"I have a bad feeling about this, Beck isolating Peter with no backup from anyone, taking him away to a bar or something." Eddie said.
"I'm sure Peter will see through him, he's a smart kid." Tony tried to refute it, surely Beck couldn't fully fool Peter to get whatever he wanted, which was probably E.D.I.T.H, could he?
The two of them talked about Beck and about what Peter wants with his life, Peter says he isn't sure he is the next Tony Stark, there's too much pressure on him, and he doesn't think he can live up to Tony's legacy. He tells Beck that he could though, and letting Beck wear E.D.I.T.H, he looks like Tony.
"Kid, I don't want a next Tony Stark, Peter Parker is a much better hero than Tony Stark could ever be." Tony said. "There's no pressure to be a new me, I wouldn't want anybody to be me. I'm a mess."
"You're selling yourself way too short, Tony." Happy reassured him. "You're the best there is."
"For now, maybe. You know the kid too, Happy, if he wants too, he'll be the best hero we could ever see, he could lead humanity to the next level."
"I see Beck looks like Tony a little in this, something tells me he meant too?" Mantis asked.
"Probably, he's doing what he can to make Peter believe he's a successor of Tony, looking similar is a good effect to do that." Natasha grudgingly accepted.
"Well he was smart enough to work on this B.A.R.F for Tony, so he's got a brain." Bruce said. "Still, when we do get back, I'm gonna enjoy using whatever platforms I can to smear his name and legacy into non-existence."
Beck tries to refuse it, but Peter insists, and Beck eventually agrees, Peter transfers control of E.D.I.T.H to Beck and welcomes him to the Avengers, saying he won't go to Berlin and he has to go win MJ, Beck wishes him good luck with MJ as Peter leaves, before lights flicker, showing most people in the bar were just projections. Beck then grins at everyone still inside, including the man from Venice.
"God, he's an idiot." Ikaris said, as everyone else turned to glare at him.
"What did you just say?" Steve asked, voice deathly calm.
"I'll give you one chance to eat those words, before I make you eat them when we get out of this place, dead or not, I'll come for you." Tony promised him.
"I'm sorry, alright? I wasn't thinking, I mean, I guess he did get duped pretty bad, the kid seems a trusting sort." Ikaris tried to explain himself. He was still sore over what had happened with Tiamut and the other Eternals, he didn't also want the Avengers on his case too.
"He has to win me? What am I, some prize?" MJ tried to joke. She was also furious at this Ikaris guy for calling Peter an idiot, but she needed to distract herself from it, it wasn't like people better suited than her to kicking his ass wouldn't already do it anyway. She had to focus on getting out of here after they had seen whatever all this was, getting her memories back of Peter, and she was sure there was alot, and maybe telling him how she felt? He clearly liked her and even though she couldn't recall most of it, she was sure she liked him too.
"So they were all projections?" Bucky asked, stunned.
"That guy by the bar, he looks familiar, from somewhere..." Rhodey trailed off, trying to recall.
"Wasn't that guy behind Peter and MJ in Venice?" Abe asked, pointing out Guterman.
"He was!" Cindy remarked, shocked.
"See, that wasn't so hard. Somebody get this stupid costume off me!" He said as they began cheering.
"So he's a grade A dickwad." Eddie stated.
"HE IS REALLY MANIPULATING POOR PETER." Venom growled. "I VOTE WE FIND AND EAT THEM ALL."
"We aren't eating people. even if they probably deserve it!" Eddie replied.
"No, I'm for letting the blob in this case." Tony told the two of them.
I AM NOT A BLOB, AM I?" Venom asked Eddie who shook his head slightly whilst gesturing side to side with his hand.
"I mean, you kinda are." MJ spoke up.
"I WILL NOT EAT YOU FOR THAT ONE, AS I LIKE THE PARKER BOY'S LOVE FOR YOU. I WILL NOT BE CALLED A BLOB THOUGH! IT IS DEMEANING!"
"You eat people's brains, Pal. I don't think you have much say in what is or isn't demeaning." Eddie told Venom
"YOU TAKE THAT BACK NOW, EDDIE!" Venom roared at him.
"Brock, Venom. Can we just move on? I need to know how badly I also need to hurt Beck and his crew." Sam spoke up.
"FINE. ONLY AS I WANT TO SEE WHO TO EAT NEXT." Venom grinned.
Peter walked past a mural of Iron Man, happy in his decision to trust Beck as the next Iron Man as Beck told his team to integrate their network into E.D.I.T.H, giving a toast after pressure from the others, thanking Tony Stark, their old employer.
"So they did all work for me." Tony put his head in his hands. "God, I really dropped the ball for Peter, didn't I?"
"Hey, no. It's not your fault for what these guys chose to do. It's not your fault they decided to go after Peter." Rhodey told him. "We'll sort this, all of this, don't worry Tony."
"How can I not be? Look at him, Peter thinks he made the right call and all pressure is off. How can you say we can sort this when I know they're going to go after him, and none of us could remember him, what's to say they haven't gotten to him whilst we've been in here?"
"They have not, Stark." The Watcher's voice spoke up, seemingly from above them. "No harm has come to the Parker boy since you began watching these. It isn't like I can't just put you back at the moment you came from anyway."
"I hate villain monologues so much." Ned groused.
"No you don't." Betty teased.
"Yeah, I don't, but poor Peter." Ned's face dropped
Beck reveals he created B.A.R.F, and was fired by Tony for being unstable, that William had worked for Stane to try create a mini arc reactor and it was their illusion tech and drone tech that allowed them to stage the elemental fights, alongside the fake story of a multiversal warrior named Quentin Beck, and the use of EMP to trick Fury's satellites into confirming their lies.
"Riva! I should have known he was involved." Tony said.
"How would you know though? You haven't seen him in over a decade." Rhodey pointed out tp him.
"I don't know, but I should have." Tony blamed himself for letting these guys go. He should have done more to somehow cut them off, make sure they couldn't use their intellect to hurt him and those he loved some day.
"They're all former Stark Industries?" Wanda asked.
"Yeah, people I fired for thinking they were unstable or out for greed. I mean, I was clearly right about their motives, but I should have done something different to cut them off." Tony said. "I don't know, but I did this, I caused all of this for Peter."
"No, Tony, you didn't." Clint told him. "These guys chose their path. You fired them as they were doing wrong. They chose to turn to crime, to villainy, after all of that. That's on them. You never let Peter down, I can see how much you care about him, you would never let him down. I'm sure he knows that."
Beck stated how the world needed a new heroic leader, and with E.D.I.T.H and with their illusions, Mysterio would be that hero, rounding it off with thanks to Tony, to the idea of Mysterio and to Peter Parker.
"You'd never have been a hero, the rest of us would never have accepted you." Bucky snarled.
"I mean, wouldn't we? If we didn't see all of this, would any of us have doubted his story, especially in Fury was backing him up?" Scott asked as they looked between each other, realising they probably would have bought it all. With a purple alien wiping out half the universe, would the multiverse really seem so far fetched?
"Don't you dare toast Peter, you scum." Ned growled at the toasting villains.
"Peter will kick his ass." Happy nodded. "Don't worry."
"Poor kid. Let's get to work!"
"I don't want to know what they consider to be work." Sersi frowned.
"Nothing good, I'm sure." Matt agreed.
The scene cut to Peter running into the hotel to see Ned in a bathrobe, who told him the trip was over and they were all heading home, before Mr Harrington came out on the phone and saw Peter, hugged him and thanked him for not being dead and to stay alive and in the hotel.
"Well at least Peter's alive!" Cindy cheered.
"Well I'm rather glad he wasn't murdered by evil ex Stark employees." MJ said.
"I'm sure he's glad of that too." Kate remarked.
"Ned rocking that bathrobe." Betty winked at Ned who blushed.
"So the witches are to blame again are they?" Flash joked.
Peter watched as people rushed past or opened and closed their hotel rooms before MJ opened hers, asking Peter where he had been. MJ said they were worried about him but was glad he was back as they awkwardly talked, before she shut the door. He went to knock on the door as she opened it again, he asked her to go do something fun with him, with MJ agreeing, the two awkwardly laughing.
"Aww!" Cindy teased as MJ turned to her, cheeks aflame, and tried to glare.
"Shut it." MJ hissed.
"So, finally, a date?" Kate asked with a wink as MJ glared at her as well.
"I don't care who you are, I'll get revenge." MJ promised her as Kate gulped.
"Message received."
"You are very funny, MJ. I like you." Yelena beamed at her.
"Is that a compliment?" Ned asked warily, having seen Yelena acting.
"Absolutely." Natasha assured them.
Peter and MJ left the hotel as a news report mentioned Mysterio and Night Monkey fighting a fire elemental, Brad watching them leave from his seat in the lobby. They walked along the Charles Bridge, their hands touching slightly before they pulled away. Peter awkwardly tried to tell MJ his feelings for her before she interrupted, saying he was Spider-Man.
"Why is Brad still a thing?" Abe asked.
"Well it looks like he's been shut out, so I'm sure we can all happily forget he exists at all." Flash said.
"Aww, poor Peter, trying to confess his feelings." Spider-Man 2 smiled.
"Parker luck, eh?" Spider-Man 3 asked his alter, as the two men laughed.
"Well it was obvious. Even if we hadn't seen all of this, I'm sure it would have been obvious." MJ shrugged.
"If SHIELD was still a thing, I'd offer you training, those observational skills, they'd come in useful for a job like agent." Clint told her as MJ flushed.
"I'm not that good, really, I just notice thing." MJ tried to explain.
"Selling yourself short there." Ned told his best friend.
"I'm not that good, honestly." MJ insisted.
"Believe me, you're smart enough for any career really." Tony told the surprised girl. "I remember everything with Pete and I now, how he'd talk for hours about what geniuses his best friends Ned and MJ were, how they could easily beat him to get into MIT, and believe me, Pete was going to MIT on his grades alone."
Peter denied it until MJ showed him the projector piece she had picked up, Peter realised that Beck had set it all up and the Elementals were fake, before he told MJ she was right, he was Spider-Man and they needed to get back to the hotel, immediately.
"Well at least he knows now." Clint shrugged.
"I'm so going to kill him." MJ said, gasping.
"What's up?" Ned asked, panicked.
"I remember, us here on the bridge, me watching Peter for weeks, thinking he was Spider-Man, me and him in his hotel room, us running in London." MJ told him. "God, I remember so much of it now I didn't before. But if Peter had anything to do with these Runes and what the wizard guy did, I'm gonna kill him."
"Forget killing Peter, I'm gonna kill Beck." Tony growled.
"He's already dead, Tony." Happy stated. "He died a few days after all of this, remember? The kids brought it up when we first started?"
"I'll bring him back just to do it again!" Tony vowed, pressing on.
"I can't believe he just admitted you were right like that." Bucky laughed.
"Well he is in a hurry to get her to safety and go through all of this it seems." Steve pointed out.
"I just hope Beck doesn't find out that Peter knows." Hope worried.
"Parker luck." Spider-Man 2 and 3 groaned. Of course he'd find out pretty fast. It was their way.