Chapter 4: Big Time Superheroes
Cody sighed as he woke up wondering if a certain scene was going on at this moment.
~Daily Bugle Early Morning~
"Well let's just see what the distinguished competition has for their headline this morning…" A man in a blue shirt with a green tie and Brown and gray hair smoking a Cuban cigar and sporting a Hitler stache said with an angry look.
The Paper he held up said 'Webbed Wonders Wow the City!'
"Huh. And let's see what the Journal ran this morning?" The man held up another paper that said 'Spider-Men among us!' before holding up one last paper. "And… What pray tell did the Bugle decide to run this morning?"
It said 'Osborn Burning.'
"Some Fat Cat's house catches fire." The man drew a long breath on his Cigar. "It's a crap story. A crap story and we don't have any decent art to run it! So my question to you is…" He slammed the paper onto the table in front of his employees. "What is our Front Page News Today?"
Not waiting for an answer the man spun around looking out his window. "There are two guys out there dressed up in their underwear calling themselves Spider-Man and the Scarlet Spider! That is fantastic! That is what sells papers!" The man said. "I want to know their names! I want to know their birth signs!"
When one of his employees attempted to speak up the man continued. "I want to know if the stories about their 'wall-crawling' are true. They can crawl walls? I heard that one of them shoots webs so are they mutants? Did they rocket to Earth from a doomed planet somewhere?" (Superman much?) "I want to know if they have any super powers or if their pulling the wool over everyone's eyes!"
The man nodded. "I want to find out if this Spider-Man is the same as the wrestler and if he is then where did the Scarlet one come from? Urich I want you to go to the Stadium and follow up on the story!"
"What?!" Urich the man in a black business suit with a hippy hairstyle wearing glasses asked in shock.
"I've heard that they're accusing Spider-Man of robbing that place. I want to know if that's bull or if he was involved with a robbery and if so then why is he going around making like a boy scout in his jammies with another spider?"
Urich didn't give up. "But Jonah, I'm working on-…"
Jonah snorted. "The Kingpin can wait to have his big fat butt handed to him by you another day Ben." He said. "If you haven't dug up anything on the Murdock by now then you probably aren't going to."
"But-."
"Get your name on the headline 'Star Reporter' that's what I pay you for. I want to know everything there is to know about these spiders. I'm telling you I smell it! This is our new OJ!"
The reporters didn't argue because it wouldn't do any good but one suicidal soul thought that he was just smelling his breath.
"Heroes or Villain's? Con Artists or Crook's? People won't – won't be able to get enough of them one way or the other." Jonah took the Cigar out of his mouth. "In fact, right this second – I bet that they're plotting something that will be on the Headline tomorrow."
~Back with Cody~
He chuckled to himself. "Nah I'm pretty sure that isn't happening." With that he got up looking at the time it was nine at night so he walked down to get a drink when he heard Peter cheering from the Basement. "I said who – who—who – I did it! I did it!"
Okay now Cody was curious so he walked downstairs. "Hey Pete what's going on- PUT SOME PANTS ON!"
Thankfully Peter had a shirt and underwear on but that was something that Cody didn't need to see.
Peter ignored Cody. "Look!" He put what looked like a metal bracelet on and pressed a button causing a web to shoot out. "You might have natural webbing but now Spider-Man has webs as well!" He hung upside down on it.
Cody nodded. "That's great Pete but would you please put on some pants?"
At that moment Aunt May called down. "Peter? Cody? Are you both down there?"
"We're doing our homework!" Peter answered back. "Cody asked for help on his science homework.
Cody glared at Peter; sure he sucks at science but that doesn't mean that he likes to advertise it.
"Well go to bed! Otherwise you two would be a wreck at school tomorrow."
Peter laughed. "Please we'll be fine!"
Now Cody raised an eyebrow. "You mean like today when you fell asleep in the middle of Math after spending all night taking down muggers in spandex?"
"Like I said we'll be fine!" Peter said reassuringly.
The next day he snored through English Class.
"PARKER!" The teacher shouted.
"NNYAA!" Peter shot up breaking his desk in half with his spider strength again.
"Parker I swear to God." The teacher began as the whole class started to laugh and Cody had to remind himself that he had enhanced strength so he couldn't try to defend Peter anymore because he doesn't want to accidently kill anyone.
"Sorry." Peter apologized meekly.
"That's two desks that you demolished in the past week!"
"Yeah uh… How about that?" Peter joked weakly.
It took all of Cody's self-control to not do a face palm.
"Listen, you're not so scary smart that you can just sleep during class mister. There's-."
"No!" Peter shook his head. "I-I-I was 'thinking' about what you were saying and I-I sort of got-."
The teacher didn't let him finish. "I 'saw' what you were doing. I see that one more time and I'm going to have a talk with the coach about-."
"You don't have to." Peter shrugged. "I quit the team this morning."
"WHAT?!" Kong shouted and he wasn't the only one.
Now the Teacher looked surprised that Peter did that but she said. "Well just try not to break anything on your way to your next class." As soon as she finished the bell rang.
On the way out Cody clapped Peter's shoulder. "That could've gone better bro."
Peter rolled his eyes. "Well excuse me for being tired."
Before anything else could be said MJ ran up to them. "You quit the team?"
"I quit the team." Peter confirmed with a smile.
MJ returned his smile. "Good for you."
"I thought-."
"It wasn't you." MJ finished.
"She's got you there Petey."
Peter punched Cody's arm for that comment but Kong came up. "Parker what was that?!"
"Which one?" Cody joked but he was ignored as Peter spoke up.
"I quit the team."
"Why?"
"Cause I did."
"But…"
Flash interrupted. "Told you! I told you that he was a freaking worm!"
Cody scoffed. "And who got their ass handed to them by said worm two weeks ago?"
That shut Flash up a bit.
Peter sighed. "Listen. It's nothing personal against the team." He tried to explain. "It just – It wasn't me."
"It wasn't you?" Kong got into Peter's face. "What kind of crap is that?!"
Cody walked up. "Take it easy Kong." He told him even though he knew that Peter could kick his fat butt.
"I'm telling you it wasn't me." Peter told him. "Listen I've had some stuff with my Uncle…"
"Your Uncle croaks so you can't play ball-." He didn't even finish when Cody slugged him in the face barely holding back in rage.
"Care to repeat that?" Cody asked angrily and Kong swore that his eyes changed color before Peter held him back.
"Cody your eyes." He whispered.
Hearing that Cody closed them and took a few deep breaths to calm down and when he opened his eyes they were brown again but Kong stared at him in confusion before MJ spoke up.
"Harry!"
Everyone turned towards where she was looking to see a down Harry Osborn walking towards them. "Harry! Are you okay?" Peter asked running up.
"We tried to call you!" Cody got in. "But we couldn't find out where you were!"
"Why were you trying to do that?" Harry asked in confusion.
Both Peter and Cody stared at him as if he grew a second head. "What?"
"Oh Harry, I'm so sorry about your parents." MJ said in worry.
Harry gave her a look. "Are you?"
"What do you mean?" Peter asked in confusion. "We were worried!"
"Harry we're your friends." Cody put a hand on his shoulder. "You should've known that we would be worried."
"Why?" Harry dismissed everything. "I'm not dead."
"No, but, I know –." Both Peter's and Cody's Spider-Sense went off at that moment. "I know what this is like-."
"Do you?" Harry asked.
"Yes I – Do you guys feel that?" Peter asked as the Spider-Sense got stronger.
Then Cody remembered this scene. 'Oh shit.'
As if on cue there was a huge explosion that made the whole school shake "YO!" Kong shouted. "What's up with that?"
"Are you Okay?" Peter helped MJ up.
MJ was freaking out. "Oh my God."
Another explosion shook the school as flames appeared at the end of the Hallway. "Everybody out! Everybody run!" The teacher shouted.
"What the hell is it?!" A random student shouted.
"I know what it is." Harry muttered in horror but only Peter and Cody heard him.
"What?" Peter asked before the sprinklers went off as Kong grabbed Harry and MJ.
"Dude we are so out of here!"
~Outside~
Everyone was reasonably freaking the hell out while Harry was muttering. "He's coming for me. He's coming for me."
Flash grabbed Harry's shoulder. "Who's coming for you Harry?"
MJ looked around in horror. "Oh no. Where are Peter and Cody?"
FABOOM! A classroom blew up on the third floor of Midtown High.
"SOMEBODY HELP ME! HE'S HERE!" Harry shouted.
Flash had enough. "WHO?!"
"Head's up!" Spider-Man flew into the scene with the Scarlet Spider right behind him. "Big Time Superheroes coming through!"
While moving through Scarlet Spider barely heard Kong whisper. "Dude! Seriously, if those two blew up the school then they're my heroes."
"Whoa." Flash muttered.
Now the two spiders crashed through the windows of the school. "We really need to work out a system for emergencies." Scarlet Spider muttered.
"I hear ya." Spider-Man agreed.
~A few minutes ago~
When Kong grabbed MJ and Harry, Peter and Cody ran to the restroom ready to change into their uniforms when Peter's eyes widened. "Wait!"
Cody blinked as he pulled his mask out. "What? There's an attack on the school!"
"How do the Spider's get in here?" Peter asked in frustration. "How do they get into a High School?! It's bad enough that half our class saw us get bit by the spiders so how long before they put the puzzle together?"
"… I really hate logic." Cody muttered in annoyance before they ran from the bathroom and snuck out a back window that wasn't watched before they made it across the street to change hidden from view. "This can't be how Captain America does it."
With that they made their way to the school.
Harry was muttering. "He's coming for me. He's coming for me."
Flash grabbed Harry's shoulder. "Who's coming for you Harry?"
MJ looked around in horror. "Oh no. Where are Peter and Cody?"
"Head's up!" Spider-Man flew into the scene with the Scarlet Spider right behind him. "Big Time Superheroes coming through!"
~Present Time~
"We'll worry about that later." Spider-Man decided as they looked around the school. "Who on Earth would do this to a school?"
Scarlet Spider looked around before he saw a shape up ahead through the smoke. "Spider-Man over there!"
Looking over Spider-Man nodded before calling out. "Hey! As Hall Monitor, I'm going to have to ask to… See… Your… Hall pass?" The smoke cleared and the Spiders could clearly see the figure.
Standing at eight feet tall was a demonic looking monster with green face, claws and feet and horns coming out of his forehead his upper body was light brown and he wore a purple cloak over him.
"… Spider-Man."
"Yeah?"
"I think I just shitted myself." Scarlet Spider said nervously.
'Holy crap! The Green Goblin… He looks even more fearsome in real life.'
"… Too much info." Spider-Man looked at the Goblin. "You wouldn't happen to be the new Home EC Teacher would you?"
Goblin roared and threw a fireball so the Spiders dodged. "Look we don't want to tell you your business-."
"Even if we do it anyway." Scarlet inputted.
"But that is a fire hazard!" Spider-Man finished before they kicked him back.
"I'm hope that you don't expect us to clean this up." Scarlet started.
"Because you are on your own." Spider-Man joked.
"I don't suppose you could tell us what's going on-." Scarlet did a backflip as a fireball flew past him nearly taking his head off. "Okay I suppose not."
"I hate the food here too." Spider-Man said kicking Goblin's face. "But you need to learn to work with the system!"
Scarlet shot a web out blinding Goblin for a second. "It seems to be low to trash the school."
"Pretty low and we mean a notch below film producer low." Spider-Man finished Scarlet Spider's joke.
"And I think that we're close enough in our relationship for me to say that you are in desperate need for mouthwash." Scarlet joked before he was backhanded into the locker.
Spider-Man was on the wall. "You want to get a cup of coffee and talk about whatever's up your butt?" He offered. "I'm buying!" Then his Spider-Sense went off pretty fast.
He didn't get the chance to move as Goblin tackled him through the window.
Scarlet Spider shook his head before he saw that. "SPIDEY!" He jumped out the window and shot a web line at Goblin's foot but it just pulled him along for the ride.
"Let go." Spider-Man struggled against Goblin's grip high in the sky.
"Parker." Goblin got out incoherently shocking Spider-Man.
"W-What did you just say?" He got out.
"PARKER!"
"Yippy Ki Yay!" Scarlet joked kicking Goblin's back causing him to drop Spider-Man but Goblin knocked Scarlet off course so he couldn't save Spider-Man.
Turns out he didn't need it as he remembered that he now had web shooters so he shot them out praying that they would work because he hasn't had the time to test them out yet and thankfully they did.
Scarlet landed near the crowd of people in pain as Goblin came in but Spider-Man saved him. "Heads up Stinky!"
"GGYYYRRRR!" Came the response.
"You don't say?"
Spider-Man punched Goblin's face before Scarlet Spider got up and came forward with his claws out as he sliced into Goblin's chest. "We tried to ask nicely."
"When you were blowing us up." Spider-Man took it from there.
"And toss us around like a water balloon but that's beside the point."
"Let us tell you what you're not going to do!" Spider-Man punched him again. "You aren't going back to that school-!" He was cut off as Goblin grabbed his head before throwing him into Scarlet Spider.
"… Do you think that we should tone down the joking a bit?" Scarlet asked in pain.
"I no longer know." Spider-Man muttered before he saw a SWAT Helicopter heading for Goblin. "That's it! Time to break this out on you like Chow Yung Fat!" He shot his webbing at Goblin but he missed and hit the windshield of the Helicopter.
"AHHH! What is this?!"
"… Or not." Spider-Man chuckled sheepishly. "Sorry about that."
Scarlet looked at Spider-Man. "You really need to work on your aiming."
"Oh shut it SS."
But Goblin took off towards the bridge. "Oh no you don't!" Scarlet shot his webbing to Goblin's back along with Spider-Man with their feet on the ground making use of their adhesive ability.
… But the ground came up with them.
"In hindsight not the best idea." Spidey muttered as they flew through the air.
After a bit the cloak came off and Scarlet nearly covered his eyes. "Put it back on!"
But since their webs were attached to the cloak they had to reshoot some webs to the bridge to avoid becoming instant pizza.
"I'm going to toss my cookies and I didn't even have any." Spidey muttered. "In fact after this when we get home I'm going to eat some cookies so I can toss them."
"…" Scarlet gave Spidey a weird look. "Your mind goes to weird places sometimes."
"What at least I'm funny."
"This is the NYPD! Stand down!" Goblin snarled at the SWAT Helicopters.
"We need to get up there!" Spider-Man shot his webs. "They don't know what they're dealing with!"
Scarlet raised an eyebrow under his mask. "And we do?"
"… Well at least we know that he can throw fireballs." Spidey offered. "But maybe we should take some midair monster fighting classes."
"If I actually see that I'll eat my mask."
They got up there to prevent Goblin from blasting the Helicopter down by each of them holding one. "Everybody calm down!" Spidey called out. "Put the guns away and stop with the smoking fingers!"
"You honestly think that they'll listen to us?" Scarlet asked but Spidey ignored him.
"Stand down!"
"WHAT PART OF STOP WITH THE SMOKING FINGERS DIDN'T YOU UNDERSTAND?!"
Goblin was really pushing against their combined strength but thankfully they were holding him.
"We're not going to let you hurt these people." Spidey told him looking into his eyes. "Why don't you tell us what you want?"
Goblin struggled but his hands were going out to their relief before they heard. "I have a shot."
"Well take it!"
"Oh no." Scarlet grabbed Spidey and got him out of the way as bullets started to fly.
"Oh my God." Spidey uttered in horror as Goblin held his chest with blood overflowing from it but he was still standing up before another SWAT Chopper came in shooting him in the back. "Stop it! STOP SHOOTING!" Spider-Man called out.
"Parkers!" Goblin snarled still incoherent to everyone but the Spider's.
"HOW DO YOU KNOW US?!" Spider-Man shouted before he jumped to avoid Goblin tackling him but the Green Goblin fell over the edge landing in the water.
When he didn't come up Spider-Man looked at the Helicopters.
"Listen! We're going to go get him! Swing down and-!"
"Both of you on the ground now!"
"What did we do?!" Spider-Man protested.
"Spidey we're wearing masks and went toe to toe with that thing! Do you honestly think that they care if we're trying to help?" Scarlet asked.
"This works for Superman and Flash." Spidey muttered.
"… This isn't a comic!" 'At least not anymore.'
But they were cut off by their Spider-Senses so they took off running as more bullets went flying towards them and it was amazing that none of them were hit by the bullets. Eventually they made it over the edge and made it out of sight.
"Where did they go?"
"Do you have a visual?"
"Negative! Swing around."
Making it back to across the street they got their clothes on and made it back into the building where the Firemen found them trying to get out.
"We were caught under a chalk board." Peter said without thinking and thankfully they bought it.
"Peter!" MJ tackled him with a hug.
"Ow!"
Cody rolled his eyes. "Oh so no hug for me?" He joked.
Peter gave him a look. "Nah you're a big boy."
"Oh shut up!"
"What was that thing?!" Flash shouted. "Did you two get a good look at him?"
"It was the Hulk!" Kong put in.
"Dude doesn't the Hulk live in Utah or something?" Flash asked.
"I'm telling you that it was the Hulk-!"
"It was my father." Everyone stared at Harry. "He didn't die at his lab last week like they said."
"Dude you need a breather." Flash told him.
"That was the Hulk or something." Kong told him.
"In his lab." Harry muttered. "I was there and I saw it."
"Saw what?" Flash asked tactlessly.
Harry grabbed the front of Flash's shirt. "He turned into that! Do you understand?! He turned himself into that thing!" He shouted in Flash's face. "On purpose! Then he killed my Mom, burned down our house and now he's trying to kill me."
A police officer got to Harry. "Maybe it's a good idea if you come with us son."
"Poor Harry." Cody muttered in guilt.
"If that was his Dad then what was he doing?" Peter muttered.
"PETER! CODY!" Said Boys turned around to see Aunt May running to them where she hugged them.
"Looks like you got your hug after all." Peter joked before wincing. "Ow!"
"Shut it."
~At the bridge~
Where the Goblin fell the water stirred as a green hand shot out of it.
To Be Continued…
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