"You think you can defeat me you tiny spider."
"Well I have the last 400 times so I'm guessing this time, things won't be any different."
"I'm taking it Spider-man and nothing you can do about."
"Ok, ok I have heard this speech 100 times before and it always ends the same way. With your ass webbed to some random post."
A massive explosion to the left could be heard and felt throughout the whole of Manhattan. The dust and smoke cloud could be seen above the relatively low buildings of the street. Spider-man took a sideways glance at the knowing grin on Octavius' face and time seemed to slow down as the human spider stared at the looming mushroom cloud, completely stunted. A very familiar buzzing went of in his head and he was brought back to his current predicament.
"What did you Doc?" As Spider Man jumps out of the way of one of Doc Ock's arms as the eight limb man answers in a very disturbing way "I have done something that needed to be done, something to distract you. So I can get away." There was a brief pause and Octavius almost looked remorseful. He said one more sentence after he jumped onto a nearby building."Their sacrifice will go down in history Spiderman."
Spiderman can hear the sirens going off, Spider-Man shoots his web at one of the news helicopter filming the fight. Shouting at the pilot to fly towards the smoke he looked back at the Dr and he was smiling.
The police had set up a perimeter.
"No one and I mean no one goes on that bridge" vulture exclaims to rhino over the radio.
"I know bird brain I not stupid"
"I'm rhino, I'm not stupid" vulture replied in a condescending tone.
"Spiderman is on his way delay him" Doc ock barked down the radio.
"Hey doc why can't we just kill him?"
"Because my dear electro we don't need to… not yet anyway" Doc oc replied in a violence laugh.
Spider-man could see it, the destruction, the death. Both the pilot and the cameraman were in shock from the sight of the burning bridge.
"oh...oh god, why...why would doc oc do this?" The pilots question had been rhetorical but spider-man answered it anyway.
"Because of me."Spider-man's response to the question made the cameraman turn and look at the wall crawler. After a few seconds the Cameraman spoke.
"He may have done this so he could get away but if you haven't had been here for the past 10 years, he would have done a lot worse by now." The cameramans words left him speechless. Manhattan loved him until something went wrong then they just blamed him but now, now he had someone stick up for him through the hard times as well. In Spider-man's silence the pilot turned to face him "His right Spidey, you have to know his right?" Spider-man was just about thank the two men for their support when the ever aging vulture intervened and sent his razor blades straight towards the unsuspecting helicopter pilot.
"Spider sense, that is just great" with barely enough time to react Spider-man reached up pulling the pilot out of harms way. With just millimeters between the pilot's head and and glinting blades, all of them just sighed in relief, just as bolt of poorly aimed electricity came flying past them nearly giving the cameraman a heart attack and forcing the pilot to swerve in between buildings to avoid the deadly bolts.
Meanwhile at the police perimeter Captain Stacy is begging for a miracle as the newly upgraded Shocker and the Rhino were decimating the the police. Many dead a twice as many injured. Even through all of this Jean DeWolff and Sam Carter are still locked in argument over whose fault this whole thing is, just as it looked like Sam was winning when the Rhino picked up and chucked a NYPD riot van at the squad car the three were in cover behind. Without even the van making a sound it was caught in a giant web with the words 'you're welcome DeWolff' inscribed within the web. With all the destruction and death Spider-man still managed to find a little bit of his sense of humor to annoy his 'biggest fan'. All three of them peeked over the top of the car for a look when the trio saw the web both Sam and the Captain snigered at the efforts of Spider-mans humor, DeWolff however was less amused and started rambling about what she would do if she ever got hold of the web slinger. Something involving a gun and a pair of handcuffs.
"So what would do to me again Jean? " The three of them jumped and turned suddenly, weapons pointing at Spider-man,the Captain lowered his weapon along with Sam Carter, It took a little longer and a glare from Sam and the Captain for DeWolff to do the same but she eventually did.
"Spider-man!"Dewolff shouted at him while glaring back and seeing the web that Spider-man had made also noticing that the national guard have shown up, pushing both Rhino and shocker back giving the three of them a much needed break
"Jean I told you you can call me Spidey we are friends after all and that thing about the cuffs, how do you know I wouldn't enjoy that." Jean blushed and Spider-man thanked all the gods for having a mask as they could not see his expression. However jean quickly regained her composure and went back to shouting at him.
"Friends! we are not friends. to be honest I don't know why I am not arresting you!" even though he knew it was stupid he was a little hurt at her reaction just to the word friend. So he shoved it to the back of his mind and carried on with the conversation.
"Oh man I guess I will just have give these to Sam. Probably for the best his arrest rate is a little lower than yours." The three officers of the law looked up and on the building directly to their left was an unconscious Electro and a barely audible Vulture screaming and cursing Spider-man. Attached to each other, dangling upside down and draped over vulture's head was a flag with the aviation societies logo on it.
Spider-man looked over the shoulder of the gobsmacked female detective and saw that the national guard had Shocker and Rhino under control for now enough time for him to turn around swing up to just below the Vulture and grab something that was suspended on it's own web from the old birds ear. As he grabbed it and pulled on it forgetting it was connected to Vultures ear he heard a high pitch scream. He laughed and as swung away back to where the officers were standing and handed the object to detective Jean Dewolff.
"What is this?" Jean was worried and curious even though she had an inkling to what it was, she asked anyway.
"I wanted to give it to you yesterday but I couldn't find you" it wasn't really an answer but it was enough to confirm Jean's and her colleagues suspicions."well I gotta go, things to do, places to be."
and without another word Spider-man was gone and swing towards the nearly collapsed bridge where Rhino and Shocker had engaged police and the national guard.
"You know he clearly likes you."
"Yeah...wait, what are you talking about Sam?"
"He got you a birthday card.. Spider-man got you a birthday card."Sam exclaimed attracting the attention the their captain who was deep in thought.
"Look Jean you and Sam have already been injured in….this" the captain gestured to the surrounding chaos with his arms giving them a helpless look while doing it."Take a seat and rest." Jean touch the cut on her forehead subconsciously and winced "I can't ask any more of you and I know if I say go home you won't listen so I am just going to ask you two to keep your heads down here and I will radio if I need you, and Jean, Sam is right by the way he clearly does like you." Before she could reply he had started running towards the national guard's commanding officer.
Jean turned to look at her partner currently rapping his tie round a guasch on his arm. She looked down at the red envelope that Spider-man had given her, she blushed a little at the thought of Spider-man liking her in that way but was cut off by Sam.
"Aren't you going to open it?" She looked at Sam, then the envelope sighed and slid down the squad car door to join him on the floor. Sighing again she opened it expecting to find a cheesy Spider-man birthday card or a generic card he had pick up as a joke but what she found was a clearly homemade card not a tacky glue and glitter homemade card but a card that looks like it had taken hours to make. The picture on the front was one that she recognized immediately it was the photo of her and Spider-man arguing with what clearly is a criminal that Spider-man has apprehended. What made it memorable and quite famous was the headline that the Bugle put with it 'lovers tiff'. Something was strange though this was not a newspaper clipping this was a digital copy of the full photo not the cropped version that the bugle published, it showed what they were actually arguing about, not the criminal, not how irresponsible he is or how he should leave crime fighting to the professionals, no they were fighting over the poster in the book shop window of the new series of books by Lee Child. He made a crack at the criminals expense using the poster and Lee Child's character Jack Reacher, an argument ensued about his best book and his worst book and the upcoming series that the poster was advertising. She thought it would be good he thought it would be a waste of a tree and that Lee was milking the series for money. The argument was really heated a little too heated for an argument about books, but at the time she didn't read into it. Now she was thinking about Spider-man in a totally different way, a way that shocked her but a knowing smile past her lips. At this point she was deep in thought and smiling profusely not realising a smirking Sam sitting next to her. An explosion behind them brought her out of the trance, together they stood up and moved around the car and the riot van still stuck in it's web, only to see a semi-conscious webbed up Shocker and a beaten, completely unconscious Rhino.
"How the hell did he do that?" Jean asked in utter amazement
"Ha someone finally coming round to him" Sam stated just before he noticed the makeshift bridge that Spider-man had made out of his web with civilians crawling over it to the structurally sound part of the bridge. They were crawling over the 'spider web bridge' by the hundreds men at the start helping children and the elderly get across with officers, firemen, paramedics, national guard and the unharmed civilians at the other end giving them medical treatment and helping families find one another.
All the civilians that they could see were across however Captain Stacy and the Major asked for some volunteers to go across the spider web bridge and on to the partially collapsed and unstable part of the bridge to look for any remaining injured, trapped or immobile civilians just as every officer, fireman and soldier put their hand up there was another massive explosion similar to the first one shook the entire bridge and collapsing the other side of the bridge leaving part of the bridge standing on just one support like a prong of a fork. Luckily the Spider web bridge was relatively intact making it the only way to get onto that part of the bridge. Over the top of the men, women and cars you could see a fight ensuing between Kraven, Mysterio and Spider-man without hesitation the female detective ran the 200 meters or so to Captain Stacy as he and few men from different services went across the Spider web bridge still undeterred to help anybody they could She and Sam managed to get on before the Major decided that was enough men.
Jean looked down, she was halfway across the Spider web bridge crawling like the other couple of dozen of men and women that had volunteered to go across. It was stable but swaying ever so slightly in the wind, it was quite far to the prong that they were heading to at least 100 meters and the chasm that the Spider web bridge spanned across was a clear drop the ice cold river, not that it was a cold day just in her experience the Hutson was always cold.She was a meter away from the end of the Spider web bridge when an outstretched male hand helped her up the ledge, she didn't look up at the man that had helped her and just assumed that was Sam that had helped her."Thanks Sam"
"Sam? if I look like Sam Mysterio's bats did a lot more damage than I thought." Jean looked slowly up from the hand first seeing blood gushing from a wound on the man's wrist moving her eyes up the man's arm and saw smaller cuts, dirt and halfway up a well defined bicep was the beginnings of ripped red and blue skin tight suit. She looked across the well defined and muscular chest to see a giant gash slicing the width of the man's upper body it was observably made by some sort of claws. Jean couldn't help but admire the man's body: fit, skinny but muscular. She finally looked up at the man who had helped her, his mask was still on but it had been ripped in several places not bigger enough tears to really reveal anything about the man other than the colour of his skin. Jean looked back down to the gash on his chest wondering how the hell the man was standing and not crying out in pain.
"See something you like?" Underneath his mask Spider-man smirked. Jean was snapped out of her thoughts at the question. Once again she looked up at the man's face and stood up fully so they were pretty much level him being a little taller, she blushed heavily as she thought about her response but the buffer between her brain and her mouth must have been faulty as her reply was unexpected."Maybe" Jean didn't mean to but she said it a seductive tone as well. Spider-man was speechless, again grateful of his mask that covered his stunned, blushing and smiling face. The response was also loud enough so the Captain and Sam overheard it, they both looked at her surprised at her answer.
"uh...uh I mean…" Jean tried to rectify the situation but couldn't think of anything to say.Captain Stacy looked over to Spider-man.
"His speechless, that is a first." Jean just stood there and looked at her superior and blushed so much that she was practically red. Sam was almost buckled over in laughter at the two speechless people standing in front of him.
To break the silence Captain Stacy spoke asked Spider-man a question."What is the situation Spider-man?"
"Umm…" this was his reply as Spider-man was just staring at the still blushing detective and was completely ignoring the Captain's question. Sam was getting a little annoyed at this point, it was funny at first but they were in a crisis situation, this was not the time to be having a 'moment'. The Captain must have been feeling the same, as the next sounds out of his mouth weren't a question or even a statement it was just a shout."
SPIDER-MAN!!!" it was so loud and sudden that Sam and the rest to the volunteers jumped. Sam also saw the national guard's commanding officer (the Major) turn his head to look at the bellowing Captain and he was on the other side of the chasm. Spider-man on the other hand just turned slowly to the Captain still keeping one eye on Jean as his head twisted.
"Yes Captain?" In the calmest and most collected voice that he could muster Captain Stacy tried to ask Spider-man again. .
"What is the situation?"
"Oh you know same old thing Kraven and Mysterio have set up some sort of perimeter around a school bus full of kids and a teacher."Spider-man looked down at his shoes and sighed, He looked up at the Captain and carried on. "I...I can't get to them… every time I go into rescue them kraven attacks. I properly could handle them on their own but they have learnt from their mistakes, Mysterio stays out of my web shooters range and just uses his robots and those bloody bats to back up Kraven" Spider-man looked down again the three knew that feeling all too well, it was that feeling of helplessness that know matter what you do there will always be casualties. Jean, again shocking everyone, pulled Spider-man into a hug and gently rubbed his back as she whispered "It's not your fault." into his ear. It took Spider-man a few seconds to get over the shock of what the female detective was doing but then embraced it. He was no stranger to a woman's touch, in the last 8 years Peter Parker has had a good few number of one night stands and casual just physical relationships with women, his life as Spider Man only allowed him this and he expected not have the emotional side of a relationship. This hug, however, though was different it was like when Liz hugged him back in high school, close, intimate and caring. He pulled back, not aggressively or harshly, but slowly and as her chin slipped off his shoulder, he looked into her eyes and nodded as if to say he was all right, she must have understood as she turned away to look at the Captain for orders.
"Alright then..." The Captain still sounded shocked at the show of affection from the detective."Our first priority is to get those kids." He looked at Spider-man."Would it help if you had a couple of men distracting Mysterio and covering you while you take down Kraven?"
"Give me 20 seconds with Kraven alone without any of those damn bats cutting my face to shit."
"Ok" The captain looked around to the 24 or so volunteers that came across and saw 2 national guard soldiers. "you two!" The soldiers looked around at the Captain who was waving them over to where the three police officers and Spider-man were standing.
"Yes sir?" The Captain turned his back to the group making the two soldiers share a look of confusion, he walked behind Spider-man still looking the other way after about a minute of silence and the two soldiers looking oddly at Spider-man and then at Jean and Sam who were being so casual around the super hero, finally the Captain turned around and started barking orders.
"Soldiers you're with me, Sam you too, we are going to give Spider-man cover from Mysterio."
The orders were said strongly but not loudly he was about to carry on when on to the Soldiers interrupted.
"Sir?" There was a pause as the two national guards looked at each other then back to the Captain." Who is Mysterio?" The question was said with a little bit of scepticism, however before the Captain could answer.
"Not from around here huh. Don't worry he is the guy with the big fish blow on his head, oh and if you get a chance call him bubbles he really hates that." Spider-man answered it in the simplest of ways and in his usual humor. The two soldiers had a sarcastic smile on their faces, their mouths twitched as if they were about to ask something else, Jean interjected though.
"He's not kidding. Well apart from the bubbles bit right?" As she said the last sentence she turned to look at Spider-man with a questioning face.
"No he really does not like being called bubbles." Spider-man voice was earnest and sincere, which made the two detectives snigger at the two soldier who again were looking at each other with a look of bewilderment on their faces. Before this could go any fervor the Captain jumped in and continued giving his orders.
"Jean you coordinate the search for civilians, Spider-man have you got any intel on civilians?"
"Yeah most are hiding behind an overturned coach, every time i tried to get to them Mysterio threatened to kill them"Spider-man looked down again as said this. "However there are a few hurt ones hiding behind the odd car but they were all trying to get behind the coach, I suggest searching anyway as some may not be able to move." Still looking down Spider-man felt a hand on his shoulder, it squeezed his shoulder gently he felt wave of comfort and reinsurance go over him.
"Ok...ok well hopefully Mysterio will be too busy with us to care about the civilians.Anything else?" The Captain looked amongst the group when Spider-man spoke up.
"OH yeah.Traps."
"Traps?"Sam questioned with a worried look on his face.
"Yes Sam traps. Don't worry though they are pretty obvious to spot, White discs around the size of um..." Spider-man looked around for something to use as a model."My hand."
"Ok so lets go. Spider-man give us sometime to get into position. we will attack on your signal." Spider-man nodded as the four slowly moved around the piled up cars and parts and debris from the bridge. When they were out of sight he turned to Jean.
"How long should I give them?" She thought about the question.
"2 maybe 3 minutes. I have a question for you." It was a statement not a request and Spider-man knew this.
"Ok shoot.But if it is what is my real name, I won't answer." She let out a slight giggle and immediately regretted it she was not in high school any more why was she giggling. She looked away as her cheeks went red from embarrassment, then realized that she still hadn't asked her question. She turned to look at him putting on a serious face and a calm voice not that of a schoolgirl with a crush, in which she probably have talked to him in, if she didn't think about it.
"Why haven't they attacked?" Spider-man stood there with a blank face that was not the question that he was expecting.
"What?" He said it like he was slightly confused but the question and she gave him an odd look.
"Kraven and Mysterio. Why haven't they attacked?" She was still looking at him weirdly.
"Oh…" Spider-man looked deflated, hard to tell with the mask. "They probably don't want to risk taking on all of you guys and me at the same time, probably just decided to dig in their defences more. I can handle it and so can Sam and Captain Stacy. So don't worry." She thought about ripping him a new one for saying that last bit, she wasn't worried, and she most certainly was not another damsel in distress for him to rescue. However, something about the way he said it, it seemed caring more than condescending, so she decided to let it go and just nod, her mind going back to why he sounded almost disheartened by her question, she didn't think about and by the time she did it had already came out
"What did you think I was going to say?" This was the third time today that Spider-man was grateful that he had a mask on, If he didn't she would have seen his face, he would have no time to come up with a response but fortunately he did and it gave him a few extra precious seconds to come up with one.
"If I survive this and you still want to know, I promise I will tell you." Truth be told he wasn't sure that he would, he kept feeling like he had overlooked something but couldn't put a finger on it. He didn't voice his concerns to the detective. She on the other hand was focusing on the reply that Spider-man had given her.What did he mean by 'if I survive' he is the one who told her not to worry that he could handle it. What the hell did he mean by if he survived! Her thoughts were growing angry and another feeling that she couldn't quite place, it was like a mixture of fear, worry, hatred and one other feeling she hadn't felt for someone since high school. Love no it couldn't be she had despised the man less than an hour ago, before that stupid card. Oh shit she had dropped the card in the window of the riot van when she run to the Spider-web bridge. She didn't know why she cared so much about that card but the first thing she would do after this whole 'thing' is get that card. Spider-man looked at her he couldn't help but stare into her deep brown eyes. He kept staring until he heard Captain Stacy's voice over the radio it snapped him out if his daydream, MJ was right he did get distracted, very easily. She looked stubley up and down the hero that stood in front of her. She was scared but not of him, for him. That scared her more, she wanted to tell him not to go, to not do it, to stay here, with her were it was safe(well relatively anyway). She jumped at her radio going of it was Captain Stacy telling them that he, Sam and the two men were ready. Spider-man didn't even say good bye he just ran to the side of the the bridge and started crawling up the outside of one of the cables properly to hide himself from the two super villains. "Come back, please" it was a whisper not loud enough for anybody to hear but it gave her comfort saying it. Quickly she started barking orders at the 21 or so men and women had come anizing them into teams of 3 and to start searching as soon as they hear gunfire. The detective also ordered for one of the soldiers to radio and inform the Major of the situation and the plan, manly so he didn't panic when he heard gunshots and also to be ready to accept wounded .
Spider-man climbed to the top of the structure, peeked over the edge just enough to see. He saw the 2 soldiers laying on top of a green and white van that's side faced the villains, there was what looked like to be some sort of billboard attached to the side, hiding them from the sight of Kraven and Mysterio. Captain Stacy and Sam were crouched down behind overturned SUV. He then looked over to where Jean was she was pointing and talking into to a radio in her hand, looking around Spider-man saw what must have been 7 groups containing 3 people moving and waiting to move further onto the bridge.
It was now or never, Spider-man leaped over the railing and started to drop, aiming for the unsuspecting Kraven. He got about 5ft away from Kraven's head before Mysterio shouted warning Kraven of his impending head injury. At that point the the two Soldiers started to fire at Mysterio, his suit, costume thing of course was bulletproof but each shot, each impact pushed him back and back and back until he brought his arms up in front of his face. Well bowl. Bats those goddamn bats went towards the offending gun fire but Spider-man's instinct to help the two soldiers was cut out by another set of gun shots, the bats may have been a nuisance to him, but for two trained soldiers and two of New York's finest they were no trouble each only taking one shot to blow up. By this time kraven had gotten up. About 10 seconds had passed since the soldier had en gaged Mysterio and Spider-man was determined to capture Kraven in the 20 seconds he said it would take. So he wasted no time and launched his fist towards the genetically altered man, connecting with his jaw, hearing it crack and Kraven drop to his knees. He shot his web shooters at him warping him up, leaving his head uncovered. Kraven looked at what he thought was the real Spider-man, seeing double because of the power of Spider-man's hit. Kraven could have sworn he saw the arachnid smile before all went black. Spider-man had roundhouse kicked him in the side of the face and if his jaw wasn't broken it sure as hell was now. His unconscious body almost flopped off the the roof of the car that Spider-man and he were standing upon and hit the ground like a ton of bricks. 17 seconds he thought to himself, he was momentarily distracted and Mysterio thought that he might creep up on him using the cloaking function that his suit was able to utilize. However Spider-man's Spider sense had different ideas. Both soldiers looked to each other as Mysterio disappeared but their eyes were immediately drawn to the Spider as he punched the weird loin looking man. They both winced at the kick almost feeling the shock wave from where they were, one of the soldier turned round to the other one and said.
"18 seconds." The other soldier looked at him confused.
"What are you talking about." The first soldier sighed.
"It took him 18 seconds to take down Kraven."
"Wow he really did it in under 20 seconds?"
"Yep."
"Can you two see what he is doing ?" The Captain asked over the radio.
"I have know idea sir, are we sure this guy is sane?" The soldier question made Sam laugh and the Captain smacked him over the head, hard but not to hard.
"oww, that hurt." Sam winced at his Captain. The Captain shook his head that the detective the was supposedly one of his best men then answered the soldiers question.
"Yes we are sure he is sane. What exactly is he doing?"
"His jumping around, you know like flipping and punching the air."
"Oh okay we might have to revisit that 'sane' question."The Captain's voice had a little bit of a joking tone but not much of one.
"His fighting Mysterio."
"Jean can you see them?" Sam asked through his radio to join in on the conversation.
"No it is just I heard you guys talking about misterio disappearing then I put 2 and 2 together." She said it in the least condescending tone that she could but c'mon that's just stupid.
"I think I liked it better when they hated each other." Sam said to the Captain who just smiled.
"Hey idiot you are still pressing the talk button." At this point the Captain sniggered and smiled again at the detective. Thinking to himself "one of his best."
"How can he see him and we can't" The soldier question was valid and caused all of them to think.
"Detective Jean is it?" the second soldier asked now joining in on the radio conversation.
"Yeah kinda busy here." She said it while carrying a child in each arm meeting two new paramedics back at the edge of the chasm and the start of the spider-web bridge and handing the two toddlers two them. The Major seemed to have organized some sort of chain. Paramedics first to do a quick check overs then across the makeshift bridge with policemen and firemen stationed regularly across it to help if needed, then a lot more paramedics at the other end.
"Well I thought you might know." She thought about the question not really comprehending it as she was busy waving 2 fireman off the Spider-web bridge to help her take a unconscious women with 2 broken legs across the bridge. When she handed the unconscious women to the fireman she thought about how much death there was and how many people would want Spider-man's head on a platter, she for once, not one of them. She was grateful to see that the severely injured and the children had gone across and just a few stubborn men and women remained refusing to go across until the they had helped the worst go across first. Jean thought back to her first year on the force she was only a beat cop, had been doing the job for 3 months before spider-man showed up. She had joined the police right after… after the memory brought back images and feelings that she had buried long ago. So she jumped back onto her original chain of thought. 18 that is how old she was when she had finished the academy, fast tracked through it and she was the youngest cop in new york. She was brought back out of her reminiscing when she realized what the question that the soldier had asked ment.
"Why would you think I'd know." She tried to say it in a calm tone and was going to wait to kill the soldier later.
"Aren't you two toge..." the soldier stopped as it dawned on him what he was saying."Close." he quickly and almost shouted down the radio trying to draw attention from the word he had nearly used.
"No… god no we are not close, I can't stand the man." she felt her stomach twist when she said it. It wasn't a lie, they were not 'close', however that doesn't mean she didn't want to be.
"Oh Jean that hurts and just as I thought we were getting along." His childish tone coming through the radio she couldn't help but smile. God help her, but she couldn't help it the way he made her feel like a teenager again it was, different she usually went on dates with doctors or lawyers that took everything seriously she guessed it was nice to talk to someone who could crack a joke in the most devastating circumstances.
"Spider-man how did you get a radio?" Sam asked a question that all of them were wondering.
"Guys it is called an earwig catch up with technology."
"How did you get on this channel?" Captain Stacy asked slightly annoyed. Spider-man was easily dodging the attacks of a cloaked Mysterio, still not able to see him his spider sense did all the work as he talked
"Well Captain that is rather complicated…."Spider-man's answer was cut out by a loud shout.
"How are you seeing me you stupid bug." Mysterio was sounding like a lunatic his voice almost cracking that the end.
"Bubbles... Bubbles Bubbles you really are stupid aren't you. I'm a arachnid." Spider-man retorted at the raving lunatic. Jean just smiled at the nick name of the super villain.
"AAAHHH AAAHHH SPIDER-MAN I HATE THAT NAME!!!!" Mysterio now really sounding like he belonged in an institution screamed at Spider-man several times just the phrase "I HATE THAT NAME."
"See Jean I told he hate being called bubbles. Wow… That was close." just as he said and dodged a blow as something else hit Spider-man hard extremely hard and sent him flying towards the two soldiers.
"Spider-man." Jean said worriedly down the radio "Spider-man!" She said it louder this time still no reply she was just about to shout his name into the microphone when she heard his voice and she felt her leg go week, she was relieved, scared. Is what it felt like to see someone you care about risk their lives for other people, oh god she hated the feeling and hoped that if she ever did wake up tomorrow the feelings will be gone and she will never have to feel that helpless again.
"Jean you know calling my name like that kinda makes me think that…" He was cut off again this time she could hear a choking sound over the radio and this time she really did shout his name, attracting the attention of the rest of the soldiers waiting for the civilians to go across before they did, as the last thing they wanted is for the Spider-web bridge to give into the weight.
"Hey Bubbles" The now visible Mysterio looked up to the soldier standing in the top of the van that he had thrown Spider-man into and was now pinning him and straggling him against.
"AAAHHH" Mysterio cried as heard that nickname once again.
"Uh"cough-cough "it is catching on." Spider-man said while still being strangled. The soldier smirked at Spider-man's quip and smashed the butt of his rifle down on the the mans fishbowl of a head not breaking it but causing him to stumble backwards, he let go of a still somehow breathing Spider-man who backflipped and kicked him landing in his signature crouched position it sent Mysterio back into a car though. Both soldiers opened fire on the the guy with a purple cape putting at least a 30 round magazine each into the man plus a few pistol rounds from Sam and the Captain. Mysterio fell to his knees as Spider-man walked over to him, brought his fist up and smashed it down the man's fish bowl shaped helmet braking it and showing a now unconscious black hired man.
Jean left the side of the chasm looking over the Spider-web bridge, she was overseeing the safe rescue of the trapped people but as soon as the last soldier went across she ran in the direction if the gun fire. She arrived around the side of the van just as Spider-man was walking over to a weak and disabled Mysterio, Jean looked back at the van the dent that Spider-man had made an and it would have killed an ordinary man. Her head shot back to Spider-man when she heard a smashing sound. She watched as Mysterio's helmet broke into a thousand pieces, Jean, the two soldiers, Sam and the Captain were stunned by the show of power of the arachnid. He turned and let the unconscious Mysterio fall to the ground, he silently walked over to the two soldiers who were currently getting down from the van and started to speak to them Jean couldn't quite make out what he was saying but she was sure it was a thank you. Sam and the Captain were jogging over to the School bus, it was still sealed shut with some sought of hydraulic clap and from what the Captain and Sam could see the Sinister 7 had really wanted theses kids in there and for them to stay there. Sam tried pulling the doors but the clamp did not budge. They both looked back to see Jean jogging over, Spider-man and the two soldier were also jogging but were still talking to one another. When Spider-man got to the bus door he saw how heavily sealed it was it was and the three cops were talking discussing something about a hydraulic jack. He sighed and put his hands on either door and pushed. He could hear and see one of the hydraulic clamps arms crack he pushed harder and through the window could see two boys about ten years old do the same. He then felt a hand rest on his. He followed the arm up to a face, a face that make him simile deeply, he turned back and with some extra strength where he got it he had no idea but he had it and in one swift push the door bent and flew open causing the kids to look at the broken robotic arms on the floor. Spider-man and Jean looked at them Jean a little more closely mostly wondering how they they had gotten there. She shook her head that wasn't the priority right now the children were, she quickly and calmly ushered them off the bus and lead them in a line towards the spider-web bridge. Two questions were floating around Detective DeWolff's head the first one being how was going to get 25 terrified kid so scared that the younger ones were already huddling around the teacher, who was barely holding up her self? The other was where was Spidey?
As the group turned the corner and by corner I mean overturned van she got her answer. To both questions. She smiled as she saw him standing there in a gymnist finishing pose. She looked past him to the Spider-web bridge, what was once a netting now had no holes, the once open sides now had a barrier of netted webbing and there was no visible swaying, attached to the the netted barriers were lengths of webbing connecting to the real bridge. The kids could see the paramedics waving them over and with their teacher leading they all crossed all bar one a girl, no older than 5 was standing at the edge of the Spider-web bridge looking worriedly at it. Spider-man looked at her and walked over and once the rest of the kids were across and accounted for he walked casually on to the Spider-web bridge while taking out his unsurprisingly spent web cartridges and replacing them. Then he started jumping up and down on the bridge of his own creation until the little girl smiled and ran across the whole thing not at a fast pace but still she was smiling. Jean smiled to at the sight of Spider-man, a man who just defeated a half a dozen of super villains and rescued easily over 100 people from imminent death, goofily jump up and down on a bridge just to make a scared little girl simile and have enough courage to cross it.
Walking back to where Jean and the other two policemen were standing, he watched her smile making him smile underneath his mask.
"What?" Spider-man asked as if nothing happened. Jean sniggered shaking her head and replied.
"Nothing…" sniggering at the image once again "Absolutely nothing." She couldn't help it but she had the biggest smile on her face. The two others were just giggling like kids. Spider-man sighed and spoke up feeling the need to defend himself.
"I was trying to show to her that it was safe…" When the so called mature policemen still didn't stop laughing he carried on defending himself. "If it made her smile…" He looked around again and realised there wasn't anything that he could do to stop them so he decided to change the subject. "so where the cat and mouse duo gone to?" He asked hoping to get them off this subject and far far away from it.
The Captains laughter was the first to stop.
"Who?" His face was filled with confusion and curiosity, the other two turned at the sound of the Captain speaking. Spider-man thanking his lucky stars that had worked, all he was trying to do was get the little girl to safety, he had to admit though it properly was quite a funny sight.
"The Soldiers, their names are Tom and Jerry." He said it as if it was the the most obvious connection in the world. Jean tried to think of the names, she had heard them before but couldn't get the connection. Jean was about to ask Spider-man about the link when the two in question walked round the corner.
"Hey guys a little help here" Jerry the smaller one and frankly the smarter one asked with an over exaggerated look of exhaustion. Both him and Tom were dragging a car bonnet with some metal cable with two very unconscious bad guys laid down on top.
"Fish blow and Scar here are very heavy." Jerry added, Jean smirked getting the Lion King Reference. She and Sam walked over to help drag the bonnet while The Captain was now getting orders or something over the radio.
"Need a hand?" Sam asked with a cheesy grin on his face.
"Please"Tom voice was quite over the sound of him breathing but it was calm. All four started to drag the car bonnet to the Spider-web bridge.
"What's up?" Jerry asked at Jean in a suspicious tone.
"Nothing why ?" Jerry frowned at the reply. Jean was knocked out of her thoughts by the smaller of the two soldiers and had to reply and just went for what in a innocent tone.Jerry then tried to justify his question.
"You were looking at me weirdly like you were trying to figure something out." His tone was questioning and she didn't seem the harm in asking him what was on her mind.
"Why did Spider-man refer to you two…" She pointed at Tom who was listening in on conversation."As the cat and mouse duo?" For some reason it really bugged her not knowing what he meant she just guessed it was the investigator in her.
"Ummm…no idea to be honest." She just nodded figuring that she would just ask Spider-man to explain it.
"Tom and Jerry are cat and mouse from a cartoon that that has been running since the time of black and white, it is a classic I still watch it when I am channel flicking." Out of nowhere Sam answered the question. She nodded at him making a mental to maybe watch a episode. It was not heavy with the four of them dragging it, she thought it was actually quite a good idea of the two soldiers.
"What do you think those two were talking about?" Sam question was a valid one, they past Spider-man and the Captain talking about a minute ago and as they were now securing Mysterio with handcuffs and waiting to take them across the now very safe Spider-web bridge. She looked up at Spider-man and saw him fire a web and swing away, she hate the fact that her mind jumped to the realization that he didn't say goodbye.
"Jean, Sam why haven't you gone across yet?"
"Sorry Cap but the Major wants us to wait until the next Prisoner transport gets here. Something about them waking up in the middle of a bunch of civilians. I mean seriously did you see how hard Spider-man hit them, it was like watching a meteor hitting a house made of paper! " The Captain frowned at the male detective and then looked at the female member of his team.
"Jean are you alright?"
"Uh, yeah just I think that today is catching up on me." She looked down at the two criminals turned mass murderers. She thought about how many people they had managed to save, thanks to Spider-man of course she really did have him wrong. However, a lot of people still died.