Volume I: Spider-Man Is Born
Note: This is the 2nd chapter of Volume I and will explore Peter's first time back at school after the death of his Uncle Ben as well as his desire to become a hero. At the end of this chapter Peter will don the suit for the first time and officially become Spider-Man and attempt to save someone very important in his life.
It's been only 12 hours since the death of Uncle Ben as Peter painfully remembers that he has to get going to school again today. Across the street MJ sees Peter exiting his house and walking to school alone as she notices that Peter's eyes are still red from crying all last night.
"MJ why don't you walk to school with Peter today and comfort him. He needs you more than you know, sweetie" Anna Watson said.
"Aunt Anna, I was just thinking about doing that. I'll see you later tonight after school," MJ says.
(Outside)
"Peter! Hold up!" MJ says as she catches up to Peter.
Peter turns around and is surprised to see MJ running up to him.
"Peter, are you okay?" MJ asked concerned about Peter's well-being.
Uncle Ben was the father Peter never had growing up and Peter was extremely close to his Uncle Ben.
"No. I-I just don't know what to do anymore. How do I move on from this?" Peter's eyes are starting to tear up.
"Peter, you're one of the kindest people I know. If anyone can get through this, it's you. Me and Gwen are gonna be here for you no matter how hard this gets," MJ answers.
"Thank you, MJ, for being here for me," Peter says.
"Anytime Tiger," MJ wants to be there for Peter.
Peter is at school now and is getting stuff out of his locker for his classes as Flash is making his way towards Peter to talk to him.
"Parker" Flash says coming up to Peter.
"Not today, Flash. Please any day but today," Peter says as he thinks Flash is coming over to make fun of Peter like he usually does on most school mornings.
"Parker, I—" Flash says as he puts his hand on Peter's shoulder.
At that instant Peter whips flash around at superhuman speed and slams him against the lockers.
"Please Flash not today," Peter begs.
"Look Parker, I just wanted to say I'm sorry about your uncle. I'm sorry" Flash says as he winces in pain from being slammed into the lockers.
Trembling with his hands Peter slowly puts Flash down, grabs his stuff, and quickly leaves his locker. Down the hallway Gwen sees Peter and can tell he has been crying all night. Gwen goes up to Peter to try and comfort him.
"Peter I—" Gwen says as she hugs Peter in the hallway.
Throughout the entire school day Peter couldn't help but think about what Uncle Ben said to him yesterday.
(Flashback)
"Use your gifts for the right reasons, not for personal gain… With great power comes great responsibility."
(Present)
"I have to use these gifts, these powers to help people. I can't let Uncle Ben down again. I can't" Peter said to himself.
At the end of the school day Harry came up behind Peter and wanted to try to cheer him up.
"Peter, you wanna go and get ice cream with me, MJ, and Gwen? My treat," Harry said.
"Yeah, Harry I would actually really appreciate that," Peter said with a small smile on his face.
At the 19th precinct of the New York Police Department, George Stacy is currently questioning Dennis Carradine for his involvement in the murder of Ben Parker.
"So, Mr. Carradine don't even bother trying to deny it. We have multiple eyewitnesses and DNA evidence tying you to the murder. But what I'm curious about is how you got those defensive wounds. I thought you were in that warehouse alone," George Stacy wonders.
"Okay yeah fine. I shot and killed that old man, whatever," Carradine started.
George Stacy interrupted, "I would be very careful about your next words. That man was a dear friend of mine."
"Okay well there was a psycho freak in there wearing a red wrestling mask in the warehouse. He broke my wrist and arm in there! Not me! He also seemed personally offended that I killed that guy. Like it meant something personal to him. I thought I was gonna die man, but he chose not to kill me," Carradine said with fear in his eyes.
"Well, we will just have to take your word for it," George Stacy said, noting the fear in Carradine's voice.
At the ice cream parlor Gwen, MJ, Harry, and Peter are sitting down and starting to eat their ice cream.
"Hey Pete, what flavor did you get?" Gwen asked.
"Banana, also known as the best ice cream flavor of all time," Peter smiles.
"Banana?" Gwen, Harry, and MJ all said together.
"Yeah, banana rocks. Can't believe you guys don't think the same," Peter smirked.
"Hey Pete, we're just glad that you're having fun," Harry said.
"Thank you for this guys. You all are the best friends anyone could ask for," Peter said.
"Anytime Tiger, we're all here for you," MJ smiles.
After the four teenagers ate their ice cream, they all parted their ways from the ice cream parlor. Harry drove Gwen home. Peter decided to walk home alone and think more about Uncle Ben.
"Peter, do you mind if I tag along with you on your walk home," MJ asked.
"Yeah, of course," Peter said. "I-I mean not that I mind you walking with me because I love your company and you're my best friend. Okay what I'm trying to say is that yes, I would like to walk home with you," Peter continued.
"Alright Tiger we gotta work on your awkwardness there," MJ laughed.
"Thanks MJ," Peter smiles as they both start to walk home.
On their way home MJ notices that Peter is deep in thought and quiet.
"What's on your mind, Pete?" MJ asked.
"Thinking about the last thing Uncle Ben said to me before he died," Peter is sad.
"Do you want to talk about it," MJ wonders.
"No, I think I just need some time alone from you and everybody," Peter responded.
This comment hurt MJ as she turns away from Peter to head home as she and Peter arrived at their houses.
"Whatever Peter," MJ said coldly as she walked inside her house.
"MJ wait!" Peter said realizing that he had been too harsh on her, but he is too late.
Inside his room now, Peter is deep in thought thinking about his powers and Uncle Ben.
"Okay if I'm going to do this and use my powers to help people and save lives, I'm going to need something to wear and a new way to get around town. I can't be running everywhere, I'm gonna tire out too quickly.
Just then Peter's phone buzzed. It was a text from Gwen.
"Peter, do you want to come over later tonight to help me study for the quiz next week?"
"Yeah, I'd love to do that," Peter responded.
Above Gwen's text Peter saw the picture of the spider's web formula for the expo that he asked Gwen to send to him yesterday.
"Wait a minute, if I can reverse engineer and recreate this formula, I could theoretically use it to swing around town. I just need to make sure that the tensile strength can support my weight. Thank you, Gwen Stacy" Peter said out loud.
Peter immediately went over to his closet and grabbed his chemistry kit and attempted to recreate this webbing formula from the super spiders. After 30 minutes of tinkering and stirring chemicals, he lifted the stir stick out of the glass and saw that web fluid had formed.
"Oh my god I did it! I'm a genius, "Peter said to himself. "Ahh but as soon as it is exposed to air it immediately hardens. Okay so now I need to create something to hold the web fluid in as well as something to shoot the web fluid out of and then I'm all set."
Peter quickly ran over to the hardware store and used a portion of the wad of bills that Carradine gave him after he robbed the store to purchase the supplies he needed and ran back home.
Peter quickly used the parts he got from the hardware store to construct a device that would be capable of shooting the web out from his wrist. Peter thought that would be the best place to put the device if he was gonna be swinging around the city.
"Alright so now I just need a firing mechanism to shoot the webs… Hey webshooters. That's not a bad name," Peter thought to himself. "Well, the firing mechanism needs to be easy access since I'll be at the mercy of gravity while swinging on a webline being fired from the webshooter," Peter continued.
Peter eventually decided to create a trigger that required him to press down two fingers simultaneously onto the palm of his hand to release the webbing from the webshooter. He also added a built-in feature where he needed to double tap the trigger to release the webbing as well.
"Awesome, I've got two built webshooters and I've filled the cartridges with enough web fluid to last a while," Peter is impressed with himself. "Now let's test the tensile strength of this webbing and then I'll head over to Gwen's house."
While testing the tensile strength of the webbing using a tool from his chemistry kit Peter is shocked to learn the truth about the tensile strength.
"3 tons of tensile strength? Are you serious? That's enough strength for a single strand of webbing to hold up a car. Wow, this is amazing! So, step 1 of creating webbing is out of the way and I'll focus on step 2 later but I gotta get to Gwen's house first," Peter said in his thoughts.
It's 7:30 PM in the evening now as Peter Parker knocks on the door to the Stacy residence.
"Hi Pete, you read to go over this quiz with me for next week?" Gwen asks as she opens the door and invites Peter inside.
"Yeah, so ready. But Gwen, you're literally the smartest person I know. Why are you asking for my help? Plus, it's Friday night," Peter asked as they walked upstairs to Gwen's room.
"Well… you've always been better at chemistry than me so I thought just having a 2nd science whiz with me wouldn't hurt, and I like being with you and hanging out with you Pete," Gwen confessed.
"Thanks Gwen, I like hanging out and being in your company too," Peter said as he hugged Gwen.
"Thanks Pete," Gwen said as the two continued to hug.
Gwen couldn't explain why but at that moment while Peter was hugging her, Gwen felt a warm feeling and likeness towards Peter that she has never felt before.
Peter is finally back in his room around 10 PM after spending a few hours with Gwen. They didn't do much studying together, but they talked with each other about school and life the whole time. Peter notices that he finds it very easy to talk with Gwen.
"Alright time for step 2, finding something to wear while helping people with these powers of mine," Peter said in his thoughts.
Peter walked up to his closet and found a black leather jacket, jeans and picked up his red luchador mask off the floor.
"This isn't much of a suit for now, but it'll have to do until tomorrow when I have more time. Time to go outside and test my webshooters," Peter said.
Now outside Peter climbs up a tall office building and prepares to jump off and fire his webshooter.
"Alright let's hope this works or it's a long way down for me. Here we gooooooooo," Peter screams as he fires the webshooter at a building nearby.
A webline fires out of the webshooter of Peter's right wrist and attaches itself to a nearby building.
"Oh my god it's working! It's actually working!" Peter yelled in excitement.
Over the next 90 minutes Peter kept practicing with his webshooters and swinging around in Queens and taught himself how to turn, slow down, and speed up how fast he goes while slinging across the city on a web. Suddenly Peter hears a cry in the distance.
"Help! Help me please!" the voice cried out in an alley nearby.
"Oh god I have to help that person. I can't let my inaction cause another person to lose their life," Peter said to himself.
Peter webslings until he finds the man who was crying out. A man and what looked to be his wife, and child were being held a gunpoint.
"Crying out loud won't help you. Nobody can hear you. Your money now!" the thug demands while pointing a gun at the man.
Suddenly, a webline knocks the gun out of the thug's hand, as Peter swings in and kicks the thug in the chest.
"Do you really have nothing better to do than pick on people in the dead of night?" Peter asked.
"You'll pay for that you freak, or my name isn't Herman Schultz," Herman Schultz said as he got up, picked up his gun, and fired at Peter.
Instantly Peter's spider sense goes off and Peter flips onto the wall avoiding the bullets fired by Schultz.
"That's the best you can do? Do you even know how to aim buddy?" Peter jokes as he leaps off the wall and kicks Schultz into a box of crates.
Herman Schultz, hearing sirens approaching, now decides to run away.
"Screw this I'm outta here," Herman screamed.
Peter then turned around to look at the family who was being robbed, who were still frozen in fear at what they just witnessed.
"Hey, are you guys, okay? Are you hurt at all?" Peter asked.
The older man who Peter assumed was the father of the family, spoke up.
"Wh-Who are you?" the man asked.
"I'm…" Peter stopped because he didn't want to reveal his actual name.
Peter thought about how a spider gave him these powers and just decided to go with it.
"I'm Spider-Man," Peter responded.
"Spider-Man thank you for saving us. Thank you," the man said.
"Anytime. Well, I should probably get out of here, you three have a safe rest of your night," Spider-Man said as he swung out into the night and back home.
(Back home)
"I did it, I saved them. I did it Uncle Ben," Peter said as his eyes started to tear up.
Peter then took off his mask and noticed it had a tear in it from the night's events.
"Ah crap well in the future I'm going to need to create a better mask, so it doesn't rip apart like this. But that's something to worry about tomorrow. There is one thing I learned about myself tonight. I'm quite the smart mouth when I'm getting shot at," Peter says to himself.
It's now been 2 days since Uncle Ben died and 3 days since Peter got bit by the spider. Today is the day of Uncle Ben's funeral. Peter is dressed in all black for the funeral, as is Aunt May. The funeral gathering is small. MJ, Gwen, and Harry are at the funeral for Peter. George Stacy and Anna Watson are there as well. Peter looked down and saw Uncle Ben's tombstone in the ground.
Benjamin Franklin Parker
March 18, 1967 - August 11, 2024
Beloved Husband and Uncle
After everyone left the funeral Harry came up to Peter to talk to him.
"Peter, are you going to be okay?" Harry asked.
"I think so, I just need some time alone to process everything, Peter answered.
"Whenever you need me, I'm there for you Pete," Harry said.
"Thank you, Harry," Peter appreciates Harry.
Later in the afternoon the doorbell rings at the Watson residence. Anna Watson opens the door and is surprised to see him at the door.
"Hi Peter, what brings you by?" Anna asks Peter.
"Hi Mrs. Watson, I was wondering if I could talk to MJ about something. Is she here?" Peter wonders.
"Yes, of course. She's up in her room right now. Why don't you go up to her," Anna tells Peter.
"Thank you, I will" Peter replied.
Outside MJ's room, Peter opens the door and sees MJ doing homework at her desk.
"MJ, hi. Can we talk? Is it alright if I come in?" Peter asks.
"It's been a little bit since you last spoke to me. You wouldn't even talk to me at the funeral. Last time we talked you told me that you didn't want me around you," MJ is still mad at Peter for treating her badly.
"I'm sorry, MJ. I know I was a jerk to you, and I pushed you away when you were only trying to be there for me and help me. You deserve to be treated so much better than that and I'm sorry," Peter apologized.
"Shut the door behind you Peter and talk to me. Please" MJ said.
MJ still isn't happy for the way Peter treated her, but she could see the old Peter again for the first since his uncle died. The kind and thoughtful Peter.
"Okay I need to tell you something and I need you to keep it a secret between us. Literally nobody else can know about it," Peter started.
"Pete, you can trust me, I promise I won't tell anyone," MJ smiles.
"Actually, it's probably easier if I show you," Peter says as he jumps up and is hanging upside down from MJ's bedroom ceiling.
Peter finally revealed his secret to Mary Jane as Peter trusts her the most.
"Peter, how in the world—" MJ is shocked.
"MJ, the night before Uncle Ben died, I was bit by this super spider from the science expo and it gave me these powers. Between getting these powers and everything else that's happened lately I've just been completely overwhelmed and have been pushing everyone away from me. It wasn't until I was with Gwen yesterday that I realized what I have been doing to everyone, and I'm so sorry I did that to you MJ. You mean the world to me. You're my best friend," Peter tells MJ the truth.
"Peter it's okay. I'm just glad you came back to me. I promise I won't tell anyone about your powers," MJ is happy Peter is talking with her again.
"Thank you, MJ" Peter says as he hugs MJ.
On Monday morning as MJ is about to walk out of her house and head over to school, she opens the door and is surprised to see Peter there.
"Hi MJ, do you want to walk to school with me," Peter asked.
"Yeah, let me get my backpack and we can head out," MJ answers.
MJ quickly heads back inside to grab her backpack, and the two teenagers are on their way to school.
"So how are you holding up? I know I haven't given you very long to process me having powers and stuff," Peter is curious.
"Honestly it was pretty unbelievable at first, but I think I'm at least starting to get used to it," MJ responded.
"I just hope it doesn't change the way you think of me," Peter says with a sad look on his face.
"Tiger, you're a kind and thoughtful person. You getting powers doesn't change that. You're still my friend," MJ said.
"Thanks MJ" Peter says with a smile on his face.
"Peter there is something I wanted ask you," MJ wants to ask Peter a question.
"What is it?" Peter is curious.
"The night your uncle died I saw someone climb out of your window wearing a red mask and head off somewhere. Was that you?" MJ asks.
Peter is stunned that MJ saw him climb out of his window that night.
"Yes, that was me. I overheard the police talking about the location of my uncle's murderer and I went to go talk to him," Peter confessed.
"Did you get there before the police intervened?" MJ wonders.
"Yes" Peter sighed. "When I got there, I beat him up pretty bad and I almost killed him. When I saw his face I-I knew in that moment that I was responsible for Uncle Ben's death, and I couldn't kill him. It's not what Uncle Ben would have wanted."
"Peter Parker you are not responsible for your uncle's death. I won't let you beat yourself up over this," MJ is worried for Peter.
"But MJ you don't understand. Before I came back to my house that night, I saw that same guy with that same face rob a gas station I had just left, and I did nothing to stop it. I had all my powers, and I chose to let him run by me. If I had intervened and stopped him my uncle would still be alive," Peter said quietly as tears started to come down his face.
"Oh my god Peter… I'm so sorry. I didn't know" MJ understands Peter now. "But I need you to look at me Peter."
Peter turns to look at MJ and her hazel-colored eyes with her curly red hair.
"You are not responsible for his death. You did not pull that trigger, okay?" MJ assures Peter.
Peter says nothing and embraces MJ in a hug who hugs Peter back as they arrive at school.
"Come on Tiger, let's get to science class. We're gonna be late" MJ says.
Science class begins as Mr. Warren has the class take the quiz that Peter and Gwen studied together for. After the quiz concludes, Mr. Warren begins to talk to the class.
"Class we're going to start today by watching a video about unstable molecules and their properties. Please take notes over this video as you'll be quizzed about it on Friday," Mr. Warren states as he starts the video.
"Hi everyone, my name is Reed Richards, leader of the Fantastic Four and I'm here today to talk to you all about unstable molecules. Unstable molecules are a type of fabric that can bond with and share physical properties of the user. Unstable molecules are also very adaptable to the surrounding environment making it friction-proof and flexible. If you are interested in what you see place an order on our website. This offer is available only to high school students and not supervillains…"
"Adaptable, friction-proof, and flexible? This is exactly what my new Spider-Man suit needs", Peter says in his thoughts.
Gwen, who is in class with Peter and sitting right next to him, sees Peter deep in thought and is concerned for him. Gwen writes a note in her notebook and shows it to Peter while the video is still playing to the class.
"What's going on?"
"Can we talk at lunch?" Peter writes down in his notebook for Gwen to see.
Gwen smiles and nods at Peter. Gwen looks at Peter and can't stop thinking about his wellbeing for the rest of class.
"Peter, I hope you're doing okay," Gwen says to herself in her thoughts.
At lunchtime Peter is on his school computer and is ordering those unstable fabric molecules for his new Spider-Man suit that he learned about earlier in science class.
"Alright now what colors do I want for the suit?" Peter thinks to himself. Well, the spider that bite me was navy blue and bright red in color and those also happen to be my favorite colors."
Peter then puts in his home address, orders the unstable molecule fabrics, and checks the pay upon delivery box as he submits his order and shuts down his computer.
Gwen makes her way over to Peter who is sitting by himself eating some chicken tenders from the school cafeteria.
"Hi Pete, do you mind if I sit down?" Gwen asks.
"No, I don't mind. I'm always happy to have you in my company," Peter smiles.
"Are you doing okay with everything?" Gwen is concerned about Peter.
"Honestly, I don't know Gwen. I think I'm just worrying about too much right now with everything that's happened lately and not wanting to fall behind in school because of it," Peter says honestly.
"Are you worried because of the quiz we took earlier this morning? I know I asked you over the weekend to come study this weekend for it. But we didn't actually do much studying for the quiz. We mostly just talked and had fun together, or at least I did. I'm sorry if that wasn't the case for you and you wanted to study," Gwen feels guilty.
"Gwen, I promise that's not it. Hanging out with you and not studying was the most fun thing I did all weekend. I really enjoy spending time with you," Peter says.
"Thanks Pete, I had a lot of fun with you too," Gwen blushes.
Over on the other side of the cafeteria Liz Allen is looking at Peter Parker and notices that Peter is quite good looking. Liz Allen is a sophomore like Peter is, is 5'4, Latina with dark hair and blue eyes, head cheerleader, and is one of the most popular kids at Midtown High.
"When did Peter get so attractive? He's always been so nice," Liz thinks to herself.
It's the last period of the day and Peter is in his PE class right now, jogging with MJ around the track right now.
"Tiger, you can run so much faster than everyone here," MJ said.
"I know MJ, but I'm trying to keep a low profile and besides you're the only one who knows about my powers," Peter says.
"Wait I'm the only one who knows?" MJ is shocked.
"Yeah MJ, that's why I told you that you can't tell anyone about this," Peter said.
At that moment there was a loud cry of pain. Gwen Stacy just twisted her ankle and fell. Gwen tried to get back up, but she couldn't put any weight on it.
"Gwen! Are you okay? Do you need me to take you to the nurses?" Peter is worried for Gwen.
"I'm fine Pete I just twisted my ankle," Gwen tries to reassure Peter.
"Parker, would you mind escorting Miss Stacy to the nurse's station," Mr. Philips the gym teacher asks.
"Sure thing Mr. Philips. Hey Gwen, is it alright if I pick you up?" Peter says.
"Pete, I doubt you can do that," Gwen says.
Gwen is shocked as Peter is able to pick her up with ease and starts to walk toward the nurse's station.
"Pete…wow…I guess you really have been working out," Gwen blushes.
As Peter is carrying Gwen, she can't explain the feeling, but she feels very safe with Peter at the moment.
Finally, Peter arrives at the nurse's station with Gwen, and he puts her down on one of the beds.
"Thanks Pete, for carrying me here. I really appreciate it," Gwen smiles.
"Anything for you Gwen," Peter smiles back as he turns to return to class.
"Wait Pete" Gwen starts.
"Yeah?" Peter is curious as to what Gwen wants.
"Could you stay here with me until school's over? Since it's last period and everything," Gwen asks.
"Yeah of course Gwen," Peter answers. "How's your ankle feeling?"
"It's feeling a little better," Gwen tells Peter.
The nurse comes back from her break and sees Gwen and Peter there talking.
"What brings you two here?" the nurse asks.
"Uhh well I twisted my ankle and Peter helped me over here," Gwen said.
"Well son, if you aren't hurt or sick then I'm afraid I'm gonna ask you to go back to class. Unfortunately, it's the rules around here," the nurse said.
"It's okay Pete, go. I'll see you tomorrow," Gwen told Peter.
"Okay, bye Gwen" Peter said with a sad expression on his face.
As school ends Gwen is surprised to see Peter again.
"Peter?" Gwen is shocked to see Peter.
"Hi Gwen. Is it alright that I came back? I wanted to see if I could walk you home" Peter says shyly.
"Definitely. I just thought I wouldn't see you until tomorrow," Gwen says.
"I thought so too, but I haven't really gotten to hang out with you as much lately with everything that's happened and I thought I'd take you home," Peter admits as they start to head out of the school.
As Peter and Gwen walk to her house, Peter notices a package outside of his house as they pass by it.
That must be the unstable molecules I ordered today," Peter says in his thoughts.
"Thanks for walking me home, I appreciate it" Gwen smiles.
"You up to anything tonight?" Peter asks.
"Yeah, I was going to go see my father at his precinct tonight before he gets off work. You can come with if you want," Gwen answers.
"I don't want to intrude on you and your dad spending time together Gwen, and besides I have some stuff I need to work on tonight anyways," Peter says referring to his Spider-Man suit.
"Okay well have fun tonight. I'll see you tomorrow, Pete," Gwen says as she walks up to her house.
Peter is back home now and opens his packages and begins to assemble and make his new Spider-Man suit. Peter made the suit with the front being primarily red with some blue here and there with the back being primarily navy blue with some red here and there. Peter then added some black cobwebs around the suit to make the red pop a little more as well as a spider logo on the center of the chest and a larger spider on the back of the suit.
"Well hello there beautiful," Peter said as he put the finishing touches on the suit.
Back at the 19th precinct of the NYPD George Stacy is having a discussion in his office with his top lieutenant, Yuri Watanabe. Yuri is of Asian descent, has dark hair and is in her early 30s.
"Yuri excellent job arresting those guys from Hammerhead's businesses today. Hammerhead won't be too happy about that," Geroge Stacy says.
"Yes, Captain but we still have no idea who Hammerhead is working for. This guy up top puts so much fear into his thugs that they won't even give him up. Even in police custody," Yuri wants to put a stop to this crime wave.
"We'll get him eventually Yuri, we always do," Geroge Stacy promises.
Just then the door to Geroge Stacy's office opened and Gwen was on the other side of it.
"Captain" Yuri says as she leaves.
"Gwennie, how was school today dear?" George asks.
"It was pretty good dad, but I kinda twisted my ankle during PE today," Gwen said.
"Do you need me to take you to the emergency room sweetie?" Geroge is worried for Gwen.
"No, it's okay dad, Pete helped me to the nurse's station and I'm all better now" Gwen smiles.
"That's very nice of him. I'm glad you two are still close friends after everything that happened with his uncle," Geroge says.
Gwen smiles as she likes being friends with Peter too, but there's a lingering thought in the back of her mind that maybe being friends isn't enough for Gwen.
Across the street the crime boss Hammerhead is looking at the 19th precinct as an innocent looking janitor crosses the street and comes up to the rooftop where Hammerhead is standing.
"Dmitri, did you plant the devices?" Hammerhead asks.
"Yeah boss, the devices have been set and charged, "Dmitri responds.
"Excellent, soon that lady cop Watanabe and George Stacy will pay for bringing our operation to a standstill," Hammerhead smirks. No one stands in the way of Hammerhead and the Kingpin."
Hammerhead laughs and presses a button igniting the devices that have been planted in the police precinct which causes a huge explosion to occur.
Back at the Parker residence, Peter is about to start to assemble a new mask for his Spider-Man suit as the doorbell rings. Peter quickly throws a towel over his suit as he doesn't want anyone else besides MJ to know about it. Peter heads downstairs and opens the door and is surprised to see MJ there.
"Hi MJ, what brings you by?" Peter asks.
"Peter is Gwen with you?" MJ immediately asks.
"No… she went to go see her dad at work. Why are you so concerned?" Peter is curious.
"Peter the police building where her dad works was attacked! There was an explosion, and a huge fire is there now. It's all over the news," MJ says.
"What?" Peter says as he immediately sprints up the stairs to grab his suit.
"Peter where are you going? MJ asks.
"I'm going to go and save Gwen," Peter reveals.
"Peter, are you crazy? You're not a firefighter. You could die doing that," MJ tells Peter.
"MJ the last time I failed to act when I could have helped someone, my Uncle Ben died. I'm not doing that again. I can't lose Gwen," Peter says seriously.
MJ notices how serious Peter is and realizes there's nothing she can do to stop him.
"Pete you can't just go in what you're wearing though," MJ is concerned about Peter.
"I'm not, that's why I have this," Peter says as he pulls the towel off his suit.
"Woah… nice suit Tiger," MJ says in amazement.
30 seconds later Peter has his new Spider-Man suit on for the first time. He grabs his old red luchador mask as Peter hasn't finished his new mask yet and starts to climb out his window.
"Go save her Tiger," MJ says as Peter swings away to save his best friend.
Come on Pete move!" Spider-Man says to himself as he is webslinging as fast as he can across the Queensboro bridge towards Gwen and the burning police precinct.
"Oh my god, Gwen please be alright," Spider-Man says as he sees the burning police precinct for the first time.
30 seconds later Spider-Man finally arrives at the precinct and breaks through one of the windows and into the burning building.
"Gwen! Gwen!" Spider-Man screams as he's looking for Gwen.
Unable to find Gwen, Spider-Man keeps searching and searching, rescuing anyone he finds and safely bringing them down to the ground.
"Gwen! Captain Stacy!" Spider-Man screams as he frantically searches for Gwen breaking down every door he sees, rescuing even more people.
As Peter finishes the current floor, he's searching on he does the math in his head and realizes there is only 1 floor he hasn't searched yet.
"Please be okay Gwen, please be okay," Spider-Man says to himself with worry and concern.
As Peter reaches the last floor, he frantically continues calling out Gwen's name.
"Gwen!"
"Over here! Help!" a masculine voice said that Peter immediately recognized.
"Captain Stacy" Spider-Man said to himself. "Gwen please be okay, please be okay"
"Help! I can't get this debris off my daughter! The roof collapsed on top of her" George Stacy pleaded.
"Gwen! No!" Spider-Man screams as he starts violently ripping off the tons of debris that fell on Gwen.
After Gwen is free of the debris a huge explosion knocks both Spider-Man and Geroge Stacy out of the police precinct and free falling towards the pavement below. Spider-Man looks up and sees that only George Stacy and himself were knocked out of the building. Gwen was still inside the burning building. Suddenly in Peter's mind he hears Uncle Ben's voice again.
"Choices have consequences son. With great power comes great responsibility."
"Right Captain Stacy comes first, then Gwen," Peter reminded himself. Hold on Captain Stacy!"
Spider-Man quickly fires a webline to Geroge Stacy, grabbing him and fires another webline with his other webshooter swinging with George Stacy to safety.
"My daughter she's still up there," George Stacy says as soon as he's safely on the ground.
"Gwen, you're not dying today. You're not!" Spider-Man said in his head as he swung back into the burning police precinct to rescue his best friend.
Spider-Man travels as fast as he can through the burning building at superhuman speed. Gwen opens her eyes a little bit as Spider-Man arrives with pieces of his mask missing because of the explosion that threw him out of the precinct earlier.
"P-Peter?" Gwen says while coughing.
"I'm Spider-Man. The flames and fumes are probably making you hallucinate. Come on let's get you out of here," Spider-Man said as he grabs Gwen and swings her to safety down below.
Shortly afterwards Spider-Man removes his mask which is now torn to shreds and calls MJ.
"MJ, I did it. I rescued Gwen. I—can you meet me at the hospital in Midtown and can you bring some of my clothes that I can change into,"
"Peter, I saw you on the news. You didn't just rescue Gwen. You rescued so many other people. You did it Tiger. I'll see you at the hospital as soon as I can get there. I wanna see Gwen too."
Spider-Man arrives at the hospital in Midtown where Gwen was taken to and sees MJ waiting in the alley.
"Peter, you did it" MJ hugs Peter and gives him a backpack full of clothes.
Peter pulls out his clothes from the backpack and sees MJ still looking at him.
"Hey MJ, a little privacy please?" Peter asks.
"Right, sorry I'll just turn around," MJ says.
Peter changes into his regular attire and out of his Spider-Man suit, meanwhile MJ is trying her best to not peek while Peter is changing.
"Okay all done," Peter says as MJ turns around.
"Wow… how on earth did you change that fast?" MJ is surprised.
"I hope Gwen is okay" Peter says with sadness.
"Tiger, you're the reason she's still alive. You're the reason those 37 other police officers are still alive. You saved them, Peter, all of them. I think Ben would be very proud of who you have become" MJ says.
"Thanks MJ, it felt good saving all of them. I think Uncle Ben would be proud of me too," Peter smiles and hugs MJ as they walk into the hospital together to see Gwen Stacy.
Peter and MJ are now inside the hospital and walking inside Gwen Stacy's room to visit her and they see George Stacy alongside Liz Allen who is a close friend to Gwen.
"Peter, MJ, thanks for coming" Gwen is happy MJ is here, but Gwen feels even happier that Peter came here for her.
"I'm just happy you're okay Gwen," Peter says as he hugs Gwen.
"I'm doing better now, just tired" Gwen assures Peter.
"Hey guys why don't we let Gwen get some rest, I'll drive each of you kiddos home," George hugs Gwen and starts to exit the room with everybody else.
"Pete, can I talk to you for a second," Gwen asks Peter.
"Yeah. What's up?" Peter asks Gwen.
Peter and Gwen are now alone in the hospital room together.
"It's just that I thought I saw you when I was rescued by Spider-Man, that's pretty crazy, right? I mean it didn't feel like a hallucination at all. Gwen said looking at the television in her room talking about Spider-Man rescuing 38 people today.
"Yeah but…" Peter says as he grabs both of Gwen's hands, "I'm just happy you're still alive, you mean so so much to me.
Gwen grabs Peter's hands back and smiles at Peter, "Pete you mean the world to me. Just being around you makes me feel happy."
Peter embraces Gwen in a hug as the two start to develop feelings towards each other that they can't really seem to describe nor want to get rid of for the time being.
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