SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA
Adrian was walking through the tall grasses his shirt wrapped around his head as the hot sun sizzled overhead "Why do you have that thing on your head.", the strange blue and orange spider was on his shoulder "Look i've watched a lot of movies, every time people are walking in the sun they wrap their shirt around their head to catch sweat and not die from heat exhaust." Adrian said to the Spider, "Drink some water, and whats a movie." The spider told him.
So lets recap, I fought Iron Man at the X-Mansion, next thing I know I wake up in Africa, and now I'm talking to a spider…
"Well if you see a water fountain tell me." Adrian grumbled.
An annoying spider.
"I don't know about any fountains here, but there's a watering hole not far?" the Spider said "How far exactly?" Adrian asked "I don't know, what do I look like a cheetah?" the Spider asked the boy.
He let out a groan and continued walking, "Okay we're done." Adrian said taking the Spider off his shoulder "Hey what are you doing?" he asked.
"Look no offense, I like the company, but I'm pretty sure I'm either suffering from dehydration and overheating so you're probably a hallucination." Adrian said as he put the spider down on a large rock and squatted down to be face to eight eyed arachnid. "Wouldn't it be better to get water, then ask if I'm hallucination?" the spider asked him. Adrian took of his shirt from his head "Cause I don't even know how I got here?" Adrian said to back down to him "Neither do I, but your the biggest spider I've ever seen." the small spider asked "What?"
"Your a spider aren't you?" it asked him, "What, no- well sort of, it's complicated." the Spider clicked its fangs together for a second "So… your not a spider, but sort of and how complicated is it?" he asked Adrian slapped his forehead, "Just point me to the watering hole, or at least a road?" he asked.
The Spider cocked its tiny head "Road, why do you want to go to a road they just lead to humans." the spider said.
Adrians ears pricked up, "Do you know where I could find other humans?" he asked "Why?" the spider asked him "They just squash us… sometimes eat us?" Adrian rolled his eyes, "I think we'll be okay." he said as he started to walk.
"Wait up!" the spider said scarring after him before hopping on his back and up to his shoulder.
I'll squash him if he won't shut up.
USA
CNN
"New York City was rocked to its core today as what some government officials are calling a terrorist attack by unregistered super heroes on Stark Tower, previously before the attack Director of Shield Tony Stark released as statement Adrian Parker, the 11 year old boy known as Spider-Boy had been captured." A man with white hair wearing a black suit with a blue tie and glasses was speaking directly into the camera.
A box of a Stark Tower in ruins was piled high as other buildings "Thankfully no one was killed but over 21 wounded, including some rumors about Tony Stark."
The image changed to show a street team interviewing people "I saw the whole thing, it was Spider-Man he flew a jet right into the building full Kamikaze!? One New Yorker said.
It changed to show another "I got the hell out of there, but I'm pretty sure I saw Spider-Man kicking Iron-Mans *BEEP*" a Stark Industries Employee said.
FOX NEWS
"So you don't consider this a terrorist attack?" a blonde woman with a red suit and skirt with thick makeup, she was speaking across to Assistant Director Marie Hill "No, not categorically, terrorism is defined as a person or group seeking political change through violence." Hill said to her, they were in a newsroom with table lit up by red, white and blue neon "Knocking down buildings seem like a good way to spread terror?" the interviewer asked her.
Hill had her white gloved hands clasped as she spoke "Look this isn't the first time Stark Towers had gone down, hell how many times as the Shield Hellicarrier been crashed." she pointed out.
"Are you saying Shield as an incompetent streak?" the interviewer asked HIll.
"We both know thats not what I'm saying, if anything this is a reminder of how dangerous unregistered superheroes can be." Hill added.
The Fox News interviewer continued "And what about Tony Stark, rumors say that he's been hospitalized?" she asked.
"Director Stark is currently indisposed with rebuilding Stark Towers, among other duties his position demands." Hill replied "That wasn't a no Agent Hill?"
MSNBC
"I'm here with Miriam Sharpe, who was one of the many Americans who lost their loved ones in Stamford almost more than a year ago" A dark skinned man with a dark grey suit and blue tie who was sitting in a chair across of a middle aged woman with brown hair, fair skin and a purplish red suit "Mrs. Sharpe, we know your lost your son Damian in Stamford, the reason we asked you on his because we wanted to know what your thoughts on recent attack at Stark Towers?" he asked her.
The two of them were in a darkened room with only light shining down on them "Many people are supporting Peter Parker for his actions as a father trying to save his son, do you agree?" he asked, Miriam took a second before she spoke "No I don't, I once thought that, but not anymore." she said back to her interviewer.
"Could you please elaborate?" he asked her.
"Gladly, when Peter Parker did the right thing by registering with the government he also made a promise to protect his family and we can see he hasn't done that." she said firmly "From what we've learned, Peter Parker didn't even know he had a son until a few years ago, and its clear he has no idea how to raise one." she said looking right at the camera "He's unfit to be even considered to be called a parent." she added.
The interviewer looked down at his notes "He can't control his son, even from himself, and I swear when he and every other super powered criminal running free are caught, I'll make sure he never sees his son again."
DAILY BUGLE
Jonah J. Jameson was standing in his editors office looking out at New York City over at Stark Towers which was still a smoking pile of ruins, he had his sleeves rolled up his tie loose, and vest undone, the shades were drawn but barely open letting in a little bit of light. A whiskey bottle had been opened and a drink poured held in the editors hands.
He lifted up and down the Whiskey before making a soft gag noise at the burn as it went down. The door to his office then opened with the assistant editor Robbie Robertson, "Jonah, so which story do we run, I just got a call from Shield asking?" Robertson asked him walking in and closing the door.
Jameson turned around and looked at his desk at two headlines, one read SPIDER-MENACE ATTACKS STARK TOWERS and one beside it SUPERHERO CIVIL WAR STILL ON. Jameson poured another drink "Second one." he said putting the drink down on the one that still claimed the Civil War was going on.
"Shield won't like that." Robbie said "To hell with Shield, they don't own the press yet." Jameson said sitting down in his desk drinking again "I just never figured Peter had anything like that in him?" Robbie said walking over to the window to see Stark Towers rubble in the distance "Stark should have known what he was getting into, touch another man's boy you best be prepared for war, only question is… where's the boy now?" Jonah said looking out of the window.
Elsewhere in the city, at the Sanctum Sanctorum of Doctor Stephen Strange, the Avengers in hiding were licking their wounds. "I'm going to be sore for a week." Luke Cage said laying down with entire Ice Bags on his chest and arms. "Iron Fist is Iron Tired." Dany said next to him as they watched TV.
"How's Pete?" Danny asked him, "He's with the Doctor."
Up in the sanctum inside Doctor Strange's private quarters, Peter was wearing his black suit holding his mask in a clenched fist, "What do you mean you don't know what happened?" Peter asked Dr. Strange who was holding up his hands summoning many spells showing a astral image of the earth being moved around and small portals showing Dr. Strange and Adrian various places around the world and beyond. "My spell was tampered with, someone or something intervened." Strange said swishing his hands around making the magic disappear.
"If you give me time, I should be able to come up with a spell to locate him." Strange offered as he walked over to his book "You and Adrian's spider powers are far more than just a simple mutation, and since Adrian was born with his, he will have a much stronger… Peter?" Dr. Strange asked looking over at the young father who had been silent almost the whole time as the Doctor opened a book to check spells and incantations.
"Is it true?" Adrian asked Doctor Strange "I know you can show me if it is." Peter said looking up at him. His face was pale, his five o'clock shadow was starting to grow into thick stubble showing he hadn't shaved in days. "I can do many things Peter, but-" "Strange…" Peter said bowing his head "Please… I have to know."
Strange closed the book and sighed, he put the book up and started to summon a spell showing a younger image of Adrian and his brother Jonas "He never told me…" Peter said looking at Jonas's blonde hair he reached forward to touch the apparition but it vanished as soon as his finger brushed through the ghosts cheek. Peter dropped to his knees as Doctor Strange reached out to touch his shoulder "I'm sorry Peter… I'm so sorry, you could never have known."
"It's true… I am a terrible father." Peter said squeezing his mask so tight the lenses in his mask cracked "We'll find Adrian Peter, I promise."
"How… I couldn't even save one of them, how can I expect to save him now." Peter said covering his eyes as he wept.
BACK WITH ADRIAN
"See i told you I knew where the road was." the Spider said into Adrians ear as they walked out o the tall grass onto a dirt roadway, "I never said you didn't I told you to shut up after we passed the pond." Adrian said looking left and right which way to go "So which way to the town?" he asked.
The Spider grew silent before looking at him, "I don't know, I just know roads lead to towns, I'm a spider not map." Adrian felt a vein pop as he looked down at the arachnid, ready to squash him when his stomach let out a loud growl.
Too hungry to squash him
He sighed as he started to walk up the side of the road "Okay, so let's say I'm not going crazy." Adrian said.
"What do I call you?" he asked.
"What do you mean?" the spider asked him "I mean what's your name, I have a dog named Fang but he can't talk… at least I don't think he can." Adrian said as the Spider scratched his head. "Well I don't talk to many spiders, we are not a very conversational species, I mean most of the time I hear flies screaming 'Aaaaah please don't eat me' then I eat them." the Spider said.
Kill me… please… just shut him up.
The boy grumbled "Name, now." Adrian ordered "Well sorry my parents never gave me name." the spider said sarcastically making Adrian confused "My father already dead, and my mother had already eaten half my siblings, hence why my father was dead… she was beautiful woman." the spider said as it rambled on and on.
Oh for Thors sake
"Your name is Bob." Adrian said suddenly "Bob?" the spider now known as Bob asked "I like it."
"Bob." Adrian said saying his new name "Yes?" Bob asked, "Shut up."
I land somewhere in African, god knows where and I just happen to run up the only tree in Africa with a talking spider who won't shut up, Parker Luck….
The two of them kept walking in silence, really it was just Adrian as Bob rode on his shoulder "So whats your name?" Bob suddenly asked "What?" Adrian asked "You never gave your name?" the Spider said.
"... Adrian." he replied.
"Hmmm sounds like A dung." Bob pointed out "It does not." Adrian growled to him, "Well A dung- I mean Adrian, you said that this Iron Man has been trying to squash you for a long time."
Adrian nodded "Basically."
"Well if you don't know how you got here, could you say he doesn't know either?" Bob the Spider said as it turned around on his shoulder and saw something out of the corner of one of its eight eyes "I guess I hadn't thought about that."
"Oh and you may want to look behind you." Bob said making Adrian stop dead in his tracks "Don't tell me… the Lions back." he said turning around as Bob said "No…"
"Hyenas." Adrian came face to face with a wild pack of hyenas all laughing and cackling as they came out of the grasses barring and snapping their fangs.
Yep, Parker Luck.
SHIELD HELICARRIER
Aboard the flagship of SHIELD, War Machine and Ms. Marvel were standing in front of a glass window in a hallway filled with Cape Killers armed to the teeth looking in a hospital bed to see Tony Stark who was speaking with a doctor. "How is he?" Ms. Marvel asked "Shield has the best medicine from and not from this planet, Doc says he'll be recover but man… Parker did a number on him and on us."
"Peter wasn't alone, Rhodey, Strange, Luke, all of them came after us." she said looking at the glass to see Tony wrapped up and connected to machines, but still alive "You think Peter could statr another Civil War?" War Machine asked.
"Yes… and no." Ms. Marvel said running her black gloved hands through her hair to think "It's safe to say we've always underestimated the Spiders, and so do they." she said makin War Machine asked "What do you mean?"
Carol shrugged arms crossed "Peter always called himself a purse snatcher catcher, his son was on year long rampage making us look like incompetent fools and flew a Quinjet right into the tower like a mad man."
"Hopefully now that he has his son, he'll keep his head low to protect him." Carol said as Black Widow walked in "That might be a problem." she was holding a tablet of some kind with a screen "How come Nat?" War Machine asked her. She held up the screen to show the split second from where Peter almost grabbed Adrian before the flash, then static. "What are we looking at?" Carol asked taking the tablet.
Natasha swiped her finger to show another angle on Stranges face showing one of sheer shock and terror "So Strange teleported them away?" Ms. Marvel asked.
"No, if Strange had done that he would have been calm, collected using one of his spells, it's like when you get in a car and turn it on, no big deal right?" she asked them "I'm not following?" Rhodey asked opening his helmet mask "What do we look like when our cars don't start?" she asked zooming in on his frantic face in the recording.
Black Widow took the tablet then "I think something took the child, something different."
AFRICA
Adrian was running down the dirt road his shoes so worn they looked like they were about to fall off as the Hyenas chased after him. It didn't take much for the african scavenger dogs to run him down since he was depowred by the Spintech nano bot.
One jumped onto his back dragging its claws across his shoulder as he fell down on the dirt, the Hyena that had jumped on to him jumped off him as the others circled around him "You're screwed!" Bob the Spider said leaping off his shoulder "What are you doing!" Adrian screamed at the spider before it leapt into the grass. Adrian heard one of the hyenas cackling cry and grabbed the closet rock to him and through it right in the hyena's face. It howled in pain running back around to the circle.
Moving to fast… I've been walking for hours and only had that water...
Adrian got up and looked around at the Hyenas, there were eight of them all moving in every direction around him. Suddenly one of them rushed him and jumped up at him, he shot his hands up and grabbed the hyenas neck holding back its jaws that kept trying to tear his face off.
Never been this weak!
He held it back with all his strength when the others saw him down and swarmed, one of them drove its teeth into his leg making him scream in pain
Just like before… Just like Carnage!
Another one bit into his right arm making Adrian come face to teeth and it all went red.
... Good.
Adrians eyes turned red as the wounds opened around his back, his arm and leg shot out dark black symbiotic te spike like tentacles stabbed into the Hyenas like they were biting into thorns. The Ruin symbiote started to wrap around his arm, up his neck and down his arm, and fingers. It grabbed the Hyena that had tried to run away from the symbiote but Adrian and it grabbed the Hyena by the neck as his head started to get covered by the symbiote coating the side of his head and making large red eye like on his original mask
Bob poked his tiny head out of the grass seeing the Symbiote and it wrap the boys arm up in bulky symbiotic muscle, and thick black claws crushed the hyena's neck, the one with with his leg in its mouth chewing on his heel but as soon as the symbiote came out it kicked the hyena off sending it scurrying. The hyena that he was holding back with his left arm smashed it over onto the ground as his other arm swatted the other hyenas off him. One jumped onto his back and tried to rip the symbiote off but tentacles shot out and hardened into spikes skewering it.
Ruins black and red symbiotic entity started to cover the rest of him, the other Hyenas continued to try and tear him down. One tried to get behind him and attack but he smashed his elbow into it breaking its jaw, he was about to cover him entirely when it wrapped around the spot where the SPIN tech nanobot.
The symbiotes black and red touch coiled into the flesh but the second it touched the symbiote touched it it activated sending electrical shock through Adrian and the symbiotes nerve system. Adrian collapsed with the symbiote covering half his body, it started to recede even around his wounds that it healed letting them bleed again. Adrian was panting ard as his blood spilled on the side of the road. He looked up at the sun as he started to get cold, and laid his head down against the dirt his blood turning the dust dark, along with his world.
Later, the sun set on the savannah and the roads, night covered land and Adrian lied there, until a vehicle with bright headlights drove by and some people got out. Adrians eyes weakly opened to see the figures come out before he slipped back into unconsciousness. They picked him up and put him in the back of the automobile and Bob came out of the grass and rushed up scurrying up to the bumper and climbing onto it before it drove off.
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Bob the spider scurried under a crack in a door into a dimly lit room where he saw Adrian laying in a hospital bed, "There you are?" he said crawling up the bed and landing on Adrians chest "You dead yet?" Adrians eyes opened he sat up like a rocket sending Bob flying "Whoa!" and looked around to see he was in a white room, he was on the softest bed he had ever felt, their was single metal door with a milky window.
Hospital, I'm in a hospital room like when I was in New York with Captain America
The room was small with clean metal floors, a window with a thick blue curtain drawn, he had on a white medical dress his clothing he had on was gone. A tube was stuck up his nose and his right arm was wrapped up and so was his leg, he felt a taped up bandage on his back. HIs wrist had a hospital band around it, but he couldn't understand the language. A needle was in his left arm and he was hooked up to machines with suction cups monitoring his heartbeat and vitals. "Glad you see you too." Bob said climbing back up the bed, "What are you doing here, how did I get here?" Adrian asked the spider "Well after you went all…. Freaky." the spider said holding up two of its eight legs making quotations.
Ruin… he got out, but the nanobot…
He rubbed his neck where the nanobot was "I've seen other Spiders do stuff to scar of animals, Elephants stomp, and so on, but I've never seen anything like that before?" Bob asked crawling up his leg "I need to get out of here." he said as he got up "Why, the other Humans stopped all your bleeding?" Bob asked him.
"Not the point, some humans don't want to stop the bleeding some actually cause it, espcially to me." he said as he took the suction cups monitoring his vitalsand tore the needle out and pulled out the tube out of his nose "Grrrr-gya!"
If Fury taught me anything it was if their in a hospital, they have your blood and if they got your blood, they got you.
The tube tugged out dragging snot and some blood as he got off the bed. He hit the cold floor with clattering result on the floor from blood his weakened state. Getting to his feet he moved to the window using the bed for support before grabbing the curtain and pulling it apart.
Now there's an eye opener.
Adrian was looking out to see a gigantic city with buildings made from metal with giant windows reflecting the sunlight making the city sparkle. Giant walkways and advanced airships flew around with even newer buildings being constructed. Bob climbed up his hospital gown and onto his shoulder "Okay, how do you plan to get out?" Bob asked him "The hallway is full of humans and if you say these humans want to hurt you."
"They may not, but someone who would could be here soon so I can't." he replied.
He heard voices on the other side of the door, and looked over at the machines that had blood hooked up with blood now dripping out of the tube he tore out. "So how do we get out of here?" Bob asked "Same way I get out of every situation."
The boy opened the window and a loud blast of wind from the hospital being so high up, he looked down to see there was no ledge or anything to put his foot out on, instead the building was a large tower that had a steep sides like a pyramid or obelisk. He looked down to see the cars driving down below and saw a garbage truck coming down the corner and would drive by the hospital "I improvise."
Good thing I've never been afraid of heights.
The door started to open and Adrian leapt out and started to slide down the hospital windows and walls on his side aiming for the dump truck
Please work, please work, please work, please work, please work, please work, please work, please work, please work, please work, please work, please work, please work, please work, please work, please work, please work, please work, please work, please work, please work!
Adrian felt himself sliding down rapidly gaining speed like the garbage truck almost below him, he kicked off the hospital walls and into the air before he landed into the garbage truck catching him, hard.
He let out a moan through his teeth at the sheer force he suffered hearing the crunching of garbage and maybe him as the truck drove on "So any more bright ideas professor?" Bob asked Adrian who was panting from his heart racing. He sat up and looked around the garbage truck to see a few torn up and ragged clothes. He grabbed a pair of grey pants that went down to above his ankles. He grabbed a orange hooded shirt, it was baggy without cuffs on the ends or any strings to pull the hood around his head tighter and had a few holes in it. As soon as it was on he put the hood over his head and peaked out above to see where the truck was.
The city was an african one, as he saw only black people walking around all wearing similar clothing to him. Loose fitting but some with eccentric african designs, "What are you doing now?" Bob asked moving around the garbage "Looking for a place to jump ship." he said as he looked back over at the hospital building getting smaller in the distance "But you said you wanted to find other humans?"
Adrian glared down at the spider "Like I said, most of these people probablly don't care, but there's always someone out their who wants to squash me"
Out of the corner of his eye he saw an alley between two buildings he could sneak into, "There." he said pointing to the alley, Bob crawled up his arm and back onto his shoulder before Adrian hopped out of the garbage truck, he kept his hood up as he landed on the street and barely missed being hit by a car. Without stopping he pushed through some people who shouted at him. When he got into the alley he found the closet dumpster and got behind it panting hard. He peaked around the corner to see if anyone was following but no body seemed to mind a street urchin like him.
If only I had my powers I could just climb away, even if I just had my web shooters…
He looked down at his wrists where they would be, "Whats the matter?" Bob asked, "I use to have these things called webshooters, my dad gave them to me, they let me make my on webs to swing." he said rubbing them feeling naked without either.
"Just use the webs that come out of your but." Bob said earning him another glare from Adrian "We're not having this conversation." he said getting up and walking deeper into the alley when Adrians stomach let out a loud growl. "Don't think they have hot dogs here." Adrian said to Bob as he clutched his stomach "What's a hot dog?" he asked as Adrian scratched his neck. He started to walk down the alley noticing it was much cleaner than a New York city alleyways. "So where to now, we found the humans but you don't want the bad humans to find you?"
The new alleyway he walked down had a fire escape under a closed dumpster, He peaked out of an alley to see what looked like police officers, they were wearing a dark blue uniform with berets and they were standing next to a car of some kind. "I need to get home, but in order to do that I need to find out where I am and-"
-CRASHH
"AAAAAH!"
The kid was interrupted by a loud crash followed by a scream, coming from the top of the building he was looking around, he instantly looked up to in the direction of the sound to see a window cleaning platform malfunctioning, it's pulley system had snapped on the left hand side leaving the cleaner dangling by a thread of metal wire. The window cleaner screamed as the ropes started to rip.
Oh no, my great power great responsibility sense is tingling…
The man's screams started to grow louder, Adrian looked around to see if anyone or any superhero for that matter would pop out and help him "I'd hate to be that human- hey what are you doing!"
Adrians legs moved on their own as they rushed back to the dumpster under the fire escape "I have to get up there." he said getting on the dumpster and jumping up to grab the ladder with his fingertips and pulled himself up. He climbed up and started to move up the stairs as the window cleaners platform started to tremble. Meanwhile Adrian climbed up to the top and got up on the roof running to the platform to see it was broken. He looked over the edge and the window cleaner looked up and yelled up at him reaching. Adrian looked back over his shoulder to see the wires holding up the platform had snapped back onto the roof after it broke off threatening to send the cleaner to his death.
No web shooters to grab him, no sticking to walls to climb down, and no spider strength to pull him up, guess we do it old school.
He grabbed the cord and through it down to the window cleaner who reached for it since the rest of the platform was about to fall. "Cone on!" Adrian yelled back seeing the last cords keeping the platform hanging started to snap. Finally the cleaner grabbed on with one hand and through his other out before the platform snapped and people down below got out of the way. Adrian felt his whole body being tugged off the roof before he got down using the top of the buildings railing pin himself.
He felt the man dangling and tried to pull him up feeling the wiring start to pinch his skin blistering it, he winced through the pain but didn't let go.
The sound of sirens started to fill the air, and Adrian peeked over to see flashing lights of both cars and air ships get around building.
Just a little longer… just have to hold-on
"Need a hand?" Adrian heard someone say behind him when out of the corner of his eye a set of black gloved hands reached out and grabbed the wiring and started to pull, they were attached to muscular covered arms and a black mask with two ears and eyes like a panther, a black panther. Standing next to him helping pull the man up from the side of the building was the king of Wakanda, the Black Panther.