Once Peter is alone, he takes a deep breath and motivates himself to actually speak into the walkie-talkie.

The plan would only work if Annabelle wasn't able to recognize the voice of her guards. Peter assumed that there were too many of them for her to be personally familiar with, yet there was no way of truly knowing until he tested it.

He closes his eyes, preparing to be called out as a fraud.

"We have a situation." Peter attempts to lower his voice when he says it, and he can't help but cringe at how fake it sounds.

At the same time, Annabelle responds with anger, but there's no suspicion in her tone. "What is it this time Miller?"

The plan was actually working.

It takes a moment for Peter to collect himself, and when he does he turns back to the walkie-talkie. He tries to say as few words as possible so there was less of a chance of getting caught.

"The boy is gone."

"What do you mean gone?"

Peter flinches back, pitying anyone who has ever had to take orders from Annabelle. The voice alone could leave a man petrified, and he has to remind himself that he's faced worse villains. He was Spider-Man even without the mask on.

"Some of the guards are out cold, he must have fought them and escaped."

"That scrawny little thing- seems unlikely."

Peter bites down his scoff, "he's not that scrawny."

"Either way, call Jack and have him put the building on lock-down, the kid couldn't have gone far."

"Maybe we should increase security at the entrance? That's most likely where the kid will head."

Annabelle doesn't respond for a moment, and in the meantime Peter feels his heart pounding against his chest. He had the raging suspicion that something bad was going to happen during their escape, but he didn't think it would be this soon.

She does eventually reply, though it isn't what Peter wants to hear.

"Leave security exactly how it is, the boy will come to us and then he can deal with the repercussions."

"Why do you think that?" Peter tries to sound casual, yet it's difficult to do so when it feels as if his heart had stopped beating all together.

Annabelle answers like it's obvious, "he cares too much about Stark, there's no way he would leave without him."

Peter hates that she's right.

He wanted the room with Tony to have as few guards as possible, though the chances of that now seemed unlikely.

He suddenly feels stupid for thinking this plan would work to begin with. Peter could fight one or two guards easily, but this building was filled with men bigger than himself. Of course he had speed and agility on his side, but that was nothing when fighting against a bullet.

Peter considers giving up, waving the metaphorical white flag and accepting his loss, but then he sees it.

Directly across the hall lays a bright red fire alarm, and the most juvenile of plans begin to form in Peter's head.

He runs over and pulls at it without thinking twice. Immediately, the alarms go off and the sound is deafening to Peter's super hearing, yet he pays no mind to it as he continues to make his way towards Tony.

Right away, a new guard speaks into the walkie-talkie, and Peter assumes that it's the main comm. "Any confirmation if the fire is real?"

Peter jumps on the line before anyone else can do so, trying to stay in character even when he feels his eardrums bursting into a million pieces.

"The fire's in front of me, I just saw the boy start one and it's pretty big- I suggest leaving the building as soon as possible."

"If you're there then put it out."

"There's nothing to calm it."

From there only commotion fills the main comms, and Peter can't help but feel proud of his handiwork. People talk over one another yet no one truly knows what's going on, not even himself.

Eventually, however, Annabelle puts an end to the chaos.

"Since when do we make our own orders?" The comms go completely silent, and no guard dares to actually answer her question.

"No one is leaving this building until we find the boy. I don't care if the fire is real or not, we are not losing our hard work because a child decided to throw a hissy fit."

Peter thinks that now is as good of a time to follow through with his plan. He prays that the fire alarm was enough of a distraction to separate most of the guards, and he finally enters the room with Tony.

He recognizes it immediately, having been there before when the guards would use him as leverage. He sees the chair that Tony always sits in, strapped to a fancy electroconvulsive contraption that to this day still looked foreign to Peter.

He also sees Annabelle, sitting behind an array of screens and computers. Since the beginning, he's wondered what information they were trying to gather through the unethical experiments, though he supposes he'll never find out now.

All this time, the pistol lays heavy in his hand.

Not wanting to waste another second, Peter takes the gun and aims it directly at the computers. It was the first time he's ever shot at something, and he's extra careful to make sure he's accurate as he pulls the trigger.

Fortunately for him, the target is large, and he watches in shock as the screens completely shatter just like that. Sparks fly everywhere when the bullets smash into the technology, and he's now certain that he has everyone's attention.

He locks eyes with Annabelle, and he's surprised that she doesn't kill him right then. She is the first to look away as she stares down at the mess before her, visibly distraught as she tries to salvage what little she has left of her data.

Just as discussed the day before, Tony uses the distraction to his benefit as he tears himself away from the ECT chair, sprinting out of the room and beginning his chase for freedom. A couple of the guards are quick to follow, but with the fire alarm and Peter's ruse, he's confident that Tony will be able to escape with ease.

If only the same could be said for himself.

His Spider Sense warns him of danger, as if that much weren't obvious as Annabelle begins to stand back up. He had fought countless villains throughout his time as Spider-Man, yet he has never quite seen that look of hatred in someone's eyes. In that moment, he knew that Annabelle was looking for revenge, and she would do anything to get it.

And so, Peter is finally able to listen to his sixth sense as he quite literally runs for his life.

He's not exactly sure where he's headed as he sprints through the halls, and he can only hope that Tony was at least able to find the exit. Peter hadn't really thought this portion of the plan through, so he blindly guesses left and right turns as he hears guards follow close behind.

Many try to catch him, but they don't realize that they are up against a superhero. Peter loses the guards easily, and for a minute he idiotically believes that he'd actually make it out of here alive.

That is until he runs straight into Annabelle, who doesn't hesitate to shoot him on the spot.