"David,.Peter.-.Spider-Man.2" - читать интересную книгу автора (David Peter)

flitted through PeterТs mind with the same alacrity that he torpedoed across the
skyline, deftly balancing a distressingly high stack of pizza boxes in one hand.
HeТd taken the precaution of webbing the boxes together so they wouldnТt skid
off, but it was still a superhuman feat keeping them flat as he bounded from
building to rooftop to building again. Then again, УsuperhumanФ was pretty much
his stock-in-trade.
It had certainly been his stock-in-trade less than an hour ago, when heТd been
sporting this very costume and swinging up toward a dangling construction
worker. As rescues went, it seemed as if it was going to be pretty tame,
spiraling gracefully upward and snagging the worker who was clinging to an I
beam, holding on for dear life. It was only upon PeterТs high-flying arrival
that matters took an abrupt turn for the worse as it turned out the I beam
wasnТt properly anchored.
It slipped from its moorings and the construction worker tumbled off. As a
result, Peter gaped in horror through the lenses of his Spider-Man mask as the
worker went falling in one direction, and the I beam went tumbling in another.
The crowd below, screaming, didnТt know which way to run. Those who werenТt
crushed by the I beam would be trampled in the stampede of frightened humanity.
Maybe that spider bite shouldТve given me extra arms, as well,he thought grimly,
and then regretted even coming up with the notion. It would be just his luck if
Fate overheard the passing thought and said, УYou want it? You got it.Ф Ba-bing,
ba-boom, next thing he knows, heТs toting around four extra limbs to give him a
grand total of eight. Go try to hidethat under a windbreaker, why donТt you.
His straying thoughts didnТt slow his movements one bit. Anyone watching would
have seen Spider-Man course-correct without hesitation, swinging on his
web-line, angling toward the falling I beam. A huge glob of webbing fired from
his wrist, enveloping the beam, and then Spider-ManТs trajectory took him
feetfirst right into the beam. He struck it squarely, sending it bounding back
toward the skeleton of the building under construction. The I beam slammed
against the structure, the webbing adhered to the surface, and there the beam
stuck.
It was only a temporary fix, but it was all he needed. Once the construction
worker was squared away, he could come back and properly attend to the I beam.
However, at that moment he was in a hurry.
Using the momentum from impacting the I beam, Spider-Man hurtled down toward the
falling construction worker. The man was thrashing about, screaming. HeТd only
been plummeting about two seconds, but the way he was flailing around, he wasnТt
going to last much longer. The free fall would cause him to snap his spine or
neck before he dropped another hundred feet.
Having already released his hold on his web-line, Spider-Man straightened his
body, dropping like a missile, and fired a cocoon of webbing at the worker. His
aim was pinpoint and perfect. In a heartbeat, the man was wrapped top to bottom
in webbing. Unfortunately, he was still falling.
So was Spider-Man. But that was quickly attended to as he tightened his strands
upon the falling worker, even as he fired another web-line. It snagged on the
front of a billboard and he swung toward it. As he did so, he snapped the
trailing web-line, and the worker rolled up toward him like a yo-yo. With
athump, Spider-Man landed on the billboard, with the workerЧstill screaming, not
yet realizing that he was safeЧtucked under his arm.
He stared at the billboard.