Chapter 30: Snapping at the surface
Peter's POV
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The voice kept ringing in my head. Let me make you stronger. It said, "No. I don't need you to make me stronger." I spoke out loud to the voice. I covered my ears with my hands, as a dull attempt to drown out the voice.
The Hunter will over power you.
You really think that she actually needs you? No. She is just keeping you around because she feels sorry for you.
Sorry that you are weak.
And pathetic.
The Hunter has become stronger. Every hero has but you. You have just become weaker and weaker. Frailer by the second.
So let me make you stronger and together we will become the new worlds hero.
"No..." I said again but this time I was a little unsure. Because the voice was right... but was it really the right thing to do? No. It isn't... but... no. I can't.
See... deep down you know that this is all true. So you know that you are too weak and pathetic to save this city anymore by y/n's side. Like a glorified side kick.
I will make you become so much more. The new Spider-Man. A stronger force a powerful force. You will become the new muse to this world. As freedom and strength.
Let me show you...
I stepped forwards towards the cupboard.
With a shaky hand I opened the cupboard doors and pulled out the suitcase. I opened the lid of the suitcase and stared at the confinement ... was I really doing this?
Yes.
Come on. Just give it try. Just one time. Only once and let me give you a taste of strength and unlimited power..... just a taste if that's all you want.
I picked it up and looked at the black embryo. Continuously flipping around the container, "H-how can you make me stronger?..." I asked.
Let me show you how.
Open the lid. And let me show you how strong we can become. Together.
...
....
......
I opened the lid.
The embryo jumped out, I dropped the container out of fright and jumped back. But the embryo was already on my hand. I tried flicking out of but it soon took over my entire body. I went to scream out but nothing happened. I thought I was dead. But I opened my eyes to see I was wearing a new suit. It was black and white.
I examined it in my mirror, "Wow..." I muttered and walked over to the window. I jumped out into the city. I felt a rush of power flush through me and it was the most amazing feeling.
I swung from building to building. I landed on the streets were I saw a man robbing a lady. I swung over and dropped down in front of him. I grabbed him by his neck and through him away. I was expecting him to land about three meters from me but no. I threw him all the way to the next street light pole 50 meters away.
I heard a gasp from the lady behind me. I had completely forgotten she was there. I turned around and she jumped a little.
"S-Spider-Man? I-is that you?" She whispered.
"Yes. It is . I just have a new and improved suit." I replied. I smiled down at my hands. I felt so powerful. It was a feeling that I never knew I craved so much. I swung off again. I could shoot my webs father and they were thicker and stronger. I felt more powerful as every second went by.
See. I have showed you what we can become.
Now do you want more? Do you like this feeling? I can feel it too. Power. Or do you want to go back to being your old neighbourhood Spider-Man who loses to Hunter and never feels this feeling you have right now.
"No no. I like this," I whispered, "I like it a lot." I smirked and continued to swing through it the city.
After three more hours, I landed back in my apartment. I panted as I closed my window. I felt my heart pounding in my chest and I felt so live. Like I felt the moment I became Spider-Man but so much better.
"This is amazing." I muttered. My phone then went off and I looked to see a text from y/n.
Y/n: Hey Pete! Can I come over for dinner at yours? Because dad was cooking something but....
Y/n: Well let's just stay he should stick to being iron man.....
I laughed and went to text y/n back.
Peter: Haha. Ok yeah sure.
"I can't wait to tell, y/n about this." I said.
NO!
I jumped at the voice booming in my head, "What? Why?"
Don't you see? If you tell her she will want this power too. You are so powerful right now and she will take that away from you and you will go back to being the way you were before. Do you want to lose this feeling?
"Well... no." I mumbled.
So quickly. Hide this suit and do not ever tell her about this. Do you understand the consequences?
"Yes. I understand... I-I won't." I answered as I took off the suit and hid it in the suitcase.
We understand...
It rang in the back of my mind but I just ignored it as I shoved the suitcase out of sight and closed the cupboard doors.
Y/n must never know about us.
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Y/n's POV
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"You know that you are meant to preheat the oven before you put it in right?" I raised my eyebrow at my dad. I was currently sitting on the kitchen island's bench, watching my dad to fail at attempting to cook.
"It doesn't matter. It'll be fine now." He waved his hand dismissively. I just continued to raise my eyebrow at him.
"If you burn the house down you owe me 50,000 dollars." I said simply and stood up from my seat.
"You know what? Sure. Because I am so confident that nothing bad will happen, that, if something goes wrong, I will give you 10,00 dollars." He said proudly. I laughed.
"Deal." I smirked knowing that I was gonna win this thing. But what to spend the money on.... I know I'll give it to cancer research. I smiled and walked to my room. I sat down and got out my phone to scroll through Instagram and YouTube. I suddenly saw something that caught my eye.
There was a youtube clip on this 'new super hero' I clicked on it and watched as the camera caught a person in a black suit swing through the streets, "Woah what?" This was not a Stark industries suit. And Peter didn't go on patrol..... didn't he? This can't be him. I paused it a one point where it got a full front view of the mask and my eyes widened.
The mask was so creepy. It looked like a monster. But maybe that's just what he looks like I mean me might be a hero and not a villain........ right? Oh course. Stop being so paranoid. But I felt an unsettling feeling in my gut and I agreed with it.
It was then that I heard a shriek from outside in the kitchen and fire alarms going off. I huffed hopelessly and walked out to the kitchen again to see dad was surrounded my a cloud of smoke. He was coughing his head off and holding out a tray where he was supposed to have lasagne.
I rolled my eyes and walked up to him. I took the plate with my bare hands from dad's kitchen mittened ones, "You good there dad?" I sassed. He coughed before responded.
"Yeah yeah. I'm fine." He cleared his throat and walked away from the smoke. He grabbed his phone and I looked down at the charcoal before me.
"How did you even manage to do this? I left for like three minutes!" I questioned. Dad didn't reply he just huffed and put his phone back on the table, "What are you doing?"
"I just transferred 10,000 into your account." He grumbled and walked away. I was kind enough to wait until after he had left the room to burst out laughing. I put the smoking tray down and grabbed my phone but before I did, I had to run my hands under some cold water. They emitted steam and made a fizzing noise from my blood adapting to the heat.
I picked up my phone after drying my hands and texted Peter asking if I could come over for dinner because.... well you know. He said it was ok so I put my phone in my pocket and went to leave.
"Hey dad, I'm going over to Peter's for dinner ok?" I called out.
"That would be best." He replied and I could hear the annoyance in his voice. So I transformed into my suit and jumped out of the window and went to Peter's place. I landed behind a building near Peter's and changed back. I walked out onto the streets and tried my best to just ignore all the stupid signs with Hunter promos all over them. Why was it always like this? I heard a stupid news report as I walked about me saving lives or whatever.
I finally made it to Peter's apartment block and walked in. I took the elevator up to Pete's apartment and got out. My mood was completely distroyed from those stupid signs. I knocked on the door and Peter opened it.
"Hey y/n." He chimed and brought me into and hug and kissed my cheek.
"Hey." I mumbled.
"What's wrong? Are you ok?" He immediately noticed my tone change.
"I'm fine." I said a little more happier, hoping Peter wouldn't pick up on it. But of course he did because he gave me a concerned look, "It's nothing don't worry about it." He just brought me into another hug and mumbled, "Is it about the signs and stuff? Or the news?" He asked quietly and I nodded into his shoulder. He rubbed my back and muttered, "It's ok. Just ignore them. It's not a big deal if you don't let it be." I smiled and pulled it of the hug. He leaned forward and kissed my forehead.
"Thanks. Anyway, how's your day been?" I asked and Peter eyes widened for a split second which confused me a little.
"Oh, uh, it was normal. Just a normal day for me. Nothing out of the ordinary... yeah." He crossed his arms over his chest awkwardly avoiding eye contact.
"Okay...." I raised my eyebrow at him and just continued, "Sorry about springing in on you so suddenly it's just that Dad does not know how to cook and like I said, he should really just stick to saving the world... because he almost burnt down the house earlier...." Peter laughed at that.
"Yeah well him and May have that in common then." Peter joked and we both laughed.
"I HEARD THAT!" May's voice suddenly broke our laughing and Peter stood up straight quickly.
"Love you May!" Peter smiled to try and cover up what he said.
"Mhmm." May replied as she came around the corner of the kitchen over to me and hugged me, "Hey y/n! How are you?"
"I'm good." I replied.
"So I was going to try and make some meatloaf for dinner if that is ok?" May told me and I nodded. May walked away leaving Peter and I.
"Just in case, I hope you like Thia food." Peter muttered and I tried to stifle a laugh.
Long story short, we ended up going out for a Thai food.
Peter and I sat at the table as May went to order for us, "So did you see that video of that new superhero? Do you know anything about him?" I asked out of the blue. Peter's eyes widened and he stuttered to answer which was strange.
"Oh! Uh, n-no no. I don't know anything about that... where did you find that video?" He asked me.
"On the internet. It came up in my recommended. But anyway, I don't know if this guy is a villain or a hero." I told Peter, even though something wasn't right.
"I'm sure he is a hero." Peter replied a little too quickly.
"How do you know though? I mean we haven't met him or anything and he suddenly just shows up out of the blue you know? It is a little weird and I don't really like the feeling I'm getting in my gut about him. I mean fro all we know he could be just posing as a hero but is really a villain."
"How do you know it is a guy?" Peter asked me. He seemed to be avoiding the topic which was weird again.
"Just his body build. You can easily tell the different without seeing a face." I replied, "But something is off. I've got this unsettling feeling in my stomach. I don't trust him."
"Why? He could just be a normal hero." Peter argued.
"I trust my instincts. Not some random hero who turned up suddenly out do no where." I answered and Peter's face seemed to harden.
"You don't know that. Maybe you are wrong for once in your life. Did you ever think of that?" He snapped at me a little.
"What are you talking about? How can you trust some person that you didn't even know about until I told you just then? He could be evil for all we know." I was starting to get a little offended.
"You don't know him either! He could just be a hero! What are you scared or something? Scared that he is going to upstage you? Is that it?" Peter snapped again.
"What? 'Upstage me'? Where did that come from? I am worried about the citizens because this person has turned up randomly. How can you not be a little wary of that fact?" I asked annoyed at Peter now. Something about him was off. Something wasn't right.
"You need to calm down for once ok?! Just admit that you are wrong and this guy might not be evil. You are not some amazing detective or whatever! You could be wrong! But is your ego just too big for you to realise that?"
"What!? How does that come into this?!" I had now matched Peter's yelling , "That has absolutely nothing to do with any of this!?" I argued and I felt my blood boiling.
"Oh yeah. I'm sure it doesn't." Peter mocked sarcastically, "You know what? I bet that you actually like all this attention. I bet you actually love it how everyone loves you some much now. Because you think you know everything and that you can do everything huh? Well I don't believe it for a second! I can see right through you!" Peter yelled at me. And I felt my heart feel like it got hit by a truck.
I didn't respond. I just looked back at Peter and tried to hide away the hurt in my eyes. Is that what he really thinks of me? I swallowed a lump in my throat and stood up Peter's eyes widened and he stood up too, "y-y/n..." Peter whispered shakily, "I-I'm so sorry... I don't know what just happened... I-" I cut him off because I felt like if I stayed any longer, I was going to explode. As in literally explode.
It was then that May came back to the table, "What was that about? What is wrong with you two? Are you ok?" May looked at me and paused. She probably saw the tears in my eyes.
"Uh, thank you for inviting me May, but I need to get back home now." I muttered quietly and tried to stop my voice from cracking. My throat burned from holding back tears.
"Y/n are you alr-"
"I'm fine thank you." I mumbled, "I need to go now. Thank you. And here." I handed her the money for my meal that I would not be eating. With that I walked away quickly.
"Y/n! Please wait! Y/n!" Peter called after me but I ran out of the door and out on the streets. I ran into an alley, tuned into my suit, and swung off as fast as I could, back to the Facility. My vision was cloudy from the silver tears that I wouldn't let spill out. I had almost crashed into a building because I was wiping my eyes but I narrowly missed it.
Once I made it to my bedroom window, I got in, slammed it closed, locked my door and crawled into bed. I wrapped my arms around my pillow and once I was sure no one could get to me, I cried.
A/N:
Soooo in case some of you haven't picked it up yet I have started a Venom series! Gassaaaaaasssssp!
I hope you are liking it so far and another thing! I am going to re-post my first couple of chapters because I looked through them and I was like "damn that is some cheesy crud....." so I am redoing them! They will still have the same story and stuff but they will be better so you don't have to read them if you don't want to!
I will just put a little "*" on the titles of the ones I have changed!
Ok byeeeee!
#1robinhood out!
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