We stepped through the portal, and found ourselves in the shadows, looking at Doom's Castle. I looked at Tess and nodded, and she nodded back. We sneaked through the shadows, finding our way into the castle through a vent. I closed my eyes, and used a locator spell that used the Web Of Life. I opened my eyes, and dropped from the vent, Tess following quietly. I slinked down the hallway, and once we hit a junction, I gestured to Tess that she go down that hallway, and the Four would be there, while I would go the other way, and face Doom. She shook her head, but when I nodded back vigorously, she nodded begrudgingly, and went down the way I sent her.

I went down the hallway, and found a door. I opened it, to see Doom, in full suit, with his back to me.

"Hello, Spider." Doom said.

"Hello, Victor." I said back. "I didn't focus on you when we met at Atlantis, and I'm sorry for that, I will kick your ass today. Works for you?"

"It will be me doing the ass kicking today, Karma."

"And what makes you so sure? Karma always finds his way to get his vengeance, and you're getting it today."

"Oh, I think you'll find yourself mistaken. Look at this toy I got from SHIELD, given by the HYDRA agents there, to defeat you." He turned around, and I saw what he had in his hands.

It was a mask.

But not any mask.

It was the Ant-Man suits mask.

Well, I'm fucked up. He has Pym Particles, which means I can't know what he is using against me, not really.

All of a sudden, I was being surrounded by nanobots, and they were grabbing me, and covering me. Once they all surrounded me, I could see again, and I heard Sexi say "Here, this should protect you from using those shrinking things he has."

"Thanks, hun." I said, and charged at Doom. He took a big hit from me, he wasn't fast enough to dodge my speed.

"Oh no, you won't want to attack me." He said.

"And why is that?" I said, getting ready to charge again.

"Look to the left, and you'll know why." I looked in the direction he pointed at, and saw a guillotine. I didn't understand why he said I wouldn't attack just because of a guillotine, but then Tess's voice came on my comms.

"Pete, I got Johnny and Reed, Ben is in Kamar-Taj." She said. "Sue isn't with them." Oh shit.

"Sue?" I said.

She turned her invisibility off. "Take care of him for good, Peter. It's going to be ok."

I shook my head. "I'm not going to kill him, at the price of your life."

Then I got a message from Sexi display on my HUD, saying that she messed up the guillotine controls, as well as Doom's inner suit controls, and that I could save Sue, and get Doom as well. I nodded my head minutely, and threw the Ebony Blade at Doom, while jumping myself at the guillotine, and destroying the blade, and releasing Sue. Doom somehow managed to dodge the blade, and tried picking it up, but he couldn't.

"It's magic." I told him. "You need to be worthy." I called the blade to my hand, and made my way to him. I sheathed my blade, and released a stinger, intending to give him a painful death. I was about to kill him, when Tess and the others came into the room.

"DON'T!" Reed screamed the moment he saw me.

"I have to." I said, and Reed threw his arm at me, as I dug my stinger into Doom. My stinger made its way through the arm, and I could feel it penetrate his flesh, then I released the venom into his bloodstream. I drew my stinger back, and ripped Doom's mask off. "I will meet your counterparts." I said "And they will face the same fate as you. Just remember," I deactivated my mask. "this is the face of Karma, the one who killed you."

"You're a mere child." He said, spasming from the venom. "The great Victor Von Doom, Prince of Latveria, lost to a child."

"Not any child, Doom. I am a child with knowledge, and knowledge can bring even the strongest to their knees."

"Make it easy, please. I know I can't live whatever you placed in my blood, but make it easy." He begged, as his veins started bulging.

"You touched my family once, Doom." I said, venom in my tone. I unleashed some fangs I didn't know I had, but I kept them out. "I taught you a lesson then, and I was willing to give you a chance to back down. But you didn't. Instead you kidnapped them, and you would have killed Sue. I think I'm fine with the pain you're getting, so I won't make it easy." I stood up, and turned around.

Reed was looking at me, horror in his eyes, and unbridled rage. Johnny was angry, but not at me, at Doom. He was looking at Doom with anger, and fire was licking his hands. Sue was just impartial to it all, somewhat. Like you could see several emotions in her look, but she wasn't drowning in emotion, like Johnny and Reed.

"How could you?" Reed asked me.

Johnny twirled to face Reed. "You're going to ask him that!? You're going to ask him how he could do that!? You're going to ask him why he saved my sister, who is his lover, or something, I don't even know! He did what he had to! To protect us, his family! What's wrong with you!?"

Reed faced Johnny. "Yeah, well he just killed a friend of mine! He didn't need to kill him! -"

"Actually, Reed, I did." I said, cutting him off. "You don't know what type of carnage this man can unleash, I've seen him become a god, and unleash such a hell on earth, you can't even imagine. -"

"How do we know we can believe you!" Reed shouted. "You're the only one spouting shit about the multiverse, and you're going around, killing people, saying you have to! You know what I think!? I think you're trying to get power! I think you want to kill all the people that are risks to your empire! I think you killed-"

"Reed!" Sue said. "Victor was your friend, but in these last few days, ever since we went on that trip that gave us powers, he wasn't your friend anymore. He had me in a guillotine, and would have killed me. I get it, Victor was your friend, but he no longer was. It was me, and Doom, or neither of us. But Peter wasn't going to let this happen again, so somehow, he managed to save me, and take care of Doom. I'm sorry this happened, Reed, but it had to."

Reed looked angrier than ever. "I'm done with you guys, give me a break." He went towards the door, but I used the Web Of Life to change the exit of the room to look like it was a door, while you couldn't go through it. He tried getting out, but when he couldn't, he turned to me. "What do you want, killer?"

"I can't let you go, Reed." I said regretfully. "I know where this'll end up, in a SHIELD Helicarrier, with a cup of tea, and Nick Fury, and my identity. You want to get out, you get out on my terms."

He glared at me. "You killed my friend, from when I was twelve. You don't get to tell me shit."

I bared my fangs. "I do, Reed. You want to hold a grudge against me, fine. I couldn't care less. You can punch me right now, and I won't fight back. You can beat me an inch away from death, and I'll let you, because you deserve the right to do that to me. But you risk my family, and the line is crossed." I let the door open. "You can walk out, on the condition you don't risk my family. It's your call, I'll let you beat me to a pulp, should you want. But family, is the line, and Doom paid for crossing it."

The moment I said that, he threw one of his stretchy arms at me in a punch, and punched me hard on the nose. "You killed my friend! And you have no remorse!" He went for another punch, and I did nothing to stop him.

"I do have remorse, Reed. But I don't have remorse that I killed Doom. I have remorse that the person I killed, is lost to his friends, and family. But honestly, him dying, is better than him going up to kill everyone." I was purposely riling him up, aiming to get him angry, and not have him carry aggression towards me after this.

Then Tess jumped at Reed, and threw him into a wall, that had webbing on it, and then webbed him up fully, saying "My brother may have let you try to beat the fucking McShit out of him, but I'm not going to let you do that. Stand down, Richards."

He struggled for a moment, then craned his neck towards me, as well as his hands, aiming to headbutt me. I braced for the blow, hearing my spider sense blare, then all of a sudden, it stopped blaring, and I was confused, the blow was still coming my way, when I realized. Johnny stopped him, holding his face and arms, and saying "Reed, snap out of it! I will use my powers on you if you don't! I don't get it, what the fuck is wrong with you!? I get it, you have a grudge against Peter, he won Sue over so much more easily than you did, but what is this!? He killed Doom, because he needed to! Do you want me to hurt you?"

"Do what you want, Johnny!" Reed said. "He deserves to die-" he started screaming from pain, as Johnny activated his powers.

"NOOO!" I screamed. "Johnny, enough!" I pushed Johnny away, even with him being on fire. I looked at Reed, who had a half burnt face, and burnt arms. "So, my first mistake happens." I said, sorrowful. "The Maker is born in my universe, because of me. Because I thought I could make him burn his anger against me." The Maker looked at me. "I can't bring myself to kill you, not yet. But I will imprison you, that's the least I can do, I can't let you go plague the multiverse, too much evil will come out of it." I made a portal to a pocket dimension, and threw The Maker in. Then I fell to my knees, and started sobbing softly.

All of a sudden, someone was hugging me. I listened to the heartbeat for a second, then said "Diamond? I'm sorry, I made a mistake." I started sobbing, and she pulled me into her, laying my head on her shoulder, while sitting down.

"Shhh, it's ok." She told me. "We all make mistakes, but what matters is how we fix it. And you did a pretty damn good job, you weren't even in your right headspace, and you haven't slept for a while, and you were worried. You couldn't bring yourself to kill someone who was Peter's family, and yours, to an extent. It's ok, hun. Just let it all out."

"I'm not worthy, Diamond." I told her. "I have all this knowledge, and I can't afford to make mistakes. If I could go back in time, and redo this last bit, I still would kill Doom, but I don't know how I could have stopped Reed. If I can't fix things, I'm not worthy."

"Peter." Okoye said, sitting next to us. "I told you before, you were always worthy. Crystal said it, we all make mistakes. And you can afford to make mistakes, you just have to lessen the amount of them, but it's fine for even you to make mistakes. You're not infallible. You're just the best of us, and you're still human."

"I'm supposed to be infallible, Okes. I have knowledge, of billions of different Peter Parkers, and I should have known this would happen."

"As generals and kings, Peter," she countered, "we study the past, to learn from it. We learn tactics, feints, weapons, and a whole lot of stuff. We calculate for every possible situation we can see, and there will always be paths we can't see, because we aren't the past. Remember, just a while ago, you were telling us that you were basically the Anti-Spider-Man, the only one who kills, when it's needed? You know what that means? That means you were in a position Peter was never in before. You didn't mess up, you hit a block, that you made the most out of. You came here, willing to kill Doom, and knowing you would kill him. The block came in the form of Reed, who was angry that you killed his friend, and that you had a higher position than him in his family. He got out of control, and you couldn't bring yourself to kill him, even though you knew you would have to eventually, so you kept him in a prison until you could bring yourself to kill him."

"Honestly," Sue said, joining the weird group sitting on the floor, which Hunter, Tess, and Whitney joined in at one point, "if you killed Reed, or didn't show regret that you had to imprison him, I would be worried, Peter. Because that would mean you truly didn't have a heart. That you could just go on a friend like that, and not feel any negative emotions, that would be a man I couldn't trust. But you did what you had to, Peter. Well done."

Whitney tapped me lightly on the shoulder, and said "C'mon Peter, get up. The Shadow Council is down, you took them out for good. It's time to go back home, to take your daughter to meet her grandparents for the first time, to walk out into the light, to leave the shadows. It will be all right, trust me, trust us."

Slowly, I stood up, then as I looked at the group, my eyes caught the sight of Doom's body, slumped up. Immediately I walked up to it, and picked it up, and said "I have to send a message to SHIELD, they outfitted him with weapons to try and kill me." And I activated my suit, and jetted into the sky, creating a hole in the ceiling.

"Well, that's one way to get out." I heard Tess say amusedly into the comms. "Stay safe, and don't get into too many fights without us."

"Don't worry." I said. "Get onto The Masque's Home, and drop everyone off where they want to go, but bring Sue, Johnny, White, Shuri, Hunter, Diamond, Okoye, and if T'Challa and Namor want to, then them too, to our house. And don't forget Sexi, I'll see you guys at home."

"Totally, but y'know, it's like Friday evening back in New York, so we can have the group from school come too, and we'll all chill for the full weekend at our house." Tess suggested.

"Oh, we will have a whole lot of fun." I said. "We're doing this. But I'm at the Helicarrier now, bye."

"Bye, and stay safe."

"I will." I said, then disconnected. I landed on the top of the Helicarrier, and punched the door open, activating a million alarms. Immediately I was surrounded by agents, all pointing their guns at me, and I said "Bold of you to assume you can do anything to defeat me. I just brought a gift for y'all, and a warning." I dropped the body on the floor, and several of the agents gasped. "Y'all gave him some Pym Particles so he could try and kill me, and look how that fared. You do funny shit again, either organizations, and my schedule will move up, big time. Karma doesn't back down in the face of his enemies, he deals with them, until he looks like this." I gestured to the body.

Then some space was made in the middle of the sea of agents, and I tensed. Eventually, the group they made space for came up, and it was Fury, Pierce, Natasha, Clint, Luke, Danny, Sam, and Ava.

"Well, what do we have here?" I said. "The director of SHIELD, Nicholas, and the director of HYDRA, Alexander Pierce, and ex Red Room assassin, Natasha, Clint Barton, and the children of several people that were killed by SHIELD! Is there anyone worth mentioning that I'm missing?"

"My parents weren't killed by SHIELD, they worked for SHIELD." Luke said.

"And so did mine. They worked for SHIELD. And if you look at the database inside Fury's eye patch, you'll see he knew of the attack by Zodiac beforehand, and did nothing about it, even made it easier for them. Your parents, Luke, were killed by Fury, and so was Hector." I turned to Ava. "I met Kraven several hours ago, and defeated him, but I didn't kill him, I left that for you, when you would want to. He told me that he killed your father on a SHIELD sanctioned mission, and your father knew that, and let himself die at the hands of Kraven, wanting you to be safe. But what your father didn't know, was that Fury wanted to be the knight in shining armor, so as to collect pawns, that he could use."

"You're lying." Luke said. "This doesn't make sense. How do you think you can say that? We've only been treated well by SHIELD, I don't believe you."

"He's telling the truth." Natasha said. "Instead of looking at the Spider as he spoke, you should have looked at Fury, and you would see his finger twitch at all the correct moments. And Pierce twitched when HYDRA was mentioned. The Spider tells the truth."

"Thank you, Natasha." I said, and she nodded. "Sunshine, can you hack Nicholas' eye patch again, and display the information? And display all the HYDRA information too."

Immediately, two holoprojections popped up, one displaying the information from the eye patch, and the other displaying HYDRA information.

I looked at the team, who were staring at the screen in shock, as it displayed a kill, or two, for each one of them. "I'm sorry for your losses." I sincerely said.

Nova turned to Fury. "You killed my baby sister! She had a life to live! Someone to fall in love with! A college to graduate from! She didn't even go to middle school yet! What type of a monster are you!?"

Hearing what Sam said, I growled at Fury. He looked at me, fear in his eyes. In a flash, I was holding him by his trench coat, growling all the while, the bottom of my mask deactivated so as to show my fangs. "You saw what happened to Doom, when he touched my baby sister. I will put some poison in you, then I'll hand you over to Nova."

I put a little bit of venom into him, a weak version, that would merely give him a whole lot of pain, then I tossed him at Nova, who proceeded to punch him with all the fury he had in his arms, not even bothering to utilize his powers, that's how angry he was.

Then the HYDRA agents started shooting at me, the others just looked hesitant. I just took the hits like a champ, and said "Sunshine, take off the majority of my suit, just leave my mask on."

"Badass mood, huh?" Sexi said, as she did as I asked.

"Is there ever any other mood?" I said, then ripped off my shirt, displaying my tattoo. Danny gasped at that, and I turned to him, and said "Yeah, I'm kinda like you, but not, at the same time." I turned back to the agents who were shooting at me. "But I'm gonna have fun bashing your little heads into the sky, as you realize, we're flying."

Their faces all blanched for a moment, and Pierce said "The cat's out of the bag, so I will say it. I am HYDRA. But you're going against HYDRA, and you won't come out alive."

"What, gon' use the Winter Soldiers on me?" I asked, and he twitched. "Buddy, Luke is stronger than the typical super soldier, and I could beat him with ease. Your soldiers won't be a problem for me."

"That's not all we have, Karma." Rumlow said. "What do you say to coming with us, and seeing your greatest fears?"

"So you already have the Maximoffs? Interesting."

I turned into a blur, and took care of all the agents shooting at me, I was getting tired of the pinches. The only HYDRA left were Pierce, and Rumlow. Rumlow looked at me, and charged at me, but he never got to me. Natasha kicked him in the head before he could do a thing.

"Ah, bitch!" I said in Russian, and Natasha looked at me in surprise. "That was mine!" I complained, still in Russian.

"Don't whine, you took care of everyone else." She responded, in Russian too. "You know Russian?" She asked.

"My mom." I responded. "She was the first Widow to escape."

"You're the grandchild." She said, in surprise.

"I prefer Karma, or Spidey, or Spider-Son-Of-A-Bitch, or Spider-Man, when in suit." I said.

"So I will get to see the one out of the suit?" She asked, surprised that I trusted her.

"I'm not taking SHIELD and HYDRA down for good in one day. I just saved the world, and I need to take a break for at least a week before I can do this again. Besides, Clint already told you, right?"

She turned to face Clint, then me, then Clint, then me again. "I knew there was a reason you told Clint that much! I didn't understand why you trusted him with the information, but now I get it!"

I smirked. "What can I say, planning is my expertise."

Luke cut in "Ok, while seeing Sam beat the shit out of Fury is very satisfying, we can't just stay here. Eventually reinforcements will arrive from the Triskellion, and you two speaking whatever you're speaking probably won't help, with all due respect."

"You said it, Luke." I said, then turned to Sam, and gently put a hand on his shoulder, and softly said "Live to fight another day, bro. He killed my parents too, and I'm lucky he didn't kill my sister. For now, we'll retreat, and fight another time." Sam stopped punching Fury, and I looked at Fury. "Keep in mind, Nicholas. Your Karma's coming, with an army."

I snapped my fingers, and said "Sunshine, cover them with nanobots, and conceal them, and take 'em to our house."

They all started getting covered, and then they were cloaked, and I activated my full suit, and we all went into the darkness of the sky, no one knowing where we went, and Sexi was introducing herself on the comms.

A minute later, we arrived at my house, and went in through a secret entrance that I had installed using my nanobots, while we were in Wakanda. We all popped into a corner in the living room, and found all the invitees, except for Namor, sitting around, waiting for us. Sexi was in between Aunt May and Uncle Ben, and Tess and Hunter were sitting with each other.

"I brought extras, folks!" I said, and they all looked at me.

"Petey!" Liz exclaimed, and she jumped at me, and gave me a kiss. I kissed her back, and when we parted, I said "Someone's happy, huh?"

"Idiot." She said, and jabbed her finger in my chest. "That was so not cool, giving us recordings to tell us how you were, but never accepting the calls."

"How the hell did you make the time?" Shuri asked frankly.

I looked at her, and said "I don't know, I guess that's how the time passed without me realizing, with me doing small stuff all the time." I turned to look at Gwen "You know, crazy thing. Me and Diamond figured out I could live for a week on a granola bar."

"Diamond?" Basically everyone that didn't see me in the past week asked, while the others except for T'Challa and Crystal said "Crystal didn't help you, what the actual fuck are you saying?"

Crystal giggled, then said "I kind of did, cuz if I didn't tell Tess he didn't eat, he would have thought it was only three or four days."

"See!" I said "She knows what I mean!" I grabbed some popcorn from a bowl that was sitting on the coffee table, and said "Anyways y'all, let's be cordial to our guests. They'll be staying here a while, I just broke them out if SHIELD.

"First up, horny lover boy." I pulled Clint out of the huddle, and said "I think we need to get him some grass skirts, what do you say, White?"

"Did he do his job well?" Whitney asked, smirking.

I turned to look at Natasha, then looked back at Whitney. "I'd say he did."

"Then I'll think about it." Whitney said, then patted the area next to her. "Come here, Clint."

Clint walked up to her, and sat down next to her, hugging her from the side, then parting from her.

"As you can clearly see," I said "spies are trained to the point where they're embarrassed by their emotions, and don't display them too much, even in front of friends and family, but I ran some tests, which I will play the recordings of after introductions, that their training doesn't effect their horniness."

Okoye, Shuri, and Whitney, and I all laughed, then I turned back to face the huddle. I pulled Natasha, and said "Next up, Natasha Romanov. Moniker is the Black Widow, and one of her was my teacher, friend, and trusted family member. She lived in the same facility that my mother lived in at one point, and she could kill you with her nail polish."

Shuri raised her hand, and I rolled my eyes. "Yes, Dudette?" I said.

"Why do you call her like that?"

"You're real descriptive right there, but in my past, some people I knew always used to talk like that, so I know what you asked. I call Natasha, Natasha, in that accent because she once told me that she wished someone would call her the right way, without it being tainted with evil, or perverts, or other stuff."

"That's not the only reason..." Natasha whispered to herself, and me, I'm pretty sure she knew I had enhanced senses.

"Then what's the real reason?" Both Shuri and Tess asked at the same time, with smirks on their faces. I looked at Shuri in confusion, and she said "I made myself some enhanced hearing earbuds, I knew I would need them in this party."

I facepalmed, and turned back to the huddle, and was going to choose another person to introduce, when Shuri pressed, "You didn't tell! What's the real reason?"

"Oh my god, Shuri!" I said. "Do you want to die!? You weren't meant to hear that, and neither was Tess! So pretend you didn't hear that, and be happy you're alive!"

"How did you know it was meant for you, huh?" Tess asked.

I blinked at Tess, as if it were obvious. "Other Natashas used to always whisper things like that to me."

"Explain, please?" Shuri asked.

"Go to Russia, and then come back, and we will think about telling you." Both me and Natasha said, then looked at each other. I gave Natasha my fist, and asked "Point one for Spy-ders?"

She bumped my fist. "Point one for Spy-ders." She confirmed, and sat down on one of the couches.

I shook my head, wondering why it was so easy for me to get her to be nice at first to me, that barely ever happened. "Ooh, Pete's under the lover spell!" Tess said.

I rolled my eyes, and said "You're literally sitting with Hunter, you're not one to talk."

"Good point." She said.

I rolled my eyes again, and turned back to the huddle, and pulled Luke out of the group.

"Luke Cage, Moniker Power Man. Has a different version of the super soldier serum within him, that makes him stronger than the typical super soldier, and indestructible skin. His parents were the creators of this serum, and SHIELD sent them to their death. But something no one knows, not even SHIELD, is that his parents are alive, and forcibly working with Zodiac, and me and Luke will get them out in about two weeks, if that's okay with you, Luke."

"Can we go any earlier?" He asked.

"How about one week? As soon as HYDRA is taken care of, we will just bust into the Zodiac base, and break your parents out, then we will take Zodiac out for good a week after that."

"That works." He said. I patted his shoulder encouragingly, and said "Go on, take a seat."

He took a seat, and then I turned back to the huddle. I thought for a second, then I pulled out Danny. "Danny Rand, Moniker Iron Fist. Another billionaire child, but I think he is more of a millionaire kid, not sure. SHIELD was responsible for the death of his parents, and he made his way to K'un-Lun somehow, and defeated a dragon there, and became the Iron Fist, one of many in a lineage. He has a dragon tattoo on his chest but it's got nothing on my spider tattoo." I took my suit off to display it, and then said "See, so much more cooler. But he is real Zen, and some advice from him never hurts. Go on, Danny, take a seat."

He took a seat, and I turned back to the huddle, and pulled Sam out. He still looked somewhat angry, but he was more calm than angry, so it was ok, unless someone pushed him. "Sam Alexander, Moniker Nova. Draws his powers from his helmet, a member of the Nova Corps, which is based in Xandar, that planet y'all have heard of from me so many times. Sam is cocky, annoying, thinks he's the leader, but he really is a good guy, and be nice to him, he just found out that SHIELD killed his mom and baby sister, that never even had the chance to go to middle school."

At that, Sexi got up, and hugged him, and he hugged her back slightly, surprised. "Dad said that when you lose someone, that position never really ever gets filled up again, but positions similar to it can get filled, and that makes it easier. So I know you're a little brother to dad, so how about you be Uncle Sam?"

"It works." He choked out, his voice clogged with tears.

I patted him on the shoulder, and gave him a bro hug. "I lost my baby sister too, Sam. She was four, and I never got to say bye to her. And I even met the person who ripped her away from me, and," my voice broke down slightly. "And I was powerless to do anything. One of the strongest people on Earth, and probably Xandar too, brought to his knees. I don't even know his name, he just told me he was responsible, and faded away. It gets better, bro. You just have to open your soul."

"Thank you." He said, and Sexi pulled him to a couch, and they sat there together.

"It's not a problem." I said, then added "Sexi, call him Uncle Buckethead, ok?"

"Copy that." She said, smirking, and we all gave a light laugh.

I turned to Ava, the only one remaining, and nodded at her. She stepped forward, and I said "Last, but definitely not the least, the only one other than me who can whip the boys into shape, Ava Ayala, AKA White Tiger. She draws power from an amulet made in K'un-Lun, much like the White Wolf amulet I sucked. She is strict, thinks fun is bad, but we're going to prove her wrong. But seriously, Ava," I turned to look at her "you don't need to be all study to control the Tiger. I have both spider and wolf instincts, and I don't use study as a control. You just have to talk to the tiger soul within you, and accept his or her presence, and be its friend. For more help on amulets, go to Hunter, the one sitting next to my sister."

She nodded, and said "Thanks." Then without waiting for an answer, she turned and sat down.

I rolled my eyes. "Every single one of you is the same, huh? Cold until you're not. It's kinda what I was expecting from you at this point."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Ava asked.

"That question will be answered in my self introduction, which I am about to do, let me just eat some popcorn first." I leaned down and made a point of eating the popcorn slowly, when Ava growled at me, and said "hurry up, Webhead."

I jumped immediately. "Finally!" I pumped my fist in the air. "Someone in this universe called me Webhead! But I will just get along with my intro now. So it all started with an itsy bitsy spider..."

"I thought it was a cow." Natasha said sarcastically.

"Shhh, Natasha," I said, pronouncing her name the American way, and she noticed, and frowned at me. "I'm telling a story, I have told many a time, and getting cut in the middle of my tale doth the bard no good to tell the story, and this story requires the greatest of attentions, it is confusing. Copy that, Natasha?" I used the correct pronunciation this time, so she smiled and said "Copy that"

"It all started with an itsy bitsy spider..."

Ten minutes later, everything was explained, and Liz said "Wow, Petey, how many times have you told your tale? You weren't kidding, this is nothing compared to the way you told us the first time."

"Yeah," Gwen said "it took him more than two hours that first time, and he just compressed the same story to ten minutes."

I shrugged. "I did it a bunch of times, I don't know how many times. But I have greatly improved my storytelling skills."

"Oh yeah?" Natasha challenged, and I groaned, much to her pleasure. Of course she would challenge me. "Then tell us, of the ventures of your grandfather."

Instantly, my mood soured. "Let's not talk about him." I said in a cross voice.

"What's the problem, huh?" Natasha said, thinking that it was just something I knew from Peter's mom. "Your mom was angry that he went down, and never forgave him for not saving her from the Room? There was nothing he-"

"That's not what it is, Natasha!" I exclaimed. "What's wrong, is that he's still fucking alive, stuck in ice! And he will get out of there, and nearly kill Stark! And I definitely like Stark way more than him, I don't even trust Rodgers. And I won't trust him when he comes out of the ice, not with my back, or anyone else's. Tony trusted him, they were buddies, but the moment it was revealed that Bucky was alive, and that he was mind controlled by HYDRA to be a Winter Soldier, and that he was responsible for Howard and Maria Stark's deaths, he attacked Tony! Tony wasn't even angry at Bucky! He was angry at Rodgers, for knowing that from before, and hiding it from him! That's why I don't want to talk about him! And I know that he will join HYDRA, and will be indirectly responsible for Stark's death, years after their original fight during the Bucky fiasco!"

After a moment, Natasha said "I shouldn't have pushed, I apologize."

I took a deep breath. "You didn't know, you couldn't have known, it's ok." I sat down, next to Crystal, and said "So, let's just ignore my rant, and watch Avatar's latest episode." Everyone started moving around, going to the places they wanted to be to watch. I called out. "Lizzy, come here. You too, Gwen, if you want."

They both got up, and sat around me, and Crystal placed her head on my shoulder. "You comfortable, Diamond?"

"Yep." She said, popping the p. She kissed my cheek softly, and said "You're one crazy guy, you know."

"And you love it." I said, smirking.

"I do." She said honestly.

I heard a slight whisper from Sexi, "When can I get Crystal's blood?"

I rolled my eyes. "Why don't you ask her yourself, Sexi?"

"Ask who what?" Crystal asked.

"She wants to ask you something, but it's personal." I said.

"So, table the discussion till later, right?" She asked for confirmation, and I nodded.

I looked at Sue and Okoye, who were looking at our group cuddle, and I said "Sue, Okes, why don't y'all join the group cuddle? You too, Natasha, if you want."

Sue and Okoye came over, and Natasha looked hesitant, then she said "Ehh, why not? It's going to happen sooner or later anyways, but I want a seat on the floor."

I looked at my legs, where there was empty space, and I looked back at her, and said "Get here before there's no space, then."

She sat on the floor in between my feet, and rested her head on my right leg. I heard Shuri whisper to Whitney "I an totally jealous of all that body heat in that cuddle of theirs."

Whitney whispered back "I know, right? Like no matter the amount of people, you're warm. If this his movie time, I am totally jealous of how he sleeps. Like no blankets needed, not even in winter!"

I rolled my eyes, and said "White, Dudette, please shut up. I can hear you- Wait! Before we start watching Avatar, we're watching Clint! Sexi, play the recording!"

"Of course! How could we forget?" Sexi said, and played the recording. When it finished, we all burst into laughter, and Natasha said "Clint, I didn't know you had that in you! I am totally saving that as your contact, 'horny lover boy.'"

Clint sputtered, then said "You're in between his legs, and you're telling me that?"

"Well, for one, I'm not feeling horny." Natasha said "This is really nice, and warm. And two, you know I can't have kids, so there's really no point in feeling horny for me, so I don't feel horny."

"Wait!" Clint said. "How are you two," he gestured at me and Tess "her children if she was a Widow?"

"She got out before the graduation ceremony, Clint." I said. "You're talking about Peggy Carter's daughter here, give her credit."

"Makes sense." He said.

"You bet it does." I said, then I tapped Natasha on the head softly. She looked at me, and I said in Russian "I can undo what they did to you, if you want. I knew I would meet you sooner or later, and it didn't really matter whether you had feelings for me or not, I wanted you to be happy, and to be able to hold your babies in your hands."

"This isn't a joke?" She asked, her eyes shining.

I shook my head, then said "You want to, we can go tomorrow to my lab, and we can get it done. Do you want it, Talia?"

"Talia?" She asked.

"Natalia Alianovna Romanov, short of Natalia is Talia, so Talia."

"What don't you know about me?"

"A lot of things, but I know a lot about you as well."

She nodded, and took a deep breath. "I'm down. But I know, that tomorrow, I will start double guessing it, and I will try to back out, don't let me."

"You said that in every universe." I said, smiling.

"And I tried to back out in every universe too, right?"

"Yes."

By now, the intro of the episode started playing, and we both focused our attention on the screen, and we started watching.