Chapter 01: A New Start
Peter Benjamin Parker a young thirteen year old brunette wearing glasses and a buttoned up red flannel shirt sighed as he heard the pilot say on the intercom that they were landing in Paris soon. "Finally, my butt fell asleep two hours ago," He joked earning an unamused look from the person next to him, causing the teen to grin nervously. "Uh Bonjour?"
The person just rolled their eyes and looked away allowing for the brunette to sigh and look out the window in time to see the Eiffel Tower.
It was definitely amazing to see outside of the pictures.
'And to think we live here now.' Peter thought as his Aunt decided to just sell everything they owned to have them move out of New York thinking that across the seas they would have better luck.
Normally that would be hard and a little bit of a stupid thing to do, but it seems his Aunt knew a family living in Paris-the Dupain-Chengs he thinks they're called and they have a room or two for rent until his Aunt manages to get them an apartment.
On the plus side, he knew French because of his Aunt teaching him that to keep him 'cultured' so he won't be like a tourist. And he had practiced speaking it because his friend Harry Osborn knew a few languages himself.
On stepping off the plane into the airport, he took a deep breath. "Alright Parker this is a new beginning for you, no screwing up-.," He stopped when people bumped into him knocking him down. "Oh come on."
"Peter are you okay?" Peter blew a strand of hair out of his face as a woman in her late thirties helped him up with dark hair turning grey. "Are you injured?"
"I'm fine Aunt May." Peter said with a forced smile, showing that he wasn't that bothered by it.
He was used to it after all at school back in New York.
"Just be more careful Peter, you're too delicate." May said with Peter now feeling a little embarrassed.
But he didn't say anything because his Aunt has worried for him for a long time.
"Right so are the Dupain-Chengs coming to pick us up?" Peter asked to get her to stop fussing over him.
He wasn't a kid anymore.
"Only Sabine, her husband Tom and their daughter Marinette will meet us later." May said with a smile. "Oh wait until you meet her, Sabine told me she has a wonderful personality."
Peter winced at that-not that he didn't believe his Aunt but the last time she said that, she introduced him to Mary-Jane Watson a girl who he had a bit of a crush on for the last year or so.
MJ was nice but did place him in what he would call the Friend Zone after finding out about his 'crush' because let's face it subtle was the last thing he was.
"I'll go get our ticket to pick our luggage up, think you can wait here?" May asked leading him to the seating area while breaking him out of some depressing thoughts.
"I'll wait here Aunt May," Peter promised with a smile as she left before he muttered under his breath. "Besides where would I go?"
Oh well on the bright side at least there's no Flash Thompson to pick on him and call him Puny Parker, but on the other hand that meant no Gwen, Harry, MJ or Eddie to be around so he doesn't have any of his friends to hang out with making him a bit of a loner now.
'But still new school, so I'll have to work hard on my first impression to avoid being the wallflower again,' Peter thought adjusting his glasses. 'I can't afford to screw this up.'
As he thought that he saw an elderly woman having trouble walking down some stairs with people pushing past her.
Peter frowned a bit and hesitated looking back to where his Aunt headed but when he turned to see someone else bump into the woman, nearly knocking her over he moved.
"Excuse me do you need some help?" He asked, making his way up the stairs the woman who seemed to be wearing red looking right at him with what looked to be cloudy eyes showing she was blind.
"That would be lovely young man," The woman said giving a slight cough. "These old bones aren't what they used to be."
"Yeah but you think some people would help you down the stairs." Peter made sure to say that loud enough for people to hear him, but no one seemed to care making him frown.
"Oh don't fret dear, they have their own lives," The woman said before coughing again as they made it to the bottom. "Thank you Mr. Parker."
"No problem." Peter went to head back to where he was going to wait for his Aunt only to pause. "Wait, how did you-?"
He turned to ask how she knew his name only to see that she was gone.
"Okay from my experiences in New York the moment someone knows your name without telling them is the moment you need to keep an eye out for some bad stuff." Peter muttered leaving as he didn't see the woman was hidden, holding a small box in her hands with a smile.
Looks like she found the avatar of the Spider Miraculous.
"No Aunt May, I swear there was this woman who was having trouble coming down the stairs," Peter explained as he made it back to see his Aunt looking worried. "I went to help before she fell."
"That was very kind of you Peter but you promised you would be here and you weren't." May told him sadly. "I was worried when I saw you gone, after Ben-."
She stopped as Peter winced at hearing that name.
"I just don't want anything to happen to you." May finally said with Peter giving a nod.
"Nothing will happen Aunt May I promise." He said as they walked through the airport now quiet.
It was to be expected not saying his Uncle's name considering it's only been two weeks since he was shot and killed during a break in back in New York. That was the sole reason they moved away from that city.
"May!" Peter saw his Aunt's head look up as a smile overcame her face-one that he usually see only when Anna Watson would visit as a short woman with black hair with blue highlights and gray eyes approached them wearing a white Cheongsam and blue pants.
"Sabine." May approached the woman, enveloping her in a hug. "It's been ages, how have you been?"
Sabine Cheng smiled at her. "I've been doing great, it's so nice to see you."
"I just wish it was under better circumstances." May said with Sabine giving a reassuring look to her old friend.
"Like I told you, you are welcome to stay with us as long as you need to." Sabine said before noticing Peter who stood in the background awkwardly. "Oh is this Peter?"
"Uh hi?" Peter greeted rubbing the back of his head.
"Oh I've only seen baby pictures of you." Sabine said with Peter now looking embarrassed. "You really look like your father."
"Uh yeah, how about that." Peter said not wanting to hear about that as everyone who knew his parents said that.
As they spoke, Peter looked around before giving a start as the same old woman was giving him a kind smile while holding some sort of box.
And then people passed by her and she was gone.
'Okay wherever my room is I am locking my door and window from now on.' Peter thought a bit creeped out.
Maybe this was why no one helped others?
Reaching into his bag, Peter pulled out a book to read as both his Aunt and her friend were talking about some Bakery or something like that heading to get their luggage.
If he paid a bit more attention he would've noticed the same wooden box that the woman held earlier in his bag.
It didn't seem to take to long to get to wherever they were once they were in the car and while Peter did look at the sights, he found himself drawn more into his book on the Theories of Cosmic Radiation by Reed Richards.
The science this guy used to explain a force of nature in space was incredible, this man was definitely one of his heroes up there with Tony Stark and Bruce Banner.
Looking up as the car came to a stop, Peter saw a Bakery building called 'Tom and Sabine Boulangerie Patisserie' with a huge man in front of said Bakery with green eyes, brown hair, sideburns and a mustache wearing a white baking shirt along with light brown pants.
"Mayday," Tom Dupain greeted with a smile as he did meet the woman a bit before meeting and marrying the love of his life, he gave her a friendly hug. "It's so great to see you."
"Tom, I see you've been doing well for yourself." May said with a smile looking from him to the Bakery.
"She's a beauty no?" Tom asked proudly with Peter placing his book in his backpack before struggling to pull a suitcase out of the backseat of the car with Tom noticing. "Ah you must be Peter, do you need any help?"
"N-Nah I have this." Peter lied only to stumble and fall on butt, the suitcase falling out and landing on the sidewalk.
He quickly pushed himself up like he didn't fall over wiping his pants.
"Nice to meet you sir, Peter Parker." Peter greeted holding his hand out.
The man's fist encased his whole hand as he shook it with a friendly laugh. "A pleasure Monsieur Parker." He said, reaching down to help as he picked up the suitcase that Peter struggled with looking like he exerted no effort. "Come you two must be tired from your trip."
Peter tried very hard not to grumble at how easy Tom made it look as the man was extremely friendly.
"Where's Marinette?" May asked curiously looking forward to meeting the daughter of one of her friends.
"She's in her room getting ready for school to start tomorrow," Sabine explained to May when they entered. "I'll call her down when you two are settled."
"School starts tomorrow?" Peter asked in surprise.
"I have the paperwork filled out, you'll be starting next week," May told him as Peter gave a nod at hearing that. "That way you can have time to get used to the city first."
Apparently their rooms were going to be on the 2nd floor of the Bakery as Peter dropped his bag and small suitcase off in his room seeing it was a small room with a simple bed, dresser and desk a window overlooking the city next to the bed.
It wouldn't take much to unpack but he was going to keep some stuff put up as this was only temporary until his Aunt finds them an apartment-not that he won't help because he wants to along with help make money to provide funds for his Aunt but he had to be realistic.
What thirteen year old can find a job to support his Aunt?
"There has to be something I can do?" Peter muttered exiting the room, only to hear a shout along with the sound of something falling over and looked up to see a plastic cup of water heading right for him.
He didn't even flinch as cold water poured over him, knocking his glasses off right as a face looked over the railing, eyes widening when they saw him now drenched.
"Really?" Peter muttered now trying to find his glasses as everything was blurry. "I'm in a different country and this happens? Typical Parker Luck."
"Sorry, I'm so sorry." Peter heard footsteps as he saw a girl come into view, although it was a bit blurry to make out who it was before he felt her pass his glasses in his hand.
"I-It's fine, I'm used to stuff like that." Peter said putting his glasses on to see a girl his age with bluebell eyes and short blue hair tied in pigtails by red hairbands, wearing a dark grey blazer with rolled up sleeves a white t-shirt and pink pants. "Marinette I presume?"
He was really hoping she wouldn't ask what he meant about being used to stuff like this as she seemed to be the only person who did it by accident.
Marinette Dupain-Cheng gave a polite smile. "And you must be Peter." She said as her parents warned her that an old friend of theirs was coming from the States to stay with them for a bit. "Again sorry about that, I'm pretty clumsy."
"Like I said it's fine," Peter said giving a grin to the girl before deciding on a joke to take her mind off of that. "In fact I was thirsty so thank you."
Marinette stopped and gave him a weird look before Peter groaned as he thought about that joke a bit more.
"Okay I'll admit that was a bad one, even for me," He muttered in embarrassment. "I swear it sounded better in my head-what I meant was-you know what never mind I need to stop talking before I make it sound worse."
"It didn't sound that bad." Marinette said as she didn't mind as she was a bit surprised.
At first she was unsure of the idea of what she thought to be total strangers living with them even if it was for a bit, but seeing how Peter acted just made her feel like she was looking in a mirror with how shy and awkward he was acting despite the joke.
"So what's up?" Peter tried to change the conversation, mentally kicking himself for the weak question.
Why is it that whenever he's not with Harry, Gwen or Eddie that he makes a complete fool of himself? He's just lucky that MJ didn't mind back when he was crushing on her.
Thankfully Marinette didn't mind. "Nothing really, just preparing for a new school year, you going to Francoise Dupont by any chance?" She asked curiously as there were plenty of schools in Paris.
"I think so, but not for another week," Peter said taking to the change gratefully. "I'm a little excited to be honest, I wonder how different the classes will be compared to New York schools? If I do go any advice?"
"The only advice I can think of is to avoid a girl name Chloe," Marinette said with a frown, remembering all of her interactions with the daughter of the Mayor. "Trust me your life will be easier."
Peter sensed that was a bit of a sensitive subject so he didn't ask for her to elaborate.
Plus he didn't know this Chloe or what was going on so he can't really say anything.
"It can't be any worse than Eugene." Peter said slipping into English on that last part with Marinette now looking confused.
"Eugene?" She tried to pronounce showing that she didn't know English that well.
'Alright so don't slip into English around her if I want to talk.' Peter thought before elaborating, making sure he was speaking French. "That's the name of the All-Star Athlete in my old school, although he goes by a nickname to avoid anyone saying his real name."
While Marinette looked confused she did get the gist of what he was saying.
The rest of the day passed by uneventfully as Peter was now in his room placing some clothes in the dresser that evening.
He was still pretty awkward around the Dupain-Chengs despite their friendly personalities and dinner was just a bit awkward for him as he kept quiet.
They didn't really pry into anything-probably wanted to wait until he was comfortable to talk and he appreciated that.
After a moment, Peter dumped his backpack to grab a picture of him when he was six years old with his Aunt and Uncle, Ben having brown hair that was turning grey pulled in a ponytail and glasses.
Placing it on the dresser after he found the picture frame in his suitcase, Peter went to grab some of the other items that he dumped out only to stop at seeing a wooden box that he recognized despite seeing it briefly.
"What the hell?" Peter asked nervously picking it up.
Didn't he see that elderly woman hold this back at the airport? How does he have it?
Feeling some fear, Peter quickly went to the window and looked only to see nothing but people walking around in the nightlife of Paris.
He backed up and made sure the blinds were closed before approaching the box.
As he reached for it he hesitated his instincts just telling him to throw the box away and not look at it but his curiosity won out.
"I swear if Pinhead pops out I'm throwing this out the window." Peter made a slight joke to calm himself down in English.
With that said he opened the box to momentarily see a red and blue wristband only for a bright light to engulf his room, blinding him.
When it died down he opened his eyes to see a red and blue colored figure small enough to fit in his hand with a human upper body but the lower was a spider abdomen with eight legs.
Peter blinked and slowly backed up as the figure stretched. "Ah I was wondering when I would be awakened," He muttered before looking at Peter and sizing him up. "Not the ideal partner but I've been proven wrong before."
Finally Peter's brain started functioning. "Aunt May!" He called running for the door but the figure flew in and landed on the doorknob before he could reach it.
"Hold it you don't want to do that Peter." The spider creature said holding his hands up.
"How do you know my name?!" Peter snapped very freaked out by this. "No wait better question, what the hell are you?!"
He should've listened to his instincts and not opened the box.
"My name is Leopardon and I'm the Kwami of Responsibility, try not to be in awe of my amazingness." Leopardon said with a cheesy smile.
"Alright so why shouldn't I open this door and get my Aunt?" Peter asked frowning at this Leopardon.
"You mean besides the fact that I'll hide before she's even up here thus making her think you need psychological help?" Leopardon asked with Peter wincing. "Trust me it's better that no one knows about me, partner."
"Okay that's the second time you called me that, how exactly are we partners?" Peter asked keeping an eye on Leopardon as he looked for something to trap him in.
"Right you don't know what a Kwami is." Leopardon muttered floating up to land on Peter's shoulder making him tense. "Alright here's the quick explanation, Kwami are immortal beings who inhabit ordinary objects-usually jewelry called Miraculous and I guess you can say we're like the Genie of the Lamp-nice guy really."
"So you grant wishes?" Peter asked cautiously hoping for a yes.
If he could then he could wish for Uncle Ben back.
"No, that's what separates us from the Genie." Leopardon said crushing Peter's hopes. "As your partner however I can give you powers."
Peter blinked looking at him. "Crazy says what?"
Leopardon sighed in annoyance.
He always hated this part of meeting a new partner, they always take some convincing.
But hopefully this one won't turn out like that Ezekiel creep who tried to abuse his powers.
"I give you powers-ones of a spider and you decide what to do with them, although given how I'm the Kwami of Responsibility I think you can guess that you need to be careful in how you use them along with you being chosen to be a Superhero." Leopardon floated to Peter's eye levels. "The change has an infinite amount of time unless you use your special ability, then you only have five minutes until you change back and I have to recharge, understand?"
"This is just too weird, how does this even work?" Peter asked with Leopardon giving a smirk.
"Magic."
"No, not possible," Peter denied immediately, his scientist side of rational thought coming out. "There's no such thing as magic. There has to be a logical explanation."
"Oh great you're one of those types." Leopardon muttered earning a glare from Peter. "Look just accept it's magic and move on, trust me it'll be easier."
"Yeah sure accept it from a talking spider that came out of a box-," Peter groaned and slapped a hand to his forehead. "This is just too weird."
"Do you want to try it out?" Leopardon asked with a raised brow. "If you do just put on the wristband."
Peter blinked and shrugged.
He had nothing better to do, so he pulled the wristband on and nothing happened.
"Before we transform let me give a bit of explanation about your ability." Leopardon said flying to Peter's dressers. "The standard ability a Kwami gives are enhanced strength, reflexes, speed, durability-yadda, yadda but then there are benefits from yours truly."
"Such as?" Peter asked this guy was quite the talker and he was slowly convincing Peter to try this out.
"Wall-Crawling for one, you can stick to any surface with my help and then a small danger sense that allows you to be fully aware of your surroundings and then your ultimate ability the Venom Blasts." Leopardon explained with Peter blinking. "Now once you change I won't be there to give you advice so the rest will be up to you partner."
Peter raised a brow as he gave a nod, getting the gist of it but he grimaced. "So you said that someone chose for me to be a Superhero?" He asked with Leopardon giving a nod in confirmation. "Oh wow someone really screwed up."
That was not what Leopardon expected.
Shouldn't a teen be excited about the ideas of gaining powers?
"There's no way I'm a Superhero, I'm just Peter, the weakling who can't fight back, the wallflower of Middle School, the boy who gets wedgies and stuffed into his locker." Peter listed with a hand in his hair, ruffling it. "Superheroes are larger than life like Captain America, Iron Man, Daredevil, the Fantastic Four. There's no way I can hope to be like them."
"Peter you haven't even tried and you're giving up?" Leopardon asked as he knew that he was chosen because apparently something bad was coming. "Come on you wouldn't have been chosen if you didn't have the potential, isn't there something that you wish you could've done? To change if you had the power to do so?"
Just like that Peter went quiet remembering the thief that shot his Uncle.
The man has never been caught.
"Look, there was a mistake, just find the lady that obviously gave you to me and tell her to choose someone else-." Peter was cut off when Leopardon pulled on his hair making him give a cry.
"You're stubborn I'll give you that but listen, heroes are never born heroes it's the choices they make that have them become one," Leopardon said as while he wasn't sure what exactly Madame Web saw in this guy, she chose Peter for a reason and she hasn't lead him wrong yet. "You think those heroes you listed off started off like that? No they were ordinary people with ordinary lives before they found that calling, if they can do it what about you?"
Peter bit his lip a bit before shaking his head. "I need to think about this."
Leopardon frowned before sighing. "Take as much time as you need." He allowed considering this was a lot to process.
The next morning, Peter laid on his bed looking at the charm on his wrist while biting his lip.
While he did that, Leopardon was on his desk reading the book by Reed Richards in boredom. "I have to say this Reed fellow is pretty brilliant." Leopardon said intrigued by the theories.
Peter just ignored him.
This was way too surreal, he was half expecting to wake up thinking it was nothing more than a dream, but here the proof was.
And from what Leopardon said it was dangerous for him to tell anyone.
Not that they would really believe him without proof.
"What would Uncle Ben do?" Peter muttered catching Leopardon's attention as the Kwami looked at him curiously.
While he did know the name of his current partner because of the magic of the Miraculous he knew next to nothing about his past so the mention of this Uncle Ben had him about to ask before there was a knock making Peter tense as he looked at Leopardon who flew through the desk.
"Intangibility? Alright." Peter muttered deciding to just go with it for now before he walked over and opened the door to see his Aunt.
"Peter are you alright?" May asked in worry. "You've been in here all morning."
Peter blinked and looked at the clock to see it was Nine-Thirty.
"Sorry Aunt May, not really used to the time difference yet." Peter said half-lying as while it was true in a sense due to what time it was in New York currently that wasn't what bothered him.
May sighed as Peter opened the door letting her in before she sat on the bed to speak with him. "Are you unhappy with the move?"
"No of course not, you wanted to leave New York after what happened-I don't blame you for wanting that." Peter said as he supported the idea when she suggested it.
"It was also selfish of me doing that when you had a life there too." May said with Peter giving a smile as he placed a hand on her shoulder.
"I'll make a life here too Aunt May." Peter said to her. "It'll just take some time to adjust, now come on pretty lady don't frown like that, you'll get wrinkles at your young age."
That worked as May gave a laugh looking better. "Oh you, I'm not that young." She said a smile on her face with Peter grinning widely.
"Could've fooled me." Peter said, helping her up. "And you're right I have been in here too long, mind if I go explore the city?"
"Only if you take your Cell Phone and you're back before it gets dark." May told him before giving Peter a hug. "But make sure you have fun too Peter."
Peter gave a nod as she left, allowing for Leopardon to pop out. "Uh sorry for intruding on that family moment." He said a bit awkwardly as he couldn't really go anywhere without being seen. "So that's your Aunt?"
"Yeah we just moved to Paris yesterday." Peter said grabbing a blue jacket to pull on.
Leopardon shrugged before flying into his jacket, making Peter quirk a brow but he decided not to ask lest he lose whatever sanity he had left.
As he made it down the stairs to the first floor he saw Tom behind the counter decorating a cake. "Morning Monsieur Dupain." Peter greeted the man.
"Ah Peter, you heading out?" Tom asked curiously.
"Yeah to see the city while I have a chance before I have school added to my responsibilities." Peter said with a chuckle.
"Can you do me a favor?" Tom pulled out a book. "Marinette forgot this earlier and I'm a bit busy to deliver it, the school is just around the corner once you cross the street."
"I can do that." Peter agreed accepting the textbook with a grin.
It would give him a chance to see this school as he did ask his Aunt the name of the school he would go to and found out it was the same one Marinette told him about.
First impression, the school seemed alright, even the Headmaster Monsieur Damocles was nice if not a bit serious considering Peter had to introduce himself before he could get the book to Marinette.
Although Peter couldn't help but compare the man to an owl-not out of spite but it just popped in his head.
As he walked through the school, taking in the sights, Peter was a little worried about the fact that Leopardon was quiet-then again it was probably for the best considering he was in a public place.
Eventually he found the classroom that the Headmaster pointed him to and knocked on the door, seeing the teacher give a nod to let him come in. "Um excuse me I'm looking for Marinette, she forgot something at the Bakery?" Peter said holding the book and he saw Marinette in the first row pause and check her bag before groaning.
Peter heard some snickers and winced.
'Way to go, you just embarrassed her in class.' He probably should've waited until the class was over.
But as it was already too late, he walked in and placed it on her desk ignoring the stares as he was pretty sure everyone was wondering who the 'stranger' was. "Sorry about that." He muttered referring to the snickers.
"It's fine, thanks Peter."
The teacher however heard his name and smiled. "Ah so you're Peter Parker, I was under the impression that you wouldn't start until next week."
"Uh I'm not Ma'am." Peter said slipping into English by mistake. "I offered to make the trip."
He swore he heard Leopardon chuckle in his jacket, but chose to ignore it.
"Right well I don't want to interrupt the class anymore than I have, so bye." Peter backed away as he spoke before he was out the door.
"Funny friend you have." A girl with dark skin commented, adjusting her glasses while she wore a plaid shirt over a white tanktop.
"Yeah." Marinette muttered a bit sore about being embarrassed but she didn't blame Peter for that.
"So who was that loser?" A snobbish voice said making Marinette wince while her new friend gave the blonde haired girl a glare as she casually straightened her yellow jacket. "I mean seriously he looked like a nerd you see in TV shows with those glasses."
She said it quietly enough to where their teacher didn't hear her.
Peter sighed as the school bell rang and right as he left the school. "Alright so now what to do?"
He should take this chance to see the sights-.
Leopardon immediately flew out of his jacket, making Peter panic before grabbing the Kwami as he didn't want anyone to see him. "Something's wrong." the Kwami muttered.
"What?" Peter asked in surprise before stumbling as the ground shook.
"Kiiiim!" A gravely voice cried out right as the window broke apart and a giant stone behemoth jumped out with Peter stumbling back wide-eyed in fear.
Back in New York-the Superhero Capital of the World these type of things happen often but Peter himself has never actually seen them since they were centered more in the city rather than Queens.
'Well I think the rest of school will be cancelled now.' Peter thought trying to calm himself down.
Immediately, Peter got out of sight down a nearby alley with Leopardon floating out of his grip. "Oh boy this is bad." Leopardon muttered with a frown.
Peter winced as this stone guy cried out 'Kiiim' again right as a car parked in front of him, luckily the people inside managed to get out before the guy picked up the car and tossed it into the school.
"Who is this Kim?" He couldn't help but ask before shaking his head. "No what am I talking about I need to go-."
"Are you crazy?! Have you forgotten about the benefits you get from me?" Leopardon asked incredulously. "Come on Partner it's time to show what you're made of."
"Incredibly weak knees and about to throw up?" Peter deadpanned with Leopardon giving him a look.
"Just say Transform Me!"
"Transform Me-?" Peter repeated as a question but it was enough as Leopardon flew into the bracelet. "Whoa-what the-?!"
Immediately energy poured from the Bracelet and a second later Peter blinked as he felt different with some sort of red and blue-spandex like suit with black web lines and a black spider symbol on his chest stitched into it along with two metal bracelets mounted on his wrists and a domino mask that was pure red with silverish reflective lenses hiding his brown eyes.
Oddly enough they blinked as if the lenses were his real eyes.
"Okay what just happened?" Peter asked getting no answer. "Leopardon?"
Seeing as how he wasn't getting an answer, Peter assumed he was gone while he was like this-.
A buzzing in his head made him look up as the stone guy tossed another car this time it was flying at him and just like that time slowed down.
Or that's how it looked for Peter when in reality his brain was processing the incident happening faster than he should've along with his flight or fight instincts kicking in with him jumping into the air, leaping over the car and amazingly enough landing on the rooftop of the building.
Peter gaped at what just happened before looking at his gloved hand. "Not going to lie, that was pretty cool."
"Kiiim." The behemoth stomped off down the street.
"I need to get out of here." Peter muttered not sure about this before he paused and looked over his shoulder at the rampaging Stone man in time to see him throw another car-this one had an middle-aged man in it and for a second Peter thought he saw his Uncle Ben in the car.
Eyes widening, he jumped again, off the building as he landed on the car in a crouch much to the man's surprise.
Instinct took over as Peter used strength he didn't know he had, twisting the car to where it was above him and landed on the ground, holding the car above his head.
D-Did he just-?
"Whoa!" Peter looked to the side to see some students from the school looking at him in a mixture of shock and awe, that girl sitting next to Marinette earlier holding a phone up with the camera recording him.
"No way, not only did a Super-Villain appear but a Superhero too?!" Alya Cesaire said in excitement taking pictures to post this.
Peter slowly lowered the car as the man got out and now that he got a closer look at him, Peter could see he looked nothing like Uncle Ben.
So why did he-?
"Thank you." The man said gratefully making Peter blush a bit in embarrassment.
"I-It was nothing." He said turning from the man towards the rampaging monster.
"What are you waiting for?" Peter snapped towards Alya who gestured. "Go stop him."
"Uh I'm not a hero, I'm just-... A guy who has no idea what he's doing." Peter said honestly as he was rightfully scared out of his mind.
"Kiiiim!"
"Oh man Ivan is going to pulverize Kim if he reaches him." Alya said with Peter blinking before coming to the realization that if he didn't do anything someone else would pay the price.
'But I'm just a kid.' The rational part of his brain told him before he remembered something his Uncle used to tell him.
~Four years ago~
A nine year old Peter whimpered as Ben sprayed disinfectant on a scrape on his knee. "See sport, was that so bad?" Benjamin Parker asked with a smile before looking serious. "What happened?"
"Flash cornered me after school." Peter muttered looking down as he was feeling like a snitch, but he just couldn't lie to his Uncle. "Called me Puny pushed me down."
"And to think you two used to get along so well." Ben said knowing how this affected Peter that his friend was now the bully.
"I hate him." Peter muttered under his breath.
"Sport you don't mean that." Ben said with a frown.
"Yes I do."
"Hate is a strong word sport, now why did Flash pick on you specifically?"
"Because I'm a nerd." Peter muttered looking down as Flash has started calling him that.
"For being smart? That's a gift, one that a lot of people would give to have." Ben told him.
"Then why can't I use this gift to get him back?" Peter asked trying not to cry.
"So you're saying if you had the power to do so you would get him back?" Ben asked with Peter nodding like it was obvious. "Then what?"
Peter looked confused.
"Peter I can see that you'll grow into a remarkable young man, after all you managed to impress that Otto Octavius at your Summer Camp last year right?" Ben asked.
"Yeah, Doctor Octavius was the best." Peter said remembering how the man was nice to him and even did a small experiment with him.
"With a brain like yours you'll be going places but you have to remember to think about what you do." Ben said to him, ruffling his hair. "Your father had a saying you know."
Peter's eyes widened in wonder.
"He believed that if a person had the power to do something, anything at all then they also have the responsibility to use it to help others," Ben said smiling at him. "With a great power like your brain at your age you also have quite a few responsibilities to come with it as you get older, you'll understand what I mean someday."
~Present Time~
'With Great Power.' Peter thought looking back to what he did. 'Must also come Great Responsibility.'
He then remembered Leopardon's words. 'Heroes are never born heroes it's the choices they make that have them become one'
Taking a deep breath, Peter grinned. "Alright hero time." He said in a joking tone attempting to calm himself down while looking at the metal bracelets on his wrists to see that both of them had levers so he aimed them at the stone man and pressed down on them.
'Thwip.'
White strands of silk-like webbing shot out, latching onto the man before Peter pulled, pressing the levers again to reel himself in. "Yahoo!"
However his thoughts despite his calm and fun loving attitude he was exhibiting were. 'I'm so going to die.'
He could see the Police attempting to blockade the stone man when Peter landed on the guys head. "Hey Rocko, I'm going to have to ask you to cease and desist." Peter joked before his head buzzed and he jumped off as the guy tried to reach for him. "Too slow."
'Great, I'm taunting the giant man who will try and squash me.' Peter thought bitterly.
"Name's not Rocko, I am Stoneheart!" The now identified Stoneheart roared as he went to stomp on Peter who dove underneath him shooting webbing at his legs, causing for him to fall over.
"Alright Stoneheart-not going to lie that's a pretty sweet name-oh hey while we're on the subject of names I'm trying to come up with one myself," Peter said jumping over Stoneheart's arms to avoid getting grabbed as he landed on a light pole, kicking off of it to land on the side of a building. "So what do you think? Arachnid? No too weird, The Human Spider-? Nah that's stupid-ooh I got it Tarantula-wait no that's an assassin on Interpol's most Wanted."
Stoneheart roared as he picked up a police car and threw it at Peter who jumped grabbed it and spun around, slamming it into Stoneheart only for the guy to glow and get big from the hit.
"... Okay so hitting you makes you bigger noted." Peter said now scared out of his mind. "I think we got off the wrong foot here-."
He had to dodge a foot trying to stomp him.
"Not that foot, I mean come on you're probably a cool guy underneath that rocky exterior, how about we go grab a drink and tell me what crawled up your butt?" Peter asked weaving around the guy using the size to his advantage, after all with how big he was he was slow. "I'll buy-although considering you're a school kid from what I can deduce it'll have to be non-alcoholic."
"Stoneheart only want Kiiim!" Stoneheart roared stomping the ground making a crater that knocked Peter in the air. "Bug boy however pissing Stoneheart off!"
"Why of all the insults I am not a bug, no sir I'm an arachnid." Peter said indignantly as he had to latch himself on Stoneheart's knees. "Say it with me, A-Rach-Nid."
'Okay me opening my big mouth is definitely pissing him off, enough to where he'll focus more on me than this Kim.' Peter thought in fear his head buzzing and he had to jump as the Police opened fire, but each shot seemed to be making him bigger.
"Stop you're just giving him more power." Peter landed by the Police Chief. "He seems to be absorbing Kinetic Energy like a sponge and adding it to his own strength."
"Who the heck are you?!" The man asked as Peter hesitated remembering how Leopardon warned him not to tell anyone who he was.
"Yeah don't have a name yet-trust me this was not what I had planned to do today," Peter said looking from him to Stoneheart who roared and stomped on a Police Vehicle with the officers scattering. "Oh man, where are the Avengers when you need them?"
"You have a plan?" The Police Chief asked with Peter shrugging.
"So far it's distracting him from his real target and keeping his attention on me so he won't endanger anyone else until I figure out how to bypass his growing problem," Peter said quickly. "He's after someone named Kim, that's all I have."
Seeing a car coming for them, Peter quickly pushed the Chief down before it collided with him, sending him halfway across the city where he crashed into a TV appliance store where he saw the News on as he sat there dazed.
'I-I survived that?' Peter thought incredulously.
"As unbelievable as it may seem a super-villain is spreading terror in Paris, the Security Forces are trying to take care of this individual along with what seems to be a Superhero who in the fight kept the villain away from civilians and saved a lot of lives as a result." The News Reporter said as it showed Peter getting hit by the car.
Shaking his head as he ignored the TV, Peter saw the store owner looking at him in surprise-both him and the TV showing his fight with Stoneheart.
"Sorry for crashing in here." Peter apologized shaking his head before he heard his phone ringing.
'Oh crap.'
It was in his pants pocket-how was he going to get it under this spandex-.
He paused when he saw a pocket allowing for him to pull his phone out to see it was Aunt May.
Quickly he answered it while jumping to the rooftops to head back to the fight. "Hey Aunt May-."
"Peter where are you?!" Peter could hear the worry in his Aunt's voice.
"Running as far as I can in the opposite direction that rock guy is heading." Peter lied feeling guilty but he couldn't exactly say what he was really doing. "I'm safe Aunt May, I'm more worried about you-."
"Just get back to the Bakery right now." May told him as she was watching the news along with the Dupain-Chengs.
"I'll try but right now it would involve bypassing that rock guy, I'm going to lay low until it blows over, I promise I'll be home." Peter said trying not to do anything to give his real intentions away.
"Peter, be safe." May said with Peter giving a nod despite her not seeing it.
"Always." With that he hung up and jumped into the air using his web shooter to launch himself higher. "Now to stop-."
His head buzzed making Peter blink.
"Now wha-."
He stopped hearing a scream and turned only to see red and black as something crashed into him before he collided with something else as all he saw was black before he hung down a pole between two buildings on a string that wasn't his next to two other people.
"I'm definitely going to be feeling this tomorrow." Peter groaned out.
"Sorry." A female voice said with Peter turning to see the one who crashed into him was a girl his age wearing a red suit with black dots on it and a red domino mask along with blue hair in pigtails.
Peter vaguely thought he saw her somewhere but something was wrong-he couldn't place it.
Shaking his head he turned as another guy spoke up. "Hey you can say I'm glad you dropped by." The speaker was a thirteen year old boy with blonde hair in a black leather suit with fake looking cat ears that actually moved and in his domino mask he had green cat eyes along with a belt-like tail that twitched and a yellow bell around his neck.
"I'm so sorry, I didn't do this on purpose." The girl said nervously.
"Anyone else feeling claustrophobic?" Peter couldn't help but ask before shaking his head. "Never mind please tell me you guys are a part of the Avengers?"
The blonde shook his head and easily got out. "So one of you is the partner my Kwami told me about?" He asked before grinning. "I'm-hm...Chat Noir, yeah Chat Noir."
"So basically Black Cat?" Peter asked switching to English with Chat Noir giving a laugh showing he understood English.
"Pretty much." He said with a grin while Peter finally managed to disentangle himself along with the girl who pulled on the string showing it was a Yo-Yo much to Peter's disbelief before it pulled free, slamming into Chat Noir's head while Peter ducked.
"I'm Ma-er-Maladroit." The girl winced. "I am so sorry Maladroit."
"It's okay Miss Maladroit." Chat Noir said the pole above them shrinking and landing in his hand to show it was a Bo-Staff with a paw print on the middle. "I'm just starting out too."
"Oh great three rookies with Kwami's against a rip-off version of the 'Thing'." Peter groaned out when Chat Noir looked at him.
"I didn't get your name."
"Haven't decided on one, still trying to think of it." Peter said with a shrug. "Just call me… The Spider until I think of a better one."
"Alright, Araign." Chat Noir said with a grin, his belt tail swishing as Peter blinked, he liked that name. That was when they felt an earthquake and looked to see a building collapse making Peter-no Araign's eyes widen.
How many people died from that?
Chat Noir moved past them his Staff expanding as he vaulted himself to the rooftop with Araign webbing himself up there.
"Hey? Where are you two going?!" The girl asked making them pause and look back at her.
"To save Paris, no?!" Chat Noir called back.
"Sooner we do this the sooner we go home." Araign said with the two of them rushing towards Stoneheart seeing that he made it to a sports stadium.
"So you fought him earlier, anything I should know?" Chat Noir asked curiously giving him a look as he did some impressive parkour across the rooftops with Araign swinging nearby.
"Don't hit him," Araign deadpanned earning an incredulous look. "I'm serious he absorbs each blow to get stronger."
"Well that's just purrfect." Chat Noir said making Araign slowly look at him.
"Was that a cat pun?" Araign asked curiously with Chat Noir giving a grin.
"Why do I get the feline that you don't sound too thrilled?" Chat Noir asked with Araign giving a slight chuckle.
"Only because I thought I was the comedy guy so far." Araign said seeing Stoneheart walking towards a kid who was moving back quickly. 'I'm going on a limb here and guessing that's Kim.'
With that he shot in and grabbed Kim, swinging out of the way as Stoneheart slammed his fist down while Chat Noir landed between Stoneheart and both Araign and Kim.
"Why don't you pick on somebody your own size?" Chat Noir challenged, leaning his staff on his shoulder.
Stoneheart glared. "I bet you're talking about yourself huh?"
With that he tried to squash Chat Noir but Araign dove in shooting webs to make him back up.
Unknown to them someone was watching their fight with a frown.
"Interesting, I only gave Stoneheart his powers to draw the wielders of the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous but I didn't know there was a Spider Miraculous." He cupped his chin in thought. "An added bonus to my plan as my super villain will crush them."
"Where are you partner?" Chat Noir asked in worry while Araign shrugged, not knowing where the polka-dot girl was, he's guessing she was this guy's partner as Leopardon didn't tell him anything about other heroes being chosen.
As they dodged another fist, Araign saw the girl standing on the rooftops of the stadium but she was hesitating-looking scared.
'She's not a seasoned hero.' Araign had to remind himself as he hesitated too before jumping in.
None of them were seasoned heroes, just people given powers that may be in over their heads.
Stoneheart picked up a soccer goal-the action making Araign realize that the guy has only been using one hand so far, the other one has been closed tight-he then paled when he saw the beast throw the soccer goal as the two heroes dodged only to see it heading right for Alya who snuck after them to record the fight.
Thankfully Chat Noir saw that and threw his Staff making it expand as it reached the area she was in deflecting the Goal.
But that left him open to Stoneheart and he would've been grabbed if Araign didn't swing in, grabbing him by the tail right as Stoneheart barely missed him.
"What are you waiting for Ladybug girl?!" Alya called out to the third hero who tensed when she looked at Alya. "Everyone is counting on you!"
Araign didn't wait as he landed on the other side of the field and ran forward shooting his webs only for them to hiss. "What the-? I have limited ammo?!"
His head buzzing, Araign jumped back to avoid a stomp right as the girl finally joined in, the Yo-Yo wrapping around Stoneheart's legs as she slid under, coming to a stop near Chat Noir and Araign.
"It's not nice to abuse animals." She snarked pulling on the Yo-Yo to make Stoneheart fall over before turning towards the other two. "Chat Noir, Araign sorry I took so long."
"Hey you showed up, that's what counts." Araign said with a grin while Chat Noir gave a laugh of agreement.
"He's right Ladybug-girl, no worries on being late," Chat Noir told her as he cracked his knuckles. "Now we need to break some rocks."
"If only it were that easy." Araign commented with Ladybug giving a nod.
"He's right we need to find a different way."
"Then do you have a plan?" Chat Noir asked as Stoneheart finally got up.
"None whatsoever, think we can convince him to calm down with a game of soccer?" Araign asked with Ladybug shrugging but Chat Noir grinned.
"How about we use our powers?" He asked holding his hand up. "Cataclysm!"
"Of course it has the word cat in it." Araign muttered with some amusement before feeling his eyes twitch as Araign touched the soccer goal to see if it worked, making it decay. 'Did he just-?'
Apparently he didn't know it was a one-time thing as he ran at Stoneheart, jumped and landed on the guy's foot despite Ladybug trying to warn him.
"He had to waste it, now we're on a time-limit until he changes back." Araign cursed remember Leopardens warning.
If it was the same for Chat Noir they only had five minutes to finish this fight.
That was confirmed after Chat Noir was kicked back at them with Ladybug explaining it. "Did your Kwami not explain everything or what?!"
"Um, it seems I was in too much of a hurry to listen to him." Chat Noir sheepishly admitted his ears flattening against his head.
Araign just stared at him. "Chat Noir if we live through this you should probably ask your Kwami every little detail that could prove useful, just like I would do with mine."
"Alright my turn, Lucky Charm." Ladybug called out as she wasn't planning on wasting hers like Chat-but all she got was some sort of suit that came out of your Yo-Yo.
"... We're doomed." Araign deadpanned as everything was going to hell at the moment.
Ladybug just gave him a look before speaking. "My Kwami told me we need to break the object the Esskuma hid in." She explained before shaking her head. "I mean the Akuma."
"Except he doesn't have anything on him, he's all stone." Chat Noir told her.
"Not every part, his left hand has been kept closed ever since he broke out of the school," Araign said making a mental note to ask Leopardon what an 'Akuma' was. "If he has an object anywhere it would be there… Or inside of him and I'd rather it be the former."
"You have a plan?" Chat asked as Ladybug looked all over seeing Stoneheart's fist to a hose that was knocked near them before grinning.
"This." Ladybug placed the hose in the suit surprising the two before she wrapped a Yo-Yo around Chat's feet. "Just go with the flow, trust me."
With that she spun around launching him at Stoneheart.
"... If you're about to do that to me, I'll save you the trouble and run over there." Araign said only for her to shake her head.
"I need you to turn the hose on when I say so." She ordered before jumping forward, holding the end of the hose with the piece of clothing.
Deciding it was their best course of action, Araign followed suit landing near Alya who turned the camera to him.
"Can I ask you some questions?" Alya asked excitedly.
"Save the interview for after the mess." Araign joked right as Stoneheart let go of the object to grab Ladybug.
"Araign now!" Ladybug gave the order with the Arachnid-Themed Hero turning the water on, showing the piece of clothing was inflatable and it expanded making Stoneheart let go as water poured on him.
Remembering the explanation on his special power, Araign ran forward while Ladybug went for the object. "Venom Blast!" He shouted green energy coating his hand as he slammed it in the water, the blast arching like electricity, making the guy let go of Chat Noir in time as he was blasted while Ladybug smashed the object with a black butterfly flying off.
The effect was immediate as Stoneheart changed back to a young teen with black hair that was bleached on the bangs, wearing a black shirt with white crossbones on it and black shorts.
"That girl is awesome, mad awesome." Chat Noir said looking impressed before he looked at Araign. "Dibs."
Araign looked a bit amused and raised his hands in surrender.
He just moved to Paris, he wants to settle in before he thinks about dating anyone.
"W-What happened?" The teen who was Stoneheart muttered. "Where am I?"
'He doesn't remember?' Araign thought in surprise while Chat Noir and Ladybug began talking with each other.
"You were amazing Miss-er-Ladybug." Chat said with a grin. "You rocked it."
"We rocked it partner," Ladybug said returning the grin. "All three of us."
"Crazy plan though." Araign said with a laugh unable to believe they did it.
"Good Job." Chat and Ladybug said hi-fiving before looking at Araign who smiled and did the same.
That was when Chat's ring began to beep reminding them of the time-limit.
"You should go, our identities have to remain a secret." Ladybug told Chat who gave a bow.
"It was so cool, we should do this again soon." Chat said to her before giving Araign a clap on the shoulder. "See ya bug boy!"
Araign fixed Chat a glare as he took off while Ladybug sighed. "Maybe not too soon."
"I should go to, nice team up Ladybug." Araign said giving a mock salute as he went to swing off only for the shooters to hiss. "Right empty."
Giving a shrug he ran jumping to the rooftops of the stadium as he moved on his way giving a laugh of disbelief as he did so while he felt lost before seeing the school.
Okay he knows his way back from there.
But he was still surprised that he survived, not only that but by teaming up with others he won.
"I wonder if I'll see them again?" He mused seeing the bakery come in sight as he landed in the nearby alley and looked at his wristband. "Okay uh… Transform me?"
That didn't work.
"Suit off? Come on, turn off already." It beeped to show that his five minutes were up and a second later Araign was back to plain old Peter Parker with Leopardon giving a yawn.
"Oh man now that was exhausting." He said with Peter chuckling.
"Yeah but I have more questions now-," He looked towards the Bakery. "I'll save them for tonight though, I don't want to scare Aunt May any more than I already have."
He barely made it back in when Aunt May tackled him in a hug. "Oh Peter I was so worried about you when that monster appeared on the News," She said with Peter wincing feeling a little sore from the fight, but hiding it. "Are you hurt? Did that Stoneheart hurt you?"
"I-I'm fine but you're crushing me." Peter managed to get out as May let go.
"Peter have you seen Marinette?" Sabine entered the room looking worried along with Tom.
"Mari-no not since I gave her the textbook." Peter said now worried only for the door to open to show Marinette entering looking exhausted as she was swept up by her parents, both of them asking if she was fine.
Peter chuckled as he figured no one in this room would believe the day he had, unknown to him the same thought was going through Marinette's head.
That night he was watching the local news on his Cell Phone while Leopardon was going through his bag finding his Pixie Stick stash and going to town with it as to recharge he needs to eat. "So these Akuma's what are they?" Peter asked curiously.
He was also relieved to find out that the building knocked down was empty because the police evacuated the streets and buildings to form a perimeter around the area, so there were no casualties-luckily.
"Akuma's are the darkness that are exploited in people's hearts, twisting them whenever they're vulnerable turns them evil and gives powers." Leopardon explained. "Just as long as Ladybug managed to capture the Akuma we should be fine."
Peter stilled as he paused the video when it was saying something about a grand party to celebrate the three new heroes. "Uh the Akuma takes the form of a dark butterfly right?"
Leopardon paused and poked his head out of the bag, sensing discomfort from his partner. "Yes why?"
"Theoretically what if the butterfly flew off-?"
"It flew off?!" Leopardon was in his face panic clear on showing. "Are you certain?! This is bad, very bad."
"What do you mean?" Peter asked cautiously.
"It means Stoneheart will make a reappearance if we don't find it and that's not the worst of it." Leopardon looked at Peter who was a bit fearful of what his 'partner' was going to say.
Marinette yawned as she was looking through a textbook while the news was on, a tiny red creature with a black dot next to her while her 'ladybug' earrings glinted in the moonlight.
"The longer an Akuma is free the worse it can get, especially when they multiply."
A blonde haired teen yawned while a small cat-like Kwami was going around different dishes as the teen drank some water, watching the news showing the fight against Stoneheart.
"They multiply?" Peter asked nervously.
The Akuma flew to the top of the Eiffel Tower where its wings began to beat as multiple Akuma's flew out of it.
"Yes and that will mean an army of Stonehearts." Leopardon said grimly with Peter standing up. "Where are you going?"
"I'm going to find Ladybug and Chat Noir." Peter said holding his wristband out. "Transform Me!"
…
"Leopardon why isn't it working?" Peter asked looking at him.
"Because I'm not done recharging you want your power I need to eat for energy, it has to come from somewhere." Leopardon explained to him. "And even if I could change you now you don't have anymore webbing or the whereabouts of Chat Noir and Ladybug."
"How hard can it be to find them? I mean they were wearing Domino Masks-." Peter tried to say but Leopardon interrupted him.
"That are filled with a Glamour Charm to protect your identities, even if you bumped into their civilian form you wouldn't recognize them no matter what unless you see them transform." Leopardon told him with Peter gaping at him.
"Great, perfect-wait what do you mean I don't have anymore webbing?" Peter asked looking at Leopardon with wide eyes.
"I don't make the webbing, they were left-overs from my last partner, and no I don't know the formula, it's important for my partners to make their own variant," Leopardon gave a yawn. "I suggest going to sleep Partner, we're going to need the rest for tomorrow."
"How can I sleep after you told me we might have an army of Stonehearts?" Peter muttered in disbelief.
He looked back at his phone with the news now showing multiple people were Stoneheart but they were immobile for the moment.
"Oh man this is my fault." Marinette said in a panic as her Kwami, Tikki explained everything to her. "If I captured the Akuma this wouldn't be happening."
"You only made a mistake Marinette." Tikki said flying in front of her. "It was your first time, you'll go back there and capture Stoneheart's Akuma and this time you'll succeed."
"I can't, I told you." Marinette told Tikki shaking her head. "I'm clumsy, I provoke disasters all the time. I only make things worse for me, for you, for everyone."
She then sighed.
"Chat Noir and Araign will do better without me," Marinette said with a sigh. "I give up."
Chat Noir or as he's usually known as Adrien Agreste was now pacing in his room wearing a white buttoned shirt and blue jeans.
"So I can't do anything without Ladybug?" He asked his Kwami, Plagg who was eating cheese.
"Only Ladybug can capture the Akuma and fix the damages caused by Super Villains." Plagg told him while Adrien now looked panicked.
"What about Araign, can he capture them?"
"Not that I know of, I never even heard of a Spider Miraculous before." Plagg said shaking his head.
"So if neither of them can capture the Akuma then find another Ladybug," Marinette said to Tikki. "I already told you I'm not cut out for this."
Tikki however tensed when Marinette went to remove the earrings. "No don't do-."
She was too late as she disappeared when Marinette took them off.
"Why is it that only she can capture them?" Peter asked in disbelief sitting on his bed.
"It's why the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous were always intertwined," Leopardon told him. "And while the Spider Miraculous is different from both of them it can't do their jobs either."
Peter sighed and looked out the window.
What started off as the end to an action-packed day turned into a bit of a nightmare.
Whatever happened next was all their fault.
To Be Continued…
Phew, this took a long time to type-someone asked if I wanted to do a Miraculous Ladybug and Cat Noir story so I figured why not after I did a lot of research on the show-just throw in Spider-Man because why not?
Although I spent a month typing this one chapter because I was thinking about how I wanted to do this.
I hope you enjoyed the revamp of the web-heads origin as well as his new name-hey he's in France so why not? Especially since Araign is literally Spider in French.
Sadly I'm not the first one to write Spider-Man's origin like this as someone beat me to the punch but I wanted to try my own version-Leopardon is a reference to Supaidaman if you don't know with the Giant Robot-hope you liked his personality.
Now if I do continue this, Araign will be doing his own thing along with the team-ups with Chat Noir and Ladybug as I'm thinking of keeping his rogues gallery the same with them being genetically enhanced instead of mystically enhanced with the exception of the Goblin-maybe have a Miraculous for the Goblin that's a bitter enemy of the Spider Miraculous? Haven't decided that last part yet.
But that's why some things won't make any sense for a person in this story if you never watched the cartoon, so be sure to do so before you continue reading this.
Finally as for the pairing I might keep it canon for Ladybug and Chat Noir or I change it up, same with the Goblin, I haven't decided yet.
So tell me what you think and I'll get back to you soon.
Alright next will either be Red-X then I'll try to update my Pokemon story or I'll just write the second chapter this one.
This is Spidey Signing Out!