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Chapter 10

Not So Fantastic Meeting

Peter and Eddie were still in the warehouse chatting about their respective lives; Eddie's father was in town for cancer treatment as he had developed lung cancer. Peter told Eddie about his uncle's death and his friend's coma. "That's harsh man."

"Yeah, well I've found ways to cope with it."

"Like tinkering, that some high grade stuff your making there. Who's it for?" Peter looked down at the device he was currently finishing for Matt. During Spiderman's fight with Shocker he had noticed how the air blasts had affected Matt's sonar anilities, the devices he had just finished would help to counteract that weakness.

"Just something for a friend." Peter finished his work and got up from the workbench. Looking at the time he noticed it was about 10:30, he had arrived at the warehouse around 6:45. Peter and Eddie left the area and headed towards the now bustling streets of New York. Peter said goodbye to Eddie after exchanging their cell numbers.

Peter headed back towards his home and opened the door, walking inside he stopped when he saw both May and Gwen glaring at him from the kitchen door. "Uh what's up?" Peter asked questionably, confused on why they were glaring at him.

"Where have you been?" May asked sounding pissed, "We have guests here in our home and your out the door before anyone wakes up. You think I wouldn't give you lip over this?"

"Well I had things to do and people to see." Peter retorted with a hint of irritation.

"Peter why didn't you leave a note or something? May was worried; she says you've been staying out late and barely staying in one place. What's going on?"

"I've got a job and a lot of responsibility that goes with it!" "

You have used that excuse so many time! Blaming it all on your new job! If it's so troublesome you just quit it!" May said trying and failing to keep calm. Peter's patience had almost reached his limit.

"I can't quit working because someone has to help pay the bills! Someone has to make sure we don't lose what we have left! I wish I could spend more time with my friends, with you! But I have more responsibilities than just my job!" With that Peter ran past them both slamming the door to his room before ascending the staircase into the attic. This outburst left both May and Gwen stunned.

Peter needed air and to blow off some steam after the argument he had with his aunt May. He quickly changed into his costume and leapt out of the attic's window swinging down the streets and into the city.

Watson's Residence

Mary Jane was surfing the web when she stopped reading the website, she got up and stretched. She was currently thinking of her knew next-door neighbors, Gwen and Peter, more specifically the latter. She had only known the boy for about a week, but she was already great friends with him, he was sweet, nice, thoughtful, and the bonus was he was pretty cute. She was a little worried about Gwen though. She had clearly known Peter for a long time, it didn't help that she was beautiful as well. She liked Gwen as a person, she had even become pretty good friends in the first night they had met. But she had a strange nagging feeling that just wouldn't stop bugging her. She couldn't be jealous of her elation ship with Peter could she? M.J. quickly leapt from her bed and walked to the window to get a breath of fresh air. As she opened her window she noticed a strange figure stepping out of the attic in the Parker's house. The figure was wearing a black and red suit and fired a thin and reflective line towards a nearby building. He then leapt high into the air and started to swing down the street and into the city.

M.J. stood in shock as she tried to comprehend what she had just witnessed. She had just scene the masked vigilante Spiderman leave the Parker' house, from the attic window. The same place Peter was now rooming in. She tried to think of this situation as logically as she could, but she could only think of one thing. Was Peter Parker Spiderman?

New York City; 8:00 P.M.

Peter had spent most of the day as Spiderman. He had broken up four muggings, one bank robbery and a car chase all in one afternoon. He was feeling a lot better, venting his frustration by doing some good. He landed on the roof of a very tall building. He looked over the city he had grown up in. He smiled knowing he was at east making the city a bit safer which each crimehe prevented. "Man I love this place!" he said out loud only then did his spider sense activate making him wheel around looking for any signs of danger, but the roof top was clear of any presence except his own.

"This can't be good!" Peter said, he had scene to many horror movies to know where this was going.

"No, it's fantastic!" a voice shouted from above. Peter looked up in shock as he saw a human being completely engulfed in fire flying in the sky. He then landed on the roof of the building about 10 meters away from Spiderman. The flames on the mans' body began to dissipate, revealing a young man (about 18) with short blond hair and blue eyes. Peter could not believe standing in front of him was the Human Torch, Johnny Storm!

"Great work baby brother now he knows were here." The voice came from just to Spiderman's left, said hero quickly jumped away from the area searching his surroundings for whoever was speaking. Slowly a beautiful, blond haired woman began to take form, Sue Storm the Invisible Woman.

"Yeah, Great goin' matchstick." A gruff and deep voice sounded from right behind Sue, a large figure made entirely of orange rocks stepped out of the invisible force field that sue had made.

"Indeed Johnny not the best move, but I suppose with our presence now known we should get straight to business." This was spoken by a man with dark brown hair with graying edges. Read Richards and Ben Grimm, Mr. Fantastic and The Thing had also joined their team members on the rooftop. Spiderman looked over all four of the super heroes, he couldn't believe that The Fantastic Four were here right in front of him.

Peter didn't know what to say, here was one of the world's most famous and influential super teams standing right in front of him. Spiderman could tell that by their posture and the air they carried around them that they weren't here to congratulate him on a job well done. Mr. Fantastic was the first of the team to speak, "I want you to know that your intentions are noble and we appreciate your help, but-"

Thing cut him off by saying "You've been putting every bad guy you come across in the freakin ER kid!"

"You're actions are really the stuff of heroes. You make think your doing the right thing but putting people in the hospital is not what we do. We save lives and encourage people to do the right thing." These words were spoken by Sue Storm, who had stepped forward.

"Yeah… the stuff of heroes. Don't make me laugh, you guys may think your heroes but that's a pretty shitty lie." This comment clearly was not what the group was expecting.

Johnny spoke up in anger, small flames began to light on his body, indicating his anger, "What's that suppose to mean!?" Spiderman glared at the young man before speaking up.

"Face it storm you are a self absorbed punk who does more for publicity then heroics, and the rest of you are basically Richards' lab assistants!" Peter could no longer control his emotions. Every little personal tragedy, every shred of stress and anger began to boil over, his previous mood forgotten. The rest of the FF Read included looked at the young man in shock as he continued his anger filled rant against the. "When was the last time you actually stepped out side the Baxter Building huh!? You're out in the universe and in your little science lab studying new ways to be useless! You go out and fight the big bads, but that doesn't affect the big picture as much as you think. You and the Ultimates fight off the hounds, but all you do is scare the rats back into hiding, People like me do the exterminating." Spiderman finally stopped to catch his breath, this gave the other members of the FF to say some words of their own.

"I see what you are trying to say, but we have to tell you that you can't change the world like this."

"Tell it to someone who will actually buy that shit." Spiderman began to walk to the edge of the roof as he looked out on the city. "You can either help out, or stay the hell out of my way!" The wall crawler then leapt from the roof of the building and shot a web swinging away into the night. The Members of the FF were left in shock as the young hero's speech.

"Next time I see that guy I'm gonna pound his stupid fa-" "

Ben Please, well let him go. He's right though" the members of the Fantastic Four stood in silence on the roof as the city continued to swirl and buzz without a care in the world.

Warehouse, 10:00

Peter stepped into his warehouse and double-checked that it was empty. Ever since Eddie's break in, Peter had become a little paranoid of his lair's security. He removed his costume and changed into his civilian clothes. He then sat on an old couch and reflected on today's events. His anger had caused him to lash out. As he was thinking his cellphone rang, he looked at the caller ID and saw it was Mary Jane. "Hey M.J. what's up?" Peter asked exasperated from his recent woes.

"Peter where are you!? May is worried sick, so are Gwen and I!"

"M.J. calm down! I'm fine I'm at Harry's apartment right now I'm spending the night."

"Is that really where you are?"

Peter didn't answer her question, "Just let aunt May know ok?" and without waiting for another response he hung up the phone he then called Harry.

"Pete?" he heard Harry answer on the other line.

"Harry I need a favor, if my aunt calls tell her that I'm at your place ok, we got in a fight and I just can't deal with it right now."

"Alright man, I'll cover for you, on one condition." Peter paused for a moment before answering.

"What is it?"

"I'll tell you when I need it done ok? Don't worry it's nothing shady or illegal. So deal?"

"Deal thanks man"

"Hey what are friends for?" and with that Harry hung up the phone. Peter sat in silence before falling asleep.

Parker Residence

"So what did he say?' Liz asked Harry as he hung up the phone.

"He asked me to cover for him, I told him I would but he would owe me a favor." He and Liz sat at the Parker's living room table with Gwen, M.J. and captain Stacy. May Helen and Marc were out getting dinner at the moment. This gave the five a perfect opportunity to talk about their friend's strange behavior.

"We'll have to get him to meet us somewhere where he can't weasel out of." Gwen said.

"I checked those dates that you said Peter was at work, being an intern accountant at my dad's company allows me access to employee work hours. Other than an extra hour or two on the days he's been assigned lab work, he never took any extra shifts. He lied to May and all of us."

Captain Stacy looked at the four teens before speaking. "I'll talk to him, he must have a good reason to be lying, he's a good kid."

"Dad no one thinks he's doing anything bad. We just –"

"I know what you mean Gwen, I'll take care of it."

Baxter Building Gym

The thing watched as Johnny tore/burned through another punching bag (the fifth one, made from flame retardant materials) while his fists were on fire. "Keep it up matchstick, you'll be putting the delivery guy's kids through college at this rate."

"Sorry Ben, it's just what that Spider-jerk said, it really pisses me off!"

"Me too kid." Ben responded.

"But you want to know the worst part? He's right! We could be out there making a big difference, but instead where exploring the Negative Zone because Read found some fancy new particles." Ben looked up at Johnny questioningly.

"Look kid I admit the guy gets sidetracked with his techno mumbo-jumbo but we got to trust him. If we follow Read-"

"Look what following Read has done for us Ben, Look at what following Read did to me!" Johnny's body lit on fire as his anger rose "Do you know what it's like Ben!?"

Ben's voice turned solemn as he looked at Johnny with sadness in his eyes. "I do kid I look at it every day in the mirror, I feel it every time someone looks at me." Johnny immediately realized how careless and selfish his statement had been.

"Ben, I'm sorry I didn't mean to-"

"It's fine kid, I know what you meant. Listen were all one big family of accidental freaks, but don't forget were family. And don't ever, for one second, think that Read doesn't feel any guilt for the space storm incident. He lives with it every second of his life. He's trying to make sure we can at least live a good life. But you and that Spider-punk got a point. We need to do a little more of a proactive job here. I know Read and Sussy are thinkin it over too." With that the two teammates sat in silence as they thought about what Peter had said.

Bank, 1:00 A.M.

Three armed men ran out of the bank after cracking the security and the vault. With no alarms being set off even this Spiderman wouldn't know about them. He and his crew were fleeing the scene, but as they approached their get away vehicle, one of them was struck with a metallic cord which coiled around him. The man was then hurled into the car, being smashed though the vehicle's roof. The other was snagged by the same line that struck their partner. After the second criminal was snared a small and thin figure descended on the third criminal. The man tried to fire off his machine gun at the hidden figure, but the figure was easily able to dodge the bullets before clinging to a wall, the figure's hand began to crackle with green electricity before it fired it off in an electric blast that struck the last robber full force. The man crumpled from the energy unleashed from the blast. One of the criminals was still conscious while being hung upside down on a thin metallic wire. The figure stepped into the light revealing a woman wearing a form fitting red and white body suit, there was an opening in the back of the mask that let her long brown hair down.

She stepped forward towards the terrified criminal, "Send a message out around town, I'm looking for Spiderman. Got it?" the man weakly nodded, as the women began to walk away the criminal asked one question.

"Who are you?" the masked woman stopped walking and turned around.

"The names Spider-Woman." Then she fired off a cord into the night and swung away.

Jessica Drew could understand why her twin loved web swinging so much, it was freakin awesome. Being able to freely swing through the city was so mentally and physically freeing. The new wrist mounted grappling lines were pretty handy in a fight, though they were built to allow her greater mobility. Her venom blasts were great for ranged combat, apparently her brother had a weaker form of her mutation. But from the feats he had accomplished he was physically stronger than her. While Hydra's experiment allowed her to lift 15 tons, her brother had been shown to handle at least double that amount. She also couldn't naturally stick to walls, but shield had equipped her boots and gloves with a special glove that mimicked the adhesive abilities of her brother (think the wall crawling gear in MI: Ghost Protocol). Her suit was also interwoven with a specially constructed unstable molecule compound. It could greatly reduce the impact of kinetic force although a bullet would still feel like a punch fro a thug to a normal person, but Jess could handle more than her fair share. She landed on a tall building overlooking the area of Queens.

Jessica had hoped to run into Spiderman on her first night out, but she knew it was just wishful thinking. She never new about her brother before a few weeks ago. She had been so caught up in being an agent of S.H.E.I.L.D that she hadn't bothered to look for or reconnect with the rest of her family. Part of her knew she would love to meet them, but another part of her knew she would never truly fit in. She had been stolen at birth, robbed of her childhood and made into an assassin. The worst part was she didn't want to leave that life, she loved the thrill and the role of an agent, but she wanted to know what a family was. She'd be lying if she said she wasn't nervous about meeting her brother. Being a new hero was fury's idea, the name she had come up with (Literally the second the criminal had asked for her name.)was her own. She started to berate herself on how stupid she sounded, it was like she was trying to be her brother's sidekick! The major issue was how she was going to approach her brother with the news that she was his sister. She sat on the edge of the building and looked out over the city.

"Man I wonder if this how he feels when he has to think of stuff like this."

Done with this chapter, Hope you liked Peter's meeting with the FF members.