Also, I saw a fanfic about Spiderman Ethan today. (And now that idea lives rent-free in my mind for some reason) And I genuinely just wrote a small thing about it. It's so stupid and probably so out of character JDJDJDDBDH, but ENJOY
Ethan has one of his hands on the ceiling. His hand sticking onto said ceiling. So he's just hanging there. Suspended there with his bare hand. Benji walks in right that moment. Holding a cup of coffee in his hand. Ethan sees it as an opportunity to joke with the techie. He knew Benji was coming into the room, they were just about to get a debrief and Ethan was alone in the room for now.
"Ethan—" Benji called out. He turned his head to see Ethan. Hanging onto the ceiling with his hand. No adhesive glove or anything. Benji tries to think about what he could be using to be able to do that.
"W... what the bloody hell?! Ethan!" Benji exclaims, his eyes widening in shock at seeing Ethan hanging there.
"What?" Ethan asked, his tone laced with feigned innocence. As if he hasn't done anything. Ethan also had a slight smirk on his face, Benji took that smirk as a teasing gesture.
"You're on the ceiling—" Benji started, he started to gesture wildly— well, how much you could gesture with a coffee in one of your hands. "Yeah. I guess that's quite obvious." Benji murmured, mostly to himself.
"Are you testing out some new gadget that I haven't been made aware of?! Cause I will be very annoyed cause that would've come in handy, in so many cases might I add!" Benji rambled, one of those annoyed shocked rambles Ethan had been hearing a lot under this friendship with Benji.
"No. I'm not using any gadget, Benji." Ethan stated. Setting the record straight with Benji. He always liked messing with him. He still hadn't told him about the "hey, I can stick to walls now and my senses for danger are crazy good now" thing. Partly cause he wouldn't know how Benji would react, knowing him he'd probably freak out. Ethan wanted to take it slow and easy with him.
"You aren't? Then how in the hell..." Benji trailed off. Seemingly in thought. He couldn't think of anything, though. He's still in shock, with Ethan hanging on the ceiling like that.
"You know. I think somethings are better if they're left unexplained." Ethan replied. Letting himself go from being suspended from the ceiling. Falling down onto the floor, landing safely on his feet. Knowing that Benji would now demand an explanation, even if Ethan said he'd rather let it be unsaid. But Ethan knew he wouldn't fully keep the secret from Benji if he asked.
Side note: Ethan would probably use the powers sometimes. They do come in handy. With the senses and such. Climbing the Burj Khalifa maybe would've been easier with the sticky hands part of his newfound abilities. But Ethan would definitely not become a superhero. LMAOOO