Friday, December 20, 2013

The Amazing Spider Island #9 Sneaking Websters

We weren't allowed to go home that night, so we patrolled the city for those “Dark Avengers” in vain. They never showed. No new Intel came from our superior She-Hulk, so we returned to base and well, slept there. I really don't like this at all. I mean, I have parents, im sure these other guys have parents, and we cant go home because they say so. But they are with the government so I can only imagine the bull they fed my parents to explain my disappearance. Well these two might want to be their pets, but I’m gonna investigate this place and depending on what I find, make my escape. The only question is, how do you hide from a government who has eyes on everything?

After we enter our room which looks more like military barracks with bunk beds, and the lights where turned off, I waited for these two spiders to fall asleep before I made my move. After I was confident they where out, I slipped out of my bed and crawled on the floor to distribute my weight and make my movements even more silent. I reach the door and... Wait a minute! Spider Sense Tingling! I can sense someone on the other side of the door, armed. Must be a guard, guess I'm not going that way. I try to look around the room in the dark but I cant see very much, but I can feel. I try to focus my senses to get a mental layout of the room (saw that in a cartoon once) and it works! I can feel a air duct leading to the... haha, air duct, how original. Anyways it leads to a... crap I cant sense that far. I leap and cling to the ceiling, then make my way to the duct. I slowly pry it open, but made some noise in the process, luckily the guard and spiders didn’t seem to notice.

Crawling through the ducts feels so humorous to me because I'm reminded of my fictional counterpart Spider-man who is forced to do the same on many occasions. Eww! Its all dusty in here! Ah... Ahh... AHHH!! I cover my mouth and sneeze. But I hear a voice from under me say, “What was that?”. Oh no, someone heard me. Luckily I muffled the sneeze and they weren’t able to guess im up here in the first place. I try to crawl faster and reach the end of the duct. Looking between the bars on the cover of the duct, I can see... a bathroom? Ugh, whatever, its better than the room I was locked in earlier. The duct leads directly into one of the stalls, so I open the cover, drop down and cover the duct again. Spider Sense!! Someone is entering the bathroom. They sound like, women? Oh no, not only am I in a bathroom, im in the ladys room!! There is no where to go so I jam the stall door with webbing and cling onto the stall door so that my feet would not show under the stall doors. The women continue talking about plans for the weekend and other boring stuff. One of them approaches my stall...

Lady1: “Ugh! This door is jammed. I should call the custodian.”

No, no please!

Lady2: “No dont! That poor guy never gets a rest around here. Im sure he'll notice it in the morning.”

I think im in love!

They enter the other stalls and once they close their doors, I crawl over my door and leave the bathroom. I end up in a winding hallway. There is a sign that says “Server Room” so im guessing i'll find something interesting In there. I make my way there and... Spider Sense!!!

“Hey Zap, whatcha doin?”

I turn around and see Ben and Spidey Ham behind me.

“Gah! What are you guys doing here?!”

Spidey ham: “You think your the only one who wants to explore? Me and Ben where waiting for you to go. You where sorta like our scout, and you did good! Also picking the air duct that leads to the girls room, Genius!”

Ben, “So did you want to check out the server room as well? I was thinking it would have some interesting information there. If you can get me there I might be able to get access to their data.”

Well, its nice to know they got my back. Now I have to cover Bens back, and with these low lying hallways crawling on the ceiling will get us seen in no time.

“Ok guys I have a plan.” I turn and say to the team.

“No no no, I've got a plan! Mine is pure genius!” exclaims Spidey Ham.

“I've been planning this for a week, so my plan is more developed than both of yours.” Ben adds “Smartly”.

“You guys!” I yell, “We dont have time for this, guards are patrolling these hallways as we are speaking! We need to work together and focus our...”

At this moment, we all exclaim in unison, “SPIDER SENSE!”

We have four guards blocking our paths in the hallway. They say to us, “Hey you kids are not allowed here! Come with us unless you want to be tazed!”

We turn back to back and I say, “Uh, what now guys?”

Spidey Ham thrusts his hands out and says, “Thwip Thwip baby!!”

We let out a flood of webbing and stick these goons on the walls. Ugh, our cover is blown. Even if we make it to the server room these guys will eventually get out and talk. I tell this to the guys and Ben tells me, “Well, its not like we can kill them, right?”

Spidey-Ham says, “Meh, I guess it depends on what we find in the server room.”

We all start laughing and make our way into the server room. When we enter, all we see is a desktop computer set up. Thats it. No chair, no servers, something is fishy...


?: “What are you guys doing here?”

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

The Amazing Spider Island #8: The Battle/ Iron-spider (Part 1)

(From the perspective of me [Ben Reilly])

We all get back to the base from the fight with the Vulture and I'm standing in the back while Echo goes over briefing and I'm thinking to myself.


Me: Man I'm not sure if joining this team is the best or worst thing I've done. I haven't been home in days and yeah it's great defending the city but do we ever get a break?


Echo: Hello! Scarlet you there?!


Me: Huh?! What!?


Echo: Whats the status on Kick-ass? How is he doing?


Me: OH! He is a little beat up but he will be back to full stenght in no time!


Spider-lad: Man with our super powers I'm surprised he kept up with us through that fight!


Spidey-Ham: Yeah, I can't belive that I made it that whole day with out a full meal!


Me: Yeah! Hey Echo is it cool if the team goes and gets a bite to eat when kick-ass is ready?


Echo: well since you guys did finnish the mission and took down a super villian, thats now under custody, I think that it's fair that you guys reward yourselfs! My treat get what ever you guy want!


Spidey-Ham: Finaly a hot meal!!!!!!!!!1


                                        *1 2/1 hours later*


As we wait for Kick-ass to come out I start to think that these people are like my family and I would do anything for and i shouldn't have let Kick-ass get hert.


Kick-ass walks out.


Me: Hey man how you doing?!


Kick-ass: I'm Good! If it wasn't for the metal on my bones I think I would have been dead!


Spidey-lad: Thats great I thought you were a gonner!


Kick-ass: Yeah me too until----


Spidey-Ham: Yes, we get that he's ok now let's go eat!!



                                *Some dinner downtown*


I'm tired and  worn out  but the only thing on my mind right now is my growling stomach and what im not going to order from the menu.


Spidey-Ham: Finally food!!!!! I Want everything on the menu twice thank you!!!!!!!!


Spidey-lad: I don't think we should take that much advantage of Echo.


Spidey-Ham: Fine! Let me get a #3


                              * A few Orders later*


Me: Man, this burger hits ths spot!


Spidey-Lad: Right?! It feels like I haven't had one in years!


T.V.: Breaking news! There was a huge explosion in the city hall and it seems to me a figure appearing from the smoke! It's Iron Patriot and Other People we cannot make out who they are at the moment. Wait Iron Patriot is speaking!


Iron Patriot: People of New York we, The Dark Avengers are taking over the city! No need for alarm just be afraid! Be very afraid! MUHAHAHAHAHA!!!!


Iron Patriot then shoots a beam at the camera and the T.V. is just static.


Kick-ass: Guys what should we do?!?!?! These guys are the real deal!!!


Spidey-Ham: MLET MHE MAVNGRS MTKE MaRE MF MT!


ME: What?!?


Spidey-Ham: *swallow* Ahh! I said, Let the Avengers Take care of it!


Me: Yeah i guess your right. Let the big leagues haddle it.


*BEEP* *BEEP*


Spidey-Lad: Hey Spidey-Ham your watch is ringing!


Spidey-Ham: OH! *Push*


Echo: Outside Avengers report!


Spidey-Ham: Hey good looking what's up?


Echo: Eeeww No! Anyways, you guys need to get down to city hall The Dark Avengers are trying to take over the city!


Kick-ass: We know we saw the news report but where are the Avengers?!


Echo: They are with the Guardians of the Galaxy fighting Thanos! You guys are the only superhero team in New york!


Me: ok! We are on it!!


Spidey-Ham: Awww but I just started my third burger!!


We all go back to HQ, suit up, and web swing to City hall.


ME: Time for a great beat down!!!

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The Amazing Spider Island #7: Kick-Ass (2)

It's dark now, middle of the night kind of dark, and we still can not find that Kick-Ass character. (sigh) I'm about done with this kid. We stroll around the neighborhood in search of him, but with no luck. I'm telling zstar how I feel, “Hey Z! Lets forget this kid and go home! He was talking about alien symbiotes and bird men. Kinda counts as crazy in my book.”

Zstar is lifting trash lids and looking carefully in them for our masked wonder boy. He then continues searching, telling me, “Look Spider lad, we need to find him. At least I do, I need that money! So lets stay on patrol for at least 10 more minutes, ok? And you know, I was thinking of a name change. How about “Spidey-Ham”? Pretty cool huh?”

Ben is on roof tops yelling, “KIIIIIIICK-AAAAAASS!!! Where are you buddy?! We just wanna talk!”

I've had it. We look like fools yelling “Kick-Ass” all around the city. But, just to make, um, Spidey-Ham happy, I'm gonna yell Kick-Ass one more time. I leap up to the same roof as Ben and yell with all my voice, scratching my throat with its power, “ KICK-ASS Where the HECK are YOU!!!”

BOOM!!!!

Just then, Kick-ass comes crashing on to the roof we are on. He cracked the ground where he landed, so I'm guessing he fell from a high spot. Ben and I rush towards him. I tell Ben to cover me while I carried him to a more secluded area so that we can figure out whats going on here. But, before I jump off the building, my spider sense kicks up on high gear, making me dodge a green blade on instinct! “WHOA! Ben watch out, incoming!”

Ben Dodges two of the same blades with a back flip, then lands in a crouched position, looking around to see where those blades came from. But the sky this night is very dark, little to no stars are shining and the moon isn't helping either. Then I feel it again, my spider sense. But this time I can sense the enemy projecting them at us. I can only get a vague mental picture of the foe with my spider sense, but I do notice two wings, and a blade heading straight for Zsta... I mean Spidey-Ham! I can see that he sensed it too, so now its time for some split second team work. In moments like this, time appears to slow down, giving me a complete awareness of my surroundings. So I work out a plan in my head.

I know where the enemy is, but I'm guessing the others couldn't sense him or are only focused on the projectiles, so I'm going to web that sucker right where I think his head is. I kinda wish obi-wan was here to tell me to use the force, and close the auto tracker. So I use my spider sense and THWIP!!THWAP! I hit him! Whoa! Hes pulling me away! I quickly shoot another web to the surface of the roof we are on to keep him from dragging me away, and feel like I'm gonna be torn in half if I don't get back up soon!

Me: “Ben! Climb my web and get on this guy!Spidey! Help me hold this guy down!”

Ben: “Got it!”

Spidey-Ham: “Yeah yeah, hes not getting away from me!”

Spidey-Ham then does the same with his webs as I did, shoot one at this flying enemy and one at the roof. Phew! With Hams added strength this really takes a load off of me. Ben then jumps on my web and makes his way to this flying guy with perfect balance. But hey! Kick-Ass just jumped on Hams web and is making is way to the bad guy as well! Both Ben and Kick-Ass reach this guy at the same time. I can hear Ben from the distance saying, “Give up now... Bird looking man, or I will be forced to, uh, clip your wings!”

Kick-Ass agrees with him, saying, “Time to lock you up in your cage, Vulture!!”

Vulture?! Out of all the villains the original spider man had to face, and we got stuck with the least important one! Ehh, I've read enough comics to know that you gotta ride the vulture for a bit, while wailing on his flight control panel on his back, or just knock his skull a few times. “Hey, you guys done over there!” I yell impatiently. My arms are tearing as the vulture is pulling my web! I see from the distance that Ben rips off the vultures wings with almost no effort what-so ever. Talk about spider strength! Kick-Ass then knocks on Vultures dome with his batons. Oh crap, Vulture is going down!

He's Falling right into a high speed road down below along with Ben and Kick-Ass! I can feel my heart racing, as Spidey Ham and I are also pulled down with him. We only have seconds before we hit the floor. I need to think... no I need to feel! In an instance, I can feel everything around me. The buildings, the people below, the sweat of the others. I am in complete sync with my surroundings. So I shoot another web to the building that we were falling from, because I had let go of the one I was using earlier, and it seems as if Spidey Ham can feel what I am thinking as well, and does the same. Now that Ham and I stopped the Vulture from falling, we begin to swing back toward the wall of the building we just webbed. Ben then slams Vulture into the wall with a loud WHAM! And Shoots some webs to secure him on the wall. Ben then grabs Kick-Ass and lands with him on a side walk nearby, where we regroup. Can't wait till the green lady hears what happened out here, because things just got more complicated.

The Amazing Spider Island #6: Kick-Ass

“(sigh) We've been walking these alleys for hours. We even passed some dudes selling drugs back there! Shouldn't we, I don't know, stop them?”, I annoyingly say. Its true though! We have been scanning these streets since Echo told us to go, and the sun is going down. GASP! My parents are gonna KILL ME!!!

“We can't stop for petty thugs, Spider-Lad. We need to find this kid.”, Zstar answers as we continue through the alley.

HEAD ACHE!!!!

Everyone leaps together back to back as if we felt the same thing.

Ben: “Whoa! Did you guys sense that?!”

Sense?

Zstar: “I couldn't pinpoint it! Spider-Lad, where did your spider sense point you?”

I am confused. “ Spider sense? What the heck is tha...” OH! When I was in danger, what I felt wasn't a head ache, it was my spider sense! Now its so clear to me. I don't understand how I never figured that out before, being a spidey fan and all.

Zstar: “Oh dear. Your spider sense is when you feel...”

WHAM!

Ungh, what just happened? I was talking to zstar, then I woke up on the floor. There is a baton on the floor next to my head. And, now I see a guy in a green and yellow suit sprinting my way, jumping int the air and about to STOMP MY HEAD!! Zstar then leaps toward him and knocks him off course with a flying kick to the ribs! The green man is down, hes hurt. Now he better have a good explanation for this! I get up off the floor, pickup the baton that was on the floor next too me, and I walk over to the green man. The other spiders join me.

Ben: “Spider-Lad are you ok?!”

Me: “ Yeah i'm fine. If it wasn't for you two id probably be a red and blue stain. But right now we got work to do.”

Zstar takes the baton from my hand and waves it at the green man, saying, “Who are you? And why did you knock out Spider-Lad?! I'm the one who's supposed to get stiches from Echo, me, me, not him, ME!”

Ben and I laugh at zstars randomness. Then the green boy comes clean.

Kick-Ass: “Spider-lad?Who? Wha?”

As he composes himself, we notice he gives us an, OOOOH! Look. And surely enough....

Kick-Ass: “OOOH! Your not venom, you're the Amazing Spider men!”

Venom? Like THE venom? The alien symbiote that makes his hosts into rage junkies? I guess thats not too hard to believe, I mean, I'm part of a Super powered, super tight costumed spider man wanna be dream team that is commanded by a big green lady in a secret government base.

Me: “Come on man, get to the point. Who are you and what are you doing here?

The green kid stands up and gets into a heroic pose, “I am Kick-Ass!”

Zstar: “Great, he's Spider-Lad, he's the Scarlet Spider and I'm sleepy. So can we go home now?”

Kick-Ass looks surprised and says, “Wait, but aren't you guys here for The Vulture?”

Ben, “The Vulture?! He's real?! We gotta knock that bird outta the sky, guys!”

Zstar, “Look Ben, we are getting paid to bring Kick-Ass to our base and that's it. If there is a vulture i'm sure Echo will send us in after him.”

Me, “We are getting paid...? ( heavenly chorus sings )”

Ben then looks down and says, “Yeah, I guess you're right. Man! I really wanted to kick some... Where did Kick-Ass go?”  

The Amazing Spider Island #5: The Outside Avengers

   Ugh, my head hurts. The room is spinning out of control and I feel that my balance is completely off. Just trying to stay on my left knee is challenging,and I think i'm gonna...Hrmp!

    Scarlet: “We got a puker over here! Somebody open his mask! And uh, bring a bucket!”

    I see the figure of the man who called himself the Scarlet Spider, but my vision is still blurry.I can make out huge computer screens in the room we are in and a lot of people in dark clothing walking around with clipboard and tablet computers. Then I see another red and blue man run towards me with what looks like a bucket. Wait, whats he doing?

    ?: Keep your puke in! These people charge a dollar fifty to use their washing machines!Talk about a royal treatment.”

    He unzips my mask and I can see more clearly. This man who unzipped my mask is... another spider-man? What in the... Hrmp!

     ?: “Here goes nothing!”


     Scarlet:“Wait, what are you doing with that bucket?”

     SPLASH!Ugh! He just soaked me with water from that bucket! Man, im completely drenched! Hrmp! Hurl! Ahh!

    Scarlet:“Dude! The bucket was for him to puke in!!”

    ?:“Oh, well you coulda told me that before I ran Half a mile to get here! Seriously, this base is huge!”

     Ungh, Oh man this is not my day. At least after puking I feel a little better and not as dizzy. I'm starting to see more details about my surroundings and It looks like i'm in a set for star trek or some kind of science fiction movie. Huge computer screens displaying what looks like a satellite image of the city I live in. Other computers look like they have person of interest profiles open on screen with information such as date of birth, hair color, etc. The room is mostly colored gray, with the exception of those yellow and black warning stripes on the floor and around some equipment. Large ceiling lights light the room up well and I can now see the faces of all the employees rushing around, taking notes and typing in their computers.I even see one of them playing minecraft...

     ?:“Hey Rookie! Wakey wakey! Time to get up Spider-Lad, we have work to do.”

     I look back at the other spider man I didn't recognize earlier and he'swearing the Sam Rami Spider-Man movie costume. I still don't know whats going on, but I stand up and face him. Two employees quickly rush to where I stood to clean my vomit off the floor. Yeah, pick dat up. Ok so, now what? I guess i'll ask some questions.


    Me:“...Uhhh.”

    ?: Hey Spidey-Lad, how was you're trip? Don't worry about the vomit, at least you didn't piss your pants like Scarlet here.”

    Scarlet:“Hey! At least I didn't crap my pants like...”

    ?:“Anyways! My name is Zstar, but you can call me Spidey.”

    Me:“Um can I use the bathroom? I think I pooped and peed myself.”

     Zstar turns to Ben and yells, “HA! See?! I wasn't the only one to crap myself! Hey check this out! CLAP CLAP! Somebody please show Spider-Lad to the bathroom!”

    An employee runs over and says, “Yes sir. Please come this way Spider-Lad.”

     One clean up later and I am lead to a command room. How do I know this?Because there is a big ol sign in front of the command center that says “COMMAND CENTER”. You couldn't possible get lost here. So I walk in and I see the two Spider Men talking, so I walk over to them.So I come up and ask them, “ Hey guys, whats all this about anyway?Where are we?”

    Zstar:“The big Green lady will tell you everything.”

   Me:“OK? So, where is she?”

     Just then my head ache is coming from the back of my head, and I feel someones presence behind me. I leap backwards jumping over a rather tall green person and sticking to the wall behind me. I then get a good look at the person. She's a woman, around 7 feet tall, and ripped with green skin and a white lab coat. She looks to me and says, “A little jumpy, are we? Don't worry, I don't bite. My name is Echo. It's a pleasure to have you on the team.” She seems nice enough, so I jump down and shake hands with Echo.

     Zstar:“ Can we get this show on the road?! I wanna knock someones teeth in!!”

     Echo:“All in good time. Before you can start you're campaign against evil, you'll need more members on this team, which leads us to your first assignment.”

     HOLD ON! I step forward and rudely say, “Hey, this is cool and all, but I dont remember signing up for this. You guys can teleport where ever you want, but I want no part of it!”

     Echo then looks at me with a smirk and says, “You've been drafted to form The Outside Avengers. If you don't comply, you will serve time in jail.”

    Me:“WHAT?!?!?!”

     Echo:“Anyways, here is the first member on our list that we would like you to collect for us. He wears Green and Yellow spandex. I think he goes by the name.... KICK-ASS...”

The Amazing Spider Island # 4: The Scarlet Spider

Just got home from the hospital. My mom puts away her jacket and purse in the closet and goes into the kitchen to start cooking. My dad goes downstairs into the basement to work with his machines. And I, I go to my room, lay down on my bed and fire up Star Wars Battlefront 2 on my Xbox slim. Sure battlefront is old, but it doesn’t mean its a bad game. So I play for about 15 minutes, then after I finish a mission, I adjust my position on the bed and feel something in my pocket. Its the Card! The card that the man I saved gave me! I never even looked at it once, so I reach into my pocket and pull it out. Let see here... ARMA Tech? Special tactics group.... blah blah blah.... Have been invited to join ARMA tech and... blah blah... Oh my Gear! He's an agent at ARMA tech?!?! That’s the most advanced military division in the world! They have the latest technology, from holograms to hover ships, and im invited to join them? OMG OMG OMG! What do I do? How do I proceed? Before I can answer this, I hear what appears to be some intense traffic in front of my house on the main road, with car horns blaring and tons of shouting. Eh, its not my proble... ARGH! My head ache is back!

I feel danger, and the feeling is coming from that traffic! Ungh, must go outside, and see for myself. I walk towards the front of my house and see my parents looking out the window. My mom shouts, “What the heck is that thing?!!” and my father replies, “I don’t know, but we better get away from the windows!” During all that I ran to our jacket closet by the front door and find my spider-man hoody. I slip out the front door with out them noticing, But i'm guessing my secret is about to lose its charm real soon. If they try to find me in my room, I wont be there. The only other choice they will have is to look outside and... What the Heck IS that thing?

Its Grey, really tall and buff, plus has a horn in front of its face. It, it almost looks like a human-rhino. It is a human-rhino!! Great, just when I think things couldn’t get any weirder. He seems to be pushing cars off the road, but doesn’t seem to be hurting anyone, just their cars. Maybe I can slow him down with my wrist-webbing. Man, I need to come up with better names for my abilities. Anyways, I make the hand gesture and webbing thwips out of my wrists and fly’s and the Rhinos feet. Ha! They stuck on. He noticed it too. Now I just gotta yank..! Rah! The Rhino comes down with a BOOM as he lands flat on his back. I start running toward him when, all of a sudden...

?, “Hey nice moves Spider-Lad! But why don’t you hang back and let a pro handle this?”

I turn to look at who was speaking to me, but as I turn a red and blue blur swings past me, nearly hitting me! He zips through the air and lands on The Rhino with great force, knocking the wind out of the creature. The Rhino becomes furious, huffing and puffing, then just as he jumps up and tries to grab the red and blue man who swung past me earlier, the man leaps off of the rhino, showing off by doing a back flip in the process.. The Rhino misses, and before The Rhino could even conceive his next attack, the red and blue man shoots what looks to be a web similar to mine on the rhinos horn and pulls it with so much strength that he forces the Rhino to fall face first on the pavement. The red and blue man becomes a blur, leaping through the air and shooting a bombardment of webbing at the Rhino, holding him down. Man this guy is too fast! Before I even know it hes in front of me asking a question.

Me, “What? I-i'm sorry, I didn’t hear you.”

he leans back and lets out a big laugh!
Scarlet, “ I said slow spiders say “what?” Haha! So, your the new recruit?

I'm still trying to process what just happened with the Rhino, but I finally catch up with him.
Me, “Recruit? What are you talking about? Hold on, an even better question is, WHO ARE YOU?!”

He gives me an alienating look, and even with his eye lenses I can still see he is truly as confused as I am.

Scarlet, “Um.... dude, i'm The Scarlet Spider. You know, from the spider-man comics? Might have even seen me swinging around town?”

I turn my attention to his costume, and now its starting to make sense. He has an almost exact costume as the character Scarlet Spider in Marvel's Spider-Man comic book series, with a red zentai full body suit, blue tattered hoody with a spider emblem on the front in black, two eye lenses that appear to be like the ones from the newest movie, The Amazing Spider-Man, and visible web-shooters mounted on his wrists.

Scarlet, “Hello? Earth to web-head! Listen I need to take you back to headquarters right now. The captain wants to speak with you.”

Who does this guy think he is? I don’t even know him and i'm supposed to follow him to his head quaters to speak to some captain? I don’t think so! He's typing away in what looks like some kind of communication device, no not a cell phone. I don’t care who he's texting, it's about time I put my foot down!

Me, “I'm not going anywhere until you explain yourself!”

The Scarlet Spider looks at me and laughs, “Don t worry bro, Ill tell you everything when we get there. Now, have you ever been teleported before?”

Pfft, what kind of stupid question is tha... Whats going on?! A blue electrical field is surrounding us and is spinning at high speed! I cant feel my toes, or my hands! My Body is going numb! AHHHHHHHH!!!

The Amazing Spider Island #3: Saviors's visit

Man, what happened last night? Ugh, all I remember was feeling really hot, smoke and... flames. GASP! I quickly sit upright and find myself in a hospital room. Again? Wait a minute, my hoody! They took it! Oh no! Im starting to sweat with worry. What if im not in a hospital at all? What if im in area 51 like all those other freaks?! No, no!

Mom, “[ZapMan]! You're awake! Its ok, you're in a hospital. How are you feeling?”

My mom? Dad? They are sitting beside my bed on a couch. Wait, so, im not in area 51? Something tells me im in a bigger problem than before knowing my mom. She looks calm now, but I know her...
I try to talk but I notice an oxygen mask over my face. Then I start taking notice of my surroundings. The room is mostly white and clean, but now I notice this is one of those emergency rooms with the curtain separating the room from the main hallway. Ok, now back to me, the oxygen mask fits comfortably so I'll try to talk to my parents.

Me, “Hi mom, whats up pops? (cough!)”
Aww man! My throat! Its so itchy and makes my voice sound raspy.

Dad, “That was some stunt you pulled back there last night. I still cant believe you managed to save that man! I'm so proud of you!”

He's... alive? I-i saved him! Yes!

My mom quickly put on a sour face and starts yelling, “What were you thinking?! You could have been killed!!!!”

That’s true, I could have died back there if the paramedics had not shown up. Luckily my dad steps in to defend me.

Dad, “He saved a live and wasn’t afraid of giving his own! He's a hero! The man he saved is even being strolled out here because he wants to thank him personally!.”

Really? I must have made quite the impression. I should be glad that i'm alive, but i'm more grateful that nobody seems to suspect that I had the help of some super powers to achieve what I did. Phew! Just then, the curtain in front of the room opens and two nurses stroll in a patient lying on a bed. One of the nurses says, “ Good Morning [ZapMan]. Do you recognize this man? Hes the one you pulled out of the fire last night. Even with a bullet wound, he constantly insisted he wanted to meet you to give his thanks.”

They roll him over by my bed and he looks me dead in the eyes. I had not gotten a chance to see his face clearly in the smoke last night, but now I see that he is an American middle aged man. He looks to be in horrible condition, with cuts and bandages all over. But then I focus back on him and he starts to speak.

Man, “You've got some guts kid. I'd be a goner if you hadn't been there. I promise to keep out of trouble from now on, haha!” he tries to make humor, but his attempts are only met with pain as he begins coughing up a lung, metaphorically speaking. Before I can accept his praise, the nurses pull him closer to my bed and... he slips what feels like a card into my hand. He tries to play it off by saying,

“You are capable of great things. We could use more people like you in this world.” After finishing his fishy speech, I start thinking, should I mention the card right now? No, there is a reason he gave it to me secretly, so ill just keep quiet for now. They stroll him off and, well everything plays out like usual at the hospital. Luckily the doctor said I recovered faster than he predicted so he let me go early. Me and my parents drive off to home and I just stay thinking about all this that’s been happening recently. Even after all this, I'm still not ready to tell my parents about my...condition. All i'm wondering is, will I ever be?

The Amazing Spider Island #2: Action

I look at my computer screen and reread everything I typed. It looks good. So I’ll just go to the upper left of the computer screen, click ‘File’,  ‘Save as’, and lets call it, “The Beginning“. Ok then. I fold my laptop computer and leave it on the wooden desk next to my bed. My room is dark, and I like to keep it that way since I feel like these artificial lights bother my eyes. I carefully walk to my mirror on the other side of my room with only the light of the fading sun to clear me a path. I finally stand up to myself and all I see is a tan skinned Hispanic teen in a spider-man hoody and blue jeans. He’s handsome alright, but that’s not the point of this staring contest. I’m looking for clues to who I am, trying to see it is locked away in some expression of mine. But my face turns up blank, as usual.

My mom comes in the room, Knocking first.

Mom, “Good night.”

I reply, “Good night ma.”

She leaves and I jump on my bed, trying to fall asleep. It takes maybe an hour for me to fall asleep, so I lay there thinking of my future and what might happen given certain circumstances. Yeah, I’m weird like that. I then begin to think about me when im older and married. Those thoughts are the best because they make me feel really happy. Then I start bringing my self down with classic lines like: I’m no good for her, I’m a loser, or the most recent, Would anyone marry a genetically altered freak like me? I’m not even human anymore!!! Normally during these thoughts I tighten my grip on my bed sheets until the thought passes. This is the longest night of my life, as so is every other night. I just… need to… sleep…

Just then, I JUMP at the sound of a loud Crash outside my house. I quickly move to the nearest window in my room and look outside for clues to the disturbance. In the darkness, I see smoke off to the far right down the next street over. Then I hear another loud sound, but this one sounded like a BANG! Could it have been a gun shot..? Ahhh! My head! It’s killing me! Arrgh! I… I need to go over there! I have to! I zip up my spider-man hoody all the way till the hoody becomes a Spidey mask over my face. I then disable the security system by my window and leap out to the street. Whoa! I just jumped from my window to the side walk on the other side of the street! I must be dreaming. Wait, off in the distance down the road where the smoke was coming from I hear a scream, “Help us! Please somebody help us!!!”

I dash down the side walk toward  the chaos down the street and don’t even stop to think of my incredible speed. It must be the adrenaline, or like I said, a dream. Then I see a house on fire and a lady with her daughter (im guessing) outside of the house screaming. As I made my way over there I heard police sirens. Maybe the cops can handle this… Argh! But my head still hurts so much. I feel driven to help these two out, even if it may appear I cant do much for them. I sprint to them quickly and ask, “What’s going on ladies?! Is there someone still inside?”. The mother turns to me, ignoring my silly spider-man get-up and screams, “My husband! Please! Help him! The man came, I think he did this!”. The Man? I then proceeded to ask, “Who?! Who is ‘The Man’?”, but just after I finished speaking I hear a loud BOOM come from the house. The flames have nearly engulfed the house, and its starting to fall apart. Oh Man!!! I have only one shot at this!

I bust open the front door and as I did so, the door frame came crumbling down. I jump over the rubble and start feeling my headache again, only this time its different. It feels like its trying to guide me through the think black smoke to the woman’s husband who is on the upper floors. I try to take the stairs but they collapse just as I run to use them. Forget this! I jump to the top of the stairs and begin running around checking the rooms on this floor. My headache then points me to a bathroom where I find the woman’s husband. He’s in bad shape. Blood is scattered over the bathroom window, he is gripping a wound near his stomach while trying to filter the poisonous  black air with his blood stained white shirt. I lift him up and place him over my shoulder. Just then, The floor cracks. I crash through the bathroom window landing in front of the woman and her daughter while behind me, their house gives in to the heat and comes crashing to the ground. The police are there and receive the man from my shoulder and rush him to an ambulance where they try to feed him oxygen.

I am trying to catch my breath from all this excitement. I’m wondering if it’s the excitement that made me winded, or the Gallons of black smoke that I inhaled. Darn it! I should have kept my head low to avoid most of the smoke, now I feel my lunges burning. A lone police officer rushes to me and asks me, “You’re a hero kid! Come with us, quickly. All that smoke can kill you if you don’t let us help.” No, no I cant. I cant go with them. They will take my mask off. They will find out I’m a freak. I.. I..

The Amazing Spider Island #1: The Beginning

I've Been watching these videos asking myself, is he really like me?

"...See ya guys, Spidey out!"

ZstarOdustE is his screen name. But he claims to be the Real spider man. This guy makes videos at least once a week, Giving tips about things in life and just talking about funny experiences. But im pretty sure he doesn’t know what it feels like to be a freak. I do. In the case of this being read by anyone other than me, i will refer to myself as ZapMan, and this is my journal.


Today is Monday, March 4th. I am huddled in a corner of my room just typing away trying to forget the day i learned what i really am. Maybe if i write about it i may be able to forget. I was at school, it was an old school filled with Swaggers and pimps and, eh, i forget what those kids said they had or were. So this day i was taking my Chemistry class, my favorite class. Although my love for the science didn’t reflect on my report card.... hmm. But anyways, i was sitting tapping my Nike shoes while my teacher Mr. Zanders talked about his favorite Disney dinosaur (not even kidding). Mr. Zanders was a weird man, but most of all, BIG. I mean, i was kinda chubby, but MAN!! He had a clean cut look but was always soooo bored. It seemed anything would bore him, even his own speeches bored him. But after he was done talking about his dinosaur, and Then went on to explaining a suicidal dream, he gets a call from the office on the intercom.

Intercom, "Mr. Z. We need you to report to the office."

Mr. Zanders, " Uh, sure i'll be right down. Let me just finish up..."

Before Mr. Zanders could finish his babbling, the lady in the intercom interrupts with, "NOW ZANDERS!!" so he walks over to the door and in the hallway like Child going to detention. As soon as the door shuts, it becomes social hour, an hour im not very chummy with. I sit there as kids talk trash, Boys about Girls, Girls about boys, and boys about how big their **** are. I hated school. So then this one kid gets the bright idea to run in the storage room behind the teachers desk and wait in there to scare the teacher when he came back. So all the kids quieted down and giggles filled the room from the girls side of the class. He searches the teachers desk, opening and slamming all of the teachers drawers till he found the key. He then unlocked the back door and zoomed in. What happens next is what changed my life forever. As the kid mindlessly dashed into the storage room, he did not realize that room was dark, nearly pitch black. So he stumbled on some misplaced gear and bashes his face on the glass doors of Mr. Z's most prized experiments. The glass shattered and ripped his face as he landed. All we could hear was the shattering of the glass and the Highest pitched scream ive ever heard, "AHHHHH!".

To this day i don’t regret my decision. I ran in the storage room, flipped the light switch and saw the kid laying on the floor, gripping his face next to a small puddle of blood. But in a split-second, i saw from the corner of my eye a jar containing a strangely colored spider falling from the top of the glass cabinet that the kid hit. Running on instinct, i pulled the kid up and through him out the door into the class room. I hear a shattering sound, and before i could turn back to see what was behind me, i felt a pinch on my leg. Before i blacked out i saw the tarantula sized spider Biting my leg, and that was it.

I awoke in a Sherman Hospital. Then it gets kinda boring from then until i got out. I later learned Mr. Zanders was housing Dangerous living experiments in his storage room and kept illegal substances in there as well. He was quickly fired by the school, went to court and then jailed, his sentence being 5 years. Pretty Generous if you ask me. I was excused from school for 3 weeks. During this time i noticed changes in my body. I started losing a lot of body fat and became more toned. My hands became very sticky so i tried and tried to wash my hands till the point they started bleeding. Here's where i knew that spider bite changed me. When i was watching Ultimate Spiderman on Netflix, i wanted to play around and shoot webs. But when i made Spider-mans hand sign, a web Thwipped out of my wrist and hit the wall with a loud SMACK! I didn’t want to tell my parents, so I’m keeping it a secret for now. How long can that last though?

I now posses amazing super human abilities, but i don’t know what to do with them. I wish someone could tell me. Till i figure something out, ill just live out my life as normal. I am ZapMan, the Real Spider-man, and this is my Amazing Spider Island.

Greetings

Hello! I am ZapMan and i also have a blog for my comic series Metric City. This blog however is for my Amazing Spider Island fan fiction series. I will be uploading them on here from now on instead of The Amazing Spider Island page on Facebook. I just wanted to say thanks for everyone on Spider Island for reading my stories and giving feedback, and also for Ben Reilly for contributing. There will be more to come so stay tuned! I'll try to post all of them by today. PLEASE comment and like if you liked the story. It really helps me know what i should keep doing and what im doing wrong.