AN: So between the start of spencer's run with some small OMD references done in a similar way to mine and MJ and Rise now officially sharing a voice actress thanks to the ps4 game ; i'm starting to think that marvel is unkowingly supporting this fic.
...Cool.
Peter parker laid in the bed of his small apartment.
He felt content, pacified and ready for the day of beatings and chases and parker luck .
Because of the gourgeous redheaded woman laying naked at his side under the covers , sleeping peacefully, belly down.
His best friend .
His strenght.
His wife.
Mary jane watson-parker's engagement ring gleamed and reflected some of the stray rays of sunlight coming filtered trough the blinders , blinding him a little as Peter turned on the side to look at her .
He thanked god for her .
By sheer chance he was able to talk to her, just a few days ago while they were in Denver , both stranded there by the pit of unspeakable chaos known by the ancient civilizations as the american airlines.
He had been able to finally express how much she meant to him , how much more and better he could do with her by his side, how important she is .
And they had both gotten back to new york, togheter.
And already they were back here , as both of them felt they should be .
He caressed her face , quietly got up and headed to the bathroom to prepare for the day .
While he cleaned himself he didn't pay much attention to the fact that he didn't have a reflection in the mirror, and just brushed his teeth as normal.
That is until...
"Uh"
he mumbled with the toothbrush still in his teeths , before he spit and started focusing intently on the mirror.
" I don't remember my shower curtains being green ."
He turned and casually opened said curtains .
As he did he found himself face to face with the antler headed, green clad asgardian god of mischief and chaos , Loki .
Peter stared unfazed .
Then said " Tom Hiddleston, wearing doctor strange's cape, is standing in my shower, in my dream, while i'm in my underwear , and is looking at me intensely ."
Only silence followed his affermation.
" I 've officially been spending too much time with Wade " he said dejectedly.
It took a good number of minutes before MJ noticed that something bad was happening.
But could you really blame her .
She had lived in New York most of her life.
So between black fridays, alien invasions , super villain attacks and reed richards accidentaly tearing a hole in the fabric of reality every other tuesday, fleeing masses tended to become a routine sight after a while .
The fact that she was fleeing from a flying black spot with more teeths than a giant white shark , while holding her daughter tight and jetting through new york streets in a rigged up spider/iron man suit ( or spider-woman/rescue suit she supposed) didn't help in the matter of taking in her surroundings .
But Rise did .
" he is still after us " she shouted , shaky and yet firm, staring behind her mother's shoulder .
The girl squirmed a little looking around and noticing the general panic in the street with people fleeing in every direction.
" Is the city always like this ? Because I don't think mass histerya is an american hobby."
MJ finally gave some hurried glances as they zipped around and saw that she was right .
People weren't fleeing away from a general cardinal direction but they were instead running in every direction, panickedly leaving buildings and weird crossroads traffic jams as fast as possible everywhere .
" Great , the avengers aren't around and the world is ending just as we reach the city . If I wasn't sure if you also inherited your dad's luck ... well no need to wonder anymore, uh?" She let out frustrated " not even mentioning big ugly back there !!"
" WE HUNGER !!!!" the big ugly bellowed .
" nice to see you too , Eddie !!"
Mary Jane hoped that her taunting covered the sheer, underlying terror she was feeling right now .
She didn't know what was up with Brock but she wasn't gonna ask him , she didn't want a repeat of the first time she met him.
But he didn't look sane and she hoped peter would be able to do something.
The problem was finding him.
"Wednsday, find me spider-man !!"
"Ms. Watson spider-man has been last sighted, captured by the green goblin as he flew towards brooklyn bridge " the AI answered after a couple of seconds, showing her a small image of peter hanging uncouscious ,like a christmas decoration from the goblin glider.
' Oh'
' great timing there, norman'
" put all the energy in the repul-" mary jane started ordering the AI , but before she could finish, her hud started flickering and then a message saiyng ' electro-magnetic disruption detected ' flashed in the AR interface.
Then her repulsor jets sputtered like a faulty engine just as they entered time square .
' of course !!not even the devil getting rid of your last name can spare you from the parker luck '
Rise screamed as they finally started falling .
MJ shouted "USE YOUR WEB SLINGERS !!"
she aimed her arm outwards and held Rise with the other .
She made the classic sign , hoping they still worked .
Relief washed over her as a strand of webbing shot out the muzzle and broke their fall , leaving them in the middle of the now suddenly deserted plaza .
The eerie silence was broken by the sudden static coming over every screen in the area as every ad of the hero for hire and the lobster-man remakes with shailene woodley, disappeared .
The low buzzing didn't cover the strong fluttering of wings as venom touched down in front of the recovering women.
Mj got up and got in front of the young girl as the damage report informed her that most of the systems were down for unknown reasons. She only still had the enhanced strenght and defence and the nanite claws .
Looking to the dark reflection of her husband's mask, she would have preferred having an hulk-buster on hand .
Venom looked ... scarier than usual .
For starters he was somehow bulkier and bigger even as the wings (' where did those come from?') retracted in the symbiote . Secondly the spider emblem looked splashed in black , spotted and glowing somehow .the real kicker was the fact that he seemed to have an extra row of teeths than usual.
He wasn't a looker before but right now he could probably take a mean second in a lovecraftian beauty pageant.
MJ's voice actually betrayed her fear while she steeled herself at the same time asking " Venom !! Why are you attacking me ? "
The anti-hero chuckled deeply and the armored spider finally noticed an unsettling detail.
The laugh coming from the monstruos grimace wasn't double layered but multi layered sounding wheezing and terrifying. The tones of man , women and child clashed togheter in an unsettling way that scraped on her ears like nails on a chalkboard .
" the Venom isn't here " it finally answered " we are Legion and we are here to get rid of our lord's small loose end ."
' oh so its just a demonically posessed Venom out for my head , no biggie '
Rise had recovered behind her and whispered to MJ as the creature started lumbering towards them "MJ? tell me you have a plan ."
" stay back and try to make a lot of noise,he is weak to it, we 'll need it ."
MJ sprang at full speed towards the monster to try and catch it's attention as Rise got to know her webslinger gauntlets as she cumulated a pile of the broken cars and dumpsters in the area .
She put the self defence lesson imparted to her by Cap and the speed from the suit to use , hitting the monster with powerful kicks and punches from every direction.
It was not very effective .
"Venom" was unfazed , he looked more annoyed trying to catch the red and gold blur but not succeding .
Mj used her webs to pick up some nearby debris and hit the black clad villain right in the face , stunning him for a moment .
" Now!!! "
She leaped clear of the area near Venom as a big web bag, filled with dumpsters and broken cars hit the ground with a deafening bang right in fromt of the black monster, thrown by the young persona user with a grunt of effort.
The loud roar and the fire of the explosion engulfed the creature hiding it from sight .
MJ squinted under her mask praying of having incapacitated him.
She didn't even have the time to react as a black tendril parted the smoke and snatched her into Venom's grasp under Rise's shocked gaze .
He was unharmed.
As soon as the clawed black hand touched mary jane's exposed face , she was overwhelmed by her own fear.
She wasn't Iron Spider anymore , just Mary jane watson-parker, just back from her shopping spree , cowering and whimpering as the terrifying mockery of spider-man got ever closer to her , in her husband's own apartment .
The fear and the blackness engulfed her and so did the voices around her mocking her and diminishing her, much like her own father did, and facing her with the hand she had in what happened to her and peter .
Rise stared in shock feeling powerless as she tried to tug the woman away using her webs without success , he was too strong .
The desperation and frustration brought her to point the gun shaped evoker to her right temple , to try and summon her persona to do something, anything to save her mother and pulled the trigger.
Luckily that urgency triggered a small change in her persona .
When the shattering of glass quieted , Kuzeon's visor wasn't on her face , instead her persona had somehow changed form.
The satellite headed figure wasn't in her long dress anymore but was instead wearing a flexible battle dress , the long silver hair now shoulder lenght and the face presented a lower jaw now and a smaller camera lens instead of the usual telescope for head .
And she looked ready to battle .
"Please help me fight " Rise's muffled and frazzled voice called .
And the persona answered .
She raised her right hand and four funnel like speakers surrounded the surprised demonic symbiote .
And as they circled him, loud magically enhanced music blasted out of them.
It was Risette's very own songs and at full volume , physically impacting the large creature and weakening it amongst its shriek of pain.
Enough for Rise to finally drag the traumatized MJ toward her .
As she held her, Rise called to her mother
" please , wake up! I need your help" mary jane kept staring into space unresponsive, haunted by the terrifying visions
" Please MOM!"
Her daughter's voice shook MJ 'May, no ... ENOUGH!!! I couldn't be there for her before, it won't happen again'
She started digging with her hands through the darkness and the voices surrounding her and after a great effort she finally awoke .
She gripped her own evoker as she faced the encroaching weakened Venom and shouted " PERSONA !!!", pulling the trigger and summoning Arachne.
The spider-robot woman weaved a large fireball in her hands and sent it straight towards its opponent .
As soon as the ball reached its target the symbiote was engulfed in the large , tall pillar of fire of a powerful agidyne that finally sent their opponent to its knee .
But he was recovering quickly, until...
"Mom, use Light ,now!!" Rise shouted as her persona's visor covered her eyepieces and she analyzed this monster finally finding out it's weakness.
The older redhead didn't hesitate and spoke the spell that her heart suggested her .
"HAMAON!!!"
Her persona dramatically raised her hands to the sky as a circle of light magically engraved itself in the ground surrounding the symbiote monster .
A wall of light surrounded him as their opponent suddenly roared in pain and toppled to the ground uncouscious.
Both spider-women trained their eyes on the figure as it slowly became smaller and the symbiote retracted into just a pair of black shorts covering eddie brock's , large but still normal, uncouscious frame .
Letting out a sigh of relief , they sat down on the ground in the empty plaza as MJ gathered her daughter in her arms , hugging her tight.
The girl , adrenaline still coursing trough her body like after every tv world battle, slowly calmed down and asked " Does Peter always fight guys like that ?"
MJ grimaced " Sort of"
Then a big toothed grin appeared on the woman's mouth as she looked to the girl .
" What ?" Rise asked a little puzzled
" you called me mom" Mary Jane answered ectastic
Rise would be visbly blushing if the mask wasn't covering it .
She fidgeted a little " well... y'know it just felt okay . Is it okay ? "
MJ was still smiling as she answered " if it's okay to you, it's okay to me " brushing the girl's locks affectionately.
Looking around a little embarassed Rise finally noticed the weird silence around them and the lack of bystanders .
" Where is everybody ?" This prompted MJ to also look around .
The city was empty .
There was nobody around, no car driving around, all abandoned on the streets some with the engine still running , no people walking , nothing .
Absolute desolation.
" Ok this doesn't look good "
A loud crushing sound made them turn sharply towards the large entrance of one the theaters as rise's spider sense started thumping again.
The sight that greeted them was unfortunately familiar .
The red demon that attacked them back in Inaba had just broken his way out of the entrance , menacingly sniffing around .
And he wasn't alone.
A veritable horde of monsters and mythological creature of every type and shape started pouring out from every where around the two girls
Pixies, fairies , goblins, ghosts , zombies , jack 'o'lantern's with dapper gloves , walking snowmen with blue hats and a dumb grin on their face . Giant gryffyn and succubus flying in the air and cryptids like unicorns and chupacabras running in the streets .
Rise recognized more than one figure having seen her boyfriend summon some of them as persona's during their long year of investigation.
But both her spider-sense and kuzeon were letting her know that every single one of these ... demons, were bad news .
" We should go " MJ said getting up and moving carefully towards the uncouscious eddie brock , loading his large form on her back using the extra claws, followed by her daughter .
They barely had zipped away on their webs as some of the meaner looking demons charged the area they were in.
MJ then shouted back to Rise " Follow me ! We'll drop him somewhere out of the way and then reach Peter , I know where he is ".
Peter Parker dumbly looked at the god of lies.
" So you want to repay the favor you owe me now ?!!" He asked dumbfounded .
They were still standing in his dream- bathroom as Loki looked around a little annoyed .
" I still owe you , mortal " he said deeply " you still saved my daughter.and considering how sentimental you are , your city could use some godly favor ."
" what's going on out there ?" Peter asked with an hint of fear in his voice .
" umph, here " loki raised his right hand with a wawe and the dream around the two changed .
They were now on a rooftop in the middle of the city .
The calm morning around had peter ask humourously " where have you brought me o' ghost of christmas past ? " in mock drama
" present , actually " the god answered right before a shriek of terror broke the still morning hair .
Peter's instincts made him rush to the edge and check the situation even if he wasn't actually there .
People were running away , fleeing from monsters of many shape and kind everywhere .
Pete stood stunned when a detail caught his eye .
One of his company's webware phone on the ground was running weird images on the screen. he couldn't distinguish it from high up , until a dark column of black light shot out of the phone, a monster appearing from it.
" oh great , another "little" thing they missed during testing."
He tried to joke half heartedly before loki explained " It's Mephisto , he recruited the lost soul trapped in your technology . He gifted him with something , a sort of automatized ritual summoning that can call upon many minor creatures from the space between the realms, calling them here alongside a substance he is using to gather energy "
" Why ? "
" Thanks to you " loki answered amusedly " you are at the center of the web of reality , something that many among the other gods and higher entities covet but don't dare interfering with. But Mephisto does and he found a way to exploit your guilt to his advantage ."
" The Deal " Peter muttered darkly .
" indeed , you know the Rider and yet you really didn't expect him to get something tangible out of this ? He planted a slowly growing seed of anguish in you to sow when he deemed right, and that 'right' is now ."
He continued "unfortunately he sent many other accomplices of equal power at my current position so I can only grant you this favor , you will have to reach mephisto and retake posession of what he stole from you in order to stop him from taking over the web and plunge many realities into his realm , gaining a power that would have no rival "
Around them things started getting hairy and more chaotic, people fleeing everywhere .
" Take everybody away from the island ! " peter asked urgently.
Loki expected this and snapped his fingers, all civilians disappearing , teleported away to safety.
"There . Everybody not connected to the web or mephisto has been taken to safety , thats the best I can achieve because of the substance dispersed by the summons." Loki then gave another gesture as everything around them dimmed in darkness " you 'd better wake up now , mortal. Till we meet again.".
Peter's eyes opened under his mask , feeling a strong wind whipping at him.
He was greeted by a familiar sight.
He was bound in a tight steel cable, kneeling on top of the brooklyn bridge , and norman was right there , with a satisfied smirk on his face standing in front of him in his purple and green outfit sans mask.
" Wakey, Wakey Petey " Norman said " let's have a talk."
AN: phew , another one bites the dust . This chapter took a while even if I worked on it consistently . As usual let me know what you think of everything going on. By the way, the next chapter shouldn't be as long and in general there are going to be around another 5 chapters in total .
Don't worry though there are going to be a couple of extra canon one shots chapters for fun. the only hint I'm going to give is the title of one of them :
" Kraven's not so last hunt "
See ya .