Welcome one and all to my take on Spider Man. Just to tell you right now, this will not follow Peter Parker but my own OC Spider Man. There are many already, so I thought, why not do one myself. Also, ideas have been taken from the 2017 cartoon version, which I think is amazing by the way, just so you know. Now I'll stop rambling and just get on with it.
Here is my very own version of Spider-Man.
"Breaking news! Today an attempt to assassinate president Stan Lee was foiled by the Avengers, lead by Captain America, who will be receiving another Medal of Valor as he did during World War II, for it turns out these terrorists were in fact part of Hydra."
"In other news, the Mutant's Right Protection Act was passed in congress today by Senator Meredith Reins, who is not only a mutant herself, but a staunch activist against mutant hate groups, namely the Purifiers led by former Senator Robert Kelly."
"Today, the new MK Apollo Rocket launched from Dallas SpacePort, it holds some of Earth's most advanced technology and may be the first step to putting us on the galactic map as a whole like the Kree and Chituari who attacked our planet not to long ago."
A young man was standing on top of a building in New York City overlooking it, waiting for his chance to do good. In all honesty he could not believe what had happened to him and why he was doing what he was doing, but for the life of him, he couldn't stop.
The boy is 16 years old and is named Anthony Wells, a science nerd who attends New York PS 30 in Manhattan. He has dark brown close cropped hair, and bright green eyes, covered by black steel-rimmed glasses, although his glasses are just for show now, and his own amusement. For you see a few weeks ago, something extraordinary happened to Anthony, he became a superhuman.
He knew he was not a mutant, or inhuman since his powers would have manifested when he hit puberty, but when he and his class visited Alchemex weeks ago, he was bitten by a strange colored spider of all things.
He thought nothing of it, until he heard what the scientist at Alchemex were working on. Gene splicing, specifically cramming multiple traits of species of the same genus into genetically engineered animals, their current work was spiders.
Anthony panicked when he realized what had happened, he was afraid for his life, since unknown DNA had been introduced to his bloodstream, but strangely he felt fine, which lasted until he got home.
For that entire weekend he was confined to bed with what he thought was a serious stomach flu, however on Monday morning he felt fine, like it had never happened. Thinking it was all a dream, he got up to go downstairs for some water, and he noticed that his cover… stuck to his hand.
It was stuck like glue, and no matter how much Anthony tried to shake it off, it wouldn't drop onto his bed. It only got worse when he tried to pull it off with his other hand, that also stuck to the cover, so now both hands were stuck and he saw no way of getting them unstuck.
It was not until he relaxed that he felt the covered drop from his hands and onto his bed. Examining his hands for any signs of adhesive, he noticed, tiny stems protruding from his palms, and then they retracted like they weren't even there to begin with. It was the strangest thing in his entire life he had experienced, but as a scientist he only had one option, which was testing.
Conducting a battery of tests on himself, Anthony noticed a change throughout his entire body. He was strong enough to pick up a car, had enhanced reflexes like Captain America, could use the pricks on his hands to stick to walls, and when a baseball thrown by some kids was about to hit him from behind, a sort of ringing began in his head, alerting him to the danger. Without looking he caught the ball behind his back.
It was then confirmed, the genetically altered spider had imbued him with spider-like traits. The only question he had now was, what he wanted to use them for.
There were plenty of people who had powers but didn't use them, like mutants and inhumans, but Anthony didn't feel totally comfortable about being given such an amazing gift and sitting around doing nothing with it.
A week passed as he was pondering what to use his power for when the event that set him on his new path occurred. He was walking home from school, when a mugging took place right in front of him, the guy came toward Anthony, and he knew he had to stop him.
So with no hesitation he punched the guy right in the face, bringing him down and stopping the mugging, he also noticed a new power not seen previously, his hand for a brief moment became talon-like. He had tried to activate the power again, but to no avail. It frustrated him, but he felt that if he needed it, the same thing would happen again, so for the time being he chose to work with what he had, which was quite versatile actually.
After taking everything into account, he decided to go by Spider-Man, a moniker that suited his power set.
"Ok, time to show everyone what I can," Anthony muttered to himself, standing on the ledge of a high rise building. He was watching a bank robbery in process, if he didn't step in and soon, they were going to get away.
So with trepidation he checked himself one more time to make sure nothing gave his identity away. He was dressed in a pure black hoodie, with a black skee mask and red goggles over his eyes to keep the wind from scarring them, on his leg were black jeans with red sneakers on his feet, and black gloves on his hand, with web shooters secured to his wrist. He figured he was going to need webs to be an actual spider, so he fashioned tiny rectangular web shooters to aid him in this endeavour.
"Check, check, and check," he looked downard again, "ok, time to get started as Spider-Man."
"Suspects fleeing the scene!" An officer yelled, returning fire with his gun, as the suspects shot at the cops with their own, but automatic assault rifles.
The van they used was started up and they took an alley to small for police cars to travel through, thinking they were home free.
"Oh no you don't" Anthony muttered. He ran along with the van, then when the right moment came, he jumped off the building and fired off webbing, praying it would work. As he felt the tug of the webbing, he could help but grin.
'It's working, it's actually working!' He excitedly thought, as he swung further and landed with an audible thud on the roof of the can. Making sure he was secure, he used the side mirrors to try and see how many there were inside, but he could only see the driver and the one in the passenger seat, plus the one in the back made three, but he was going to be careful. One wrong move and he might be greeting the afterlife early.
"Hello there," Anthony joivally said, putting his head next to the driver's face upside down.
The driver was shocked that someone was talking to him at all, much less holding onto the van from the outside, he quickly glanced at the speedometer and saw he was going 60 mph, which shocked him even further. He knew whoever the person was talking to him, was not normal at all.
"Think you could pull over," Anthony pointed to the curb up ahead, "kinda getting a bit motion sick riding out here."
"Die, freak!"
Anthony pulled his head up just in time, as the bank robber in the passenger seat began to unload a handgun clip to where his face just was. The ringing reaching Anthony's ears, despite the wind as well.
Anthony shook his head, "ask people nicely and they still won't help you out." Anthony broke his was through the roof of the van easily, and took hold of the steering wheel, swerving the car back and forth, making it scrape the sides of the alley and tearing off the rear view mirrors.
The bad guys were so distracted by the serving, they weren't stable enough to reach for their guns and try and shoot Anthony through the roof. In fact, the driver accelertated on the gas, pushing them close to 95mph.
'To fast, to fast!' Anthony thought, there speed was way to high, and at that exact moment the van chose to fly out of the alley, a crowd of pedestrians on the street.
'What to do, what to do!' Anthony took stock of his surroundings, there were pedestrians, crosswalks, a skate bark… 'Wait, that's it!' Without hesitation Anthony swerved the van and crashed through the fence of the skate park.
The van flew into the air, but Anthony had already jumped off and landed on the ground, securing his body in a good stance, he caught the overturned van with both hands, his feet imprinting in the concrete a bit from the sudden force and weight added to him. "And that's an alley oop," he joked, eliciting cheers from the bystanders. A smile gracing his face under his mask.
After he placed the van down, standing upward, he ripped off the door hinges and webbed the two in the front seat, then he moved to the back and cracked it open to make sure no nasty surprises awaited him. His prayers were answered, as there was only one guy in the back, passed out like the others in the front, Anthony webbed him up as well, hearing the sounds of police sirens as he finished.
The officers exiting their vehicles were a bit confused at the scene in front of them, until one went up to Anthony.
"Hey guy, who are you, never seen you before?"
Anthony turned to him with his hands resting in his coat pockets, "Me, well I'm just your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man."
"Spider-Man?" The officer scratched his head, coming to a blank with the name. "You knew kid?"
Anthony nodded, "today was my first day, and I don't think I did to shabby if I say so myself." Before the officer could ask more, Anthony shot out a web and took off.
The other officers went down to see the scene. "Who was that?"
"He calls himself Spider-Man," the first officer said, with a small smile on his face.
Thus, this was the day, Spider-Man was born.
A/N
I know its a bit on the noise and reminiscent of the first episode of the 2017 series, but I like it. No supervillains yet because Anthony is just starting out as Spider-Man, I wanted him to have at least a successful first mission before he takes on bigger challenges. Which will becoming up.
I'm not sure how many arcs I'll do for this story or how long I'll carry it on, but what I do know is that for the foreseeable future I'll be updating it here and there. So please take the time to read it and send me any comments you may have.
Also for the animation picture Marvel's Spider-Man 2017, only without them looking like stick figures, thanks.
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