An Amazing Beginning
Chapter 2: An unexpected explanation
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Sorry it took so long to make this chapter, I had a lot going on right now at home. But don't worry I wont take so long with the next one but I can't making any promises either.
Chapter 2: An unexpected explanation
You know, out of all the crazy things to happen to me since I got here wasn't anywhere as bad as this comic book crap I am now witnessing. This was the most insanity I ever went through in all my life at once that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
And that's saying something.
"What do you mean by that, exactly?" I asked a little less angry than I was and more exhausted than ever by all the stress that it feels like a wacked up dream. Honestly asking questions was the only coping mechanism I had at the moment as I looked at the old woman in helplessness. You would all do the same in my shoes I'm sure, If I had shoes that is.
"Exactly as you think young Jason." Madam Webb spoke calmly to me, must be trying to keep my head for sanity's sake. Not sure if I like that it's working on me though. "While this is an awful lot for you to take in, I'm sure. You must understand the new burden you carry. There is a serious threat coming that I can't do alone."
"Understatement of my life, among other things I would like nothing to do with" I said in a very unhappy tone, already knowing I'm not going to like what she was going to tell me next. which brought me to my next question "how are you even here anyways?"
"Tell me, what do you know of the multiverse." she asked me. This was a topic that I knew about but didn't have much in the way of understanding it. Of course it's obviously real otherwise there was no Equestria for me to be in. I knew I wasn't going to like what she was telling me but I decided to humor her.
"Not a lot, all I know is that it's endless universes existing across different versions of reality" I told her trying to make it simple and easy to understand myself. "There all unique in their own way, some are totally different, others are just like ours in a lot of ways but not quite." Yep I didn't like where this was going at all like I knew I would.
"Then you know what happened to you." she said as I stared at her piecing together everything she said. My transformation, my sudden arrival in a world I've been dreaming of going since I became a fan and of course the character of a comic book sitting in front of me. This was all a crazy situation. This I needed to get to the bottom of right now.
"What do you mean?" I questioned again "how am I supposed to know what exactly happened to me? I get to go to Equestria like I always wanted. What's the big deal?"
"Think Jason, what was it that you last remember?" she said pointing a finger to her own forehead as she did. I looked at and even tried to answer her but found that I couldn't no matter how hard I thought about it.
'What did happen to me before I arrived here? Okay let's see I saw that link online for a portal going to Equestria. I remember saying goodbye to everyone that knew me and I?.......and I.....and I.....' my thoughts stopped as a gap in my memory made itself known. I don't remember anything else other than just waking up in the hospital wing earlier in the day. I did feel like there was more missing than just my memory and even more questions now rose in my head. The only other problem was that I was scared about them being let out due to all the madness of the situation.
"I...I don't......." I thought long and hard, nothing came which was worrying. I couldn't remember at all what happened to me. It was all blank after showing up here "waking up earlier was all I remember."
I looked back up to her as I said this. She had a look I wasn't quite sure what, concern perhaps. As far as I know she was the only one here to give answers and at this point I'm ready to try anything.
"I see, well then, let show you." she waved her hand in a backwards wave "come on up here, and I will reveal the answer to you." I walked up the stone steps to her chair and approached her as I came to the old lady. When I stood in front of her she gestured for me to kneel, so I did.
She then put both hands on the side of my head and everything went black.
When my vision came back I was standing in the forest I recognized right away. The exact same forest I found the way to Equestria. In the middle of the forest in front of an overgrown front yard to an abandoned cabin was a yellow vortex.
"Woah?" I spoke without realizing it, it was even the same way I spoke when I first found it and before my age reversing from being cocooned. I tried moving my arms and legs but they only moved in the direction they did before, already telling me what was wrong. These were events that already happened and cannot be altered.
"Well....here I go." I said to myself and that's when I remember now. This was the day I decided to go through. I remembered thinking about it for a month before going through with this as I knew I wasn't going back. Like a true human in Equestria fanfiction, my trip through the portal I stood in front of it was a one way trip.
Did I have doubts, of course, anyone would in this situation. But I made up my mind that I knew would change my life forever.
As I approached the vortex, air blowing into it's spinning energy span as I approached it.
huuuuuuVVVvIIitZZzzt
"Huh?" when I stood in front, trying hard not to get sucked in(even if that totally is my intention, I still didn't want to get hurt) as a whirl of different colors followed by the vortex turning black and white for a moment, followed by a swarm of different colors and patterns appearing what I thought was colored glass or the vortex was..... from the looks of it, it seemed to be.... glitching, like on a video game screen.
I shook it off and moved my hand towards the spinning mass and then I felt myself getting pulled even more. Until another glitched wave passed through the vortex as I pulled my hand back quickly and moved back, no longer sure about this.
Okay, well maybe I should send a camera through first before I...."OW!" I then felt a painful pinch on my hand and slapped my other hand on it as I saw what it was.
A tiny little spider that seemed to be glowing, bit me on the back of my hand.
As I slapped my hand, I lurched forward slightly but just enough for the swirling vortex to pull me forward, almost lifting me off my feet as I saw the mass start to change again.
"Woah, not good! NOT GOOOo-i- WOOOOAHH A#_+_HHHH
It was too late to push back as I was pulled in and out the other side.
It felt like the worst rollercoaster ride I have ever been on as my body felt like it was being pulled, stretched and spun around in all the ways you can think of as the glitching portal sucked me in.
I finally felt like a slingshot marble getting launched in the air as I came out the other side, followed by extreme pain as I slammed against, what felt like a wall hard enough for my skeleton to feel like it was crunching on impact. Then I went flying with almost the same momentum to the opposite side, until I fell face first into the ground.
Everything hurt all over as I tried moving my limbs only for them to painfully twitch. I felt something starting to leak in the dirt as well, which was a really bad sign.
I then heard voices all around me as I looked around seeing a mass of colors all over the area I crashed in. My vision was too blurry to make out what I saw until a much larger white colored mass, looking like it was glowing in the daylight moved towards me quickly.
Hello ... you ...... I could only look up as a face moved towards mine, I recognized her right away despite my horrible vision.
"Pr....princeeee....C-C..." my severely damaged jaw got some words out but unfortunately it was barely a whisper as pain made my head land back down on the ground as I grunted.
My vision started blackening as the voice of princess Celestia shouted at me to stay awake as a familiar colored glow surrounded my body.
When my vision cleared up again, I was looking at the inside of a certain silky cocoon I popped out of not too long ago. Not only that, I saw a whole bunch of spiders crawling around, wrapping me up as well with the silk. I can practically feel how messed up my body was.
"Hurry, we muzt finish ze cocoon before he diez." I heard a hissy voice speak next to my ear. I tried to turn my head to see who it was that spoke, but my neck was held in place by the silky substance around me.
"Muzt hurry, muzt hurry, muzt hurry" I heard more voices repeating all around me as if they were in the cocoon with me, but all I can see was the spiders crawling around still.
"He muzt leve/he muzt leve/ he muzt leve" the voices repeated over and over as the spiders seemed to be moving around more frantically now, being commanded by a presence I can't see, only hear, until I felt one of the spiders crawl to my ear.
"You're Zafe now." I heard a hissy voice come from the spider, putting one of it's forearms I recognized was the first voice I heard speaking to the others. "Nozing to fear now."
Then everything started going dark again.
As I came to, Madam Webb let go of my head as I moved backwards, slightly dizzy from all the shock of what I just witnessed.
I should have guessed what happened to me the moment I first saw her. It couldn't be more obvious what I am now. It might even be considered a dream come true, but only if it was wanted.
"So....you decided to turn me into a Spider-man huh?" I spoke as I crossed my arms glaring at her "it makes sense now, getting bit by a spider, transforming into....this and with a lovely little cherry on top you show up out of the blue."
I can tell I was making her pissing her off which made me smile a little "Hmph, you certainly have a lot of nerve speaking to me like that." she said not backing off for a second, despite every instinct telling me to run away as I can feel how powerful she is "while I did send the spider to you, you have to understand the reason why." she almost snapped at me.
I walked back up to her, her blindfolded face following my every move as I put mine in hers. "You just show up here, in another universe! All I wanted was to live peacefully in this world, NOT BECOME A SUPERHERO!" I pointed a sharp claw nail at her, almost touching her head as she glared back at me "You ever stop to think this wasn't what I wanted, you selfish old- GAH."
"ENOUGH!" I felt a grasp on myself, holding and pushing me back asso a shout in a certain Canterlot voice from behind me and I immediately turned around to see who it was. The alicorn was dark blue and younger than her sister and shorter as well "That is enough Jason. This isn't going to help any of us. While I understand your anger, taking it out on those that are trying to help you won't make this situation any easier for us. Especially when you need friends more than anything right now."
"I see. Then tell me princess Luna, what friends do I have? Who can possibly help MY issues right now!?" I sarcastically snapped back at her, causing a look of hurt to appear for a second on her face only to be replaced by anger.
"You can't do this alone. You know that." she walked up the stairs, standing in front of me and was about to put her hoof on my left shoulder but I swatted it away.
"Do what exactly?" I knew that being a superhero in some situations would be wonderful but people need to learn to wake up. That never ends well for anyone, except in the comics.
"Is this what your sister wanted?" Webb said behind me, feeding my anger even. I clenched my fists as I turned back to her. "Would she want you to run, hide, while the ponies you care, suffer and die? I'm giving you a once in an infinite opportunity here." Then it was her turn to point her finger at me. "This world is in danger and I caused quite a lot of risk giving you that opportunity. now stop acting like a spoiled little 'SHIT' and start being there for those that need you right here, right now! Or there won't be a paradise for you." the old woman's voice broke a little. Despite her cold heartedness, she clearly still had feelings and they were on a rampage thanks to me.
She looked back up at me as if expecting me to say something back but I couldn't even speak. She was in pain emotionally which wasn't a good sign, I really didn't know what to say to her without making anything worse for myself. I can tell after just letting all that out she was in pain, not physically but emotionally. I knew exactly what she was going through from that look on her face too.
"What happened?" I said no longer angry at her as the old woman looked down to the floor. I couldn't even tell if she heard me or not as she just sat there it might've been better to not say anything at all at this point, unless I want to feel her wrath upon me. Thankfully she did look at me again although her anger was long gone which caused concern for both me and a look of deep sadness on Luna's face Though whether it was for her or me or even both of us, I couldn't say.
I wasn't actually concerned for her wellbeing, just what she would do to me if I went too far, considering she literally has superhuman abilities, this was not a person I wanted to mess with. I don't know a lot about Madam Webb, so what she can do to me was something I really didn't want to find out.
I still know a little about her, as I only saw a few episodes of that 90s cartoon with her in it. I knew she had some kind of mystic abilities but I'm not sure if it's magic or not. And I remember one of my friends from junior high even mentioned she was a mutant too.
Finally she took a deep breath and looked up at me "I shouldn't expect much friendly behavior from you to begin with." she said which got me to cringe, I even wanted to speak out but I did get myself tied up in this to begin with. And pissing her off any more will just come back to bite my ass, I don't know how I can tell though.
"Look, I really don't know what's going on here, but I really just want to live a better life than at home. That's why I came here in the first place, so can't you just, I don't know, get rid of these powers?"
Madame Webb then glared at me again as I said this and with a now disgusted look on her face spoke.
"A better life? Is that why you wanted to come to a fantasy world to begin with? So you can live happily ever after?" her voice was cold as the coldest ice as she spoke this. Even the princess looked unnerved by it too. "Well that isn't how it works here Jason. You must wake up from your delusions, this is the best option for you here and I suggest you take it. You may dislike the outcome, but you are going to have to deal with it yourself. So no the power of the Spider-man is now yours."
With that the purple mist reappeared and I ended up back in the castle.
For a half hour now I kept mentally kicking myself for how stupid I was. What was probably my one chance of getting changed back into a normal human was just flushed down the drain.
'Nice going you dumbass, now what do you do?'I snapped angrily to myself for my whole problem. I guess I need to find a way to deal with this mess later, for now I need to find Celestia and apologize for losing my temper with her. And of course blaming her for this new change to myself. Boy is that going to be fun for me. Now I just need to find a way to the throne ro-
"THERE IT IS!!"
'Oh shit' I cringed in annoyance, turning towards the shouting voice as I saw royal guards come rushing towards me. I recognized the voice of one of them right away along with the dented armor he wore after punching him in the face. I also noticed that whatever it was that made his fur white, which I assume was an enchantment in the armor, was revealed underneath.
I knew right away he was a pegasus thanks to the wings on his sides (and the blades of course), but he now had black fur with a spiked looking mane making him look like a pink styled brute of some kind. His helmet was off too, even his bladed wings were a different color. Before they were a shining silver almost white, now there about as dark as his fur. 'Hiding his weapons in plain sight. Why do I get the feeling he's about to cause a lot of trouble with those?' I knew I was in deep with this guy.
The pack of guards came up and stopped in front of me "Lieutenant, is this the creature?" I heard a mare night guard spoke as she stood almost in front of the lieutenant. I also noticed some kind of wavy energy field around her, which was really weird. 'Looks like it might be a light bending energy wrapped around her. Must be an illusion of some kind.' I thought then shook my head in surprise 'woah, where did that come from?'
"Damn right this is the monster, now get out of the way and let me take care of business." he said popping his neck as he looked ready to strangle me to death.
"And what's that supposed to mean, if I recall the princesses requested that he be returned unharmed and from what I heard you haven't given her a good reason to trust you" the night guards mare glared and got into his face, practically nose to nose as he glared back at her.
"And!?" was this guy for real? "It thinks it has no repercussions whatsoever and expects to GET AWAY WITH IT!?" The other guards seemed to be siding with him on this one. Guess I shouldn't expect less from those only following orders.
"I see." the female guard said not at all happy with the lieutenant at all "it seems that a punishment is in order for you then." this caused the little asshole lieutenant's glare to intense as he looked ready to punch her in the face. "And if you even think about assaulting me, just remember I'm not the leader of the night guard for nothing." this did cause him to back off in surprise now as I looked as the wave of energy wrapped around her dissipated.
Lieutenant Slicer Wing for the very first time I saw him surprised was way more satisfying than I thought it should be.
'Yep it was an illusion.' I though as I saw her, I was more surprised I pieced that together so easily. I was the only one that saw through it as well. 'New and improved eyesight makes a great illusion breaker apparently.'
"G-General Shadow Terror!?" the lieutenant was completely baffled from this all of a sudden. I tried very hard to hold in a laugh as his face grew pale at the batmare in front of him "what are YOU doing here? This isn't your problem!" this guy was so asking for it as she glared at him.
"Actually it is." she pulled a scroll out of the saddle on her side and opened it "I got a personnel message from both princesses claiming that a member of the solar guard assaulted a royal guest on castle grounds. That wouldn't be you would it?" getting into his face again as she said this and this time the asshole was completely backed into a corner.
"Fine." the solar guard finally said in defeat as he read the scroll "you and that stupid freak can walk but don't expect a clean slate from this." he angrily pointed at us both as he and the rest of his 'bully force' walked away. While the lieutenant gave me one last glare I lifted my middle finger at him. I know he had no idea what it meant as he raised an eyebrow at me, but I didn't care.
I walked up to the batmare night guard "as much fun as it is watching him get a taste of his own medicine. We really need to move this along." This got her undivided attention on me now, as it got her to calm down from the soon to be fight.
"Alright, let's get going then" she turned down the hallway as I followed her.
The walk was silent as we finally reached the throne room which was fine with me. The batmare was very quiet, I had to look where she was a few times to make sure she was still there. Her footsteps didn't echo, the satchel that she wore moved slightly but no sound or shuffle from it's contents, hell I couldn't even tell if she was breathing, even with my hearing stronger than ever there was no sound I can hear.
"Well, here you go. They're waiting for you inside." she stepped aside and motioned for me inside as I looked at the door. I then turned back to her to say thanks. Only to find her gone.
'Wow training in stealth. Very fitting for night guards and of course her name is literally Shadow. She even looks like Shadow the Hedgehog, somewhat.' It's true, she had a black fur coat with red cat-like eyes that almost glowed and even a few bright red marking on her wings. While I can't see through the enchantments of her armor I imagined she did have a red mane.
I looked up to see darkness all over the roof, if I could see her of course. Sometimes stealth operatives back home hide in the dark too or in plain sight but even though I'm seeing much better in the dark areas and even I still saw nothing. Either she really did leave or I am unable to see her at all. Oh well I'll have to test my new abilities eventually anyways. Even if wasn't looking forward to it.
Oddly enough no guards were standing at the sides of the big doors. With that thought I opened the throne doors by pressing as hard as I could. Or maybe it was slamming them open with how loud they hit the walls on the other side with a loud slam and almost falling on the floor in surprise. 'ooooh Riiiight, super strength' I now had all eyes on me in the throne room *VVVVRRRRIIII*which was followed by the familiar tingling sensation I felt in my head when I was being attacked by Slicer Wing.
A solar guard with a spear tried jumping on me but I leaped above him, avoiding him entirely as he lost his balance and hit the floor. Another guard aimed his own spear at my torso as he charged forward. I grabbed the spear by where the sharp point was placed at, stopping and lifting the pony by the other end of spear, knocking the wind out of him with only one arm.
I turned as two more solar guards came at me all at once. While I wasn't an acrobat by any means, I didn't do much sports in school but I was jumping and dodging like a pro Olympic acrobat. Not a single one of them touched me.
I now stood in the middle of the massive room, staring as the guards were surrounding me.
"STOOOOP." a familiar voice shouting on the edge of blasting us all away from the very back broke the silence behind me and I turned. Princess Celestia stood up from her throne as she approached all of us. "No more attacking my guest." she demanded but all the guards around me stood ready for a fight as she said this.
"But your majesty-" one of the guards tried to say until a glare from her shuts him up. All the others kept pointing their spears at me though. 'Does every solar guard here have it out for me here, Or are they all just that stupid?' I was really confused at that. I know they're just doing their job but come on, you need to know when your crossing the line
Thankfully the princess saw my distress and gestured all her guards to stand down. Even though she ordered them to stop attacking me, it looks like they still might too from all their focuse and stances directed at me.
"I, SAID, STAND, DOWN." she shouted at them almost in her full Canterlot voice from what the air around her was blowing, again and finally they all backed away, spears pointed away, although they still glared at me. "I will not allow anymore unauthorized violence on castle grounds. is that understood?"
She was followed by a 'yes your highness' from all of them at once, still the glares remained on me. SERIOULY!? WHAT IS THEIR PROBLEMS!? I folded my arms, honestly I was hoping one of them would try something so I can beat some sense in them. Even if it will make me look bad.
"Thank you, now leave." they hesitated for a minute, until another glare from their princess got them out like their lives depended on it. I had to do a double take on that as it took me a second to realize they were even gone.
'Okay, what's going on here?' it wasn't like Celestia to lose her temper like that, even if this the very first time I met her in person. Maybe me running off on her had something to with it. I scolded at myself as I approached the alicorn.
I let out a big sigh and walked up to her. As I approached her throne I just stood in front of her as she sat down, not even looking at me. Yeah, totally not awkward at all. what should I even say to her, that I'm sorry, that I lost my temper. I was just going over in my head again and again about it until I spoke again.
"Listen I...." I only got two words out as she then looked at me. She didn't look angry but she looked tired which caught me off guard. "Thanks....for getting rid of those guys." SERIOUSLY!!? I couldn't believe I just said that. Is that all you can say now!?
She just kept looking at me, not moving, just staring at me like the walking dead.
"And......I'm sorry... about getting mad at you. You didn't deserve that" still nothing, not even moving as she kept that stare going, which was starting to put me on edge. "Okay, Celestia can you please just tell me what\'s going on?" I still didn't get anything from her, for all I knew she fell asleep with her eyes open and it was making me really uncomfortable. "WOULD YOU PLEASE JUST SAY SOMETHING I'M REALLY STARTI- oof."
My vision was then filled with white as the princess jumped at me. I thought she was going to strangle me for a moment but no warnings from my new spider sense yet as she wrapped around me. Along with the sobs I heard coming from her and the slight moisture I now felt dripping on my shoulder. I was taken off guard again for what felt like a million times now. I just stood there as she cried on my shoulder, hugging me tighter and leaving me beyond confused.
"Celestia?" I did manage to get her attention as she lifted her head off me and looked at me with red teary eyes.
"J-Jason I...." she looked down "you...are you okay." it was my turn to just stare at her as she said that. She just met me and she's flipping out over me running away and just asked me if I was okay, which just left me baffled. And she just met me, why would this be so upsetting to her anyways?
"Would you please tell me what's got you so freaked out all of a sudden?" I said a little louder than I intended "Your really starting to get on my nerves here!"
Celestia still didn't look at me, I admit that almost got me mad again. Almost "I-I got worried when you ran off, I thought...I thought something terrible happened to you." My eyes widened in surprise as I was now trying to process her sudden caring of my own wellbeing was overwhelming.
"Why?" I said still locked in her grasp as I felt a slight tug from hooves on my shoulders.
"I need to come clean with you now Jason, your the most important being right now. More than you realize." This got my attention as she finally took her forehooves off of me as she then walked back to her throne.
When she sat down a handkerchief, or 'hoofkerchief' as I believed it was called here, appeared out of thin air in her magic and wiped both her teary eyes and then disappeared. She then breathed in through her nostrils as she now had my undivided attention.
"Something really awful is happening in Equestria" I gulped as she said this, as more bad news of the day has arrived, 'So much for catching a break.' "A crisis from somewhere has caused unexpected activity throughout the world. From what I've been told random objects appear out of nowhere around the world. Objects not of our world."
'Is they're ever gonna be a limit to how much bad news I'll get, because I don't know how much more I can take.' "What kind of objects are we talking about here? Aliens dumping garbage from outer space?"
"Not exactly." She said and this was where I knew things were about to get even crazy for what she said next. "A rift in an alternate universe is damaging ours. A world much like yours. A world where powerful humans with amazing abilities exist. One of the greatest of heroes that exists is a young man named Peter Parker."
"The Spider-man?" I blurted out in surprise, but it did not seem surprising to her, I knew this wasn't a coincidence, Which did raise a question I needed answered. "When the objects appeared did they have glitching patterns when they showed up?" I really hoped and prayed hard that it wasn't true, but no one is that lucky, especially me, even though I'm the luckiest man coming to Equestria here.
"Glitching patterns?"
"Like what you would see on a buggy videogame or computer. Probably making a bunch of weird noises in the process." I told her, I did know videogames existed here but I don't know if she knows anything about that stuff, Luna might be more helpful in that regard.
"Y-Yes they appear for only a second and sometimes even appear again on the objects, but other than strange objects I fear things are about to get worse."
"Worse!? The world as you said is being destroyed here. How can it get worse?" If this was anything like the Marvel comics and the movies I had a hunch at what was happening and it was a very big problem for everyone.
"While I was studying one of the objects I got sent to an alternate pocket dimension. Where I met a powerful human who has the power of psychic, and called herse-."
"Let me guess, Madam Webb?"I interrupted and she nodded at me not appreciating my second interruption. "And I guess she told you why I now look like a vampire?" I gestured to myself again as I said this, already getting a headache.
"She said that you now have the powers similar to that of Spider-man and with these powers you can stop what is about to happen." she stood up again and I felt a hoof on my shoulder and like I did to her sister I shrugged it off.
"Woah woah woah, wait a minute here." I raised both my hands in front of me backing away "You want me to be a superhero?" she nodded, somewhat confused about my sudden denial here "Yeah, that's not happening."
"And why not?" worry dotted her face as she spoke.
"Because I can't." I know that wasn't a good explanation but what can you do. I know most people who were fans of superheroes wanted the same powers as Spider-man, I myself even wanted that too. Until I found out the major downside to it.
"You....can't?" I looked at her again, I don't think she was expecting me to say no with how caught off guard she looked. She then walked up to me but not raising her hoof. She seems to be reading my actions and was indeed spot on about what she said next "Jason, listen I understand this is a lot for you to take in, but you might be the only chance we have right now."
"No, you don't understand!" I was on the edge of shouting this time as I glared helplessly at her. I was at my limit with all this bullshit now and just wished I was in Ponyville with my idolized heroes and let them take care of it "I can't be a superhero,." I explained, still not a good one but I continued. "There's always a major downside to that and I sure as hell am not going through that."
"What do you mean?"
"Your student knows." I blurted out, too late to stop the train wreck of knowing so much about them and my rising stress. "How many enemies do she and her friends make on a daily basis? How many villains of your country threatened you? And how many more do you think they will make in the future Celestia?" Venting my frustration at her as I looked at her. At this point I grew careless about my actions and I knew it too. Was it going to bite me, well in a way it already has.
"How do you know about Twilight?" she said. I could lie to her and tell her I heard about them from Canterlot High on their human world, but of course that isn't where I was from and even if I lied to her and that she is seen as a character in fiction back home it might cause even bigger issues.
"Let's just say I know more than you'd wish you'd know and leave it at that. Trust me." I said hoping that satisfied her for now. Seems like it did but I knew I wasn't out of the woods yet.
"I see. Then tell me this, are you really going to stay here and watch us all perish because your too afraid to not stand up for those that need it?" I was about to say something until she raised her hoof to my mouth and looked me in the eye.
"I'm not finished. There is far too much at stake for the quiet life you want Jason. If you really want to live a life of happiness here, you must fight for it, you must." as she looked down again with tears in her eyes as she lowered her hoof, I still didn't speak with emotional she was still making me uncorftable. "I know I'm asking a lot from you but I'm all out of options. Cassandra told me there are far worse villains in the Earth she's from that I fear not even the Elements can stop them. She told me that you are our best hope now. And I really need to believe that too Jason." I assume she meant Madam Webb as that was a human name.
"But...." this was all too much to take in. 'Why me, why did I have to get a radioactive spider bite? Why did I have to end up like this to begin with?' I was on the verge of shedding tears myself as I tried to respond. "I-I-I can't, I'm sorry, I really can't Celestia." I was beyond terrified about this whole thing now, I'm definitely being selfish, I can tell quite well here or maybe it was my returning teenage hormones coming back with a vengeance as I had a few serious mood swings when I turned thirteen. Boy was that a fun way to be a teenager.
Tears ran down my cheeks as I turned away from the Celestia, I can't bear seeing her face anymore as I ran back to the torn open throne doors.
"Jason....JASON WAIT." I wasn't looking back and the princess didn't move to stop me as I left the throne room.
I cried. I cried harder and harder than ever. Not since my little sister die from cancer did I cry so hard.
'No, nonono I can't' I argued with myself constantly trying to think clearly through all that's going on 'I could go back, maybe figure things out and-NO NO YOU CAN'T.''my thoughts at constant war were not helping my emotional state. All I wanted was to have a better life in Equestria. Was that too much to ask? How can I live a peaceful life as a superhero? How can anyone!?' There was enough pain and suffering in my life. It's one of the reasons I hate Spider-man.
Rage filled me as I finally snapped, slamming my fists in the floor, causing a tremor around me and leaving a small dent on the road.'A road?' it took me a minute acknowledging where I was. I was outside on the castle without even realizing it. Not only that, buildings surrounded me, meaning I wasn't just outside the castle 'Canterlot? I didn't even think I would travel all the way in the middle of the city.'
I then saw that ponies were staring at from all sides and some didn't look happy to see me. They all had disgusted and even angry looks directed at me and judging from the fancy clothes they all had there was no doubt in my mind about who they are 'Noble ponies? of course.' the rich snobs of the capital of Equestria always gave outsiders a hard time, no matter the species, even some fellow ponies never fell under their ways. Deciding that sticking around wasn't a good idea, I turned to where I could find a place to relax, if there ever is one to begin with. I should have asked Celestia for clothes before I ran offed again too while I was at it.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING, WALKING AROUND OUR STREET, ANIMAL?" a loud snobby voice that made me freeze in annoyance behind me. I turned to address the pony as a stallion unicorn wearing a monocle with a brown suit and a white mane that looked like it had too much hair gel put in it. He glared at me as other pony nobles came from all around creating a small crowd circling me.
"Gee I don't know, just walking on it. Plus I don't see your name on it dipshit" this caused the spoiled pony's face to scrunch
up at my choice of words. Other ponies were even more disgusted at my vocabulary but of course I was much too upset on my first day in Equestria to even care.
"WHAT!? how dare you speak to me like that, animal"
"FUCK YOU TOO ASSHOLE!!" I shouted quite loudly at him. if this guy kept calling me animal, I might just become one if he doesn't stop. The other nobles around me were not happy about me losing my temper like this. Some even backed off a little bit but kept up their appearance of superiority against me.
"THAT'S IT ANIMAL, TIME TO PUT YOU DOWN LIKE O-*CRACK*" Unfortunately for him, he never got the chance to finish his sentence.
Faster than anyone can blink I rushed up to the pony, slapping him hard in the face and it sent him flying far. Other nobles jumped out of way as he flew down the sidewalk and rolled but didn't get up. Thankfully I heard him groaning telling me he wasn't dead.
"EVERYPONY RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!" I heard a mare scream in terror as the crowd screamed and as quickly as it showed up it was gone.
'God dammit' I now had to get out here before things got really bad for me. I ran down the passage between two buildings, jumping up to the fire escape and ran up the stairs, leaping down on a dumpster to get over a very tall fence.
I then heard the sound of very familiar booted hooves coming down the sidewalk I came from. 'Solar guards again? Please give me a break today.'
I ran down to another opening between buildings only to run into a dead end. 'I better go back the way I came' I turned around but I stopped when I heard a voice.
"Hey, I think it went down this way?" then I heard shuffling booted hooves of guards I know are far too many to handle from what I heard coming towards me.
"Shit" I was trapped, I heard what sounded like twenty or more pony armored guards heading towards me and I knew there was no way out. It's not like I could....
'Wait a minute?' I looked down at my hands and at the wall and I knew what to do Well now is a good time as any. I put both my finger tips on the wall and climbed. Or I thought I would as I slid off the wall.
"Come on stick." I said as I tried again only to have the same result as I slid off the wall again and again. The guards were moving closer and closer to my position as I tried a fourth time. "Stick now." I jumped and waited for the inevitable slide. Except it didn't happen.
I looked up as I saw my fingers sticking to the wall. "YES!" I whispered shouted as I then tried taking my left hand off but couldn't because it was still sticking. "No." I got to stick, now I can't unstick "Come on come on COME ON." The finger tips wouldn't budge no matter how hard I pulled and the guards sounded right below me but not quite where I was yet. But they were very close now and I didn't have time to waste.
"Come on dammit." when I stopped struggling for a moment, that's when my new sticky fingers both got unstuck as I fell down on the floor, again.
"Hey, over here!" a shouting voice called out hearing m tumble. The guards definitely knew where I was now. I turned back up to the wall and crouched to down as low as I could. If I can't climb it, jumping might be my best option. With a flicking quick rise of my super strong legs I jumped high, almost reaching the roof of the building. Quickly putting my hands to wall I stuck to it again as I was at the edge of the roof now. I just had to reach it out with a hand to grab on, if I managed to unstick it again that is.
"Oh "I tried unsticking with only one hand this time, keeping the other one sticking as I pulled on my left fingers. It did take a minute but they managed to come off slowly. Finally my hand was free and I grabbed the ledge as my other hand started to unstick as well, pulling myself up quickly and onto the roof, landing on my back with a huff.
FREEZE DON'T MO- huh? I froze as a shout from down the bottom shouted to where I was.
"Well it's not down here either. Come on lets get back to where it was last seen. Hopefully that stallion noble has regained consciousness." I released a breath I was holding in relief as I heard them leave and got up as soon as they were far enough away.
'Cutting it way too close again Jason. Now how I get down from here?' I thought as I paced for a moment. Then I saw another roof not too far on the opposite building I was on. Hmmm. that's when I had an idea. I walked backwards to the opposite direction until I was at the edge, then I crouched into a running position. I was scared of course but I was even more scared of hurting ponies which turned out to be good motivation in this situation. I sprinted quickly to the other side and with a running leap I jumped to the other roof, landing with a forward roll.
I looked back with a smile at my accomplishment 'Well, I guess this isn't so bad' I then went to the next building with another leap and another and another, until I was back on the ground but still on the move.
*VVVVVVVRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIII*
My spider-sense went off again as I felt a large shake on the ground afterwards. Then something else happened. My vision seemed to pop out of my eyes and out to the world as it went forward with incredible speed. It then stopped as soon as it reached it's destination. A building with the roof blown open from the inside, along with voices screaming for help. The building was on the verge of total collapse with a large crown of ponies in it's trajectory.
My vision then switch to royal guards fighting creatures of different creatures All of them wearing some kind of matching leather armor.
As my vision turned back to it's old self I stared at where the madness was happening. The authorities have their hands full from the looks of it, they'll never make it.
"HEEELP"
"SCOOTALOO!? SCOOTALOO WHERE ARE YOU!?"
"*COUGH* *COUGH* HELP, I CAN'T BREATHE"
'Oh no' Three voices belonging to little fillies that I knew quite well were shouting from all the other voices inside the burning building. And they didn't have much time.
I sprinted to the burning building as fast as I can, not caring for a second about what might happen to me as I rushed to help.
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