Chapter 23

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I was back home going over what I had just heard. I'm being hunted. Great! (Add that to another one of my things to worry about. I have this weird vulture guy, impressing Tony Stark, school, that weird black stuff that went God knows where, the weapon deals, and now you're telling me that I'm being hunted?! Thanks a lot author guy...woman...person who makes my life miserable. Thank you very much!!) I rolled my eyes at my thought as I plopped down in my desk chair. I was wearing my Spider-Man mask. "Hey Karen can you record stuff?" "Yes. I record things now." "Eveything?" "Yes. Everything it's all part if the Baby Monitor Protocol." "Great. Thanks Tony. Much appreciated." I said aloud. "Can I see the footage?" "Sure." Karen said as she pulled video footage. I saw a bunch of videos of me looking a total idiot. "Fast forward to the weapon deal." The video went to that night. "Identify those three guys." "I can't identify two of them but I can identify one." Karen said. "Who?" "An Aaron Davis of Brooklyn, he has a nephew named Miles Morales. He also goes by the name Prowler." "Can you locate him?" "He is at a supermart currently." "Good. It's time for this to end."

I swung to the location of Aaron Davis and perched on a corner of a rooftop. "Would you like me to engage in Interrogation Mode?" "Yeah do that! That sounds great." I hopped off my corner and landed on the parking garage that Aaron was in. He opened the trunk of his car and I webbed his hand there. "WHERE ARE YOU GETTING THE WEAPONS?!" I asked in a deep voice. The man jumped back freaked out. "TELL ME WHERE?!" "What happened to your voice?" "WHAT DO YOU MEAN MY VOICE? THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH MY VOICE." "Dude I know what a girl sound like." "I'M NOT A GIRL! I'M A BOY! I MEAN A MAN! A MALE." "Whatever man. I know what your sound like." "Turn off interrogation mode." I said. "Come on man please! I know you don't want these weapons on the streets. You saw what they could do. You have to tell me where you are getting the weapons from?" I asked. The man slammed the trunk shut. My eye slits widened and I backed up scared. "Listen man. I got a nephew. You're right I don't want these weapons on the streets. I'll help you out. There's a weapon deal going on now." "Cool thanks." I said stupidly and began to walk away. "HEY WHOA WHOA WHERE YOU GOING I DIDN'T EVEN TELL YOU WHERE?!" "Oh right. Where is it at?" "Staten Island Ferry. Can I give you some advice?" "Sure." "You have to get better at this part of the job." "What do you mean? I can, I can be intimidating." I said crossing my arms and leaning against his car. The man snickered. "Yeah to a squirrel. Man you have to be more grittier, be more like that guy Batman or whatever his face is with the S." "Superman? I can't be like them! One, Batman is Batman so there's that. Two, Superman could kill a purse snatcher with flick of his finger and a blast of heat vision or whatever. I'm a guy with spider powers. Anyway, why am I telling you this? I got a ferry to catch." I said walking away. "Hey hey hey where you going? Get me out of this." "Sorry. It'll dissolve in two hours. Bye you deserve it." " Uh uh I got ice cream in here." "Sorry you are a criminal bye Mr. Criminal. Bye." I said waving at the man. I webzipped into the air and swung to the ferry.

I landed on the ferry and crawled along the side of the it. I got a call from aunt May and declined it. I peeped my head over a window and peered inside. I saw two suspicious men sitting back to back talking. "It's that guy from the heist. Who's that other guy?" "The database shows no record of him." "Odd." The heist guy stood up and walked away. I crawled to the roof of the ferry. I perched on the corner of it. I was looking down at the criminals gathered on the parking floor of the ferry. "Incoming call from Mr. Stark." "Hey kid....where are you?" "Um....getting a sandwich?" I said. "Kid, I know what you are thinking." "Mr. Stark I really can't talk right now." "Don't interrupt me. Kid don't go after those guys." "Mr. Stark I really got to go." The ferry horn blew. "What was that?" "Uh....a truck horn from outside." "Odd. Could have sworn that that sounded a lot like a horn of a boat." "Gotta go bye." I said hanging up. Great. I shook my head. I peered down below. "These are the keys to the white van." A guy said holding them up like an idiot. I shot a web at the keys. "I'll take those. Doink!" I said yanking the keys in tg o my hand. I jumped to the floor. I held the keys up. "The weapons exhibit ended at 4:30 you missed it." I said webbing two of the men and pulling them to me. The guy with the weirs shocky hand thingy swung at me. He missed. I webbed his weapon to the metal fence. "You know I have to say...the other guy was way better at that than you." I said. My spidey senses went off and two guys flew at me from behind. I spun around and webbed them. I webbed a motorcycle that was behind them and pulled the three of them towards me. "Oof! That might have been a little harsh. You guys okay? You're fine." I said waving my arm at them carelessly. I heard a banging noise behind me. I turned around to see a man next to a white van. He stared at me. He hopped into the van. I started after him. I was stopped by a bunch of men with guns. "FREEZE!! FBI! PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR AND STAND DOWN!!!" "The FBI?!" "The Federal Bureau of Investigation." "I KNOW WHAT IT STANDS FOR KAREN! WHAT ARE THEY DOING HERE?!" I asked. I the sound of metal shearing and tearing. I looked down dark wallway. Wings sprouted out of the van. He took off down the parking area. I dodged out of the way. A car went soaring out from below the Vulture's metal talons. He struck a guy hanging onto the ferry. Vulture hovered in the air. "Kid, stay out of my way." "If you stop these weapon deals maybe I will but seeing how that won't happen. I'm going to have to stop you." I said. The vulture guy fired a weapon of purple energy. I dodged the blasts. The blasts erupted on the ferry. I webzipped the weapon away from the Vulture and webbed it to the floor of the ferry. "Ha! I got your weapon." "You're messing with technology that you don't understand, kid." Vulture said taking off. I looked back at the weapon. It was shaking violently and it exploded. The blasts cut the ferry cleanly in half, down the middle of the boat. "Oh my god." I exclaimed. The ship was diverging in two. I began to speedily web the ferry together and swung back and forth on the ferry. I landed on the ferry. "Great job Peter. You were 98% successful." "98?" I asked. Karen showed one last support pillar. The webs began to snap. "No!" I screamed. I jumped from my spot, I grabbed two webs and held on to them. I sas suspended in the air holding the ferry together. I let out a cry of pain. I started to descend. "What the?" I asked looking around. I landed on the floor. I looked over at a window. I figure peered up. "Hello...Spider-Man." It was Mr. Stark in his Iron Man suit. "Uh oh." I said quietly.

He took to the skies

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He took to the skies. I swung after him, he was sealing the ferry back together. "Mr. Stark? Hey. Mr. Stark. What can I do to help?" I asked attacking nyself to a platform on the roof of the ferry. Iron Man looked at me. "I think you've done enough." He said then flew away, leaving me stranded on the ferry. I looked up tos helicopter. I webzipped the railing of the helicopter and swung to a nearby rooftop overlooking the catastrophe.

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