For once, Peter wasn't the first one to be out of the apartment. When Peter woke up, MJ was already heading out the door. She told him that she had to talk to her agent, and even though Peter had a ton of homework to do, he decided that it was a really great day to go outside and take a swing, so he slipped into his Spidey costume and flew out the door.
Just as he let go of his web strand, the world around him slowed to a crawl and that ever-so-annoying tingling began to warn him of something amiss on the street below.
Spiderman looked down to meet a wild car chase. He saw a black car make a sharp right turn and a red car not far behind. Several police cars with wailing sirens raced after the speeding car. Pedestrians quickly stepped off the street and ran back to the sidewalk.
He dived for the ground below, and with great precision and accuracy, he landed on the hood of the Beatle.
Spiderman quickly crouched onto the roof and looked in through the window. There he saw a man with brown hair and thick black glasses quickly swiveling the steering wheel. Next to him was John Jameson, who looked extremely nauseous. The driver was so focused on the task at hand that he didn't even notice Spiderman until he asked, "Shouldn't you buckle your seat belt? You don't wanna get a ticket now, do you?"
The driver quickly turned, and instead of raising a gun, he raised a silver card.
"So you wanna play 'Go Fish?' " asked Spiderman. The driver angrily flung the card at him, and oddly, his spider sense was screaming at him to get out of the way. He quickly raised his head up, but the card was close enough to cut his arm.
"Aggh!" Peter cried as he drew his arm up. Before he could even examine the cut, cards came flying up through the car's roof. He quickly shot a web strand and bounded onto the closest brick wall.
'What were those...?' More cards flew toward him, and Spiderman quickly bound from one wall to another. When he glanced back, he noticed that the cards were still stuck to the walls.
He landed back onto the roof of the Beatle, but his spider sense told him that something was wrong, and he turned to see a mother and her infant on the street-trying to get out of the car's path. There was no time to web-sling them away. Without thinking, he quickly crouched to the side of the car and reached for the steering wheel. The driver threw another card at his arm, and the pain caused Spidey's hand to slip, which in turn caused the steering wheel to turn in the opposite direction-the car was heading straight for the mother and her infant.
"You've really pissed me off, web-head!" screamed the driver as he raised another card. Before he could throw it, Spiderman punched him square in the face. The driver dropped the card, fell onto his chair, and grabbed his nose-which was now spewing out blood.
"TURN THE WHEEL!" Spidey screamed at John. John Jameson-who seemed to have regained his composure-lunged for the wheel and quickly swerved it-avoiding the mother and the infant by mere centimeters. All of a sudden, there was a loud 'BANG!' Spiderman turned to see a woman's head sticking out of the red car behind them with a gun in her hand. The bullet punctured one of the back wheels. The car began to swerve uncontrollably, and underneath his mask, Peter's eyes went wide as the car headed for a crowded supermarket.
Spiderman quickly raised his two hands, and in the blink of an eye, a large web-suspended in the air by two lampposts-appeared. The car collided, and the web held it back-preventing it from crashing into a huddled group of frightened civilians. Peter breathed a sigh of relief as he flipped onto the hood of the car.
He heard the sound of metal banging against metal and saw the driver running out. He heard another similar sound and saw the woman in the red Toyota run after the driver. He was about to chase after them when he heard the sound of screeching tires. He turned to see two police cars that had just entered the street. More screeching tires, and in seconds, a dozen officers were out of their cars and aiming guns at his head.
"Hands up, Spidey!" screamed one of the officers.
It was just unbelievable-here he had just saved these pedestrians, and he was STILL being treated like a common criminal?!?!? Realizing that it was hopeless to hold a sensible discussion with the boys in blue at the moment, Spiderman quickly shot a web strand.
"Sorry, guys, but I gotta run!" He swung onto a rooftop as he heard bullets firing off in the distance. He was about to swing to the next one when another card whizzed by his head. He tried to spot the source, but whoever had thrown it was nowhere to be seen. Peter quickly fired a web line toward it as he landed onto the roof. It caught onto the card, and Peter quickly pulled it toward him. He pulled the web strands off the card and examined it. It was a steel card with incredibly sharp edges, and instead of the normal hearts, aces, spades, or clubs, it had an image of a guillotine.
"Weird...it's almost like a signature card," mumbled Peter. That's when he remembered the cuts that he had acquired. He quickly examined them, and although the stinging had substantially subsided, he realized that he was going to need stitches.
'What next?' thought Peter grimly as he absent-mindedly shot a web strand and swung away.
Author's Note: Sorry, it's been a long time I know since my last update. By the way, I know a lot of you will be really annoyed, BUT I changed the "Just Another Day at the Bugle" chapter. You don't have to reread it again b/c the changes are really minor. The only change was that Felicia is NOT kidnapped. She's the Black Cat, and she still works for the Kingpin, but the most important thing to know is that she isn't kidnapped b/c that changes the whole direction of the story. All right, I know this chapter is short, but I hope you like it, and I really hope that it had a good amount of action. I get the feeling that I should change the genre to drama. That's the direction that this fic seems to be turning toward. I actually finished the next chapter. I just have to check it for spelling and grammar mistakes. Thanx again for any reviews. (To jjonahjameson: You'll see if Mysterio comes up.)