"So...can I join?" Felicity asked pouting at me and May.
May sighed, "for the last time Felicity, no. You don't have any powers, it would be dangerous."
"That's what you said last time!" Felicity growled, "that's why I went off on my own! But I showed you how strong I am! So why can't join?!"
"Because! You can't protect yourself!" May cried out.
"Girls!" I cried out, "enough! Focus on the problem on hand! We can talk about teaming up, after we finish this damn homework!"
The two of them grumbled, glaring at each other before returning to their notes. I sighed, sipping my coffee, I looked around, everyone was staring, I sent an apologetic smile to them all, a coffee shop really wasn't the best place they could have done this.
"If it's any consolation though," I spoke up gaining their attention, "I think it would be a good idea to have back up."
"What?!" May gawked.
"Yes!" Felicity fist pumped.
"Why?!" May asked.
"Because with or without powers Felicia was a very powerful ally to your dad," I sipped my drink, "you could use someone like that one your side."
"Yeah! What he said!" Felicity nodded.
I raised an eyebrow, "that being said, Felicity isn't ready just yet for the job of being a superhero. She still needs to be properly trained to fight metahumans like us. So...maybe a trial period is in order?"
May grumbled, "fine, whatever….it's just...argh! This is so stupid!"
"Face it May! We're partners!" Felicity cheered throwing an rm around May making the girl groan even louder. Felicity chuckled, "hey, relax, between the three of us, the bad guys don't stand a chance!"
I smiled, "that's nice Felicity, but I'm not exactly going to be sticking around for long."
"What? Why not? Where are you going?" she asked.
I smiled, "home, maybe….look, don't worry about that, worry about how to become a better team," I narrowed my eyes at May, "you don't' have to do this alone May, believe me, that's worth something."
May sighed, "yeah...I guess."
"I nodded, "good, now...do you understand what we're trying to learn?"
"Nope."
I chuckled, guess she got her mother's brains, "alright, it's like this..."
A few hours later:
I sat on the roof of the Empire state building, leaning against a gargoyle as I looked down at the buzzing city below me. The people were going about their day, they didn't bother to look up, most never do.
May had gone her own way for patrolling, Spider-girl was still a solo act and Felicity still had to take care of her mother, and that was may more important that beating up thugs.
I stood in Peter's costume, spandex and all, with my metallic helmet placed over my head instead of a cloth mask. I checked the web shooters and strapped on my backpack.
This was...a test drive of sorts, to see if I still got it. I stepped up to the edge and looked down, it was a huge drop down. I sighed and moved back, only to leaped forward, arms spread out.
Twhip!
It hit a building and I swung upwards. The rush came quickly, the feeling of butterflies in my stomach, the feeling of utter excitement, like the world was left behind. The microsecond where I released the web line and for a second...I was free.
Before gravity took over and pulled me back down. I shot out another web line and soon my body began to act on instinct, moving through web lines, swinging through the city, "woohoo!" I crie doubt, my joy coming out in my voice.
"Peter, there's a crime in progress being reported block from here. Would you like me to mark it?"
"Yes please Sexy. Oh, and while I'm in costume, don't call me by my real name, okay?" I told her as I changed course, following new directions on my HUD.
"Then what is your new designation?"
I smiled, "call me the Spider."
I came upon a shoot out, two cops were pinned down behind their cars while a gang of mexican cartel members fired automatic rifles at them from across the street. The whole street had been cleared out, though a small group of civilians were forced to take covered with the police, else they get shot as well.
I landed on a roof and looked around, searching for a way to finish this quickly. I spotted a giant dumpster bin in the alley behind the cartel's standoff. So I silently swung off and ducked inside, sneaking behind the garbage bin.
With a huff and I grabbed the sides of the giant bin and lifted it over my head. It was a strain, I really need to hit the gym. Two months of stagnation really took its toll. I huffed, "hey assholes!"
They turned, and I threw it.
BAM!
"Fuck!" they cried out, one, to my extremely left managed to escape, while the others were pinned down by the giant metal bin, their bodies being crushed, though not enough to break anything.
"What the fuck puta?!" the lone escapee cried out as he looked at me in horror. I webbed up his gun and pulled it towards me.
I looked at it, inspecting it, "nice toy you have here," I crushed it into a ball before throwing it over my shoulder, shooting a web blast to pin him to the tar road below, "asshole."
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