Act 3, Scene 3

Aunt May's house. Peter Parker's childhood home. The police have cordoned it off, but there are only around four or five squad cars and already well over three hundred people converging. The vast majority are simply curious rubbernecking civilians anxious to see if Peter is at home, but there are a large number of particularly villainous looking types hanging around too.

POLICE: (through loudspeaker) Please disperse. Nothing to see here. Please return to your normal tasks.

Nine or ten hoods are standing in a close-knit group.

HOOD #1: Freak busted six of our boys last year alone.

HOOD #2: Left me hangin from a damn lamp-post for three hours.

HOOD #3: Yeah? At least he let you dangle right way up.

HOOD #1: Well boys…it's payback time.

There are low rumbles of assent from his companions. Moments later the shooting begins. One of the gang ducks down behind a car with a bag, which he unzips. It's a compartmentalised bag with petrol bottles inside, rags attached – a sack full of Molotov cocktails. He distributes these to a few of the gang whilst the gun battle continues with the police.

One of the petrol bombs sails through the air and lands on Aunt May's front porch, where it explodes, showering flame and debris. Seconds later another lands.

We follow a third bomb as it arcs toward its target. Midway there however it's snatched from the air. The carrier lands on the roof. It's Spiderman, enraged. He winds his arm back and hurls the bomb back from where it came.

HOOD #2: Oh sh…

He dives for cover just as Spiderman's bomb smashes into the satchel, exploding and triggering the others still in there. Fragments of superheated glass and flame rain down on the scene. There are screams from the bystanders. Spiderman ignores the screams and webs the fires on the porch and front windows, starving them of oxygen and quenching the flames.

Shots begin to track in Spiderman's direction from the hoods below. He spreads his arms and webs with deadly accuracy. Six hoods are picked up and yanked viciously forward, crashing into cars, concrete and cops.

Not done yet, Spiderman leaps from the roof right into the middle of the melee below and beginning to take apart all comers. A hood takes a swing. Spiderman ducks effortlessly and smashes the man into a car, breaking every window in the vehicle.

And that's when the car alarm sounds, and everything changes.

The piercing howl of the alarm has Spiderman clutching his head immediately. We see the surface of his suit churning violently, more violently than it has since it first augmented itself to him via Chang's bite. Spiderman sinks to his knees, in tremendous pain.

The police there see their opportunity. With most of the hoods out of action, a few cops fan out and cover the others, giving three officers the chance to approach Spiderman. On his hands and knees, he crawls toward the car as they approach.

COP #1: FREEZE!

Spiderman's hand wraps around the car's fender. He pulls himself underneath the car and with one huge heave and kick, the car is airborne. Everyone ducks, but the car sails over their heads and lands sixty feet away in a grass clearing. By the time everyone has recovered from the scare – including the police – Spiderman has vanished.

More squad cars arrive on the scene and the hoods are cuffed. The cop who yelled 'Freeze!' is approached by one of the new arrivals.

COP #1: It was the noise. The noise hurt him…