Numb little bug

Chapter 7 Growing pains

The blast lander square in his chest sending Tristan flying through the steel pillar and through the wall of the warehouse.

It took a few moments for Tristan to process what had just happened. The pain only started registering when he looked down at his chest.

His shirt was smocking and he could have sworn he saw spots of blackened skin amongst the ruined still smoldering fabric.

Pain was a good sign, at least it meant it wasn't a third degree burn.

He rolled off the ruined hood of a car gasping for breath. He patted his face his mask somehow still mostly intact, only the bottom of his mouth was visible.

Spider-Man looked up finding the cold green gleaming eyes of the beetle armored man staring him down through the dust.

The glowing eyes snapped away from him letting the Shocker and Rocker Racer to exit sauntering towards him as if they had just done everything.

"You've been causing trouble for every honest crook in the city kid." Stated the Shocker his gauntlets glowing.

Rocket Racer lazily rolled circles around the injured vigilante keeping his distance.

"Not looking so smug now, wanna bet how long he'll last?"

"Not long enough for to be worth tipping money." Snorted the shocker.

Tristan glanced at the skateboard. It had the same design as the prototype he saw in his research.

Meaning that the exhaust port was its weak spot. Once he got a clear shot his hand snapped up ready to shoot his web.

Only for a shockwave to send him flying directly into the wall of an apartment building cracking it.

Groaning Spider-Man got to his feet. Rocket Racer mocking him as he rolled back and forth in front of him.

Realizing he was the distraction Spider-Man shot his web at the Shocker's gauntlet, the power behind it sticking the device to his chest.

Rocket Racer lept up with his board aiming it at him. Tristan's sense flared and he threw himself aside narrowly dodging the blast of the small missile underneath the board.

The blast did knock him off his feet, Tristan weakly scrambled to get up. He looked up seeing the police had created a barricade a few blocks up.

He heard the Shocker complaining about his predicament before the vilain opted to shock the webs off with his free arm.

Spider-Man knew he had to move, but he froze when the vilain raised both his arms up ready to end him.

He heard it before it landed, the whizzing sound of a wire. A spinning top flicked off the gauntlets making the Shocker shoot at the a nearby building.

Honey Bee landed next to him looking uncharacteristically worried. She glanced at him before focusing on the two vilains.

Rocket Racer blasted towards them smoothly evading Honey Bee's wire.

Spider-Man shot a piece of webbing at the skateboard wheel stopping it dead in its tracks. The sheer momentum sending Rocket Racer flying off his board over them.

Honey Bee stopped the board with her foot and promptly stomped it in half.

"Does that stuff come out of you?" She asked weirded out.

Spider-Man rolled his eyes under his mask.

"There's a third one, deal with him real quick." He told the super hero gesturing at the shocker with his chin. Before the girl could argue the Shocker shot at them both forcing them to split up.