Chapter 18
"WHOOOOOHOOOOOOO!"
Peter somersaults and spins in the air as he falls back to earth in breakneck speeds before firing a webline, allowing him to glide for several meters a foot off the ground before rising back into the air with blinding speed. This suit feels INCREDIBLE! He whoops again as he rounds the corner, a webline keeping him parallel to the ground before swinging down once again, seamlessly passing through the a semi truck between the caboose and the vehicle itself, then swinging up to the face of a skyscraper and planting his feet onto the windows and running off its side before pushing off the edge like a missile in the air and firing two weblines at once. The civilians on the ground watch in awe at the spectacle, wondering if this is a new pro hero making his debut. In a way it is, but that is neither here nor there as Peter doesn't let go of the two web strands, slowing the release of the webs to safely bring himself to a stop. His lenses home in on the area that his spider tracer is luring him to, a seemingly abandoned office building that used to house a sect of the Yakuza before being taken down the year prior. It's been scheduled for demolition in the next month so any and all personal and equipment has been vacated. Making it the perfect place to set up a temporary headquarters, I'm betting it's still has some super secret villain pathways that helps them sneak in and out too!
Peter let's go of one line and swings and silently perches himself atop a crane that's perpendicular to the Enforcers hideout. "This suit smells like a new car!"
He looks down at his garbs in pride. This truly screams Spider-Man. It's true to his original concept, A blue bodysuit with a medium sized spider symbol on his chest and a larger red one on his back. Web-pattern sewn on the front and back of the red areas of his suit, the blue is free of any webs but they do line in through the breaks between the shoulders and upper arm. While the palms of his gloves are blue with the fingers sporting the red and web look, along with a square on the back of each fist as well.
"Ok, first things first, how to get into the super secret villain lair? Preferably a sneaky route so I can avoid fighting the group of bad guys that pretty much manhandled me the last time I saw them… Boy I am in over my head! But hey! We're here now no turning back!"
Peter rubs his hands together as he scans the building, "Aha!" He spots a vent that should be big enough for him to squeeze in through. He quickly webzips himself right next to it and, as carefully as possible, opens the vent and shimmies his way in. He coughs as he crawls through the vent, noting how despite there being little to no light he's able to see with perfect clarity, something he realizes has happened even when he was secretly practicing with his web shooters at night. "I guess night vision is another power I got! Is that really spider related? Dammit Parker this isn't the time!"
He coughs again, "Man these vents sure are dusty, but it's either this or the front door and I'm willing to bet it's probably booby trapped so come on Parker tough it out!"
As he goes through the vent, stops as just in front of him is a grate that's leading to the hallway right below him, where a guard is standing with a weapon in hand, meeting up with another. He decides to listen in on the conversation. "Can you believe That old Geezer has us walking round him again!? I just did this for 8 hours not even a half hour ago my feet are throbbing!"
"Will you keep it down!", His companion hisses, "You know as well as I do how bad Toomes temper is! And it got worse since that disaster on the bridge! It's lucky that the pros haven't even found us yet!"
Little does he know!
"Screw em! He can't even hear me anyway! The guy's on the other side of the building right now, it's not like he's got mics here… right?"
"I wouldn't put it past him. That guys paranoid like no one I've ever seen. Best not to wind him up more than he already is!"
Ok guess I'm going in the right direction!
Peter silently crawls through the building, using his mask's scanner and spider sense combined so that he can quietly and quickly get to Vulture and the rest of his men. A couple of minutes of crawling in dirty and dusty vents, my allergies are gonna kill me!, Peter finally gets to a grate that, once he slides through and lands on a bean high above the room, allows him to successfully get his first glimpse of the Vulture, this time out of his suit. "Huh, when he's not wearing the wings of the angel of death, he seems pretty harmless!"
He turns his attention to the rest of the enforcers, "Those guys, yea they still look dangerous. Gotta get in closer to pick up what they're saying."
His spider enhanced agility allows him to safely navigate himself to a better position as he eavesdrops on the villains below him. They seem to be training at the moment, with both Ox and Ricochet facing against Shocker, who's surprisingly holding his own despite not being able to land a hit. He blasts out the way and fires a shockwave at Ox but he's able to stand his ground and Ricochet uses his body to bounce off and trounce Shocker, finally getting him down to the ground. Peter's lenses narrow as he witnesses Phineas Mason come down from his area of safety and starts making some adjustments to Ricochet's suit.
"timing was perfect gentlemen! Though I did notice you had a bit too much lag in between your hops." He tightens a few more components, "A slight adjustment to your kinetic energy regulator and you'll now have more Ric to your 'ochet." He chuckles to himself with Adrian rolling his eyes at the terrible attempt at humor.
Shocker smirks as he takes off his mask, "Nice moves, Partners. I'd say we can take Ironman down next time he shows his smug face round here!"
"Don't allow yourself to fall for your own arrogance, we have to be focused for this, any mistake and we're through!" Adrian scolds them.
Ricochet takes off his mask, scowling once the fresh air hits him. "Are we sure about this? I mean I know we've talked about this big score but seriously, hitting Stark's R&D labs, the guy has the greatest security system we can come across and he'll probably be on us in less than a minute!"
The vulture Smirks as he admires his armor, facing away from the group. "It seems that fate is on our side tonight gentlemen! Osborn has proven his worth."
Norman?! What's he got to do with this?!
"What's Osborn got to do with this?" Ox asks as he crosses his arms over his massive chest.
"Unbeknownst to them, he has the 'League of Villains' under surveillance. You've all heard of the hero killer Stain correct?"
"Course, Imma big fan!" Shocker states.
"He truly is an artist, anyway it seems he was supposed to be recruited to their 'cause' but it all fell apart. And the leader of this league, well I wouldn't even call him a leader. More like, a child. A child throwing a tantrum! He seems to have felt slighted and is now planning to release quite a few Nomu's into Hosu City tonight!"
Nomu's?! Is this guy for real?! Oh god that's bad! I gotta warn Mr Stark! Tries his built in headset that he cloned his phone data too so that he can make calls hands free from his mask to Tony but is sent directly to voicemail. Dammit!
The Enforcer all share looks, dumbfounded. "You're kidding me?! You said Nomu's right? I heard those things were supposed to take on All Might!"
Shocker charges up his gauntlets with a sinister smirk, "Fellas that means every pro hero worth a damn is gonna leave the whole damn venue bare and ripe for the takin!"
"Indeed." Tinkerer confirms.
"I still got a question. What about the security system? Still gotta get past that!" ricochet rears back.
"I already have just the thing for that. Loaded in your truck is a triple EMP Burst device, enough to knock out even the back generators to the back up generators for their labs. It should give you a 30 minute window to get everything you need."
Wow, I hate to say it but I'm kinda impressed, they're very meticulous in their details!
Shocker is practically salivating, "Just imagine fellas, even if we get one Arc reactor, we'll be set for life! Stark tech ain't no joke! Even after shutting down his weapons manufacturing division, all his tech is top notch, and all his tech can still be turned into something nice and powerful! The guy just can't stop making weapons in some way!"
Adrian glares at the sound of Stark's name. "Tch and they call me a villain."
Peter's lenses retract like as if their widening eyes at the implication. It's true that Stark has ended any creation of weapons in his company. But any tech can be fashioned into a weapon. At one point his enemy, Zeke Stane, the son of Obadiah Stane, had repurposed the Arc Reactor that powered Stark Tower in New York into a bomb. And with the Arc Reactor's power output, it would've blown up with the force of 5 nuclear warheads. This… this is really bad! I gotta get out of here and tell Mr Star—
His spider sense flaring Peter leaps out the way as The Beetle suddenly materializes and blasts the beam he was standing on. Alerting the villains below.
"The hell!?"
"Is that the bug!"
"Is Ironman here too!?"
Vulture growls, "Don't just stand there, stop him!"
The three get into gear and start trying to attack Spider-Man. Ox charges at him but he backflips, also dodging a blast from Shocker but is unable to avoid Ricochet as he drops kick him in the back, directly into Ox's double fist punch that sends Peter painfully into the thick metal wall, denting it with his durable body. He slumps to the ground with a groan.
"Bug, you really shouldn't have come here alone!" Shocker says, charging his gauntlet as he steps closer and closer with killing intent.
He fires, but Peter is quicker as he leaps off from his hands and sticks to the wall above. "But I'm not alone Stinger! I've got al of you here to myself again! Awe it's such a heart tugging reunion!"
He snarls angrily, "It's Shocker!" He blasts again but Peter swings out the way.
He ducks back in the air as Beetle flies in with a punch. Peter webs his foot and heaves him back into the wall, shooting a net of web to pin him there. But Beetle releases a glowing blade and cuts himself free. "Ox you're up!"
Ox grabs a workbench and throws it at Peter. "Ricochet you too!"
Said villain tries to tag Peter as he lands but he leans back, avoiding the attack and rolling out the way of Shockers blast and kicking off of Ox, stunning him slightly but Ox recovers and smashes his fist where Peter was, who had cartwheeled out the way and threw a helicopter kick that flings him into Ricochet. "You know after thinking about, Ox ain't as good as I thought it was."
He's airborne now, battling it out with Beetle as they trade shots, pulling himself down to the ground with a webline then leaping up and planting both feet on Beetle's chest, similarly to how Ricochet had attacked him. "The more I think about it, the more it just seems like something that belongs in a ranch, I mean it might make you the most popular farm animal there but—"
Ricochet hits him in the back, causing to grunt in pain before being grabbed by the ankle and being slammed into the ground repeatedly, the floor cracking more and more with the force of each hit. He's flung into the air and is shot back into the ceiling with another blast from Shocker. Peter falls to the ground like a ragdoll before clotheslined by Beetle, bringing his descent to a painful halt as he's imbedded in the wall. He groans weakly as he lifts his head up.
"End this already! We're on a strict timetable!" Vulture orders.
Beetle wordlessly glances at Vulture then back at Peter before tightening his fist as he comes upon the wall crawler. The last thing Peter sees before he loses consciousness is the Beetle's fist racing toward his face.
Groggily Peter slowly blinks, seeing nothing but blobs for a few moments before his eyes start to focus. He notices that he's still alive but he's now bound to the wall, his arms and legs separated in a star position. He tries to struggle but feels so weak, and drained and dizzy. I mean I know I got my ass kicked, but I don't remember it being this bad! Then he notices a iv line running from his arm to a container that the Beetle is standing over. Peter panics, wondering what he's putting in his body but then realizes, he's not shooting him up with anything. He's draining him of his blood.
"I wouldn't struggle much if I were you!" Tinkerer says.
Peter notices that they seem to be the only ones there. Seemingly reading his mind Tinkerer elaborates, "You only just missed them! I promised them that we'd dispose of you as soon they left but… I also made a promise to Beetle as well."
"I always heard there was no honor amongst thieves? Or at least that's what the title of the last videogame I played said."
Tinkerer pulls up a chair and leans in with an unnerving expression as his eyes roam over Peter's body as if he were trying to look beneath the skin.
"dude, personal space! I mean you're already draining me of my blood like a freakin vampire you could at least do it from arms length!"
He shouts over to Beetle, "Hey do you even talk? I really wanna know what you're thinking but you're like sphinx or something."
"He gets no answer, " Oh come on! Can you at least say one word! I wanna know if your voice matches your look cause if you look this badass and got a squeaky toy for a voice box, man I can entertain myself with so many jokes before I die of blood loss! Geez how much have you taken anyway?!"
Tinkerer rubs his temples, "I wonder," He says loudly to end Peter's prattling, " what exactly is it about you that has Osborn so obsessed! I could make a few guesses. Some I'm quite certain are very valid. So!" He leans back on his chair grinning at the Beetle who doesn't move a muscle as he waits for the canister to finish filling up.
Osborn?! He- he's behind this!? So everything… it really was my fault. All these people that were hurt, are gonna get hurt, it's only happening because Osborn wants me?!
Trying to keep a brave face, despite the mask still being on, Peter continues with Bravado, while struggling against his bonds as subtly as he could. "What can I say, I'm a very interesting guy! I even got a deal to promote a new beer as the most interesting man in the world!"
Mason continues to ignore him. "Beetle here was loaned to us so that he can capture you and bring you to Osborn."
Peter's heart stops for a second. He's at the villains mercy, he's got no way to escape and no strength to fight even if he did. "But I made a deal with him of my own."
Peter inwardly releases a sigh of relief. He's got a chance then!
"He'll walk out with a satisfying amount of your blood and I get to keep you, study you and find out what makes you tick! Because you," He shudders, "Just smell like next level bio-engineering. Now I'm not exactly the foremost leader when it comes to biology, I'm much more gifted in mechanics but… I'm very willing to give this a shot! And if you die well… it was worth the challenge!"
He cackles barely an inch away from Peter's face as the teen cringes.
"Ugh dude! Please take a step back or have a tic tac or 12 cause damn your breath stinks!"
Beetle seems to have finished as he unhooks the canister and wordlessly facing Phineas. "I'll leave you to it then." His low and gruff voice was heard to Peter's dismay.
"Dammit you sound cool now I can't joke about your voice!"
Beetle shakes his head then flies off with Peters blood, leaving him at the mercy of the mad scientist. Phineas gleefully opens a drawer full of tools all looking very sharp not at all comfortable for the subject. "Now despite all the resources we were able to bring here I find myself without any type of anesthesia so," He turns on a saw, "This might sting a little."
Um. No. No we are not doing this! Peter redoubles his struggle, forgetting any subtly as he fights through his exhaustion, he fights through his blood loss and pushes against his restraints. Mason groans in annoyance. "Give it a rest would you? That's reinforced steel there's no way you can possibly—"
The metal around his right arm creaks and bends until finally Peter roars with all his might as his arm bursts free from its binding. The scientist stumbles back, dropping the saw and catching himself on the desk behind him while the superpowered teen frees each limb one by one before dropping to the floor roughly on all fours. His hand scrambles back to grab two small devices and holds the one in his right hand shakily in front of him, gone was his gleeful madness, replaced now with fear from the much more powerful teen stalking towards him. Peter yanks out the needle from his arm and tilts his head, his lenses narrowing cheekily, "Bet this feels pretty darn awkward for ya pal?"
He takes another step forward but Phineas holds the device higher, warningly, "Don't!"
"Let me guess that's some kind of disintegration ray or something? You've seen me move you really think I can't find my way around it?"
Mason chuckles, "You kidding me? I already sold those. This is a short range teleporter!"
Peter crosses his arms and taps a foot, "Again, you've seen how fast I can move. I'll catch you no problem! Just save us both the trouble and give it up, I gotta go catch your buddies so you won't feel too lonely in jail."
"With you breaking just as many laws simply by talking to us? We'll be there to welcome you too. But I doubt you'd be able to catch me regardless, what with you being under rubble."
Peter crouches defensively as his spider sense begins to tingle. But strangely enough, it's not pinpointing where the danger is coming from. Instead it's warning him all around, like as if he's surrounded by danger. "what're you talking about!?"
Mason laughs freely now, his courage returning. "My boy this building was scheduled to be demolished. We decided to prep it ahead of schedule."
He presses the button on both devices, disappearing in a blue light and Peter feels the building begin to rumble, explosions going off simultaneously throughout the entire building. Panicking, Peter heavily relies on his spider sense to guide him as he does the only thing he can think of. He jumps up. He webs up on a still stable piece of the ceiling to give him the rising momentum, flipping out the way of a chunk of the ceiling that flies towards him, webbing it to bring him atop of it and using it as a platform to hop off of. Like a grasshopper, he bounces off one piece of debris to the next, slowly rising while using all of his reflexes and agility to evade any detrimental collision. Just one hit, one moment to slow down, and he's done for. The building continues to collapse with him being in the center and still making his rise until finally the entire building has fallen with Peter launching himself into the air and away from the smoking debris.
He looks back and stares at the pile, completely and utterly in disbelief at having escaped that completely unscathed. "Uh heheh, Tadaa!"
He's hit with a whoozy feeling and he stumbles to his knees again, "Oh yea, blood loss I forgot! Engh, gotta keep moving to keep the adrenaline flowing or I won't be able to stop them! Come on Pete! It's your fault they're here, you're responsibility to fix this, GO!"
The crowd is screaming as fires burn and explosions wreck the city. Nomus appearing everywhere, attacking indiscriminately, simply causing chaos. Many pro heroes, despite being caught off guard, jump right into action. Endeavor appears, setting a lanky looking Nomu ablaze as it almost killed a couple caught in its sight. Gran Torino, who was also on scene, back tracks from his attack, landing at a safe distance from the flames while Endeavor delivers the final blow.
"I was looking for the elusive hero killer, but this thing will have to do." The fire weilding pro hero gives a nod of respect to the elderly hero, "Thanks old timer. I'm afraid I don't know you, but I can handle this from here on out."
"it's you." Gran Torino says with recognition.
The couple as well is surprised to see Endeavor here. "Why is he in Hosu?"
For the first time he smirks, "Isn't it obvious? Because I'm a hero."
A flying Nomu screeches as it swoops down, aiming itself directly at the number 2 hero, it's claw like fingers ready to pierce his flesh. Endeavor charges a blast of fire in one hand but isn't able to release it as a beam of repulsor energy shoots the beast out of the sky. Ironman landing directly on top of it with a stomp to the head.
"Sorry to rain on your parade, but us heroes can share the glory right?" he quips joyfully.
"hnn. Stark."
"Flameyo hot man! Always a pleasure to meet you!"
Ironman turns his attention to the older hero and bows respectfully, "Don't know you either but if you're here means you can kick ass am I right?"
"Damn right. You see how many Nomu's are running amok?"
"my Scanner has picked up 20 in a 5 mile radius. Exactly at 20, seems like for everyone we take down, some purple portal spits out another to take its place. Looks like it's gonna be a long night gentlemen!"
The three fly into action. Mid flight Ironman is alerted, "Sir, I must inform you that you're receiving a call from Peter Parker." Jarvis informs him.
Tony's first thought is that Peter had somehow gotten caught up in another battle with a Nomu. The reports of his injuries from his previous fight comes to mind and he frantically orders his AI, "Put him through now!"
"Mr Stark!"
"kid? Kid are you alright?!"
"I'm fine! What's happening?!"
"Nomu's! Hosu's infested with them! Are you ok? Are you anywhere near here?!"
"no!"
Oh thank god!
"I'm near the R&D Labs—"
"Good! Stay there! Do not get anywhere near this! I'll get to you as soon as I can!"
"But Mr Stark the R&D lab is gonna be—"
Tony yells in pain as a Nomu suddenly crashes into him, it's sharp claws tearing into his suit as they crash land into an oil tanker, the fuel exploding all around them and causing Tony to crash into a nearby building. He groans as he wobbles onto his feet and taps his helmet. "Kid? Peter! Jarvis what happened?"
"The Nomu's attack disrupted your suits power output, your call was dropped unfortunately."
"Gonna have to apologize if I get outta this alive!"
"Dammit call dropped! Guess I'll have to do this myself! Sorry Mr Stark!"
Peter swings around the corner just in time to see that the R&D lab was already under attack. "guess they decided to go in guns blazing!"
Peter lands at the now demolished entrance, people are still running out screaming as one stops in front of Peter, "Who are you?! Doesn't matter please help there's people still in there and their trapped!"
"I got it, you get to safety and call for some help!" They start running out the building as they fish out their phone.
Peter follows the trial of destruction to the elevator that's still intact. Peter pries the door open and looks down, seeing the remains of the elevator smashed to pieces at the bottom. "I don't get it, why smash the only way out of the building? No don't under estimate them Pete, if they did this that means they already have a plan to escape."
He then attaches himself to the wall crawling down to the lower levels. As he gets closer his spider sense tingles and a blur bursts from the lower level and ricochets off the walls towards the teen. Peter leans back like a contortionist, Evading the first hit, but Ricochet bounces back down, catching Peter just as he hopped off the wall. Ricochet then bounces right back up and locks his limbs around Peters body, taking him along for the ride as the kinetic energy continues to build and causing them to continuously bounce off the surfaces of the narrow elevator space, with Peter grunting painfully as he takes the brunt of each hit to the surfaces.
"AH! Really! UGH! Gotta get you! GAH! Outta that shock-absorbing suits! Engh! But until then!"
He suddenly kicks his legs back, attaching himself to the wall and putting them at an abrupt stop, Ricochet flailing helplessly in the air as he's trapped by his forearm in the Arachnid hero's grip. He's then thrown up and webbed to the wall. "I'll just make do with what I got."
Peter then leaps down towards the bottom level landing perfectly on the balls of his feet. Destruction is still marring the surroundings as Peter sees that there really are some people stuck with no way to get out. The scared citizens see Peter and hysterically explain, "They blocked the way to the emergency stair case!"
They point at the door that's covered with debris. Peter quickly webs it all up after telling everyone to stand back and clears the way. "Alright everyone out and feel free to inform the people of my side business as a waste management company, only one employee so far but as you can see that's no problem!"
The people gratefully make their way out but one stops, grabbing Peter by the shoulders, "There's someone else that's trapped just before the lab's storage units! I don't know how long they'll last!"
"I'll get them out!" Peter promises, "Get yourself to safety and get ready to help them once they meet up with you!"
He doesn't wait for a reply, using his enhanced speed to get to the collapsed hallway where beams and concrete stand in his way. He can here the sounds of anxious struggles and quickly crawls under the debris and sees two people pinned down. He does a once over on them and by some miracle, it doesn't seem like they're wounded, the debris landing in a way that isn't crushing them but giving them no room to escape. They see Peter and begin to cry for help, "Please! Please! Help us!"
Peter recognizes one of them as the receptionist who was rude to him beforehand. Before she had the air of pure confidence in her, which was why it was so unnerving to see her so scared, terrified, fearfully staring at the debris on top of her as if fearing it'll crush her any second. He grabs her free hand firmly, forcing her to look into his lensed eyes. "Look at me! I'm gonna get you out of here ok?"
She nods, unable to speak, "I'm gonna lift this ok? When you're free, get out fast! If you can walk, help anyone who's injured. Got it?"
"Yes! Yes! Please!"
"Alright!"
Peter plants both hands on the large pieces of stone and metal and starts pushing. He's gritting his teeth so hard he feels them cracking and flattening out from sheer effort alone. And his muscles are bulging as he strains as much as he can but the overwhelming weight isn't budging. He feels a shift and at first is elated, thinking that it's finally gonna rise. Instead he feels the weight bear down on him even more, the hallway shaking and the women screaming loudly, terrified by the sound. Every fiber of Peter's body is screaming just as bad as he begins to feel the strain all over again. The dizziness and the exhaustion worsening with each passing second. He feels himself dipping down more and more and he just can't push. He can't bear it!
I-I don't know how much longer I can last! It feels like the entire world is bearing down on me! I-I can't, I can't move a muscle! This, this is it isn't it? I'm gonna die down here. He gazes down at the two women, who're staring at him, their eyes watery and wide, gazing into his soul, imploring him to save them from this, this hell. If I die, so will they. No! No I won't let that happen! I WON'T LET THAT HAPPEN!
With renewed vigor, Peter pushes again, determined to save these women. What did Aunt May say? A hero is someone who just don't give up! Keep going! Don't give up! Don't give in! Fight! Fight! Fight! He roars as he begins to slowly but surely hoist the heavy wreckage overhead, his arms outstretched above him his legs locked straight as he finally releases the girls from their entrapment. They stare at awe as he keeps the wreckage ahold and struggles to order them, "GO Now!"
The two hurriedly crawl away and back onto their feet. Peter growls as he drops down then puts as much strength as he can and throws the wreckage up, He rolls forward then fires as much webs as he can, halting the wreckage from falling again a top the women. He pants, hands on his knees but then breaks into a run, "Don't slow down! If you do you won't be able to get back up, you still need to finish this Parker!"
Peter leaps through the lab until he finally gets to the Storage units that's still being ransacked by Shocker and Ox. Vulture in the meantime is nowhere to be found. Peter tries to sneak through but suddenly his sixth sense warns him and he ducks just in time to avoid being kicked in the back by Ricochet.
"Well if it ain't the bug!" Shocker announces, firing at Peter who rolls out the way and webs his eyes up.
"Dammit, OX squash that bug!"
Peter swings away as Ox tries to follow hi as he mocks Shocker, "Squash the bug! Squash the bug!" He says in his accent, "Don't you know any other tunes?" OHG!"
Ox catches him by the feet and swing shim in the air, directly into Ricochets path and he's flung into the wall, knocking down a few containers of tech. Shocker Fires along the ceiling above Peter and causes a portion to collapse atop of him.
"Let's skedaddle!"
Ricochet is dismayed, "But there's still so much tech!"
"Can't risk it! Unless you wanna explain to Vulture why we lost the take!"
"Fine!" The two follow Ox who's using an anti gravity cart they brought along to carry as much of the stolen goods as possible. They head towards a secret path that Tony had created to allow him an easy way out with his armor should the need arise. As they begin to escape Peter holds his head as he rises from the rubble. "Most expensive bruises I've ever gotten!"
He leaps the wreckage and web zips as fast as he can to catch the fiends, "How do they even know about this way?!"
They didn't get that far, though they did reach their truck that they've manage to load with quite a bit of luggage. Shocker snarls as he hears the annoying voice of the wall crawler, "Pardon me boys!"
"Ricochet kick it into gear!"
He doesn't even wait for them to close up the truck as he floors it, with Shocker firing behind them, unable to catch the slippery spider who gains on them while slipping in and out of the way of his shockwaves. "Missed me! Missed again! Oh that was close but no cigar! Man you make my middle school aim look like a professional sharp shooters record!"
"OX you take over the wheel, Ricochet get that bug!"
"Correction, Spiders are not bugs! They're Arachnids, they do eat bugs though!"
Ricochet flies out the driver window but Peter spin kicks him in the face and out the way as he lands on top of the truck, but he does a backflip to the side as Shocker blast the roof off then part of the side where he can hear Peter make contact. He flips himself above again. Ducking as Ricochet flies over him and webbing him up on his feet then hurling him right into Shocker. The two tumble and unfortunately, Shockers gauntlet goes off, destroying the floor they were standing on and ripping apart the trucks wheels, causing it to flip. All occupants flip and tumble, parts of Ricochet and Ox's enhanced suits breaking when they crash into each other as the vehicle finally comes to a stop.
Peter is the first to recover and rolls out of the vehicle, feeling much worse for wear as the events of the past few hours start to catch up to him. "I stopped them. Hooray!" He celebrates weakly.
His celebration is cut short as a hand appears through the rubble and grips his leg then smashes him into the battered truck. Ox rises and repeatedly smashes Peter over and over until he hangs limply in his grasp.
"Want some more?" Ox asks gruffly.
Weakly, Peter replies, "No… no more. Just get it over with."
Shocker hisses from the pain but rises out, his vision practically red from anger at Peter's intrusion in their plans. "Keep ahold of him Ox, he's a slippery little piece of meat!"
Shocker activates one gauntlet and holds it right in front of Peter's face, holding him in the other hand by the collar, "Never did like to see a poor, dumb animal suffer!"
The American Teen suddenly smirks under his mask, "Like say… Br''er Rabbit?"
In less then a second, he throws his leg up and clocks Shocker right in the chin, his gauntlet firing at Ox right in the face and that's followed by both of Peter's feet as he pushes off the ground with both hands and kicked him hard. The two are down for the count and Ricochet tries to jump but his suit is damaged now unable to function properly. He laughs sheepishly as Peter walks up and holds his fingers like he's gonna flick him, "Nighty Night!"
He does flick him, but thanks to his super strength, he's able to knock him out. Finally the villains are beaten and Peter quickly scans their suits and weapons and removes any power source they use so that if they wake before the police arrive, they won't pose much a threat. Satisfied he webs them up and wipes his hands clean. Seeing as they were able to make it out side, he checks his surroundings.
"Well, 3 down, wonder if Vulture skipped town to save his wrinkly hide?"
His spider sense tells him otherwise as Vulture descends from the skies ferociously screaming as he sets his sights on Peter. He sends blades from his wings at the Arachnid Hero who dodges some and uses them to run off of so that he can close in on Vulture. Peter is upon him but he's caught by a slam from his powerful suit and dragged by the ankle into the air. Vulture flies fast and closes in on a nearby building, dragging Peter along it, the surfacing cracking and braking thanks to his durable body, but still hurting nonetheless. He throws Peter through the corner of a building, flying down then up to tackle him and throwing him painfully at the top of the Stark Research building. "Why. Why, why, why, WHY are you helping HIM!?"
"You're a madman trying to steal Stark's tech and sell it to the highest bidder! Why wouldn't I stop you!?" Peter replies as he fires web balls at Vultures.
The distraction works and he raises his wings to defend him, allowing Peter to circle around and web yank a kick right into his armored face. He follows with a reverse elbow and the elderly villain grunts in pain but uses his thruster to rapidly spin, dangerously getting close to cutting Peter's head off if he had not flipped out the way.
"It's no different than what your precious Tony Stark has built his empire on!"
He uses his wings to catch Peter's web and pull him in, smacking him with his hydraulic gauntlet and slamming his claw-like boot into his chest, the blade like ends digging painfully into his torso and slamming him repeatedly into the hard surface. "He's a thief that gets away with stealing everyone's life work! Then tossing them aside once they try to fight that injustice!"
He flies up, dragging Peter along but he webs the roof, the sudden stop freeing him from Vultures grasp and he catches the old man by the face, pulling him down and kicking him had enough in the chest to make him crash haphazardly on to the roof. He roars as he rips off the web.
"HE took everything from me! I'm simply returning the favor!"
"By putting the lives of others at risk!? Don't you get it! You've become everything you hate! Maybe what you're saying is true and Stark did do this to you, that doesn't justify what you're doing!"
Peter flips over Vulture and web slams him a couple more times before Vulture frees himself by releasing an onslaught of blades from his wings, too many in Peter's opinion. He's releasing so many of what composes his wings, how's he keeping himself afloat? Wait a minute! Peter takes a moment to scan Vultures equipment and a lightbulb goes off in his head once he finds what he's looking for. Of course! That's it! An anti graviton power core! That's what keeps him in the air!
But Peter left himself too open after his discovery As vulture presses something on his belt that acts like a flashbang, blinding the teen and leaving him open for Vulture to tackle him and drag him along the roof until his head and shoulders are dangling over the edge of the building. Vulture assaults Peter's face, his powered gauntlets hurting the teen as each powerful punch hits home. "You don't! (Punch) Understand! (Punch) No one understands! (Punch) But me! ( Punch) You shouldn't have gotten mixed into this child!"
He lifts Peter then agonizingly smashes him into the roof again. He growls in frustration as Peter continues to struggle beneath his boot. He leans in close, his fists ready as he demands to know, "Do you WANT me to kill you?! Don;'t you get it!? You can't win! Why!? Why do you keep fighting!?"
With utter conviction Peter bursts forward and grips the right wing of the Vulture suit, "because! I'm! SPIDER-MAN!"
And Peter rips off the wing. Adrian is shocked by the turn of events, so shocked that he is unable to do anything and Peter uses his adhesive feet and throws Toomes off the roof and into the open air. Peter latches onto his back and rips off the other wing then yells triumphantly as he punches into his thruster and rips out the energy core. Vulture panics, his eyes glued to the ground below that's beginning to get closer as the pair begin to fall. "No! You fool! You've doomed us both!"
Peter laughs though as he's un bothered, "You seriously haven't been paying attention have you?"
He fires two web strands at either side, stopping their descent and he quickly wraps the old man in his webs, finally putting an end to his crimes. He hangs upside down so that he's face to face with the grumpy old grouch. "Don't worry, I heard prison is very accommodating for the elderly, they'll even change your diapers too!"
"I Hate you."
The sounds of sirens catches their attention and Peter groans, "How to explain this."
He leaps down and lands just as the police arrive and start getting out of their vehicles, weapons drawn and aiming at Peter. "hey guys don't worry I got—"
"hands in the air right now!"
Peter does as he's told in confusion, "What're you serious?"
Thankfully the receptionist runs inbetween the two and stops the police form arresting Peter, "No no stop! H's the one that saved us!"
"He is?"
They all share a look before holstering their weapons, "Sorry for the confusion, we had no idea that a pro hero was in the vicinity."
"Uh… Huh… Um… Well… you see about that?"
The receptionist is also at a loss on what to see, causing the officers suspicion to rise. "You do have a license correct?... Son?" His hand rests on his gun as he gives Peter a penetrating glare.
"Well not right now right now, it's um, still being printed. (eventually)"
The officer hears him and grimaces, unholstering his weapon, "Vigilantism is strictly prohibited by law! You're just as bad as whoever did this and you're coming with me!"
The civilians and scientist all begin to cry out in dismay, "He saved us!"
"He's a hero!"
"Where were you!?"
Peter begins to panic but thankfully Ironman makes his appearance landing right by Peter and beginning his show "Nice job Spider-Man! You held you're own just like I told you you would!"
The officer raises an eyebrow, " Can you explain that to me please?"
"Of course! You see this young man was actually interning with me. But once the Nomu crisis started, and thankfully it's over now, I told him to stay put here far away from the danger while I lent a hand with the disaster. The universe was against us though because this group of thieves decided to attack my facility and tried to steal my tech. I was alerted by my protégé and my staff about the situation and gave Spider-Man my LEGAL permission to defend himself which lead to him apprehending the villains and saving my employees in the process!"
Peter gapes gratefully under his mask as Tony once again covered for him. Tony continues to skillfully handle the authorities as does the rest of the staff so as to keep Peter from facing any legal repercussions. As time goes on his body's exhaustion finally catches up to him, his head is pounding, his throat feels dry and he's shaking just to keep himself standing. Tony sees this and speeds up everything as much as he can. Barely catching Peter as he falls into unconsciousness.
Lying in a brightly lit hospital room, Parker flickers open his eyes. Damn, I swore I'd never end up in this place again. He muses to himself. He gingerly leans up but a hand stops him.
"Whoa there kid! Let's not get ahead of ourselves!" Tony says as he gently lays Peter back down.
"Mr Stark? What're you doing here?"
"What else? Watching over you kid. You really took a beating but you're healing at a remarkable rate! They said that if you keep healing the way you are you'll be up and running by the afternoon!" Tony exclaims excitedly.
Peter leans back with a smile but notcies that the billionaire is fidgeting a lot. "Are you ok Mr Stark?"
"Tch, kid I should be asking you that! Not every day a rookie has to take on 4 villains at once while almost half of his body's blood gone and being thrown from one end of the building to the other. God I should've been there." Tony drops his face into his hands.
"How did you get there anyway?"
"Morgan—"
"Who's Morgan?"
"oh that's right, she didn't tell you her name. Morgan Potts, She's the Receptionist you saved, thanks for that by the way, she reactivated her phone, it was off when the EMP went off so it was safe from the blast, and got a call through to me and explained everything. I rushed over as soon as I could. I'm sorry I didn't get a hold of you earlier."
"you were fighting Nomu's I don't blame you."
"That doesn't mean I should've pushed you away! And I did! After the bridge, I- I got scared kid, I'm not ashamed to admit it anymore. I got scared cause, I felt like you'd end up making the same chocies that I did and I really, really don't want you to do that. I just didn't know how to teach you so I did what I'm best at, I pushed you away. And you could've died." Tony's face is hardened as he tries to keep himself under control.
Peter isn't used to seeing him like this. So vulnerable. He's always so confident and in control fot he room. Now, he's bearing his heart out. "It's my fault too. I went in way over my head twice, it's pure luck that I didn't die. It wouldn't have been your fault Tony, it'd have been mine."
Tony igves him a half smile, "Tell you what kid, let's watch each others backs, ok? Keep each other on the straight and narrow."
"Sounds good to me." He answers with a smile.
Silence grows until Tony asks, "What happened anyway kid?"
"I found out where they were hidden, snuck in so I could get some info and pass it on to you to make up for the bridge."
Tony groans, "oh kid!"
"I know I know! It was dumb and reckless but I just, I felt like I had to do something right! Tch, but I ended up captured. One of them, The beetle guy, he took my blood."
"He What?!"
"And he was sent by Osborn."
Tony's blood runs cold. "… What?" he whispers.
Peter shivers but nods, "Yea. Osborn was the one who sent them here, he was supposed to take me but Tinkerer worked something out and got him to just take my blood instead. I escaped afterwards." He doesn't need to know about the building dropping on me. "And I stopped The bad guys after."
"kid you really did all this alone?"
"I had to! Everyone was in danger because of me! Osborn's after me and he doesn't care who he hurts until he gets me! It was my responsibility!" Peter retorts angrily.
"Peter… Osborn is not your fault." He tries to tell the teen but he's unconvinced.
"he's after me isn't he?"
"But it's not your choice! We'll do what we can, I'll figure something out to keep him off of you, but it isn't your fault. Hell it's mine because I should've been there to do more!"
"No, Tony this isn't on you—"
"It's not on you either kid! Until you stop blaming myself I'll keep taking the blame from you, simple as that. I can play this game all day!" He crosses his arms and stares pointedly at the New york native, who grumbles, "fine."
"Good! So… what else happened?"
"The guy, the vulture guy, his name was Adrian Toomes."
Recognition flashes in Tony's face, "go on."
"He wanted to steal your tech and sell it, but he made it seem like he did it more to spite you. He said you stole his work." Peter's voice wasn't accusatory, but it was asking for an explanation. One Tony has to provide.
"Kid, I've done some pretty messed up things. Yes I did take his tech away. But I didn't steal it. He used to be an employee of mine. I challenged his team to figure out a way for my suits flight capabilities to be more efficient for air combat. He figured out a way to harness anti graviton particles to grant someone control of their own gravity field. It was revolutionary."
"What happened?"
"… He was starting to let it get to his head. And when I didn't give in to his demands for more funding for his project he threatened to take everything to a rival company. It was a breach in his contract and he knew it but he was hoping I would fall for his bluff. I didn't, I fired him and took his patents just like it's stated in his contract. It was the last I saw of him for a while but clearly he still holds a grudge." Tony sighs.
That's how he knew about those pathways in Tony's buildings! Peter is completely surprised. He's heard of these types of rumors all the time about Stark, how he's a heartless businessman who wasn't afraid to step on people to get what he wants. Hearing it was one thing. But hearing it from the man himself… Hearing him admit it, it was shocking.
"Look kid, that was probably me at my most tame. But I definitely was a very cutthroat businessman. I've fired people that shouldn't have been fired, probably hurt a lot more people than my weapons ever did. To this day I'm still suffering the consequences of those decisions." His finger subconsciously touch his arc reactor that's imbedded in his chest, the tremor in his hand physically signifying his regret and remorse.
"It's why I'm determined to make sure you don't turn out like me. I'm a role model of what you shouldn't do or be. That's what I wanted you to learn. Don't do it like me. Hell don't even do it like All might. Do it like you Peter. Because you're different. And I mean that in a good way. And what makes you different, that's what makes you, Spider-Man."
Authors note: and there is Peter's internship arc! The last line of the chapter was from one of the into the spiderverse trailers that Peter B Parker told Spider-man and it's somethign that most of Class 1A needs to hear, especially Midoriya for a while, be your own hero. If you try to hard to be like someone else, you'll never each your own potential. So i hope i handled that right, like i said this was about PEter's growth into his identity as Spiderman and this is why i didn't want Tony to make him a suit yet. Eventually he will but for now this was the main thign he wanted PEter to learn first.
Also, after speaking with superjoeyf721, he's helepd me realize it's a good diea to attach voices to the characters as well. So they helped me, well actually it was really them that got it all together i really didn't do as much as i would've liked lol, they got together a list of voice actors that in my opinion perfectly fit all the characters introduced in the story from Spidermans side. Here it is:
Peter Parker/Spider-Man: Josh Keaton
Green Goblin: Steve Blum
Norman Osborn: Alan Rachins
Hydro-Man: Bill Fagerbakke:
Eric Vales: Molten Man
Aunt May: Lily tomlin
Tony Stark: Eric Loomis
Chameloen: also Steve Blum
Ox: Danny Trejo
Ricochet: Phil Lemarr
Tinkerer: Thom Adcox hernandez
Shocker: Micheal beattie
Vulture: Dwight Schultz
There were many more but i decided to reveal them when the character makes an appearance, honestly because i didn't want too much speculation or demands about what they want from that character or what they Expect. Someone actually messaged me that in a much more demanding and disrespectful manner and honestly i blocked them right off the bat, i'm not tolerating any entitlement or anyone trying to order me how they want me to make MY story.
Anyway, the Classic suit he's wearing now is based on the version we see in Marvel's Ultimate Alliance 3, also suggested by superjoeyf721.
And yes we will see what norman does with the blood he got his hands on as well as what his next move will be in the following chapter. hope you all enjoyed!
superjoeyf721: Thanks again for the suggestions and the help! I did have to go with Dwight Schultz for the vulture just cuase to me after olsitening to both carefully, it just hit right, it got the anger a little better in opinion but everyone else fit perfectly! I also decided to reveal the voice actor with the character when they appear for the reason above and also to add some excitement. hope you liked the chapter!
ManCaptainPokey: Lol thanks, I was pumped to write this one, hopefully it's successful!
Guest: I'm very sure we'll see more of Mirko especially with the Arcs that are soon to come! I haven't played the games just yet, but i do plan on buying them soon! Just running low on money so i gotta pick more hours for work lol
TheGreatGodzilla:Oh he will keep making an appearance as well, i'll say it now Vulture will be Peter's first reccurring bad guy and yea Tinkerer did help him but to be honest, no villain in the Maarvel universe is above betraying one another if the price is right or if they smell a good opportunity. For tinkerer, he knew how dangerous the situation would be and how low their chances of pulling it off would be so he made sure he had a way out and when it came to Peter, again he's not above crossing even Osborn if somethign interests him enough. Yea he's not always protrayed as a mad scientist but i thought he'd be someone who loves a good challenge for his mind and PEter seemed like a good puzzle for him to crack. If he ever did, then he could put himslef at the top of the food chain so to speak. A harm won't be in my sotry cause honestly i'm barely passable and making a romance between only two characters, i definitely won't be able to do so with more. And to be honest the thoguht of writing and maintaining a harem feels tedious for me and i'm not the biggest fan of them either. Though Toga is a good love interest, i feel like it wouldn't be able to last... especially for what i have planned. PErsonally i think in the MHA world they're making progress but constant battles between heroes and such cuases msot of the funding to go to hero work so most countries are hampered when it coems to space exploration. Only some countries like wakanda or companies like Stark Industries would have any success. But seriously if Wakanda has their own intergalactic empire... why not just add earth to it? Or even go to those other planets, and be free from earths dumbass politics and conflicts, feel like they can save themselves the trouble and theyll be free to advance further, away from earths restraints. You're right about the heroes having actual jobs instead of entertainment ones. Cause the whole modelling thing was really annoying to see, i know it's to show the corruption in the hero society, but really it's like damn how do people consider them a hero like that. The singing thing is good too cause i think Dazzler was able to balance being in a band and also fighting crime too. I do know about her and She will meet Peter when the time comes, things will be interesting though, we'll see what PEter can do also with Izuku when the time comes as well. You'll have to see everyones reaction when the time comes, but its impact will be powerful and felt throughout. even to people who've lost hope. That's all i can say for that part. I'm gonna portray Dabi as a mix, he'll hate endeavor and also anyone and anythign connected to him even himself. Kinda like Modok in the Avengers game, hating anyone with powers and even wanting to end himself with them so that thye can be wiped off the face of the earth. I'm not planning on having the events replace the paranormal liberation war arc completely but really a bit of a mix, i would like to go further into details but i can't just yet. Heh, PEter will ahve some inreresting food combos that may or may not cause a literal/ figurative when you say that it reminds me of how strangely Marvel ahs been trying to replace the mutants with the inhumans for a while. Like i know some people said it was to put pressure on fox to give back the x men to marvel, the movie rights that is, but it jsut felt weird. Like in the avengers video game too, they basically took Mutants prejudice and pain and dropped it randomly on the inhuman. it cheapened the story in my opinion. It's always good to take time to establish character relationships to further strengthen their bonds and beliefs, it's ok and works great for your story! take your time theres nor us!
katana12: If/when PEter gets a power upgrade it'll be a surprise but also would happen later on
spider of the leaf: Beetle is based on the Beetle from the Ultimate Spiderman video game, he'll make an appearance again later on but i liked him in the game and wanted him in my sotry in a simialar-ish manner. I didn't pull a lot from Homecoming, my sotry will honor and pay homage to various different ypes of spidermans but i'm not gonna make thigns a full on copy. Except for the quips, no one makes quips like spiderman. I was planning on Changing Momo's later internships not this one, though she may learn a thing or two from Peter. It's cool that things are looking up for PEter in the comics though, i don't have faith it'll last that long cause of you know the parker luck. always rears its ugly head. and yea it's funny how marvel has handled miles better in the movies and videogames than they have in the comics. Like i don't understand why they have such an issue with him really. They did great with the video game, they should jsut give him to those writers and let them takeover!
Hope yall enjoyed it, till the next one guys!
