Chapter 9
Anger Issues
After swinging over the city streets for about 30 minutes Spidey landed on the side of a brick wall before turning toward a large building with a large crowd of civilians urging to enter the hospital. "Great the press followed them here." Said Spider-man before jumping off a roof and landing in a dark alleyway. 5 minutes later Peter Parker emerged from the entrance of the alleyway wearing the same black jacket , jeans, and shoes as he walked down the side walk towards the entrance.
After crossing the street standing between him and the front entrance of the hospital was an angry mob of cameras and photographers demanding to be let threw. Peter tried his best to pass threw the crowd without shoving anyone aside but since their full attention was getting inside , Peter was being shoved around until he finally squeezed passed the mob only to encounter one of the officers holding them back. "Sorry sir , you can't come in here, no cameras." Said the officer. "I'm not a reporter man , my sister s in there , and I need to make sure she's fine." Shouted Peter as the mob shouts were nearly overpowering his voice. "Yeah like I've never heard that one before, if you are related to someone in there you probably should've gotten here sooner." Mocked the officer. "No offense Officer but I've had a really shitty night so please just let me see my family or else I ll." , "Do anything and I'll put you in the . "It's okay officer , let him threw , he's a sibling to the woman who was in the museum break-in ." said Captain O'Connor resting a shoulder. The officer looked back at Tynan then at Peter. "Sorry sir." Said the officer before letting Peter pass which made the crowd shouting growing louder and louder.
"Why does he get to go inside." Yelled a woman as Peter turned to Tynan. "Thanks." , "Don't mention it and you better hurry , I just heard from Ryan that she just got out of surgery , it's not good." Said Tynan as Peter nodded before sped walking into the building. After asking the lady in the front desk which room to go , he made his way into the elevator and waited impatiently as the elevator made its way to the 45th floor. Once the doors opened down the hallway passed other patient rooms. Peter saw a small group of people in their mid 20s stood and leaned in front of a door with a number on it "13".
As Peter passed nurses in white clothes carrying clipboards and doctors escorting patients on tables who couldn't walk or were so sick, he made it to the room and saw that Ryan, Carmen, Walker, Cameron, Maria, Kasey and Christian were among the group talking with the, until Carmen turned to see Peter. She gave him a welcoming until Peter felt a slight pain in his torso. " hey guys oww." , "sorry." Said Carmen. "It's okay , nothings broken, just some bruised muscles and organs , maybe a few ribs." Said Peter earning a chuckle from the group. "Jeez you look like hell." Said a man with brown hair and a brown mustache. He wore a blue shirt with a name on it ,Washington Swim team", he had on jeans and running shoes and seemed the tallest person in the group. "You should see the other guy Coulson." Said Peter. "We came here as soon as saw it on the news." Said a woman with brown hair and wore a greenish shirt and also wore jeans. "Jeez I can't believe someone would do this to anyone, even Meghan.".
"Well savannah it could have been worse if Spider-man didn't so up." Commented Ryan. "Wait a minute , you guys got saved by Spider-man?" asked Will Myslak another person who seemed to be part of the group Coulson and Savannah were with. He had dark hair and was a foot taller than Peter , he wore a black jacket and jeans. "Yup , he showed up just before that guy in the hockey mask got to Mj and Peter." Said Ryan before giving Peter a hidden wink. "I heard from a police interview that the guy is just an escaped psychopath. But I heard some post that the guy is some legendary psychopath from Jersey. Jason something." Paused Coulson. "Jason Voorhees?" asked Will. " That's the one.". " Come on isn't that some ghost story to scare kids?" said Ryan thinking that it's a bunch of hocus pocus. "Speaking of Mj she's inside with you cousins and Conor and Molly." Said Maria.
"Thanks and what happened to Andy?" asks Peter realizing that Andy wasn't with them. "He decided to head home along with Tommy, Ginny, Paul and the rest of them , and that poor kid with the dogs , he's okay his parents arrived and took him home , jeez he must have been freaked out." Said Maria as she remembered the look of terror on that boys face. "He's a strong kid , he'll be fine." Said Peter before passing by and entering the room. As the door closed behind him Maria joined in on the conversation between Coulson , Will, and Ryan. "Maybe the story is true that guy literally took multiple gunshots and he still got up." Said Maria. "He was probably wearing a vest." Said Ryan.
After talking with his friends in the hallways , the first thing in front of Peter was Meghan in a bed with blue blanket over her, she had an oxygen mask connected to her mouth and a heart monitor on her right. On each side of the bed stood Peter's relatives. On the left side of the bed stood Brooke, Molly, Conor, Keeley, Reagan, and Emily. On the right side of the bed closer to Peter stood Jessica and Noah. As soon as Peter entered the room , "Well look who finally decided to show up." Said Emily giving Peter a look of disappointment. "Come on Emily it's not that easy getting in here, didn't you see the mob?" said Jessica. "Or you were too busy playing with another friend who you screwed over." , "He's not my friend Emily." Defended Peter.
"I don't know what you problem was between you and that guy but honestly I really don't give a crap." , "Then why are you acting like this is all my fault?" asked Peter. "Because Meghan is like this because of you." Said Emily making everyone else look shocked at what her statement. "If you didn't bring us all to that museum Meghan or all those people wouldn't dead." , "Do I look like I'm glad we nearly got turned to fish sticks by a guy in a hockey mask? News flash ,I'm not." Argued Peter getting pissed. "Hey guys calm down, blaming each other isn't going to help Meghan." Said Brooke. "Yeah guys don't fight , and beside s it's not Peter s fault , he didn't knew that guy was gonna just show up." Said Jessica.
"Maybe but sense my fearless brother is a crime fighting nutcase who wears a mask , you'd think he'd handle some guy with a machete." Said Emily. "First of all keep your voice down and second that wasn't just some fisherman , he s barely even a man at all." Said Peter. "How'd you know?" asked Conor curiously. Peter stood there quite not sure of what to say until , "It's a long complicated story." , "Then by all means uncomplicate it." Ordered Emily. "Take it easy Emily." Said Mj putting a hand on her shoulder. "Stay out of this, this is a family conversation." Fired Emily. "Hey I have a write to be involved in this too Emily.". "Since when?" asked Emily in a smart-mouth tone. "I don't know maybe since I married your brother."said Mary Jane. "Ouch." Said Conor , "touché." Added Noah. "Emily you wanna blame me fine , but don't talk like that to my wife." Said Peter just as the doctor came in. At that moment every one stopped talking.
"Is this a bad time?" he asked. "No not at all."said Noah. "Here are her results." Said Doctor giving Peter a clipboard with a sheet of paper. Peter looked at the paper with Noah, Jessica and MJ over his shoulders. His face went from confused to worry as he gave the clipboard back to the doctor. "So the good news is she passed the surgery." Said Peter. "But the bad news is , we don't know for sure if she'll fully recover." Finished the doctor. "What are you saying?" asked Emily. "Due to the severed nerves that were damaged , if she does recover she may never be able to swim or walk , and if the damage is to great , well you should consider using life support in case." , "So you're saying that there a high chance we might loose her?" asked Keeley. "Like I said its uncertain for now, but we'll no later on , for now she needs rest." Said the doctor before exiting the room.
Everyone stood silent for a few minutes before tears started running down Emily s face as she headed towards Peter. "Emily I- oof." Said peter just as Emily swung her hand at him smacking him across the face leaving a red mark on his right cheek. "EMILY." Said Reagan shocked. "You stupid self-rightest bastard, you son of bitch , this is your fault , your fault , you caused this." cried Emily as she threw her fists at Peter would stood his ground until Conor , Brooke and Keeley pulled Emily back. At that moment she buried her face into Conor as she cried her eyes out. Conor put her arms around her doing his best to comfort her. Peter just stood there , his face trying to process what just happened and what the doctor said until MJ put a hand on his shoulder . "I think we should be going." She said. Peter could only nod as he follower her out of the room , "Will see you at the apartment buddy." Said Noah as the door closed behind Peter.
As Peter and Mj entered the hallway The swim team and Carmen, Walker, Cameron, Ryan, Maria, Christian and Ryan. "Hey are you okay buddy?" asked Coulson. Before Peter could answer a nurse approached the group with a vase of flowers. "Special delivery for the lady." Said the nurse. "From who?" asked Walker as Peter took the flowers. "Secret admirer." Said the nurse as she turned around and started walking away. "Peter took the note and opened it to see that the card had written on the from section , " old friend of your brother.". "What does that mean?" asked Will out loud. "Peter." Said Cameron tapping him on the shoulder as he looked down the left hallway. Peter turned to see the person Cameron was watching. Peter, Walker, and Cameron s faces went pale as they saw a man that seemed to be in his late 20s , wearing a black jacket and black jets pants and shoes watched back at them with his blue eyes as headed for the elevator. "Who's the blonde guy?" asked Will noticing the man s blond hair before the elevator closed on them. "You two go I'll stick with Meghan for the night." Peter and Cameron nodded before turning to the others. "I just remembered I better go call Jameson before he fires me." Said Peter as he made his way to the elevator. "And I gotta use the restroom." Said Cameron as he followed Peter. "So how's the team going?" asked Walker as the others turned their attention to him.
While Walker talked to the others Cameron and Peter waited in the elevator as it ascended towards the roof. "Should we get ready for a fight?" asked Cameron as the elevator started to slow down. "No , he didn't seem to be in a hurry , let's wait and see what he wants. But in case we're walking into a trap be prepared." Answered Peter just before the elevator doors revealing the same guy that was watching them who was leaning beside a large brick chimney with his arms crossed in front of his waist. "Eddie? What the hell are you doing here." Asked Peter as he approached him with a fist.
"Now is that anyway to greet an old friend , we were in the neighborhood and saw your sister being escorted inside the hospital. We thought we'd pass by and pay our respects , and speaking of old friends. You can come out Miles." Said Eddie as Miles behind Eddie without making him turn around. As he backed up to Peter s side Miles said , "My friends call me Cameron now and then." Said Cameron. "New name , same tricks. Nothing like a terrible event to bring the whole family together right Parker." Said Eddie as Peter grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and pinned him against the chimney , anger burned in his eyes as he threatened Eddie, "if you're here to humor yourself or threatened me by getting to my family, you chose the wrong time to try that." . "Relax Pete we're not here to fight you, we came to send flowers to your sister." Said Eddie not seeming to be worried or angry than he usually is.
"Then why are you here?" asked Peter as he released his grip. "Just like you we believe in defending the innocent and when I heard that Spider-man went bezerk on someone or something we were curious. "So you're here to help out, we'll hate to break it to ya , but you're a little late for that." Said Cameron. "We know , I guess Stark is both good at being a billionaire and farther-figure ha Pete?" said Eddie as he turned to Peter who was not in a mood for any jokes , especially any from this guy. Just before Peter was about to say anything Police sirens started going off from the city streets in front of the hospital. Cameron ran to the edge of the roof and caught sight of Tynan entering his car before backing out of the parking lot and driving onto the main road with 6 police cars following behind. Cameron turned to Peter, "Looks like somethings happening down town Tynan just took off with a squad of cops.".
"Well its looks like you both are needed else-where , looks likes we should leave you too it." Said Eddie as he started to walk off, "NO way, I'm not letting you walk anywhere without being sure that this isn't a trick." Objected Peter as he fired a web line at Eddie hitting him in the shoulder. Eddie flinched before a black liquid looking tentacle came out of the back of his jacket and wrapped around his wrist and swung him over Eddie before another tentacle came out and wrapped around his other hand making Peter hang in front of Eddie by his arms as he stared at Eddie at eye-level. Cameron was about to charge at Eddie before stopping as Eddie spoke, "We really don't want to fight you but if you insist we will." Claimed Eddie as black liquid like tentacles start to consume his face , "All we want to know is figure out who his knew player is and why he seems to wants you dead more than we do." Said Eddie as he placed Peter down.
"As long as you stay away from my family , I don't really care how or what you and your alien jello buddy do to meet that thing , bro." threatened Peter as he gave Eddie an angry look before running towards the edge of the building and jumped off the edge before swinging off, Cameron gave Eddie one last look before throwing off his jacket and pants revealing his spandex suit and followed Peter as he put on his mask. "Well now we're determined to meet this guy , apparently the spider hates him so much that he's willing to let him die, interesting." Said Eddie to himself as he went the opposite way and started jumping from building to building.
After swinging for about 10 minutes , Spider-Man and Kid Arachnid who was now in his black and red costume stood perched at the edge of a roof. The two looked across the street over ongoing vehicles that passed by a large harbor with green, blue and red harbor crates laid stacked in 3s created a kind of maze that stood in front of a large building with a sign that stood in the darkness. The two masked heroes caught sight of pitch black mustangs and insurgents parked in front of the building almost invisible from its massive shadow.
"So should we go through the roof, or an air vent?" asked Kid Arachnid just as he turned to see that his partner was already swinging towards the large glass window. "Or just rush in and cause chaos like crazy people." Said Kid Arachnid before swinging after his partner hoping that they don't end up getting killed tonight. Once Spider-Man landed on the roof he stomped towards the large window and took a look inside. Looking through the window he saw a group of 7 to 9 thugs all dressed in tuxes and armed with rifles talking to a large group of thugs who were dressed in black hoodies and blue jeans. The two seemed to be in an argue as each one of them men started pointing their weapons at each other.
Spider-Man didn't seem to care about what there fighting over and why as he lifted his foot preparing to break the glass. "What are you doing? Don't do that!" yelled Kid Arachnid trying not to shout. "Why not?" Snapped Spidey. "Look I get to pissed off to think man and all you wanna do is beat someone up with your fist, but you're not bullet proof man. And of all the crazy stuff we do , I don't think jumping into a wear-house and landing in the middle of a gang war is our style." "Got any better ideas?" asked Spider-man sarcastically. "Yeah , turn the lights out." Answered Kid Arachnid as he opened the window before jumping down followed by Spidey. The two landed on a large wooden box that stood over a tower of boxes almost reaching the roof. Thanks to the shadows of the ceiling the masked vigilantes moved swiftly over the thugs. "Looks like a weapons deal has gone wrong." Said Kid Arachnid.
"Then let s end the deal." Said Spider -man as he pressed the spider-emblem on his chest. Then a small emblem came off the suit revealing to be a small black drone in the shape of a spider. "Droney , jam their weapons." Ordered Spider-Man as the drone hovered towards the thugs , the groups were too busy argue each other that they didn't notice the drone placing small devices onto the guns. Once the drone went back onto the suit , "Karen on my cut the power of this in 3 , 2, 1." Said Spider-man just as the lights over the thugs went out. "What the hell happened to the lights?" asked a thug who had fear in his voice. "Is this you're doing punk , are you and you're King Pin too scared to fight us in the dark?" yelled one of the fancy thugs. "Says the guys who follow a ghost who goes by the name Tombstone. "Sounds like you guys gonna need time bonding behind bars." Said Spider-Man as he swung kicked one of King Pins thugs into a large wooden box knocking him off. "AH CRAP." Yelled one of the thugs as they all drew their guns and started firing their weapons like mad men.
"STOP , STOP, HOLD YOUR FIRE, HOLD YOUR GODDAMN FIRE." Ordered one of the thugs as the hellfire of bullets stopped and the room was in complete darkness once again. The only sound that could be heard was the heavy breathing of the thugs. One of them frantically searched their back pocket until he pulled out a small flash light. "Guys , guys where are you? Oh my god." Said the thug as he shined his light down to see a large body of the many of Tombstones guys on the ground with puddles of crimson red liquid forming under them.
The man holding the torch heard something fall behind him as he instinctively turned and drew his revolver. "No wait don't shoot , don't shoot." Said a thug who raised his hands in surrender revealing to the spook thug that's he's part of his crew. As the two lowered there guard they were completely unaware of the two figures hidden in the shadows perched above them. "Alright lets web ups these two and leave them and their friends for the cops. I'm still surprised we didn't get any of them seriously injured when we scared the , SPIDEY?" hissed Kid Arachnid as he saw his partner who paid no attention to him make his way down to the two thugs. The two thugs turned to see one of there's moaning in pain as he held his hands over his left leg which had a small hole of blood coming out of it from the knee. "How are you alive?" said the thug holding the flashlight. Before the cripple could answer the thug behind him screamed as his friend turned shining the light on his attacker.
"HOLY SHIT." Yelled the thug as he fired at Spider-Man he quickly released his grip on the thug and jumped to the air firing a web , but a bullet went right to his leg piercing his skin making Spidey descend to the ground. "Who was that , was it Spider-Venom or Spider-man?" asked the thug as he got to his feet. "OH MY GOD , I JUST SHOT SPIDER-MAN." Said the thug surprised. "Did you kill him?" , "Let's find out." Replied the thug as he held both his flashlight and weapon firmly as he and his partner headed to wear Spidey landed. Spidey landed hard on a wooden box and couldn't lift himself up due to the excruciating pain in his leg. Kid Arachnid landed right to his side trying not to make too much sound. "I told you not to be completely stubborn.
Come on let s no." said Kid Arachnid as he tried to lift his ally. "NO NO don't arggghh." Yelled Spidey as he pushed his ally back. "What are you doing man?" , "You need to get out of here now." Said Spidey. "What I'm not leaving you." Said Kid Arachnid. "No I mean you really need to get outside." Said Spidey as he started groaning in pain and his body started twitching painfully. He then lifted up his black mask revealing his sweaty face , but what got Kid Arachnid s full attention was Peter s eyes which turned from dark brown rounded pupils to bright yellow with narrow pupils.
"RUN." Yelled Spidey as he threw his head back and yelled in agony. "Crap." Whisper Kid Arachnid as he fired a web-line and started swinging to the large door , just before he did he was greeted with a large shockwave which knocked him to the ground landing on top of a pile of wooden crates. The crates smashed to small pieces from Kid Arachnids weight. "It's about time someone squashed one of you little pests." Said a voice that sounded all too familiar. "Oh No , I know that voice." Thought Cameron as he turned to see a man wearing a yellow and brown jacket and brown pants.
He had on a metal mask with yellow eye lights staring him down and on his arms laid large metal-like gauntlets. "Shocker we really should take this outside man." Said Kid Arachnid. "And miss this opportunity burry on of you spider wannabes , no thanks, you two get Spidey, I got his little sidekick." Said Shocker as the two thugs made their way to where Spider-Man landed. "You guys don't want to do that, get out of here now." Yelled Kid Arachnid just before shocker pointed his gauntlets at him and another shockwave pinned the young hero to the ground.
While Shocker was torturing the masked Hero, the two thugs turned to see spider-man in the shadows tossing and turning on the floor yelling in agony, the thugs could barely see him as they approached him but they moved cautiously as some of his moans almost sounded like growls. "Wow man , you must of hit a nerve." Said the unarmed thug. "Well why don't we just put him out of his misery." Said the armed thug as he approached Spider man raising his gun high preparing to swing a Spidey. Just before he did he felt an intense pain at his foot , he looked down to see what looked like teeth around his leg, he yelled before he was pulled into the shadows. "HOLY SHIT." Said the thug as he backed away from the shadows.
Even Shocker and Kid Arachnid turned to see the petrified thug , "Hey what's going on back there?" asked Shocker just before a figure was thrown over the thugs head and landing into a large cargo table , the figure dropped to the floor revealing the thug that was taken in the shadows, He now had a massive bite marks on both his legs as blood dripped onto the floor forming a puddle under him.
"What the hell is th-oooof." Said Shocker as a fist knocked him back, Kid arachnid quickly got to his feet and wrapped his arms with webbing before putting him over his shoulder and swinging towards the large wooden doors which had multiple thugs limping out of the warehouse. As Kid Arachnid moved through the doors he turned back to see the large figure make his way after him as it inhaled a large gust of air. "OHH SON OF A BI-AAAAAHHHHH." Screamed the masked hero as a wall of fire exploded from behind him, sending him to land hard on the ground along with an unconscious shocker.
Kid Arachnid turned to see the warehouse engulfed in flames as large four-legged creature emerged from the rubble. This massive creature had blue scales all over its body is about 19 feet from the ground with large blood red wings. His face had bright yellowish eyes as sharp red horns on its head were illuminated by the raging fire. Then the sound of blades and sirens went off as Kid Arachnid turned to see 9 police Cruisers park in front of him as 4 police helicopters hovered over the remains of the warehouse as they had large search lights lighting up the large reptilian animal as it roared at them in fury as the lights shined in his eyes. Kid Arachnid could get a clear look at its body down which was covered in dark blue scales and horns leading all the way to a large scaly tail with red spines covering the end as it swung in the air defensively. "Both of you freeze." Yelled an Officer as he and 4 of his buddies drew their guns On Kid Arachnid and Shocker who was wiggling around like a trapped bug. "Who guys I'm not with him." Said Kid Arachnid.
"Stand down men we got bigger problems at the moment." Interrupted Tynan pointing to the large lizard as the choppers circled it in the air. "On my mark, I want all weapons to stun , not kill , I repeat not kill." Ordered Tynan as he yelled threw his radio. "Captain your tranquilizers won't get him, you'll only piss him off." Said Kid Arachnid. Just as he said that one of the Choppers got too closed to the giant reptile s head. "What is that, some kind of Dragon?" he asked just before a massive arm swung at the vehicles tail hitting it as it spun out of controlled and landed in the water as the pilots swam to safety. "You've got any better ideas?" asked Tynan. "I've got one and there's a 50/50 chance it'll work." Said Kid Arachnid. "Great?" said Tynan sarcastically as Kid Arachnid swung at the large Dragon who was now swatting at the circling Helicopters who were now raining down bullets.
"All choppers pull out , I repeat pull out." Ordered Tynan as his voice rang out threw each of the choppers radios. "Is he serious? A few more minutes and we can nail this thing." Said a pilot. "You heard the Captain and besides its looks like we're only pissing that thing off , WATCH OUT." Yelled another Pilot just wave of fire went into one of the choppers tail melting the propeller as it descended to the ground with an explosion. At that moment the 2 remaining chapters ascended further away from the enraged beast as Spidey swung by and fired web-bullets at the creatures face. The creature shifted its head down as it saw the small figure before it started snapping at Kid Arachnid as he dodged every attack. "Come on man, let's play follow the leader." Said Kid Arachnid as he jumped from the burning dock before swinging below it as his feet were mere inches from the ocean. Behind him the Dragon lunged into the water after him as it chased its prey like a crocodile. Kid Arachnid caught sight of a large man hole which lead into the sewer streets, "Sorry to do this Buddy." Kid Arachnid entered the hole as the large dragon followed. It's roars echoed threw the tunnel until suddenly there was silence. As the tunnel remained silent for 9 minutes Captain Tynan cautiously approached the wooden railing with 3 officers on his right.
Suddenly Kid Arachnid jumped in front of them out of nowhere as Tynan and the officers backed up startled. They quickly calmed down once they realized who it was. "What happened to that thing?" asked Tynan. "Don't worry about it , it's gone now." Answered the masked superhero just as he was about to leave a hand grabbed him by the arm. "Hold on, you may be a hero to everyone but right now we have a burned down ware-house , multiple street thugs shot up and alive including Shocker, and now some kind of giant winged lizard just showed up and you seem too calm right now." Said Tynan. "Captain Spidey and I are the ones that got shocker and his gang, we're the good guys here." Said Kid Arachnid. "So where's Spider-man then?" , "He , he left." Said Kid Arachnid. "He left?" said Tynan not buying it. "We got separated when that thing showed up , but don't worry it went out to sea." Said Kid Arachnid.
The captain took a breath before releasing his grip, "Fine but next time this happens try not to make a mess." Said Tynan as a piece of the ware-house fell into the fire. Kid Arachnid nodded before swinging off towards the city , as he did he looked back towards the sewer opening , "Please don't let them go down there, please don't let them go down there." He prayed to himself.