"Kid...you do remember what you did to yourself right?" Ben asked in a worried tone of voice.
I blinked as I struggled to access my memories, "I remember holding the rod and then...something...it felt like vibrations...what happened?"
Johnny put a hand on my shoulder, "Peter...show us your claws."
I blinked as I held up my hands, summoning forth my stingers. But suddenly as I moved my forearm muscles to push them out, I realised they felt heavier, much heavier. My entire arm felt….like lead.
I grunted in pain as much bigger holes were made into my knuckles and forearm. Slowly three bluish grey claws came out, shining in the light.
I couldn't believe it, I looked at them, seeing my reflection in their shine, "I-I...this is impossible. I did this...to myself?"
"You weren't yourself Spidey," Franklin was quick to assure me, "trust me, when you have that much power in your hands I….it's like nothing is the same anymore."
"Human norms and practices seem unimportant to people with such cosmic level of power," Reed's robotic body told me, "it's understandable. You probably wished for power, hence you got it."
I sighed, "I guess….either way, this is so cool. Logan's going to be super jealous," I smirked.
Johnny rolled his eyes, "and he's back to normal."
"Your scans are amazing to say the least," Reed spoke up, "the Proto-Adamantium has bonded with your claws fully. What more they also seem to be working well with your natural biology."
I sighed, "that's good to know," I looked at the doctor, "ah Doc, about my name and blood work-"
"Policy is to destroy everything we record, don't worry, this isn't the first time I have dealt with you hero types," the woman smiled before turning to the rest, "he's made a full recovery."
"Can't say the same about my web shooters," I grumbled as I got on my feet looking at my torn and destroyed set of web shooters on the tray next to me, "Pete is so going to kill me".
"Oh forget about your web shooters," Johnny grumbled patting me on the back, "you got wolverine claws in exchange man! You can just build new shooters! You don't' get metal claws just like that!"
"Yeah yeah," I smiled, "but you know, ah, I have been wondering..."
"And what's that?" Ben asked as we all followed Reed as he lead us around the base.
"You guys aren't going to blame me for what happened right? I mean I know the Proto-Adamantium is rare and I didn't mean to-"
"It's fine Peter," Reed told me, "the scientist in this facility were just researching the creation process, not practical applications. They are already combing through the data your….modifications with the metal caused. Nobody blames you."
"What were the people here trying to find out dad?" Franky asked curiously.
"The New Earth project was a venture Sue and I began to try and find resources in the Negative Zone that we could use for our world's survival," Reed explained as we walked outside seeing many of the project's workers hard at work repairing the damage Annihilus caused.
"This branch of the project was tasked with finding or making rare metals one wouldn't normally find on Earth, such as Proto-Adamantium."
"Wait, what other types of metal have they worked on?" I asked.
Reed gave a robotic surg, "vibranium, Adamantium, Betatium, Celestium and I believe a new type of metal with the density of diamonds, very peculiar that one."
"And gold obviously," Lyja said eyeing the huge deposit of gold inside the creators now sprinkled around the area.
"Actually gold is so common here it's worthless," Reed shrugged, "we actually mine it ourselves to gain funding for our projects."
I blinked, "wait...seriously? Worthless? Damn it, I wish I could have some on hand for pocket money."
Reid shrugged, "mining it is the difficult, we found that the crust of this dimension if much harder than Earth's own, so even if we could discover them, extracting would bee too much of an effort."
"Plus transportation," Ben grumbled, "we take what we need, but usually it's too long a process just to pick some of them up. So don't go getting any ideas kid, otherwise you're going to be stuck with a huge lump of metal you'll have to carry on your back."
I grumbled, "so unfair," I could maybe use my magnetic manipulation powers to extract the gold, but the factor of transportation will still be a pain. Dammit! And I was so dreaming of building myself a giant mansion like Bruce Wayne!
We walked to the portal and stepped through out onto the other side. I sighed, back to a world I knew, I have that at least.
"Here Pete, I figured you would want this," Franklin walked up to me and handed me my broken helmet.
I sighed, "thanks, thought I doubt it would do me any good. The one thing I had and could rely on. I don't' how I'm going to survive without my AI. Tony's going to be so glad to hear that, man's been preaching about how great they are and all that..."
"If you want you can fix it using our lab equipment," Franklin said with a shrug, "shouldn't be too hard if my dad and uncle were right about how smart you are."
I blinked, "are you serious? You would let me use your tech?"
Franklin nodded, "of course. Please, right this way," he guided me to a room what was once, in another world, my lab, "you know how to get around?"
"Is the password for the terminal still Mighty Morphin Power Rangers?" I asked.
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