Spider-Man: Homeless

Ch. 8: Changes

"Peter, this really isn't necessary."

"Of course it is!" Peter told Jessica. "Your suit is so bland and boring, to gray."

"Yeah, it's called stealth." Jessica remarked.

"To bad, it's boring." Peter continued working on the suit. "And... done!"

Peter showed Jessica a red and yellow suit that had a similar design to her first suit with a mask that covered the top half of her face. "Well, try it on." Peter said.

Jessica rolled her eyes and went to change into the suit. She came back into the room with a straight face.

"Oh my gosh. I'm amazing." Peter said and Jessica scoffed. Peter cleared his throat. "I'm proud to pronounce you the world's newest superhero, Spider-Woman!"

"Yeah, I wouldn't call myself a hero." Jessica said.

Happy walked out into the garage. "Norman wants to meet with you guys. Nice suit." He said.

"Thanks." Peter and Jessica said at the same time.

"So, when does he want to meet?" Peter asked.

"Now."

Happy drove the teenagers to Oscorp and they met up with Norman.

"Ahh, Peter! So wonderful to see you again!" Norman said.

"You too, sir. I'm still super confused though. What exactly is the plan to clear my name?" Peter asked.

"We convinced the government to give you a trial." Norman said.

"And how will the trial help me? No one believes I'm innocent."

"That's why we have to work on making a case that's sure to set you free." Jessica said.

"And how will we do that?" Peter asked.

"Well, I was thinking we could use these six people that are trying to kill you to our advantage. We already know who Mysterio and Vulture are, and we found out that Dmitri is the Chameleon and Scorpion is a guy named Mac. That just means we need to find out who the Black Cat and Green Goblin are." Jessica said.

"I don't think that's a good idea." Norman piped up. "I mean, it's going to be nearly impossible to uncover their identities."

"Try me." Jessica said, walking up to Norman. "I think this is the best bet for Pete's case. If we cannot only prove that these people are the real villains but uncover their identities, we can get a whole lot of support from the public and win the case. Especially with Mysterio. We prove he's alive and Peter's name is cleared."

"Why don't we just worry about Mysterio. We don't have to go through all the trouble to bring the other villains into this." Norman said.

"Why? Are you afraid of something?" Jessica asked with a straight face. "What are you hiding?"

"Nothing." Norman said. "I just though that we could make things easier."

"Since when do you want to do things easy?" Harry said, walking into the room.

"I've always looked to find an easy way." Norman said.

"Dad, you made me wear a blindfold when learning to tie my shoe." Harry said.

"Yeah, well now you can tie your shoes with your eyes closed!"

"That's not a very impressive skill to have, dad."

Peter spoke up. "How do we figure out who Black Cat and Green Goblin are?"

"We look for clues." Jessica said. "The culprit could be staring right at you and you wouldn't know until you looked a bit closer." Jessica glared at Norman. Peter noticed but shrugged it off.

...

"Why were you acting so weird today?" Peter asked Jessica as they were going down the elevator.

Jessica sighed. "I know I said that I'd trust him to help you, but I don't. Something weird is going on."

"Well then, you can figure that out." Peter stepped off the elevator was met with a black cat. "Aww." He said, bending down to pet it.

"Sorry!" Felicia said, running over to the cat. "He got out."

"Is he yours?" Jessica asked.

"Yeah." She said. "You see, I love cats." Peter and Jessica looked at each other and then back at Felicia. "Have a great day!"

"You too,"

"It's her." Jessica said as they walked out of Oscorp.

"Yeah, definitely." Peter said.

"One down, one to go."

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