answers to reviewers questions or statements:
spiderman1fan: I plan to update a few of those soon.
Harbinger of Kaos: I'm pretty sure it started in the MCU Avengers portion given that Peter Parker in that universe is younger and all that. Plus Widow is close to like eighty years old so... mom kink I suppose. Uh no Felicia actually matches a few criteria for what constitutes for a toxic woman and even Jen, though she falls more into the insecure portion than the more negative characteristics that Felicia falls into. The hell are you talking about? Peter isn't going to 'go quiet', he's just put off by the fact that no one is taking AIM as seriously as him. Elektra is one of the very few people that could kill Fisk, unlike a lot of heroes and even anti-heroes, she's not as concerned with collateral damage and she has the skills and experience to pull it off.
DeimosVulcan12: The current members are Elektra, Black Cat, Black Widow, She-Hulk, Scarlet Witch, Adriana and X-23. Peter is slightly and I mean slightly stronger than his mainstream counterpart. X-Force will make an appearance in this. A few game elements will be in this story.
chimera629: The hell are you talking about? When did Jen out Peter's marriage too anyone? Your right, a sorta friend and teammate that's looking out for her fellow Avenger, who has a history of making bad decisions when women are involved, has no right to show concern and interest considering that the current woman her teammate is involved with his a known mass murdering assassin that's wanted by a number of international agencies. The fuck does Natasha get off?
CRUDEN: Natasha and Elektra's meeting will be very... them. And poor Peter's gonna be there for every second of it.
Guest: No MJ isn't gonna try to steal Peter away from Elektra, she knows the woman won't hesitate to kill her.
DarkThunderBird1604: Yeah, Elektra got killed in a fight with Bullseye... earlier in her career, when she wasn't as experienced as she is now. And even than, it's Bullseye, one of the top assassins in the Marvel Universe. And what makes you think that Peter would be able to beat her in a fight despite his morals getting in the way? Because he has superior strength and speed compared to her? If you think that's what seals the fight in favor of Peter you really don't read superhero comics much, do you? Considering Elektra is largely human in a universe filled with the likes of highly lethal and efficient and skilled killers like the Wolverine, Sabretooth, the Winter Solider, Taskmaster, Bullseye, Daken, Gamora, and Fantomex and is still considered in their league, you think taking on a guy like Peter is beyond her ability when she's likely killed even stronger and faster genetically augmented humans and or mutants?
Therock317: There will be an X-gal in the group.
Gjgjohn: It's more of she's concerned in her own way about Peter's apparent poor choice in a partner.
caldasg1: More or less, yeah, though a few girls are gonna be fighting her every step of the way.
Guest 8991: No to both I'm afraid this time around.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel characters seen, mentioned or used.
It started off so easy.
The Avengers reached the island where AIM had set up shop with their stolen tech, received a brief 'recon report' from Quicksilver before launching their assault on AIM's compound. Captain America, Hawkeye and the Human Torch would breech the estate while Peter, She-Hulk and Quicksilver stayed outside to distract the compound's security. Wonder Man made sure their battle didn't spread and reach any nearby civilians while the Black Widow-
"Behind you!" Natasha shouted over the storm of gunfire.
Peter turned to where the red head was aiming one of her pistols, his spider-sense having already alerted him to the danger before the red head even spoke. It wasn't anything serious, just a crazed AIM goon charging towards him with a grenade in each hand, the pins pulled. Peter shot a web line at each grenade, being extremely careful to not web them to the man's hands before he gave them a hard yank. The force of the pull yanked the grenades free from the AIM goon's hands and allowed Peter to sling them into the air where they detonated harmlessly. Before the tech terrorist could do anything, his torso gained two small bullet sized holes in them, causing the man to make a pained gurgled sound before he collapsed.
Peter's head snapped towards his red headed partner with wide eyes "THE HELL!?"
Peter wasn't dumb, he knew that nine times out of ten, when Natasha fought someone, she usually ended up killing them. Not out of any sort of malice, it was just her skills usually revolved around making sure her opponent never threatened her again, and to make sure of that, she ended their life. But normally the red headed Russian was more reserved on Avengers missions, going for less fatal and lethal shots. Sometimes she didn't even pack her guns, instead relying on her advance martial arts and some other non-lethal device to defeat her opponents.
Apparently she decided to go for a more John Wick style today.
"He was going to kill himself anyway" Natasha shrugged as she turned and shot at several more AIM agents, forcing them to take cover behind a few overturned SUV's that She-Hulk destroyed when the Avengers first struck this place.
"That's besides the point!" Peter said with exasperation.
Why the hell did Natasha have to volunteer to help Peter deal with the AIM defenders outside instead of going with Clint and Steve to do that cool semi-super powered but not really super powered human thing like she usually did?
"Honestly, after being married to the likes of Elektra for so long, I would've figured she'd already desensitized you to death" Natasha said in a far too calm voice as she expertly landed headshots at any AIM agent she saw, spraying their brain matter and skull fragments on the ground.
Oh yeah, so she could keep making comments about his lapse in judgment for a wife. Honestly at this rate, Peter was pretty sure that the red head was just pissed off it wasn't her he married, she was giving off some lowkey jealous ex vibes in his opinion.
"Well she hasn't and I hope I never end up like that" Peter said in annoyance as he saw several more AIM agents emerging from the estate and rushing towards him, their was a lot more people here than Quicksilver's intel stated.
"Pity, at the very least you'd be more quiet" Natasha said as she ducked behind cover, a stone railing of all things and quickly reloaded her pistols in a manner that for some reason reminded Peter of John Wick.
'Maybe it's a legit thing... or she's trying to be all cool and modern' Peter thought with a shrug as he used his web shooters to quickly outmaneuver and flank the approaching AIM agents and began to pelt them with web bullets, pinning some to the ground, others to half destroyed, bullet ridden walls and others ended up blinded as their masks/hoods/helmets were completely covered in webbing, making them easy targets for Natasha's bullets-
"CAN YOU STOP SHOOTING THE PEOPLE I WEB PLEASE?!" Peter yelled at the red head in anger, her killing he men he restrained left him feeling like shit, like he had a hand in their deaths, which from a certain viewpoint was true since he did-
"No" Natasha said in a cool, utterly detached, bland tone as she blew the brains out of another AIM agent "These men killed dozens of innocents and will not stop under any circumstances. Either they die here, or they go on to live for months maybe even years killing dozens, hundreds perhaps even thousands more. Are you saying you'd be fine with that? That you can sleep soundly at night knowing that people are dying because of you?"
"You know Widow, that, that right there is why I never tried to keep things going between us" Peter glared at the red head as he saw a AIM henchmen try to sneak up on the Black Widow, only for her to turn on her heel, jam the barrel of her pistol into the man's throat, causing him to stumble back with his hands flying to his throat before he was finished of with three shots to the chest.
"And here I thought you decided to end things because you weren't mature enough to be in a serious relationship with an actual woman and went back to dating someone that gave you the equivalent of a High School romance" Natasha said with a scoff before she and Peer saw a damaged but still workable jeep operated by AIM driving towards them with a machine gun on it's hood.
The two spider themed Avengers quickly rushed for cover as the driver began to spray high caliber rounds towards them.
"The heck does ha mean?!" Peter yelled over the sound of gunfire and bits of the vehicle that he and Natasha took cover behind being slowly chipped away.
"You went and sought out a relationship with a red head that you kept breaking up with and going out with again not even two months later for years. Than you were 'taking a break' for a few months before taking the first steps towards getting serious only to back out at the last minute" Natasha said with a pointed gaze aimed at Peter while a round shot through their cover and zipped past her face, taking a single strand of hair with it "And that's before I get into the fact she kept complaining about you being Spider-man instead of accepting who you were and-"
"OH MY FUCKING GOD, ARE YOU SERIOUSLY DOING THIS NOW!?" Peter shouted as he felt his spider-sense go off, causing him to grab Natasha and leap away from their cover before it was blasted to hell by a stay rocket from the fighting going on at the other end of the estate.
"Yes, I am" Natasha said calmly as she wrapped her legs around Peter's waist, pulled herself tight against his chest so that her's was firmly resting against his own, rested her chin on his shoulder and raised one of her pistols up and took aim at the AIM driver in the weaponized jeep and fired a single round at the man's exposed head.
If Peter still wasn't so annoyed and pissed about Natasha critiquing his life choices, he'd be a bit flustered and embarrassed to have Natasha wrapped around him like this.
"Well, if that's the case, what about your choices in men?" Peter said when the two landed a safe distance away and Natasha detangled herself from Peter's body.
"What's there to say?" Natasha asked as she holstered her pistols before bending over at the waist, giving Peter a great view o her black clad rear, to retrieve some sort of alien looking rifle that AIM's been fighting them with all day "One of my former flames was a brooding lawyer and part time vigilante with a moral code as strict and as 'noble' as yours, while the other was a man old enough to be my father who was brainwashed into a murdering super soldier for decades"
"What about Hawkeye?" Peter asked as he watched Natasha check over the strange weapon in her hands.
"Meh, alright for what it was" Natasha shrugged before she shouldered the rifle just as a small company of AIM soldiers began to emerge from the partially leveled estate and rush towards the duo "Got too into role play for my liking"
"Huh?" Peter sounded before he felt his spider-sense go off and quickly ducked, weaved and leaped over several high velocity energy rounds fired from the approaching AIM agents while Natasha dropped to a kneeling position and returned fire.
The AIM agents that were carrying ay sort of ranged weapons were the first that Natasha dropped while Peter moved in to web down the ones that didn't have any weapons. The Black Widow briefly considered shooting them before she decided that she pushed Peter enough in that regard for the day. As laidback and as patient as he could be, and pretty damn tolerable to the more lethal individuals in the Hero community out there, she knew that even he had a limit and she reached that with the Jeep driver she shot through the face.
She wasn't afraid of what he'd do, she knows that Peter would never hurt her unless she quite literally left him no choice in the matter, but even she recognized that being pinned to the ground and cocooned wasn't something she was eager to experience.
Which reminded her...
"Do you wear the mask, like you did with that one woman, Hardy was it. when you fucked?" Natasha asked as she brought her heel down on one of the AIM goons' head that managed to evade her weapons fire and Peter and try to stab her in the gut.
The blow wasn't fatal but it likely cracked his skull open before she turned towards a trio of the beekeeper looking terrorists and began to shoot at them with her 'borrowed' energy rifle.
"Can we not talk about this now please?!" Peter said as he webbed down several more AIM agents before he ducked under the swing of one of the still standing henchmen and sent a palmed strike to the man's chest, knocking him back several feet before webbing him to the floor.
"Impressive..." Natasha said as she admired Peter's takedown with a slightly raised brow "That hit almost looked precise and skilled. Tell me, how many kung-fu movies did you watch to pull that off? Was it the ones with Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan?"
"Blow me" Peter snapped, causing the red head to smirk and blow him a kiss.
"Perhaps later, love" Natasha said with a thick, heavy Russian accent "I remember how you like how I worked my tongue up and down your... web shooter"
"UGH, god please just let me die now" Peter groaned as he tried very heard to not think of his past sexual encounters with Natasha Romanoff.
This was supposed to be a nice, stress free mission to the Caribbean to stop a bunch of AIM guys from using some sort of alien tech to take over the world or something. Not getting grilled by the Black Widow on his marriage to Elektra, his past relationship with Mary Jane, all the while listening to her critique his very existence and moral standings. And now she was slipping into that femme fatal seductive thing with the double innuendo comments and flirting that were made worse with her admittedly attractive accent.
He get's it universe, you like to make his life very difficult in the most out there ways imaginable.
The rest of the battle went, in Peter's opinion, pretty standard for the Avengers. After dealing with the initial horde of bad guys on he outside while a small team infiltrated the main facility to shut it down or blow it up or whatever, AIM whipped out some brand new technological horror machine thing and used it to start pushing back against the Avengers until it was eventually defeated when the unlikely hero of the day, the Human Torch, more or less went supernova and melted the thing before it went up in some big grand explosion that signaled AIM's defeat and surrender.
After that it was simply a matter of rounding up all the still living AIM agents and detain them in a large open area where they can be watched while the Avengers figured out what to do next.
...
"Well that was fun!" Johnny Storm, hero of the day, said as he and Peter watched as a number of AIM's surviving agents were quickly searched and handcuffed by Quicksilver, who was going through a dozen men a second, while Hawkeye watched on with a bored expression.
Occasionally he'd tell Quicksilver to go back and recheck a guy to make sure he was fully disarmed, but other than that he simply let the Speedster do his thing. Rogers was currently speaking with both She-Hulk and Black Widow on what they were going to do with the captive AIM agents and who they should be handed over to while Wonder Man stayed off to the side, watching them all with an unreadable expression.
"I freakin hate that guy sometimes" Johnny sighed as he rested his elbow on his knee and used his palm to hold up his head while he and Peter watched Quicksilver argue with Hawkeye.
"Who?" Peter asked with a yawn.
"Wonder Man" Johnny nodded towards the powerful man with a scowl "He literally could've clapped that giant robot thing's ass in like three seconds flat"
"Eh, probably, but than you wouldn't have gotten your chance to shine" Peter joked, though he too was a bit miffed by Wonder Man's lack of help during the fight.
He knew the man had taken some sort of vow of pacifism, but literally not lifting a finger to help at least once during he fight was outright ridiculous in his opinion. Sure he acted as a sort of shield at times when a slower member of the Avengers team was about to get hit, like maybe Hawkeye or Black Widow, but he could've used that moment to fire off a Ionic blast or something.
It would've at the very least ended the fight a little sooner than it did.
"I mean, why is he even on the team still?" Johnny asked, genuinely curious.
"No idea" Peter shrugged as he glanced down to examine how much web fluid was left in his web shooters "Probably because Steve and Stark don't want someone almost as powerful as the Sentry roaming around unsupervised or something. Plus I heard from Wanda that he's sticking around to act as some kind of conscious to the team. Keeping us honest or level headed or whatever"
"That is the dumbest shit I've ever heard" Johnny said in a deadpanned tone.
"Agreed" Peter said with a laugh "Wanda made it sound waaaaay nicer though"
"Since when are you and the Witch friends?" Johnny asked.
"Since after she got back and we sorta hung out. If you want to call being on standby for a night and spending said night watching some pretty messed up foreign films as hanging out"
"What kinda foreign films?" Johnny said with a teasing grin as he wiggled his eyebrows in a suggestive manner "The adult variety? Maybe old Wandy was trying to send you a message of what she wants you to do to her. You the clueless American on vacation in Europe, she the mysterious Eastern European Gypsy that wouldn't mind a bit of 'cultural exchange' of the intimate kind. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge"
"They were the kinda films that for one, made me question Wanda's state of mind" Peter said with a mental shiver as he remembered just how freakin hardcore some of the movies got "Second, they made me wanna hunt down these actors and film makers and beat the ever loving hell out of them given some of the crap they showed"
Wanda did wan him that films from outside the States tended to be a bit... loose, with their content, but sweet fucking Jesus that didn't begin to cover what he saw.
It was part of the reason he deiced to take a trip to Vegas instead of going with Wanda out to Europe in the first place.
"Oh" Johnny said with a low whistle before he shrugged "Well anyways, you got any plans this weekend?"
"Aside from not trying to get killed by my wife?" Peter asked before shaking his head "No, why?"
"Wanna hit up the club scene with me?" Johnny offered with a grin "show you what it's like to party with a Rockstar for a change"
"Tempting, tempting, tempting..." Peter tapped his chin in thought before he hummed "Though I gotta say, if your goal is to get me to unintentionally cheat on my 'darling' wife, do know she's probably gonna kill you by association alone"
"Webs, even I'm not dumb enough to take Elektra's husband out for a night of infidelity" Johnny snorted before he and Peter noticed Quicksilver walking over towards them "You Silver, you down to hit up the clubs with me and Spidey this weekend?"
"I'm watching my daughter this weekend" Pietro said with a sigh.
"You can drop her off at the Baxter Building and let her hang with Franklin and Valeria. I don't think my sister would mind" Johnny offered.
The Mutant speedster thought over the Human Torch's proposal for a moment, which to someone that moved and perceived time as fast as he did, felt like hours, eventually nodded "I'll think about it"
"It'll be fun" Johnny said with a thumbs up "Plus we can bond over the fact the love of our life chose Ronan the Accuser over either of us... mostly me, but I guess you too"
"There better be lots of alcohol involved than" Pietro said dryly.
"Barrel loads" Johnny grinned.
Quicksilver nodded at this, a faint grin growing on his face before he turned his gaze towards Peter and frowned "Speaking of involved..."
'Craaaaaaaaaaap' Peter paled as he struggled to not fidget under the speedster's gaze "Uh, I'm flattered Quicky, but I'm afraid that I'm currently-"
"With my sister?" Quicksilver cut him off with a scoff "Yes, I assumed as much when she asked you to accompany her on a holiday to Wundagore Mountain"
"Which I did not" Peter said before he winced "Wait, no it's not that I didn't want to, it's just I was in a kinda bad place and didn't want to ruin her trip by being all emo and broody about stuff and-"
"So your saying that going to Vegas to gamble and drink is preferable to learning how to heal and recover from my sister in a spiritually powerful location?" Quicksilver demanded.
"That's not what I meant!" Peter yelled as he waved his arms in the air "Plus if things that went down in Vegas went down the same there, you and I would be having a much different kinda conversation in regards to her!"
"The hell does that mean?!" Quicksilver said as he was suddenly in Peter's face with a glare before the voice of Natasha Romanoff froze them all, one person in particular since it was their name being spoken.
"JOHNATHAN STORM!"
"Shiiiiit..." Johnny paled as he, Peter and Quicksilver watched as the Black Widow approached them three of them like she was about to drop the mother of all bombs on them.
Like Galactus was about to kill them all kinda bomb or that Captain America was cooking a Bald Eagle to eat and use the Declaration of Independence as a napkin.
"Duuude what'd you do?" Peter hissed out of the corner of his mouth as he and the other males tried to not shrink under the icy expression the Black Widow was sporting on her face.
"I don't know!" Johnny whimpered as he shot to his feet and came to attention, his face as pale as snow as the Black Widow came to a stop in front of them "Y-Yeah- I-I mean, yes ma'am?"
"I need you to help Hawkeye and Wonder Man load up some of AIM's people on a few SHIELD transports en-route" Widow stated as she gave the Human Torch a dismissive wave "And try to keep some sense of professionalism while their here Mister Storm"
"M-Me?" Johnny blinked at this before he glanced at Peter and Quicksilver "But why not the-"
"Did I stutter?" Natasha demanded.
"No ma'am!" Johnny said before his body was suddenly engulfed in flames and he quickly shot off into the sky and flew over to where Hawkeye and Wonder Man now were.
"Such a sweet child. Hard to believe Reed and Susan have problems with him following orders" Natasha smiled before she glanced at Peter and Pietro and raised a brow at them "Yes?"
"Nothing" Peter said as he let out a sigh "Man, for a second there I thought Johnny pissed you off somehow"
"If he did, believe me when I say I'd make my ire very obvious" Natasha stated.
"I don't doubt that" Quicksilver snickered before he saw captain America waving him over.
The speedster nodded before he raced over towards the First Avenger in a blur, leaving Peter and Natasha alone... allowing Natasha can immediately resume her interrogation and critique of his love life.
"So how often do you two have sex?"
"I am not continuing this conversation with you" Peter groaned as he ran a hand across his masked covered face "I really am not"
"I mean the sex has to be great for you to have kept this marriage of yours going still" Natasha smirked as she cocked a hip out to the side "What sort of freaky things is she into? She has to have some odd kinks given the sort of women you end up with have something wrong in their head"
"You count yourself among those?" Peter asked with a snort.
"Peter..." Natasha said as her face became devoid of all emotion "I'm a near hundred year old former KGB Assassin that has a four figured body count and made the mistake of sleeping with Stark at one point... you tell me"
"Ummmmm" Peter sounded as he tired to think of a response that won't end up with him dead or dying.
"Besides, I thought all those times we role played as me as your mother and you my handsome young mature son were clue enough" Natasha grinned.
"I hate you... just so much right now" Peter groaned as he rubbed his temples "I can't believe I'm actually missing my wife right now"
"Not enough to reconsider divorcing her I take it?" Natasha winked as Peter made to walk around her an back towards the Quinn Jet.
He had hoped that Natasha would leave him alone but to his chagrin the red head began to follow him back towards the jet.
"Well, when you do finalize the divorce, do give me a call" Natasha said with a coy smile and her accent became more pronounced as she eyed Peter up and down in a way that triggered a certain other kind of 'spider-sense' "I'd be happy to help you forget that vile woman and re-introduce you to the passions of Mother Russia"
"I'm sure you'd would" Peter said with a sigh of despair as he climbed up the ramp of the Jet to see that Rogers was up in the cockpit warming up the Jet's engines while explaining some of the systems to She-Hulk and Quicksilver was lounging in a seat looking bored as one could be.
"I would" Natasha bumped her hip into Peter's before she all but sashayed towards the cockpit.
'I'm starting to see why Russia got rid of her' Peter thought with a twitching brow before he quickly made his way to the first available seat he could find and collapsed into it with a sigh.
"Sooo... you and Widow used to be a thing?" Quicksilver said with a raised brow as his gaze flickered between where Peter sat and Natasha as she joined Rogers and Jennifer in the cockpit "Bit on the nose with the whole spider thing, isn't?"
"Oh shut it you cracked up sprinter" Peter snapped as he laid his head against the wall and shit his eyes closed in a effort to get some rest for the flight back to New York.
Peter couldn't believe he was gonna say this, or think this, but he was really looking forward to being back home with his homicidal wife and dealing with her... usualness.
At the very least, she won't make a never ending train of sly comments about Peter's taste in women and make it know she's going to pounce on him the moment he's a free man again.
Seriously, he should've just stayed home and wallowed in his misery instead of going to Vegas.
...
And done.
Next chapter, When wives and Ex-girlfriend's collide...