Author's Note: And we have finally actually dropped the bomb. It hasn't quite exploded yet. We'll get to that soon. I own nothing.
37. Files
Piper choked out a breath as she stared at the usb drive in her hand. Eddie was shaking slightly and he could only watch as tears spilled down Pipers face.
"You didn't know?" Piper shook her head.
"I had no idea." Piper stared down at the usb in her hands. It took a moment of silence before she was able to speak again.
"Can I borrow your computer?" Eddie nodded and grabbed his backpack. He pulled out his backpack and knocked his homework aside.
"Your computer is probably faster and all around better than mine." Piper nodded and handed Eddie the usb.
"Yes, but it's also connected to the Stark Industries mainframe. And I'm not sure who I can trust right now. And we can do a hardware and software update to your computer later if you want. As a thank you for helping me." Eddie shook his head.
"No need to thank me, though I won't turn down the update if you want to." Piper let out a slight laugh as Eddie booted up his computer and plugged in the usb. It took a moment to boot up and then the screen of Eddie's computer went black and a box popped up in the center of the screen. It simply read 'Password:'
"Do you have a password?" Piper frowned.
"No, I don't…" The computer beeped.
'Voice Print Recognized. Subject Identified. Welcome Piper Parker.' The screen lit back up this time displaying a white screen with a barely visible outline of the SHEILD logo behind the two files there. One of them was labeled testimony and the other was labeled Piper. Eddie backed off the keyboard and let Piper sit down in front of the computer. She sat down hard her lip trembling, she swiped at her eyes and clicked on the file that was under her name. There was what appeared to be a digital copy of their will in the file and a video file. Eddie cleared his throat.
"I should…" He made to move for the door but Piper grabbed his arm.
"Stay. Please." Eddie nodded and sat down next to her. She nodded and took another shaky breath. She clicked on the video and tensed as an image of her father and mother popped up on the screen. It took a second for her to muster up the courage to press play.
'Piper, if you're watching this then the worst has happened and your mother and I are gone. There's so much we should have told you. So much I hoped I'd never have to share.' He sighed and ran a hand through his hair. Her mother put a hand on his shoulder and smiled at the camera.
'You should know we never wanted to leave you. We did what we did to protect you.' Her father nodded.
'Watching this means you're old enough to understand that we aren't regular scientists. Your mother is a field agent for an organization called SHIELD, the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division, and I worked in the science department for the same organization. It's how we met.' Richard took his wife's hand and smiled at her. Piper smiled slightly. Her mother spoke next.
'After we got married we decided we wanted to get out of the life. So we retired, your father still wanted to help people so we decided he should stay in the sciences. So we went to an old friend of ours, Tony Stark. It was great for a few years but about a year ago the director of SHIELD approached us with one last mission. Something to help make the world a better place for the people who come after us. For you Piper.' The video cut and suddenly it was just her father at the computer. He looked mussed up and frazzled.
'I'm sorry Piper I wish we had more time to record this but we've been found out. Someone at Oscorp knows we're investigating them. We haven't been able to find out who exactly knows or how much they know, but we know that we need to move quickly. If all goes well you'll never have to see this video but if you are watching this then we didn't make it. I'm including all the video evidence we have on this flash drive. You need to make sure it ends up in the right hands, I hope with all my heart you never have to watch this video Piper. But know that your mother and I love you and we left, we did what we did to protect you. We love you Pipes. I wish there was another way. I wish we hadn't gone back to SHIELD, but we did…' He sighed and took a deep breath.
'Please remember that we love you and we want you to be happy no matter what happens to us.' The video went black and Piper stared at her face in the now black computer screen. There were tears on her face she didn't remember being there before. She shook as she swiped at her eyes. A sob bubbled up in her chest and she tried to hold it in but it burst out along with a fresh wave of tears. Eddie pulled her into a hug, she sobbed into his shoulder as her phone began to ring.
Luke shook his head setting down his phone. Sam frowned, and went to pull out his phone but Ava shook her head.
"We don't have time to call her anymore, we need to take down the Dragon-man robot now before it hurts anyone." Danny nodded placing a hand on Sam's shoulder.
"I am sure she has a good reason for not answering. The Spider usually has a reason for the things she does." Nova nodded and they began to step forwards when someone pointed to the roof across from them.
"It looks like we were worried for nothing." Ava said as she watched the figure swing in. Then they all gasped as the figure fired a ball of webbing at the Dragon-man robot. It went right through the robot taking the core with it. The figure then leapt from the building and kicked the powering down robot and landed on top finally coming into the light of the street lamp. The whole team froze, they hadn't actually seen him before and his Youtube videos had all been blurry. All of them were stunned by the figure they saw, the symbol on his chest was all too familiar. It was the same symbol they had seen on the thing that had taken over one of their friends. It could only be Venom.
"Ok now we try calling her again!" Sam said pulling out is phone.