A few days later Miles was in his room reading a textbook for his homework, wanting to get it over and done with due to it being a Saturday. He heard a knock on his door and he went to answer it to see that Ganke was at the door.
Miles invited him in and Ganke excitedly told him "dude, I am done with the decorating of the costume, the paint has all dried and everything. At least come and see." Miles shook his head and thought why not as they went all the way to his room.
When they went up there Ganke showed him the decorated suit, there was dark red paint around the eye lenses, the dark red paint was on the lam of the hands as well as the top of the fingers and the soles of the feet. There dark red lines going over the shoulders of the suit and a line connecting them from the front. Underneath where the lines were connected was a large dark red spider symbol.
"Guess, it's cool but really Ganke... do you think if New York needs a Captain Spider or whatever?" Miles asked as Ganke huffed expecting this response. "Okay Ganke, since you put in the effort then I guess I will take the suit. I won't make any promises about it being used." Miles told him and Ganke seemed at least a little satisfied with the answer as Miles threw his suit into his backpack.
Deciding he would find a proper place for it later.
Ganke said goodbye to him saying he needed to go to the library for some homework reference and Miles said goodbye back. After getting done with his schoolwork Miles decided to go out to the library to see if Ganke needed help.
However he saw on the streets were fire trucks going by fast. By instinct he followed them and saw in deep shock and horror as a building on fire with the firefighters trying to get the fire out. There was a woman screaming that her daughter was still in there.
"The fire fighters are taking care of this, but I could probably help get the girl out with my powers... but everyone will see me..." Ganke thought in his head and then looked into his backpack to see the suit there. He then ran to an alleyway to change in secret. "This is going to be the most stupid thing I have ever done and Ganke is going to see this as proof as my destiny but... here goes..." Miles thought as he changed into the suit.
He then sighed as he then to the fire only for assembled police officers to block the way. "Stay back, don't come any closer. That goes for you dressed in the circus get up." One of the police officers yelled.
Miles sighed as he ran and jumped over them to everyone's surprise – including his own. Nevertheless he then climbed up to the top floor of the building and jumped through the window.
He then began feeling the intense heat of the fire feeling sweaty. "I knew this was a terrible idea and I am still doing it..." Miles thought in his head as he saw a little African American girl sitting scared with her teddy bear in a circle of fire.
"Hold on, I am coming!" he yelled running and jumping into the circle. He then felt the buzz in his head go off as he yelled as a support beam came falling down upon him and the girl. By instinct he tried pushing it back and to his surprise he did.
The girl had screamed and closed her eyes when she saw the support beam but opened them as Miles lifted her up in his arm. "Hold on tight, I don't exactly know what I am doing..." Miles muttered to the girl running to the window.
He then looked and saw the flagpole up above the window, getting a quick idea he jumped out and used his free hand to sling a web at the flag pole to use the web as a grappling hook. He then jumped down using another web to attach to a street lamp to quench the fall a bit.
He then landed as safely as he could on the ground as the girl's mother rushed and took her daughter into her arms. The woman was giving her thanks in deep breaths as there were people taking pictures and video with their phones.
"Are you some sort of Spider man?" questioned one of the police officers as there were reporters coming closer. He thought of the name of Captain Spider which Ganke wanted him to use but he thought that this name sounded better.
"Yeah, I'm Spider-Man!" Miles responded as he then jumped up and then used his web to web sling away by attaching it to an nearby building. He wanted to see if he could go enough distance so he could sneak away to the alleyway he was at before.
He did and quickly changed into his backpack and saw his phone was getting a call from Ganke. He just shrugged, there was no way Ganke would not have heard about this. He had to admit, stepping in to help that girl felt good.
At least that there would be no repercussions about this, people would see this and saw a masked good samaritan. The only repercussion he could see at the moment was that Ganke would be unhappy that he was not using the name he picked...
*PB*
Since his first time waking up in the hospital, Otto Octavius had some time to calm down as the hospital staff ran tests on him. He was given food and some vitamins to help him get his strength up, luckily they were helped by the electronics in his jumpsuit designed to help his body be strong enough to handle his robotic arms.
Every night he could not help but have flashbacks of what had happened before the explosion. He swore when he was healthy enough, he would track down the hooligans responsible for not only breaking into his warehouse but distracting him which ended up causing the explosion in the first place.
He knew all this pain and scars were because of those hooligans and he fantasised about crushing their skulls with the grip of his robotic claws.
Late that afternoon with the hospital room TV on he was watching the news. There came the breaking news of the fire. The TV reporter talked about the heroics of the masked figure known as 'Spider-Man'.
What caught his eye was the footage shown captured from someone's camera phone. The footage of someone crawling into the window of the building like a spider. When the reporter showed the footage of the figured jumping down from the building to get the trapped girl to saftey, Octavius' mouth opened when he recognised the suit the Spider-Man was wearing.
Those where the suits that were in his lab, vandalised with red paint. Then the incident before the explosion replayed in his mind for the hundredth time.
One of them had gotten into his spider test subjects, so that means that one of the hooligans must have gotten spider powers from his experiment. Plus using his suit which he painted over!
Fury and rage came over him; he was shaking his bed in his state. All the thought of his explosion and now he knew one of the hooligans was out there in a costume playing superhero.
The nurses tried to calm him down and the doctors tried to use sedation on him, however his anger caused the mental link of the robotic arms to be strong enough to break free of the bindings. He got out of bindings in the hospital room.
The hospital staff were helpless as he furiously pushed them aside with his arms. He smashed the window open as he had goals all set up:
To find and kill the Spider-Man, plus whoever his accomplice is.
Yeah this is the motivation of Doc Ock in this story: in his state and anger he thinks Miles broke into his warehouse at the beginning of the story. He doesn't know he is wrong but all he remembers was that one of the thieves made off wearing one the suits at his lab.
Plus the idea of the dark red painting on the suit came from the YouTube video Into the Spider-Verse - The Problem with Miles by GodzillaMendoza which I Reccomended watching. Basically it presented the idea that Miles's suit in the movie will be painted over another Spider suit. We will have to wait and see.
The idea of combining the origins of Doc Ock and Spidey here came from the Ultimate Spider-Man. No not the comics as this was from before the Ultimate line. The Ultimate Spider-Man was a book that was a collection of short literature stories that were Spider-Man related. The first story was a retelling of the origin written by Peter David (okay credited to Stan Lee and Peter David) where Spidey (Peter of course) and Doc Ock' origins were connected. Not in the same way and circumstances were different but still this was where the idea came from.
