The Spider-Man

L A T E R

"Peter, is that you?"

"Yeah!"

"Oh, good! Did you remember to bring me some flour from the supermarket?" A voice familiar with Peter Parker said. It was his Aunt May, who had been a mother to him since he was only 7 years old, rather than an aunt.

He was 17, now.

Peter mentally slapped himself when he realized that he had, in fact, forgotten to bring flour for his aunt.

"Oh... uh... I forgot to get the flour." Peter said, rubbing the back of his neck.

"Peter!" May said from the kitchen. "This is the third time this week! First, you forget to bring me eggs, then laundry detergent, and now flour!" May ranted. She walked out of the kitchen, and looked Peter in the eye. "What have you been doing? Be honest, Peter." May said, sternly.

"I've been doing..." Peter opened and closed his mouth a few times before finally coming up with something to finish that sentence with.

"Parkour?" He said, slightly cocking his head.

And it sounded much better in his head than out of his mouth.

"Peter! Parkour?!" May exclaimed. Peter couldn't tell if she believed him or not, but she was rather gullible sometimes, so Peter was hoping his excuse worked. If he told his aunt what he's really been doing, she'd flip. And when she flips, he flips, too.

To save him some trouble, he tried lying further to make it sound like he'd been being safe while doing 'parkour'. "Yep. I... I wear a helmet, and kneepads, and-"

"Don't you know what happens to people who do parkour?! My friend's nephew does parkour, and he just broke about every bone in his body a few months ago! You'll be in the hospital just a room over from where he's STILL at! Not to mention that guy on the news! You know, with that masked lunatic jumping off buildings and shooting ropes everywhere and things like that, he could swing RIGHT into you! What if you fell? O-"

At that point, Peter stopped listening. That 'lunatic' swinging around on 'ropes' was already on the news? It'd just been about an hour or two ago that he'd been swinging around.

Of course he'd be on the news. It looked like that guy was about to commit suicide. Already, that'd be newsworthy. To make things even more interesting, he'd shot webbing out of his wrists, and started swinging on them.

How did Peter know that the guy swinging around earlier was using webs to swing around?

He was that guy.

While Peter was swinging around, though, he hadn't seen a news crew. Had somebody taken video of him?

Probably.

He'd gotten rather close to someone. That person was holding their phone sideways. That's how most people record things from mobile devices.

They must've sent the video to the news station. Of course.

Peter cut off this chain of thought, and began to listen to what his aunt was saying again.

"Or you could have a heart attack in mid-air and fall! What if that happened?! I've already lost your... uncle..."

May stopped talking, and covered her eyes, which were welling up with tears. Peter noticed this, and pulled her into a hug. He, too, began to get a little sad from the mention of his Uncle Ben.

His uncle had been shot and killed just a month and a half ago in the city of Manehattan. Peter hadn't seen it happen, but was close by when the gunshot rang through the night.

Ben's last words to Peter had stuck with him.

"With great power comes great responsibility."

Those were the words that Peter decided that he needed to live by.

As soon as May and Peter broke the hug, May looked at Peter and smiled.

"Don't forget the flour next time." She said, sniffling as she continued to smile.

"I won't, Aunt May..." Peter said, as may walked back into the kitchen to continue preparing dinner.

"I promise..."

S A T U R D A Y

"So, how do you think he did it?" Twilight asked.

"The swingin' guy? He probably... uh... used some kinda magic spell, or what not." Applejack guessed.

The girls were all at Pinkie's house, enjoying a sleepover. Rainbow and Pinkie were playing "Mighty Kombat X", while the rest of the girls sat and talked amongst each other. Surprisingly, Twilight was the first one to bring up the boy who'd been swinging in the recent video that'd only gotten more and more popular in the past 24 hours.

"Maybe he's a spider?" Fluttershy suggested. She loved spiders. That didn't say much, though, since she loved all animals.

"Ooh! Maybe something like that!" Twilight said, adverting her attention to Fluttershy. "He could've had his DNA somehow mixed with a spider, and gotten abilities similar to that of spiders!"

"Wouldn't he grow like... 8 legs, then? And fangs? And still look really creepy? I don't know about you, Twilight, but he looked like a guy in a mask to me. A cool guy in a mask, though." Rainbow said, still keeping her eyes glued to the game she was playing.

"Well, not necessarily. Tell me, girls, have you ever hear of cross-species genetics?" Twilight asked.

All the girls shook their heads, except for Sunset.

"Oh, you've hear of it, Sunset?" Twilight asked.

"Mmmhmm! I was reading a magazine that I found in your lab at CHS, and saw an article about it. Did you know that there's a scientist who only has one arm?! He was interviewed in the article!" Sunset said.

"Oh, you mean Curt Connors! He works with cross-species genetics to help him get his arm back! I don't recall how he lost it, but he's trying to find a way to fuse the DNA of a lizard with his own!" Twilight said.

"So... it's not any kind of magic? I mean... that seems a little more believable than messing with DNA, or whatever." Rainbow said, still keeping her eyes on the TV screen.

"Well, you might think that's more believable, but that's probably because you have experience with magic." Twilight said.

"Besides, Rainbow," Sunset began. "I'm pretty sure that there's no spell that makes ropes shoot out of your body." She said, smirking.

"Yeah, well-"

"I WIN!!!!!" Pinkie screamed at the top of her lungs.

"What?! NO WAY!!! I only lost because of all the eggheaded nonsense going on behind me!"

"I WON AND YOU LOST!!! I BEAT RAINBOW DASH!!!"

"No you didn't! Not fair and square!"

"YES I DID!!!"

"No you DIDN'T!!!"

"DID TOO!!"

"Did NOT!!!"

While Rainbow and Pinkie began to argue, the other girls continued their conversation.

"Perhaps that boy used some sort of harpoon, or sharp object to attach his ropes to those buildings? If he's a genius, like Micro Chips, he could've built something to launch the ropes, right?" Rarity said.

"I guess that would make sense, too." Sunset said.

"I have an idea. If we can build something that does just that, we can see if you're right or not!" Twilight exclaimed.

"I see n-" Rarity stopped for a moment. "Erm... darling, wouldn't one of us have to... swing?" Rarity asked.

"Well... I suppose. We wouldn't have to jump off of a tall building, though. We just need to know that it's support the weight of a human body!" Twilight said.

"So... when do we start?" Asked Sunset.

"Well, we need to collect supplies first, so how about Monday?"