Here is the Marvel version of the first chapter. Personally, I like Marvel better and maybe that's why this chapter is a little longer than the first.

I hope you all enjoy!

Marvel

Captain America

It starts when Leonard wakes up. The alarm clock is screeching at him, telling him that if he hits the snooze button one more time he'll be running late and when he's running late, Sheldon's running late and oh God-

He slams his hand down on the clock...

...and splinters it into hundreds of pieces.

It's literally obliterated.

Glancing down at his hand, Leonard decides that maybe he needs therapy or something to help sooth the obvious rage within him. Throwing off his blankets, he swings his legs to the side and stands, careful of the alarm clock pieces scattered on his floor.

He grabs his robe from the door and steps out into the hallway just as Sheldon is exiting the bathroom from his shower. His tall, roommate bids him a good morning, but then stops mid greeting.

"Leonard, are you wearing heels on your shoes again?"

An odd question, but he's use to those.

"No. Why would you think that?"

Sheldon looks him up and down. "Because you have seemed to have grown an approximate six inches since last night."

"Maybe I'm finally having that growth spurt," he replies, puffing out his chest.

"Unlikely," Sheldon huffs. "Considering you are no longer an adolescent going through puberty...and where are your glasses?"

"Huh?"

Leonard lifts a hand to his face, thinking that he had already put his glasses on, since he can clearly see. They are not there.

"I don't need them," he answers, half to himself.

"Have you hit your head? Sometimes a head injury has been known to correct vision impairments."

"I don't think so, Sheldon."

So, he's grown, he's strong and he has 20/20 vision.

Oh God, he's turning into Zack.

Turning into Zack isn't as bad as he thought it would be. For once, he can grab things from the top shelf at the grocery store without asking for help, and he can carry all of the groceries up four flights of stairs without taking multiple trips or multiple stops to catch his breath.

Some type of radioactive spider must have bitten him in the night and honestly, he doesn't care.

Penny is opening the door to her apartment, still in her Cheesecake Factory uniform, when he walks up the last flight of stairs. First, her eyes widen when she sees his arms laden with full grocery bags and a gallon of milk hanging from his pinky, and then she sees that he's a taller than he was yesterday.

Next, her eyes flicker down to his shoes. "Are you wearing heels again, Leonard?"

Leonard can't help himself. He puffs out his chest. "No, Penny, I am not."

"Hmm." Penny eyes trail him up and down some more before she turned back to her door, muttering, "I really need to get some sleep." And she was gone, slipping into her apartment.

Leonard was a little disappointed that she hadn't made more of a big deal about the change in his appearance, but knew she had just gotten off a long shift at work and wasn't fully, mentally functional at the moment. There would be time to gawk at his extra strength and height later.

The next evening, all of five of them crowded in his and Sheldon's living room. Sheldon in his spot, Leonard in the armchair, which he fits in more snugly now, Penny on the middle cushion, Raj beside her and Howard on the floor.

His friends had noticed the changes in him and made theories, but none really made sense. "You're like a superhero, now," Raj had exclaimed before Penny had walked into their living room.

"Yeah," he agreed. "But like which one?"

No one could answer that.

It wasn't until they watched as Steve Rogers emerged from a tank much more buff and taller than when he got in that Leonard decided what superhero he was most like.

Quicksilver

Sheldon doesn't think there is anything weird going on until it's Comic Book Day.

They were the only four people in the comic book store. Stuart had gone in the back to bring out more merchandise. From across the store, Sheldon watches as Howard reaches for a comic book a little over his head. His sharp eyesight sees that it's a comic book he wants, a comic book he needs. Howard can't have it.

Instead of shouting at his friend, Sheldon makes his way over and finds himself grabbing the book in a blink of an eye. Literally, a blink. Howard's small fingers hadn't even finished reaching for it, yet.

"What the?" Howard jumps and turns to face him. "Were you there the whole time?"

Sheldon briefly glances around the store and sees that no one was paying any attention to him. So, they hadn't seen his flight across the floor. "Yes." He fiddles with the handle of his messenger bag and hopes that Howard didn't see his face twitch.

Howard only has eyes for the comic book in Sheldon's hand and reaches for it. "I need that to finish a collection."

"As do I and since I grabbed it first, it is mine."

"Aw, come on," Howard whines, but doesn't do anything else.

Later that evening, Sheldon ponders about what happened at the comic book store. It's just he and Penny in the living room. Despite his protests about it being Halo Night, Leonard goes on a date and Howard and Raj go out to a bar, to hopefully get dates of their own.

"Penny, I wish to show you something."

"Hmm." Mouth full of popcorn, she hits the pause button. Tony Stark's face is frozen on the screen as he is flying through a snowy landscape.

"Watch."

Sheldon stands and grabs his empty popcorn container. He makes sure Penny is watching before he takes that first step. In the time it takes for Penny to exhale, he has already put his bowl in the sink and sat down.

"What did you do?" She asks.

"Did you not see?"

"One second you had a bowl in your hand and the next you didn't. You blurred for a moment."

"I have super speed."

Penny blinks at him.

"I'll show you another example," he sighs. "I'm sure you haven't checked your mail today." Then, he's off and one second, holding a handful of envelopes to Penny.

She is gaping at him, now. "What is going on with you and Leonard?"

"I do not know," he answers and sits in his seat. "We should talk about it with him when he returns. For now, let's continue the movie."

"Okay."

Penny unpauses the movie and the pair sit in silence. Until a few minutes later, Penny exclaims as she looks between him and the television screen, "Oh my God, Sheldon. You're Quicksilver!"

"I didn't see that coming," Sheldon mutters.

Storm

It had taken the guys awhile to notice that Penny had powers. They'd been too busy trying to figure out what was going on with Sheldon and Leonard to give her much notice. And even then, they still figured it out before Penny did.

Penny wasn't ashamed to admit that she took advantage of her two friend's newfound powers. Hey, they had them, weren't doing much with them, why shouldn't she take advantage?

"Sheldon, I'm going to be late for work. Can you run me there?"

It had taken quite a bit of grumbling, threats and bribes for Sheldon to finally pick her up and run her to the Cheesecake Factory. It would take all of five seconds, so Penny never understood why Sheldon complained so much. It wasn't like she was heavy.

He'd drop her off at the back of the restaurant, she'd tell him when she got off and he'd say goodbye before running back to the apartment. Outside the five of them, no one else knew about Leonard and Sheldon's powers...and they wanted to keep it that way.

One evening, during her shift, a grabby customer had the nerve to complain to her manager about the way Penny had given him his food. Well, if he hadn't tried to grab her ass, she wouldn't have thrown his food on the table. Honestly, he was lucky she hadn't thrown his food on him.

The manager offered to pay for the meal and then, turned to Penny once the man had walked away, satisfied. "That will be coming out of your paycheck." And he walked away.

Penny nearly lost it. She walked into the back of the restaurant, where the waitresses would hang out when they had a break and tried hard not to scream. She clenched her fists so hard they shook.

And at that moment, a loud crack of thunder rattled the building. The glass window beside her threatened to shatter. A bolt of lightning split the sky and the power in the building went out.

Screams came from the dining area and brought Penny out of her anger. What was happening? The lights flickered on and she rushed to check up on everyone. Since the lights had only been out for a moment, the customers were slowly going back to eating their meals. The manager flitted from table to table, checking up on everyone.

At the front of the building, the doors flew open and the handsy customer from before stumbled in, soaked. "Lightning struck my car," he yelled. The manager came running to him.

"Lightning struck my car," he repeated.

"Sir, I don't know what you want me to do about it," the manager spoke. "We have nothing to do with the weather."

"Well, someone does, because once it hit my car, the skies immediately cleared up."

Penny covered a laugh in her hand and bit her tongue before she could tell the customer that maybe it was just karma.

Penny doesn't realize that it had been her to control the storm and the lightning strike until a few days later.

She's over at 4A, its Halo night and she's totally kicking ass. Nothing new or out of the ordinary there.

Until Howard tells a joke at her expense, which makes everyone laugh. Except Sheldon, who hadn't fully understood it.

"What did you just say about me?"

Penny stands to her feet, causing the three laughing men to shrink into their seats. Electricity seems to crackle around them, Penny feels her hair flair out from her head and the sky outside darkens.

"Where did her pupils go?" Leonard squeaks.

"I wouldn't speak if I were you, Leonard," she spits and for a brief moment, Penny feels her feet leave the floor.

Lightning flashes outside with resounding thunder that shakes the building following quickly after. Penny has no idea what's happening, all she knows is that Howard is going to pay for the sense of humor he thinks he has.

"Penny!" Sheldon cries and reaches for a wrist.

Her name spoken brings Penny back.

The skies lighten up, the storm goes away and Penny's feet are solidly on the apartment floor.

"What the hell just happened?" Leonard squeaked, huddled behind Raj on the couch. Howard is at their feet.

"I am out of here!" He cries and runs to the door, not once looking back.

Raj, still unable to speak in front of Penny, leans toward Leonard and whispers.

"I don't know," Leonard responds back and then looks up at Penny. "Did you know that you can control the weather?"

"Like Storm," Sheldon adds behind her.

Penny knows who Storm is. She's seen all of the X-Men movies with the guys and honestly, she's okay with it. Storm was pretty badass and had been played by Halle Berry.

"What's going on with us?" Leonard asks almost more to himself than the others. "I have super strength, Sheldon has super speed and now, Penny controls the weather."

Raj whispers something else into Leonard's ear.

"I don't know if you're next."

Thor

It takes awhile for Raj to realize there's a change in him. Much like Penny, his new abilities happen to him by surprise and unlike any of his friends, Raj's power comes with an accessory.

Raj wakes one morning to find a hammer on his night table. Knowing that he didn't have a single tool in his apartment, he left the hammer there, thinking it was a part of some kind of prank.

The hammer remained there for days, and none of his friends had said a word about it. So, Raj decided to bring it up that Wednesday night during Halo. Of course, he has to finish off a beer before he can open his mouth with Penny right there.

"So, what's the deal with the hammer in my room?"

Howard snickered. "Maybe it just wanted a break," he said, barely containing a laugh. "Because clearly, no one is getting nailed in there."

Everyone groaned at the terrible joke. Even Sheldon.

"It was you, then," Raj said and pointed at his best friend. "Why would you do that to just say a crappy joke?"

"It wasn't me. But I was given the opportunity, so I had to run with it."

The next day, Raj decides to place the hammer in his bag, to show his friends. For what reason, he didn't know. He just felt like it was something he needed to do. He walks into his office and plops the bag on the only chair in the room besides the one behind his desk.

Minutes later, Howard walks in, like he normally does. Most days, they chat until it's time to officially get to work.

"So today is Anything Can Happen Thursday," he starts off by saying and moves to the seat. Gripping the handle of the bag, he tries to lift it up. But can't.

"Dammit, Raj. What do you have in here?"

"A hammer," he answers, not thinking about it. Howard has no muscle in his scrawny arms. So, he takes the strap and sets the bag on the floor, then continues with the conversation Howard started.

At the end of the work day, Raj is walking out with Leonard and Sheldon when he realizes he forgot something in his office. He hands off his bag to Leonard because he can pretty much hold anything now.

However, instead of it being light as a feather for his superhuman friend, the bag thumps to the ground and Leonard struggles to pick it up. Of course, after all while, Leonard seems to jump to conclusions and thinks he is no longer strong. He sinks to his knees and comes close to tears until Sheldon suggests he lift a nearby vending machine...which he does, with ease.

Raj watches the whole thing, already forgetting about whatever he forgot in his office. Leonard could lift a vending machine but not his bag, which only held a few books and a freaking hammer.

There was something up with the hammer.

He walks up to his discarded bag and takes out the tool. Looking at Sheldon, he holds up the hammer. "Can you hold this for a moment?"

Sheldon rolls his eyes but reaches for the tool and is pulled to the floor. Leonard laughs, Raj cracks a smile and Sheldon is not happy at all.

With as much dignity as the lanky man can muster after being pulled to the ground, he stands. The hammer is still lying on the floor. Raj bends done and picks it up. Easily. As if it weighed nothing.

Okay, that was a lie. It felt like he was just holding a regular old hammer. But he could lift it, unlike any of his friends.

"So," Howard is the first to speak up. "What does it mean?"

"If I were to guess, I would say that Raj has developed some kind of super power. Like Leonard, Penny and I."

"His super power is lifting up hammers?" Howard asks in disbelief. "Sounds pretty lame."

Leonard speaks, ignoring Howard. "If I received powers like Captain America, Penny like Storm and Sheldon like Quicksilver, then I'm thinking Raj's powers come from someone in the Marvel Universe."

"Is there a carpenter in Marvel?" Howard says, mostly for laughs, but no one even chuckles.

"Hmm..." The three other physicists hum in thought, ignoring their engineer friend.

"Who's powers have something to do with a hammer?" Leonard speaks aloud.

At that moment, they all stop and looked at each other. Raj has a large grin on his face. "Thor!"

Raj can barely contain his excitement. He's the frakkin' God of thunder!

"What's so special about lifting a hammer?" Then there's Howard, destroying all the fun. "It isn't even Mjolnir. It's just a regular old hammer I could buy at the nearest Home Depot."

"Thor doesn't just have a legendary weapon," Sheldon speaks. "He's a god and has control of lightning, as well."

"Let's test it out!"

They practically have to run to keep up with Raj. Well, except Sheldon, who's already waiting for them outside.

"Okay, Raj," Leonard sounds just as excited as Raj feels. "Try summoning some lightening."

Howard crosses his arms and leans against a nearby lightpost. "I'll laugh if only sparkles come out of his fingers." It was clear that he was feeling left out. Everyone else was getting these cool powers, and he was still as scrawny and weak as ever.

Raj glares at his best friend before throwing a hand out.

Lightning shoots from his fingers...and heads right for Howard's Vespa.

The Hulk

Howard wakes up the next day to find that he's green.

He's green!

At the sight of his face in the mirror, he'd nearly fainted in the bathroom. It wasn't just his skin that was green, but his hair, as well. Oh Lord, his mother was going to kill him.

However, that was the least of his worries. What was he supposed to do now? How was he ever going to go out into society? How was he ever going to get laid?

That time, he really did faint.

It took his mother pounding on the bathroom door for Howard to finally come to. Covering his face with a towel, he rushed from the room. His mother had, fortunately, been too focused on making it into the bathroom to ask about the towel. He could not deal with her, now. Not until he figured out what the hell was going on.

It was time to call a meeting. Raj would know what to do. If not, then...Sheldon would.

Just the thought alone made Howard die a little inside.

Sheldon always knew what to do and it was annoying.

Somehow, Howard made it to apartment 4A without any weird looks. Fortunately, his Vespa had just gotten out from the shop (after Raj had fried it with his Thor powers) and the helmet he wore obscured the color of his skin and hair.

Howard didn't take the helmet off as he rushed up four flights of stairs, and he didn't take it off when he burst through the door of 4A.

Sheldon was sitting on the couch, fingers moving impossible fast on a game controller. Leonard was pushing the bookshelf, books and all (from the looks of it, he'd attempted to do some rearranging, but Sheldon had put a stop to it). Raj and Penny sat by the window and in the distance, Howard could see dark clouds forming.

Why did they all get cool powers and he had to be green?

Howard whipped off the helmet and tossed it aside. The noise caused everyone to stop what they were doing and look his way. The color of his skin made them stare. Sheldon seemed to blur for a moment, Howard felt a tickle and Sheldon was back to playing his game.

"If you were wondering," Sheldon addressed the room. "Howard is not dabbling in face paint. He is that color all over."

"What? How do you know?" Howard squeaked. Did that mean in just a blink of an eye, Sheldon had managed to see him completely naked? Well, that was terrifying.

"Dude, you're green," Leonard spoke.

"No. Really?" Howard rolled his eyes.

Penny and Raj walked over from the window, Raj's hand sparked a little as he held the neck of a beer bottle in his hand. "What were you up to last night?" He waggled his eyebrows. "Looks like something extremely kinky."

Penny gave Raj a disgusted look and took a seat on the couch next to Sheldon, who was still playing his game.

"Like I said, earlier," Sheldon sighed and turned his game off. "It is not paint."

"So, his skin is green?" Raj asked, taking a seat on the armchair and started flipping his hammer in the air.

"Yes, it is," Howard hissed, feeling his blood pressure rise. "So, what do I do?!" The last part came out as a roar. A literal roar that rattled the now closed window.

Leonard stopped moving the bookcase, Raj dropped his hammer, Sheldon set aside his game control and Penny just stared. However, Howard was past caring about what they were doing.

"You all have cool powers and I'm green!" He took a step and the whole apartment shook. Sheldon quickly grabbed any falling action figures and placed them back in their spots before taking his spot again. All of this was done in a blink of an eye.

"Whoa, calm down, buddy," Leonard placataed, but stayed behind the couch.

"Calm? How can I be calm when I look like this?!" Howard clenched his fists, the anger inside him becoming almost uncontrollable. "I'm never going to get laid again!"

Then, in a blink of an eye, Howard was no longer in Sheldon and Leonard's apartment. Instead, he found himself outside, in a field. No buildings in sight. For a moment, he thought that he could teleport, which was pretty frakkin' cool, even if he was still green.

The dream was shattered when he heard Sheldon spoke. If he had the powers of teleportation, there would be no way he'd willingly teleport to a place where Sheldon was.

"You're the Hulk," Sheldon spoke matter-of-factly, as if it had been obvious from the beginning. "You were beginning to turn while in my apartment. I couldn't let you destroy it. I have several collectibles in there that can never be replaced."

The shock of being suddenly relocated had calmed Howard down a little. No longer did he feel like he had no control of his body. Though, he was a little freaked that he could have Hulk-ed out in Sheldon and Leonard's living room. He could have seriously hurt someone...or worse.

"So, I'm the Hulk, huh? But Bruce Banner wasn't green all the time."

"And Mjolnir wasn't a household hammer. We seem to be gaining powers from popular Marvel superheroes, but with different variations."

Of course he'd get the shit end of the stick. No one else had to suffer with their skin turning a different color and as far as he knew, all of the cool things about the Hulk, like being super strong and indestructible, happened when he became an enormous green rage monster.

"Are you ready to head back?" Sheldon asked. "If not, you may call me and I'll come get you. I wish to get back to my game."

Howard felt calm, there was no trace of anger left now that he knew what he was. He'd just have to be careful from now on. Fortunately, he was a mostly chill guy.

"I'm good."

They were back in the apartment before Howard could even finish the sentence.

The rest of the gang hadn't moved much. However, they did inch a little away from him once Sheldon announced what he was.

"Don't worry, everyone," Sheldon spoke, eyes glued on the tv. "If he is on the verge of becoming the Hulk, I will whisk him away again."

This seemed to calm everyone down, and it soon it started to feel like normal in the apartment.

Awhile later, Raj leaned close to whisper in Howard's ear. "Dude, just don't get angry when you're having sex."

Howard shuddered at that mental image. "Don't worry, buddy. I won't."

The Avengers

Honestly, it had been easy to explain away Howard's green skin and hair. It was from an experiment gone awry, which could also explain why Raj sometimes had sparks fly from his fingers. (Though no one could understand why he carried around a hammer).

Penny contemplated becoming a weather woman but one needed a certain degree for that. She would have made a damn good one, though because she would never be wrong.

Leonard used his new height and strength to attract woman. In no time at all, he had his pick. (Some even fought over him, which hadn't really happened before so that was nice).

Sheldon used his powers for good. Being able to be anywhere in a matter of seconds allowed Sheldon more time to work (and play video games). Those days of work being interrupted on his whiteboard because Leonard had to drive them to the University were no longer. He could work all the way up until the minute he was due in his office.

Needless to say, Sheldon's Nobel Prize was now more in his reach than ever before.

Whenever, they all want to meet up, none of them can reset sending out the text:

Avengers assemble!

I'm not an expert on superheroes, so I apologize for any mistakes. I do know that all characters mentioned were not in the Avengers (the comic version). I believe Quicksilver and Storm were part of the Xmen, though. Once again, I just have movie knowledge of these heroes.

Well, I hope you all enjoyed. Thank you for taking time to read!