Disclaimer: I do not own Spider-man or any marvel related things. Or 300 for that matter…all I did was mention it though. A quote from Ultimate Spider-man was too good to pass up.
Chapter 10: Symbiotic Relation
Peter sat on the building top looking at his hands, "I can't believe someone like Octavius…knew my dad…not only that he acts like he was his friend."
Peter took off his mask and threw it at the rooftop, "People are figuring out my identity, maybe I should lay low for a while."
He pulled off the backpack that was on his back and started to change into his pedestrian clothing but kept the web shooters on. Immediately when he put the clothes on he leaped from the building and started heading home discreetly in the back alleys and such…
The Next Morning…
Peter rolls out of his bed before checking the calendar, it was Friday. Peter cheered in his mind thinking he could get together with his friends and Gwen over the weekend while he lays low. So he sprung from the floor and got ready.
Meanwhile in a Local Store…
Flint Marko walked through the store until he arrived at a Television he picked it up and started walking away with it a man looked at him and said, "Hey kid you have enough money to buy that?"
"No," he replied.
"Then put it back if you don't have enough money," he said scathingly.
He continued walking towards the door.
"What did I say?" he asked.
Flint turned to him his fist turned into sand and it started to melt and he landed on the floor as sand. The man stood there in confusion, "Where did you go?"
The sand on the floor expanded across the floor and it started to move out towards the door. Everything in the store went with it. Then the sand escaped the store and started to make a path into the air towards a building. It landed on the top.
The man looked bewildered as his life slipped away from him. He fell on the floor and started to cry in realization.
On top of the building the sand formed into Flint Marko, "I may be a mutant but it pays."
He turned into sand again making a path into an alley where a man was standing with a truck behind him. The man looked at him, "Hey Flint I'm glad you have the goods."
"Shut up Jake hand over the money," Flint replied in anger.
"I wouldn't want to make a mutie like you angry," Jake spat as he handed over a briefcase.
Flint opened the case, "Good, now get out of here I don't want to be seen with someone who works under Kingpin."
"I wouldn't call Mr. Fisk that if I were you," Jake said to him in advice.
"Thanks I'll keep that in mind," Flint laughed walking off before turning into sand and disappearing in the wind.
He reappeared in the school's grounds behind a tree. He walked out being greeted by Flash, and Kong. Kong hit him on the back talking about how Oscorp blew up. While over on the other side of the grounds Peter, MJ, and Harry were all talking after getting out of Harry's car.
"I'm sorry about your dad's labs," Peter replied, "Were there any casualties?"
"It was after hours Peter Octavius probably didn't want to harm any of his friends," Harry said, "Even though he is a terrorist now."
MJ looked at Harry, "I'm sure your dad isn't taking it that way."
"All he is ever talking about now is the Glider project," Harry laughed, "I'm almost sick of hearing about it."
"You mean you are," Peter chimed in.
"Pete shut up," he said.
MJ looked at both of them, "Both of you need to calm down, you both became so hotheaded after you got girlfriends."
Harry pulled at his jacket, "Liz is a beautiful girl, and if Pete can defeat his fears so can I!"
He said this proudly while Peter whispered to MJ, "Sounds like someone is overconfident."
"Peter I will beat your head in personally if you say that again!" Harry threatened.
They all laughed as they walked into the school. Peter saw Gwen and called her over then all four started talking to each other. Harry and Peter started talking about seeing the movie 300. MJ and Gwen talked about how boys are predictable always wanting to see violence and nudity.
The group walked to class to be lectured by Dr. Connors again. After class he gave Gwen and Peter another sample of his experiment now he had it working on a larger rodent, a badger. Peter stared in amazement as its arms grew back the two left class.
When they left class the badger turned into a strange reptilian like creature Dr. Connors stabbed a needle into it as it died, "This batch didn't turn out as well as the first, every time I have to fix it for the more complex forms of life."
In the hallway Peter and Gwen caught up with MJ, Liz, and Harry heading to Social Studies. The class was long and boring everyone seemed very tired, but Peter noticed Flint disappeared from the classroom. He got up while the teacher droned on about Richard Nixon resigning from office. He crept over to the window and looked outside. He saw Flint walking away from the school building.
Peter sat back down and raised his hand, "Does anyone have the bathroom pass?"
The teacher looked at him frowned and replied, "No one has the pass you may go."
Peter walked over to the door but didn't grab the pass he ran down the hallway narrowly avoiding the principal and several teachers. When he walked outside he decided he had no time to change into his Spider-man costume so he just strapped on his web shooters and put on his mask to go after Flint.
Leaping across the football field he caught up with Flint whom was walking into a auto-dealer ship. He walked over to a car and started looking at it.
A guy walked up to him, "See something you like son? The name's Kirk Donahue!"
It was a sleazy car salesman with blonde hair and green eyes he looked at the car with fake fascination as well. He pulled at his purple pinstriped suit.
Flint said, "No not something I like."
"Then why are you here, you wouldn't be skipping school would you?" he asked.
"Maybe," he replied in an uninterested voice before hopping into the car.
"Eh, what do you think you are doing?" Kirk asked holding the keys to the car in his left hand.
"Taking it for a spin," Flint said.
"You drive it you buy it boy," Kirk said now in an angry tone.
"Then I will take it," he said.
He handed the man a nickel before starting it up with the keys that the man was holding and taking off. The infuriated car salesman could only watch as he took off with the most expensive car in the lot.
Peter waved at him, "I'll take care of him sleazy!"
Kirk looks at him, "Who are you, a guy playing dress up?"
Peter ignores him and shoots a web swinging after the car he lands on the back of it, "You do know that cars aren't worth that much don't you? Maybe the engine is worth that much in American dollars."
Flint spun the car making a cookie and tossing Peter off the rear end. Peter slammed into a wall and got up, "Wise guy eh?"
He shoots a web going after him. Then he leaps on a building top and starts shooting webs at the car in great multitudes. The car is lifted from the ground by twenty webs and is suspended in the air.
"Hey Babe bah ram you!" Spider-man said crawling towards him.
Flint looked at him from the car, "I can get out of this easily."
Peter looked at him, "Look I'm having a bad day as it is I didn't even get my costume all the way on."
Flint's arms turned into sand and started snapping the webs and the car broke free landing on a platform of sand and floating onto a building. Then Flint turned into a sand cloud and crashed into Peter while he was falling. They both hit a building as Peter looked at him, "You have powers?"
"If that wasn't the most obvious statement I ever heard I don't know what is," Flint replied turning back from the cloud form into his regular form with elongated arms that were sand.
One of Flint's arms turned into a club and struck Peter, "They call me Sandman."
"No I thought a good name for you would be Mindless Crook," Peter replied punching him knocking him into the street, "You know what works against sand, making it very weak?"
He kicks a fire hydrant knocking it off and presses his hand on the water spout. An intense water blast hits Flint forcing him to revert to normal. Peter punches him and presses him against the ground, "Now stop fighting me so we can discuss this."
He grabs him by the collar of his shirt and jumps up the building quickly. Throwing him against the car he asks, "Why did you steal this car?"
Flint doesn't respond.
"Answer me Flint," Peter replied.
"How did you know my name?" Flint replied, "Your clothes do look familiar, I think I have seen you today."
"None of this stuff okay Flint?" Spider-man responded now becoming agitated, "Why do you steal."
"My family needs money, I sell this stuff to Kingpin," he replied.
Peter froze and relaxed his body, "Kingpin huh? What do you know about him?"
"Nothing I only know about this guy Jake that I sell through," Flint said, "They take my stolen goods for cheap then sell them for cheap in the black market. Now go ahead and send me to the police like you do with all of us crooks."
"I'm not going to do that," Spider-man replied, "You are going to atone for your misdeeds. I will get you a job, and whenever I call upon you, you will help me with villains or fight crime."
Flint looked at him, "A job with my grades and social status? Yeah right…"
Peter took off the mask, "You know me from school, Peter Parker."
He held out his hand Flint stared at it for a second and grabbed it. Peter pulled him up from the ground, "I can get you a job at the Daily Bugle, or my friend's dad's company Oscorp."
"You mean the Oscorp that got blew up?" he asked.
"Yeah they will be needing people to help out there," Peter said, "What do you say?"
"Okay Parker you have yourself a deal," he replied shaking his hand.
"But let's return this car, okay?" Peter laughed.
He put on his Spider-man mask and with Flint's help eased the car into the streets below. Where Peter jumped in and drove it to the dealership Flint left the place.
After school Peter went with Gwen to the movie theater they watched the current romance film. After leaving the theater they embraced for a bit before arriving at Peter's basement and walking in.
Gwen was looking at all of the gadgets in his basement in awe and said, "I wish I had some of this stuff."
Peter looked at her and smiled as she examined his microscope then she looked at a web shooter Peter had forgotten to put away. She grabbed it before Peter could react and pressed the button on it. A web shot out and stuck to the ceiling. She looked over at Peter, "What is this, what is it for?"
Peter sighed, "Umm…Gwen I was hoping I didn't have to tell you this. But um…you have to promise to keep this a secret no matter what okay?"
"All right Peter anything for you," she looked at him and grinned thinking he was about to say something other than what he was going to.
"I'm Spider-man," he replied.
She looked serious for a moment then went into hysterics, "That's a good one Peter!"
"I was serious," he said frantically.
She fell on the hard wood floor and laughed some more.
"I was hoping it wouldn't come to this," he replied.
He leaped onto a wall sticking to it. She looked at him completely shocked at this act of power. Then he landed on the ground.
"Wow Peter, you were serious," she said, "That is so…cool!"
He sighed, "I'm glad you think so because most people don't."
"Well, who knows besides me Peter?" she asked in excitement.
"Well Dr. Otto Octavius who is a complete nutcase, and a guy name Flint Marko who also has powers," he said.
"You decided to let me know," she looked completely joyful as she messed with the web shooter more.
"You must not tell anyone," Peter said, "Not my Aunt, not Harry, and not MJ. Or anyone else for that matter."
"Well I hope you will wear your tights for me sometime Spider-man," she said to him with a smirk.
"Hey it takes a lot of guts to wear tights in public," Peter said.
"Or a complete fruit," she laughed.
"I'm not going to confide in you anymore," Peter frowned.
"Hey, I didn't mean it like that," she said, "I have something to tell you too, I want you to meet my dad soon."
"Well, okay I guess," Peter replied, "He isn't completely evil is he?"
"No," she said, "Unless if you think lawyers are evil."
"Well I do but has he always been a lawyer?" Peter asked in reply.
"No, he used to be a Law Enforcer but it didn't suit him," she said sweetly, "Now I have to go Peter or my dad will get pissed, so see you later."
She leaned over and kissed him on the lips and he did so in return. Then she let go and walked out of the cellar door.
Peter heard a voice from upstairs, "I don't want any hanky panky going on!"
Peter walked up stairs, "Don't worry Aunt May I wore protection."
"Peter!" Aunt May yelled at him.
"I didn't do anything don't worry," Peter said laughing.
Peter woke up to the sounds of an alarm he slammed it and got up. He noticed Harry was standing at his door.
"Nice boxers Petey," he laughed.
"What the hell Harry?" Peter asked him, "What are you doing in here?"
"Oh my dad was mad at me so I came here, your Aunt let me in," he said, "Slept on the sofa because I didn't want to wake you up."
Peter said, "Well don't do that okay?"
He put on a pair of jeans while he pulled open a drawer in his dresser pulling out a shirt. He put the shirt on, "Well let's go have some breakfast then Harry."
Harry laughed at him, "Polka dot boxers."
"Do not breathe a word Harry or I will tell someone about your stuffed animal collection," Peter replied.
"Chicks dig it," Harry said simply.
"Kids would beat you if they knew about it," Peter said to him.
Aunt May was making pancakes, "I'm glad you boys made it out here."
She plopped a few pancakes on Harry's plate, "You are like Peter's brother aren't you."
She smiled at him, "And like a second son to me."
"Well I come here for the pancakes and stay for the company," he said in remark.
Aunt May laughed, "I do get a kick out of you two, watch this one."
She flipped a pancake three feet in the air and caught it on the pan before slapping a few on Peter's plate. Then the last pancakes onto her own, "Oh we might need syrup."
She walked over to a cupboard and started looking through.
Harry looked at Peter, "How was your date?"
"Oh good, we went to a movie then came back here and talked," Peter replied without a mention of Spider-man.
"Just a talk eh?" he elbowed Peter who held his arm and said, "Knock it off man."
"Ah! You wouldn't tell me if you did," he replied.
"I hope you weren't doing more than talking," Aunt May scolded.
"Aunt May," Peter said, "I don't get in trouble do I?"
"No," she replied, "But you can never be too sure."
"I'm fine, Aunt May," he poured some syrup on his pancakes and ate them, "We are going to meet up with MJ, Liz, and Flint to go hang out at the mall."
"Flint?" Harry asked, "Flint Marko? He hangs out with Flash and Kong why would we hang out with him?"
Harry said all of this while snatching the syrup from Peter's hands and pouring it on his own pancakes.
"He is actually a nice guy," Peter said, "Besides the more the merrier right? Also he is interested in working at your family's company, you guys are shorthanded aren't you?"
"Let's not talk about that," Harry said shoving a whole pancake into his mouth.
"Harry, please try not to eat those in one bite at least enjoy your food if your going to choke yourself," Aunt May scolded him.
"You want me to enjoy death?" Harry said, "I want death to be quick and painless that's very mean of you to say."
"I didn't mean that," she replied to him looked at her own plate while using a knife to cut a small piece from her pancake and slip it into her mouth.
Harry ate another pancake whole and said, "Mmf gmph blum."
Peter looked at him, "Excuse me?"
"I said let's go we don't want to keep them waiting," Harry said choking through the bite and shoving another down his throat.
He leaped from the stool at the kitchen table knocking it over as Peter lifted it and set it down before he took off.
"See you later boys," Aunt May said when they took off, "Boys will be boys."
The two ran out of the house and hopped into Harry's car that started it up. MJ walked over to the car, "Wait up!"
She got into the back seat.
"I thought you had a ride," Peter said to her.
"My house is out of Liz's way to the mall," MJ said, "What are you doing Harry if you are going to drive get driving."
"So bossy," Harry muttered taking off in the car.
They got into discussions about school, movies, mutants, and Harry's dad before arriving at the mall where they saw Gwen, Liz, and Flint were already waiting for them.
They walked over and Peter hugged Gwen then let go looking at Flint, "Harry is going to get you a job at Oscorp."
Gwen and Flint both looked like they had discussed something that the rest of them didn't know about but Gwen had winked at Peter and Flint was grinning constantly. Liz the other blonde girl in red looked somewhat bewildered by there actions. Peter hit his head and said, "Well why we should go walk around?"
They all started walking around as Harry got into a discussion about a job at Oscorp with Flint. After feeling that he could get him a job ended the discussion. The group saw Flash, Kong, with the jocks and some cheerleaders.
The two saw Flint and Flash said, "Why are you hanging out with those losers?"
"They aren't losers they did more for me than you ever did," Flint replied.
Flash shut up and leaned against the wall. Then the group passed an open window and saw a man in an armored suit flying around.
Peter looked at him, "I just remembered Flint, and I was going to the Daily Bugle. I was going to introduce him to Robbie, and Mr. Urich."
Flint replied, "I was?"
Then Peter grabbed his arm and pulled him outside leaving the group behind, "We are going after that guy!"
He slipped on his Spider-man suit behind a dumpster and took to the air he was followed by a Flint who was sliding along a sand path he looked over to Peter, "Hey Spider-man I'm going to go get him you restrain him when I get him on the ground."
He grew larger and sped up. Then he pointed his arm straight out making a sand cloud hit the armored guy.
Peter recognized the armored guy, "That's Beetle! He stole some of Iron-man's technology."
"Great you have reoccurring enemies," Sandman laughed.
Leaping off of the sand path Sandman tackled Beetle dragging him to the ground below. Beetle tried to resist sending several stunning blasts at Sandman none of the blasts had any effect as Sandman engulfed him in sand and spat him out.
Then Spider-man landed on him, "Talk Beetle how did you escape."
"Same as usual Spider-man, I created another suit from prison materials," Beetle said he tried to struggle loose but a test tube rolled out from his arm which Sandman in a normal form picked up.
He remarked on the test tube, "What is this some sort of black liquid?"
The test tube held within a piece of black material that moved about. Spider-man looked down at Beetle, "What is that?"
"Organic material I found on a rock," Beetle said, "I wanted to test it in a lab."
Spider-man webbed him to the ground before walking over to Sandman and taking the vial. But his hand slipped and it landed on the ground with a crash. The black organic material slither across the floor and hit Peter's foot then engulfed him. His suit became black and the webs became invisible on the suit as the spider turned white.
Beetle looked at him taking this as his time to leave. He turned on his jets and ripped loose from the web taking off without being noticed.
Sandman looked at Peter, "You okay?"
Peter examined his hands, "The power, I feel so powerful."
He raised his hand and a black web shot out and stuck to a tree, "All I have to do is think about it and a web appears."
"Careful Peter you don't know what the suit will do to you," Flint replied feeling uneasy, "I have to take off."
Peter concentrated and a web shot from his hand and he was lifted from the ground. People watched him leave the sidewalk and take off into the air.
Next Chapter: Reptilia