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CHAPTER COMPLETED: 5/20/2018
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"No comment huh? Well, you won't mind if I grab something from my jacket?" – Tony Stark says while grabbing something within the pocket of his jacket. The mix of police and government agents visibly flinched and didn't look forward to what they believe he is going to do. Except Tony doesn't grab a small piece of his Iron Man armor and start blasting everyone away, but grabs for a set of sunglasses.
"It's been a while since I've been out, need to protect my eyes. Still not going to refer me to your barber?"
Back in the tower
"Damn he sure scared them straight." – Teresa
"He got that from me." – says someone from behind where the group was watching Tony's theatrics play out.
"Hey Amanda, how is everything?" – MJ asks
"Everything is great MJ, seems you and your friends pushed Tony back out into the world. No better way to make an entrance than to face off against The Man."
"Wasn't really me that pushed him that's all Peter." – MJ says while looking at Peter with her eyebrow raised.
"Not my fault, it's all Teresa's for coming to me a gunshot wound."
"Wow thanks Peter, that's so nice of you." – Teresa responds.
"It's what siblings do."
"So the famous Peter Parker of Parker Industries is here. Having multiple billionaires in a single tower seems to be a bit of a waste don't you think."
"I'm not really a billionaire anymore, but I do have my own tower. Who are you miss? I don't think I've ever met you."
"Amanda Armstrong, music producer extraordinaire and Tony's mother."
"Huh that explains a lot about him."
"Fabulous runs in the family." – Amanda responds with a large smile.
As Tony was continuing his show with the agents down below, Peter received a call from Aunt May.
"Oh crap, please don't know please don't know" – Peter pleads as he answers the phone.
"PETER, WHY ARE THE FBI AFTER YOU!?"
"It's just a misunderstanding May, they aren't bothering you are they?" – Peter asks hoping Hydra isn't planning on taking an old lady into custody just to get to him.
"Banging on my front door asking for you sure is extremely bothersome. Not only that the news is talking about you but they're spewing crazy theories about you and Tony Stark. You're not getting mixed up in his antics, are you?"
"No Aunt May I'm still being me, things are getting complicated. Why don't you head over to Harry's and stay with him for a bit until this whole mess is cleared up."
"I will, but you and I are going to talk about this young man. You're treading on thin ice after everything you've done."
"Can't catch a break with May?" – MJ asks after Peter ends the call.
"Nope, hopefully I won't get my ear yanked to hell. May does not like loud interruptions at home." – As Peter says this MJ yanks his ear real good.
"OW, why?"
"For making me an accomplice."
"Sorry, they might have taken you in since you were screaming my name for the whole world to hear."
"You can make it up to me by making me dinner."
"I already owe you one dinner."
"Guess it's two dinners now." – MJ says while sticking her tongue out at Peter to mock him.
'Now I'm going to be double broke.'
"You should be thrilled to owe her dinner, she's a wonderful woman." - Amanda
"You wouldn't know any recipes on the cheap to wow ladies?"
"I have a few recipes, but that can wait till after this whole mess with the authorities is finished. Romance and government conspiracies don't mix well."
SpongeBob Narrator- 20 Minutes Later
Tony Stark came strutting back into the tower after his little session with the authorities and the press. The press was happier about Tony Stark showing up than the FBI. Tony Stark showing up meant that Iron was not too far away and Peter and Teresa now had a large public figure in front of them. Possibly an even larger figure since Tony had been out of the public eye for months. With the FBI and others effectively rebuffed from entering the tower easily, the new outlets had taken control of the streets outside wanting to talk to Tony Stark and why Peter Parker and an unknown woman were being harbored there.
"Man those men that were standing outside were a bunch of kill joys. No sense of humor at all, just a lot of twitching towards their weapons." – Tony began.
"Maybe you should have donned your suit, maybe you would have had a little bit more." – Amanda
"Ha imagine the look on their faces, I'll do that next time." – Tony.
Peter approaches Tony to chat with him.
"So you get anything off of your 'sunglasses'." – Peter
"You knew these weren't just normal glasses? – Tony replied.
"Nobody would wear their sunglasses in the shade on purpose."
"Well…fine. I ran a facial recognition scan against that list you had last night of Hydra agents. Got a few hits and now Friday is going to be tracking them through whatever cameras we can access."
"Anything interesting since they started leaving."
"Lots of activity in a few places, some being run downed warehouses. No surprises on the creepy warehouses, but even the FBI office has a few of them running around."
"So we have a few locations, do you have their phones tapped too, or Friday doing other creepy things in the background?"
"Maybe…. need to even the playing field."
"Just make sure you don't make it a habit."
"I… uh… okay I'll try. Making things habits is a habit of mine."
"Your mother seems like she'll be able to keep you in line."
"She has mad ear pulling skills I'll tell you that much."
'Da fuck, MJ is getting her ear pulling skills from Amanda. What else is she picking up from her.'
"Can we count on any kind of help from anyone else?" – Tony
"We just need to talk to them and pass on what you've found and bam we're in business."
"Alright how are we going to contact them without leaving my building. We kinda have the whole world looking at this one building."
"Easy, we call Viv Vision and her dad. They'll have the best chance of passing on digital information without being compromised."
"That could work, and their intangibility and camouflage will help them sneak in and out.
"Well, they could just connect to us through the internet, so they don't have to make the trip."
Peter risks his message to Viv Vision being seen by Hydra by sending her a message to connect to him and suddenly she is popping up on the screen of his phone.
"Hello , why did you ask for me to connect to your phone?"
"We have some important information we'd like to share with the other heroes about the current situation. If it wouldn't be too much to ask I'd like for you and your father to take this information to all the Avenger teams, the Inhumans, or any other allies we may have right now."
"Already done Mr. Parker, is there anything else?"
"That'll be it, just stay safe out their kiddo."
"Okay, farewell." And with that Viv Vision was no longer hijacking his phone.
"How did she get access to my systems to retrieve that information?"
"She probably just hacked them through my phones wireless communications. She does things like that without asking permission. Also, I think she already had access to all your systems, something about Vision saying your technology is inferior or something and wanting to play pranks on you every now and then."
"Wait what, is that why my damn audio system turns on at 4 in the morning. I've checked it out dozens of times trying to figure out why it does that."
"That's pretty good for an android, but it's a surprise you're even asleep by then I thought you were an insomniac or something."
"Some days but even I need some beauty sleep every now and then."
After a little bit of chit chat and a lot of looking out at the crowd of people outside Viv Vision popped back up but on a large television mounted on the wall.
"Hello, the location of the Hydra agents has been disseminated amongst the heroes. They are coming up with their own plans on which locations to attack first. However, the overall picture of Hydra movements is still limited outside of New York City so we have limited capabilities once we attack. Where will you focus your efforts?"
"The FBI field office is our best bet. There will be a literal treasure trove, plus we can make a big statement which Tony is a big fan of."
"Yes, but you don't have a super suit so why don't you just hang out here for a bit and let the big boys have their fun."
"Whatever I'll tell Spider-Man to meet you there." Peter says while giving Viv Vision a very inconspicuous wink to rally the troops. And by troops he meant the young rebellious heroes who wanted to show off to the big league. This was the opportunity they were waiting for and now they had a chance to show how badass they were. Once Tony was gone and flying away in rock star fashion, Peter went to talk to Teresa and MJ before jetting off as well.
"Things are about to get even more interesting. Lay low for a bit longer and everything will get cleared up."
"You guys are up against the might of super Nazis and a good chunk of the American government, you sure you can handle that?" -MJ
"We'll be fine, we've fought against alien empires and extra dimensional beings. Hydra is regular cannon fodder to some of us."
"Alright well just be careful." -MJ
"Try not to blow yourself up." - Teresa
"That sounds like something Amanda would say to Tony."
"She did." – Teresa and MJ answers at the same time.
"Fine, not like I'm a pyromaniac and shoot C4 webbing."
As Peter headed towards the roof he activated a little something Viv Vision worked on for the team. She created a tech bomb to effectively black out an area from surveillance. Hopefully Stark wouldn't notice this blackout. Once he was on the roof and his suit was on fully display, Miles moved from the adjacent building to meet him.
"So, we have a plan? Tony left a few minutes ago."
"Viv Vision is rallying the others, we'll head to the FBI field office here in New York. That's where all the fun is going to be so let's put on our game faces."
END CHAPTER
A/N: My plan for the next chapter is to end this arc. I feel like I've dragged this arc on a little too long, might as well bring it to an end and start working on the other things I've set up. Hydra is an important enemy, but the world does need to be set into a new status quo and they were the most convenient way to do it.
Still busy at work, I won't be able to find time the next two weeks at work to do things for this fic since its intern season and there's a lot to do in preparation for 200+ new bodies. Especially since a good chunk of them are programming interns, we are going to have to prepare a lot of computers and equipment. At least our imaging tech has been getting a crap ton of overtime so that's a good thing maybe me and the other guys will soon. Thankfully in June I'll have two weeks home alone so I'll have plenty of time to do nothing but write and not go to family parties every damn weekend. My sleep is all fucked up from having to commute early and family parties just make it worse cause its mostly doing nothing.
Also it's graduation season so the next few weekends I'll be out partying. I haven't even watched Deadpool 2 yet T_T. I'll find time to write, but like I said I won't be free free until like June 9th or something for those two weeks.
Leave any comments you guys may have about my writing and your honest opinions on things so far. I can't wait till the next issue of ASM and see what's going to the new status quo after Slott's done.