Peter would have been in awe of the quinjet if he hadn't been so terrified, even fighting the Lizard hadn't been this nerve wracking. He sat in silence on one of the many seats. Steve sat opposite, thinking of all the reasons Fury might want to talk with Peter. Conversation had died down quickly. It had mainly been asking Peter what Fury might want and Peter mumbling and muttering about not knowing. Steve just knew that if Fury wanted to take Peter away for any reason then he would not stand for it.
Clint, on the other hand, was having a blast. He loved terrifying new recruits and their pilot happened to be one. He sat by the cockpit and picked up every minor detail the man was doing and then criticizing him on it even though he was doing pretty well.
Finally they arrived and Steve put a hand lightly on Peter's shoulder to guide him since the teen didn't believe his legs would walk voluntarily. From what he'd picked up from listening in to conversations, Fury was mean, manipulative and a little bit terrifying. He was also head of a super secret spy organisation and for some reason he wanted to speak to Peter, nothing terrifying about that at all now, is there?
A woman who introduced herself as Agent Hill directed them to Fury, explaining to Steve what he needed to do along the way. She then turned to Clint and told him that she would be the one going through the process of reprimanding him with all the paperwork (who knew there was paperwork to be punished!) but Fury still wanted to talk to him. She didn't talk to Peter.
They entered a large office with a large window and cream, stony walls. Fury was sitting at the only desk in the room. When they came in he leaned against the back of his chair and looked at them all. Hill stood waiting by the door.
"Agent Barton, you have been with SHIELD for many years, you know we need knew staff. Why do you need to terrify them?" Fury asked, his voice slowly rising.
"Well, sir. I believe that the employees who get a little terrified of small attacks and scream like little girls should not be working with a company like SHIELD." Clint explained. His years of training to look emotionless were paying off.
"That is why they have training to join, so they are ready for anything." Fury said.
"Sir, if I might be so bold." Clint cut in. "They were not ready for the arrows."
"Barton, I don't want you to scare off anymore recruits!" Fury ordered angrily. Steve could feel Peter tense up even more beside him. Peter was terrified. This man with an eye patch already had the natural look of don't mess with me but now he was in a bad mood! This could not go well.
Clint was dismissed and Hill followed him out.
"Rogers, we've had people look over your briefing yesterday and a few things don't make sense." Fury said going back to his seat. He looked much calmer now.
"Such as?" Steve questioned.
"Such as, some of our own men and women betrayed us!" Fury stated. "You were also unclear on how you rendezvoused with Agents Romanoff and Barton. If you go to debriefing room six, they'll sort it out."
Fury stared at Steve as if to say, I'm done now, you can go. Steve stayed right where he was next to Peter.
"Sir, what do you want with Peter?" Steve asked.
"I want to talk to him about Doctor Kurt Connors." Fury stated.
Peter wasn't sure whether it was safe to breathe easy again or if he knew about the whole incident with the man.
Steve looked down at Peter and saw recognition to the name on the boys face.
"Do you want me to stay?" Steve asked Peter quietly. Peter wasn't sure. He didn't want to trust Steve with his secret yet and maybe this conversation would lead to it. He also wasn't proud in his involvement with creating the serum that caused Connors to become the lizard. As uncomfortable as sitting with Fury by himself would be, Peter made up his mind.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine." Peter said in as reassuring voice as he could muster. Steve could still feel the tension in Peter's body and didn't believe him but, with a warning glare to Fury, he left, shutting the door behind him.
"Take a seat Mister Parker." Fury said, motioning to the seat opposite him. Peter slowly sat down.
Fury assessed him and could see he was nervous. It was almost enjoyable to make the kid squirm but he wasn't that evil.
"Mister Parker, it came to our attention that you were assisting Doctor Connors when he created the animal serum. I would like to know how and why?" Fury stated getting straight to the point.
This shocked Peter, he was expecting more of an interrogation with them having a completely wrong point of view on the whole thing. He relaxed a little.
"I found out Connors worked with my father. My uncle had just found my dad's old briefcase and I found some of his research and how he worked for OsCorp. I went to... a tour there and listened to doctor Connors going on about his research and how it was incomplete and then I looked at my father's research and saw that it was the help Connors needed so I took it to him." Peter explained. Fury decided to intervene.
"Did it not occur to you that there was a reason your father had taken the research away and not left it at OsCorp before leaving?" Fury asked.
"Not at the time. Later on, sure, it seemed obvious but no one would tell me about my dad so I thought I might as well talk to the man who worked with him. He seemed to genuinely just want his arm back and to help others so I helped him and learnt from him. I swear to you, I didn't know it would go wrong!" Peter said honestly. Fury looked at Peter as if he was assessing him.
They sat like that for several long, drawn out minutes; Fury assessing Peter and Peter sitting nervously waiting for Fury to call it a bluff. Finally, Fury spoke up.
"Doctor Connors wants to speak with you. He's in a holding facility not far from here. Would you like to see him?" Fury asked. Peter was shocked once again.
"Um, sure. Do you know what he wants?" Peter asked. Fury shook his head.
"He won't tell anyone. Once the interviews were done he went silent although he's been speaking to himself a lot, as if there is someone else in the room with him. He's also been diagnosed as bipolar." Fury explained standing up and walking out of the room. Peter quickly followed, having difficulty not running to keep up with Fury's fast strides.
"He wasn't like that before the serum, maybe it created two of him, he was a different person once he became the lizard." Peter said trying to keep up without giving any of his powers away.
"So you mean that there is Connors and then there's the Lizard both in his brain at the same time?" Fury asked not stopping.
"Yeah, so when he gets angry or whatever he becomes, it's the lizard part becoming dominant and when he's talking to himself he can see the alternate personality before him." Peter explained.
They had gone through many corridors and down the lift. They were now entering a hanger with lots of different flying machines; some helicopters, quinjets, a large plane and even a few vehicles that looked like they could go underwater.
"I want you to talk to Connors and see if you can test your theory." Fury said stopping by a black jeep with a SHIELD logo on it. Fury opened the door to the shot gun seat and motioned for Peter to go in but held the door open once he was seated. A female agent was already in the driver's seat. She had long brown hair tied into a ponytail with the normal SHIELD uniform of dark blue skin tight one piece. Her back was straight and she was looking straight out the window, ignoring the movement next to her.
"Take him to the underwater prison block 2*" Fury said to the driver. She nodded. Peter looked around to see if he could see Steve. He felt uncomfortable just being shoved in the car and sent off. Fury could see what Peter was doing.
"I'll send Steve over once he's done." Fury said before slamming the door shut.
The drive was uncomfortably quiet. The woman only made small precise movements when driving, never taking her eyes off the road or slacking her back even a little. She made no attempt to communicate with Peter whatsoever.
After half an hour of driving they pulled into a junk yard with an abandoned warehouse and a large gate with the sign PRIVATE PROPERTY on the front. The agent drove up to the gate, rolled down her window and pressed what looked like a wad of gum on the wall. A small square of the wall slid upwards revealing a tiny blue screen. The agent started into the small screen and a little light came out and scanned her left eye.
A green light showed on the blue pad.
"Voice recognition." A robotic voice said.
"Agent Mary Francis." The agent, Mary Francis, said clearly.
The gate slid open with a lot more speed and vigour then Peter thought was possible looking by its age and rustiness. Then again, the look was probably just a front for people going passed.
Agent Francis drove in through the gate and towards the building. The doors of the building lifted like garage doors and they drove in. Francis stopped the car in the middle of the room and turned off the engine. It was a large warehouse with grey walls and grey floors. There was absolutely nothing significant about it. They sat there, car parked, engine off, in pure silence. Then, after about a minute there was a loud BING and a green light showed on the wall in front of them. Peter hadn't even seen the light bulb. Not only that, he nearly jumped out of his skin when the noise came. Agent Francis smirked slightly. The first emotion he sees on her face and it's laughing at him.
"Security check." She explained simply.
The floor below them starts to move down, just enough space for the car, the rest of the floor stays where it is. Peter looks around as they sink into the floor. Once they come to a stop in a pitch black area, Peter heard a click and loads of lights came on. They were in a grey panelled room which looked more like the SHIELD vehicles hangar then an abandoned warehouse.
Peter looked through the skylight of the car and saw a panel, the size of the piece that took them down, cover the whole in the ceiling, well floor, well – oh well. It covered the whole above him that they had just come down through.
An agent walked forwards who seemed to be waiting for him. He opened the door to Peter's side and stood out the way so Peter could climb out.
"This way Mister Parker." The man said once he shut the car door. Peter followed and heard an engine and looked behind to see a heavy duty steel door open so Agent Francis could park. The door shut and bolted several times over behind her. Peter was taken out of that room and into another which had a metal detector for a doorway. Peter didn't beep thankfully. Once inside, Peter was sat at a desk and the agent who opened the car door sat opposite him. He had a sheet of paper in his hand and a pen.
"Mister Parker, I need you to sign this confidentiality form. They state that you are not to talk to anyone other than high ranking SHIELD officials about what you have seen concerning SHIELD and anything you do see after this point. We have the rights to lock you up for the rest of your life if this agreement is breached." The agent explained.
Peter took the sheet of paper and scanned it before finding the SIGN HERE part and scribbling his signature. The agent then took the paper and signed his own name underneath before rolling it up, putting it in a cylinder container and walking to a tube that went through the wall. He took off the lid to the tube and put the cylinder inside that vanished like it had been sucked in by a vacuum. Which, in all honesty, it had been.
Peter was then taken to a lift which went further underground for over a minute at a very fast pace before being led to a room with a table and two chairs, one on either side. All of the furniture had been bolted down. Peter was left alone for another few minutes. He wondered what Steve was doing. Was he on his way or was he still sorting out what happened.
Finally, the door opposite him swung open and two agents escorted Doctor Connors into the room. He looked like he had seen many, many better days.
"Peter, you actually came." Connors said happily. He took the seat opposite Peter and they were left alone but Peter could see the agents outside the room.
"Hi Doctor Connors, how have you been?" Peter asked nervously.
"I've been good, it's not as bad as it looks here." Connors said with a shrug.
"Sir, I was told you wanted to talk to me." Peter said getting straight to the point. As delighted as he was to see Connors unhurt and happy, he still felt uncomfortable here and wanted to go.
"Peter I need a favour of you." Connors said. "I need you to either complete my research, help others get limbs without side effects!"
Peter looked into Connors pleading eyes, he just wanted to help them.
"Sir, I don't know anything further than your research and my fathers." Peter said, confused.
"Ah, but Peter, you're smart, you'll figure it out." Connors said with a fond smile.
"What was the other thing you wanted?" Peter asked.
"I need you to reverse the serum that I used." Connors said, his look turned to one of a man willing to beg.
"But, we already found the reverse." Peter said, he looked around. "Spider-man used it on you to change everyone back."
"No, no, no." Connors said getting increasingly nervous. "It reversed the physical effects but not the psychological ones! No, shut up! I'm speaking to him!"
Peter looked around. Who was Connors talking to?
"Sir, what do you mean?" Peter asked. He looked at Connors but the man wasn't looking at him, he was looking to the left of him.
"The lizard is still there, his personality, it's still here. No, he shouldn't know!" Connors started shouting.
"Doctor Connors, there's no one there." Peter said looking from Connors to where the man was looking to.
"Peter, Peter, please, just look into reversing the psychological ef..." Connors stopped talking and seemed to have frozen.
"Connors?" Peter said. The man didn't respond. He didn't move.
"Sir?" Peter said a bit more urgently. He looked towards the small windows in the doors, unsure if he should call for help. He looked towards the window behind him. No one had moved. Peter then turned back and almost jumped. Connors was moving again but he was – different. He had a wide grin on, he sat more confidently and he kept licking his bottom lip. It was really creepy.
"Hello Peter." Connors drooled.
"I'm guessing I'm not talking to Kurt Connors anymore, am I." Peter said. It was a fact, not a question.
"You always were so bright." The man said in an over complimentary voice.
"Where is Connors?" Peter asked slowly.
"Oh, he's about." The man's grin widened.
"What do you want?" Peter asked. He knew he would be powerless if the man attacked. He was sure there were cameras in the room so he couldn't climb walls or do impressive flips. He didn't have his web fluid and for some reason, Connors was actually scaring him.
"Oh, can't we just talk?" the man shrugged.
"We can, but I doubt that's what you actually want." Peter said. The man chuckled evilly.
"Oh yes, so bright." Connors muttered, still grinning, still licking his bottom lip. He leaned forwards as quickly as a snake goes to bite its prey. He was only inches away from Peter's face. Peter would have jumped if his spidey sense hadn't warned him.
"You're going to help me get out." Connors whispered darkly.
"And why would I do that." Peter said, he was doing an impressive job of hiding his fear.
"Oh Peter." He drooled. "I know so much about you. I know daddy's darkest secrets. I know what he did to you."
Peter was angry and confused now.
"My father did nothing wrong." Peter said, his voice rising.
"Oh yes he did." Connors said quietly. "A little spider wouldn't have come about without a little encouragement."
Pete glared at Connors.
Connors then jumped on Peter, Peter wanted to avoid it but even with his quick reflexes, being stuck on a solid chair and being against a much larger man in a small environment, Peter was pinned.
Connors grabbed his neck and started chocking him. Connors was lying across the table, his feet hooked around his chair so he couldn't be slid off.
"I can tell you his secrets. You can't help Connors, he's gone, gone I tell you." The imposter cackled into Peter's ear. Peter could smell his horrid breath. "The scars on your chest, the ones I gave you. Do they burn? Do they hurt? Do you remember George Stacy, how he died because of you?"
Just then, there was a loud bang as the door flung open, there was shouting and then Peter could breath! Peter gulped at the air and didn't realise someone was trying to talk to him until he felt a warm hand on his shoulder.
"... alright?" Peter looked up and saw Steve kneeling beside him, asking him a question. Worry was surrounding his features. Peter nodded and Steve helped him up.
"Come on, let's go home." Steve said, supporting a shocked Peter. Peter looked around, bewildered and saw three agents restraining Connors.
"You can't hide, Peter." Connors laughed evilly. "I know all about you, I'll find you!"
Steve guided Peter to the car. Peter didn't realise where they were until his door opened and he was looking at the Avengers Tower. Peter didn't remember going through all of the security to get out or any of the drive. He was just glad to be back.
*I made this jail up.
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