Chapter 2
Four teenagers lie leaned up against trees in a forest they are not familiar with. Only Sam had regained consciousness and he still was confused on what had happened to them. He looks at his friends and himself and notice they're masks were gone and that Peter was no where in sight. And with his mask gone he no longer had his powers. He was just in his regular clothes now.
"Oh no..." Sam said to himself. He stood up, and walked over to Ava.
"Ava wake up." He said while shaking her. She slowly opened her eyes and Sam smiled. He moved on to Danny next, and then Luke. When they were all awake, they came together in a circle to discuss what happened to them.
"What happened?" Ava asked. Everyone shrugged their shoulders.
"What about our masks?" Sam asked.
"More importantly, where's Peter?" Luke asked. They all fell silent.
"This is quite the mystery." Danny said while meditating. The other teens just shrugged it off and looked at each other.
"Well," Sam said looking at Ava, "what do you remember?" She paused for a moment thinking things over.
"I remember a red light and loud sirens going off in the cargo hold. Then, the door quickly opened and Danny pushed us out." Everyone looked at Danny. He smiled for a second and then went back to meditating. "The force of the blast was still strong though and I blacked out shortly there after." Luke nodded.
"That's my story too." Luke said. Danny nodded as if to say that's all he knew at the moment too. Meanwhile, Sam looked at the ground.
"So none of you remember?" He asked. Luke and Ava were confused.
"Remember what?" Luke asked. Sam clenched his fist.
"Deadpool betrayed us!" Sam yelled. Luke and Ava gasped while Danny was only slightly moved.
"How? What did he do?" Ava asked.
"Did you notice that for some reason he wanted Peter out of any of us to sit with him in the front? Why I was wondering on the way to taskmaster's place. Why did he choose the newbie Peter over us? After we trained with him right? Why would he choose Peter? Then it hit me."
"He wanted Peter." Danny broke in coming out of meditation completely.
"While I struggled to hold all of you guys up in the air, Deadpool was just sitting in his chair with a parachute, eating popcorn. I figured it out right then and there."
"So you were the only one conscious after the jet got hit?" Luke asked. Sam nodded but Danny raised his hand.
"I was somewhat conscious after the missiles hit." He said. "I was incapacitated though so I could do very little."
"Well what do you remember?" Ava asked.
"I mainly focused on Peter's match with Deadpool." Danny paused. "Deadpool for some reason ignored his usual tropes and knocked Peter out with some sort of injection before coming towards us." Sam nodded.
"Deadpool then ninja chopped my head and knocked me out cold."
"For me he did the same." Danny said. "He apparently knew I was pretending to be passed out and karate chopped my head." Sam looked at Danny annoyed.
"No it was a ninja chop."
"We have our own ways of interpreting what happens to us." Now Ava was getting annoyed.
"Focus!" Luke yelled. "You forgot that Deadpool knows Kung Fu too." Ava face palmed.
"Well can we still call shield?" Ava asked trying to get everyone focused. All of them reached for the radio in their ears but it was gone. They checked their pockets next and didn't find their phones.
"This is bad." Ava said.
"No everything's perfectly fine." Sam said sarcastically. Then he snapped his fingers. "I know. I'll just walk into the nearest town and find a pay phone. Then I'll call Colson and ask him to come and pick us up."
"You forget," Danny said, "we no longer have our masks."
"Meaning if we go into a town near by, everyone would know our secret identities." Luke said. Sam just looked more determined.
"That's why I'll go alone. I'm the only person with regular clothes on!" They all looked at each other.
"Well, it does make the most sense." Ava said.
"Agreed." Danny said.
"Alright then. Sam, go into town and get ahold of Colson to come and pick us up." Luke said. "I'd rather speak to him first about what happened rather than Fury."
After what felt like hours a helicopter showed up and shockingly Fury and Sam were on it. Fury jumped off and reached for his ear radio.
"Go find a good place to land not too far from here if possible."
"Yes sir." The pilot responded. Fury walked over to Ava. He had a look of anger and disappointment on his face.
"What happened to you, and where is Peter?" He said sternly. All of them looked at the ground. Fury shot a look at Luke.
"Luke what happened."
"We screwed up Fury."
When they got to the Tricarrier, the teenagers were sitting in Fury's office and Sam told the whole story with Danny correcting him on what happened here and there. The whole time Sam was explaining, Fury kept his cool and his arms crossed as he analyzed what they were saying. When they finished, Fury then pressed a button on his desk.
"Yes sir?" A female voice came.
"It appears that one of our heroes has gone missing."
"Who was it?"
"Spiderman."
"I see. Your orders sir?"
"Follow protocol."
"Understood." The woman hung up. The four teens were confused.
"What do you mean by protocol?"
(The next night at around 11:00pm)
It was the second night Peter had been trapped in that small room of his. He had developed two theories as to why he had been stuck in there for so long. A. He had refused to eat any of the food Taskmaster was serving him for fear of food poisoning or bring drugged, and to prevent him from escaping. Thankfully it had a working bathroom with a shower but it still didn't make up for staying in a confined place for so long. As he tried to fall asleep he could only think of how much of an idiot he was the day before yesterday.
So this is what has become of the amazing... Oh wait, ultimate spiderman. Pathetic. Stuck here all because you didn't think, "oh wait, if he has the launch keys, can't the government just change the locks if we inform them about it? Or how about where Taskmaster would even get access to a nuclear missile?" Face it Peter, you were doomed the second you trusted Deadpool.
Peter tossed and turned trying fall asleep. Unfortunately taskmaster want going to let Peter's second night end like this.
"I know you're awake Peter." Taskmaster said over the intercom. The lights flashed on a second later. Peter reluctantly sat up from his somewhat comfortable bed.
"What do you want?" Peter asked.
"I just wanted to show you something." Taskmaster said as the tv turned on. There was a news woman standing behind a massive fire that engulfed a whole building.
"As you can tell the fire is practically out of control. Thankfully the building was said to be abandoned but moments ago we saw spiderman swing in. Most likely believing that people were inside." Peter's jaw dropped as they replayed the footage of someone dressed up as spiderman swinging into the burning building.
What the heck is going on?
"You going to WHAT!?" The four teens yelled in unison.
"you heard me so I won't repeat myself."
"We'll continue to bring you coverage form the ground but the people that have gathered are wondering wether or not Spiderman will make it out okay."
"That's terrible news Linda. If anything happens be sure to let us know." The news woman that was sitting in the studio said. "Now on to our weather-"
"Mary? Mary!" The woman's voice from outside the fire came. The video was just coming through and the building that was behind her, collapsed.
"The fighter fighters could not contain the flames. The building just collapsed. Fire fighters are already looking for survivors and wether or not spiderman made it out okay." A fire fighter waved over at the others. He walked over to the camera and showed the charred remains of a mask. The tv shut off after that.
"So they faked my death?" Peter said to himself.
"No they faked Spiderman's death. I suspect they didn't fake your death since your friends would probably tell your aunt what really happened. Even with this though I doubt your friends will be able to keep your double life a secret for much longer. Anyway, have you heard that shield has protocol in case of a hero goes missing or they have no use for them anymore? In other words, they could get rid of you with a snap of their fingers."
Don't play into his hands Peter. Fury could have done this at any time sure, but he didn't, meaning that he needed me. Besides, I'm okay with going back to being a freelance hero. It was fun being on my own.
Taskmaster saw that he wasn't going to get a witty response out of Peter and smiled under his mask.
perfect.
"Glad to see you're listening to what I have to say." Taskmaster said. "i bet you're trying to see if I'm lying or not. If you need proof," taskmaster snapped his fingers and the door slid open again revealing what looked like a butler.
Does everyone have a butler?
The butler took the cold chicken soup that had been sitting on the table for hours and replaced it with a laptop.
"Consider the laptop a token of kindness." Taskmaster said. "It has files that you would be most interseted in. As well as your first mission." Peter walked over to the table and opened up the laptop. It took him straight to the desk top and two document folders were the only thing on it. Internet explore wasn't even on there! One read, 'assignment', and the other, 'documents.' Peter opened up the 'documents' folder and it was titled S.H.I.E.L.D. PROTOCOL. Peter began to skim the whole thing.
"I see you're enjoying yourself." Taskmaster said with a grin under his mask. "You can read your mission either tonight or tomorrow. Either way you're going to do it at some point. Have a good night Peter." And with that he turned off the intercom. Peter grinned.
"Well Taskmaster, as you'll soon find out, while I might have a good night, you won't be."
Authors notes: thanks for reading and I will see you all next time. :)
