So...three now. Yep. I've been trying to get a thing for another story up, but I'm taking my time because I'm dumb.
"Hey, have any of you guys seen Parker?"
Everyone in the group of five hesitated as Ava spoke. Finally, Nori spoke up. "My friend says that he just ran into the doors of the school...wait, Harry Osborn let him in through the window."
Luke laughed. "I still don't get how your friend can have eyes on everything at once."
"He's a spirit of machinery and light...his whole thing is to be able to aid me as needed."
The group walked (and wheeled) down the hallway in the direction of their wayward sixth member.
"...forget where you live if MJ didn't walk you home. Just make sure you're not late tonight."
"Late? For…"
The group heard Harry sigh as they turned the corner. "My dad's out of town? The penthouse is open for a movie marathon with you, me, and MJ.
Ava cleared her throat. "Excuse us, but can we borrow Petey for a teensy sec?"
"Can't it wait?" Peter instantly asked. "Harry and I-"
Sam strode forward, putting his hand on Peters chest and pushing him away from Harry. "Parker, talk! Now!"
Harry glared. "Whoa, what's the deal?"
"Uh...it's a club thing! A club I just joined. Today. Sandwich...club."
Sam frowned. "Sandwich?"
"Later, Harry!" Peter finished as he continued to get strong-armed away.
Peter glared at almost the rest of his team as they laughed at the picture that had been spread all over the internet since that morning. The picture in question: Spider-man with the back of his pants torn open.
Ava leaned over by Peter. "That I didn't need to see. Why did we find out about this from Fury and not you?:
"Um...because I just got here? You guys aren't my mommies and daddies."
Danny put a hand on Peter's shoulder. "Stand together or fall alone, Peter. That's why we wanted to talk."
"You wanna talk?" Peter snapped. "How about we talk about how made me blow off my best friend? My time is my time! That was the deal I made with Fury!"
"We also made a deal to work together, remember?" Luke pointed out.
Sam nodded. "Yeah, you've got a job now, Parker. You don't need to kiss up to moneybags anymore for cash."
Nori glared at Sam, barely managing to lift up her arm to elbow him.
Harry, who had been walking by to hear Sam's comment, slammed down his tray of food on the table and stalked off. Peter glared at Sam as well before running after his best friend.
Danny shook his head. "There are many parts between the mind and the mouth. You should try using them sometime."
Peter grinned as the elevator hit the top floor. "Think of it as a team bonding exercise. Just...without the costumes, and fighting, and stuff."
The team minus one left the elevator, walking over to the large pair of doors that dominated the room. "I don't need a new friend, and I don't see how Nori got of of doing this."
"Fury insisted that she stay for extra training. Still though, if you guys are gonna invade my life, it's gonna be on my terms." Peter reached out, grabbed on of the brass knockers, and pounded it on the door. "Harry's cool, it's gonna be fun."
The door opened to reveal Flash Thompson.
"Flash?"
"Paaaaar-tay!" Flash threw the doors the rest of the way open to reveal that a good portion of the people in their grade were inside the penthouse, partying.
"...didn't see that coming."
"Hey, look!" Ava pointed towards the middle of the living room area. A tall, technorganic magician was performing various magic tricks, causing various things to disappear and reappear, as well as doing various tricks. When it noticed them, it waved at them and said in a deep voice, "Hello, and welcome!"
"...or that."
"I'm missing homework for this?" Ava asked in disbelief.
"This wasn't supposed to be...this," Peter admitted. "MJ!"
Said redhead, who had been walking through the crowd, looking distinctly uncomfortable, walked toward them. "Hey guys! Some...party, huh?"
"I thought we were watching a movie."
"Me too, but apparently we're watching half the school party down at Harry's place instead."
"The whole school, actually." Harry walked up behind the two, glaring. "Except for the ones who weren't invited." He gestured back at Peter's team.
"I invited them, Harry," Peter said. "I thought that maybe, if everyone got to know each other, things could be cool." Harry looked away. "Harry, I'm trying here. Come on."
"I don't need anymore friends," Harry snapped. "As you can see here, I've got plenty." As if to prove it, he jumped up on the grand piano with a microphone and yelled, "You guys are the best!"
Everyone in the room began chanting Harry's name.
MJ cringed. "Maybe my plant was a little ill-advised."
"And now, I will make this couch...disappear!"
Limbo basked in the cheers her performance was getting, glad everything was going right. She put her hands on the couch, making it levitate, before clapping her hands. Unseen by her audience, she was making thousands of minute calculations as she went, making the couch slowly vanish to a dimension layered slightly on top of her own, but turned things invisible as opposed to intangible. As her hands came together, the couch vanished in the movement. After a few seconds of awe-building, she clapped again, reversing the calculations as she brought her hands apart once more.
"Tada~" she said in her masculine voice.
After much debate with herself, she figured it would be best to go as Limbo instead of Nori, just to make sure that she could fight for herself if something went wrong.
Suddenly, there was a loud roar from the direction of the bathrooms.
"Tell me he rented a lion!"
Suddenly, Peter was thrown out of the bathroom, and knocked down the stairs. One of Limbo's classmates barely caught him before he fell to the floor. A black figure stalked out of the bathroom as well, then jumped down the stairs. It then proceeded to grow tentacles.
Sighing, Limbo crouched down, before jumping at it, clotheslining it with her left arm. "Alright, infested, are you ready for this?" She pulled out a giant hammer from nowhere, before slamming it directly into the infested's side.
"I'll only say this once without laughing: let the jock go, stinkbreath."
"I think it likes you, Webs," Nova commented.
"Feel free to ask it out, Bucket Head."
Limbo grinned as she heard her team begin gathering. "Took you guys long enough."
"Well sorry that we went to evacuate while you attacked the toilet sludge."
The infested knocked the tenno of of it, sending her flying into a wall.
"Ordis, contact the Lotus! We need to let her know that there are infested cells here!"
"Understood, Operator. It will take several minutes to get through to her."
"Got it, Ordis."
"It's in my pits!"
Limbo pulled herself out of the wall, turning to the freaking-out Nova to see that the infested mass had jumped hosts.
"How in the Void…?" Growling, Limbo put away her hammer and began doing calculations. She held out her hand to banish her ally-turned-enemy to her alternate dimension, but cringed as some of her calculations failed. "Can't stop him!" she yelled.
At that, Nova flew at Spider-man and knocked him out the window.
"Roof...have to get to the roof…"
Spider-man flipped back onto the roof of the building, with Nova not far behind. The rest of the team was just arriving from the stairwell, prepared to help.
"Get it off me!" Nova shrieked as he began making his entire body glow with energy in an attempt to dislodge the mass.
"How do we stop that thing without hurting Nova?" White Tiger asked.
Limbo pulled out a flamethrower and pointed it at Nova. "Only cure for infestation is fire." Just as she was about to fire, the mass jumped from Nova to Limbo, covering her entirely.
Nori screamed as her connection to her warframe was forcibly severed. She forced open her Transference pod, rolled out, and immediately began dry heaving. "O-Ordis, get us c-close. N-need to help."
"No, Operator,, I will not. You must rest, and-"
"That's an order, Ordis!"
"...Yes, Operator."
Nori's stomach churned as she felt the liset fly in closer to the roof, but she pulled herself weakly to her feat. She started walking out of the room, albeit slowly, pulling up her suit's hood and zipping it up as if it a well-practiced movement. Once she was up in the front, the ramp opened, letting her drop down. Nori fell to her knees instantly as she hit the ground.
She saw that her Limbo Vasiona hunched over on the ground, and that the infested mass was covering Iron Fist. Spider-man was trying to avoid its attacks, something Nori full heartedly agreed with. "You got this Iron Fist!"
As if in response, Iron Fist first launched Spider-man away, then punched the rooftop as hard as he could, knocking the mass off of him.
"Enough is enough!" Spider-man yelled as he got back onto the roof. "I'm not letting you hurt anyone else on this team! You want me so bad? Come and get me!"
Nori stumbled up to where White Tiger stood. "No...stop him. It'll bond to him!"
The mass jumped on Spider-man instantly, swarming around him for several moments before settling on a new, larger, black and white form of Spider-man. "I...am VENOM!" it shrieked. It crouched down, looking at Spider-man's teammates. "Friends...yummy."
"Spider-man, I know you're in there!" White Tiger said, hoping to get through to him.
Figuring things would get violent in a second, Nori dived to the side, trying to get at her Vasiona. If she could only get to her Ignis…
"No, not my friends!"
Nori looked back, surprised. Spider-man, who had literally just sacrificed himself, was now fighting to get out of Venom so he could stop him. She grabbed her Ignis, but just as she pointed it at her friend, he launched webs at two metal structures on the roof, the proceeded to electrocute himself. With a loud screech, Venom melted off of Spider-man and vanished.
She dropped her Ignis instantly, surprised that he could handle that level of electrical current. She walked over to the hero, leaning over to try to help, but falling over instead. "Dumb legs…"
"Don't tell Fury…" Spider-man said as Nova helped him up instead. "That's definitely gonna void the warranty."
Harry and MJ finished climbing onto the roof, now that the threat was gone. "HAve you seen my friend Peter?"
"Shrimpy kid?" Power Man asked.
"Spaghetti arms?" Nova.
"Three dollar haircut?" Iron Fist.
"Needs to figure out his life?" Nori.
"Only a 98 average?" All four looked at White Tiger in unison. "That's not a jokey insult?"
"Don't worry, he's fine," Spider-man said, walking up to Harry.
"Good, he's my best friend."
A door opened in the background. A man that looked like an older version of Harry glowered at Spider-man. "You destroyed it?!"
"Infested merely wish to devour," Nori said simply.
"Thank goodness," he said. He gestured at the police men behind him. "Get the heroes some help."
Nori sighed as she slowly worked her way over to her Vasiona. As she walked, she felt a hand on her back. "Didn't expect to see you out here," Nova said.
"Vasiona was down. I needed to do something," Nori explained. "Even if I can't get down here quickly, it's better for me to be able to try. Naramon, by the way." She held out her hand, barely keeping her from stumbling forward.
Nova shook her hand. "Need some help getting Limbo out of here?"
'Naramon' smiled under her hood. "Thanks, but I think we've got it." She placed her hand on the Limbo's back, forcing energy to flow into it. Slowly, the warframe stood up. It reached down and grabbed the Ignis off the ground, and picked up Naramon.
"...wait, we?"
Naramon nodded to Nova, then said, "Hey Ordis, a little help?" The air in front of her shimmered, revealing the liset had just landed. The ramp opened, letting the warframe and Operator aboard before closing again. "Mata ashita, Nova." With that, the ramp closed.
So yeah. Venom venom venom. Venom venom venom.
As for the thing with Nova at the end, it coulda been anyone but Spider-man. It just happened to be him. Because, you know. Space.
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