Peter woke up and slowly blinked open his eyes, it was Thursday and not just any Thursday, it was a field trip day. His class were headed to the Baxter institute of science and technology home of the Fantastic Four, the world's first group of superhuman heroes. He got up from bed looked around at his room, and felt the soft brown carpet under his feet, the light from the computer screen caught him off guard, he must have left it on last night. He strolled over to his desk at the left hand side of the room and switched it off. He then went to his closet to get changed, he wore a blue button down shirt and some brown khakis with a pair of running shoes. He combed his hair but to no avail since his bed head couldn't be killed, he finally placed his phone and keys in his pocket and left his room.
He made his way into the bathroom where he brushed his teeth, washed his face and put in his contacts. He then made his way downstairs to the kitchen where his aunt was making some toast and his uncle was setting the table. They looked like any couple in their mid forties, but still full of life they were a lot alike both having brunette hair with some greying here and there. His uncle was a conduction worker, he recently had a lot of work to do since just 6 months ago the Avengers fought off an alien invasion. His Aunt worked in a textiles office who had a pretty calm life she had recently been mentoring a woman named Janet Van Dyne.
"Morning guys," Peter said slumping into one of chairs.
"Morning kiddo, did you sleep?" His uncle said placing a hand on his nephews shoulder.
"Been really excited for this trip, I mean meeting Reed Richards in it of itself his huge but since last year he and the rest of his family turned themselves into superheroes, It makes it even cooler." Peter said turning to his uncle.
"Back when we were kids people with powers weren't people that you wanted to know, nice to know things are finally changing" Aunt May said handing out the food.
"Anyways you better get a move on, you don't want to be late." Uncle Ben laughed while grabbing his toast.
Midtown High School 30 minutes later
Peter walked up the steps of his school and through the main glass doors, headed straight for his locker, he opened it and pulled out his camera and then walked down the hall to the school newspaper. He opened the door to find several desks with students typing up articles and lunch menus, oblivious to the door being opened, behind the desks were a few rows of bookshelves and noticeboards were people were researching and story crafting well as much of a story that they could craft for being in a high school in the middle of Queens. After the shelves was a mini office where the photographers had their corner for editing and another office where the pseudo editor remained. Peter opened the door to find his friend Max Dillon in the chair.
"Hey Pete you ready for our interview with the FF." Max said standing up and giving him a high five.
"You know we won't actually get an interview at the most they'll get Johnny Storm to give like a 2 second speech at the beginning of the tour while we get showed around by some under paid tour guide.
"Why you always so negative? This will awesome." Max said giving him a thumbs up looking rather stupid in the process.
"Sure if you promise not to act like a hyper active anime character ever again." Peter said gleefully.
"Quit being a smartass Pete. Plus name one black anime character," Max laughed
School Bus
Max and Peter sat in the bus and talked about the Fantastic Four and Avengers while everyone else was talking obnoxiously about the latest gossip.
"Still can't believe they let a guy who's superpower is to shrink real small and talk to Ants on the Avengers." Max said while they passed the Chrysler building.
"I'm sure the guy contributes in other ways besides making himself smaller." Peter said leaning back in his chair.
" So who do you like more Captain America or Iron Man?" Max asked.
"I would have to go for, hey" Peter said when a paper plane him in the back of the head. He turned back took find Flash Thompson, Kenny Kong, Sally field and Liz Allen laughing and then Robertson who looked a bit pissed off at Flash but didn't seem to care enough to say anything so just turned up the volume on his headphones, if this was a TV show they would be the cliché jocks and cheerleaders who were at the top of the social ladder.
"You're so mean Flash." Sally sniggered while looking up at him almost as if it turned her on.
"Oh come on its just banter right Parker." Flash said looking up at Peter with a stupid smile on his face.
Peter turned back to Max with a pissed off look on his face.
"Ignore them Pete when we graduate Flash'l be stuck selling Nike's to 5th graders." Max said trying to calm him down.
"Doesn't change the fact I've got three more years of high school with him and his cronies." Peter said while putting his head back, cupped in his hands.
They then came to a stop and their teacher Mr Staltman got up and got the classes attention. He was by far Peter's favourite teacher, funny and smart he always got the class to listen. He had blonde hair and green eyes, he seemed pretty tired though.
"K remember everyone, stay together and all the other field trip bullshit that you guys have heard since 1st grade." Mr Staltman said gaining a laugh from the students.
Everyone got out of the bus and made there way up to the Baxter building 70 stories of scientific perfection with the top 5 being home to the Fantastic Four, a shining blue 4 on the sides of the building made that known to the whole of Manhattan.
They walked through the glass door way to find a beautiful marbled floor lobby, there were few express elevators to the left and a large auburn staircase next to them. People were moving all around getting to their labs to carry out their breakthrough research. A woman walked up to the class.
"Hello class my name is Sandra and I'll be your tour guide for today." She said with a smile that was unbearably forced. " Now if you follow me this way we can..."
"Hold up aren't I allowed to say a few words." She was interrupted by Johnny Storm "The Human Torch" who flew down from the staircase engulfed in flames, as he landed the flames disappeared leaving him in his skin tight Fantastic Four uniform which got looks from many of the girls and even Mr Staltman.
"I knew he was gay," Max said starting at his teacher but got a nudge from Peter. "Not that there is anything wrong with that."
"So guys I want you all to remember, that this building is one of the most confusing places in human history, so don't do anything stupid, and remember I don't even know where that bathrooms are, and if you find one it's probably a portable to the negative zone for all I know. Have a nice tour. Flame on" Johnny said snarkly and then flew back up the stairs.
"Now if you all don't mind we can begin the tour." Sandra said after a few seconds of starting at Johnny as he flew away, clearly showing why she applied for a job here.
Reed Richard's Private Lab
Johnny flew up 68 stories to Reed's lab, which was a large circular room with many different large lab benches, Reed was in the centre wearing a lab coat and goggles measuring out some chemicals in a test tube using a pipet.
" You happy Reed I addressed the class." Johnny rushed in de-flaming and landing about 5 feet from him.
"Johnny what have I told you about flying in the labs." Reed said not bothering to pay him any attention.
"It could tamper with experiments, but calm down nothing blew up " Johnny said putting his hand on his hip.
All of a sudden a boom came from outside the lab.
"Except for that." Johnny said as he and Reed made their way out the room to the genetics lab where the explosion came from.
When they got there they found a fire blazing over one of the lab benches, Johnny acting quickly bended the fire away and absorbed it leaving behind a burned up bench with ash covering the room.
"What the hell happened?" Johnny asked walking up to the bench.
"This was a genetic resequencing experiment, I was trying to genetically engineer a spider with added abilities. When you flew passed here you must've melted some of the instruments causing the explosion." Reed said in a pissed off voice.
"Oops, wait a minute I'm a mechanical engineer not a biologist but I do know that you can't modify a living animal just its descendants." Johnny said questioning Reed's logic.
"I know that. You see I was trying to create another mutate, mutants are hated by people because humans are jealous of them, so when I accidentally created us when I was making those cosmic ray shields for NASA, it was a scientific breakthrough, artificial mutants. So I've been trying to do that again." Reed explained.
"Reed, there are so many ways this could go wrong, if the wrong people get their hands on this stuff its bad news for everybody." Johnny said in a shocked voice.
"I know Johnny but sometimes my curiosity gets the better of me." Reed said to himself. "Crap!" Reed exclaimed.
"Huh" Johnny said with his arms crossed.
"The test tube with the genetic fluid it's gone." Reed said while scouring the bench for it.
"Don't get in such a fuss, it might've fallen off the bench, yeah look there it is." Johnny said while pointing to the tube which was on the floor next to the desk, it had cracked open and the liquid was seeping into a drain on the floor.
"This is bad, the liquid if taken by any animal in the sewer could mutate them into something insane." Reed said completely gobsmacked.
"don't worry we can use the scanners and isolate it before it leaves the building." Johnny said while going up to a massive computer and opening an appointment called, Pipe Control. "See I got it in a pipe, in a maintenance closet on the 49th floor.
"We need to move quickly." Reed said with caution.
49th Floor
Peter and his class were in a room filled with transgenic animals, even the ones who didn't care about science were interested with what was there.
"No class feel free to look around for 20 minutes, and don't do anything stupid, I'm talking to you Flash." Mr Staltman said which caused the class to chuckle. The class then went off looking at the animals or just going off to talk about who knows what in there own social groups.
Peter and Max walked up to a couple genetically altered lizards which caught their attention.
"Wow imagine the possibilities Max if we could apply these traits to humans think of all the cool stuff we could do." Peter said while taking a picture.
"Don't half the content of mutants have animal like characteristics?" Max said while taking a few notes.
"Without the prejudice Max, if we could use their abilities to better the world." Peter said arguing back.
"isn't that what the FF and Avengers are for?" Max said turning to Peter.
"The Avengers are bought and sold by the Government and the FF are glorified celebrities who are this close to getting a reality TV show." Peter said while Turing to Max.
"Keeping up with the Fantastics I like the sound of it, oh do you really think you should be saying that in the Baxter building?." Max said while putting his hand to his chin.
"Please Johnny Storm is just Flash with superpowers." Peter said while walking backwards. "Do you really think I give a crap about a wise ass who has the same name as that crappy superhero from the 1940s, if you ask me Flash is an ass who only cares about himself." Peter said as he bumped into Flash himself. He turned around cautiously noting Max's doomed expression.
"What were you saying about me you little bitch." Flash said looking down at Peter doing his best to remind Peter that he was 7" taller than he was.
"Um," Peter blurted out noticing Kong and Sally behind him, Rand was off to the side on his phone but still paying attention.
"I know what you were saying you were ripping on me in front of my friends you little shit." Flash said while pushing Peter into a bench behind him. Which made Kong and Sally chuckle and Rand turn around.
"Just saying no one uses the word ripping anymore, might want to check a dictionary oh wait you don't know how to read." Peter said walking backwards.
"Like I'm gonna take advice from Midtown High's least favourite person heck your four eyes friend here has more friends than you," Flash said gruffly while gesturing towards Max.
"Do you think I care what you think about me Flash?" Peter said now that his back was against a door to a maintenance closet.
"No, but here's the thing I'm right, no one will ever care about you." Flash pushed him making Peter fall into the closet, Peter then got up but then fell over again knocking a monkey wrench which was attached to a pipe in the back which caused the pipe to burst which spewed out a glowing green liquid which went into Peter's mouth.
Flash and Kong laughed like crazy, the door to the closet shut by itself locking Peter in which made them laugh evenmore. Max tried to open the door but it wouldn't open. Rand then walked up to Flash.
"that was too far man, you can't keep doing this to him." Rand said angrily at Flash waving his arm in his face.
"C'mon Rand no likes Parker who gives a shit about him." Flash said smiling.
"Guys Peter's not saying anything." Max called out.
"What's going on here?" Mr Staltman came walking over.
"Sir why do you have a Hickey?" Sally asked smiling.
"That's not important. What's going on?" Staltman said angrily.
"Flash knocked Peter in the closet and he's not responding." Max said which made Flash turn back towards him.
"Why won't the door open?" Staltman asked.
"That's our fault, why is this a problem?" Reed said from behind standing with Johnny.
"There's a student trapped inside." Staltman said.
"Ok." Johnny nodded.
"Some green liquid burst out of a pipe and went into his mouth, he's not responding. " Rand said.
"Oh shit." Johnny said as he and Reed walked up to the closet.
"Why did the door close." Max asked.
"There was a spillage upstairs and we isolated it here so we locked the door to make sure no one got in." Johnny said overriding the lock.
They opened the door to find Peter passed out on the floor.
"We need to get him upstairs," Reed said. While he and Johnny picked Peter up.
"What are you gonna do ?" Staltman asked.
"Save his life, hopefully." Johnny said.
"Call his parents" Reed called out as they walked into the elevator.
"If he doesn't make it you'll regret it," Rand said to Flash while pushing against his chest.
Reed's Lab
Johnny and Reed put him on a table and sedated him, Reed then took a blood sample while Johnny monitored his vitals.
10 minutes later
Peter slowly woke up and took in his surroundings, the lab benches in every direction, the holograms of different pieces of tech and experiments, the room was almost completely white with a bit of blue here and there to replicate the suits the FF wear. The door opened, outstepped Johnny with a tray holding a sandwich and a glass of water.
"Oh you're awake. Hey I'm Johnny what's your name?" Johnny said putting the tray down and sitting on the table next to him.
"Peter, Peter Parker." Peter said while shaking Johnny's hand.
"So that Flash guy, seems to be a giant tool." Johnny said scratching the back of his neck.
"Yeah he's been on my case since 1st grade." Peter said while looking down.
"That sucks, never really had anything like that before besides a few supervillains." Johnny said then realising that it made Peter look down. "Hey anyways do you feel any different?"
"Huh, don't think so" Peter said standing up and walking over to the tray and took a sip of water and then checked the time on his phone, it was 16:30. "What I need to go."
"Peter I don't think that's a good idea." Johnny called out as Peter ran out through the door.
Peter ran and ran down the staircase completely oblivious to how fast he was going, he had gone down nearly 70 floors in 10 minutes he then sped down a freeway at around 35mph, once noticed his speed he stopped on the side of a freeway and looked back at the Baxter Building which was a few miles away, Johnny then flew down next to him.
"Kid you're a mutate," Johnny said placing a hand on his shoulder.
"A what now?" Peter asked with a puzzled look on his face.
Reed's Lab
"A mutate, a person with a recessive mutant gene who then through some gene altering circumstances stimulates the gene giving the person mutant powers." Reed explained pointing to a white board with a bunch of vague diagrams.
"There are only a handful of known mutates in the world, some that you are familiar with would be, Captain America, The Hulk and us." Johnny said.
"What about Antman and The Wasp?" Peter asked sitting down on a chair in front of them.
"They use tech to do what they do." Johnny said.
"How do you?. Wait you know who Antman and The Wasp are? Do you know who the other Avengers are? What about those X guys?" Peter asked.
"Yes, yes and some of them? Johnny said while waving a pen around.
"Its also none of your business." Reed said.
"What my dear brother in law means to say, it's not our secret to tell." Johnny said apologising for Reed's rudeness.
"Ok so what about my abilities." Peter said standing up.
"As far as we know you've got limited super speed, a little faster than Captain America." Reed said while looking at his notes.
"You could have more since that genetic sludge was from many different species of spiders." Johnny said.
"Anyways I really ought to get home now, thanks for saving my life." Peter said walking out the door.
"We still need to run more tests." Reed said.
"Sorry but I gotta go." Peter said running off.
"At least he said thanks this time." Johnny said turning to Reed.
Max Dillions House
Max was walking out into the alleyway behind his house putting the trash out. Once he had finished he turned back to his house when he saw Flash standing at his door.
"What do you want Flash?" Max said while getting his keys out his pocket and walked to the door but Flash got in his way and pushed him down to the ground onto the path leading to the front gate.
"Just here to tell you ever rat me out again and I'll do something way worse then getting you detention for a week." Flash said while kicking Max in the gut a few times winding him then upper cutting him in the face causing him to bleed from his mouth and cracking his glasses.
