"Hey Ben, isn't it pretty late?" I asked him as I poured myself a cup of coffee.
"Kid, it's seven in the morning," Ben grumbled as he changed channels to a new special, "have you been up all night?"
I sighd, "kind off. I'm been working on something new."
"Huh? Make anything good?"
"Yes, but only on paper. To actually make it a reality I need a lot of money."
"How much?"
"Half a billion dollars," I shrugged.
"Woah," Ben blinked, "that's a lot."
"Yeah, I know. Problem is I know exactly how to make that much money, but I can't do it right now," I grumbled.
"Why is that kid?" Ben asked.
"Well, you know about my adventure in another world right?"
Ben nodded, "Johny told me about it, so what?"
"Well, the Reed Richards of that world actually had an portal to a world where the ground was literally gold. An entire planet with the surface made of gold. So….yeah. Kind of a missed opportunity here."
"Hm, why can't you just ask Reed to build this portal?" Ben asked, "I know you don't exactly trust him with this stuff, but shouldn't it be possible if the other Reed did it as well?"
I blinked, "well….I guess….but there are a lot of risks, it would take a lot of work."
"So? Do it. Isn't your project worth it?" Ben asked.
I grinned, "hell yeah it is. Thanks Ben, you always know exactly what to say," I waved as I left the lounge, heading straight to Reed's lab. I threw opened the doors and walked in, finding Reed asleep on his desk.
"Wake up!" I cried out, making him shoot up in shock.
"Peter? What's wrong?"
I grinned, "you and I are going to build a portal to the dimension that gave you all super powers Reed. And this time, I'm making sure you don't blow us all to hell, got that?"
Reed blinked the sleepiness out of his eyes, "what?"
Two weeks later:
"So I told her, that's totally not going to happen," MJ rolled her eyes as Mark and I sighed in despair. A month ago I was fighting six crimilas, three weeks ago I saved the president of the united states. And now...school. Fuck my life.
"Oh you better have, I can't believe she thought that was alright!" Liz cried out.
"I know right! Like, she wants my role, but she can't get it just because of that! I earned my spot!"
I turned to Mark, "so, how's the band?"
He nodded, "they're fine," he sipped his water, I noticed he had gotten a few more ear piercings, god, he looks like a porcupine! I know this guy had a statue to maintain, being a musician and all that, but god he looks like a tool.
"You guys playing any time soon?" I asked, curious to see if he was any good in the first place.
"Yeah, we actually have a gig tonight in the Abandoned Train station in the city," Mark grinned, "you probably don't know it, but we kind of use that place as a club of sorts. It's super popular and very exclusive. Hell, getting a gig there was hard as hell! But if we do good tonight, it's all straight uphill from here!"
I nodded, "cool man, maybe I'll swing by."
"Really?" Mark sounded surprised, "don't you have like, work with the FF or something?"
I shrugged, "no actually. I was working on a project, but I did my part," meaning Reed had to finish up on setting up a molecule quantum wave nullifier field. Without that we can't progress any further.
"That's fun, I guess," Mark shrugged, but inside i could tell he was excited. Why did he care so much if I came or not? Hm, curious.
"Wait, did I hear that right?! Parker is coming to the Catch?!" Flash suddenly appeared behind me, laughing his lungs out. I sighed, yeah, he's the one Felicia marries, over my dead body.
"What? Peter's coming tonight?" MJ and Liz stopped talking, all looking at me.
I sighed, "yes, is that so strange?"
"Well...yeah," Liz blinked, "you hardly ever come and hang out with us these days. Ever since you ah...well, you know."
She's right, ever since I came back home from Earth-982 I've been Spider-man 24/7 and working in the lab as well. I shrugged, "well even I need a break now and then. And besides, I've never heard Mark play before, it should be fun."
Mark grinned, "damn right it will! Alright, this is going to rock!"
"Ha, funny, I never expected you to be down to party Parker," Flash snorted, "you know, there are going to be drugs there, so don't go squamish on us Parker."
I snorted, "unlike you Flash I already live life to the fullest, I don't need drugs to help me escape, my life is already awesome."
Flash's eyes began to twitch, "what you say Parker?"
I narrowed my eyes, "you heard me."
"You want to take this outside boys?" Liz said sighing, "I really don't want my lunch spoilt with the sight of your both bickering like an old married couple."
Flash snorted, "fine, you know what, let's make a wager. Loser has to show up to school tomorrow dressed in all pink."
I raised an eyebrow, "interesting...and the challenge?"
"First person to pick up a chick at the Catch wins," Flash smiled evilly, "you in? Or are you still hung up on Hardy?"
I glared, "I'm in," I shook his hand, squeezing harder than usual, "I'm going to enjoy this." Liz and MJ looked confused, they probably expected me to still be hung up over Felicia. And while I was, I also knew it was way past time for me to move on.
"Hey, whatever," Flash took his hand away, shake it as a red handprint appeared, huh, guess I squeezed too hard.
Flash then walked back to his seat and I turned to my friends, "alright, we have a problem," I slammed my hands on the table, "MJ, Liz, make me sexy!"
"Now we're taking!" Liz cheered, "finally, something I'm good at!"
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