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Revisions: Reading back on some previous chapters to stay consistent on decisions I've made in this fic I noticed some grammar issues I didn't notice before especially in Chapter 8. I'll be going through a few chapters and double checking everything as needed so you may be getting update notifications but they will be revisions if the chapter count doesn't change.
CHAPTER START
Peter Parker, Baxter Building, Tuesday morning
'I need to put a bed or something in here.'
Peter woke around 10 in the morning after spending the rest of the previous day and night working on his tacticool gear. He had some web-shooters ready for Miles to test out along with a few webbing mixtures. However he had slept slouched on a table, no pillow in sight, and had a few kinks in his neck.
*CRACK CRACK*
'Aww yea that worked nicely. Wonder what there is to do today.'
Dragging Miles here to test out new stuff sounded great, except he was at home probably sleeping it off and ditching school for a few days. He had a dorm and all, but his parents could make an excuse for him pretty easily and wouldn't have to deal with teenage levels of noise. But he was still in NY so noise would still be plentiful.
'Probably regular life stuff for a bit, and a little night patrol later.'
The ground was mostly set for the Uncle Ben Foundation to take the reigns of what's left of PI, but they needed some local partnerships. Partnerships that would lead to a steady amount of work and opportunities to help the communities in New York. One organization came into mind and that was the company Johnny Storm had founded. After getting a few billion in inheritance from Sue and Reed Richards shared portfolio of inventions and properties, he was living the life of fiscal responsibility. He even bought the Avengers Mansion as an HQ for the Unity team.
'Johnny could make a good business partner, maybe then he could have an unofficial stake in the Baxter Building as a partner of the Uncle Ben Foundation.'
Peter shot Harry a text that he would be meeting with someone important. The Foundation needed partnerships and connections in NY to stay alive. They had the logistics expertise thanks to all the aid they had been distributing to war torn regions around the world and the ground zeroes of super hero fights and disasters. With that experience Aunt May would be able to handle distributions to soup kitchens and food banks. It was not as…action packed as going to war zones or destroyed epicenters for attacks but it was still helping out persons in need. Some personnel were still in supporting areas around the world, but funds and materials were already allocated for them so they wouldn't be hindered for now. However future deployments to other areas outside of those still active or NY would need to worked out slowly. Becoming a nonprofit of sorts from the ashes of a large corporation would be tough, but at least he didn't have to worry about stockholders.(What about past stockholders….or lawsuits….doesn't matter). Funds could be procured through donations that may not come in due to their reputation not being exceptional so early in their transition. Offering services to other companies would however give them networking opportunities and take advantage of their technology based skills to add value to any operation. There are a lot of opportunities to take advantage of.
Peter travels to the Avengers Mansion obviously by web swinging there. No way Peter was going to use the subway, not with him being able to travel at 60+ mph swinging or with the subways' reputation of always being late. His MK IV armor also made it really easy to change into civilian clothes by simply projecting a normal outfit. Best design decision ever.
Once he was close to the mansion, he found a safe alley and projected normal clothes so he could walk in as normal Peter Parker. Hopefully no one would be able to detect whether he was using projected clothes on a super suit. He knocks on the front door of the mansion, hoping Johnny will answer it but nope, Rogue answers instead.
"How can ah help you mister?"
"Hello, is Johnny in? I have a proposition for him to hear out."
"Ah didn't think he swung that way."
Peter laughed nervously, "Ha hum he doesn't, neither do it, this is business related. Sorry if I bursted your bubble."
"Ah don't worry bout it. He should be in, come on in, Ah'll fetch him for ya."
Soon Rogue is back with Johnny in tow.
"What's up Pete."
"Hey, Johnny it's going pretty good so far."
"Ah'll let you boys talk you're business." Rogue says before giggling away from them. Peter and Johnny just stare at her while she was giggling.
"My female fantasy sense is tingling."
"What does it say Peter."
"We just became a yaoi fantasy like Tweak and Craig."(;D Boys in wruv if you know what I mean)
'I need to keep Kamala away from Rogue, she'll get some crazy ideas if what Miles has told me about her fanfics is true.'
"Come on I got an office near by."
As they were going to Johnny's office Peter noticed a lot of people he didn't recognize, probably the employees of Avengers Mansion Inc that kept the mansion clean and ready. Once they sat down in the office Peter proposes his idea to Johnny to enter a limited partnership. Peter learned some smart business words thanks to Harry's business lectures. Guess tough brotherly love works.
"Hmm so you basically want me to pay the UBF to be help handle our logistics and tech from Reed and Sue's money?"
"Uh ya, but I feel kind of like a jerk when you put it like that."
In a way Peter was effectively extorting money from Johnny to indirectly make sure the Baxter building stays in the family. From Peter's point of view that was not his intention, but apparently Johnny saw it that way somewhat.
"It's not a bad idea, it keeps things in the family."
"It does and the Uncle Ben Foundation could be the public facing part of the Avengers helping them in whatever way we can. However also handling all the technology and research we both have accumulated could be tough. Including another partner that has experience in all of this would let us specialize and share our own experiences.
"That sounds great, but who else could we trust."
"Stark Industries would give us more technology based experience and ensure we have research tools and facilities for anything we want to develop. But I don't know whether Reed and Sue would trust a partnership like that. That's something you'll have to make a call on."
Peter leans closer across the table to whisper something to Johnny. "Also Tony is back just so you know."
Johnny is obviously surprised, but it meant that Johnny and Peter would need to have a conversation with Tony to discuss this idea and set some boundaries. Peter would respect any boundaries Johnny set on Reed and Sue's properties, but Tony would test those boundaries. At least if he hasn't changed after all the crap that has happened lately.
"I'll think about bringing Stark Industries in. There is a lot of business writing that will have to included in everything."
"Me too on our end, I'll talk with Harry and Hector over in Horizon University and work out the details. I'll leave Harry's number and email along with Hector's and mine so we can collaborate on all the legal mumbo jumbo."
Johnny gets a sudden text from someone and reads through it for a moment.
"Want some lunch, Wanda is finishing up lunch for the team."
"Sure, what did she cook."
"Uh something called paprikash chicken."
'Eh what the hell, not like it'll kill me plus it'll fill me up before tonight.'
(I don't know enough about the rest of the Unity team to continue this scene so just imagine a beautiful simple happy lunch with Rogue still giggling.)
Peter Parker, Out on the streets doing work
After that surprisingly good lunch Peter started his daily patrol. He sent Harry another text that things went well with Johnny, but also sent messaged the young heroes to make sure Miles wasn't trying to get back into the action so quick. A little downtime wouldn't hurt especially since he probably missed a day of school and should catch up on that instead.
A few thugs later and a quick potty break at a Starcuts, Peter is still swinging around and notices near some warehouses some hero time going on. A red beam is knocking a bunch of dudes over. As Peter gets closer he notices mini-Cyclops is fighting off a bunch of thugs how have miscellaneous abilities. Nothing too fancy like shooting red beams from your eyes or whipping out claws, but just enough to "different".
'Might as well just web 'em up as he knocks them down.'
Even as Peter is webbing them up, Cyclops doesn't really acknowledge him and simply keeps blasting these guys down like he's on a mission or something. Once the mutants are all webbed up, Cyclops stands over the guy who looks like he could be the leader.
"Where is Emma Frost?"
"I don't know man, she just wanted us to be her eyes and ears here in New York. She has a bunch of other mutants spread around that listen to her. You don't mess with her man, or she'll mess with your head. She's one of those people you just listen to for your own good."
"Where did she meet you?"
"She came to us man."
"Fine." And with that Cyclops punches the man out cold.
"Guessing you didn't get much from these guys." Spider-Man asks
"Another dead end."
"How many of these groups have you gone after?"
"At least 3 this week."
"You should get your team to work with you on your little quest."
"They're busy and this is between Emma and I. No one else needs to get involved."
"So you just left your friends to fight a solo fight. That's very Wolverine of you."
"I'm not Logan."
"But your going it solo. Emma Frost isn't someone you take on alone, she can turn into a literal diamond and shes telepathic. Can you counter any of those?"
"No, but she is just dragging my name in the dirt. Ever since Hank brought us here it's been a nightmare. My name, my face their worth less than nothing. I'm just thug and Emma Frost been there for all of it. She needs to pay for what shes done."
"I've been in a similar situation and I just had to go with it and wing it. I didn't know what to do or how to do it, but I had to people were depending on me. You have a years of history your older self had built his reputation his name and tore it down or redefined it however you want to take it. But you also have your friends that came with you that depend on you. If you go off the deep end then it reinforces in their minds that they don't belong here at all and this will never be home."
"So I just ignore everything the White Queen has done."
"No, but you don't have to go it alone. She'll show herself one day, maybe you'll even catch a wiff of her down the line. And the plus side is you're not on the streets fighting mobs. In the hero life sometimes it's best for the trouble to find you that for you to find it, at least you'll have time to plan and prepare. "
"You sure have a lot to say. You going to give me dating advice next?"
"Hm that depends you interested in redheads?"
End Chapter
A/N: Starting off on Johnny Storm's company, he basically made a company to fund and maintain the Mansion in the hands of heroes….you know like Peter was supposed to do in the comics(but he's doing it here ;D). Also I'm basically doing a very lame thing by just ignoring lawsuits or angry ex shareholders or whatever other stuff has to happen for the transition to a nonprofit type entity. I graduated with a Bachelor's in Computer Science not a business/legal degree and it'll let me focus on characters more rather than world details that ultimately don't matter. But I did Google limited partnerships which is basically the relationship between UBF and Avengers Mansion Inc.(That makes me an expert obviously *sarcasm*)
I also got a ridiculous idea when I was writing this chapter and you'll notice it when Peter and Johnny are discussing a partnership between their companies. Something that I believe could work and bring the different Avengers teams and heroes together after Secret Empire would be a Triumvirate of sorts. Avengers Mansion Inc, The Uncle Ben Foundation, and Stark Industries could team up together and maintain hero unity.(huh Unity get it) It's kind of out there but after Secret Empire this could be a method to force them to work together to maintain their teams and history. It also gives me an interesting idea for MJ by compromising and moving her in the Peter Parker world, but still in the corporate one.
I also decided to test the waters and make this a chapter where I do a character cameo. Cyclops was my favorite X-Men when I was younger(still like him) cause I wear glasses so the idea of shooting red beams at shit made having glasses WAY cooler. Also lately they've been beating Cyclops the FUCK UP from all angles. The original Cyclops is dead…spoilers? And the young Cyclops from the past has been getting shit ever since he came to the present with the other younger X-Men. He's basically become the Mutant Peter Parker, you know bad luck, and everyone hates him for what they believe he could do and everything the "older" him did. EVERYONE has been shitting on him so he relates on some level with Peter Parkers/Spider-Mans life, and I think it would make for a good connection between them since they know and understand what it feels to be left out/alone/hated. Also fuck Emma Frost she's a fucken crazy ass blonde bitch. Hopefully they kill her soon in the X-Men comics they need to throw her to the side for a while older Scott is dead no point keeping her around.