Silk #6
Then
Cindy Moon is packing her backs when her mother asks if they can trust Ezekiel Sims. Cindy isn’t sure. When her mother suggests Sims might actually be trying to experiment on her, Cindy tells her mother that that sounds a lot better than being locked in a bunker for an unknown period of time. Nari Moon then hugs her daughter.[1]
Now
Silk is a prisoner of the Repairman, who has been hired by the people that have her family.[2] Strapped down on an operating table, the Repairman prepares to start dissecting her.
Meanwhile, Spider-Man has returned to the scene of Silk’s battle with the Black Cat. Seeing that the warehouse has been blown up, the web-slinger begins digging through the rubble to try and find his friend. He finds the Black Cat, who is also looking through the debris. All she will say is that someone double-crossed her and that she will get revenge against them before taking off. As the Black Cat leaves the scene she is unaware that Spider-Man has tagged her with a spider-tracer.
Back at the Shop, Cindy tries to get answers from the Repairman but all he will tell her that when he discovered how much she was worth to the people who have been watching her, then he figured she would fetch even more on the black market. Moreover, he doesn’t really care because he is more interested in making money. While he has been talking, Silk has been wriggling her fingers free from their restraints. Her effort finally pays off and she punches the Repairman in the face before he can begin cutting her.
That’s when the Black Cat arrives and begins attacking the Repairman. Silk scrambles to get herself free and has to flee the room when one of the support beams is destroyed causing the ceiling to collapse. Seeing the Black Cat digging through the rubble, Silk lunges at her because her foe killed the only person who could have had answers about her family. The Black Cat evades this and kicks Silk out the window. However, she grabs Cindy by the hair and offers her a job.
Blind with fury, Cindy uses her talons to cut through her hair and, as she falls, snares the Black Cat with a web-line. This pulls the Cat out of the window and she keeps hitting the balconies of fire escapes all the way down. This blunts Silk’s own fall to the street and, after webbing up her hands, pummels the Black Cat. Eventually, Felicia evades one of her blows and retreats, vowing that next time Cindy won’t be so lucky. Exhausted, Silk rests in an alley where she is found by Spider-Man. Unfortunately, his spider-tracer was damaged in the fall and he can no longer track the Black Cat. When he asks if she meant it when she told him that he should have left her in the bunker, she says she didn’t. She then hugs Peter, telling him that she will always be grateful to him because he set her free, but freedom is harder than she thought it would be.
When Cindy returns to her bunker and showers, she remembers the Repairman had said that people have been watching her the whole time. She turns her entire home upsidedown and eventually finds a hidden camera. She tells whoever is watching that the peepshow is over and destroys it. She then goes up onto the rooftops and decides that she should call the psychiatrist that Reed Richards recommended, figuring it won’t be the end of the world. As she dials the number she doesn’t notice a massive glowing sphere appearing in the horizon.[3]
Recurring Characters
Silk, Black Cat, Spider-Man, the Repairman, (flashbacks) Nari Moon
Continuity Notes
As explained in Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 3) #4-6, Cindy was locked away in a bunker for over a decade by Ezekiel Sims in order to shield her existence from Morlun and the Inheritors.
For more on these captors and where Cindy’s parents have gone see Silk (vol. 2) #11.
This is an Incursion, a process that is causing the destruction of the multiverse by causing one reality to collide with two others causing the destruction of all of them. For more on the Incursions see New Avengers (vol. 3) #1-33 and Avengers (vol. 5) #35-44.
