tw: blood

It had been about a month since the school burnt down, and Peter had almost completely recovered. He still had some small scars from the burns, but his super healing had taken care of all the broken bones, cuts and internal injuries.

Yeah Peter got pretty banged up, but that didn't stop him from going out as Spider-Man as soon as he could walk properly again. Everything was going great, crime rates were down and he was spending a lot more time with Mr. Stark since the school wasn't finished yet.

Of course Tony took care of rebuilding the school. He funded the project and it was finally finished. Today would be the first time Peter and all the other went back to school since the... events.

They never did figure out the cause of the fire. It was deemed 'accidental' but Peter had a weird feeling that it was no accident.

"Are you nervous kiddo?" Tony asked as he threw Peter his lunch. Peter caught the bag and placed it into his backpack.

"Nope!" He replied as he made his way into the elevator of the Tower.

"Alright well call me if you need anything okay?" Tony shouted to the boy who was already behind the closed doors.

Peter leaned his head on the elevator walls and sighed. Of course he was nervous, he's going back to the building that crushed him, who wouldn't be nervous!

Apparently Flash, because as soon as Peter arrived to his new locker, the boy was already shoving Peter into it.

"Ya know Parker, you've got a months worth of beating coming to ya." Flash shouted as he walked away from the annoyed teen.

Ned walked up to Peter. "You'd think having a near death experience would humble him a bit." He said as he shook his head. "Plus he's the reason you almost died!"

Peter turned to look at him, "it wasn't anyone's fault Ned, he was scared i don't blame him, I was too."
Ned just rolled his eyes in response.

They turned around just as MJ walked up to them. "Hey losers," she said, " we're gonna be late."
That was true they only had about 5 minutes left to get to their class.

The three friends rushed to their first period class, which they all had together and unfortunately for Peter, Flash was in it too.

As soon as he sat down the bully's mockery began.
"Ay penis bet you're jealous cause i got to meet Spider-Man!" He taunted. Peter only rolled his eyes.

MJ however, spun around and taunted back, "you left out the part where you stood there crying like a baby."

Flash glared at her and got up. "Oh you're dead."
This caused Peter to stand up as well.
"You won't touch her." He said in an actually threatening voice. Flash even seemed taken aback at Peter's tone, but had no time to respond because their teacher walked in the room and began the class.

Thirty long boring minutes went by, when suddenly Peter's phone began to buzz. He secretly looked down at the name. It was an unknown caller, blocked number. He ignored the call, turned his phone off and went back to his zoned out state.

~~~

The little spider has no idea what's coming...

The fire was only the beginning...

I will finally have my revenge...

~~~

Fifteen more minutes passed before the P.A system beeped and everyone winced as a loud ringing sounded out throughout the school.

This noise physically hurt Peter, whereas it only annoyed the other students, because of you know heightened senses and all.

After about a minute the ringing stopped and everyone looked around confused as to what had just happened. Peter held his head, he felt a massive headache that he knew would last awhile.

He needed to find the source of that noise though. He raised his hand and asked, "Um could I go to the washroom?" To which the teacher said yes.

Peter slowly got up, trying to ignore the pounding in his head and tried to make his way over to the office. He didn't get very far and stumbled forward as the pounding only grew worse.

He made his way into the bathroom and splashed some water on his face. He sighed and turned to leave, but the sound of an explosion and screaming grabbed his attention.

He threw on his suit and ran out the door, towards the yelling. When he got to the destroyed classroom he realized it was his class.

"Really? My class twice? What a weird coincidence." He thought to himself. He ran through the door and into the class to see if anyone was hurt.

To his surprise when he entered the room, there was no one there. He frantically looked around, searching everywhere, under all the debris for his friends. He found nothing.

He ran out the massive hole in the wall to the outside where he found his class. The only problem was, they were surrounded by at least 10 men dressed in all black suits, with some sort of alien guns similar to the ones the Vulture was making.

He swung down in front of the men and stood there with his hands on his hips. His Spidey charm was perfect for distracting villains to shoot him, instead of the innocent hostages.

"Hey guys how's it hanging." He said as he webbed up the two guys on each end of their formation. The man in the middle of the group, who Peter assumed to be the leader stepped forward.

"Spider-Man, we have been sent to collect you. If you don't come quietly, people will get hurt." He said in a monotone voice.

Peter looked around. Yeah he was really outnumbered, and no way he'd be able to get everyone to safety by himself. He couldn't fight his way out of this one, but he could try and talk himself out of it.

"Listen there's a lot of people that want me dead so you're just gonna have to be more specific." Peter shrugged. The leader smirked.

"Let's just say, an old friend of yours sent us."

Peter was confused, who could that have been? An old friend? What's that even supposed to mean.

He was about to shout out another sarcastic comment when the pounding in his head grew stronger and he dropped to his knees and held his head trying not to scream.

The students shifted seeing their hero drop like that, Ned and MJ were extremely worried knowing that that was Peter.

The leader slowly walked forward, laughing. He grabbed Peter's chin and pulled his face upwards so that Peter was looking right at him.

"I see you received our gift, our beautiful music."
Peter ignored the pain and rolled his eyes.
"I wouldn't call that music, and jeez man have you ever thought about chewing a breath mint or something, that breath is nasty." Peter said as he pretended to choke.

The leader growled and grabbed Peter's throat. He lifted him off the ground and squeezed his neck even harder as Peter struggled to escape his grasp. (Imagine the scene where Thanos chokes Loki, it's like that)

Peter began to grow weaker, and he started to fade in and out of consciousness. Once the leader noticed this he dropped Peter, who fell limp onto the ground, coughing like crazy.

"Enough games Spider Boy, come with us now or we will open fire." He said as he walked away from Peter, who was still laying on the ground desperately trying to catch his breath.

"Wh-who are you?" Peter choked out. The leader turned back around to face him and smiled. "Let's just say, I like to play with fire."

Peter's eyes widened. This guy burned the school down, it wasn't an accident, it was a targeted attack against him!

Peter slowly got to his feet, having a hard time standing up straight, but managing.
"Just let the kids go, and we can talk about this." Peter said as he slowly raised his hands. He knew he wouldn't be able to talk his way out of this one.

The leader shook his head, but before he could reply Peter was webbing up the rest of the goons and knocking them out. He actually did quite well. He somehow managed to knock out 8 of the 10 guys.

He was about to web up another when he heard a scream. Flash. Peter spun around and saw the leader standing there with a gun pointed right at Flash's head.

"Take off the webshooters, or the kid dies." The leader said. Peter sighed as he slowly removed his webshooters and placed them on the ground. He stepped back and pointed at Flash.

"Alright i did what you asked, now let him go." Peter said seriously. The leader pulled the gun away from Flash's head and took a few steps back.

But then he laughed and shook his head.
"Oh Spider-Man, you never learn do you. Why would you ever trust the bad guys to hold up a promise?"

Peter's eyes widened and it was as if time slowed down. The leader pulled the trigger, and it was headed right for Flash. Peter ran and jumped hoping he would reach him in time.

All everyone heard was the sound of a gunshot, then silence. They saw two body's on the ground, Flash Thompson and Spider-Man.

"Oh my god he got shot!" A random student yelled from the crowd as blood began to pool around the two teens. Ned and MJ rushed over and pulled Flash out from underneath Spider-Man.

Flash's eyes were open in terror as he looked at the sight in front of him. There lays Spider-Man, unconscious, with a bullet wound right through his stomach.

"P-Spidey!" Ned shouted as he put pressure on the wound.

Suddenly everyone looked up as they saw the familiar red and gold suit fly down and shoot the two remaining goons.

Tony ran out of his suit and over to his unconscious kid on the ground.
"Everyone get out of here!" He yelled at the crowd, "except for you Ned, you're what's keeping him from bleeding out right now."

Everyone ran away, two of Flash's friends pulling him away from the bloody scene. MJ stayed out as well, but Tony didn't question it.

"Pete hey, kid you gotta open your eyes for me okay? You gotta get up come on." Tony pleaded.

He sighed in relief when he heard a weak cough from the boy. "Holy shit kid you scared me." Tony said.

Peter looked up at him, "language" he squeaked out.
Tony laughed. "Come on kid we gotta get you treated." He tried to lift Peter up, who yelled in pain and stayed on the ground.

"I know it hurts Pete, but we can't help you here we gotta get you to the tower." Tony said. He hated seeing his- the kid in so much pain.

"M-Mr. Stark, th-those guys, the-the fire, it wasn't an-an accident." Peter said quietly between ragged breaths.

Tony was alarmed but kept his composure for the sake of the three teens around him, one of which was going to bleed out if he didn't get help soon.

"Okay kid we'll sort all that out together, after we get you fixed up okay?" Tony said, getting ready to try and lift the boy again. Peter nodded. "O-okay."

Slowly and painfully, Peter managed to sit up. His breathing was shallow and raggedy. He was running out of time. "Almost there kid, keep going you got this." Tony encouraged.

Peter nodded and got to his feet. He was super unsteady and leaned on MJ for support, but he got up, just like he always does.

"Great job kid, I'm gonna carry you to the tower now okay?" Tony said as he scooped the fragile boy into his arms. "Great job Peter's friends." He said before flying away, back to the tower.

A few hours had passed, and Peter sleeping peacefully in a hospital bed. The doctors treated his injuries, and removed the bullet which hadn't gone all the way through. His super healing would take care of the rest.

When Peter woke up, Tony was sitting beside him.
"Hey kid, how ya feeling?" He asked.
"Like i got hit by a train." Peter replied rubbing his neck and wincing at the touch.
"Yeah you've got yourself quite the bruise there." Tony said. Peter nodded.
"Those guys, did they get away?" Peter asked. Tony shook his head.
"No they were all arrested thanks to you." He smiled and ruffled the kids hair. Peter smiled back but faded as he remembered what the leader had said.
"The leader told me someone sent them."
Tony tilted his head in confusion. "Who?"
Peter looked up at his mentor.

"They said he was an old friend."

~~~

I guess if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself....

Dont worry Peter, we will be together again soon...

Forever.

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Jeez that was a long one. Sorry if it was boring I'm hoping the finale will have more action. Who do you think the old friend is? I have someone in mind but i might change it. Thanks for reading i hope you liked it!
-taco

Edit: hi so I'm working on the finale of this but I'm only like a quarter way done and it's already really long so I hope you guys are okay with that. I'm gonna try to have it up tonight and it's a really different idea I think so I'm not sure if you guys will like it but I'm gonna roll with it.
- future taco