Spider-Man Faded Black

Chapter 9:

A New Suit an New Hero

( Part 2)

John made his way to Horizon High may excited for the end of the day then he had of course ever been. The idea of working on his new costume excited him as it was what was getting him one step closer to his goal: finding the real Spider-Man. The notion that he had a family that was worried for him made this mission all the more important, but he couldn't afford to miss class that would draw attention to himself. Though once he arrived he kind of remembered he at the moment didn't have any friends that would notice that he was gone but decided to attend the school anyway.

Lessons went on as per usual the class as an example in Chemistry class they were talking about an experiment that their own university was doing to try an create and detect Element 119 which had so far been unsuccessful. Some of John's classmates, due to being geniuses as well, where providing theories that maybe the detector was sensitive enough to pick up the decay chain or that maybe they weren't using the right target or beam materials. While this was going onn John was barely paying attention instead he was writing the different chemical formula's that he could make for improving his web fluid.

After this class was done it was time to head to lunch and so John after leaving the classroom, putting his books in his locker, and closing it made his way to the cafeteria to grab some food. Once he arrived he got in line and waited though when he looked at who was around him in the line he was shocked to see he was behind a group of three girls which were Willow, Sophie, and Onzi who were having a conversation about the attack that Williow had suffered through.

" It's a shame we didn't get a chance to meet Spider-Man," Onzi said with a sigh .

" Well I heard from dad that he has been missing a couple of weeks only to return recently," Willow said with a head tilt. " Dad doesn't know if it is the same person as he hasn't talked to him of course the Avengers have been to busy."

" You think we should look into it to see if its a new guy?" Sophie asked while Willow shook her head.

" We should focus on Stane for now the Spider-Man thing can wait until we have that sorted out," Willow said with a sigh.

" That's a good plan though we can't leave the new ones alone for to long," Sophie agreed with Willow.

" I am more worried about the new Daredevil that has apparently shown up in the Kitchen," Onzu said with her own sigh. This mention made John's ear twitch as he hasn't heard anything about a new Daredevil. That sounds like something I should look into later, John thought to himself .

" Maybe we can ask Zoe to investigate after all Stane probably has some countermeasures for her," Sophie suggested with a slight grin. Whats Zoe going to do as for as I know Willow is the only one with any ability to fight supervillians with her suit...perhaps I should put in some effort to investigate the group, John thought to himself as the line finally moved enough for John to get his food and go to a table in the back of the room. He then began to eat by himself as was the norm until something unusual happened.

" Would you mind if we sat with you or normal group of friends is scared that they might get attacked if we sat with them?" a females voice said that John recognized as Willow Stark's along with her two friends.

" Um…I don't mind but isn't this going to cause a problem for you three?" John asked them with a hint of his nervousness creeping into his voice.

" What do you mean cause problems?" Onzi asked being confused by his question as she and the other two sat down at the table.

" You three are…how should I put this not to sound rude…you are the three most popular and beautiful girls in our whole school...and you want to sit with the introvert kid with no social skills," John said being as honest as he could with him still being nervous. " I mean this sounds...like the plot of...a bad harem manga."

" No I think the plot of a bad harem manga would be if we were all secretly in love with each other and none of us knew because we were to dense," Sophie said with a smile.

" True," John agreed with a slight laugh. The group then sat and talked for a few minutes about nonsense until Willow decided to bring up their classes chemistry experiment as if they were successful the school could bring in a huge grant which would help fund the students research projects.

" Unfortunately I don't think the technology is to where we could detect it even if we did find it," Willow said a bit dejected.

" There is that problem if your only looking for an unstable element with a half-life of only a few microseconds but in my opinion the school should probably spend its time looking for a stable synthetic element. Of course there is the neutron packing problem that would need to be solved," John said which made the others at the table look at him.

" What are you talking about?" Sophie decided to ask looking at John somewhat wary of what he was going to say.

" The reason all the synthetic elements fall apart is because all the protons in the nucleus want to repel each other and in lighter elements this repulsion is kept in check by the presence of neutrons. This balance has broken down as the number of protons has increased to the point where the neutral charge barely has any effect an if you want to fix this problem you would need an exp-particle with a greater neutral charge," John said before he paused for a moment to let what he said sink in. " Lets say a proton has a +1 charge, a neutron is a neutral 1, and an electron is a -1 these three particles keep the atom in balance until the nucleus gets overcrowded with protons which want to repel each other and the nucleus tries to compensate by adding more neutrons except now the atom is to heavy to sustain itself for very long."

" So what your saying is if the exp-particle had a neutral charge of 2 instead of 1 we could in theory reduce the overfilling of the nucleus an create a stable synthetic element," Willow said with a surprised smile.

" Bingo," John said with a grin as the bell rang to signal the end of lunch. After lunch class continued mostly as per normal though at some point A.D.A.M had texted John's phone with a list of materials that the new suit would need in order to function properly. Where the heck am I supposed to find vibranium in New York, he thought to himself looking at the list being confused at how he was to acquire something that valuable. He then shook his head and decided he would have to settle for something less hard to obtain. He sent a text to A.D.A.M to order the carbon, copper, titanium, an other materials he would need to be sent to the lab by the end of the day to which the a.i. gave a quick confirmation.

A few hours later the school day was over with and John was running towards the lab in the abandoned subway tunnel as fast as he could. He had some very important work to be done and it would probably take up most of the afternoon to finish. Once he arrived to the lab he began to get to work first he began to work on the titanium that got delivered by cutting a small chunk of the bar he had off,then he feed the cut of chunk into a chemical mixture that A.D.A.M prepared which broke the metals atomic bonds and fianlly the chunk was removed and placed into another mixture which forced the atoms to bond back into a solid crystalline structure however this time they were knotted into a trefoil pattern.

John then began to break down and forged the titanium into ten claw like shapes which could retract. He then began to work on the carbon first braking its bonds in a chemical mixture, filtering it into another mixture which knotted it again into a trefoil pattern, at which point John began to transform the new material into fibers which he placed over the top of a spandex overly. He then began to recreate the Regent tech which he incorporated into the suit along with the claws, padding it with another layer of the trefoil carbon fibers and then sewed it up with a final layer of spandex.

Once he was done he panted the suit in his two favorite colors red and black before adding in the web pattern and changing the web pattern after which he took a step back an admired the almost finished product ( Authors Note: The suit from the cover of this story and I apologize for the interruption.)

" Very good work sir this suit is probably one of the most chemically advanced superhero costumes in the world...other then the unstable molecules used by the Fantastic Four," A.D.A.M said his hologram appearing to be smiling.

" Its not bad for a first attempt," John agreed with his a.i assistant looking at the suit. " Upload Alpha-1 to the suits mainframe so I can take it for a test drive."

" Already on it sir," A.D.A.M said before his hologram flickered off. John waited a few minutes before he put the suit on an began to make his way out of the subway. After about fifteenth minutes he shot out of the tunnel smiling under the new mask his mask before he began to swing through the city and the beautiful night sky. There was two more things that need to be done before the suit could truly be considered complete so he swung to Horizon High. Once he was their he quickly turned off the building security system and walked inside.

It was hard for him to navigate the building even in the dark after he he attended the school and had memorized where everything was including Williow Stark's lab which he also broke into with slightly more difficulty then the school once inside he searched for what he was looking for combing the room using Alpha-1 to improve his efficiency until he found a safe which he cracked open and took a vial from inside which contained the nanobots that made up Williows suit. He then went into the computer and with help from his a.i hacked in an used it to remove the tracking software from the nanobots, before closing the computer and taking a small piece of paper leaving a note. Once that was done headed out of Horizon turned on the scrutiny system and then swung through the city looking for Spider-Woman. Instead he found a bird woman flying away from a bank robbery carrying sacs of money in her feet...talons John didn't know what he was supposed to call them.

John decided it would probably be a good move to stop the bird woman quickly so he looked ahead of where they were heading and began running plans in his head before he decided on what to do and began to swing off into a side street before he found a construction site. He then began to move around the site's beams.

" Alpha-1 arm the trip mines," John said before he jumped up to a different beam.

" Done," Alpha-1 said in a monotone voice. John smiled before he quickly fired a couple of trip mines into a nearby beam at which point he jumped to another beam an fired another couple of trip mines into a different beam. After he finished that he head to go lead the bird woman into his trap. Swinging thought the city it took him a few minutes to find the bird woman at which point he attempted to launch a webline to catch her so that he could attempt to guide her towards the trap he had set.

However that didn't go to plan due to a black suited figure jumping off a a nearby building and tackling the bird woman into the window of another nearby building which they shattered. John then had to readjust his swing at which point he landed in the building with them landing on the floor with a roll an when he stood up John fired a web shot out like lightning, snagging the corner of a filing cabinet as he swung himself toward the bird woman who stretched out her wings dodged to the side with a powerful flap, narrowly avoiding the sticky strands. John landed on a nearby wall, bouncing off it and effortlessly as he shot another web to keep her from taking flight, but before the webbing could reach her, the black suited figure threw a baton which whizzed through the air, deflecting the webbing off course. The black-clad vigilante darted in from the shadows, his heightened senses fully attuned to the chaos around him. His foot connected with John's midsection, sending the web-slinger flying back into a row of cubicles.

As Spider-Man collided with the cubicles, the impact sent a shockwave through the room, shaking the lights and knocking over chairs. Daredevil took advantage of the distraction, launching himself towards the bird woman, his fists raised, but before he could reach her, the bird woman lifted off, her wings carrying her higher and higher until she was hovering above the scene. The black clothed man paused for a moment, his enhanced senses honing in on her movements, and then he leapt up, using his momentum to carry him toward her. The vigilante caught one of her feet, and the two of them spiraled to the ground, landing in a tangled heap. John was still recovering from the force of black clothed man's blow when he saw the two of them fall. He jumped to his feet, webbing Daredevil and pulling him away from the winged villain.

"What was that for?!" he demanded. "She's the bad guy!"

" I know that but I also suspect you aren't the real Spider-Man," the black clothed man said before going in for a right hook to John's face which the fledgling hero blacked using his forearm. This caused the black clothed man to grab John's wrist and tossed him backwards. John manged to catch himself by using his hand to grab on to an land on the desk.

The female bird woman was in the process of getting up and trying to fly away however the black clothed man threw another baton at her in order to knock her flight path off balance. John looked around the office and thought to himself, alright plan b then. John then jumped from the desk and ran towards the black clothed individual and when he got close he jumped over him an fired a trip mine into the wall behind him while he was flipping through the air until he landed in front of him. At which point the black clothed man tried to punch John which he quickly dodged before the guy tried to kick him however John caught the kick an then threw him into the bird woman. This knocked them both down to the ground though not for long.

" That's it I the Vulture will not be stopped by a bunch of wannabe heroes!" the bird woman said before she got up by kicking the black clothed man off of her.

" Yeah I agree the fake Spider-Man is a bigger threat so I will calla temporary truce bird brain," the black clothed man said before his fingers elongated into claws. " After all for a Daredevil to lose to a fake would be embarrassing,"

" If your calling me a fake that must go double for you pal," John quipped before the two of them charged him at the same time the Vulture swiping her leg at him with her foot having mechanic claws and Daredevil tried to swipe his claws at him. However John ducked under their attacks and launched a webline to attach the two of them sticking them together. He then swerved behind them an he at which point he kicked the two of them towards his trip mine which then caught the two of them and pinned them to a wall.

After that John webbed the bag of money that the Vulture stole to the floor and jumped out of the window and continued to swing through the city.