Marvel 2 - A Spider Returns
Avengers' Mansion
Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman, was finishing from fixing everything up in her new room in the Avengers' Mansion, to then sit in bed to thinking about the latest events that made her want to be her in the first place.
Flashback; One Day After Spider-Man's Funeral; Baxter Building
"Reed" Susan said, entering her husband's laboratory, finding Mr. Fantastic focused on one of his inventions, like always.
"Yes Sue?" The scientist responded, without bothering to look at her. Maybe that wasn't good, seeing that Sue's face had an very angry expression.
"I need you to sign this for me" Sue said, holding a piece of paper, in which she shows to Reed, but being to focused on his invention didn't even read.
"Sure dear" Reed extended his hand, grabbed the paper and quickly signed it. After doing so, he returned the paper to Sue.
"Thanks Reed" She said, turning around to leave the lab.
"Is that it, Sue?"
"Yes, that's it" She answered, hardness and anger flowing out of her mouth.
"Are you alright, Sue?" Reed asked, worried about his wife, but still not looking at her. He mantained his eyes straight in his work, missing Sue's eye twitching.
"I'm fine, as much as a divorced woman can be" Sue simply stated.
"Divorced?!" He clearly was shocked at the statement that his eyes finally left his project and eyed at his ex-wife, apparently, with fear and shock in his eyes. "W-What? W-Why?"
"Because of this Reed!" She roared pointing at every proyect that was in the lab. " All this damn works. You spend all day here, all twenty-four hours of the god-damn day; unless Galactus appears or something very important is happening! You ignore your friends, you ignore me, you ignore your family, Reed! And the worst thing you did was miss Peter's funeral that was yesterday!" She kept roaring at his face. It didn't matter to her that someone may hear her. She had to get this out of her system, or else... The next person she saw, would've suffer for a long time.
"Peter's funeral?" Reed asked in shock and confusion.
"Yes Reed, Peter died two weeks ago, yesterdayy was the funeral and everyone went, even anti-heroes went to the funeral! But you were so concentrated in your work that you didn't even noticed that someone that we considered a member of our family just died!" Sue kept roaring at Reed. She felt how tear feel down her cheeks. Tears full of anger and pain. Her throat ached for all the yelling she was doing, but it didn't matter. She had to make him realize everything.
"Sue, listen, I'm very sorry and if you just calm down, I'm sure that we can fix it and-"
"I've been trying for a while! We've visited thousand of counselors, we've read thousands of book and we've also talked about it! There's no difference, not with you!"
"Sue, I-"
"Save it! You don't even know how his death has afected the super hero community, do you?!"
"What are you talking about?"
"Spider-Girl has been exercising her body beyond the limit, to the edge of obsession! No one knows where Hope is since Peter died! Tony locked himself in his lab adding more and more things to his armors to make sure that it doesn't happen again! Logan has been drinking more than he normally drinks! Steve feels that having trained Peter could have prevented his death! And Tigra has not stopped crying with the exception of taking care of her son, the guilt is killing her! The same with Janet and Natasha, they have not stopped fighting with anyone, this will only make them kill them!"
"Sue, sweety, calm down"
"Calm down, calm down?!" Her anger flaring at him. "I don't want to calm down and since you only worry about your proyects than anyone else, you also signed for Franklin and Valerie's costudy. I'm going to take them away from here, now you can work on your little proyects" Sue told him what she thought of everything. She then turned around and becamed invisible, going out of the lab leaving a heartbroken Reed behind.
Flashback End
Little tears slided down her cheeks. That same day, she took her kids out of there, Johnny and Ben doing the same. She had asked Steve if she could stay at the Mansion in which he said that there was no problem, that she could stay as long as she needed... Plus she needed help with Franklin and Valerie, Peter's death had affected them so much, making her that she had worsen it seperating herself from Reed.
Avengers' Mansion's Medical Wing
"Aaaaggghh, mi head" said Wasp, rubbing her forehead and opening her eyes observing that she was in a bed in the medical room of the mansion, separated from the rest of the room by a curtain that surrounded the entire bed.
"Hey Jan" Captain Marvel said, moving the curtain slightly so that she could enter. She quickly closed the bed's curtain, in which Jan ignored.
"Carol, I had a weird dream. We were in front of Peter's grave and suddenly he digs himself out like a zombie and says 'Hello'" She then remembered that she was in the medical room. She didn't remember fainting. "Why am I here?" She asked her friend as she stood up from the bed.
"Yeah, eh... listen Janet, you better sit down, this... could be dificult too explain..."
"Please, we've seen many things in all these years" She said, moving the curtains almost going out of her bed area. "What could be so-?" She didn't finish talking, when she heard a familiar voice. One that she thought that wouldn't hear ever. She slid the entire curtain open, regardless of what she may see, and she saw Peter in his Spider-Man suit, without his mask, talking to Tony, Steve, Logan, Thor and Bruce; in who was using a lab coat over his clasic destroyed pants.
"Are you completely sure?" Steve asked in a preoccupied way.
"Please Cap, don't you think I would accept something like that if I wasn't sure?" Peter responded, trying to calm down the First Avenger. He then noticed that someone was watching him. "Hey Jan" Peter saluted like it was nothing, making Janet lose balance. She would've fell to the floor if it wasn't for Carol grabbing her in time.
"I-Impossible... I saw you die... everyone did" Wasp said. She didn't believe what she was seeing. Peter was alive. Alive, damn it!
"Jan, listen, I know your scared, but seriously, it's me, the one and only Peter Parker" Peter said trying to convice her.
"It's true," said Tony, "we did all kinds of tests, he's not a clone or a skrull or a cyborg, or a shapeshifter or an illusion of any kind," continued Ironman, showing them a screen of his suit with the evidence. Before he could say anything, the brunette parted from the arms of the half kree girl and ran to the brunette to hug him burying her face in his chest.
Instinctively Peter returned the hug, but at once Janet broke it up, she slapped him hard turning around towards the other men.
"I so do not deserve it" Peter said turning his head but this time it was Carol who slapped him "... maybe that one" Peter said rubbing both cheeks while the men nodded.
"B-but ... how?" said stuttering Janet.
"Fine" Peter sighed. "I'll explain everything"
Flashback; Couple of Hours Ago
"What's wrong with you guys?" Peter asked confused to see his friends faint. After dusting himself, he approached them, but his Spider Sense was activated. Before he could react, Wolverine already had him grabbed by the neck, got him on the ground and unsheathed the claws of his other hand near his neck
"Okay Bub, you have 10 words, only 10, to explain who you are and what you did with the body of our friend and if I don't like what you are going to tell me, I will return you to that grave" said Wolverine.
"Logan please, it's me" he said as Peter could.
"To another dog with that bone" said Captain Marvel, pointing her rays at him "we all saw our friend die, so you need a better explanation".
"Please, if you let me explain, I'm sure we'll be laughing about this in a few hours!" the arachnid said desperately.
"You ran out of words" Carol said about to shoot him, but was stopped by the mutant.
"Stop! He's telling the truth," said Wolverine, guarding the claws and releasing the former corpse.
"Thee very much bethink that gent is very much our late cousin who cameth back from Valhala?" said Thor taking his hammer preparing for any scenario.
"It's his smell and he doesn't seem to be lying," answered Wolverine, inspiring confidence in the arachnid, "but something doesn't convince me"
"Let's take him inside to make sure it is really him" Captain America said as Hulk put Ironman on his shoulder, Carol holding Wasp and Tigra while Wolverine, Cap and Thor approached Peter to keep an eye on him.
"Well, so far everything is going well, I hope they react well when I tell them about my deal" Thought a very nervous Spiderman as he entered the mansion, taking advantage of the fact that it was too late for anyone to see him.
Avengers' Mansion Medical Wing
Spiderman was now sitting in a hospital reclining chair surrounded by different types of machines that scanned him, a needle took away blood, hair and all kinds of things.
"So what, is it a boy or a girl?" Peter joked.
"Well Tony?" asked the Cap to the iron man recently awakened along with Tigra while Janet was still asleep.
"Bruce and I have done all the known tests, it's not a skrull or some kind of shapeshifter or clone" responded the former gun maker with Bruce, who managed to transform just in time.
"It's real, it's really Peter Parker" said Bruce unable to believe what he saw as the other Avengers in the room.
"I told you, now can I get off this?" said Peter, the machines around him began to retreat.
"Well why do you have to explain to us, how the fuck are you alive ?!" Wolverine shouted.
"Language" Spider-Man said.
"It really is him" Thought Ironman, chuckling a bit.
"Peter, please, no jokes, tell us how you are alive," said Captain America.
"I..." Peter stoped for a moment, sighing. "Well, this will be very complicated, so please do not interrupt me" said Spider-Man in a serious way that they rarely saw "well, when I ... I died ... I woke up in ... What was it called? Halhaim? Velhaim?"
"Helheim?" said a worried Thor.
"Yes, that, good and Hela appeared, said that I had impressed her," Peter continued.
"You, impress the goddess of death?" said surprised Ironman.
"First of all, ouch" Peter faked fliched at Tony's comment. "Second yes, she said that she had been aware of my whole life and had impressed her as many others ... so ..." gathering all her courage for the following, "she offered to give me back my life"
"In exchange for?" said Captain Marvel.
"... in exchange for me being her warrior" Peter replied, averting his eyes slightly.
"And you accepted ?!" the super soldier shouted.
"Hey, are you going to let me tell the story or not?" said Peter trying to calm them down before they jump on him "yes, I accepted the deal, but let me explain, I thought the same. I will not be the new Asgardian Ghost Rider, so she increased my powers, giving me some extras as well, saying that I could to be of more help here than dead ... What Hela said she wanted is a warrior to watch for her entertainment or missions, nothing else, "said Peter, hoping for a better reaction.
"And it never occurred to you that she could have lied to you or hidden something?" said Bruce trying to stay calm.
"Come on, you know me, I would not accept something like that without having a plan, even being the goddess of death, she is still a goddess, they keep their promises. I made her promise that she would not make me harm any of my friends or to kill someone, trust me, to hide something Logan would already know and I would be far away from here"
"Thor, you're our Asgardian expert, what do you think?" said Steve.
"What Spider-Man sayeth is true" Thor said, surprising everyone and calming the chestnut hair hero a bit "The most wondrous warriors wend to Valhala but if 't be true necessary, Hela could invoke a soul. The lady can see the warriors battle each other looking for the greatest, enjoying what thee would calleth a showeth, our cousin would not beest the first to returneth" Lowering the hammer and approaching the ex-dead. "I doth not knoweth thee mine friends, but I trusted that gent" Thor finished, putting his hand on Peter's shoulder demonstrating his support.
"Me too" said Wolverine. "He never lied to us and we all knew Peter Parker well, he would never do anything so stupid if it wasn't necessary."
"I think the same way" Tony said. "But it makes me think, apart from her speech about how you could help, what made you accept?"
"Sometimes I think you guys know me too well ... when I was in Helheim and she offered me the deal I thought, 'I would not accept it', but I was not the only super human who had died, and Carnage had died with me, I was afraid that if I did not accept, I would bring someone who does accept and I did not want to risk it making her bringing back someone like Carnage or who knows who" Said Peter convincing the remaining Avengers.
"That's the Peter Parker I know" Said the super soldier smiling with Carol, except for the tiger woman who had not said a single word.
"I know it's a stupid question, but are you doing well?" said Peter seeing that the redhead kept hugging herself.
"I ... I need to think" Tigra replied, leaving the room.
"What happens?" asked a confused Peter.
"Things have been ... tense ... since, well, you died," said Captain Marvel.
"I can imagine it, uh ... I never thought to ask this but how long was I dead?"
"Little more than 2 weeks" answered Bruce.
"Come, we'll update you and we'll be able to continue talking about your little deal," said Captain America. Peter let out a sigh in defeat.
End of Flashback
"And that's what happened," said Peter watching Janet stiffly before slapping him harder making him flip again.
"I bet you did not deserve that," Ironman said with a mocking smile.
"That... I did deserved," said Peter, returning to see Janet.
"You went completely crazy ?!" Janet shouted, "You accepted a deal with a crazy Asgardian goddess!"
"Gaze thy language, mortal" Said a female voice that Peter immediately recognized "Thee should not maketh me fell" They all saw a spiral of black / red fire formed from nothing, inside the spiral, there was some kind of energy in which the Goddess of Death came out from.
"Hela," Thor said simply.
"Lower thy hammer, God of Thunder" said Hela observing her father's brother "I didn't cometh with the intention to square"
"And what are you doing here? I have not been here for an hour and you already have a mission?" Peter asked feeling Hela's gaze on him, the same gaze she gave him on her kingdom, in which Wasp noticed and didn't like it, to say the least.
"I has't cometh to confirm that what mine warrior sayeth is true" Hela replied, surprising everyone and emphasizing 'mine'. "And to sayeth that Thor is right, the only thing I wanteth is to finally has't a noble warrior who doest not falleth to any square, and although t would beest entertaining to see that gent square against his fusty friends and companions, I doth not bethink that that gent can not survive with all his wilt against all the Avengers, without offending" She said, giving the arachnid a seductive smile.
"Do not worry," said Peter.
"I do not want to offend you but did not it occur to you that I would have more problems showing your face around if you died more than two weeks ago?" Janet said not caring that she was an Asgardian goddess, but this made everyone think, especially Peter. It had not crossed his mind as how he would go back to have a life behind the mask, but this made him think of another question, what happened to Peter Parker?
"That, lady Van Dyne, is the second reason wherefore lest I hither" descending to the ground in front of the chestnut "'t only doth take a simple spell to camouflage thee"
"And how exactly would it work? How would I look?" Peter asked a little nervous.
"Thee would still beest yourself, those who see thee wilt only see thee as someone who looks like Peter Parker, no matter how much those gents tryeth or compare one of those 'photos' as thee calleth those folk, those gents wilt only see thee as someone who looks like that gent. Only those who knoweth this secret or knoweth who thee very much art wilt not beest affected by the spell" Replied the Goddess of Death.
"I think it's perfect. What do I have to do?" Peter asked before Hela grabbed him firmly by the neck, to which everyone in the room was prepared to attack the goddess were it not for her hand slipped from Peter's neck to the back of his head and pulled him close to her. Pressing his lips against hers.
Everyone in the room was in shock, Peter had his eyes wide open, his mind could not process what was happening while the rest of the Avengers were just watching, except for Tony who secretly captured the image with his armor.
The moment Peter awoke from the shock, the kiss became more and more passionate, Hela slowly separated from his warrior who seemed to be redder than a tomato.
"We wilt see soon mine warrior, enjoy thy new skills" said Hela, creating another portal and turning around bringing her hand slowly to her lips, touching them lightly with the tips of her fingers and through the portal so they couldn't see the blush in her cheeks.
"Wow, and I thought you were lucky enough to come back from death, you're all casanova now, Peter" Ironman said giving Peter a little punch on his back but there was no reaction "Peter? Are you alright?" passing his hand in front of Peter's eyes.
"..."
"She must have poisoned him!" Wasp cried desperately. Her feeling were like a turmoil right now.
"No, he's just surprised" said Wolverine sniffing the air.
"Well, Peter is back, he became a servant of the goddess of death, maybe his ... lover" Carol said with a mocking smile when she saw Peter's face "and now it seems that he was labeled" poking him with his finger waiting some reaction "now what do we do?"
"The best thing we can do is to call the rest of the team, everyone deserves to know this," said Captain America watching all the Avengers nod and leave the room.
Before returning and taking Peter who was still a statue.
Avengers' Mansion's Meeting Room
They were all there, every branch of the Avengers was present. The new Avengers, the Uncanny Avengers and also the Secret Avengers. Also the X-men who taught at Wolverine's school were called, worrying the audience even more. Sue, Johnny and Ben also decided to go, because if Captain America had cited all available Avengers and X-men, it should be something very important.
"Thanks everyone for coming" said the super soldier entering the room with Ironman, Hulk, Wolverine, Thor, Wasp and Captain Marvel, all approached the huge table to be heard better.
"Have you seen Tigra?" asked Wasp, whispering to Captain Marvel.
"I thought she would be here."
"What's wrong Cap?" Hawkeye asked.
"I'll be brief" taking off the mask "I know it's been two difficult weeks since Carnage city." The mention of this event made several drop their heads in sadness, it had not been the same without the arachnid, "We all miss Spider-Man and in part we feel we could have done something," said Steve, swearing to have seen some of his teammates with small tears slide down his face "But ... we all know that Peter would like us to move forward and that he ..."
"I can't take it anymore," said Tony, interrupting Steve, who was looking at him with confusion, "come down at once" instantly from the ceiling they saw the arachnid descend from the ceiling hung from the head of his web.
"Hey" he said simply.
"What kind of sick joke is this Stark?!" said the Human Torch with fury.
"Thank you very much Tony" said Steve glaring at Ironman with his eyes "it's no joke Johnny, I know it's hard to believe but it really is Spider-Man"
"He really means it, it's me, Peter Parker" said Spiderman taking off his mask leaving everyone in shock and also some happy but at the same time confused.
"This ... this is impossible," Rogue said, believing he would never see that face again.
"You have a lot, all of you, have a lot to explain" said Black Panther.
Somewhere in Some Totally Snow-covered Mountain; Location: Unknown
A group of four men with climbing equipment climbed the mountain with all their strength until they reached the top.
"There," said the man first in line pointing to a huge metal structure hidden among the mountains "The inhuman city of Attilan ... it used to stand right here!"
"Are you sure?!" said the second man.
"Yes. See how the snow and the wind are melting away? Do you see the underground embankments? You can notice that there was something here! It was here!" the first man replied "For years and years".
"Where is it now?" the second man asked again.
"I do not know, nobody knows!"
"Someone knows"
"Nobody on earth"
"I thought you were an expert in inhuman things!" I claim the second man.
"You paid me to show you Attilan, this is where it was!" answered the first one.
"Yes" said the second taking a kind of scepter from his backpack, very discreetly "about that" he pointed to the other two men with the scepter from which came a laser that made a hole in the head to the other two companions .
"No, no ... I-I can get off the mountain. How will you come back?" said the last remaining man, scared.
"I can manage it myself" he replied, firing the laser, leaving him alone. He began to descend the snowy cliff until he was facing the remains of the ancient city. "Attilan, a long journey from the Big Apple, what madness" He said to himself, taking off his glasses and scarf showing his brown hair up to his neck . Again he put his hand in his backpack taking out a kind of touch screen which projects a series of unusual buildings "the castle of the royal family" carefully put into the city following exactly the plans.
He spent a long time walking through the city of the inhuman until he reached the catacombs of the city.
From his pocket, he takes out something very similar to a cell phone, but this projects a few words.
"Source of unknown power. Type of power: unknown. At 5,58 MTS. Northwest."
Following the instructions of the device he walk through the catacombs until he reach an impasse.
He took a rock to begin hitting it against the wall, opening a hole big enough to show a bright red sphere, no bigger than a tennis ball.
"What the hell?" the mysterious man asked taking the sphere. He brought it close to his ear and he moved it a little listening as something small moved inside. He approach his eyes looking for any kind of opening or something "has no joints, shit!" He took a knife out of his backpack and started stabbing the sphere or trying to cut it without success "Come ... get here" in desperation He took the red sphere to hit it several times on the floor "Come on! Come on!" He took the scepter out of his backpack and pointed it at burning clothes causing the laser to bounce off the walls.
Once the moment had ceased, the man saw that he had broken a layer of the sphere showing several cracks.
"Here we go, here we go," he said taking the knife back and putting it in the cracks "Come on ... come on, baby" holding the ball with one hand and using the other to stab her hard to break it being briefly blinded by a yellow flash but when I retrieve the view saw a small red oval-shaped jewel shining brightly "Okay, well, Mr. Robbins, it took a billion dollars and almost all your sanity, but ... you went and got yourself a gem of infinity" Taking the little red 'precious stone' he admired it for a moment. "Red ... What was the red one? Oh yes ... that's right ... "bringing the reality stone, closer to his body, it was wrapped in red light and then he disappear from the place.
Avengers' Mansion
Spiderman, with the help of the Avengers behind him, had recounted everything that had happened, from waking up in Helheim to Hela's intervention to confirm his story, except for the part where the goddess of death kissed him clearly.
And the reactions did not wait, like the others, all reacted with confusion, anger and a little indignation but after calming them, and making Hulk stut them up with a scream, Peter gave them the same explanation of why he accept such he try to convince many that this was Peter Parker, although some of them were still not convinced that it was the one they remembered.
"It sounds like a nice story," said the Russian SHIELD agent, "but even so, how do we know it is the complete truth?"
"I ... well, this would be a good time for a certain goddess of death to appear" said the arachnid hopeful that he would come to his call but nothing happened "just like the police, they are never there when you need them the most" by crossing their arms and doing a pout
"He just wants her to give him another kiss," said Wasp, crossing his arms.
"And you, why so jealous?" said Carol with a mocking smile making the brunette blush.
"I can help you," said a voice in the crowd, everyone turned away to show one of the teachers of Jean Gray's School of Advanced Education, Rachel Gray "If you allow me, I can enter your mind and see if what you say it's true. "
"You knew this would happen, didn't you?" Peter asked, turning slightly to see the mutant with the claws.
"Why do you think I called them?" Wolverine replied, making Peter sigh.
"Well, if there is no other option, but do not check what happens between 3 and 4 in the afternoon 2 weeks ago, that's my time" joked Spiderman convincing a few more with some bad jokes.
The redhead put her hands on her temples closing her eyes and beginning to inspect the last memories of the chestnut tree from Carnage City.
"He is Peter Parker" Rachel said, opening her eyes in surprise at the story, as well as some recent events with the goddess. This muted the rest of the super humans "Is really the real Spider-Man, everything he said is true" many of those present wanted to go and embrace the one they considered the soul and heart of the team, but as always, there is someone who doesn't end convinced.
"I don't believe it" said Hawkeye not very convinced "Try it, say something that only Peter would know".
"Well, when Tony doesn't sleep with Pepper, he sleeps with an Ironman-style teddy bear named Tony Jr." Peter answered him and instantly the place burst into laughter except for one person.
"It was supposed to be a secret, Peter!" I recriminate the iron man.
"What's going on, invincible Ironman? Do you fear the monster under the bed?" Hawkeye mocked, laughing at Tony.
"Really Hawkeye, were not you the one who got scared when he saw frozen?" said Peter causing the laughter to increase and Tony to hold the stomach of the pain.
"It's not funny, there was a damned talking snowman! That does not even exist here!" He defended himself as best he could but when he saw Black Widow rolling with laughter on the ground he gave up.
"Ajajajajajajajajajajaja!" Peter listened to Carol's laughter behind him.
"You too, Carol, because I can hear how you sing Shakira songs, from my room when you shower," Peter said, making Captain Marvel blush as some of the boys started singing different songs.
"Tsamina mine, eh eh, waka waka, eh eh" sang Captain America.
"Hey Cap don't do it, I saw you sing and dance 'I Like To Move It'" As soon as Peter finished speaking everyone in the place laughed, some were crying on the ground while others knelt holding their stomachs.
"All this I have to tweet it!" said the human torch.
"I would not do that unless you want me to show you the video of you trying to do martial arts in underpants," Peter warned making the place burst into laughter, there was no one who did not laugh including those who were flushed by their secrets rebelled.
"Okay, I think that's enough" Hawkeye said getting up and wiping away his tears but in reality he wanted to end this before Peter said anything else about him.
"Really? Because I know more, like when Natasha ..."
"NO!" Desperately cried the SHIELD spy.
"Okay, okay, spoilsport" making a pout.
The shouts of joy didn't wait, although of course there were some who did not fully trust what happened, not because they didn't believe that he wasn't the one, but did not fully trust someone who was the goddess of death. Many of his friends approached him by clasping his hands or hitting his on the back for coming out of something like this while some of his friends hugged him happy that he was back and then slapped him, as did Carol and Janet, for have done something so stupid and risky, either by accepting the deal or what happened in Carnage City.
"I hope everyone is energized, this we must celebrate, Jarvis prepares everything in the room" Tony said causing some of the Avengers to sigh in denial.
"A party sounds great but there is something I should know before" said Peter after receiving so much love.
"If the dragons have already arrived in Game of Thrones?" said Johnny.
"No ... well yes, but it's something else," replied the serious brunette.
"What's going on, soldier?" said Steve.
"I need you to answer me, what happened with Peter Parker?"
