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Inside the large room, a picture of a man with graying brown hair hung in the center of the wall. Below the photo, an inscription read "JJJ." On both sides of the room, large, bronze plaques read "The Daily Bugle."
Suddenly, a recording started playing from speakers mounted on the wall. "Hello! I will be your tour guide through the adventurous world of publishing. On behalf of all of us here at the Daily Bugle, we'd like to welcome you to the headquarters of Marvel City's leading newspaper! Please, continue into the next room to see what really goes into news gathering!"
The three suddenly noticed a brown door at the base of the picture. Kit approached it and opened it slowly. They entered a room full of small cubicles with flashing telephone lines and computers reading something about some kind of anti-gravity gun.
Suddenly, TV's all throughout the room flickered on. The man whose portrait was hanging in the entrance room came on.
"Hey! Is this thing on? Eh-Hem! Are you the one's here for the job? Here to take my money like the rest of these slobs? Listen, we here at the daily bugle are pleased to bring you the Scoop. News gathering vehicles of the future. Now listen, these here vehicles have loads of useless equipment that's wasting my money! I mean... umm... Anything for the benefit of newsgathering. OK, let's cut the crap. Now, you all have been chosen to test out the scoop. Now listen, I need you to not get any news at all so I can cut the funding on these things! Now go out there and make me proud... by failing... You get it! The Scoops are back in the alley. Get back there! Try not to break anything! Oh- and-"
Suddenly, the picture blurred and turned black. Then the picture came back, but instead of "JJJ," four oddly dressed people much like Spiderman were on the screen. "Hello New York... I apologize for interrupting your childish newscasts and sophomoric cartoon shows. I am Doctor Octopus. As you may recognize, something is missing from your fair city. My demands are simple... I will return your 'Statue of Liberty' in exchange for the complete and utter surrender of Marvel City! You have thirty minutes or you'll never see your precious Lady Liberty again!"
The Television turned off.
"Quick, get to the Scoop! We're going after them!"
Anna began running deeper into the building towards the back exit into the alley.
"Spiderman can help!" She called.
Kit and Elektra ran after her.
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They finally found the exit into the alleyway. The alley was dark and smoky. Graffiti was all over the old brick walls. Suddenly, they noticed one large, blue vehicle opened on one side. They slowly approached it. "That's the Scoop?" Elektra asked.
They filed into it. It had the perfect amount of seats. Three. As soon as they were in, a door closed off the side they had entered through. Immediately, the Scoop began moving into the endless back streets of New York.
"JJJ" came across a speaker system located in the Scoop. "Hello? You three there? This is John Jonah Jameson. Check, check!"
"We can hear you!" Kit yelled. "Where is this thing taking us?"
"The Scoop is outfitted with an automatic artificial intelligence. It'll tack any and all crime reports in the city via Brand new computer technology. Listen SCOOP, crime reports are comin' in from all over the city and I'm starting to get worried."
Suddenly, something was projected onto a brick wall. It looked like Spiderman's mask.
"The Spider Signal!" Mr. Jameson called, worried, "And with Spiderman near, you know trouble can't be far behind! And you know what that means: Headlines! National Coverage! So don't screw this up! I mean, uh... good luck."
Suddenly, the scoop neared a building with a large fire escape. Suddenly, Spiderman leapt off of a fire escape platform and onto the Scoop, making the front hit the ground and spark.
"Hey, I thought I told you to wait outside! Man, you shouldn't be out here! With Doc Ock on the loose, this could be the most dangerous night of my life... and yours! Be careful!" He shot a web onto a nearby building and swung up to it.
"Hey, was that Spiderman? That no good leotard wearing... Ahh!"
The Scoop lurched forward and into a large, seemingly empty warehouse. A mouse squeaked and the three heard it's little feet pitter-patter away. A thick fog clouded the warehouse. Suddenly, something bright green was visible ten feet in front of them.
"Oh my god!" Anna cried. "The tablet." Indeed, this was no green ceiling. The statue of liberty's tablet was sitting on top of piles of trash. The Scoop slowly drove underneath it.
Suddenly, they saw two men, one dressed as a green goblin and one with large, mechanical arms like an octopus stretching out from under a cloak, standing on a pile of trash. Doc Ock was holding a large cannon and pointed it towards a pile of trash. The trash fell to the side as the Statue of Liberty's head rose from it's hiding spot.
"Everything is going according to plan!" The green goblin cackled.
Doc Ock laughed. "Excellent, and with my anti-gravity cannon, not even Spiderman will be able to stop me!"
"You mean, stop us!" The green goblin cackled.
"Hey what's going on?" Mr. Jameson yelled over the intercom.
Without warning, a man dressed in bright green with an electrical bolt mask on hopped out of a pile of trash. "Hey, what was that?"
The Scoop picked up speed and drove into the next room of the warehouse.
The electrical man picked up a huge cable with electricity surging through it.
"Intruders! If you think you're getting outta here, you're in for a jolt!" He slammed the cable into the hood of the scoop, making the vehicle spin into the dark fog of the warehouse.
Suddenly, Doc Ock pointed a gun directly at Elektra. "Out of the way Electro. They're mine..." The Scoop quickly accelerated into the next room.
The Scoop's artificial intelligence began looking for an exit, searching through blueprints and city grids.
It recognized a large garage door as entrance into the city's waste management system: the sewer.
The Scoop burst through the door and over a bridge across the river of... well, questionable origin.
Spiderman slowly rappelled down a wall. So much for being careful. Just get back to the Bugle and..." He noticed that Kit, Elektra and Anna were not looking at him, but were instead looking behind him at the water that was literally lifting out of the river and taking a human form.
"Uh oh, Hydroman!" The now human shaped water man reached towards Anna. Spiderman punched his arm and it instantly turned back into water like rain and fell. Hydroman tried punching with his other hand, but hit a large water pipe.
The pipe flew towards the Scoop and rammed into it! Water shot out and splashed the three.
The Scoop drove quickly out onto the streets once more. Doc Ock jumped out of the warehouse after the scoop and pulled out a gun. He held down the trigger and a huge fireball appeared.
A large screech resounded as the Scoop drove backwards as quickly as possible. The fireball shot out of the gun, careening after them.
An apartment exploded with tremendous heat as the fireball missed. The Scoop swung around so it was driving forward. Up on a rooftop, the Green Goblin taunted them. "Trick or Treat, smell my feet, time to blow you off the street! Ha ha ha ha ha!" He shot a large, pumpkin shaped bomb towards the Scoop.
"Look out!" Spiderman called. He caught the bomb in a Spider web.
"Spiderman?! Oh no you don't!" The Green Goblin shrieked. He threw another bomb. Spiderman dodged it and it hit a support on the building. The whole place began to shake.
The Scoop got out of there and went right into a deserted street of town. "My Scoop! My beautiful Scoop!" Mr. Jameson began to cry as the Scoops beaten, smoking hood began to make strange noises. The engine stopped and the Scoop stalled.
"Whew, that was close!" Spiderman said. Suddenly, a green laser beam shot towards him. "Whoa! Doc, your aim is worse than your haircut!"
Doc Ock pointed his gun towards Kit. "My aim is good enough for your sitting duck friends!" He launched the green anti-gravity laser at the Scoop and it began to rise into the air.
"Have a nice trip!" Doc Ock taunted.
"Hey wait for me! You're not insured for this!" Spiderman climbed up the building near the rising Scoop as fast as he could. "Hang on, I'll web you down from there." The Green Goblin flew by on a hover board and picked Spiderman off the wall, leaving the Scoop to rise.
Doc Ock pressed a button down below and the Scoop dropped a few feet onto a rooftop. "Aww... How sad. You're all out of gas." Electro taunted. "You punks have short-circuited our plans long enough!"
Hydroman appeared behind him. "Time to take a dive!" He said, reaching forward to push the Scoop off the building.
"Guess again Super Goons!" Spiderman said, making Electro shoot an electrical strike towards him. Spiderman's plan worked as he jumped out of the way and Hydroman was shocked by the bolt.
"Happy landing!" Doc Ock cried from below as he once again picked the Scoop up and held it precariously over the ground, 400 feet below.
The Scoop stopped hovering and began dropping fast.
"No!" Spiderman called. He jumped off the building and began falling next to the scoop.
He landed on the ground without a problem and quickly spun a web directly above the ground. The Scoop fell into the web, mere inches from the hard pavement.
When the web disappeared and the Scoop gently dropped to the ground just in time to see Green Goblin, Electro, Doc Ock and Hydroman hanging from a web. Spider man stood on the hood of the car. "Well, I guess that wraps things up. Hey, you did alright!"
Doc Ock got one mechanical arm loose and slowly moved it towards Spiderman. Without even looking, Spiderman shot a small string of web, plastering his tentacle to the web.
"But don't give up your day job..." He continued. He took out a camera. "Say cheese! See you later!"
The Scoops Intercom came on once more. "Hey!" Mr. Jameson called. "Congratulations! You're heroes! I knew it all along!"
The many buttons on the dashboard of the Scoop lit up once more. "OK, kids, I got emergency power turned on now, so the Scoop should auto-navigate back to the Daily Bugle. And to think I almost got rid of these things!"