Chapter 3
Kang walked into Doctor Octopus's lab appearing to be winded walking on a slight limp. His purple cape is torn and his visor is cracked. Octavius looked away from his work appearing to be amused at the sight of the ruffled Kang.
"I take you're scouting mission didn't go as planned?" He said smugly.
"You fall off a skyscraper without those arms of yours and see how turn out." Kang snapped almost comically while removing his cape. "I was almost run over by three cabs before meeting with Kraven."
The Doctor smirked at Kang's misery. The golden staff was placed on a table filled with robotic instruments, the ruined purple cape sat next to it. The future man changed his attire removing his helmet and replacing it with an identical one. While his face was completely obscured by the shadows a small orange light glowed on his forehead.
"The bug I planted in the Avengers should be operational yes?" Kang questioned joining the Doctor's side.
"Yes, we have access to all the security cameras in Avengers tower." Doctor Octopus said as videos of the Avengers walking around in the tower appeared on screen. "Even with the appearance of that meddler of yours we were successful."
Kang appeared to be pleased, his arms crossed in a relaxed state. He watches Iron man attempt break the encryption on Spider-man's Nyan Cat virus. Captain America stood beside him puzzled by the rainbow pop-tart cat and asked questions about it to an annoyed Tony.
"Will you be sending more of you're toys to stalk Spider-man?" Doctor Octopus asked using a tentacle to point at the gold and silver bots.
"No, they are redundant. My meddler is shadowing our spider, with her around, it will be impossible for us to spy on him." Kang said coolly. He leans over to the control panel and presses some buttons. "Which is why I sent many of them to places the wall-crawler tends to show up rather than following him."
The Avengers feed is replaced of images of places in New York. Places such as the Daily Bugle jumbo-screen, Statue of Liberty, Oscorp and an outside view of SHIELD Academy.
"However it will only be a matter of time before the meddler finds these cameras and destroys them as well." Kang hummed. "More of them will be deployed in different hiding spots in the same location but we will have to come up with a more permanent solution later."
"What makes you so sure, she will find them?" Octavius questioned.
The view of the SHIELD Academy is suddenly jerked around and the feed cuts out into static. Before the tiny robot was destroyed a pair of silver bug eyepieces stared into the device. The Doctor seemed a little shocked at this while Kang hummed in annoyance.
"I never realised how testing a spider can be when they are you're enemy." He growled.
Peter Parker ran through the streets of New York muttering to himself. He darted through street after street trying to get to Oscorp.
"Harry and MJ are going to kill me!" He exclaimed. "I'm so late!"
Unbeknownst to Peter a certain spider-themed hero shadowed Peter's movements. Kid Arachnid jumped from building to building attempting to stay out of sight.
"He tells you its nothing, everything is under control, blah, blah, blah." Miles muttered to himself in a sarcastic tone as he landed on the next building. "And what do you do pray tell Kid Arachnid? Follow him like a stalker! A paranoid, over-protective stalker!"
When Peter seemed a little down about something this morning he brushed it off, thinking it was nothing. When Peter suddenly started falling to his death only to be saved by a red and blue flash he became concerned and a little scared. When he saw the mystery man in the tower his freak-out radar went into the red zone. A vanishing man that made his spider sense go off like a rocket, sounds like the perfect suspect for Peter's stalker. Besides of course the stalker following him right now.
Miles stops as he sees Peter enter the towering building that is Oscorp. Despite the friendly visit the last time he was here. Miles couldn't help but get the creeps every time he sees this building. Maybe in this world it wasn't so bad but in his world that building represents a whole lot of pain and heartache for a lot people. For a lot fellow heroes this place was home to a mad man that killed their friend and fellow hero.
Miles sighed as his thoughts drifted back to his world. His mom would be all alone, no dad, no uncle Aaron and no Miles. And his best friend Ganke, how was he doing? 'Did mom tell him what happened? He knows I'm Spider-man so he should. I even told about the whole meeting Peter from another world thing.' How would Fury explain his absence from school? By the time he gets back will he be kicked out? 'And Kate! She doesn't know! She probably hates me now!'
Miles held his head and groaned. All of these thought were ringing almost hurting his head. 'Hurt? No that's my-'
"SPIDER SENSE!" Miles gasped.
Inside Peter was going up the elevator fidgeting. His thoughts whirling around the fact that Peter Parker hasn't spoken to MJ for months. With everything that's been going on as Spider-man he's barely had anytime for Peter Parker much less Harry and MJ. And now he was late. 'Way to go Pete, how are you even going to start explaining what Peter Parker has been up to?' He pictures a chibi Peter in a private school uniform. 'Hey, that could work…'
'Or… I could tell them the truth…' That thought hung at the back of his mind. He hated lying to his friends. He hated the fact he has to hide that he is Spider-man. Things are only going to get crazier with Doctor Octopus forming the next Sinister 6 with Hydra. With Fury and Nova missing, things were only getting worse. Agent Coulson and Agent Hill were busy trying to make sure SHIELD didn't fall apart leaving Spider-man to lead SHILED Academy. Peter wasn't even sure if he could handle all of this.
Beating the bad guys was no sweat. Leading his teammates, all good. Finding new recruits was also fine. Organising training schedules not bad. Scheduling with the bigwig heroes, out of you're mind exciting. But top that off with fighting Doctor Octopus and stopping him form the next Sinister Six plus any other bad guy causing trouble every two minutes and doing all of this all at once. Exhausting. Now he knows why Fury is always grumpy.
His thoughts were interrupted as the elevator doors opened. A man in black and green armour stood in the middle of the Osborn's living room.
"Mr Parker… here already?" The man questioned, his voice metallic and somewhat familiar.
"Who… who are you?!" Peter barked while slowing walking backwards to the elevator.
"Computer, stop the elevator." The man ordered, trapping Peter.
The armoured man walked closer to him and grabbed the teenager's wrist in a vice like grip. Peter struggled but the grip was so strong it was if Iron man had grabbed him. Peter Parker couldn't get out of this one, but can Spider-man?
"Looks like we don't have to hunt you down." He said in a neutral voice.
'Hunt me down?' Peter thought panicking. 'Is after Spider-man?! How could he know?! What does he want?'
A yellow blast suddenly hits the armoured man. He staggered a little before looking up. Standing on the opposite end of the living room Norman Osborn, AKA Iron Patriot stood ridged. His form appears to be shaking in anger.
"Take you're hand off that boy!" He screamed his glove glowing bright yellow. "I don't know who you are but you think you invade my home, terrorise my son, terrorise Miss Watson and hurt this young man, you have another thing coming!"
"Peter!" Harry and MJ stood behind Norman with concerned etched across their faces.
The armoured man just stared at Iron patriot as if he was analysing him. The man than pulled Peter in front of him as if he was letting him go. Peter had only taken a few steps forward till he heard two mechanic pops came from the man. In his hand are two orange objects. Peter's spider sense went off.
"Wait-" He flung little orange pumpkin objects at Iron patriot. They were a cartoony version of pumpkin bombs.
"HARRY RUN!" Iron Patriot screeched. Harry did as he was told and bolted grabbing MJ with him.
Two green explosion stunned Iron patriot causing him to step back. The man then pulled Peter back behind him. Peter's back slammed into the elevator, he slide down it slightly stunned.
"Ahh, watch it dude!" Peter exclaimed.
"I can't have you running away, Mr Parker." The armoured man said securing his wrists with a pair of black metal cuffs. "You're coming with me whether you want to or not."
'Could this be the guy setting off my Spider sense? The one who tired to unalive me?' Peter thought in horror. As the green smoke cleared the goblin like man aimed his gauntlet towards Iron Patriot. An orange energy blast hit the man across the room.
"Mr Osborn!" Peter exclaimed.
A red and black blur kicked the armoured man knocking him away from Peter. The villain lost his footing as slide across the room. Kid Arachnid had entered the fight. He landed gracefully in front of the intruder falling into a crouching stance.
"I wouldn't do that if I was you." He exclaimed.
"Hmp, so the backup has arrived." The man said in an amused tone. "But you're not the only one with friends."
"Um… that doesn't sound ominous at all!" Kid Arachnid joked little nervous.
"What's that over there?" Iron patriot questioned looking out of the giant window. Amongst the buildings and blue skies an object flew straight towards them.
A floating figure was flying straight towards the Oscorp building. A very familiar sound hummed as it came closer and closer, the sound of a goblin glider.
The glider and its passenger smashed through windows spreading shards of glass everywhere. The silver glider stopped a few feet in front of the Kid Arachnid. On the machine was a lithe woman in a red and blue spider themed costume, similar to Spider-man's, a pair of large silver web-shooters acted almost like bangles on her wrists. The woman's costume however seemed a little torn and roughed up in few places. Cuts and scratches cover her body but most notably her left eyepiece is cracked.
"Pizza delivery for the handsome man in the Goblin suit!" She joked.
"Another spider?!" Peter exclaimed at the sight of the woman.
"Heh, what took you so long?" The armoured man spoke. He flew over Kid Arachnid and joined her side. "And what happened to you, Spidey?"
"Fell off a giant skyscraper, almost got run over by five cabs and I got lost." She listed in a cheerful voice. "Yeah, it wasn't fun."
"Who- who are you people?" Kid Arachnid asked a little nervous. He steps towards Peter in a protective stance.
"Hmm… well…" The woman murmured as if she was deciding what she should say. "I am the Ultimate web stunner Spider Girl and this is my buddy the Incredible Iron Goblin." Spider Girl proclaimed in a cheerful voice.
"Iron Goblin?!" Iron Patriot exclaimed angrily. Although his face is masked it was obvious that Norman was glaring at the new goblin.
"Hey, don't be mean, Goby is a sweet-heart and a charmer!" Spider Girl pouted childishly.
"Sorry, but all the Goblins we have come across aren't as nice as you're friend." Kid Arachnid shot back. "No offense Mr Osborn."
"None taken." Iron patriot said joining Kid Arachnid's side. "Lets work together to rid these copy cats."
"I'm with you on that Storming Norman." Miles chirped.
Iron Goblin leaned over to Spider Girl whispering her ear. "What do we do now?"
Her gaze fell upon Peter and Kid Arachnid. "We leave, this plan is a bust. We will have to try something else. Pass me a smoke pumpkin."
The armoured man did she asked and passed Spider Girl the orange pumpkin bomb. She then looked to the heroes and lifted her hands in defeat.
"I have a message for you two to deliver to Spider-man." She said calmly.
"What makes you think I'll do anything you say after what you did to my son and his friends?" Norman growled. His gauntlets glowed bright yellow.
"Oh cause one way or another this affects you too, Iron flag man." She said smugly. "And if it can affect you, it will certainly affect you're son and you wouldn't want would you."
"That's enough!" Miles snapped at her threat.
Norman went silent after that but did not lower his weapon. Kid Arachnid's eyes narrowed and stepped forward. Spider Girl's glider flew lower hovering only centimetres off the ground. Their faces are only inches away locked in tense glaring contest.
"You are…" Spider Girl said tensely lifting her hand. She pinched Kid Arachnid's cheeks. "ADORABLE!"
"Hey! Stop that!" Miles squeaked swatting the girl's hand away.
"You're so tiny! Are you like ten?" She giggled taking a step back.
"I'm not ten!" Kid Arachnid shot back waving his arms up and down childishly. "And don't you have some super important message or something, Spider-lady?!"
"Spider-Lady?" She questioned tilting her head. "I like that! And I do, I just wanted to lighten the mood, cutie-pie."
Spider Girl giggled as the glider lifted higher almost twirling back into the air.
"Tell Spider-man someone is after his head on a silver platter. And this is not the usual bad guy 'I'm going to get you next time spider-man!' I mean he really, really wants to unalive him. And he will not stop pursuing him till everything he loves is gone." Her voice is firm and serious. Spider Girl's gaze falls on Peter.
Her gaze seemed to narrow. "And he will risk everything to see Spider-man's destruction." She kept staring at him and Peter gasped in shock. 'She knows. She knows I'm Spider-man!'
"So watch out for a scary purple and green man with a shiny stick!" Spider Girl chirped. Iron Goblin placed something in Spider Girl's hand that the others couldn't see.
'Purple and green man?!' Kid Arachnid repeated in his mind. The description matched the man in Avengers Tower. All of Miles's suspicions had been confirmed but he was not happy. If anything his mind went into extreme panic mode. His body stood ridged in front of Peter.
"Bye-bye!" Spider Girl squeaked childishly. "Oh, and CATCH!"
She then pegged a green and black pumpkin bomb, a real pumpkin bomb, at the helpless Peter Parker.
"NO!" Miles and Norman screamed in terror. Kid Arachnid tackled Peter to the ground at light speed. Iron Patriot pulled the pair close to him in attempt to protect both of them. The object bounced off the ball and to the ground harmlessly.
"It was a dud." Norman breathed a sigh of relief. Then Spider Girl threw an orange pumpkin bomb at the heroes huddled around Peter. The orange orb bounced off the elevator doors before spewing out green smoke. Smoke and loud coughing from Miles and Peter filled the room.
The smoke filled the living room making it impossible for anyone to see in front of them. As the green cloud cleared Spider Girl and Iron Goblin were long gone.
Kang and Doctor Octopus were in the lab. The camera they had set up at Oscorp had caught everything. Octavius held a sinister grin on his face. He was personally glad at how shaken Norman Osborn appeared to him. The armoured man was terrified and cornered trying to protect the children. The only thing that irked him was the fact it wasn't him torturing the Osborn.
"So this our meddler." He mused. He played back the recording of Spider Girl. The screen was now covered with different angles and segments of her and Iron Goblin's intrusion. "Another spider."
"She isn't as strong Spider-man but she is fast and has an interesting power he doesn't have." Kang imputed. "Spider Girl powers were not given artificially like Spider-man, she was born into them, I'm not even sure if we can call her human or a rare kind of mutant. She would make a great test subject for you, Doctor."
"A fine subject indeed." Doctor Octopus purred delighted at the aspect of dissecting her.
In blue steel room far from the troubles of Oscorp Tower and Hydra Island, Iron Goblin and Spider Girl sat alone. The room is filled with bunk beds and soft blue lights. The metal architecture is strikingly similar to the SHIELD Academy dorms. In the corner of the room the silver goblin glider sat deactivated. Spider Girl is lying down on one of the beds while Iron Goblin is sitting by a large computer monitor with his helmet off. His fingers dance across the keyboard as he looked through news article after news article. Spider Girl let out an exaggerated sigh.
"Well that went delightfully well." She said sarcastically.
"It wasn't that bad." Iron Goblin said off handily.
"Are you kidding me Normie? This couldn't be even more messed up." Spider Girl grumbled sitting up.
"I admit the plan wasn't as well thought out as you're usual ones-"
"No this whole situation is messed up! Us being here! Of all places!" Spider Girl exclaimed with her arms waving.
"I think you're dad has been in stranger situations then this." He laughed. "He after all did classes on them."
"Urgh, that reminds me, he is going to kill me once we get back!" She sighed unhappily falling back on to the bed. "Could things get any worse?"
Iron Goblin sighed and turned around to Spider Girl. His face bore a striking resemblance to the Osborns. He walked over to the beds where Spider Girl was lying down and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"I understand you're upset and this is pretty bad. But you're the strongest and smartest person I know May and I know you can get us through this." He said in a soft and comforting voice.
"Normie, have I ever mentioned you're the sweetest person on the planet?" Spider Girl asked.
"Only the world? According to my wife I'm the sweetest person in the universe." Normie laughed.
"Ooh, not sure about that Normie, there are lot of aliens out there." She smirked. Spider Girl leapt out of the bed and onto the ground.
She began pacing back and forth as the gears in her head turned. A plan was formulating in her mind. A few minutes she snapped her fingers and turned to Normie.
"Ok, I have plan. Its obvious Spider-man figured out that I know about his secret identity; Obvious staring being obvious. Knowing him he's going to go into paranoia mode and stay at the Academy or try and hunt us down. He'll also get more SHIELD agents protecting Aunt May. I'll need you to stay here and keep the T.A.S.D. field up to protect the Academy. I'll keep shadowing him every time he leaves." Spider Girl explained her plan.
"I don't like you're shadowing him alone." Normie said in a low voice. "What about the Spider bot you sent, Jerry?"
"Yeah, Artie took a page out of my book and destroyed it hours ago." In Spider Girl's hand are the remnants of a little spider robot.
"Not Jerry!" He gasped.
"I know right?!" She pouts comically. "This why I need to shadow him. A machine is not going to cut it and we are the only ones here. Till help comes we will just have to make do."
Normie didn't appear to be happy but did not press the issue anymore. "What if we can't go back?"
"We will Normie, one way or another." Spider Girl said calmly. "We will find away back to the future."
A/N: Tada! And another chapter down. Hope you guys enjoyed this. I apologise for any mistakes, I sometimes miss things.