Author's Note: Once again I must answer questions first. Again this is from a guest, the same one as before given the review. This person asked if I would be crossing over with Avengers Assemble. Honestly that's another thing I haven't seen, it's on my rather extensive list of things I need to do. This person also mentioned Piper possibly having her own suit of armor already. That is not the case however she is able to use the Iron Man suits which are programmed for four people, Tony, Pepper, Piper and Rhodey. I would also like to thank Melancholy's Sunshine for being amazing. Yes we are getting back on track now. Back to the actual episodes story line. I have also tweaked it a bit cause I can, but the tweaks in this bit are pretty minor. I own nothing.
10. Motoring
Piper arrived on the helecarrier about twenty minutes later and was met on deck by Nick Fury himself. They made their way down the hall and Piper nodded awkwardly at a few of the other people they passed. She grinned under her mask when she saw a familiar face.
Clint Barton, AKA Hawkeye, grinned lightly when he spotted his kind of niece walking down the hall with Director Fury. Natasha had told him that their sort of niece was joining SHEILD. He paused in the hall and grinned at her.
"Hey Spidey! How's my favorite Baby Bug?" He couldn't tell if she was grinning or not under her mask but Fury rolled his eye as several SHEILD agents walked past staring at the trio.
"I'm pretty good Unc… I mean Hawkeye." Clint laughed and clapped Piper on the shoulder.
"You can still call me Uncle Clint if you want to Kiddo. Have fun!" He walked away and Fury sighed. This particular recruitment was going to make life much more interesting. He turned to a door on the wall placing his eye up to the scanner. He stepped back as the door opened.
"Get in here and don't touch anything!" Piper raised an eyebrow under her mask and stepped into the room curious as to what Fury wouldn't want her touching. She paused as she spotted the contents of the room. It was better than the R and D department at Stark Towers, gadgets filled almost every available table space as men in giant mech suits pulled straight out of a sci-fi movie walked around taking notes. She could hardly contain her excitement. There were quite a few inventions here that grabbed her attention but the one that caught her interest most was a very iron man looking exo suit that sprouted long mechanical arms and began to climb up the wall next to it. Spider-girl turned to look at the schematics that were laid out on the table but before she could Fury put a hand on her shoulder and led her to the other side of the room.
"Yo, doc meet the new kid. Spider-girl meet our resident tech genius Dr. Curt Connors." Spidey grinned under her mask and held out her right hand to shake the doctor's left hand.
"Always nice to meet a fellow genius." Belatedly she noticed he didn't have a left hand. She was about to pull back sheepishly when he grinned and pulled his hand out of his sleeve to shake hers vigorously.
"A pleasure! I've been following your carrier closely, very impressive." Spidey grinned.
"You and I are gonna get along great doc, I can tell." Doctor Connors kept talking as they walked around the room checking out all the cool tech. He handed her a second web shooter and she smiled attaching it to her other wrist.
"Even before Director Fury approached you about joining SHIELD I had my team develop an array of Spider-girl inspired weaponry." Spider-girl raised her eyebrow at Fury.
"And if I'd said no?" Fury smiled slightly.
"Not really an option kid." Spidey rolled her eyes and went back to examining the second web shooter. There were a few new buttons on it. Doctor Connors grinned and showed her how to turn on the camouflage mode, she was too polite to tell him she had already figured it out. Spidey grinned.
"Oh yeah I had it in camo mode, but then I couldn't find it." There was a pause of silence and Spidey sighed.
"It's called a joke, don't you people ever smile?" Doctor Connors smiled slightly and walked over to a covered piece of machinery.
"Over here we have something I think you'll be particularly interested in." Spidey grinned again and stepped forward.
"I reserve the right to be awestruck." Her spidey-sense went off and she yanked her hand back just in time to avoid getting struck by a baton. She looked up into the face of one of her least favorite Shield agents. Phil Coulson had been pretty cool up until he faked his own death right before the battle of New York, she and the Avengers had discovered he was still alive when he had shown up in the kitchen of Avengers Tower to talk to Natasha and Clint about their relationship. She glared at him from under her mask.
"Director Fury I've never questioned you when it came to the others," Spidey raised an eyebrow. What others could Coulson be talking about, she didn't sign up to be part of a team. Coulson continued before she could ask.
"But we are dealing with a complete wild card. Daily Bugle communications calls Spider-girl a threat to public safety." That just made her glare intensify.
"But I'm so sweet and huggable! Plus I've got so much teaching me how to be an amazing person it's not even funny." Coulson glared at her. Fury turned to Coulson.
"Spider-girl is my responsibility. That's what she's here to learn, responsibility." Coulson looked her up and down again and folded his baton back into a small pen sized tube.
"We'll see." With that he walked away. Piper glared after him before turning back to the covered machine. Doctor Connors motioned for her to continue and she pulled the cover off of the machine revealing a motorcycle with a large red spider emblem that stretched from the front of the bike to the back wheel. Piper raised a slightly confused eyebrow.
"We call it the Spider Cycle!" He looked quite proud of himself and Piper really didn't want to hurt his feelings but she had a very important question.
"Um not to sound ungrateful or anything but what do I need with a motorcycle? I can get anywhere with, ya know thwip thwip." Piper made a mock web slinging motion. Doctor Connors smiled slightly.
"I calculate you can make it from Eightieth Street to thirty fourth in three point seven minutes, while using what I'm guessing is fairly expensive webbing and at maximum muscle strength." Piper rubbed the back of her neck, a bit self conscious at being treated like a science curiosity, not that she didn't hear that all the time from her oblivious adoptive father.
"Well yeah that sounds about right." Doctor Connors nodded clearly pleased he had gotten his math right. Fury grinned slightly.
"The Spider Cycle can make it in a minute and a half. That is if you aren't scared thwipless to climb on." Piper had lived in a house full of men long enough to know a challenge when she heard one. She motioned Nick Fury aside and swung a leg over the bike. She looked down at the holo screen that popped up the second she placed both hands on the handles.
"And the started is…?" She pushed the red and blue swirling emblem in the center of the dark red screen and the bike took off without warning, Spider-girl clinging to it as it barreled out of the lab and down the hall. She just barely managed to avoid the people in the halls including Hawkeye whose eyes widened as he saw who was clinging to the out of control motorcycle.
"It's ok. I just have to find the brakes." She pulled on trigger she felt under her fingers on the left handle of the bike as she careened towards a dead end corridor. But instead of stopping the bike shot a bolt of light from somewhere near her knee and the wall in front of her disintegrated. She screamed as she went hurtling out of the opening. She tried to take a deep breath as the air rushed around her.
"It's ok, I'll just pop another web parachute and…" She tried to do just that and shot only a line of webbing that missed the Helecarrier by practically a mile.
"Ok. Now I'm scared thwipless!"
