SPIDER-MAN
a fanfiction by Chipolata
[Chapter 10]
"Vegeta!" Peter yelled. "Ah! The bomb!"
MJ put her hands on her ears. Peter spun a web above their heads to stop falling debris. Bulma screamed bloody murder though her gag. They all waited for the explosion that would cause their deaths.
It never came.
"What?" Peter asked.
Peter slowly stood up. After a few moments, he convinced himself it was safe and untied Bulma.
A soft swish noise was heard. The three of them turned.
There stood Vegeta and Goku. Both of their clothing were ripped and they were smoking.
"Vegeta!" Bulma cried. She ran up to Vegeta and flung her arms around him.
"What happened?" Peter asked.
"Well," Vegeta began, "when you mentioned the rest of the building needed rescuing, I knew there was no way to evacuate everyone in time. I then remembered I can do the Instant Transmission, which Kararotto here told me. I jumped down there, grabbed the bomb, and..."
"Transmissioned himself into my living room!" Goku burst out.
"I thought you'd be training!" Vegeta replied.
"At 9:30 at night?" Goku yelled at him.
"It's mid-morning here!!" Vegeta yelled back.
"Oh my god! Are ChiChi and Gohan all right?" Bulma asked.
"They're fine." Goku assured her. "The bomb still had about ten seconds on it, so we rushed it outside...
*Flashback*
"Yaah! Vegeta take it!" Goku yells and throws the bomb.
Vegeta catches. "Ah! You have it Kararotto!" Vegeta throws it back.
"No way!" The two continue to throw it back and forth until it explodes in both of their faces.
*End Flashback*
"... after that we Transmissioned here. ChiChi's not gonna be very happy with me, but I really want to know what's going on." Goku concluded.
"Perhaps I should introduce everyone, seeing as I'm the only one who knows everyone..." Vegeta said. "Peter, Kararotto. Kararotto, this is Peter Parker and his girlfriend, Mary Jane. Peter, Mary Jane, this is Bulma, my wife. Kararotto, this is Bulma..."
"That's okay, Vegeta. Bulma and I already know each other." Goku said. "But hey, nice to meet you Peter. Call me Goku, everyone but Vegeta does."
"Goku. Nice to meet you too." Peter said.
"But what happened to the Green Goblin?" Mary Jane asked.
"Gah! I forgot about him!" Vegeta said and dived back into the hole, followed by Goku and Peter.
They looked about the room.
"He's gone." Peter said.
"Who's gone?" Goku asked.
"Bah! What a coward! I didn't even get a decent fight out of him. One little slip and he turned yellow." Vegeta spat.
"Oh yeah, about that slip...?" Peter began.
Vegeta turned to Peter.
"Uh, Goku? Could you leave a moment, please?" Peter asked.
"Oh, uh, okay." Goku said, and hovered up through the hole.
"What's going on down there?" Bulma asked.
"Oh, the guy in the funny mask wanted to talk to Vegeta." Goku said. "I don't get it. Is Peter Spider-man, or Vegeta? Did I miss something?"
"I wish I knew." Bulma sighed.
"I have my Spider-Powers back." Peter told Vegeta.
"I saw that. But how?" Vegeta asked.
"The effects of that laser Evans built must have only been temporary. It was weird, but for a while now I've been slowly getting bits and pieces of my powers back. So I've suspected it for a long time. When I saw you slip on the ceiling, I knew it for sure."
"My slip?" Vegeta asked.
"It meant you're losing your Spider-Powers." Peter explained.
Vegeta sat on a table to think.
"I guess I'm Spider-man now." Peter said.
"How do I explain all this? I'll never live it down! Vegeta, the mighty Prince, crawling across Manhattan? Crawling!" Vegeta cried.
"I think this might help." Peter held up an object from the table and grinned.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, may I have your attention, please?" Vegeta asked as he levitated up and out of his hole. He now had the Spider-mask on again.
"Vegeta? Why are you wearing the mask?" Goku asked.
"I can answer that. If you could look at this please." Vegeta held up the device to their faces. "The answer is right here."
The device flashed.
"Vegeta is not Spider-man. Peter is not connected to Spider-man in any way. Mary Jane, Peter and Bulma were captured by the Green Goblin. Goku sensed Bulma's danger and came. His appearance stopped the fight between the Goblin and myself." He told them.
He then shot a web to the ceiling and lowered himself down.
"Electro-destabilizing Neurolizer. Standard issue." Peter told him.
"Really works." Vegeta commented, then hooked it on the belt on his Spider-suit.
"You should hide that and the Spider-stuff I gave you. Can't have anyone clueing in on what was going on." Peter said. "Don't worry about me, I can make more Spider-suits."
"Hey!" Goku called down the hole. "Is that you down there Spider-man? What are you talking about?"
"I need to get Peter out!" Vegeta called up the hole. "If I throw him up, could you catch him?"
"WHAT?" Peter yelled.
"Uh, okay!" Goku called back down.
"No way!" Peter said. "No way in he-eeey!" He yelled as Vegeta picked him up and threw him.
"Gotcha!" Goku called.
Vegeta shot a web strand up to the ceiling of the above floor and began to climb up it. He took one last look at at the wet lab, with water from the pipes dripping from the ceiling to the floor and useless equipment, and continued up the web.
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[Epilogue]
Peter took Mary Jane home. He decided to put off telling her his secret identity until another day. His Aunt May was relieved to see her nephew safe and sound like Spider-man told her.
Goku took Bulma home, as Vegeta wasn't supposed to there. Vegeta swung into the night. He took the web-shooters back to Peter, IT'ed himself home, changed, and pretended to be asleep the entire time. He patiently listened to the entire story.
Green Goblin decided to leave Vegeta and Bulma alone after seeing the Saiyan fly. His attention returned to Peter.
Everything returned to normal.
Well... almost.
"Ow! Stupid needle!"
Bulma opened the bedroom door.
"Vegeta, what are you doing?" She asked. "Are you sewing?"
"No." Vegeta snapped.
"What's behind your back?" Bulma asked.
"Nothing." Vegeta snapped.
Bulma sighed. She wasn't going to get anything out of him like this. She decided to just skip to the reason why she was there in the first place.
"Vegeta, you left these in my lab. What were you making anyway?" She asked him.
"Something." Vegeta snapped, snatching the devices.
"Dinner in fifteen." Bulma told him and left.
Vegeta grabbed the costume from behind him and continued stitching. After a few moments, he finished off the thread and held the suit up in front of him.
'Perfect,' he thought.
Vegeta took the web-shooters Bulma had given him and put them on his wrists. He then took off his 'Earth' clothes and put on the modified Spider-suit he'd just made. After pulling on the mask, he opened his window and swung out on a web.
'Why shouldn't I be Spider-man?' Vegeta asked himself. 'I haven't really lost my powers. Spiders just can't stick to wet surfaces, that's all.'
Vegeta continued to web-swing his way through the city, ready to face his future as the new Spider-man!