By the time I finish this, We are a few days before the English dub for To Love-Ru is released.... And I still haven't got to where I wanted to story to be at! F*ck! I'm sorry it has taken me time to get here. Life took over and my night job is taken too many of my nights off and I don't have the stamina to even turn on my computer much less write... if my family would stop stealing my computer when I do have time and doing stuff to it without permission... Still, Here I am. and HERE We are...
This is it, The big one. Spider-Man No More.
I wondered if pushing the events of two days into this one chapter would've been overkill, but when writing this, it all just came naturally. It might feel just a tad rushed, but the point of Spider-Man No More is not the breakdown and defeat, but the rise. But how would our hero rise from the ashes?
-Also because Rito's 'Spider-Man No More/ Let's be real, it's a break' phase is an semi-important plot-point to The Amazing Jaune Arc crossover.- but you didn't hear that from me.
On a sidenote, I'm planning a spinoff of this series centering around the meeting and eventual falling in love of Gid and Selphie in their younger days. It would be in continuity with this story and will feature Yondu Udonta, Young Peter Quill, Knowhere (Very Heavily) and the ravagers but only for a short period. I am in the middle of the first chapter but since it would be mostly To Love-Ru, Do I post it on the main page or heave it onto the crossover page while the first couple of chapters are about our two leads without much in the way of the expansive universe?
Also comments, I know it's Seppuku, Rito was intentionally saying it wrong because Memes.
I do not own Marvel or To Love-Ru. Support the official releases. Specifically To Love-Ru's. It needs more love.
'This is my one chance... I threw a tracer on his car when no one is looking, but without my old mask I have to resort to a dinky little calculator with poor battery life as my locator, I have to hurry or I might lose him...'
"Mary-Jane..."
The teenage girl paused in her step, She was nearing the bus stop that She, Rito and Peni got off of when the boy made an announcement suddenly "Hmm?"
"The stop is around the corner, think you can hoof it by yourself? I'm kinda risking being late for curfew if I don't go now" He asks, rubbing his hands through his spikes.
"Wow, first you wanted to go on a date with me, then you're just gonna kick me to the curb? I'm hurt.."
"It's not like that and you know it!" He screeched, blushing a storm.
She laughed, enjoying herself at his misfortune "Fine, if that's what you want, you still owe me that cheeseburger, right?"
He relaxed and looked at her. "Oh uh... Right, if you say so..." He turned his back to her "The hotel is this way, I'll see you later?"
"It's a date."
"Damn it..." He muttered before sprinting away
The teenage girl watched the boy's retreating back get smaller by the second until He inevitably turned a corner and disappeared from her sight. She gave a small sigh of relief. Even if He was an okay person, She had the feeling He was hiding something. Something She definitely didn't want to be a part of. She hated people who kept secrets. People like her... and like her father...
"Gah.." The girl said unintelligibly "I shouldn't thinking about, I need food in my tummy..." She begins walking away when She feels a small shift in her pocket. "Huh?
She pulls out whatever the object was and it turns out to be the small white paper Peni stuffed in there. "Oh yeah, I forgot about you... I wonder what this could be?"
She unfolds the paper to reveal it was a rather old picture: One of a playground that showed four children. Two were infants laying on a blanket and napping while the other two played in a sandbox building a castle of the substance. One was what looked like... Her... and...
It looked it was Young Mary-Jane Watson playing with a younger Yuuki Rito...
In the corner of the image, there was a message in Kanji that She was able to translate after spending time with Haruna
'Hopefully this makes you want to actually be my big sister!- Love, Peni Parker'
Mary-Jane stared at the image and at the message for a good minute before opening her mouth "WHAT THE FU-"
"I swear I can hear someone swearing..."
Spider-Man said before looking back at the small modified calculator in his hand. One that was directed him to the north, 3 miles.
"Meh, It's New York, It might be a guy getting a parking ticket or something.." Stretching quickly, He leaps from the roof and begins swing to the destination of Aaron Davis, the one who He believes will give him the answers He seeks.
I need to finish this up quick if I want any time to actually be with Haruna and confess my feelings... Oh and have time for a vacation like Mikado-Sensei recommended I guess.
He arrived at his destination, a Chinese takeout restaurant. And from where his enhanced Spidery nose could tell, it smelt really good. Silence, Spider-Stomach, We had work to do... He better hurry up or my stomach is gonna burn a hole in itself.
Luckily the wait was short as He saw the man He was waited for exiting with a bag of piping hot food. Good looking food... Damn it Spider-Stomach, stay strong!
Davis got to his car and went to open it, placing his food on the roof of his car with his hand. That was Spider-Man's opening. He leapt from his perched hiding place and descended from, firing a quick web at Davis' hand, ensnaring him to the spot. The man himself perked up to see his hand just in time to see Spider-Man land on the roof of his car.
Spider-Man got real close in the guy's face "Aaron Davis, remember me? I'm the guy who saved your scrawny butt yesterday and I've been looking for you. I want answers and you're gonna give them to me right NOW." Davis leaned back to make some room from him and the spider on his roof...
Before hurling his forward to headbutt the guy off his car. Spider-Man landed on the cold concrete with a thud.
"chikushÅ! Watashinokao!" He cried as he held his face in his hands 'Great, I'm so used to Spider-Sense giving me the heads up! I need to recharge, stat!'
Davis let out a disappointed breath as He tried using his keys on the web to free himself "Wow, kid, you new to this?"
"K-Kisama..." He angrily rose from the dirt.
"Wow, you really do sound like a girl..."
"H-Hey!" He switched back to understandable English "Take that back, I'm not a girl, Imma boy-" He paused "I mean, A Man!"
"I don't care whichever you prefer; Boy, Girl.."
"I'm not a girl, I'm a Man! Spider-MAN! That's who I am!" Shaking his head quick "Whatever! That is not important right now!" He yelled
"If you say so.." Davis said, getting bored of the situation and started to eat his food in front of Spider-Man.
Grr... I thought I was supposed to be the one making the other starve while eating food in front of them, not the other way around! "Davis, you know those guys under the bridge were! And by any luck of the imagination, you know who the guy with the wings is!"
"The guy with the wings? Oh, You talking about the Vulture."
"Vulture?" Spider-Man said, interested.
"Yeah, I don't know who He is in real life, all I do know is that He's the leader of the pack." He said nonchalantly while popping in a piece of Peking Duck from the small box in his hands.
"Wish I had a pen right now, what else do you know?"
"Why should I tell you? You tied me to my car, little man.." Davis said annoyed.
"B-Because.." The Spider-Man hesistated "These weapons, They're CRAZY dangerous. I came from a place called Sainan, and just one of those antigravity guns were able to explode and destroy an entire school!"
"Sainan high, right?" Davis said quickly
"Yeah!... How'd you know?"
"My nephew Miles told me, heard from a friend that her cousin was caught in a fire... I'm guessing that's what really happen?"
Thank you Peni Parker "Yes, if one not meant to blow heads off can do that, I can only imagine what one meant to that could do in the wrong hands..."
Davis was silent as He fiddled with his chicken. He then said "I was looking into it myself, There was a shooting closeby where my nephew lived, that's why his Mom and Pop put their faith in me to keep him safe While They're out, They never trust me with anything..."
"Because you did things?.."
Davis sent a glare at Spider-Man
"Sorry, My bad... I over-spoke.. I tend to do that..."
Davis sighed "Well, It's not wrong... I don't want these weapons in the neighborhood, My Nephew and his little Girly-Friend could get hurt..."
Peni... He's right. I have to stop these weapons.. "Then please help me. I have a connection to the avengers and We can stop the Vulture if you tell me where I can find him."
Davis shook his head "I'm sorry, I don't got much... I don't know who He is, besides a raging psychopath, or where He is..."
"No No No... Not a dead end..." Spider-Man leaned on the car in defeat.
"I didn't say that."
Spider-Man perked up "What?.."
"I'm telling you while I don't know where is or was, I know where He is going to be."
Spider-Man leaped in the air with joy "Yes! Yes! This is perfect!"
Davis smiled while popping a piece of chicken in his mouth "Call it thanks for making sure I wasn't shot, kid."
He stopped and stared at the man "D-Don't mention it, I'm a friendly neighborhood kind of hero."
Davis hmmpfed "This guy I used to roll with is making a deal tomorrow, A weird tail thing I think.."
"Huh? That is weird? Where's the deal taking place?" He said quickly
"Word of advice first?"
"Hmm?" Spider-Man tilted his head
"You really knew to work on your strategy if you're gonna finish this job, You REALLY sucked today."
The Spider-Man deflated "Oh... I'll take that into consideration."
Davis nodded "Staten Island Ferry, 11:00 AM Sharp."
"Staten Ferry.. 11.. Got it!" Spider-Man said before leaping over the car and landing on Davis' side "Thanks for the help, man." He said before walking to the Chinese restaurant
"Hey.. Aren't you going to get me out of this?" He points at his webbed hand
"I'll help you after a little dinner, call it payback for the headbutt."
"Motherfu-"
[India, That same day]
Tony Stark had always lived in the lap of luxury.
From his multiple (foxy) nannies as a child to stripping pole dance flight attendants as an adult, Tony was always one for the highlights of life. Which is why his career as a professional superhero always left so unreal to him even after all these years. the fact he had to crawl through mud to escape the cave was one thing, fighting terrorists, power mad conspirator, his own creation and aliens was something entirely different to man who used to wake up with a slamming model in his arms. Now He wakes up in his lab, creating the next innovation in his armor to protect humanity.
...Doing so much so that his friends are just a teeny bit overly concerned, more so since the mandarin thing a few years back when He neglected sleep to build almost 50 armors. But He can't help it.. He can't stop. He had seen it. The Endgame. Space, the final frontier. They weren't alone. There was something out there. Something waiting...
It was times like this He was happy Pepper Potts existed. the woman is an honest to god Saint for putting up with him for so long. She is able to hold him down but for only so long. He'd do nearly anything for her... Nearly meaning Stop being Iron Man. Whether He liked it or not, He was Iron Man. It ended up being why He severed his relationship, because He just can't. They still talk of course, She's the CEO and He was the Stark in Stark Industries, so of course They would meet up. Which was why He was in India doing a conference on the state of expanding Intellacrops in rural areas.
Tony Stark sat near a pristine marble state of Genash, Sipping a fancy little drink with one of those tiny umbrellas in them. flipping through his phone, he began work on a system update for F.R.I.D.A.Y., one to help with that deadpan snark of hers. It was in this time he was contacted by the second of his not-costumed coworkers, Good old Happy. Wonder what Mr. GrumpyPants wants right now?
He accepted the call and held his Stark Phone to his ear "Yello?"
"Tony. Hey, How expensive is that vase on the 47th floor?"
The billionaire quirks an eyebrow "The one next to the pool or the one next to the jukebox?"
"Uh... Juxebox, yup."
"Meh, not that pricey, just about a thousand."
He heard a distinctive spit-take on the other end.
"Dum-E again?"
A silence "Yes... It was Dum-E..."
Tony rolled his eyes "No hair off my back, Hogan, I use to wipe my nose with a few years back. Is that all?" Tony took a sip of his drink.
"If you say so.." Tony heard Happy breathe a sigh of relief "Also, Tony have you looked at that message yet?"
"Message? What message?" Tony questioned
"The one I sent your Email?"
"Hogan, I don't read my Email, Pepper does."
"Christ Tony, Beating up terrorists in five minutes but can't bother to remember a password you made?"
"That's what Pepper is for."
"How does that woman put up with you, I'll never know.."
Tony stilled for the briefest moment. Yeah... Pepper does put up with him a lot... Too much really...
"Look, Ask Pepper for your password and check it, I sent you something I think you ought to see."
Shaking his head, clear of thoughts, Tony asks "And whatever could that be, Happy?"
"A rookie hero popped and showed me a video of some weapons being sold."
"That's it?" He said offhandedly
"I saw it Tony, those things are pretty nasty." Happy said, with an air of urgency.
"Well... I'll guess have a look if you're having an egg about it..."
(The next Day, Day of the deal)
(Early Morning)
"Ugh, A history trip? I thought this was going to be fun?" Momioka Risa complained while wiping the sleep from her eyes. She was lazily flipping though a copy of the Daily Bugle, mostly to see the News of their hometown hero. Spider-Man in New York? hope something blows up...
"And all about such a drab time too? Yeesh..." Her partner in crime, Sawada Mio, moaned as well.
"Enough, I had heard enough out of you two." Head disciplinarian Kotegawa Yui scolded, feeling just as tired "This is a school trip, so it is expected you learn something."
She mutters in a low voice "Though honestly I'd wish you learn some manners already.."
"You're fighting a losing battle, Yui."
"STOP CALLING ME BY MY FIRST NAME!"
More students began filing into the first floor's lobby in all states of drowsy. It looked as if most had stayed up all night. Which was true. What? They're kids after all. The group already assembled eyed the crowd until two familiar girl walked in. One as bubbly as usual.
"Going on a trip! Going on a trip! Going on a trip!" Lala marched on.
"God dammit, it's too early for this.." A sleepy Run mutters panning her eyes over before quirking an eyebrow. "Where's Rito-Kun?"
This caught the others attentions as They scan the area for any sign of spiky orange-brown hair. There was none to be found.
Haruna was the one to break the news "Oh yes... Yuuki-Kun said He wasn't feeling well.. He had gotten takeout from a restaurant and said it didn't agree with him.."
"So He's gonna miss this trip? Lucky son of a gun.." Risa muttered.
"Oh for crying out- I came onto this trip to hang out with Rito-Kun, now He's sick!"
"Really? Just for Yuuki? Why?"
"I love him."
The air around the girls suddenly dipped ice cold after the proclamation. Two of them were pondering why the girl would bother with such a limp noodle. Another mutters about the utter shamelessness of the claim. One felt her world stop. And the other?..
"Whaaaaa?" Lala gasped
Run smirked under her glasses "He's the only one for me, without a doubt, The only other man I know is my brother and that's a can of worms I don't want any part of!"
Lala tapped her mouth "But I thought Rito was engaged to me..." Well, as the universe would think thanks to Zastin and Papa.
A gurgle escaped Haruna's throat.
Run did not notice this "Not officially, You have yet to receive a ring on your finger, so if He happens to go towards someone else, it's totally fair game."
"Really?" The pinkette said with a tilt of her head
"Yes... You didn't study intergalactic law, did you?"
"I skimmed it." *
"Of fucking course."
"Hold up! What are you talking? Engagement? Intergalactic Law?" Kotegawa demanded of the group
"Oh yeah, Yui-Yui, You still don't know? Lala-Chi and Run are aliens... wow, after all this time, that info just now processed in my brain." Risa imitates a exploding gesture with her hand on the side of her face. "Mind blown.."
"A-Aliens?" Kotegawa's eyes widened "Like the Chitauri?"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! What was that you said? The Chitauri?" Run said at the alert, not prepared to hear that name.
"Oh yeah, Rito told me about it. The chitauri had invaded here for one of the infinity stones." Lala said nonchalantly
"The what stones?" The humans echoed
"Invasion?! Infinity stones?!" Run shivered.
"But Rito said it was all cool, because the day some guys called The Avengers came in and kicked butt!" Lala preformed some martial art moves in the air.
"O-Oh... If Rito says We're okay from the Chitauri then We should be fine.."
Lala's brain immediately returned the image of the school being on fire. "Y-Yeah.. Hehe.."
"Lala-San?" Haruna looked at her in the eyes "What are.. infinity stones?"
Lala pondered for a moment "I don't really know, They are supposed to be legend, but Papa said They were real. Six concentrated ingots of power, birthed from the creation of the universe. They are supposed to control how all of reality works, but everyone just thought They were a tall tale... Except for Papa, He looked and even discovered the locations of a number of the stones, two being on earth, The tesseract being one of them."
Risa's mouth dropped "They are more tesseracts out there? and Your dad is trying to get them?" She said as Mikado-Sensei finally began to herd the students out.
Lala and the rest of the group followed "I thought so, but one day, He just stopped after a really cold mountain climb I followed him on.."
Yuuki Rito happily stretched and pose on top of the main office of the Staten Island Ferry.
"Alright Game day, This separates the Spider-Boy's from the Spider-Men! Hoo Haw!" He finished his rep with a One-Two punch combo. He was waiting for the Ferry to take off before He goes on to find the weapon sellers to try and not be seen prior to the deal and risk losing these guys again.
He did one final practice hop before crouching low to open his backpack He was leaving on the rooftop, He grabbed his phone and turned it on to check the time "10:57, eh? Oh well, I think I can get at least stop the Jazzercise and get close to the ship to make my jump." He said, placing his phone back in his pack, but before He could, it began to vibrate.
Curious, He inspected it to find an unknown number He actually recognized: Happy Hogan's! Rito picked up the phone curiously "Happy? But I'm the one who calls him, why would He call me?" He shrugs "Maybe a status change or maybe some news on the weather."
He tapped the accept call button.
"Y'ello? You're one and only Spidey bad guy delivery service, We are currently out of product but give it an hour and we'll have a fresh batch ready, exotic metal birds."
"Kid..."
"Oh Happy, what a pleasant surprise. I'm normally the guy who calls."
"Kid, there's a change of plans. I need you to not get on the ferry."
"B'waa? Wha'chu talking about?! This is my ONE mission and I'm looking dead at it right now." He gestured to the boat as if Happy could see him.
"Kid, I just think you can let the adults take it from here."
What adults?! I'm the only one-"
HONK HONK*
Rito's eyes widened as He checked the time "Oh no, I'm gonna be late! Later Happy!"
"Kid! I-"
Rito shut the phone off, Fitted it into the handy belt underneath his costume's torso* and ran to the edge of the building, seeing the Ferry begin to leave the port.
"No no no!"
At the very edge of the building, Rito slipped on his mask and braced his legs on the edge. He then vaulted several feet into the air and manages to latch onto the edge of the ferry
"Whew! Kinda cut it close there, Happy.." He mumbled while climbing down to view the windows "But Why would he want me off my own mission? meh, might not be important... I think.."
Spider-Man slowly crawled along the wall and peaked in a window to view the passengers inside
"I have to be careful... I don't think flying Vulture guy has all these guys on his budget, y'know at least I think..." he mumbled "Nevertheless, I need to be careful if they decide to drag in the bystanders.. Wait a minute.."
Spider-Man notices a familiar face on the other side of the passenger deck. He leaps back to the roof and scurried quickly to the other side and peaks inside the window closest by. There He saw exactly who He was looking for
"It's the guy from the bridge..." He whispered before looking at the guy sitting right behind him "With some bald guy... might be important..."
He pressed his ear against the corner of the window and could faintly make out "-e's up front, main deck."
a groan
"I hate this guy..." Okay, seller doesn't like buyer, noted.
A gravelly voice replied "Just keep me posted..." Okay, bald guy confirmed to work with sellers, is he important? to be continued...
"Whatever the case, I need to head up front." And with that, He left the window to scurry quickly to the front of the large barge. Tee Hee.
There He watches the most inconspicuous bunch of merry folk, waiting around with arms crossed. like seriously, could you look anymore suspicious? There's a guy with a face tattoo for crying out loud!
His rant was cut short at the return of the black seller (Need to figure out a better name for him) as He walked to the man with the face tattoo. Spider-Man quickly shot a small microphone gadget at the post directly above the two. The sounds of their voices becomes fiddled through another handy dandy calculator gadget.
"-White Pick - ZZT- Up Truck-"
Success! This hunk of junk works! Okay, He just needed to beat these guys and find this white pickup truck... He just needs to wait for the right moment...
Waiting for a good moment...
Waiting for a good moment...
Talking about some tail for some reason...
Waiting for a good moment...
Waiting for a good moment...
I want some Taiyaki right now... Damn it Yami...
Waiting for a good moment...
Waiting for a go-Huh? 'Here are the keys' He said?
Right now looks like a good moment!
Throwing a hand forward and pressing the trigger hidden in the center of his palms, Spider-Man fired a web directly at the criminals "I'll take those!" and hits the keys. He pulls the web back and snatches the keys in his hands "Yoink!"
The sellers, seeing him, pulled out their guns and aimed at him but Spider-Man quickly leapt from his hiding place and landed in front of all the sellers and buyer and landed with an impressive stomp to the floor,
"I'm sorry boys, but the illegal weapons dealing ferry was at 10:30! Ya missed it!"
Seeing his opponents aim their weapons back at him, Our hero quickly places a finger over the nozzle of his web shooter, causing the web to split in two directions at the two of the three standing before him already holding their guns, allowing him to yank the men forward and slamming them into the cars that were parked behind him as He flips and donkey kicks the third man off the boat before saving him with a quick web tug, allowing him to catch the edge of the ship.
'Learned that trick when Yami threw me into a steel beam and metal jammed into my web shooter... Damn it that girl is going to kill me one of these days...'
Suddenly He is blindsided by a blast of green concussive energy! Sending him flying off the ship in the air, this allows him to see the black seller from before now possessing one of the shock gauntlets the others had been using.
"God I hate that thing!" He says annoyed
He quickly fires two webs at the ship which allows him to slingshot himself back to it, He sees 'The shocker' prepare another blast to knock him out of the sky but our man quickly fires a web shot at his face, blinding him to allow Spider-Man to complete his journey and headbutt the shocker's stomach sending him into the ground with a crash. Spidey falls as well but recovers, running to the man and ripping the gauntlet off his hand.
"I yeet you!" He throws the gauntlet into the harbor as He hears a sound of people shambling to their feet behind him. He tilted his head enough to see the two gunmen from before run to their guns. With a flick of his wrist, He webs the nearest loose object, which is a downed motorcycle, and launches it at the the men, throwing them back to the ground with a rather painful thud which made our hero wince a little "Uh... Whoops?
He soon sees a man running from the other side of the ferry with a wrench in hand, intent to smack him with it. Spider-Man looked at him, as if to ask if He was serious before deciding to style on this fool. Reaching under his costume, He selects a special web cartridge with a blue line on it. He replaces the current cart in his right shooter and aims at the man... before aiming at a wall a bit ahead of the man, sticking a tiny ball to the wall.
Seeing this, the man laughs "Work on you aim next time, you-!" What He was gonna call Spider-Man, He would never know. As the man passed the ball, He activated the motion sensor, causing the ball to fire a web line at the man and bring him to the wall, trapping him there.
The hero chuckles as He snarks at the trapped man. "Hehe, Gotta love 'tripping' the competition." He laughed at his joke as He hears the others groan, in pain or from the pun He did not know. Nor cared. It was an AMAZING pun. Ha.
That when He saw him. The bald man from before. He stood on the other side of the ferry, their gazes met before the other man's gaze to his side for a quick second. Spider-Man followed the path of his opponent's eyesight to spot a white van. Just as He was told...
"You got party favors in there, chrome dome?! Too bad I'm crashing this party!" He had to stop him before He could grab any number of alien weapons that could lie in wait inside the car. It would be his luck on it being ANOTHER shock gauntlet.
The man rushes to the van and fumbles with his keys to open it.
Spider-Man smirked, This is going to be a peace of ca-
"FBI! Get on the ground!"
He jumps at the sudden voice. Before it multiplied into several voices as Several men with handguns started exiting doorways and poking their heads over the ledges He was at before. These men pointed their guns directly at him leaving the hero dumbfounded as He exclaims "The FBI?! What are you doing here?!"
The Federal bureau of Investigation, or FBI for short, did not answer his question and continued to aim their weapons at him, threatening to shoot. "Put your hands in the air!"
He did put his hands in the air, but only to frustratingly say "We don't have time for this! They are gathering weapons on the other side of the-"
"Quiet!" One shouted "Put your hands up or we open fire!"
"We are wasting time! The bald guy is gonna-!"
Suddenly the white van from the end of the ferry explodes into a flurry of scrap metal as a giant metal wing sticks out.
Spider-Man's eyes widened behind his unmoving lenses as He stares in horror at the wing as more of the van is ripped open like tin foil as a familiar form of the Vulture appears! 'The bald dude is the Vulture?!'
The men turn their attentions away from him look at the vulture who was quickly freeing himself from the white van, clutching onto one of the weapons He had seen before! The one that obliterated the trash can!. The government agents did not know this and began to fire shots at the winged man who dodged the bullets as He flew towards them, peppering in his own small shots at them making the young hero push the agents who were in direct path of the deadly plasma away before They could get themselves killed.
'How did this turn belly-up so fast?!' He screamed mentally
The vulture then used a new tactic, using his sharp talon-like feet, He grabs a nearby car and picks up the thing and flies faster towards them. Did not take a genius to know what the hell He was planning so the hero quickly hurls aside a agent who was directly in the way of the tossed car, taking the hit himself and slamming himself into a pole and-
*Crack!*
"Oh for fuck's sake..." He groans in pain as his left eye lens was destroyed, revealing his golden eyes to the world to see... Times like these made him wish He didn't have such anime eyes...
He wasn't the only one cursing today as the vulture sent the car flying into one of the buyers from before. Scorpion-Tat He think it was...
The vulture rises into the sky and looks down at the seen in front of him, looking at the 'Shocker', and with a firm tone "Get to the top deck, We're getting out of here!"
'Shocker' Begins to make his getaway as Spider-Man aims his shot at him, Seeing He still has trip mines, He fires and latches it to the man. When He tried to running to the stairs inside the ferry to ascend to the top... Before the mine went off, sticking him to entryway.
Feeling cocky, Spider-Man makes a quip to the flying vulture guy in the sky "Sorry bout that, but I think your buddies are just gonna stay awhile!"
"You little prick!" Vulture began to fire energy shots at the Spider who dodges the blast. He fires a quick webshot at the vulture's legs, trying to bring him down. The FBI, seeing this opportunity, begin to to fire shots of their own at the bird, helping as it distracts him from trying to fly up. The advantage goes belly-up when Vulture began to fire blasts at the FBI.
Spider-Man tried to help by yanking his web to make the vulture miss his shots and hit the ship instead, but He proved to be a fickle person who keeps fighting the web.
"I have to hold him down... But how..." He eyes a car behind him, forming a plan. He fires a shot at the car and hits it on the hood, He quickly takes the strand holding onto the vulture and ties it together. Vulture tries to pull away again only yo have the car pull forward and slam into a pole, rooting into place as the car bends into the pole.
Spider-Man quickly ascends to dodge more blasts from the vulture, which He fired very angrily. He fires another web shot to make another point of yanking when He see a shot coming for him, making him leap to avoid it.. but because of the web in his hand, He is accidentally thrown into a swing and is taken off the ferry and flown into the sky next to the vulture. Time slowed to a crawl as both adversaries look glances as each other, Spider-Man peers into the green LED helmet of the vulture's as the villain glares into his one glassed/one free golden eye. The vulture moves to aim a shot at him while He was midair but gravity returned soon after and Spider-Man was able to swing back onto the ship.
Free from any possible aerial spider attacks for the timebeing, The vulture quickly snatches the webline holding him to the car and clips it. The hero fires another line and hits the cannon itself! But due to being freed from anything to hold him down, The vulture pulls him off his perch and into a pole again.
Spider-Man groans in pain, hanging onto the pole to try and make the vulture land.. 'I need him to go down! The air is his playground, I can't fight while He's up there!' He changed the shooter that held the web connected to the vultures weapon into the Taser web setting 'His suit's electric! Maybe if I blast him, It'll short-circuit and get him off the air.. and even get rid of his pea shooter too...' Now or never, He decided as He cried out "ACTIVATE TASER WEB!"
At these words, pulsating electricity soared through the webbing all the way to Vulture's weapon. The energy reaches him and begins to shock his entire system with blue sparks a plenty dancing around. To end the shocks, Vultures releases his grasp on his weapon and it falls back onto the deck, bouncing several times. It seemed the fall played with the trigger somewhat, since the weapon began to jump sporadically like some jumping bean firing lasers.
Alarmed at the sort of damage that could arise from the device just by imitating a coked up on sugar kid, Spider-Man quickly fired the remainder of his web reserves at the device holding it down with the gun showing resolve and trying to break free from it's bind with no avail.
The hero breathed a sigh of relief before turning to look at the flying villain "One down, one to go!" He glared at the mastermind behind the operation "Vulture!"
The villain returned the glare as He said ominously "You are messing with things you don't understand!"
"Oh yeah? I can say the same about-!"
BZZT
"You..." The hero was caught off guard as to the left of his vision, a familiar purple beam of light rushed past him. The very same that ripped Sainan High in half. He spins to see the gun, no longer bouncing up and down but rather glowing dangerously a "Oh my god... I just fried a energy core, didn't I.." He feared, knowing the answer.
The gun, along with the energy core inside, erupt in hundreds of beams shone traveling in perfect unison across the boat with many of the passengers inside stepping from the center to avoid being sliced up, the hero closest to the weapon going haywire did his best to avoid the beams to not be bisected.
He backflipped to avoid a beam that got too close for comfort "No! If it continues..." Before He could finish his sentence, the weapon came out one last breath of life and self destructed, the explosion causing a blast that sent the hero back first into a pole.
The blast itself was a powerful one, causing the surrounding water near the ferry to fly several feet into the air.
All was still as the hero regain his bearings, a slight creak of metal rang in his ears, his sole relief is that he did not hear any cries of pain which He hoped meant nobody topside was injured. It remained for a few seconds, a silence pregnant with suspense...
The hero gulped "...I'm scared."
And without warning, in front of the hero, geysers of water began to erupt from the crack of the ship, soon enough the cracks in the bottom floor began to widened further and further until it was clear what was happening to the ferry.
"I split the ferry in half..." He said, horrified. He panicked as the ferry made itself quite clear it was split in two as both halves seemed ready to fall back and hit the sea floor. "What do I do, What do I do?!" He slaps himself calm "No time to panic, I need to plan.." He looked between the two ships to see the partition posts that helped retained the roof still stand "Maybe I can web all the posts together, keep the ship buoyant enough to wait for help from the shore.." He felt his body unconsciously switched his current web cartridges for fuller ones to make the plan work...
"But even if I did, the weight might be too much and cause the webs to snap before We-" A sudden shift caused the masses trapped on the ferry to cry in fear
"Looks like I got no choice!" He leapt in the air and landed on a wall, firing a web at it. He quickly hops to the wall adjacent on the other half of the ferry. Quickly He begins to bounce from wall to wall firing webs to try and stablyze the structure. He spins around posts to gain better leverage, He wraps multiple webs together in knots and He even fires multiple webs at once to try to keep steady, He keeps firing until He's on the other side of the ferry, shooters just about empty but the ship was properly secured. Spider-Man looks around in the sky to try and see where was the vulture was only to not find him as He probably escaped in the chaos... That sucks...
Many passengers cautiously breathed sighs of relief and begun to cheer. He even heard a camera flashing.. It made him feel good inside.
It lasted a moment.
Without warning, many web lines began to snap as the two halves of the Staten Island Ferry began to break apart, resuming their courses to fall back into the ocean. Spider-Man looked around in horror as webs snapped and fell useless to the sides. "I was too late!... No, No No!" He cried as more snapped away.
Only a few remained as the ship began to take in water with the cargo bay He was once on being completely submerged.
Spider-Man caught sight of the strongest looking web closest to him ready to give way, He feared if this one fell, the entire ship will come undone...
The line then broke...
And He leapt toward it! "NO!" And He grabbed the web that had just broked away, He then fired a new web to remake the previous webline with himself being the center, keeping the pressure focused on him. He felt great pain as bones began to pop and crack, his muscles being pulled and ripped, and even more web lines behind him fell.
He had to hold on, He had to keep... Great power... Great...
And then the ships bean to pull themselves together.
He could not believe it at first, but as the webs in his hands began to slack as he was lowered back to the deck, He could feel and see the ship being put back together. He had only one thought in his head He said aloud "What the hell..."
He could hear soft clack of metal on metal from the side of the ship, He peers out the closest window nearby...
And sees a silver and grey metal mask look at him "Spider-Man, huh?"
Spider-Man steps back alarmed. This was the War Machine! Colonel James Rhodes! A real member of the Avengers!...
A voice from behind the spider alarmed him as "Colonel Rhodes, We, along with Mr. Stark's android helpers, have managed to successfully place the ship together and it is ready to be welded." The teen turns around to see a man with a metallic red face with a glowing yellow stone in his forehead.
Spider-Man gasped. The Vision. THE VISION. Formerly J.A.R.V.I.S. the super A.I. Now perhaps the strongest Avenger...
Man, Did He feel small in comparison...
Both Avengers pull away from the side of the ship as the ship stayed in place... Somehow, was it robots? Vision said they were robots there...
Spider-Man quickly followed the two adult heroes as They use their individual powers to weld the ship together to float, Colonel Rhodes with laser gauntlets and Vision with his forehead beam. He spoke to the heroes "Um!... C-Colonel! Sir! Is there anything you need me to do?!" He squeaked
The man in the grey armor paused. He turned to Vision "Vision, Continue the repairs... I gotta take the kid away..."
The purple, blue and grey android looked at the spider teen with a hint of remorse before turning away to repair more of the ferry
This made the spider even more nervous "T-Take me away?... Where?"
The Colonel looked away, The Spider followed his eye line to see in the distance the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel Ventilation Shaft. "I've been told to take you there, Someone wants to talk to you, son.."
The young man felt a chill in his stomach "There's no way I can avoid this.."
"Unless you want to get arrested instantly, No."
The teen's shoulders slumped "I thought so.."
It was a quiet several minutes as Colonel Rhodes flew Spider-Man towards the shaft in silence. Soon did Spider-Man find out why they were traveling to the building as He could see a single person on the roof leaning against a banister on the phone, too busy arguing on it to notice the man in the metal suit drop him off.
"Fine! Just send the bill to Stark Industries! We'll sort it out and fix your boat!... What? A better one? Unbelievable, You win! You- Hold on.." The man turned around to regard them and Spider-Man could not believe his eyes.
The spiky black hair, the impeccable sunglasses, the thousand dollar suit and the attitude could only Aquitaine to one man in league with the Avengers... ANTHONY EDWARD STARK, Tony Stark, Iron Man!
Mr Stark regards the phone for a moment "Sorry, we'll talk later." He ends the call before walking towards them, He looks at War machine "Rhodes, You mind giving me a minute with the kid?"
Colonel Rhodes looked between him and the Spider-Teen before nodding and taking off, leaving the two on the roof alone.
"So, You're the Spider... Ling?"
Spider-Man's one eye blinked "Eh?"
"Crime-fighting Spider? Spider-Boy?"
The young hero bit back his annoyance at getting his name wrong "Actually, It's Spider-Man.."
"Right... Cause the onesie made it so obvious that you're an adult.." Stark quips back
Spider-Man wanted to retort but held back to prevent from making the situation worse than it already was "W-Well, It's Spider-Man... And it's not a onesie.." Yeah, Onesie's lose their appeal like... after your Three years old, anyone who would wear a onesie unironically is just a weirdo...
...Why Do I feel like I just insulted some blonde guy in like... the multiverse?...
Stark leaned on his arms overlooking the split apart wreckage of the Staten Island Ferry "You certainly know how to make an entrance, Spider-Lad. No. Really. Great job."
The young hero cringed as that line sounds like something He would think about Lala, Not himself. "S-Sorry."
"Sorry doesn't quite cut it. Like at all..."
Now He felt like a child who was caught with trying to glue together a prized family vase. Pathetic.. This was not how He was expecting this reunion to go...
"Okay, I can't take you serious with that thing, take it off."
Spider-Man blinked and faced the Iron Avenger "Eh?"
Stark hovered a finger over the mask on Spider-Man's face "The mask, Take it off."
"EH?!" He shrieked "I-I can't!"
"You will or I'll just have to report as a felon who split a damn boat in half to the authorities." He threatened in a tone most serious and sort of out of character for him "But I heard you were on the young side and I really don't want to bust a minor."
Had He been anybody else, Be it prime minister of Japan, President of the United States, or his own father, He would have accepted and jumped off the building.. But... He just wasn't anyone...
"Good Job, Kid."
With trembling fingers, His hand reached the top of his head. At the very tip of the mask, he gripped tight on the fabric. He hesitates going any further, He had to figure a way to escape somehow... But nothing in his head came to mind to stop himself from revealing himself to... his HERO...
Like ripping off a bandaid, He removes the mask with a quick flurry. He stood there, clenching the mask in his hand tightly that he felt he was crushing the only unbroken lens He had left in this mask. He knew this against everything He ever stand. He was not Spider-Man at this moment, He was ... Plain old Yuuki Rito...
He reopened his eyes to look at Stark, and while still blurry, He could make out Stark's face and was surprised to say the least.
Tony Stark stared at him as if He was staring at a ghost for some reason, He thought He already knew He was a minor...
Stark took a deep breath "So Hogan really did enlist a kid, Damn him..."
Rito quickly shaked his hands nervously "I-I coerce Mr. Hogan to contact you, please don't be mad at him.."
"Trust me, You are definitely not off the hook either, pipsqueak." The iron avenger swore, making the teen quake in his boots
The boy epped very nervously "S-Sorry..."
Stark breathed out and looked over the damaged ferry and himself for a few moments before saying "Why?"
"Eh?" He responded intelligently
"Why are you doing this, I mean" Stark clarified "What's your M.O.? What gets you out of your presumably twin bed every morning?"
Actually his bed was a Full XL, a nice comfy size that his Mom got at a really nice price for a custom but that was the least important thing to mention out loud. He reviewed the last few months of his life as Spider-Man "Because... I've been me my whole life.. and I've had these powers for almost a year now.." He thought of the times when He wanted to impress Haruna with his new found powers "I build computers, program software and make doodads, all the nerd crap... But now I could play Soccer, wrestling or Baseball with some sort of level of skill... But I couldn't before and I shouldn't now.."
"Because You're different now? Is that right?"
Rito leaned against the banister overlooking the waters below "Exactly.. But I can't just tell anybody that so I'm not.."
He thought of his mother's death that He could've have prevented, Norman's death that He could've prevented and the school's destruction He could've prevented. The sins of his past... His original Sins.
"When You can do the things I can do... but you don't... and when the bad things happen... They happen because of you..."
Stark looked at him, squarely in the face before turning away after looking at whatever what He was looking for "I know a thing or two about that.. I think we all do.."
Rito smiled "So you understand why I-"
"Why I must now ask you to knock it off."
Rito paused and stood there for a moment and looked at the professional hero, glass shattering in his ears for some reason. "Eh?...EEEHHH?!" He screeched
"Jesus, kid! You just blew out my eardrums!" Stark complained as He pushed a finger into the ear closest to Rito.
"What do you mean?!"
"I think I might have to get a hearing aid thanks to you.."
"Not that! The 'knock it off' part!? What does that mean?!" He screeched again
"What I'm trying to say is that You are way too young to be saying all this stuff, kid. I don't think even I was ready for all this and I'm three times your age, kid! You should just live your life AWAY from life and death situations especially since you're wasting this time to just be a kid that you'll just regret, leave it to us professionals." Stark relayed to him to calm him down.
But He didn't want to hear it, His mothers final advice echoed in his head, this was his responsibility! "But Spider-Man IS what I am! These powers, this identity... without it, I'm nothing!"
Stark stood tall before him, poking a finger into his spider emblem "If you are nothing with this suit, then you shouldn't have it."
It was then, like a snap, did He feel his heart feel like it had when He held his mother's hand.. When He found her killer... When He discovered Norman was involved with the goblin.. When He saw Haruna and Ren under the moonlight...
He felt... CRUSHED.
Stark wrangled his fingers together "Look... Kid."
His heart cracked even harder into dust with that.
He gave a nervous pat to Rito's shoulder, though He would prefer a punch to the gut which would perfectly describe how He felt. "You're still young, and I see that you do got a good heart... But you are not ready for this, saving the world. I would, personally, use my formative years to just be young, kiss a girl, get a girlfriend. Do not spend these years looking for this flying Vulture guy and go home. Your choice..."
Rito bowed his head in shame "Y-Yes, Mr. Stark..."
"Chin up, just... Watch yourself, No more funny business... And stay in Japan. I hear Spandex is still all the rage there."
He wanted to be angry, to smack that smug look off his hero's face... But all He can manage right now was a defeated "Yes, Mr. Stark..." He overlooked his mess of a ferry operation, a testament of how pathetically useless He was. "Can... Can I get a lift?... There's water everywhere..." He said
Another pat to the shoulder "Sure kid.." Again, He would prefer a punch to the gut, That would be honest...
Before He realized it, it was nighttime.
Rito overlooked the city as He swinged between buildings, the lively sounds of New York's life below did not reach him as He felt nothing but the cold realization that whatever He tries, He is bound to fail. His prospects? Shot. His relationships with friends and family? Doomed by guilt. Relationships in general? None to speak of. Why?
He glared at his webbed hand in anger. That's why. Spider-Man. Every good thing that has ever happened to him is now flipped upside down and down the shitter because of his 'Responsibility' that He never even wanted!
He attempts to throw another shot to the air to continue his swing but was met with the familiar sound of his web shooter emptily spouting air "No, No!" He fire from his other only to find it empty as well. "No!"
He sees where his trejectory was leading him towards: A solid brick wall high above a murky alleyway. His speed made trying to attach to the wall improbable and He ended up smacking right into it with a painful grunt. Disoriented, He fell into the alleyway below and slams his back into a closed large garbage receptacle, bouncing him off and slamming him into a puddle of murky alleywater, face first. He laid there, stun from the combo of beatings He had just received before He slowly pushed himself up. He held himself up with one hand while using the other to strike the puddle in frustration
"Oh great, just perfect! God, you listening? You love fucking with me, huh? HUH?!" He punches the puddle repeatedly, making splashes "First you gave me these stinken' powers, then you killed my mom to teach me not to be a dick and everytime I try not to be a dick, I get fucked! Mom dead, best friend's dead by me, I have a shotgun dad ready to kill the damn planet if I don't pamper his daughter who CONSTANTLY gets in my way to talk with the girl I like, and for what? Just to say I should turn the other cheek? Fuck that!"
He punches the puddle again before rising up from the water
"What else do you got for me, huh?! HUH?!" A flicker of paper turned his attention to the trash can to see a newspaper poking out... with his picture. He pulled the paper out to meet a headline
"Spider Menace Invades Brooklyn? Big Apple fears Spider-Bite?"
And of course the icing to this shot cake was the fact They use a picture He posted anonymously to try and get some money for the Bugle in japan. He got a measly 32 thousand yen, which is like 300 bucks, and They get to use his name to drag through the mud. "Of Yeah, of course... The public perception of me! Tenjouin-Senpai hates me, Kenichi Hates me! Kashiwagi Shiho hates me! This Jonah guy hates me! The police hate me! I hate me!" He rips the paper in half and tossed it aside "Be thou for the people and all that junk, wow! Ain't that good in practice! Twitter fires whenever I step foot outside my house and what do I get for sticking my neck out, Hate? bruised ribs? People trying to kill me and everyone I care for? No girlfriend? My family worrying I might end up being a drug fiend? ALL OF THEE ABOVE!" He punches the trash can... and steps back in pain "SON OF A BITCH!"
His back hits the wall as He stares at the spot He punched to only see the smallest of small dents there. He looks out at his hand still twitching in pain, that was not normal... He would be able to punch right through that usually...
That's when his mind came to the only conclusion possible "My powers..." He realized that it could only mean his super strength was gone... He spun around and tried to cling to the wall only to slip right off. He looks at his hands... and smiles "My choice... That's what He said... My choice... Yes, I have made my choice... For the sake of my own sanity... There is only one thing to do.."
He slips off his spider top to reveal his blue bruised skin "I was just a young unthinking child when I first became Spider-Man... But this past year has a way of showing how cruel and beautiful this world can be... and I am tired of only seeing the former..." He removes his boots and leggings to reveal a nasty looking cut on his thigh
He reaches into his backpack He had with him and throws his shooters in to dismantle at a later time for spare parts "But every boy, sooner or later, must put away the toys... and become a MAN." He places on his civilian clothes and slips on his glasses with a smile
"I am your plaything no more, I am the hero no more..." He lifts his horrid, despicable costume... and spikes into the trash, slamming the lid on top the disgrace to see a single glove poking out, perhaps trying to ask for help? To try and be saved?.. It won't get any..
He turns and walks away, feeling the best He has ever in a long time "I am Spider-Man... NO MORE."
Lala stares into the ceiling inside of the shower, naked but only standing as the water washed over her "Rito..."
And there goes what the most difficult chapter I have done in a LOOOONG time, I mean the last update was my birthday in November, Wow! The English dub is here! I got a copy and is amazing!... Baring a single "Misogyny" translation but I'm willing to give a pass.
This might be the most divisive chapter yet, and the next one is Lala going to a museum for... I'll leave it for later on because I wanted this to take up a greater focus as the few chapters, Rito is Spider-Man no more. And he will his friends be now that Rito is more than willing to wait than act? Find out next time!
Soon Rito's time in New York will come to an end, as well as his time in Remnant as well! I am in suspense as well as all of you as I don't know how that story is going to pan out.. But I'm willing to bet that Rito might survive... Don't quote me though.
And yes,Gid did try his hands at collecting the infinity stones... It was just first in reach was the Soul stone...
And yes, Lala referenced Scott Pilgrim vs the world
And Now I will rate the V.A.'s from the official dub and see how They rank to me: Starting with my main man himself, Yuuki Rito or Rito Yuuki In English.
When the announcement came, My head started going through various mainstream Voice Actors to see who could fit the bill and for the longest time, my heart was set on Yuri Lowenthal. Because I see his meek Simon voice/ Guy from Girls Bravo voice as being a good fit for Yuuki Rito who was always just as fidgety. Plus He was PS4 Spider-Man. High regards
Then Mr. Ry McKeand entered the stage. He is PERFECT. His screeches, his delivery and his dark mental screamed "He is the chosen one."
Final Score: Ry McKeand as Yuuki Rito: 10/10. Can't wait to see his interactions with Momo, Nemesis and Mea! And now that is the voice I will think of when writing these lines, but I will keep it as Yuuki Rito because That's what I'm used to.
Next Time: Alexis Tipton as Lala Satalin Deviluke, Because Next chapter is her experiencing Spider-Man No More in full as well as the horrors of humanity.
Spoiler warning, nobody is below an 8 in this cast...
Next Chapter: Raindrops keep falling on my head