Two new reviews! Nice.
Guest(SpideyXBC): Well originally, I had no plans for her, but your review definitely gave me an idea, now I'm not necessarily saying that she'll appear in this story, but she will pop up in the timeline down the line, but like Agent Venom, she won't appear in the Kaine Arc
Chiripa012: Well I've definitely thought about it, but She's kinda dead at the moment, so it's a maybe.
Delta Airlines, Queens, NYC, NY.
Saturday Morning, Sept. 11th, 8:00 a.m.
"Remember to call me if there's any kind of emergency you three, okay?" Aunt May said, looking at them all dearly, worry clear in her eyes.
"Yes Ma'am." They all said in unison.
"And no hanky-panky in the house! The last thing I need is one of you becoming a parent at your age, especially you, Peter. Spider-Man can't keep the city safe if he stuck at home taking care of a child." This shocked Peter and Ben, Jessica kind of already had a feeling that she knew, Aunt May was not stupid. "Oh! Did you two not realize that I already knew, Jessica, why didn't you inform them?"
"Because I wanted to see how long it would take for them to realize it themselves, Aunt May." she confessed, gaining looks of shock from her brothers. "Apparently they never did."
"Well surely they realized that I knew that you and Ben are clones, right?" Aunt May admitted, two giant bombs set off in one day, more like in one morning.
"What?!"
"Come on boys, don't act surprised, Peter when you first started you were way too sloppy, because you didn't pad your suit out like an amateur, even a blind man could tell that you were a teenager." She said. "Oh, I remember when I met you while you were in costume once, did you really expect me not to recognize my own nephew's voice?"
"Okay that explains how you know I'm Spider-Man, but what about Ben and Jess?"
"When those two showed up I was only a bit suspicious at the time but then Scarlet Spider and Arachne show up, who seemingly had the exact same powers as Spider-Man, so it was only a matter of connecting the dots, but to be completely sure, I drew blood from each and every single one of you while you were sleeping and had Phil here run a DNA test and it came back positive, except a little bit too positive, your genetic makeups were almost exactly the same, it would've made sense for Peter and Jessica, since they were supposed to be twins, it was Ben's blood that just didn't add up as he was supposed have a different mother, from there, the rest was a walk in the park."
"How long have you known?" He asked.
"Since the first day you started coming home with cuts and bruises, I played oblivious to make sure that you were always at your A game, but you're a smart boy, so I knew you'd realize what was going on if I had just completely stopped questioning as to why you were out so late so much, I did everything in my power to make sure that you were always in top shape so that you have the best chance to be able to drag yourself back home at the end of the day." She explained.
"But you realize we didn't tell you, right?!" Ben said, trying to avoid Aunt May blowing up like MJ did.
"Yes I do, you all believed that if you told me that I'd make you stop out of fear that I'd lose you like Ben, that I'd be upset that my nephew was Spider-Man, when in reality that's far from true." May then moved in front of Peter putting her hands on his shoulders. "Sure it took me some time to truly accept it, But I'm proud of the man you've become, I'm proud of the people that all three of you decided to be and if Ben were here I know he would be too, although Ben you have to know that while I may not be angry, it doesn't mean that Mary Jane doesn't have every right to be. Of course I understand that a tough decision was made to keep me safe, especially for someone my age, but if I were her, I would be angry too."
"But May I-"
"You two deliberately took it upon yourselves and decided to not allow her to be a part of this half of your lives, let alone know about it, and by doing so you took away her choice to decide whether or not she wanted to be a part of it." She interrupted him, unwilling to hear his excuse. "Now we all know she would have 100% wanted to be a part of it, that doesn't change the fact that you took away her choice. I understand you two wanted to keep us safe, especially after what happened to Gwen, but if Norman specifically targeted her then that means he knew Peter Parker was Spider-Man, so at that point in time, anyone Peter cared for was a target, we could have had the chance to be prepared if the day that he decided to come after us if we were simply informed that we were in danger in the first place, keeping that secret from us put us in more danger than not."
"I'm not saying that you let her go out and fight crime with you, but at least give her something to work with." She finished
"Flight 236 now boarding!"
"Oh, that sounds like us, grab the luggage, Phil! We've got the board soon!" She said, turning around raising her voice a little bit to attract the attention of Phil Coulson, who was dozing off in the nearby chair. "Please Ben, the next time you see her, just apologize, Mary Jane isn't someone who needs or wants constant protection 24/7, she's trying to become a reporter for Christ's sake, so believe me when I say that she wouldn't be doing half a things she does if she didn't think it out thoroughly first see, but please just do it, I know Gwen death haunts you but please don't let it affect your decision when it comes to Mary." She said before grabbing her bag and leaving to board the plane with Phil, kissing the three goodbye on the cheek, but just before she was too far away she said one more thing to Ben. "Before I go, I must say I love what you don't with your hair Ben, you should keep it that way, dirty blonde hair suits you."
As she walked away, Ben quickly ran to look into the nearest reflective surface to see that some of the blonde hair dye was indeed washed out, but he had to admit, it did look a lot better than complete blonde hair. But the conversation he just had flooded right back to the forefront of his mind. "Oh Aunt May, you have no idea just how much Gwen Stacy's death still haunts me"
S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, NYC, NY.
Saturday Morning, Sept. 11, 10:49 a.m.
"Wait dude, so you're telling me you've had a banging hot sister/clone thing this entire time and you didn't tell me?!" Sam asked shock, though still as crude as he could possibly be. "Seriously man, if we're going to be on a team together again, you got to tell me these things."
"One, she's a her, not a thing. Two, the reaction that you're having alone tells me that I was right not to tell you. Three, me having clones was not something that was on a needed to know basis for you guys." Peter responded as they all trekked through the SHIELD Helicarrier. "Also, I'm not rejoining the team, I'm just cooperating with SHIELD to find out what the hell exactly is Doc Ock up to, find him and kick his teeth in."
"And I thought Johnny was insensitive, but at least he has a heart, Buckethead over here is obviously an ass who sees women as nothing but objects, also call me a "thing" again and I'll cut off your balls and shove them up where the sun don't shine." Jess spoke up, having just met Nova and already hating his guts, much like Peter did.
"Yep. You're definitely Peter's clone, except way more feisty, if you plan to stick around, you'll fit right in here." Danny remarked, coming from around the corner with Luke. "Fury will probably be more than willing to give you a job aka keep a close eye on you."
"Is that why he sent the four of you to viciously attack me? Because the memory of the crazy glorified cat lady here clawing at me is still at the forefront of my mind." Ben commented before getting stepped in front of by Peter to stop Ava from bouncing on him.
"Move Parker! I need to teach Benjamin here a lesson about what happens when you call me a glorified cat lady!" She threatened, unleashing her claws.
"Y'know, I'm not even shocked that you're mad at that, but I am shocked that the fact that I just called you crazy doesn't bother you, as if you know that already." Ben yelped
"Yeah, Ava isn't the type of person you give nicknames to, the Bug and I know from experience." Nova said. "Besides, I'm sure Fury won't send us to hunt you down again, now that Pete here has cleared everything up and plus, during that incident, I remember you giving me the worst of it, but I decided to be the better person and help MJ get you to that warehouse, so the cops wouldn't find you at the school."
"You did WHAT?"
"Yep, I hope to get you out of that building and away from police custody, so I'd appreciate that thank you right about now."
"You're telling me that you deliberately let MJ, a civilian, run the risk of being seen with an unconscious vigilante instead of just taking me there yourself?!" Ben yelled.
"Well first, I didn't LET her do anything, everything she did at that time was of her own decision. Second, if it wasn't for her you would have been taken in by the police, UNMASKED by the way, and put to trial for the destruction of the school. Three, she's a legal adult, capable of making her own decisions and she decided to help you get the hell out of there!" He argued.
But before Ben could respond, Danny stepped in to diffuse the situation. "Alright, both of you calm down, Ben, Sam is right, this isn't a problem that you should be taking him up with, all he did was help, now can we please get to the debriefing room in peace?"
"Fine." They both said, putting it into the arguing, for now. Meanwhile, Peter and Jessica decided to hang back and out of earshot of the group, ensuring that none of them could hear the pair.
"Something's definitely up with Ben." Peter stated the obvious.
"I know."
"Do you have any idea what's up?"
"Other than the sky?"
"Oh God, you need to get laid. You're starting to sound like me and just because you're my clone doesn't mean that it isn't a bad thing." He said.
"I never thought that the day would come that YOU of all people would tell me to have sex, but I guess it took a tiger to finally rip up that wet blanket of yours." Peter put on a face of shock, he hadn't told anyone about that, so how the hell did she know? "Don't give me that face, I could sense the tension between you two from a mile away, I'm you remember? So I have knowledge of the exact type of women that you're into because I'm into them too, although unlike you, guys aren't exactly off the table for me. To put it in layman's terms, throughout that entire interaction back at the school, I got the constant feeling of awe from you, like you had no idea what to do when you laid eyes on her and took the quickest route that would get you as far away from her as possible, so what the heck did you do?"
"I uh, I may have taken her virginity?" He admitted, he finally got off his chest, it honestly felt good to tell someone else, even if it was technically just himself. "Though not on purpose."
"Ok? That's it? Peter it's not the first time you've taken a girl's v-card, or should I call Mary Jane or Kitty Pryde, or even resurrect Gwen Stacy?"
"I know! I know! But, for some reason this time is different, this feeling's unknown but yet so familiar and yet I can't seem to figure out what it is."
"Ugh, y'know Pete, sometimes you make me take the concept of "hating yourself" to a whole new level, you obviously like this girl, I know because that feeling is the same one I get whenever I think of Kitty or Johnny."
"You still have feelings for Kitty?"
"You don't?"
"Touché"
"I like how you question Kitty and not Johnny, it makes a girl wonder, Peter."
"It's a pure bromance."
"And now it's a romance now that I'm here."
"Gross."
"Oh shut up, I know you've thought about it." She reminded him of the fact that he knows about all of his previous thoughts. "About to get back to my main point, you obviously have feelings for this girl and you've let the vCard incident throw wrench in the progression of said feelings and possible future relationship, so the best advice that an objectively thinking you could give yourself, is you-preferably sometime soon-going up to her and patching it all up and leaving the incident in the past, capiche?"
"Yeah, I think I understand."
"Good, you're thinking, I've noticed you've been having a big lack of that lately." Peter sighed, Danny was right, she was a lot more sassy than he was. "To also answer your question about Ben, back when all of us were under Jackal's captivity, when Ben was found to be the perfect clone, Jackal would torture Ben by forcing him to constantly mentally relive the death of Gwen Stacy, but instead of making him relive that that one singular memory, he would allow Ben's mind think of solutions to save her with each attempt he made still resulting in her death. From what he told me, there were some instances where he would die with her and the messed up part was the fact that he considered those to be solutions, Jackal did all of that to him in an attempt to give him motivation to attempt to kill you, of course it failed, but it did break Ben, it took every single one of us to put him back together again even Kaine."
"You all would have never had to go through that if it wasn't for these powers." He stated.
"Yeah, but we also wouldn't be here and as traumatic as this life has been, I for one, am happier that I'm here than not." She admitted. "Give him time, as you can see the effects of that torture still lingers within him."
"Yeah. I can definitely see that."
I apologize if this chapter is shorter than usual, I was just in a rush to get this out, but I promise the next will be longer.