The year was 1943, it was rainy as Peter Parker stepped off of the bus and into the streets of Vatican City. His gaze flitted across the dark street as the mild Winter air chilled the night, causing him to draw his coat closer to him.

Recently, a world renowned physicist working for Alchemax had been murdered by German operatives while out in the city of Rome, yet the secrets seemed to lie here, within the streets of the Vatican; a supposed neutral ground of World War 2.