Flash Sentry The Spectacular Spider-Man Issue #2: Electro
The Big House Rumble!/Another Big City Chase
Previous ChapterNext ChapterElectro was summoned by the Big Man to come into his office, he stood a few meters away from his desk, crossing his arms, "What's wrong?" He asked tapping his foot on the ground.
"I have something big for you" Big Man informed, "This isn't some robbery either so listen up!" He clapped his hands twice which signalled a goon of his to turn on a projector. The projector displayed an image, or rather blueprints of Canterlot City's federal penitentiary.
"The Prison?" Electro was a bit confused, "What do you want me to take out their power or something?" Electro began to create small sparks out of his hands displaying a bit of his powers.
Big Man shook his head, "No not exactly." He got up and pointed to the security room of the prison, "I need you to disable the security system and free all the criminals, not that they're my concern I need you to bring back two specific prisoners..."
"Who would be....." Electro said, trying to finish the sentence.
"Flint Marko and Alexander O'Hirn!" The projector then displayed two prisoners, both had big and muscular body frames, one had short brown hair while the other had longer black hair. "They were both associates of Kingpin at one point and both played roles in Filthy Rich's attempted assassination at the Canterlot Towers. They were arrested a few months ago after being found guilty of attempted murder."
Electro looked a bit uninterested, "Why would you need those two cavemen?"
"Because I have certain... plans for them." Big Man smirked, "Now get going!"
Electro rolled his eyes, not really wanting to go but at the same time having really nothing to do, "Okay... whatever." He shrugged and left the dim office room, heading for the elevator.
It was a Friday night in Canterlot City. It was a bit humid, even for the beginning of May. Of course it was the usual, busy streets, a lit up city, downtown and lot's of people out at night doing whatever they could. Flash was at home alone, his mother had been beginning to date people again and tonight she was on one of those dates with a guy that she refuses to reveal the name of to Flash.
Flash was on his computer, chatting with a familiar face. "So you're really coming back to stay here for a bit in June?"
"Yup, it took a bit of convincing but my old man agreed to it." he was in a voice chat with Micro Chips, otherwise formerly known as, The Green Goblin! After Flash had defeated Goblin, or rather Micro Chips, his father took him to the UK to leave Canterlot behind and start a fresh, new, rich lifestyle there.
"Aw That's Great!" Flash smiled.
"Yeah. Micro Chips chuckled, "So uh since were talking, how's life back at Canterlot been for ya?"
Flash's smile became a bit of a half smile, "You know, it hasn't really been so.... good, so to speak."
Micro Chips looked a bit confused, "Why not?"
Flash took a deep breath, "Sunset broke up with me."
There was a pause for a moment, Micro Chips processed those words that had just come out of Flash's mouth, Oh. The four words Flash had just uttered came out a bit spontaneously, "Well... I don't know what to say, but what I do know is that well.... you could still be friends with her, I mean take it from a guy whose parents got a divorce, I mean they still talk to each other and they even became friends.
"I'm not sure it's gonna be that easy. Sunset has been really, really mad at me, I mean I can't even talk to her it's that bad."
"Dude, don't worry about it, things we'll eventually cool down at some point. Anyways I gotta go, uhh keep it easy and all that." He hung up on the video chat.
Flash took Micro Chips' words into consideration, I mean he's never had a girlfriend but he did make an obvious point, but then again Sunset was a completely different person compared to Micro Chips' parents.
But then, his phone went crazy with notification bells, breaking his deep thought. "That can't be good!" Flash picked up his phone and unlocked it as fast as possible, the notifications were coming from a new app. Flash read the headline and his eyes widened as he read it. In Big Bold words, it read...
FIGURE THAT MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE ELECTRIC ABILITIES HAS BROKEN INTO THE HISAN FEDERAL PENITENTARY. STORY CONTINUES TO DEVELOP BY THE HOUR
"WHAT?! OH MY GOD THIS IS BAD!" Flash forgot about everything and was trying to collect all his thoughts, "Wait, has electric abilities!" Flash took a moment and realized that the name 'Electro' might be behind all of this "Okay it just got worse! How am I supposed to go up against him again!"
The last time Flash had gone up against Electro he had nearly lost his own life, but then he came to an obvious realization, "Wait what kind of Science Major am I? Rubber doesn't conduct electricity, and if I'm not mistaken Rubber Gloves apply to that same rule."
Flash rushed downstairs to the kitchen. Once there he made it into a cabinet where his mother kept some cleaning supplies, "And...…. here!" He grabbed out a pack of rubber gloves, "And If I'm also not mistaken I have rubber boots here somewhere."
Flash ran to the front doorway and opened a small closet containing some footwear, he rumbled through the cornucopia of shoes until he found them, two Rubber Boots. Flash looked at the clock, he was only aloud to be out until 10:00 and it right now it was 8:00, "Okay Flash! You only have two hours to do this, stop Electro and put all the criminals back into their jail cells." Though It did not sound as easy once Flash let all of that sink in, he had to at least try.
Meanwhile at Hisan Federal Penitentiary, a huge prison which stood on it's own land, away from the city, Electro was making his way through the Prison, electrocuting one cop after another. "God this is honestly just so boring!" Even the swat team were having a hard time trying to shoot him down.
Electro was casually walking past each cell, a lot of inmates were acting crazy in the prison, calling Electro names, calling each other names, slamming each other into walls, the most wildest things that didn't kill each other. "Not to mention this disgusting building, my god if I could I would kill every last inmate in here right now!"
"HEY YOU! STOP RIGHT THERE!" An officer ran towards Electro pointing his gun at him.
"Cute!" Electro jeered, Electro stopped the confrontation from happening by electrocuting the officer with a very minimum amount of electricity, but like they say, big things come in small packages and that small amount of Electricity was able to kill the officer instantly.
Electro walked for a bout ten more minutes, trying to navigate the prison until he found it. The Security room! "Well it's about damn time!" Electro charged some electricity to his feet to create a powerful charge. Raising his foot up he kicked the door open, breaking it off from the wall.
A Bunch of security guards were in the room, turning around, they all pointed a bunch of machine guns at Electro, "DON'T COME ANY CLOSER YE BASTARD!"
Electro smirked , "Jeez that's some pretty heavy artillery for such a common guard!" Electro let out a powerful charge of electricity, killing even more security guards. They all fell to the ground in unison much to Electro's amusement. He walked past the corpses and headed to the control panel.
None of the controls were labeled which left Electro to wonder how it operated, but not really thinking about it he just short circuited the entire thing and in the process, disabling the control system. "Well time to look for Alex and Flint!"
More and more armored trucks arrived at the Prison with more and more swat officers arriving at the scene. What they didn't know was Spider-Man secretly hitched a ride, hiding at the back of the boat.
Getting on shore Spider-Man looked at the huge penitentiary. "So this is where everyone I arrested goes to, huh neat!" Then something caught Spider-Man's eyes, a huge hole in the wall like fence, it looked like something had crashed into it. "Looks like this must've been how Electro got inside.
Spider-Man walked through the hole and the first thing he saw was a bunch, no! not even a bunch it was like 5 herds ad more of Officers and Prisoners fighting each other, his eyes widened, he'd seen protests on TV before where the protestors would go up against the cops but he'd never seen anything like it in real life, "Woah! That is... something!" Spider-Man continued to make his way to the actual building it's self, seeing another hole that was most likely created by Electro, he ran towards it in hopes of catching him this time around.
Spider-Man made his way inside and say only a few Prisoners following Electro, the place had been completely emptied out, probably because the prisoners were all trying to escape. Spider-Man got a look at two of the prisoners following Electro, he recognized them, it was Alex O'Hirn and Flint Marko, the two goons he briefly fought at Canterlot Towers. "Oh no! It's those two!" Spider-Man began to get some flashbacks of that night, what he considered the most craziest night of his life, but this may come in close second.
Looks Like I better intervene before they get out or something! Spider-Man reached into the pockets of his jacket and pulled a rubber glove, because it covered the wrist area of his suit, he only brought one so he could shoot webbing with his left hand. Spider-Man had also replaced his normal sneakers with heavy duty Rubber Boots, he was gonna have to rely on a lot of kicks if he wanted to win this one.
Without any hesitation, Spider-Man leapt into the air and landed right in front of Electro and his big gang of criminals, "Hiya Fellas!" Spider-Man saluted with his two fingers, "So uh having a slumber party or somethin? What's going on?"
"You again?" Electro was a bit shocked (No pun intended) and pointed at Spider-Man, "I thought I killed you!"
Spider-Man shrugged, "Sorry Pal! It's gonna take a lot more than some electricity to kill me!" Spider-Man leapt over Electro and began attacking the prisoners. "Oh yeah, I hate to be a party pooper but I'm gonna have to throw you back in your cells!" Spider-Man kicked a prisoner in his stomach, doing a bit more damage with the addition of his boots, it sent him flying back into a wall, knocking him out.
"UGH! Get him!" Electro demanded. He then turned to Alex and Flint who were about to jump into action "But not you two, you two go find a place to hide or possibly escape!" The nodded their heads and ran for it, without Spider-Man noticing.
Spider-Man's spider-senses went off, a huge prisoner was about to grab him, but luckily he dogged it in time, "Wow! So much for keeping your hands to yourself eh?" Spider-Man jumped up and punched the man in his face and shot a bunch of webbing in his eyes, making him stumble back.
Three more prisoners screamed charging, at Spider-Man, prompting him to turn around. Spider-Man used some quick thinking, he picked up the huge Prisoner that laid on the ground and threw him in the direction of the three prisoners charging at him. The body made impact with the three prisoners, knocking all four bodies to the ground, with the big prisoner laying on top of them.
Spider-Man turned around and did not see Alex or Flint in sight. But he did see Electro, starting to float in the air, "Alright so what's the deal? First you need some tech and now you're going to a prison?"
Electro shrugged, "Meh, I get bored sometimes." Electro shot a bunch of electricity at Spider-Man, only to be blocked by Spider-Man's rubber glove. This slightly surprised Electro, "So looks like you found a way around the lighting strikes, you're smarter than I thought."
"Well I am a bit of science whiz!" Spider-Man jumped in the air and towards Electro without any warning, and this time he had somewhat of an upper hand, Spider-Man punched Electro under his chin and sending him flying up and into a ceiling.
Electro then began to fall but he rebounded himself in time to gain back control of himself.
"How do you like that? This time I can punch you!" Spider-Man sneered.
"Oh wow! What an accomplishment." Electro began to shoot more volts of electricity at Spider-Man, but this time Spider-Man being much more smarter and more calmer dodged the electric bolts and jumped onto a wall, clinging onto it. Spider-Man extended his arm out and was about to shoot a webline.
But then it happened again, nothing came out of his wrists, "Oh no! Not now!" As Spider-Man was trying to shoot a webline Electro gained the upper hand and shot electricity at him, making him fall onto the ground. "Gah! If I keep getting electrocuted like this I'm gonna end up like toast by the end of the night!"
Then his Spider-Sense went off, Electro was about stomp his foot into Spider-Man's head but luckily in time Spider-Man rolled away, narrowly dodging it. "You know, you're starting to become a bit of a problem, you know that!"
"Well, I have knack for getting on people's nerves!" Spider-Man leapt in the air and attempted to shoot another webline and this time to his relief it fired out of his wrists. Spider-Man swung towards Electro, extending both his legs out, Electro was met with rubber boots crashing into his face and sending him back even harder into a wall, this time creating a hole in the wall and sending him outside into the prison courtyard.
Electro got up, shaking his head a little but it wouldn't end there for him, Spider-Man swung through the hole he created, letting go of his web line he dived towards Electro and landed a roundhouse in his cheek.
Electro was getting understandably annoyed, "Okay! No more Mister Nice Guy!" Electro got up and began charging as much electricity as he possibly could, more than the first time he fought Spider-Man. "Okay Spider-Man, TAKE THIS!" He let out a huge whiplash of lighting.
Spider-Man's eyes widened, "Oh my go--" Spider-Man jumped to the side and dodged the huge yellow beam of lightning. But Electro continued, treating it like it was a whip, trying to hit Spider-Man, but he kept jumping out of the way. "Oh come on Electro don't be such a sour puss!" Spider-Man fired a strand of web at a basketball, "Here let's play some ball, me and you!" Using the webline he threw the ball at electro, only for it to be destroyed by him with the help of the raging electric whip.
"No more games web head!" Electro caught Spider-Man off guard, finally hitting him mid air.
Spider-Man was too slow to deflect it and the lightning was not letting him live it down, I couldn't even write down the words that could describe the pain Spider-Man was feeling through his body, Spider-Man was sent flying back into a cement wall that acted as the fence of the whole prison, he crashed through it and fell to the ground.
Spider-Man was moaning in pain, half of his whole jacket was completely destroyed, the second time it's happened in his whole Spider-Man career. Spider-Man however gained the might to get back up again, the battle was far from finished. Spider-Man limped through the hole again and saw Electro kneeling. "This is my only chance! If I attack him, I might be able to finally end this.
Electro was a bit weak, he'd exempt almost 75% of all his electricity, but luckily he had a plan B. "Okay! Unit B Now!"
Spider-Man started sprinting towards Electro as if the blast didn't affect him in anyway. But then his Spider-Sense went off, he turned around and saw a bunch of armored vehicles come his way. But the drivers weren't police officers nor swat officers, the trucks weren't even from the Canterlot Police Force at all. Unknown to Spider-Man, they were Big Man's men.
Spider-Man leapt out of the way but that would be his biggest mistake because those vehicles were Electro's getaway. Spider-Man gasped, "Oh No!" He watched as Electro was being taken away and drove off, "No not this time!" Spider-Man shot a strand of webbing at on of the vehicles as it began to drive off. Not thinking straight at all, he took off his rubber glove so he could should more webbing instead of relying solely on his left hand. He completely forgot about who he was going up against.
Not long after Spider-Man was snagging onto a web which was stuck onto a speeding car. The Car was barreling through the narrow streets and was not far from the city. Spider-Man was having somewhat of a hard time trying to hang on to his web but he kept his composure.
Spider-Man thinking fast, arced the web strand upwards and let go of the webline all together, he landed on the roof of the armored car though the driver could not tell. Spider-Man, though he could punch through metal and bend steel pipes, took a different approach. He funneled his fist through the driver window and grabbed the driver out of the car and threw the driver out, shooting some webbing under him.
Spider-Man jumped onto the next car, at that point they were entering the city, police chasing the last 3 cars. Spider-Man was almost out of control, he was so hellbent on chasing Electro he wasn't even thinking right. Spider-Man with no hesitation shot a bunch of webbing onto the windshield of the car. The Car was getting out of control but Spider-Man jumped onto the next car before seeing the fate of the other car and it's driver. Spider-Man landed onto the next armored car, but before he could even act on it, he was hit by a traffic light, knocking him off the car.
"No! NO!" Spider-Man staggered to his feet and fired a webline onto a building, it didn't even phase him that his Spider-Sense didn't even tingle. Spider-Man began swinging through the city hellbenteshly, he was not gonna give up and lose Electro for a second time.
Spider-Man found the few vehicles, raging through the road. Spider-Man began following them shooting out webbing as fast as possible.
But then, it happened again. "No.. NO NOT AGAIN!!" Spider-Man couldn't shoot a webline, "NO! NO!" Spider-Man began falling to the ground at fast speeds. "COME ON!" Spider-Man was still trying to fire a webline, but nothing, nothing was coming out of his wrists.
Spider-Man fell to the ground and landed in a puddle. He sat upright and took off his mask.
Author's Note
Okay so a bit of a wild chapter.
So in this chapter I instead make this battle in a prison, or a penitentiary, it's something that has been done in a lot of Spider-Man storylines. Usually I now do 2 fights per story but this one might end up having a few more I don't really know, well I do so I lied.
So in this chapter Flash uses his smart brain and realizes that Rubber does not conduct electricity and decides to fight Electro with rubber gloves, also something that's been done a lot in Spider-Man storylines.
It was kind of an interesting place to do the fight partly because It never crossed my mind till now.
So something interesting that I did, and by the way I'm putting a spoiler over this because it reveals some stuff about issue #3, Spider-Man kind of acts like Serpent, or rather his uncle, by attacking some drivers in what I believe he would do in similar fashion, especially in the chapter Flash's First Day in Tokyo
So at the end of the chapter Spider-Man loses his two most important abilities, Spider-Sense and web slinging, and this time it's gonna lead to Flash doing something more serious and I bet you know what it is
Tell me what you think about this and the original in comments below, hey maybe like I don't really know 🤷
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