I, Pietro, and Wanda entered my house through the secret entrance, and I came into the room, surrounded by a lot of people, looking angry at me, but safe. At least they were safe. I may not be safe from them, but they were safe from any threats, and that was what mattered.
I deactivated my suit, and said "I surrender to my Doom." Then I realized what I said was stupid, because Doom was dead, so I added "well actually, no. I can't surrender to Doom, that's not happening. His body was disintegrated. I surrender to receive the Anti Karma. That's a pretty badass name, not gonna lie. Y'all wanna be the Anti Karma?"
Natalia punched me hard, on my nose, then said "What the fuck is wrong with you? You sent me away, leaving yourself alone, to fend against hundreds of agents! I was worried! What would happen if you died? You thought of that? No you didn't! I could have helped you! What would happen if you died? There wouldn't be any Melina, that's what!"
She hugged me, and I hugged her back, and patted her back reassuringly. "There was never any risk of me dying, Talia. But if you were there, you would have been in danger. I want to see Melina again, and all of my kids, Melina was the only name I learnt. But there can't be any Melina, if there's no Natasha."
"So we're in your house, but I don't know your name." Pietro said.
"Oh damn, my fault bro." I said. "My name is Peter. Peter Parker."
"You're the rich kid!" Pietro exclaimed. "I remember seeing you on the news when I was a kid!"
"Yeah." I said. "But I'm not really him, not anymore."
"That makes a whole lot of sense to him, Peter." Wanda said. She rolled her eyes. "I swear, in those memories, you never took the fast and easy way, you only ever took the way that put you in the highest possible position, no matter how much work it meant."
"What can I say?" I said, shrugging. "I'm a master planner at heart."
"What I'm worried about," Aunt May said "is that memories part. Peter?"
"Oh, right. Introductions, then you'll get it." I tapped Wanda's shoulder. "Wanda Maximoff, Mutant, has telekinetic and telepathic powers, and control over Hex and Chaos magic. Her mastery in those two arts of magic come from her Mutant genes, so her skill is unmatched except by mine, or will be, in the future, with lots of learning, and training. She attempted to get past my mental defenses, but failed, then tried again, and I purposely let her in, letting her see what I was. That was the sole point of me staying back, so I could get these two to safety. They were under HYDRA." Then I tapped Pietro. "Pietro Maximoff, her brother, has super speed, and that's basically it. Have you got your moniker yet, Pietro?"
"I was thinking Quicksilver, but I'm not sure."
"That is your moniker in every universe, good job for not making me give you your moniker."
"Just going to put this out there, then shut up." Sam said "At what point are we going to say the house is full?"
I shrugged, then said "This should be it, unless someone gets in trouble, and I need to pull them out of it. But I'm honestly not worried, we have a ship that can fit an army above us."
"And you didn't think of telling us that?" Ava asked, with crossed arms, and a raised eyebrow, giving the ultimate disappointed look.
"No?" I said weakly. "I mean, I woke up to a message from Thanos, then I sobbed my ass off, and I got new powers, and we argued about shit at breakfast, and I got Talia fixed up, then I came here, after fighting some agents that were the best at their job, apparently." I scoffed. "They didn't give me a chance to have fun, fucked up."
"What vulgar language!" Uncle Al exclaimed, in mock surprise. "I didn't know you were like this, Peter! I think I should break off your engagement to my daughter, what do you think, Nari?"
"I think" Aunt Nari said, glaring at Uncle Al, "that now is not the time, now is the time to show Peter his car."
"Uh, what?" I asked. Then I added in mock thoughtfulness, looking up, and putting my hand to my beard, "Never knew being a son-in-law was so good."
They all laughed. "Yes, being a son-in-law is that good, Peter" Uncle Al said. "Now get your ass to the garage, and look at the beauty of a car that used to be your dad's, and the beast of a car I got for you."
"I don't just get one, I get two!" I said, actually surprised. "Being a son-in-law isn't just good, it's fucking awesome!"
"Be happy you didn't end up like Al, Pete." Aunt Nari said "My parents gave him such a hard time, it was funny. We used to come home from my parents house, laughing all the while."
"It wasn't as funny for me as it was for you." Uncle Al said, as he opened the garage door with a flourish, and said "Go on in."
I walked in, and the lights turned on, and what I saw made my heart stop, in every sense of the word. I stopped breathing, and said "Someone, pinch me."
Johnny laughed, and said "It can't be that crazy, can it?" He walked through the door, and said "Holy shit, it is that crazy. And all you have to do to get this is be a son-in-law?"
"I don't know, bro." I said.
One of the cars was a DeLorean, with a badass paint job. It was black everywhere, but the doors were the same red as my suit, with a white web design, centering on where the handle should have been. The car logo that was supposed to be on the front bumper was my spider logo. There wasn't a handle, instead, there was simply a button. It turned on, and the doors opened smoothly, and I looked in, to see white web designs on the leather seats, on black, and the steering wheel wasn't a typical steering wheel, instead of three things connecting the wheel to the center, there were eight, in the same orientation as my spider logo, and tattoo. The inside was all in varying shades of black, white, and gray, giving a noir look. I just sunk in the car for a minute, then I jumped at Uncle Al and Aunt Nari, and gave them a hug, and in a voice that was rising several octaves by the moment, said "Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you! She's beautiful! Thank you!"
They both laughed as they hugged me back, and Uncle Al said mirroring the way I said it "You're welcome, you're welcome, you're welcome, you're welcome! But that's your dad's car, your Aunt Nari just designed the looks. You still have to take a closer look at the car I got you."
"The car we got him." Aunt Nari corrected.
"Yes, the car we got him." Uncle Al corrected himself.
I turned around, and took a closer look at the second car. It was a McLaren F1, and it had an even more badass paint job. It was black for the most part, with red web designs placed all over, and white web was snaking around the red, intertwining the two webs. The bumper logo was the same as the other car, but the focus was on the hood. The hood's web design centered on the hood ornament, but instead of the usual McLaren logo as the hood ornament, it had my spider logo, standing on the four lower legs. The spider was red, and had black lines on the border. I bent down on my knee, and reverently touched the spider, then the hood raised, and I peered in to see what was inside, and my heart stopped again. It was a beast of a Japanese engine, that I knew from my knowledge, that it cost at least five grand, one of my friends had these, but I couldn't remember the name. I touched her, and reverently passed my hand over her, then I stood up, and the hood slowly closed. I looked at the doors, their web designs were centered on the handle, and the button was shaped like my spider. The doors started opening, and I went to look inside. The seats were black leather, and had the red and white webs intertwined into each other. The steering wheel was a beast, while the DeLorean's wheel was noir, this was red, and the wheel itself was black, and there were actual red and white webs flowing out of the spider, and connecting to the wheel. The gear stick was red, and the manual gears (manual gears!) were arranged in the shape of my spider. On the roof, there was my spider logo in black, offset against red.
I got out of the car, and hugged Uncle Al and Aunt Nari again and said "She's a beast, for real. Thank you guys so much, so much, so much."
"That she is, Peter." Aunt Nari said "I had one of my relatives get me that engine, she was the strongest beast I could get. And Sexi made it so that it was ten times its original power, when we put it in there. And make sure you pop that hood when you're at school, the cars even have an incognito mode for when you're going out as Peter. But you'll love these two features. Sexi, blow his mind."
All of a sudden, the cars started rising a bit, and the wheels turned ninety degrees, and became repulsors. Johnny fainted, and I was close to fainting myself. The cars were floating for a while, then they went back down, and the car was back to being a car. Then the cars did a one eighty, and the back was facing us. The back of the DeLorean had a bumper sticker, that said 'The Beauty.' The license plate was SPIDER, and I loved it. The back of the McLaren had a bumper sticker that said 'The Beast.' The web designs were centered on the license plate and the license plate was KARMA.
I opened my eyes, not remembering that I closed them, and found myself on the couch, with everyone looking at me, smirking. I groaned, getting up slightly, and said "What happened?"
"Well," Aunt Nari said "you were looking at your car's license plate, and you just fainted, and fell onto the ground."
"KARMA," I said, reverently. "is there any other crazy surprises, and when did you guys get this done?"
"Turns out that your son-in-law having to go save the world really helps if you want to get him a gift, who knew?" Uncle Al said.
"That answered only one question." I said.
"Well, I'll let Ben and May answer that one." He said, and we all turned to look at Aunt May and Uncle Ben.
"Well," Aunt May began "turns out Sexi's nanobots are real helpful when you want to make a second floor to the garage."
"Johnny, did I hear that right?" I asked.
"I don't know, man." He said. "I think I heard something like there were probably more cars, but I don't think I should believe my ears."
"Was I just dreaming before, or was it really a DeLorean and a McLaren?"
"I think so."
I shook my head. "Someone, pinch me, please."
All of a sudden, my spider sense blared for a non lethal threat, and I felt a fist connect with my face. I looked at it for a second, then I looked up the fist, to see Tess's face, somehow looking amused, angry, and happy at the same time. I looked at her, then my face turned into confusion, and I said "What did I do, why are you angry?"
"Well, let's try talking about how you had Sexi lock us up, shall we?" She said, glaring, and I gulped. "You could have died today!"
"Tess, I'm the fucking Sorcerer Superior. No stupid agents can kill me, they're fucking puny. I was never in danger, I knew what I was doing, I know what I'm doing."
"Fine." She said. "Now go see your other cars."
"Other cars! Like multiple!" I said, and jumped up in excitement, and ran to the garage door. Once I got there, I realized something. "Wait, how do you go to the other floor of the garage?"
"I already switched which cars were on display, while you were out of it." Sexi said.
I opened the garage door, and then blinked three times. "Yo Johnny, you seeing this, bro?" I asked.
"I think I am." He said from next to me.
There were three (three!) cars. One of them was a Hummer H2, and it was in my colors, obviously. The bumper logo in the front didn't have my logo like the other two cars, it had my mask instead. Most of the body was black, but the hood was red, with a black outline of my logo on it, and white and black intertwined webs were behind the red spider with its black outline. The windows for the other two cars were tinted, but didn't have colored tints, like this one did. The windows on these were tinted red, with white webs on every other window, and the other windows had black webs. The doors started opening, but instead of opening to the side, or to the top, they were opening downwards, and revealing stairs. I looked inside, and what I saw blew my mind. The seats were leather, and each piece of leather was either red or black, no part of leather of one color touching another of the same color, and white webs were over the other colors. The steering wheel was like the McLaren's, but instead of red and white webs, they were white and black. The inside panels weren't red on black, like the combo on the outside, but it was black on red, and it was beautiful. I shook my head slowly, and turned and hugged Aunt May and Uncle Ben, and softly said "You guys didn't need to."
"Hey, we're thanking you for the world, Pete." Uncle Ben said. "And you definitely need some big cars, what with how you're already a family man, and your family is big." He winked. "Go along, check the next one."
I squeezed both of them slightly one last time, and turned back. The next car was an Escalade, the largest size. She was red, with black and white webs shooting from the front, and still shooting towards the back, but not going all the way, an adaptation to the usual fire design, but with my webs instead. The bumper logo wasn't my mask, it was red instead, with a black outline for the lenses, and the lenses itself was white. The doors started opening downwards, revealing stairs, but instead of simply black like the H2, it was red, with black borders. The inside was mostly the same as the H2, but the inside panels weren't red and black, they were just black, with white webs running through them.
I hugged them again, and said "I always used to tell my friends back in my old life, that if I had the money to spare, and I was a family man, I'd get myself an Escalade. Why are you giving me all this? Peter was supposed to get this, not me."
"Peter wouldn't have gotten this, Pete." Aunt May said. "I wouldn't ever trust him with a car, let alone cars, until he needed it. He wasn't mature enough. You shouldn't be getting such good cars this early either, but with your spider senses, we thought you could manage. And you earned this. You saved the world twice, in two weeks. And you're already working on saving it a third time, and a fourth time, and probably a fifth time too, I know you're already planning for at least the fourth. You deserve this, Peter. Now go and see your last car, then take one for a spin."
I turned around, and looked at the final car. It was a jeep limousine, and she was big. Probably could hold at least fifty people in there. The panels were interchanging black and red, and they had webs going across them towards the back, like the Escalade, but these were different colors. Some of the webs were white, and the others were black on the red panels, and red on the black panels. The logo on the bumper was my usual mask, but under the mask, my arms were in the Wakandan salute, but my stingers were out. On the side of the door, where it should have said the company name, or say something of the car, it said 'KARMA.' The mirrors were made in the shape of my hands in a thwipping motion. The doors started opening downwards, and the stairs weren't just any color, half of them were red, and the other half was black, and no two stairs that were next to each other were the same color, it interchanged. The black stairs had red and white intertwined webs on them, and the red stairs had black and white intertwined webs on them. The inside was beautiful, pretty much like the rest, but this one had red lights on the sides, and had white lights on the top, shaped like my spider logo, and it was huge. The inside had thousands of stuff, a TV, a bar, and a fridge, amongst other stuff. The fridge was awesome, it had a handle that was shaped like my spider logo. I got out of the limo, and hugged Aunt May and Uncle Ben, and said "This was too much."
"You save the world too much, does that mean you stop? Exactly." Aunt May shot back, and we all laughed.
"Look at the backs of the cars." Uncle Ben said.
The cars turned around, and the Hummer had my logo on the spare tire, and the license plate was SPIDER-BUGGY. The Escalade was black in the back, with white webs falling from the top of the back, and red drops of blood dripping down the webs, and the license plate was VENGEANCE, and the limo's was SPIDER-FAM.
"Wow." I said.
"Yes, wow. Now which car are you taking out for a spin first?" Uncle Ben asked.
I thought for a second, then said "Talia, you're taking the McLaren. I know you're more of a Ferrari girl, but this'll do. I'll take the DeLorean, and whoever wants to, can jump in, and we're spinning this for real."
"I was sincerely hoping you'd give me the McLaren." Nat said, and she gave me her fist, and said "Point Three."
I bumped her fist, and said "Point Three."
Liz said "Which cars are we gonna sit in?"
"Who wants to go?" I asked.
Everyone raised their hands.
I sighed. This was going to take a minute.
In the end, we put Ava, Okoye, Wanda, and Whitney in the McLaren, and Tess, Shuri, Liz, and Crystal came in the DeLorean, and everyone else was going on the H2, and Johnny was driving that.
I got in front of the door for the DeLorean, and as I was getting in, I said to Talia, who was getting into the McLaren, "This'll be fun."
She turned to face me, and said "Oh, it will. This Ferrari girl might just take your car, it looks hot."
I called Sexi. "Sexi, hun, the car has an incognito mode, right?"
"Yeah, but if we're going to go fast, we don't want to be in that mode." She said, confused.
"No, that's not what I want it for." I smirked. "Can you change the looks of the McLaren so it is black, and has Ferrari girl's logo, and has personalized looks for her temporarily?"
"You sure? I doubt you'll get the car back if you do." Both Nat and Sexi said at the same time.
"I can make another one, right? And if she likes the car, I could just make her a car, with tech, that'll be personalized for her, this is the trial."
"Ooh, ok." Sexi said, and within a moment, the McLaren turned black, with the red hourglass logo on the hood and the trunk, and the license plate said WIDOW.
"Hot." Nat said "you're making me a hotter version of this, Peter."
"Totally." I said, then I got into my car.
Crystal was in the shotgun, and the other three were in the back. "Why did she get to drive and I don't?" Tess complained.
"Because you haven't seen her drive yet. I have, and let me tell you, she will rock this. I won't be surprised if she uses the car to maul SHIELD agents when they attack us." I said.
"When?" Liz asked.
"Yes, when." I confirmed. "I told Sexi to make sure you guys get out safely when that happens, any non powered people in any car, without any powers, or training, will be transported out, with SHIELD not even knowing you were there in the first place."
"Goddamn," Shuri said "this man, and the thoroughness of his plans."
I rolled my eyes, and said "Sexi, get us in the open. It's going down for real."
Sexi said "Copy that."
The cars started lowering, and I saw the place where the rest of the cars were, and it was a beautiful garage, not going to lie. Then we went further down, and we ended up in an alley someplace in Manhattan. I connected to Natasha, and said "Talia, no cheating. We're not using the repulsors, until we run into SHIELD. To a fun night."
"Aww man, I thought you would forget to tell me that." She whined. "This car is so awesome, but I'm sure it's not as good as riding you. Wait that sounded weird. Ehh forget you heard that, everyone, except for Peter," queue a bunch of giggles from the comms that connected all three cars, as well as from the back of my car. "on risk of your life, or your ability to have kids." Everyone sobered immediately. "But yes, no repulsors, until later. To a fun night."
"Three!" Sexi called out. I ensured everyone in the car had their buckles on, I wasn't about to risk their lives.
"Two!" My hands were on the steering wheel, and my foot was on top of the pedal.
"One!" I switched my gear to drive.
"Go!" I revved the car, and spun out of the alley, and Nat did the same, and we started driving like crazy, seeing who could do this better.
We had been cutting through Manhattan for thirty minutes, when we found another car driving good, but not as fast as us, but he could definitely do faster. I took a look at his car, and I was surprised when I saw the license plate. It was STARK1. Oh this was going to be good.
"Talia, slow down, and get to the right side of Tony, and lower your window, and give him the peace sign." I said, nearly giggling with excitement.
"Let's have some fun." Nat said.
We both pulled next to Stark, and lowered our windows, and gave him the peace sign, and I said "How's it going, Spark?" And then we both revved up, daring Tony to play.
He took the bait, and revved his engine, getting up to us, and said "Let's do this shit!" And then he revved his engine even more, and got ahead of us.
I connected my car to his, so we could talk, and I said "You said it, Spark!" Then I revved up, and went past him.
"It's Stark, not Spark!" He said, and we started racing, all three of us toe to toe.
"I know! Let's get out of the city, don't want anyone getting hurt!" I said.
"Upstate!" Tony said. "First to Buffalo and back wins! Stark tower is the finish line!"
"Copy that, Spark!"
"Don't call me Spark!"
"Don't start the race without me!" Johnny screamed, and the Hummer came in line with us, all of us driving at around seventy, not being able to go more because of the traffic.
"We're going to Buffalo and back! Finish line is Spark's tower!" I said.
"Not Spark!"
"So Rhodes can be Honey bear, or Rhodey, but you can't be Spark, or Eddie bear?"
"I'll stick with Spark." He said in defeat.
"There's that Spark of light for our future, for the peace of the world!"
"Totally, because peace won't ruin our economy, or make us lose our companies!"
"You'll change your opinion soon, Tony. Just remember, you're not the only one, and I wish I could help you. But the future needs to have some paths set."
"What's that supposed to mean!"
"You'll know."
"Is he always this cryptic!?" He asked Nat.
"When he needs to be cryptic, or wants to, he is." She responded.
"That's annoying, but we're out of the city, so let's rev this shit!" He revved his engine, and went ahead, and the rest of us did the same, cutting through the cars, at nearly two hundred miles per hour, racing like there was no tomorrow, while screaming at each other.
Sixty two minutes later, we had gone to Buffalo, and back, and were a few minutes away from entering the city, when Sexi said "Dad, SHIELD, SWORD, HYDRA, and this group called the Mandarin is between us and the city."
"Let's get this shit!" Immediately, guns appeared on the side of the cars, and the others were transported out of there. We were preparing for war, driving all the while, and I said "Tony, get out of here! I'm not risking your ass!"
"Your car's not the only one with defenses!" He said, and his car started sporting arc reactors, ready to shoot.
"Don't!" I said. But honestly, this was a test. To see if the Iron Man would be born in this universe, which is why I didn't have Sexi get him out of here. "You're risking your ass, and you don't have enough weapons!"
"What do they have that can match Stark weapons?" He challenged. "I don't care man. I hate SHIELD, they've killed so many people for no reason, and far be it from me to deny them the chance to get beat up."
"Who do you know that they've killed? I know some, but I want to know who you know!"
"My dad had a close friend of his, that was a billionaire too. After my parents death, he used to visit frequently, and take care of me. He was a role model to me. He was my father, after Jarvis died. My dad never truly took care of me, but him and Jarvis did. When he died, I came back home from the funeral, crying, that was my last father figure. He scheduled that a message be sent to me after he died, and he said it wasn't my fault, and that he wished he could be there for me. I knew there was more to his death, and I found out that SHIELD killed him. His name was Richard Parker. And I'm about to beat SHIELD'S ass to the ground for killing him. He taught me what a good man was, and I owe it to him, he got me out of my hole when my dad died, when Jarvis died, when he was killed."
I secured our connection, and I said "I'm Peter, Tony. I'm his other son, in a way. Now what do you say, you stay safe, for me, for Dad, and I beat their asses for him, and everyone else they killed?"
We were going at only eighty at this point, going slower, so we could finish our talk before we got there. "I can't, Peter. I have to. I prepared all this, for when I had the chance to fight SHIELD, and not get into too much trouble for it. I made all this tech, but never revealed it, so they couldnt have it at all, or something similar. I even made a suit, I call it the Iron Man, and the suit's on its way here."
Ok, this world was crazy different. Iron man was born already, because of my dad. "We're doing this, together." I said.
"Together." He said. We revved our engines, and headed to battle. Nat revved her engine after us, and the Hummer was on autopilot, and Johnny was flying above us.
Sexi said "The Mandarin have a good amount of Stark Industries missiles, and they have advanced technology, so it will take me a minute to stop them, so they'll get close, don't worry too much, but don't take chances, and drive slightly out of their way."
We saw the missiles coming our way, so I pressed a button, and it activated the flying system, and I aimed my guns at the missiles, and started shooting, and all my bullets hit, exploding the missiles before they got the chance to come close.
"Or you can do that." Sexi said.
By now, we could see the Helicarrier in the distance, so I said "White, how far is the Home?"
"Right above the Helicarrier," Whitney said "SHIELD'S getting a big scare right now."
The Masque's Home decloaked, revealing itself, and it started shooting at the Helicarrier, not large shots, but more of announcing shots. The Home dwarfed the Helicarrier, in all her glory, and a floating ship was already scary cool.
"That's so cool!" Tony said. "Something that makes SHIELD look baby, is something nice to me, even if I don't know where it came from!"
"I'm responsible for her size, but not all the tech is mine." I said. "You couldn't see her, because she was cloaked, and my cloaking tech is one of a kind."
I saw the Iron Man suit on its way, a speck in the sky, and I smiled. This world wasn't real nice, but things worked out well here. "Your suit is almost here, Spark." I said, then I got out of the car, and stood on top of it, with my bows in my hand, loaded, getting ready to shoot.
The suit arrived, and Tony suited up, then he said "Ahh, this feels good. To finally use the suit for something other than test runs, and telling Fury to get out of my house. He came to me once, y'know, for this SHIELD thing called the Avengers. Did he talk to you about it?"
"He doesn't trust me, because he doesn't know whose face is under." I said. "Thankfully. But we have fought, this will be our third encounter, and last."
"Leave him for me, I want to punch him." Tony said. "But what are we doing about SHIELD itself?"
"I have someone that I trust not to go too far, hopefully she won't make the same mistakes as Fury."
"You trust me to take control of SHIELD?" Maria asked.
"Yes, usually, in the other universes, you take SHIELD after Fury. You're slightly better for the most part, and I trust that you will be better than your multiversal counterparts, this is the main universe, everyone here is their best or worst selves, hence, Fury being a shit we have to take down."
"You said slightly better." Maria said.
"You're not them. They would have agreed with Fury, but you didn't. That's why I trust you to be better. This whole thing, fighting SHIELD, was so that I could know my friends. I know who I can trust, and who I can't."
"How do you know I'm not a spy?"
"I know when even Fury lies, I can hear the heartbeats skip when one lies, or the added heartbeat, for some people."
"I hope I exceed your expectations."
"That's what we all hope for, Director." I said, then started shooting into the sky.
"What are you doing?" Johnny asked. "You're wasting arrows."
"Or am I?" I said, then explosions were heard in the distance.
"Leave them for me!" Nat said. "I'm about to drive them all to hell with your car, but if you shoot them al out of the sky before, I can't!"
"Fine, we're doing this the badass movie way." I said. "Shuri, you drive and shoot from Spark's car. Sam, get out of the Hummer, and fly with us. Tess, Wanda, you too. Hunter, Luke, Danny, Ava, Okes, grab onto the cars, and stay on the outside. Maria, you're driving the Hummer. White, you're driving the DeLorean. Aunt Sharon, should I even call you that? Anyways, you're gon' shoot the badass gun on the car's right side. Bobbi, just jump out the window, and start flying."
Everyone had gone to their positions as I said it, but Bobbi said "You crazy? I don't have a suit that gives me flying powers!"
"We all have the wings within us, we just have to take the first leap, and we will fly to the sky." I said, in a sagely voice.
"What the fuck are you on?" Bobbi asked.
"Maria, push her out of the car." I said. Maria did, not really knowing what I was on about, but trusting that I knew what I was doing.
Bobbi fell out of the car, but before she could hit the ground, wings popped out of her suit, and she was flying. "See, Mockingbird? The first leap!" I said.
She glared at me through her mask, then said "I really want to kill you know, but these wings feel really good, and there are more important things."
"Oh really? Like what?" I asked.
"The fight we're getting in."
"That's just a walk in the park, for me at least. I could do that stuff in my sleep. But Sexi, get your nanobots ready to take a picture of our badass entry."
"I already did that. What do you think I am?" She said, in mock surprise that I expected her to forget to take the picture.
Pride made its way into my voice. "I think you're my daughter, no one else would focus on getting the picture taken, rather than worrying about the battle. Oh wait, what about the cars? Will they scratch!?"
"No, they won't." She said seriously. "I saw this coming, so I made the cars out of adamantium, and made the paint infused into the metal. The cars would only be in danger, should they be in incognito mode. The holographic paint will receive scratches, so I turned the incognito off for the McLaren."
"Where did you get the adamantium from? Logan's claws, or something?"
"I produced it. Using the nanobots."
"Oh, makes sense."
"Why did you use this adamantium thing? Why not vibranium?" Shuri asked.
"Adamantium is slightly stronger, Shuri."
"Why are you guys talking about either metal casually?" Tony said.
"Let's just fight first, then we will make our way to my home, and we can talk there." I said, as the enemy was in view.
Everyone that was driving revved the engines, and the cars started going faster, going at nearly a hundred miles an hour. They started shooting at us, but I put a magical shield in front of us, stopping the bullets from hitting. Talia revved her engine even more, and went up to about two hundred miles per hour. I went faster, keeping up with her, and I got to her window, and looked at her. She was having the time of her life, she was just stepping on it, and smirking. "Natasha!" I called out. She looked at me, and I saluted, then jetted ahead of her.
"Asshole!" I heard her say in Russian.
"And you love it!" I called back. I reached the barricades, and started tossing agents, left and right, just having fun, not really trying. I looked up at the Helicarrier, and saw that it was being evacuated, escape pods were being shot out. I smirked, the Home did her job.
"Karma!" I heard Rumlow call, and I turned to look at him, tossing agents all the while.
"What's up, Rumlow?" I said.
"Winter Soldiers!" He said, and I saw a group of soldiers coming my way, six of them, all with masks on, and badass looks. I looked within them, and I saw Bucky. He was the last of them, or the one with the least rank.
I cracked my neck, preparing for a nice fight. I put my hand out, and gave the universal gesture of 'give me your best, c'mon.' They all came forward, and circled me.
In a flash, their leader attacked, and I dodged the attack, and immobilized him, it was pretty easy, what with my powers from Karnak. The others charged, and immobilized them efficiently, then when they were down, I used my magic on them, removing their mind control.
"I removed their mind control." I said, turning to face Rumlow.
"Then, HYDRA will retreat, and leave SWORD and SHIELD to face your wrath." He said.
"Did you even look in the air?" I asked. "There's a ship there, of my ally's, that dwarfs the Helicarrier. I don't even know how you think you're going to escape."
"Like this." He said, and a portal formed under him, but before he could fall in, I grabbed him and threw him away, knocking him out.
"Show yourself, traitor." I said, getting ready for a war using magic.
Two portals were made, and Baron Mordo and Kaecillius stepped out. "Do you not mean traitors, Sorcerer Superior?" Baron asked.
"You can't beat me yourselves, you know that. Who have you brought along with you?" I said, wanting to get on with this, the first fight for my life, truly.
"Oh, we brought more than just one person." Kaecillius said. "I don't know why you became the Sorcerer Superior, you're just a child."
As soon as he said that, I made ropes, and grabbed him by his limbs with four of them, and choked him with one. I released the one on his neck, but I took out the Ebony Blade, and sliced his head off.
I heard some clapping behind me, and I turned to see who it was. When I saw who it was, I paled considerably. I made shields on all of my spider legs, protecting me from all sides, and said "Mephisto."
"Finally, I have found a Peter that kills! This will be fun! Who have you lost?" He said, smirking all the while. Dormammu was standing next to him as well.
"No one. Are you surprised?" I said.
He looked at me in confusion, tilting his head slightly, and said "Why, yes I am. I don't believe it. A Peter that hasn't lost a person, and is fighting for his life, for his people? It doesn't add up." He looked even more closer, and then used magic to examine me.
He looked surprised, then he started laughing. "On the contrary, you have lost everyone! There is none left, how sad. There are no deals to be made. But he has heart for several people in this world, let's see if he will submit to you if they are in danger." He made several portals, and pulled several things out of them. They weren't things, I realized.
They were people.
They were my people.
He had Tess, he had Aunt May. He had Uncle Ben, Uncle Al, Aunt Nari, Shuri, Whitney, Hunter, Ned, Betty, Johnny, Tony, Ben Grimm, T'Challa, and Namor. He had Liz, Gwen, Crystal, Sue, Okoye, Bobbi, and Nat, and everyone else as well. They were all trapped in energy cages of sorts, and they were running out of air. But that wasn't the worst part.
He had Sexi.
Sexi was in his hands, he was choking her with his hands, and he said "Well, what will it be? Your daughter, or your surrender?"
"You know the answer, Mephisto. Let her go." I said, seething, but not able to do anything.
"There's the Peter we all know throughout the multiverse. Knew there was a reason you were chosen to enter this vessel." He said.
"Let. My. Daughter. Go. Now. Mephisto." I said.
"My, my, an angry one." He said. He dropped Sexi, and I rushed to her, and caught her before she could hit the ground.
"Sexi, are you ok? Karen SEXI Parker, are you ok?" I said, worried.
"Dad?" She said weakly. "I'm ok, don't worry."
"You're running out of time, Peter." Mephisto said. "C'mon with us."
"Don't go, Dad." Sexi pleaded. "Please dad."
"I'm sorry, sunshine." I put her down. "I will see you again, hopefully."
"Dad, don't!" She was nearly crying.
I shook my head. "It's you, and everyone else, or me."
She hugged me tightly, and I hugged her back, tighter. "When everyone else wakes up, tell them I love them, and I'm sorry. Give the McLaren to Talia, and personalize it for her. Put our picture of us going to war wherever you want. Bye, hun."
"Bye, Dad."
We hesitantly parted, and I looked at Mephisto, and said "What do you need me for, anyways?"
"Why you're the Sorcerer Superior. That much power is something I could use. And Dormammu here could use it too."
"You realize the power that you speak of could kill you, and lock you in your hell?" I challenged.
"Well, it would be funny to think of a Peter that would kill me at the cost of all his family. And you can't lock my hell."
"Who said the family would be in your grasp when I killed you? And you realize I'm also Spider-Man, I can use the Web Of Life."
"Are you telling me your plan before putting it to use? That is quite dumb. And here I thought we could have fun."
In a flash, I was at his neck, and I sliced it, then sliced his arm off, then I dug the blade into his chest again. I started using my magic, and I was floating in the air, in a cross legged sitting position. My clothes blasted off of me, weirdly, I wasn't really expecting that to happen, but my face and privates were cloaked by darkness. I searched through the multiverse, finding Mephisto's Hell, and locking it as well as I could, but it would last for only a couple years. Then I blasted the energy cages holding my family open, and then I put Dormammu in a cage. I sucked all the dark energy out of him, killing him, or this version of him, there was a different one in each universe. Then my rage found the Baron, and he was grabbed by four ropes of magic, and they pulled him so far apart that his limbs were ripped off of him, and he was just a torso, and a head. I made a magical blade like Dagger would, and sent it to Mordo, and it dug into his chest, killing him. Then my mind had enough, and I fell down from where I was, not being able to manage it anymore.
"Dad!" I heard Sexi call, and I was caught by her nanobots, and then I blacked out.
I woke up in my room, and groaned, then sat up. That was exhausting as fuck. Well, at least everyone was safe.
I was hugged immediately by... Basically everyone? They all literally were pouncing on me, and hugging me. I tried to hug them all back, and when my arms and legs went as far as they could, I said "Wow. I got a big family, my six foot legs can't even touch each other with all of y'all in between them."
"Dad, are you ok?" Sexi asked from where she was, basically in my left ear, squeezed in by the rest.
"I am only exhausted, sunshine. That's what fighting with magic does to you. Are you ok?"
"I washed my neck like twenty five times, I never want to feel his hands again. They felt so weird. And that arm of his kept on following you, and we couldn't stop it."
"It's my spoils of war." I said. "I cut it off so I could keep it, way better than having to keep his head for good."
The whole group shivered. "Ewww!" They all collectively said, and Sexi added "Is he stuck in hell forever, Dad?"
"That thing was from hell? Makes sense. But hell is for real?" Johnny said.
"Yes, he was from his hell, there is no Hell, with a capital H, there are only hells. And he isn't stuck forever, I may have killed him, but he just returns to his hell, and can come back again, but I did lock the hell, that was the first thing I did. But the lock will only last for several years, and we will fight again. I'm sorry I couldn't stop it from happening, I couldn't have locked his hell before I met him, sorry that I saved you so late, and that you were choking for so long."
Everyone groaned, and Nat said from my chest "I'm just going to kill you one of these days."
Everyone said "I know right!"
I scratched my head nervously. "Uhh, you know some people may not know why you guys are all angry at me, so don't get angry at me for asking you to explain it for Clint, but what did I do wrong?"
Clint wasn't hugging me, just watching us "I'm not confused as to why you're angry at him, he is! He just wanted to use me as a scapegoat!"
"They knew that, Birdbrain." I said, glaring at him.
"Oh." He gulped.
"Wait, did anyone see my face? Or my dick!? Please tell me no one saw my sausage, I will show it to whoever I want when I want, on my own terms, not when I'm not knocked out!" I said, panicking slightly.
"So your dick is more important than your face?" Tess asked. "I swear, I don't know why Aunt Nari is ok with you being her son-in-law."
"My identity will be revealed sooner or later, Tess. I have a whole multitude of protocols should that happen, but my dick isn't something I'm ready to show to the world. So was my dick shown or not?"
"Well," Nat said "we all saw it, I think. Sexi tried to catch you, but you were too hot, and you kept on melting her nanobots, and you were still falling. Then Johnny tried, but you were too hot for him too, and he couldn't hold you, he even burnt his hands trying. -"
"You good Johnny? Sorry that happened, I honestly didn't think about what would happen after I finished, I was stuck in the then." I apologized.
"Worry about yourself!" They all screamed at me.
I winced at that, and said "Is there a reason to ask the question? And even if you do, that loud?"
"Not really, no." Aunt Nari said "Things won't change, whether you scream at him or not, so just give up on him, kids, and adults. Continuing the story, when Johnny failed to catch you, Tess used some magic, I don't remember what it was, but it grabbed you. Sexi used her nanobots to make a shield around all of us, making sure no one could see our faces, ensuring your identity was safe. She kept several holes all around, to ensure your heat didn't affect us, but we were all sweating, like how hot were you? Then we were transported here. When we got here, you were still too hot, and we just spent the night watching over you, cooling you off as much as we could, but it was more of us cooling ourselves, you and Tess were just fine, what with your cross genetics. Gwen wasn't faring as well, but she was better than the rest of us. The only problem Tess had was that it was exhausting, and sweat was pooling on her forehead from the stress of holding you up with the ropes." "They're the Crimson Bands Of Cyttorak, Aunt Nari." "Thank you for the useful info, Tess. Ok, Peter, the Crimson Bands Of Cyttorak drew Tess's energy to the point that she had sweat pooling on her forehead, which I had to wipe off, and the name totally mattered, because if I didn't use it, you wouldn't know what I was talking about." This woman was savage. "But moving on, finally, around eight AM, you were cool enough to be on the bed, and not burn it to ashes, so we put you down, and Tess fainted. And now, it's six PM, and SHIELD is still under Fury's control, and while HYDRA was greatly depleted, they still have agents. After we left, apparently some people started killing HYDRA agents with prejudice, and then said something about how they got their revenge for what they were forced, and then disappeared without a trace, but Sexi was too worried to actually look for them. Oh, and we only put a blanket above you, so you're still naked."
"Can I ask you a question, Aunt Nari?" I said.
"You just did." She said. This woman wasn't savage, she was a beast.
"Why did you tell me the full story, complete with how Tess got hurt? If it was anyone else in this room, they would not have mentioned those parts, not wanting to worry me. But you were honest, and I appreciate that, but that's not something the rest in this room would do."
She sighed "I told you, Peter, because I know you'd appreciate it. You don't really need this information, but you'd prefer to know that you were this incapacitated, and you'd use this as a drive to get better, so I told you. I'm not dumb enough to think that just because you got us out this time, with all of us safe, that you'll be able to do it next time, just like that."
"Thank you, Aunt Nari. Answering your question, I think I was as hot as heat itself, I know that's not a thing, but I was drawing power from 674 dimensions, two universes, the Web itself, and 28 of those dimensions were fully heat, and a whole bunch of them had heat as a major factor of the power boost coming from them, I don't think my clothes ripped off, I think the heat and everything just turned them into nothing, and when you guys tried catching me, I already started cooling down, or I would have melted Johnny, like what happened to the nanobots. I guess I need to get a new suit, but I'm totally just going to use my noir suit for now, until SHIELD, SWORD, and HYDRA are taken care of."
"And the man starts planning again." Shuri said.
"Hey, I wasn't expecting to win last night, you know." I shot back. "It's just that things blew up beyond proportion, I thought I would get something merely annoying, like a mutant working for HYDRA, or the SWORD mutants, but I doubt that SWORD has their mutants already. Oh, or I would have had to fight Masters, that would have been rad! Or Deadpool! But I doubt he has been created yet. Sexi, search me a Wade Wilson, find him using the Canadian Army."
"He is done with the army." Sexi said. "He goes to this bar all the time, that's owned by this dude named Weasel, and they have this board, called the Dead Pool. That's the one?"
"Oh, that's the Merc With A Mouth all right." I said, chuckling to myself.
"Forgetting Deadpool," Ava said, glaring at me. "What the fuck!? You had us do a badass entrance, for a fight that we weren't going to win?"
"Yeah!" I said casually, as if it was obvious. "It's like that scene from Age Of Ultron! They had a badass entry in the beginning of the movie, but the true badass moment was when they had the last fight, several days later, or something! But that whole fiasco isn't happening in this universe, if I have anything to say about it."
"What's he on!?" Bobbi and Tony both asked.
"Oh, yeah, I still have to tell the new noobs my origin story." I said, and they both sputtered in indignation. "Hush, hush, you're all noobs, compared to me." Everyone glared at me, but Nat raised her eyebrows. "Well, except for Talia, Clint, and Okes. Everyone else is a noob. But all that stuff aside, let me tell my story."
I took a deep breath, and said "So the story I will tell you today, is about a multiverse, A moody teen, and his dudes and dudettes..."
After I told my story, Tony asked "So what do you identify as? Human male, or alien male, or just a thing, or what?"
I looked at him. "I identify as a human male, but I'm not a human, not really. While Tess and Gwen can say they're humans, and be safe, I can't, not really. I'm more of a soul and mind, placed in a human body, that has power, and responsibility, and the connection to the Web."
"Ok, what I think Stark meant to ask in his weird way," Sharon said "is what are you? Like which name is yours? Karma, Vengeance, Night, The Dark Knight, -"
"Yooooo, they call me that!?" I said, gleeful. "I'm so wearing my noir suit, and going out in my DeLorean, and pulling up to some Starbucks, and buying some coffee! Dark Knight vibes! I love this! I know I stole Vengeance from the Bat, but I was named the Dark Knight, and I'm not letting that name go! I'm going to get some cold brew right now! This is fucking awesome! I'm the Dark Knight now!"
"Before you go get your admittedly badass cup of cold brew," Nat said "What's so special about the whole Dark Knight thing?"
"I swear to god," Bobbi said "when I figure out what drug he uses, I'm totally buying it, even if it's a million dollars."
I handed her one of my granola bars, and said "I don't actually get my energy from this, but several bites of this should get a normal human as crazy as me." She took the bar, and took five big bites out of it, and then jumped up, and said "Yooooo, he isn't wrong! This is like a fucking drug, but it's actually only an energy bar! Do y'all got a treadmill!? I'm finna burn all of this energy away, then go to sleep!"
I facepalmed, and said "Maybe I shouldn't have done that, she's gone high." All of a sudden she shot a fist at me, which I dodged. "What was that for!?" I said, glaring at her.
"I wanted to see if I got any faster!" I looked at her like she was dumb, and she said "Don't look at me like that, dumbass. How do you live like this?"
"Honestly, I think you took a little too much, but I also have a very good control regimen. So it's possible I subconsciously control myself."
"Forgetting the lady on drugs," Tony said "you think you can give me some of that? I want to see if years of underage drinking will help me keep this up, and not be as stupid as her."
"No!" We all said, and I groaned. "She's going to ask me for a bar all the time now..." I whined.
"Forgetting your illegal drugs," Nat said "What was that about The Dark Knight?"
"One of the characters from a different franchise of comics. His name was Batman, and he was scared of bats, for some reason. That was his only weakness, other than his no-kill rule."
Everyone laughed, and I joined in.
"So you're telling me he named himself after his phobia?" Nat said, chuckling.
"Yep. Now, I'm off to get my coffee, this event will be written in the books of history!"
Everyone got off me, and I stood up, then I realized I didn't have any clothes on, and I said "Whoops." And blurred into my closet, and before anyone realized I moved, I was wearing clothes.
"How fast are you?" Pietro asked. "Only person I've ever seen move that fast is myself."
"That wasn't my fastest, I've never pushed my speed to its limits." I said.
"Woah." Pietro said.
"Yep, now coffee." I dug into my drawer, and pulled out a noir Parkerwatch, and wore it, then pressed a button, and I had a noir suit on, trench coat and all.
"Hot." Nat commented. I winked at her, and her finger twitched.
"Thinking of what you saw while he was out of it?" Tess asked.
"Obviously." Nat said, much to Tess's surprise. "How else are we going to have Melina, and her baby sister?"
"topics meant to be had in one-to-ones aside," I said "Sexi, can you change the DeLorean's license plate to DARK-KNIGHT for good? I think SPIDER is too basic, and I think this is a suitable replacement, no offense, Aunt Nari."
"None taken." She said. "We chose the license plate for the DeLorean the last, and we ran out of all the good names, so we put this one, and I expected you to change it. But had I known that you were known as the Dark Knight, I would have given you that for a license plate."
"Thanks Aunt Nari." I said, and I gave her a hug.
She hugged back, and said "No problem, go get your coffee."
"On it." I said as we parted, and I went to the garage, and got into the car, and headed for a Starbucks.
