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Chapter 5: Choices
Earth Three days after Spider-Man left 10:30 AM
Pietro Maximoff was many things defined by his speed powers even before they manifested he showed a tendency to live in the fast lane so to speak. He was aggressive at an early age, not taking kindly to authority or any such obstacle that would slow him down.
He was never content to just live quietly. He had a powerful desire for new and exciting sensations. It was the only way he felt the world could keep up with him and that helps develop a very rebellious and arrogant persona. He'll do anything to gain attention especially from his father yet that sensation led to a downfall and it cost him his family mostly with his twin sister.
How many times had he wanted to please his father Magneto in order to gain his favor? Unfortunately one event disgraced him with his father, it haunted him to this day the dreaded House of M where mutants were the dominant species instead the Homo sapiens. He shuddered at the memory of how his father pierced him with metal objects, he suffered greatly after those events his father disgraced him as well disowned him still Wanda suffered the most because of his ignorance.
"What was I suppose to do? Let my sister die?" He thought as he super sped to the Avengers Mansion dodging and weaving in and out of traffic. His teeth grinded within his mouth the Avengers as well as the X-Men plotted to murder his sister he had to do something so he asked to change the fate of everyone.
Even then he regretted the decision, he tried to talk with his sister so far guilt made him stay away from her. How could he see her? How could he even speak to her and look her in the eye without seeing the pain that he caused her?
"No more I will beg for my sister forgiveness even if I have to beg on my knees to do so!" Pietro was a proud man he always prided himself to be there for his sister until now he's been doing a lousy job at it. He saw the mansion hopefully his sister was in so he can talk to her.
He sped in as the computer recognized him; a few Avengers were talking amongst friends especially how a certain wall-crawler had taken upon himself to bring back the son of Daily Bugle editor in chief.
They felt the gust of wind Carol was amongst them talking with She-Hulk, looked quickly in the other direction as the speedster past by, "What's his rush?"
She-Hulk shrugged, "Who knows? You know how men are always in rush in getting something."
"Hmph don't sell yourself to short She-Hulk, you work pretty fast you especially around a certain someone with muscle size of Hulk."
The Jade giant blushed heavily as she crossed her arms looking away, "Honestly Ms. Marvel I have no idea on what you're talking about…"
Once he was up the stairs he stopped in front of the room that had Wanda's name on it. Pietro was mentally coaching himself, "Okay here we go…"
He opened the door, "Wanda I…Wanda?"
The door was fully opened; it revealed her bedroom to be untouched yet something was a miss call it a hunch if may. He scanned the room it was odd to say the least the brunette would normally be here in her room, could she be mediating?
He entered the room, everything seemed in order nothing amiss and her books were in their shelves meaning that nobody has touched them.
He rubbed his chin, "Maybe she is in the kitchen I can imagine after spending hours here she might as well been hungry."
He sped to the kitchen, once there he saw Rogue, Steve Rogers the Captain America, and Tony Stark. He looked at them they hadn't notice him yet he cleared his throat.
The three looked up, he said, "Have any of you three seen my sister…well I know that you hate her now Rogue so I won't ask you."
"Good because Ah won't have anything to with that sorry excuse of nobody and tell ya the truth Ah'm glad that she gone too, now Ah won't have to see that face of er's again." Rogue grabbed her plate of a sandwich leaving the two members of in the kitchen.
"Now that you mention it Quicksilver I haven't seen Wanda either? It's been nearly a year now I haven't even noticed that she was gone. With Spider-Man on Counter Earth looking for John Jameson III and recent S.H.I.E.L.D missions I haven't had time to notice." Steve pondered this then he turned his attention to a now fidgety Tony Stark even though he tried not to show it, "Tony you wouldn't happen to know what happened to Wanda? Would you?"
"Ahh…nope…don't know where she or where she's at oh would you look at the time I really got to check up on the Armor Mark 44. I'll catch you late bye now." He left in a hurry. Pietro couldn't shake the feeling that Mr. Stark knew something he'll have to keep a close watch on him if his hunch proved correct.
"That was rather odd, Mr. Stark never is apprehensive about anything or anyone for the matter."
"Your right Tony seemed a bit different when you mention your sister." Steve brow quirked, "I'll go talk with him see what got him jumpy."
"Thank you Captain."
"My pleasure." Steve left leaving Quicksilver to his thoughts
Counter Earth 11:30 AM
"The theft is confirmed my lord." Lady Vermin said as walked in the Laboratory of Sir Ram towards Lord Tiger, she had a piece of rag in her hands, "The mutagion Z-99 has been stolen from the level 5 laboratory. We suspect the Human Revolutionary particular the one named Git Hoskins.
Lord Tiger takes the rag into his hands sighing, "I fear that one day our Master sins will undo all us." He goes back to his pondering thoughts looking at the screen.
Lady Vermin leaves his presence.
In the street of the Basement
Children play with paper airplanes minding their business then suddenly laser fire is shot to where they were sending them into panic. Git runs for dear life as he avoids laser fire from the Machine Men.
He runs until he slips on a toy truck, he falls letting loose his lunchbox in the process, the machine are ready to eliminate him.
"Target require, must eliminate target!" They are about to blast when the command of Sir Ram was given.
"Do not fire!" He angrily walks up to the man in rags, "I would preserve him for I invested much in this specimen. Git Hoskins you cannot comprehend the danger that you may have unleashed! For the good of all beastial and human alike return that of which you have stolen too me!"
Git reaches into his pocket and takes out paper wrapped bubble gum; in fury Sir Ram slaps his hand covering his hand in the goo.
"Machine Men stop him! Stop him at all cost! Even if you must destroy him!"
Daily Bytes
"Yeah these are some nice pictures kid but nice don't sell papers now do they. You see one guy swinging on a web then you see no more." The owner swiped his desk of Peter's recent pictures of himself, he tried to grabbed some but his boss swept up the photos annoying the Parker man greatly, "Hey life is tough Pete especially since the High Evolutionary took over."
He grabs a newspaper, "People want escapism! They want to know more about this Spider-Man personal life." He switched the newspaper around to let Peter see page 5 and see 6 open books to show some advertisement, "They want to know what he's eating! What's he doing for fun! Who's he seeing? That is interesting to know, nothing like an embarrassed public figure to sell papers you!"
'How about being Peter parker trying to take pictures for a stock nose person like you! Boy this is JJ all over again, sheesh can't a guy get a break?' He thought crossing his arms with a frown on his face, 'I already got a girlfriend who's going to dump me if I don't come back in time for New Years….yikes…'
The idea struck him, "There is your assignment Parker! Your buddy Spider-Man must have girlfriend, get me pictures of her! Better yet get me pictures of them together!" He said jabbing his frosted coated fingers on Peter clothing.
"But Mr. Meugniot…" Peter exclaimed exaggerating with his hands, "It's not like I can ask him for a photo op. Spider-Man is exactly my best pal."
Just then the door swung open revealing an employee of the Daily Bytes, "Boss look out the window!"
"This better be good Charlie!" Once the blinds were opened he was astonished, "WHOA!"
Outside was a mummified man taking on the Machine Men or rather flying on one, Mr. Meugniot turned to Peter, "Parker get me some pictures of this!"
Peter was already bolting for the door, "Way ahead of you Chief!"
Outside with the machine men
Git blinded the machine he rode as the others tried to blast him off. The other two machine men blasted their metal companion-causing malfunction to keep itself airborne.
They crashed into the snow pile; the mutagen fell from Git coat as he too fell on the ground. He got up quickly to retrieve the item only to be intercepted by the Machine Man he rode.
"Surrender now!" The robot was upon him though luckily for Git Spider-Man happened to be swinging by to deliver a kick to the robot side rendering it useless.
"Hope you don't mind if I cut in!" He said walking up to the resistance member placing a hand on his shoulders, "Beats me what this is all about but if I don't get you out of here your are really going to need those bandages!"
Git nodded
Spidey felt tingle in the back of his head, "Spider-sense tingling!"
He looked to see a Machine Men targeting them "Must eliminate targets." It fired a laser shot; Spider-Man pushed Git out of the way while he flipped up unto a building avoiding the deadly laser fire.
"Nice shooting partner! NOT! Now it's laser vs. webbing" Spider-Man shot his webbing only to find that he ran out, "Or not…I knew I should of loaded my web shooters this morning nothing worse than running out of webbing in the middle of a heat!"
Git shook the cobwebs out of his head, he ran to get the device he stolen but then looked at Spider-Man then back at the device. He left it alone for a moment to go help the web-slinger. He jumped unto the back of the Machine Man using his bandages to render it useless, it exploded after.
Spider-Man landed on the ground looking for Git, he turned to see Git reassembled himself back to his original form placing the strange device inside of his body.
"You know the trouble with this road is that someone is…" They both dodge laser fire, "Always shooting at someone namely me without taking the time to talk!"
Peter watched as Git made a break for it as laser fire tried to shoot him, he turned to see the Knights floating there, "The Wondergurg welcome wagon great…"
"Status Sir Ram!" Lady Ursula said
"He has again escaped if that wasn't obvious enough." Sir Ram was in no mood for obvious statements
"Not that is any of my business but umm…" Spidey flipped unto a car, "What the hubba alu about horn head? As if I didn't know."
"I might ask the same of you Spider-Man but there isn't much time for pleasantry insect." Sir Ram stated with a sense calm urgency
"Hey I don't remember asking you Muttin Man!" He flipped of the car
Lady Vermin spoke up, "Careful my love…insult one Knight you insult all the knights."
Peter shuddered within his core "Very convenient Lady Love struck and can you please stop calling me your love."
Lady Vermin had a very amused looked on her face; she was about say something however Sir Ram had pressing matters to attended to, "Patience Lady Vermin! Our survival and the survival of our city depend on finding the bio container Git Hoskins has stolen! Let us resume the hunt!"
They were going to leave when Spider-Man flipped over their head wanting to know more about this Bio container, "Hold sheep dip! Git Hoskins saved my bacon more than once so makes it my business to know why you are chasing him and what this bio container has in it!"
Sir Ram swore under his breath as he felt his temper rising thought he begrudgingly told the arachnid themed hero, "It is a viral agent that was stolen from my lab causing extreme mutagentic changes in living tissue. It is also highly contagious with an airborne vector. Now…STAND ASIDE INSECT!"
Spidey pointed a finger him, "I keep telling you it's arachnid. What gives the last time I saw you guys you wanted to chase all over the Lower East side, kick my butt, slice me up six ways to Sunday…"
Sir Ram really wanted to strangle this creature, "Make no mistake parasite I shall indeed 'kick…your…butt'!" Lady Vermin and Lady Ursula looked at each other with the female bear making a face, the pale humanoid rat lady shrugged as Sir Ram continued; "While I slice you up six ways to Sunday with great pleasure but more important are at hand that rob me of enticing diversion."
He turned his attention to his fellow knights, "Proceed to grid seven search!"
Lady Vermin blew a kiss to Spider-Man as she left; again he shuddered at the rat Lady, "Sheesh getting so amassed that a vigilante can't get arrested in this town. Something tells me I better keep an eye on those guys but this I can't keep up with those hobbyhorses without webbing I guess the old trustee spider tracer will have to do."
He rubbed his chin, "Contagious that word I seriously don't like, right up there with root canal and broccoli. Now let's go home, max up on web fluid and track down Git before they do."
He jumped to the nearest building climbing up to bounce off different flying cars, he landed on one and noticed a billboard with a red head.
"Mary Jane?"
The person turned to reveal a beastial, Peter cringed, "Oh man that does it! I really got to get off this planet before I start dating outside my species!"
Jones Residence 12: 00 PM
Naoko was on the phone talking with a person on the line, she wasn't in happy mood with the caller.
"You said you wouldn't call me! He's only renting the spare room not that it's any of your business…You were the one who left us and threaten my tenant won't get you anywhere. Why don't you leave us alone?"
Wanda happened to be passing by when she heard slam, curious she looked in to see Naoko sitting in her chair rubbing her temples in frustration.
"Naoko?"
The raven hair doctor looked up to see the brunette looking at her in concern, "Is everything alright?"
She shook her head sighing in frustration, Wanda understood, "It was him wasn't it?"
"Yup."
"Hmm…I'm here if you want to talk about it you know." Wanda was about to leave when Naoko stopped her.
"Wanda!"
"Yes Naoko."
"Come in here please."
She nodded stepped into the room, when she did Naoko grabbed her hands looked her straight into her eyes with an intent stare. Wanda looked back at her doctor curious to what exactly she was looking for.
"Is something wrong Naoko? Do I need another checkup?" She asked
"Your eyes…" The raven-haired woman began, "I've see them differently now than I did when I first found you in the streets. There a bit brighter than they were and you are smiling a lot more within the last three days so what with the sudden change?"
Wanda tilted her head; she had a small smile on her lips still remembering what Spider-Man had said to her.
"See there it is again, Wanda why are you so gleeful? Are you seeing someone? Are you finally breaking out of your depression to connect to the world?"
"Well…" Wanda trusted Naoko as far she can say that she was from another world, when she first found her Naoko, Wanda was in a deep depression with the reality of the Illuminati sending her here to Counter Earth, "Naoko I want to tell you the truth about where I truly come from."
This took Naoko by surprise then she quirk her brows, "Okay…I guess…"
Wanda opened her mouth to speak but a knock on the door stopped her, she looked at Naoko, "I guess we can talk later."
The medic nodded both women headed for the door, when the Doctor opened it revealed none other than John Jameson III holding his stomach in pain.
"John what's wrong?!" HE grabbed by the shoulders falling to his knees
"Naoko…help…me…" He fainted falling upon the women who was struggling to keep his weight up, Wanda help by sharing the weight on her as well which relieved Naoko
"John you too heavy…"
"Some bed side manner you got here doc. Hey Wanda!" Both women jumped when they Peter voice
"You sure know how to make an entrance Mr. Parker." Wanda said giving her head a quick shake of relief.
"Let's get him inside the clinic." Naoko suggested
Meanwhile in an alleyway
Git came out of a sewer; he breathed a sigh of relief as he sat on the edge of the circle. He opened his lunchbox taking out a photo of himself when he was younger before his lordship Sir Ramalots kidnapped as boy and ruined his life!
He remembers being stuck in his laboratory with the Ram sticking needles and doing horrible types of experiments on him. He was still sadden by the events.
'But now I will get even!' He thought, sirens were heard snapping him out of his thoughts, so he ran.
Back at the Clinic
John Jameson was laid to rest, Peter looked at him in surprise, "John Jameson!"
"You know who he is?" Naoko asked
"Uh…I saw a picture of him in the Daily Bytes…from suspected revolutionary…he was one of them." Peter said quickly, Wanda noticed his lie yet didn't say anything to rebuke him.
"Help me strap him down he has a medical condition, he could get violent." Naoko said
Peter said, "I got a job interview Naoko, got to go don't want to be late see you later."
Okay now that was a lie, Wanda narrowed her eyes followed Peter out to his room. She helped strap John in then went to Peter room opening the door, "Mr. Par…ker…"
Peter jumped with his eyes bugling out of his sockets, the two didn't move for more than a minute as the nanotechnology completely covered him from head to toe. Quicker than Wanda could blink she was dragged into the room before she could say a word.
He slammed the door with a lock then grabbed Wanda by the shoulders, she was frighten at what he was going to do her, he looked down then at her, "Please not a word to Naoko I don't want to deal with an explanation right now please Wanda."
She nodded dumbly; he hugged her now it was her turn to return the hug awkwardly. He let her go went behind the books to place a rectangle object to his risk like magic it was dissolved into his wrist.
He went to the window, opened it but he paused, "We've got a lot of talking to do I promise that all your questions will be answered but right now I got another friend in need."
"Yes, just go I must take this in…" Wanda said
He nodded then jumped out the window, leaving Wanda to her thoughts, "Peter Parker and Spider-Man are one in the same? Who would have thought."
She sat down on his stretcher bed still trying to process what she saw.
With the resistance
"Git was suppose to bring the container that he stole from Sir Ram to us." Karen said to Spider-Man, "Instead he's disappeared with it!"
"The blasted High Evolutionary was making a biological weapon to get rid of our kind." Bromely stated in anger, "Too think that man is human as well!"
"Sir Ram said it was a highly contagious virus." The wall crawler said
"The virus is the least of our worries, the container has a built in fail safe device, it's counter started the moment the material left the lab."
"We found this out after Git left on the mission, deep cover no way to contact him best estimate is about two hours before it triggers." Bromely did a flashing with his hands
"Exactly what type of failsafe are we talking about here?"
"A fusion bomb…" Bromely replied gravely, "According to our intelligence unless abort codes are entered it will fry a circular area about 25 miles in diameters." HE then pointed out, "Of course if anyone without entering the codes it triggers immediately
Spidey palmed his face, "Okay that's great a bomb! So now we have to deal with the Knights of Wondergorg we have to stop a bomb from blowing us to kindom come this day keeps getting better and better…"
"Which is why we need to find Git. If by the time he gets to the rondure point it may be too late."
Peter really wanted to smack someone right now; "Sir Ram said something about searching Grid 7 can we find out where that is?"
Karen went to her pocket, "We've broken some of their codes this might be one of them." She took out a phone then punched in some numbers
Bromely eyed the wall crawler suspiciously, "What exactly do you have in mind mate?"
"The only way we are going to find Git if we and the knights worked together…"
Bromely was left mouth a gaped while Karen almost dropped her phone at the mention of teaming up with their nemesis.
Above Grid 7
The knights were not having any luck finding Git Hoskins as they hoped; they were searching for hours with no luck in finding him. Sir Ram was still determined to find his creation to put a stop to his madness that was if he didn't almost get run over by a flying truck.
The truck, turned around and they heard a voice that was too familiar to them, "Hey Sir Lancelot got a proposition for you."
"What is the meaning of this?"
"I say we join forces it's the only way to find Git in time!"
The Ram humanoid pointed an accusing finger at him, "You revolutionary caused this problem in the first place! Let there be an end to your interference NOW!" He fired a laser shot at the truck causing the gang to flee to avoid being Swiss cheese.
Karen snarky commented, "This was a bad idea!"
"Ya think?"
The knights chased them for about five minutes blasting them as the revolutionary returned fire. Peter really wanted to slap himself, "This could have gone better. Hold it! Hold it!"
Peter fired webbing clogging the rapid fire for the knights and the truck stopped, "Listen to me all of you! This is bigger then genetic differences if the failsafe triggers humans and beastial alike will be blown away!"
"He's right!" A voice suddenly appeared, all eyes turned to see the origin but they found none
"Who said that?" Sir Ram yelled, "Show yourself coward!"
Suddenly a flaming bird appeared all eyes had to be shielded from the bright light, Peter already knew who it was however the others didn't. The light died and floating in the space another…
"Spider-Man!" The confused beastial and humans exclaimed
Sir Ram looked at the floating one then at the one on top of the roof, "What kind of trickery is this? How can you be in two places at once!"
"That's because he isn't Sir Dumb-Dumb the names Spider-Phoenix and whether you like it or not you have to work together with the humans in order to stop the bomb that is about to go off in less than an hour." The floating arachnid said
"You can't be serious humans and beastial working together? UGH! The mere thought of it just makes my stomach turn!" Bromely said
"On that we can agree on." Lady Vermin replied
"Look it doesn't matter who started this mess what's more important is on how to get out of it!" Unlimited said, "In time! Sir Ram you're a scientist do the math if we work together we more than double our chances and with Houdini over here we just quadruple the shot."
Sir Ram closed his eyes taking a very deep inhalation of air then he exhaled reopening them, "As much as I hate to admit it…your words make sense…very well Spider-Man humans and knights will work together. Distasteful as it may be."
"A born negotiator." He said then he turned to Phoenix, "And what the heck you are doing here?"
"To make sure you guys don't kill each other in the process besides someone with a greater power has to watch over your butt Unlimited."
"Unlimited?"
"Code name…"
Knights and humans looked each other, shrugging not understanding the situation at hand here.
"Let's just go okay."
10 minutes later
"This was the place the prior randevu sight we were suppose to meet Git after he stolen the device." Karen said
Lady Vermin sniffed the air, "He was here, and his scent is faint but unmistakable…" Then she pointed in a particular direction, "He went that way!"
Bromely with a hand over his mouth, "I always said that she smelled like a rat."
Apparently Sir Ram caught the jest "You are fortunate that time does not allow me to show you my content for you! And all your kind!"
"You want a demonstration Horn Head? HERE AND NOW!" Bromely challenged
Karen took out her pistol as well as the knights, Phoenix wasn't having any of this using his telekinesis he lifted Bromely and Sir Ram as well as the weapons into the air. All eyes turned to him in shock, "Apparently you guys don't get the memo. A bomb is about to go off and you guys are wasting time in petty arguments! You want to know something? Bestial and humans are capable of doing the same type of damage no matter who is the superior race!"
They all flinched at his words because deep down they knew it was true, "You want to know something Sir Ram it was your master the High Evolutionary Herbert Wyndham who started this war in the first place! A human wanting to kill his own kind, that's even worse than Hitler! So you tell me Sir Ram why are led by a human? If it's human who created you and you despise within you fiber of your being? Why do you follow one? Sound pretty hypocritically to me beastial led by a human, the idea…"
The knights looked away in shame, the one name Phoenix made a valid point how can they hate humans if one led them? It wasn't a beastial that governed them it was human a species that they hated within their core.
"I thought so…" Phoenix let the two down, "Next times…do not be such a hypocrite. You Bromely…" The blonde looked at him, "Keep your cool next you won't be so lucky."
Phoenix and Unlimited walked off in the direction that Git went, Bromley narrowed his eyes "It appears that Spider-Man is being Chummy with 'Spider-Phoenix' what's the deal with that."
"Apparently this world has it's own version of Spider-Man. The scientific revolution that one possess can be extraordinary but time does not permit ponder." Sir Ram stated.
10 minutes later
After finding the second point they were suppose to meet, they were met with resistance from Git who refuse to hand the bomb over to them. Spider-Man Unlimited tried to reason with him but to no avail.
The Knights and the Revolutionary cleared debris on their vehicles since Git activated a self-destruct sequence. Both Spider-Men were fast enough to catch up to him and trap him in webbing.
Right now Sir Ram with the others appeared, "Quickly the container! We must hurry the bomb cannot be deactivated if the deactivation code is not put in nor will it deactivate if the final minute is reached."
Phoenix handed him the bomb, quickly as he could Sir Ram typed in the code unfortunately it was too late.
"It's too late…" Sir Ram stated gravely
"That's it then." Bromely said solemnly, "In less than a minute we're history along with the city."
"Oh ye of little faith…" Phoenix laughed taking the bomb away from Sir Ram
"You give up to quickly Bromley." Unlimited looked at Phoenix, "I'll go free Git and give him an earful you know what to do."
"Right."
With ten seconds left Phoenix grabbed the air with all eyes on him, all they could do was stare in awe as he did something that will forever be in engraved in their minds. With Great effort Phoenix tore open a hole in reality leading towards black hole in the most out reaches of space.
Mouths were dropped even Sir Ram the High Evolutionary top scientist was blown away by the act, Phoenix then closed it sealing the air back to the way it was before.
"What did you just do?" The horned humanoid asked in wonder, "Scientifically speaking that was not possible! You cannot have this kind of power at your disposal, this act of changing reality, how can you do this act!"
"I had a lot of practice, now a present for you." Both his hands went behind his back and suddenly it was the same container that he disposed of again mouths were dropped as he gave it back to Sir Ram, "Good as news like you built it. Word to the wise: do not let this thing out of you sight. Now leave…or do we have to get physical?"
The knights got the message; they left without fighting obviously the humans had a very superior ally, "When we meet again we will be enemies so don't think that this little quarrel changes anything."
With that they left; Phoenix dropped his field around Git who was fuming about not getting a shot on the man who destroyed his life. Phoenix turned to Git, "I know how you feel but fighting him tonight won't do any good."
After five minutes the revolutionary left leaving Spider-Phoenix and Spider-Man Unlimited alone, "Now that's done and over with we need to talk."
"About?"
"Your life is in danger dangerous hunters called the Inheritors are killing Spider-Men and Women across the multiverse and your next on the menu…"
LXD: Well I'm back from my hiatus so hopefully I will be updating but not as frequently because of work so it'll depend. There is a new poll on my profile so please vote. Anyway chapter 5 comment, rate, subscribe…till next time