23 Avengers Initiative Part V (1/2)
Everything he needed for his Nanobot project was inside that, originally he thought he would have to use Grant money to build it, but the Adamantium, Vibranium and several other rare elements he needed were crazy expensive, but thanks what Furry had offered him he could start building straight away.
Peter read over the contract and said, ”Why is Fury such a. . .”
”Good leader. Why do you think I chose to work for him?” Natalia responded.
Peter replied with, ”I was gonna say know it all, but yeah he's not half bad as a leader.”
Peter had checked over the contract, Fury was helping him in a lot of ways, for one he tied this to a strictly business deal for training agents, he even managed to hide what he was paying Peter with.
Peter smiled as Natalia said, ”He said you were worth investing in, not your technology, but you.”
Natalia handed them a key card to the Shield Base they've been training at, ”These are your passes to the base, they'll meet you there after school. Oh and Peter you shouldn't think about graduating early just yet, I think you'll find the higher education classes this year are really special.”
Peter lifted a brow, when he asked, ”Could you do me a solid?” Peter wrote down some information, and handed it over to Natalia, ”I need some information on this one.”
Natalia read the note as Peter left and headed to his next class, only to discover that instead of the usual teacher, it was none other than Doctor Otto Octavius. ”Wait a minute! This school doesn't have the kind of cash that could attract a genius like Doc Ock, did shield arrange this.” Peter took a long good look at him and realized this wasn't the Ultimate series but the new video game that came out just before he died.
In that world, Osborn and Otto were partners that had a falling out, after going his own way and leaving the company they started together, he started surviving off of grants, and Shield offered him a big one to teach at a high school. At first, he thought something was strange about the deal, but after his lawyer went over with him and discovered nothing out of the ordinary, he decided to take the deal.
”Oh god, please don't end up as a villain in this world.” Peter gulped, as he took a seat beside MJ, and even Angel had joined this class. Peter didn't know but Angel was a very bright student in her own right. There where only a few other kids in the classroom, but Peter looked forward to a mind like Otto, even though he was a villain in the comics, he was considered to be one of the most intelligent people on the planet.
The class began and quickly drew in Peter's full attention, Peter only had one word for Otto, ”Genious!” Peter couldn't get enough as he continued to write notes as fast as he could, MJ was into it as well, Otto was talking about Nero pathways and connecting them to mechanical devices, he was even in the middle of developing his famous psionic metal, programming metal to respond to the human's brain waves, so that they can avoid dangerous surgery. He hadn't figured it out yet but he already picked a name for it, Ferrokintinum. Ferrous, Kinetic, TitaniumAlloy. Looking at the formula Peter felt an explosion going off in his head, the next class surprised him as well, because it was Curtis Connors teaching his class, Luke was in this class as well.
”Doc Ock, and now the Lizard! What's next? The Green Goblin teaching home economics?” Peter sat down, he saw that the Doc was indeed missing an arm, and his class was amazing, the entire time Peter stayed fascinated by his work, as a previous geneticist he was deeply interested in this class. Peter even managed to use some of his research from his past to help and surprise Curtis.
The most interesting thing they discussed wasA.I operated CRISPR; Targeted Genome Editing, which would become a whole new era in Molecular Biology. The development of efficient and reliable ways to make precise, targeted changes to the genome of living cells is a long-standing goal for biomedical researchers, and Curt looked like he had almost perfected the art, however it was missing many things, and looking to be more trouble than helpful.
Peter thought of his Nanobots that would work in a similar form, the thing he was building was a mechanical version of what his Symbiote was capable of, if they could figure this out, they could effectively cure cancer and even regrow limbs by altering their genetic code.
Peter smiled as he began compiling his notes, ”New U Technologies is a place I definitely need to look at in the future.” New U Technologies was the place where they perfected cloning technology and was the most advanced genetic lab in the U.S.A. It was also the home base of one of Spider-Man's most deadly and fearsome foes, the Jackel.
His next few classes were also at college and university level, and it only made him happy, it appeared his boredom and feeling of wasting his time at this school had really come to an end. After school, instead of directly heading over to the Shield Base, Peter told MJ they were going to follow Jessica for a while. MJ looked puzzled when Peter mentioned, ”I think that her parent's death wasn't an accident, the things you mentioned about her brother sound like he was trying to protect her.”
”Do you think she's in trouble?” MJ asked, ”I don't know, that's why we're following her.” As they jumped from building to building watching over Jessica, they noticed her duck into an alleyway. MJ's jaw dropped as she saw Jessica jump up and fly towards the Brooklyn bridge. She was screaming as if she couldn't control it when Peter and MJ made their move, the two webbed out and tried to catch up with her, as she approached the river, Peter managed to web up her ankle and say, ”Woah there! Need a hand?”
Hanging on his web, Jessica looked like a kite, making Peter unable to resist making a related joke, ”People Kites are real!” MJ slapped him in the back of the head to see a panicking Jessica, ”Just calm down. If this is your own power than you can control it, but to even start doing so, you need to calm down.
Jessica took a deep breath and felt her start to lower down to the rooftop, ”Oh shit, oh shit, oh shi~tt! Jessica started to fall towards them when MJ jumped up and grabbed her, when they landed she looked at MJ and Peter in their costumes and shouted, ”You're Spider-Man, and Spider-Woman!” Apparently, even though she'd only been awake for a few months, she had already discovered and became fans of the two.
”Hi, um. .I'm Jessica.” Peter started laughing when MJ gave him a pinch, ”Nice to meet you, Jessica,” MJ said as she put her down, ”I see you're a powered person, and you've just discovered your powers recently haven't you?” Peter said looking her over, a smile crept across his face, ”We're off to go train with some future heroes, if you want, you can join us.”