Chapter 81

In the Studio

Director: "Props, you're fired! Why did you bring out the Shadowless Sword? That's an epic sword!"

Prop Master: "Director, I was wrong! I have an 80-year-old mother and a—"

Screenwriter: "For the sake of the plot, let's leave it like this."

Ross: "You are so cruel! I'm taking a huge loss!"

Luke: "Hey, hey, how about we switch?"

...

Luke had made up his mind about getting Spider-Sense.

He was going to turn Peter Parker into Spider-Man eight years early!

This task wouldn't be easy.

To make Peter Parker a real web-head, Luke had to find a way to get him bitten by a spider.

To do that, he needed to recall every detail about the birth of Spider-Man.

At this moment, before anything had even happened, all of it was stored in his mind.

But he couldn't remember everything clearly.

Luke tapped his head and muttered, "Man, this body's brain capacity is way too small."

He was seriously starting to think this body was the reason he had been so forgetful lately.

It had already been over a year since he traveled through time, and his memories of watching dozens of Marvel movies in his past life were getting fuzzy.

The main plot was still clear, but he couldn't remember the smaller details.

For example, he was sure that Spider-Man was born in high school. During some extracurricular event, Peter Parker was bitten by a genetically altered spider and got his powers.

But where exactly did he get bitten?

Two different memories popped up in his head.

In one, he remembered Peter Parker getting bitten inside a room during a science exhibition.

In another, he vaguely recalled a version where Peter was bitten outside, in the grass, by a spider that escaped from a lab.

Which one was Marvel's official history?

He had never read the comics.

The only time he saw Spider-Man's introduction was in Captain America: Civil War, when Peter Parker had already grown up and become Spider-Man.

The movie never explained how he was bitten.

Luke felt stuck.

If he wanted to turn 7-year-old Peter Parker into Spider-Man now, then he needed to replicate the process perfectly and figure out what was crucial to his transformation.

He also vaguely remembered two versions of where Peter got bitten…

One had the spider bite his hand.

The other had the spider bite his neck.

That just made things more confusing.

His memory was all over the place.

"Hmm... hmm... hmm..." Luke sat there, gripping his head with his little hands, staring at Ross inside the fish tank across from him.

He was digging deep into his memories, trying to piece together the truth.

Ross: "Oh no, he's lost it."

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The Next Day, at School

For once, Luke wasn't sleeping in class.

He sat there, holding his head, staring at the blackboard while thinking hard.

This made his teachers gasp in shock.

"The sun must be rising from the west… Mr. Nelson is actually listening to the lecture!"

Feeling honored, the teachers taught even harder.

But as soon as class ended, Luke bolted out of his seat, grabbed Peter Parker from the next class, and pulled him aside.

"Hey, man! What's up?" Peter greeted him with a big smile, bumping fists with him.

Luke wrapped his arm around Spider-Man's neck, and the two little kids walked down the corridor, talking in hushed tones.

All the other students immediately stepped back—boys and girls alike.

After all, Luke was notorious.

He was "Luke the Devil", the most feared kid at Dawson Elementary School!

He had beaten up the Violent Bird Trio multiple times.

That was a group of three bullies—a black kid and two little punks—who once shoved Peter into a broom closet.

But they got wrecked by Luke's inch punch.

After that, the three calmed down for a while. Anytime they saw Luke, they'd immediately change directions.

But kids forget things.

Half a year later, the black kid hit a growth spurt and shot up to 1.5 meters. With better nutrition and racial advantages, he towered over Luke, who was barely over 1 meter tall due to years of malnutrition in the orphanage.

That height difference boosted his confidence.

So one afternoon, the Violent Bird Trio decided to test the waters again.

They got wrecked even harder than before.

And they behaved themselves ever since.

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"Hey, man, your parents have been on a business trip for so long. They still haven't come back?" Luke asked while squatting next to Peter.

"Uncle Ben and Aunt May said my parents are abroad and really busy with work." Peter looked a little down.

He hadn't seen his parents in two years.

One night, they left him with Uncle Ben and Aunt May, and they never came back.

Luke thought for a second and asked, "I remember you said your parents' names were Richard Parker and Mary Parker?"

"Yeah, man," Peter nodded. "Why?"

Luke shrugged. "Just curious."

"Hey, what are your plans for the weekend? Want to go again… you know?" Peter grinned, mimicking sword swings.

That night, after Uncle Ben took him home, he saw the news on TV.

He saw Apostle, the massive mecha, fighting Iron Man.

And he knew Apostle's real identity—his best friend!

Peter had no idea that his best friend was secretly trying to get him bitten by a spider.

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"Richard Parker… Mary Parker…"

Luke frowned.

"Now that I think about it, Spider-Man wasn't just some random guy. Both of his parents were S.H.I.E.L.D. undercover agents. His father, Richard Parker, was a doctor in genetic biology and had researched spider toxins. Later, one of those spiders bit Peter Parker."

At this point in time, Peter's parents should have been dead for two years.

They were never coming back.

Luke felt bad for the kid.

But that was Peter Parker's fate—nothing could change it.

The reason this all started was because Richard Parker developed a spider toxin that could enhance human genes.

And someone wanted it.

Luke suddenly realized something important.

"If the spider was just a carrier for the toxin, then that means other people were exposed to it before Peter. But why is there only one Spider-Man?"

He rubbed his chin.

"The key to this isn't the spider itself. It's genes."

It clicked.

The reason Peter Parker became Spider-Man was because of his genes.

"That's it! Since Richard Parker was the one who developed the toxin, he must've altered it so that only his son could survive the transformation!"

Suddenly, everything made sense.

Luke knew exactly where to start.

He was going to make Spider-Man happen—now.

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