Chapter Seven
Parker's Residence
After the reconciliation with Gwen and not to mention the initial prison fight Peter was exhausted and Felicia helped him to bed and laid down with him. The two lovers shared an embrace as Felicia wrapped her body around Peters and peacefully went to sleep. Peter woke up several hours later a bit disorientated as he saw it was still dark outside. He noticed his phone was buzzing and saw he had a message from Daredevil.
"Spider-Man, Jessica and I ran into someone called the Green Goblin, I assume you know him, don't worry we will be on the lookout for him, keep your head down for a few days to heal."
Peter's eyes shot open as he was confused because he thought Norman Osborn was dead. Peter sat up and gently untangled himself from Felicia as he went to look at his damaged costume. He took his costume and went into the living room to work on it before he tripped over some boxes.
"Oh yeah, I never did see what Gwen brought over" Peter said to himself.
Opening the boxes Peter saw several circuits, parts, and various pieces of technology from Dr. Connors' lab. In another box that Peter picked up had a card on it. "Sorry for being a jerk the whole summer. I hope this can start to make up for how bad of a friend I was, Harry."
Peter opened it and was surprised to see a brand new laptop. Peter looked at the specs and was even more amazed to see it was cutting edge technology only rivaled by possibly Stark Tech. Peter was so surprised by what he had at his fingertips. His original web shooters were the product of dumpster diving. His updated mask and web shooter add-ons were the product of a little over one hundred dollars worth of electronics and an hour or so of work, now with all this tech he could make something truly spectacular. Peter cracked his knuckles as he got to work on his new and improved suit.
Felicia woke up and immediately noticed the spot next to her was empty. She turned and checked the alarm clock in Peter's room and saw it was ten in the morning. She stretched out and began the search for her boyfriend. Making her way to the living room she found him passed out on the table with an army of papers on the table. Felicia picked up some of the papers and noticed they were actually hand sketched blue prints. She saw several variations of Peter's Spider-Man suit and web shooters. She gently nudged Peter awake as he slowly stretched out and yawned.
"Peter, how long were you working on all of this?" Felicia asked.
"Depends, what time is it?" he asked.
"Ten in the morning" she replied.
Peter thought to himself for a moment "ten to eleven hours give or take, I wasn't really counting."
"Peter Parker, did you get any sleep at all?" Felicia asked, a bit annoyed.
Peter couldn't help but blush, "when I was in bed with you I did, until I got a message from Daredevil."
Peter paused, his voice suddenly becoming that much more serious even in his tired state "Green Goblin is back."
Felicia's eyes went wide "but you said that was Harry's dad who passed how is it possible he's back?"
"I'm not sure, and I won't be sure until I face him again," Peter said.
"Is that what got you so spooked last night" Felicia asked.
"It is, the Sinister Six is out there, along with Kingpin, and now the Green Goblin I need to be ready for them" Peter said.
"Is that why you were in such a rush to make a new suit?" Felicia asked pointing toward the blueprints.
Peter nervously scratched his head "not so much make a new suit more like finish it, I went overboard in adding new things to it, I ran into the issue of how can I remember everything in it at all times."
"I think I understand, what was the solution?" Felicia asked.
"I was creating an artificial intelligence for the suit, I may have borrowed the idea from Tony Stark and how he has an AI named JARVIS help control his suits" Peter said.
"Wait, you met Tony Stark," Felicia asked surprised.
"Peter Parker did once at a science convention and after a bit of ego stroking he told me some basics of how his armor works, probably figured a kid wouldn't understand what he was talking about" Peter said shrugging his shoulders.
"I will admit some of this is going over my head, but how long until your AI is finished" Felicia asked.
Peter took a look at the laptop his mask was plugged into "It should take another hour or so possibly for the coding to finish and even after that I need to field test it."
"Well then until it's finished you're coming with me into the kitchen to eat something, you look terrible" Felicia said leaving no room to debate.
Before Peter could accept his fate his phone went off. The second he answered J. Jonah Jameson's voice could be heard yelling "PARKER! I need you in my office immediately, Green Goblin is back and I needed pictures yesterday!"
After the call ended Peter looked at Felicia "You're not leaving this house without eating."
Fisk Industries
After the ultimatum given by the Green Goblin Wilson Fisk sat at his desk to evaluate his options. With the goblin out there and the possibility of Spider-Man being a member of the Defenders he decided the best course of action is to watch them tear one another apart before he used the Sinister Six to make their move. Even though he couldn't do anything to Spider-Man it was still very much open season on the rest of the Defenders, especially the man without fear.
Daily Bugle
Peter arrived an hour late for his talk with Jameson. Felicia really did mean it when she said he wasn't leaving without eating. Also since his new suit wasn't finished yet he couldn't just swing to the bugle he actually had to use public transportation. Truth be told Peter wished he could put this meeting off he was still pretty sore and the lack of sleep didn't help either, but here he was exiting the elevator.
"Hey Peter, nice of you to show up" came a woman's voice.
Peter turned and saw who called out to him it was J. Johnah Jameson's secretary Betty Brant.
"Hey Betty, how have you been?" Peter asked with a smile.
"Better before Jameson found out the Green Goblin is back, not to mention the prison break, but we can talk later, he wants to see you" Betty said before motioning Peter onwards.
Peter thanked Betty and knocked on Jameson's door.
"PARKER, what kept you?" Jameson yelled as Peter entered the office and shut the door.
"Sorry sir, my girlfriend" was all Peter could get out before being cut off.
"Girlfriend, well congratulations kid I knew you had it in you, but that better not mean a decrease in Spider-Man pictures you still work for me" Jameson said.
Peter smiled before pulling out a photo and showing it to Jameson.
"Is that another Spider-Menace?" Jameson asked.
Peter resisted the chuckle "no Mr. Jameson after the prison explosion Spider-Man's suit was damaged this is the only photo of what his new suit will look like."
"This is amazing Parker and the bugle gets the first print" Jameson said reaching for the picture.
Peter pulled the photo back "of course sir, but I just want to make sure I'm being paid for this properly, my girlfriend said due to my skill set in being one of if not the only person to photograph him I should be compensated accordingly."
Jameson stood there one of the very few times he was speechless.
"You listen here Parker, you're no professional I could hire any bum off the streets with a camera" Jameson bluffed.
Peter smiled as he called his bluff "you could do that, but then I could just take these photos elsewhere."
Peter showed another photo of Spider-Man holding Black Cat in a loving embrace, another of the hero duo swinging through the city, as well as Spider-Man and Black Cat locked in a passionate kiss.
Jameson crumbled as he looked at the pictures knowing their worth to his subscribers, and then back at Peter before grumbling "what do you want."
Peter thought to himself "wow Felicia was right I might actually make some real money now."
Peter and Jameson came to terms on a new exclusive contract for Peter. Peter would exclusively sell his photos to the Bugle in exchange Peter received a base salary as well as additional commission for the pictures he submitted not to mention hazard pay considering as far as anyone knew he had to run into dangerous situations to get these pictures. J. Johnah Jameson would never admit it, but he was just a tad bit proud of Peter Parker.
After the meeting was done Peter left to make his way home. On his way he received a text from Felicia. "Hey sexy, I hope everything works out. I'm going to meet our P.I. friend for some girl time Love You 3. P.S. You're suit is done ;D
Peter was excited, his new suit was ready to be field tested, but he did wonder what Felicia and Jessica were up to. As he was lost in his thoughts he bumped into someone knocking them down.
"Oh I'm so sorry….Liz" Peter said surprised.
Peter slowly extended his hand to help her up and after a moment of hesitation she accepted.
"Hey Peter" Liz said awkwardly.
"Hey Liz" Peter said just as awkwardly.
There was an uncomfortable silence before Peter broke it with a sigh "would you like to get a bite to eat and talk?"
"Peter with the way things are, I don't think it would be a good idea what if someone sees us" Liz said.
"I know a place the popular crowd won't find us" Peter said with a smile.
"Alright, and for what it's worth I'm sorry I slapped you" Liz said sincerely.
"Don't worry about it we can talk about everything, just follow me" Peter said.
Alias Investigators
Black Cat arrived at the firm owned and operated by Jessica Jones. She was going to go through the front door but decided it would be fun to stealthily make her way in through a window. She was wrong as she walked into Jessica sitting on Luke Cage's lap locked in a passionate kiss that appeared to be the beginning of something more. Not wanting to see her new teammates in such a position she made her presence known and Luke almost dropped Jessica.
"Damnit Cat, you did that on purpose why didn't you use the door like a normal person" Luke said.
Suppressing a chuckle she responded "Luke I thought we were all superheroes, I was just testing to see how good your detection skills were."
Luke sent a glare her way before getting up "Have fun with your girls time, I have to follow up with Iron Fist on something in Harlem."
Jessica using her superhuman strength slapped Luke on the butt "see you tonight."
Mick's Restaurant
After a quick stop home to pick up his suit Peter took Liz to a discreet restaurant he knew of called Mick's. Mick's was a very low profile dinner that served good food and had a warm atmosphere. The dinner in question was tucked away behind a comic shop so not many people knew of it, but somehow it's been in business for as long as Peter could remember. Peter and Liz had a quiet table to themselves so they could talk. After a few drinks of juice and a light dessert Peter broke the silence "do you hate me?"
Liz almost choked at that "Peter I don't hate you why would you think that?"
"Well my first day back wasn't exactly the smoothest" Peter said awkwardly putting his hand behind his head.
:"I'm sorry about that Petey I truly am, Sally decided to make you public enemy number one and I went alone with it" Liz said ashamed.
"Liz, I'm sorry I hurt you, it isn't what I wanted, but you deserved better than me" Peter said sadly.
"Not you too, Peter everyone keeps telling me that, but no one ever asks what I wanted" Liz replied.
"I understand the position you're in Liz, I know how the popular crowd can be and if you need to be mean to me I can take it" Peter said with a smile.
"Peter, I can't ask you to do that for me," Liz replied.
Queens, NY
It was a bit odd for Black Cat to be running around on the street, but considering Jessica didn't have a way to grapple across rooftops she had no choice. Black Cat and Jessica Jones spent some time getting to know one another better considering they were the only female members of the team.
"Wait so when that explosion happened the building actually came down on Daredevil" Black Cat asked.
"Yeah, that son of a bitch didn't tell us there was a bomb inside he was planning to sacrifice himself for us as well as the city" Jessica replied.
"Self sacrifice, it sounds like he has a lot in common with Spider-Man" Black Cat said with a bit of anger still in her voice.
Jessica stopped her for a moment "look kitty I know it's hard to accept it, but it's the life we all chose as heroes, Luke could have tanked that explosion but could you, me, or those cops probably not."
Black Cat sighed "the logical part of me understands, it's just the emotional part that doesn't want to lose him, I sound silly don't I?"
Jessica gave one of her rare smiles "no, no matter how strong or powerful we are we're still human."
A cry for help made the feminine duo rush to its source. They saw a woman completely covered up holding a baby surrounded by common thugs. Wasting no time the feminine defenders rushed into battle. Making sure to keep her anger in check, Jessica picked up one of the thugs and launched him into another knocking them both to the ground. Black Cat delivered a graceful spin kick to the head taking out another. The final thug tried to sneak up behind her, but a swift back elbow sent him crashing to the ground as well. Satisfied with their handiwork the girls went to check on the woman.
"It's alright ma'am you're safe now" Jessica said moving closer.
The woman's voice seemed to change "you're not Spider-Man, but you can be bait."
A hand shot out as the disguise fell and Green Goblin had Jessica by the throat as he hopped onto his glider. Laughing maniacally he flew at near top speed as he launched Jessica through a wall.
Black Cat immediately shot her grappling hook in pursuit of the goblin as well as her friend.
"This is going to be a long night" Felicia said to herself
Mick's Restaurant
As Peter gave Liz a reassuring smile the wall exploded as Jessica Jones was thrown through it landing on their table. Peter looked over wide eyed as he saw Black Cat fighting the Green Goblin.
Jessica slowly got to her feet "get out of here everyone it isn't safe."
Green Goblin threw pumpkin grenades, seeing they would hit the innocent people Jessica used the broken table to absorb some of the impact as she was blown back into a wall and lost consciousness.
"Liz, I need you to run while I call for help" Peter said.
Liz was worried, but she didn't argue as she quickly ran out the back to safety.
Peter quickly grabbed his backpack and made his way into a closet to change.
Black Cat was doing her best to stay out of the blast range of the pumpkin bombs, but the Green Goblin didn't make it easy. She was attacked with Jessica Jones as they were taking care of some street level criminals.
"Come here pretty kitty, I promise to make it quick if you tell me where Spider-Man is" Green Goblin said before laughing maniacally.
Black Cat responded by throwing a silver ball at the goblin. He skillfully dodged it, but it activated emitting an electromagnetic pulse and disabling his glider causing him to fall. Black Cat wasted no time in trying to attack him with her claws. The Green Goblin dodged two of her swipes before third managed to connect slashing his chest. Checking his chest, he saw blood and it sparked a rage within him. The goblin seemed to move faster as he delivered a powerful shot to Black Cat's ribs knocking the wind out of her. Black Cat thought some of her ribs might actually be broken. The Green Goblin grabbed her by the throat as he lifted her up off of the floor and continued to deliver vicious strikes to her.
The Green Goblin took his time between each word he spoke with an additional punch "where is Spider-Man?"
Before the beating could continue Spider-Man shot webbing into the goblin's eyes and landed a punch to his face. With him distracted Spider-Man quickly grabbed Black Cat and took her near Jessica who was slowly regaining consciousness. Green Goblin tore the webbing off of his mask and saw Spider-Man in front of him only he wasn't wearing his regular suit. Black Cat and Jessica were also surprised to see Spider-Man standing there in his new suit. His suit design was based on athletic wear and compression clothing. The most distinguishing feature was the large white spider symbol on the front of the suit.
"I'm right here goblin" Spider-Man said, his voice surprisingly laced with venom.
Spider-Man eyed the man in front of him and took in his appearance "you're not the real Green Goblin."
Jessica, Black Cat, and the Green Goblin himself were all shocked at Spider-Man's statement.
"I don't know your connection to the real goblin, but you are not him so I ask you to give up" Spider-Man said.
The Green Goblin began laughing like the maniac he was "it doesn't matter, I will make you into a corpse regardless."
After those words were said he quickly threw several pumpkin bombs in Spider-Man's direction. With his spider sense blaring, Spider-Man carefully dodged the projectiles by jumping on the ceiling. Spider-Man was smiling under his mask because his suit was working better than he could have hoped. The lenses in his mask were now equipped with a built in augmented reality heads up display. Spider-Man was now able to monitor his web fluid, web shooter configuration, temperature, as well as being able to be more aware of his surroundings. Switching from his standard webbing to ricochet webbing, Spider-Man fired a few web balls that bounced off the walls until they ricocheted hitting their target. Green Goblin was floored and began to get up his face twisted in anger.
"You will pay for this Spider-Man, and I know just how, you took something from me so allow me to take something from you" Green Goblin said pulling something out of his bag. He pulled out a larger than normal pumpkin bomb and threw it at the heroes before making his escape "maybe we will meet again Spider-Man unless you die here trying to stop my explosion."
The Green Goblin hopped on his glider as he made his escape.
Spider-Man surveyed his surroundings and saw some people were still near, and he could hear the approaching police sirens. Before he could panic further a woman's voice could be heard in his mask "Peter, you have approximately one minute before that bomb reaches critical mass."
The female AI continued "Peter I am mapping out the quickest route for you to dispose of the bomb."
Before Black Cat could call out Spider-Man grabbed the bomb and swung out the hole in the wall. Following the route, his AI was nice enough to add a countdown to his heads up display, he noticed he had about ten seconds left. Making it to the top of a large building he shot a web line at the bomb and used all his strength and Spider-Man was pretty sure he tore his stitches threw the bomb high into the air as it exploded.
"Thank you super AI" Spider-Man said tiredly.
"You are most welcome Peter, but I had a question," the AI asked.
"What's that?" he asked.
"Can I have a name?" the AI asked.
After taking some time to think Spider-Man snapped his fingers "how about Karen?"
"Karen, I like it," Karen said approvingly.
Black Cat and Jessica made their way to the roof to see an exhausted Spider-Man laying on the roof.
"Glad you're ok kid, I can't have my favorite Defender blow himself up a second time" Jessica said with a smirk.
"After our last conversation, I think he's learning we like him alive" Black Cat added with a roll of her eyes.
Black Cat pulled his mask up to his nose and planted a kiss on his lips "I'm glad you're not hurt."
"She thinks that, but doesn't know you've torn your stitches" Karen said with a robotic chuckle.
Black Cat unfortunately heard that and glared at Spider-Man.
"Thanks a lot Karen" Spider-Man mumbled only to hear Karen respond with a laugh.
TheDailyBugle: BREAKING NEWS SPIDER-MAN DESTROYS A LOCAL DINER WITH HIS MASKED ACCOMPLICES PHOTOS TO FOLLOW SHORTLY!
Thedragonsage1146: Spider-Man has a new suit and man does it look AWESOME!
trap_cloud_: Spider-Man has to be confirmed as a Defender now I mean he was there with Jessica Jones
Reply from Thedragonsage1146: trap_cloud_ I heard Black Cat was seen around the city with Jessica Jones I think it's safe to assume The Defenders have two new members
Reply from TheDailyBugle: Thedragonsage1146 THE DEFENDERS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN PROPERTY DESTROYING GLORY HOGS WHO TRY TO IMPERSONATE REAL HEROES LIKE THE AVENGERS!
A/N
Thank you to everyone who has been liking and reviewing, I'm still deemed "Essential" through this chaos, so it took me longer than I wanted to finish this chapter.
NeoTyson - Big props coming from you. I've read your story and I personally love it, it inspired me to try my hand at a SpiderCat fic, I hope you continue it. Super thank you for adding it to your collection you are the best. ^_^
Joe - Thank you very much, I hope you enjoy this chapter
MarioDS01 - You got your wish Peter was able to create his Advanced Suit from the Spider-Man PS4 Game, fun fact it is one of my favorite suits to wear irl :D