Future plans and unexpected ability

The golden rays of the setting sun were coming through the windows illuminating a quiet room of a certain teenager who was sleeping peacefully.

*Beep Beep* *Beep Beep* *Beep Beep*

The sleeping body suddenly moved and in a half-sleeping state searched for the demonic clock trying to disturb his peace.

After a few failed attempts our Hero of Sloth found the demonic clock and by pressing the switch of doom silenced it for eternity. The demonic clock resigned itself to its fate but promised to return to haunt the hero another day...

[Peter POV]

I woke up and switched the alarm off and dragged my body to the bathroom to freshen up.

I reached the sink and came face to face with a reflection of my new body.

"Haa..." I sighed. It still feels so unfamiliar. After a good rest, I can now look at my state properly. I have come to terms with the fact that I am Peter Parker and am not someone who robbed this body of some original soul.

This feels real. I feel real. After rest, it seems that my memories are finally reorganized and it feels as if some burden has been removed from my soul. Now from my perspective, I have always been Peter. Yes, that's my name and that's who I am. The other set of memories from a different world is also part of me, I am some combination of the old me and me from this world. We are both the same and now thanks to me getting memories from a marvel fan from a different world I can just say that I have foreknowledge of events that might happen in the future.

I know that in this lifetime of mine I am supposed to carry the moniker of Spider-Man which is quite cool in my opinion, but I can't trust my future knowledge wholly because there are too many changes in this world for example my Aunt's early death and how I haven't heard of any superhumans before.

In any case, for now, I am relieved that this world isn't going to go crazy and devolve into chaos. Still, I believe I should still prepare for the future.

The first thing on my agenda is to go through the subject books for Maths and Science from elementary to the high school level to make my foundational knowledge more stable and then I will think further.

Thinking so I made my way over to my couch and opened up my Laptop. I searched for some online books set on mathematics and science and began to go through them along with a rough notebook for calculations.

[8 hours later]

I stopped reading and making notes as I came out of my trance. I blinked my eyes a few times and tried not to scream out loud in disbelief and excitement. I was finished with everything in such a short amount of time that it was unbelievable.

"So this is what it feels like to have a genius-level intellect..." I was shocked, to say the least. While reading I had such a great clarity of everything and was so easily able to absorb all concepts that I had found difficult in my past life.

I could also feel as if my thinking abilities were improving as I kept studying as if my brain was changing to adjust itself to my requirements.

What's the limit of this increase? I had wondered and so after finishing, I picked up biology and chemistry, and just as easily I had everything memorized and comprehended. After the four-hour mark, I could feel as if I had photographic memory now, along with being able to understand everything.

Now as I was in the kitchen preparing some food for myself I was still excited to explore this new ability that I have discovered. I lament for all the time lost in the past where I could have been leagues above everyone if I had focused on this ability of mine, but nevertheless, I am happy now. If I hadn't gotten my memories from my past life I wouldn't have changed my stance on studies and neglected this ability of mine to be a friendly neighbourhood spiderman.

Now with a taco in my hand, I returned to the couch and started learning my other school subjects which are French, English, Geography, and History using my photographic ability so that I don't have to worry about performing well in school.

In two more hours, I was done with everything. Never thought geography and history could have been so useful. The history books I read online described world wars and mentioned Captain America the first super soldier and his efforts in the war along with that there were so many different countries that I learned of that didn't exist in my old life like Sokovia.

It was an enlightening session. I now know about this world better and can also see how so many facts like information on Red Skull are hidden from the common people. This frightens me a bit. What all kinds of stuff is happening in this world? What all atrocities are hidden from the world? Are we really safe?

These kinds of questions roamed my mind for a bit and in the end, it led to me hardening my resolve to get stronger to at least protect those with whom I might make a bond later. I may be immortal and have the power to revive others but it will still hurt me if others around me are hurt.

I won't be a hero because honestly it's too much work and I have little faith in humanity, I won't run around stopping crime that the original spiderman did, and ruin my normal and happy life. Instead, I will save people when I feel like it. If my past life's memory is taken into account I can see how corrupt people in high positions in this world are and honestly it makes me feel like leaving the USA and moving to some other place like Italy instead, the only reason I am not going is that I have some attachment to this country due to living here my whole life. No one can kill or trap me anyways, I can go wherever I want and if someone comes after me well... they are going to find out how fruitless it is to fight an undying enemy...

Unknowingly having a grin on my face, I ate some pasta I had made and went on to surf the internet for the rest of the night before going to sleep...