-Matt Murdoch POV-

Yep we are letting the mayor go, we don't have a choice it's either him or 1000's of criminals because our dear mayor was arrested before his charge sheet was filed with all the relevant evidence in it....Ughh this is a mess.

Why did Peter give me that hope only to steal it away like so. I wish I never knew that I had a chance to catch the mayor by the balls. I step infront of the court gates and ask foggy "How smug do you think the mayor will be when he finds out we are letting him go?" Foggy sighs as he says "Smug enough to make me want to punch his face in" we watch the mayor and his lawyer Wesley walk up the stares with smiles on their faces "Atleast they would not be prepared to fight against the arrests of the 1000's of criminals we have"

I grimace as I inform foggy with an apologetic look on my face "They will be prepared for exactly that because they believe I will submit to their little threat last night" Foggy immediately interjects "Woah, woah, woah what's this I hear about a threat?" I puff out some air from my chest as I explain to him "The mayor came into my house and offered me money to leave him be and when I didn't agree he.." Foggy finishes the sentence for me "...he threatened you and why did you let him do it to you?"

I blink in confusion as I tell him "They had guns and I was blind" Foggy hits my chest lightly as he yells at me "That is not what I meant, I am asking you why you did not do something about it in the courtroom, why didn't you collect evidence and file a case" I give him a thin smile before explaining self depreciatingly "I live in Hell's kitchen, Foggy" Foggy turns away and angrily kicks the curb as he mutters curses.

He turns back and gives me an I told you so look as he says "I told you that place was cheap for a reason" I smile and shake my head as I we start walking intothe court room.

Just before we could open the door my phone rings and so does foggy's and then everyone else's phone rings too, I frown and take out my phone to see that It was just a notification to Peters YouTube channel, a small nerve flares up on my forehead as I curse the kid for uploading a video now instead of sending me the video.

I put the phone back in my pocket and look at all the others watching the kid in surprise. Hmph didn't know the kid was this popular, probably why he it got to his head and he doesn't want to do the right thing anymore.

As I was about to step into the court room I remembered something. Didn't Peter give me the pendrive with his video on it, then what the fuck did he upload. I immediately open the YouTube video and the grin on my face must have looked like a shark because I smell a lot of blood over here.

-Spiderman POV-

I got home hoping to god that sand man doesn't just up and rob another bank because if he does, I won't be so forgiving. His daughter saved him from prison life, let's hope he takes good care of her with the bag of money I left behind.

Thoughts aside I didn't have a plan for sandman because I thought he wasn't a possibility, Uncle Ben didn't die so what's the need for sandman to exist is what I thought but here he is probably another one of oscorps creation.

It's like fate has chosen the criminals path for them and they will definitely be a pain in my ass someday, I'll need to be prepared for that eventuality. Sandman is made of....sand and the method he uses to stay as a man are unknown. Where is his brain, his conscience? Is it scattered across the sand or is his conscience in some sand dimension that we don't know about.

I don't want to kill him but I need a way to neutralize him too so here's what we will do for today until Uncle Ben and Aunt May come back. I will try to make a compound that can make my web fluid similar to slime in consistency, that might make the sand stick together and not let him escape.

But is that enough maybe the Sandman can escape through even a grain of sand so I need to find a better way to bind together the..... *Knock*Knock* a knock interrupts my musings so I get out of the basement and open the door to the house and find Ned standing there, I immediately usher him in "Come in Ned, I was just working on something" he remarks in an unamusing thin voice "oh something huh?"

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I look at him weirdly before leading him to the basement as I show him What I was working on "I am working on a compound that can prevent sand from moving" he nods without showing any emotion on his face so I continue "I am also working on a way to integrate some small spider drones into my suit for any disaster relief stuff, what do you think?" Ned still stays silent while looking away from me.

This scares me a lot because Ned is never SILENT, so this must mean something has happened, something very serious. I approach him from behind and put my hand on his shoulder before asking him "What happened man?" He looks back at me quickly and pushes my hand away as he sneers at me "I don't know, maybe I found out my best friend has been hiding things from me"

I look at him with surprise in my eyes as I apologise to him "I am sorry about that man but I had to shave off your moustache, if you can even call it that" he gives me a surprised "What?" But I continue with my apology "It looked awful, you had a combined amount of 3 hair follicles on your face and they didn't even look like cat whiskers, you would hate me for not doing that when you die alone of embarassment"

Ned looked more and more confused as my apology went on before he suddenly exclaimed "Wait, wait, wait hold on don't finish that, we'll talk about it later but right now we have another dilemma at hand." I cringe at my wrong assumption and ask him "What is it then?" He takes a deep breath before accusing me "Why didn't you tell me you made an AI?"

I tilt my head to the left as I ask him confusedly "Wait, but I did tell you didn't I?" He shakes his head vigorously as he denies "If I knew about it, I would have chewed out your year for weeks Wouldn't I?" I nod in understanding as I agree with him "Yeah, you are right, you did pester me a lot after I told you I was Spiderman...hmmm, oh I guess you know about the AI now huh"

A tumble weed rolls across the room during the silence so I quickly catch it with a pair of tongs before throwing it out the window while muttering to myself "How did that get in here?" My Spidey sense flared all of a sudden , in fact it flared so much that it felt like it knew that no warning would be enough to make me escape whatever it is that is coming at me and that something was Ned Leeds who jumped on my back and started pulling hair back like I was a horse.

"YOU BASTARD, YOU THINK BUILDING AN AI CAPABLE OF SENTIENCE IS SOMETHING YOU CAN JUST SWEEP ASIDE LIKE THAT" I push Ned off my back and stand back with my webs aimed at his hands. I try to calm him with words while also asking him questions "First of all I thought you knew and second of all WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN SENTIENCE?"

Ned looked taken aback as he asks me doubtfully "You don't know the AI is sentient?" I shake my head and try to clear the fog from my vision "Tell me exactly what made you believe that the AI is sentient?" Ned explains simply "It felt fear, it thought it can die, she has assigned a gender for herself" I yell "bullshit" in outrage before running off to find the entire conversational record of the AI and Ned.

After looking through the code I wipe the sweat off my head and explain to Ned "It wasn't sentience, it was a simulation of sentience, the code was preparing itself to scatter across the internet to escape your destruction program and the logical part of her code interpreted that preparation as a heart beat, the continuous compression and decompression of the files was the bpm for the AI" Ned looks down at the ground as he asks me "So you mean to say Titanius prime isn't a sentient AI" I look at Ned creeped out by the sentence he uttered before yelling out "WHAT THE FUCK?"