Chapter 23: Bullies and Rolltide

"I-fine" he walked away. Heading to do the other thing he needed to do today.

He didn't want to push Ernie to talk to him so Isaac left, and for the next couple of hours he had been saving people for the most part. Other than that, he just helped the city's people and their problems.

What Isaac didn't expect was for there to be so many cats that needed to be saved and for his face to be so reminiscent of a scratch post.

After long hours of hard and exhausting work Isaac sighed, going on a break on top of a building that within held Joe's pizza. He was enjoying a plain slice made specifically for him after he had helped them with a grease trap fire when he heard snickering. He didn't think anything of it until his Spidey sense kicked up so he got up. He noticed that the pizza sauce was abundant in this slice which made him immediately skid back and dodging pizza sauce spill as the pizza was still hot. After that attack was missed, he walked over to the other side of building where he heard someone groaning. Isaac looked down the alleyway and saw kids around the age of 10-12 kicking the living daylight out of another kid whose only chance to survive was to imitate an armadillo so he jumped down to sit on the ledge of the fire escape.

"Do you guys really have to beat him up like that? If you guys wanted to kick something, go play football" Isaac scolded. He remembered when he had started middle school, even though he was never bullied to the extent on being beat up, he was picked on heavily by the problematic kids that were left back multiple times and screamed secretly for daddy's attention. Looking at the situation in front of him, the snotty kids glared at him being in costume but he paid no mind as he let his head rest on the crook of his wrist as he bit into his pizza. They all took a step back one he used a temporarily free hand to shoot a rogue web at them. One of the kids immediately went for the pissing pants maneuver when the white goo went flying at them coming at blazing fast speed while the rest tried to act brazen.

"Hey, he deserved it Spider boy!" Boy 1 said while all of them nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, he told the teacher on us and now we're all going to get in trouble. It wasn't our fault that we were the only ones to steal from the store." Boy 2 whined as he barely dodged a well placed shot.

"That doesn't give you the right to bully -him.. Wait. Did you just call me boy?" Isaac said as he increased his shooting. All of the kids scanned each other before nodding, taking a run for it out of the alley and back into the public streets like the subways rats he had seen before.

'Ugh whatever' Isaac let them go knowing that they were still kids who would hopefully or eventually learn that what they were doing was wrong. Or not, he just hoped they did.

He took the last bites of his meal, pulled his mask down and leapt off the fire escape. He torso bent awkwardly, twisting to the wall as he stuck to it before sliding down and jumping off of when he had reached the bottom. The kid looked like he had been ran over with a car, Isaac turned him over the front before looking at his injuries.

"You are awake aren't you" Isaac asked.

"Are they gone?" The kid asked, peeking with one eye that circled around scanning for the perpetrators.

"Yeah, they ran away before I really did anything. Sorry"

"Your the Scarlet Spider that's been going around helping people right?" The boy asked curiously. Isaac nodded prompting the kid to sit up with an hand outstretched. The kid grabbed it and Isaac helped him up and picked his bag up. It had a couple of deep gashes and it seemed to be falling apart from being pulled apart. Isaac webbed the bag to a usable condition, handing it back once he felt the project was complete.

"Thanks,.. so do you work for Captain America or something?" The kid asked. Isaac wanted to knock the kid out with a pluck to the forehead but the only thing he did was breath out, lifting the kid up and setting him down on his feet.

"Something. No, I work for myself." Isaac ruffled the kids hair. The kid tried to fight the nuggy off and fixed his hair which Isaac let him.

"Hey at least you have some bite to you. What's your name kid?" Isaac asked. The kid looked down before saying.

"Miguel"

"Interesting," Isaac began to think about the possibility that the kid was something special but not interested enough for him to waste anymore time, He decided to walk the kid home and then head where his head told him too.

On the way, his Spider-sense started to kick up. He looked at Miguel who was absent mindedly walking forward. Isaac paused looking around.

"Kid, wait." Isaac said as he watched as a the kid didn't pay attention walking across the street. His spider-sense kicked in again and he saw a flying car bash through the block with the opposing traffic also paying no mind. His mind sped up, time slowed as he ran webbing himself closer between the wrecking ball of a car and Miguel. He grabbed the kid and held his hand out shooting a web to the lamp post. He attached it to the kid and threw him as he grabbed the car, kicking it up with both feet. Both of them rose in the air before he pushed off the car and shot multiple web bullets which kept the car in midair. He flipped with the landing as overlooked everything.

"Woah." Miguel commented. The cars honked and he went to go get Miguel down so he could run away but he felt his Spider-Sense kick up right as a girl bashed into him as they took off flying into a shop.

"C'mon." He gritted as the two of them crashed into through the window which bleed out some of their speed but they finally stopped it when he counter. Isaac, felt a sharp pain in his body which knocked the wind out of him as he groaned.

'It's just my body, maybe a rib. I hope I didn't pierce a lung.' He said as he rolled the person off of him slowly.

"You are either the sturdiest women I have every seen or you were fighting the hulk. I'm hoping for your sake it was the former" He wheezed, taking the time to recover from the sudden hit before slowly getting to a knee position to checked her pulse. The lady who was knocked out seemed to just had come out of a brewery from how much she smelled like cheap booze. Fortunately, she was lucky that the only scratch she had was on top of her temple that seemed to be from a beer bottle or multiple from how much green pieces of glass that stuck on the wound and around the wound.

He got up, noticing that the person or thing that sent her this far had come to get her yet. He looked around but it seemed like the store had been abandoned by the lack of people and things inside. He grabbed her, lifting her out with a firemen carry before he placed her on the ground as dust landed on top of them.

"Hey, are you a hero?" A pedestrian asked. Isaac looked at his outfit before tilting his head but it seemed like the dude was genuinely serious.

"Yeah, I am a hero" He said deflated, not willing to get into an argument for the sake wanting to be clear.

"Oh cool, Look at this" The guy showed him his phone as a massive humanoid rhino started running past the framed shot, busting cars into the opposing sides of traffic as a girl, similar dressed in the same leather jacket and jeans to the one that hit him, was walking out of an alley drinking a Jameson bottle. The girl had become enrage at some taunting that seemed to be in the background and she hit the giant before being smacked. A small fight broke out between them before a car was thrown and then a person, both in the same direction.

"Where was this video taken?" The guy pointed north and gave directions to near ESU which was terrible because he was at the boarder of Chinatown.

"How fast is he going," He asked only to received a shrugged. Isaac groaned as he looked at girl once more before moving on.

'Where is he going' He thought as he jumped forward swinging away. He went down the block he was walking down with Miguel who was long gone but it seemed like the web was still there. Isaac continued looking at the tragedy wishing to know what had happened but as he hunted for the person who caused this. Their trail of mayhem was made easily apparent as the chaos was felt among the streets who pleaded for him to stop this. Isaac took the time where people really needed him but for the most part he continued following the path of utter destruction. Eventually, he found himself right above the police who also seemed to be wary of whoever could cause this mess but he went high up. Avoiding anything that could possibly get him shot at.

He felt a buzz in his pockets, he hoped it was his friend but he wasn't unamused to see it was a number he acquired recently.

"Hello?"

"Scarlet, it's Officer Yuri Watanabe. If I'm right, you're headed to the criminal called rhino who's rampage caused all of 6th Ave to be decimated."

"Yea- wait, you know about this? Who decided it was a good idea to let him go on. Where are the Avengers" Isaac yelled as he dodged traffic with every swing.

"Well the Avengers are.. somewhere. I don't know, and as far as their guy. He was in containment before someone released him accidentally, and the taunted him on purpose. If I had to guess, it was a new vigilante."

"Alright, so we have a newbie making a big rhino baby mad. What do you need for me?"

"Fight him and capture the kid."

"Was that an order?" Isaac asked, he didn't exactly enjoy taking orders.

"It was an idea" she corrected.

"I'll see how it goes."

He began to see the giant who the size of three sedans stacked upon each other. The first thing that caught Isaac's attention was it's outfit. It looked he had adorned a full body leather suit dyed in metal gun gray and there was another guy who seemed to be Green suit with yellow highlights trying to appease to the beast.

"Alright Yuri, I see the Rhino. I'm going to have to let you go" Isaac said.

"... alright. I'll call you when I have anymore news, I hope you'll do the same and by the way the way. Not all police are scared of you." Yuri commented before the line cut off. He observed the situation as he inched closer to the scene. He landed on a nearby light pole as he simultaneously webbed up a manhole cover and pushed off to where was right beneath him. He watched as the kid barely dodged out of the way of the rhino's attack. Isaac decided that it was enough playing hero and time to take down the big bad. He lifted off riding in the air as he webbed closer to the two.

"Coming thru big guy." He yelled, alerting everyone to look up as Isaac swung down the manhole cover, bashing rhino across his humongous head. Isaac landed as Rhino didn't even as much as budge from the hit.

"Oi, think you can defeat Rhino with puny attack. Even girl was weak and she hit harder than you" The rhino yelled.

"Fuck, this is going to take some work." He gritted his teeth as he braced for the heavy attack coming his way.