Hiya folks. Me and ERoc901 Tha Clean Up Man are back to show you all the 12th chapter of What A Strange Web We Weave! In this chapter, Peter and Natasha are enjoying a peaceful morning, and Mary Jane reveals that she knows that they are dating and approves of it. It is then that Mockingbird calls them and informs them that the criminal group known as the Zodiac and Scorpio were looking for a file on Spider-Man's parents. They go to try and stop them, but then the Ronin arrives and kidnaps Natasha. So Spider-Man, Spider-Woman and Maria Hill go to investigate when they don't run it by Nick Fury. Scarlet Spider goes with the Winter Soldier to uncover more about this. So right now, let's dive into this!
Disclaimer: Same as before.
Chapter 12: Secrets Of The Past - Part 1!
It was a bright sunny morning in Queens, New York, and Peter Parker was waking up from a wonderful dream he had. A few days passed when he, in his Spider-Man costume and Black Widow saved the X-Men from Arcade, before he could exact his revenge. Peter was dressed in a white t-shirt and blue boxer shorts. He rubbed the sand out of his eyes as he walked down the stairs into the dining room where he see's Natasha dressed in a silky black robe that exposed her big cleavage.
"Good morning, Pete." Natasha said, as she went up and kissed Peter on the lips.
"Good morning, Nat." he said back to his girlfriend. He began to smell something. On the table were a stack of pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs and some syrup was poured on as well. On the side was a couple of glasses of orange juice. "Food smells good." He sat down next to Natasha and began to cut his pancakes. Natasha did the same for her's.
"Did you sleep good last night?"
"By spooning with you?" Peter asked, raising his eyebrow. "Yeah, it feels a lot better than all the slaps to face you've given me." he pointed out.
Natasha had a light smile on her face. "I know, but it was for your own good." she admitted to why she slapped Peter in the face most of the time. "You're a lot younger than me. So in the relationship we're in, we have to keep each other grounded, otherwise we'll both be a pair of immature, irresponsible superheroes."
Peter looked somewhat defeated, but had to agree with what Natasha just told him. "I know. It happens sometimes." he said, solemnly. "That's why I've been learning to be a better superhero when bad things happen or when I make mistakes." he pointed out. "Things like that don't happen over night." he took a bite of his scrambled eggs along with his bacon.
"Yes, I know what you mean." Natasha said. She took the time to finish her glass of orange juice, she felt some sort of rumbling sound erupting from her stomach and she lets out a loud burp. Natasha gasped and covered her mouth. "Bozhe moi! Excuse me." she giggled.
"Your excused." Peter joked.
Peter and Natasha laughed together. "Why must you be so funny, Peter?" Natasha said, as she laughed.
"Hey, I can't help myself, babe!" Peter replied, while he snickered. But then, Peter began to have a sad look on his face and a tear was going down his face.
Natasha felt a little concerned and rubbed his back comfortingly. "Pete, what's wrong? Why are you so sad?" asked Natasha.
Peter looked at the calendar and finally decided to spill his guts. "Well, today's the anniversary of the day my parents died in that plane crash." he said. "I haven't seen them since I was 8 years old." he felt like he was going to have a break down, but Natasha pulled Peter closer to her giant boobs and let him cry on them a little bit.
"I'm so sorry to hear that." Natasha said soothingly as she gently stroked his head.
"Thanks babe, it's not easy growing up without them around." he said, feeling miserable about it while he began to relax. "Especially after being raised by the only two important people in my life." Peter's sorrow began to grow as his guilt left over from those hardships he went through came out. "I just wish that I'd have more time with mom and dad."
"I know, but I'm pretty sure that they're proud of you for what you've done so far." said Natasha as she kissed Peter on the forehead. "I lost my family in the past too like I told you before."
Peter remembered what Natasha said about her past as well. "Yeah, you were an orphan and I got my Aunt who is the only family I have left." he agreed. "But I wanted to know the truth about my parents because there's gotta be more to what they've been doing than what they were mixed up in."
Natasha kept on holding him as he continued to let his sadness out on her soft breasts. "I'm sure there is, but it might be a while before you find that out, sweetie. But until then, me and your friends will be there for you no matter what." Natasha said as Peter kissed her cleavage. She giggled as she felt his lips against her chest, then Peter and Natasha took the last several bites out out of their food and drank the last of their milk and orange juice. Peter then put both of their plates and glasses into the sink to be washed. Just then, the doorbell rang.
"I wonder who that could be?" Peter said, as he walked over to the door. He opened it up and who he saw was familiar. "Oh hey Mary Jane. What brings you here?" he asked as he saw Mary Jane Watson at his front door.
"Hey Peter. I was just coming by to check up on you because there's something I wanted to tell you." MJ said as she saw the busty redhead in the kitchen as she walked into Peter's humble abode. "And you got an attractive girlfriend who's dressed in a silky black robe." she noted as she saw how lovely she was.
"Hi Mary Jane." Nat greeted.
"Hey Natasha Romanoff, alias Black Widow." Mary Jane greeted back but this time she knew who she was.
In his thoughts, Peter said, "WHAT THE!? Oh man this blows! How did she find out?!"
This had both Peter and Natasha shook up. "What? How did you know?!" Natasha asked, feeling stunned.
Mary Jane chuckled a little bit before letting out a big laugh as Peter made several different faces in a goofy fashion and then Peter wanted an explanation. "Seriously Mary Jane. What's going on here?!" he demanded.
"Sorry about that Peter." Mary Jane apologized to the boy. "It's just that I knew all along that you were dating the Black Widow of the Avengers."
"What?" Peter asked feeling shocked again. "How did you know?!"
"That's what I wanted to know." Natasha and Peter looked at each other.
Mary Jane decided to come out with the truth. "Well, let's just say that I've been hanging out with some friends who saw you two get lovey dovey after you two got your web-fluid formula back from Hammerhead, Tombstone and the Enforcers." she pointed at Peter. "You two must really love each other."
The two had a dumbfounded look on both of their faces. "Which kind of friends?" asked Peter.
"Iceman, Firestar and Scarlet Spider."
Peter and Natasha were shocked again to hear that their icy and firey friends spilled the beans to Mary Jane behind their backs and Scarlet Spider too. "What? Are you serious!?" Peter bellowed.
"Yeah, dead serious." MJ admitted. "We were enjoying ourselves watching all the action despite Bobby being jealous and all." she said, when she knew how jealous Iceman was her and Firestar calmed him down that day when Spidey and Widow did not notice her in the background. "Now admit it Tiger. Is it true that you love her?"
Peter let out a sigh and decided to come out with it. MJ needed to hear it eventually. "Yes, it's true MJ. I do have the hots for her." Peter said. "We did fall in love because there was a spark between us that ignited after we took Deadpool down." he openly admitted. "I couldn't help the way I feel about her. We just became soulmates out of the blue."
Natasha seconded the emotion when she stood up and grabbed Peter's arm, pulling him to her breasts. "It's true. All of it." she said. "Besides, I find him to be very handsome." she flirted with him a little bit as she kissed him on the cheek.
"Now Natasha. No need to be flirting with me in front of Mary Jane." Peter felt a little embarrassed, but Mary Jane giggled anyway.
"It's cool, Peter. I got no problem with that." she said reassuring her childhood friend, which made Peter raise an eyebrow.
"Are you sure about that, MJ? I mean I didn't want you to feel jealous."
"Nah, I'm not jealous of your relationship with her." MJ told the two of them. "Although I am at least a little bit jealous that I got no boyfriend. And I'm also jealous of the fact that she's got bigger boobs than me." she cupped her chest in front of them, making Peter blush a little bit.
Natasha went over to Mary Jane and put her hand on MJ's shoulder and reassured her by saying "Don't be jealous Mary Jane. I'm sure your breasts will get bigger someday." to comfort her. "And as far as finding someone to date, it's best that you wait until the right person comes in your life when you least expect it."
Mary Jane felt a little moved by what the Russian redheaded super spy told her. "Gee...Thanks Nat. That helped a lot." she agreed to that advice. "Oh and by the way you two..."
"Uh, yeah?" Peter wondered.
"Face it tiger and tigress, you just hit the jackpot." Mary Jane said, earning a silly look from Peter and a raised eyebrow with a smirk from Natasha.
Elsewhere, we see an aircraft heading towards a building in the middle of nowhere. The aircraft was piloted by Scorpio, he and his group, The Zodiac were flying around, causing mayhem wherever they went. Just then, they were getting a message from Mysterio and Carnage.
"Scorpio, Zodiac, report." Mysterio said over the communicator. "Have you arrived at the facility yet?"
"We're on our way there, Mysterio." Scorpio said back to him.
Taurus then went to ask something. "One quick question, what exactly are we looking for?"
Carnage responded, "You are to find a file on a genetics scientist named Richard Parker and the file also contains information on his wife, Mary Parker." he said, showing them a picture of the couple in question. Mary had short reddish brown hair and Richard had a white lab coat on along with a set of goggles over his eyes and short brown hair with blue eyes.
"That's them, eh?" asked Virgo.
"Indeed so, Virgo." said Mysterio.
Pisces then took the time to speak. "Why is it that we're retrieving this file again?" she asked.
Just then, a mysterious figure in all black appeared on the screen. "Because, that file could be a clue I might need to find a way to end Richard Parker's legacy once and for all!"
The Zodiac did not know who it was that they were talking to at all. "Oh, he's our newest partner." Mysterio stated.
"He prefers to remain anonymous." Carnage added.
Zodiac were unaware of this new partner's existence. "We have never seen you before in our lives." said Cancer.
"Whatever, as long as later on, that Spider-Man comes to take the bait." Sagittarius added.
"Yeah, about time I got payback for the last time he humiliated me when I tried to take over the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier from my goody two-shoes brother, Nick Fury!" Scorpio said, with bitterness in his eyes. "And the time he took Amanda and Walter Cage from my employ!"
"Rest assured, Scorpio." the mystery man said, as he spoke to them. "That Spider-Man is sure to be ensnared by the trap!"
Little did they know, they were being followed by someone who remained undetected by them on board a hoverbike that looked like something out of Star Trek. "Oh no, that does not sound good at all." the someone said in a female voice. "I'd better inform Pete and Nat."
Scorpio also had something he wanted to asked. "But could you explain what this file has to do with this bunch of white coats we caught?" he wondered as he pointed his thumb over to a handful of people in white lab coats that were tied up and gagged.
"They worked in Richard's old lab before he disappeared." the mystery man responded to the Zodiac leader. "I needed them captured to get information as to where he is, so I can kill him myself and them with him." he said with venom in his tone. "And if that doesn't work, I'll use them as bargaining chips should the need rise."
The Zodiac all looked at each other and agreed in unison with what the mystery man said. "Ah, now I get ya." Aquarius said.
"Very well." Scorpio confirmed just as the building holding the file appeared on his radar. "We're closing in on the file's location ASAP."
"Excellent!" Mysterio said. "Godspeed to you all. Mysterio and Carnage out." he signed out as did the mystery man who they have not met before.
Scorpio fired the laser of his ship at a building that was used by S.H.I.E.L.D. and NASA, this was the newly rebuilt Joint Dark Energy Mission and Research facility. Nick Fury was not there, neither was Erik Selvig, Thor's friend from New Mexico, however a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent ducked and reported it over his radio. "EMERGENCY! HOSTILE AIRCRAFT IS ATTACKING!" he shouted.
The aircraft landed and Zodiac all charged out of the platform and stormed the place as the mystery woman lander her hoverbike to the ground. "Damn, they got here first!" she cursed herself for getting there too late.
"Zodiac...CHARGE!" Scorpio shouted as Taurus and Virgo attacked a squad of S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents. "Leave no one standing!"
"Yes, Scorpio!" the lot of them said in unison as they continued their assault.
One of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents made another contact. "If anyone can hear this message, Scorpio and the Zodiac are attacking our base! Send help right now!" he said frantically.
"Don't worry, I'm calling for my friends." Mockingbird said to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent as she approached him.
"Oh, thank you Barbara." the agent said, while feeling relieved as Mockingbird contacted for help.
Back at the Parker Residence, Peter, MJ and Natasha all had a laugh off about the times they went up against all their opponents. Peter blabbed about how he used his Maximum Spider against all those HYDRA goons, but then, a beeping sound came from the coffee table came out.
Peter walked over to the coffee table and saw a light blinking, "My Spider-Watch is beeping." he said. "I wonder what's going on today!"
Natasha went over there too, as did Mary Jane. "Sounds like an emergency to me."
Peter pressed the button on the side and it showed Mockingbird trying to contact them. "Hey, Peter and Nat. This is Mockingbird."
Peter and Natasha were surprised to get a call from Natasha's old friend. "Good morning Bobbi, what's going on?" asked Nat.
"You won't believe this!" Mockingbird gave them a look at what was going on where she was at. "Scorpio and his Zodiac have penetrated the newly built Joint Dark Energy Mission and Research Facility in an attempt to steal from the archives here!" this was a stunner for the three as the did not fully know why Scorpio and his crew were trying to get into the archives. "The file they're after is on a geneticist named Richard Parker who worked for the C.I.A. and his wife Mary Parker, who was the best agent the C.I.A. ever had."
Mockingbird's explanation shocked Peter to his very core as he heard the names before. "What? I don't believe it!" Peter said.
"Pete, what is it?" asked Natasha.
Peter turned around and faced the two redheads. "Those are the names of my parents!"
Natasha and MJ were shocked to hear that coming from Peter's mouth. "Oh no." they said in unison.
"Mockingbird, I...I didn't know about what my parents did for a living until now." It was true, Peter had no idea that his parents were actually members of the C.I.A., because he was dropped off with his Aunt May and Uncle Ben.
"I know that, Pete." replied Mockingbird as she understood how Peter was feeling right now. He felt like his whole world was being turned upside down. "I get that you're devastating and all but we really gotta get to that file before Scorpio and the Zodiac snatch it from under our noses." she refocused Peter's attention. "That file might have more clues to what your parents were working on."
Peter rubbed the tears from his eyes and regathered his focus. "I hope you're right, Mockingbird." Peter said. "That file is extremely important and we have to go get it before the Zodiac does and keep it safe before things go wrong." he added. "We're on our way right now."
"Roger that! I'm coming too." Mockingbird agreed to go along with them both, seeing as Widow and Mockingbird were the best of friends.
Peter and Mockingbird signed off on their ends of the comm-link and Peter turned his head over to Natasha. "C'mon Nat. Let's suit up!"
"Way ahead of you, hun." Natasha agreed to what her boyfriend just said.
"Hey, guys, mind if I tag along?" Mary Jane asked. "I figured you guys could use an extra hand on this one."
Peter and Natasha thought about Mary Jane's request carefully. At first Peter did not like the idea of putting MJ in danger like that again, since she interviewed him when she tried to sign up for the Daily Bugle, before she became Spider-Woman, but Natasha thought it might be a good way to get her feet wet out in the field. "Sure, why not." Peter said, agreeing to the idea.
"Okay, let's go!" Natasha said as the three of them raced upstairs to get into their gear to go after Zodiac and stop them from getting the file in question.
Peter got the leggings of his costume on first, then the boots, top and gloves and went over to Nat. In her thoughts, Mary Jane said, "Yep, they totally make a wonderful couple. Although I haven't told them a secret about my Symbiote." she watched the two get into their outfits while her eyes went red and her Symbiote formed around her forming her Spider-Woman outfit. She also saw how romantic they were getting as they suiting up with Peter zipping up Natasha's costume until he leaves her breasts unzipped for her massive cleavage to show. He then started to put his hands down her cleavage, making her giggle a little bit. MJ got up and walked over to Natasha to ask her something while her face was a little bit red. "Excuse me, Black Widow. Before we go on this mission, can I touch your boobs so I can feel how soft they really are?"
Peter overheard this as Natasha had a dumbfounded look on her face, that comment came out of nowhere and made Natasha blush. "What? At a time like this?" Peter asked as he turned his head.
Natasha took a little while to answer but she went along with it. "Okay, but let's make...m-make. It. Quick." Widow moaned sexually as Mary Jane felt her gigantic boobs and started sucking on her erect nipples making her moan even more. She felt like she was enjoying it just like the times Peter felt her smooth skin when they went to bed every night.
Peter felt his member getting stiff below and felt a little disgruntled by it. "What are you two doing? Stop it right now before you make me have a fan...ta...sy." Peter then began to fantasize about himself on the beach with both Mary Jane and Black Widow in bikinis making love to him as he rubbed their breasts all at once and smacked their booty's.
The girls stopped their sexual touch and turned their attention to the boy who was lost in his fantasy and his nose started dripping blood. "Ah, Peter are you alright?" asked Natasha. "Come on, snap out of it, we got work to do!" she snapped her fingers in front of him.
"Yeah, tiger!" Mary Jane added. "Let's get a move on!"
Peter chuckled a little bit. "Sorry about that girls." he apologized. "I got lost in my own little world while you two were...oh, never mind." he felt like he'd rather not embarrass himself.
MJ and Natasha laughed at his expense. But then they stopped and Mary Jane opened the door. "All right. I'll wait outside." she said as she let the two be alone.
"Okay." Peter said, as his childhood friend shut the door.
Natasha turned her head over to Peter. "Pete, did you notice that the boys aren't the only ones that your friend Mary Jane is attracted to?" she asked.
Peter had that dumbfounded look he had before. "What are you saying Nat?" he asked back to her. "You're not indicating that MJ is what you're claiming she is, are you?" he wondered if Natasha was thinking MJ was thinking about going lesbian on her.
"Not yet." Natasha responded to him. "I brought it up because she seemed to enjoy touching my boobs and she was touching my body in a very kinky way too." she denoted, making Peter stiff under his pants again. "It's almost as if she were feeling horny or something."
Peter had no idea about this before today. "Wait, are you saying that she's...nah!" he thought about what Natasha might be thinking, but dismissed it quickly. "Let's go! Time's a-waistin'." he declared as he rushed out the door. Little did they know, a little bit of MJ's symbiote was inside Natasha's cleavage as it squirmed all the way down to her belly.
"Okay." Natasha agreed and followed him out the door while they were joined by Spider-Woman as they rushed to the garage and got into Black Widow's car. Spider-MJ was excited to be riding in such a wonderful car. Widow then started the vehichle, "Karen, set a course for the archives room at the Joint Dark Energy Mission and Research facility!" she said.
"Setting course now, Natasha." said a feminine voice from the car.
Mary Jane did not understand what was going on. "Karen, is that the name of the car?" she asked Spider-Man.
"No way." Spidey replied. "Karen is the new A.I. given to us by Iron Man after we sent Mesmero away."
MJ was surprised by this, "Oh that is so cool!" she said.
Karen, the new A.I. routed a course for them to follow to the archives room. "Here are the coordinates of the location you seek." she said.
"Beautiful, now let's fly!" Widow said, as the car ran out of the garage and into the sky.
Little did they know, the same guy in the ninja outfit who had been spying on the two spiders when they were spending the night at Avengers Tower was following them on a motorcycle. "I've waited long enough, Natasha. I'm taking you back once and for all." he said, as he activated a stealth mode on his bike and followed them even further.
Meanwhile, at the loft, Kaine Parker, alias the Scarlet Spider was standing face to face with James Buchanan 'Bucky' Barnes, the Winter Soldier who had vital information for him about his brother and his girlfriend that would change their lives forever.
"Okay, Bucky. Please tell me, what is it about the past about me, my younger brother, Peter and Natasha Romanoff coming back to haunt me?" he asked feeling intrigued by what Winter Soldier said to him when he arrived.
Winter Soldier was a little hesitant to answer but did so anyway. "It'a about your long absent father who was presumed dead. He's still alive, but he's on the run from HYDRA and Zodiac." said Bucky.
Kaine had a blank stare on his face. "I'm sure as all hell not surprised one bit." responded the older Parker boy to the cybernetic soldier. "Because I knew that my dad was alive all along." he continued. "I have my resources." he said to him without revealing who informed him beforehand.
This surprised Winter Soldier a little bit, for he did not know the resources that Kaine had until now. "But did your resources tell you that he's being hunted by someone who goes by the name of Eddie Brock?" he asked if he new about someone by that name. "He was the original Venom. The guy named Flash Thompson is the one who wears a copy of the original Symbiote, which is not like the real deal."
Kaine said, "No, I didn't know that. Not until now." as he felt a little disgruntled about hearing the news. "Dad was so close to a major scientific breakthrough which happened to be a cure for cancer." he got up out of his chair and went over to a drawer to pull out some kind of notebook with the initials 'R.P.' on them. "I still have some of his notes right here in this book. But, when I began to read them, none of them were finished."
Bucky began looking over the notes as he memorized them bit by bit by bit. 'Hmm, very compelling.' he thought before he turned his attention back to the red arachnid. "What if I told you that I can find some kind of way to track your old man down so we can find him?" he asked.
Kaine was compelled by how he put it and thought, 'It could be risky, leaving the info in the hands of someone who's been brainwashed by HYDRA before.' but said, "It'll be all worth it." as he shook the hand of Captain America's former sidekick.
Just then, Katie Rogers walked in dressed in a blue tank-top and yoga pants, with a towel over her hair as she just got out of the training room showers. "Hey, Kaine!" she greeted the young man who blinked hesitantly in a dumbfounded manner. "Sorry for interrupting."
"It's alright with me, Katie." Kaine said back to her. "What's up?"
"I got some bad news." Katie told the older Parker boy. "Zodiac has gotten their hands on a group of geneticists that worked in Richard Parker's old laboratory." she said in a frantic manner.
Kaine was worried for those very people, he knew they were the people that Dr. Parker worked with in the past. He got along well with all of them, but was concerned for their lives. "Are you sure?" he asked feeling worried..
"Positive." she confirmed but then turned her head back to the man sitting in the chair. "And who the heck is this guest of your's by the way? He looks awfully familiar to me."
Bucky was a little perplexed by this also. "Um...do I know you young lady?" he said, looking deeply into her eyes.
That's when the light bulb in Katie's head went on and recognized who it was. "Hey, I remember you now!" she said, feeling a spark of memory flash in her head. "You're the Winter Soldier who happens to be...Uncle Bucky!" she gave the man a hug while he was still a little bewildered.
Bucky looked at Kaine who was also baffled by this. "Well...That's new."
"I-I-I don't get it." Bucky said, after Katie released the man. "Are we related or something? I don't remember you being my niece."
"But I do, now." Katie told him. "Dad told me everything about you since I was thawed out from being frozen in ice recently."
Bucky then tried to piece it all together, and then it donned on him. "Wait. Excuse me, uh Katie, I know we just met but is your last name Rogers?" he asked wanting to know.
"Yeah, and Captain America is my father."
Bucky had a shocked look on his face as he heard who the girl was. "What?!" he said, feeling surprised. "I don't believe it!"
"I know right?" Katie said. "It get's confusing at first but it might be a while to process this."
Kaine agreed with what the girl said to her 'Uncle' "Yeah, that's true, but right now, we gotta focus on the task at hand." he said. "We gotta find Scorpio's hideout, interrogate him and Taurus and get them to tell us about my dad's whereabouts."
"Yeah, that's a good idea." Bucky said, agreeing with what the older Parker boy said.
"I'll help you too." Katie said.
"Okay, then let's head over to my computer." Kaine soon went over the computer he had in his room and began to type up any information he could find on Eddie Brock and the location of Zodiac's base.
The three Spiders zoomed over to Joint Dark, the sight of it was breathtaking and wonderful at the same time, except for the wrecked parts of the place.
"So, that's the place Mockingbird was talking about?" Spidey asked.
"Yeah, that's about it." Widow responded.
Spider-Woman felt a little bit of pain in her and her Symbiote reacted badly to the sound of an alarm that was blaring. "Damn, that alarm is loud." she said, wincing in pain a little bit, before she used her tentacle to whack the alarm to the off position. And the lot of them got a good look at what happened. "Looks like Scorpio and his Zodiac didn't waste time making their presence felt."
"Well, neither are we. C'mon!" Spider-Man said, pounding his fist into his palm and he and the ladies bolted into the building and saw the blonde woman in the navy blue and white outfit using her batons to knock a few Zodiac henchmen down to the ground. Spidey used a few web bullets on them, Widow did a baseball slide to knock a few down as well. Spider-Woman used her Symbiote tendril to catch one and slam them down like a basketball. After the short fight, they all got the rundown from the blonde spy. "Mockingbird, we're here! What the hell is going on here?" Spidey asked.
"We're too late." Mockingbird said, feeling defeated. "Scorpio and Zodiac have already penetrated the archives room."
"You're not kidding." Spidey said as he looked around. "This place is a pigsty." just then, his Spider-Sense began to tingle. "The file! We gotta get to it! C'mon!" he said, as he started running to the archives room.
"I hope we're not too late." Mockingbird said as her, Widow and Spider-Woman all followed Spidey to the very room. The searched the room but there was no trace of Scorpio or any of his fellow Zodiac leaders. Chairs were smashed and piled up in a corner, the table was half-chewed, most likely by Taurus. Spider-Woman got a few S.H.I.E.L.D. guards to the medical bay with her Symbiote. Spidey and Widow did the same before joining Mockingbird at the filing cabinet. "Oh shit! The file's gone!" she said.
Spider-Man looked at some of the files in the cabinet and noticed that some of them were marked with a question mark and some were marked 'Cold Case'. "Uh...Bobbi, I wonder. Does the file have a question mark on it?" he asked the woman.
"Yeah, it means it's classified." Mockingbird told him.
After the guards were in the med-bay, Spider-Woman went over Mockingbird, "Guess they went through a lot of trouble to make sure that the file wouldn't see the light of day, but thanks to Scorpio and Zodiac all of that was for nothing." she said, being blunt.
Just then, Natasha's Spider-Sense tingled and she saw something occur behind her. "Everyone, turn around!" she ordered as the lot of them saw what she saw. A couple of Zodiac minions were running while snickering holding some kind of folder.
"Libra and Gemini!" Mockingbird recognized the two who were making off with the goods. "They got the file!"
"I take it they're with Scorpio and Zodiac?"
"Yeah, they are with him Spider-Woman." Bobbi said to the young lady. "They're getting away with the file!"
"C'mon! We gotta stop them!" Spider-Man said, as they all rushed after the villains.
(A/N: Like I mentioned before, I'm using the versions of Zodiac from Avengers: United They Stand but the version of Scorpio I'm using is from Ultimate Spider-Man. And the version of Gemini is Joshua Link, but without the second head.)
When Gemini and Libra made it to the central hallway, they had hoped that Scorpio or one of their allies would be waiting for them, but instead they were all alone. "We gotta hurry up with the file!" Gemini said. "The boss is waiting for us to deliver it to him!" he said again. Gemini was a villain clad in dark blue armor while Libra was a villain dressed in an outfit that looked like a samurai but it was black, purple and gold and had her hair in a ponytail.
"Heh, piece of cake!" Libra said, feeling like it was no problem. "At least we got to the file before Spider-Man could, otherwise we'd be dead meat right now!" she added as they bolt out into the central courtyard.
"Yeah, you're not kidding, Libra." Gemini said. "Looks like lady luck is on our side today!" he chuckled and clucked.
Spider-Man used his webbing to zip up to them, turn them around and kick them in the gut. "Nah, luck is for losers!" Spidey said, taunting the villains. "And believe me, I've been there before I got into this superhero gig." It is then that the girls joined him in the standoff.
"Spider-Man!" Libra shouted. "With Black Widow, Mockingbird and...uh, Spider-Girl?"
Mary Jane made a buzzer noise as she whipped Libra with her Symbiote whip. "Wrong guess, dweebs. I'm Spider-Woman!" she said, retracting the whip.
Gemini raised his eyebrow. "Spider-Woman?" he wondered. "What are you? His girlfriend?" he taunted.
"Nope." Spider-Woman said. "That belongs to her." she pointed at Widow.
"Thank you, Spider-Woman." Widow said.
The two villains got a look at how big Widow's chest was. "What the fuck happened to her?" Libra wondered.
"Yeah, how did her knockers get bigger all of a sudden?" Gemini asked. Widow dismissed that comment and Libra Gibb-Slapped Gemini on the back of the head.
"That'll be our little secret." Spidey said, before her got ready to fight. "Now you got two options! Option A: Give up the file, tell us who sent Scorpio and you won't get hurt. Or option B: You get a major beat down, turn you dweebs in, lock you up and throw away the key. That way, you'll be able to masturbate about these girls because you'll never get to have them and their goods." he insulted the villains.
"That's telling 'em, tiger." Spider-Woman said, as she and Spidey high-fived.
The two villains looked at each other and then looked at them to say, "How about option C for go fuck yourselves instead?" taunted Libra.
"Yeah, we're getting nowhere without this!" Gemini added, as he showed the file.
"Seiz the villains who got a nosebleed staring at my Russian redheaded girlfriend and her beautiful breasts." Spidey countered.
"Thanks for the compliment, Spidey." Widow said.
Libra and Gemini looked at their noses and saw blood coming out of their nostrils. "What? Hey!" the shouted and complained in unison. "Aw, crap!"
"Anyway, it's your funeral!" Spidey said. "Go girls!" he called.
"This is gonna be fun!" Mockingbird said, and Spider-Woman and Black Widow were in full agreement with her. The lot of them charged at the villains as Spider-Man did a flying forearm to Gemini, causing him to stumble allowing Spider-Woman to trip him with her tentacle. Widow and Mockingbird both did a double-team move on Libra, causing her to stumble while she still held the file. Spidey was about to use the Maximum Spider move, but he and the ladies were ambushed from behind as someone dropped a smoke bomb into the vicinity.
Ah, what the hell?!" Spidey said, as he noticed that something ricocheted and hit him while it got the girls from behind, knocking them to the ground as the smoke scattered slowly. "Who did that?" Spidey wondered as he got up.
"Someone took us down from behind without us noticing!" MJ said.
Mockingbird looked around and saw what looked like a ninja, standing at attention with his arms folded on the statue in front of them. "Damn! Looks like Libra and Gemini aren't alone on this case!" she said.
The ninja jumped down and walked over to Spidey, "Okay who are you and..." he stepped on Spider-Man's hand. "Ow, that really hurts!"
The ninja looked down at him and said, "Who am I, you ask? Well, I am known as The Ronin!" he introduced himself, before he went over to Black Widow, who felt her Spider Sense tingling.
"Oh God." she gasped, as the Ronin kept on walking to her position.
"Black Widow!" Spidey cried out in fright!
Ronin grabbed Widow and threw her on his shoulder. "I have her now Spider-Man. And she's coming back with me." he said to the web-head, while he did not know what he meant.
Spidey shook his fist in anger by the way Ronin grabbed her against her will. "Let her go you bastard!" he demanded violently. "It's me that you want!" he ran at Ronin again with rage pumping in his head, only he got kicked in the chest by Ronin and was sent flying to the ground floor. "Ow, that really, really, really hurts!" he winced in pain as he saw that Widow soon fell unconscious.
Libra and Gemini got up to their feet. "Good timing Ronin." Libra said. "C'mon let's get out of here!"
"You don't have to tell me twice!" Gemini agreed to that as they got the file, "Ronin, you comin' or what?"
"I'll be with you in a moment!" Ronin told them before grabbing Spider-Man by the collar of his costume. "You stay away from my Natasha, Spider-Man or I will kill you!" he hissed. "This is your first and last warning!" he took off as fast as he could while Spidey was still wincing in pain.
Spidey watched in horror as Scorpio's vehicle came around and Ronin mounted his bike and rode into the ship, as Libra and Gemini ran to get on board. "No! Black Widow! Black Widow!" he cried out in horror again. He shot his web-line at them, but was unable to get Black Widow, and got the file instead as the ship left into the sky. "Shit! I got the file back, but they still have Black Widow!" he cursed himself for being too slow to save her.
Seeing the webbed-hero in despair, Mockingbird went over to him and put her hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry, web-head." she said, soothingly. "We'll get her back, no matter what it takes."
Spidey wasn't moved for a little bit, "I hope you're right, because I can't live with myself if anything happens to her." he felt like he was going to cry. Bobbi knew how much Natasha meant to Peter, and would do anything to help them out.
Aboard the Zodiac vessel, Ronin parked his bike in the hangar and threw the unconscious Black Widow into a cell.
Just then, a communication line came in and it was Red Skull. "Scorpio, report! Do you have zhe file?" he wondered.
"No, unfortunately." Scorpio. "Libra and Gemini's bungling caused them to lose it when Spider-Man grabbed the file from under our noses."
"But, we did manage to get Black Widow away from him." Ronin added. "And we're on our way to the base right now."
Red Skull was disappointed that they didn't get the file, but was pleased in them getting Romanoff instead. "Hmm, zhis may be even better." Skull said.
"I concur with you on that one, Red Skull." the mystery man who had remained shadowed appeared on the screen. "She might be useful as a bargaining chip. Do you agree, Ronin?" he asked the ninja.
"I partly agree with it." Ronin agreed. "And hopefully, she'll want to be by my side again."
"Ah, yes, I did her you mention zhat you und her used to be a couple." Red Skull said.
"Too true." Ronin added. "Now, where the hell are Taurus and Aquarius?"
"Last I saw them, they were causing a ruckus in France." Libra said.
Scorpio deadpanned at this, "Well, tell them we need them at base, and pronto!" he ordered.
"At once, sir!" Libra said, as he bolted to the comm-link.
"And if we run into my goody-goody brother, Nick, I'll be ready." Scorpio narrowed his eyes as the ship headed for Zodiac's base.
Spider-Man was still at Joint Dark, looking over the file on his parents. As he looked through it, he saw photographs and letters from his Uncle Ben, Aunt May and even one from his grandfather, William Fitzpatrick. 'It's nice to know that my folks got recognition from Grandpa.' he thought as a tear started falling down his face. But he wiped it away and started pacing the floor back and forth, the situation of Black Widow being captured by the mysterious Ronin was seriously driving him up the wall, and down it too.
Just then, the computer in the main hold of Joint Dark bleeped and an image of Vision was visible. "Spider-Man, this is Vision." he said. "Do you read me?
"I read you loud and clear Vision." Spider-Man responded to the Synthezoid on the monitor. "And I'm not physically hurt by the way." he added in a rough way.
"But I can sense that something is the matter with you." Vision said, denoting that he was able to scan Spider-Man's face and detect something off with his metabolic rate. "What is so bothersome to you my young friend?" he asked. "You seem to be very angry."
"Of course I'm angry, Vision!" Spider-Man shouted as he took his mask off. "I'm pissed that I let Gemini, Libra and a Ninja-like villain named Ronin kidnap Black Widow!" he felt guilt overriding his mind and slammed his fists on the table.
Vision and Spider-Woman were both surprised by his anger. "You cannot blame yourself for that." Vision said. "I assure you that..."
"Assure nothing!" Peter shot at the Synthezoid. "I let this happen so I'm gonna find her and bring her back!" he shut the transmission off and stormed out of the room and into the hallway as Spider-Woman followed him.
"Peter, listen to me." she begged. "This could be a trap. I don't think..."
"Shut up, MJ!" he barked at the teenage redhead. "I'm not in the mood for a damn lecture!" he hissed. "I'm gonna find her, go after the chumps who took her and take them out and I don't give a damn about what Fury or anyone else has to say or do about it!"
Little did the two of them know, Scarlet Spider was there, listening in on the argument. And what he saw shocked him to the very core of his mind. 'Zodiac kidnapped Black Widow and had this Ronin guy take her. Fuck!' he thought.
Mary Jane did not like Peter's tone towards her. "Pete, I'm serious about this!" she said. "They're setting a trap for us if we go there unprepared and you're in a wrong state of mind!" she argued with him.
Peter did not listen, "DON'T SAY THAT MARY JANE!" he yelled. "I let this happen so I'm saving Natasha Romanoff regardless of what Fury's ordered to do or not to do!" he said. "And if you get in my way, I'll go through you too if I have to!" he barked.
MJ sighed in anger at what Peter said to her. "It pains me to do this to you Tiger, but you leave me no choice!" she clenched her fist and swung her open hand at one side of his face and her closed hand was pulled back as she hit Peter right in the jaw, really hard.
It hit him so hard, he fell to the ground with a bloody mouth. "Ow! Shit! What the hell is wrong with you Mary Jane?!" he demanded.
Mary Jane grabbed Peter by the collar of his costume with both hands and pulled him closer to her face and had an angry stare in her eyes. "You're being so hotheaded and stupid!" she replied, ferociously.
"Don't say tha..." he tried to fight back what she was saying to him, only to earn himself another slap in the face.
"I said it and I mean it, Peter!" Mary Jane shot back at him. "And if you think you can just say that to my face then you got another thing coming!" she threatened him. For the first time in Peter's life, his own childhood friend was threatening him, right to his face. "So, dammit, if you don't start listening to me, I'll never speak to you again!" she hissed as her teeth turned jagged.
(A/N: I originally did not want to write this argument scene, but after seeing a fight between my dad and step-mom, I felt the need to use this.)
After hearing that argument, Scarlet had heard enough and jumped out of the spot he was hiding, shooting a webbing bullet at the both of them, luckily it missed them. "ENOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUGHHHHHHHHHH!" he shouted as he broke the argument up.
"Scarlet Spider?!" Peter said, feeling shocked to see Scarlet there. "Where'd you come from?"
"I was hiding over there." Scarlet said, pointing his thumb to a wall he hid behind. He cleared his throat and got back to the point. "Now, if you two are done wasting your time fighting one another, then shut up and listen to what I have to say." he made that statement very clear. "I had a run-in with the Winter Soldier, and he and I cut a deal." he showed them what had transpired. "He and I know where the bastards who took Black Widow are hiding in." he then showed a map of the hideaway. "They're in Siberia."
Peter breathed a sigh of relief and calmed himself down. "Thank God. Please tell me that..." he was about to finish his sentance but Scarlet stopped him, after he let Mary Jane go and she walked away, with a little bit of tears flowing down her face, but wiped them away.
"I'm not sure yet." he responded. "All that I do know is that Zodiac took her to Siberia and are holding her in their hideout surrounded by HYDRA Soldiers." he then switched his watch off and explained, "The file on your parents they were after, they might have some kind of connection to your parents and why the truth about them was kept from you for such a long time."
Peter began trying to piece it all together, "If you're right about this, then I have to know." he begged and pleaded.
"That could be dangerous." Scarlet felt concerned for his long lost brother.
"That's why I need..." he felt tears coming down again. "I desperately need your help."
Scarlet began to ponder this, "Okay. Winter Soldier and I will do that." he agreed to it, reluctantly. "There's one last thing you need to know too. Have you heard of a man by the name of Eddie Brock?"
Peter thought about ever hearing of a man with that very name. "Um...No. Why do you ask?"
"Because he's back and he's connected to this as well."
Peter was shocked when Scarlet told him about how Brock could be connected to this. He laid his fist on the wall, "Then I'll get him to talk even if I have to cover him in lots of webbing."
"It's not that simple, Spider-Man." Scarlet said. "He's a dangerous man too."
"Tell me something I don't know." Peter scoffed. "Alright, we'll come with you and Winter Soldier. But I gotta tell Mary Jane something first. We'll catch up in a second."
"Okay." Scarlet said, as Peter raced to where Mary Jane went. 'Hmm, man. He sure is stubborn and too bold like Dad was.' he thought. 'Mom, Dad, if you could see him now.'
Mary Jane was sitting on a bed in one of the rooms that the people who work at Joint Dark use when they worked the night shift. She heard a knock at the door, it opened to reveal Peter without his mask. She shot him a dirty look, "Okay, Pete. What are you about to tell me?" she asked, calmly.
"Well, Mary Jane, don't ever slap me or punch me in the face again." he stated, still feeling sore from the fight they had. "The last thing I needed was losing a friend over some petty bullshit." he told her something he never thought he'd say. "That happened to me and Harry after he blamed me about his father. And truthfully, I don't want it on my conscience anymore. I will do better because Black Widow and Harry are both people I care about, but so are you."
Mary Jane thought carefully about what Peter just told her. She felt sorry for him after he lost his uncle and when he lost Gwen Stacy, but then a small smile formed on her lips. She then pulled him into a comforting hug and stroked his head as if she were his sister. "I'm sorry Peter, I never wanted to hit you the way I did." she apologized. "I was trying to get your head screwed back on straight. I was trying to help because I care about you even if we're not dating anymore."
Peter gazed deeply into the eyes and rubbed the back of his neck. "Yeah, I'm sorry." he apologized back to her for yelling at her and getting into that argument. "So, we're back on the same page?" he asked.
"100% tiger." MJ told him.
"Awesome. Now let's get a move on!" Peter put his mask back on, and MJ put her symbiotic mask back on and they bolted over to Scarlet Spider who was now in the driver's seat of Black Widow's car. The car went up into the air and zoomed away from Joint Dark to do what needed to be done.
As this was happening, we find ourselves in Mysterio's hideout where he, Carnage and Harvey were watching the footage of Zodiac and Ronin's fight with our heroes and were laughing at their expense.
Just then, Harvey, who Mysterio did not know was Agent Andrews of S.H.I.E.L.D., asked something to Mysterio, "So how has your daughter Francine doing these recent days, sir?" he asked.
Mysterio turned over to him and answered, "Oh, she's doing fine. Thank you for asking." he said, taking his helmet off to reveal that he had short jet black hair, pewter eyes. "Harvey, why don't you go relax? I'll summon you if I need something."
"Yes, sir. I will." 'Harvey' said, as he walked out the door and went into the break room all alone. "Now to send out a distress call." Agent Andrews said as he poured his coffee and turned his watch on to make the signal.
Scarlet Spider was happy that he got to drive Black Widow's car but he needed to head over to his loft to pick something up. Spider-Man and Spider-Woman
"Hey Scarlet, are you sure that stopping by your loft is a good idea?" asked Spider-Man not knowing of what else what was about to be revealed to him. "We should be heading to Siberia and rescue Black Widow from those Zodiac creeps. Even though she can escape from them with her skills as a spy and my shared spider powers due to the psychic bond between us."
Scarlet was a little surprised to hear that Spidey and Widow had that kind of bond now from Beast, but was okay with it nonetheless. "I know, but I want to show you something, Spider-Man. Something that is extremely important to this job." Scarlet said.
Spidey was a little dumbfounded as he raised his eyebrow. "Something that's connected to my parents and the secrets they kept from me?" he asked.
"Yeah." Scarlet said as he, Spidey and Spider-Woman went into the loft and they saw Winter Soldier standing their along with Katie. "Hey there, Bucky."
"Scarlet." Winter Soldier said back to the red spider powered hero. "Hello Spider-Man, Peter Parker. Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier." he extended his hand out to the boy in red and blue. "You've probably heard about me from Captain America."
"Yeah, he told me you were his partner during World War II." Spidey responded. "He thought you died during that time, but Natasha told me that HYDRA got their hands on you, did a number on your mind and made you into a living weapon."
"Yeah, but it didn't turn out so well." Bucky responded. "I can't believe Cap had a kid I didn't know anything about." he showed Katie to them.
"Oh I see you met Katie."
"Yeah." Bucky turned his head over to the young lady in the black and red Spider-suit. "Who are you?"
"Mary Jane Watson, Spidey's childhood friend." Mary Jane introduced herself the the man with the metal arm. "I'm also Spider-Woman."
"Nice to meet you, Mary Jane." Bucky said. "How did you get your powers?"
"Mine came from what Scarlet revealed to be a copy of the Symbiote that called itself Carnage." MJ revealed. "After I was separated from the Carnage Queen that was created by Michael Morbius the Living Vampire, Curt Connors discovered a piece of the Symbiote was still bonded to me, and I've been in control of it."
Bucky was surprised that a young woman like Mary Jane was capable of controlling a Symbiote. "I always thought that no one could control a Symbiote." he muttered to himself.
Scarlet grabbed the file Bucky gave him earlier, "Read this." he said giving Spidey the file
"But what is this?" Spider-Man asked.
"The unfinished notes your father made." Scarlet stated.
Spidey opened up the file and looked over the notes in the book. Most of the pages were filled with equations and numbers and so on. He noticed that they meant something. "These notes...they're all about a cure for cancer. A breakthrough that was never before known." he said, feeling stunned to find out what his dad had been working on.
"But why would he leave his notebook behind?" Mary Jane wondered.
"I don't know." Scarlet stated. "But he was trying to keep them from falling into the wrong hands since he was a top geneticist for the CIA."
"Yeah, and HYDRA must've captured him and kept him prisoner for years." Winter Soldier stated.
Spidey wondered if his mother was okay too. "But, what about my mom?" he asked.
"I don't know, Spider-Man." Scarlet told him. "All I do know is that...Wait a sec." he turned his head over to his computer. "I'm getting a message from an anonymous messenger." they all rushed to him and waited for him to read it.
"What's it say?" asked Spider-Woman.
He clicked the message and he began to read it. "The anonymous messenger says that Spider-Man's father is indeed alive. But he does not want to be found because someone is stalking him."
Spidey was shocked to hear that his dad was still alive, but a little ticked that he does not want to be found due to someone stalking him. 'No doubt Eddie Brock is the one who's stalking him.' he thought. "But what about my mom? Is she...dead?" he scrolled through it further and is saddened to hear that his mother died before the plane crash. The messenger also stated that Mary Parker's neck had been snapped by someone strong enough to do it. Reading this made Peter take off his Spider-Man mask and he started crying really hard. "I can't believe it. My mom is really dead."
Peter sniffed in sadness as he tried to fight back his tears, but Mary Jane embraced him. "Peter, I'm sorry." she said, doing her best to comfort him. "I know it's difficult to find out that your mom is dead but you need to be strong for her, Tiger." she said, stroking his head. "That's what she would want for you."
Peter felt moved by what his childhood friend said to him and she wiped his tears away. "You're right, MJ. I'll try." he said, regaining his focus.
'Me too, little bro. Me too.' Scarlet Spider thought. He then looked at what else was written. "Wait, there's more!" he said as he scrolled down with the mouse. "This anonymous messenger, whoever it is also says not to turn to Nick Fury for any sort of help because he cannot win this battle. Only Spider-Man and the Spiders can overcome this evil." he read.
MJ was a little surprised by this, she had never heard of this anonymous messenger before tonight, but knew what they were saying might be right or wrong. "But why?" MJ wondered. "Pete, don't you think that maybe Nick Fury might be covering the secret about your parents up from you?" she asked.
Peter had a shocked and angry look on his face, feeling that Fury hid something from him before he formed the Web-Warriors. "I honestly don't know MJ." he said feeling a sense of venomous intent rising in him. "But if he is, he has a lot to answer for." he hissed silently. "But right now, we need to find that Ronin guy, whoever he is, and the Zodiac, rescue Black Widow and stop them all at once." he said, pumping his fist with determination.
Winter Soldier put his hand on Spidey's shoulder. "You can count on me, Parker." he said to him. "It's the least I can do after all the horror I was forced to cause everyone around the world."
"Thanks, Bucky." Peter said to him.
Katie went over to them and let her hair all the way down in a wild way. "Then I'm going too." she said. "Because Zodiac worked out a deal with, not Red Skull, but somebody else." she informed them.
They all turned to her and Spidey felt a little uneasy about it as did Scarlet. "Are you sure about this, Katie?" Scarlet asked. "This could be dangerous."
"Hey, I've been frozen for a long time. If my dad can do it, so can I." she said, feeling a sort of desire flowing within herself as she felt the need to help them out with this job.
Spider-Man felt uneasy about the whole idea of Captain America's daughter wanting to help just like her old man, but since Cap was like a father figure to him, he went along with it. "Okay, suit up Katie!" he said.
"On it, Spider-Man!" she said, going into the changing room. She lifted her shirt up, exposing a sports bra she had on over her firm bosom, next she removed her jeans to liberate her tight rear end and she grabbed her black and red outfit, gloves, boots and lifted her mask over her face. By the time she got out she was ready to fight against HYDRA and Zodiac. She walked up to Spidey and said to him, "Even though I look like I'm around your age, I'm still older than you are."
That comment made Spidey launch a deadpan expression. "Very funny, Katie." he said sarcastically. "Good luck trying to get a drivers license." Spidey then heard a giggling in the background. "I heard that giggle MJ." he hissed.
Mary Jane kept on giggling, "Sorry about that, Pete. I couldn't help myself." she said making her childhood friend have a half smile on his face. "So can Widow's Car make it to Siberia?"
"I don't think so, MJ." Spidey said. "It may have to refuel right now. Curse the bad timing for it to run out of gas!" he said
The lot of them then heard the sound of jet engines on the roof. "That sounds like a jet." Katie said.
"It landed on the aircraft pad, better have a look." Scarlet said, and the lot of them rushed to the roof.
The heroes saw a S.H.I.E.L.D. aircraft, but it was not Nick Fury inside, it was someone else. It was Maria Hill and a woman with long blonde hair dressed in a white catsuit with the Roman numeral 13 on her belt buckle. "Hey guys!" Maria said. You look like you could use a lift!"
"Hey Maria! I'm surprised your here!" Spidey said, feeling glad it wasn't Nick Fury. "And is she one of Coulson's team of S.H.I.E.L.D.?" he said pointing at the blonde with Maria.
"Yes." Maria said.
"I'm Sharon Carter, the niece of Peggy Carter." she introduced herself to the young heroes and recognized the man with the metal arm. He knew that the woman was related to the British agent who allied herself with him and Captain America during the war.
"Oh, so you must be Captain America's girlfriend. Am I right?" Spidey wondered.
"Yeah, that's about right, hon." Sharon stated. She then went over to the brown haired young lady in the red and black. "You're Steve's daughter, Kaitlyn right?"
"You betcha, Sharon." Katie said shaking hands with the woman who her dad was dating. "And, do you mind if I call you Mom?"
Sharon blushed a little bit, feeling like she was a mother now. "Uh...Sure sweetie." Sharon said, as she embraced the girl but then refocused on the task at hand. "Mockingbird told us about what happened to Black Widow at the hands of Zodiac. And we thought about giving you a lift to their hideout in Siberia."
"Sure, why not?" Spidey said, agreeing with the idea. "I just wish I could have put a Spider Tracer on Ronin's bike or either Gemini or Libra so I could find their hideout." he cursed himself for not putting one of his devices on the villains.
"No need for that, Spidey." MJ said, remembering something.
"Why Mary Jane?" asked Arachnid.
"I just remembered." MJ responded. "I left a little bit of my Symbiote on Natasha's body so we'll know where to find her when we get there." she stated confessing that she left a bit of her Symbiote on the Russian super spy right before the start of this mission.
"Are you sure about this, MJ?" Peter said, feeling worried that what happened with the Carnage Queen last time might happen to Widow. "What if the Symbiote infect...Ahh!" he said feeling a little pain in his head.
MJ and the others looked worried when they saw what was happening. "Spidey, what's wrong?!" MJ said, feeling concerned for her childhood friend.
Peter grunted as he got back up and his eyes started to glow blue. "My head! I-I-I-I think I'm seeing through Natasha's eyes!"
Katie, Bucky and Scarlet were a little bewildered by what the web-slinger just said. "What do you mean by that?" asked the Winter Soldier.
"I'm seeing things through Natasha's eyes because of the psychic bond between the two of us, thanks to Mesmero." Peter explained, making Bucky, Katie and MJ shocked. "I think she's in the dungeon of Zodiac's hideout! She's just waking up!"
"Then we'd better get a move on!" Maria stated. "Get on board so we can fly to Siberia and take the fight to them! Coulson and his team will meet us there!" she ordered them all.
"Right!" Spidey agreed. "Let's go everyone!"
"ROGER!" they all said in unison as they boarded the ship and took off to Siberia in order to save Black Widow.
As this whole thing was going on, S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson marched towards Director Fury's office on the Helicarrier and boy was he in a bad mood right now. The door opened and he slammed his hands of the Director's desk.
"With all due respect Director Fury, withholding evidence about Peter Parker's parents from him is bullshit!" Phil said, angrily to his superior. "You knew this day would come if he found out that you were keeping secrets from him!"
Director Fury turned around and said back to him, "No Coulson! None of this would have happened if he'd just put the file back where Zodiac took it from!" the S.H.I.E.L.D. Director did not like Coulson's attitude toward him. "The file is Pandora's Box!"
"Why?!" Coulson demanded. "Because it had information, reports and records about the joint investigations between S.H.I.E.L.D. and the CIA, Dr. Richard Parker's groundbreaking research on the cure for cancer that he made, making him a target for HYDRA, including the betrayal of his young protege who went rogue, who happens to be Eddie Brock?"
"Of course, Coulson!" Fury shot back. "The last thing I need is Parker knowing that this Brock guy helped play a role in the murder of Mary Parker!" he barked.
Coulson was dismayed by the news of Mary Parker was murdered by Brock, but put that aside. "But what about Richard?" Phil demanded.
"I don't know if he's alive or dead." he said, solemnly and bitterly. "All I do know is that he's probably been presumed dead as we speak."
Coulson did not believe him for one second. "Sir, you need to tell Peter the truth." he said, begging him to do so. "He deserves to know."
Fury got up in Coulson's face, "Not until the time is right, Coulson." he stated, firmly. "And never speak of this matter to your fellow agents and don't ever question me like that ever again. Is that clear?" he stared angrily into Coulson's eyes.
"Yes sir." Coulson said, feeling like he did not like what he found out about his boss.
"Then you're dismissed." Fury stated as Coulson exited Fury's office and Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons walked into the room with some kind of robot.
"Director Fury, sir." Fitz started off.
"Forgive our intrusion, but you have a visitor." Jemma added.
"Well don't just stand there, send 'em in!" he ordered and the robot hovered inside. It looked all silver and had the number '4' on it's back.
"Greetings Director Fury." the robot said in a male voice that sounded like a 10-year-old boy that no one understands. "I hope I didn't disturb you during your busy hours on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier."
(A/N: That 10-Year-Old boy that no one understands is a nod to one of my favorite creations from Butch Hartman, The Fairly Odd Parents.)
Fury raised an eyebrow at the little robot. "No, not at all." Nick said to the machine as he shook hands with it. "And who may I ask are you?"
"Oh, I'm H.E.R.B.I.E., the computer for the Fantastic Four." the robot now called H.E.R.B.I.E. said, introducing himself to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Director. "I'm here to inform you that Zodiac and HYDRA are working together and have new bases but are working on separate goals." Fury was stunned to hear that Scorpio was working alongside Red Skull. "Oh, and Dr. Richards wants to speak to you as of this moment."
"Then patch him through." Fury said.
"No need for that Director Fury. I'm already here." In the office walked the legs of a man and then the rest of him came in as he retracted his stretched body. He was dressed in a blue, white and black uniform with the number '4' on his chest. He had short brown hair with white parts on the back-side of his head along with brown eyes. This was Dr. Reed Richards, alias Mr. Fantastic, leader and founding member of the Fantastic Four, he is continuously updating the layout of his laboratories. "I had to restrain Johnny and Ben from fighting each other again. My wife Susan and I had to scold them for their horseplay on the way here."
"I see." Fury sat back down at his desk. "So what really brings you here Reed?"
"I'm here to assist S.H.I.E.L.D. in any way I can regarding Zodiac and HYDRA." said Mr. Fantastic. "And to also see Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons about designing some new costumes for Spider-Man and Black Widow after the incident involving Doctor Octopus toying around with Spider-Man's mind and body."
Fury went along with it. "Sure thing." he agreed to that. "After all, you've done a lot for us in the past."
"It's the least I can do. And the Fantastic Four will also be assisting S.H.I.E.L.D. in their persuit of Zodiac and HYDRA as well." Mr. Fantastic adjourned with Fitz and Simmons to their lab so they could get to work on the new suits Spider-Man would need and Widow as well.
All the while, at Zodiac's base ins Siberia, we see Natasha inside of a holding cell, suspended above the floor as she felt very groggy. She opened her eyes and tried to focus herself.
(Another Way Out by Hollywood Undead plays)
"Oh God, where am I?" she asked herself as she looked around. "And why do I suddenly feel chills running up my body up to my entire body?" she asked as her boobs started shaking out of control, like they were cold and she could feel her nipples getting hard, but then she put her horny side away and refocused her memory. "I think I remember what happened earlier." just then, she felt her own Spider Sense tingled and she felt alarmed by who coming into the room.
Ronin entered the cell block and approached the cell Widow was stuck in. "My little Natasha." he said in his Russian dialect all the while admiring Widow's body. "I impressed to see how much you and your body have grown after all these years."
Natasha had a dismissive look on her face directed at the ninja. "Oh, Ronin! I can see that you and the Zodiac have abducted me." she hissed while noticing that the mystery ninja got a good look at her massive breasts. "Not that I'm flattered, but you're staring at something that can never be yours."
Ronin went a little closer to the barrier and said, "Oh, but it will be again." he declared to the woman. "And this time, we are going to get reacquainted for old time's sake." he shook his fist emotionally.
Widow did not understand what the ninja in front of her meant by that. "What the fuck are you talking about? And more importantly who the hell are you?" she barked, demanding an explanation from him.
"Perhaps this will refresh your memory." Ronin lifted up his mask and what Natasha saw shocked her to her very core. Ronin was revealed to be a man with red hair, a mustache that went all the way around his jaw and upper lip and blue eyes. This was Natasha's ex-husband, Alexi Shostakov. They got married during her days in the Red Room, he was quite the test pilot, but he was supposed to be dead.
"N-n-n-no. It can't be!" she said, feeling tears coming down her face.
"Yes, my love. I am back from the dead." he said to her.
Natasha never thought she would see him ever again. His death was the main reason that she defected the Red Room and the KGB to come to America and make things right for herself and the people around her. "But, Alexi, I thought you were dead!"
"My death was faked a long time ago." Shostakov confirmed, denoting he never died in that rocket test. "It was the only way for you to commit to your training of becoming a one woman killing machine."
Natasha started crying in a painful and angry way "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" she shouted in emotional agony. "How could you!?" she demanded again.
Just then, a couple of men walked into the room and stood by Ronin, one was Red Skull and the other was a man with short reddish-blonde hair and brown eyes and muscles the size of a bodybuilder and a black costume that looked like Agent Venom. "Aw c'mon." the reddish-blonde man in black complained. "I thought you would like to be reunited and it would feel so good, but instead, you've gotten all choked up."
"I believe zhat is not zhe case, Heir Brock." Skull said.
Natasha looked up at the two men in the room. "Red Skull? You and HYDRA plotted all of this to lure Spider-Man here by allying yourself with Zodiac?"
"Of course, Black Widow!" Red Skull said. "It vas actually a joint plot to reveal zhe shocking truth to Spider-Man zhat Director Nick Fury vas trying to hide from him." he stated to her.
"And that would be what?"
Scorpio walked in along with Taurus, Gemini and Libra with him. "The file we attempted but failed to steal was only to lure Spider-Man to our hideout.
Natasha turned her head over to the man in the black suit with the white spider logo. "Who are you by the way?" she demanded.
"The names Brock...Edward Brock...Junior, but most people called me Eddie." he introduced himself. "In fact...I am the ORIGINAL Venom! The one that existed even before the one you call Flash Thompson donned the mantle I started!" Natasha was shocked again.
Taurus went and said, "And get this, Peter Parker's father, Dr. Richard Parker was still alive all along, but has been elusive from both HYDRA and Zodiac for a long time." he relayed what had happened prior to all this madness. "We captured all his fellow geneticists who were also alive and forced them to make the ultimate doomsday device that is capable of destroying the capitol cities of the world with the use of HYDRA tech Scorpio recently paid for."
"And where does Alexi fit in on this besides faking his own death?" Widow barked, demanding an answer.
"Oh it's simple really." Red Skull stated, promptly. "Vhile he vas presumed dead to zhe vorld und you defected to zhe United States to join S.H.I.E.L.D. as a member of zhe Avengers, he secretly joined HYDRA!" he revealed.
Widow was heartbroken by what her former husband had done, "But Alexi, why?" she demanded as she felt sad. "How could you join the enemy that cares nothing for you?"
"Because I learned about your defection to the United States Of America, joining S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers after you refused to do anymore political assassinations for our superiors!" Alexi stated, bitterly. "But what angers me the most is your romantic relationship with Spider-Man who is nothing more than a weak little boy!" he clenched his fist as he shook it in a fit of rage. "And I will tear him to pieces when we cross paths again!"
Widow now had a look of rage in her, "NO! Don't you dare touch him!" she barked furiously.
Eddie was intrigued by her tenacity. "So you really do love the kid. Don't cha?" he asked, being coy.
"More than you know, Brock, you asshole!" Widow said to the original Venom. "I love him enough to spend the rest of my life with him because he's always been there for me." she spoke about her relationship with the teenage hero. "Unlike my miserable excuse for a husband!" she yelled, disowning the Shostakov man as her husband.
Alexi was outraged by this. "If you love him that much, then I will watch the both of you suffer!" he declared. "I'm looking forward to it."
"So are we." Eddie said as his Symbiote face came up and they all walked out of her dungeon and let her be alone. She kept struggling to get herself free, but it was still to no avail.
"I tried that. It didn't work for me." a female voice said, in a cell adjacent to Widow's. "I have an idea on how to set you free. But your boyfriend has to do this as well."
Widow didn't know who the voice belonged to. "Who are you?" she asked.
"Think of me as someone who want's to help."
While this happened, Spidey, Scarlet Spider, Spider-Woman and Arachnid rode in the vehicle along with Sharon Carter and Maria Hill. The vehicle was an unfinished prototype jet created by Stark Enterprises and Mr. Fantastic respectively, but it worked perfectly.
(A/N: I made the inside of the jet look like the inside of the Quinjet from Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1.)
"I still can't believe that my dad is still alive after all these years!" Spider-Man said, feeling glad that his father was still on this Earth. "It's good news but at the same time, it's mind-numbing that the anonymous messenger saved the leaked information about my parents for me."
"Yeah, but look on the bright side, kiddo, Mockingbird had discreetly downloaded a copy of the file to the Vision and Black Panther while Iron Man, Thor, Hawkeye, Hulk and Falcon are busy in the Savage Land dealing with Sauron and his mutant Dinosaurs." Maria stated to the young man, putting her arm around him in a motherly fashion. "Meanwhile, Winter Soldier went to inform Captain America situation that HYDRA played a role in this scheme." Maria added. "He told us he'll be back with him as soon as possible when it's all said and done."
Spidey was a little happy for the blonde spy on Coulson's team getting her hands on it. "I knew it!" he said, feeling hope rise in him a little. "I knew I could count on Bobbi Morse for that!"
"So am I." Sharon said to the webbed-wonder. "Though I have to admit, me and Maria are totally flabbergasted about the possibilities of your parents, HYDRA and Zodiac are connected altogether somehow and our Director himself, Nick Fury kept that secret from you for a long time."
Spidey had an angry look on his mask-covered face again. "But why did he do that? How could he have kept the truth about my parents from me let alone..." Spider-Man paused when Mary Jane placed her hand on his shoulder and shook her head meaning "Not now." "Stop it, Mary Jane. Just don't." Spidey replied to her shaking head with some stern words of his own. "Sorry I said that to you, MJ, but when I get back to the Helicarrier, I want a word with Fury and get answers from him no matter what." he said shaking his fist in anger right before Maria Hill placed her hand over it to get him to stop.
"All in due time." Maria said in a clamming manner. "But for now, we're heading to Siberia to meet up with the others and save your girlfriend." she continued to steer the ship in the right direction.
"You're right, Maria. Rescuing Black Widow is our top priority!" he pounded his fist into his palm, feeling like he was getting ready for the fight of his life. "So let's go! We've got a party to crash!"
"Way ahead of you, Spider-Man!" Maria said, as she hit the accelerator and the ship zoomed across the sky, closing in on Zodiac's base.
(Song Fades)
To Be Continued...
Well, that's it for Chapter 12, I hope you like this. ERoc901 Tha Clean Up Man and I felt the need to add some imbalance between Spidey and MJ, but I decided to have Scarlet Spider get them to stop by using that one word, 'Enough', Batman style. Speaking of which, I also have a Young Justice/Batman: Arkham Asylum fanfic I'm working on called Robin & Black Canary: Danger At Arkham. Be sure to stick around for that later on. And in my reviews for this story, there is a certain guest that asked when Aunt May will meet Black Widow. Well, I don't want to give any spoilers. As for when you all will get to see more. Look below.
Be sure to stay tuned for Chapter 13: Secrets Of The Past -Part 2! Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Scarlet Spider, Astonishing Arachnid, Winter Soldier, Sharon Carter and Maria Hill head for Siberia to take down Zodiac and HYDRA in order to save Black Widow. But as they arrive, the Fantastic Four arrive to give them a hand in saving her. Plus, Spidey finds out that Scarlet Spider is his long lost brother, and an even bigger shock awaits for them. Will Spidey save his girlfriend or will he perish? Find out next time! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
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