Chapter 1 - introduction

Meet Peter Ketcher, a nerdy high school student at the Pokemon academy. He lives with Pokefan Mei and Gentleman Ben (his Aunt and Uncle) in Celadon City. Peter's life was overall a normal one, until that fateful day.

"Today we'll be visiting the Cinnabar Island lab" said Peter's teacher. Peter was looking forward to this, aside from being a bit of a science geek, Peter will get to meet Dr. Curt Connors, who is one of the leaders of the Cinnabar lab, currently studying the effects of cross-pokemon mutations. Peter is also the photographer of the school paper, and this trip is sure to provide some nice pictures for the paper. Soon enough the teacher sends out a Pidgeotto and instructs the class to form a line so they can be sent one by one to Cinnabar Island, having a Pokemon that can use Fly makes field trips easy to go to. As the class forms a line, Peter is about to stand behind his childhood friend and classmate Dawn Stacy, only to be pushed aside by Flash Thompson. Flash is the head of the schools football team, and a total bully, unfortunately Peter happens to be his favorite person to bully. "leave him alone" said Dawn. Flash doesn't like it too much when people stand up to him, and grabs Dawn by the shirt, ready to hit her. "put her down Eugene" said Peter. Big mistake. Flash hates being called by his first name, he's had the nickname Flash ever since he was young that time he got lost in a dark cave while visiting the Rock Tunnel, only to be found by a Hiker with an Abra that happened to have just the right move for seeing in dark caves, feel free to guess what move it was. The class gasps at Peter calling Flash by his first name, and Flash puts Dawn down. Flash now furious lifts his fist up, ready to hit Peter , but the Teacher calls for the next in line, Flash. "I'll deal with you later Catcher" said Flash. As Flash gets on the teachers Pidgeotto, he is quickly sent to the island, and Pidgeotto returns for everyone else. Once everyone has been sent to the island, the teacher takes everyone to the Cinnabar Lab not too far away from the Pokemon Center. The lab looks like a building that has been broken, only to be slowly rebuilt over time. Soon enough a man with a missing right arm steps out the door, Dr. Curt Connors. Curt welcomes the class into the building. As Peter was about to walk in, he falls down face first, "oops sorry" said Flash while trying not to laugh. Peter was angry, but there was nothing he could do, Flash was much stronger than him, so Peter simply forgave Flash and entered the lab. Dr. Connors explained to the class that the lab used to conduct many dangerous experiments involving the creation of an invincible Pokemon using the DNA of a Pokemon called Mew, but after some experiments went a little wrong, one of the test subjects escaped, and destroyed the lab, as well as killing most of the scientists inside the lab at the time. Dr. Connors then explains that he was one of the few that didn't die that day, however his right arm was lost as a result. Years after the lab accident, the lab began to be rebuilt thanks to some funds from the Cinnabar Gym Leader Blane Osborn, however the attempts to create a powerful Pokemon have been scrapped in favor of a new study of trying to combine the DNA of certain Pokemon with humans to create a cross species hybrid. Dr. Connors then shows the class to an area that's currently testing experiments on some Spinarak that have an unusual light blue color to them, explaining that these Spinarak are not like the ones you'll find in the wild, these ones have been genetically modified to have certain abilities that would be hard to replicate in the wild, "each one of the twenty five Spinarak has a distinct nature" said Dr. Connors. One student notices that the cage of Spinarak only has twenty four of them, which Dr. Connors soon confirms to be true. As Peter takes a picture of the Spinarak testing area, he feels a sudden pain around the back of his neck, almost like a Pokemon using Bug Bite on him. Peter then sees that one of the Spinarak is on the ground next to him, and calls Dr. Connors over claiming to have found the missing Spinarak. Dr. Connors comes over, and retrieves the missing Spinarak, "Thank you very much Mr.?" "Catcher, Peter Catcher" As Peter introduces himself, Dr. Connors puts out his left hand, and the two shake hands. "had that Spinarak escaped the lab, the consequences would have been dangerous, It's a good thing this little guy didn't get a chance to bite anyone" said Dr. Connors. Bite? Peter had just thought about what had happened, and wondered if that Spinarak had actually used Bug Bite on him or not, but it didn't matter now, for the fiend trip was almost over, and it was time to go back to School.

On the way home from school, Peter had a sudden feeling as if he could sense everything around him, that and a bit of nausea, luckily he made it home before it was too late. upon arriving home, Peter's Aunt Mei and Uncle Ben were at the door to greet him, but Peter simply fainted upon entering. Peter soon woke up finding himself in his bed, and for whatever reason everything was clear to him, like some sort of sixth sense. Peter goes to put on his glasses, but suddenly he realized that his vision is perfect, as if it corrected itself. Peter walks downstairs to find Aunt Mei happy to see him. "We were so worried about you, thank goodness you're alright" Said Aunt Mei. Peter felt more than fine though, in fact he felt better than ever. Upon arriving to school, Peter sensed that someone was coming at him with intent of hurting him, Peter quickly dodges what turns out to be Flash Thompson with a revenge punch for yesterday. Flash having missed his punch pulls out a Pokeball, "Hitmonchan, I choose you" Flash releases a Hitmonchan, which is against school rules which state that students are allowed to have Pokemon on them, but may not release them from their Pokeball without permission from a teacher or staff member (unless it's in self defense), it's also further against the rules to use said Pokemon for battles, or to hurt a classmate. Disregarding the rules, Flash commands his Hitmonchan to use Mega Punch on Peter. Peter dodges the attack, "what's wrong, can't get a hit?" said Peter. Flash tells Hitmonchan to use Bullet Punch knowing that it's a much quicker move. Peter this time grabs the Hitmonchan's punch, and stops the Pokemon from moving his fist. "So is it my turn yet?" Asked Peter. with that Peter lifts the Pokemon up over his head, and throws Hitmonchan across the hall. Flash quickly returns his injured Hitmonchan to his Pokeball, as some staff members appear to break up the fight. Uncle Ben arrives to the principles office to pick up Peter, who was blamed for the situation in question. On the way to Ben's car, Dawn sees them passing, "Peter, what happened? Did you really get into a fight with Flash?" She asked. "he sure did, and believe me he's in trouble for it" said Ben. Dawn gave the man a look of confusion. "Oh I'm his parole officer, and I'm guessing you're Dawn Stacy, Peter likes you by the way" Peter was not amused by this, and upon entering the car to go home Ben couldn't help but laugh. "Ben you do know that her dad is chief of police George Stacy, so she knows all the parole officers in the city, not to mention that other than George all the other cops are females named Jenny" said Peter. Ben didn't really care about that, he was far more concerned about the trouble Peter had caused with Flash. "look Peter, I know things have been tough, but that's no reason to go picking a fight with that Flash kid" said Ben. Peter wanted to explain what really happened, but Ben didn't wanna hear it "weather he had it coming or not is beside the point, just remember with great power, comes great responsibility." Is all that Ben told him. Peter was punished by being grounded for a week, during this time Peter spent it trying to create a web shooter that allows him to create an artificial String Shot attack, the idea had just come to him one night, and Peter felt the need to make it a reality. While working on his web shooter, Peter was getting tired of being stuck in his house, he knew he was still grounded, but that didn't matter. Peter closed the door to his room, and decided to sneak out the window in his room. Upon trying to climb out his window, Peter realized that his hands were clinging to the building, making it easy to make his way to the ground without having to jump. After crawling his way down his home, Peter decides to go to the Pokemart, having a sudden thirst for a Potion, despite the fact that Potions are not really for humans. Upon entering the Pokemart he gets the usual greeting "Hi there! May I help you?" says the cashier. Peter sees that he currently has 298 pokedollars on him and scrolls down the items to pick from to were it says "Potion 300 pokedollars" despite being short 2 pokedollars Peter picks the option anyway in hopes that the cashier will give him a break "You don't have enough money." says the cashier. Peter is annoyed by this, as a man walks up behind him dressed in black with a sack behind his back waiting to make a purchase. Oh come on, I'm only short 2 pokedollars" Peter tries to click the Potion option once more "You don't have enough money." says the cashier once again. Realizing that it's a lost cause Peter allows the man behind him to make his purchase, "alright this is a robbery" says the man as he pulls out a gun to the cashier. Peter realizes that this guy is of the Burglar trainer class, but he doesn't care, on his way out the Burglar tosses him the Potion that he couldn't afford. As Peter headed out, the Burglar quickly dashed out the door with a bunch of money in his hands. Peter wasn't bothered by this, after all why should he help the cashier who wouldn't let him buy a Potion, when the Burglar was surprisingly nicer to him? As Peter left the place he saw the Burglar headed down to were his home is, but he didn't really care, it's not like the Burglar was about to break in or anything. Meanwhile back at home Aunt Mei notices that Peter hasn't made any sound in his room for a while, she decides to check on Peter, only to find that Peter was missing. Mei was not thrilled that Peter decided to sneak out, so she told Ben that she's gonna go look for Peter, but as she walked out the door, she forgot to lock it. As Peter was walking around, he decided it was about time to go back home, but as he was about to sneak back inside his room, a gunshot was heard, It came from inside the house. Upon hearing this Peter ran in through the front entrance finding that the house has been trashed, and his Uncle Ben is on the ground dead from a gunshot wound. Upon looking, Peter quickly notices a man with a gun, it's that Burglar from before. Upon realizing what he had done, the Burglar drops his stuff and makes a run for it. Peter thinks back to earlier when the Burglar robbed the Pokemart, he could have stopped the guy but didn't. Realizing it was his fault Peter chases after the man, but it was too late, the Burglar got away. Aunt Mei gets home, and soon enough the cops show up to investigate. After Peter tells officer Jenny what he saw upon coming home "I'm afraid have no leads at this time, but if anything changes we'll be sure to inform you" said one of the Jennies. Aunt Mei tells Peter that while she is mad at him for running off while grounded, that she's glad he's ok. Upon realizing that if he had stopped the Burglar back at the Pokemart that Ben would have still been alive, Peter vows that he will never watch a criminal get away in front of him, even if the victim was a jerk to him.

A few days pass and Peter has just finished with the development of his Web Shooter, now he just needs to test it out. Peter takes his web shooter and straps it onto his wrist, and by taping his palm with middle and ring finger respectively a string of web comes out of it, a pretty solid one at that. Peter heads out (he's no longer grounded at this point) to see what he can do. Peter climbs a building to the top with his wall crawling abilities, and aims his web at a building across the street. After making sure the string is secure, Peter swings across to the next building. After swinging across the city, Peter realizes that his web cartridge is empty, Peter decides that it's probably a good idea to go back home. On the way home Peter sees a bunch of police cars going down the road, remember his promise, Peter follows the cop cars to find that a bank has been robbed. Hot on their trails, Peter tracks down the robbers who were stupid enough to leave a trail of coins leading Peter to an abandoned ally. Peter sees that there's three people in ski masks with a large sack of money, that had sprung a leak at the bottom "stop right there" said Peter. The three criminals took off their ski masks revealing to be a boy and a girl only a bit older than him, along with a Meowth. "Prepare for trouble" said the girl. "make it double" said the boy. "to protect..." as the girl was about to continue Peter interrupted them by punching the boy. "How dare you attack in the middle of our motto" said Meowth. Peter was surprised for a moment that that Meowth could talk, but he didn't care, he quickly grabbed the back of money from them, and punched the three crooks, sending them flying. "Don't think we'll forget your face" said the girl. "But in the meantime, it looks like Team Rockets blasting off again" all three of them said as they disappeared. Having retrieved the stolen bag of money, Peter left the scene before the cops could come to ask questions. Upon coming home, Peter though about what just happened, about how those three might try to find him now that they've seen his face. Peter goes straight to his room and starts developing ideas for a costume. After hours of designing, Peter finally settles on a latex suit that he made himself looking like it's covered in webs with a green coloring for the top and mask, the pants... oh just look at the cover picture to get a good idea what it looks like. After finishing the suit, Peter puts it on making him Spinarak-man.