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Chapter 379 - 379 Spider-Man Peter Parker

"Good evening, everyone…"

Just as the four masked robbers were busy messing with an ATM, clearly having a grand time, a teenage voice rang out behind them.

"What are you guys doing? Forgot your ATM pin or something?"

"Huh?"

The four robbers—dressed up as Captain America, Iron Man, the Hulk, and Thor—froze on the spot.

Like statues suddenly turned to stone, they all slowly turned toward the source of the voice.

For a moment, the air turned strangely tense, the silence almost palpable.

"Whoa! No way! You guys are actually the Avengers?!"

The speaker was a teenager in a red and blue skintight suit with web patterns, complete with expressive white lenses on his mask that blinked with each word he said—giving off a playful, almost cute vibe.

No doubt about it—he was the now-famous friendly neighborhood superhero from Queens, Spider-Man.

"Whoa, you're the avengers."

"What, has the Avengers' payroll been delayed so badly that you're all out here robbing banks? That's terrifying!"

Robbers ×4: "???"

"What's wrong? Cat got your tongue? Especially you—Tony Stark, Mr. Billionaire! Even if Stark Industries has been overshadowed by Rhodes Island Technologies lately, you're not this broke, right?"

Spider-Man—Peter Parker continued talking like a one-man comedy act.

"And where's your cool Iron Man suit, huh? That thing you're holding? Doesn't exactly scream 'superhero gear' to me!"

"Boss, what do we do?" the "Hulk" whispered nervously to "Captain America." "I think this guy's Spider-Man. Word is, he's crazy strong."

"What do we do?" "Captain America" cracked his shoulders, picked up a high-tech alien-looking cutting tool from the ground, and growled, "Isn't it obvious? Interrupting our big score? Let's beat the crap outta him!"

The four robbers exchanged a look—and then shouted in unison:

"GET HIM!"

"Yikes! So violent! Since when did the Avengers just jump people like that?!"

With a smooth flip, Spider-Man somersaulted into the air, launching sticky webs from his shooters and plastering the robbers' faces with them.

"You've the right to remain silent! Robbing a bank and assaulting civilians? Absolutely despicable!"

Even while fighting, Spider-Man kept up his nonstop banter—a true motor mouth.

Watching the chaos unfold from outside the bank, Kagura couldn't help thinking to herself:

'If I really have to team up with Peter Parker in the future… I might go crazy from all that talking.'

'Seriously, why is Spider-Man such a chatterbox?'

'You weren't like this when you were little!'

...Wait. Scratch that.

You were already a chatterbox as a kid.

As she watched, Kagura found her mind drifting back to the brief moments she shared with a much younger Peter Parker years ago.

"I'm gonna be a hero, just like you, sis!"

Back then, Peter was still just a kid—but the light in his eyes burned with the dream of becoming a hero.

'Well, at least the wish I made for you came true…'

Time had flies.

The boy who once cried for help beside Uncle Ben's hospital bed had now grown into a capable young hero in his own right.

'Good thing I erased your memories back then.'

'Otherwise, if you figured out that this loli version of Kagura was the same girl who saved Uncle Ben, I'd be in huge trouble!'

Kagura didn't dare let her guard down.

After all, Spider-Sense was no joke.

If Peter somehow sensed her identity—that this cute magical girl was once his childhood savior—then even diving into the Mississippi River wouldn't wash that away.

"Boss! This guy's insane!" the "Hulk" yelled after getting thoroughly smacked around. "Even all four of us can't take him down! What the hell is up with superheroes these days? Aren't they just dudes in costumes doing comedy gigs?!"

"Hey hey hey! You guys don't have to be so rude?!" Spider-Man scoffed, now hanging upside down from the ceiling by a web strand.

"We friendly neighborhood types are the real deal! But hey, I'm feeling generous—if you surrender now, I promise to go easy on you!"

"Boss, this isn't working—we need to go all out!" said the "Hulk," raising a strange alien device and turning its dial to max power. "Let me blast him into oblivion!"

"I don't like killing, but if we don't do something now…" "Captain America" nodded grimly. "Everyone, use the electromagnetic device! Hit him with the anti-gravity field! We're ending this Spider-Punk once and for all!"

All four robbers charged again.

"Iron Man" activated a device made from salvaged Dark Elf tech—an electromagnetic emitter that generated an anti-gravity field, suspending anything inside it weightlessly.

The field launched toward Spider-Man, catching him mid-monologue.

"Whoa—what the heck?! Why can't I move?! Is this an anti-gravity trap?! This stuff is seriously advanced! Why are you robbing a bank when you could just sell this tech?!"

"You idiot! We bought this tech to rob banks with!"

The "Hulk" raised the alien cutter, now converted into a glowing purple energy blade, and activated it.

"This is your fault for meddling in our business! Say your prayers, Spider-Kid!"

The searing blade crackled with power, resembling a massive energy greatsword as the "Hulk" swung it toward the helpless Peter Parker.

Just then—'CRACK!'

A brick sailed in from outside the bank, hitting the "Hulk" square in the forehead and knocking him and his "Chitauri greatsword" to the ground in one blow.

"Defender of love and justice! Keeper of peace! Magical Girl—Neko Hitomi—has arrived!"

Kagura struck an adorable magical-girl pose and delivered a pre-rehearsed line, meant to confuse Peter Parker.

"Ahahaha! You villains better surrender now! Or I won't go easy on you!"

"...Neko Hitomi?" Peter twitched, still floating helplessly in the anti-gravity trap. "Who… are you?"

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