A New Invention
Chapter 38: A new invention
It has been few years since Andrew and Alice were born. For the first few months, Peter and Cindy were sort of overwhelmed over taking care of Andrew and Alice, going on patrol, and maintaining Parker Industries. However, as time went on, they eventually got used to it and made some arrangements to their new lifestyle.
As so, Peter and Cindy would deal with all of that together, and nobody would notice who they are under the masks of their costumes. While Peter and Cindy didn't have that much experience with dealing with children, they were able to get some help from both Aunt May and Cindy's parents. However, they did not account for the fact that the abilities or traits their children were going to inherit from them came early, which caused a few problems for them.
Due to that, Peter had to spend some all-nighters creating new inventions for his kids.
One of these inventions happened to be a hovering baby carriage after discovering that taking his kids outside on a regular stroller was a bad idea. What happened was that during one afternoon while taking his kids out, the stroller Andrew and Alice were on hit a small roadblock on the uneven sidewalk they were on. Of course, with Andrew and Alice's senses so fine-tuned, they woke up after the stroller hit the roadblock on the uneven sidewalk.
To this day, Peter and Cindy learned that a pair of cranky baby spider twins are not a pair of happy baby spider twins. And thus, the hovering baby carriage was born to solve his kids' problems.
As of today, Peter and Cindy were outside after a day of meetings inside of Parker Industries, with snacks and other essentials included. A disguised Peter Parker and Cindy Parker; dressed in sunglasses, old jeans, t-shirts, caps, were carrying two happy, babbling kids with each of them carrying one child on one hand. Not only that, but they also brought a few backpacks as well. The family of four made their way to a park near Parker Industries, as Peter and Cindy learned that their children was a bondless font of energy and one way to tire the kids out were a day playing at the park.
"Park! Daddy, park! We go park!" Andrew exclaimed excitedly, wriggling around and pointing from Peter's arms, as the park came into sight.
"Calm down kiddo. We're going to the park, so calm your breaks," Peter chuckled. "And let's try not to be a sand monster today okay? I still haven't been able to get all that sand out of your shoes.
"Make cas'le! Daddy help!" The toddler patted Peter's face, urging him to hurry to the park.
"Gotcha buddy. We'll make a giant sand palace." Peter reassured, giving a kiss to the tiny hand and making the toddler giggle.
"And what about you Alice?" Cindy asked. "What do you want to do today?"
"Swings! Go on swings!" Alice exclaimed excitedly.
Cindy smiled. "Gotcha sweetie."
In the end, there was a giant mound of sand as Peter and Andrew spent most of their time in the sandbox while Cindy and Alice were on the swings. Alice favored the swings a lot as she was squealing and demanded Cindy to push her higher. Right now, Andrew was on the slides and was giggling as he went down on the sides.
By the end of the day, Peter and Cindy took many photos of Andrew and Alice; mostly to tease them when they get older. Cindy laughed as she was watching a video Peter took of Andrew on the slides.
"Mommy! Daddy! Look! Up! Up!" Andrew and Alice called and waved to their parents on top of the mini jungle gym.
"Great job you two!" Cindy exclaimed. "Be careful getting down though! Mommy doesn't want you to get hurt!"
Some more running around and more rounds around the mini jungle gym tuckered out Andrew and Alice; yawning and rubbing their eyes by the time they were ready for some snacks.
"Guess it's time to go back home you two," Peter said, snickering at Andrew nodding off in his lap and Alice doing the same on Cindy's lap, each of them trying to rub their eye while clutching an apple slice.
"Nooo! Play!" Andrew and Alice whined unconvincingly, as Peter put the baby carriage down on the ground. It unfolded soundlessly and started to hover in the air, stabilizing swiftly.
"Sorry sweetie. Tomorrow, we can play on the swings again. And build another sand castle." Cindy reassured as she picked up Alice and transferred her into the carriage while Peter did the same as well. The hovering carriage easily took the children's weight, barely dipping down as it continued to hover near Peter and Cindy's waist height. Andrew and Alice grumbled groggily at their park outing being done for the day but accepted it easily enough. They snuggled into the comfortable blue blanket inside of the carriage and fell asleep immediately. The walk back to Parker Industries was jostle-free and Andrew and Alice slept peacefully the entire way back.
Peter congratulated himself on a job well done and thought of ways to improve the carriage even further. While the hovering capability was good, stability could always be improved, and he could add more features: storage, maybe cooling and heating systems. Different styles, materials, and types of frames to play around with. He could probably do some testing on to see which style was more comfortable. The genius continued planning out upgrades and new features to add the entire walk back to Parker Industries; gently pulling the hovering blue and red carriage with his precious cargo along with his lovely wife, engrossed in his thoughts.
Cindy noticed him and decided to snap Peter out of his thoughts. "Peter?" she said with a tug on his shirt.
"Hm?"
"We're almost there," Cindy said.
"Oh," Peter said as he just realized that they just arrived at Parker Industries. However, as soon as they got in, they were in for a huge surprise as the employees were running around as if a disaster had occurred during the few hours Peter, Cindy, Andrew, and Alice had been gone. Peter and Cindy wondered what could have caused such an uproar.
"Peter! Cindy! Oh thank god, you two are back!" Anna exclaimed with a relieved tone as she ran up to the two.
"Whoa! What's going on? Did something bad happen?" Peter asked, startled by the exclamation.
"Peter, there are pictures of you, Cindy, Andrew, and Alice everywhere and the media is going insane!" Anna replied frowning as she checked over her tablet. "I have no idea how we're going to manage this. Honestly, I'm not even sure if we can get a handle on this, it seems like we can only put out the fire at this point."
"Hold on a second, what's going on?" Cindy asked.
Anna let out a sigh before showing Peter and Cindy what was going on. "This is what is going on," Anna said as she pulled out an online article showing Peter, Cindy, Andrew, and Alice's day at the park. Along it with some images of them and the hovering baby carriage. "That adorable invention that you readily toted around the park you and Cindy went to this afternoon. Not to mention Andrew and Alice!"
"Oh," Peter said.
"Yeah. And all this insanity isn't just over the baby carriage. Some of it is also over Andrew and Alice as well! We're being flooded with calls, and people are asking for interviews and press conferences! They want to hear from you two about Andrew and Alice! We're being asked about the baby carriage! They want to know if Parker Industries are heading into childcare products now!"
"Whoa, calm down Anna. We'll figure this out and get a handle on it," Cindy assured.
And as so, Peter, Cindy, and Anna had a press conference later, in which ended up with the media and the public loving the hovering baby carriage and thus, a new division of Parker Industries was born...
The childcare division, which was focused on baby products.