Title: Tangled Webs
Author: Sparkling Diamond Satine
Summary and disclaimer are in Chapter 1, as well as a short warning.
Rating: PG-13
Note: Thanks Lucky aka Jessica-Canada/OGM for pointing out my error, I fixed it and already my story looks better hehe! ((By the way, it was just the mistake of typing too fast…it happens sometimes, can't catch every error!
Note 2: Dark Jedi Princess, yes Peter did graduate from high school, but I decided to change the movie/comic/cartoon version to create an alternate universe where Peter got expelled after the fight.
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Chapter 2~Weird
Peter narrating
This is when things started to get really weird. I wake up and immediately find everything's changed. Nothing in my life would remain the same, not even good old MJ. But, luckily I would be given a chance to show that I'm not the nerd everybody thought I was.
~*~
Peter woke up and observed his surroundings through half-open eyes. He noticed that his room appeared blurry, so he swung his hand up to search for the pair of glasses that he left on his dresser the night before. When he triumphantly placed them on his nose, he was surprised to find that his whole world looked even blurrier than before, so he tried taking them off and putting them back on to hopefully correct the problem.
"That's weird…" Peter mumbled, and stopped in front of the mirror when something didn't seem right. He examined his newly developed muscles. The fact that he even had muscles was strange, for he had never worked out in gym before in his life.
"Peter, are you all right?" Aunt May asked.
"I'm…fine!" Peter said, flexing his biceps. He grinned at his newfound strength and grabbed a random shirt that was lying in his dresser.
He hopped down the stairs with ease, and even kicked off the wall that changes the directions the stairs are heading in.
"Peter, I thought you were sick!" Aunt May said, just as surprised as Peter was.
"I got better!" Peter said, enthusiastically. He grabbed something to eat and some money for lunch and then gave both his loving aunt and kindly uncle a kiss on the cheek. "I'll see you tonight."
"Don't forget, Michelangelo, we're painting the kitchen tonight," Uncle Ben said, smiling.
"Don't start without me!" Peter said, laughing.
"And don't start with me!" Uncle Ben said before Peter ran out the door to catch the bus.
Before Peter could even make his way towards the bus stop, he overheard some arguing going on next-door over at the Watson residence. It seemed that Mary Jane's father was finding something wrong with the way Mary Jane dressed and was yelling for some booze.
"I've got to go to school, daddy!" Mary Jane said, urgently, wishing she could live somewhere else.
Mary Jane hurried out of her house, and proceeded to walk in front of Peter. She seemed lost in thought, so Peter practiced what he would say when they ended up getting to the bus stop later.
But they never made it to the bus stop, for Mary Jane jumped into her friends' car and rode to school with them. Peter sulked for a few minutes, until the bus sped away in front of him. He ran as fast as he could and started banging on the walls of the bus, until his hand caught on the banner, showing off the name of the school mascot, the Wildcats. He found that the paper stuck to his hand and flew off the bus, so he slowed down to examine this phenomenon.
For the billionth time that morning, he said, "Weird," and continued on with his life. He never once stopped to think that perhaps it was the spider that had bitten him yesterday that caused all this unneeded changes in his life.
When he got to school, which was later than usual, because he walked instead of ran after the bus until it stopped, he went to find Harry to tell him about all the strange happenings of the day. Unfortunately, he couldn't find Harry, and went straight to first period.
Nothing unusual happened until lunch, where he sat eating lunch, alone as usual, and felt a strange sensation when Mary Jane walked by. He actually foresaw something bad happening to her. Seconds later, she slipped. He spun around and quickly caught her. He also managed to place his tray gracefully underneath all the accelerating food items that used to lie on her tray.
"Wow…great reflexes!" Mary Jane said, enthusiastically.
"Thanks," Peter said, seemingly speechless at what just happened.
"Hey, you have blue eyes…I never noticed with your glasses on. Did you get contacts?" Mary Jane asked a quiet, blue-eyed, quick-as-a-cat boy who was enthralled with the idea of holding Mary Jane in his arms for eternity.
Peter just smiled; he wanted nothing more than to sit at the lunch table and hold Mary Jane in this embrace. He noticed Mary Jane look at him strangely and excuse herself from this awkward moment.
Peter leaned his hand on his lunch tray, and then lifted it up moments later. He looked for his fork, to dig for the food within the dreaded inedible school food, but it seemed to be missing from his tray. He then proceeded to look at his hand, and gasped. Lying there, for no apparent reason except that it was stuck for almost the same reason that the banner was earlier, except this time, when he pulled the fork off, he found that there was a giant spider's web coming out of his wrist and attached to the fork.
Once again, the one word that seemed to describe everything that day was voiced. "Weird." Peter tried to rip the webbing off, but in the process, his middle and ring finger went down and triggered a new web to shoot out and stick onto another lunch tray.
He looked around to see if anyone noticed this taking place, and was dismayed when everyone was still talking, oblivious to what had just happened. With one flick of the rest, the lunch try flew across the room and hit Flash Thompson, who was happy enough without food all over his clothes.
"Who did this?" Flash asked, enraged.
Peter, seeing this as a good time to leave, quickly made his way toward the doors. It was too bad that he left a quite obvious trail, being that the tray was still stuck to the webbing shot out of his wrist.
"Freak…" Flash mumbled as Peter walked out the door and noticed that his tray was stuck outside, so he flung it out through the doorway.
Flash caught up with Peter, and tried to connect his fist with Peter's head, but missed completely after Peter sensed the hand flying towards him and dodged it.
A useless fight broke out, and was met with irritability by certain teachers, whose classes were disrupted. In fact, once Peter successfully won the fight, the principal called him down to the office and waited for the moment when he took pride in saying the two words that could make any grown man cry. "You're expelled."
Peter gaped the entire walk home. With him expelled, he would be unable to see Mary Jane every day at lunch and in physics. He would also be labeled with the "smart guy who fought his way out of school." Most of all, his aunt and uncle would be disappointed with him.
"What am I gonna tell Aunt May??" Peter kept thinking.
Peter narrating
Weird, isn't it? How everything can change in the snap of a finger, in a jiffy, in a flash. Now I must face certain inevitable doom in the form of letting my aunt and uncle down. There is only one thing standing between my switching schools. I would normally be fine with the whole idea, but if it weren't for MJ, Harry, and the rest of the people who are in my life, I would in fact not mind moving if I had to.
~*~
End: Chapter 2
Author: Sparkling Diamond Satine
Summary and disclaimer are in Chapter 1, as well as a short warning.
Rating: PG-13
Note: Thanks Lucky aka Jessica-Canada/OGM for pointing out my error, I fixed it and already my story looks better hehe! ((By the way, it was just the mistake of typing too fast…it happens sometimes, can't catch every error!
Note 2: Dark Jedi Princess, yes Peter did graduate from high school, but I decided to change the movie/comic/cartoon version to create an alternate universe where Peter got expelled after the fight.
~*~*~*~*~*~*
Chapter 2~Weird
Peter narrating
This is when things started to get really weird. I wake up and immediately find everything's changed. Nothing in my life would remain the same, not even good old MJ. But, luckily I would be given a chance to show that I'm not the nerd everybody thought I was.
~*~
Peter woke up and observed his surroundings through half-open eyes. He noticed that his room appeared blurry, so he swung his hand up to search for the pair of glasses that he left on his dresser the night before. When he triumphantly placed them on his nose, he was surprised to find that his whole world looked even blurrier than before, so he tried taking them off and putting them back on to hopefully correct the problem.
"That's weird…" Peter mumbled, and stopped in front of the mirror when something didn't seem right. He examined his newly developed muscles. The fact that he even had muscles was strange, for he had never worked out in gym before in his life.
"Peter, are you all right?" Aunt May asked.
"I'm…fine!" Peter said, flexing his biceps. He grinned at his newfound strength and grabbed a random shirt that was lying in his dresser.
He hopped down the stairs with ease, and even kicked off the wall that changes the directions the stairs are heading in.
"Peter, I thought you were sick!" Aunt May said, just as surprised as Peter was.
"I got better!" Peter said, enthusiastically. He grabbed something to eat and some money for lunch and then gave both his loving aunt and kindly uncle a kiss on the cheek. "I'll see you tonight."
"Don't forget, Michelangelo, we're painting the kitchen tonight," Uncle Ben said, smiling.
"Don't start without me!" Peter said, laughing.
"And don't start with me!" Uncle Ben said before Peter ran out the door to catch the bus.
Before Peter could even make his way towards the bus stop, he overheard some arguing going on next-door over at the Watson residence. It seemed that Mary Jane's father was finding something wrong with the way Mary Jane dressed and was yelling for some booze.
"I've got to go to school, daddy!" Mary Jane said, urgently, wishing she could live somewhere else.
Mary Jane hurried out of her house, and proceeded to walk in front of Peter. She seemed lost in thought, so Peter practiced what he would say when they ended up getting to the bus stop later.
But they never made it to the bus stop, for Mary Jane jumped into her friends' car and rode to school with them. Peter sulked for a few minutes, until the bus sped away in front of him. He ran as fast as he could and started banging on the walls of the bus, until his hand caught on the banner, showing off the name of the school mascot, the Wildcats. He found that the paper stuck to his hand and flew off the bus, so he slowed down to examine this phenomenon.
For the billionth time that morning, he said, "Weird," and continued on with his life. He never once stopped to think that perhaps it was the spider that had bitten him yesterday that caused all this unneeded changes in his life.
When he got to school, which was later than usual, because he walked instead of ran after the bus until it stopped, he went to find Harry to tell him about all the strange happenings of the day. Unfortunately, he couldn't find Harry, and went straight to first period.
Nothing unusual happened until lunch, where he sat eating lunch, alone as usual, and felt a strange sensation when Mary Jane walked by. He actually foresaw something bad happening to her. Seconds later, she slipped. He spun around and quickly caught her. He also managed to place his tray gracefully underneath all the accelerating food items that used to lie on her tray.
"Wow…great reflexes!" Mary Jane said, enthusiastically.
"Thanks," Peter said, seemingly speechless at what just happened.
"Hey, you have blue eyes…I never noticed with your glasses on. Did you get contacts?" Mary Jane asked a quiet, blue-eyed, quick-as-a-cat boy who was enthralled with the idea of holding Mary Jane in his arms for eternity.
Peter just smiled; he wanted nothing more than to sit at the lunch table and hold Mary Jane in this embrace. He noticed Mary Jane look at him strangely and excuse herself from this awkward moment.
Peter leaned his hand on his lunch tray, and then lifted it up moments later. He looked for his fork, to dig for the food within the dreaded inedible school food, but it seemed to be missing from his tray. He then proceeded to look at his hand, and gasped. Lying there, for no apparent reason except that it was stuck for almost the same reason that the banner was earlier, except this time, when he pulled the fork off, he found that there was a giant spider's web coming out of his wrist and attached to the fork.
Once again, the one word that seemed to describe everything that day was voiced. "Weird." Peter tried to rip the webbing off, but in the process, his middle and ring finger went down and triggered a new web to shoot out and stick onto another lunch tray.
He looked around to see if anyone noticed this taking place, and was dismayed when everyone was still talking, oblivious to what had just happened. With one flick of the rest, the lunch try flew across the room and hit Flash Thompson, who was happy enough without food all over his clothes.
"Who did this?" Flash asked, enraged.
Peter, seeing this as a good time to leave, quickly made his way toward the doors. It was too bad that he left a quite obvious trail, being that the tray was still stuck to the webbing shot out of his wrist.
"Freak…" Flash mumbled as Peter walked out the door and noticed that his tray was stuck outside, so he flung it out through the doorway.
Flash caught up with Peter, and tried to connect his fist with Peter's head, but missed completely after Peter sensed the hand flying towards him and dodged it.
A useless fight broke out, and was met with irritability by certain teachers, whose classes were disrupted. In fact, once Peter successfully won the fight, the principal called him down to the office and waited for the moment when he took pride in saying the two words that could make any grown man cry. "You're expelled."
Peter gaped the entire walk home. With him expelled, he would be unable to see Mary Jane every day at lunch and in physics. He would also be labeled with the "smart guy who fought his way out of school." Most of all, his aunt and uncle would be disappointed with him.
"What am I gonna tell Aunt May??" Peter kept thinking.
Peter narrating
Weird, isn't it? How everything can change in the snap of a finger, in a jiffy, in a flash. Now I must face certain inevitable doom in the form of letting my aunt and uncle down. There is only one thing standing between my switching schools. I would normally be fine with the whole idea, but if it weren't for MJ, Harry, and the rest of the people who are in my life, I would in fact not mind moving if I had to.
~*~
End: Chapter 2
