A/N Hi. I am back with another chapter of One More Life, and boy do I have plans for this. WWH, Avengers vs X-Men, I'm just so hyped. Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks to all of the followers and people who have favourited the story, it has been sensational.
Remember to leave suggestions and give me your thoughts in the reviews. And don't be afraid to criticize me because I know my grammar isn't perfect and it probably won't ever be. So, I try to make up for it through the story and plot. Anyways, here is chapter 4.
The first thing Peter did when he woke up was mutter "I hate you Natasha." She laughed at this before leaning towards him and pressing a quick kiss to his lips.
"I love you too beloved. Now, I take it you remember everything from last night?" She queried.
"Yep. Every. Single. Thing. And I hate you for taking advantage of my drunken state to find out which girls I want to sleep with." He said, getting out of bed while slipping on a pair of joggy bottoms.
"No, not every girl you want to sleep with. I have no doubt there are a lot more girls in that list. Just the ones that you care for deeply. If not love. But I have no doubt that you will fall for each of them when they join me in pleasing you. Forever." She said with passion before giving him an equally as passionate kiss before standing up and slipping on one of his t-shirts and making her way into the kitchen to prepare breakfast.
"So, beloved, what are your plans for today? I only really need to check in with Avengers tower." Natasha asked.
"Well, I'm thinking about asking Carol out. Then I will have to go out on patrol before heading to Horizon Labs and finalise the deal with Max handing over the rights to the company. I'll also have to finalise the name change. I'm actually really excited to see my name on the building." Peter exclaimed before running back into his room to retrieve his laptop.
He walked back in and showed Natasha the company logo. It was a red PI with a circle around it.
"That is actually great. Did you design it yourself?" He nodded. "Good work." She quickly kissed him before turning back to empty the omelettes onto two plates.
They walked to the table and sat on opposite sides. They both quickly devoured the omelettes before Peter took both plates back into the kitchen and washed them.
"So, I wanted to ask, what where the plans that Stark stole?" Natasha asked while she started to put her spare costume on that was in Peters' spare closet.
"Oh, that? It's actually… really cool. Basically, it's a wristband that connects and responds to your neural networks to create a costume. Basically. I can just slip it on, think of my costume and presto, I'm Spider-Man." Peter demonstrated by slipping his mask on and striking a pose.
Natasha laughed before commenting "That was exceptionally corny."
"Why thank you, I've been working on my delivery but I think it still needs work." He slumped back into a relaxed pose before attaching his web-shooters to wrists and slipping his gloves on over them.
"Did you not say that you now have organic webbing?" Natasha asked, confused as to why he is still using the machines.
"Yeah but their range isn't quite as good and they put a real strain on me physically. I also can't retract the webbing with them. It's painful enough shooting the stuff out of my wrists, can you imagine pulling it back inside me? Eww." He visibly shivered at the thought.
"Ah." She nods, imagining the feeling of sucking steel-like strands of goo into her wrists, shivering slightly.
"Yeah, well, are you ready to go?" He asked opening his window and stepping out onto the balcony. He watched as she gracefully climbed through before shutting and locking it behind her.
"Da, do you mind dropping me off at Avengers tower?" Natasha asked as she stretched to wrap both of her arms around his neck from behind.
"Na, I need to see Carol anyway, remember?" He then waited for her to hop up and wrap her legs around his waist before leaning forwards and falling from the roof in an Assassin's Creed-like style.
Just before they became street gunk, he shot a web and swung past a shocked civilian. As they made their way across the city skyline, Natasha revelled in the beauty of it all. She could feel the wind across her face and blowing through her hair. This is much better than flying, she thought.
A few minutes later, Peter dramatically flipped onto the helipad on the balcony on the top floor of the Avengers tower. Peter could never get enough of it all. The amount of firepower in one building was astonishing.
"Well, this has been the Spidey express, I hope you enjoyed your flight and this is your Captain, signing out." Natasha giggled as she lowered herself off Peters' back.
"Well, lead the way my beautiful companion. I don't think I would be very welcome here if I suddenly walked through the door. Especially after last time." He grinned under his mask.
"Of course. We wouldn't want that, now would we?" She then walked over to the door and spoke into the microphone. "Black Widow."
There was buzzing sound before the door opened to reveal the Avengers' butler Jarvis.
"Good morning Miss Romanoff. What brings you by so early-Oh! Mister Spider-Man sir, you must forgive me, I didn't see you there. Although I don't understand how that could be considering your height." Jarvis commented.
Suddenly two machine guns appeared from the floor, both mounting laser sights directly at the Spider-Symbol on his chest.
"Emmm… What's up with the hostility Jeeves?" Peter nervously chuckled.
"Sorry sir, but the machine has stated that you are not the real Spider-Man." Jarvis stated.
"What?! I'm sure I'm me. What could possibly lead your dumb AI to think I'm not?" Peter asked.
"Well sir, our files state that you are 5'10 whereas right now you are standing at 6'2. This is very odd indeed." Jarvis queried, confused by their predicament.
"Oh, well you see… The thing is I kinda went through this weird power up thingy where I've gotten stronger, faster, a bunch of new abilities and apparently taller. Honestly, I haven't even noticed. My current height just seems natural to me. Oh man… This is going to take some explaining." Peter slouched in defeat, shaking his head.
Carol Danvers woke up feeling refreshed. She had been on patrol the previous night, deciding to take Peter's advice about helping the little guy. And she had to admit that it felt good to stop bank robbers and gang-bangers. There was just a rush in knowing that she helped someone personally.
She had gotten up immediately and changed into her Ms Marvel uniform using her powers. She was now walking through the halls of Avengers tower, looking for one of her best friends, Natasha. She had received an alert that Nat had arrived.
When Carol turned the corner, she was shocked to see Spider-Man standing with Nat, but it wasn't the fact that he was there that shocked her, it was how tall he had grown and also how ripped he looks now. The girls weren't kidding when they said he was bigger than Cap now.
"Umm… Hey guys." She greeted with a small, awkward wave.
"Hey! Carol! I was just about to come get you actually." Peter replied. Natasha just nodded and quietly said "Carol."
"Really Spidey? What's up?" Carol asked.
Peter started shuffling from side to side. "Umm… Can I speak to you in private? It's kinda personal and I really don't want to look like an idiot in front of everyone." Peter mumbled.
"Sure, let's go to my room. Hey Nat, we'll catch up later okay?" She waited for Natasha to nod before turning around and making her way back the way she came, Peter following close behind.
When they arrived, they both sat down on Carol's bed and Peter started.
"Okay well, you see… Umm… We've been best friends for a long time, right?" Peter asked.
She nodded and replied "Yeah. For as long as I can remember."
"Well I'm really hoping I'm not wrong in saying that there is something there beyond friendship? Y'no… Love?" He half asked. Carol gasped.
"What I'm saying is that I love you and I have for a long time and I would have acted up on this a long time ago but I just wasn't sure y'no? And then after that night… I didn't want it to look like you were a rebound y'no? So, what I'm asking is if you'll go out with me?"
Carol smiled and placed her hands on either side of his face. She then raised his mask off his face so that she could look into his eyes.
"Do you have any idea how long I've been waiting for you to say those three words to me?" He shook his head.
"Well it's been a long time coming." She then brought him into a passionate kiss.
After they separated, their foreheads where still connected. "I love you Peter Parker. Always have."
When Peter opened his eyes, he saw that she was crying. He wiped her eyes and decided to lighten the mood. "Would it be wrong if I asked you to let go of my crotch?" Carol quickly opened her eyes in shock and looked down. She saw that Peter was actually the one who was gripping her crotch.
"Shouldn't I be saying that to you? Perv." She pushed him away with a laugh.
"Oh, if that's how you're going to play it, maybe I'll ask Jess if she wants to go to the Star Wars premier with me." Peter then got up and pretended to leave only to turn back around when he heard one of the loudest squeals ever. He saw that Carol was jumping up and down with tears in her eyes, clapping her hands.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!" She repeated as jumped onto him and smothered his face with kisses. Peter just wrapped his arms around her and chuckled.
"Yeah, you better thank me. Do you have any idea how much those tickets cost? And for a movie that I don't even want to go see? Man, the things I do for love." He chuckled again before letting Carol down.
"Well, I will definitely reward you afterwards. You have no idea how excited I am. I mean this is like my first date ever. And I'm going to see the new Star Wars in it? This is gonna be the best date ever. You are the best boyfriend ever. I mean you are my boyfriend, right? Cause, you know, we just proclaimed our undying love for each other so we are boyfriend/girlfriend now, right?" Carol continued to ramble until Peter silenced her with a kiss.
"Yes, I am your boyfriend now and can I just say, you are extremely cute when you ramble like that. I mean I thought I was supposed to be the nervous, clumsy one in this relationship?" Peter asked with a smirk.
"Oh, shut up, you big goof." Carol teased while pushing his face away.
"Now, I need you to stay calm because you may hate me and dump me before I can even take you on the first date after I tell you this." Peter warned.
"Peter, there absolutely nothing on this Earth that – Peter gave her a look – Okay shutting up now." They both sat down on the edge of Carol's bed before Peter began.
"So, I kinda have a Harem. Or will at least. Now, wait a second let me explain before you send me flying through to the other end of the galaxy, please? Okay so anyway, as I was saying, I have started a Harem but! There is good reason for this.
The first being that I have feelings for a lot of women and it has been brought to my attention that there are quite a lot of women with feelings for me. But the main reason is due to my connection to the Web of Life, I possess these things called Tantric and Chaos energies. They basically fuel my powers and slowly but surely increase my powers.
Now what are these energies you may ask, well, basically, Tantric energy is fueled from sex and Chaos from murder. So, if I were to massacre two hundred people I would get a major permanent power boost, but I'm not gonna do that so I need to rely more on Tantric energy which gives me a little less of a boost but with a continuous cycle of sex and love then I should be good.
But the reason for the Harem is due to there being a connection and love between me and the women that would be in this Harem. You see I could just live off of one-night stands for the rest of my life but that would only give my powers a boost of… let's say 1.5%. But if it were with woman that I love and she loves me, then the boost would be say… 10%? Do you know what I'm saying? Okay, any questions?" Peter finished.
"Yes, just two, firstly, who else is already on board with this and who else do you plan to ask to be with you?" Carol asked, genuinely intrigued.
"Well, to answer the first question, just Natasha. As for the second? Well… Jess, Wanda, Ava Ayala, Silver Sable, Spider-Girl, Tigra… And that's all of the women who are currently single that I can think of at the moment." Peter looked at her waiting for a reply.
"Well… Okay but how do you exactly know these women because you would have to obviously care about them a great deal to ask something like this of them." Carol pried the man for information about his super hero life. She always finds Peter stories to be interesting, regardless of how ridiculous some of them are.
"Well, Jess is an obvious one. I helped Wanda out after the whole House of M thing, with her being treated like an outcast, I could relate, you know? So, I gave her a shoulder to cry on and was just there for her. We kinda dated for a while but I just figured that I was taking advantage of her so I broke it off before it got too serious.
Ava Ayala is a tough one. We've known each other for years. She was part of the team I lead back in my S.H.I.E.L.D recruit days. We dated but due to my falling out with S.H.I.E.L.D we split. I never mustered up the courage to after her and by the time that we reunited I was with MJ you know?
Anyway, next… Silver, wow. Ummm… I guess I've known her since she was hired to kill someone and I stopped her? Since then it was mainly basic flirting and she kissed me once as a thank you for stopping a bomb from going off during a Symkarian parade in New York. I also saved her life by killing Rhino during Ock's last scheme to speed up global warming.
Ummm… Spider-Girl, or Anya, is my Protégé and I've been training her and helping her out for a good five years now. I saved her life when she was fourteen and inspired her to use her powers to help people. We went on a date a couple months ago to celebrate her nineteenth. She is a sweet girl and I had a lot of fun with her. We didn't go on a second date mainly due to me being a vigilante in the Avengers eyes and the whole "both of us being super heroes thing", constantly fighting villains and stopping crimes.
And Tigra, well, I helped her learn how to control her powers and keep her animal instincts at bay. And for my troubles I was rewarded with a heated kiss and her number. I've helped her deal with a bunch of shit since then and I've gotten the same reward every time." He finished with a proud smile before Carol playfully smacked the top of his head.
"Well, it looks like I'm gonna have to share you. And tell me if you see any other women that pick your fancy. I want to judge whether or not I think their worthy enough to get some of that Parker lovin'. And I'm pretty sure Natasha and Jess will want to be kept in the loop as well."
"Yeah I'm sure I can do that. Now, how about that movie?" He stood up and offered her his arm.
Carol stoop up beside him and wrapped her arm around his and leaned her head on his shoulder before they walked off.
4 hours and one movie later and Peter was having a great time with Carol. Both having changed into civilian clothes for their date hours earlier. They were now making their way into Peters' apartment.
"I still can't believe they just killed Han like that! And by his own son no less! It's so not fair." Carol said, grumpily.
"Well, apart from that, did you at least enjoy the movie? Han dying and all?" Peter asked, silently praying that he hadn't wasted $50 on premium tickets.
"Yeah. It was great. Thank you so much for tonight, I still can't believe we are finally doing this." Carol sighed dreamily as plopped herself down onto the couch.
"Heh. I wonder what your team would think if they found out about this." Peter remarked, off-handedly.
"Well, I think Tony would be pissed, Cap would probably cheer us on, Jess would be jealous, Natasha already knows and is fine with it, Clint would probably make some snide remark and walk away with a few fractured ribs, Logan would make some sort of joke but would be happy for us really and Sam would probably not care. Oh, and Thor would probably try to throw a feast in your honour for taming me." Carol joked.
"Yep, sounds about right." Peter nodded before getting up and gesturing for Carol to take his hand. She merely raised an eyebrow before taking his hand and letting him pull her up.
"I'm pretty tired and I'm sure you are too so let's head to bed yeah?" He explained.
"Sure, I'm good for bed. But I don't plan on sleeping for at least a good 4 hours." She then suggestively winked at him before sauntering into his bedroom, dragging him along with her.
"Oh boy."
A/N Hope you enjoyed the chapter. This one took me a little while to write. I just kind of blanked half-way through it I couldn't think of anything to write so I read some other stories and got my inspiration back. Hope you enjoy the story. Adios.