Making a Few Arrangements Before Leaving

By Wednesday, Cindy still had not come to school. Peter told Amadeus and Harry the news, and Harry looked at him in surprise. "Going abroad? You mean New York won't have Spider-Man for quite a while?"

"I think New York has plenty of Spider-Men now—but I know what you mean. Thanks, bro. I've got a plan. I'm going to give Flash one of my old suits, or just have Venom mimic a Spider-Man suit and let Agent Venom fill in for me for a few days. If there's really an emergency, you can contact me too, assuming you can reach me."

Harry was a little startled by that. "Dude, if you can't be reached, that's not exactly a good thing."

"Because I'm not sure whether that place has internet, even though it definitely has networks everywhere."

As he spoke, Peter also gave his friends a few instructions. "So I won't be able to take part in Detective Agency activities for the next few weeks. Help me ask Jessica for leave, and keep an eye on those freshmen for me. You know, the group whose parents got arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D."

Peter was naturally talking about the Runaways, the group whose story had been moved from San Francisco to New York. In the original plot, after discovering that their parents belonged to an evil organization and even intended to sacrifice them, the kids would flee in terror. That was why they were called the Runaways. Along the way, they would awaken and develop their abilities—some of which were not superpowers—and grow as people.

But now, S.H.I.E.L.D. had interrupted that process. They had stormed the gathering of those terrible parents and thrown every last one of them into Dome Prison. As for the children, they temporarily inherited their parents' property, with S.H.I.E.L.D. managing