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[unmasking]

—Uh, hey!

[Peter waves at the camera. He looks like he has it on the wrong level, and then he fixes it to not be looking mostly at his mid-eyes until he looks better, much better, without a camera giving everyone a near immediate relationship with his nose and mouth and probably pores. Look, he can accomplish things.]

—Sorry about that. And whatever you might've seen instead for a moment. I'm looking for a lab, and I'd say "hypothetically, say a guy is looking for a lab of all his own," but really, I need a lab to conduct some experiments. I promise I'm not planning to blow up any showers or the kitchen or anything like that, I—I generally avoid fires. Generally. [Except that one time in chemistry, but he's much more graceful now.] It's just that I'm used to having a lab of all my own, and I've checked the map a few times, and ... well—I don't wanna assume, you know, that I've got access to that.

[It's only now that he realizes that he should've gone for upgraded webshooters, but he didn't really want to ditch what Tony Stark gave him. They're from Tony Stark! They were a birthday present from Tony Stark.]

And this also came up with a buddy ... a pal ... you know, a new guy here, who's new like me, that maybe we should come up with a way to track the disturbances in the—[Force. Don't be a nerd, Parker.]—in the way things are here. Has anyone tried that yet?

Oh, and I'm Peter Parker. Yeah, I'm a nerd. You guessed it. But what can I say? I managed a lab in my own room back home, I can't go without here. Especially here.

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voice

[unmasking]

Your family, huh? That must be a pretty interesting family.

[Interesting is said in a way like "oh that must be a pretty evil family."]

And I need to make some stuff. It'll help, but I've gotta kind of keep it a secret.

voice

[mallarkey]

Emphasis on extended.

[ Not that he disagrees with the implication, he just wants to make that part clear. ]

Why a secret? How's it supposed to help if no one knows what it is?

voice

[unmasking]

Because it's the kind of help that only I can use.

voice

[mallarkey]

Uh... but it's safe, though, right?

voice

[unmasking]

Of course it's safe.

... Do I strike you as a not-safe type of guy?

voice

[mallarkey]

[ He chuckles briefly, a little self-conscious. ]

Well, not exactly. But chemistry and space... can't be too careful, you know?

voice

[unmasking]

Chemistry is always happening in space. I could tell you things about Jupiter that would blow your mind.

[He's joking, and he understands the worry, but he also doesn't want to focus on his web-making too much.]

voice

[mallarkey]

You probably could, y'know, I barely remember my middle school science class. [ Never mind the fact he's also a middle school drop-out. ] But chemistry in here and chemistry out there -- it's a pretty big difference.