chapter two
I browsed the web for information on this new world I was in, first of all, the fantastic four? Nowhere to be found, Xavier's school for gifted youngsters? Operating since the 1990’s -by the way, the year was 2007- with some teachers and students I recognised and some, I didn’t. There was Storm, Beast and Wolverine but also Steven Silvers and Filicia Silvers, twins and most likely also mutants, though I didn’t recognise them from any comics, though I didn’t read too many x men comics in my days.
SHIELD was an organization, though I didn’t find much about them, just that they existed.
Tony Stark was a leading weapons manufacturer still, Bruce Banner had yet to turn into the Hulk, Spider-man was yet to appear, though that was sure to change, since I recall the trip to Oscorp to be next week, meaning that Peter would soon be spider-man. Doc Oc still worked for Oscorp as did Conners, also known as the future Lizard. Magneto was a known criminal, though his whereabouts were currently unknown. I used Grey matter to hack into the government to see if they maybe had Magneto but no, they didn’t, neither had they any records on any of the other villains I looked up, it seemed as though this world was still in its power infancy.
With all that research, I was starting to feel peckish, so I walked over to the kitchen and cooked up a bowl of Pasta for myself. After eating that, I noticed that it was already dark outside, so I decided to go to sleep for now, tomorrow I would have to go to school and I wasn’t looking forward to it. School was the worst, all those restricting rules and boring lectures… I already knew it wouldn’t be fun.
I laid in my bed and slept.
The next morning, I woke up to my alarm clock beeping aggressively.
“Yeah, yeah, I’m up, I’m up”, I groaned, slapping the clock off. Groggily, I walked over to the kitchen and made myself breakfast, just a simple piece of bread with some peanut butter and jelly, as well as one banana. After I had eaten, I gathered up my school supplies, dressed myself in normal street wear and made my way to the bus station. There, I waited 5 minutes before the school bus arrived and I got on. Peter Parker was already on there, he looked like a weak, scrawny boy, with a small frame, huge, thick glasses and wearing a sweater. He looked nothing like Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield or Tom Holland, he had a thin, sunken in face with big brown eyes, pimples across his face and high cheekbones. Ned Leeds looked like he did in the movies, an overweight asian kid, wearing another sweater. Now that I looked around, most of the kids wore sweaters or jackets, I was the only one who was just in t-shirt and jeans.
Was it that cold? I had always been cold resistant but to think that I wouldn’t notice this… yep, my phone confirmed it 41 degrees fahrenheit or 5 celsius… that was quite cold for the early spring but it could happen I guess, especially with Climate change not as advanced as it had been in my previous life. And now that I thought about it, Stark’s arc reactors were widespread, so maybe that meant that climate change wasn’t as huge of a topic as it had been in my world?
At least in America, there were many arc reactors -the big ones, not the miniature version, that didn’t exist yet- and nuclear energy was also widespread, America never nuked Japan, all the nukes that were fired off were as a demonstration, there had never been an actual war where they had been used. As far as I know, there were also no meltdowns that happened, so this world was a lot more positive on nuclear energy in general than my previous one.
Actually, looking back in my memories, there was no 9/11 either… the twin towers still stood firm and undamaged. Terrorism still happened but on a much smaller scale and most often not in America. All in All, this world was much safer than my previous one, unless you count all the supervillains that would soon arrive on the scene, which would be soon. As far as I knew, spider-man’s villains would begin turning evil at most a year after he got his powers, more likely a few months, so soon the world would turn apeshit, or at least queens would. And -if things went the movie route- in a year or two, iron man would come onto the scene and with him came more villains.
I was racing against time here, I had to get stronger. I couldn’t rely on the omnitrix, that would only work an hour at a time, I needed a way to protect myself when I wasn’t transformed and I believed I had just the way to do it… our field trip at Oscorp was next week and there, I could find one of the spiders and let it bite me. I didn’t even have to worry about possible mutations of the unfortunate variety… the omnitrix would fix any unwanted changes… it might also stop the mutation in all, meaning no spider powers for me but I had to wait and see for that. Whether I actually got the spider powers or not, it was still a good idea to try it anyways… if that didn’t work, I just would have to use gray matter to come up with a super soldier serum that actually worked and wasn’t just negated by the omnitrix, trying to repair my dna…
Anyways, on our next stop, Harry Osborn walked into the bus. Harry was a relatively average looking person, if a bit more handsome than the ordinary man, or well- kid, right now we all were still children after all. He had sparkling blue eyes and long, brown hair, which reached to his cheeks.
This whole observing of the others, made me wonder how I looked… I haven’t checked in a mirror yet… I knew my hair was shoulder length but other than that, I had no idea. So, I got out my phone and snapped a picture. Looking back at me was an average looking boy, a solid 6 out of 10, with pale, very pale skin, shoulder length blonde hair and narrow blue eyes. I would never be a heartbreaker but I was looking good enough that I might one day get a girlfriend.
Back to the others, now at the next stop, Flash Thompson walked into the bus, acting as if he owned the damn thing. He was broad and big, a real jock in every sense of the word. He too had blonde hair and blue eyes but he was a lot more handsome than me, a real ladies killer, a solid eight out of ten. Together with him was his girlfriend Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Allen, a cheerleader with long, blonde hair and grey eyes, also a solid eight out of ten, just as her boyfriend. She was chatting with Flash.
But Flash walked over to Peter and grabbed him by the shirt, “Look who we have here, puny Parker, I hope you have my homework done, for your own sake”, He raised his fist, ready to strike in case Peter didn’t say what he wanted him to say.
“O- o- of course Flash, I have it right h- here”, Peter flinched, handing the bigger boy his homework.
“Good boy”, Flash smirked, snatching the papers from a terrified Peter before walking off and putting the papers into his bag and sitting back next to his girlfriend. I narrowed my eyes, I hated bullies, so that rubbed me the wrong way but there was nothing I could do to help, I couldn’t very much transform right then and there and in my base state, I was much too puny to do anything to flash. Another reason to get those spiders to bite me. I really wished I had super strength right now and to just throw Flash into a wall…