answers to reviewers questions or statements:
Tom2011: Huh, guess the whole 'Civil War reaches it's end' got lost in translation.
DannyPhantom619: Yep.
zoofu28: Kitty will be making one more appearance in this story and will appear in the sequel.
CRUDEN: She's been full of herself ever since she became Captain Marvel.
Super-Solider: Peter never said he wasn't interested, he just said he was glad things didn't go beyond what happened.
AnimeAvenger: That's always been a thing.
Logic Soldier: Because it was a pissing contest, it may have started off as something as simple and as noble as 'Hey you can't do that, their innocent still' while the other side went with 'Stopping them from doing something bad is the right thing to do' but it quickly delved into a outright piss off between two egocentric heroes that couldn't stand being either in the wrong or shown up by someone else, Tony especially. Look at whose leading the sides in this fight, on one you got this chip on her shoulder B-listed rate hero at best that's dreamed of being seen and held in the same regard as the likes of Captain America, Thor and Iron Man in the Marvel universe since the House of M being given access to something that very well might let her accomplish said dream, while on the other side you have a a man that's used to being seen as the one with all the answers, at least in his mind, is one of the richest men in the world and is generally used to getting his way. And Peter see's all this because for one he's worked with them both for so long and seen them at their worse, i.e. the previous Civil War and the only reason some of the other heroes didn't notice this was because they all had stakes or been heavily affected in this quote on quote 'moral dilemma'. Now at this point it's about saving face in front of others, particularly on Carol's side since some of her closet allies are now up and leaving her, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America to name a few, because of her decision to want to have Miles locked up and Stark isn't gonna let one of HIS people end up like that if he has anything to say about it, regardless of what their supposed crime might be in the possible future. Partly because the man is admittedly a decent person, but another reason is because ever since the first Civil War, a number of heroes never trusted him again or even liked him afterwards, so now it's also about trying to repair the many bridges he burned at the end of the last superhero conflict and to once more prove that he was in the RIGHT. Now is Peter also potentially biased in his views on both heroes given his past history with them, a little, but he's also smart enough to step back and see what Carol and Stark's fight was doing.
Spawn Hades: Maybe.
josereyes121367: It's even more weird when you think consider that Miles is being accused of something he hadn't even done in the first place, like Peter has a number of times in the past. Would've thought he'd be like 'Yeah, I know the feeling' and try to help the guy through it or something. I'd say Nova is plenty strong since his helmet contains a power source separate from the Nova Force that Rider has total access to, it's just that Carol has years of experience on her side and can absorb energy, which is a large portion of Sam's fighting ability, energy blasts. Base power, I say Sam's the more powerful, but he's still a kid compared to Carol.
Trinity seven: I'm going to assume you mean the likes of Carol, USAgent, War Machine or even the Red Hulk because no one is that fucking ignorant.
Guest: Let's just say that this time around, shit's gonna be a bit more real given what's about to happen.
Griezz: It's more of their trying to keep Carol away from Miles so she can't lock him up by trying to use the whole 'rule of law' thing on her since she seems to be such a big supporter of it... until she isn't. Really it's just to buy time until someone can finally reign her in.
TsukuyomiSato: Secret Empire will be the main focus of the sequel but there'll be a few 'minor arcs' leading up to it. Banner will make an appearance.
REX5678: Maybe.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel characters seen, mentioned or used.
Fighting people with weird convoluted cosmic powers wasn't something Peter thought he'd be doing when he first donned his red and blue spandex suit all those years ago.
Purse snatchers for sure, warring gangs were a certainty, and occasionally a mob boss or godfather or whatever it is they call themselves now a days. Hell, he even considered a super villain from time to time to keep things depressingly hopeless and exhausting, like the Shocker and his horrid wardrobe, or Jameson and one of his never ending rants against Spider-man. But fighting a woman that could tank a nuclear blast and fights aliens on the regular in the capital of the Untied States, that was a bit out of his comfort zone.
'I soooo need a vacation after this' Peter thought as he narrowly avoided a energy blast fired from Carol and responded by grabbing a half demolished car with a web line and flung it towards her.
So far he was lasting a bit longer than he thought he would despite the state he was in, he was pretty sure half his bones were broken by this point. And if the annoyed glare on carol's face was anything to go by, she was equally surprised, though in a negative way, on how long he's lasted against her.
Peter couldn't help but snicker at the last thought as he leaped over another energy blast and fired several high velocity impact web bullets towards Captain Marvel.
"What's so funny?" Carol snarled as she blasted the incoming web projectiles out of the air.
"You wouldn't get it" Peter responded as he landed in a roll and sprung up in time to lean to the side and avoid a strike to his head from Carol before he followed it up with a palmed uppercut to the woman's face.
Carol's head snapped back and Peter quickly capitalized on the blonde woman's stunned state to deliver a jab to her throat, causing the Kree hybrid to let out a chocked cough as her hands went to her throat before Peter finished his combo off with a spinning heel kick to the woman's temple, sending her cartwheeling across the war torn street and into the side of some random building.
"Haiya!" Peter shouted before he stumbled forward a little and fell to one of his knees as his head began to spin "Oooh... dizzy..."
Maybe he should've held off on the spin and just gone for a kick instead.
"Oh well" Peter said as he pushed himself back to his feet and looked behind himself to see a number of SHIELD vehicles racing towards him.
Seeing that Carol was for the moment, down, the wall crawler shot a web line out and used it to yank himself into the air and up towards the rooftops. Once he was above the streets, Peter took a quick look around for the Symkarian Embassy, it was the tallest Embassy in the city, and quickly made a mad dash to it across the rooftops.
"Dang it... why can't... D.C... have skyscrapers" Peter panted as he sprinted across one rooftop after another, sometimes having to leap clear across a street to reach the other side.
Occasionally he'll glance down below and see signs of the route that the others took towards the Embassy. Overturned vehicles, mainly SHIELD's, streets that looked like they had a visit from the Hulk and at one point Peter swore he saw the prone forms of some of Carol's people, Johnny and members of the X-men that backed Carol, amongst the devastation. A part of him wanted to go down and check on them, but Peter wisely ignored the feeling, besides it looked like SHIELD was already moving in to treat them anyway and Peter was certain that Jessica and Bobbi kept Mystique from making any lethal shots.
'Unless they were the ones going for the kill shots' Peter thought with a shake of his head, with his luck they would-
"Spider-sen-" Peter said and turned just in time to be slammed into by Carol before he felt himself being lifted into the air.
"Your really pissing me off jackass!" Carol snarled at the webbed wonder as they flew through the sky.
"It's a gift" Peter shrugged before he noticed the bruise developing on the side of carol's head from where he struck her earlier "Also nice shiner you got there"
"Why am I not surprised an ass like you feels a bit of pride on leaving a bruise on a woman?" Carol snarled with narrowed eyes.
"What can I say? I've hung out with the likes of Deadpool for too long and he's have taken me to a number of morally questionable places in Madripoor where the ladies there are the kinds my sweet aunt would say need Jesus or better parents growing up" Peter shrugged again "Also the Black Cat is one demanding bed partner and she really likes to get into the whole dominating thing. Like if we're not both looking like we came out of a fight with Venom, we weren't doing it right, ya know?"
"No, I don't... freak!" Carol said before she suddenly threw Peter towards the ground below and shot off towards the Smykarian Embassy.
"DON'T KINK SHAME MEEEEEE!" Peter yelled as he fell towards the ground at mind numbing speeds, Carol's little throw increasing his velocity by... well by a lot.
Peter turned his body so that he was facing the fast approaching street and did a quick calculation in his head before firing out a web line and using it to swing just mere centimeters above the ground. Peter held his breath as he just narrowly avoiding hitting a truck and launched himself back into the air before landing on the edge of a building that overlooked the street that the Symkarian Embassy was housed on. He could see Carol was flying towards said compound at a somewhat leisurely pace, likely confident that Peter was taken care of and that she won't have much trouble with the others.
"Now that's just rude, she throws me towards the ground and doesn't even have the nerve to stick around and see if I actually hit anything" Peter shook his his before he shot two web lines out along the building's ledge and began to pull himself back in preparation for a slingshot maneuver.
Peter gritted his teeth as he felt his back and shoulder muscles scream in protest at the exertion they've been put through lately.
"I'm... gonna need... a chiropractor... after this" Peter said through gritted teeth as he kept pulling back until it felt like the web lines were about to snap before he released his hold on the ground and shot himself into the air and on a intercept course to Carol.
Seeing that he won't be able to reach her on his own, Peter held out a hand and aimed at Carol's flying form and shot a single web line towards her. He let out a 'whoo' when he tagged her side and yanked himself towards her as he began to divert what energy in his suit remained to his hands. Carol let out a startled yelp as she suddenly found herself yanked to the side before she turned to see Peter flying right towards her.
"Hey Carol" Peter said as he held a glowing fist back, poised to strike her clean in the face "Absorb this!"
With a yell, Peter threw his fist right into the blonde woman's face, creating a blinding light followed by a titanic explosion that Peter swore shattered his ear drums. Thankfully the unbearably loud explosion left a loud annoying ringing sound echoing in his head as the wall crawler and Carol fell towards the Earth below.
...
"Will Spider-man be okay?" Miles's mother, Rio, asked as she and her husband and son were being escorted down a bright hall underneath the Symkarian Embassy's main building by several armed men and Miguel O'Hara.
"He'll be fine, he can take whatever that hack Marvel can throw at him and than some" Miguel said, certain his predecessor won't let some blonde bitch bring him down when Norman freakin Osborn or the Sinister Six couldn't.
Suddenly the hall shook, causing the Morales family to freeze and look up at the ceiling with various looks of uncertainty while one of the soldiers paused and seemed to be listening in to something through his ear piece. The man frowned before he turned towards the Morales family and spoke with a heavy accent.
"Must hurry to teleporter. Spider-man and the $%& ! just landed outside the Embassy" the man revealed before he and the others began to quicken their pace to the end of the hall.
"What'd he call her?" Miles father, Jefferson said with a frown "It sounded Symkarian"
"Something unflattering I'd assume" Rio said as she drifted closer to her husband and took his hand while Miles kept glancing back the way they came.
"It was. I took Symkarian in high school" Miguel snorted "Rough translation is... well let's just say the 'c' word seems flattering in comparison"
After they reached the Embassy, Riri, Scott, and Kate had broken off to go back and retrieve Sam before he could be arrested while Bobbi left to find Daken. Jessica, Cindy, and Mystique were still in the Embassy, guarding the stairs that led to the hall that the Morales were in as a last line of defense against Carol. Bobbi said that as high as a power trip Carol was on, with a complete disregard to people's civil rights, she wouldn't be dumb enough to force her way into a foreign nation's Embassy and risk a international incident.
At least, not yet.
"So, any idea how this all goes down in the end?" Miles said as he glanced at Miguel.
"Not a clue bro" Miguel said with a tired sigh "Not a clue. Though I'd like to say it ends with us sitting on some nice beach with some of those coconut drinks and little umbrellas in them"
"I hear that" Jefferson said as they all entered a large room with a odd platform in the center of it with a small terminal hooked up to it "I take it that's the teleporter we're gonna use?"
"Yes" one of the Symkarian escorts nodded as he gestured for the Morales family and Miguel to step on to the platform while one of his collogues began to start the machine up "This will take you to the palace in Aniana where you'll than be escorted to Lady Sablinova's private retreat, deep in the mountains. If SHEILD tries to find you, it'll take them a while"
"Here's hoping it's not along the Latverian boarder" Miguel mumbled as the teleporter began to charge.
"I thought Doom wasn't in charge of Latveria anymore?" Miles said with confusion "Won't that be a good thing if we are?"
"Kid, who the heck do you think was keeping Latveria in line all these years?" Miguel asked with a raised brow.
"The retreat won't be there, I assure you" one of the soldiers said before the room shook from a tremor originating outside.
...
"I don't like this" Cindy said as she paced back and forth.
"We know" Jessica and Mystique said at the same time, all of them exhausted after today's events.
They were waiting for the others to get back, or at the very least, Peter since he'll likely be at the top of Carol and Hill's shit list for the foreseeable future, before heading downstairs to use the teleporter to reach Symkaria. Bobbi had already left to find and retrieve Daken before she heading for Symkaria, and make sure that Parker Industries was safe from any sort of retaliation from Carol's people or SHIELD. As for Miles's friends, they assured them all that they'll be alright and link up with Miles once things had calmed down.
"So how much longer do you think this shit's gonna go on for?" Mystique asked as she stared out the window while she idly rubbed the slide of one of her holstered pistols with her thumb.
"Don't know" Jessica said with a sigh as she reached up to rub her eyes "Long as Ulysses keeps spitting out visions, Carol's gonna keep doing whatever the fuck this crap is"
"I see..." the blue skinned Mutant said with a hum.
"Don't" Jessica's gaze snapped towards Mystique and darkened.
"I'm haven't done anything... yet" Mystique said with a smirk.
"Last thing we need on top of SHIELD and carol after us is the fucking Inhumans" Jessica growled with narrowed eyes "I don't feel like getting my ass kicked by Black Bolt or Medusa cause you capped one of their own"
"He'd probably see me coming anyway or however that thing of his works" Mystique shrugged.
"Stark said his visions are like, only ten percent right or something" Cindy injected as she hopped on the table that Jessica was leaning against and pulled down her face mask so she could breath a little easier "Might not see you"
"Don't encourage her Cindy" Jessica scolded her fellow spider themed heroine.
Cindy shrugged before she looked up at a large portrait of what she assumed was Silver Sable herself, dressed in a beautiful white dress that greatly complemented her hair and eyes.
"So that's her?" Cindy nodded at the portrait "Silver?"
"Silvija Sablinova, more commonly known as Silver Sable" Mystique said as she stared at the image of the late woman with an unreadable look on her face "CEO and founder of Sable International, the world's premier Mercenary Force and at the time of her death, next in line to the throne of Symkaria"
"Wait, I thought she was the Queen?" Cindy said with a confused frown.
"Technically she was, but given her position as leader of the world's more elite mercenary force took her across the world for months at a time, her uncle ruled as regent in her stead" Jessica revealed with a thoughtful look on her face "Honestly I think she had more fun getting shot at in war torn third world countries than she did negotiating with various diplomats whenever she was back home"
Cindy let out a low whistle while Mystique snorted.
"Clearly Peter has a type" the red headed woman said with a shake of her head.
"What's that?" Jessica asked, her brow raised.
"Lethal, exotic, dresses in skin tight clothing and probably has some sort of daddy issues" she responded.
"I don't-" Cindy began before she paused and considered herself for a moment "Well... I'm not lethal, at least I don't think so. Intentionally at least. And I wore webs as clothes like once!"
"I've got daddy issues for days" Jessica giggled "Though I was hoping he could help me fix that... always wanted a Spider-daddy to take care of me and my son"
"Hoping Gary get's a brother or sister out of him? Be a spider-mommy for two?" Cindy teased.
"Nah, one kid with spider power's good enough. Two and I'm likely to loose it" Jessica said with a wave of her hand before she noticed that Mystique was leaving the room "Oi, where you off to?"
"To get something bigger than a Glock for when Carol tries to breach this place" the Mutant assassin responded.
"You really think she'll try it? "Cindy asked with uncertainty "I mean, won't that be like a act of war or something?"
"Maybe" Jessica said with a shrug before she pushed herself off the table and took up Mystique's previous position at the window "At this point, I think her pride has overwhelmed her common sense"
"Getting beaten by us must be really driving her up the wall. Regularly takes on the Kree, Skrulls and Chituari or something and she's getting had by a bunch of people with a thing for Spiders" Cindy said.
"I know, ain't it a bitch?" Jessica smirked before suddenly something struck the street outside the Embassy's walls and caused a tremor to race through the entire building, down to it's foundations.
...
It took a little while longer than she would've liked, but Bobbi had finally found Daken. Or rather, Kitty Pryde had found him and on helping the still healing Mutant reach the Symkarian Embassy, ran into Bobbi along the way.
"How's things been since I last saw ya guys?" Kitty said as she, Daken and Bobbi raced through the streets of Washington D.C. in a 'borrowed' car Daken insisted they take.
"Shit. Peter, Miguel and Miles and his family got captured and we had to break them out" Bobbi said in a dry tone as she did her best to navigate the busy streets and avoid any SHIELD vehicle's still out looking for them.
At one point she saw a Helicarrier on approach to the city and dozens of little dots swarming around it, likely Quinn Jets and whoever was left standing on Carol's side.
"On your own?" Kitty said with wide eyes.
"We had some help" Bobbi admitted as she suddenly made a sharp turn down a one way street and was forced to divert on to the sidewalk to get around the slow moving traffic, much to the pedestrians on said sidewalks ire "Also the guardians of the Galaxy might be breaking up apparently"
"I heard" Kitty said with a dejected sigh "I don't know what Quill was thinking, hiding the fact Thanos was being held here from everyone"
"Held might be a strong word when it comes to him. More like taking a break" Bobbi said with a snort "If SHIELD can't hold the likes of us, it damn well can't hold Thanos"
"Not under Hill they wouldn't have" Daken snorted from the back seat, lying across it as the last of his bones snapped back into place after they shattered when Carol dropped him from several hundred feet in the air "Remind me to carve out that bitch's eyes when I get the chance"
"Noted" Bobbi said before she turned down another busy road, the Embassy was just a few miles up the road "So Kitty, what brings you to Washington?"
"Logan called and said it'd probably be best if I lay low in Symkaria since Carol's people found out I helped you all back in New York" Kitty revealed with a shrug as she glanced out the window to see a few Quinn Jets a few thousand feet in the air flying over the city "Something tells me that me being engaged to Quill won't mean much... if we're even still engaged at this point"
"What makes you say that?" Bobbi asked, her brow raised in curiosity.
"Well, I did sorta jump ship to help an ex-boyfriend of mine rather than stick it out with him" Kitty said with a sheepish grin "And still am, kinda"
"Eh, never liked the punk anyway" Bobbi said before she slammed on the breaks as a large explosion went off up ahead.
...
Far as drops from several feet in the air at nearly the speed of sound went, this wasn't the worse Peter's had.
'Well at least I made it to the Embassy... kinda' Peter thought as he laid in a small crater his body made on impact with the ground with a dry grin. He took a deep shuddering breath before he winced as he felt something brush along his lungs, it felt like bone fragments 'Oh goodie, shattered rib cage fragment thingies tickling my lungs. That's not uncomfortable in any shape or form'
Still, better than punctured lungs he supposed.
With a pained groan, Peter slowly pushed himself to his feet and looked around for signs of the others. The spider empowered man made a sound of annoyance when he realized that his mask's lenses had shattered and the left side of his mask had been torn clean off. With a sigh, Peter reached up and tore the remainder of the mask off and tossed it aside. With his vison no longer obstructed, he could see a number of SHIELD vehicles clustered on one end of the street, their frames riddled with bullet holes and burn marks, likely Raven and Scott's doing, while a number of SHIELD agents laid on the ground, beaten, bloodied and some of their limbs bent at unnatural angles.
'Heh, go Jess and Bobbi' Peter thought with a tired grin as he turned his attention towards the Symkarian Embassy and saw a number of Symkarian soldiers standing guard at the compound's main entrance.
The gate to the Embassy was held partially open, just enough for a person to slip through before it closes completely. And if the looks on some of the Symkarian's was anything to go by, they were waiting for him to drag his half broken ass through so they can close it. Well that and a few of them were waving him over. With a tired sigh, Peter began to limp towards the gate before he felt his spider-sense go off and slowly turned to see Carol emerging from the small crater her body made when it struck the road.
She looked... well pissed seemed to weak a word to describe the anger in her eyes.
"Can't you just stay down, for like... like five minutes" Peter groaned with a hung head.
Seriously, was it too much to ask for?
"Unlike your girlfriend, I don't throw in the towel when it looks like things aren't going my way" Carol hissed.
"Your honestly gonna have to be more specific in that regard, I've dated plenty of girls that jumped ship and bailed when things got too real for them" Peter said as he tried to form a fist with his left hand but found it being unresponsive "I mean, I'm looking at one right now-"
"SHUT UP!" Carol yelled as she fired off a beam of Photon energy towards Peter.
The Queens born hero simply fell tot eh ground and watched as the beam of energy flew over him, just mere inches away from his delicate self, and strike the side of the wall that surrounded the Symkarian Embassy. The soldiers at the gate quickly raced for cover while the gate slammed shut completely and a alarm began to go off inside the compound followed by a shout over the PA system telling everyone inside the place was under direct attack.
'Guess I'm gonna have to deal with Carol before I can go inside and sleep. A hero's work is never done I guess...' Peter thought as he sat up once Carol's Photon beam died down and watched as the blonde heroine stomp towards him with shaking fists, arcs of energy emanating off them like small solar flares.
"You know Carol, I'm pretty sure shooting at a foreign country's Embassy is like, an act of war or something" Peter said as he remained where he was, diverting all power left in his suit towards his right arm "Gonna be kinda hard to justify starting a war over a kid to the public"
"Yeah, well when the public finds out that kid is gonna kill Captain America, I think they'll be fine with it" Carol scoffed as she bent down and grabbed Peter by the collar of his suit and hoisted him up in the air.
"Till they start getting letters from the Government telling them their sorry for their loss" Peter bit out before he went to punch Carol in the face before she reached up and caught his strike with her other hand and stopped it cold.
Carol's smirk widened even more as she began to absorb the energy from the blow and use it to replenish herself and heal any wounds she may have gotten from the man in her grip.
"Looks like your finally out of tricks" Carol mocked as she began to slowly crush Peter's fist in her hand, causing the metal of the suit to crack.
"N-Nah... s-st-ill got one... l-left" Peter groaned as he weakly reached up to Carol's face with his free hand, which he now realized had several broken fingers given the way they were bent at unnatural angles, and slowly placed Carol's nose between his somewhat working index finger and thumb "Got your nose... okay I'm out of tricks"
Carol growled as she threw Peter to the side and glanced at the Smykarian Embassy with a calculating face. She counted nine members of Symkaria's Army manning the main entrance, their rifles aimed at Carol's figure as more men rushed in from the compound's barracks to re-enforce the fire team in front of her.
"Hill, the Symkarian's got anything special deployed?" Carol said as she scanned the wall for signs of any other defenses she might have to contend with on top of the Embassy's security force.
"The immediate perimeter? No, but we're picking up an odd energy surge from the main Embassy building. Could be some sort of teleporter" Hill revealed.
"Since when does Symkaria have teleportation tech?" Carol asked with a frown as she began to charge up a Photon blast to breach the Embassy gate with.
"There's always been rumors floating around that they have it, like Israel's nukes or Russia's superhuman army divisions. We think it's how they insert and withdrawl their Special Forces into other nations" Hill stated with a notable frown in her voice "If they get that brat into Symkaria, we won't be able to apprehend him without sending a STRIKE team there to retrieve him personally and that'll cause all kinds of shit if they get caught"
"I'll get him and if I don't, just make sure Symkaria knows that it'd be in their best interest to not harbor Captain America's kill-" Carol began before she was cut off by a grenade to the face.
WA-BWOOOOOOM!
The force of the explosion sent Carol skidding back several meters but the blonde woman dug her boots into the cracked asphalt to halt her momentum. Carol squinted through the small cloud of smoke that was made from the explosion for signs of the one that shot her and was greeted to the sight of Mystique, armed with a Milkor Grenade launcher, aimed right at her head. Carol gritted her teeth at the sight of the Mutant and flew towards her with a yell before she was sent flying back from another grenade fired off from the blue skinned woman.
"What is it with you blonde superpowered people and charging head on at someone even though they see you coming?" Mystique said with a roll of her eyes "Your as bad as Sabretooth"
Seeing that Carol was for the moment, down, Mystique quickly rushed over to Peter and helped the groaning man back to his feet. She winced at th state of his armor and how some parts of it seemed to have MELTED to his skin with from the intensity of Carol's Photon beams.
"Will you make it?" she asked as she did her best to hold the grenade launcher in one hand while she threw Peter's arm around her shoulders and help him towards the Embassy gate as it began to slide open.
"Ugh, ask me that when I don't feel like I just went nine rounds with Firelord again" Peter coughed as the two slowly made their way towards the Symkarian Embassy, it was so close, not even twenty feet away "What you doing out here?"
"Making sure you actually make it" Mystique scoffed "You have this ridiculous habit of seemingly martyring yourself for others at the very last possible moment"
"What can I say? Coming back from the dead at one point gave me a Jesus complex" Peter chuckled before he winced "Fuck... I think half my ribs are shattered"
"Than for the love of God, stop talk-" the shape shifting beauty began before she was suddenly shoved to the ground as Peter turned and was met with a full on blast of Photon energy to the chest.
What was left of the armored suit's torso was destroyed as Carol's energy beam tore through it and sent the wall crawler flying into the partially open Embassy gate with enough force to knock part of the gate off it's track. Mystique reached for her grenade launcher and was just turning to bring the weapon up when Carol's hand suddenly grabbed the barrel and crushed it.
"This was a rental!" Mystique quipped at Carol before she was back handed clear across the street with enough force to dislodge several teeth and fill her mouth with blood.
Carol flew up into the air and quickly flew back down and landed on top of Mystique, causing the Mutant woman to let out a choked scream before she was given a savage kick to the side.
"I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying this, after all you've done!" she snarled as she kicked the woman over and slammed her foot down on her chest.
Mystique glared up at Carol before she spat a glob of blood on the woman's leg and sneered at the blonde heroine "Oh what exactly have I done hmm? Save a wee lamb from being locked up by you for something he hasn't even done? Oh yes, how horrible of me!"
Carol gritted her teeth at the woman and began to build up a large amount of Photon energy in her hand, enough to singe a few layers of skin off the Hulk. It'll be more than enough for this vile thing, Carol thinks.
"Go to hell" Carol hissed as she raised her hand and aimed it right at Mystique's face.
"I'll give Marcus your regards when I get there" Mystique chuckled.
Carol let out a yell of rage and just as she was about to unleash the energy right into the smirking Mutant's face, a hand grabbed her shoulder. The Human-Kree Hybrid turned in a heartbeat and unleashed a powerful beam of concentrated Photon energy... right into the torso of Peter Parker before it shot clean through him and raced through the air and struck the wall of the Symkarian Embassy, burning a hole through the re-enforced concrete and struck one of the windows on the first floor of the Embassy's main building.
Silence permeated through the street as Carol stared at Peter with wide, unblinking eyes as the energy in her hand slowly dissipated. Peter's expression was similar to the blonde's though it quickly twitched as he stumbled back a few steps and slowly looked down at the large gaping hole in his chest.
No one said a word as the two stood there in horror.
'Huh... this... this doesn't hurt as much as I thought it would' Peter thought numbly as he felt his legs give out and he collapsed to his knees before slowly falling back towards the ground.
He felt someone, Carol he thinks, grab him before he hit the ground entirely and began to say something, but their voice was... muffled, hard to hear.
'Hard to breath now that I think about it' Peter thought as his vision began to blur and grow dark 'Than again both my lungs looked like they got blown out my back... along with half my spine. Heh, talk about a blowback'
It felt awkward, trying to breath, he expected to feel that feeling his chest makes when one breaths in and out but found any attempts to do so failing. All he felt was numb, his arms feeling like a cinderblock was attached to each. The blurry figure of Carol was still looking down at him, saying... something, he couldn't quite tell, before it looked like she was pulled away and someone else took her place. Even with his vision blurred to the point he might as well be blind, he could still make out the color of red on the person's head and around their blue face.
It was Mystique... Raven... she didn't seem to be saying anything, wasn't yelling or even crying like Carol seemed to be a second ago, she was just... holding him. He thought he felt her rubbing his face, like how a mother would comfort a child, but he couldn't be so sure. He also could feel someone else holding him, not Carol he hoped, their hands were shaking, or maybe it was his head that was, he couldn't tell at this point.
He just felt so... tired.
And it was dark now.
Cold.
Dark and cold, but different to any darkness he's seen or cold he felt in his life.
And he was tired... just utterly exhausted and spent.
Maybe... maybe he just needed a few minutes to catch his breath. Bad as his injury was, there was still a chance that someone has some kind of way to fix him. Others he's known had gotten it worse and came out fine. He's pretty sure Strange owes him a favor or something. Maybe Loki if they can find wherever he's at, he saved the guy's kid at one point after all.
Just a few moments and he'd wake up somewhere, sore as hell but alive... maybe.
He just need a few secon-...
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And done.
Next chapter, Aftermath...