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CHAPTER COMPLETED: 6/26/18
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Peter Parker, New York City FBI Field Office
Being Superpowered like they are, Peter and Miles arrived quickly to their intended destination. Stark however had already arrived and was hovering near above the building probably working with Friday to get the lay of the land. It would be best if they could avoid any nasty surprises. Suddenly Stark dove down and flew through a window on the 13th floor. A few moments later metal security doors rolled down the building's exterior features.
'Great Tony triggered the security system, hopefully that floor he broke into has a security room.'
As Peter and Miles moved closer Peter began to think about the situation.
'If the outside is locked down, maybe the inside is as well. It means the agents won't be able to move around and reinforce areas as easily, but we need to break down all the barriers to get to them. Time is not on our side we need to work quickly to disable the Hydra network that's in place. Everyone else better show soon or this fight will go on for the whole night.'
"Let's follow Tony in by breaking through one of those metal barriers. Hopefully they aren't superhero proof or electrified."
Peter tests the barrier by knocking on it and checking if his suit registers it as electrified. A small x ray and sonar pulse give him more confidence that it's only a generic security system rated for regular folk. Those small upgrades to his Spider-Armor he made during the time of Parker Industries was helping him out immensely right now. Having that little bit of help from technology made him more confident in his decisions. Once Peter climbs up the building to the 13th floor to follow Tony's path. He redoes the tests he did down below and since it was one security door per window it was easy for Peter to break through on one corner of the barrier and simply rip the entire section off.
"What are we looking for?" – Miles asks as they enter through the opening.
"Finding Stark and see what he found out before bursting in. Did you see the others before we came in?" – Peter says to Miles as they are running through the 13th floor. It wasn't difficult to get on the right path because Stark had blasted through a few of the interior barriers once the security system was tripped.
"I didn't see anyone else from the team. We'll be on our own for a bit longer." – Miles
As they were following Tony's blasts one of the barriers a few feet in front of them opened and with it came a squad of 4 agents in tactical gear. Peter leaped into action first and went for the first two he could reach. Peter dragged those two away and knocked them out while Miles got a little more creative and deployed the whips to electrocute the agents. Once they were knocked out Miles released the whips from his web shooters and tied the whips around the agents.
"Huh it electrocuted them even with all their gear on. Could be a little more adhesive so it can stick to people better." – Miles
"I'll need to tweak the webbing formula; the electricity causes the webbing to lose some of its adhesive properties." – Peter
As they were continuing forward Peter hesitated and returned to the two guards. He noticed that there was a small keycard with a picture of one of the downed agents.
"You can't steal a guy's identity with their work ID." – Miles
"I'm not looking to become someone else, this keycard could be useful while we're inside."
Continuing the path of blasted barriers eventually leads them to a snooping Tony.
"How many social security numbers have you found?" – Miles
Tony jumps up frightened with his palms facing the Spider-Men. "Holy crap you scared me kid, I almost blasted you and Senior next to you."
"I really hate being called the same name as you." – Miles says while looking at Peter
"Deal with it. What are you searching for Stark?" – Peter
"I'm cross referencing our list of Hydra agents with the database. It's taking forever, can you believe they have entries for their dogs."
"Since you're already searching can you check this keycard if the person is Hydra. We ran into an armed squad on the way here that opened a barrier."
"Oh, it has a chip in it that is always getting pinged by the wireless communication systems in here. I'm a genius we can see what chips are being pinged right now and figure out where the keycards are." – Tony
"Maybe we'll find one in a Hydra desk drawer with green ballpoint pens." – Peter
"We'll break all those pens, disgusting color." -Tony
Tony shrunk his scan to only the ID's being pinged in the building and cross referenced them with the list. It was a much smaller pool to compare to, and they had a sizeable list that were in the building currently.
"Damn that's a lot of agents, mainly in the lower floors and basement levels. Guess they can't shake off their predisposition to underground lairs. Oh that's a surprise. I have access to the cameras in and around the building, apparently the younglings decided to join us for our weekend fisticuffs." - Tony
Tony pulled up a holographic projection of the camera's views that showed the rest of the Champions ready for a fight.
"Nice backup has arrived." – Peter says while heading out to meet the group. Peter could have just ripped off another exterior barrier from the inside, but he had to make sure the first group of guys they met were stilled tied up. As he was running down the hallway he noticed the ones he knocked out struggling to break free from the webbing, but he couldn't let them do that just yet.
"Sorry guys, but Ima have to taze you." – Peter says aloud while firing low strength electric webbing to the agents. It would sting a little more than a standard tazer, but it should knock them out as nicely as the ones Miles electrocuted. It reminded him of this one-time Deadpool tazed himself to knock out another guy. "Do you even taze bro?" was Deadpool's one-liner to accompany
Once Peter's outside he calls the team to rally on him to get a battle plan ready.
"Nice of you guys to join us. Stark has locations on all the baddies in the building so we have a pretty complete picture of how many we are dealing with. Nova I want you out here in case any of them decide to run for it, it's not glamorous but we need to keep them as contained as possible and give us advance warning. Rest of you group up. Viv I'll need you to keep everyone synced and updated with the locations Stark has. Cho whoever you team up with should probably head down to the basement, pretty sure Stark will head there and a little Hulk power will go a long way in a crowded space."
Once Peter was done everyone broke off into whatever groups they felt comfortable with. Nova flew up up and away annoyed that he was on sidekick duty. Kamala and Viv went off to meet Stark and Miles using because, in Kamala's words, girls needed to stick together. Surprisingly Cyclops had shown up along with everyone else and he joined up with Cho. Maybe he'll bounce his kinetic beams off of Cho's pecs or biceps to knock bad guys out. Not sure what he'd call that combo, but he did have a combo name for the last group. Bombshell and Goldballs were an interesting duo he had secretly named the Ball Busters. Nothing is as frightening as seeing a guy shoot gold balls out of his chest, then have them blasted even faster by a girl who shots explosive energy blasts. Peter pitied the fools who were going to be getting a face full of shiny balls soon.
Viv Vision was communicating through everyone's phones and was directing them to where the Hydra agents were located, even opening doors for them without worrying about keycards.
"There is a small group on the 7th floor in conference room 789." – Viv
Peter arrived outside the conference room and quickly broke through the door and landed stylishly in the chair at the head of the table.
"So about your performance reviews. It seems you guys could work a bit on better assessing the ethical and moral implications of your actions on others outside the workplace."
The guys assembled in the room had no sense of humor so they simply raised their weapons like any other thug. Peter simply fired webbing at two of the men's faces to obstruct their view and pulled their faces down on the conference room table. A few acrobatic moves like a triple hit with his feet and a fist and a sleeper hold to knock out the last man standing.
"Damn I should have quoted Kevin Hart before I finished the sleep hold on that guy." – Peter says as he walks out the conference rooms. All the men were webbed up on the walls, the ceiling, even the conference table for the two who were smacked head first into it.
The rest of the floors were eventually cleared due to being sparely populated. Viv had calculated they had taken care of around 100 agents in total so far. The only problem area was the evil lair at the bottom.
"Is Stark stalled in the basement?" – Peter asked Viv
"There is a force field impeding their progress. Cho, even with his immense strength, is unable to break the barrier. I'll be patching Stark through, he has a plan."
"Hey everybody, we have a little force field keeping us back but I have a plan. I'm going to overload the generator and that might cause an explosion that will destroy the road above us because of its placement. I can bum rush with those down here with me and you guys and can jump them from above."
'Not a bad plan, hopefully Stark will pay for the road to be repaired because I sure can't.'
Right before Peter stepped out of the building he heard the rumble of an explosion going off below him and bam, the street outside was collapsing down into the basement. Once all the rubble stopped shifting and crumbling Peter jumped down into the fray followed by Goldballs and Bombshell who were still above ground. However, Nova, who was itching for action, swooped in and took care of a Hydra mech that had survived the road dropping on top of it.
Once Nova and the rest of the Champions joined the battle, it was over for Hydra. Cho being a Hulk could take any heavy weapon they had. The Spider-Men were simply dancing around their foes. Peter showing them the way of the spider and Miles whipping Hydra into submission. Those who are not able to take hits or dodge them easily would pop in and out of cover as needed to help out. Goldballs and Bombshell kept the torrents of projectiles going and Cyclops was bouncing his beams off any surface he could to land clutch hits. After a few minutes fighting, only the heroes were left standing.
*Yawn* "This fight was exhausting." – Lana(Bombshell)
"It's getting close to your bedtime. Any of you want to clean up this mess with the authorities before going to sleep?" - Tony
"There won't be much rest tonight friends. The rest of the teams were successful in their attacks; however it seems the Steve Rogers affiliated with Hydra has broken out of his prison. – Viv Vision
"That's not much of a surprise we sorta ruined his takeover." – Tony
"How did they discover he escaped? Not like SHIELD is around to send us notifications. – Peter
"One of the teams ran into Madame Hydra. Since she oversaw incarcerations during the occupation, she must have inserted her people after the takeover to rebuild Hydra. She simply told the others that Rogers had left his prison and escaped." – Viv Vision
"Probably hoping to rile us up and get rid of the Hydra Supreme Commander for her." – Peter
"That's the femme fatale way." – Tony
"Any volunteers to make sure these guys don't get up and just walk away? Tony is right on this one, to many to just leave alone for the police." - Peter
"I guess I can stay this time, I'm a bit tired from all this." – Bombshell
"I'll stay behind also." – Goldballs
"Stay behind", right just play it safe if you get "polished". – Tony says while winking at the explosive combo duo.
"Oooooh he made naughty joke, why aren't you acting all scandalous." – Peter tells Miles over a private comm channel.
"He's Tony Stark, Naughty is his middle name and it makes sense coming from him." – Miles
A few moments later after they do a quick pass around to make sure the baddies don't get up Viv gives an announcement.
"Sorry for the delay, but we should be getting picked up by a QuinJet soon to deal with the Supreme Commander." – Viv
"Is it Johnny?" – Peter asks.
"No, it should be a standard SHIELD QuinJet piloted by Sharon Carter."
30 seconds later the QuinJet Viv had described was flying over them. Once it touched down on a large enough rooftop close to the team they were greeted by a familiar face when they arrived.
"Good to see you are all doing well, especially you Tony." – Steve Rogers
"Cap, wasn't expecting to see you." – Tony
"A road trip cannot last forever. Not when there is work to be done. Now come on we have a criminal to catch."
On the QuinJet
Once everyone was loaded onto the QuinJet, there was an awkward silence and discomfort. When the youngsters saw the Cap they still saw the monster that had destroyed Las Vegas. Miles was especially uncomfortable. Ulysses vision, the fugitive life, Black Widow's death were all things that weren't going to be easy for Miles to complete move on from, and the Cap being there was making him remember it all again. The Cap was also not oblivious to the atmosphere around him and was aware that "he" had done some pretty messed up things and it was going to be a while before many of those closest to him would move on and realize it wasn't him who commit those heinous acts.
'Guess there's someone else who knows the feeling of being blamed for things YOU actually didn't do. Good thing people didn't know my face-face, the Cap does not have that luck though.' – Peter
No amount of chatting was going to soothe things over in this awkward situation. Even Tony was uncharacteristically quiet, preferring to use any console on board the QuinJet to avoid having to talk anyone. The Cap was simply staring forward out of the windshield, while standing behind Sharon who was piloting. At least Sharon still supported Steve, even if their relationship was now strained.
After a decent amount of time in this awkward situation, they were getting closer and closer to the fight.
"Seems like Johnny and his team are already on the ground, looks like we are a bit late to the fight."
They did a quick fly by and saw that Johnny, his fellow Avengers, and a few Inhumans were in the thick of it. Almost two dozen heroes were up against a small army of Hydra agents, turncoats, and other escapees. And good 'ole Captain Hydra was up front smacking whoever got close to him with his kite shield.
"We need to get in there quick, keep them contained. A few of those escapees seem to have powers as well." – Captain America
"We could drop on top of them, scatter them and web 'em up." – Peter
"That could work, help us break their formation. Dropping in behind them would not be the best option however, we'd be too far to get help if we need it. We'll split the difference and hit their center, push towards him from their and encircle him."
"Spider-Man-Boi and I will push with you and probably Stark if he decides he wants to be a team player. Cyclops, think you and the rest could make sure we don't get shot in the back?"
"We can handle them, you ready Cho." – Cyclops
"Hell yeah man." – Cho
"Good, get ready we'll drop right on them." – Cap Murica
"My Epic Senses are tingling"- Peter says once the rear hatch was lowered and the team was running out towards the fight.
"Thanks to me!" – Stark yells after boosting past everyone and being the first to exit and begin his version of mayhem.
Everyone had jumped out of the QuinJet 50 feet above the ground. Peter, Miles, the Captain, and Tony would be fine, but Cyclops couldn't survive a fall like that normal so he was shooting his optic beams at people below to give him just enough lift to land safely. (This sound like it could work…right?). Once he landed safely, Cyclops took his portion of the team and started pushing back their share of the baddies. With a guy like Cho, it wouldn't be too difficult to create a little chaos and give the Cap and his team room to get the job done.
With the Cap's team, Stark had pushed ahead and was creating as wide a corridor as he could with his repulsors and other multi-targeting capable weapons. The Iron Man suit could take whatever Hydra had on hand, they were escaping not attacking so their weaponry was conventional and light. As Stark was blasting foo's left and right Captain America landed right in the center while Peter and Miles were gliding in on his flanks webbing anyone or any weapon they could.
"Anything these web shooters have that will help here." – Miles
"Try out the multi sling, something crazy I thought of the other day." – Peter says and he shoots out a small ball from his web shooter. It flys in the middle of a formation of escapees and fires multiple strings of webbing hitting all of them in the face. Then the ball deploys an anchor into the ground and retracts into the anchor dragging all the men down.
"You come up with weird things sometimes." – Miles
"Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Only way to find out is to try them." – Peter
Peter and Miles kept their momentum up to keep up with the Captain who was desperately piercing through to Captain Hydra. Even with them being enhanced, they spent a fair amount of time dealing keeping the Captain safe since he was so focused on the people in his path. Hopefully they wouldn't run out of webbing after all the fighting back at the FBI office. Around 30 feet from reaching the Supreme Commander who is bashing the other Avengers aside and doing his best with the men he still has at the front. At the corner of his eye Peter noticed that Scott and his team were holding their own. Stark had moved onto to blasting the Supreme Commander and hopefully deal with him before the Cap arrives.
"Let's shock the rest of the guys, just connect them all with some webbing man. Get this over with as quick as possible." – Miles
"Got it." – Peter says as he shoots off as much of the conductive webbing he has while trying to connect it to as many of Hydra's men as possible. Miles was doing the same and once they were both finished and Peter shot him a line to his segment of people, Miles channeled as much electrical energy he could and within a second a sizeable number of baddies are knocked out.
"Ugh I'm tired now." -Miles yawns out as he and Peter walk forward slowly as the Captain and Stark finally made it to Evil Steve. Evil Steve didn't have his pseudo Iron Man armor, or a fragment of an Infinity Gem so once the Cap and Stark went all in, it didn't take long to end his breakout attempt.
Even Scott's team was successful and were walking back with a bit of swagger in their step. Maybe it had something to do with some of the gnarly destruction that scared their area and the screams of being destroyed to unconsciousness. Peter was not sure how they succeeded in that without killing anyone, but he couldn't argue with the results and the baddies would think twice before duking it out with them again.
All the heroes greeted one another after the fight, but had to do the babysitting duty that Bombshell and Goldballs had to as well for the FBI office. After a few hours of the boring hero babysitting everyone was prepared to go home after some reassurance the normal thugs would get locked up sufficiently well. The only issue was Captain Hydra, but Captain America had called in the help of a certain king who was more than glad to take that Steve as a prisoner.
Back in New York
Johnny was kind enough to give Peter and the Champions a ride back since the Captain needed his QuinJet to transport the Supreme Commander. Stark joined the as well Captain as extra insurance in case of another escape attempt. Everyone in Johnny's QuinJet was dozing off on the ride back after fighting much of the late afternoon and night and were barely heading home in the early morning. Everyone dismounted at the Avengers Mansion and went their separate ways. Peter disengaged his Spider-Armor's hero appearance to look like a normal civilian and went back to Stark Tower to meet Teresa and MJ.
"Welcome back Mr. Parker, I seemed to have lost you a while ago. Mr. Stark is currently out of the building." – Friday
"Sorry about that I had some other business to attend to. Spider-Man and the teenagers got back from a little adventure so I thought it was safe to come back and see how the ladies are doing."
"It is currently 5am, I believe they are still asleep. There is a lounge area, however, that I can set aside for you to wait in."
"That's fine, thanks Friday."
'I sure could use a little nap, been one long day.' – Peter thinks to himself as he goes to the lounge set aside for him and takes gets some well deserved rest.
END CHAPTER
A/N:
Sorry for the extremely delayed update. Family events have taken precedence the last couple of weeks due to it being the summer. This kind of shows in the fight scenes and the ending, I kinda rushed through them to get through with it. Writing at work was difficult at first because it detracts from time I can use to get ahead and travel back early and get the 2 hour commute out of the way. I should have more free time soon so I'll be going through the chapters and fixing things up that I promised weeks ago. Things are slowing down at work finally and will be REALLY slow once August comes around so I'll be creeping in more writing when this happens. Then I'll see where I go from here, I'm thinking filler type chapters to bring together what I've done so far along and then jump off again after that to another arc. I also need to catch up on FF stories, I'm behind on my usual reading. Maybe they'll give me more ideas going forward. This also means that the next update will be at an undetermined date. It will happen, just need to get in a new groove since I started this story when I was unemployed and had ALL the time in the world. 2k words will still be my goal, but the dreaded filler chapters could end up being 500 word quickfire chapters.
Quick Question: Is it just me or has Sharon Carter been drawn like an old lady for the past couple years in comics? Guess they want the Cap to be into ladies more his "age".