City of Web

Spider-Man/Firestar compose a hero-duo for the US-city and must defend sanity as the devilish Scorpion (Mac Gargan) surfaces as an 'alien' doomsayer.

An homage to the recently resurrected Spider-Man franchise!

DISCLAIMER: I've no official ties (professional) to the Marvel franchise and present this as a work of character translation (personal) and any relation/direction to an official storyline is purely dialogic. 

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Great tidings were underway in the United States city, thanks to the super-heroic defenses afforded and offered by the two love-birds (Peter Parker and Angelica Jones) who were the city's masked and flying vigilantes. Peter had been mutated into a web-crawling wrestling masked insect-like acrobat called Spider-Man in a strange lab-accident, rendering him the powers for crime-fighting. Angelica Jones likewise experienced a chemical transformation that rendered her the power to create devastating heat-energy, making her Firestar. Spider-Man/Firestar were messengers of the dimension-line between anarchy and magic.

PETER PARKER: I consider myself a public servant of the American place, and Spider-Man is my 'Facebook-friendly' cosmetic!

The Daily Bugle covered the heroics of the valiant Spider-Man (Peter Parker) who was able to subdue a number of rather eerie villains of the city, including the venomous Black-Cat (a femme-fatale in costume and wielding chemical weapons) and the hideous Doctor Octopus (a lab-maniac with mecha-tentacles attached to his insidious back and controlled by his insidious mind). Spider-Man had become a 'saint' to the city-dwellers who'd been crushed by the likes of these ugly pirates.

ANGELICA JONES: I never consider myself a movie-star since no one knows my heroine-ID, and I'm a Facebook-fan of cinema!

As the triumphant heat-energized mutant gorgeous heroine Firestar, Angelica Jones had been able to assist Peter (Spider-Man) in his quest to destroy an underwater leviathan fortress built by the terrorist-capitalist Norman Osborn.

SPIDER-MAN: We're to defend a special space-shuttle showcase in Washington for the hoisting of defended national pride.
FIRESTAR: Cool, Peter; but maybe all this media-stunting for interstellar travels may beckon serious concerns for Earth-IQ.
SPIDER-MAN: Sure, and I suspect the likes of Osborn and Octopus may be lurking in the nooks; we need to be ready!
FIRESTAR: I'll secure the back-lots where attendants will flock-in and make screening of terrorism quite challenging.

SPIDER-MAN: Excellence.

The Daily Bugle had reported on civilian-patriotics rumors that Spider-Man/Firestar had become special love-birds and not just a dynamic heroist-team defending their challenged city from the mind and wits of the nasty and evil. Crime is natural, but Spider-Man/Firestar gave crime-fighting a special 'human' face, rendering artworks for cityscapes suddenly daylit.

However, all was about to be super-challenged in the form of a new stranger in town, a self-proclaimed 'alien-king' named Mac Gargan who had a bloodthirsty love of pure anarchy/disorder and used his mental-illness to justify a 'rigorous' approach to mayhem/fear in the great challenged city Spider-Man/Firestar defended with diligent honors (for the sake of cinema!).

MAC GARGAN: My genetic abnormality affords me a writhing alien-like body/musculature; I'll don the suit of the Scorpion!

Spider-Man/Firestar knew the only and best way to take down this nasty nemesis of the city now, Scorpion (Mac Gargan!) would be to use special 'blue-bullets' which released acid upon impact. They fitted their crafted miniature hand-cannons to fire these blue-bullet acid-shots right into Scorpion's wall where he'd been crawling (up a condemned giant apartment-building), to prevent him from scaling to the top/roof from which he'd release upon the city countless mind-deforming spores he'd stolen from Osborn's laboratory after tricking him into thinking he'd become his evil accomplice!

SCORPION: I may've been subdued for now, Spider-Man/Firestar; but my 'dark crusade' yielded multiple delicious casualties!

The casualties came when Scorpion detonated a distraction bomb in the heart of the city late-night after Spider-Man/Firestar successfully foiled his spore-rooftop release scheme, giving himself the 'collateral-damage' that afforded him that vain boast of a minor non-miracle, though there were no fatalities besides roaming policemen caught in the hellfire.

SPIDER-MAN: We've got a new nemesis in the works now, Angelica; he's left us a 'cartoon-doodle' of himself in caricature.

FIRESTAR: I know; he'd call himself the Hobgoblin and seemed to have some 'strange' tie to fashion-IQ oriented detention!

MAC GARGAN (Scorpion): When these puny villains are boring Spider-Man/Firestar, I'll resurrect as an exile-in-disguise!

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