Answers to reviewers' questions or statements
DannyPhantom619: Yeah, which why I'm finding it odd that he's been taking a back seat in so many major events that went through Marvel lately.
Atdown: He would have mentioned it had Emma not just drop a bomb on his lap about Franklin and Osborn.
JJChanlder: Dormammu is around, but he won't be appearing for a while. As for the MCU, no they aren't here, let's just assume that they and the other 'live action' universes are in their own little bubble made by Doom to keep them apart from the rest.
Marveldcfan: We'll be seeing why it is Doom isolated Peter has the story unfolds and there is more to it than just that. The endgame of Doom's great plan is actually kind of messed up.
Guest: It'll be updated soon. The next chapter is three quarters of the way through.
Gamerslegacy: Some, the Marvel women specifically, will believe he's been dead this whole time while the rest still hope he's alive. But they all still remember him, baring the DC women for obvious reasons.
Ryzlow: We'll see but Peter is now a lot more motivated to get out of his prison now.
Death Fury: We'll be seeing what happened to the likes of the Hulk and Deadpool soon. But for the moment they are alright.
superpeirce: We'll see as time goes on but Peter wasn't the only hero that was isolated by Doom. There are a few others too.
Justafan: No it was the Franklin that Peter knew, not some alternate version but that does give me an idea for a part of this story later on. We'll be seeing how Emma got here the next chapter.
Spawn Hades: Peter will be getting a few things but not too much, besides he already has a few things as we'll see this chapter and in the next few.
MCRasengan: Nah, as powerful as a White Lantern is, Doom with the Beyonders power is leagues above him, but he could take on Galactus for a time and maybe even beat the guy. We're talking a Justice League and Avengers team of White Lanterns to take on Doom as he is now. Ohh how I wish I could see that in my lifetime at some point on either the brig screen or in a comic.
StarCarnage: Peter isn't the only one, there are a few other heroes like the Hulks that have been separated from the rest of the heroes including some villains. But yeah Peter being isolated, Emma ending up there and soon others, it's part of a very complicated plan that Doom is hatching. What it is and the endgame won't be seen for a while but damn it'll be twisted, at least I think so and also tragic. Part of me just wants to say to hell with it and have Peter end up with both the Injustice and Flashpoint versions of Wonder Woman.
Erofox: Yah I am a little, those bastards! And it was like she went out like a punk. If you're going to kill of a hero, at least make it epic or tragic instead of she pushed Miles out of the way and got her neck broken. That's not tragic or epic, that's just WTF?!
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"N-Norman killed him?" Peter asked, his vision starting to turn red as he felt his body shaking in a combination of shock and rage.
Emma, either didn't care of a possible out lash or was ready for it, continued with a small sympathetic nod "Yes, he thought killing someone you cared about like Franklin would draw you out from wherever it was he said you might be hiding… it didn't, obviously"
Peter mentally tried to calm himself, either by counting backwards or just trying to expel the anger from him, but given it was Norman that was once again the source of this anger, that was rather difficult "And… and uh I take it Reed, Sue and Valeria didn't like that, or Ben and Johnny?"
"No… after they discovered what Osborn did… they killed him" Emma revealed with a blank expression "Actually, to be more accurate it was Sue that did… she created a small forcefield inside Norman and had it slowly expand until it tore him apart so for the moment he's dead even though I guarantee he somehow came back from that. It wouldn't be the first time he's cheated death. Still, most of Justice League and Justice Society barring a few didn't take this too well. They're even more anal about 'no killing' then you or Rogers are believe it or not, and thought the Four should stand trial or something along those lines because they hunted Osborn down and killed him after the fighting was all over. At the time, I could care less about what was going on. Me and the other X-men and what Mutants we could find after everything was said and done withdrew back to our realm baring a few like Bobby and Angelica that stood by the Four's side"
"And the Avengers, did they say or do anything?" Peter questioned, slightly happy that his two best friends and former teammates Firestar and Ice man stood by his surrogate family.
"Yes, they supported the Four's actions. Granted some weren't happy with what she did but every one of them knows what kind of monster Norman is. Sides were quickly made as the Coalition broke up and just as it looked like another war was about to break out, this time between the Justice League and Avengers, they left. No one's seen them since" Emma said as she sat down and rubbed her brow "Afterwards, relations between the Justice League and Avengers soured even further and are now… I won't say enemies but quite a few of their number are no longer welcomed in the other's realms or affiliated ones that are under the Avengers protection or in some cases rule. The Inhumans as well last I checked after one of the League's members, Batman, tried to hack into their network and spy on them… it didn't end too well and nearly resulted in an all-out war between The Inhumans and the Justice League. One of the League's Supermen got an up close and personal taste of Black Bolt's voice even. From the look on his face, he wasn't used to being hurt by someone"
Peter nodded at this as he slowly dropped to the ground and held his head in his hands while Emma stood there watching him with a look torn between pity and sympathy before she adverted her gaze as she began to see him shaking and trying to stifle most of his sobs at hearing that someone he saw as a sort of nephew and was often affectionally called his biggest fan… was dead…
Murdered by his greatest enemy, the Green Goblin, Norman fuckin Osborn.
'Damn him, damn that sack of shit!' Peter mentally raged as he suddenly stood and placed some distance between him and Emma before he slammed his hand into the wall, the entire wall cracked and Emma swore the entire floor shook from the force of the blow as Peter continued to punch the wall for several long minutes, the only sounds being his fist making contact with the re-enforced wall before he let out a loud enraged scream and slammed his hand into it with enough force to cause it to collapse into the hallway on the other side.
Emma flinched a little before she quietly backed away and left the room, intent on giving the man some space. Lord knows she needed it after Scott died in front of her and from her own observations of Peter over the years, the man while normally would internalize his anger had a nasty habit of lashing out when it came to the Green Goblin…
Peter stood there for several moments, his anger rinsing as he glared at the ground while he tried to force himself to calm down before his body tensed and what appeared to be a small shockwave or dark red energy erupted from his body and threw a vast majority of the light weight furniture around the room as if a small tornado had erupted inside. Peter then let out a yell of rage as he slammed his hands into the ground, almost breaking through into the floor below and creating a multitude of cracks and crevices within it.
Peter tore his hands from the damaged floor before he grabbed what was left of a chair and threw it against windows, the glass shattering from the force of the blow before Peter turned his attention towards the wall and threw his bloodied fist into it with all the strength he could muster at the moment.
KRAKOOOOOM!
The wall shook and cracked under the force of the inhuman blow and before it could recover, Peter's fist slammed into again, and again, and again… soon the room was filled with the sounds of Peter's fist connecting with the slowly deteriorating wall.
Karen who was viewing Peter's outburst began to grow concerned as the readings she was receiving from the sensors in the wall were troubling and decided to speak up.
"Sir, would you please stop-"
KOOOM!
"…Never mind" Karen said as she used the tower's cameras to watch as Peter more or less destroyed the living room in a fit of rage worthy of the Hulk.
The walls had numerous craters in them from him either punching or kicking them and all of the furniture was in pieces from either being thrown into the wall by Peter or being torn apart by the enraged spider powered man himself when he emanated a powerful pulse of unknown energy.
"That fuckin animal!" Peter shouted as he slammed his fist into the wall again, the entire floor seemed to shake under the blow now "WHY? WHY DOES HE ALWAYS HURT OTHERS JUST TO GET AT ME? WHAT, IS HE THAT MUCH OF A FUCKIN COWARD HE DOSENT HAVE THE BALLS TO FACE ME HIMSELF?!"
"Well to be fair he couldn't find you and it is known that threatening people you care for has a way of dragging you into the open" Karen replied as she watched Peter let out an enraged yell and slammed his almost broken and bloodied fist into the wall again, this time the entire surface cracked and crumbled, leaving a massive hole and exposing the inside of the tower to the humid cool air outside.
…
Emma frowned as she felt the ground shake, likely from Peter's outburst. It sometimes surprised her just how powerful he really was. Now granted he wasn't like Juggernaut or Hulk, but he was a lot stronger than most give him credit for.
'I doubt he even knows the full limits of his power' Emma thought as she continued to explore this building, seeing how similar and different it was to the Avengers Tower back in her's and Peter's now long-gone universe.
As she made her way through the halls she suddenly sensed something that caused her to stop dead center in the hall. It was both familiar and different at the same time and it seemed to be coming from just down the hall. Emma's eyed narrowed as she began to carefully approach the room, even from here she could feel the raw psionic energy leaking from within. She had to throw up a psionic barrier of sorts and lockdown her mind as with every step she took closer to the door, the headache she was beginning to have worsened.
Finally, she arrived and very carefully opened the doorway as she slipped into her diamond form and was greeted to something that stole her breath away.
It was a Phoenix egg!
"You've got to be fuckin kidding me" Emma gaped at the sight of such a powerful and painfully familiar cosmic entity wrapped up in a blanket and resting next to Peter's bed like it was some sort of nightlight or chicken egg that needed to be incubated.
The egg glowed dimly in the mostly dark room, the faint light reflecting off Emma's diamond form as she carefully approached the egg. Just as she was within three feet of it, a small arc of fire erupted it from it like a solar flare. She stopped dead in her tracks, she didn't know if it was just a natural occurrence or perhaps a warning, with the Phoenix she didn't want to take the chance.
'I can't believe it, he has a Phoenix egg here…' Emma said as she gazed at the solid shell of cosmic energy, within was one of the most powerful forces in all of existence. She was tempted to reach out to it, who wouldn't when the key to god like power was sitting there right in front of them.
'It wouldn't be too hard…' Emma thought as she stared at the cosmic egg, a dark sort of hunger began to build in her as she continued to remain in the egg's vicinity 'And with it's power I'd be unstoppable'
She began to reach out towards it before the memory of Scott's death at the hands of Doom raced through her mind, just when the tips of her fingers were centimeters from the egg's surface. She stood their frozen as she remembered Scott threw everything he had into the energy blast directed at Doom and the man brushed it aside like it was a feather and not a force powerful enough to level half a universe.
She could still hear the man's dark, cold mocking words as he grabbed Scott by the throat and held him in the air before the shocked heroes.
"Fool, none can stand the might of Doom. But I will applaud you for trying mister Summers" Doom said as his grip on Scott's throat tighten, causing the man to gasp out in pain.
Emma saw this and ran towards Doom, her form incased in diamond before Doom glanced at her with a hidden disinterested expression on his face. Emma suddenly felt the energy drain from her body and she collapsed to the ground in a huff. She heard someone, it sounded like Ororo call out to her but she didn't pay it any mind. Her focus was on Doom as he glanced back at Scott with a dark look in his eye.
"Hmm, to be honest mister Summers, having you around will cause too much trouble. And Doom has need of the Phoenix Force"
Doom then did something that would haunt Emma for the rest of her life, he rammed his hand into Scott's chest and then began to slowly rip out the Phoenix Force itself!
Scott screamed in agony as Doom used his new-found power to literally tear the cosmic bird from within the Mutant extremist leader before he held the now struggling Phoenix in his hand as if it were a simple sparrow and nothing more. Doom then turned his gaze back towards Scott and twisted his wrist which in turn caused a loud 'crack' to erupt from Scott's neck. His body went limp as Doom dropped him to the ground as he condensed the Phoenix Force down into something that vaguely resembled an egg.
Emma stared at the lifeless form of Scoot's body as she heard the other heroes, both the Avengers, X-men and the others that called themselves the Justice League rush towards Doom. She didn't hear the ensuring one sided battle as she felt tears drop from her eyes as she stared at the dead form of her lover. She carefully crawled towards his body and took his head into her hands as tears fell from her face and on to his cracked visor.
"S-Scott…?" Emma asked tearfully, hoping that he was still somehow alive despite the fact she couldn't pick up any brain activity from him.
She pulled him close to her and began to silently weep even as Galactus appeared after Doom had frozen everyone in place.
Emma was suddenly brought out of her memory and found herself back in Peter's room standing before the Phoenix egg. She gazed at the powerful being, unknown that the egg was calling out for help towards the tower's only other occupant.
…
Peter's anger cooled slightly as if the exposure to the outside air calmed him and allowed him to pause in his rampage and take several deep breaths. He stood there in silence as he kept his body rooted to the spot, afraid if he moved he'd keep breaking and destroying things until the tower came crashing down.
And a smart part of Peter thought that Emma or Karen wouldn't appreciate being rendered homeless just because he threw a temper tantrum. Granted it was a relatively justified temper tantrum but that still didn't give him the right to make other's lives difficult. One had it rough as it is and Peter still has yet to forge a connection to the Baxter building for Karen to transfer to in the event something bad happens.
Finally, after several minutes Peter a deep calming breath before he rubbed away the tears that were threatening to spill from his eyes as he backed away from the hole in the wall and collapsed against what was left of the chair he was in when Emma first came in here. He held his head in hands as he fought the urge to just collapse into a state of crying.
"I still can't believe that all of these years I've been dicking around, people I care about were fighting and dying" Peter whispered to himself.
"Well to be fair Doom has for the moment made it impossible to leave this place given all one thousand and seventy-two attempts you've made since I came online have failed. And this isn't taking into account the two thousand and twelve attempts that I'm aware of before you created me." Karen stated as a small glowing orb or light projected itself before Peter "And I doubt even that Phoenix egg will help us once it hatches. Doom from the records the Avengers kept on him in the tower's database wouldn't be so careless to overlook that little detail"
"Then why the hell would he leave it here in the first place?" Peter asked with a puzzled frown "Hell he has to know that after finding out what's been going on, I'll be trying to find a way to use it to get the hell out of here"
"I don't know, let me use my recent gift of telepathy and precognition to see why Doom did such a thing" Karen said in a dry tone that caused Peter to scowl
"Okay seriously, I'm giving that matrix of yours a look later"
Hmm, yes I suppose you will after you spend a day or two in the Liquor hall drowning your sorrows in whatever you can stomach" Karen said as the orb backed away "Now what are we going to do when miss Frost discovers your little nightlight?"
"I don't know" Peter said as he let out a sigh and leaned his head against the wall "What can we do? She can freeze me in place with her mind alone and you aren't hooked up to the towers security systems"
"Why is that?" Karen asked with an obvious frown in her voice.
"Paranoia on my part. Every time an A.I. is made by a superhero it somehow ends up going insane and evil for some reason so I saved myself the possible headache and just never did" Peter said.
"Jerk!"
"Hey, have you met Ultron?" Peter said with an exasperated expression.
"No, but why we're on the subject of Ultron, when are you going to make me my male A.I. companion so I have someone to talk to?" Karen questioned the wall crawler.
"What, am I not good enough anymore?" Peter asked with surprise and a little hurt in his voice.
"Well given you now have a living female in your vicinity I figured that'll mean you'll have less time for me" Karen said and saw that Peter was about to speak "I'm not complaining, it'll be nice to talk to someone that's not you for a change"
"Hurtful" Peter pouted at the orb of light as it vanished.
"Hey, you're the one that gave me this personality, if anything your hurting yourself" Karen said as Peter stood up and let out a sigh as he examined the room.
"Karen, remind me to have any violent outbursts outside the tower from now on" Peter said as he held up his hand and for a moment a small magic circle with glowing runes orbiting around it appeared and the wall and furniture began to repair itself. After half a minute, the room was completely fixed and any traces of his outburst were gone.
Peter let the magical energy in his hand die before he glanced at it with a thoughtful expression "You know, I'm beginning to think that for all of Doctor Strange's laid back and cool demeanor, he had a lot of outburst in his time and the only reason we never knew is because he used magic to clean it up afterwards"
"Perhaps you can ask him when you meet up, assuming he's even still alive by then" Karen replied.
"True, and maybe hope he didn't mind me raiding the Sanctum Sanatorium and tried to use magic to escape" Peter said with a sigh before he suddenly felt his spider-sense go off and was greeted to the sight of Emma in his room, looking down at the Phoenix egg.
'Oh great… well better go prevent a repeat of her being possessed by the Phoenix again' Peter thought with a sigh as he summoned a small portal and walked through it and appeared silently behind Emma. He stared at her for a moment before he loudly cleared his throat "Uh not that I don't mind you in my bedroom, but why are you in here?"
Emma jumped at the sudden sound of his voice and snapped her head towards him in surprise "How the hell did you-"
"Magic" Peter said with a grin before his face sobered "But no seriously, why are you in my room?"
Emma stated at Peter for a moment before she glanced back at the egg "I sensed a powerful, almost unbearable amount of Psionic energy coming from here and decided to investigate since you were still busy tearing apart the living room"
"Sorry…" Peter said with a wince "I… I didn't mean for you to see that"
"Peter, I used to live in the same mansion as Wolverine, trust me when I say it's noting I haven't seen before" Emma said as she very slowly dropped her diamond form "Hmm, interesting, the psionic energy in here is almost undetectable now…"
"Probably because I'm here now" Peter said as he stepped around Emma and approached the egg before readjusting the blanket "It was probably trying to get my attention and likely caught yours by mistake. Whenever it needs me to adjust the blanket or lamp, it sends off a powerful psionic wave that normally activates my spider-sense"
"Your telling me one of the most powerful entities in all of creation needs you to adjust its blanket and lighting?" Emma said with an incredulous expression.
Peter glanced at her before he shrugged "Well given it's still an egg, something I'm still trying to wrap my head around, I figured its range of mobility and manipulation of its environment is more limited. Either that or it's just a lazy bird…"
Emma narrowed her eyes in slight confusion at this as she glanced back at the egg before she let out a huff and turned on her heel and walked away. Peter watched her go and couldn't help but chuckle.
"Man, no one is going to believe I got Emma Frost into my room"
Emma, who was till close enough to hear the comment rolled her eyes as she left the room "Keep dreaming darling"
"I will, and you'll know it!" Peter said with a laugh as he adjusted the lamp before nodding "There, that should do it"
He didn't get a response from the egg, not that he was expecting one before he sat down on his bed and let out a tired sigh and fell back and looked up at the ceiling.
'…I really need to find a way out of here… partly because I need to make sure the Four is okay and make sure that Norman stays down, for good this time. Plus I'm probably going to have to keep an eye on Emm-' Peter thought before something occurred to him as he sat up with a start "Wait… how the hell did she get here in the first place?!"
If Emma was able to get in, what else could have or can now?
…
And done.
Next chapter, Peter takes Emma to have a look around the city where she reveals how she came to be here in the first place while Karen detects some abnormal energy signatures approaching the city.