Answers to reviewers questions or statements:
Jestalnaker94000: Yeah, Ultimate Juggernaut will show up a few times, the first being next chapter.
superspiderfan: No Peter and Iso have never met., he knows about her being the daughter of Shangri-La's current ruler but that's it.
MCRasengan: Parker Luck, sometimes it gives him the worst kind of luck and other times gives him a surprising hand.
spiderman1fan: It'll be the first step in Mutants being viewed better and to some extent the Inhumans, when, then make their presence known, because in comics you can only hide a civilization like that for so long before it's discovered or it reveals itself. I have something like that in mind for Daisy but as for her being in Peter's harem, yeah.
Spawn Hades: Superior Octopus in that Otto's in a clone of Peter's body and works with HYDRA… he's really starting to get a creepy fixation for Peter.
After careful consideration and reviewing the path I intend to take this story and it's characters, I have decided to change the Harem up a bit, nothing too drastic but for starters Mary Jane is out, not because I don't like her, it's just she'd really be out of place with how things are gonna go down later in the story but I still intend for her to have a role in this. So Mary Jane in the harem will be replaced by Daisy Johnson aka Quake who's also an Inhuman or well becomes one later on when it's discovered her mother was an Inhuman and stuff. Plus, against my better judgement I have added three more women to the harem, but that's it. It's closed, the choices you'll see and to be revealed are it, no alterations of any sort, no going back.
Harem is now and will be: Peter x Iso x Selene Gallio x Wanda Maximoff x Ororo Mnuroe x Emma Frost x Jessica Drew x Daisy Johnson x Elizabeth 'Betsy' Braddock x Janet Pym x Carol Danvers x Bobbi Morse x Mystique.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel characters seen, mentioned or used.
To say things had gone south for the X-men in their mission to save the President's daughter was like saying the sky was blue…biggest understatement of the freakin century!
And on top of having the residents of Croatia attacking Cyclops and his people, losing contact with Spider-man after he engaged the Scarlet Witch and the arrival of Magneto according to Colossus, Storm had not just even moments ago relayed to him a piece of information that he hoped to every god there is and ever will be was wrong.
"Storm this is Cyclops. I don't think we read your last message correctly. Did you just say Beast is dead?" the young leader of the X-men said in shock as he and Iceman took cover behind a wall as the duo was under fire from a group of armed men.
It was than Storm's panicking tone came through the coms "How am I supposed to know? I'm a car thief, not a doctor! All I know is that a bomb went off under the guy and now he isn't moving or breathing. How the hell are we gonna get out of here!?"
It was then the sounds of her cursing and multiple gunshots echoed through the commlink, causing Cyclops to panic "What was that?"
Storm didn't respond for several tense moments as gunshots echoed through the city.
"Croat snipers with a hard on for mutants I think. How the hell does that bald-headed bastard talk us into this Cyclops?" Storm asked with fear.
Cyclops was just about to respond when suddenly he was hit in the chest by a bullet fired from a Crot marksman, causing Iceman to gape in shock as he watched the older teen go down Holy shit!" Ice man said as he grabbed Cyclops and took cover behind a trashed car as more Crot gun men showed up and began to open fire on the duo.
"Cyclops?" Storm asked with worry.
"He's down Strom" Bobby said as he felt himself shaking in fear, seriously at this point who wouldn't?
"The locals put a bullet in his chest and now their gunning for me!" the young ice user said with dread as he could hear the shooting men getting closer "Where do we go from here? Nobody covered Cyclops being dead in the Danger Room exercises!"
It was than Cyclops spoke in a strained but calm tone as he stared at the approaching truck and gun men from under the slowly detreating car he and Iceman were using for cover "Stay cool Iceman. Why do you think god invented Kevlar?"
He took aim at the vehicle the Crot gun men were suing before firing a powerful but low powered beam towards the engine, creating a chain reaction that caused the front of the truck to explode and send the rest of the frame several meters in the air. The force of the explosion also caused many of the gun to be sent flying back or break out into a run away from the now burning wreckage.
"Whoa…sweet" Iceman said as he watched the men retreat while Cyclops stood back up and pulled the bullet lodged in his Kevlar vest out with a grunt.
"Colossus, how fast can you get to Storm and Beast?" Cyclops asked as he gestured for Bobby to follow him and link up with the rest "We need to rendezvous with the others before Magneto spots the wide screen pyrotechnics"
"Piotr's already here Cyclops but I doubt even he's going to be able to hold the locals back much longer" Storm said over the gun fire emanating in the background "I'm trying to rustle up something nasty to hit them with. I'm just so stressed!"
Cyclops couldn't help but groan, both in pain and from how far south this entire thing had went "So much for rescuing the president's daughter buying us brownie points with the human race"
Cyclops ducked under several bullets fired at him and Iceman before he sent several otic blasts back towards the gun men while Iceman froze the entre ground under the armed locals, causing them to slip and fall and throwing up several ice walls to give him and Cyclops better cover as they rushed to Storm's position that sounded like it was starting to get overrun.
It was than Storm spoke, her voice laced with rage at the situation they've found themselves in "They hate us Cyclops. As far as ordinary people are concerned we rank somewhere between cancer and child molesters. For fuck's sake even Professor X was ready to sacrifice all eight of us just to save some spoiled little white girl with an old money surname!"
It was just as Cyclops and Iceman arrived to help Storm, Colossus and a still downed Beast when the gun men stopped firing and glanced up as several large shadows passed over them. The members of the X-men also looked up and everyone was greeted to the sight of several floating train carts flying towards the armed men at high speeds. The Crot gun men screamed in terror as the large train carts began to slam into them, some igniting into powerful explosion as the contents on board were flammable.
They quickly broke into a run, causing Ororo to let out a sigh of relief before she paled at the sight of Magneto himself slowly floating down towards her while members of the Brotherhood of Mutants began to emerge from the smoke as well…along with Spider-man.
"Peter…" Ororo said in shock at seeing the state he was in, she was also a bit peeved to see him being aided by the Scarlet Witch.
"Hey guys…" Peter said with a weak wave before he winced "Trust me, I can't believe it either… just for the love of god don't mention this to Logan, I'll never hear the end of it"
It was than Cyclops stepped forward, his visor at the ready as he took aim at Magneto "Back off Magneto. I don't care who you are or what you can do. Take one more step towards my people and I'll burn a hole like a donut"
Magento glared at Cyclops through his helmet "Don't talk to me about your people Cyclops. Your people are being executed on the streets of so called civilized society every day and what are you doing you treacherous little lapdog"
"Well for starters stopping you from making Mutants look even worse than you already have with the whole Nazi image you have going on" Peter groaned out as he gave Wanda a pat on the shoulder "I came make my way from here sweetheart, thanks for the help…"
"Your welcome" Wanda said to the man as she released him and watched him make his way to the X-men's side.
It was than Magneto glanced at Peter with narrowed eyes "Oh and how am I making Mutants look even worse? With a simple kidnapping, I've been able to stop the president's Sentinel initiative and prevented the deaths of millions of mutants' world wide"
Peter stared at the man for a moment before he shook his head as he made his way next to Ororo, Hank and Piotr "You know what, I'm really not gonna waste my words arguing with you right now, mainly because I'm on the verge of blacking out. Get back to me in a few days and I'll gladly point out the flaws in your logic right there, hell I'll get my uncle Kanrak to help"
Magneto glared at the man for a moment before he shook his head at his apparent nativity of the situation Mutants, his own people, were in before nodding towards Beast's down form that was being protected by Ororo "Doesn't it bring a tear to your eye that you might have sacrificed a friend in your bid to ingratiate yourselves with your persecutors? I was doing this for you, you little ingrates but it's obvious you deserve everything you get from Homo Sapiens"
As Magento was talking he used his powers of magnetism to lift a nearby truck and bring it over towards them before dropping it before the X-men with a scowl on his face before he turned away "My only desire now is that the Sentinels you've risked everything to retain give you a slow and painful death"
"Wooooow, all about stopping Mutants death at the hands of Sentinels and here you are hoping it happens to Mutants you don't like, and here I thought my uncle could be a hypocrite, but you sir have greatly outshined him" Peter said with a roll of his eyes as he helped Beast into the back of the pickup dropped next to them.
The leader of the Brotherhood of Mutants glared at Peter and for a moment strongly considered killing the man before Cyclops spoke up.
"Listen, this isn't as black and white as it looks Magento. We weren't exactly jumping for joy about coming here ourselves"
"Save your breath Cyclops" Magento snapped as he began to walk away from the X-men "I have nothing more to say to infants' hell bent on suicide. Just go"
The leader of the X-men stared at the back of the master of magnetism before he piled in the passenger seat of the truck that Ororo was able to get up and running while Peter, Iceman and Colossus piled in the back with Hank's unconscious form and slowly drove away from the Brotherhood and made their way towards the city's outskirts where they can regroup with Wolverine and Marvel Girl.
"So first fight with the Brotherhood could have gone better but hey we're alive so that's something" Peter said as he cradled his head that was still throbbing in pain.
"We got our asses kicked" Iceman said dejectedly while Colossus nodded.
"He is right, it could have gone better for us" the Russian born Mutant said as he dropped his metal from with a sigh and glanced at Hank's form "Let us hope that this mission did not cost us more than our pride…"
"Least I get to kick Magento's brat of a son's ass and make it to second base with his attractive daughter, I call that a win in my book" Peter said with a snort as his vison began to clear up somewhat as his healing factor began to kick in with some of his head injuries.
"Lucky you…" Iceman said with a dry chuckle as they made their way through the darkened streets of the city "By the way, how did they get you?"
"Oh you know, saw his daughter in trouble and my alpha male hero complex thing couldn't resist antagonizing the men threatening her. They responded by shooting at me, safe to say I think my life flashed before my eyes before their bullets came to a stop like several inches from me" Peter said as he removed his mask and rubbed the back of his head, frowning when he felt a wet spot and pulled his hand back to show there was blood on it "He then sent the bullet storm back at the gun men, made a dramatic landing and told me to follow him to rescue and I quote 'the rest of your idiotic friends' and well…there I was"
"Man…your lucky he didn't kill you" Bobby said as he fiddled with his thumbs.
At this Peter smirked grimly "If he did Bobby…my mother and father wouldn't have rested until Magento and everyone connected to him, Mutant or otherwise was lying broken, beaten and dead at their feet"
…
Wanda, Pietro, her father and the other members of the brotherhood watched the group leave silently before Wanda spoke up.
"I don't understand father. Xavier being separated from his followers like this gave Wolverine the perfect opportunity to catch him alone" the hex powered woman said as he glanced at her father "You don't think he's lost his mind and allied himself with that little band of renegades, do you?"
Magento turned towards Wanda with a condescending look "Don't be such an idiot Scarlet Witch. Wolverine always gets the job done. And murdering Charles was something he was very much looking forward to"
Wanda had to resist the urge to strike out at her father for the insult, she's not an idiot, all she did was ask a legitimate question that should be raised in regard to Wolverine's actions and behavior as of late, hell he attacked Pietro not even a few minutes ago.
Magneto unaware of his child's thoughts turned his gaze back to the now gone X-men "He's only doing what he did when I sent him to kill that little despot in the Gulf and the CEO of that corporation which was pumping all that wretched filth into the ocean"
He then turned and began to make his way back into the smoke, his followers parting before him "You know Wolverine. Holding off on a kill just means there's a woman he's trying to get into bed first"
Wanda was unconvinced before she felt her brother's hand on her shoulder followed by a comforting squeeze "Do not fret Wanda, Xavier will be dead soon and Mutant kind will be one step closer to obtaining what's rightfully ours"
Wanda nodded absent mindedly as she glanced back in the direction that the X-men left 'Yes…I suppose your right…'
So if he was, then why did Wanda get the sudden feeling that things weren't going to play out like her father hoped?
…
It was a day later that the team minus Bobby and Logan, were assembled before a window that allowed the team to view into the medical room and watch as Xavier and Jean operate on Beast.
Colossus cupped his chin in thought "I didn't know Jean and the professor were surgeons"
"They aren't, but they're as qualified as anyone within their mind reading radius. Fifty times as far if the professor's mental abilities are enhanced by Cerebro. They call it something but I can't remember the word. Brain storming, I think" Cyclops said as he folded his arms across his chest.
"Pretty sure that's just a group of people coming together and going through different ideas" Peter said tiredly as he rubbed a hand across his face.
"Bobby's taking this very badly" Colossus said with a frown "He's locked himself in his room and made me promise not to break in the door"
"Can you blame him?" Peter asked with a glance at Colossus who responded with a silent 'no'.
Ororo took a small sip of her drink as she watched Jean telepathically hold up several medical instruments before choosing one to use "It's easy to forget what age he is, isn't it? I mean what must this must seem like when your fifteen years old"
"Could be worse…" Peter said with a distant look in his eye as memories of Maximus's first rampage slowly passed by his mind's eye "He could be half the age and learn there is no hope for your friends or family and it's best to start making the necessary arrangments…"
"Damn…do I even want to know what happened?" Ororo asked as she placed her mug on the window still and hugged herself.
"No…it'll just give you nightmares" Peter said as he turned to leave "Anyone needs me, I'm going to go make fun of Wolverine or something, that usually cheers me up in some weird way"
He then silently left the group to their own devices as he trudged through the hallways of the mansion deep in thought. So far working with these X-men to help find his warped Uncle has proven less than fortunate.
It also made Peter even more concerned for his people's safety and their eventual discovery. Considering how humanity's treating Mutant kind, god only knows how they'll react to another super powered race living on this planet with them, only difference being that these ones are organized and have a higher technology level than any other government on earth.
He was honestly beginning to think that coexistence with humanity and to some extant Mutant kind was all but impossible at this point so that left, from his perspective at the moment, two options.
Either stay hidden and hope their never discovered which he knew was a fool's gamble…or come out swinging and hope they cause enough damage to the other side they'll never even think of raising their hands to Inhumans ever.
Peter quickly banished those thoughts 'No hiding or fighting aren't the answer, like father always said, there's always another option, you just have to be willing to work hard to find it and make it work…'
He finally came to a stop inside the gardens and Peter carefully glanced around for any signs of the others before he pulled out a small device that looked similar to a smart phone but was clearly more advance by several decades. He typed in a few commands and waited a moment before someone answered his call.
"Hello?" Selene's voice echoed through the holographic screen.
"Selene…" Peter greeted the ancient mutant.
"Ah, Peter…I was wondering if I'll hear back from you. Heard that you and Xavier's little bunch had rescued his daughter from Magneto. Impressive, I didn't know any of you had it in you" Selene said with a chuckle.
"So glad to prove you wrong" Peter said with a chuckle before his grin fell and was replaced with a frown "Hey uh Selene?"
"Yes?"
"Well uh don't take this the wrong way but uh…you've been around a while yeah?" Peter said as he paced before a small pond with a small family of ducks in it.
"Since before the dawn of most major ancient civilizations" Selene revealed.
"Well I was wondering…do you think…that humanity will ever come to accept Mutants or Inhumans?" Peter asked carefully.
Selene didn't answer, not right away as she mulled over what Peter asked. After several long minutes, she finally voiced her opinion on the subject.
"Humanity has a terrible knack for hating and distrusting anything new or unknown to them…"
"But…?" Peter probed.
"But give them some time to get their heads out of their asses and they'll get used to the idea of Mutants and Inhumans living with them, granted people like Magento, your uncle, Trask and that senator Kelly won't make things easy for anyone" Selene said with a chuckle "And if not…well they've ruled this planet for a little over ten thousand years, that's long enough in my opinion"
"My dear Selene, you are as wise as you are beautiful" Peter joked as he sat down on a stone bench "When I become king I think I'll make you my royal advisor"
"Sounds fun, during the day I advise you what not to do and at night I join you, and likely your wife by then, in pleasing you" Selene teased.
The two continued their conversation for a few more hours and ended with an agreement to meet up before Peter returns to Attilan if he does manage to succeed in finding his mad uncle and stopping him from doing who knows what at this point. Peter placed his com device back in his suit's belt before he cracked his neck and saw that it was already night.
"Huh, time flies when you're on the phone with a beautiful woman" Peter mused out loud as he sat up and made his way back to the mansion. After making it inside he began to hear the voices of Scott and Xavier.
And the two's conversation sounded anything but friendly.
Peter's eyes narrowed in interest as he slowly followed the two's voices and began to make out their words as he neared them.
"Why should we sit down and negotiate with the kind of filth that put Hank in a coma?" Cyclops asked with growing anger.
The professors cool tone was quick to respond "Because their human beings Cyclops and like it or not we're sharing this planet with six billion of them"
"And a couple hundred million Inhumans" Peter muttered to himself as he stood behind a corner and listened to the two's conversation.
Magento's idea for a new and better world are attractive to any young Mutant but you must understand that he remains the single greatest threat to our fragile peace process. As much as I treasure all forms of life I wouldn't hesitate to switch off his brain if it wasn't for that thought proof helmet he wears to protect himself"
'Hmm so old Xavier has a bit of a dark side to him after all…' Peter thought with grim amusement.
"The others look up to you Scott. You leaving now would have a disastrous effect at such a pivotal role in my plans" Xavier said as he turned towards Scott and began to ever so subtly "Why don't you go back up to your room and unpack and we'll say nothing else about this unfortunate little episode eh?"
Peter frowned at Xavier's suggestion, did the man really expect that Scott would just-
"Professor…" Scott said as he began to rub his forehead to sooth a headache that was coming on "Are you doing something to my mind?"
At this Peter's eyes widened in alarm as his hand quickly flew to his belt and ripped his mask out before quickly placing it on and switching on the psionic inhibitors installed inside it to help keep Telepaths out of his mind.
Xavier unaware or unconcerned of Peter's presence turned from Scott as he took a deep inhale and exhale of his lit pipe "I'm just releasing a pleasant hormone into your bloodstream to calm those rising tempers my friend. We were about to exchange six very unpleasant sentences and I know for a fact that a reasonable boy like you couldn't possibly mean the fifth one"
Scott suddenly glared at Xavier with a slight snarl "Can you read what I'm thinking now professor?"
Xavier looked at Scoot for a few moments before his eyes narrowed slightly in anger "Language like that betrays a limited vocabulary Cyclops"
"Well right now I'm feeling monosyllabic. Give me a call when you're tired of kissing up to the evil empire" Scott snapped as he shouldered his backpack and turned to leave as Beast's awake and slightly panicked voice began to speak through the mansions intercom.
"Beast to all X-men, I repeat this is Beast calling any X-men currently on the premises. Would someone come along to the infirmary and explain WHY I'VE SUDDENLY GOT BLUE HAIR?!"
Under normal circumstances Peter would have laughed at the sudden interruption but right now Peter was feeling anything but amused. He silently pulled away from his hiding spot as Xavier turned to leave and shadowed Scott down to the hanger that housed the team's jet.
…
It was several hours later that Scott found himself in the pilot seat of the X-men's blackbird as it soared over the southern Atlantic Ocean at Mach ten. He let out a tired sigh as he leaned back in the chair and massaged his temples "I can't believe I'm doing this…"
"Yeah me neither" Peter's amused voice suddenly spoke up behind the young Mutant, causing him to jump in surprise.
"JESUS CHRIST MAN!" Scott yelled as she looked over his shoulder to see Peter clad fully in his suit giving him an amused chuckle as he sat in the co-pilot seat "Would you stop with the whole serial killer sneaking up thing? And while were on that note, what are you doing here?"
Peter shrugged as he adjusted his seat's settings to his personal accommodations "Making sure you didn't do something stupid and use this seemingly perfect opportunity to find my crazed uncle and take him down"
"How so?" Scott asked.
"Well for one you're on your way to the Savage land where the Brotherhood of Mutants are based which also happens to be the same group that my uncle has shacked it up with for the moment" Peter pointed out as he leaned back in his chair "So I figured I'd kill two birds with one stone and join you on your apparent defection from Xavier's group and hooking up with the user of rudimentary science for powers to confront and hopefully beat him"
"And how do you intend to do that? According to what you told Ororo, your uncle's a telepath that's leagues ahead of the professor with none of the restraint" Scott said with a frown.
Peter shrugged at this "I have something in mind that'll help and if not, I just call back home, let them know where my crazed uncle is and let them send in the cavalry to do him in"
Scott stared at Peter for a moment before he shook his head and went back to monitoring their flight to the Savage Land "You know Magneto probably won't be too happy to see you there considering how you mouthed off to him last time"
"Yeah well old Magsy doesn't strike as the type to hold grudges and if he does" Peter trailed off before waving a hand through the air "I've got it covered"
"How?" Scott asked.
"You'll see or won't see if things don't go well" Peter said with a chuckle as he leaned his head back "Now if you need me, I'll be catching up on some sleep. Kind of hard to do with Wolverine living in the room across from you and listening to his snores all night long. The man sounds like a choking bear trying to run a marathon"
"That's…an odd thing to compare it to" Scott said unsure of how to really respond to that.
Peter made a sound of agreement before he settled in and slowly drifted off to sleep while Scott continued to pilot the jet to the southern continent of Antarctica, the location of the Savage Land and by proxy Magneto's base of operations.
Several hours passed and it was beginning to near midnight before Scott saw that they were approaching the Savage Land, he quickly shook Peter awake who let out a yawn as he cracked his neck "We there yet mom?"
"We just passed through the holographic projection that disguises this place" Scott informed the Inhuman as he made out the distant lights of the city like fortress that the Brotherhood made for them to live in that was housed on a small island in the middle of a lake.
"So this is the Savage Land" Peter said as he glanced out the window towards the prehistoric like landscape and made out several life forms that he knows for a fact should be extinct "Huh…wonder if I can get a dinosaur while we're here, always wanted a pet T-rex!"
"Good luck with that…and there's the resident ruler of this place, coming to either greet us with open arms or kill us" Scott said as he brought the jet down close to the lake's shoreline and made out Magento and numerous other Mutants approaching from the main gateway of the fortress.
Peter silently followed Scott out of the jet and make their way through the surprisingly warm knee-deep water towards the still form of Magneto as several of his top lieutenants stood behind him and farther back, other Mutant inhabitants of the fortress watched on.
"Okay Magneto…We're interested" Cyclops said as he and Peter trudged towards the man in question "Let's hear what you have to say for yourself"
Magneto stared at the two for several long moments before he smirked and approached the duo, meeting them halfway and placed a hand on both their shoulders "Welcome to the Savage Land brothers"
Peter raised a brow at the man underneath his mask, not expecting that much of a welcoming party as suddenly fireworks started to go off above the duo while the hundreds of Mutants beginning to surround the trio began to cheer in delight.
Meanwhile, not too far away from the commotion, Maximus watched the scene play out with a very amused expression on his face, it only grew as he recognized his adoptive nephew's form.
"Ah so Blackgar sent you to retrieve me eh Peter? Funny I was hoping for Karnak or Triton but this will be just as good…" Maximus chuckled to himself before he turned and began to make his way back into the fortress as other Mutants passed him by, intent on meeting it's newest members of the Brotherhood.
"It's been a while since I killed a son of Black Bolt… let's see if I still got it" Maximus mused darkly as his mind began to race through the numerous opportunities this situation has presented him.
…
And done.
Next chapter Peter explores the Savage land, gets to know some of the Mutants there and begins to investigate just what it is exactly that brought his Uncle there in the first place, meanwhile Blackgar and Medusa prepare to both meet the leaders of the other Inhuman cities to maintain the fragile peace held between them and welcome the future Queen to Attilan.