The New Ultimate Spider-Man V1
Chapter 2: The Rhino
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"So fifteen days after the Civil War began…" the teacher droned.
I wasn't paying attention to her.
I mean, I know you're supposed to pay attention in class, but I have a good average in History so I didn't pay attention.
Besides, I couldn't keep focus if I tried.
Last night I couldn't sleep because I kept thinking about what my dad would think if he knew I were Spider-Man.
He was one of Spider-Man's haters.
What a wonderful day!
Sarcasm to the fullest…
The rest of class went by slowly and so did the rest of the day.
I rushed back home avoiding Joey again.
And again I put on the costume and went into the city.
It was pretty quiet that day.
I got used to swinging pretty quickly and started using acrobatic moves every time I got off of a web, which was so cool.
I swung up to a skyscraper and opened a pouch in my utility belt and took out my phone.
I turned it on put in the password and saw one new message.
It was from Joey.
Dude, where are you? It read.
Now this was another problem, should I tell Joey if I'm Spider-Man?
I guess I could since he adored the old one.
Besides it would be nice to have someone to help me with this.
But I probably shouldn't, it would put him, and his family in danger.
I got up, stretched, and put my mask and hood on.
I jumped off the building soaring through the air and web zipped to a flag.
Using the momentum from the web zip I kicked off of the flag pole darting to the right.
I fired a web line on a billboard and continued swinging trying to spot a crime.
After ten minutes I finally stopped looking and sat at the edge of a building.
I dangled my legs off of the roof looking at the six o'clock news on a screen in Times Square.
There was a homemade video that someone captured of me swinging through the city.
Following that was people's opinion of the new Spider-Man.
Most were good, some were bad, but overall I think they liked me.
But that was immediately cut off by a newsflash of some guy dressed up in… a rhino suit?
He was tearing apart the bridge to Queens.
I raced to the bridge and perched on a rail looking for it.
My vision flashed and turned to blue.
I scanned the area and saw a red silhouette.
I pushed of the rail and landed on the hood of a damaged car.
I saw a 7 foot man dressed in a Rhino costume.
"Um excuse me sir, but I'm going to ask you to waddle on over to flat land, you're already exceeding the bridges weight limit," I said.
He turned around and snarled.
"Puny spiders gonna get crushed!" he shouted charging at me.
I flipped over him and fired to web lines at his back holding him back before he ran himself over the bridge.
"Hey! I was just being friendly, I mean seriously, it's not muscle if that's what you think, it's fat!" I said grinning under the mask.
"You're going to regret that, punk!" he growled throwing a car at me.
I ducked just in time.
And my vision flashed blue again.
I scanned the car in the first half of the second noticing civilians in there and in the other I spun around firing a web line at the back bumper.
"Agh!" I groaned.
The car was heavy as hell.
My muscles screamed as I pulled the car up onto the bridge.
The back of my neck buzzed and before I could turn around four hundred pounds of force slammed into me.
I flew backwards off of the bridge.
Thanks to my superhuman strength I managed not to lose too much control, but that hit is really going to kill in the morning.
I crossed my arms, fired to web lines, and yanked myself up onto the bridge.
I landed on the bridge breathing heavily.
"That's… not nice," I said.
"I'm not here to be nice!" he snapped charging me.
I jumped up just in time.
He wasn't able to slow himself down and the giant white horn on his head was stuck to the bridge.
"You know Rhi, you have a bad aim," I said.
Rhino placed his hands on the bridge and pushed his horn out of it.
He just stared at me.
"What? Do I have somthin" I couldn't finish.
He stomped on the ground causing a shockwave.
It knocked me backwards into a car.
My head was spinning as I got to my feet.
I put my hands on my knees and panted.
I looked up.
Rhino was punching cars, opening the doors, and lifting them as if he was looking for something.
Wait! He is looking for something.
I stumbled behind him.
"What forgot your purse?" I asked him.
Rhino spun around.
"Now you're getting on my nerves!" he yelled bringing down his large, muscular, fists.
I jumped up onto his arm.
He brought it up to eye level as if he were confused.
I took it to my advantage and shot webs into his eyes.
"Enjoy the silly string!" I said with delight propelling myself off of his arm and kicking him under the chin in the process.
I landed in a sort of crouch that I saw on Spider-Man's movie.
"I can't see!" he muttered.
"Well, duh! What do you think was the point of that? Are you really THAT stupid?" I asked him mockingly.
That really pissed him off.
He charged at me and caught me.
He kept running going out of his way to get me to hit every car.
Pain was shooting through my body with everything he got me to hit.
I struggled in his grip but it was no use, he had me trapped.
He stopped at the edge of the bridge and threw me backwards like a water balloon.
I flew backwards and landed in the middle of the street.
"Ungh…" I moaned.
I struggled to get up.
When I finally got up and went back to the bridge he was gone.
What was he looking for? And what could have been on that bridge that was so important to him?
xXx
Rhino walked into a large abandoned room.
It was the presidential office of Oscorp a company that was shut down by the government after proof of Norman Osborn, the CEO of the company, had become the Green Goblin. Many people in New York lost their jobs. Oscorp had been run for two years and had grown nationwide supplying many people all over the country with jobs.
After the company shut down the Oscorp building became abandoned until one man decided it needed to go on.
Seth Dunn was the man to start the company up again.
Or was the one to try.
The company had not officially reopened but was in the works.
Seth Dunn was the next Norman Osborn and would become the next Goblin.
Of course he would be a man of his word and lead the company, but would not be so reckless with his experiments.
"Please, Mr. Sytevich, come in," Seth said.
Seth Dunn was about 5'9 and had blonde hair and green eyes with pale skin. He normally wore a black suit and a red tie and didn't appear in public too much.
"I got the part you wanted boss," Rhino said walking into the giant office.
The room itself was huge.
Four large columns lined each wall with a metal knight with a spear standing in front of them.
The walls were lined with certificates and pictures.
The floors were black and white marble except for the thick red carpet leading to the desk.
The desk was brown and had the Oscorp logo on front.
On the desk were a laptop and some papers.
Behind the desk was a large window covering the back wall.
Rhino took the two steps leading up to the desk and placed the metal box on the desk.
"Good work, Mr. Systevich," Seth said spinning to face Rhino in his chair.
"And now, for your reward," Seth placed a suitcase on the desk.
"You may go, Mr. Sytevich, I will call you if needed," Seth said dismissing him.
Rhino took the suitcase and left.
Seth opened the box and took out the flash drive.
He opened his laptop, put in his password, and slid the chip in.
Seth smiled.
He was going to take over this city.
