Giant Sized Trouble Coming
Spider-man and his allies went to the X-Manor to speak with The X-Men, thanks to Cloak's portal they were able to get there quickly.
"Cloak, you're the man", Johnny said.
They approached the manor and Iceman opened the door, "Scott! Ororo! Logan! Professor!? Anyone!? It's Bobby, I got some friends"
Cloak and Dagger looked around.
"This place again, brings some memories", Dagger said.
"You've been here before?" Black Cat asked.
"Yeah, me and Cloak have history with the X-Men, we were even considered for the school too, though we turned it down", Dagger said.
"So you're mutants?" Black Cat asked.
"Well me and Cloak never really consider ourselves Mutants, though some tests say that we technically are, it's complicated", Dagger said.
Soon Cyclops arrived with Jean Grey, "Bobby, you're back, and you have Spider-man and his allies"
"Yeah, we just dealt with The Brotherhood", Iceman said.
"So you have taken them out of commission?" Cyclops asked.
"Yeah, now we just need to deal with Mystique and Magneto", Spider-man said.
"Speaking of which, any chance one of either Spider-man or Human Torch could be Mystique in disguise?"
Cyclops turned to Jean grey, "Jean? Your take?"
Jean used her telepathy on them, "No, it's no disguise, this is Peter and Johnny"
"Well that's a relief at least", Black Cat said.
"Well now we just need to find Magneto, do you know where he may be?" Cyclops asked.
"He had an HQ, and old abandoned building, but he destroyed it trying to kill us", Johnny said.
"And if we don't find him soon, he's gonna mutate several high powers of the world", Black Cat said.
"This way he'll finally have that mutant kingdom he's always wanted", Spider-man said.
"This will be trouble, Jean lets go, we gotta take this to the Professor", Cyclops said.
"Ok Scott"
"You all did great, we can take it from here though", Cyclops said.
"Huh? Don't you still need our help? We're ready for it", Spider-man said.
"It's fine, this isn't your fight, this is ours, you don't need to endanger yourselves anymore"
"Scott's right, we can handle this, but thank you for all your help"
Both Cyclops and Jean left, leaving Spider-man a bit baffled.
"You have to be kidding, since forming this team we've taken out The Sinister Six, Dr. Doom & The Brotherhood, I don't mean to sound egotistical with this but I think we all make a great team and a valuable asset", Spider-man said.
"You have a point Peter, but if they don't want out help, better off not pressing the issue, I say we go our separate ways from here, then reunite at the great threat", Johnny said.
"But Johnny-"
"Better listen to your friend there webhead", they heard Wolverine say, he happened to just show up.
"Logan, where'd you come from?" Iceman said.
"Just got here, heard you chumps took out The Brotherhood, I'm almost impressed, almost"
"Almost? We did what you haven't done in the past several days!" Venom shouted.
Wolverine extended a claw to pick his teeth, "Yeah, yeah, lucky shot, my guess is that they underestimated you, like Doom & The Six did, once most enemies realize how tough you kids think you are, then it's gonna get 100x worse, I doubt Magneto is gonna underestimate you, once you face him he's gonna destroy you, better off listening to Scott and backing down before any of you get hurt"
"Come on Logan, I've only had one battle with them but they seem to be the real deal, and that's just with 4 of them out of 6, I think they have what it takes", Iceman said.
"Bobby, you're just a kid yourself, you don't know much, you can barely handle Magneto when your with us, I doubt you can handle him with them, bot exactly the most threatening or permanently capable group"
"Excuse me? What's so incapable about us!?" Spider-man asked.
"For one you're a whiny kid who wallows if self-pity, Storm is a guy who acts like he's an epic hero and yet he's just a cornerstone in The Fantastic Four, that cat girl is just a burglar who thinks she's a big shot criminal, Venom is a semi reformed villain who still speaks like if he's more than one person, Cloak and Dagger still have a lot to learn and Bobby is just some over-eager kid who's gonna get hurt because he never realizes he's in over his head, face it, you're all a couple of messes formed into a potential wreck".
All the heroes stood there, digesting Wolverine's words, Cloak handled the criticism well, Dagger and Iceman looked a bit upset but dealt with it, however Venom, Black Cat, Johnny & Spider-man were upset with his comments.
"Cornerstone? I helped save the World from Galactus several times, I can handle myself on solo missions!" Johnny shouted.
"I am a big shot, I've hung with the best and I've always come out well!" Black Cat said.
"We have shown our power as well, several times!", Venom shouted.
Spider-man wanted to say something, but something inside him couldn't deny what Wolverine had said, so he simply headed outside.
"Peter!" Iceman called, but no response, "Dammit Logan, that was a little much"
"Truth hurts sometimes"
"Hasn't Peter teamed with you before, and you're still gonna say that crap?"
"Not denying he's good, he's just really whiny"
"He's had a rough life Logan, you of all people should understand something like that"
Black Cat stepped up, "I'm with Bobby, you probably really hurt him"
"First off, you really think I care if I upset someone? Second, based on what Kitty's told me, you've been pretty hard on Parker, saying you care more about his Spider-man ego than the man behind it"
"Kitty?"
"Kitty Pryde, Shadowcat, she sometimes hangs out with Parker, pretty sure she dated him too, he mentioned you, saying you're a nice girl despite being a burglar, but he mentioned that little fact of you hating the Peter Parker side to him"
"I don't hate him, I just don't care for the regular side, I'm sure there are people more interested in Black Cat than Felicia Hardy, doesn't bother me"
"Well it bothered him, Kitty seems to think you're horrible for thinking that"
Black Cat sighed, "Well I'm gonna go check on Peter, you guys deal with Wolverine"
Black Cat left while everyone glared at Wolverine.
"For the record, I really don't give a damn what you think of me, especially since I can gut each of you before you even know what hit you"
They all seemed taken back a bit but continued the glare.
"wait, how did you know all this stuff Kitty said?" Iceman asked.
"She mentions it sometimes, I happen to be nearby, I will admit it's pretty screwed up what she said but that's life"
Outside black Cat approached Spider-man, "Hey, you feeling alright?"
"Sorta, I hate what Wolverine said but he's probably got a point, maybe we're not as good as we think, maybe it has been luck so far"
"Wolverine doesn't know what he's talking about, I think we all make a good team"
"Well no offense but Wolverine's been at this a lot longer, he may have a point with this, besides I can't deny the stuff he said about me, I do have a tendency to wallow if self-pity, I know I have a lot of screw ups, which led me to losing important people in my life, not to mention damaging my friendships with Harry & MJ, in fact MJ herself was worried for me recently, but I just blew her off, living a double life is hard, it affects me as Peter Parker and Spider-man"
"Peter, granted you can come off as whiney sometimes, I just think it means you care a lot, you care for so many people, which is why you seem to stress the idea of saving them, which is a good quality to have, shows how great of a hero you are"
Spider-man scoffed, "I'm not that great, I couldn't even save my old girlfriend, I messed up a lot"
Black Cat groaned, "Stop saying such bad things Peter, you're a great hero, I think so and so do our allies, even Venom says you're a good partner to have"
"I guess"
"Don't guess, I think you're great too, I know I haven't been that nice to you, like saying I care more about Spider-man than Peter Parker, truth be told you're really sweet either way"
Spider-man removed his mask and smiled, "Thanks, you're a great girl too, both as Black Cat and Felicia Hardy"
"wow, you like Black Cat?"
"Well I don't like the burglaries, but you're a great ally to have", Spider-man said.
Black Cat gave Spider-man a hug, which Spider-man returned, a moment later Johnny, Venom, Cloak & Dagger came outside.
"Aw how sweet, Petey and his kitty", Johnny said.
Spider-man gave Johnny an 'are you stupid look', "Real funny Johnny"
"It's ok Peter, he's just a little jealous, this will make him feel better", Black Cat went to Johnny and gave him a hug as well as a kiss on the cheek, "That was a little something for coming back for me"
Johnny blushed, "It was nothing, just being my awesome self"
"Perhaps I can pay you back some more later?" Black Cat asked Johnny is a seductive tone, causing him to blush a bit.
"Get a room you two", Venom said.
"How about Johnny's room?" Black Cat said.
"Come on, save that talk for private", Dagger said.
Black Cat simply chuckled as Johnny sweated nervously, and Spider-man looked also just as awkward seeing that.
"So now what? Do we just go our separate ways?" Cloak asked.
Spider-man shook his head, "No, not yet, we need to finish what we started, we're gonna teach Magneto a lesson", Spider-man said.
"Right, lets go find Magneto and teach him a lesson!" Johnny said.
Before they left, Iceman came outside, "Hey, everything cool out here? Well before I came outside?"
Spider-man chuckled a bit, "We're fine, we're gonna go after Magneto now"
"Seriously?"
"Yeah, we're not gonna take this lying down", Spider-man said.
"Well if you're gonna go, I wanna help you", Iceman said.
"Huh? What about The X-Men? Shouldn't you be helping them?"
"They don't need me, I think they'll be fine, besides I work better with all of you"
The crew then huddled and spoke a bit, while Iceman waited patiently, somewhat, then the huddle broke.
"Ok Bobby, you can join our Crew", Spider-man said.
"Ha! Awesome! Thanks, you won't regret this"
"I hope not, otherwise we'll have to kick your ass", Spider-man said non-chalatnly, kinda making Iceman nervous, before Spider-man chuckled, "I'm just messing with you"
Iceman chuckled, "Nice one Pete"
Spider-man put his mask back on, "Ok, Cloak, take us to the city"
Cloak then teleported everyone, Wolverine had been watching though.
"Good luck Parker, hopefully you can prove me wrong", he then simply went back inside, awaiting potential orders of his own.
The Crew arrived in the center of New York and decided to search around for any potential signs of Magneto.
"Ok, where do we start looking?" Spider-man asked.
"Well Magneto said that he was gonna go after some higher powers, we should go to all the important people nearby, Police Chief, Commissioner, Mayor, anyone that Magneto would wanna mutate", Black Cat said.
"For all we know he could be on his way to Washington DC", Johnny said.
"Right, they considered Mutating Senator Kelly", Black Cat said.
"Well that makes sense, Kelly is the type of guy Magneto would wanna mutate considering all the crap he's said about mutants at one point", Iceman said.
"Ok lets do this then, we spread around and-" Spider-man then heard some loud stomps, the whole crew heard it, they felt quite a bit of shaking nearby.
"What's that sound?" Johnny asked.
Iceman felt nervous, "These sound like all to familiar footsteps"
"Footsteps?" Black Cats asked.
"I hope it's The Hulk, sorta", Spider-man said.
"No...it's not Hulk"
"Then who is-" they heard some screaming as some hotdog vendors were tossed nearly hit some people.
"Who tosses hotdog vendors?" Johnny asked.
They turned to where it was thrown and saw an old enemy of The X-Men.
"Oh no, it's The Juggernaut!" Iceman shouted.
Juggernaut approached them, "I'm gonna crush you punk kids!"
The Juggernaut ran at them ready to attack.
"Crap! Spread out! Take this guy down!" Spider-man said, all the heroes moved around, Iceman shot Ice at Juggernaut but it barely affected him, Johnny tried using his fire, same story.
Venom actually ran at Juggernaut and locked into a test of strength with him, however Juggernaut's strength and near irreversable momentum was too much for Venom, Juggernaut then tossed him aside.
"Great, Magneto enlisted The Juggernaut to help", Spider-man said.
"He's gonna be hard to stop", Iceman said.
"It's hard but not impossible", Spider-man tried webbing Juggernaut but he broke free of the webs and grabbed a street light and attempted to whack Spider-man but he dodged and shot some webbing in the eye holes of his helmet.
"Hey! no fair! That's cheating!" Juggernaut shouted and threw some blind punches, Venom has recovered and ran in to tackle Juggernaut down, but Juggernaut got up shortly afterwards and blind punched Venom away, then removed the webbing from his eye holes, only to get attacked with some light daggers.
"That can't stop me!" Juggernaut ran at Dagger but Iceman shot ice at the ground and made him slip into a building wall, Black Cat ran in and started whipping Juggernaut's back, not doing too much damage though and he simply whacked her away, kuclily Spider-man caught her before she hit a wall.
"Thanks for that", Black Cats said.
Juggernaut went to attack again but Johnny started blasting him with fire and flying away to disorientate Juggernaut.
"Hey! Stand still so I can squash ya!"
Juggernaut grabbed a manhole cover and tossed it at Johnny, hitting him in the ribs.
"Ow! Crap!" Johnny said as he fell, holding his stomach in pain.
Juggernaut went to Johnny but Spider-man shot some webs in an attempt to hold him back, though Juggernaut's pull was too strong, Venom then shot his own substance to help Spider-man, while Juggernaut was stuck Cloak stood in front of him, ready to teleport him, Spider-man and Venom noticed and let Juggernaut go into Cloak's portal and he teleported him and dropped Juggernaut from the skies, enough to hurt him, not kill him.
Cloak went back to Spider-man, "I think he's taken care of"
Iceman noticed Juggernaut moving a bit, "No he's not"
Juggernaut started standing up and ooked even more enraged.
"How do we stop this guy!?" Black Cat asked.
"One hell of a miracle?" Spider-man asked.
Juggernaut went to attack again but everyone dodged out the way, Cloak went to teleport him again but he recieved a huge punch, knocking him back, Juggernaut went toward Spider-man but he managed to web two strings between a couple of street lights and made Juggernaut trip and Spider-man hit him with an uppercut strong enough to knock his helmet off.
Juggernaut was a little disorientated but he continued his attack, with Spider-man dodging his punches and then going for a shot to his exposed face, knocking him back some, then Venom grabbing Juggernaut from behind and lifting him into the air, though struggling to keep him up.
"Hold him a moment Venom!", Spider-man webbed to the top of a building, "Toss him up if you can! Then get out of there quickly!"
Venom used a huge chunk of his strength to toss up Juggernaut a bit while Spider-man rebounded off the force of the building to moved down quickly like a bullet to Juggernaut and punch him hard enough to slam him through the ground, creating a crator in the ground.
Juggernaut was hurt, he tried to get up but Venom approached him and stomped his face a bit, "Stay down you brute!"
Juggernaught caught his foot and tossed Venom back and tried to stand up, but Iceman hit him with a few ice punches, and Spider-man finished with a strong right hook, keeping Juggernaut down.
The heroes sighed, that was a tough battle for them.
"Well he's finally down", Spider-man said
Before they can celebrate, Magneto appeared above them, "There seems to be no squashing you"
"Come down here Magneto! We'll take you on now!" Johnny shouted.
"No, it's been a long day for all of us, I suggest you all go home and enjoy what freedom you have left, cause tomorrow I initiate my plan of World Domination"
The heroes went to attack Magneto but he caught them with his Magnetic powers and flung them across New York City, Magneto then flew off, leaving the heroes hurt and a bit humiliated.
"Damn Magneto! I can't believe he just tossed us away like it's nothing" Johnny said.
"Probably for the better, we're getting a bit fatigued, perhaps this break benifits us", Black Cat said.
"Well we know he's gonna attack tomorrow, so we gotta be ready", Spider-man said.
"But where though?" Johnny asked.
"We'll find out, knowing Magneto he may give us fair warning, we just gotta be ready to strike", Iceman said.
"And we will, tomorrow we gather up near The Baxter Building, we gotta finish this", Spider-man said.
"We will, for the sake of our world", Cloak said.
"And to prove ourselves to the world, again", Johnny said.
Next Round coming next chapter.