DISCLAIMER: DON'T OWN ANY MARVEL PROPERIES OR OTHER STUFFS
Brainstorming Mar 12 2018
Writing Started Mar 13 2018
Ended Mar 16 2018
Peter Parker, Somewhere in New York
After taking down those thugs and their getaway driver, Peter and Miles continue to patrol and thwiping fools up left and right. A nice old lady the saved even gave them 5 bucks which they were eternally grateful for. They decided to end the night by getting hot dogs with the ladies' 5 bucks and continuing to talk.
"This hot dog is so good." Miles fawns on the edge of the roof.
"Ya tastes better after a long day of crime fighting. Been a while since I've had a sorta normal night like this."
"You been busy gallivanting around the world."
"Oh, that's a big word. You keeping up in school?"
"Sometimes."
"Well, you should at least be able to survive high school, its not too bad especially since you don't have to work. Where things get tough is if you start failing, that'll eat into your hero time. Then you'll start getting pressured from your family."
"Already happened."
Peter just stares at him and asks, "Didn't you have to deal with this back in your 'home'?"
"Things have just been complicated lately."
Peter decides to let it go at that, but wants to discuss this later.
"Alright, well we're done here for today. Get to your dorm and get some sleep. Today's only Tuesday."
"Okay, night." And Miles was off hopefully heading to get some rest before starting the routine all over again. Peter needed to find a way to help Miles and his friends out. Back when he started he didn't really have the support or advice of others going to what he did. With these kids though he can help them out with his experience and knowledge, maybe even cover for them. Not that Miles needed too much help, Peter found out his dad was ex-SHIELD thanks to his previous affiliation with them. Hacking wasn't his usual MO, but he needed to make sure Miles was taken care of somehow, and his dad knowing what Miles was doing and understanding the business of espionage was good security. Peter just needed to help him keep up in school and take off some of the stress of being a teenager off his back. Another thing to plan for that can wait another day, he needed to sleep.
Peter calls it quits and heads back to the Baxter building to crash again but in one of the furnished beds instead. There were enough floors and beds spread around, that he shouldn't be found and could get a goods night sleep. Harry would probably yell at him tomorrow for not being on the scene instantly, but dealing with company fallout and being a hero is tiring.
Peter Parker, Baxter Building
After sneaking into his own building Peter gets out of his Spider-Man costume, showers, and goes to bed. As he slowly falls asleep he remembers the conversation he had with Aunt May back when the whole faltering company mess started.
Flashback, Shanghai HQ
Once Doc Ock had fled and Peter checked in on the relief efforts as Spider-Man, he changes back into his regular clothes to check in on everyone. Some employees were more than happy to be fighting against Hydra, but others were very worried about the research that was in progress.
had made large breakthroughs regarding cancer treatments and close to perfecting cancer detection. He didn't have much to worry about since most of it was published. Dr. Chang however wasn't as fortunate his research regarding green energy was not publicly known and had many hurdles to get through before it was stable. Surprisingly Chang and Wu were still in the vicinity of the Shanghai HQ and didn't evacuate. This would be the perfect time to show them his back up plan.
"How are you two doing?"
"Besides having to burn all my research I guess alive." Chang responds. Dr. Wu decides to not respond.
"Well I have a surprise for both of you come this way." Peter leads them to a small office building across from the headquarters and opens a secret passage that leads down the Shanghai HQ's secret repository.
"This here is everything we've done and our users have on their devices, at least in this region. I may have seemed like a jerk by having everyone get rid of their research, but its all here. I know I haven't been the best boss, but I'm hoping you'll stay on for at least a little while long and prepare these to get decrypted."
Both Chang and Wu simply nod their heads and get to work, you know the obvious cop out way of moving the plot along without much dialogue and want to pad :)
Peter thinks to himself 'That was a little too easy, wonder if Aunt May will show the same mercy' and decides to head back up and find Aunt May. She said to Spider-Man to pass along that she was proud, but she was not afraid to pile on that she was the chief shareholder and shouldn't be argued with.
Peter finds her and gets ready for the beginning of a scolding.
"Aunt May is everything alright." Once Peter says this he knows he should have taken Harry's advice on being for tactful.
"Oh Petey sweety everything's fine, except Parker Industries is dead."
'Damn she's pissed even if she is proud of me'
Before Peter could respond Aunt May asks whether Spider-Man passed along her message.
"Ya he did, but I don't think he'll be able to get back to the States anytime soon with Hydra controlling everything."
"Well maybe he could use a break, but you however are going to have a very busy time with this." Pointing to all the chaos and beat down HQ.
"I can explain." Peter says meekly.
"I know you didn't want to let everything fall into Hydra's hands. But did you even think about all the people relying on you. On all the people we have and could have helped through the Uncle Ben Foundation. You set everyone back and you set yourself back. This was your chance to make good after leaving the Bugle. You went back to school you got your doctorate for gods sake. You and Maria got together and came up Parker Industries. Then you two break up and you can't keep a single relationship along with disappearing on the job all the time. What is wrong Pete, I understand that bad things happen sometimes, but all of this seems like your doing it to yourself. I know you and Spider-Man are close, but it feels like you're always putting him before you and what you want and need in your life."
Peter simply stood there solemnly. He knew he had done a lot of make sure not everything was lost, but he still did something unforgivable to many. Stopping Hydra and Octavius from getting a hold of PI
Property wasn't just personal for Peter, it was personal for Spider-Man. Octavius grudge against Spider-Man evolved into one against Peter personally. Octavius even took over his body to become the true superior individual. Even Peter's return didn't stop Octavius from holding everything against Peter, because Octavius had lost Anna Maria, he had lost PI. The intersecting of Peter's life and Spider-Man's life created the perfect storm to bring one of the greatest highs and one of his lowest lows since becoming Spider-Man.
End flashback
What Aunt May told him was always in the back of his mind after that day. As he laid his bed he was knew that Aunt May was right. Spider-Man and Peter Parker impact people differently, and running a company as one man and protecting it as another meant he had to sacrifice the needs of one to further the other, leading to a convoluted mess. Hopefully he'd be able to see through the transformation of PI he believes will finally bring his lives into balance.
Peter Parker, Baxter Building, 1 week later
Aunt May's analysis of his life during the formation of PI up til the current day pushed Peter to do his best to patch things up as much as he could. Peter would wake up and meet Harry in the morning to see how things are going in the big picture and talk about Harry and his kids. Aunt May arrived 4 days after Peter talked with Johnny and regrouped with Miles. She arrived with equipment from Shanghai and Horizon University whiched help speed things up on Anna's side. They could begin retreiving all the information not only for important research, but also peoples personal data that they could redistribute. This would hopefully get the lawsuits off their back provided they give a good enough justification for their actions. Better yet Anna had found something interesting that would definitely vindicate them.
During Peter daily afternoon trip down to the basement, Anna has good news for him.
"I can prove that Hydra framed us for the Manhattan bubble!"
"What did you find."
"The security system caught people on the scientific floor setting up some kind of device. It wasn't anything we had been working on and when they set it up it instantly started spewing the dark energy that encased most of the island. They even hailed Hydra when they started it and were killed."
"Thats good, for us not those guys. This good, great work Anna."
"Can you afford a raise as my reward?"
"I can give you my CEO spot?"
"Nope! You share the name with the company. Besides you don't even take a salary, why would I want to inherit that."
"You could negotiate to take what you already do. It'll be a raise…..in position".
"You really are a jerk sometimes you know."
"Yup! Thank you Anna I'm going to give Harry the good news."
With that Peter has something has some good news he could use to leverage his new vision. As he arrived to Harry's office, hes getting ready for Harry's reaction.
"Hey Peter, what's up anything new."
"Ya I have some good news and bad news. Which do you want to start with."
"Umm I guess the bad news first." Harry says with a slight wince.
"I want to end Parker Industries."
End Chapter
A/N: OOOOO That cliffhanger so sweet SO…like the original plot that happened. WTF? That'll be explained next chapter I'm funneling my inner jerk fanfic writer.
So this chapter is shorter than I wanted and took a long time to do, procrastination FTW. And I'm going out to dinner in like 3 hours soooo ya procrastination and I want to play some Arma 3 and Arkham Knight before leaving.
I said I could do 2 a week but for this week coming up it might just end up being one on Wednesday. This chapter felt kind of awkward to write, but it should be the transition to the next part of the story where things come together and there will be more characters involved and hopefully nice moments that move everyone forward.
And finally regarding the Darkforce bubble and how it was set up, all I could really find is that Blackout and Baron Zemo were out on the water near Manhattan when they set everything off that cut off Manhattan. Since the Darkforce was used as the energy that you know blacked out the area, and they used Darkhold black magic in conjuciton, I don't believe it would be too out of the way to find a way to use some kind of device to "act" as the source of the energy but in reality its being syphoned from Blackout using magic or something like it. So ya fanfic manipulation/conjuring.