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Peter Parker ([info]slingingweb) wrote in [info]utr_logs,
@ 2008-02-07 00:42:00

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Entry tags:lara croft, peter parker

Who: Peter Parker and Lara Croft
What: Rescue Time!
Where: The Dark Streets of The City
Warnings: Well, clearly after he saves her life, Lara Croft is going to drop to her knees and give a fifteen-year-old boy the best head of his life...


"Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a Spider-Man does..." sang Peter absently as he lifted up a bit of fallen masonry to toss onto a nearby pile. It was more or less the equivalent of picking up litter by this point. Even though clean-up was surprisingly well under way and disaster relief wasn't as much of a headache as it might have been, there was still quite a lot of rubble to sort through.

"When it gets to the point that I'm finding reasons to throw rocks around, it's time to go home," Spidey told himself. He jumped into the air and began to swing home. And would have gotten there if not for the fact that his spider-sense grabbed him by the cajones and pointed him in the direction of an alleyway. A pretty, vaguely familiar lady was walking by it. "Oh, this is bad news," he said to himself.



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[info]yestheyrereal
2008-02-07 07:11 am UTC (link)
It seemed like a good night for a leisurely stroll. Except her intentions on said stroll weren't quite so leisurely. Ever since the world had nearly ended, she'd been itching to get out and do more. There were no more people to rescue, no more openings for volunteers to clean up rubble. They had construction and debris crews for that now.

Since the pretty girl did indeed have a brain, she figured patrolling to keep an eye out for looters wouldn't be such a bad idea. Not exactly the perfect use of her particular skill set, but it wiped the boredom away. As she walked past an alley intent on checking door locks and alarm systems on the street, she heard voices behind her. Apparently someone had been hiding in the alley. A couple of someones, and they didn't sound friendly. A sly grin spread across her face as she slid one hand under her trench coat, down her leg to her thigh holster, readying the Desert Eagle held inside it.

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[info]slingingweb
2008-02-07 07:32 am UTC (link)
And it might have ended very tragically (or at least very noisily) for the men if not for the fact that Spider-Man happened to be nearby. A faint thwip echoed through the streets followed by a whoosh. The chick disappeared in a red and blue blur. One of the more intelligent of the group followed the blur to the top of a roof, where the idiot in the pajamas made a "stay here" gesture to the chick.

Then he jumped back down and the three guys realized that there were only so many people who could jump off a building, land on his feet, and then walk away from it. "Hello, boys. Normally I like to make witty comments while I injure you people, but it's been a long weekend for all of us, so if it's the same to you I'm just going to hit you and then string you up on the lightpost, see? And you should be grateful that I found you and not Green Arrow, because he's been shooting people in the testicles. So. Volunteers?"

One of the muggers, the one holding a lead pipe, attacked first. "Congratulations! Let the beating commence!"

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[info]yestheyrereal
2008-02-07 05:27 pm UTC (link)
Lara stood on the roof top and watched as Spider-Man, Peter Parker's nom de guerre, swooped back down off the roof and set to disarming the men, whipping them soundly, and stringing them up on the light posts. She arched an eyebrow at the witty bit of banter between the young man and the baddies as she crossed her arms and cocked her hip, waiting for him to come back.

She had to admit, the kid had style. They weren't that far apart in age, six, maybe seven years at most. It impressed her that he was skilled in fighting. She hadn't been quite as skilled at his age. She knew from the comics Bryce read that he'd gained his super powers due to a bite from a radioactive spider, but he must have trained to be able to fight the way he did.

Lara saw Peter make his way back up to her and she smiled at him, waiting until he landed to thank him for his actions, pointless though they were. Holding out her hand for him to shake, she spoke. "I thank you for your noble intentions, but I was not in any trouble, Mr. Parker. If anything, those men would have been begging to be saved. However, it was quite sweet of you to trouble yourself so."

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[info]slingingweb
2008-02-07 06:19 pm UTC (link)
"Then I saved their lives, didn't I? Either way, I fulfilled my heroing quota for the day and--how the hell did you know my name? How does everyone I ever meet keep figuring out I'm Peter Parker? I wear a full face mask! Am I wearing a nametag I'm not aware of? Is it written on my fabulous spider-tuchis?" Spidey rubbed the bridge of his nose. All that effort put into maintaining the secret identity.

As if SHIELD wasn't bad enough. At least Nick Fury made an effort not to let everyone in the world know. Of course, the Kingpin knew, Doc Ock, Venom, his distaff counterpart Jessica, all of the Ultimates, the Fantastic Four...

"Well, okay, I don't put enough effort into the whole thing, I'll grant you. Whatever." She wasn't tingling his spider-sense, so she wasn't a danger, anyway. "Can I swing you home, or...?"

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[info]yestheyrereal
2008-02-07 09:42 pm UTC (link)
She laughed at the quip about a nametag on his ass. "No, nothing of the sort. Although you are aware that you are a comic book character, are you not? My assistant Bryce reads comics obsessively. I believe you're one of his all time favourites, Mr. Parker."

Sighing, she looked down at the streets below anxiously. "I don't need a swing home, per se. But if you might possibly get me down from this roof, that would be lovely. I'd like to continue patrolling for the night. You're more than welcome to join me."

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[info]slingingweb
2008-02-08 03:38 am UTC (link)
"I'm aware that some people seem to think I'm a comic book character. I can't help it that a lot of you people seem to be suffering under some grand deluuuusion." He wiggled his fingers and made a silly face under his mask. "I mean, you look just like Lara Croft. She raids tombs and shoots statues in the face like Dick Cheney at an old guy convention." He looked her up and down and considered the possibility. He would have to see if his new house contained any Tomb Raider games. For... study, of course.

"And I'm not going to be your sidekick just because I'm younger and not that tall. However, I will follow you around for a while and help you fight crime and carry things for you." There were a lot of things Spider-Man was immune to. He could dodge bullets, he healed quickly, he had good enough stamina that he could run all day. But boobies were a whole different matter altogether. "So, shall we go? I think we'll go. Alley oop!" Spidey hooked an arm around the woman's waist and jumped off the building, putting out a web at the last possible second just to show off.

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[info]yestheyrereal
2008-02-08 07:48 am UTC (link)
Lara got that he wouldn't be amenable to thinking that he was fictional. Most of the people she'd encountered were that way as well. She just smiled and nodded. Until he told her that essentially, she looked like herself. "I...am Lara Croft. How did you know? And how could you possibly know what I do?"

She wasn't given any time for an answer as Spider-Man grabbed her and jumped off the building, the both of them free falling for several feet before he shot a web from his hand, snaring a webhold and swinging down to the ground impressively. "I'm not looking for a sidekick, love," she said, straightening her thigh holsters and weapons belt. "Just some company. And possibly, a conscience. I can't promise not to shoot first and ask questions later."

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[info]slingingweb
2008-02-08 08:27 am UTC (link)
"Ah, the remarkably thin boot is on the other foot now, isn't it? See, Lara Croft is a character from a series of games called Tomb Raider. She raids tombs." Maybe this girl raided tombs too. It would explain the heavy artillery. And the guns too.

"I run into you vigilante types all the time. The Punisher. Wolverine. Moon Knight, sometimes, but he's kind of..." He made the "cuckoo" gesture with his finger. "'Oh, look, it's the bad guy! Let's kill him!' Then there's a big mess because someone was desperate and stupid enough to go out robbing, and the only people that really get hurt are the people stupid enough to care about them." Some part of Peter Parker was naive, and some part of him saw an Uncle Ben in every evil-doer.

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[info]yestheyrereal
2008-02-08 11:01 pm UTC (link)
She arched a thin eyebrow. "Games? What type of games? And I'll have you know my boots are anything but thin. They're made of quality leather, thank you very much."

Her hands perched on her hips, arms akimbo, Lara snorted. "I am not a vigilante. I'm an archaeologist. Well, here anyhow. I'm more of an artifact recoverer. But as there is not much in the way of artifacts to be recovered at the moment, and I can't sleep, I'm out here trying to do my part in keeping people from killing others." She tossed her ponytail behind her back as she turned to begin walking down the street.

"I don't kill people just for the sake of killing them, no matter how bad they may appear. But I've found that if you point a gun at someone with full intention of using it, they tend to take you seriously."

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[info]slingingweb
2008-02-09 05:28 am UTC (link)
"Video games. PlayStation, PS2, etc, etc. And my boots are thin. So that I can stick to walls and so forth without slipping off, but still have protection when I kick guys." She was, at most, ten years older than he was. She had to know about video games. You can't be a bad-ass tomb raiding chick (if that was who she was) your whole life; even if she was thirty, she would have been ten when the first NES came out.

I am the world's biggest dork for knowing that off the top of my head. "Sorry, Lara (if that is your real name) but there's a word for people who do what we do, and that word is vigilante. It doesn't matter if you're a web designer all day long like yours truly. Once you start crimefighting, you're a vigilante. At least, in the world according to The New York Bu--Post." The Bugle was The Post here. Had to remember that.

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[info]yestheyrereal
2008-02-13 05:41 am UTC (link)
"Hmm." The concept of her being derived from a video game intrigued her. It wasn't completely abhorrent. At least she wasn't in comic form, something boys like Bryce could drool over like he did the Black Canary and every other drawn female. It was good that Peter didn't mention he thought she was thirty to Lara. She'd have punched him in the nuts. A guy thinking you were nine years older than you really were was deserving of a crotch punch.

"Yes Peter, Lara is my real name. You seem to know who I am at least. And fine, whatever. I'll say I'm a bloody vigilante if it makes you happy. You're rather fond of driving home a point, aren't you love?"

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[info]slingingweb
2008-02-13 01:48 pm UTC (link)
"That's me! Annoy the enemy into submission. Ever heard of J. Jonah Jameson? He--" A faint tingle of his spider-sense pressed him to turn around. "Excuse me." He punched a would-be attacker in the jaw and knocked him fully ten feet away. The idiot moaned, raised his head, then let it fall to the ground. "Honestly. Mommy and Daddy are talking right now."

He returned his attention to Lara. "Anyway, that's the world we live in. I'm a vigilante, you're a gun-totin' vigilante (the apostrophe replacing the 'g' in 'toting' is what makes it cool). Doesn't mean we're bad people."

They walked on, and Peter added, "And there were a couple of movies, too. Where you were raiding tombs. But they'll be called something different here, everything is."

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[info]yestheyrereal
2008-02-13 05:31 pm UTC (link)
Lara arched an eyebrow at Peter's irascible wit. Honestly, who talked to scumbags like that? Mostly, she just kicked ass first and stayed fairly silent. She wasn't adverse to throwing a few quips at the enemy, but Peter did it with a style and flair she reluctantly had to admire.

"Jameson is your boss at The Bugle. You take pictures of yourself as Spider-Man and sell them to him, yes?" She stepped around the unconscious almost-criminal and jabbed him in the leg with the heel of her boot. Served him right for trying to attack them.

"Movies, eh? That's fantastic. How do I look in them? Who plays me?"

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[info]slingingweb
2008-02-14 05:31 am UTC (link)
"Ha, you think that you're so clever. I'm a webmaster. I master the web. I used to run the website for The Bugle. Right now I'm between jobs. Oh, and I'm a superhero, of course, hence the fancy jammies. I mean, I don't just wear these because they accentuate my fabulous tush. Although they do."

Peter tried to think of the movie. He'd gone to see the second one with MJ, and seeing movies with MJ almost invariably led to not actually watching them. "I think you were played by Angelina Jolie. They weren't... bad movies. They were the kind of movie that were too cool to actually be bad. You know, beautiful woman going around guns akimbo. You'd know all about that."

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[info]yestheyrereal
2008-02-14 07:30 pm UTC (link)
Lara hmmphed. "I haven't exactly been staring at your arse. How would I know if they do what you say? And the comics Bryce convinced me to read had you as a photographer selling your prints to the paper."

She caught movement out of the corner of her eye and stuck her arm out, clotheslining the woman who'd jumped out of the adjoining alley. She sighed resignedly. Really, was it too much to ask for a little law-abiding?

"You think I'm beautiful, eh? I'm not so sure I am. The air of bitchiness I exude tends to make me less attractive in most men's eyes."

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[info]slingingweb
2008-02-15 03:41 am UTC (link)
"Well, I do have eyes. Don't let the lenses fool you. And don't worry about the bitchiness. Some of the finest superheroines in the world are downright c-bombs." And supervillains, of course. Supervillainesses? Did you femininize it when it was a bad guy? Or was it bad girl? Bad girl had so many connotations, though.

"Anyway. Can I just say how cool that was? I've never seen anyone actually pull off clotheslining and look so good doing it. And I used to be a wrestler."

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[info]yestheyrereal
2008-02-15 11:41 pm UTC (link)
She eyed him speculatively. "Why exactly do you bother with the costume anymore? So far as I can tell, most everyone knows who you are, love. Those lenses must be incredibly annoying." To be honest, she was curious to see whether he was cute or not. He sounded adorable. And he was funny. Just how she liked them.

"Really? I do it all the time. It's quite useful in most situations when I just don't bloody feel like a long drawn out fight. Or when I'm not interested in inflicting the most damage possible to someone and simply wish to knock them flat." She blushed just a bit at his compliment. Lara wasn't exactly used to people commenting on her fighting style or her badassness.

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[info]slingingweb
2008-02-16 12:34 am UTC (link)
"Because it means there's a line between Peter Parker and Spider-Man. It means that sometimes (not lately, mind you, because people feel the need to destroy the world sometimes and damn if that doesn't mess up your personal life) sometimes I get to not be Spider-Man."

Sometimes he wondered what his life would have been like if he'd just went to Uncle Ben and Aunt May after getting these powers and said that he was a mutant. Uncle Ben would have known what to do. Spidey pushed those thoughts out of his head for the moment, though. "I'll be right back." He shot out a web and swung down the street for about half a mile before swinging back. "Nothing down that way," he said when he landed in front of Lara.

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[info]yestheyrereal
2008-02-16 08:22 am UTC (link)
Oddly enough, it didn't bother her that he made his way ahead without her. It gave her a chance to check her weapons anyhow. Pulling one Desert Eagle out of its holster, she racked it, looking in the slide to make sure there was a round still chambered. Lara slid the magazine out of the grip and was pleased with the amount of ammo still in it. She repeated the same process with the other gun.

She was sliding it back into its holster as Peter came swinging back. "So nice of you to check, Spider-Man. I feel ever so much safer now." Lara grinned at Peter, her smile a bright beacon in the night. She did have impossibly white teeth, especially for a Brit.

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[info]slingingweb
2008-02-16 10:26 am UTC (link)
"Lady, I was checking for their benefit far more than yours. They shoot at me, worst case scenario, I kick 'em in the fruit. They start shooting at you, suddenly there's a bullet lodged in their penis. Which, don't get me wrong, I can see why you'd be testy. But I just prefer to be more merciful."

He didn't add that if he were in charge of the guns, he would probably be going for the crotch shots too. If only because he'd been trained to do so since the day he first plugged GoldenEye 007 into the N64.

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[info]yestheyrereal
2008-02-19 07:08 am UTC (link)
She let loose with a full throated laugh. It was almost frightening how incredibly spot on his assessment was. In Lara's experience shoot first, ask questions later was always a good approach. It hadn't failed her yet.

"Hmm, yes. That would tend to pose a bit of a problem having to explain the copious amount of lead in the genitalia of my would-be attackers to the police. So thank you, love. You've made my night a hell of a lot easier." She reached out and slid a hand down his arm, squeezing it lightly in a friendly gesture.

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[info]slingingweb
2008-02-19 09:44 am UTC (link)
Peter was grateful that his mask covered his entire face, because he was blushing brightly enough to blend in with it. Why wasn't he this inexplicably attractive to older women when he wasn't wearing the mask? He could do with some help then. "Not a problem. I'm the god damn Spider-Man. Besides, you've increased my street cred. My cred. Now people won't think 'Oh good, it's the guy with the funny PJs,' they'll think, 'Oh shit, it's the guy that hangs around with the British chick with the big guns! And also the pistols!'"

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[info]yestheyrereal
2008-02-21 08:20 am UTC (link)
Lara laughed out loud. "Now now, Peter. It isn't gentlemanly of you to notice the rather impressive nature of my guns. But feel free to comment on the pistols." She pulled them out, twirled them on her index fingers and slid them back into the holsters, cowboy style.

"I tend to practice quite a lot. Shooting things is one of my main stress relievers." She rearranged her leather coat back around herself. "So tell me Peter Parker, do you have anything in particular that you like to do to relieve stress?"

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[info]slingingweb
2008-02-22 08:20 am UTC (link)
"Hey, it's not me now, is it? It's those hypothetical guys. The ones who're giving me the street cred. Damn those hypothetical guys! Damn them I say!" Peter shook his fist in a random direction. "I should relieve my stress by giving them whatfor! Why, I could verily engage them in fisticuffs! What ho! Et cetera. All right enough of that."

Peter blushed again, then he decided that he couldn't have this woman driving him crazy. It was a tactical disadvantage, as Cap would say. Then he remembered Black Cat, who was infinitely more forward but had more or less the same effect. The blush faded, and he removed the flirtation problem as easily as Black Cat had done. He took off his mask.

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[info]yestheyrereal
2008-02-22 08:25 am UTC (link)
Lara cocked her head inquisitively at Peter, the loss of mask a surprising move on his part. He looked nothing like the Spider-Man of the comics she'd read over Bryce's shoulder.

In fact, he looked infinitely younger. She eyed him suspiciously as she studied his face. "How old are you exactly, Peter?"

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[info]slingingweb
2008-02-23 03:05 am UTC (link)
"Sixteen, to be... exaggerating. Almost sixteen. So... fifteen-ish, I suppose I would say. I suppose you could... yeah. I'm fifteen." Spidey rubbed the back of his neck, a bit embarrassed. It wasn't as if he had lied, per se. He just allowed people to deduce incorrect information. For his safety. And, to be frank, enjoyment.

"Please don't throw up on me. The last time a pretty older woman found out how young I am she threw up on me. I mean, the spider on my chest doesn't stand for Vomitman, you know?"

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[info]yestheyrereal
2008-02-23 03:26 am UTC (link)
Lara crossed her arms over her ample chest and arched an eyebrow at him. Yes. Young. It figured. One of the first guys she got along with frighteningly well and who didn't immediately try to get into her pants and he was a bloody teenager.

"Have no fear, I don't feel the need to retch on you. And honestly Peter, I'm not that much older. You make me sound like some predatory cougar."

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[info]slingingweb
2008-02-23 03:57 am UTC (link)
"Hey, you're older. You're like, twenty-some. That's just a fact. Other woman, Black Cat, she was all, 'Let me roll your mask up and make out with you with no warning whatsoever. Oh, now I'll take it off--VOMIT.'" He paused. "I guess you could be older than twenty-some, depending on how far apart the different games were, but you sure don't look it."

Peter put his mask back on and shot a web to the corner of a distant building. "So, there you are. I'm sure you don't need my services as a kid sidekick anymore, and if I've creeped you out, well, that's the way I roll, baby. If you'd like me to disappear, I'll just be on my way."

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[info]yestheyrereal
2008-02-23 04:52 am UTC (link)
"Good for me then that I had no intention of trying to make out with you. Contrary to popular belief, I don't go off snogging strangers on a whim," she sniffed. She was just a teensy bit irritated that he would assume she was about to kiss him.

She made a disgusted noise at his offer. "Oh please. You haven't 'creeped me out'. And I don't want you to leave. Unless of course you'd rather be alone than be here with me. Who knows, maybe you don't care to hang around with twenty-two year old women."

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[info]slingingweb
2008-02-23 08:05 am UTC (link)
"I wasn't saying you were aching to jump my spidey-bone. Although, let's face it, who could blame you? I'd do me. I'm just saying that the last time I made nice with an elder lady, she put her tongue in my mouth, then threw up. And frankly, I wouldn't like that, mostly because you actually laugh at my jokes instead of most people, who threaten me after I make them."

He indicated the idiot still hanging from the light post some distance away. "Case in point. But no. I was trying to be cool. I'd love to save the day with you some more, but I have homework, need to find a new job tomorrow, blah blah blah. But if you want to save the day with me sometime, I'm there."

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[info]yestheyrereal
2008-02-23 09:41 am UTC (link)
Lara snorted in a very unladylike fashion. Hilary would have been appalled. "It's been a very long time since I've shagged someone within minutes of knowing them. But I can tell you in all honesty that had I kissed you, I would not have thrown up upon knowing your age. It's not really all that big a deal."

She turned and looked back at said idiot. The guy really did know how to string a criminal up good and proper. Looking down at her wrist, she checked the time. It was getting fairly late anyhow and she'd been at this for hours as it was.

"I should probably head home as well," she sighed, stretching her arms skyward, barely stifling a yawn. "It's been quite fun kicking ass with you. Come see me sometime. Feel free to wear the costume or not, your choice." She reached into her pocket and pulled out a card with her number on it. She handed it to him as she pulled her coat back around her. It was getting chilly.

She began to walk backwards away from him, smiling coyly. "Good night, Peter Parker. Sweet dreams." The moonlight reflected off the shiny deep sable of her pony tailed hair as she turned around and disappeared into the night.

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