Spider Man: Friendship Student

by twilightsparkle3562

Chapter 3: "Among Other Kinds"

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Although she was open to hiring creatures of all kinds as members of her staff, Twilight immediately saw red lights when she looked at Adrian Toomes. Right away, she could sense there was going to be trouble with this particular human.

"Um, nice to meet you," Twilight said, trying to sound professional and welcoming as she extended a wing to shake Adrian's hand. "You must be the…new janitor?"

"That's what I said," replied Adrian. "Anyways, your pet dragon here showed me…where things are and I'm eager to get started."

"All right, just go around the school and clean up anything you see, got it?" Twilight said, urgently.

"Um, okay?" wondered Adrian as Twilight used her magic to send him out of her office and slam the door behind him. With very little option, he immediately went to work. "Well, it doesn't really matter. I've only got this job because the courts told me to get a job. It's really Parker I'm after."

"Twilight, why would you just send him on his way like that?" remarked Starlight as Twilight took a few deep breaths to regain her composure. "Is this how you are going to treat new hires or something?"

"No! No, I don't intend to," stammered Twilight, nervously. "It's just that…there is something about this Adrian Toomes that really bothers me, Starlight."

"But, we have no other choice, Twilight," advised Starlight, walking over to Twilight's desk and picking up Adrian's work order, showing it to Twilight. "The courts from wherever he came from said that Adrian must work here or else he goes back to his human prison."

"Either Tartarus or a mental hospital seems good for him."

"Look, Twilight. Maybe you're just being too judgmental on him," suggested Spike. "He hasn't done anything…bad and who knows? Maybe he can be a good employee and you might have him be a teacher or something."

But Twilight wasn't convinced. Nevertheless, she had a job to do and that was to teach creatures of all sorts about friendship.

"He's a janitor, either way," Twilight said firmly. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to introduce Peter and Rachel to the school."

Starlight and Spike watched as Twilight walked out of her office, still unsure of why Twilight was not being accepting of Adrian.

Meanwhile, Peter and Rachel were led by Gallus into the school's library where they sat within Gallus's group of multi-creature friends. Right away, they were enraptured by Peter and Rachel's presence.

"Uh, hey guys…" Peter stammered. "You must be new here."

"We've been here for a while," said a orange mean looking young dragon. "I'm Smolder."

"Name's Sandbar," said a male pony.

"Ocellus," said a female changeling.

"Yona," said a female yak.

"Silverstream," said a female hippogriff in an excited voice. "Tell me, do you like stairs?"

"Um, yeah?" asked Peter awkwardly. "Name's Peter Parker."

"Rachel Carpenter," added Rachel, also in an awkward tone. "We're new here."

For a moment, it seemed like Peter and Rachel would be scoffed at for being human. But, this group of creatures were more than welcoming.

"Headmare Twilight did say that we would be getting humans," remarked Ocellus. "You aren't like some of the other humans out there."

"You studied human cultures?" wondered Rachel.

"Of course," added Gallus. "It was only going to be a matter of time before it would be put in the lesson plan. I got to tell you both that humans are a rather…strange breed of creature, if you get what I mean."

"We are strange I will say," remarked Rachel as the school bell rang and every creature left the library. "But, I promise you that we won't be strange, we'll just be ourselves."

Soon, every creature gathered in the school's amphitheater classroom where Twilight would intro Peter and Rachel to the entire school.

"Good morning, students," Twilight said as the classroom fell silent. "As you probably might be aware, we have two new students joining us today. Two humans named Peter Parker and Rachel Carpenter."

"Hi there," Peter said, suddenly activating his web slinging and sending a string of web from his wrist and onto the classroom's ceiling. "Oops."

But, the assembly was amazed by what they saw, letting out excited random gasps and cheers.

"Um, yes," stammered Twilight, slightly embarrassed by Peter's random web slinging. "Maybe if you could just keep your web slinging to a low range, that would be greatly appreciated. By the way, who here has family that is working for the new Stark Enterprises building in Canterlot?"

Right away, several pony students raised their hooves.

"Well," continued Twilight. "Peter is a protégé of Tony Stark and Rachel is the daughter of the company's Chief Operating Officer, Julia Carpenter. I'm sure they can provide certain amounts of inspiration for us thanks to their connections."

After a few brief periods of school news, the assembly was over, and Peter and Rachel went about their routine of classes. But, not before Twilight was quick to bring Peter into her office.

"Look Peter," said Twilight as she led Peter into her office. "I know Tony said that you have web slinging abilities, but you have to control them. We can't have any unnecessary distractions in our school at any time."

"Sorry," he stammered. "It's just that…it's habit. But, I'll learn to control it, I promise."

"See that you do," said Twilight, walking behind her desk. "Actually, there is something else I need to talk to you about."

"What is it?"

"Well, how shall I put this?" Twilight asked herself. "You and Rachel aren't the only humans to have been hired. There is a janitor that is on a work release program, but he scares the Celestia out of me."

"Who is he?"

"His name is Adrian Toomes."

Right away, Peter's eyes widened upon hearing this. This was his archenemy, his ex-girlfriend's father and someone who was out for revenge.

"What is he doing here?"

"I told you that he is on a work release program," explained Twilight. "But, I can't help but wonder if he really is up to no good. I want you to help us keep an eye on him, Peter and if he does anything out of the ordinary, I want you to tell us, understand?"

"Yes, Twilight," replied Peter as he walked out of her office.

"Oh and Peter?"

"Yes?"

"It's Headmare Twilight," she corrected. "You are in school now."

"Yeah, Headmare Twilight," chuckled Peter as he left her office.

Meanwhile, Adrian went about his duties as janitor while also brainstorming his plans for revenge against Peter. Then, he saw Rachel walking by with Ocellus and Silverstream.

"Julia Carpenter's kid?" he thought to himself. "She could prove very useful to me in getting close to Parker. Soon, he'll be sorry for destroying my life."

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