Does whatever a spider can...

[nerdylilspidey]

Characters: Spider-Man (1610, Parker edition), and YOU!!!
Date: 11/30
Location: all around the city
Situation: Peter's feeling better and is doing a few laps around the city via rooftops in his underwear torn up costume
Warnings/Rating: TBA

It felt good to be out of the suite. It felt good to be running around, jumping from rooftop to rooftop like he used to back in New York. Peter had spent enough time sitting around in recovery mode, and more than enough time being restless and wanting to wander the streets. It was a new feeling that he'd never quite had before; When you're busy every night fighting off muggers and burglars and masked mad men, you crave the days when you can just sit at home, do homework, read The Hobbit... And now Peter found himself suffering somewhat the opposite. With no homework and no Hobbit, what could he fill his R&R time with? Nothing but a restless mind with a million questions and zero answers.

So running around in his red and blue pajamas and mask seemed to help, as torn up and dirty as they still were. At least it made him feel productive. His webs were being saved, however; first he needed to scout out what was around the city that could be used to make more. Which was probably for the best... As healed up as he was, he didn't really want that wound in his side splitting wide open and gushing his insides out onto the streets below while he did his swinging around. Jumping across the rooftops at least gave him an easy stop option if he needed it.

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[alpha_squad_leader]

A red and blue costumed person leaping rooftops was something that drew Victor's attention while he was scaling a building. Being curious, he started to follow after the costumed figure. When he caught sight of the red and blue along with the web-pattern, he smiled. He recognized that costume!

"Hey! Spider-Man!" he called out when he was close enough to not really need to yell. "Wait up?"

[nerdylilspidey]

Hearing someone call him out like that surprised Spidey, to say the least. It had happened on occasion before, other costumed heroes approaching him and such... But it usually never meant anything good. This time was different, though. Spider sense wasn't blaring out a warning, and the tone of voice was definitely friendly. In fact... Spidey was pretty sure he recognized it.

So he stopped after his next jump, landing in a low crouch and turning in place to check out the friendly face. "Well, hey! Y'know, typically I'm the one who drops in on other superpowered superfolk- and am usually received pretty poorly. So color me surprised at the switch!"

[alpha_squad_leader]

Bundled up but still wearing his uniform, Victor smiled when he saw Spider-Man stopping. He caught up soon enough, landing in a crouch of his own. He blinked a few times when he finally got a good look at the state of Spider-Man and his costume.

"Whoa, are you alright?" he asked, clearly concerned. "If you drop in with a costume like that I could understand a poor reception..."

[nerdylilspidey]

He made a show of looking down at himself and examining the numerous tears in the cloth. He of course knew about every rip on his outfit, vividly remembered how each one came about. But this really wasn't the time or place for sharing.

"Oh, I just thought I'd try a new look. Battle torn. It helps people take me seriously."

[alpha_squad_leader]

"Somehow I don't think it's having that effect," Victor remarks, frowning a moment. "Did that just happen tonight?"

"But, hey...people shouldn't give Spider-Man a bad reception. You're a great superhero."

[nerdylilspidey]

"No?" He looked down at himself again, running a hand over one of the rips across his shoulder. "Huh. That's kinda too bad."

Spidey then shifted, adjusting himself so that he wasn't crouching so much as he was actually sitting on his butt with one leg dangling. "And hey, don't worry. I'm totally fine now. This is just a perk for showing up in dirty laundry."

[alpha_squad_leader]

"Really, your undamaged costume makes you look more like a serious, respectable hero," Victor replied.

He shifted to sit as well, folding his legs under himself. "Well, I'm glad your okay. And at least you didn't show up naked. I heard that happened to someone."

[spiderkid]

Miles goes on patrol pretty regularly. He sometimes runs into the turtle's other costumed residents, like that annoying Robin kid, or that Blue Beetle guy. But tonight he saw a more familiar sight as he was perched atop a building in Metal: that of his fellow Spider-Man. Miles decides to follow him, try to catch up. And since he has no compunctions about using his webs, he does so pretty easily. Which is when he notices the state of Peter's suit.

"Whoa, your uniform looks worse than mine did when I got here. You sure you don't want to at least try to sew it up?"

[nerdylilspidey]

Spidey always wondered (in the back of his mind, at least) what it felt like to suddenly have a Spider-Man pop up in front of them from out of nowhere. Now he did. Not that it made him stop, since it was clear to him that Miles could keep up easily with his webs.

"Sewing isn't so much my strong suit," he said with a little shrug. "I did try to find colored duct tape, but that was a total bust."

[spiderkid]

"I could try," he offers. "This girl Clara taught me how to sew. I'm no tailor or anything, but I could at least fix some of the smaller holes..." Not that many of the holes are small, but still.

Now that Miles is close enough to really look at Spider-Man, he's pretty shocked at just how bad a state the suit is in, giving him some clue as to how bad the fight was that he was in before he got sent here. Miles had guessed it was obviously pretty bad, since Peter had died, but seeing the evidence was a different matter.

He says nothing more about it, content just to swing alongside Peter.

[nerdylilspidey]

Peter laughed a little, scaling another rooftop and racing across it. "That's better than I can do. I swear if I tried I'd just end up making it worse."

He looked over at Miles with a smile - one that he couldn't see, but a smile nonetheless. He himself hadn't really given himself a moment to check out Miles' costume and… Well, it looked so much cooler than his. The black and red really worked well, and Peter had to wonder why the costume he'd been given by the wrestling company gave him red and blue.

Oh wait. It was a wrestling company. That probably had something to do with it. "Once I'm all done here, you're free to try patching it up."

[spiderkid]

"Cool, I will." Satisfied, Miles keeps swinging along, until he spots a fight going on about a block ahead of them.

"Hey, want to check that out?"

[nerdylilspidey]

"I'd owe you one big time."

He kept at it, running and jumping and feeling better and better as he went along. So when Miles pointed out the fight up ahead, Peter decided it was as good a time as any to see how he was really hold up. With a nod, Peter started heading that way.

"Hopefully it's just an argument about who gets the last slice of pizza." Obviously not likely. But Peter liked being optimistic at times like this.

[superoverachiever]

Ava's patrols at this point are as much about recon as they are about actual crimefighting, so it's not hard for to spot a guy running across rooftops. And it's doubly easy for her to recognize one of her teammates. With a few differences. The one she most notices, though, is the jumping. Not swinging. Was Webhead already out of web?

She hops over to him, hoping to be able to talk. She misses Peter Parker. Even though he's right there. Even weirder, she misses more than one Pete. She has no idea what she's supposed to do about that, but she knows it isn't fair to blame Parker for it.

Even if some small part of her kind of does. "Spidey. How's it crawling?"

[nerdylilspidey]

It was just as Spidey landed on another roof that he heard someone call out to him again. For half a second he tensed up, unsure if this was a friend or an enemy, but soon enough the easy tone calmed him down. He straightened to his full height, briefly assessing the costumed heroine before him.

"Honestly? I've crawled better." With his costume in the state it was, he still looked beaten up, despite being healed. "Especially since usually I swing."

[superoverachiever]

"Yeah. I helped you make webs the last time you were here, I can do it again. If you want." That wasn't exactly him, she knows. But if he uses the same formula, then she can still be useful. Unless the lack of swinging is because of his apparent injuries, but the Spidey she knows wouldn't...

Who is she kidding, he'd totally go on patrol while he was supposed to be on bedrest.

She pushes that aside for a moment and moves on to the second, and slightly more fun question. "Aren't you gonna ask me who I am?"

[nerdylilspidey]

"Seriously?" Alternate versions of himself aside, knowing that it was even still possible was a huge step in the right direction. He was even just about to take her up on the offer, and then the question hit him-- Just as she said it herself.

He tilted his head to one side, considering the possibilities. He personally didn't recognize the costume, but there was always some kind of theme to work with. And Spidey was just the kind of doofus to kill time with some blind guesses.

"Wait- Don't tell me. The... White Cat." There was a Black Cat, after all. Who was to say there wasn't a white one?

[superoverachiever]

"Tiger." She folds her arms, but she's smiling behind the mask. "I'm White Tiger. You weren't too far off, though."

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[nerdylilspidey]

"Tiger." He smiled a little under the mask, but probably only because it... reminded him of MJ. Damn. "Good thing I didn't blurt out the first thing that came to mind. Which, by the way, was Hello Kitty, followed closely by Stripey Mew Mew."

No it wasn't.

With that out of the way, Spidey folded his arms over his chest, giving this White Tiger another once over. "Sooooooo, I get the alternate universes thing. And since you apparently know how to help me make webs, I'm guessing we're not mortal enemies. Yes, no, maybe so?"

[daughteroftheoriginal]

He's not the only Parker out in costume, or conserving webfluid, for that matter, but May's is in much better condition. When she sees him passing by on a lower rooftop, she quickly flips down from it, landing in front of him.

"That's seen better days. Did you show up like that or did you have a close encounter with a trash can?"

She's let her costume get that bad a few times, but seeing how bad Peter's looked, it's only just now hit her how bad her own must have appeared like that. Talk about setting a poor impression!

[nerdylilspidey]

Peter glanced back over his shoulder in the direction of May's voice, but he didn't stop or slow down. He was sure May could keep up, and if she couldn't, well... Then and only then could he even consider disowning her.

"Showed up like this," he replied with a slight shrug. "It's one of the many joys of being me! Clearly you're missing out on all the best spider-perks if you've never done the Patrol of Shame."

The sheer number of people pointing out the state of his suit was starting to make Peter slightly self-conscious. He really did need to find some way to fix it. Or at least see if Tony had actually gone and tried to build him a suit out of nanobots.

[daughteroftheoriginal]

Ouch! "You don't need to cut me with your sarcasm. I've wrecked my fair share of costumes too. Nothing like a dip in the Hudson to make it look like even the washing machine's a losing battle."

Or sticking your 'air-dry only' costume in the dryer. It's pretty bad when you're splitting your tights in a fight and you're webbing yourself back together at the same time.

For that though, she's going to set the pace. Try to keep up, Peter. He might be able to jump farther and higher, but your girl here definitely the more agile.

[nerdylilspidey]

"Hey, you should be honored. I only cut the best with my sarcasm." He's smiling under the mask, amused at their bit of banter. "To be fair, going up against the washing machine's almost always a losing battle."

The change of pace catches Peter a little bit by surprise. There was a reason Peter had been moving the way he had, but... well, he supposed May didn't really know that, did she? As a precaution, Peter slapped some webbing over the entry/exit wounds in his side before hustling to catch up with May. Not a difficult task by any means, but still more trying than it would be under normal circumstances.

[daughteroftheoriginal]

"Only the best? I guess I'm going to have to take your word for it! Going from personal experience, I'm going to have to claim the dryer as my laundry room foe." That's one lesson she'll never forget. She jumps off the rooftop to the side of a nearby building, and springboards from that to the rooftop another, higher building, and then looks back.

...Shouldn't he be going a bit faster than this?

She frowns a bit, not that it's visible, and pauses for a bit to let him catch up. "Do you want me to slow down?"

[nerdylilspidey]

That made him laugh lightly. "Taking you out one sock at a time?"

Peter was really only a step or two behind May, slower only because of the slight strain that he felt when he moved just so. With the webbing in place and with how long it had been, there was probably no danger at all of the wound opening. But it sure did a number on his agility. He was going to need to get back in prime Spidey shape if he wanted to-- …If I want to what?

He wasn't able to linger on that thought for long before he found himself right at May's side, that question hanging in the air. For a moment he couldn't tell if she was being concerned or condescending. He was going to assume the former. He waved a hand dismissively with a chuckle. "Nah, I've just got a kink in my side, that's all. Why, is having your old man here cramping your style?"