15 year old Peter Parker had been 6 years old when his parents died from a plane crash, he had moved in with his Aunt May and uncle Ben in their apartment in Queens. He was a smart gifted boy who liked science and superheroes.
He didn't have a lot of friends and most of the other kids picked on him, especially an older kid called Flash Thompson. He did have a few friends like an older boy called Eddie Brock who ended up moving away and a girl called Courtney Whitmore who moved away when they were 10 when her parents got divorced.
Just a month ago he was attending this public science demonstration of genetically altered creatures on a weekend at the local STAR Labs; however unbeknownst to everyone a spider escaped and had bitten him on the neck.
When he got home he felt ill and his Aunt and uncle made him go to bed early. When he got up he felt much better. He found to his surprise his could walk faster and jump higher than normal. He felt stronger as well and he actually found himself being able to literally climb up walls. Plus he felt some sort of danger sense before trouble.
Feeling glee upon discovering he had gotten actual super powers he then found himself deciding to fashion himself a costume out of a red full face mask, goggles, fingerless gloves, a red hooded jumper he had cut the sleeves of and had a spider sewed on it, a light blue shirt to go under it, blue track bottoms and red boots.
However one day soon he found a couple of armed men robbing the local deli and was feeling scared so he stayed away, upon getting home he was faced with the sight of having police officers having told his now distraught Aunt May some bad news.
That incident at the deli, the robbers were arrested but not before shooting a customer who was getting the other ones out when he thought the robbers were not looking...
At his Uncle Ben's funeral he swore he would take his powers a lot more seriously and would use the responsibility to help people in his uncle's memory.
It had been a month since then and it was a Friday afternoon with him having jsut been finished school, Aunt May had texted him saying she had to work late at the hospital she worked as a nurse at.
Sneaking into an alleyway he had changed into his costume and put on his twin wrest devices to shoot out a web like substance he created a mixture off, he had a lot of gadgets he made from leftover broken old gadgets from second hand stores. The web allowed him to sling away and as a weapon.
He had been going out rescuing people from accidents and finding small criminals to catch, it was taken some time getting used to but there were people that know of him from videos posted onto YouTube by onlookers. He was going by Spider-Man.
He had an app to listen to the radio podcasts of Just the Facts; it was hosted by millionaire owner of the Daily Bugle newspaper. He was a harsh critic of costumed Superheroes especially Spider-Man. He listened to it:
"Once again we hear that stupid masked menace Spider-Man interfering in work best left to those with badges! That lunatic is going to get him and others hurt, killed or worst! This is not Gotham City or even Metropolis, don't need some clown dressing up for Halloween!"
"How would I ever go about my day without the praise of my biggest fan Jameson?" Peter asked himself with a smirk. Peter then climbed up to the top of the nearby building to get a view of the streets. He then saw some sort of book van being chased by police cars and someone from the back of the van was shooting at the police cars.
"Okay so are the police declaring war on literature or something? Better check this out?" Peter said to himself as he then jumped off and then began web slinging after them.
15 year old Courtney Whitmore was used to disappointment. Her parents Barbara and Samuel were always arguing about something involving her dad; it was often when she found them talking to police officers. Her dad was terrible at making commitments and she had trouble counting on him.
She had a friend to rely on at least, this nerdy boy called Peter parker. There was another boy called Eddie but he moved away. However she felt she could confide in him about her parent's issues and she would help him when he was being bullied for being a nerd. She more often than not had to have a talk with her mother when she got violent in dealing with bullies.
They would share comic books together, he would gush about the Teen Titans (Cyborg actually being his favorite Superhero) and he would get excited whenever there was a report on the TV about Superman flying over New York. They would share their comic books especially, with her being in love with the Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew comics.
However when she was 10 she learned her dad had been arrested and her parents had gotten divorced. Her mother was taken her to move to Blue Valley. She was crying when she had that final goodbye to Peter.
In the 5 years since then she mostly stayed to herself, making fun of the jocks and popular kids at her school. Her mother had started seeing this mechanic turned engineer called Pat Dugan; he was nice to her but she paid him little attention; she was keeping to herself as usual. She was not prepared when the day came when they called for her to tell her that they were actually getting married.
She could not beleive it up to the wedding itself, Pat had become her stepfather but she was not happy about it. She was not keen on getting anymore father figures after her own dad. Pat had gotten a transfer to a facility in Queens, New York. They were moving back to New York and she was fine with it, there was not much for her in Blue Valley anyway.
She was silent in the ride in the moving van, "It's a chance to start over in your old hometown Courtney, a new start for all of us..." Pat had been telling her but the van had been stopped. They went out to see a police blockade, Courtney was curious enough to go take a closer look before Barbara and Pat could stop her.
As close as to where the police would allow the public to go Courtney was there, she spotted the Spider-Man figure form YouTube. She glanced at a view of the videos of the lunatic. He seemed to be fighting masked guys with guns in front of a book van.
He seemed to be dodging their bullet fire with little effort, he was using web from his wrists to disarm the men and then knocking them out with kicks. One of them was saying that Spider-Man would pay for messing with the forces of the Bookworm.
The Bookworm? Was that supposed to be a criminal mastermind behind these guys, sounds like the name of a bad guy form a campy 60s show.
Spider-Man looked like he was going to question the guys on this Bookworm guy but then the police officers told him that they will handle this. One of them was shouting at Spider-Man for interfering in matters for the police, that they were going to have to bring him in.
Spider-Man just web slinged away in the middle of the rant from the police officer.
Courtney had a bit of a smile, after 5 years of nothing much happening in Blue Valley, it was pretty cool to see something like this. Barbara ushered her back to the moving van, "So do you like costumed heroes Courtney?" Pat asked and Courtney actually gave him a bit of a smile.
"Seems nuts what they do but exciting." Courtney had told him and Pat looked like he was hiding something.
Soon enough they were to their new house and Courtney had helped unpack the boxes. Barbara and Pat were in the kitchen and Courtney was going to her new room when she ended up tripping over a large box. She looked and saw it was a forgotten box of pat's stuff.
She ended up seeing some sort of blue costume inside with white star patterns and a shiny red belt. "Is this one of your old Halloween costumes Pat..." Courtney muttered to herself taking a look at it. She also spotted a shiny electronic looking belt and a guitar case that opened up. Inside was some sort of golden staff that looked like it was drawing her. She picked it up and suddenly several blasts came from the staff striking the top of the stairs leaving a mark.
She was speechless and in awe, "What is this junk and how did you get your hands on these?" Courtney muttered thinking she could hide away this stuff to take closer look. But first she had to clean up the top of the stairs before Pat or Barbara noticed the marks...
Some of the backstory I used in DC's Spider-Man and hopefully I can get to this one regularly. After my Spidey X Stargirl oneshot I decided I wanted to do a full story especially since Stargirl is getting her own DC Universe show (though it will probably come to Netflix here in the UK since we don't have the app here). I have the Stars and Stripes volumes paperback and I will be taken some liberties with both source materials like how they would adapt the comics into shows or films.
Plus I saw Captain Marvel yesterday, enjoyed it and the early reactions were right, Goose stole the movie.
