Author's Note: So unfortunately, I have once again lost access to Ultimate Spiderman. Crap Baskets… So, I'm gonna play it by ear. I'm changing up this episode quite a bit but I'm gonna keep rolling the Spideynova for now. I own nothing.
24. Fitness Test
Piper rolled her eyes as everyone laughed at Flash's joke at her expense. She spotted her team across the cafeteria and made her way over to them. Sam scooted over and Piper sat down next to him smiling slightly. She nudged him slightly.
"Good job with Batrock the leaper last night." Sam shook his head hiding a slight smile as he replied.
"The only thing you've been right about so far is that sandwich, best I've had in a long time." Piper grinned and held out her hand for a fist bump. Sam grudgingly obliged and the rest of the team stared. Danny grinned and shook his head slightly as Acting Principle Coulson began to speak again.
"And lastly due to an unfortunate accident your regular gym teacher Mr. Molskin will be in the hospital for the foreseeable future. This is your temporary gym teacher Mr. Jaeger." A tall man in shorts and a tank top with a sweat band around his head smiled from the corner and stepped forwards.
"I look forward to unlocking each of your hidden talents." Piper frowned.
"Did that sound like a veiled threat to anyone else?" The others at the table shrugged and Piper waved at Harry as he slipped into the room. He grinned and made his way over as Acting Principle Coulson finished his announcements. MJ joined them at the table and grinned at Piper. She leaned around Harry and spoke.
"Did you guys hear? There's a rumor going around that Spider-girl really does go to this school." Piper laughed trying to hide any of her nervousness.
"Yeah right, why would Spidey ever go to school in the first place?" Harry shrugged.
"I don't know Piper, it's kinda cool to think that there might be a superhero at our school." Piper shrugged. Harry laughed.
"Of course, you wouldn't think it was that cool." Piper giggled as the bell rang and they headed off to their classes.
If there was one thing in school Piper absolutely hated it was gym class. She'd always hated gym, originally it had been because she wasn't very good at it. Then when she hit high school it was because she was teased because she wasn't as fit as some of the other girls. But now she hated gym for an entirely different reason. She could easily beat the course that was currently being explained by a pre-recorded image of her Uncle Steve easily. With barely any effort she could ace gym like she aced her other classes but she chose not to. She chose to suck at gym to keep people safe, to keep her identity a secret. The good feeling, she got from doing the right thing didn't make getting nailed in the head with a dodgeball thrown by Liz Allen any more fun though. Sam laughed and picked up the ball.
"Is that your face print Parker?" He laughed as he held out a hand to her and helped her to her feet as Mr. Jaeger blew his whistle.
"Alright enough messing around! This test is also to determine who the school will send to the all-state championships for the Captain America Fitness test." Piper frowned, that didn't make sense. Since when was there a competition for this? She couldn't remember one.
"We only have one available position. Let's get started!" He had the boys run the course first, then the girls. Piper couldn't help but shiver as he looked over the girls while Sam finished his run of the course. He was freaking creepy. Sam danced over to her with a grin on his face.
"Bet you can't beat that time Parker." Piper rolled her eyes as the girls started going through the course.
"I could beat your time if I wanted to Bucket head. I don't want to. It'd give away too much." Sam shook his head as Piper rolled her eyes at her.
"Come on webs, let's see you do it." Mr. Jaeger shouted from across the gym.
"Parker are you gonna stand there all day? Run the course!" Piper frowned and stretched. She could easily flip and climb this course faster than even Ava who had the best score so far but she didn't. Instead she faked struggling up the wall and gingerly climbing down before pretending to slip and fall. Mr. Jaeger sighed and checked his clipboard.
"Alright, Watson, Allen, Ayala you three will come in tomorrow to run the course again, and find out which one of you makes the cut. Everyone else, anemic." Sam made an annoyed sound.
"What! I aced that course! Come on Coach." Piper shook her head. Sam made an angry noise as he stomped back over to her.
"Come on Parker, I wanna see if I can beat your time when you're really trying." Piper shook her head.
"Sam, I don't want to compete with you it's stupid." Sam rolled his eyes.
"Come on, we'll come back tomorrow after they're done nobody has to know." Piper rolled her eyes again as Danny and Luke headed off to the locker rooms. Ava was dancing around apparently happy to be picked.
"Sam, you can run that course tomorrow, but you're gonna have to do it without me. I have things to do tomorrow." Tomorrow was the day she had set aside for her training with Uncle Clint, also sleep. Sam rolled his eyes.
"Can't take a challenge eh Parker?" Piper flipped him off as she left for the locker room. The rest of the school day passed in a blur and soon she was being pulled into detention and whisked off to the Helicarier. This time Doctor Conners met her in the main hanger. She smiled under her mask as he dragged her off to a different lab. This one was full of deactivated LMD's Piper raised an eyebrow under her mask.
"What's up Doc?" Doctor Conners turned to her.
"This is your lab. I managed to convince director Fury to give you your own space to work because of the number of Life Model Decoys that need reprograming. I went over the coding and it is a work of genius! Have you ever taken an IQ test Spider-girl?" Piper nodded.
"I have actually, Reed Richards had me take one. I scored just a few points over what he got at the same age. That was about a year ago." Doctor Conners smiled and nodded.
"That is quite impressive but not too surprising. We need to reprogram these LMD's so they meet the same requirements for Save the Citizen that the one's you've already reprogramed meet." Piper nodded.
"Shouldn't be too hard, we just have to clone the programing from one of the ones I've already reprogramed." Doctor Conners nodded and left to get one of the LMD's she'd already reprogramed. Piper grinned and began to take apart the backs of the heads of the LMD's in the room.
