Prologue
The world has changed forever. The earth had become so polluted that instead of the earth becoming uninhabitable for human and animal life the earth decided to reset itself by causing natural disasters around the world destroying the pollution with Molten Lava burning and dissolving the solid pollutions like Nuclear waste and garbage. Destructive Earthquakes redistributing the soil and land and Violent Tsunamis flooding the uninhabitable lands and providing new rich soil from the underwater volcanoes. After it was all over humanity rose up and rebuild what was once lost. Later all the nations of the world decided to unite many groups of people of many ethnicities and races into 4 kingdoms.
The African and Middle Eastern nations was to become The kingdom of Salaam and focused on modernizing their subjects and aiding those in need. The Asian Australian and Islander nations (excluding Hawaii) became Xiāngxìn which resolved to unite the people once destroyed by war and mistrust to a modern people who are at peace and understanding. The South American and European Continents and Russia separated by geography and ocean became Tríonóide and strive to become the best in all the world despite the issue of being separated by oceans they were one.
The last one is undoubtedly where this story takes place in what was once North America (America, Canada and Mexico) all united to become America (yeah they didn't know of any other name) which was a kingdom currently run by President Abraham Kane and Vice President Centralia Hawke and they focused on business and making America the greatest kingdom in the world. A kingdom focused on diversity and peace.
But that was only a cover story in reality it was ruled by Abraham Kane and Centralia Hawkeand controlled by the rich who called themselves the Elites and they received the best medicines, food and all the luxuries that money could afford. The rest of the population, which were called Animals by the elites, were people who were either mutants-people with supernatural powers- , farmers who had to give 90% of their crops and cattle to the elites every harvest season and were left with only the scraps to sell, people of color, the LGBT or the poor had to survive on their own and had very little to eat yet were forced to work seventeen hours for mere pennies on the dollar which after they paid taxes and had to give 40% of their check to the Elites were left with very little to use for food which was often jacked up to three times its price to make it harder for them to get food. Electricity was also limited to them as the Elites used all the fossil resources possible to make energy which makes electricity and had it all to themselves and they didn't have to pay for it. The rest of the people on the other hand if they wanted to plug into the system they had to pay next years taxes in advance for one month of electricity. So the rest of the population found ways to adapt with either wind or solar energy to get their electricity.
However just because you were an elite didn't mean you were safe.. If you got mutated or were a Homosexual and you were a elite you were expelled and forced to live with the animals all your money and belongings seized and your parents will disown you.
This story begins with one such child named Peter Parker
Chapter 1
Peters POV
Hello there my name is Peter Parker. I am 16 years old I live in Midtown Manhattan in New York with some good friends of mine Sam Alexander, Ava Ayala, Danny Rand and Luke Cage. Here in Midtown everyone knows everyone here because we are what the Elites call Animals. So we have to look out for one another because we really don't expect the government to change its stance on us.
What you may not know is that once not so long ago I too was an Elite I had everything my parents were scientists for the government in the Kingdom Capital of Detroit my life was perfect. Until that day when I was six years old my class was taking a trip to the Scientist Consortium run by the science magnate Norman Osborn and everything was fine until I was bitten by that spider. The Spider that changed everything for me. The Spider of course was radioactive which the scientists allowing the trip failed to mention to us beforehand. My parents rushed to come get me and took me home from the class trip they were concerned because of radiation sickness. A couple of days later something interesting took place I began to shoot webs from my wrists and I also began to climb on walls. My parents did their best to conceal it from everyone but somehow the Elites found out and they threatened to kill me if I wasn't sent away immediately. So my Parents did what they had to do to protect me. They sent me to my Uncle Ben and Aunt May in a tearful effort to protect me. I don't know if they are even alive anymore that's how much I miss them.
Sadly my story doesn't end there. I was still in a Elite mindset and I looked down on my Aunt and Uncles neighbors because they were animals as were my Aunt and Uncle whom I loved don't get me wrong I didn't look down on them at all because they were taking care of me and loved me like my parents did. However this didn't make me stop being in my mindset a run of the mill douchebag.
It wasn't until I was 12 years old that's when for me everything changed. There was a riot caused by Elites who in a warped state of mind thought it would be funny to kill people and burn down many Animal villages. My Uncle Ben saw a few hurt and he stopped to help. I tried to get him to come with me to hide but he wouldn't leave the injured.
"Don't worry about me just go and help your Aunt." He told me I knew there was no point in trying to get him to come with me so I left him to go find Aunt May. When I arrived to the house it was on fire but it was still a small fire so I went in to try to find my Aunt but the smoke was getting thicker so I didn't have much time. I looked in the living room and found her under the bookshelf. I don't know if it was thanks to the strength of the spider or what but I had no trouble lifting the shelf I tried to stand her up she was out cold. So I carried her outside and waited for Uncle Ben to return.
It was over an hour but I saw Uncle Ben stumbling through the carnage but I saw him bleeding from his chest and then he collapsed on the lawn while the house burned behind us. I ran to him but he was bleeding out fast. He looked up at me and smiled... Then that was it he was gone.
Later I found out that my Aunt May was already dead from being crushed by the bookshelf and smoke inhalation and that out of all the people who was trying to stay alive only my Uncle Ben helped people who were hurt and some even saw elite soldiers executing the injured the very same my uncle stopped to help that night. That night changed my mindset. Some say it takes a wake up call to change a devout zealot. Boy did I receive one. From that moment on I don't even give heed to the laws set by the Elites. I help out those the elites hurt. Because that's what Uncle Ben would have wanted.
"With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility" those words Uncle Ben told me when I was a little kid still guide me whenever I help people and I try to pass it on to those Elite kids who were expelled from Elite parts of the City such as Times Square, Wall Street The Hamptons and Upper Manhattan so they can do good whenever they can.
But that's not to say that all Elites are bad some are very good. The night after the deaths of my Aunt and Uncle. An elite by the name of Norman Osborn gave me a Scholarship to Midtown High a Boarding School for Animals and Ex Elites and one of my Friends is an Elite Harry Osborn... Well he doesn't go to that school but a fancy Elite School in Wall Street. But we stay in contact thanks to his father.
However the good friends I have made were outside Elite circles one of them saved me. One of them was like me an Ex Elite his name is Danny Rand, An Ex Elite kid from the Rand Corporation in Wall Street.
How did Danny save me you ask? Well remember that spider that gave me the powers I mentioned earlier. The other side effects of that bite were not good. I suffered from constant Nausea attacks, Painful Migraines and otherStomach ailments. It was the Radiation that was wrecking me in more ways than one it was a miracle that I did not develop cancer from the bite. One night two years after that event I was going through my usual bouts of sickness when someone in some robes that I didn't see before came up to me and asked if I needed help. The first time someone asked me for help since I came to the animal districts. He held out his hand and knowing I had an ace in the hole if It turned out to be a trap I took it and we went for a walk till we reached an old house and went inside. "Sam are you home?" He asked the empty space we were in. I heard thumping from the stairs and down came a Olive skinned Black Haired boy around my age at the time I met them,14 years old, "Who is this, another sick kid? Dude we already had five people here with Tuberculosis I don't know if you can give him those beds unless you want him to get it as well."
I was starting to get a little frightened I was already sick enough as it is. I didn't want to know what Tuberculosis would do to me.
Then Danny Said "Burn those beds then and find one that wasn't used by a TB patient this kid here is suffering from what looks like Radiation Poisoning." Wait a second how did he know I was sick? I guess it was obvious the way I was heaving and holding my head and gut... But how did he know it was from Radiation?
I watched as Sam Grumbled as he... Glowed? And went back upstairs saying under his breath "Let's take care of the ill he said. It will be a good deed he said..."
Danny turned to me and said "That's Sam he may look aloof and seem a little tactless at times but he is a good friend." I followed him to another room with what looked like an doctors bed I lie on the bed while he checks me out he turns on a generator powered ultrasound machine to check my stomach and all of the other organs to make sure I wasn't suffering from something internal or cancerous. But fortunately things looked good on the inside. "I should perform a blood test to make sure it's not blood poisoning but things look good so far." Then he looked at my wrists he noticed the web shooters in them
"Hmm how long have you had these, were you mutated?" Danny asked. I answered back "Oh those... I was mutated by a spider during a class trip I got sick from it almost immediately , within a couple days I had these Web shooters and could walk on walls and could lift things that I shouldn't have been able to lift. My parents tried to keep things a secret but people found out anyway and I was forced out by the government. Fortunately my parents got my Aunt and Uncle to take me in. They were the best to me..."
"Were? Aren't they still around?" "No they were killed two years ago by the Elite riots... Speaking of which aren't you an Elite?" "Not anymore I was kicked out when I was seven after I came back from the nation of K'un L'un with my new abilities." Danny ignited his hand in golden aura to show his point. "It is not a mutation but a manifestation of my Chakra and Aura that I learned from the K'un L'un monks that took me in when my parents died. But to the American Elites I was a mutant regardless so I was expelled and they took all my parents assets that should have been given to me when they died." While they story was awful to hear, Danny on the contrary didn't seem to be dwelling on it.
"But they are only material possessions I don't really need them. In K'un L'un all I had was a Straw and Cotton Bed and a journal and my robes and that's all I needed." Danny smiled "There are more important things to do than worry about possessions. Like caring for the sick like you are right now. Thank god I was able to get these medical devices for cheap by making Herbal Medicines to sell." He points to the vials and bottles of coloured liquid that were marked with simple names like Licorice and Marshmallow. "... Thank you..ugh" I grunted the pain was still there in my stomach. "Don't thank me I'm just doing what is right... Which reminds me." He then went to a cabinet and took a vial and a sterile syringe and came back to Peter. "This medicine should heal your pain." He took the syringe, drained out the liquid in the vial and injected it into my arm.
Within a half hour the pain was gone.
"Thank you... Whoever you are?" I said not knowing his name yet he was so nice to me. "Oh my name is Danny, Danny Rand." He stuck out his hand which I shook. "By the way what was that medicine?" I felt like since I was given it I should at least know what I took. "That was the herb Cannibis more commonly know as Marijuana." He said
My eyes bulged... I was given an illegal drug to deal with the pain.? But why wasn't I spazzing out like people who smoked it?
"Heheh I know that look... Don't worry what I used is a common version used in many medicines for thousands of years... The Cannibis your thinking about is grown by the Elites and spread amongst the populace just to cause strife. My cannibis is used for healing purposes. And like any medication it should be used only when you need to take it, not for fun.
I was astonished the drug that people and Drug lords were making and selling on the streets, The drug which the Elites and the past Governments said was bad is the one that saved my life it's crazy but I am liking this guy more and more.
Then his friend, Sam came back in.
"Alright it's done... And I found a bed and set it up what else should I do for him get him his slippers and pipe?" Sam asked rather sarcastically I had a feeling that we weren't gonna get along well but he seemed alright for the most part.
"Good I will be up shortly to give him some food. Be careful with him just because he feels and looks fine doesn't mean he is." Then Danny left. "Alright follow me" Sam said flatly and I followed him down the short hallway and into a room with only a bed and a lamp and nightstand. Which was fine by me all I wanted was rest. "So where are you from?" He asked me as I got into the bed. "Midtown I go to the school Midtown High and stay there because I don't have anyone to take care of me... Not anymore at least. How did you get here?" He asked me that question I should ask him the same. "Well I came from Arizona from the town of Carefree I had a family.." That caused him to grimace "I mean I have a family" that only made him feel worse. "Hey Sam don't worry, many of us don't know if any of our families are dead or alive." I told him to reassure him "I don't even know if my family is dead or alive and I used to live in the capital"
Sam felt a little better so he continued with me. "All I know is that my father went missing a couple years ago before I ended up here and when I was looking through his stuff to find a clue of where he went I found this." He went under the bed and pulled out a Gold or brass helmet with a what looked like a top portion of a red star on the face. "It's my fathers I looked around the box where I found it and I found pictures of him with others wearing the same helmet." He pulled out pictures to show me the same things other people wearing the type of helmet that Sam has... But they weren't humans well some weren't. "Sam are you saying that... You're dad is friends with aliens?" "... To be honest I don't know but I think he was. In fact if you noticed that I was glowing earlier. That's from my contact with this helmet." I was a little skeptical about that but no less amazed by this whole thing.
"Watch this and believe." He then put on the helmet and all at once he began to glow the same blue color. Then Sam was in a what looked like a black jumpsuit with Golden plates on it. "Wow... So you get your powers from the helmet?" "I think so but still I look cool." Peter smiled and rolled his eyes he thought that although Sam looked cool he was kinda full of himself. "You know you are a little cocky." "If you had this much power from one helmet wouldn't you be?"
"Good point... So how did you come here?" Enough beating around the bush it's time I found who Sam was.
"Well like any of us the Elites found me out even though I was not an Elite and they still thought they could intimidate me by taking my mother away. But they bit off more than they can chew with me. I fought back and won but now I had to go on the run with my mom and sister."
I was shocked that he did that if only my parents did that for me... But I can't think on that now.
"Where are your mom and sister now?" Sam sighed and said "I had to leave them. I left them in the care of some people who said they were from Tucson and said they would have safety there. So I gave my mom and sister to them saying that I would come back for them once they called off the search for me. I don't even know if they are alive anymore." Sam looked down in sadness. "It was hard for me at first I had to make my own way around. But then I found Danny we traveled together and helped out wherever we could... But we decided to settle in New York because have you seen the animal villages. "Yeah... Unfortunately I experienced the riots. My Aunt and Uncle died from them" "Wow dude I'm sorry. We decided to open a secret clinic because of these riots and because we don't get regular health care here."
I was really proud of Sam despite all the shit that the Elites and life threw at him he remained strong and with Danny he became stronger because of it.
Then Danny came back in with some steamed Vegetables and some water.
"Oh yeah... Now this guy is a great cook with vegetables looks like you got some Veggie Primavera and some basil." Sam told me as his mouth watered. "I mean I can cook but with more of the meat variety" "Sam and I grow our own garden here so we have an endless supply of food. Though we do trade with others to get some things we need"
My stomach grumbled I really wanted to eat so badly. So I grabbed the plate and began to eat it and I savored every bite I had no idea if I would ever eat this good again. "Hey Danny you made some for me as well?" "It's in the Kitchen Sam I figured you would want some."
Sam dashed down the hall and 2 minutes later came back with his plate half empty.
"What? His vegan dishes are good."
Sam scarfed down the plate in a few seconds and licked it which was kinda gross but I had to admit every vegetable morsel was delicious so I couldn't blame him for doing so. I ate the last of it on my plate and handed it back to Danny
"Well now that you both are finished I have to go on patrol now. I'll be back by morning. Sam keep an eye on him." "Sure thing Danny."
Before Danny left Sam pulled him aside and talked to him
"I like this guy he is kind of a dork but I think he is cool" "That's nice I hope you two will get along. I'll be back by morning."
Then I heard the door close as Sam returned to my room with some cards. We settled down and I felt well enough to play a few games of Texas hold 'em I began to feel that I had made a couple of new friends
Little did I know that Sam and I would both get a new friend by the morning.
End of Chapter One
