AN: Enjoy!
"I have contingencies" Beck smirked, as he dangled from Peter's grasp. "E.D.I.T.H!"
A previously unseen drone fired, and Peter was sent flying, dropping Beck and colliding with the injured Vision, sending them both sprawling down the bridge.
As the drones broke into the Tower and the kids scattered, Happy grabbed a shield from a nearby suit of armour and attempted to hurl it at one of the drones. It immediately and unimpressively clattered to the floor.
"How does Cap do that?" He cried, annoyed.
"Well, He was a super soldier, you are not" Wanda pointed out, scarlet energy crackling around her hands as she prepared to fight. There was also the fact that Cap's shield was specially made from vibranium, but now wasn't the time for deeper explanations. With a flick of her fingers, she downed the first drone, but there were plenty more coming. "Go hide! I'll handle this.."
"Peter, are you alright?" Vision groaned.
"Yeah" Peter mumbled, getting to his feet. Although he was just as battered by this point, he planted himself between Beck and Vision.
"Peter.." Vision frowned.
"Don't worry, I've got this" Peter interrupted, before turning back to glare at Beck. "Just give me the damn glasses."
"You want these?" Beck taunted, holding up the glasses, as the drones surrounded him, creating a new illusion. "Well, come and get them!"
As the illusion surrounded himself and Vision, Peter froze up for a moment, haunted by his earlier experience with Beck's holograms.
"You can do this, Peter!" Vision called encouragingly. "Tony believed in you, and so do I!"
"Right.. Okay" He took a deep breath. "Come on Peter ting.. No, spider-senses. Come on, Spider-Senses!"
After another deep breath, and Peter took off at a run, dodging, weaving and bouncing off of the drones, damaging enough of them to slowly bring down the illusion, while dodging their fire at the same time, until the firing stopped, with the drones now simply trying, and failing, to block his way.
"Yes!" Vision cheered, struggling to his feet. "Go Peter, go!"
As Spider-Man grew closer to his goal, dangerously close, Beck began to panic.
"Why aren't these drones firing?!" He barked.
"You are in the strike zone. The chance of you getting getting hit is.."
"No! Fire all the drones now!" Beck roared.
Back in the Tower, MJ peeked out from her hiding place, watching Wanda do battle with the drones.
The Scarlet Witch in action was truly something amazing to behold, but she had still recently suffered a head wound, and seemed to be losing steam.
MJ clutched her mace a little tighter.
The Drones fired. Peter used a downed drone as a shield, deflecting some shots and using his newly honed spider-senses to dodge the others. Beck, however, after disregarding E.D.I.T.H's advice, was seemingly hit, falling to the ground.
"Beck!" Peter yelled, both angry and, true to his kind nature, slightly concerned, hobbled over to him. "You lied to me. I trusted you."
Vision kept his distance, letting Peter handle his own battle, but watched warily. Something didn't seem right..
"I know" Beck panted, holding out the glasses. "That's the worst part. You're a good person, Peter. Stark was right. You deserve these.."
Vision squinted, seeing a slight blur. Something definitely wasn't right.
"Peter, be careful!" He yelled, seconds before a gun fired.
Peter was had already turned, grabbing the shocked Beck's wrist, and causing him to drop his gun as the hologram on the ground flickered away.
"You can't trick me anymore" Peter scowled, snatching the glasses from Beck's face and quickly putting them on, letting Beck fall to the ground. "E.D.I.T.H, turn off the drones!"
"Bio-metric scan complete. Welcome back, Peter. Shall I execute cancellation protocols?"
"Do it!" Peter cried. "Execute them all!"
"Confirmed."
MJ, soon followed by Happy, burst out of her hiding place, rushing to Wanda's aid when suddenly, the drones halted their attack, beginning to retreat.
A proud smile crossed Wanda's face.
"Copi mei di fier. They did it.." Then Wanda had frozen, her smile falling away. At the edge of her mind, she felt a presence. Not an overly powerful one, but one that needed to be stopped all the same. "Happy, watch the kids. Tell Vision I'll be back soon, there's just one more thing I need to do.."
"What? Wanda, where are you.." Happy began, but Wanda had already taken off. "Oh, not again..
Now deposited safely on a roof, Maria Hill watched, slightly awestruck, as the drones headed back out into space. Harley, hovering nearby, punched the air.
"Children of Iron, Woo!"
"Thank you" Peter smiled, relieved. However, the smile quickly faded as he turned back to Beck, lying on the bridge in a very bad way. "How could you do all this?" Peter looked down at Beck in disbelief.
"You'll see" Beck murmured weakly, as Vision came to stand beside Peter, laying a comforting hand on his shoulder. "People need to believe, Peter.. and nowadays, you can make them believe in anything."
Beck gave a final rattling breath, then grew eerily still, his glassy eyes stared without seeing.
"Is he.." Peter gulped. "E.D.I.T.H, is this real?"
"All illusions are down, Peter."
Peter took a step closer, as if to check for himself, but couldn't bring himself to do it.
"V-Vision" Peter was shaking a little. "Can you.. Would you mind checking if he.."
Without another word, Vision stepped forward and knelt by Quentin Beck's body, wincing a little as he aggravated his wound. Felt for a pulse, and when he found none, rolled him on to his back and gently closed his eyes. Despite all the trouble he had caused, Vision would not disrespect him in death.
"He's gone, Peter" Vision said gently as he stood. "But I want to make sure you know that you've done nothing wrong. Beck brought this on himself."
"I-If I'd never messed up.."
"That doesn't matter now. You put it right. I'm proud of you, and Tony would have been too."
"You think so?" Peter asked hopefully.
Vision couldn't help pulling his little brother into a hug.
"I know so."