Spider-Man and the Avengers
The Spider and the Imp.
Prologue.
A young woman with long red hair and blue eyes walked over to a young man at a party, she wore a revealing black dress and had her eyes set intensely on him.
"Tony Stark." She said.
The man turned around at being addressed, he took in the woman and gave a smile.
"Hello, I don't think we've met." He said, holding out his hand.
"We haven't." The woman said, shaking his hand. "My name is Jessica James, but most call me Jess." Jess' eyes then seemed to flash but Tony waved it off as a trick of the light. "You know, it's polite to buy a woman a drink."
Tony gave another smile and turned to the barman.
"A drink for my lady-friend."
The barman took the money and gave a drink to Jess.
Later on that night Jess and Tony ended up in bed together, and a few days after that Jess found out she was pregnant.
"You're going to keep it?" a girl aged fifteen asked Jess, she had short, spikey blond hair and blue eyes.
"Of course, I've always planned on having a child, it's just happened earlier than expected." Jess answered, rubbing her belly. "Should have checked the asshole was using protection."
"You also said that you wanted the father to be around, I doubt Mr Stark will be willing to join the business, let alone for a woman he met with just to have sex."
"I know that. I guess my child will just have to live without her father, it would be hard to find one willing to be in the business and care for a child anyway."
"Speaking of business, what we stealing next?"
Jess grinned. "A large diamond from a pig-headed collector."
"I'll go gather the others."
The teen left the room while Jess went over to the wall, she pressed a button and part of the wall swung around to reveal many guns and other varying weapons. Jess took a few of them and attacked them to the suit she was wearing.
"When you are born you are going to be the perfect little thief." Jess said lovingly, rubbing her belly.
Jess heard people enter and she turned around to see the other members of her team, who were either in their teens or early twenties.
"Let's go." Jess smirked.
Jess sat on the floor with a four-year-old girl with short black hair and blue eyes, the child was holding bits of metal while Jess was instructing her on how to put them together.
"This part goes here, and then this part screws into here, and you're done." Jess said in a soft tone.
In the child's hand she held a hand gun.
"Well done, Jack, you've made me so proud." Jess said happily, picking up the child and hugging her.
"I really did it, mommy!" Jack laughed, looking in awe at the gun in her hands.
Jess looked at her daughter with proud eyes.
"What next? What next?" Jack asked with excitement.
"Slow down, I'll teach you more later. Right now you're filthy, it's bath time."
"No!" Jack yelled and struggled to escape her mother's grasp.
"There's no use resisting, you will be clean." Jess said, standing up and heading towards the bathroom.
A six-year-old Jack sat on her bed in her room, looking at some blueprints while fiddling with some bits of metal. Suddenly, the door to her room burst open and Jess ran in, her face full of panic. Jack dropped what she was doing.
"Mom, what's going on?" she asked, slightly scared.
"We've been found, it's too late to run." Jess explained.
Jess crouched in front of her daughter, Jack was starting to get very scared.
"Listen, I'm going to give up and take the fall for everyone, which means I might not be able to see you again."
"No, mommy, no!" Jack cried, latching onto her mother.
Jess pulled Jack away from her. "Listen to me very closely, people are going to ask you questions but I don't want you speaking to anyone about your life here, not about me, Alex, any of the others, or what we do. And remember, no matter where either of us are, no matter who you end up with or my fate, I will always love you. Now, get your emergency bag and all your important things and wait for someone to come and get you."
Jess gave her daughter a big hug and then left the room, locking the door on her way out, she gave a big sigh before heading to face those breaking into her home. Men dressed in uniforms burst into the room wielding guns and shouting loudly, Jess put her hands behind her head and kneeled on the floor, a few seconds later she was cuffed and dragged out of the room.
In her room Jack sat crying on her bed, she and a backpack that was full to the brim beside her and a teddybear wearing goggles clutched in her arms. Jack let out a scream as the door was busted down a scary people in uniforms came in, upon seeing the girl they lowered their weapons and one came forward.
"Hey there, little girl, it's okay, we're gonna get you out of here." He said in a gentle voice.
Jack just whimpered and tried to get as far away from him as possible. The man sighed.
"You guys go and check the rest of the building, I'm going to need some time with her."
The other men left. The man took off his helmet in an attempt to get Jack to calm down.
"Hey, wanna wear this?" he asked, holding his helmet out to Jack.
Jack stopped sobbing and looked at the helmet, after a few minutes she took it and placed it on her head, it was much too big for her and covered her eyes but she laughed.
"Hey, what's your friends' name?"
Jack tilted the helmet to look at the man and then looked down at her teddy but she didn't speak, her mother told her not to.
"Alright then, I'll guess. Is it Teddy?"
Jack shook her head.
"Sam?"
Another shake.
After a few more guesses the man finally got it.
"Tony?"
Jack nodded.
"Okay then, nice to meet you Tony." The man said to the bear. "And what's your name?" he asked Jack.
Jack said nothing but looked towards some letter stuck to the wall, the man looked at them and read the name they spelled.
"Jacqueline, that's a very nice name." he said.
Jack pulled a face.
"I guess you prefer something else. Jackie?"
Jack shook her head.
"Jack?"
She nodded.
"Okay then, Jack, I'm gonna need you and Tony to come with me. I'm afraid you can't live here anymore." The man said.
Jack reluctantly let the man pick her up.
"Is there anything you'd like to bring with you right now?
Jack pointed to her backpack and the man picked it up. He then walked out the room.
The man kept his helmet lowered over Jack's face as he walked so she wouldn't have to see the damage done to her home and her mom and the people she thought of as family been taken away in handcuffs.
Jack sat in a colourful room filled with toys, she did nothing but sit with her bear clutched tightly in her arms. Outside the room she was watched through a one-way mirror.
"Who is she?" A woman asked the man who had taken Jack from her home.
"The daughter of Miss James." The man explained. "Miss James told us that she had a one-night stand with a man and ended up pregnant and decided to raise her despite her lifestyle. She also told us that the other people in her group are innocent people who she controlled using special powers she has."
"She admitted to that?"
"She said that she may have controlled them but that she didn't want them getting in trouble for something that was out of their control. What are we going to do with Jacqueline?"
"If we can find the father we will and if he's suitable then we'll see if he's willing to take her in, if not then she'll have to go into foster care. She'll also have to have therapy, there's no telling what has been conditioned into her mind by that woman."
Outside the Malibu home of Tony Stark a black car pulled up outside, a woman stepped out and then pulled Jack out from the back seat. She held onto Jack's hand with one hand while pressing the buzzer with the other. The door open to reveal a woman with ginger hair.
"Can I help you?" she asked.
"I need to speak to Mr Stark about a personal matter." The woman holding Jack said.
The other woman looked down at Jack and put the pieces together and groaned.
"That idiot." She said.
The woman invited them in.
"I'm Pepper Potts, personal assistant to Tony." The woman introduced herself. "I'm guessing the child has something to do with him."
"To do with who?" Tony Stark asked as he appeared from his lab.
"Mr Stark, this is Jacqueline James." The woman said, motioning to Jack, who remained silent.
"Ah, my alleged daughter." Tony said.
"It has been proven." The woman said.
"It has, I wouldn't be taking her in it wasn't."
Jack looked up at her supposed dad and frowned.
"Tony?" Pepper asked in a warning tone.
"I'll explain later." Tony waved her off.
"So, you'll be living with Mr Stark now, what do you think?" the woman asked Jack.
Jack looked up at her and spoke for the first time since she saw her mum. "I think that I was better off with mum."
Tony laughed at her comment. "I like her." He said.
Later on the woman had left Jack with Tony and Pepper with promises to return the next day. Pepper had dragged Tony off to the next room but Jack heard their conversation.
"A kid, Tony, really?" Pepper asked.
"I had to, her mother is in prison and she was sort of forced on me." Tony answered.
"Why not put her in a foster home, you're not qualified to raise a child."
"The ones who gave her to me did. Besides, I was going to but then I saw her, she wouldn't do well in a foster home, I can tell. We can hire someone to care for her anyway."
Jack stopped listening at this point and began exploring what she could and tried hacking into the places that she couldn't.
In the end Jack ended up staying with Tony, cared for by various nannies.
A teenage Jack sat in her room working on one of her various projects, in front of her a TV displayed her father on the news at a press conference from yesterday. Jack mentally scoffed at the word father, Tony didn't act like a father should while she grew up living with him, there were occasional times when he would show affection towards her but for the most part he acted like she was just a permanent resident of his home rather that his daughter.
Jack's laptop then started beeping, warning her that someone was trying to contact her. Putting down her project Jack responded to the call.
"Hey, Pete, how are yah?" Jack said to the person on her screen.
The boy on the screen was the same age she was with brown hair and eyes hidden behind glasses, his name was Peter Parker and he was Jack's best friend.
"I'm fine, Jack." Peter answered. "How are things on your end?"
"As fine as they can be considering my recent almost kidnapping last week, Tony's got me locked up in the house right now." Jack complained.
"Well, at least it shows he cares, I'm sure that's what my aunt and uncle would do if I was almost kidnapped."
"I guess. Tony does have his moments. Though he's still Tony. Woke up this morning to find some reporter woman walking around in just her underwear and one of his shirts, this happens so often that I'm not even embarrassed about it anymore."
Peter then looked to his right. "Got to go, aunt May's calling."
"Bye." Jack said as he hung up.
Jack turned off her laptop and went back to her project, while working she briefly wondered what Tony's reaction would be if he found out that she was building small bombs in her room.
Jack franticly paced around her room, trying not to think about what had happened, that only a few hours ago that she had gotten the news that Tony had been taken while on a business trip in another county and couldn't be found. There was a knock at the door and Jack expected it to be Pepper coming to try and comfort her again, instead she saw Peter open the door.
"Peter!" Jack shouted, grabbing onto him like a lifeline.
"Pepper had me brought here." Peter explained. "I'm sure everything will work out in the end."
"But he was kidnapped by terrorists, who knows what they'll do to him. And it's not just that, I'm the heir to the company, if they decide he's dead what's going to happen to me? I don't want to deal with weapons."
Jack clutched at her hair, hyperventilating. Peter removed Jack's hand from her head and hugged her.
"It'll all be alright." Peter said to her.
"I hope so.
Three months later Jack got the news about Tony being found and rescued. At the airport she stood beside Pepper as the plane he was on landed and stepped out with his right arm in a sling, when Jack saw him she launched herself at him and gave him a hug but being careful of his arm.
"Dad!" she cried.
Tony was a little surprised at Jack's behaviour.
"You called me dad." He said.
Jack just nodded and carried on hugging Tony as he and Pepper had a conversation, she eventually let go of him and they all got into the car with Happy the driver.
In the weeks following Tony's return he acted more fatherly towards Jack despite still holing himself up in his lab most of the time, he told her that his experience as a captive had taught him to appreciate what he had; he didn't actually say that but that's what Jack picked up from his scattered explanations.
Then Jack had found out that her father was the recent hero Iron Man along with the rest of the world and was also surprised to find out that the man who took care of Tony for a long time and took all the weight off her shoulders about the company while Tony was missing had tried to kill him and was the one who actually set up the whole ordeal. If Jack didn't have a secret identity while going to school she would be very popular at the moment.
Jack decided that she had a weird life, with a thief for a mum, a superhero for a dad, and she made bombs in her spare time. But her life, along with her friends Peter's, was about to get weirder.
Chapter 1.
Jack and Peter were in his room, Jack was analysing his injuries while complaining.
"I thought I was meant to be the brash one of us, but then I find out that you decided to follow in dad's footsteps and got clawed, strangled, thrown around and shot for it." Jack said.
Jack's life had once again gotten strange when she discovered that Peter had gotten spider powers and used them to become the new vigilante Spiderman. When Peter had gotten his powers he of course told Jack about them, what he didn't tell her was that he was using his new found powers to hunt down the guy that murdered his uncle and then moved onto taking out street crime, since Jack didn't live in New York she didn't find out about Spiderman until the newscast about him saving the city from the Lizard, she then instantly worked out that Peter and Spiderman were the same and she was mad about not being told. Peter allowed himself to be shouted at by Jack after she came to New York to see him shortly after seeing the newsreel, after calming down slightly Jack helped Peter with the wounds he had and comforted him about the death of Captain Stacy.
Jack stopped what she was saying before hitting upon an idea. "I'm going to join you."
"Jack, no." Peter protested.
"No, I'm going to help you, if you insist on endangering yourself them I'm going to help out, it's my choice. Besides, you're not the only one with powers."
To prove her point Jack started floating off the ground, flipping upside down and looking at Peter.
Peter was conflicted. "Fine, but only because I know you'll do it anyway." He said.
"Dam right I will." Jack said, flipping and landing on the floor.
Jack got her powers from her mum, Jess was a superhuman and passed that onto Jack whose powers manifested different to her mom's. Jack had the ability to change the density of her entire body, meaning she could change the hardness of her skin, organs and bones and that she could weigh anything she wanted, which allowed her to float any distance off the ground or become unmoveable from the ground. Jack had developed her powers with puberty and the only person besides herself that knew about them was Peter, she didn't have a good enough relationship with Tony yet to tell him.
"What are you going to wear then?" Peter asked.
"I have an idea, come on." Jack said, taking hold of Peter's hand and dragging him after her.
"Bye, aunt May!" Peter called as he was dragged out the front door.
"Be back no later than nine!" he heard aunt May call after him.
Using the fastest train they could Peter and Jack arrived at the Stark home, they then went to Jack's room, then to the secret room that Jack used to store all the different weapons she owned and made.
"Your dad would have a fit if he saw all this." Peter said, looking at some bombs in a box labelled 'flash bombs'.
"Well, they're going to finally have some use, I'll need some sort of weapon to help fight, nothing harmful like big explosions, but those flash bombs and smoke bombs will certainly come in handy." Jack said. She then picked up a dark-blue protective jacket that went down to her knees when she wore it and a black jumpsuit. "These'll have to be part of my outfit, they've survived the many explosions of my lab, so it should hold up in a fight."
Walking back into her room Jack gathered a few more things she saw as potential parts of her costume and took out the mannequin she used for when she made her own clothes, she then began dressing it in the jumpsuit and jacket then the other things she had gathered, she pulled on then pulled off many of the things she chose until she settled on a look.
"What do you think?" Jack asked Peter, presenting the dressed mannequin.
The costume consisted of a black hat, a pair of black-rimmed racing goggles, the jumpsuit and jacket, a black belt from the left shoulder to the right hip, a pair of black fingerless gloves, and some grey boots.
Peter shrugged. "Looks good, but is obviously just thrown together." He said.
"Well, this is just the prototype." Jack said. "I'm going to need to modify the jacket and such, maybe add a logo of my own, get better goggles, etc."
"A though just occurred to me, how are you going to help me when I'm Spiderman when you live here? You can't just visit every day."
"Well, you know the Stark tower that dad's built?"
Peter nodded.
"We're going to be moving there, I'm even joining your school."
"That's great."
"I know. Now, let's get to work on my modifications."
Peter and Jack were walking out of their school a few days after Jack had joined, she was in her identity of Jacqueline James and wore a long blond wig with green coloured contact lenses.
"It's finally ready, tonight I'll be joining you as the Imp." Jack said to Peter.
"You're sticking with that name?" Peter asked.
"Providing that one isn't made up before I can introduce myself." Jack said. "A name for me isn't as obvious as it was for you, I don't want to end up with some lame one that's linked to explosives or my goggles."
The two teens entered Stark tower through a secret entrance to avoid being spotted and took a private elevator straight to the living quarters, as soon as they were in Jack's new room she locked the door and pulled off her wig to reveal her spikey chin-length hair that had once been midway down her back and took out her contacts.
"You cut your hair?" Peter asked. "How'd your dad and Pepper react?"
"They don't know, I just wear a wig around them." Jack explained.
Jack went over to her wardrobe and open up a compartment to reveal some mannequin heads with wigs on, she put the blond wig on the only bare head.
"Why?"
"It's part of my costume, you'll see in a bit."
Jack went into her bathroom to change into her costume while Peter waited in her room. A little while later Jack emerged dressed in her costume.
"How do I look?" Jack asked.
Jack's goggles were different and looked like a band of black fabric with goggle lenses in it, her short black hair peeked out from under her hand and goggles, the legs of her body suit had been cut off at just below the knee, her jacket now had many pockets on them, her boots were replaced with mechanical boots, and her chest was bound.
"You look like a boy." Peter said.
"Good, that's what I was going for." Jack said, observing herself in her mirror. "The best secret identity is one that's the opposite sex."
"What's with the boots?" Peter asked.
"They're rocket boots like Tony has. My powers allow me to float but not fly, so these will take care of that aspect, and I won't need hand boosters like dad does."
"Let's go then." Peter said as he took off his clothes, revealing his spider suit underneath.
The two then jumped out through Jack's open window and flew/swung away from the tower to find some crime. Jack quickly got the hang of the whole saving people thing after the first few muggings and attempted rapes she and Peter stopped, they even managed to stop a shop robbery, at that place they left a note for the police to find.
'Just another service provided by your friendly neighbourhood Spiderman and Imp.'
Chapter 2.
After Tony had become Ironman Jack life had been a little harder, she had been more likely to get kidnapped by people trying to get to her dad and he had become self-destructive after finding out that his Ark reactor was killing him. Thankfully Tony had solved the Ark reactor problem and wasn't as self-destructive as before, but Jack was still in danger from kidnapping despite becoming the Imp because she couldn't use her powers.
So Jack was once again in the predicament of a gun being held to her head by a man shouting demands to a camera. Unfortunately for him Jack was used to kidnapping and had an array of tools hidden on her person to use, with a knife from her pocket she cut through her bonds and then used a taser hidden in her watch to take him down, she then tied him up and waited for someone to come and get her.
"Don't feel bad about this." Jack told her kidnapper, who she was sitting on. "I get kidnapped all the time so I'm prepared. And if you think about it I've actually helped you, if dad found out and came here to rescue me I doubt you'd be able to walk by the end of it."
There was a 'thwip' sound and Peter swung in dressed in full spidey gear.
"Took you long enough." Jack told him as she stood up.
"It took a bit to find out where you were." Peter explained.
Peter shot a web at the kidnapper while Jack climbed on his back and made herself weigh less so Peter wouldn't be weighed down. Peter then swung away, he dropped off the kidnapper off at the police station with a note explaining he was a kidnapper and then Peter dropped Jack off at Stark tower.
"See yah later!" Jack called as Peter swung away.
Jack then went into the tower and used the elevator to get to the kitchen.
"Where have you been?" Tony asked from where he was drinking coffee.
"Just got kidnapped again." Jack said casually as if it wasn't a big deal.
"What?"
"Don't worry, I easily took him down and Spiderman showed up to drop him off at the police station and me at the tower."
"But you were kidnapped, and I didn't know."
"Dad, you being Ironman will only encourage the kidnappers, I was kidnapped a lot before you even became Ironman, I've gotten used to defending of myself. Besides, Natasha taught me some move during her time as your intern."
"That doesn't stop me from worrying. By the way, Happy will be accompanying you to and from school and wherever you go l for two weeks."
"Two days."
"One week and four days."
"Five days."
"A week."
"Deal."
The father and daughter shook hands.