A Spider's Guide to Heroism

Chapter Fifthteen

Peter walked through the office and stopped at his co-worker's door, knocking on it.
"Hey!" Mary Jane looked up from her computer and waved to him.
"Hi, MJ." Peter smiled at her. "I need someone to vouch for me." He held up his new wrist watch. "I'm actually on time today."
"Ah, don't worry about it." She said with a chuckle. "Jameson isn't in today."
Peter frowned. "Really? That's odd. I don't think I've ever known him to take a day off."
"He does sometimes." MJ replied. "Ironically those are the days you don't show up anyway."
"Oh... interesting." Peter shrugged. "Anything new on the go?"
"Not much, city's been kinda quiet as of late, aside from that robbery and the unexplained explosion at the King Ping's building." MJ replied.
"Unexplained?" Peter looked at her. "I heard some people on the street, saying that HYDRA was involved."
MJ perked up. "Really? HYDRA?" She started typing furiously on her computer. "Thanks for the tip, Peter, I'll look into it."
"No problem." Peter waved her off and was about to leave.
"Oh, and Peter?" MJ looked up at him again, catching him before he left.
"Yeah?" Peter asked turning back to the door.
"That guy called looking for you again."
Peter frowned. "Right..." He left and headed to his own office area.

Deadpool phoned looking for him again? What could he possibly want this time? Peter thought that he would of left town by now since his turning over of a new leaf wasn't exactly working out. Peter looked at his phone and saw a bunch of left messages... All from Deadpool.
"Goddammit." Peter frowned sitting down and punching in the numbers to activate his inbox. It was full. "What the hell does he want?"
The first message started to play.
"Heyyyy! Peter! It's your old pal Deadpool! or... Wade, as you met me as. I'm just... just calling to chat... to say hi... Y'know... but you're obviously not in so... Yeah." Click.
The next three messages were off the same context, Deadpool calling back to check to see if Peter was in. He wasn't. The idiot even tried calling after hours.
"Hey I know the site says your closed right now but on the off chance you're working late...."
What an idiot. Delete.
"Hey so uh... Anytime you'd like to call me back that'd be greeeeeeat... I got a few questions about... Spider-Man."
This message caught his attention, Peter sat up in his chair, looking around to make sure no one else heard the speaker before he picked the phone receiver up and started going through the rest of the messages.

"Yeah so uh... all that junk you said about being a hero... how Spider-Man was a hero? It's complete bullshit." Peter rolled his eyes, of course Deadpool would say that. "You lied to me."
"I didn't lie to you..." Peter mumbled.
"It is about the reputation." Deadpool started in on the message. "I tried taking your advice, tried following the advice directly from the man... nothing I did worked."
Peter sighed, Deadpool did try at least.
"I was told that... I'm never going to be good enough to be a hero." There was a pause.
"Who could of told you that?" Peter asked himself, because he knew that he didn't say that, he got angry with Deadpool when he screwed some things up but he didn't say that Deadpool couldn't be a hero... just that he wasn't cut out to be one.
"Fury told me right out that he didn't want a lunatic like me around this city..." Deadpool sighed on the message. "I guess if someone like him who can call on all the greatest heroes of the world on a whim tells you that you're useless and a lost cause... well then it better be true."
Peter scowled. "He did what!?"
"So yeah... even though you lied to me." Deadpool's message kept running on. "I'd like to say thanks for trying to help me out anyway. And about bumping into me on the street-"
The message reached it's time limit and got cut off, but Peter figured that he was about to start rambling anyway.

Peter sighed, that really was a shame. Deadpool did have the potential to be very useful, and to be someone great. He could be a hero, but he was disappointed that fury had shot the idea down. He didn't know fury had said that to Deadpool's face, if he did, he would of had something to say about it. He tried to let the merc with a mouth down easily, and suggested that he kept trying to be a hero, just not here, but he guessed that some people just find it hard to change, some people may be hopeless, and maybe this was for the best. Now things could go back to normal.