Days later it was on a Friday night as there was a car coming up to a transfer in front of one of the biggest banks in New York City; driving the car was a brown haired woman wearing a black and orange suit with a white orange trenchcoat and with an eye mask. Next to her with her head down was a 15 year old girl in similar outfit only replacing the orange with dark purple. The woman Lori Baumgartner looked down at the girl and asked "are you going to be giving me lip again before this latest heist?"
"Mum; it's a Friday night and I should be out spending time with friends that I would have; sneaking out because you said it was a School night but that would require me actually being able to go to school instead of going from town to town as a wanted criminal!" the girl Lana retorted in frustration as Lori shook her head.
"You don't need school; what has that really taught anyone? I never finished high school." Lori responded as Lana laughed humorlessly. "What was that?" glared Lori looking at Lana who had her arms folded.
"Where has that taken you? Using your only daughter as a partner as we rob banks and for some reason you insisted on coming here with the city with all the super powers in it including Spider-Man!" Lana snapped as Lori held out her hand ready to backhand her cheek if given more attitude.
"Spider-Man is nothing more that an overglorified clown and we have gifts... You know that you should be grateful; so many kids are boring themselves to death in school wishing for something more! They would rip in half their textbooks if they had a chance to do away with it and get our amazing power! You don't know what it was like growing up powerless; to be broke and homeless pregnant with a disappeared boyfriend... I was given purpose when I volunteered for that procedure; you got to be born with that power... Now I promise that soon we will have enough to be set for life and we will be able to leave this all behind..." Lori sighed as she put her hand back and nodded to Lana as they saw the truck getting ready to leave.
Lana stormed out and sent out blasts from her hands breaking open the back of the truck; "We are the Bombshells and you had better steer clear or else we will fry your guts into jelly!" Lori shouted out and she then motioned for Lana to take a bag to start filling it up with the contents of the truck and Lori then began blasting at guards.
Then jumping down onto the truck was Peter as Spider-Man who sent a web grab Lori by the feet and she screamed as he hoisted her up and used a simple punch to knock her back. "Hello no; I am not messing with Spider-Man! I give!" Lana screamed out as she dropped the bag and put her hands up.
"Wow; you are really surrendering without a fight... Thank you; no seriously thanks... I have been through a lot and seeing one of these D-list bad guys just decide to surrender... No offense about being D-list..." Peter said amazed and then sounded apologetic when he realised his 'D-list' comment.
"None taken; I never wanted to go about this life but Mum made sure that I didn't have a choice." Lana replied simply not phased and Peter's eyes widened; this woman was her mother? Just wow...
"Some Mother... Sorry I have to ask but is those masks really supposed to hide your identities?" Peter asked and Lana looked up as if saying 'right'.
"I know! Like fifty times I asked Mum what is the point because it's not really hiding anything but she never listens... For my 13th birthday; it was spent learning how to crack safes..." Lana continued on and Peter shook his head feeling the urge to punch this woman some more for the childhood that she had forced on her daughter.
Soon the police came and arrested them both; Jefferson was shaking his head as he had his arms folded as Peter jumped down next to him. "Something wrong Jeff?" Peter asked as Jefferson glared down at him.
"I don't ever want to catch you calling me that again; it implies that you are a 'buddy' when you are nothing more than an unfortunate necessity in this crazy world that this city has become in the last year!" Jefferson warned him and Peter gave him a nod at that. "Plus I was just thinking; seeing that girl and the mother... This life of crime that the girl's mother mother put her through and how a bad egg can have horrible influence on a child... I don't know why I want to discuss family with you but I have my brother who I thought went straight but... He kept lying to me and I want him nowhere near my family... Especially since I have a young boy that I dread could go on a similar path..." Jefferson explained and Peter managed to have a flashback when he ran into that man and the boy Miles only for Jefferson to confront the man who is turned out was his brother and the boy was his son.
"Well sorry to hear about that Officer... Until next time..." Peter said and gave him a wave as he web slinged away; he remembered how it felt much longer than it was last year when Mayor Jameson had the police after him and you would be surprised to learn that technically the Anti-Vigilante Task Force was still around and his mandate was still there.
Still; after a patrol he needed the sleep as for a project; his class was doing a work experience program and lucky him got a doozy of a job...
Mayor J. Jonah Jameson was working late in his office at City Hall with a grunt; he got notice that the Daily Bugle would be doing their latest article on the latest Spider-Man incident that night and it was with a mother and daughter powered team. He still didn't keep his views quiet about Spider-Man and now his new partner Firestar but now the wallcrawler's popularity, trying to manage running the city with the approval points he lost after the big Ryker's escape and the Sinister Six debacle as well as Robbie's ultimatum... He could no longer focus on his hunt for Spider-Man and control what the Bugle said as before.
On the plus side John had awakened slightly from his Coma and was able to have visits from his wife and son plus him when he was able to; Oscorp had informed them that they were working on a way to safely take care of the spores in John's body and it was coming together soon. John seemed to be for it after all he had gone through so it seemed that Colonel Jupiter was retired.
He grunted but felt the windows of his office being broken into and he saw a figure dressed as Spider-Man crawl in and onto the wall and leaped to his desk as he picked up Jameson by the throat.
"Look here Mr Mayor; after all I have done for this city and remembering all that slander you put forth towards me last year... I have decided that I am owed my pay and compensation... Five million dollars to be paid to me in cash or else this city and you will pay!" Spider-Man warned him before tossing him aside and then going through the window.
The deputy Mayor Saks got through to the office as he helepd Jameson up only to be tossed aside by Jameson who looked furious at the the security coming through the door. "About time you got here! Saks; I want you to give the alert to the Anti-Vigilante Task Force to hunt that menace down!" Jameson snapped and then got on the phone to the Bugle. "Robbie listen... Spider-Man just threatened me in my own office!" Jameson shouted as soon as the phone was picked up.
The next morning Peter had met up with Liz as they were both alarmed by the news; someone who could move like Spider-Man and in a suit just claimed to be him and threatened the Mayor with demands. Some skeptics about if this was the real Spider-Man especially since this was Mayor Jameson and everyone remembered about his smear campaign and his manhunt the previous year but any more incidents and the whole manhunt could be starting up again.
"No way this could be the real one; he is too cool and good to go bad like that!" Liz told Peter fiercely and he felt a little bit better knowing that his girlfriend wouldn't be going against his alter ego like that.
"Yeah... I found him the other day when Venom kidnapped my Aunt and helped Firestar with rescuing her... I owe him the benefit of the doubt and remembering all the good he had done before." Peter agreed as they were at the school with Liz needing to go to her class and Peter to check in before going to his work experience.
Harry waved to Peter as he passed them without saying a word and Liz looked away; obviously things were still tense between them. Another big news story was that an Oscorp plane moving some experimental technology had been highjacked in the air; the thief was clad in black and had taken down the crew with his barehands before making off. Peter was dreading that he would have to deal with this thief soon himself. Plus Harry might have something to say about his father's company being robbed like this.
Peter made his way to his work experience job; in the subway and greeted the subway worker who would be acting as his supervisor Aaron Davis. "Make yourself as home as you can Mr Parker as I can imagine that a kid like you isn't exactly too thrilled to be working here but still for a guy like me it's honest work." Aaron told Peter with a smile as he showed him inside the subway crane and Peter basically sat next to him as Aaron did his work.
Seemed dull and Peter ended up doodling some machine design ideas in his notebook and Peter felt it being looked at by Aaron. "Not too bad Mr Parker; seems that you could be looking at a future in machines Mr Parker; I have some engineering skills off my own." Aaron complimented Peter and Peter noticed stuck to the area were photos of Aaron with Jefferson and Miles. "Yeah my brother Jefferson and his boy Miles; things are not exactly good..." sighed Aaron as Peter's eyes widened when he realised that Aaron was Jefferson's brother who he didn't want near his son and that he ws the man at the basketball court.
"...Wait; that cop is your brother?" Peter asked and Aaron looked at him inquisitively and he thought fast. "Mr Davis... You probably don't remember but I think I ran into you and Miles last year wih my friends when you both were playing basketball but your brother came..." Peter continued on as Aaron thought about it and his eyes widened.
"I completely forgot about that; this nerd with me who has some mad basketball skills..." laughed Aaron as he patted him on the back but then he looked and saw Miles and Phin coming up near the crane. "MIles, Phin... What are you two doing here?" Aaron greteed them as they smiled up at them.
"A day off from school and I convinced Phin to sneak here to come and see you Uncle Aaron." Miles explained and Peter saw the nephew who was pretty much going against his father coming here.
"Kids; this is Peter Parker who is here on work experience from his high school at a fancy Charter school. Turns out we have met before as he came across Miles and I when we were shooting hoops last year." Aaron introduced Peter to them and he greeted them.
"Hello there kids and I kind of sound old... What do you like?" Peter asked mentally kicking himself as there had to be better ways to talk to young kids.
"I like music and painting; Phin here is big into engineering and wants to be an inventor. We met in Kindergarten when she took apart the class vacuum during Recess." Miles explained and Phin playfully slapped him on the shoulder for saying that.
"Not bad at all; I got my start messing about with some old electronics myself." Peter replied thinking that he could show off to these youths and brought out his notebook to show them his own designs as Phin looked at it.
"Looks like they are to be built by old parts; I have worked with them myself with my grandpa but..." Phin sighed as Miles comforted her and Peter looked concerned.
"Don't fret Peter; her grandfather has gotten in trouble and it happened with her folks out of town; she had to stay with my brother and his wife until her mother could get home." Aaron whispered to Peter and Peter didn't know what to say about that as it did look like Phin was bummed about this. "I just have to check on something; stay here until I get back and keep an eye on them until I get back. I don't trust Phin not to try and mess about with the electronics in the controls while I am gone." Aaron told Peter and he gave a salute while Phin gave a childish pout at this.
With Aaron gone Peter looked at Miles and said "so; you're uncle seems like a cool guy."
"Yeah but Mum and Dad don't want me seeing him; said that he has gotten into trouble with the law before and has broken promises to not go back to his old ways. I think dad caught him speaking to some old friends because a few years ago he cut him away and told me that he is done with the family." sighed Miles and Peter wondered what could have possibly happened and he was weary.
"Grandpa got mixed in with a bad lot but Mum and Dad still visit him in prison; Miles; parents didn't seem to hold it against him they do with Miles' uncle. Got arrested on the day we were there at his shop..." Phin sighed and Peter was surprised at these kids were telling a stranger all this.
"Wow... I have to think about this as I work on my work experience with him..." Peter muttered as he thought to change the subject. "So... What do you kids think of Spider-Man or Firestar?" Peter asked thinking of the first subject that came to mind.
"Dad's not a big fan." Miles remarked and Peter pretty much knew that.
"Cool but... Would you believe he helped get my Grandpa arrested? Grandpa got lucky and got a reduced sentence by spilling all he knew on the criminals he was working for." Phin replied and Peter thought that this got awkward again.
"...Wait... I just realised you look familiar... Aren't you that teenager that got attacked by Venom?" Miles asked and Peter groaned as he picked up his notebook; Phin's eyes widened as she recognised him as well.
"Who should I make the autograph to because it's not really a pleasant memory..." Peter muttered shaking his head thinking that he would be much happier if he didn't even have to think of that alien Symbiote ever again.
"Well sorry; you can check this out... I have made a radio that can hack into frequencies..." Phin said apologetically taking out her radio machine as Peter went to take a look.
"I would be careful showing it to people especially as your friend has a cop as a dad..." Peter joked as it turned on.
"Trust me sir; soon I will have Spider-Man hated by everyone... A couple of heists in the suit and they will all be against him! You know that you can count on me!" said a voice that was clearly Aaron sounding smug and the kids looked alarmed but Peter turned it off.
"Can I not even go through a work experience project without something like this... What's next; is my gym teacher going to turn out to be a supervillain?" Peter asked himself silently as he put on a fake smile; mentally thinking that he would have to come here to have a look around later. "Must be some sort of radio play or something; still nice work thought." Peter said as the kids looked at eachother feeling tense.
Things were definitely uncomfortable for Peter for the rest of his work experience for the day with Aaron.
In a closed off facility that was the headquarters of Toomes Aerodynamics before it was bought out by Oscorp; Norman smirked as he looked at the latest model of the Prototype Combat Armor that was coloured dark green, grenade devices and the Glider that he had arranged for transfer so that he could highjack it himself and steal it. His new strength made it easy and he was able to pull off this heist successfully.
The OZ serum he took combined with the earlier mutated OZ serum that he crashed into as a gas had an effect on him but the Serum allowed him to come out as healthy as could be though he had samples of the OZ serum and the mutated earlier OZ formulas for study. Coudl still be use for them especially if Harry ends up developing the disease that Norman had successfully won against.
Now he had full use of the latest in Oscorp combat technology designed for military and the Vipers and best of all; with him arranging this heist it meant he had full deniability for how it would be used.
Time to show New York the change of power in the city...