Chapter 3: Let's save Ben's life!

Chapter 3:

October 6th,2009:

As morning comes, I slowly wake up to my alarm ringing. It's 5 A.M. Damn! I slept 13 hours! I don't think I ever slept this much since I came here. I freshen up a bit and then pick up the med scanner that I made using discarded Oscorp plans. Seriously, a perfect medical scanner which can show you if there is anything wrong with the body using a 3D hologram and they don't produce it because 'It will not make enough profit for us.' Assholes.

I scan myself using the scanner. My scan looks the same to me, but I'm only human so nothing's probably different.

"Siri, what do you think? Anything different from my previous scans?" I ask Siri. She's a computer, so she'll probably know if anything has changed.

Siri hums, of course she hums, I made her so I made her to be as human as possible. I'll probably give her a body later.

"Sir, your muscle density has increased by a factor of 10 while your bone density has increased by a factor of 6. So even if you don't feel it, you have gotten stronger. By calculations, you could bench press 18 tons and deadlift 25 tons. If it comes to it, you could support weights as high as 40 tons in cases of emergency." Siri says in her sweet voice. Ahhh! I love her voice.

When I programmed her I had her listen to most soothing female voices of famous actresses and compile a frequency and pitch for a voice which she likes. It was one of her first free choices. The 2nd of which was to select a face for the 3D hologram that's creepily staring at my scans.

"Well, time to hit the gym then. Can't let all these muscles go to waste." I smirk at her. "But first, time to find if I stick to the wall. Siri keep scanning me as I try. If I stick to the wall record any changes to my body."

Siri responds in an affirmative. But I'm not paying attention as I'm too busy fucking crawling on the wall! How sick is that!? I slowly crawl back down. Time to experiment more will come later.

"Sir. Your hands and feet, at the point of contact emit a form of static electricity and your body uses it to stick to the wall. By all means it should not be possible. The math is all wrong, however it still happens. And I have no idea why." Siri sounds upset as she tells me.

"Don't worry about it Siri. I have super powers. They rarely make sense in a Physical point of view. The math never works out in case of super heroes." I assure her. She can be such a baby sometimes. But I still love her. She's like my little sister.

"Sure sir. Anything else before you go to the gym?" Siri asks me. Well I do have tasks for her.

"Yes Siri. Keep an eye on Norman. As soon as it looks like he's going to use the Oz-Serum on himself, tell me. Also while you're at it, See if you can get the Oz-Serum formula from my dad's private server. I want you to try and take a crack at solving the insanity issues please. Dedicate a small amount of time to keep track of Peter. Tell me how he is coping with the spider bite. That's all." Damn that's a lot of tasks. I still have to prepare for Iron Man 1 and The Incredible Hulk events. But first lets get stronger.

I go to my gym that I had Bernard set up a few months ago. It was a lot bigger than regular gyms. Mostly because I had a lot of heavier weights. The weight disks would all totally weigh around 60-70 tons. I had prepared for the eventuality that I might get stronger than this. Warming up a little, I start slow. Starting with 400 pounds. I work up little by little. And before I know it, I'm dead lifting 25 tons. And it's not even hurting me. I could probably add 5 more tons to it before I stress myself. Doing the same with bench pressing, I find out that I can lift 20 tons.

When trying for the leg press, here is where my expectations are blown apart. My leg muscles and bones are a lot stronger than my arms. I push a total of a 35 tons with my legs without stressing myself. And I could probably add 10 more tons to it before it starts to hurt me.

I do a couple of cycles on my daily routine and before I know it, it's time for school. I had decided not to interfere in Peter's life as Spiderman. Except probably save his uncle. Ben is a good guy. He was the other father figure in my life. A lot if what I have learned in terms of life lessons came from Ben and Bernard. So yeah. I'm gonna save him. But the question is, do I do it as a superhero or just Harry? Meh.. there's still time for it.

The next few days go the same way. Peter acting weird because he suddenly has super powers, Flash trying to bully me and Peter, again. Seriously he should have understood after the first 5 times that I'm not going to get bullied by a dumb jock like Flash. I trained a lot. Getting used to my new strength was a bitch. I had to fine tune all my fighting styles by toning down my strength. Movies did not tell me that I had to learn to control my strength so that I don't accidentally kill someone by punching through their chest or something.

I found out that I have the Spidey-sense too. Though training it so that I know which direction an attack is coming from was really tough. I had Bernard use a Ball throwing machine at me while I am blindfolded. I have bruises to prove it too. There's also something weird. I could feel some sort if energy in me. But no matter how hard I tried I could not bring it out. I think its the Venom blast of Miles Morales. But can't say for sure.

It is October 17th now and it's been 10 days since I and Peter were bitten by the spider. Me and Peter were walking home from school as a change when he suddenly says,

"Hey Harry, I'm going to buy a car. I think it will help my chances with Liz." Oh Peter. You poor poor boy. He has had a crush on Liz Allan for 2 years now. But frankly? She is a bitch. I don't normally say that about girls. But yeah she is. Liz knows that Peter likes her and so makes googly eyes at him. But that's more to embarrass him for Flash than to go out with him. I know that. She knows that. Literally everyone in school knows that. But Pete? He's blind as fuck. He thinks she has a crush on him too. Dumbass.

I look at him in disbelief and roll my eyes at him, and say, "Dude. You've been after her for 2 years. If getting ripped like you are now didn't help your chances, what makes you think a car will?"

Peter gives me a betrayed look. But on him it just looks cute. "Shut up. I'm still gonna buy a car," he grumbled.

I raised my hands in a defeated gesture and ask him, "Which car are you going for? And have you saved the money for it?"

His shoulders slumped and he says, "Not yet, no. Dude I literally thought of buying a car. I haven't thought that far ahead yet."

I just snort and shake my head. "Whatever you say Petey," I say with laughter in my eyes and a smile on my face.

He glares at me and hisses, " Don't call me that!"

I just ignore him. So he's about to buy a car. Which means he'll go to that wrestling competition soon. I'll have to keep an eye on him if I want to save Ben's life. Reading and writing in the Black Book has hardwired all the more important details I knew of in my brain. It will probably come in handy.

After a few days when Siri tells me that Peter is going with his uncle to 'The Library' to study, I go there too. I wear a black hoodie and keep a hockey mask tucked in my jeans. I keep an eye on Uncle Ben's car when he comes to pick up Peter. Very soon I see two people running towards the car. One of them tried to point a gun at Ben but I'm already there blocking his view if Ben. I raise my hands in front of me and slowly get closer to him.

"You don't want to do this. Please put down the gun. You can get out of here if you want. But please don't make your situation worse," I say to him softly. He looks like he's going to cry. I know from Spiderman 3 that he needed the money for his daughter or something. Which is why I plan to let him go. He starts lowering the gun which I slowly try to take from him.

But his friend has a different idea. He tries to take the gun from him and me. Now that the situation is out of my hand, I steal the gun from his hand like Jackie Chan taught me to and threw the magazine and gun in different directions. One soft punch later the 2nd thief is knocked out cold. I look at the 1st guy, Marco I think, and say, "You can still get out of here, I don't care about the money, you can still take it and run."

He gives me a nod and takes the money and runs away. Ben looks at my masked face, smiles softly and says, "Good job son. You handled that well. May I ask why you wore the mask?"

I reply, "I didn't exactly plan to do this. That guy," pointing towards the direction Marco ran at, "looked like he really needed the money so I didn't worry about him. But this one," I point to the knocked out thief, "he looked like he robbed for the sake of robbing. And in case he ran away and saw my face I didn't want him to try and find me. I'm not stupid." I grumble the last part.

"Either way, thanks for that." He looks like he's going to say something else but it is at that point Peter comes back. He looks at the knocked out thief, the gun on the floor and pales for a second. That's what I wanted. Him feeling a little guilty. He could have stopped the thieves but he didn't. Combined with Ben's famous line, 'With great power, comes great responsibility' and now Peter will definitely be the Spiderman.

Before they notice me again, I'm gone from there. I can see Peter and Ben hugging. Peter is almost in tears when the cops get there to arrest the guy. Ben tells the cops that there was only one thief and a person in black knocked him out. My speech had an effect I think.

A few days later JJJ started complaining about the Web slinging menace that is Spiderman. I love that guy. No matter what Peter does, Jameson will always complain about him.

Now that Peter has made himself famous as the Friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man, I think I should make an entry too. But I can't enter the stage too soon. 2 superheroes with spider like powers coming out within a month of each other will raise some eyebrows. Norman will lose his shit when he finds out. Hell, he lost his shit when he found out there was ONE Spider-Man.

So yes. I'll probably make my presence known during Iron Man events or the Hulk vs Abomination fight. Should I take Hulk's blood too? Meh.. I don't necessarily need it. But I might learn a lot from it. So yeah I'm gonna try and get some of Hulk's blood. Suddenly Siri brings me out of my planning.

"Boss, Norman just used the Oz-Serum on himself. And he also killed Dr Stromm. He then deleted the video footage before I could get a backup for it. From what I could see, the serum enhanced everything about him. From his strength to his insanity. Where before he was just narcissistic, now he is straight up homicidal. What shall I do?"

I think for a little while and tell her, "Nothing. Peter will handle it in a month. No matter how much I want to interfere these next few months will define how Pete will be as a person." This actually makes me sad. Norman kills a lot of people in his quest to be the best. Among them the board members of Oscorp. Well at least one thing will go right.

I'm not a good guy. I never was. Its like that saying 'I will not kill you, but I won't save you either'. I'm not like Peter. I won't not kill someone just because I don't kill. If someone is going to be a strong opponent and killing them will make my life more secure, then fuck yeah I'm killing them. But only if their crimes are high enough. I'm not going to kill petty thieves. But Wilson Fisk? Hammerhead? Rhino? Yeah them I'm killing.

Well. It's still a few months away. Let's design my suit first. I rub my hands together. "MwaHahahahaha! *Cough cough*"

"Boss your evil laugh needs a lot if work." Siri, the evil little lady tells me.

"Shut up Siri!" I grumble. Lets get on with it.