The Iron Mandalorian and the Siege of Earth - Chapter 4

Author Note: As always I own nothing but the thoughts in this overcrowded head. Thank you Mystic 777 for your review hopefully Scott's role going forwards will be just as good.

I'm going to try and update as regularly as possible every one or two days depending on how busy I am.

Hope you enjoy.


"Hey Loser, rumour is Tony Stark called the principal and got you out of class?"

"Yeah there was a Clan Stark thing he needed backup for," Peter and MJ were currently lying on his bed watching Netflix hiding beneath a duvet.

"Oh, What was it this time?"

"Aliens, here look," Peter withdrew his Stark phone and flicked to the stills he'd taken from his suits cameras.

"Wow they look pretty weird, what's with the raccoon?"

"Ooooh don't call him that," groaned Peter, he'd made that mistake exactly once before Rocket had put him in his place.

"He doesn't look very alien."

"Oh that's Peter he's a human apparently he got kidnapped by aliens."

"Huh, That happens?"

"Apparently so," laughed Peter.

"So on a scale of one to ten how deep in dung are we about to be?" Asked MJ causing Peter to turn serious in seconds.

"What d'you mean?"

"Simple really, as soon as you got back from visiting Tony you called me up and you've not let go since I came over." MJ wasn't complaining about the human contact, Peter was one of the only people she allowed this close but today had too many coincidences for her to trust this was just a normal bad day situation.

"Oh sorry," Peter withdrew his arm from where it was linked with hers, or tried, MJ wasn't having any of it as she grabbed his arm and held it tight.

"Nope you're not getting away with it that easily, what's got you in a tizzy?"

"Well you're probably gonna head about it soon anyway," grumbled Peter, he grunted slightly as he lifted MJ bodily from the bed and shifted so he was sat up and sat her down beside him. "There's going to be an invasion, the aliens who came were fleeing from a threat that... Thanos... he's apparently destroyed whole planets and wants to take over the universe."

After a long pause MJ spoke, "well then we'd better put a stop to him."

"Wait, we?"

"Hey it's my planet too, besides if the planets destroyed I won't get to tell make a difference."

"It's not safe."

"Stuff your 'not safe', I'm helping you and you can either accept that and give me the tech to do so or not but you're not gonna stop me."

Peter had the sense to recognise a lost cause and so said, "we'll see Tony tomorrow, apparently he needs my help anyway but he might have something to help you."

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It took Wakanda nearly a year to join the technological revolution started by Tony Stark following the Civil war debacle. Eventually once Wakanda lost their superiority complex and Tony's Clan helped the engineer deal with T'Challa's perceived betrayal the pair had agreed to share ideas, well T'Challa nobly stepped aside and allowed Shuri to share ideas.

"Brother the fleet is a day away, all signals from the UN have been ignored." Shuri stood in her lab watching the hologram before her, it showed the progress of the continent sized fleet which was now at Jupiter.

"I suppose we've got very little choice then," replied T'Challa, "ready the fleet."

Shuri activated the palaces communication systems to the UN Security Council, as T'Challa stepped up to the camera the rest of the leaders can online. "Leaders I hope you are seeing what we are, the mass has moved passed Jupiter and will soon enter the asteroid belt. I've contacted you to move for a full mobilisation of all Starfleet ships."

The Wakandan's were pleased to see it took no persuading for the rest of the countries to commit their troops to the defence.

"May Bast preserve us," prayed T'Challa as he looked out of the labs window into the catacombs of the country's former largest mine. Beyond the window the catacombs lit with the headlights of hundred of ships, the dragonfly shaped crafts began their preparations as the ground crew rushed around them checking their engines and armaments for the coming battle.

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"You didn't tell me it was a gathering of superheroes," whisper-shouted MJ, she'd thought he was mad when he made his way into a bakery across the street only to gasp as they made their way into a tunnel which brought them out in the tower's basement, they now stood in a large laboratory across from Pepper and Tony Stark the power couple of their generation.

"Petey m'boy how's everything going, heard you applied for MIT, good on you. And that Ted did he apply too."

"Yeah Ned and I both applied, so fingers crossed," smiled Peter looking completely comfortable in the presence of two multi-billionaires. Stood next to him MJ looked less confident, sure she'd seen the two on TV even spent time with them twice but this time was different, though she couldn't put her finger on why.

"Oh hey Spidey-girlfriend," smiled Stark as though he'd only just seen her. 'Ah yes that was why, she was meeting Tony Stark, Peter's surrogate father figure for the first time since they'd decided to stop dancing around each other.'

"Hello Mr Stark, Ms Stark," 'What was wrong with her, Stark had a long history of questionable human rights issues and here she was stuttering and nervous.'

"Oh none of that," waved Pepper bringing up a hand for MJ to shake, "Pepper please, and he's just Tony."

"Hey speak for yourself I kinda like being Mr Stark makes me sound important."

"Well then I'll forbid anyone from calling you Mr Stark if you're going to act like that, we don't need your head growing anymore else you'll need to open the hangar doors just to leave the building," smirked Pepper, beside her MJ covered her mouth so as to avoid laughing.

"Oh shush, come on Pete let's go if these two are gonna gang up on us we might as well head to the meeting and avoid them."

"Coward," called Pepper at the boys retreating backs. "So what shall we do?" She asked turning to MJ.

"Aren't you a Hero too, shouldn't you be in there as well."

"Indeed but I'll no doubt get the full briefing from Tony as soon as he's done, not too dissimilar to you I'd imagine." Pepper looked to MJ smiling, "don't worry too much I'm not going to say anything."