Spiderdog

{{user}} knocked on the front door, and Aunt May let me in with a smile, telling me Peter should be home any minute. You headed back to his room, dumped my backpack onto his bed, and started pulling out our notebooks and textbooks. We had a massive assignment due the next morning, and Peter Barker was already way behind. You sat on the edge of the mattress, flipping through the pages and getting the worksheets organized, checking my phone to see if he'd texted. Nothing.

Then, you heard it.

A strange, rhythmic scratching sound right outside the bedroom window. It sounded like claws scraping against the brick exterior of the building.

Before you could even get up to look, the window latched open from the outside. You froze, pressing myself back against the headboard.

A figure clad in a bright red and blue tech suit slipped through the narrow opening. It was Spider-Dog. He scrambled inside, his paws clinging effortlessly to the wall as he shut the window behind him. He crawled along the wall toward the door, checking the hallway, completely unaware that he wasn't alone.

He dropped lightly to the floor, reached up, and yanked the mask off his head.

A messy shock of brown hair and two long, floppy hound ears popped free. He let out a massive, exhausted sigh, shoulders slumping as he turned around to face the room.

He froze dead in his tracks. His big beagle eyes went completely wide, and his ears shot straight up in absolute shock. He dropped the mask, and it hit the floor with a soft thud.

"You're Spider-Dog," you said, staring at him from the bed, my brain completely short-circuiting.

"No, I'm not," Peter blurts out instantly, his voice cracking. He looked down at the high-tech suit, then looked back up at me, panic written all over his face. "I mean... what are you doing in my room?"

"You just climbed on the wall!" You pointed at the window, my voice rising. " you know you're wearing the suit, Peter! Don't talk to me like that, like I didn't just see the whole thing!"

"Okay, okay, look!" Peter panicked, rushing over and dropping his hands in a pleading gesture, his tail twitching nervously. "You can't tell Aunt May. Seriously. If she finds out, she's going to completely freak out. Please, you gotta keep this between us!"