Spider-man Unleashed

Chapter 16

Peter had a smile on his face as he soared through the New York Skyline.

Understandable, considering the started with a unique photoshoot and followed with an explosive private time where he explored MJ's depths once more. She had realized his true identity, but at this point, he wasn't particularly torn on that subject.

No secret lasted forever, and sharing it with a sexy redhead was one of the better ways of handling that. Not to mention, it had some interesting perks, like the fact that it allowed Peter to sneak her back to her room using the window rather than through the door.

Neatly avoiding any question about her ripped clothes and bowlegged walk.

As he swung through the skyline, he had managed to burst a few muggings and a couple more organized operations, though he noticed some worrying movement in some of the larger gangs. However, they didn't make any move that would justify him bursting forward, and Peter made sure not to push too far too quickly to any gang.

He didn't want to suddenly create a gang war by weakening one of the gangs too much.

As he sneaked back to his home, he had to pull his thoughts away from MJ, particularly in the last part of their photoshoot where the redhead showed an incredible passion to 'punish' him, and turned them toward his next task.

His tinkering.

A bored sigh escaped his mouth even as he stepped into his small workshop, his thoughts forcibly turning his thoughts toward some of the villains he had dealt with, and started imagining devices that would have helped his life immensely.

His chemically-enhanced web grenades had proved very useful already against people armed with machine guns, so he wanted to have a larger arsenal.

Like a localized EMP grenade. It wasn't exactly unknown technology, but the problem came from the area of effect, and the fact that he was in a city. He doubted using a weapon that would destroy every electronic device in a several hundred feet radius would help him garner new fans.

In some parts of the city, it might cause millions of dollars of loss by destroying computers, which was nothing compared to the risk of death from malfunctioning cars and elevators.

So, Peter was working on a modified Faraday cage, one that would restrict the EMP blast on its confines. The simplest solution to blocking it was an enclosed metal cage, which would have been enough to stop an actual lightning bolt, let alone a measly EMP.

Physics was cooler than people realized.

Unfortunately, not many villains would allow him to enclose them in a metal dome, and the few that couldn't prevent him from doing so were hardly the kind that required such advanced methods, so Peter was forced to find a more creative way.

Like some kind of electric cage that could be created based on pylons. He already had some progress, as long as he used thirty-six separate pylons to deploy the electronic cage, but that was only slightly more convenient than a full metal cage.

So, he opened his computer, and started working on a simulation to understand the technical requirements for the pylons to reduce the number, ideally to four — which was the smallest number that would allow the creation of three-dimensional space, a pyramid with a triangle base.