Answers to reviewers questions or statements:
chuky700: I've seen ones where she was like a godmother or something to him so I figured I'd try it out but give it a unique twist.
treyalexander63917: No the thing with Mystique isn't Canon, be funny if it was because then when Peter next see's Mystique in the comics he can be like 'Hey, it's my old babysitter, she used to read me bedtime stories when she wasn't trying to make me pro-mutant and anti-human!'
Kite: Yes he knows her enough to call her that, but she's not particularly fond of the name even though a tiny, little part of her is deep, deep, deep, deep down is. Rouge came after Peter since I think he's older so after he became too old to need a babysitter we can say she stumbled across Rouge and she took her in because of her close relationship with Peter, which will be explained
Guest: Nah he won't be going all Dark Knight Returns which does give me an interesting idea, well that in using a sort of older more jaded Spider-man who's coming back out of retirement to face down both old and new foes. Screw it I'm going start writing something like that up
Mythfan: If there wasn't a wild card in this story beforehand, there's is now in the form of Mystique
Redrangerlegacy: Possibly
marveldcfan: No Rogue came after Peter and she's unaware that Mystique and Peter were that close back then
LL: No it's not canon, being kind of neat if it was because the situations that would cause would be interesting. Despite what the movies show about Mystique, she and Magneto have really only interacted a handful of times, they know each other more by reputation then on any personal level, she's never really joined his side and if she did it was fairly brief. Yeah but with Peters luck, people who can manipulate it to be better or those good luck charms and spells would somehow backfire and give him even worse luck, be funny though
Jestalnaker94000: Yeah, Carol was pretty awesome back in the day, especially when she first started off as the new Captain Marvel but ever since she was put in charge of Alpha Flight and all that I feel like she's getting worse, like as a person you know? Oh Mystique's brought more than her A-game to this fight, she's ready to bring the whole place down.
Rider Paladin: What do you mean gone better? Like the chapter could have better execution, been longer? Well I'll admit it could have to both, that last one was challenging for some reason. Part of the reason she's here aside for Peter is well to just stick it to Carol, these two have a less than fantastic history. Mainly it's because Mystique killed Carol's love interest back in the day or one of them, it was a guy that was helping her with this dual identity issue she had going on. Yeah still finding it odd that Peter's still able to convince his Aunt May that he's not Spider-man, I mean it's making it seem like she's some old soft hearted woman that won't be able to stand it, she did before the whole One More Day thing!
Spider-Ninja0117: Yeah not too sure why Miguel and Jessica don't have a spider-sense in canon, I mean Miles has one, Silk has one and I think Spider-girl did but I can't remember. I think it has to do with a strong connection to the web of life or something but then again Jessica can sort of fly and has venom blasts and Miguel has talons and venomous fangs, guess Marvel thought 'eh they have plenty of powers to make up for the no spider-sense'
Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel characters seen, mentioned or used
"Oh, sorry" Peter said with a wince as he remembered that she was never too fond of being called that, well when he was a kid yeah but now it just sounded weird to her apparently "But wait how did you get here, hell why are you even here in the first place?"
"I'm a shapeshifter with decades of experience infiltrating governments or intelligence agencies figure it out genius, as for why I'm here, it's to rescue you while at the same time sticking it to the marvelous Captain bitch" Mystique said the last part with a smirk as she reached down towards more of Peter's retrains and began to remove them "We need to move, we don't have long until they realize what's happened"
"Uh pretty sure they can see just fine" Peter said as he nodded towards a small camera in the corner
It was then Mystique held up a small little device with several glowing lights on it "This is currently looping the footage the guards are seeing. Instead of seeing me kick the hell out of their men, they're watching us get off the elevator and watching several others get on"
"Where'd you get that from?" Peter asked as Mystique removed the last of his restraints
"The armory, you'd be surprised by how bad their security is in there and how no one seems to realize that I'm using the forms of agents that have been dead for years now" the red headed woman said before hitting the start button and selected a new floor for them to get off at "Come on, they've already moved your protégé and successor to their respective holding cells until a SHEILD transport arrives to escort them to a more secured facility"
"What about Miles's mom and dad?" Peter asked as the two got off and saw the hallway was empty "We can't just leave them here!"
"…If there's time, we'll get them out" Mystique said before she suddenly shifted into the form of a random SHIELD agent and reached own towards one of the unconscious guards' and began to remove his gear before throwing it towards Peter "Here, change into this, we'll get farther with you disguised, assuming you don't open your mouth at all"
She then pulled out a small device and dropped it in the elevator before closing the door and turned to see Peter eyeing her suspiciously "What?"
"What was that?" he asked with a frown
The blue skinned woman rolled her eyes "It's not going to kill them, it's just going to make sure no one can use this elevator any time soon, now hurry up and get changed"
Peter nodded before he looked around and to his relief, a restroom nearby and made his way inside…followed by Mystique. Peter casted her an annoyed glance
"Can a guy change in peace?"
"Peter, I've seen you naked as a baby when I cleaned and bathed you, and when I helped you lose your virginity" Mystique said with a blank expression
"…That's beside the point!" Peter grumbled as he began to slowly dress himself, letting out a hiss or a groan as his injuries would flare up every once in a while, "Gah, how the hell do they operate in these things? It's itchy, rides up in places I didn't think possible and it smells like it hasn't been washed in a week!"
"When you're done moaning, and groaning about SHIELD's choice in attire, we have some friends of yours to save…even though personally I'd say to hell with them" Mystique said the last part quietly to herself as she turned to leave "Stick close to me and keep quiet"
"Yes ma'am" Peter said with a snort as he slid on the helmet and pulled the face mask up "Say uh, how do you plan to get us out of here anyway? I mean according to you, we're like two miles in the air over the ocean and uh, I didn't bring a life jacket…or my Spider-jet…or rocket"
"I already have our extraction worked out" Mystique said with annoyance "Now shut up!"
Peter grumbled to himself as he followed the disguised mutant. He'd be lying if he wasn't a little apprehensive that she was here. After all, when Mystique comes out to play, bodies tend to pile up faster than Deadpool and the Punisher combined can barely match.
Plus, they haven't really talked in years, sure they've crossed paths but those were usually during really big battles and when others were present. Aside from Logan, both the one Peter knows and likely the one still walking around from some alternate future, no one knew that Peter's mom Mary and Raven were close…real close…well until something happened which caused their split and for his mom to hook up with his dad a year later and well boom here he is
'Wonder if she'll ever get around to telling me what went down between her and my mom…I mean it couldn't be that bad, at least on her side if she was willing to look after me after I was born…even if she did later admit to planning to kill my Aunt and Uncle after I gained my spider powers and take me under her wing and possibly raise me to be her lover…' Peter thought as he and Mystique walked down a paced hallway filled with SHIELD agents and…
"You've gotta be fucking kidding me" Mystique muttered as she and Peter saw up ahead the approaching forms of Venom, Groot, Spectrum and Captain Marvel
"Please resist the urge to kill her" Peter whispered silently to the mutant terrorist next to him that's had a less than stellar history with the human Kree hybrid
"Only if you can make sure that Venom doesn't recognize you!" she whispered back sharply as she looked to see a hallway to her and Peter's left and gestured for him to follow
The duo quickly made their way down the hall, passing several more SHIELD agents before they came to another inner section. Mystique mentally mapped out where they were and frowned when she realized that they would have to pass through the crew's quarters to reach Miles and Miguel's current residence. She glanced at Peter and saw that he was leaning against the wall a little
"You alright?"
Peter nodded as he still felt a little dizzy "Yeah, just still a little sore is all. Who knew standing next to an exploding plane could hurt?"
Mystique rolled her eyes at this before she removed a small device from her belt and activated it "Miles and Miguel are still a long ways off and it's only a matter of minutes before those men in the elevator are discovered. We need a distraction, several in fact"
"What do you have in mind?" Peter asked carefully
The mutant terrorist glanced towards him with a dark grin that was somewhere between hot and terrifying "You didn't honestly think I came here, alone without first telling a few others that had a vested interest in you and your friends' freedom, did you?"
"Well who'd you call or bring?" Peter asked with interest before it was quickly replaced by some fear as Mystique smirked darkly at him
"You'll see…"
…
"I'm telling you man, this is complete crap!" and agent complained as he and his friend were making their way through the Heli Carrier's main hanger, filled with numerous air craft.
"What? The fact the hero community is tearing into itself again or the fact that your favorite hero is currently locked up and is about to be booted off to some prison facility?" the other agent asked dryly
"Both!" the man complained before they both heard something shuffling around in one of the nearby Quinn Jets
The lead agent narrowed his eyes slightly "What was that?"
"Two pilots getting frisky again?" his friend replied as they approached the jet with their hands drifting to their side arms and just reached to unlock the air craft's door when it suddenly opened
SNIKT!
SNIKT!
"Evening ladies…" a man with long dark hair grinned darkly as he steeped further into the light showing he was clad in a suit that was similar to the late Wolverine's and his current successor but with two large differences. The first was that the suit was red and black instead of yellow and blue, second the suit had no sleeves on it and his claws which were on display were bone, two erupting from the between the first and third knuckles of each hand and one from underneath the wrists
The two agents paled as they quickly recognized the man, Akihiro or more commonly know as-
Daken the son of the late Wolverine and every but as ferocious if not more so then the Canadian mutant
"Would either of you mind pointing me to the nearest restroom? Been coped up in here waiting for my sort of warden to give me the signal to leave and tear shit up in here" Daken said as the two men drew the weapons and aimed at his head "Could have just said no…"
And then, he charged
…
Steve Rogers held back a frown as he, Tony and T'Challa watched footage of Bucky Barnes and the three Spider-men being escorted into several SHIELD Quinn jets.
"Do we know who sent this?" T'Challa asked
Tony shook his head "No, I had PEPPER try to trace it but it started going through hundreds upon hundreds of routers, dummy accounts to the point it'll take days for her to finally trace this thing's origin"
"So what do we do?" Steve asked as he turned towards the two men "We can't just sit in here twiddling our thumbs while Carola and Maria lock up an innocent kid and out friends"
"I know, which is why I told everyone to load up and prepare for an all-out assault on Maria's Heli Carrier group" Tony said as he cracked his neck "And if I'm right, then Miles's friends will be there too"
"Do we have a plan of attack?" T'Challa questioned
Tony glanced towards Steve who nodded before bringing up the images of Maria's Heli Carrier strike group "So far we've been able to conclude that the three spiders and Barnes are on Maria's personal ship. Along with most of Carol's people. Originally, I was hoping to lead a small strike team to rescue them after they leave and the Heli Carrier group splits up, but right now it looks like they're staying together"
"Hmm…" T'Challa hummed as he studied the images before a thought crossed his mind "Do we know the whereabouts of the Thunderbolts?"
"No, but I'm willing to bet whoever sent this to us, may have shown it to them as well. Which means we may end up having some much needed back up or a third party to contend with" Steve said as his mind began to race through the possible outcomes of this raid
"First things first, we draw the heavy hitters away from the Carriers" Tony said as he brought up the images of Spectrum, Storm, Blue Marvel, the Human Torch and Jean Grey "Once that happens Steve, you and T'Challa can sneak aboard and get Peter, Miles and the future guy out of there"
"Assuming he hasn't already broken out by now and escaped with them" Steve pointed out "Peter's likely not going to be sitting idle in there"
"True but given his injuries and Maria being somewhat competent, I don't see him getting out of whatever cell she's thrown him into without some outside help or he somehow regains the power of Captain Universe again" Tony said as he cupped his chin in thought "Which come to think about it, how the hell is he able to gain that but can't life Thor's freakin hammer?"
"Either way, we need to get them out of there" Steve said as he turned towards T'Challa "Get the other's ready, we leave in twenty minutes"
The king of Wakanda gave Steve a slight nod and turned on his heel and made his way towards the rest of the people who sided with Tony, leaving said hero and Steve alone to stare at the images of the three Heli Carriers and the list of heroes that are confirmed to be there
"You know Steve, they're going to fight tooth and nail to keep us from getting him out of there" Tony said as he rubbed his brow in exhaustion, this conflict was really starting to take it's toll on him
"I know, but I'm not going to leave that kid to be locked up for something he might or might not do Tony. Plus, they have Barnes now…they've just made this very personal for me" Steve said as he studied the images before he let out a tired sigh "Jesus Christ Tony how the hell are we doing this all over again? I thought we learned our lesson the first time!"
"Yeah well you know what they say Cap, history has a habit of repeating itself" Tony said as he turned to leave "If you need me, I'll be getting my armor ready, something tells me I'm going to need to bring out the big guns this time around"
Steve let out a grunt of acknowledgement as he kept staring at the images before him as his mind ran over the events that have transpired up until now. Peter was beginning to prove to be more of a wild card then he anticipated, while he always knew that the chances of him entering this conflict were high given his protégé was involved, what he didn't expect was his joining the fray to be this big
'Even after all these years…he still finds a way to catch me by surprise' Steve thought with a small grin as he stared at the image of Peter being escorted into a Quinn Jet 'Based on his injuries and the strength of his healing factor, he'll still be recovering for another few days and this is assuming he won't be trying to find a way out and rescue the others…'
Originally Steve was planning to sneak aboard the Heli Carriers to rescue Bucky, partly out of sentiment and mainly to uncover the location of Kobik, the sentient cosmic cube that his plan hinged on re-acquiring
'Looks like I'll have to deal with Peter too…before he becomes an even larger problem down the road' Steve thought grimly as he turned away from the screens and left for his room to retrieve his shield and the rest of his gear…along with something else that Steve uncovered when he took an hour to explore this bunker that Tony's side had been using the past few days to recover
…
And done
Next chapter, all-out war as we enter the final stretch