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Chapter 14: The Fantastic Four

Half an hour later, Spider-Man had landed on the roof of Midtown High School and had broken in through an unlocked window.

Now he was slowly creeping along the halls towards room 368. The door was unlocked and he immediately went to the left side of the room to begin looking through the tiles. Soon enough he came upon a loose one and lifted it up, revealing the serum. He picked it up and smiled "Alright now to the Baxter building."

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Spider-Man landed on a ledge next to the Baxter building and looked around. "Now how do I get in?" A few seconds later he spotted a small air duct opening on the top of the building. "That's convenient," he thought, shooting a web line to it. "Alright Fantastic Four, here I come!"

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Ben Grimm was asleep when the Fantastic Four's alarms began going off. "Shit," he groaned, rolling out of the bed. "I'm getting too old for this. Wish I wasn't so stubborn, and just join Reed and Sue."

Just then the sliding door to his room opened and Johnny Storm popped in. "Wake up Ben; we've got a break in., report to the security room immediately." And with that Johnny was gone.

Ben stood staring at the door for a few more seconds. Ever since Johnny had become the new leader of the Fantastic Four he had been buckling down. When Reed and Sue had retired and the two new members had been recruited, they needed a new leader and it was assumed that Ben would step up. Yet when Johnny volunteered everyone, including Ben, was surprised the he didn't make any objections and quietly resumed the role of second in command. He didn't really mind though.

A few seconds later he saw the two new members, the new Ms. Invisible and the Shapeshifter, run by his room.

Ms. Invisible a.k.a Julie Andrews was a young mutant who happened to have Sue's same powers.

Shapeshifter a.k.a Shawn Ross was a competent mutant who, while not the most original person, had the power to change into animals as well as some humans.

Ben wasted no time in following them into the main security room.

"What's the problem," he asked, as he entered the security room.

"We seem to have a breach in our ventilation system," said Johnny, bent over the security system and bringing up a video stream. "Wait this doesn't make any sense."

"What's the matter Johnny," said an unknown voice from behind them all.

"Reed, I thought you had gone home," Johnny said, not looking away from the video.

Reed Richards ran a hand through his grey hair. "Not yet I was in the lab."

"Anyways we have a break in from what looks like Spider-Man," Johnny said.

"What," Reed said. "That doesn't make any sense. Peter Parker is a good friend of mine, and he lost his powers some years ago. Plus even is he did have them, he knows how to get in touch with me and he'd never break in."

"So what you're saying is that we're dealing with an imposter," Johnny replied.

"It seems to be the only logical explanation."

"Well," Johnny said. "We must treat it as a threat. Turn on the heat in the vents and let's try to fish him out."

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"Where am I," Spider-Man thought out loud.

He was getting nowhere in the vents and the heat all of a sudden started to rapidly rise.

"Wow it's getting hot in here," he said. He crawled further and suddenly pulled his hand away from the burning metal. "OW!" The vent was oven hot and his hands were starting to burn. "If I don't get out of here soon, it'll be the end of me…" Spiderman then started pounding at the vent. Slowly it started to bend in and eventually tear all around him. He moved forward and fell through the gap into a large room with expensive looking equipment in it. He got up groggily and poked at his now blistered hands. "Damn."

"Stop where you are wall-crawler."

Spider-Man turned to face the Fantastic Four standing in a large doorway. "Look I…"

"There will be time to talk once you surrender," Johnny interrupted.

Spider-Man frowned under his mask. "Surrender? What? I'm not surrendering to anyone."

All of a sudden Johnny went up in flames. "Alright then. Fantastic Four Go!"

The Shapeshifter turned into a rhino and charged at Spider-Man.

"Crap," Spider-Man said, leaping onto his back and grabbing his horn. He pulled sideways on the horn and dragged the rhino to the ground. He jumped off and felt a sharp pain in the back of his head. His spider sense was going crazy but nothing was there. He lashed out but was hit again and again. He jumped and did a tornado kick, connecting with some invisible being and revealing Ms. Invisible. She fell over and Spider-Man began trying to apologize when he was hit from behind.

He flew through the air and crashed into the wall on the other side, knocking over shelves of test tubes, beakers and glass cases. Spider-Man recovered just in time to dodge a punch from the Thing and back flip up on the side of the wall. He jumped over the Thing and kicked him in the back, causing him to hit the wall. His spider sense went wild and he ducked a fireball, which hit the Thing.

The Thing yelled in pain and grabbed Spider-Man, throwing him up into the ceiling. Spider-Man hit the ceiling and came crashing back down hard.

"OW!" he screamed, when he hit the ground. His ribs were on fire and his head felt like it was being hit with a baseball bat. The Thing was revving up a punch and Spider-Man rolled out of the way of it. The Thing quickly threw another punch. Spider-Man braced himself and grabbed the Thing's arm. Using the Thing's momentum Spider-Man threw him over his shoulder and slammed him into the ground.

He heard a roar behind him and turned to find the Shapeshifter had become a bear. The bear swiped at him, and Spider-Man fell backwards, putting up his arm and getting three cuts across his forearm.

"This is madness," said Reed Richards, coming in between the Shapeshifter and Spider-Man. "I do not believe he intends any harm."

"Son of a bitch," Spider-Man said in between grinded teeth.

"Let me see that," Reed said, taking Spider-Man's arm. "The cuts weren't deep. I'll get you some bandages and then we'll discuss why you're here."

Reed reached with an elongated arm out the door and when it reappeared it had bondages which he promptly wrapped around Spider-Man's arm. "So now that we got all that behind us, we can discuss what you came here for."

"Is this going to scar," Spider-Man asked, looking at his arm. "Cause if it does, I am so screwed."

Reed raised an eyebrow, "How old are you anyways?"

"Um…none of your business," Spider-Man said.

"Hey don't talk to Reed like that ya little bug or I'll clobber ya," The Thing said.

"Now look here you overgrown pet rock…" Spider-Man began.

"Hey, hey, hey," Reed interrupted. "Let's not fight. Now what did you come here for?"

"Curt Connors sent me. He gave me the temporary cure for the Lizard disease that's been effecting him and he want you to make him a permanent cure."

"I had no idea Curt was still alive," Reed gaped. "He's a very dear friend of mine, of course I'll make him the cure."

"Thanks," Spider-Man said, handing Reed the temporary cure.

"Sure thing," Reed muttered, walking over to a table and beginning work. "This might take a little while, so uh try to get along you guys."