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Chapter 1: A Deal that's Due…
"Go, get to safety!" Spider-man shouted as the last of his friends crossed the portal to Ku'n Lu'n and into their last remaining safezone.
Peter Parker also known as Spider-man, a simple crime fighting hero that usually stops muggings and bank robberies was now in hell. Literally, as one cosmic empowered mutant witch had just conjured up a portion of hell, as she says.
What may have caused the mostly street level hero to face such a powerful foe would be because he was now an Avenger and Avenger's pretty much face these kinds of threats whatever power level you had.
His current predicament mainly happened because, the Avenger's and the X-men a group of empowered people called Mutants discovered that a cosmic entity called the Phoenix was again coming to earth and would pretty much destroy everything they know.
They have dealt with the Phoenix in the past, and as it is, pretty much a cosmic force of nature and consist of pure energy it can cause catastrophic damage and pretty much cannot be destroyed by any conventional means.
So to prevent such damage, the two groups decided to pre-empt the cosmic tidal wave of fire. The X-men who had the most experience with the entity was to lead the charge against it as Ironman, who thought that he had discovered a way to disperse the energy of the Phoenix across the galaxy to render it harmless was to deal the final blow.
Ironman's discovery was right, he did managed to scatter the Phoenix, only it was not across the universe but across 5 mutants. These mutants half with strong morals and the other half with strong ideals were corrupted by the power. The Phoenix brought up their desires, their hatred, frustrations and insecurities. They were twisted from the inside out turning them into something entirely different.
They were already powerful as regular mutants, but now empowered by a cosmic tsunami, and now psychotic as the Green Goblin, it did not bode well for the world.
To further solidify the dangers of the newly empowered mutants. Two of them decided to kidnap a good portion of the hero community as hostages. And so the remaining heroes staged a rescue but as soon as they managed to save the others they were overpowered by their captors leading to the decision our red and blueclad hero had to make.
Even if it were only a minute, a second more he needed to stall their opponent.
Taking a deep breath he steeled himself for the fight of his life as the two Phoenix empowered mutants loomed towards him. Both mutants were powerful enough with just their own strength but now that they were enhanced with the power cosmic, Spider-man accepted that he was not going to get out of this alive.
"Well I guess this will be my final boss battle, but I really need to ask you Magik is this really a chunk of hell because that would be reaaaaaly creepy." Spidey said taking in his surrounding of brimstone and fire.
What Spidey got for a reply was an energy blast shooting out the broadsword of Magik which he barely dodges.
"Whoah, that singed me." Spidey said out loud swinging from stalactites to get some kind of mobility.
However that did not last long when Colossus, a mutant with the power to transform his skin to metal and possesses superhuman strength, threw a rock the size of a freaking freight train at him and Spider-man dropped to the ground. In a blink of an eye Colossus was already atop the red and blue clad hero and pummeled him with blows that shook the earth.
After the assault Peter was motionless and appeared to have lost consciousness.
"Stay down" Colossus said and turned to walk away.
With the loud ringing in his head Peter willed himself to wake up.
"Where did all this blood come from?" he thought to himself. Peter pushed himself up and again Colossus faced him.
"I said…STAY DOWN." Colossus's voice rang above him as his blurry vision slowly focused on the silver skinned mutant.
"Someone's hurt, bleeding, someone needs help. Who…" Peter asked himself.
" Afraid I… can't do that." Replied to the towering mutant
"YOU WILL"
"Oh wait…now I remember…"
"Whether you want to or not."
"It's my bloo…" before he could finish his thought a sickening crunch sounded and Peter was again on the ground bleeding more.
"Cripple him and be done with it."Magik commanded and Colossus gave his sister a worried look.
"Stay down. I don't want to hurt you. I don't want to hurt anyone." Collosus said out loud seemingly trying to convince himself.
"At least… I don't think I do"
"That definitely broke something in my face, hurts to breathe hurts to lie still. Everything just hurts. But staying down is not an option. Spider-sense buzzing non-stop, like a migraine" he thought to himself groaning as he moved his body.
Spider-man then jumps up to his feet and landed on a retreating Magik's head whom retaliated with grabbing Spider-man by his ankles and bashing him on the ground like wet noodle.
"Web shooters crushed, spine beginning to follow.'
"GAARGH!" he garbled out as Colossus put pressure on his back.
"Mask full of blood, legs feels like they're made of melted cheese."
"I said, stay DOWN." A solid straight caught Peter in the head and he was down again.
"The good news is, the migraine stops. The bad news… I can't feel my head at all anymore." He thought grimly.
"This is pathetic. Why do you hold back brother? All this power and you don't even have the guts to use it. Finish him already, before I finish you both!"Magik's tone clearly voiced her disgust at her brother for holding back.
"Please stop saying such things, sister you are beginning to worry me." The metallic mutant replied. "I worry what this power is doing to you Illyana. I worry that you are giving in to the darkness. Perhaps you should let me carry this burden for the BOTH of us."
"You simple minded child! You barely know what to do with your OWN power, let alone…" the older of the siblings cut her off.
"I am not a CHILD! I am your OLDER brother! And you would do well to remember that lest…" Colossus trailed off
"You would do well to remove your hand! I will not tell you twice …"Magik charged her weapon and her eyes glowed hostility escalating.
Peter then had an Idea, the two were already being corrupted by the Phoenix, little by little their inner darkness coming out. So what if he could use that to get them to fight each other. "C'mon guys, let's keep this civil.
Magik then redirected her weapon towards Spider-man and unleashed a powerful blast at him which. Spider-man howled in pain as the energy dissipated.
Smoking on the ground Peter continued to speak knowing that his plan was going to work. It needed to work; he knew that he wasn't going to get out of there alive so he needed to at least take two of them out. With a grin and with the last of his breath he baited the siblings.
"All this fighting between brother and sister is just so "cough' so unseemly. After all you both know what would happen to all that power if one of you was to Fall right?" Peter grinned wider both mutants not noticing his face's tell of emotion but was still listening to him.
Delivering the last lines he needed with a smile.
"Im sure neither of you wants to see that." He said with the last of his strength and crumbled on the ground, flat on his back.
Brother and sister faced each other and grim smiles slowly formed on their lips. A bright flash erupted between them and the whole area shook, stones crumbled and a large plume of smoke obscured them.
Peter prayed that at least one of them had fallen.
A moment passed and as the smoke cleared revealing both mutants on the ground unconscious. Peter smiled as he watched the phoenix force come out of their bodies. But the smile was quickly wiped from his face as he started to have a bloody fit of coughing as he felt his lungs fill with blood.
"I guess this is it. Uncle Ben, Gwen… I'm finally going to see you again. Sorry aunt May… I'm going first" Slowly his strength fades away from his body, his vision getting blurry.
'CLAP'
'CLAP'
'CLAP'
"Such display of heroism…" a voice said out loud coming closer to where Spider-man was lying.
"So pure and self sacrificing I can almost taste it." The ethereal voice said now looming over Peter and through his blurry vision he could only see red and something akin to horns.
"Peter Parker, I'm so glad to see you again." The entity squatted down right above his head and picked up Peter's limp arm and dropped it.
"You don't look so well there champ." The devil Mephisto, said with a wicked smile. "How's it going, you never called after last time."
"I always thought I'd be collecting your soul up top, but with what the little witch did, bringing a part of my domain up here. And pummeling you to death practically serving you up in a silver platter for me…It just warms my cold black heart." The prince of lies smile never wavered.
"But anyhow, with our deal and all coming to a finish I suppose I had a change of heart." Mephisto said placing a clawed hand on his chest his cloak bristling.
"I saw how you fought theses two nitwits, and turning them against each other was truly AMAZING…" he hissed.
"I believe I could use a warrior of your calibre, gifted with a tongue almost as sly as mine. And having you means I'd get to mess with the web of life like my very own sandbox!" Mephisto jumped to his feet with delight.
"Oh how much fun would that be!? But I guess I can't leave nothing for your friends to cry over" With a flick of his wrist Mephisto materialized a body in Spider-man's costume and promptly burnt it with hellfire leaving only a skeletal corpse of someone in Spiderman's costume.
"Now I'm going to show you hell like you never imagined before…" Mephisto cackled and a dying Peter blinked out from the area to somewhere in Mephisto's domain.
A few meters away a portal had opened again the group of able-bodied heroes prepped for a fight to save their comrade poured out from the blue hole in thin air. Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, Miss Marvel, Captain America, Iron Man, She-hulk,War Machine, Hulk, Thor, The Fantastic Four, what was left of the new Avengers, Luke Cage and Iron fist were the last to come out.
"I don't see anyone..." Hawkeye said and scanned the area and then spotted the two mutants on the ground a good distance from them.
The group hurried to where the two lay and found both formerly possessed mutants, unconscious but not injured terribly.
"Where's Spider-man?" Carol also known as Miss Marvel asked as she searched for the arachnid hero.
"Oh my God!" She-hulk exclaimed a few feet away from them and turned away from something she saw. Captain America was besides her and looked distraught. Tony looked away biting back the sadness he felt.
Scarlet Witch had also started to tear-up as she stared at the skeletal form that wore a tattered and burnt costume of Spider-man. "You asshole after making me feel better you…you just go and make me cry…" Wanda Maximoff turned away and cried silently for her friend.
Carol rushed and pushed away the people now crowding whatever they had found and she held a gasp when she saw the smouldering remains of her friend and fellow Avenger Spider-man.
"Wha-what, how…" Carol Danvers choked out. Her usual confident and brave face was now replaced with disbelief and shock.
"You, said you'd come back…you even had the nerve to ask me and Jesse out for a pizza." Carol dropped to the ground and didn't even know how her tears were now falling.
"Let's go, we need to take Magik and Colossus back and see to their Injuries." Captain America ordered and Carol shot him a glare.
"Their injuries! THEY KILLED SPIDER-MAN!" Carol's voice boomed shaking the people around her and they understood why, a friend had died, Spider-man died in the hands of someone he considered allies protecting his friends.
"The Phoenix was in control they had no idea what they were doing." Captain America said. "And it would have been what he wanted." Steve continued.
"It's just not fair…" Carol wiped a tear from her face and turned around hiding her tear stained face from everyone.
"It never is." Steve sighed then kneeled down and scooped up the remains of his friend. Steve looked at the burnt mask and torn costume. "It's never fair."
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Hope patiently waited for the heroes to come back with her new teacher. From all the people who imparted their knowledge and wisdom onto her, Spider-man had given her something that everyone else failed to.
He was the one who actually gave her hope, the one who actually believed she can do what was needed when the time comes and gave her a clear objective. A responsibility, everyone else just showed her how to fight, how to control her abilities. They pushed their own expectations of her at her face, but with Spider-man he didn't, he just believed in her.
"They're back!" She exclaimed excitedly and awaited them to step out of the blue portal.
But what greeted her were not the happy faces of someone who accomplished a successful rescue, no. They looked like they had failed miserably. One by one they marched out the portal as Hulk and Thor carried Colossus and Magik respectively. Thinking the worst and actually seeing it with her own eyes, she saw Captain America lastly step out from the portal carrying the remains of Spider-man.
"No." Hope dropped to her knees and tears fell. "I'm, sorry…" Were the only words Steve could say and walked towards the cemetery to bury the Avenger.
4 Hours later
The remaining heroes have gathered in preparation for their final confrontation. Cyclops now had full control of the Phoenix force, Colossus and Magik taken down by Spider-man, Namor by Red Hulks team and Emma rejected the power.
Now that the phoenix was whole again, they can move forward with their plan. Erase the Phoenix once and for all, to end the suffering. Captain America wore a stern look as he glanced around the assemble heroes.
"Listen up, I know we've suffered heavy casualties, Losing Xavier and now Spider-man. But we need to finish what we started. This fight was to finally end the threat of the Phoenix on earth for good. Thanks to our friends sacrifices we're now closer to our objective. Nonetheless it does not mean that this is the easy part." Steve paused and looked everyone in the eyes.
A loud sound akin to the crack of thunder exploded above them and everyone wished that what they were seeing was just a nightmare. Above K'unL'un was now the fully empowered Phoenix Cyclops tearing down the barrier surrounding the magical City.
"HOPE!" Scott Summers also known as Cyclops former leader of the X-men bellowed above the city.
"STAND YOUR GROUND! We end this now!" Captain America shouted and everyone readied themselves for a fight.
"I'm erasing you from existence forever." Hope stated as she drew upon Wanda's chaos power.
As the group of heroes clashed with the Phoenix, Mephisto watched in his domain with a lopsided smile on his face. He twirled a glass of wine in one hand and rested his head on the other.
"Have a good look Mr. Parker, it's rather enjoyable watching you humans fight and crawl over insurmountable odds." Mephisto sipped his glass and savoured the red liquid.
"And thanks to you, now I can watch every version of it." The prince of lies stated. Behind him, Peter's body whose hands and feet were bound in large black irons, hung above Mephisto's throne as a large network of web sprouted from behind him. Various images of different worlds could be seen between the large spaces of the web.
One image in the web showed the triumph of the heroes against the Phoenix, another, total domination of the Phoenix of the entire earth. Different possibilities and events all played, all of it connected to the center of the web.
"Now just be a good little boy and tell me where in the web is she, I'll get it one way or another and it will save us both the trouble and you some of the pain." Mephisto said not even looking back at Peter as he watched the fight between the Avengers and the Phoenix now on the moon.
"I' got no idea, how about you try surfing the web" Peter hoarsely replied a small smile on his lips.
"That's why I like you Peter always the joker..." Mephisto said standing from his throne and now faced Peter. "We'll have so much fun getting to know each other, after all, I got all the time in the multiverse." Mephisto grinned and vanished into the dark.
"Just tell him I'm here" a voice said and Peter twitched and then coughs violently.
"Madam Webb has been telling me about you since forever. Never did believe her, until now though." Peter wheezed talking softly. "Not the best place for a first meeting." Peter craned his head up to look above him, a silhouette of a woman shining in bright white and what seems like golden webs sprouted from her body.
As the guardian of the Web Peter suddenly knew who exactly the woman was and what he had to do. Being the center of the Web had its responsibilities that needed to be carried out.
"You look prettier than I Imagined." He joked but couldn't laugh as that hurt his chest too much.
"Peter just let him have me, you've suffered enough" The woman said and caressed his cheek.
"You've watched me for a long-time, I think you should know I won't do that." A small smile crept on the woman.
"You have already done enough; I shouldn't have chosen you to carry this burden." The woman said retracting her hands and curling it to her chest.
"Hey, come on I did a pretty good job, if I do say so myself. Look, whatever your thinking, I don't blame you, call it fate call it destiny or as I like to call it, Parker luck. You just have to know to not give up, even if I break even if you can't take it anymore, you have to always have hope and don't give up." Spider-man said barely above a whisper.
Suddenly footsteps marched into where he was and quickly he asked the ethereal woman to hide.
"Hide yourself, deep, don't let him find you, whatever you see, whatever he do to me you have to tough it out, come out when the time is right. You'll know what to do then." Peter rasped still weak.
"I'm so sorry." The woman said and slowly melded with Peter and disappeared.
"Don't be…"he breathed out and fell unconscious.