A/N: Hey everyone, glad you guys liked the chapter. Thank you for the love, please enjoy!
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Chapter Two: SCIENCE!
It took the usual amount of time to get to school. The route was always the same, and to be honest it was kind of mundane every time Callum and Peter went to school. They didn't complain what so ever since it was peaceful… Until they got to school…
*PANG*
"JESUS!" Peter screamed dodging to the right as a football flew right by his face hitting the bus behind him. The people who threw it, guess who? It was the football team, AKA the Flash Mob Squad. That's the name Peter and Callum thought up anyways.
"How many times have they done this?" Callum ask ignoring the glares of the football team. Peter followed behind him as one of the players ran to pick up the ball, but not before attempting to slam into his shoulder. However, for Peter it was easy enough to avoid.
"Uh… This was the 186th time I believe" Peter answered making leaning his shoulder back avoiding the slam of the one of the defenders of the team. The football player clicked his tongue in annoyance as he failed to, in anyway inflict harm to the kid. "Also, the 186th time I avoided it, 187th if you count that one as well"
"I wouldn't count 99% of those. They literally threw it in the same exact spot EVERY TIME. I don't know if that's amazing or just plain stupid…" Callum said, except saying the last part a little quieter as he walked by the Flash Mob Squad with his brother beside him. This was a normal occurrence, they would start school the Flash Mob Squad would try to ruin their day and fail. I mean it sounds bad, but since they can't really do any harm it wasn't that bad.
"Good thing those guys are as smart as a rock" Peter joked. The two made their way into Midtown High School and headed for their lockers. The brother's lockers were located near the principal's office, due to… Obvious reasons, and it was great. It was like one of those bonfires in Dark Souls, that's what Peter said it was like anyways.
"Ok there's no need to insult rocks like that" Callum replied starting to open his locker. Their first class was science, probably the two's most favourite subject, next to biology, physics, and math. The two were the biggest nerds in the school, also the highest achieving ones, which gains a lot of support from their teachers. Other students tend to mark them as teacher pets, but that didn't matter to them… They get free lunches! It's not the greatest but they save money.
Class was about to start and the Parker brothers made it to their class ten minutes early. Most people just milk out the minutes but they were there for their own reasons. Since their grades are better than everyone else's, the science teacher allowed them access to lab given that he is there with them.
"Hey, Pete. So, I went through the formula and thought I added this to it… I think it might solve our problem" Callum took out the laptop from before and flipped it around towards Pete. The project they were working on was a small wrist mounted gadget with a sensor that reached the palm of the user's hand. Pete overlooked the formula and tilted his head.
"I'm not sure… I think it might help stabilize it but the longevity will most likely be compromised…" Peter answered. They gathered all the necessary chemicals that the lab had available to them. However, the project they were doing required more chemicals, and most likely chemicals that school cannot get their hands on.
*click*
The door to the lab opened and Mr. Hardy the science teacher entered, he was an old man with white hair and one hell of a stylish mustache, he was also wearing one of his really nice black suits. He was carrying what seemed like some heavy boxes, in fact there were multiple behind him. Callum quickly and quietly closed the laptop and slid it across the desk with Peter smoothly catching it in his bag.
"Oh! Peter, Callum! How are you two doing today? Didn't think you two would be in already" Mr. Hardy greeted the two students smiling whilst placing the box on his desk
"Well we thought we could try some things out… But that's not important, do you need any help?" Peter asked already walking over to the door ready to assist. Callum followed in his brother's foot steps and it seemed dumb for Mr. Hardy to say no.
"That would be great, thank you boys." Mr. Hardy answered with a warm smile. The two boys nodded and went outside grabbing the boxes that seemed heavy but for them it was nothing. There were a lot actually, around ten in total. "Thank you, it would've been hell getting all these in here before class…"
"Whats in these anyways?" Callum asked turning around the boxes. All of them were labelled, property of Oscorp Industries. Peter snuck a look as well, and two were immediately intrigued. Oscorp was a multi-billion/international organization. Crema of the crop scientists, highly advanced technology, and were renowned for their bio-tech.
"These are new chemicals and equipment from Oscorp, courtesy of your friend's dad Norman Osborn. Apparently, he was there that day at the convention. He saw your Solar Glider concept and was blown away. Plus, the fact the Harry always gushes about you two." Mr. Hardy explained, trying to hide his excitement for the boys. However, the excitement busted out of the two.
"No way! Seriously?!" Callum jumped, trying his bets not to rip open the boxes. Equipment and chemicals from Oscorp? This was a dream come true for them.
"Wha? Why though? Our Solar Glider was a bust. It malfunctioned within four minutes" Peter explained. He and Callum remembered it clearly. It happened around a month ago. They were invited to a science convention by the Empire State University….
~Flashback~
"Who the hell are they?"
"High school students? Seriously?"
"I heard they were competing…"
"Wow… Are you serious?"
"Probably just a baking soda volcano…"
Those were the words of multiple ESU students at the university. That really didn't get to the two as they had plenty experience getting shit talked on. Besides they were more focused on their project. The Solar Glider, it's essentially what you'd think it be. An airborne glider that runs on solar energy, with a few cool things. The glider was still covered by a cloth, and oddly enough the shape of it does indeed look like a volcano.
The professors of the university plus a few gentlemen and women wearing fancy clothing walked around looking at the stalls. Everyone in the convention were pretty much all ESU students as it was the highest form of education plus a lot of world renown inventors come from this place. Examples would be the great Howard Stark, his son Tony Stark, Norman Osborn, the under appreciated Otto Octavius, and many more.
The group of scientists, at least presumably took an interest in Peter's and Callum's stall. Being the ONLY high school stall since the past forty years, they took a major interest in it. With that attention, they were the first ones to present their project out of everyone.
"Hey! Hey! Felicia, look over there. Those are the high school students everyone was talking about." A female university student called over to a drop-dead gorgeous platinum blonde. She had a great sense of style, a voluptuous body, and a seductive aura around her. She was the definition of a femme fatale. The platinum blonde, named Felicia walked over to her friend with a boring look on her face.
"Ugh… It's just a science convention… A bunch of nerds, no good guys" Felicia complained, with her friend groaning as if she heard that everyday.
"Come on Felicia, you can't tell me none of this stuff interests you" Her friend asked, only for Felicia to scoff lightly, sort of paying attention to Peter's and Callum's stall.
"Ladies and gentlemen. Let me present to you from Midtown High school, Peter Parker and Callum Parker. They entered this contest with a never before seen addition… A technological outbreak I would say!" The announcer was very enthusiastic about it, it only made Peter and Callum more nervous since he was hyping it up… Kind of like how Peter was hyped up about Destiny but was disappointed. "These boys present to you…. The SOLAR GLIDER!"
Callum ripped off the cover creating a dramatic reveal. A sleek silver glider appeared in front of everyone's eyes. Although it was not in the air, it already had huge reactions. Scientists and professors were astounded by the design since it only came from two high school students. The other students tried to hide their amazement out of envy.
"Let present to you, our concept Solar Glider. Mainly this was built for pedestrian usage to help extend the cities road space problem. With this environmentally safe glider that uses Solar energy, civilians can traverse the streets without worry." Peter explained nodding his head to Callum. His brother walked over to the glider and activated the switch, a low whirring sound was made as a small gust of wind came from the bottom.
"Whoa…" Was the only sound Felicia's friend made. The platinum blonde merely sighed but was at least interested in what was going on. She was primarily focused on the one speaking thinking he was actually sorta cute, in a dorky nerdy way.
The glider's four turbines in the back turned on with a blue ring lighting up. It lifted off of the ground smoothly and was hovering almost completely steady. Before the glider was making some low whirring sounds, now it was completely silent, almost as silent as a Tesla car. Peter then smiled looking at the faces of everyone present, and started to walk around the convention.
"Even if you're walking it can follow you around, or call it whenever you want." Peter said placing on a small wrist band. He made a swirling motion with his finger pointing upwards and the glider started to turn and follow him. Everywhere he went it followed, kind of creepy, but it was still cool. "Maybe let it do some tricks" Peter twisted his wrist three times, and glider did a hovering triple barrel roll, startling some of the spectators.
"Whoa…"
"That's so cool…"
"That was awesome"
The other students who were not apart of the convention were flabbergasted. They wanted to see more and that what Peter and Callum was going to give them, by taking it a step further.
"Next… I'm going to need a volunteer…" Peter walked around looking around from someone that catches his eye. He thought to make it a little fun for himself, as he walked right in front of Felicia with his back turned. He spun around and pointed his finger at the platinum blonde, both getting a surprise, one good, and the other, presumably bad…
"It's YOuu…. Oh…" Peter's voice went from charismatic to slightly confused. He looked at this gorgeous girl and his brain stopped to process what he was looking at. Felicia was also in the same position at least in the brain processing part. For Peter however, his need to kill this presentation took over his shyness of pretty girls and pushed through it. "Alright everyone! We have our volunteer, whats you're name?"
"F-Felicia Hardy… And I am NOT doing that!" Felicia heavily objected to the idea only to have her friend push her forward.
"Oh yes she is! Go on!" Her friend said with a devious smile. Felicia Hardy wanted to kill her but could mouth the words You traitor or You bitch either way she wasn't happy.
"Don't worry Ms. Hardy I will only need you for a minute and then you can plop back onto the ground." Peter lead the pretty university student over the glider where Peter motioned it to stop. Felicia reluctantly followed through only because there were tons of people watching her. Peter helped her onto the glider and it was the coolest thing she could ever feel.
"It… It feels like I'm standing on nothing…" Felicia said in amazement. It just felt like her feet was floating. She looked down and the glider was hovering perfectly. Peter motioned it to move around a little, everyone thought she would fall, but the Peter explained another feature.
"The glider also contains a self-balancing regulator system. If the rider at any point starts shift off balance the glider will appropriately compensate for it, allowing almost always perfect balance." The ooh's and ahs started to come in complimenting the feeling of confidence in Peter and Callum. It was all going well until…
ERROR MALFUNCTION. ERROR. ERROR. ERROR.
Callum snapped his head back at his laptop as the systems for the glider started to malfunction. That's when Peter's senses went off and everything turned into slow motion for him. He jumped and grabbed Felicia off of the glider as sparks flew from it. He landed, rolling on his back keeping any sort of painful contact from her.
The glider started to go haywire, spinning around dangerously, only being held back by its metal wire restraints. Everyone in the building started to run away in fear whilst Callum was calm and collected working on a manual shut down for the glider on his laptop.
"Uh… Callum!?" Peter screamed still holding onto Felicia, he ducked down dodging the glider's relatively sharp wing from decapitating him. Since everyone was panicking in fear, no one was there to witness Peter's amazing evasions except for his brother. "Anytime would be great now!"
"Almost got it!" Callum screamed.
"How long are you going to hold onto me?!" Felicia screamed, breaking out of Peter's grasp, not realizing the glider was coming right at her from behind.
"Got it!" Callum successfully stopped the glider but the momentum it gained was keeping it afloat. Peter's eyes widened as tried to save the girl.
"Watch out!" Peter lunged for her, grabbing her arm, pulling her into his body. That's was when Felicia felt Peter's hard body… No not there… But his chest. He was muscular as hell, more so then the guys here. The two fell back, with Peter's back hitting the pillar behind them and the glider sticking itself into it right over their heads.
"Hey Pete are you oka…" Callum ran over deeply concerned for his brother, only to see Peter holding tightly onto this platinum femme-fatale. He wanted to smile sooo badly but given the situation he couldn't.
"Are you okay Ms. Hardy?" Peter looked straight into Felicia's green eyes. At this point Peter's worrisome nature came in and disregarded his shyness of girls. Felicia could only stare back not saying a word. Let's see here, he was smart, pretty damn cute, brave, hella fit, and he saved her life… from his demon project but saved her nonetheless.
"I-I… I… Um… Yeah I'm-I'm fine" Felicia stuttered multiple times releasing herself from Peter's grasp. "T-Thank you…!" The pretty girl ran away with her friend following close by her, leaving Peter with a worried look on his face.
"I hope she wasn't hurt" Peter wondered with Callum giving him a nudge on the shoulder. "Hm?"
"She totally has a crush on you now. Nice moves" Callum complimented as Peter's shyness start to resurface.
"Oh my god! Did I really just do that!?" Peter looked at his hands like had done something indecent, he started to blush heavily remembering where he was grabbing her… The hips mostly. "Oh… My lord…"
"You know… As happy as I am for you… We done fucked up royally…" Callum pointed out. Peter lifted his head up, and suddenly all previous thoughts were wiped from his mind. The glider basically destroyed the convention, at least anything within 20 metres of theirs. Other stalls neat by were destroyed and angry looks from Uni students hovered over their heads.
"Fucking high schoolers man…"
"Ruining everything…"
"Just go back already…"
"Ugh… I hope they don't go to this school. If they do, I'm transferring out"
Now words of hate were starting to come out, at least this time it was out loud so they could hear everything. Peter and Callum easily ignored their insults as they started to clean up. The professors, scientists shook their heads, obviously heavily judging them, except for one.
Norman Osborn smiled happily at the boys and shook his head at the other so-called professors and scientists.
"Well we better start cleaning up…" Peter sighed as all of their hard work was destroyed, and now their names are going to be tainted in the science world.
"Don't worry Pete, we'll come back with something even better. We always do" Callum reassured his brother placing his hand on his shoulder. The two started to clean up their stall whilst also apologizing to everyone.
~Flashback End~
"Yeah that was horrendous… But! Peter got a university student crushing on him." Callum said reminding Peter of the glorious yet embarrassing moment.
"Oh? You did huh? What a stud" Mr. Hardy nudged Peter's shoulder who only sunk down in embarrassment. "Well… I still have to set up for class, why don't you guys look around?"
"Sure! Thanks Mr. Hardy!" Callum waved off their teacher, whom is probably their most favourite one. He always gave them advice, and encouraged them, he was like a second father to them. Mr. Hardy left the room most likely walking back into his office.
Callum and Peter started to organize the boxes and with their physique it wasn't that hard. They placed the new equipment in the giant shed in the back of the class room. These were things that Oscorp uses in their own company. As the two were reorganizing the chemicals in the chemical storage Peter noticed something intriguing.
"No way… Hey Callum! Look" Peter brought over a giant vial of a certain chemical. Callum squinted slightly and saw the name of it. His mouth shot open and wanted to say something, but all that came out were sounds. Luckily his brother knew what he was trying to say. "Let's go try this out!"
"Okay… now for this part… Carefully okay Callum?" Peter warned watching his brother pour in some sort of green chemical into a purple one. As soon as green touched purple the whole vial started to smoke, Peter grabbed one of the mixing spoons nearby his hand and dunked it in.
"Ready?" The two said to each other. Peter slowly pulled out a strange white sticky string, that resembled spider silk. The two jumped up in silent excitement almost knocking over the table. "Holy shit it actually worked?!" Peter stared ecstatically at their synthetic spider webs.
"Hey come let's try it out!" Callum went through his bag and gave Peter two small wrist mounted gadgets resembling a spider. Peter opened up two sides of the gadget and poured the green into one side and purple into the other. He closed it up and mounted it onto his wrist.
The two were so focused and happy about their achievement that they didn't notice people starting to come into class. Peter aimed nearby the door, actually at the trash can near the door and tapped the shooting sensor with his middle and ring finger. A small ball of the web formula shot out at amazing speed.
"How did you miss!? He literally comes through that bus every da-?!" Flash Thompson, the king and the ruler of Flash Mob Squad walked in at the worse timing. His shoulder jerked up as he felt some sort of sticky thing on his neck.
Peter and Callum looked up and immediately their first words were, in respective order…
"Oh…"
"Shit…"
Hey everyone! Figured I introduce Felicia a little earlier since I didn't do it in What is a Hero. What did you guys think? The pre-Black Cat Felicia Hardy so her personality isn't as heavily altered. Also, everyone's origins are going to be a little different. You know how it is, the butterfly effect and all. Anyways, thanks for reading!
