May and Ben were still shocked, even Madeline couldn"t believe her ears, when MJ said, "So how much do you think I"ll get from the clothing wear?"Peter did the calculations in his head, and said, "If you can get ahold of some good companies, then maybe even more because clothing can be sold to an even wider range of consumers."
MJ jumped into his arm, making everyone in the room scratch there heads, when Ben said, "Peter did you do this for us?"
Peter smiled and said, "No! I did it for me, helping you is just a bonus." May and Ben gave Peter a hug and held him there for a while when he said, "I know things have been rough for you two, what kind of nephew would I be if I didn"t help my family."
The three of them shared a nice embrace, as MJ and he mother excused themselves from the room, Peter was let off with a warning but told not to let it happen again. He went to bed and slept for a few hours, after waking up he stretched out his arms and decided to continue studying like he always does, turning on his computer, he began absorbing as much knowledge as he could, if there was something that caught his interest he would focus on that matter until he had complete understanding of the subject.
After 4 hours or so he headed to his lab again to study Tombstone"s genetics, and as he thought, there was an additional genome attached to his D.N.A.
Peter scratched his head as he started to take apart the compound, it appeared to be similar to his Spider gene, but far less advanced, however, there was only one place that he"d seen such a familiar structure, and that was the Super Soldier Serum Luke Cage, otherwise known as Powerman was injected with, the gas used on Tombstone gave him a watered down version of Luke Cage"s abilities, but there were still many issues and flaws in this strain, Peter sighed and thought that the person who made Luke"s S.S Serum must have been getting close to perfecting his formula, and that Luke should be popping up in Harlem sometime soon.
Peter walked back inside to get some food and saw Ben and May watching the News, they were covering the story of their work last night, Peter poured himself a bowl of cereal and sat down next to them and watched as his favorite JJ ranting on screen "Reporting in we have our first description of the vigilantes that had apprehended 5 gangs last night, there depicted as a male and female pair that dress up with a spider-themed costume, and a man in a red devil"s outfit that"s made of full body armor."
A drawing of them made by the NYPD"s sketch artist popped up. All, in all, they did a pretty good job, however, the proportions of his muscles and hight were way off, I guess the mobsters didn"t want to admit getting their a.s.ses kicked by a person almost half their height and frame.
"It"s total mayhem down at the courthouse as Lawer"s are scrambling to handle all the new cases, with over 400 arrests made last night and the evidence handed to the police, it"s looking like an open and shut case."
Peter chuckled but what he saw on the news next made him choke on his breakfast, "Also a man responsible for killing dozens of members belonging to the Mexican Cartel, turned himself in this morning, as it turns out the killer was previously an army special forces Ranger and an undercover agent for the F.B.I. After the tragic slaying of his family, the recently presumed dead Frank Castle turned himself in peacefully and without a struggle.
"Peacefully my a.s.s!" Peter thought, "d.a.m.nit, Frank! I put the ones he wants to kill behind bars, and he goes and turns himself in. I forgot how hard it was to predict his actions, out of all the Marvel Heroes, the Punisher was always the wildcard." Peter stood up and washed his dishes and sighed, "What do I do? I know a lot of people are going to die, but if I interfere even more innocents will lose their lives."
Peter went up to his room and flopped down onto his bed, his scratched his head in frustration when he got back up and searched out Castles history in this world, it was like a half and half of the Netflix and Thomas Jane version of Frank Castle history. He pulled out a pen and a piece of paper, and wrote down a quick spoiler, "Colonel Schoonover is Blacksmith. Billy Russo and Agent Orange are at the root of it all, stop causing trouble in my city Frank." He couldn"t stop a man like Frank; if he got arrested he just escape somehow, but if he gave him the killers then maybe Frank would retire.
He snuck out miles away from his house and sent the envelope to Matt with instructions to get it to Frank, writing in braille was a new one for Peter, he had to cut each individual hole in the paper to perfectly match the braille patterns. Peter then went back to his Lab and started working on his first nan.o.bot, design.
The next few weeks the two got a lot of publicity, they weren"t hiding their deeds anymore and were out in the open working alongside the cops often in taking down criminals.
Peter also enjoyed the little stuff, like helping an old lady cross the streets, or help change a tire here and there. MJ like him when he did stuff like this, even more, she actually became a pretty big anti-bullying symbol as she often put a stop to anyone who"s been through Peter"s situation, when a poster came out that had an anti-bullying slogan on it, Peter started laughing at the red-faced MJ who buried her head into his chest.
JJ unlike in the original didn"t seem to harp on the two, maybe it was because they kept damage to a minimum and did more than just fight crime, he seemed to want to interview them more than berating them.
It was still summer, so they had a lot of time to work on their image, the next morning he took a break and went out on a date with MJ, she decided to take them to the Mall to by Peter some new clothing. He complained but she insisted that she pay, she apparently sent out some samples to a few high paying clothing lines, and she was kept busy by all the return calls she had.
So after sending out a few designs made from her own formula that was much closer to clothing then armor, she managed to score a few dozen sponsors, giving her a huge paycheck to make the product in large quant.i.ties.
Peter was glad when she told him she already applied for the patent and was considering hiring some college students to make it for a quick paycheck.
MJ might even start her own clothing line in the future, but she didn"t want that to be all she accomplished. She had a keen interest in technology now and was even thinking of applying for an internship at Horizon Labs when she graduated.
Peter was sitting in a chair when he smelled a terrible odor, it was like someone hadn"t washed for days, along with the scent of cheap booze, and cigars. Peter poked his head out of the shop while MJ was picking out a pile of clothes for him to try on when he spotted a certain noticeable group.
Logan was a tall built man that looked a lot like Hugh Jackmen wearing blue jeans, a white tank top, and a cowboy"s hat, a young teenage Scott who was closer to his comic book design was dressed in blue jeans and a blue and red shirt, with a tan leather jacket. He was holding hands with the red-headed Jean Grey who Peter had to admit was gorgeous and could even give his MJ a run for her money, she had on a green Jacket, pink shirt, and blue jeans as well.
He saw Kitty Pride wearing a pink tracksuit, walking next to her was a disguised teleporter known as Kurt Wagner, Peter started to sweat a little when Logan noticed Peter staring. Jean seeing their teacher"s focus on the boy, Jean used her psychic mind reading ability and dropped her jaw, "No way!" She shouted.
Peter was thinking of advanced calculations, and biological formulas along with random DC and other geek culture references to try and keep Jean from reading his mind. After she shouted he thought he had failed; when he noticed her eyes weren"t on him but MJ. Jean was impressed with Peter"s mental defenses, but being the polite mind reader that she was, she didn"t pry into him, however, MJ"s mind was an open audio book for her that spilled their secrets.
She waved her hand apologetically, making Scott raise a brow, Peter sighed and waved back seeing them approach. Jean had a pen in her hand and said, "Big fan! Can I get your autograph."
MJ noticed Jean and walked up next to Peter and placed her arm around him while saying, "Peter who"re these people?"
Peter smiled and said, "Well I guess there"s no hiding it, but can we move to another location?"
Jean had told them that Peter was the Mutant Professor Xavier sent them to pick up. Peter figured it was only a matter of time before Cerebro picked him up. After the spider bit he dormant Mutant Gene became active, so he should appear on Cerebro"s radar, and with an unsupervised Mutant running around, Charles Xavier would surely come knocking.
MJ looked confused as they moved towards the roof, thanks to Jean they all could easily gain access without raising an eyebrow. When they got to the roof Peter turned to Jean and asked, "Can you not pry into our thoughts, we have a lot of personal information we don"t want to share."
MJ frowned, as Jean gasped, "You knew?"
"I know Tony Stark, and the Fantastic 4, Sue taught me some tricks to fend off Mind Readers." The X-Men gasped while MJ figured it out."
"Does this mean?" MJ placed her hand over her mouth.
"Yeah! She knows our ident.i.ties." Peter sighed in frustration.
Jean lowered her head in shame, "I"m sorry! We were sent here by our Professor to see if we could convince you to come and visit his school, I didn"t think we"d meet Spiderman and Spiderwoman in person though."
Kurt and Kitty gasped, as Kitty"s eyes beamed, "OMG! Can I have your autograph too! I"m a big fan!"
Peter and MJ sighed as they obliged them, after signing "Your Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman, and Spiderwoman." The two were invited to go to Mansion and meet with Prof. X.
"So much for our date!" MJ said in a grumpy tone as she crossed her arms."
"Maybe after meeting with Prof. X, we can continue our date, or better yet make this our date!" Peter said looking at Jean, who bowed her head in apology again.
Peter and MJ placed their masks on and took their clothes off revealing their suits underneath, after putting away their clothes the Blackbird Jet appeared uncloaked with a certain white-haired ebony beauty flying it.
Jumping up effortlessly while the rest were carried up by Jean Telekinesis, Logan looked to the two of them and asked, "So you two dating a long time?"
MJ smirked before saying, "What gave it away? My close proximity? Or maybe it was the fact I said, you ruined our date!"
Logan smirked and replied, "No you two are drenched in each other scents."
MJ blushed and was glad the Logan couldn"t see her face, she turned to Jean and asked, "So you can read minds, can you chose not to?"
Jean started to explain, "I don"t really try to, normally I would have to pry into an individuals mind, but some people are so open with themselves that it kind of just flows off of them. Peter here covers up his surface thoughts with advanced mathematics, and several sciences, kind of like a barrier around his thoughts."
MJ suddenly thought of something and sat in a meditative position and cleared away all her thoughts, making Jean surprised, "That"s never happened before, it"s different than Peter"s method but all your surface thoughts have been hidden by a black void."
Logan smiled, "Zen huh?"
Scott asked, "What"s that?"
"Clearing your mind of all distractions, and thoughts," Peter answered.
MJ opened her eyes and maintained that state while asking, "Still leaking thoughts!?"