Chapter 6
John kept jumping up and down on the bed in the small bedroom he and his three companions were told to stay put for a while.
"We're in Spiderman's house!" he whispered loudly. They had bumped into the superhero 3 hours ago, but he still couldn't believe it.
"Yeah, you told us like ten times already, Egbert!" Davesprite grumbled. "calm the fuck down, I try to hear what he's fuckin saying."
By that, the sprite pushed closer to the door Spiderman had locked himself behind to talk to his boss. John floated over to him and put his ear against the door next to Davesprite.
"Yeah, there's four of them!" they heard him say, quiet enthusiast.
"How many of these 'trolls'?" a deep, grumbling voice asked.
"One, two kids with superpowers and an orange boy with wings."
"Hmm, we haven't seen that last one here yet," the deep voice mumbled.
This is when Davesprite decided to open the door. 13 years with his big Bro had taken all challenge off of lock picking, so he had it open in five seconds flat.
"That's 'cause I'm one unique motherfucker," Davesprite said to the figure with an eye patch on the computer screen.
"Dave! John!" Jade whispered harshly when the two simply walked out of the bedroom. She growled frustrated when the two simply ignored her, ears twisting annoyed.
"Have you found our friends?" John chirped at the screen. " Have you found Karkat? And Dave? I guess you at least found Karkat 'cause I can hear him yelling in the background. I'm pretty sure Dave is there too, though. Only he can get Karkles that worked up!"
Spiderman stared confused at the boys.
"I thought your name was Dave," he said to the orange boy.
Said boy crossed his arms and glanced over to John, who scratched the back of his head and looked down guilty. Spiderman raised an eyebrow at this, was something wrong?
"'Was' is about right, but we had to find something else since I'm not the 'original'!" He sounded bitter when he said it, but kept completely passive otherwise.
"I'm sorry" John mumbled, still not looking up.
"Nah, it's cool. Being an orange bird-gohst-thing still beats being dead, I guess." Davesprite reassured the boy.
John let out a nervous giggle and fixed his attention back to the screen. He really felt bad for Davesprite, having lost everyone from his own timeline and all, but he found it difficult to treat him as Dave when his Dave was alive and breathing.
"Hehe, sorry about that, these boys just don't know when they should stop!" Jade apologized cheerfully to Spiderman and his boss.
"They seem to have trouble understanding the meaning of privacy," the man agreed, scowling in slight annoyance.
"You should try living on a meteor, hurtling through space, with them," Aradia said giggling.
"At least you've only been stuck with them for a few weeks and not three years" Jade grumbled, but the playful glint in her eyes told them that she didn't mean it.
"You guys!" John whined, "do you know who you are talking to?"
"An angry bald dude with only one eye," Davesprite answered, earning a glare from both John and angry bald dude.
"This is director Fury! Head of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the boss of the Avengers!" At the end he had gotten really excited and he was jumping up and down again.
"Nerd" Davesprite coughed in his fist, earning a giggle from Aradia.
"Hey!"
"Stop fighting you two!" Jade came in between, her ears standing forward in an angry V.
The two boys quieted down, but kept glaring at each other. Because of that no one noticed Spiderman mouthing a quiet 'help me' to his boss. But either Fury hadn't seen it or he simply ignored it.
"Get them over here!" Fury barked, before disconnecting.
Spiderman sighed and turned off his computer. Better do what the boss says before he got in trouble,… again.
"Jeez, nice guy," Jade commented.
"You have no idea, kid," Spiderman grinned. He actually kind of liked these guys.
"He reminds me of Karkat," John piped up, grinning like a madman. This got him amused reactions from the other three kids.
Spiderman decided not to ask any questions about this Karkat. He'll find out when they got to the S.H.I.E.L.D. base.
"Ok," he started, stretching lazily before standing up. "You guys heard eye patch, time to go!"
"Too bad! I would have liked to be able to enjoy some of that human delicatessen Dave was talking about so much!" Aradia said, smiling softly.
"What human delicatessen?" Spiderman asked curious.
"Hamburgers."
The group snickered at Aradia's cheery answer.
"Well that is something we can't have! You have to at least tried a burger once in in your life, c'mon!" Spiderman said amused, leading the kids outside the house and back on the streets.
"Where we going?" john asked.
"Mc Donalds!"