Chapter 3: Fighting the Excavator

Peter using his Spider sense began dodging the blasts that the men were shooting at him but Calusky charged in and using his shovel managed to get a lucky hit at Peter's head which dazed him long enough to hit him on the head again with the shovel. "I don't know why people make a big deal about you, you are nothing against me!" Calusky taunted but once he gained conscience Peter gave a determined look at Calusky as he got up.

Using his web he got one of the guns from one of the guy's hands and sent it flying to several of the men knocking them out. The ones that were holding sacks of stolen equipment dropped them so they could focus on Peter. "Sorry but many henchmen thought they could take me on and well you can ask them yourselves how it went when you meet them as fellow prisoners at Ryker's." Peter told the men as he ran and jump kicked several of the men knocking them out and punching some more out.

"Sorry Excavator but next time you should find a better place to recruit your henchmen, though I don't think you will get another chance." Peter told Calusky who looked nervous but shook it off, he needed to be strong if he wanted to make his dad proud and become a big league superhero. He could not ruin it all by showing fear in his first encounter with another superhuman.

"You are really going to get it now Spider..." Calusky said preparing his shovel to fight only for Peter to shoot a web at his shovel and dragged it towards him, Calusky still holding onto it screamed as he was dragged into a punch by Peter that knocked him out. Peter was amazed that someone that had the powers of the Wrecking Crew, a group that could match Thor went down easily but he guessed with how dumb Calusky acted then he probably did not know how to put it to good use.

As the police came the remaining men saw how futile further resistance would be with their superhuman knocked out wisely surrendered and put their arms behind their backs to allow the police officers to cuff them. Some minutes later Peter managed not to freak out in excitement as he was approached by Max Modell. "Thank you for you help Spider-Man though it seems some of the material they were stealing are unaccounted for." Max had told him and Peter growled in frustration of the idea that some of the men might have gotten away on his watch.

"I think that poor boy that the so called Excavator was trying to use as a hostage must have gotten away safely." Max said and Peter's eyes widened as he realised that Charlie was nowhere to be seen. "Nice to meet you Mr Modell but I must make my leave now." Peter told him as he started web slinging away to the alley where he kept his bag so he could get changed.

After getting changed he was about to walk home when he realised something. "Missy, she might be worried where I am since I don't think I saw her when I got out." He decided to run to where the civilians were watching outside of the Horizon Labs. He saw his Aunt May there along with Missy's parents who had came over as soon as they saw the news report of an incident happening live at Horizon Labs. "Sorry Aunt May but I got lost when I was trying to get out and when I did find an exit... well it took me a long time to get back here..." Peter explained out loud not sure if his excuse was that believable but Aunt May accepted it okay.

When she let go Missy's mother said "Missy was telling us how worried she was when she could not find you Mr Parker..." Peter then found himself hugged again this time by Missy and both teens blushed when Missy let go. "So glad to see you are alright Peter." Missy said but swatted him on the arm for making her worry that much.

"Sorry our little day out got ruined, maybe we could hang out again... maybe at a restaurant..." Missy asked blushing even harder and mentally kicking herself since she was making it more obvious to him that she was crushing on him. "I guess that would be okay..." Peter said wanting to angry to almost anything if it meant making it up to Missy for having to ditch her so he could stop Calusky as Spider-Man. As they departed with their guardians Missy was excited at another opportunity for a sort of date but knew her mother and sister would annoy her to no end about this. It might be worth it though...

But then in the minds of both teens they then thought about Charlie and was hoping he was okay, the police had assured them that they would make sure to find if their friend was safe and sound. Peter was wishing that Charlie did not had to be dragged into this by Calusky and even though she still was mad at him for how he treated Peter when he was trying to be helpful, she still felt guilty when she spent that time worrying about Peter that she forgot about him.

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"...sorry dad I know you and mum must be worried due to seeing the news live but I got away safely, it's just that I needed some air and a walk to clear my head... yes I will be heading home soon." Charlie said getting a call from his father while he was in the warehouse that was his little hideout. After the call ended he banged his hands on a table angrily.

"Calusky and the others will never stop picking on me unless I do something, I have a new goal: these new things I am going to come up with... not only will they guaranteed me a big career in science but they will help me make sure NO ONE will ever cross me again..." Charlie thought in his head in his head as he put down a sack he was holding filled with various containers. He saw one of the masked men working for Calusky drop it and so he decided to take it with him as he was making his escape.

"I am sure Horizon will forgive me once they see what I use these for, I can use these to make various compounds and even soldier serums that I might be able to sell to the military... what's this?" Charlie thought as he put the containers on the table and saw that several of the containers were marked "Vibranium". After looking over the label for a minute to make sure he was reading it right he then grinned to himself:

"The things I can do with this, I can come up with science only Wakandans have been able to come up, things are looking up for me for sure..."

Yeah I am not so good with fight scenes, you know for some time Charlie Weiderman was one of those minor characters that I had been wanting to put into one of my stories for quite some time (I think the previous one on the list was Julie Power from my favourite obscure Marvel team Power Pack but she has appeared in my story Spider-Man: Make Love Not Civil War). Now that I have I think the next on the list would be the Vigilante Squad from the Punisher comics. I want to say since I am excited for the next Marvel Netflix show Jessica Jones especially after looking at the awesome announcement video and I am still psyched to see the Punisher in Daredevil Season 2 (and a recent photo by Jon Bernthaal on twitter eased some fears I had that Frank Castle might not sport his iconic Skull logo, though the picture of him showing the Punisher's weapons was interesting to see)