Spider-Man: Clone Wars

(8) The Shadow-Spider

Peter walked down the hallway to Miles & Michelle’s apartment door. It was Saturday so Peter knew their mother would be home & would be answering the door. 

He gently knocked on the door & waited a minute. He heard someone walk to the door, but they didn’t answer. He went to knock again, but the door swung open & he stood their awkwardly with his fist raised to knock on the door. 

“What is it, Peter”, Ms. Jones asked? She had an attitude & he was going to have it. 

“Is Miles ready”, Peter asked? Ms. Jones looked at him confused. 

“Miles”, Ms. Jones asked? Peter nodded his head. “Ok, Miles”!

She yelled for Miles until he finally ran out of his room with a backpack strapped around his shoulders. 

“Yeah, yeah, I’m coming”, Miles said as he jogged out of the apartment, but is stopped as his mother spoke. 

“And where are you two going”, Ms. Jones asked? She stood crooked with her hand on her hip & a furrow in her brow. 

“Uh... well, I was going to-”, Peter stuttered his words, trying to come up with a lie, but was blanking & hoping Miles would cover for them, which he did. 

“There is this girl I like & Peter was going to help me with that”, Miles lied. “You know how hard it is without dad around anymore, I need someone to talk to about like girls, football, guy stuff, & se-”. 

“Yeah, it’s okay, you can go”, Ms. Jones said, she excused them. “Just know, you can talk to me about that kinda stuff”. 

“Yeah, but I feel more comfortable talking about that kind of stuff with another guy”, Miles said as he & Peter started walking away. After Ms. Jones closed the door Peter spoke up. 

“You know I have no clue about any of that, right”, Peter asked? Miles laughed & nodded his head. “Ok, do you got it”? 

“Yup”, Miles said as he flung the backpack off his shoulder & into his hands, unzipping it & showing Peter the old suit. 

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“Nope, nope, why do I have to do this”, Miles argued & complained, he stood in an alleyway with Peter. 

“Because, sometimes you don’t have any place to change so you have to get comfortable with stripping in an alley”, Peter said, he hadn’t yet changed but was going to after Miles had. “You just have to make sure no one sees you”. 

Miles was defeated, “Fine, just turn away”. 

“No problem”, Peter said, his hands in the air from surrender as he turned around. Miles ran behind a dumpster. 

“Okay, I’m good”, Miles said as he walked out from the dumpster. He turned & saw that Peter had already changed. 

“Took you long enough, let’s go”, Peter mocked Miles, ran up to the wall of a building, jumping & climbing up the wall. Looking down at Miles as he reached the top. “Your turn”. 

Miles hyped himself up as he walked to the wall, “Don’t mess this up, you got this Miles, don’t embarrass yourself in front of Spider-man”. Miles stuck his hands & foot to the wall & slowly started crawling up it until he reached the top with Peter. 

“Good, now come on”, Peter congratulated Miles after he eventually reached the top. Peter then ran off the edge of the building & dived towards traffic, but shooting a web & slinging himself between buildings.