Down to the Spiders lair

After working together on the mystery of the disappearing items, we figured a couple of things out,
 
1) There were two people at all of the disappearance
2) There were a lot of ancestors stolen
3) We needed more information.
 
Ghost flew to China and talked with a specialist. She was able to convince him to come to Millennium City to talk further with us. Fazer flew out to meet them and bring them back.
 
When they get back we learn some very important information. Putting these containers that the ancestors were in near each other is VERY bad. Like take out most of the city bad.
 
It is decided that we need to look at where these items were taken from to see if we can figure out a better way to track them to be able to find them.
 
Well, you know the old saying, best laid plans and all.
 
We get to the one where the horned defenders were, under the market that may have been the first ancestor stolen, there was nothing. Everything had been cleared out. They were completely gone.
Nemesis couldn't really read the 'magic' in the area, but Maximum Resistance was able to get a bit of a reading.
 
So, we start traveling in the underground looking for the next place that an ancestor was stolen from. Good news, it turns out that the ancestor that had been stored and revered here, may have been the most powerful.
 
Of course, there is always bad news. This ancestor was, according to Luo Jian, called The Spider King. Well, his defenders were covered in spider tattoos, and some of the tattoos seemed alive. Just a bit scary. They were also very strong. Nemesis wasn't able to break out of one of their hold. Also, weirdly, they all seemed to talk together, almost as if they had a single mind.
 
While Nemesis was being held, one of the defenders bit her, well, she looked like an old man at the time. They started to converge on Nemesis, so I went into overdrive, and ran around one of them. It was strange, as I circled defender, I was thinking of trying to figure out some way to tie him up. I came around, and started running through my afterimages, and it created some sort of barrier.
 
It didn't stop him, but at least it slowed him down. I'm going to have to do some experimenting with it to see what it was doing.
 
Anyway, I must have been slightly distracted due to looking at what I had just done when the defender reached out and slapped me with his pointy bracers... The blow threw me at the wall, and I rolled back to my feet. Working out has helped me out. Learning to fall and roll out of it. Just about that time, Ghost chimes in on our coms, "It would be smart to Leave."
 
I think about it for a split second, and well, she has been doing this stuff for a while, so it is probably a smart tactical choice, so, instead of trying anything else, I start running back to where she was.
 
It must have been the correct choice, because everyone else left too. We went back to the base, and talked with Luo Jian again, and that is when we found out who we had been fighting.
 
We all worked together to get some sort of sensor system up and running so that Max could look around for the energy signature that he and Nemesis saw at that point.
 
It finally started to pay off. We found many of the ancestor energy signatures being moved around the country, but a couple of them just disappeared. Ghost and I went there and looked around for any physical evidence, but nothing was in the area.
 
I thought it was worth a try, to at least try to bring the containers that the ancestors were stored in back to the ones who had been protecting it. As maybe a way to get them to understand that we are trying to work with them to restore what was taken from them.
 
So, we really needed to get to a spot where the energy was still active. We made our way there as a group, and when we arrived, I recognized two of the people there. They had been at all of the sites where the ancestors had been stolen, and that we had video of.
 
And so, the plot thickens.......