It was pretty quiet in the library when Liz came charging making the usual group of friends pay attention as Liz skidded to a halt and calmly walked backwards
"Hey Liz what's up?" Gwen asked seeing that the girl was ultimately happier since she was affected by both Gabriel and the Venom symbiote one, Gabe was still a touchy subject though especially with what Harry had told Peter
"Girl's positively glowing with happiness" MJ said
"I got it! I got the part of Dusk" Liz said
"Awesome" Gwen said as the two girls hugged Liz
"The part?" Miles asked
"Oh yeah, I auditioned for the part of Dusk in that new show Slingers" Liz said
"Slingers?" Peter asked
"Oh yeah, they're a group of super powered teenagers helping to save the city of Neo-York from the evil Jack-O-Lantern" Liz said "And their mentor is"
"I DID NOT SIGN OFF ON THAT" Spiderman raged
"What happened?" Teresa asked not used to her brother ranting and raving
"Apparently that new show Slingers has chosen to use a fictionalised version of Spidey here for the team's mentor and of course he is not happy about it" Gwen said
"And the costume they chose, Red and Blue with a white spider symbol, going from the top of the boots to the base of the neck. Who has that?!" Spiderman said
"Over here" Anya said reading a teen magazine "Ouch, I don't think you're going to like who is playing Spiderman"
"Who?" Spiderman asked
"Tobias Hunter" Anya flinched
"THAT HACK!" Spiderman said shocked "It should have been Leo"
"Leo Donaldson?" Teresa asked
"Yeah" Spiderman said "Okay, time to end this"
"Wait" Anya said as she and Gwen suited up as Ghost Spider and Arana and took off after him
"You are not shutting down this project" Arana said
"Why not, did they ask permission?" Spiderman asked
"No" Ghost Spider said
"Then I'm shutting it down, or at least getting better credit" Spiderman said
"Can't you just take it up with the legal department?" Arana said
"And who would that be?" Spiderman asked
"We could check and find out!" Ghost Spider said
It was the first day of Liz's shooting since she was just cast as Cassie St Commons aka Dusk because of her original actress breaking her leg in three places. So she was walking to see Joe Pollina rock on stage, he was playing Johnny Gallo aka Ricochet, Dusk's love interest on the show, the other two actors were who Bobby Trencher played Ritchie Gilmore aka Prodigy and Mike DeZago who was playing Eddie McDonough, she noticed that Mike had a form of cerebral palsy in his right arm which he made fun of by joking about it
"Places please" the director called as the cast got ready for the first part of the shoot, which was a kissing scene straight out of the gate, Liz was placed up against a wall by Joe who tenderly held her chin and tilted it up
"Johnny, not here" Liz said
"When Cassie, huh beside who one's looking" Joe said
"What about when Ritchie and Eddie come, or worse Prof Webber?" Liz asked
"Who cares about them" Joe stated leaning in and kissing Liz while sliding his hand up her thigh about to reach her skirt
'And cue Prof Webber' the director said as their teacher was suppose to walk in but didn't which confused everyone 'Where is Tobias"
"Please don't hurt me" Tobias Hunter said he was dangled by Spiderman, who looked mighty pissed even under the mask.
"I'm not going to hurt you, much" Spiderman said
"SPIDERMAN!" a familiar voice said making him look down to see Felicia standing there with a shocked look on her face "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
"Having a chat?" Spiderman smiled
"Put, him, down!" Felicia said
"Okay" Spiderman said lowering the actor to the ground before he stood in front of her, sighing she grabbed him by his costume and dragged him off, once they were out of sight, Felicia turned to him
"What was that?" she asked
"That was me, defending me" Spiderman said
"Okay, I know he's not exactly the best actor" Felicia said
"And they didn't ask if they could use my hero identity" Spiderman said
"Which is technically public domain, I could be wrong" Felicia stated
"I thought I was affiliated with SHIELD" Spiderman said making Felicia rub her head before looking at her boyfriend "You smell nice"
"Thanks" Felicia said "Anyway we have to get back to the set and have him film his scenes, and then if you like I can take you to legal so you can have a talk with them"
"Sounds good" Spiderman said before his spider-sense flared up
"Spider-sense?" Felicia asked
"Yeah, and there is only one person I know of who could set it off here" Spiderman said checking his tracking software and he frowned "So he is here"
"Who?" Felicia asked
Quentin Beck was wandering around the set looking like one of the cast mates, unknown to everyone else who he was, he was currently rigging up some lights and making sure the equipment was safe before walking away whistling. Ghost Spider looked over and became alarmed.
"What is he doing here?"
"Who?" Arana asked before spotting the threat "Shit, this shoot could be in danger" Arana said
"I agree, we should check all of the equipment" Ghost Spider said
"But first we have to warn the director" Arana said
"Good idea" Ghost Spider said
"Come on, where are you?" Spiderman asked
"Any luck?" Black Cat said adjusting her costume, since she had to rush to put it on
"No, we have to find him an soon" Spiderman said before his spider-sense went off, he looked around and saw Mysterio messing around with a couple of costumes. "DOWN THERE!"
"I got him" Black Cat said throwing her grappling hook at the former special effects maker, who created a portal and rushed through she looked back at Spiderman who had his tracking program up trying to find Mysterio, only to shake his head "Damn it, okay I'll speak with the director about this, meanwhile you better check out those costumes" Black Cat said leaping away
"Got it" Spiderman said as he quickly hid to change into Peter Parker and leapt down before he pulled out his camera and started to take pictures while looking for something that was not out of the ordinary, though he did admit the costume looked pretty cool, but he had to pause at the man of one of them "Night Monkey, which hero is that one?" he asked before he looked around the set with a press pass he had brought along
"Getting any good shots?" Liz asked
"Yeah I am" Peter said before looking around, he frowned when he saw the villain's choice of transport "Hey Liz, this character the Jack O-Lantern"
"Yeah, I asked as well and it was confirmed, the actually redesigned him to resemble Green Goblin" Liz said sighing
"That was not a good day" Peter said taking a picture of the villain costume, he then moved to look at the civilian clothes.
"Yeah, so what do you think of Tobias Hunter playing Spiderman?" Liz asked
"Should have been someone like Leo Donaldson, Todd Crews heck Andrew Stone would have been better then Tobias Hunter" Peter said
"What about Tommy Webber?" Liz asked
"He'd be good if they were focusing on Spiderman himself" Peter said "And not this future stuff, and Neo-York?" he asked
"Its apart of the back story" Liz said
"Excuse me, I'm looking for Legal" Teresa said as she walked into an office area
"That would be me, how can I help you" a voice said
'they hired Jen Walters for the series?' Teresa though "I'm Teresa Parker, I work for Spinneret and her team; which happens to includes Spiderman" she said
"I realise that, and since Spinneret is a SHIELD agent you're concerned with us making this series with Spiderman as a character even though we failed to ask, well you see until we knew about Spiderman being affiliated with SHIELD he was public domain as it were" Jen said "And you think this is all bullshit don't you"
"Pretty much, now how much will Spiderman be getting from this production?" Teresa asked acting like the agent she was
"5% cut, but since we don't know who he is we'll be holding on to it, until he can do so" Jen said
"SHIELD will take it and give it to him, since we know his identity" Teresa said
"And what if we don't?" Jen asked feeling a slight draft in the room
"They you'll be shut down faster than I can close this book, She-Hulk" Fury said suddenly appearing reading a law book
"Hello Nick, what can I do for you today?" Jen asked
"Mysterio, he was here just before Jen, and you and Agent Parker here missed him" Fury said snapping the book shut "And I can now see why" Fury said
"Sorry sir" Teresa said
"I agree" Jen said
"No worries, now we have to smoke this smoke and mirrors using bastard out into the light" Fury said
Felicia was walking around with a baton in her hand ready to use while she was looking for Mysterio when Peter walked up to her
"Anything?" Felicia asked
"No" Peter said looking at his phone to try and use the tracer program to locate the villain. Suddenly Peter's Spider-sense went off as they saw the character of Jack-O-Lantern
"Okay, that was weird" Felicia said
"Why?" Peter asked
"Before that was William O'Forrester and he's not suppose to be on set until this afternoon" Felicia said while Peter looked at the tracker "so why is he here"
"That's our target, Anya Gwen we've got Mysterio" Spiderman said
"On our way" Anya said
Arana and Ghost Spider jumped down and looking around
"What are we looking for?" Ghost Spider asked
"The character Jack-O-Lantern, that's who Mysterio is disguised as, and be careful Mysterio could have rigged the suit with extra dangers" Spiderman said
"Got it" Arana said before she dodged a flaming pumpkin "Okay drop the act Mysterio!" she shouted
"Oh dear, its seems I have been found out" Mysterio said before ending his illusionary disguise before throwing the bombs
"Didn't Peter say he was fired from his last on set job for faulty pyrotechnics?" Arana asked
"Yeah he did" Ghost Spider said as the two spiders were about to attack when Liz grabbed a pole and raced in and smacked it against the helmet of Mysterio which bounced off with a small pop sound. The illusionist turned around and kicked the girl back, giving the two spiders the advantage on attacking him. They webbed up his feet and pulled them out from under him making him fall to the ground, only to have a gate open up and him go through before closing it, cutting the web off
"Activating the tracing program" Ghost Spider said
"Anything?" Arana asked
"Give it time" Ghost Spider snapped
"Damn Spiders" Mysterio said before Spiderman and Black showed up "How many more of you are there?"
"A couple" Spinneret said
"Quentin Beck , we meet again" Jen said
"Jennifer Walters, I didn't think I would ever see you again" Mysterio said
"Well you had faulty pyrotechnics, so you had to be booted off" Jen said "So why are you here?"
"What do you think, I'm here to barbecue Sammy Ryker!" Mysterio said
"Wait Sam Ryker is working this?" Spiderman asked
"You didn't know?" Arana said
"NO!" Spiderman said as Mysterio tried to slink away, only to be stopped by Spiderman who yanked him back "Where are you going?"
"NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!" he shouted firing an energy blast at Spiderman who was hit and tossed back,
"Think again" Spinneret kicking Mysterio in the back before the magician opened another gate and stepped through it, The two spiders quickly fired their webs at the villain, who quickly closed the portal before they could get him
"Damn it" Spinneret said
"He'll be back; he'll always be back" Spiderman said as he glared at the place where
"So you're okay with this now?" Arana asked as they were watching the filming of a new action scene involving the characters fighting in a burning warehouse with the villain acting full evil
"I guess, but at least they're giving me some credit" Spiderman said
"And they did kind of fix the costume" Ghost Spider said showing the new costume was now mostly black with red on the face and chest and the white full body spider was now a black spider that only covered the red section of the chest, they had written a scene where the old suit was destroyed. The trio of webslingers were enjoying the filming when the director yelled cut causing the actors to loosen up their bodies and then going to their chairs to watch the footage of what they just shot
"Why is it every time we come up against Mysterio we never beat him and even when we do he pulls a slippery eel and escapes?" Arana asked
"I'm not sure; but I have a bad feeling about it" Spiderman said
G'day Guys Grizz here well, I'm not going to kid around and say, yes this chapter has been inspired by the recent MCU/Sony movie deal breakdown, plus the team called the Slingers were an actual thing in the comics with each one being a back up alias for Spiderman when something bad happen. Now most of the actors brought up in relation to the 'show' have were named around Actors linked to the Spiderman movies, expect the actors playing the Slingers outside of Liz who are named after their creators, now if this concept seems similar that is because I kind of borrowed it from cornholio4 who uses it in his recent Spiderman fic so go check that out
and until next time I'll catch you on the flipside