This is another one-shot story break from "A New Power. A New Friend" which I just had to write, my imagination has gone on a crazy writing spree. It's based on an idea I got from Spidey's short pizza delivery job in Sam Rami's Spider-Man 2.
Disclaimer: I don't own TMNT or Spider-Man
AN: The turtles from TMNT are from the 1990 movie.
It had been a week since the ninja turtles had defeated the Shredder and Mikey was hungry, as usual.
"Hey guys who wants pizza?" Mikey called out to his brothers and Master Splinter, April and Casey had left for a date earlier in the evening.
"Cool."
"Good I'm starving."
"I agree with Ralph on that one."
"I believe my son the vote is unanimous."
Mikey chuckled as he got out the phone. Dialing the very used phone number soon the familiar voice for taking orders was heard.
"Hello Joe's Pizzas, best in New York. How can I help you?" (AN: I don't know which pizza place Peter Parker worked at in the Spider-Man 2 movie so I've made up the name)
"Yes man I would like to order four large pizzas; two cheese, one meat lovers and one with jellybeans."
The man on the phone sighed tiredly, "Ah yes. The usual sir?"
"You got it dude! And remember no anchovies. I mean it! You put ancho…"
"Yes sir we know no anchovies. You've told us plenty of times before!"
"Yeah just wanted to make sure. The clock's ticking!"
As Mikey hung up he grabbed the money needed for the pizza on the way out. "Be back soon."
'Come on! Come on! I can't afford to be late!' Peter mentally screamed as he drove through the streets. If it hadn't been for that mugger he would have been there by now, and if you were late you could be sure this customer wouldn't pay. The pizza parlour loved and hated this particular customer. They loved him because he bought so many pizzas from them giving them great business, but also hated him because if you were even one second late he would refuse to pay. To the last delivery guy the customer had calmly said in reply to why he didn't pay the fully amount was, "Wise man say: forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza". Not to mention the guy had the weirdest address, 122 1/8? Where did this guy live? The sewer?
Finally arriving Peter looked around for the address but couldn't find 122 1/8 anywhere. "Great now I can't find the addresssssss! Ouch!"
Peter rubbed his now sore and wet back as he slowly got up, "Just great Parker! You can avoid getting punched with ease but then slip in a puddle!"
"Well it could have been worse dude."
Peter froze at the voice, but looking around he couldn't see anyone. The voice spoke again.
"I mean you could have slipped down a hole, bashed into a pole. Could have been much worse."
"Well bad things just seem to happen to me," Peter laughed nervously subtly getting ready to fight, "My family calls it the 'Parker Luck'"
"Parker Luck eh? Well at least you didn't squash the pizzas. So what's with the fighting pose?"
"Let's see, you're a voice with no one around and I'm late for a pizza delivery to 122 1/8. So either you're a ghost, or I just hit my head really hard."
The voice chuckled loudly, "You're standing on it dude. 122 1/8's down here!"
Peter looked down to see a sewer grate. A sewer grate? This guy really does live in the sewers.
"Hey you're a minute early Parker. Parker? Hey Peter Parker! You're the guy that takes the pictures of Spider-Man! Huge fan of your work."
"Uh thanks."
"Though I don't get why you work for that newspaper 'The Daily Bugle'? They're wrong about Spidey and the editor J.J Jameson seems like such a "charming" fellow."
"I couldn't agree more."
"Well you could work someplace better. You have the talent. Here's the money, $35 in total," the voice continued as money appeared from the grate. "Just pass down the pizza."
Peter hesitantly took the money and turned the pizzas on its side to pass them through the bars. "Won't this ruin the pizza?"
"Ah no. As long as they taste good I don't care about their look. Also they won't be in the box for long."
"Um right. Well I better be off. Enjoy the pizzas," Peter said walking back to his motorbike.
"So long. Oh and dude!"
"Yes?"
"Can you deliver the pizzas next time? You do a better job and it looks like you need the money more."
Peter walked back to the grate, "What makes you say that?"
"Well for one thing that photo which fell out of your pocket shows you with an older woman. I'm guessing you're taking care of her. Also you really must be struggling if you're having to take pictures of yourself for Jameson."
Peter quickly picked up the photo, "The woman is my aunt and I believe you're mistaken. I don't take pictures of myself."
"Dude. I saw your mask sticking out of your pocket. But don't worry your secret's safe with me."
Peter frowned, "How can I trust you?"
"Well dude for one thing why would I be living down here if I didn't have a secret of my own to keep," the voice laughed, "Also considering that during the bank robbery you stopped a few weeks ago and finding all the other robbers knocked out outside, I think you can consider us allies."
Peter immediately remembered. It was a late night bank robbery and he was already late for his date with MJ.
"Alright fellas," Spider-Man said looking at the remaining robbers holding guns up to him. There had been about fifteen of them and he was already exhausted from fighting all of them at the same time. "I'm really late for an important date I have so how about you just drop the guns, put back the money and walk to the police station to turn yourselves in?"
The robbers just pointed their guns at him in reply, "I really need to get better at negotiating."
As the robbers fired and Spider-Man dodged, ten of the fifteen ran out the back door while five stayed behind, "Aw man! I could really use a sidekick right now!" the spider themed hero shouted to himself as he quickly took care of the five robbers.
When they were all webbed up Spider-Man ran outside expecting a chase when to his surprise all the fleeing robbers were there knocked out! And none of the stolen money had been taken either.
"Well this is unusual," Spider-Man said scratching his head, "Someone must have heard the sidekick comment."
Hearing the police sirens he quickly webbed the remaining robbers to the ground, just in case, and web-slinged off. It wasn't often he got a lucky break and he sure wasn't going to pass this one up!
"You were the person there!"
"Totally dude! Me and my brothers! Though I'm loving this heart-to-heart my family's going to worry if I'm not back soon. Cowabunga dude and good luck Spidey! I'm cheering for you!"
At that the sound of footsteps appeared before quickly subsiding. Peter shook his head and got back on his motorbike. When he got back to the pizza parlour to say his boss was shocked was an understatement. Not only had he got the full payment and found the right address, but he was also early! "That's it Parker you are always taking this address when he orders."
'That's alright with me', Peter thought as he headed home with a bonus added to his usual pay, 'Maybe I'll get his name next time.'
A few weeks later
Mikey loved his new pizza delivery guy, he delivered the pizzas so much better than any of the others and become sort of a friend, so he was outraged when he found out from another delivery guy Peter had been sacked.
"You look upset my son," Master Splinter said, "What troubles your mind."
"Just missing a friend Master."
"Ah this Spider-Man I believe."
Mikey looked to see his Master with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes, "But how? I never told anyone and…did I sleep talk again?"
"I have been following Spider-Man on the news for a while and after you and your brothers helped him I looked into him more to see if he would be a worthy ally. I also heard the end of your conversation when he first delivered pizza to us."
"You were there!"
"You were taking much longer with the pizzas than you usually would, your brothers and I thought you might have already started eating them so we came to find you."
Master Splinter patted Mikey's shoulder, "Go up to the surface and get some fresh air to clear your head my son. It would do you good."
Mikey nodded and left, "Won't be long Master."
When Mikey walked towards one of the exits the faint but unmistakable smell of fresh pizzas reached him. Following the smell Mikey opened the sewer grate where he usually collected pizza to find four boxes there. Seeing no one around Mikey happily picked them up, 'Shame to waste such fine pizza'. Walking back home, he set them on the table calling his family to dinner. Opening the boxes up he saw it was four large pizzas with two cheese, one meat lovers and in the last one was jellybeans! His usual order. As Mikey scratched his head he saw a note stuck to the top of the pizza box with his pizza in it. Unfolding the letter a photo fell out. The photo was of Peter Parker standing in what looked like a studio with his arm around a smiling, beautiful, red haired woman. Mikey turned his attention back to the note.
'Dear friend,
Sorry I haven't been able to deliver the pizzas and I have to admit I missed our talks, though I never got your name. Thanks for the advice, it really opened my eyes. I'm now working in a photography studio, which is definitely better pay, and my boss is a hell of a lot nicer than Jameson, but I'm still working for him freelance. Also I'm getting married in a few weeks to MJ the love of my life, and don't worry she knows about the red and blue activities. She would love to meet you and I was hoping maybe she could at our wedding, the invitation's taped to the inside of the box. Hope I can see you there!
Regards, Your Friendly Neighbourhood Pizza Delivering Spider-Man!
P.S. Hope the delivery service was good.'
Mikey grinned widely, carefully pulled the wedding invitation off the box and turned to his brothers and father who were eating.
"Hey guys," he said holding up the invitation, "Who's up for a wedding?"
Please review and I'll get back to "A New Power. A New Friend". Also about Mikey's jellybean pizza I read somewhere he liked to have strange toppings so I gave him jellybeans.
