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Chapter 4:
Fads can be dangerous
'That was a weird dream.' Peter thought as he got ready for the day. As he put on his costume he thought of the other's suit. He left his room and was still in thought so he almost didn't hear a voice.
"Your usual pre-morning web-slinging I assume, Pete?" The coyote asked as he was working on their vacuum cleaner. Lately he found it pleasing to swing while the sun was rising.
"Yep, I'm planning to see if there is anymore snow." He said in his joking voice, which the others were slowly starting to understand; emphasize on slowly. Now, Tech knew that no snow short of permafrost could survive this heat, so he knew this time that he was kidding.
"Before you leave I have something for you." The mechanically inclined member of the team said as he walked over to one of the various consoles and picked up the item he needed. "Here, put this on your arm." He instructed before continuing, "Since your suit is still being developed that triangle will let others know that you are a definite member of the team." He had a feeling that underneath that mask was a smile, and he was right Peter was smiling.
"Thanks, Tech." He showed his gratitude by putting on the white triangle near his right shoulder. After seeing it on his costume he went back to his sense of humor. "I'm glad you picked a shape that matches my eyes perfectly." Said genius only went back to his work and the web-head went off to the hanger. "Maybe I should try something other than my web shooters." He asked himself aloud while mentally thinking, 'Alright, but what…' He continued to thank for a moment until the idea hit him. "I have been meaning to test this idea out." He said before racing out of the whole and began to fall. 'Now, seems like a good time to try it.' He thought and fired his webbing like normal, but instead of a web-line; he created a pair of wings.
"Look mommy Mr. Spidey can fly." A random five year old boy said while pointing up to the gliding creature. The mother of the child watched as the still new hero glided right over them.
"I can't believe that this actually worked." He said joyously, as he enjoyed his flight. After a while the wings began to evaporate. 'Better leave, before this ride gets messy.' He thought and immediately broke free from them slid down the closest building.
"Is there something I can help you with?" A voice asked and once the wall-crawler saw that it was a somewhat attractive young woman and then he looked up at the sign he slid past. 'Ks Quarters'
'Well, I do need some new clothes.' He thought and continued to walk inside. He was grateful that their fashion was similar to the clothes in his dimension. As he was glancing around he noticed the dressing room, but that wasn't what he was interested in. The thing he found interesting was that no one was calling the cops of a masked man being in their area. 'Then again they have six heroes who also wear masks, so I guess that counts for something.' He thought to himself, so he wouldn't think that it was a trap. After grabbing a few things he headed to the cashier, and said to him straight out. "Sorry, I don't have any money on me." The cashier held up his hand and told the mask hero.
"Judging by that thing on your arm I would have to say that are one of the Loonatics." Behind the mask Peter blinked a few times before glancing over at the shoulder the man was pointing to and totally forgot of that addition to his costume. Then the man behind the counter, who seemed to be in his late fifties with a thick head of black hair added, "Because those guys don't have to pay of what they do to save this town."
"Yes, yes I am, and I am not saying this because I am flat broke." Spider-Man said to him in a nervous tone, but the man only smiled.
"It's ok, I believe you. By the way my name is Randy, nice to meet ya`." The man now known as Randy put his hand out in front of the wall-crawler. This was a gesture he already knew of, but only by his fellow Super Heroes; there has never been a civilian that even wanted to know the wall-crawler…until now.
'Oh screw that world.' He yelled out through out his mind before shaking the man's hand being sure not to use all of his strength. "The name's Spider-Man, latest member of the Loonatics." With wave of goodbye he headed for the door, and once outside he took off swinging. 'Maybe this will work out after all.' He thought with a hidden smile on that red face of his; as soon as he made a brief stop by clinging to a building with his feet and right hand while he had his left hand on his chin: thinking. 'What should I do now?' He asked himself and that is when he saw that sunrise, but a familiar sound ruined this picturesque moment, his stomach. 'That's the only draw back of me waking up earlier, I get hungrier faster.' As he swung back home he was not expecting to see the leader in the hanger waiting for him.
"It's your turn to decide what kind of grub we have this mornin`, bug-boy; home cooked or takeout." Ace told the arachnid when he was through with his morning web slinging. Peter groaned out of pity before he thought…
'Great, just great; you have to hassle the new guy.' He thought as he made his way to their lounging room. 'Considering my cooking skills need some serious work and I have seven mouths to feed I had better take the takeout option.' He thought when he also had to worry about Slam's appetite. He then turned to the small kitchen that they had in that room. "Let's see what kind of restaurants you guys have." He said aloud and took off a list of places from the fridge. There were a lot of places to go for a restaurant by the name: Gary's BBQ. He dialed the number, but since he did not know what was on the menu he ordered seven of everything at least on their Breakfast menu.
"So what place did you pick?" The pink rabbit asked when she came into the room and saw the latest member lying on the sofa watching TV.
"I went with this Gary place; is it any good?" Peter asked as he sat up so she could sit on the couch as well. She nodded and said nothing more about that place. "Let me guess your not going to tell me anything else about it, are you?" The female rabbit merely smirked as a response for his question. "At least I told them where I'm staying and that I wanted everything on their morning food menu." He said to her while watching TV.
"Good thing you did because as soon as Slam smells that food we will have to race to the door or we're going hungry for a few hours." She said and he nodded believing what she said. The two said nothing until Lexi noticed the bag on the counter. "Went shopping did we?" She asked and turned her gaze to Peter who said in his usual fashion.
"Yep sure did, decided that if we take the day off you guys don't want me showing you up with this costume, right?" She got a little testy, but kept her cool.
"You show me up when it comes to fashion, please." She said that with a devilish smirk, but she did not receive any argument from him since he could see why that was true. After a few shakes of the head he returned to watch TV just in time for a commercial.
"Must change channel." Peter said in a mocking robotic tone, but as soon as he raised the remote the supersonic member grabbed his wrist. "What gives?" He asked the female rabbit, but he did receive an answer. He instead saw a pure joy expression on her face.
"Those things are so cute." She exclaimed and that is when Peter turned his attention back to the television just in time to see something known as a Fuz-z. Of course the web-head did not know what was so cute about them, but since this was Lexi he decided not to say one of his crappy jokes. After another half hour their doorbell rang.
"The food's here, the food's here. Let me get it; ok here I go." Rev said as he sped to all throughout the spire before stopping in front of the door. He immediately opened the door and said to the delivery person, "Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for this meal; I mean I have been waiting three whole minutes for this meal. So if you don't mind, bye." The door slammed shut and left a very confused delivery person claiming that he really needed a new route.
"Excellent choice there, Pete." Ace exclaimed as he finished off his two pancakes. He then stood up and announced to the others, "Now I'm going back to training." He left, which was a pretty good idea since the others were doing the same and saying what they had planned to do.
"One of the floor panels in the training room has been malfunctioning and I'm going to see what the problem is." Tech said first and walked away after he was done with his waffle stack.
"Ace told me that I should beef up everyone's training regiment and that is exactly what I'm going to do." Rev said and sped away. He had eaten all of his food so quickly that no one was sure what he had.
"And I've got some catalog shopping to do." Duck said and walked away with his beak held high. The mallard had eaten one of their Breakfast specials. Slam who had eaten the vast majority of their food was sleeping in front of the couch. Lexi who only had a Diet Coke and two Breakfast burrito's stood up and walked away, but as soon as the door was open she turned and said to the spider.
"I'm going out; after all I can't let you beat me in an event that was made for those that were born to mall crawl." That statement said she walked out while putting on her headphones. Peter was counting all of his fingers, making sure that Slam didn't eat any when he wasn't looking.
'All of you guys are here, that's good.' He thought, afraid that if he said it aloud he might wake the Tasmanian, but he would probably need something like a Global Disaster. 'I better put my clothes up and then I'll go off for another web swinging.' He thought and left with his new clothes. In no time he was back out on the city, swinging without a care in the world. 'I just can't believe that this place is so similar to my New York.' Peter thought after stopping on a roof corner. 'This place has its own jumbo-tron.' He added and looked at it. "More about those furballs, man." He muttered before looking down and noticed that every single one of the citizens had one. "Man, this fad will be here for a while." He whispered to himself and that is when he saw his rabbit ally with one of her own.
"Aw, you are just so cute." Lexi said happily and smothered it to her cheek. He shook his head and thought with a dead pan voice.
"I really should have seen that one coming." As he thought that and decided to visit a pet shop while thinking in a humorous tone, "Whatever happened when a kid wanted a dog or a cat; those I could understand, but not a hairball that Tigra coughed up." As he was walking in the sidewalk his comrade was walking through the park.
"I think I'll show you to the others tomorrow, but for now what should I call you?" Lexi asked the hairball with eyes and a rat tail. For an answer it only blinked at its master. The name then came to her, "How's Zozo for you?" It smiled at that name.
'I can't believe that these people aren't running away or yelling at me.' Peter thought as he walked the sidewalk like everybody else. That's when he spotted a shop that still had those fuz-z creatures. 'I guess I could check this out.' He thought, not really caving and not truly ignoring it either. He walked in and there were several children in there buying a combination of pet supplies, stuffed toys, and one fuz-z. When Peter was able to make it to the widow where they were and looked. 'These are cute good thing no one is a mind reader.' The wall-crawler thought, grateful that someone like Jean or the Professor was not around. He glanced over his shoulder and saw a kid who seemed to be five years younger than he was. "Hey kid, you want one of these?" The wall-crawler asked the kid.
"I sure would, in fact my mom said I could have one, but I can't decide." The kid said in a voice that was combined with a sense of happiness and sorrow. Peter could honestly tell that this guy really wanted one of them, so he decided to help the kid out. He glanced at the kids clothes and then at the hairballs; that's when he knew which one to pick.
"Here kid…" Spider began and scoped up one of the fuz-z, but when he did a familiar feeling happened. 'Why did my Spider Sense just go off?' He thought in a worried sense then he saw the kid and shook his head. "Sorry about that, I just caught a chill. I guess I must not have gotten over those Vikings." He told him, for a cover story of why he stood there and then he continued. "Here this little guy should work for you." He handed the child a red and green fuz-z which the boy gladly accepted.
"Thank you so much. Hey mom Spider-Man helped me find one." The boy yelled out in the crowd in the general direction of his mother. His mom came right away and saw the small furball.
"Thank you so much for helping my son he had been wanting one for months." What this woman just said to him confused the New York hero; so he had to clarify if she didn't mind.
"I thought this fad was only a couple of days old." The mother chuckled a bit before saying to the confused teen.
"Oh no this fad has been around for at least a few months." That said she and her son walked out of the little shop and met up with a man with brown hair. The three of them seemed rather close. That was when a feeling he hasn't felt in a few weeks hit him hard.
'Those must be his true mother and father. Something I never had before.' He thought bitterly before adding. "I better stop thinking like that, I don't want to doom and gloom Parker.' When he was done thinking and looked back at the fuz-z he noticed that one of them with his colors: red fur, blue body, black tail, and white eyes; the really odd thing was that it was staring directly at him.
"Are you going to get a fuz-z too?" A familiar voice asked him as he stared at the strangely colored one. This voice was one that he hasn't heard one in awhile; he turned around and saw that it was that fangirl that wanted his autograph. "Well, do you want one?" She asked politely to red masked hero.
"No, I'm not too big on following a fad to the letter, miss." He stopped there since he did not know her name. After a prolonged silence she finally got what Spider-Man required of her.
"Oh that's right: I know your name but you do not know mine." She said to him and presented her hand just like Randy did and told him her name, "My name is Agitha Goodfortune, nice to meet you." It was still weird for people to shake his hand instead of pelting him with rotten fruit, but it was growing on him. He shook her hand but his mind was elsewhere.
'Why did my Spider Sense go off? Could that family be in danger?' He turned back to the girl and said to her, "Sorry, I know that you still want my signature but I really have to go." The girl understood and nodded as a response. As Peter turned to the door he once again saw the creature that had his colors, it wasn't giddy like its brethren it was simply staring at Spider-Man. He tried to shake it off as he left but inside he couldn't. Since the run in with Agitha he somewhat lost track of where that family went, but he had a pretty fair understanding of where they were headed. With much vehicle hoping he made it to the general area just in time to hear the boy say.
"I can't believe that Spider-Man, the Spider-Man, the latest member of the Loonatics gave me this little guy." The boy sounded happy as he entered his room and as he watched the family through the window without being seen his fellow fighter for justice was still at the park.
"Well I guess it's time to head back to your new home." The creature made a happy sound of hearing the term 'home'. In the short several hours that they stayed there the two of them made a quick: loyal pet and owner relationship. Back to the spider he watched as the kid in his jammies, he changed in the bathroom which has no windows, watching TV with the fluff ball right beside him.
'I guess I'm just being paranoid of still finding myself in a new world that doesn't really have enemies.' He thought finally convincing himself that his spider sense going off was just a glitch and that is when he saw the sky. 'Oh man I am so dead. At least the guys haven't made a curfew.' He thought and turned around ready to do a combination of: building hopping, vehicle hopping, and web swinging. The bad news is as soon as he left that area the family of the home ran off screaming from a monster.
"Hey, Pete, uh…what kept ya`." Ace asked the web spinning hero once he entered the room. All of them were eating the traditional fast food: Chili Dogs, Double Cheese Burgers, French Fries, Tatter tots, Milkshakes, Malts, and sodas.
"I kinda got my pants stuck to a flagpole. Don't ask how I got out of that one." He lied point blank at his friend's faces, but he couldn't tell them the truth. Considering his sense of humor they didn't want to dive deeper into the subject so they let it pass.
"Well, pull up a chair and start eating." Encouraged Lexi as he came near them; luckily none of them noticed that she was picking up some rather big crumbs in her area. Peter took a look at the clock on the microwave: 10:30pm.
'Well that explains why I'm so hungry. All I've had all day was at 10 in the morning.' Peter thought and began eating up the food with the others or what was left since Slam must have eaten most of it and he was still hungry. It all came down to one Double Cheese Burger and almost everyone was stuffed. "I must eat the last burger before the rest of you do." Peter said to them in a strained voice as he tried to sit up. Slam also tried to sit up but even he was full. "Can't get up Slam? Not like you." He said with a greasy smile.
"He shouldn't be able to eat until a few hours due to a special powder that I invented. The really bad thing is I didn't know what he would eat so I put the powder in the Milkshakes and in the Malts." Tech said to the spider in a strained tone as well. Since often the main thing a guy usually has to eat everything in sight but as the six guys all had their hands near the last burger it was suddenly gone.
"If you guys don't mind I'll take this with me." Lexi said to them with a confident smirk. All of them were baffled of how she was able to walk while the others were able to stand, but Tech was the one that muttered his thought aloud.
"How can she still be able to move, it's impossible." Due to her enhanced hearing abilities she turned to the exhausted males and said in a boastful way.
"I gave all of my Milkshakes and Malts to Slam. Mainly because I'm more of a soda fan, and I heard what you were going to do when you were muttering to yourself in your lab." That said she continued on her way out, soon the guys decided to talk for a little while.
"You talk to yourself, Tech." Ace asked the genius who simply avoided this conversation by saying something that was on their other minds.
"Maybe we should talk about this after we had a good nights' sleep." The others had to agree so they left the lounge area and all of them trudged to their room. When Peter got to his room he ignored the fact that he was still wearing his suit even half of his mask.
"I'll worry about why my spider sense went off earlier later right now…" He couldn't finish that muttered statement as sleep finally won out over the web-slinging hero.
"Beware…" A mysterious voice said to the web-head. He was in another dream but instead of facing another version of him, it was a pair of solid white eyes in pure darkness. The voice said that phrase in a deep threatening voice not in a high pitched goofy way which really freaked him out. The owner of the eyes continued on what he had to say, "Beware of the creatures that possess the innocents of an infant." As soon as this transmission was done the eyes closed and Spider-Man was left in the dark both figuratively and literally.
'What the hell was that about?' He thought in his dream before waking up from another strange dream. As he put on some clothes that he picked up yesterday he thought, 'First the Scarlet Spider and now that creature. The two are definitely not related.' He took a look of what he was wearing: white sneakers, blue jeans, maroon t-shirt and a dark blue shirt over it open. "The innocents of an infant what could that mean." He muttered and realized that Lexi didn't ask what he was talking about. He took a look out of his window and noticed that it was well into the morning, 'So much for the morning web swinging. Guess I should see the others.' He thought and headed for the training room knowing full well that most of them would be there.
"I'm hungry." Slam grumbled and walked out of his room after looking at the clock: 9:15am. He wanted something a little bit more exotic then the usual surf and turf that he was used to eating, but what could he have.
"Today's when you meet the rest of the Loonatics. Are you ready Zozo?" Lexi asked the small creature which smiled and created a happy warbling sound. The female rabbit accepted that answer and picked up her pet, but she hid it in both hands to truly surprise her friends. 'Not to mention I know exactly where most of them are.' She thought and headed for the training room not knowing that the devil picked up on this delectable smell and followed.
"Hey guess I missed my own morning run so I decided to see if you needed something." Peter said once he made it to the training room Ace stood there with his retractable sword in hand.
"Yeah, you're about to watch my latest training session upgrade." The rabbit said to the spider who had walked in a few steps by now. Ace then looked down and saw his silver bands so he had to ask. "Are you trying to pass those off as fashion statements, Pete, or what?" The web-head looked at his arms and that is when he realized that he forgot to take them off when he got dressed.
"Yeah, I am. Did you know that there are only a few guys that can make wearing bands look good? Like me for example." It was his strange sense of humor bubbling to the surface. The rabbit only shook his head wondering why Peter always had something 'funny' to say. The said wall crawling nutcase noticed the mechanical genius working on something.
"Something wrong Tech?" He asked the coyote since the seemed to be working on a certain circuit breaker. The canine of the team looked over to the hero from a different dimension and answered him.
"The holographic program is acting up so I'm working on that right now." That seemed logical since it was Tech's invention he should be able to fix it, but he was a little interested in Ac's training style upgrade.
"Start it up Rev!" Ace yelled out and of course in half of a blink multiple spinning disks with razor sharp blades came right at the yellow hare. Peter sat on his heels while sticking on the wall beside Rev so he wouldn't turn into spider cutlets.
'I guess Rev has the power to multitask.' Peter thought and watched the roadrunner continue Ace's exercise and seemed to be playing a came that looked a lot like Pac-man. When he decided to check out the leader to see his progress he was almost done. The only one left was loosely spinning around.
"Hey, look what I got." Lexi said in a sing-song tone as she came into the room with hairball in hand. The devil stopped near the door and still wondered what that scent was. He did not understand, the scent was coming from Lexi and yet at the same time it wasn't.
"In a sec Lex." Ace said in a calm tone then as soon he turned around he kicked one of the destroyed disks to divert and destroy the last disk. The Tasmanian was still curious so he advanced slowly and that is when he saw it: a delectable hairball with eyes; Ace spotted Slam staring at it.
'I've got to try something.' Slam thought and ran over to try to eat the small creature, but he forgot that he was dealing with Lexi Bunny. With the ease of a madidore dodging a bull she dodged Slam's attack, and so she made the action of her movement clear she told him in an ordering tone.
"No eating my pet." Slam bumped into a laser that was in the same room and smashed the control box with his back. Not paying attention, thinking his purple friend was causing minor damage Tech said in an annoyed tone.
"Careful Slam I'm trying to work here." The last part of what he said was distorted a little since he was hit in the back of the head with the laser which was rotating around the room. Landing in an awkward pose he became nervous as the beam slowly came over to him; all of a sudden it stopped. 'What the…' Tech thought wondering how one of his lasers stopped and that is when he looked to Peter and hanging by a web-line was the plug-in.
"When ever you have a problem with anything electrical you unplug it. Besides you really can't pull off the burnt tail look." The brown haired youth said and then looked over to the two rabbits with Ace inspecting the big eyed creature.
"What's that? Did ya` get a new cotton tail?" He asked his fellow rabbit while pointing to the hairball with eyes. She could not believe how dense their leader could be in the latest fads but she decided to answer him in a non: Spider-Man way.
"No it's a fuz-z." She looked at him and could tell that he was still confused of what it was. She could tell that just telling him the name was not enough. "Oh, come on Ace, bio pets are the biggest thing to ever hit Acmetropolis." She looked up and could not believe of what the yellow bunny said.
"Yeah, what do you hit it with?" He was taking it seriously and then Peter saw a classic opening for one of his stupid comments.
"If so; I've been trying to find a way to break in this wooden bat that I found in my closet." Lexi could not believe either of them so she explained it to the both of them even though she knew Peter was making one of his usual nonsense comments.
"You don't hit it. You love it. She can be anything you want her to be." As soon as she said that the two of them demonstrated what she meant by that last part, "A glove, a chocker, a cuddle walker." Unknown to them was that Duck was going to tell them that he was on the waiting list to get his own fuz-z until he saw one in Lexi's hand.
"Hold it right there sister." He said as he entered the door, then he leapt right beside her and said to her. "How'd you get one of these?" Lexi instantly took offense to that as she listened to the rest of what he had to say while he held her little creature. "My fuz-z has been on back-order for weeks." It would appear that he would give it back to her but he moved his arm opposite of his body while asking. "Are you sure this one's isn't supposed to be mine?" The mallard then saw Slam near the fuzz- ball so he moved it away from him while totally forgetting of Lexi.
"Back off, Duck. Zozo is mine." She barked out while taking her fuzzy friend back. Once again another perfect time for Peter to open his big, fat, spider based mouth.
"Not bad of a name, Lex, not bad. Personally if I caved into this fad I would probably name my little guy: Spider-lad." She really appreciated that comment, but what she could have done without was Duck's laughter.
"Zozo, Spider-lad; those are lame names but once I get my fuz-z I'm calling it." Duck's statement was cut short as a monitor was lowered into the room and Zadavia appeared on it.
"You're not going to believe this." She began before Peter graciously interrupted her.
"I'm pretty sure we won't." The blonde haired one simply ignored that comment and continued on.
"There is a situation that requires your special attention." The Loonatics began to gather around her as she continued. "A residential zone in the fourth quadrant seems to having a giant spider problem." Ace tried to be comical.
"Didn't they spray for giant spiders last week?" In the back of their minds they were thinking the same thing, 'they should use a compound that gets rid of medium ones.' As soon as the mallard opened his mouth ready to insult the red and blue hero he held up his right hand and said.
"You even think of uttering one word and I'll put so much webbing in your hair you'll have to shave your head." That statement passed the meeting continued.
"This family barely escaped with their lives." Zadavia said which really got Peter interested since that is what worries him the most. Tech needed more information so he asked.
"Species? Origin?" He only received one word for each question.
"Unknown and unknown." This only antagonized the mallards fear center so he decided to ask in a combination of annoyed and frightened tones.
"Forget were it came from. Where is it going; it's not coming here, is it?" This irritated about how the mallard acts. Her floating head transmission went closer to the screen as she said to him.
"The plan was for you to go there, Danger Duck!?" This made him nervous then before as he asked her in an even more fear.
"Must we?" She ignored that and told the team itself…
"I'll transfer coordinates and transit, Zadavia out." When the monitor went blank Ace somewhat complained by saying.
"She gets to go out while we have to deal with giant spiders, nice. Let's jet." They all turned and saw one minor flaw of leaving in a rush; Peter was wearing civilian clothes.
"We might have to prepare for take-off a little bit delayed." Ace looked at him and that is when an idea hit.
"You think you could make it fast?" He asked and with that they all headed back over to his room. While the others waited outside Peter tried to put on his costume at Quicksilver speed. In around three and a half minutes he walked out wearing his red mask and gloves; with pride he said to them.
"Allow me to introduce the Quick-change Spider-Man."
"That's the best you can come up with." Duck said to him while laughing. Peter let out a sigh and responded in a rather unorthodox manner.
"It's the best I could do but I guess I should just take it off." That sentence both frightened and intrigued her.
"Maybe you should change in your room and catch up later." Surprisingly that wasn't what a small piece of her mind was thinking. 'Go ahead and take it off take all off.' She cursed the piece of her mind that she dubbed the 'fangirl section'. What happened next shouldn't have been surprising; he did take off his clothes, but his trademark costume was already on him. All of them stared at him.
"What are we waiting for? As Ace said, 'Lets jet.'" He walked away and then ran down the hall to the hanger. Rev who was the first to snap out of his daze and ran out first.
'He's something else.' Ace thought and the rest of them followed the spider and the roadrunner. In the end six of the seven were just in the doorway while the seventh was already there.
'I can't tell that my friends moved slow to get here; at least not yet.' The speedster thought and watched the others grab their packs. Peter was a bit surprised to see a sixth one.
"I see that you made one for me, too, Tech." He said with a hidden smile as he looked at the red and blue pack.
"Yeah I even gave it your paint job." He responded, and once the six had their packs active Tech opened the door and away they flew. The team flew off in pairs: Duck and Tech, then Rev and Slam. The only ones left were the spider and the rabbits. Those three were about to leave when an unusual sound caught their attention.
"Did you guy's here that?" Peter asked and only received a nervous expression from Lexi. Ace clarified his confusion by lifting his friend's right arm to reveal her pet.
"Nah! Maybe you should lose the wristband, Lex?" Ace suggested to his fellow rabbit. Lexi did not want to part with Zozo so easily so she tried a bargaining tactic.
"I don't want to leave her hear by herself. She could be our mascot." In a big way she wanted that to fly but her leader did not even think it over.
"How about…no." With that said he began to walk over to the open door while Peter displayed that traditional mouth that often got him killed.
"Besides that position has already been filled; me namely." He too headed for the door and flew off. With bitterness in her tone she agreed to temporarily abandon her pet.
"Fine…" She said to the two and put the little guy where they put their packs. It presented a somewhat sad expression and Lexi asked it in a baby voice, "Aw, but you'll be lonely, won't you." She glanced over her shoulder to see the spider and her leader a good ways off; she picked up her friend and was on her way. They have been flying for an hour or so, but still no sign of their target well not until Ace said something that Peter would end their lucky streak.
"According to Zadavia's reading we should be able to spot the little itsey-bitsey right about…" He waited because their target straight out of the wall. "Now." Out of tradition Peter clung over to a building behind his friends and watched as Duck tried to analyze that beast.
"Whoa, look at that thing it's got three, no wait four…five legs." His counting skills need work as the arm that he missed back-hands him with great strength. As flew backward with a howl Ace clarified for his foul based friend.
"Uh…Make that six legs." As the creature was howling Peter ran along the side of the building and caught the duck with a web-line to his chest.
"You see…" He started and saw the slightly angered look on the mallards face; most likely from the new guy saving him. "It has six legs while us spiders have eight legs." Danger Duck re-stabilized himself and said to the red and blue hero.
"Well, that's still four legs too many." He flew off and watched as Slam tried to stop that thing by pulling on one of its legs. Peter only could think of…
'He can count now who ever said that school education never met him.' He joined his friends in the air even though he was still getting used to the back of flames on his back. He joined them to watch as the insect creature stomp the devil into the concrete road. "Talk about irony; I hope Slam knows a good chiropractor after that." Peter said but it was obvious that this beast was not done just yet as it raised its foot for another attack Rev rescued the Tasmanian member, but that same stomp did make one very big crack.
"Slight pothole problemo." The leader said as that crack made its way down the street. As the ground was still reforming Peter had to ask in his usual fashion.
"If this is your opinion I would hate to see your opinion on big potholes." As the crack turned over a few cars Lexi asked in general a question that might have come out of the mallard's mouth.
"Can't we take the day off?" The web-head could tell that she wanted to make more time for that fuz-z of hers. Ace gave her a typical leader answer before he gave the purple devil a suggestion.
"Heroes don't get the day off. It's rescue time. Slam how about giving our friend here a little help; what do you say?" The devil didn't answer he flew straight at that monster and pushed it to the bridge that it nearly toppled. Rev helped force it into the center. As he did that Peter was having a slight flashback.
'Great, just what I wanted to see, a bridge?' He thought bitterly but was snapped out of it when he heard Tech giving his field commander an option.
"We've got to contain this monster now." After he said that his hands produced a heavy green aura. "Clear the bridge Ace. Better remove all four supports in each column." Ace glided behind him and responded.
"You got it Tech." He said; then proceeded to melt them with his optic blast. While he was doing that Peter flew on top of the bridge and pulled out two cables that were also supporting the bridge. They were in there good and tight but thanks to a not so welcoming image from back home he managed to do it. As he was pulling Lexi helped by pulling the same cables on the opposite side, but while she was doing that she heard Peter mutter angrily…
"Never again…" She did not pay attention to that and continued with the bridge. Back to the monster Slam made contact with a left hook before running off. With all of the supports gone Ace grabbed one of the bars and told the others.
"Now, let's lock `em up." The two jets on the back of the pack activated and with the help of Tech and Lexi forced into the crevasse. To make sure no one was harmed he added, "Everybody, clear out!" Once the bridge had given way they all flew over it and expected their target to have stayed there, but instead…nothing. "You got to be kidding me, how'd it get out of there?" They all landed at the now grounded bridge looking around for it.
"Very impressive; Itsey-bitsey go bye-bye." Lexi said with a mere glance around, but the scientist was not so convinced. With his hand on the bottom of his muzzle he said aloud.
"There's got to be a logical explanation." Once again that was a cue for Peter to say something that will make him an outcast.
"I know what happened." He started to get their attention and continued. "It is simple we are dealing with a invisible hairball from the eighth dimension." All of them stared at him before he added, "Or perhaps not." Lexi was about to say something hurtful, but duck had an announcement.
"Hey look." All of them turned to the mallard as he presented his finding, "I found a fuz-z and this one is mine. What do say: Wonderfluff? Oh yeah that's a good one." Ace walked over and took duck's pet, "`Cuse me!"
"Hmm, big spider pulls a disappearing act and we find a hard to find bio pet in its place. What are the odds?" Ace said and aimed his question toward Tech who answered without even thinking.
"4,027,867 to 1." Taking those calculations very seriously Ace responds with an honest comment.
"Kinda high on the coincidence meter, don't you think?" Duck took offense to Ace's conclusion so he tries to stand up for his super hero sidekick.
"Oh, come on, your not blaming this on Wonderfluff, are you?" Ace took a cylinder shaped container from his pack an answers him pretty straight forward.
"Until we can come up with something better…yeah." As the leader put the suspect into it's container a familiar warbling came to rest in Lexi's ears.
"Zozo." She said with a small gasp, she took a few steps away from her team so she could take out her secret. The rabbit looked at her small pet and spoke a question softly to herself. "How could anyone think of bio-pets are anything but sweet." Her small friend hopped out of her mistress' hand and over to the guys; catching the attention of a certain web-head. "Zozo get back here." She ordered hoping that it would obey but it didn't.
"Boss, I thought you told Lexi to keep her friend at home." He question watching as that hairball with eyes continued to bounce to them.
"I did." He responded as he finally put the ball into the round hole. Before Peter could continue Zozo found its way into Duck's bag; soon after Wonderfluff joined it. Feeling a little confident Duck told them
"Sorry, but it looks like they like me better. Now I have two super hero sidekicks, how cool is that?" Ace looked at the other rabbit accusingly and said one thing to her.
"You had to bring the fuzz." She responded with an apologetic shrug. All of a sudden there was a lot of rattling around the mallard's immediate area.
"There's a party going on in your backpack." Lexi pointed out and the danger-proned water foul simply explained to her and the rest of the team.
"Oh, I never go out on to the field without my chocolate –AB inducer bars." After a little more rattling he continued, "Whoa they must be really hungry." As soon as he took them out of his pack and held them both in his hand he thought he felt something different "Hey what's this. Ouch…" He began but he didn't get to finish his comment as he threw the two on the ground then they all watched the small creatures transform. With worry both of the owners of those pets called out their names.
"Zozo?" Lexi said first followed by the duck.
"Wonderfluff?" The team backed away from them and duck said to the team in a sarcastic sense, "I'm not so sure Wonderfluff has all his shots." He then tried to bargain with the rest of the team, "Anybody want to buy a bio pet cheap." Peter would have said something but a familiar tingling told him that he had something bigger to worry about then keeping his funny man reputation.
"DUCK!" Ace yelled out and not noticing that the rest of his team were crouching the mallard thought the rabbit meant him.
"What?" Thus he got hit again by one of the creatures arms while Peter used it as a balance bean and came out without a scratch. Another battle with those 12 foot tall insects began. With their speed and reflexes Ace and Peter avoided their feet however the bunny was not fast enough to avoid its hand so he hit the wall: hard. Surprised that this creature managed a good hit he only had one thing to say.
"Smacked down by fuzz ball? You do realize this of course: this means war." He pried himself off of the wall with his eyes burning their usual bright yellow he said in a leader tone. "Hit it Loonatics!" When he was about to engage the enemy he felt someone pulling on his arm. "Hey, what gives?" He asked to the person holding his arm: Lexi." All she could say to help her pet was…
"That's Zozo, she's had a rough day. Be gentle with her." Another voice was heard only this one came from one of the vertical support beams.
"I don't think that that's going to be a problem." It was the red and blue hero who then pointed over to the mutated Zozo who almost squashed both of the rabbits. The other members weren't fairing too well either. They hit a lucky break with Slam's thunder and tornado power, Rev's speed and flight, along with Duck's egg attack.
"Here Zozo, catch." Duck said the monster and this time his eggs seemed to be tar which caused Zozo to fall. The devil wasted in time he charged at the pink monster even though Wonderfluff was ready to block, but he didn't care one bit.
"Slam, stop." Lexi requested and just like that Slam did so but he seemed confused. Still clung to the beam the only thing Peter could only think of was…
'She cares for Zozo even when it looks like that. She truly is something else.' A different thought entered only this one was an order, 'Stop thinking like that.' While the purple member stared at them confused something was happening to their opponent. The both of them turned back to normal and went back to their owner like nothing happened.
"What gotten into these powder-puffs?" Ace said to the team in a rather annoyed tone and to help shed some light on the subject was Zadavia.
"Something powerful…" She said and waited for the seven to fly up to the TV monitor that she was using. The leader finished her statement.
"Yeah; powerful, but easy to get a hold of." The blond then decided to tell them what else she discovered about these creatures.
"Good point Ace the boy gave his fuz-z a whole stash of chocolate before going to bed." The super human hearing member said after hearing that.
"And our fuz-z' changed after eating Duck's chocolate." Peter broke in after not shouting one of his comments in the last five minutes.
"Maybe this is a new form of allergic reaction to the stuff like back in my dimension." Tech shot him down as he took that comment completely literally.
"I doubt that, Spider." The blond woman ignored that and continued to tell the team in general what was up.
"Professor Zane's laboratory is on the seventh sector just east of the industrial center." Ace was the next one to speak.
"The guy who invented these hair-balls better have a way to carve their sweet tooth, cause Acmetropolis is crawling with them." Rev spoke up in his fast pace style.
"It is going to take a miracle to get rid of all of these fuz-z'. I can probably pick up about half of them, but we will need something really amazing to get the rest of them." Most of them headed back home to where Ace proudly said to them.
"I bet Tech has some toys we can use." The said coyote smiled and with pride he presented them with one of his latest inventions.
"I give you the exo-vac 2400X." He pressed a button on his remote and a big metal door behind him opened revealing a big air worthy vehicle.
"Wow Tech." Ace said as he looked at it. The genius added one last statement.
"It is the ultimate urban vaccum." Slam only grunted happily, but Ace had to ask something that instantly bothered him.
"What in the world made you come up with this?" Tech then answered his question with an answer that was sure to antagonize its target.
"Try eating with Slam." Attack met as the said devil gave him an angry look. "Not pretty." He added; Slam was about to harm his alley until the speedster began to run around the latest creation and told the others what it had.
"It's targeting sensor allows us to retrieve the fuz-z and not innocent bystanders. We so rock in this lab!" That was what Ace could decipher and that was just fine.
"I get it so your saying this invention really sucks…fuz-z` that is. Loonatics let's jet." They boarded the vessel and he then told the other three what to do. "Lexi: you, Duck and Spider: go over to this Zane guy and warn him he may be in danger of his own creations. While the rest of us round up the rest of the fur-balls that are still out there." Peter once again had to open his mouth.
"You see I told you watching that old Frankenstein movie would come in handy." He received a pretty harsh stare and with that given he continued with, "Ok, I get it I'm gong." As the team separated to their individual destinations something seemed to have been calling the web-head to a familiar location.
"What are you doing Spider?" Duck said annoyed that he did things his own way at times. "This isn't this right sector." He informed but Parker turned to him and said in a dead serious tone.
"I think the back-up we need is right around here." He then landed in front of the store that held the fuz-z in his colors.
"What are you talking about?" Lexi asked wondering how the others would react of them being here instead at Zane's lab. He walked into the store that his idea was, luckily no one was around; there wasn't even a cashier. He ignored the erieness and walked over to the window.
"There you are." Peter said aloud and picked up his idea. He walked out with his plan in hand, the others saw it instantly.
"What are you doing with that?" Duck asked and looked at the fuz-z in his hand. The creature in question only glanced at the duck and nothing more.
"This is my plan right here." Peter said and after seeing the disbelief on his friends faces. "I really think that this one is ok. Take out your creatures." He said to them and both did so and they were as energetic as ever. The two of them turned to the fuz-z in the web-head's hand and also just began to warble; Spider-lad simply rolled up Spider's arm and hid behind his neck.
"What's his deal?" Lexi asked wondering about the strange behavior from this latest fuz-z. Peter knew of what it was doing so he smirked under his mask.
'I get it; you have some sort of secret and you are afraid of what the others would think so you hide it by exiling yourself. I can certainly relate.' He thought in a serious manner and then he took his bio-pet and placed him in his pack. "We better get going; otherwise this is going to turn into the night of the angry hair-balls." He flew off with the others close behind.
'What does he keep hidden?' The pink rabbit thought as they made their way to that location. After a half hour of no talking they made right outside Zane's property.
"It doesn't look like anyone's home." Duck said after a quick summery of the place but naturally Lexi had to spoil his plans of loafing as she used her powers.
"Wait I here breathing inside." She walked over to the building first with Peter right behind thinking to himself.
'Lexi's hearing would even give Wolvey's a run for his money.' Duck however felt insulted by her display.
"Show-off." He said more to himself then the others. Once they had opened the door and they also noticed that it was pitch-dark. Lexi tried to get the good doctor's attention.
"Hello…Professor Zane we've come about your bio-pets we believe that they are very…very." Lexi's statement was cut short when they all heard some type of roaring and saw more of the mutated hairballs.
"Well, looks like they got their chocolate for today." Duck said and the rabbit had to comply.
"I hope that's all they crave." Unfortunately the luck of a hero is never that easy as they heard the good doctor's voice.
"Not only do they love chocolate they also taste for duck, rabbit, and a little of spider." That comment would have given anyone a little scared even Peter but he was more angered then scared. He then added, "And guess what; it's feeding time!"
'I should have known that their world be at least one mad scientist in this world.' He thought before saying aloud to irritate him. "You know, I wondered why my mom sent me home without some chocolate before bed, and now I know why. My mug would probably look like yours."
"Get them!" Zane ordered and all of the fuz-z attacked, but while Lexi and Duck were trying to use their powers Spider was simply using his spider agility and his reflexes.
'I've got to think of a way to stop this, but how.' Peter thought as he continued to dodge. He then had another thought, 'I have to get higher and stay there for a while.' The only way that he could do that without seeming staged to the others. 'This is really going to suck.' He glanced over and was back-handed and landed onto the catwalk. 'This should be good enough…I hope.' He thought and hoped that being this high will be enough to keep his red and blue suit hidden.
"So much for him." Zane said and noticed that the other two have been caught by his pets. He walked over to them and had an evil grin on his face. While that was going Ace's team was doing a pretty good job about retrieval.
"Vacuum capacity: good, suction: stable." Tech said to their leader as they flew over head in the jet with Slam in control of the nozzle adjusting it to every hairball that he saw.
"How you doing there Slam?" Ace asked on a wrist mounted communicator, and received a whole hardy grunt from their devil friend. As that was going on Rev ran on the ground generally explaining that the fuz-z are needed elsewhere.
"Scuse me, scuse me, comein` through." He said to several kids. He then passed by and tried to tell them something Peter would, "Mind if I borrow this. Sorry, but this is a no fuzz zone." As the vehicle and the runner were zooming through the city one of the civilians saw them coming.
'I don't want them to take you away.' She thought and hid it behind her back for a while. That tactic failed Rev turned around and detected something behind him.
"I'm picking something on my internal sensor…yep there's one remaining bio pet." He zipped back to the girl that he recently passed and talked to her. "Hello, if you want something to cuddle you should try a cat. They would really go good with your coloring of course cats can't do trick and they can be so prickly." He picked up her pet and said to her, "So if you don't mind; bye." Their leader felt proud of saving the world on their part.
"Mission accomplished." He said before contacting the others, "How's everything on your end Lex?" No response so he tried again, "Lex?" Still nothing, so he said to Tech in a serious tone. "I've got a bad feelin` about this." He then flew back home and told the technological teammate. "Let's ditch the fuzz-balls for now and bug out." The container holding the fuz-z landed onto a balcony. Tech then demonstrated that it did more then suck objects in.
"Switching to turbo-vac: jet mode." Once the transformation was complete they flew off and Rev saw it all.
"Hey, wait up." He yelled and ran after them to their next destination. Meanwhile Zane was enjoying the moment until he heard the female's voice.
"So you knew that chocolate mutated the fuz-z." He only smiled to her assumption. He responded with great pleasure in his voice.
"Knew? I made sure of it. My first two fuz-z weren't supposed to transform until I flooded the entire city. One pulse from my electric leach and the savage beasts are under my control." Lexi grew angry with this man's scheme and said the rest for them.
"So you wanted all of the fuz-z to board the chocolate train to creatureville at the same time and tear Acmetropolis apart." Duck then entered the banter slinging himself.
"Sounds like someone's mommy didn't buy them enough chochy's when they were wittle." Zane did not take much offense to their words instead those words reminded him of the organization that branded him a loser.
"Oh your just as naïve as the Acmetropolis Science Council." As soon as Zane said that Peter who was watching this whole thing from a distance thought…
'Oh great, it's the 'why I became a villain' speech.' The web-slinger thought and added, 'They are all different, but the main theme is that they are often rejected for some reason or another.' He hit that nail on the head as the madman continued on with his speech.
"Imagine it; firing me because they thought my experiment too dangerous." Peter had just the line but he kept silence and listened on to what he still had to say. "They appreciated my genius or my…" He was quickly interrupted by Lexi again.
"Insanity, craziness, am I getting close?" He didn't take her tone too harshly.
"Hardly, I decided that Acmetropolis needed to see first hand what I am capable of." He started and continued after rethinking of that splendid day. "When the meteor hit earth it opened all sorts of fissures." Again he was interrupted but this time by the mallard.
"Like the ones in your brain, Mr. Zane." He simply ignored that and continued on.
"I discovered these fascinating creatures. Their biology was perfect for some experiments I had in mind…experiments that led to the fuz-z." He finished reminding himself of what he did then said to his prey. "So cute and cuddley until they have some chocolate; then the only way to stop them is with this." He pointed to the controller and the fuz-z tried to begin eating Spider's teammates.
'Geez, that sounds a lot like Doom's background story…I think. I think while Reed was talking about his collage days I was playing vid games with Johnny.' He thought, but the sound of Lexi's terrified voice.
"You mind demonstrating." She only received a smug response from Zane as he smiled at their helplessness.
"Oh, no they need their protein." Seeing his friends seriously in danger made Peter pretty pissed off.
'This guy is about to learn a new definition for 'ouch'.' He thought for a moment.
"You see too much chocolate will make you sick." Ace said through the window of the jet which plowed through the door. Another battle took place Duck quacked out of the grip and Lexi chopped the hand; it did not have any effect except for stunning it for a little while. As the rest of the Loonatics attacked Zane decided that there was strength and after throwing a switch several containers containing those peaceful creatures. Stating one of the worst puns Zane said to them.
"What kind of host have I been? Would anyone care for some chocolate? The effect is temporary but the more they eat the longer it lasts." He said as he pressed down another lever, this one to open a door filled with chocolate.
'I really would hate to see what this guy's grocery bill is.' Peter thought as he watched as the smaller ones go over to the chocolate bars. Ace had a different thought in mind for that candy.
"Then no more candy for them." He turned to the best choices for his thought. "Slam, Rev; time for a little candy run." The two knew what he meant and headed over to the pile to get rid of them: Slam with tornado mode and Rev with his speed. Ace then saw the problem in Zane's hands, "Duck the control box."
"What about it?" Duck asked in a confused state before he remembered what it controlled. "Oh, right." He then armed an egg and threw it right at the prof's face; blinding him for a while. "Heads up!" He said before his sphere made contact. As Zane was running around trying to clean his eyes Duck cart wheeled over to the remote. "I got it." He yelled to the others but as soon as he had the device both Lexi and Duck's bio-pets hopped over to the candy.
"Zozo." Lexi called out hopping that it would stop: no luck.
"Wonderfluff, no!" Duck said as he still had the controller in hand. Both of the pets in question ignored them and started to eat. Something about this didn't sit well with the fuz-z in his pack.
'That's strange; I wonder why Spider-lad isn't going nuts.' He thought and as he continued to think it over he did not realize Ace spotted him.
'This plan just might work.' He thought as an idea struck him in a split second, but first he had to avoid being eaten first. About this time Zane tore himself from Duck's attack and wanted his remote back.
"Hey this is no time to dance." The mallard stated as he tried to fend off the Doc, but as he was doing that both pets of the Loonatics transformed and now led the others to attack. One of the mutated fluff balls grabbed Lexi but she basically protested.
"Put me down; I said put me down." As she struggled the coyote decided to help her out once he saw the catwalk above.
"Hang on, Lexi." He said and using his magnetic powers to tear up the catwalk and tied up his legs. That caused the beast to imitate a cut tree as it fell toward Duck and Zane. They both got out of the way, but the water foul lost the remote. Lexi and Tech were about to get it until two of the mutations picked them up. Out of desperation, Lexi cried out.
"Ace!" The blonde rabbit complied with ease as he hopped on the fuz-z heads to get the remote.
"On it Lex." Unfortunately he was caught as well, and the others soon after him. All the while Zane retrieved his remote with a boastful laugh he told them.
"I told you before Loona-pests, as long as I have this remote they are under my control." When he was going to order them to eat his guests he only pressed his palm. "What; where is it, where is it?" He looked around until a sarcastic voice was heard.
"Thanks for sharing big mouth." He said as he waved the remote in his left hand then he said something strange even for him. "Quick Spider-lad you get the deranged doctor and I'll take on the hairballs." He waited a while and then said in a tone of realization. "Oh wait I don't have a sidekick." As soon as he said that Spider-lad came out of his pack and stood in front of him.
"Great looks like we'll have another to deal with." Duck said to the others and he was grateful that these beasts haven't tried eating them. In fact the other fuz-z just stared at the duo and the Loonatics had a feeling that it wasn't because they matched. In an instant Spider-lad transformed without the use of candy.
'That explains why you weren't as active as the others, because you mastered the monster within.' He thought seriously before his comedian part turned itself on. 'Banner has to meet you.' He then noticed that the fuz-z that held his friends surrounded the two of them.
'What is Spider-lad waiting for?' Ace thought as he saw that this mutation was just standing there. Parker then realized that he still held the remote.
"I know that every grandmother in every world has copyrights on this phrase but I have to say it, 'Not now guys you'll spoil your dinner.'" As soon as he pressed the big red button some electrical current struck all of the fuz-z; well almost all of them.
"My babies." Zane yelled out as he watched as he watched his creatures return to their true form. Without his only line of defense he tried to run for it, but that idea was useless.
"Spider-lad, fetch." The wall-crawler said in a lazy tone and the behemoth jumped over to him and picked him up by the back of his coat.
"You can stop kicking, doc." Ace said to the doctor who was air-running trying to get away. He soon realized that he was going anywhere so he slowed down to a stop. As he was thinking of how this fuz-z was still transformed he heard Spider tell him something humiliating.
"Hey doc maybe I can put in a good word for you…maybe you could be." Zane quickly silenced the arachnid by yelling.
"I don't need your charity!?" This only confused the hero as he then began one of his bad jokes.
"Charity…yes; I think the police will enjoy my donation." That comment confused the Prof, but Parker was more than happy to clarify. "Don't strain your brain, Zane." He said and cocooned him in webbing, all but his head. "Lexi would you like to give him a parting gift." He asked the female rabbit who walked over to the still contained doctor.
"This is for almost turning me into monster food three times over." She gave him a hard punch knocking him out.
"Rev, do you care to make a delivery while we get these little guys home." Ace said to the roadrunner who didn't answer just took off with Zane on his shoulder.
"While he's doing that I'm going to that crack in the earth. I bet Spider-lad knows where it is." Spider said with a confident tone and the others had to agree that it did seem pretty sound.
"Well first you have to catch up with him." Lexi said and pointed over Parkers shoulder. When he turned around he saw Spider-lad walking off the same way Ace and the others came in.
"Hey, wait up, Spider-lad." He yelled out then leaped up and landed on top of Spider-lad's head. The others got into the jet and headed back to the spire for most of the other fuz-z.
"We'll get these guys once we have the container of the vac-jet." Ace said as they boarded their air worthy vehicle. As the rest of the team went to do so the spider duo was on the road.
'Spider-lad is definitely not like his mutated kin.' Parker thought as he watched his fuz-z obey everyone of the rules of the road. While the two of them were at a four-way intersection waiting for the light to change they both heard a familiar sound: a camera flash.
"Wow, Spider-Man must have tamed that monster." The man that took the picture said aloud.
'I knew that I missed something from my past life.' He thought before bending his body into different posses. 'Showing off to the camera is one skill that will never leave me.' Parker thought as more and more people took pictures of the duo. After a few hours the two made it to the outside of the city. "Now where is that fissure, Spider-lad?" He said to his mutated ally and as soon as he said that Spider-lad took off in a dead run toward the place where he remembered. As the creature was walking over to the spot they both heard the sound of an engine.
'Man, Spider-lad, got some distance.' Ace thought as he looked at the tame mutation and that is when he saw something weird. It was Spider-Man lying on Spider-lad's head and was waving right at them, so naturally they all did the same. The two of them made it to the spot about the same time and they went right to work. Tech set the vac on blow and sent most of the fuz-z back after a half hour or so most of them were gone; all but three that is. Duck and Lexi walked over to the edge of the fissure to say their last respects to their furry friends before they send them away.
"Time to go." Lexi said to her fuz-z, but naturally Zozo did not want to leave. The pink rabbit tried a something different. "Aw come on, you'll be happier down there: no deranged scientist to mess with you." That made Zozo very happy but the next part was a downer. "And no chocolate, let's hope."
"I salute you; you were a great soldier, Wonderfluff. I also fear you, but let's not go into that." Duck said as he gave his fuz-z a genuine salute. Then there was only one left: Spider-lad.
"I hate to say it but you have to go too." Parker started off and then he added his usual brand of comedy. "Maybe you guys can come back in ten years or so we'll just have to add a tag that says: no chocolate to this creature under penalty of law." If it was possible it seemed as though Spider-lad was smiling. He then stuck out its blue and black arm to Parker and kept it there for a moment. "Oh you want me to shake it, ok." The mutation did the same for the others and walked over to the ledge.
"I think he wants you to throw him in." Duck suggested and that really did sound like the right thing to do. He walked over and waited for him to change back which didn't take long. He picked him up and then spoke to him in a serious tone.
"Even if your kin accepts you don't let it go to your head remember: with great power there must also come great responsibility." That is what confused the others of how he could be serious one minute. "Also if someone tries this stunt do not kill them. As a fellow spider creature I urge you not to use the word kill. We don't kill we disable." He said humorously, and other times he could be a really big idiot. He then tossed Spider-lad into the fissure never to be seen again. Tech then activated a holographic display of Zadavia.
"Congratulations Loonatics thanks to your efforts Professor Zane's nefarious scheme has been shut down, take the rest of the day off. You deserve it, Zadavia out."
"You know, fuz-z are so over; I've already moved on to the next big thing. Take a look at this." Duck said and presented the others some sort of miniature circus. The object in question was strange,
"A look at what?" Lexi asked then the leader took a stab at what it was.
"Oh, a little hamster playhouse." Ace guessed at first glance, but Duck corrected him.
"No, it's a flea circus." Then Lexi had to disappoint him when she said.
"I don't see any fleas." Tech then inspected the base and announced his discovery to the others.
"Look there's a whole in the bottom." That upset the mallard even more as he asked the others in an annoyed tone.
"Oh great, so where are the fleas?" This time it was Peter's turn to talk and of course it had a small bit of humor.
"You'll find out in 3…2…1." He counted down and a little before one the mallard let out a painful yell.
"YEOW!?" This introduced another crack from the web-slinger.
"Let's hope the 10cents store is still open." The others nodded. He then turned to the jet and with a smile said aloud, "Since I did stop this one I think I deserve the front-seat." He was stopped by Ace.
"Sorry, Spider, but as the leader I get dibs on Shotgun." This deserved an angered rebuttal.
"Hey, I'm the unpredictable new member of the team, so I deserve it." As the two continued to argue Lexi calmly walked over and used their heads as a stepping stool to get to the top.
"Sorry, but you know what they say 'ladies first'." The pink furred rabbit stated smiling at the two of them which both of them stared at the other with a look that said, 'I blame you'. Eventually they all made it into the jet and headed home once there they went about their business except for Duck who was taking a flea bath and Peter who decided to turn in early.
"I'm glad that crisis is over." He mouthed as he took off his costume and slipped into a pair of black pajama pants. "Time for some well deserved shut-eye of my own." He muttered before falling asleep.
"You are going to need me more then the others." A voice said to the wall-crawler. Once again Peter finds himself on a New York rooftop talking to another version of himself.
"What do you mean? Who are you?" Parker asked looking around only to find darkness. He kept looking until he heard a clang; he spun around to see an armored version of his costume. It looked like his trademark costume except for blue there was black and instead of red there was silver the rest remained the same.
"My name is Armored Spider-Man, and as I said before you will need me more than the other costumes." He could still sense confusion from the red and blue hero so he tried to be more specific. "Let's just say that the others are only for luxury I am one of the few that will be an asset on the battlefield." He vanished just like Scarlet Spider did a few nights ago leaving an even more confused arachnid.
"Great just great, this can't go any worse. First it was the Scarlet Spider and now Armored Spider." Spider-Man said aloud before just forgetting it. "I'll worry about it later."