TheUnknown325: Yep had to set some of this stuff up and nice guess on the two I hinted at, at the end there.
The Uncanny R-Man: Nope sorry not Punisher. Yeah that's what I'm thinking for Mystique and Sandra.
band20: Well the military would have action but nothing major I mean blowing up a perfectly good city isn't good thing to do.
Mark C: Yeah I borrowed that thing with Norman making Goblin weapons for Kingpin from the cartoon. I really like writing Mystique and Sandra together and you'll see more of those two.
Spicy Sweet: Well I do get longer but it's good lol. Well I have had other chapters I think with more but I had a lot to set up.
Sean Malloy-1: I don't have the time, look up Delilah up at web site if you want to know about her. Mainly comic book DD.
Multifan: I'm not too sure about Harry we'll see how the story goes, I don't think I'll have Captain America in this one yet I haven't planned for him at this moment. Delilah was a great fighter in the comics and I wanted to show that with her, Sandra will be loyal to Mystique and the others not so much but they won't leave. Also that was another Spider-Man villain but you'll see who later.
Slickboy444: Yeah his Acolytes in the show were just four people, not much of a team if you ask me so I pumped them up with Black Cat and Sandman. You'll see later on how Sandra and Mystique help each other with the voids in their lives.
KSimonT-X: I'm glad you feel this is a great fic it's hard to try and out do the original. Trust me Venom will know how to hurt Peter the most and you got it who that killer in the paper was.
X-Over: It's just Hobgoblin that Fisk is getting. There will be a bit of tension with the Brotherhood. Piotr keeps Illyana away from the others for her safety.
Laser Crusader: OH trust me I got a lot more planned but those are some of the major events.
Jenskott: Nope he doesn't know about Weapon X but if he did I doubt that would stop him. Yeah but the Hobgoblin came first I think, at least in that cartoon that's how it happened. I'm going with Jason Macendale just to keep it simple. You know I was thinking of adding more mutants she might be a good idea, I'll think on it.
Episodic: Naw I want to drag this out so one at a time for the villains.
Sparky Genocide: No you're not correct only Sandman and Black Cat are Acolytes alone with the rest that were in the show the others are Brotherhood. Why you're confused about this I stated very clearly in an Author's Notes. Norman just sees mutants as a way to increase profits.
And thanks to everyone else for their reviews as well.
THE RETURN OF SPIDER-X
CHAPTER 6: CONFRONTATIONS
-Bayville High-
Lance was waiting for the break between classes at the moment in his Math class, he wasn't really paying attention though. He had been thinking long and hard about something and it was time to do it. He had kind of been avoiding his old friends in the Brotherhood just to let them cool down. He had a good idea of what they thought of him but he needed to at least try to talk to them. When the bell sounded he was just out the door when a hand grabbed his arm.
"Hey Lance where are you off too?" Tabitha smiled at him she had the same class as him and when she saw him leaving in a different direction that he normally took then she took it something was up.
"I'm just…Going to see Kitty," He said to her trying to think of something and that sound like a good idea.
"Uh huh," She crossed her arms a bit, "Lance let me let you in on something, when you lie you shift a bit and you move your eyes from left to right."
"What! I do not!"
She smirked at him, "Remember those poker nights? How else do you think I bet you all, I learned all your tells by the end of the first night." Lance's jaw hung open for a second, he just figured that she was lucky or something. Pietro said that she was cheating but that was just Pietro being himself. "So fess up."
He sighed knowing Tabitha should would either keep hounding him or just follow him, "Look I'm just going to talk to the guys…Without Max around hopefully." Tabitha's good mood feel like a ton of bricks at the name of Max. She already had enough to deal with like how her father had hit her now she still had a nightmare or two now and then of Max as well. She rubbed a spot on her arm where he had burned her slightly with his powers when he gripped her.
She had been avoiding him all the time, whenever he was around she tried to sneak away or stay with the others. She never wanted to be alone with him again and she knew that by now his anger had turned into hatred. She knew what he was capable of or at least guessed it and she wanted to stay as far away from him as possible.
Lance saw her mood change and nodded, "Yeah now you see why I want to go alone, if Max is there and sees you…well…"
She nodded her head, "Yeah thanks Lance and good luck with them, I know that they're most likely still sore about this but you know what's it's like being on that side." He did know, in the Brotherhood you only counted on the Brotherhood and no one else. The 'X-geeks' were the enemies and so was all of humanity. Although lately his perception of things were changing at least a little, the X-Men weren't all bad and May Parker was nice for a human.
He was lucky to find them just hanging out in the halls and Max was nowhere in sight thankfully. Pietro was the first to notice him, "Well look who it is the turncoat. Well you lasted longer then last time you left us so what? Last time you came back you were a spy or something for Xavier?"
"Yeah right Pietro man you're paranoid," He snapped back at him, "Guys look…You know I had to get Tabitha out of there and she wasn't going to go without her friend Wanda and I had to help them."
"Man you are messed up yo," Todd said a bit bitter about the whole thing, "Wanda was like the only cutie there and you just had to mess it up." Pietro rolled his eyes from what Todd said everyone knew of his crush on his sister.
"Yeah well Wanda belonged with us, hell she's my sister and we were finally starting to at least get back our relationship, thanks for that Lance!" Pietro glared at him, to him Lance stole what was most likely the only chance he had to get back his relationship with his sister.
"What? Like lying to her all the time was better?" He questioned the white haired speeder, "You know that eventually she would have found out and then what?"
"Well…Maybe by the time she had she would have been more calm by then," He struggled to find something that sounded like a good counter point to that.
Lance sighed and tried another approach, "Look guys I had to do what I had to, I mean it was bad enough with Wanda but you know that Max is a jerk and that he shouldn't have been hurting Tabitha like that."
"Yeah well okay I'll give you that," Todd admitted. They all knew now that Max had a chip on his shoulder and all that power had gone to his head. He was like Pietro but only a bit more nastier then he was.
"Yeah well she should have just came to us or just left him or something," Fred spoke up, "I mean she started something with him so she should have just ended it or something."
'So says the guy that kidnapped Jean for a 'date' together,' Lance thought, "Guys I'm just trying to tell you what happened, we don't have to be enemies you know."
"Lance you're an X-geek now, you know what we said you're either Brotherhood or not," Pietro and the others started to move off, "And you're not."
They left Lance there a fist clenched feeling like he wanted to punch one of the lockers. He also had to keep a lid on his powers because he was close to shaking up the ground. He wanted to badly to smooth things over with them, they may had been misfits but they had been the first real friends Lance had had in his life. He really wished things could go back to the good old days but it looked like that was something that wasn't going to happen. He knew he couldn't join back with them, not after this. But there was one nagging thing in the back of his mind. He knew that if Max had been here things would have been harder but he was also wondering just where the hell was he?
Elsewhere Tabitha was at her locker just putting away her stuff. She was hoping that Lance would be okay, but she really didn't want to get close to Max just in case. She owed Lance a lot for staying with her and helping her get away from Max. She just couldn't believe how much he had changed or maybe it was just her perception of him that changed as she got to know him. At first she thought he was just some cute guy that knew what it was like living with an asshole of a father that part had been true.
But there was this darkness in him that she saw and the more she tried to get away the tighter his grip on her was and the less patience he started to have with her as well. She was glad to be back in the mansion and Xavier himself had been taking the time to talk to her for that first week. He didn't have that whole thing with her leaving against her once and he just talked, with that kind and compassionate tone of his.
She stopped doing what she was doing in her locker as she felt her eyes mist up a bit. Xavier had always treated her better then anyone ever had. That's why it had been so hard to leave him, she had been ashamed and didn't want to face him. He took her in, got her away from her abusive father and gave her a great home and friends. She screwed up and so she left but he welcomed her back with open arms. She rested her head against her locked and shut her eyes, she never had that in her life and it was so nice to have a actual life for once like she actually had a future.
Sure she put on the act of the 'wild party girl' but deep inside she wasn't like that, not all the time. "Well if I didn't know any better I'd swear you have been avoiding me," Said a cold voice that gripped her heart. She gasped and turned around to face Max there she tried to move but he slammed a hand next to her and her other way was blocked by her open locker. She looked into his cold blue eyes.
"What do you want Max?" She tried to keep the fear out of her voice. She was so tempted to threw a bomb at him but she couldn't but at least she hoped he wouldn't also use his powers as well.
"What do you think? You made a fool out of me Tabitha and I don't like being made a fool out of," Max's jaw clenched all his life he was looked down on and made a fool and there was no way this blond bimbo was going to get away with it. He already had enough as it was with the X-Men, and that Parker guy.
He saw the fear in her eyes and he liked that look in them, he was about to reach her when someone grabbed his hand. He turned swiftly to see who was stupid enough to try and saw it was Parker himself.
Peter had just been on his way to meet a few of the others for one of the classes when he walked by and his spider-sense went off. He saw Max with Tabitha and knew that wasn't good at all. He quickly made his way to her and when he saw Max going to a grab he had to stop him, Max's powers could be used as he touched her and he wouldn't let him hurt Tabitha anymore then he already had.
"I think the lady wants to leave now Dillion," Peter said evenly to him. With Max's attention on Peter Tabitha managed to slip out and move behind Peter, she had never been so glad to have him show up.
"Stay out of this Parker, this is just between her and me." He told him as he wrenched his arm free of Peter's grip, "But you and me still have unfinished business but I can wait for that."
"Oh trust me Max I would love to kick your butt all over this place," It was one of the few times Peter would actually enjoy it. He only fought when he had to but Max was just begging for someone to kick his ass with his attitude and with what he did to others.
"I don't need powers to take care of you Parker," Max was about to throw a punch which Peter was ready for when a teacher saw this and called out to them.
"Is there a problem here?" The teacher asked.
"No, Max here was just leaving weren't you?" Peter smiled at him. Max glared back but decided that getting expelled wouldn't be a smart move at all. So he reluctantly moved on the teacher seeing that there wouldn't be anymore problems left as well leaving Peter and Tabitha alone. Tabitha let out a breath she hadn't known she had been holding until that moment as she felt her legs a bit shaky.
Peter saw this and steadied her, "Hey you okay?"
"Yeah sorry, god I feel like a wimp now…I should have just decked him when I had the chance." She didn't know why she didn't to be honest with her. Normally she wouldn't take that kind of crap but why was it with men like Max and her father she just couldn't?
"You want some help?" Peter offered her and Tabitha gave a warm smile. Peter always was the kind of guy to help others. She was beginning to see what Rogue saw in him given what she just went through with Max maybe it was time to find the nice guy for once.
"Thanks Peter I'm fine…And thanks for showing up."
Peter gave her a warm smile to her and nodded his head, he knew what it was like trying to get back onto your own two feet.
While this was going on Scott was talking to his long time friend Paul a blond boy he had met years back and the two had become good friends although Scott had never told him anything about mutants. It was what he hated the most about this secret all the lies. There had been so many times he just wanted to tell him but he could never do that. He just tried not to think about it when he was with his friend.
"So Scott what's it like finally being with the girl you've had a crush on for like the past few years?" Paul asked him with a grin on his face. He had known that Scott had a thing for Jean for a very long time. Anyone could see it, and he had been happy for him when they had shown up at the dance together.
"It's great honestly," Scott smiled at the thought of Jean. He wasn't wearing his shades at the moment thanks to the watch he just told people that he had some experimental laser eye surgery done over the weekend to help him see better. It was surprising how many people just accepted that without question.
"Man it's about time too, although I hear Duncan had been steaming about that though," Paul commented on the football player's slightly nastier attitude lately.
Scott just shrugged he didn't personally care about Duncan anymore, "Yeah well that's his problem if he didn't see a good thing when he had it and didn't appreciate it."
"Definitely dude," Paul agreed, "You know did you hear?"
"Hear what?"
"That Spider-Man guy was seen again last night. Man I thought he had vanished or something last night." Scott didn't know what to say to that by now everyone knew of Peter's reasons for why he did what he did. To be fair he couldn't fault him, Scott still felt like if he had done something better or had been stronger or something that he could have saved his parents and his family wouldn't have been torn apart like Peter's.
"So uh…What do you think of that guy?" Scott asked him, he wanted to see his reaction to Spider-Man and maybe even get some insight on how he would feel about mutants if the world ever found out.
Paul thought about it, "Well at first it was kind of freaky seeing him do all that stuff on the news, you know when he saved that little kid from the fire? I mean there's no way he's human with how he jumped and moved and stuff…But you know what? I saw the face of that mother holding her kid and after a bit like that news interviews with the people he's saved he can't be all that bad."
"He's done a lot of good in this area I mean he's been seen in Bayville and New York and…I don't know it's just nice to know that there's someone out there looking out for people I guess."
"So you're for him?" Scott was starting to think of something. So far Amanda knew about them, then Doctor Connors and his family so if they could trust them maybe he could ask the Professor to ask if they could let Paul in on it. But he wanted to be sure first, "You know what if you're right and he's not totally human?"
Paul was a silent a moment, "Well…I don't know but I do know that whatever he is that guy has to be human where it counts to use his powers like that."
Not too far away heading towards the boys Taryn Fujioka and Jean were talking with each other, both had known each other for years and had been good friends although like with Paul, Jean hated lying to her all the time. She was a good friend and she was tempted at times to look in her head and see if she could handle mutants but she didn't want to enter the mind of a friend on purpose.
"You know Jean you're lucky, I mean Scott seems to make you happier then you were with Duncan," She had noticed it, before the happiness Jean showed seemed forced to her but now she wasn't forcing it, "Plus he's a total babe."
"Yeah he is isn't he?" Jean smiled back and both girls giggled a bit, "God I should have done this a long time ago, you know given him a chance you know?"
She nodded her head, "Yeah, truth is I was starting to think of asking him out and dating him before you scooped him up." The surprised Jean as she looked at her and she held up a hand, "Don't worry I wouldn't try to steal the boyfriend of one of my closest friends. But Scott is attractive and you have to admit he wouldn't wait forever for you to realize how good a person he is."
Jean had to admit that was right, if she had been with Duncan any longer would have Scott started to date Taryn? How would that have affected the friendship she held with her? She didn't like the thoughts of where that was leading, that was one more thing she was grateful for then she guessed.
"Well speak of the devil," Taryn grinned as she saw Scott and Paul walking towards them. She saw Scott smile and waved. Jean smiled and waved back as well, Taryn sighed to herself, "You know I just wish I could meet a nice guy like that…"
Jean noticed her friend looking a bit down and thought about it. She saw Paul and then had an idea, "Well why not Paul? Scott said he's a nice guy and he's kind of cute too?"
Taryn looked at Paul, he wasn't as tall as Scott, but he wasn't that bad looking actually. He was kind of cute and she never did get to know him. She thought about it but she wasn't sure, what did he like? Did they have anything in common? Jean sensed this, "Well just think about it I mean you never know until you try. Look at me and Scott for example."
That gave her something to definitely think about. Perhaps Jean was right and she should at least give him a chance. Well she decided to think on it more and decide later although as they got closer to the two boys she did admit that Paul was very cute.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 7: A COUPLE OF TENDER MOMENTS