Author's Note: Okay, so this chapter was originally going to include the whole Ferry Fight part of Homecoming but I'm dividing it into two parts since it would've been like 16,000-17,000 words long which is way too long. I'll probably have part II of the chapter out tomorrow but just this for now. Thanks for all the reviews last chapter by the way.
JokeLover123: Natasha actually did tell Emma about Bucky being in the Cyro-Chamber when they had their meeting in D.C. She said something like "I wasn't suppose to tell you this but Bucky's in the Cyro-Chamber". Emma got really upset about it as expected so she does know about it. No worries though. Bucky being in the Cyro-Chamber is definitely going to be something that haunts Emma so it will definitely come up again soon.
Krakengirl: Emma and Tony's relationship will eventually improve. There's going to be another row between them in the next chapter but I think their relationship will definitely improve after the events of Homecoming. Peter might really help with that too.
So sorry for not answering every single review but it's late and I just want the next chapter to be out there. I really do appreciate all the reviews so thank you so much. I hope you enjoy the chapter.
Emma and Peter managed to locate Aaron Davis to a parking garage in Queens and after locating the small time drug dealer, they both decided to change and get ready for a confrontation with the man. Once they were fully geared up in their respective suits Emma and Peter devised a plan on how to get information from the drug dealer. It wasn't anything original but more of the traditional "Good Cop, Bad Cop" routine. Peter made Emma promise not to kill the man and she reluctantly made the promise. Emma still couldn't believe that Peter was actually using the Enhanced Interrogation Protocol. He sounded completely ridiculous to her. Maybe if he looked more like Batman with the Enhanced Interrogation Protocol she might take him more seriously but it seemed kind of ridiculous when he was wearing a bright red and blue suit. She was amused that he was trying so hard to be intimidating but it was just impossible to find Peter intimidating. Emma thought he was cute for trying so hard though. Cute… that was a word she had always hated to use but Emma was starting to make an exception when Peter was involved.
The plan was for Peter to approach the drug dealer first when he started walking to his car and once Peter had him distracted Emma would make her entrance and surprise him. Hopefully by seeing the both of them the drug dealer would become intimidated enough to just give out all the information he had. If not then Emma had some other back-up tactics she could use. None that involved his death of course but Emma needed to have a back-up plan just in case this one didn't work. Peter wasn't scary enough to spook even a amateur drug dealer. It was okay that he wasn't scary because Peter didn't need to be scary in the long run. Emma was clearly going to be the scary one in this partnership and that was all they needed. Peter didn't need to be scary because, even though it was hard for her to admit, Peter was a lot stronger than her. Not to mention he had the web shooters and may have even been just a tiny bit more agile than her. Emma guessed that they balanced each other out in those ways which was nice.
Emma was currently hiding behind a cement pillar in the parking garage as she waited for her signal. It turned out that Peter's suit wasn't the only one that had a mini drone. Apparently Stark had equipped her suit with it's own little drone which was the weirdest drone she had ever seen. The drone was in the form of a small snake and latched itself off her suit, slithering over to Aaron Davis's car. Emma wrinkled her nose in disgust as she watched the drone slither because, ironically enough, Emma hated snakes. The way they slithered and looked around at the world with that dead stare in their eyes creeped her out. Emma had even killed many snakes when she was in the Amazon and they had been everywhere down there. It was just another reason to hate the Amazon. She also thought her dislike of snakes had to do with what happened in the tank when she received the injections. As a child she had thought the tubing that went into her arms, when she received the injections, looked like snakes so when she had nightmares the tubing was replaced by actual snakes biting into her flesh. Emma still had that nightmare from time to time but every time she saw a snake she felt the familiar wave of disgust and fear wash over her. It really was ironic that she was the Viper Assassin when she hated snakes.
Emma peeked around the pillar and watched as Peter landed on the ground from the ceiling without even making a sound. She was actually a bit impressed that he had been able to do that. Emma could see that she had severely underestimated him. Peter immediately stood up from his crouched position and held out in his wrist in the drug dealer's direction as the man in question was putting groceries into the trunk of his car. Without hesitation Peter shot his webbing at the felon, the webbing immediately gluing the man's hand to the trunk of the car. The man looked around in confusion as Peter stalked towards the man. Not bad at all, Emma thought to herself. He had some real potential.
"Remember me?" Peter asked in his distorted voice. Emma sighed heavily as she heard the ridiculous sounding distortion in his voice. Okay… she kind of took that back. That Enhanced Interrogation Protocol was the most stupid thing Emma had ever heard and she definitely didn't think it would win Peter any favors either. The drug dealer looked surprised at Peter being there as he stumbled back a bit.
"I need information." Peter said in a demanding tone. "You're going to give it to me now." Emma wasn't going to lie. Peter was kind of hot when he was being authoritative and demanding like that. She wasn't saying she was into him or anything but he was really starting to look more attractive to her in that moment.
"All right, chill." The man told him.
"Come on!" Peter continued to demand, trying to seem imposing to the small time drug dealer. The man then gave Peter a confused look as he stared at him.
"What happened to your voice?" He asked him, his voice sounding bewildered. Peter gave the man a confused look from under his mask, not taking his meaning.
"What do you mean "what happened to my voice?" Peter shot back.
"I heard you on the bridge." Aaron Davis told him. "I know what a girl sounds like." Emma smirked as she tried not to laugh. This was definitely going to piss Peter off. Emma was going to love this. She loved it whenever Peter got all angry and frustrated.
"I'm not a girl. I'm a boy. I mean, I'm a-I'm a man." Peter told him, sounding very flustered.
"I don't care what you are, a boy, a girl-" Aaron told him as he continued loading his groceries into the car. Emma watched him carefully, making sure that he didn't have a weapon he was hiding but was relieved to see that he didn't. If Peter was more experienced with this than he would've made sure too. Emma would just have to remind herself to inform Peter to be more careful later on.
"I'm not a girl. I'm a man. Come on, man." Peter insisted, obviously frustrated with the man. "Look, who is selling these weapons? I need to know. Give me names or else." The man narrowed his eyes as he slammed the trunk door of his car. Peter jumped back from the noise in surprise, not as used to aggression or hostile behavior. Emma stiffened as she prepared to jump in whenever it was necessary for her to do so.
"You ain't ever done this before, huh?" Aaron asked him, somewhat amused.
"Deactivate interrogation mode." Peter told Karen, sounding dejected before speaking in his regular voice. "Look, man. These guys are selling weapons that are crazy dangerous. They can't be out on the streets. Look, if one of them can cut Delmar's Bodega in half imagine-"
"You know Delmar's?" Aaron interrupted as he looked at Peter in surprise.
"Yeah, best sandwich in Queens." Peter told him and Aaron gave him a doubtful look.
"Sub Haven's pretty good." He replied and Peter shrugged.
"It's too much bread." Peter said in response and Emma rolled her eyes. Was part of his plan to just sit around and bullshit with this guy all day? They needed the information and they needed it now.
"I like bread." Aaron said, sounding slightly offended by Peter's disapproval of the sandwich shop. Peter just sighed as he tried once more extracting the information from this guy.
"Come on, man, please." Peter begged. Begging? Was he was actually begging that idiot? Peter then started to leave when Aaron didn't say anything. Emma gritted her teeth as she mentally prepared herself for a confrontation with this idiot. She took her gun out of her holster as she maintained a stoic expression on her face before quietly stalking over to the drug dealer from behind. "Stupid Interrogation Mode. Karen, don't ever do that again."
Aaron Davis watched Spider-Man walk away, feeling very conflicted about whether or not he should say anything when he felt something at the temple of his head and heard the distinct sound of a gun cocking. His eyes widened in surprise and fear as he allowed his eyes to drift over to the right side of him only to be met with the sight of the notorious Viper Assassin. Emma glared at the man who was only a couple inches taller than her. Aaron raised the hand, that wasn't glued to his trunk door, up defensively.
"Don't move." She told him, her voice cold and chilling. Every instinct Aaron had was telling him to listen to her because her voice sounded absolutely dangerous. Peter immediately whipped around when he heard Emma's voice, the lenses of his mask widening when he saw the gun she had pointed at Aaron's head.
"Viper?!" Peter exclaimed in shock. "What are you doing?!" Emma barely spared him a glance as she continued glaring at Aaron.
"I'm extracting the information. You know... our mission." Emma snapped at him as she maintained focus on a wide eyed Aaron Davis.
"Look, I don't want any trouble." Aaron told her nervously, not seeming as confident as he had with Spider-Man. Emma gave him a doubtful look.
"Don't you?" She questioned sarcastically and he shook his head furiously.
"No." He replied and Emma scoffed.
"Well, it didn't seem that way a moment ago when you refused to give my friend over there the information he needed." Emma said venomously. "You stood there and bullshited him for five minutes."
"He's just a kid." Aaron said as he laughed nervously. Emma narrowed her eyes at him.
"So you just wasted our time instead." Emma spat as she became more and more hostile with the felon. Hostility was the best tactic. You had to talk to these kinds of people in a language only they would understand. Criminals didn't respond to anything other than hostility. "You know, Mr. Davis, I hate it when people waste my time. My time is very precious to me so you can imagine how annoyed I am right now."
"I didn't mean to waste your time. I'm sorry." Aaron told her as a fearful look entered his eyes. Emma responded by pressing the gun more tightly against his temple which caused him to start to tremble.
"Don't apologize to me." Emma hissed angrily, her tone becoming even more dangerous than before. "Apologizing is a sign of weakness. Are you weak, Mr. Davis?"
"No." Aaron told her as he furiously shook his head.
"No, who? Didn't your mother ever teach you any manners?" Emma asked him and he gulped.
"No, Ma'am?" Aaron said although it sounded more like a question. Emma's smirk signaled to Aaron that he had gotten it right however.
"Now... you're going to tell my friend and I everything you know about the man with the wings and those dangerous weapons he has." Emma told him, her tone cold and demanding. Peter could only watch Emma in fascination as she interrogated the man. This was a much different Emma than the one he had just had a vulnerable moment with back in her room. Peter wasn't even being interrogated by her and yet even he was a little bit scared of her. She just acted so cold and calculating. Peter, however, knew it was all an act. He was starting to think that the cold and calculating part of her was the Viper Assassin but the real Emma was the one he had talked to in her bedroom. There was a difference.
"What do I get out of it?" Aaron asked, getting a little too confident and the smirk dropped off Emma's face, replaced by an emotionless demeanor.
"Wrong answer." Emma told him before rearing the gun back and pistol whipping him across the face with just enough force that it caused his nose to bleed but not for him to get knocked out cold. Peter's eyes widened in surprise when he witnessed the action.
"Viper!" Peter exclaimed and Emma looked at him as though she didn't know why he looked so shocked. She then returned her attention to Aaron who was holding his nose in pain with his hand. Emma put her gun in her holster since she didn't think he would pose much of a problem to her.
"Ow!" Aaron said as he groaned in pain. He slightly glared at the Viper Assassin as she stood there looking at him with a stoic expression. "That hurt."
"I don't like being made a fool of, Mr. Davis." Emma told him as if that explained everything.
"Sorry. I didn't think you were being one hundred percent serious." Aaron told her and Emma raised an eyebrow.
"And now?" She inquired. Aaron then turned his head to look back at Spider-Man.
"Your girlfriend's crazy. Learn to control your woman, man, because this shit must be what it's like when you forget your anniversary." He told Peter and Emma immediately glared at him. He raised his hand up defensively again. "Sorry… I was kidding. Just a little humor to lighten the mood."
"Are you going to tell us the information or are you just going to continue to waste our time?" Emma asked him, her tone cold and icy again. Aaron sighed as he held his hand up to his nose again to stop the bleeding.
"Look, I was kind of messing around with you guys but in all seriousness I think I do want to help." Aaron admitted and Peter looked up in interest at him as Aaron glanced at him again. "The other night, you told that dude, "If you're going to shoot somebody, shoot me." That's pretty ballsy." Aaron paused briefly before continuing, it was clear that he had both Emma and Peter's full attention as he decided to cooperate with them.
"I don't want those weapons in this neighborhood." Aaron told them both honestly. "I got a nephew who lives here."
"Who are these guys? What can you tell me about the guy with the wings?" Peter asked him and Aaron shrugged.
"Other than he's a psychopath dressed like a demon… nothing. I don't know who he is or where he is." Aaron replied and Emma rolled her eyes. Great, what a load of help this guy turned out to be. He better not be wasting their time again. Even Peter seemed a bit dejected as he leaned against the car and sighed. Emma watched Aaron as he looked to be deep in thought about something. Wait… maybe he did know something.
"I do know where he's going to be." Aaron told them after recalling something. Peter stood back up from the car, seemingly more excited.
"Really?" He asked excitedly and Emma resisted the urge to roll her eyes again. God, he was acting like his aunt told him he was going to Disneyland. Maybe he should just turn it down a few notches and act slightly more professional about this. No wonder Aaron hadn't taken them seriously at first.
"Yeah, this crazy dude I used to work with… he's supposed to be doing a deal with him." Aaron told them.
"Yes! Yes." Peter exclaimed, his voice full of happiness as he jumped up and down. God, this was embarrassing, Emma thought to herself. She then stared at him in shock as he began walking away. What the hell?
"Where the hell are you going, Spider-Twerp?" Emma demanded. She seriously wondered what went through his mind sometimes. There were a lot of times that she just couldn't seem to understand him.
"Hey. Hey. Hey." Aaron called out and Peter immediately turned around. "I didn't tell you where. You don't have a location." Peter nodded in realization as he immediately ran back over to Aaron and Emma. Emma noticed that he was practically skipping.
"Right, of course." Peter said apologetically. "Yeah, my bad. Silly. Just… yeah. Where is it?"
"Can I give you some advice?" Aaron told Peter as he gave the hero an odd look and Peter nodded. "You got to get better at this part of the job. Maybe follow your girl's lead a little more because she has it down. Seriously though. She's downright terrifying."
"I'm no one's girl." Emma told him seethingly as she narrowed her eyes at him. Aaron gulped again once he head the coldness in her voice. Peter just blushed at Emma being referred to as "His girl". Thank god he was wearing the mask otherwise Emma would see how much he was blushing at that statement.
"See! That's what I mean. Terrifying." Aaron said as he looked between the two heroes who were obviously polar opposites before resting his gaze on Emma. "You just gotta teach this guy a few of your moves. It might save you a little time even though the good cop, bad cop routine isn't that bad."
"It's still a work in progress." Emma told him casually.
"Well, try to help him more because he's unbelievably bad at this part of the job." Aaron told her and Peter didn't like how they were talking about him like he wasn't there. Peter just shook his head as he leaned against the car and tried to look cool.
"I don't understand." Peter said before he crossed his arms. "I'm intimidating." Emma tried not to find his efforts adorable whenever he tried to be scary or intimidating. He just didn't really seem to have it in him. She also tried to ignore how her heart raced a little more when he acted like that.
"Staten Island Ferry. Eleven." Aaron finally told them and Emma was just glad that he finally told them the information. It's not like they wasted a ton of time trying to get that out of him. She meant that sarcastically of course.
"Oh, that's soon." Peter replied before pointing at the webbing. "Hey, that's gonna dissolve in two hours." Peter said he began to walk away and Emma immediately followed suit.
"No, no, no. Come fix this." Aaron told them.
"Two hours. You deserve that." Peter told him and Emma smirked. Maybe Peter was a little evil. That was definitely something she could work with.
"I got ice cream in here, man." Aaron complained before giving Emma a hopeful look. "Tell your boyfriend to get me out of this!" Instead of denying the boyfriend remark, Emma just smirked evilly at the man.
"He's the nice one. Not me. Bad cop, remember?" Emma told him before she and Peter broke into a jog as they started to leave the parking garage.
"You deserve that. You're a criminal. Bye, Mr. Criminal." Peter called back to him as he and Emma ran further and further away. Emma glanced over at him as they were running, feeling a bit more optimistic after extracting the information from Aaron.
"That was fun." Emma commented and Peter shot her a bewildered look.
"Fun?!" He exclaimed in disbelief. "You threatened him with a gun."
"I wasn't really going to shoot him." Emma replied nonchalantly as she shrugged her shoulders.
"Well, you still hit him in the face with the gun." Peter told her but Emma didn't seem that fazed.
"He's got a mouth on him. He deserved that and you're not innocent either, Parker. That was kind of evil what you did back there." Emma told him, referring to Peter leaving the guy glued to the trunk of his car.
"He's a criminal." Peter reluctantly admitted as he decided not to speak anymore on the matter. Emma smirked at him as they continued to run through the parking garage.
"I'm not judging. I actually thought it was kind of hot." Emma told him and Peter looked back at her in shock, thinking that he may have misheard her.
"What?" Emma just continued to smirk at him, knowing that she was really getting under his skin. He was cute when he got all flustered. Emma just wished he didn't have the mask on so she could see him blush.
"Yeah, it was kind of a turn on. Evil Peter really does it for me." Her tone was low and suggestive as she teased him. Peter started feeling really hot in the face from under his mask. Emma was clearly insane. He really couldn't believe she just said that… Well, he couldn't believe Emma said a lot of things but this really took the cake. When she said things like that his heart pounded against his chest and he didn't know what to do with himself. Emma really frustrated him in that sense especially because he knew she was only teasing him and probably didn't mean any of that. Peter just groaned in annoyance as he spared her a quick glare.
"Don't say another word."
The two heroes managed to make it to the ferry just as the ferry was leaving, now focused on the task at hand. All they needed to worry about now was finding that winged idiot and stopping him from selling anymore weapons. The only downside was that there was a lot of civilians on the ferry which made Emma uncomfortable. They would surely get in the way of her and Peter's mission. Emma would have to make more of an effort ensure there were no civilian casualties as they apprehended Birdman. Guys like Birdman tended to want to bring other people down with them and she couldn't let that happen.
Peter sent his drone off to try and see if it could find any suspicious characters on the ferry. Emma was comfortable enough with Peter's drone that she didn't see any need to send her own drone over there. That and she really hated watching that thing slither around. It grossed her more than she could ever tell you. Emma took her attention away from the drone and then rested her gaze on the civilians in the ferry. All of the people on the ferry looked pretty normal but Emma knew better than anyone that looks could be deceiving.
"Okay, Karen." Emma heard Peter say to the AI system as they peeked through the window of the ferry. "Activate Enhanced Reconnaissance Mode."
Emma looked at the readings on her screen as the camera in her lenses zoomed in on a familiar face. Facial recognition immediately matched it to the guy she and Peter had seen that night under the bridge as well as at school. Her hearing immediately picked up on his voice as he talked to a man sitting behind him. It was obvious that he was keeping his meeting with the man discreet. Emma narrowed her eyes as she looked at the man sitting behind him. He was an older man who was slightly balding but she didn't have a good at his face from where she and Peter were positioned.
"He's up front. Main deck." The older man told the idiot.
"I hate this guy." The idiot mumbled.
"That's the guy from the bridge, right?" Peter asked Emma quietly and she slowly nodded as she rested her eyes on the two men in the main cabin of the ferry. "Who's that other guy?"
"I don't know but I have a feeling that he might be the one we're looking for." Emma told Peter as she looked at the older man suspiciously. Peter spared her a single glance before returning his gaze to the pair they were watching.
"Just keep me posted." The older man told the idiot as the idiot got up from the seat and quietly walked away without another word.
"There's no record of him in my criminal database." McConaughey told Emma as he tried to get a positive identification. That was disappointing information yet not that surprising. This guy had to be good if he hadn't managed to ever be caught. He managed to keep law enforcement off his trail this long but Emma was about to change that. This guy was good but he wasn't that good. He was going to be a challenge to back up into a corner but Emma thrived on challenges. Challenging missions were her favorite kind of missions. That assassin she managed to terminate in Tokyo was challenging to catch but she still did it. This old man would be no different.
Emma watched as the caller id of Peter's aunt showed up on part of her screen seeing as her and Peter's suits were still in sync. Truthfully, her and Peter were probably in a lot of trouble back at school since they basically just walked out of detention. Emma had even been receiving several texts from Darcy asking her what was going on. Jane had also left a number of angry voice messages as well which Emma ignored. She was too busy to be dealing with Jane's annoying personality right now.
"Incoming call from May Parker. Should I reroute to your head's up display?" Karen asked Peter.
"I can't talk right now. I'll call her back." Peter said hurriedly as he kept his eyes on the mysterious man inside the ferry. Peter's drone then crawled up the side of his head before taking flight and hovering above them. Emma wasn't so sure she liked that thing either. Stark's little gadgets kind of overwhelmed her from time to time. She was much more comfortable with just relying on her hand to hand combat skills, gun, and her own instincts although she couldn't deny the usefulness of McConaughey. McConaughey definitely made getting information a lot easier.
"Hey, Droney, keep an eye on that guy." Emma raised an eyebrow at him. Did he seriously name that thing? "We can't let anybody get away this time."
"Let's head up to a higher vantage point so we can get a good view of the main deck." Emma told Peter, keeping her game face on as she normally did whenever she was on a mission. "We need to remain discreet until we can get a better picture of the situation. We'll have the advantage if we can manage to surprise them."
"Agreed. Let's go." Peter replied after giving Emma a quick nod. He began to climb the side of the ferry as Emma swiftly flew up to the top of ferry before landing on a ledge. Peter met her up there in no time. He remained in a crouched position as he stayed out of the sight and Emma laid on her stomach as she spied on the activity on the main deck of the ferry. Emma spotted a couple suspicious looking individuals loitering around the main deck. She narrowed her eyes at the suspicious characters.
"Who's the guy on the left?" Peter asked Karen as both his and Emma's lenses zoomed in on the man's face. Emma watched as McConaughey went through the criminal database and several bits and pieces of information popped up on the screen about the man.
"Mac Gargan." McConaughey told Emma. " He has an extensive criminal record including homicide." Emma snorted. A real upstanding guy. This must be the crazy guy Aaron Davis mentioned working with. She was honestly surprised that Birdman was selling the weapons to these lowlife scumbags rather than Hydra. It wasn't like she wanted Hydra to have the weapons because that's why she was there with Peter right in that moment but from a logical point of view she just didn't understand it. He could be making so much more money selling weapons to people with huge pocket books. Maybe he wasn't as smart as she originally thought.
"Would you like me and McConaughey to activate Instant Kill for you and Emma?" Karen asked Peter which completely unnerved him as usual.
"No, Karen, stop it with the Instant Kill, already." Peter told the AI system and Emma pretended to pout.
"Come on, Peter. Live a little. It's not like he's a good person anyways. No one would even miss him." Emma said although she didn't think she meant any of it. She was only teasing Peter who glared at her from under his mask.
"No one's going to die." He told her sternly and she rolled her eyes.
"Fine, we'll just do this the boring way." Emma replied, sounding a bit dejected but Emma didn't think she minded doing this the hard way. Killing these idiots was the easy way out. Capturing them was more challenging and Emma had already said before that she thrived on challenges. The smirk fell off her face when she spotted Birdman's idiot walk onto the main deck.
"White pick-up truck." He said shortly to the two men and the one named Mac Gargan nodded to his companion. Emma narrowed her eyes at them again as Gargan's companion walked silently towards where all the other cars were parked.
"Droney, scan the ship for a white pick-up truck." Peter told his drone as it flew off in the opposite direction. Emma watched silently as the camera feed from Peter's drone popped up on her screen. The drone's camera feed paused on a white pick-up truck that the companion of Gargan was approaching. She spotted a man, with a baseball cap on, exit the driver's side of the truck before leading Gargan's companion to the bed of the truck. Emma clenched her jaw when she saw all the weapons in the bed of the guy's truck.
"This is too perfect." Peter said to her as they watched the men engage in another weapon's deal. "They got the weapons, the buyers, and the sellers all in one place."
"Don't get too cocky." Emma told him quietly as her eyes remained glued to the men. "We need to test the terrain." Before Peter could respond to Emma's statement, however, a new caller id appeared on his screen. Mr. Stark.
"Incoming call from Tony Stark." Emma sighed as she heard Karen. Was yesterday not enough? It seemed like the universe loved torturing her with Stark's lovely presence. Emma was just glad that Stark would only see Peter and not herself. Still… she'd probably have to listen to his annoying voice again. Emma didn't understand how Peter looked up to that idiot so much.
"No, no, no. Don't-" Peter was then interrupted by the call connecting to Stark. Emma smiled a little at his discomfort but continued to stare at the men on the main deck. Stark could really not call at a worse time.
"Mr. Parker." Emma heard Stark say as the call connected. "Got a sec?"
"Uh…" Peter stammered nervously as he tried to figure out a way to excuse himself from having to talk to his mentor. "I'm actually at school."
"No you're not." Karen told him but Peter ignored her.
"Nice work in D.C." Tony complimented but Peter was a little distracted by the situation to pay much attention to the compliment. "You and Mini Cap did a great job."
"Okay." Peter said distractedly.
"My dad never really gave me a lot of support and I'm just, uh, trying to break the cycle of shame." Tony continued to say and Emma rolled her eyes. Great, it's always the daddy issues with this guy. Tony was nearing fifty now. Couldn't he just get over those daddy issues? Emma's dad was murdered in front of her and you didn't see her bringing it up to whoever would listen.
"Uh, I'm kind of in the middle of something right now." Peter told him and Emma wished that he would just end the call instead of playing this game. Stark wasn't really their priority right now since they had much more important things to deal with rather than trying to not piss off Stark. Emma really didn't have much concern for hurting Stark's feelings… obviously.
"Don't cut me off when I'm complimenting you." Tony said, his voice kind of annoyed. Emma kind of understood why since it wasn't often that Stark complimented people. It's what earned him the title of being one of the most entitled assholes in the world.
"Anyway… Great things are about to happen-" Tony continued before he was interrupted by Ferry's horn. "What was that?"
"Uh, I'm at band practice." Peter replied nervously. God, he was such a bad liar.
"Nice save, Parker." Emma quipped and Peter immediately glared at her.
"That's odd. Happy told me you quit band six weeks ago. And was that Mini Cap I heard?" Tony asked suspiciously. Great. Now Stark knew that they were definitely up to something. In all honestly she probably shouldn't have said anything but she just couldn't resist making a snide comment. "What's up?"
"I gotta go. End call!" Peter ordered.
"Hey." Tony said, sounding unbelievably pissed just when Karen ended the call. Yeah, he definitely knew something was up. Not even Stark was that stupid.
"You probably should've ended the call from the get go." Emma told Peter and he just shook his head at her.
"Well, you shouldn't have said anything." He shot back. Emma raised an eyebrow as she gave him a doubtful look.
"Don't blame me, Parker. You're an unbelievably terrible liar." Peter was about to respond when Karen zoomed in on a set of keys Birdman's idiot was holding in his hand. It was obvious he was about to hand the truck with the weapons over to Gargan. Peter glanced over at Emma and she just stared back, a focus and determined look in her eyes as she nodded at him. It was time to get this thing over with.
"I'll take those!" Peter yelled as he shot some of his webbing towards the men, yanking the keys out of the idiot's grasp and retrieving them. Peter and Emma then both leapt down from their vantage point, landing on the main deck right in front of the group of men. Emma glared at them, her hand resting above her gun holster but she knew that Peter wouldn't like it if she used it. No, she could probably rely on her hand to hand combat in this case as much as the gun probably would've ended this a lot quicker. It was weird relying on her hand to hand combat before an actual weapon. She guessed that was what set this apart from Hydra.
"Hey guys, the illegal weapons ferry left at 10:30. You missed it." Peter said as he tauntingly dangled the keys in front of them. Emma watched as two of them pulled out guns and she didn't hesitate in fully charging at one of the men, using her ability of flight in the process.
The guy watched Emma in shock and probably forgot he even had a gun in his hand as she ambushed him, landing a forceful punch to his stomach. The man flew back from the impact and landed on the ground harshly. He groaned in pain as Emma stalked over to him and stood above him when she approached the criminal. She immediately rested her foot against his wrist and easily applied a bit of pressure, not releasing her foot until she heard a sickening crack. He cried out in pain as Emma bent down and snatched the gun from his hand before chucking it into the ocean. The man pathetically cried as he clutched his wrist to his chest and Emma landed a kick to his face, immediately knocking him out cold. It was enough to knock him out but not enough to kill him. She figured Peter would be pretty pissed at her if she killed anyone today.
Emma then took a good look at Gargan who was still standing there in shock, watching the Viper Assassin take out one of his men. And this guy was supposed to be a criminal mastermind? Yeah, right. This guy could clearly not think on his feet and that would be his greatest disadvantage. He then seemed to get over his shock as he glared at Emma, cursing at her loudly before charging at her. Emma narrowed her eyes at him as she waited for him to come near her.
"McConaughey, dispense the Viper Bite." Emma told him as she held out her wrist in preparation.
"Of course, Miss Rogers." McConaughey replied. When Gargan got within range of her the Viper Bite immediately dispensed from her suit, the green colored gas enveloping the air around him. Emma watched curiously as Gargan's eyes began to roll back into his head the instant he inhaled the green gas. Gargan immediately staggered around until his eyes closed and he fell back against the pavement, his head hitting the ground hard. Well, he was going to have an outstanding headache when he woke up.
Emma turned around and noticed that Peter had managed to throw a couple of the thugs back a ways with his webbing but that wasn't his current problem. Birdman's idiot, the same one with one of the alien weapons was currently attacking Peter with his high tech weapon. That wasn't going to be good for any of them since Emma doubted that the guy even knew how to use that thing. She watched as the idiot managed to get the weapon on his arm stuck through one of the gates on the deck. Was he really going to make it that easy for them?
It was then that a couple of the other idiots decided to make another move and sneak up on Emma and Peter. Apparently they hadn't realized that Emma and Peter could hear every move they made. Fighting these morons was only a little too easy for Emma. She was trained to fight individuals who were a lot more trained than a few low life scumbags. These idiots were in no way a match for Emma and Peter.
"Woah, woah. Not so fast." Peter said he turned around and shot some more of his webbing at the two thugs before flinging them to the other side of the deck. They groaned in pain as they landed on the hard ground. It was like these guys enjoyed getting the shit knocked out of them, Emma observed as she watched the idiots with a hand resting on her hip. She barely even deemed these guys a threat to her and Peter.
"Are you guys okay?" Peter quipped. "My bad. That was a little hard." Peter and Emma then turned their attention back to the man who still had his arm stuck in the fence.
"I gotta say the other guy was way better with that thing." Peter told the man snarkily as he refilled his web shooter. "I'm honestly shocked."
"Yeah, what ever happened to that buddy of yours?" Emma asked as she sneered at the man. "Did boss man kill him for messing up the job? I guess we know who's next on his hit list." The man glared hatefully at Emma but she only smirked at him, giving him a condescending look. Emma heard another idiot running towards him but she left it to Peter. Peter didn't even look behind himself as he shot the moron with his web shooter. The guy hit the wall harshly and remained glued there with the webbing. Emma knew what that felt like.
Emma started hearing the distinct sound of a struggle from the other end of the deck and immediately turned to look between all the cars. She saw the same old man from before knocking the shit out of one of Gargan's men. Gargan's companion dropped to the ground as the old man looked at Emma and Peter. Emma stared back, not intimidated in the least bit. This just had to be the guy… there was no doubt in her mind that this was the guy they were looking for. Emma and Peter exchanged a look and she gave him a quick nod, signaling they should ambush the guy. They were about to break into a run when they were stopped from doing so.
"Freeze FBI!" Someone yelled out as a bunch of men popped out from a higher deck with their guns pointed at Emma and Peter. They also came out of one of the doors on the deck with their guns pointed at the pair. Emma narrowed her eyes at the group of agents. She really hated it when people pointed guns at her. "Get down on the ground!"
"Wait! What do you mean FBI?!" Peter exclaimed as he raised his hands defensively. Emma didn't do anything as she stared at the group of men with a bored expression even though she was really pissed inside. This was so frustrating. They almost had that idiot yet these morons just had to step in and ruin everything. Stay calm, she told herself as she tried to maintain her composure. Don't get mad. These men are just trying to do their jobs even though they suck at it. Just do what Sam always says and take deep, calming breaths.
"The FBI is the federal bureau-" Karen began to say before Peter interrupted her.
"I know what the FBI means but what are they doing here?" Peter asked the AI system.
"Ma'am, get down on the ground this instant!" One of the FBI agents told her and Emma gave him a cold look.
"No." She told him shortly, her tone icy and dangerous. The FBI agent gulped as he saw the look the Viper Assassin graced him with. Her reputation was near legendary amongst all the federal agencies. Before the FBI agent could respond, however, the sound of something tearing through metal echoed through the main deck. Emma looked past the agents only to see Birdman's wing popping out from the side of the van. This was what they were trying to avoid.
The FBI had terrible timing.
The agents immediately pointed their guns in the opposite direction as Birdman came out of the white van, his green eyes glowing through the darkness of the main deck. He quickly began to fly his way over to them with one of the alien weapons in his hands. One of the FBI agents thought it would be a good idea for him to shoot at Birdman, probably not realizing that Birdman's suit was most likely bullet proof. His gun shots wouldn't even make a difference.
"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!" Peter called out them but the ignorant agents were ignoring him. As per fucking usual, Emma thought to herself. Birdman shooting his alien weapon was finally what it took for the agents to quickly get out of the way. Emma narrowly missed the flash of purple as she stood next to the agent who tried ordering her around before.
"Look out!" Peter yelled as Birdman decided to pick up a car to throw at them. Emma groaning, not believing she was actually going to do this, and grabbed the agent before flying to the over side of the deck with Peter and the others. She unceremoniously dropped the man on the ground before landing next to him. Peter had also managed to toss one of the men to her side of the deck but was slightly hit by the flying car, sending him sliding across the deck. She'd ask if he was okay but she figured he could probably handle himself. It wasn't like he was Clint or anything. Peter was enhanced after all. The car then slid off the ferry and into the water as Birdman flew into the air, aiming his weapon towards Emma and Peter. He immediately shot the weapon at the fence that the idiot had been stuck in, releasing the idiot from it's hold.
"Get to the top deck. We're getting out of here!" Birdman told the idiot. The man then began to run from the fence and Peter tried shooting his webbing at the man but the webbing was severed by another blast from Birdman's weapon. Emma watched as the man escaped through the door on the other side of the deck. Well, that was nice. The little weasel seemed to have escaped yet again which only served to piss Emma off even more. A pissed off Emma was never a good thing either.
Peter immediately shot his webbing at Birdman's foot and then began to attempt to pull him back down to the ground as if he were flying a sort of kite. The man fought against Peter's strength as he was locked inside of something that resembled a tug-o-war between himself and Peter. Emma then wrapped her arms around Peter's mid-section from behind and she could immediately feel him tense up.
"What are you doing?!" He exclaimed, feeling slightly panicked by having Emma pressed this close against him. Emma rolled her eyes at his immaturity.
"Relax, Spider-Twerp. I'm trying to help you! Now just shut up and pull!" Emma yelled at him as she tried flying them backwards so that they could bring Birdman closer to the ground. Even with both Peter and her strength combined it was still a great effort to bring Birdman back to the ground as they worked against the propellers in his wings. Even so… it seemed like they were making some progress since he started getting lower and lower to the ground. This seemed to panic Birdman, however, as he immediately pointed the weapon at the FBI agents shooting at him from the top deck. Birdman shot the weapon and a bright beam of purple sliced through the top deck, the men narrowly escaping it's powerful blast. After he shot the weapon at them, he shot it again towards the deck where all the passengers were situated. Emma gritted her teeth. This asshole just didn't want to go down, did he?
"Let go and get out of the way." Peter told her quietly. "I'm going to attach the webbing to that car behind us. This isn't working." Emma immediately nodded and let go of him, flying herself out of the way. Peter pointed his web shooter towards the car and shot the webbing at it. He then tied the other rope of webbing to the new one before letting go, doing a back flip and landing on the car. The car was pulled forward, stopping as it hit one of the metal pillars, and holding Birdman in place. Birdman shot his weapon at Peter again and Peter leapt up to one of the higher decks to dodge it.
The webslinger shot another one his webs at Birdman just as Emma took notice of the fire extinguisher positioned on the wall. She gave the fire extinguisher a determined look as she ripped it from the wall, taking it for herself. Emma then faced the direction Birdman was in again before rearing her her arm back and throwing the fire extinguisher full force at Birdman. She watched as the fire extinguisher flew through the air with extreme speed before hitting Birdman harshly, causing a massive dent to damage his suit as he flew back a ways from the impact. Birdman grew angry as he shot another couple beams of purple energy, one at her and then another at Peter. Emma flew out of the way as the purple beam narrowly missed her and Peter also managed to dodge one of the beams but only to be dragged over the water as Birdman flew further away. Peter seemed to absolutely refuse to let go of the webbing as he was dragged away.
"Spider-Twerp!" Emma called out worriedly as she watched him go, her eyes wide and full of concern. Her worry only increased as Peter was being shot at by the alien weapon and Emma was even about to propel herself off the ground to rescue him. She was, however, relieved a moment later to see that he managed to regain control of his webbing and fling himself back to the ship. She blushed in spite of herself… blushed?! Emma couldn't really believe it but she felt the obvious warmth against her face. The truth was right there in her reddening face. Emma couldn't believe herself but she soon put that thought aside as Birdman flew closer to the ship again. Birdman easily snipped the ropes of webbing and Emma glared at him.
"Yeah, right. Bullshit." She muttered to herself. Peter then shot more of the webbing but this time at Birdman's weapon instead. Emma widened her eyes immediately when he did that because if the Washington Monument taught her anything it was the fact that Chitauri weaponry was very sensitive and there was no telling how it would react to Peter's webbing.
"Spider-Twerp, wait! Don't-" She tried to warn Peter but he interrupted her as he tried reel in Birdman.
"I'm kind of busy right now, Viper." He said dismissively and Emma didn't even have it in her to give him a glare before Birdman tugged him forward and he hit the metal pillar on the main deck near where she was standing. Peter held himself to the metal pillar but still kept the webbing tight in his grasp.
"Activate Taser Web!" Peter ordered Karen and Emma immediately shook her head furiously.
"No, you can't! It'll-" Emma tried to warn again but it was too late. The taser web had actually managed to make Birdman let go of the weapon and Emma moved out of the way as it came flying towards her and Peter. She managed to grab Peter and move him to the side as well just as the weapon hit the ground. Emma's worst fear was confirmed true as the weapon started to go off by itself, shooting out frequent beams of purple energy in every direction. Emma narrowly dodged a couple of the beams before throwing herself near the weapon.
Emma tried to grasp her hands on either side of it in an attempt to hold it down but she didn't have a clue as to how to shut the weapon down. She knew how to handle a simple gun and weapons that were more of Earth. Her knowledge of alien weaponry was obviously very limited. As the weapon shot out another beam of light Emma was thrown a couple feet to the left right when the weapon bounced off the ground. She was just lucky she wasn't on the other side of the weapon. Emma knew she didn't have the capability of stopping the weapon herself. One, because she had no idea how the thing worked and two, because she saw what it did to the Washington Monument. However, Emma did know someone who might be capable of containing the weapon. Emma looked over at Peter quickly.
"Spider-Twerp, quick you have to stop this thing. It'll tear the whole ship in half!" Emma called out to him as Peter carefully approached the weapon.
"Already on it, Viper!" Peter called back to her as he aimed his web shooter at the weapon and began to try to contain the weapon from letting out anymore beams of energy. "Get out of the way! I'm going to try to glue it to the ground with my webbing!" Peter said and Emma immediately threw herself away from the weapon, rolling away to the other side of the deck as she then gracefully ended the tumble in a crouched position. Emma ducked for cover behind a car as Peter kept shooting his webbing at the weapon. She went with the idea because it's not like she had any other ones at the moment. Peter's was the best one they had for the time being. Emma watched as Peter finally managed to glue the weapon to the ground with his webbing, covering the entirety of the weapon within his webbing.
"You're messing with things you don't understand!" Birdman yelled out at them. It was then that the weapon began to tremble and shake from within it's cocoon. Emma stared at the webbing with uncertainty. She certainly didn't like the look of that. Peter jumped in surprise when the weapon started to glow purple again and shoot off another beam of energy. It didn't seem like that idea was working out for them very well. The webbing wasn't going to stop that thing. In fact, it probably only make it worse.
The webbing seemed to disintegrate as the weapon started shooting off beams of purple energy into every direction all at it once. Emma counted probably around ten or so beams of energy coming from the weapon at the same and it was way worse than before. The beams of energy began hitting the ceiling of the main deck as Peter got out of the way and moved over to Emma. The beams seemed to go through the entirety of the ship, making a loud humming noise as it did so. Emma and Peter could only watch helplessly as it brought it's wave of destruction over the ferry. But then it stopped. The beams of purple were suddenly gone before they could even blink their eyes.
"What's happening?" Peter whispered to her as their eyes remained glued to the large cracks in floor and ceiling of the deck. Emma shook her head slowly as she looked around the deck cautiously, uncertain of what to expect.
"I don't know but I don't think it's over." Emma whispered back to him and Peter gulped. Well, that sure made him feel better. The blonde seemed to really have a way of words and Peter completely meant that in a sarcastic way. It was then that water began to spray up from the giant crack in the floor of the deck. The water sprayed up like it was a geyser and Emma widened her eyes at the sight as Peter also looked on in shock.
"Shit!" She cursed and she felt herself be jolted backwards slightly before the ship began coming apart in the middle. The ship was being torn apart as the two sides of the ship began to separate from each other. The screams of the passengers filled the air as everyone panicked.
"Oh my god. What do I do?" Peter breathed before he decided to quickly maintain his composure and try to find a solution to the problem. It was probably best not to panic right now. That wouldn't do anyone any good. "Karen… Uh… give me an x-ray of the boat and target all the strongest points."
Emma knew that this was only something Peter was able to do. He'd probably be able to glue the ship back together with his webbing but Emma knew that there was something that only she'd be able to do as she looked at some of the people who were still on the main deck of the boat. Passengers who had locked themselves in their cars during the confrontation between the two heroes and man with wings. She needed to get these people out of there before the water level got too high on the lower deck.
"Peter, do what you have to do. I'm going to get these people out of here." Emma told him and once again she couldn't help but wince at how much she sounded like Steve. Peter looked back at her worriedly.
"Are you sure?" He asked her and Emma nodded, a determined look in her blue eyes.
"Yes. Now go and put the ship back together. I'll be fine." Emma told him firmly and Peter nodded although he was still reluctant to leave Emma there. He knew, however, that there was no time to argue. He had to fix this and he had to fix this now. Peter flung his wrist out before shooting his webbing to one of the higher decks of the ship. He propelled himself off the ground and flew in that general direction. Emma sighed as she watched him go, hoping that they could somehow make it out of this without any blood on their hands.
The blonde former assassin then turned to glance at the passengers who were still seated in their cars, looking to be in a state of great fear. She took a deep breath as she began to calm herself down. It was important that she remain calm in this tense situation as to not invoke any panic in the civilians. Emma immediately stalked over to one of the cars where a man was seated at the wheel. She rapped on his window and signaled for him to get out of the car but he furiously shook his head no as he looked at her with fear present in his eyes. Emma rolled her eyes as she groaned.
"I don't have time for this shit." She grumbled as she then ripped the door off his car and forcibly grabbed him from his seat. The man cried out in surprise as he threw his hands up defensively.
"Please, don't kill me!" He pleaded and Emma just shook her head at the pathetic man. She scoffed.
"I'm not going to kill you, you big baby." She told him before a small smirk came over her face. "Say… how much do you like amusement park rides?"
"What?" The man asked in confusion, calming down somewhat from his state of fear and panic. Emma just gave him an evil look before she grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and propelled herself off the ground. The man began to scream in surprise as Emma flew them off the ground. God, this guy was annoying. She was saving his life. The least he could do was be grateful. When they reached a higher deck of the ship, Emma quickly threw the guy onto to the deck and he landed with a soft thud.
"You're welcome." She told him before quickly flying back to the main deck to rescue more passengers. The man watched the blonde disappear through the maze of webbing that Spider-Man was currently shooting to try and keep the ship together. It was obvious that the new hero had to work on her bedside manner because his back was going to be killing him in the morning. It became clear to him that the Viper Assassin was a different sort of Avenger than what people were used to seeing.
The Viper Assassin was definitely one of a kind… that was for sure.