Dcember, 2013
Prescott Dormitories, Blackwell Academy
Arcadia Bay, 0regon
The cold temperature has slowly started to appear in Arcadia Bay. By now, most of the residents are wearing warm clothing such as sweatshirts and light jackets to protect them from the incoming chill. Most of the trees have already shed their leaves save for a few in the forest. The animals have started to appear less and less due to their preparation for hibernation. For the students, they continue on with their lives and academics in the prestigious Blackwell Academy. Some of them continue their usual routine. Some like to stay in their dorms after classes to study for the midterm exams in two weeks time and some like to go out to party and either drink, get high, or get a little personal. But for Max Caulfield, while she does stay on top of her academics and keep good grades and studies for midterms. She does little besides that. It has been two months since that week in October. Two months since she got and lost her time traveling 'rewind' powers. Two months since she reunited with her best friend and fellow pirate Chloe on that Monday, only to sacrifice her to save the town from a tornado and watch her die as she was originally supposed to, at the hands of Nathan Prescott by gunshot in the girls bathroom.
Although that blue butterfly on top of her casket gave her some hope. It wasn't enough. The more time went on, the less happy she felt. Losing her was like a huge part of herself was ripped out of her soul and burnt to ashes. Even though she had other friends, she herself felt more and more alone. Eventually, she just stopped talking to people until it was absolutely necessary. Other people started to notice too, Kate, Dana, Warren, her teachers, David, Joyce, and even her own family were concerned. Even Victoria Chase and her two friends were a little if not very concerned about Max.
She stopped coming out of her dorm for any other reason other than classes. She kept eating less and less causing her to lose some weight. She only ate just enough to keep a healthy enough appearance put it was no fantasy that she kept looking pale.
All Max felt she could do now was continuing on this routine until Christmas break, when she could finally come home to her family for the holidays. When she could get out of this damn town and have a change of scenery. She doesn't hate this place, but it brings back too many memories of her and Chloe, all the fun times and all the tragedies. Even the ones only she remembers bring nothing but sorrow. And she feels she only has herself to blame. Sometimes she feels like she doesn't even matter. Tonight after finishing her homework and studying, she decides to sleep the rest of the night. Hoping some shuteye can lighten her up. So she falls onto her bed and slowly drifts away on her bed. Her last thought of the day was that she hoped that she wouldn't have another nightmare about October, like she usually does for the past month.
As she opens her eyes, she finds herself in a large lobby with neatly put tiles and Greek style pillars. She sees a wooden desk with 3 people working on it attending to people who are waiting in a line. She then sees cubicles by the windows which let the sunlight into the room illuminating it fully. She then realizes that she isn't in her dorm in Arcadia Bay anymore, but home in Seattle. She feels some joy but wonders how she is in a bank, and how they don't see her. Then all of a sudden, there is a large boom that is heard by everyone even her. She then feels fear rushing through her. The screams by everyone else only amplified the fear and made it stronger. Even though, they cannot see her, she fears for herself and for all those people. She backs away to the side as she stares at 6 men all dressed in suits and gas masks armed with assault rifles enter the building through the destroyed entrance. Each of them had a duffel bag with them.
"Everyone, let me state the obvious here this is a robbery. A bank robbery so shut up and lie down with your faces on the floor. We are armed and we prefer not to kill anyone. But god forbid, if anyone tries to be a hero, if anyone tries to resist, we won't give a crap about killing you and we will should you decide to be a hero. UNDERSTAND." One of the robbers yelled, he waits for a respond but everyone is too afraid. Satisfied, he says "excellent, now let's get this going, cops will be here in approximately 50 minutes, open the vault and grab all of it." He says to the other robbers. Max looks at the robbers forcing the vault door open with some really high-tech gear. She watches as one of the robbers wanders around the lobby, watching the civilians and making sure they stay on the ground. Everything is quiet with the exception being the whimpering and sounds of crying from the hostages to the sound of drilling being done by some sort of laser drill the robbers are using.
There is nothing but those sounds and Max wishes she had her rewind powers so she could warn the police or a security guard but she can't be seen, which is not so bad but isn't good either. So she can only watch. As the robbery goes on, she watches as a web of some sort launches from nowhere and grabs the face of the robber watching the hostages. The web then pulls the robber all the way up high on the wall, where a person, an actual person punches him unconscious and sticks him to the wall using webs. Max watches both amazed and freaked out, she recognizes him but she doesn't know where. The person then jumps to a chandelier hanging from the ceiling and crouches. There she gets a better looks and sees that he wear a red collared jacket with a black spider in the front and back, his pants and shoes are black and his mask is red with only two big white eyes with a black outline. She realizes that it's Spider-Man, the superhero from New York.
She watches as Spider-Man crouches on the edge of the chandelier and whistles to the rest of the robbers. The robbers cease the vault drilling and they look at him, He speaks and Max notices that his voice is high like that of a young boy "Hi guys, I know money doesn't grow on trees but to rob it from a bank is soooo 1999. Lame." Then robbers then curse and shoot at him but in a split second he jumps from the chandelier and does a somersault in to the middle of the robbers. There he knocks one out with one punch that throws the robber back. He dodges gunfire so fast and then retaliates by shooting them with webs using his two middle fingers. The Webs then envelop the 4 remaining robbers and then he jumps up onto the ceiling and hangs them there.
There, he jumps back down leaving the 4 robbers struggling to get out. "Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages the situation is normal. The bad guys are beaten and you can now get up, please have a nice day and we hoped you enjoyed Air Spidey. Thank you, come again." The hostages, relieved and overjoyed, stands up and run out to the police who have just arrived. One of them, a middle aged woman shakes Spider-Man gratefully and said "Thank You so much, the news was wrong about you, you are the real Spider-Man."
"Not exactly" Spider-Man humbly says "But I do try to do what's right, besides everyone matters." The woman then runs outside to tell the police as Spider-Man looks at them. Max wonders why he's still standing there. But he's then starts to speak again.
"Everyone matters in this world, even you Max." He then looks to her, and Max is shocked. However, before anything could happen everything goes dark. She then opens her eyes and realizes it was all a dream. But even though it was just a dream, it was one that gave her a chance to smile fondly. As she gets up, she looks at her window and stares at the morning sky. Looking deep into the sky, having finally found some light.