5 times Spider-man helped + 1 time Peter Parker didn't (open)

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who: Spider-Man!!!!
what: Being friendly and in the neighborhood
when: IDK now, tomorrow, some time, he's always working
where: Around Riverview.
warnings: Look out for purse snatchers, fam. They're out there.

Just a collection of inspired hero-help from the big spider boi truly.

I. It's Part of My Wardrobe

[When you see petty crimes as Spider-Man, you have to handle it — no ifs, ands, or buts. So it goes without saying that when he sees a dude running his ass off holding a purse, he has to consider two things: one, is the guy just into purses, which is 100% cool, and two, if he's not, then is he frantically racing to give a lady in his life her purse back that she had left at his place? Okay, no, he very clearly stole it, he's rifling through it on a park bench and trying to sniff out the money.

Suffice to say, the guy ends up danging from a tree by his butt, and Spider-Man is now wearing a fashionable purse on his shoulder as he swings around the neighborhood. He may even come swinging over to a fellow character (hey, hi, howdy) and hold up the purse in question (this purse is getting famous).]

Hey, excuse me! You know who this belongs to?

["It's totally your color!" Someone yells from the sidewalk as they go, and he gives a thumbs up.]

Thanks!!

II. The Case of the Cat-Callers.

[Oooor maybe you've got some weirdo following you, whistling or being a general nuisance. Spider-Man's got you covered there, too. He's got a sense for these things, y'know, and not just spidey sense. When you're in New York at 2 in the morning, you see plenty of assholes trying to be funny or gross. So he crawls along the side of the nearest building and goes PSSST at you, like it's totally normal for a dude to crawl on the wall and PSSST like he's so incognito (he's not, he knows, but it's formalities).]

Hey! Sorry, Perimeter Guard guy here. Is that guy giving you any trouble? You want me to walk with you or, like, knock his hat off his head? Maybe get his feet stuck to the ground?

[This seems to be the most logical choice in retaliation for harassment.]

III. A Doggy, I Love Doggies

[Spider-Man is also very helpful to the strays! I mean, they usually hiss and scratch him, because he's a weirdo in a onesie spandex suit with bug eyes, but not always! See: him walking a very large and almost cloud-like fuzzy dog — that is apparently as tall as he is — on a leash clearly made out of spider-webbing material.]

Excuse me! D'you know which way the shelter iiisSSSS—!!

[If you're wondering why his voice got all crazy there at the end, it's cuz the dog has seen a cat run by, and is currently whipping the poor spider dude to the left sharply as it gives chase. Don't worry, he plants his sticky feet and stops the excitable creature from dragging him into the distance.]

S-sorry, where was I — the shelter? Down, doggy! Good doggy! No cat murder!

IV. A Spider-Man and a Drunk Angry Alien Lady Walks In a Liquor Store...

[Oh, yes, the drunk and disorderly! Spider-Man knows them very well, too! He's just not used to the drunk, disorderly person to be a refugee alien lady with eight arms (heh, samesies, but also not) who is having some kind of existential crisis outside of what amounts to a liquor store. She's waving around a bottle of something S T R O N G and is throwing literal globs of acid in every which direction. Sorry if he swings in and picks ya' up from out of the way of the gal, he'll try to put you down carefully.]

Hey, c'mon, I'm sure there are better ways to handle this-

[Ow, ow, that's acid, that burns my arm.]

Note to self, avoid the green sizzling stuff—!! Look out, everyone, back up!

[Maybe he should just web her up, maybe get some water into her? Wait for the authorities to get her sober? Seems like a plan! Just watch y'alls steps while he gets her settled down oh god please don't projectile vomit at me— He maybe catches something about a no good dirty cheater? Oh honey, there are better ways to cope—]

V. Wildcard

[Got your own personal crisis? Need directions? Got a tire that needs changing? Maybe you need help with your math homework at a park. I dunno, man, but Spider-Man's good for that stuff, too. Or he'll try his best to be.]

+I. PSA on Naps



[Peter Parker is not Spider-Man, at the moment, so he's not helping anyone out.

But he is splayed under a tree at the park, so exhausted from dealing with the drunk acid-throwing lady that he has passed out unceremoniously with his legs and arms akimbo in the grass; one of the arms appears to be bandaged, and there's a little burn mark on his cheek and other hand, but nothing too concerning. Though he does look like he might as well have been knocked out by an acorn that hit him on the head, from how dead to the world he is.

It's just another day, another weird night, but boy it's hard when you're not remotely used to the terrain... And you're, like, dealing with way tougher crowds than you're used to...

Judging from the bag opened up and half-dumped of books, he was gonna try to do some reading and relax. He'll get up at some point. Just. Give him a few... minutes... hours. Thank god there's no school right now.]

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[Note to self, bug this guy about his powers. Because that all sounds crazy, and he’s great with dealing with crazy; that’s his life now, and it sounds cool (and scary, but cool). He rubs the back of his clothed head, and figures since the guy is a hero and fellow super-powered dude, he can be relaxed around him.]

Yeah...! It wasn’t great. I mean, it could’ve been worse, but it kinda felt like I was gonna die. One of those moments where you should tell your parents you should go to the ER kind of deals? Anyway, I just passed out in my room and sweated through some sheets, and then - bam. Spider powers.

[He wiggles his fingers in front of him.]

Stuff started sticking to my hands and feet, and my senses went crazy. No more glasses, no more scrawny arms that looked like noodles... I accidentally pulled a door knob off a door? It was wild.

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[ Well, that confirms it. Definitely a kid. Not just in the way he speaks (although that's part of it), but the whole "should tell your parents" thing is pretty revealing. Even if Peter is speaking about what a hypothetical 'you' should do, it still says plenty about his frame of reference. ]

That doesn't sound like a whole lotta fun.

[ Cisco's own discovery of his powers had been... unpleasant, to say the least. But then, he thinks that might be more common than the alternative. Barry's one of the only people he's ever met who had fun first discovering his powers - and even he had been in a coma for nine months, first, so... ]

Sticky hands and feet, huh? That sounds... interesting?

[ He can see how it would be useful but it's not exactly the most glamorous sounding power out there, is it? Cisco's sure Peter is well aware of that.

(There's plenty more to be learned in how he talks about his powers. A change in his senses and body - that had happened to Barry, not to Cisco - and it would seem that this process surprised Peter, so this sort of thing isn't common in his world, apparently...) ]

Hey, speaking of ER, as a former guy-in-the-chair, I feel like it's my job to tell you you should probably go and get those burns looked at, like, pronto. Unless you've got healing stuff?

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It sounds lame until you realize you can walk up and down walls with just your feet.

[And — oh yeah. The burns.

Ha, that's actually pretty close to what Ned told him, after he snuck into Ned's room after Homecoming. Except maybe with more holy shit sprinkled in. He'd had actual holes in him from the metal talons on Vulture's suit, bruises the size of frisbees on his persons. But he'll just tell Cisco the same thing he told Ned, with the same sort of lack of concern.]

Oh, right. I'll get around to it, but it's cool.

[He wags a hand.]

I mean, it hurts, but I heal pretty fast. It'll probably be completely gone in a day or two. Just another thing I can do, I guess. [He stands up, stretching.] Besides, I've still gotta put in at least one more hour. I kinda set myself up on a minimum schedule sort of deal, and I don't want anything crappy happening and me not be there to help out.

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Okay, yeah, that is dope.

[ So, for that matter, are healing powers. Cisco's really been trying hard to accept his powers, these days, and not think about how much he would rather not have them, or have some other set of abilities. And he's been making progress, he has. But man, he really does envy the whole super-healing gig sometimes.

That reassurance is enough to get him off Peter's case, for now. It doesn't take all that much convincing because Cisco is interested in this guy and excited to keep talking to hm. ]

You met any other heroes since you got here? I mean, don't get me wrong, the schedule thing sounds like a really good idea, but it might be a good idea to have an understudy who can tap in if you, y'know. Get burned with acid an hour before your shift is over.

[ There are a lot of heroic types around here, and it really isn't all that great an idea for a kid to be out here without backup, forcing himself to keep working even after he gets. In fact, it's a setup for disaster. ]

And unless that suit's got healing powers you might wanna find somebody who can do repairs. Seems like this isn't your first rodeo, so you probably already know that, but it's just my roundabout way of saying that if you want. Got pretty good at it, considering how often the Flash got his ass blown up and impaled and what have you.

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Oh, yeah! Lot of Avengers around here; I'm from the same place. I mean, I'm not an Avenger right now — I kinda would rather keep an eye on the little guy. Be a local hero... kind of thing. Anyway.

[He checks the gauge of his webshooter canisters, and is content when they read half-full.]

I appreciate the offer, but Tony Stark made the suit, so he'd probably be affronted if I didn't do a check up with him first. [He laughs a little; to be honest, he's kind of dreading telling Mr. Stark about the messed up holes in his suit. But like. Not telling him seems wrong, too.] You're pretty good with tech?

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[ Cisco has been around this place long enough to know about the Avengers, and know quite a few things about this guy's world, if that is the universe he's from. Obviously, it's nothing like having been there, but Cisco has a frame of reference, at least. He knows, for instance, that Peter won't have heard of S.T.A.R. Labs, or metahumans, but that he will doubtless remember alien invasions and attempted robot uprisings and all of that. ]

Grassroots, I gotcha.

[ That's the kind of superheroing that Cisco is more used to, anyway. Sure, Barry had prevented some large-scale stuff (that whole black hole thing) but most of what he does is just local heroism for Central City.

As soon as Peter mentions Tony, Cisco's face splits into a grin. He clearly recognizes the name, and waves a hand, dismissing his earlier offer. ]

Tony made it? Shit, yeah, in that case just get him to fix you up.

[ The two of them have collaborated enough times that Cisco doubts Tony would mind if Peter came to him for repairs, but he's got plenty on his plate, and obviously Tony will have an easier time fixing something he'd made in the first place.

It makes perfect sense to Cisco, that this younger superhero would know Tony. After all, Tony had given him plenty of advice, as someone who had been doing the superhero gig a whole lot longer, and Cisco kind of looks up to him (alright more than kind of). ]

Pretty good, yeah.

[ Not really any way to answer that without sounding a little full of himself (though that appearance is somewhat mitigated by the embarrassed way Cisco tucks his hair behind his ear), but false modesty isn't really Cisco's thing, either. There's a whole lot that he is insecure about, when it comes to himself. His skill with tech is not one of those things. He's good, and he knows it. What he doesn't know is why Peter's asking, precisely. ]

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[Oh, he's more than happy to fangirl about Avengers and Mr. Stark. But that can wait, because now he's just really super interested in what Cisco can do with technology — also a terrible focus, because he's Spider-Man, and he can't exactly be Peter and stroll up with an eagerness about tech, you know? Man, being secretive in Riverview is even harder than NYC.

Still, he can't resist. It sounds so fun and familiar.]

What sorts of things are you into? Tech-wise, I mean. Inventions for hero work?

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How many hours you got?

[ He's pretty sure that this kid has good intentions, that he's just curious because he's a curious person and there's no agenda behind the question. But Cisco also has that sliver of doubt. He's not going to give too many details on the projects he's working on, just yet. Not to a masked guy he's never met before, who asks out of nowhere. ]

Mostly, yeah. Costumes, tech. Here I mostly make stuff for the emergency services-

[ And, amused by the serendipity of it, Cisco gestures down at the scene they'd just vacated and says: ]

-like, those shields. Bullet-proof, acid-proof, non-conductive, can withstand extreme temperature shifts, you get the drift. I do some hero stuff here too but it's sort of a commission basis, depending on what people need.

[ If Peter wants to talk anything more specific than that, Cisco is going to need to check with Tony first that he really does know him and the kid really is on the level. Never hurts to be careful. Cisco's had his trusting nature exploited, before. And this might not even be a kid. He could be a shapeshifter. The multiverse is wild like that.

But Cisco really hopes not. He already likes the guy. ]

Plus sometimes I help people who are from worlds where they don't got any tech to learn how to take selfies and check their email or whatever, but that's more like a volunteer gig honestly.

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[He peers over the ledge, just in case he can catch one last glimpse of those shields.]

That's so cool! You made those?

Awesome job, man. I'll have to remember that if Mr. Stark's too preoccupied. [A pause, and he laughs a little, itching his cheek.] Speaking of... I'm gonna have to break it to him I got the suit messed up. You ready to get down from here?

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[ Cisco grins, rubbing at the back of his neck, pleased and embarrassed at the praise. He doesn't deny that they're awesome (he'd worked hard to make them awesome) but it still stuns him into silence for a moment to be confronted with such direct appreciation. He gives a little shrug, still beaming.

When Peter says he has to break it to Tony that he messed up the suit, Cisco recognizes the signal for what it is. He's on patrol, he's got places to go, neighborhoods to watch over. So Cisco nods that he's ready to get down, and says: ]

If he gives you a hard time, tell him you were protecting me and he can ask me whether or not there was anything you coulda done to keep from getting splashed. I got your back.

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[He chuckles at that, before offering an arm for Cisco; feel free to sling one over his shoulders, he's totally good to take you back down with his good arm. All things considered, this little adventure could've ended a whole lot poorly, so he's thankful.]

Sounds like a deal, dude. Let's roll out.