Spider-Man No Justice
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Spider-Man has gone rogue killing common thugs and planning to create a new team made up of his old enemies. Confronted by Iron Man Spider-Man makes no denial instead placing the blame for his beloved Aunt May's death at Iron Man's aka Tony Stark doorstep. In a heated battle of skills and wills Iron Man prevails delivering the final blow a blue plasma beam that lights up the New York skyline. What has become of one of the most misunderstood heroes the world has ever seen?
Chapter 4: Oedipal Completion
Iron Man gauntlet smokes, the plasma beam fades away. He stares into sky tracking the fall of his friend and protégée Spider-Man. His body crashes to the rooftop, what's left of it. Iron walks forward his left gauntlet armed knowing that Spider-Man is no push over. Leaning over he looks at the smoking ruin shaking his head, he had heard the blood curdling scream, but could not pull back Spider-Man is dead. Ironman knows he must tell Mary Jane that her husband has fallen.
As he walks away from the body he hears footsteps behind him. Turning he sees that the body has vanished. Using his radar he scans the rooftop with thermal scanners. Unable to detect anything he switches his scanners to motion detection, when that fails Iron shifts to sonar. Iron Man sees and hears nothing. Standing still he charges his plasma cannon, he hears a crunch behind her. He turns about his left arms comes up a bolt of plasma striking the far off wall.
Ironman sees a shadow out of his peripheral drops over Iron Man, his arm is caught. Struggling with the grip on his arm Iron Man fires off more blasts of plasma fire until his arm is forced upward into the air where it can do little damage.
Iron Man uses his booster to try to wrench his arms away, but his legs are taken out from under him. Beginning to fall he tries to compensate using his free pulse cannon, but that arm is grabbed and wrenched to the side before being pulled behind his back. Ironman feels his body lifted up. He is spread eagle in the air his back to the sky. He looks down at Spiderman who stares up at him arms crossed over his chest his head cocked to the side, the mask no longer on his face. What meets Ironman's gaze are the rage fuel eyes of Peter Parker. The four mechanical spider arms of Spiderman's Iron Spider hold Ironman in check.
"Tony did you think you could beat me?" Spider-Man asks crushing Iron Man's boosters and arm cannons simultaneously. micro explosions issue forth from Ironman's crushed limbs.
"How?" Iron Man asks in a defeated voice.
"I have fought many battles, but unlike everyone else in the superhero business I have decided to utilize my enemies' weapons, incorporating them into my suit. Your senses were clouded by the illusion altering gas the villain Mysterio created," Peter says smiling at Ironman.
"There is no way, my suit filters out all foreign antigens," Ironman says in disbelief.
"You are slow Tony. I didn't drug you during our fight, but before."
"When" the question is desperate.
"The last time we share a drink. Don't you remember you named me your heir?" Peter says grinning. "I'm like a son right Tony?" Peter laughs as he asks the rhetorical question. "But you should have known the son always succeeds the father Tony," Spider-Man says wrenching Ironman's helmet off to look the billionaire Tony Stark face to face eye to eye.
Tony face sags in on itself the years of alcohol abuse seeming to catch up to him all at once as he meets Peter's eyes. Tony bows his head in defeat, "So much genius wasted," Tony says.
"Genius wasted, you spent yours on countless wars. I have chosen revenge," Peter says.
"I have tried to atone for that."
"While I have decided to atone for my part in Aunt May's death," Peter says letting his emotions show on his conflicted face where such a range of emotion can be seen: rage, sorrow, hatred, love, respect, and a mire of other emotions play across his face.
"How did you survive my full power blast," Tony asks trying to understand his defeat and buy time for what he doesn't even know.
"You're stalling for time Tony, but I will let you know, Verbatim and Adamantium combined to create a network of kinetic fibers that powers my suit and protects me from all assaults. You lose Tony I am your successor you choose wisely."
"Like Oedipal will you take my kingdom and claim your mother as your own, because Peter there is no mother to claim, she is dead, and you will have to come to terms with that at some point," Tony says savagely smiling at Peter.
"I will when all those who didn't save her are dead, you can apologize to her if you make it to heaven, if not tell Mephisto to kiss my ass," Peter says Snapping Tony's neck in one sickening crunch. Peter looks down at the man who had treated him like a son like an equal, but it wasn't the first time someone had tried to step into that role and in the end had failed. Tony was just another on the list, but he wouldn't be the last that much Peter knows for he has a list of his own and like Santa Claus he was checking it twice for those who were naughty and nice. Peter would be giving more than coal to those who had refused to save his aunt.
Peter tosses Tony's lifeless body to the roof top in a heap of iron that had not been enough to save him. He looks at him one last time before his mask forms around his face. In Spiderman's hand appear a handful bombs which he drops around Tony's corpse. They have the distinctive jack-o-lantern motif. The bombs roll around Tony's body the clicking sound of the arming device can be heard just before blinding white light is unleashed. The top floor and those below it seven vanish in the blink of an eye. Spiderman hovers above the destruction taking off as the flames consume the upper portions of Stark Towers.
Reed Richards aka Mr. Fantastic, stands over the body of Tony Stark, tears stream down his face his wife Sue Richards aka Invisible Woman hides her face in Reed's back her arms wrapped around her waist. Her blonde stresses steam behind her unable to look at the destruction that is Tony's face and armor the metal fused to his body in his back. Ben Grimm aka The Thing stands off to the side his rock like face cast downward. Johnny Storm stands behind the three looking at the damage.
"Whoever did this was powerful," Johnny says his voice breaking the silence.
"We need to find them and give them a good old fashion clobbering," Ben says his voice hard and gravelly.
"Who has the tech to do this though, Doom?" Johnny asks.
"No," Reed says denying Johnny's suspicions. "This isn't Doctor Doom's handy work nor any villain we've fought before.
"Is it a hero, someone who hasn't registered," Johnny asks.
"Maybe, but I can't say for certain almost any or all evidence has been destroyed, no recordings, which means Tony knew who did this," Reed says tearing his gaze away from the corpse of his friend and one of the only men in the world who could match his brilliance. Reed clenches his fist swearing, "I will find out who did this. I won't let Tony death go unpunished."
Swinging over the rooftop Spider-Man drops down in front of Mr. Fantastic, He strides over his spider armor revealing his face one stain with tears as he kneels beside the mass of fuse steel, stone and flesh. "Who did this?" Peter asks his voice harsh and demanding a slight warble to it. He stares at Reed his eyes almost accusing.
"I don't know Peter," Reed says his hands stretching out to comfort Peter. Peter shrugs the gesture off holding Tony's body close to his chest tears falling freely as he thinks about the battle and the death of man who had recognize him and given him direction. He truly mourns this man's death as he rocks back and forth for all to see.
"We'll find out who did this and bring them to justice," Sue says.
Peter looks up his eyes red rim, "There is No Justice Sue, but I will hunt whoever did this down to the ends of the earth. But I won't allow Tony's dream to die. I will assume all his duties I will unite all heroes, villains, all of us or I will die trying," He pronounces.
The door to the Baxter Building slides open, the red head woman stands waiting her emerald eyes taking in her husband who stands outline by the door to the hall. "I'm home."
"Did you hear, Tony's dead," she says.
Peter lets a single tear fall, "Yes I heard, but I couldn't believe it."
"So much death Peter…"
"I know that's why I came straight home to you MJ. I won't have much time in the future," Peter says wrapping Mary Jane in his arms.
"Will this change things Pete?"
"More then you will ever know, but I will not lose you MJ, I won't lose anyone ever again." No matter how many have to die.
The coffin is carried by Reed Richards, Doctor Strange, Peter Parker, Ben Grimm, Johnny Storm, and Hank Pym aka Yellow Jacket they lay the coffin down, friends, allies, enemies have come to see him laid to rest. A full replica of the first Iron Man suits stands upon a podium inscribed with the words,
Tony Stark: Hero, Inventor, Visionary a man who saw the future and believed the world could be saved.
As the heroes pay their respects all come to Peter shaking his hand, the news media have blared the news that Peter Parker has become the leader of the Avengers that he is now the owner of Stark Enterprises. He bares the responsibility and the hope of a nation on his shoulders.
To Be Continued…
