Peter was on the roof of his house, the sun had just passed over the horizon and he was full of energy, not just because of last night but because his body just felt amazing, right now he was holding his body up with one hand upside down while he played a game on his phone with the other. He pushed himself off his hand and onto his feet without barely making a sound "Guess I should stop messing around and get some breakfast," he muttered to himself as he jumped off the roof of his house and grabbed onto a tree branch in his back yard swinging onto the ground.
Such a stunt was as easy as if he was walking up the stairs, though it still left him feeling amazed. He walked in through the back door and into the kitchen, his stomach growled as he did. He put together a chicken sandwich with peanut butter and a bowl of cereal.
Maybe a weird combination, but he couldn't help it with how hungry he felt at the moment.
"Peter? Is that you? What're you doing up so early?" his aunt said as she came downstairs with her night robe on.
Peter had just swallowed a bite of his sandwich when she came down "Sorry if I woke you Aunt May I was just feeling a bit hungry," he replied.
May gave him a gentle smile as she rubbed his head "Don't worry Peter you know how much of an early bird I am, though try and keep it down, your uncle just got back in a little while ago."
Peter nodded and took another bite from his sandwich, something which Aunt May can't help but raise an eyebrow at. "An interesting combination Peter... but try and be careful you might catch something if you eat your chicken raw" she said with a strained smile.
Peter stopped eating and then actually looked down at the sandwich, it turned out they were out of cooked sandwich meat and he'd actually grabbed the raw chicken instead. 'I hope my powers will save me from this car crash of a meal...' he thought to himself as he decided to put the sandwich down and move onto the bowl of cereal.
"You know I was thinking... you and Uncle Ben are pretty strained at the moment... with your job at Feast and his job too, so I as thinking maybe I could get a job, help you and Uncle Ben out a bit," Peter said as he spooned the cereal into his mouth.
Aunt May smiled but shook her head, "That's kind of you Peter but your only job right now is to focus on your schoolwork, smart boys like you are rare and me and your uncle both want you to live a life better than this."
"I would rather be an idiot if being smart meant I'd have to just sit here and do nothing, I'm happy right now I don't need a big shot job to make my life better" Peter said with a shrug.
Aunt May smiled at Peter and kissed the side of his head before taking away the atrocity that is a sandwich and throwing it into the bin. "You're a good boy Peter, but right now it's our turn to take care of you... your turn will come soon enough," she said with a laugh.
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Parkour is something Peter always wanted to try but was never able to because he didn't have the stamina for it. But now it was as easy as breathing, he ran through the alleyway and jumped pushing his leg off the wall and grabbing onto the fire escape. He climbed up like a monkey and flipped onto the building roof. "I don't think I'll ever get used to this," he said with a smile as he started jumping from building to building, sliding under vents and somersaulting over ledges.
He did this for what felt like hours, but eventually he had to stop as his school was getting close and he felt like they'd freak out a bit to see the resident 'Puny Parker' backflipping off a building. He jumped off the building using a pipe to slow down his descent and was back on the ground, he brushed back his hair back with a smile on his face as he walked the rest of the distance towards midtown.
With his hands in his pockets, he crossed the road and fell into the stream of students that were making their way into the school.
Peter turned as he heard the sound of footsteps quickly approaching him, only to see the smiling form of Gwen jump into his arms with a giggle, she pecked him on the lips and moved away from him "Have you gotten taller Pete?" She asks with scrunched-up eyebrows.
Peter shrugged, he had been around 5,6ft before the bite, it was likely the growth in muscle mass affected his height too. He did also notice that Gwen was a little shorter now. Before she stood just a bit shorter than him, but now he had a more noticeable height difference, he was probably around 5,8ft now. He put his hand into Gwen's and they both walked to the main school building "You know where Ned is?" He asked Gwen as they walked.
She shook her head.
Peter couldn't help but frown as Ned was usually the first one here, suddenly having a bad feeling creep up his spine he stopped. "I think I'm gonna go look for him," he told her.
"Want me to come along?" Gwen replied.
"No It's cool, I'm probably just worrying for nothing, I'll see you in class," he said as he kissed her on the cheek before heading off in another direction.
'Ned usually comes from the back of the school as it's shorter than walking around, check there first,' Peter thought to himself as he lightly jogged around the school building. After looking around for a few moments he started to hear something in the far distance. His eyes widened and he started running, as what he heard sounded like a struggle. Zooming around a corner he saw Ned on the floor with Flash and his goons standing above him smirking.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing!" Peter yelled as he ran towards Ned to check if he was okay.
Flash turned towards him and smiled "My bad Parker, we weren't expecting you in toda, and you know how it is, someone needs to take a beating" he said with a shrug.
Peter kneels by Ned, he has a busted lip and a bruise that'll probably turn into a black eye "You okay bud?" He asked.
Ned nodded slowly and gave him a thumbs up.
Peter suddenly felt the wind shift around him and the hairs on the back of his neck stood up.
He automatically held up his hand to the side of bid head without looking, as he turned around he saw that he'd caught a kick from one of Flash's friends. With a light shove he through the boys leg away from him, forcing him to trip and fall like he'd just slipped on a banana peel.
"Fuck!" The boy cursed as he landed roughly on the concrete. Flash's other friends went to his side to check if he was okay.
Meanwhile Flash glared at Peter with a murderous expression. "You're gonna regret that Puny Parker" he said as he cracked his knuckles.
Peter stood up and put himself between Ned and the others. Peter wasn't a fighter, he didn't like inflicting pain on anyone but he cared about his friends more than anything and he wouldn't let Flash hurt Ned anymore. So despite having never thrown a real punch in his life he lifted his hands and faced the larger boy. "Walk away Flash I won't warn you again" Peter said, narrowing his eyes.
Flash paused for a moment after hearing Peters threat.
A moment passed.
Then Flash and his friends all burst out laughing like they'd just heard one of the funniest jokes in their life, even the one on the ground was laughing.
Flash wiped a tear from his cheek. "You? Warn me? What're you gonna do about it, Parker?" He said as he walked forward and brought his fists up.
A moment later he threw a punch, one that was to Peters surprise, unbelievably slow. Peter merely stepped to the side and pushed Flash. He tried to hold back, but even then he still managed to push the larger boy straight to the ground. His friends look on in disbelief, but it doesn't take them long to try their luck with Peter.
One threw another punch at him.
Another tried to tackle him.
The last one tried a kick.
All of them landed on the pile on top of the first boy, as Peter managed to dodge and weave through all their attacks and simply push them to the ground. Though it seemed that Flash wasn't content with this and he went to stand up, and that's when Peter lunged on him and drew his fist back. "Listen Flash you can't bully me and my friends anymore, I took it easy on you now, but I won't next time, this is your only warning." Peter said with a fierce glare.
Flash didn't say anything back, he just sat there and glared at Peter in a way that even Peter had never seen before.
Not wanting to get into any more of a confrontation he picked up Ned and they headed into the school.
Flash meanwhile was seething in anger. He had never felt so humiliated in his life, he thought about getting up and going after him but he thought better of it, he can always target the other one. 'She's pretty in a punk way, I'll give her a taste of what she's missing and she'll ditch the losers...' he thought to himself as he pushed himself up.
Meanwhile Ned was currently freaking out as him and Peter walked back into school, "Holy crap Peter what you did was awesome, you totally showed Flash who's boss," Ned said as he excitedly grabbed Peters's shoulder, seemingly forgetting the injuries Flash had given him. .
"If there is one benefit to these powers it's that I don't have to put up with Flash's shit anymore," Peter said with a smirk as they both headed to class, he felt dubious about fighting but when he saw how easily he could take out Flash and his goons he felt a lot better about it.
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Jessica Jones moved through the hallways of midtown like a ghost, pretty much how the rest of the school saw her anyway, she preferred it this way, much more than the pity and sad smiles that people sent her way. While she missed her family a lot she knew there was nothing she could do but move on, she was lucky she got adopted by a nice family.
Things could be a lot worse.
At least that's what she thought until she accidentally broke the sink in her bathroom with nothing but her hands.
Whatever happened to her in that car accident made her a freak and she had to concentrate to do even the most delicate of tasks. She was so scared of hurting people, like what if she accidentally bumped into someone? She'd send them flying, or what if she shook someone's hand and lost control? She'd crush them.
So in some way it was a godsend that people went back to ignoring her.
Currently she was skipping class and hiding out in the girl's bathroom, as she sat on the toilet feeling sorry for herself she took out a bottle of whiskey that she had stolen from her adoptive parents. However when she pulled it out of her backpack she accidentally crushed the neck of it.
She sat there for a moment starting at the bottle and at the brown liquid, as it raced across the floor in small streams. Jessica wasn't one to get emotional but at that point, she just started crying. Just the realisation she would never have a normal life again was more than she could take, especially when combined with the death of her parents.
She sat in the bathroom with her knees tucked underneath her on the toilet as she cried. She didn't know how long she was there before she was brought out of her misery by the door slamming open.
"Fuck off Flash! I'd rather kiss a dog's ass than you."
Jessica recognised the voice, it was Gwen Stacy one of the nerd trio or so people call them. They always said she's a nerd trapped in a hot girl's body. Jessica opened the door to the cubicle slightly to see Flash approaching the smaller blonde girl with a grin.
"Come on babe, you know you want a chance with the Flash, you could finally ditch the losers and have a chance at being popular, look at MJ she only dated me for a few months and look where she is now," he said with a smug smile as he walked even closer.
Gwen snorted and looked at him in disgust "I think I'd rather turn lesbo than get with you Flash, you stink of BO, you always breathe out your mouth and you've got a massively below-average IQ, so I think I'll stick with my loser friends, now get out! This is the girl's bathroom."
Flash felt his blood boil at her words, he moved forward and grabbed her arm roughly "Listen here you little bitch! You should be grateful I'm even paying attention to you!!!" he shouted.
Gwen wriggled and tried to pull out of his grip, "Get the hell off me!" Gwen said as she punched his chest, though this only seemed to enflame his rage, and he pushed her into the wall where she ended up hitting her head off the wall and then falling to the ground.
Jessica couldn't help but gasp and cover her mouth as she stood there and watched the whole thing.
Flash stood there for a moment with his hands on his head "Shit!" he said before he quickly left the girl's bathroom, leaving Gwen on the floor.
Jessica quickly came out of the cubicle silently cursing at herself for just watching it happen. She knelt beside Gwen and felt the back of her head, when she looked back at her hand it was red with her blood 'Fuck, Fuck Fuck,' she thought as she picked Gwen up easily and started running to the nurse's office hoping she would be okay.
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Peter had just got out of his class and he was still feeling on top of the world. He took his phone out and shot a quick text to Gwen and Ned to meet him at the usual spot for lunch, and while he had gotten a reply from Ned, Gwen hadn't replied which was quite unusual.
He walked through the corridors heading to the cafeteria when he was tapped on the shoulder by someone behind him. He turned around and saw someone who he vaguely recognised as a classmate, he scrunched his eyebrows as he tried to remember her name "Jessica right?"
She nodded her head. "Can we speak privately for a second?" Jessica asked and Peter gave her a nod before following her into an empty classroom.
Peter leaned on a desk and looked at the girl, she had black hair that went below her shoulders and pale skin, she was quite short and slender but was pretty nonetheless "Is there anything I can help you with?" He asked. Though with his enhanced vision he could see that there was clearly something wrong.
"I just... I just wanted to let you know that Gwen was taken to the hospital, she's okay and was awake when they took her, but they just wanted to make sure she didn't have a concussion," She explained.
Peter first felt panic, panic and then fear, but then the rational part of his mind managed to calm him down. 'Calm down, Pete, she's fine... just go and check on her.' He thought to himself. He then turned to Jessica and smiled at Jessica "Thank you for letting me know," he said as he went to leave.
"Wait!" She said as she grabbed him by the arm, though her eyes widened and she panicked as she quickly withdrew it. She didn't control the amount of strength she used when she grabbed him.
Peter however looked at her smile still on his face "Yeah?" He said calmly.
For a moment Jessica looked at him as if he'd grown a second head, he should be on the ground in pain right now, she knew her uncontrolled grip could fracture someone's arm and he didn't even flinch.
Though after a few moments she realised that she'd been standing there not saying anything for a while."It wasn't an accident... Flash was trying to make Gwen go out with him, but she told him to get stuffed, so he tried grabbing her but when she struggled he pushed her and that's how she hit her head," she explained though she slightly regretted it the moment she did, as she could see the look on Peters change morph from a smile to a frown and then to a look of rage. He didn't say anything else before just running out, with Jessica quickly following after him.
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"FLASH!" Peter shouted as he stormed into the cafeteria getting everyone's attention.
Ned who was already sitting at their table looked up his eyes wide, he had never seen Peter so mad before.
Flash who was joking around with his friends looked up at the approaching boy, he started standing up, even at such a young age flash was big, people often said he'd dominate any sports field he chose to go into so he had quite a few inches on Peter. "What do you want Puny Parker, I don't have a scheduled beating for you until later," he said with a smirk. However what he doesn't expect is for Peter to grab him by his shirt and push him down on the table, the metal frame groaning, as the large boy is slammed into it.
"WHATS YOUR DEAL PARKER!" Flash shouted as he tried to push him off, but he discovered that Peters's grip was solid.
"You ever touch Gwen again and I'll beat you worse than I'm going to do right now!!!" he shouted with venom dripping off his voice.
"GET OFF ME RIGHT—"
The first punch hit Flash in the face so hard that he didn't even feel the second punch. It was like he was getting hit by a train and when the second hit connected with his stomach he felt like he couldn't breathe.
Flash's friends all got up and tried to get Peter off of him but he just pushed them away before hitting Flash again breaking his nose.
Flash tried to grab at Peters's face trying to do anything to push him off but Peter just grabbed his wrist. Up until this moment Peter had done a good job of holding back his strength otherwise Flash would've been turned into a paste after the first punch, but when grabbing his wrist he accidentally used too much strength and broke the bones in his wrist.
"AHHHHH!!!" Flash to scream as tears filled his eyes. He even stopped trying to fight back and just tried curling in on himself.
Peter almost hit a person who grabbed him from behind but he saw it was Ned, he had a scared look on his face. "Peter enough! He's done, look at him," Ned said as he grabbed Peters's arm.
Peter let himself get led away and out of the cafeteria while Flash just lay groaning and weeping on the table.
"He hurt Gwen Ned..." Peter said in a venomous voice, his anger still bubbling beneath the surface.
Ned looked at him with shock on his face, which then morphed into relief. "Jeez, I thought it was just him being a dick, if he hurt Gwen I wouldn't have pulled you off him so soon," Ned said. He had thought his friend had just lost it and had gone crazy, but it made sense if Gwen was involved and if that was the case Ned couldn't help but think Flash deserved it.
Peter sighed as his anger slowly started to dissipate "I better go to the Principles office before I'm called there..." he said with a sigh.
He got a nod from Ned as they shook hands and both went their separate ways.
All the while Jessica was watching. She had watched the whole scene. Watching a small guy like Peter destroy Flash just made her even more certain 'He is just like me...' she thought as she watched him walk away down the corridor.
(AN: More rewrites, tbh I'm surprised at how bad my writing used to be. I used to think my stuff was readable, but bro I could barely string a sentence together. Anyway hope you enjoy.)
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