I was sleeping peacefully when all of a sudden my dreams took a bad turn. I saw Uncle Ben get shot and I shot a web to stop it but I was too late. Then Aunt May was killed by Doc Ock. Then I saw the Green Goblin hold Teresa by the neck and he snapped her neck then told me
"You may be different, you may be superior to the other Spider-Men, but that doesn't change the fact that you are inferior and weak. Your family will still die. You won't be able to save them."
"no" I whispered to myself
"these are the facts Peter, accept it"
"NOOOOO!" I screamed and woke out of my dream.
I found myself in Teresa's room on her bed. Barely a moment passed and the rest of Peter's (my!) family was at the door with worry written on their faces. The only thing I could see was them lying on the floor, all dead. Before I knew it, tears started falling down my cheeks and everyone quickly filed into the room and gave me a group hug.
"Are you ok Pete? You screamed so loud it hurt our ears." Uncle Ben said
I inwardly winced because I realized my super strength extended to my vocal cords as well.
"I-I-I am fine." I said, my voice cracking.
"The truth please Pete." Teresa said
"don't bother I will be fine sorry for worrying y'all and scaring you guys." I said
"Peter..." Aunt May said weakly
"If you say so Peter but don't forget that we are here to talk to you at anytime" Uncle Ben said, ruffling my hair as he got up and got out of the room.
Aunt May sighed then stood up and pressed a kiss to my forehead as she left
"Pete..." Teresa said after they both left.
"I'm not going to bother you now Tess I am heading to my room." I said getting up from her bed
"nu uh Pete you're spilling now" she said holding my arm.
I sighed "I had a dream. I saw all of you dying, but it was you guys, not your multiversal counterparts. I couldn't do anything about it and..." My voice slacked out at that point, as tears made it's way down my cheeks again.
"Hey it's OK, we're here, no one is dying anytime soon if we have anything to say about it."
"I don't know Tess, like will I be able to do enough? If I can't save you guys then there is no point to this."
"Don't get stuck in the bad possibilities, just do for now."
"I guess..."
"I know. Wash up, take a shower, then go down and eat your breakfast then come back and tell me what the plan for now is" she said, emphasizing the for now.
"yes ma'am" I said
I went to the bathroom and started washing up. While brushing my teeth I looked up at the mirror and paused for a second. It wasn't the usual face I was somewhat expecting to see in the mirror. I was about five foot seven, bright brown-green eyes (quite beautiful eyes if I do say so myself lol) brown-blonde hair that was in the same style as Steve Rogers in Infinity War, and a small amount of growing facial hair.
As I took a shower, I realized my back felt weird. I looked over my shoulder and saw four... limbs? Starting to pop out of my back? Huh. So in this world I have the eight legs of an arachnid. Kinda cool. It was obviously not fully grown yet so I guessed that my body wasn't fully developed since the spider bite. Did Teresa have these too? Welp guess I will figure that out after breakfast.
I turned the shower off, dried my self, cleared the mirror, and put on a fresh pair of clothes, and went down to the dining room. I was so lucky that the field trip happened on a Friday. It would've been real annoying if I had to rush to school on my first day around. I sat down at the table with a "Morning" to the rest of the (my!) family.
"Morning dear, how you feeling now?" Aunt May asked me
"Much better thanks Aunt May" I said with a smile.
"told you so" Teresa (my little sister!) said as she slid into her own chair.
As I said before, Teresa had green eyes, blond hair, but what I didn't say was that she was about five foot four, somewhat sharp face, was super smart (wait I did say that but I guess my big bro vibe is on overload) and was on the school chess team.
As we were eating, I reviewed my temporary game plan. I was obviously going to keep a secret identity, but I wasn't going to risk anything for it, like how 616 Peter Parker did. I could also use my resources from PI to make suits for me and Tess, and gadgets such as web grenades and teaser webs and more. also I would rather not have Fury on my ass so some cloaking tech would be valuable. I also needed to have a bunker or two which contains several suits and stuff. But for now on my checklist is a suit that's cool and top-notch and badass. And an A.I. I ran a self evaluation on my mental situation and compared it to old Peter's and it seemed that when our minds combined our IQ levels were multiplied by the others, making me much smarter than expected.
I figured that I had enough food, even with my enhanced metabolism, so I stood up and gathered the plates. As I headed to the kitchen, Uncle Ben called after me "Hey Pete, is it just me or did you grow half an inch?"
"huh?" I looked down at myself and compared my current ratio in height to the countertop's height to what Peter's memories said my height should be. It seemed as though I did gain half an inch.
"I guess so?" I said weakly. If I grew half an inch so fast since the bite and hadn't even finished my 'growth spurt' who knew what my eventual height would be? I honestly hope it doesn't go past six foot five or six.
Suddenly I realized that I needed to go to PI headquarters today for some tech from Peter's (my!) Lab so I said "Oh yeah I just remembered I have some stuff to do in my lab at the HQ so can we go in a couple of hours?"
"about that..." Uncle Ben said
I semi turned towards him while I washed the dishes with a quirked eyebrow.
"oh wait I phrased it wrongly sorry. What I meant is yes we can go today but there was something your parents said about the whole 'Parker Industries' thing"
"What did they say?" Teresa asked
"well they basically said that when you were both around this age to step up your game in terms of PI, so Pete automatically takes position of CEO when he turns 16 in about six months and you get your position as co-CEO when you turn 16. So because you will get the job in several months we were thinking to have you guys spend your weekends there if you want to so everyone gets used to you before the official stuff." Aunt May said
They all started looking at me to see my decision as to wether to go to HQ frequently or not. It seemed that if I did say yes and went to HQ frequently, then I would have much more flexibility in making tech for me and Tess. And if I didn't then... Eh there's no point in not saying yes to this deal so I'll take it I guess.
"I don't see why not, so yeah for sure we can go all the time unless I have something else on my calendar. But aside from the weekends do you think I should go after school twice a week?"
"Good decision Pete. And going on the weekdays would be perfect then you would be able to meet the employees who work on the weekdays only." Uncle Ben said
"Then it's settled" Aunt May said
After I finished with the dishes, I went upstairs to my room and waited for Teresa to show up. Several moments after I sat on my bed, Teresa came in and plopped down on the bed beside me. My room was a beautiful black for the most part with the ceiling painted dark red. My Spider-Man suit was going to be the same colors, I decided.
"So I have several things to say Pete. 1. We are doing this whole superhero gig. I think that phrase of yours really hit me, the one about standing down is no good. 2. When we do this, we're wearing masks or something. If our faces are seen and people have grudges against us, they might attack pur family and friends. 3. My suit is going to be black and purple, like my room. I made a simple sketch while you were in the shower. 4. Congratulations on your new job make sure you don't do this just for superheroing take for of the family biz too." Teresa told/rambled to me
"Took the planning right outta my brain" I said with a smile on my face "Seriously though, about the secret identity thing, yes I was going to tell you that, my multiversal counterparts mostly all did that, but that doesn't mean we can't tell some people, and don't think that I won't protect Uncle Ben and Aunt May to the best of my ability. I've seen lots of stuff, and I know we will fight a lot of badasses out to kill us. Some of them might get our identities, and that's ok. Its a possibility, I've seen it happen, and things get somewhat better for us when that happens. But that doesn't mean I will expose my identity. Secondly, awesome color choice, I am doing black and red,-"
"Obviously you are doing black and red" she cut me off, rolling her eyes.
Huh. So me and Peter both geek over that color choice. Yea boi.
"As I was saying, the suit. I am planning on installing cloaking technology on them so that SHIELD can't find us. As well as add some gadgets such as web grenades and web-shooters. Give me your sketch so I can work on it when we can go to HQ. Lastly, the company is a part of our family. Ill take the best care of it that I can."
"Why would SHIELD worry about us though?"
"Because we're 'anomalies' and freak shows 'that are a potential threat to the safety of the USA', but in reality Fury wants to know everything, and wants to have the ability to control and threaten people like us."
"do other versions of us have history with this 'Fury' or something? Why the sudden hate?"
"in most worlds, I never meet you until I'm like 30 or something. When Mom and Dad died, you usually were kept at SHIELD while I went with Uncle Ben and Aunt May. They didn't even know you existed, and therefore SHIELD just kept you. Even the worlds where I worked for SHIELD under my superhero moniker, he never told me," I said remembering how USM went on after the show ended, with Pete just happening to meet another agent at the Academy who's last name was Parker as well, and after some searching found out they were siblings. " And Fury is also partly responsible for the plane crash if I'm understanding this world correctly, I am not sure though."
"Yeah so you hate him, but you can't kill him because the world needs him amirite?"
"The world will need him for only so long..." I said, venom entering my voice.
"something tells me you aren't telling me all the reasons you hate him."
I remembered how in that one fanfic, 'The Spider' Fury manipulated both me and Felicia so that Felicia dealt with HYDRA. That happened in one of the other universes here too, interestingly. He was also responsible for the death of Aunt May in one of the universes here, who he killed in an attempt to stop other me from taking both HYDRA and SHIELD down in one blow.
"Don't bother Tess,-"
"Tell me now, Pete."
I sighed "so in one of the universes he manipulates me and a love interest so that she can go kick HYDRA butt. In another universe he kills Aunt May because HYDRA infiltrated SHIELD and I was going to take both organizations down because that was the only way in that universe and he wasn't willing to lose his organization"
She blinked once, then twice. "Yeah tell me when it's time for us to kill that bastard. But HYDRA is still alive? And what's 'Fury's' actual name?"
"Yeah HYDRA currently makes up about 50% of SHIELD agent roster. But not all of SHIELD is bad. And his actual name is Nicholas Jacob Fury."
"ok let's get ready to go now."
"Yup"
After a couple minutes, I came out of my room, looking fresh and professional. This Peter had a wardrobe agreeable to my tastes and that made things so much better. Me and Teresa were the last ones out the house so we locked it and walked to the car and sat in the back.
"Looking good guys" Aunt May told us.
"thanks Aunt May" we both said.
After several minutes, we made it to the HQ and parked the car. We all went straight to our labs (or offices in the cases of Aunt May and Uncle Ben.) I went to my lab, entered my biometrics on the door, and walked in. On the desk, there were two projects that Peter (I) was working on. one of them was a lizard regeneration formula (yikes) for one Dr. Connors, who was the head of the biological enhancements field of PI. Another project was a smart watch sorta thing that would replace the need for a phone. I decided to finish these two projects before doing Spider-Man work. For the Lizard formula, I put a big x on it and worked on making The Cradle thing that Dr. Cho and Ultron used to make Vision instead as that would be a safer alternative.
After working on it for an hour and a half, I made some blueprints for The Cradle, but I came to the conclusion that I would need a power source similar to the arc reactor (I wasn't going to use the arc reactor I respect Tony Stark enough not to make it before him.)
Putting the blueprints aside, I started on the smartwatch. The main problems Peter had with this watch was 1) how to fit a camera onto it and 2) what to name it. After some tinkering, I decided to forgo the original interior design in favor of a more minimalistic, nanotechnological design. After about thirty minutes, I finished a personal/beta version. It had a rectangular display, almost like a mini phone, but not hard to navigate, had a crude A.I. similar to Siri of my old universe, and when you activated the camera, a round.. thing came out of the watch and opened up like a scroll, revealing the camera, which could twirl based on wether you wanted to take a selfie or not, and was (obviously) black and red.
"hmmm, what to name you?" I said to myself/ the watch
After a moment I said "Ah! I got it, introducing the... Parkerwatch!"
(hey it was that or smartwear)
I configured the AI to be named by whoever bought it. But I wasn't going to have such a crude AI on my Parkerwatch, no, sir. So I got on the work of creating an AI with complex emotions and stuff. After twenty minutes, I hit a stump. So I pressed a button on my desk that called Tess.
"watcha want Pete?" She said as she answered the call.
"Could you help me with something here, I'm trying to create an AI with emotions but I've hit a stump in the coding?"
"sure thing, I was just sitting around anyways, see you in two."
About two minutes later, my door opened to reveal my sister (I thought that by myself!) She popped the bubble gum that she had and said, "So what's the probs?"
Gods, I have such an awesome new sister.
I shook my head to clear my thoughts then said "here, take a look."
She leaned over my shoulder for a minute, then moved her hand to my super cool black and blue keyboard (that's my second favorite color combo.) After typing for several minutes, she hit a stump and I picked up on where she left off.
"Sit down on a chair." I said.
She got a rolling chair that I had against the wall, and brought it next to me and sat down. I continued coding till I hit another stump, and she picked off where I stumped. After ten minutes and 6 handovers, we finished the AI.
"So what's her name?" Tess asked
"Superior Engineered Xquisite Intelligence. Without the E in Xquisite."
"ok so her nickname is... S.E.X.I.?" she said, trying hard not to laugh
"Hey its going to be so fun going to school and just go 'S.E.X.I., what's the weather gonna be like tomorrow?'" I said, lightly chuckling myself.
"Oh my god this is too good." Teresa said, exploding into crazy laughter.
After she cal!ed down, I said " Ok I'm waking her up be nice."
"Of course." Teresa said, immediately coming to attention.
I started her up and after several moments said "hey SEXI"
"Hey Master Parker. How may I be of assistance to you?" She said in a New Yorker accent.
"Nothing right now hun. How're you feeling?"
"I'm feeling... quite unsure but well Master Parker, thank you for asking."
"No prob SEXI, just drop the 'Master Parker' will ya? You can call me Pete or Peter or whatever you want; you can even call me dipshit. Let's leave 'Master Parker' for Uncle Ben, 'kay?"
"How about Prince? According to what I have found on the Parker Industries database you are slated to inherit the Company as well as the position of CEO when you come of age, thereby making you a prince of sorts?"
"That name is perfect, thanks a lot."
"Its my pleasure, Prince."
My attention was drawn to a slight snickering from next to me. I looked and I saw Tess there. Oh she was here the whole time and is now finding me being prince amusing.
"I am assuming you know who this is right SEXI?"
"Yes, hello Mistress Parker, I am SEXI, it is an honor."
"its an honor to meet you too, SEXI. And drop the honorific, you're a part of our family."
"I am honored and pleased to be a part of the Parker family. Shall I call you Princess instead?"
"Why not? But just call me Tess when we're around non-family, ok?"
"As you wish Princess."
"SEXI, can you do the same for me? Just call me Pete if we're around non family" I said.
"for sure." She responded.
"Ok, now why don't you spread your base across the internet, I want you to be safe. Put one copy in my Parkerwatch, and some in our computers back home, as well as copies in our phones. actually don't put it in the phones I'll just make Parkerwatches for the family."
"Parkerwatch?" Teresa asked
"I just made them" I said, passing mine to her.
"Cool, reinforced plating so as to reassure that it can't break, polymer band, waterproof to the point of scuba diving, a SIM scanner rather than wasting internal space, but where's the camera?"
"SEXI, care to do the honors?" I said, a smile on my face.
"Of course, Prince." SEXI responded from the watch, with a smile in her voice (YEA BOII)
The camera function popped out the side and Tess squealed in a combo of excitement and surprise.
"ok wow, this is AWESOME!"
"you said it" I responded
"take it to the patent office now"
"I already sent the blueprints to the production as well as submitted patent requests."
"Ok good job, now what?" Tess asked
"Well, have you decided on a superhero moniker?"
"I am thinking Wolf Spider."
There were several spiders with that name, so I'm not surprised.
"Nice, I'm just going with the usual Spider-Man"
"If I may Prince, what is it you are talking about" SEXI interjected.
"Oh I am so sorry hun, so see the thing is yesterday me and Tess were bit by these special spiders from OsCorp, which gave us spider powers. The spider that bit me had interdimensional powers, so I saw billions of other Peter Parkers' from other universes lives-"
"So the multiverse theory is real?" SEXI asked with awe in her voice.
"yeah it is, super cool stuff hun, one day I will show you. But anyways, most Peters have a real bad life SEXI. They don't have you, their Uncle Bens die in front of them, and they lose their loved ones again and again. So because of that, I decided to do my best to make sure that no one had to pay the price of my mistakes in this world, that's also the reason why I created you, sunshine. I wanted to bring some more happiness into our family, and I wanted your help to keep Aunt May, Uncle Ben, and Tess safe, so what do you say, sunshine?"
"that's a lot to unload Prince," SEXI said, her voice unsure, "but I will do whatever it takes to keep you all safe, in the end you are my family and I will make sure you stay safe, whatever the cost." Determination leaked into her voice towards the end.
"That's my girl!" I said, with pride in my voice.
Suddenly Teresa started coughing. I looked at her curiously, it was obviously fake coughing "*cough cough* dad *cough cough*" she 'coughed' out
I rolled my eyes at that and turned around.
"Anyways, that's that, and we need to make our suits. I have a body suit designer somewhere here and if I tweak it a little bit it can serve its purpose as a super suit designer."
"Prince?" SEXI said asked
"Yes hun?"
"Are you my dad?"
"In a manner of speaking, yes. You may not be my biological child but in my eyes you are my child, you got that sunshine?"
"yes, thank you very much, can I call you dad?"
"hun, you can call me whatever you want."
"Thanks Dad."
"Anytime SEXI." I said, then I leaned down and gave the top of my monitor a kiss, significant of her forehead.
"Awww" Tess said, interjecting in our bonding moment.
I glared at her.
"We were just having our first father-daughter bonding moment and you just had to didn't you?"
"Hey she needs to spend some time with her Aunt too." Tess responded, A small smile on her face.
"Do you wish for me to call you Aunt Tess, Princess?"
"I would love that, thank you sweetie"
"Ok now we have to focus on our job, you connected to the suit designer Sexi?"
"Yes dad"
"Ok so we need to adapt the idea of this designer, which means a change in airings and stuff. So how about wait!" I just realized, I could make a combination between The Cradle and thus suit designer to get my intended final product.
"what happened?" Tess asked.
I threw a blueprint at her "So I made these blueprints for this thing, I call it The Cradle. It is made to recreate lost muscles and such, but the problem is that its missing-"
"A power source smaller than the arc reactor but can contain more power and you're thinking to merge the two machines to create our suit designer!" Tess said.
"yup." I said, a little down because it'd take a long time to get the power source down.
"Well then let's get started! I'm sure with the three of us its not going to take too long right SEXI?" Tess said enthusiastically.
Three hours and one newly created element later, we got our power source. It was quite interesting, it could take two hundred times the amount of power that the typical arc reactor that size could hold, and the new element it used had a sort of glow to it, which could be increased or decreased to the point of not being there, and could change colors too! I was sure it wasn't Starkium or Badassium, whatever Tony calls it in this world, that couldn't change colors.
"So what do we call the element?" Tess asked
"Let's give SEXI the naming rights. What do you say, hun?"
"So we made a sort of element, whose specialty is in making a power source. Uhhh, how about simply Parkerium?" SEXI suggested
"Parkerium it is" I said.
"Now lets send the designs for the reactor to the patent and production, as well as the element itself." Tess said
"Now onto the next step: making The Cradle and our suit designer."
Five hours and lord only knows how many granola bars later, we finished with everything. We made The Cradle and I yet had to test it; The suit designer was made and in perfect condition; we made our suits. Both me and Teresa had spider-legs growing out of our back, so we made our suits accordingly. We also added a feature to our suit so when we took it off it turned into a shirt of sorts, which looked as if it were ones actual body. The 'folded' suit was made so as to be able to hide the legs. For now they could be hidden as ribs, but eventually they would be to obvious so as to not be ribs. We apparently had organic web shooters, which we figured out when I was showing Tess and SEXI how most Spider-Men shot their webs, and suddenly webs shot out and hit the wall. We created several gadgets, like the trusty Spider-Drone and web grenades, among others. Finally, everything was ready and we were ready to put our suits on.
"Ok so SEXI give us a three second timer when it goes off we activate our suits 'kay?"
"Three... Two... One... Activate!" SEXI said.
We both activated our suits.
Mine looked like TASM suit, but instead of the blue and black combo, it was my favorite black and red I remember in my old life there was this one editor on Instagram called venomhology who edited a suit to look like this. I also added the expressive lenses MCUSM had. It had a layer of my own version of Kevlar which made the original Kevlar look weak. It could take 100 shots and only suffer slight fraying. Underneath the Kevlar was our reactor. The red areas were all reactor. If I wanted to, I could increase the glow of the red such to the point that it was a strong light. It also had camoflage so it could hide from any sort of scan. The feet soles had a special sort of repulsor which covered the whole sole, but the sole was still thin enough for my 'sticky powers' to work. The repulsors also glowed red. I got the idea from The White Wolf's suit from Avengers Assemble Season 5. I hoped he was around in this universe, he was a really chill dude, a pity he died in that universe. It also had a hidden utility belt which had all my gadgets.
Teresa's was black and purple, had all the powers and features mine had, with her hair poking out the back. The spider emblem on hers was like MCUSM. Pretty cool, if you asked me.
We spent the next hour configuring the ability within the suits for SEXI to operate it should we be injured or if we wanted to convince someone we weren't Spider-Man and/or Wolf Spider
"Oh and SEXI, we aren't telling Aunt May or Uncle Ben about the whole superhero thing till later, ok hun?"
"Of course dad"
After we finished, we sent a message to Aunt May and Uncle Ben that we were ready to head out and went down the elevator to our car. Once we all sat in the car Teresa blurted out "guess what I'm an Aunt now!"
Aunt May was starting to drive out but when she heard that she stopped, shared a look with Uncle Ben, then turned to look at me.
Uncle Ben had pulled out his phone but when he heard that he stopped, shared a look with Aunt May, then turned to look at me.
"Now what exactly is the meaning of that, young man?" They both said at the same time.
I gulped. Then turned to glare at Tess, whose face said 'ok maybe I shouldn't have phrased it like that and I should be sorry but this is ENTERTAINING!' Then turned to look at my parent figures again.
"Hun, I think it'd be much easier if you explained this to them right sunshine?" I said
"Of course dad. What Aunt Tess meant is that Dad here had created me today and we had a discussion in which we mutually all agreed that dad is my dad and Aunt Tess is my aunt." SEXI said from my Parkerwatch
"ok, and who are you?" Aunt May asked, her voice lost all of it's harshness and instead had softness and curiosity.
"My name is Superior Engineered Xquisite Intelligence, short SEXI Parker." That's touching, she took my last name. "I was 'born' today, and my purpose is to live life and make sure my family stays safe."
"Ok, SEXI, can I call you Karen? Because I don't feel right calling you SEXI all the time, but if you like the name SEXI better I won't call you anything else."
"How about my full name be Karen SEXI Parker, what do you think Dad?"
"Sunshine, I don't see why not. This is all your choice in the end." I said.
"Then that's my full name" Karen SEXI Parker said
"Welcome to the family!" We all said together.
"thank you, now I believe we were on our way home? And what shall I call you, Master and Mistress Parker?"
Aunt May started driving again as she said "hmmm I'm not sure..."
"Just call them grandma and grandpa or something of the sort hun." I said
"Grandma and Grandpa it is."
"That's my girl" I said, pride in my voice.
We were home when Uncle Ben asked "oh Peter what is that watch of yours? Is it just for Karen or what?"
"Well that's one of the few things I made today, I even made one for each of you" I said, handing both of my parent figures a box while gesturing at the watch on Tess' wrist. "It's called a Parkerwatch, it operates like a very advanced smartphone, the typical design I made for production has a basic AI for ease of access, but ours are all outfitted with Karen. I personalized the bands for you guys, so Tess has a black and purple band while I have a black and red band, and you guys have rose gold and blurple respectively. I also put some weaponry on yours so if some one attempts to attack you they will regret it. If everything goes as I want it to, the watches will be released after I step up as CEO."
"Ok, wow, good job kid." Uncle Ben told me then he started having an animated discussion with Karen on how cool I am (weird I'm right here) from behind me I heard Tess say so quietly only I could hear it because of my enhanced senses, "what weaponry?"
"enough defenses to kill even a rhino." I whispered back in a mischievous voice.