Spider-Hare 03

I will have to say no to your suggestion, Fizzucker, for several reasons. For one thing, Buster isn't supposed to know the burglar's identity until the very end of his confrontation with him. Plus, Batman is going to play Hogun from the Warrior Three in my Thor fanmake, so it wouldn't make sense to have him be the killer of a parents of a demi-god in this continuity.

Also, about your poll on who should play Hal Jordan in your fics... just pick whoever you prefer the most and stop pestering others about voting in your polls.

Chapter 3: Does Whatever A Spider Can

The next morning, Buster slowly woke up in his room. He was still lying on the ground, as opposed to his bed. The young rabbit sat up on the ground, groaning while rubbing his eyes. He then stood up and grabbed his glasses from a nearby drawer. After he put his glasses on, Buster was seeing everything in blur. Confused, he took off his glasses as he looked at his mirror. To his surprise, he was seeing perfectly fine. The rabbit put back his glasses on. Everything was blurry again. He removed his glasses and was seeing perfectly fine again. It's like he didn't need to wear glasses or contact lenses at all.

"Okay... that was weird." Buster said, putting the glasses on his drawer, now that they were useless for him.

As he looked at his mirror, he noticed something else that was also strange. The rabbit seemed to have gained some muscles. He was surprised to see muscles on his arms, as well as pecs on his chest. Buster wasn't exactly a sports guy, so seeing him gaining muscles like that, after just one night, was just extraordinary. The rabbit kept looking at his mirror, still amazed at his muscles. He even made a few poses while admiring them. Suddenly, someone knocked at his door.

"Buster? Are you alright?" Jenny asked.

"Hum, yeah. I'm fine, Aunt Jenny." Buster replied.

"Do you feel better since yesterday?"

"If I feel better?" The young rabbit looked down at his body before smiling. "Yeah, I feel so much better."

"Okay then. Just hurry up or else you'll get late for school." The cat said.

"Yeah, got it."

Buster put on his usual red long-sleeved shirt. Just as he was about to leave his room, he looked at his window. Next to his house was the house where Babs was living. Her room was even right next to his room, with their respective window facing each other. At this moment, she was brushing her long ears, preparing herself to go to school. Just seeing her always made his heart beat faster.

"Alright..." He said while smiling before heading towards his door.

The young rabbit went down the stairs. He felt so energetic that he held onto the stair ramp, briefly walked on the two walls that made a corner and landed on the floor with a thud. Bucky, who was eating his breakfast on a table next to the stairs, was taken by surprise when Buster landed and almost choke himself.

"Dear lord... Weren't you sick?" Bucky said, surprised by how energetic his nephew was.

"I just got better." Buster replied.

"See, I told you he got better." Jenny said to her husband.

"Well, I gotta go." Buster said as he headed towards the entrance door, where his backpack was left since the previous day.

"Wait, you haven't eaten your breakfast yet." Jenny said.

"Don't worry, I got a lunch."

"By the way, Picasso, I hope you're not forgetting we're painting the kitchen tonight." Bucky reminded his nephew.

"Yeah, I won't forget it. I'll be there for sure." Buster said, smiling at his uncle.

"Good." They smiled at each other before the young rabbit left the house with his backpack. The green-furred rabbit sighed while smirking. "That's part of all teenagers. They're all filled with hormones." He said to his wife, who smirked back.

As Buster just closed the door behind him, he heard some noises. He turned his head to his right and saw Babs getting out of her house, with a mood that wasn't so good. Then, a middle-aged rabbit got out of the house too, looking angry. Buster recognized the middle-aged rabbit as Babs' father.

"You're nothing but trash, lady! You'll end up just like your mother!" Babs' father yelled at her.

"I have to go now!" she yelled back, leaving and not bothering to look back at him.

Buster instantly felt sorry for her. He knew her father was a huge jerk and their conversations were FAR from being joyful. Whenever Buster would see them yelling at each other like that, he would always feel sorry for Babs. After witnessing that, the blue-furred rabbit decided to follow the pink-furred rabbit. Several minutes later, Babs was standing next to a fire hydrant, still sad and angry about her latest conversation with her father. Buster stood several feet away from behind her. He wondered if maybe it was time for him to tell her how he felt about her.

"Hello, Babs." He said to himself, practicing on what he should tell her. "Hey there, Babs. You know we've been neighbors since we were both little kids. I was wondering if maybe we could, I don't know, get together and do something fun. You know, just do something that would allow us to get to know each other and all that stuff..."

Suddenly, a car arrived next to Babs. The car was driven by Babs' female friends. She was filled with joy when she went inside the car. They soon drove away, on their way to school. Buster just stood there, sighing at the fact he just missed another chance to talk to Babs. All of sudden, he saw the bus passing nearby. The rabbit's eyes widened in shock soon after.

"Oh, for crying out loud!" He exclaimed as he missed the bus again.

Without wasting any time, Buster ran towards the bus trying to reach it in time.

"Hey! Stop the bus! Just let me get on!"

Just like the previous day, the students inside the bus just laughed at the rabbit. Buster kept hitting the side of the bus with his hand. Then, he accidentally grabbed the banner on the side of the bus and ripped it off. The bus continued its way while Buster was standing in the middle of the street. For some reason, the banner was stuck in his hand. The rabbit had trouble getting it off his hand. He grabbed it with his other hand and threw the banner on the ground. He looked at his hand, finding it odd the banner was stuck in his hand. Buster just shrugged as he decided to hurry up and go to school before it was too late.


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Meanwhile, in a mansion that belonged to Bowser and was used as his home, Junior was about to leave the mansion with his backpack, ready to get to school. All of sudden, he noticed his father lying on the ground in his room. He seemed unconscious. Worried about his father, Junior instantly went inside his father's room and came next to him.

"Papa! Papa! Wake up!" The young dragon exclaimed, worried.

Bowser slowly woke up, groaning in pain.

"Junior..." he said, recognizing his son.

"Papa, what happened to you? Why were you lying on the floor?"

"No idea, son." He said as his son helped him sat on a nearby chair.

"How long have you been lying there?"

"I don't know. Last night..." Suddenly, some memories briefly flashes in Bowser's mind. However, those memories were so brief, he had no idea what they were about. As much as he tried remembering last night, he just couldn't remember anything at all. "I don't know what happened last night, Junior." He said to his son while looking upset.

"Mr. Koopa!" a female voice said.

Both Bowser and Junior turned around to see someone coming inside the room. It was a young woman with a mushroom-shaped head named Jolene. Someone else also entered the room. It was an anthropomorphic dog with grey hair on the sides of his head. He was wearing a purple suit, white and purple shoes and white gloves. His name is Duckworth, the Koopas' butler.

"I tried to stop her, sir, but she insists on talking to you." Duckworth said.

"What's going on, Jolene?" Bowser asked.

"Professor Oak is dead." She replied.

Bowser's eyes widened in shock.

"He's... dead?"

"I'm afraid so. His body was found in the lab at KoopaCorp. Someone murdered him."

"That's horrible news." Bowser said, still shocked to learn Oak was murdered.

"Also, the flying vehicle we've developed... It was stolen." Jolene said.

Bowser couldn't believe what he was hearing. Not only was Oak dead, but the flying vehicle was stolen too...


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Several hours later, it was lunchtime as the students at school were eating their dinner in the cafeteria. Buster was eating French fries, with Plucky and Hamton sitting on his left. Plucky was eating some spaghetti, while Hamton was eating some sandwich.

"What kind of sandwich are you eating, Hamton?" Buster asked.

"Mayo and cream cheese on white with the crusts cut off." the pig replied.

As he took a bite of the sandwich, lots of mayonnaise flied away from the sandwich and landed on Plucky. The duck frowned at the pig.

"Sheesh! How can you eat such a thing?" he rhetorically asked while summoning a towel and using it to remove the mayonnaise from his body.

At this moment, Buster noticed Babs walking through the cafeteria while holding a platter with her lunch on it. He smiled like he always did whenever he saw her. Just as Babs was walking past him, the blue-furred rabbit heard a buzzing sound and he saw the air around his head suddenly flashing images to him. Soon after, Babs accidentally slipped on some apple juice that was on the ground, yelping as she was about to fall on her back. Instantly, Buster quickly turned around and caught her in his arms. He then caught the platter and moved it around so it could get the falling plate, sandwich, apple, carrot and soda. Babs' eyes widened in amazement.

"Wow, Buster! That was impressive!" she exclaimed.

"Eh... I have good reflexes." he replied, himself amazed he was able to do that.

They stared at each other for a few seconds. The pink-furred rabbit then noticed something about the blue-furred rabbit.

"You know what? Your eyes are actually pretty. I've never noticed that when you had those glasses. By the way, do you wear contacts now?"

"You could say that..." he said.

The two still stared at each other, smiling a bit awkwardly.

"Well, gotta go." Babs said, seeing how they seemed to have nothing else to say to each other.

She took her platter from Buster's hands and headed towards another table. The blue-furred rabbit sighed as he went back to eat his lunch.

"How did you do that?" Hamton asked, as both him and Plucky were also amazed he was able to catch both Babs and the platter like that.

"I dunno myself. I guess it was just something natural for me, even though I have no idea why." Buster replied.

Plucky and Hamton looked at each other, shrugged and went back to eat their meal. Just as Buster was about to continue eating his French fries, he realized his fork was somehow stuck on the palm of his hand. Puzzled, he shook his hand several times, trying to make his fork drop on the table. However, it didn't work. The rabbit then decided to grab the fork with his other hand. When he pulled it, he noticed some sort of web coming out of his wrist and stuck on his fork. Confused to see this coming from his wrist, Buster accidentally touched his wrist with his finger. This caused a rope of web to come out of his wrist and stuck itself on a platter on the table in front of his table. Buster was alarmed. He looked around, seeing that nobody noticed his rope of web. Everyone was busy talking and eating. At this moment, Hamton, still eating his sandwich, looked at Buster and stopped eating when he noticed the rope of web. His eyes wide, the pig tapped on Plucky's shoulder. The duck, still eating his spaghetti, looked at Hamton, who pointed at the rope of web. At first looking uninterested, Plucky shared the pig's expression when he noticed the rope. Buster hadn't noticed his friends looking at him yet. Wanting to get rid of the rope of web, the rabbit decided to pull it away. Unfortunately, this caused the platter to come towards him at full speed. Quickly, Buster dodged the platter, which instead landed on the guy who was eating on another table behind him. More unfortunately, that guy was Arnold. The pitbull's back was now covered with lots of food. All the students around Arnold were laughing at him. Realizing he just hit the dog, Buster gulped and nonchalantly left his table, going towards the cafeteria's big door. Arnold turned around, growling as he wanted to find the prankster who threw that food at him. Soon enough, all the students gasped when they saw Buster leaving the cafeteria. What caught their attention was the platter still stuck to his rope of web, which dragged the platter on the floor. The students didn't realize it was made of web, as they assumed it was just a thin rope. Arnold noticed Buster with the platter as well.

"Bunny?" Arnold said, realizing it was Buster who did it.

As the rabbit left the cafeteria and closed the door behind him, he forgot the platter, which was still inside the cafeteria. He pulled on the rope several times, causing the platter to hit the door and causing the students to laugh again. Arnold growled as he headed towards the door too...


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Buster finally managed to remove the web from his wrist while he was walking in the school hallway. He looked at his wrist in concern. The rabbit had no idea how that web was able to get out of his wrist. Nervous, he headed towards his locker. At this moment, he didn't know Arnold went out of the cafeteria and went after him. Just as Buster was about to open his locker, the same sensation he got right before Babs slipped on the apple juice was back. All of sudden, he felt Arnold's fist coming at the back of his head. The rabbit quickly dodged it, causing the pit-bull to hit the locker instead.

"I'll teach you how to throw food at my back!" Arnold angrily exclaimed.

In only a few seconds, they were surrounded by several students, willing to watch the fight.

"Come on, Arnold! He didn't mean it!" Babs exclaimed when she arrived among the other students.

Suddenly, Plucky arrived between Buster and Arnold. The duck was dressed like a ring announcer. A microphone descended from the ceiling and arrived in his hand.

"In this corner, we have the strongest dog... Wait, scratch that. The strongest person in all the school! When he's done with his opponents, he buries them in the ground like bones! Here's... ARNOLD!" Plucky yelled while pointing at the pit-bull. "And in this corner, here's a rabbit who can succeed at every science test without a scratch. His name is... BUSTER!" He yelled while pointing at the rabbit. "Let the fight... begins!"

A ring bell was heard as Plucky quickly joined the other students.

"I don't want to fight you, Arnold." Buster said, nervous.

"You should have thought of that before throwing the platter on me!" Arnold exclaimed while throwing a fist at the rabbit.

The latter was able to avoid it. The pit-bull tried to punch Buster again, but the rabbit avoided it as well. Arnold threw a fist one more time. The rabbit was able to avoid it again. For him though, everything felt like it was in slow-motion. He looked at Arnold's face, and then looked back at the fist. He then checked his watch and was surprised to see time moving slowly. Buster shrugged at the readers before looking back at Arnold. The pit-bull tried to hit him again, causing Buster to bend his body and look at Babs and a few other students upside down. He bended back and tried to avoid the pit-bull's fists. Bowser Jr. arrived next to Babs and watched the fight.

"Junior, go help him!" the pink-furred rabbit exclaimed to the dragon.

Some guy, who seemed to be friends with Arnold, ran into Buster from behind. The rabbit heard the buzzing sound and saw the flashing images again. All of sudden, he jumped in the air to avoid the other guy, backflipping while doing so before landing back on the floor.

"Help who?" Junior asked, seeing how Buster seemed to be doing well against Arnold.

The pit-bull was enraged. He kept trying to punch the rabbit with his fists. Buster was surprisingly able to block all of them.

"Will you stand still? I'm trying to punch you!" Arnold exclaimed.

After blocking several of the pit-bull's attacks, the rabbit suddenly grabbed the pit-bull's arm, causing the latter to stop attacking. He didn't have time to think what Buster was gonna do next as the rabbit immediately punched him in the stomach, sending the dog sliding on the floor until he hit a student who accidentally dropped his platter on him. More food landed on the dog's head. Buster stood where he was, panting and surprised he was able to do that.

"And the winner is... BUSTER BUNNY!" Plucky exclaimed while grabbing the rabbit's arm and left it in the air. "For those who are interested, we are selling t-shirts! Get your own with Buster's face on it. If you prefer, you can have one with the pit-bull's face on it. We also have a t-shirt with 'I was there when Buster gave a lesson to Arnold.' written on it. Stocks are limited. Hurry to buy yourself one!" He said while pointing to Hamton, who was holding a box filled with the t-shirts mentioned by the duck.

"You can tell it was his idea." The pig said to the readers.

"You're a freak, rabbit." One student said to Buster while also glaring at him before leaving.

The rabbit was shocked by how he was able to defeat Arnold.

"Hey, Buster! That was amazing!" Junior cheered to his friend. Still shocked, Buster immediately ran away, confusing the dragon. "Hey! Where are you going?"

Babs was concerned. She never saw the blue-furred rabbit acting like that before.

"T-shirts! Does anybody want t-shirts?" Plucky asked desperately. "Anyone? Nobody?" He sighed in annoyance. "That's your fault!" he snapped at Hamton. "I told you we should have gotten hats to sell too, not just t-shirts!"

"I only had time to find t-shirts. I couldn't find any hats." The pig replied.

"Well, maybe you should have stolen some hats! Am I right, Buster?" Plucky asked to the rabbit. "Buster?"

He turned around and scratched his head when he noticed the rabbit was gone.


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One minute later, Buster was running away from the school, arriving in the streets of New York. What just happened at school was too much, so he decided to run away to clear his mind. The blue-furred rabbit crossed a street and soon arrived in an alleyway, where he would be alone. He rested his back against the wall of a nearby building. Buster sighed.

"Alright, Buster." He said to himself. "Everything's alright. You've just... beaten the huge and strong pit-bull that you can't stand in a way that seems impossible." He shook his head after what he just said. "Like I said, everything's alright. It's perfectly normal. Just as normal as being able to shoot web from your wrist, like if you were a spider..."

His eyes widened when he realized what he just said. The rabbit removed the glove from his right hand and looked at the spider bite he got from the previous day. The bite was still there. Buster started to realize all the stuff that happened to him since the previous day was because of that genetically-modified spider. He remembered that this spider was able to jump high, make webs that were strong enough and being alerted by a sense. Buster remembered it's called a 'spider sense'. That explained how he was able to jump high during his fight against Arnold, how he was able to make web and how he was able to detect danger.

"Okay, it's starting to make sense." The rabbit said to himself.

Just when he was about to put his glove back on, he noticed something on the palm of his hand. Buster saw some sort of tiny hair coming from the palm of his hand, including the fingers. The hair was black, as opposed to the blue of his fur. The rabbit put his glove back on. To his surprise, the tiny hair was able to go through the glove. Looking at his left hand, he also saw tiny hair coming through the glove on his palm. Looking to his left, he saw a spider crawling on a web. Buster looked back on his hands. If he was able to do things spiders can do, then maybe he could be able to crawl on a wall. The rabbit turned around to face the wall he was resting on. He took a deep breath before putting one hand on the wall. He then put his other hand, higher on that wall. He continued to do that for several seconds, while also doing the same thing with his feet. Buster was surprisingly able to climb the wall. After a moment, he was midway through the wall. The rabbit looked down, realizing he was able to climb all of that without a sweat. He smiled widely.

"WOO-OOH!" Buster screamed.

A while later, the blue-furred rabbit was running on top of the building. He felt like he never ran that fast before. When he reached the end of the roof, he jumped to the roof of the following building, screaming in excitement while doing so.

"This is so much fun!"

He continued to run on the roof of a building and jumped to another roof four more times. When he arrived at the end of the sixth one, Buster realized it was next to a nearby street. He noticed a building on the other side of the street. The building was smaller than the current building he was on. Above the building on the other side of the street was a crane. If the rabbit was able to make web, maybe he could be able to make a rope of web and swing across the street. Getting himself ready, Buster put his hand in front of him, pointing towards the crane.

"Go web!" the rabbit exclaimed.

Nothing happened. Buster arched an eyebrow. He put his hand in front of him again.

"Web! I choose you!"

Frustrated, he kept doing the same thing with different phrases.

"Go-Go Gadget Web! Shazam! Up, up and away web! Web past cool! Web's up, doc?"

The rabbit then sighed.

"Well, I'm running out of pop-culture catchphrases here." He looked at the crane and tried several more times, making as many hand gestures as possible.

"Go! Go! Go, web! Go!"

On the last one, he made a sign of the horns, to which he then shook a bit like if he was at a heavy metal concert. Sighing in annoyance, Buster did it another time. Suddenly, web came out of his wrist, flying away in the air. He looked at the hand gesture he was doing. The rabbit noticed the tip of his fingers between his palm and his wrist. He pressed it again. Web also came out of there. Buster smirked, finally learning how he was able to shoot web. Aiming towards the crane, he shot a long rope of web. As soon as the rope reached the crane, the rabbit stopped making web and quickly grabbed a hold of the end of the rope. Buster was a little nervous. He was finally about to see if he could swing across the street with his web. The rabbit jumped on the ledge of the roof, standing up and about to swing.

"There's always a first time for everything, so..."

Taking a deep breath, the rabbit jumped off the ledge of the roof and swung across the street, screaming while doing so. Some people on the street noticed him but didn't pay much attention at him. They thought he was just some crazy stuntman or something like that. Soon, Buster reached the roof of the other building. There was just one problem though. A huge billboard was standing on his path and the rabbit hadn't learned how to stop swinging yet. Panicking, Buster tried to break by sticking his feet on the roof. Unfortunately, it was too late as the rabbit crushed himself against the billboard. He was now flattened like a pancake. The rabbit then unstuck himself from the billboard and slowly floated down the roof. He was then back to normal, although a little dazed.

"Next time, I learn how to break." Buster said before letting his head land on the roof, almost falling unconscious.


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End of chapter.

Quite a fun chapter, I have to say. Next time, we'll see Buster getting tempted to buy a car.

Jolene is a character from "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door". Duckworth is from the Disney show "DuckTales". Hamton's sandwich is something he ate in "Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation". Buster's spider-sense is inspired by how the spider-sense was done in the Spider-Man 90's cartoon.

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