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Webhead volume 19
'next week it will be Christmas! Man where does the time go!? Gwen's band: the mary janes (apparently the name was born out of desperation for a name and no one involved particularly like it…) have really took off student council is constantly begging gwen for them to play at EVERY school event, she's honestly been pretty busy but she needed the distraction besides it means I don't have to disappoint her as much being busy myself fighting lunatics still we could definitely use more alone time…. You know what's really REALLY weird? My standing with the cops, I have no idea if I'm a friend or still an enemy to them.'
At Gwen's house inside her garage the mary janes were once again hard at work practicing, they had just come up with a new song and were ironing out the kinks when glory spoke up in complete and utter frustration for a habit gwen had when practicing in her garage.
"Come on gwen we're in the middle of December, it's freezing out can't we close the damn door?!" Even MJ, who had been very considerate of whatever gwen felt ever since they became friends, HAD to speak up about it. "seriously girl what's the deal with the open garage? Worried about the acoustics or something?" But the sheepish answer gwen had was more than a little weird but at the same time understandable "well…. Actually staring into that blizzard out there reminds me that even though my life is a mess right now so is everyone else's and eventually it will clear up. Plus the cold just keeps me alert!" She added at the end enthusiastically almost like an afterthought to lighten the mood she created.
Peter was supposed to stop by Gwen's house later but first he needed to stop by the bugle and ask about a raise, he hasn't gotten to do much at the new oscorp job yet and he still doesn't know how much it pays so better safe than sorry. About a block away from the newspaper and media building he heard commotion at the nearby bank. Police already on the scene, he recognized captain dewolff and officer Davis, he also spotted detectives Terri lee and stan carter with some other guy with greying hair clearly annoyed with what looked like a permanent frown on his face, clearly not the friendliest guy there.
Since there was no chief watanabe there to wave her gun at him he freely swung in and set up his video camera on the way. When he lands in front of the vault he sees one of his most mockable foes blasting at the door. "Whoa dare partna what you think y'all doing tryina steal all that dare loot?" Spidey mocked the mustard and burgundy clad crook known as the shocker but the real shock was when he answered without any southern accent. "Whoa you're not Montana?! Who the hell are you?" The young vigilante asked while swinging all around the bank avoiding his sonic blasts not to mention the giant mess being made. "Montana's out bug! I'm the shocker now!" The man exclaimed in anger. Spidey stops Perched on a support beam when he comments "you call me bug too? Ah nothing like that original shocker nostalgia… so you work for kingpin too then?" But his only response was shocker blasting the part of the support beam right above him causing the whole thing to topple over on top of him as the shocker made his getaway.
Outside the bank when Spidey finally dug himself out he compares notes with dewolff when the angry cop from earlier charges up demanding Spiderman be arrested. "Sargent barbara stand down! Spider-man is not our enemy and we need his help to bring down this new shocker." Dewolff argued but the man, sargent barbara was definitely less than convinced "and I suppose that the chief would agree with you….? No? Didn't think so. You bet I'll be reporting your actions to her captain." As he angrily stalked away preparing to make a phone call Spider-man questioned the captains openness of their partnership and cautioned her before swinging off.
He arrived at the bugle to submit his Spidey footage and betty couldn't help but eagerly watch from outside j.j.s office when sports reporter ned leeds just sat on her desk trying to figure out why "the Spidey paparazzi kid" was so interesting to her. Ned was a guy with a very cantaloupe like complexion and very dirty, sandy blonde hair, he liked to think of himself as a ladies man for some reason….
"This footage is great parker! Spider thug getting double crossed by his partner during a bank robbery! Amazing! You'll get the usual, talk to betty she'll take care of it" "ummmm… actually mister jameson I'd like to talk to you about getting a raise…?" "A RAISE?! A RAISE FOR WHAT? FILMING SOME MASKED MENACE TRASHING A BANK AND GETTING HIS ASS KICKED?! LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING KID ANYBODY COULD HAVE GOT THAT FOOTAGE! YOU'RE NOT SPECIAL PARKER! (But then when he stops to consider it he realized no one else in his staff could) EH we'll see about it parker…."
FINALLY he made it to Gwen's but what he saw surprised him. not gwen and the band playing with the garage open to the cold December New York weather, he knew better than to question her quirks especially after everything she's been through besides those quirks are what make her who she is, no what surprised him was the audience they had which included Liz, mark and flash of all people.
"Hey flash what are you guys doing here?" He asked with a bit more hostility than probably necessary I mean sure flash has definitely mellowed out a lot this past year but still could be a dick. "Easy parker I'm not starting anything. We were driving by when we heard em, your girlfriend is a killer drumber for a dork but looks like she's trying to move past all that…." Granted gwen has a keen scientific mind she's not afraid to show, is a classic overachiever and she used to sport glasses and untamed hair Peter really didn't like flash saying anything that could insult her. 'making fun of me is one thing but you DON'T get to make fun of Gwen' "you know what Eugene it was nice of you to stop by but maybe you guys should get going…" Peter told them more than obviously annoyed, flash was about to lash out but Liz ushered him back to their car and took off.
Once practice was done and the others started to take off with glory praising her cars heating, Peter greeted his girlfriend but almost immediately his phone rang. "Hello? Mr. Osborn? But.. okay yeah alright I'll be right there. Ok bye sir." Throughout the short conversation Gwen's face fell more and more, the truth is with how busy they both were lately and all the other baggage that's piled up with them she was concerned for their relationship. "Sorry gwen looks like I gotta go but hey ramitas tonight? Say 7… ish?" She perked up a little at that "sounds good but if you can't make it can you please CALL. I don't want to sit around waiting all night mr. Parker." She stated firmly. he can't blame her on that, it's happened more than a few times before.
On his way swinging over to oscorp he saw something fly past him he never thought he would see… again. 'i really don't think that was falcon and there's no way that could be toombes since he's you know in a toomb, wow Liz was right that is too morbid. Anyway better see just what that is…' as he catches up to him he finds a man in very similar gear to the vulture only difference being a different color palette that AND a different guy using it of course. Rather than look like a sea sick green chicken man, this new vulture was in a sleek black and red suit with some flight goggles and helmet, something the old vulture never had. "Wow a new shocker and a new vulture in one day!? If there's a villain trade in special I vote sandman next, he just plain sucks." The wall crawler joked as he desperately tried to avoid harm coming to either of them but still trying to catch him much to his failure as this new vulture got away. 'those wings are much faster than the old ones, why do they always have to upgrade…. Oh damn I'm late!'
While Spider-Man was dealing with the vulture doctor otto octavius marched into the place of his former employment: oscorp. "Norman! I know you well enough to know you're up to something hiring parker like that and I for one….(but something in the office catches his eye) is that… my mechanical limb project…? You…. You…. You weaponized it?!" He exclaimed in so much anger he completely forgot why he came there in the first place, he also noticed another man in the room with them, he was a very tall and skinny man with bright blonde hair, he also appeared foreign. "Oh otto good to see you again. This is doctor jackson Arvad, he took over the project after you left." Norman says with what seems to be delight to the clearly distraught otto, his words only making otto angrier. "After I left…?! Osborn you fired me without cause, confiscated my research and disgraced my name! There is no way I'm going to let you pervert my work like this!" Norman went out of the office to call security when otto grabbed the metal limbed harness, however it jumped onto his torso like a magnet and started glowing brighter and brighter until….. BOOOOOOMMM! A bright and powerful explosion went off with Dr. Arvad and otto right at it's epicenter.
'i'm running so late gotta hurry up and get in there before I'm fired or something I…(boooommm) whoa! What was that?! Oh this is gonna be trouble, guess I won't be meeting gwen tonight after all…'
At around the same time across town in the police precinct run by captain dewolff sargent michael Barbara is on the phone "yeah boss the Captain's got an in with Spider-Man" and on the other line "good that will definitely come in handy for… the kingpin."
A/N well there you have it the birth of the Herman Shultz shocker, blackie draggo vulture, will o' the wisp and doc ock. Sargent michael Barbara is based off michael patakis' character of captain barbara from the 70s nicholas hammond tv show in case you didn't know and I made him on kingpins payroll…. Also I thought I'd mention that this story will be split into several arcs and separate stories. Until next time true believers!