Lady Suneidesis: Well the story is based on Spider-man and X-Men and it you were familiar with my other works you'd might get it more.
Ldypebsaby: Yeah it would be weird but then again the X-Men have gone through this so many times why not more. Plus they are bringing back Colossus so I'd figure I'd bring back a few more too, plus there are some things that I REALLY wanted to write about with those characters. As for the great evil...I'm not telling.
Star Lin: Glad you liked it, and if you think Peter teaching there is something, wait until you see yet another new teacher going there.
Bumpkin: Yeah sorry about that but I needed to go a new way in that chapter, since I got this huge story arc happening. It was hard to come up with independent chapters all the time so I needed to expand it a little more, there will still be chapters that your used to I just wanted to go a different way a little.
The Uncanny R-Man: Let's just say Peter will get one heck of a shock in this chapter.
Thanks to: celtcath74, qwerty, Hazelle
THE NEW TEACHERCHAPTER 33: BROTHERS REUNITED
It was a Saturday morning and Peter was doing the usual for the last few hours patrolling the city as Spider-Man. He was catching a breather on the ledge of a building thinking about how his life was going at that moment. Okay sure he had an interesting and nice job teaching that paid well, but after Ezekiel betraying him like he had and the thing with the letter from Gwen Stacey and the mess that got him into, he got he just wasn't in the mood to be happy at the moment.
Right at the moment he wanted nothing more then just have a nice peaceful day, something he really needed. He heard a giant crashing noise, a few screams and horns blaring. "I got to stop thinking of things like that." Peter sighed.
He quickly swung over to the sound of the disturbance and when he got to the building across the street there was an old 'friend' of his. Currently it was Rhino a man in a super suit that looked like, well...a giant rhino suit to be blunt. But it also gave him immense strength and the 'hide' was just as touch, luckily he was the big and dumb type.
Rhino was hauling out some kind of safe the size of a beach ball. Peter looked at the sigh above the store and saw it was a jewelry store that specialized in diamonds so it was a safe bet that it was full of them. Peter took to action to swing across the street and on the building across from him so he was above Rhino. Luckily he was too busy kicking a police cruiser like it was a football.
Peter shot out a web line and snagged the safe and pulled it out of his lose grasp. "What the?!" Rhino said as it was yanked from him he looked up to see his most hated enemy up on a building securing the safe above the ground. "You! Why does it always have to be you?" He shouted.
Spider-Man just shrugged. "I'm just lucky I guess." He could see Rhino looking to something to use against him so Peter thought he might try a different tactic. "Hey Rhino, look I'm in a real bad mood so how about we forget the street brawl that has me kicking your big gray butt all down this street and just give up now?"
He dodged a mailbox that was sent with such force that it was impaled into the wall and stuck there. Peter sighed to himself. "You know just ONCE I'd like them to give up without a fight, oh well you got to love a cliché." He leaped down off the building over Rhino and then kicked off the ground to send another kick to Rhino's back.
Rhino turned and went for a left hook that Spider-Man jumped over while Rhino's fist went through the sidewalk. "You know, have you ever thought of anger management classes?" Peter asked as he kept dodging Rhino's powerful but slow attacks. "I mean you seem to have issues, plus let's face it, being stuck in that suit has to be difficult, but look on the bright side. At least you don't have to worry about laundry."
"Will you shut up and fight bug!" Rhino roared as yet another of this attacks failed to connect.
Spidey dodged yet another blow. "Arachnid, spiders are arachnid not bugs, if you're going to trying to insult a person the least you could do is use the right terms, but then again that is a three syllable word so I guess it's a bit tough for you to say."
Rhino had ripped out a streetlight and using it like a giant bat started swinging wildly trying to hit him. Peter jumped a low swing onto the side of a building. Rhino shifted his weight and tried again, but Spider-Man leapt over the blow and while in the air webbed the makeshift bat to the wall.
"Why you!" Rhino tried to pull it free but then Spider-Man dropped kicked him and he had to let go as he staggered back. Infuriated Rhino charged like his namesake at Peter. Peter quickly jumped to the side as Rhino with his horn sent a parked car flying into the air.
Peter looked to where it was going and his eyes widened in horror under the mask as he saw the car was going to land on some fool watching the fight. Peter want to swing over but he knew it was too late he shouted out to the man but he was too frightened to move.
Peter was afraid that the man was going to get himself killed then at the last moment something he never ever thought he'd see again happened.
The Scarlet Spider, the red full body suit with the blue sleeveless top with the huge black spider on it was unmistakable to Peter.
A man in the Scarlet Spider costume swung out of nowhere and got the man out of there just in time as the car came crashing down in a crushed and ruined pile of metal from the impact. Seeing this supposed 'dead man' after putting the man down coming right at them momentarily stunned Peter.
"Aw you got to be kiddin' me!" Rhino said seeing the other 'wall crawler'. "I thought you have died or retired or somthin'?"
The Scarlet Spider landed in front of him. "Well I'm back and guess what? It's your lucky day, cause today it's a super hero two for one day." With that the Scarlet Spider jump at Rhino kicking him in the face, as Rhino staggered back from the blow to his unprotected face Peter took this time to capitalize and attacked as well.
As they fought on Peter couldn't help but notice that this Scarlet Spider fought like he did...like Ben did. They had the same powers and they fought in sink with each other like they had done many times before so Peter was even more confused as to his person was because there was no way it was Ben.
With this new Scarlet Spider they managed to defeat and left Rhino tied up for the cops. They didn't stick around since the oh so 'friendly' police wouldn't like to see either of them around.
So after the fight Peter wanted answers to what was going on, so when they landed on a nearby rooftop a few blocks away he grabbed the man in the Scarlet Spider outfit. "Who the Hell are you?" He demanded. He was furious that someone was using the costume of someone who had scarified his life to save Peter. This was
"Peter it's me, Ben." Said the Scarlet Spider.
Peter was a little shocked at this but he didn't buy it. "Bull, Ben died. I saw it! Now if you're another clone then I'm going to-"
Ben interrupted him at that point. "It's true! It is me and I'm not a clone...well...actually I am, just yours not mine...I mean I'm not a clone of me, of Ben Reilly." He sighed. "Look I am Ben Reilly, alright?"
"Okay 'Ben'...how come your still breathing since after Norman killed you, your body was nothing more then a pile of genetic ash."
"Well...that's tough to explain." Ben said unsure how to tell him. "Look all I can say is that this guy brought me back."
"Who did?" Peter thought about anyone that had the power to bring people back from the grave and it was a short list, not to mention he didn't see any of them bringing Ben back for some reason.
"Some guy calling himself Guardian." Ben replied.
Peter let go of Ben at that point. "You mean the guy from Alpha Flight?" He asked not believing that.
"Uh...no not him, someone else." Ben told him while he smoothed out his costume. "In fact he wants to meet you and he can explain it, oh and by the way don't mention Alpha Flight, he hates being compared to that guy apparently."
Peter wasn't sure if he wanted to go or not. His spider sense wasn't going off so this guy wasn't a threat and so it might not be a trap. But he needed answers and this was the only way to get them. "Then lead on." He said evenly. He followed the man in the Scarlet Spider uniform for several blocks until they came to another rooftop, but it was also had three people laying on the roof.
When he got closer he was shocked by what he saw. After spending a few months teaching at Xavier's he had seen various pictures and had met two of these people. On the roof in their uniforms were Psylock, Colossus and Skin. He didn't understand it, he was told they all were dead but if they weren't then...was that really THE Ben Reilly standing next to him.
"What's going on?" He said in an astonished voice looking at the sleeping forms.
"Maybe I can answer that." Peter turned to see a man all in black.
"Guardian I presume." Peter asked him and the man nodded.
He walked over to them with a smile. "Now I know you got lot's of questions but I can't answer them all." He held up a hand to warn off a question Peter was about to ask. "If I did things could get worse for you, just trust me with this."
"He likes to be cryptic." Ben said with an annoyed tone. He had asked a lot of questions himself but he kept getting the run around.
"It's the only way I can put things in its simplest terms." Guardian chided Ben. "Now I know you want proof that this is in fact Ben Reilly so if you want I could show you how I brought him back."
Peter thought about it. "Sure." The next thing he knew Guardian's eyes turned blue and Peter's mind was filled with images, he saw Guardian take Ben's body, and how he put the remains in a giant tank with something written on the glass. He saw Ben's body slowly reform back to the way it was. Then Peter suddenly found himself back on the rooftop.
"I figured that would more quicker then taking you there and explaining everything." Guardian smiled. But Peter ignored him as he turned to Ben, and he was sure it really was Ben too.
"I-it's really you isn't it?" Peter said shocked and yet he felt a sense of joy growing inside of him too.
"Isn't that what I said?" Ben said smiling under the mask but Peter just pulled him close into a hug seeing his 'brother' back again. "Easy Peter, I don't want to get a rib broken."
Peter let him go. "I'm sorry Ben its just...God I can't believe this!" He exclaimed happily.
"Well it's great to see you again too." Ben said happily. "So how's that family of yours? I mean it's been two years so that kid of yours must be getting big." Peter was suddenly very quiet and turned to Guardian.
"Sorry...I didn't have time to fill him in on everything." He apologized.
"Peter...what's going on? What's wrong?" Ben asked. He didn't like that way that sounded and he suddenly got a very bad feeling that something was wrong.
"Ben...MJ had a miscarriage."
Ben was completely shocked and deeply saddened by the news. "Oh God Peter...I didn't...I'm so sorry man."
"Well...I got a lot to fill you in on." Peter told him. He didn't know hoe to tell Ben about how the Green Goblin had caused the death of his unborn child, or about a lot of the other things. He also didn't like telling Ben why the World Trade Center wasn't there anymore...that was a dark day that he would never forget, and he was just lucky Ben hadn't noticed it so far.
"And I have to get going." Guardian said to them. "I have other matters to attend to."
"Wait!" Peter shouted. "What's going on? Why did you do this?"
The man in black sighed. "I can't tell you everything as I've said also it would take too long and you wouldn't understand most of it...what I can tell you is this. Ezekiel tried several other ways to avoid his fate other then using you. Over the years he tried many things, but failed in the most part. He also released a few evils into the world and they've been gathering and growing. You've met a few of them already."
"Wait do you mean guys like Morlun and Spider-Wasp were released by him?" Peter said shocked at this revelation.
Guardian nodded. "All things are connected on some level. Did you think it was just coincidence that after you met him they started showing up? There's more out there, a few of the ones he woke up or released he failed to either stop or put back...now they're free and because of one man's arrogance the balance has been altered, that's why I've made my presence known."
"You see I'm here to help restore the balance, you see...how do I put this? You see the cosmos is like a giant web, each strand unique and has a purpose. But sometimes things happen and certain strands are cut and the web suffers because of it. It becomes weaker and more easily damaged. Now what I've done is basically 'fixed' a few strands by bringing back key 'players' in the 'game' that going on right now. I could only bring back a select few and I had to chose them wisely."
He pointed to the three sleeping forms. "That's why they're back as well as Ben. They needed to be here to help balance out what was done. Now I know your wondering why I could only bring back a few...well...I'm not a god, or some cosmic being. I'm close to it but I do have my limits and I can be killed even though I am immortal. In fact there are a few enemies of mine that are just as powerful or more powerful then myself, and I don't want to draw attention to my presence by bringing back every hero that's died. Something like that gets noticed by everyone, and I do mean everyone."
"By the way...catch." He threw a cell phone at Peter and he caught it. "I think you'd better call that Kitty girl and tell her to bring a ride...I think she'll want to be here when they wake up."
Peter looked at the phone and suddenly realized that the X-Men were going to get one hell of a surprise today, but then why should he be the only one. He looked at the three of them still sleeping over all the talking then looked back to Guardian but he was gone and in his place was a suitcase with a note that said 'For Ben' on it.
"What the-did you see where he went?" Peter asked Ben but he seemed to be staring into the distance. Peter looked at his direction and suddenly knew what he was looking at, or more accurately looking for.
"Peter...what happened?" Ben asked looking at the place where two towers were supposed to have stood.
Peter sighed. This wasn't going to be easy. "Ben let make a call first...then I think you should sit down...this is going to be a very long talk...and some of it...it's not going to be pretty."
Ben sat down on the ledge of the building. The tone he heard in Peter's voice told him that he had missed a lot in the past few years and the feeling his gut told him that in those years when he was...gone...the world had gone through a few changes, if it was changes for the best or worse...he was about to find out.
He listened in as Peter called someone named Kitty. He tried to place the name but the only one he kept up with was a mutant named Shadowcat. That fit with the unconscious X-Men in front of him but the way Peter was talking to her it was like they were friends.
He was beginning to wonder just how much of Peter's life had changed over the last few years. He looked at the suitcase and took the note. He looked it over but there was nothing else to it so he just shrugged and threw it away. He placed the case across his lap and opened it.
"What in the world?" He asked himself out loud. Inside there was a pile of documents, he picked up a drivers license with his name and picture on it. How Guardian managed that he didn't know, but hey this guy brought him back from the dead so he guessed this was easy.
He looked through and saw birth certificates, and certain things like diplomas and other things too. There were even a few notes. He read them and was amazed at the details put into it. It explained how to pass himself off as looking like Peter, that was just as crazy as MJ's idea of him and Peter as cousins who just looked alike, but this was a bit more realistic he guessed.
He also saw a bankbook and looked though it. It was in his name and...damn. It held a nice amount in it too. He'd be able to afford his own apartment with this to start him off.
Peter sat down next to him and put the cell phone down, seeing he wasn't sure what else to do with it. "Well she'll be here as fast as she could...she's a little anxious to see them again...especially Piotr."
There was a moment of silence then as Peter contemplated how to start off. "Well where do I start?" He asked Ben.
Ben thought about it. "Just go from what happened after I died."
NEXT UP CHAPTER 34: ADJUSTING