Return Of Spider-Woman
I had brought Peter's body back...
I watched at the funeral as his Aunt May cried in Uncle Ben's arm's. Aunt Mary wrapped an arm over my shoulders and I sobbed through the entire service. Her along side me. They all hugged me as they left and I stood staring, feeling completely empty at the tombstone in front of me.
July... That was when he died... I could barely bare to say his name anymore.
August... I sat in front of his gravestone everyday. Just sitting. No talking, nothing else, just sitting. I failed him and I couldn't live with my guilt. This... this was my web block... I wasn't spider-woman anymore. I didn't know who I was anymore without him.
September.... Once a day I sat the grave stone. I wasn't Spider-Woman anymore. I didn't know who I was anymore with out him. I mostly locked myself in my room. I didn't go out. I didn't watch the news... Aunt Mary worried.
October... Same thing. No changes.
November... I talked to the grave stone. I felt like a crazy person. I bundled up everyday and sat in front of Peter's grave stone. I could say his name out loud again but only as I spoke to him. Never to anyone else.
December...I started coming out of my room more, still visited Peter's grave every single day. Some day's I spoke, some day's I didn't. I needed him here with me... I missed him desperately with every inch of my being. I knew he'd hate seeing me like this but I couldn't help it. I felt... empty, void, alone.
A stranger visited Harry Osborn who was locked up at Ravencroft Institute. He was allowed inside Harry's cell and Harry looked... More Harry than he did before.
"Leave us." The mystery man stated to the guards. They complied and left the room.
"You've made progress." Harry said quietly as the door's closed.
"I've identified several worthy candidates. Now that Spider-Woman's gone, this city will never be the same."
"Oooh. I'm countin' on that." Harry smiled.
"Speaking of progress, you're looking better." The mystery man pointed out.
"It comes and it goes." Harry said. "Telling me more."
"How many men did you have in mind?"
"I wanna keep it small. Everything you need is already at Oscorp."
The mystery man makes it out Oscorp and gets through the security check into one of the special project's rooms.
"Access granted." Kari the AI said. "Welcome Mr. Fiers."
He think's back on his conversation with Harry Osborn as he enters the special projects lab.
"Who's our first volunteer?" Harry asked him.
"Aleksei Sytsevich. Currently serving a live sentence. He is... Most eager to join us."
Mr. Fier's walked through the room past storages, each one with a different project inside the glass. Doc Ock's set of four mechanical arm's, a set of Vulture wings, and a large mechanical rhino suit.
"Good." Harry growled. "Start with him."
At a house in New York City, a little girl named Georgina watched the news station. Hoping to see or hear any sign of her favorite superhero. The very same one that rescued her from the bullies all those month's ago.
"Russian gangster, Aleksei Sytsevich was broken out of a classified penitentiary known simply as The Vault, by an unknown team of men. It's yet another example of increased criminal activity since the disappearance of Spider-Woman five months ago. The web slinger's absence has left a hole in the heart of the city. Believe it or not, even the New York City Police Department has joined the chorus of New Yorkers in hoping the return of the web-slinger."
Georgina walked over to the window looking out over the city disappointed with no sign, or whisper of her whereabout's. Looking at her project that was still moving with the wind of the air around it.
Back at my house, I sat at the kitchen table watching the news and sighed.
"The entire world seems to be asking the same question: Where is Spider-Woman?"
I clicked off the tv and Aunt Mary who was going through boxes, started speaking.
"To bad about that spider lady. To bad she's disappeared. Seem's like everyone really needs her." Mary looked at me and I slumped my face in my hand. I shook my head and got up from the table. "Where are you going?"
"Just... just to eat my cereal." I whispered, showing her the bowl and spoon in my hands, about to walk to my room.
"Cate, where are you going?" She asked again. I sighed and turned back around to look my aunt in the eyes.
"I don't know..."
"You know, it-it's been so funny. I've been, I've been trying to clean up around here, get organized and been putting some of Bob's stuff in boxes. And it's just so funny, the heavier the box get's, the lighter I feel."
"You..." I cleared my throat. "You're throwing his stuff away?"
"No. No, god, no. I couldn't do that. It's-it's part of me. I'm just... finding a better place for it." She explained quietly. I slowly nodded, extreme sadness showed on my face and she looked back at me sympathetically. "I'm gonna take one last look and I'm gonna put it where it belongs."
I walked up to my room and looked at all the pictures all over my walls, the pictures on my desk and on my computer that were flashing through. I held one of my favorites in my hand's. It was a picture of Peter looking down at me with complete adoration in his eyes. That Peter sparkle I used to call it. I was to busy laughing in his arms to notice it that time, but it never failed to amaze me the way a single look and anyone could tell how in love we were. I smiled as my finger's ran over the picture. I started packing away all the thing's of his that were in my room and all the pictures. I opened my closet to see my mask sitting on top of everything else.
Peter knew I was the hope the world needed, and I knew I'd be letting him down if I didn't get back in the saddle and carry on like he would have wanted me too. I sat on my bed and held my mask in my hand's making the next decision of my life.
Crashing through bank walls, carrying bags of cash, a large mechanical rhino stomped through the streets. People running every which way.
"Let's go move it!" Cops shouted trying to direct the people from the mechanical rhino.
Some stood behind their car doors, shooting bullets at him, not making a single dent in the metal. The Rhino lifted his arms and gun's appeared, shooting back at the cops.
"Get down! Take cover!" They yelled.
"I'm here live on Park Avenue and 56th street where it is complete chaos." A crowd gathered at the barrier's and one of those people was Georgina, in her Spider-Woman costume. "A man in some sort of weaponized armored suit is wreaking havoc on midtown."
The suit opened the hood revealing Aleksei's face as he laughed manically.
"I am Rhino!" He yelled lifting his arms into the air. "I told you I would be back!"
The cops began to shoot again, and he shot back at them. Georgina's mother felt her daughter, sneak under the gates and away from her as it was to late.
"NO! NO!" She screamed in desperation for the safety of her child.
"Look a kid!" A man shouted.
A police officer stood the woman from jumping over the rail and another chased after little Georgina, who ran straight for the danger.
"Hold your fire, everybody stop and hold your fire." The Police Chief bent down putting his hand out as she ran onto the scene.
Aleksei stopped firing, curiously watching her run out in front of him. Georgina breathed heavily as he opened up the helmet again.
"Kid! You gotta get..." Aleksei shot at the officer who peered his head up for a moment, missing him and he ducked back down.
"Look, New York!" Aleksei taunted. "Spider-Woman is back!"
"Leave the kid alone!" Civilians shouted from all over.
"My baby! Please!" Her mother called out, tear's streaming down her face as two officer's restrained her.
Georgina held the mask in her hands and put it over her face.
"Brave, girl, eh?" He called out to her. "Does Aleksei scare you, little girl?"
She didn't say a word. Only positioned herself ready to fight a giant mechanical Rhino all on her own. Aleksei stepped forward and copied her position.
The people of the crowd's looked up into the air, her the all to familiar thwipping sound of web's above them. The smiled and watched silently as I swung in behind Georgina and stood there.
"Hey. Spider-Woman." I called out softly.
She slowly turned around to see me standing their in my suit, matching her's. She pulled up her mask and smiled brightly.
"I knew you'd comeback." I recognized her face and bent down to her level.
"Yeah. Thanks for steppin' up for me." I chuckled. "You are the bravest kid I've ever seen."
She chuckled.
"I'm gonna take care of this big jerk now, okay? I need you to do something really important and that's gonna be to take care of your mom." I put out my fist and she bumped it back. "All right, get out of here. Go. Go." I said softly. She ran back over to the crowd where she was going to be safe and they all cheered loudly.
"Spidey-Spidey-Spidey!" The began to chant.
I stepped up on the top of a police car and they gave me a bullhorn. I stretched my arms.
"You fight me? You fight me now? Huh?" Aleksei called out.
"On behalf of the fine people of New York City, and real rhino's everywhere, I ask you to put your mechanized paws in the air." I spoke through the bullhorn.
"NEVER! I crush you! I kill you! I destroy you!" He punched the ground with the hand of the suit.
"You want me to come down there so you can kill me?" I called out to him.
"Yes!"
"I'll be right there." I tossed the bullhorn into the air behind me, allowing an officer to catch it. "Ah, there's no place like home." I sighed happily.
Aleksei put the mask down, creating the head of the rhino again and got down on all fours charging at me. Missiles shot out from the suit and I jumped down, using a sewer grate like a shield. Blowing one of them up. I jumped into the he air with a web attached to the grate and swung it knocking down the other two missiles. As I came down I swung the grate once more into the suit knocking him over.
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