Spider-Man swung gracefully above the streets, making his way to Times Square. He landed on one of the giant tv screens, and studied the scene. It was exactly as Robbie had said; a man was shooting lightning bolts out of his hands and blowing up cars.
The man was wearing a dark blue body suit with a light blue lightning bolt stretching across from his left shoulder to right hip, with a similar design on the arms. He didn't wear a mask; he didn't need one. His dark hair was tied back in a pony tail, and his face glowed so brightly, it was beyond recognition.
"Hey, Sparky, why don't you stop what you're doing and think about it? Why are you doing this," Spider-Man called. The man turned and looked up.
"The name's Electro, and I have no business with you," he replied, his voice sounding almost unearthly.
Spider-Man jumped off the tv screen and landed a few feet away from him.
"You walk into Times Square and start blowing up cars in that outfit, and say it's not my business," Spider-Man said.
"I just want the girl. Where is she?", Electro demanded.
"What girl?"
"Spider-Woman."
Confused, Spider-Man said, "Sorry, you can't have her."
Suddenly, the electic aura around Electro shot out at Spider-Man, only his spider-sense letting him avoid the attack, back-flipping out of the way. Electro's fists glowed, waiting, but he was too slow as Spider-Man hit him in an upper-cut, sending him flying onto the roof of a parked car.
Electro got off the car, scowling but unhurt, and charged at Spider-Man, who easily dodged his blows. Spider-Man got behind up and attached a webline to his foot, then jumped, pulling Electro with him. Many stories above the ground, Electro burned the web off his foot and shot two bolts at Spider-Man, only one of which he had time to avoid. He crashed through a window and into a building.
As he started to fall, Electro shot two bolts at the ground, the force propelling him back up and through the opening Spider-Man had created. Spider-Man had been knocked into a plaster wall, and the dust caused him to cough terribly, the mask only making it worse.
Electro fired bolt after bolt and he was barely able to dodge out of the way. Finally, one bolt glanced off his face, setting his mask on fire. Just like that day on the train, there was no time to think. He pulled his mask off, coughing.
Electro laughed as he came closer.
"Peter Parker," he said. The aura around his face faded for a moment. Max Dillon had gone to Peter's high school, and had graduated a year before him. Peter had seen Max on a few occations at the university. Once or twice, while MJ had been with him.
"Max," Peter said. The blue aura returned.
"Well, this is interesting. So the Midtown High science geek became a superhero. You'd better feel pretty damn heroic today, Parker. You know, my girlfriend is friends with MJ. She showed me her apartment once."
Peter glared at him.
"She's a nice girl. It would be a shame to lose her, wouldn't it?"
"What do you want," Peter growled.
"Tell Spider-Woman that I want to see her and repay her for taking my girlfriend away. She'll find me in front of the abandonned meat-packing factory on the East River. If you or the cops show up instead, I'll kill MJ. And just in case you try to warn her ahead of time, I'm going to go pay her a visit right now and keep her with me. I'll be there at 8:00."
Peter reached out to attack him, but he shot a bolt at the wall behind Peter. It fell on top of him, and Max took the opportunity to leave. Peter smashed through the wall and got up, screaming in frustration. By the time he got to the broken window, Max was gone.