IM HOME FROM WORK ITS TIME TO TELL YOU ABOUT
Parker Peters AKA the Midnight Spider
(Holy shit buckle up this is gonna be long)
Parker Peters never knew her biological parents, they died, or went to jail, or abandoned her, when she was far to young to remember. Frankly, she didn’t care. She had two loving parents who take care and raise her to be the kind and confident person she is. Those parents being her Aunt April, and her Uncle Benji.
They live together in a small farmhouse in a small town in the White Mountains region of New Hampshire. April spend most her time tending to the farm while Benji works from home, doing projects shut in his shed. Parker loves her home more than anything. She spends her time hiking, identifying, and studying the animals she comes across. She wants to be a wildlife biologist like her Uncle, who focus in arachnids… but spiders where never Parker’s thing.
Overall Parker is your average seventeen year old, She likes history, vintage cars, retro video games, and comic books. She also has a slight interest in engineering which she shares with her Uncle Benji. Together they’ve been working on making webshooters,,, well they have been for the last couple years (their still in beta)
One spring weekend Parker tags along for Benji’s work trip to NYC, where he’ll be meeting with different scientists from Alcamax. And Parker will get to see what it’d be like to work in a real lab. During the visit Parker quickly realizes that things aren’t what they seem. Obvious shady shit. She’s fault certain that they’re hiding unethical animal testing… and she’s pissed. She brings this up to Benji on their ride home Sunday, which sparks an argument between the two. Parker puts her headphones on and they don’t talk for the rest of the long drive.
Once they get back Benji goes to his work shed to put away the new supplies gifted to him. April asks about the trip, and soon the three are hashing it out. Benji and Parker yell at each other whil April attempts to calm them down. Parker accidentally knocks into a table, chemicals spill, a candle tips over, Aunt April pulls them out of the way. And the shed goes up in flames.
Aprils glad the three of them are safe
So is Benji, but he won’t admit it yet. He perderesti to work analog. He watched his life’s work burn up before his eyes. He couldn’t muster a scream or a cry. Simply uttering, “goodnight” before walking off to bed.
Parker was mad at first. But the anger quickly turned to guilt once she realized what’s she’d done. Benji was right. She doesn’t know anything. She’s just some irresponsible kid. He could loose his job without that work. He was trying to be a good parent, trying to help her future. And she through it all away! Why? Because of a hunch?
Once the fires out Parker makes her way to the shed. Attempting to clean, or salvage whatever’s left. This is where she gets bit by a spider.
The next morning she goes to school and realizes that something’s different. She’s stronger, faster, and oddly sticky. She of carouse tries to use this to show off and cue the ‘trying to figure out if she’s superpowered at school’ montage
She tries to confide this in her best friend Stacy (Stacy Gwendolyn more in her later,,,, tldr bubbly punk rock girl) who isn’t quick to believe her. That night Parker goes into the woods by herself to try and rest the extend of her powers. Strength, agility, endurance, the ability to stick to walls, and night vision.
Over the course of the next week, she practices her powers in shows them off while wearing various work in progress costumes, soon both rumors and videos spread of the ‘Midnight Spider-Man’ and she becomes a sort of cryptid.
But not everyone who hears of her has good intentions. Doctor Connor from Alcemax, recognizes her abilities immediately. He’s been trying for similar results for months. He assumes that Benji must have been experimenting with her, in there attempt to creat Human-Animal mutants. He knew he specialized in spiders, but he didn’t think it would be anything like this.
By Saturday agents are braking down the Peters’ door. Parker’s out with Stacy, Benji tries to quit refusing to go with them. Parker comes home to a wrecked house, April badly injured, and Benji no where to be seen. After bringing her aunt to the hospital, Parker takes the webslingers, and her WIP suit. And heads for NYC. She knows what she needs to do.
It’s the next night by the time she gets there. She’s able to break in and finds Benji, but on her way she finds evidence of human testing. She breaks him out, and he explains more of the situation, how he became more involved than he ever wanted to be, and how they can stop Dr. Connor.
First they go all the way to the top floor, where they find an override passcode. Benji jots it down, and goes to leave the room.
“No, no, you don’t get it, it’s me” she pulls off her mask, “I’m the spider”
“Yeah, where you trying to hide that?”
“The voice, the shoes, OUR webslingers, the yards of April’s blue fabric that went missing”
They head down to the basement to insert the code into the backup systems.
Once they leave the office they are Immediately discovered and chased down by security guards, scientists, and Dr. Conner himself
“You didn’t tell me your boss was Godzilla!”
“What do you mean you didn’t know!”
“I mean it’s recent, Okay!?”
They pass through the building and Benji notably Steals small vials and containers of chemicals, and matches.
After a fun montage of family bonding and running from imminent death, they make it to the lower level.
A final battle against the lizard.
He gets his villan speech and he explains how he’s going to “save humanity” by making them part animal. He has a mutagen bomb set up to go off in X minutes, she is the perfect example of what they could be. Isn’t she being selfish? Keeping all that power to herself? She could join him, they could create a better society, together.
Benji is hit, hard, being thrown across the room into a wall. (bet you didn’t see this coming)
Parker takes him around if the corner, hiding and shielding them from the battle.
“Hey, hey, Parker, it’s okay”
“No, don’t, you don’t say it’s okay I say it’s okay, and it is! It’s gonna be okay just-“
“We gotta go, I gotta take you to a hospital”
“You gotta finish the mission, the bomb”
“I can’t disable a bomb!”
He hands her the crumpled paper, the matches, and some chemical mix he made in a vial
“You don’t need to, now go”
“I am not just going to leave you here”
“Stay in school, don’t do drugs, tell your auntie april that I love her”
The room rumbles rubble fall around them
“Kiddo, your not a child anymore. You have this power. People will come after it, after you. You’re not going to have a middle lane in life. Use it for good, protect people. With such a great power comes great responsibility. I love you”
Rubble falls separating the two
Parker fights the Lizard one last time, putting the code into the computer, and using the vial and matches to light the place up before escaping.
She waits outside, but there’s no sign of Benji
Cut to her making it home. She bursts in the room. April knows. They hold each other and cry.
Parker vows to use her powers to protect others, and save people, because she couldn’t save him.
Little does she know that some security footage survived, and the media praises and debates over this new vigilante.
