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Chapter 2: The Attack

The creature roared, throwing nearby objects at the people who were scurrying away. Acting quickly, Spider Man leaped into the air and grabbed the objects with the web.

"Right back at you!" Spider Man shouted, throwing back the object at the creature who roared.

Spider Man landed at the side of the building with eyes wide. "Uh, I think I made him angrier."

The creature snarled, creating chaos and this made Spider Man leap from one spot to the next in a slick move while Iron Man was attacking him from the other side. Spider Man swung into the air before he headed towards the creature's direction in attempt to push him down.

He did but with little success as the fiend merely stumbled backwards from the impact, crashing into the side of a nearby building. While Iron Man was distracting the fiend who got up, Spider Man quickly took a look at his surroundings before he spotted a fire hydrant which wasn't very big at all.

As the chaos was happening, there were security who were helping out the crowd. Spider Man quickly went towards the hydrant while dodging the oncoming large fist due to the spider senses.

"Woah, I've always wanted people to lend me a hand just not as big as that one," Spider Man replied, avoiding another fist smash.

Meanwhile, Iron Man resumed his blasting with the repulsors in attempt to at least bring down the brute. The creature swayed its huge arms around, having Iron Man to barely have the time to avoid the swinging arms. However, just as he blast his attack, the enemy smashed at Iron man who went flying through the windows at a nearby building.

Tony eventually slid to a halt and slightly lifted his head up.

On the other side, the web crawler quickly swung over to the other side in order to reach the fire hydrant. However, while he swung himself, the beast saw the web slinger and he used his large hand to smash the spider. Just in time, the Spider used his webs to pull out the hydrant from its spot just as the large fist came into the view. The water burst out of its spot, making it be in contact with the hand.

As that happened, Iron Man flew out of the damaged building and struck upwards at the beast with his fist. The creature roared while feeling itself being dissolved by the unwelcomed liquid. As the water sprayed on the dirt, the substance fell on Spider Man who got soaked from it.

"Aww, come on…I already can't get afford my cleaning bill," Spider Man muttered, shaking the dirt off of him.

Snarling, the large humanoid beast glared at the web crawler before it began to dissolve away into thousands of sand and it dragged itself away.

Not too shortly, Spider Man joined Iron Man who landed on his feet.

"Just what was that?" Spider Man asked.

Peter frowned as he stared at the pictures of today's event. He had no idea what the heck was that thing. Everything went smooth until that…creature came along. But even after all of this, Peter knew one thing.

The peace had come to an end.

It had been a few months since the battle with the Vulture. Peter still had some haunting memories about the fight-how he nearly died but Tony brought him back.

Peter was a teenage boy who was anything but normal. He was half and half; half Spider and half human. He had gotten his powers by being bitten from a radioactive spider during his trip to Osborn. Since then, everything had changed for him.

Peter had untamed brown hair with brown eyes. He had a slender body with the looks of a nerd. He got top grades in every class and with a best friend named Ned Leeds. But because Peter was smart, it causes conflicts with the student body especially with a boy named Flash Thompson.

Flash Thompson was the all star athletic boy who loves to torment and bully Peter because of who he is.

"Did we find anything?" Peter asked when Tony came in.

They had returned to the Avengers Headquarters in attempt to try and find what that fiend was but there was no such luck, much to their dismay.

"No," Tony answered. "The answer is blank."

Peter sighed, leaning back against the wall. "Well, if this thing began to attack the city, then that means there may be a chance that a new enemy had come. The peace had come to an end."

"That may be so but we still need to do digging if we want to know who that creature was and where it came from. From there, we could go forward and defeat it," Tony spoke.

"But how can we analyze the new enemy if it keeps getting away?" Peter asked. "And what's the deal with the…dirt…er sand?"

"I guess we have to be sneaky and catch it when it least expects it," Tony responded. "When the opportunity comes, we could take a sample of it and work from there," he paused. He studied the boy who kept staring at the ground. From there, Tony knew that he was deep in thought.

"Peter, what's on your mind?" Tony asked quietly.

Peter struggled to say. He didn't know if he was up for this new enemy; he barely survived the last one. He wasn't sure if he would be able to defeat this new one. That being said, where did this new villain came from exactly? It practically came out of nowhere and why was it chasing that white truck in the first place? At least, that was what peter was assuming.

"Do you think this villain has some sort of connections with the Vulture?" Peter whispered.

There was a small tense silence but Tony shrugged it off.

"That's a difficult question to answer, Pete. Like I said before we don't know anything of this foe. But if it has some connections with the Vulture, we would know. Just…just try to relax, would you? Do your…usual human stuff that is outside of hero business."

Peter smirked a little. "It's called school," he chuckled softly.

Tony grinned. "I know," he paused. "So…how's the suit working out?"

And from that simple question, Peter's eyes lit up with delight. "It's wonders. The new suit…fantastic."

"Good. Good to hear," Tony smiled faintly. "Alright then, go home and stay out of trouble. I mean it, Peter."

Peter smirked. "Yeah because that totally worked out just fine last time."

Tony gave a small chuckle. "Right then. Off with you."

"So you think that there's a new enemy?" Ned asked.

Peter sat on the ledge of the window with his mask off. He sighed.

"Yeah," Peter replied.

"Have you found anything about this apparent new enemy? What was that thing that attacked at the celebration?" Ned wondered.

Peter only shook his head as an answer. "That's the thing. We don't know anything about this…thing yet. We don't know who it is or where it came from. We have no data whatsoever."

Ned frowned. "But that thing seems to be practically made out of dirt or whatever he was surrounded by. You would think his name was called Dirt Man or something."

Peter snorted. "That is like the lamest name I'd ever heard…"

"What? You prefer Sand Man or something?" Ned rolled his eyes, grinning.

Peter smirked. "You wish," he paused. "Anything on the Bugle?"

"No, not really. All it mentions is about the attack and how Iron Man and Spider Man tried to stop it. It's…really quite boring but have a read whenever you can. But I have to ask…why are you interested on Bugle? I mean, it's nothing but garbage."

Peter shrugged. "I don't know. I guess I'm always interested in what Jamieson as to say about Spider Man."

Peter then placed the mask back on and he stuck his head out once he was in a crouching position. He turned to the side as he spoke.

"Well, I suppose I will see you later. See you tomorrow?"

"Yeah..."

In a dark area at an abandoned factory, something dragged itself across the ground before it fully formed itself back to the humanoid shape. The creature lifted one of its sandy arm, staring at it as though the beast was thinking about why did it happened. Why did he had to suffer this terrible fate?

Of course, it gave him newfound abilities but he didn't used them as how he wanted to. Things had changed.

But ever since he had discovered that this city had a protector, things were going to get heavy pretty soon. He needed a plan to defeat that web crawler and the man that was in the suit.

Eyes narrowed, the foe turned his eyes at a nearly torn picture that was hung up on the wall. The picture contained of an image that had a man with a bird-like costume and eerie green eyes.

"I will finish what you had started," his voice boomed.

Author's Note: Tada! So we got a glimpse of our new villain which I think (hopefully) I made it pretty obvious as to who it is. A couple of you had already guessed it so congrats! And as we go on, hopefully we would have longer chapters along the way. Toodles!