Three years later
In the Cairo Museum Of Antiquities, a young male librarian name Peter Parker was on a ladder, filling out the Egyptians books in the “S” section of the library until he noticed a book on his arm that starts with a letter “T”.
“Tuthmosis, what are you doing here?” Peter said to himself with a light laugh before looking for the “T” section until it was behind him. He put some books away on the shelf in front of him.
“I am going to put you where you belong,” Peter said to himself again, before attempting to put the book back to its rightful category.
As he was about to put it back, the ladder tilted up like a pair of stilts, causing peter to stand upright ten feet in the air. “Woah!” Peter gasped in shock, holding the step of the ladder as he was trying to balance himself so he couldn’t die.
“Help” Peter nervously said before gasping when he falls forward towards the “S” section, causing the bookshelf to knock over the next bookshelf.
On and on, after the books were spread out and the bookshelves are on the floor, peter was slightly panting as he looked around him in shock.
“Oh no” He said, cringing for the accident that he had caused before hearing the sound of his employer and as well as the curator of the museum, Nick fury.
“Wha?!” Fury couldn’t utter another word as he was in shock. He was standing on top of a bookshelf that was already knocked down before looking around at the library then looked at Peter.
“Oh look at this!” Fury exclaimed, jumping from the bookshelf before walking to peter. “Son of the bitch, Give me guns, flies, locust, anything but you!” Fury pinpointing at peter a bit. “Go back to you, the nine plagues were a treat”
“I’m so very sorry, Mr. fury, it was an accident” Peter said, feeling bad about the library that he had accidentally caused.
“Come on, boy, when Ramses destroyed Syria, that was an accident. However, you on the other hand are a disaster!” Fury exclaimed. “Look at my damn library!” Peter looked around a bit with an embarrassing look.
“Why do I put up with you, parker!” Fury unintentionally asked before Peter looked back at him in slight shock.
“Well....well you, you put up with me because...um...I could read and write ancient Egyptian and I can...I can...I can decipher hieroglyphics and hieratic” Fury looked at him silently, letting peter continue.
“I’m the only one from the thousand miles, who knows how to properly code and catalog that’s why!” Peter said, defending himself.
“I put up with you because your dad and step-mom were our library’s finest patrons, that’s why!” Fury said. “May they rest in peace, though” He sympathetically said softly as peter looked down slightly, thinking of his parents.
“I don’t care how you do it, I don’t care how long it takes, pick up this mess or you’ll be fired!” Fury ordered angrily before leaving peter to clean the mess up.
When fury left, peter sighs before hearing a slight noise from the display area where the mummies and sarcophagus are kept. he hurriedly went there. When Peter was in the area, he took the torch from the room and starting walk before looking around.
“Hello, Abdul...Mohammed...Bruce?” Peter called out before hearing a slight sound from one of the sarcophagi. As he was about to go near to it, there was a rotted old mummy that jumped scare at him.
“Ah!” Peter scaredly screamed at it before hearing a laugh from non-other than his step-brother, Wade Parker Wilson, who sits up inside the sarcophagus while his arm was wrapped around the dead mummy’s shoulder.
“Hey, little brother! Do you love my little joke!” Wade said with a still laugh which made peter frown.
“No I don’t!” Peter replied, putting his hand on his hips. “And you have no respect for the dead!” He asked before putting on the torch on a handle.
“Oh of course I do, my little brother from another mother but sometimes I would like to join them,” Wade said, controlling the mummy’s arm to slam on the edge of the sarcophagus.
“I wish you should do it rather than later before you ruined my career the way you ruined yours” Peter statedly said was true for him and his stepbrother.
“Now get out of there, wade” he was putting the mummy down on the coffin before slapping softly on wade’s cheek. Wade childishly pouted, rubbing his cheek that his brother slapped on.
“Fine, fine my sweet baby brother but…” Wade was climbing down from the sarcophagus with the help from peter. “I’ll have you know that in this precise moment that my career is on a high note” Wade stated as Peter scoffed, rolling his eyes.
“High note, please!” Peter slightly mocked “But anyway wade, I am not in the mood for you right now, I made a huge mess in the library” Peter turned his head to look at the library.
“And not only that, the University Of Cambridge in England have rejected my application again because they say I quote and quote, I’m young and don’t have enough experience in that field” Peter disappointedly said as he sits down on a random statue’s plaque.
Wade looked at peter, knowing that his sweet little stepbrother is amazingly smart for his age that any college would accept his application. Wade then goes to him and kneels in front with a smile, holding his peter’s hand. “You always have me, little bro” He said before they both chuckled for a bit.
“And besides, I have something for you that I will absolutely cheer you up!” Wade proudly said before going back to the sarcophagus to find it. Peter sighs with a smile.
“Oh Wade, not another worthless piece of junk, if I have to bring that to my boss, he will…” Peter stopped as he looked amazed when wade sat next to him and showed a small golden puzzle box with eight key ends. Peter gently took the from wade before examining it.
“Where do you get this?” Peter asked.
“I was on a dig in Thebes” Wade replied, looking at his little brother still examining it. “My whole life, I never found anything like this, please Pete tell me I found something” He pleaded as peter pressed the bottom of the box and it opened, revealing a folded paper.
“Wade” Peter said in amazement, taking out the paper.
“Yes” Wade replied as they both looked at the map being unfolded, which revealed to be a map.
“I think we found something”
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“You see the cartouche there, it is the official royal seal of seti the first. I am really sure of it” Peter said walking around the desk while his boss looks at the map that they found.
“Maybe” Fury said with no surprise and excitement that he was giving. Then wade walked around the desk as well.” Two things, who the hell is seti the first, and was he extremely rich?” He eagerly asked.
“He was the second Pharoah from 19th dynasty, said to be the wealthiest Pharoah of them all.” Peter replied.
“Good that’s good, I like this guy very much!” Wade replied with a smile in excitement after hearing that the Pharoah was wealthy. Peter looked back at fury.
“I have already dated the map, its almost three thousand years old and you look at the hieratic here…” Peter leaned slightly as points the place on the map for fury before removing it. “well its Hamanaptra” As peter said it, wade looked at his brother in shock and surprise.
“Don’t be foolish, we’re scholars not treasure hunters” fury said, leaning back on his chair as he looked up at peter as wade looked at the map again. “Humanaptra is a myth told by Arab storytellers to use them for tourism,” He said.
“Yes I know the silly ramble about the city to be protected by the curse of a mummy but my research has me believe that the city itself may have actually existed,” Peter exclaimed as wade looked up at him.
“Are we talking the same Humanaptra” Wade curiously asked.
Peter nodded. “Yup, the city of the dead, where the earliest pharaohs said to hid the wealth of Egypt” He replied as wade agreeably nodded slightly walking away from the desk.
“Affirmative but also added with a huge treasure chamber” Wade added as fury scoffed at them both.
“Oh come on, everyone knows this story, the entire metropolis was buried by pharaoh's command like a flip of switch…” While wade was continued to tell about the humanaptra and the treasure, walking behind the desk to his brother at the same time they noticed that fury lift up the map, near the fire.
Fury sighs. “Yeah yeah, Americans like us would say it all fairy tales and Oh shit!” the map began to burn and fell down from the desk to the ground.
Peter and wade hurriedly went to it and quickly patted on it until the fire was no more before the two carefully spread however the section with the lost city was burned off.
“You burnt it, you burned part of the lost city,” Wade said as he and Peter were in shock.
“It’s for the best, I’m sure” Fury said, putting his hands together on his desk as peter and wade looked up at him. “Lots of men wasted their lives in their foolish pursuit of Hamanaptra, no one has ever found it, most has never returned.