Disclaimer: I don't own Spider-Man or Marvel so no suing please.
Summary: Penelope 'Penny' Parker was just your average girl who went to High School, but a spider-bite changed all of that. Now gifted with amazing powers and suffering a personal loss Penny chose to fight crime as the Amazing Spider-Man-despite being a girl. But with bad guys coming out of the woodwork will she thrive or die?
Chapter 10: The Stark Expo Part 2
"Wow, is having bad aim a bad guy trait or are these guys just unlucky?" Spider-Man taunted, dancing and weaving around the gunfire as the AIM grunts tried desperately to hit her.
Iron Man didn't answer as he blasted a few of them back with his repulsors-making sure it was a concussive blast instead of a lethal one.
Spider-Man would be lying if she wasn't a bit disappointed as she heard rumors that Iron Man did banter in fights a bit, but figured he wanted to end this one as quickly as he could, webbing some of the guns and yanking them away. "Now, now if you can't play nice with others we're going to have to take your toys away." She mocked before jumping in, doing a handstand as she spun around, kicking three of them into the wall where she webbed them there.
This was going pretty smoothly if she had to say so.
"So who are these kooks anyways?" Spider-Man asked landing next to Iron Man-something she would totally geek out about when she was alone. "And what's with their fashion sense? I mean I'm wearing a red and blue leotard and these nutjobs make me look like I'll win a Fashion Contest."
"They're the Advanced Idea Mechanics, a terrorist organization that broke off from Hydra years ago." Iron Man answered his lips twitching at the joke, finding that a bit humorous but wanting to focus.
"Hydra? I thought they disbanded." Spider-Man looked at Iron Man in surprise the AIM soldiers taking advantage of that but it was useless as Spider-Man just calmly moved her head from side to side to dodge them.
"You'd be surprised kid." Iron Man said raising his hands to blast them back.
"... I'm not a kid."
"Sure you aren't." Iron Man said a bit smugly but then he began to sound a bit more serious. "They're always after what they deem the best tech in the world and considering they're here you can take a guess on what they're after."
"It's either your armor or the arc reactor, way I see it both items would make a killing for them." Spider-Man guessed with a shrug using her webbing to cover all of AIM's weapons.
Iron Man allowed another smirk at hearing that before AIM opened fire with some secondary weaponry they had hidden, the Armored Hero quickly moving in front of Spider-Man as he was more durable, only to see Spider-Man casually weaving around the gunfire.
"Jarvis hack into their jet packs." Iron Man ordered firing his repulsors at their weapons, the mercenaries moving out of the way.
"Hacking." Jarvis said the progress being shown on the computer in the suit.
Spider-Man meanwhile managed to cover the weapons in webbing and launched herself at one, landing on him, aiming both web shooters at the other AIM Mercs to web their helmets, blinding them.
That allowed for Iron Man to put in all power to Jarvis in order to hack and the jet packs began to splutter and die out making the Mercs fall to the ground where Spider-Man easily made a net of webbing to keep them trapped.
'Huh this went a lot faster than I thought it would.' Spider-Man thought as she honestly expected for this to take much longer.
Apparently Iron Man thought the same thing. "Jarvis, hack their communications." He said walking towards them. "I want to know what they're planning."
Yes they did give him more trouble than he was expecting but they still went down too easily.
"Warning, unable to decrypt." Jarvis said and that surprised Iron Man.
'Someone capable of keeping Jarvis out?' Iron Man thought not sure if he should feel impressed or worried.
He'll have Jarvis keep the code so he could analyze it.
Once he does that Iron Man will be a step closer to finding out who funded AIM this time.
"So uh is that it or are we expecting something else?" Spider-Man asked a bit hesitantly.
Her Spider-Sense wasn't going off and she had to get out to find Harry again but she didn't want to leave if something else was going on.
"I don't think anyone else is showing up, thanks kid." Iron Man looked at Spider-Man wondering how old this 'guy' was.
By the sound of the muffled voice he'd go for young teenager as well as the mentality the teen showed so far.
Still the kid was good as he wasn't hit once in this fight against AIM.
"So you're that Spider-Man that's been on the News lately?" Iron Man asked curiously with Spider-Man a bit surprised to hear that Iron Man heard of her.
"Uh yeah." Spider-Man muttered a bit shyly, happy that the mask covered her face before her Spider-Sense went off.
The doors burst open with the NYPD coming in making Iron Man look towards them, hearing a 'thwip' sound behind him and he smirked knowing that Spider-Man just left before he could be seen.
Pretty smart for the kid as Iron Man had a lot of lawyers and this was a case of self-defense so they couldn't take him in, but the kid they could.
"Mr. Stark," Captain Stacy said with a frown, looking behind him to see the retreating form of Spider-Man go out the broken skylight. "You seem pretty popular these days."
Hearing the annoyed tone, Iron Man had a feeling that this was one of those officers that hate the idea of Heroes or Vigilantes. "Well you know me, I'm always the life of the party."
Penny sighed as she was straightening her dress and hair, looking through the crowd outside holding her bag where the Spider-Man costume was, and checking the camera she had set up.
There were pictures of her and Iron Man fighting a terrorist Organization, she definitely had some good pics to take to the Bugle.
Putting them in the bag, Penny heard her name and turned to see Harry pushing his way through the crowd trying to get to her.
"I've been looking everywhere for you." Harry said sounding out of breath placing a hand on her shoulder. "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine Harry," Penny said feeling a little guilty for making him worry, but she just gave him a smile to calm him down. "Got a few pics while I was trying to get out."
"You risked your life for pictures?" Harry asked in disbelief. "Are you crazy?!"
"Well not willingly, I couldn't exactly get out and I had a camera, so I figured why not take a picture or two to sell to the Bugle?" Penny said a bit sheepishly wincing at that as she should've expected that reaction. "I got out as soon as I saw a safe route to take."
That was when they heard the crowd around them going crazy and looked up to see Iron Man taking to the skies as he finished speaking to the Police and they were currently taking the people in AIM away. "Alright everything is good, you can all come back in." He said as if nothing happened.
Penny found herself caught off guard by that as she would think that the Expo would've been cancelled for the night-then again there wasn't really that much damage done to the place and all the bad guys were caught.
She could see Ulrich nearby writing stuff down as he was able to see the action and the girl smiled.
"Want to head back in?" Penny asked with Harry looking a little unsure before smiling.
"Sure thing."
Across New York, a hand slammed onto the armrest of a chair as a young man was inside of what looked to be a dorm room, watching the News as they were reporting live on what happened at the Stark Expo.
The twenty year old man with brown hair looked at the News before his brown eyes flickered to his high-tech laptop where it was showing things through the eyes of one of the AIM soldiers with their helmets, the link destroyed to where it wouldn't be traced back to him.
Stark was so arrogant to think that he could hack him?
He has no interest in the Iron Man armor due to how obsolete it was compared to what he had planned, he just wanted to have the weapons he made tested and they worked wonders.
After all the weapons he gave AIM were only the prototypes of what he has planned.
The man would've had no problems if they finished Stark off and kept that armor but they were stopped when another anomaly entered the fight.
Spider-Man.
"An insignificant setback." The Man said as while it was unexpected all he could say was that this changed nothing.
Hearing the doorknob turn, the man quickly turned it off, adopting a neutral expression at the return of his roommate, someone he hated with a passion. Someone he looked down on but one he can safely say that keeps him on his toes with an urge to remain ahead of him.
"Richards." Victor Von Doom greeted the nineteen year old man with black hair, wearing a lab coat and glasses. "You seem to be running late."
"Victor," Reed Richards said with a frown showing that the dislike for his roommate was a shared sentiment. "You weren't at the meeting that Doctor Storm called."
"I was busy with my own designs." Victor scoffed as he was only using the resources that the Baxter Building offered to achieve his own designs, one that would lead him to reclaim his rightful place in the war-torn country of Latveria. "Surely you don't need my help for something as insignificant as this Negative Zone you've been researching."
As Victor moved to leave Reed's eyes looked at him in suspicion as something about the guy always had him on edge. They were supposed to work on studying the effects of Cosmic Radiation from the Negative Zone, but Victor has been skipping out on meetings and that worried him.
Shaking his head to clear it after the guy left, Reed sat at his desk in their room and began to write down some formulas before his phone buzzed.
Checking it, Reed smiled when he saw it was an old friend texting him saying he was on leave from the Army and was going to accept the invitation that the young man sent to him to see them open the Negative Zone.
They were going to make history next week.
"Uh Harry I wouldn't trust the punch." Penny said her spider-sense going off on it as the Expo was still going on, Iron Man already finishing the show for the Charity Event. "Don't they spike it at events like this?"
"Isn't that usually for High School Dances?" Harry asked taking a sip before coughing as he could taste alcohol in it.
"Don't say I didn't warn you." Penny giggled as Harry hacked.
"I don't see how grown ups can drink that." Harry muttered, making a face of disgust.
"Simple we're grown up." A voice said making the two turn in surprise to see Tony Stark himself looking at the punch bowl with a sigh, placing a finger to his ear where a blue tooth was. "Jarvis let Happy know to refresh the Punch."
"As you wish sir, Happy has expressed his desire to strangle the person who did that as this makes it the fifth time tonight." Jarvis answered back.
Penny couldn't help but gape at seeing Tony Stark this close-well as herself rather than as Spider-Man.
That was an entirely different situation.
"Uh kid you okay there?" Tony asked with a smirk, already used to those types of reaction.
"Y-Yes I'm fine." Penny found herself tongue tied as she didn't want to embarrass herself in front of her hero in the science department. "I didn't expect to see you-I mean I did but I meant up close-no wait that's wrong-."
"Penny breathe." Harry said trying not to laugh.
Instead, Penny clammed up looking red in the face.
Why was it so much easier talking to him as Spider-Man then as herself?
Oh man this was so embarrassing.
"I'm just here checking up on the refreshments don't let me bother you." Tony said seeing that she was embarrassed before looking at Harry. "You're Norman's kid right? How is he?"
Harry tensed a bit, Tony not missing that little action. "He's doing fine, he's been staying late at Oscorp the last year or so."
Seeing that it was a bad subject, Tony shrugged. "Alright, I won't intrude on you two much longer," He said wondering just which of these two was Romanov watching and he could see from the corner of his eyes the woman giving him a look. "Enjoy yourselves."
As he left, Penny slowly blinked. "We just talked to Tony Stark." She muttered in disbelief, Harry chuckling.
"I saw that, I'm surprised you didn't ask for an autograph." Harry said a big grin on his face.
Penny rolled her eyes at that. "Oh be quiet." She said, Harry giving a laugh.
Smiling a bit herself, Penny looked over towards the crowd and saw Wilson Fisk himself walking towards Tony Stark.
"Hey I have to use the bathroom, I'll be right back." Harry said with Penny giving a nod happy to hear that as it would give her a chance to eavesdrop.
When Harry left, Penny walked through the crowd towards where Stark was, trying to avoid the couples who were dancing to the music and was in time to hear Fisk speak. "Quite the event you had today Stark." Man he had a bit of a deep voice.
"Fisk, it's a pleasure to see you here tonight, so sorry about missing the meeting with you." Tony said with fake cheer that Fisk easily saw through.
"I'm sure, how about we reschedule."
"Ooh sorry I'll be leaving New York after tonight you know how it is with us CEO's am I right?" Tony asked egging Fisk on with a smirk while Fisk glared. "But let's cut the pleasantries you wouldn't happen to know anything about what happen would you?"
"I assure you, I don't know anything about this unfortunate business yet." Fisk said and Tony gave a nod as it was too high profile for him.
"Alright then we have nothing more to talk about." Tony said about to walk away when Fisk spoke.
"I would be careful in your choices Stark, you play a dangerous game."
Penny would've heard more if her Spider-Sense didn't go off when someone tapped her shoulder making her jump, turning to see a young man two years older than her wearing a tuxedo. "You seem lost." He said his blonde hair neatly groomed.
"Just waiting for a friend to come out of the bathroom." Penny said a bit nervously really hoping she wasn't being too obvious with the eavesdropping.
"Is that so?" The teen asked curiously before coughing. "Ah yes where are my manners I'm Richard."
Seeing him hold his hand out, Penny accepted what she thought to be a handshake. "Penelope Parker."
"A pleasure," Richard said taking her hand to kiss it like a gentlemen the action in itself surprising Penny as no one did that to her before. "Are you new to events like these?"
"A little," Penny said to him. "This is actually the first time I came to something like this so I'm a little out of my comfort zone right now. You?"
"I usually come to events like these due to my father so I'm used to them," Richard answered before he heard a new song playing. "Do you want to dance?"
"P-Pardon?" Penny asked not expecting that, her face heating up. "Uh I haven't danced before."
"Just follow my lead." Richard said and before Penny knew it she was being led to the dance floor.
Penny was sure that her face was completely red as she felt his one of his hands on her lower back while he took her left hind in his right hand and they were dancing.
"You sure you never danced before?" Richard asked after a moment as she was following his lead perfectly.
"I guess it comes natural." Penny lied as her sense of balance and her spider-sense was giving her an edge to avoid stepping on some toes.
Harry exited the bathroom at that moment, coming to a stop when he saw Penny dancing with someone and stared in disbelief. At first he was annoyed but it disappeared when he remembered asking Penny if they could forget about the 'almost kiss' that nearly happened the other week.
'I lost my chance when I did that.' Harry thought a bit sadly going back to the punch table only to accidentally bump into a girl near his age. "Sorry."
"It's fine." A girl with shoulder-length black hair and brown eyes wearing a black dress said, looking him over before smiling. "I'm Lily."
Harry blinked before remembering the etiquette lessons he was taught. "Harry."
Eventually the dance was finished as Richard saw his father gesturing to him. "I'm afraid this is where we would have to part ways." He said kissing the back of her hand once more. "Enjoy the rest of your evening Ms. Parker."
"Penny." Penny said without thinking before flushing red while Richard smiled and left.
'Come on Penny calm down it was just a dance.' Penny thought turning to see Harry talking with Lily and he looked to be smiling. 'Well at least I'm not the only one making new friends.'
"How did it go talking with Mr. Stark father?" Richard asked getting in the limo with Wilson Fisk.
"It went nowhere, the man is stubborn and arrogant." Fisk said grasping his cane. "I would love nothing more than to end him for his insolence."
"Then why don't you?" Richard asked with a frown.
"You still need to learn patience," Wilson said to his son. "Stark is too high profile for a target, especially with him being on SHIELD's watchlist, besides I have bigger concerns as of late."
Richard rolled his eyes believing his father was wasting his time worrying about this Daredevil and now this Spider-Man.
"Now enough talk about work, who was that young lady you seemed enamored with tonight?" Wilson asked looking at his son.
"No one for you to worry about father, Penelope Parker looked a little lost so I figured it wouldn't hurt to talk with her." Richard said with a shrug.
Wilson however frowned as he found that name to be familiar, just where did he hear the name Penelope Parker before?
"So how did it go?" Eddie asked as Penny entered the house to see May asleep in the living room chair with a blanket over her and the TV on.
"It went good until a group called AIM crashed it." Penny said as that was going to be on the News.
Eddie's eyes widened in concern. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, managed to get some pictures for the Bugle but nothing bad really happened." Penny summarized with Eddie sighing.
"Geez, sounds like you guys had a rough night."
"It was unexpected." Penny said not saying anything else before looking at May. "How is she?"
"Still recovering but she's getting better." Eddie said with a smile. "Anyways you best take a shower before bed alright?"
Penny sighed as water cascaded down her skin, the hot water a perfect remedy for her to loosen up after what happened.
Eddie was right when he said that it sounded like a rough night.
Well not the AIM kooks as they were actually pretty easy to take care of and served as a great distraction from her thoughts regarding Harry.
They acted like they usually did over there, cracking jokes and slight teasing. No signs on if they liked each other as more than friends besides some small awkwardness on both of their parts.
Then there was that Richard guy and just thinking about him made Penny's heart beat a little faster and she was wondering if she would see him again before shaking her head, it was a big city so the chances of seeing him again were very slim.
'Why couldn't this be as easy as those AIM guys?' Penny thought lathering her body with soap. 'At least that wasn't complicated.'
A few moments later, Penny entered her room with the towel wrapped around her, pausing as she noticed something was off.
Her window was opened a crack when she clearly remembered closing it before she left.
Looking around carefully, Penny was on edge despite the fact that her Spider-Sense wasn't going off before seeing a folded up piece of paper on her desk.
Picking it up, she was surprised to see it was a letter.
'I got in contact with an old friend of mine for your training, Shang-Chi will meet you at this address tomorrow night. I kept the information regarding your identity to myself as that should be your choice, remember to never compromise it if you wish to continue this life- DD.'
"Murdock?" Penny asked in slight surprise.
Both from the fact that Daredevil actually had the initials DD on there and the fact that he managed to get it in her room despite her not saying where in Queens she lived.
… Wait how did he write this if he's blind?
Shaking her head, Penny turned her computer on while changing into some pajamas, intent on sending the pictures to Betty as they exchanged E-Mail addresses.
Once that was done she planned to go to sleep.
Penny groaned when her phone began to buzz as she blearily opened one eye to see it was Betty making her sigh. "'Lo?" She mumbled barely coherent.
"Hey Penny sorry for waking you," Betty apologized hearing the sleepiness in her voice. "I'm just calling you on whether or not you want us to mail the check for the pictures or if you were going to pick it up."
Penny blinked before remembering she never did write an address down and sat up with a yawn. "I'll pick it up after school." She said seeing the time.
It was close to seven so she had to get ready.
"Alright I'll see you here." Betty said before there was yelling in the background.
That made Penny quirk a brow. "Something wrong?"
"Jameson is just having a field day." Betty said with a sigh.
Giving a shrug, Penny heard the click resounding the phone being hung up and got ready for school.
Making it down the stairs she only saw May drinking a cup of coffee a concerned look on her face. "Morning pretty lady." Penny said surprising her with a hug that made the woman laugh.
"Penny did you sleep well?" May asked a smile on her face as Eddie just left for his job at ESU.
"I slept like a rock." Penny said rubbing the back of her neck before seeing the Daily Bugle paper in front of her.
It was a front page picture of her team-up with Iron Man.
'AIM Disrupts Charity Event'
There was a slight mention of how she and Iron Man worked together but it mostly focused on the Terrorist Organization.
Penny suddenly realized why May looked concerned when she came down the stairs. "Uh cool picture right?" She tried.
May sighed. "I worry for you Penny," She said to her niece. "I know you want to help but this is too dangerous for you."
"Aunt May I'm fine, I stayed away from all the danger," Penny said feeling her gut twisting from lying. "There wasn't any place for me to run to during all of that so I stayed hidden and figured I might as well take a picture or two."
"Is there anyway I can talk you out of this?" May tried but Penny shook her head making her sigh. "You definitely have the Parker stubbornness, your Mother was the same way."
So she stood up and looked at her Niece.
"Then I think we should set some ground rules if you're going to continue that job."
"G-Ground Rules?" Penny asked not expecting that.
Still it was good that May was actually coming around to her being a freelancer photographer.
"Rule one you are keeping some of that money," May said making Penny open her mouth to protest but May wasn't having it. "I know you got it to help with the bills but you should save some of that money for college or if you want to get a better camera."
"I can get into college with a scholarship." Penny tried as she was told she was smart enough for it.
"I'm not going to budge on this Penny you forget I have some of that Parker stubbornness too."
That made Penny chuckle.
"Rule two, I want you to be safe out there a picture isn't worth your life," May said sternly. "If you see something that's way too much for you to handle I want you to get out of there."
On that Penny hesitated because she would be Spider-Man during that. "G-Got it." She said knowing it was an empty promise.
"Rule three don't forget your studies, if your grades drop I'll call your boss and tell him you won't be coming in until they come back up," May said with Penny giving a surprised look. "Don't think I won't young lady."
"No I know you will." Penny said remembering how one time in Middle School her grades dropped because she got too into an experiment and May called the school.
Man that was mortifying.
"Those three rules are the only stipulations I have for you." May said before glancing at the time.
Looking there, Penny saw that the bus was going to be in Queens soon. "Alright I love you and I'll see you after school." She said running to the door, grabbing an apple as she did so.
"Oh and Penny, Mary-Jane is going to be starting school today would you be a dear and pick her up?" May asked surprising Penny as she remembered seeing the redhead that one day. "She doesn't have any friends in New York yet so it might help her out."
Penny found it a little hard to believe that she didn't have any friends yet but figured it was because she hasn't left Queens since arriving due to having to help unpack in Anna Watson's house as she was Mary's aunt.
So Penny smiled and gave a nod, exiting the house as she did so.
Walking next door, Penny was about to knock on the door when it opened to show Mary-Jane Watson herself with a school bag the redhead looking surprised to see Penny.
"Can I help you?" She asked unsure of who this was.
"Hi I'm Penelope Parker, I heard you were starting school today and thought you'd like a tour of it."
"Oh you're Penny?" Mary-Jane said looking surprised. "Aunt Anna told me about you."
So she smiled and held out her hand.
"I'm Mary-Jane Watson, but feel free to call me MJ."
"Nice to meet you." Penny said accepting the handshake.
Ulrich looked at the front page of the Bugle with a slight frown, unsure of what happened.
It wasn't that he thought these pictures weren't bad, they were great, the angles and dynamics really showed. The problem was that Ulrich himself was there to see the action, how Iron Man and Spider-Man interacted.
Not once did he see any sign of Penelope there taking pictures, so how did she get them?
… Maybe he missed her as he was a bit too focused on getting the story for what he was writing.
Still this was enough for him to get interested in the how she got her pictures. However it also wasn't any of his business as this was a teenage colleague of his at the moment and he only looked into stuff concerning Daredevil and Fisk.
And he didn't have enough proof that warranted another investigation even if he was looking for answers regarding Spider-Man.
Placing the paper down as he looked at his computer where he had clues written down on how to expose Fisk, Ben wondered idly what he should do next.
Wilson Fisk looked at the Daily Bugle while eating Breakfast that morning, his wife Vanessa was still asleep, his eyes however were on the name of the photographer who took the picture of the disruption to the Charity Event.
'Of Course that's where I heard the name before.' Wilson thought remembering how this Penelope was the only photographer to get a picture of this Spider-Man. 'This might actually work in our favor.'
Seeing his son coming downstairs about to leave for his classes at the Private School in New York, Wilson stopped him. "Richard come here."
"Yes father?" Richard asked curiously before the paper was tossed at him. "Wha-?"
Richard stopped at seeing the name of the Photographer.
"Well what do you know?" Richard asked in surprise before realizing something. "I take it you want me to use this information?"
"The Enforcers have yet to find this Spider-Man," Fisk said as the Big Man gave his report the other day. "So we need to look through any connection we have on him, it might be a coincidence but if there's the slightest chance this Penelope knows who Spider-Man is we use it."
Richard gave a nod. "Well it's a good thing I made such an impression on her last night." He said remembering how she acted.
"So what do you think of the school?" Penny asked after a few classes when she met MJ in the hallway after showing her around in the morning.
The two did talk a bit on the bus and Penny learned that MJ was aspiring to be an actress, something that Penny found cool.
"It's a little different from the last school I went to, but I think I'll like it a bit more." MJ answered with a smile, earning a chuckle from Penny.
"That's good to hear, remember no take backs." Penny joked before she heard her name called and saw Harry and Gwen heading towards them. "Hey guys."
"Hey Penny." Gwen greeted with a friendly nod before looking at MJ. "Hi there."
MJ gave a polite nod. "Hello."
"Right introductions, MJ these are my best friends Harry Osborn and Gwen Stacy," Penny said clearing the air here. "Guys this is Mary-Jane Watson."
"Nice to meet you." Harry greeted with a handshake. "You enjoying Midtown?"
"So far I am." MJ said happy that she was with some friendly people.
"Hey you want to hang out with us this afternoon?" Gwen asked but before MJ could respond, Penny spoke up.
"Uh I won't be able to, I'm picking up my paycheck at the Bugle today for the front page picture." Penny said the sentence surprising MJ while Gwen sighed.
"I can't believe you risked your life for a picture Penny." She chided her friend who laughed a bit sheepishly.
"Thanks Betty." Penny said getting her paycheck and smiling.
It was three hundred and fifty dollars, not as much as her first payment but it was good.
If she keeps this up and get newsworthy photography every day she should be making big bucks, however it will be gone quickly due to using it to pay bills and living expenses.
"It's not a problem Penny you should've seen Jameson when he got this published, no one else got the picture for the event so we're ahead." Betty said making Penny feel pride at what she was hearing. "Keep it up."
"Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for any other Newsworthy events." She said but she knew she should probably back off of the Spider-Man ones to avoid people thinking she knew who 'he' was. "Do you know if Mr. Jameson has an assignment for me?"
"Not at the moment, I'll call you if he does alright?" Betty offered, with Penny accepting that deal. "Alright be careful on your way-huh?"
Looking surprised, Penny turned to see a delivery man with a bouquet of flowers. "Excuse me I'm looking for a Penelope Parker, I have this to deliver to her." The deliveryman said to Betty.
Tilting her head curiously, Penny spoke up. "I'm Penelope Parker."
"Alright sign here," The man said holding out a clipboard and when she signed it she was handed the bouquet. "Here you go."
As he walked away, Betty smiled a bit mischievously. "Got a secret admirer?" She asked with Penny shrugged.
"I don't know, this never happened before." Penny said a little freaked out to be honest before seeing a card in the bouquet.
So taking it out, she read it.
'To Miss Penelope Parker, I do hope these find you fairly soon, I admit that I quite enjoyed the dance we had the other night.' It began giving Penny a pretty good idea on who sent these and her face flushed. 'In fact I hope that we might be able to do something like that again if you want to, if you have the time would you meet me Durante's this next weekend around five in the evening? If you can't make it I understand. Signed, Richard Marianna.'
There was also a number there to call if she couldn't make it and Penny swallowed a bit nervously.
Was she just asked out on a date?
Durante's was a high class Italian Restaurant and she has never been in there before.
'But what if something happens and I have to be Spider-Man?' She thought before seeing Betty looking at her with a quirked brow.
"Must be good if you're blushing," Betty remarked and Penny turned redder at that. "Okay you might pass out if you keep that up."
"You're enjoying this." Penny muttered with Betty giving a chuckle.
"So spill is it a love note?" She asked curiously.
Penny might've only just started but it was cute to see something like this, it reminded her of her own teenage years.
"I think so." Penny said before taking a deep breath to calm down. "Right I'll just get going."
The weekend huh? She had a few days considering it was a Tuesday.
To Be Continued…
Okay this took awhile to type because I had to go and rewrite it but I hope you enjoyed this chapter as it not only introduced a few other characters but you see another change from the comics due to Penny being a girl, after all Peter didn't have to worry about something like this now did he?
Still things are changing and they're only going to keep changing from here on out, so let's get the reviews done.
DannyPhantom619: Well it was more of a beat down than a fight considering how easy AIM is compared to the Beetle, in fact it was complete overkill for both Spidey and Iron Man but it did show their first team-up. Tony won't find out about Spidey's identity for a long time-if I do have him find out-but he would be impressed by how she went around to hiding it.
Mythology Star: Heh true, there's always watching it online. I'm find with the random facts, they're fun to read but I thought Spidey's max strength was ten tons and that was when he was an adult? Penny isn't that strong yet because she's still a teenager so her powers will change as she grows up and evolve over time.
Lillian Smith: Haha thank you and sorry for the wait had trouble with this chapter. I find it hard to believe no one typed a pretty good Female Spidey story, I mean I'm sure there are others but I haven't found them yet.
Princess-Boba: Thank you, it's fun to type this and the changes that happen if Peter was Penny, like say the 'date' with Richard Fisk, something that Peter never had to deal with.
Althea Sirius: Yeah I know what you mean and I like the Ultimate Fury look and how kickass he was but I also don't want people to forget the original one as well which is why I'm using him for this story.