"So we get to see their time in Venice? I'm sure this won't give us alot of blackmail material." Clint grinned.
"Venice? Didn't something go down there a few months back?" Sam asked.
"What's the betting it's about to go down now and drag Peter into it?" Yelena questioned. Nobody would take her up on that bet, it was a sure thing in their minds.
The class went on a gondola down the canal, taking photos, as Peter and MJ looked at one another, looking away as the other looked. They then pulled up to a dilapidated hotel, as Mr Harrington started moving bags onto the dock.
"Well this looks like the five star treatment you'd expect from Midtown, a school filled with largely rich kids." Abe laughed.
"Well if I were financing this, it would be much better." Tony said.
"Or if my parents did, the first hotel at least wouldn't have been so waterlogged." Flash grumbled.
Mr Dell tells everyone to meet up at the DaVinci museum at 3, as the scene shows a montage of them in Venice, Betty and Ned posing for a caricature, Mr Harrington losing his camera, MJ stood with pigeons, Flash being hit in the genitals, and Peter looking around the stores, with a man stood behind him.
"Aww you guys look like you're having fun." Kate cooed.
"I'm glad someone hit Flash in the groin." Bucky laughed as Flash glared at the floor. He wasn't stupid enough to glare at Bucky himself, that would possibly be suicide.
"That guy behind Peter, he looks familiar, doesn't he?" Tony asked.
"Maybe?" Natasha said. "I mean, I think I've seen him before, but I don't know."
Peter holds a necklace of a black dahlia, walking back to the centre he's accosted by MJ, who tells him about a new word she's discovered, whilst the camera lingers on another man behind them.
"That's how I got it." MJ breathed as she fingered the necklace on her neck, feeling a wave of sadness crash into her, she recalled a few bits of Peter's face smiling at her, holding her close as they swung through the streets together.
"MJ, I-" Peter said as the memory pipeline shut off once again.
"Who's the guy it focused on back there? What's he got to do with this?" Eddie asked.
"I don't know, he seems familiar as well." Tony frowned. How did he recognise these people?
A vendor offers them a red rose as MJ tells him "Boh", making him leave. She tells Peter its her superpower, the anti Aloha. She asks Peter what he has in his bag, he replies Boh in kind, as she respects it.
"Boh. I like it." Yelena grinned.
"You're just going to say that about everything now, aren't you?" Kate asked her, exasperated already.
"Boh, Kate Bishop."
"She's not going to stop that now." Natasha laughed. "You've created a monster." She said, turning to MJ who winked.
The scene cuts to the waters below Venice and the waves moving in, Peter notices the water draining as Ned and Betty are rocked on a gondola, suddenly the water rises up as people run and scream, Peter looking shocked as a giant figure appears in the water and Ned and Betty are thrown to the shore.
"Great, so there was a cyclone one in Mexico and now a water one here?" Steve questioned.
"Do you know anything about this sort of thing?" Eddie asked Venom.
"NO, THIS IS NEW." Venom confirmed.
"Any ideas, wizards?" Sam put out there.
"It isn't anything to do with us, and we aren't wizards." Wong told him.
"We're sorcerers who practise the mystic arts, Mr Wilson." Strange told him.
"Wizards without the hats then." Sam confirmed as Bucky and Wanda both snorted. Strange and Wong glared at all three of them.
"How is he supposed to fight that thing?" Scott asked.
"Wait, didn't Mysterio stop this thing?" Flash asked.
"Yeah, we saw him fighting it!" Betty cheered. "I bet he'll show up in a minute and help Peter with it."
Ned asks Peter what he will do, Peter tells him to get people away, he doesn't have the suit with him so will have to try fight it unmasked, so needs privacy. The figure began smashing up Venice as Peter raced to a nearby bridge, hurrying people off and taking the blow as a watery fist smashed into it.
"Smart, keep your cover whilst still doing what you can to help." Rhodey nodded.
"Jeez, that had to hurt, right?" Scott asked, worried.
"Just looks a bit wet, he'll shake it off in no time." Flash reassured him. "It's clear Peter can handle this, him and Mysterio, when he shows up."
"I'm still not sure I trust this Mysterious fellow." Drax spoke. "If the Pirate Angel Thor doesn't think he's trustworthy, nor do I."
"I'm sure he's fine." Quill told him.
Suddenly the figure stumbled as the flying man from Mexico attacked the watery monster. Peter rushed around trying to help as the man attacked it, forcing it to retreat slightly and try escape. The man tells Peter to lead it away from the canals.
"At least Peter is doing what he can to help, it seems like this thing is something you can't just shoot webs at." Hope said.
"I don't know, something seems off about all of this, this guy just flies in out of nowhere and knows what to do? How did he even know to be here?" Steve asked.
"Gotta agree with Cap, this whole thing seems off somehow." Tony agreed.
"Ah, you're probably just thinking too much into it as Mysterio was a new hero." Flash said.
The class reach the Da Vinci museum to find its closed as the monster comes past them, the mystery man in tow, battling through the streets. Peter, above them, tries to web up a collapsing building to keep it standing. Peter eventually loses control and the building collapses as the people of Venice and the class cheer the mystery man, with the water monster seemingly splitting into two and vanishing.
"Well, he certainly seems able to fight at least." Sam noted.
"Yeah, something definitely is off with this." Nebula agreed with the earlier comments.
"Is Peter alright?" Tony worried, he'd hit his head a few times with the bell tower, surely he didn't have a concussion or anything, did he?
"Yeah, he's fine, he walked away." Ned stated.
The screen shows the class at the hotel discussing the battle, Flash states Spider-Man could have taken him, as Mr Dell states as a man of science, he believes the reason behind the monster is witches. Peter tells May on the phone that they want to stay on the trip and not return home due to it, he then finds out Happy is with her at her office eating lunch, he greets Happy, who awkwardly says hi back before hanging up.
"Definitely a scientific approach with witches." Bruce agreed, nodding sagely before cracking a grin.
"So Peter can take anyone, can he?" Abe asked Flash with a smirk as Flash glowered at him.
"You know what I mean, he's a great guy, clearly." Flash reasoned.
"So, are you already dating by this point?" Tony asked Happy who nodded.
"Well, yeah, a few days now at least, a summer fling kinda thing I think she called it." He frowned. God, he had loved May, but had she loved him back? He never did get a straight answer on that, and now, now he never would. He sighed, thinking back to all the times they had together.
The class discuss the new hero, Flash again praising Spider-Man, MJ asks what is his obsession with Spider-Man, Flash says Spidey is cool and a hero before greeting Peter as "Dick-wad".
"Really?" Steve raised an eyebrow at Flash.
"I'm sorry, I've said that before, I messed up with him in the past, clearly, and when we do get back, I'll try make it up to Peter, if I can." Flash told them.
"See that you do." Thor grumbled.
The news calls him "Mysterio" as the gang remark on the idea, with Betty and Ned both calling it a cool name in sync. Peter asks MJ how much she saw, she said she didn't see much as she was running, he awkwardly stated he too was running away before discussing the trip, MJ saying the Eiffel tower was her favourite part due to a theory it was a mind control antenna.
"Well now we've got to see if it is, don't we?" Scott asked.
"I think we might be fine to leave it alone, no need to rampage through Paris over it." Natasha said.
"But you should check it out." Yelena teased.
"It'd be cool if it were one." MJ agreed.