Flash Sentry The Spectacular Spider-Man Issue #2: Electro
A Stormy Night
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It was a cold, stormy, rainy, night in Canterlot City. Droplets falling onto the ground, cars, everything! Non stop. A lot were at home, enjoying the nice warmth inside away from the showers. The only sound that could be heard were car horns as the streets were clogged at this time of night. It was after all a busy city day and night. Not to mention how bright the city still looked at night, all the street lights, buildings everything lit up the city in multiple colors at night.
But somewhere deep underground in the city, a place that is so secluded and was not even able to be accessible to the average person. This was a place that did morbid experimentation on the human race.
A scientist was on a computer, on the monitor, it displayed a diagram of a human body inside a huge glass cubical tank. "Big Man are you sure you want this to go through?" The scientist turned to man in iron like coloured skin and pupiless eyes, wearing a blue suit.
"Yes.." He had a very deep and somewhat raspy voice, "Unless you want to opt out Zek?"
Big Man turned to a blonde headed young man who wore a suit that could store over 500,000 volts of pure electricity and who was trapped onto an gurney, held by strong straps, almost as if they were metal handcuffs, "No!" He replied almost a bit abruptly, "Go through with it." This was Zek Skytroller, a young man who resorted to a life of crime, he became a goon for Tombstone when he was only at the age of 15, it was crazy!
"Well you heard the man." Big Man smirked, "Do it!" The Scientist glanced back at his computer and started to type on the keyboard, he typed a command that he needed to execute the whole experiment. When he pressed the enter button, there was no turning back for Zek.
The Glass tank closed, trapping in all the air, soon the huge glass case slowly became entombed in a metal casing! Inside Zek, still trapped onto the operating table was surprisingly calm, but that would all change. The experiment commenced and already Zek started to sweat. It was starting to get muggy in there, very muggy. Obviously The Scientist and Big Man knew what was going on through the computer monitor but they did not have the luxury to watch it with their onw eyes right in front of them.
Zek clenched his fists, there was a slow pain starting to rise within him, from toe to head. He gritted his teeth, the stinging pain was worsening. Then sparks started to materialize around him ,those sparks were lightning sparks. The tank became cold but then it became hot again, then cold, then hot, the two temperatures were fighting with each other, one always prevailing over the other.
It was almost like he was in a cloud with all the positive and negative charges of electricity were working with each other. Zek started to scream, his body was in more pain that he could bare. Then it began, his body became to change, physically! Zek was still screaming, it was like he was burning but it left no burn marks....
Then it stopped. It all stopped. He'd finally been relieved of what felt like torture, but things felt different, he heard a bit of a faint crackling noise, it was not annoying to him but it could be labeled as a bit irritable. The Metal cage rose up slowly, and it revealed a normal looking Zek, still strapped onto the gurney.
"How do you feel?" The Scientist asked.
Zek was freed from the retched gurney, he walked off slowly, feeling a bit weak but he could feel some new found strength. "I.... feel great....sir", he panted.
"So did it work?" Big Man asked, crossing his arms.
"Let's find out!" The Scientist gestured his hand, pointing to a spare monitor connected to a desktop, "Zek see if you can use your new abilities and shoot the desktop."
Zek raised his hand in a jerky motion, he raised it up to his field of view, he took a deep breath, then it happened. He shot Electricity out of his hand! The crackling noise became more and more louder. He destroyed the whole computer! "How about that doc?"
Big Man smirked, "Than the experiment was a success! Thank you for your accommodations tonight Mr. Breaker!"
Mr. Circuit Breaker grinned, "Anytime, anything to rid this city of Mr. Fisk.
Meanwhile, in the center of the city, a certain web slinging kid is off trying to stop a robbery, pursuing a car in the rainy streets of Canterlot City. God I better hurry up! If mom finds out I left the house at this time of night I'm toast! This was Flash Sentry, otherwise known as the Spectacular Spider-Man!
"Oh Man who even robs a place at this time of night!" He fired a webline onto a building midswing. He was exhausted, not from chasing the car but from what he's been through today. At school he's been nonstop working on so many projects that's kept him up at night. Along with that he and Sunset haven't had one of the best relationships, it started off fine but as Flash's Spider-Man career was taking up his social life they've been in more arguments than ever before. The hardest part was he still hasn't told Sunset about his alter ego.
"HEY ARE YA SHOOTIN HIM?" A masked lady who was wearing a ski mask glanced back at her two partners in crime, "BECAUSE THIS PIECE OF SHIT IS REALLY HARD TO DRIVE!" They'd plan a getaway, shooting anyone who tried to compromise the situation. But they had not prepared for Spider-Man, not really expecting to show up at midnight.
The 2 masked robbers with very big muscular body frames were sitting in the back, they loaded their automatic rifles and were about to begin shooting Spider-Man again. The popped their heads out the door windows and pointed their guns at Spider-Man, "Oh you gotta be kidding me!" Spider-Man let out a sigh as he braced himself for a noisy encounter. They started shooting at Spider-Man, but unlucky for them Spider-Man had seen this movie too many times and began to dodge them, shooting long strands of webbing left and right as fast as they could adjust their guns. "Come on fellas this is just pathetic!" Spidey scoffed.
They ran out of bullets in their clips and had to reload again, this is when Spider-Man decided to go for the car. He let go of his webline that he'd been gripping onto tightly and dived towards the roof of the car. He landed on the roof making a huge thump noise upon his landing.
This caught the attention of the robbers, "Shit boss what do we do?" One of them asked feeling a bit frightened that they were gonna get their asses handed to them.
She wanted to go back their and start hitting her two partners ,"ATTACK HIM YOU DIPSHIT!" But she decided to yell and keep her gaze on the road. Both of them looked at each other and just shrugged, after all they didn't really have much options, well except aborting the mission and turning themselves in.
The Robber hadn't been watching however and he was suddenly hit by Spider-Man's shoes, completely knocking him out. Spider-Man flew in through the door window and sat beside the other, very terrified robber. "Howdy!" He saluted the robber with both his fingers before driving a punch in his stomach and knocking him out. He then focused on the driver, "Mam!" He pointed at her and arched his back invertedly , "I need to make a quick trip at the police station, do you think tha--" The lady who was still focused on the road pointed a pistol at Spider-Man's head.
"Actually how about I take your ass to the morgue where I can leave your dead body there!" She snarled.
Spider-Man rolled his eyes under that mask, "Jeez talk about villain 101!" He shot a strand of web at the gun, tugging it away from her grasp and into the back seat. "So uh.. can I least see your license and registration?" Spider-Man sarcastically shrugged.
This irritated the lady, she let her arrogance get the better of her and she started go for Spider-Man, trying to grab him while sitting in the front seat. This was obviously a dangerous move, this prompted Spider-Man to act fast. He jumped out the door window again and onto the roof of the car and looked ahead of him. There was a intersection just coming up and it looked as though the woman was about to turn right. So like a spider could he began to shoot webbing at the next turn, creating a life sized spider-web that was the width of the two buildings that stood across the street from each other.
The car got caught by the huge web, stopping it in it's tracks, the police had just arrived by the time the car was caught so there was no hope for the criminals to be caught. The lady was beyond furious and watched as Spider-Man stood on the hood of the car waiving. "WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU, I'M GONNA SHOVE MY HAND SO FAR UP YPU A--" He shot a web in her mouth and stopped her before she could speak her foul words.
"Look I'd like to stay and teach you manners but I kinda have to go!" Spider-Man mockingly shrugged before leaping off and firing a web line, swinging off into the distance.
As Spider-Man began to swing off into the distance the Police started aiming their guns at the Web Slinger."SPIDER-MAN YOU'RE UNDER ARREST!" Spider-Man had heard that what the officer had snarled didn't plan to act on it, he'd been hearing police utter those four words to him for months now! This was because the Daily Bugle was slandering him for doing the things he did, it was ridiculous to Spider-Man, sometimes he wished he could just have it easy as Spider-Man, but the media said otherwise.
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Flash had jumped into his room, luckily his mom was asleep this whole time so he was safe. He took off his mask and threw it across his room feeling annoyed after what'd happen tonight before finally collapsing on his bed and staring at the ceiling, not even bothering to take off his jacket and costume.
He began to collect everything that had happen today, everything he'd done,What a day! I start it off with busting a carjacker then go to school only to sneak out to go fight 5 muggers mugging a guy. Then I get home to do my work only to be here! Drenched in water and feeling completely tired He sat up looking a bit annoyed, "When am I gonna have time for myself!" Flash had started to become more and more annoyed with how things have been for him. When he had became Spider-Man he had no idea of how much it consumed his life, he started to feel like it was all he was. Just some guy dressed in a costume fighting criminals having no time for himself. It was almost like the world was doing this to him on purpose.
"When can I be Flash Sentry for more than half a minute!" He got up off his bed and strolled over to the window to watch the dark rainy scenery outside. "I know that I'm supposed to keep the promise I made to myself but damn! could things get any harder for me right now?!" There were times Flash thought of quitting, where he could throw Spider-Man away for good and never deal with him again. But he couldn't, every time he thought about the idea he discarded it almost immediately thinking about his father and how he'd gotten into the place he is today.
Flash looked away from the window, beginning to feel mad, angry, furious even, his whole day had been a shit-show for him and not to mention nothing good came out of his heroic act earlier tonight ."Every time I do something good, this goddamn city doesn't even appreciate it! It's not fair! I don't even get a thank you from anyone they all think I'm some sort of lunatic psycho thanks to J.Jonah and The Daily Bugle! Ugh why do I even work for them. Hell why do I even bother being Spider-MA--" Flash stopped himself, his eyes begging to widen to what his final words were.
"What are you saying to yourself Sentry!? myself! I made this choice and I have to stick by it! Even if it means if I hate it sometimes" Flash was trying to cope with the severe stress he'd been under, but it was hard. Managing his life was something that was way too difficult ever since he took up the mantle of Spider-Man, in fact being Spider-Man was a choice he made right after his father died, he wanted to protect everyone in Canterlot and not let his father down, after all he lived by the words 'Great Power comes Great Responsibility'
Author's Note
Anyways this is the first chapter of Flash Sentry The Spectacular Spider-Man, again this image is not made by me, it is made by John Romita Sr. who makes really good looking Spider-Man art :].
So in this Chapter I reintroduce Zek but as a criminal now, he was intended to be a person who worked close with Doctor Connors but I discarded that idea after I had one of those weird brain moments where I think of something better than the actual intended thing I was gonna do.
So I also show Flash, post-Goblin fight. I'm showing how he still does his job as Spider-Man but I'm also showing how he's starting to feel about his new way of life, thinking about whether or not he made the right choice becoming a full time super hero.
I'm gonna try and write Flash a bit differently, kind of like an Episode II or III Anakin Skywalker in this book, where he's kinda whiny and what's one thing but can't have it due to his way of life. In this sense I guess it's Flash wanting to be Flash Sentry but instead his schedule makes him be Spider-Man.
If you'd want, I'd also like to see what you guys would might want from the story, like not really long things like a whole chapter written out but like just any small idea you would like to see happen.
Tell me what you think of this and the original!
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