Chapter 6
"He's dead, I can't believe it, my Dad is dead" Elijah swung to a nearby perch, and took some time to collect his thoughts, he managed to call 911, and they helped cover his body, his Mom would also hear about this sooner or later, "Luke? You there?" Elijah tried to tap into his comlink, no response "he must've called it a night" Elijah thought to himself as he removed his three part makeshift mask, "with great power, comes great responsibility" his Dad's final words to him, they echoed in his mind, refusing to let him be, he couldn't stop reliving the words in his head. He then sprung up onto his legs, "my Dad wouldn't have wanted me to sit here and not do anything, he would've wanted me to continue my crusade against crime, as Spider-Man" Elijah began, "crime may have took my father, but I'll see to it that no one else will lose family to crime, from this day on, I'm known as Spider-Man" Elijah told himself sternly as he put his makeshift mask back on and swung in the direction of his house.
Elijah nimbly jumped through the opening in the window, letting his feet land soft and quietly, he looked around his room until he found his desk, as there was no light in the room. He sat down and turned on a small lamp by his notebook, "before I go to bed, I need myself a costume, a legitimate costume I can use to fight crime with, this little makeshift suit won't do" Elijah mumbled to himself, after a few sketches, he landed on a design he favored, it had the same design and pattered as the original Spider-Man suit, but with a few personal twists, such as the color swaps, instead of it being red and blue, it was blue and red, Elijah then took notice of the pipe he kept, "maybe I can make a use for you" Elijah mumbled as he grabbed his engineering kit. Within a few minutes, Elijah created a state-of-the-art melee staff, complete with detachable sections as well as miniature stun rods, "luckily I have this old bodysuit as well" Elijah pulled out an old bodysuit from his closet, his mother got it for him as a gift, but he didn't really wear it much, now he could, after silk-screening a web pattern onto it, and creating special lenses for the mask (basically, he can see out, but on one can see in) and inserting the headset into the mask, he marveled at his creation, "wow, just wow" Elijah the realized it was almost midnight, "whoops, forgot that school exists" Elijah chuckled as he threw on some PJs and went to bed, awaiting his mother's reaction to the news of his father's death, and the ability to try out his new suit, get ready Minneapolis, Spider-Mans' in town.