The moment May pushed open the door and prepared to enter the room, a strong green light flashed, causing her to instinctively close her eyes.
The light came and went quickly. May opened her eyes uncomfortably and saw Ben lying on the bed. The blanket was bulging high as if hiding an elephant, with only his head sticking out.
"Hi, May," Ben said, pretending to be casual.
"Are you... okay?" May had many questions she wanted to ask.
For example, what was that strong light that flashed by just now? What was that sound coming from the room? And had he stuffed a two-hundred-pound fat pig into his blanket...
But she didn't speak in the end. Children always needed a little privacy.
May walked to Ben's bedside with a hint of worry, placing her hands, weathered by time, on Ben's forehead.
"You don't seem to have a fever, but I'd better take you to the hospital," May said, looking as if she was about to pack and drag Ben out immediately.
However, Ben tightly gripped the blanket and shook his head forcefully. "Wait, Aunt May, I'm fine. I don't need to go to the hospital."
Go to the hospital?
In this free country, seeing a doctor wasn't cheap.
Ben didn't want to add any unnecessary burden to Aunt May and Uncle Ben because of himself.
"You've already taken several days off, Benny," May said, her voice serious and worried. "Ever since you and Peter came back from Osborn's, you've both been a little off. But at least Peter got better quickly, but you... Peter and I are very worried about you."
"I just... don't want to go to school, so..." Ben clutched the blanket tighter.
"Don't want to go to school?" Aunt May couldn't help but raise her voice. She was both surprised and angry, wanting to lecture him properly. But at that moment, Uncle Ben's car engine roared from downstairs.
It was an old, beat-up car. Every time it started and stopped, it always made a racket that didn't belong to this era.
"Uncle Ben's back? I thought he had to work today," Ben quickly changed the subject.
"Peter got into a fight at school," Aunt May said with a sad expression.
Then she sighed, walked to the bedroom door, turned her head, and looked at Ben seriously. "I need to go check on Peter now. Later, Peter and I will talk to you again, okay?"
Ben nodded obediently, and only then did Aunt May close the door and leave.
Ben waited until he heard her footsteps fade away before heaving a sigh of relief and throwing off the blanket.
His body still retained some characteristics of the Spider Monster. The Omnitrix hadn't completely repaired his genes yet, which was why Ben had covered himself with the blanket.
Omnitrix energy is low. Replenishing energy... Gene therapy estimated to take another 1:37 seconds.
"Unbelievable. It only needs a few days of charging to destroy the universe through its self-destruct program, yet it's low on energy?" Ben looked incredulously at the watch that was still spinning. At the same time, he felt the mutations on his body gradually disappearing.
After the gene repair, he probably wouldn't be able to get Spider-Man's abilities anymore.
But Ben didn't care much. "As long as the Little Broken Watch can activate, Spider-Man's superpowers are nothing."
Among the Omnitrix's million alien genes, there were countless alien heroes with abilities similar to Spider-Man's. The most typical was the Arachna alien, also known as the Spider Monkey.
A minute and a half passed quickly.
Ben could no longer feel any abnormality in his body. But before he could check carefully, the Omnitrix on his wrist automatically switched from green to blue. On its surface, countless strange black shadows were rapidly jumping.
Entering calibration mode.
"Calibration mode? Has the Little Broken Watch successfully established a link with Primus again?" Ben immediately became excited!
The first-generation Little Broken Watch didn't directly store over a million alien genes. Instead, it was like cloud storage, requiring downloads from Primus to transform. After entering calibration mode, the watch would randomly acquire ten alien genes.
"I wonder which alien genes I'll get."
Among the million alien genes, the most powerful was naturally the omnipotent Celestial - Alien X!
However, Ben didn't really want to get the genes of this species. Alien X had too many limitations. If he wasn't careful, he could easily be trapped in the consciousness universe by his two personalities and be unable to escape.
In the instant Ben was thinking, the Omnitrix had already completed calibration.
The initial calibration didn't seem to change its appearance, but many more icons had indeed appeared in the watch.
Ben pressed the two buttons on the outside of the watch. The watch face popped out, and the two hourglass-shaped triangles overlapped to form a square. Inside the square was a humanoid black shadow.
"Heatblast?"
Ben recognized the icon of the Pyronite at a glance. After twisting the watch face, familiar shadows like Wildmutt, Diamondhead, and others also appeared before his eyes.
"It's the original ten heroes."
The superpowers of the original ten alien heroes were mostly very strong, and the ten combined could handle a very comprehensive range of situations. Not to mention that among these ten heroes was Grey Matter!
Grey Matter's genes came from the Galvan.
They were of the same race as Azmuth, the wisest being in five galaxies and the creator of the Omnitrix.
In theory, Grey Matter's intelligence could break through all of the Omnitrix's restriction programs. However, this also required a certain foundation of knowledge. In the animation, Benny had trouble fixing the old RV's air conditioner at first.
Ben didn't try to transform immediately. Instead, he pulled down his sleeve to cover the watch because he heard someone coming upstairs again.
"Judging by the sound, it's Peter." The image of Peter walking up the stairs immediately appeared in Ben's mind.
Then he paused. "Strange, when did my hearing become so good?"
Before he could wonder, the bedroom door opened again.
"Hey, Ben, are you feeling better..." Peter walked in, greeting him. But he stopped mid-sentence. The moment they made eye contact, a strange feeling surged from the depths of their souls.
Both of their heads seemed to have a halo of radiating lines around them, like hairs standing on end.
"Wait, you too!" Peter's eyes widened.
"Don't tell me you were bitten by a spider too!"
A few days ago, Peter was bitten by a spider at Osborn's, and after one night, he found himself changed in an extraordinary way. Now, some instinct told him that his good cousin seemed to possess the same abilities.
Ben was actually a bit surprised. He thought the Omnitrix had completely removed the spider gene, but he didn't expect it to be preserved. This way, even without the Little Broken Watch, he would have some ability to protect himself.
However, regarding Peter's question, Ben thought for a moment before replying:
"To be precise, I bit the spider."
Peter: ???
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