Chapter 1
New York City; busy and noisy with the sounds of car honking due to traffic jams and late afternoon traffic with everyone trying to get home from a long day's work. The silent thwips of webs crossing the buildings as the friend neighborhood Spider-Man does his patrol. The air was a clean as it was going to get for as high up Spider-Man was swinging. The large jumbo screen television was on and J. Jonah Jameson was on screaming about Spider-Man. "Spider-Man is ruining this good city. Even joining the Avengers he is going to be a blight on that team." Spidey just rolled his eye under his mask. He really wished JJ would just quit his day job and find something better to do with his time. Spider-Man swung to a nearby roof building take a break. Spidey relaxed his shoulders and his head. As if right on cue his wrist communicator went off, it was S.H.I.E.L.D, to be more specific it was Nick Fury.
"Spider-Man you are needed. It seems your team has their hands full with Doc Ock over at Stark Labs," started Nick Fury, "So get your spider butt over there ASAP."
"On it, Fury. Spidey out," replied Spider-Man turning off his communicator. He shot of his web and thought so much for relaxing. He then imagines himself getting a massage to relax his spider body. That would be nice. Spider-Man shook his head to get back into focus as he shot another web. "I wonder what Doc Ock is up to anyways? Why would he be crazy enough to steal from Tony Stark Labs again?" he spoke to himself. Spidey then spotted his team fighting it out with Doc Ock seeing he was trying to steal himself some kind of technology. Power man threw his punches trying to knock the doctor off his balance. Iron Fist and Nova using both energy blast and chi punches to distract him. Awhile white tiger trying to reclaim the tech that Doc Ock took from Stark Labs. Spider-Man swung himself over and shot out one his electro webs to shock the Octopus.
"You guys started to the party without me," said Spider-Man.
"Fury gave order and you were half way across the city patrolling. We happened to be closer," replied White Tiger. "But we could use your help to play keep away." White tiger manage to get the tech away from Doc Ock and tossed it at Spider-Man.
"Give it back your pesky worms," yelled Doc Ock.
"No but here is a knuckle sandwich just for you," said Power man doing a powerful uppercut to Doc Ock chin and knocking him out. Spider-Man then used his webbing to tie up the eight armed villain and called in the back up the left overs.
"So what do you think he wanted with that tech?" ask Iron Fist.
"Not sure it looks like a part he probably needed to continue his experiments with venom. It is part of a harmonic device," said Spidey examining the device. The helicarrier showed up and all of the shield agents dropped out to make sure the Octopus could not get away. Spider-Man tossed the tech over to a shield agent. "Better keep this for safe keeping," said Spider-Man to the S.H.E.I.L.D agent. "Yes sir," he replied.
"Good job team," said Nick Fury. "Now take five and we will take it from here."
"Yes Sir," they all replied.
Loki was bored-plain and simple. There was nothing for him to do except for mope around his throne room in Jötunheimr. His servants were all busy doing whatever it was that they did on a day-to-day basis. He already teased a few of them out of boredom but that didn't really help with relieving said boredom. He needed something entertaining. He grinned evilly, knowing exactly what to do.
He picked up a small remote and aimed it into thin air. Within a few moments, a picture appeared where he pointed at one of the various villains that Spider-man battled on a weekly basis. Doctor Octopus seemed to be doing nothing at the moment and this was Loki's chance to get revenge on that web-slinger and perhaps on another person as well. Killing two birds with one stone would be entertaining for him.
With a wave of his hand, he magicked the man and leaned back to watch the entertainment unfold. After a few minutes of watching Doc Ock break into Stark Labs, he expected spider-man to show up but instead a bunch of teenagers in suits barged in.
He frowned angrily at the picture. Why didn't spider-man show up? He debated turning off the picture but decided that this was better than nothing. Gloomily, he watched until spider-man finally showed up only to take away the tech that Doc Ock stole, let one of his so-called friends punch out the villain, and then tie him up for SHIELD to take care of him.
Punching his throne armrest, he got to his feet. If he wanted something done right, he would have to do it himself.
A few hours had passed since the fight and Spider-Man decided to head home for the night. He has a paper to write for history on WWII and it was only about a third of a half way done. He web slung through the building tops of New York making his way home. His head tingled and he turned his head to see what was causing his spidey senses to go off. Nothing, he shrugged a bit. "Must have been a bird," he said to himself. Then it went off again. It must be one big bird then he thought to himself hoping the bird wasn't trying to poop on him as web slung to a roof to get a good view of what is setting off his spidey senses.
Loki landed gracefully as a large red-tailed hawk in a tree nearby spider-man's place of residence. It was easy to follow the web-slinger back to his place of residence as long as he stayed just barely outside of the web-slinger's area of spider-sense. He knew that would have to wait a while until the teenager went to bed for the night. He was used to spending long periods of time in animal form. He could wait a few hours. That was nothing compared to nine months as a mare. Hunching a little bit, he dozed for a bit. The flight to the web-slinger's apartment wore him out a little bit.
Spider-Man shook off the spidey sense as he just saw a bird flew by. He guessed it was just trying to get around him hunting prey. Spider-Man shot off another web and arrived home at his Aunt May's house. Thankfully she was out on a Hawaiian vacation trip and wasn't going to be home anytime soon or at least till next week. Spider-Man landed on the rooftop and climbed down into his room. "Whew today was long and boring day. Not much fun fight crime just Doc Ock doing his normal thing," he said to himself. Spidey pulled off his mask and scratched his head. His hair was a mess and sweaty. He hated that gross feeling after being in his costume all day and smelling like the gym bag he hates to wash from school. He lifted up his arm and smelled his arm pit, "Whew I need a shower." He took off his Spider-Man uniform and headed for the bathroom to take his shower. A long hot shower and get the funk off him.
Loki waited a few minutes until he got bored. He was sure he would be able to wait out until the teenager went to bed. Grumbling to himself, he flew to the roof of the web-slinger's place of residence and turned back into him human body. He slunk into the same window that spider-man did and found himself in the teenager's room. He frowning slightly as he turned into a mouse and wandered around the room for a few minutes until he heard the shower water turn on. Sneakily, he quietly wandered into the room and magicked the water to turn ice cold. He waited for the result of his trickery.
"Oh Shit," screamed Peter as he jumped out of the shower and grabbing his towel to wrap himself up. Thankfully he had spider powers which kept him from slipping. "The water heater must be acting up. I have to take a look at it later. Brrrr," said Peter as he turned off the shower and headed to his room. Peter quickly dried himself off and changed into some street clothes which was that of a t-shirt and some jeans. He then sat on his bed and grabbed his laptop to finish his homework. "Guess I got to finish this otherwise Aunt May might take away my super hero responsibilities," he laughed at the thought of her grounding Spider-Man. He kept his secret life hidden thus far from Aunt May. Peter gave a loud yawn and felt really drowsy. "A quick power nap should be okay," he said to himself as he lay back on his bed with his laptop on his lap. He closed his eyes and slowly drifted off to sleep.
Loki quickly avoided the big feet of the teenager as he ducked behind the base of the toilet. He counted to a hundred twice before he wandered out of the bathroom and into the teenager's room. He noticed that the teenager had fallen asleep and he rubbed his tiny little paws. Carefully, he climbed up onto the bed and crawled over to the big feet that he had avoided earlier. He rubbed his tiny head against the web-slinger's feet for a few moments before jumped away a few inches.
Peter felt something fuzzy on his bare foot. He opened his eyes and lifted his upper torso up. He moved his laptop and spy a tiny little mousy. "What the," he started to say. "How did you get in here?" Peter trying not to startle the mouse slowly grabbed his web shooter and placed it on his wrist. "I can't have Aunt May find you in here. Otherwise you won't see another tomorrow little guy." He took aim at the mouse and prepared to fire his webs to catch the critter.
Squeaking quite loudly for a small mouse, Loki scurried off of the bed and tried to find a hiding spot. He spotted the dresser and scurried underneath it. 'Note to self: never tickle a foot of sleeping human again,' he thought to himself. 'Another note to self: find a better form to turn into while doing this sort of work or get a lackey to do it for me.' He didn't dare come out from his hiding spot. He slowly made his way to the back of the dresser until he found the wall. He pressed himself against it, wondering if the web-slinger knew where his hiding spot was.
"Here Mousy, Mousy, Mousy," said Peter as he notice the mouse quickly darted off. He felt like Elmer Fudd looking for Bugs Bunny except with no shot gun. He got off his bed and onto the ground. He lifted up the sheet and blank of his bed to see if the mouse had scampered underneath it. "Nope not here." He then crawled over to his desk, which was messy as well, no mouse their either. "Where is a cat when you need one," said Peter to himself. As he was about to give up his communicator watch went off. Peter got off the floor and picked up his communicator. It was Nick Fury, "Spider-Man. You are needed back at the helicarrier. It seems Thor is looking for Loki on Earth again and we are calling in all agents."
Peter nodded at Fury's request. 'Damn and I wasn't even done with my paper', he thought to himself. Peter then quickly put on his Spider-Man gear to get ready. He knew he was going to need another shower after this. "Hey Mousy when I get back you better be packed and ready to go." Spiderman finished putting on his costume and opened the window to feel the cold breeze of the late night air on his mask. It was a refreshing. He put one foot on the window sill and his spider sense began to tingle.
Loki could feel his tiny body shaking as the footsteps kept getting closer and closer to his hiding spot. All of a sudden a weird noise filled the air and he could hear a voice that the web-slinger was talking to come out of what seemed like thin air. He crept closer to the other end of the dresser and heard that his brother was looking for him.
'Great, Thor is looking for me so that means he knows that I was behind the whole scandal at Stark Labs,' he thought to himself. Sighing he waited until he thought the web-slinger was gone to come out of his hiding spot. He realized his mistake when he spotted the web-slinger still on the window sill. Quickly, he tried to scurry out into the hallway to make a clean getaway.
Spider-Man turned his head and spotted the mouse. "There you are!" he exclaimed. He saw the mouse was trying to get to the hallway through his open door. "Oh no, you are not getting away this time," said Spider-Man as he shot off his webs and caught the tip of the mouse's tail barely. "Gottcha." He pulled on the webbing and started to drag the mouse closer to him. This mouse was strong.
'By Odin's beard, this web-slinger is starting to get really annoying,' Loki thought to himself. He dug his tiny claws into the wood floor to try and escape the wed-slinger's web-grasp. 'Oh, screw it. It isn't like he is going to be strong enough to carry me back to my brother. But there is that little voice that told him to find me. Not sure where that voice went to but at least I can distract that teenager long enough for me to get the heck out of here.'
He quickly transformed into a large dog and lunged himself at spider-man. Almost instantly, he turned himself into a large hawk and, without knowing that the web was still on him (this time on a talon-foot), he flung himself out of the open window and tried to fly away.
"Loki!" he exclaimed. Spider-Man could feel the strength of the hawk pull at him as it flew out his window and he was going too. Spider-Man screamed as he was being carried away by the hawk. He had to bring this bird down and he shot a web at a building roof top to make it an anchor. "Time to cancel this flight," he said pulling on the web on the talon of the hawk. "You're ground Loki. No Airline miles for you."
"Do you really think that is going to work, boy?" Loki sneered at spider-man. "You clearly are forgetting who you are dealing with." He gave the web a tug with his talon-foot in hopes that it might snap. It didn't so Loki had to turn to plan B. He swooped down low to the ground and turned into a giant white wolf.
"Really, Loki," started Spider-Man shooting his webs trying to immobilizing the giant wolf, "why not fight me like a man instead of being a mutt of a dog. Should I call the dog pound already?" Spider-Man then leaped over the large wolf and landed on Loki's backside. Spider-Man grabbed on to his fur like he was in a rodeo. 'This is probably not the best idea I had,' he thought to himself holding onto Loki's fur.
"Your insolence will not save you now, web-slinger," Loki snarled at spider-man. He grunted as the web-slinger landed on his back like someone would ride a horse. He would not tolerate this teenager for much longer. His patience had already worn thin by now and with the news of Thor looking for him, he had to get away as quickly as he could before any of the Avengers found him. He tried to shake off the teenager but came up with a better plan.
His eyes glowed a light green color as he changed shape again. "I curse you, web-slinger. I CURSE YOU!" he yelled at spider-man, causing the teenager to glow the same green color as Loki transformed into a dragon. The webs snapped instantly and within moments both glows were gone and Loki flew away from spider-man with no destination in mind.
Spider-Man was pushed off the scaly dragon Loki and was smashed into rooftop wall. Bricks from the collision landed on top of him and Spider-Man started to loose consciousness. The bricks shifted and from he could make out his hand started to change shape and a pain ripped through his body. It felt like his body was being twisted and turned into something not naturally his human shape. He could hear the tear of his costume as the thread gave way as he began to change. Spider-Man moaned and finally gave into the unconscious state he had fallen into from the pain. As he slept the human shape of his body melted away, as a new monstrous shape took hold. His hands replaced with three finger claws and new arms formed from his ribcage. A grey like fur grew in place of his natural brown hair all over his body. The once human features on his face were now showing more of an arachnid features with fangs and extra eyes. Spider-Man's mask flown away as a strong breeze of the morning carried it off to a faraway place.
Hours past and the young teen slowly stirred from his slumber. "Ouch…my head," said Spider-Man. He stopped for a moment as his voiced seemed distorted as if he had a bad cold or worse smoke a cigar his whole life. Something else was wrong he was seeing everything from different angles. He looked down at his hands. 'Six hands! What did he do to me,' thought the Spider-Man to himself. He was officially freaked out. This wasn't normal, hell his whole life wasn't normal, but still this was far past normal. The teenager pulled himself out of the rubble and tried to stand up but started to topple over due to lose of balance. His claw like feet weren't very easy to balance on. As Spider-Man stumble he fell off the roof and screamed all the way down. He landed in an open trashcan bin in an alley way. The rubbish of the garbage flew everywhere as he landed in it. The lid closed on him making it pitch dark inside. 'This has to be the worse day ever,' thought Spider-man to himself, 'worse than the time he turned me into a pig and worse than picture day.'
Spider-Man peeked out of the garbage can to make sure no one was around. "Whew good no one to see me," he said to himself. The voice was something he couldn't shake the eeriness. Spider-Man crawled out of the garbage can and heard something break under his claw like foot. It was a piece of glass. With one hand on the garbage can he bent down to pick up the piece with one of his extra arms and looked into the glass to see his reflection. It wasn't the handsome face he was born with. It was a monstrous arachnid face. He screamed but it sounded like a roaring screech echoing through the alley way.