Flash Sentry The Spectacular Spider-Man Issue #2: Electro

by SpideyFlash

The Ups and Downs

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Flash had gotten up from bed, "What happen last night?.." his head was a bit hazy as he was trying to adjust his eyesight towards his surroundings. Then Flash gasped, he remembered one thing that had bother him for a bit, "My Powers!" Flash looked to a soda can left on his desk. He extended his arm out and made a horn shape, sticking out his index and pinkie finger while setting his middle and ring finger on his palm, luckily some webbing came out of his wrist and a strand of webbing caught the can.

Flash sighed in relief, "Well at least it wasn't permeant!" But it got him thinking, how did his powers fail him the first time, If I'm not mistaken, My whole genetic code was altered after that Spider bite, there's no way it could change, could it? It was such a weird concept that he was trying to wrap his head around.

Flash got out of his bed and stood up on the floor. It was another school morning and though he had a bad night, he managed to get up just before school started.

Then Flash remembered something else that was just as big to him, "Sunset...." then it all came back to him even more. The night before he was too freaked out and panicked by his power failure. "It's really over.." Flash could feel a lump in his throat. He sighed, feeling disappointed in himself, "What have you done Sentry?" He asked himself, "You made a promise to Sunset and you lied!"

Flash left his room and went into the washroom to brush his teeth and brace for the day.

Only about 10 minutes later he was fully changed, in a black sweatshirt, some khakis and white air forces he had gotten for his birthday. He went down stairs, not vaulting the banister like he usually did everyday not feeling as cheerful today and still feeling downright weirded out by his power failure. His mom was cooking breakfast in the kitchen.

"Hey kiddo!" His mom greeted him, "I made your favorite! Pancake and eggs!" She handed him a plate that had his favorite breakfast dish and he headed to the Livingroom.

Flash smiled, at least his day was starting off good.

"Oh that reminds me!" His mom rushed to the living room to tell Flash some important news, "My sister was wondering when exactly you're planning to visit her this summer." Flash has some family in Japan that hadn't seen him in over a decade, so they had planned for Flash's family to come during the winter break but after his father had died it kinda caused the whole trip to be postponed and it was discarded all together, but after some resurgence of interest from Flash he begged his mother to go to Japan and after a few weeks she had reluctantly agreed.

"Well... I can't go now" He joked a little, "But maybe in July or August, one of the two."

"Well when you get to that decision then talk to her."

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Flash had gotten to school after finally finishing breakfast. He walked through the crowded hallways, a challenge that he faced almost everyday of his life. Soarin was away and Sandalwood was on a field trip with his class, Flash was actually on his own today. "Man this is gonna blow!"

Then he saw her, Sunset. But she wasn't alone, she wasn't with her friends, but she was with another boy, Curly Winds! Flash's eyes widened, his mouth hanging open, looking shocked, he watched as Sunset and Curly Winds share a kiss. I don't believe it! She's in love with CURLY WINDS!?

When they broke it off Curly Winds headed to his class and Sunset headed to hers, and in doing so she headed towards the direction Flash was standing at. She got mad, not really glad to see her ex, "What?" she put her hands on her hips and leaned a little forward, making Flash backup a bit.

"You-..re dating Curly Wind--"

"So what huh?" She cut Flash off, "were not even a couple anymore!"

Flash took a deep breath, "Look, if it's about last night I'm sorry I couldn't make it."

Sunset snarled, "You know you don't have to keep up that good boy act anymore, because as far as I'm concerned, you're just a lying beta male!" She pushed her index finger into his chest and stormed off past him. Flash meanwhile almost felt like he was gonna burst out crying, those words really hurt. She glanced back at him one more time, "You know he was actually there for me when I cried that night! But you! You were off probably doing something that you probably consider fun!" She continued to storm off.

Flash, looked to the ground and jammed his hands in his pockets. "I've lost her. I've lost her forever." Flash felt his heart break, the lump feeling in his throat starting to worsen. His eyes felt a bit wet, like tears were really gonna stream down his face.

He walked off to class not wanting to be late, this was probably one of the worst feelings he's felt in a while.


A big man with an almost huge body frame walked into Big Man's office, "Big Man" The man nodded.

"Kingpin." Big Man nodded back, "How's your new position in the mayoral office?" Kingpin, A.K.A Wilson Fisk was also a crime lord, having in control one of the biggest crime syndicates in Canterlot City, he was also one of Tombstone's allies.

Kingpin smirked as he took a seat, "Not bad! But I'm not here to talk about Politics."

"Oh? Than what have you come for then?" Big Man asked, beginning to poor some wine into a glass.

"I've come to you to discuss to you about your newest project" Kingpin took the glass and started to swirl the red liquid around before taking a small swig, "Electro was it?"

"What about it?"

"Well it's just..." He took a pause and took another swig of wine, "When I said take out Breaker, I meant kill him in cold blood and who knows maybe even his child, not waste funds on some walking battery." The reason Kingpin was bringing this up was because he was suspecting that Circuit Breaker was the Green Goblin, he knew that he was against him and he knew his dark secrets he hid from the public. Unknown to Kingpin though was that Micro Chips, Circuit Breakers son, was the culprit.

"Don't worry about it, we'll take out that crooked bastard, after all he came back from Europe a couple of weeks ago, and that kid you were on about won't suspect a thing, we got someone imitating as him, I think it was Dmitri."

"Well I hope so." He got up from his seat and began to walk off, "But remember." His voice became a bit more threatening, "If you mess up, you won't see the light of day."

Big Man smirked, "Of course Wilson." Kingpin left the room leaving Tombstone sitting there, feet rested on the desk, "Arrogant Prick.." He snarled.


Class had ended, but Flash's day was far from over, he was called in by one of his friends Mrs. Brant at the Daily Bugle, "Sentry, take a seat!" Flash was in Mr. Jameson's office and sat down.

"Sentry! I called you here today to tell that... you're fired!"

"What?! Why!?" Flash was baffled to hear such news.

"Look at these pictures you've given me, there not news worthy!"

Flash tried reasoning, "Well I thought the Bugle could show a different side of Canterlot for a change."

"Sentry! You need to understand that the only reason I hired you in the first place is because that masked weirdo will only pose for you for some reason."

"Look Spider-Man won't let me take his pictures anymore, you've turned the whole city against him!" Flash accused.

That brought a smile to Jameson's face, "Something I've never been more proud of in my life, well besides John."

Flash pleaded, "Come on Mr. Jameson please, I need the money."

"Yeah, well the president once went bankrupt and look how's he doing."

Flash sighed, there was no way he could win an argument against Mr. Jameson, "Fine.. you win" He pulled a picture of Spider-Man out of his bag, it was of him swinging mid air, preparing to fire another webline, and it looked to be towards the Camera.

"This looks awful! 100 bucks." Mr. Jameson said

"300" Flash bargained.

"250, okay byee!" He gave Flash the check and waived him off.

Flash walked out of the office and towards Betty's desk, handing her the check, "Hey Betty."

"Hi Flash!" Betty Brant, otherwise known as the most upbeat intern at the Daily Bugle, well she was at that point, when she saw the check she kind of frowned, "Ohh.." she glanced up at Flash, "Flash this isn't going to cover the advance I gave you weeks ago."

Flash's shoulders dropped but his face was rather expressionless, "Right." He took the check back and put it in his pocket. Betty felt really bad, she had started to notice that Flash was becoming less and less cheerful by the day.

"Hey, don't be so down all the time!" She patted him on the back making him smile and Flash began to leave. He just wanted to go home and just lie in bed, the bad luck streak was just continuing to rise more and more.

He got out of the building and began to walk down the street, I just don't get it. Why does everything always go south for me? The great steel jungle that is known as Canterlot City was pretty loud when you're merely walking down the street, but that didn't interrupt Flash in anyway.

I hate to say it but this has been probably he worst year of my life! Flash walked across a cross walk and continued to walk down the sidewalk. Dad's...gone, The city is always in need of me even when I'm just trying to relax, My best friend turns out to be my biggest enemy and now Sunset's left me to date the one guy I hate!

Flash was having a hard time dealing with all the things that has happened just this year, it was something he's never thought he'd experienced something like this before, for better or for worse. Gosh, Now that I'm thinking about it the only few things that I look forward to now is Graduation and Japan

Flash made his way to the Subway station, the easiest way for him to get home, Man sometimes I wish I could talk to someone who was living the same life as me, heh. Maybe we could even grab lunch together or something if it was a girl. Flash stood there until the next train would arrive for him to go on.
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Author's Note

And that was chapter 4 of FSTSS, I know it was a bit of a filler, but I'm trying to move this story along and jumping right into action after that last chapter would be a bit too wild so I decided to just write this.

So not really much I could say he but maybe Flash finding out about Sunset seeing Curly Winds only a day after their breakup, I don't remember why I chose Curly Winds in the original but I just went along with it.

Tell me what you think about this and the original in the comments and hey maybe even leave a like I don't know

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