Adam arrived home, he crawled through the window and into the living room; however, Fluttershy was nowhere to be found. The hero found his beloved already asleep in bed, she had been brought home by a friend and was fast asleep in their king-sized bed.
Spidey was pretty tired form today’s fights; he didn’t want to wake his girlfriend, so he did the gentlemanly thing and rested on the couch.
He removed his mask and attempted to fall asleep, however, before he could dose off, an alert came up on his phone. He took his phone out and checked the alert, “A power plant is shutting down, apparently all the energy is being drained from the system.”
Adam thought about it for a sec, “Zzzax.” He muttered. Adam grabbed his mask and ran back to the window; before he could shoot off, he heard someone behind him.
Fluttershy had woken up and was standing in the door frame of their bedroom, “Adam, when did you get back? And where are you going now?”
“Sweetheart, go back to sleep, I’ll be home by morning.” The hero said.
Just as he was about to jump, he felt her warm hand on his shoulder; “Can’t the police handle whatever’s out there, when are we actually going to be a couple, instead of co-workers?”
Adam turned to her and caressed her face, “My love, you know about my responsibility…”
“Oh Adam, that’s always your excuse.” She said. “You always say that whenever we talk about this, you shouldn’t have to bare this burden alone; would the world come to an end if Spiderman took one stupid night off?”
Adam said the exact same thing once, but the moment he said it, something terrible happened; he was surprised it didn’t happen again.
Suddenly, the city lights went dark; Adam and Fluttershy turned to the window, the whole city was blacking out. Adam muttered, “Zzzax, he’s draining the entire city’s power.” He turned to his girlfriend and tried to reason with her.
“Please, Fluttershy; I have to go.”
The shy girl sighed, “Okay, just be careful, I’m begging you.”
Adam hugged her in his arms, he then jumped out the window and swung through the no longer lit up streets.
Fluttershy watched him swing away, she cried a little; this wasn’t what she was expecting when she thought of finally getting a boyfriend.
By the time Adam made it outside the city, the sun was starting to come up; the beginning of a new day. It wasn’t easy getting out here, he had to swing from the buildings and land on a truck that would take him to near the power plants location; there, he could swing on the trees.
Spiderman sniffed a bit before saying, “What’s that smell?” he summersaulted in the air and latched a web onto another tree, “Oh right, fresh air; don’t get much of that in the cities these days.”
He landed on a cliff that over looked the power plant, “However, I do feel bad; making Fluttershy worry about me like this.” Adam jumped down and arrived at a dock that led into the plant. “I never thought I’d say this, but I think I miss the days where people didn’t know I’m Spiderman; they won’t have to worry about me that much.”
He wandered around the courtyard of the plant, “Okay, got to focus; the human glow stick should be around here somewhere.” As he reached the centre of the courtyard, the energy from the surrounding generators before blasting energy in front of him’ “And I just found.”
Zzzax appeared in the air, hovering just above Spiderman; he muttered, “Well, well, well , if it isn’t the Spectacular Spiderman. I was wandering when you’d find me.”
Spidey noticed a vest-like device Zzzax was wearing, it’s like it was feeding him the power from the generators.
“Like my new toy, web-head.” Zzzax stated. “What’d you think’ll happen if I use it?”
“Uh, interests’ rates go down.” Adam joked.
Zzzax groaned, “Keep laughing, punk; cause it’ll be your last.” He flew higher into the air, more electricity was drawn to his body, “Already I can feel the power flowing through me; and once I have enough, all those fools will pay for humiliating me.”
When he’d finished explaining his evil plan, Zzzax flew off into the power plant; Adam simply mumbled, “Can an electricity creature really hold a grudge for that long?”
Adam then swung after him, through the plant’s main doors; leading them both into the corridors.
The halls seemed like they would go one forever, Spiderman followed the trail of destruction; it led him to a large room. It was a hydro-generator room, four pipes were lead through the wall and were releasing water into the pool below.
When Adam looked up, he saw Zzzax floating above in the air, in the distance.
The villain noticed three power plant workers that were trapped on the platforms around the room; he decided to give the wall crawler a little distraction. Using his powers, he blasted the main generator with an electrical pulse; the flood gates closed and the water below them started rising.
To add to the peril, Zzzax fired another blast at the ceiling; knocked three large cable ends into the water. Now, three men were trapped in a room with a pool of electrified water rising towards them; Zzzax flew off, but Spidey had to save the workers.
Spiderman leaped from his platform and swung towards one of the workers, he scooped him up and carried him back to where Adam was; once he was safe, he went back for the others.
The second worker, who was standing on the lowest platform, was using a computer to try and shut down the water system; Spidey landed behind him and explained that they needed to go, but the worker refused. “I can’t leave now Spiderman, this generator is my life’s work. If I leave now, it’ll be destroyed.”
Adam wasn’t going to take no for an answer, the water was about to reach the platform; Spidey picked him up against his will and swung him to his co-worker. The man struggled, but he couldn’t do anything now; the water short-circuited the console, the device was fried.
“No!” the worker cried. Spiderman put him next to the other worker, he was crying, his life’s work was gone.
Spiderman still had one worker to save, and this one had to be fast; Adam’s spider-sense went off, the platform the final worker was standing on was about to give away and fall into the electrified water.
Adam leaped into the air and swung towards the man in trouble; suddenly, the platform broke and fell, the worker was seconds away from the end. Until…
Spidey snatched him just before he hit the water, the hero brought him to his co-workers, and they made sure he was alright.
Just before Spiderman could swing after Zzzax, the worker that refused to be saved shouted something, “My life’s work is gone, and it’s your fault, Spiderman. You will rue this day, ‘hero’.” He then ran down the corridor.
One of the other workers said, “Don’t worry about him, he’s touchy about these things. We’ll make sure he gets out.” The man helped his fellow engineer up and they both made their way to the exit.
Spiderman now had to get after the reason he came here.
While walking down the hall, Adam could hear something coming from the next room; a voice he recognised all too well.
“Oh yeah, that’s the stuff….”
Spidey walked into the room and saw Zzzax hovering over a platform in the centre of the room and feeding off the power of the surrounding generators.
“Give it to me, give it all to me.”
Spiderman said to him, “Ew! Do you and your generator want to be alone?”
Zzzax had turned the generators into his own personal recharge stations, he turned to the wall crawler; “Now, let’s get this party started.”
Zzzax started the fight by trying to hit Spidey, but the hero dodged and kicked him away. Zzzax was confused on how he was able to hit him without getting shocked. “How?”
“I learned from our last encounter, sparky. My suit has a rubber layer on it.”
With that out of the way, the fight continued.
The villain drained more power from the generators, allowing him to electrify the floor; luckily, Adam jumped out of the way and web-zipped to Zzzax. The hero was able to deliver a few punches and kicks; before Zzzax was able to recharge and blast him away.
Zzzax tried once again to punch Adam with his electrified fists, but Spidey was able to dodged the blows and punch him back; at one point, he kicked hit it to the railing of the platform. The villain flew to the centre of the platform, he channelled the power into his hands and released a strong beam of heated energy; he moved the beam, trying to get Adam with it, but it was draining his strength.
When Zzzax landed on the floor to rest, Adam saw the opening and web-zipped to him; delivering punches and kicks broke Zzzax’s concentration, he could now only drain one generator at a time.
So he used his power to teleport over one of the generators, Adam saw his trick and web-zipped over to him before he could refill his power. Spidey delivered a power kick which sent Zzzax tumbling back to the centre of the platform.
Adam landed in front of him, “Now, you ready to go back to prison, Micro Chips?”
“I thought I made it perfectly clear.” He replied. “I am Zzzax!” the villain teleported into the air, he was ready to make his way out through the second door. “You think you’re tough for beating me, but these are just a few of the generators in this power plant. And the more of them I drain, the stronger I become.”
Zzzax then flew down the corridor, Adam saw the only option was to follow him.
Fluttershy was just waking up, the sun was shining through her window; but she didn’t feel like getting up today, too much to worry about. She sighed and laid there, waiting for this day to just role past.
“Fluttershy, rise and shine, I made pancakes.”
She heard the voice coming from the kitchen, he knew that was more than any other; the voice of her beloved boyfriend. Fluttershy got out of bed and walked into the living room, she could smell the pancakes from the kitchen on the other end of the room.
And there, she saw Adam cooking, he was wearing an apron and was working kitchen magic. Fluttershy walked over to kiss him, she felt more relaxed than before; as the two met in a kind hearted kiss, the food was ready.
They sat down together and enjoyed the food, until Fluttershy heard a knock at the door; Adam stood up to answer it, and then….
Someone wearing a black cloak crashed through the door and got into a fist brawl with Adam; Fluttershy ducked behind the couch, and watched the two of them fight. She wanted to help, but what could she do?
When Adam finally managed to get a punch in, the figures hood fell off his head; both Adam and Fluttershy gasped when they saw the identity of the attacker. It was Spiderman.
Spiderman was attacking them, in a demonic voice, the web-slinger said, “You’re mine Adam, you will be mine, forever.” Suddenly, Spiderman’s cloak acted like a living slime, it rapped itself around Adam’s arms and began pulling him out the door.
The door frame had turned into what like a black abyss, Spiderman was pulling Adam towards it.
Fluttershy tried to save her love, but it was too late; Adam was pulled into the darkness. When that happened, Fluttershy woke up.
She was lying in bed, Adam was not here, it was all a bad dream. She sat up in bed and mumbled to herself, “Oh Adam, I don’t know how much longer I can live like this.”
Adam searched for a while, but he couldn’t find where Zzzax had gone to, until he heard noises coming from outside; he found a door that lead him outside the plant, into a courtyard where the kept more generators.
There, he found Zzzax feeding of their power; it might have been the distance he was at, but Adam swore that Zzzax looked like he was getting bigger.
“Ah, Spiderman; you found me?” the villain charged up his power and generated energy in his hands, “Ready for round two?” With that said, the hero and the villain began their second brawl.
Spiderman kicked things off by shooting web pellets at him, but they burned to dust the minute they came into contact with his body; Adam had to think of an alternative. Zzzax flew to the ground and slammed into the stone floor, a small wave of electricity was surged through the ground, Adam leaped out of the way.
Zzzax stayed where he was, resting; so Adam web-zipped to him to start punching and kicking him. After landing a few hits, Zzzax regained his power and blasted Adam away, the villain flew into the air again.
Adam moved around the area, he saw Zzzax hovering above one of the generators; he was draining it of its power and refuelling his energy.
Spidey web-zipped and kicked him out of the field, he flew around the yard, really mad. “That’s it Spiderman, if you want to finish this fight, meet me at the dam. There, we’ll finish this.” Zzzax flew through a door on the other side of the yard, smashing it open.
Spiderman swung on his webs and went after him.
While swinging through the power plant, he landed in another room full of generators; he was looking around, the machines were overloading and electrical energy was all around.
Adam looked over to the platform on the far side of the room, he saw someone messing with the computer console.
Spidey swung over and gave the worker a bit of a fright; Adam recognised this man. “Hey, it’s you.” It was one of the workers he saved, the one that didn’t want to be saved. “What are you doing here?”
The worker replied, “I’m not letting my life’s work go up in flames, I might be able to save my research.” Adam wasn’t on board with this, he needed to get this guy out of here.
When Adam tried to get him to stop, the worker fought back; he pulled a gun from his pocket and pointed it at the hero, “Stay back, I mean it.”
“I’m staying right here.” Adam replied.
Without warning, the machines began exploding like landmines; the platform they were standing on was about to fall. Before they could both fall to their ends, Spiderman jumped into the air and shot a web line onto the worker’s back, pulling him towards the exit.
Adam landed at the exit door, with the worker by his side; once again, he had lost his life’s work. “Why Spiderman, why do you insist on destroying everything I’ve built?”
Spidey replied, “I had a choice, to save your work or you; I chose you.”
Just before Adam could swing off, the worker stopped him, “Wait, if you’re going up against that crazy thing, you’ll need this.” He hands Spiderman a small black box, he explained, “It opens up into a rubber insolation suit; the person is locked inside until the release button is pushed.”
Adam took the suit and the button that releases it, “This is what I’ve been working on all my life, that’s just a prototype. But you can use it to cut off Zzzax’s power, ceiling him inside a rubber suit.”
“Thanks.” Adam replied. Spiderman then swung through the generator room, avoiding the electricity and making it out the other door; it now time for him to confront Zzzax.
Spiderman swung outside again, he landed on a balcony that over looked the dam; and on the far side of the gorge, Zzzax was draining power from the last generators. However, he had grown some more; three times his natural size.
The villain turned to the hero and stated, “Well, well; the Spectacular Spiderman has arrived.” He hovered closer to the balcony, “You ready to finish this?”
Adam simply replied, “Bring it on, Sparky.”
The two of them leaped at each other and the fight began, Spidey punching his face as they both flew towards the dam; Zzzax trying to get a punch in, but had no luck.
They both landed on top of the dam wall, there, they finished their conflict.
Adam shot web pellets at him, burn they burnt to ash like before; so Spiderman jumped forward and tried to punch him down. Zzzax charged his energy and blasted the hero back; he hover in the air and muttered, “Any last request?”
Spiderman replied, “Yeah, that outfit is not you, try this.” Adam then threw the insolation suit onto Zzzax, the liquid rubber cover his entire body.
With no power getting to him, he couldn’t keep his height; Zzzax shrunk back down to his normal size, making it easy to beat him down. Adam unleashed his fury by punching and kicking Zzzax; with one final blow to the face, the fell was knocked out cold.
Spiderman’s work was done, he radioed Shining Armour and gave him the news; “Captain, send a car for Zzzax, he’ll be waiting for you outside the Everfree Power Plant.”
“Sure thing, it’s on its way.”
Adam lifted Zzzax over his shoulder and swung him back to the entrance.
The police man in the car could see Zzzax, still wearing the rubber suit and webbed to a lamppost. Stuck to his chest, was a note from the web-slinger. The workers from the plant were also there, waiting to be taken to the station for statements.
“Zzzax needs his batteries changed, courtesy of your friendly neighbourhood Spiderman.” The cop read.
Spiderman had already left for the city, his work wasn’t done yet.