Convict Octavius was rereading a book on physics late at night. The lack of exercise he had in his cell made him sleep much less, and when you're imprisoned like he was, reading was one of the few things that made the time go by. There was then a clang on the plastic bars of his celldoor as one of the guards banged his nightstick against it to get the doctor's attention.
"Hey! Doc Ock! Guess what happen'd."
"You finally realized that your wife is having an affair with your best friend?" Octavius answered without looking up from his book.
"No- HEY! SHUT UP! Listen, the people upstairs nabbed your little freaky rat-friend Vinny last night."
Hearing this, Octavius looked up and closed his book. "Did they?" he said without showing any reaction in his voice.
"Oh yeah, they locked him up and sent those mindreaders on him." the guards mocked. "They know all about your evil little schemes, and right now the're sending out a team to bust your plan right in your face. It wont take long now before they throw you in a much nicer cell, ya little scum. There will be no books, no plastic TV and none of this fancy food for you no more. I'm sure gonna miss looking at your ugly mug all day long, doc."
The guard left Octavius in his cell, giving out a croaking laugh as he walked down the hallway. Dr Octopus, however, was much more pleased with the situation then he showed.
"Well, if Gonzales are in the building I might just as well see if he is free for a little talk." he thought and then stood up straight on the floor of his cell. He took off his plastic glasses and cleaned the glass on his orange prison uniform, then he held out his arms straight out from his sides. "I have been waiting my time for long enough now. It's time I show them the true extent of my power!"
Hundreds of feets from there, on the bottom of the Upper New York Bay, several metalic objects began to stir up from the mud. Empty cans, rusty bicycles, nails, boat parts and everything possible slowly moved together and merged into one single lump of scrap, two feets wide and two feets high. The piece of combined metal slowly crawled along the bottom, moving closer towards the Triskelion, followed by hundreds of other objects identical to itself.
A hole appeared in the wall and out came Spider-man flying. He flew through the air and crashed into a car, scaring the life out of a small group of people that was on their way to a nightclub. The car got a huge dent the shape of a person in its side after Spidey slide off it and landed on the ground.
"Look mom, I'm roadkill. Ha ha ha..." he groaned under his breath, lying flat on the street.
"Peter! Are you okay?" Jackpot asked when she appeared out of the hole in the wall. By now the group of nightclub visitors had already run far away.
"I'm the prettiest girl at the Moonfair ball..." he answered her.
"I- I can't tell if you're being delirious or if you're just making jokes."
The teenage boy crawled up on his feets and rubbed the spot where his head had taken a blow.
"No... I'm fine, I'm fine... I just lost my bearings for a second. What was that all that? Did you forgot everything I told you about jumping in heads first?"
"I'm sorry, it was the only thing that came up in my head."
"I don't know if you're being careless or just crazy."
Then there was a angry grunt coming from inside the bank building followed by the loud noice of metal being ripped apart. Inside, Menace had tored off the bankvaults door and now threw it through the wall at the two young heroes. Bricks and concrete spread all over the street as the metal object came flying through the air like a rocket.
"Get down!" Spidey yelled and pushed Jackpot to the side before he himself jumped out of the way of the flying door. The vault door hit the car Spider-man had just crashed into and turned it flat like a pancake.
"WHY WON'T YOU TWO LITTLE PESTS LEAVE ME ALONE?" Menace shouted at the teenagers as the grey monster came running out the now larger hole in the wall.
"If we did that we wouldn't be earning our superhero-paychecks, would we?" Spider-man cracked.
"Sweety, we don't get paid for this." Jackpot pointed out.
"Oh yeah, right... damn."
Spider-man sent a spray of web-globs at the giant monster while Jackpot charged at him. Menace blocked all the webbing with his arms, and when Jackpot came running towards him he punched her right in the stomach, causing her to loose her breath. Menace then grabbed a hold of the young reheads suit, throw her down into the ground and then threw her right up in the air. THe hits made MJ see stars, but when she regained her focus she noticed that she was high up above the roof tops.
"Oh come on, gravity. You used to be cool." her nervous mind joked, because it was either that or panic. "But okay, I forgive you if you look the other way when I turn forty."
As she then stopped going up and slowly started to descend, she however started to wonder how the hell she was gonna make it to the age of forty. But to her great relief, she saw that her dear boyfriend was already one step ahead of her. Spider-man had spun a large cobweb over the street, making it possible for her to land unharmed, although a bit shaken.
Down on the ground, Spidey had engaged their scaly opponent. Right now he was dodging one giant blow after another and just avoided to get hit again like just a moment ago, which had sent him through the wall. He punched a few hits on Menaces head, knowing that the blow would do little damage but hoping that it would distract the monster from what he was about to do.
"Say, have you gotten uglier since last time? I'm just saying, I think, somewhere, there's a painting of you getting prettier and prettier."
He jumped over Menace, performing an acrobatic aerial cartwheel above the monsters head. He quickly pulled out one of his tracers from his pocket and with a quick, almost invisible, motion he placed the tiny tracer in the monsters mane of wild, red hair.
"Tag, your it." he thought contentedly.
He then landed on the ground, and Menace manage to hit him in the back with his foot and kicked him down to the ground. Menace was just about to slam on Spider-man with both fists when a garbage lid came flying and hit him in the face. Jackpot, now back with her feets on earth, had thrown the projectile like a frisbee, hoping to get the monsters attention.
Menace roared out, mad with anger, turned around and grabbed a hold of a large SUV-vehicle that stood parked next to them, lifted the giant car over his head and throw it up in the air. The vehicle flew in a arch and then started falling down at Jackpot. The heroines eyes grew huge and wide as dinner plates with fright as 5000 pounds of automobile was coming down upon her. He raised up her arms in the air and catched the vehicle by the front hood.
"Oh why couldn't it be a prius...?" she complained as her body strained under the car.
The weight of the car was not as much a problem as the sheer mass and size of it. Jackpot wobbled as she tried to balance the SUV over her head and keep it from falling down on something.
"Naahhh! Can someone give me a hand over here?" she shouted.
"Hang on, I got it!" Spider-man called back. He ran up towards Jackpot and catched the back of the vehicle just as MJ lost control of the angle of its gradient, gravity took a hold of it and the car started falling down in front of her.
As they now both held on to the vehicle and slowly started to put it down safe, they heard a 'woosh'-sound above their heads as Menace used the distraction to escape the fight.
"Aaaaand he's gone." Spidey told after the car was down on the street again, looking over his shoulder to see Menace leaping out of sight.
"Agh! What kind of prick drives an SUV in the middle of Manhattan?" Jackpot cursed. "I mean, the parking alone is a bitch!"
"Forget about that. Come on, he's heading south."
"Alright, just hold on." MJ said and picked up a brick from the ground and threw it through the hole in the bank wall. The brick hit the device on the floor and smashed it, after which the banks alarm started to scream out loudly. Now the police would be there any minute.
And by that Spider-man took Jackpot by the hand and then swinged after the fleeing monster, ready to once and for all find out who this mysterius villain really was and maybe find out how this puzzle were all put together.