The winter was replaced by spring and by May, Pepper was so large she could hardly move off the sofa. At 8 and a half weeks pregnant, the spare room had been redecorated and a new everything had been bought. The whole place had been baby proofed in preparation for the arrival of my sibling. But I still felt nothing for the baby in Pepper's stomach. She had asked me if I wanted to feel her belly once, feel the baby kick but I didn't and she never asked again. I counted down the months. May 2018. 9 months in, 15 months to go. I sat at the edge of my bed, staring at the Peter's poster which I had plastered to the wall. The Shadow hunter and Spiderman. I wished the Shadow hunter could save me from this but I couldn't save myself.
"How is everyone?" I asked Peter through the phone. He was on the bus on his way to school with Ned and MJ. I felt detached and so I would often call him up whilst he was on his way to school, or at school, or on his way back. "They are good." He said, and then to the others, "Come say hi, it's Clara." Followed by the overlapping of Ned and MJ's voices. "They said hi." Peter told me. "I definitely heard." I replied. In the background I could hear the traffic of New York. "I'm free tomorrow evening, I can come over after scho-" A large crash interrupted him. "What was that?" I asked. Then what sounded like the bus coming to a sudden stop and a commotion from the other students. "I don't know, I think there is something in the sky." Peter told me.
"What?" I questioned with a sudden concern, jumping up, quickly tapping on my control panel and opening the blinds. I rushed over to the windows and looked outside. My mouth fell open with shock and confusion as I saw hovering above the city a large metal structure. It was shaped like a donut and I knew it was a spaceship. "Where are you Peter?" I said, shouting so he could hear my voice above the commotion on the bus. "5th street. Round the corner from the deli. But you can't come what about-" I hung up the phone immediately. I glanced at the tag on my ankle. It didn't matter when their was a ship floating above the city- that couldn't be a warning of something nice about to happen.
I activated my suit, feeling the black material encapsulate my body. I was lucky that Pepper and Tony had gone out on a walk in Central park this morning otherwise there was no way of me getting out of this building. Since my last escape, Tony had instructed all the guards to not let me leave the building under any circumstances. So I had to take the elevator all the way to the garage and sneak out through there.
The streets were in panic as people ran from their cars, others stood frozen pointed at the sky. I scaled the side of a building and made it to the roof, running across the skyline, jumping from building to building. I hear people below shouting at me, saw them pointing. Still I pushed forward until I could see the deli on 5th street. I looked for the school bus and spotted it's yellow paint just below me. I jumped. The force of me landing creating a jolt. I crouched down and leaned over the side of the bus, jimmying one of the windows. I managed to get it loose and slid it open. Inside I could hear Ned's voice among the screams of confusion.
An arm reached out of the open window, Peter's. I grabbed onto it and helped hoist him out of the window. He grabbed onto the side of the bus and pushed himself onto the roof beside me. He had his mask pulled securely over his head and out of his backpack he pulled the rest of his suit. "What are you doing here?" He questioned whilst pulling on his suit. "Well when there is a flying donut in the sky what am I meant to do stay home?" I said. "Yes, because your on house arrest!" Peter told me, his suit tightening around his body. I rolled my eyes and looked down at the tag on my ankle. It was slowing me down. I banged it into the side of the bus but it did no damage. It was almost unbreakable. "Come on we need to go." I said, holding onto Peter and preparing myself. He shot out a web, it travelling so far I couldn't see where it had attached itself, and we swung out. I grasped Peter as we swung from building to building, over the Hudson, closer to the ship. I looked out for any sign of a fight but all I could see was damage and panic until we got closer to central Park.
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The shadow Hunter
ActionA girl who goes by many names, has many things to hide and Alena Rose was always hiding. The red room taught her from the age of 8 to be nothing but a weapon. But the red room is in her past and she is now free to navigate the street of Manhattan. T...
