Spider-Man: Welp, they know

The discovery from before

FIVE YEARS AGO

-April 2018-

     It was when everyone, almost everyone, looked outside of the bus to look at the oddly shaped spaceship hovering above the ground, closeby.

     Some of them turned away from the window early, and they noticed a kid jump off the bus.

     Among those people, were Flash, Malaka and Abe, as well as a few others. They were surprised but they didn't announce what they had seen to everyone else on the bus.

     "You... you guys saw that?" Abe said, shaken from what he'd seen.

     "Y..yeah." Arya, Malaka's sister replied, feeling a sense of dread from the scene.

     "Do you think he jumped off or-" Flash asked them. He, too, was disturbed.

     "He's probably fine. Probably." Abe said, unsure but trying to convince them and himself of this.

     "Hey, did you notice the guy was wearing a mask?" Asked some kid sitting in front of them, "It was red?"

     "Who do you think it was?"

      "If anyone's missing from the bus, it's probably them."

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      "Sally Avril... Brian McKeever... Peter Parker..." Their teacher, Mrs. Broeder, droned on as she marked the register, looking at the faces of the students after each tick and then it hit her, "Wait, where's Peter?"

     "Could-" Abe said quietly to Malaka, eyes widening at the possibility. Malaka said to him in reply, "Maybe-."

     "Wait, how is he not here?" Asked Mrs. Broeder, suddenly panicking, "He was there this morning, wasn't he? Was he on the bus on the way here?"

     Ned tried to look as nonchalant as possible, being Peter's best friend and all, he did NOT want his friend to get into any more trouble.

     "Yeah, he was there," Nodded Seymour O'Reilly.

     "Probably got off when the bus stopped.. or something," Ned blurted out, hoping this alone would be sufficient to cover for Peter.

     "We saw a big spaceship nearby," Added Abe, "Maybe he wanted to check it out?"

     "Oh come on," Mrs. Broeder exclaimed, annoyed rather than terrified, "Not another attack!" She immediately put her file on the table and pulled out her phone, and began to look through her contact-list, "I'm going to call your parents. Let me check where the attack's been taking place."

     "We passed it on our way here," Some kid said.

      "These attacks.." Tutted Mrs.Broeder, "They keep happening." She, after making sure that the attack was taking place rather far from where she and her students were, informed the parents of their children's safety. She couldn't call all of them, so she sent a message to assure them their kids were fine, that they were far from the attack, and so on.

      Then, when she called Aunt May to ask her if Peter had come home, she said no. That, unfortunately, while the class roamed around the museum, looking at the artpieces there, was heard by Arya. She heard the, "Then where could he be?" from Mrs.Broeder and it further increased her suspicions on Peter Parker. She guessed Mrs.Broeder was talking about Peter, and wasn't entirely sure if it were possible.

     She went off with her classmates to look at the paintings, pushing the thought to the back of her mind.

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     The people who began to believe that Peter may be their friendly neighbourhood web-slinging vigilante, no longer trusted Ned's cover-ups. Instead, they simply didn't tell anyone about this strange possibility. There wasn't, if any, much evidence to prove it anyway.

     Peter might've just ditched the school-trip for his own weird reasons.

     Spider-man might've showed up the moment he left.

     It could possibly be a coincidence.

     But was it?

     The question seemed to beg to be answered. Anyone who guessed this... that their classmate could likely be the hero they saw on TV, in the city, it... well, it excited them. And at the same time, it was not the easiest thing to believe- although it was a valid possibility.