Phineas and Ferb
Dark Ages
Chapter 4: Threat
Disclaimer: Phineas and Ferb is not mine; it belongs to Dan Povenmire & Jeff "Swampy" Marsh. Spider-man is also not mine.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the busy, busy city of New York, everyone was going about their business. With no major threats from natural disasters or super villains to worry about, they people were free to come and go and do their business as they please. The same went for New York City's friendly neighborhood superhero: Spiderman, a.k.a, Peter Parker.
Said man was already at his job: in the building of the Daily Bugle, ready to approach his boss and receive a job that would hopefully provide some payment, or at the very least, not get fired, as he did every other Wednesday.
"Parker!" His boss, J. Jonah Jameson, shouted as Peter entered his office. "That's the third call today about a giant meteorite in Central Park. A giant meteorite!"
"A giant meteorite?" Peter questioned.
"Yes, a giant meteorite. Now, stop pretending to be a parakeet and repeat everything I say. Get me photos of that meteorite. Pronto!"
"Right away, Mr. Jameson." Peter knew better than to defy Jameson. So he obeyed and ran off on his way to Central Park to get those photos. But the word "meteorite" struck him like a chord. "Meteorite...why does that sound like it's going to get me in more trouble than my job is worth?" He had encountered a meteorite before, because that is how he acquired his original Spidey black suit. He just didn't know it yet.
He changed into his Spider-man costume, took his camera with him, and swung off to Central Park to get some pictures of the fallen meteorite. Under the assumption that nothing bad was going to come from this meteorite, he swung casually from building to building, making sure that his webs stuck and that he didn't fall. Nobody ever said that being a web swinger was easy.
It took no time at all for Spider-man to arrive in Central Park. There, he saw the giant meteorite lodged in the ground, as well as a group of people gathered around to witness it. He took several pictures of it, getting as many as he thought he would need. That turned out to be a resounding...seven. But to him, it was enough to please Jameson.
Now during his previous counter with this meteorite, he actually had no idea that the Symbiote alien that created his black suit came from the meteorite. So he was still perplexed as he observed it. "What is this?" He said to himself. "I've never seen anything like it before in my life, and yet I feel as though I've had some sort of connection with it in the past. Oh well. No sense dwelling on it. I better head back to the Bugle." And with that, he shot a web up onto a nearby tree top, and swung back to the Daily Bugle, where he turned in his pictures and received his minimum wage fund.
After receiving his disappointing payment from his boss, he swung back to his apartment, and changed out of his Spider-man costume so he wouldn't raise any question. But before entering the establishment, he noticed that there was a newspaper in the trash can. Peter walked over to the trash can and picked up the newspaper out from it. He realized that it was the latest edition, so he opened up and read it. The first thing he saw was a picture of a meteorite that had crashed into the town of Danville (and the photo had been taken by Phineas & Ferb the previous day; somehow, news reporters got a hold of it).
"Another meteorite, huh? This time, it was in...Danville..*Name of state withheld*?" Peter said to himself, reading the paper. "Wait a second. That looks like the same meteorite that I found in Central Park. "But...but how? Two meteorites? That's a first for me."
His questionings of the incidents were soon put on hold when all of a sudden, a nearby pedestrian came running down the street, waving his arms in the air in total distress. "Somebody help! Aliens! AHH! We're under attack! Nobody is safe!" The man continued to run down the street as Peter stood there, confused.
"Aliens?" But he knew from past experiences that not everything people said was a hunk of baloney. "Well, he's either the biggest liar I've ever seen, or I'm in for the biggest fight of my life." He ran into the alley, dropping the paper, and changed back into his Spider-man outfit.
Swinging in the opposite direction as the man who was running for his life, he soon enough discovered why he was so afraid for his life. It was clear upon arrival. Someone else who was minding their own business was taken over by the alien that had taken over Phineas. (The Symbiote) And that man was going bonkers. He was attacking and trying to kill everybody in sight. Thankfully, though, at the moment, the only two people who were seen out in the streets were that man and Spider-man.
"Whoa, looks like somebody just lost their job." Spider-man remarked to himself before taking a closer look at the man. He realized that he was covered in some sort of black material, a black material he couldn't quite make out. "Wait a second. What is that guy wearing? It looks like he went goth or...oh that's not a coat!"
The Symbiote-consumed man lunged at Spider-man in an attempt to claw him out. But using his spider-sense, he was able to leap out of the way. "Is that...no, it can't be. I-I thought it was destroyed when Brock was destroyed." He shot out a web at the guy and reeled him in, grabbing him by where his shirt collar should be. "Alright, what are you?"
The man simply hissed at Spider-man and punched him in his ribs, releasing his grip and freeing him. But before the Symbiote could attack again, Spider-man shot out a web splat (You know, like in Spider-man 3 for the PS2), blinding him, and then smashed his face with a powerful kick, knocking him back a few feet and slamming him into the ground. Seeing that the Symbiote was about to get back up, Spider-man shot out webs to pin him to the ground. "You're not going anywhere, punk. Not until I get that off of you."
Spider-man shot out more webs from his wrists, attaching them to the man's Symbiote coat. Pulling as hard as he could as fast as he could, he tried to yank the Symbiote off of him. But it was super strong, and the webs actually detached off of it, smacking him in the face. The Symbiote used this opportunity to escape. But it was to no avail, as suddenly, a car passed by them, honking his horn. The sound of the horn caused the Symbiote to begin to peel off of its victim. Spider-man saw this as a glimmer of hope.
He zipped up to it and used his webbing, and with the full force of his strength, yanked the Symbiote off, flinging it into the sky to who knows where? The pedestrian was safe. "Hey, are you alright?" Spider-man asked him.
"Y-Yeah. I think so. It was so bizarre. I-I was walking along the street, trying to get to work, when all of a substance, this black...whatever jumped out in front of me and started climbing up my legs. I tried to yell for help, b-but before I could, it had covered my mouth. And then...I don't know, I guess I blacked out or something. What was that thing?"
"I think I might know." Spider-man said, before turning around preparing to swing back to his apartment. "I just hope I'm wrong."
He swung back to his apartment and changed out of his costume. He spent the next hour or so studying the newspaper, mores specifically, the story on the meteorite that landed in Danville. This has to be a coincidence. He kept trying to tell himself. There's no way these two meteorites could be exactly the same. But they look exactly alike. Something's going on here. But dwelling on this thought would have to wait. His telephone started ringing. Hewent over to answer it.
"Hello?"
"Peter!"
"Mary Jane?" She sounded like she was in distress. "Mary Jane, what's wrong?"
"OH no! It's coming closer! D-Don't! Stay back! Peter, help, please! AHHH!"
"Mary Jane! I'm coming!" He slammed the phone down, put on his costume again, and swung right out of his window, rushing towards his girlfriend's house. He swung and zipped towards Mary Jane's house faster than he had done in a long time. When he finally did arrive at M.J's home, he crawled up the wall to her window, and heard screaming coming from the inside. "M.J.! Oh no, she's in trouble!" He leaped off the wall, shot webs to it, pulled himself towards the window, and smashed through it.
After regaining his composure, he saw his girlfriend in a fetal position, screaming as a big puddle of a black substance, the Symbiote, began to climb up onto her bed. Spider-man was instantly surprised to see that alien back in his life and to see if going after Mary Jane.
"Peter! Help!" She screamed at the top of his lungs.
"Don't worry, Mary Jane. I won't let that thing consume you! I just have to get rid of it. You don't happen to have some sort of air horn, do you?"
"Yeah." She took it out of her back pocket. "I never go anywhere without it. Why?"
"Use it! Now!"
"No? But why?"
"This thing is affected by high frequency sound waves. If you use it, it'll be weakened, and then I can get rid of it." After Spider-man explained the situation, Mary Jane didn't hesitate to use her air horn. Instantly, the Symbiote stopped crawling up the bed, and it even began to retreat backwards, giving the hero a chance to stomp on it, weakening it even more. After he was certain it wasn't moving anymore, he webbed up the alien, and flung it out of the open window. He flung it so hard he was sure that he wouldn't be seeing it again anytime soon. "That takes care of that."
"Peter...was that the thing..."
"Was that the thing what?" He helped her off of the bed.
"Was that what turned your suit black last time?"
"Yep. The very same. I swear I thought it was gone when Eddie Brock was killed. But I guess I was wrong. Apparently, I was dead wrong." He walked over to where Mary Jane had the latest edition of the newspaper, and handed it to her, opened to the page that talked about the meteorite that was in Danville. "Apparently, they're some sort of life form, and they come from an unknown planet somewhere out in the galaxy. It can't just be coincidence that two meteorites that are exactly alike crash into Earth. One in New York, and one in Name of State Withheld. Something's up here."
"You really think so?"
"I have a hunch, and I hope that I'm wrong. But, it can't hurt to investigate." He started making his way to the open window, and shot a web up to the top of a nearby building. "I'm going to head over to that town called "Danville", the town where the other meteorite hit. Maybe if I look around there a little bit, I can get some answers."
"Wait, Peter!" She called out to him, just as he was going to swing out. "Just promise me that...w-whatever happens, you won't let that thing get the best of you again."
He looked through his costume's eye pieces right at her eyes. "Don't worry. Next time you see me, it'll still be in my red suit. I won't let this thing beat me. I promise." And with that, he swung out, and went to find the town of Danville. He had the hopes that whatever he could find about the meteorite that crashed into Danville, he would be able to use it to help figure out what happened with the Symbiote in his previous encounter with it.
Back in Danville, everything, for the most part, was peaceful. All the kids were at their respective houses, relaxing, doing what normal kids do, while Phineas was spending some much-needed and well-deserved quality time with Isabella back at her house. The two of them were relaxing in her hammock in the backyard. Her mother, Vivian, was watching them from inside their house, allowing them the time they wanted. Granted, Phineas wasn't even awake anymore; he had fallen asleep about an hour and a half ago. But Isabella didn't mind it. In fact, she was hoping that he would fall asleep because he had not slept the previous night.
Candace entered the backyard with Ferb to check on Phineas. Not knowing what exactly happened to his brother, she was concerned for him because earlier he had seemed a bit on edge and upset about something. "Hey Isabella." She greeted Isabella. "Is Phineas OK? He was upset about something earlier."
"Yeah, he's OK. I told him he should take a little nap and that would calm him down." Isabella explained, kissing the cheek of the sleeping boy.
"Did he say why he was upset."
"He said it was because of the way he treated us yesterday. You should've seen him. In that black wardrobe, he was nasty, obnoxious, and just plain unattractive."
"Really?" With so many signs Isabella gave off that she had a crush on Phineas, Candace was perplexed to hear that suddenly she wasn't attracted to him.
"Well...he was. Heck, he was steaming hot! But his attitude was unappealing."
"Ah, I see. But, he'll be OK, right?"
"Of course. He's just napping." She looked down at Phineas again and her smile grew. "And he's so cute when he's sleeping." She looked back up at Candace. "Did you need something, Candace?"
"Actually, now that you mention it, we do." Isabella sat up, noticing the serious look on Candace and Ferb's faces. They walked over to her slowly as Phineas began to stir awake.
"W-What's going on, guys?" He asked, the exhaustion still noticeable in his voice. "Is something the matter."
"Well, Ferb and I were just sitting at home watching TV when Stacy called me on my cellphone. She told me to check "Twitter" under the name "Superspidey234". So I checked and according to this, he just posted a message saying "Just ran into strange black alien. No idea where it came from, but I don't have a good feeling about it."
"Wait a second. Are you guys saying the actual superhero of New York City, "Spider-man", had the same encounter with this alien that we did?"
"That's the assumption we're under, right now." Ferb inquired. He, along with everybody else truly believed Spider-man was real. Candace did not.
"So...if Spider-man just had a tussle with this Symbiote - the same Symbiote that we battled only yesterday, then...could that mean that New York is in danger as well?"
"I don't think so, Phineas. It said in his post that he made sure he got rid of it."
"Spider-man. What a joke." Candace snorted.
"You don't think he's the real deal?"
"Please. A guy who wears long underwear and can shoot webs out of his wrists? That sounds like a big hunk of baloney if you ask me."
"I don't know, Candace." Isabella said, intruding on the conversation. "You've said a lot things were phony, like Nosey, for instance. Y-You said that you were even mocking your brothers
"But still, this thing can be tricky. I mean, it almost took me over." Phineas was still having bad memories over that experience, but his peaceful nap gave him a calmer state of mind. "Well, guys, I think there's only one thing we can do at this point."
"What's that, Phineas?" Isabella asked, putting her arm around his shoulder to comfort him.
"We've gotta bring Spider-man here. Maybe with him on our side, we can figure out just what the heck is going on here."
"But how are we going to get him from New York to here?" Ferb inquired. "It's not like vigilantes are in the phone book or anything?"
"Ferb's right. It's too bad we don't have some sort of transporter that can transport him right into our backyard." Isabella pointed out. "Just like your...photo transporter!" And then it hit her. There was a way that they could call Spider-man to their backyard. "That's it! We could use your old photo transporter thingy to call Spider-man to your backyard. Why didn't I think of that sooner?"
"But it was destroyed. I don't exactly know how, but Phineas & Ferb did something to make it disappear." Candace pointed out, still unaware of the fact that it was actual their pet platypus, Perry, who had a hand in destroying it (And I promise you, he'll have a part in this fanfiction soon).
"We didn't destroy it, Candace. I swear."
"Yeah right, Phineas. I suppose our platypus that "doesn't do much" is a secret agent that works for the government and somehow got a hold of it and dismantled it while Mom wasn't looking."
"Perhaps that's where he disappears off to everyday." Ferb inquired again. But rather that roll on that thought, Phineas returned to their previous thought: calling Spider-man to them.
"Don't worry, guys. Ferb and I kept the blueprints to our photo transporter. We can reconstruct it and get Spider-man here right away. Come on. Let's get to work."
The four returned to the Flynn-Fletcher home and, even though she didn't want anything to do with Phineas & Ferb's invention, she knew that there was no way she would be able to bust them to her parents. So she reluctantly helped them, and in no time at all, they were done with the photo transporter.
"Finished! Finally!" Phineas exclaimed, admiring their creation. "And it's still sunny out."
"Of course, Phineas. It's only, like, noon." Isabella pointed out, checking her watch.
"That's right. Anyway, now all we need is a picture of Spider-man in action. Then we can just insert it into the transporter and beam him here. But who here has a picture of Spider-man?"
Everyone looked around at each other sheepishly before Candace finally gave in and took out a picture of Spider-man swinging through the city, and handed it to Phineas. "Candace? You? Of all people."
"J-Just don't tell anybody! OK?"
"Your secret is safe with us." Phineas inserted the picture into the transporter, and prepared to activate it. "OK, the transporter is ready to fire. Cross your fingers, guys." He pressed the "On" button and watched as their machine activated, sending out a laser that was aimed right at Spider-man, who was, at this point, swinging past the Empire State Building. He had no idea what was going on as he was being digitized and sent back through the machine.
Eventually, he arrived, in full, in Danville, on the platform where all things sent through the machine arrive on. The kids all cheered upon seeing the hero appear before their very eyes (except for Candace, who was shocked as anyone, and stood there with her jaw hanging). Spider-man took a quick look around at his surroundings. Since he had never been to Danville before, he had no idea what it looked like. So he was a bit apprehensive when the first thing he saw was a bunch of kids and a teenager dressed like a candy cane eying him admirably. Phineas slowly approached him: one of his greatest heroes ever was right in front of his eyes. For him, it was a dream come true.
"Spider-man...welcome to Danville."
End of Chapter 4!
Next Time: The Symbiote's threat continues to grow as Phineas, Ferb & friends team up with Spider-man to end it.
Expected Update: You can check anytime after July 26th.
