SMST: The Irresistible Bunny-Girl! – By DS Wynne

Disclaimer: SM, R1/2, ST, Marvel Comics and other properties belong to their respective owners.

Note: This is a multi genre story.

Part 5

As Peter and Usagi enters the Parker residence, both had feelings of dread. Ben and May Parker were getting older, and weren’t “spring chickens”…

“Uncle Ben!” Peter yelled. “Aunt May! Where are you-?”

“We’re over here, Peter!” May called out from the dining room.

Quickly, Peter and Usagi entered the room, where they saw an EMT bandaging Ben’s wounds. Apparently, a bullet grazed his left shoulder.

“Oh, Uncle Ben!” Peter said, as he knells before his uncle. “Are you-?”

“I fine, Peter- OUCH!” Ben Parker said, as he winced.

“This won’t take long, sir,” said the EMT.

“Sir, what happened?” Usagi asked, as she approached the Parkers.

“Some damn fool tried to rob me tonight, even had shot at me,” Ben said. “If Ranma hadn’t been here, I might have gotten killed or something.”

“Wait, where did Ranma go.”

“He took off after him, I think…”

“We were so worried about Peter being gone,” said May, as she got up from Ben’s side. “But, I’m glad Peter was with someone.”

“Where did you go anyway, Pete?” Ben asked. “It was getting late, so I assumed that you were downstairs.”

Peter begins to fidget a bit, when-

“My apologies, Mr. Parker,” Usagi said. “He was with me at tonight’s taping of the ‘Ed Sullivan Show’.”

“Oh, we watched program this evening,” said May. “There was a special show on tonight, featuring some performers…”

Aunt May then turn towards Ben.

“What were their names? Oh, ‘Spider-man’ and ‘Bunny-Girl’, I believe.”

“Yeah, I think that’s it,” Ben groused. “Personally, I think those two were using wires…”

Ben then turn towards Peter.

“But I still expect you to call home, mister.”

“Of…course, Uncle Ben,” Peter said, as he got up. “I…got to go and get something from Usagi’s house.”

“You do?” Usagi said, as she was pulled from the Parkers.

As soon as Peter and Usagi were outside, Peter turns towards Usagi.

“We got to find that creep,” Peter said, as he goes pulls off his shirt, revealing his Spider-man costume.

“Peter, that guy could be anywhere in this city-“

“Hey, we got word that the ‘perp’ who tried to rob this place earlier this evening is being held up at a warehouse near the Brooklyn Bridge,” said a cop, as he and his partner get into the squad car.

“Now we do,” Peter replied. “I’m going to find the creep who almost killed my uncle, and you’re not going to stop me.”

Usagi sighed.

“Okay, but we do this legally, by making a citizen’s arrest, Usagi said. “Okay?”

“Fine.”

And with that, Spider-man and Bunny-girl leap into action…

WHAM!

The perpetrator that shot Ben Parker had more immediate concerns, as he was thrown against the wall of the old warehouse, located near the Brooklyn Bridge.

WHAM!

The criminal gets up, somehow still holding onto his handgun.

“Don’t come any closer, buddy-!” the criminal said, as his gun was knocked out of his hand.

SMACK!

Ranma then grabs the robber by the collar, and lifts him into the air.

“You’re going to spend time in jail for a long time, bub,” Ranma said, as he stares into the robber’s eyes.

“If he lives long enough!” said a voice.

WHAM!

Both the robber and Ranma were knocked over, as Spider-man tackles his uncle’s would-be killer.

“Wha-?” Ranma began to say.

“Ranma!” said Bunny-girl, as she goes to her husband’s side to help him up.

Ranma looks over to see a girl dressed in a form-fitting bunny suit…

“Usagi, why are you-?”

WHAM!

Ranma and Usagi see Spider-man beating up on the robber.

“Hold on,” Ranma said, as he goes over to Spider-man…

“Tell me why you would kill Ben Parker for money, or-“ Spider-man began to say, just as his raised fist was being held in check.

“Huh?” Spider-man said, as he tried to move his arm. He was surprised that Ranma could be so strong…

“You calm down,” Ranma said. “It’s over.”

“But-“

“Would Ben Parker appreciate this?”

Spider-Man hesitated before relaxing. He then took a closer look at the man’s face, as he gargled a bit, and realized something.

The robber was the same thief that he had run into earlier that evening.

“Oh, no,” Spider-Man said. “It’s all my fault…”

“Ranma-“ Bunny-girl said.

“I’ll take care of it from here,” Ranma said. “You two better get out of here.”

“Come on, Spider-Man,” said Bunny-Girl, as she pulls her “partner” back.

Spider-Man was really torn up, but managed to comply. Once he and Bunny-Girl left the building, NYPD storm the room.

“FREEZE!” said the lead cop, as he points his gun at Ranma. “Put your hands in the air, and don’t move-!”

“I’m unarmed!” Ranma replied, as he did as he was told…

“Meanwhile, in some secluded alley…

“I can’t believe it, Usagi,” Spider-Man said, as he took off his mask.

“What happened?” Usagi asked, as she removed her large goggles and hood.

Peter turns towards Usagi, with tears in his eyes.

“Earlier, while you went to the restroom, that thief who almost killed Uncle Ben ran by me today,” Peter said.

“Wait, so you know that guy?” Usagi said. “When?”

“When we went to see the stage manager for a spot in the Ed Sullivan Show.”

“Oh, I see…”

Silence.

“If I had stopped him then and there, Uncle Ben would not have gotten hurt…or worse.”

“Well, the only you can do is remember to be mindful of such things,” Usagi said, as she comforted Peter.

“You know, I remember Uncle Ben once told me that with great power, comes great responsibility,” Peter said. “I thought it was something related to the responsibilities of the United States, when dealing with the Soviets. But I realize that what he said could be for anything, like our powers, for instance.”

“That’s pretty heavy, Peter,” Usagi said.

“Usagi, I don’t want to be some…entertainer anymore. I want to use our powers to help people who can’t protect themselves.”

“So, you’re willing to forgo money opportunities for principles?”

“I know it’s going to be rough, but this is important to me. And I want you to be by my side.”

“Hmmmm. If I do this, that means that we’re partners. AND, if I need to take off for months at time, that means that you can’t ask me where I went. Deal?”

“I don’t understand, but deal.”

And with that, a partnership was born…

A few days later…

“You and Bunny will be reassigned,” said Colonel Nick Fury, as he closes his file.

“Reassigned?” Ranma said. “Why?”

“We’ve been getting increased activities from the likes of CHAOS, SPECTER and other affiliated groups, some with government times. But in the meantime, I want you two to investigate the possible whereabouts of this man…”

Fury slides some photos of the arctic region to Usagi. She takes a quick scan of the pictures, and quickly reads the information…

“They found Steve’s body?” Usagi said with happiness.

“Why are you happy about that?” Ranma said. “Steve’s dead.”

“No, the super-soldier serum that Dr. Erskine and I had worked on can put the recipient in a state of suspended animation upon experiencing below friezing temperatures,” Usagi replied.

“For person who claims to know only half of the formula to the serum, you seem to know a lot about it,” Fury said, as he squints his eyes.

“Just because I know what the serum is suppose to do, that doesn’t mean I know everything about it,” Usagi lied. She knew the exact formula of the perfected super-soldier serum. However, she didn’t trust the government to use it well, or keep it out of enemy hands, allowing the Feds to have access to the imperfect super-soldier serum…the one with the possible side effects. But, as a consolation, she did give the Feds a rejuvenation formula that can slow down the rate of aging, since the formula is designed to flush out the body’s natural toxins at an accelerated rate…

“Fine. But you two are off ‘Operation: Peter’s Blanket’ for good.”

“Then we should get our stuff-“ Ranma began to say.

“No, your stuff has been already moved,” said Nick. “Your replacements have already taken your place. You two are to leave for the arctic prompt-o…”

Elsewhere, Felicia Hardy runs up to Peter, who had just left his house.

“Peter!” Felicia said. “Where’s Ronnie?”

Peter shook his head…

“What?”

“He…and Usagi moved,” Peter said with sadness. “Sometime during the night.”

“No,” Felicia said, as she looks down, while tears began to fall. “But you promised, Ronnie…”

Time moves forward. First comes graduation, and then college (Empire State University). Wanted to still contribute money to the family, Peter begins to take pictures of Spider-Man, and sells them to a local newspaper company called The Daily Bugle. Although his boss, cigar chewing, mustache wearing editor-in-chief J. Jonah Jamison, was a bit of a jerk, Jamison did give Peter a break, since he was putting himself through school…

Unfortunately, as Spider-Man’s reputation grew, so did the quantity and quality of his opponents…

“Give it up, Spider-Man!” said the Green Goblin said, as he held Gwen Stacy in one hand, and razor-sharp “cutter” in another…with the blade cutter on the verge of cutting the cable that held up the Brooklyn Bridge Cable Car system.

“It’s either HER…or these perfect strangers!”

Spider-Man thought rapidly. He could try a special trick that would allow him to grab Gwen and while snagging the falling cable car with his webbing and strength. However, that could set him up for an attack by the Green Goblin…

“CHOOSE. You don’t have much time.”

As Spider-Man pondered his thoughts, something furry comes flying at the Green Goblin, feet first.

“Open…SEZ ME!” said the furry clad critter, as Bunny-Girl knocks the Green Goblin off his glider.

POW!

“Arrgh-!”

“Bunny-Girl!” Spider-Man said, as Bunny-Girl catches Gwen and-

CLAK!

Claws the side of the bridge. This allowed Bunny-Girl to cling to the bridge while holding up Gwen.

“Spidey!” Bunny-Girl yelled.

“Oh, RIGHT!” Spider-Man said, as he goes after the Green Goblin, who has remotely called his bat glider before falling to his death…

Later…

“I can’t believe YOU bothered to show up after all this time,” Spider-Man said tersely. He and Bunny-Girl went to a secluded area of Manhattan’s Central Park, after getting Gwen to Stacy

“Peter, I DID say I would be gone for months at a time,” Bunny-Girl said.

“Yeah, fifty months ago!”

Bunny-Girl sighed.

“Look, I can’t tell you where I went, but it was for a good reason.”

“Humph.”

“So, how are your aunt and uncle doing?”

“They live in Florida, now,” Spider-Man said. “I got the house, and Gwen rents a room.”

“Oh. So are you two-“

“We started dating after Senior Prom,” Spider-Man said. “But, we kind of broke up a few months ago.”

“Oh, I see-“

WHAM!

Bunny-Girl is tackled to the ground, with a black-clad (with cowl), silver-haired vixen on top of her.

“Okay, Usagi!” said the Black Cat, as she grabbed Bunny-Girl by her costume.

“I THOUGHT I smelled your presence, Bunny!” Black Cat said.

“Hey, Felicia,” Bunny-Girl said.

“Wait, you know who I am?”

“Let’s see…who do I know that has silver-colored hair, and is around Peter’s age?”

“Then, in that case: WHERE IS RONNIE?”

“Who?”

“Ronnie, that’s who!” Black Cat said. “I don’t know what happened to you guys, but I want to know where Ronnie is.”

Bunny-Girl turns towards Spider-Man.

“Is she for real?” Bunny-Girl said.

“You tell me where Ronnie is, or-“ Black Cat said, as she raised her clawed hands.

“Ranma is somewhere…somewhere else, okay?” Bunny-Girl said. “He’s just is, okay?”

Black Cat stares at Bunny Girl for a long time…

“Fine,” Black Cat said, as she gets up. “You tell that SOB that I’m looking for him. Humph!”

And with that, Black Cat leaps into the night.

“Whew, that was a bit much…”

Bunny turns towards Spidey.

“What’s Felicia up to these days?” Bunny asked.

“She does the occasional cat burglary, and super-villainy thing,” Spidey said. “But mostly, she’s harmless.”

“Oh.”

“Look, I’m glad that you’ve come back, but…I wish that you’ve told me that you were going to leave,” Spider-Man said.

“Like I said, it couldn’t be help,” Bunny-Girl said. “Can we…start over again?”

Spider-Man looks at Bunny-Girl for a long moment. He then sticks out his hand.

“Only if we can be partners again,” Spider-Man said.

Bunny-Girl shook Spider-Man’s hand deal.

And so the legend of Spider-man and Bunny-Girl was born. Years would go by, and the not-so-dynamic duo beat back foes that would give these heroes trouble.

Some villains were silly…

“Hey, it’s Elmer’s Glue!” Bunny-Girl said.

“It’s ‘The Trapper’, fool!” said Paste-Pot Pete, as he sprayed a sticky substance in the air to trap Bunny and Spidey.

Some villains were deadly…

“At last!” said the Kraven the Hunter proclaimed, as he stood on the grave of Spider-Man. “HAHAHAHAHA-!”

SPLAT!

Kraven wipes the mud from his face. He turns to see a pregnant woman wearing a black and white bunny costume.

“You were not supposed to be here!” Kraven said. “I don’t harm my prey’s mate!”

Bunny-Girl holds her stomach, trying to rest. Being this far along in her pregnancy was stressful. However, since receiving the call from Mary Jane had called her, Bunny-Girl came out of temporary retirement to confront the maniacal game. Months earlier, after help to find Peter and Mary Jane’s daughter May, Bunny-Girl found out that she was pregnant with Peter’s baby. To be fair, Peter and Mary Jane had gotten a separation over the stress of seemingly losing their daughter. At the same time, Bunny-Girl and HER husband were experience a marriage separation themselves. Being crime-fighting partners opened some suppressed feelings on their part. However, ultimately, Peter and Mary Jane got back together. Still, Bunny-Girl hopes that the adoption of her baby by Peter and Mary Jane with become a reality…

“Then you know that the female is more deadly of the species than the male,” Bunny-Girl said, as she proceed to defeat Kraven the Hunter, mostly using her rapid tunneling ability to make short work of Kraven.

And then there was the deadly villain to deal with…

Usagi, dressed in a one-piece micro-skirt, had stepped outside of a club with her latest “friend”, as the two go out in the back. They begin to make out, when-

CLUMP!

“Usagi, don’t!” Ronin said, as he and Spider-Man, now back in his red/blue familiar costume get the jump on Usagi.

Usagi laughs, as her clothes changes to that of…RABID, which was a play on the word “rabbit”.

“She belongs to us, Ronin!” Rabid said, as she stuck out her extra-long tongue while baring her sharp teeth. “We want brains!”

Ronin, who was really Ranma, turns towards Spider-Man.

“Didn’t you guys know that the costumes that you got from that ‘Secret War’ was an alien symbiotic lifeform?”

“Hey, I’m not a tailor!” Spider-Man replied.

“BRAINS!” Rabid said, as she leaps at Spider-Man and Ronin.

“GAH!” Ronin and Spider-Man say in unison.

And so it went.

As one generation goes, a new generation arrives. The legacy of Spider-Man and Bunny-Girl was none other than their daughter Benjamina “Benny” Stacy Parker, the Paradoxical Spider-Bunny. She possessed both of her parents’ spider and bunny abilities, and typically partners with her older sister May Parker, known to the public as the Spectacular Spider-Girl, when fighting crime.

And now, a special day was fast approaching…

Present day.

“Happy Birthday, dear,” Usagi said, as she presents Benny a gift.

“Awesome!” Benny said, as she receives her gift. She had just turned sixteen years old that day, so it was a milestone for her, since her parents (step-mother included) had decided that it was time to let Benny fight crime beyond the occasional team-up.

“Open it, kiddo,” Ranma said, trying to avoid contact with Felicia, now a family friend. She was sitting with her ex-husband Fred “Flash” Thompson and their daughter Felicity, who also inherited her mother’s catlike abilities. This was actually the first time in years that Ranma has seen Felicia…

“Mom, Dad?” Benny asked.

“Yeah, go ahead,” said Peter, as he scratched his goatee. These days, he is a high school science teacher that occasionally goes out to fight crime with Usagi. But now that May and Benny will be taking up the slack, that partnership, like Jerry and Dean’s, was “officially” DONE…with the emphasis on quotation marks.

“Yes, dear,” Mary Jane said. She wished that Stacy could have been well enough to leave the secured hospital. But between being permanently bonded to the symbiotic life known as “Carnage’ and her disastrous marriage to Henry “The Hobgoblin” Osborn, son of the Green Goblin, releasing Stacy, even for a visit, would not be prudent at this time…

“What do you got there, kiddo?” May asked.

Benny opens the box to reveal a brand new Spider-Bunny costume.

“Alright!” Benny said.

“Good job on the quality,” Flash Thompson said.

“It’s actually made from unstable molecules,” Usagi said. “But this one can self-repair.”

Peter raises an eyebrow.

“No, it’s NOT a symbiotic suit, Peter.” Usagi said.

“Thank god.”

“Thank you, Usagi,” Benny said, as she hugged her mother.

Usagi smiles, as she hugged her daughter back.

As the day’s festivities wind down, Ranma goes to the bathroom to use it. As he does, someone walks in with him.

CHUNK!

“Hmmm?” Ranma said, as he turns to see Felicia standing there. Thanks to getting powers from that accident, her aging had slowed down considerably, as did Peter’s (which has been some bone of contention between Mary Jane for some time now…).

“Um, Felicia?” Ranma said. “I’m kind of in the middle of something-“

“You listen to me, buddy!” Felicia said, as she jabs her clawed index finger into Ranma’s chest. “You promise me that you would take me out on a date to the prom, and, afterwards, you’re suppose to be my…first. And then when I heard from Usagi that you were available, you blew me off!”

Silence.

“Well, change of plans! I want a FULL weekend of fun! You got me!”

“Okay, okay!” Ranma protested.

“Humph!”

And with that, Felicia leaves the bathroom.

“Whew, that was close…”

In the end, the legacy of the Irresistible Bunny-Girl through the next generation of heroes…

Later, a familiar sight was seen in the skies over Midtown.

“Weee!” Spider-Bunny yelled, as she swung from rooftop-to-rooftop with her sister Spider-girl, her father Spider-Man…and Spider-Bunny’s mother Bunny-Girl.

“Don’t go ahead of us, shrimp!” Spider-Girl yells.

“Make me-!”

“Hey, Usagi!” Spider-Man asked, as he swung in close to Bunny-Girl during her mid-jump.

BONG!

“What?” Bunny-Girl replied.

“Where did Ranma and Felicia go?”

BONG!

“Probably somewhere upstate…”

WHAM!

Ranma tries to crawl out of the cottage suite, huffing and puffing. He was amazed that Felicia had built up so much energy after nearly waiting fifty years for their date.

“We’re just starting, tiger,” Felicia said, as she pulls Ranma back into their bedroom. “I got to collect on the interest.”

“Ahhhhh-!” Ranma screamed, as he is pulled back inside.

SLAM!

Life is a great big bang-up—

Wherever there's a hang-up,

You'll find the Spiderman…and Bunny-Girl, too!

Fin.

Author's Note: That's it. See you in "Blackest Reign and a Dark Night". Later!