The next morning Peter was lying on his bed loving on an online comic book forum while on his mobile phone. "No way, you seriously get a few days off from school?" Miles asked on the other end of the conversation. Peter smiled as he looked down on the webpage that he was on.
"It's true Miles, yesterday afternoon Uncle Ben phoned to school to say that I was back from the hospital all healthy. Principal Anderson refused to believe I could be in any shape to return to school and pretty much said I got a couple of days off from school. I was really looking forward to that pop quiz on physic tomorrow too..." Peter replied with a shrug on his end.
"Same old Pete, still wonder how the Principal would react that you got super powers after getting out of the hospital. Thought of a name yet? The Human Spider? Crime Fighting Spider? Anyway, I have to go. Dad is insisting I carpool with him again so lucky you gets to miss out on that..." Miles told him causing Peter to laugh as Miles hung up.
Peter went back to his laptop and Uncle Ben entered, he went to see what Peter was looking at and was surprised at the language used. "It's a message board for the Warrior Angel movie, his girlfriend survived in the movie and a lot of fans are not happy." Peter explained to his bewildered godfather.
"Sheesh, I wonder how people would react if there was a Charlotte's Web movie where she survived or if Lenny survived in Of Mice & Men." Ben commented as Peter shrugged with a smile. "You really like the Superheroes, don't you Peter." Ben asked him sitting next to him on his bed.
"OF course, Superman can catch a falling plane and Batman has those cool gadgets. Wonder Woman has that lasso and her sword; I would love to see what constructs I would make if I had Green Lantern's ring..." Peter told him excitedly causing Ben to chuckle. Peter then saw that Ben then shook his head and put on a serious face.
Peter then looked as Ben cleared his breath, it was clear that Ben had something he wanted to say to him and that it would be serious. Wondering what it could be considering he was just asked about superheroes.
"Yes, people like to talk about the costumes, powers and gadgets that they all have. But I want to ask you, do you know whats the most important thing about them superheroes? The most important thing to focus on the phrase?" Ben asked him and Peter gave a shake of his head. He was not quite sure what his Uncle Ben was getting at.
"It's the Hero part, what makes them superheroes is not just the great power they but what they do with it. Superman could easily use his great powers to terrorize anyone he disagrees with and he doesn't have to intervene and save lives; but he chooses to do so anyway. The great power that some people are gifted with comes with a great responsibility. What you choose to do or not do with that great power can make all the difference." Ben told him as he then stood up.
"Okay Uncle Ben... I will remember that..." Peter told him hesitantly wondering if Ben suspected that something changed with Peter. Ben smiled as he patted Peter on the shoulder.
"Remember champ, that great power also comes with a choice. You don't have to use it if you don't want to, people can choose to be ordinary or they can choose to be extraordinary. The choice is always yours Peter." Ben told him as he then left the room and closed the door. He then went to see May off as she would be on her way to work.
"Heard what you said but do you think whatever happened at the Lab changed him that much? You think he will be okay with whatever had been done to him? Should we call Doctor Octavius' lab to do another check up on him?" May asked concerned but Ben put a reassuring hand on his wife's shoulders.
"Peter will be fine with whatever he does with whatever happened or didn't happened to him. We will just be on the lookout if he starts spouting extra arms or something." Ben told her as she chuckled. Ben gave her a kiss on the cheek as then left.
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The next afternoon Peter was whistling while walking down the street, he had been walking next to some scaffolding when he felt his senses going off again as well as his vision. He jumped out of the way as a falling brick had landed where he was.
"Sorry about that kid!" shouted the builder from up above the scaffolding, Peter gave a quick wave to him as he went off. He then went past an alley and saw a thug harassing a guy. The thug was asking about the other guy being a snitch.
Peter was getting a bit angry about this and wanted to walk in there and beat up the thug. But he didn't have any costume and the guy would know who he was if he escaped. He would be in a position to come after him again...
Getting an idea he looked in his sleeves to see his Web-Shooter devices, he wanted to try and do some field testing. Hiding behind a trash can he aimed his wrist at the thug's leg and then shot out a web.
The web attached itself to the leg and Peter pulled, the unsuspecting thug had now fallen and landed on his back. Peter then aimed his other wrist at the thug on the ground and fired. The guy was stuck to the ground by a web and the other guy then got the chance to escape as Peter ran away.
The thug would be spending some time to think about what he done while he waited for the half hour before the web dissolved. Looking quite proud of himself. He then walked off; perhaps when he got his own costume and codename he should be using his Web-Shooters for gadgets.
It would be quite handy.
He then called Miles on his phone only for it to ask him to leave a message. Peter spoke to it saying "Miles, it's Peter. My Web-Shooters are working quite well; I think they may come in handy. But you know when my senses go off when there is trouble about to happen? I think we might need to work on that as it gets hard to see when it happens, perhaps goggles will help in the costume. Will call you back buddy. Over and out."
Peter then walked off wanting to see something else he could do, not much was happening at the moment. He decided he would start to head home if he didn't find something soon.
He came across a local convenience store but saw that several masked men began running to the door of the store with guns. Peter paused with a bit of fear; sure he had super strength now but these guys were armed.
He didn't want to get hurt or worst and was not sure he could handle this. Besides the police could take care of this. This was not his problem. He then began walking away and stopped when he saw several police cars had started to drive into the area.
Yeah, they could take care of this no problem. Still he wanted to take a look to make sure no one was going to get hurt. He went to look in the store window only to be greeted by a sight that would shock him for life...
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A small while ago, at the convenience store Gwen was waiting in line to buy some gum, she felt her phone go off and looked at it. Primitive devices compared to what they had on Krypton, but just like the subjects at school she was able to cope with it okay. He then read it and saw she had gotten a text from Dolly:
G, you have to help. My folks insist on having a country karaoke family night.
Gwen fought back a laugh, Dolly's parents were big fans of country music and named their daughter Dolly in hopes that she could go on to be a country star. She then began typing away.
Wish I can help Dolly but I am busy.
Come on G, they expect me to sing Take Me Home, Country Road. I need saving.
Sorry.
I hate you.
You know you don't.
Next time you need help, remember this.
Gwen was about to walk forward into the line but almost ended up walking in the man in front of her. She then pocketed her phone and faced the man as he turned around; she then began telling him "sorry about that Mr..."
She then paused when she recognized the man as Peter's Uncle Ben as she had seen him pick up Peter from school before, "It's alright Miss..." Ben told her assuredly when he recognized her. "You're Gwen Stacy from Peter's school, Peter tells me about you all the time." Ben told her shaking her head while she was feeling a bit weirded out.
"Sorry about what happened to Peter, how is he?" Gwen asked wanting to know about how Peter was and was a bit surprised to see that Ben was still looking quite cheerful.
"Got out of the hospital later that day with a clean bill of health, if it wasn't for that the Principal insisted he take some days off Peter would have return at school the next day." Ben explained to Gwen's immense shock. Gwen was looking like Ben had not told her that the sun and the moon had never ever existed.
Peter had falling down a set of stairs, gotten bitten by a test subject and falling into a coma. There was no way he would have been perfectly healthy the very same day. Did the spider change him or something?
Before she could ask for more details then marched in several masked people with guns, most of the customers had started going out as several of the men went to the counter. The men then began firing their guns into the air telling everyone to get onto the ground.
Before Ben and Gwen could leave two of the men then guarded the entrance of the store and told the two to get on the ground with their and behind their heads. "You two are our hostages, we shoot if the police comes anywhere near the entrance." The leader of the masked men then shouted as he then pointed to the frightened man at the counter who had his hands in the air.
The leader then began shouting to have all the money cleared from the cashier, Gwen was feeling a bit scared and in feeling like she was in a quandary. She could easily take care of these men herself and the guns had no threat towards her. But it would involve exposing her powers.
Ben began nudging her to get behind him, Gwen quietly did so and Ben pointed to the guards who were now checking the windows for the police. They left the front door unguarded so they then began trying to run for it.
"Hey wait!" the man next to the leader shouted and he ended up fitting his gun with the bullet heading for Gwen. Ben noticed and jumped in front of her taking the bullet as it went through his stomach and felt his eyes closing.
Gwen yelled startling the masked men as they then began panicking at the sight of it. They then began running through the door to try and escape only to run into the police officers. The leader and the killer then began running through the back of the counter to go through the back exit to escape.
"No, no... This cannot possibly get any worse..." Gwen thought only to notice Peter was staring at the window in horror and rushed in. He then began cradling his uncle's body only to see that he was dead. Gwen slowly went to try and console the grieving teenager but then police came in to investigate.
Peter then ran out and Gwen walked out when one of the police officers told her that they would take care of this. Gwen tried to look for Peter not having the mental strength to try using her super senses or X-Ray vision but then her mouth widened in horror as tears escaped her eyes.
"Peter's uncle died taking a bullet for me, a bullet he had no way of knowing would just bounce off me..." Gwen thought as the ramifications continued in her head.
"Peter lost his uncle... For no reason..."
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Peter had ran out of the store in grief and ran until he was in an area of trees. He then began kicking them thinking about how unfair it was. His Uncle Ben was just killed. He should have stopped them before... if only he did...
He might still have his uncle...
He noticed he could see the two last masked people running to a hidden car that they had parked so they could make a getaway from the back exit of the store. It drove off and his grief went to rage.
They were not going to get away with this...
He then began running after them shouting at them to stop. He noticed a littered large paper bag so he took it and quickly put it on his head. Quickly tearing just two holes for his eyes he then began running after the car again.
It was getting to the road so he quickly fired off his two web-shooters at the car which hit the sides of the back. He then began pulling at the webs with his enormous strength. He ended pulling apart the back of the car.
He screamed in frustration as he climbed up a tree and seeing the branch of another one he then aimed a web at it and then jumped off the tree. He had to admit how amazing it felt to swing like Tarzan. He then jumped off and managed to land on the car.
He then went to the window as the guys hit the brakes of the car. Peter smashed the window with his hands and pulled them both out of their seats. The guys didn't think they would ever be trembling in fear of a guy with a paper bag for a mask but there was a first time for everything.
"You killed a guy when you robbed that store, why!" Peter screamed at them as they were looking terrified. "I asked why?" Peter shouted again as the leader spoke up.
"We didn't intend to actually have anyone get hurt, we owed money so it was supposed to be a simple robbery. We quickly take the money from teh cashier and escape through the back... No one was supposed to die..." the leader told Peter as he felt like he should beat them to an inch of their lives or worst. But...
Would Uncle Ben approve? Would he want Peter to use his new great power to take vengeance like this?
Peter calmed down and decided that he would let the cops take care of them; the two were not worth it. He then placed the guys on the hood of the car and used a web from his Web-Shooters to stick them to it. He police cars coming not far away so he decided to run away from it.
He began walking to clear his head while disposing of his makeshift mask in a bin; he was ignoring messages on his phone. It was clear that this no fun and games like he thought it would be. He thought having powers like this would just be fun neglecting their responsibility wasn't so fun.
He then remembered Uncle Ben's words from before and decided it's time he took them seriously. No one would die from his inaction or cowardice again.
While finally calming down he made his way to his apartment building where there was a police car. He got to his apartment room to see his Aunt May on the couch with her hands on her head. She noticed him and they shared a hug so they could grieve together. Jefferson Morales was there to put a comforting sympathetic hand on Peter's shoulder.
So anyone else catch the Captain Marvel trailer? It looks like the movie will be a bit different from what I was expecting, even with everything that had been revealed beforehand. Excited for this movie but then again I usually am for the Superhero movies that come out.
So it seems like Carol had been with the Kree for a while before coming back to Earth as an amnesiac. I swear that I hope it doesn't lead to an amnesia plot for Carol in the comics like how they for the past few years like to make changes to the comics or promote in books characters that are popular in the movies. Like that time they briefly had Rhodey be Iron Patriot, Shuri getting her own comic, Star Lord getting the MCU look or the Defenders comic that had the Netflix lineup. I think DC had done the same a little when they made the Supergirl Rebirth (though it is still good) comic to be similar to the TV show. It even says on the first trade that it's sure to appeal to the shows' fans.
