Someone to Save

Chapter 13: Nickname

After everyone payed Tony, I went off to the Tricarrier.

Walking to the conference room, I took my seat next to Danny and awaited instruction.

"Hey webs, where were you this morning? " Nova asked. I looked at the time on my new SHIELD web shooters. 2:26? Time sure does fly.

"I slept in. Gotta catch up on that from time to time," I chuckled. Thankfully, Nova had went with it.

After a few more minutes we got our mission. Catch the supervillan. Put him away. Clean up the mess. Not my favorite part...

Upon our return to the Tricarrier we went back into the training room. I was starting to feel as if my head was floating.

Before I blanked out, I heard a voice say, "ad altiora tendo¹".

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He wobbled forward, trying to gain some semblance of control before full-on sprinting into the exercise.

Each attack on each training bot was planned and precise. The actual work was short of nothing.

In 10 minutes, all of the robots had been destroyed.

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The light was too bright.

And there was a scent of..... sterilization in the air?

I sat up holding my head and tried to open my eyes instinctively reaching for my glasses.

Oh wait.

Those aren't needed anymore. I internally laughed at myself for my mistake. A SHIELD medical specialist came back and told me that I had a concussion in the beginning of the session, but continued to finish it and then collapsed.

Uuggghhh. It must have been one of them. I hadn't seen them for a while until now. How many are there? How did they develop? Why now?

The specialist cleared me and I went to join my team. As I walked through the halls, I remembered something. I became consumed in a flashback.

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"Hey look! It's Parker!"

"The kid with no parents?"

"I bet they hated him! That's why they left!"

"Puny Parker has no parents!"

"Puny Parker has no parents!"

"Puny Parker has no parents! Puny Parker has no parents! Puny Parker has no parents! Puny Parker has no parents! Puny Parker has no parents!"

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"-ter."

"Peter!"

I was now on the floor. I looked up toward the voice. Tears were now streaming down my face. I tried to wipe them away, but they didn't stop.

Ava then hugged me. I became limp in her embrace. She comforted me while I sobbed.

And this is why we don't do drugs kids. Stay in school!

1: ad altiora tendo basically means that he will strive to accomplish big things. Spidey is trying to reassure Peter and tell him that he knows what he's doing.