The Night The Heroes Fell: Chapter 2, Spider-Man

Peter Parker lifts open the small window leading to the bedroom of his apartment, slipping in and breathing a sigh of relief as he sees her beautiful red hair strewn across her pillow. He puts both feet on the ground careful not to wake his sleeping wife, and tip toes his way to the bathroom to take a shower. While letting the water pour over him, Peter recaps his day out as "The Amazing Spider-Man". He spent most of the day scouring the city for crime, but today although eventful, was a slow day for New York City. He only came across 2 muggings, and a bank robbery, all committed by lowlife thugs with no extraordinary abilities. Otherwise everything was quiet today...a little bit too quiet. Peter got out of the shower, placed his costume in the wash, and lied down next to his wife for a good nights rest. Just as Peter closes his eyes, ready to embrace the sweet release of sleep. "BOOM." A huge explosion leveled apartment buildings a few blocks away. Peters eyes shot open and he leapt upwards, and in the blink of an eye he was dressed head to toe in his Spider-Man costume, even though it had not gotten a chance to dry, but a damp costume was only a minor concern at the moment. He hugged Mary Jane tightly, and whispered to her assuring he would be back. "I am Spider-Man after all." He proudly proclaims. Mary Jane not even bothering to open her eyes says in a sleepy slur "Go getem tigerrrr." Peter cracks a wide smile and zips out of the window and into the dark night sky. He looks around for the source of the explosion and over the horizon he sees it...the S.H.I.E.L.D. Heli-Carrier plummeting towards New York City. "Aw come on." Says Peter as he secures his web line to a near by building and throws himself into the sky. When Spidey reaches the crash site he sees something he never expected, some of the most powerful villains that had ever plagued this universe. The Enchantress, Loki, Magneto, as well as a plethora of his own rogues gallery littered the sky's as they descended upon Times Square. Knowing this was no battle he could win on his own, Pete raced off to find help in the form of other heroes who would protect New York at all costs. Arriving at what remains of the Baxter Building, Peter hopelessly digs through piles of rubble looking for any sign of the Fantastic Four. He breathes a sigh of relief whenever his search turns up empty, he knew they would've been able to escape he just had to make sure. Next he heads to Avengers Mansion, but they were not so lucky. As he enters the crumpled front gate, he can already see the bodies from here. Carol Danvers, Ms. Marvel, was strung from atop the mansions front door, her stomach torn open with her entrails falling out. The horror hit Peter even deeper when he entered the mansion. He walked in to discover Sabertooth, the long time X-Men villain feasting on what remained of the Avengers long time butler, Jarvis. As soon as Sabertooth smelled Peter he lunged in his direction, but the attack was easily dodged and countered into a spinning kick that sent the mutant crashing through the dry wall. It's not often Spider-Man faces a foe he can cut loose against, but after what Sabertooth had done it was worth it. He launched an absolute barrage of lightning quick kicks and punches landing every single one and immobilizing Sabertooth. As the monster laid on the ground, Peter made sure to web him down in such a way that he would not be rising any time soon. In comes Scott Lang, the Ant-Man, "Spider-Man? Man I'm so glad to see you, we've got to get out of here they've killed everyone." He says in almost a calm tone. Spider-Man doesn't even waste his time using one of his quips, he knew that this situation was life or death and his spider sense was a scorching fire in the back of his mind. He leapt over "Scott Lang" and swept his legs out from under him. When he hit the floor his skin immediately went from the bright Caucasian of Scott Lang to the Dark Blue of Mystique. She threw herself up from the ground and began engaging in an absolute fury of hand to hand combat with the wall crawler. Spider-Man could hardly think before his next move as their bodies were moving so fast in this battle, eventually Peter shot up to the ceiling and webbed Mystiques entire face, as the darkness closed in around her eyes she angrily swung and lunged out in pure hatred hoping to strike the wall crawler. Seeing each one of these attacks now in slow motion, he webbed her arms and legs, placing her next to Sabertooth on the carpeted floor. Now knowing that there were villains still here, Pete stuck to the ceiling, crawling from room to room to see if any Avengers had even survived. He came across the bodies of the actual Scott Lang, Tigra, and Falcon lay strewn across the Avengers meeting room down stairs. The headless corpse of Scott Lang was sitting neatly in a chair with a cup of coffee in front of him. Tigra was thrown through all of the monitors that lined the front of the room, and Falcon, with wings irreparably torn apart, was atop the tables center, with his heart completely torn from his chest. Spider-Man felt a wave of sickness come over him. He lifted his mask so he could vomit onto the blood stained floor. "H-How could they do this?" He thought to himself loudly as if to drown out the blaring of his Spider-Sense echoing through his mind. He returned to the defeated villains for answers, and he got none. They just laughed upon his attempts to intimidate them into submission. "You may have defeated us Spider-Man, but you have no idea what is coming." Mystique stated as she smiled a wide, despicable grin. Peter turned away in disgust and swung out of that building as quick as he could, and up into the bright lights of the NYC sky line. He headed back to Times Square hoping to not see any more horrors that this night may bring. He landed upon a roof overlooking the city wide chaos, he needed to catch his breath and regroup but he could no longer stand idly by as citizens and heroes alike were being slaughtered. Peter looked backwards, deep into his mind and saw the face of his Uncle Ben, and the words that came out of his mouth were easily identifiable, he'd been telling himself the same sentence for years on end now, he followed its code every single day. "With great power, comes great responsibility." Peter mouthed it as he heard his uncles voice say it in his head. It was Peters responsibility to not allow any more innocents to be harmed, Spider-Man must once again save the day. He scoured the streets taking out thugs and low level villains alike, until he happened upon what seemed to be his allies attempting to hold their ground. Daredevil, She-Hulk, and Moon Knight stood fighting as hard as they possibly could against the invading forces of not only super villains, but Hydra and A.I.M. Soldiers as well. Spider-Man joined them in their crusade, only able to utter a few words in between punches. "What is going on!?" Parker yelled out. "I have absolutely no clue Web Head, we've been fighting bad guys and saving innocents for over 2 hours, where are the Avengers!?". "They're dead." Spider-Man responded, "At least Ms. Marvel, Ant Man, Tigra, and Falcon are dead, the rest are unaccounted for." With that sentence Peter hears a familiar cackle from the sky as well as the hum from his glider. "OSBORN!" With a sense of urgency Peter leaps upwards using his webs to grapple to the glider. As he climbed up, he stood face to face with Norman Osborn, his greatest enemy. In the split seconds that followed so many memories flashed before his eyes. He saw Gwen, he saw Harry, he saw Aunt May, Uncle Ben, and finally he saw Mary Jane. The absolute love of his life fueled Spider-Mans passion to win this battle, if not for himself, then for MJ. He threw punch after punch all of them connecting upon the Goblins green chin, Osborn tumbled off and plummeted to the street below as Spidey swung himself to safety on a near by fire escape. From this fire escape he saw Moon Knight get completely fried by Electro, as well as Daredevil being turned to mush by the Enchantress, and Punisher being torn in half by Kraven the Hunter. She-Hulk sent Kraven through a building, and tossed Electro's body into Enchantress. She jumped as far as she could away and disappeared into the New York Skyline. Jen was smart, she knew even She-Hulk couldn't win this battle so she fled, and Spider-Man did the same. Arriving back at his apartment he slid up through the window and onto the wooden floor. A brief sigh of relief over came him, until he noticed the beautiful red hair that once lay upon her pillow was gone. "MARY JANE!" He screamed at the top of his lungs. "I should've never left her alone even for a second.", he thought to himself. As Spider-Man threw himself back into the city in search of his wife, everything else began crumbling apart.