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Uploaded: 4/12/2018
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Peter Parker, Friday, Flash Thompsons Party
The days since Peter met Scott Summers were busy ones. Lots of meetings with Harry and Johnny regarding their partnership. Hector even called a few times to iron out the details and explain the pros and cons of this type of relationship. Peter wasn't too interested in the cons because in his eyes this was a pro all the way. No better way to do business than with family, even if common practice is to put business over family. Peter and Johnny even talked a bit about including Tony Stark and Stark Industries in all of this. Setting harsher boundaries on him seemed like an act of a bully, but Johnny wanted to make sure that what was Reed's and Sue's stayed that way and Stark wouldn't try anything funny.
Outside of regular life, Miles was back at it again. He still hadn't tested out Peter's new equipment since Miles just wanted to get back into the groove. Scott Summers had stuck around also, which was odd. Peter thought he would have returned to the X-Men by now, he didn't even know where Scott was staying. Beyond all of that it was finally Flash's party.
"Why are we having Panucci's again?" Harry asks.
"Flash just got back, we have to give him a taste of home." MJ responds. She then goes off with Liz and they talk for a bit.
"Come on Harry, I know you didn't get your Panucci's fix earlier this week." Peter mixes in as he's eating a slice.
"Young man, don't you think Flash should get the first slice?" Aunt May asks Peter while giving him a little stare.
"Sorry Aunt May, I didn't have lunch today so I'm hungry. Too busy with meetings and stuff."
"Manners matter young man. Finish that piece and be patient for Flash to get here. Betty should be here with Flash any minute now."
"Come on Parker, I thought being a CEO would have taught you how to have a little more class." J. Jonah added in once Aunt May finished her rapid fire critique. It wasn't as harsh as one would expect from the infamous J. Jonah Jameson,but he was probably getting back in his public life groove after being blog faced for who knows how long.
Then the time finally came for the surprise.
"Shhhhhh! They're almost here." MJ practically yelled to get everyone's attention. This little surprise party was about to get kicked off. Betty and Randy were going to bring Flash over to one of the Bugle's "conference halls". Except it was more of an uptown party room than a cheap basic company room. MJ rushed to the lights and turned them off so they could surprise Flash once he open the door. A minute later the door begins to open and the light from outside clearly shows Flash at the doorway. Then the trap is sprung.
"SURPRISE!". Flash walked in surprised at seeing everyone smiling and welcoming him back. Each person individually welcome him backed and greeted him more personally before the party started off and they went off in different groups to talk.
"So Jonah you actually decided to come." Peter asked.
"I talked to May and I decided to join her, make sure you kids don't brainwash her."
"That would be a tough feat to achieve. Any other reason?"
"Maybe to interview you, but you already gave Robbie the honors of that."
"I'll see if I can get Spidey to do an interview with you, he isn't too happy about your slander."
"They're FACTS Parker, cold hard FACTS."
"Jonah come with me I need help with a story." Betty grabs Jonahs arm and drags him over to Flash and Randy.
'Maybe she's going to write a piece on Flash.'
Peter walked over to MJ,Harry, and Liz who were off by a small table talking, eating and drinking wine.
"Is wine really that good with pizza?" Peter asks.
"This wine is a little sweet, perfect with a meat lovers pizza." says Harry.
"Maybe you should have a red wine instead Harry, they say it's better for your health." Liz suggests.
"Ya cause that will cancel out Panucci's." Peter and MJ say at the same time.
"Jinx! You owe me a nice dinner Pete. And Panucci's doesn't count."
"The only place I know that's a "higher tier" than Panucci's is Starcuts."
"Really? You need to expand your horizons a bit more."
"I don't like the idea of spending $1000 on a thumb sized deconstructed salad."
"Are you broke?" MJ asks cautiously. She didn't want to impose to much, but the rules of a jinx are pretty clear.
"A little tight on funds, but I have enough to scrounge up for a nice dinner. But I'll have to borrow some of Aunt Mays recipes."
"Better choose my favorites."
"Are you sure you are up to the challenge Peter?" asks Liz.
"I'm a scientist and inventor, pretty sure I can learn to cook a nice dinner."
"Maybe I should make a bet with Harry to see if he would do the same for me." Liz wonders.
"Just give him a little 'motivation'. MJ suggests.
"Looks like your dinner's going to be a one on on event." Peter whispers in Harry's ear.
"At least I won't have to cook for 4." Harry whispers back.
"Oh lookey here, two people whispering like high schoolers." says Flash who somehow got away from Jonah and Betty.
"Shhhhh Flash, this is bro talk." Peter whispers harshly.
"Oh, whats going on." Flash whispers back
"Liz is going to give Harry some 'motivation' to get to make a dinner for her."
"Oh, how'd that happen."
"Liz was inspired by Peter losing a jinx to MJ and having to make her dinner."
"You lost a jinx….man you do have bad luck or really good luck." Flash says normally winking at the good luck portion.
"Guess this top secret broment is over." Peter laments.
"Any wine Peter?" Liz asks.
"No thank you, I don't really drink."
"Well then eat away at the pizza, I don't want Harry taking on extra pounds."
"Now that's an offer I can accept."
Peter and Flash join each other in devouring pizza. The ladies and Aunt May a comfortably drinking wine and keeping Jonah company, getting a couple laughs and smiles out of him. Randy and Harry are talking about sports, probably arguing who are the best teams in New York. A few hours later and after Flash has blown out the candle on his banana cream cake Peter received a text he wasn't expecting.
"Something happen Pete." Harry asks.
"Huh Anna says some of our servers went down. I thought she had already left for the day. I'll have to go check it out. Sorry Flash but duty calls."
"Don't worry Peter, it was good that you showed up and didn't famously disappear."
"Don't worry about May, we'll get her home." Jonah adds.
"Thanks Jonah, I'll see you later Aunt May." Peter says while giving Aunt May a hug goodbye.
After his goodbyes to everyone Peter showed the concern on his face once out on the streets.
'If anything were to go wrong in the Baxter building I would have been notified directly. Anna would have been notified at the same time as well but shes already at the building for some reason. Something's off.'
Peter Parker, Baxter Building
Peter did a quick patrol around the building as Spider-Man and didn't notice anything obviously wrong. He decided to enter near the lobby through a vent, if anything was wrong it would be near where the servers are stored. Not much research was being conducted either in the UBF current state so most of it was stored down stairs as well. They could have used the upper floors the Fantastic Four used usually, but we wanted to keep that area more neutral and ready for them whenever they came back.
'I have a few options for vents leading down. I could check the cameras and get some recon done, but if they got in to the basement that easily then they could have access and control to the camera's. Wait what are those blood drops.'
On the floor leading to the basement elevator were tiny little drops of blood.
'I can't tell whose it is, but I need to get down there as quickly as I can.'
The Mk IV armor had ways to combat surveillance equipment and could turn invisibile as long as Peter didn't move to fast. By going invisible and make his way slowly down the vents to the basement he was definitely not going to be seen by the plethora of cameras Peter and Anna had set up to watch everything.
'With this suit even the EM and audio sensors shouldn't detect me thanks to a blindspot designed for me. Hopefully they can't detect the override codes given off by the suit for me.'
Once Peter reaches the top of the basement he used a tiny Spider drone to scout out. Following the drops that were littered on the floor the drone went about clearing the rooms so Peter could follow it and be close by once everything is revealed.
'What the, what is she doing here.'
The Spider-Drone had picked up Anna, but also some else he had not expected to see again, Teresa.
They had a journey in dealing with the baddies who wanted Nazi gold and Teresa, his "sister", was a piece they used to try and get it.
Peter set the Spider-Drone down and climbed through to the room Anna and Teresa were at.
"What is happening here." Peter asks.
"Hey Peter it's me Teresa."
"Besides the fact that you know who I am under here, where have you been? Why are you here? Why are you bleeding?"
"It's a long story, but I'm here because it's very important. Hydra is making their move again."
End Chapter
A/N: Finally we can get to Flash's party, its like literally the 1st issue after PI falls. I had to do a lot of thinking to get this "right" even though I threw in things from high school like jinx's and stuff like that. You know having fun, talking in your groups, then things going somewhere else through bad luck. And that bad luck is coming from one of the plot points in Spectacular Spider-Man.
After thinking a bit on Spectacular I decided to directly incorporating it here in my story as a test and my first go at a story arc. I have no idea where Spectacular fits in the timeline, I'm thinking post-Secret Empire, but could be before PI took off I can't tell for sure. The assumption I'm making is that it's after Secret Empire but probably during or after the current run of ASM. I'll be shifting the plot in a different direction than what was taken in Spectacular up to this point. That means the Tinkerer won't be involved. I literally know nothing about him other than he is a villain in the current run of Spectacular. It basically means I can only do a full copy of what he's done or some sort of variation and I don't think that's very good since he's someone I know nothing about. So instead this chapter is in a way the beginning of a story arc, the set up to something I think would work well in relation to Teresa Parker and why she came back in Spectacular. Once the story arc is done I should have a better grasp of where I'm taking this story next.(Don't know how many chapters this is going to be, chapters may be longer #WIP)
The story arc also acts as a form of buffer for me to wait and see how Slott finishes up his run of Spider-Man. I hate it that its ending the way it is because before I wrote this fic I was like "When is Norman gonna get his revenge for the shit Peter did in Symkaria?", and now it's like "Right now at the same time you're writing." FUUUUCCKKK YOUUUU DAAAAANN. Thinking on the same wavelength as me. But there are some things you didn't think of MUAHAHAHAHHAA….that I don't know of yet.
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QUICKFIRE UPDATE: I got the job I interviewed 3 times for so ya its going to cut in updates for the story since I'll be commuting at least 3 hours a day. Couple that with the 8 hours minimum of work a day and updates could turn into 1 weekly. I'll try to get as much as I can done before I start, but I have a family weekend this week so maybe a chapter Monday or Tuesday after this one is released. This means my buffer for waiting on the next comic issues will be even bigger.