Flash Sentry The Spectacular Spider-Man Issue #4: Double-Trouble

by SpideyFlash

Epilogue: Enter Cheese Sandwich/The Enforcers!

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A Limousine Bus pulls into a parking lot to a Manhattan Hotel known as the Manefair Hotel. Soon eleven people enter out of the bus. First was an engaged couple, Rarity and Applejack. Soon followed their nine friends, Twilight, Sunset, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Soarin', Sandalwood, Timber Spruce?! and Flash.

"And that's why I stopped going out at night to get lumber for a campfire!" said the Enthusiastic Camp Counselor from Camp Everfree, also known by many others as Timber Spruce, a young University Student at ESU who worked as a Camp Counselor at Camp Everfree, and whom was also Twilight's Boyfriend.

"Dude!? How many camp stories do you have?" Soarin asked, "I swear we went from the subject of Gaia Everfree, whoever the fuck that is, to how you chopped your first piece of wood to that time you and Twilight went camping with her family, I mean they're entertaining but do you have anything else besides camp stories?"

"Hey, says the Wondercolt Air Cadet!" Timber scoffed.

"Woah! Being an Air Cadet is probably one of the greatest honours I have! It beats being a lame Boy Scout!"

Timber's eyes widened, turning to Soarin and glaring at him, "Who are you calling a lame Boy Scout you sorry excuse for a soccer player!"

Soarin glared back at Timber Spruce, "Sorry Excuse? SORRY EXCUSE!? I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW THAT I GOT A SCHOLARSHIP TO YOUR SCHOOL FOR BEING THAT SO CALLED SORRY EXCUSE WOOD FOR BRAINS!"

Timber was getting heated up, "AIR BALL! OH WAIT I'M PRETTY SURE YOU MAKE HALF OF THOSE IN A BASKETBALL GAME"

"TENT FACE! WAIT! I TAKE THAT BACK, NO MICROSCOPIC ORGANISIM ALIVE WOULD WAN'T TO TAKE REFUGE ON YOUR UGLY FACE", Soarin scowled

"WOW THAT'S A NEW ONE, 'MICROSCOPIC ORGANISIMS', I THOUGHT YOUR BRAIN WAS TOO SMALL TO EVEN PROCESS THOSE WORDS!"

The two both growled at each other and rolled their sleeves up, only for both of them to get their ears pinched by their respective girlfriends.

"Can't you two behave for more than five seconds? Honestly!" Twilight let out a sigh and pinched the bridges of her nose.

"You guys are embarrassing sometimes I swear!" Rainbow Dash facepalmed.

The two tried reasoning with their girlfriends, "HE STARTED IT!" The two said in unison, pointing at each other. "HEY DON'T REPEAT WHAT I SAY!" The two barked back at each other. Though both the girlfriends did not listen and continued to pinch their ears all the way to the hotel while the rest all laughed at the scene.

Sunset turned to Flash who looked like he was gonna fall asleep any second, "So how are you holding up?" she asked.

Today, was not Flash's, not because he'd been pummeled while patrolling the city or because he'd gotten yelled at by his boss, but because he had the cold. Luckily for Flash It wasn't too serious, a stuffy nose, a sore throat, a bit of drowsiness and a headache, but if you've caught the cold than you know it's like a living hell, and that's exactly what Flash felt like he was going through.

"Like a dead man walking, well minus the dead part I guess", His voice sounded a little different due to the stuffy nose and also a bit raspy due to the sore throat.

"You know you didn't have to go through all that trouble of coming here with us." She put her arm on the slouching Sentry, "You could've, you know stayed home and gotten some rest, we wouldn't bark at you for it."

"Well I kinda agreed to be a photographer for this and if you've met Mr. Jameson!" He snorted, "You know that a photographer never sleeps on the job... well I think he usually just get's mad at me for not getting any pictures sometimes."

Sunset gave Flash a smug smirk and rolled her eyes, "Well Mr. Jameson sounds like he should get some anger management classes."

"Well that and also because I couldn't pass up on free engagement party food."

Sunset smirked, "Of course, who would." She ran her fingers through his blue hair, watching him fighting his eyes to not shut and fall asleep right in the middle of a parking lot. She chuckled, "Come on their fighter, were not that far from the hotel."

Sandalwood and Fluttershy were both making their way to the hotel as well, when they noticed that Pinkie Pie was energetic, more energetic than usual, she was bouncing twice as much as she usually did, her mannerisms were twice as spontaneous almost everything about Pinkie Pie, physical looks aside, was x2!

Sandalwood leaned to Fluttershy's ear, "Should we, like say something? She's been acting more, well you know Pinkie Pie today."

Fluttershy tried brushing it off, thinking it was probably nothing, "I'm sure it's just excitement over the whole party!"

"IT'S NOT JUST THAT!" Pinkie Pie came out of nowhere and stood behind the two, startling them.

"TH-en what is it?" Sandalwood stopped himself from fully screaming and regained his nonchalant tone.

Pinkie clicked her tounge, "Welllll...." she felt heat rushing to her cheeks, "y-you know what, nevermind, I'l l tell you inside."

Applejack glanced behind her shoulder, "Uh, Uh Sugarcube!" She shook her head in disagreement, "You can't expect to say somethin' like that and end the conversation lookin' like that! What's their name?" Pinkie Pie looked shocked, somehow Applejack was the one with the physic effect.

Rarity chuckled a little but then scolded her fiancée,"Now, Now Applejack dear, stop harassing the poor girl! She's probably very self conscious about it!"

"I AM NOT SELF CONSCIOUS!" The pink, puffy haired girl defended her self, "I'm just, really excited I'm trembling!"

They all made their way into the hotel. They all halted when they saw a lean young man stand right in front of them, he looked to be around the same age as Flash and Soarin, also looking as tall as them, if not a little taller. He had brown curly hair and orange tanned skin, he wore a yellow collared shirt with a very loose tie and black pants.

"I didn't know Weird Al would be here!" Flash commented, his eyes half closed and back still slouched.

"OH MY GOD YOU'RE HERE!" Pinkie raced to the male and began hugging him tightly, bouncing him up and down. When she realized the whole group, aside from Flash, was looking at her with furrowed expressions. "Oh um everyone, this is my, uh, my boyfriend!"

"YOUR BOYFRIEND?!" They all mostly screamed, promoting the whole lobby to stare at the eleven people.

The boy waived, "Hi!" He was quite enthusiastic.

Flash meanwhile, "I didn't know you were dating Weird Al?"

Sunset looked at Flash with a blunt expression, "Flash, that's not Weird Al!"

Flash blinked sluggishly, "Well he looks and kinda sounds like him, well maybe I'm just tired and sick but still he kinda screams Weird Al to me."

"You know you'd be surprised but I get that a lot!" The boy replied with a toothy grin, "Anyway uh, I'm Cheese Sandwich, what's your's?" He walked to Flash and Sunset and gave out his hand to shake.

"I-I'm Flash..... And this is Sunset.... and behind me are all our friends...." Flash shook Cheese Sandwhich's hand. "Oh and uh excuse me for my voice, I'm a bit sick today."

"Well that's no one fault!" Cheese Sandwich replied, "Nice to meet you all!"

Rarity seemed a bit skeptical, sure he seemed like a nice kid but at the same time, Pinkie Pie hadn't even mentioned she'd have a boyfriend, "So uh? Cheese Sandwich right?"

Cheese Sandwich glanced at Rarity and nodded, "Mhm."

"Well I don't want to sound nosy but, what's your story, or rather how did you meet Pinkie Pie?"

"Oh! Uh well, it's kind of a funny story you know."

Flash's eyes widened, "Oh no!" He knew exactly where it was going, and he was not in the mood for it.

Sunset glanced at Flash, arching an eyebrow, "What is it?" She asked.

"I sense a Flashback and it's coming fas--"

**Flashback Sequence**

"Oh no! IT'S BEGUN!

"So it all started a few weeks ago!"

NO!

"Well Actually, I think a proper origin story is in place!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

"I was a busboy at a local diner, trying to earn some money, doing it as a part time job. I also come from a relatively upper class family from Manhattan, my dad's a wealthy stock broker, my mom is successful lawyer and my three brothers are all entrepreneurs."

"Than there was me, the oddball of the family. Who knows maybe I didn't get my families correct genetic code but somehow I turned out to be a bit of a goof! But hey can you blame me? Doing a boring business person just isn't my style. I kinda wanted to be more of a... party planner, put all my creativity to the test!"

"Than somewhere around that time I met Pinkie Pie!...Which was a few weeks ago! I was working my normal busboy job, nothing particularly exciting happened that day though."

Cheese Sandwich is wiping a countertop with some water, he looked pretty bored about the situation he was in, wondering why the kid that was eating there dropped gallons of juice onto the table, "Wow this is pathetically boring!"

"But then, out of nowhere, the most greatest highlight of my life unfolds right in front of me! The most, beautiful girl comes into the restaurant and immediately catches my attention.

"HA! Oh you! Always trying to be a sweet talker!

Cheese Sandwich finished cleaning the counter top when he hears the door's open to the establishment, he began to open his mouth and recite the usual employee welcome, of course in his own enthusiastic way, "Hello there! And Welcome to Yanky Doo--OHHHHHH.. my god!"

That's when his eyes laid on two girls, one stood out, looking vibrant as ever while the other looked kinda bland, with light gray short hair, it was Pinkie Pie and her sister, "Ugh! This place looks like dog shit! Couldn't you've gone off a bit longer and not wail about how hungry you are!?"

Pinkie Pie shrugged, "Sorry, when you gotta eat you gotta eat!" She give Limestone a toothy grin, trying to look innocent and cute, her eyes sparkling.

Limestone let out a violent exhale out of her nostrils like a bull, "Whatever."

"Now! I have no idea why, but something in my head said she's the one!

Cheese Sandwich stood there with his jaw hanging open a little and his shoulders dropped, for some reason he was starting to feel weird, his heart beating faster, him breathing twice as much, cheeks feeling heat, and all of this because he was staring at Pinkie Pie, "She's the one!" He mumbled.

Limestone and Pinkie Pie looked around the restaurant and spotted Cheese Sandwich who snapped out of his trans as soon as both of them walked over to him, "Uh, hey you! Whatever your name is? Do you think you could get us menus or something?"

Cheese Sandwich however, was still a bit focused on Pinkie Pie who, what he thought, had the most liveliest smile he'd ever seen, it wasn't until Limestone snapped her fingers in front of him that she got his attention, "HEY! Earth to Waiter! Or, whatever it is that you do!"

Cheese Sandwich fully snapped back into reality and glanced at Limestone, "Uh, yeah?"

"I said could you get us some menus!"

"Oh.. uh yeah sure!" Cheese Sandwich stuttered a little. Running to the edge of the counter he grabbed two menus as the two Pie sisters sat at the bar area.

"Gee the staff here are like a bunch of pansies!" Limestone commented.

Cheese Sandwich came back holding two menus and handed it to them, "Uh here!" He placed them on the counter and watched as the two began looking through what they could order.

"So uh, I don't why but I started asking normal people questions, y'know like weather questions and time stuff or whatever, I just felt so weird around her I couldn't act like me for a minute!

"Uh? So... I don't think I've seen you guys around here before, where you from?" Both Limestone and Pinkie Pie glanced up at Cheese Sandwich, one with a smile and the other with a skeptical face. "UH! You know, getting to know the customer and all... that."

"Well, were from Canterlot City!" Pinkie Pie smiled.

Cheese Sandwich felt a surge of electricity go down his spine, he was actually talking to her, "OH! Uh... so what brings you to Manhattan?"

"What is this some sort of interv-"

But before Limestone could finish, Pinkie Pie interrupted, "Wellll…. My sister is moving here and I just came along for the ride to help her out and help her settle into her apartment, like all good sisters do! Oh yeah uh, could I have the Pizza please?"

"He doesn't need to know that!" Limestone argued, "We don't even know this guy! Oh yeah by the way, I'll just take some black coffee!"

Cheese Sandwich wrote those orders on a notepad, ripping the paper off, he handed it to another waiter.

He turned back to the two sisters and introduced himself,"Well, I'm Cheese Sandwich! I'm kind of a native New Yorker, but I've lived in Manhattan for most of my life."

Limestone rolled her eyes, "Wow were not even here for five minutes and she already gets us engaged into conversation-- Well I'm Limestone !" She changed her tone to sound a bit enthusiastic and not too mean, "And this..." He shoulders dropped and she let out a sigh, "This is my sister, Pinkamena, but she... she likes to go by the ridiculous alias Pinkie Pie!"

"Hey, Pinkiamena just doesn't roll off the tongue like Pinkie Pie does!" Pinkie Pie shrugged.

"Oh well, that's cool!" Cheese Sandwich scratched his head and tried to make his best sly grin.

Pinkie Pie mused at the lean boy for a minute, stroking her chin, like she knew something about him, "Hmm...?"

Cheese Sandwich, for the first time in his life furrowed his eyebrow, "Is.... something wrong?" He was worried that he was coming off as a creep or something.

"Oh it's nothing, it's just, you kinda look like you're sad, like you're not happy with your life here and you feel like an odd ball of your family and want to leave this place."

Cheese Sandwich's eyes widened, "Wai--How--I-- Whaa…??"

Limestone facepalmed, "Pinkiamena! What did I tell you about trying to be a psychic?"

Cheese Sandwich soon interrupted, "Well No! She's right! but, how did you know that?"

Pinkie Pie shrugged, "Well, I had a hunch...."

"How do you do that?"

"I'll never tell~"

"I'll get it out of you one way or another, but anyway....

Pinkie Pie glanced down at the ground for a moment and decided to follow up, "Well it's not just a hunch."

Cheese Sandwich arched his eyebrow, "It's not?"

Limestone let out an annoyed sigh, "Oh boy here we go...…"

Pinkie Pie kind of giggled, "Well, you see, I was kinda like that too at one point! You know, everyone in my family was always frowny and sad! I felt like something used to missing in me, than for the first time, I saw Rainbow! And I don't know why but it made me smile! And from that moment forward I dedicated my life to being the happiest version of me and spread joy and laughter to everyone!"

Limestone rolled her eyes, "I honestly doubt the credentials of that whole story but I kinda just go along with it."

Cheese Sandwich on the other hand felt his mouth gawp open a little, "Wow..... well I guess I've also just wanted to spread joy to other people and well, make them laugh, and well..... this may sound a bit silly but I've always wanted to do party planning or you know maybe even be a comedian or start my own show."

"Usually I never really share the fact to other people that I want to do stuff like that, but I guess something in me just let that slip out.

Pinkie Pie's eyes widened, "Y-You like Party Planning to?"

Cheese Sandwich chuckled nervously, "Well, I've never actually done it before, but you know, a guy can dream right?" He shrugged.

It was kinda at that moment, I went COMPLETLEY CRAZY!.... Heh sorry! I just love this part of the story!

Limestone was sensing something, something loud that was gonna come out of her sister's mouth, she swore she could hear steam whistling, "Oh no!" She covered her ears.

"OH....MY.....CUPCAKE!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed. That caught the whole attention of the restaurant and their diners, Limestone, though her ears were covered, couldn't escape the wrath of her sister's loud, energetic voice! "I LOVE PARTY PLANNING! I've been party planning for as long as I've remembered and-and I-I...." She was babbling quite quickly about her memories of being party planner.

Cheese Sandwich started grinning, grinning a toothy grin, "Wow I've never met someone so... energetic like you!"

Pinkie Pie closed her eyes and smiled, "Well, you could just say I'm one of a kind!" She giggled.

A moment of silence passed by, soon the restaurant and their diners fixated themselves on whatever they were doing prior to Pinkie Pie's sudden outburst. Soon the two sisters were served the food and eventually finished up. With Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich not really saying anything to each other after that.

Limestone took her coffee with her and paid Cheese Sandwich at the counter, but before they left Cheese Sandwich wanted to ask Pinkie Pie one last thing.

"I don't know why? But I felt like she was gonna be the only girl like that and I didn't want to blow my chances of never seeing her again so... I took a leap of faith!"

"Uh.... Pinkie Pie, wait!" Cheese Sandwich called out.

Pinkie Pie glanced behind her shoulder and smiled, "Yeah! What is it?"

Cheese Sandwich, in a surprise move, vaulted over the counter and ran over to Pinkie Pie, he gulped before spewing out everything he wanted to say, "Uhh.. look I just-thought that maybe you-- I mean me! I mean me, I mean I would wan't to uh, chat, talk ,uh one of those two and..."

Pinkie Pie gave Cheese Sandwich a smug smirk, "Do you want my number?"

"YES!" Cheese Sandwich's eyes widened and he almost immediately changed his tone, "I-I mean, that'd be cool!" He smiled.

Pinkie Pie giggled, she'd only known him for fifteen minutes but it was almost hilarious to watch him freak out, "Okay then" She and Cheese Sandwich grabbed their phones out and she began saying her phone number, number by number.

**End of Flashback Sequence**

"And well we talked and talked for a few weeks, one thing lead to another and now here we are!" Cheese Sandwich smiled, baring an almost eerie resemblance to Pinkie Pie's smile.

"Wow! That was the most cliché love story I think I've ever heard!" said Soarin. He immediately earned a hard nudge from Rainbow Dash, right into the arm, "OW! Sorry, 'I mean it was one of the most greatest collections of literature words ever said in a sequence!'" He imitated his favorite English teacher Mrs. Cheerilee and smiled.

"Thanks!" said Cheese Sandwich.

Flash on the other hand. Though he'd look like a zombified male human being, was celebrating in his mind, YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! IT'S OVER, OH MAN I'D THOUGHT I'D KEEL OVER BY NOW!"

Meanwhile the rest of the gang thought it was a sweet story and that maybe Cheese Sandwich was a nice guy, ready to accept him into their group of friends, they'd all get to spend a week in Manhattan so they'd probably have lot's of time to spend with Cheese Sandwich and get to know him.

***

But meanwhile, In Canterlot City!
Big Man has had enough with Spider-Man, already learning about the situation with Sandman and Rhino he knew that he'd had to bring in the big guns. Something Mr. Breaker couldn't provide. He had to go to another man, a scientist that was much more knowledgeable and could provide more, more than CircoVision had to offer.

He was known as, The Tinkerer. An average scientist by day, a criminal scientist by night! He was now being tasked by the Kingpin to do one thing, take three of his men, Montana, Fancy Dan and Ox, and turn them into super criminals, meta humans, any term that could best fit them and finally take down Spider-Man, once and for all.

Montana, Fancy Dan and Ox all stood in Big Man's office, having a video chat with the man known as 'The Tinkerer'.

"Perfect!" Big Man exclaimed, "Why did I waste my time on creating mindless mutants when I could've just gave them advanced technological costumes that gave them the powers, Tinkerer you're a--"

"Genuis?" said a black silhouette being displayed on a huge monitor, "I get that a lot!"

"So, what do the suits do?" Big Man pondered.

"I'm glad you asked." Soon the three suits were being displayed on the monitor, with the Tinkerer explaining each one, "First a suit with a red and gold colour scheme, they have two gauntlets which emit shockwave and vibration blasts, even coming with protective green shades. This was made for you Montana, the leader of the team!"

Montana grinned, spitting a cigarette out of his mouth, "Shockwaves huh? I think the name Shocker seems to be in order!"

"An excellent name chap." said the Tinkerer. Next displayed a suit that had a dark red and grey colour scheme, "This next suit of armor is designed to bounce off of any surface that you choose, it also gives the wearer enhanced agility! This one was made for you Daniel"

"Sorry, but I go by the name Fancy Dan in this here parks!" Fancy Dan smirked, "But a suit that can bounce off anything huh? Sounds like I'm a ball in a game of Ricochet, hey, that ain't half bad!"

"I one hundred percent agree!" Finally the last suit displayed on the monitor, "And this one was made for you Ox! This suit will give you more calculated strength than the Rhino and there is an oxygen tank in the even that you get exuahsted, it is reinforced with strong shades as well, just like the other two."

Ox stroked his mustache, "Very interesting!"

"So? Will you be giving yourself any new aliases?"

"OX!" said... Ox. He didn't really care about the name and more or less cared about killing Spider-Man like his partners in crime.

"That.... works too."

Big Man clasped his fists together, "Well then boys your set! Find Spider-Man, and end him once and for all! Go all in, do something so big that'll catch his attention" He grinned, "Oh and Tinkerer."

"Yes Big Man?" replied The Tinkerer.

"If things go south, start devolving a super-serum!"

Though Tinkerer's facial features weren't being displayed, he grinned behind that monitor, "It shall be done!"

……..


Author's Note

Oh My God! That was the longest Epilougue I've ever written! Compared to all the other Epilogue's I've written, (which all together is roughly 4097 words!) this was only 237 words short. Than again I've only made seven stories, three of which I've deleted.

But anyways this is the epilogue for FSTSS Issue #4, the longest one in the series!

So I know this story was one chapter short, (Only being 10 chapters compared to my usual 11 chapters) But I think one reason was because I chose to make the Sandman fight and Rhino fight all in one chapter.

So in this Epilogue we are finally reintroduced to Cheese Sandwich, which whom I made a reference to his voice actor Weird Al Yankovic. So I originally wanted to introduce him in Issue #2 rebooted but I couldn't find a scenario I liked.

So I did a bit of more digging into his character (which is how I found out his voice actor was The GOAT, Weird Al!) And I heard he was from Manehattan (Changed to Manhattan for the obvious reason that this is the human world.)

So I thought it would be kind of cool to introduce him to the characters being rather an outsider instead of attending their school.

I also had to figure out how I'd tweak Pinkie Pie's origin story, (Particularly the point in her life she first smiled) So in the FIM universe we know that Pinkie Pie saw a Sonic Rainboom, created by Rainbow Dash which ultimately made her smile and made it her life mission to make other people happy (Or so I think!)

But Rainbow Dash in real life never had any magical powers no less the power to fly! So I did the most Cliché MLP thing to do, use a Rainbow and hoped it sticked!

So the last part of the Epilogue is setting up the next story which will primarily focus on The Enforcers and Symbiote Spider-Man! This is really gonna be a tough story, I'm not gonna be relying on comedic writing like I did on this one and I'm leaning towards a December 20-30th release, if not January due to how tough it will be to write this all out, especially Flash Sentry being overcome with Symbiote.

I'm truly gonna try and make Issue #5-Issue #6 the best ones I possibly can (I want to use Symbiote for more than 2 stories) and finally end off The Big Man Arc.

Tell me what you think in the comments below and hey maybe even leave a like I don't know 🤷, This is SpideyFlash Signing off!