The Spider-Man

S U N D A Y

Peter walked into an alleyway between a bakery and another building, and looked around to make sure that no one was looking. He saw a homeless man sleeping in a box, but that was it.

He looked at the wall of the bakery, and placed his hands on it. Peter then pulled himself up a little bit, and placed his feet on the wall as well.

Peter was sticking to the wall.

He discovered that he could do this soon before his uncle died, so he was fairly used to it by now.

Peter began to climb up the wall, and progressively climbed faster. Once he reached the edge of the roof, he pulled himself onto it. He straightened out his jacket, and began to walk towards the edge. He wasn't going to jump off like he had done on Friday, but he would just sit on the edge, and get used to being on the edges of buildings.

He had hesitated to jump off of that tall building on Friday, since usually, if you were to jump off of a building, you'd end up painting the ground with a nice shade of red.

He wasn't as scared to jump off of buildings, now that he knew that his 'web-shooters' worked.

Peter had created what he called 'web-shooters' after he had discovered his spider-like abilities. He seemed to have gained the same abilities that spiders have, save for the ability to spin webs.

He felt like his new set of powers was incomplete without webs, so he made web-shooters with a combination of different materials for the webbing itself, a few wrist watches, and other things that were easy enough to obtain. It had taken him about a week to get it right, but he'd finally created working web-shooters just before he and his aunt began to pack everything in their house to move to Canterlot City.

Peter looked at the street below him, perching himself in a gargoyle-like position on the edge of the bakery. He saw a mother tending to her baby in a stroller, a man listening to music as he jogged, a girl listening to music on a bench, bobbing her head to it, and a group of seven girls sitting outside of the bakery at a table.

Everything seemed pretty normal. That was, until he overheard a little bit of what the group of girls below were talking about.

"So, I've gathered springs, small pistons, and a few other things that can launch ropes at buildings like the boy from the video."

The groups of girls now had Peter's full attention.

"But how's the rope going to stick to the buildings, Twilight?" Rainbow asked.

"Ooh!!! I have a kunai that we can use to stab the rope into the building!" Pinkie said.

"A kunai? What the heck is a kunai?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"It's a thing I use to slice cakes with when I can't find the knives!"

"I thought that a kunai was a weapon of sorts?" Rarity said.

"Oh. That, too. Silly me!"

"Where did you even get a kunai?! That's an actual weapon!" Twilight said, shocked.

"It was a goodbye gift from a friend. He said he'd kind of keep in touch." Pinkie said. "He was really nice-ish. In a good way, though! He just used a lot of bad words, and said a lot of mean things, but he didn't ever mean any of them! He was nice and mean at the same time in a really nice way! I was surprised when I first met him, because he was only as old as Apple Bloom and Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle, and he was always saying bad words like-"

Applejack put her hand over Pinkie's mouth so that the girls could continue their conversation. "Maybe we can get some kinda really strong glue, or somethin'?" Applejack said.

"Or a hook! Like... you know in that really old TV show with the guy who dresses as a bat all the time? We can use a hook like he uses, or something." Rainbow said.

"I'm guessing that it's something adhesive. Maybe glue, but it'd have to be able to support the weight of a human body. So maybe we can find something like that?" Twilight said. "If we can't find anything, we can always use some kind of harpoon, or like Rainbow suggested, a hook."

Rainbow kicked up her feet onto the table, and leaned back in her chair, making it go on two legs. "I bet the hook will work. After all, I'm the one who suggested it!" Rainbow said, smirking.

"Rainbow... are you sure you should be leaning back that much? It looks like your chair is about to-" Sunset couldn't finish her sentence before a 'THUD' was heard, along with the metal 'CLANG' of a chair.

"Fall." Sunset finished, looking at Rainbow, who was now on the ground.

"Ugh. You couldn't have said that sooner, Sunset?"

This was nuts. Those girls were going to try and build Peter's web-shooters.

Peter didn't know how they would do it, but he knew that it wasn't going to be fun for them.

'Should I go down and warn them?' Peter thought.

If he did, he could give away that he was the boy who was swinging around in the video. If he didn't, though, those girl could get themselves hurt.

Peter got off of the edge of the building, and started walking back to where he'd climbed onto the roof. He'd have to go and think about this.

But when he figured out what to do, how would he find those girls?

He'd have to see if he could figure out where they were going to do this, and somehow convince them not to.

He'd have to spy on them.