It has come to my attention that I will maybe have to leave for a business trip in July for a month. So that's just a head's up.
Disclaimer, I own nothing says yee
Rito rubs his head, being mindful of the bandage wrapped around it... and to stop brushing his hand against his glasses.
His improved eyesight had reseted itself back to what it was before, being very unfocused and nearsighted was NOT a help here...
He sat in his room, mulling over the events that had transpired. Sainan high was gone, good news was the combined efforts of Sarutech and the Tenjouin family joined together to rebuild the school and the estimated time of completion should be right when school begin again. The bad news?
It's all being pinned on him...
Rito shifted his sight towards his computer to view the daily bugle homepage where He saw a piece on the siege on the school where, for a SINGLE paragraph, talk about the apocalypse gang, the guys who actually brought those stupid weapons. The rest?...
And They weren't alone. Only a half hour into the peril, that menace Spiderman decided to barge in and disrupt a most dangerous moment, putting the lives of all the students at risk of death. But did He care? NOPE! He just merrily destroyed the school's property before blowing up the entire school! Eyewitness reports from the students confirmed his reckless actions.
A male student, Saruyama Kenichi of Sarutech fame, described "One of us was at gunpoint, not that it mattered to him. He just started to wildly attack people with GUNS in their hands still pointed at the students! We are lucky to be alive, no thanks to him!"
Rito sighed, the next paragraph was from Tenjouin Saki, echoing Saruyama's points on how He was too reckless, and He can really blame them, looking back. He could've been a bit quieter but in that situation, He had to react on the spot. Hindsight is 20/20 afterall...
He kicked off the desk in his chair and rolled all the way to his bed to see his torn up costume lay there. He hadn't asked Lala to help fix it yet as He was reviewing the current events and came to an issue..
He lifted up his mask and looked at the lenses, the ones He needed to replace. Not because They were damaged, but He needed to replace with glass similar to his glasses so He could actually see worth a damn. He sighed dejectedly
"I think I should also disable the shutter function, not really a point as my senses are going down..."
Nothing was going his way, He needed just ONE thing to go right... He needed to know what those weapons were, They were obviously chitauri tech, but how did it fall in low ranking thugs hands? He just needed a clue...
"Maybe I can visit the school and see if the police left any of the weapons lying around... No, if I know Yuri, She wouldn't leave a rock unturned..."
Suddenly his pocket vibrated making him pull out his phone where He saw a text from Lala which read:
(Come to my room, I got something COOL to show you!)
He rolled his eyes, He just hoped it wasn't like the last 'COOL' thing She showed him, a 24 hour Magical Kyouko marathon, He had never thought how much He wanted to have been stabbed by the goblin glider until then...
He left his chair and ventured to the room of his new alien tenant. He goes down the hall and knocks on the door. He hears nothing, shrugs and walks in. He walks in frequently enough to know his best girl-friend's habits, like her nudity and her utter lack of caring on who She shows her goods to.
this was different however as the room was empty, as He looked around. The girl was only there for a couple of months now and it looked like She lived there for years, posters of various and anime and sentai She liked covered the wall, collectible figures from pachinko machines littered her dresser. Her bed had a magical kyouko comforter and had a assortment of plushies are on her bed. The patchwork rabbit and his first outfit both sat at the head of her bed on top of her duvet. He still can't believes She likes that outfit...
He guess where else She could be and enters her closet, and like a certain British Sci-fi show, it was bigger on the inside, He saw no clothes but inside a large laboratory with various large contraptions all around. He had entered this room many times but always wondered..
"Where is She getting all this electricity from? Is our light bill gonna be the stuff of nightmares?.."
"Rito~!"
He turned to see the pinked haired princess sitting in a chair in front of a large computer, She lifted herself off the seat and stood up, clad in nothing but a white tank top and white panties, a sight unbecoming of a future leader...
He swallows his blush, just remember... Mr Stark dealt with lots of women in various states of undress.. Cool guys see this sort of stuff all the time... He assumed, Thor maybe, Captain America? Definitely not, the blue boy scout...
Shaking these thoughts out, He waved to the princess "Yo, Lala! You needed me?"
She looks at his eyes in worry "I wanted to know if you were okay.."
He gulps, He didn't have the heart to tell her He was losing his powers on the off chance He can stabilize himself. If Gid or Zastin were to learn that He was incapable of protecting Lala, She will no doubt be taken. So He just said a little white lie and explained the school fire was the cause of his eyes going bad. Not the best excuse but shut up. "Yeah Yeah... I'm healing right up, healing factor, y'know?.." If I still have it...
She accepted this excuse "Good, now I have something to show you!"
He chuckles "What?"
"This!" She says, pulling out a gun, specifically a rifle
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Rito raised his hands and stepped back far "Where did you get that gun?!"
Lala set the weapon on her table "Oh this? I picked it up from the school." She says nonchalantly
Rito looked between her and the weapon "Okay... WHY though?"
The alien princess gestured him to follow her as She led him to the massive computer "I had a feeling that this type of thingy I had seen before.."
He looked awkward "Thingy?.."
"Specifically this thingy." Her computer had an enlarged image of the purple stone at the top of the gun "I remembered seeing it from when Zastin put me through all those war lessons and various weapons we would expect to find."
Rito nodded "I see... so you remember whatever this glowing rock is, correct?"
She nodded before bringing up a webpage "Kinda, I had to look on the galactic-net to make sure, but I believe this glowy purple thingy is a Chitauri energy core."
Rito's eyes narrowed "Chitauri... I knew it looked familiar..." He looked at the page to see a similar looking rock to the one on the table, He couldn't read the text on the page as it was another language He had never seen before, TOTALLY alien.
"Yes, A explosive Chitauri energy core, as it says on the net. A rare power source of a equivalent to 3 gigajoules."
"3 Gigajoules? That's the equivalent of a old Arc Reactor... Wait... EXPLOSIVE?!" Suddenly the school makes a whole lot of sense...
"Yes, but it needs a high enough energy output to trigger, besides that, it's harmless..."
The hidden hero shook his head "Explosive or not, that much power could cause a lot of trouble!"
"I know... My big question is why is it here.."
"That's pretty simple.." Rito says solemnly, crossing his arms "Someone is stealing this alien tech and using them to make weapons... Weapons so easy to grab, those no-lifes were able to use them to attack the school."
She nods "You know more about this stuff then I do, but I decided to scan the area to see if more weapons are like that here... but I got nothing."
"Huh?"
She pulls up a map of Japan "Their aren't any energy signatures similar to the power core here or in space.."
"You sure?" Rito said, scanning the map
"Yes, so I think that means it came from this planet... but I don't know where it could be..."
Rito's eyes widened "Wait Lala... Check America."
The princess tilted her head "America? Why?"
"Just do it, I think that's where They are coming from."
The princess blinks again before typing on her computer which slowly panned eastward until reaching the United States Of America. And to see various purple dots across the map "Whoa!"
Rito nods "Many of them are just the various containment facilities of Damage Control, and unless the military is also funding these weapons, which I wouldn't put it pass them, We can exclude these locations.." He said mentally snuffing out most of the known Damage Control locations. "We can exclude everything to the west, those are just the holding facilities..."
Lala nodded before shrinking the map to cut off the western seaboard
"Florida is just a containment site as well... Which leaves the upper east seaboard."
The screen shrinks before coming to s stop to display the top right of the country. Both teens stare at the map in silence
"Well I'll be damned.."
The map displayed a large amount of energy being displayed in the heart of New York.
"It's perfe't!"
Both teens sat in the boys room after dinner while Mikan took a bath, allowing the two to talk freely about their secret. Rito sat at his desk working on a new mask, one that sadly had to lack the shutter feature as well as the Suke-Suke goggles-Kun so that He could actually see in the damned thing. Lala sat on his bed, drying her hair while wearing his clothes again, a hulk tee and boxer shorts. She just watched him work until He said that aloud
"Eh?"
Rito held a spare needle in his teeth in case of an emergency, which also muffled his voice, He spits it out onto the desk "Sorry, but can you see the great luck! We can stop these weapons once and for all and have a fun school trip in the process! Just like a milk run."
Lala moves her eyes to the floor where Peke was seen repairing Rito's bodysuit "I guess..."
"And so close to the Avengers too! Maybe if I stop these guys, the avengers will notice me and want me to join the team!"
Lala blinks "huh?"
"I mean, yeah I have to stay in Sainan until I'm 18, but after? I can be swinging off the rooftops of New York as an official superhero!" Tenjouin Saki's words from when He was Riko reentered his mind "This could be my chance to prove myself... To actually be someone!"
"Rito, you are someone.."
"I may be a guy who can lift a bus but I can't very well show it without every crook in this town knocking on my front door, now can i?" He says sarcastically "But if I become an avenger? No one would mess with us!" Rito paused "Okay, there was that Mandarin issue but Mr Stark blew those bastards to hell."
Lala, not even questioning what a 'Mandarin' was, tilted her head "This... will make you happy?"
The male teenager paused, just sitting in his seat before looking at something behind her, as She turned around to notice a framed paper clipout of Tony Stark from a newspaper "Lala... When I was a little boy, I had no dreams beyond what flavor ice cream I was gonna eat that day, what game I was to play and who I would play with... The Stark Expo changed me, Mr Stark changed me." He stood up "After the expo, I dropped the soccer ball and picked up a textbook, I did my best to catch up to Mr Stark's natural intellect and I have to say... I haven't done half-bad."
Lala couldn't believe her ears, He sounded so... inspired.
"But now that I am Spider-Man, I can take it a step further." He gestured to another picture, One of a large group of people, The Avengers "With this power, I can join their ranks, HIS ranks... I can become one earth's mightiest defenders."
Lala stared at the boy who spoke with such... passion. It was inspiring... It... honestly made her feel a little bad, She just spends her time in her lab, procrastinating. She shook her head and found her voice "I'll... help anyway I can."
Lala Satalin Deviluke sat at her desk and looked at her computer screen, which displayed a large version of Rito's Spider-Man costume.
"Lala-Sama?" She turned to see Peke on a charging mat, recharging their energy after fixing most of Rito's suit
"What is it?"
"You seemed... troubled, is there something wrong?" Her costume bot asked in concern
"Am... Am I lazy?"
"Lala-Sama?" Peke said surprised that She was thinking about something like that
"Rito... wants to join the avengers...Yami-chan is looking to make friends... Me? I got nothing.."
"That is incorrect, Lala-Sama." Peke said at once "You are destined to rule Deviluke."
Lala sighed "That isn't a choice, it was slapped on me the day I was born... I want... to choose what I want to do.. before I'm shacked up into a job I won't like.." She began to type on her computer "I want... to help my friends."
Along side the picture of the Spider-Man suit came an image of Zastin's suit of armor
"Lala-sama?.. What are you doing?"
"A little side project... Mr Stark has his armor... Maybe I can make Rito something similar.."
"You're not going?"
Rito sat on his bed, away from his computer while stuffing an old briefcase full of underwear. He had two days to be completely prepared with the prepared for the trip, apparently most of his other classmates had some foresight because He was reportedly the only one to NOT be already done packing by the results unveiling.
He had to have clothes prepared for an entire week and, strangely enough, a suit. Not a super suit, but a fancy pants suit. It for was reported that it was to be used for a fancy dinner party the night before They visit Avengers Tower, if the itinerary is to be believed. He had already heard from Mikan that reusing his funeral outfit will not fly, but it wasn't in their budget to buy a suit for just one day so... BLAH
The reason He said what He just said, stopping him in his tracks in packing was when He heard his friend say He will not join the field trip
Kenichi Saruyama was seen in his little square all slumped and dejected, the faces of Ned Leeds and Harley Keener look at the boy in pity. The heir groaned "Mom felt, as it was the second time I was nearly killed this year, that I should just stay home where She could a close eye on me.."
Rito blinked "She doesn't know about Electro?"
"The less She knows goes on in my private life right now, the better.."
"Your mastubatory habits aside-"
"Screw you!"
"-It is a shame you won't visit, I heard Horizon High is going all out on trying to impress you guys on the night of the dinner." Said Ned Leeds, the only resident of New York City and student of Horizon High, where as He said, that fancy dinner party
"Great, a time when I need your help knowing where the heck a salad fork goes..."
"On the left of the dinner fork, which is on the left side of the dinner plate. Substitute with the dessert fork if Salad is not served."
"Still sounds stupid to me..."
"Hey! At least you didn't have some hag of a woman slapping you with a ruler for every slight infraction! I still have the scars.." The heir raised his hand to reveal it was completely scarless
"...Drama queen." Said Harley, who loved mercilessly teasing his pen pal
"Mental scars count!"
Rito laughed at his best friends antics "Well, I better finish packing... Hey, is it okay if I borrow one of your suits? Mikan won't let me use my other one..."
The trio looked at him "Why?"
Rito got really quiet, making all of them realize the context. Both Harley and Ned looked away awkwardly while Kenichi gained a forlorn look, making Rito regret that He asked.
The heir shooked his head and replied "Sorry, I'm a size smaller than you, so it wouldn't fit anyway, sorry man..."
"No No.. It's fine. Thanks anyway."
The boxes all close as Rito is left in silence. He slaps his forehead "Stupid!"
Why did He have to bring that up! Even Harley and Ned were disturbed by it! And Kenichi... The one person who was more on-edge on the issue other than me?!
Abandoning his packing for the moment, He walks to to his chair and sits down, and brings a hand to his temple and tries to rub it, accidentally bumping into his glasses. Not wanting to deal with it, He removes his glasses and slams them into the table. Thereafter He places his hands on his face and begins to rub around
A knock on his door interrupts him from his slow descent into madness. He wondered who it could be, the usual suspects like Lala and Mikan hardly give a damn about his privacy which was why He eventually created a special lock to keep them out while He was doing his Spider-Man tinkering*
He calls out "Who is it?.."
"Rito-Dono, it is I."
Zastin? Why is He here? "Zastin?.. It's- Uh.. The door's open."
Rito reaches to the desk and grabs his glasses and places them on his face just in time to see a man in a grey suit of armor, a plasma sword at his hip with shoulder-length hair walk into his room. Had this been a year ago, He would never imagine seeing something like this in his life, also to be fair, a year ago, He wasn't Spider-Man, so that opened a lot of opportunities
"Yo, Zastin... What are you doing here?"
The knight calmly walked to where He was sat while fishing around in his suit's pockets "Ah, Saibai-Sama asked me to deliver this to you." He pulls out a small blue passport and handed it to him. It was his old passport and when He opened it, He saw it was nearing it's expiration date soon enough. Oh well, He wasn't planning on leaving his country after this so it wasn't a big deal. Still, looking at a picture of himself from 3 years ago made him feel... off. He was honestly really tiny in that picture compared to him now... though that was mostly the spider-bite... Oh god, what will happen after He lost all of his power? His physique is a power so what happens then? Will he go back to being a 90 pound weakling?
'Oh god, am I gonna end up looking like Christian Bale from 'Rescue Dawn'?'
He shakes his head and looks at the rest of his info when He sees his name 'Yuuki, Rito Peter'. Christ He forgot his middle name was Peter. He hardly ever used it as it wasn't a big thing to have a middle name in Japan so his mom had to fight to have his full name be available for all to see. She really the the name after saying aloud 'Peter Parker', and was sold on the name. His dad named him Rito before his mother could slap that as his first name, He still didn't know if his life would be better or worse with a name like 'Yuuki Peter' or heck, 'Peter Parker'*^2. He looks to Zastin who had a second passport in his hand "Another?"
The knight nodded "Yes, it was needed as Lala-Sama must also follow the customs of this planet and have a passport to visit this world's countries, so I had this quickly made." He opens it up to see Lala's face and full name on display, along with her personal information
"B89-W57-H87? Damn..." He knew She had a good figure, but jeez...
The knight nodded "But before I give her this, there Is something I wish to speak with you about." He said seriously
Rito, knowing that moments like these are rare from the knight, gave him his attention.
Zastin closed his eyes "This trip... I wouldn't recommend it." This surprised Rito, but when He went to respond, the knight raised his arm "Let me finish... If I were to have my way, You and Lala-Sama would stay here so I can give the king his daily updates, but I know for a fact keeping Lala-Sama away from something She wants is damn near impossible."
Rito nodded solemnly, He knew that for a fact...
The knight continued "And I ALSO know, danger follows the two of you like flies to a corpse." Colorful imagery there, Zastin. Jesus Christ... "Which is what brings me to my main point, You both will be all alone there."
Rito rose a brow "No we won't, We still have the teachers and-"
"Not what I mean," Zastin interrupted "I mean that for a while, You have needed back up from either the guardsmen and I, the police and even Golden Darkness." He counted each individual power with his fingers before clenching his fist "Going to America, you will have none of this.
Rito swallowed a lump in his throat, He did... have a point. He always called Yuu when on patrol, Yami always tracked him down to join his patrols before He got Mikan to give her a job to distract her (She always listened to whatever Mikan says for some reason) and He did call these guys during the goblin fiasco...
"And should you face danger, You will have the lives of all your friends on your hands, including Lala-Sama's who literally will take the world with her should anything go awry, this will be your big test to prove to the king that you are worthy."
Zastin... Anxiety levels rising!...
"And I want to know... are you ready to step up or not? You have a job to do."
Before Zastin had entered his room, He would'of been 'Hell yes', but now?... Damn it, He still had to do so either way. Those weapons were his top priority and He had to stop them, now He had to do so while making sure not to harm the students and try to impress the avengers? You live a strange, strange life, Yuuki Rito... He looks at the knight "Do I really have a choice?"
"HUH?! I CAN'T GO!?"
Run Elsie Jewelria sat in the lobby of Mikado-Sensei's clinic. The reason She was there was because of her idiot brother demanding to be let on the school trip.
The mature doctor was the chaperone for the trip and thus in charge of all the students. She regarded the young man in front of her "As I said when You first entered our school, You aren't officially registered yet, and won't be until the beginning of next year."
"But that's after the trip!"
"It's a shame, I know, but that is school policy."
The boy crossed his arms "Bah! I can only hope Lala-Chan isn't going as well.."
Run groaned and rolled her eyes. Did everything had to revolve around that pink shank with him?
"Lala-San? Hmm... Ahh, My apologizes, but She was literally the first to present the permission slip." She present a small paper with Lala's name written on it, a list of details on her in the middle, emergency contacts and finally a signature on the bottom 'Parent/Guardian signature: Zastin ; occupation and status? : Guardian and Godfather'
"Damn! I will go to New York if it is the last thing I do!" The prince storms out angrily, leaving the two women behind. The doctor paid no mind to the disrespect and regarded Run
"Run-San, how is the new body feeling?"
The princess thought for a second before raising her arm, placing her other hand on her wrist and doing a spinning motion "It feels kinda weird... But I kinda like it.."
She nods "Ah, so you have been taking kindly to it."
Run confirms with a nod.
They sat in silence while Mikado shuffled through some papers
"So.. The same for me then?"
"Hmm?" The doctor questioned
"I mean... Ren specifically asked for us not to have a guardian... and I don't this passport thing that earthlings use..."
Mikado thought of it, yes, that was true... By all terms, Run should not go... But a lady needs to have fun sometime, right? "Perhaps..."
Run, taking that as a negative, sighed and stood up "Thank you for your time, sen-"
"Run-Chan? Do you know that a doctor is technically a guardian of all her patients."
The girl looked at her oddly "And?..."
The doctor smiled as She took a pen and writing something down "And as the one in charge of the trip, I have full say on who goes or not."
Run didn't see where this was going "So?..."
Mikado revealed what She was writing on, a previously blank permission slip, now with the obvious signature at the bottom 'Parent/Guardian: Mikado Ryouko ; Occupation and status? : Doctor and Guardian'
Run's eyes widened as She looked at the paper before looking at the teacher in front of her, who smiled
"Quick, let's fill out the rest so We can get you a passport~!"
"You're trash! You're always trash!"
*CRUMPLE*
Another crushed can of Coca-Cola is soon tossed in a bin. Personal record? 55 holes in one, 8 misses.
That was what Mary-Jane Watson thought to herself as She crashed on the sofa of her dear aunt Anna. She and her neighbor were currently out and She was left in charge of house-sitting both houses, baring in mind that She could, at any moment, invite her entire school and cause a block party.
She won't however, as She respects her aunt more than most people. As in, She actually gives her respect.
The girl shifted and relax as She found her butt grove in the couch. Despite being hailed as a party queen, She much preferred to have a nice quiet environment to be in. Just her and her next can of-
*Knock knock*
"Great..." She says annoyed "If your a salesman, Jehovah's witnesses, or IRS, there is no one home!"
"Yo-Ho!" Said a jovial, young and cute voice.
Mary-Jane lighten up, this one did not fall in any of those criteria "It's open, Peni!"
Her front door opens to reveal a small girl of barely 9. She wore a christian schoolgirl outfit with a white shirt, leggings, black sweater, a tie and a skirt. This was Peni Parker, resident of the house next door.
She liked Peni, one of the few people to not label her as 'Party-Girl extraordinaire' or worse, She's just called Mary-Jane Or...
"Sup, Big sis!"
Mary-Jane smiled at the younger girl's carefree attitude as She walks in and sets her backpack on Anna's coffee table. The small girl bounces as She walks around the table and picks up Mary-Jane's backpack
Oh yeah, there was another reason She liked the little munchkin...
The girl opens the pack and begins to rummage through papers inside before pulling a few pages that were stapled together "Ooo~! Algebra!"
Before anyone can say She exploits this young child, She only really cares about her mathematics and science homework, leaving everything else for her. But She wasn't gonna gripe, social studies was more her strong suit anyhow. Her dream was to be a actress on Broadway, so knowing how to speak and sing was way better than knowing how to find X's with triangles.
The young girl, on the other hand, was a gifted little science nerd and excel in all her studies, so much so that She commonly took her work and completed it in no time at all. And all the girl asks in return?
"Hmm... Think you can do pig-tails today?"
Many-Jane smiled as She picked up a hairbrush and bottle and begun to spray the girl's hair. "Sure kiddo, how's life?"
Peni focus on the work in front of her "Good, got an A+ in science class, really easy.."
Mary-Jane scoffed "What I would've killed for a C, let alone a A, you little punk."
The girl giggled "I can wait for next week."
"Oh?" The older one said slyly "Why? Have a date?"
"Maybe?"
Mary-Jane paused, What... Wait... "Huh? What do you mean?"
Peni smiled "My cousin is going to come and visit us next week because of a school trip! And I want to show him how much bigger I've gotten!"
This intrigued the teen "Next week? Wait... Is this guy from Sainan?"
The girl nods "Yup!"
Huh, what a co-winky-dink? First Haruna, then this cousin guy? Pretty funny? "Oh? I have a friend coming too, She's from Sainan, too."
"Ooo~!" Peni's eyes sparkled "Maybe we can play together!"
Mary-Jane chuckled "Eh... I'll see about that." Would be trouble when trying to hell Haruna lock lips with dream guy, but I can't really say that to such a sweet face. "Hey, what's your cousins name? Maybe I heard of him?"
"Here's my auntie Ringo's son, Rito!"
Rito?... Where did She hear that name before... Oh wait! Haruna's guy! Hehe... Maybe They will spend some time together... Mr Yuuki seems to becoming one interesting man..
Passport? Check.
Money? Check.
Luggage? Check.
Spider-Gear locked in Lala's D-Dial to cross the border without getting caught and revealing my identity? Double Check.
Making sure Lala doesn't get lost and cause a national incident?...
Yuuki Rito shifted his glassed vision to his left to see the pink haired princess stare at the aircrafts through a large window when She mumbles "Hmm... They're pretty slow, Maybe if I can add a turbo light-speed engine? Then They can go really fast!"
Have to get back to you on that..
"Lala!" He stage whispered as She turned her attention to him "Whatever you plan on doing, DON'T. Please... Hey, don't pull out your D-Dial!" He yelled, seeing the princess pull out her phone.
She pouted and placed it back in her pocket. She wore a tasteful black blouse with a wide miniskirt. He wore a long-sleeve gray shirt under a blue tee with baggy pants. A spectacular outfit if He said so himself.
Both He and Lala were at a Airport in Tokyo, waiting for others to arrive to hail their journey to the new land. His father was currently bartering with a taxi driver to stay long enough to see him and Lala leave. Mikan was there as well, but since it was still early so She was taking a nap in one of the chairs.
Others were here as well but Rito kept his distance, He wasn't one for socializing with other people, especially when He can name former bullies of him in the crowd. Yeah, He's calling you out Natsuki Kazuma!
So instead, He and Lala sat near the windows closing to the parking area with Mikan, waiting on their other friends to arrive. Well, Lala's friends pretty much anyway.
Rito sat in a chair and hovered over a notebook drawing of Lala's map. The chitauri triangle what He likes to call this anomaly, The top point is the special Avengers compound established after Sokovia. And the other points were in New Jersey and Washington DC, where a few Damage Control headquarters are established. The space in between, aka, 'the triangle' (Or Rhombus? Nah, Triangle sounds cooler) was lit in the substance, thus making it a large hotspot. He just had to find the center that connects them all and save the day. Easy.
"The triangle's largest points suggest the island of Manhattan, where We will be... Hmm... I'll have as far as Newark in New Jersey to operate without causing suspicion... Maybe I should focus my efforts in Hell's kitchen? Brooklyn?"
"Rito?"
"Huh?" The teen lifted his head from the notebook to see his father finally arrive from the gates.
"Watch'a got there?" Saibai questioned
Rito closed the book "It's just a map of the city, I just wanted to memorize the best sites. Maybe get some Shawarma, don't know what it is but I always wanted to try it.."
The manga artist crossed his arms "If you say so, son.." He takes a seat by his son "...So... New York, huh?"
"Uh.. Yeah, what about it?"
Saibai fidgeted in his seat before sighing "I know you are a good boy, and very responsible most of the time..."
"I sense there's a 'BUT'."
"But this will be a time when you aren't exclusively with us, and I know trouble follows you and Lala like a rain cloud."
"Yeesh, Lay it on thick, dad.." Rito said, placing his arm on a armrest, and putting his head in his palm
"I just want you two to be careful." Saibai said levelly "After what happened, losing you is the last thing I want.."
Rito looked at his father, realizing what He was getting across "Dad.."
"Your mother and I... We were thinking... About your future and what you want to be..."
Rito just sat, taking everything in
"Your grade's are amazing, spectacular even. We both know you will succeed in whatever you plan on doing, and I have the feeling... it will be in New York."
M-More than you realize...
"I want you to know, you will always have my support. Your Mother's as well. We know for a fact, you are a winner. You have this feeling about you, like I know you can do it..." He snaps his fingers "You've got this SPARK in you!"
Rito stared at the man for a few seconds before snickering "Jeez dad, how cheesy can you be? Use that line from a manga?"
This broke the serious mood a tad and gave a little levity. Saibai smiled as He ruffled his son's hair "Who knows, maybe I will use it for a manga one day! Ahaha!"
Both father and son laughed with each other before petering out. They sat reclined in their seats, waiting for the time of their departure
"Hey, has it been really quiet lately?" Saibai asks
"Huh?... Now that you mention it, yeah... but why-"
"Attention, There is a delay on flight 1510. There is a pinked hair girl on the airways, messing with the plane."
Both Yuuki men sat in silence
"DAMN IT LALA!" Rito leapt from his seat and ran in the direction on the doors to the fields outside
"Also, there is a problem in the luggage bay. There is a young teen trying hide himself in the cargo bay of the flight to New York."
Saibai raised an eyebrow "What kinda idiot would actually do that?"
(Meanwhile..)
"LET ME GO! I NEED TO BE WITH LALA- Wait, why is that stick sparking-YEEOW!"
(Hours later)
Yuuki Rito sat in the darkened plane in complete silence. Many of the other passengers have already fallen asleep along with a few stewardess'. His talk with his father echoing in his mind. He did have what it takes... right?
He couldn't save his mother...
He couldn't save Mr Osborn...
He had let that man die...
And now the school was gone...
All these failures weighed on his mind, each one will follow him until his grave. Can He do it?
Rito turned his sight to his partner in this endeavor, Lala Satalin Deviluke. She, for once, was quiet as She was in a deep sleep. He sighed before unbuckling his seat belt and standing up to go to the restroom. He halted before looking at the princess again and saw the girl's cell phone hanging slightly out of her pocket.
He grabbed it without alarming her and walked slowly to the bathroom. He enters and locks the door before staring harshly at the mirror inside. He sighs, before opening the D-Dial.
'I need to win... But Yuuki Rito is just a kid...'
He taps a few buttons before revealing his Spider-Man costume. His hand hovers over the articles of clothing before picking a single piece of fabric. His new mask. His downgraded mask. He had to remove the shutter feature as well as replace the lenses with his prescriptions. He also needed to still focus with them, so He intentionally made them slanted in a way that They looked triangular and sharp. He slipped on the mask and looks at himself in the mirror, And He had to say...
"Downgrade or not, still looks damn good."
'Even if Yuuki Rito can't..., Spider-Man is a different story!'
And that's a wrap/
Rito has replaced his mask, and if you can't guess it with my pisspoor description. It's the Raimi mask. For all intents and purposes right now, He is wearing the Raimi Suit, That was what I was hinting at in Chapter 15.
So Rito's big test will be deciding whether He has what it takes to do whatever it takes all on his own, how will that far him?
Mary-Jane subplot expanding? She and Haruna (+Lala) will be the main girls this arc, so yeah. The relationships with Families is gonna be a real big theme in this story, a big part will be here. The good and the BAD.
*^1: The looking device from the Amazing Spider-Man movies. Momo, You have met your match and you haven't even heard of Rito yet. Muhuhaha.
8^2: Rito is Peter. Lazy and kinda convoluted? Maybe. Something I had planned? From the first day.