Hi there True Believers! It's been a long time since our last adventure with Peter and Jess! Uh oh, it looks like there is a gust of evil brewing inside Oscorp. What is going on there? What kind of villainous debauchery are our villains up to? Find out in this all-new exciting installment of Spider-Man: Secrets of Oscorp! Excelsior!
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A/N: SPIDER-MAN IS FINALLY GOING TO BE IN THE MCU! AHHHH!
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Chapter 7: Inflitrating Oscorp
During the time when Peter was meeting with Nick Fury, something else was going in the dark villainous world of the Oscorp. It was a cold, dark, and damp room in the basement. There were no windows, no air vents that were coming in and out, and all you could hear is the tiny sounds of water dripping from the large pipe on the ceiling as if someone was ready go through a Chinese Water Torture Punishment. It was a place in the Oscorp Building where the company was completely hidden from the public scrutiny and it was being used as a conference room for plans of grandeur. It was a plan that was so large and sinister, that it was going to be far more volatile and inhumane compared to the Chitauri Invasion that happened a year ago. There was nothing at all in the room but a round table that was used for conferences, only it happened to look very old as there were scratch marks and dust everywhere on the desk as if it was used for some kind of maddening debauchery many years ago. The only source of light in the entire room existed above the round table as it shined bright like some sort of a dark interrogation room. On the table there were 4 men sitting in the room with a TV screen filling one of the vacant seats in the table. Norman and Harry Osborn were sitting next to each other and next to them was elderly gentleman who was wearing a blue suit and a black necktie with the rest of the matching formal attire. Next to him was a man who had a short brown hair with piercing brown eyes and a short mustache.
Norman Osborn said to Harry, "Too bad that Doctor Octopus's dead body parts couldn't be any use to you."
Harry clinched his fists together and said, "Arrgh! I was so close to capturing them, and now the whole robot is retrieved by those S.H.I.E.L.D. goonies and I can't do anything about it!"
Norman put his hands on his son's shoulder as he said, "Everything will be alright, Harry. Now, the real game is about happen."
He looked at the seat where the elderly man was sitting and said, "Mr. Hammer, how are you enjoying Stark's toys?"
The elderly gentleman replied, "It is simply breathtaking. And it's all thanks to my special henchman from Hydra, who has done an absolute marvelous job at his work."
The elderly man got out a very small remote control device out of his pocket and said, "It was very easy to steal the Vita Ray containers thanks to the birthday gift from my lackey."
He pushed a small red button on the device and the 2 Iron Man Mark VII suits came humming and floating into the area as they stood next to Justin Hammer.
He added, "And with these suits in my hand, I am able to create a whole new weapon to take out our super-friends."
The man wearing the fancy green suit said as he was looking at the Mark VII suits with awe, "And this is where I come in to help."
He turned around his chair to face the Osborns and said, "I've been looking ways to get rid of the mutant race for good, and these Iron Man suits just might contain what I've been looking for."
Then he laid out a piece of large white poster paper that had a drawing of a large humanoid robot. He added, "I have been working on this weapon called the Project Sentinel for quite some time now, but with the technological blueprint of these Stark Industries technology, I will be able to make great improvements to the already unstoppable models of these Sentinels."
Hammer added, "And with a twist of these robots with my weapons, these Sentinels will become unstoppable!"
Norman Osborn smirked as he added, "By the way Mr. Hammer, that sample of the Vita Ray blaster you concocted was just simply….marvelous."
Hammer added, "It's only a sample, and just wait till you see what Doom has in store for you."
Then on the TV screen on a vacant seat started to buzz and slowly, it showed a man with a greatly mutilated face with a thick metal mask over it. The man was wearing a green hood and also wore a metal armor with gauntlets equipped with fancy gadgets and buttons. As he came on the TV screen, there was a loud, bumping hip-hop music that came blaring through the speakers of the TV.
The music slowly quieted down and the man in the green suit said, "You're late again, Dr. Doom."
Then the man on the TV screen said through his monitors, "Doom comes and goes whenever and wherever he pleases…..Bolivar Trask."
Then Harry added with a cocky smirk, "What was that song? Is that some kind of a new national anthem of Latveria?"
The man on the TV screen replied, "As a matter of fact….yes. I have paid a hefty amount of money to this fellow who impersonates me….some artist who calls himself, MF Doom. The instrumental to a song called Operation Doomsday is what you just heard now. Because Doom only picks the finest music for his mighty dominion of Latveria, I have picked that….head-banger as what this so-called mainstream society calls it these days."
Norman Osborn added mockingly, "You certainly have a way of making an entrance…..Domashev."
There was a silence in the room for about 15 seconds as Dr. Doom replied, "Doom will just pretend that he did not hear that."
Then a mysterious white-hooded figure with matching white skull mask and gauntlets brought in someone who was hogtied. He was an elderly man wearing lab attire and had thick glasses on his face. The mysterious hooded man dropped the lab scientist by the ropes next to Justin Hammer and spoke through his monitor, "I've got your hostage, Hammer."
Justin Hammer looked at his henchmen and said, "Hail Hydra."
The mysterious hooded figure replied, "Hail Hydra."
He then left the premises and walked out into the darkness. Bolivar looked at the captured hostage with an evil smile and said, "Welcome to your new club…..Dr. Hank Pym."
Hank replied furiously, "You have no idea what you're getting into! My particle beam is not even close to being finished! And it's already too dangerous to handle!"
Justin Hammer kicked Hank down as he said, "Well, you'll just have to finish it for us then!"
Bolivar added, "Your new toy will make an excellent arsenal for our new Sentinels."
Norman Osborn turned his chair around to face Doom and asked, "Viktor, I hear that you're making good use of these Vita Rays that we have stolen. Justin tells me that you have something cooked up in your madhouse for our grandiose master plan."
Dr. Doom then disappeared from the screen and it showed a gigantic laser cannon that was attached to even a circular dome-shaped titanium bowl. Doom's voice came back on the screen as he said, "Observe."
The laser cannon started charging up as it started to gather beams of bright yellow Vita Rays from the dome and it shot up a wide-range blast that covered at least a 1000ft in width and 3000 ft in total distance into the sky. Doom's voice came back on as he said, "This laser beam will easily cover all of New York City within less than 10 minutes from Latveria. And when it hits the city, all of the puny humans in the vicinity will become affected by the laser beam and become super soldiers and create mass havoc!"
Dr. Doom came back on the screen and as said, "But the weapon won't be truly complete until….."
He pointed his finger at Justin Hammer as Justin replied, "Ah, yes….the Cure of Immortality."
Norman Osborn cut in the conversation asked, "When is that going to be ready? Is our little subject in S.H.I.E.L.D. almost done? I'm very itching to strike the Helicarrier."
Justin Hammer gleefully put his hands together as he said, "My henchman will let us know very soon. He's keeping a very close watch on the process, and it won't be too long till the time is ripe."
Since the time Peter found the truth about what really happened to Jessica at Nick Fury's office, 5 and a half months had passed by. One day during lunch, Jessica was eating lunch with Natasha and she thought to herself, it's already been almost 6 months since Peter joined S.H.I.E.L.D. and lot has changed since then. Iron Man has gone missing since he was accused of stealing the Vita Ray containers from our helicarrier, which are still missing. Carol's been dating Captain America for about 3 months now, making the perfect power couple in New York City and Hawkeye's still shy around Natasha just like he's always been. I also have completed many missions as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and gained many experiences out in the field. I've been having an overall fruitful time here as an S.H.I.E.L.D. member, but I can't help to wonder what Peter's been up to. It's like he's been avoiding me on purpose all this time….trying to hide something from me.
She looked beyond the tables in the cafeteria and watched Captain Marvel and Captain America in their Avengers costumes as they were having a friendly chat. Jessica chuckled as she said to Natasha, "You were right about Carol. She was hitting on Peter just to get me pissed off."
Natasha laughed and replied, "See? I told you so! Besides, Peter's way too much of a joker for Captain Marvel. Not to mention that he's way too young for her anyway."
Jessica then saw Peter getting his food on his plate, and noticed that he had white bandage wraps on both of his forearms. Natasha looked in the same direction as Jessica and said, "He's been working hard. I've never seen him so determined like this….it's like as if he wants to prove something."
Jessica added, "Look at his wraps though…they're getting really worn out."
She looked at Peter's stumbling walking gesture and commented, "He doesn't look healthy."
Natasha patted Jessica shoulder and said, "No pain, no gain." As she got up from her seat, she gave a Jessica a smile and said, "He'll be fine."
As Natasha went to get ready to train Peter for his next lesson, Jessica got up from her seat and walked over to where Peter was sitting and sat next to him and said with a concerned voice, "Hey."
Peter gave his usual stupid grin and replied, "What's up? Do you like my Bruce Lee wraps?"
Jessica chuckled as she observed his tired face and said, "You look terrible."
Peter laughed out loud and said, "What are you talking about? I feel fine!" Then he flexed his biceps he jokingly added, "Healthy like Thor after a good brawl against the Frost Giants!"
Jessica idly looked at the table as she asked, "Is everything ok with you?"
Peter scratched his head and said, "Yeah! Everything is all good!" He then looked at his watch and said, "Time to go and show Black Widow my mad ninja skills!" Then as he got up to leave the table, he looked back at Jessica and smiled at her as he said, "Don't worry! I'm chill as a cucumber!"
Jessica couldn't help to but smile and chuckle at his classic dorky comment as he left the premises to continue his grueling training sessions. After lunch, she grabbed a cup of coffee and proceeded to go to the second floor of the ship to check up on her mom in the Weapons and Gear Lab. She walked up the stairs to the second floor and walked down a large hallway and made her way to the biggest room on the floor. She opened the door and noticed that nobody was there.
She walked in and said, "Mom? Mom! Where are you? I brought you coffee!"
Then Miriam suddenly opened the door adjacent on the left side to the central part of the lab and said frantically, "J-Jessica! Hey, there sweetie. How's your day so far?"
Jessica gave her mom the freshly brewed pot in a mug as she took a nice slow sip. She said, "Thank god, I really needed that. My head's been hurting for hours!"
Jessica noticed that her mom was sweating hysterically and asked her, "Are you ok? It's been a while since you've worked out."
Miriam loosened her hair that was tied up in a tight bun as she said, "Yeah, just…you know…. lab stuff."
Then Jessica crossed her arms as her eyes twitched and said, "Uh huh."
Jessica then looked around the empty giant lab as she said, "Where's everybody? Isn't Dr. Conners usually here around this time?"
Miriam's breathing slowly calmed down as she said, "Curt's giving a special lecture to all the lab workers regarding the serum that you recovered from Doc Oc many months ago. He thinks that it has regenerative abilities that can help people when they're critically injured."
Jessica looked at her mom as she replied in a disconcerting tone, "This better be another Project Symbiote."
Miriam put her hands on Jessica's shoulders and said, "Sweetheart, I promise you that I won't make the same mistake again."
Miriam then walked over to the large blue metal table to gather and organize her documents. She turned around and sat on the table as she faced Jessica and said, "So, how is my beautiful daughter doing?"
Jessica sat next to her mom on the table as she replied tonelessly, "Fine."
Miriam got closer to Jessica and said, "Oh come on, don't be such a buzzkill! I want to know how things are with you and Peter!"
Jessica got up from where she was sitting and strutted around and said, "Everything's fine mom."
Miriam observed her daughter's expression on her face as she said, "What's going on?"
Jessica rolled her eyes and replied, "Nothing! Everything's chill!"
Miriam stared at Jessica as she said, "I've raised you for 18 long years. Please don't tell me that you think you can keep secrets from your own mother."
Jessica finally threw her hands in air in frustration as she replied, "Fine…..mother."
Miriam chuckled as Jessica sat next to her mom again and said, "I think Peter's hiding something from me."
Miriam asked curiously, "Like what?"
"I don't know….it's like he's trying to avoid me on purpose. We haven't hung out in months!"
"Well, maybe he just needs some alone time to focus on his training."
"I know. It's just that this is not like him. We've always hung out and joked around and had long conversations with each other, but he's been acting strange for some months now."
"How has he been acting strange?"
"Well, he always looks tired and walks like a zombie for one thing. And he has his forearms wrapped with bandage wraps which is obviously from punching too much on the wooden dummy in the basement, and whenever I try to talk to him he always says that he's busy and has to do something."
Miriam was listening to her daughter with intense focus as Jessica added, "He didn't even stay for the cake this year for his birthday, and he loves cake!"
Miriam sighed, "Sometimes…boys and men tend to keep their distances from the ones they want to protect because they don't want to be emotionally attached to them. Because they think that it puts them out of the harm's way."
Jessica pouted, "Boys are stupid….and selfish."
Miriam laughed out loud and said, "Yes, they are….they are sweetie."
Jessica replied, "I'm just worried about him because the scenario looks exactly like what you just told me. And Peter is the type of a guy who has a giant hero complex issue…. I mean they don't call him Spider-Man for nothing!"
Jessica looked down at the ground as she said in a somber tone, "He always tries to do too much all by himself... even though I can be there to help him by his side."
Miriam wrapped her left arm around Jessica and gave her a kiss on her forehead as she said, "Don't worry. He'll come through."
Miriam then said as she comforted her daughter by rubbing her back, "Do you remember when you told me about your first crush in 5th grade?"
Jessica chuckled as she replied, "What? You mean Jake Ryan, the kid who cried because I accidentally used my fear pheromones on him?
Miriam smiled and said, "I remember when I picked you up from school that day. You cried so much in the car and you said that you hate boys and you will never bring one home and never get married."
Jessica giggled as she replied, "Well, I didn't bring one home for a long time, because half of them wanted to rub their filthy hands all over me on the spot or were just scared shitless and pissed their pants like a bunch of crybabies…..until I realized that there was Peter in front of me this whole time."
Miriam added, "He's something special, isn't he?"
Jessica added, "I've known him since we were little, but I always thought of him as just a friend and nothing more."
Miriam stared at her daughter amusingly as Jessica continued, "He was such a dork, and still is a dork. But I never realized until high school that he was the one guy who I could always trust. He always knew how to make me laugh and he…never scared me. There was always a warm feeling that he would give off in his own special way….and I guess I've fallen for that."
Jessica looked at her mom as she asked, "What do you think of him, mom?"
Miriam replied, "I think he's a sweet kid. He seems the kind of a guy who wants to do the right thing to protect this world and make it a better place to live. He cares for his friends and family, cares for the defenseless and the weak and wants humanity to live in peace."
Miriam added with a smirk, "Also, I think he likes you."
Jessica blushed and asked, "R-really?"
Miriam added, "I've seen the way he looks at you…also, that day when you introduced him to me during lunch, he couldn't take his eyes off of you."
Jessica blushed hard and slapped her mom on the shoulder playfully and said, "MOM!"
Miriam laughed out loud as she said, "I'm just saying what I saw."
Then there was a beeping sound on her wrist gear and she pressed a button and a holographic video of Nick Fury came up and he said, "I have a special mission for you and Jessica. Come to my office."
Jessica replied with a perplexed look on her face, "Isn't it a bit early for missions? It's not even past 3 yet."
As Jessica and Miriam walked up to Nick Fury's office in the third floor, Miriam said, "Why would he want me too? I'm not an agent. I'm just a scientist."
They took the elevator to the 7th floor and went in Nick Fury's office as Nick Fury said to them, "Good to see you two. What I'm about to tell you is that this is not a S.H.I.E.L.D. assignment, but it's a private mission that's going to be given out by me."
Jessica asked in a concerned voice, "What's going on?"
Nick replied, "I found something real fascinating in the basement that happened just about 10 minutes ago."
He got up from his seat as he swiped the screen on his desk and stood next to Miriam and Jessica. The holographic footage began playing and Nick said, "Someone went down to the crime scene premise where the Vita Rays were stolen many months ago."
Jessica asked, "What? I thought that place was off-limits!"
Miriam added, "Not to mention that there's no reason for anybody to be going down there. I mean it's just an empty storage room….there's nothing there at all."
The footage kept playing as Nick said, "Just keep watching."
Then as the video kept playing, there was a man with a white hood and matching gauntlets and skull mask snooping around the crime scene.
Jessica twitched her eyes as she said, "What's with the Skeletor costume? I wonder where he's going trick-or treating."
Then Nick Fury and Miriam looked at Jessica as they smirked. Jessica frowned and asked, "What?"
Miriam started giggling as Jessica blushed and put her hand over her cheeks and said, "Oh…yeah. Peter-isms, I guess it just sort of came out."
Then the mysterious hooded figure stood over on a corner of the storage room in the footage as he suddenly disappeared. Miriam scratched her as she said. "Ok, that's something you don't see every day."
Nick fury got out a controller from his coat and pressed a button as he said, "Check out where he went to."
The footage changed into what appeared to be a place where it had a receptionist desk's office and fake palm trees planted next to it. It was a very large clean space and there was nobody in the room until….
FUUUVVVMM.
The mysterious hooded figure came into the area right in front of the empty receptionist's desk.
Jessica was in state of shock as she said, "Is that the…."
Nick Fury cut in and said, "Yup, the lobby of the Oscorp Building on a beautiful Saturday afternoon."
Jessica put her hands over her mouth and became wide-eyed with horror as she said, "Oh my god….is it a double agent?"
Nick Fury shut down the footage as it stopped playing. He sat back down on his chair and looked at Jessica and Miriam with great intent and said, "We don't know yet as of right now. But this is why I called you two up for this mission."
Miriam asked, "But Nick, why do you need me? I never get called for missions."
Nick replied, "Because you know your daughter's abilities and powers best and she's the only one who's capable of this mission."
Jessica cut in the conversation as she interrupted, "Nick, with all due respect, I'm still a rookie compared to a lot of agents in S.H.I.E.L.D. I mean why don't you get someone like Natasha or Clint for this mission?"
Nick fury replied, "You know they have their hands full training Peter." He then gave a smirk as he added, "Besides, the way you're handling your work right now….you might become our next Agent 19."
Jessica was speechless for a couple of seconds as she said, "S-sir, I would never dream of becoming the next Mockingbird! I-I don't know what to say."
Nick fury looked at her intensely in the eyes as he said, "You've helped the F.B.I. capture some of the world's most corrupt lobbyists in the world, starting with guys from J.P. Morgan and Exxon Mobil. And you've teamed up with Matt Murdock to catch Kingpin, who was the most notorious crime lord in all of the Big Apple. There's nobody else right now who I would trust to give such an important mission like this."
Miriam added with a smirk, "So, what do you need us to do?"
Nick Fury replied, "Miriam, I need you to equip Jessica with some sort of a video recording device so we can find out who this clown is. Oh and, maybe some disarming equipments won't be bad either."
He then looked at Jessica and said, "You need to record the premises in the area that you go to and make sure to keep your comilnk on at all times. Tell me when you're ready to go and Miriam and I'll guide you through your whole mission. Make sure you follow your target and trail him like a hawk. Do not engage him. We don't know what kind of tricks he's got up his sleeve."
Jessica replied with a smirk, "I'm an arachnid, not a bird."
Nick twitched his eyes and Jessica replied with her hands in the air frantically and said, "Ok, ok! I'm just kidding! I understood you boss!"
Nick Fury replied in a irritated manner, "Man, you've been hanging out with Parker too much."
As Jessica and Miriam were about to leave, Nick Fury said to them, "Make sure to keep your social circle limited regarding this information."
They nodded and went out the door. Miriam and Jessica went back to the Weapons and Gear Lab. Miriam told Jess to grab her costume from her room so that she can change it inside the lab.
As Jessica walked into her room on the 3rd floor, she noticed the picture that was on her desk. It was a picture of Natasha, Bobbi, and Jessica when she was 16 years old. Natasha was standing on the left side with a grin on her face, and Jessica was in the center as she was bent down on her knees while giving a silly smile with her mouth wide open. Standing to her right was Bobbi who was smiling and rubbing Jessica's head in the picture.
Jessica grabbed the picture and looked at it reminiscently and thought to herself, this was right after my first mission as an S.H.I.E.L.D. Trainee. We went to Katz's Deli right after they helped me with my mission, and Bobbi paid for my two full-servings of dinner. I told her that she didn't need to do that for me but she insisted on paying for all of my food anyway. I also remember her volunteering on her own to help me with my hand-to-hand combat and espionage skills when Tony and Natasha were busy doing missions. She was such a kind-hearted soul. Man, I really miss those days….
Jessica said as she was looking at the picture as her voice was shaking and said, "God, I miss you Bobbi….why did you have to die?"
She gently put the picture back on the table as she neatly put her costume in her S.H.I.E.L.D. backpack and left to go back to her mother's lab. When Jessica came back to her lab, Miriam was standing in the middle of the room as there were fancy gizmos and various gears that were laid out on the table.
Miriam went over to the table as she reached her hands out to her daughter and said, "Come here my baby girl."
Jessica walked over sheepishly towards her mom as Miriam hugged her and said, "Are you sure you want to do this?"
Jessica smiled as she replied, "Mom, you say that every time I go on a freaking mission! I'll be fine!"
Miriam then looked observed her daughter's body as she placed her hands on Jessica's bandaged ribs right below her breasts and said, "You scared me last time when you came back from the battle against Kingpin."
She hugged Jessica again as she began to tear up and say, "You're my only child. If I lose you like I lost Jonathan, I can't go on with my life!"
Jessica rubbed her mom's back as she said in a soothing voice, "I'll make sure to not try to get myself killed this time."
Miriam wiped her tears away as she replied, "I swear if you come back with another broken rib or a leg, I'll make sure you don't go on any missions for two whole months even if it's under Fury's orders!"
Jessica kissed her mom on her forehead as she said, "I know. I'll be ok."
She went to get changed in a vacant room on the right side of the central part of the lab and came back out with her classic red and yellow on her. Miriam grabbed two yellow wrist contraptions and gave it to Jessica and said, "This is the spare model of the web shooters that you've been using since we joined S.H.I.E.L.D. and I've made some modifications on it so now you can shoot webs that are even more condensed and solidified for a thicker material. You can still shoot electro-webs and ice-webs and now you can also shoot flame webs with this web-shooter. Don't try to use the flame web- shooters if you can, because you can only use it twice."
Jessica nodded as she received the gear and put it on her both of her wrists inside the glove.
Miriam then said, "Take off your lenses from your mask. I need to replace them with the LED-modified fluorescent lenses."
Jessica took off her mask and carefully removed the lenses and gave it to her mom. Miriam grabbed the new lenses from the table and placed them meticulously inside the mask. As Jessica put her mask back on, Miriam explained, "Your thermal vision is still available and your night-vision should be much clearer due to the LED's. Also, now you can also look for invisible finger and footprints. Try using it by turning your knob two times to the right."
Jessica then twisted the tiny knob twice that was on her mask as the whole vision in front of her became bright purple. She took a look around and found her mom's footprints all over the ground and her fingerprints on her mug on the table. She said, "Cool….it looks kind of unsettling though, like you're looking at bacteria or something."
Jessica turned off the fluorescent vision as Miriam chuckled and said, "Now, take off your gloves."
As Jessica took off her yellow gloves, Miriam grabbed a pair of shiny new pair of yellow gloves and held it in front of her daughter as she said, "Now, these look like your old gloves, but they can allow you shoot up to 50 venom blasts from your hands without having to charge up your bio-electricity energy for an hour."
Jessica eagerly put on her new gloves as she said with a smirk, "I've always enjoyed the feeling of putting on new gear."
Miriam chuckled as she added, "Try swiping your left glove."
As Jessica swiped the glove with her right hand, a series of glowing buttons appeared on it. Miriam added, "I've planted a micro-camera on the glove along a very small controller for the camera inside your glove to make sure you can record all the premises with ease. Try pressing the red button on the upper right corner."
As Jessica pushed the red button on her glove, a holographic visual came in front as it started to record the area in the lab.
Miriam added, "You can always delete the footage by pressing the red X button on the upper left corner of the controller, press the mail logo to send it to someone, or you can save it with by pressing the green button on the center." Miriam then walked up to her daughter and said, "And when you're done recording…." She swiped the glove with her hand and the visual disappeared and the glowing buttons on the gloves were gone. She said, "You can turn it off just like that."
Jessica smiled as she said, "I really appreciate you taking time out of your busy lab schedule to help me like this mom."She then gave her mom a one last hug before the mission and said, "I love you, mommy."
Miriam then asked her, "Are your web-wings ok?"
Jessica then took a few steps behind her mom and spread her arms and clicked her elbows behind her back as two large spider-woven silk wings came out of her armpits. She said with a confident smile on her face, "All ready to go."
Miriam then grabbed by Jessica by the shoulder and said, "Remember. If things get too difficult too difficult, get yourself out and find safe place, ok?"
Jessica smiled as she said, "I know, mom. I know." Miriam and Jessica turned on their comlinks and Miriam said, "All good to go here, Fury."
Then Nick's voice came through Jessica and Miriam's speakers as he said, "Ok, let's get this rodeo on the road."
Jessica added, "I hope we're not behind schedule."
Nick replied back through his comilnk and said, "Judging by the fact that he hasn't shown up in any of the entrances in the helicarrier nor in the storage room, I'd say we're in good hands so far."Then he spoke to Jessica's comilnk and said, "The coast is clear for you to take the elevator to the basement. I've disabled all the security cameras in the 3rd floor and the basement except for the storage room. You have 3 minutes until the cameras come back on."
Jessica opened the door with great excitement and determination as she began to make her way towards the mysterious crime scene in the basement. Jessica ran down the hall as silently as she can by using her spider speed and got to the elevator. As the elevator was creaking down to the basement level there was already less than a minute left. As she got off the elevator Nick said through the comilnk, "30 seconds left! You gotta hurry!"
She ran towards to the room in the end of the hallway as she entered the storage room and the cameras in the basement and the 3rd floor started working again.
Nick replied through the comilnk, "Nice job, kiddo. Now you've got 5 minutes until the janitor show up in the storage room. You gotta find the teleporter before he shows up."
Jessica replied, "Got it, Fury."
Jessica began to search around the dimly lit room as she went down the stairs to the crime scene. She thought to herself, it's time for some fluorescent vision!
She turned her bright purple vision on and looked around the room carefully to search for clues. She looked around the walls and there were only footprints of the suspect and nothing more and it was difficult to discover any sort of a hint that they mysterious machine existed. As Jessica continued to carefully search around the room and found something very peculiar as she noticed there were fingerprints that looked like they were hanging in mid-air. She said to Nick in a confident tone, "I think we've found our wardrobe to Narnia."
"Can you figure it how it works?"
"Working on it Fury. How much time do we have left?"
"You've got 3 minutes."
Then Jessica calmly observed the floating fingerprints that she saw with her fluorescent vision and noticed that there was a heavily smudged fingerprint that was also floating on the right side close to the wall of the room. She touched that fingerprint and a great sound of humming energy came to life as a portal of flashing silver and white was opened right in front of her.
Jessica turned off her fluorescent vision and spoke to her mom through her comilnk, "Mom! I need to know if I can get through this portal without turning into a mashed spider!"
Jessica immediately swiped her left glove and began recording the footage. Miriam replied, "Send me the footage, and I'll look into it quickly!"
Jessica immediately sent over the footage to Miriam as she downloaded into her gigantic screen in her main central part of the lab and began examining it. She zoomed in the picture of the portal with a simple motion of her hands and zoomed in the humming energy of the picture and began to analyze the energy readings. She said to herself, "Looks like the machine is stable enough. Energy reading is also stable enough for the machine to hold itself on tact."
She then contacted her daughter through the comilnk and said, "You're good to go!"
As Jessica was about to leap into the teleportation portal, Miriam spoke through her comilnk. "Baby, please come back in one piece."
Jessica smirked and replied, "I'll be back in a jiffy. I love you mom."
She then jumped in the portal and disappeared into nothingness as the portal became invisible again. Jessica found herself falling in a whirling tunnel of flashing silver and white as she soon saw a portal that looked ever so ominously familiar. She thought to herself, the one place that I never wanted to visit again. The one place that I abhor the most out of anything else in the world is where I'm heading to, and now I have to go deep inside that treacherous hellhole and find out what these goons are up to. Oh well, you've got to get down and dirty if you want to take revenge on your illicit father, Jess!
She came through the portal as she stepped out of it and stood in front of the Oscorp receptionist desk. She held her head for a second and said to herself, "Woah, my head's spinning. I'm definitely not looking forward to come back to this machine."
She said through her comilnk, "Hey, Nick. Did the janitor come yet?"
"Nope. You're all good to go, Carmen Sandiego. Now go and find out what that bastard is up to."
Jessica replied with a cheeky grin on her face, "With pleasure, Fury."
As she hung up, she stood at the center of the evil empire, the holy grail of all the villainy in the universe that was about to terrorize the world in a destructive fashion. Jessica Drew A.K.A. The Spider-Woman, the secret agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. was ready to infiltrate Oscorp.
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Jessica saw that there were securities cameras to the right side of the wall to the receptionist desk.
THWIP THWIP.
She began to disable the security cameras by using her highly charged electro-webs with her bio-electricity energy. She turned on her camera on her glove and began recording the premises of the lobby. Then she turned on her fluorescent vision to look for footprints of the mysterious hooded figure. She observed the ground carefully and recognized the same tracks that she found in the storage room of the helicarrier. She thought to herself, I got you now sucker.
She began to follow the tracks with great caution and stealth as the footprints led to a narrow hallway past the security cameras. She turned on her knob on her mask to the left once and began to use her thermal vision on her lenses and began to observe for any enemies that were on the prowl. She zoomed in the hallway by pressing the same button on her knob and thought to herself, everything looks pretty good so far. And the tracks lead to this hallway, so it looks like I'm on the right track.
She entered the narrow hallway by sidestepping against the walls while she had her thermal vision and camera still turned on. Jessica noticed that the hallway getting very long and thought to herself, something's not right.
She turned off her thermal vision as she started to use her super hearing ability to detect anything that seemed off. She kept continuing in the long, unending hallway as she came upon a giant empty room. She thought, seriously, this is not right at all. I come to a big-ass room where I'm supposed to be fighting some bad guys and nothing happens! As she walked into the room the door to the large hallway shut itself as 10 hydra agents came flying in frenzy for the ambush.
Jessica said to herself, "Me and my big mouth."
Jessica immediately shot her venom blasts at the 2 incoming hydra agents who were trying to stab her with knives as they were knocked out on their backs. Then 3 hydra agents began shooting at her with lasers that melted the steel walls on contact. As Jessica acrobatically dodged and cart wheeled past their laser shots, she said, "Geez, you guys are like the worst Stormtroopers ever!"
Then she jumped up above them and back flipped over them, and landed her heels on the two agents that were trying to shoot at her. Then she landed on her handstand position as she spread her legs wide and spin-kicked the other agent who was trying to get his final shot at her before he was sent flying against the wall.
The final 5 were hand-to-hand combat specialists as they were coming in all at once to attack her. Jessica parried their kicks and punches like Ip Man at his prime and dodged their attacks with ease like a graceful dancer. She then ran against the wall and climbed up and fell down as she released her tight-knit, double-knotted webs from her wrists and wrapped them around while she was in mid-air. As she landed on her feet, she wrapped them up like a bunch of bank robbers caught in a western movie.
She then walked up to one of the agents, grabbed him by his collar and said, "Hydra scum! Who's the man behind the skull mask?!"
Then he and 9 other agents who were knocked out grabbed pistols from their hands and held it to their heads as they said at once, "Hydra bows to no one! Hail Hydra!"
BLAM.
They were dead as their heads were bleeding like broken salsa jars that were cracked and splattered all over the floor.
Jessica stomped her feet in frustration and said to herself, "FUCK! Fucking fascist nutjobs! They always have to make things harder for you than they already are!"
She then pressed a button on her comlink on her ear as she said, "Fury, I came in contact with Hydra agents."
Nick replied through the comilnk in a disconcerting tone, "I should've known those bastards were involved in this. Did you get anything out of them?"
Jessica gave a frustrated sigh as she replied, "You gotta love a mass martyrdom suicide."
Fury replied, "Shit. Well, keep looking for that son of a bitch. He still hasn't come back to the helicarrier yet, so you still have time."
Jessica then looked around the room blankly as she said through the comlink, "Fury, I've never been in this room before. I know the whole architectural blueprint of this building and I've never seen this place. I'm not really sure to go where from here."
Nick sighed and said, "Sorry kid, it looks like you're on your own from here."
She began to look for more clues to where to go, Nick spoke through the comlink. "Hey, you've got this kid. Just remember what we've taught you and you'll do fine."
Jessica replied in a confident tone, "Don't worry Fury. I got this."
Nick replied, "By the way, your mom already brought 2 Reuben Corned Beef and Pastrami sandwiched from Katz's Deli, and they're all for you."
Jessica replied cheerfully, "Yay! Tell mom that I said thanks, and tell her that I'll come back without breaking any of my bones!"
Nick Fury chuckled and replied, "Sure thing kiddo. Be safe and I'll see you soon."
Jessica then looked around the bloody vicinity again and looked around for more clues. She turned on her fluorescent vision again and carefully investigated for more clues and noticed that the mysterious hooded figure's footprints led to a room in the right side of the room from where she was standing. She went through the door and kept walking and turned a corner and horrible stench filled her nose up.
She said to herself, "EW! It smells worse than the sewers in the Hudson! What the…?"
She stood in front of a giant door that was covered with purple goo that much looked like what the Carnage's skin was made of. She began to record the footage of the purple goo as she sent at it to her mom. Jessica said through her comlink, "Hey, mom. How do I get rid of this rancid grape jam off of that door?"
Miriam replied through the comlink, "Judging from the looks of the purple goo, it looks awfully a lot like the chemical formula of Carnage's red boiling skin. Try using your flame webs."
Jessica then released regular-looking webs from her wrists as they caught on fire when they came in contact with the purple goo. The purple goo on the gigantic door started melting away as she said to her mom through the comlink, "You know, I kinda wish I had these babies when I was fighting that rich boy 2 years ago."
Miriam replied in a somber tone, "I'm sorry….if I had known that Harry was that monster, you wouldn't have to go through such pain."
Jessica replied in a soothing voice, "Mom. I made a lot of terrible decisions when I was a kid, but since then, I've matured more as a woman and I know how to take care of myself now. Don't blame yourself. You've done all that you could."
Miriam replied, "You're still my little girl no matter how old you are."
Jessica rolled her eyes behind her lenses as she said, "Oh mom…."
As the goo melted away, four gigantic laser blasters came out from the walls from each side of the room as it began shooting at Jessica. Miriam heard the explosion through the comlink as she panicked, "Jessica! Are you ok?!"
Jessica began to climb and jump all over the walls and said through her comlink, "Gotta go mom! Make sure nobody eats my sandwiches!"
She hung up and said to herself, "It's just one thing after another with you hydra goons huh?"
She attached to herself behind one of the laser blasters as she lifted it and threw against the laser blaster that was across from where she was attached.
BOOM.
Then remaning 2 laser blasters changed their pace of attack as they began shooting at her in shorts bursts of lasers blasts almost like a machine gun. She back flipped and maneuvered in mid-air to dodge the blasts and shot her electro webs at the two weapons that were on her left and right. The webs attached to the laser cannons as their circuits fried and lasers stopped firing. Jessica then held on the webs as she hung in mid-air and pulled them together to completely unhinge the contraptions from the walls as they crashed and exploded on the ground. Jessica then landed on the ground with her feet as she crouched like a ninja assassin with her pose.
She said to herself, "Natasha would be so jealous of me right now, seeing me kick ass like this."
She then opened the large door as a dark, wipe pipe was discovered in front of her. She then proceeded to walk in the pipe and said to herself in a cheerful manner, "Checkpoint! Sweet!"
Then as she kept walking down the pipe she thought to herself, Wow, it does look like a lot of Spider-Man's humor has rubbed off on me.
She turned on her fluorescent vision as she noticed that the footprints have completely disappeared in the deep dark tunnel. She thought to herself, Ok, Jess. What do you do from here? Come on! You've played Sherlock and Holems with Peter many times before! Think! Come on! Think!
All of a sudden she began to hear voices below the pipe. She moved closer to the voices as she was able to hear what they were saying,
"The world will crumble and fall before our eyes."
"Everything shall be ours for the taking."
"This is too easy. It's Almost like taking a candy from a baby"
Jessica cautiously followed the footsteps as she said to herself, don't these guys have better lines to say? God I hate the taking-over-the-world played out bad guy trope. Seriously, how boring can you get? Even a Vanilla ice cream would be so offended right now.
She then saw a sizable hole in the pipe and she stood close to it as she heard three male voices below the pipe and began to record their conversation. Below the pipe was Bolivar Trask, Justin Hammer working on their construction for their deadly superhero-killing sentinels, and the mysterious hooded figure was next to them to. There were machine parts and construction workers who were working a large laboratory as the whirring and clanking sounds of the moving robots filled the room.
Justin Hammer said to the mysterious hooded figure, "Is she almost done finding the cure yet? Osborn's getting on thin ice right now as we speak."
The mysterious hooded figure said to them through his monitor in his suit, "Relax, Hammer. Everything's all under control. She is very close to achieving perfection in her experiment and the super-punks are too late to stop us now. You got my new toys ready by any chance?"
Justin Hammer grabbed a pair of grey gauntlets from his table and gave it to the mysterious hooded figure and said, "I had to use my own damn pocket money to make this. Take care of it well. It's composed of Adamantium and Fullerite, which is harder then Captain America's shield or Wolverine's claws."
The mysterious figure put his new contraptions on as he said, "I will let you know from the helicarrier when the Cure of Immortality is ready. It's only a matter of time before we blow their fucking heads off."
Bolivar Trask was writing something on paper and said to Hammer, "You know, thanks to your lackey here staling the Iron man suits and the Vita Rays, this project has gotten 10 times easier. And as soon as we give that serum to Dr. Doom, nothing will be able to stop us!"
Jessica continued to listen to the conversation as she thought, It wasn't Iron Man who stole it! It was this jackass double-agent who was pulling the strings the whole entire time! Now Dr. Doom is in the part of the plan also? And they're about to strike the helicarrier?!
Below the hole in the pipe, the conversation continued as the mysterious hooded figure said, "This job was a whole lot easier then killing Mockingbird and Jonathan Drew. And I'm getting paid 10 times more doing this gig then the other ones combined!"
Then he tapped Justin Hammer's shoulders as he said, "And it's all thanks to this guy."
Justin Hammer replied with an evil grin, "When a powerful friend like Norman Osborn wants his secrets kept, then I will do whatever it takes in my power to do that. After all, networking is very important in the business world."
Jessica was in a complete state of shock and horror as she thought, No. No….NO! He murdered my dad?! He killed….Bobbi?!
Jessica clenched her fists and teeth and tried best to hold her tears in so they didn't seep through the hole in the pipe. Her whole body was shaking as she wanted to kill all three of them on the spot.
Jessica thought to herself, Jessica, you can't lose control here. I know how bad you want to fry their fucking brains out right now but that's not the point of the mission! What do I tell mom when I get back? What do I say to Natasha and Clint? God, this sucks so much!
Below the pipe, the masked man looked at his watch and said, "Well, it's time for me to get back to the helicarrier. I'll make sure to keep you updated on all the happenings." The mysterious hooded figure stood in a corner of the room as he disappeared.
Jessica thought to herself, Damn it. I've lost track of him. I guess that's it for the day then…unfortunately.
Jessica then cautiously retraced her steps to outside of the giant pipe and she contacted Fury on her comlink and said, "Sorry Fury, I've lost him."
Nick Fury sighed and said, "Well, at least did you find anything interesting about him?"
Jessica's voice began to shake as she started to tear up and said, "I…I don't know if I have the heart to tell you that right now."
Nick Fury replied, "Well, just come back to the helicarrier and tell me what you got from your recordings. Your path's clear by the way. There should be nobody on the basement for at least another hour."
Jessica replied, "Will do Fury."
Jessica slowly and cautiously worked her way back towards the lobby, she thought to herself. I will kill that man. I don't give a fuck who he is behind the mask. He killed two of my most important people in my life and I will make sure that son of a bitch gets his head ripped off before he has any time to beg for mercy. Daddy, Bobbi….don't you worry about a thing, because I will avenge your deaths. I'LL MAKE DAMN SURE OF IT.
Who is this mysterious man behind the skull mask? What is this so-called Cure of Immortality? What is Peter hiding from Jessica? What will this evil plan mean to our heroes in the future? Find out next time in Spider-Man: Secrets of Oscorp! Excelsior!
A/N: Thanks for reading my longest chapter yet. It took a long while to write this one. Thanks for reading! You're the best!
