dhibooks Chapter 4 Toby's past, his cousin Peter Parker...
Chapter 4 Toby's past, his cousin Peter Parker...
Unfortunately, Toby didn't know...
Toby had already returned to his home at 104 37th Avenue in Flushing, Queens.
Toby stood in the doorway, rubbed his face, which was stiff from the day's excessive killing, and then, with a smile, pushed open the door bearing the Parker family's logo and called out:
"Dad, Mom, Peter, I'm home."
As Toby entered, the first thing he smelled was a strong aroma of baked biscuits.
Then, a middle-aged man and a woman, along with a young man who was even younger than Toby, came forward to greet them.
The two middle-aged men, named Benjamin Parker and May Riley Parker, are his parents in this life.
The young man, however, has a name that everyone is more familiar with: Peter Parker!
That is, the friendly neighbor Spider-Man!
However, Peter is currently just an ordinary person, not Spider-Man.
And Uncle Ben and Aunt May also had a son who shouldn't have existed.
And it's unknown whether it's because of the mysterious spider that bit him in his last life.
Although Toby has never been bitten by any radioactive spider in his life, he has been different from ordinary people since childhood.
They are stronger, more agile, and even have a higher IQ than the average person!
And as he gets older, Toby discovers that his body has more than just these conventional attributes; he was stronger than others from the beginning and also has some superpowers that normal humans shouldn't have!
For example, the ability to cling to walls at any angle like a spider, or the ability to shoot super-tough spider silk from the wrist!
And that precognitive spider-like sense!
All of this convinced Toby that he had awakened Spider-Man's abilities!
And it's also the Spider-Man's power, played by the actor of the same name, Tobey Maguire!
Because his strength is clearly greater than that of the average Spider-Man, he can easily lift a cargo truck weighing tens of tons with one hand!
You should know that the strength of an ordinary Spider-Man, under normal circumstances, is at most able to lift objects weighing tens of tons, but he has the maximum strength of an ordinary Spider-Man with one hand!
Furthermore, it can shoot its own spider silk without relying on any technological launcher; it can "produce and use" spider silk from its own body!
Aside from the monstrous Spider-Man who can tear Venom apart with his bare hands, there aren't many Spider-Men who can do this, right?
So even though Tobey, as a time traveler, doesn't have the standard system, he can still live a colorful life thanks to Spider-Man's abilities.
However, even with Toby as a variable in this world, Peter Parker, who was two years younger than him, could not escape the fate of being an orphan when he was ten years old.
Peter was taken to stay at his parents' house for a short time when he was informed that his parents had died in a plane crash.
Toby could have used his prophetic abilities to save Peter's parents earlier.
However, because his abilities were not fully developed at the time, his two most important abilities, spider silk and spider sense, had not yet awakened...
So, to avoid attracting the attention of Osborn Corporation, which was researching the Super Spider project at the time, Toby, who was not very close to his cousin Peter, ultimately chose to stand by and watch Peter's parents never return.
Naturally, because of the death of Peter's parents, Peter, his cousin, went from being a temporary resident to a permanent resident in his home, and his parents, Ben and May, became Peter's guardians.
This year, Toby is twenty years old and Peter is eighteen. After eight years of being together, the two have long since transcended the distinction between cousins and their relationship is as strong as that of brothers.
Just like other Spider-Men who hide their abilities, Tobey Maguire didn't reveal his abilities to his parents or Peter Parker.
However, he did not deliberately hide his extraordinary strength, nor did he pretend to be a weak and easily bullied bookworm.
Besides, with his two-meter height and 140kg build, he simply couldn't pull off the image of a weak, bookish nerd like Peter...
However, the Parker couple, as well as Peter, never doubted him.
After all, Toby didn't suddenly become so strong; he's always been this strong since he was a child.
They all assumed Toby was just naturally strong and loved working out.
After awakening all of Spider-Man's abilities and perfectly adapting to them, Tobey's first action was not to put on the suit and become a good neighbor in New York.
Instead, he put the CS terrorist balaclava on his own head and ran off to the Hell's Kitchen, a place known for its outstanding people and resources, to steal and rob people!
Relying on his absolute stats, comparable to the original Spider-Man, and his spider-sense that allows him to foresee danger, Toby always reaped huge profits, quickly amassing over a million dollars in illicit gains through double-crossing.
But if you walk by the river often enough, you're bound to get your shoes wet.
His double-crossing behavior quickly caught the attention of Kingpin, the underground emperor of Hell's Kitchen.
King uses a huge deal involving American herbs as a trap, deliberately letting people leak the substantial amount and location of the deal in order to lure Toby into robbing it.
Toby naturally went; after all, it's about making money, and there's no shame in doing so!
But Toby did not fall into the trap.
He's just greedy, not a tiger. This is clearly a trap within a trap. Would he be stupid enough to jump right in?
Spiders are cautious and dangerous creatures!
So while Kingpin's men were still pretending to make a deal and waiting for Toby to take the bait, Toby had already quietly snapped the necks of all the gunmen lying in ambush around them!
Then they appeared and easily dealt with the bait that was completely unaware of them.
They took the box containing a large sum of cash and set fire to the American herbs they had pretended to trade, giving the neighbors in Hell's Kitchen a good blast!
After all, it's better to share happiness than to enjoy it alone!
But just as Toby picked up the suitcase to leave, the phone rang from the suitcase containing the cash.
Toby hesitated for a moment, and only after sensing no danger from the box did he open it, take out the phone that had been placed inside, and answer it.
The call was from Kingpin.
But Kingpin didn't come to make any threats or threats against Toby.
Instead, he expressed his admiration for Toby's abilities and said he wanted to schedule a time to have a proper talk with Toby.
He also said he could help Toby launder all the money he had made from his previous shady dealings and arrange a "legitimate" job for him so he wouldn't have to do those disgraceful, low-paying shady jobs anymore.
After hearing this, Toby didn't answer Kingpin; instead, he crushed the phone in his hand.
But the very next day, he appeared silently in Kingpin's office at the Fisk Building.
When Kingpin returned to the building, he opened the door to find Toby sitting in his chair with his legs propped up on his desk, as if the other person were the owner of the Fisk Building.
Kingpin's personality was actually somewhat like Cao Cao's; although he was ruthless, he also valued talent.
Instead of being upset by Toby's rude behavior, he helped Toby launder all the dirty money he had previously obtained and registered a job as a hired assassin in the underworld with the code name "Spider".
This gave Toby a "proper" identity in Hell's Kitchen.
One of them lacked money, and the other lacked manpower, so it was only natural that they reached a long-term cooperation agreement.
Toby helps Kingpin eliminate rival gang targets, and Kingpin pays Toby a substantial reward.
For example, after the massacre of the Japanese gang, Kingpin gave him a commission of ten million US dollars. In addition, he paid Bullseye one million to apologize, which brought him a total of eleven million.
In his previous life, even if Toby drove a truck and hauled goods his whole life, he wouldn't have earned this much money, not even a fraction of the million dollars Kim earned to apologize to Bullseye!