CyberTech Worlds Clash
Chapter XXXIII
Peak to the New
Harry was drenched in sweat as he crawled out from under the triplets careful not to wake them as he escaped and quickly pulled on some boxer shorts as Autumn waited for him outside his door. His relationship with the sisters was more of – sex than a relationship, convenience and fun. They needed more than he could give them. But he smiled at that embarrassing conversation as they were pretty much having a you f-me I'll f-you sort of thing going on, and it kept Ginny and Amy off either of their backs.
"What's wrong?" he asked as he carefully closed the bedroom door behind him and looking sleepy. "I'm exhausted."
"I have a report sir," she said quickly as he followed her through the villa to his secret villa-lab. "Mr. Fantastic has sent a report that shows an unknown possible alien fleet of ships heading towards the Earth!"
"Oh great!" he complained as his lab lit up and a holo-map lit up in full colour and HD showing the tracking data as it brought up a spherical star chart. He just groaned more as he saw when they would arrive. "This sucks. I guess this means it's down to the MPF to try to figure out whether they're hostile or not."
"Yes, sir," she agreed looking a little worried as she went over the data some more. "Big sister Winter is working on informing our teams worldwide. However, little sister Summer is having a panic attack and freaking out while Seraph is keeping her from coming here or running around HQ screaming."
"She can be a whiny little baby!" Seraph commented as she walked into the lab just wearing some short PJ shorts and top rubbing what looked like sleep from her eyes. "Anyway, I've been communicating with our deep space satellite and I've started moving its position. In around three days it will be ready for relaying with other deep space satellites. Stark has already agreed to the relay, and the Peak has agreed to be Earths orbital command centre until this mess is over with, and Shield has agreed to house command centres on Earth for a worst-case situation!"
Harry rubbed the bridge of his nose in annoyance. "Okay, Okay… then why are we awake?" he asked sleepily. "This could all wait until morning."
"That's the thing; it's odd, but… well, see for yourself…" she replied as the huge screen on the wall lit up.
It was fuzzy at first, but a wavy picture came up of some well-built man. He was indistinct because of the bad transmission and the wavy lines and black and white snow. "This is an important message from the…" here it blurred out and the man seemed to be doing something to his consoles. "We've encountered an unknown fleet of… and sent a ship to intercept. However, the ship returned damaged… dimensional burns to the hull…
"The ship seemed to be out of temporal flux," he continued in a rush. "This temporal flux has been messing with the dimensional stability of the Earth – or should I say these ships are somehow. I am sending this message because this affects you as we as us. We don't know what will happen if this continues, but I must warn you…" the message ended and became static.
"Seraph, what the hell was that?" Harry asked as he sat at his desk using staring at the screen as it was blank. "That message didn't seem normal. I would know if someone sent a ship. We've only just discovered them. Reed has not long sent us the report on these 'ships'."
"The message was…" she began looking confused herself. "It was sent from a space station in mid-Earth orbit. However, it is not the Peak, and the Earth has no other space station in orbit ever since Doom's was destroyed when the fantastic Four and Doom gained their powers!"
"What the…" he muttered as he typed away. "B-but that's impossible… this space station doesn't exist," he said as he brought up what little the systems had brought up on it. "No-way, this… phantom space station is three times the size of the Peak! However, no matter what I try I can't find any sign of it. Seraph… is the signal still in the air?"
"Yes sir," she replied frowning. "However, it's weak now. I believe that we could establish communications with a modified bandwidth on the Peak, but it's a long shot and will take a few days to set up."
"Inform Sword to expect our technicians!" he answered in worry. "Then get our technicians out there, and ready Shuttleboom. I'll be heading to the Peak soon!"
"Yes sir!" she answered as another her appeared on his monitor, and they both spoke together. "I shall accompany you. This may be dangerous!"
"If you're going somewhere dangerous then we are too!" Tina said as she and her sisters stood sleepily in their PJ's with Ginny and Amanda, the five of them looking near dead with sleepiness.
"You just up and left us alone," Excel said sheepishly looking at the map and monitor. "Are we going into space?"
He sighed rolling his eyes. "Yeah, yeah we're going into space," he said with a small smile. "Well, I say we get back to our beds and sleep. We can deal with this in the morning."
"Agreed," all but Autumn chimed out as she didn't need any rest. Sleep confused her a little, but she understood the principles, and they looked so cute while sleeping, she couldn't help but enjoy watching over them.
CyberTech Worlds Clash
Harry was sitting down on the large bridge of the Peak space station at a workstation as he tried to open communications with the unknown space station. It just happened to be easier said than done, and highly annoying. He could detect the space station, but he couldn't find a communication link.
The Peak wasn't as all-awesome as you would expect an alien/human hybrid space station would be like. The inside – well – the bridge didn't look much different to that of the Helicarrier. In addition, the station had gravity manipulation systems so there was no floating around or anything fun like that.
"It's like… augh," Harry sighed in frustrations, "every time I get a comm. lock onto the frequency; it just up and disperses out of our time stream, or? I don't know. I've never been one for studying outside of the space time continuum, or this multi-universe stuff, as I'm a cybernetic engineer, not a whatever this is engineer. Wonderland is still trying to figure out the what's and when's of magical portals through space-time, but this is some kind of time-reality-space-physics that would have taken us a few hundred years to figure out, or a mutant or meta with super genius powers or someone with some seriously good fortune to fluke up these calculations."
Tony Stark laughed as he sat at the station next to Harry. "Avalon, you, and I are both getting pissed at the same thing, and this math… does it even make sense?!" he said, though sounded to be joking it was obvious that even he's getting frustrated, but he didn't await an answer. "It's almost as if we can touch this other space station but we can't even say hello over the radio because each time we touch it, it teleports through our fingers!"
"Gentlemen…!" Coronal Fury interrupted from where he stared at the main view screen overlooking the Earth. "It seems we have a problem..."
"A problem?" they both asked confused as they already had plenty of problems, so it could have been one of them, or something else.
"A city just appeared out of nowhere," Seraph interrupted as she stood with Fury, a tablet style computer in her hands as around the bridge CyberTech technicians were still installing holographic emitters for an upgrade in Network systems for their new problems. "It's in California, just North of San Francisco, a coastal city that has a connection to North San Francisco Bay… the city is semi-connected to our networks, but I still can't get a name. Although it seems their technology is in range with ours, it also has a less advanced set up systems, and OS's. So, I can't get into the city's network yet. It shall take some time; maybe even the need for technicians repairing systems within the city. It is less – wireless than our world and appears to be at the beginning end of the wireless boom we have been through a decade ago."
"Okay; that is a problem," Harry commented offhandedly. "We never had a city there before, but what happened to the land did it-?"
"Yes," she replied. "The size of the planet has accommodated the existence of this new city, which so far is some good news."
"Yeah, but still," Harry muttered thoughtfully. "I would hate to know what would happen if they have a New York City, or city where New York City is, and they try to exist on our world together."
"Don't even think about things like that!" Fury scolded with a glare. "That sounds like a lot more hassle than a few of their cities – or I suppose our cities relocating to vacant areas. New York is overcrowded enough as it is. Just continue trying to get into contact with that space station!"
"It would be possible to open a portal," Seraph interrupted again with a shrug. "The new Gateway Project staff have been put aside their floo powder and turned off their fireplaces, as this is their departments specialty, so they have been helping back on Earth. I've had to fix their rushed maths, but we could potentially open a gateway between worlds and send someone over with some compatible communication tech to integrate into their systems. This way we'll have communications and we should be able to learn about their technology enough that communications with anymore of their cities outside of our network should be possible."
"Good idea, Seraph; praise our favourite nerds for us, I'm sure SHIELD will give them a bonus for this," Harry said with a smirk aimed at Fury but he nodded in agreement anyway. "Also, I think we need to send a team to our unnamed city. I think Tony and I can come up with something involving the stations satellite array to get to the other world with a little help from some of our tech support."
"I think I know what you're thinking," Tony said smirking as the pair got to working fast. "We can't risk opening something in here, but we can risk something outside. Then we go through with Shuttleboom, and bingo, we have communications."
Harry grinned smugly. "Exactly… it seems that the dimensional rifts are weakest in orbit, but for some reason orbit also seems to be the lease likely place for convergence, likely because space is empty there is nothing to converge – how would we notice?"
"Our Sat-Tech teams are working on ways to be able to detect convergence outside of the Earth," Seraph said thoughtfully. "And Cornelia is organising all of Wonderlands best in all needed fields to concentrate on this… for once they're all pretty happy to be reassigned from their own projects."
"Seraph," Fury said while the two rich geniuses got to working on their plan and were probably barely paying attention to her anyway. "I want a team sent to this city ASAP!"
"Yes sir," she said as her tablet just started running through possible heroes. "There aren't many that aren't busy or too far away. However, I've got Thor and Human Torch in LA," she said with a small grin.
"Anyone with any brains?" he asked with a frown. "It seems some of our best are too far east to get their at a speed… though, we do have a few teleporters, and I suppose we could get some MACUA sorcerers to get us some MPF into the city, but I would rather not bother them as they're still having issues integrating with society, and the Purifiers aren't helping matters!"
"Hmm… well, we do have Hawkeye and Hulk; they're both in South Washington," she suggested with a shrug. "They have a Quinjet, so they can pick up the other two, and be at location within the hour."
"Very well," he agreed with a nod. "Tell Clint when they meet up that he's in command, and not to start anything unless left with no choice."
"Yes sir," she agreed as the bridges door swished open and a stern black-haired woman wearing a uniform like Fury's entered, followed by a man with a blue suit and white to the sides of his hair.
"Fury, what do we have now?" the commander of S.W.O.R.D. Abigail Brand demanded. "Stretchy," she continued gesturing to Mr. Fantastic as he took a workstation. "Says, Avalon, and Stark plan on going over to the space station in the other reality… it seems a little risky, but it looks like we don't have much choice in the matter. And what about this… city…?"
"We don't know yet," Fury replied as she joined him. "We're sending in a team," he continued as he gestured the tablet Seraph held.
Brand just snatched it off her. "Give me that," she demanded before looking it over.
"For your information, I could snap you like a twig," Seraph spoke up glaring as she snatched her tablet back. "I could also take full command of the Peak, so I suggest you be polite to your superior!"
"You…!? You're just a machine!" she retorted angrily.
"But I'm an awesome machine," Seraph answered smirking. "You're just some bitch with an attitude problem. You forget how under-powered you are compared to others on this station."
"Avalon, tell your pet to show the proper respect!" Brand both demanded and wined childishly.
"She's her own person," he answered laughingly. "You started it Commander, so perhaps you own her an apology."
"I will never apologize to a robot!"
"Actually, she's an android," Fury interrupted. Though, he had been enjoying the argument they had more important things to deal with. "Anyway, we sent out Thor, Human Torch, Hulk, and Hawkeye."
She groaned. "You sending the monster, hippy, and egotistical hot head?" she demanded like he was crazy.
He just shrugged. "They're all in the area," he answered as if that was all the needed qualification. "Hawkeye will be perfectly capable of keeping the Hulk at bay if he gets out of hand. He's Banner now so if he doesn't have someone piss him off, he'll be fine, and we shall be sending back-up to catch up with them. As for the others, Thor will do what is right and Johnny…!"
"He's the one you should worry about," Mr. Fantastic interrupted without even looking up from his computer. "But everything with him tends to work out in the end so you shouldn't worry too much. It's just re-con now anyway."
"Okay, so who do we have who can meet up with them ASAP?" she asked in annoyance.
"The last two of the Fantastic Four, The X-Men, Team Spider, or we have Mr. Machi's team of Probation Agents – but probably not… though, we have some CyberTech Agents free, and we have Quake's SHIELD team in Texas," Seraph ticked off with a shrug. "No other teams have immediate access to any jet fast enough to make it within three to four hours. However, we could send in flyers like Captain Britain if you're okay sending in a few independents who have never worked together before?"
"NO!" everyone quickly said.
"Send in a team from the X-Men," Brand quickly said. "Spider-Man's team is just kids, and the Avalon's teams are too far. Sent the Invisible Woman too and get the Thing to join up with Spider-Man's team, just to be on the safe side since Fury isn't around to keep check on them.
"Winter is perfectly-!" Seraph began but rolled her eyes as Brand ignored her and continued as if uninterrupted.
"Things seem like they're going to get bad, and we can't risk The THING going too, as he looks the part of villain – we already have The Hulk for misunderstandings."
"Yep, people have made that mistake before… with both of them," Mr. Fantastic said nodding sadly. "I would join them out of curiosity, but I'm needed here. We also need to know who is going to head over to the other Earth."
"I'm going!" both Tony and Harry said together glaring at each other.
"It might be best that you both do," Fury said looking thoughtful. "Two great minds are better than one, and we have enough with Richards, Banner, and Pym. I'll call in for Pym now and Banner when the X-Men get there, and maybe get the Beast in to assist with the political side."
"Okay, so now we need to make up a team," Tony said in thought. "Thinking about it I think that Fussure should…"
"No," Harry replied shaking his head. "Just you, me, and Seraph… I don't think bringing all that power would be smart. They could take it as a sign of aggression. It's bad enough that we bring Shuttleboom. She is after all a powerful space shuttle."
"Avalon is right," agreed Fury with a frown. "We'll send down the triplets to join your teams in London for now, in case anymore cities merge into our world they'll be on standby. We can keep Ginevra and Amanda here since both can go out into space if needed to help protect the Peak."
"Okay then," Brand said glaring at Seraph. "At least I'll get my ship back…" she stopped as a pink haired girl wearing a black and white school uniform appeared on the bridge.
"Don't worry Miss. Brand," the girl said with a smile. "I'm Spring. I'll be here to help out since big sister Seraph's other self has plenty of important stuff to do and it seems big sister Seraph is going with dad to this other Earth – my system network has been connected to the Peak, and I'm capable of running the station, and Hogwarts Network's… well, my new little sister is running and fully functional with the schools magic and it will not take much processing power to help her with anything she might need, and-."
"Avalon…!" Brand growled out angrily interrupting the girl. "What is this thing doing on my bridge?"
"Helping run the systems once Seraph leaves," Fury interrupted before the woman gets into another argument. "We may have some amazing staff, and some of the best computers on or off the Earth, but she is so much better. This isn't about your preferences. It's about the survival of potentially two Earths!"
She sighed, but that didn't stop her glaring at the man. "Okay, but it best keep out of my way."
"This woman's a bitch," Spring said rolling her eyes as she took an empty seat at a workstation.
"There's no need to be like that," Natasha Romanoff commented as she entered the bridge and took the seat next to her. "Miss. Brand can't help being so uptight. I think it's in her job description."
"You people suck," the woman sulked as she slumped down in the captains seat while some either openly laughed or snickered.
CyberTech Worlds Clash
"Peter, you have to do this," Gwen said from the hallway of his house after school let out for the weekend. "We're on constant standby so we have to tell your aunt. She must know why we'll be ditching. You can't just run off and hide at base or something."
"What about you telling your dad?" he retorted, smirking. "I mean he's now the head of the New York MPFC and doesn't even know you're working as a part of Team Spider. He would probably be angry if he found out you're 'Red Spider'! I'm still not comfortable with that. Fighting crime is dangerous enough being a mobile command techy."
She glared at him when there was a knock on the door. She opened it to reveal her father in uniform with a bottle of some kind and some flowers. "I've already arranged for us to have dinner here," she said smirking as Peter's Aunt May came out of the kitchen with a smile.
"Mr. Stacy, it's so good that you could come for dinner?" May said smiling as he offered her the flowers and bottle. "Why thank you, aren't you the charmer," she said with a smile.
"Oh, it was nothing, don't mention it," he replied with a grin. "I'm happy that you and Peter invited Gwen and I."
"Oh, no problem… let me put these in water," she said gesturing the flowers. "Peter, why don't you show Gwen and Mr. Stacy…"
"Please, call me George," he was quick to interrupt.
"Well, then; you shall have to call me May. Peter, show George and Gwen to the dining table," she said with a smile as she left for the kitchen.
Peter sighed as he led them into the dining room. It was small, but the table and chairs fit fine. They made a little small talk until May brought in the food she had prepared and set it out. It was a nice affair, but the more the food disappeared the more nervous the teens got as it approached 'come clean time'.
"So… Mr. Stacy… I was thinking of joining the MPFC," Peter said trying to break the ice and steer the conversation that way. "You know, umm… Gwen says she wants to follow in your footsteps there too."
George chuckled as he took a sip of wine. "I see, well, without powers you'll either be mobile, or centralized techy's," he said with a smile. "That way is a lot safer, especially with some of the new developments I've recently became aware of."
"Peter," May said with a surprised smile. "I had thought the two of you would try to join, CyberTech or maybe Stark Enterprises with intelligence like you both have."
"Aunt May, I'm Spider-Man," he just blurted out causing a silence to end all silences. "Come on, say something, and don't just stare."
"Now, Peter, don't play jokes," she suddenly replied breathing easier. However, George could see from his daughter's expression that Peter Parker was being serious.
Peter sighed as he kicked off his shoes and before anyone could think he jumped onto his chair and flipped up landing on his hands and feet on the ceiling. "See Aunt May, I'm The Amazing Spider-Man!"
"Dad, I work for Team Spider!" Gwen quickly said before getting up and with Peter right after her they both fled the house. "See you later, we err… have work," she lied as they hopped into an unmarked MPF Team Spider car parked across the street and sped off.
"Well, that sure was a surprise," George spoke after a few moments of silence. "Well, I think I know who that blonde Spider-Girl, Red Spider is now!"
"I… didn't ever suspect," she replied looking confused. "I mean, I'm his aunt. He lives with me. All the times he flacks out or skips school with his friends, and the fact the school never even tells me when he's not there. The MPFC must have some control at their school."
"Not likely," George corrected. "I would possibly know if that were the case. However, it is possible that Shield does. If you were unaware, Spider-Man's team works closely with Shield."
She sighed, slumping a little in her seat. "I have had multiple superheroes at my house on a regular basis," she said slowly while thinking about all of her nephews friends. "Could you find out where they went…? I think we need a long talk about this."
He nodded as he pulled out a communicator. "Call in Spider-Man and Red Spider and inform them I wish to speak with them at the office tomorrow morning at eleven."
"Yes, sir," came the reply. "We've in fact just gotten a message from them for you sir. It says they're both going to be staying at Avenger's Manor for the night."
"OK," he answered in thought. "I'll meet them there tomorrow morning instead."
"Yes sir," he replied as the com-unit shut off and he placed it away.
He sighed as he returned his attention to May. "I'm sorry; this has come as quite the surprise to me too. If you want, I can stay the night and we can go to Avenger's Manor together tomorrow morning."
"Oh, well, you don't have too, but… I think that would be nice," she replied with a small grateful smile. "This is all so new and scary to me. You can use the spare room if that's okay?"
"That will be perfect, thank you," he answered. "I had known that Gwen had taken that interview after the attack on the Helicarrier by McGrath, but I didn't know she had joined the MPFC, but thinking about it if she's known about Peter since then it seems obvious."
"I'm sorry my nephew seems to have influenced your daughter," she said with a sheepish smile.
He just laughed shaking his head. "Believe me; she doesn't need anyone influencing her. And if anything, I would blame Harry Avalon, but he's kind of my bosses bosses boss!" he said with a small smile. "It's most certainly his tech that Gwen has, and if she knows him, he made it especially for her; it's kind of annoying thinking that the kids have bigger and better connections than me."
She smiled. "This is all so new, but I hope we'll be able to deal with it all. They have finally come to us, so I think it's only fair that we open our minds and let them do as they must. After all, it seems they've been doing this for a while."
George nodded in agreement. "I'll have to agree. At least they're not getting into trouble with some gangs as I had originally thought."
To Be Continued…
Authors Note: Hi all, I hope you've enjoyed this chapter, and since I do have quite a bit of spare time on my hands I'll try to put out as many new chapters as I can. Unfortunately, being inside so much is somehow almost as tiring as working ridiculous hours. Anyway, stay safe, and keep physically distant, let the internet be your new social meeting place for the next few months.