PROJECT: A Spider-Man Fan Fiction Story
TITLE SUGGESTIONS:
~ The Final Drop
~ Flight 326
FORMAT: One to Three Part Serial (Approx. 2,000 words per chapter)
AUTHOR: Open to all
GENRE: Cold War Espionage / Thriller
THE CONCEPT
Before Peter Parker was an orphan his parents were elite CIA operatives. This story entirely ignores superheroes to focus on Richard and Mary Parker during their final, doomed mission in Algeria.
The story explores the unbearable tension of balancing international espionage with the guilt of leaving their infant son with Aunt May. They discover a mole has compromised their cover and a global syndicate is hunting them down.
Richard and Mary thought they were fighting for global security but they realise they are just fighting to get back to their baby in Queens.
TONE & STYLE
Think Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy mixed with Bourne Identity.
• Claustrophobic, paranoid and lethal. The tension is in the quiet moments: checking a rearview mirror, sweeping a hotel room for bugs or the terrifying silence of a dead drop.
• Richard and Mary must be shown as highly lethal professionals who are emotionally unravelling because they know they are trapped.
CHAPTER ONE | BURNED COVER
Word Count Target: 2,000 words
Core Focus: The realisation of the betrayal and the desperate scramble to survive.
SUGGESTED SCENES / BEATS
1. The Dead Drop:
Open in a crowded, sun-baked market in Algiers. Mary is making a routine intelligence drop while Richard provides overwatch from a rooftop. The atmosphere is tense but professional. Mary places the intel but notices the contact is wearing the wrong shoes. It is an ambush.
2. The Extraction:
A brutal, close-quarters fight erupts in the market alleyways. Richard has to abandon his sniper rifle and fight his way down to Mary. They use brutal, highly efficient hand-to-hand combat to kill three assassins and steal a vehicle. They are completely off the grid.
3. The Phone Call:
Hiding in a safe house on the edge of the city Mary breaks protocol to call a payphone in Queens. Aunt May answers. Mary listens to baby Peter babbling in the background but she cannot speak without tracing the line. The emotional toll of the silence shatters her professional composure.
4. The Realisation (The Cliffhanger):
Richard cracks the decrypted file they managed to steal. He discovers the identity of the person who sold them out. It is their CIA handler. They have no extraction team, no backup and a kill squad is currently breaching the perimeter of their safe house.
CHAPTER TWO | FLIGHT 326
Word Count Target: 2,000 words
Core Focus: The impossible escape and the ultimate sacrifice to protect their son.
SUGGESTED SCENES / BEATS
1. The Siege:
The assassins breach the safe house. Richard and Mary use improvised explosives and tactical chokepoints to wipe out the first wave. The fight is messy, desperate and drains almost all their ammunition. They barely escape through the subterranean drainage system.
2. The Ultimatum:
They reach a private airfield under the cover of a massive thunderstorm. Their handler is waiting by a small chartered plane. He offers them a deal: surrender the stolen intelligence and he will let them walk away to raise their son.
3. The Choice:
Mary realises it is a lie. If they hand over the data the syndicate will eventually track them to New York and kill Peter too. The only way to keep their son completely safe is to ensure the syndicate believes the data burned with them.
4. The Crash (The Ending):
A massive firefight on the rainy tarmac. Richard and Mary kill the handler and board the plane as more vehicles arrive. Richard pilots the aircraft into the violent storm but the engines have been sabotaged by gunfire. The plane begins to rapidly lose altitude over the ocean. They hold hands, knowing they have secured Peter’s future. The chapter ends with the sound of the storm swallowing the aircraft whole.
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