It was 2:30 pm and Peni Parker was on her way home from school. She had just completed repairs on the SPDR suit last week and was up for a test run today. Peni walked with steady steps, she didn't mind the looks people gave her when they recognized her as the pilot of the SPDR. Some people were fans while some were what you'd call haters but non of them worried her, what worried her was the look of the man that stood just ahead, she didn't see his face properly because he was several feet away, he stood by the street corner, his dress was old fashioned, like the stylish english wears men wore in the seventeen hundreds.
"Who?" She asked herself, straining her eyes to get a good look at him, but he turned and went by the corner.
"Urgh!?" She didn't wait, she ran after him. She peeped by the corner first before coming out fully but he was gone. How was that even possible? She thought to herself. Peni knew she had to be on her toes now, the man could still be there, watching her from another angle. She looked up the tall building she stood by, it was an apartment building a couple of stories high, her best guess was that he either vanished into thin air or found a way to get in but she wasn't following that far. She turned back the direction she was headed, the best thing she could do is hurry home to Uncle Ben and watch her back doing so, if the strange figure was still onto her she had to find a way to loose him and she knew their was an eighty percent chance he was.
On reaching home Peni found no one around, she had the key of course but she guessed with the current situation of a possible stalker it would have been safer if someone was, she quickly opened the door and locked it behind her. The SPDR was underground, In the little garage they made for it but she could access it through a secret passage way in her room. Her spider was in the room too, the one which helped her pilot the SPDR. She very rarely left home without it but today had been different. Peni tapped her phone to call her Uncle, four taps on the screen is a short cut to ring him. Her phone attempts the call but it doesn't go through.
"Not good." She wanted them to know someone was on her tail, she decided to call her Aunt but before she could tap to call her her there is a sign of movement, a shadow speedily passes by her window, she frowns, whoever it was was quick, she barely saw their shadow pass by. She had to act. She put her phone away and ran up the staircase wondering who it was that could be after her, reaching her room she found her door is not locked, she realized she had forgotten to do that this morning but it was convenient now as she rushed in, The spider was by a corner on it's webs, it had sensed the danger and urgency Peni felt when she entered the house. She hurries over to it, it jumps on her shoulder in response. There is a crashing downstairs, whoever it was had entered the house. Peni threw her bag to the corner and walked over quickly to the wall beside her reading table, she placed a palm on the wall and it lit up under her hand a blue light. A small portion of the wall the size of a small door slides open to reveal a hidden passage way which went down, she enters in and it closes behind her, it's like a stair case that leads down with white walls and led lights. She hurries through it goind down the flight of small stairs to the garage. When she made it, another wall was in her way and she placed her right hand as she did before and it opens. She walked into the garage and studied the environment, there was a small car parked, a tools stand, shelves, and some heavy equipment but it left enough room for other things. The spider on her shoulder signaled that it didn't sense any danger there and she nodded to confirm it. The SPDR was hung at a corner on a metal stand which held it up by several cables, it was plugged in with one of the cables to charge it. She walked over to it after being sure the threat hadn't reached her there. The SPDR shone with brand new metal, it looked brand new, she had spent over a month trying to fix it, after that the finishing touches came by Uncle Ben. She touched the suit with her left hand, a sad feeling came over her, it was the only thing she had left that gave her a connection to her Dad, it and the spider. Peni then frowned, what rotten luck, she really wanted to test the suit, she hadn't expected company. Then a thought hit her, what was she talking about, she could test it, on them. The spider agreed with her knowing her thoughts. Then her spider sense tingled, something was wrong, Peni turned just in time to see a portal open at the garage front, her eyes and mouth widened a bit but she quickly overcame the shock and opened the suit to hop in, the spider crawled into it's position and the suit came online. She wanted to play a tune as she always did during a fight, she wanted a classic this time, she quickly selected one. If she was going to test out her suit, she'd do it in style
Target on my back, lone survivor lasts...
The music started, Feel Invincible by Skillet. No one had stepped out of the portal just yet, she detaches from the stand and faces it, ready to tackle whatever comes through.
Hey hey hey everyday when I wake, I'm trying to get up they're bringing me down, chewing up and spitting me out. Hey Hey Hey, when I need to be saved...
At this someone steps out, two even. Peni is shocked and thrilled by who she sees. It was Spider man Noir and another Spider man she couldn't recognize, the Nerve Spider.
"Noir?" She said surprised. "What are you doing here?" He responded to her by jumping forward with a fist.
Shot like a rocket up into the sky, nothing can stop me tonight...
He makes contact, SPDR is pushed back by the shear force behind his punch. Penni recovers from her shock, she wonders what's going on. He shots a web at her, SPDR catches it and drags him in with it then she jumps forward to meet him in the air and catches his neck mid air before slamming him to the ground, holding him down.
"Noir, it's me, Peni." She said. Then she looked up to focus on the other Spider man, he was not moving at all, except for his fingers which twitched in a funny way like he was slowly playing a piano.
"You...what have you done to my friend?" She said.
"Yes..." He said, his voice sounded a bit husky. "..Friend...you wouldn't want to hurt your friend now, would you."
Peni fell for it, she looked back at Noir, not wanting to hurt him let her hold on him loosen, Noir sprung into action webbing her face as his free hand which caused her to move back. Before she could clear the web from her face, he was up, when she did he tore off the door the little car in the garage and threw it towards her, it barely hit her except part of her glass, it cracked.
"Princess.." the other spider man said, then he paused like he just made a mistake but he continued "..Peni, I mean. I'll make this easier on you, come with us peacefully and we wouldn't hurt you or don't and my friend..." Then he laughs a bit darkly. ". Sorry, I meant your friend, will, badly infact. As you can see he is not himself, would you go all out to fight him, after all he is your friend."
Peni looked at Noir and looked at the other spiderman, he was right, she had to make a decision, it was an important question but what would her answer be. Holding back she risked being taken down if the other joined the fight, going all out she risked seriously hurting her friend who seemed to be out of it and mind controlled. But before Peni could make that decision she decided already on one thing, she had to take them out side, she quickly hit a button on the wall by her left. There is a blaring sound as the roof above them splits open to the outside world, the underground garage was built under, at the back yard. Peni didn't wait for it to fully open, she leapt out as soon as she had the opportunity and space wide enough to, the two spiders followed after but in mid air an idea hit her, she immediately spurn around and fired a web like net, it trapped and sent them back underground, the door immediately seals because it sensed the SPDR wasn't in. The SPDR lands on it's feet.
"That would hold them." She said, but not for long and she knew that, she had to keep moving and figure out what was
going on. The Spider nodded(if one could call it a nod) in agreement and the SPDR leapt away, meanwhile the mysterious figure she had seen earlier stood a couple of blocks away on a roof observing everything, he licked his lips in anticipation. She was good he had to give her that, and sacrificing her for his course to him would be most satisfactory.
Authors Note: Hey, DArtsyWriter here. Peni Parker is a character I haven't known much about but I've done my research (ie read some comics with her in it) and produced this, what do you think? Please tell me In comment section, and if it's not too much trouble, give my work a star, I'd really appreciate that, thanks.
