SCOPE

Author's note:

So hi guys! This story is based on the original COMIC, so the fiction will be in a sort of script format. If you have any question about any particular of the story line, just ask! I'm a sort of encyclopedia about Spidey!

Ah, almost forgot: I'm italian, so forgive my eventual grammar errors. I'm so sorry 'bout it!

Story's Background:

So, just to let you know (if you didn't already), this story starts a month after the end of the Clone's Saga.

This means Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson are still married, even if their marriage is passing through a crisis, because MJ's starting to feel lonely and she's afraid that Peter needs Spider-man much more than her.

This also means that Dock Ock is dead, killed by Kaine (Spidey's first, faulty clone), and that Ben Reilly (Spidey second, perfect clone) is dead, too, killed by a Norman Osborn (alias Green Goblin) back to the land of the living.

These infos are very important to understand the events of my fanfic.

And now, enough with the introductions (I can almost hear you screaming "hooray").

Enjoy the reading!

Chapter 1

"The voice"

Mary Jane Watson got back home at 22.13 , tired and sleepy, but proud of herself. Her new job as a top-model was giving her a lot of satisfaction and - of course - money, so much money that she could now afford a new luxurious flat in Middletown, where she lived with her husband Peter Parker and his aunt, May Parker.

But sometimes it felt like she lived in that flat with only aunt May, since Peter was never home.

As she opened the door, she saw the old May sleeping on the sofa, in front of the TV which was syntonized on a documentary about monkeys.

She turned the TV off, very carefull not to wake the old woman, and moved to her own bedroom.

The double bed was terribly untidy, and a few man's clothes were on it. Noone was in the room.

MJ (talking to herself): "Oh Pete, couldn't you put the bedroom in order, from time to time?"

MJ staied on the doorway of the room, like undecided about what to do.

MJ: "Ok, this time I'll do it, but this is the last time!"

Then she silently started to tidy the bed up.

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In the meanwhile, Spider-man was swinging in his unique style between New York's sky-scrapers, thinking about the events which occurred in his life recently.

Spider-man (in his mind): 'I can't believe that when finally Dock Ock was converting to the hero's side, he has been killed... But it wasn't Kaine's fault, neither... He was only trying to protect me. I should have told him... As always, it's all my fault.'

Spidey jumped from a roof, free falling until he almost touched the roof of another smaller building. Then he span a web which hit the wall of a close sky-scraper, remaining attached to it and allowing the hero to boost higher into Manatthan's night sky.

Spider-man: 'How many people died because of me? Gwen Stacy and her father, Ben Reilly, Harry... And now Dock Ock!'

The wall-crawler reached the top of a very tall building, than jumped, reaching an incredible height thanks to the muscles of his legs, which had the proportional strenght of a spider.

The boost of adrenaline due to the jump made him scream, amused as always.

Spider-man: 'No. Come on, Spidey, stop blaming yoursef! Every time you gave everything you got! Instead, think about how many lifes you saved! You saved JJJ's ass how many times? twenty? fourty? And all those people you saved without even knowing their name?'

Another web, and Spider-man reaches an even higher altitude

Spider-man : ' I'd need something to do to make me busy, so I wouldn't be wasting my time by thinking about the same old stuff over and over! Uh?'

Spider-man landed on a roof, thoughtfull.

Spider-man: "Maybe my prayers have been heard by Someone: my spider-sense is stinging..."

Spidey looked around, trying to locate the direction of the menace which had alerted him, but finding nothing. Then a sudden "BOOM" toward the East Side gave him the "clue" he was looking for. He moved in that direction as fast as he could - and it was very fast, since he could swing at 1,126 km/h (that is about 700 miles an hour!).

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In the meantime, three masked robbers, armed with guns (Beretta 96 Combat Combo), were coming out of a bank, each one carrying a bag full of money on his back. A fourth one was waiting for them in a black van.

Robber #1: "Damn, Robbie, I told you to be carefull with the explosive!"

Robber #2 (Robbie): "The safe was really resistant, Stan! It was a "Goria" model, I had to use the C4..."

Robber in the van: "Hurry Guys! The police will arrive soon, thanks to Robbie..."

Spider-man: "Oh come on! Stop blaming Robbie! The safe was a "Goria" model! Not bad at all!"

Spider-man had landed on the van quite a long ago, but noone noticed him 'cause they were too busy on arguing with each other, so Spidey decided to reveal his presence by showing his upside-down head to the driver through the windscreen of the van. It wasn't hard at all, as it was parked.

Robber #3: "Spider-man! Shoot!"

The third robber shot with his gun, but for Spidey dodging a bullet is a piece of cake: he jumped from the van to the ground, right behind the robber who had fired and knocked him down with a combo of punches. In the meanwhile the other two robbers hopped on the van, which driven by the fourth man squealed off and ran away at high speed.

Spider-man: "Hey, why are you running away from me? Do I have bad breath or what?"

But as I said before, Spider-man was much faster than a normal car, and so he reached them in no time. He landed again on the van, but so lightly that once again noone noticed.

Robber #1: "Did we shake off him?"

The driver looked at the rear-view mirror, but he couldn't see anyone.

Robber #4 (driver): "Yes, it seems so!"

Robber #2 (Robbie): "Fuck him, we lost Stan!"

Spider-man: "Fuck WHO?"

This time Spidey appeared at the window on the side of the driver, frigthening him. The van veered, hitting an hydrant which opened and flooded them all with water.

After a few minutes, the police arrived and found four robbers tied in web and hanging from a street lamp. The hydrante was still sprinkling water on them, who were now soaking wet.

From the top of a close palace, Spider-man looked at the scene as the police men took them down.

Spider-man: "Their enthusiasm needed to cool a bit"

Voice: "That was not funny!"

The voice scared Spidey, who turned his head to see... nobody!

Spider-man: "Who are you? Where are you?"

Nobody answered. And nobody was in sight. The roof on which Spidey was standing, moreover, was plane, and offered no hiding place.

Spider-man (in his mind): 'That's odd. My spider-sense is quiet... that means there is no menace in here"

Voice: "Correct!"

Spider-man looked all over the place, in every dark spot. But he found nobody. Then he heard that voice laughing, and realized that was the voice of a boy not older then, how much, 8 years old?

Spider-man: "Ok, buddy, sure you're great in hiding."

Voice: "Why are you still so worried? Your spider-sense doesn't feel any danger coming from me!"

Spider-man: "From Venom neither. By the way, what do you know about my spider-sense?"

Voice: "I know a lot about you, Peter."

Spider-man (in his mind): 'Whoa! He knows my name! Calm down Peter... don't show him you're afraid'

Spider-man (out loud): "Are you a sort of voyeur? Anyway, peeping Tom, since you know my name, what about giving out YOURS?"

Voice: "I have no name"

Spider-man: "I'm sure it will come in handy when you'll have to draft your tax number. So, why don't you show yourself?"

Voice: "Didn't you realized yet? I'm nowhere in sight, because I'm in your head!"

Spider-man: "Oh, really? And tell me, are you comfortable?"

Voice: "I don't care if you believe me or not. Anyway, there are 9,9 possibilities out of 10 that those thiefs you just defeated will escape from the police men"

Spider-man (ironic): "THAT much?"

In that instant an helycopter appeared from nowhere, and shot a missile to the police car, which exploded in a cloud of fire. Luckly, the policemen and the robbers where still out of the car, but the first ones were closer to it, so they were smashed away by the exlposion and lost their senses, while the robbers were only stunned by it. After a while, the four of them stood up again, ready to get on the helycopter.

Spider-man: "They're going to run away! I most stop them!"

Voice: "There's no need to hurry. They have no chance to survive."

Infact, before Spidey can move a thinger, someone from the helycopter shot with a machinegun, killing each of them. Then, that someone took the bags of money from the ground and left with the helycopter.

Spider-man (ready to jump): "I... I can always catch that murderer on the helycopter!"

Voice: "If you'll go after him, there is only 1 possibility out of 100 that the policemen will still be alive when you'll be back. And even if you help them, there is 1 possibility out of 2 that they will die before you reach an hospytal."

Spider-man hesitated for only two seconds. Then he swung toward the cops.

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Fifteen minutes later, the policemen had been recovered in the closest hospytal. Spidey lingered for a while on the cornice of an house, where he could look at that enormous building with all those windows and a big red cross on the top.

Voice: "Don't worry, Peter. Now they will surely survive"

Spider-man: "Get out of my head. Now. Okay?"

Spider-man waited for a while, silently. Nobody answered. So he left.

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It was 04.30 a.m. when Spider-man aka Peter Parker got back home. Of course he entered from the window. He arrived in his bedroom, where he found his lovely wife, Mary Jane Watson, sleeping still in her working dress, on a perfectly tidy double bed. He kissed her on her cheek, before falling into a deep sleep right next to her, still inhis Spider-man clothes.

End of first chapter