Act 2, Scene 20
Peter swings through the city. It's the afternoon, and raining again. His spider-sense kicks in, and we see a family being menaced by a group of thugs. He changes direction and heads toward it.
We cut to the crime scene. One of the thugs has a gun trained on a teenage girl while the other two extort anything of value from her parents.
MOTHER: Please don't hurt her, please-
THUG #1: (brandishing a watch he's just taken from her wrist)Don't hurt her for this piece of crap? You'd better do better than this, lady...
FATHER: It's all we have!
The third thug, holding the gun on the girl, is mightily surprised when a piece of webbing tags his gun and snaps it upward before he can blink. He's even more surprised when a half-second later another piece of webbing attaches itself to his head and does the same to him.
SPIDERMAN: Actually, they do have one more thing.
He drops in the midst of the remaining two.
SPIDERMAN: Me.
The other two thugs set upon him. He ducks their attacks easily and swings to punch one of the thugs-
-we hear, just on the edge of our perception, the same snarl Peter heard in his dream-
-and the thug is propelled backward fully thirty feet down the alley. He lands in a trench of rainwater, sending a huge spray up. The other thug, about to try and tackle Spiderman from behind, stands frozen to the spot. Even the terrorised family stand agape. Not least surprised is Spiderman himself, who stares down at his closed fist.
He holds up his arm. The red and blue of his suit have gone, to be replaced by a uniform black, save for the familiar spider emblem on his chest, now in white.
SPIDERMAN: I didn't mean to...
The other thug snaps out of his stupor, screams with rage and picks up a nearby trashcan lad to smash over Spiderman's head. Viewing this from a point just in front of Spiderman's mask, we see him go from normal-time to Spider-time and to a point beyond it, until he's almost frozen completely.
Spiderman turns. He walks (with no great hurry) completely around the thug, who's still downswinging.
And then he sees the raindrops.
They too are slowed down almost to the point of not moving. He reaches out and touches one and it retains its shape as it's geography shifts.
SPIDERMAN: (wonderingly)This...is officially...weird.
He winces in sudden pain and touches his temples. Time moves normally again. The thug completes his downstroke - just a shame Spiderman is now behind him. He overbalances and topples over. With two quick bursts of webbing Spiderman has him affixed to the alley surface.
The family, now huddled together, regard him with a mixture of gratitude and slight trepidation. The girl is the first to speak.
GIRL: Thank you, Spidey.
MOTHER: You hit him so hard.
SPIDERMAN: He was going to-
MOTHER: I didn't say it was a bad thing.
SPIDERMAN: Call an ambulance for him. And lay off the trips through the jungle, okay?
Spiderman shakes his head and his black spider-suit shimmers back to red and blue. He webs a line and prepares to leave, but before he can-
FATHER: Are you going after the Goblin?
SPIDERMAN: Yes.
GIRL: You're gonna kick his ass aren't you!
SPIDERMAN: I'm gonna kill him.
The reply startles them a little. Spiderman leaps and is gone, leaving them shaken and alone in the alley.
FATHER: Let's go.
GIRL: What about the ambul-
MOTHER: You heard your father.
They leave the alley. We fade out on the fallen body of the punched thug, crumpled in a sodden heap.