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Sapphire Spider is my personal character. Everything about Sapphire is mine. This plot is also mine. It's basically a Spider-man 3, Daredevil 2 combination with my character.

I do not claim any of the Marvel characters at all. Although I have altered Eddie Brocks character a bit. He isn't the blond haired, blue eyed man like in the comics, but then again, this is supposed to be like a movie. A few of the characters didn't look exactly like their comic versions. My slightly altered version also has Spanish relatives, so you can expect to see some Spanish in this story. (I will translate some of it.)

Um, If I think any of the chapters are going to be very violent or anything, I will put a warning at the top of the chapter of what the chapter contains.

With that said, enjoy this chapter.

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Chapter 2. The Stunning Sapphire Spider.

"Spider-Man: Threat or Menace?" the headlines screamed.

The young woman reading the Daily Bugle chuckled to herself. "Is he ever going to stop?" she said out-loud as she tucked her sandy brown hair behind her ear.

"Dunno Misty, whatever makes him happy. You getting a Bugle today?" replied a chubby man sitting behind the newspaper stand.

"No." she replied with a sigh. "I have business I need to get done today. Bye Sam." She said as she turned and walked away.

As she strolled down the street, she looked around at the city. Cars hummed by and people weaved in and out of each other like a swarm of bees. Towering buildings and skyscrapers served as the streets fortress. A construction worker sat on some porch steps eating a sandwich while he listened to the weather on his portable radio.

"Sunny for day today and tomorrow with a high of 45 . Clouds rolling in Friday, carrying that expected snow storm over the city. High of 32 . For Saturday, temperatures continue to drop with a high of 21 . The snow storm should start sometime Saturday evening and end sometime Sunday night. Temperature will drop to whopping three degres Sunday night. Citizens are advised to stay indoors during the storm as..."

The meteorologist's voice faded as Misty starred up at the clear, sunny sky. It was the same sky anywhere you went, yet somehow it wasn't the same as the sky back home. She pulled up the collar of her tan trench coat to block her neck from the chilly wind that was starting to blow. She sighed as she thought about her home.

A very small place surrounded by leafy green hills. Woods all around. Railroad tracks that traveled parallel to a flowing crystal creek. About fifteen houses on one side of the creek, the other side had about three more houses and a church with a small park. Small animals scurried about the end of her family's property, nibbling at the plants in their garden. Wild flowers grew every where. And at night, the stars were as clear as diamonds against the dark sky. She loved New York, but nothing could replace the peace, quietness, and beauty of nature she had at home.

Suddenly something collided into her, knocking her to the ground, and forcing her thoughts back to reality.

"Oh, sorry!" a voice exclaimed apologetically. She looked up to find a young man already bent over to help her up. She looked at him for a moment, and realized he was just the person she wanted to see. "Are you alright?" he asked as he grabbed her arm to help her up. "I'm sorry, I . . . I guess I wasn't watching where I was going." he apologized.

"No, it was my fault." she said as she stood up and brushed herself off. She looked back at the the young man and smiled. Peter Parker . . . she thought. "I needed to talk to you anyway."

A bewildered expression covered his face. "Uh . . . me?" he asked in a confused tone. He didn't recall meeting this woman before. In fact, he didn't even think he had ever seen her before.

She smiled. "Yes, my names Mi..."

Suddenly she was cut off by a loud shriek and series of rapid gunfire. They both turned and watched a couple of thieves dart out of a nearby bank and take off down the street with sacks of money slung over their shoulders. A third robber soon sprang form the bank with a sack, shooting at the people inside. Misty turned back to Peter, but he was gone. A shadow passed over her and she glanced up. A red and blue figure swung from what appeared to be a long strand of spider-web.

"Go get 'em Sidey!" someone in the crowd shouted. Misty watched him swing after the crooks, and an exited smile curled around her face. She turned the opposite way and ran off.

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Eddie Brock sauntered down the noisy streets of New York City. Commotion went on all around him, but he paid no attention. Instead, his dark-brown eyes scanned the surrounding buildings. Nothing... He sighed and ran his fingers through his thick raven hair. How does that Parker kid do it? This guy pops up everywhere but it's like he's invisible! He gave his eyes a rest and looked down at the ground. That Spider-Man's gonna cost me my job before long. I haven't been able to get a good story lately because he's front page news. I can't sell any pictures of him because I can't find him. I have to work part time as a janitor at the gym just to have money to pay for the rent. A janitor! Ann seems to be getting frustrated with me. Big surprise, I'd like to find one person who isn't. He looked back up at the sky. Well, all this complaining isn't helping me find him any faster.

Suddenly a series of screams and gunshots rang through the air. Eddie turned towards the sound and watched a red and blue figure quickly swing behind a far off building. Now that's more like it! He pulled out his camera and ran to catch up with the webbed super hero. As he ran, he felt his arm accidentally hit someone. He glanced back to see who he hit, and slowed down once he seen who. A woman with bright blue eyes stared back at him. Her wavy sand brown hair hovered about an inch above her tan trench coat. A white blouse and black slacks appeared behind her trench coat as she turned completely around to face him.

The man who bumped into her stopped running for a moment. His coal black eyes stared into hers. His long, bushy raven black hair was combed strait back, falling behind his ears to the middle of his neck. It seemed to capture the suns golden rays. He wore a bulky black leather jacket and blue jeans. He stared at her for a moment, then shook his head and started to run down the street again, soon disappearing into the crowd. She turned back around and started to move again too. Come on Misty, you've got a job to do, and you made a promise. This is no time to be getting distracted. She glanced back for a moment. Besides, he's probably got a girlfriend anyway. She found a vacant part of the street and disappeared into an alley.

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The two crooks darted into a dark alley and hid behind a few large dumpsters. They chuckled as they gasped for air. One of the crooks dropped a sack of money on the ground and opened it up. There was so much money on one bag! He smiled as he grabbed a handful of cash. The boss wouldn't miss a few hundred dollars. He chuckled as he stuffed it into his coat pocket. The other man stared at him and removed his ski mask.

"Jack, what are you doing! If the Kingpin finds out..."

"Aw, what's one handful? The guy's probably one of the richest men in New York anyway. Besides, a robbery in the middle of the day, Spider-Man swinging around, I think we deserve a little bonus." he replied as he closed up his bag. "Where's Jordan? He should have gotten here by now."

"He's a little 'tied-up' right now." a voice called from above them. The crook without his ski mask looked up and stumbled back. Jack swore under his breath and slowly gazed up at the newcomer. Spider-Man sat on the wall above them and seemed to smile down at them. Jack supposed if he could see Spider-Man's smile, it would be very smug. But he couldn't tell. Spider-Man's mask hid any emotion that the man behind it would normally be showing.

He quickly pulled out his gun and aimed it at the smug super hero, but before he could pull the trigger, a wall of sparkling blue spider webs shot around him and his partner. Startled, his partner screamed and fell backwards into it, pulling the entire cocoon down onto them. Within seconds they were wrapped in layers of hard, sticky blue webs, struggling to break free. Spider-Man sat there for a moment and stared at them, dumbfounded at what just happened.

"Sorry to steal your fun for today, but I need to talk to you." a female voice said from above him.

He spun around and gazed up at woman in a full-body costume standing on the same wall he was on. Her gloves and boots were black with the shape of a spider crawling up at the ends. Her mask was black as well, with a spider-head at her collar bone, and four spider-legs going across her chest. The rest of her costume was a unique bright-blue color. The lenses in her mask were blue mirror-tinted. Gossamer material hung form her arms, like broken old spider-webs hanging form a tree branch. "Um, hi. Where did you come from?" he asked as he stared at her.

"I'm very quiet and stealthy. It's easy for me to sneak around," she said as she started walking down the wall towards him. He watched her talk towards him, unable to avert his attention from her unique costume. She stopped and cleared her throat, loud enough for him to hear. He snapped out of it and turned his gaze up at her face, or mask in this case.

"That should hold them until the boys in blue get here. Mind if we go somewhere a little more private and talk?" she asked in a friendly tone.

Spider-Man stared at her for a moment. "Um, who are you again?" he asked, a little confused on what he should do.

"I am the Sapphire Spider," she answered in a proud tone. "I'll explain everything in a minute, come on."

She leapt onto the building across from them and started to crawl up it. Spider-Man glanced back down at the thugs, who were still struggling and cursing under their breath. The webbing they were in looked hard and sparkled like a giant sapphire.

"Don't worry about them, not much can break my Sapphire Strands." she called down.

"Sapphire Strands? It's not some kind of webbing?" he asked looking back up at her.

"No, not really. I'll explain everything when there's not an audience listening." she said as she started back up the wall.

Not knowing what to think, he cautiously followed her.

Eddie Brock dashed down the street, then stopped and backed up to an alley way. He watched as a red and blue figure just disappeared above a building. " Maldición!" he hissed under his breath. He looked around and spotted the two frantic thugs still struggling against the thick blue trap. He stared at it as he walked up closer. This doesn't look like Spider-Man's usual webbing. He looked around, making sure no one else was close by, and smiled. No Parker, huh? What a shame. Looks like I'll be breaking his little "front page" record. He held up his camera and started taking pictures.

Spider-Man jumped onto the ledge of a tall building. He looked around for the female super-hero he had been following. He found her leaning against a stone gargoyle on the side of a nearby building. He swung up closer and stopped on a building a few feet away from her. "Ok. So, who are you? And what was all that back there?" he asked.

"I'm called the Sapphire Spider. I'm a super-hero, but I'm not really from around here. I came to New York a few years ago for . . . personal reasons. I doubt I'll have to explain to you the duties and such of a super hero." she replied.

"You're a super-hero who's been here for a few years, and you're not publicly known?"

"What I've been doing has been pretty secret. I've only recently let myself become a little more known to the public. Anything I've done before has either been out of costume, or at night. And when I did have the costume, I got my work done quickly and quietly." she said as she propped her head up on her arm.

"Why so secret?"

She stared at him for a moment, then answered him with a sarcastic tone. "Well, the newspapers really convinced me that I need to jump around during bank robberies and super villain rampages. Ya' know what I mean?"

He chuckled a bit. "Yeah, I know what you mean." Then he was quiet for a moment.

"But no, I've been secretive because I've been trying to catch someone. I wouldn't mind going public again. At least they'd all know my name. You have no idea how many times I've been called Spider-Woman, Spider-Girl, a blue spider, girl, and other 'unpleasant' little names. There have been a few occasions I've been mistaken for Spider-Man." she said cheerfully.

He chuckled. "Sapphire Spider, huh? What kind of powers do you have?"

She moved away from the gargoyle and started to walk up the wall again. "Well, my ability to stick to surfaces is one of my powers. I can heal myself. Very quickly if there's not too many wounds and I concentrate. My Sapphire Strands, as you seen back there, are another one of my powers. Now, it's not really webbing, it's more like strands of sticky sapphires." She looked over at the gargoyle and raised her hand to it. Suddenly a web of shimmery blue strands grew from the gargoyles neck and hung to it's feet. She waved her hand, making the web break free and hover in midair. "I can make my strands appear anywhere I want, and I can move them with my mind." She moved her hand, and the web followed obediently. She raised her other hand, and more strands appeared in midair. She moved her hands in a slow and gentle motion, and the strands clumped together into one sparkling ball. Each time she moved her hands, the ball took a new shape. "I can also turn them into about whatever shape I want. I can make a net, shield, projectiles, rope, almost anything. If I concentrate, I can make it light enough to be a parachute or float. And it's hard enough to cut through rock and some metal." She moved her hands towards Spider-Man. The sapphire gently floated into his hands. He looked down and watched it disintegrate into dust, then disappear. "Environmentally safe." she said cheerfully.

He looked back up at her. "Wow. And I thought my webbing was something."

"There are some other powers I haven't had much practice with yet. All my powers work with concentration. I have to keep my mind focused. The only exception would be sticking to walls, and limited healing." she said as she jumped down beside him. "But enough about that. What I wanted was to ask if you could help me."

"Help you?"

"Yes. I'm trying to catch a crime lord known as the Kingpin."

"Kingpin? Didn't they catch him already?"

"He has the best everything and anything money can buy. They let him out or something. Anyway, he's back, and he has some new men patrolling the streets. They call themselves the Enforcers. There are three of them. One is all muscle, one uses a whip, and the other carries guns. They've been causing a lot of trouble lately. And . . . in one incident, there were supposedly four of them."

"Four?" he asked.

"Yes. An eye-witness at one of their big attacks said that they seen four of them. This one had long robotic arms that he was using to demolish the crime scene. The Enforcers called him their boss's 'new weapon'. Word on the street was that Kingpin hired a bunch of scientists to make some kind of control chip for a new weapon he found. Something he found washed up on a bank."

Spider-Man stared at her for a moment. "Was it . . ."

"Dr. Octavius." she said in a serious tone.

Spider-Man felt his heart stop. Dr. Octavius? Alive? But he . . . He looked back at Sapphire. "What happened to him?"

"I don't know. But I figured you would know how to handle him." she answered.

"He's not a bad guy. Something must have happened to him."

"He's not?" she asked, a bit surprised.

"No. His mechanical arms were accidentally fused to him in a lab accident. The chip he used to control the arms was destroyed, and the arms took control of him. He tried to rebuild his dream, but it would have destroyed the city. He finally regained control and sacrificed himself to save everyone. I thought he was gone." he replied.

"Hm. Maybe he survived and they took control again. Or maybe Kingpin is. Why else would he make a control chip? Whatever the case, he was helping the Enforcers break into another crime lord's place and murder him. No one seen them do it, so it won't be in the papers yet. I got the information from one of Kingpin's men. He was the eye-witness at the scene."

Spider-Man said nothing. He appeared to be lost in thought. "Will you help?" she asked softly. "Maybe we can bring him back." she said. He looked back at her and nodded. She stuck her fingers into her boot and pulled out a small card. "If you need to contact me, here's my cell." she said as she handed him the card.

He looked down at the card, then back at her. "What if I can't get ahold of you?"

"Don't worry, I'll find you." she said a bit smugly.

BEEP! BEEP!

She pulled down her glove and looked at her watch. "Oh, I have to go. I have a meeting to be at." She quickly walked towards the edge of the building. "Just call me if you find anything. And be careful. The Kingpin doesn't take kindly to people who interfere with his plans."

"Alright. Any idea on what he's planning on doing with Dr. Octavious?"

"I don't know, but if I find anything out, you'll be the first to know. See ya later Spidey!" She leapt off the building and landed on another across the street. Spider-Man watched as she leapt from building to building until she disappeared completely. She apparently didn't use her strands to travel. All she had to do was jump and she made it across three buildings in one bound. He walked to the edge of the building and crawled down the wall. Octavius. . .what happened to you now? I've gotta try and help find him. I have to try and bring him back. He jumped over to where he left his camera and pulled it out of its webbed perch. Then he quietly snuck over to a shadowy corner to check up on the crooks. The police had already removed them from most of the sapphire fortress, but a lot of it still hung from their face and clothes. It almost looked like they had to be cut out of it. He stayed quiet as he listened to a few police talking.

"This is the ninth time this week!" one man said.

"Is it Spider-Man?" another asked.

"I don't think so. This stuff is blue, and a lot harder." another answered.

"Were there any witnesses?" a rather chubby man asked.

"Nope. Whoever it is, they must like their privacy. They've been catching these crooks for weeks, but no one's caught a name. A couple people say this one wears a black and blue costume." a man with a bushy mustache said.

"What kind of name is Jameson gonna give this one?" the chubby man asked sarcastically.

"Her name is Sapphire Spider." Spider-Man said out loud. Jameson was sure to hear about this now. He couldn't imagine what all names JJ would come up for her.

The man with the moustache adjusted his hat as he looked up at Spider-Man. "You know her?"

"Kinda. She caught these guys. Make sure Jameson gets her name before he prints anything off. I don't think she want's New York to call her anything else." he replied.

The man snickered. "Sure. Heaven knows what that man will come up with."

"Know anything else about her?" the chubby man asked.

"Nope." he replied as he smiled beneath his mask.

"Anything else you have to say?"

"Not really."

"Well then, you better go. We have to finish up here." he said as he turned back to the crooks.

"You mean you're not going to try and arrest me?" Spider-Man asked.

The man with the moustache looked up at him and smiled. "Do you want to be?" he asked sarcastically.

"Oh, a dream come true!"

The cop laughed and pushed the crooks into the back of his car.

Without another word, Spider-Man turned and walked back up the wall, keeping his camera hidden. Then he jumped off and swung away.

As he swung through the city, he thought more and more about Otto. He had tried to convince JJ that Doc Ock died trying to save the city. But, unsurprisingly, JJ didn't listen to him. "He'll be back! I bet he's probably out there planning his next move with Spider-Man as we speak!" JJ said as he pointed his cigar towards the window. Spider-Man shook his head. He could only imagine what would happen if Jameson found out he really was back. Well, right now he had pictures to develop. He'd help find Octavius tomorrow.

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Well there you go. It'll probably take me a while to get the other chapters up. I have to use the library's internet, and I have other stories I'm writing. But this is the one I promised first, and this is the one I'll try to work on.