The Amazing Spider-Man & Kitty Pryde - Destiny Awaits

Chapter 1 - "Down Deep in Darkness!"

A few years ago...

Peter was on an assignment taken pictures of the new Oscorp facility that just opened up in midtown. He had been working for the daily bugle while in school for awhile. It's senior year. He had saved up enough to get a car & also saved up for an apartment near his job. On the news played war going on across the world where a mutant was causing havoc there. The Xmen stopped the threat and later met with the UN to discuss protocols on what to do & how to move forward. Times were a little bit simpler now as some mutants were known as "super soliders" to help aid in the fight against terrorism & any other known evil threats foreign & domestic. In stumbling upon lab out of curiosity, the young scientists/photographer accidentally bumped one of the tables, knocking over a the radioactive spider that was hidden after it escaped the lab. It crawled up on Peter's arm & bit him. Later that day & after a night of feverish sorrow, Peter awakened to a newfound power.

2 years later, Peter would loose his parents after a crook escaped their confinement. His parents, Richard & Mary, were both CIA agents who were confronted by Albert Malik, the third Red Skull, & their plane was sabotaged. Before all of this went down, Peter's Dad told him the famous quote, "With great power, comes great responsibility" as they found out their son had gained his powers from the spider (that later died immediately afterwards) when they went in to check on him & he was hanging from the ceiling testing out his abilities. They kept a secret so noone would know given their situations at hand in the new world era. Peter vowed to do what's right by his parents with his newfound powers & abilities as he begin his life as a vigilante, fighting crime to protect the city from dangerous foes as his parents would have, following in their footsteps.

1 year later...

It's rush hour in Times Square, & Spider-Man is attempting to stop a train hijacking. As the train speeds out of control, the wall-crawler forces himself inside and easily trounces the thugs holding the passenger's hostage. Their leader takes control of the train and pushes it to top speed, threatening to kill everyone on board in a collision with an upcoming train. Spider-Man knocks out the thug, but it is too late to stop the train before it crashes. Spider-Man then crawls out of the train, leaps to the next and evacuates all the passengers on board so nobody is hurt when the trains collide. Firefighters arrive on the scene and begin evacuating passengers as well; however, they find no trace of Spider-Man & assume he was killed. They are wrong, but the hero was knocked out in the crash. He is picked up by a group of Morlocks who take the wall-crawler down into the sewers with them.

Later, in Westchester County, Kitty Pryde, a young mutant who is part of a team called the X-Men, is stuck babysitting a pair of boys. As the pair fight over a board game called "Sewers & Serpents", Kitty complains on the phone with her teammate, Storm. Kitty is upset with this job, given to her by Professor X so that the youth has a balance of normal teenage activities on top of her training as an X-Man. Overhearing this, the other X-Men have a good laugh, angering Kitty, who hates being treated like an ordinary teenager when she is nothing of the sort. She angrily hangs up the phone and orders the boys, Edward and Jeff, to go to bed. When the pair protest, Kitty literally drags them to their bedroom.

Left to her own devices, Kitty eventually falls asleep on the couch. Not long after, Edward and Jeff sneak out of the house to play "Sewers & Serpents" for real. To this end, they go to a nearby housing development, where they play in a pit. Edward goes down into the pit, but Jeff is too scared to go down. Suddenly, Edward screams for help, prompting Jeff to flee in fear. Five minutes later, he returns with Kitty. The teenaged mutant thinks that Edward is playing around, so she takes Jeff down with her to investigate. Suddenly, they are attacked by a group of Morlocks, who take Jeff and flee.

Using her phasing powers, Kitty passes through to an underground tunnel, where she witnesses the Morlocks taking Jeff away on a mini-train car before following after them in another. Some distance away, Jeff is taken to Strigor, the leader of a rogue sect of Morlocks, who already consist of mutant outcasts. He has disobeyed Storm's orders to ignore the people of the surface world. The boy is then tossed into a cell, where he is reunited with Edward, as well as a shackled Spider-Man. The energy shackles keep Spider-Man bound and unconscious, and there is nothing Jeff or Edward can do to free him. However, Edward refuses to give up & attempts to free Spider-Man by tossing a bowl of water at the energy beams. This causes them to short circuit, allowing Spider-Man to break free. He thanks the boys for freeing him and asks what is going on?

Meanwhile, Kitty has arrived at the end of the line and finds the cell where the boys are being held. While she downs the guards, Spider-Man kicks the door open, freeing himself & the two boys. Kitty fills in the blanks as to why she and the boys are in the tunnels. When they are attacked by the Morlocks, they all fight back. It's during this clash that Kitty has to use her phasing powers, and Spider-Man recognizes her a member of the X-Men.

Working together, the pair knocks out Strigor and his minions, but their battle damages the structural integrity of the tunnel. Spider-Man, Kitty, and the boys manage to flee to the surface as the tunnel caves in. They find themselves in the middle of Manhattan, & Spider-Man offers to help them get back to Westchester. Kitty accepts his offer, while deciding to call the Professor to teach him to assign her to typical teenage activities again. She then grew a liking to the web head as that would later grow into crush. Spidey drops her & the kids back off at their destination & he chuckles as Kitty gives the Professor an ear full after she tells him about her eventful night.