"What do we have Dr Banner?", Cho asks walking right through the Med Bay, scrubbing herself while Bruce prepped Peter. FRIDAY was doing her scans. "Frostbite to 60% of his body; Left appendages, right arm and thigh, left aspect of his abdomen, chest and neck, up to the mandible". Already not great, and the scans revealed worse, "14 puncture wounds to the left upper thigh, 8 to the shoulder and arm. Fractured left femur, laceration over lateral abdomen, severe bruise over right pectoral- suspect internal bleeding and or pleural effusion. Both self resolving. And a bruised liver".
All, put frank, quite shit. Cho was almost in her surgical gown before the pair — and team of nurses — was once more interrupted by fierce yelling. "You better let me in!". MJ stood outside, she looked angry. Cho understood, looked sadly at her, leaving Bruce to handle it. "We're about to start our operation MJ, please go back to the waiting area", he tries to appease.
She promptly ignores everything he said, getting Karen to hack in and open the doors. She starts donning herself over their protests, "I've known longer than either of you have and have worked on him- I've stitched him up more than you two have. You don't know what you're getting into, and I do, you need me to work through his super healing and other powers". Her voice, argument and stance left them no room for argument. The pair of doctors nodded at each other and split tasks. While Cho coordinated with the scrub nurse, Bruce pulled MJ into the OR with them so they could work.
"I'll start on the puncture wounds, they close faster than regular people so we need to debride them first and stitch them so they don't leave a huge scar. FRI, label the ones that only need external closure", MJ explains and orders, again leaving no room for discussion from the adults in the room or the AI. FRIDAY projected a display of Peter's injuries, stratifying them in level of depth, and with a running tally of those ready for MJ to close. "O....k. Helen, mind alleviating the bleeds and liver? I'll handle the frostbite", Bruce continues after their stunned silence, getting her to nod, and they get started.
Still couldn't believe Peter was Spider-Man all this time, kid's been under our nose for months, Bruce ponders, double checking the IV bag they gave Peter on the jet, replacing it for a fresh one —taking under account his Spider metabolism at MJ's reminder — to last the operations. A teenager was Spider-Man all along, outmatched us all. Fury'll be kicking himself for months if he finds out.
FRIDAY, pops up an alert on their screens, highlighting Peter's head, "I'm sensing a rise of inter-cranial pressure. No sign of haemorrhaging but should be relieved quickly". Everyone sighs, Bruce as the only one free taking care of it. "Don't do the craniotomy, don't know if his system would handle it well, treat it like a lumbar puncture".
He doesn't fully understand the why, but knowing the arachnid nature of this case chooses not to question it, or MJ. The less balls in the air the better. What even are the odds of that? The odds we'd have met Spider-Man all those months ago? That Tony found him via a wrong number? ... that's math for another time.
He also must have gone through a lot. Just from the X-Rays I can see osteological stress, old fractures that are nothing but a shinier white line or a slightly off-line rib. His bones compensate and have grown, were he normal he'd probably have had close to 100 fractures but now Bruce could only find sign of maybe twelve. Also, based on how good MJ was with Cho in her internship and how natural this looks to her right now, not good signs for their last. She also said he's got super healing, seeing how faded the scar Tony's repulsers gave is... I don't want to know what other things he's been through
Finishing with the left leg came a problem, the abdomen was more injured. Bruce thinks the blast hit the left shoulder and pit area, means that's also gonna be even harder and more damaged. So far it's been stage 2 to 3 frostbite — though Bruce suspected it would've been 4 if it wasn't for the Spider-Powers. "MJ, do you think he'd need skin grafts?".
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A year to Remember. Part 3, The Conclusion
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