No More Spiderman

Chapter 5

"Peter! Peter!" Peter wakes to Lami's yelling outside his door, "Did you hear? Oh my god it's so bad!"

"What?" Peter rolls out of bed and opens the door to find Lami and Clare at his door.

"They're back." Lami tells him as Clare grabs his arm and drags him to the common room, where the other 7 interns are clustered around the TV, all still in their pajamas.

The title on the screen reads SINISTER SIX HAVE RETURNED: STILL UNSURE WHO IS WORKING WITH THEM.

"No." Peter mutters, "No, no, this can't be happening."

"You okay, Peter?" Oliver asks, helping him to a couch.

"Dude, what's wrong?" Lucas asks.

"That's Vulture, he killed her. He killed Gwen Stacy." Peter tells them.

Naira's eyes go wide, and she grabs everyone away from Peter to tell them what's going on, but he can still hear her.

"Gwen Stacy and Peter were dating, but she was killed on Staten Island on their homecoming night when Spiderman and Vulture were battling, because she tried to help Spiderman, and she was killed during the fight." She whispers.

"Oh, god." Amani gasps.

Clare runs over and hugs Peter, "I'm so sorry."

"It's okay." He assures her, "I just hope the Avengers can deal with that now."

"I'm sure they can," Lami says, "They can handle anything."

"What've they been doing?" He asks.

"Today they robbed three banks, a pair to each one. It appears to be Vulture, Shocker, Scorpion, Mysterio, Chameleon, and Green Goblin." Amani tells him.

"That's not that bad." Lami comments, "Spiderman's already taken down 4 of them, the avengers will have no problem.

"Yeah, no worries." Naira adds, "They'll all be in jail before you know it!"

"Alright kids, we'll need you up in the labs in 15, so you might want to get dressed and grab something to eat." Mr. Beckett says, walking into the room.

The group splits off to their individual rooms to get dressed, then meet up again in the breakfast hall, where they treat themselves to a variety of breakfast dishes ordered through AI & prepared by a mix of human workers and robots.

The 10 head up to the labs together.

"Today you'll be separated into your teams. This is based on how you all have acted together since your arrivals yesterday." Ms. Beson tells everyone once they arrive.

"Team 1 is Amani, Kenja, Kentay, Lucas, and Pio." Mr. Beckett announces.

"Team 2 is Lami, Clare, Naira, Peter, and Oliver." Ms. Beson says, despite the fact that the other 5 had already realized that they were on a team.

Each team high-fives around, and groups together on either half of the lab, which is set up symmetrically, so each team has the same things.

"Your first challenge will be to build a working robots for a battle. The last team with a robot remaining will receive the first Master Point."

Peter thought that sounded pretty exciting. Pio seemed to agree, but Lami looked a bit unsure.

"What's wrong?" Peter whispered to her.

"I'm not great with robots..." She whispered back.

"It's okay, I'll help you."

"Really?"

"Yeah, we are teammates after all."

Her face lit up with a smile, "Thanks."

The teams broke off to create their robots. Peter decided to base his off of BB-8 from Star Wars, as his electro-shock thing would be useful for disabling the other robots, and Peter was fairly sure that he could fit several other little weapons and abilities into the small robot.

He sat in-between Lami and Clare while he sketched it out, Clare to the left sketching out something that looked like a transformer, and Lami sketching out something that looked oddly like a sharp flower.

Peter decided that in addition to the electric shock thing, he added a sort of car jack type thing to flip over the other robots, as well as R2D2's rocket pack.

The group spends the rest of their day working together on their robots, working out design flaws in each others robots and brainstorming ways to fix them, only pausing for lunch and dinner.

The entire lab is filled with music, as they sing along or just listen as they work.

Finally, they start to trickle off to bed, first Kenja, then Lucas and Pio, then Kentay, then Naira, then Oliver, then Amani. For a while, it's only Lami, Clare, and Peter.

They've turned down the music, but are still working together on their robots, mostly on Lami's, as she's having the most trouble with her flower, but it's also an extremely good design for someone who said they weren't good at robots.

"I'm going to go to bed." Clare tells the pair, then walks over to call the elevator, returning to their floor.

Once the door to the elevator closes, Lami and Peter resume working. It's less than a minute when a slow song comes over the speakers.

"Want to dance?" Lami asks, laughing.

"I don't really know how." Peter confesses, half-smiling.

"I can teach you," She offers, "Payment for helping me with my robot."

"Alright."

They go to the middle of the lab, in the open space, and Lami places his left hand on her hip, and takes her right hand in her own. She puts her left hand on his shoulder, and begins to guide him through the steps, giving spoken directions at the same time.

By the time the song ends, Peter has picked it up, and at the end, he dips her.

There's a few tense seconds after he pulls her out of the dip, where they look at each other from uncomfortably close to each other.

"You're a fast learner." Lami laughs, stepping back a little. Peter begins to laugh too.

"Thanks. We should be getting to bed though, it's pretty late."

"Ah, yeah." She smiles, "FRIDAY? Turn off the music please."

The music cuts out, and the pair walks over to the elevator, calls it, and steps in.

There's a few seconds of awkward quiet while they just stand at opposite corners of the elevator.

When the doors ding open, they separate into their own rooms to sleep.