A Spider's Guide to Heroism

Chapter Two

"Deadpool you jerk! Let me down from here!" The Spider struggled, tangled in a foreign web.
"Haha, oh man I can't believe that actually worked!" The mocking laughter of the mercenary was heard approaching the scene. "Y'know how old that trick is? And you fell for it! What happened to the Spider Sense, huh?"
"It doesn't work how you think it would..." Spider-man complained. "Sometimes things happen just a tad too fast to process."
"Well, sucks to be you doesn't it?" Deadpool continued to admire his handiwork. "Say how's the view up there?"
Spider-man looked down at him. "Pretty ugly looking actually."
Now it was Deadpool's turn to frown. "Cute." He grumbled walking over to the net's support rope, lowering the man just enough for good access but not enough to allow him to escape.
"So this is how you planned to do it?" Spider-man questioned him. "Trapping me like a wild animal?"
"Y'know Spider Hunting is an actual sport in Australia... So I see nothing wrong with this." Deadpool replied.
"Well, I just see it as kinda lowly of you." Spider-Man continued. "You didn't have the nerve to kill me in a fair fight so you had to render me helpless. Like a coward."
"Hey! I ain't no coward!" Deadpool quickly snapped back.
"Well you 'ain't' no hero either..." Spider-Man spoke in return.
Deadpool flinched. "What's that suppose to mean?" He narrowed his eyes at the remark.
"I'm just saying, you have so much potential but instead you waste it on being a horrible person, by doing stuff like this!" Spider-Man explained. "You're like, almost immortal with that healing factor of yours right? Can you even begin to imagine how much the world could benefit from a super hero with powers like that?"
"...no, I can't." Deadpool replied bluntly.
"Exactly, because instead of using it for good, what are you doing? One-offing people to make a quick buck. And why do you do it?" He awaited a response.
"Uh, because I can?" Deadpool responded. "I mean why wouldn't I? I'm good at it, it makes money and it helps those who pay me."
"But you only do things if it's in your favour as well." Spider-Man argued. "Whenever S.H.E.I.L.D actually needs something from you, they gotta cough up a lot of dough."
"Yeah, just like anyone else would have, for the greater good or not."
"Y'see that's the problem right there! You'll do anything if the price is right." Spider-Man scolded. "I bet if someone gave you ten grand you'd kick a sick puppy too huh?"

There was silence for a moment.

"Not for ten grand but maybe for a hundred..."
"DEADPOOL!" That was not the response he was expecting, although a part of him kinda was. "You're missing the point!"
"Clearly, mind to explain it?" Deadpool sneered.
"You're selfish." Spider-Man noticed he finally caught the mercenary's attention.
There was another moment of silence before the mercenary spoke again. "I... Am not selfish."
"You're not?" Spider-Man questioned. "Oh I guess I over looked the fact you're about to kill a hero, a hero people NEED because you saw a few dollar signs. Last time I checked having no regard for how your actions effect others was selfish."
"Shut up!" Deadpool snapped, startling the spider. "You don't even know half of my story, and if anyone is selfish here it's you!"
"I'm the selfish one?!" Spider-Man's voice took on a more angry tone. "How am I the selfish one? Care to explain it?!"

Deadpool paused for a moment. Spider-Man wasn't actually selfish. Deadpool's natural instinct was to spit back whatever insults were handed to him, but surely he could find some flaw to work with. "Well you... You uh." He stumbled with his words looking for something, anything he could use for back up. "Well you can't stay out of people's business! You have to take part in as many issues as you can to try and solve them weather it's a villain you try to convert or the average bank robber, you always gotta make yourself the hero so you can look cool and have fans like any other hero would do!"
"What?" Spider-Man had to chuckle slightly. "You honestly think I do what I do because of a reputation? A fan base? News flash, being a real hero isn't about the fans."
"Yes it is!"
"No! It's not!" Now Peter was the one to snap back. He couldn't stand anyone taking this hero business, this responsibility, for granted. "And if you seriously think that's all it takes to be a hero, if that's what it means to you, then clearly you need to re-evaluate some things and take a reality check, cause something is not clicking right in that messed up head of yours."
There was yet another moment of silence.
"I do what I do not because I can or because it gets me reputation, I do it because I care. I care for people, I care for this world, and when I have the power to change it, why just stand by and let it die? Even if the world hated me, like completely hated me, I'd fight against them just to let me help them. It's my responsibility, and no one is going to change that." He sighed. "Never mind, someone like you'd never understand it."