Chapter 5: Great Tragedy
As the crowd keeps cheering, Peter and Crusher are standing in front of each other in the center of the ring ready to throw down. Next, a cage comes down on the ring leaving both Peter and Crusher trapped inside together.
"Hey wait a minute, I didn't sign up for a cage match!" Peter complains as he turns to the announcer, but sees he's already gone. Then, Peter's spider sense starts triggering.
Without any time to react, Crusher rams Peter up against the cage bars, but of course Peter wasn't even fazed in the slightest.
While Crusher is pinning Peter against the cage bars, he speaks up and says "listen up here Small Fry, I got ya in here for three minutes of play time, so I'll go easy on you and make this quick! How's that sound to ya?"
"Funny you should say that, cause I'm pretty sure this match is set and done!" Peter says smirking underneath his mask.
With his enhanced superhuman strength, Peter uses his feet to push himself off the cage bars making the much larger man fall flat on his back with incredible ease. Peter immediately jumps off of Crusher and safely lands on his feet and quickly turns to face his opponent. Crusher then gets up looking enraged and starts charging towards Peter, who uses his superhuman reflexes to dodge every single upcoming blow from the larger and bulkier man, making him look like a fool.
"Sorry, too slow, big guy!" Peter taunts.
"Hold still!" Crusher snarls.
Crusher attempts to tackle Peter, but misses when Peter jumps high on the upper side of the cage and clings to them. Crusher looks up and is shocked by what he's seeing.
"What the hell ya doin up there? Get yer ass back down here!" Crusher yells
"Suit yourself dickwad" Peter says
He detaches himself from the bars and lands in front of Crusher, who grabs him in a tight bear hug, of course, Peter easily breaks and lifts Crusher up off his feet and into the air above his head like it was nothing. Peter spins him around a few times, much to the man's dismay, then he jumps up and slams Crusher to the ground, rendering him unconscious, the match ends in seconds leaving the audience speechless, but quickly begins cheering on the winner.
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Osborn Residence…
Harry and Liz were still sitting on the couch watching everything that happened on Harry's living room tv and happy that their friend came out on top and are currently cheering him on.
"Hell yeah, way to go Spidey!" Harry cheers "see Liz, I told ya there was nothing to worry about!"
Liz playfully rolls her eyes and says "oh please, you were just as worried as I was!"
"Ok true, but I still had faith in him."
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Back at the arena…
The cage was finally lifted up Crusher already left on a stretcher leaving Peter alone in the middle of the ring. The announcer walks up to him, grabs his arm and lifts it in the air.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, the winner, THE MIRACULOUS SPIDER-MAN!" He says through the microphone.
"SPIDER-MAN, SPIDER-MAN, SPIDER-MAN, SPIDER-MAN, SPIDER-MAN." The crowd keeps chanting, while Peter begins basking in the glory.
'Man, I could get use to this, and the name Spider-Man does have a nice ring to it.' he thought as he was being cheered on.
Five minutes later…
Peter is standing in the fight promoter's office in front of his desk, while the man is busy counting his money. He places a one hundred dollar bill on the desk while Peter takes it and waits expectedly.
"Well, what the fuck you still standing here for? Get lost already!" The man rudely says.
"Excuse me?" Peter asks, completely taken back.
"Did I fucking studder? Take your money and get your ass the hell up outta my building!"
"But this is only a hundred bucks, I thought the ad said the winner would receive a three thousand dollar cash prize." Peter says not understanding this.
"Don't believe everything you read kid!" The man says with a cruel smirk.
"This is bullshit, you can't just go around ripping people off like this!" Peter spoke in complete outrage.
"I can do whatever the fuck I want, so just be glad that a hundred is all you're getting from me!"
"I need that money!"
"Well boo hoo, come back crying to me when it's my damn issue, otherwise leave now, before I have security throw your ass out!"
At this point, Peter restrains himself from punching the man across the face and turns to leave the office as quickly as possible, while someone else passes him and goes inside. Peter stops at the elevator and pushes the button.
"I can't believe this, such bullshit!" He mutters fuming in anger.
Just then, he hears a loud noise and turns to see a guy running out the fight promoter's office carrying a large duffle bag and the fight promoter comes rushing after him while holding his head to cover up a large bruise, indicating that guy must've hit him.
"HEY STOP THAT GUY, HE'S GOT MY MONEY!" The promoter yells frantically as he's giving chase.
The thief is running towards Peter, just as the elevator door opens and his first instinct is to stop that guy, but decides differently.
'Bastard deserves it for ripping me off anyway!' he thought.
With that, he steps aside and lets the thief go past him and inside the elevator, and pushes the button and just before it closes, the guy says something to Peter.
"Thanks kid!" Then the elevator finally closes allowing him to escape.
The fight promoter finally catches up and stops in front of the already closed elevator door, while standing next to Peter. He then turns to Peter furiously.
"What the hell man, why'd ya fucking let him get away? That was all my money he stole from me!" The promoter says in complete dismay.
"Aww really?... Well tell you what, how's about you come back crying to me when it's my damn issue!" Peter says mimicking the man's exact same words.
The promoter leaves in utter despair and Peter pushes the elevator button feeling very satisfied in getting his revenge.
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Ten minutes later, Peter is sitting on one of the steps outside the library currently waiting to be picked up. He had already changed out of his costume and into his civilian clothes and managed to make it minutes before his uncle was supposed to arrive, but that time had already passed and he still hadn't shown up yet and Peter got worried. He tried calling Ben's cell, but there was no answer.
'That's weird, it's not like uncle Ben to not show up exactly when he said he would, I hope everything's ok.' Peter thought worriedly knowing how punctual his uncle always is.
Peter is about to call again, when surprisingly, his cell starts ringing and sees his aunt May calling, he immediately answers it.
"Hello, Aunt May?" Peter answers.
"Peter, where are you? Are you still at the library?" His Aunt asks on the other line.
"Yeah I am, is everything ok? Where's Uncle Ben?" Peter asks, noticing the frantic tone in his aunt's voice.
"Just please, get here as fast as you can!" May says, sounding hysterical.
"Alright, I'll be right there!" Peter says before hanging up.
He stands up, and walks over to the sidewalk trying to catch a cab. Thankfully one arrives, and as soon as he gets in, he immediately tells the driver to take him home.
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Parker Residents…
Peter gets out of the cab after finally arriving home, he pays the driver and walks over to his house. To his surprise, he sees police cars outside his front yard.
"What the hell's going on here?" Peter wonders with an uneasy feeling.
He walks up to the front door and goes inside and sees a bunch of cops standing in the living room and his aunt May sitting on the couch with her head in her hands crying her eyes out.
"Aunt May?" Peter calls out
May looks up and sees her nephew in front of her, she immediately gets up off the couch and hugs him, which Peter returns, and starts crying again. Seconds later, they both break off their embrace and are able to look at each other.
"Oh Peter, something terrible has happened!" May says still in tears.
"What're you talking about?... Aunt May what's going on, why is the police here and where's Uncle Ben?" Peter asks, feeling very scared of what he's about to hear right now.
"Peter, your Uncle Ben… he's been shot!"
TO BE CONTINUED….