SCOPE

Chapter 2

"High Speed Fight"

Here's the second chapter of my fanfiction. I wanted to say I'm sorry it took so long, but I had a few problems with my portable pc. Thank you for your review, thundercat!

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In a dark room, the light came from an only big window. There was a long rectangular table, and two man were sitting at the two extremities of it, face to face.

One of them looked about 40 years old, with long black hair and beard, and two blue bright eyes. He wore a polite grey jacket and a black tie over a white shirt. Behind him there were two menacing men, standing and both wearing sun glasses.

The other man was surely much older and totally bald, except for his black mustache. He wore a white coat. His eyes were hidden behind a pair of big round sunglasses.

The second one spoke first.

Bald man: "So, Mr. Tower, you asked for me?"

Tower: "Indeed, Dr Harrow. I wanted to know how far you have got with your work."

Harrow: "You asked me to do a big quantity of things, Mr Tower..."

Tower rised an eyebrow, and so Dr Arrow quikly added:

Harrow: "Of course, I can do the all of them, but I need time. And moreover, clonation is actually not my field..."

Tower (still not persuased): "You're a genetic scientist."

Harrow (patiently): "Yes, and as a matter of fact, my project about the super-soldier genes is progressing quickly, even though I'd need a bit more funds..."

Tower: "My men are taking care of money."

Harrow (rolling his eyes): "Yes, I'm sure they are."

Harrow (in his mind): 'But it seems that someone is preventing them from taking enough money...'

Harrow (concluding out loud): "Anyway, the thing is I'd need an assistent expert about clonation."

Tower: "I guess you already have someone on your mind..."

Harrow (grinning): "Actually I do"

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Connors: "A voice? Inside your head?"

Spider-man: "Yep. Any idea?"

Dr Connors and Spidey were in a little lab. In the room there was a bed and a lot of different medical tools.

Connors: "The only thing I could do for you is to check the resonance inside your brain to look for any external guest..."

Spider-man: "So, what are we waiting for, Doc?"

Connors made Spider-man lie on the couch, than he applied on his head a metallic helmet which was linked to a machine by a cable.

Spider-man: "Is this gonna hurt?"

Connors: "Sometimes you're such a crying baby!"

After about half an hour, Connors was studying the results of the analysis on a white paper, while Spidey was trying to recover from his head-ache.

Connors: "It seems you're totally normal, Spider-man."

Spider-man: "Thanks, this is the best compliment I recieve since about... a long time"

Connors: "I mean there's no strange presence inside your head"

Spider-man: "So what about that voice?"

Connors: "I doubt it came from the inside of your mind. I think someone tricked you"

Spider-man thought about it for a while, than he shrugged his shoulders.

Connors: "How many times did you hear this... "voice"?"

Spider-man: "Twice... the first time was two days ago, when I foiled a robbery in a bank..."

Connors: "I read about that on the News Papers..."

Spider-man: "On the News Paper you read I FAILED a robbery, which is different... and it wasn't a misprint"

Connors: "About the second time?"

Spider-man: "I was in the bathroom, doing my "thing", and then the voice said I would have survived that terrible experience"

Connors (smiling): "Be serious!"

Spider-man: "I was trying to stop two thiefs robbing a restaurant."

Connors: "And this voice could predict the future?"

Spider-man: "Not the future... I know it's hard to believe... but it or he can calculate in no time the percentage of probabilities of EVERY thing!"

Connors was silent.

Spider-man: "I'm not crazy!"

Connors: "That's not was I was thinking"

Spider-man: "Really? Odd, because that's what I would think if I were you"

Connors: "I don't think I can help you anymore. But maybe I know someone who could."

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New York, Manhattan, East side. A shadowy silouhette was lying on the ground, in an alley.

It seemed frozen, maybe dead. Then, with a moaning, it woke up, and tried to stand up on his feet again. That is, on HER feet, since after coming out of the shadows of the alley it was evident she was a woman. A blonde beautyful woman, wearing only a thin, long white hospital dress.

She started walking with difficulty, ignoring the people staring at her in disbelief.

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It was 09.00 p.m. when a web-headed hero came back to his flat tired and unsatisfied. Not even Connors's friend, Doctor Millighan, could help him.

Spider-man (on his mind): 'At least I didn't hear that voice today'

Voice: 'Hi!'

The shock almost made Spider-man fall from the window he was trying to open.

Voice: 'Did I scare you? Sorry!'

Spider-man: "Damn! Why are you haunting me?"

Voice: 'I just want to be useful. You can't rest yet. Someone needs you somewhere else'

Spider-man (yelling): "Why should I believe you?"

Aunt May's voice (coming from the inside of the flat): "Peter? Are you home?"

Voice: 'Because I've always been right before'

Aunt May opened the window from where he had heard her nephew's voice, then she looked outside. Nobody was in sight, so she walked back, perplexed.

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Spider-man swinged fast toward East side. It was dark and rain was pouring down, but this seemed not to be enough to slow down our hero, who however was in a really bad mood.

Spider-man: "I'm going to catch a cold, I'm sure of it. But pray you're right this time, too, or when I'll find you, I'll make you feel much worse than me!"

Voice: 'Turn right'

Spider-man: "To the museum?"

Voice: 'No, look over there'

Spidey focused on the street, and he saw a black armour-van surrounded by four police cars. A few citizens with an umbrella were walking on the sidewalk.

The hero in the blue and red suit landed on a roof from where he could look at the whole area.

Spider-man: "Well? I think that van already has enough escort..."

Voice: '9 possibilities out of 10 that it will be attacked on this street'

Spider-man looked at it carefully, but the van turned to another street without anything happening.

Voice: '4 possibilities out of 5 that it will be attacked in that new street'

Spider-man: "You know, I was waiting for you to be wrong for once..."

Right then, a familiar helicopter appeared from the sky, and four men grabbing a rope jumped from it to the van. Each of them had a massive gun in the other hand. Spider-sense rapidly alerted the wall crawler of the imminent danger, and he reacted on instinct.

But before he could reach the scene, one of the men on the armour van shot at the police car which was right behind. A yellow beam came out of the gun, and the car exploded. The driver of the van finally realized he was in danger, and he pushed harder the accellerator, squealing and trying to make the men on the roof of the van lose their balance. Meanwhile the resting three police cars got closer, and a police man showed his face from the window trying to talk to the unknown assaulters. The people on the street started screaming, terrified.

Police Man: "Get down or we'll fire on you!"

Assaulter #1 (pointing his gun on the police man): "Oh, come on..."

Spider-man: "You'd better listen to him! He has a distinctive!"

Spider-man had just landed on the roof of the armour van between the four bad guys, who in a first time were too shocked to move. Before giving them the time to react, Spidy spinned a web from both his hands directly to the gun of the firs thief (the one who was ponting it to the cop), stealing it from him. Then, whirling around his arms, he used the gun linked to his web to hit all four of the guys around him by doing a 360° full swing. The closer one fell from the van on the street, yelling as a desperate, another one lost his senses because of the hit, while the other two were stunned but kept on their feet, even if with difficulty. In that moment, Spider-man could finally focus on the clothes of the thieves. They wore a soldier-like green uniform, and a green mask. On their back their uniform had a mark... which looked like a dragon with many heads.

Finally, the two robbers who were still able to fight, regained their senses.

Robber #1: "Shoot at him! Kill him!"

Robber #2 (pointing his gun to Spider-man): "HEIL HYDRA!"

The green soldier shot, and that yellow beam appeared again. Spider-man avoided it by simply crouching down in his spider pose, but the beam hit a building making it explode. Big pieces of marble fell from the wall to the street, terrifying all the people on the sidewalk. They all breathed a sigh of relief when suddenly a spider web appeared and caught all those pieces before they could reach the ground and hit someone. Innocent people were safe, but the situation was getting hot: the armour van was still running on the street at a crazy speed with three passengers on his roof, Spider-man facing the two green guys who had very dangerous weapons, and moreover three police cars were running after them, and the cops in them were getting impatient, grabbing their guns but unsure about whom to shot at first. Rain kept on falling down.

Spider-man: "Hmm, guys, why don't we stop and talk about it in front of a cup of tea?"

Apparently, the thieves didn't want to talk about it (maybe they didn't like tea), so Spidy began to think frenetically about his next move.

Spider-man: "Think, Peter, think... wait, I have an idea!"

Voice: 'Concentrate, Peter, because you won't have a second chance'

Spider-man crossed his arms and spinned two webs: one with his right hand hitting the head of the bad guy on his left, and one with the left hand hitting the head of the bad guy on his right. Then the wall crawler hero opened his both arms, and consequently the two thieves hit their head against each other's. They fell both unconscoius.

The match seemed to be ended, but then a cop shot at our hero, forcing him to swing away fast. His collegue in the car yelled at him.

Cop #1: "What the hell did you do, you asshole?"

Cop #2: "But he was..."

Cop #1: "He was helping us out, couldn't you see!"

But Spider-man had already gone, so he couldn't listen at that conversation.

Spider-man (swinging back home): "Phew, that's the usual "thanks" for what I do!"

Voice: 'You did a good job'

Spider-man: "Great, it seems my only fan is a childish voice in my head that only I can hear..."

Spider-man was swirling in the air, on his way home, when he absent-mindedly looked belows, on the street, and saw a blonde girl, wondering among the crowd without an unbrella. Their eyes met each other's, and Spidy froze.

Spider-man: "G-Gwen?"

The girl looked at him with anger, then disappeared from Spider-man's sight.