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It was just another average day in New York City. Batroc the leaper was at it again, attempting to steal the bank. As he was about to make his getaway Spider-Man came swinging around the corner to once again catch him and put him back behind bars. The fight was going in Spider-Man’s favour when all of a sudden he was hit from behind by Beetle.
“Ugh- Since when do you two work together?” - Spider-Man
“We do not ze Beetle wanted a distraction and I wanted some money so here we are” - Batroc
Wonder who hired Beetle to kill me this time.
Now that it was two against one the odds were against Spider-Man and he was barely managing to keep both villains in the battlefield and stay alive. Spider-Man knows he needs back up now and calls the team on his communicator.
“Can’t come right now I have a major test to prepare for! It’s just Batroc and Beetle you should be able to take care of it with the others” - Ava
“Sorry Spidey I’m with my parents I won’t be able to make it today” - Luke
Danny was at k’un l’un for his yearly visits. So Sam was his last hope.
“Sam I need you to come here NOW. Two villains on the loose in front of the bank.” - Peter
“Huh- uh sorry I... can’t come right now-“ Sam hangs up abruptly
That was strange, Peter thought. Sam sounded out of breath and exhausted. Peter knew for a fact Sam didn’t wake up this early in the morning much less work out. He’d think about that later. Right now he had two villains to deal with.
After almost an hour of back and forth fighting Spider-Man was able to knock Batroc out and web him to the wall outside the bank. Spider-Man however also took quite a bit of damage, nothing serious of course only bruises and small cuts. Beetle however was in far better condition and was still sending small missiles his way. Thanks to spidey sense he was able to dodge the missiles but his reflexes weren’t fast enough to dodge the punch coming at him. The impact knocked him back and into a wall, cracking it.
Coughing a little to catch his breath Spider-Man quickly got back up to continue the fight. After a while he was able to neutralize Beetle by webbing him up. He called for S.H.I.E.L.D. to pick up the villains.
He started to swing his way to school now as it was nearly 8:00 am and school started at 8:45. However he ended up using most of his web fluid on Batroc and Beetle so he couldn’t swing all the way to school. He had to land on a roof, quickly change and try to make it to school on time. By the time he got to school he barely had time to meet any of his friends before the bell rang.
Exhausted and out of breath Peter Parker finally made it to his first period history class. He hated history and after getting his butt kicked he was NOT looking forward to listening to another boring lecture. Peter then remembered that Sam was also in this class when the teacher was doing roll call, he also remembered how he was completely ditched?/ignored by him during his fight earlier. Sam however was not here yet, no surprise there, thought Peter.
After 20 minutes the door opened and Sam walked in and sat on his seat nonchalantly.
“Care to explain your tardiness Mr.Alexander?”
“Uh- I missed the bus and live kinda far so I had to walk”
That’s the best lie he could come up with , Peter thought.
“Very well, try to catch up and focus for the rest of the class. Let’s continue ....”
Sam sat in the seat diagonally in front of Peter, next to the window. As usual he has his head on the desk and was already starting to take a nap. As Peter zoned out he couldn’t help but let his eyes wander over to Sam. He noticed that he was wearing a turtle neck undershirt as opposed to his usual u-neck one. Sam was also panting and looked exhausted, but that didn’t make sense because Sam always flew to school and that required no effort physically. And he couldn’t have walked to school as he lived on the helicarrier and the only way down was through flight.
As Peter was zoning out it took him a couple of seconds to realize the bell rang and his classmates were already flooding out into the hall Sam, however still had his head down and appeared to still be asleep. Peter decided to go over and wake him up.
“Hey bucket-head wake up, class is over”
“Shut up webs, I know. I’ll leave in a second”
“Whatever. By the way what was up with you ditching me this morning? Do you know how long it took to take those villains out by myself?”
“Can’t we talk about this later, webs. I’m not in the mood to deal with you right now”
“Fine but we will discuss this later”
Sam responded with a grunt, still face down on his table.
And with that Peter left for his AP algebra class.
As he was walking down the hall he wondered what was up with Sam today.
*time skip to lunch*
At lunch Peter went and sat next to MJ and Harry. And saw that his team, excluding Danny who was away, were sitting at a table together with... Flash Thompson? What was Peter’a long time bully turned frenemy doing at the table with his team? Sams mood seemed to have gotten better and all of them were lively chatting together about something or other.
“Helloooo? Earth to Peter”
“Huh uh what’s up MJ?” Peter said snapping back out of his thoughts.
“What were you thinking about. We’re you even listening to a word I said?”
“Nothing much, just the test. And uh yea I was listening, you were telling us about your...”
MJ rolled her eyes “My new job internship at the daily bugle, I’m looking for a big scoop, remember?”
“The BUGLE, with JJJ? After the constant harassing he does to Spider-Man, which you agree with me is not true, and annoying. WHY would you even want to work there?”
“Like I was saying before, I won’t give up my passion to be a reporter just because I disagree with his opinions. Think about it once I make it big I could take over and shed light to Spider-Man and what he actually does.”
“Well there’s no changing your mind anyways.”
“You seem a bit out of it today Pete” Harry said
“Pfft what do you mean?”
“I don’t know you just seem tired” well I did just get my ass beat this morning ”and you keep zoning out on us, is the ‘test’ that important?”
“Well-“ BRRRRRRNGBRRRRRNG
phew saved by the bell.
“See you guys after school” Peter said and left for his geography class.
As he was leaving he caught sight of Sam and Flash walking together to geography class as well. Flash’s arm was around Sams shoulders and they seemed to be chatting about video games.
When he got to the classroom he saw Flash sitting in his seat next to Sam, still engaged in conversation.
“Heya Flash you’re in my seat”
“Don’t see your name on it Parker”
“Dude It’s not that big of a deal just go sit on another empty seat” Sam said.
“Fine yea sure” Peter said as he walked over to an empty seat. Feeling a little angry at Flash, Peter wondered what was up with him. Why was he so worked up over a frickin seat . It doesn’t even matter what seat he sat in, he had no reason to be upset. If anything he should be glad to be sat away from bucket-head, who was always annoying. So why was he still getting heated about this. Class ended and everyone slowly began to exit. Flash slung his arm over Sams shoulders again as they walked out.
~time skip to after school~
Peter met up with MJ and Harry.
“We were gonna hang at Harry’s right?”
“Sorry Pete, I have a dinner today with dad, and some other big shots, you guys can’t come over today”
“Well I was gonna decline anyway because I have to go finish up my latest article. Bye see you tomorrow guys” MJ said and left.
“Well bye Pete”
“Bye”
Harry walked over to his limo and left.
Peter saw Ava and Luke come out of the front doors and walked over to them.
“Don’t forget we have a training session today at 6” Ava said to both boys and walked away, head stuck in a book.
“Hey man, what’s up”
“Hey Luke, have you seen Sam by any chance?”
“Nope last I saw him was at lunch. Try asking Flash over there. Bye, I gotta go catch the game before training” and he left as well.
Peter walked over to Flash who was about to leave to walk home.
“Hey Flash, have you seen Sam?”
“Why do you wanna know, Parker?”
“He was late this morning and the teacher told me to give him notes” Peter lied, as if he’d actually take notes in history.
“He went around that corner, said he was heading home”
“Ok thanks Flash”
Peter walked over to the corner which led to the back of the school. He turned the corner and froze. He could not believe what he was seeing in front of his eyes.
Dun dun dunnn
To be continued ~