Issue 5: Spiderfied

The Next Morning at Queens

A bicycle messenger from the Daily Globe throws the daily newspaper to the doors of each house in Forest Hills, including the Parker Residence. After he delivers the paper to the front door, T-Pup hops out barking and wagging its robotic tail, using its mouth to pick up the newspaper. The adorable little pup runs back inside the household to give Yang the paper while she's listening to music through her headphones, seating on the couch in her pajamas.

"Hm?" The blonde chick notices T-Pup sitting below her feet, wagging its tail as she takes the paper from his mouth. "Thanks T-Pup. I have to set up a playdate with you and Zwei one day." She giggled, which also gets T-Pup to bark in happiness. The Huntress-in-pajamas takes a second to read the front page of the article and shockingly learns of a terrible crime that might need her's and Spidey's attention immediately.

Up in his room, an extremely tired Peter, having spending all of yesterday either crime-fighting or working, is soundly asleep on his bed undisturbed, that is until Yang slams his door open with the newspaper in her right, mechanical hand. "HEY PETER! WAKE UP!" She sang, jumping on top of his bed, forcefully waking the poor boy up from his nice nap.

"Ah…Yang…Why did you do that?!" Pete shouted, feeling his organs being crushed.

"Just wanted to say hi, handsome." Yang smiled, kissing Peter in the lips. "And to show you this from the Daily Globe." She scoots over to his side, handing the spider hero this morning's paper.

"Huh?" Peter takes a second to stare at the headline and the picture printed on the bottom. "Spider-Men leading Gangster Heists?" He quoted with a confused face."

"You weren't sleep-swinging last night, were you?" Yang joked.

"Not since last year. It says here about ten different Spider-Men with spider-like powers have been leading gangs to burglaries and theft all last night. But that's impossible. As far as I know, there's only three people in this dimension that possess spider powers, not ten. We need to investigate this. Where're the others?" Peter asked his blond-haired, inter-dimensional girlfriend.

"Everyone already left for work, so I guess it's just us." She replied as Peter gets up from his bed to put on his clothes.

"And I guess we should head to work too. We might get a clue or two from the Daily Bugle. No doubt Jameson is yelling his mustache off for us right now." Peter told her after putting on his clothes.


Daily Bugle

BGM-Spider-Man 3 Game OST-Daily Bugle #1

Inside the world's "greatest" tabloid company with the "best" editor-in-chief of all time, Jonah Jameson is seen having a conversation with long-time employee, Robbie Robertson in his office until they are interrupted by the bugle's beautiful secretary, Betty Brant.

"Chief, I found Parker and Long." Brant said when she opened the door for Peter and Yang to come inside.

"Where you been? I've been looking for you two all morning. Why don't you pay your phone bill, gangsters with spider-powers, and we don't have pictures or a story of our own!" Jameson told the goofy couple in rapid succession, confusing them.

"We were, uh, um…" Yang tries to make up an excuse but shamefully can't think of one.

"You were where? Investigating and photographing squirrels? You're fired! Both of you!" Jameson spouted, firing his newest and oldest employees.

"W-What?!" Yang said in disbelief while Peter silently walks away with a non-surprised look as if he experienced this before.

"Jonah, we still need pictures and a story." Robbie reminded his boss while simultaneously saving the kids.

"Oh right. You're both un-fired. I need you, come here." said Jonah, gesturing his hand to get the un-fired employees' attention. "Get me a story behind the mysteries of these arachnid pests. No doubt Spider-Man is involved in it and I want pictures for the front page news tomorrow. So what're you waiting for? Christmas? Story! Pictures! Door! OUT!" The loudmouth editor points the heroes out the door which they promptly do without question.

BGM End


BGM-Spider-Man 2 Game OST-Ballad in the City (Part 3)

"I can't believe I got fired and un-fired at my new job in the span of two seconds." Yang, in her costume, expressed in both confusion and a little angry, riding through the skies on her Hover-Bee.

"You get used to it. Trust me, that happens to me at least three times almost every week." Spidey responded, riding along the tall skyscrapers on his brand-new Spider-Cycle he recently invented. The webhead shoots a web in front and behind him to create a web bridge for him to ride across as he continues talking to Power Woman. "For now, we should focus on where these new 'spider people' are coming from. I wouldn't be surprised if Mysterio or the Chameleon are behind this. They love impersonating yours truly sometimes just to tick me off, and they're probably doing it again."

Yang checks her hover bike's holographic screen to receive news about the gangsters. "I'm receiving incoming rumors about a meeting starting in five minutes between the gangs at a closed down mall in the Garment District. We should head there. Spidey, you don't think these guys actually have spider powers, do you?" She asked him.

"Unless they dipped into radioactive spider juice pool last night, no. There's no way this many people could receive spider powers overnight." Spidey responded to her question.

"I dunno. It feels like everyone in the city is starting to feel strange. People at hospitals waking up on the ceiling. Strands of a different kind of white stuff found in their bathroom-." Yang conversed with the webhead.

"That really is strange. Not the doctor kind, I mean. We'll deal with that later. C'mon. We're almost there." The duo riders rev up their respective vehicles and speeds up to the Garment District.

On the ground, Sonic and Ruby were in the middle of delivering pizza from Joe's when they spotted Spidey and Yang speeding up above their heads. "Are they on a date? I wonder where they're headed?" Ruby questions when she sees them pass by.

"I dunno, but I'm feeling a bad voodoo coming from that direction." Sonic replied, feeling a 'tingling' sensation inside his head.

"Yeah. Me too for some reason. Strange." Ruby said, feeling the same thing too. Without a second's thought, Sonic speeds up and gives chase to his vehicle-riding friends to see what's what. "H-Hey! Sonic! What about the delivery?!" She cried out to the blue blur, but he is far too long gone to hear her, so to compensate, she runs at top speed to catch up with her friends.

BGM End


Garment District, Manhattan

BGM-Dragon Ball Xenoverse OST-Cutscene: Alternate Age

Spidey and Power Woman park their highly advanced motorbikes on top of a rooftop building, close, but not too close to the abandoned Walmart building across the street where they can safely spot a few black limousines parking in front of the supermarket without the risk of being seen. "There. I see 'em." Yang whispered to her teammate, using her ski mask to zoom in and detect various crime gangs walking out of the limos into the closed building, with one hooligan seemingly covered in green fur, leading a bunch of gray-haired look-a-likes into the mall as well. "I'm also spotting a couple of look-a-likes and a green-dressed fool leading the gangs inside the shop. I wonder who they are?" She asked.

Peter uses his enhanced lenses to zoom in close to the gangsters, with the one looking like a humanoid jackal catching his stiffen reaction, "No…It can't be…"

"Spidey, what's wrong? It looks like you've seen a ghost." Power Woman whispered to the wall-crawler, wanting to know what's wrong with him.

"That's Miles Warren. The Jackal. Alive?" questioned Spider-Man in deep disbelief.

"The Jackal?" questioned Yang.

"One of my old enemies. He was once my biology teacher at Midtown High before he got transferred to ESU. He's an expert in genetic tampering and cloning, especially when it involves human/spider DNA. One time the dude went crazy and started making clones of me and Gwen Stacy, just to make me suffer." Spidey explained his brief history with the Jackal to Yang.

"Why Gwen Stacy?" Yang asked.

"He, um, developed an 'attraction'to Gwen before she died." Peter nervously answered, scratching the back of his head.

"Okay. Ew. Now I'm afraid of taking Professor Port's class ever again." Yang said, disgusted and a little worried.

"It's been almost a year since I last saw the Jackal. I for sure thought he died when we last met." Spidey said, turning his head back to the gathering of gangsters.

"I bet a million dollars the one you saw was a clone judging from the twins and their twins down there." Yang said, narrowing her mask to the Miles Warren clones down below.

"Your right. And if the rumor about people and gangsters getting spider powers are true, then that means he's the one behind this. It's gotta be. We have to stop him before this turns to a bigger mess than the Clone Saga. I do not want to go through that hell again." Spidey said with a serious demeanor from his face and body structure.

"Can we come?"

BGM End

The blond and spider Avengers gack when they are surprised to see Sonic and Scarlet Rose nonchalantly standing behind the couple. "W-What the-? Where did you two come from?" Spidey asked the duo speedsters.

"Down the street. A couple of blocks away. Saw you guys coming over here and decided to follow." Ruby casually pointed to the direction they came from.

"We heard what you guys said. Some mad scientist trying to take over the city then possibly the world with his 'terrible' creations. Eh I've been there." Sonic informed his friends. He then starts stretching his legs and flexing his muscles. "C'mon. We have an evil scientist to beat up. Let's take him down and have pizza later." He and Ruby leap out of the building despite Spidey's protest. Leaving them with no choice, Spidey and Yang sigh and shrug before following them to the abandoned supermarket.


Abandoned Walmart

The D-Avengers successfully infiltrated the closed down store and interrupts the meeting between the Jackal and the gangs of New York at the central hub. "Jack. Jacky. Jack Nicholson. You wouldn't mind me and my amazing friends crash this party, would ya?" Spidey quipped when hanging down a web from the ceiling.

Warren grinned, "Spider-Man. I had a feeling you and your friends might show up sooner or later, though I kind of wished it was later rather than sooner. No matter. Class is in session, and for our first assignment, YOUR DEATH. Extra credit to those who takes out the girls and their pet rat."

BGM-Sonic X OST-Battle

The united gangsters cluster together and darts for the heroes with various weapons like guns and knives in hand. Sonic smirked while clenching his fists, "It's showtime!" The four teenage heroes split off to handle their own squadron of thugs and punks. Sonic uses his speed to easily boost through the thugs, sending them flying across big market. "Do these guys really have spider powers, 'cause they don't act too different from the norm?" Sonic questioned, hopping over gunfire and countering with successive homing attacks.

Scarlet Rose spins her enormous scythe around to deflect all the gunfire from some Apocalypse gangsters. "They seem to be stronger…" She said, then kicked in the back by a thin Dragon Tails' thug. "But not much to give us any real trouble." She retaliated with a plasma shot to the thug and knocking down more goons with swift and choreographed scythe slashes.

Next, Power Woman fights a large squad of gangsters all by herself, easily dispatching each moron with her coordinated, but explosive punches after some training with the likes of Ryu and Iron Fist. "Just to be safe, let's take them out as soon as possible. One Spider-Man is already enough for this universe to handle." She said, clapping her gauntlets together to form a powerful thunderclap, knocking out an entire squadron of baddies.

`Lastly, Spider-Man one-shots the last remaining thugs with acrobatic assaults and various web shots. "And if they do have spider powers, I doubt they attained my sense of humor. It's unique. Distinctive. Exclusive to the original." He quipped, grabbing large empty shelves with his webbing and twirls forward like a lightning-fast drill, finishing off the remaining baddies and standing beside his friends in front of the Jackal.

BGM End

"Magnificent, Parker. You seem to have improved since we last met." Jackal laughed.

"Tell us what you're planning, Warren. Are you really giving these wannabe thugs spider powers?" Spidey asked from his former professor.

"Mmmm, maybe. Maybe not. Ah, I know. How about you ask these two top students in the class?" Jackal smiled, pointing his two thumbs up to the ceiling. Then, after an explosion that causes part of the ceiling to collapse, two armored thugs drop down in front of the professor, one with a skull for a face, holding a sword and shield, and the other in a tech suit that resembles a beetle.

"Uh, Spidey?" Scarlet Rose turns to Spidey about these new villains.

"Taskmaster and the Beetle, huh? Haven't fought them in a while. Thought they went on vacation to the Antarctic." Spidey joked.

"Hey there, slick. We meet again." The Brooklyn accent Taskmaster greeted the webhead by showing off his swordsmanship.

BGM-Sonic X OST-Sonic's Fight

The hired mercenaries launch a massive assault onto the heroes, separating them into two groups: Taskmaster fighting Spider-Man and Power Woman, and the Beetle taking on Sonic and Scarlet Rose.

The latter villain chases the speeding duo across the store, launching heat-seeking missiles and lasers in an effort to quickly dispose of the heroes. "Eat this!" Rose throws her scythe like a boomerang at Beetle but missed, and would've eaten a face-full of rockets if Sonic didn't save her, activating the green bubble shield from his Skill Bracelet to protect her from the explosion.

"You okay?" Sonic asked about her well-being.

"Yeah." Ruby replied.

Before the Beetle could fire rockets again, Sonic intervenes with a homing attack from the ground. The hedgehog claps his feet together, transforming his nanotech shoes to hover shoes, allowing him to float in mid-air upon equal footing with the silent criminal. "You don't seem much of a talker, do ya? Don't worry, I'll do the talking for the both of us. Get ready to get squashed, bug!" Sonic quipped with a smirk. The hedgehog hero and beetle villain clash in mid-air, assaulting and countering the other's attacks with loads of explosions and spin attacks at high speed.

"Mind if I help?" Ruby asked, activating the Maiden Style Mode of her costume. She breaks apart her Crescent Rose to form dual-wield flame scythes and proceeds to join the fight with Sonic. "Maiden Rose to the rescue!" She quipped, striking Beetle with blinding slash attacks, ending this small assault by using the power of Maiden Style to release a blazing flamethrower from her dual-wield gun-scythes.

"Nice! Let me try my new toy." Sonic pops out a Red Star Ring from his bracelet, absorbing its massive power to grant the hedgehog a crimson red aura, then attacks Beetle with a powerful spin attack.

Meanwhile somewhere at this abandoned store, the Spider-Power duo are double teaming on Taskmaster with their respective martial arts but the skull-face mercenary keeps blocking their devastating attacks with his energy shield. "C'mon, Taskmaster! Show me moves you haven't shamefully copied before!" Spidey taunted, performing multiple roundhouse kicks onto the assassin's shield, then got countered with a shield bash through multiple empty shelves.

"How's that for starters, Webster?" Taskmaster taunted.

From behind, Yang comes down from the skies with a battle cry, style changing her costume to HeatGuts style, granting her a red color scheme and an enlarged fist for her vibranium hand. With her new increased power, she slowly manages to overpower Taskmaster with a Shoryuken, launching the villain across the store. "Not bad, blonde. Learned that from Ryu, eh? Ever consider joining my class? We have room for one more." Taskmaster offered.

"With that face? No way." Yang replied, irritating Taskmaster. He takes out a quiver, firing multiple arrow shots from his bow at the power heroine, but Yang was able to counter his shots by firing machine gun pellets from her upgraded Ember Celica. Once the dust settles, Yang comes towards Taskmaster with thought-out, powerful strikes that probably would've beaten Skully to a paste if he didn't have photographic reflexes to parry her moves with her own fighting style.

"I have copied and mastered hundreds of fighting styles just by watching them once. And thanks to what the Jackal did to me, my strength, skills and reflexes have been enhanced greatly to that of Spider-Man's. You can't possibly beat me now." Taskmaster then proceeds to tauntingly chuckle at her for being so powerless against him.

"Maybe not with physical strength…" Power Woman starts speaking, kicking Taskmaster away from her. "Soul Unison: Ice Queen Soul!" She shouts out. Her costume lights up, getting an armored-up change similar to Ruby's, signifying she's activating Maiden Style. A faint image that looks remarkably like Ice Queen Weiss circles around her, forming a quick flash of light surrounding Yang. As it dissipates her costume has changed, crossed with the blue-and-white color scheme and design aspects of Weiss', replacing her ski mask with that of a visor.

"Let's see you copy this!" Yang summons blue glyphs with her newfound combined power with Weiss', creating an ice replica of a King Taijitu that chomps on Taskmaster repeatedly before throwing him away.

"Hey! Haven't forgotten about me, have you?" Spidey quipped, swinging through the air of the store to double kick Taskmaster back to the ground. The quippy webhead lands behind the hooded baddie, tying up his hood around his face with his webbing. "Let's see you copy our moves now, Skullface!" Peter quipped, kicking Tasky to Yang, who punches him with an ice punch from a glyph. "That's enough toying around! Let's end this, team!" Peter said to his friends.

"You got it!" Sonic replied while he and Ruby are still fighting against the armored Beetle. He holds Ruby's hand and they both shout, "TWIN SPIN!" They form into a combined spin attack resembling a blue-yin, red-yang formation with Ruby's scythe sticking out. They boost at tremendous speed, rolling into Beetle before he could see it coming. Then they rammed into Taskmaster while he was distracted with the other two jokesters, leading them to their doom as Spidey webs up his left hand with explosive webbing, joining Yang and her shotgun gauntlets to crushingly knock out the villains together, blowing them away to a refrigerator across the store.

BGM End

"And that's what we call an 'explosive finish'." Ruby punned.

"But what about the Jackal?" Sonic questioned on the cloning professor's current location.

"He must have escaped during the fight. I don't sense him anymore. He's long gone now, but let's look around for any clues on his current location just to be safe." Spidey suggested.

"Right. I'll start here." Yang said, jumping and sticking to the wall, surprising both herself and the friends that have witnessed her new spider-like abilities.

"WHAT THE-?!" Peter shouted in huge shock and surprise.

"Ooookay." Yang said, a little unsure of what's happening to herself at the moment. Wondering if this is real or not, she nonchalantly starts walking across the wall and then stands upside down from the ceiling with a smile on her face, "Hey look, Spidey! I'm you! This is so cool!"

"Uh…" Peter is absolutely lost, having no idea on how to wrap his head around the fact his super-powered girlfriend gained super-powered spider powers out of nowhere.

"Uh, Peter, why does my sister have spider powers? Did you, and Yang, had, uh…?" Ruby's a little afraid and embarrassed to finish that sentence, thinking he and Yang "shared the odd toothbrush together" when they're alone.

"Wha-?! N-N-No, no, no, no, no! We did NOT do what you think your thinking! I swear on my life me and Yang didn't…'do it'!" Spidey quickly protested in fear.

Sonic puts a finger on his muzzle to think about an earlier topic he had with his friends last night, "Hmm. Y'know. We've all been feeling pretty different lately since yesterday. I wonder…" The blue hedgehog looks at his right hand for a second, then proceeds to touch his wrist and, to their surprise, shoot a web line across the room. "Whoa! Cool! I can shoot webbing now." Sonic cheered, attaching a web line to the ceiling and begins swinging on it.

"Wha…" Spidey is now furthered shock his speedy blue friend also has spider powers.

"Hey! Let me try!" Ruby presses on her left wrist and shooting webbing to the ceiling, swinging on it across the destroyed supermarket.

"Please tell me that's from your prototype web-shooters?" Spidey asked Scarlet Rose, still stunned.

"Nope! Left them at home!" Ruby replied while she's enjoying her newfound spider powers.

BGM-Ultimate Spider-Man Game OST-Venom Cinematic

Wanting to witness the shocking reveal of new spiders first hand, Ero the Other appears beside Peter in Astral form, with the same shock look as his host, "New Spider-Totems? In this dimension? How can that be? Was this what I sensed wrong from the Great Web last night?"

"I'm just as confused as you are." Spidey replied, then gets jumpscared when Yang meets him down from a web attached to the ceiling.

"Hey Spidey. How's it hanging?" She joked, then chuckled.

"Real cute, Point Break." Spidey said, then he gets a call from Weiss through his Webware. "Ah great. What now?"

Peter answers the call, projecting a holographic image of Weiss from upside down? 'PETER! What did you do?!' She shouted at the frightened webhead.

"Oh no, let me guess. You and the others have spider powers too?" Peter asked the Schnee heiress.


Avengers Mansion

"Gee. Was it obvious?"Weiss sarcastically asked while standing upside down from Avengers Mansion. "This is terrible. No wonder I couldn't perform my work properly yesterday. I have the stickiness of a spider. Is you and your Other an actual disease now?"

"Oh, this isn't so bad." Blake said next to her, casually hanging upside down from a web-line reading a book. "I've never read a book like this before. This is honestly kind of fun."

Weiss grunts and turns to Tails, who also has spider powers and is researching why from his lab. "Tails, do you have any idea what's going on, and how you can change us back?" She asked the two-tailed fox on some sort of cure.

"I'm working on it. All I can say is that somehow our DNA has been altered a few days ago, mixed with that of a spider and giving us arachnid-based abilities like Spider-Man. I'm looking into if they're more people who've been infected." Tails responded.


Back at the destroyed supermarket

"Argh…" Ero grunts, falling down to his knees in excruciating pain.

"Ero, what's wrong?!" Peter asked in concern.

"My power…it's growing weak…Too many spiders accessing the Great Web…It's excruciating…" Ero responded through the pain.

"Too many?! What do you mean by that?! How many are we talking about?!" Spidey asked him, but Ero is too weak at the moment to talk and teleports back to Peter's inner consciousness. Then suddenly, Tails pops up from his Webware to deliver him more bad news.

'Spidey! This is terrible! Look outside! Hurry!' Tails shouted in panic.

In response, Spidey hurriedly runs out of the doors of the busted supermarket, absolutely horrified at what he's seeing with his own two, widen lenses, "Oh…sweet…lord…"

Seconds later, Sonic, Ruby, and Yang run out to check with Spidey while holding an unconscious Taskmaster and Beetle. "Yo Spidey. What seems…to be…the problem… Oh man…" Sonic slowly stops talking as he and the girls joins a stunned Spider-Man in watching over ONE MILLION regular New Yorkers suddenly gain spider powers and either swinging or crawling through this infested Manhattan, with half of them being criminals wearing different Spider-Man costumes and are wreaking havoc across this 'Island of Spiders'. "Everyone in Manhattan…"

"Has spider powers…" Ruby continued, stunned and motionless like the others.

"It's more of a 'Spider-Island' than a Manhattan now, guys." Yang corrected them.

"Spidey…what should we do?" Sonic asked the shocked leader of the team for guidance and advise.

"…I don't know, 'cause this is really messing with my sense of self here." Spidey responded, lost and confused on how to deal with this spider-disease he may indirectly had an involvement with.

BGM End


BGM-Dragon Ball Super OST-Limit-Break x Survivor (Preview)

Sonic: I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog. Everyone in Manhattan is starting to get spider powers from who-knows-where, and unlike Spidey, some of them don't know how to use their power responsibly. The Avengers and Fantastic Four are trying their best to handle the situation, but with over a million civilians as strong as the original webhead, it might take a while. That's where we come in. Okay team. Let's go help clear this mess, Spider-Style!

Next time on D-Avengers: Spider-Island DX:

The Amazing Spider-Manhattan

Sonic: Say hello to the Spectacular Spider-Hog, ladies and gents! No applause needed.


KFX here: Five chapters in and I'm wondering what're your thoughts on this story so far. You like it? You hate it? Favorite moment? What do you expect from it? Give me your concrete thoughts at the review section.