Flash Sentry The Spectacular Spider-Man Issue #3: Welcome to Tokyo (REMASTERED)

"Hey, sorry I've been quiet for a while. Y'know with the constant whole constant change of scenery and all that."

"It's fine." said Flash. lying in his bed on a 9 am morning. "I've been trying to adjust to time zones for two days. And let me say, it's been a while. Man how'd you do it."

Micro Chips chuckled from the other side,

"When your the child of an Ivy League school graduate, the creator and CEO of the worlds leading military scientific research and arms. You've ended up in more than one business trip as a child."

Flash rolled his eyes and smirked, "Did you enjoy some fine wine and martini's while you were there?"

"Well I was close to drinking when I was 14. We were in Venice and I came across a half filled bottle of wine. My Mom and Dad scolded me for a few hours afterwards."

Flash chuckled a little. But that led his mind to another question, "Hey speaking of which. How's things with your parents?"

"Well things with my dad has strangely gotten a lot better. My step mom is pretty cool, she honestly, I haven't seen my Dad this happy in his life. As for my biological mom. I haven't seen her in a while. I tried getting in contact with her but...she hasn't...……. called back....."

"Wow, dude I'm so sorry."

"It's not your fault Flash."

Micro Chips assured,

"I mean I haven't had much contact with her since October--"

He was quickly cut off however. Both him and Flash hearing his dad call him in the distance. Micro Chips chuckled,

"Heh, I gotta go. And uh hey, try and make it back in one piece."

Flash chuckled, "No promises." He hung up on the phone. Letting out a deep sigh. Reason? Because of what Micro Chips said near the end of the phone call. "I hate to disagree with you Micro Chips, but I'm pretty sure I hold a bit of responsibility with you leaving."

Then suddenly, a knock came at the bedroom door.

*knock, knock knock*

He stretched his arms and sat upright, "I'm Up!"

Firestar opened the door slightly and poked her head out from the corner, "Uhh, can I come in?"

Flash shrugged, "Well I mean, this is your house."

Firestar rolled her eyes at the 'obnoxious one' and walked right in. Holding a notepad and having a pen on her ear. "Soo, you promised more Spider-Man info last night. So uh, spill it."

Flash let out one long blink. "Okay....you couldn't wait until breakfast."

"Nope."

"Oh yeah that reminds me. You didn't tell anyone did you?"

Firestar giggled and rolled her eyes. "No, don't worry." She mocked, "I know all about the whole identity and secret stuff you superheroes have."

"I am not a superhero!" Flash playfully protested, "But that identity and secret stuff is important to keep everyone I love and care for, safe."

"I've definitely heard that one before. Anyways, back to the Spider-Man stuff."

Flash sighed, "Okay, shoot."

She sat on her knees. Grabbing the pen off her ear and flipping through her notepad. "Okay. Soo let's get the nail biter out of the way. How do you shoot webs!"

Flash, chuckled. "See here's the thing. I've been doing this for about.... nine-ish months and I can't say I have a concrete conclusion. Long story short I....shoot webs out of my wrists. Like organically. It's kinda weird to think about sometimes, but I guess have some spinnerets in their or something."

"How about climbing walls?"

"Electrostatic force." Flash rose to his feet. Glancing up He jumped up and clung onto the ceiling. "As long as I'm not wearing heavy duty gloves or boots, I can stick onto any surface."

"Wow okay that is actually kinda cooler than I thought." She flipped through her notepad, "Uhh, okay. So um, what's up with your costume."

Flash raised an eyebrow, "What do you mean?"

"Well, why the whole red and blue design?"

"The red and blue design.....uhhh. Well I thought it kinda popped. Made me look different from the crowd and all that."

"What about the mask? How do you even see through it."

Flash let go of the ceiling and landed on both feet. Walking over to his bag, he pulled out the mask and tossed it over to Firestar. "One way glass. I used to use two layers of tinted sunglass lenses. But it was way too weak I moved up to tinted one way mirrors You can try it on if you want. It's pretty crystal clear in my opinion."

Firestar raised her eyebrows. She held the mask over her head and gazed at it for a short moment. before finally putting it on. "Wow, my whole field of view just got a whole new white tint."

Flash chucked. Shaking his head, "Okay so maybe saying it was Crystal Clear was a bit of an overstatement. But they got the job done and that's really all that matters."

She stroked her chin. A small grin crept on her face as she saw some potential . She took the mask off and looked at Flash, "Hey? Uhh...Have you ever thought about upgrading into something more modern?"

Flash arched an eyebrow, "Wh-What do you mean?"

"You know. Techgrading, as I like to call it."

"Oh." Flash shook his head, "Nah, I'm pretty contempt with what I have. And besides, that'd take a lot of work."

"Well you know....umm..." Her voice died down, "If you want I could possibly, work on it."

"Wait what?" Flash turned his head at Firestar. Not hearing a single word she said. "You're gonna have to speak up a bit."

She slightly raised her voice, "You know, If I could....help with that."

Both Flash's eyebrows rose, a small smirk crept on his face. Letting out a chuckle "You mean you wanna...'techgrade' my suit?"

She blushed a little, nodding her head. "Y-Yeah."

"I didn't even know you were into tech."

Firestar shrugged and grinned. "W-Well. I mean, I've got a knack for inventing tech like items or collecting gadgets and all that. But uhh...about that techgrade?"

Flash shook his head. "Look, I'm flattered and all that. But this suit, this suit can be such a hustle sometimes. Half my paychecks have gone into fixing it. I had to learn how to repair and replace glass which, kinda has gotten easier but that's not the point. " He sighed, "Look, what I'm saying is. You need to have a lot of patience and dedication if you'd want to make something like this. No doubt upgrade. And at the beginning of it all you think you have it but mid way through you want to destroy the whole thing because things aren't going your way. Do you get my drift."

"You know what. I actually love challenges." She said, "Soo, I do get your drift. But I still would want to techgrade your mask. Or your whole suit for that matter."

"Firestar no. I'm not gonna force you into doing that."

"But you're not." She protested, "I'm offering to do this out of my free will."

"Firestar--"

"Come on, Please!"

"Fire--"

"Pleeaaaasssseee!"

"Firestar, how much longer are you willing to keep this up."

"Well, judging by the little kid in me. Probably the whole day. Maybe even the week."

Flash sighed. "Man us Sentry's really are stubborn!"

"Okay fine. I'll let your work on the mask. But only the mask And don't go too crazy on it, I only have the one."

She squealed in excitement. Staggering to her feet she rushed out of the room. Leaving Flash a little shook. Out of everyone he'd ever known, the only person to ever run that fast over an invention was Micro Chips. He didn't even have time to react.

He sighed, "I give her like, ten minut--yeah Ten minutes top before she finally breaks."

Flash again, was on his phone. Basically forgetting that Firestar had ran off with his mask he instead was playing games on his phone. Specifically, mobile advertisement games on his phone. The type of ones that always shows the player purposely playing horribly so they could reel in the average phone user. Even though Flash could see right through them, he'd still get the games due to how pissed he'd get by the below par gameplay depicted in the ads.

That's was when Firestar abruptly opened the door with the most excited expression on her face. "Flash, you gotta check this out!"

Startled, Flash jumped. Nearly dropping his phone. "You know, knocking doesn't hurt your kncukl--"

"Never mind about that!" Firestar beamed, "You have to check this out! Like, right now!"

Flash winced a little by the sudden enthusiasm. Then he remembered the fact he'd give her his mask to 'techgrade.' He rose to his feet and began following Firestar. "There's no way she actually managed to do something super crazy in under an hour. No way!"

The door to Firestar's room was half opened. Pushing it opened, the two both walked in. Upon entering the room, Flash noticed a bunch of differences from the last time he was there. "Wow. The last time I was here it was some Hello Kitty and Naruto. Now it's old vintage Japanese posters.

"Yeah I'm a bit of a collector when it comes to stuff like that." Firestar shrugged, "But never mind about that cause get load of this."

She ran over to her desk. A very messy work station with a bunch of tools and bunch of parts and components. In the middle of the desk laid the mask itself. She grabbed it and tossed over to Flash. "Here, catch."

He snagged it. He looked at the black eyelids. He noticed a slight reflection coming off of them. Feeling them, he realized they weren't cloth anymore. He looked at Firestar, "What did you do to this mask?"

"Something cool."

Flash looked back at his mask. "Which is...."

"I Basically created shutters on where the eyelids used to be. What I'm saying is you'll be able to express your emotion by either narrowing your eyes or widening them." Flash was about to open his mouth and ask how that was even possible. But Firestar quickly interjected. "There are sensors in them. They can track the movement of your eye lids and directly translates to the shutters."

Flash sighed. "Alright it wont kill me to see this for myself." Flash jerked his head up. Realizing the small pun he made in the sentence.

Firestar gave Flash a smug smirk. Folding her arms, "Was that on purpose?"

Flash rolled his eyes, putting the mask on. "Trust me I'm not that clever."

Putting the mask on, the shutters almost immediately reacted. Widening and them, or squinting. They were extremely responsive. "Wow, wow okay....WOW."

Firestar giggled a little. "I know, I know. I'm awesome."

"N-No, I mean this is...weird to get used to."

Firestar's eyes widened. She sheepishly giggled and scratched the back of her head. "Uhh, heh. It may take a while to get used to. But...you know you'll get used to it."

Flash took the mask off. A little skeptical about this whole techgrading thing. "If you say so...."

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