Chapter 30: Hydro-Man

"Let's get this party started!" A beautiful young woman with dyed blonde hair spoke in a Korean accent as she posed on stage with her fellow bandmates. Her name was Hana, the leader of the Kpop group known as OddFusion, one of the most popular bands worldwide. This was their first performance in America, standing in front of thousands atop the rooftop pier known as Pier 17.

Pier 17 was less of a pier and more of a massive building that looked almost like a yacht floating above the water. Even beneath the concert, hundreds of people were inside the building, dining at the many restaurants and engaging in the many recreational activities within it.

The crowd on the rooftop was full of young girls, ranging from high school-aged to college-aged, all looking at the singers as if celestial beings had fallen from the heavens to greet them. There were a few boys there too, some actually being fans of OddFusion, though most were just reluctant boyfriends or fathers chaperoning their girlfriends or daughters.

Hana, their leader, began singing the intro to their most popular song, Ocean Love, as her bandmates began dancing behind her. Immediately, the screams of teen girls erupted in front of them, it was so powerful that people who weren't even on the pier could hear them.

The girls' choreography was elegant, yet sexy at the same time as they swayed their hips and swung their arms to the rhythm of their music. Hana, pointing at the crowd, ran her hand down her chest as she sang the most iconic line in the song. "You can be my Ocean Love!", causing the crowd to erupt once more, even louder than before. Even the reluctant boys and men couldn't help but feel astonished by her beauty, grace, and body movements, moving to the beat of the music themselves.

However, Hana suddenly stopped her routine, her eyes widened, and her body began to tremble in fear. Soon after, her bandmates stopped dancing as well, looking behind and above the crowd with wide eyes. A large shadow began to slowly creep up the stage, covering the girls at the toes before slowly engulfing their entire bodies.

Confused, a few members of the crowd turned around, and just like the band members, they were completely frozen in fear at the site of what was behind them.

A massive beast, one seemingly made entirely of water was glaring down at the pier. No words were exchanged between the humans and the beast, only a cold glare. If looks could kill, the audience's souls, as well as the singers' would have left their bodies.

They were all terrified, glaring up at the beast's oddly human-like face, one that appeared to be filled with jealousy for whatever reason that was only known to the beast.

Many of the people in the crowd began to run for their lives, fleeing toward the escalators and heading downward in an attempt to escape from the rooftop as that was the only way to escape the monster.

Those who did not flee, including Hana and her bandmates, stood frozen in fear as the beast glared down at them with wanting eyes. Using his hand, the beast removed the part of the stage that hung above the girls, causing water to spill everywhere on the pier as it slopped from his body. The singers held onto each other and the stage for dear life as they watched their fans get swept away by the water as if they were in a tsunami.

As the fans were swept away, they crashed into each other down the escalator, bouncing off of each other and the walls uncontrollably. Soon, the water began to fill up the interior, causing mayhem and trapping people inside.

The monster then took the roof of the stage and threw it randomly to the side, causing it to crash into the nearby street, crushing a few parked vehicles and nearly hitting a couple of walking pedestrians.

Slowly, the monster reached out his massive, torrential hand. "Hana..." He spoke, as his hand continued to reach out, spilling water everywhere and further sending it into the building beneath him. "My. Ocean. Love." He spoke once again, this time turning his hand into solid water and clasping the girl as if she were a Barbie doll.

Her bandmates cried, trying to reach for their friend and pull her back down, though their strength was no match for the massive, oceanic beast.

Soon enough, Hana and the torrential beast were face to face, giving Hana a good look at his now content face that was made completely of rushing water. "Hana. Loves. Me?" He said once again. It seemed as if the monster was so delusional, he thought that song, Ocean Love, was about him despite Hana having never met him, or at least not to her memory.

The young lady began screaming, pleading with the monster to let her go in her native tongue before switching to English. "Let go! Let me go!" She wailed, trying to break free from the monster's grasp but it was of no use. He was confused, why would she want him to let go if they were in love, he wondered. Regardless, he refused and began slowly turning away from the pier to take the girl away for himself.

However, like a streak of light, a hero arrived just in time.

"Hey creep! She said let go!" Spider-Man screamed as he used his entire body to cut through the watery monster's wrist, forcing him to drop the girl and his watery hand to become formless. Hana shrieked as she began hurling toward the Earth, however, Spider-Man was quick to use his webs to sling himself downward and catch her before she crashed into the pier.

The hero landed with the girl in his arms, feeling water beneath his feet as he placed Hana down next to her bandmates. 'Damn it, there's water everywhere so I can't use Godspeed here without the risk of frying everyone.' He then looked over at the escalators, noticing that water was aggressively flowing down them and inside the building. 'Damn it, what do I do. There's gotta be hundreds of people in there!'

"Hana! Mine! Hana. Loves. Me!" The beast shouted as he instantly regrew his watery hand and began pointing his palm at Spider-Man and the girls as if he were using one of Tony Stark's famous suits of armor.

The hero's lenses widened. "Run!" Spider-Man yelled as he pulled two of the girls by the arms and began running as fast as he could toward the escalators. Narrowly, the group was able to dodge a blast of water that destroyed the stage behind them as they continued running for their lives behind Spider-Man.

The inside of the building wasn't safe, however, it was far safer than being outside with whatever that nightmare outside was. Once the group reached the escalators, they could see dozens of people holding on for dear life in an attempt to not get whisked away by the ever-flowing water, causing Spider-Man to spring into action.

"Everyone! Hold on to something! I'm going to drain the water!" He yelled, leaping down the stairs before landing and destroying many of the glass walls with his fist. Immediately, water began flowing outside of the building, though the floors below still needed to be drained.

Just as the hero was about to go down to the next floor, a blast of water crashed through one of the windows, striking him in the chest and causing him to fly back toward the hole he created.

Before he could fly through it, the water formed into a man and that man began to choke the hero with its hands that were now somehow made of solid water. "Give me Hana! She's mine!" The man, no, the boy made of water spoke as his grip grew tighter on the Spider-Man's throat.

'Is this what they meant by parasocial relationships? This kid is insane.' Spider-Man thought to himself as he began trying to figure out a way out of this mess without Godspeed. To buy time, he began speaking to the boy, though it probably would have been better to keep quiet.

"That girl is not your property, Water-Boy. Have you tried Tinder- or, well, I guess Plenty of Fish would be more appropriate for you." Spider-Man quipped through the water boy's grasp. The boy's watery face frowned as he chucked Spider-Man through the window, sending him flying uncontrollably away from the building.

As Spider-Man soared through the air uncontrollably, he managed to shoot a web toward the pier, using it to yank himself back toward it. As he flew forward, he saw the water boy sink into the ground, presumably to become one with the water in search of Hana as she tried to make her escape.

Spider-Man began frantically scanning the building, seeing the many people trying to stop themselves from drowning and breaking windows. Eventually, he was able to find Hana and her friends running across the second floor. Using his webs once again, the boy slingshotted himself toward the second floor of the pier, crashing through the window and startling the girls.

Water began pouring out of the building, allowing those who were holding on for dear life to finally relax as the water drained. However, a single puddle did not go with the rest of it. "Water-Boy! He's right there, Hana look out!" Spider-Man yelled as he lunged forward toward the girl.

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At the same time, the water boy reemerged in his human form and began reaching out toward Hana. Spider-Man, using all of his might, sent a powerful punch directly at the boy's jaw, though it went straight through it, sending Spider-Man flying through the boy's entire body.

Before Spider-Man could go completely through the villain's body, he solidified himself and grabbed Spider-Man by the skull and slammed him against a nearby wall, breaking it due to the strike's force.

"I am not Water-Boy. I am Hydro-Man! Hana is mine, begone, bug!" Hydro-Man proclaimed as he began slamming the boy's face onto the ground over and over and over again to the point where Spider-Man's mask, the only part of his suit that was homemade, began to rip apart. Blood began to mix with water as the boy's face was constantly forced into the pavement on repeat.

Everyone, including the K-pop singers, could do nothing but look on in horror as Spider-Man could do nothing but allow himself to get slammed against the ground constantly. If it weren't for all the people around, Spider-Man could simply shock the watery boy that's grabbing him, but if he were to do that now, everyone in the room would get electrocuted as well due to the wet floor.

Once Hydro-Man had his fix and Spider-Man seemed to be weakened enough, he threw the spider across the room, causing many of the people inside to gasp and whine in seeing their hero seemingly defeated.

"Hana. Come with me, we can finally be together forever!" The boy told her. He was completely delusional. He had formed a relationship with her in his head, going so far as to think that she actually had reciprocated feelings for him.

"I don't know you!" She yelled, causing the boy to laugh a little before reintroducing himself.

"It's me, OceanLover12! You liked my tweet when I said I love you and you responded with a heart! It's okay, I know you couldn't just say you love me back publically like that but the heart told me all I needed to know! We love each other, Hana. I'm ready to be with you forever now!"

Hana looked on at him with disgust and contempt, thinking to herself that he needs serious help. Shaking her head, she screamed at the boy. "No! Let go. Monster!" Those words pierced the boy's chest harder than any real weapon could as he felt his watery heartbreak.

"Monster?" He said quietly, his happy expression turning into that of sadness before immediately turning into anger. Soon his entire demeanor, including his voice, transformed into a whole new beast.

"You bitch! I didn't love you anyway, fuck you! I'll show you a monster!" The boy then began to choke the girl with his hands, lifting her up in the air as he prepared to take her life. "Last chance, Hana. Will you come with me or will you die? If you choose to die, then I'll ask your friends here the same question, starting with Joon." The boy looked over at her bandmate, Joon, with a disgusting smile as the girl looked back at him with utter disgust.

However, her face of disgust soon shifted to that of ease as she noticed something through the boy's watery body.

Hydro-Man chuckled slightly and the smile on his face grew wider, feeling as if his feelings for Joon were being reciprocated, unlike with Hana. At this point, he had no more use for the group's leader. "Looks like Joon sees how real of a man I am. Sorry, Hana, looks like-"

In an instant, Hydro-Man's body lost its form, releasing Hana and becoming nothing more than a normal puddle of water beneath everyone's feet. Where Hydro-Man once stood, Spider-Man stood crouched, beaten, and bruised with a glass jar with a metal lid in his hands.

Quickly, Spider-Man screwed the jar shut and began running full speed out of the building, crashing through one of the windows with his shoulder before embuing the metal lid with Godspeed energy and shaking the jar rigorously to weaken the psychotic fanboy.

The formless mess of Hydro-Man inside of the jar began to scream as the electricity began to interact with his liquid body. Spider-Man stopped shaking the jar and put his face up to it as he landed outside. "Alright, Water-Boy, don't move a muscle, or else I'll do it again, you hear!?" Spider-Man demanded, closely inspecting what was left of Hydro-Man.

"Please! No more, I'm sorry!" Hydro-Man pleaded, taking the form of a miniature man inside the jar and allowing Spider-Man to let out a sigh of relief as the villain was finally beaten.

About ten minutes later, everyone in the building had been evacuated and the police arrived at the scene, though far too late. Yuri, with a confused look on her face, approached Spider-Man and raised an eyebrow once she saw the boy in the jar.

"I thought they said it was a giant water monster?" Yuri asked, putting her face up to Hydro-Man's jar as the boy hid his face, trembling on the other side of the glass.

"He was until I figured out his weakness." Spider-Man said confidently as if he hadn't just barely beaten the boy due to a hunch.

"And that is?" Yuri asked.

Confidently, the hero raised and finger and began giving his explanation. "Well, I'm not sure exactly how it works but I knew there had to have been a segment of him that controls the rest of the water, yeah? Well, I wasn't sure how big that segment was, it could even be a single molecule, however, this guy isn't bright enough to move that single segment around so I knew it would be in the center of his mass. So, I deduced that if I were to trap that molecule that controls the rest of him in this jar, his body would naturally collapse and all that would be left of him would be in this jar. See?" Spider-Man held up the jar and tapped it with his finger, leaving Yuri dumbfounded.

"Uh, huh... Can he break out of that?" Yuri asked, her face telling the hero that she had no clue what he was saying.

"Well, I'm not sure. He might if anyone else were to hold him. See this lid? It's metal so I can infuse it with electricity. As long as I'm here he won't try anything. I could hand deliver him to Rikers for you, I think that's for the best."

"Yeah, I think so too. I'll call up one of the sergeants and let them know you're coming so they can work on getting a power dampener made for him. Thanks, Spider-Man. You're far more reliable than these guys." Yuri said, pointing back at her officers behind her.

'Well, yeah, obviously. Cops are useless.' Eren thought to himself. "I'm just a bit quicker to respond, I'm sure there's maybe one other good cop besides you out there... maybe."

Yuri laughed. "Don't hedge your bets. See ya around, kid." Yuri said, tapping Spider-Man on the shoulder before heading toward the building to help the wounded.

Once again, Spider-Man was able to defeat another villain, this time without relying on Godspeed. 'Things really are starting to look up, minus the getting my face smashed into the floor part.' He thought to himself.

He felt his face, realizing his mask was ripped to shreds, though most of his face was still covered. 'Well, it's time for an upgrade, I guess. After I deliver this little guy to where he belongs.' The hero thought to himself before slingshotting himself in the air and swinging away from the scene and toward Rikers prison.

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