Peter saw that his house was empty and knew May was still supposed to work and his sisters are still out. Most likely making their way home. Wanda's pain wince caused him to turn and see her holding her wrist.
"You okay?" Peter asked her.
"Yeah. As soon as Cressida's powers wear off me, I'll be able to heal." Wanda promises and looks around his home. "You have a nice place."
"Thanks. But this isn't technically mine." Peter informed her. "It's-"
That's when his senses went off and he turned to see May running inside and sighed in relief before running over to embrace Peter. "Oh, god! I saw the attack on the news! Are you okay?"
"I'm fine. I got away when I could." Peter assured her and embraced her back. "But I got separated from the others."
"Don't worry. I got the call from Teresa, they're okay. They were worried about you, though." May informed him. "But what happened to you?"
"I got separated when I saw someone needing help," Peter said as he looked to Wanda, only now allowing May to realize she was there.
Wanda got up from the couch and walked over as she held her non-injured arm out to May. "Hello, Mrs. Parker, I'm Wanda. Your son saved me during a fight that broke out at the mall."
"Oh, no, she's not my mom." Peter quickly corrected her.
"No, he's not my son." May also corrected. "I'm his aunt."
"Oh, my apologies." Wanda apologizes to them and saw a shadow figure approaching the door and getting ready to fight, thinking Cressida might've followed them when the door opened and Teresa came in, carrying Peni in.
"Oh, thank god!" Teresa cried as she ran over and dropped Peni down before hugging Peter, followed by her smacking him. "What is wrong with you?! I was worried sick!"
"Sorry. I was trying to get out, but I saw someone else was hurt when I was escaping." Peter said and gestured to Wanda, getting Teresa to look her over and noticing her face seemed similar. "Wanda, this is my sister Teresa and Peni."
"Hi." Wanda greeted his sister. "I was caught in the middle of the fight when your brother saved me."
"Really?" Teresa asked and looked over to Peter. "At least you had a good reason. I thought you were sneaking back to get pictures for the Bugle."
"Even I wouldn't do something that stupid. Though Jameson isn't gonna be happy about it." Peter commented.
"Well, thank you for helping me and keeping me safe," Wanda told the family but also knew she needed to get out there and find Avenger X. "But I should be getting home."
"Want me to walk you there?" Peter asked, seeing it would be a good excuse to get out to help her. "It's getting late."
"Sure, I suppose," Wanda said, seeing he needed an excuse to get out of the house. "I live pretty far, and I don't think I can catch a streetcar."
"I'll be back late, May," Peter said as he pecked her cheek and scuffed Peni's hair. "You need to get to sleep before I get back, lady."
"I have to get to the party, anyway," Teresa said and looked to May. "Honey and Gogo are coming by with Wasabi's car."
"Okay," May said and gestured to the two. "You better be back before it gets too late."
"We will." Teresa and Peter reply at the same time. "Jinx!"
The two then walked their separate ways as Teresa went to change in her costume while Peter and Wanda made their way out. As they walked down the street, Teresa looked out the window and wondered where she had seen Wanda before. And for the matter, she overheard some officers saying that Spider-Man showed up to stabilize the situation. Right after Peter vanished from her eye of sight.
Looking across the hall at Peter's room, she wonders what he's always working on in there. He claims it's working on the arms in Otto's labs, but she doesn't see him come home with more than his bag. Never brought home any equipment with him.
Speaking of which, she rarely sees him even make it home and somehow always ends up in his bedroom. Exhausted and tired from taking photos is always his excuse, which always confused her. Something was going on, and she definitely needed to look into it later. She knew there was no way Peter was into anything illegal as that's not who he is. Whatever it is, she's sure he has a good reason to keep it, but she can't help but worry.
As they kept on making their way down the street, Peter and Wanda turned down a dark alley. Wanda waved her hand and red mist came off her figure and revealed that she can morph her suit on her at will.
Peter was shocked as he looked over her suit and even her crown was back on her head. "Okay, now I'm jealous."
Wanda chuckled and gestured to his clothes. "So... how do you usually change into your suit?"
"I... change," Peter answered, not having any powers like her. "It's not like I create a web cocoon or something and burst out in my suit."
Wanda was surprised to hear this as all the people she hangs with, you know, Earth's Mightiest Heroes, figured out ways to change quickly into their suits. Tony upgraded his suits, Steve lives in his suit, Bruce...doesn't change, Clint retired, and Natasha doesn't exactly have a suit.
"Well...do whatever you have to do," Wanda said and gestured for him to change and turned away. "Just hurry, I think I know how to find her."
"Really? How?" Peter asked as he went behind a dumpster and starts to change.
"My powers," Wanda said and waved a small bit of red mist. "I can tap and channel energies from other dimensions as well as mystical and non-mystical entities. By mimicking my powers, she allowed me to locate her."
"Wow. Smart." Peter complimented as he came out of the dumpster corner and was still stuck with the costume Spider-Man as his suit still needs to be washed. He needed to get that done after everyone went to bed tonight. "But what about containment?"
"That's a little trickier," Wanda admitted. "We don't have a way to stop her."
"Well, let's think it through," Peter said as they have the locate her down, they just need to find a way to suppress her powers long enough to stop her. "She absorbs the life force of anyone she touches. If they're super, that means their powers."
"Right. Meaning that we can't touch her." Wanda confirmed.
Peter thought of it for a moment and then got an idea. "Wait. At my school, one of my teachers, Dr. Connors, has been working on genetically modified electric eels."
Wanda looked confused after hearing that and starts to question why. "Okay. Why?"
"A pure, clean energy experiment," Peter explains it to her and Wanda understands now. "The containers are built to withstand extreme energy and keep it inside."
"So, if she does absorb the energy, the container will keep her contained." Wanda understood his plan and was amazed at how quickly he came up with it. "All we need to do is get her to your school."
"Yep." Peter saw that as another problem they would have to overcome. "What does she want?"
"To be the most powerful," Wanda answered and thought of something she would love to chase and looked down to her fingers. "I have an idea, but I need to visit your labs first."
Lian was working on the DNA experiments that Miles Warren asked her to look into. Granted, she was supposed to do it in the morning, and he told her to take the night off. But she didn't really have anything else to do as she wasn't planning on going to the party.
Miles asked her to look into the eels Connors was working on, seeing if their DNA can be transported to human DNA to help with Connors' regenerative powers.
Max Dillon opened the doors as she was working, expecting to see it empty, and came across Lian in the middle of the computers. "Oh, hey. Thought you would've gone home for the night."
"Go home and sit alone and go mad or at least be here and try to get something done?" Lian asked, seeing one as the obvious choice.
"Or you could go to that party that's going on," Max commented, gesturing to the windows and seeing the party has started. "You're young. Should enjoy it while you can. Otherwise, you'll grow old and lonely. And weird."
"You're not weird, Max," Lian told him with a smile.
"What if Peter was there?" Max asked, immediately getting Lian's attention as to how he could know. "Come on, kid. Every time I see you, you're either knee-deep in a computer or eyeing him from afar"
Lian saw she wasn't as subtle as she thought she was and sighed. "Okay, yeah. But I doubt he feels the same."
"Ever asked him?" Max asked her.
Lian sighed and looked out to the party and wondered if there was any harm in going, maybe seeing if Peter was there. "No. Maybe it's time I do."
"Please, I beg you." Max pleaded with her. "I can't take the two of you like this anymore."
Lian closed her work and sighed. "Thanks, Max."
"Don't mention it," Max said as the two left the labs.
Just as they did, Peter landed in the middle of the room, unaware of the conversation that went down between his friend and the janitor.
"Okay, Peter. Don't screw this up." Peter whispered to himself and got to work after Wanda did whatever she said she was going to do.
Cressida was strolling through the bank and was using Wanda's powers to control them all into committing the crimes themselves. She absorbed some lives of the few people who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
As they did what Avenger X demanded of them, Wanda finally found her and started to use her full power, something she did her best to avoid in the past encounters. But for their plan to work, Cressida must feel the need and want to absorb her powers.
Wanda sent a giant blast of energy that knocked her flying across the floor. Cressida got back up and saw Wanda there, with another blast ready to go. Avenger X got back up on her feet and just absorbed the powers from the blast she had just sent out.
"You just never learn, do you?" Cressida questions as she grows more powerful, feeling the taste of Wanda's true power.
"What can I say?" Wanda said, seeing the people doing her deeds and secretly snapped them out of the trance. "I just came back to finish what I started."
Cressida rolled her eyes, pulled a car, and sent it flying towards Wanda. But she managed to dodge it by snapping her fingers and vanishing. She starts to look and tries to locate Wanda when Wanda sends the car she tossed and tried to crush Cressida.
Cressida shielded herself from the attack with Wanda's power and she started to like how powerful she had become. "That power...I want more!"
Wanda revealed herself on top of the nearby building, allowing Cressida to see her and begin to chase her.
Peter worked on the containment tank and saw the flashes of red coming through the streets towards the building. His time was up. Working as fast as he could on the coding to keep Cressida alive whilst not contaminating the containment so that they could keep her contained.
Wanda flew off towards the school and tried to get Cressida towards the labs when she was smacked out of the sky by Cressida and fell. She falls and cushions herself by shielding her fall and getting back up.
Cressida then sent a blast at Wanda, causing her to react by creating a shield to protect herself. As she did, that allowed Cressida to absorb the energy she was using to conjure the shield and suck more of her life.
Wanda looked down and saw her hands were becoming black and corroding. She had to work fast, otherwise, she would die.
"You want my power?" Wanda asks her.
"Yes!" Cressida cried, hungry for more of her power.
"Then come get it!" Wanda dared and shot herself off the ground and into the school.
Wanda raced down the halls and kept her pace to allow Cressida to chase after her. Making it to the labs, she saw the now empty container and Peter standing in the middle of the room.
"Is it ready?" Wanda asks him.
"Ready as it'll ever be," Peter supposed as he had just finished his work.
"Good. Because she's here." Wanda warned him when a door blasted open, and Peter leaped out of the way to hide for his opening and Wanda was ready to fight.
"More! I want more!" Cressida cried, drunk off of Wanda's power.
"Then take it!" Wanda cried and shot more beams at Cressida as she just absorbed it for the power.
Wanda started to feel weaker the more she sent off blasts off towards her. She prayed she did this correctly and Cressida started to grow more and more powerful,
"There's more! I want it all!" Cressida cried as she then used Wanda's powers to absorb all of her energy out of her.
Wanda fell from loss of energy and slowly started to die when Peter caught her. "You okay?"
"No..." Wanda admitted.
"Thanks for the power," Cressida said, feeling the power she had been given. She then waved her hands over to Wanda, only for her hands to lose their power. "What?"
Wanda smiled as she started to regain her power and strength as Cressida grew more confused. Wanda then moved some equipment to reveal ruins scribbled on the walls of the room.
"These ruins are here so that only the witch that casts them may use her magic," Wanda informed the confused girl.
"What?" Cressida asked, realizing she had been led into a trap.
"That also means you have no connection to any more power to stop this," Wanda said as she used her powers to toss Cressida into the container and snapped her fingers, causing Cressida to vanish and disappear. "Finally."
"Where did she go?" Peter wonders.
"Avengers Tower, where she will be processed," Wanda answered and looked over to Peter. "Thanks for your help. I could have never been able to get through this without you. Thanks."
"Don't mention it," Peter said as he removed his mask just as they made their way out of the halls and saw there was barely any sign they were even there. "It was nice, having a partner."
"Yeah, it was." Wanda agreed just when a light shined on them.
Acting quickly, Peter got ready to fight when he saw that it was his friends here for the party.
"Uh, oh," Peter said, seeing he was unmasked but then looked to see Wanda shifted her suit to look more homemade. "What are you doing?"
"Just follow my lead," Wanda whispered as the kids noticed them.
"Peter?" Teresa asked, surprised to see her brother here, and stepped out of the car to show her costume of Batgirl.
"Hey, Peter! You came!" Tadashi was thrilled to say, dressed as Captain America.
"Didn't think you'd come!" Honey Lemon said, dressed as a female version of Spider-Man.
Peter looked to Wanda and saw if he wasn't wearing his real Spider-Man suit, he could pull it off as a costume. Seems that was what Wanda was doing with the less professional version of her suit and decided to play along.
"Yeah, I wasn't really planning on coming, but Wanda is a big fan of Halloween and parties. So, I thought I might as well bring her over and come myself." Peter shrugged, wondering where the others were. "Everyone else already here?"
"Yeah, they showed up early." Gogo's voice was called and got Peter's attention when he realized she was currently dressed as Black Cat. A...old friend of his.
That means a high school relationship that had gone wrong.
"Black Cat? Not the choice I would've expected you to go with." Peter commented on his friend, trying not to eye her in the costume.
"It was the price to losing a bet." Gogo sighed.
"What bet?" Peter asked, unclear as to what she did or didn't do.
"Don't ask." Gogo sighed and they all looked to Wanda, unclear what she is. "And what did you come as?"
"I'm a Sokovian fortune teller," Wanda explains with a smile.
Peter looked down at her outfit and wondered if that was a real profession and decided to let it go. "Well, we going or not?"
"Yeah, come on," Tadashi said and led the group towards the party.
Teresa stayed back a little and eyed her brother's suit and noticed it was a little dirty in a few areas, and then noticed the small devices connected to his wrists and wondered what those are for.
"So, what are you gonna do now?" Peter asked Wanda in a whisper tone.
"Well, the bad guy is captured, I won't be expected back until the morning." Wanda recapped everything. "I say I earned the night off. You know, the Avengers could use a guy like you."
"Thanks, but no thanks. This city needs me." Peter told her as the two of them made it to the party.
What Peter missed was that the eel's tank that he took over was from Otto's labs, meaning he needed to work on the power supply in the labs. Going to the generators, he started to work on starting them back up with his four mechanical arms that he worked on.
That's when suddenly a green hand activated the power supply, causing Otto to freak out and try to escape. But as he tried to, the power supply short circuits and blasts Otto, attaching the arms to his spine to the point they melt.
Lian made it to the labs of Dr. Warren and placed her tablet down when she looked and noticed a hallway that was never there in the past. She wondered what was down there and followed the halls and came across what seemed to be another lab inside of the school.
Lian was about to sneak out when she saw a video playing. She sneaked over and made sure nobody was around before playing the video to see Miles Warren with a vial of some green substance.
"I have spent my life trying to create a world without weakness, without outcasts." Miles narrates and Lian was confused as to what's happening. "I sought to create a stronger human being, but there is no such thing. Humans are weak, insignificant creatures. Why be human at all when we can be something more? Faster. Stronger. Smarter. This is my gift to you, humanity. You will see it."
He then injected himself with the substance, and Lian watched as he screamed in pain and Lian watched as he turned into a gigantic legged and armed creature with pointy ears and green hair all over his skin. As soon as he revealed his true form, he laughed manically and smacked the camera.
Lian became afraid of Warren and started to back away when she smacked into something and looked to see Jackal looking down at her with a giant grin.
"Find anything?" Warren asked her.
Lian went to scream but was stopped by Jackal as he swung his hand down with his long claw nails and silenced her.
(A/N) Okay...she won the poll in a landslide. Who won? I'll let you discover yourselves when I put them together. I don't want everyone rushing to say who they would prefer. I am okay with both ships; (I don't have anything against any of the characters) that's why I asked you all who it should be to help me out. I gave control to you, the readers, to decide for me, and now I have an answer.
