The only good thing that has transpired with Peter being caught in the Avengers fight was be was able to get Clint out of the Raft, a Super-max prison, and get him under house arrest.
Clint loves his family, and only thought of them and that's why he got involved in the war. So he was granted two years under house arrest instead of life in the Raft.
Peter couldn't do anything that could help the others out of the Raft, except Scott. He is still a kid after all.
Now he's on his way back home being escorted by Tony.
"What are you doing, a video diary?" Tony asks seeing his camera. "It's alright."
"More of a mission log." Peter tells him.
"Thought you were done with S.H.I.E.L.D." Tony recalls.
"Can't exactly erase the hundreds of missions." Peter explains.
"You know, maybe we should make an alibi video for your school anyway." Tony says. "We rolling? Get in the frame." He tells Peter.
Peter decides to go with it and holds his phone out so both of them are in frame.
"Hey, Coulson. How ya doing? You living well?" Tony asks, making a joke since he's not over the whole Coulson is alive thing that he learned when he found Spider-Man's identity. "Okay, you could edit that out. Let's start over."
"Oh, come on!" Happy exclaims angry at the drivers. "It's a freaking merge."
"This is because you're not on Queens Boulevard." Tony tells him. "See, Happy is hoping to get bumped up to assist management. He was forehead of security, before that he was a driver."
"That was a private conversation. I don't like joking about this. It was hard to talk about that." Happy tells Tony.
"No, seriously, was he snoring the whole trip?" Tony asks Peter.
"Here we are. End of the line." Happy says as the car stops and Peter sees he's home.
"Happy, can you give us a minute? Grab Peter's case out of the trunk." Tony tells Happy and that's something Peter didn't expect.
"Wait, I get to keep the suit?" Peter asks him, surprised by this.
"Yes, we were just talking about it." Tony says while placing his sunglasses on. "Look, I get you're an ex-S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent and you more than likely know what you're doing out there, but please don't do anything I would do. And don't do anything I would do. There's a gray area and that's where you operate." He explains.
"Yeah, keep my head down, but not too low, and not too high." Peter says since he's used to that area. Pick fights you know you can beat, don't pick fights you know you can't win. He lives in that area, literally.
"This it?" Happy asks from outside while holding the case.
"Seventh floor." Tony tells him.
"You know what. I'll take it up, you don't have to." Peter tells Happy.
"You'll take it? Thank you." Happy says and puts the case down.
"Well, I guess I'll see you around." Peter tells Tony.
"Yeah, you'll see me around." Tony promises before leaning across him and Peter has no idea what's happening and thinks it's a hug. "That's not a hug. I'm just grabbing the door for you." He explains to Peter while opening the door.
Peter then exits the vehicle. "We're not there yet. Good luck out there." Tony says and then they drive off.
"Strangest few days, and that's saying something." Peter mumbles to himself before heading inside.
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Peter makes it to his apartment and unlocks the door to see all the lights off except for one in the living room.
"Coulson, Ava, it's me." Peter calls out for them.
"Hey, kid, how was it?" Coulson asks.
"Strange. And that's saying something." Peter repeats himself as he drops the suit-case by the door. "How's everything at S.H.I.E.L.D.?"
"Things are going well. Right now, we're helping finish clean up the criminals that escaped from the Fridge." Coulson informs him.
"Anything on Norman?"
"Nothing except he's been stealing some technology from multiple tech companies."
"Where's Ava?" Peter asks looking to see she's not here.
"Actually, that's something we ended to talk about." Coulson tell him and now Peter's worried. "She's been acting...strange. Not like herself."
"I'll talk to her, where is she?" Peter asks.
"Out on patrol." Coulson tells him.
"Sweet. Gives me a chance to try out my new threads on the streets." Peter says and goes to the suitcase and puts on his new Spider-Man suit and leaps out the window to catch up with Ava.
"Of course Stark would make him a personalized suit." Coulson comments on the suit and should've guessed Stark would be done that.
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Peter starts swinging through the areas he and Ava usually cover at night.
"Tiger, you out there?" Peter calls into their com link and gets nothing back when his senses go off and something comes crashing down behind him. He quickly gets ready to fight whoever it is when he suddenly sees its Ava.
But...something is definitely wrong with her. Her hair that's usually combed out of her mask is a complete mess, and her amulet is glowing bright green.
"Okay, that's new." Peter comments before walking towards Ava. "Hey, Ava, what's up with your hair?" He asks her but only gets a growl from Ava before running off.
"What's gotten into her?" Peter asks and now sees why Coulson is worried about her and quickly chases after her. As Ava leaps up a building side, Peter webs her foot and yanks her to the ground and wraps her around a streetlight.
"Okay, I don't know if I missed something, but I was gone for a day. Snap out of it." Peter tells her when she suddenly does snap out of it.
"Peter? When'd you get back? And why am I upside down?" Ava asks Peter.
"Just got back." Peter tells her and let's her off the web. "Wanna explain what just happened?" He asks her.
"I..I don't remember. I remember going on our normal patrol route when I suddenly started hearing drums. Afterwards, I don't remember much."
"Drums? I didn't hear anything." Peter tells her.
"And what's with the new suit?" Ava asks him.
"Oh, it's a gift from Stark." Peter tells her.
"Let's just get home before Coulson gets worried." Ava says and she starts making her way home.
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What neither of them knew, someone already discovered the trial they constantly take.
Kraven the Hunter; murderer of Hector Ayala, the first White Tiger. And he's on their tail.
Or at least, hers.
-
The next morning, Peter describes what he saw the other night with Ava to Coulson/
"I am pretty sure she was literally growling. Like an actual tiger." Peter explains.
"That is strange, especially for her." Coulson agrees with him when Ava enters the room and they watch as she hasn't done anything with her hair as it looks like she just woke up. That, and she looks like she just died. Her eyes were baggy like she hasn't been sleeping as she walks up to the fridge.
That's when she took their carton of milk and drinks it whole before throwing it away.
"We're out of milk." Ava tells them and leaves the room leaving the two of them shocked.
"That just happened, right?" Peter asks Coulson.
"That just happened." Coulson assures him. "Keep an eye on her, I'll try to contact Fury." He tells Peter.
"On it." Peter says and rushes after Ava.
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Ava has already left back in to the city wearing her White Tiger suit and is going seriously native. Stalking civilians, turning more and more like a tiger.
Peter just keeps his distance knowing she does attacking up close than at a distance.
"Tiger, somethings wrong with you. You haven't been acting like yourself recently since I've gotten back." Peter tells her
"Yeah? What if I told you this is who I really am?" Ava asks him while pulling out her claws and stalking him. "What if I told you I'm done being the perfect agent just like you?"
"Because I'm at least acting human. I'm just worried this whole normal life isn't working out for you." Peter tells her.
"You won't understand what's going on, so leave me alone." Ava warns him before running off.
"I hope you have answers, uncle C." Peter says and runs off to find some answers.
But what Ava doesn't know, it's that she's running into Kraven's trap.
-
"Heard you're finally having trouble with your protege." Fury says from the computers.
"Yeah, she's been acting strange ever since I got back from Berlin." Peter tells him.
"Yeah, Nice work trashing the airport by the way." Fury replies.
"That wasn't me...you know, alone." Peter replies. "Back to the topic at hand, Ava." He goes back to the bad news.
"We've been worried about this being a possibility since we recruited her into S.H.I.E.L.D." Fury admits.
"Ava's power comes from the White Tiger amulet as you obviously know. And none of us know exactly how it works. And even she's only scratched the surface." Coulson says and pulls up the file they made on the amulet alone.
"Ava works constantly to keep her Tiger side in check. That's why I thought you would be the perfect agent to train her to be disciplined." Fury explains to Peter.
"Just like her father, the last White Tiger, and his father before him." Coulson finishes and pulls up Ava's family flies.
"Her father was killed by a hunter, wasn't he?" Peter asks, remembering Ava mentioning her father's death in Wakanda.
"If Ava has gone feral, you need to get her back to normal, and fast." Fury warns him.
"I'm on it Director...Directors?" Peter was saying but remembers Fury is no longer Director and Coulson is.
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Peter takes for the streets and pulls out the tracer that they placed on each other's suit so they could track each other if they were to be kidnapped.
"Central Park?" Peter asks, seeing where her tracker places her. "This cant be good." He mumbles before following the tracker.
As the sun sets, Peter makes it to where the tracker is leading him but can't see Tiger.
"Ava?" Peter whispers trying to find her when his senses alert him just in time to dodge an attack from Ava.
"You don't belong here!" Ava tells him.
"Ava, I don't know what's gotten into you, but whatever it is, we are both involved. Like it or not." Peter informs her.
"Stay out of it, Peter." Ava warns him before disappearing into the park.
"She's seriously loosing it." Peter says and chases after her when his senses warn she's about to walk into a trap.
"Tiger, down!" Peter warns and yanks her out of the way before several darts could hit her.
"At least one member of your pack has the survival instinct, unlike yourself." A deep accented voice says and Peter looks to see someone new. They see a tattooed behemoth of a man stepped out from behind the tree, clothed in teeth and skins and weaponry. "Drawn to the call of the wild like a moth to the flame."
"Kraven!" Ava calls out in anger.
"You know each other?" Peter asks getting back up.
"I have not come to hunt you, Spider." Kraven informs Peter.
"You go after my friends, you go after me." Peter replies to him, ready to fight this guy.
"You hunted my father down, like he was an animal. Now I'm gonna finish you!" Ava states to Kraven.
"Wait, this is the guy who killed your father?" Peter asks her. "I don't know why, I expected someone more...muscular." He admits.
Kraven throws blades in their direction and they both dodge it and Ava goes in to fight Kraven.
"You have resisted the song of the Savannah drums longer than either of the White Tiger's before you." Kraven admits as he pulls out a sphere to fight them. "But otherwise, I'm not impressed."
"That sounds like a challenge," Peter says as he swings in and shoots several webs at Kraven, "and I accept."
Kraven works fast and uses his sphere to dodge or block the webs.
"You know, I figured out who you remind me of!" Peter says as he cast out another web, this time aiming for one of Kraven's hands, but once more the sphere made a lightning fast appearance and cleaved through the sticky-tensile material.
Then the hunter was back, spear in one hand and a knife in the other. The different sized weapons should have been awkward and clunky, but Kraven handled them expertly.
The spear attacked Peter at a distance, while the knife swiped at him whenever the boy attempted to get within his reach.
"Did you ever see that show Danny Phantom?" Peter asks him.
Any attempt to web the man was met with the cool silver blades cutting through the webbing. The firm material didn't cut easily, but Kraven was practiced with slicing through bone, tusk, and horn and so he managed it.
"There was that one guy, Stalker or Sulker or something, had this whole 'Ghost Zone's greatest hunter bit'." Peter tells Kraven.
In one move Peter attempted to web both weapons at once, but with his hands occupied he was left open for the punishing kick Kraven leveled at his chest. The villain had cut through the webbing by the time Spider-Man got to his feet.
"Of course he never actually caught anything, always trying to go against the hero and all." Peter admits.
Kraven was strong. Not as strong as Deathlok.
"Wow, that was almost creepy, it's almost like they were predicting some sorta future you."
He was fast. Not as fast as Natasha.
"Oh, wait, not that I was threatening to turn you into a ghost or anything."
He was deliberate. Not as deliberate as Clint.
"Wow that analogy really went off the walls, huh?"
And he was disciplined. Not as disciplined as Melinda.
"I blame you, I need some feedback Krave-y, work with me here. Maybe you're just not a Danny Phantom fan." Peter finally finishes.
He fought more like beast than man, with the ferocity of a lion, the wildness of a grizzly, the desperation of a cornered beast. He was intuitive and skilled, every move made it clear that he had indeed fought his way through the whole animal kingdom, and apparently, a White Tiger.
"How about the classics? Can I call you Elmer Fudd?" Peter asks him.
Kraven responded to the question by landing a blow that sent Peter flying until he lay sprawled in the grass a good twenty yards away. The teen immediately jumped to his feet, instinctively scanning for a high point he could swing to in order to gain the high ground.
"News flash, it's wabbit season, not Tiger Season."
Nothing. Kraven had chosen one of the few areas in New York that wasn't surrounded by skyscrapers and tall apartment buildings, and the trees weren't quite tall or sturdy enough for him to really use them like he wanted. From the grin on his face, Kraven knew it too. Had planned it.
"Really, still nothing? With that introduction I really expected you to be more vocal." Peter tells him.
"You know nothing of hunting." Kraven sneered. "Noise is useless once you have flushed out your prey. I am stealth while you are a warbling bird, foolishly displaying proud colors that will not help you to hide."
"You're the one in the leopard leotard, Elmer, but sure stealth." Peter quips, feeling like he's getting better at them.
"Children." Kraven comments on his behavior. "Your father would have never taken the bait so easily. He was crafty, strong, he understood the power of the amulet."
"DON'T YOU TALK ABOUT MY FATHER, YOU SADISTIC FREAK!" Ava exclaimed, "You don't deserve to talk about him. You took him from me. Now I'm gonna finish you!"
The two then begin to fight and Ava seems to be more on attack than defense, which is mostly what Peter taught her.
"Give me the amulet and I will consider letting you and your friend live." Kraven tells her.
"We both know you won't." Ava reminds him. "You enjoy the hunt too much. Why do you want the amulet so badly anyway?" She finally asks.
"I want you to see what true powers looks like." Kraven tells her.
"Does it look anything like this?" Peter said before a he shoots his web-substance onto Kraven's eyes, temporarily blinding him. But once he did that, several traps with darts were activated and started shooting the two of them.
"Are you a crazy Hunter, or a crazy landscaper? Because you can't be both." Peter tells him.
"I am Kraven the Hunter! What I hunt, I consume. What I consume, I become." Kraven informs Peter while fighting Ava.
Peter then webs Ava and gets her a fair distance from Kraven and the two run from him.
"We need a plan or something. Hell, can we call Daisy for backup?" Peter asks knowing her help would be appreciated.
Peter's senses go off once more just in time for a dart to try and inject him but more keep coming at him and Ava is being blinded by anger and goes back in to fight Kraven.
"You're so afraid to unleash the true power of the amulet." Kraven says as Ava tries to attack him while dodging his sphere. "You're even weaker than your father."
Ava goes in to kick him but Kraven uses the opportunity to cut off her belt that holds her amulet and tosses her away.
Ava just activates another one of his traps, which this time is spikes at the end of a hole.
Before she could hit the spheres, Peter webs her and pulls her to safety.
"No kitty kabob tonight, Skuller." Peter tells Kraven as he places the amulet on.
The two heroes turned to see Kraven on the ground shaking like he was having a seizure.
"What's happenin' to him?" Peter asked Ava.
"It's too late, the tiger is free," she said as they saw tiger fangs grow where his canines were. "Run!"
They ran for a good while before they heard that familiar growl. They looked back to see Kraven still chasing them. He jumped from branch to branch with such grace, just like a tiger.
"I can feel it, I can feel the power coursing through my veins," He said with his voice sounding more and more like a growl, "This power is invigorating, it's perfection, it's-"
He was cut off by Peter webbing his mouth.
"We get it already, it's power." He groaned at annoyance by villains and their speeches.
Kraven's eyebrows scrunched as he ripped the webs off of his mouth. "Foolish child, you think your webs can hold the power of the amulet? Behold!"
He was starting to shake again. Only this time, the amulet was glowing and had changed shape. Kraven's skin was turning white and cut was starting to grow on it. Peter and Ava were frozen stiff at the site of this transformation.
The man before them was changing color and growing fur. When it had stopped, he was completely white with black stripes on his arms, legs and on the ends of his face.
Kraven had also grown. He'd grown two feet taller than he already was. He raised his head and looked down on the two teens.
They couldn't look away from the being right in front of them. Their enemy, Kraven the Hunter had turned into a seven foot tall anthropomorphic White Tiger with pants.
He let out a loud roar that shook the entire park.
"What happened to him?" Peter managed to get out even though he's paralyzed from fear for the first time in ever.
"The man is gone now," Ava explained, "He's all animal now."
She shook her head, grabbed Peter's hand and pulled on him to which the two of them started to run faster than they ever had. As they ran, they could feel the ground shaking from the creature that was chasing them.
Thinking quickly, Peter looped his arm around Ava's waist, shot a line on a branch, and the two swung up. Once on the branch, they looked down to see Kraven run right past the tree and sat down to catch their breath.
Peter looked over at Ava who had her head down with a face of disappointment.
"Ava, what's wrong?" He asked.
"It's over, Peter," She said shaking her head, "I can't fight Kraven. I don't any powers, I lost the amulet. And I'm nothing without it."
Peter was taken aback by that statement. How could she say that? After everything they've been through. "Ava, that's not true. You fought me off in multiple fights when I was Agent H, fought off Deathlok and dozens of Centipede soldiers. You didn't have the amulet through all of that, did you?"
"Well, no. But-"
"But nothing, you fought me, super soldiers, and HYDRA off using nothing but your skills and your courage, and sometimes the amulet helps. And that's what makes you the White Tiger, not the amulet. It's you, Ava Ayala, my partner and sister."
"Peter, they were not a giant tiger. How am I supposed to go up against Kraven like that?"
"Simple. One, avoid the claws on that bad kitty. Two, don't doubt yourself. And Three, don't forget that I've got your back every step of the way."
Once again Ava was amazed at the amount of selflessness coming from Peter, even when it isn't his fight, he chooses to fight it. And that put a smile on her face. It reminded the fire in her.
'Wait, fire?' she thought. She turned back towards the park and a grin slipped into her face.
"I've got an idea," she said turning back to look at Peter.
"Does this idea include our survival at the end?" Peter asked slightly worried.
"Only if we work together, like a team, like a family." Ava states.
"Like a family." Peter agrees to that.
Kraven was running, sniffing the air, hoping to find those two meddlesome brats. He sniffed the air and looked up at the trees. He growled and jumped up and started to climb. The scent was getting stronger now.
"Oh, Kravey Cat?" He heard a voice.
He turned to see Peter standing on a branch waving at him. Leaping off the tree, he jumped over to Spider-Man right before he jumped off.
"Ya miss me? Come on kitty, the party's this way!" Peter teased.
Kraven growled and chased him. Peter kept jumping from tree limb to tree limb, hoping that this plan of Ava would work. Peter's part was to get Kraven back to the trap, and she would take it from there.
As he got closer to the trap, he could hear Kraven gaining on him. So he tried to pick up the pace a bit until he was in a tree right above the campsite.
As he waited for White Tiger, he felt a thud on the branch he was on, then he felt breathing on the back of his neck. He turned around slowly to see Kraven towering over him.
"Um, nice kitty?" Peter said.
"Hey, Kraven!" Another voice said. They both turned to see Ava standing in another tree.
"You don't wanna eat spiders," Ava told him, "They get stuck in your teeth and give you cavities."
Kraven turned towards the tree but felt Spidey jump on his shoulders and grab onto his head.
"Oh you're making jokes now?!" Peter said.
He stayed on smacking Kraven on the head a few times before jumping off. Kraven growled again and turned to Peter before he felt someone push him off the branch.
As he started to fall, a web line caught him. He looked up to see Spider-Man holding the line and White Tiger standing next to him.
"Go get your amulet," Peter said, motioning his head at Kraven.
White Tiger put a hand on his shoulder before climbing down the line, being careful to avoid Kraven's swinging claws. she cut through the thick webs on the line and reached down to pick up the Tiger Amulet from his chest.
When she did, she climbed back up. Looking down, they could see Kraven slowly turning back into a human.
"Should I?" Peter asked.
"Go ahead," Ava replied knowing what he's thinking.
With them smiling under their masks, Peter let's go of the line and let Kraven fall to the ground below. Then the two climbed down and see he's been knocked out cold.
"Nice plan, Ava," Peter said.
"It was your leadership that helped me, Peter." Ava retorted.
"Family protects family." Peter tells her.
"Director Coulson, you should get another cell ready for another powered menace. We have some trash for you to pick up." Ava says into their com link.
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What the two didn't know, was at a abaondoed warehouse near the river, Norman was planning something big.
"You're crazy, Goblin." Electro informs the criminal. "You want me to believe that this thing can open doorways into other worlds?" He asks as Goblin puts the finishing touches on a small handheld device.
"This thing, Electro, is the Siege Perilous. A mystical key that'll allow us to enter parallel universes to our own." Goblin tells him through his suit. "Picture the endless possibilities. Multiple worlds, multiple possibilities to get revenge on Agent S, or as he's going by nowadays, Spider-Man."
"More than one of that annoying pain?" Electro asks as he can't stand the one, let alone multiple versions. "He's the last guy I want to see multiple versions of. This is crazy."
"I'm not asking you to help me, Electro." Goblin informs Electro before placing the device onto him and the Siege starts absorbing the man. "I'm telling you. I need more power because I'm going to be hunting all of the Spider-Men from across the multiverse. Then I'll gather all of their DNA for my personal Spider Army. All I need is a sample of Parker's DNA in order to start the hunt." He says and knows all he has to do is find the right moment to go after Spider-Man.
But why hunt the spider, when the spider can hunt you?
