Sorry this chapter took so long, I've been busy. Please leave any thoughts on what you thought of this chapter!
"Maybe if I tried talking to him even after he attacked me in Time Square, he could've come to his sense's. Or maybe if I find a cure he'll calm down, or" Double-Dee thought as he walked down the school hallway trying to figure out what he did wrong with Max after his rampage. He had stayed up all night after the incident at the ESU lab thinking over his mistake's in helping Max, or as he prefers now, Electro. Double-Dee was wearing a oversize grey hoodie with a white shirt under it, black jeans, high-top Vans, but was missing his famous hat the resembled a sock, revealing his jet black messy hair. He didn't feel like searching for it this morning, he just wanted to get the day over with.
"Double-Dee?" a female voiced called out making him turn his head and seeing Sarah in her cheerleading uniform approaching him.
"Hey Sarah." Double-Dee said.
"Double-Dee what were you thinking last night? Are you hurt?" Sarah asked with a worried expression.
"I'm fine, really, I though I should've tried to help." Double-Dee said starring at the ground as if it was the most important thing in the universe.
"And you got zapped!" Sarah said.
"Yeah, guess ol' Double-Dee pretty useless." Double-Dee said bagging on himself.
"I wouldn't say that." Sarah said giving Double-Dee a smile and doe eye's. Double-Dee looked up and smiled at her compliment. Kevin and his fellow jocks then approached Sarah while giving Double-Dee the dirty eye.
"Sarah?" Kevin said getting both the cheerleader and Double-Dee's attention.
"Whats the dork doing here?" Kevin said putting emphasis on dork.
"It's a hallway." Double-Dee said joking at Kevin who returned with an angry glare. Sarah looked at Double-Dee, then to Kevin and grabbing the quarterbacks arm and looking smugly at Double-Dee.
"Leaving I hope." Sarah said joining the other popular kids at starring down the teenager. Double-Dee looked shocked for a second but then just decided to continue his walk towards his first period class. Double-Dee approaches Ed, Eddy, and Harry as they had watched the whole scene.
"Ah Double-Dee, another hapless victim of wild, undomesticated cheerleader." Harry said sympathizing with Double-Dee.
"Sorry about my sister Double-Dee." Ed said apologizing on Sarah's behalf.
"But hey Sockhead, if you wanted her to learn, at least you taught her on how to fold to peer pressure." Eddy said getting some things out of his messy locker. Double-Dee sighed before realizing and learning a great lesson.
"It's okay guy's, I offered my hand, she smacked it away, you can't get everyone to accept your help, the key is to never stop trying." Double-Dee said passing on some wisdom to his friends with Harry nodding, Ed scratching his head with a dumb struck look, and Eddy who just seemed to not care.
"To cheer you up Double-Dee, I'll give you some buttered toast from my lunch!" Ed said before taking out a piece of moldy toast from his pocket and shoving it into Double-Dee's hands. The stale toast smelled disgusting and had a few mushrooms growing out of it, but none the less, Double-Dee smiled at Ed's generosity.
"Thank you Ed." Double-Dee said before the group started walking towards their class.
Martha walked towards her husband who was still writing down notes in the middle of the still damaged lab. Curt had not stopped looking for ways to cure Max of his new condition, even if he had attacked him. Martha starred at her husband for a few seconds before stepping closer and putting a hand on his shoulder.
"We won't stop trying Curt." Martha said with Curt putting his hand on top of hers and looking in her eye's.
"I know sweetheart." Curt said.
"But we can't do anything more today. Come on, lets go home." Martha said before walking towards the exit of the lab. Curt then looked down to see the syringe he was suppose to inject in himself the night before. Curt quickly bent down and grabbed it, hiding it into his lab coat before following his wife out of the building.
"HIT IT, GO!" The man wearing the ski-mask said as he got in the getaway car to the other man wearing a ski-mask. The owner of a convenience store came rushing out into the street waving his fist at the criminals who were getting away.
"Help, police!" The owner shouted hoping someone heard him. Meanwhile the one of the thieves was counting the money in the car as his partner drove the speeding car.
"Must be at least two grand in here, score!" The man in the passenger seat exclaimed.
"And no Spider-Man in sights!" The man in the passenger seat said only to be surprised as the web-head then suddenly appeared on top of their car looking at them through the front window.
"Ta-Da! Say my name and I magically appear!" Spider-Man said then jumping onto the hood of their car.
"NOT YOU AGAIN!" The man driving shouted in anger revealing his Russian accent.
"Again?" Spider-Man said in confusion as the ski-mask's were still on the thieves and so he couldn't tell who they were. Both men then took off their mask's revealing the two men who stole the Oscorp truck carrying plutonium. They were still wearing the clothes they had on the day Spidey caught them. Aleksei looked like he was about to explode with rage while Flint looked like he was fiddling for something on the floor.
"Oh hey, it's you guys, Flint and Alex right? So, how you guy's been?" Spider-Man said clearly joking before Flint rolled down the window, stuck his arm and head out of the car aiming a handgun at the wall-crawler. Spider-Man quickly kicked Flint and the gun out of his hands before Aleksei pulled a hatch releasing the hood of the car and throwing Spider-Man off. Spidey then shot a web-line at the released hood of the car to hold onto, unfortunately the the hood broke off of the car and hurled towards Spidey. Spider-Man then simply landed on the hood and shot a web-line at the car.
"SURFS UP!" Spidey said as he held onto the web-line while riding the detached hood of the car as if he's water skiing. Spider-Man then released the web-line and the hood and started to jump from building to building, then lamp post to lamp post, landing on top of the car. With the hood no longer covering the engine, Spidey was free to clog it with his webbing. The car then started swerving out of control and crashed into a nearby street lamp, all after Spider-Man jumped off the car. Spidey then grabbed the two criminals out of their open windows and webbed them up by the street lamp they crashed into. And with one final touch, Spider-Man left his signature card with the two webbed up crooks.
"All right, got some more money from the Bugle, now I can help Aunt May with the bills, and with my ten percent cut, another batch of web-fluid." Double-Dee thought as he entered his home with a wad of cash in his pocket.
"Hey there Tiger." Double-Dee was taken by surprise at Marie sitting on their couch. She was wearing a cropped black long-sleeve baseball-tee, black jeans, and high-top Vans.
"MJ!" Double-Dee shouted in surprise at his now beautiful, former childhood tormentor. She looked at him with that same smirk he remembered from his childhood that made him frozen in fear.
"How did you get in!?" Double-Dee asked still taken by surprise. His knees were shaking, but not from fear like they used to whenever he saw her, something else, nervousness.
"I broke the lock on the door." Marie said as she checked her nails.
"WHAT!" Double-Dee shouted as he checked the door lock.
"I'm kidding, your aunt let me in." Marie said calming down the other teenager. Aunt May then walked into the room from the kitchen with a plate full of tatter-tots.
"Here you go deary." Aunt May said placing the plate down on the table near Marie, who quickly started to eat them one by one.
"Thank you Mrs. Parker, your the best." Marie said thanking the elderly woman.
"Oh your welcome." Aunt May said sweetly before walking over to her nephew and giving him a kiss on the cheek. Double-Dee then dig's into his pocket and pulling out the cash he had earned from the Bugle.
"Here you go Aunt May, sold more pics to the Bugle, here's ninety percent for the bills and ten percent for me." Double-Dee said giving his Aunt May's share of the money and giving her a kiss on the forehead. Aunt May smiled and went right back into the kitchen leaving the two alone again. Double-Dee looked to Marie and saw her still smiling at him.
"That was sweet." Marie said.
"It was nothing." Double-Dee rebuffed while sitting down on the same couch as Marie.
"No, really, a lot of kids wouldn't be doing what your doing." Marie said getting Double-Dee to smile.
"Thanks MJ." Double-Dee said grateful for her compliment. She really has change, not just physically, but her personality as well.
"I wanna catch up, but I'm moving in with my aunt down and I gotta move my boxes into my new room." Marie said sadly as she genuinely wanted to catch up after all these years.
"I can help." Double-Dee said offering his assistance.
"Such a gentleman, ok." Marie said as she got up from the couch and walked towards the door only to be blocked by Double-Dee who stopped her and then opened the door and hold it open for her again.
"Like I said, such a gentleman." Marie said before kissing Double-Dee's cheek again and walking out the door. Double-Dee once again felt his cheek not knowing his aunt was approaching him.
"Have fun Double-Dee." Aunt May said snapping Double-Dee out of his trance.
"Thanks Aunt May." Double-Dee said as he started to leave.
"And no hanky-panky." Aunt May said getting a confused look from her nephew.
"Hanky-panky?" Double-Dee said.
"You know what I mean." Aunt May said.
"If we were in the nineteen-thirty's I'd know what you mean." Double-Dee said getting a chuckle from Aunt May. Double-Dee then closed the door and followed Marie to her aunts house.
"Okay, what the hell?" Spider-Man thought to himself as he swung through the skyline of New York City, the night after helping MJ. Another night of keeping a watchful eye over his city, except nothing is happening.
"I mean I got my costume on and everything. I went through all the trouble of putting on my tights and all. Aaaaaannnnnd, there's nothing going on. Nothing, this is New York City, where's all the crazy's, thugs, muggers?" Just as Spidey finished that he heard a loud explosion near the Rockefeller Center.
"Ah, there you go." Spider-Man thought before jumping down near the statue they have of Prometheus. Smoke was coming through the vents near said statue.
"That's definitely weird." Spider-Man thought as he got closer to the vents and could've sworn he heard voices down below.
"Must be in the sewers, great, and I just had this suit washed." Spider-Man thought before opening the closest man-hole and jumped down into the disgusting sewer's, crawling on the walls and getting closer to the voices, all which sounded familiar. Spider-Man carefully hid hanging on to the ceiling of the sewer tunnel as he saw a giant blown hole in the wall with several items in it, all which looked valuable. Must be the Rockefeller vault hidden underneath the Center.
"First time I've blown my way out of a store." A all way to familiar voice said before two large men came running out of the blown wall with bags full of items thrown over their shoulders. The two figures where none other than Flint Marko and Aleksei Sytsevich, the two men who stole the Oscorp truck, and robbed a convenience store.
"Yeah Marko, biggest score we've ever made, I'm loving it!" Aleksei said cheering in victory.
"I'm loving there's no Spider-Man down here to cramp our style." Marko said to his partner.
"Didn't know you had any style." Spider-Man said lowering himself from the ceiling on a web and trapping the two would-be thief's again in his webbing. Spider-Man then left the two strung up on a lamp post again and calling the police to notify them of their capture.
"Well, love to stay and catch up, but I've got a long night ahead of me." Spider-Man said then swinging away.
"I really hate that guy." Aleksei said dangling from the street light.
"How did those two even get out this early, guess some punks can have friends." Spider-Man thought before continuing his patrol of the city.
"You talking to me." Double-Dee said to no one as he was in his room alone practicing his aim shooting his webs at empty soda cans several days after catching Marko and Aleksei again. Double-Dee's room was covered with webs, soda cans, empty bottles, all for practicing his sharp shooting.
"Then say hello to my webs!" Double-Dee said before he was about to pull on a stacked tower of cans before he tripped on a bottle, knocking himself down with the soda cans pilling on him.
"Eddward?" Aunt May called from outside his door. Double-Dee quickly shot up and scrambled to his feet.
"Hold on a sec Aunt May, I-I have to clean up a bit!" Double-Dee said before sounds of scurrying and cans rustling were heard on the other side of the door. The noises stopped after a few seconds with Double-Dee then opening the door allowing his aunt to walk in and see a neat and tidy room.
"Oh my goodness, you did clean up." Aunt May said amazed at mess free room.
"I haven't seen a room this clean since you were twelve." Aunt May said remembering Double-Dee's old obsession with messiness.
"Where's the clutter, under the bed as usual." She asked looking under Double-Dee's bed, with nothing being there.
"Aunt May, I'm not a kid anymore. I don't need to resort to tricks." Double-Dee said not taking his eye's at the trash webbed closely to the ceiling hoping his aunt wouldn't look up.
"Well I'm impressed Eddward, with your school, your job, and now this." Aunt May said not noticing a piece of paper floating down from the webbed trash above them. Double-Dee quickly maneuvered around her as she walked towards the door and grabbed the piece of paper in his hands.
"Your growing into such a great man." Aunt May said as she turned around to face her nephew, now noticing the paper in his hands.
"Whats that?" She asked.
"Oh its a flyer for Midtown highs fall formal." Double-Dee said passing the flyer to his aunt.
"I'm not going though, I don't have a date." Double-Dee said shrugging his shoulders.
"Oh Eddward, you live such a sheltered life." Aunt May said with Double-Dee then thinking back to the times he's put on the mask. The times he stayed up for entire nights. The times he had to dodge a dozen firing guns aiming for his head. He couldn't tell her, not with her poor heart, it break her.
"Oh, why not ask Anna's niece, Marie Jane!" Aunt May suggested with Double-Dee then getting flustered.
"Uh, yeah, l-let me think on that!" Double-Dee said then grabbing his school bag.
"Right now I gotta head over to Harry's place and help him study." Double-Dee said before his Aunt walked out of his room with him closing the door behind them.
Double-Dee had just taken off his web-shooter's and hid them in his bag before the elevator door to the Osborn condominium. The doors slid open to reveal Norman Osborn himself about to enter the elevator. Norman smiled.
"Eddward, good to see you. Here to help Harry?" Norman asked.
"We help each other Mr. Osborn." Double-Dee answered.
"Now, Now Eddward, modesty doesn't become men like us. Smart. Driven. Responsible. Self-made." Norman said giving Double-Dee a list of compliments as he put his hand on his shoulder. Double-Dee quickly became embarrassed.
"I-I'm more of a work in progress." Double-Dee said honestly just as Harry along with Ed and Eddy walked into the room.
"At least your making progress." Norman said before looking at his son. Double-Dee was a little angry at what Norman had just said. Was he always like this. Harry quickly left and headed towards his room with Ed, Edd n Eddy following behind. Harry spun the chair in his room, sat down on the bed and gave a sigh before falling back on it. Ed and Eddy sat in the twin bean bags Harry had in his room. Double-Dee gave a look to Harry's computer.
"Mind if I check my email?" Double-Dee said before Harry gave a 'go ahead' hand gesture. Double-Dee sat down in the swivel chair and started to check if he had anything new. He saw he had a new email from Midtown high, an invite to the Fall Formal.
"An invite to Midtown high's fall formal." Double-Dee said aloud.
"Which would be great if either one of us had, whats the word?" Harry said.
"A date." Eddy said getting comfy in the bean bag.
"That's it." Harry said.
"I could probably ask MJ as a friend." Double-Dee said in a whisper but Eddy still heard it.
"Who's MJ Sockhead?" Eddy asked making Double-Dee freeze. He didn't even bother to look at them.
"Huh, uh, just this girl, my uh Aunt May introduced me to." Double-Dee said fumbling his words.
"HAH! You couldn't find a girl so you had your aunt do it for you!" Eddy said before he started laughing with Ed joining him with Harry stifling some laughs as well. Double-Dee simply grumbled.
"So who are you asking, Eddy?" Double-Dee asked making Eddy suddenly stop laughing before giving his usual sly grin.
"Double-Dee, when are you going to realize all the girls love me. They'll be lining up to get with this." Eddy said confidently standing up and showing himself off. Double-Dee, Ed and Harry starred at him before bursting out in laughter.
"Yeah Aunt May, I'm on my way home now, see you soon, love you too, bye." Spider-Man said as he was swinging home after tutoring Ed, Eddy and Harry. Spider-Man was hoping to make it quickly home tonight. But unnoticed to him, there was a man watching him through a pair of binoculars and holding a phone.
"He's here, set it in motion." The man said through the phone. On the receiving end of the call, there were two men with with ski-mask's holding up a jewelry store with people lying on the ground and bags of jewels in their hands. The men nodded to each other before running outside into a getaway car and taking off with a loud skid with the stores alarm system going off. Spider-Man looked down to see the jewel thieves taking off and started to chase after them.
"Talk about a crook with bad timing." Spider-Man thought as he was gaining on the car. Inside the car the man on the passenger seat looked back and saw the web-slinger was catching up to them. He then took off his mask revealing himself to be Flint Marko.
"Great, he's on us!" Flint said to the other jewel thief who had taken off his mask and reveal himself to be Aleskei Sytsevich.
"Now not to fast, he looses us and there's no payday!" Flint said to his partner.
"Forget the payday! I want payback!" Aleskei said as they ran down the gate entrance to a garbage dump at the harbor. The car entered the building with Aleskei and Marko exiting the car and looking at the entrance for the wall-crawler hiding behind garbage trucks and holding crowbars. Unknowing to them, Spidey was actually on the roof looking down through the broken windows and could clearly see where the thieves are. Spider-Man then webbed his camera in the corner of the broken window so it could see everything.
"Alright, show time." Spider-Man said before dropping down and sneaking up on the two. Spider-Man then shot a web at Markos crowbar hand and yanked him over to him. Spidey then got a good look at Marko's face.
"Marko, man, how many time's do I have to take you down?" Spider-Man said before Marko got his crowbar hand free and swung it at Spidey, but of course he dodged right out of the way.
"And where's your charming partner?" Spider-Man said before he turned his head and saw Aleskei try to hit him with his crowbar, but Spider-Man of course jumped out of the way.
"Look, we got to stop meeting like this." Spidey said then kicking Marko on his back and webbed up both of Aleskei's hands and feet. Marko quickly got up and charged at the web-head.
"People are starting to talk." Spider-Man said jumping over Marko while grabbing him and throwing him onto the roof of their car.
"Mostly about what doofs you are." Spider-Man said while webbing Marko down to the getaway car so he won't escape. Spider-Man thought he was about done when suddenly his spider-sense started going off and turning his head to see some green light blasting him into a garbage truck and falling flat on the floor. Spider-Mans head was spinning, he could barely get up. He could barely make out the person standing right in front of him.
"I bet that came as a bit of a shocker to you." The man said looking down at the wall-crawler revealing a familiar western accent. Spider-Man looked up to see a man wearing a red and yellow suit. the yellow parts were on his shoulders, hands, boots, and mask, they also had black lines crossing them. He was wearing a green visor so Spider-Man couldn't make out his face. On his forearms were some kind of metal devices which probably caused the blast.
"Huh bug." The man said with Spider-Man then knowing who he is. He was the man flying the helicopter when Spidey was attacked after the Vulture.
"Well good, so will this." The man said before lifting his arm with a sudden green vibration pattern starting to charge around the metal devices. Spider-Man then jumped out of the way of the blast which destroyed the numerous garbage trucks behind him. The man then shot at Spider-Man again who was clinging to the ceiling. Spidey quickly kept moving out of the way of the blasts as he didn't want to be shocked again.
"Hold still son so I can put you out of your misery!" The man said as he stopped shooting.
"How about you put me out of my mystery! Your the guy with the helicopter, who are you!" Spider-Man asked hopping to get an answer.
"Call me, well, hows about, Shocker!" Shocker said before he again shot at Spider-Man. Spidey quickly dodged out of the way.
"Hows about toast!" Spider-Man said as he kicked Shocker, only to be knocked back by some kind of green vibration and land on his back. Shocker then approached the web-slinger.
"Either you got less kick then a three-legged mule, or this here suit does more then protect me from my own power." Shocker said before grabbing Spider-Man by the collar and lifting him off his feet.
"I guess clothes do make the man." Shocker said before blasting Spider-Man into a pile of garbage. Shocker then heard the sound of a roaring engine and looked behind himself to see Aleskei driving a garbage truck. Shocker quickly moved out the way to see Aleskei crash into Spider-Man and the pile of garbage. Aleskei then kicked the door open and hoped out of the truck.
"Did I get him!?" Aleskei asked Shocker.
"All you got, is on my nerves!" Shocker said before blasting Aleskei into the pile of garbage as well.
"Now stay outta this boy, the grown ups were talking." Shocker said before Spider-Man pounced on him from behind and grabbed hold of Shocker.
"Don't be to mad at Aleskei." Spider-Man said as Shocker tried to throw him off.
"He just get's cranky without his-" Spider-Man said before Shocker started to vibrate madly.
"Naaaaaaaaaaaap!" Spider-Man said before being tossed off and fell to the ground. Spider-Man then side swiped Shocker with his leg making Shocker fall to the ground as well.
"Impressive. You can sell yourself out as a kitty ride." Spider-Man said as he got back up.
"Thanks." Shocker said before turning his body and shooting Spider-Man into a giant trash compactor.
"But I already got a job I love." Shocker said as he got up and walked over to the platform and saw Spider-Man stuck in a pile of garbage struggling to get out. Shocker then shot a small vibration as the control panel making the machine start up and slowly compact the garbage with Spider-Man in it. Spider-Man tried even harder to get free but to no avail as the last thing he saw was Shocker looking at him while the lid to the trash compactor closed. A few seconds after, the machine popped out a giant cube make of garbage.
"That should satisfy the Big Man." Shocker said as he walked away.
"Extraction." Shocker said into an earpiece wanting to get out of there.
"Hey." Marko said still tied to the car gaining Shockers attention.
"A little help, please." Marko said struggling to get out of the web.
"Normally I'd leave you for the cops. But I'm in too good a mood." Shocker said before blasting Marko off the car and free of his restraints. Shocker then walked outside of the dump and only had to wait a few seconds before a helicopter appeared and dropped a ladder down to him. Shocker grabbed hold of it before the ladder retracted bringing him inside and flying away. Aleskei had gotten up and approached Marko who was still sitting down trying to get his head straight.
"Is he gone? Is he roadkill?" Aleskei asked Marko who then gotten up.
"He's gone lets book!" Marko said as he then started to run with Aleskei following behind him getting away from the building. A few seconds after they left, the cube of compacted garbage started to shake with Spider-Man then splitting it in half. Apparently there was a small opened refrigerator with enough room for Spidey to squeeze inside and close the door so he wouldn't be squashed. Spidey let out a couple of deep breathes as there was barely any breathing room in there.
"Man, talk about your tight spots." Spider-Man said as he got out of the refrigerator.
"But, I'm alive." Spidey said before he started sniffing the air before smelling his own costume and recoiling in disgust.
"And I reek!" Spider-Man said before jumping onto the roof of the building, grabbing his camera, his bag and swinging home.
Sorry this took so long everyone! I'll try to get the next chapter done quicker! Please Review!
