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A/N: House Arrest, I wasn't quite sure how to attack this episode but I just gutted out the middle and hit some high points and I think it turned out well. I'm going to see if I can get an extra chapter of this story posted this week since I have time, or I could actually get Lights off the ground again (it's coming along very slowly). Read, Review, Enjoy!
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TheImmortalDanny - Alright, so onto another chapter, thank you for reviewing! I think because I've read so many Iron Fist comics that for Danny it's really easy to add those other elements, and since he and Luke are in comics together a lot, sometimes I can get Luke's comic book counterpart to show. But they made Danny, Luke, and Ava all younger for the show. Sam, on the other hand, is a teen in the comics, so that's not too much of a stretch. Anyway, enjoy!
Chapter 13: Ava
"He can handle Grizzly without our help," Nova informs me as he flies alongside the rest of us as we run. "We should get home and get ready."
"No," I shake my head as we slow down. "We need to delay him if we can ditch him to deal with the police and all the paperwork that could work."
"Webs looks like you need a hand." Power-Man say as Spider-Man falls out of Grizzly's bear hug.
"Come on guys," he whines getting to his feet. "I don't need here, I got this one covered."
"Is that so?" Grizzly asks as he grabs Spider-Man ankle and pulls him down to the ground, swinging him around like a rag doll and knocking us over as he does, only letting go to launch Spider-Man into the roof and picking him up to dispose of him over the building.
Grizzly turns to us only for Spider-Man to appear on the ledge.
Grizzly turns to look back at him.
"Seriously out of all the exoskeletons suits you would wear; a bear? Are we now officially out of animal to make Super-Villains out of?"
Spider-Man jumps to attack only to miss as Nova flies into Grizzly, pushing him out of the way before Spider-Man can attack.
Power-Man hits him across the face as I jump onto his back clawing through the top layer of the back of his exoskeleton. Iron Fist jumps in right after me.
And Spider-Man finishes him off; sending Grizzly flying over the side of the building into a dumpster down below as Spider-Man sits on the ledge watching.
"Ok, cops will be here in literally three seconds," Nova whispers.
"Let's go." I nod my head in the opposite direction and we take off, leaving Spider-Man behind.
"Anybody home?" Anybody? Well, Aunt May left us alone for the weekend." Peter's voice complains as he enters the house. "Maybe one of my teammates, you know; the guys who left me alone to deal with the po-po all by myself?"
"You're back? Already?" I ask as I push the door open with my back carrying a stack of books. "That was fast. Um, here," I drop the books into his arms. "Put away your books." I keep walking past him and back into the kitchen.
"He's back." I wince as Danny and Luke clean up the kitchen still in full costume.
Danny nods as he picks up the trash bag that needs to be taken out and catches Spider-Man at the door. "Trash duty. Thank you, friend."
"I'm not on trash duty this week!" Peter argues.
Danny retreats back into the kitchen and Luke blocks the doorway.
"And what are you doing?" Peter demands.
"Nothing."
"What's going on here?"
Sam's phone rings and he picks it up, "Hey MJ." He looks right at all of us and quickly turns, lowing his voice. "Uh, um, no I can't talk right now because of that thing that we talked about."
"Why is she calling you?" Peter demands as Sam hangs up. "Hey, I wanna-"
The doorbell rings and Peter throw the books and trash bags in his arms in the hallway and marches to the door. "Now what?"
"Here we go…" Luke sighs as he follows Peter into the living room.
The rest of us trail behind.
"That's why you ditched me? So you could come home and throw a party?" Peter glares at us.
"Uh, surprise?" Luke attempts.
"We are not having a party." Peter looks straight at me. "I don't want Flash Thompson touching my stuff. Besides, in case you've forgotten, we have the one-eyed big brother looking over us. If we have a party, Fury will hear all about it."
"Relax." Sam dismisses Peter easily, flying down to the basement. "You guys change, Nova's got it covered."
Peter looks at us and then walks down the stairs.
"Well, we were right." Luke sighs looking over to Danny.
"Let's change before something bad happens." I sigh as I walk upstairs. "I've got to wrap his gift to… so keep him away from Aunt May's room until I'm done."
"Sure." Luke throws over his shoulder as he walks to the guest room.
I walk into Aunt May's room with my change of clothes and wrapping paper, pulling the frame out from under the desk I start to change out of my uniform.
"Intruder Alert. Intruder Alert." An automated voice announces over the room.
Oh no…
Metal walls cover the hallways as red lights flash.
"Alert: Perimeter Breeched. Analyzing Threat. Threat Assessment: None."
I wasn't even done changing!
"Implement Omega Lockdown."
I throw my mask back on and quickly get out of my dress.
"This is bad." I shove the frame under the desk for protection as small black spheres appear in the room with red glowing dots.
Lasers.
"Great," I mutter.
What did the boys do now?
I look over to the door as it bolts closed.
I'm on my own. I have no idea what any of the others are doing.
But this is a SHIELD security system. It's going to contain us separately.
"Engaging Defense. Intruder Identified. Neutralize with Extreme Prejudice." The system announces.
This is just like SHIELD…
Drones drop out of the ceiling as the lasers warm up with a loud buzzing sound.
The drones fly at me as the lasers fire and I start to dance around them.
This is just like court.
This is just like court.
A circle of drywall falls to the ground and webbing pulls one of the drones out of the room.
Spider-Man and Nova.
Great… the desk!
"White Tiger, hold on," Spider-Man says looking into the room as I do a backflip and grab a blanket to use on the lasers.
"Spidey," I say taking out a laser and moving to the next. I duck behind the vanity using the mirror to take out a laser and slash another.
"You got to get out of here." Spider-Man jumps into the room and I grab him and pull him out. "You got to stay out of Aunt May's room."
"Relax. I've been through a few laser matrix arrays in my day." Spider-Man shrugs off my concern. "This will be a piece of cake."
"Nova," I mutter through clenched teeth. "Remember what I was doing in there"?
"Uh, yeah! She's right!" He throws an arm over Spider-Man's shoulder. "Sorry, off limits. Secret lady stuff."
"Hey, move it!" Spider-Man ducks under his arm."All of my Aunt May's stuff is getting ruined."
He jumps back into the room as Nova and I share a look. "It's irreplaceable." He webs up the drones. "No roughhousing in the house."
"The desk! Save the desk." I order entering the room.
"The desk?" Spider-Man asks I rush over the couch to the desk. "It's not an antique; it's from a garage sale."
I kick the second to last drone to send it into the last one.
"What's so important about the desk?" Spider-Man asks from the ceiling.
Nova and I look at each other and shrug at Spider-Man.
"A little help here?" Power-Man's voice echoes through the house.
"Luke!" Spider-Man jumps off the wall and rushes into the hallway.
"Yeah! We did it! And we're alive!" Spider-Man sounds overly relieved as the metal wall protectors retract back to where they were hiding. "Whew! Everything's ok. What do we do about Franken-Fridge?"
As soon as he asks I can hear the wooden planks of the attic giving out from under the machine.
It falls through and we all wince as Spider-Man inspects the damage done.
I walk over after a second to look.
All the way from the attic to the basement…
I have no idea how we're going to explain this.
"We're dead." Spider-Man sighs. "When Aunt May sees this we're all going to be evicted."
"Hey everybody, sorry for the…" Peter swings the door open, dressed in civilian clothes and plastering on a smile.
"Great party, Parker." I look over his shoulder to see Flash Thompson standing in the doorway with no one else around. "Not. I wouldn't even show your lame face at school. Ever."
Flash walks away and Peter takes a deep breath and steps outside, closing the door behind him.
He doesn't even close it with much force but it makes the whole house shake.
"That's not good," Sam mutters.
The ceiling caves as if on cue.
"Guys?" Peter asks opening the door to look at what was the inside of his house.
"We're fine." Sam answers.
"Can't get any worse." Peter sighs looking at all of us.
Someone's phone buzzes and we all look around. I think that's Peter's phone ringing.
Peter surveys the rubble before finding the screen illuminated under some drywall.
"Hello?" He answers his phone.
His face contorts in panic as he listens.
"Uh, we're good." He answers, pulling the phone away from his ear he covers it and looks at us all. "We're dead."
"Don't sweat it, Parker." I begin.
"We'll take the blame for this." Luke offers.
"Why is everyone being so negative?" Sam asks getting all of our attention. "We're superheroes! So what if we don't have time? If we work fast, use our powers, we can rebuild the house better than ever."
Sam… ever the optimist…
Peter walks over to the concrete steps and sits down as the rest of us walk over to join him
"No," Peter stands up. "With great responsibility comes the responsibility to take ownership. Thanks, guys, but I'm her nephew. If there was a house, she wouldn't kick me out of it. But I won't risk that with you guys."
We all look at each other for a moment. This is bad…
This is different from tearing up a street in midtown. This is Peter's house. How does Peter plan to explain why his house was the only one on the block to get torn to shreds without exposing our identities?
My hair starts to whip around in my face a lights cover the area.
"Whoa, talk about a home delivery." Peter quips as he stands up to look at the house identical to his that was being dangled from multiple SHIELD aircraft.
The house lands perfectly over where the old one was, fitting easily over the rubble as if nothing happened.
How does…? This is SHIELD… don't question it, Ava…
"You kids appear to have been busy." Agent Coulson opened the door and tossed down a welcome mat as he stepped out.
"Agent Coulson?" Peter jumps. "Uh, I can explain… actually… I can't. I got no idea what's going on around here."
"You demolished your house when you set off the SHIELD safety protocols." Agent Coulson walks down the steps of the house towards us. "We knew something like this might happen. So, we had this copy built as a security measure."
"You knew we would actually demolish our own house?" Peter asks.
"We're SHIELD," Agent Coulson shrugs. "We think of everything. Particularly when teenagers are involved."
Trucks pull up on the street behind us and more agents jump out with tools and bag and hurry over to the house.
Agent Coulson holds up his watch as his communicator comes to life.
"Foundation bolted."
"Electricity, live."
"Plumbing, a-ok."
Another agent looks at Peter calmly. "Cable guy will be out in the next three months."
"What just happened?" Sam asked.
"SHIELD happened." Luke let out a low whistle. "Fury's really outdone himself this time."
Danny just looks up at the sky with relief and closes his eyes.
Agent Coulson drops the keys into Peter's hands. "You're welcome."
He looks over at us. "You guys ready to go?"
"What's going on?" Peter asks looking us over carefully.
He hates not knowing.
"Didn't they tell you?" Agent Coulson asks as starts to walk to the vans.
"Tell me what?"
Luke nudges me and puts the picture frame in my hands.
I look down at the broken glass and let out a deep breath.
What a night it's been…
"The Helicarrier is fully operational. Fury gave the order. Your team is scheduled to move back to HQ today." Agent Coulson opened the door to the passenger seat of the van, ready to get in.
"We were going to tell you." Danny looks back at Peter. "The party, it was for you."
"You know," Luke shrugs, "to say thanks."
"For taking us in," I walk up to him and present him with the picture frame. "It's what I was trying to wrap in Aunt May's room, under the desk."
"I was baking you a cake. But it ended up inside the robot." Sam also steps forward. He rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly with a grin. "Don't worry Parker, nothing but sugar and flour. This time."
"Let's get going." I cross my arms and quickly start making my way to the van with the boys following me.
"Wait," Peter calls after us. "How about you stick around for a moving out party? Just the five of us."
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