The marvellous spider-man

Chapter 27

The news report talked about the shuttle crash.

"Thankfully," said the reporter. "The shuttle crashed in the North Atlantic Ocean, causing no casualties as far as we know. As for pieces of the shuttle that broke off it seems billionaire Tony Stark, AKA Iron Man had a contingency plan for that very event, which he predicted when the shuttle first launched. All pieces that broke off activated a prototype nanotechnology that caused it to disintegrate. Apart from complaints of steel dust pollution no one was harmed by the shuttle breaking apart. Tony Stark had no comment, except for a message for NASA, saying, "I told you so." Reports of a crime spike during the shuttle's crash have been confirmed, however it seemed someone tipped off police captain George Stacy to the spike. Cops have been patrolling the city more so than usual and have managed to bring a little order back to the city. Despite Spiderman's capture after he and the astronauts landed, Spiderman has been seen swinging through the city, which has caused the crime spike to, finally, end, putting some relieve on our strained police forces. The captain of the shuttle, John Jameson, did sit down for an interview, and commented saying that he was glad no one was hurt, and had some words of praise for the rookie superhero known as Spiderman saying..."

Aunt May turned off the television, sitting back on the couch with a sigh. She was glad no one was hurt. That meant that she could stop feeling guilty about her own problems. Now that it was over, she remembered why she had been feeling so sad lately.

Peter. He'd been so distant lately. Ever since Ben died. She found herself crying every night, wishing Ben were there, and that Peter would stop turning away. After all...

Peter was all she had left.

She was on the verge of crying again when Peter walked in. She looked up at him and gasped to see him. He looked like he was sunburnt...or rather it was worse than that. However, she did not suspect Peter of being near a superheated engine on a shuttle going at impossibly high speeds, so she only had one explanation for his appearance.

"Peter?" she asked. "Did you forget to put on sunscreen?"

Peter looked at her with a very surprised look for a few moments. Eventually he said, with some hesitation, "Yes...Yes I did."

There was an awkward moment of silence between them, but eventually Peter spoke up.

"Aunt May," he said, "There's...there's something that I...I...I need to tell you."

Aunt May looked at him curiously...and just a little hopefully. Peter hesitated for a moment, not certain how to say this. However, he knew it had to be said, so he came right out and told her the truth.

"I did something about the money situation."

Aunt May felt that few things could have surprised her more than what Peter had just said. In fact the only thing she could think of that fit the bill was if Peter had just said he was Spiderman. She was glad that wasn't what he had said though.

That would have given her a heart attack.

"So...you know?" she asked timidly.

"Of course," said Peter. "Well...not of course...I mean...Well...yeah."

This is going well, thought Peter sarcastically.

"But..." said Aunt May. "You did something? What?"

Peter didn't say anything. He just pulled something out of his shirt. Fortunately Peter found his bag where he left it after he woke up. That bag was with his costume, away from where Aunt May might see it, but Peter had taken the time to get something out of that bag. Namely, his camera...along with some pictures he had taken. He now showed those pictures to his Aunt. She took them in her hands and looked at them curiously.