Chapter 39: Family
It had been a month since Dr. Connors's funeral and once again, things were seemingly back to normal in Eren Parker's life. His relationship with Cindy was going well, in fact, the two of them were ready to celebrate their two-month anniversary together, despite that day being on the same day as one of New York's biggest tragedies.
Of course, all things were going well with Harry as well, however, Eren still hadn't told him about his other half, Spider-Man, despite Cindy already knowing the truth. He did, however, plan on making it known to his friend the next time the opportunity arose.
On this day, however, Spider-Man planned on revealing his true self to his new family of the Fantastic Four. He had grown quite close to them over the short amount of time he'd known them, despite never having shown his face. It felt awkward to him, always hiding his face around people who he considered to be family to him, so he decided that he would introduce his true self for the first time at dinner.
𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙘𝙠 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙘𝙠 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙘𝙠
Spider-Man knocked on the door of the residential area of the Richards family's Baxter building. In just a couple of seconds, the door opened and he was greeted by Sue Richards. "Spidey! Hey, come on in." She said, moving out of the way so he could enter their home. "What's in the box?" she asked, noticing what the hero was carrying in his hands.
"Some gifts for the family, as a thank you for accepting me and stuff." Spider-Man told her, smiling under his mask at her.
"Oh, you don't have to thank us." She told him. "You help us out so much, it's the least we could do."
"Yeah, I know but I still want to. Here, I'll give you yours." He said, placing the box on a table and pulling out a Spider-Matter costume that was tailor-made to fit her. It was all-black, appearing as a blank canvas for the user to change upon willing it. "I asked Reed about your size, I hope it fits. I call it Spider-Matter, it's what my costume is made of, which is sort of like an upgraded version of what you guys made for me, try it on! Oh, and it'll change appearances once you put it on too, just imagine whatever you want it to look like."
"Wow, thank you! I'll go try it on right now." Sue said, turning invisible, grabbing the Spider-Matter, and taking it into another room to change into it. From the outside, Spider-Man could hear her shuffling around before hearing her gasp and exclaim from within the room "Woah!" she said, bringing a smile to Spider-Man's masked face.
Spider-Matter has an interesting property. It is technically a costume like any other, however, once it bonds with the body, it takes the shape of anything that the wearer wants it to, and it could even disappear completely. Sue was likely reacting to the suit bonding with her body and taking the form of her first thoughts.
Hearing the commotion, Reed entered the hallway, noticing Spider-Man standing there before greeting him. "Spider-Man! Good evening!"
"Good evening, Reed." Spider-Man said, waving back to the leader of the Fantastic Four.
"Where's Sue?" Reed asked, prompting Spider-Man to point at the room she was in. Just as he did, Sue exited the room in her new costume, posing on the door frame to show it off.
"How do I look." She said, showing off her new white and black, skin-tight costume. She also took the liberty of changing the logo on the front to something different, three hexagons in a pyramid shape. The top hexagon was black, as was the lower left one, and the lower right one was white.
"Oh la la." Reed said slyly, giving his wife a look as if he were ready to risk it all at that moment.
'Gross.' Eren thought to himself, feeling as if he were watching his parents flirting in front of him.
"Looks good, huh? Spider-Man made it." She said, pointing over to the hero.
Spider-Man nodded. "I made one for everyone, even the kids." he revealed.
"Everyone, come to the front hall!" Reed declared, walking over toward Spider-Man and placing a hand on his shoulder. "Thank you, Spider-Man. I'm excited, where's mine?"
Spider-Man reached into the box, pulled out his costume, and handed it to Reed before the rubbery man stretched out of the room to go try it on. Soon enough, everyone entered the room and Eren gave them his explanation before gifting them their new suits.
Before long, the entire family was wearing the costume, all deciding to match Sue's new costume design. The kids were excited, dancing around and playing in their new costumes as if they were superheroes, despite their powers not manifesting yet.
The red and black-wearing hero looked on with a smile on his masked face as the family looked back at him, almost as if they were telling him to join them and wear the family costume. Of course, Spider-Man joined the family, changing his costume to match theirs.
Now, Spider-Man wore an all-white costume with a large, black spider on his chest whose legs wrapped around the costume. At the sides of his body and under his arms, there was a sort of black, tire track pattern that went from his ankles all the way to his wrists. His lenses were also black, though he was still able to show his expressions with them.
Seeing this, Johnny Storm teased the boy. "Daaamn, looking good, Spidey!" He said, prompting the others to add to the compliments.
Spider-Man laughed, as the compliments kept coming before making one last announcement to the family. "I have one more thing to tell you guys. You can stop calling me by my hero name now. We're family, right? So I thought it'd be best for me to finally act like it."
As the family watched, Spider-Man retracted his mask, revealing to the family his face for the first time. "My name is Eren Parker, this is me." He said, extending his arms outward upon making his grand reveal.
The members of the Fantastic family all looked around at each other, smiling before approaching the boy and hugging him as if he were a long-lost family member making his return. As the whole family embraced him, Sue spoke to the boy, welcoming him to the family officially. "I'm glad to finally meet you, Eren. Welcome to the family."
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