Sorry for the bit of a wait, but we good now bois. I'm glad that people have liked the story so far, and I hope that it gets better as I continue. Eventually, the story might diverge from the cannon Spider-verse one, but that's only to be expected when you have a bloodthirsty, overpowered, space-ninja murderhobo thrown into the mix.
Peter Parker was freaking out. For the first time in forever, he, of all people, was put in detention! "Principal Coulson, I've never had detention before in my life! My Aunt is gonna kill me!" He slammed his head on the desk. "Then she's gonna bring me back as a zombie and kill me again!"
"Good job with the role play, you guys! That was perfect!" Coulson replied, ignoring how Sam was trying not to laugh at Peter's panicking.
A look of realization crossed Peter's face as he finally took a good look around the detention room. Ava, Luke, and Danny were all sitting in the room as well, but there was a surprising lack of their sixth member. Too relieved to notice, Peter grinned. "Oh...this was just to get us all together for a secret SHIELD thing. I thought it was serious."
"Define serious." With that, Coulson pressed a button hidden under the desk, making the five occupied chairs tilt forwards into several newly-opened holes in the floor.
Peter blinked in surprise when he landed, seeing that his everyday clothing had been replaced with his Spider-man costume, and that he had landed in a metal chair...which was shooting him forward to some secret SHIELD thing. "Ok, this I like." Of course, he didn't like it as much when he hit the end of the track and got launched into the pile of bodies that were his other male teammates.
Off to the side, White Tiger did a perfect backflip out of her chair and landed in a t-pose. "Tada!"
Limbo, who was standing off to the side, cocked her head. "What took you guys so long?"
"Move your webs!"
Limbo and Tiger looked over to the dog pile to see that Spider-man was still right on top of Nova, and Nova definitely wasn't happy.
"I've got this knot in my back and those dumb pointy things on your helmet are just the right shape."
White Tiger sighed. "Boys."
Limbo nodded. "They truly are strange."
The two females walked over to the nearest window, Tiger gasping in surprise to see the sheer amount of water. "Where are we?"
"Attention all SHIELD personnel: prepare to surface," Fury's voice announced over the intercom, as if answering her question.
"The helicarrier! I love this job!"
"Eh, I've seen better sights," the space ninja said as she watched the water give way to sky during liftoff.
Back at the idiocy that was Nova and Spider-man, Nova decided enough was enough and took off, knocking the spider themed hero off of him. "I don't know what your problem is, Webs, but if you wanna throw down-" Nova's hands lit up, "-let's get it over with!"
"In a feisty mood?"
The room of teens looked in the direction of Fury's voice to see that he was grinning at them from a screen nearby. "Outstanding. The COURT is exactly where you'll train to focus that aggression. Not like that, Limbo."
Everyone looked back at the magician to see her dejectedly sheathing a gigantic sword that come out of nowhere.
"Court…" Spider-man said, "...like B-Ball court?"
"COURT, like you come here to be judged. Harshly."
Suddenly, the windows were covered by thick, metal panels, blocking all natural light. Several robots rose out from the floor, pointing their weapons at the teens.
"Shoulda called it the bathroom. I just webbed my shorts."
Nova looked the team leader dead in the eye, ignoring the comment. "Bet your webshooters I can take down more drones than you can!"
"First to ten kabooms wins!"
Instantly, the two began wrecking everything in sight, ignoring Nick and their team completely.
"They are so stupid," Tiger sighed.
"In your face!" they both yelled in unison.
"Gentlemen! The object of this exercise was to cross the room without setting off any traps!"
"Oh...my oops," Spider-man said, to which Limbo face-palmed.
"I was going to send you into the field today, but until you start working together, you're grounded!"
"But that's not fair!" Tiger exclaimed. "It was Dork One and Dork Two!"
"You're gonna clean up your mess...as a team." With that, Fury's screen vanished, and the wall opened to reveal a robot covered in cleaning supplies.
Instantly, Spider-man grabbed a broom and launched himself up. "I got the ceiling!"
Several hours later, a good portion of the robot parts were gathered into the center of the room.
"'Be the best hero you can be! Work with professionals!' I'm pushing a broom thanks to you two!" White Tiger snapped at the two idiots that had caused their mess.
"I could be at the Index, or searching for parts if it weren't for you two," Limbo complained as well, twirling her broom around before, clapping it between her hands, making it vanish instantly.
"A tornado becomes a gentle breeze, only as temperatures cool down."
Everyone stared blankly at Iron Fist for a moment aside from Power Man, who just turned and said, "Yeah, he does that. Let's just finish so we can prove what we got to Fury."
"You guys are the noobs!" Spider-man corrected. "I've been catching baddies for over a year! Check it out: Batroc, Melter, Toad, Whirlwind, the Frightful Four! And I'm counting all four!"
Limbo shook her head, not knowing the names, but feeling underwhelmed.
White Tiger, on the other hand, was ecstatic. "That's it! Spider-man, you're a gen...i...u...you gave me an idea."
A few minutes later, everyone was gathered in front of a criminal database that White Tiger was scrolling through. "SHIELD's Most Wanted. We bring in someone from this list…"
"Instant respect," Power Man finished.
"Right. Let's make sure it's someone we can handle. Ha! Lady Porcupine."
"Yawn!" Spider-man said. "Nova, you take that one. Bring some bandages, pal."
"As if. I'm aiming higher. Like, top of the list. Let's get him! Doctor Doom! Last one to Latvaria licks Fury's eyepatch!" Nova instantly shot off, knocking over several people in the process.
"It's called impulse control, Nova!" Spider-man yelled after him. "Look it up!"
Limbo sighed as she followed the rest of her charging team. "It's times like this that I wish I was a Nyx."
"Who knows how to fly that thing? I wanna conserve some energy for the beatdown."
"If you all are serious about going, why don't we take my ship instead?"
"...wait, you have a ship?"
Limbo lead the rest of her team to a large, upside-down shaped heart of a ship that was sitting on the top deck of the helicarrier. "Ordis, open up!" She waited for a couple moments before saying, "Sure, hack into their transmitters so I don't look crazy."
She grinned internally has her teammate's communicators lit up in unison with the representation of her ship's AI system. "Hello, Operator's squadmates! I am Ordis, Ship Cephalon. I have been informed that I have the - utter horror - pleasure of taking you all to the country of Latvaria?"
A ramp opened at the bottom of the Liset, which Limbo and her male teammates instantly climbed up.
White Tiger shook her head. "No. We are not going to fly to Latvaria and attack Doctor Doom!"
"You're right, that would be insane," Spider-man instantly agreed. "Can you talk some sense into helmet hair?"
"Ah, finally, someone's using their head." Tiger then made the mistake of climbing up the ramp as well to speak with the others better.
Ordis slammed the ramp up behind her and instantly took off.
"...I hate you all."
"Hey Tiger! Come help me pick out weapons! I think corrosive damage will do, but should I bring a magnetic weapon just in case?"
"Wait, what? We're not killing him!"
"This is Latvaria?" Iron Fist said as Ordis took the Liset down over land. "Looks...peaceful."
"Doubt it," Power Man said. "Guy's number one for a reason. Do we have a plan?"
"I was gonna go up to the castle and say 'Cupcake gram!' Everyone loves cupcakes."
White Tiger sighed. "You're an idiot."
"Capture mission," Limbo said, no humor in her voice whatsoever. "We go in, we take down the target, we bring them in. If needed, I subdue them and send them to extraction, where we will rendezvous with Ordis, who will pick us up. Does everyone understand?" She pulled out a slightly spikey-looking pistol, levitating it into the air and making it spin.
"...what…" Spider-man squeaked.
"Good. Everyone follow me." And thus, Limbo jumped head-first out of the open ramp of the Liset. Everyone stared at her as she gracefully flipped over in the air to land on her feet, putting her pistol away and pulling out an assault rifle.
Everyone looked at Power Man. "What?"
"You knew about Mr. Fortune Cookie. You could know about Little Miss Acrobat over here "too," White Tiger said as if it explained everything.
"Look, I have no clue she could do that."
Much robot smashing went by as Doom's personal army rose up from the woodwork to fight the heroes off. A few seconds after the last bot fell, Spider-man stiffened. "Whoa...that's some spidey-sense." He looked up. "Whoa…"
From the castle in the distance, a lone figure floated down menacingly. "Look upon me, and tremble, for my face is the last you shall ever see! I am Doom!"
Easily, the only person that surpassed Doctor Doom's height was Limbo, and that was only because of her hat. Nevertheless, the villain was still fairly intimidating."
"Doctor Doom, I presume?" Spider-man quipped. "Heh, rhymed."
Doom narrowed his eyes. "Fury dares attack Doom on sovereign ground?" With that, he launched a laser from his hand at both Nova and Iron Fist, sending them flying.
At that, Limbo stopped focusing on her teammates. She was used to solo, so she reverted to solo mode. The others were merely distractions, keeping the capture, no, the assassination target occupied so she could come up with a plan. First off, she waited for the others to be a good distance away from the target before doing countless mathematical formulas in her head in quick succession. As she finished the last one, she clapped her hands.
Suddenly, a the fabric of reality ripped around Doom. Another clap froze time for him.
The faceless magician stepped into the reality tear, which had formed a large bubble around them. She walked forward, emotionless, as she put her rifle away and pulled out a large, jagged-looking scythe. The blade was raised, then fell. Before it could pierce the target's throat, something rammed into her with extreme force, knocking her out.
Limbo groaned as she surged her warframe, tearing through whatever the heck was restraining her with ease. It took her a bit, but she was slowly able to process the words being spoken through her communicator at high speed. "Of course it's in Merchant Tongue," she muttered as she attempted to translate what was said.
"-won't matter if we keep her afloat! If that thing hits the core, we're going nuclear."
"Yikes!"
"...what did I wake up to?" Limbo asked, sitting up. It seemed someone had brought her back into her Liset. She didn't know why they didn't just revive her in the field, but she decided it was best not to argue.
"Doom was Doom Bots, and Doom Bots are destroying helicarrier!" Spider-man exclaimed.
"Ah. I'll meet you guys at the power core, then." She cut the link and brought up the minimap in the corner of her vision. Her objective updated, showing off quickest path to the power core. With practiced speed, she shoulder-charged into her alternate reality before proceeding to bullet-jump along as fast as she could. "Oh my kingdom for a Volt, for a Volt, Volt, Volt."
"Regards of Victor von Doom!"
Limbo burst into the room, shoulder-charging and banishing the Doom Bot in one fell swoop. She froze time again before yelling, "Iron Fist! Punch it now!"
Iron Fist, not questioning how Limbo had known that the rest of her team was in the room, jumped down from the rafter he and the others were on, landing a solid, glowing punch on the back of the Doom Bot. It instantly exploded, pieces of it leaving Limbo's dimension to come back to reality. Spider-man grabbed the faceplate, slamming it into the ground in celebration.
Then, Spider-man realized what Nova had managed to somehow do before Limbo entered the room. "Nova, didn't know you could absorb energy."
"Neither did I."
"Wow. You rock, dude."
"You too. Well, less than me."
Limbo walked over to the two of them, whacking them both over the head. She muttered something about "being surrounded by idiots" before plopping down onto the floor. The rest of the team quickly followed her.
Spider-man's phone rang. He listened for a bit, cringed, then handed it to Nova. "Here chief, have a party."
"IF YOU EVER PULL A STUNT LIKE THAT AGAIN, I WILL PERSONALLY-"
Limbo sighed over her internal comm system. Hey Ordis, when does the next competitive Lunaro match start?
It currently begins in fifteen minutes, Operator, the cephalon responded without delay.
Crud...do you think you could record it for me so I could watch it later?
Very well, Operator. I will make sure to save a record of - that idiotic - that entertaining game.
"Does we're sorry help?" Spider-man asked, snapping Limbo out of her conversation. "Maybe, we're reeeeally sorry?"
"No. Whoever started all this step forward. You're off the team."
Spider-man, not lowering his head a bit, stepped forward. "It was me, sir."
As if by an unspoken agreement, Limbo, Tiger, Nova, Iron Fist, and Power Man followed in unison. "It was me."
"No, it was us," Power Man corrected.
Fury glowered at them for a moment before saying, "Never again...team." With that, he walked away.
Spider-man grinned. "Ok, that was cool, guys, but if anyone says 'group hug', I'll cry."
"What about 'study group hug'?" Coulson broke in, walking in behind the team. "You have to make up the homework you missed today."
"Now I am gonna cry." As soon as Coulson left the room, Spider-man smiled again. "All in all, I'd say that went pretty well."
"Children…" Doctor Doom's face suddenly appeared on every screen in the helicarrier. "Let it be known that the eye of the All-Powerful Doom has fallen upon you this day. I have scanned your every strength; every weakness. Cross my path again, and suffer unspeakable consequences." The screens then flickered back to their normal contents.
"...you ok?" Spider-man asked from his place in Power Man's arms. "You looks scared."
"That's just 'cause...I was."
"...yeah, little bit." Spider-man climbed down. "At least it's over."
"We're just gonna let him punk us like that?" Nova yelled. "To the transport!" He took off.
Everyone looked at each other, sighed, then began chasing him down. "Nova!"
So yeah...serious Tenno is serious. As for why she got knocked out before she could take out the Doom bot...well, that'll be explained later. It felt right, though, to show just how terrifying a Tenno can be when they're in a mission that they're taking seriously.
Also, a wild Ordis appears! Yey!
Please review...or don't...do what you want my dudes.