Ultimate Marvel: Earth-2/Spider-Man: Contributions

Ultimate Marvel: Earth-2/Spider-Man: Contributions is a issue and chapter of Ultimate Marvel: Earth-2. It is the second chapter of Spider-Man's arc.

Featured Characters

 * Spider-Man / Peter Parker

Supporting Characters

 * Starforce / Liz Danvers Rogers
 * Black Cat / Felicia Reilly
 * White Wolf / Scott Barnes
 * Kid Kaiju / Hiro Hamada
 * Baymax
 * Redwing / Carlie Cooper
 * Jocasta
 * Beast / Hank McCoy
 * Edith Barton

Antagonists

 * Scorpion / Mac "Scorpion" Gargan
 * Asp / Cleo Nefertiti
 * Bonecrusher / "Bone Saw" McGraw
 * Eugene "Flash" Thompson

Other Characters

 * Mary Jane Watson (mentioned only)
 * Clint Barton
 * Aunt May
 * Principal Harold "Happy" Hogan
 * Jack Thompson

Premise
Spider-Man his friends are battling against a trio of super-crimminals led by Scorpion, who is looking for revenge on a rival street racer who ended his career miserably. Meanwhile, Peter Parker continues contributing for more attendants to his support council while secretly working to investigate the true secrets of his rival Flash Thompson's wealth and fortune, which has a rather shocking connection with Scorpion...

Plot
Peter Parker / Spider-Man is with his friends (consisting of Liz Danvers Rogers / Starforce, Scott Barnes / White Wolf, Carlie Cooper / Redwing and Hiro Hamada / Kid Kaiju) and his cousin Felicia Reilly / Black Cat battling Scorpion, a human/scorpion hybrid super-criminal, and his henchmen Asp and Bonecrusher in Roxxon. The young heroes defeat Scorpion and his crew, forcing them to retreat empty handed, but not before Spider-Man and the team overhear Scorpion mention to have some unfinished business to settle with "that street brat".

Next day, Peter and his friends watch another football match between Midtown High's official team, the Tigers (led by their captain and Peter's rival Flash Thompson), and Horizon High's Wolves, as Peter still focuses his attention on his schedules with more attendants to his Support Council. In the end of the school day, Peter is called by Principal Happy Hogan in his office, where Hogan (having recognized Peter's work as a support councilor) suggests him to give a schedule for Edith Barton, one of the football team's cheerleaders and the only one who "did not smile for an entire day" (even during the match). Peter accepts and, during the consult, overhears that Edith is feeling harassed by Flash. Also overhearing this, Carlie stalks Flash and puts a tracker in his phone; for months, Peter and his friends have been working to solve secrets about how Flash earned so much more of the fortune he already inherited from his deceased parents, and they suspect Flash may have done so in the most inappropriate ways.

Later at night, Spider-Man and his team track Flash down and discreetedly witness him driving his Mazda RX-7 to do what he does every night: to secretly ride into (as Carlie describes) "places he should not be", such as a female strip club and waging a illegal street race against dangerous thugs, and also harassing customed waitresses at a exotic restaurant (including Edith, who worked once under her mother's wishes). Viewing footage recorded by Edith's father Clint Barton, an NYPD officer, they find archives about Scorpion, who was once known Mac Gargan, a high-level criminal known by the police as a veteran drug trader and professional street racer who ended up becoming a cybernetic scorpion-human hybrid after his car clashed with a vat of chemicals (on which a scorpion was wandering around) during a street race with the same car which Flash owns.

Deducing that Flash inadvertently played a role in Scorpion's creation, they decide to gather the recorded evidences until the time to expose him is right. They also need to be prepared when Scorpion and his henchmen plan to ambush Flah for revenge. Next day, Peter and his friends continue having another normal school day until they find Flash dismayed to see his "civilian car" completely destroyed with a message "YER NEXT!" written in ink. Just as other students notice him, he soon begins to acting cool towards them and replies he will "just buy another car" as he again gves a harassing look at Edith, much to Peter and his friends' disgust.

Deciding that now is the time, Liz prepares to post the evidences on internet and Carlie activates a EMP nanobomb she implanted on Flash's phone to blow it up, deleting the disturbing pictures Flash took with Edith permanently. Noticing his damaged phone, Thompson begins to angrily yell at everyone, including Peter, who just taunts him about having found out what Flash really is: a "spoiled, irresponsible, arrogant second-rate little thug" with no regard of the dire consequences which will soon get the better of him.

Peter's remarks soon prove true when Scorpion and his henchmen burst in school claiming to be looking for Flash, who soon begins to cowardly run away as Scorpion, Asp and Bonecrusher chase him. Peter and his friends are quick to change to their superhero costumes and take the villains into a fight; once again, Spider-Man takes on Scorpion himself as his friends take on Scorpion's henchmen. Spider-Man is soon joined by science teacher Hank McCoy, the mutant member of the X-Men known as Beast, and he and his friends defeat Scorpion and his crew. As the villains are taken to the Raft, Flash (having been exposed for his crimes) is disowned by his uncle Jack, who decides to donate the Thompson Mansion for Peter and his friends, and taken to be arrested for life in San Quentin State Prison as he is brutally beaten by Officer Barton for harassing Edith.

One week later, Peter and his friends have converted the Thompson Mansion into a superhero facility (similar to the X-Mansion) which they plan to use for their future heroic activities.