Orphaned at a young age and taken in by Captain George Stacy, Y/N L/N was welcomed into the Stacy Household. During his teenage years, he was bitten by a radioactive spider.

The bite transformed him. Gifted him amazing powers: a prerogative awareness of danger, adhesive fingertips and toes, poisonous claw like weapons in his arms, and the proportional speed and strength of a spider.

To the residents of New York, he is a dangerous vigilante known as The Scarlet Spider!

However, he isn't the only one. His adopted sibling, Gwen Stacy, was also bitten by a spider. Now she fights alongside him as Spider Woman.

The Astonishing
Spider-Man

Previously on the Astonishing Spider-Man.....

Gwen lowered her head before she stood up and grabbed her bag. She started to put her drumsticks away while you closed your notepad.

Gwen: Sorry. I-I don't know what came over me....

Glory just crossed her arms and pushed out her lips.

Glory: Mmmm-hmmmm. Want to talk about it?

Gwen: Talk about what?

Glory: Whatever ugliness is clawing at the walls of that widdle purdy head of yours.
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George: I'm bring you in, Miss. Whatever it takes. However long it takes to do it. But you'll see justice.

Gwen sighed as she slowly reached for her mask.

Gwen: I have no doubt that's what you want, Captain. But sometimes, what we want isn't what the world needs.

She pulled off her mask and revealed her face to her father.
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George: Spider-Woman isn't the enemy. She saved my life, Foggy. Spider-Man too.

Foggy scratched his head as he sighed.

Foggy: I know, George. I believe you. Really. But I'm sorry. The Mayor isn't going to risk you undercutting him.

Foggy then looked the Captain in the eye.

Foggy: The Mayor has relieved you from your position of the Command of the Special Crimes Task Force. Your replacement has already been decided.

George looked at the younger man horrified.

George: Dont tell me....

Foggy: Frank Castle is on the case.
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Y/N: I don't know what your game is here, Murdock. But I can tell you right now that I'm not joining you or Kingpin or anyone else in your syndicate.

You suddenly felt something against the side of you neck. It was Murdock's stick. How did he...

Murdock: Don't mistake this as a recruitment. Your time will come. For now, let the adults talk to each other.

You pushed his stick away and groaned. No point in starting a fight here. If Murdock really was going to take care of Vulture, then so be it.

Y/N: Whatever. Stay out of my way.

Murdock: Only if you stay out of my business.
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You smiled under your mask and jumped down from the sign.

Y/N: How about this? You know my name, so why don't you give me yours?

The girl hesitated for a moment before she nodded.

Girl: My name is Andrea Brock. My mom works here. We, we got into a fight.
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Gwen: I-I don't have time for this, Ham. The Vulture's still out there. My phone is still missing. Why did you bring me here? You knew this was going to happen.

Spider-Ham: Because being a superhero is way more than just saving lives and facing bad guys. Sometimes you gotta face real life.
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Murdock: Gentlemen, Matt Murdock speaking. Mr. Fisk's attorney. Nice of you to finally loop me in.

The two men looked at the phone before George turned to DeWolff who just shrugged.

Murdock: Soery I couldn't join you in person on such short notice. But at least this way you can't see me rolling my eyes. Fortunately, Mr. Fisk has come to expect this kind of treatment from New York's finest. I take it he already hit you with the high notes, but I'll say it one more time so I can bill him.

Kingpin let out a low laugh as George and Frank looked at the phone.

Murdock: Wilson Fisk is a model prisoner serving his time in the strictest accordance to his sentencing. Any further contact without concrete evidence connecting him to the criminal underworld or the Spider-People constitutes targeting and harassment and will be treated as an act of war.

Castle: "Act of war". Well said, Murdock. Because trust me, when I find evidence, I'll be back to see Mr. Fisk here. You'll need something a lot more powerful to stop me.
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Y/N: When I was a kid, my parents died. I was adopted into a new family. The entire time I grew up, I felt like I was just a bother. They didn't need me to be around and causing problems. So I did everything I could to stay away. The funny thing is, they didn't see me as a bother.

Gwen: So what did you do?

You smiled under your mask.

Y/N: I talked to the man who adopted me. I told him how I felt, what I was going through. He told me that I would always be his family. That I belonged there.
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Gwen: I looked Peter in the eyes, Dad. I felt his heart break.

Gwen held herself as George listened.

George: You're my daughter, Gwen. You have to trust me to know....

Gwen: "To know what's best"? I'm sorry but that's not your job anymore, Dad. I'd give anything to stop lying, to stop hiding behind the mask. But how can I help anyone without it? What does the truth do for anyone? Except cause more pain.
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Castle: No more running. No more hiding. You're done, you freak of nature.

He then grabbed her mask.

Castle: And I want to see the look in your eyes as that sets in.

Frank pulled her mask off as you looked over at her. Your eyes grew wide at what you saw. It couldn't be. There was no way. That was....Gwen.

Frank: What the #$%!? You're just a girl!

Gwen clenched her fists as she looked up at him.

Gwen: Yeah. I'm "just" a girl.

And with that, she delivered a powerful uppercut, no longer holding back as much as she normally would, which sent Frank flying through the gas and away from the two of you. You got back on your feet as Gwen pulled her mask back on.
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The man walked towards the house while the woman took a moment to look at it. This was her home now. She shook her head and picked up her bag before she followed her brother. A beanie ended up falling out of her bag and she sighed. She looked around to make sure no one was around, before she moved her hand.

A red like force grabbed the beanie and lifted it onto her head. The woman smiled before she entered the home.
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Sitting in one of the chair was a girl you haven't seen before. She had long chestnut colored hair and was dressed in a dark red dress with an even darker red leather jacket. She also wore a pair of brown boots and her hair was braided over her shoulder. She had dark brown eyes.

Dean: Ah, Mr. L/N. I'm glad you could make it. Sorry about calling you in at such short notice.

Y/N: It's was no trouble.

Dean: Take a seat.

You sat down in the chair next to the girl and the two of you looked at the Dean.

Dean: Mr. L/N, this is Ms. Maximoff. She has just transferred in.

Y/N: Oh. Uh, hey.

Maximoff: Hello. You can just call me Wanda.
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Gwen: Mr. Albie, what happened to the Dollar Dog?!

Albie: What happened indeed?! This world with Spider People and Vultures and giant lizards and I'm the weird one?! The insurance lady, she laughed at me!

Gwen stopped when she caught what he said.

Gwen: Wait. Mr. Albie, did you...did you just say....

She turned to the shop.

Gwen: A Giant Lizard?
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George: Jean, I swear...on the life of my children, I'm telling the truth. The Spiders are innocent.

DeWolff: So what if they are?! Don't you know what that would mean? Before Castle took over the case, George, it was yours. Your task force....

George: It's still my case.

DeWolff: No, George. It's Frank Castle's and mine. No matter what our relationship is...or was...I work for the NYPD. And so long as you hide the truth about whatever Spider-Man and Spider-Woman and....

Geroge: If Castle wants my badge, he can have it. But I'm still going to do my job.

George showed her a file that he had gathered and pushed it to her.

George: What's more unbelievable, Jean? That we never found the two-ton lizard fought the Spiders the day they "killed" Peter Parker, or the fact that no seems to care if we ever do?
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Dr. Conners: My boy, I know you resent me. You have every right to. I created the serum.

Y/N: Peter died.

Dr. Conners: I know. I live with that burden everyday. However, I never intended for anything like this to happen. I created it to help, bot destroy.

Y/N: But it did.

Dr. Conners: And I will forever hold that over myself. Peter was an amazing student and I failed him.

Failed him? He killed him. If he didn't make that serum then Peter wouldn't have...

Dr. Conners: And for that, I will always apologize to you. He was your best friend. I know how much he cared about you. I know how much you meant to him.

You looked at the scientist for a moment as he placed his hand into his pocket. His other sleeve was tied to make up for the missing arm.

Dr. Conners: That's why, I submitted you as a candidate for an internship at Oscorp.
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Jonah: Super-villain always worked for me. Especially for these two.

He slid a file across the table to Agent Johnson who picked it up and read it over.

Jonah: Bringing in the Spiders is my number one priority. Even if it's not me who brings her in.

Johnson: Don't worry, Mayor. SHIELD is always happy to help.
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George: Ben.....I think I'm close to finding Peter's killer.

Ben stopped drinking and looked at George.

Ben: My god...May....May said it didn't matter. That it's not important. But I never doubted...

He hugged his friend as tears formed in his eyes.

Ben: I never doubted that you could catch them...

George: No. Ben, listen to me. It wasn't the Spiders.
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Cap reached into her pocket and pulled out what looked like a yellow inhaler.

Cap: This formula can restrain the mutagen.

She tossed it to you and you caught it.

Cap: Try not to die before I can arrest you.

You just looked at her before you shrugged.

Y/N: Fine. Temporary truce.
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eWolff: Case in point, Dr. Conners went missing after Parker's death. He suddenly reappears as a university fill in but we don't get to look into it. The Spiders forced Jameson to focus on them so we couldn't be bothered to look into Conners or the 900 lb lizard that wrecked Midtown High.

She then pointed to Cap.

DeWolff: From the looks of it, you found them both smashed together like the world's worst peanut butter cup.

Cap just shook her head.

Cap: No, I'm afraid that doesn't seem likely, Detective. Conners isn't the Midtown lizard. He's a copycat. All those infected are lab rats. Weapons created by a shadow cell we only know as S.I.L.K. You want your answers on the Lizard? Better start looking into that Parker boy.
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eorge: I will find the truth. I will bring justice to Peter. But you, May, after what you've been through...

Ben pulled away.

Ben: Enough, George. Enough of your pity. You know good and well that we...that May deserves to know what happened to her boy. You find the truth, George. And when you do, I expect to hear all of it. It's not your job to protect us anymore.
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Y/N: Mmm. Friday might not work. Saturday?

Black Cat: It's a date.

Wait. What? You stood there as you realized you just set up a date. With a masked thief. Who works for Murdock. How the hell did that happen?

Black Cat: Where should we meet?

Y/N: Uh....

And you lost the game.

Black Cat: We don't have to do all of that. Just meet me on the roof of the building at 12th and Lincoln. I'll have something ready.

And now, Volume 2 of The Astonishing Spider-Man......