasper Daniels)
• AIM

Other Characters:

• Red Hulk (Thad Ross)
• Cloak (Tyrone Johnson)
• Max Modell (Mentioned)
• Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Mentioned)
• Night Nurse (Linda Carter) (Mentioned)
• unnamed spider people

Locations:

• New York City
  • Spuyten Duyvil Bridge

Items:

• Black Widow's Gauntlets

Vehicles:

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Synopsis for the 1st StoryEdit

Mayor Jameson hires Heroes for Hire to help secure the quartine zone.

The heroes are deployed to the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge, where they have their hands full keeping citizens with spider-powers from crossing. In the middle of the conflict, Paladin exhibits signs that he is infected. When he pulls of his glove, he sees that his hand is getting hairier.

Next, they are sent to Grand Central to stop A.I.M. scientists. Paladin saves Misty from getting attacked but is mutating into a human spider with eight eyes and four spider legs coming out of his back. Despite his condition, he assures Misty he's fine.

The next day, the heroes must face fully mutated citizens alone while Misty checks on Paladin. At his penthouse, Misty discovers that Paladin has almost completely mutated into a spider.

While they fight, Paladin tells her that he locked himself in because he was too dangerous. When she goes to get her stun gun, Paladin jumps on her and they both fall out the window. Paladin webs himself to safety and tries to save her but she is able to save herself when she shoots a web out of wrist and swings back into the building, kicking Paladin into unconciousness in the process.

Deciding to stay with him, Misty webs him up so that he won't escape and talks to him through the night, knowing he can't understand any of it. One of the things she tells him is that she knows that he has feelings for her and she might have feelings for him as well.

By dawn, Misty too has grown eight eyes and four legs on her back.

NotesEdit

The Cover is a homage to Amazing Spider-Man #141

Solicit Synopsis:

• What chance do Misty Knight’s rag-tag band of street heroes have keeping the wild hordes of infected from storming out of Manhattan...especially when the team members themselves are victims of the plague? And can the squad survive or will this crisis destroy the already fragile “Heroes” concept? Considering what’s coming next month for Misty and her agents...maybe not!

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