[I kept my original Authors note intact so you guys can know exactly how long I can hold onto my finished chapters. This is just one of nine stories I've been working on this past year. Today is my Birthday so to mark this the most holiest day of the year I will begin posting these stories. I hope you all will enjoy them. Also I'm posting all my final edited versions on Wattpad now as well as my original work. The first one is not one of the nine mentioned above but it is my own original story. Only my priority stories will be posted to Wattpad and this one happens to be one so if you prefer there follow me on there too.]
So why is this late number one it has several scenes so it's kinda big. And I'm following my whims so I'm not rushing anything at all anymore nor am I keeping to any schedule.
(Not that I ever did but now even less so)
Additionally my grandfather passed away in May of 2019 this year. Last weekend November 2-3 my family buried his elder brother and my great uncle. And now yesterday November 9 there was a car accident killing another one of my great uncles and left my uncle (as in my mom's brother and not my grandmother's brother) in critical condition. I'm told my uncle's girlfriend passed away as well as all other persons involved in the crash. He's the sole survivor. This has been a very very very trying year for me and I'm terrified what this means coming up because my grandmother is extremely dear to me and she's pretty much the last relative I have of her generation. So for all you guys that say I don't update fast enough or I'm all over the place with my writing I implore you to pause and just try to imagine a reason for it. Perhaps there's a lot more going on than what you can see. You guys have no idea of how hard it is for me to get up out of bed in the morning these days.So to attempt to lighten the mood just a bit I need to call to you the readers attention. A bunch of you said you always wanted to read a story about a time when Spider-Man would quit. I feel I need to clarify things and call others to your attention. I literally have a story called Spider-Man I Quit. You all obviously never read it or bothered to spy my profile to see the other topics I've covered. Take a gander if you like this one. You may find others you like. Also don't read if you don't like the summary. And even if you do judge the work individually please.
Now here comes the clarification. This story is not repeat IS NOT about Spider-Man quitting. It is about him retiring. (See there is a keyword difference there) If you want to read one about him quiting try my story Spider-Man I quit or Age of the void (though that one has a widely different premise)
Now what is this story. It has Witcher influences. German folktale influences and several other sources. Now in this story I've decided not to baby you about Peter's cosmic importance (see Ben Mendelssohn for that) I tend to have to re explain this so audiences can digest what's going to happen. I won't do that with this one. You'll just have to a) figure it out yourself. B) give up and read something else or c) pm/email me directly and ask me to explain what I was going for before commenting about how trash a writer I am. Seriously that last one isn't called for. I'm seriously using fanfics as a means to practice writing a true novel as that is what I believe to be my career path aside from game design.
Now what exactly is this story? Well it's got three major themes. Number one what the fuck does Marvel New York look like after (Peter Parker) Spider-Man retires? Especially if there are major villains of his still active. Also during that time when Venom was trying to force Spider-Man to leave the hero gig to him what would that look like. This story is to answer questions like that.The number two theme: wishes. This story is all about wishes as this very chapter (though it has been divided into two parts as of this posting) will make exceptionally clear. What happens if Peter could literally combat the legendary Parker luck with wishes from a very powerful cosmic force of nature? Just what would a world where Parker luck doesn't exist look like? And finally who would be this ideal Peter Parker's ideal match be? From either the DC or Marvel universe? (I'll need your help on that one as I have no girl picked out so far.) I want to show you Peter Parker's ideal world or rather one I think the character would consider ideal. And finally shove that age old saying down your throat: Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.
Final theme is that age old one: good versus evil. Dark vs light. The holy vs the unholy. I hope many of you caught the name Lucy that I dropped in the previous summary version. Yes this story is chiefly about Peter meeting who that name is attached to and the ongoing cosmic war being fought over possession of his soul. So several themes to go here guys and gals, I assume. I hope you enjoy what I present to you. I've rambled enough so here goes a mini lemon. Or whatever those are called.
(Insert Bad Girl by Usher)
Getting his dick sucked by his landlady's niece was not how Peter Parker pictured waking up today. But as Peter opened his eyes today there she was Candace Muggins virtually choking herself on his cock. If it wasn't for the fact that she was smiling Peter might have gotten the vibe that she was trying to commit suicide using his dick. He had genuine concern for her safety. Or well he would have if Miranda Cooper hadn't stolen his attention. The lovely brunette Mandi commanded Peter's attention when she shoved her glorious treasures into his face ensuring he found himself lapping at her nipples. Before long she joined her red headed roommate in worshipping his cock. Then Peter heard someone clearing their throat. For a moment he feared it was his landlady.
Looking up he found it to be Barbara Modica. Looking at the blonde goddess Peter couldn't help but feel like she was the most gorgeous of the gorgeous trio. Then again Peter did have a weakness for blondes. So yeah he was probably bias. Still looking at the blonde, who was usually in a bikini around him, dressed in less finally, well Peter couldn't help but admire her a little more than the others. Bambi, who may or may not be aptly nicknamed, was a single mother with a college degree and most importantly of comparable age to Peter. The fact that she basically lived with two other women and was still raising a son gave Peter a mountain of respect for her. Add on the fact that she is a kind spirit and you could see why Peter would give her more points in the gorgeous department. Then again she was a blonde so it could just be that.
Either way the blonde came to the bed and straddled Peter's face. She began to lower her pussy for his suddenly dry and thirsty mouth to quench itself on. And just before Peter could swipe his first lick from his tongue... he promptly woke up.
His alarm clock startled him out of his favorite dream as of late.
'Every fucking time right before I can even...' Peter thought but even that was tiring so Peter just gave a mental sigh and got out of bed to start his day. I'm sure you all know a human's morning routine. So after Peter was done with that he sat down to have breakfast. Today Peter was awake and alert enough to make himself a decent meal, unlike this time last year where he would have settled for burnt toast. His meal consisted on two slices of unburnt toast with grape jelly spread on one side, grits with a single spoonful of sugar, four sausage patties, and of course scrambled eggs. Before him he also had a glass of orange juice. All in all a pretty nice breakfast.
Just as Peter was getting ready to chow down on his third sausage he heard a knock on his door. Grumbling a bit to himself Peter went to answer the ruckus. At his door was Bambi and her young son. For his part Peter tried really hard not to think about his less than stellar dream about the single mom. He succeeded enough to ask Barbara...
"Hey Bambi what's up?"
"Hey Peter sorry to bother you and whoa something smells good in here. We're you cooking breakfast?" The beautiful blonde mom asked.
"Actually I just finished eating it. Anyway what can I do you for?"
"Oh sorry I've gotta get to work like five minutes ago and I was wondering if you wouldn't mind dropping Jordan off to school on your way to work?"
She gave Peter a pleading look but he just ignored her and looked at her son Jordan. The young boy was just looking up at Peter curiously while sipping on a Caprisun juice box.
The thought of saying no never once crossed Peter's mind and he replied.
"Sure I've got no problem with it. But Jordi you okay with walking to school with me?" Peter asked the elementary school kid.
Jordi just smiled up at Peter and shaking his head before replying. "I like going to school with you. You're more fun!"
Peter grinned back at him before crouching down to his level. "Go grab your skateboard and wait for me at the back door."
After that Jordi charged off. Making Peter and his mom chuckle at his antics. Bambi stayed a moment longer as Peter finished his breakfast and grabbed his own skateboard.
"You've got to be the coolest nerd ever!" Bambi exclaimed as she watched Peter grab protective gear.
"Why cuz I know how to skateboard?"
"No because you're such a gentlemen, great with kids, funny when you want to be, have a six pack which goes to show you eat right and take care of your body, and on top of all that you're easily the smartest person I know. If I wasn't so focused on my career right now I'd be asking you to go out on a date with me right now."
"As far as I'm concerned those things are all given. Trust me most guys out there are pretty much the same as me. I'm only average Barbara." Peter said as he locked his front door.
"The fact that you genuinely believe that scores you so many bonus points with me it's insane." Barbara smiled as she kissed Peter on the cheek as they began heading downstairs to the back door. "Hey Parker Candi, Mandi, and I were going to a Halloween party tonight and I'd love for you to join us if you don't have any plans tonight? You could be our three way date for tonight."
Immediately after hearing that Peter pictured his dream again. Shaking his head to clear it Peter answered. "Sure although I'm going to have to check to make sure that my boss doesn't have any plans for me tonight."
"Is she still trying to jump your bones again?" Bambi asked.
"It's not even that anymore. I just think she thinks I'm some sort of unicorn or something."
"I mean can you blame her!? How many I.T. guys you know with a six pack?!"
"Seven." Peter responded seriously.
"Seven?"
"Tony Stark, Reed Richards, Norman Osborn, Victor Von Do-"
"Alright alright I get it. Sometimes I forget you used to be a reporter. Still those are all supers and you're a regular dude Peter Parker. You can't compare yourself to them."
'Please I've beaten them all before one on one. Oh if only you knew.' Peter thought to himself for a moment before walking out the backdoor of their apartment complex. He and Bambi were able to see Jordi dressed in his own protective gear while he was standing next to the skateboard Peter had gotten him for Christmas. The trio said there goodbyes and Peter and Jordi skated of in one direction while Barbara went to catch a cab in the opposite direction.
(Avengers Tower)
[Roster: Iron Man, Captain America, King T'Challa, King Namor, Hulk, Thor, Captain Marvel, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Spider-Woman, and She Hulk]
"Firstly I'd like to thank Captain Dewolf and Police Chief Stacy for joining us today." Tony said as he gestured to the local police liaisons to the Avengers.
"So what's the topic for today Tony?" Captain America asked from his seat at the Avengers Tower main office.
"Same as yesterday. This explosive gang war and the power vacuum the five year absence of Spider-Man has caused."
It had been five years since Spider-Man had announced his retirement. The first year no one really noticed much. For the Avengers the local crime barring the likes of Hydra or A.I.M. was beneath their notice. Likewise for many of the individual heroes here today their lives weren't affected by Spidey's absence in the slightest at first. However after that first year things started to change. The villains that used to fear Spidey started coming out of the wood works so to speak. The first strike was when Rhino nearly killed Jennifer Walters in a skirmish between Doc Ock's gang and a Stark facility that the Avengers showed up to defend. On top of that Jennifer in her normal persona was now wheelchair bound. Giving her further reason to maintain her She-Hulk persona. Ock was able to reverse engineer Tony's mechanical Iron Man mk 4 Armor. This forced Tony to use his current nanotech based Armor as well as causing no end to the headaches the local police were enduring. And Electro was able to temporarily free the cosmic storm inside Mjolnir effectively making Thor nearly useless. To say the Sinister Six embarrassed the Avengers would be putting it mildly. Even so what the Green Goblin did to the Avengers was something they still couldn't live down. Seeing the monster kill Hank Pym still haunted many of the Avengers. Even Hulk was soundly defeated. After that day the world finally woke up to understand the horrors that Spider-Man usually dealt with. If not for Dr. Strange Hank Pym might still have been dead.
"I gotta say I know I haven't been around these past five years but what exactly does Spider-Man retiring or whatever have to do with anything?" Carol Danvers asked. She never could understand why so many heroes placed their faith in a character like Spider-Man. Still she had been mostly of world these past five years. Saying she was out of the loop would be an understatement.
"Come on now. I know you enjoyed your one time date with him." Jessica Drew smirked after saying her jab.
"Oh really?!" Natasha asked intrigued from her seat at the table.
"As much as most of us like to think we were better heroes that Spidey the blatantly obvious truth is that we're not. Sure we stop A.I.M. and Hydra and we save the world. But so has Spidey." Bruce Banner said evenly as well as with a hint of exhaustion.
While Bruce was speaking Carol muttered under her breath "Speak for yourself."
At that moment Director Nick Fury barged into the Avengers' war room. "The fact of the matter is Spider-Man has taken out more Hydra cells than the Avengers and he's stalled Modok and A.I.M. for two years on his own. And even then he was still dealing with most of the criminals we've put in the Raft during all that."
Apparently aware that Nick was coming Tony just forged on ahead with the conversation despite the interruption. "Look guys I can admit my mistake. We should have been working with Spidey 10 years ago back when we could have helped him put most of these Super criminals behind bars. Now we've got the likes of Martin Li attacking Stark buildings with mutants and suicide bombers and the Maggia infiltrating this very tower to try and steal Armor blueprints." Tony added on. You could tell from his tone of voice he was very annoyed by the various criminals' antics.
"At the very least I'm glad we we're able to prevent Fisk from becoming Mayor of this city." T'Challa said from his spot at the table. He didn't really like getting into American politics but he certainly didn't want to see New York with the Kingpin of Crime in a position where he could oversee the local police. The Black Panther was still angry about Fisk and Doom teaming up on an attempt to infiltrate Wakanda.
"We can all thank Janet for that." Jennifer Walters said from her wheelchair.
When the Avengers began seeing Spidey's rogues as legitimate threats naturally that also included Wilson Fisk. In order to prevent him from winning the election of New York Mayor Janet van Dyne had run against him. Even so she barely won and was now the Mayor of New York. Obviously this kinda prevented her relationship with the Avengers. Still she immediately appointed Captain Jean DeWolf (a known Spider-Man supporter) as a liaison between the local police and the Avengers. Janet hoped by doing this she could help get the Avengers aid in stamping out the gang war. And a small part of her hoped this might inspire Peter's return to the life. Her husband's temporary death was her reward for such thoughts.
"What about Venom and Carnage?" Namor asked from his seat as he was contemplating something.
"The other husband and wife duo? Those two are more elusive than Spidey ever was. And there are some in this room who still don't know who he is under the mask." Tony remarked.
"The pair turned our invitation to join the Avengers down. Apparently they don't trust that we'll be able to do what needs to be done when the time is right." Cap clarified.
At that Hawkeye couldn't help laughing uproariously. "I'm sorry but they do know that we were the ones that put down Silvermane right?"
"That was an accident Clint."
"Listen Cap no one is blaming you for that call. If you hadn't made that call how many more mutants and inhumans might have died." Natasha consoled while reaching a hand across the table to clasp with Steve's own.
"At the end of the day it didn't do much good. Silvio Manfredi's operation are still going."
"In my experience dealing with the Maggia everything is usually family related. What do we know about the daughter?" T'Challa asked.
"Silver Manfredi? She seems clean so far. Everything the Mayor and the FBI have on her points to her being a stereotypical mob boss daughter. No real red flags to suggest she had any dealings with the family business. Plus she's monitored constantly these days since Silver Sable and the Sable corp were hired to oversee security on the city." Captain Dewolf added.
"Silver Manfredi and Silvija Sablinova. I wonder if they're related." Hawkeye chuckled at his joke.
To be honest the current lineup of Avengers had wondered the same thing at first. Both women had literal heads of silver hair with a unique skin tone. However The pair had different parents. Anastasia Sablinova died while Silvija was still very young. As for Silver Manfredi. Well her mother Catherine died shortly after she was born too. But just from the names the Avengers could tell their parent's were different. Besides one was from New York and the other a completely different country.
(With the X-Men)
[Roster: Shadow Cat, Mystique, Rogue, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Marvel (Jean Grey), Storm, Beast, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Magik, Colossus, Polaris and Luminous]
"I say we take the fight to Li." Wolverine said pretty much at the start of this X-Men strategy meeting. The massive group had convened this current ensemble of heroes to deal with the problem presented by Mr. Negative and his ongoing gang war in New York. Using his overwhelming powers of persuasion Li had been bolstering his ranks with members from the mutant community. And as anyone knows the X-Men felt deep concern about this particular problem. Especially considering the mutants had their own nation now. However Li's actions had set back mutant-human relations by several years. Not much you can say, in defense, against video surveillance showing a 17 year old kid being melted on television by a mutant. Especially considering the person doing the melting was an X-Men member known as Magma.
"And what would that accomplish except giving him more lackeys to control." Storm argued.
"It's better than sitting around doing nothing." Logan argued back.
"Yes it's definitely a concern. Every minute we sit here is another minute a mutant is out there under the control of a mad man. But without a proper plan what can we do? Its obvious now Mr. Negative can corrupt anyone he touches. He has an army of human martyrs at his disposal and on top of that he's now got some powerful mutants on his side." Cyclops said trying to get things back on track.
"It would help if we had more Intel. What about Spider-Man? Can we contact him? Maybe he can tell us of some sort of weakness Li has. After all he dealt with him on a regular basis didn't he. Maybe he can help us." Emma Frost asked thoughtfully.
"If it's Intel you want sure I can call him. But if you want him to actually suit up and help... No dice bublina." Logan gruffed out.
"Why? Didn't he have an obligation to New York? Doesn't he claim to love the city so?" Polaris questioned.
"I'm sorry but fuck obligation." Katherine Pride couldn't help but chime in.
"Excuse me?!?" Polaris asked slightly offended.
"She's not wrong. Kid has died four different times already and come back. And he didn't have a pod to bring him back either. I'm talking mutilation here. Eyes ripped out, heart literally eaten before his eyes, not to mention falling off a skyscraper with nothing to break his fall. Kid has had enough of this life and in light of all he's done he deserves retirement." Wolverine clarified with his insider information. "Laura's gone to go visit him today See how he's holding up."
"While I agree with you Logan on the Spider-Man situation. Permit me to ask what makes him so deserving of retirement, as you say, and not yourself. Given all the years you've been alive...?" Beast asked with a smile.
"In all my years I haven't saved half as many lives as that kid. And when you become aware of what he's truly been going through. Especially knowing exactly how powerful or should I say powerless he truly is. Well you can't help but to respect the kid."
"Damn straight." Mystique added.
"Still I'd like to visit Spider-Man. I want to see his perspective on what has been going on in the city lately. I especially want to hear his take on this Venom and Carnage duo. Not to mention his thoughts on the Green Goblin."
At the mention of that the various X-Men members shuddered. The psychopath had hospitalized Magneto in their first fight. The X-Men had been summoned to deal with Martin Li only to be caught in the crossfire between him and the Green Goblin. Magneto had separated from the group in order to deal with the Goblin and his horde. The rest of the group went to help the mutants they could only for some of them to be corrupted by Li while a vast majority were butchered by the Goblin and his vaporizing bomb. Good thing their deaths were only temporary. Even so when the X-Men found Magneto he was nearly dead and despite their best healing efforts his recovery was still slow and ongoing. As much as the X-Men hated Martin Li. They were also terrified of the Green Goblin and they had no clue about how to deal with him. For this reason Jean wanted to meet with Peter. Deep down she wondered if some sort of trauma had occurred. Part of her wanted to find out why Peter Parker retired out of nowhere. But then again wasn't this just what they deserved? After all when Spider-Man needed them most they all but abandoned him. If any of his fellow heroes had bothered to help out in his early days or even see the end maybe some of these Super criminals wouldn't be around today. But regrets are in the past and can only be killed by the future. Jean wanted to make sure Peter knew that in the future the X-Men would always be there to lend a hand. That is if he even bothered to come out of retirement. And she wasn't optimistic about that prospect.
(R.I.P. Chadwick Boseman and thank you for helping bring Wakanda and the Black Panther of Marvel comics to life.)
