19 Chapter 19: Chimeras & Phantoms III

Peter flipped up to the ceiling and shot two web lines at his opponent, the boy rolling out of the way and beginning to charge at Hado with a look of hesitation.

Wait.

Was he getting… ignored?

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Peter dropped the fighting stance and simply stood normally on the roof, watching as Hado kept her distance while shooting energy waves that kept in mind the small space while Amajiki used the clamshell as a shield and the tentacle as a whip, occasionally changing the tentacle into a pincer for quick jabs that were dodged.

No way.

He was getting ignored!

That hurt him more than any gunshot.

"Talk above looking down on someone, am I right?"

Peter turned to the side to find Togata's face popping out of the roof he was standing on while wearing a goofy grin.

"I know, right? Wonder how the fight looks like right side up."

The two simply watched the fight for a couple more seconds before Peter decided to break the silence.

"So, wanna tell me where Rachel is? Or do I have to beat you up to know?"

Togata looked at him confused for a second, Peter frowned, already knowing why.

"Who's Rachel?"

"You never watched The Dark Night? One of the best 2000s movies?" Togata shook his head through the floor. "Just forget it…"

What was he expecting when he referenced 100-year-old movies?

Sighing, Peter dug his hand through the spot of the ceiling he was standing on and grabbed Togata's cape, roughly pulling the boy through the weak floor and throwing him onto the floor.

So he can't phase to avoid things he can't react to, huh?

That's useful.

"Oh, was that too hard? My bad, kinda need a lot of force to pull you through the floor and all." Apologizing, Peter hopped down and stuck to the wall by his hands and feet, lenses squinting at the smiling Togata getting up the ground.

"Hey, no worries! Kinda rattled my teeth but it was cool! Sorry, but you're gonna have to fight me to get to the hostage!"

Sinking into the ground, Togata disappeared from Peter's view before being shot out of the roof, barely giving Peter time to react.

Over and over again, Peter flipped and bounced through the hall while trying to avoid the increasingly fast Togata.

"So this is what they meant by The Phantom Menace!" Leaning back, Peter shot his hand out just in time to grab Togata's materialized fist, startling the boy enough to make him go fully tangible, punching him in the face before grabbing him and throwing him to the ground.

Peter webbed his opponent to the ground, sighing as the sounds of the fight at the other end of the hallway raged on.

At least Hado seemed to be having a better time than him.

He already figured out how his main weakness was that Togata needed to be tangible to hit him since his quirk worked both ways.

Comes in handy, but doesn't make fighting someone you can't normally hit less frustrating.

"Phantom Menace? Oh, I like the sound of that! Thanks for the name!" Peter watched as Togata smiled a smile filled with gratitude and sunk through the floor, leaving his webbing behind.

Groaning, Peter flipped through the air and avoiding Togata's fist coming through the ground at him.

This was gonna be so annoying.

The only way Peter could think to just knock him out was to vibrate his molecules fast enough to counteract Togata's molecules also vibrating.

And Peter couldn't do that.

"Hey, Hado!" Peter called from one end of the hall, turning his head to watch Hado's fight with Amajiki while doing his best to multitask dodging Togata.

"Yeah?" Hado turned around only to see Peter get sucker-punched in the face from a first on the wall, the boy simply groaning and tackling through the wall, destroying most of it.

"Try to phase through nothing, Casper!" Peter yelled, kicking down another wall, and watched as Togata panicked and phased through the floor. "Uh, wanna switch opponents? I'm having a bit of a hard time over here and you can keep your distance better!"

Thinking about it for a moment, Hado let out one last blast that Amajiki quickly shielded and flew to the other side of the hallway before standing next to Peter.

"Sure thing!"

Oh, thank God.

Nodding, Peter ran toward the other end of the hallway and jumped in a dropkick, getting blocked by Amajiki's shell but making it crack slightly.

"Hey, can I guess that your life motto is you are what you eat?" Peter grinned as he used the shell as a springboard and flipped to the roof, shooting two webs at Amajiki's feet and pulling him to the ground.

With a laugh, Peter pointed down at him, the boy showing a mild look of annoyance and nervousness

"Ha! Your shoes are unt-" Looking closer, Peter frowned at the fact that Amajiki was barefoot. "Man, that really ruins my joke."

Silently, Amajiki turned his clam into a pincer and cut the webs binding him, transforming the pincer into a repaired clamshell.

Before Peter could listen to his spider-sense, a tentacle grabbed him by the foot and slammed him onto an adjacent wall before slamming him onto the opposite one, letting him slide to the ground.

Ow.

The vest was supposed to help with bullets but didn't make it less painful to get slammed into walls?

What a rip-off.

"Y-You know, were I a lesser man, I'd be making non-PG jokes." Peter laughed, trying to hide the general pain he was in as he got up the ground, quickly grinning at Amajiki's flustered state.

"W-What!?"

Taking advantage of the momentary distraction, Peter shot two webs at the end of the hall behind Amajiki and let himself be slingshotted into the teen, kicking him in the torso and taking the air out of him.

As he got up, Peter quickly took a deep breath, turning away from his opponent to see Hado keeping Togata at bay, most surrounding surfaces having been destroyed as to not give him anything to phase and hide into.

His spider-sense rung just in time for Peter to look down at Amajiki, the brunette quickly getting hit with a blunt object directly in the face, the impact cracking his right lens and throwing him to the ground.

Shaking off the hit, Peter looked to see Amajiki sitting up on the ground with his left arm still outstretched after the blow. A closer look at the boy's arm revealed that his hand was transformed into a… coconut?

"Is… is that a coconut?"

A few seconds of silence passed as the two stared at each other on the ground, the only sound being Hado and Togata fighting in the background.

"Y-Yes?"

Peter narrowed his lenses.

"I hate them coconuts…"

Shooting a web at his hand, Peter pulled on it so that the coconut would hit Amajiki in the head but the boy transformed it into a tentacle before it made contact.

Jumping back, Peter tried to quickly think of a plan to slow down Amajiki's reaction speed so he could just capture him quickly.

That's when an idea hit him.

Looking past him, Peter widened his lenses as much as he could before covering them with his arm.

"Woah, Togata! I thought your costume phased with you, man! Put your pants back on!"

On cue, Amajiki blushed and immediately turned away to look behind him.

Alright, Peter was starting to doubt more and more that those guys' relationship was purely platonic.

Peter shot a web at his back, pulling him close and hopping up to the roof, quickly starting to spin him into a makeshift cocoon of silk to the point where the boy looked noticeably dizzy from the sudden motions.

Man, Peter loved doing that move.

Made him look like a real spider and all!

Hanging him to the roof by a strand, Peter hopped down to the floor and grabbed the roll of capture tape from his belt, lazily wrapping it around Amajiki's head.

"Tamaki Amajiki has been captured!"

Peter faced Amajiki and gave him a small apologetic smile behind the mask, the boy looking down at the ground and avoiding eye contact.

Well, that's that!

All he had to do was go help Hado capt-

"Mirio Togata has been captured! The hero team wins via capture! Please report to the observation room!"

Suddenly, Hado came flying in while carrying Togata by a strand of the capture tape that was wrapped around his torso.

"Hey, guys! Good match!" Togata laughed, walking over to Amajiki once Hado had placed him on the ground. "We did our best, Tamaki! We just have to get better!"

Amajiki looked up from the ground for a second a muttered a quiet "Y-Yeah."

Flying over to him, Hado suddenly enveloped Peter in a hug while laughing, the teen suddenly locking up at the sudden contact and getting his face shoved onto her hair.

That same warm feeling in his chest from earlier came back when he realized she smelled exactly like apples.

"Woah! You're like, all muscle!" The girl let go and started to aimlessly float by.

Yeah, Peter was just gonna try to ignore how hot his face felt.

He was also gonna ignore what was poking him in the chest earlier.

Yep, he was gonna ignore all of that.

"I… work out? G-Good job, by the way." He would've gone for a high five but he guessed a hug was a step above that.

Feeling someone tapping him on the shoulder, Peter turned to see one of Amajiki's tentacles somehow managed to slip out of the webbing.

The tentacle drew itself back and pointed at the cocoon.

"C-Could you please g-get me out of this?"

Peter stared at him for a couple of seconds before finally realized what he said, the boy quickly apologized and started to dig into his backpack for the bottle of web dissolvent.

Man, he sure hoped he brought it cause ripping that stuff off of someone was not fun.

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I quickly wanna point out that this Peter is severely nerfed. As in, not as fast, strong, or experienced as other versions given how he's 15 and needs to not look overpowered next to other characters and all.

Just wanted to say that.

Anyway, Mirio/Tamaki is probably one of those few ships that I feel like completely make sense in canon, so I decided to include it as a background type thing! It won't really affect the story but it'll be there!

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Can you guys throw some power stones to elevate the ranking

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