"I'm gonna find him and tear him to pieces. The heist can wait. I've got someone to deal with first." Tony said, eyes rimmed red as he saw Peter vanish, saw the train vanish. He knew Peter had to be alive, he just did, but seeing that, it broke him.
"Tony." Bruce said softly. "We can't change what happened. But I swear to you, we will find everyone who worked with Beck, and they'll all pay for this."
"Pete..." Spider-Man 3 whimpered, having seen his brother vanish.
"Hey, he's alright, we met him after all of this, remember?" Spider-Man 2 tried to cheer him up, noticing how it had affected his alter self. Pulling his other self in to him with one arm, he wrapped his arm around his shoulder and squeezed him reassuringly.
"I know." Spider-Man 3 said, wiping his eyes and smiling at the contact from the older man.
A bloodied Peter struggled onto the train and into a seat before passing out.
"He can't be killed!" Ned cheered.
"The Immortal Spider-Man." Yelena grinned.
"The Amazing Spider-Man!" Cindy cried as Spider-Man 3 choked on a laugh.
"What's so funny?" Abe demanded to know.
"That's what I'm sometimes referred too in my universe." Spider-Man 3 explained.
"I'm just glad Peter's ok." MJ frowned. She hated that she wasn't there for him with all of this, and her past self had no idea that Beck was coming for her at that moment.
Peter awoke to find himself in a prison cell in the Netherlands, using his strength to escape the cell as the other prisoners refused to leave their nice conditions, he found himself wandering around a small village, getting a phone, he phoned Happy for help.
"Well they seem nice at least." Hope stated.
"May have to take a holiday to the Netherlands, they seem like nice folk." Betty nodded.
"At least you're calling Happy, Pete." Tony smiled.
"He's a smart kid, he knows Beck probably isn't tracking me and what I'm doing, so he can get some outside help that he knows will come to help him." Happy agreed. "I just hope he'll trust me to help him again when we get out of here."
"Will the spell remove our memories of this again?" Wanda asked Strange and Wong.
"Not a clue, sadly, like we said, it's a spell that travels the border between known and unknown reality and magic. It might do, it might not." Wong spoke to her quietly.
Happy landed in a tulip field as Peter limped towards him, stopping Happy and getting him to verify who he was, Happy reminded him about Germany and Peter renting an adult film, Peter telling him that it was him and to stop.
"That's too funny!" Scott wheezed as he wiped his eyes.
"Poor Peter!" Clint chuckled.
"I'm never going to let that kid anywhere near something resembling my money ever again." Tony grumbled jokingly.
"I wonder if it was any good?" Ned asked, turning to MJ with a grin as she glowered at him.
"One more word." She warned as he wisely shut up.
Peter hugged Happy as Happy asked what was happening, on the plane, Happy bandaged Peter's wounds as best as he could as Peter explained how he had messed up, had betrayed Tony's memory and couldn't be the next Iron Man.
"I wouldn't want you to be the next Iron Man, Pete." Tony said, looking at the screen. "You're better than me. You're the future of the Avengers, you and those in here."
"You're a good guy, Happy." Sam smiled, seeing Happy trying to help Peter as best as he could with the first aid.
"I swore I'd be there for Tony's family, after he was gone. Pete's his family, and mine." Happy shrugged. "I'll be there for him from now on when we get back. I've failed him, and I won't do that again."
"You didn't fail him, Mr Hogan." Matt told him. "If we've all forgotten Mr Parker, you haven't failed him at all. You can't be there for somebody you don't recall, no matter how much you want to be. When you do get back, you'll be there for him, to me, that's anything but failing him."
"Thank you." Happy smiled at the mysterious lawyer.
Happy explained that he hadn't, nobody could be as good as Tony, not even Tony. Tony had always doubted everything he did, the one thing he didn't doubt was trusting Peter Parker. Peter would never be Iron Man, but he wasn't meant to be, Spider-Man was better. Beck may have the upper hand, but they could stop him, and what did Peter need.
"Thank you, Happy." Tony choked back a sob as Rhodey and Happy both put an arm around him.
"I'm always going to be there for them, Tony. Morgan, Peter, Pepper, whatever they need, I'm there, you know that."
"So am I." Rhodey promised.
"I've gotta admit, I thought you were dropping the ball on this speech at first, telling him he was never going to be Tony, but you pulled that into something that even got me motivated." Sam acknowledged.
"He's got a gift for a good pep talk." Clint noted.
"Yeah, Peter! Kick his ass!" Cindy cheered.
"Oh, I'm sure he's gonna make Beck wish he had never messed with Spider-Man." Flash agreed.
"Peter's gonna wipe the floor with him, he can lift a building, what hope does Beck have?" Abe asked.
Peter found out from Happy's phone they were in London and said he needed a suit, Happy opened up a portable lab at the back of the plane as Peter got to work, and Happy put on the music, Tony's favourite, as Peter worked in the back, looking exactly like Tony would have.
"Damn, he really does look like you right now, Tony." Steve noted.
"I'd be glad if he was biologically my son." Tony beamed.
"Have to say, he looks good." Kate grinned, winking at MJ who glowered at her, as Yelena and Natasha both laughed and nodded.
"You have a lab on your plane? That's amazing!" Ned marvelled.
"You should see the labs at the Avengers Compound. It's like an R&D candyland." Bruce told him.
"I love Led Zepplin!" Peter called out.
"WHAT?! That's it, the kid's disowned." Tony called out as Rhodey and Happy looked shocked.
"Isn't that Led Zepplin?" MJ asked.
"It's AC/DC!" Tony cried, scandalised as everyone else laughed.
Peter worked on his suit as the real Nick and Hill in Germany got a ping of a new EMP in London.
"The big one's coming." Ikaris frowned.
"Beck's getting everything ready." Sprite said. "His big one."
"Worried it'll make your illusions look bad?" Druig teased her.
"No, but I'm worried what his plan was. Sersi and I lived in London, remember? I don't recall much of this, but I do remember seeing the humans screaming about monsters."
"You're one of them now, remember?" Phastos asked her as she frowned.
The scene cutting to the class in London, Brad broke, wondering where Peter was, arguing about the deleted photo he took of him, as MJ made fun of him for his obsession with Peter, Brad was ridiculed by the class as Mr Dell spoke to him about lying as Brad began to wipe away a nosebleed.
"Go MJ!" Betty cheered.
"Poor Brad though." Ned said as the others from the school turned to him. "I mean, he's back to the nosebleeds again, that can't be good development, even if he's a dick and trying to ruin Peter's love life."
"I suppose it wouldn't be too good for him." Sam stated.
"Deserves it though." Bucky told him as Sam gave away a small grin.
As they got to the tour bus, the driver was Guterman, the member of Mysterio's crew.
"Oh God." Scott said. "Beck's covering all of the angles."
The scene changed to the top of a skyscraper in London, Fury and Hill checking their instruments as Mysterio flew up to them, telling them he had swept the perimeter but found nothing so far. Mysterio said he would try again as Fury said Mysterio was all they had. Beck disconnected before asking William if he was ready, no Avengers would be coming so it was his time to shine.
"He's making sure to stack the deck in his favour." Matt frowned.
"Well if this is the real Fury, and I've got some big doubts about it, he hasn't tried to contact any of us. I know I never got a call about helping." Strange told the room.
"Neither did I." Sam confirmed.
"Nor I." Rhodey shook his head.
"Yeah, I'm pretty positive even if this one somehow isn't an illusion, he's an idiot and not the real Fury." Clint agreed.
"Well next time something like this happens, he can be damn sure an Avenger will be there to stop him." Bucky stated.
"If not, we will be." Sersi quietly told the other Eternals.
Beck spoke to the rest of the crew, making sure they were ready, before firing the drones off, telling them to start the show, and on his command, telling E.D.I.T.H to kill MJ, Ned, Betty, Hill and Fury.
"I came so close to dying." Betty whispered, the gravity of it all setting in on her.
"We all did." Flash whimpered, recalling he was there in the London attack too.
"How is Peter meant to stop all of these drones by himself?" Natasha asked, terrified at the thought of one of them being injured.
"He'll do it, he's Peter." Happy grinned. "Don't worry about that."
"I'm giving your boyfriend a massive hug when we reunite, ok?" Betty turned to MJ who nodded.
"So am I." Flash insisted.
Guterman hopped off the bus, telling Beck the kids were in the kill zone as Fury received a call from Happy with a coded message that appearances could be deceiving before Fury hung up on him before he looked at Hill. Happy told Peter that Fury had the message as Peter said his suit was almost ready, Happy would retrieve the kids from Tower Bridge whilst Peter stopped Beck, Peter gave Happy the black dahlia and told him to give it to MJ from him if anything happened to Peter.
"Nothing will happen to you, ever, do you hear me, Parker?" MJ asked the screen, more memories hitting her as he discussed giving her the necklace, as she twirled it in her fingers now. "I will not let it."
"Goals." Betty and Ned sighed, before looking at each other, blushing as they looked away.
"That was your best code?" Hope asked.
"It worked!" Happy defended himself.
"A true forehead of security." Tony teasingly said.
Peter walked Happy through his plan, get inside the illusion, take it down, Beck was an ordinary human so just seize E.D.I.T.H from him, Happy asked what about the illusions affecting Peter, Peter told him he had a sixth sense, Happy asserted the Peter-tingle, Peter said he had to rely on that kicking in for him this time.
"It's not a Peter tingle!" Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3 insisted.
"Well it wouldn't be for you two, you're not Peter Parkers, are you?" MJ asked, arching an eyebrow. She was pretty sure they were Peter's too, even if they denied it.
"Well yeah, but I mean, it's a Spidey sense or a sixth sense." Spider-Man 2 tried to explain.
"Sure it is." MJ drawled.
The students fled the bus as the illusion began, Mr Dell insisting the witches were back as he and Harrington argued over responsibility. Giant water spouts rose from the Thames as lightning filled the skies above. The drones attacked the city as the kids ran past Guterman, the giant Elemental in the illusion turning to the kids as Dell said they joined forces like the power ranges, Harrington saying he was thinking of Voltron.
"Damn, that thing looks terrifying." Kate gasped.
"Definitely looked like an Avengers level threat." Makkari signed.
"How come nobody called any of us in for this, even if it turned out to be fake?" Clint asked.
"Must not have had the time to do so." Wong shrugged. "I'm pretty sure this was all over within an hour."
"It's definitely Voltron." Bruce nodded.
"Is that the most important thing right now?" Steve asked.
"Well, no." Bruce shrugged.
"If that was real, I'd be terrified right now." Scott admitted.
"I'm a little scared and I know it's not only fake, but it's been dealt with." Abe admitted.
Mysterio suddenly flew in and engaged the monster as Brad and the others cheered, MJ told Ned that Mysterio knew about them and Ned said they were in danger, pulling Betty with them, as Flash noticed them leave and followed. Beck spoke to Fury in a hushed voice, telling him he didn't see it ending well and telling Fury to hide, Fury said he would wait it out.
"I think even this Fury is noticing the lies spewing from his mouth." Natasha noted.
"Get out of there, go!" Hope said to those on screen running.
"We got away, we're all here." MJ reminded her.
"I'll admit, he looks good at the ploy, looks every bit the hero." Sprite nodded. "Really hope to see him hit in the face soon."
"I'm sure you will." Matt smiled towards her.
Only one last chapter for FFH and then...NO WAY HOME