answers to reviewers questions and statements:

The Storm Master 567: No, Piandao won't be getting powers like that from the spider bite and yeah it does feel like Peter got cheated since just about every other spider themed hero is getting additional powers. Just give him Venom at the very least and it'll be somewhat more equal Marvel, come on. Their meeting will be... anticlamatic for the lack of a better term. It'll be nice but it won't be anything grand or epic.

Blobking: Their might be, I'm thinking of adding one more girl but it'd be a while till she shows up anyway.

Greywing101: A few, mostly Spider-man related people, villians mostly, but there'll be a few supporting characters too.

Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel or Legend of Korra characters seen, mentioned or used.


Piandao took several deep breaths as he made his way towards the school, doing his best to ignore how loud everything seemed to be. Yesterday, the noise of the city was barely noticeable, having grown up in it all his life it was nothing more than white noise. Now though, it was like someone set up a large speaker next to his head, turned it up to high and started to blast the various sounds of the city right into his ear.

'And everything is so bright' Piandao thought as he kept his head bowed a little to keep the bright morning light from bothering his eyes.

The upside was his body no longer hurt and his headache was gone, so he wasn't entirely miserable-

"Hey, it's Pasty Parkah!"

"Oh fuck me" Piandao sighed as he could pick up several distinct footsteps approaching him.

Piandao turned to see four Pro-bending players making their way towards him. The one in front, the leader he figured, was a Waterbender while the other three were all earthbenders if the style of clothing was anything to go by. It also may have helped that one of them had a small rock orbiting his hand.

"Where you off to Pasty Parkah?" the leadre of the small troop asked as they began to surround Piandao.

"School" Piandao said dryly as he felt his body slowly begin to tense.

He's been in enough situations like these to know how it'll play out, almost down to a 'T'. They'll ask him what he's doing, make a comment of how he looks, usually as a insult, then they'd ask him to do something, either his money or lunch if he has either. If he has neither, they then procede to beat the crap out of him before going about their day. Though if he does have either food or money, they just take it and leave.

'And of course I have no food or money to give these guys' Piandao thought with annoaynce as the leader of the group eyed him up and down.

"You look better than yesterday Parkah" the boy said with a nsort "Instead of looking pasty, you just look nerdy"

"Gee, thanks" Piandao said before he felt something odd, a sort of tinginling at the base of his skull that caused his whole body to almost tense up as he heard several of the guys around him take a step closer.

The Waterbender's smirk dopped as he was suddenly in Piandao's face with a a slight glare "You know Piandao, you got a few of our friends the other day expelled"

'...Ah shit' Piandao thought witth growing worry as he saw from the corner of his eyes the other members of his little group giving him equally dark looks.

"Han and Choi were some of our best players, and Roshi was my freind" the Waterbender said as he suddnely grabbed Piandao by the collar of his shirt and, with some effort on his part, lifted the shorter teen off his feet almost.

The feeling at the base of Piandao's skull intensified as he stared into the dark cold eyes of the waterbender. Piandao felt his pulse quicken and everything seemed to slow down to a crawl, the loud nosiy city life muffled as if his ears were covered and he felt a sort of jolt of energy run through his body. For a moment, Piandao felt like he could run from one end of Republic City to the other and barely be winded.

"Now..." the Waterbender began as he raised his hand and slowly turned it into a fist and pulled back "Since our school is down a few Pro-benders, I think it's only fair we'll be down a few non-bending trash, even it out a bit!"

Piandao watched the fist slowly pulled back before it started to come towards him. It barely made it halfway to his face before, on some instictual level, Piandao's hand shot up and cuaght the fist. The Waterbender and the three earthbender's all gaped in shock while Piandao stared at the fist in his grip with wide eyes.

'Whoa... I stopped it' Piandao thought with shock.

The Waterbender waas the first to recover as he gritted his teeth and started to try and pull his hand out of Piandao's grip. A few tugs and the boy found his efforts met with failure as Piandao's grip remained solid and unyeilding.

"Let go of me you little piece of sh-" he began before Piandao suddenly let go just as he pulled back.

The result was the boy to stumble back, releasing Piandao in the process and causing the Waterbender's eyes widened before they narrowed at the shorter teen. Piandao watched his attacker snarl as he took several steps towards him, his hand moving to a small water skin he had on his belt and pulled a small stream of water out and have it cooled into a small ball of ice.

"I'm gonna break your fucking teeth in you smart ass little-" the teen said as he made to smack Piandao in the head with the ball of ice.

Piandao, seeing the teen apraoch him in slow motion again, moved to the left, the ball of ice missing his head by a wide margin. The Waterbender stumbled before he growled and tried to hit Piandao again... and again... and again. Each attempt was met with failure as Piandao ducked and sidestepped every hit. The Earthbenders, having stepped back a few feet to give their leader room to attack Piandao, watched with wide eyes. They've never seen Parkah move this fast and it looked liek he wasn't even trying to be quick in his dodging.

"Hold. Still!" the water tribe teen growled as he made another lunge at Piandao who responded by stepping out of the way and letting the teen fly past him and smack into the Earthbender standing behind him.

"How about no..." Piandao said as he watched the Waterbender regain his footing before he shoved the Earthbender away and made to leap at Piandao again when they all suddenly heard a new voice speak up.

"What the hell is going on here?"

The five teens tturned to see a middle aged Police Officer looking at them with a steely gaze. The three Earthbenders paled as did the Waterbender while Piandao held his hands up.

"I didn't do anything!"

The Metalbender glanced at Piandao for a second before he turned his attention towards the other four "I said, what the hell is going on here?"

"N-Nothing officer" the waterbender said with a sheepish grin "Just playing around is all"

"Really?" the man said as he folded his arms across his chest "So, I didn't see you trying to attack this young man here with a ball of ice?"

His question was met with silence as the four Pro-benders looked at the man nervously while Piandao did his best to discreetly back away. At this rate, he'd be late for school and he's rather not have his perfect attendence record ruined because four Pro-benders were pissy about their thugs of a freinds being kicked out of shcool. It was than the police officer saw Piandao trying to back away and scolwed at him.

"And where do you think your going son?"

"Uh, school before I'm late?" Piandao said sheepishly as he pointed down the street where the school was.

The cop grunted at this before he glared at the others and pointed towards the school "All of you get going before I decide to have you charged with disturbing the peace, attempted assault, and disorderly conduct"

The various Benders all muttered out 'Yes sir' before they quickly turned and headed for the school as more and more students began to appear down the road. Piandao made to follow them when the cop placed a hand on his shoulder, stopping him.

"Uh-" Piandao began before the cop spoke.

"Wait a few minutes, put some distance between you and them" the cop said as he watched the teens "Guys like them are gonna be stewing for a while. Best let time and distance cool them off"

"Oh, uh thanks" Piandao said with a cough as he adjusted the strap on his bag.

"Eh, I was in your shoes once" the cop said with a chuckle "Small, nerdy, getting his ass handed to him by the athletes"

"One of the universe's constants I'm told" Piandao said with a snicker.

"That it is" the cop said as he glanced back at the teens to see they were out of sight before nodding "Alright, they should be gone. Now get to school you hoodlum"

"Hoodlum?" Piandao said with mock outrage while he began to head towards the school "I ain't no hoodlum!"

"Stay in school and keep it that way" the cop hollowed back "Have enough of you kids dropping out and becoming wannabe thugs as it is"

The day passed peacefully, at least Piandao thinks so.

After he arrived, and made it to homeroom before the bell rung, he didn't see the Pro-benders again. Now whether it was because they got the hint and decided to leave Piandao alone or were just waiting for a more convenient time to get him was unclear and Piandao had no intention of finding out. He was just happy he wasn't late and didn't get beat up.

But throughout class, Piandao kept getting a faint buzzing at the base of his skull. He wasn't sure what it was exactly, it wasn't like the feeling he had earlier when he was in obvious trouble, but it kept him more alert for the entire lesson and well into lunch. Piandao also used the time he had at lunch to try and figure out just what exactly was going on with him and what may have caused it in the first place. One did not just fall asleep and wake up with the body to put most professional athletes to shame some sort of danger detecting radar sense thing.

"Can't be something I ate or drank..." Piandao said as he sat on some steps not too far from the cafeteria, writing down what he's observed about his new traits in a small journal of his he used to help collect his thoughts "Else there'd be others that were affected and showing the same kind of weird powers that I am"

He also ruled out a possible disease or illness during chemistry class. Far as Piandao knew, there weren't any outbreaks or contagions running amok in Republic city, least not in the past decade. Piandao then noticed the faint mark of the spider bite and frowned as memoirs of the trip flashed through his mind. It was possible the strange spider caused this, plenty of evidence to support it, the question however was how and why did a spider bite give him these... abilities.

"Doubt it was because Agni, Tui or La had decided to have pity on me" Piandao said with a snort as he wrote down a few more notes before he closed the book and placed it back in his bag and slung it over his shoulder as he stood up and made to head to his next class.

Piandao felt a faint buzzing at the base of his skull again as he passed the entrance to the cafeteria and risked a glance inside to see several tables that the various Pro-bending teams have taken to occupying looking right at him. The buzzing in his head increased as a number of the benders glared at Piandao before he quickly moved out of their line of sight and made his way to his next class.

"Just gotta get though this and then my next class and I'm home free" Piandao said with a shake of his head as the buzzing faded away.

Piandao had just turned a corner, his class just down the hall when he heard a yelp of pain followed by the sounds of something being shoved into a wall. The young teen blinked at this and against his better judgement decided to investigate. He located the source of the problem in the next hall, two teens, one bigger than the other and Piandao himself, pinning a smaller kid to the wall.

The younger one tried to fight back and succeeded in pushing the bigger teen back and tried to make a run for it.

"Help!" the younger boy shouted as he was shoved back against the wall by the taller kid.

Piandao sighed as he turned to leave, memories of what happened to him the last time he tired to help out "Not my problem, not my problem..."

"Someone, please- ACK!" the kid shouted before he was punched in the gut and fell to the ground as the older boy began to kick him with a laugh.

"Aww what's wrong Han?" the teen said as he kicked the smaller boy without mercy.

Piandao stopped and felt his grip on his bag's strap tighten as he could make out the impacts of the bully's boots against the boy's body with almost perfect clarity. The sound of leather slamming into flesh, cloth and bone, bruising and damaging it. The sound of muscle coiling back as the teen raised his leg to stomp down on the smaller boy, his pained hitched breathing and crying sounding almost as loud as a Satomobile engine roaring next to Piandao's head. With every hit, Piandao's fist formed and tightened more and more until he swore his nails were piercing his skin and drawing blood.

"Not. Your. Problem!" Piandao gritted out as he tried to ignore the sounds and keep walking until one kick caused the boy to scream in pain as Piandao made out the distinct sound of a bone going 'crack'.

At this, Piandao turns around and begins to march towards the two. Try as he might, he can never seem to leave well enough alone. Maybe it's because he feels that if he helps enough people, they would in turn help others. Maybe he's doing it because regardless, he knows it's the right thing to do. Or maybe, it's because he knows that this time, it won't be him getting the crap kicked out of him.

Piandao saw the teen ready to stomp on the whimpering boy again and quickly stepped up behind him and shoved him away. The force of the shove was greater than he anticipated and sent the teen into the wall with enough force to knock the wind out of him. Piandao barely gave the teen a second thought as he kneeled down next to the bloodied, whimpering teen.

"You okay?" Piandao asked as he saw the dark bruises already forming on his face, the likelihood of others underneath his clothes being even worse, was extremely high.

The boy barely nodded before Piandao felt the sensation at the base of his skull and turned just in time to receive a hard punch to the face. Before, the force of the blow may have very well broken something in his face, or at the very least knocked him flat out on his back, probably unconscious. Now though, the punch barely hurt and it barely caused him to stumble back. If anything it was the surprise of seeing the teen up and ready to fight again that took Piandao back in surprise.

'Then again, I wasn't trying to hurt or beat him, just getting him to stop' Piandao thought as he cupped his cheek, the blow still caused it to feel a little sore.

"You think just because you can take on a few Pro-bending players your top shit?" the teen glared at Piandao with dark brown eyes.

"No, just got tired of seeing and hearing you beat this guy down" Piandao said with a nod towards the other teen who was trying to crawl away now that his attacker was focused on someone else.

"Well maybe, you should have walked away" the bully said with a sneer "Wasn't your problem"

"And yet, here I am regardless" Piandao said dryly 'I just know I'm going to regret this later...'

The bully gritted his teeth as he threw a punch towards Piandao, a punch that was easily dodged by him leaning out of the way. The bully threw another punch and again missed as Piandao stepped back. Several more punches and a few attempted kicks later and the bully was already starting to tire out while Piandao wasn't even breathing hard. The bully growled at Piandao as he made to lunge at the shorter teen when Piandao stepped to the side and struck his foot u, tripping the taller boy and watching him tumble to the ground, his head smacking against the wall.

"Oof, that had to hurt" Piandao smirked as he saw the bully glare up at him with pure rage in his eyes.

"I'm going to stomp your fucking teeth in!" as the teen sent another punch towards him.

Piandao ducked under the punch before he grabbed the guy's arm and made to pull him and fling him to the ground before he heard a loud distinct 'crack' followed by a scream of pain from the teen.

"GAAAH! My arm!" the waterbender shouted as he fell to his knees after Piandao let go of him in surprise.

'Oh man, I didn't mean to grab him that hard!' Piandao thought with wide eyes as he watched the teen cradle his arm, a splotch of blood now visible on his forearm from where the young brunette grabbed him.

Piandao glanced down at his hand and saw the blood on it before he wiped it off on his pants and prepared to reach out and help the injured teen to his feet when he heard several footsteps rushing towards him and the whimpering teen. Piandao turned to see who it was and was greeted to the sight of several teachers, one of them being the Principle, turn the corner and heading right for them. And none of them seemed to happy with what they were seeing.

The young teen barely opened his mouth to speak when the Principle spoke in a harsh, disappointed tone.

"Mister Parkah, not a single word!" he said as he jabbed Piandao in the chest while two of the teachers kneeled down to examine the other teen's bleeding arm.

"But sir I-" Piandao began before he was cut off again.

"My office, now!" the Principle said as he gestured for Piandao to start walking.

Rather than fight it, Piandao sighed and began to make his way towards the Principle's office, all the while trying to imagine how his Aunt and Uncle will react when they've been informed of what happened.

Piandao was sure they'd understand once they heard the story, hopefully.

...

"Piandao Parkah, what do you have to say for yourself?!" Aunt Mai said as she stared down at her nephew with a unhappy frown.

As it turns out, they were not very understanding.

"I'm... Sorry?" Piandao said with a wince as he found himself on a seat in his home's kitchen not even a hour later, his Aunt and Uncle looking at him with various degrees of disappointment and anger. Most of which were on Aunt Mai's face while Uncle Bato simply watched on with a blank expression on his face, though Piandao could tell he was furious.

"Sorry?" his Aunt Mai said with outrage "Piandao, you broke a boy's arm!"

"Actually it was a fracture-" Piandao began before he was cut off by a hard smack from his Aunt.

"Don't. You. Dare. "Mai threatened with a glare "Don't you dare try and play that game, not with me, not now!"

"Sorry Aunt Mai" Piandao said as he bowed his head while idly noticing that his Aunt slap didn't hurt as much as it should, or used to at any rate.

'Gues I can add stronger body to the list of weird powers' Piandao thought as he stared at the table and saw the latest edition of the Bugle on it.

If Piandao had been paying more attention to his Aunt, he would have noticed her wince when she slapped him, unaware that for her, it felt like smacking concrete. Uncle Bato finally let out a sigh as he stepped forward and placed a hand on his wife's shoulder as he looked down at Piandao.

"Look, Piandao, we understand what happened. You saw someone in trouble and decided to do your best to help them. Your Aunt and I always talked about helping others..." Uncle Bato said before he frowned "But we never talked or raised you to believe that hurting others was the right thing to do"

"Well it seems like the only thing these guys ever seem to understand" Piandao snapped with narrowed eyes as he looked back up towards his Aunt and Uncle "The school, the police, these kinds of guys don't care what they say or what they do, because whatever punishments they come up with are never enough for them Uncle Bato. They never learn!"

"And what, you think you have and your the one that has to teach it to them?" Uncle Bato said with narrowed eyes.

"Well someone had to" Piandao said in a low voice as he adverted his gaze back to the paper on the table.

Uncle Bato's steely gaze fell at this "Perhaps, but that's not your place Piandao"

Piandao didn't say anything as he kept his gaze focused on the ground. A tense silence echoed through the room before Mai sighed loudly and made her way over to a drawer that she and Bato used to hold their financial information.

"I'll see how much money we'll be able to afford to lose, Agni knows that the boy's family is gonna sue. Bunch of damn money grubbing parasites all of them..." Mai said with a hint of bitterness in her voice so potent that Piandao and even Bato flinched a little.

If there was one thing that Mai Parkah hated, it was money wasted or taken from her. It meant she and even Bato would have to start pulling more shifts at the factory and fabric store to make up for it if they wanted to keep thr lights on, the water running and food on the table for them and their nephew.

Bato sighed at the dark mood his wife was now in before he patted Piandao on the shoulder and nodded towards the teen's room "Off to bed... we're talk about this later"

"Yes sir..." Piandao said with a sigh as he stood up and made his way to his room.

Bato watched him go before he turned to see Mai pulling out a few documents and some wadded up cash from the drawer's top drawer. He quietly walked over and hugged his tense wife from behind and placed a small kiss on the base of her neck.

"He was just trying to help" he muttered.

"I know..." Mai said quietly as she stared down at the items in her hands "But his helping is going to end up with us on the streets at this rate. we were just barely able to make ends meet this month!"

"I doubt it'll be that bad the next" Bato said with a faint chuckle as he released his wife "My pay from... my part time job, will be in soon. We can use that instead of digging into our savings"

"And if it's not enough?" Mai said in a clipped tone.

"Well it's a good thing there's going to be a number of fights over the next few weeks. Some are gonna be sold out, which means more pay for me and the other guards" Bato said as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Well isn't that just dandy, you making money from a group of people beating the ever loving hell out of each other" Mai said with a scowl.

"Better than some of the other things they could have done" Bato pointed out as he watched his wife make her way to their room.

Mai loudly inhaled and exhaled at this "Don't... don't remind me... please"

As his Aunt and Uncle got ready for bed, Piandao sat in his room with his head in his hands.

'Stupid, fucking stupid!' Piandao thought angrily.

He just had to step in and stop the teen and just like the last time, it ended in a spectacular failure. Only this time, his Aunt and Uncle were going to pay for it!

"Why the hell couldn't I just walk the hell away!?" Piandao said to himself before he smacked himself in the head "Fucking idiot, why didn't you just leave it alone?!"

It wasn't his problem, what was happening wouldn't affect him in the slightest. All he had to do was just turn around, and walk away and he and his family wouldn't be in this predicament. Piandao was lucky enough not be expelled with what happened or even arrested because of how bad the teen's injury was.

After a few minutes, Piandao lifted his head up and sighed as he glanced out his window towards the distant skyscrapers of downtown Republic City, unsure of what to do now.

For a brief moment, Piandao entertained the idea of maybe trying to take part in the underground fighting rings his Uncle was now working at. He could sign up for a fight with a non-bender, use his new abilities to win and make some money off it. Unfortunately, common sense woke back up and made it's way back inside Piandao's mind with a sharp smack.

'Even if I do win, if someone somehow finds out what I can do now, they'd skin me alive for 'cheating'... and they'd portably- no, they will go after Aunt Mai and Uncle Bato' Piandao thought with a frown.

While he's never interacted with the Triads, at least the actual hardcore triads, not the wannabe hustlers at this school and in the neighborhood, he knew their reputations enough to know that crossing any of them, was a death sentence. And this was before he even got to how his Aunt and Uncle would react to him participating in something so dangerous.

'Now I'm wondering which is worse, the Triads or Aunt Mai's wrath' Piandao thought with a tired smile as he kept staring out his window before he remembered the newspaper on the table.

Piandao quietly listened to his Aunt and Uncle as they talked in low hushed voices from what sounded like their room. It didn't sound like they had closed the door yet so Piandao waited patiently as his Aunt talked about taking a few extra shifts at the fabric shop while Uncle Bato said he'd try to get another shift at the factory as the distinct sound of their door closing echoed outside. Piandao gave it a few minutes before he slowly got up and snuck back out of his room and looked to see the light in his Aunt and Uncle's room go out. Before, Piandao would need a small lamp or light to see around the house at this time, but now everything looked as bright and as clear as if it were the middle of the day.

'So I'm fast, strong, tough, can somehow sense when I'm in danger or being threatened and I can see in the dark... not the wrose side effects after getting bitten by a large unknown spider in the middle of the temple' Piandao thought as he quietly walked out of his room and made his way towards the table where Uncle Bato left the paper.

He looked down at the main headline and saw in big bold lettering a new Triad that went by the name 'Inner Demons' had supposedly attacked a restaurant that may or may not have catered to the Creeping Crystal Triad.

'Never a dull moment in this city' Piandao thought as he grabbed the paper and silently walked back to his room and closed the door before sitting down on his bed, the mattress and frame just barely making a 'squeak' as he settled into it and opened it up to the local business section and began to look for somewhere that was hiring...

It couldnt be that hard to find a job, right?

...


And done.

Next chapter, Piandao discovers that yeah, it's harder than it looks...