Ch 7
Beck's crew was watching a hologram of Mysterio fighting an Elemental.
"You took everything from me. This is for my family! Aargh! AAAAARGH!"
"Pause. Pause."
"Sorry."
"Yeah, can you just fast-forward to the end?"
"Yep. Stand by."
"All right, fly, fly, fly, zap, zap, zap. Pause. I'm not in love with this choreography, but it'll do. Kill image. De-cloak drones. All right, weapons."
"You want to weaponize?"
"Yep."
"Weapons only. Stand by."
The drones turned on their machine guns and shot the pillars.
"Nice. Stop. Something. I don't know what it is. It's something Just dou- You know what? Double the damage and then run it again."
"Yeah- you want me to double it up?"
"Yeah."
"All right. Cover your ears."
Mysterio flew around shooting the Elemental until he blew it up with a giant laser.
"That is good! That's good. We on schedule?"
"Oh, yeah. Uploading software hack to EDITH network. With her drones, we'll create an event big enough to cover an entire city."
"All right, well done. Make sure every drone is weapons-hot. We need maximum damage."
"That is gonna cause a lot of casualties." Gutes said.
"Oh, yeah. More casualties, more coverage. I gotta cut through the static. London is a beautiful city, and it will suffer, but they can rebuild. I mean, if I'm a new hero, I need to save the world from an Avengers-level threat."
The Mysterio suit decended over Beck like a second skin.
"But when its new savior descends, all those casualties will be forgotten."
Then Mysterio's hand was flickering on and off.
"What's going on with my hand? Why is that happening?" Beck asked.
"Oh, one of the drones that came back from the plaza was missing a projector. It's fine." William replied.
"Wait, and you're... You're telling me this now?"
"It's- it's one drone. The image will be perfect, I promise.
"That projector is evidence. It's going to tell people what we're doing and how we're doing it. I am trying to fool 7 billion people here, including Nick Fury, who happens to be the most paranoid AND most dangerous person on the planet. If he catches on before I've killed him, he will put a bullet in my head. And nobody wants a bullet in their head, right? Right?"
A drone went up to William.
"William, can you look at me? Pull up EDITH."
He did.
"Hello, Quentin."
"Hi, honey. I need a level-five search, full-resource protocol for this device."
"Magnifying."
"There. Search everything going in and out of that building."
"Located."
Beck saw Peter and MJ discovering the projector.
"Shit. You know, William, one day, after I've had to kill Peter Parker because of this, I hope you remember that his blood is on your hands!"
