Chapter 5

Daughter of a Hero

and the False Spider

John had sat on the roof for a few minutes contemplating his failure to capture the Shocker before deciding to head back and grab his clothes. It took him longer to reach the dumpster from the site of the robbery then it took to get there mostly due to his body being sore and tired from the fight. He eventually manged back to the dumpster and change without anyone noticing and began his long slow walk back to his families apartment.

While John was slinking away from the battle to go home and presumably rest from his wound Shocker was busy using his gauntlets launch himself away from the cops chasing him. He was frustrated that yet again Spider-Man (not really ) had manged to get in his way and stop him from getting that money. He should have finished the hero off when he had the chance but he had fought the web head enough to know that if he had tried he would have been caught so escape was the best option. It was not the one he would have preferred having wished the spider would have stayed out of it after all no one had seen the hero for almost a week and suddenly hes back. It had Shocker wondering what was going on in this city.

That was when his thought got interrupted by a red fist hitting him mid jump and knocking him down onto the roof of a nearby building. Shocker picked himself off the ground and looked up to see a woman wearing a skin tight full body covering spandex costume with a white spider symbol covering her chest and stomach. The mask covered most over her head though it had the top open letting her long brown hair most of which flowed behind her and reached down to her lower back.

" A that's just great I escaped from one spider-freak today only to find myself getting chased by another one!" Shocker said aiming his gauntlets at the woman getting read to fire a sonic burst at her. The woman however manged to gracefully leap out of the way before flipping over and landing behind Shocker. With this she quickly fired a web at his gauntlets to stop him from using them before rushing over to him to give him a quick punch. Shocker tried to spin kick her while he freed his hands but the woman nimbly dodged out of the way with acrobatic grace before kicking him in the side to knock him down.

Once Shocker was on the ground she quickly webbed him up and called the authorities leaving an anonymous tip to come and find him before she leaped off the building and swung off back into the city. She swung for a while before stopping on a roof across the street from a huge apartment building where she sat down and removed her mask letting out a sigh.

" Where are you Peter and who is this new guy pretending to be you?" the woman said to herself before putting on the mask again and leaving. She would have to find this new Spider-Man and investigate and to do that she would have to follow the crime wave in New York. Guess there won't be any sleep for us tonight eh Jess, she thought to herself.

Meanwhile at the Nagata Residence

John had finally made it back home and the first thing he did was went up to his room and grabbed his pajamas before heading into the bathroom to take a cold shower to try and somewhat sooth his aching muscles. He took a short twenty minute shower before he climbed out and got dressed before heading to his bedroom and laying down for a quick nap which turned into sleeping until he heard the door to the apartment downstairs open again two hours later followed quickly by a somewhat muffled conversation from his mom and dad due to his closed door. John decided not to worry about it and fell back asleep.

The next morning John got up and got dressed hiding the replica costume in his backpack due to today being a Monday which means he had to worry about school. The reason was he figured it would be awkward if during gym someone noticed that he was wearing the suit under his clothes it may make him popular and his social anxiety wouldn't take that. John then put the web shooters into the backpack and then threw his textbooks and stuff in it.

After that he got dressed and quickly left the apartment heading towards his high school. On the way he was thinking about which of his classmates he could get nanomachines from. He was thinking of asking Williow as her father was an expert in the field so it would be easier to go that route though he wasn't sure it would be an easy thing to do. If it didn't work out to where he could borrow some of them he could spend a few days making some as long as nothing major happened villain wise. John eventually walked into the huge building through the hallways avoiding as many students as he could before reaching his classroom where he placed his backpack on his chair. He then looked around the class confused as to why everyone in the class was excited today.

" Have you heard the news?" one of the other students asked to his group of friends.

" Yeah I can't believe that we are supposed to get a new student today," another one of his friends said to him. John was sitting in his chair listening to his classmates and thinking to himself. A new student that's not that exciting that's kind of terrifying. After all that's one more person to avoid...at least until things go back to normal and then maybe I will try to make friends so my sister will stop pestering me, John thought to himself before the teacher walked in and stood in front of the class as the bell rang.

" Okay students take your seats we have someone to introduce you as soon as your in your seats ," the teacher said as the students began to flock towards their seats. John looked at the front of the classroom as the teacher motions for the new student to walk in.

" Hello everyone my name is Onzi Murone and I am the princess of Wakanda," the girl who stood in front of the class. John was kind of shocked as she had long white hair which was styled into a french braid. She had ebony colored skin which she had covered by an elegant blue dress which was strapless with purple flowers decorating the part of the covered her chest along with some embroidered jewels on the vines.

" Well then miss Murone there is an open seat in the back of the class so you can go and sit there for now," the teacher said before grabbing a stack of papers and passing them about the classroom. " As most of you know our principle has been looking into field rip locations to inspire you to do your best on up coming projects and Mr. Stark has decided to let us tour one of his facilitates tommorw. I need your parents to sign off on this trip due to a slight risk of a villain attack because as all of you know Stark is Iron Man."

John was listening to the teacher speak while thinking privately to himself that it would be a good idea for him to go as it might spark ideas for upgrades to his suit in case he never found the real Spider-Man or decided that he didn't want to give up the hero gig after he did. After all the modified spandex costume he was using now wasn't going to work forever and since he didn't have powers a more armored solution would be beneficial. He also thought it might be a good idea to pop in on the older Stark to see if he heard any news on other heroes going missing as it might give him a lead on the missing hero whose suit he was wearing an imitation of.

Once the papers where all passed out the teacher dismissed the class to head over to their personal labs in the building to work on projects or relax until time for the next class to start. John walked down the school hallway heading not for his own lab but to Willow Stark's assigned lab. He was a little nervous okay a lot nervous interacting with her after all he had no female friends and certainly no attractive ones which made this conversation a bit weird and stressed. Still it was necessary so John attempted to swallow his nerves and walked into her lab after ringing the bell and getting a quiet ' come in ' from inside the room. John then opened the door and walked in heading over to the desk where he could see that Willow was working on something though he didn't know what it was and assumed it was probably nothing that would interest him.

" So what can I help you with since most of the other students tend to avoid my lab afraid I might blow them up or something I suppose," Willow said sounding somewhat annoyed an hurt that some of her fellow students thought she could be dangerous.

" Well...I came to ask you a...uh...personal question but...man this awkward," John said as Williow turned to look at him.

" If your planing to ask me out on a date the answer is..." Willow started to say while looking at her stuttering and nervous classmate.

" What! Oh heavens no...I am not confident enough for that… not that I don't find you attractive its just...well lets just say.. you could do better," John said now more nervous and blushing at the thought.

" What is it then if not that?" Willow asked sounding less annoyed and now more curious and slightly concerned. This kid is in a school for geniuses and advanced students yet he sound like he has almost no confidence in himself , Willow thought to herself while inspecting John.

" I came to ask...if you wouldn't mind lending me some of you nanomachines for... a personal project I am working...outside of school?" John asked while trying to calm his nerves and slow his heart beat.

" Sorry but they are to dangerous to be in the hands of anyone that hadn't dealt with advanced technology like them before," Willow said with sigh her eyes probing John thinking of something else that she could probably do to help her classmate. " If you tell me what the project is I could help you with another less dangerous solution."

" No thank you," John said shaking his head before looking at her. " I will find another solution myself… sorry for bothering you." With that John quickly left Willows lab and headed for his own quickly closing the door to it behind him and squatting on the floor to calm his nerves so that he could think.

" I just have to make it to the end of the day and then I can work out what to do about the situation," John said to himself while trying to relax himself. It took awhile but the rest of the day went by smoothly though for some reason John had the feeling that someone was watching him. He was hoping that it would eventually stop and it did at the end of the day. After school ended John decided to sneak up to the schools roof. He didn't feel liking dealing with people so he would just sneak off and make sure no one noticed and what better way to do that then swinging away on a web after all New Yorkers weren't known for looking up.

Or at least that was the plan before an explosion went off near the school or rather to be more accurate it sounded like it was coming from the building below him. John quickly ran up the stairs dodging a young girl who looked like she was running towards the explosion. John didn't have time to puzzle over why the girl was on the roof as he quickly ran to the roof. Once their he quickly took off his clothes and changed into his replica costume. Once he put on the mask on he sighed.

" Alpha-1 wake up we have work to do," John said before he slowly mad his way over to the edge of the roof.

" What can I help you with today sir?" Alpha-1 asked John with a monotone voice.

" There was an explosion on a lower level of the building I need you to find where it originated from and patch into the security cameras so that I have an idea who needs help," John ordered the A.I. which set about doing the task that he was tasked to do as quick as possible.

" We have a few students near the location who are helping the others evacuate so thats not a problem however it seems we have another problem," Alpha-1 said going through the information he has gathered.

" Whats the issue?" John asked glad that the students were being escorted to safety.

" It seems like there is someone in a large metal suit currently attacking the lab of one Williow Stark and since I have hacked his com system it seems he has planted a bomb somewhere in the school to keep any other possible interference in the fight from occurring. Would you like me to try and locate the bomb?" Alpha-1 asked John to which John quickly gave confirmation and the A.I quickly began a search.

Meanwhile while that was going on another explosion had occurred at Williows lab which the young woman was already prepared for having activated her nanomachines to form her form fitting gold colored armor and had some of the tiny machines form a handgun which she aimed at the hole in the wall. Smoke from the two previous blasted had obscured the hole from view for the most part though it cleared once a large metal suit of armor which was mostly a dull gray color come through the hole in the wall.

Willow fired the handgun at the figure and the bullet simply pinged off the huge metal suit bouncing off of it and falling to the ground. The huge metal suit retailed by firing a machine gun that had emerged from a compartment on its wrist to which Williow jumped into the air using her boot jets to fly around until the suit stopped firing. Once it did Williow transformed the handgun into a whip and launched it at the huge gray suits leg which it instead caught with its hand and used to yank her towards it before grabbing her and slamming her into the ground at full force.

" You know I figured getting my revenge on Tony Stark for what he did to my father would be more difficult. Shame it seems like your just a pathetic girl," the suit said before opening it face-plate up to show the face of a man who was grinning evil with satisfaction.

" Who are you?" Willow asked while trying to find a way to escape the armored man's grip. He had her pinned to the ground with the huge suits hand though it was only covering her arms, shoulders, and torso.

" I am Gereld Stane the son of Obadiah Stane any your father has ruined my family by killing my father so now I will have him experience the pain that I have," the man said before the face-plate closed back down. He then lifted up his other hand and opened it palm facing Williow's head. " Maybe in the next life you will have a less evil father."

Authors Note: I am ending this chapter here because man did I make this go on for why longer then I thought it would. I would split this chapter into two parts but we will see if that becomes necessary when I begin writing the next one. Onwards to Chapter Six and as always see you next time my friends.