Just as I warned spoilers galore for Winter Soldier and Agents of SHIELD. Also Aspiringactor told me that Natasha's real name was revealed in Winter Soldier but I never saw any relevance to it nor could I find anything on it online.
Amazing Spider-Man 2 came out on Good Friday in the UK and I saw it yesterday on Saturday (really liked it) but don't worry I am not sure if I am at the point where I will be putting in ideas from the film. Also thanks again to Aspiringactor for looking over this chapter for me again.
In the Triskellion, Phil Coulson was having help from his team in setting up his new office, "So the SHIELD files that will be kept secret since the old ones are public knowledge, you think you could let me look at them?" Skye asked and Coulson gave her a look which caused her to smile sheepishly.
"Well we got word that the now we know to be the false Clairvoyant, Former Agent Garrett is hiding with HYDRA goons and his renegade partner Ward. Agent Barton is hot on his trail," Melinda May said and the team blanched at the sound of the name of the HYDRA agent who had been their valued teammate and close friend for so long.
"Director Coulson sir." The newest member of the team, Agent Antoine Triplett said entering through the door and Coulson realised he may need a while to get used to being referred to as Director.
"Yes Agent Triplett?" Coulson asked as he put his blood stained Captain America training cards in his desk that Fury had gotten signed for him. They had been a gift from the former director, to repay Coulson's sacrifice before the 'Battle of New York.'
"There is a guest who wants to see you right now." Agent Triplett told them before pausing for a second "it's the head of Homeland Security." The team dropped what they were doing as they realised who this was. He was famous, after all, even before he had donned the flying metal suit.
"Send him in Agent Triplett." Coulson sighed as Triplett nodded and left. Coulson was not exactly looking forward to working with the new head of Homeland security, due to past interactions between the two. He knew first-hand how difficult the man could be.
"First off I want to say I would have been here earlier today but I had to go to the birthday party for Pierce's niece," Tony Stark said entering the office followed by Happy Hogan and Dr. Bruce Banner "Sweet girl. Hard to believe her uncle was a HYDRA mole but anyway... So this is the new team Fury gave you after you died?"
"Mr Stark, it's a long story and I will explain later..." Coulson started sitting down at his desk as Fitz, Simmons and Skye looked in awe at the two Avengers while May was rather nonchalant, all she did was eye both the gun resting on Happy's side, and the gamma radiation scientist quickly, assessing them as either friend or foe with a single glance.
"I am sure you can, so we both got new jobs at the same time." Tony said shrugging looking at the decorations "so I could accept the job President Ellis gave me, I made Pepper my new CEO and my science brother Bruce here is the head of Stark Industries new Sciences and Development division."
"Anything you want talk to me about Mr Stark?" Coulson asked knowing he had to have confrontations with the other Avengers soon enough.
"Just wanted to see how my good friend Phil was doing." Tony said before Happy handed him a file "but my new boss President Ellis asked me to tell you this." Tony gave him a file of what the government knew about Spider-Man and the different villains he faced, "Ellis wants to know if this Spider-Man guy can help us fix the broken state the world is in." Tony said before heading to the door "oh and please tell your three little girlfriends that even though I am in a happy relationship I would be willing to talk to them sometime!" Coulson knew that despite Stark's flirtation attitude, he would never even consider going on a date with either Skye, Melinda or Jemma. Because no one in their right mind would risk the wrath of Pepper Potts.
Simmons and Skye giggled after Tony left while May looked annoyed and looked at the door again. She then turned back to the group and said, "I think we have another visitor."
"Director Coulson sir, I just wanted the opportunity to meet my new boss for the first time." Said a voice and Coulson watched as the head of Hammer Norman Osborn entered, due to HAMMER having its own secret network that was separate from the rest of SHIELD's database it had managed to survive unscathed from the fallout.
"Mr Osborn, my predecessor told me a lot about you." Coulson said with a smile as he got up and shook Norman's hand, "I just want to make sure the ones involved in HYDRA's CENTIPEDE Divison are being tracked down." Norman said and after a dark nod from most of the team he responded with "that's good, thanks to them I lost my closest ally, Victoria Hand. She may not have taken a joke well but she was one of the best in my division."
"Just so you know Mr Osborn, SHIELD under my command will be different from the old SHIELD, so you might have to tone down on some of the shadow operations that you were doing before the big collapse of the old SHIELD." Coulson warned Norman as he went to the door.
"I will keep that in mind sir." Norman smiled before going through the door and closing it, "Wonder what he is like under that mask?" mused Skye looking at the file the head of Homeland Security had given them.
*TMCUSSM*
That night Peter in his full Spider-Man costume was slinging about New York when he spotted some orange figure flying about that seemed to be jumping from building to building, "What do we have here?" Peter asked as he started following the figure.
Unknown to Peter or the figure another figure was watching them, "time to show you Peter that you have someone to help you now..." mused the figure in a yellow and black in its outfit.
When he got close enough the first figure turned towards him and threw some kind of bomb at him, "What the-?" Peter quipped before falling to a rooftop, he had managed to dodge the blast thanks to his Spider-Sense but he was not able to catch himself in order to stop himself from falling.
He then dodged the figure as he flew right at him, "Did anyone catch the license plate of whatever ran me over?" Peter asked out loud before looking from right to left, "Okay come on out whoever you are!" Peter shouted as he spotted the figure and he had managed to look closely enough at the figure to make him out.
He was in black bodysuit, a mask that was goblin shaped, an orange cloak with holes where his arms went through and had his hood up, he had a brown pouch where Peter supposed that he was holding the bombs he had thrown at him, attached to the belt of the figure was some sort of electronic sword and the figure seemed to be flying on some sort of glider.
"You will be crushed Spider-Freak!" shouted the figure before laughing maniacally in a high pitched voice, "What are you, some sort of a Hobgoblin?" Peter asked and then having an idea he said out loud "hey I don't care what name you have chosen for yourself, I am calling you the Hobgoblin: is that okay with you but if not...too bad!"
As he dodged more bombs being thrown at him Peter asked himself "Why do I keep running into these weirdoes and with my luck it will probably be another person that I go to Midtown High with: maybe Scott Summers, Bobby Drake or that Danny Ketch, and I certainly hope it's not someone like Flash or Kitty... "
The Hobgoblin then jumped from his glider and onto the rooftop and was now holding his sword which seemed to now be on fire, "Let's now fight: goblin to Spider!" the Hobgoblin cackled as Peter realized that he was in for a very rough fight.