This choice: MJ nods looking concerned • Go Back... Your wife nods looking extremely concerned and a little bit frightened. Recovering from her initial shock at seeing you this size, she very gently picks you up and brings you to her face so that the two of you can communicate a little bit better.
“Little bit of a jam is right,” She agrees. “How did you get this way?”
“I don’t know,” You tell her. “One moment I was my normal, able to reach the top shelf of our kitchen cabinet, self. The next I experience a wave of dizziness and I’m barely up your ankle.”
She frowns. “Do you think its related to your radioactive spider bite? You’ve had some unpleasant side-effects before and spiders aren’t exactly known for being all that large.”
“That’s true.” You frown as you consider that. In the past the effects of your spider bite had caused you to grow a couple of extra sets of arm and mutate into a Spider monster before you. You believed it was under control now but could it have caused you to take on their stature? “I don’t know…it could be.”
“What about one of your enemies?” She asks continuing to speculate. “Could one of them have done this?”
That was definitely a possibility too. You’ve made a lot of enemies among villains during your time as a superhero and there are several, with the means, intellect or powers to be able to get you into this situation. “That’s possible too.” You admit.
MJ bites her lip as she thinks about all the enemies. “It’s going to be a long list.” She says discouraged.
You nod in agreement. “Yeah,” you sigh. “Although if you go with the ones that had the opportunity to do it we might be able to narrow it down.”
MJ frowns thinking “Let's start this way. Did anything unusual happen to you today?”
You look at her gesturing to your current height.
“Besides you shrinking wiseguy.” She says rolling her eyes.
“Not that I can think of. It’s been a pretty routine day. I was working at the Bugle for most of it, stopped some muggings later on and fought a few supervillains on the way back”
MJ shakes her head at the fact that you think battling supervillains is routine for you. “Who did you go up against?”
“Well, first I fought the Hobgoblin who was wreaking havoc throughout midtown, then the Vulture around the Brooklyn Bridge and finally I ran into Viper outside of the Oscorp power plant.”
“That’s not one of your regulars,” Your wife noted.
“Ophelia Sarkissian aka Madame Hydra, she’s a dangerous terrorist and one of Hydra’s former leaders. Usually she’s Captain America or S.H.I.E.L.D’s problem.”
Unlocked Viper's Biography: http://castletrophycase.blogspot.com/201...
“Heh so you pretty much stood me up to hang out with another woman,” MJ noted. She wasn’t really jealous but she acted like she was to tease you.
“Please she’s pushing 80” You tell her. You don’t bother adding that Viper doesn’t look anywhere near her age. “Besides it wasn’t all that fun. She spent the entire time trying to kill me.” You rub your chin. “Actually, now that I think about it…the ending of my fight with her was a little bit strange.”
“How so?”
“Well when I got there it looked like Viper had completed whatever she had come there to do and was preparing to make her exit. I attempted to stop her nabbing her leg with a web shot but she kicked off the boot my webbing was attached to and rolled away from me momentarily knocking me off balance. I recovered quickly but Viper was able to trigger a detonator she had hidden in one of her gloves. Apparently she had rigged the huge canisters behind me with explosives beforehand. My Spider sense warned me in the nick of time and I managed to avoid the worst of the explosive blast that followed but I still found myself drenched in whatever chemicals the canisters were holding and knocked over by debris from the explosion. It took me about a minute to pull myself out from underneath it but by that time Viper was already boarding an escape helicopter she had apparently booked in advanced."
"Were you able to catch up to her?" MJ ask
You shake your head "All I could do was call after her telling her that this was far from over," You rub your chin thoughtfully. "She was really quick to agree with me on that point too telling me that I could definitely count on that. In fact she said she was certain she would run into me ‘a little later’ and the when that happens the situation would be ‘a lot bigger’ than I could handle. I think she might have winked at me too before her helicopter got out of range.
“Peter!! With dialogue like that...it didn’t occur to you that she might be responsible for your current condition before?” Your wife says in disbelief
“I just assumed it was standard hero/villainess banter.”
“I think it’s pretty likely she had something to do with your shrinking.”
“Yeah it looks like it." You agree. "The canisters she detonated were probably not just used as an escape distraction. There must have been something in the chemicals that hit me.” You frown. “MJ…at this size I’m pretty ineffective. I’m going to really need your help a lot.”
“Of course Peter!” You can see it in her eyes that she’s really worried. “What do you want me to do?”
“I think the best bet is to get me to a lab, have some bloodwork done and try to isolate the source of my transformation. Hopefully we could figure out how to reverse it.”
“All right,” MJ nods. “There are no shortages of them in the city.”
“The problem is that I don’t want to give away my secret identity. Our best bet might be the facilities at Empire State University. It small but at least I’ve got some connections there as Peter.”
“Professor Connors?”
“He’s at a conference in Los Angeles but I know the Lab technician who works there too Debra Whitman. We should be able to count on her discretion.”
“All right,” MJ agrees. “But are you sure Empire state university has the resources you need? Maybe it’s better to just go state of the art and take the risk enlisting super powered help.”
You hesitate. “If you were to walk into STARK industries or the Baxter Building with me, it would be very difficult to explain why you’re with me.”
MJ frowns. “Well there is another option for that. There is a Super Heroine who knows your identity.”
You grimace as you see where she is going. “You don’t mean...”
MJ nods.
“NO WAY!!”
“C’mon Peter its time you and Felicia buried the hatchet.”
You frown. Felicia Hardy aka the Black Cat is another superhero. She’s also your ex-girlfriend who you dated before MJ. The two of you didn’t end things on an exactly positive note and while you have managed to be somewhat cordial towards each other, there is still a complicated history between you too. You’re reluctant to ask her for help. It’s not that you don’t think she would help you, it’s just that she would never let you live it down if she does.
At the same time enlisting Felicia's aide might the better option. As another superhero, she can get you into places that MJ can’t. She might even be able to help you track down and capture Viper.
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