The next day at the Coffee Bean, a local coffee shop in the Queens area which teenagers use as a hangout. Peter a brown haired boy in his normal clothes of jeans and a yellow shirt was talking to 'Flash' Thompson a much bigger blonde haired boy. They were there for a tutoring session.

"...Flash, without air resistance to be accounted for it would be possible for a rock and a feather to land at the same time once dropped at the same point..."Peter was explaining to Flash as he was staring at the notes in disbelief.

"So a rock and a feather... Seriously Parker how is this physics supposed to make sense? Why don't we learn about the cool science like how Tony Stark builds his armors?" Flash complained as Peter just covered his face with his hands.

"Don't worry Peter, after today you will only need to see Flash on these tutoring sessions. Once you are at Horizon High?" Peter thought to himself as he calmed himself down.

"Look even Tony Stark had to learn all this before he made his armor. Well he did make his first circuit board as a toddler so he probably learned it all very easily and quickly so... bad example..." Peter chuckled weakly as Flash just glared at him. Peter sighed again and shook his head.

"Well Flash, since you have been making some progress how about we call it a day?" Peter asked as Flash then put his stuff away.

"I better get better al all this science stuff soon, if I fail Mr Salerno's test I can kiss my spot on the team goodbye..." Flash muttered as he then went off.

"Wow, it looks like dealing with Flash hasn't gotten any easier after I left Midtown." said a black haired boy Peter's age in a green shirt and black trousers. The boy Harry Osborn sat down next to Peter and they greeted eachother.

"Well I may not have to deal with him so much anymore because guess what email message I got!" Peter said digging out his phone and showing Harry the email. Harry looked at it with his mouth wide open.

"That's great Peter; we will both be at Horizon together! I can show you all the classes and we can work on our projects together. The school lets you work on your own experiments in your own labs!" Harry told him ecstatic which Peter returned.

"Plus no more nerdy Peter to be made fun of, there will be other braniacs like us. I bet Alistair will be happy to have no more academic rivals at Midtown." Peter told him and they shared a laugh.

They then heard rock music and then both ran outside to see there was a crowd being drawn. They looked and saw Clayton in his costume floating in air and going past with his thrusters. They then both realized who it was.

"Wait, isn't that Clayton Cole?" Peter asked remembering the photos on the news websites.

"Oh yeah, a student at Horizon who got expelled after using an invention he made to try and pretend to be a superhero. How stupid is that?" Harry asked Peter and he looked at him trying not to look sheepish. Especially with what he started doing.

"Sorry Harry, I have to go... I will see you at Horizon tomorrow..." Peter told him running away leaving behind a puzzled Harry.

Peter then went into an alleyway to change into the Spider-Man outfit and Web-Shooters he brought with him. "I better go see what he is up to, especially since he paid an actor to pretend to be a supervillain for him to fight..." Peter thought in his head.

*PB*

Max Modell, a big man with glasses, red hair and a goatee and a light blue collared shirt was driving about in his car. The respected scientists, founder, owner and principal of Horizon Academy were making a delivery to his building. He stopped his car when he saw there was some sort of police blockade going on at the roads.

Confused he exited through the door of his car and went up to one of the police officers. "Can you please tell me what is going on officer?" he asked one of the police officers, a bald headed African American man with a black goatee.

"Seems that the Clash kid wants to make a comeback." The police officer told him pointing up to the sky. Max was taken aback by this and looked up to gasp at the sight of Clayton floating about in his suit.

"Plus we got a call from Cole's mother saying that she found his tracking bracelet deactivated in his room along with a screwdriver. Must have been planning this for quite some thing." Remarked one of the other police officers as Max was staring at Clayton in the sky.

"Clayton, is that you?" Max asked alarmed and a little angry, Clayton then floated down at the other side of the blockade. He was facing his palms at the police cars and the police officer told his men to clear the area.

The police officers got the civilians and Max far back enough to be out of the way as Clayton sent sonic sound blasts to push the police cars back. He then began walking towards Max and yelled out "Max Modell, I looked up to you! I wanted to show you how bright my future will be and show I could be the next Tony Stark! Just because of one little accident, you expel me?"

Max was taken back and yelled at him "One little accident? You staged a dangerous stunt to pretend to be a hero that caused damage to the property we still haven't fixed, you almost got yourself killed and you endangered yourself and your fellow students. Do you really think real superheroes would do what you did?"

Clash then angrily was ready to shoot a sonic pulse at Max but he then began running away with Clayton coming after him. "So a delusional kid with gadgets gets himself into trouble trying to be a superhero so he decided to get revenge on his old idol, we got a real Syndrome on our hands." Commented one of the police officers earning looks from the main police officer and the other officers.

"What Captain Morales? The Incredibles is my favorite movie and I must have watched that trailer for the sequel over a hundred times..." muttered the officer as the main one.

"Well Manolis, just focus on catching the Cole kid before he has his chance to send in an Omnidroid." Police Captain Jefferson Morales snarked at the officer as they armed themselves and went chasing after Clayton.

Clayton then turned around and sent a sonic blast at their direction, before they could even shield themselves Peter went slinging by and pushed them out of the way. "Oh great another one..." one of the police officers muttered.

"Don't worry officers, your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is here!" Peter told them with a salute as he then noticed that the blast ended up hitting and destroying one of the police cars. "Sorry..." Peter muttered sheepishly as he then began going after Clayton.

They were about to question Peter when Clayton used a pulse to send a car after Peter which he caught to their amazement and then jumped right over to get at him. "Should we do something captain?" one of the police officers asked Jefferson who was looking at the scene perplexed.

"This could easily be either another of Cole's stunt or someone trying to help, let's just wait and see." Jefferson ordered and they complied. Hopefully he would not end up regretting that decision.

"I am after my revenge so I do not need to go after some lousy copycat!" Clayton shouted at him floating in the air avoiding a blast of web that Peter shot right at him.

"Hey, I am no copycat! You were some sound guy and I am an Arachnid one. Besides why would I want to copy you?" Peter taunted making Clayton quite angry. A realization came to Peter and he asked "What do you hope to accomplish? Everyone knows who you are under that mask and you will probably be going to Juvie after this!" Peter asked as Clayton just laughed.

"I can always run away and reinvent myself somewhere else with a new name. I am a genius, besides even if I am caught I will make sure I will get my revenge first. First on Modell and then everybody who had been making fun of me for the last month..." Clayton shouted only for Peter to use the time that Clayton spent monologing to aim at his goggles and sent a shot of webbing to it.

Peter then ran to another building as Clayton ripped the webbing off his goggles and tried to find where Peter went. Peter walked up one of the nearby buildings. "Quickly before he finds me, I see that the backpack must be the source of his technology. I f I take that out then I take out Clash and I will just have to hand him over to the police afterwards..." Peter thought in his head as he calculated the trajectory on how to make it to where Clayton was floating about haphazardly.

He then jumped from the building and shouted right at a lamp post and turned to Clayton's direction. Aiming carefully he punched at Clayton's backpack causing it to malfunction as he caught him in his arms.

Peter then managed to land safely and let go of Clayton, Clayton had time to catch his bearings as he was being unmasked and handcuffed.

"So what about the webbing all around here?" asked one of the police officers with a slight glare to Peter and he shrank down.

"Don't worry; it dissolves after an hour..." Peter explained as Max went up to him.

"Spider-Man, is it?" Max asked and Peter was lost for words about meeting one of his heroes in person and just nodded. "Thanks for the help there, if you are going to keep doing this then please make sure you are not reckless like Clayton was or try and squander your gifts." Max asked and Peter gave him a salute.

"I can't speak for the rest of the NYPD but in my books anyway, I think you might be alright Spider-Man. Try and be careful out there!" Jefferson told him as Clayton was being hauled into a police car. Peter then gave a salute as he then web slinged off.

*PB*

A limo arrived at a large office building. Out exited a mustached African American man wearing a red cap and a light blue hooded jumper. The man called Tony Consiglio called to the other man in the limo saying "come on Lee, after Owlsley sees you the position will be as good as yours."

Out next from the limo was a cold looking messy black haired man in his early twenties in a trenchcoat. The man called Lee Price sighed as he followed Tony to the entrance of the building. "Not that I am not grateful for you getting me this interview Tony but... Why is a rich Mayoral candidate interested in a discharged Army Ranger for a job?" Lee asked sounding like he was actually quite unconcerned about the situation.

"Well please don't be offended Lee but... He needs someone quite willing to compromise their own morals and he works with some 'unsavory' people." Tony stated looking a bit uncomfortable with telling Lee this, as if he would be offending him.

"Of course he is Tony; he's on Wall Street going to be a politician." Lee fired back at Tony who just laughed in return.

*PB*

"While Mr Clayton Cole has been brought into police custody, if seemed there is a new masked crime-fighter on the scene known as Spider-Man..." said Whitney Chang on the news.

At the two bedroom apartment shared by Peter and his Aunt May a brown haired woman, they were sitting down watching the news on TV while eating dinner. "I swear it's getting more dangerous to be out there nowadays. Best to stay far away from those sort of things." Aunt May sighed and Peter gave a nod while trying not to act suspicious.

"But still you've got a big day tomorrow, you're first day at Horizon High. I best Ben would be so proud of you!" Aunt May told Peter giving him a hug which he returned and smiled.

Peter then finished his food and went back to his bedroom. He got out his phone to show the equation his Uncle Ben had brought up and so began using an old sewing machine he had fixed up to sew the equation into the back.

"Apart of me feels bad for Clayton but he needed to be stopped and I hope he learns his lesson about responsibility now. I wish the lesson didn't sink in me too late too. I may have lost Uncle Ben but I will honor his memory by using his example of using my gifts responsibly. This weekend started a new chapter for me and I intend to see it all the way through. Plus I might try and find Bruce again next week and bring him up to speed, it would be nice to have a friend I could talk to about all this..." Peter smirked as he was working on the sewing.

When I noticed the similarities of Clash and Syndrome, I could not resist making the Incredibles joke! I hope to keep this story going and maybe one day it could have its own TV tropes page!