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Peter watches as the thug raises the gun. Up in the shadows, Peter can barely see the victim's face. Waiting for the right moment, he crouches silently. The gun wavers the slightest bit to the right. Peter shoots the web at the gun and the web recoils, Peter tossing the gun behind him. Hopping onto the floor of the parking garage located under the skyscraper, Peter puts himself as a clear obstacle between the thug and the victim.
"Hi I'm Spiderman, nice to meet you." Peter says, extending his hand and shooting a web at the thug's face. The victim's run off. Good. One less person for Peter to worry about. The thug, however, is more than enough to worry about. He rips the webbing off his face, something Peter hasn't done. "Ok, ok, I don't want trouble, but you came looking for it!" Peter says as the thug nears, before shooting a whole cartridge of webbing onto the man. He pulls and twists himself out of the webbing.
"I am no ordinary thug, Spiderman." He drawls in his thick, Slovakian accent. "In fact, I'm surprised my usual enemy hasn't made an appearance." He says. "You'll be much easier to take down." He grins, a deeply evil and sinister grin.
"Don't be so sure, buddy." Peter replies, managing to keep his voice from shaking. This man does scare him a little.
Just then, Peter's world seems to move in slow-motion. A young figure spins through the air, landing a startling blow to the thug's head before landing the complex kick.
"Kinetic." The thug addresses the hero, unfazed from the kick. The figure stances, waiting for a fight, and Peter gets a good look at them. The black combat boots laced up tightly, the slightly oversized black combat pants tucked into them haphazardly, the black hoodie missing a sleeve where Peter could see metal as the only thing holding the arm together frayed on the ends from use. He watched as this 'Kinetic' sparred a bit with the thug, noticing the stiffness at which the arm was held. As for the face, a highly advanced gas mask only left the eyes visible. The eyes were of the brightest blue, sparkling as Kinetic taunted the thug. Peter sprang into action alongside Kinetic.
"You should probably get out of here." No doubt there was a voice scrambler in the mask as well. "This guy's my usual, he's probably got some explosion planned, get out!" Kinetic shouts, when Peter doesn't leave at the first warning.
"I can help you!" Peter insists as the thug pulls out a detonator. Kinetic looks up. The skyscraper above them begins to crumble as the thug makes a quick escape. The building falls on top of them almost immediately, and the last thing Peter hears is a grunt as he tries to hold up the building. The skyscraper is much heavier than the building Toomes dropped on him.
Peter comes back to consciousness almost immediately. When he realizes he isn't dead, he turns to see Kinetic on their back, feet and hands supporting the whole building.
"Wha'" Peter mumbles, watching as Kinetic strains to heave the building upwards, reaching out a leg to deftly kick Peter. Peter feels the air get knocked out of him as he flies 50 feet and into a empty alleyway next to the building. The building crashes down only a second after he is out, the dust making its way into his lungs. Kinetic is still in the building! Peter wastes only a second before pulling away the rubble. With super strength, he quickly pulls away enough rubble for him to slide under a crack and back into the parking garage.
"Kinetic!" Peter shouts, the only way he knows to address the hero. He receives no response. He digs around in the rubble until he finds the hero. Dragging Kinetic out, he just barely makes it out of the building before it completely collapses.
Tony is startled when Peter swings straight through the balcony doors to the communal living room, shattering the glass. He's carrying someone.
"Bruce I need your help!" He shouts, carrying the person in the direction of the medbay. Bruce jumps up to help, and the rest of the team follows out of mere interest.
Bruce assesses the situation. The person's left leg is bent at an odd angle, there could be spinal cord damage due from the bruise on the back, and the broken nose and head wound haven't stopped bleeding as the blood slowly fills the mask. Bruce reaches for the mask and Peter reaches out to stop him, but Steve holds onto Peter.
"No, don't do it!" Peter shouts.
"Peter, they'll suffocate if Bruce doesn't remove it." Steve says, and Tony pulls Peter out to get him to eat. Natasha and Clint are out on some SHIELD mission, leaving just Thor and Steve with Bruce. Bruce lifts the mask off, blood spilling down the face of a young girl barely as old as Peter.
"Why do they have to start so young?" Bruce mutters to himself.
Kinetic looks up as the skyscraper begins to collapse. The spider guy is still here. She can't let him be a casualty of her fight. As the ceiling starts to fall, she reaches up to support it, the ceiling being heavier than any other thing she's lifted. Even with the super strength, she can only watch as a piece of rubble falls onto Spiderguy. Grunting, she reaches out a leg to kick the cement chunk off of him. With the slight loss of balance, Kinetic falls backwards onto her back, quickly pushing her feet upwards in a last attempt to keep the building up. Spiderguy's waking up a little. Once again, Kinetic pushes the building up, and reaches out a leg, kicking Spiderguy out of the building just in time for the ceiling to collapse.
Peter watches as the heart monitor begins beeping. First it spikes, then it begins to flatline, sending off an awful alarm. Bruce and Steve rush into the room.
"I don't know what's happening!" Peter shouts, moving out of the way.
"Heart failure." Bruce mutters, grabbing the defibrillators. Steve holds the girl down. "Clear." Bruce says grimly. As soon as the defibrillators touch her, she shoots up, shaking from electrocution as the metal joining her arm to her shoulder crackles with electricity. Bruce's eyes widen as her black ponytail begins to frizz, standing straight up from static electricity. The heart monitor's beeps speed up continually, until the green line stays steady at the top of the monitor. Suddenly, everything goes dark. Peter rushes to the window. The entire city's lights go out.
"Emergency power isn't switching on," Peter says worriedly. He turns back to Kinetic, who suddenly falls backwards as the entire city turns back on.
"What was that?!" Tony yells, entering the room with Thor behind him.
"I don't know." Bruce says, stunned.
"At least the heart rate's back to normal." Peter says, watching the monitor. "Or only slightly above normal."
"I need to perform some tests on her, make sure everything's alright, why don't you guys check back me in 20 minutes or so?" Bruce suggests. They all file out except Peter.
"I'm waiting here with you." He says in response to Bruce's raised eyebrows. "I'm the only one she knows." Peter adds. Bruce shrugs, and fills a syringe with a mix of morphine and some added chemicals that could repair nerve damage, if any, from the electrocution. He finds the correct vein in her arm to inject the mix and start the IV when she wakes.
She sits up slowly, rubbing sleep from her eyes. She sees Peter sitting next to her and Bruce about to inject an IV. She pulls away from him, scooting backwards, deaf to Peter and Bruce's calming words. Her bad leg is already healed, and she can feel the bruise on her back fading, but her nose clot breaks, gushing a waterfall of blood. She doesn't care. All she can see is a scientist about to inject a needle into her. She doesn't even realize she's backed herself up against a wall until she pulls her legs closer, curling in on herself, flinching as the electricity in her arm shocks her as it tapers off.
Peter realizes how small she is when she curls up, shaking. Bruce stands back, noticing he's not helping the situation, and instead heads to update the others on the situation once receiving a nod from Peter.
Peter crouches down in front of her.
"Hi." He says, "I'm Peter, and I'm also Spiderman."
"The Spiderman from the skyscraper." She says.
"Yup," Peter says. "I know you as Kinetic, but do you have a name?"
"Valencia. Valencia Combarros." She says quietly.
"Do you have anyone that might need to know where you are?" Peter asks, holding out his phone.
"No." Valencia says, uncurling a little.
"Ok, Valencia, how old are you?" Peter asks, resorting to small talk to make her more comfortable. "I'm 15." He adds.
"I'm almost 15." Valencia says.
"Ok, ok, I'm guessing from how long you held that skyscraper up you've got super strength?" Peter asks.
"Yeah, I was a government experiment." Valencia says quietly.
"I have a friend who was one too." Peter says. "He's pretty strong too, but I don't think he can lift a skyscraper for that long." Peter says honestly.
Valencia smiles.
"That doctor is my friend, he's not going to hurt you, he just wants to make sure everything's ok, I mean, he did kinda electrocute you and he's really upset over that," Peter says, talking about Bruce.
"I'm sorry." Valencia says suddenly.
"You have nothing to be sorry for, you just, don't like doctors?" Peter asks. Valencia nods.
"I'm fine, anyway." She says. Peter does realize most of her injuries have healed. All except for the nose. Peter gestures to her nose. "That's always like that. Valencia says dismissively, sniffling and stopping the blood.
"Can my friend take a look at it? It's just you nose, nothing else." Peter promises. Valencia looks very torn. She doesn't like doctors, that Peter can clearly tell, but she also seems to be trusting him, so she says yes.
Bruce performs all the tests he can think of. Valencia fidgets every now and then, but Peter stays in the room. Tony calls Peter out to talk to him, and Valencia fidgets nervously.
"Who is she?" Tony asks.
"Valencia Combarros." Peter says.
"And?" Tony asks, knowing she's a hero of some sort.
"Kinetic. Super strength." Peter says and Tony nods in understanding. They hear a loud crash from the medbay, and they both rush in.
Bruce is trying to convince Valencia to let him cauterize her nose to stop the bleeding, but she keeps backing up like a cornered dog.
"Woah, woah," Peter shouts, getting in front of Bruce. A knocked-over table must have caused the crash.
"Look, kid, why can't he cauterize your nose? He's trying to help," Tony points out. Valencia has this weird look on her face.
"Because it's my nose!" She shouts defiantly. "You can't just do whatever you want with it!" Tony looks over at Peter, who is still trying to explain to Bruce why someone might not want their nose cauterized, and back at Valencia.
"Is there something I need to know?" Tony asks. "Because we can knock you out and cauterize your nose before you wake up," Tony threatens.
"Why would you do that?" Valencia asks.
"Because we need to stop your nose from bleeding." Tony says matter-of-factly.
"No, why do you even care?" Valencia asks, quietly so only Tony can hear.
"Because," Tony says, lowering his voice to the same level. "Peter just lost his aunt. And you saved him." Tony says. Valencia raises her eyebrows. "He's still in shock, he might've been looking forward to that skyscraper falling on him, you never know." Tony explains, voice cracking a little. "Not to mention, and don't ever tell him this, he's like a son to me. And you saved him. So even without other problems, I still owe you one. So is there something I need to know?" Tony asks, regaining composure.
"Um, I don't like people touching my nose." Valencia says quietly. Tony nods. "They were trying to develop a stronger nasal spray vaccine for the flu." She continues. "And they messed up, and that's why, that's why," She holds her hands out in front of her. "That's why I can't hold a pencil without smashing it." She finishes. Tony nods.
"You'll still want to stop that blood flow, though," He points out and Valencia nods. Someone knows her secret.
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