A/N: Well hello again everybody. I hope everyone's been having a great life since last update. It's snowing again where I live and I'm hating it. Thanks to all those who gave reviews and I have to dedicate this chapter to Johnny Beatz.


The Last Sunrise

Ben's eyes opened slowly and looked around the room and looked down at Gwen. Her head rested on his lap. He smiled and shook her shoulder lightly. She turned. "Just five more minutes Mom." Gwen said. Ben laughed quietly.

"It's Ben babe." he replied. Gwen opened her eyes and sat up in the seat she sat in. She kissed him softly on the cheek.

"What time is it?" she asked. Ben glanced up at the clock on the wall. The small hand was almost on the five and the large minute hand rested on the nine.

"4:45." he replied. "15 more minutes." She smiled at him and stood up. She slightly stretched her arms and legs.

"I'm gonna walk around the airport for a few minutes Ben." she said. "I'll be back in a few." Ben nodded in hearing what she had just said. He walked up to the counter where the woman had stood last night. Now she was replaced by a rather stout man. His head was shaved and he had glowing green eyes.

"How can I help you sir?" he asked.

"Yeah, my flight was canceled last night and I need these tickets exchanged for the next flight to my destination." Ben replied. "It's flight 815."

"Ah yes." he replied. "If you take it down to terminal F," the man pointed down the hallway to a far off terminal. Ben could barely see the large sign for the terminal that had the letter 'F' on it. "You'll be able to exchange your tickets there and boarding begins in 10 minutes so I advise you to get going." Ben nodded and walked back to the empty seat. Gwen still wasn't back and he wasn't going to leave without her. He walked briskly through the airport looking for her. Finally he found her coming out of a bathroom.

"We need to get going." he said. Ben looked up at the clock 4:42. He grabbed Gwen by the shoulder and slightly pulled her to Terminal F. A minute had passed by the time the two got there. Ben walked up to the counter and explained the situation and after three minutes the new tickets were printed out and given to the two. Two hours later the plane touched down in Denver. Ben and Gwen got up and walked off the plane slowly. Their next flight left in 20 minutes and they had to rush to the terminal. Even though it was almost seven in the morning the airport was still as busy as Newark would be at noon during the summer when all the families were flying in and out of New York. An hour and a half later the plane from Denver landed in San Diego. The passengers on the plane moved slowly to get out of the plane. Ben had gone through at least three air-sick bags on the flight out here.

"You can swing around New York at heights of 100 feet at nearly 100 miles per hour but you can't fly in a plane for one and a half hours and not get air sick?" Gwen whispered to him.

"Well there's a big difference Gwen." he replied. The two walked to the baggage terminal and waited for the three suitcases they had packed to show up and the luggage belt. Two and a half of those bags had belongings of Gwen. They were photo albums, jeans, shirts, blouses, skirts, shoes, and another lime green jacket in them. Ben had shaken his head at this fact and laughed slightly when he saw the three jet black luggage bags coming towards them. He grabbed them off the belt and picked up two.

"You know they have wheels on them Ben." she said. "You don't have to show off your strength." Ben shook his head slightly and put them back down. He pulled out the handles that you would hold onto to roll the bags around. Ben and Gwen dragged one each while Ben carried the third. "Well you'll finally get to meet my old friends sweety."

Ben chose not to say anything but continued to walk through the airport.

New York City

Peter, MJ, and Mayday Parker all woke up in their beds in the apartment in which they lived in. A slight crash of glass came from Ben's room. Mayday got up and opened the door. A woman with long black hair down to her butt looked at the little girl but jumped out the window. Mayday ran to the window and looked out. The woman flew off into the sky towards the blinding sun. Mayday said nothing and did nothing. She was too afraid.

Ben and Gwen drove through the city in a crimson colored Corvette towards the hotel in which they were staying at. Gwen walked up the stairs of the hotel to the fifth floor and used the key to open up the room. Behind her Ben lugged up the stairs as he carried the bags. "Would you stop making yourself look like such a wimp Ben?" she asked.

"Whatever." Ben replied as he rolled his eyes.

Several Weeks Later

The two newlyweds returned to New York in the middle of the week in May and tomorrow Ben would be graduating from ESU. He was majoring in molecular biology. He had taken chemistry in an effort to hopefully using both to help him in a project he planned on working on later that year. He would one day give up donning his mask as the red-and-blue clad vigilante that protected the citizens of New York. He stood atop the Empire State Building and looked out at the city. A warm spring breeze lofted through the evening air and the smells of pizza and other foods drifted through the air. Ben dove off the side of the building and plummeted several hundred feet before spinning a web. He yanked on the web and went sailing through the air. He knew that he couldn't ignore the crime but he had to be at his graduation. He heard a scuffle below him. He latched himself onto the side of a building above a dark alley. He looked down on two thugs mugging a woman.

"Hey there." he said smugly from above. "Hope you don't mind if I drop in." He dropped down on one of the thugs as he said this and the thugs head hit against the hard cement ground. Ben looked over at the other one and punched him in the gut. He spun web around the two and handed the woman her purse back. "There you go ma'am."

"Thank you Spider-Man." she replied. He nodded and shot a web and he went sailing back up into the air. The sun was on the horizon and it glowed with an orange tint. The sky was slightly pink and Ben knew it was high time to get back to his dorm. He jumped behind a bush behind the science building and stuffed his suit into a bag and he walked back to his dorm with one of the straps slung over his shoulder.

"Hello Ben." Doctor Connors said. Ben turned around and faced him. "I see that you're graduating tomorrow."

"Yes Doctor Connors." he replied.

"Micro biology right?" he asked.

"And chemistry." he replied. Dr. Connors smirked slightly.

"Don't see how you managed it Ben." he said. "I honestly don't know." He shook his head as he walked away. The next morning the sun hung slightly in the sky and Ben looked out the window and slipped the suit on. He shot a web out of the window of his dorm and slung off. He looked down on the campus and shot another web and pulled on it slightly and it sent him sailing through the air somewhat faster. A young woman from England sat in a coffee shop a few miles away. She went be the name Catherin Marie Rogers. She came for one reason. To kill Spider-Man. It was her destiny to kill him. Little did she know that Ben was Spider-Man not Peter.

It was high noon and Ben stood on the campus behind a large stage that had been set up for the graduation ceremony. He and Franklin chatted while waiting for the ceremony to start. "So how's Jacqueline?" Ben asked.

"She's ok." Franklin replied. "I'm just a bit worried about what happened to her after Galactus attacked her is all."

"Yeah well it's not every day a 100 foot alien ravager attacks New York." Ben replied.

"True." Franklin looked around through the crowd. "Have you seen Normy Ben?"

"Nope." he replied. "Maybe he's just forgotten about it."

"It's not like him to forget things like this Ben." the blond haired 21 year old male replied. "I mean, it's not everyday you get a degree from one of the top colleges in the United States." Music started in the background and the dean started the same speech he read every year. An hour later the name Ben Parker was announced through the microphone and was spat out through the speakers around the stage. A jeer came from the crowd from Gwen, MJ, Peter, Sarah, Aunt May, Mayday, Johnny Storm, Ben Grimm, and Sue and Reed Richards.

Ben walked up the steps onto the stage and was handed his diploma by the dean. Ben smiled and waved to the crowd and walked off slowly. There was a loud crash and an explosion lit the sky. Ben's head shot up and he ran behind the stage quickly. He ran towards a nearby chapel and pulled the graduation robe off to reveal the suit and he pulled his mask on. He shot a web up and he went crashing through a stained glass window.

Reed, Sue, Ben, and Johnny were already near the crash and were scoping out the damage when Ben arrived. A rather tall and slim woman wore the costume that Spider-Woman, or Jessica Drew as she was known by now, stood in the middle of the street. She held a man by the collar of his shirt and shot a venom blast from her finger. She then threw the man towards a building as if he was a piece of garbage. "Shit." Ben muttered. The man was dead and paramedics stood around him trying to revive him. Far above long locks of platinum blond hair blew in the wind.

"Black Cat." he thought. She jumped from atop the building and somersaulted through the air. She landed softly on her feet.

"Started the party without me Spider?" she asked. She cocked her eyebrow and grinned mischievously as she asked this.

"I didn't." he replied. "Ms. Iron Woman over there did."

"Well I hope she doesn't mind if I crash the party." she grinned. She ran towards the woman and struck her in her stomach with as much force as possible. The woman in the Spider-Woman costume lost her footing and was forced back several feet.

"Is that all you have?" she laughed. "Or are you going to make this a real contest."

"What makes you so confident missy?" Black Cat asked.

"Well the fact I don't look like a dyke in a costume." she replied with a grin.

"You bitch." she replied. The Black Cat struck her again and the woman blocked it. They were soon engaged in hand to hand combat.

"So what can I call you little girl?" the woman asked. She picked Black Cat up and threw her several feet up in the air and rose up into the air and punched her. She smiled. The Black Cat lost her breath for a few seconds but whirled around in the air and kicked her under her jaw and sent her head flailing backwards.

"Cat," she replied. "Black Cat." She grinned as she landed back on both of her feet on the ground. "And what about you?" The woman landed.

"Spider-Woman." she replied with a grin.


A/N:
And that's all for this chapter. I already have the next parts, as in part three's, first six to eleven chapter names picked out, so there's only one chapter left in this one and I'm considering doing a spin-off from Catherin. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Also I wasn't trying to offend anyone with the use of 'dyke'.