𝟏𝟖 - ❝𝑪𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒏 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕❞ 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝟐

Parvati immediately held onto Manish as he pulled them out of the shade of the falling Alchemax building. She had a sudden deja vu of the time of the terrorist attack, so she made sure to hold extra tightly on his hand to ensure he wouldn't slip out of her grasp. 

Four Spiderpeople, including Pavitr, jumped up from behind the falling building and began weaving webs around it, trying to stop the momentum of the building. But Alchemax fell so hard that it hit the series of buildings below it, sending rubble raining down onto the people below. Pavitr and another Spiderman with a sleek black suit immediately began lifting people out of the way. 

The ground cracked beneath their feet, and Manish was carried away by the black-suited Spiderman. Parvati meekly held onto their suitcases, trying not to loose them in the fray. Regardless of what would've happened, her mummy would be angry if she lost the suitcases.

Parvati felt a web wrap twice around her waist before being pulled in the air. The web was quickly replaced by Pavitr's arm as he swung her out of the rubble and to safety.

'What happened?' she asked him over the wind, holding onto him tightly to prevent her from falling.

'A Series of Unfortunate Events,' he said wisely, 'One thing leading to another and continuing on, a story which'll take too long to explain and you probably won't understand it either way.'

Pavitr stopped in a gully far from the Alchemax building, 'Manish is with a friend of mine; he'll be safe. But for my sake, stay here. I don't want you getting hurt.'

'But what about the others? Are they safe? I want to make sure they're safe,' she said hurridly.

Pavitr gently placed his hands on her shoulders, 'They'll all be fine. I'm concerned about you right now. If you got hurt... I won't be able to live with myself.'

Parvati smiled slightly at his concern for her, 'Okay then Spidey. I trust you.'

His eyes squinted slightly, indicating that he was grinning, 'You won't regret it!' he shouted as he swung off. 

Parvati ran back out of the gully and to Alchemax, changing into her Prowler form along the way. She wasn't going to listen to him.

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The Prowler ran into the fray of collapsing Mumbhattan, picking up people along the way and pushing them out of safety. She found out a new ability which mimicked a Spiderperson's webs: she could fire out a grappling hook from her claw and use a hook on her belt to slide down. That made saving people and sailing across the falling buildings infinitely easier and safer for her. She jumped into the fray, where Pavitr was busy pulling an autorickshaw out of falling debris.

'Ay not now electric lady!' he shouted, 'Please don't try and kill me, or choke me. We can indulge in those things after I'm done here. Then you can murder me all you want!'

'I'm trying to help you!' she shouted back, her voice slightly altered by the Prowler mask.

'Help?!' Pavitr picked up an elderly lady and she looked shocked, 'You've tried to murder me several times and choked me once! Listen! I'm saying we can do those things in private-'

'In what?!' shouted the Prowler back, hauling a small boy to safety.

'Okay maybe wrong choice of words. MURDER ME AFTER!' he yelled, swinging off.

The Prowler rolled her eyes and fired her grappling hook at a decorated building, swinging away and dropping onto the roof of a watermelon vendor as it broke. The watermelons all rolled out from the impact.

'Didi!' the vendor shouted, 'If you and your other Spidergroup and stop all this, I'll give you a lifetime supply of free watermelons!'

'Okay thank you bhaiya!' the Prowler raced through the marketplace, helping people run to safety. Her outfit, mask and claws scared more than a few people, but they still darted alongside her. 

She swung herself on the main bridge using her grappling hook, steadying herself on its shaking platform. People had rushed out of their cars and were now sprinting to the ends of the bridge as the Alchemax building came slowly falling down towards them. A quartet of Spiderpeople landed a little bit away and immediately starting shooting webs left, right and centre. 

The Prowler jumped behind the cars, nor wanting to make Pavitr unnecessarily angry again while he was in this intense situation. One Spiderman with lanky limbs and a huge guitar wrapped his web around her arm and pulled her up.

'Well you look fancy,' he said.

'I've dressed up,' she replied meekly.

'For what?'

'Uh... Halloween?'

'I don't believe in festivals. Next time, give me a better excuse,' he nodded once, before letting her go.

The Prowler looked up in shock as the Spiderman swung off. She wasn't expecting him to leave her that quickly. But she was very glad that he had. The bridge had been cleared of most of the people, but some still were left struggling as she Alchemax building finally hit, creating a large hole and falling through it. The Prowler knew that there was only a large expanse of water underneath it.

The collision force sent people flying back. A small girl was close to getting crushes under a few large pieces of rubble. The Prowler raced towards her, but one police man reached her first. She recognised him as Inspector Singh, Gayatri's father. The man carefully held the child close to him as rock began to fall around them. 

'Inspector Singh!' the Prowler shouted, 'Don't go!'

As she ran, another Spiderman reached them first. Black suited and looking like he was bleeding from his armpits with red stripes. He hauled Inspector Singh and the small girl up in his arms and started to run. The Prowler was so focused on them, that she just missed the heavy piece of rock that landed just beside her, making her realise how much trouble she was in by just standing there. 

She shakily started running, trying to dodge the bits of rubble that were now raining a lot more frequently on them. Lunging to the side, she managed to crawl to safety as the four Spiderpeople finished pulling up a bus back onto the bridge. Everyone was cheering, for the black suited Spiderman had saved Inspector Singh and the small girl. The Prowler couldn't help but clap her hands... or claws. 

But there was quite a lot of damage left. As the Prowler looked down, she could see a massive hole, akin to a void swimming across the spance of building rubble. A team of people had gone down and were firing red lasers across it to keep it at bay. Mumbhattan was overjoyed.

No one apart from the Prowler noticed Pavitr sneak away once the other Spiderpeople had left.

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A/N

Be excited for the next chapter.