I DON'T OWN THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN OR STOKED.

-Emma-

Today was my first day of work, and possibly, no definitely my last. I just sat on the bed that I would've been sleeping on and let the tears come.

"Emma, what's wrong?" Fin came in and sat next to me.

"I have been doing a lousy job. The chances of me actually making a high enough score to stay is the same as an alien coming down asking, 'take me to your leader'."

"No. Don't think like that. Hey I got an idea. Let's see if the kahuna will take us to town to get something." She said pulling me to the whale bus before I could reject the offer. When we arrived we saw the kahuna preparing to leave. Did Fin plan this? "Hey kahuna, mind taking us into town to cheer Emma here up?"

"Only if you are ready to leave now. I have to pick up my sister and nephew."

"Sure. Come on." She said. We got on and took a seat in the middle of the bus on the left side.

"So what's your family that's coming like?" I asked.

"May is one of the sweetest people you'd ever meet. Peter is a bit of a bookworm and May believes he is depressed."

"That's terrible." I replied.

"Yes, it is. But honestly I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner. You see May is his aunt. His parents died when he was five and Mays husband, who helped raise Peter, died last year." I was horrified. Here I was depressed over a job, meanwhile Peter has lost both his parents before he knew them and lost his uncle. No one deserved to live a life like that. It didn't take long before we arrived in town.

"Want off here? Or want me to drop you two off after I pick up May and Peter?"

Before Fin could say anything I answered, "I want to meet Peter." Fin saw my face and returned to the seat she was beginning to leave.

"Me too."

"Okay dudettes, just don't say anything about him being depressed." We agreed and continued to the airport.

"So, what do they look like?" I asked.

"Don't know." The kahuna replied pulling out a sign that read "Parker" and put it on the side of the bus, near the door.

"May Parker and Peter Parker?" I asked, thinking it sounded familiar, "Wait, wasn't Peter Parker that kid who everyone thought was Spider-Man?" I asked out loud.

"Yes. But then they found out it was a rumor started from when he dressed as the guy during Halloween." The kahuna answered reclining in the drivers seat.

"Who's Spider-Man?" Fin asked.

She didn't know who Spider-Man is? That's unbelievable. "Spider-Man is the superhero who protects New York."

"No way. Spider-Man is nothing but a news story. I saw some of the bugles stories. I mean a giant lizard? Sounds like something the inquisitor would print."

"Doubt it, Peter takes pictures of Spider-Man and the villains he fights." The kahuna said.

"Assuming you guys are right then that'd mean the guy was either brave or stupid enough to get close to homicidal super-psychos. If that's true then he's definitely someone I'd want to surf with."

-Parker-

After two hours in the posture menaces known as coach seats, we finally arrived. As soon as the plane landed both Aunt May and I left the seats. As soon as we got up I know I felt my back seize up. Now I feel bad for Aunt May. With my powers I can heal faster than most, she can't. We to leave but were unable to with the flow of passengers to the exit was strong enough that I'm sure we'd be pulled outside with a few broken bones. After what felt like an hour the stream weakened enough to leave. Arriving at the terminal, we scanned for our luggage. After going through a long line of passengers getting their stuff we found our belongings.

"Now we just need to find Jimmy."

She didn't have to finish the sentence before I saw a large purple bus with a dorsal fin and a flipper with a pair of purple and yellow shorts. "Aunt May," I said as I pointed at the purple vehicle.

"Oh my, well that would be easy to know in a parking lot." She said. No kidding. As we left the building and got closer to the bus I noticed the front of the bus had a smile and two eyes beneath the window. I offered to place the bags under the bus. As I was busy putting the bags up Aunt May was talking to her brother. I walked onto the bus and was greeted by a man with long blonde hair and beard.

"Hello Peter. I'm Jimmy, but everyone calls me kahuna." He said offering his hand.

"Hey, 'kahuna'." I said shaking his hand.

"No wonder people thought you were Spider-Man," kahuna said. My heart was beginning to beat harder as I took my hand from him, mostly so he couldn't tell the sweat that was coming harder.

"Why's that?" I asked trying to keep my voice level.

"Your spirit animal is a spider." He doesn't know? With that situation over I took an empty seat next to Aunt May. Two girls were sitting in the seats on the other side of Aunt May turned their attention to me.

"Hi. I'm Emma." Said a red head with a pony tail and in pink said with a smile.

"Name's Fin." A blonde with short hair and a tan introduced herself.

"Peter Parker."

"So I heard that you'll be working with us at the hotel." Emma said.

"Yeah. I guess."

"Well good luck dealing with Bummer." Fin said.

"Bummer?"

"Andrew Baumer. Trust me, you'll understand the nickname when we get there."

"I was afraid the boss would be like that. So what do you two do?" I asked.

"I was supposed to be surf instructor, but some...guy," I noticed that Fin was about to use some other word but then looked at Aunt May and decided to change where she was going. "I was stuck with housekeeping."

"I work in the restaurant as a waitress." Emma said. I'm not a genius when it comes to girls, but I could tell she felt depressed about the job. Before I could ask what was up I felt my Spider-senses. Without thinking I jumped out of my seat and made my way to the driver seat. Moving kahuna out of the driver seat I got into the vacant seat and stomped on the breaks.

"Hey what're you—" Fin yelled.

Before anyone could respond a car drove from behind a blind spot. It raced along the path we would've been in if I hadn't stopped.

"Whoa, you saved our lives." Emma said.

"Yeah. How did you know that car was coming?" Fin said with suspicion creeping into her voice.

Uh oh. She's suspicious. Better extinguish it now. "You spend as much time in hot zones as I do then you get a sense of danger."

Fin looked at Emma and said, "He's definitely someone I'd surf with."

I took my seat back as kahuna took over the controls. He started driving again and we arrived at a colossal building, standing thirty or forty feet tall. Behind the hotel sat an entire beach stretching for as far as I can see in one direction, which is saying something, and in the other direction is a forest so dense I'm sure some of the less fortunate tourists have gotten lost. Past the beach and forest was an ocean that went on to the horizon. In short it was a photographers paradise.

"You'll have to go see Baumer in order to get your job." Kahuna said

I did as Uncle Jimmy: A.K.A Kahuna, said. Upon entering I saw a tank holding a couple thousand gallons of water; inside the tank were several fish that, strangely, looked like they were communicating with each other. Ignoring the distracting fish I took inventory of the rest of the lobby. The lobby was large and blue with two ramps on either side of the tank. And two sets of stairs surrounding the ramps. After walking down one staircase I saw a black guy sitting behind the desk.

"Hey. I'm looking for Andrew Baumer." I told him.

"Down that hall, second door to the right. Good luck." He said, pointing to the left of the front door.

"Thanks." I followed the guys directions and found the door. The guy who greeted me had a friendly smile pasted to his face and short blonde hair. "Hello, I'm Andrew Baumer; the daytime manager. Hoe may I help you?" Okay so far I don't get why they call this guy Bummer.

"I'm here for a job that the kahuna lined up." I told him.

"You the Parker kid?"

"Yeah."

"Then go find Johnny at the front desk, have him direct you to the employee locker room, and be ready for the rest of the evaluation week. If you get anything less than seven and your out!" Baumer said. You just had to say something, didn't you Parker? I thought to myself as I walked to the front desk.

"I'm guessing you got the job." He said.

"And found out why they call him Bummer." I replied.

"I see you've already met one of the others."

"Two actually. Three if you count kahuna."

"You that nephew kahuna was talking about?"

"Yeah. Well gotta go. Later" I said leaving.

"Later."

I arrived at the place where I was staying and to be honest I'd prefer to be sleeping on the couch at Uncle Jimmy's. I entered the room and met some of the other employees. One was a guy who called himself Reef and a guy who called himself Broseph. I found myself back in New York at the tower. I was stranded on the building when I realized I was asleep. I tried to wake myself up before any of the night ruining parts happened. The efforts were ruined when Normy pulled out the lanterns. Even though a part of me knew it wasn't real; I couldn't help but to run all the way to ground zero. I woke up as Goblin revealed himself to the other Osborn male. Looking at the clock; I realized it was midnight. Too late for me to be awake and to early for me to get to work the shift at noon, when the hotel was busiest with schools releasing. I just got my camera out of the bag. I would've got the Spidey suit but I knew I couldn't sneak out or risk sleeping through my shift as a bellhop.

"Do I want to know what your planning on doing with camera?" Fin joked behind me.

"Yeah, just need to calm down." I reassured her.

"Then I think I got a better way." She said, "now follow me."

She led me to a door. I opened it and found a surfboard with a field of red. On the back and either side of the red was blue in a cross checking pattern. Connecting the red and blue was a black spider emblem. Oh, my poor brain. Part of me was worried that someone found out my secret and the other was thinking, "this board is a whole new level of cool." Only problem was that I didn't know how to surf, which I told her.

"Why, I'm insulted." She said with a glare. Before I could make the mistake of asking why I remembered her telling me she was supposed to be the surf instructor.

"Oh sorry, I didn't mean it —" I started to apologize as she cut up laughing.

"Dude, I'm kidding. Now let's get out there you grom." She said looking at me. "It means newb."

She told me to paddle out. We were sitting by each other on our boards in the water when she instructed me to turn from the wave to the shore. The first few waves I just enjoyed the speed. Surfing was thrilling; not web swinging thrilling but without patrolling. I decided to show off a bit. What Fin didn't know was that my agility and my, for lack of a better term, stickiness allowed me to not only survive the large wave coming my way but to do several flips in the air.

"You wouldn't happen to be a senior, would you."

"Of course not. I'm only 16."

"Dude, senior is what we call surfers with experience."

Maybe I should've left the Spidey tricks in my bag of tricks. "Promise not to tell anyone this? Back in New York I wanted to surf. All I had to practice with was a mechanical surfer. Like a mechanical bull, only for surf." I said, hoping she'd buy it.

"Cool. Maybe you should give one to that Barney, Reef." She sighed and said, "means untalented."

I felt something happen I didn't expect for sometime; a yawn. We went our separate ways and for the first time in a month I actually fell asleep. This vacation may have sounded lame, but I'm quickly beginning to enjoy it. Just have to hope that Bummer doesn't get super powers and destroy Canada.

-Finish-

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