"He will be behind you in a moment. I just saw him leave the ally, but I could not see his face in time." Carmen warned, following him with her binoculars as he ran across the school grounds.
Ivy whipped her head around to see a smallish teenager come running up to them, he was wearing a reddish-orange hoodie and dark blue jeans.
"You... are... late... again! Man, I am gonna have you get you an alarm clock for your birthday Pete." Harry scolded.
"Ya sorry, there was this thing… and there was… umm." Peter tried to think of an excuse, but he had used most of them already so he just rubbed the back of his neck not knowing what do say so he looked up at MJ for help.
"umm, it's fine you didn't miss anything yet, oh Peter these are some of the new students for the program at the school. June and Sherman." MJ introduced.
Ivy and Zack took a second to recover their thoughts, they were not expecting a villain to be so... normal?
"Hi, it's nice to meet you, Peter…?" Ivy said as she lifted her hand.
"Parker." Peter reached out and shook her hand and then Zack's. Then there was just awkward silence no one knew what to do next, so they looked to MJ who always knew what do say, even Zack and Ivy could tell.
"Guys will you come on already? we are going to be even later than normal." MJ Scolded.
They all followed MJ into the classroom, not really looking at each other.
Once in the classroom Ivy and Zack were chatting with the team over comms and were carefull to move to the back so no one would hear them.
"Player, anything on Parker?" Carmen asked as she lowered her binoculars' that we're aiming at the window of the class that Peter and the rest of her team were in.
"He is a photographer for the Daily Bugle and one of the only people in the city to take photos of the infamous spider-man. He is 16 ½ years old and had an uncle who was murdered about 2 years ago."
"Could that be why he became a criminal?" Ivy pondered aloud.
"That would be hard to go through when you are 14." Zack added.
"I think you guys should try to talk to him later, during lunch, but don't reveal that you know he is Spider-man that could cause him to run."
"Eye, eye captain." Ivy answered jokingly.
x
Lunchroom
Ivy and Zack were looking around trying to find a place to sit, everyone was in their little groups at their small cafeteria tables, Zack had shivers down his spine, this was reminding him of his horrible time in high school. He was looking around at all of the people with their other people, just getting nervous when MJ broke his train of thought
"Hey, do you guys want to sit with us? We have some open spots." MJ offered as she waved the two down who were wondering around aimlessly.
"Thank you." Ivy said as she surveyed the room with her eyes, looking out for anything out of the ordinary.
They both sat down, Zack sat next to Harry and MJ on one side of the table, and Ivy sat next to Peter on the other. Ivy opened her mouth to say something but was interrupted.
"Hey Parker, who is your girlfriend?" Flash mocked as he gestured toward Ivy.
"Flash, she is not my girlfriend, just a friend." Peter retorted and looked back down at the table. Peter was quite shy when it came to it, unlike his quiping always talking alter ego.
Flash sort of tried to shove Peter into his food on the table and laughed
"Shuuu." Peter grabbed his shoulder in pain, his cut was almost done healing but was still quite sore. MJ stood up slamming her drink on the table.
"Would you cut it out flash!" She demanded
"Fine, just kidding around, geesh." Flash walked away from the table throwing his hands in the air. MJ looked at Peter concerned but he just smiled and nodded back, to show that he was okay.
"What was with that?" Ivy asked looking behind her seeing the blond-haired teen leaving and sitting back down at the jock table on the other side of the room.
"Pfft, Flash? He has been tormenting Peter for years, honestly, anyone who isn't a football star or is scary like MJ is a target for him and his friends." Harry answered. MJ in response punched Harry's shoulder.
"Why didn't you fight back? Throw a couple of punches, you know." Zack asked puzzled, doing punching motions with his hands to enfisise.
"Why would I? Even if I could, it would not do anything except cause more violence." Peter sighed spinning the fork around in his hands.
Ivy and Zack both looked at each other surprised at his non-vilent response.
"Peter is right, once he broke Flash's nose. But all it did was make the bullying worse." Harry added.
"Doesn't matter now, class is about to start up again anyway." Peter mentioned looking up at the clock on the wall.
MJ nodded in agreement.
x
After school had ended, the team went for a meeting outside neer the school.
"Anything helpful?" Carmen asked, putting her binoculars in her bag.
"We know it's the same guy for sure, he also has an injury on his back, a really bad one from what it seemed." Ivy responded, grabbing her shoulder thinking about it.
"But there was something else, he did not seem like a bad kid, honestly. He got bullied right in front of our eyes and he did nothing, even though he could probably knock that kid out with one punch." Zack mentioned raising his shoulders in confusion.
"Whether he is a good kid or not we should talk to him. He Probably knows something about V.I.L.E. he was there too." Carmen looked down and thought for a moment. "Player, do you know where he lives?" Carmen asked.
"Yes, he lives in Queens with his aunt in an old house."
"I think it is time we made a house call." Carmen stated.
What's this? a bonus chapter, dun dun dun. you can applaud now? ;) lol, both of these chapters were too short by themselves selfs so I put them together, ta-da. enjoy.
Ivy, Carmen, and Zack all made their way to Peter's house, making sure that they were in constant contact with Player as they were not knowing what to expect when they got there.
Zack reached forward and knocked on the door using the silver doorknocker and looked back at the others. Carmen was not in her regular attire, instead she was wearing a t-shirt and shorts still with a stylish red cap, but she was ready to chuck a throwing star at any moment. But when the door opened, they were greeted by an old kind-faced woman, and not Peter.
"Hello there?" The woman greeted with a gentle smile on her face, and Carmen immediately stood down, standing up a bit and asked.
"Hello mam, is Peter here by any chance?" She looked around her into the house.
"Oh, you guys are Peter's friends from school, come in, please." She gestured for them to come in holding the cream-colored door open.
They all walked in and wiped their shoes on the mat as Aunt May went into the kitchen to grab something.
"Peter is just upstairs in his room working on something, probably another one of those experiments he likes to do. Would any of you like some banana cream pie while you wait?" Aunt May held out a piece on a plate towards the three.
"I would love some. I am starving." Zack claimed, accepting the plate from Aunt May.
"Would either of you like a slice too?" May asked, turning back towards the kitchen.
"No thank you Ms. Parker. You said Peter was upstairs?"
"Yes, first door on the left. And please call me Aunt May."
"Thank you." Carmen responded as she looked up the stairway.
All three of them walked up the stairs to Peter's room and Ivy knocked before she opened it slowly, once again they were ready for anything.
"June, Sherman? What are you guys doing here, and who is your new friend?" Peter asked leaning back in his thrift office chair at his small desk.
"Well I am not June; my name is Ivy and that is my brother Zack."
"Ya, and we want to ask you a few questions." Zack added crossing his arms and looking away.
Carmen facepalmed.
"What do you mean? Wait a second, you're that girl from the warehou…"
He got off his chair and stepped back, his ankles touching the bottom of his bed, ready to web them. He had an uneasy feeling like there was a weapon.
"We know you're Spider-man." Ivy claimed, putting her hands on her hips.
Peter's eyes widened, and he immediately shot a web at Ivy's mouth and Carmen's hand, Peter could tell that she was about to grab a weapon from her pocket. Peter jumped onto the wall above his bed and whispered.
"Shhhh, my Aunt will hear."
"How did you know I was-?" Carmen questioned looking at her hand.
"Doesn't matter. How do you know?"
"Well that day you were rushing to school, I saw you, you had jumped into an ally and came out as a teen running towards the school across the road." Zack rubbed his nails on his shirt like he had just solved a case in a show.
"Ugg, I knew I should have been more careful. And you!" Peter pointed to Carmen. "Why did you try to steal that diamond?"
"Why did you?" She retorted.
"What do you mean, I saw some people breaking in and tried to stop them, and that was including you." His eyes narrowed.
"We were trying to steal it before they did. And then put it back after." Zack claimed.
Peter looked at them with a puzzled face.
"They steal things and use them to try and conquer the world using schemes. We try to steal the item first and give them back after it is out of harm's way. They have done a few deals here too, with Oscorp."
"Norman! Ugg. What did they get? What did he get?" He pinched the bridge of his nose in anger shaking his head.
Carmen pulled out a phone and placed it on the desk, and a holographic screen came up revealing a 3d scan of Player on his chair, he was listening to the whole ordeal.
"They had gotten a shipment of globulin green and sent Norman a more refined formula in double the amount he gave them."
"No! He got more!" Peter exclaimed and slid off the wall onto the bed below.
Ivy had managed to pull off the webbing covering her mouth and asked. "What does it do?"
"It boosts your energy, makes you stronger, but worst of all it turns anyone who uses it mad, like a more chaotic version of themself living within them. Norman has an alter ego called the green goblin. And is one of the major criminal masterminds in this city."
"Does Harry know?" Zack asked worried for his new friend.
"No, he doesn't even know I am Spider-man. What am I going to say? 'Hey man, sorry your dad is a criminal mastermind who has tried to kill me and you multiple times and has also thrown MJ off of a bridge!' Ugg." Peter slumped against the wall with his hand on his head.
They all looked at him with surprised looks. Carmen stepped forward and asked. "Well do you know anything about V.I.L.E.?"
Peter looked up, "Who?" Ivy replied.
"Those other guys who were trying to rob the museum."
"I don't know who they are, but I bet that they are going to try to steal an arc reactor. Why else would they need the diamond?"
Player was puzzled and started typing. "What do you mean?"
"Well, the diamond they took is rare but useless, it is only able to be used with one of Tony's arc reactors. It amplifies its power by like 10-fold, he uses a piece of it in his new Mk 38. With that, they could have enough power to run a city for a couple millennia."
"Now we know what they want to steal, and when they are stealing it, we just have to beat them to it." Zack exclaimed.
"I already talked to Tony after they stole it, when I got home. He said that there is no way anyone could get to one, he only has like 10 in storage, the rest is in his armor that have Friday."
"Well, shouldn't we at least go and make sure they can't get it. If we can't steal it, we can stop them from trying." Zack stated as he scratched his chin.
"We can try and head them off, I am good for a stakeout if you guys are." Peter jumped from his bed and onto the roof smiling.
Authors notes
-I hope you guys enjoyed today's chapter/chapters. I did a lot of work on them and happy with how they turned out.
-Once again I do not mind any ideas that may go into future chapters. ;)
-Hope you come back and read the next one.