DISCLAIMER: ME DON'T OWN MARVEL AND OTHER STUFF
Brainstorming: Mar 17 2018
Started: Mar 18 2018
Ended: Mar 21 2018
EDIT: 4/27/18 Thanks to Haywire Eagle. Obviously Peter cant be an Aunt...unless you know stuff happens. Also apparently FF thinks Padawan should be corrected to Panda.
Peter Parker, Baxter Building, Harry's office
"I want to end Parker Industries."
Harry just looked at Peter like he went full retard.(If you know this reference then your cool, if you don't then I guess your aight)
Harry was so dumbfound he dropped the paper he had in his hand and had his mouth slightly open. Obviously stunned it gave Peter the opening he needed before yelling could ensue.
"Now wait up Harry this isn't as bad as you may think. It's kinda cancelled out by the good news. Anna has helped us prove that Hydra framed us for what happened to Manhattan. We can avoid a lot of headache by revealing what we've found. But you have to realize that Parker Industries isn't being connected to good deeds and fairness these days. Even if we survive this there's no guarantee we will recover.
Being an international corporation means having trust with the international community, and we don't really have that in good supply. We have a chance here in New York to fix things, but we can't do it as a tech company. I'm hoping we can fold things into the Uncle Ben Foundation. Most people think its something detached from the company as a whole. We could start over and focus on being a research group, do some consulting, lend help to schools, you know normal stuff."
"Sometimes I think you're on something Pete. But seriously we've spent ALL this time and money being one of the best companies in the world. We give people internet basically for free, we're one of the few good guys out there. Throwing that all away because it's getting tough isn't an excuse."
"Family is a good excuse to get out of being international. You have Stanley and Normie to worry about, they're still growing up they need their dad. Aunt May isn't getting younger and I know she can take care of herself but international traveling isn't easy. And well for me, well I'm me. I'm still figuring things out, but dragging all of you around in my messes isn't right. We all have important people in your lives, and staying close to home is the right course for all of us. We'll have to learn some new things, gain peoples trust again, but we'll be among friends."
"You should write the presidents speeches or something you know. It's something in case all this blows up in our faces again. But you need to convince Aunt May, she is the "chief" shareholder remember. Can't restructure things this heavily without her approval, at least for now. If anyone is going to break this news to her it has to be you."
"I know, but I'm just giving you the heads up of where things are with me. Plus I'm sure Liz won't complain so you can thank me later. I'll go break the news to Aunt May, she should be here any moment."
Peter leaves Harry's office with Harry still being a little peeved, but understanding what Peter is going for. Down in the lobby Peter sees Aunt May barely walking into the building and approaches her, hoping to not get another ear full like in Shanghai.
"Hello Aunt May."
"Oh Peter." They greeted each other and shared a hug.
"How is your day Aunt May."
"It's interesting, I wanted to talk to you about something and get your opinion."
"Oh what is it your interested in."
"We should get some privacy before we talk."
Peter and Aunt May head to one of the many empty office on the lobby level and locked the door so they wouldn't be disturbed.
"Harry said I should talk to you about where I think we should head. I'm thinking that being an international company is not the way we can recover and move forward."
"What do you mean it's not the way forward."
"What I mean is we should focus here on the homefront. We have too many problems that will hinder us if we stay the size we were before Hydra. We have the evidence we need to fight back against lawsuits, but people will still distrust us. Bunkering down and focusing here in New York is what's best for all of us. We don't have to fly across the world to a bunch of meetings with investors or see openings of new buildings."
"What about the people without food without water throughout the world. Through the Uncle Ben Foundation we've been helping the truly needy around the world. Why do you want to throw it away?"
"I don't want to throw away helping people, but I made a choice and it changed how the world sees us. We need to build up again and gain peoples trust again. There are also other organizations that the Uncle Ben Foundation partnered with to help people around the world, we can still work with them and organize resources with all our contacts and friends. I know it feels wrong to not do everything we can, but I want us to build back up again and keep people's trust."
"We've done so much for people they'll understand."
"Maybe some people will understand everything Parker Industries has done, but we also hurt a lot of people in the company. People lost their jobs and thats not going to be forgotten anytime soon. It's why I need your permission to end Parker Industries and focus on the Uncle Ben Foundation. Parker is kind of a taboo word now after everything, we need to rebrand and the foundation is the perfect place. You've made it one of the best humanitarian organizations around, and if we focus around it with whats left of Parker Industries we can still help people."
"How would we keep things afloat if we're not a large corporation?"
"We could have a consulting part of the Foundation to make partnerships with schools and other companies that need technical expertise and willing to pay for it. It'll help us build trust with the industry again and reach of to young people and teach them what they need to keep up in the world.
We could have a volunteer arm that helps out the homeless and those struggling for food. We can make things work here, we have a lot of opportunities."
"And you want the chief shareholder to approve this don't you."
"Ya we need your blessing for this plan to go ahead. It's probably the only chance we can stay afloat."
"I hope you can turn things around, we wouldn't want to tarnish Ben's name. I'll let you go through your plan, but I'll still run the Uncle Ben Foundation okay. You have a bad track record as of lately, nothings better than a little of Aunt May's magic. You can tell Harry that we're changing course, hopefully you two know how to stop everyone from dogging us. We'll talk later sweety there a few people in HR that I need to talk too."
Aunt May left heading towards the gimped HR department. Peter had survived another bout but he knew he was also on Aunt May's watchlist, any screw up now and he'd be into it again. He texted Harry that everything was a go and to start planning the topics in an interview so they were ready. Peter headed back down to the basement to work with Anna and get everything ironed out for the big reveal of everything. He spent most of the day there before meeting Miles again for another patrol.
Peter Parker, Brooklyn
Peter was hoping that this patrol he could get through Miles and talk to him about more sensitive issues. Miles, Kamala(Ms. Marvel), and Nova had been having a tough time in their adventures. They'd had a falling out with the Avengers who didn't fully trust them to be heroes and Ms. Marvel was particularly disheartened by Carol Danvers shift. Adding in the other super powered kids like Bombshell, Goldballs, Amadeus Cho, and Viv Vision, they were a true Avengers lite squad. They just needed a little bit of guidance. The week that Peter has spent so far with them for a few hours, they don't function like a well oiled machine. In fighting is common especially with Nova and Cho who both have the hots for Viv Vision. Good 'ol hormones, at least for everyone except Viv Vision.
Peter met up with Miles on a random skyscrapers rooftop and move out from there. Peter arrived first and heard Miles crawling up behind him.
"Sup Spider-Boi."
"Why am I a boi?"
"Just teasing, how is everyone else."
"Everyone's fine, grouped up in teams of two tonight to get things done a bit faster."
"That's good you guys are learning, shouldn't deal with thugs alone unless you have to. Plus you can test out your jokes."
"Ha that was a funny one." Miles says with heavy sarcasm.
"Trust me test out your jokes, puns, whatever you got."
"We'll see, where we headed."
"Lets head down Flatbush keep our presence known, then we can branch off from there."
The night was fairly uneventful, a few purse snatchers, but nothing a good shot of webbing couldn't do. Just web up his feet, he falls, and if the boyfriend was around for his lady he'll have caught up and
taken care of things. Easy peazy.
No super villains showed up tonight, which was interesting since it had been quite ever since Hydra's fall. Mainly normal disasters occurred like broken train tracks and fires. Perfect situations for the young uns to get some disaster training and get creative with there abilities. Ms. Marvel's Embiggen is definitely cool and versatile, a mix of and Ant-Man. Cho was a more controlled Hulk, and would definitely give Reed Richards a run for his money in smarts. And Miles, powers like he's a clone of Peter, but has freaken invisibility and venom blasts. It definitely hurts Peters pride sometimes seeing the cool stuff Miles can do.
Tonight was another easy night, and a good time to talk more to Miles. After a couple hours they were simply relaxing on the roof of an abandoned warehouse. This past week Peter realized that Miles and the others were a little weary of Peter. He had met them all one day to set them up with encrypted communications, Viv Vision was a big help because of her Wi-Fi and she made to keep an eye on them through the internet. It was a weird idea, but she seemed nice enough and probably knew his identity already. Besides her and Cho, the rest were not very keen on adult supervision. This was an opportunity into why the teenagers do what they do.
"I've been wondering how all of you have been coping since the Ulysses situation. You were wanted for future murder. And the others probably didn't have a good time either since then."
"It just feels sometimes like the hero business isn't about helping people, but helping yourself. It feels like Captain Marvel only cared about Ulysses because it kept in a position of power, she could do whatever she wanted and tell us it was for preventing bad things, but it didn't. It didn't stop Hydra, it just pissed off a lot of people and split everyone up."
"I didn't agree completely with what Carol was doing, but she was trying to help in a way. The problem is that her help involved using fear of each other and what could be. She wanted to avoid what happened to her to happen to anyone else, but it meant she devoted herself to the cause and didn't pay attention to how it affected others. One of the responsibilities we have as heroes is to act for the greater good, fear often is a way to move things along, but in the end it just ends up biting you back in the butt and everyone around you. Hydra took over easily because everyone was afraid and they trusted the Cap to do the right thing and Hydra already had him lined up for their purposes. The older heroes may not see you as full fledged heroes, but you're gonna have to work with them eventually. All I can really say is do what you think is right. Sometimes it ends up going great sometimes it ends up going bad, the future isn't set in stone and you're an example. You're from an entirely different universe and survived a collision of worlds and you didn't kill Captain America. You've probably messed up big time, I know I have. You just need to focus on who you are and who you want to be and remember you have people with you along the way."
"There are two Captain America's now."
"Think of it as split personality disorder, but they are twins. Or cell division."
"What's the craziest thing that's happened to you? Ever been accused of future murder?"
Peter got one of those feelings he had back when he helped save Miles from Regent, those weird moments of recognition that something was off. Even with this feeling he tried to answer as truthfully as possible.
"Umm not sure maybe something like that. I've been though a lot, but I've traveled to different dimensions. Something crazier than I've ever experienced has probably happened to another "me". Oh I know, Doctor Octopus took over my body for a while and built the foundation for Parker Industries."
Miles just looks at him, probably with a severely raised eyebrow under his mask.
"Bullshit."
"I'm serious, he was "me" for a while. Then he transferred himself into a robot somehow. And after that fused his consciousness with a perfect clone of me based on another clone."
"What the fuck. You're lying dude."
Peter chuckles. "I'm serious. Someone I know said all the crazy stuff that happens to me is just another Tuesday. Hopefully you don't have to deal with half the stuff I have."
They sat there sitting on the ledge, thinking on everything was passed back and forth. Trying to see where everything will fit within themselves. After a bit they started feeling sleepy and decided to head home.
"All right my Padawan, time to snooze. I'll message the rest, you can go catch some shut eye."
"Alright, see you tomorrow?"
"Maybe in the late afternoon I have a few things to take care of at work."
Maybe there next patrol would be a bit more lively.
End Chapter
A/N: So that cliffhanger last chapter kind of a jerk move, but eh comes with the hobby. This chapter turned out to again be more set up for the inevitable shift in PI's focus and also hinting at other future things O.O . I feel that PI shifting into the Uncle Ben Foundation is the way to keep the best of being "rich" and being normal. I need to do more research into other characters before I bring them into the fold along with elements of there storylines up to and a little bit ahead of ASM #31. The amount of STUFF there is for some characters is just bonkers, hopefully cliff notes exist for them. Today is usually the release of another ASM issue but they are waiting another 2 weeks, so my expectations are a super large issue April 4thalong with an epic battle. It better be good.
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