answers to reviewers questions or statements:
Harbinger of Kaos: Think origin of the Batman who Laughs bad, it's gonna be a shit show once we reach the apex of Peter's broken sanity.
Omni-Creator Kami of Anime: Things are gonna get much darker. Never cared much for Gamer fics so doubt I'll make one anytime soon.
gontheone: No I have no plans for White Canary and considering I work with Marines, no it would not be a good match. Spidey smart, Marines very much less so.
RubixJr: Yes Domino will be in this story.
CRUDEN: Not too big a fan of the Inheritance series so I doubt it.
pokeriks18: It's the Dark Suit from the Spider-man PS4 game though it'll get a few upgrades later from Talia's people and Peter's own additions.
Dopeenight: We'll get an idea of what Peter did try to save his sanity before he eventually ended up isolated in the middle of the woods with an obvious death wish.
Nomad98: His powerset is a blend of the two.
Darkjokester: It's possible.
DeimosVulcan12: Harley will make an appearance but if your wondering if she'll be in the harem, than no, she won't be. She's staying with her 'Mista J' in this one. I'm puling from mostly the New 52/Rebirth/Post-Rebirth eras with a bit of Pre-New 52, the Arkham Games, DC Animated Movie Universe and some CW elements. If you mean will Peter cross paths with a certain Hellblazer than hell yes he will! I've entertained the idea of a Spider-man and God of War crossover but haven't found a real reason to make one. Maybe after the fifth game comes out... eventually... hopefully.
spiderfan: Sounds interesting.
Fox Boss: With what I have planned, the Body Doubles can work, same with the likes of Lady Bullseye.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel or DC characters seen, mentioned or used.
When Peter was first liberated from the Pit and brought to the League of Shadows main compound all those years ago, one off the first places he visited was Ra's al Ghul's personal library. In it Peter had found more books than he thought existed in the whole world and spent months of his recovery in there, reading, studying.
One of his favorite stories involved the ancient Greek king, Sisyphus, who was damned by the Gods to push a large boulder up a hill only for it to roll back there when he neared the summit, forcing him to start all over again. Peter liked the story because it perfectly illustrated the irony that was his life to the point that it was almost hilarious in certain circles. He also liked the story because the underline theme of it was that no matter how hard or how long Sisyphus labored, he'll never be able to get the boulder to the top of the summit... like how Peter will never get Talia to actually listen to him for a change.
"I think you should let me cover your feet Talia" Peter said for what he thought was the twelfth time in the last hour of wondering through the dark woods, briefly illuminated by streaks of lightning overhead followed by nearly eardrum shattering cracks of thunder.
"I'm fine Peter" Talia said in a voice that was strained with the last of her patience "I walked for over a week through a desert and then a mountain range in my bare feet until they bleed, I can walk another several miles in the woods-"
"Until you bleed?" Peter interrupted with a scowl before he reached out and grabbed Talia by the shoulder, forcing her to stop and glare at him while he pointed towards her feet "Like they are now?"
Talia frowned at this before she followed Peter's outstretched hand and saw that her feet were indeed starting to bleed from the rough terrain she'd been traveling across for hours now.
"Oh..." Talia blinked, surprised that she wasn't in as much pain as she should be... in fact, she couldn't feel anything from the ankles down.
"Yeah... oh" Peter snorted as he kneeled down and took one of his friend's feet into his hands to better examine it. He winced at the blood that was dripping from a few deep looking cuts along the ball and arch of Talia's foot "Jesus, you look like you've been walking over a field of glass"
"Wouldn't be the first time" Talia said with a sigh of frustration as she turned to pull her foot back but found Peter's grip unyielding "Give me back my foot!"
"Hold still" Peter said as he raised his other hand and used his index and middle finger to press down on a small pad in the palm of his gloves that was connected to his web shooters.
Talia made a face as she saw and felt her foot covered in a thick coating of webbing, it felt like her foot was being wrapped up in silk with glue mixed into it. She hissed out in pain as the fluid seeped into the various cuts on her foot and began to sting. Peter released Talia's foot and moved to grab the other and repeat his actions all the while the Demon's daughter tried to distract herself from the stinging pain her feet were now in.
It was like a thousand fire ants were biting at her.
"What the hell is your web fluid made of?" Talia asked with a wince as she settled her weight back on both her feet.
"It's just the chemicals that I use to keep the webbing preserved reacting to contact with your skin and some of the open wounds you have" Peter revealed with a shrug.
"Well it feels like it's made with acid" Talia said as she looked down at her makeshift shoes.
"Oh fuck..." Peter said with evident horror in his tone as he looked down at his web shooter and opened it to examine the capsule he had in it before he let out a gasp of horror "Oh shit, that was the acidic webbing!"
"WHAT?!" Talia said with eyes widening in horror before they narrowed in anger as Peter broke out into a fit of laughter.
"HA, got'cha!" Peter snickered at the scowling woman.
"That's not funny" Talia hissed as she smacked the side of Peter's head.
"I think it-" Peter began before his body tensed for a moment.
Talia didn't need to ask to know what was wrong, Darrk's hunters had caught up to them. Without a word Peter suddenly scooped Talia up into his arms and leaped up to a tree branch as several gunshots echoed through the air before the ground that Peter and Talia were just standing on was torn apart by high velocity rounds. Talia's eyes narrowed as she searched the forest for any signs of Darrk's people while Peter adjusted his grip on Talia as he weaved through the thin branches, his landings and take off's on each tree limb barely rustling the leaves and pine needles they had attached to their ends.
'Anime ninja have noting on me' Peter thought before he noticed the less than pleased look on Talia's face "What?"
"You are not carrying me all the way to the airstrip like this" she huffed before she nodded towards the ground "Put me down"
Peter was about to voice his concerns about doing just than when his spider-sense went off and he suddenly dropped several meters as the tree he just landed next to suddenly explored into a shower of wood chippings and leaves. One of the pieces of wood managed to make it's mark in Peter's shoulder, causing him to very nearly drop Talia before he placed his feet under himself and landed with a slight bend of the knees. The sudden stop causing a few cracks to emanate from his legs, mainly around the knees, before he was breaking out into a run as more gun shots echoed through the woods and Peter felt and heard bullets shooting past him and either hitting the ground or some of the foliage around him.
"Find cover!" Talia shouted as she reluctantly hung on to Peter.
"Oh I thought I'd just stay out in the open, make things interesting" Peter said, annoyed more than frustrated by the pain in his shoulder where the piece of wood that had stabbed him was grinding against his flesh and bone.
Talia let out a frustrated yell as Peter's spider-sense went off again, this time more strongly than before. Peer was just in the middle of wondering that the hell Talia's would be killers were gonna hit him with next before he realized that his spider-sense wasn't going off because of them... but rather because of the five foot seven beauty in his arms.
"I'm not sorry for this" Talia hissed before she suddenly jabbed two fingers into the side of Peter's head, right above where his eye was.
The sudden pain and brief black spots caused him to stumble and fall tot he ground where Talia used their momentum to drag them both behind a log of what was once some sort of pine tree just as several bullets raced by and slammed into a tree a few meters farther down.
"...What the fuck?" Peter groaned as he pulled himself up into a sitting position and rubbed the side of his head before he shot a glare at Talia "No seriously, what the actual fuck?!"
"If I hadn't pulled us out of the line of fire, you'd have several bullets in your spine" Talia glared at Peter as she kept her head low along with her voice "And before you can use your spider-sense as a defense, Breacher's shots having been missing on purpose. He was studying your reactions to his shots, allowing him to properly calculate the best time to fire and where to fire"
"What is he some kind of telepath, clairvoyant kind of guy?" Peter asked with a frown.
For this guy to manage a actual hit on Peter, he'd have to be a better shot than the likes of Deadshot to come even close. While Peter may not be fast like the Flash or Superman are, his reflexes, notable superhuman speed and spider-sense made it next to impossible to manage a shot on him with a gun unless it was something fired from a rail gun.
Talia shook her head at this "No, he simply has a multi-million dollar targeting system built into a helmet he likes to wear"
"Okay, so he's some kind of tech savvy guy?" Peter asked with a huff before he winced at the stinging pain his shoulder was still in.
"Breacher is a man that likes to cause lots of explosions and death with lots of weapons with the use of advance technology" Talia said as she risked a brief glance over the log before she ducked as several rounds flew overhead, one nearly making it's new home into her skull "And it is likely that Bloodvessel is with him. They tend to operate together"
"What's his story?" Peter said as he pulled the wooden splinter the length of his middle finger out of his shoulder and tossed it aside "Aside from having the most Saturday morning cartoon name that I've ever heard a guy in our line of work can get"
"He's... well he's sentient blood" Talia revealed with a troubled look on her face "His 'body' is simply an advance weaponized construct that he can control. Meaning he can't feel pain, tire, or be truly killed"
Talia watched as Peter's red lenses seemed to widen at the information, she could practically see the look of disbelief he was wearing under that mask.
"What the hell has the League of Shadows been up to since I was booted?" he asked.
Peter knew that Ra's had been funding experiments to make the 'perfect super assassin', he was one of said experiments, but what Talia just described was as outlandish as it could get in this line of work. Like this was outright some kind of Sci-Fi crap he was dealing with.
"Admittedly, their both creations of mine" Talia said with some hesitance "They were to be part of my own personal guard. Not as close to me as Psylocke, Widow, Cheshire and Silencer are, but people I can rely on to see to it that my will is done"
Peter scowled at this "Well your supposed super soldiers suck at their jobs"
"Thank you Peter, the obvious had escaped me" Talia snapped with annoyance as she looked down at her web covered feet before reaching out and grabbing hold of them.
"What are you-" Peter began before Talia began to rip away the webbing, hissing in pain as she did so and causing some of the scars on her feet to worsen as some were split open even more.
If Talia simply told Peter she wanted them off and waited several seconds, he could've just pulled out the last bit of his formula compound breaker and render the whole process much more painless...
...
Few things could ever disappoint the man that had since become Bloodvessel.
After having your very being reduced to a few pints of blood that was still capable of conscious thought and thrown into a robotic body that was covered in small 'veins' for his blood to flow through, there was very little that could appeal or bother the assassin unlike when he was still considered human. But after spending the past several hours hunting down his former mistress, Talia al Ghul, Bloodvessel could safely say that he was ashamed to have ever admired the soon to be late daughter of the already dead Ra's al Ghul.
"Are you certain she went this way Bloodvessel?" Breacher, Bloodvessel's partner for this mission, spoke from behind the larger 'man' as he held a large custom rifle of some sort in his hands.
His body was covered in blue armor that was made of some sort of titanium mixture that Bloodvessel couldn't even begin to bother trying to understand and made the gun tottering assassin look even bigger than he actually was. Breacher's head was covered from the nose up in a helmet that was outfitted with the latest sensors and targeting programs that gave the man an accuracy on par with the likes of Deadshot and Deathstroke.
"I'm certain" Bloodvessel said as he kneeled on to the ground and studied another small patch of blood in the shape of a footprint on the ground that he's long since identified as Talia al Ghul's "Dumb bitch isn't wearing shoes. She's left a trail leading right to her..."
"Odd she'd make such a rookie mistake" Breacher said as he scanned the dark woods around him and Bloodvessel.
"I doubt she knew we or more specifically I would be sent after her" Bloodvessel claimed as he ran a hand over the small bloodied print "She probably assumed that Cain would send others to take care of her"
Breacher hummed at this before he froze as he picked something up moving through the trees a few meters ahead of him. He raised his rifle and switched on the light it held and shined it through the trees and bushes while Bloodvessel slowly stood and stared straight ahead.
"She's close" the sentient blood claimed as he used his body's advance sensors to track the faint blood particles in the air that Talia left.
"I think I see her friend moving through the trees" Breacher nodded in the direction he was looking "Can't say or certain who it is, but it might be that Peter fellow Darrk mentioned"
"Deal with him, the Demon's daughter is mine" Bloodvessel said as he began to follow the trial that his former mistress had left, unsheathing a large serrated blade from a hidden compartment in his left hand's wrist.
Breacher nodded as he shouldered his rifle and began to slowly enter the tree line, his finger on the trigger and his senses on high alert. Neither man barely made it four steps before a black figure suddenly shot out of the trees from above and slammed into Bloodvessel's form, sending both of them tumbling into the brush. Breacher turned to follow before a smaller figure fell down on to his shoulders and wrapped their legs around his neck. Thankfully the armored collar around Breacher's neck prevented whoever it was from trying to strangle him but this did little to deter his attacker from sending a flurry of punches into his exposed jaw.
Breacher growled as he reached up and grabbed one of his attacker's legs and tore the person off and threw them to the ground. Even before he laid eyes on his attacker, he knew it was Talia al Ghul. She glared up at him with a scowl that could've given the late Ra's al Ghul pause as she slowly climbed back to her feet.
"Heh, found ya" Breacher snorted as he raised his rifle up with one hand and fired off a shot.
Talia was already moving before the last syllable left the man's mouth and was thus just barely able to evade the high powered round shot at her. Breacher broke out into a fit of laughter as he kept firing off rounds at Talia's retreating form, he could easily hit her at this range even without his targeting systems, but where was the fun in that?
"That's right little bitch, run, run, run as fast as you van! Daddy isn't here to save you anymore!" Breacher yelled as he shot at Talia's feet, sending bits of dirt into the air.
Suddenly Talia vanished into the darkness, causing Breacher to frown as he switched his helm's visor to infrared. Aside from a few small animals scurrying away from his gunfire, there wasn't any signs of another major heat source. He could hear Bloodvesseng with whoever it was that attacked him fighting a few dozen meters away but he was unable to tell who exactly was winning. Based on the enraged shouts and curses coming from Bloodvessel, Breacher was willing to bet it wasn't him.
"So whose that friend of yours giving Bloodvessel so much trouble?" Breacher asked as he scanned his surroundings, glancing up at the branches above him to make sure that Talia wasn't trying to get the drop on him again "That this Peter guy that Cain mentioned?"
He received no response and honestly he wasn't really expecting one, but he's learned that if he keeps talking he may give the impression that he's lowering his guard and thus possibly provoking his opponent to launch a premature attack upon himself.
"It is him isn't?" Breacher said with a chuckle as he peeked behind a tree and saw evidence that Talia was just behind it, part of the tree's truck was still warm from where she laid against it "The man that was booted from the League of Shadows for being worthless by the great Ra's al Ghul himself"
"He's worth more than you will ever be" Talia hissed in a tone that made ice seem scolding hot in comparison from the darkness around him.
"I doubt that very much..." Breacher said as he scanned for sign of Talia's body heat "A worthless animal that your father took pity on because he had enough sense to protect his betters like a good dog-"
Suddenly a figure darted from behind a tree to Breacher's right and slammed into him with a surprising amount of force. Breacher tried to regain his footing as he turned to grab Talia but the slim beauty was able to easily avoid Breacher's attempts to grab her as she made her way around the large bulky man and grabbed one of his arms at the elbow. Breacher only had a second to realize what Talia had in mind before she suddenly pulled the arm back straight and sent her own elbow right into his, causing a muffled 'crack' to be heard before pain raced up and down Bracher's arm.
"GAAAHHH! You fucking bitch!" Breacher howled in pain as he shoved Talia back, causing her to drop his arm and leave it to hang uselessly by his side.
Breacher growled at Talia as he raised his still working arm, which coincidently still held his rifle, and aimed it right at Talia's head before he noticed the smirk on her face. He frowned at this before he noticed that his rifle had a small clump of dirt on it before a flash of lighting overhead briefly illuminated it and his helm's sensors scanned the clump's contents.
It was Semtex.
"Son of a bi-" Breacher threw the weapon away and took several steps to draw his side arm before the Semtex suddenly exploded, blanketing his body with shrapnel from his rifle before a stray root caused the man to trip and fall on to his back.
Talia couldn't help but feel a twinge of pity as she stared at Breacher as the man struggled to climb back to his feet. While his armor had protected him from the explosion, and from most forms of ammunition barring something like a .50 or higher, it offered little in terms of maneuverability. Seeing the man struggling on his back reminded Talia of a turtle on it's back as she slowly approached the man, stopping only for a moment to pick something up off the ground before she slammed her foot down on Breacher's chest, pinning him to the ground.
"Such a pity Breacher..." Talia said as she stared at the man with a cold detached look in her eyes "You were one of my favorites"
"But not as favored as much as your worthless dog!" Breacher snarled with narrowed eyes, he knew he was a dead man, but that didn't mean he was going to go quietly "Tell me Talia, what did you offer him in return for his services? Money? A chance to lead the League? Or did you offer him your cunt-"
"You talk too much" Talia growled before she shoved the pinecone she picked up off the ground into Breacher's mouth, causing the man to let out a choked sound as he tried to reach up with his one good arm and pull it out.
Talia responded by taking her foot off Breacher's chest and slammed it down on the man's other arm, right where the elbow laid, with all the force she could muster. Her reward was another muffled 'crack' followed by a muffled scream of pain from Breacher as Talia continued to keep forcing the cone into his mouth, cutting his lips and tongue and causing blood to begin leaking from his mouth while she reached up under the man's helmet and covered his nose while more and more of the pinecone was jammed down his throat.
...
"Hold still you worthless little pest!" Bloodvessel shouted in rage as he tore a sizable chunk of rock that was half buried in the ground and threw it at Peter.
Peter dodged it easily enough, using a combination of his webs and inhuman agility to avoid being crushed by the dog sized rock thrown at him.
"Worthless?" Peter said as he landed behind Bloodvessel before he leaped back up into the trees as the man turned to face him "I'll have you know that I'm worth at least a dollar ninety-nine before tax!"
Bloodvessel let out a snarl as he scanned the treetops for signs of Peter before he was suddenly hit in the back by both of Peer's feet connecting with his body's spinal column. Instead of bone breaking, muscle tearing and blood vessel rupturing, Peter was rewarded with the sound of metal buckling under the force of his impact. Bloodvessel stumbled forward while Peter remained stuck to the man's back and quickly crawled up and began to land a series of powerful blows to his head that caused the metal there to begin denting and cracking.
"Man, and I thought Logan had a thick head" Peter joked as he continued to punch Bloodvessel's re-enforced cranium before he kicked off the man, sending him flying into a tree while he landed in a crouch.
So far, Peter was less than impressed with this Bloodveseel, in fact he felt a little insulted with how easy this fight was going for him. True, the fact the man's body wasn't made of flesh and bone and incapable of feeling pain more or less dragged the fight on longer than what it should've been, but Peter was expecting a lot more from a guy that's apparently living blood.
"So Bloodvessel, I'm told your sentient blood" Peter said as he watched said assassin climb back to his feet.
"W-W-What's... i-i-it... t-to... youuuuuu...?" Bloodvessel's voice sounded distorted and now that Peter could see his face, half of it was torn, exposing a metal and circuity underneath.
"Well I just thought that you being living blood would put up more of a fight" Peter shrugged as he watched Bloodvessel struggle to move as sparks began to erupt from his half beaten face "Like you can sense where I am because you feel my blood or some weird voodoo crap like that. Hell, maybe even control my blood like a freaking blood bender or emegre from your container as this big floating body of blood that can fill a lake or something. Like I'll even take you causing my blood pressure to spike at this point!"
If this Bloodvessel man really was nothing more than a metal construct with living blood running through it, Peter was going to demand a trade with Talia on assassins to fight. A guy that uses advance technology to help him shoot and is built like a tank has to be a better fight than what this man was offering him presently.
'Well I'm not hearing anymore gunfire from where Talia's at, so I'm probably asking a little much on that guy's front too' Peter thought with a snort.
"I... w-w-willll... k-k-ki-lll... y-youuuu" Bloodvessel said as he took several steps forward before he slumped to his knees as smoke began to rise from his back.
Peter sighed as he reached up and pinched the ridge of his nose "I swear words cannot describe how lame of a bad guy you are"
And he's met a man that called himself Stilt Man when he was going through Rio once...
A roar of rage caused Peter to look up and see Bloodvessel rushing towards him with his hands reaching out to seize Peter by the throat. The dark clad assassin simply swatted one of Bloodvessel's hands aside and seized the man by the neck and hoisted him into the air before slamming him back into the ground with enough force to create a small crater. Peter waited to see if the man would try to counter him before he let go of the assassin's 'body' and stared down at him with a bored look on his face.
"Well Bloodvessel, you've just been..." Peter began before he trailed off as he tried to think of something to say "Uh, give me a minute to find something witty to say. Sorry, it's usually easier for me to think of something, but your literally so lame that I'm drawing a blank. I mean your very existence is practically a joke so I'm not sure I can come up with anything to top that. Whoever made you had to be someone with one warped sense of humor"
Bloodvessel muttered something that could just barely be heard over the thunder overhead and the man's body slowly falling apart and failing from the trauma that Peter had inflicted on it.
"What was that buttercup?" Peter said as he leaned down next to Bloodvessel's head "I couldn't quite understand ya"
"W-W-Worthless... d-dog..." Bloodvessel whispered.
"Ah..." Peter said with a blink before he looked down at what was left of Bloodvessel's face before he pointed towards the red spider on his chest "I know that only one of your eyes seem to be working, but you are aware this this is a spider right? I mean if you called me bug, insect, that'd make sense. Well not really since a spider is neither but I think you get the idea-"
"Your... w-whore... w-w-will b-burn... f-f-r what sheeeee... d-did" Bloodvessel said as his body's vocalizer finally gave out and his words were replaced with static of some sort.
Peter's lenses narrowed at this, his hand briefly tightening into a fist before he took a deep breath and stood to leave "I'm just gonna pretend I didn't hear tha-"
"P-Peter..."
Peter froze at the sound of Talia's voice and slowly turned back to see her lying on the ground, her chest ripped open to reveal her still beating heart as blood leaked from her mouth and eyes while her arms and legs had been torn to literal shreds and her eyes were
"...Talia" Peter said as he stared down at the woman before he noticed that his hands were soaked with bloody and he could clearly taste the all to familiar coppery flavor of blood on his tongue.
She let out a pained cry that turned into a choke as her heart began to beat faster and faster as her eyes rolled into the back of her head.
"No, no, no, no, no, no!" Peter said as he kneeled down and tried to think of a way to stop the bleeding and cover up Talia's exposed torso before he felt a hand on his shoulder and he looked up to see a man with a slit throat and half rotted face staring down at him with a blank expression.
Ra's al Ghul...
"This is why I never wanted her near you boy..." the centuries old assassin said with a whisper as his eyes stared blankly down at Peter's own "Your an animal boy... what ever humanity you had in you, stayed in that Pit-"
"PRETTY RED! PRETTY RED! PRETTY RED! PRETTY BLODDY RED!"
"PETER, WE NEED TO GO, WE NEED TO GO RIGHT NOW- OH GOD, WHAT... WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER PETER?!"
"PRETTY RED! PRETTY RED! PRETTY RED! PRETTY BLODDY RED!"
"PRETTY RED! PRETTY RED! PRETTY RED! PRETTY BLODDY RED!"
"PRETTY RED! PRETTY RED! PRETTY RED! PRETTY BLODDY RED!"
"PRETTY RED! PRETTY RED! PRETTY RED! PRETTY BLODDY RED-"
BOOM!
Peter jumped at the sudden crack of thunder overhead and suddenly found himself crouched over Bloodvessel's body, staring down at what was left of the assassin's body. His head had been reduced to pieces of metal and blood, some of which was covering Peter's hands.
"Think it's too late to tell you that I haven't washed my hands in a few days?" Peter said quietly as he stood up from Bloodvessel's body and took several steps away from it as he tried to control his heartbeat.
It felt like the damned thing was about to burst from his chest cavity.
"Honestly, causing people to have heart attacks or blow them up from too much blood rushing through it would've been kind of awesome..." Peter said as he watched a series of sparks began to dance across Bloodvessel's muddied, damaged body before something within caught fire and a small flame emerged from the chest before it quickly spread across the rest of the body.
The urge to make a quip about blood boiling was on the tip of Peter's tongue but it died as it began to take shape in his mouth. With a tired sigh, Peter sat down on the ground before falling on to his back and stared up at the sky as the 'body' of Bloodvessel continued to burn and the first drops of rain began to fall as a bolt of lightning lit up the sky followed by a teeth rattling crack of thunder.
"Times like this I wish Ra's and Talia just left me in the damn Pit" Peter said to no one in particular as rain drops began to hit Peter's face.
"I'm glad to know that you've rather died down in that hole after all we've been through"
Peter turned to see Talia emerge from the shadows, her body covered in blood. He also noticed that Talia's top had been significantly damaged, exposing a perfectly sized and shaped olive colored tit to the cool air. He tried to pry his eyes away from the breast and focus on Talia's face, but... well killing people in the line of work tended to leave people, himself included... tense, for the lack of a better term.
'You know what, I'm just gonna outright admit it... killing people leaves me horny. There I said it, happy whatever god, goddess or multiple deities there are?' Peter thought before he heard Talia's laugh.
"Is that right?" she asked with a raised brow as she placed a hand on her hip and gave Peter a knowing look.
"Is what right?" Peter asked with confusion.
"That killing makes you... horny?" she teased, causing Peter's eyes to widen in horror as Talia continued to look at him with a look that looked to be a mixture between interest and amusement.
Apparently he didn't think that...
...
And done.
Next chapter, Last call for boarding flight 'get the hell out of dodge'...