Summer of the Spiders

A/n this chapter will feature mainly Kitty and her dealing with the changes from the bite. I will only glance over Peter's origin as it's already been done so much and I am not really changing much about it. Read and Review!

A/n UPDATE: after reading some reviews and talking with some people I decided to do some edits to this chapter there are some noticeable changes as well as a few additions.

Kitty Pryde was not having a great time. The day before summer break she got bit by a spider and ended up in the hospital for a night. She was released from the hospital a week ago and was still feeling somewhat odd, even for her. She was sleeping in her bed trying to rest up because she was going to visit her friends in Westchester in a few days.

Her dreams had become odd and somewhat dark over the past few days. The dreams prominently features spiders which after the bite didn't really surprise her but just the feel of the dreams felt somehow familiar. If felt like the dreams she used to have of falling three years ago when her powers first manifested and she fell through the floor. The dream had her trapped in a web and spiders crawling all over her.

She awoke with a jerk and instead of phasing through the floor she jumped up out of her bed to the ceiling and actually stuck there. She carefully takes a few cautious crawling steps before her eyes went wide and she screamed "MOM!"

Theresa Pryde rushed into her daughter's room after hearing her scream and saw the empty bed and thought her daughter must have phased through the floor again, until a blanket falls to the floor. She looks up and sees her daughter stuck on the ceiling of the room seemingly crawling on it like a spider. Theresa takes a deep breath calming herself, "I will go call Xavier." She says walking out of the room muttering "At least this time I know what to do about it." To herself

Meanwhile across town in Forest Hills:

"I have super powers!" Peter Parker gasps to himself as he crawls around his small room after waking from a nightmare. "But how? The spider bite!" he realizes and begins to wonder what he is going to do with his new found powers.

Back with Kitty

Kitty who now was off of her ceiling got dressed as her mother talked to the Professor was wondering where her new powers came from. She was pacing around her room as she packed her stuff up for her trip to the Institute that would probably be moved up. "Could it have been that spider bite?" she thought to herself. "I just hope that the Professor and Mr. McCoy can figure it out."

Theresa then entered the room and saw her daughter all packed up. "Good you are packed up. Grab your stuff we are going to Xavier's." she said with pride at her daughter thinking responsibly and being on the same line of thought as her. Kitty pulled the backpack onto her back and grabbed her duffle bag surprised at how light it felt despite all the stuff she had put in it. She hurried down to the car literally bounding off the walls moving far faster than she ever had before. Not that she was slow or weak by any stretch, she always had a lean figure but all the workouts she did at the Institute gave her an athletic muscle tone which only seemed to have gotten enhanced.

The drive to Xavier's was fairly boring. Kitty listened to her favorite band, I Fight Dragons, on her Ipod while her mother drove. She kept getting the almost excited feelings in the back of her mind. Almost as if she was remembering something that happened but it didn't happen to her. She pushed the thought aside and focused on just relaxing to her music, trying to drown it out.

The Streets of New York

Peter decided to go out and walk around to try to clear his head but all the awesomeness of gaining super powers was running through his head constantly. Then for some reason he started humming the song 'The Geeks Will Inherit the Earth'. It was a good song but he had no idea how or why it suddenly just came to him. He put it off as one of life's little mysteries. Then he saw an ad for a wrestling competition. "This could be a good way to cash in on my new powers." Peter thought to himself. "All I need is a cool name and costume and I am set!"

With Kitty

When they arrived at Xavier's school for gifted youngsters Kitty was happy and excited to see her friends and the people she considered to be her pseudo family, though she was glad to learn that her ex, Bobby, was with his parents for the summer. The days passed fairly quietly or at least as quietly as it can in a house full of super powered mutants. She spent a few hours with Logan telling him about her new school and everything. He always affectionally refers to her as 'half-pint' and took the role of a protective uncle to her.

Kitty had to learn how to control her new super strength as the first day she ended up smashing her alarm clock into a bit of wreckage, breaking off the handle for the faucet in the bathroom and shattered the glass door to the patio after Kurt teased her about what happened in the bathroom. He learned not to do that as much when Pitor startled Kitty once and she ended up flipping him over her shoulder. Both of them were surprised by that.

That was until about a week after her arrival at the Institute. It was late in the evening and Kitty was resting in her room just reading a book. She was feeling this sense of excitement and adrenaline that was keeping her from falling asleep. Shortly after that she felt anger and contempt, all of these emotions coming from the back of her mind. She never really brought it up to the professor because she never dwelled on it herself. That was until about an hour later she was overcome. The emotions were so strong, she had never felt such intense feeling of grief, anguish, guilt and anger. She broke down and cried silently in her bed, and the only reason she could think of was the feeling of loss. The greatest loss you can experience of having someone you love taken from you. She knew that somewhere out there some one needed her help and she tried to think comforting thoughts to try and help this presence.

IN QUEENS

Ben Parker was dead. "It's all my fault" Peter thought to himself. He stood over the murderer, the very man he had let go at the stadium earlier that night. He could have stopped this; he could have kept the death of Uncle Ben from happening. This was his lowest moment, never before in his young life has he ever been this depressed. And yet at the same time he felt like he wasn't alone, as if the pain wasn't all on his shoulders. He heard a soft voice whisper not really words but feelings of comfort in the back of his mind. That night he swore to himself that he would make sure that others wouldn't have to feel the same pain. He would stop crooks and criminals like the one that took Uncle Ben from him. He would become Spiderman.

Back in Westchester

Kitty spent the rest of the summer working and perfecting her control over her new powers. She found she had increased strength; that was actually on the level of Colossus, faster reflexes, the ability to stick to walls, and this buzzing sensation that warned her of danger that came from the back of her mind. The buzzing came from the same place as the feelings she got that one night she cried in her room. She found out the hard way that she couldn't phase through something while sticking to it. She tried phasing through the ceiling of the danger room while she was sticking to it. The moment she tried phasing she lost her grip onto the ceiling and started to fall. Luckily Kurt noticed and was able to teleport and grab her before teleporting to safety so she didn't get hurt, lesson learned.

She eventually did tell the professor about the feeling she had been getting and how she was overcome one night. He tried to probe her mind but all he could find was that there was some kind of empathic link but he couldn't tell to who it linked Kitty to. She was frustrated at not knowing who she had this kind of a deep emotional connection to. To share the kind of pain and sorrow she had felt coming from another person was something that felt so… intimate to her. She had to put that on the back burner as she trained with the rest of her friends.

The whole X-men gang heard about this person called Spiderman on the news who was apparently cleaning up New York's criminal underground. Most of it was rumor and no one could get a clear picture of the masked hero but Kitty had a sense of familiarity with him. Probably because it seemed like they had the same powers she thought that maybe he was the one who she was linked to. That was until the Daily Bugle started offering a cash reward for pictures of Spiderman. Kitty hated the paper for what it said and how it painted Spiderman she was eager to read anything on the hero. Rouge called her out on having a crush on the young vigilante. This caused Kitty to blush profusely but she didn't even try to deny it.

Then about a week before she was set to leave Kitty glanced and the front page of the Daily Bugle. The headline was Spiderman: Vigilante Villain! To which Kitty scoffed but under the headline was a large and clear picture of said hero. It a good picture of Spiderman some-how webbing up a couple of crooks that had broken into a shop. "Someone must have won that reward with this picture. I wonder who?" Kitty thought as she looked at the by-line. "Peter Parker why does that sound so…" Suddenly realization struck her. Peter was her classmate, he was on the field trip with her when she got bit by the spider, and he got bite by the same spider, could Peter Parker be Spiderman? She ran up to her room and quickly booted up her laptop and did a search.

Google: Peter Parker. She came up with some interesting things. There were articles and journals written by Richard and Mary Parker who Kitty guessed where Peters parents. She read a news article (from the Daily Bugle surprisingly) about the plane crash that killed the Parkers. Finally she found a very recent article about an elderly man who was gunned down for his car by a crook hoping to escape from the police. The article told of Ben Parker, who died in the arms of his nephew Peter before the EMTs could arrive on the scene. The article later went on to say that the murderer was tracked to an abandoned warehouse and when the police searched the building after hearing gunshots go off they found the man tied up in some kind of synthetic webbing, hanging upside-down and severely beaten up. This was the first appearance of Spiderman. However it was the date of the article that most surprised her. The date and times given in the article were the exact date and time of the night she was overcome. The night she cried and felt such horrible things from the back of her mind it coincided perfectly with the tragedy that befell Peter Parker.

The pieces all fell into place. Peter was bitten by the same spider that she herself was bitten by and attributed to her new powers. Peter was the one who was the source of the great tragedy she felt that night. Peter had a reason to go after that murderer, and that was the first appearance of Spiderman who had some of the same powers as her. And Peter was so-far the only one who has been able to take a picture, a good picture, of Spiderman. "Peter must be Spiderman!" Kitty yelled in her mind. "But how is it that I feel what he was feeling?" the only answer she could come up with was where the feeling came from in her mind. It felt like they were coming from the same part of her mind that her spider-sense resided in. she thought that perhaps because they were bitten by the same spider then perhaps their spider-senses were some-how linked. Sure it was farfetched but it was the only thing she could come up with.

And so as summer drew to a close Kitty began to implement her plan, her plan to meet Spiderman and help him fight crime. She had some ideas for what to do with a costume, but she had already picked out her name. Borrowing from her old code name she decided she would become, Shadow-Spider!

There was still a month left over the summer. And though Kitty couldn't figure out how Peter was able to make a shoot those cool webs she was able to make a costume for herself. She styled it after Peter's costume that she got a few good pictures of thanks to Peter himself having his pictures published in the paper. Using a computer design tool she designed her costume. She kept Peter's texture and pattern of his suit but she changed the coloration. She changed the red to a dark purple that was her favorite color and made the blue areas a darker shade of blue. She kept the webbing pattern black and was very happy with how it looked. She took her design down into the X-Men complex under the mansion and quickly made a couple costumes after imputing the design into one of the machines. She was glad she was able to get this done before going back to New York. Now at least she would be able to meet Peter in his Spiderman identity and talk to him about it.

A/n there it is the first "Full" chapter of Two Spiders. Before I go on I would like to say that I am going to be toning down Kitty's phasing ability from what it is in the comics. She can't phase through things while she is using her wall crawling and when she gets them her web shooters. She can't phase through high level energy attacks and things like explosions, and shockwaves still affect her to a degree like stunning her. Can't have her be too powerful and outshine Peter. Also about Kitty finding out Spiderman's secret identity so quickly she had access to one thing that made it all click, the shared spider-sense. Also she knew that she developed powers from that spider bite and she reasoned that Peter did as well. For now though no one else knows and can't figure it out like that because they aren't advertising that that's how they got their powers. Thanks to every one!

A/n UPDATE: there it is my re edited version. I added some stuff re arranged some stuff and even put in Kitty getting her costume. If anyone has any artistic skills and wants to try their hand at drawing Kitty's costume feel free! Basically her costume is a just like Spidergirl's from the MC2 universe only with purple instead of red. Also the band I Fight Dragons is a real band, they are in my opinion really good and kinda geeky would makes sense for both Kitty and Peter to like them. Later guys!