The Phantom Spider, sitting perched on a building beneath the moonlight, glared forward at Fisk Tower in front of him. The building, despite the truth, looked desolate and abandoned. The windows were completely tinted, so it was impossible for anyone to see inside, even if he were to crawl up to them, he'd struggle to see through them. Even if he could see through the tint, climbing on the window wouldn't be very smart when it came to the whole stealth approach.
"Okay, Spider-Drone, time to make your debut." The blue and black-wearing spider whispered as he placed his school project on the ground. "So glad Harry let me have custody... Now, let's see what's inside, buddy." As Eren spoke to his drone as if it were a pet, he navigated it across the street, using his phone as a screen to see through the drone's eyes.
Eventually, the Spider-Drone found a vent to enter through. It unscrewed it from the wall before tossing the vent cover to the side. Turning on its cloaking device, the drone entered the building, crawling through the vents until it eventually made it all the way inside the building.
What Eren saw inside through the eyes of the Spider-Drone was astonishing. Inside, it appeared as a nightclub would, beaming with neon lights, drowning in loud music, and filled to the brim with what seemed like hundreds of Underground members. "Jesus..." The hero said to himself as he watched through the drone's feed. Even for him, there were way too many of them to take on at his current power level.
"Alright, Parker. Let's use your brain this time."
"A: I have no clue how many of these guys are armed. B: I have no clue what their weapons do, nor do I know how strong they are. If that fence that got melted was anything to go by, they're probably pretty powerful." As he thought to himself out loud, he could see a Roxxon truck pulling in behind the building.
"A Nuform shipment... So they store it here?"
"What if I can get to it? Would I power up like I did at Roxxon? It's risky, but if I could somehow sneak my way into wherever they're holding it, I could try it."
"Regardless, I need to stop these guys. They almost brought down that building and killed all of those people. I wish the Richards were answering my calls, but they probably have something important going on right now. It's just me this time."
Having a plan set in his head, the hero returned home with his drone and looked through his closet for clothes that matched the Underground's aesthetic. He wore black jeans with a black leather jacket and a purple t-shirt. Wanting to hide his identity, he wore a black hockey mask, matching the theme of the other masks that the Underground members wore.
With everything set, the hero once again returned to Fisk Tower and followed a group of gang members through a hidden entrance in the back. Since he looked the part, they didn't say anything to him as he took the elevator with them toward the top of the tower. Once they exited the elevator, they were met with a metal door.
*knock knock knock*
One of the Underground members knocked and a slot opened up at the center of the door. A masked Underground member peeked through, looking at all of the members before locking eyes with Eren. "You three, come in. You with the hockey mask, don't move."
'Fuck.' Eren cursed mentally, thinking his plan had already become a bust.
The three Underground members entered the base and the door shut once more. Looking through the slot, the guard questioned the undercover hero. "Who are you? I don't recognize you. I know every person that comes in and out of this building, even with their masks."
'Of course.' Eren muttered in his head in annoyance.
"Hello, I am here to join the Underground. I believe my intellect would prove to be rather useful to your leader." Eren said politely, not playing the role of a gang member very well.
The masked thug behind the door looked at the boy in bewilderment. He thought he was a total loser and a nerd based on the way he carried himself and spoke. Closing the slot, the guard called his boss and told them about the kid at the door and what he said. Given permission to let him in, the guard opened the door and invited Eren inside.
As soon as the door opened, EDM music blasted into the boy's eardrums. 'Ugh.' Eren groaned mentally, he hated EDM and raves in general, which was basically what Fisk's tower had become at that point. As he walked into the building, he wondered how the person in charge could have even afforded to buy and maintain the place, though his thoughts were interrupted by a different guard placing his hand on Eren's chest roughly.
"Hey, pal, not too fast. We're gonna take you to meet the boss. Follow me." To Eren's surprise, he would be meeting the boss much sooner than he'd thought. 'Well, this is gonna be easy. I should still be careful though.' He thought to himself as he walked behind two massive Underground guards.
Now that he was actually close to the underground members, he could tell that they were all mostly his age. Even the two massive guards had the demeanor of high schoolers, they were just large for their age. He wondered what it was that made his peers turn to a life of crime until he remembered the kid he had run into early that night.
Many of the kids that were there had never committed a crime in their lives, they just wanted to be a part of something cool. The Underground was more than a gang, it was like a social club. The base made it obvious with the many bars, activities scattered around it, and the loud music. 'Whoever is running this place is manipulating these kids...' The undercover hero said in his head, this fact angered him. 'I'm shutting this whole operation down. Tonight.'
Eren and his escorts eventually found themselves walking past a sort of combat training area of the facility. There were many different weapon types on display, many of which caught the hero's eye. One of the trainees, holding what appeared to be the handle of a sword with no blade, swung the hilt, causing the material to expand into a sword and destroy his target.
'What... That was hard as fuck.' Eren's nerd brain muttered from within him upon bearing witness to the advanced technology. He soon caught himself, realizing that this is exactly how the people his age were drawn it. Regardless, he was still curious about the weapon. "Um, excuse me." Eren said as he tapped the shoulder of one of the guards. "What's that?" He pointed toward the person using the retractable sword, making the guard scoff slightly.
"Programmable Matter. See those wristbands they're wearing?" Eren didn't think too much of it before, but each Underground member that was using a weapon had a glowing blue wristband on, the hue was of the same color as his Godspeed energy. 'Interesting, that must be because of the Nuform they stole.' The undercover hero thought to himself.
"I do. Is that Nuform?" He asked, despite knowing the answer already.
"Yup. Nuform coming in contact with Programmable Matter allows them to mold the weapon into whatever they choose. Bats, scythes, swords..."
"What about the guns?" Eren asked, remembering the gun that nearly melted him a few moments prior. He was confident that his suit from the Richards family would protect him from it, but he still wanted to know what they were firing.
"The guns shoot pure, focused Nuform energy or something like that. That stuff's too technical for me." The escort said plainly. "Enough talking, c'mon. We're almost there."
'Pure Nuform? If that's the case, my body would just absorb it since Godspeed is seemingly just me manipulating Nuform energy. I wonder if I could manipulate Godspeed in a way where I could replicate guns' blasts... A less lethal version, of course.' Eren deduced to himself as he continued following the guards through the facility.
Within just a couple of minutes of walking, the two guards and Eren Parker found themselves in front of Fisk's old office door. Eren's heart sank as the memories of that night began to flood into his brain.
His feelings of self-regret, disgust, rage, and sorrow all began to overwhelm him momentarily. He began having flashbacks of that night, remembering the many nightmares he's had, and how he would have done things differently. However, he immediately pushed his negative thoughts to the side.
The door opened and the guards shoved him into the room as if he were a piece of meat getting fed to a lion, or in this case, a lioness.
The leader of the Underground was a woman, wearing a black leather jacket with a purple sweater beneath it and black jeans. She wore a Programmable Matter mask on her face as she sat with her feet on top of a desk where the Kingpin's used to be. Looking at Eren through the reflection of the glass window, which had been repaired, the girl spoke. "What's up kid, I'm the Tinkerer and I run this place. What do you want, you don't seem like the type to want to join a gang based on what my men told me." She sounded young, likely around Eren's age.
"You're observant." Eren said. "You're right, I have no interest in joining gangs usually but I'm interested in joining for the purpose of learning more about this Nuform and Programmable Matter stuff. I know how to make things, I'm an engineering student so I can prove myself useful to you."
The girl turned her chair around, facing the boy. He could not see her face, but he could imagine the impressed look on her face due to her body language and tone of voice. "So you wanna be my engineer?" She asked him. She felt somewhat disrespected due to the fact that he thought it was okay to walk in uninvited, but his boldness intrigued her.
"Correct." The undercover hero lied.
"Interesting..." The girl whispered, contemplating whether or not she should let the boy into the gang or not. "What's your name?"
"Peter Morales." He lied with confidence.
"So Peter, you realize this gang is invite-only, right? Do you really think I would just let some random punk kid waltz on into my headquarters unannounced and join my gang?"
"Correct." He responded boldly.
There was a brief pause as the Underground leader stared at Eren from behind her metallic mask. She didn't trust him at all. If he didn't sound young, she'd have thought he was a cop of some sort. Regardless of her doubts, or perhaps because of her doubts, she instructed the two guards to take him down to the lab. "Take the new kid down to the lab." She spoke into a walkie-talkie, summoning her guards to enter the room and lead Eren away.
And so, the Tinkerer's men and the undercover Phantom Spider walked together into the deepest depths of Fisk Tower. As they walked, his spider-sense would begin to tingle, growing in intensity as the guards spoke to the Tinkerer through their coms. He was walking into a trap, or at least, that's what the guards thought. In reality, they would be the ones trapped with him as everything was going according to plan.
Eventually, they ended up finding themselves in a massive room filled with Nuform and Programmable Matter. The Nuform, still in its blue, liquid form, glowed brightly from within the large, room-sized glass tank that it was stored in.
Unlike what Eren had run into at Roxxon before, this was Nuform at its purest form. What he had absorbed before had Electro's energy interacting with it, which was part of the reason why his body rejected most of it, giving him an incomplete form of Godspeed.
He was astonished at the amount of Nuform that these guys were able to harvest in such a short amount of time, triggering him to ask more questions. "How'd you guys get all of this stuff?" He asked the two Underground thugs.
"Stole it. Once we started running out, Tinkerer learned how to copy the formula and make more." One of the Tinkerer's men lectured as he approached a wall with many different Programmable Matter weapons and armor. "Boss doesn't trust you, kid." He told the undercover hero, looking back at him as he lightly placed his hand on the Nuform glass.
"I figured." The hero said with his hand still on the glass. He looked over at the two guards as they pointed two Nuform rifles at the boy, ready to end his life and melt him to nothingness.
"Sorry kid, be grateful I let you see what you wanted to see before your demise." The Tinkerer's voice said through an intercom in the room. "Finish him and clean him up, boys. Once you're done, find whoever he followed in here and bring them to me so I can discipline them."
Eren smiled, though this grin was hidden beneath his hockey mask. This was all going according to plan nearly perfectly. He didn't expect them to try and kill him, but he knew that even if they tried to, their guns had a high chance of not working on him due to his suit. Having spoken to them about their rifles, he was then certain they'd do nothing to him due to his Godspeed energy.
Now, all that was left of his plan was to try and absorb the Nuform. He'd hoped he would transform again when he came into contact with the liquid, but even if he didn't, the power in the building would be shut down. Even in his base form, he could take down the Underground members one by one by using the darkness to his advantage,
"No, I'm sorry. I'm shutting the place down." As those words left Eren's mouth, the liquid Nuform within the tank began to flicker, as well as the lights and the Nuform wristbands around the guards' wrists. The lights and the music within the entire facility began to cut in and out as well.
"It was pretty stupid for you guys to power the entire building with Nuform and no backup." The boy said frankly as his hair and clothes began to defy gravity and float upward as if a light breeze was blowing from beneath him.
The Underground members were spooked, looking at the boy as if he were a monster. They began firing their Nuform rifles at the boy's body, though they did nothing but melt the disguise off of his body, revealing his new black and blue costume, along with the spider symbol that he added to it on his chest. Seeing his signature symbol immediately instilled fear into the Underground members. "It's-" One of the guards tried to speak, but his fear froze his lips.
"The Phantom Spider..." The other guard spoke, in disbelief that the notorious vigilante was right before them.
The lights in the room shut off, only being illuminated by the pure Nuform in the massive tank and the Phantom Spider's glowing silver hair. From beneath his hockey mask, they could see his now deep, glowing, ocean-blue eyes glaring at them.
Soon, the Nuform had been completely drained and the room, along with the rest of the building, had become completely dark. The only things visible were the Phantom Spider's glowing silver locs, his shining blue eyes, and the bright blue aura surrounding his body.
The guards were still frozen with fear, being able to feel the heat resonating off of the boy's body due to his aura.
The Phantom Spider then removed his hockey mask, his face still being hidden by the darkness, and replaced it with his all-black Phantom Spider mask, completing his transformation.
This form, though it looked similar to the one he had achieved at Roxxon, was not the same. He couldn't tell its limitations just yet, but he could tell that he could not move as fast as he did at Roxxon. He would have to get used to the power and train it before he could achieve that, however, his body was not rejecting it this time.
Before, he felt as if his body were about to burst due to the overwhelming amount of energy that was coursing through him.
This time, however, that was not the case. He felt no pain at all.
He felt incredible, fantastic even.
He felt weightless.
He felt like pure energy.
The old version, the one that nearly made his body explode, was dubbed Volatile Godspeed by the boy in the past, but this new version is something much different.
This is Ultimate Godspeed.
Hello, some people have been confused about Godspeed. Some even left rude comments calling me stupid and trying to correct me, saying that his power isn't Godspeed (What??? I created it????). If you asked a Godspeed-related question, do not feel targeted, you are not the only one who asked.
There was really only one guy who was super rude and wrong about it, calling my book "eye cancer" and saying that Eren is not Godspeed (The DC character) and that he has the Speed Force. I have no clue how he jumped to that conclusion but it is so wrong.
It is NOT the speed force and he is not using DC's character of Godspeed's power. If that was the case, I would have said that in the title and the synopsis, and I would have added a DC tag.
It's just not. I don't know how else to say it. Godspeed (Eren's) and the Speed Force are similar in the same way that Omni Man and Superman are similar. They share things but they are not the same.
What is Godspeed?
Eren Parker has the same bioelectricity ability as Miles Morales, however, when Eren came into contact with Roxxon energy, it turned his electricity blue and allowed him to use it to flash-step forward and charge his attacks with Godspeed energy.
This is where it gets confusing. There are two forms: (Base) Godspeed and Ultimate Godspeed. Let's start with (Base) Godspeed.
(Base) Godspeed allows Eren to cover his limbs, only his limbs, in Godspeed energy to power his punches and kicks. This is not super speed. He is pushing off of the ground with so much power, due to Godspeed, he propels himself forward but his actions are still in real-time. In this form, he can move at about let's say around sixty miles per hour (Not an official calculation.)
Ultimate Godspeed is where things get interesting. Ultimate Godspeed is a transformation like Ultra Instinct (Dragon Ball Z) or Nine-Tails Chakra Mode (Naruto). Just like those two forms, he cannot just use the transformation forever, it takes a toll on his body. He will have to train it if he wants to move faster, unlock new abilities, and maintain the form (Like Goku and Naruto). I know people aren't used to that since 99.9 percent of Marvel stories on here have the MC being overpowered immediately, but I'm not interested in that. However, if you remember his Roxxon rescue scene, you'll get an idea of what he can do when he reaches his peak.
--------Unlike Base Godspeed, this is super speed. SIMILARLY to the Flash, he actually moves his body faster now and leaves a blue trail behind him. It is not the Speed Force, they share similar abilities but some are my own made-up ones and some are not included in mine. Speed Force is not a transformation. Ultimate Godspeed is.
--------His appearance changes upon transforming. His hair turns silver and his eyes become a deep blue, glowing the same blue as the Nuform and his Godspeed energy.
--------While transformed, he is not only faster, but he has access to more abilities that he can't do in his base form. I will not spoil them but you will see one in the next chapter.
Feel free to ask any questions here...
Of course, just don't be mean about it I'm a sensitive boy.
The Phantom Spider stood with both hands in fists, glaring at the two Underground minions with his shining cobalt eyes. Though they were covered by his lenses, which shone brightly light two white suns.
Clenching his fists, the Phantom Spider spoke to the ones who fired their weapons at him with the voice of a vengeful spirit. "So y'all like shooting people, huh?" The hero said maliciously as his voice vibrated due to how transformation interacted with his body. His two victims looked at him in fear, dropping their weapons and putting their hands high above their heads, surrendering to him. "Please! Don't kill us!" The guards whined, having heard the rumors about the Phantom Spider going out at night and killing anyone who committed a crime.
This evidently wasn't true in the slightest.
Slowly, the Phantom Spider pointed both of his pointer fingers forward at the two Underground members as if he were mimicking a gun. The tips of his fingers began to shine brightly with small, blue orbs of Godspeed energy, reflecting blue light off of their fearful eyes. "I won't kill you, but I'd be lying if I said this wouldn't hurt." The hero, with his celestial aura, told them with his ever-vibrating voice.
*ZAP*
The Phantom Spider released the Godspeed energy from his fingertips, sending two powerful discharges to the two goons' chests. Immediately, they slammed into the wall behind them and fell unconscious. The only sound that came from them was the thud of their bodies smacking the wall and the ground.
Moments later, the sound of an alarm blaring could be heard, followed by the sounds of heavy footsteps stomping outside of the room. Dozens of Underground thugs, all armed with various Programmable Matter and Nuform weapons, lay in wait behind the door with their weapons aimed. The ones that weren't standing were lined up on the spiral staircase above, pointing their weapons downward into the dark abyss.
The hideout was silent, the only thing that the Underground members could hear were the sounds of their own anxious breaths and heartbeats. For what felt like an eternity, each member waited in anticipation behind the door.
Fear.
Uncertainty.
Anxiety.
These emotions filled the air like an airborne virus as the silence was finally broken.
*TOOM*
The sound of a beast punching steel could be heard through the darkness, only being illuminated by the flashlights on the riflemen's guns. A single fist-shaped dent was seen in the metal door, showing just a fraction of the phantom's strength.
*TOOM*
Again, a fist-shaped dent was seen protruding from the other side of the door, this time the door itself moved forward, loosening itself from its hinges. A few of the Underground members ran, pushing past their comrades to the side as they fled up the stairs while the others stood still in either fear or false confidence.
*BANG*
The door was then removed from its hinges, slamming into a group of gunmen who stood in front of the door. Frozen with fear, the gunmen on the spiraling staircase could do nothing but watch as a glowing figure emerged from the darkness.
His shining eyes, suddenly shifting upwards and glaring at them, awakened a few of the gunmen from their trance, triggering them to begin firing at the ghost. Soon enough, all of the gang members began firing their Nuform blasters at the hero, holding down their triggers until their rifles were out of energy.
*click click click*
They tried to keep firing, though their Nuform weapons were empty. Still standing in the same spot, seemingly having taken virtually no damage, the glowing phantom dashed up the stairs, punching and kicking each member with speedy attacks that were practically unseeable to the human eye. The ones at the top of the staircase tried to escape, but their speed was no match for the shining phantom.
*BANG BANG BANG*
"Help! Help us! Please!" The voices of the Underground warriors were heard as they slammed on the door at the top of the staircase that led into the main area of the hideout. The people on the other side, standing at their posts, looked on with horrified expressions as their comrades continued to bang their fists on the metal door and scream for help.
Soon, their cries for help turned into screams of anguish until eventually, the other side of the door was silent. "Holy fuck, dude." One of the gunmen whispered to another beside him. "We're all gonna fucking die..."
"Stand your ground! He can't fight all of us!" One of the gunmen proclaimed falsely, truly underestimating the strength of the Phantom Spider in his ultimate form.
*TOOM*
Just as he did before, the phantom punched the metal door with a Godspeed punch, driving the gang members to ready themselves. They were terrified, scared to death, but they were determined to fight. That determination, however, would prove to be nothing but a facade once the ghoul on the other side of the door showed his masked face.
*TOOM*
"Here he comes!" One of the members shouted, triggering them all to point their rifles from their nests at the door with their fingers on their triggers.
*BANG*
Immediately after the door was removed from its hinges, a hellfire of bullets rained down on the hero, though this time, he did not wait. Outrunning them, the hero sprinted forward toward the group of melee fighters, delivering a mighty electrified punch to a bat-wielding thug, knocking him out immediately.
The others, holding a variety of melee weapons that included bats, whips, and swords, surrounded the hero as he stood over their comrade, all while Nuform energy blasts rained down on him. "What the hell..." One of the gunmen whispered, ceasing his fire along with the other gunmen as they watched the hero's glowing, unmoving body standing as if their blasts were nothing more than delicate snowflakes grazing his body.
"RAAAH!" One of the swordsmen shouted, swinging the hilt of a Programmable Matter sword that expanded into a katana at the hero.
As if the world was in slow motion, the hero looked over at the swordsman, staring into his soul with his cobalt eyes as he slowly stepped forward. To the hero, he was simply strolling forward as if he was on a walk in the park, but in truth, he was truly moving at a speed that was nearly unseeable.
The swordsman's swing whiffed as the hero barely leaned to the side, watching the sword slowly slice the air beside him before he kicked the swordsman in the chest. As the swordsman flew back, his sword flung upward into the air, losing its form and becoming nothing more than a clump of cubes.
This was the true form of Programmable Matter, only taking the shape of a weapon when the user willed it while imbuing it with Nuform. Leaping into the air, the Phantom Spider grabbed the floating cubes, transforming them into a reverse-bladed katana, one where the blade was pointing away from the enemy so as to not kill them.
As soon as he landed, the hero swung his reverse blade in a circle around him, immediately decommissioning all ten melee fighters around him in an instant. Seeing this, every single other Underground member dropped their weapons and began to flee in fear of the spider.
Since most of them were just teens who were caught up in the wrong crowd, the hero let them flee, though he had a farewell message to them. "Don't let me catch any of you kids doing anything like this again. I will find you!" His mechanical, electrified voice shouted, instilling the fear of the Phantom Spider within most of them.
"Phew." The hero sighed, releasing himself from his form which was taking a massive toll on his body. It felt similar to that of a person who stayed in a sauna or hot shower for too long, but at the same time, it was sore as if he had been lifting at the gym for hours on end.
'I guess I'll call Yuri and tell her-' Before he could finish his thought, one final Underground member emerged from the top of her tower.
*CLONK*
The hero could hear the sound of metal slamming into the ground beside him. He looked over, noticing the Underground leader, the Tinkerer, kneeling on the ground with an embiggened Programmable Matter fist on the ground. The room was dark, however, the moonlight from the nearby massive window illuminated both the hero and the Underground leader. She was staring directly at him, and though her face was covered, he could sense nothing but pure hatred resonating from her.
"You!" She shouted with pure malice in her voice. "You took everything from me!" She bellowed at the hero, standing back up on her feet, showing off of chrome-looking Programmable Matter armor that covered most of her body.
"The Underground needed to end tonight, you nearly killed countless innocent people with your Nuform antics." The hero told her. He was still in his base form, but he was prepared to transform once again. He wasn't sure how, but his transformation had become innate and he was certain that he could do it again if he so willed it.
"I don't care about the Underground. I just used them so I could become powerful enough to face you." The Tinkerer said coldly, clenching her massive metal fists to her side.
"Why? What, you thought it'd be fun to fight me?" The hero asked.
"Because..." As the Tinkerer spoke she decreased the size of her metal fists to that of a normal hand. She then removed her mask, showing her face to the Phantom Spider. She didn't care about her identity at that point, she wanted to make sure that he knew exactly who she was.
"No..." Eren whispered, immediately recognizing the face of the woman in front of him. Her broken expression, mirroring his on the night of his mother's death, shook him to his core. Her jet black hair had been cut into a short bob and her eyes had no light in them as they once did. She had aged since his original image of her, but he was certain that it was exactly who he was thinking. If there were any doubt, the Tinkerer's words soon would eliminate any of it.
"You killed my father." Her voice was quivering as she muttered those words, sending Eren into a mental spiral.
The girl who haunted his dreams almost every night.
The girl whose father he murdered in cold blood.
The girl who he saw in that picture during that one faithful night was right in front of him, all grown up.
She was standing right before him, glaring at him with hate-filled eyes, just as he did to her father, Wilson Fisk, before ending his life.
Those feelings that were beginning to fade away after Eren convinced himself that he had changed, that he was not that same killer he was on that night, were all rushing back into his mind.
Guilt.
Fear.
Grief.
Self-hatred.
It was all coming back to him.
His shadow.
His phantom.
The ghost of his past.
She was standing before him, reminding him of his greatest mistake.
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