Be Yourself and Be Greater

Every hero is forged in darkness...

And from that darkness...

They come back with much more then before...

Strength...

Love...

Hope...

Let us begin the story...

Of one of many...

Spider-Men...

Flashback

Adande: Otto you have to stop ! Don't do this !

Otto turns towards Adande...

Otto: Your fighting the wrong man

Adande: I won't let you hurt anyone else !

Otto: Have it your way then...

Adande and Otto began fighting trading blows until fighting on-top a Antenna, Adande kicks Otto in the jaw before jumping over him landing on his back trying to rip out his nerve device

Otto: No ! Stop that !

Ottos tentacles grabs both of Adande's wrist before proceeding to crush them causing Adande to grunt in pain which also destroyed his web shooters

Otto slams Adande against the antenna, Adande tried shooting his webs but nothing happened...

Adande: Shit !

Adande dodges a few attacks from Otto trying his best to crawl away until Otto got a good hit onto Adande's face which knocked him away and breaking some of the face plating
Adande hurriedly turned away covering his face

Otto: Such a disappointment... Jensen

Adande eyes widen in shock, he slowly turns towards Otto

Adande: You knew ?

Otto: I tried to warn you Adande, but you just didn't LISTEN !

Adande looks down sadden before looking back at Otto, gritting his teeth and with a furious expression

Adande: You knew ! And you still released Devils Breath ! You killed so many innocent people! You killed May ! She's gone !

Otto: I'm sorry Adande, I won't let you win, this means too much to me !

Adande: Not more than it means, TO ME !!!

Adande lunges at Otto grabbing him by the neck before kicking off one of his robotic arms clean off, this caused the antenna to fall over dropping both of them onto the side of the building, Adande gets up into his fighting stance

Adande and Otto once again started trading blows but this time Adande wasn't holding back, Adande dodges a tentacle slam before he jumps onto Otto punching him repeatedly until knocking off his goggles and creating multiple bruises and cuts onto Ottos face, Adande then charges his bio electricity and starts electrocuting Otto before one of Otto's tentacles grabs Adande by his head and start's crushing Adande's head before Adande quickly kicks himself away from Otto, his mask even more damaged... Otto shakes off the feeling of being electrocuted, both Adande and Otto start breathing heavily... Otto than smirks...

Otto : You look tired Jensen

Adande: Not tired, Just hurt !

Adande leaps at Otto and punches him in the face while Otto smacks him away with his robotic arm, Adande regains balance trying to jump at Otto only to be caught by his robotic arm and slammed against the building, struggling to get himself free until other robotic tentacle launches at him but Adande barley caught it trying his best to push it away, the arm snapping its talons at him

Otto: You think you know my suffering Adande ! You just don't understand, your too young and naïve !

Adande: RRGHHAAA !!!

Ottos stabs Adande in the shoulder which causes Adande to scream in pain, Otto closes in on Adande...

Otto: You see Jensen, If you wanna change the world, you have to be the kind of man, to make the hardest decision

Adande grits his teeth, breathing rapidly in pain, but he takes a few quick breaths, electricity coursing through his arm

Adande: I couldn't... a-agree...MORE !-AAAARGHHH!!!

Adande impales the claw deeper but grabs Otto by the neck

Otto: Wait ! What are you-NO!!

Adande starts over charging the device before ripping off the nerve system entirely causing Otto's arms to short circuit before shutting down completely

Otto: NO, NOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Otto then starts falling off the building while Adande was removing the claw out of his shoulder, he grunts in pain before looking down

Adande: Otto !

Adande jumps down towards the screaming Otto before everything went dark

Adande: What the !?

Adadne was now free falling in darkness, until he started hearing voices....getting louder and louder

MONSTER !

MENACE !

CRIMINAL !

MURDERER !

KILLER !

You were everything I wanted to be !

But you threw it all away !

How could you...

Adande...

Present Day

Beep. Beep. Beep. Bee-" CLICK "

Opening his eyes seeing the sunlight coming from the window... Adande Jensen laid in bed awake, he rest his arm over his face.

Adande: The same dream again...

Having to get up and ready for another day...getting up to the bathroom he runs his hand through his hair yawning until making his way towards the mirror and looks at himself before sighing...

Adande : Another day of, being normal...

Adande then washes up, afterwards getting his Mid Town High uniform on and walking out his apartment, making his way towards school...

Adande : Some of you might be confused on what's happening, so I'll give you guys a recap let's do this..

My Name is Adande V. Jensen or AJ for short I'm now 16 years old
I was only eleven when I was bitten by a radioactive spider that granted me powers after a few years when I was fifteen I took the mantle of being Spider-Man and MANY crazy things happened, teamed up with the Avengers, defeating Humpty Dumpty in a rocket chair, found my lost friend Kamala aka Ms. Marvel, Afterwards moved back to Queen and...

I'm sure you know what comes next, struggle to balance normal life with hero life, trying to keep up with school, fight against six different villains at once...stopping a disease from killing innocent people and... losing so many people you love, my friends, the avengers, aunt may, then the one person I looked up to...Dr. Octavius.

Now people see Spider-Man as either a menace or some kind of justifiable punisher for villains, I didn't want this... after May passed away, I had prove to the court i was capable of taking care of myself... here I am alone struggling to be somewhat...

Normal...

After a few minutes Adande makes it to his school and walks inside into his class...

Teacher: Jensen, your late again...

Adande: Better late than never teach...

Teacher: Uh huh, just sit down...

While the teacher rambles on about the lesson, Adande sits through his class not paying attention and instead sketching in his notebook...

Adande: "Should I use this idea ? No, why am I still brainstorming ideas if I'm gonna throw away the suit soon, maybe today-"

Teacher: Jensen !

Adande looks up from his notebook...

Teacher: Since you enjoy paying attention in class how about you answer this question... if the hockey puck is hit with-

Adande: The answer is negative 200 joules

Teacher: Th-That's correct...how ?

Adande: Probably because I WAS paying attention teach...

The teacher sighs...

Teacher: Jensen see me after class...

The classroom is filled with whispers and Adande just sighs going back to sketching...after the class ends the students began to leave while Adande tried doing the same until...

Teacher: Adande, sit down..

Adande turns and sits in the chair in front of the teacher...

Teacher: I need to have this conversation-

Adande: Look teach I'm sorry for being late, I'm sorry for making you think I wasn't paying-

Teacher: Adande, shut your mouth...

Adande quickly went silent, the teacher sighs and looks at Adande...

Teacher: Listen Adande, you are a very smart kid I know it but your failing every class beside one and that's my class which is science, everything else you just barley slide by and I've been talking to your other teachers and each say the same thing, you understand the concept but choose not to do the work...

Adande: But passing is passing-

Teacher: That's not the point, the reason I'm telling you this is because if you keep this up, you're going to get kicked out of school...

Adande: What !? Kicked out ?

Teacher: Yes, so you better get your act together and start working more efficiently...do I make myself clear ?

Adande: Yes sir...

Teacher: You can go...

Adande gets up and heads towards the door

Teacher: Adande, if there's anything else eating away at you...I'm always willing to listen

Adande stood there for a moment before turning towards the teacher...

Adande: I appreciate your concern but...You wouldn't understand my situation

New York

After changing into a new pair of clothes Adande was now sitting on a rooftop, New York was getting chilly around this time of year, many people were getting ready for the holidays, cars blaring while lights shine bright onto the streets... Adande was holding his mask looking at it before putting it away in his pocket...

Adande: I've made up my mind...

Adande climbs down the building then starts walking out into the snow covered streets of New York, as said before the city was lively as ever... some places he passed by had papers of Spider-Man and as always J. Jonah Jameson talking about how bad Spider-Man is to the public, he ignores it and kept walking...finally making his way towards a secluded alleyway, he walks through and finds a trash can at the end...

Adande: "Am I really going through with this ?"

Adande takes his mask out from his pocket and looks at it one last time...looking out towards the city...He goes to opens the trash can...Until suddenly...

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His senses went off which stopped him, he looks around confused when he didn't see anything....that is until he turns back and sees something weird

Adande: What is that ?

A portal of some kind was opening up before it started distorting the environment around him and began to pull him in, Adande tried to get away but the portal proved much stronger and pulled Adande fully, afterwards it disappeared, everything returning to normal

Meanwhile

Adande: WOAHHHHHH...

Adande is seen being transported at high
speeds, looking around and seeing nothing but space around him until eventually a big crack opens up and he enters in it, now he was free falling trying to regain his balance, he was almost at ground level until he grabbed one of his web shooters from his pocket and webs a building and flung himself upward, he was going to web the next wall until...nothing came out, again he pressed and still nothing

Adande: Oh you've got to be kidding MEEE-

Adande lands onto a building rooftop roughly
He gets up groaning, he looks around and sees he's in, New York, again ?

Adande: Is this, New York ?

He keeps looking around, everything felt familiar yet so, different...

Adande: Something isn't right, it feels the same but I feel, odd...

Just then one of the big screen catches his eye

Reporter: Today we have very important information to share today, recently a 26 year old named Peter Parker was the man behind the mask of Spider-Man...

Adande was confused

Adande: Who's Peter Parker ? He was Spider-Man ? But how... I thought I was-

Adande was interrupted by the news

Reporter: But sadly it's also reported that our beloved hero Spider-Man...

Is Dead...

Adande eyes widen in shock...

Adande: What...