Ok, here's the second chapter. And just to Vaapad, it wasn't Mary Jane who dies in the comic, it was Gwen. And as far as if I'm going to kill either of them…well, that's my little secrete.
As always, I don't own a damn thing
Chapter 2, Spider Powers
Ron slowly came out of his darkness. His eyes fluttered open and he saw a pair of emerald green eyes and a mane of blazing red hair.
"K-KP?" He stuttered.
"Off by a generation Ron." The doctor said. "Kim's in the waiting room with everyone else."
"Mrs. Dr. P." Ron said. He felt weak, like he'd just gotten into the ring with Steel Toe, Pain King, Shego, and Monkey Fist. His head was pounding like a base drum and his joints and muscles ached. "What the hell happened to me?"
"Language Ron." Ann Possible said, but, while her face was covered by a surgical mask, her eyes gave away her smile.
"Sorry." Ron said.
"You've been out of it for about a week, you gave all of us a big scare." Ann said.
"And by everyone?" Ron asked.
"I mean my family, your family, Josh, Monique, and a few people who say that there from Japanese school." Ann explained. Ron smiled. The fact that so many people were worried about him really raised his spirit. And the fact that Yori and Sensei had come all the way from Yamanouchi just to make sure he was all right really made his day. Ron tried to push himself up, but his arms gave out on him and he fell back onto his bed.
"Mrs. Dr. P. do you think you could?" Ron asked. Ann removed her mask and smiled at Ron before nodding and leaving the room. A few moments later, Kim flew into the room and dove onto Ron, hugging him around the neck and, unintentionally, hurting his stomach.
"Oh Ron, I was so worried I was going to loose you." Kim said, tears rolling down her eyes.
"You just might KP." Ron grunted, trying, though not very hard to worm his way out of Kim's death grip around his waist. Kim let go immediately and looked at Ron, who began gasping for air.
"Sorry." She apologized.
"No problem KP." Ron said with a smile. Rufus crawled across the floor and jumped onto Ron's bed and hugged his neck. "Hey there buddy, Kim and the others been taking care of you?" Rufus nodded vigorously and Ron smiled. He had told Kim and her brothers a long time ago that if anything were to happen to him, much to Kim's constant telling him that nothing ever will, that they were to take care of Rufus.
"How you doin' Ron?" Josh asked, draping his arm over Kim's shoulder.
"I've been better Josh." Ron sighed and pushed himself back so that he was propped up at on his bed. His parents were the next to descend upon him quickly asking him how he was feeling, what hurt, and a dozen more other questions that Ron couldn't make out.
"Mom, Dad, I'm fine." Ron sighed and looked back and forth between his parents. "I mean come on, if I can go with Kim to save the world on and almost weekly basis, I can handle all this." His parents still worried about him, but his father, Ben, took his wife May's hand and pulled her up.
"He's right dear, after all, he is a Stoppable." Ben said. May sighed and nodded, smiling at her husband and then at her son. The next to approach Ron were Yori and Sensei. Yori was wearing the schoolgirl uniform she had worn when Ron had first met her while Sensei was in his usual orange robe.
"Are you all right Stoppable-san?" Yori asked.
"Of course I am Yori; this is the Ron man you're talking too." Ron said with a smile. Sensei chuckled.
"Still joking as always Young Stoppable." He said. "That is good. Humor is a light that can never be swallowed by darkness."
"And as usual Sensei, I have no idea what you just said." Ron smiled and laughed. "I'm glad that you two came all the way from Japan to check up on me." He placed his hands together and gave as best a bow as he could in his current position. Yori and Sensei returned the bow. When Ron sat back up, he raise an eyebrow as Tara and Brick walked up, looking a little awkward and sheepish.
"Hey guys, how's it going?" Ron greeted them friendly. Tara was the first one to recover.
"We just wanted to make sure that you were all right Ron." Tara said. Ron smiled warmly at her and it caused her to melt on the inside.
"Yeah man, I need help for that math test coming up." Brick said, and was immediately elbowed in the stomach by Tara. "Ouff, um, what I mean was," But Ron raised his hand to silence him, a smile on his face.
"I know what you mean Brick." He said. "And thanks." Brick just smiled and nodded. Tara on the other hand was looking around nervously.
"All right, everyone out." Ann said, coming back into the room. "Until I give the OK, Ron is still my patient and needs his rest." Everyone nodded and started to file out, Kim, Yori, and Tara all stopping to give Ron a kiss on the cheek before leaving. Ron just lay there, stunned that he had just been kissed by, in his opinion, the three greatest girls in the world.
"Wow, maybe I should pass out for a week more often." He looked over at Rufus who was shaking his head vigorously. "Yeah, you're right buddy, I would really cut into my naco time." Ron smiled and slowly slipped back into the darkness of sleep.
Over the next few days, Ron got a lot of visitors, every day the Possibles and his own family was among them; Rufus never left his side. Brick, Tara, Yori, and Sensei also dropped by a few times. When Felix and Zita stopped by, they did together.
"Hey Ron man, how're things going?" Felix asked.
"Been better Felix." Ron said. "How you doin' Zita?"
"I'm OK Ron." She replied. Ron arced an eyebrow at the way she didn't look directly at him.
"Ok, one of you want to tell me whatever it is you're not telling me?" Ron asked.
"Well, Ron, Zita and I, we kind of, started dating." Felix said, rubbing the back of his neck. Ron looked back and forth between his two friends.
"So, what, are you asking for my blessing or something?" He asked. They both looked at him and kind of shrugged. Ron gapped at them. "Seriously." Ron laughed. When he finally calmed down, he looked at the two of them. "Zita, you and I were never an item and Felix, you're one of my best friends, I couldn't be more happy for either of you. And I'm not your guys father; you don't need my blessing or something stupid like that." Felix and Zita smiled at Ron who just chuckled, and was then jumped by Zita, who was hugging him hard around the neck.
"Thanks Ron." Felix said.
"Whatever man, just, both of you promise me, that you'll take care of each." Ron said. Ron's biggest surprise however, came near the end of his hospital stay: Wade Load, the 10 year old genius who never left his room, walked into Ron's hospital room, in the flesh.
"Wow, Wade, to what do I owe the pleasure?" Ron asked.
"I got some footage from the science lab where you were at." Wade said, standing next to Ron. "You know that 15th spider in the lab?"
"The one they were testing on?" Ron asked.
"They weren't testing on it." Wade said. "Turned out Brick was right, it had gotten out and it bit you on the back of the hand." Ron's eyes widened and he looked at the back of his hand, to indeed see a pair of tiny bite marks there. "If you want, I can scan your blood to check and see if anything happened."
"Sure Wade, take what you need and see what you can get." Ron said, rolling up his sleeve. Wade pulled a small needle out of his pocket and stuck it in Ron's arm. Ron winced at Wade drew a little bit of blood from Ron's arm.
"I'll get you your results as soon as I can." Wade said, handing Ron a small PDA. Ron nodded and Wade left the room.
Ron returned to school a couple of days after Wade's visit. He felt different than he usually did, he felt stronger, more confident. His physical appearance had changed as well. He still had his slim figure, but his muscles had become more toned, and beneath his shirt, a 6 pack had formed. He was walking with Kim and Josh when a familiar voice rang through the halls.
"Hey, there's the looser now." Bonnie said as Ron walked past. Ron stopped and looked over at Bonnie. "What's the matter Stoppable? Got something to say?"
"Bonnie." Kim started, but Ron held up a hand to silence her.
"Yeah, I do have something to say Bonnie." Ron said. "Grow the Hell up. You've been giving me shit for years and I'm tired of it. You probably just bash me to make yourself feel better, well save it all right, 'cause I'm done." Bonnie, Kim, and everyone else in the hall stood in shocked silence. In all the time that anyone had known Ron Stoppable, they had never heard him talk like that, much less to Bonnie Rockwaller.
"Hey." Said Flash Thompson, appearing out of no where. "No one talks to my girl like that."
"Whatever." Ron said, walking right past flash and his own sidekick, Kenny "King" Kong. They were about to make a move a Ron, but Brick showed up and draped a protective arm around Ron's shoulders.
"Lay off him dude." Brick said.
"Yeah, why don't you go get Bonnie to rub your little dick." Tara said, walking next to the two blonds. There was a chorus of "ohhs" across the hall as Ron, Tara, and Brick walked right past Flash and Kong, who just stood there stunned. Kim and Josh quickly joined up with the three blonds.
"Ron, what in the hell possessed you to do that?" Kim demanded.
"Hey, lay off him Kim, this is the first time Ron's shown some balls." Josh said. "No offence dude."
"None taken" Ron said. "And I don't know what came over me. I guess I was just tired of Bonnie's shit."
"After so long, it's no surprise." Brick added. "And hey, you didn't mind that I jumped in there did you?"
"No, it was cool." Josh said. "And I know you just did it because Tara told you to."
"Well, actually, it was a little bit of her telling me to, and me wanting to." Brick admitted. Ron just smiled and clapped him on the shoulder.
"Come on." He said. "Lunch is on me." He led his friends into the cafeteria where he did indeed by them all lunch. As they all ate lunch, Brick and Tara committing, what was in Ron's eyes, social suicide for him, talked about the upcoming football game while Kim and Josh were making the blonds slightly sick with their mushy talk. Ron however, was just thinking to himself and eating his lunch. When Bonnie was walking by, her noise high in the air, Ron didn't so much as see, but sense the spill that Bonnie slipped in, throwing her trey of food into the air. Ron acted on reflex as he spun around in his chair and caught Bonnie around the waist with one hand and caught her tray and all of her food with the other hand. Bonnie was shocked for a second, but then pulled herself out of Ron's grip and grabbed her food from Ron.
"Never touch me again Stoppable." She said hotly, marching away and slipping and falling on her ass in the very same spill that Ron had she had slipped on. The cafeteria laughed at her as her food spilled all over her. She glared daggers at Ron before running from the scene.
"Wow Ron, nice reflexes." Brick said.
"It was the Mystic Monkey Power wasn't it Ron?" Kim asked.
"Uh…sure KP, Mystic Monkey Power." Ron said, although he felt unsure.
"Ron?" Tara asked. "Have your eyes always been that bright?"
"Sure, I guess so." Ron said with a shrug.
The event soon faded from everyone's attention and Ron stared down at his food, eating quietly while his thoughts ran at a million miles an hour. He was shoveling mac and cheese into his mouth when he felt something on his fork. Looking down, he found some weird, sticky, white substance. Ron raised an eyebrow and moved the fork into his other hand, only to find that the sticky stuff was not only long, but it was coming out of his wrist.
"What the hell?" He whispered as he pulled the gunk off his wrist to find a small slit in his wrist. Ron flexed his fingers and suddenly, a strand of the stuff shot out of his wrist and hit a leftover tray. Ron stared at it for a moment, and then jerked the strand. The tray flew off the table and came strait at Ron's head. Ron jerked his head out of the way at the last second and the tray hit Flash in the back of the head. Ron quickly jerked his head around after seeing who he'd just hit and tried to walk out of the cafeteria as stealthy as he could, which being Ron, got everyone's attention, although it was probably the tray that was dragging behind him that really got everyone's attention.
"Stoppable?" Flash said, unsure if what he was seeing was real.
"Rufus, get this stuff off me." Ron muttered under his breath. The mole rat crawled out of Ron's pocket and crawled up his master's arm and nibbled the strand off him.
"Yucky." Rufus squeaked.
"Yeah, I'll bet little buddy." Ron said. Suddenly, something went through his head. On instinct, he ducked and Flash's fist slammed into the locker where Ron's head had been a second ago.
"Whoa, Flash, I don't want to fight you." Ron said quickly.
"I wouldn't want to fight me either." Flash said and threw a few punches at Ron, who ducked and dived away from them with strange ease. By now a crowd had formed and Kim, Josh, Tara, and Brick had pushed their way to the front.
"Well, aren't one of you going to help him?" Tara demanded. Behind Ron, Kenny tried to attack Ron from behind. But Ron felt that weird sense in the back of his skull and leapt into the air as Kenny flew beneath him and he landed. Flash and Kenny looked at each other.
"He's all yours man." Kenny said.
"Um, which one are we suppose to help?" Brick asked, looking around at them. Flash growled and threw a punch at Ron, who arced his body so that his back was parallel to the ground and he saw his friends looking down at him with bewildered looks on their faces. Ron righted himself as Flash threw another punch, but this time, Ron seemed to see the punch in slow motion and he even had time to look back at Flash and then his fist before the punch was retracted. When Flash threw his third punch, Ron caught it. And slowly he began to twist until Flash's face was twisted in pain. Then, Ron threw a punch at sent him flying down the hall.
"Jeeze Stoppable, you are a freak." Kenny said, looking back and forth between Ron and Flash. Ron looked back and forth at his fist, at Flash, and at Kenny. Finally, his eyes moved to his friends. Kim was looking at him with an expression of shock, Josh was impressed, Tara was looking at Ron with a small amount of fear in her eyes, and Brick was just shaking his head, whither or not is was because he couldn't believe what he was seeing or if it was to tell Ron not to come near them, Ron wasn't sure. He just turned around and ran out of the school.
Eventually, Ron ended up outside an ally. Ron reached up and ran his hands threw his wild blond hair. Rufus crawled up Ron and sat on his shoulder.
"I think I'm loosing it buddy." Ron said. "I mean, I just knocked out the star quarterback with one punch. And you saw the way Kim and the others looked at me, they were looking at me like I was some kind of a freak." Rufus patted Ron on the cheek while tears started to form in his eyes. Suddenly, the PDA that Wade had given him went off. Ron brushed away his tears before he turned it on.
"Hey Wade." He said.
"Ron, I finished looking at your blood and you're not gonna believe what I found." Wade said. Ron thought back to the incident in the hallway.
"Try me." Ron said.
"OK, well, your overall blood wasn't that bad, although there were a few more white blood cells than before." Wade explained.
"How did you know how much white blood cells I had?" Ron asked.
"Well…I might have taken some from you and Kim a while back." Wade said sheepishly. Ron narrowed his eyes at the 10 year old.
"We'll talk about this later." He said. "What else do you got for me?"
"Well, when I was looking at your DNA, there was something different. There were changes in the strands." Wade said. "When I checked the new strands, along with a little bit of searching and hacking, I found out that it came from those super spiders that they were experimenting with. Somehow the venom in their bite has altered your genetic structure."
"So what, are you telling me that I'm going to turn into some mutant like Gill?" Ron asked.
"No." Wade said. Ron breathed a sigh of relief. "At least, not on the outside." Ron looked at him in shock. "According to my calculations, you should have the strength, speed, and agility equivalent to a spider. As well as the ability to shoot webs, stick to walls, and have some kind of spider sense to let you know about danger." Ron again thought back to everything, catching Bonnie, the stuff on his fork, his fight with Flash.
"Did you say I could stick to walls?" Ron asked.
"Theoretically." Wade said. Ron looked at the wall behind him and turned off the PDA. Ron looked at Rufus who looked back. The naked mole rat looked at Ron and nodded, then scurried down into Ron's pocked. Ron took a deep breath and then placed his hand on the wall. With a pull, Ron hoisted himself onto the wall and the proceeded to climb the wall, his hands gripping the walls somehow and his feet where just used to help push him up. Ron looked at his hand and saw tiny little spikes poking out of his skin. Ron looked down at Rufus, whose eyes were wide with shock. Rufus looked up at him and a smile broke across his face to match his owners. Climbing up the wall, Ron took a run at the edge of the building, at the end; he jumped and flew across the gap between the buildings. He continued to run and jump between the buildings.
Ron was having the time of his life. The adrenalin that was pumping through him, the rush he felt. Finally he came to a stop. Across the roof he was standing on was a large crane. Ron looked down at his wrists, seeing the small slits in them that he assumed the webs were suppose to come out of. He raised his arms to the crane.
"Go webs!" He shouted. Nothing happened. "Fly!" he tried again. And again nothing. He tried several different commands and several different hand positions, and nothing happened until he held his thumb, index finger, and pinky out and pulled in his middle and ring fingers. A web shot out of his arm and continued to fly until he let go of his hand. He looked at his hand, and then at Rufus.
"Cool." The naked mole rat squeaked. Ron looked at his hand and then, imitating the position of his hand, fired off another strand of web and hit the crane. Using his new speed and reflexes, he ended the strand and grabbed onto the webbing. With a gulp, he climbed up onto the ledge and jumped, swinging on the web.
"Boo-yahahah." Ron laughed, but his laughter quickly stopped when he realized he couldn't stop and ran into a sign.
"Ow." He groaned as he slid down the sign.
And there you go. Ron's discovered his powers, got two good friends, and I ripped off the first Spiderman movie to a ridicules amount. I'll get into the whole becoming a hero thing in the next chapter.
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