answers to reviewers questions or statements:
Jason Chandler: Yes, he will.
spiderman1fan: Same as any powerful supervillain... with an epic superhero fight :)
matthorserider40: Wanda's Magento's daughter in the Ultimate universe, not sure where the hell you got 'adopted' from. I don't know if I'm ready to bother with a Spider-man and Pacific Rim crossover. The first movie was okay but the second one was alright I guess. Just not sure how Peter could make much of a difference in a fight against Gamera.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel characters seen, mentioned or used.
"...And than he was gone, no warning. He just got up and vanished in a flash of light"
Medusa frowned as Iso had finished telling her of Lockjaw's sudden departure from her room. Ever since the young Inhuman had come to Attilan and Medusa had introduced her to the Royal Family's loyal teleporting dog, the two were almost as inseparable as Peter and Lockjaw were. For the large mutated canine to up and leave all of a sudden, if how Iso described it was accurate, greatly concerned the Inhuman Queen.
"I... I don't know what I did" Iso said with a depressed expression on her face as she hugged herself "I thought he liked me"
"He does dear, he does" Medusa said as she rose from her seat and quickly went to console her future daughter in law "It's likely that Peter called him. He'll be back soon and be at your side in a heartbeat"
Iso nodded a little at this as Medusa glanced at her husband to see that he seemed to be concentrating on something. What she had no idea, even after all these years of marriage between the two, there were times where even she couldn't properly read her husband's mood. Though she believed he was also concerned by Peter's sudden need of Lockjaw. The only way their son could've summoned Lockjaw was with the specialized whistle that Black Bolt had made tuned to Lockjaw's senses, something that Medusa and Black Bolt made sure Peter knew was only used for emergencies.
While the whistle didn't exactly hurt Lockjaw, it's tune tended to greatly irritate the Inhuman and cause a slight malfunction of his teleportation ability.
"Why would Peter need Lockjaw, is he in trouble?" Iso asked with worry.
"I'm sure he's fine..." Medusa said with a smile that didn't quite reach her eyes "Peter most likely grew a little lonely and simply wanted familiar company is all"
"Oh..." Iso said with a small nod of understanding "Do you think next time I could go with Lockjaw and meet him? I know we planned to wait until he returned from his mission, but I thought... I thought I could meet him without the grand spectacle that's likely to come of it here. I understand as a member of the Royal family many things will be... public, but I was hoping meeting him would be private, personal"
"I don't see why we can't do that" Medusa said as she glanced at her husband to see if he would approve 'So long as it's safe. We can't afford to risk Iso's family's wrath right now. And I've grown too fond of her to end up hurt'
Since Iso's arrival in Attilan, the denizens of the ancient Inhuman city had quickly grown to adore the future Queen. When she's not being taught about Attilan's court life by both Medusa and Crystal, she's been aiding the Royal Family's team of engineers in expanding some of the city's subzones and even drew up a few new schematics of the vibranium capacitors that Black Bolt powered with his Quasi Scream. If Medusa had any doubts that Peter will be pleased with his future bride, they were promptly laid to rest after the first week of Iso's integration with the Royal family.
Black Bolt's response to Iso's request was a simple nod before he stood and slowly approached the two before taking his wife's hand and gave it a slight squeeze.
Iso smiled at this and was about to say something when suddenly a bright light flashed in front of the trio before Iso was nearly tackled to the ground by a excited Lockjaw.
"Lockjaw!" Iso squealed as she brought the large canine's head into a tight hug against her chest.
"See, I told you he'd return" Medusa said as she and her husband took this time to examine the Inhuman dog's state.
He didn't seem hurt in any shape or form, which put some of Medusa's fears to rest that her baby was in danger.
'He could've sent Lockjaw away before anything serious happened to him' Black Bolt's voice echoed in Medusa's mind as he gave his wife a measured look.
'I'm aware beloved...' Medusa thought with a mental sigh 'I only hope that he'll be okay'
Even though soon her child will be seen as an adult and likely face even greater dangers than his mad uncle, Medusa will never be able to stop worrying completely...
...
"You know, all things considered, this hasn't been the worst day of my life" Peter said as he and Wanda navigated through the seemingly war torn streets of Washington D.C. "I mean I got to go on a nice romantic stroll through the Savage Land with a hot red head with blue skin, took down a Sentinel on my own and I managed to convince you and your brother to help us stop you jerk of a father. If anything, today is going almost splendid"
Aside from getting choked out by his Uncle, that sorta sucked.
"I wish I could say the same" Wanda said as she used her powers of probability to move any ruined vehicles in their way or deflect the occasional stray energy blast from the aerial battle above them into a nearby building.
"Hey, easy on where you redirect those things" Peter scolded the woman "their could be people in there still!"
"Not my problem" Wanda snapped with annoyance "Your not human, so why do you care so much for them?"
"Cause not all of them are bad, hard as it is to believe" Peter answered with a simple shrug "Sure most humans are probably assholes, but than again every race has those kinds of people running around, giving them a bad name. Like your father is doing for Mutants... or my uncle for-... look, the point you, me, hell everyone need to prove to others is that they are the exceptions, not the standard"
"You really think that? "Wanda said with a doubtful look.
"I believe it" Peter said with a nod "I mean, I was sorta raised with that outlook on life. That you can't hold an entire people accountable for the actions of a few. You do, your just inviting others to do the same to your own when the time comes for them to enact judgement"
"So don't et anyone gain the power to pass judgement on you" Wanda said.
"Easier said than done sweetheart" Peyer said with a sigh before he saw that he and Wanda had finally reached the White House...
Or what was left of it.
All across the lawn were dozens of Secret Service agents, most of them were torn to pieces, limbs and internal organs scattered everywhere. There was also a few overturned SUV's, a couple of police cruiser on fire and the head of a Sentinel lying about, some of which were on fire. Towards the center of the small field, or what Peter assumed was supposed to be the building's front yard, stood Magneto with over a dozen cameras hovering before him, all recording live his actions. Before him, lying on the ground, was Charles Xavier, looking a little worse for wear.
"There's Xavier..." Peter said as he scanned the area for signs of the President "Now where's-"
"He's the naked man crawling away on all fours like a dog" Wanda said with a unimpressed look on her face.
Peter followed the Mutant woman's gaze and saw what she was looking at and couldn't help but quirk his head to the side in confusion.
"Why the hell is he naked?" Peter asked, glancing at Wanda for information.
"My father likely did it as a way to humiliate and debase him" Wanda answered with a thoughtful look on her face "Having the quote on quote 'most powerful man in the free world' lying sniveling at your feet, naked and afraid, sends a powerful message to the rest of the world"
"Or just scars humanity with the sight of an old out of shape dude's balls" Peter said with a mental shiver.
"That too" Wanda couldn't help but allow a small grin appear on her face before it vanished as she stared at her father with a look of reluctance "He's not going to be happy that me and Pietro are betraying him"
"Going against your parents is kinda second nature for us teens, or young adults in this case" Peter said with a smirk as he cracked his knuckles "Just get Xavier away from him and wake him up. He's gonna need to be fast once your brother finally gets here and rips that eyesore of a helmet off him"
Wanda nodded as Peter broke off into a sprint for several meters before leaping in the air and shooting out two web lines and used them to catapult himself towards Magento. As powerful as the man was, his abilities only extended to the manipulation of metal, not his body's natural durability.
'All I got to do is land a solid hit on him and he's done for' Peter thought as he soared towards the man and prepared to deliver a powerful punch to the back of his head before coming to a sudden stop only inches away from the master of magnetism.
It wasn't until Magneto slowly turned around and gave Peter a rather unimpressed look that it occurred to the wall crawler that his suit still had quite a bit of metal in it. Enough for the Mutant before him to take advantage of at any rate.
"Ummm hi?" Peter said with a nervous laugh as the mutant terrorist stared at him with a slightly perplexed look on his face "Nice day we're having yeah? Barring the whole war of the species and half the city burning"
"How did you get here so quickly?" Magento asked with a frown "The Blackbird isn't quite that fast"
"My teleporting dog, but we made a quick side stop in China" Peter quipped.
Magneto remained silent at this before a slight hand gesture from him sent Peter into the ground and began to drag the man through the blood soaked grass all around him.
"OW!OW!OW!OW!OW!OW!OW!" Peter shouted as he hit several pieces of what he assumed was a car door, an engine block, part of a Sentinel's head, an a corpse that looked like it was thrown into a blender "THIS! IS! PETTY!"
Honestly, who used their powers to drag another person around through the dirt while broadcasting it on TV?
"Was this your great plan?" Magento asked as he idly dragged Peter across the lawn while ripping several sheets worth of metal from some of the nearby Presidential security vehicles and slowly began to wrap them around the wall crawler before bringing him to a stop before the leader of the Brotherhood of Mutants "To try and jump me like some common Homo sapien and beat me to within an inch of my life, all to protect your human masters?"
"Honestly, yeah" Peter groaned as Magento lifted him into the air, his suit was covered in blood, dirt and grass clippings and at some point one of Peter's lenses cracked "Maybe get a few classic one liners in there while I'm at it. See if they stick to your magnetic personality. Sadly it seems you've repulsed them. Guess they didn't have the right charge to them-"
"Pathetic" Magento interrupted in annoyance as he began to slowly tighten the metal restraints on Peter's body before turning to Xavier's stilled form "Is this the best you could manage Charles? A bunch of blabbering children?"
"Most of them are teenagers..." Xavier coughed as he tried to move but a hovering pistol cocking and pressing right against his head froze him.
"I'm a young adult myself" Peter said as he tried to move "And Logan's old as dirt"
"I'm aware" Magneto said as he regarded Peter for a moment before he raised several guns and had them take aim at Peter's head "Once I am done with you, Charles, your foolish friends and the rest these humans, your uncle will pay dearly for his transactions against my people"
"The hell did I do?" Peter complained as he tried to force himself free of the metal restraints he found himself in "All I did was make your daughter a blanket out of webs I threw up after pulling a splinter out of a dinosaur. It's not like I slept with her man!"
"What are you babbling about?" Magento asked with confusion.
"Uhh, don't worry about it" Peter said as he tried to move his arms a little before the metal restraints wrapped around his torso tightened "I tend to ramble when I'm facing imminent death. Be it at the hands of a crazed relative, my mother when she's angry with me, my aunt Crystal when she found out I slept with her friend, again, or eating Logan's food after he calls dibs on it and even leaves a note saying it's his on the container-"
Peter was cut off by one of the metal rods snaking it's way up Peter's chest and wrapping around his throat.
"Never have I ever met someone that could take my enjoyment out of killing them with their prattling more than you" Magento shook his head slowly at Peter as he began to slowly suffocate the man "I dare say you'd cause even Wolverine to cut his own ears off before killing you, just to save him the trouble of hearing you scream"
Peter made a choked sound as he felt his throat was about to break and his vision blurring. His spider-sense wasn't going off a mile a minute and just as it seemed that Peer's life was over, a hex bolt suddenly slammed into Magento's chest, sending the Mutant flying back and into the side of the destroyed limousine he tried to kill the president with earlier. Peter's body fell to the ground like a brick in water, the metal rods were still tight around him, but they were no longer crushing him.
'Small... miracles...' Peter thought as he tried to free himself but found his arms refusing to move so much as an inch, and he still couldn't breath.
"Hold still..."
Suddenly the metal robs were loosening before they seemingly vanished and Peter inhaled a deep breath of oxygen, smoke, and whatever else was burning in the air, before falling into a fit of coughing.
"Holy... shit..." Peter gasped as he turned on his side to avoid coughing into the face of his rescuer.
After getting a few more mouthfuls of air into his lungs, Peter turned to see that it was Wanda that had rescued him. She was facing her father with a look of uncertainty and defiance that only a woman with an asshole of a father like Magento could pull off. Honestly, it really added to her appeal, and it wasn't because the angle he was looking at the Mutant beauty gave him a nice view of her curves that her suit made even more mouthwatering, her rear especially.
'Selene, Ororo, I'm afraid you all have competition...' Peter thought as he turned to see if he could find Xavier and saw that the man was being picked up by Wolverine "Logan?"
"Yeah?" the feral mutant said as he turned and regarded Peter with a scowl "The hell you sitting around for? Let's go before Magsy there decides to kill us both"
"Never thought you'd back down from a fight" Peter said as he climbed to his feet and stumbled after the man and the still unconscious Xavier.
"Well when your skeleton is made of metal, fighting a guy that can control it seems a little difficult" Logan said as he spared a glance back towards Wanda "Sides, I don't want to be here once this little family spat starts"
As Peter and Logan made their way towards the edge of the property, doing their best to wake Xavier up, Wanda watched as her father climbed back to his feet, staring at her with confusion etched on his face.
"Wanda...?" Magento said with surprise before it quickly morphed into rage "What are you doing you damn idiot!?"
"Stopping you from dooming our kind to extinction!" Wanda snapped.
"I'm saving our people!" Magneto declared as he pointed towards the naked president still crawling away "From these primitive beasts. I 'm fighting to bring about a new world order where our kind can walk feely without fear. Without knowing hate-"
"And to do that, you'll do what humanity's been trying to do to us for decades" Wanda finished with a glare "Extermination"
"It's the only thing they'll ever understand daughter" the master of magnetism stated with a frown "Not too long ago, you wouldn't have hesitated to join me in purging the world of these filthy creatures. I dare say your devotion to the cause was greater than any of us, mine included"
"That was until I realized that you'll lead our people into extinction with humanity" Wanda argued as she gestured to the carnage around them "Do you truly think that the rest of humanity will bow to us like you believe with this show of mindless slaughter? They will burn down the world, taking us with them, if it means denying us our place!"
"Such little faith daughter" Magento said with a shake of his head "I can disable all of their nuclear weapons with a mere thought. I can crush all of their bombs and missiles and send them into the sun with a mere blink of the eye. The only species that will burn will be humanity"
"That is not a chance I am willing to take father" Wanda said as her eyes began to glow red.
Magento stared at his child for a moment with an unreadable expression on his face before he sighed "So be it..."
With a wave of his hand, the Leader of the Brotherhood took control of the metal fencing around the White House and sent it towards his former daughter. Wanda saw this and quickly formed a forcefield around her and watched as the metal fencing began to snake around her shield and constrict it. Sweat built on Wanda's brow as she struggled to hold back the power of her father before she suddenly teleported out of her protective bubble and appeared behind her father. With a yell, Wanda sent a hex bolt right into the back of Magento, sending him stumbling forward before she had the ground beneath his feet turn to mud and begin drawing him into it.
"Really Wanda, a puddle of mud?" Magento said with an unimpressed look on his face.
"I do not wish to hurt you" Wanda said as she used her powers of probability to create a large cage around her father.
"Like you could hurt me if you even wanted to!" Magneto said as he sent out a pulse of electromagnetic energy, shattering the cage into hundreds of tiny shards before sending them towards Wanda.
The Scarlet Witch quickly teleported out of the way only to be hit by a car door the moment she appeared a few meters away from her original position.
"So predictable Wanda..." Magento said as he took the car door he struck the woman with and began to hit her with it repeatedly before having it break down and snake it's way around Wanda's throat and rose her into the air "I had hopes for you child, far more than your idiot of a brother, but it seems that his weakness as infected you as well. Like some wretched STD..."
Wanda let out a pained gasp as she tried to breath but the hold Magento had on her neck tightened until her vision began to blur. With a growl, she focused as much of her energy as she could before expelling it in a massive explosion of scarlet energy. The force of the blast sent Magneto skidding back as he summoned a shield of electromagnetic energy to protect himself while Wanda fell to the ground with a cough as the metal restraint around her throat turned to ass. With a cough Wanda pushed herself back to her feet and glared at her father with watery eyes before she began to send hex bolt after hex bolt at him.
Magento used the remnants of the nearby Sentinel's head as a shield before it was quickly torn to shreds by Wanda's attacks and the electromagnetic shield he constructed began to fail with each hit Wanda landed on it.
"You know, she's doing pretty good against him" Peter said as he watched Wanda and Magento's fight.
"Girl's tougher than she looks" Logan said as he helped Xavier into a sitting position "You alright cue-ball?"
"I need a moment Wolverine" Xavier rubbed his head with a wince "We need to remove that helmet from Magento. Before he does something catastrophic"
"Working on that" Peter said with a sigh as he watched Wanda shoot a beam of hex energy towards Magento who replied by sending a wave of pure electromagnetic energy to intercept it "Dammit Quicksilver, where the hell are you?"
"You know what's got me baffled?" Logan said with a confused look on his face.
"What?" peter said as he glanced at the X-men with a raised brow.
"Why can't Wanda just... remove that helmet from Magneto's head?" the claw wielding Mutant said with confusion "I've seen her teleport parts of people off with that probability power of her's, removing a helmet from that asshole's head shouldn't be that hard"
"That's... a good question" Peter said with wide eyes "Why the hell didn't we think of that?!"
Before Peter or Logan could say anything else, a blur ran past the two of them and passed by Magento. The two blinked at the sight of a now helmetless Magneto before he was suddenly blasted away by a hex bolt fired from Wanda. The master of magnetism skipped across the blood soaked yard, his cape tearing clean off as it caught on a piece of shrapnel. Wanda let out a breath and nearly stumbled forward and landed on her face before she caught herself and looked up to see her father glaring at her with utter contempt.
"You... You-" Magento snarled before Peter suddenly slammed into the man and gave him a powerful kick to the chest that sent him skipping further across the lawn and into the remains of the President's limousine.
"ME!" Peter beamed before he paused and glanced at Wanda "Or was he saying 'You' to you?"
"Does it matter?" Wanda asked as she climbed back to her feet and readjusted her tiara.
"Eh, kinda... makes me feel special if he was referring to me" Peter said with a shrug.
"Than believe it was you he was talking to" Wanda said with a scoff.
"Well now I can't cause you got me doubting" Peter said with a frown "And now that I think about it, he was looking at you so-"
"AHHHHHH!"
Peter and Wanda both turned to see Magento had pulled himself out of the limo wreck and was now clutching his head in pain, screaming. Peter frowned at this before the next several words from the master of magnetism clued him in on what was happening.
"CHARLES!" Magneto yelled as he swayed back and forth "GET OUT OF MY HEAD YOU STUPID LITTLE CRIPPLE!"
"Well that's just plain mean" Peter said with a shake of his head "For a man that keeps playing the whole 'humanity is intolerant' card, your dad is a real asshole"
"I'm aware" Wanda said as she watched with an impassive look on her face as Xavier attacked her father's mind.
It was that that all of the parts of the various destroyed cars, guns, spent bullet casings, and Sentinel pieces began to rise into the air and shoot towards Magento as he himself began to rise into the air. Wanda looked around in confusion and saw that it wasn't just the metal around them, but also from the surrounding buildings and streets that were being attracted.
"Huh, Xavier turned Magento into a super magnet" Peter said as he felt the metal in his suit start to pull away from him and towards the hovering mass of metal that was now in the air.
All around the makeshift ball of metal, arcs of lightning began to spread as the core of the orb glowed a pale blue and white color. Peter's lenses picked up a large amount of electromagnetic energy building as the orb rose higher and higher into the sky until it looked to be no larger than a pin head before-
BOOOOM!
Wanda and Peter both shielded their eyes from the bright flash followed by a near ear splitting crack as Xavier detonated the orb. After a few moments, the light faded and Peter looked up to see all that remained of Magento's prison was now a cloud of smoke while bits of shrapnel fell back to the earth below. With a sigh of relief Peter turned to see the rest of the X-men, minus Scott, approaching, with Xavier being carried by Colossus.
"Webs!" Bobby said as he rushed over and brought Peter into a tight hug "Dude, your still alive!"
"Yep" Peter said with a chuckle as he patted Iceman's back "Buy chiiiiill man"
"It's good to have you back Peter..." Ororo gave Peter a grin while Beast and Colossus simply nodded in greeting.
"Same" Peter said towards the Mutants before they noticed that a crowd of humans was gathering before them.
"Uh-oh..." Bobby said with a gulp "Uhh what's the ETA on Cyclops? Kinda want to be out of here before they start lynching us"
"I don't think their gonna lynch us Bobby" Jean said with a hopeful look on her face as someone in the back began to clap before they were joined by another, than another.
Soon a dozen people were clapping and cheering, than three dozen, than another two dozen. Soon the entire crowd was cheering and chanting the X-men's name, along with a few other surprisingly positive words.
"So does this mean we're superheroes now?" Peter asked as the people around them continued to cheer and clap.
"I guess so" Logan said as he pulled a cigar out from... honestly Peter doesn't want to know where he kept it.
Peter hummed at this and looked around to see the people actually seemed grateful for what they did here. He turned to see what Wanda had to say to all this before he realized that at some point she disappeared. Either she used her probability manipulation to teleport away, or her brother grabbed her and ran when no one was looking, or both.
'Shame... I think she should've been here to see this. at the very least show her that humanity isn't completely filled with assholes like I said earlier' Peter thought as Iceman threw a arm around Peter and Logan's shoulders and gave the cameras the widest grin he could manage.
"Ohhhh this is gonna be so sweet! We're famous now, in a good way!" the young Mutant said with a laugh while Logan hummed.
"Eh, give it a week kid"
...
The days following Magento's death were... rather uneventful in Peter's opinion.
Sure they got a few hours of fame and their images broadcasted all over the earth in a dozen different languages about their victory over Magento, but after that...
Well Peter wasn't sure what the X-men's plans were now that their greatest enemy was gone, after they all returned to the mansion, and Storm dragged Peter off to her room, the Inhuman Prince had been preparing to head after his uncle who had since vanished. He already sent word back to Attilan about the Terrigean crystals he found in the Savage Land and contacted Selene and asked for her help in tracking the man down. The thousands year old Mutant had agreed, and even offered her penthouse as a base of operations for him to operate from... or more specifically, her bed.
'I swear she's using her telepathy to make spending hours on end in her bed with her more enticing than finding my crazy uncle' Peter thought as he made his way outside the mansion after saying his goodbyes to Scott, Xavier, Storm who had dragged him off into her room for a 'goodbye blowjob', Hank, Russian Peter, Bobby and Logan. He tried to find Jean and say goodbye to her as well, but the red head was oddly absent and Peter was forced to settled with having Scott say goodbye for him.
'Oh well, chances are I'll see them again sooner than I'd think' Peter thought as he made his way into the gardens to summon Lockjaw when he heard someone approach him from behind.
Peter turned to see that it was Jean, dressed in a pair of black spandex pants and a tight green colored crop top. The red head flashed him a grin as she folded her arms across her chest and gave him a wink.
"Trying to slink off before you could say goodbye to me too?" she asked.
"Couldn't find ya" Peter said with a simple shrug "Not my fault"
"Could've just telepathically asked for me, I tend to keep an ear open for those sorts of things here" Jean stated.
"I'll keep that in mind for next time" Peter nodded as he reached into his belt for Lockjaw's whistle.
"So where you off to?" Jean asked as she watched Peter pull out some bizarre looking tuning fork from his suit's belt.
"Still gotta find my uncle. I'm heading back to New York to see if a contact of mine there might know where he'd go after cutting ties with the Brotherhood" Peter revealed "Plus, I could use some loving and comfort of the adult variety. God knows I've totally earned it by saving the President and preventing World War three or whatever it was gonna be called"
"Well that's a shame, I actually kinda liked having you around. Storm definitely did" Jean said with a laugh "And Logan too, but he'll never admit it out loud"
"Yeah well let the little guy know if ya'll need me, just give me a call" Peter said before he blew into his whistle and not a moment later, Lockjaw appeared in a flash of light.
Jean's eyes widened at the sight of the bear sized dog, Scott told her it was big and weird looking, but to see it in person was something else.
"So that's your... dog?" Jean said in an incredulous tone "What the hell are you feeding him?!"
"Dried meats mostly, though occasionally we add dried fruits and steamed vegetables. He's also a real big fan of friend sea food and toasted bread" Peter said as he patted Lockjaw on the head "New York City buddy, Hellfire club to be specific. Get me there in one jump and I'll take you to central park where you can pee on all the trees you can find big guy"
Lockjaw barked in agreement as Peter turned and gave Jean a two finger salute before he and the Inhuman canine vanished in a flash of light.
...
And done.
Next chapter, With Magneto defeated, Peter continues his hunt for Maximus... with an unexpected ally.