Elseworld: Spider-Man FanFic

Ch. 6-🏢Fantastic🏢Four🏢Meetup🏢

——4 months later——

"You know what you should do Pete?" Harry says, laying flat on his bed while Peter's laying on the ceiling above him. "What Harry? What should I do?" Peter asks, looking down at Harry and feeling a bit intrigued. Harry gets up, which honestly doesn't change much since Peter is still on THE CEILING. "You, as Spider-Man, should join a superhero crew. Like maybe The Guardians of The Galaxy? Or The Avengers?" He says to Peter, who laughs while still on THE CEILING. "Yea...ok, let me just pack my things. I'll send a post card though I don't know how to send it to them through SPACE." Harry looks annoyed as he looks up at Peter. "Fuck you bro. S.H.E.I.L.D. isn't even in space dude, you're thinking of S.W.O.R.D." Peter drops down and puts an arm around Harry. "And people really say I'm the nerd..." Harry smirks as he looks at Peter. "Because you ARE the nerd between us bro." Peter laughs at this. "Oh yea, I forgot you're the geek between us." Harry pats his chest with one hand like a gorilla. "Damn right! And don't you forget it nerd!" Peter shakes his head. "I now know why you guys are friends" Norman Osborn says, laughing as he comes in. "And why's that dad?" Harry asks. "Yea, why do you think we're friends?" Peter adds in, Norman just shakes his head. "You two really don't see just how alike you boys are?" Peter thinks about it for a second. "Honestly Mr. Osborn, you're probably 100% right on the mark but no, no I really don't." Then Peter's phone goes off from across the room. Harry goes and picks it up to check his phone for him. "It says it's a message from J.J. Simons, apparently he tried calling you." He hands the phone to Peter and we all hear J.J. as Peter plays the message. "PERKER!!! WHY THE FUCK AREN'T TAKING PICTURES FOR ME OF THAT SPIDER FREAK FOR TOMORROW'S PAPER." Peter doesn't even bother answering him, he just sighs before getting up. He stretches his arms. "Ah J.J.....you act like you hate Spider-Man but why are you SO OBSESSED with getting pictures of him?" Peter slips on his shoes before dabbing up Harry. "Wait! Where you going Pete?" Harry asks as Peter slips past him. "You heard my message dude, J.J. wants pictures of me" Peter replies, whispering so Norman doesn't hear hear before leaving. 'Lucky I already have a few pics left over from the other day.' He thinks as he starts heading down the street towards The Daily Prophet.

   Halfway there he instead starts heading to The Baxter Building. 'Harry's right, I should join a superhero team, like maybe the Fantastic Four but Imma go as Peter so they can see just how much I trust them.' On his way in, he runs into this muscular blonde hair dude. "Eh yo, I'm sorry...." he starts but Peter interrupts him. "Watch where you going dude!" Peter tries to get past him but the dude holds out an arm. "Heyo? Where do you think you're going?" Peter holds up his hands. "I've got an internship here Mr....?" He lies. The guy just laughs at this. "Johnny, Johnny Storm and that's funny cause we ain't looking for an intern. So really, who the fuck do you think you are?" Johnny tells a surprised looking Peter. "Wait! 'We'? So you work here?" Johnny laughs again. "Work here? Bro, I LIVE here, along with my sister Sue Storm, her boyfriend Reed Ritchards, and his best friend Ben Grimm." Peter stares at Johnny, astounded. He holds out his hand. "Then you must be Johnny Storm? I'm sorry Mr. Storm..." he starts but Johnny interrupts him. "Just Johnny mister...?" Peter stares at him. "Ok...Johnny, I'm Peter, Peter Parker and I'm here to join the Fantastic Four....well if I do join then it'd be the Fantastic FIVE though I mean we can still use FF." Johnny again laughs. "What makes you think you're good enough to join us? You do know.." he lights his hand on fire. "...we have powers right?" Peter isn't surprised by his fire power which kinda throws Johnny off. "Neat parlor trick Johnny but I can do this..." he webs Johnny's pants and pulls them down. Johnny actually goes red in the face and does get a bit annoyed as he bends down to pull his pants back up. "Hardi har har kid! Real mature Peter" he says to Peter. "So...can I join y'all?" He asks Johnny who just looks at him in disbelief. "After..." Johnny starts. "Who's your friend Torch?" Reed asks as he stretches out from the second floor. "Not a friend Stretch, just some annoying bloke who wants to join the Fantastic Four." Johnny replies to an interested looking Reed. "Woah! Woah! Wait! You're....you're....you're Mr. Fantastic!!!" Peter exclaims. Mr. Fantastic just smiles then a dirty blonde girl appears next to him. "That's right kid. My hubby is Mr. Fantastic and I am....." she starts but is interrupted by a big orange rock thing, walking out to assess the situation. "The Invisible Woman....woo yaa!!" He says sarcastically. Peter looks at him. "And you're The Thing. Why did you name yourself that?" Peter asks him. "I didn't....." The Thing starts before Johnny interrupts him. "I did!!!" Johnny sings as he answers. The Thing looks at him with a smile. "Yea...that dickhead called me The Thing once as a joke and it just kinda stuck. I mean at least it isn't as generic as his sister's name. She's a woman that turns invisible so Johnny called her The Invisible Woman. Then....we got my best friend, Reed here-" he grabs Johnny's shoulder. "-Johnny decided to call him Mr. Fantastic and we all just kinda went with it so here's Mr. Fantastic. Now who are you?" The Thing asks Peter. "Well...I'm....I'm.....I'm Spider-Man because I got my powers after a radioactive spider bit me." He replies to The Thing who laughs. "All this..." he motions to Peter. "-came from a spider bite?" Peter doesn't even think twice as he replies. "I was at an Oscorp Science Lab Field Trip in my Freshman Year and they had some radioactive spiders that they were testing that they were gonna discontinue the testing because none of them actually worked but one got lost without anyone noticing and it bit me." Peter explains then tells them how he was gonna monetize his new abilities as a fighter but he let a robber go because the owner of the ring ripped him off when he easily could've stopped him but Peter was mad at the dude who owned the fighting arena so he let him go which resulted in his uncle's death. "The last thing my Uncle Ben said to me was right before he died. He told me that with great power, there must also come great responsibility" Peter explained to the team. Sue envelopes Peter into a hug. "I'm so sorry Peter, that must've been so hard trying to figure out all this by yourself..." she starts pitying Peter, who immediately speaks up. "I WASN'T ALONE! I actually had my girlfriend, Gwen Stacy." Sue looks at him skeptically. "Well if you're girlfriend got spider powers too......" Peter interrupts her. "Gwen doesn't have spider powers....as far as I know." Reed comes into the conversation. "Are you sure about that kid?" He asks Peter who doesn't answer immediately. "I.... I....I don't but..... huh" Peter sits down, putting his head in his hands while thinking maybe Gwen does have powers too. 'Maybe they're just lying dormant because she hasn't attempted or had any actual reason to use them...'

-20 minutes later-

After all this Peter remembers why he came here in the first place. "Oh yeah! Mr. Fantastic, sir, dude, stretchy man, is there any room for one more?" Peter asks Reed who smiles. "So you really wanna join the Fantastic Four? Well we have to change it to the Fantastic FIVE but we can still use FF for everything..." Peter jumps up to Mr. Fantastic, who's still on the second floor technically, he was just stretching down. "Yes sir, Reed Richards sir, Mr. Fantastic...." Peter baubles on but Mr. Fantastic holds up a hand. "What can you do other than climb walls?" Reed asks Peter skeptically. "Well other than climb walls like you just saw, I can shoot webbing from my wrist. Johnny can attest to that..." he smiles while pointing at Johnny, who again gets red in the face. "I also have this thing I call my Spider Sense that tells me when danger is near. Like it can even read people's intentions so like if they act all nice and shit, my Spider Sense can tell if they're intentions are really good or not." Reed looks impressed by this. "So no one can....say....sneak up on you?" He asks Peter who replies with. "No, they can still sneak up on me. Just if I know they're there then they can't really surprise me." Reed looks impressed by this "Spider Sense" as Peter calls it. "I'm not saying that the Fantastic Four couldn't use you or anything but why us? Why not try and join The Avengers?" Peter immediately answers. "Well my best friend said I should join a superhero crew and he did mention the Avengers but like.. I just don't think that I'm ready for them just yet." Peter admits to Reed who laughs. "Kid! You just pantsed The Human Torch without getting any third degree burns. I think you're ready." Johnny gets red for the third time in under an hour. "HEY! He just surprised me! He can't do it now that I know about his webbing situation, by the way..." he turns to Peter. "-you've got webbing coming out your wrist, but that's not how spiders do it. Does your webbing come outta anywhere else?" Peter smiles at Johnny. "Only the wrist pal" Peter replies to Johnny. "So....you can't shoot webbing out your backside like an actual spider?" Johnny asks while looking kinda disappointed. Peter laughs again. "Nah, like I said, only the wrist pal." Sue Storm comes up behind Peter and even though Peter's Spider Sense did go off, he let her think she snuck up on him. He's nice like that. Sue taps him on the shoulder. "So you really wanna join us?" Peter turns around. "Yes ma'am, that's kinda the reason I came to The Baxter Building." He replies to Sue. Reed comes up. "Well...you seem like you have potential but how do we know we can trust you?" Peter just looks at him. "Dude! I came outta costume for a reason so you can see I trust y'all." Reed looks a bit confused. "Why didn't you just come in costume then revealed yourself instead of doing this whole thing?" Peter thinks about it. "You're right...that would've been smarter." Johnny laughs. Peter just looks at him. "What?" He asked Johnny who did stop laughing but was still smiling. "Nothing Pete..." he says to Peter while holding up his hands in defeat. "Don't forget I still pantsed you earlier Blondie." Peter retorts. The other three laugh with him at Johnny. "IT WASN'T LIKE THAT!!! HE SURPRISED ME!!" He yells in defiance. Peter laughs at Johnny. "Nah Blondie, it wasn't like that. I had your FULL ATTENTION!" Reed looks at Johnny then to Peter. "Peter? I know it was all in good fun but can you apologize?" Johnny speaks up. "NO! Don't fucking apologize to me! I won't accept it before I get you back!" And that started our little pranking war which eventually turns into a deep friendship between us.