"Last chance to back out Peter." It really is, Bobby is member of a secret organization of mutants, he wont be as easy to take down as a common thug, I might actually be in over my head.

But considering what's at stake, Kitty, My life here. Surrendering just isn't an option. "Not a chance Drake." Not only that but I have the advantage here. I know what Bobby is capable of; he has no idea what I've got.

My sixth senses goes off as he strikes out first, his hand reaches out towards me and I can feel the cool air overhead as I duck under the blast. I get ready to spring at him with a counter attack but am forced to instead jump back to dodge another blast. I doubt Bobby would actually try to kill me but I'd rather not get hit by a blast of concentrated cold like that. I'm too slow to dodge an icicle and earn a shallow cut across my face for it before I jump back. He stands in place and continuously fires at me while I'm forced to dodge blast after blast. I take cover behind a pile of junk as he continues to throw out cold. "What's wrong Peter? If you can't handle even this how are you going to protect Kitty when the time comes?"

I try and peak out at him but am forced back behind cover as he nearly freezes my face. God this is frustrating, if only I could get close to him. "Why don't you come fight me like a man Drake!"

"Do you think that the mutant haters will fight fair?" The blasts persist but I can tell that his voice is getting closer. Is it possible that he's tired of this too? "Ordinary people will be scared of us, they will find ways to hurt us."

I'm done hiding. As soon as I judge him close enough I jump over my cover and attack him from above, I cock my fist back and slug Bobby in the face. He starts to stumble and I quickly get in another punch before my sense sparks up and I'm forced to dodge another concentrated ray of cold. "Ha you're too slow Bobby!"

I land about a meter away from him. "How are you doing that?" Just as I thought, he has no idea of what my abilities are. "Advanced reflexes? You know my secrets, what are you packing Peter?"

I dodge an ice beam and he blocks my next punch. "Who knows?" I land a kick to his jaw but he raises an ice shield before I can follow up. "Maybe it's precognition." I kick off of a pile of junk and punch at his shield as hard as I can. It holds strong but Bobby slides a few feet while I'm left shaking off my hand. "Man that's a sturdy shied!"

The ice shield melts back away and Bobby flexes his wrist. "And you've got a hell of a punch." He looks me up and down, "For a guy your size, I wouldn't think it was possible to create that amount of force."

I just shrug. "Looks can be deceiving." I crouch ready for his next attack.

Bobby turns his head to the side and cracks his neck. "Alright Parker, time to take the kid gloves off." The ice covering his fists slowly extends until his entire body is a blue shimmering Bobbysicle. "You've just been running away. See if you can keep up with this!" He jumps in the air and aims his hands to the ground, a slide of ice comes into existence and he slides down it incredibly fast coming straight at me! With my fast reflexes I'm able to dodge him, but by the time I turn around he's sliding through the air on another ramp. "Let's see how long you can dodge me for!" I start running to dodge ice beams as he shoots them from his ramp parallel to my path. I try to pounce at him when he get's close but he just angles away from me mid air forcing me back on defense. His ability to maneuver mid air is ridiculous! If only I had something that would let me keep up this would be over already.

Hmm, looking around our battlefield maybe there is a away I can keep up. From our constant cycle of dodge and attack there's a lattice of overlapping icy trails just starting to melt. I can work with this. Bobby fires an ice beam and to dodge I jump into the air. I land on one of his previously used platforms and use my powers to stick to the slippery ice. I can do this, with my powers the slippery icy labyrinth is only as hard to traverse as a jungle gym. As Bobby continues to shoot at me, I dodge, jump, flip, and climb every action bringing me a little closer. Bobby notices this and raises his altitude, on a platform maybe thirty feet overhead. Big mistake. Before he realizes he's messed up I jump as high as I can and my fingers brush the bottom of his ice path. That's all I need though. I climb over the side to crouch on the platform as fast as I can.

I'm crouched right behind Bobby ready to attack. I can see him turn and start to raise his arm to defend as I spring at him fist cocked but it's already too late. When my fist hit his skull, I knock the ice right off of his face and the two of us both fall off of the platform. I don't let up though, the entire trip back to earth I'm holding his shirt with my left hand and pummeling him with my right, just before we hit the ground I grab him from both sides and drive my knees into his chest, slamming him on the ground.

The ice around us starts to melt, his nose is broken, maybe a rib too. I don't even think he's conscious but I'm sure he can hear me somewhere deep down and I have a message to get across. I lean down to his ear and can hear his breathing in mine showing he's alive. "Kitty, stays with me. Believe me, if you or anybody else tries to mess with my life, I'll kill them."

I leave Bobby lying on the ground in the junkyard and head home to catch some rest, the adrenaline was keeping me going but I haven't had a full nights sleep for almost five days and that fight really wore me out. I ignore the cut on my face as I lie down to sleep; cleaning the sheets is the maid's job anyway.

When I get to school the next day I'm happy to note that Bobby isn't in class. In fact the teacher makes a short announcement that he's actually been transferred to another school. It isn't easy to contain my smile.

While I'm changing in the locker room for P.E.; I notice the entire room go silent. I shove my arms through the sleeves of my shirt and turn to see Flash walking through the door. His arm is in a cast, he looks my way before quickly averting his gaze, I can almost see him sweat. Doing his best to avoid eye contact he quickly walks to the gym teacher's office before leaving. That's when I know that today is going to be a good day.

Or at least until I get to math. Kitty get's there before me and as soon as I walk in I can feel her looking at me. Okay more like glaring, intently. Still not one to be ruffled I walk over to my now usual seat and sit down pulling out my notebook. Expectedly she's the first one to talk, she starts 'whisper yelling' at me as soon as I look her way, "What the hell did you do Peter!"

Faking innocence I answer back with raised shoulders, "Your going to have to be more specific."

If possible her gaze becomes even more intense "Don't you play dumb! I told you to talk to Bobby yesterday and now he's gone! What happened? And what's with your face?"

I sigh, if I was hoping to avoid this but if I know anything about Kitty it's that she's not the kind of person to just forget about stuff like this. "Listen, I heard his pitch and I didn't like it. I told him the truth: we don't need him. Why would we when we have each other? And the scar was an accident." Honestly the logic is sound to me and I did accidentally get hit, I'd planned on dodging.

Her glare lessens a bit, "I mean I guess that's true but why did you make him leave? We could have still been friends. I think it would be good to stick with others like us."

Now it's time for half-truths, "He was only here to recruit us, after I turned him down I guess he moved on to the next school." I did make him leave but he probably would have left anyway.

She sighs, her angry demeanor disappearing completely. "Fine but we should really talk abo-" She pauses as our teacher walks through the door, "we'll talk about this at lunch."

After class Kitty and I walk together to the cafeteria we get there fast enough that the line isn't very long. Kitty frantically checks her backpack before turning to me, "Oh my god Peter, I blanked this morning and forgot to grab any cash, do you think you could spot me this one time? I promise I'll pay you back tomorrow I'm just starving!" Her stomach growls to prove her point.

I chuckle and reach for my wallet. "Don't worry about it. This is what friends do right?" It sounds rhetorical but it's partly a real question as well, I'm still new at this. I don't really care about the money anyway, while it's probably not a good idea to go about robbing Fisk anymore he didn't make me give any of the money back so I've got quite a few savings. I'll have even more when I pull off this job.

After I hand her the couple of dollars for lunch we sit down at our table and start eating. Only a few minutes later we're joined by Gwen who sits down and starts animatedly talking to Kitty. I just sit back and enjoy the atmosphere until I notice red out of the corner of my eye. "Hey there tiger."

Mary Jane sets her tray down next to mine. "What do you want?"

The day was going so well too. Kitty turns to me shocked, "Don't be so rude Peter!" She holds out her hand to Mary Jane, "Hi we met before but I never actually introduced myself. I'm Katherine Pryde."

MJ takes the hand, "Mary Jane Watson, everyone calls me MJ though." She smiles at Gwen, "Stacy."

Gwen glares coldly back, "Watson." The animosity is very clear in the air.

Clearly there's something between the two that I don't know about. Actually I don't care about it either. Right now I just want Mary gone. "Don't you normally eat lunch somewhere else? Anywhere else?"

She just smiles at me and tosses another french-fry in her mouth, "Yeah but recently you seem more interesting."

I humph and finish my burger, "Well I'm not, can you leave now?"

She ignores me and continues talking, "Everyone is talking about how Flash is back, but I'm more interested in why the new kid left." I do not like where this is going. "You put Flash in the hospital, it's no secret you didn't like Bobby. Couple people think that we'd find him in the hospital. I wonder if you had anything to do with it?"

There's silence for a second before Gwen speaks up, "Your out of line Watson, you can't just go around accusing people of things!"

Mary Jane raises her hands in defense, "I'm just saying what everybody else is thinking."

I look up from my plate to see Kitty looking at me warily, "The scar on your face. Peter, you, you wouldn't, I mean you didn't right?" I did, but it wasn't like that. I doubt Kitty would understand anyway.

Before I can answer Gwen turns from Mary Jane to stare shocked at Kitty, "Of course Peter didn't. He may have fought Flash but Flash had been harassing him for years! Peter isn't the type of guy to go around picking fights." Even if she's wrong it's good to have someone on my side.

There's a shuffling as Mary Jane stands up with her tray, "It would appear that you three have some things to discuss, I'll see you in health Peter." She winks at me and walks off. God I hate her.

When I turn back to the table Kitty and Gwen are arguing. "You don't know him like I do you don't get to look at me like that!"

"Know him like you do? You've barely known him a week! Peter and I have been going to the same school since the sixth grade!"

"Then why did you let him get bullied for years!" By now the entire cafeteria is watching as their argument progresses closer to a fight.

I need to stop this. "Kitty, Gwen." They both stop their argument to look at me. Now how do I do this without admitting to fighting Bobby, "I barely knew Bobby, I don't know where he is or why he's there but I'm sure he has his reasons. Lunch is almost over, let's go." I grab my tray and walk towards the trash, there's a moment where the entire room is dead silent before the usual din of the lunchroom fills the background. I can hear Kitty and Gwen walking behind me silently.

Somehow when I get to the health room Mary Jane is no where to be seen, this is extra suspicious as she left almost five minutes before I did. I sit down feeling uneasy. Other students start to fill in the empty seats, one of the last ones to walk in is Mary Jane who smiles at me and takes the seat next to mine. "Hey tiger."

I'm too annoyed to look at her so I continue looking straight ahead. "Why did you do that?"

"Do wha-"

"Don't act dumb." She's dumb enough as is. "You deliberately tried to start a fight and left as soon at they started arguing. What's your play?"

She laughs, "My play? Maybe I just wanted to figure out what your company thinks of you? I wasn't sure about Gwen but I really thought that Katherine girl would come to your defense, aren't you surprised too?"

I try and filter out all the useless information. "Why do you care what my friends think of me?"

She frowns, "You're missing the point Peter."

"No you're dodging the point. Why are you so interested in meddling in my life? First you spread rumors about Kitty and I around school and next you come to my table and start a fight!" The more I talk the more heated I become.

"I didn't-"

"You did! Don't even try and deny it." The whole room is silent and looking at me but I don't care. I glare darkly at Mary Jane, "This is your only warning. I'm a bad enemy to have."

All eyes are on us as Mary Jane smiles and leans close to me. She whispers in my ear, "Looking forward to it."

In chemistry the air between Kitty and Gwen is still awkward so I don't really talk to either of them for the whole class.

After school Gwen asks me if I want to tour Oscorp after school, and as much as I want to go I decline. I need to do some recon.

When I walk through the hotel lobby I hear the receptionist call out to me, a short mousey girl with glasses "Um excuse me, Mr. Parker." I walk over to the desk looking mildly annoyed. I have things to do today. "Right, uh I got a package dropped off here for you earlier."

I raise an eyebrow, "Don't you normally send those to the room?"

She fidgets with her hands as she talks, "Right but these guys came by and they had this package for you, and they said no one can get the package but you, and I-"

I raise a hand to stop her babbling "Alright, I get it. So where is it?"

She goes around to the back and drags a five by five by five box from the back storage area. "Do you need a bellman's cart? It's really heavy."

I shrug reach down to grab the box from her hands. With my strength the weight is nothing. I smirk at the receptionist as I hold the box with one hand. "Thanks."

When I get back to my room the first thing I do is tear open the box. The first thing on the inside is a letter.

[ To Mr. Parker,

In this box contains the first of many of the benefits with being backed by me. Inside you'll find a custom helmet outfitted with the finest technology, as well as a matching suit. In addition to concealing your identity they both have a number of other features all of which explained in the attached manual. My designers did their best to integrate the spider theme you asked for.

Enjoy your toys, Spider

From, your ally.

P.s. Obviously destroy this letter after reading ]

I take the letter and put it aside as I pull the contents out of the package. A shining burgundy helmet with huge black eyes looks back at me. A black spider web pattern spread across the front. I smile like a child on Christmas morning, I might actually enjoy this."

Ooh baby now we're getting started. With the suit and a plan I think it's almost time for the world to meet the Spider. What do you guys think of that name? I'm not quite set on it, Spider, Spider man, anything else. If you've got an idea for his identity leave a review with it or pm me or something.

Thanks for reading please review!