Spider's Favourite Blogger
Later chapters will contain spoilers for the Amazing Spider-Man 2 which opened here in the UK early (really liked it). I will use some information taken from the TASM2's viral Daily Bugle Tumblr site. Also we were never told if Missy was her real name or nickname so i assumed it was a nickname. Thanks to one of my friends on this side Aspiringactor for betaing this first chapter.
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Wow, what a rollercoaster the last few weeks have been, right? Something's clearly going on in the criminal underworld. Something or someone had got them running scared. The rumoured masked 'Big Man' was caught by none other than New York's own Spider-Man!
The "Big Man", was tied up in webs to a lamp post and it turned out to be famed Daily Bugle reporter Frederick Foswell. How did such a famous reporter who spent a few decades reporting the truth turned to a life of crime?
Mr Foswell went quietly when he was pulled down and confessed that he was indeed the Big Man that had been pulling strings with the crime families. He also confirmed it was indeed our friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man who had found him.
And yet the NYPD still thinks of Spider-man as a criminal! Wake up, people! Does a criminal go around stopping bank robbers? Does he catch falling people? No! Give the guy a break! (If not a medal)
Until next time!
While watching on her laptop in the outside of the school Melissa 'Missy' Kallenback smiled at the latest update of her fanblog that she had posted just last night. She loved reading stories of the famed vigilante that was known as Spider-Man, she started her blog after the incident with the Lizard on Oscorp Tower wanting to spread the word of her idol. This entry had about five thousand views so far already.
Missy was an unpopular girl at her school due to not being very social and mainly stuck to volunteer work; she was often the target of ridicule by bullies but people started to be nicer to her. But still, it was nice to know that some people out there paid attention to her digital voice.
"Nice blog Missy." Said popular girl Sally Avril with a smile as he tapped Missy lightly on the shoulder, out of the popular people at Midtown, Sally was the nicest and was not above being polite to nerds when she needed to ask them for a favour. Even if that favour was to tutor her in Math, or, on occasion, her boyfriend Flash.
Putting her laptop away in her bag she got up and was walking out when she bumped into a blonde girl, "Sorry Gwen..." Missy said apologetically at the beautiful, if slightly geeky smart girl.
"Don't worry about it Missy." Gwen laughed as she walked off and was now talking to the tall Peter Parker making her feel a tad jealous. Peter Parker had been unpopular like she is but had once stuck up for her when the school bully Eugene "Flash" Thompson had been rude to her after his basketball knocked over a school banner she was working on. Since then Missy has had a huge crush on the skateboard riding science nerd.
It was not long after that when she heard from her step father who had worked in the New York Police Department that Peter's uncle Ben Parker had been murdered when he tried to stop an armed robber, she could not believe that such a brave person who had stuck up for her had to deal with losing a close loved one. It would take days before she had gotten the courage to walk up to him and tell him that she was sorry for what had happened and he responded "it's okay..."
The taller boy was both handsome and smart but unfortunately it seemed that he was already taken by Gwen Stacy, Missy did not held it against Gwen since she was never rude to mean to her and he could not blame Peter for going after someone who was both beautiful and just as smart as her. Also she did feel sorry for her when her police father (who had been one of her step dad's superiors) was killed in Spider-Man's last battle with the Lizard. Still if they ever unofficially broke up she could try getting the courage to try asking him out.
When she arrived outside at the end of the day she sighed when she spotted a goofy looking brown haired man in a brown trench coat with a white shirt and red tie waiting for her outside of a police car.
"Come on then Missy!" the man greeted as he opened the back door of his police car to let Missy in so he could drive them home. She had known this man when he married her mum when she was eight, two years after her biological dad died in an accident.
This man was her step father Martin Soap a detective in the NYPD. Martin was a bumbling clumsy man who always meant well. She heard that he was the butt of jokes in the NYPD and the victim of pranks.
"Saw your blog Missy, okay but I still think you need to choose your heroes more carefully." Martin told Missy gently and Missy sighed: when Captain George Stacy had issued that warrant for the arrest of Spider-Man after the incident on the bridge with the Lizard, Martin had joined the task force that had been charged with capturing Spider-Man.
Martin had looked up to George Stacy and after his death he tried to take his place as the leader of the fight to arrest Spider-Man only to be laughed off by his fellow NYPD officers. He did not really approve of Missy looking up to Spider-Man but her mum convinced him to let her choose who she looks up to.
After getting home her brown haired mother (who wore glasses similar to her daughter's) Sarah Kallenback-Soap told Missy and Martin that she had ordered take out for their dinner tonight.
Missy went up to her room and took her laptop back out, her walls filled with newspaper and magazine clippings and headlines of various articles relating to Spider-Man, she was even a member of the Midtown High's Spider-Man fan club which was headed by Flash who had tone down on picking on others since actually showing sympathy to Peter when his uncle died, so it showed missy that even someone like Flash had to have some decency in them.
On her email her drafts folder was full of drafts that were her practicing what she would try to say to Peter to ask her out if he and Gwen ever broke out. Suddenly she saw that she got a new email message and she could not believe it when she saw it was from the Daily Bugle, from one of the reporters Eddie Brock. She opened it up:
Ms Kallenback
Most of us at Daily Bugle, myself included are fans of your blog and we want to speak with you after your graduation for a possible internship here at the Daily Bugle offices...
That was when Missy stopped reading for a second as she felt all giddy and excited.