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Chapter 5

"Look, calm down dude," I said, contrary to what I was feeling – in what universe does Peter Parker start generating electricity out of his extremities? I was feeling a bit out of my depth so I could sort of understand how he must be feeling.

He finally managed to pry his hand from the doorknob somehow, "Oh my god, Ned! You have no idea what is going on…I woke up and its like I turned into some electric-producing glue or something. I keep sticking to random things – look at my lamp!"

Turning to look at the broken lamp on the floor, I gestured for him to sit down on his bed. "Look, Peter, I have a theory about what is happening. I think all this is going on because what happened at Oscorp yesterday. Promise me you won't freak out," I waited for him to nod his head before holding my hand out and reaching for the insects within my body (wow, and that was a sentence I never thought I would say), "Look at this."

He leaned in closer to see some ants and spiders appear on to my palm. I slowly got them to move in circles before getting them in a tower formation with the spiders at the bottom and the ants crawling on top of them. Controlling them was instinctive, like I had been doing it all my life.

"What the heck…"

"I think we need to find out what was in Oscorp's lab urgently…we don't know if what they did is dangerous, and if the robbers yesterday had anything to do with it."

"Maybe we should go to the hospital to get a check-up." He said before I interrupted.

"We can't do that. What do you think will happen to us if they find out we suddenly gained powers from their experiments? We can't expose ourselves no matter what."

"Yeah, ok. Remember I have my internship with Dr Connors coming soon? I guess I can try to find out some stuff there."

I nodded, "Before that, we have to try to get our powers under control and you know what that means – power testing!"

***BREAK***

The both of us ended up in the basement of my house.

It's a part of the house that my family hardly used. My parents treated it as a storage area while Peter and I used it as a place to hang out and work on our projects. In the corner, near a stack of cardboard boxes, was the small sewing machine we used, along with some other miscellaneous crafting items. On the other end, where we usually hung out, is an old sofa facing a TV we used to play video games.

"OK, so far, all I have figured out is that I'm able to control insects in an area around me. I can also 'absorb' them into my body, but I haven't found a limit yet. By focusing a bit, I can sort of hitchhike on their senses as well." I tried to focus on the spider crawling up my arm as I said this. It felt like a second layer of perception over my own, not as clear as using my own senses and it took quite a lot of concentration to decipher the difference between what I am seeing and what the spider was viewing.

He looked at me as I played around with the spider, before slumping down on the sofa, "Well, I found out I can sort of stick to things with the palms of my hand, and I have been releasing sparks intermittently since I woke up. I can't go to school like this dude, we need to figure out a way to stop it…Oh, and I think I am stronger as well, but I haven't really tested that yet."

"OK, lets try it out. Can you lift the sofa?"

He stood up, used both hands and lifted it without any strain whatsoever, "Whoaaaa…"

"What about balancing it with one hand."

Moving one of his hand to the middle of the sofa he released his other hand and stretched it out, "Easy-peasy." He smirked at me right before the sofa tilted to the side and he quickly moved his hand around trying to find its centre of gravity and stabilise it.

"Well, I don't think I have anything heavier than that down here, so we can test it out in the future. I guess, you're just going to have to pay more attention and make sure not to lift anything that might be too heavy for the previous you."

***BREAK***

After playing around with our powers, we managed to come up with an idea for how to fix Peter's 'shocking' problem. We took the solution from a lightning rod and started designing a device with copper as the main material to attract any sparks he might let out. In theory, copper being one of the most conductive materials will absorb all the electricity, preventing him from shocking people. The device will then hold a rechargeable battery in its outlet to ensure the electricity has somewhere to go and being useful for something.

Finally, we finished the first version of our design, but since we didn't have all the materials currently, we ordered the missing materials online and sat down for an exciting game of Mario Kart.

We might have superpowers now, but we are still kids and Mario Kart is always fun.

I only wished he knew how to control his strength better, rather than crushing one of my controllers when he got too excited.

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I wish everyone all the best during the current covid situation, and I hope this story will at least make the lock down just a bit more bearable.

Sidenote: I started a new Pokémon story called "Just a Random Adventure" and you all can check it out if you are interested. JARA is about exploring the pokemon world through the eyes of a random OC, not and SI or Canon Character. My purpose for writing it is to observe how a world with pokemon might theoretically work – their culture, government, policies, economy etc.

Finally, its been a while since I updated this story and I am sorry for those who have been waiting for it. Thank you.