I used my free hand to light the way through the dark sewers. It took almost two hours to make it to the tower, I pushed the manhole cover up to crawl up to the parking lot inside. I climbed up and pulled Peter up with me.

"Why didn't you…just tell me the truth?" He asked softly, his wounds were starting to take a toll on him.

"Peter, a part of going undercover is to maintain your disguise until the job is done." I carried him to the elevator and pressed my thumb to the screen to head to the top.

"JARVIS is anyone home?" I asked

"No Ms. Stark, your father is having dinner with Ms. Potts and Dr. Banner is going to a meeting in Seoul." The AI replied

"Good"

The elevator shot up to the top and opened to the living room. I carried him inside and placed him on the couch. I kneeled down next to him and started to heal his wounds. An awkward silence fell heavy between us.

"So…are you going to start explaining yourself or what?" He asked

"I've worked for SHIELD for a long time but I haven't become an agent until recently. You were my first solo mission. SHIELD wanted Spiderman to join the Avengers Initiative, thinking you would make a good addition to the team." I kept my head low, watching my hands as I healed his ribs carefully. "But no one knew how to track him. But Peter Parker always managed to get close to Spiderman to get a good shot of him for the paper. So I was assigned to follow you until I could find a lead to find Spiderman. But it changed when I discovered you and Spiderman were the same person. I told my Director I found Spiderman that you would think about the offer, and kept the rest to myself."

"So you didn't tell your director who I am?"

"No, he ordered me to find Spiderman and that's what I did. You have a good life Peter, going to school, having friends, eating at the dinner table every night with family." I finished and pulled my hands away. "I lost that lifestyle many years ago, when I joined SHIELD and accepted my responsibilities in Asgard. But you can make the choice I couldn't. You're my friend Peter, and I could never make that decision for you. SHIELD knows nothing about you or your family."

"Thank you" He mumbled

"Ms. Stark, your father and Ms. Potts are coming up. Shall I inform them about our guest?"

"Well that depends…" I turned to look up to Peter. "do you want to stay for dinner?"

"I need to see Gwen."

"We'll take the jet, JARVIS tell my parents I'll be back soon." I carefully picked up Peter and walked to the jet.

Peter put in Gwen's address and JARVIS took over on autopilot, I applied the last of the bandages as the jet landed on the roof of Gwen's building. I carried Peter down the fire escape to Gwen's room. She quickly jumped up and opened the window for us to climb in.

"Oh my god Peter" She said then turned to me. "Kida Stark what are you doing here?"

"Gwen it's me, Rebecca."

"What?!"

"She's an undercover agent of SHIELD." Peter said as Gwen held him

"So, all this time I've been hanging out with Kida Stark, Becca was just a rouse?"

"Gwen I'm sorry, but it was my job but I didn't want to hurt you, you're still my friend and I'm still the girl you know."

"Except you're-"

"Gwen what's going on in there?" A man asked from the hallway

"Just watching a video, dad." She replied and turned back to us. "Peter if my dad sees you, you'll be arrested."

"I don't care"

"Why does your dad want to arrest Peter?"

"He wants to arrest Spiderman, he thinks he's a dangerous vigilante." She explained "You should take him home."

"But what about you?" He asked "Dr. Connors could go after you."

"I will have agents posted at every entrance of the building." I said "Nothing will get in without being seen."

"Is that really necessary?" Gwen asked

"Yes" Peter and I said together

I called Fury and had a group of agents watch her apartment building, I took Peter back to his house and returned to the tower where my mom and dad were watching a movie in the living room.

"Hey Kida, you ok?" My dad asked

"Yeah just a long day at work."

Morning,

I woke up the next morning to the sound of my ringtone, I opened my eyes and saw a message from Steve.

Hey, do you want to go out tonight?

-S

I'd love to, I'll call you when I'm ready

-K

Love you

-S

Love you too

-K

I got up and spent the day training, I checked in on Peter and Gwen every half hour to make sure they were ok. Even though Peter and Gwen would reply to my messages I could tell that they still didn't trust me. I called Agent Rumlow for a favor and he sent a team to look for Dr. Connors. I changed into black leather leggings, white tank top, and a brown leather jacket. I took the elevator down to the underground garage when my phone started to ring.

"Hello,"

"Stark we need backup!" Rumlow yelled, I could hear gunfire and a loud roar in the background. "Connors is heading to Oscorp and my men are down!"

"Where are you?"

"Oscorp Tower…sixty fifth floor!"

The conversation ended in gunfire and static, after sending a quick message to Steve I hopped onto my bike and drove through traffic to the tower. When I arrived I found the building surrounded by police and fire department.

"Ma'am step back" One officer said

"Stand down officer!"

When he saw my face he slowly stepped back and allowed me to pass the police tape. I took the elevator up to the sixty fifth floor and found Rumlow on the floor.

"Rumlow!" I ran over to him and gently tapped his cheek.

"Uuggh…Stark?"

"Good to see you're still alive." I moved his arm and started to heal the deep lacerations on his stomach. "Where is Dr. Connors? What happened to your team?"

"The medic got them, but I chased Connors up here. He went up the elevator shaft….he was looking for something."

Before I could ask another question my phone rang again, I pulled it out of my pocket and saw Gwen's face on the screen.

"Hey Gwen I'm a bit busy here."

"I'm here…" She said in a shaky whisper "I'm at Oscorp"

"What?! Why? What floor?"

"I'm in the lab, Dr. Connors is going to try and expose the entire city to the chemicals that made him." She said quickly "He's here"

"Hang on"

"Go" Rumlow said "I'll be fine"

As I ran upstairs to the lab I called the medics to get Rumlow out and take him to a hospital. When I heard Gwen screaming I bolted up the stairs until I ran into the lab.

"Connors!" I screamed and got his attention "Listen to me Connors, you're not thinking straight."

"I'm thinking just fine Stark!" He growled "While your father builds weapons of war I shall evolve everyone into perfect creatures like me."

"But kill hundreds in the process." I said "I know the real Dr. Connors and he would never risk people's lives."

"Sometimes a few must die to let the species evolve." He said "Even you"

He lunged towards me and I jumped over to the side, a long whip of gold light extended down my right arm. I looked behind me and saw Gwen on the floor.

"Gwen get out of here!"

She grabbed a large tank and took off, I turned back to Connors and used the whip to slash through the tough scales. He noticed Gwen had disappeared and took the tank with her, he started to move to the open elevator shaft when I used the whip to grab his leg.

"Where are you going?" I asked "We just got started."

I used all my strength to pull him away and pulled him to the middle of the room. He roared and charged towards me, I created a wall between us. But the force from the Lizard pushed me down.

Before I could get up the Lizard grabbed my ankle and held me upside down.

"Hey Kida!"

I blinked a few times and saw Peter on the other side of the room, he waved his hand at me like a kid.

"What took you so long?" I asked then I noticed the cuts on his side. "Oh shit you look terrible."

"Thanks buddy."

The Lizard let out a loud roar, he was now more animal than man. He turned around and threw me out the glass window behind him. A police spotlight shined on me and I could hear the people below scream. I created another gold whip and wrapped it onto the building. I used the momentum to crash through the window, and landed on the fifty fifth floor where Gwen was hiding.

"Oh my god are you ok?"

"I'm fine" I said "What is that?"

"This contains the chemicals that turned Connors into the lizard, he wants to change everyone."

"Is there anything to destroy this?" I asked

"No, but I have made an antidote downstairs."

"An antidote? Gwen you're a genius!" I hugged her tightly, then pulled her down when a loud crash grew from the elevator shaft.

The Lizard pulled the elevator open and quickly charged at me, I whipped at him but it didn't slow him down. With one hard hit I flew across the room and slammed against the wall. I could hear Gwen scream, I looked up and saw the Lizard take the tank and disappear to the elevator shaft.

"He's heading to the roof!" Gwen ran over to me and pulled me up

"Gwen go grab that antidote and give it to the police or any of the SHIELD agents."

"What about you and Peter?"

"We'll be fine"

I jumped into the elevator shaft and grabbed one of the wires, I cut the others and started to fly up the elevator shaft. When I got to the top my phone started to ring. I pried the doors open and pulled myself to the top floor.

"Hello?"

"Kida where are you?" Steve asked

"Oh uh nothing exciting just…"

"At Oscorp." He finished

"How did you know?"

"I saw you on the news, I'm coming." He said

"No don't I got it, but I'm so sorry I'm late on date night."

"It's ok"

"Love you"

"I love you too" He said

I hung up and went upstairs to the roof, I opened the door and saw Peter fall to the ground.

"Peter!" I ran over to him until a scaly tail wrapped around my throat.

The lizard held me up and grabbed Peter as he was reaching to a liquid nitrogen pipe. He held us up in front of him. Slowly squeezing the air out of us.

"Poor Kida, not human, not a god, what are you?"

"I'm an Avenger….you ugly son of a bitch." His grip on me tightened then he turned to Peter.

"Poor Peter Parker no mother, no father, no uncle, all alone."

Gunfire blasted through my ears as the lizard dropped us, I looked up and saw Gwen's dad Captain Stacy with a shotgun.

"He's not alone"

He fired on the liquid nitrogen pipe, Peter grabbed it tightly and shot it into the lizard. The lizard dropped us and started to freeze. Gwen's dad and I started to shoot it until parts of the lizard broke apart like glass.

"Here's a gift from Gwen." Gwen's dad handed Peter a silver vial with a purple liquid, I knew it was the antidote.

"We got this Peter!" I said "Hurry!"

He took off to put the antidote out while we continued to shoot at the lizard.

"Pleasure to finally meet you Mr. Stacy. Gwen has become a good friend of mine!" I yelled over the noise

"Pleasure to be fighting with an Avenger."

The liquid nitrogen slowly ran out and the lizard jumped out, I pushed Mr. Stacy out of the way and felt the full force of the lizards punch. I flew over the edge fell between the glass and metal bars that covered the top of the building. Every time I hit one of the bars it felt like being hit by a truck on the highway. I was less than a hundred feet when I suddenly stopped, I hovered upside down. I looked up and saw Rumlow holding my ankle.

"Rumlow? What are you doing? You need to be at the hospital."

"I never leave a teammate behind." He pulled me up with his uninjured arm. When I was lying on the firm ground I placed my broken nose back into place and stood up.

"Thanks, now I owe you."

"A few drinks will be fine."

"Maybe another night." I said "I got a date."

We watched as the antidote rained down onto the city, then walked downstairs to the lobby. When we walked out I saw a filled body bag on a gurney, my heart dropped fearing it was Peter.

"Wait! Who is in there?"

"Captain Stacy." The EMR said before he put the gurney in the ambulance.

"Oh my god…."

"You knew him?" Rumlow asked as he put a hand on my shoulder

"I know his daughter, look go to the hospital. You look like shit."

"Thanks Stark."

I walked down to the second ambulance where I saw Gwen wearing a large blanket. Her eyes were red and puffy, and her make-up was smeared in her tears.

"Gwen…" I walked up to her but I didn't know what to say. "I'm so sorry."

She started to cry again, I quickly sat down next to her and held her close. Slowly rocking back and forth as she cried and screamed on my shoulder. I stayed with her until her mom was able to arrive and take her home. I gave them my deepest condolences but still felt like it wasn't enough. I took my bike back to my house and took the elevator back to the penthouse. When the doors opened I saw Steve on the couch with two bags of take-out Chinese food. He saw the cuts, bruises, and grim look on my face and quickly stood up.

"Kida what happened?"

"Just a bad day on the job." I walked over to him and hugged him. "Thanks for dinner"

"Of course."

"Let's watch some Star Wars." I said as I grabbed my food.

"Again?"

"The new one is almost here, so we are watching it."

Chapter Song

I do believe in the light
Raise your hands into the sky
The fight is done, the war is won
Lift your hands toward the sun

-This is War by 30 Seconds to Mars