WAKANDA
Adrian was sitting on a medical table in the Royal Palaces medical center, he was wearing white medical garments and on a table next to him was a sedated Reed Richards who had advanced wakandan medical machinery attached to his neck sucking out the venom. Adrian was being scanned by Iron Man all while the boy glared at him through the scanning process with Spider-Man and the Black Panther behind Stark speaking.
"I can't thank you enough for letting him stay here." Spider-Man said next to the King, The Black Panther was standing hands behind his back his mask off his face "I can't thank you enough."
"I'm sorry for all the trouble I've caused you." Spider-Man added scratching the back of his neck "Do not apologize to me Spider-Man."
"How do you feel?" Iron Man asked as his armor illuminated Adrian's skin and body checking his vitals "Fine how's your back."
Iron Man stopped his scan "It's fine, miracles of modern medicine."
And a back brace I'd bet
Iron Man turned around and walked over to the other conscious heroes, " "I have good news and I have bad news." Iron Man said to Peter and T'Challa "
There talking about us?
Of course they are, be quiet I'm trying to listen.
We had a deal, don't forget, we'll know.
"Why is it always those two, can't for once it be good news period?" Spider-Man asked Tony.
The iron man held up his arm showing them a screen of Adrian's vital signs including the Ruin symbiote still surging inside him "The Symbiote is still inside but we can remove, but-" "No." Adrian said, all the avengers looked to the boy who had his legs crossed and his arms two "What?" Peter asked him his facing falling.
"Okay look so when we're all about to be Spider-God chow, Ruin and I... came to an understanding." Adrian said holding up both hands before his left hand started to turn blank before the small red eyes of Ruin poked out as if Adrian was holding a small bubble in his hand. All the men tensed up, Iron Man held up his arm cannon showing what looked like a sonic cannon, the second the symbiote saw the cannon it grew around Adrians hand and arm barring dark fangs "Peter just give the word." Iron Man asked him.
Peter placed his hand on Iron Man's arm lowering it "Wait, I want this thing gone to but I'm sick of people shooting at him." Peter snapped getting in front of him, Tony lowered his arm as the Symbiote closed its mouth settling back down.
"The symbiote isn't trying to take him over, is it?" Peter asked looking at the symbiote "It calls itself Ruin." Adrian said holding it up.
Peter's face fell "I hate it when they name themselves." Peter moaned looking at the Symbiote "What does it want?" Peter asked the boy and the symbiote, it looked up at Adrian
"Okay I'll tell them." Adrian said looking at the symbiote "I agreed to let him stay, until he can find another host."
I can't believe I'm saying this...
Peter paused for a few moments "Ok."
Both Iron Man and Spider-Man looked at one another "Peter that things a parasite it-" "Symbiote Tony, as in symbiotic something that benefits both I'm sure you know the definition, and so far this thing has kept Adrian alive better then me or that nanobot you injected into him." Peter said back to Tony who looked over at the Black Panther, "Can I speak to you alone Peter?"
Peter looked back at Adrian as if to check with him if it was okay to do so. Adrian looked back at him and gave and approving nod of the head, shortly after the two men stepped outside the medical room and into and unoccupied hallway "Peter I… I'm tired, tired of chasing you, tired of chasing him." Tony said for his helmets open face mask
"Does that mean you'll back off, you'll leave Adrian alone?" Peter asked.
Iron Man gave Peter a stern look, "I will, but only if he agrees to stop meddling in SHIELD affairs, for good." Iron Man said glaring through a medical window at Adrian and the Symbiote who were speaking to the Black Panther, Peter looked at Adrian who gaped at him "Okay." Adrian grumbled.
"Will you let Reed examine him from time to time, to see if the symbiote is being honest or not?" Tony asked "Of course, I don't trust that thing anymore then you do but if it gets him to come home with me, I'll do just about anything."
LATER
SANCTUM SANCTORUM
One short Quinjet ride later and we're back in the big apple, Iron Man even flew us there before we jumped out the back before he took Mr. Fantastic back to the Baxter Building.
Spider-Man and Adrian leapt out of the quinjet over New York City, the lights of the buildings and skyscrapers lit their way home with the boy on his father's back. Iron Man flew toward the tall Baxter building only a few blocks away until landing on the roof.
Adrian, Peter, and Fang arrived at the Sanctum Sanctorum slipping in the top of the building before sliding inside one of the open doors. "Everyone should be asleep?" Peter said walking down some old staircases into the relic and artifact covered walls of Dr. Strange's house.
He hasn't asked about him, but he knows.
Shut up
It'll be brought up, we know it will
Maybe he doesn't know about Jonas yet.
Just before they arrived at the living room entrance, Spider-Man stopped and took off his mask, "Listen… Adrian, we'll need to talk soon but for now, let's just try to get some sleep." Peter said looking back at him, as they walked around into the living room "But I want you to take it easy." "Your back!" as Peter spoke Adrian felt someone wrap their arms around him he looked to see Mary Jane tearful eyes and red hair looking down at him. The second Adrian saw her he wrapped his arms back around her "Mom…"
Peter was caught off guard at first but looked up to see the rest of the Avengers were also up this late, Ronin or Hawkeye dressed as Ronin along with Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Dr. Strange, Echo, Spider-Woman all dressed in either their pajamas or their suits. It was kind of hard to tell with a few. Luke Cage had on a dark black sweats and wifebeater while Wolverine still wore his blue and yellow suit. Echo was wearing a dark black robe next to Spider-Woman who was wearing her spider suit. "Why are you all awake?" Peter asked them.
Dr. Strange answered, wearing a dark red robe and blue pajamas on but wearing his robe like his cape "We had some late night visitors of our own." Strange said gesturing to Mary Jane. "Jessica and I decided we weren't just going to leave you all alone by yourselves." Mary Jane said wiping her eyes before turning to Peter and standing up "Sickness and in health remember Tiger?"
Peter couldn't help but smile before kissing Mary Jane "I do." he said playfully using the line after he broke the kiss to look into each others eyes before they snogged some more.
What is this thing they are doing with their mouths, it is disgusting.
It's called kissing
You do this with our mouth, we eat stuff with that
I know right, but adults love it
"Where's Jessica?" Peter asked Luke, "She's up with the baby making sure she's taken care of." Luke replied yawning.
"Alright, enough of the reunions, I'm going back to bed." Wolverine said heading toward the kitchen "The beds are up stairs Logan?" Spider-Woman said "But the beer is in here." Wolverine chuckled passing by Adrian and giving him a wink and a smile.
"For once and I'll disavow any of you if you say this, I agree with Wolvie we should get to bed." Peter said to the rest of his family leading them toward the stairs "We'll talk tomorrow."
"Talk? About what?" he asked concerned.
Peter fought through a yawn "Tomorrow Adrian, fighting a spider god and jumping back and forth through different time zones takes a lot out of a guy, even with Spider-Powers."
They came up to Adrians room, the same one he had stayed in "Goodnight Adrian." Peter said as he opened the door "night." Adrian said back quietly before they closed the door.
Peter walked away from the door making Mary Jane look at him stunned "Peter?" she asked following him to there room "Did something happen in Wakanda I should know about?"
"No- well yes, but this is more important." Peter said walking into his room, but now their room because he saw a few trunks across from the bed, no doubt holding her clothes and stuff in them. "What is?" Mary Jane asked when Peter pulled off his mask and reached under his pillow taking out file. The same file he had taken from Dr. Mattel, the same file that had the blood test results for Adrian. "I… I wanted you to know before I told Adrian." Peter said holding up the file for her to see.
Mary Jane looked at the beige file's cover, "Peter what's wrong, your scaring me?"
Peter looked at the file then took a seat back on the bed "He had… I had… another son, a twin brother who died- he never told me." Peter said fighting back tears, Mary Jane's face went white before she took a seat next to him putting her arms around him "oh god Peter, I… I'm so sorry." Peter embraced her hug for a brief moment before wiping his eyes, and holding up the envelope "There's more."
"I know who she is, who their mother is." Peter said opening it "Is?" Mary Jane asked when she saw the file and read he name in her mind "Oh Peter… oh god, not her…"
SHIELD HELICARRIER(STARKS VERSION)
Iron Man pulled the Quinnjet into the brand new Shield Helicarrier designed and paid for by Tony Stark Himself, the bright red and yellow air ship matched his armor that he wore. Though the overall look of the helicarrier dwarfed the status of condition Iron Man's suit was in. The armor was still bent and dented around his body with a few wires sticking out on his back while he slouched in the pilot's chair. Tony sighed as he finally had a moment to rest, taking a deep breath "Jarvis wake me up in three hours please." he said about to fall asleep in his suit still in the chair.
When he heard a series of knocks on the loading ramp door "Tony you in there!"
Iron Man made a silent scream through his teeth "Sir your pulse has risen." Jarvis said through his suit, "I noticed Jarvis, alright let's do this."
The Director of Shield got up his armor clunking together as the ramp lowerd to show She-Hulk, Ms. Marvel, Wonder Man and Doc Samson wearing a shield uniform like She-Hulk had started to do "So how'd it go?" She-Hulk asked next to Samson "Our Spider-Boy problem is taken care of, now Jarvis take me to bed." Iron Man ordered the AI who started to pilot the Iron Man suit "So you caught him and he's in the cargo hold sleeping?" Wonder Man asked with Iron Man walking through the four of them "It's taken care of." Tony said again with a tone in his voice.
"Yeah, we're going to need more than that Mr. Director." someone said behind Tony in the shadows, Iron Man turned around to see a man in a green suit with red hair and dark green tinted sunglasses. "Gyrich." Iron Man said with disgust recognizing the man who walked right up to Tony Stark with a big smile "The security Council would like a word Mr. Director."
THE NEXT MORNING
Adrian was laying on his bed in the same room he had used when he was last in New York at Dr. Strange's house. He was wearing a long sleeved red shirt with grey sweatpants, legs crossed looking out the window at rain patting the windows. Fang was laid on the bed next to him curled up into a ball sleeping soundly. Adrian had a book in his hand looking down at it, there appeared to be a stack of them on his bed, with a notebook and a pencil in it as a bookmark.
What are we reading?
Just a book about a wizard, now shut up I'm reading.
We're hungry, we want to eat something.
You already had breakfast.
No, we want chocolate and tater tots.
…. Okay that does sound amazing
Adrian got up from the bed and headed to the door before poking his head out to see that nobody was in the hallway. The boy walked down the hallways of the Sanctum till he came to the stairs and looked down at them.
I do have my powers back so….
He flipped onto the stairs rails sliding down it on both sock covered feet with perfect balance before he kicked off the edge and landed on the floor like an olympic gymnast, "yessssss, I'm back, I'm back, I'm back." Adrian whispered feeling his powers were back before he looked over at his reflection in one of Dr. Stranges grandfather clocks that showed Ruin standing their arms crossed.
Who are we talking to?
"You I guess." Adrian said to the reflection before he walked through another hallway, he walked down it before he came to a dead end, then another then another. He decided to walk up different flight of stairs, but came to another section of the house with a large mirror next to Adrian with Ruin scratching his head.
Do you know where we're going?
Adrian looked at the mirror and at Ruin "Look I was in house for like three days I didn't get really acquainted to the layout." Adrian whispered.
We think it was back the way we came, w could smell the hairy metal one downstairs.
Hairy metal one… oh Wolverine.
Later Adrian retraced his steps back to the first floor and eventually made his way into the kitchen where Wolverine was passed out on the table sleeping. Eight beets sat emptied with a ninth one in his hand. The kitchen had a lot of old furniture except for a few modern emitties like a microwave oven and refrigerator with a note on it. Adrian walked up to the fridge and looked at the note.
'The fridge is magic, think of whatever meal you want and it will be inside' there was Dr. with a squiggly S written next to the abbreviated word for doctor.
Tater Tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate, tater tots and chocolate,
"Alright, alright." Adrian said to the voice in his head opening up the fridge to see a bag of frozen tater tots and a some bars of chocolate he retrieved before closing the door to see a second line of scribble on the note.
'P.S. don't get in the yellow gloves way'
Looking up from the note Adrian spied a pair of yellow gloves on the dishrack, the second he looked at them they gloves lifted of the rack came alive. The sockets of each finger filled up like somebody was actually wearing them but were invisible. The gloves flew over to the table where Wolverine was still snoring and gathered up the bottles before throwing them into a small blue bin with a recycle symbol on it.
Dr. Strange recycles go figure?
Adrian walked to the microwave and took the bag out before he searched through the countertop cabinets and started to take out a plate. Behind him one of the gloves tried to take the beer bottle out of Logan's hand but the wolverine wouldn't let go. The glove yanked and pulled but still the passed out canada native had an adamantium grip. It waved over to the other glove who flew over and tried to pry open Wolverines hands without any effect. Adrian took an interest in it and watched as his tots heated up, the gloves continued to try and yank them out of Wolverines grip before one of them held up an index finger signalling an idea. It flew over to one of the cabinets and pulled out a large frying pan.
Oh this will be good
I think your right.
The glove grabbed the frying pan and came back out over to Wolverine and slammed the pan right into the back of Wolverine's head making Logan shoot up claws drawn dropping the bottle to the floor for it to shatter "GYRAAH!" Wolverine screamed baring his fangs before the gloves put the pan back and grabbed a brush and duster, to start to clean up the bottle shards. Adrian snickered behind Wolverine who looked down at the gloves that carried the broken shards over to the recycling been before giving Wolverine the middle finger and setting themselves back on the dish rack.
"I hate magic." Wolverine said as Adrians microwave timer went off, Wolverine looked over at him when he pulled out the tater tots.
"Sorry, you want some tots?" Adrian asked the canadian who gave a grunt and took a tot of the plate and threw it in his mouth.
They ate there in silence till Wolverine started to sniff the air, "Uh… so how long is this going to be a thing?" Wolverine asked looking at Adrian "Huh?" Adrian asked him.
"I can smell it lil bub, that thing inside you?" Wolverine said.
Words to remember "Never doubt Wolverines Nose"
"Well- till I find him a better body." Adrian replied "Him?" Wolverine inquired
He means us, we.
"I know he means you- I'm not doing this just come out already?" Adrian asked Ruin who slowly started to take shape on his neck and shoulder before a long neck extended out and revealed Ruins red eyes but nothing more on a small head like a symbiote snake.
Considering that Wolverine had seen all sorts of horrors in his life I bet, this wasn't any different.
Wolverine ate another tater tot and said "Uh, neat."
See.
"For now yeah, after Stark put one of those power deactivating Bugs in me this guy came in pretty handy." Adrian replied picking up a tot off his plate and tossing it into the air for the symbiote to snag like pet dog or cat would for a treat.
Wolverine had some more too popping his claws and stabbing them into the pile of tater tots skewering the fried potato snacks like they were fish "That so?"
"Totally, its kind of like your claws at first it hurt but then it…" Adrian's face froze when he saw Wolverines eyes.
Damnit Adrian shouldn't have said that.
"What why not, we-" Ruin started to say.
Shut up
Adrian swallowed the tater tot he had in his mouth "Wolverine, I'm sorry I shouldn't have said that." Adrian said bowing his head.
"Huh, why you apologizing, it ain't you who did it." Wolverine said eating the tatters of his claws.
"I know but, comparing my stuff to you, what happened to you just doesn't seem right." Adrian said tapping his hand on the table "Your a mutant and I'm… I'm not sure what I am right now." Adrian said looking at Ruin who looked at him.
"I'm not human, I'm not mutant, alien or even inhuman, six months ago I could lift four tons now it feels like I can lift three times that weight." Adrian said before Ruin dove into the remaining tater tots and started to devour them. Adrian stroked the back of the creatures head making it stop for a second them continue to eat in a more relaxed fashion.
"When Ruin coughed up the chip, my senses were on fire- my spider sense I never heard it so clearly I new ever move my enemies would make I could feel it when I was speaking with Mr. Stark yesterday." Adrian said making Wolverine take a bit more interest.
Wolverine finished off his portion of tater tots impaled on his claws before he asked "What exactly you feel lil bub?"
"Nothing, he didn't want to hurt me, he didn't want to hurt my dad, Black Panther, even Ruin." Adrian said in a low voice "These past few months so much has happened, so much I don't understand cause nobody will tell me… thats why I was figuring…?" Adrian looked at Wolverine who froze.
"Whats happening?" Adrian asked, Wolverine stood up and Adrian braced himself for a great truth
"Uh… your just going through puberty lil bub." Wolverine said before he turned away and headed to the door.
"That was not the answer we wanted." Ruin said while it licked its lip of tater tot crumbs reading Adrian's mind
"No, but it's the one we got." Wolverine said picking up the plate and carrying it over to the sink, the magical gloves came alive to take it out of his hands but Ruin bared its fangs at the gloves making them hold both gloves up like they were surrendering.
"It's cool I got it." Adrian said to the gloves who lowered and looked at him before they started to make sign language marks "I'm just going to assume that you signed thank you." Adrian said before he started washing his plate.
Outside the kitchen, standing in the hallway was Peter in his Spider-Man suit without his mask on next to Wolverine.
"You good kid?" Wolverine calling Peter by his nickname like he had given Adrian "We're about to find out, I never did thank you or Professor X for helping him like you did." Peter whispered.
Wolverine shrugged "It's what X-Men do, also Professor wanted me to tell you Adrians got a full ride to the institute whenever he wants to go back to school or you know a world ending event is happening."
Wolverine ladies and gentlemen, he's the best at what he does and what he does sing pretty, but great with kids apparently
"School is a world ending event for someone his age." Peter said before he slipped his mask on.
What do you think our father wants to talk about?
Our father?
Yes, the elder one, he mentioned talking and I felt our fear he-
"Adrian?" Peter asked walking into the kitchen.
Ruin vanished into Adrians shoulder before Adrian put down his plate "Oh- hey dad did you want to talk?"
Spider-Man walked toward him and crossed his arms "No not yet, Wolverine and T'Challa told me you'd been working on some stuff, show me?"
"What, you… want to train?" Adrian asked his face lighting up.
"Dr. Strange has transformed one of the closets into a dojo or something, so come on." Peter said back turning around.
Adrian quickly followed his dad back upstairs down the hallway till they came to a small broom closet door. But when Peter opened the two of them walked into a large chinese dojo. It had white tinted walls with the paper and wood like windows that let in light from somewhere, probably magic. The center of the room had a training matt with wood floors all around it, Spider-Man walked forward and stood in the center of the matt before he turned around "Alright, show me what you got."
He walked onto the matt and smiled before he kicked his foot off the floor and launched himself at his dad before he tried to hit him with a spin kick. Spider-Man dodged before Adrian tried to punch him while still in the air, another dodge.
The boy fell to the floor and tried to sweep his dads legs out from under him, Spider-Man merely flipped over him and extended his arm flicking the boy in the forehead.
Wait, what am I doing he has spider-sense he can read my moves.
That's it Adrian, now you get it
Rolling to his feet Adrian and came at him and walked around his dad before he took a fighting pose similar to the Black Panther. He kicked and struck at Spider-Man who dodged more quickly than before, Adrian even managed to land a punch into Spider-Man's shoulder staggering him.
"Good." Peter said before he flipped over his son and tried to sweep his legs out, Adrian held up his arm and extended his index finger and pinkie with his thumb out, using his middle and ring finger to press on his palm. A web shot out from his wrist out of nowhere and Spider-Man one instinct bent his back over dodging the liquid before it stuck to the wall and went tight. Spider-Man looked back at Adrian who saw he had small hole in his wrist with the web coming out of it.
"Oh... my... g-" Adrian started to say before his dad interrupted him "YEEEESSSSS!"
Spider-Man both arms above his head fists raised "You just made your own webs!" Spider-Man said taking off his mask to show a smile so bright it could make the Human Torch blush.
"I have organic webs?" Adrian said plucking the web out of his wrist and holding up his other arm and shooting a web out of it that connected to the ceiling and pulled up making a yo-yo of himself before Peter shot up his own web "I know right! Oh god I am so relieved this finally happened..." Peter said swinging up to him both of their heads hair hanging loose upside down.
Peter steady himself "You would not believe how many times I ran out of web fluids when I was young."
"So how long does this stuff last?" Adrian asked climbing up the web.
"It's organic so focus on eating starch food and drinking plenty of water before you plan to use a lot of webs." Peter said zipping to the ceiling with him before Adrian sat down on the ceiling.
"But keep your web shooters on you, I modified them so they have a clip that helps you cut the webs out when you need to cast another line." He said before Adrian's smile disappeared faster than Nightcrawler.
Peter noticed this and extended his arm "Adrian, what's wrong?"
"Dad I'm sorry I, I lost them when I was caught by Iron Man- we were outside the X-Mansion and we fought and I-" "shhh shhh it's okay." Peter said softly sitting on the ceiling tiles next to him.
"We'll make you some new ones, we can do it together." Peter reassured him making him turn his upside down frown into an upside down smile which more or less looked like a frown still. Peter snickered for a second before it went stern.
"Adrian I'm sorry you had to go through all this alone, you and Jonas." Peter said squeezing him softly.
Adrian still vanished again, "You would have loved him, Jonas." Adrian said.
"He always wanted to meet you, when we first saw you on TV he new right away you had to be our dad." Adrian started to say as his face grew sullen and avoided his dadsgaze "He begged me to come with him, come to New York and find you but I… I couldn't." Adrian stammered.
Peter was silent for a while as they sat there on the ceiling in silence "Can I ask why?" Peter finally asked.
"I hated you." Adrian whispered making Peter out on a hurt face but it softened.
"I hated that you or whoever abandoned us, I figured if you didn't want me at first why would you have wanted me then?" Adrian said looking at his organic webs "Jonas made me a promise and made me promise him something too."
Peter was hesitant to ask, a million questions racing through his mind "What was it?"
"That he'd never leave me, but if something were to happen to him I'd go, I'd go and I'd find you." Adrian stammered fighting back tears "It's my fault… it's my fault I couldn't save him and that's why all this is happening isn't it?"
Peter grabbed both of Adrians shoulder "No, never say that again the world is a messed up place, believe me I've seen terrible things happen to good people and wonderful things happen to the worst, I don't blame you for what happened, I blame myself for not knowing about you two about not being there for either of you." Peter said bringing him into a hug "No matter what happens you'll always be my son and I'll always love you and Jonas."
He embraced his son for a long time before they broke the hug, "Come on, let's get out of here for awhile?" Peter suggested.
The two of them climbed down off the ceiling and walked out of the magical sparring room and toward a window facing a setting sunset New York. "I don't have my costume anymore?" Adrian said realizing his costume's had been torn asunder every time he put them on "Oh yeah you're right, I think MJ could make you one-" Peter started to say before he noticed something on his son skin.
Leave that to us
Ruins words were echoed around Adrians ears before he noticed what his dad was seeing, the symbiote started to seep out of every pore in Adrians body oozed black symbiote till it covered his whole body up to his neck. A small red spider appeared on his chest before it extended its eight arms and legs around to the back to another spider before it connected. Two red squares appeared on the back of his hands, the hairs on his neck started to stand up before he felt the symbiote cover them and the rest of his head in a black mask with two red spider eyeholes. When it settled the red faded away into white, matching Peters suit perfectly.
"Whoa." Adrian said looking at the red spider slowly starting to fade to white, he perfectly matched Spider-Man's black suit, looking like a miniature version of him.
"Neat." Both Spider-Man and Spider-Boy said at the same time before they zipped out of the window over the skyline.
BAXTER BUILDING
Reed looked over Adrian with his medical machines designed by his own intellectual genius. Sue, Johnny and Ben were all in the room with him before Reed finished up.
"No change from last time I looked at you Adrian, the symbiotes spread has halted around his body, Peter I'd like to try something if it be only with you." Reed said using his fantastic abilities to extend his arm over to a drawer and pull out a scalpel.
Spider-Man was hesitant at first "What is it."
"Small cut on his forearm to test a theory." Reed said before Peter looked at Adrian who shrugged.
"Go ahead." Peter said crossing his arms watching.
Reed dragged the scalpel point and blade over Adrian's skin cutting it just enough to draw blood. But the second the red juices turned black and hardened drawing back inside and the wound sealing itself with a new scar that would fade in time.
"Fascinating, the symbiote is... well being symbiotic, your healing factor seems to has multiplied in speed, you may be able to heal as fast as wolverine now?" Reed summarized taking the scalpel and putting it down under a microscope. He looked at it for a brief moment seeing the mutated blood cells before he raised his head "I've got everything I need, Adrian you can go."
The boy looked to his dad "Go see Franklin, I'm sure he's been dying to see you." Peter said.
Adrian got up and walked to the door with Ben and Johnny heading out after him.
"Can we talk about the elephant in the room?" Sue asked out of the blue.
"You must be using your powers cause I don't see an elephant?" Peter asked with his secondary power of making terrible jokes. As soon as Sue was sure Adrian was gone and the door was shut she walked up to Peter and stood right in front of him "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!"
She screamed so loud and all of a sudden Spider-Man flipped onto the wall from his spider sense going off "Whoa, Whoa where did this come from."
"Peter Adrian's not one of those teenage superheroes who follow you around, he's your son- he's your boy. What were you thinking letting him run around half the globe while you played Avenger with Luke Cage?" She barked at him from across the room, Spider-Mans mask turned into slits showing Peter had closed his eyes.
"Because I thought the further away from me he was the safer he'd be, but I was wrong I tried to get him back but every time somebody was trying to take him away okay." He replied.
"Okay- okay, Peter he's a child." Sue said crossing her arms "Yes, I know Sue, I know I've been a bad father but I was trying to do what I thought was best." Peter said on the wall hunched over as she laid into him.
Reed suddenly stepped in elongating his neck before the rest of his body walked over "Peter none of us are saying your a bad parent, your great with kids like most younger people are, but like most people it's easy until it's your very own flesh and blood, right Sue?" He asked turning to the Invisible Woman who sighed and nodded "I hate being married to one of the smartest men on the planet sometimes..." She grumbled.
"But if we had a jar for how many times Valerie, Franklin and Johnny were in trouble we could buy a new Baxter Building." She said taking a deep breath.
"Peter we aren't trying to tell you how to raise him, we just want you to know you can come to us for anything and I mean anything Peter, you may not wear a four but your as much as part of this fantastic family as anybody and that goes for Adrian too." Reed said putting his hand on Peters shoulder trying to comfort him.
Peter took a long pause "What do you guys suggest?"
Elsewhere in the Baxter building Adrian and Franklin were playing Super Smash Bros. Franklin was flailing the controller around as Adrian limply held his controller as Franklin kicked Adrian's black Captain Falcon off the edge of the map with a blue Luigi winning the fight. Off in the top corner of the screen Valerie has appeared with her red Bowser to slam down on Luigi from above with a body slam.
"Uh Adrian you know it's no fun if you don't try." Franklin said as Valerie grabbed Luigi and threw the beta brother of the super duo out of the screen claiming victory.
Valerie cheered as she won while Adrian was quite watching the screen show their avatars applauding. "Adrian you okay?" Franklin asked his friend.
"Of course he's not cause I'm not in there?" Adrian, Valerie and Franklin looked to Franklins bedroom window to see among the thick foggy clouds of the sky was one cloud in particular, a mass of two parts hot headed and one part brave Jack Powers. Adrian cracked the window open letting Mass Master float on in before he solidified. Jack had on his classic blue hoodie and camp pants with white shoes, he landed on the bed and bounced off in front of them smiling at Adrian "Glad to see you back in town, for good I hope."
"Me too Jack me to." Adrian said giving him a fist pump "So Tell is what you been up to bro." Jack said taking a seat in the flood with the rest of them.
"Well... so-"
I tell them everything from what happened since I was last here in New York, to Wakanda and at the end of it they only had one question.
"How do you know the parts of stuff you weren't conscious for?" Jack asked.
"The adults filled in the gaps, but right now I feel like I got a good handle on him." Adrian said holding up his hand looking at it, all three of the others watched when the symbiote made a puddle in Adrian's hand and popped up with two red eyes.
"Whoa." Jack said "Gross?" Franklin whispered "AWEEE He's adorable." Valerie said looking at Ruin before they saw Jack pick up a pen from Franklins desk and start to poke the symbiote.
Tell the pup to stop poking us or we will eat his fingers
"Jack could you stop?" Adrian asked taking his hand away to make sure Ruin wouldn't eat the boys fingers.
Jack didn't seem to even be aware of the danger "What you put an alien parasite in front of me I'm going to poke it with a stick." Jack said tossing the pin away.
"He's not a parasite, I think but-" Adrian started to speak but cut himself off "But what?" Adrian heard his friends ask.
He curled his hand into a soft fist letting Ruin go back inside "He kept me alive, when things got to tough Ruin kept us alive." Adrian said looking into a mirror at himself but he still didn't see his reflection he only saw Ruin looking back at him with those two blood red eye. Adrian walked up to the mirror and pressed his hand on it "I don't know how to explain it but he knows, he just knows what I need to do when it happens like instinct right?"
All three of them were silent looking at Adrian with blank faces.
Suddenly a knock came to the door "Got to go, I'm going to check out my dads space station tomorrow." Jack said turning into a cloud and slipping out of the room via the window he made a call me sign with his fingers. The door opened with Spider-Man walking in "Come on Adrian we're leaving." Adrian answers him by grabbing his mask off the bed and putting it on.
"What's wrong?" Spider-Boy asked in a low whisper as they walked onto the most coveted roof.
"Nothing it's just getting dark so it's better if we get home now." Peter said.
The swing home was long and silent, we didn't even say a single word before I couldn't stand it.
"Dad?" Spider-Boy asked him.
Spider-Man web zipped to a fog covered scaffold and his boy followed "What is it?"
"What's going to happen to me?" He asked landing onto the railing next to him.
Spider-Man froze "What?"
"I'm not stupid dad, even without Spider Sense I can tell when the adults are talking about 'that kid'." Adrian replied.
"You're not that kid, you're my kid and nothing is going to happen to you not on my watch, never again." Spider-Man said putting his hand on the boys back "Ever." Meanwhile not that far from them a woman cling to the shadows, green eyes hidden behind a set of binoculars. She lowered them about to call out but she stopped and turned away sinking back into the shadows of the dawn.
You know, for once I felt like things would go back to normal. Vigilantism was illegal a long time before the dawn of superheroes, it wouldn't be long before people saw us as heroes again... man was I wrong incredibly wrong.
A bright light suddenly appeared in the sky and when both Spiders eyes adjusted they saw a gigantic dagger like looking star ship hovering over the city. A beam of light shot down and projected itself in the heart if the city, "Puny Humans, I've come to smash, and you should know who's to blame." Standing in the big apples Times Square was a hundred foot tall holographic armored Hulk.
"You call them heroes I call them monsters, listen to what they told me before they tried to kill me—" Hulk said before the two of them looked to see a crowd of people outside a electronic store.
The two of them swung down to the nearest street lamp and could see inside the TVs and laptops were all broadcasting the same image of Iron Man, Mr. Fantastic, Dr. Strange and Black Bolt.
"I have always thought of us as friends Bruce, so I'm truest genuinely sorry." Reed started to say. "But for your sake and our own, it's the only way we can be sure." Reed said, the duo of Spiders watched the image of the Hulk return and his thunderous voice carry across the city and beyond all around the world.
"Iron Man, Dr. Strange, Mr. Fantastic, Blackbolt. They shot me into space, to a planet called Saakar. Where I could be cut— even killed." Hulk said as the image changed to show the hulk fighting a beast with tentacles and fangs, it was three times the size of the green giant.
"Where the Emperor made me a slave, then a gladiator, he sent me to die, but I survived with my Warbound."
Five other holographic giants appeared next to the Hulk, a giant stone man who looked like the Thing but leaner. He wore black leather armor over his shoulders and around his waist "Korg."
Beside the golem was a large big man with a black exoskeleton wearing an overall tunic garb holding a spear that was as sharp as a set of teeth behind fangs "Meik."
Behind them all was another insect like creature with needle like teeth, a crown behind its worm like body and two buzzing wings "Brood."
The last two appeared humanoid one a woman of red skin with black hair, she had on dark black pants and matching top with a gold trim "Elloe-" and lastly a man with great skin, black hair tied behind his head in a ponytail with black stripes on the side of his shaved head. Wearing metal armor over his shoulder and a dark tunic around his legs "Hiroim."
The image changed on the TV's showing the Hulk in a royal purple cloak, a woman in silver armor who looked like Hirorim standing behind a crowd of cheering aliens "We made a world, I was the green king and Caiera the Oldstrong was my Queen." Hulks voice echoed over the TV's before the image changed with a massive explosion "But your 'heroes' sent a bomb, killed a million people."
Spider-Boy looked up at the ship above them and saw a hatch open, standing on top of it was the hulk his voice still reaching far and wide "Now this city will fall, you have twenty four hours to evacuate. When I return I want to see Mr. Fantastic, Iron Man and Dr. Strange and if they're not here…"
The hologram in the middle of the city saw the Hulk pull out a man in a black and white suit that was torn with the wearer beaten to a pulp "... I'll do this… to your whole stinking planet."
The hologram went off with everyone in the city absolutely silent, I'd never heard the city so quiet so still, it was scary.
Spider-Man and Spider-Boy looked at one another "Dad what do-" "Back to the Sanctum, now." Spider-Man said shooting a web up to the nearest sky scrapper and pulled off. His son did the same web zipping across the city as the city started to realize the situation. The city was slowly erupting into chaos, Spider-Man pressed a button under his mask activating his ear piece "Cage pick up, pick up?"
"Dad what do we do?" Spider-Boy asked.
"Not now Adrian, I need a second." Spider-Man said when he heard his earpiece pick up "Cage-" "I saw web head, so did Strange he locked himself in his study and hasn't come out since, what the hell is going on?"
"World War Hulk thats what." Spider-Man said as they neared the Sanctum, jumping up onto a roof. Spider-Boy kept up with him before they landed on the roof of the Sanctum. "Cage we're back, what's the plan?" Spider-Man asked as they entered into the Sanctum through the same open window. They'd exited from earlier that day "Get downstairs everyone should be here soon."
Later, Both Spiders had joined the rest of the Avengers in hiding except Wolverine, Luke Cage was standing in front of the fire place, Ronin and Iron Fist were sitting on a couch across from Jessica Drew and Mary Jane "Wait where's Logan?" Spider-Boy asked "Said he had to get back to the X-Men, right now we got to figure out a plan for whatever the Hulk does in twenty four hours." Luke Cage answered. .
Iron Fist was standing next to Ronin who both looked at one another "Uh Luke sorry to be a downer, but where's Strange he seems to know more about this and if what the Hulk says is true-" "We don't know what the Hulks talking about Strange would never kill a million people." Luke said.
"The Hulks telling the truth." All eyes looked to the grand staircase to see Dr. Strange walking down it with Wong behind him "What?" Spider-Man asked.
"Not that long ago, Tony, Reed, Charles, Blackbolt and Namor agreed that the Hulk was to dangerous to be left here on Earth so we sent him away."
Dr. Strange came down to the ground floor with the rest of them "Please understand, Bruce was our friend we all know the Hulk as a hero but his rage would one day become to great, the plan was to send him to a world of rich game and vegetation, nothing to hurt him and nothing he could hurt." Dr. Strange said.
"But something happened, his ship was blown of course landed on the alien world you all saw, there the radiation of that world has made him stronger and the accident angrier than he's ever been." Dr. Strange said as Adrian looked up at his dad who looked over at Mary Jane.
"That being said I've spoken with Tony, he said if we all help with the evacuation of New York within twenty four hours we'll all receive amnesty… providing we turn ourselves in after this is over, if we survive." Dr. Strange said to the Heroes for Hire and Avengers of past and present, at first nobody said anything.
"Then we go." Spider-Man said suddenly "And let Stark arrest us afterwards?" Luke asked "I'm not talking about that right now, if the Hulk is really out for blood then we got to get as many people out of his way as possible before we get in it?" Spider-Man said.
"Politics aside this city, the world needs the Avengers so we need move now." Spider-Man said.
Again nobody said anything "Alright, let's roll then." Luke said heading to the door "So where do we go?" Spider-Boy asked making Spider-Man stop.
He looked to the other Avengers with Cage already heading to the door "Bring him, he's practically an Avenger already."
Never have needed something so much and not known it till I received it. But like most of my life I had no idea what was coming, what real power was and why the Hulk was the strongest there is.