Chapter 2
Peter slumped down in a chair at his and his best friend's apartment. He laid his head back and sighed. "Damn, how could that strange ball just disappear? Does it have invincibility or something?"
Harry Osborn walked into the room carrying a glass of water, "Hey, Pete. What's shaking?"
Peter took in a deep breath and slowly let it out. "Oh, not much. Just getting more difficult pictures of Spider Man and the Green Goblin… Takes a lot out of a photographer."
"I bet!" Harry sat down on the black leather couch across from the matching chair piece Peter sat in.
"So, how many shots did you get?" Harry asked.
Peter held up the camera that hung from around his neck, "Quite a bit. I hope Jamison will pay good for them. I'm looking into buying a better camera. This one is wearing out."
"Already? You just bought that two weeks ago."
Peter placed the camera back on its resting place against his chest. He knew he couldn't tell Harry the truth about his webbing ability and how much it got stuck to his camera.
"Yeah. It just got a little wet from the rain. Spidey in the rain, ya know."
Harry nodded in agreement. "Hey, Pete, did you hear about the strange meteorite that crashed near the edge of this city? They had all the cops surrounding the entire place where it crashed!"
Peter nodded, "Yeah, I saw it! I even got a few camera shots of it. I'm sure the pictures will be worth Jamison's attention"
Harry's expression grew to amazement, "Really?!"
Peter felt the need to tell his best friend about his discovery and smirked as he did so, "There's one thing you need to know, Harry."
"What's that, Pete?"
"It's not a meteor… It's a space ship."
* * *
Samus would soon find her next bounty as she picked up a want paper from the street. The paper had read: Reward for the capture of Spider Man and the Green Goblin.
She smiled at the thought and muttered to herself, "Sounds like these cops are desperate to capture greeny and spidey boy… How amusing."
She laughed as she sat down on the edge of the bed of the apartment she rented in a cheap hotel. She plopped down on her back and rolled over onto her side to look out the window. It was gradually growing dark, but the lights of the big city seemed keep the sky from turning completely black.
Samus quickly got to her feet and headed toward the closet. She gazed up at her transformed power suit and placed her hand on the helm. "I guess I'll go for a little night walk. Maybe I'll run into the either of the two Halloween fanatics."
* * *
Spider Man clung to the side of a building, hiding away in the shadows.
He watched with a heavy heart as Mary Jane walked along the sidewalk below him.
"Mary Jane… How can I tell you how much I feel about you?" Peter shook his head. "There's no way I could tell her I've loved her ever since the first grade. She would think it's silly.. and how could I tell her who I really am?" He paused and spoke in a deeper voice, "Uh, hey, MJ, I know you won't believe this, but I'm Spider Man. Yep, Peter Parker and Spider Man are one in the same person. This all came to be when I was bitten by the missing radioactive spider back during the field trip during our last year at high school. That's how I became Spider Man. Crazy huh?" He shook his head and sighed, "No I couldn't tell her. She wouldn't believe me.. Besides, I can't trust anyone with my secret.. not even the ones I care about most… not even Aunt May."
Peter continued to watch Mary Jane and saw her walk and disappear around a corner.
"Mary Jane?" Peter cried out. He quickly hopped from rooftop to rooftop to reach the building Mary Jane disappeared to.
Peter stood on the edge of the roof and quickly turned his head to try and spot his first grade sweet heart.
He let out a sigh of relief as he spotted the red head walking across the street with the rest of the group of business people that were going home.
"Ah, good. You're safe, MJ." Peter sighed.
"Do you always talk to yourself? Or is there a ghost there with you that listens to your blabbering?" A deep voice came from behind Peter.
Spider Man quickly spun around, but saw no one.
"Um, I don't think I do anymore since you're here… wherever you are… and if you're talking about ghosts, don't forget to mention Casper's name."
"All you have to do is look up to find me." The deep voice replied.
Peter raised his head up to see a taller building next to the one he was standing on. He raised his gaze further and spotted a suit of green and yellow armor standing on the ledge of the building.
Spider Man gasped in surprise, "Whoa! What the hell are you? A gundam mini-me? Where did you buy that suit? The NASA museum?" Spider Man threw a piece of paper at the suit of armor. "Ooops.. you looked like a dumpster.. try changing colors, huh?"
"Ha ha, very funny, bug boy." The suit of armor placed its left hand on its hip. "Just make this easier for the both of us and you won't get hurt." The deep voice spoke.
"Um… easier such as? Hurt you instead? Or give myself up? Don't fight with you?.. Nah, I don't like to pass up such an opportunity to run away." He spun around and fell from the building's ledge and shot out a web line to make his escape.
* * *
"Bug boy wants to play a game? Aw, how sad. He won't stand a chance against me." Samus spoke with her disguised deep voice that her power suit's speaker provided for her.
She jumped from the building and space jumped through the air in the direction the man dressed in spandex with spider web designs all over it.
"Run little buggy, I'm coming to get you!" Samus called out.
"Oh no, please don't. I'm scared." The man shouted back in a sarcastic tone.
Samus muttered quietly in a slightly irritated tone, "He's got an annoying attitude… but a nice ass."
* * *
"How in the hell is this guy floating in the air like that? Looks like it can fly, but it doesn't have any wings… Too bad, I was looking into calling him bird man." Spider Man spoke to himself. "Well, it's time to get away from creepazoid."
Spider Man let loose his web line and fell toward the busy streets of New York. He landed on the sidewalk and quickly turned into a dark alley to hide. "Let's see you come and find me now." He jumped and clung to the shadow of the building.
Peter smirked as he watched the suit of strange armor land in the same spot just as Spider Man had and turned to look around.
"Oh damn. Where did buggy boy go? I cannot seem to find him." The deep voice spoke.
The suit disappeared around the corner.
Peter sighed heavily, "Phew! That was close. For a second there, I thought that alien like armor was going to abduct me for experimental purposes."
"You're wrong about the experimental part."
The deep voice came behind Spider Man.
Peter spun around and exclaimed, overwhelmed that his hiding spot had been discovered. "Huh?! How did you find me?"
The suit of armor pointed is right arm up where a cannon was attached to aim at Spider Man.
The deep voice replied coolly, "Let's just say night vision comes very handy."
"Okay, then let's say you don't want to capture me. That comes very hand as well."
The deep voice sighed, "I'm sorry, little buggy boy, but money is money. I gotta keep my reputation as a bounty hunter, you know."
"You're a bounty hunter huh? Kind of out of date with your outfit, don't ya think?"
"Out of date? Are you mocking my power suit? This thing is far more advanced than you Earthlings little so called technological toys. You couldn't even come close to building a starship to get out of this isolated galaxy!"
"Hey, at least we're trying! Give us some credit." Spider Man replied.
What does he mean by that?.. Oh wait! That alien space ship that crashed at the shore! This must be the alien that owns that space ship.. but this alien has a major attitude. Peter realized.
"Hey, you wouldn't happen to own a purple colored ship, would ya?" Spider man asked curiously.
"Why do you care? What if I don't own it?" The deep voice retorted.
"Hey, hey! No need to get angry. I was just wondering if you came from space or the future or something like that."
* * *
Oh no! This bug knows about me. Time to blow this Popsicle stand.. as Housten used to say.
Samus spun around and began to run.
"Hey! Where you going?!" The young man's voice called from behind.
Samus continued to run and leapt into the air to avoid the strange wheeled vehicles that raced up and down the street.
Samus ran down the empty sidewalk and the speed booster set in to increase her speed.
Samus looked at her life-form sensor screen and noticed many other forms of life all around. "Damn it! Like any good this will do now!"
She came into a dark alley, that was apparently empty, and slowed to a brisk walk.
"I think I got away." Samus muttered.
"Nah, ya didn't." The young man's voice spoke from above.
Samus raised her helm up to see man that was obviously an obsessed with spiders by his strange outfit. He hung from a web line from one of the building's roofs.
"It's no use trying to run. I'll just follow you wherever you call.. You could call me the shadow or the stalker."
Samus rested her hand on her hip, "You're quite the comedian, aren't you?"
The man shrugged his shoulders, "I'd host my own show, but I gotta take out the trash.. bad guys, if you know what I mean. So there's no room in my agenda to be a comedian."
"Har har, bug boy. That was so funny that I forgot to laugh." Samus spoke in an annoyed tone.
"Aw, did I singe your magnificently strange armor? Do you want a kiss to make it feel better?"
"Not from you. I'm afraid you might bite me instead." Samus stepped back as the man dressed as a spider slowly came down from the web thread.
"I won't bite if you tell me who you are and where you came from."
"Are you asking me for my phone number? I'm sorry, I wouldn't give it to you even if I had one. Unless you want to call long distance. You'd be able to reach me at the farthest space station possible… so, um, no, you can't call me. Sorry!"
Samus whirled around and jumped into the air and over the rooftops.
* * *
"Whoa! That person can jump pretty high!... Hmm, that kind of sentence almost reminds me of the times girls rejected me whenever I asked them out on a date… This thing couldn't be… a girl?!" Spider Man spoke to no one in particular. "Then, I'll just have to find out!"
Peter shot out a web line and flew over the rooftops to pursue the suit of armor. He soared over the city, following in the direction the alien was running off to.
"If this alien is a girl, I hope she's cute and my type… Well, logically speaking, not bitten by some kind of insect."
Spider Man looked down to see the suit of armor suddenly gone. "Huh?! Where did it go? I had it in my sight! Damn! This one is quick… I'll just have to stay up some of the night looking for it."