Chronicles Universe: Spider-Man
Chap 1: With Great Power…
Young Peter Parker, his parents deceased, lived most of his life with his Aunt May and Uncle Ben. He was raised along with Cindy Moon, whose parents also disappeared. Her and Peter got along pretty well and stuck together through thick and thin, though today...today is the day that'll change both their lives forever.
15 year old Peter Parker was snoring in his bed.
"PETER! WAKE UP OR WE'RE GONNA BE LATE!" Cindy yelled through his bedroom door. Peter rubbed his eyes, getting up.
"Late...late for wha-" His eyes widened as he remembered. "THE TRIP!" He quickly got dressed and ran out his room.
"AUNT MAY MADE PANCAKES SO YOU BETTER HURRY!" Cindy called running down the stairs. He ran down the stairs and smiled sitting next to Uncle Ben.
Cindy and Peter dug into their pancakes eating up as Uncle Ben gave Aunt May a goodbye kiss.
"I'll be in the car squirts!"
They nodded and ran out after breakfast. Quickly hopping inside the car as they drove off.
Later
They arrived at Oscorp. The place the field trip was taking place.
"I'll be here after the field trip. See you kids then." They waved as he drove off.
"Let's go Cind!" They ran inside meeting up with their classroom.
The class were led around the place by one of the scientists. "And this is our Superior Spider project. We're experimenting with these magnificent specimens to breed and create Better stronger spiders." They were shown lots of cases, each with a different colored spider in them. "Here, we have the containers for our 58 Super Spiders."
"There's 57." A redheaded girl said. "One's missing." The scientist looked at the empty case. "Oh dear.." she said. Peter smiled at his best friend Mary Jane.
"Nice job." he whispered.
"Don't worry, everyone. I'm sure Dr. Connors is doing some experimenting on it. Though I do suggest you watch out for the floor and ceiling. And if you see any webs, run." Everyone laughed. Peter was so busy laughing that he didn't see a shiny strand leading to his head from the ceiling. Everyone started walking off. Peter didn't notice the spider go onto his hand until...the fateful bite.
"OW!" He said before the spider dropped onto Cindy's ankle and bit her. "AUGH!" She grunted. Her foot flinching in pain knocking the spider to the ground before she stepped down crushing it. "Whoa. You okay guys? You look like something just bit you." Their childhood friend, Harry Osborn asked.
"No, I'm good." Peter said. Rubbing his neck.
"Yeah just a little pinch on my ankle." Cindy said rubbing her foot.
"Ok...well let's go!" Harry said going after the class. Peter and Cindy nodded following. MJ and a blonde waiting for the three of them.
"You guys ok?"
"We're fine Gwen just a random muscle pinch." Cindy said.
"Okay. But let us know if anything starts getting serious." Gwen said. MJ nodding her agreement.
They walked with the class, Peter and Cindy following but Peter getting tripped.
"Oh, sorry, Parker." Came the barely contained laughing voice of Flash Thompson. Flash and his gang kept laughing as Peter's vision blurred and he couldn't get up.
"Peter...you...okay…." Came the dizzy voice of Cindy moon as she fell next to him as they both lost consciousness.
"SOMEONE GET AN AMBULANCE!" Gwen and MJ shouted in unison.
"Wake up, little spiders…..wake up…" Mysterious voices echoed.
Peter woke up in a hospital bed. Looking around desperately to figure out where he was. He looked around for Cindy as a nurse walked in.
"What..what happened?" Peter said.
"You fainted after a nasty Spider bite. It's not fatal but you should've told your teacher."
"Yeah...goofed up...where's Cindy?"
"Same spider bite but on her ankle. She'll recover."
"Good.."
"How are you? Any nausea or headache?"
"No. Actually… I feel great!"
"That's good! I'll go check on Cindy while your guardians come check on you."
Peter nodded as she left. Aunt May and Uncle Ben stepped in.
"Hey sport. How're you feeling?" Uncle Ben asked.
"Good. I… don't feel bad at all."
"Whoa. are you sure Petey?" Aunt May doted.
"Yeah. I'm fine May."
With Cindy
Cindy woke up with a groan. "What the heck happened…" She groaned.
"Oh you're awake!" She looked to the nurse who smiled. "How do you feel?"
"Like a tank just attacked my head, but like my fingers could lift a mountain."
"Well expected on the tank. Weird on the mountain."
"Yeah. Is Pete ok?"
"Yes he is."
"Good…. Ugh my head hurts…"
"Do you want me to get the other doctors?"
"No it's ok just a headache."
"Ok. Well your guardians will be in shortly."
"Ok. Thankyou." The nurse walked off and soon Aunt May and Uncle Ben walked in letting Peter rest.
"Hey guys. How's Pete?" Cindy asked.
"He's fine sweety. How are you feeling?"
"Headache. But other then that I feel fine."
"Good. Well the doctor wants to hold you overnight so we'll see you in the morning ok buddy?"
"Ok. See you in the morning Uncle Ben." He nodded and they went off.
The Next morning.
Peter and Cindy were allowed out of the hospital when morning came. Uncle Ben drove them home and just as they got there they saw a Collector outside the door talking to Aunt May. "What's going on there?" Peter said.
"Oh uhh Nothing you kids need to worry about. Get ready for school."
"Ook." Peter and Cindy went inside. Peter trying to ignore the harsh words the debt collector was using.
"Whoa...just..whoa." Pete said when they got upstairs.
"Let's just get ready Pete."
"Yeah." They got ready for school and went back downstairs. The debt collector was gone and May was looking more worried.
"Where's Uncle Ben?"
"He's off to… take care of something…. I-i'm sorry little ones looks like you'll have to take the bus."
They nodded and walked out. Chasing after the bus.
Peter and Cindy made it to school. Cindy and Peter both somehow catching up with the bus after it had started moving, they made it to the school without incident. They walked to class, Flash following them. They looked to each other and smirked walking a little faster. Turning a corner and smirking grabbing a rope and hiding on either end of the hallway. Flash walked and yelled as he tripped. His posse laughed as Cindy and Peter ran to class.
After class
Peter met up with MJ and Gwen.
"Hey guys!"
"Hey Pete! Glad to see you're ok Tiger."
"Yeah. Stop calling him Tiger MJ you know you make him flustered."
MJ giggled.
"Well what're we gonna do?" Gwen shrugged.
"Hmmmmm Take pictures of James Jonah Jameson picking his nose?"
They laughed.
"How about we go climbing? There's a new rock climbing place near my house." Mj said.
"Ok!" Pete and Gwen said. MJ smiled as the group left the school.
Cindy went to find Harry. Who was waiting for his dad outside of the school.
"Hey, Harr."
"Hey Cind! How're you feeling? My dad managed to find the remains of the specimen that bit you. I'm really sorry that this happened."
"Yeah. But..something really weird has happened...When I woke up, I felt...strange in my fingers" As soon as she said that, strands of webbing shot out from her fingertips onto Harry's shirt.
"...Well...that's new.." She said.
"Uhhh…. Maybe you should call Mrs. Parker and let her know my dad wanted to talk to you. He is gonna want to see this."
"Ok. G-good idea…."
With Peter, MJ, and Gwen
Peter smiled in climbing gear. "Let's do this!" They started climbing. Peter moving quicker than usual getting halfway with ease.
"Whoa…" MJ and Gwen said. It wasn't till he was at the top that he realized he didn't use the rocks at all. He looked at his hands as they stuck to the wall.
What the… He thought. Deciding to experiment he reached his hand up to the wall. It stuck.
"Yo, Tiger! Everything alright?" MJ called up.
"Uh, yeah yeah. I'm fine." He then reached a little higher touching the ceiling.
"Whoa…" He said to himself.
A little later…
Peter landed safely on the ground. How the heck did that happen!? He thought to himself trying not to panic as the girls descended.
"You ok, Pete? Ya look like you've seen a ghost." Gwen said.
"Yeah Tiger maybe you're still under the weather."
"Maybe. I-i'm gonna head home…" He walked off.
When he got to his room he began experimenting. He put his hands on the wall and slowly crawled up, putting his feet on it. He climbed onto the ceiling.
Whoa… He thought before smiling. "Cool." He dropped down and sat in his spinning chair grabbing some extra liquids from his Science experiments kit, plus some leftover scrap metal. He looked at a newspaper he had gotten earlier that day.
Wrestling Match: Survive against the Unstoppable Crusher Hogan
He grinned. He knew May and Ben were having money issues. This was his chance to help. He begun working on a new experiment.
Test 1
"Alright, non-existent audience, this is test 1 of my new web shooters." Peter said to a camera. He pressed the button on the little device and there was a loud fizzle and some sparks but nothing happened. He groaned.
Test 2
"Test 2." He pressed the button on the device but it short circuited and shot web all over his face. "Well atleast it did something."
Test 3
He pressed the button and it fired….right next to the target.
Test 30
"Alright...this is...the 30th attempt. Let's hope this works." Peter said. He aimed the web shooter and pressed the button and...it fired and hit the target. "Yes! Wooooo!- Oh uhhh…. Wooooooo….." He got softer for the last part after realizing Aunt May and Uncle Ben are asleep.
He grabbed the camera. "Test successful." He said before ending the recording.
Later
"Alright, if I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna need a costume and a name." He got out a sketchbook and some utensils. Drawing quickly trying to come up with a cool design.
Red and black suit with red eyes? "Nah too edgy." Black and red suit with black eyes? "Nah, too megalomaniacal." Red and Blue suit with whitish eyes? "Hmm..interesting." He got to work making it. Blue pants, Reddish shirt with a sewn in spider symbol. Red mask with curved triangle lenses, plus some white and red gloves and shoes.
"Alright, I'll need a name. Guess Spider-Man is as good as any." He said to himself. Putting on the costume.
"Showtime!"
The next night
Uncle Ben was dropping Peter off at the library.
"Well here we are, sport." Ben said.
"Huh?" Peter said, snapping out of his thoughts. "The library. The one across the venue? You said you had to study here."
"R-Right...um, Uncle Ben, if you could do something better than anyone else could, then..it wouldn't be wrong to..cash in on your talents, right?" Peter asked. Ben took a deep breath
"Peter…. A lot of times in life it's tempting to take advantage of people that are less powerful than you. But your father used to tell himself 'With great power comes great responsibility.' I know it might be tempting son. But whatever you're about to do, think about it before you do."
"Alright, Uncle Ben. I will." They hugged before Peter got out of the car and Ben drove off. He's right. But it's to help them. As long as…. As long as it's to help them he'll understand right?
He went off.
Later
"Who dares next to challenge the unbeatable, the unstoppable, CRRRRRUSHERRRR HOGAAAAAN!?" An announcer asked through the microphone after a match. Peter was waiting nervously for an opportunity
The announcer looked through the lists of combatants. "It seems we have a new challenger. Will you give one for the unstoppable, the AMAAAAAZING, SPIDER-MAN!" The Announcer said. Everyone chanted as Peter, in his outfit, landed in the ring.
"You sure bout this, kid, I like the gimmick, but, well.." The announcer whispered to Peter, gesturing to Crusher.
"1000 bucks if I win?" Peter asked for clarification. "There are some caveats but basically, yeah." The announcer said.
"Then I'm in!" Peter said. The Announcer shrugged.
"Ladies and Gentlemen for your entertainment this next matchup will be A CAGE MATCH!" The Announcer went out of the ring as a cage closed around them.
"Alright, let's do this-HRG!" He was pinned to the cage by Crusher. "Now listen here, I don't like picking on little guys. So I'm gonna make this quick. Kay?" Crusher said.
"Sure, sounds good. Better than good. In fact, I feel great!" Peter said, kicking him off and jumping off of him.
"Hey, where'd he go!?" Crusher yelled.
"Yoo hoooo!" Peter sang from the top.
"Get down here!" Crusher yelled.
"Tempting, but I think you'll see," He jumped down and kicked Crusher across the face and webbed him to the top of the cage.
"The match is already over." He said, letting go of the web line and Crusher fell down.
The announcer grabbed his arm and raised it into the air.
"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! THE SPECTACULAAAAR! SPIDER-MAAAAN!" He yelled. Everyone cheered.
Peter walked up to the announcer's office. "Alright, kid. Just gotta sign a few papers, then ya get yer check."
"Whoa whoa, I'm not signing anything." Pete said. "Hey i told ya, there were caveats, kid. No papers, no money."
"But that's not fair!" Pete said. "Fair's not my problem, kid." The Announcer said. Peter glared when a crook ran up past them with a bag of money.
"Hey! He stole my money!" The announcer yelled. Peter stepped aside, letting the thief go.
"Thanks." The thief said as the elevator doors closed. The man was a Military cut dirty blond with green eyes and sand colored skin.
The Announcer looked at Peter.
"Not my problem." Peter mimicked, glaring at him. The announcer glared and walked off.
Later
Well that was a bust. Peter thought walking home. No money, not even a ride home. He saw a crowd of people gathering around a spot. He went to check it out. "Hey, what's happening.." He said. He pushed through the crowd. "Sir, I'm gonna need you to stand back-" A police officer said before Peter recognized the man on the ground. "THAT'S MY UNCLE!" He pushed past her and went to him. He was bleeding. "What happened?" He asked.
"He looked… so scared…. I don't think he realised he had his safety off…." The police officer said.
Peter looked to his Uncle Ben. Ben was gasping, his clothes stained with mud from the place he fell.
"Uncle Ben?" He opened his eyes and saw Peter. "Peter…?"
"I'm here, Uncle Ben.." Peter said, shedding tears. "Peter…" Ben closed his eyes. Peter looked down, shedding tears before he heard the police radio.
"Carjacker on 5th street. Police on in pursuit." He got up and ran off. He ran into an alley, taking off his jacket, revealing his costume as he put his mask on and jumped onto the wall, climbing up it. He followed the police swinging with his web shooters. He swung ahead of the police and saw the car they were chasing. He landed on the front of it and punched through the front window. The crook shot at him but he jumped, avoiding the shots. He webbed the gun away, He looked behind him & saw the car was gonna crash into a building. He jumped onto the wall as the thief ran inside.
The thief hid in an upper floor in a dark room. He heard sounds. "WHO'S THERE!?" He yelled.
"You took the life of a good man...a man with a loving family...and you did it for his lousy car!" He heard an angry voice say. He shot in the dark but was kicked in the face by Peter. He shot a web at the crook and slammed him into a wall. He grabbed him and shoved his face through some glass windows of the doors, making him yell in pain. Peter threw him to the windows of the building. He walked to him and grabbed him by the collar, shoving him out the window, the light revealing his face. Peter's eyes widened.
That face…
"Not my problem…" He had said when he let the crook go.
"No...it can't be you...it can't!" Spidey yelled. The crook was scared for his life as Spidey held him out the window.
"I should drop you..take what you took from Ben Parker!" Spidey said dropping him. The crook yelled before he was caught by a web line. "But that's not what Ben would've wanted." The cops arrived. Peter walked off.
He sat on a gargoyle of a building, sobbing. I should've stopped him. I shouldn't have let him leave that building… He put his face in his hands. Uncle Ben….. I-i'm sorry….
With Cindy
Harry was helping Cindy with her powers. Norman couldn't be there because of an apparent sickness.
"Ok so far, wall climbing, silk like webbing from fingers. An apparent sixth sense as a warning of danger…. Anything else obvious?"
Cindy lifted him up with one hand. "Apparently super strength." She said.
"Right Super Strength. Oh and Super Agility. Combined also give you speed much greater than the average person. But not Speedster levels."
"Yeah. So, fast, but not The Flash fast." Cindy said.
"Exactly. Actually you said Peter's been keeping up with you today right?"
"Yeah. Actually, I remember him being sent to the hospital as well...you think he might have the same powers as me?"
"Very possible, you were both bit by the spider. Though Peter didn't get as much venom in his system according to his Doctor's reports. Most likely because the Spider wasn't as stressed."
"So if he did get powers, mine are much more advanced?" Cindy asked.
"Or you just might have a couple he doesn't. I think we'd know if his fingers started spitting out silk too."
"I'll check with him later. Am I good to go, or would you like to run some more tests?"
"I think that's it until I can get this stuff back to my dad."
"Ok! See ya, Harr!" Cindy said running off.
When she got back to the house, Aunt May was sobbing. "May? What's wrong?" She asked, walking to her.
"B-ben was shot… and I can't get a hold of Peter…"
Ben's...dead? Cindy thought. "I'll go look for Peter." Cindy said. She ran out the door. She saw red and blue on the Gargoyle on the clocktower. She went up to him and saw his mask was off. "Peter?" She said. He was sobbing. She sat next to him and hugged him close.
"Ohhhh Petey…"
Later
Peter got out a case and opened it, taking out a red and blue spandex suit that he made.
"With Great Power comes Great Responsibility." Ben had said. With those words in his mind, he knew what he had to do. He had to make up for his mistake for not catching that burglar when he should have. He had to become a man...Spider-Man.
A/N:
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