Volume I: The Beginning
Note: I've decided to reboot and do a new story on Spider-Man. This won't be split into multiple FanFiction series, instead it will be Volumes, each volume is a year. Volume I will be the first year of Spider-Man. I will include elements from the movies, cartoons, video games, and comics into this story, I hope that you all like it... thank you and enjoy the story. This will be the first chapter of Volume I as well as for the entire story as this chapter will be the origins of Peter Parker obtaining his powers in his quest to becoming Spider-Man later in life.
"My name is Peter Parker andthis is the story of my life. I was just an ordinary kid from Queens living the normal life, until this day happened. This is where it all began, wherer my journey as Spider-Man begins." Peter narrates about his life story.
Today is August 10th, 2021, at the Parker Residence in Forest Hills, Queens, Peter is still in bed sleeping until the alarm rang, he hit the snooze button. He woke up and put on his glasses. Peter is a teenage boy about 5' 7" with brown hair and brown eyes, he's a science prodigy with a very high IQ. He looked around the room and sees his science awards, a picture of his younger self with his parents Richard and Mary both of whom they've passed away in a plane crash He walked to the bathroom to brush his teeth and washed a bit of water in his eyes. The door knocked as Peter exited the bathroom and opened the door, it's his Aunt May.
"Aunt May?" Peter is surprised to see his Aunt May in his room.
"I'm glad that you're awake, I've made breakfast." May smiled for nephew on his special day.
"Okay, I'll be right there." Peter says to May.
Peter is smiling because he get to have his favorite breakfast that May made, but more than that it's because today is a special day in Peter's life. Peter was about to walk out until he got an asthma attack, he pulls out his inhaler and uses it, his wheezing is disappearing and he's breathing normally again.
(Downstairs)
Ben and May are at the table as they watched the mini tv in the kitchen.
"The summer weather today sure is bright and warm, if you're out there relaxing on a beach, then it is recommended that you put plenty of sunscreen. In other news, approximately 14 hours ago, CEO of Stark Industries Tony Stark has been missing since his helicopter got shot down by insurgents in the Gobi Desert, so far there have been no ransom demands and no proof of life. For now our prayers are to the missing Titan, wherever he is, if he's still alive."
"Can't believe that this had to happened to a nicer guy." May says to her husband Ben.
"Unfortunately that's the world we live in, a lot of good people gets hurt or worse, and not a lot are willing to help one another. There are no heroes." Ben says to his wife May.
"But not you, you're the most responsible man I've ever known, the man I fell in love with." May smiled at Ben.
"How did I ever get lucky to have you?" Ben smiled at May.
May and Ben are in a moment until Peter came downstairs and sees them.
"Sorry... did I ruin the moment?" Peter wondered about what's going on between them.
"No, no, of course not. Please sit down and have some wheatcakes." May invites Peter for breakfast.
"These two are my Uncle and Aunt, Ben and May Parker. They're basically the closest thing I have to parents ever since my real parents died in a plane crash. I guess you can say that I'm like a son they never had." Peter narrates about his uncle and aunt.
Peter sat down and eat some wheatcakes, his favorite breakfast. He chews and smiles as he loves the wheatcakes every time.
"Mmm, you make the best wheatcakes as always." Peter smiled at his Aunt.
"I'm glad that you're pleased. By the way, happy birthday Peter." May smiled at Peter.
Today is Peter's birthday, he just turned 15 years old. The doorbell rang as someone is outside the door.
"I'll go get it." May walked up to the door.
She opened it up and sees Mary Jane Watson and Gwen Stacy, Peter's best friends. Mary Jane is a teenage female about the same age as Peter and Gwen, she stands at 5' 6" with red hair and green eyes, she's got some freckles on her face and her skin. Gwen Stacy is a female standing at 5' 5" with blond hair and grayish-blue eyes, she wears her black headband as always, both girls are equally beautiful as Peter finds them both attractive as do most boys their age.
"Gwen, Mary Jane." Peter is glad to see Gwen and Mary Jane.
"Happy birthday Tiger." Mary Jane walks inside smiling at Peter.
Peter got up and walked towards them both. Peter and Mary Jane hugged, then Gwen hugged Peter after.
"These are my two best friends, the redhead is Mary Jane Watson, all her friends call her MJ, she's my next door neighbor, I first met her since the day she moved in with her Aunt Anna. To tell you the truth, May and Anna secretly wanted to pair us up together since before we ever met. I always thought of her as not good looking since I never met her before, but as soon as I saw her, my view on her changed, she's beautiful, a lot of guys wanted to date her." Peter narrates about Mary Jane Watson.
"Happy birthday Peter." Gwen smiled at Peter.
"The blonde girl is Gwen Stacy, the smartest girl in Midtown High, I've met here through Harry since they've gone to elementary school together. Like Mary Jane, she's very beautiful too, though she prefer to spend her times studying and getting good grades, kinda like me." Peter narrates about Gwen Stacy.
"Thank you both for coming, it means a lot. Too bad Harry is still in Paris, I miss him." Peter is glad that his two friends are here.
"Yeah, he's quite a lucky guy, being rich and all that." Mary Jane says to Peter.
"Anyway, me and MJ wanted to be here for you." Gwen says to Peter.
"Thanks, you're both the greatest friends I ever had." Peter smiled at Gwen and Mary Jane.
In the backyard, Peter and the others are outside as they're having a barbecue with Ben cooking. There's very few people at the party which is no surprise for Peter since he's hardly popular given that he's the only wallflower at his school.
"Guessing that no one else is coming." Peter wondering as it's only Gwen and Mary Jane.
"Knowing them, Flash, Liz, Kong, and everyone else is still at Rockaway Beach as always, enjoying the waves." Mary Jane is not that surprised.
"Even if they're not, I'm not surprised, to them I'm just Midtown High's Only Professional Wallflower." Peter says to the girls.
"Peter, I'm sorry if we're the only ones here." Gwen says to Peter.
"It's okay Gwen, I'm use to it, being invisible to everyone. Besides it's enough to have you two here, my friends. That's all that matters." Peter smiled at the girls.
Peter's phone is ringing, he pulled it out and sees that Harry is calling for face video, he answered it.
"Hey Harry, I was wondering if you're ever gonna call. How's Paris these days?" Peter says to Harry on the phone.
"It's great, though Dad mostly focus on business these days. I'm at the Eiffel Tower getting the hood view of Paris, i think that I can see across the pond to your house, I see someone small in the backyard of Queens, he kinda looks like you, all nerdy." Harry says a joke and smiled.
"Very funny." Peter smiled to Harry. "So when will you be home?"
"As soon as Dad is finished, we should be back home before school starts. Someone needs to watch your back with Flash Thompson and the others jocks." Harry says to Peter.
"Hey." Mary Jane intervened and took the phone."Don't forget that I was the one watching both your backs."
"Of course, Mary Jane can take care of herself and others. Still the fiery redhead as always." Harry says to Mary Jane.
"That's right, don't you ever forget that, Harry Osborn." Mary Jane reminded Harry.
"Never MJ." Harry said as Mary Jane hands the phone back to Peter. "Listen I gotta go, promise to bring you a souvenir."
"Okay Harry, see you soon." Peter says to Harry.
"By the way, happy birthday Pete." Harry says Happy Birthday to Peter.
"Thanks Harry." Peter smiledat his friend.
Harry hanged up, Peter and his friends got back to the party.
"By the way, have you heard about what happened to Tony Stark?" Gwen tells Peter about what happened to Tony Stark.
"No, what about him?" Peter didn't heard about the news.
"Apparently his helicopter crashed down somewhere in Asia, no one knows if he's alive or dead." Gwen explained to Peter what happened.
"Couldn't happened to a nicer guy. The Stark Expo is tonight and my uncle got us tickets to go." Peter reminded of the Stark Expo.
"Well, the expo is still on even though Tony Stark won't be hosting it tonight." Gwen says to Peter.
"It should be fun." Mary Jane says to Peter and Gwen.
"Are you sure that you don't want to go MJ?" Peter asking Mary Jane.
"I'm sure, I'm not really into science like you two are, no offense." Mary Jane says to Peter and Gwen.
"None taken." Peter says to Mary Jane.
Ben is at the grill as the wieners are cooked and the food is ready.
"Alright everyone, dogs are up!" Ben called to everyone.
"Do you kids want mayo or mustard?" May asking the teens.
"Mayo? Who puts Mayo on a hot dog?" Mary Jane wondered about that.
Sometime later after the barbecue is finished and the sunsets, everyone is inside about to celebrate Peter's birthday. May came out with a birthday cake with candles lit on.
"Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday Peter! Happy birthday to you!" Everyone singed in unison.
"Make a wish Tiger." Mary Jane smiled at Peter.
Peter closes his eyes and thinks of a wish, he then blew out the candles, everyone clapped together.
"So what did you wish for?" May is curious about his wish.
"Aunt May, I can't say it or it won't come true." Peter can't say to May.
"Sorry, I forgot, don't jinx it. Okay, anyone wants cake?" May asking everyone.
Later everyone enjoyed their slices of cake, Ben and May walked up closer with a present for Peter.
"Well Peter, me and May pitched in together to get you this." Ben hands a present.
Peter opens up the present and pulls out a new camera.
"Oh wow! This is perfect!" Peter holds his new camera.
"We figured since photography is your hobby, you would like it." Ben says to Peter.
"It's perfect, thank you." Peter thanked his uncle.
"Why don't you test it out?" Mary Jane suggested to Peter.
"I have an idea." Peter thought of something for the camera.
Peter set the camera on the table as everyone got together in front of the camera, he set it automatically for a shot, he ran up and joined the group for a picture.
"Alright everyone, smile!" Peter says to everyone.
Peter, Ben, May, Gwen, and Mary Jane all got together and smiled as the camera took the shot. Peter went over to see the shot.
"Well, how was it?" Mary Jane asking Peter.
"It's perfect." Peter smiles as he got the picture.
Ben check the watch and sees that it's 6:30 PM.
"We should get going, the Stark Expo is about to start soon." Ben reminded Peter and Gwen about the Expo.
(Later Outside)
Peter came out of the house wearing a long sleeve shirt with a Stark Expo t shirt over it, he brought his camera that May and Ben gifted him for his birthday.
"Have fun at the expo." May smiles at Peter.
"That's the plan." Peter smiled back at May.
Ben is already inside the car waiting for Peter and Gwen.
Ben honked the horn. "Come on, we're gonna be late!"
"We're coming!" Peter turn to May. "Bye May."
Peter gave May a kiss on the cheek as Peter and Gwen both got inside the car.
"You kids ready?" Ben says to Peter and Gwen.
"We're ready." Peter says to Ben.
Ben drove the car as May and Mary Jane watched those two drive off. They're driving around in Forest Hills until Peter sees someone standing on top of a rooftop of a house they're passing by, it looked like a red haired female. Gwen noticed Peter is distracted looking out the window.
"Peter? Is everything okay?" Gwen asking Peter.
"Huh?" Peter turn to Gwen. "Yeah, everything is fine."
He turns his head back to see that the same woman has disappeared, the car kept driving as the unknown individual is watching the car drive away from Forest Hills.
They all later made it to the Stark Expo in Flushing Meadows, they look through the car window as a lot of people are attending. Ben's car stopped as Peter and Gwen are exiting, Ben still stayed behind in his car.
"Alright you two, be careful and have fun on your date!" Ben smiled as he drives away.
"Hey! We're not..." Peter blushed a bit.
Peter was too late as Ben drove away, Peter felt embarrass in front of Gwen Stacy by what Ben just said.
"Sorry... he must've thought that you and I are... never mind. Shall we?" Peter says while blushing to Gwen.
"After you." Gwen smiled at Peter.
Peter and Gwen attended the expo as they walked around and sees a lot of inventors and scientists showing off their work.
"Wow, this place is a gold mine." Peter is amazed by the expo.
"You can say that again." Gwen is also amazed too.
They arrived at the auditorium as a lot of people have gather around, they've heard about the recent incident with Tony Stark. Taking the stage is Tony's secretary Pepper Potts with a mike as she has much to say concerning Tony's disappearance.
"Hello everyone... my name is Pepper Potts... I'm sure that most of you are aware that Tony Stark is currently missing. I'm sorry to say that he won't be joining us this night to host this event. But I'm sure that he would want this expo to continue. As of right now, US intelligence and military officials are working to find Mr. Stark as we speak. Our prayers are to Tony, wherever he is. Until then thank you for attending the expo and have fun." Pepper Potts finished saying to the crowd.
(Sometime Later)
Everyone continues the expo, Peter and Gwen arrived at the booth where famous scientist Reed Richards is unveiling his new invention, the fabric made from unstable molecules. Peter and Gwen are amazed by this new fabric and all its potential.
"As you can, this fabric can be used to adapt to the individual's needs, becoming like a second skin. Hopefully scuba divers or astronauts will find this product very interesting." Reed Richards explained his invention.
"Wow." Peter is impressed by what Reed Richards said.
Peter took a picture as he and Gwen moved onto the next booth. They see another scientist named Hank Pym demonstrating his invention, a gray helmet with antennas he's now wears on his head.
"This is an EMP communications helmet, it replicates the same frequency that the ants uses to communicate with one another. In other words, I can use it to command the ants to do as I please. If I may demonstrate." Hank Pym explained how his device works.
Hank brought some ants inside the terrarium and uses his device to communicate with them, the antennas are sending signals to the ants.
"Come out." Hank Pym commands the ants.
The ants inside are obeying Hank's commands as they're crawling out onto the glass and climbing up. Everyone is amazed that the ants are following orders.
"Cool." Peter took a picture.
"This is only the first of many of my work, I'm already working on something that could be a game changer." Hank Pym said.
"What is it?" Gwen is curious about his new work.
"Sorry, can't say yet. My work is only a year or two from becoming a reality. But I can assure you that my work is promising." Hank Pym says to the crowd.
Peter and Gwen smiled as they continue their tour around the expo.
"Wow, a lot of great idea all in one place." Gwen smiled as she's more impressed.
"Yeah." Peter is impressed too.
Peter looked around and sees the same red haired woman in a coat wearing red shades. Peter walked towards her trying to get through the crowd as he came close. He gotten through but she was already gone. He's positive that it's the same woman he saw on the rooftop of someone's house, he wonders if she's following him as it's no coincidence that she shows up at the expo, Gwen came up to Peter as he looked distracted like before.
"Peter!" Gwen came to him.
"Gwen, did you see her?" Peter asked Gwen.
"See who?" Gwen is wondering.
"Ah... never mind." Peter didn't say much to Gwen.
They looked around and sees a booth where a man is showing off his work on spiders.
"Shall we see?" Gwen suggested to Peter.
"Why not." Peter went along with Gwen.
They went to the booth and see the spider, though they're not like any they've seen before, they're red and blue.
"See something that caught you eyes?" Jonathan Drew asking Peter and Gwen.
"Uh yeah, never seen spiders like these before." Peter is still curious about the spiders.
"Well these are genetically modified spiders, not like any common spider that ever existed." Jonathan Drew explained.
"And you are?" Gwen wondered who he is.
"Oh, we're are my manners, I'm Dr. Jonathan Drew, I'm a professor at Oxford and geneticist that specializes in arachnids, like spiders. These spiders right here are the result of taking certain traits of other species of spiders and combining them into theses fifteen super spiders." Jonathan Drew explained what these spiders are.
Gwen looked at the terrarium and noticed that they're only fourteen spiders inside, one is missing.
"Ah, there's only fourteen." Gwen noticed something.
"I beg your pardon?" Jonathan Drew says to Gwen.
"Looks like one is missing." Gwen explained to Jonathan Drew.
Peter and Jonathan looked at the terrarium more closely and confirms that only fourteen spiders are accounted for. Unknown to them, one of the super spiders is loose and hanging above the booth.
"Huh? I guess the little bugger must've gotten loose." Jonathan Drew lost a spider.
"You think that it's still around?" Gwen is wondering if it's still here.
"Most likely it got squashed by the crowd. At least the others are still inside." Jonathan Drew thinks that it's most likely dead.
Peter looked what's next to the terrarium, it looked like. formula of some kind.
"Dr. Drew, what is this?" Peter asking about the formula.
"Oh, these are the chemicals makeup of the webbing they produce. We collect a sample from them and reverse engineered it, this is the result." Jonathan Drew explained the formula.
Peter holds his camera. "May I?"
"Of course." Jonathan Drew gave permission.
Peter took a picture of the web formula, unknown to him, the super spider lower itself down from its web and got onto his back without him knowing it.
Peter's phone rang, it's Uncle Ben calling.
"Hey Uncle Ben." Peter answered the phone.
"Peter, it's almost 10 o'clock, I'm on my way back to pick you two up." Ben reminded Peter that he's coming.
"Okay, we'll be waiting at the pickup lane." Peter hangs up.
"Your uncle?" Gwen says to Peter.
"Yeah, listen we gotta go. Thank you for showing us the spiders." Peter says to Jonathan Drew.
"Of course, have a good night you two." Jonathan Drew waves them both goodbye.
Peter and Gwen walked away to be picked up by Ben, unknown to Peter, the super spider is still on his back.
The mysterious woman is in the crowd watching as Peter is leaving with Gwen.
"And so it begins." Mysterious woman says to herself.
Ben picked up both Peter and Gwen from the expo and took them both home, but first they stop to drop off Gwen at her dad's house in Queens.
"Here we are, this is your stop." Ben says to Gwen.
"Thank you Mr. Parker for the ride." Gwen thanked Ben.
"Of course, I'm glad that you two had a great time." Ben says to Peter and Gwen.
Gwen stepped out of the car. She stopped at the door and waved to Peter.
"Bye Peter." Gwen waves to Peter.
"Good night Gwen." Peter says to Gwen.
Gwen went to her house as she enters it, Peter can't deny that he sure had a great time. Unknown to him, the spider crawled up to his neck and bit him.
"Owww!" Peter felt the bite.
Peter hits behind his neck and killed the spider.
"Peter, are you okay?" Ben looked worried.
"Yeah, I think that I was bitten." Peter still feels the pain.
"Oh, i see." Ben smiled at Peter.
"See what?" Peter is wondering what Ben is thinking.
"You have a crush on her." Ben guessed what's going on between Peter and Gwen.
"What? No, no, she and I aren't... she's my best friend." Peter blushed embarrassingly.
"Hey, I'm not judging, I know May and Anna wanted to pair you up with Mary Jane who is pretty, but Gwen is just as pretty too. It's okay Peter, it's natural to feel this way for a girl." Ben is happy that he thinks that Peter has feelings for Gwen.
"I'm sure that it is, but Gwen and I are just friends. Could we just go home please." Peter still blushed in embarrassment.
"Okay, take it easy." Ben got back to driving.
Ben drives the car home while Peter is still in the back as he reach his hand around his neck. He held something in his hand, it's a spider. It's one of those super spiders from the expo that Dr. Drew demonstrated, thanks to him it's dead.
Later Ben and Peter arrived home to see May inside.
"Hi Peter, how was the expo?" May is curious about his trip to the expo.
"It was alright, listen I feel tired right now. I'm gonna sleep now." Peter felt a bit tired.
"Can you at least show us some pictures Peter?" Ben says to Peter.
"Yeah, I'll show them tomorrow, I promise." Peter walked upstairs.
Peter left his aunt and uncle downstairs, he enters his bedroom as he began to feel something strange happening to him, he could barely keep his thoughts straight. He laid down onto his bed as he tries to sleep it off. He began to feel pain in his body as it feels like it's on fire. Muscles in his arms are growing slowly as he's feeling the change to his body. His whole life as he knows it has been changed forever.
The next morning, Peter is still in bed after the rough night he had. The alarm clock rang as he hit the snooze button hard and broke it into pieces. He got himself up as he looked around for his glasses. He found it and put them on, he sees a blur through them. He took them off and finds out that he could see better without them. His eyesight are better than ever before.
"Wow." Peter is amazed by his eyesight.
He looked at his clothes he's wearing and noticed that they stink.
"Must've sweated too much last night, better get cleaned up." Peter says to himself.
Peter went into the bathroom and took off his shirt. He got surprised by his appearance, he grew abs and muscles in one night. He's had slim figure with very little muscles before, but right now he has a lean yet muscular figure. He touched his muscles and felt them hard, he felt stronger than ever before.
"My god... they're real." Peter is shocked by the changes happening to his body.
The bedroom door knocked as May is outside.
"Peter!" May says outside his room.
"Yeah!" Peter still nervous inside the bathroom.
"Are you alright?" May says outside worried.
"Ah... I'm fine!" Peter replied to May.
"Okay, breakfast is ready! Don't take too long!" May says outside his room.
"Okay! I'm gonna get cleaned up! I'll be there as quickly as I can!" Peter says to May while inside the bathroom.
Peter grabbed a towel for the shower he's about to, he hangs it up on a hook until it got stuck on his hand for some reason. He pulled it out of his hand. He couldn't figure out how that happened.
"Whoa! This is freaky." Peter is shocked by what just happened.
(Later Downstairs)
Peter came down as he felt happy as to the new changes that happened to him recently.
"Hey Peter! You seemed livelier than usual." Ben smiled at Peter.
"What do you mean?" Peter asking Ben.
"I don't know, you seemed different somehow." Ben noticed a change in Peter.
"Let's just say that I'm a new man today!" Peter felt like a new man.
Peter sat down as he eat his wheatcakes, he had an urge to eat after the recents change he went through last night.
"Do you want some juice?" May walks until she then tripped a bit.
She tripped but didn't fell but the bottle of orange juice slipped off her hands but Peter reacted by catching it before it hits the floor, Ben and May are surprised that Peter caught it in time.
"Wow! Nice reflexes." Ben is surprised by his reflexes.
Peter is surprised by his quick reaction time, it felt like he could sense the movement and move quickly that it seemed impossible for a normal human being. The doorbell rang as Peter stands up.
"I'll get it!" Peter walks out the dining room.
Peter walked over to the door and sees Mary Jane outside the door, Mary Jane noticed something different about Peter besides his lack of glasses, she can feel it.
"Hey MJ, what brings you by?" Peter says to Mary Jane.
"I'm heading down to Rockaway beach to have some fun. I was thinking that you could come with me if you want." Mary Jane asking Peter out..
"Thanks for the invitation, but I'm not really into beaches." Peter didn't want to go.
"Peter, Mary Jane is inviting you out to have fun. You already had fun with Gwen last night, this time take Mary Jane out!" Ben encourages Peter to go out on another date with another pretty girl.
"He's right, don't turn her down." May encouraged Peter to go out with Mary Jane.
Peter smiled and sighed. "Okay, let's go."
"Thanks Tiger." Mary Jane smiles as Peter went with her.
Peter left with Mary Jane as Ben and May are happy. Ben and May are happy that Peter is lucky to have two beautiful girls in his life.
"Peter sure is a lucky guy, hanging out with two cute girls." Ben likes Peter has girls in his life.
"He sure is." May smiled as she seemed too happy that Peter is going with Mary Jane.
Sometime later, Peter and Mary Jane arrived at Rockaway Beach as the rest of his classmates are enjoying summer vacation. He spotted Flash Thompson, Liz Allan, Kong McFarlane, Randy Robertson, Betty Brant, and Glory Grant. Flash is a tall blonde hair teen, the others are Kong who is bulkier with bald head. Randy is African American of the same height as Flash and Kong.
"Here we are, Rockaway Beach. I see some familiar faces here. The big blonde guy is Eugene Thompson, many people call him Flash as he like to show himself off every time. He's plays football for Midtown High along with Randy and Kong. He sure enjoys showing himself off, not caring who he has to step on, including me, every time. He's basically your average bully." Peter narrates about Flash and his friends.
Peter sees Liz Allan in a bikini, she's of Latina heritage and very attractive, dark brown hair with brown eyes, she got tan skin.
"The girl next to him is Liz Allan, his girlfriend and one of the most popular girls in Midtown as well as the head cheerleader. Like Mary Jane and Gwen, everyone is attracted to her beauty. She can be as arrogant as Flash is sometimes but she has another side to herself, the kinder side." Peter narrates about Liz Allan.
Peter turnsto Betty Brant and Glory Grant. Betty has brown hair shaped in a bob cut, and brown eyes. Glory Grant is African American, she's got short Afro black hair with brown eyes.
"The two ladies here are Betty Brant and Glory Grant, best friends. Betty has a talent in journalism, she works for the school paper along with Glory Grant, those two are inseparable." Peter narrates about Betty Brant and Glory Grant.
"It's this fun, the sand and the waves." Mary Jane loves the beach.
Mary Jane began to undress out in the open, Peter noticed MJ undressing in his presence.
"Mary Jane! What are you doing?" Peter is shocked by Mary Jane undressing in public.
"Relax!" Mary Jane undressed, only to have a swimsuit underneath her clothes.
Mary Jane is wearing a black bikini, Peter found her attractive in it.
"You're already dressed in your bikini." Peter got surprised by her bikini.
"I plan ahead, go ahead and show some skin, Tiger." Mary Jane tells Peter to take off his shirt.
"No thanks." Peter is still shy and didn't like the idea.
"Come on Tiger, don't be shy. I won't be bothered by your appearance, I promise." Mary Jane says to Peter.
Peter sighed. "Fine."
Peter pulled up his shirt off his body as Mary Jane is surprised by his new figure, he's got abs, he's all lean and muscular.
"Whoa! You got abs now! Have you been working out a lot?" Mary Jane got surprised by his new appearance.
"Yeah." Peter lied to Mary Jane.
Mary Jane kept staring at his figure as Peter noticed, she's looking up and down on him.
"Hey!" Peter snapped his fingers.
Mary Jane snapped out of her gazing Peter's figure.
"Eyes up here!" Peter tells Mary Jane.
"Sorry." Mary Jane blushed by his appearance.
Peter and Mary Jane walked in the beach as Flash and the other spotted.
"Watson, Parker." Flash says to Peter and Mary Jane.
"Eugene." Peter said Flash's real name.
"It's Flash, wise ass." Flash didn't like what Peter called him.
"You'll always be Eugene, 'Flash'." Mary Jane mocks Flash.
"I like you, Mary Jane. Too bad me and you haven't dated." Flash tries to flirt with Mary Jane.
"Sorry Flash, I don't date bullies." Mary Jane stated to Flash.
"Right, I forgot, girl with daddy issues." Flash touched a nerve with Mary Jane.
Mary Jane has her fists ready as she felt offended by his words, it touched her nerves inside.
"Care to say that again... Eugene." Mary Jane looking mad at Flash for saying those words.
Flash said nothing as he knows that Mary Jane is no stranger to violence. She can take care of herself against guys. She took self defense classes since she was twelve.
"You're lucky that I don't hit girls." Flash isn't gonna fight with her.
Flash and the other guys walked away to play volleyball. Peter got worried for Mary Jane as he could see that the subject about her father is very painful. Her father was abusive to his family, verbally at first until he slapped her mother in front of her. They never seen him again. After her mother died, she was placed under the care of Anna Watson.
"Are you okay, MJ?" Peter is worried.
"Yeah... I'll be fine." Mary Jane says to Peter.
"You know that fine stands for feeling insecure, neurotic and emotional." Peter kinda teased Mary Jane a bit.
"Are you making fun of me?" Mary Jane smiled back as she's cheered up.
"Just wanted to make feel better." Peter smiles at her.
"Thanks, I needed it. Shall we have fun?" Mary Jane wants to have have with Peter.
Peter and Mary Jane walked and joined Betty Brant and Glory Grant, they're both surprised by Peter's new appearance, all lean and muscular wearing nothing but jeans.
Glory whistled. "Dang! Didn't recognize you Parker."
"We like what we see." Betty smiled by his appearance.
"Thanks... you girls want to play volleyball?" Peter wondering if they want to play with them.
"Sure. How about it Glory?" Betty accepted the challenge.
"I'm game." Glory stands up with Betty.
Peter and Mary Jane team up to play volleyball against Betty and Glory. They started playing as Peter is moving fast to hit the ball. Betty and Glory are have a hard time scoring against Peter and Mary Jane.
They continue to play as Mary Jane and Peter are getting the upper hand as they scored the most points.
"Looks like we win." Mary Jane smiled as she's having fun.
Mary Jane and Peter high five one another.
"That was a great game." Betty is having fun.
"Don't get too excited, we'll get you both next time." Glory says to Peter and Mary Jane.
Peter walked away as he sure enjoyed having fun, though he's more surprised that despite that he did a lot of running while playing, he hardly broken a sweat, he still has a lot of stamina in him. Peter continues to walk until he sees Liz at the back of the pickup as she's trying to unload the cooler off the truck, it's proven too heavy even for her. Liz sees Flash still playing volleyball with the guys, she needs some help lifting the cooler.
"Flash! Help me out!" Liz called out to Flash for his help.
"Sorry Liz! Got my hands full!" Flash continues to play.
"Jerk." Liz whispered as she tries lifting the cooler.
Peter could see that Liz is still having trouble as Flash is still playing with the guys not do anything to help her. Peter walked up to the pickup wanting to help out.
"Need help?" Peter asking Liz.
Liz looked down and sees Peter volunteering to help.
"Yeah... this cooler is heavy, theirs like water bottles, sodas, and ice inside." Liz says to Peter.
"Allow me." Peter volunteered to help.
Peter got up onto the pickup and picked up the heavy cooler, Liz is surprised that Peter could lift it without difficulty. Peter too is surprised by his new strength, he could pick it up with ease. He carried it off the pickup and walked back to the beach with Liz.
"Where do you want it?" Peter asking Liz.
"Right here is fine." Liz says to Peter.
Peter lowered the cooler as Liz looked at Peter's new figure. She always thought of him as nerd but she's surprised by how good looking he is now, his eyes are pretty without his glasses.
"Liz?" Peter snapped Liz back to reality.
"Huh?" Liz snapped out of her gaze.
"Are you okay?" Peter is wondering.
"Yeah... thanks for your help. Not a lot of guys are this nice like you are." Liz smiled as she blushed a bit.
Kong is playing with the guys until he spotted Peter and Liz chatting alone as he felt he needed to tell Flash.
"Hey Flash! Isn't that Parker chatting up with your girl?" Kong pointed out to Flash.
Flash looked and sees Peter and Liz together talking, he couldn't help but feel jealous that someone is talking to his girl, especially Peter.
"He's got a lot of balls, that Parker." Flash looking jealous of Peter with Liz.
He picked up the ball as he's prepared to throw it hard at Peter with jealously in his heart, Randy and Kong are worried that Flash is about to do something stupid.
"Hey, take it easy Flash." Randy tries to calm Flash down.
"This is me taking it easy!" Flash replied to Randy.
Flash tossed the ball hard at Peter. Peter is still talking to Liz until he got a tingling feeling in his head, he reacted fast enough as he caught the ball with his hand. Everyone is surprised that Peter caught it with one hand without even looking, even Peter himself, this happened again like before.
"Whoa!" Liz is amazed by his catch.
"Hey, Parker! Can you throw the ball back?" Flash telling Peter.
Flash is waiting for Peter to toss the ball back. He decided to toss it back hard as it went flying and hits him in the head, Flash fell back. Everyone saw Flash got hit in the face by the ball, Peter was surprised by how much force was used in that toss, but Flash looked hurt by that toss.
"Oh my god! Flash, are you okay?!" Peter is worried for Flash.
Flash got himself back up on his feet as he got himself a black eye from the impact. He got angry at Peter for tossing that ball at his face.
"You're gonna pay for that, Parker!" Flash looking very angry.
Flash is walking up to Peter in anger, itching to pick a fight with Peter for that toss as well as talking to his girlfriend. Liz steps in to try to stop Flash from hurting Peter over that accident.
"Flash, leave him alone! It was an accident!" Liz tries to defend Peter.
"Stay out of this Liz! You don't have any say in this!" Flash raised his voice at Liz.
"Hey! Don't talk to her like that!" Peter didn't like Flash's tone with Liz.
"Well, well, Puny Parker is showing some backbone. That's rich." Flash smiled while being a jerk.
Flash shoved Peter back a bit. Peter got a bit angry but managed to keep himself in control.
"Don't do that." Peter warning Flash to back off.
"Or what?" Flash is still threatening Peter.
Peter isn't gonna fight Flash in a public place though that's not gonna stop Flash from trying. Flash threw the first punch fast until Peter reacted and caught his fist. Everyone is shocked that Peter stopped Flash's fist, he began to squeeze a bit, making the bones in Flash's hand crack a little, Flash feels the pain as he yelled. Peter could see that he's hurting him, he lets got of the fist. Flash pulled back as he felt the pain in his knuckles. Peter could see that he's much stronger than before, if he squeezed some more, he could've broken Flash's hand.
"I'm sorry Flash." Peter apologizes to Flash.
Peter walked away as Flash went to the cooler to put some ice on his hand. Mary Jane could see Peter leaving the beach, she follows after. She's worried for Peter since he's been acting different very recently.
"Peter!" Mary Jane ran to him. "What happened back there?"
"I don't know." Peter is still confused.
"Peter, you caught his fist so quickly, it looked like you were crushing it." Mary Jane questioned him.
"I know." Peter continues to walk.
"How did you do that?" Mary Jane kept walking with Peter.
"I don't know!" Peter says loudly to Mary Jane.
Peter couldn't believe that he raise his voice at Mary Jane, he felt bad to talking to MJ like that.
"I'm sorry MJ... I just need to be alone... I'm sorry." Peter ran away from Mary Jane.
Mary Jane stayed behind and watched as Peter is running away out of the beach. She's worried for him, he's been different today, she can't figure out what. He kept running down the beach at high speed on foot. Peter managed to run out of the beach and into a street until a car came coming in, he jumped higher than he ever thought possible, he looked down at the car that passed over him, he landed on a three point stance behind the car.
"Whoa." Peter is shocked.
He ran out of the street as he found an alley to hide. He found out today that he's faster and stronger than ever before, he couldn't figure out how this happened. Not only did his eyes work better, his breathing is too as he hasn't suffered an asthma attack since he woke up, his breathing is more normal than ever, like he doesn't have asthma anymore. He then looked at a spider web hanging nearby. He remembered that yesterday he got bitten by one of those super spider from the expo, that spider bite somehow gave him power beyond imagining, it also healed him of his defects such as poor eyesights and asthma.
"That spider bite, it must've given me powers." Peter said to himself.
He decided to test out his clinging as he touched the wall, it cling. He climbs up some more as he continues to climb higher than before. He looked down at the alley and smiled.
"This is so cool." Peter smiled as he likes what become of himself.
Peter returned home after the day at Rockaway Beach as Ben and May found Peter without a shirt on.
"Hi." Peter says to May and Ben.
"Peter, what happened to your shirt?" May noticed that he's shirtless
"Oh! I must've left it at the beach. My bad." Peter forgot about his shirt
"Have you been working out a lot?" Ben is wondering about his new appearance.
"Yeah." Peter lied to Ben.
Peter then went upstairs to his room. He closed the door as he couldn't exactly tell them what happened to him. He couldn't explain that an experimental super spider gave him powers beyond his dreams. Now that he has them, what is he gonna do with them.
(Outside the Parker Residence)
Unknown to him, the same redhead female from yesterday is watching the Parker house from across the street.
"You have powers now Peter, you're destiny has begun." Mysterious woman said to herself.
Chapter 2: I: Responsibility
Volume I: Responsibility
Note: This is the second chapter of Volume I. This will explore the tragedy that will change his life, as well as the lesson he'll learn from his uncle.
"It's been two days since Tony Stark is still currently missing, the local governments of the region are aiding in the search has but so far no luck... In other news, world famous surgeon Dr. Stephen Strange is currently in a hospital after suffering an accident from last night. Our sources have confirmed that he's still alive, though the damage done to his extremities seems to be permanent. What's in store for Dr. Strange now that his hands won't be able to save lives, only time will tell."
Today is August 12, it's been two days since Peter got his powers. He and Ben are watching the news as they heard about misfortune of Tony Stark and Stephen Strange.
"First Tony Stark is missing and now a great doctor has lost his gift to save lives. What's the world coming too?" Ben said.
"I know, can't believe that all this calamity is happening to good people." Peter said.
"I know, if only this world was full of people willingly to do the right thing." Ben said.
The doorbell rang as someone is at the door.
"I'll get it." Peter stands up.
Peter opened the door and sees Mary Jane Watson.
"MJ?" Peter said.
"Hi Peter. I was wondering if you want to come with me to see Gwen?" Mary Jane wonder.
"Yeah." Peter turns to Ben. "Ben! I'm leaving with MJ to see Gwen!"
"Alright, take care!" Ben replied.
Peter walked out of the house and walks with Mary Jane to Gwen's house which is a few blocks from their home.
"How are you doing?" Mary Jane asked.
"I'm doing okay. Listen, I'm sorry about yesterday." Peter said.
"It's okay, I could tell that you're going through something." Mary Jane said.
"How is Flash? His eye and his hand?" Peter wondered.
"Oh, don't worry, nothing permanent. He's still a little pissed but he'll be fine." Mary Jane said.
"That's good." Peter said.
"Yeah... listen Peter, I don't know what's going on with you. But just know that I'm here for you, if you wanted to talk and get something off your chest." Mary Jane said.
"Thanks MJ. But seriously I'm fine." Peter said.
"You know that fine stand for feeling insecure, neurotic and emotional." Mary Jane quoted Peter's words.
"Did you just use my own words?" Peter smiled.
"Wanted to make you feel better." Mary Jane smiled.
"Of course, it's you." Peter smiled.
Peter and Mary Jane arrived at the house of Gwen Stacy. They rang the doorbell as Gwen opened it. Gwen sees Peter Parker and noticed that he's different as he's not wearing his glasses like usual, not to mention that he's good looking.
"Peter?" Gwen said.
"Yeah, it's me." Peter said.
"Wow! Didn't recognize you, you look... great." Gwen smiled.
"Thanks." Peter said.
"Come in." Gwen invited them inside.
Peter and Mary Jane enters the house that Gwen lives. They sees a picture of Gwen as a baby with her parents, George and Helen Stacy. They see Gwen's dad George Stacy walking out.
"Sorry Gwennie, work called me and I have to get going." George Stacy said.
"It's okay dad. Go out and be a hero." Gwen smiled.
"Thanks Gwen, you kids have fun." George Stacy said.
"We will." Mary Jane smiled.
George Stacy walked out of the house to attend his job. He's a Captain of the New York Police Department, he's also a widow since his wife died years ago.
"So now what?" Gwen wonder.
"Pizza and a movie." Mary Jane suggested.
(An hour later)
Peter, Gwen, and Mary Jane are eating pizza watching on the 4K tv of a movie starring Shang-Chi, a martial artist and actor, he stars alongside actor Simon Williams, both playing as cops in the movie. They watched as Shang-Chi is fighting off the bad guys without any weapons as Simon Williams is shooting with his gun.
"Gotta say, Shang-Chi to this day will alway be my favorite action star." Mary Jane stated.
"Not surprising, you always loved martial art films, especially the ones that Shang-Chi stars." Peter said.
"That guy is a master in about two dozen styles, not to mention that he runs a school while he's not busy acting." Mary Jane said.
The movie cut to commercials, one of them is about wrestling.
"On August 14, come to the arena and watch the most badass wrestling match where anyone can participate and face off against the undefeated champion, Crusher Hogan. If you can manage to survive for a least three minutes in the ring, then the winner will go home with 3000 dollars in cash, if you're up the challenge!"
"Wrestling? Everyone knows that wrestling is fake. Who in the right mind would go?" Mary Jane said.
Peter then gets an idea about the match.
"Hmm? This might be a great opportunity to use my new gifts to make easy money. Though I might need to make something to conceal my identity. I'd doubt that they'll allow a minor like me to participate in a match against a wrestling champ." Peter said in his thoughts.
Peter got up as he wants to head home.
"I should get going." Peter said.
"You're leaving already?" Gwen said.
"Yeah, I forgot that I'm still working on those photos that I took of the expo." Peter makes a excuse.
"Can't you do that later?" Mary Jane said.
"Ah, no. Sorry to leave so early. Enjoy the rest of the movie." Peter excused himself.
Mary Jane and Gwen watched as Peter left the house for some strange reason.
"What was that all about?" Mary Jane wondered.
Peter made it back home as he's in his room working on a new costume for the match he wants to participate. He looked through the closet to find something that can be used for the new costume.
He picked up a red sweatshirt as it can be useful.
"This will work, though I might need to draw a symbol or something, something that matches me." Peter said.
He thought about the spider that gave him his powers.
"A spider might be a better symbol, in fact it's perfect." Peter smiled.
Sometime later, Peter began to make a symbol of a spider on his sweatshirt. He holds it up in the air and takes a good look at it.
"Perfect." Peter said.
Peter then logged onto the computer and checks out the match that starts in two days, he sees looks over the rules.
"So they allow certain wrestlers to have certain tools, like a chair or a crowbar. I might need to bring a tool or two of my own." Peter said.
Peter then got an idea as he picked up his camera and remembered a picture he took from the expo. He scrolls down the memory and found the picture of the formula for the webbing.
"Bingo." Peter said.
He went to his closet and grabbed a box of his chemistry set, he looked through the box and found the ingredients needed to create webbing.
He took the necessary ingredients and mixed them together to create synthetic webbing. He pulls out the stir stick and sees webs being pulled out.
"You are a genius." Peter smiled.
He succeeded in reverse engineering synthetic webbing, but right now he needs a way of shooting as the webbing become sticky once it's exposed to open air.
He invents a new device that would allow him to store and fire webbing when needed. He loaded a batch into the small cartridges. He works on a firing mechanism, he created one that required two fingers pressed simultaneously to fire.
He strapped on his new invention, he calls them webshooters. He has his computer camera record a test of his new webshooters.
"Okay, these are webshooters MK1 ready for testing." Peter said.
He sees a couple of empty soda cans laying before his eyes for test.
"Let's pray that this works." Peter hopes.
Peter press down his two fingers simultaneously as it triggered the webshooters to fire off webbing at the cans.
Peter laughed. "This is so cool."
He fires off another shot of webbing at the other can, he hit his target.
"I love these." Peter shows off his webshooters.
At Flash's house which is in the same neighborhood as Peter's , Mary Jane's, and Gwen's house. Flash kept looking in the mirror as he sees the black eye he got from the ball that was tossed by Peter. The bedroom door knocked.
"It's open!" Flash said.
The door opened as Liz Allan came in to check on Flash.
"Hi Flash, I wanted to check up on you." Liz wonder.
"I'm fine, though this black eye that Parker gave me isn't going away anytime soon." Flash looking mad.
"Flash, you got to let that go. It was an accident." Liz stated.
"An accident? Look at me Liz! I've never felt so humiliated in front of everyone! Because of Puny Parker!" Flash said angry.
"If I remembered correctly Flash, you started all this when you tossed that ball at Peter, you wanted to hurt him, didn't you?" Liz not looking happy.
"What did you expect I feel? He was trying to flirt with you, and you let him!" Flash said.
"Flash, he was just helping me out since you were too busy playing with the guy not to give a hand." Liz replied.
"So this is my fault?" Flash said.
"I'm not trying to blame you. I just wish that you weren't so full of yourself all the time. Because that's you do, you step on everyone not caring what they feel, including Peter." Liz stated.
"Oh... now I see. You feel something for Parker, don't you?" Flash smile.
"That's not what it's about?" Liz said.
"Isn't it? I see the way you look at him. Admit it, you want to throw yourself at him like a sh-" Flash got slapped in face.
Liz Allan just slapped her boyfriend in the face for insulting her.
"You really need to grow up Flash! I don't get what I see in you." Liz teared up.
Liz walked out of the room as she's leaving his house, Flash followed after her.
"Liz! Wait!" Flash pleaded.
"Leave me alone!" Liz walked away.
Flash stopped as he watched Liz walking away, he couldn't help but feeling guilty as he hurt her feelings and insulted her. As angry as Flash is to Liz, he knew deep down that she's right. He's been a bully to everyone in his life, now he's feeling all alone thanks to his actions.
"I'm sorry Liz." Flash said to himself.
Peter stood over the rooftop in Queens as he wants to test his webshooters out in the open. He sees a crane nearby as he gets an idea on how to best use his webbing. He aims at the crane and fires off his webbing at it, it hit and created a line as he grips it. He stands at the edge looking down on the streets.
"Okay... time to take the first step... or swing." Peter said nervously.
He jumps off and swings across the street hanging onto the line. He swings successfully until he sees a building in his path, he decided to uses his other webshooters to fire off a line at another building. He turns and swings again, he fires off another line and swings it too.
"Whoa!" Peter yelled.
Peter smiled as he enjoyed the thrill of swinging across town. He's starting to get the hang of this.
The next morning, he got up as earlier than everyone else. He puts on his sweatpants and t shirt. He quietly moved out of the house as he's now outside.
He ran out into the streets as very little people are still asleep. He ran as fast as he can, he moved so fast that his speed surpassed any Olympic athlete.
He continues to run until he reach the park and sees that it's empty in the morning. He runs as he sees a tree and runs up and lands down on a three point stance.
"Let's see what else I can do." Peter said to himself.
He flips back as he did the back flip. He found out that he's more flexible than ever.
"I didn't know that I could do that." Peter smiled.
He does some more running as he sees some logs and trees in his path, he runs and jumps past them without any difficulty.
He stopped as he found a large boulder in the middle of the park. He wants to test out his new strength to see how much he can lift.
He grabbed it and began to lift it up. Unknown to him, a homeless man is camped nearby as he drinks his whiskey and sees a teenager lift a large boulder. He couldn't believe his eyes as the teen lifted it above his head, his eyes widened.
The man thought that it's the alcohol that's messing with his head. He pour it down to the ground.
The next day is August 14, the day the wrestling match will soon begin. Peter pulled out his new mask, a luchador's mask that he bought to hide his identity, it's red with white around the eyes. He dressed up in his new suit that he created for his match, he put a hoodie to hide it while walking out.
He walked out the backdoor until he sees Ben in the garage working on a vehicle, an old dune buggy.
"Still working on that?" Peter said.
"Yeah, whenever I have the time, helps me unwind from work. Want to help out?" Ben said.
"No thanks, maybe another time. I got someplace to be." Peter said.
"Alright, take care." Ben said.
"Sure." Peter walked until he stopped and turned around. "Ben, can I ask you something?"
Ben stopped working and looked at Peter.
"Anything?" Ben said.
"Say that you have a... special 'talent', can you use it to make some money?" Peter said.
"What exactly are we talking about?" Ben wondered.
"Like if you're gifted, should you use them for great things in life?" Peter asked.
"Peter... there are those who uses their power for personal wealth and glory, but I think that your gift should be used for the right reason, not for personal gain. Look at me, I used to work in military police, now I work in construction, it's all I know what to do, but I uses my power to support my family and on occasion help those who can't help themselves. As your grandfather told me and your dad, with great power comes great responsibility." Ben said.
"I see." Peter said.
"Listen Peter, you have a great heart, and your the smartest guy I ever known, you're meant for more in life than just fame and fortune. Stay true to yourself, use your gifts responsibly, not abuse it." Ben explained.
"I won't." Peter said.
"I believe in you Peter." Ben smiled.
"Thanks, for everything." Peter smiled.
Peter walked away as Ben continues to work on the dune buggy. Peter continues to walk down the sidewalk as to think about his uncle's words.
"He's right, I should uses these powers for the right reasons. Maybe I can use them to win that money, to help them out with bills and stuff. Besides, what could go wrong?" Peter said in his thoughts.
Peter continues to walk down the streets as he heads for his match against Crusher Hogan.
In the arena in Queens, the Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation, or UCWF for short, is hosting the event, a wrestling match has already begun between Crusher Hogan and Bonesaw McGraw. Peter is looking down watching the two wrestle one another.
Peter walked down to the sign up while wearing his luchador mask.
"Name?"
"Call me... Hombre Arana." Peter uses an alias.
Note: 'Hombre Arana' is Spanish for Spider-Man.
"Hombre Arana? What kind of name is that?"
"It's the one I'm using. Are you gonna sign me in or not?" Peter said.
"Fine, it's your funeral. Hope that you're resilient than you look, or you're gonna be in a cast for months. Head down the hall and good luck... you're gonna need it."
Peter walked down the hall as he's soon to be next. He continues to watch the match between Crusher Hogan and Bonesaw McGraw. Bonesaw proved to be a formidable foe but he got picked up and slammed down hard by Crusher.
"Oh! Looks like Bonesaw got his bones sawed!"
The referee went to countdown and sees Bonesaw is hurt.
"One! Two! Three! Crusher is the winner!"
Everyone cheered as Crusher Hogan still remains undefeated, he roared out to the audiences. The medics came in and wheeled Bonesaw out as Peter sees the pain the poor guy is in.
"Now to the next challenge! We have someone new, he's mysterious, he has no name, give it up for... Hombre Arana!"
Hombre Arana came out to the stage, everyone booed at him, for a wrestler he's not that much muscular than any wrestler, not to mention his average height. Peter continues down to the stage, still wearing his mask to hide his face. Hombre Arana and Crusher came to the referee.
"Alright listen up, you only get three minutes in the ring. If any of you forfeits or gets defeated in three seconds, then you lose the match, are we clear?"
"Yeah!" Hombre Arana said.
"Perfectly." Crusher Hogan said.
"Good luck to you both."
"It's not too late to back out, little man." Crusher Hogan smiled.
"Less talking, more fighting." Hombre Arana said.
The bell rang as the match begins, Crusher came charging in as Hombre Arana jumped over him, he missed.
"What the..?" Crusher Hogan is confused.
"Too slow!" Hombre Arana jokes.
Crusher growled as he charged in again, but Hombre Arana jumped up and wrapped his legs around his neck, he flips him down hard.
"Whoa! This is totally unexpected! Can Crusher fare against this new fighter?"
Everyone in the arena stilled booed but others cheered for Hombre Arana. Among those in the audience, the same mysterious red head that watched Peter these past days is there, she's took a piece of popcorn from the bag and ate it.
Crusher is feeling humiliated as a newcomer is getting the best of him. He picked up a folded chair and tossed it at Hombre Arana. He flips back and kicked the chair up.
"You threw a chair at me!" Hombre Arana mocks.
"Ah! Shut up!" Crusher Hogan yells.
"Come at me then!" Hombre Arana dared him.
Crusher Hogan charges at him again until Hombre Arana flip back and tossed him hard at the ropes. Hombre Arana sees him standing up.
"Time to end this!" Hombre Arana said.
Hombre Arana charges in and does the drop kick, Crusher got kicked off the ring. Everyone is shocking find out that the champion has been knocked out the ring and is still on the ground.
"One! Two! Three! We have a new winners! Ladies and Gentlemen, give it up for Hombre Arana!"
Everyone cheered for the new wrestler, Peter let's all the fame go to his head as he cheered in victory.
Sometime later after the match, the fight promoter hands him a stack of 3000 dollars.
"Not bad, everyone loves you. Though I gotta ask, who are you really?"
"Sorry, can't say my name or remove my mask, luchador code and all." Hombre Arana said.
"No matter, you got talent, ever thought about competing again in the big leagues?"
"Really?" Hombre Arana said.
"Think about it, you could become a star."
"I'll give it some thought." Hombre Arana said.
Hombre Arana walks out of the office with fame in his mind. As he walked out of the hall, someone passed him by, a shady individual.
Back in the promoter's office as he's about to close the safe, a man barged in and tossed his bag at him.
"Hey, what the hell?"
The man pulled out a gun and aims it at the promoter.
"Shut up and put the money in the bag!" Dennis Carradine demanded.
Sometime later as Hombre Arana reached the elevator, he waits as it opens. He sees someone running down the hall being chased by a security guard.
"Hey you! Stop him!"
Hombre Arana stand aside as he let the man pass by and reached the elevator.
"Thanks!" Dennis Carradine said as the door close.
The security guard reached the elevator but he was too late, as the door is already closed and the man got away.
"What the hell is the matter with you? You let him go!"
"Sorry pal, not in my job description." Hombre Arana stated.
The guard walked away as Hombre Arana decided to take the stairs.
"Why should I stopped him? I'm not a cop, it's not my responsibility. Besides, what could go wrong?" Peter said in his thoughts.
It's nighttime at the Parker Residence in Forest Hills as Ben and May are getting worried for their nephew.
"It's 7 o'clock, he should be home by now. I'm getting worried." May said.
"Yeah, I'm worried too. He's been acting different lately. I thought maybe it's because he's feeling like a teenager not following rules. I can get that, it's normal. But I get the feeling this is something else." Ben said.
"Do you think that Peter is into something and he doesn't want to share with us?" May wonder.
"I hope not, but you and me raised him to do right. All we can do is trust him to make the right decisions." Ben said.
"You're right." May said.
The door broke down as a man intrudes their home.
"Damn it! Cops everywhere, I need a ride." Dennis Carradine is worked up.
He sees the homeowners here.
"Who owns that car outside?" Dennis Carradine said.
"Who do you think you are?" Ben demanded.
Dennis pulled out his gun and aimed it at them.
"Someone who is being hunted. I'll ask again, who owns that car?" Dennis Carradine demanded.
"It's mine, take it easy." Ben said.
"Hand over the keys right now!" Dennis Carradine yelled.
"Okay... take it easy." Ben pulled out his keys.
Ben holds up the keys as he slowly gives it to the man. May slowly pulls out her phone and tries to hit emergency button but the man sees her reaching.
"Don't you dare!" Dennis Carradine yelled.
Ben moved in and grabbed the gun, he and the robber are struggling as Ben tries to disarm him. A shot went off as they both stopped. Ben fell down to the ground with a gunshot on him.
"No! Ben!" May yelled.
The robber grabbed the keys and exits the house. May went up to see Ben bleeding. She grabbed her phone and dialed 911. The car outside has its engine started, it drove off.
"911 emergency?"
"Help! My husband has been shot! A man broke in and took the keys to our car. He shot my husband, he's bleed in and needs an ambulance right now!" May panicked.
"We're on our way."
"Ben, stay with me! You're gonna be okay!" May said.
"May, this is it." Ben is dying.
"Don't say that! Just hang on a little longer." May pleaded.
"I love you and Peter. Tell him that, okay." Ben smiled.
"I will, I promise. I love you too." May cried.
Ben smiled as he closes his eyes and passed away in May's arms.
"Ben? Ben!" May cried out.
May couldn't believe it, her husband just died. Anna and Mary Jane came as soon as they heard the gunshot from her house. They sees May with Ben's body, he just died.
"Oh my god!" Anna is shocked.
Mary Jane couldn't believe that Peter's uncle just died.
"May, what happened?" Anna asked.
"He took him! He took Ben!" May cried.
Anna hugged May to comfort her.
At the 13th precinct in the city, Captain George Stacy is in charge of the anti-crime unit. An officer came into Stacy's office.
"Captain Stacy!"
"What is it officer?" George Stacy said.
"There was a robbery homicide that happened in Forest Hills."
"Gwen, is she alright?" George Stacy said.
"Don't worry, your daughter is fine. We sent a car to your house."
"Good. But what happened, who is the victim?" George Stacy said.
"Ben Parker."
George is shocked to hear that Ben Parker is the murder victim. He meet him through Gwen's friendship with Peter. He can't believe that a good man like Ben Parker is murdered. He got up and grabbed his gun, he heads out of the office.
Peter is walking down the streets of Forest Hills, having the prize money in his hands.
"Now that I have 3000 dollars, what I'm I gonna do with it? I hate that I had to go behind Ben and May's back about wrestling. Maybe I should tell them about what's happened to me. They at least deserve to know." Peter said.
Peter walked to his house until he sees sirens.
"What's going on here?" Peter is getting worried.
He got in closer and sees squad cars and an ambulance in front of his house.
"That's my house." Peter said.
Peter run up to his house until the officer stopped him from entering.
"Hey, you need to stay back."
"Let me through!" Peter protest.
George's car pulled up front and Captain Stacy got out and sees Peter trying to get in.
"It's alright, let him through!" George Stacy ordered.
Peter and George enters the houses as he see May with Anna Watson, she looks so sad.
"May!" Peter said.
"Peter!" May cried.
Peter and May hugged each other.
"Aunt May, what happened? Where's Uncle Ben?" Peter said.
May looked down at the covers where the body is. Peter sees it too as he got in closer.
"Hey! You can't..."
Peter pulled the cover and sees his Uncle Ben, dead in front of his eyes. Peter became shocked to find out that his uncle had died.
"Uncle Ben! No!" Peter cried out loud.
Peter broke down and cried as May came to him and hugged him.
"Why?" Peter cried.
"A man... he broke in... your uncle tried to stop him... he... got shot... that man took him from us." May cried.
Peter couldn't believe what he's hearing, a man murdered his uncle, a good man who did nothing wrong.
"Peter, May, we're gonna find him, I promise, justice will be served." George Stacy said.
"Captain, a word."
"Excuse me." George Stacy said.
Peter sees Captain Stacy talking with one of the officers.
"What is it officer?" George Stacy asked.
"The car matching the description was spotted at an abandoned building near the bridge."
"Get units to that location and have it lockdown." George Stacy said.
"Yes sir."
George Stacy turns to Peter and May.
"I have to go." George Stacy said.
"Find him. Ben didn't deserve to die." May said.
"I will." George Stacy said.
George leaves the house as Peter went upstairs to his room.
Peter closes the door as he feels nothing but rage. Someone just killed a good man who was like a father to Peter. He wants to avenge Ben by finding the killer. He took off his hoodie and puts on his mask.
(At Watson Residence)
Mary Jane is in her room, she's sad for the loss of Ben Parker. She's worried for Peter since he and Ben were so close. She can understand loss too since her mother died.
She looked out the window and sees someone jumping off Peter's bedroom window wearing a red luchador mask. He's running out of the yard and jumped over the fence. She wonders who this guy could be, since he came from Peter's bedroom.
"Peter... could it be?" Mary Jane wondered.
Meanwhile as the police have barricaded the building that the robber was chased to. Captain Stacy arrive at the scene.
"Is he still in there?" George Stacy said.
"Yeah, but as soon as we try approaching, he starting shooting. But right now, he's cornered, he's not going anywhere."
"Alright, get the riot shields and tasers armed and ready. We're going in." George Stacy ordered.
As the police are preparing to enter, someone in red swings to the rooftop. Peter arrived and found a rooftop access, he enters inside.
(Inside the building)
The robber has his gun ready to shot as he trapped inside the building, figuring out a way to escape.
He then heard noises nearby, he got so nervous.
"Who's there?!" Dennis Carradine demanded.
He see a shadow of a figure and fires off rounds, but so far no luck. He started to freak out as someone is here in the room, he looked around and sees nothing.
He took a few steps backwards until he got a sense that someone is behind him. He turns around and aims his gun, but someone caught his wrist, he started firing off bullets. Peter then twisted his wrist, breaking it and letting go of the gun.
"Ahh!" Dennis Carradine yelled in pain.
Peter still his hand on the man's wrist as he executes a push kick. The man got kicked on a crate and broke it. He got injured hard as he tries to move away while in pain.
"Please have mercy!" Dennis Carradine pleaded.
"Did you show mercy to the man you shot? Who's life you've taken?" Peter said in anger.
"That was an accident." Dennis Carradine pleaded.
Peter grabbed his neck and pinned him against the wall, he was choking him.
"Answer me! Why?!" Peter demanded.
Peter pulled the ski mask of the man and saw his face. Peter became shocked to find out that he's the same man from before.
(Flashback to Earlier)
Peter sees a man running with a bag full of money. He let him pass and reached the elevator.
"Thanks." Dennis Carradine said.
(Present)
Peter couldn't believe it, he's the same man who robbed from the arena, the one he let go, one who he could've stopped. He realized that Ben is dead because he chose to let this man go, what happened to Ben is his fault.
"Why? Why did you have to kill him? He was innocent!" Peter yelled.
"It wasn't... supposed to... happen... it was an... accident." Dennis Carradine is choked.
Peter has his hand on his neck holding him as he has his fist ready. He wanted to avenge his uncle and was about to take it.
"With great power comes great responsibility." Ben's words.
Peter couldn't bring himself to take a life, Ben wouldn't wanted to be remembered that way. Peter let him go and spared his life.
"He wouldn't want this. That's why you get to live." Peter said.
Peter then heard noises coming in as he runs out of the building. George Stacy and the police came in and found Dennis Carradine with his wrist broken and bruises on him.
"It's him, take him." George Stacy ordered.
The cops helped Carradine up as George reads his rights.
"Dennis Carradine, you're under arrest for armed robbery, grand theft auto, and murder. You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney, if you cannot afford one, one will be provided to you." George Stacy quote the Miranda Rights.
Peter is outside over looking from the rooftop as Dennis Carradine is being taken into police custody. Justice has been served, though it doesn't change the fact that Ben is dead. He knows that deep down that what happened to Ben is his fault too. He blames himself for doing nothing to stop it. His uncle taught about responsibility and he didn't take that lesson to heart.
Back in the Parker residence, May is with Anna Watson as she still processing Ben's death. The doorbell rang as they're in the kitchen.
"I'll get it." Anna stands up.
Anna walked up to the door as she opened it and sees George Stacy with his daughter Gwen.
"Is May still awake?" George Stacy said.
"She's in the kitchen, come in." Anna said.
George and Gwen sees May still in the kitchen.
"George, Gwen." May said.
"I'm here to tell you that we got him. He's going away for a long time." George Stacy said.
"Thank you." May said.
"Where's Peter?" Gwen said.
"He's upstairs, Mary Jane is with him." May said.
"I'm gonna see him." Gwen said.
"Of course, he's gonna need you more than ever." George Stacy said.
Gwen left the kitchen and walked upstairs. She opened the door and sees Mary Jane with Peter.
"Peter." Gwen said.
Peter looked up and sees Gwen here.
"Gwen." Peter teared.
"I'm so sorry this happened to you." Gwen said.
Peter got up and walked towards Gwen. She hugged him as he cried out some more.
"Let it out." Gwen teared up.
Mary Jane got up and hugged him too, she began to tear up too. Peter cried out some more as the man who was like a father to him is taken from this world. Gwen and Mary Jane both understands loss, Gwen lost her mother at a very early age, Mary Jane's mother died from cancer. Seeing Peter experiencing loss of a loved one brought out old wounds they still carry to this day.