Some may see the name of the actual series, Ultimate Spider Chronicles, and think this was already wrote up to chapter 28-ish. I did write that, but that is no longer the version this needs apparently. This is a darker version and I warn you that I stray from the usual Spidey mythos in an attempt to make it my own, and Teen Wolf. I do not own it but the reason I say this is because in the previous version I had Stiles and Lydia know each other, and strayed from the normal. I did and am doing that because this is not the Teen Wolf verse we all expect. I am taking inspiration from multiple comic series, movies, and even shows. So the fact Stiles and Lydia know each other is reminiscent of the Ultimate comics of them being friends since childhood. However it is still Teen Wolf because they didn't talk at the beginning of high school. It shouldn't matter, if you guys want Stiles and Lydia to be the season One equivalents of themselves in a Stydia-Spider-Man story you can find a different story. I am not doing Stydia right off the bat. Stiles is going to mature and so is Lydia if they get together. I'm just doing my own thing. And so everyone knows pay attention to the writing closely because you might miss something otherwise that hints at a future chapter or a character's development.

So yeah, this is a new beginning. One that shows a Darker Spider-Man story than I have before in the past.

To put it simply, don't get too attached to certain characters because they may be killed off or worse, their story twisted in ways you might not expect.

The Web of Deception begins now...

Prologue: Hero or Menace

DAILY BUGLE NEWS

The Truth About Spider-Man

By: Lydia Martin

In a world like this, when our entire lives seem to be crashing down upon us like god's wrath, people often find themselves wondering if they will be saved. Well, nowadays it seems like the general population are becoming more infatuated with the fantasy of heroes coming through those doors, windows, roofs, anywhere out of the blue just to save our lives, but you must ask yourself, are heroes truly someone who can be there within an instant to save the day? That's the question that we must ask about Manhattan's very own web-slinging "superhero" known as Spider-Man.

What do we know about him? Well, what we do know is that miraculously about five months ago, this man appears out of nowhere, swinging from a web onto the scene of a bloodbath; a horrendous battle between the New York Police Department and a group of notorious bank robbers that had plagued our city for months by that point in time. By all accounts, that day was a turning point. He changed everything when he showed up.

While Spider-Man back then wasn't wearing his signature red and blue spandex, he was still capable of taking down all but a few of the robbers, and saved countless lives in the process. Before having arrived, fifteen of New York's finest were gunned down, only three surviving the event. If not for Spider-Man coming onto the scene and saving those officers, personally taking them to the hospital, they may have not lived to see another day. While many see Spider-Man as another masked vigilante taking the law into his own hands, they don't really understand the man behind the mask... nobody really does. You've heard it from the man who owned the Daily Bugle... John Jonah Jameson, he believes Spider-Man to be a criminal; and why does he think that? It's because Spider-Man wears a mask to conceal his identity, and in his own eyes Jameson believes that those who hide their face have something to hide, meaning that Spider-Man must be secretly a criminal. There have been rumors that have surfaced about the Wall Crawler that would go along with that opinion, but that's not the truth. The whole truth would be to actually take in all of Spider-Man's actions and what's he has actually done since appearing.

Even the police are split on the decision whether or not Spider-Man is a hero or a criminal. They've always tottered back and forth on the matter, and it's always tipped to the hero side, but lately things have tipped the other way. One might have thought that the officers of New York City might have felt some sort of gratitude towards Spider-Man because of his actions that day when he saved those officers from dying. We always thought that perhaps that people with super powers like Spider-Man merely showed off when they fought criminals or committed crimes. Witnesses who have managed to speak to Spider-Man and get information about him says that he feels a responsibility to use his powers to help people, to keep someone from getting hurt. Why does he feel this responsibility to use his powers to help people? Did he do something with his powers and end up regretting it, therefore giving him a reason to use his powers for good, as a way to attone for his past actions? He's never revealed the reasons behind this feeling of responsibility, other than him saying: "with great power comes great responsibility."

Even with all the good Spider-Man has done, there are people who would say that Spider-Man is nothing more than some guy in a costume doing ordinary things, using illusions to make him appear to have abilities.

I, myself was there that day when Spider-Man first showed up in New York City, and I can tell you that he is no ordinary man. He could do things that even trained acrobats and contortionists could never do. He was something that nobody could have ever thought of before that day. Yes, I was there that day, and I remember every single detail of that day.

On such days like that of 9/11, this was a day that we will remember for the rest of our lives. Everyone who could remember that day does in fact remember it; they remember where they were, what they were doing, and what they were feeling when that catalysmic event occurred. It's just something that engraves itself into the back of a person's memory, ensuring it's never forgotten.

As I said, I was there myself that day when Spider-Man first made an appearance, and I remember the details before that day like it was just yesterday. The mall across from the bank was where I was coming out from when the shooting first began. It caught me off guard, so off guard that I didn't even comprehend it for a couple moments until I heard the screams of those affected by the firing. Along with a close friend, we took cover whatever was available, whether that had been a car, or a mailbox. Somehow, we hadn't been injured during those initial minutes.

Amidst the gunfire, I watched in complete horror as the screaming deafened the surrounding area; it was the only thing you could hear there. I couldn't understand what was actually happening. One moment everything had been so utterly calm and quiet, and the next... nothing but death occurring. My heart was racing, keeping pace with the screams of the bullets that were flying left and right. The screaming coming from the guns and the fallen officers deafened everything but yet, amongst that battlefield, somehow you could hear it clear as day.

You could hear amongst the gunfire the distinct sound of that web connecting to a building. It was only a couple seconds later that one of the gunmen pointed towards the sky, shouting "What is that?!" mere moments before this figure came rocketing down from a rooftop landing in the middle of gunfire on a bullet-riddled police cruiser, not being moved an inch by the thought of being shot. It was that moment that everything seemed to freeze for an eternity, but what seemed to be an eternity was only a few minor seconds.

There he stood, the beacon of hope that answered the call for help that day. It felt like it wasn't even real when he landed on the car, not saying a single word as he stared down the bank robbers. Everything went dead silent when he landed, and that was probably more terrifying than the actual fight itself.

Within a matter of those few short seconds, Spider-Man stood up on that police cruiser, the only thing concealing his identity was this old dark red hooded jacket, and a mask woven from his very own webbing. The webbing was not as fine as it now, but it completed the job it was intended for nevertheless. He leapt into the air just before the gunmen fired their weapons, as if he had been able to sense they were about to fire. Spider-Man single-handedly took all but five of the gunmen down, the only reason he could not stop all of them from escaping was due to a man that went by the alias: The Omega. Spider-Man couldn't defeat the Omega, but kept him at bay long enough for police back up to arrive.

The Omega was a real life boogeyman that had cropped up in the criminal underworld for a couple years now, but nobody had actually seen him before that day. The fact Spider-Man was one of the few people to go up against the Omega and live was something spectacular by itself. There are no actual numbers to the deaths the Omega is responsible for, but there is speculation in the police force that the Omega has claimed over ninety lives in his rampages. Spider-Man managed to hold the Omega off long enough to where the Omega wasn't able to take any more innocent lives that day.

Now, Spider-Man has done a lot of courageous feats since his "superhero" career began just five months ago, but while many of the civilians and police officers are thankful for the Web Slinger, there are those who believe Spidey to be a menace to society. There is an answer to the question about the masked wall crawler... Spider-Man: Hero or Menace? Well...

The Truth?

The truth is while in the past, millions of dollars have been put into the rebuilds following some of the more infamous Spider-Man battles, it does not mean that he is a menace to society. Wherever he goes, he saves hundreds of lives; he has brought murderers and psychopaths to justice. So is Spider-Man a menace?

No, not at all, in fact Spider-Man is the guardian angel we never knew we needed.

He came when we needed him the most, and the reason he's around is a harsh one. With every passing day New York City is becoming more dangerous, and right now things aren't looking that good.

Right about now Spider-Man may be our only hope to stop the super powered criminals running rampant through our once great city. But Spider-Man is currently being hunted down by the police force, and if they take him down, New York City will deteriorate into a war zone that no cop nor superhero can stop.

What can we do to stop this from happening? We let Spider-Man do what he does best... save the day. He may be our only hope to stop the madness...

Lydia Martin was never one to believe in things like season trends, shoes that made you look six inches taller. She also didn't believe in something as foolish as fate, but ever since Spider-Man came around, things had actually become better, and also worse. So when she was able to make an article in the Daily Bugle about him, she jumped at the chance to. Some might have assumed she lied about being there, but she told the truth about all of it. How he had showed up and her being there was all true... every single bit of it was true. Lydia would never forget it.

Lydia had been at the mall just a street away from the shootout, with her friend Liz Allan accompanying her. When the shooting began they hid behind a car and used their phones to zoom in on the fight... it was one of the most exhilirating things Lydia had ever seen in her life; just to watch the guns get yanked out of the thugs' hands by a web as Spider-Man went flying towards them over a car, it felt like she was in a movie.

That was how she was first introduced to Spider-Man, and while the fight may have almost ended, he looked over at Lydia and Liz, it seemed for Lydia, something weird happened... she felt drawn to him.

Lydia was a woman of curiosity, when she was told to stay away from something, she did the opposite, and well... when she made eye contact with Spider-Man, she became infatuated with him. She watched as Spider-Man picked up one Officer Stilinski and swung out of there on a web. He would come back for the other two surviving officers, but each one was in the blink of an eye.

When Liz told Lydia about the one officer Spider-Man saved, how he was when he got admitted, she couldn't help but note that his son was the one who got there before anyone else. He must have been right there at the scene when Spider-Man had taken Officer Stilinski to the hospital to have gotten there so quickly.

Lydia had tracked Spider-Man's movements by accounting all of the sightings. She had discovered Spider-Man teamed up with the superhero known as Iron Man and even the new vigilante roaming Hell's Kitchen... who had picked up the name Daredevil on multiple occasions. Then he was now working with someone that Spidey referred to as Beta.

Nearly six months had passed since the arrival of Spider-Man, and Lydia was still entranced by the Web Slinger. She had seen him go from a simple red hoodie with a white webbing mask over his face and a hood... to a red mask with sunglasses over it and a stocking cap, to the red and blue suit that she came to know and love along with a dwindling number of fans of the Web Slinger, and that number was very low right now.

Now Lydia didn't know much about who Spider-Man was, but she was going to find out... who he was, how he got powers, why he does what he does... the whole story. She didn't know that the story she was looking for... was right in front of her.

The story ultimately started small, with a spider.