A/N I don't really have anything else to do right now but sit around getting drunk and writing so… really is there any better way to achieve something than doing it completely shitfaced…?
Webhead volume 17
Disclaimer: I can do an excellent mickey mouse impression but I'm not mickey mouse so I guess I don't own Spider-Man…
'i can't find him anywhere! Three days and not a trace of him, a guy like this green goblin can't just blow shit up in front of a bunch of cops and then vanish like this can he!? Come on you creep where are you!?' our hero rants to himself as he simultaneously searches for the goblin and heads over to Gwen's garage to see the rehearsal of the new and currently unnamed band consisting of gwen on the drums, mary jane on guitar and in front of the mic, with glory grant over on base, jessica tried to help out but she just sucks when it comes to music so she's basically just a roadie that doesn't really do anything….
When Peter walks up the driveway towards the open garage the band had just finished up a song when they noticed him, glory doesn't usually pay him any mind and it was no different this time, surprisingly MJ didn't seem at all upset about him missing the play when everyone else made it however gwen and by extension jessica didn't seem too happy to see him in fact jessica got up and marched angrily up to his face. "Parker what the hell do you think you're doing here after all the crap you've been pulling!? Gwen's been through hell and all you've done throughout it all is make things worse! Leave right now!" She downright demanded, jessica could always be a little hard to deal with but this was a whole other level and one that our boy wasn't gonna take.
"Jessica I get what you're doing but just stop ok. I'm gonna talk to gwen." No room for debate now and such determination left jessica frozen, not at all used to Peter talking back to her bullshit.
When he walked over to gwen to try and talk she just had the most emotionless but still somehow broken voice telling him "the show is in a few days but right now I'm pretty busy so I'll talk to you later Peter…" 'uh oh that doesn't sound good but I can't really blame her after all she doesn't know what's really going on. She's sick of my shit, who wouldn't be really' he didn't get a chance to say anything before jessica once again tried and actually succeeded in kicking him out.
As he just aimlessly swung around the city, specifically Staten island he made a lot of commotion causing an older man with quite a gut, clearly italian with grey spiked up hair as if he was a teenager to drop his doughnut he just got right on the ground. A little while after he swung past the guy he comes face to face with the goblin just waiting around on his glider "ah about time you showed up (as Spidey prepares to attack) whoa hold on there hero I'm not here to fight. Look at all those people down there, how many of them have you saved day after day and yet you're still a menace, a criminal hunted down no different than the rhino or sandman hum…? In spite of everything you've done for them they still hate you they always will so just stop trying already. Stand by my side and you won't need to worry about them anymore, we could do whatever we want aaahhhhheeeehhhaaaa!" But Spiderman just stands there on the edge of that building looking up at the goblin with an eerie calm "you've destroyed the lives of people I care about, you've created monsters you have hurt innocent people, no I won't stand by your side I'll be standing where I belong between you and the people of this city." But gobby just zappa him with some kind of lazer before flying off laughing it's his last chance to think about it.
At around noon that day before Peter heads to class he's on the daily bugle website and finds a video with his footage that's truly appalling. 'spider menace and green goblin criminal partners or competitors? Oh come on jameson even watanabe could see the truth there!' but before he could agonize any further on the matter the bell rang for him to head to his bio class, his teacher doctor connors has been absent the past couple days so his wife another doctor connors was taking over. "So doctor connors mister doctor connors still not feeling well huh?" He asked as he entered. "Curt may be out for a while, whatever it is is certainly serious so he's getting checked out as we speak." 'my spider Sense isn't going off or anything but something is not right here, she's hiding something… I'll check it out later.'
The class went about pretty normal but as everyone was leaving harry was eagerly waiting outside "dude I gotta tell you something! (Suddenly whispering) that goblin guy you fought… well get this his glider is an oscorp prototype. My dad has pissed off a lot of people so this guy has to be one of them, I see if I can find out who the ex employees are that worked on it then you can track them all down to find out which one it is" 'no no harry stop trying to be involved' "look harry I appreciate that you want to help but please just stop ok it's way too dangerous. I will check it out thank you but seriously that's it stop trying to help man" he pleaded he begged his best friend much to his disappointment before rushing off.
The webhead was now currently swinging over towards the hospital to check on doctor connors hoping he was there but would be alright when he sees down on the street the chunky man from earlier talking to a guy that looks much wider and considerably younger about his doughnut debacle when someone else walked up to them holding on to the leash of a God damn lion causing the wider younger looking man to scream like a frightened girl before just passing out to the amusement of the older italian man. The stranger then asked the still conscious guy with a gut, and quite the nose too, "where can I find this Spiderman?" "He's right ova there pal" the man said while pointing before then walking away but while passing this strange lion toting man the grey haired italian man from Staten island rested his large nose right on his bare shoulder.
"Spider man I am kraven the hunter! Come forth and face me prey for I am much greater challenge than my brother, I believe you called him the chameleon." That got spideys attention but as he landed in the street preparing to fight they both were instead ambushed by a giant reptile man wearing a tattered lab coat but it quickly disappeared again kraven along with it. After whatever that was he continued to the hospital, as Peter of course, over to the receptionist at the front desk "hello. I'm here to see doctor connors curt connors, he's my teacher and I just wanted to make sure he's ok…" he said to the woman. After maybe a few minutes of checking she confirmed that doctor connors was not listed as a patient there. 'huh well that's interesting…. I guess I'll check with billy then.' before exiting the hospital to make his way back to school.
At lunchtime gwen was sitting with MJ and glory without any other distractions since they still had a LOT of work to do "you know we could just call ourselves the mary janes…. Granted I'm not crazy about pot or anything but it is a catchy name and you DO go by MJ anyway right" gwen suggested mostly out of the desperation to finally have a name without actually being too crazy about it herself, everyone agreed so that was that. "I got harry to help us set up and everything but we're probably gonna need more, what about pete?" Said the fiery redhead. "I have no clue what he's gonna be doing he's been such a flake lately, I don't know how much more of this i can take…. But I don't want to worry about that, you and harry seem to be getting along pretty good lately….huh….?" "Hey gwen there's this thing called the bechdel test ever heard of it….?" Mary jane said in possible mock annoyance, with MJ sometimes it could be hard to tell if she was actually truly annoyed or just kidding around.
While glory, gwen and Mj were having a stereotypical women conversation not properly representative of how women really are as individuals Peter was seeking out freshman billy connors to try and figure out what is going on when finally he finds him walking out of the bathroom drenched in toilet water. "whoa hey Billy what's going on (the young man couldn't bare to answer) your mom said that your dad was pretty sick, I went to the hospital to check up on him but there was no record of him being there…. What's going on billy? Where's your dad really?" He questioned before billy just ran off in tears but also panic. 'Whatever's going on here billy is involved too'
over the next few nights Spidey was staking out the connors home for any sign of an answer when his arachnophone rang "hey captain what's happening?" The young hero chimed with way too much excitement "do you think what we do is funny? That it's a game!?" "Sorry captain it's been a long night" "well it's about to get longer, witnesses say that a and I quote "wild lion man is fighting with a giant lizard in the poshest part of lower Manhattan" so get over there and do something about it" the captain then immediately hung up. 'the poshest part of lower Manhattan…? but that's where I am… huh spider Sense!' he just narrowly avoided the lizard being thrown right at him by a very bloodied up kraven the hunter.
The three way fight was getting out of hand and Peter still had to get to the football field to see the first gig of Gwen's new band, the show starts in just over an hour. All the commotion attracted the attention of the residents including billy and martha connors. Kraven had the lizard pinned down and was just about to slit it's throat open when billy yelled out in horror "dad!" 'dad? Did he just tell out dad? Oh man doc! No' the webhead pieced together as he slingshoted himself against kraven knocking him off a roof before landing in front of the connors "tell you have an antidote or something doc." "Ah almost, I need some time to finish it up" the doctor said with more than a little disappointment but Spider-man answered with more than a little determination "than I'll give it to you" 'well doesn't look like I'm gonna make it to Gwen's performance after all but I can't let curt stay a monster to be gutted like kraven, I can't let billy lose his father. With great power comes great responsibility.' he lunges towards the lizard in a desperate attempt to contain him "come on doc calm down! You're not thinking straight!" He pleads but to no effect, curt can't understand him he's basically just an animal right now but while spider man is on the reptile man's back trying to restrain him in his webs kraven lines up a shot with his crossbow right at Curt's scaly chest. Tttaasoosswwoosh the arrow travels and hits right into Spidermans shoulder despite the agonizing pain Spidey just webs up the wound and kraven upside down having pants him before continually trying to tie up his mutated friend. Just as he was about to become lizard food martha ran back outside "Spider-man catch! She shouted before throwing a syringe up in the air for him to web on to, catching it in the air and injecting it into the man that was his teacher reversing the mutation.
"Alright midtown it's halftime and so I give you the mary janes!" The announcer said right as they were preparing to go on to the field with still no sign of Peter. "Look gwen I'm sure pete will be here and even if he's not you know he would be here if he could. I know he seems pretty unreliable lately but just rely, no just trust that he loves you ok? It's hard not to love you and he sure as hell knows it." Harry told her, finally deciding to truly move on from gwen, to help Peter any way he can.
"Huh? Spider-man? What happened….? Oh God! The serum! I am so sorry for everything! You… you gave me my life back? You really are a hero. Thank you Spider-man." Curt said as he slowly stood up in the middle of the street. After an acknowledging solute the spider powered teen swung off towards his high schools football field. 'please don't let me have missed it please don't let me have missed it!' he screamed in his head all the way there. Miraculously he had arrived in civilian clothes to the audience, front row no less, just as they finished the opening introduction and were about to start actually playing, as Gwen's eyes caught Peter staring back at her MJ said that the song was called face it tiger before they began it.
The performance was very successful everyone loved it. when gwen was packing up her drumsticks and everything backstage, which was just the girls locker room, Peter knocked before walking in "you were amazing gwen, Congratulations. Look I know I've been pretty awful lately, I'm a complete walking Trainwreck and here you are so talented and you can do anything but you're wasting your time with me and if you want it's ok I understand if you need…" but Peter never got to finish his self deprecating rant for gwen had rushed up and kissed him. "Shut up Peter. I know you've got a lot going on, I know you're not perfect but you're perfect for me ok. I love you and I'm tired of all this drama ok I'm tired of it all. So whatta ya say we go out for pizza huh? I'll pay." And so they went.
Later that night harry, despite peter's pleas not to, is still poking around oscorps glider info when he finds a lot of similar equipment behind a wall in his dads office…. "Huh no it can't be.."
A/N well there you go kraven, lizard, goblin, sal volcano, joe gatto, the mary janes band. Harry wants to help and found goblin gear in his own house I wonder where this is going…. Gwen, at least for the time being, is going to be much less harsh and judgemental towards peter after all there needs to be a lot more highpoints in their relationship than what I've shown. Until next time true believers.