Maya Stark

Chapter 139: We're in a band, apparently

'How do you like my new look?' Max said. 'Look, you give it to me, I'm gonna destroy it.' He chuckles. 'But I'll let you live.'

My Peter turns his head in the opposite direction, ready to jump. The three of us haven't been spotted yet.

'Don't make me a murderer, Peter,' Max said, much more serious.

My Peter puts on his mask and leaps down off the statue. 'Okay guys, here he comes.'

Max follows Peter, teleporting via lightening, and I take off running in the opposite direction of the other two Peters down the scaffolding. Before I get too far, I jump off, letting myself free fall for a second before I light my hands and move towards Max. The purple quickly drew his attention away from my Peter and he let out a blast of electricity directly at me, which I avoided with ease. At the same time, Peter 3 swings towards Max, distracting him from my position.

'Hey Max!' he said over the noise. 'I missed you, man!'

He swings upward, avoiding a blast from Max. We go back and forth, moving faster than Max can bare to shoot. I warm up to the flying again, allowing myself to flip and free fall when I need to dodge the electricity. After a series of miss shots, Max starts growing in annoyance. Peter 3 and I land on the crown.

As soon as my feet hit solid ground there's a roar in the distance. I guess that the lizard showed up. I'm off in an instant, trying to find the lizard as soon as possible. Instead, I find my Peter moving quickly through the scaffolding. I land next to him and run by his side.

'I got his attention, now what?' said Peter 3.

'Okay, great,' said Peter 2. 'Just an FYI, Lizard-guy is here too!'

'I need Max's cure!' said Peter 3.

'Yeah, I'm on it,' I say, still following beside Peter. I can see the turn just up ahead.

'Peter! I need the Lizard cure!' said Peter 2.

'Okay, okay!' said my Peter, panicked.

We are just about to go separate ways when a sand hand wraps around my stomach, suspending me in mid-air. Peter is stuck right next to me, struggling against the hold as well. A giant, muddy, angry face appears from the dust. Flint. Great. This was moving a lot faster than I thought it would.

'Where's the box, Peter?' he asked.

'Flint! We can help everyone,' said Peter.

'I don't care!' said Flint.

I light up my hands, cutting through the sand so I can stumble back onto solid ground. He reaches for me again, but I just move farther back, grabbing hold of a pole when I trip slightly. It was pure chaos. Everywhere. Peter 3 was being chased by Max, and Peter 2 was balancing on a crane with the lizard. My Peter manages to free his right hand and tries to web the crane, but it is cut short by Peter 3 who was trying to escape Max. He starts to fall, and attempts to web the crane, but hits Peter 2 in the face instead. The lizard uses this opportunity to smashes Peter 2 against the crane. Hard. I use my powers to stop Peter 3's fall, and he looks around – somewhat frantically – as he hovers mid-air.

'If you could web away so I don't have to keep holding you, that would be great,' I say into the comms.

'Oh, right, sorry, yeah,' he says, webbing onto a nearby pole else and swinging off. I let my energy drop.

'This is a disaster,' I mumble, as I turn back to Flint and my Peter.

'Sad to tell you, Sandman,' said Max. 'Nobody's going home!'