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Chapter 7: Test Part 1
Deep Space
In vast time of a timeless space where silence ruled the outer space a cosmic event was about to take place. Within the asteroid field a spaceship flies by within the vessel two beings view this speculator frozen comet in great awe well at one of them was looking at it with great awe.
"Look Pit isn't that the most magnificent celestial object you've ever seen?"
"Awe come on Drex are you telling me that the beacon took a trillion light years ooh and ahh at an icicle?"
Drex a humanoid robot chuckled a bit at his short friend, "No my friend it's taking us to that!"
The alien jaw dropped as he witnessed a shinning green object in the distance, "It can't be!"
"But it is!" The large green humanoid said, "Another Universal library."
"That means that we are going to know everything!" The dwarf alien said with glee the excitement was written all over his face, "Look out tree because I'm going to use it to free all the trolls!"
A sudden boom caused their ship to shake forcing them to the ground; Pit was not amused with this, "Great! Now what's going on!"?
"Only way to find out!" Drex flew out of the of ship into the outer space, suddenly a strange phenomenon took place again the thunder boomed, Drex flies in reverse the same way he came out of the ship, he landed on the floor with Pit speaking backwards as a reverse shaking occurs, then their ship flies in backwards instead of forward to the Universal library.
They flew backwards across the iced comet, then they disappeared out of the view yet the phenomenon doesn't stop as the universal library, the ice comet, the stars, the planets and the entire galaxy cease to exist leaving in its wake nothing.
Two massive figures looked at each other as one of them said solemnly "It begins…"
Somewhere else in the cosmos
"Hark Silver Surfer! Do you truly except me to believe that you wish to resume your duties as my herald?" The planet eater known as Galactus questioned his former herald the man on a flying board known as Norrin Radd his first and mightiest of his herald floated before him with a request.
"I don't wish to so but I will if you let me spend a brief moment with Shalla-Bal." HE pleaded
"Very well my repentive son. I will bestow upon the blessing that your heart most desires."
"Oh mighty one never can I thank you enough!" He flipped for joy as he continued to say, "You have given me…"
"Silver Surfer!"
His eyes popped opened when his name was called, he laid rest on asteroid dreaming a hope that he knew that will never come to pass.
"My greatest dream?" He pondered putting a hand on his head
"I beg your pardon Silver Surfer I do not desire to disturb on your slumber."
He looked up to see none other than Uatu the Watcher before him, "Watcher! Why do you come to me? Well do I know your vow of noninterference."
"And you know that I have broken it!" He said with tone of that sounded with urgency, "In times of great peril!"
Noting the urgency in his tone Surfer hovered to his board, "What is it Watcher? Have you found Zenn-La? Does trouble threaten my home?"
"It threatens us all!" He replied, "Just as once you were the Herald of Galactus, think of me harbinger of greater entity! It is from them that you will receive your answer."
Suddenly two massive figures appeared before him. He looked at them in awe, as one of them said in a male voice, "Prepare yourself Silver Surfer!"
"You and another are about to learn the true nature and secrets of the Universe."
Within his mind he began to ponder these being in front of him; 'These voices, they ring throughout my being. What matter of entities are these?'
He questioned them, "Who are you that you overwhelm my senses? Who are to vast for my mortal eyes to see?"
The silhouette of what looked like a male spoke addressing themselves, "My sister Infinity the essence of space. I am Eternity made up of all time."
"Together we are the universe personified created by the One Above All which glory, honor, praise and power belong only to HIM." Infinity said
They showed him a planet, Surfer recognized the planet they showed him, "I know this world it is called Harmony!"
"Yes now look well at the event that is going on, a malignant force has gained the power to turn time backwards! Soon the entire cosmos will be affected!"
Surfer watched in horror as the species returned back to their primitive states and soon the galaxy itself disappeared as if it was never there.
"If this abomination is not stopped all of creation will end!"
"No…" He floated up to the eyes of both entities, "Eternity, Infinity! Surely you will not let the universe come to this end?"
"We are beings that see what goes around the universe, we see all possible outcomes yet we do not know which will inevitably occur." Infinity said with a solemn tone
"Nor can we implore our vast power directly. Too do so…will cause the very catastrophe we seek to avoid." Eternity finished
Infinity gestured with her hand, "Which is why we must choose two champions to act in our stand."
"A being like yourself with time and space has already been wrench from him will not be affected by the reversal that is happening."
A flux occurred, Infinity was brought done to her knees as her brother Eternity helped her up, "Time is of the essences! Be warned Silver Suffer that you and the other champion will truly perish unless you both succeed in stopping the universe from disappearing."
"You speak of another Champion who is this other? Where would I find them?" Surfer asked
"You will find the second in the Milky Way Galaxy a planet you already been too well." Infinity said
"Earth…"
"Precisely, now hurry time is short you must use the power of Galactus and the soul of Zenn-La to stop the agent of destruction from destroying all of us before it is too late."
"Who is this Madman that would do such a thing to us? How will I know if Earth's Champion to help me stop this cataclysm?"
"You will know in time Surfer who it is and how you will find this other if the person will be able to withstand the effects of time reversal or you will test their might with your powers." The two Entities began to flicker, "Go before Earth shares the same fate as the others."
They disappeared from view leaving the Surfer to go over the events that just occurred as he traveled at the speed light to earth.
Earth Woodlawn cemetery 12:30 PM
He stood alone looking at a tombstone on these particular tombstone had the following inscriptions on the right and on the left. On the right side it read, 'Here lies George Stacy, Beloved Husband, Wonderful friend, Beloved Captain, Gone but never forgotten, May he rest in peace.'
On the left it read, 'Here lies Gwen Stacy, Beloved daughter, Amazing friend, Treasured Student, Rest in Peace.'
"Hey Gwen it's Peter…" He began, "Sorry I couldn't come around often as I would like but when you are in coma you don't get to go to much places..heh…heh..."
There was silence only the gentle breeze moving the leaves making them rustle, Peter continued, "I got new powers…I got them when the Helicarrier exploded with a mystical item on board with whole bunch of chemicals soaking me to death…"
Again the tombstone said nothing, "I don't know why I am here I guess when I look you I can see my friend Jessica Drew in that coffin. Ms. Marvel…she blames me for Jessica's death she even thrown me out of Redden's Funeral Home and I don't blame her. That's right you don't know her but you guys would have been best friends if you still al-…" He paused, "It's my fault I should of put an end to that guy before things got out of hand…now another one dies because I wasn't strong enough to stop him…"
Again silence
"How can I can I be Spider-Man if everyone I care about dies on my watch. I've learned time and time again that with Great Power comes Great Responsibility and yet I feel like every time I try harder I lose…I always lose someone…"
He wiped the water out of his eyes, "Thanks for listening Gwen I'll try to come back. See you around kid."
He kisses his two fingers and placed them on the left side of the tombstone, he turned to the right "Captain good seeing you again, hopefully we'll talk more in the future."
He let a small sad smile on his face then in went back to a neutral face as he left the open cemetery.
Parker Residence 1:15 PM
May trembled before the letter that she had in her hands, she had to read it three times to make sure that this wasn't a cruel joke. How can she break the news to Peter it will crush him for sure, it already been a day since he lost that Jessica girlfriend of his and she was such a sweet young girl she would of have been perfect for Peter what an unfortunate timing.
She heard the door and a voice that she recognized to well, "Aunt May I'm home!"
Quickly she folded the paper put it back in the envelope stood up rather quickly placing the letter in her apron pocket. Peter wasn't going to known anything about the condition that she was in.
So she put on her best smile greeting her beloved nephew, "I'm in the living sweetie come you just in time for cookies."
Suddenly she was dizzy and fell forward
"Great I think I could use a homemade patch of sweetness." He entered the room just in time to catch his Aunt, "Whoa Aunt are you okay."
"Oh my stars." Allowing her head to stop spinning, she looked up at her worried nephew, she could have sworn she felt a gust of wind, "Don't worry Peter I stood up too fast is all. A girl of my age is only getting older not younger."
She smiled kissing him on the cheek, "Come in the kitchen. I made your favorite."
"Chocolate chip…"
Aunt May quickly went into the kitchen getting out the patch she made. Peter went to the fridge taking out milk because you cannot have Aunt May's famous cookies without milk.
"So how did go today at the funeral?" She asked
"I couldn't stay…"
Aunt May was taken aback, "What do you mean you couldn't stay? Peter you do know that was disrespectful and you normally would stay why in the world would you leave?"
"It's not like I had a choice."
"What do you mean?"
"I got thrown out by Jessica' best friend Carol Danvers, she blames me for her death…since I was the last person she was seen with…"
"Peter I don't know what happened to her but her death isn't your fault your not a Superman you know." She came up to him cupping both his cheeks, "You can't save everyone. Every person has a time to go, it was just her time. Though when I do see this Carol Danvers she will be sorry that she ever met me."
"Then how come I still feel guilty about it? I still feel like I could of have done something…" Peter eyes began to water, "I've could have done something…"
Aunt May pulled her nephew into her abdomen as he silent wept, "Just let it go Peter, just let it all out."
Avengers Mansion
Carol Danvers was in the gym venting frustration on a punching bag, she imagined Peter Parkers face on it, while she did she became angry. The more thought she put on Peter for disserting them in combat the angrier she got the more power she put in her punches and kicks until she knocked it out of these hinges for the 50th time today.
"Damn it! That's the 50th one today!" She growled going to the closet of equipment to find the last punching bag there, she's unaware of Steve Rogers looking at her every movement.
He saw her take her frustration out on the bag then he spoke, "Something troubling you Carol?"
She paused to look at the Veteran from WWII then she resumed, "I don't want to talk about it Steve."
"I do." He said walking towards the bag, "Mind if I join you?"
Carol shrugged as she went off the punching straight for the jump rope
He was already in workout clothing so he began to punch the bag "So I hear you kicked out our Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man out of the Funeral home this afternoon, may I ask why?"
She let the jump rope swing faster around her, Steve continued to talk, "Peter can be annoying, he can be silly, he can make the most rigorous person to falter but one thing he will never do is leave a comrade behind."
"Yeah…tell…that…too…my DEAD best friend!" She slapped the jump rope crisscross as she finished, "If he didn't leave Jess would still be alive right now! Yet he abandoned us right in the middle of the fight!"
"You don't know that Carol besides it wasn't his fault he has no idea on how his new powers work and he told Reed and Hank that he would like you to train him to use them well."
"HA! The chances he got to 'train' with me are like a chance hell will freeze over which is not going to happen! Not in a million years. You guys decided to put me with him to babysit him fine! I'll do it but to do anything else forget it."
"Letting that anger control you is what going to give you a bitter heart Carol don't let it consume you because nothing good come out of a bitter heart, trust me I know from experience."
"Don't lecture me Steve because you don't know how I feel." Carol was headed for the door she stopped halfway, "You think I hated Spider-Man before? You haven't seen anything yet."
Steve shook his head, Carol had a lot to learn however he feared for Peter he just hoped that the Wall Crawler could bring Carol out of her foul mood before anything bad happens.
Eero Saarinen's abandoned TWA Terminal, JFK Airport, New York 4:00 PM
Reed got a call from Peter that he needed to seen him pronto about his emerging powers, he stated that everything that he saw was slowing down when his aunt fell forward and he ran a little too fast to wind up in the middle of Mexico City when he left the house for a jog.
The FF had to pick him up and they brought a whole bunch of equipment to do some testing on Peter with them. So now here they were in the abandon Terminal waiting for Peter to change into testing uniform, though Susan had to ask the question, "Reed you don't really believe that he can run that fast do you?"
"I believe anything possible in few minutes, if he can run from his house to Mexico in matters of seconds think of the possibilities he will be able to do when he reaches his full potential." Reed was putting the finishing touches on the computers
Johnny walked to the porta-potty knocking on the door, "How's the fit?"
From inside Peter replied, "I look ridiculous and the tight is a bit snug."
"Come on it can't be that bad."
The door opened to reveal Peter in a cut up version of the fantastic four suit, meaning the suit was cut up to the legs, and his entire arm section was cut to the shoulders not to mention that he was wearing bike gear.
"Well at least you will be moving so fast that no one will see you." He chuckled
"Yeah flame brain laugh it off, go ahead make fun the guy who has a low self esteem." Peter replied as he was lead to the married couple
"So according to our genius of scientist here as he told me you thought you saw the world slowing down but in reality you were moving so fast that it looked like everyone else was standing still." Johnny turned to his family, "Alright web head, Reed will be monitoring the energy output while Susy will monitor you vitals."
"What you going to be doing?"
"Me? I am going to check your speed sit back and enjoy the show." Johnny smirk, "Good luck buddy."
Susan came with iPad in hand while calibrating they system on his chest, "Okay Peter are you nervous?"
"Considering the fact that I am developing new powers each and every day and that fact I might be able to blow New York City off the face map I feel great."
"Don't worry we'll make sure it won't come to that, besides your one of the most responsible guys I know and if it wasn't for you protecting this I don't think anybody will want to live in New York for the rest of their lives." Susan smiled then left
"Alright Peter while I am extremely eager to determine your full range of your abilities I do caution restraint."
Peter nodded, he got ready to his position, and he was in a runner position mind you looking back at Reed waiting for the signal. The leader of the FF nodded, the spider hero nodded back then he took a deep breath and exhaled.
Then with astonishing force he took off knocking Johnny to the ground, Susan had to ground herself as she lost balance, Reed felt waves all over his body and the sound of a sonic boom let the papers fly everywhere. Johnny couldn't believe his eyes, Reed was with his mouth open, and Susan blinked not believing her eyes as the blur took off down the runway of the airport.
"He's going to make history." Reed said, "Our Spider-Man is going to be a variable of outcomes in the future."
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