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Chapter Twenty-Nine: Rampaging Technoswarm
Peter's POV
I was dodging punches and cars before I landed but had to jump again when a Hot Dog Stand was thrown at me. I jumped onto the side of a building wondering why I have a hot dog in my hand right now.
I heard the villain say his name which was Juggernaut before I remembered what Fury said was that he escaped a high tech prison today. I jumped out of the way before I finally threw the hot dog over my shoulder when I landed on the street to dodge Juggernaut's punch.
He slammed a car out of the way when he charged at me and I waited to, hopefully, try out a new 'Spidey Tracer' that I made. Whatever it sticks to I can track or at least that's what I'm hoping it does.
I jumped putting my hand on Juggernaut's head/helmet where I stuck the Tracer that was in my left hand. I wasn't able to dodge the punch quick enough so I was thrown backwards into the air before he grabbed my left foot with his right hand.
I was glad that Tony shot Juggernaut in the back when he tried to crush me to death which was never fun. "What are you doing Spider-Man?" he asked me when he landed cracking the ground under him with the force.
"Glad you came" I told him and he nodded before I asked Juggernaut if he was confused "I call the best for help, hardly ever, but the best when I do" I said making him charge at us. I jumped out of the way telling Tony to jump away to but he only did when Juggernaut go too close for his liking.
Juggernaut ran into the building behind us when we jumped out of the way scaring pedestrians in the process. Tony told me to stay with Juggernaut while he secures the building and I know I should but I need to see if the Tracers really work.
I shot a web at a falling piece of the structure when it was about to hit two people sticking it to the building behind it. I shot webs at the structure that Juggernaut made a hole in when it was starting to collapse even with Iron Man helping to stable it.
I know I should be watching Juggernaut again but the lives of a lot of people rest on this building not collapsing as well. I shot a web at a car and a pole and pulled them to the hole sticking them with web so they would stay there.
Tony asked what I was doing and I told him that if the building collapses more than a few people would get hurt sooner than with the Juggernaut. Tony asked me, when he was next to me, what happened to keeping the Juggernaut busy and I told him that we can catch him any time with my Spidey Tracers.
I told him that I need to dial in the right frequency to see where he is but from what I can tell I accidently wrote in the wrong code making me ball my fist. I ended up on the news where Jameson was talking about catching the 'wall crawling menace' which made me turn the Wrist Comm. off.
Tony told me that it's not about the gadgets but his power being in his head making me ball my fists at my side again. 'You're lucky though Tony, you can still make gadgets' I thought sadly feeling my burns on my hands still from when I tried inventing again.
He told me to leave the show boating for later and I know that if I didn't have these gloves on my palms would be bleeding from how much I'm digging my nails in.
Time Skip: Stark Industries
I swung into a room in Stark Industries hoping to talk to Tony and tell him why I called in the first place since he didn't let me ask. I dodged a crane that was mad at me apparently and it smelled like Imitators of Miracles but since it's Tony's tech I figured he's mad at me.
I had landed on the wall when I had jumped and asked Tony why he hadn't texted or called or at least talked to me instead of trying to kill me with his own tech. I jumped down though to dodge the crane that's persistent on attacking me right now.
I shot a web at it hoping, but not thinking, it would stay there holding onto pipes but as I had thought it got out of it easily. I looked around and saw some scientists screaming as they ran away from more cranes so I'm guessing this isn't just Tony being mad at me like I had hoped was the reason.
I swung forward grabbing the duo of screaming scientists in order to save them from the attacking crane and wondering where Tony is before I dropped them off on a higher up platform. "What's happening here?" I asked them but I didn't get a response as quickly as I needed one so I don't think they know before I swung down again.
I saw that the cranes rebuilt themselves and I know this wouldn't be Tony's doing, he needs the cranes or at least the scientists do, and he needs the scientists to do work that he can't because of his schedule. I dodged the Laser that it decided to send my way before jumping to hide behind a pile of something when a shot was fired where I was just standing.
I shot a web at the robot's head where the Lasers were coming from but it didn't work because the Laser just cut the thing I was hiding behind and I couldn't dodge that quick enough. I landed under the Laser with barely a scratch from the aftermath of the explosion before I side jumped the first crane the attacked.
I dived doing a forward roll before shooting a web at one of the crane's two legs but was pulled forward by it and then smashed into the wall behind me when it pulled me back. My head was pulsating from the collision and the robot was a bit blurry so I couldn't tell where it was pointing before I saw a light and its' head was gone.
I saw another light and saw that the robot fell before Tony said that he never invited me here and asked why I was here when he landed in front of me. "Nice way to speak to someone who came to explain a misunderstanding Iron Man" I said before he told me to stay here and not get in the way.
I got up feeling lightheaded and everything was still blurry before I followed the smell I smelled earlier but this one has a tint of electricity and aftershave, definitely not a robot but maybe the controller. I watched Iron Man take down a robot making me sigh before I heard an annoyed and aggravated tone about dismissing his theories saying that they'll never work.
I saw a man with a suit that was spouting electricity and heard him say that his theories were the future and asked the air if his 'boss' was happy yet, I'm guessing his 'boss' is or was Tony. I shot a web at the man's helmet and pulled it towards me holding it before setting it down beside me in case Tony wants it or this man tries to take it.
He asked me what I was doing and I shrugged "you sounded hysterical so I tried to see if taking off the helmet would work, turns out it did" I said when he was on the ground and the doors opened. Iron Man asked if 'Michael' was out of his mind but apparently he was just out of patience instead which would make sense with Tony before I heard him speak bad about him.
Michael said that he was insignificant and that Tony wouldn't take a meeting with someone like that, I know that wouldn't be the only reason that Tony wouldn't accept a meeting from an employee though. Tony said that he wasn't too busy he just wasn't interested which sounds like Tony though that made the smell of pollution stronger than before.
Tony told him that his product wasn't ready for testing and from the damage he was right to think that before I gave Tony the helmet which he thanked me for before Michael spoke. Michael said that he wasn't trying to hurt anyone but teach Tony that he can control any tech as if it were an extension of his own body.
Tony said he was fired before Michael said that he was trying to prove something before Tony said that he was a self-centered egotistical maniac that has no regard for the safety of others. I feel like he's talking to me but I didn't bother mentioning that because I was still dizzy despite it being more than five minutes.
Michael yelled saying that it was my fault making me wince and I know Tony saw that before I pretended like that didn't happen not even a second later when I asked how it was. Michael said that Tony was a relic and that he was the revisionary and that once he takes over all Tony's tech he'll see that he's right.
Tony told him that he needs to have some dignity which I knew was the wrong thing to say because the smell on Michael got even worse. He turned the nozzle on his suit higher up and I'm guessing that's bad from the fact that he's glowing yellow, including his eyes, and floating in the air.
He got smaller to where he disappeared from view before an explosion happened, Tony moved his mask down and I had to dig my claws into the ground once I extended them. I felt bad about the floor because I was pushed back enough to leave tears in it.
When the aftermath stopped everything that was floating a while ago dropped, including Tony, and I got up walking over to him. He said, I think, absentmindedly that it was going to be a lot of paperwork so I told him I would help if he didn't mind the company.
Time Skip: Control Room in Stark Industries
I saw Tony working and decided to ask if he was trying to find where Michael went or not before he told me that I was correct as usual when it came to what he does. I flipped forward when I dropped down so I wouldn't hit my head again which was, thankfully, not dizzy anymore.
"Didn't his atoms scatter? I would think he'd be in a main computer or small one" I said and he nodded saying that he hopes that I'm wrong and that that's not where he is. Tony told me that Michael was making a man-machine that articulated on a sub subatomic level that cross matches muons in the human array that's similar to Richard's atomic strings.
I can follow this easily if I wanted to at the moment but that would take a while with how he's explaining it and I have to get back soon, I need to explain things though before I do that. "Can you explain that in smaller quantities? I do have a reason for coming here and not a lot of time to stay" I told him and he nodded saying that Michael's machine scattered his atoms and that he may be able to remake his body a particle at a time.
"So what is it that you came here for instead of texting or calling instead?" he asked me and I frowned because before he said that if I wanted to talk I could come here. "You really forgot that you said I could come here if I wanted to talk huh?" I asked before I shook my head slightly.
"The call I had earlier asking if you could come over and we ended up against the Juggernaut was because we haven't talked in months" I said before I got his attention. "I invented the Spidey Tracer to help SHIELD not to show off because I am not a showboat and I had thought you knew me better than to call me that" I said before he was about to speak.
"What I came here to explain really was that I had invented and wanted to try it out because my Aunt was getting worried when my tech was causing me damage and worrying her" I said before I finished. "Because of this I was thinking that if it didn't work this time, and since I got your opinion on it already, I would quit inventing altogether" I said before I walked out of the room.
I walked down the hall and a room caught my eye so I went in knowing that Tony's probably already mad at me I might as well look around. I connected the Spidey Tracer to the computer and changed the color before writing a note on a notepad close by.
'Since you're busy with Michael and all and can't hang out, before I quit inventing can you at least help with this and when it's fixed since I know you'll fix it completely if you do. You can give it to SHIELD as your own work I don't care about it right now anymore anyways.
Love,
Parker'
Is what I wrote on the paper, I left the room not long after thinking that the smell of Michael in the room was just his many atoms before I went to fix my mistake with the Juggernaut. I grabbed the Spidey Tracer knowing it won't work but might as well bring it with me, I had left the schematics in the computer so it should be fine.
Time Skip: With the Juggernaut
I jumped dodging him before I jumped again making him punch a Lamp Pole this time before I winced at the noise of the glass breaking when the Lamp Pole he punched hit the glass beside me. He told me I wasn't worth it and I know that from how Tony's been acting around me lately whenever I text him.
I told him that he's worth this trouble when he was running away, when I was about to go after him I never realized that not too long ago I had accidently dropped the Tracer on him. When I pressed a button when I saw the Tracer wasn't with me I saw a bunch of Spidey Tracers on Juggernaut's back which wasn't good.
I wasn't sure what was happening but I guess that's okay for now but I'll have to ask Tony for help if he'll answer my texts this time. I saw Juggernaut punch a Cement Truck to get the replicating Tracers off him but he broke it and the cement fell on top of him before I landed on the truck.
"I don't like this at all, I know he's mad but I have to tell him" I said aloud before I rode my Spider Cycle over to Stark Industries getting there at night time when he didn't answer and I got really worried. I walked over to the doors wondering if I was even allowed inside before I smelled something and jumped backwards right before Tony burst through the wall.
He said that they weren't his inventions and I knew he would still be mad at me for this when he asked me what I did making me sigh. "I guess you didn't notice the note or text if you're asking that Iron Man" I said so he asked again what I did.
"I had given you schematics in a computer room as well as a note saying that since I quit inventing you could fix what I did wrong and give to SHIELD as your idea if you want to once or if you fix it" I told him before a large mass of red and blue rose in front of me. I asked what that was even though I have an idea already my ears were still ringing and it started messing with my vision again so until I saw a light I didn't realize that it was about to attack me.
He asked me for a backstory and I told him that I had thought I felt Michael's presence in the room but they were atoms so I had dismissed it as his words earlier hitting home and nothing else. I shot webs at a small mass of Tracers before he asked me what I had done to the Tracers themselves so I told him I only changed the color and nothing else which didn't make sense to him with how different they are from before.
He told me that the ones we shoot split off and make more because they became self-replicating machines because of Michael from what I had said earlier. I shot at the Tracers when he said that they were using his armor as material which is something I feel even worse about.
I told him I have an idea and I know he's hesitant to believe that it's a good one because of all the mistakes I've made since the Juggernaut incident and I can't blame him for thinking that either. I jumped on my Cycle and told him to trust me despite not having any reason to before I pressed a button and a web shot from the back of my Cycle and onto him.
I rode my Cycle forward apologizing every two seconds before I ran it up something mushy and skidded it to a stop flinging Tony into a tank in front of me getting the Tracers off of him. When that was done though I said I was sorry again because he was slumped over before I saw a mass of Tracers in front of me again.
I shot webs at the mass and saw another one before I saw one again and again, shooting again and again. I asked if he has a plan and he told me that his suit was starting to malfunction and that if he got to his lab, well he didn't finish because some Tracers decided to make him float before I shot a web at him to keep him from floating away.
I pulled him to the ground not liking the fact that Tony was flying and pulling me with him right after he checked his Boot Repulsors. I felt bad for Tony because he didn't seem to have much control over his suit like he had told me so the ride was a bit bumpy but I can deal with that.
After the Cycle hit a bump I had to jump off and saw Tony head straight through the wall as I landed on it dropping the webs that were connected to him. "Are you okay? Besides the equipment and the two reinforced steel walls you had to blast through" I asked him looking down when I realized what I said out loud was a stupid question.
"Stupid thing to say sorry, so where did the Tracers go?" I asked him before I sighed when I smelled and heard them to my left turning to see them already gathering. "Wait Tony don't do that" I told him when he was about to blast them when they made a giant spider like creature, we had to jump back to dodge the arm the Tracers made before Tony shot them in the neck.
Tony asked me who was controlling them and I had to ask if that was a literal question that he doesn't know the answer to or one where he wants to see if I do. "If it's either it's Michael" I said before I was hit in the back with them which hurt a lot more than when they were alone because they were more condensed.
I was dizzy again and I definitely knew it was Michael from how hard the tech he controls hits enough to make me lightheaded as well as my vision blur. I didn't like that Tony had to carry me as he flew around since I don't think he fixed his armor yet which isn't good for him.
I looked back at the Tracers noticing that they seem a lot more vicious than the other ones where they were only being controlled. Tony sped up so I'm guessing he's heading to where he can change his armor.
We stopped and I could already tell that he'll hate me even more when I saw the armors that were destroyed in front of me and saw him pick up a helmet from one of them. "Guessing mad at me again? All the time you put in the work you did was ruined and can't be made up again, whether it's not the gadget that made it work in the first place is ruined or not" I said and he told me that he doesn't hate me never did.
"After you told me your reasons I realized I took a step or two too far in saying what I did, I never intended to make you quit inventing I was just worried" he told me and I nodded before Michael showed itself again. He told us that he was a new species and did something Tony was too afraid to do, crossing the line between man and machine.
I told it that it was my tech, whether I want it to be or not, and not Michael's before he told me that Michael no longer exists. I asked if he's named Swarm now before Tony said that that name wasn't too bad which made me look at him.
"The one thing I can do okay or right in is naming a Super Villain and you have no room to talk in creating them either Tony so don't say it" I told him and he closed him mouth which was about to say something. I shot Tazer Webs at Swarm when it tried attacking Tony when his armor failed activating it to where he exploded buying Tony even a little time in that.
"Worry about your suit Tony" I told him when he looked at me and then I was being chased by Swarm when I ran down the corridors. I jumped when I heard him about to land on my back or something since I can't think it was jumping when they don't have legs to actually do so.
I dropped on the floor from the ceiling when Swarm decided to attack me then and then I was surrounded by it so it was dark until I heard Repulsors. When I heard the Repulsors I knew that Tony came to help me and I saw that he was decked out in different parts of a variety of armor.
"As usual you're the best when it comes to tech" I told him before he thanked me for the compliment and said that if he gave up when something went wrong with his tech then he would've given up the hero gig a long time ago. I ran after him and jumped doing a backflip when we passed some doors to face it when we stopped.
He told me that since he did the improvising I have to figure out how to get his employee out of my tech which is easier said than done right now. I jumped out of the way with Tony when a hand figure decided to almost slam us, I had landed on the wall when I had jumped while Tony hovered in the air near the ceiling.
I didn't like that it was saying that he was going to take over everything and that it was Tony's tech "I may have wanted Tony to take credit but that was after he would fix the bugs in it" I said before it split into two smaller versions of Swarm. I did an air cartwheel while I shot two webs at the creature but it didn't work so I swung through it though it didn't seem to want that when it broke in half to let me through.
I swung and swung until Tony asked me if I thought of a plan yet and I shook my head since I didn't before I flipped onto a platform when he told me that when I have a plan I have to share it with him. He told me he's good when I asked if he was okay but his suit wasn't before he said we have to neutralize it before it gets bigger when it turned into a spider.
I told him that I'll think quickly but it'll take a while because I didn't make the changes that it's showing at the moment. I saw Tony shoot the creature twice along its back before he dodged two of its slashes.
I didn't like the fact that Tony was pushed out of the room and that put more pressure on me because I don't want anything bad to happen to him. I shot at the finger of its hand when I jumped over it to pull his hand down smashing it slightly before I was pulled back.
I was thrown to the roof of a building and I almost landed if not for landing wrong causing me to fall backwards and fell on top the roof. I jumped back down to ask Tony something, I asked him if they were still my tech and he said they were just modified somehow.
He told me to explain when he activated a force field and I told him I just have to simplify, downgrade my tech so it works for me like it should've in the first place. He asked me why that sounds like advice given from a wise and experienced hero which I answered "stop sounding smug Tony, it may fit you in the media and with everyone else but it does not fit the Tony I know that well" I told him.
I know a lot about Tony and the two act differently, he once told me that he rather act like how he does with Aunt May and me than he does around anyone else. Tony told me that my plan better work but not long after he said that did the Tracers on the left arm fall down to where they were basically useless.
It was only temporary because not long after that he gained back the Tracers which was something I didn't calculate. Tony grabbed my arm and told me that I only need more power to amplify the frequency.
I asked where we get the power from and he told me to use the Arc Reactor so I asked what the catch was which was getting uncomfortably close to Swarm, which I did not like the thought of. Tony told me to get on his back so I did before Michael said that Stark was his and I almost growled at him before Tony told me that we're going up and we did.
He asked me if I was ready for this so I asked him if anyone would be making him chuckle at me because of my tone of voice when I said it. He cut the power to his Repulsors and we dropped down into Swarm's mouth before we continued falling and that was definitely not comfortable.
I started the program to stop the bugs as soon as he told me to and I was worried when I saw only his glove disappear into Swarm me following not long after. The program started working and not long after the tech stopped working did I get up from the ground.
"I keep making a mess of things huh?" I asked and he nodded but told me that mess-ups are normal for young adults and below. He lifted the bottom of my mask and kissed me before putting it back down again telling me that he'll help me if I need help with my tech again.
Time Skip: Inside the Armory
I dropped from the ceiling when I heard Tony tell the bots to clean up all of the Tracers because he'll need every one to save Mr. Tan making me frown. "You do know that no matter how hard you try you might not be able to save him right?" I asked and he nodded.
"That pessimistic attitude is probably why your tech hasn't been working right" he told me when he retracted his face plate. "What damage has your tech caused anyway?" he asked me and I nodded pulling off my glove to show him the burn that looks like a large Leopard's spot around my hand.
He told me that he was sorry for not being there to help with my tech when I called for help but I shrugged saying it's no big deal before he gave me a broom which I smiled at. "I know it's not punishment since no matter what it is you like to help others but I need you to help clean out here and then my office, I love you Spider-Man" he told me and I nodded saying 'I love you to Iron Man' before I got started.
A/N: Hello, I finished writing this at 8:45 P.M. on September 11, 2016.
I do hope you like this chapter and will continue reading, see you next Monday.
