Hey everyone and welcome back to Bonds! Now, before you talk about how its a little late with the update, I've got exams going on right now (It's going alright... Fucked up bad in the math one though) but I'm trying so... Yay? Anyway! REVIEWS!
Diegivan1110: No problem and thanks but I realistically know that that ain't happening... Anyway, thanks for the suggestion.
Guest: Another Carol vote. Thanks.
Antenesis: That's alright and thank you for your other suggestions. God, I have a Spanish test soon as well... dammit.
xXCoopyXx: He's not gonna be the 'bad guy' for much longer. Also, I know that it is deviating but I'm trying to capture his attitude to do with the Registration Act from the comics, where is you ain't on his side, he will kill you. Seriously, he does that to Spidey and... wow, he almost killed a kid! Well, 'kid'.
DragonMasterJon: It's alright and don't worry, after this whole thing is smoothed over, then the villains will come. So soon.
Anonimus Maximus: Thanks and your welcome.
Spider1Fan: Yep he sure is.
WolfXXZ: Thanks. In this scenario, Stark didn't know how his bots would react. Its sort of explained early in this chapter about what is going on with that. Yea, I don't want him to become God too quickly... or at all to be honest. Peter is just one of those people that I like kind of weak when you compare him to other MARVEL Heroes, he's just kind of better that way. I just may contradict myself with this chapter but, hey! He might be able to absorb weapons and the cartoon was Ultimate Spider-Man with Agent Venom. God I'm such a Spidey fan boy... As with the update schedule, its a but out of whack for now because of exams but I have six weeks of summer soon so... YES!
Incarnate47: Oh trust me, he will struggle. Main Roster is... well... SPOILERS! Deadpool friendship? Keep it in mind.
ChristTheDude103: Eh, it was kind of sloppy in my opinion.
Lord Terronus: They might do... I don't really know to be honest.
Chimera629: They were more referring to the way he did it and the fact that he did it so mercilessly. Also, they do have thoughts. Will be explained.
Major Wallace: Thanks.
Guest: Wow.. Um, thanks.
Random Person: Thank you. Probably not because this will be resolved soon so there's really no point. In the future though... who knows.
Anyway enjoy the chapter!
Peter cursed as another metal skull was crushed under his fist.
With the blistering heat of the midday sun raining down on his back, he let the damaged robot fall to his feet. Nudging the now useless piece of scrap with his foot, he turned around to count how many more were left. 4. Simple. Easy.
Casting his eyes out onto the crowd, Peter growled slightly in frustration. There were so many civilians here, all standing either around Peter and the Legion or on the bridge to his left, watching down from above. This just gave Peter one more thing to worry about and while he cared about the civilians in this city more than he would ever admit, he just wished that they would react like any normal human being; if you see a lean, alien warrior fighting 5 Iron Man duplicates than you run. But no, these guys are New Yorkers so they don't care and stick around to see the fights as if it is their own personal form of daily entertainment. To their credit, it kind of is.
For the last month, Peter had been trying to juggle his job, which had significantly increased in the number of photos that he needed to take each week, his new 'hobby' and trying to not die. Yep, for the past month, Tony Stark's Iron Legion had been coming after him non-stop. Even after the Times Square thing, in which Stark's death machines nearly maimed a few innocent bystanders, which the big guy himself said was a fault on his part and that he didn't realise that there were going to be so many people there, the Legion kept on coming. Apparently, Stark kept sending them in at times when there were rarely any civs around for Peter to keep an eye on but for some odd reason, a team of death bots versus an alien draws quite a bit of attention so it wasn't long before he was swarmed. And then there are times when the guy isn't even here because he's off doing some missions in… what? Sokovia? Something like that. But because he wasn't here, the robots were set to be sent out if his suit is seen around the city.
It was just a pain in the ass.
Sighing, Peter webbed a small wall which blocked him and the bots from the surrounding army of New Yorkers before turning back to the Legion. Launching himself at the metallic statues, his hearing was invaded by the screams of the figures around him. In fact, this was almost like MMA Fighting or a cage match; people screaming for one side to win over the other, cheering and filming taking place.
In fact, Strife had become quite popular in the past month. Aside from his weekly biographical pictures to go along with the Bugles stories, plenty of videos of him fighting criminals or the Iron Legion began to take up the web and now he was classed as a Vigilante and a lot of other stuff happened. Too much.
As he was soaring forward, a voice broke through his head.
"Left Peter."
Malice's voice manoeuvred its way through Peter's brain and caught up to the teen just in time for him to jump up to dodge an incoming repulsor blast which scorched the ground as it fell. Also for the last month, Malice had becoming a welcomed ally. In the morning, she would always wake him after a long patrol, with various methods, she would train with him, teach him about her home world and as he got to know her, he began to just feel connected to her and the symbiote itself even more. Now, in the field, Malice could make up for some of his Symbiote Sense by steering him clear of the worst and most fore-front form of danger. It really was quite useful while he used the rest of his sense to focus on attaching his webs to places while still focusing on the enemy.
Approaching the first soldier of steel, Peter leapt out in a strong kick that made a short work of the suits breastplate as it shattered and splintered before his foot. Flinging his foot up high into the air, he shot off 2 webs before slamming the figure back down as he found some sick kind of glee watching the very important and very expensive piece of technology crumble at his feet.
"You're sadistic."
"Probably."
"Up Peter."
Shooting his eyes to the sky, Peter locked onto the floating figure of silver metal flying towards him. Shooting a shot of web to the crushed head of the suit, he flattened it out a bit more before scraping his sharp claws against the edge. Smirking as he looked back once more, he readied his arm to throw the disc but something pinged in the back of his head. Leaping into the air, Peter twisted his body just in time to dodge a hit from a suit but as he was flipping, he managed to behead the suit with the disc. On the descent, the teen kicked the soldier to the ground before following through with his original plan.
"Here, catch!" With a strong arm, he lobbed the piece of sharpened metal at the figure, embedding it directly into its head. With a smirk, he crossed his arms as the robot crashed into the earth and hit his toes softly. Twisting his head, he noticed most of the crowd cheering his name. Now, while they were an extra thing to worry about, he didn't mind the attention one bit.
Leaning back in their seats, the Avengers watched Strife with a lot of enthusiasm.
For the past month, the team had been surveying the hero using security cameras around the city and news networks, not willing to risk it after their previous 'meeting' as well as Tony's attempts to capture him (P.S It was currently the latter). They had tried to get him to stop long ago but he had just locked himself in his workshop and not let anyone but Pepper in. Speaking of their last meeting, when they tried to help him in one of his fights, he just ran away from them after webbing them up. At the moment, he wasn't really the biggest fan of the Avengers.
Whistling as they watched him jump at one of the suits, Jess began to converse with the other members.
"This guy just keeps getting better and better."
"Yea, no doubt about it. He's really made a name for himself." Carol responded back, but her eyes were completely glued to the screen. Smiling to herself, Jess took the liberty of looking around the room. Currently, it was only her, Carol and Janet. The others were out doing some missions elsewhere.
"You think he's being trained by someone." The Wasp asked her companions, with only the Spider-Woman responding.
"Nah, that fighting style is personal. No way that he would be trained."
"I guess."
"I wonder if he'll ever forgive us." Carol suddenly asked, her interest peaked as she watched Strife perform a backflip over a suit before cutting off its head. Janet and Jess just looked at each other confused slightly but left Ms. Marvel to her own devices as they continued to watch.
On the other side of the city, the X-Men were also watching the hero on the news.
Since the accident a month ago, the team had been trying to track him down but after his more heroic events and the attacks from the Iron legion, they held off and just decided to see where he went. A few times, they had even seen him in person dressed as their alter egos.
And by 'they', I am referring to Delta Team.
For some reason, they just couldn't get this guy off their minds. Whether it be his violence that he inflicted on those robots as well as to himself with the eardrums, to his fighting style or his figure, something just grabbed them and held onto them tight. However, this obsession quickly spread to the other teams and so now, every team was watching the news.
"Wow! Imagine this guy after live people who piss him off!" Someone in the back said, earning him a scowl from the staff.
"I know that the Four deal with a lot of robots but man, this is brutal. For robot fighting I guess." Another said, referring to the way he dealt with the foes; with such skill and brutality but with a kind of 'I don't care' attitude.
"He does still remember that there are another bot, right?" Bobby commented as he stared at the screen, with Kitty, Laura, Rogue and Curt by his side.
"He does." Kitty responded, eyes locked onto the screen.
"How the Hell do you know that?"
"His stance. It hasn't changed. If he didn't know, it would have changed."
"Well now we know who someone's superhero crush is."
"Shut up!"
Smiling slightly at the sight, Peter began thinking back to everything that had happened in the past few months. It was so damn amazing, and inspiring… and painful but hey, can't get through life without-
The back of his head pinged.
"PETER!"
Leaping up, Peter turned just in time to see a strong repulsor blast coming his way. But now he was out of the way… and into the path of some civilians. Panic spread through Peter's mind like a virus and he quickly shot two threads to pull those in the way towards him. As he pulled, they all let out a scream but Peter managed to create a net to catch them while he landed himself.
Skidding across the earth, he let out a sigh before checking that everything was okay with the civs.
BOOM!
Once again, Peter's white eyes filled with terror. Craning his neck, he saw that the blue beam of energy had demolished part of the bridges pillars, exploding the concrete and only leaving the top half there. And then the bridge began to tilt.
Screams filled the air as he shot forward into sprint. There were people on that fucking bridge! He needed to save them. Propelling himself forward with his webs he positioned himself underneath the rock structure and waited for it to fall into his hands, which were resting above him head.
And when it hit…
Letting out shouts of pain and agony, he pushed the bridges supports up with his arms as he began to feel the bones inside shake and tense. Gritting his teeth, he could vaguely hear Malice yelling at him but he was too focused on other things to concentrate. Screaming again, he forced the block up again when he felt it slip slightly.
Twisting his neck, he shouted into the crowd.
"HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE STILL ON THE BRIDGE!?"
"ABOUT 20 PEOPLE!" Some yelled back and Peter saw several people at the end of the bridge helping people off.
"GET THEM THE FUCK OUT OF THERE!"
Peter cried again as he resorted to punching the rock as he held it to redirect the pain but it wasn't working. Shouting and screaming was all that filled his ears before.
SNAP!
Silence filled the air as he looked down to see the thick, black bone of his arm shooting out of his elbow. Dark blood was seeping from the wound but Peter's eyes were fixated only on the bone. It was just… there. Outside of his skin. Turning back to the task at hand, Peter shakily shot a web at the bone to try and support it, because he had no other ideas and he was kind of under pressure.
Suddenly, a blue bolt whizzed past his face and a very scary thought entered his mind. The bot wasn't dead. With gritted teeth, Peter threw the structure up high before leaping onto his hands in a back handspring but staying in place while he waited for the concrete to come onto his teeth. It hurt so much, everything hurt so much. And when the concrete landed, it just got worse. All the extra weight just sent his bones to breaking point.
But he had a job to do.
Flipping his eyes to the approaching robot, he pulled one hand off of the floor slowly as he felt the crushing weight engulf him once more before sloppily shooting a thread at the robot and lazily pulling him to the ground, where it landed onto its fallen brethren. Putting both hands on the floor again, Peter felt his vison begin to fail him.
He didn't know how much longer he had left in him. Minutes… Seconds…
He didn't know.
Everyone in the academy stared at the screen with mouths wide. Even Logan was surprised at what this kid was doing. He was lifting a bridge, with one arm and just after a fight while fighting a robot.
This was insane.
"Y-you think he'll even survive this?"
"He's gonna die."
Delta leaned closer to the screen. This was incredible, and dangerous. Kitty was just stunned and fearful for his life. Making a decision in her head, she bolted out of the room and up to the medical bay.
She was gonna do something about this.
"What the fuck…" Jess muttered as she stared at this kid, this child lifting a bridge with people on it.
"He's…" Janet mirrored her shock. None of them could leave the tower, none of them were even sure if they would make it in time. Maybe Carol…
But Carol. She was silent. Stunned? Shocked? Neither of them knew. She was just wide eyed and quivering. She was frozen. She wasn't moving from her seat.
But everyone was praying for this kid.
Biting at his tongue until he bled, Peter was trying to hold out but he was fading fast.
Looking up from the ground, he found one guy looking up at the bridge,
"HEY! HOW MANY MORE?!" He yelled at the guy, who looked back at him in shock.
"U-Um? I think there's 5 more. But 3 of them are kids trapped in cars!" He said back.
"DAMMIT!" Peter screamed at the floor, feeling the pillar start to slip. Thinking fast, he thought back to that night at the labs with the X-Men and the Avengers and how he just let the pain take over. Breathing in, he quickly said to the guy. "GET EVERYONE AWAY FROM THE BRIDGE!" He quickly nodded and shouted at everyone to move. He could hear the distressed shouts of some parents who got swept away by the crowd and left their children. But he just blocked them out.
However, he heard Malice begin to talk.
"Peter. If you're about to do… that again… Please don't overdo it. You'll die. And I don't want that… Please."He let out a small laugh.
"I won't, don't worry."
"Okay… So, just let your pain take over and you'll enter a sort of trance. Good luck."
Breathing in, he repositioned his hands and just let out another cry before his vison went black.
And Strife took over.
Kicking up the pillar, Strife leapt at the pillar with his blade and split directly up the middle until he reached the actual bridge. As the concrete began to fall around him, he used his Symbiote Sense to pick up the locations of the 5 civillains before he shot forward. Ducking into a car, he pulled a small child out with his and held him to his back before going after another at the foot of another car. He then flipped with the two children held to his back via his webs and grabbed an adult woman and her child before running near the end of the collapsing bridge but not before webbing a shaking man in another car. As he neared the end, he made a net out of webs before he threw everyone towards it. Swivelling on his heels, he ran back to the bridge and cut down at certain areas of the bridge so that only a small chunk where the old pillar was a small square around it was missing.
And then it was over.
Pain took back over and Peter felt himself regain control before collapsing onto the bridge. His struggle to get up continued for a few minutes as his arm completely gave out on him and he resorted to crawling to the edge of the bridge and throwing himself off before roughly swinging to a nearby building and crashing into it. Lazily crawling up it, he lay down and just sat there for… God knows how long, in just pure agony.
But he had done it. Mission successful.
Some time passed however, before he felt a presence above him. Cracking open an eye, he was shocked to see someone standing over him that he never thought he'd see again after their last meeting.
Shadow Cat. And she looked pissed.
So hope you enjoyed it. Yes, I know Ms. Marvel could have saved him and been there in like a second but I needed to make it interesting so... No Ms. Marvel, she is frozen. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed. I have more exams next week (yay...) so I probably won't be updating then but next update will be Kitty and Peter time! Yay! Actual yay this time! SO SEE YA THEN! GOODBYE!
-Jack