Hello guys! I'm back with a Spider-Man fic set in my own Marvel Universe. The story will focus on both M.J. and Peter, as well as their life together; in other words, this is my take on their relationship. I hope you guys enjoy this and please R&R.
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Our Life.
Prologue.
Mary Jane Watson was a normal teenage girl, at sixteen she was the most popular girl in school, every guy wanted to be with her and every girl wanted to be like her, because of this, she had the perfect life; or that's what everybody thought. Her life could be anything but perfect, her dad was in prison, her mom died when she was a kid and her elder sister hated her, she was lucky enough that her aunt Anna May loved her and took her in, even though her economical situation was not the best one, she managed to provide for her niece.
So, it was a surprise that even if her life kind of sucked, M.J. never let her get to her and she didn't allowed her popularity go to her head, she just wasn't like that, so instead of being the queen bee of school, she was the friendly girl to everybody, specially her best friend Peter Parker.
"Hey Pete! Ready for school?" she asked excited for this new school year at midtown high. This year she and Peter had most classes together, so that mean they could spend more time together.
"Yeah, I'm really excited to spend most of the year locked in my locker. Your boyfriend, Flash even texted me with a reminder of what's to come." Said Peter with a sigh knowing what was waiting for him at school.
Peter Parker was known as the school nerd, known by his incredible intelligence and awkward social skills, his only known friends were M.J. and Harry Osborn, but Harry didn't attend Midtown High, so M.J. was his only friend at school.
"C'mon Pete, he's not my boyfriend, we just kissed one time at Liz party and know he believes that he owns me. He's so wrong with that." Said the redhead.
"Sorry, didn't mean to offend you." He said with a smile. They both laugh.
They were heading to school, it was early in the morning and the day was sunny and bright for a Monday.
"You seriously are going to wear your glasses? I thought aunt May bought you contacts." Asked M.J. as she saw him fix his big black hipster-ish glasses.
"I can't put them on. I feel like I'm gonna pull out my eyes off, okay!" he said.
M.J. rolled her eyes at his remark, he was such a little baby when it came to putting things in his eyes, he was terrified of it, almost as much as she was terrified of the dark. "Flash is going to keep calling you four eyes, aunt May got them, so he could at least stop calling you that."
"I know, but I just can't." he answered.
The rest of the way to school was spent talking about stupid things like: If Wolverine could cut through Cap's shield, or if Iron-Man had a portable bathroom in his suit, y'know, nerd stuff. They were so engrossed in their conversation that they didn't noticed that the Fantastic Four was fighting in the middle of the street against an army of mole-men.
"Watch out!" they heard before a wall of fire was placed between them and a few mole-men that were about to attack them. "You guys seriously need to pay more attention to your surroundings."
Peter and M.J. were surprised to see Johnny Storm A.K.A the Human Torch, he was the same age they were, but he was a superhero, so it was exciting.
"S-so-sorry." Stutter Peter, his shyness kicking in.
"Sorry Mr. Torch, we will be careful next time." Said M.J.
"Mr. Torch? We're the same age, I think... Please call me Johnny." He said waving his eyebrows at her, making her blush.
"Johnny, a little help here!" called the Invisible Woman.
"Gotta go beautiful, have to save the day." He winked at the redhead before flying off yelling 'Flame on!'
After that incident, the day was like any normal day at school, principal Coulson gave the homecoming speech before sending everybody to class; as promised, Flash locked Peter in his locker, but Dr. Connors let him out just minutes later and M.J. scolded the bully for his actions.
Soon lunch came and Peter, M.J. and Cindy Moon (M.J's other true friend) were eating lunch in the cafeteria, the Asian-american girl was interrogating the redhead about her run in with The Human Torch.
"Talk! How's he like? Is he hot? Is he dreamy?"
"He's hot, literally and figuratively speaking, a bit cocky if I must say, but totally cool. Even Peter was impressed." She said with a smile.
"He's a superhero. A real one, and we were able to talk to him." Peter was being a fanboy.
"Parker is in love with candle guy! How charming." Said Flash making fun of him. "Why don't you ask him to be your boyfriend?"
"Nock it off Flash, leave us alone." Said Cindy.
"What? Defending your boyfriend, Moon? I didn't know you like Parker like coma girl did!"
"I don't, but he's my friend, and you're a bully." She said mad at him.
"Sounds like you do like the dork."
"That's enough, Mr. Thompson. I expected a different behavior from you this year." Said Mrs. Waters, the english teacher as she came to defuse the situation.
"We're just having some fun, right Parker?" he asked him with a death glare so that Peter would go along.
"I wasn't." he didn't.
"Detention Flash; I'm actually surprised, no one had had detention this fast in my career." Said Mrs. Waters.
"You're so dead Parker." Whispered Flash.
Peter gulped.
"You did well to stand up against Flash today." Said M.J. with a small smile in her face while Peter was trying to think how he could survive this year.
"I think I signed my death sentence, please tell aunt May and uncle Ben that I love them." He said over reacting.
"Relax Pete. I have your back."
"That doesn't help, at all."
M.J. smacked him in the back of his head as they both laughed, they were walking back home after a long day at school; Dr. Connors left them an assignment so hard that even Peter had difficulty with it, thankfully, they were able to get it done, so they had all afternoon to do whatever they want.
"Hey, Harry texted me yesterday, said his dad gave him permission to check the new tech at Oscorp, he told me he could show us around as well." Said Pete.
"You seriously want to spend the day watching science stuff?" asked M.J. already knowing his answer. Peter nodded, and she sighed. "Alright, let's go! We could have fun with Harry for a while." Peter smiled and kissed her on her cheek in excitement, M.J. blushed.
Oscorp was huge, the building was almost as tall as the Avengers Tower but fancier as it holds the world's greatest minds like Otto Octavius and Michael Morbius, just to name a few. Peter loved going there and it was his dream to work there with Harry when they grow up.
"Pete, M.J.! so glad you guys came." The 18-year-old Harry Osborn exclaimed when he saw his childhood friends enter the building.
Even though Harry was two tears older than them, he considers both M.J. and Peter as his closest and only true friends after Pete helped him one time in Central Park when they were kids. He was only 7 when he got lost and Peter and his aunt helped him find his mom, after that they became friend and later he met M.J. one day when he visited Pete at his house when he was 13.
"You kidding? Pete is so excited he hasn't shut up since we took the subway." Said Mary Jane hugging Harry.
"I wanna see everything! This is so exciting!" exclaimed Peter excited.
"Okay, calm down Pete. You're going to give yourself a stroke."
"Sorry."
"Nerd." Whispered Mary Jane.
Harry showed them almost everything, from normal domestic tech like a new smartphone or tablet, to the most cut edging tech in medicine, space travel and superhero damage control; it was heaven for Peter. "Know this is the best part. The genetics lab, here scientist study DNA from different animals to understand their capabilities and apply it to modern medicine."
The trio entered the lab and found many scientists working in several projects, Dr. Morbius was one of them and when he saw Harry he went to say hello. "Mr. Osborn. Is a pleasure to have you here." Said the man with a Greek accent.
"Hello Dr. Morbius. I brought my friends for a tour of the labs. This is Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson." Said Harry introducing them to Dr. Morbius.
"Oh my God! Dr. Michael Morbius, I'm a huge fan of your work, your thesis in the understanding of the Biochemistry of Mutants was amazing, and your work with curing blood related diseases is amazing." Said Peter as if he was meeting a rock star.
"Well, I'm surprised to have a fan, Mr. Parker is it?"
"Please, call me Peter."
"Well Peter, I'm flatter to know that there are still young kids interested in science, specially Biochemistry." Said Morbius surprised.
"I love Biochemistry, I hope to obtain a PhD in that area, I also like mechanical engineering." Said Peter with enthusiasm.
"Wow! Well in that case, let me show you guys around."
The tour was amazing, even M.J. was interested in the science mumbo-jumbo, they were currently watching some genetically modified animals that were created for medical purposes, spiders to be exact.
"Oh! I hate spiders." Said Mary Jane shivering in fear.
"I love spiders!" Said Peter.
"I tolerate spiders." Said Harry.
"These spiders were created to study the effects of their improved abilities and how they could be implemented in human technologies, this one right here is our pride and joy." Said Morbius pointing at an empty crystal box.
"The box is empty. There is no spider." Said M.J. noticing that there was indeed no spider.
"It's probably being tested…" Morbius beeper beeped making him stop and check it. It seems it was something important as he urged the teens to leave the lab right away but promised Peter that he was going to put out a good word for him as he was impressed at his knowledge.
"Well… that went well. I must admit, you gave Dr. Morbius a good impression if he's going to put out a good word for you." said Harry surprised.
"Pete we should go, I promised aunt Anna that we wouldn't be late for today's game night." Said Mary Jane pulling Peter's arm so that they could get going. The said bye to Harry as they made their way towards the exit and into the street.
"Hurry up, the subway is going to leave us." Said the red-haired girl running towards the train.
"I'm coming!" answered Peter running behind her.
Once inside they sat down and talked as usual. "Auch!" yelled Peter rubbing his right hand in pain as a tiny spider fell in his lap. "That spider just bit me." He said still in pain.
"Should we go to the hospital? That doesn't look like a regular spider." Said M.J. looking at the strange red and blue spider before it disappeared.
"Nah, it's okay. Let's go home before our aunts get worried." Said Pete standing up, so they could leave and head out home.
What they didn't know was that that spider was going to change their lives forever as they were about to enter a life of danger, superheroes and love, they just didn't know it yet. For know they only cared to get home before dark as they didn't want to get grounded for being late.
Here is the prologue of this story. Let me read your thoughts. Is it good? Is it bad? Should I continue? Should I stop? Should I keep asking this kind of questions? let me know. Thanks for your time and please leave a review. Bye!