HEY GUYS! SORRY THAT IT'S BEEN AWHILE AGAIN BUT AS PREDICTED, WE ARE ABOUT TO MOVE AND I HAVE A LOT OF STUFF GOING ON WITH PREPARING FOR COLLEGE SO IT'S STILL HARD TO POST, BUT I HAVE CHAPTERS SO PLEASE ENJOY! ALSO THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO'S BEEN REVIEWING AND FOLLOWING THIS STORY! MUCH LOVE, R&R. ALSO, IF YOU'RE A PJ SHIPPER, I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OF THE MOMENTS. OKAY, IM DONE TALKING! (I DO NOT OWN THESE CHARACTERS.)
CHAPTER 10: Overnight Shift
PETER P.O.V.
Instead of waiting, I decided to get to work as soon as possible. Pepper let me use some of the parts Tony had for other inventions he wanted to create. I look through all of them and I have no idea on where to start.
Who the heck would know what to do first to create a machine that can stop portals from opening?
"Peter, I'm going to do research so that you can get a general idea. You look stuck." MJ says as she's getting on the computer.
"Yeah, I really am." I say as I lean over the table, trying to see what I'm going to do. Did Tony ever struggle this much or did it come to him like magic? I look over and I see that Miles is drawing, but I can't make out what it is.
He looks up at my confused face and smiles."Oh, I'm just drawing the machine you're trying to make. If we have to make a machine, gotta recognize it for the creativity right?" I laugh. I really need a laugh or two right now.
"Well, I looked it up. Maybe the world isn't that crazy like I thought it was." MJ says. I walk over to her and my head is over her shoulder as I put both my hands on each side of her."It says you need MS or IMS technology just to see if anybody is trying to come through." Well that's a start.
"Okay, I should probably look through Mr. Stark's files and see if he has the tech here." MJ gets up from the computer and lets me look it up."He's a billionaire, I'm pretty sure he owns all the technology there is."
I look through the files and I see that he does have it. I wonder what he used it for.
"Okay, I'm going to go look for it. Wanna come with me?" I ask MJ. Even though I'm working on an invention, I want to spend as much time with MJ as I can. If she wants to be apart of this world, she can at least do things to where she isn't fighting bad guys and she's safe.
"Yeah, I'll go." MJ says. The two of us start walking through the lab, looking through the different rooms. We go down and see that there are glass displays of where he use to keep his suits, but all of them are gone. Did somebody take them out?
"What happened to all of Mr. Stark's suits? I thought he always kept them in here." I was so curious, and I just wish the man himself could answer me. I shake it out and focus on what I came in here for.
MJ starts looking at the lab as I'm trying to look through desk to see if he placed it anywhere.
I stumble across some tech and everything is put into a really fancy white box. I pull it out and I look through all of it.
MJ comes over and helps me look through it too. There's a lot of things that got tangled and stuck to each other some how."Was this the only thing he did for the entire day? He owns so much stuff." MJ says as she's working on untangling some cords.
I pick some flash drives up and I know it's not the tech we need, but I want to see what's on them for some odd reason. Finally what seemed like forever, I came across a flashdrive with a label that said MS tech on it.
"MJ, I found it." I hold it up to her."Okay, let's go back and plan it out." It's really great that MJ is here to help me work on this stuff. I have no idea on how long it's going to take for me to build a whole portal thingy but it's nice to be doing it with a person you feel amazing around.
We walk back into the room and see that Miles is still drawing illustrations. MJ goes over to him as I put all the flash drives I got on the table."You're really good at drawing Miles." MJ says as she's looking at some of the things he drew.
I know MJ really loves to draw and anything she sees when it comes to drawing interest her. I should try to draw something.
"Thanks. Oh, I don't know if you even want the machine to look like this, but I thought I would give you a guide just to be useful." Miles hands the machine drawing to me and it looks really good. I wouldn't mind using his drawing for the final project.
"I think it looks really good Miles. I'll keep it." I look at the tech and then I look at the drive. If only I knew where to go from here."Peter, maybe you can get some parts to build the structure to start. I'll go with you." Without me being able to respond, MJ grabs my arm and we're going back to the room we were in before.
"MJ, what was that all about?" I ask. She glances at me quickly and opens the supply closet. She was holding on to my arm extremely tight."I didn't mean to drag you out like that. I just wanted to ask you something."
"What is it? You know you can ask me anything right?"
"Yeah, I know. I just wanted to ask you, what's going to happen if somebody doesn't make it through all of this? Everything just seems too easy right now. I'm not use to all of this and not knowing what to expect is a little scary." I understand what she's talking about. Being a superhero I dont know what to expect if this doesn't work.
That's the part about being an Avenger that sucks."MJ, I know this is really scary. It's part of the reason why I kept it a secret. When people I care about know about my identity it makes me an easier target. I have more weaknesses. If they did something to Ned I would break, if they did something to May I would break, and I don't even know what I would do if you-" In the middle of me explaining MJ wraps her arms around me and puts her head on my shoulder.
I embrace her and do the same."I know Peter. I understand why you didn't want me helping you today." She says into my shoulder. It breaks my heart that things have to be like this, and maybe she's already noticing that I'm keeping her trapped inside at all times because I'm scared something is going to happen to her but I can't help it.
I can't take risks when it comes to MJ because if it doesn't go the way I want it to, nothing will be the same ever again. I won't be the same. We just hug each other for the longest time, both of us completely forgetting what we came down here for but I can't let go.
Even when MJ is trying to adjust herself I'm scared she's trying to let go of me so I squeeze her tighter."I like it when we're this close Peter."
"I do too." Screaming is heard from outside. The two of us look up and out of the window, still holding on to each other.
"What was that?" MJ asks. I hate doing it but we let go and I jog over to the window. I see that a building is starting to be set on fire. My eyes go wide and I turn around to see MJ standing behind me. She looks hurt and I feel like I'm breaking her heart.
"Peter, you gotta go out there!" She tells me. I go into the main room and get my mask."Miles, watch over MJ for me. I'll be right back!"
"Wait, you don't want us to come with you?" Miles asks with his mask in his hand."No, stay here and watch over MJ. Make sure nothing happens in here!" Just like that, I'm out the window and I'm swinging to the building.
When I get there, there's a whole bunch of people running out. I help some women get out from the doorway and I run inside to make sure nobody else is in there. The screaming I heard earlier is starting to happen again, and I can't believe what I'm seeing.
It's a man being choked by a big black monster looking thing. I've never seen anything like it in my entire life and it is extremely creepy."Hey! Hands off black glob!" I swing over to it and when it turns to look at me I instantly freak out!
"AHHH!" I scream and lose my motivation to attack it. I just stop my web from making me get any closer to it. It has the longest tongue in existence and it makes me want to throw up.
"Spidermannn. You're exactly what I've been waiting on." It says with the deepest voice. I get even more scared and I start swinging around the building. No surprise it starts to run after me as I swing. At least I got the thing to stop choking the innocent man.
As I'm swinging through the building, I start imagining the glob trying to make it's tongue stick out so it can get me. I'm grossed out as I keep thinking about it.
"COME TO VENOM!" It says with a really deep voice again. Is the name Venom? I guess so.
"You gotta come and get me Venom!" I scream back at Venom, regretting it within seconds. Venom looks like he can really eat something right now and I find it offensive that he's trying to make me a meal.
Just to get him off my back for the short run, I come upon a desk that's in the building and I shoot a web at it, swing it behind me, and it knocks Venom all the way to the end of the hallway. Right before he can even get up, I'm out of the building just like that.
Holy shit. Worst thing I've ever had to encounter being Spiderman. I stay up on the rooftop for awhile, being 100% sure Venom doesn't know where the hell I am, or where the hell I went.
When no sign of him is present, I swing back to Avengers Tower and I go to MJ who looks terrified.
"MJ, are you okay?" I check her arms and her face to make sure he wasn't trying to go after my girl or anything."Yes, I'm okay. Are you?" She places both of her hands on my face.
"Yes, I'm okay. I just didn't do everything I was suppose to. The fire is still going on." I turn around and see firefighters are outside the building putting the fire out and carrying the man that Venom was choking outside. Shit, I didn't do what I was suppose to do.
I go over to a chair and I put my forearms on my knees, feeling defeated. How could I just flee like that and let all of those people down? I take my mask off and realize that I was breathing heavier than I thought.
When I wear the mask my breathing sounds like it's been muffled. My right hand is going through my hair and I feel like I want to pull it out because of how angry I am.
"I'm gonna leave you two alone." I hear Miles say and his footsteps indicate that he's walking out of the room. MJ gets on her knees and makes me look up at her.
"Peter, don't beat yourself up over this. Everything is fine now."
"Is it?" I ask her and she looks at me confused."There's an entire monster in our universe now. His name is Venom and he is terrifying. I let that into our universe. I let him choke a man in there and I didn't even get him out. What the hell is wrong with me?"
"Nothing is wrong with you. You're just stressed out about what's going on Peter and nobody is blaming you for any of this. You are not the one who did this to the universe. None of this is your fault." I grab her wrist and I put her hand closer to my face so I can kiss it.
I see a smirk coming on her face and she puts her head on mine."If you're willing to stay here and work on the machine, I'll stay here with you to make you feel better." She says to me as our heads are still touching.
It's probably the best thing I've heard all day.
I can't let anything happen to MJ. Not like I did with the man who was about to die tonight.
The images are still making me sick.