Spider-Man: Duty and Loss Chapter 110: Surprise

*Sniff* "Haaah. That's the smell I love and remember." Peter stared out at the streets of New York, almost feeling nostalgic after being away from his town for just over a week. Standing at the top of the Baxter Building, the Wakandan ship had left 30 minutes ago after dropping him and the Fantastic four off.

Johnny, Ben and Sue left a few parting words as they moved into the building, while Reed was too distracted to say anything as he moved inside. Johnny and Ben were talking about a few of the upgrades they wanted to place into the new Fantasti-car as they moved inside.

Peter smiled behind his mask as he watched them go. They had already promised he would get to help creating the new vehicle, and oh the ideas that he had. Peter struggled to keep the maniacal laugh that wanted to bubble to the surface as he though on it.

As his back turned to leave, Peter didn't notice the small lingering look Sue sent his way as she finally walked through the roof top entrance. Jumping off the roof, his excitement built up as he splayed his hand towards the nearest building. *Thwip*

A web shot out as he felt weightless for a few seconds, before the burning of his shoulders made him tighten his hold as he caught himself and flew forwards. "Wooooohoooo." Being back in the big apple Peter couldn't hold his excitement as he flung from building to building, making his way back to Felecia's apartment.

Though she knew he would be returning soon, he wanted to surprise her when he got back. The smile couldn't be taken off his face as he ran across the side of a building before launching himself off and doing some of the aerial acrobatics he loved.

Finally after 10 minutes of swinging around the city, Peter placed himself down 2 blocks before Felicia's apartment. Landing in a small alley way, Peter checked both ways before taping the small comm. Device in his ear.

Made out of the small nano-bots that made up his suit, it was Peters new direct line to crystal. Connected to the suit, he would be able to verbally, if he wanted, call the suit forth. A replacement for his old comm. Device, Crystal had easily upgraded the old device to make it, invisible to the naked eye plus a lot of other features that Peter could spend minutes listing off.

Tapping the small device a small ping went off in his ear, signalling that Crystal was listening. Though it could be activated with a verbal command, it was quieter to tap the device. Both Shuri and Crystal were working on neural control to expedite the process though.

"Crystal, I'm about to go see Felicia but have no change of clothes. The ones in the Fantasti-Car were blow up. Lets try out that new suit function." Slowly taking off his old suit, till he was down to next to nothing, Crystal responded instantly. "Certainly Peter. Would you like me to call Miss Hardy now?"

Peter stopped his undressing for a second as he heard the slyness in her voice. Remembering the mentioning of a surprise of some sort, Peter slowly shook his head and tapped on the spider pendant. "No, not right now. I want to surprise her."

In a matter of seconds Peter was covered head to toe in his new suit. Straightening his body and slightly puffing his chest out at the feel of the new suit, Crystals voice once again spoke. "Casual camouflage mode engage."

A ripple went out over the suit before the metallic like structure and colouring seemed to change. Receding back, the gloves, boots and helmet slowly melted away back to the pendant as a new set of clothes took shape.

Peter now stood in the alleyway decked out in sneakers, blue jeans and a form fitting red shirt. For Peter it was distinctly a different feeling then wearing normal clothes. Still feeling the clothes gripped his body, as if he was still wearing his suit was...weird to say the least. But even though they did cling to his body underneath, the clothes looked as if they sat off of him.

This was one of the features of the new suit. Camouflage mode. Though Peter wasn't too sure when he would use such a mode while wearing the costume, it had come in handy well before he thought it would. One would have to look very closely to tell that the clothes he now wore were not in fact the real deal.

Peter actually quite liked the programmed look that Shuri and Crystal had both already input...well most of it; the jeans and shoes were fine and nothing was wrong with them...but his shirt on the other hand. *Sigh* "Crystal why is the shirt programmed to be so tight?" There seemed to be a smirk behind Crystal's voice as she spoke up. "I calculated that Miss Hardy would love to see you in such a shirt."

Sticking right to his muscles and showing off his returning six pack and Olympic swimmer like body, Peter felt a little self conscious never being one to be flamboyant about his body, usually wearing baggy clothes, where what he had on now screamed 'look at me.'

Now that he thought about it, the pants also seemed a bit tight... Peter shifted uncomfortably for a second as he began to walk out of the alley way. A few heads turned in his direction as he left it, but none lingered on him for long. That was until he walked towards a group of girls about to pass him.

Trapped up in their own little conversation, one in the group of 3 looked his way, before nudging the others and discreetly pointing him out, something Peter of course just caught in the corner of his eye. After alerting her friends the whole group seemed to stop and stare at him like a piece of meat as he walked by.

Peter sped up a little as he caught the giggles the group gave out as he passed them. The same small occurrences happened for the next 2 blocks as he made his way to Felicia's apartment. Peter while slightly flattered by the attention he was getting from the opposite gender, vowed to change the settings of the clothing before he ever tried this again

He could have also sworn he heard Crystal Laugh once or twice as he once again passed a group of girls, that sent looks his way. Finally making his way to the right street Peter stopped in his tracks as he looked at the construction barricade that stood in front of him.

With the road completely blocked off for construction, shops and apartments trashed or destroyed on both sides of the street and a gaping hole, he could just see, coming from where Felicia's apartment had been, Peter had to stop himself from jumping over the barricade and rushing to the building.

Peter would have shouted at Crystal for answers right then and there but didn't want to look insane especially with a few girls still watching him from across the pavement. Slowly reaching down for the spare phone in his pocket, that he always kept with him, Peter went into his contacts and clicked on Crystals name before holding it too his ear. *Ring Ring* People walked behind him like any other day as they went about their business, *Ring Ring* *Click*, only to stop and turn when they heard a sudden outburst.

"Crystal what the fuck type of surprise is this!"

Chapter end