2 Chapter 2: One Last Time II
"You think I don't know this stuff is serious? I've got scars because of what I do, you guys probably want me off the table cause I'm doing a better job than you." He couldn't help the remark at the end.
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Aizawa simply stared the teen down and sighed, his eyes glowed a crimson red as his hair and scarf began to float in the air. In a swift motion, he shot out a strand of his scarf at Peter before the masked teen jumped to the side and landed back on the roof.
He smirked under the mask when he saw the man's eyes widened at his ability to still use his quirk.
Maybe it didn't count as a quirk now that he thought about it.
Now, Peter wasn't dumb in any way, shape, or form.
He knew that in a 1 on 1 with Eraser, he'd probably lose more times than not. The guy had experience and a good weapon on his side, so his best shot was just to run away.
And that's exactly what he did.
Without a second thought, the boy began to sprint across the rooftop before jumping to the adjacent rooftop to continue his escape. His spider-sense buzzed just in time to let him dodge another strand of cloth directed at his head.
"C'mon! I bet you never did this to crawler!" Peter yelled as he looked back, the man had pulled his goggles up while he wasn't looking and began to give chase.
He was pretty sure the spider made him faster than normal, but Aizawa still stayed on his heels.
Man, he wasn't getting out of this one easily, was he?
Whatever, that just made the night more interesting.
Peter leaped across another rooftop, nearly making it to the next one before his spider-sense rang loudly. Aizawa had sent another strand of the scarf at him, but this time, when he was in the air and couldn't dodge.
The scarf wrapped around his left foot before Peter could shoot a web to pull himself out of the way and yanked him back. The brunette flew backward and was thrown onto a fire escape with a loud clang.
He groaned at the impact, but quickly rolled out of the way of Aizawa dropping onto his previous spot. The boy shot a web at the man's eyes as he pulled his foot free of its binding, getting up and running just as Aizawa sidestepped the projectile.
Hopping from the fire escape and onto the rooftop he was trying to go on previously, the boy shot a web at a building across the street and began to swing away.
Now, Eraser could easily jump from the building and tackle him in midair, but who was crazy enough to do that?
A couple of people, but he hoped Eraser wasn't one.
"Stop resisting and come in quietly!" The voice of Aizawa yelled, Peter turned his head mid-swing and frowned at seeing him still giving chase and keeping up with his swinging.
Why couldn't he just look up the other way?
"Dude, just let me go, and we can all just forget about this!" Peter yelled back over the shouts of the crowd below at seeing what they thought was a villain chase.
He couldn't run away, Eraser wouldn't let him!
That only left one choice, didn't it?
Peter twisted his body at the apex of his swing and shot sideways toward the rooftops. He sent a dive kick toward the underground hero that missed its target and landed him on the rooftop.
"I don't wanna fight you." The man said, his scarf starting to float in the air just as Peter got up into a crouch.
He narrowed his lenses at the man and scoffed. "Clearly! It's not like you've been doing that for the past five minutes!"
Not wasting any time in further banter, Aizawa shot forward and launched several strands of his capture weapon. Peter weaved through the attack, quickly jumping high into the air and doing an ax kick which the hero dodged.
His spider-sense blared as Peter was met with a gut punch just before he landed. He rolled to a stop and shot two webs at the man's feet, and tripped him.
"C'mon, stay down!"
Instead of responding, Aizawa reached into a hidden pouch and threw a series of small black pellets that exploded into a thick cloud of smoke. The boy took a deep breath and closed his eyes, letting his spider-sense guide him to dodge the strands shot at him with ease before he ran out and toward the hero.
He threw a punch, with Aizawa narrowly sidestepping and kneeing the teen directly in the face.
Peter saw stars as his world spun, he barely dodged another punch to the gut before he backflipped across the room to get some distance.
Scarf man wasn't holding back, was he?
And man, did that hurt! He just hoped his nose wasn't broken.
Shaking out of his dizziness, Peter ran forward while shooting spurts of webbing to try and slow Aizawa down. "Can't we hug this out?"
The quip wasn't met with a response as Aizawa flipped through the air and landed with a kick to Peter's rib, knocking the wind out of his lungs.
Peter slid across the roof as he took in greedy breaths into his lungs, Aizawa simply walked forward and stood over him.
The teen simply stared up at him, the man's bloodshot eyes seemed to have the smallest bit of pity in them.
Just as he began to breathe normally again, he took out the man's feet from under him and brought him to the ground. Peter quickly shot a web at his right arm and pinned it to the ground.
"I'll be going now!" He smirked under his mask at the man as he began to stand back up, the hero simply cursing under his breath and glaring at him.
He jumped off the rooftop and shot a web, wincing at the pain in his … everywhere, and started to swing away.
He just wanted to lay in bed now, maybe he could convince May he was sick so he could just rest for the day.
His lenses widened at the deafening blaring of his spider-sense, he looked back to the roof to see Aizawa leaning up and throwing an object.
Peter swung forward to avoid whatever it was before the sound of his web line being cut reached his ears.
As if it happened in slow motion, Peter looked up to see a black knife cut directly through his lines as it flew through the air. He tried to shoot another web only for his web-shooters to give a small spurt noise.
Jammed.
Oh, this was gonna hurt.
Peter fell through the air and into the streets below, landing face-up on the hood of a parked car. Gasps rang out around him as a crowd began to circle around him
He looked around as his ears rang, his body ignoring him screaming at it to get up and run away. He saw how they murmured about his being some villain and recorded him, he even heard one guy talking about his car being ruined.
God, this sucked.
The boy began to wobbly get up only to fall back down with a grunt of pain, he gritted his teeth and tried again before feeling something wrapping itself around him.
Oh no.
Eraser Head gracefully landed in front of him, a firm hold on his capture weapon as he lifted up his goggles.
"It didn't have to be this way, kid." The man dryly said, although Peter noticed an emotion he didn't recognize in his voice.
Peter didn't even bother to struggle against his bonds, he knew only people with All Might level strength could break out of the capture cloth currently around him.
"Please…" He said quietly, giving one last attempt at talking his way out of his current situation.
The man only gave a grim shake of his head as his hands reached out toward his mask.
You know? If anyone was gonna take him in, scarf man was the one he would be least mad at.
The hand pulled up his goggles up to his forehead, revealing his hazel eyes that were filled with a defeated look.
He just wished he could've done more before the end of the line, at least he did good.
His mask was pulled down, revealing his bruised face to the world.
Spider-Man no more.
Gasps rang out through the crowd as Aizawa's eyes widened, Peter only stared back at the man.
"He's just a kid!"
"No respect for the law…"
"He's so young!"
"Serves him right for being a good-for-nothing criminal!"
Aizawa seemed to ponder something inside his mind, the grip on the scarf tightened for a second before he breathed out a sigh.
"You're under arrest for vigilantism and illegal quirk use. Let's go, kid."
And with that, he began to drag Peter away while pulling out his phone as the crowd watched.
They sat there for a minute or two before a cop car came in, Aizawa putting Peter in the back and him sitting in the front before the car drove away.
It had to end sometime, right?
At least he was pretty spectacular with he lasted.
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