Three superheroes had appeared on the scene: the somewhat famous Cloak and Dagger, and Nova, who had no fame to speak of at all. Facing them were the Frightful Four—a group that claimed to be the rivals of the Fantastic Four in this universe, but in reality, possessed neither the threat nor the renown. These two factions were currently brawling right in the middle of the Midtown High courtyard.
"Hey, Harry, over here."
Harry, currently stuck on a hovering vehicle, heard Peter's voice. He wasn't surprised, merely whispering back a question: "You aren't planning to step in?"
"I've been stepping in this whole time. I'm in charge of making sure they don't wreck the school's landscaping, and more importantly, that they don't hurt anyone else." Peter added an explanation as to why: "For people like this, controlling the radius of their battle is actually harder than pulling them apart."
As Peter spoke, he deactivated the anti-gravity discs on Harry. Without needing a hint, Harry slipped away on his own, while the seven people locked in combat didn't notice them at all.
Nova, relying on his superior raw stats, chose a direct frontal assault. After knocking down the Wizard, he charged toward Titania, who was clearly the strongest of the lot.
The problem was that Cloak's target was also Titania, and he was a step faster. He transformed into a massive shroud, engulfing Titania and temporarily trapping her in the Darkforce Dimension. Nova, unable to react in time, slammed directly into Cloak. The two went tumbling away, inadvertently releasing the trapped Titania in the process.
Then, both of them were promptly glued to the ground by the Trapster.
"Haha! These days, anyone thinks they can call themselves a superhero. Superheroes? You lot? Let me tell you, I've fought real superheroes! Ever heard of Spider-Man? I went eight hundred rounds with him and I'm still here strutting my stuff! Can any other villain say that?!"
Of course, the Trapster was Peter Petruski—formerly known as Paste-Pot Pete—the man Peter had once defeated in a single move.
However, if one were to look at resumes, perhaps Klaw's was more illustrious; he had been captured in Wakanda by the entire Avengers team. For some reason, though, Klaw remained silent.
"Is that so? How come I didn't know about that?"
An abrupt voice rang out. The Trapster turned around and let out a shrill, panicked shriek: "Spider-Man?!"
What arrived was... not Spider-Man.
Peter sighed helplessly. Logically, most people in the school knew him, so they knew that since he hadn't made a move, they shouldn't rush in either. But there was always one exception: Flash. This "Agent Venom" was being anything but an agent as he swaggered out into the open.
To be fair, there was a significant difference between the Agent Venom suit and Spider-Man's black suit. It shouldn't be that easy to mistake them at a glance, right?
The Trapster, however, clearly hadn't figured that out. He immediately nearly wet himself in terror. Klaw, on the other hand, instantly aimed his sonic gun at Agent Venom and opened fire. As everyone knew, symbiotes were vulnerable to loud noises and fire.
But as everyone also knew, that was information from a previous version.
Flash just stood there, taking the hit. However, the sonic waves never reached him because Dagger, quick as lightning, struck Klaw's prosthetic arm with a light dagger, preventing the sonic cannon from firing.
Thus, Flash stood there with his hands on his hips for several seconds. The badass scene he had envisioned—taking the sonic blast and feeling nothing—never happened.
Then, the Wizard slapped a gravity disc on him, and he went flying.
Harry, hiding to the side, clearly heard Peter's sigh.
Of course, the most embarrassing of the four was undoubtedly Nova. Stuck to the ground along with Cloak, Nova watched as Cloak simply teleported out of the glue. Nova, meanwhile, could only keep firing his thrusters toward the sky, trying to break free. He failed. When he finally managed to fly high, the towering Titania leapt up and slapped him right back into the pile of super-glue.
"Trapster! What are you standing there for? Glue him down! Everyone else, stop messing around with these clowns. We're taking the Osborn heir... wait, where is he?"
The Wizard looked left and right, sensing something was wrong. Where was the kid? How could a rich boy deactivate my gravity discs on his own?
"Something's wrong! There's someone else!"
Realizing this, the Wizard shouted and looked around, only seeing Harry as he ducked back into the school building. "He ran into the building!"
Klaw, having finally fixed his sonic gun, aimed it at the building Harry had just entered. Realizing what he was about to do, Cloak prepared to teleport him away, but a surging Nova beat him to it. Nova knocked Klaw back, but couldn't stop the sonic gun from firing.
Fragmented mirror-like surfaces appeared in the surroundings. It wasn't the sonic gun shattering the school windows; rather, the surrounding space had been covered by a shattered mirror dimension.
"I have to say, to make a scene this chaotic, you lot really are talented."
Peter finally appeared before the tangled mess of combatants. Seeing Spider-Man appear, the Frightful Four truly became nervous for the first time. Nova, having just shaken off a massive amount of glue, flew in mid-air and looked at Spider-Man.
"I don't need your help, Web-head. I would've had this settled if it weren't for these guys."
"You know, I actually know a place that's perfect for you. I don't mean that a restroom needs your 'bucket-head'—though that would fit—I mean somewhere else." Peter looked at Richard Rider in the sky. "You can take them all on your own? Fine, guys, make way for our flying friend and let him put on a show."
To his surprise, Nova saw that Agent Venom, Cloak, and Dagger actually stepped back. He broke into a grin, hands glowing with energy as he charged the Frightful Four.
His energy beams were a hair's breadth away from hitting them, but Titania stepped in front of the other three and tanked the hit. Then, Klaw and Trapster opened fire on him. Nova nimbly dodged the sonic waves and the glue, and then—
"You can't hear the sound of my gravity discs flying, can you?"
The Wizard appeared suddenly behind Nova. Two gravity discs began pulling at Nova from above and below with immense force. Regrettably, he didn't get to experience much of that tearing sensation, because Peter pulled him out with a web-line just in time.
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