Spider-Man: The Wrestler

Chapter 11: Felicia Hardy

The next 3 months were going great for Peter, and secretly for Wilson Fisk and Pythor Chen Chumsworth, every wrestling match he ever fought in and won were either close calls, ring toss-outs and easy ones, and the prize money in the matches was between $2500 to $5000. There was even accessories of Spider-Man being sold, including replica suits, t-shirts, socks, shoes, underwear, colouring books, and mugs. In order to prevent Ben from finding out about the money, Peter lies about his age to open up a bank account under the name Richard Fitzpatrick. With Richard being his father's name while Fitzpatrick was his mother's maiden name. During that 3 month period, Peter was able to use his spider sense to get Flash into more trouble. Such as, whenever he got a good grade, Flash would throw something at him, only to dodge it so that it could hit another student, or even a teacher. At lunch, Flash would try to throw some food at him, only for him to duck down, and the food would hit another student, a teacher, or worse, the principal, who threatened to expel him for his childish behaviour. And during free time, Flash would try to throw a water balloon at him, but he would simply bend down to pretend to tie his shoe, once again, the projectile would hit another student, a teacher, or worse, the principal, who at one point threatened to send Flash to military school if he doesn't stop his childish behaviour. Sometimes after school, Peter would head to an abandoned warehouse to practise his web slinging, wall crawling, and his fighting moves for two hours straight. Other times, Jameson would assign him to events, and mostly liked the photos Peter took for the sports page with his photos of himself in his wrestling persona.

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Right now, Spider-Man was competing against his current opponent named Scorpion, who tries to use his stinger to attack him, but the web-head wrestler tilted backwards, placed his hands on the ground, lifted his feet, and raised his right arm at his opponent's face before firing a shot of web at his face, causing him to shriek as some of the web hits his eyes, and he backed away as Spider-Man then bounced into the air, came up behind Scorpion, and turned around, dragging his opponent in the progress and making him hit the ground. Spider-Man then backed away as the crowd cheered from another victory he had achieved. "Winner!" Chen yelled as Spider-Man then raised his hands in the air. "Our champion Spider-Man!"

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Later that night, while smirking at having been victorious once again, Peter, who just recently had a haircut, walked along the street, counting his prize money before shaking his head. He was just $750 dollars short, mostly for using some of the prize money for himself to buy better clothes, some of the takeout food he and Ben would often eat, and the haircut. He now only had 2 and a half months to go until the TB kills May. His thoughts about winning money and his ill aunt were soon interrupted by the sound of a woman's grunt which caused Peter to run over to a nearby alleyway to see a teenaged girl with blonde hair being harassed by what appeared to be a homeless man. "Oh, I know your uncle's a cop." The homeless man said before getting out a knife. "And I'm gonna gut you, just like he gutted my brother."

"Let go of me, you creep!" She yelled.

"Hey!" Peter called out.

Both individuals turned to see Peter coming up to them. "Stay out of this, boy!" He yelled, holding the knife out to him. "Or I'll gut you too!"

"I like to see you try."

"Parker, no." The girl spoke.

The homeless soon came at Peter, intending to stab him. But before he could, the wrestler grabbed hold of his wrist, and with all his might, turned it to the side. The assailant screamed when he felt his wrist getting fractured and dropped the knife in the process. Now scared of him, the homeless man quickly took off. "I won't forget this!" He yelled as he ran, all the while clutching his fractured wrist.

Peter then turned to see the teenaged girl, who turned to him. "You okay, Felicia?" He asked.

"Yes, I'm fine." She replied.

"How about I walk you home?"

"Um, okay."

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The walk was a little quiet with the occasional small talk about life with Felicia offering her condolences on May's illness before they come across a few buildings. "Well, thanks for walking me home, Parker."

"My pleasure." Peter looked on as Felicia then started to walk across the road before the wrestler's spider sense soon went off. "Look out!" Peter quickly held up his right wrist, moving his two fingers back to fire a web line at Felicia's back, and pulls her away from the road as a truck passed by.

Seeing him remove the web from her, Felicia was surprised at her double saviour. "You're Spider-Man, the wrestler."

"Yeah."

"That's so cool."

"You can't tell anyone, okay?"

"Okay." Felicia then flirtatiously smiled at Peter before walking across the road again while the blushing wrestler watched her head inside before shaking his head to snap out of his trance, and walked away to head home himself.

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The following morning at Midtown High, having slept in due to being tired from the fight, Peter had missed his bus, but decided to use his powers to beat the bus there, and arrived just 5 minutes before it did.

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As he made his way to his locker, in a new blue sweatshirt, black jeans and blue and white sneakers, Peter was then stopped by Flash. "Hey, Parker, check out my new shirt." He said, showing him a t-shirt of Spider-Man in his wrestling uniform, kneeling down and firing two web lines that he was wearing. "Got it just last night."

"Seems cheery."

"Heh, yeah. That Spider-Man wrestler really clobbered that Scorpion into yesterday. Maybe even one day I might become a wrestler and wrestle with him one day."

"Oh, I'll wrestle with you, alright." Peter silently muttered enough for Flash not to hear him.

"Anyway, Parker, I'll see your ass whipped in gym this time." Flash then chuckled as he nudged Peter aside before moving onward.

"He really needs to grow up." Someone said to Peter, who turns to see that it was Felicia, the girl he saved last night and learnt of his secret profession that same night.

"It's just what he is." Peter replied as they watch Flash trip a student to the ground, earning laughs from everyone around, except a few of them and the teachers who saw it happen.

"So, you got another wrestling match anytime soon?"

"Not yet. Chen's got me taking some time off. And I'm still low on Aunt May's medical bills. Just this one more fight, and they'll save her."

"Well, whatever happens in your next fight, I'm rooting for you, all the way."

"Thanks." His phone, which he actually bought with his prize money, soon rang (A/N: Imagine The Weekend Whip) before he answered. "Hey, Uncle Ben." He listens a bit. "Again?" He listens again. "Okay, got it." He soon hung up and sighed as the bell soon rang, and they start heading for class. "My uncle's gonna work late again tonight."

"Wow, your aunt's illness must be serious."

"I know."

His phone soon rang again and he answers it. "Hello?" He listens a bit. "They woke up?" He listens for a bit. "Okay, I'll go grab my camera."

He soon hung up. "What is it?"

"Jay, Cole and Nya woke up."

"Really?"

"Yeah, so did Nya's brother, the mayor's son, and that OsCorp scientist." He starts to walk away. "Jameson's got me covering it." He then took off.