answers to reviewers questions or statements:
GodzillaSlayer1419: No, I don't.
matthorserider40: Who said he was dead? In mainstream Marvel she's no longer the biological daughter of Magneto, not sure why they made that move but oh well.
Jason Chanlder: Oh he'll be dealing with them all right, their black Queen specifically.
Triton0501: Ultimatum will go down very, very, very, very differently compared to what happened in the comics. Like when certain characters die, it won't be for 'edgy shock value', like you'll feel those deaths hit ya and be like 'goddamn, that hurts'.
centinel 432: Let's just say that neither side will be exactly thrilled with the revelation that there's another super powered race running around, this one more organized compared to the Mutants and more technologically advance compared to humanity.
Mr No Bo Dy: Peter's first meeting with Fury and his Ultimates will be very... rough.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel characters seen, used or mentioned.
In hindsight, Peter probably should've expected something like this to happen at some point.
Before the Inhuman Prince was given this assignment of tracking down his crazed uncle and dealing with him, or at the very least get him somewhere that Black Bolt could be summoned to and deal with him personally, Peter was aware that he'll be entering an arranged marriage with the daughter of the leader of the Inhumans that dwelled within the Inhuman city of Shangri-La. When Peter had sent word to Attilan about the cache of Terrigen crystals found in the Savage Land, his adoptive mother did mention that his wife to be, Xiaoyi Chen, had arrived and had taken an instant liking to Lockjaw and should possibly expect her to tag along with him should the teleporting hound ever decide to seek Peter out of his own volition.
It's just that Peter expected to meet Xiaoyi, who he'll later learn likes to be called Iso, would be when he was out and about in the world looking for Maximus and Lockjaw just randomly shows up... not within the master bedroom of Selene Gallio's penthouse when he was buried balls deep inside her.
"OH MY GOD!" Xiaoyi exclaimed in shock when the glare of Lockjaw's teleportation died down and thee young Inhuman beauty was met with the sight of her future husband, rutting with a pale skinned woman with hair as black as night and both drenched in sweat.
She immediately turned her back to them, blushing so hard her face seemed it was one degree away from catching fire.
"SHIT!" Peter said as he quickly grabbed a discarded pillow and used it to cover his groin as he practically leaped from the bed, leaving Selene, still on her hands and knees, wondering what in the ever loving fuck just happened.
One moment she was being fucked by her young Inhuman lover, the next, a flash of light blanketed the room and Selene was left face to face with a massive dog with some kind of tunic fork like protrusion on it's head and a young woman of Chinese or Tibetan descent dressed in a large shirt that was just a bit too small for her and just barely concealed her nether regions.
"LOCKJAW, WHAT THE FUCK!?" Peter yelled at the four legged Inhuman as he wildly gestured towards Xiaoyi.
Lockjaw glanced away from Selene, who was still looking at the large dog in confusion, and quirked his head at the Inhuman's gestures before he barked again.
"That doesn't help!" Peter groaned before he glanced at Xiaoyi and felt a blush creeping up his neck "Uh, I- um... uhhh, it's um... I-I'm sorry, but who are you?"
"Xiaoyi Chen" the woman revealed, her back still to Peter, Selene and Lockjaw "I'm... I'm to be your wife"
"Oh" Peter blinked at this before he winced at the impression she likely got from him just now "Uhhhh... nice... to meet you?"
"S-Same" Xaioyi seemed to be struggling to not look back "A-Are you... are you descent?"
"I like to think so" Peter coughed before he realized what she meant and quickly looked around for his clothes "Oh, uhhh give me like, one minute!"
"So I'm guessing that our fun is over for the night?" Selene asked dryly as she sat on her knees and glanced at both Peter and Xaioyi with a deadpanned look on her slightly red face, beads of sweating slowly falling down the side of her face and neck and towards the valley of her breasts.
"No we're going to keep going with my soon to be wife watching us" Peter said in a sarcastic tone as he quickly pulled the pants portion of his suit on "What do you think!?"
"We could" Selene said with a sigh as she climbed off her bed and slowly approached Xaioyi from behind "I apologize for meeting under these circumstances, had I known you'd be appearing tonight, I would've made myself a bit more presentable or made mine and Peter's rutting more open to a third party. My name is Selene Gallio, I'm the current Black Queen of the Hellfire Club and Peter's current mistress"
"It's... it's nice to meet you Miss Gallio-" Xaioyi began as she turned to stare at Selene before she saw that woman was still naked and quickly made to turn away again before the thousands year old Mutant reached out and cupped her chin and gently turned her head back towards her.
"There's no need to feel embarrassed my dear, I'm not" Selene said with a warm smile before her eyes flickered towards Peter as he pulled on he top portion of his suit before it was followed by his mask and gloves "Your husband on the other hand... I suppose this is not how he intended for you two to meet. Or you and I for that matter"
"It's not" Peter said once his suit was fully on and he turned to scowl at Lockjaw, who was busy roaming around Selene's room "Why'd you bring her here?"
"He wanted a snack I think" Xaioyi cleared her throat, drawing Peter's gaze towards her "A specific kind I think, since he wouldn't accept the ones I've been giving him. So I asked him to take me to where these special kinds are and... I ended up here"
Peter nodded at this before he glanced at Lockjaw and reached over to flick one of his ears "Jerk, you know exactly where your seal flavored biscuits are. Your just upset I had to give you a bath yesterday, aren't you!"
*WHOOOF!*
Lockjaw quirked his head at Peter before he hopped on Selene's bed before falling on to his side and began to roll around it with another bark. Selene made a face at this and quickly made her way to her closet for something to wear while Peter shook his head at the teleporting hound's antics.
"I swear you do this kind of stuff on purpose" Peter muttered before he turned to Xaioyi and gave her a small bow "Sorry about all of this, this was NOT how I intended our first meting to go"
"It's fine" Xaioyi said with a small smile as her eyes darted across Peter's suit.
It made him look a little bigger than he already was in real life, and it seemed to be made from a sort of flexible metal weaved fabric. She blushed a little when she saw that she could still make out a bulge in his groin area, it seemed that as tight as the suit was, it still gave a little. Peter seemed to notice Xaioyi's gaze and shifted himself a little so that he was facing her at an angle and wouldn't see his painfully slow deflating erection.
'Logan before he takes a shower, Logan before he takes a shower, Logan before he takes a shower' Peter mentally repeated as he tried to kill any lingering arousal he may still have.
Sadly, Xaioyi's appearance, and oh boy did she have an appearance, and attire made that a little difficult.
"So uh, what were you uh, doing, before you came here?" Peter said as he tried to keep his gaze focused on his future bride's face and not how tight her shirt clung to her, nor how great her legs looked "Aside from trying to help Lockjaw find something to eat, I mean"
"I was... I was planning to spend my first night in your- our bed" Xaioyi admitted with a embarrassed grin "I've been staying in a guest room until I was comfortable with you- our room"
"Very comfortable" Peter said as he found his gaze flicker down Xaioyi's body before darting back up to her face.
"And I see your making yourself... comfortable, outside of Attilan" Xaioyi said as her gaze flickered to Selene's walk-in closet.
"Y-Yeah" Peter coughed "Sorry about that"
"It's fine" Xaioyi said quickly as she focused on a unspecific point on the wall over Peter's shoulder "W-Will this... thing, you have with Miss Gallio, will it continue after we wed?"
"I... have no idea" Peter said as he shifted uncomfortably on his feet.
While he and Selene have joked about her being Peter's mistress and even a possible second wife, he's never actually considered if he want's their affair to last beyond his time spent outside of Attilan. He knew of course that he'll need to first see that Xaioyi will be fine with it before anything else, but until just a few minutes ago, he thought such a thing would be a long ways off...
'Whelp, I'm at the bridge now, might as well cross it while it's still on fire' Peter thought with a sigh before he cleared his throat "Would you... would you be okay with her?"
"What do you mean?" Xaioyi asked.
"Would you be okay with me being with her... while we're married?" Peter asked as he fought the urge to rub the back of his head "Like, a sorta royal... consort? Mistress? Someone to be with, along with you? I mean I can marry her too if that'll make it less... awkward"
"Oh" Xaioyi blinked "Well... um..."
Harems weren't exactly unheard of when it came to Inhuman monarchs, Peter's Great Grandfather had several wives and twice as many lovers during his reign and even during Black Bolt's early days as king, he was in a relationship with both Medusa AND his sister-in-law, Crystal up until Peter was adopted by them.
"I mean she's bisexual so if your into that sort of thing, you can sleep with her too if you want" Peter stammered out "Like your not interested in sex with me one night, you can have sex with her or the three of us can-"
"I'll think about it" Xaiyoi interrupted Peter before he could keep going, a blush growing a darker shade of red as Peter went.
"Aren't you both just precious, trying to figure out if you want a harem to emerge from all of this" Selene teased as she emerged from her closet, dressed in a black lace corset, equally black knee high open toed heeled boots and what looked like some sort of waist cape made of a sheer like material.
"Going somewhere?" Peter ignored the ancient Mutant's teasing and nodded at Selene's attire.
"Yes, as a matter of fact, I am" Selene said with a smirk as she placed a hand on her hip before she cocked it out, drawing Peter's eyes briefly to it before they refocused on her grinning face "Since my plans for tonight have been derailed, might as well do something productive and oversee a few of the Hellfire Club's operations currently being conducted. And get in touch with my counterpart the White Queen while I'm at it and see if she has any more info I can pass on to you in regards to Maximus' movements since his... breakaway, from Magneto's Brotherhood"
"Thanks" Peter said with a nod before adding "And uh, sorry, about not finishing"
"Your fine dear. We can resume later" Selene said with a giggle as she made her way to the bedroom door before stopping to glance at Lockjaw "And would you please wash my sheets before I return, I'm not a fan of dogs"
"What's wrong with dogs?" Xaioyi asked with a frown "Are you allergic?"
Selene shook her head "No, but I was once mauled by a pack of them a hundred years ago and have since grown a aversion to their kind. It's hard to find them cute and cuddly when I once had half my face ripped off by a rabid Doberman while a malnourished Shepard gnawed my fingers down to the second knuckle"
"...Ehh that's a fair point" Peter said, causing Selene to nod before she exited the room, leaving the three Inhumans alone for the moment.
Lockjaw continued to toss and turn on the bed, barking in excitement before he scrambled to his feet, his nails tearing into Selene's sheets and causing Peter to wince, and rushed out of the room and into the hall outside. Peter really hoped he didn't knock anything over while he was exploring the rest of Selene's home, those sheets were gonna be a pain to replace in of themselves.
'On that note, trim Lockjaw's nails' Peter thought before he noticed that his soon to be wife was... looking at him.
Well now she was adverting her gaze now that she saw that he saw she was looking at him. She was also blushing a bit, likely at being caught staring and... well being dressed in only a shirt. He could tell that she wasn't wearing anything else and now that he thought about it, that shirt she had on...
"Is that... are you wearing one of my shirts?" Peter said after a few minutes of awkward silence between the pair.
"Y-Yes... I didn't have anything else to sleep in and it looked... comfy" Xaioyi said as she fiddled with the hem of Peter's shirt, trying to fight down the blush she was still sporting.
"Oh... well um, I'm glad you uh liked it" Peter said as he swallowed a few times to try and keep his mouth from being any drier at the moment for some reason.
The last person that wore a shirt of his was Ororo, and that was after Peter had... well done a little bit of improving Inhuman and Mutant relations.
'Though she does look good in it' Peter thought as he found his eyes slowly climbing up Xaioyi's legs and thighs before coming to a stop at the hem of her shirt that just barely managed to cover her bare sex.
He could only imagine her she looked from behind, with the shirt only covering half of her rear-
"All things considered... it's nice to finally meet you" Xaioyi said with a small smile "I'm Xaioyi, but you can call me Iso, most of my friends and family do"
"Peter" the Inhuman prince responded with a small nod "You can also call me... uh, Peter. I uh, don't really have a cool other name to go by"
"It's okay, I like Peter" Iso said with a smile that caused Peter's heart to skip a few beats.
Either that, or it was the sight of Lockjaw, who had since returned to Selene's room, taking up a dreadfully familiar position over in the corner of the bedroom.
"LOCKJAW NOOOO! NOT THERE!"
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Ten minutes and a close call later...
...
"So what is this?" Iso asked as she looked around the room Peter brought her to after they saw to Lockjaw.
Her eyes practically sparkling as she took in the various shelves and collapsible tables set up around the room, overflowing with a wide range of disassembled computers, monitors, cameras, phones and small portable tablets of some sort. She also saw one part of the room was converted into what she swore was a chemist wet dream of a lab. Dozens of vials, beakers, jaws and clear glass containers holding all sorts of liquids, with a number of monitors and various other state of the art lab equipment used to help create, analyze and dispose of any chemicals that Peter might find, need or create.
It was vastly inferior to the personal lab she's seen back in Attilan but still impressive to anyone not being funded by some multi-billion dollar organization.
"It was originally given to me to be used as my room but Selene and I found it much more convenient to just use her's for... well stuff" Peter said with a embarrassed cough "I kinda turned this place into a sort of... lab, I guess. Somewhere to tinker and think when I'm not out looking for Maximus or with Selene. Keep my busy"
"It's very impressive" Iso said as she began to wander around the lab and examine it closer while Peter made his way to a sort of... research station, he set up.
It wasn't anything really special in the grand scheme of things, at least compared to the set up the X-men had, just a really comfy leather chair, a laptop that's according to Selene the best you can find in the corporate sector and a few custom built hard drives to help increase the laptop's processing power and storage space. Hooked up to the laptop was an even larger monitor for others to see if Peter had to show them something instead of just all crowding around him and looking over his shoulder.
"Where'd you get most of this?" Iso asked as she bent forward at the waist, causing her shirt to hike up over her rear and give Peter a unparalleled view of it's shape.
Peter didn't respond at first as he kept staring at the back of his soon to be wife, her exposed rear specifically before Iso's words finally clicked in his head and he struggled to find a response.
"Uhh, it's... I umm... I got it from... where did I get it- oh! I asked Selene for some of it and she kinda gave it to me after I... tried some things with her" Peter said as he watched Iso finally realize the position she was in, or rather what said position showed, and quickly stood upright.
"I-I see..." she stammered "Did you by chance happen to-"
"I saw... your fine" Peter said as he forced himself to look at the laptop as it began to power on.
Iso nodded at this and slowly approached Peter as he logged into the laptop and began to open up a number of files he had stored on it. When the Inhuman Prince noticed Iso was standing a bit behind him, he gestured her towards the chair.
"What are you doing?" Iso nodded towards the laptop as she sat down in the leather chair, marveling how comfy and warm it was.
For a brief moment, she wondered what it'd be like to share this seat with her future lover before she shook such thoughts out of her mind.
"Just bringing up a few things to download into my mask before I head out tonight" Peter tapped one of his suit's lenses as he mentally commanded his suit to connect with the laptop and began downloading the files he'll need for the evening.
"Why are you heading out?" Iso asked, curious and a bit saddened that she won't be able to spend more time talking to her future husband now that the initial awkwardness of seeing each other's privates has somewhat passed.
"Do... do you know why I'm out here?" Peter asked, curious as to whether or not his parents informed her of his mission.
"Not really no" Iso shook her head "Only that it's important"
"Your not wrong" Peter said with a chuckle "I'm trying to find Maximus"
"Your uncle?" Iso said with wide eyes.
Peter nodded as he pointed towards the laptop "Been trying to find him for the past few weeks since Magneto's death. Selene's been using some resources she has to try and help me but so far she hasn't come up with anything concrete either. Best I got so far is that Maximus has been to New York City on a dozen occasions in the past year to meet with a man by the name of Fisk"
Peter reached down and used the laptop's mouse to select a file with the name 'Fisk' on it and brought up a image of Wilson Fisk, the 'Kingpin of Crime'. If Peter thought Colossus and the Juggernaut were big guys, than Wilson Fisk was a mountain of a person. Despite the crime lord's large appearance, most of his mass was actually made of muscle that gave him something very near what could be considered as almost superhuman levels of strength.
"Fisk?" Iso sounded with confusion as she began to read the man's bio, or at least the notes Peter's made in regards to the man's life and activities from his observations and digging into the man's personal life.
"Fisk" Peter nodded before he leaned against the back of Iso's chair and folded his arms across his chest "Still trying to figure out exactly how he fits into this whole thing exactly. From what Selene has told me and what I've been able to put together, he's a glorified mob boss. Aiding someone like my uncle would be a bit outside of his comfort zone with no immediate gain"
"So what could your uncle reward him with?" Iso asked as she turned to stare up at Peter.
Peter hummed as he tried to think of what a guy like Fisk might want from someone as insane as Maximus. It's possible that he's being coerced to work for the exiled Inhuman under threat of death, but that seemed too simple. A man like Fisk, who's made a literal criminal empire and has been less than law abiding for decades, something like that can't have much weight to it anymore, especially since he could easily higher someone, or a lot of someones, to counter Maximus's threats.
Powerful as Maximus was, even he can't take on the whole world on his own without a-
"Goddamn army" Peter suddenly said as things began to click into place.
"What?" Iso said.
"How much do you know about human and mutant relations?" Peter glanced at his future queen.
"They hate one another?" Iso guessed with a raised brow.
While Shangri-La may have been a bit isolated compared to some of the other Inhuman enclaves in the world, they still hear enough of the outside world on their own to know the current... tensions, between Humanity and Mutant kind.
"That's one way of putting it" Peter said with a snort as his mind flashed back to his time with the X-men "But yes, more or less, especially on the human side of the equation. To try and hinder mutant populations or at the very least, keep them in check, humanity has developed a multitude of ways to detect and even counter mutants, with the Sentinel's being the most prominent. And since I've just discovered a previously unknown vein of Terrigen crystals in the Savage Land that he's had access to, and my uncle being smart enough to know how to use them to make Inhumans of his own, he can-"
"Supply Fisk with a steady stream of individuals with superhuman abilities that wouldn't be as easily detected as mutants if at all" Iso said as it began to click into place "Which in turn will allow him to expand his criminal empire as he augment's his people with superhumans who may possess abilities previously undocumented and thus harder to counter"
"Bingo" Peter said with a grin "You know, if this whole king and queen thing doesn't work out for us, we should give Private Eye a try. Something tells me you'd be able to pull of the trench coat look way better than you legally should"
"Maybe" Iso giggled with a faint blush.
It was than a 'beep' emanated from the laptop and Peter turned his attention back to it and began to type in a series of commands with a level of speed that Iso found difficult to keep track of.
"What is it?" Iso asked as she looked at the screen and saw that Peter had brought up six different windows, one of them containing what she thought was some sort of message while the other five were a mixture of maps and pictures of what she assumed was the city outside.
"Message from Selene" Peter nodded to the window that showed the email from the thousands year old Mutant "Giving me an update on Maximus"
Iso leaned forward and brushed a few strands of her hair out of the way as she read the message with her own eyes. It seemed that the infamous Inhuman will be arriving in New York tonight to meet with Fisk during some sort of party the latter was hosting with the rest of New York's elite.
"I suppose your going to try and infiltrate this party?" Iso asked.
"Hell to the no on that one" Peter said with a shake of his head "Maximus will sniff me out in a heartbeat and proceed to wipe his rear with me before tossing me out the window. And Fisk is likely to have some serious muscle there with him as protection. No, best to let Selene's people, if there are any there, figure out what their up to. No, I have a different destination in mind"
"What's that?" Iso questioned as she saw Peter rush to the other end of his lab and began to gather a number of small devices and attach them to a ruby red belt he made to integrate with his suit.
"Fisk will be hosting his party at his penthouse tonight, which means that he's likely to have more security there than say... his office" Peter grinned as he attached his belt to a series of small electromagnetic holsters he weaved into the waist of his suit yesterday "While I doubt he's dumb enough to leave any of his shadier dealings lying around in his office, I'm willing to bet I can still find the more... shady stuff"
"Shady stuff?" Iso quirked a brow at this "Like what?"
"I don't know" Peter shrugged "But I like to think it'll be obvious when I see it... maybe. I'll take pictures and show them to Selene who than can show them to... well someone who knows what to look for I guess"
"I guess" Iso frowned as she bit her lip "Is it... I mean, I don't think have any right to say this considering I don't even know this woman, but is it... safe, to let her be this involved?"
"Iso..." Peter said as he slowly approached the soon to be Inhuman Princess and future Queen and placed a gentle hand on her shoulder "Selene Gallio is a several thousand year old energy vampire that delves into the mystic arts from time to time and is one of the four heads of a secret elite society of morally questionable if not outright apathetic people that likely has a body count in the five digits at least... of course it's not safe. But she's so far proven to be trustworthy and I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. Plus, I just saved her very expensive rug from Lockjaw"
"She might change her mind when she sees that Lockjaw teared up those silk sheets of her's" Iso teased.
"I'll cross that bridge when it's on fire and falling apart right under my feet" Peter said with a laugh as he quickly made his way to the room's balcony doors.
"Hoping you'll have Lockjaw there to save you?" Iso said as she brought one of her legs up and rested her chin on her knee as she watched Peter head for the bedroom balcony.
"What can I say? He's the most convenient dog ever" Peter said with a snort as he hopped on the balcony's stone railing and looked over his shoulder at Iso "I hooked up my mask to the laptop so you can hear and see what I do while I'm out. It's the little icon that looks like my mask"
"You sure you want me talking your ear off while your out looking for clues on your crazy uncle?" Iso giggled.
"Honestly... yeah, I kinda do. Just keep the steamy stuff to a minimum, kinda hard to swing around when I'm all hot and bothered. Selene thinks it's hilarious when I'm crawling up the side of a building while she whispers what she's doing to herself until I get back" Peter said before he slipped off the balcony and fell towards the every bustling streets of Manhattan below.
Iso rolled her eyes in amusement at this and turned to see the little icon that Peter mentioned and clicked on it.
The result was a small window that showed a first person point of view of Peter falling towards the street below before he shot a web line out and used it to swing over the ever flowing traffic of taxis, busses and other vehicles that crowded New York City's roads. Iso quickly typed in a few commands on the laptop's keyboard, this thing was even more primitive than the toys she used to play with as a child, and moved the window to the larger monitor to watch as she settled back in the leather seat and watched her soon to be husband swing through the towering skyscrapers of Manhattan.
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And done.
Next chapter, A Widow's bite...