DISCLAIMER: MEESA DON'T OWNER SPIDERMAN OR OTHER IP'S
Brainstorming: The whole time
Started: When I started brainstorming
Ended: When it ended()
Chapter Start
Peter Parker, Starcuts
"Hey MJ."
Kamala and Miles are looking between the two adults obviously noticing the connection between the two. Miles however DEFINITELY knows.
"This tension is what fanfics always seek to create you know." Kamala whispers to Miles.
"Your stories are little weird Kamala."
"Yaoi hater." Kamala seethes to Miles
Back with Peter and Mary Jane, Peter invites her over to the table.
"Want a seat at the kool kids table?"
"Sure, but I didn't ever hear about you being popular."
"We're kool in our own way."
"I recognize Miles, but whose the young lady."
"Hello I'm Kamala."
"Hello Kamala, whats the occasion for Peter to be hanging out with two kids obviously cooler than himself." Mary Jane says giving Peter a side glance and playful smile.
"Physics tutoring." Kamala states. While Miles gives a relieved look Peter, hoping another person doesn't know his secret identity.
"Ya Miles and Kamala go to some of the best schools around so I'm helping them out." Peter cuts in.
"Oh what has he taught the two of you so far?" MJ asks giving Peter suspicious looks.
Miles says "He's taught us about F=ma and other things like momentum you know."
"Hm tutoring on Saturdays must be tough, hopefully you guys don't get caught in the middle of fight like the one that happened near by with a big green guy."
Kamala and Miles are sweating balls after this point.
"You guys can chill she's just teasing a bit."
"How is that teasing?" Kamala asks.
"She kind of already "knows", she can draw two and two together." Miles and Kamala are a little surprised.
"You two knows she works at Stark Industries, not hard to figure things out and hear from people." Peter continues.
"We'll worked at Stark Industries I'm kind of on vacation right now." Mary Jane corrects.
Peter is a little surprised, but doesn't say anything. Then Miles and Kamala decide to ditch him.
"Well thanks for the help Peter, but Miles and I have keep studying. Bye! Nice to meet you MJ."
And with that the younglings ditched their Master. May the force feed their belly's next time.
"So with the teenagers in disguise gone, how have you been Peter I've heard you've been busy."
"Um doing fine for now I guess, so you're on vacation."
"For a bit yes, being cut off from the world in a bubble doesn't make you want to go back to work."
"About that…."
"Pretty sure it wasn't you, but for good measure…" And MJ decides to give Peter a good punch to his arm.
"OW!"
"Don't cry I know that didn't hurt you you big baby." Smiling at Peters obviously fake hurt face. "And since I've run into you this is a good time to tell you about Flash's return party?"
"Oh a party, when?"
"Next Friday, so if you're not too busy you should stop by. Pretty sure everyone we know will be there."
"I should be free, but we'll see never know when the kids may need more tutoring."
"Pretty sure they can take care of themselves, especially if they keep doing this." And MJ shows Peter a video showing the exact moment Ms. Marvel had crotch shot Big Zam.
"Your tutoring is working fine, don't worry that move is perfectly fine for a young lady to know."
"It also means Miles is gonna need some therapy."
Peter and MJ continued to chat for a while ordering coffee. There has been a lot of tension between the two especially since the whole Regent trying to take peoples powers gave them a sense of deja vu they weren't familiar with. That is also not including the struggle they've had trying to reconnect after the differences in life they want.
Peter is content staying a hero, but MJ simply wants a normal life away from the crazy super hero events and control where she goes in her life. It's no surprise she took a vacation after being stuck inside Manhattan constantly afraid of the Darkforce. She readjusted once the bubble came down very quickly, but that's because she is used to these situations and she survived, but others weren't as fortunate and PI was definitely being seen as the culprit. A few people noticed Peter and gave him a few looks of recognition. Peter definitely noticed them and was slowly getting uncomfortable since it could drag MJ into his mess…..again. MJ and Peter were always drawn together, but he had to respect her wish for a normal life even if his wish was to have a life with her.
"MJ I should go, wouldn't want a mob after you."
"I have mace if you're worried."
"That's great and all, but maybe we can talk later. Stop by the Baxter building when you can, we should be safe from stares there."
"Ok Pete, see ya later."
And just in the nick of time. As Peter was leaving Starcuts the stares became even more focused and they traced his path out the door. MJ felt bad for Peter, he went well with everything he did, but sometimes he just messed up…badly. It was common for him to skip out on his family and friends for the Spider business and she expected it while others didn't know why he would always disappear. Now he had angered a whole city and all the people who invested and were banking on PI's success. Peter always felt it was some kind of twisted luck, do one good thing but a worse thing happens in return. MJ, however, overtime saw it as his two lives constantly pulling for supreme control of him. It was just one more day in the life of Peter Parker.
Peter Parker, Outside some apartment
After Peter left Starcuts he was still receiving stares of recognition. Oh how much he wished it was Monday already. Most people didn't look forward to any Monday, but this one was hopefully going to be a good one. Peter decided after leaving Starcuts to visit someone he had wanted to talk to for a while, J Jonah Jameson.
He obviously wasn't happy when Peter had texted him, but someone needed to check in on him. Ever since Jay died and the cloned Marla fell apart, Jonah has become more distant and his hatred for Spider-Man is further ingrained into him. Sending that signal protected lots of people, but further pushed Jonah and others with cloned loved ones into the pits of despair and grieving. Betty had some closure with Ned giving her a call and it lead to a big story for her, but Ned was still out there. That wasn't the case for Marla and Jonah was glued to his Spider hating blog.
"Hey Jonah you in there?" Peter asks after knocking on Jonah's apartment door.
The door is quickly open and Jonah snarls obviously annoyed, "What do you want Parker!"
"Just checking in, seeing how you're doing."
"Don't you have better things to do like saving your fascist piece of shit company or covering for Spider-Man!"
"Come on Jonah you've been after him forever, when are you going to let it go and realize he's one of the good guys."
"I'll do that when he shows his face, he had to have hand in the Hydra takeover. Heck you could have been involved yourself you know it all. How else could you have known about New U, you were in on it."
"You're really reaching there Jonah. I've had to deal with a lot of crap over the years, but you just keep digging yourself deeper and deeper into a hole obsessing over Spider-Man. LET GO! Get out of this apartment for once. Am I hiding after my fuck up? No. I'm out there trying to get ahead."
Peter shifts from an angry stance to a softer one to try and get through to Jonah.
"You can't keep yourself locked up and alone. You should visit May from time to time, I'm sure shes worried about you and it'd do you good to actually talk. Come to Flash's return party next Friday. Get out, rag on us youngsters for being deviants, doesn't matter, you should step away from your blog and this cage. Hopefully I'll see you there."
With that Peter decided to leave so Jonah could think things through. He felt bad for getting angry at Jonah, but he probably needed it to push him out of his comfort zone in being the one ranting. He really hoped Jonah would go to the party, he would at least have Aunt May to talk to. Peter was gone fast enough that he didn't see a small tear fall from Jonah's face.
END CHAPTER
A/N: Sorry if this chapter is short of the 2k I try to reach each chapter. This AN is also really long which will be the norm in situations where I'm explaining why I'm doing what I'm doing. There are going to be LONG explanations in some parts of this story to give how I view certain issues/events and why I do what I do in this story. There is A LOT to digest around the history of a character and their motivations and the way certain writers use the character. The mythos of Spider-Man is really starting to give me a headache, but thankfully I have lots of notes written down for things I can use in this story and even more I'm going to have to look into.
Besides some of the weird stuff I'm bringing in like Big Zam, what things are you guys into. Like Game Grumps or other youtube channels like that. I have an idea to bring in an easter egg(s) from Naruto, but I have to craft it further. They'll probably be ridiculous and over the top and I guess thats fine for the goofiness that's in Peters humor.
First explanation: Kamala does write fanfic or at least reads it, its hinted at in a few of her earlier issues. I feel like making her a little weird and and an obvious FF nerd is good for bringing out her awkwardness a little more. Things like this I may explain later on or just assume you guys know and roll with it.
Second: MJ knows about Miles from the Regent Arc from Issue 13 to 15(this range might be off a bit), but I don't believe Miles knows she does. Since she has this knowledge she can probably figure out who Ms. Marvel is, or at least be suspicious of it from the recorded fight. Details such as this is are tricky to keep track of, there are plenty of others that are going to be in the story and be even further back in the lore. It'll be tough to be 100% accurate to the comics since I know some specifics but Spiderman has DECADES of stories in the mainline universe. Just gotta do my best with what I got and obviously explain it. It'll also probably lead to some interesting comments to see how others view it or would use it. Lore battles are interesting as long as its civil.
Third: The conversation with MJ and Peter isn't as confrontational here as it was in Spiderman during the Regent arc. In issue 14 it makes sense for their conversation to have been that way because Miles was missing and a bunch of heroes went missing. MJ was pretty much in the middle of another hero crisis. Here it is more good natured and normal even though heroing is involved it isn't a serious crisis and MJ shouldn't have any form of anger.
Fourth?: Well talking to Jonah was going to happen eventually and I was thinking to maybe do it Peter Parker: Spectacular Spider-Man Issue 6 styled but I thought it would be better to just invite him to Flash's return party and give him room to get ungrumped. Also I'm not fully set on whether I'll use the current run of Spectacular Spider-Man or not. It has interesting little bits and ideas that I could move over here and that means more chapters and interesting events and probably drama.
I have some ideas on cameo chapters which will bring in other character besides those connected directly to Spider-Man's circle but they might be shorter in length. I know at least one character with a possible 2nd that will tie in very well to Peters current predicament's and one of them will DEFINITELY cut to the core of one of the ideas I want this fic to be about.