The Spectacular Spider Man

The Black Cat

The next week and a half was weird for me and my life. I was now officially a part of the Baxter Foundation. I spent most of my time there these days coming home only late in the night. May and Ben didn't approve of it at first, but once they found out the work I was doing could have lives they begrudgingly understood.

In reality however I actually spent an hour or so with the FF before going off on patrol as Spider-man, Sue understood though, after all that was part of the deal. This way I got to be a hero and a scientist. Ha, and Peter always said this was hard.

I still remember the first day I came to the Baxter Building as Peter Parker and not Spider-man. I had to fight through the giant crowd gathered outside and into the lobby. And even then the guards wouldn't let me go up, so Johnny had to personally come down and cler me through.

I'm pretty sure my picture was going to be in the front page tomorrow though, 'Mysterious Boy enters Baxter Building?!' hopefully they didn't get a good enough shoot.

"So Peter, how did your aunt and uncle take it?" Johnny asked.

I shrugged, "as well as you can expect. I think they are still mad I lied to them but the fact I got a job here seems to make them happy."

"Good man, heck maybe one day you should come clean to them you know? Tell them who you really are?" Johnny lead me through the elevator doors into a large hallway.

"Yeah, not going to happen. They freak out if I'm late from a friend's place, can you imagine what they could do if they knew I was Spider-man?"

Johnny shrugged, "if you think so," he stopped before a door and pressed his hand on the palm scanner next to it, "welcome to your new home."

My eyes went wide, "woah," I blinked as I looked around the large nearly empty room. I had a large monitor and computer system up against one wall, a table and a few tools, but other than that it was completely empty, "this is so cool!"

Johnny grinned, "I thought you'd think that. Anyway make yourself at home, my lab is just three doors down and Sue's is right opposite to yours. Reed's further down the hall but, ah, maybe don't go there unless he gives you permission. Guy is freaky when it comes to personal space."

I nodded as I put my bag on the chair and took out my notes, "this is great Johnny, I have many things I want to test out...hey, do you think you can help me out?"

Johnny blinked, "me? What do you mean?"

"Well last night I came up with a theory on how your powers work, I want to test it out," I explained as I looked around my lab, god it feels weird saying that, and found a geiger counter. It was a complex one with a customizable setting, I would need to change its internal working though for it to detect the energy signatures I wanted it to.

"Wait what? You think you know how my powers work? That's crazy man! Even Reed can't figure that out!"

I shrugged, "it's only a theory man, chill out," I began working on the geiger counter, adding a thin filament of nickel to the counter. The people on my Earth had a theory, that Johnny's powers, and the rest of the FF for that matter, we're dimensional energies. And their accident allowed them to control that energy. And since it looked like I was dealing with the Ultimate FF, who gained powers from teleporting that looks to be the case now as well.

If I recall correctly Johnny's powers were once super charged by a place called the Negative Zone, it allowed his flames to grow so powerful he couldn't switch them off. But that was just a theory, and now I would need to test it off.

I pointed the meter at Johnny, "go flames."

"It's called Flame on," Johnny grumbled as he turned up the heat, covering himself in flames.