After the dream Peter had last night he woke up panting
"What was that, Parker Laboratories. Did dad have a lab somewhere?" Peter asked confused before noticing something, he reached for his glasses and placed them on, noticing it was blurry. "that's weird" he said as he stood up and looked in the mirror noticing he had gone from the physique of a geek to that of a fighter of some kind. He wasn't too bulky but he wasn't skinny as he used to be either. "What the heck?" he asked
"Peter, Breakfast is ready" a voice cried out
"Coming Aunt May" Peter shouted back down as he pulled on a shirt while grabbing an over shirt. He reached over to grab his bag before he noticed something, a spider a made a web on his window, he shook his head and walked off.
"Morning Peter" Aunt May said as she turned
"Morning Aunt May, Uncle Ben go in already?" Peter asked
"Yes, Officer Davis picked him up, there was a bit of a crisis from what I heard" Aunt May said
"nothing major I hope" Peter said
"Not quite" May said as she placed some pancakes down in front of her nephew, who frowned before turning to his aunt
"Hey Aunt May have you heard of something called Parker Laboratories?" Peter asked
"It doesn't ring a bell" May said after thinking about it for awhile
"Oh okay, well I better be off" Peter said finishing his breakfast, what he missed was the concerned
"I just hope it's not like the situation with his father" May said looking a bit worried
"So what is Parker Laboratories, maybe someone else knows about what it is" Peter said leaning on a wall waiting for the bus, he checked he watched and noticed it was about five minutes until the bus got there, so he pushed off of the wall with his hand, only to be stopped, he frowned and tried again meeting the same result. So he put his foot on the wall and pulled before try and pry the hand off the wall only for his foot to be stuck as well, so he added his other foot and succeeded in prying his hand off the wall, only to be standing sideways on the wall "Huh?" he asked before falling on his side "Ow"
"You alright man?" Anya said rushing over to him
"Yeah, thought I could stand on a wall, maximum time 5 seconds" Peter groaned before straightening up hissing in pain as he did so
"You sure you're alright man?" Anya asked
"Yeah yeah just a slight bruise" Peter said as Anya helped him onto the bus and then into a seat
"Defying gravity?" Harry asked dragging a mat against the wall
"Yep" Peter said "It came to me in a dream" he said as he ran at the wall and tried to run, took two steps up it before he fell onto the mat "How long was that?"
"three seconds" Harry said
"Great" Peter said
"Well at least you tried, oh by the way head's up" Harry said as a football was thrown they way.
"Goodie" Peter said before he felt a buzzing sensation before he grabbed the football midair. The two looked at each other and back to the ball. "Well that's new"
"Yeah, you okay man?" Harry asked
"Never better" Peter said throwing the football back, and having it zoom past the team and imbedded into a tree
"What have you been doing?" Harry asked shocked
"I have no idea" Peter said
"Okay so let's do this" Peter said jumping up onto the wall and slapped his hand on there and he was stuck there. He then relaxed his hand and dropped. "That's how that works, I wonder how hard I can get?" Peter mused as he walked over to the wall and jumped again, with two hands on the wall, then he brought up his feet and started to climb up the wall, "Don't look down, Don't look down, Don't look down, Don't look down and I looked down, crap" Peter said as he felt himself start to slide down the wall a bit before focusing on his hands again before climbing up the wall again, reaching the roof Peter looked down "That has to be a hundred meters easily" he said smiling. "But does the surface of what I'm coming on affect my grip, plus how long does it stick for, and one last question what about sticking to a roof?" he asked himself before spending the rest of the day figuring out how to test these new abilities he seemingly gained out of nowhere. But the fact he started having dreams of something called Parker Laboratories while gaining new power was no mere coincidence to him, so he needed to find out what Parker Laboratories was and where it was located.
"I don't think I've heard of something like that and I know all of the tech companies. I don't know about one named after you, have you asked your guardians?" Harry asked
"yeah I did, but Aunt May didn't know anything about" Peter said
"About what?" Gwen asked sitting down
"Parker Laboratories, have you heard of it Gwen?" Harry asked
"You know, I think my dad did an investigation into it, but it turned out to be nothing in particular" Gwen said
"Is it even real?" Cindy asked
"I don't know, all I know is that it is driving me crazy to find out what it is" Peter said
"Why not search the internet for it?" Ned asked as he pulled up an internet search engine before typing in what Peter was looking for "We got a hit"
"What is it?" Peter asked
"it is apparently a SHIELD funded civilian science and technology based lab run by Prof Richard Parker and his wife Dr Mary Parker" Ned said
"My parents worked for SHIELD?" Peter asked
"Okay, so what does that mean?" Harry asked
"I have no idea, does it give an address?" Peter asked
"No it doesn't, in fact that's all that is there" Ned said down hearted "Sorry man"
"Hey, at least we know it is a real thing" Peter said
"Maybe, I can work on these powers more if I find my dad's old lab" Peter said as he did pull up using his new powers. Suddenly he dropped down and answered his phone
"Hey, Pete where are you?" Eddie asked
"I'm just walking around an abandoned building, what's up?" Peter asked
"I've been looking at the photos from the other day and I was wondering if you would like to help me do the layout for them" Eddie said
"Sure, but the expo was three days ago, why now?" Peter asked grabbing his bag and jumper
"Because it's a slow news day okay" Eddie said
"Okay I'll be there soon" Peter said
"Sure thing, just get ready to be barked at" Eddie said
"You got it" Peter said
"Looks good, and this one should be here" Peter said shifting photos around, but one took his attention, it was a background information panel detailing spiders, Peter looked at his hands and then grasped the air several time
"Cramp?" Eddie asked putting a drink near Peter
"Yeah" Peter said "Hey, can you check the back of my neck?"
"Sure thing" Eddie said pulling Peter's shirt collar down a bit "you've got a few marks back there, probably pimples"
"Yeah pimples" Peter said 'Okay so some sort of super-spider bit in and now I've got powers...and I just came to that conclusion from a picture of an info-graph on Spiders, though it does match up with the new powers I've got' Peter thought as he continued the layout. Soon it was late and the two had done their work
"So you two done for the night?" a voice asked
"Hey Uncle Ben" Peter said hugging his uncle
"How are you doing officer?" Eddie asked shaking Ben's hand
"Not bad, not bad at, I was just passing by and thought I better pick my nephew up" Ben laughed
"Sure thing, have a good night" Eddie said waving to the pair as they started to walk off. He then grabbed a fresh coffee before putting the final touches onto the layout before sending it to the printer.
"So how was school?" Ben asked as they approached the police cruiser. In the front seat was Ben's partner Jefferson Davis
"Hey Pete" Jefferson said
"Hey Officer Davis" Peter said doing up his seatbelt
"So we have to pick up some milk and eggs for your aunt" Ben said
"Okay" Peter said as they drove off, the sound of the radio played at the trio headed for the nearest shop. Once there Ben and Peter got out and headed inside
"Evening officer" the shopkeeper said as Ben went to the fridge and Peter went over to the magazine section, while he was looking for the latest photography magazine the bell chimed making his sixth sense go off. When it did that Peter knew something was about to happen. He turned his back to the fridge and moved his head down to read the articles but his eyes were glued to the door as two thugs walked around, one of them had locked the door. Finally one of them walked up to the shopkeeper and pulled a gun and aimed it at his face
"The cash now" the robber said as the second robber produced a shotgun and cocked it before aiming it around the shop
"Easy now" the shopkeeper said as he noticed Ben moving quietly and slowly as to not draw the attention of the robbers while drawing his sidearm and removing the safety, Peter put the magazine back and moved quietly to the back where the fridge was
"POLICE FREEZE!" Ben shouted pointing his gun at the robber holding the shotgun "Drop your weapon" he shouted making the robber do what he said "Now slide it over" Ben said as the second robber did so
"Now drop your gun and let us go" the first robber said
I don't think so" Ben said before the first robber noticed Peter standing there
"Drop the piece or I drop the kid" he said aiming at Peter
"Don't do it" Ben said
"I'll count to three, 1!" the robber said
"Okay okay" Ben said as he put his gun away while moving over to where Peter stood
"Good now" the robber said before he looked around as the second robber picked up his shotgun, the first robber then turned back to Ben and glared at him as the shopkeeper was giving him the cash. Suddenly the police siren sound spooking the first robber who pulled the trigger on his gun releasing three round
"NO!" Ben shouted diving into the path of the bullets, before collapsing into Peter's arms
"UNCLE BEN!" Peter cried catch his uncle who was bleeding and barley breathing "No, no, no, stay with me, Uncle Ben, please don't"
"I'm sorry" Ben said closing his eyes just before the door was ripped opened
"Let's get out of here" the robbers said making the bell chime, soon the bell chimed again and Jefferson entered looking panicked. Upon finding Ben and Peter he went for his radio
"Dispatch this is Officer Davis, I have an officer down, I have an officer down, need immediate medical attention on sight ten minutes ago" Jefferson said "HEY! get the kid out of there, take him somewhere he can't see okay?"
"You got it officer" the shopkeeper said as he took Peter away
Ten minutes later several police officers and two ambulance rolled up to the scene. Jefferson sat at the back of one of them with Peter who just kept looking at his hands as if they were still covered in blood. Captain Stacy was down there directing his men while looking pissed. Soon a gurney was rolled out of the shop with a black body bag on it. Seeing it Jefferson shifted so that it was out of Peter's view as it was loaded up while Captain Stacy walked over a bit, but he waited until the first ambulance drove away
"Please tell me that wasn't Ben" Capt. Stacy said
"It was sir" Jefferson said turning to where Peter sat looking at his hands as tears ran down his cheeks
"Shit, get him home and inform May okay?" Capt Stacy said
"Yes sir" Jefferson said. While there was a crowd gathered, many in shock at what they were seeing, among that crowd was Eddie Brock, who looked around and quickly bolted. Once he was back in his car he called Jonah
"Hey boss, listen something major has just happened, and one of our employees was involved. Peter, yeah that Peter; looks like his uncle was just killed. I know, sir I'm suggesting that we work out some sort of embargo about this, just until they've had time to grieve a bit, yes sir, understood sir, you got it" Eddie said driving back to the office.
"I'm sorry May" Jefferson said as she answered the door and saw the two there, he quickly caught her as she collapsed
"No, no, please tell me this is a joke Jeff" May said
"I wish I could, but I saw it. And worse of all, Peter saw it happen" Jefferson said
"No, will he be?" May asked
"I'm not sure, maybe with time he'll be alright but who knows" Jefferson said as he watched Peter ascend the staircase.
What am I going to do now, without Ben?" May asked
"I'm sure they'll work something out" Jefferson said. Up in his room Peter just looked at a photo taken of him and Uncle Ben when they had gone fishing together when Peter was young, putting down the photo Peter just curled up on his bed and looked out the window as the crescent moon before crying himself to sleep.
G'day Guys Grizz here ...so yeah I did that, well this is a radically different take on the character and how many of you were expecting Uncle Ben to be killed in front on Peter huh, not many I guess. Well it could have been a lot different since I was going to have a known character kill him instead but I thought this way would be a good way to do it.
Now the light hearted stuff with the powers is probably someone with these new powers would probably how someone experiment with them, also I have added the Parker Labs stuff as a slight subplot which will be resolved by the end of the origins four parter
So until next time I'll catch you on the flipside