(Spider Season > Realization > The Question > The Emergence)
Something something bus crash on the bridge, Peter stops it from going completely off, but it's barely held in place by a series of webs and the nose is still tilted down over the edge
Peter feels his heart stop as he hears the cracked glass shatter, frozen for the span of a single breath as he watches the body fall from the front of the bus' broken window, plummeting down towards the river.
Then he's all action: he throws a new line to tether himself against the side of the bridge and hurls himself over the edge, flinging out his arm to shoot a web to grab the back of the person's jacket, desperately trying to ignore the way his mind had already run the numbers, clocked the distance and their different speeds, and told him what he already knew.
His web felt short, twisting away in the rushing wind.
But that wasn't what he was focused on anymore. No, instead, his eyes were locked to the *second* web, red as his suit-- red as his blood --that had hurled its way past the failed strand, ignoring the wind and gravity and anything else that wasn't the falling body. It didn't just attach itself to the person's jacket; it split itself apart, individual strands wrapping around the person's torso until they were bundled up in a web-like harness.
Caught, the stranger bounces for a moment at the end of their new tether, scared but swinging safely above the ruffled waters; the people who had evacuated from the precariously crashed bus cheer his heroic catch, watching from the bridge above.
"Red alert," Peter whispers to himself and he hears another voice agree:
[Mayday: those people are still in danger. They could all fall, like this one]
And Peter's mind is racing because, yes, those people are still in danger, and, yes, the person they are slowly reeling up is also still in danger, and, yes, there are other unseen people in traffic who are potentially also in danger... but is he about to put them all in more danger? This is possibly the worst time for this...
No. No, it had saved the falling person, it caught them, even when he fell short. It had done a good thing, rescuing the person. This was just his Parker luck again, picking both the best and the worst time for something amazing to happen.
The question was: could he get out of this situation without anyone learning about his new body buddy?
