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Post by fan4 on Jan 30, 2007 10:46:07 GMT -5
The Amazing Spider-Man #5 Waterlogged Written by Daniel Dyer Edited by Aaron Martel I ache all over, thinks Peter as he struggles to sit up in bed. I’m sore all over. Getting up, he barely makes it to his mirror. I’m a (barely) walking bruise. Octavius. What happened to him? Those tentacles. So fast. Couldn’t avoid... Peter looks back up at his reflection. Who am I kidding? I’m not cut out for....“Peter,” comes May’s voice from the hallway. “Breakfast is ready.” Uh-oh. Peter scrambles around, grabbing his costume, changing as fast as super-humanly possible. “Peter, are you awake?” Aunt May can’t see me this way. Spider-Man shoots a web-line out the window and swings away. “Peter?” Aunt May opens the door to see an unmade bed and clothes all over the floor. “Such a pig stye.” |
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Post by fan4 on Jan 30, 2007 10:49:19 GMT -5
Long Beach, as a couple relax and take in the sun.
“Robert,” says the woman as she sits up. “Could you put sun tan lotion on my back?”
“Sure, Becca,” he says as he positions himself behind his girlfriend.
“Rebecca!” screams a man coming out of the ocean. Then to Robert, “Get away from her!”
“Who?” asks Robert.
“Morrie?” Rebecca stammers.
“That psycho who stalked...” Robert says, but before he can finish his sentence, a wave from the ocean washes up on the beach, and knocks Robert back.
“Rebecca, we belong together,” the man called Morrie says.
Rebecca starts backing away as Morrie approaches. “Get away from me.”
“She said, BACK OFF!” yells Robert as he takes a 2 by 4 to Morrie’s head, but is shocked to see the board splash through Morrie’s head as if it was made of water. “What are you?” Robert asks as he sees Morrie’s head reform.
Morrie turns to Robert and grabs him by the neck.
“Alright, I thought I’d let you off easy. Guess you won’t let me do that.” As Morrie finishes speaking, his arm begins to turn blue and translucent, and begins to engulf Robert’s head in his watery limb.
Once Robert drops to the sandy ground, dead, Morrie turns back and finds Rebecca gone.
“REBECCA!!!” he screams and forms into his liquid state, diving beneath the sand.
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Post by fan4 on Jan 30, 2007 10:51:21 GMT -5
“Spider-Maniac Attacks ESU With the Aid of a Man With Four Mechanical Arms.” Spider-Man reads the headline out loud. “What the...?! I try to...! I just want to...! Ah, what’s the use. I’m no hero,” he says to himself as he tosses the paper from the roof.
“I’ll say,” comes a voice as Spidey sees the paper torched. “Real heroes don’t litter.”
Spider-Man looks up and sees a man hovering next to the roof, completely engulfed in flame.
“Not to mention, they don’t attack college professors, either,” the flaming man adds.
“And you are...? No, let me guess. Flame Man? No? Hmmm... Flamebrain?”
“Cute. I’m Johnny Storm, the Human Torch. I’m sure you’ve read about my team- the Fantastic Four,” Johnny says as he forms a 4 in the air out of fire.
“And you’re bothering me because...?”
“When I’m not out saving the world, someone needs to keep the streets safe.”
Is this guy for real? “Really? Well, nice talking with you, but I gotta...” Spidey doesn’t finish due to Johnny creating a circle of fire around him. “Hey!”
“You aren’t going anywhere, Webhead.”
Spidey looks up at the Torch, then at the fire cage and back to the Torch.
“Oh, well, looks like you got me, Flamebrain.” And Spidey leaps above the flames, shooting out a web-line. “Seeya,” he says as he swings away.
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Post by fan4 on Jan 30, 2007 10:53:00 GMT -5
“Becca, let me in!” yells Morrie as he bangs on an apartment door.
“Leave me alone!”
“Honey, you’re willing to throw all we had together away? Just like that?”
“Morris, I don’t know what you think we had but it wasn’t real!”
“Wasn’t real?! WASN’T REAL?!” Morrie begins to liquify and seeps his way under the apartment door, then reforms as Morrie.
“My God, what have you become?!” Rebecca gasps.
Morrie grabs her wrist. “I love you.”
Rebecca slaps his face, but her hand just splashes through him. “HEEELP!!!” she screams.
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Post by fan4 on Jan 30, 2007 10:54:52 GMT -5
As if I don’t have enough to worry about, Mr. Hotshot has to give me grief, thinks Spidey as he swings to a ledge, crouching. Maybe I’ve lost...
“HEEELP!!!”
“Oh, great,” Spidey says as he shoots out a web-line.
“Not so fast,” the Human Torch states as he flies down and melts the web-line.
“I don’t have time for this.” Spidey grouses, leaping up and backflipping to the other side of the roof.
“Make time,” Johnny says as he bursts hotter, flying after Spidey.
Spider-Man fires out a web-line and starts swinging. “Ya know, I’d love to keep dancing with you, but there’s someone in trouble.”
“HEEELP!!!”
The Torch turns his head as he hears the scream. “Huh?”
Spidey, clinging to a wall, asks, “Now, are we going to go help the lady or are you going to continue on this farce?”
“I’ll be back to deal with you.” And Johnny flies off in the other direction.
“Dork,” Spider-Man says as he swings off.
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Post by fan4 on Jan 30, 2007 10:56:21 GMT -5
“Morrie, please! Let me go! I don’t love you!” Rebecca pleads.
“Becca, you’ll learn to love me.” Morrie says.
“Hey, Morrie,” comes the voice of the Human Torch as he hovers outside the apartment window. “The lady said ‘hand’s off’.”
Morrie looks out the window and back at Rebecca, grinning. “Have it your way.”
Morrie’s entire body begins to liquify and he lunges out the window, drenching the Torch, putting out his fire.
“AHHH!” screams Johnny as he starts falling.
“I gotcha, sport,” says Spidey as he swings by, catching Johnny and swinging them both to a nearby rooftop. “By the way, you scream like a girl.”
As Morrie’s liquid form rains to the ground, his body is already beginning to reform.
Johnny looks over the side of the roof. “Cool trick.”
“Yeah, neat. Now, if you’re through playing around, I have an idea...” Spidey says.
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Post by fan4 on Jan 30, 2007 10:58:13 GMT -5
“BECCA!” screams Morris “Morrie” Bench as he causes water to shoot out of manholes like geysers. “REBECCA!!!”
“Morris,” Rebecca says as she approaches the deranged water man. “Please, stop this.”
“Becca, I love you.” Morrie says.
“Ain’t love grand?” comments Spider-Man as he crouches on a mailbox.
“Stay out of this, bug.” Morrie threatens.
“I’d love to. I really would, but then I might have to leave rescuing the lady up to Flamebrain.” Spidey lowers his voice. “And between you and me, I don’t think he’s too capable.”
Morrie rushes at Spidey, morphing to his liquid form.
Spidey leaps back and to the side, shooting a web-line out, attaching it to the mailbox. He tugs it, pulling it from the sidewalk, and swinging it into Morrie, causing a big splash. “Wipe-out!” Spidey cracks.
Morrie begins reforming immediately. “You pest! You’re mine!”
And before Spider-Man can movie, Morrie lunges forward, engulfing the hero in his liquid body.
“Gulp... can’t... breathe... NOW!” Spidey manages to get out.
“Hey, Hydro-Man! The heat is on. FLAME ON!!” the Human Torch exclaims as his body lights up and his body temperature rises, directing it towards Morrie.
“What...? What are you...?” Morrie says.
Spidey manages to fall out of Morrie’s liquid form.
“You... cough... lose,” sputters Spidey. “Flame on, Torch. Flame on.”
“NOOO!!!!” Morris screams out as his liquid body starts vaporizing. “I... love... you...” are his final words before his mist fades away.
“Is he...?” asks Rebecca.
“No,” answers Spider-Man. “He’s just changed.”
Spider-Man turns to the Torch. “We worked well together, huh?”
“Yeah. Aren’t you lucky I was around to save your webbed butt.”
“Riiight. Ya know what, Flamebrain? Bite me.” And Spider-Man swings off.
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Post by fan4 on Jan 30, 2007 10:59:47 GMT -5
Ya know, I made a difference today, thinks Spider-Man as he swings down on a rooftop next to a gargoyle. Should I be expected to win them all? No. But today, I saved an innocent woman’s life. Octavius did beat me. I say beginner’s luck. Bring on Doc Ock. I’m ready for him and whatever fate brings my way. I’m the Amazing Spider-Man.
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Post by fan4 on Jan 30, 2007 11:00:53 GMT -5
Dr. Miles Warren is afraid for his life. Octavius has become a madman. Not that Otto doesn’t have a reason to be mad. Warren did steal a very important disc. Now, Dr. Warren is on a bus heading out of town.
The bus stops at a red light and as Miles looks out his bus window, his face turns to one of horror, as a metallic tentacle reaches through the window and snatches him up.
“Hello, Dr. Warren. I believe you have something for me...”
Continued...
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