Summary/Disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Shadow of the Spider. Enjoy the 800-word chapter. I don't own Spider-Man, Marvel and a few others do.
(New York, Brooklyn, Earth 2260)
"Preston!" Preston heard and turned to see Gwen hug him, the blue eyed, blond, purplish hair girl hugged him, Preston returned the hug.
"Hey Wen, what's new? I haven't seen you since middle school!" Preston yelled before the sound of a car pulling up and someone stepping out.
"Hey, Pres, you still fixing up old laptops?" Preston heard as he and Gwen turned to see Harry Osborn as he pulled at his slick black hair.
"I don't know, you still going around, being the son of the biggest billionaire in the entire country?" Preston asked, earning a laugh from the teen.
"Well, it is the first day of school, maybe we should…." Harry started to say before a squadron of Police Cruisers sailed by, Preston turned and saw that school was being put on hold since nobody wanted the students getting hurt.
That was the perfect excuse he needed, Preston turned and ran off.
"I'm going to get help, you guys head inside, ok?" Preston asked, both nodded.
Preston quickly changed into his costume, webbed his bag behind the dumpster and ran up the walls before firing a web-line which swung him down the street.
"Man, I pray Aunt May doesn't find out I ran off on my first day of school… Still, I haven't really seen Gwen and Harry in years… I'll have to talk up a storm when I get back to school." Preston said before he landed on the hood of a patrol car and flung himself forward.
That was when a burst of energy threw him off the car, for a second, it looked like a portal, Preston blinked before gunshots rang out.
There was a dozen or so thugs with rifles, shotguns and pistols firing at the police who took cover behind their cruisers.
Preston quickly vaulted over the sirens of one cruiser, using it as a springboard to throw himself at a pillar.
Preston fired 2 more lines to 2 thugs with rifles and pulled, yanking them off their feet before he webbed them to the archway.
"Geez, you guys make a withdraw on your brains?" Spidey quipped as he landed, the thugs turned and 2 were knocked out by a few lucky shots from the cops.
"Spider-Man?!" One of the thugs yelled as Preston made a mock salute with 2 of his fingers.
"What's new, you guys blow in from the bad part of town, or did you guys just wake up think, 'hey, it'd be sweet to rob a bank, I bet even Spider-Man couldn't stop me!'" Spidey said before the thugs growled and shot at the hero as he flipped onto a pillar, he leapt down and drop kicked one of the thugs.
The man slammed into 2 of his buddies and Preston quickly webbed all 3 to the ground, Preston felt bullets whiz by his face.
He flipped through the gunfire, grabbing one of the fallen rifles before turning and tossing the rifle at one of the thugs.
It hit him square in the face and caused the man to pass out and crash to the ground, Preston felt his Spider Sense flash and he turned to see another thug raise his shotgun at him.
Preston turned and quickly fired a web at the man before yanking his arm downward, forcing him to shoot the ground.
Spidey then turned and yanked the thug turn him and kicked the guy into the chest before slamming him to the ground.
He turned to see the other 5 thugs starting to put their weapons down, clearly realizing that trying to fight Spidey and the police wasn't going to work.
Preston then saw a portal down the street and swung over towards it, leaving the Police to handle the thugs, he landed in the ally and tapped the side of his mask.
His eye lenses narrowed and he looked around, the portal vanished, but Preston bent down and studied the ground.
"A quantum wormhole, but why? Why would there be a tear in time space in New York?" Spider Man asked while he looked around, he turned and look around and saw a trail leading from the portal, it was small and eight legged.
He didn't notice the glowing spiders.
Author Notes
Phew, another chapter done! Yes, I know this chapter is short, next chapter is going to be longer. Also, I want to point out this story will follow the movie, but will do so soon… Spider Gwen and Miles will show up soon… Also, to the guy asking if Preston can be Venom? No, he can't, sorry, he's Spider Man. Next chapter will be on next Wednesday and will show Preston meeting another familiar character. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!