Your name is Peter Benjamin Parker.
The Amazing, sometimes Spectacular, recently Avenging, but always your friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man,
Or at least. That's usually how it is, so long as one of your worst arch-enemies doesn't decide to steal your body, by implementing devious and incredibly complicated plans to swap both of your minds and then engineering the death of his former body, with you still inside you may add. Then deciding to prove to...someone. Or maybe himself. That he was the "Superior" Spider-man.
Even after so many years of dealing with Doc Ock and literally being inside his head you have no idea how he keeps coming up with these kind of things.
And even now your back breaks out in cold sweat at the mere thought of just what he did with your life while you were offline.
You take a deep breath from the big window of your safehouse and try to calm your nerves. The sweet horrible fumes of new york's morning air calms you a little, a scent as nostalgic as it is toxic. You wouldn't replace it for anything.
..Though you might get really tempted for some Galactus-Size aspirin. You didn't notice earlier when dealing with good ol' norman's plans as Ock had let your body get so bruised and battered your metabolism was working in overdrive just to keep you alive. But you had a gigantic migraine, searing hot flashes of pain stab into your brain now that you've come off the deadly situations you somehow keep getting plunged into.
That you still had a healthy dose of adrenaline coursing through your veins actually spoke volumes of just what kind of troubles doc got himself into with your body.
You wince and bring a hand to your head. Stifling a groan of pain. Not even eight hours back from the almost literal dead and already you had so much to do while running at half-gas with a throbbing headache and a sensory overload from retaking your body from the machinations of Octopus.
You frown and start pacing. The time you spent "dead" was more than a little strange when you were the spooktacular ghost-man trying(and more often than not failing) to keep Ock from going too far off the deep end and decide that killing all of your friends and family would be a great idea.
You really wish it was hyperbole but hanging in the back of doc's head while he piloted your body gave you a front row seat to the way his mind operated. Even though to his credit he did not seriously consider bringing harm to them his mind had already recognized, organized, discarded and improved many ways to take down your hero friends. Thanks to your not at all enviable position as everyone's errand boy it would have been too easy.
And though you can recall those kind of things. Every minute that passes the actual details of Otto's actions in your body get hazier.
Ignoring the little aside that you were in a ghost-coma for much of his stint.
Until he decided you had to clean up his mess anyway.
Messing up your already disorganized hair you make a mental list of all that you had to do.
You haven't really
slept since you came back. As soon as you cleaned up as best you could that whole mess with The Goblin King you just….swung around. Enjoying for the first time in what felt like forever the glee and freedom you got from web-slinging.
You missed it.
Now if only you didn't had to deal with The Avengers outright being on a manhunt for Spider-Man thanks to Otto.
And Aunt May….God. Aunt May, you want to see her so much, but you know you're not in the best place mentally now and there's so much to do. And you recall there was a fight. And she would figure out something was off. It was too dangerous.
Oh and of course you now were the CEO of Parker Industries. You still have no idea how to react to that. You're not a businessman. Not at all, that's Tony's Schtick and he's an ass.
You don't want to be an ass, you want to be the friendly spidey.
It doesn't seem like that opinion is coming back anytime soon from the little you saw of Otto's exploits though. Geez how do you even begin to mend being a gigantic jerk for months?
A sudden deep note startles you and you flinch, your hands instinctively go towards the vibration even as an orchestra of violins and deep piano makes you raise your eyebrows.you fumble with the phone and as it starts to slip panic briefly, You catch it with lighting speed however and then blink. Then laugh.
Oh you did this again? That hasn't happened in a while.
Shaking your head as you jump back down from your upside down position on the ceiling you clear your throat and look at the displayed name.
Anna Maria.
Oh...yeah. Fudge.
You almost wished Otto wasn't dead, at least that way you could curse him properly without feeling bad about it afterwards.
How do you explain to the girlfriend of the dead megalomaniac villain who took over your body and started dating her while in your body about….all that? Without revealing who you really are? If that is so then why would Otto take over your body without a reason?
Your head throbs in pain and it has nothing to do with coming back from the dead.
The ringtone ends and then you watch in trepidation as she sends a message.
Anna-Maria said:
Morning Slick. Hey we kinda need to talk. And yes I know how that sounds so don't panic. It's just that after all that happened we actually really need to talk. Give me a call when you can-wait scratch that, come to our place when you can. And if you disappear on me for another three months I will test one of my explosive lizards on you.
Ps: Speaking of explosives, Sajani is on war footing and looking for you. I told her you definitely wouldn't come to our apartment when she almost brought down the door just now so, you don't have many options. You are free to panic now.
Yeah. what you wouldn't give for an instant "someone else please solve my problems for me" button. Damn you Otto.
Well you have at least four cartridges of web formula and a fresh spider-man suit since Otto's modified one got wrecked the previous night.
...Wait wait, did Otto change your
damn ringtone?!
That fat megalomaniac b-
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Once you end your tirade once you realize that not only did Otto Octavius change your ringtone. But he changed phones all together.
Your carefully selected playlist. The endless hours of customization for each person you know. The funny photos. The
blackmail . all gone...you end up leaning back upon the sofa that was one of the only pieces of furniture in the room you were in and sigh.
It was something you couldn't have ever thought about back in your school days, and the word "safehouse" usually fit someone like The Punisher or Daredevil. But it was not a bad idea at all to leave a stash of equipment and a place to crash once things got tough and you couldn't afford to go to your very public suite.
Granted. This was Otto's doing but it was early enough in his...career and simple enough that it wasn't particularly hard to enter this particular place. By all intents and purposes he had abandoned this one for many months, its almost a miracle it was still undisturbed. Though he did hid the suitcase pretty well.
You look at your phone with a frown and put halfway on your mask.
You're back. Yet no one even knows you ever left. What should be your first step?
[] Maybe having Earth's Mightiest Heroes out for your head is not the greatest of ideas. If you go and explain very nicely to Steve and they run the tests to confirm your story then with their help you can start rebuilding the mess of a life that you have. Plus. You kinda miss your friends. And Jessica and Logan still owe you money.
[] Ok so you learnt your lesson from that time you busted congress. If you're going to court(nevermind its a super court/interrogation) then you are going to need some backup. See if you can't track down one of your super-friends and have them vouch for you against the steely justice of Captain America.
-[] Logan has always had your back. There's no reason he wouldn't have it now, the old grumpy-pants might deny it but you know he wuvs you.
-[] Carol Danvers is stubborn, violent and straightforward. And one of the greatest friends anyone could ever ask for. She's loyal to a fault and you two share a bond tighter than many other heroes. You know that she would go to hell and back for you. And you'd do the same.
-[] Jessica Drew would understand this situation better than almost anyone else. You know that if you explain properly she will be the staunchest of supporters. Plus. she owes you money.
-[] Some would say that going to The Black Widow when she is explicitly hunting you down would be suicide, it would be much less painful and merciful to go mouth off to Red Hulk if one had such a death wish. You happen to agree yet you know there's more to Natasha than the super-spy cold blooded killer impression she gives to the world. And even if her word is not enough to sway Steve, it will certainly be enough for S.H.I.E.L.D and more importantly Nick Fury.
[] Write-in someone. Those four ones are the ones most likely to take you at your word but hmm maybe someone else would be better for this?
[] Aunt May and Jay. You ..should you go see them? You can't begin to imagine how Otto acted with them but..it might be best if you held off on going to her as you were now, you still have a couple of wounds from the Goblin's attacks and the last thing you want to do is lie to your aunt first thing you see her in months. Then again...
[] Ok. man up Parker. You're the adult now. Anna-Maria deserves to know that stuff is...complicated, from what little you recall she's a wonderful person and it is likely without her you would still be living as the spectacular dead-man now. You'll go talk to her and try to figure just how to explain yourself. No you're not scared at all of her exploding lizards or the mention of Sajani out for your blood. Not one bit.
[] Your ears catch the sound of sirens and instinctually you look to the window. A chase? Now that's just nostalgic. You could...indulge yourself. Just a little bit yeah?
[] Okay you'll admit it. You're scared of Sajani. Then why is it that you plan to go seek her out? Is it a lifetime of conditioning to throw yourself headfirst into the meanest and scariest thing in your general vicinity finally going to spell out your end? Is it Parker?
[] Maybe you're forgetting something?
-[] Write-in
An: Character sheet in the making but I decided to update first to keep interest. if there are any errors or questions please dont hestiate to mention it.
