Spider Luck

Different types of theft

At the end of the phone call, I rush to bring the package that Jhonny brought me to my room and once I'm there, I turn on the computer, plug in my camera and start uploading the photos I took to have to send to the Daily Bugle.

When I finish sending the e-mail to the dear and kind Jameson, whose answer to it tomorrow will surely be one in which he complains that none of them portray Spider-Man as a criminal, I go downstairs, to go to the kitchen to cook dinner.

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"Yes, Aunt May, I won't be late. I'm just going ahead with a project they assigned us at school, I won't spend much time on it today. I'll get the supplies from the room and work on them in the shed, so I won't bother you. You can go to bed."

"All right, Peter, good night then."

"Good night, Aunt May," I answer as I watch her go to her room.

As soon as I see Aunt May enter her room, I go into mine to pick up the package and then go to the tool house in the garden, which over time has become my personal laboratory.

Immediately after closing the door of the shed from the inside with a padlock, I place the package on the table and once opened, I find a box made of multiplexes, with aluminum edges and with a combination of five digits.

In addition to this, under that case, there is an envelope, which definitely contains the letters of Val and Frankie.

I'll set aside the box to open the envelope immediately. In them, the two kids talk to me in broad outline about what happened in their lives after they had to move out six months ago. They both seem to be adjusting to their new life in Washinton, but theyare still sorry to have left New York.

In her letter, Val tells me happy that recently she discovered that, thanks to the cosmic mutation she inherited from her parents, she also has powers. So far she has managed to actively manifest force fields, just like her mother, however, since she is still a child, both Reed and Sue do not know if this is the only one she will have or if ishe could awaken others in the future, like the other power of Sue, the invisibility.

Expecting that I could tell her not to be disappointed if she did not awaken other powers in the future, the little one writes immediately after that she would not be sorry in any case. If that was her only power, she would train so much that she would become the best at using it, even more than her mother.

In this way she will also be there to fight with us when needed or to help people in need, even if she will only have a supporting role.

At the end of that noble and mature statement, the little girl, in parentheses, tells me that, in case her intuition was right, for penance, I have to bring her a gift and I have to go get an ice cream together with Sue, her and Frankie when we meet, which, of course, I will have to pay for all.

Frankie's letter is essentially similar, his handwriting has improved a lot and he probably wanted to write a letter of his own to show me how it has improved. The only thing that puzzles me about what he wrote is the part about how he's been training with Val and the others.

The way he repeatedly mentions his willingness to improve to be a hero and how committed he is should be something that anyone would be proud of, however while I read his letter I feel like there's something wrong with Frankie and, this feeling increased for every time that concept was repeated.

'Maybe I should call Johnny to talk more about it and maybe see if I can talk to Frankie on the phone for a second to see if this bad feeling makes sense...'

Finished reading the letters, to which tomorrow morning I will send an answer to each, I put them aside. then I take the third sheet that was in the envelope and the case.