Spider-Man
Faded Black
Volume #1
Prologue
High above the city of New York Peter Parker was sitting on top of a skyscraper looking down at the city he protected for the past several years. Watching the cars zoom through the streets below and the civilians walking going about their the daily lives somehow made him feel like he was doing the right thing most days. However today was not one of them after all he had earlier in the day had to flake on a meeting with Harry and MJ due to having to stop Electro from draining the electrical grid.
If that wasn't bad enough after stopping Electro he had heard of Shocker trying to rob a bank which he had to swing over and stop and afterwards he ended up heading over to rescue some people from a fire which caused him to be late and made his two best friends in the world angry with him. After a brief apology to the both of them he ended up onto of the roof of the building sulking about how his life is going the completely wrong way for what he expected at this point in time.
Peter had no clue for how many minutes he had sat on the roof in his classic red and blue Spider-Man costume. He was however aware that this would be the last time he let his friends down. After today he was done being Spider-Man and with that thought in his mind Peter left back to where he had stashed the backpack with his clothes and changed throwing his costume in the trash. Once that was done he walked away.
Two days later in another part of the city…
Sitting at a school desk at Horizon High was a young teenager at sixteen years old staring at his phone at the disturbing bit of news on social media. New York's friendly neighborhood hero had vanished without a trace. The boy was sitting in his chair a bit depressed by the news of course most of his classmates seemed to be in the same position from what he could see heck even the teacher seemed to be speaking in a less energetic way then usual.
The boys name was John Nagata and he was a bit of an odd ball in class. He was an average looking nerd with short blonde hair and green eyes and a pair of gray plastic glasses with square frames which helped him to see as his greenish-brown eyes had vision problems. He was a fairly skinny kid who rarely is ever worked out. He was kind of a loner which anyone would notice which is why he always dressed in plain clothes like the red t-shirt he had on with black jeans and a pair of tennis shoes.
John was not someone to stand out in a crowd and due to his nerdy nature he didn't have any friends which for him was probably a good thing. He was so socially awkward that he couldn't even raise his hand to ask the teacher questions or even worse talk to his seat neighbor in his chemistry class a certain Williow Stark. John had been her seat neighbor for about two months and has yet to say a word to the teenage girl in the seat next to him. Most of this was probably just social anxiety after all why would a rich beautiful girl like her want to be friends with him.
Williow was a girl that stood about five foot five inches tall with red hair with gold highlights in it. She has bluish green eyes which John geussed came form whoever her mother was. Honestly speaking she didn't really resemble her father Tony Stark at all even her choice of clothes as she wore a pair of black boots with leggings and a skirt with a t-shirt with a plain gray zip up hoodie. She was on of the schools most popular girls though no one has manged to ask her out. Then again given the fact that she was best friends with a supervillians daughter didn't help. Most of the basketball team has asked her out and gotten turned down as well and so John decided it would be best to ignore her for the sake of not getting him in more trouble then he was already in.
The teacher soon dismissed the class and John got up and left heading to his locker which he opens quickly and grabs his backpack which he stuffed his books into and quickly left the school building. He then began heading down walking the long road to his home be himself eventually cutting through an alley as a short cut until he reached the middle of it an turned down a smaller alley. John had gotten pretty good at navigating back alleys and side streets to avoid people as much as possible so after a few more turns he ended up on another main side walk.
His family lived about an hours walk away from his high school and in order to avoid people John consciously added another twenty to thirty minutes by taking side streets. John eventually walked to a crosswalk and pressed the button. There of course was a small crowd of people already at the crosswalk but he decided to try an not focus on his nerves which were making him shake a little. After all he hated crowds due to some unfortunate circumstances of his past.
John waited in silence waiting for the green walk light to come on and when it did he rushed down to the other side of the road and into an alley to avoid people as much as possible. After that he found a green dumpster that he sat beside and waited for his elevated heart rate to calm down taking slow deep breaths. Once that was done he stood up and continued his walk home or rather he was going to but something in the dumpster caught his eye. John slowly walked over to the dumpster and noticed that laying near the top of the garbage was a red and blue costume with a black web pattern. It has a tiny black spider logo on the chest and it looked to be fairly high quality.
Why on Earth would someone throw this out it looks to be a high quality cosplay costume, John thought to himself turning the suit over in his hands to look at it. Well it is a waste to leave it in the trash I may as well take it home maybe I could use it as a Halloween costume. With that thought done he opened up his backpack and stuffed the costume inside and continued on his way home with nothing else eventful happening. Well at least to him he could hear some sirens off in the distance.
John soon got to his apartment well actually it was the families apartment but well no one else would be home for a while. So John went to the laundry room and threw the suit he found in the washer on quick wash, after removing the metal wrist braces and capsules from the concealed belt, and then he headed upstairs to his room where he began to do his homework for about thirty minutes before heading back into the laundry room downstairs and throwing the suit in the dryer for seventy minutes. After that John began to prepare grabbing a box of macaroni and cheese which he began to cook.
Once he was done eating and cleaning the kitchen he went to the laundry room and took it up to his room. I wonder if this suit would even fit me, he thought to himself before deciding to try it on after putting all the bits he remove back into place. Once he did that and had the suit on he noticed it was a little baggy on him but it wasn't noticeable unless one was to pay really close attention.
Its a little lose but given that its a Halloween costume no ones going to notice, John thought looking at the mask which he left on the bed. He then turned around and looked at his closet door befor thinking, I wonder what those capsules I remove are for. Once that thought hit his brain John couldn't resit and he imitated the motion he saw sometimes on the news when the real Spider;Man would swing on the webs he fired from his wrist and after a thin white web line fired from the suits wrist and latched onto his closet door John stumbled back in shock falling and landing on his but on the floor.
" Oh shit this isn't good!" John said.