Almost done with this story. Just want to thank you all for sticking with this story even though I sorta disappeared for a while. And I'm kinda of mad at myself and blizzard because if you guys didn't know, they announced a new hero that was in TALON, and I could've put him in the story If they announced him earlier. But he can always be added down the line (as you will see). Anyways, enough about that. Enjoy the chapter.
Storage room, Helicarrier
"So Doomfist, the police let you out on good behavior huh?" Peter quipped. He had to admit, he was caught off guard, but he couldn't let that stop him now. Not with so much riding on if he succeeded or failed. Especially with Scott under some type of control.
"Anything to shut you up for good is enough for me." Doomfist responsed as he jumped to slam his fist down onto Peter. He dodged last minute and webbed Doomfist's face. He turned his attention to his former friend.
"Scott, it's me..." Peter left it vague, as even though Doomfist knew what he looked like under the mask, Stryker could easily be recording this.
There was no response from Scott, other than the object in his head glowing and him shooting a beam at Peter. He shot a web and pulled to dodge it, but tried to figure out how the device was working as to not hurt Scott while trying to take it off.
"Struggling Peter?" It was Stryker. He was still in the room, but was overlooking everything from a higher standpoint.
"Enjoying the show?" Peter quipped.
"It's lacking, how do I put this? Any real action." Stryker said. As he said that, he pressed a button that opened a door, leading in multiple Talon soldiers. They all started aiming at Peter, who jumped off a wall and tried to web their guns out of their hands. He got 5 out of reach.
"Hope whatever is going on up top is better than down here." Peter thought. Doomfist had caught him off guard and went for a strike, but was only able to tear the left eyepiece of Peter's mask, exposing his eye.
Topside of the helicarrier.
Once Reaper, Widowmaker, and Tracer got topside, they had saw that most of the soldiers were either killed or detained. They also saw that a few Overwatch agents got injured. Tony saw them and landed in front of them and started walking towards them.
"Where's Peter?" Tony asked.
"We don't know. He sent us up here to help you all out." Widowmaker said. Tony rubbed his eyes, stressed.
"And what about Sombra and his friend?"
"We don't know that either mate." Tracer said. Tony started to panic a bit, but didn't show it.
"We're going back down there. He's going to get himself killed. Jack!" Tony yelled. Soldier 76 walked over. "Get your people to go in and clear any rooms with Talon."
"What about you and them?" Soldier 76 asked.
Reaper walked up and looked Jack in the eyes. "We're gonna avenge all those deaths suffered during the Omnic crisis. Everyone that died due to Talon." Jack didn't say anything in response. All he did was nod his head.
"Follow me Cap!"
"Right behind ya Tony." Captain America said as they all went to find and help Peter.
Engine Room.
"I don't like this" Wrench said. For him, it felt like he just said it. For Sombra, this was his 6th time saying it.
"I know you're worried about Peter, but he can handle himself." Sombra said.
"It's not that I'm worried about."
"Then what is it?"
Wrench sighed. "Me and Pete have been together for a few years by now. I know he considers the X-Men his family and name his brother, but..." Wrench stopped himself. "He's told himself he can't be a hero for people to rely on after all the people he has killed. I feel like after this, he's going to go on a path he can't come back from."
"You're afraid of him going rogue?" Sombra asked while trying to hack into the controls through the engine.
"I'm afraid he's not going to know the difference between friend and enemy." Wrench said.
"He wouldn't ghost us." Sombra said confidently. She then looked back at Wrench with a worried look.
"Would he?"
Cargo Room.
"What's wrong Spider-Man? Off your game?" Doomfist asked. He grabbed the floor crawling Peter and threw him into a pile of boxes.
"Nah Doomy. Just getting acquainted with the rules." Peter quipped.
"Rule 1: Crush the Spider." Doomfist jumped high into the air and attempted to slam his fist onto Peter. He dodged it before it could smash his face in.
"Rule 2: Ignore rule 1." Peter quipped. He shot a web into his face. While he was distracted, he turned his attention to Scott and shot a web line to Scott's mind control device. He tried to yank it off, but it was giving some resistance to his strength. Peter feared the worst and hoped the device wasn't drilled into Scott's head.
Scott didn't say anything. He didn't even mumble or anything like that. He was completely silent.
"C'mon Scott, remember." Peter said. He was caught off-guard and Doomfist had grabbed him with his gauntlet and slammed him down onto the floor. The impact of Peter's body was enough to break some pieces of the floor.
"Peter. Come in Peter, do you copy?" Peter heard Soldier 76's voice in his earpiece. He couldn't exactly reach to answer it, as Doomfist had him pinned.
"Such a disappointment, you were." Doomfist said. Peter saw that Scott was standing behind Doomfist and tried to reach for his phone to hack Scott's device.
"I aim to please." Peter wheezed out.
"You could've had everything you ever wanted. Why would you deny that?" Doomfist asked.
"I told you already, I'm done looking the other way." Peter said. Doomfist just smiled as he looked down at Peter and grabbed a sharp piece of rebar.
"Such a shame. Any final words?" Doomfist asked.
"Actually Yeah." Peter said while smiling under his mask. "Every listen to the Elton John song Rocket Man?"
"I don't listen to anything related to America." Doomfist said.
"Oh, you don't." Peter said. "Well it's just that it's you...you're the Rocket Man." Peter pressed a button on his phone and it sent a control to short circuit the device and for a few seconds, give Scott control again. He fired his laser at Doomfist and then immediately collapsed. Doomfist let go of Peter, but was to late to block the laser beam, and was hit and sent flying into a group of boxes.
Peter slowly struggled to get up. "And stay down, please." Once he got up, he immediately went to Scott's side. The device was fired, but it didn't leave Scott unharmed. His face, up to his nose, was burnt by the short circuit.
Scott slowly came to back to life. "W-who's there?"
"It's me, Pete."
"P-peter." Scott said. "Everyone thought that...you died."
"For a while, I did." Peter said. He heard footsteps coming from behind him. He turned his head and saw it was the Sirens, Tony, and everyone else that was fighting on top of the helicarrier. Jean looked in horror at Scott and came down at his side, next to Peter.
"Scott?"
"Jean? Is that you?" Scott asked. Tears filled up her eyes from looking at Scott's damaged state.
"Isn't this some type of reunion?" A voice came from the speakers in the room. It was Stryker's voice. Peter got up and searched around the room to try and find him.
"Chickened out Stryker?!" Peter yelled.
"Not chickening out, I call it a tactical choice. All of you want me dead or in jail, and neither of those things are going to happen."
"Highly doubt you'd be able to get away that easily. Especially after all that's happened." Peter said.
Stryker chuckled. "We'll see. Maybe you should check on your friends in the engine room." Peter got scared when he said that. He tried to get on comms with Wrench and Sombra, but didn't get a response from either of them.
"It's been real fun Pete. See ya real soon." Suddenly, there was a loud explosion and extreme turbulence. Peter was able to catch himself, and Jean had created a telekinesis shield to prevent her and everyone else from falling down.
"What the hell was that?" Widowmaker asked.
"He's trying to make the helicarrier crash. Make it look like a accident or malfunction." Tony responsed. He looked at Peter, who was extremely worried about the force of the explosion.
"Wrench and Sombra were in the engine room. The only way Stryker could've made an explosion that powerful is if..."
Everyone knew what Peter was about to say, and had hoped all their second thoughts were right. "Mercy, Tracer. Come with me." Soldier 76 said. "We'll get them, you focus on getting your people out."
Peter nodded at Soldier 76 as they had left. He then ran to the control room and had released the remaining X-Men from their cages. He came back to everyone, who was more or less confused and happy to see Peter and the other X-Men alive.
"Kurt!" Kitty yelled. She ran up and hugged Kurt tightly, who returned the hug back. Professor X rolled on his wheelchair in front of his students and Peter's friends.
"We can all continue celebrations later. For right now, we need to find a way off of this helicarrier."
"Agreed." Tony said. "We still got some dropships left on top. I say we got 15 minutes before the engines give out, then this hunk of metal starts crashing down."
"Let's go then." Wolverine said. Everyone started running towards the door to get towards the top level, but all stopped when they realized Peter wasn't moving from his stop.
"We don't got the time for this web-head. We gotta go, now." Wolverine said. Peter looked up at the catwalk Stryker had disappeared from when he was fighting Doomfist, then looked back at Logan.
"So we're just going to let Stryker get away? With everything?" Peter asked.
Tony sighed. "Look I'm sorry kid, I really am. But if we stay here to look for him, we'll die."
Peter took off his mask and stared at the damage done to it. "Not we..."
"Peter..." Widowmaker started.
Peter looked up at all of them. "I gotta try..."
"Peter..." Rogue started. Everyone looked at Peter like he was crazy. He had gotten used to that look by now. He ran up to Widowmaker and put his mask in her hand. He breathed deeply and looked up at her.
"I'm sorry. I'm really am. But...you can start over again. Start a new life. A better life..."
"Peter, don't you fucking dare..." Widowmaker said. He made her hand close around his mask as he started stepping away.
"Reconnect with Gérard, stay with Overwatch, go off the grid and save people. Just don't stay in the past like I did." Peter said as he turned his back to all the people he called family. He put on the half mask he's worn since he's left New York, and shot a web towards the catwalk and ran to try and find Stryker.
Engine Room
The ringing noise wouldn't stop. It was at a point where Wrench thought he was going to go deaf. He didn't know how he survived the explosion, but he was being dragging out. It wasn't by Sombra though, and he couldn't tell who it was, as his vision became in and out. All he knew was that the guy had a Caribbean accent.
"Can you hear me?" The man said. He took off his helmet and Wrench saw who had helped him. He also saw that the guy was wearing a Talon helmet.
"Don't worry. I'm not with Talon. Not anymore." The man reassured. Wrench had fixed himself to lean against a wall sitting up. He looked at the man, who was currently kneeling down to Wrench's level.
"Who are you?" Wrench asked.
"Baptiste"
"Thanks Baptiste. For saving us." Wrench said.
Baptiste chuckled. "I'm afraid that even though I saved you two, I'm still doomed."
"Meaning?"
"All the remaining ships are on top of this ship. I can't pilot any aircraft, and even if I could, your friends in Overwatch would shoot me without a second thought." Baptiste explained. Wrench sighed as he held one side of his waist.
"We could vouch for you. You did save us." Wrench said.
Baptiste smiled. "If you could, I could right some wrongs I've made by joining Talon."
"Deal?" Wrench asked, holding out his hand.
"Deal." Baptiste said as he got up and grabbed Wrench's hand. He pulled him up off the floor. "You're with that Spider guy, right?"
"Well Spider-Man, but yeah. Why?" Wrench asked.
"Tell him the boss is on the ship that's dark red. There's only one of them." Baptiste said.
"You're really a miracle worker, you know that?" Wrench joked. He saw Sombra move a bit and picked her up and carried her. The three of them ran towards the topside to meet with everyone else.
Elsewhere on the ship
Nothing had phased Peter now. He didn't care if he died on this ship, was arrested, or Fury killed him. Nothing was going to stop him from getting to Stryker. He left bodies behind him of all the Talon soldiers that tried to kill him. He came to a crossways when a voice came over the speakers.
"Spidey." The voice was Wrench's by the way his mask's voice sounded through the speaker. "Stryker is trying to escape on a dark red Ship. He's in the hallway to your left. Good luck." Peter smiled as he listened to Wrench's advice and ran after Stryker.
Once Peter caught up, he saw Stryker's ship getting ready to take off. It was slowly moving forward. Peter ran after it, side by side. The ramp in the back was closing, which gave Peter an idea.
"I'm not done with you yet!" Peter yelled as he jumped into the ship before the ramp closed for good. The ship was now fully in the air, away from the helicarrier. Peter got up from the floor of the ship and jumped onto the ceiling. He crawled slowly over towards the control deck and saw the door was open. He slowly crawled in, still on the ceiling and saw that no one was piloting. He dropped down and investigated the controls when his Spider sense kicked into overdrive. He turned around and nearly missed a fatal knife stab, instead getting his forearm slashed, but not too deeply. Stryker went for another stab, but Peter grabbed both of his hands to wrestle the knife away.
"Just couldn't leave well enough alone, could ya Pete?" Stryker asked.
"You know I have to be as difficult as possible." Peter joked. The knife was starting to get closer to Peter's face.
"Last time I had a knife in hand, your stomach was about to kill you." Stryker said.
"Thanks for reminding me about that." Peter said. He pushed Stryker's hands away and headbutted him. He followed up with several punches to the face, while dodging a few knife swipes. Stryker lounged for him, but Peter went under, causing him to hit the steering wheel for the ship. The both of them struggled to find something to hold onto as the turbulence was impossible to fix.
Peter looked out the windshield of the ship and not only saw that the helicarrier was on its way to hit Times Square, and the ship they were on right now was about to hit a few blocks away from there. There wasn't any time to jump out of the ship, Peter just had to hope for the best.
"Oh God." Peter said as he braced for Impact.
Just One more Chapter People, just one more And this story is done. I still want to give a good enough ending to where it previews the next story, and also wraps up everything that happened in this story. Guess we'll find out next week. Also, new chapter for my My hero/Spider-Man fanfic will be coming out either Thursday or Friday, so if you want to be on the lookout, here's your warning. But until next time guys and gals, take it easy.
