The New Ultimate Spider-Man V1
Chapter 3: Hunting the Rhino
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It was a typical Sunday morning for me.
Wake up, eat, go outside, swing a bit, and hang with Joey.
Joey and I were in the park throwing the football when he stopped suddenly.
"Hey, Ryan, have you ever seen the new Spider-Man?" Joey asked putting the football down.
"Well yeah, sometimes when my parents and I go into the city to eat at some fancy restaurant with my family," I lied.
It was sad that I could now lie with ease. It makes you seem like you have no soul, like your heartless when you can lie so easily and not think anything of it.
"I never see him unless he's on the news," Joey started. "Or whenever we hang out," he finished.
I lifted an eyebrow.
"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked.
"I wasn't implying anything… why are you so nervous now," he asked.
"I'm not nervous," I said quickly.
"Come on Ryan, I'm your best friend, I know you," he said.
"So what are you trying to say, that I'm freaking Spider-Man or something?" I asked.
"Well you're acting so suspicious now. You've been avoiding me never inviting me over anymore, and you're always so beat up whenever I see you," he said.
If only he knew how right he was.
"Trust me, I'm not that guy, besides I'm not strong enough, nor am I crazy enough to risk being killed every day," I said sitting on a park bench.
"Whatever then," he said sitting next to me.
What a close call, but I better not be so reckless next time.
I'm always so open in combat now, it's like I want to get beat up.
I should also manage my Spider-Man time more efficiently, like make a schedule, or something.
I was about to tell Joey something when this girl caught my eye.
She was the most beautiful girl I've ever seen.
She had caramel skin, brown hair, and green eyes.
"Um hello? Earth to Ryan," Joey said nudging me.
"Who… is that?" I asked looking at the girl.
"Oh, her, she's new. She started at our school Friday, you would have noticed if you'd bothered to show up," he said.
"Well, what's her name?" I asked.
"Why don't you go find out, but I have to warner she's the police chief's daughter," he said.
"How do you know that?" I asked.
"One of her friends told me," he said.
"Well… I guess I'll go," I said.
"Go ahead," he said.
"I'm gonna," I said not moving.
"I'm waiting," he said grinning.
"You know what maybe I should rethink" Joey cut me off as he hauled me off the bench and shoved me into her direction.
I nearly ran into myself before my other half kicked in and stopped me.
Clearly she must have noticed because she turned around with a confused look on her face.
"Oh- um hi, my name is… uh Ryan," I said.
Holy crap! How the hell am I so nervous when I fought that huge Rhino guy? Well I actually WAS nervous, but still I'm freaking Spider-Man!
"Oh, hi I'm Andrea," she said.
"I- uh heard you were new and uh just wanted to introduce myself," I said.
"Well, thanks. You seem nice," Andrea said.
"Thanks. Hey, uh maybe we can do something later?" I asked feeling a bit more confident.
"I can't go anywhere tonight, I'm still settling in, my parents and I just moved to Queens," she said.
Crap.
"Maybe tomorrow night though?" she asked.
"Yeah, um yeah!" I said.
"Here," she said passing me a piece of paper with her number on it.
"See you tomorrow?" she asked.
"Oh yeah," I said.
As she walked away I stood frozen in place until I managed to walk back to Joey and plop myself onto the bench.
"Aw little baby Ryan can talk to girls!" Joey said in a baby voice.
"Shut up," I snapped.
"Feisty much? Oh wait I forgot it's the middle of November, it's your time again," he said laughing.
"Oh sure! Real mature!"
"Withdrawn withdrawn," he said.
We both started laughing and talking about school before we had to go back home.
Joey was staying over tonight. We were going to play videogames until we dropped.
After dinner we went upstairs into my room.
I turned on the T.V and flipped through the channels and saw on the news that a revamped Oscorp was being opened Monday morning. The mayor himself was going to be cutting the ribbons leading to the main door. (The Oscorp building will look like the one in the new The Amazing Spider-Man movie. It's just such a cool looking building.)
"What the hell? They killed Spider-Man, that's messed up!" Joey yelled.
I just looked at him.
"Fangirl," I said.
When I turned back around a second later he had his middle finger up.
"Hey those gestures are not accepted around here," I said.
"Your face isn't accepted around here!" he countered with a grin.
"Oh I'm so scared," I said.
"Well the, my work is done," he said nodding and returning his attention to his laptop.
We continued on messing around until we finally fell asleep.
When we woke up Joey had to go home so that gave me some Spidey time.
I decided to see if I could track down the Rhino.
I figured I would start out with Oscorp because of its involvement with the late Green Goblin.
I knew that just looking at the place wasn't going to help me.
I had to get inside, maybe the executive offices.
I swung on top of the building and found that the top of the building just had some AC units and a large broadcasting tower.
I climbed lower until I found a vent in the back of the building.
Luckily, the vent was small and hidden in the shade.
I pried open the metal bars and climbed into the vent crawling until I found the exit.
I opened the vent and climbed outside.
I was in a white room. In the back it had a door with a key code door.
I walked up to it and knew I was screwed until my vision flashed blue and saw a yellow glowing number on the pad.
I tapped it and saw seen another one appear, tapped that one and watched another number key glow.
After I taped all of them my vision returned to normal and the keypad said access granted.
The door hissed and slid open.
I saw two scientists at the end of the corridor.
I jumped to the ceiling.
"Hey Aleksei! You done taking off that damned suit yet? We need to finish the genetic testing by nightfall!" the first scientist shouted.
He sighed.
I grabbed one scientist and pulled him into the corner.
"Executive office, location and information to get inside," I hissed.
Outside of the hall… it has a retinal scanner though," he whispered.
Damn it!
"Thanks," I said.
"Eh hem, your mothers calling," I said.
The other scientist turned around to see his buddy flying at him.
They hit heads and where knocked unconscious.
I walked out of the room and walked down the hallway.
I kicked down the door to the executive office and walked down the red carpet to the desk in the center.
Surprisingly no alarm was ever sounded.
I opened desk drawers just to find papers and pictures of family.
I opened the laptop and was faced with password encryption but my extra sight kicked in and got me through it.
I opened up file after file until I found one document.
It was a hit list.
On top it had:
Name: Peter Parker/ Spider-Man
Status: Eliminated.
Notes: Pest.
Date Archived: April 5, 2001
Date Updated: November 18, 2011
After it had this:
Name: Unknown/ Spider-Man
Status: Alive
Notes: Number one in the kill list.
Date Archived: November 23, 2011
Date Updated: November 23, 2011
I threw it back in.
They want me dead!
I looked through more files and seen one relating to an up-to-date version of an OZ project.
I was about to click on it when I heard guards voices.
I opened the window and swung away.
Ok no Rhino, just knowledge of Oscorp wanting me dead.
Lovely.
I swung home.
I opened my window and climbed inside.
I peeled off my costume, stuffed it in a box and placed it under the floor boards.
I took a quick shower and watched T.V. for a while before I decided to call Andrea.
I dialed her number.
"Hello," said her melodic voice.
"Hey, it's Ryan, the guy from the park," I said.
"Oh hey, so where are we going?" she asked.
"I don't know, I figured I would just show you around," I said.
"Ok, that sounds cool, I haven't gone out too much because we've been unpacking and setting up the house," she said.
"Ok well where do you live?" I asked.
"I live on 298 Mid Street," she said.
"Ok well I'll come in an hour or two if that's ok with you," I said.
"That sounds good," Andrea said.
"See you then," I said hanging up.
