THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN AND ASTONISHING TALON

by Mr.williams56

This Story takes place a few months after the death of Gwen Stacy and the arrival of Laura Kinney at the Xavier Institute. Peter soon meets Laura Kinney at his new school of Bayville High along with her friends and collogues, The X-Men. there hurt, trauma, Peter being a Mutant and a love that would fester between the two. Peter and Laura tackle their lives together.

1. Chapter 1

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN AND ASTONISHING TALON

CHAPTER ONE: PILOT

FOREST HILLS

In a small but family sized home, nothing special about it, it was once home to a family of three, Benjamin Parker, his wife May Parker and their young nephew Peter Parker, they had always struggled with money, yes they mad due when the need be and sometimes even Peter had to work in order to help pay the bills with his job. But he hasn't been to work in a while, he had been in a deep funk since the tragic and untimely passing of one Gwendolyn Stacy, Peter's first real girlfriend and the love of his life at the hands of his evilest villain, The Green Goblin, because secretly, Peter Parker was the Vigilante Crime Fighter known as Spider-Man, who hasn't been seen in the city for a little over a year now, Peter had been going through a pained state of internal and external depression after her death, something Peter has become accustomed too at this point in his life, first his Uncle, then his girlfriend's father and then his girlfriend, the boy had seen death at such a young age, he was currently 16 and begun this pained life at 15, he was a superhero for a year and he had seen an unprecedented amount of people die at the hands of numerous villains and after Gwen's death, Peter swore on her grave on where she died to be better and that was a promise he intended to keep even at his new school in Bayville, as Peter came down, he suddenly felt a quick pain in his wrist, looking at it, there was nothing there so he just shrugged it off.

WESTCHESTER

THE XAVIER INSTITUTE

Laura Kinney had had a life of pain and heartache, first of all she a clone, a construct made in a lab to be a killing machine, and that was what she was for many years of her life. The facility that made her didn't treat her like she was alive, they treated her like she was nothing more than a weapon, than a tool to be used for their own sinister purposes, they enjoyed her suffering as she cried when they forced her to kill the only man who ever showed any kindness to her and then they forced her to kill the only woman who ever loved her, her mother Sarah Kinney. A familiar scent rushed through Laura's nose, it was Logan, her predecessor, the man was essentially her father and she didn't really see it that way and neither did he for the most time. He handed Laura some clothes and told her to take a shower

"You've got school Kid; Professor says it'll be good for yah"

"I don't need school" she said in a deadpan voice "I have already been educated"

"Yah I know that much Laura, but you need the social experience and frankly, to get outta this place more often, so chop to it"

Logan closed the door as he said this, Laura frowned her face but knew she had to do it

Even though she didn't like it

She had to do it.

AT BAYVILLE HIGH

Peter arrived at the school by himself, he was fully capable of maneuvering throughout the city with his eyes closed and with one hand tied behind his back, so going to a new school wasn't too hard for him to do. He looked at the place and it wasn't too different from Midtown High, Two Floors, lots of space, people everywhere and he did decide to show up looking as normal as possible, as he arrived, so did a few others as well, he didn't know who they were and just went into the school.

Scott Summers, Jean Grey, Katherine 'Kitty' Pryde, Anna Maria 'Rogue' Kurt Wagner, Jubilation Lee, Tabitha Smith, Warren Warrington and now joining them, Laura Kinney, Laura though looked like she didn't want to be here, Jubilee was the first to speak up to her

"Don't worry champ, you're smart and your gonna have a great time, just avoid jocks and idiots" jubilee stated

"So I must avoid everyone?" Laura responds

She puts her arm over her shoulder and gives her a joyed smile, one that Laura doesn't but almost reciprocates

"Just stick with your foster sister and I'll show yah the robes on surviving High School"

INSIDE THE SCHOOL

Peter walked through the crowded hallways of people talking, most of them were talking to one another, others were simply going to get their books, but the loudness of how they spoke was seemingly getting louder for him, so much so that he found it rather annoying, he knew to go to the principal's office and collect his schedule as well as his Locker Number. On arrival, Peter was met with another new student, Laura was there also, Principal Kelly

"Aw you must be the other new student, Mr. Parker if I'm correct?"

"You are, good to meet you, Sir"

"Thank You; young man, this is the other new student we have joining us today, Laura Kinney" he said pointing out at Laura who just stood there without saying anything "She's not much of a talker and I would like both of you to take the tour by Miss Pryde"

Walking in was Katherine Pryde, whom also came with the group and Laura, she was very excited to be here, even greeting the two with energy, Peter liked that at least someone in the room wasn't somewhere between depression and emotionless. Kitty took both of them by the arm and Peter swore he heard Laura growl as they were both dragged out of his office, Principal West could only sigh under his breath

"God help those two" West hoped as he had just handed those two to the most energetic girl in the entire school.

Kitty was literally dragging the two of them around the school as she was giving the two of them the tour, and as they were being dragged around, Peter tried to make conversation with Laura

"So where do you come from?" Peter asked her with a deadpan expression

"None of your business" Laura responded with her usual stoic face, not trying to humor his advances or be flirted with

"Hey we're being dragged around, might as well make conversation while we're at it" Peter said

"No" Laura said once more

"So Peter, where'd you come from?"

"Queens, Forest Hills" Peter answered not wanting to make conversation with the pretty Chicago girl who is pulling him by the arm and has quite the grip strength

"Why'd you move?"

"Teachers didn't challenge me"

Peter and Laura checked their schedules with one hand while they were being dragged around by Kitty, Peter compares his to hers and as luck would have it, they both have lunch together, Laura sighed knowing she would be taking Lunch with this guy. Peter wasn't happy about it either, but then out of nowhere, both his hands spas again causing him to break free from Kitty's tight grip,

"Oh Sorry, that's been happening all day" Peter looks at his hand when he apologizes "Didn't used to happen before though, this is new"

Peter looked at his hand, and then looking closer, everything changed, it was mostly blue and green hues of light, with his hand glowing yellow and red, he looked up and saw the same from Kitty and Laura who both looked at him confused, and they notice his eyes had changed, his hazel eyes with an amber shine had turned bright green. Peter closed his eyes and shook his head, seeing normally again, he walked past Kitty and Laura

"Thank You for the tour Kitty, it was really nice, good to meet you Laura I'm Peter by the way and I think I'll be going" he says as he rushes off on his own much to the shock of Kitty and Laura didn't care

"Well that was rude, right Laura?" Kitty said to her companion only to find out that Laura had also disappeared

Peter rushed over to his first class of the day, and something he was actually good at, Math, while in the back, Kitty was watching him next to her was Kurt Wagner, using an image inducer to appear to be a normal German boy with blue hair, Kitty kept on nudging him

"Katchan what're you doing?" Kurt whispered, trying not to interrupt class

"See that new kid up front, the brown haired one sighting next to that Hobie Brown kid?" Kitty asked her friend

"Yes what of him?" Kurt asked

"I think he's kinda cute" Kitty said staring at him, she could tell when she grabbed his arm, the boy was really cut, like his muscles felt like they were

"Really Kat, he just got to school, give him a break before trying, for all you know he mayn't even, what do you Americans say, ah 'Swing that way'"

This brought a realization to Kitty's face, he might not even be interested in girls, but that was something to find out for herself later, right now, she was gonna admire him in class. The teacher suddenly called out to her and she was too stunned to answer as she stammered her words, but then Peter was asked and he answered perfectly, showing that he was indeed very smart and like Kitty kept saying, he was quite cute. After class, the next one they had together was Gym Class, to which Peter wasn't partaking in, he was just sitting on the bench watching and designing something on his phone, Laura was the person sitting closest to him as he saw him trying to design something that looked techy, but again, she didn't care, she didn't so why was she staring at him, Peter felt her gaze on him and turned around to see her staring at him, he calmly asked her

"Everything alright?" Peter calmly asked

"Don't talk to me" Laura responded, angry that he would even casually talk to her like that

"Hey, you were staring at me" he struts back to which she only growled at him "Hey don't get mad at me, it's true"

"Shut up" she coldly said

Peter did just that but didn't take his gaze off her, she was a goth, he didn't know any of those, and 'she is really pretty', he thought to himself, she looked back at him

"What?"

He said nothing to her as he narrowed his eyes, she narrowed her own back at him, then out of nowhere, he made a funny face, the sides of her lips went up a bit but she retained her usual stoic expression

"What're you doing?" she inquired on coldly

"I'm trying to make you smile" he answered

"You will not" she said with no emotion "Do not even try"

"I think I will and besides, we're Locker neighbors I have an entire semester to try"

She had never met someone like him, someone who spoke to her without a care, he wouldn't be talking that way if he knew what she really was, what she was capable of, he would fear her, like anyone would when they see a weapon in front of them, she looked back at him at what he was making and she could swear it looked like the schematics for some kind of device, but then for the first time she had seen, she saw his hand spaz out again, staring closer at his hand, it looked like something was lodged in there, then his pain stopped, she wondered what was lodged in his hand that seemed to have grown and just like that, gone back inside.

Later, after their Mathematics class, one of the many classes that he and Laura shared together, their teacher had given them a project to do, but right now, they were in lunch, so he said he would do it later when he got home. During lunch, Peter didn't really have anywhere to stay at, he was the new kid and didn't really have many friends, so he took the opportunity to sit with the only person he knew at this school, Kitty and her friends, he came over to their table

"May I join you?" he asked softly

"Sure thing, go ahead" Scott answered him with a smile and nod

"It would be our pleasure" Jean added to what Scott said

Peter sat at the only free space, next to Laura who was spaced out from the others, as she liked it, Laura was also doing the assignment the teacher had given them, showing that she was also very well taught, but there was a question she was struggling with

"You need to compare 2 and 4 to X and Y respectively your answer is 22"

Laura did exactly as he said and he was correct

"I would have found it myself"

"I know, but I saw you were struggling so I decided to help"

"I didn't want your help" she growled at him

"Yeah well I wanted to help" he said as he took a bite out of his food

Laura grunted out loud, she had just met him and she already knew she hated him, not enough to kill him no, she didn't do that anymore, but she didn't like him, Peter tried to take another bite out of his food, when that weird bulge in his left arm happened again, causing him to drop his spoon, his hand was once again in pain

"Woah you okay!" Kitty asked clearly concerned

"Me…yeah I'm…fine" Peter said as he was sweating and in visible pain "This has just been happening all day, sorry if I scared you"

The school day ended with Laura and Peter walking out the front door at the same time, he waved her goodbye but she didn't respond to him, he shrugged his shoulders as he went for his backpack and put on his web shooters, he still wasn't sure if he still wanted to be Spider-Man, but he couldn't bring himself to destroy the shooters, they were all he really had to his old life, one of the first things he really made by himself. Peter returned home and just in time as it had begun to rain outside. The rain, as if Peter needed any more reasons to be sad right now, they say rain did more than just rejuvenate the plant life, it was said that it was a sign of sadness, that when the rain poured it meant that God wept for man and Peter was stuck in his room trying to contemplate what he was supposed to do, he was supposed to be a superhero, the Amazing Spider-Man as the media called him at first and then they called him a Menace, mostly the bugle, because Jameson didn't like him, the sound of the pouring rain echoed in his room, the room of a boy who thought he could protect the innocent and save lives, and all that foolish ambition had cost him was at first his Uncle because of a Selfish Decision he made, then it cost him the father of his girlfriend who died doing what he had always tried to do, promising him that he would keep his daughter safe. A promise that he had so miserably failed a few months later, when she was killed by his most evil enemy, The Green Goblin who spent the last two years terrorizing the city of New York, he had found out who he was and kidnapped his girlfriend, Gwen Stacy and with the evilest of intentions, he threw her off the Brooklyn Bridge, Peter had managed to catch her, but the force of the fall snapped her neck, killing her, while all the Goblin could do was laugh at his torment, leaving Peter to the most violent rage he had ever experienced, beating Goblin within an inch of his life, but stopping before he could kill him, no matter how much he wanted to, only for in the end, the Goblin to kill himself with his own glider in a ;last ditch attempt to kill Peter. He laid there on his bed, just watching the ceiling, and avoiding the gaze of something that had been with him since Gwen's death, it was a pale reflection of her, literally it was pale, skin grey as a corpse, hair grey with a hint of it once being blonde, the girl stared at him with blackened lifeless eyes, watching as he tried to ignore she was there, she looked at him and asked him a simple thing

"Who are you?"

Peter didn't answer, simply trying his hardest to ignore the presence that was there at all, he averted his gaze from her judging eyes as he contemplated her question

"Who…are you?"

It said to him again, but this time, with a more haunting voice, then he stood up from his bed, seeing it rain outside, he knew that ever since he was gone, the crime rate had increased rapidly, with a Vigilante Organization called the Heroes for Hire having taken to fighting crime, if they were paid. Another of Peter's friends, Johnny Storm took to this as well, even though he was a member of the Fantastic Four, he had taken too fighting crime in the city in his absence, even Daredevil was doing it more often, and he was already a veteran Vigilante, but with him out of the way. Peter looked at the figure in the corner staring at him vividly, watching as he stood up and went to his closet, taking out a few clothes, A Grey Long-Sleeve T-Shirt, that stopped just on the base of his wrist, Grey Sweatpants with a line of Red on both sides, he put both of them on and looked in the mirror, but there was something missing, he looked back inside is closet and brought out a Red Hoodie Jacket, putting it on, with a pair of Red Sneakers, walking outside, he went out of the house

"Hey May, I'm going out real quick, I…I don't really know where but I promise to be back"

"Okay honey, don't take too long"

XAVIER INSTITUTE

Laura was sitting on her bed alone; she was thinking to herself about what had happened to her in her life, how she was raised, cloned from the DNA of Logan to be the perfect killer, she wasn't raised to be anything more than that, she wasn't even called a she for most of her life, she was an 'IT' to the scientists at the Facility, especially Kimura, the woman in charge of being her caretaker, the woman who loved to torture her just for the sheer thrill of it, she was sadistic by every definition of the word, she was there when they forced Laura to kill her sensei, one of the two people who actually cared about her in this world, and then there was what they made her do to her mother, she was forced to kill her as well, the woman who birthed and loved her and she spilled her blood on a simple smell of the trigger scent anyone sprayed with it, she would kill. But then there was another thought in her mind, the boy she had met today at school, he wasn't scared of her because he didn't know her, yet she actually liked the way he talked to her, the lack of fear and shyness in the way he spoke, she couldn't get him out of her head, she got up from her bed and went down to the garage where she found what she was looking for, Logan's Motorcycle, she climbed on it and rode out of the institute, where she was going, she didn't know, she didn't care, all she knew was that she needed to clear her head from those thoughts, but as she rode the bike through the rainy skies, a shadow figure of a woman appeared at the corner of her eye, the figure had a wicked sadistic grin on her face

"X, hey good to see you again, I see you still think that you can get away from me" the shadow figure said with its hands in the air and a wide grin on its face "And we both know when I find you at the manner, I'm gonna make you kill them all, Weapon X included"

Laura drove faster to outrun the shadow, looking in the mirror, she saw it becoming further and further away, but in her mind, she knew it was still there and it would never leave her, never.

Laura found herself in New York, she didn't know where she was or why she decided to drive this far out, but while driving, on the sidewalk walking was a familiar scent, it rushed into her nose almost immediately and she looked, her quick sight let her see it was a boy in grey cargo pants, and a crimson red hoodie, the hood popped over his head 'Peter?' she asked herself internally and she noticed his eyes and face turn to her 'Laura?" Peter asked himself internally, at the speed she was going, for a normal person it would be impossible to see who was riding on that bike, and even for him he wouldn't be able to perfectly make out their face, but to him, from his perspective, it was as if everything had slowed down, the world, the rain, everything had slowed down and all he could truly see clearly was her face, he never really looked before, but looking at her now, he could see just how pretty she was, her Emerald eyes, the way they complimented her pale skin and raven black hair, they were truly appropriate for her gothic aesthetic and he thought it was nice. Laura noticed him staring at her, she didn't think much of it at first, until she realized he was actually able to see her, as if the speeding bike were moving in slow motion, and then he passed by her as she kept driving forward, she wasn't making this up, her mind wasn't playing tricks on her, he was looking right at her on a bike that was going at 160km/h and could perfectly see her, she shook her head and kept driving, it wasn't like this was her issue.

Peter wasn't sure of many things in his life, but one thing he was sure of was that, that girl was Laura Kinney, the hot goth from his class, 'did I just think she was hot?' he asked himself but just shook away the thought of it all as he kept on moving forward, he would like to take a swing, but he was enjoying the walk through the city streets, rain or not, it was still nice to leave the house every once in a while and see the city, a city that stunk a lot and a city that was in desperate need of a hero with crime being at an all-time high.

And as if on cue, the sound of a large crash was heard from across the street, he looked over to see that a bank was being robbed in the distance, and him without his suit, or even his mask, all he had was his hood, funny how it was a spider hoodie with a large black spider on the chest but all he had to do was figure out a mask, he was more than capable of fighting without his shooters thanks to his training with Daredevil and Iron Fist, they had trained him well and he was always grateful to them for that and he quickly rushed into the building, but before he could get inside, someone was sent flying out, and to his shock, it was a raven haired, emerald eyed and pale skinned goth girl, who was just sent flying into a truck with enough force to capsize it and she was getting up, he noticed her hands were covered in blood, but it wasn't even the blood he noticed first, it was the two foot long metal claws that were ejected from her knuckles.

EARLIER

Laura was still thinking about her recent near encounter with her classmate who seemed to be able to perfectly perceive a speeding object going over a hundred miles per hour and almost interact with her, but she paid it no attention and continued her escapade across the city, she stopped when she smelled something, something tasty, stopping at a Burger Joint, she stepped inside, using some money, she ordered for a Burger to go with extra hot sauce, in the facility she grew up, they always kept her food bland and tasteless, they were more focused on nutrition than actual taste so she enjoyed spicy food, it felt like she was defying them.

She continued to ride her motorcycle until she heard a loud crashing and the sounds of people screaming, the sound caused her to stop as soon as she heard it and look to the where the cries were coming from, she could smell the scent of fear and terror and without even realizing why, she drove towards the sound and it was coming from the inside of a bank, she could smell people still in there, they were scared and terrified, women and children as the scent of gunpowder was also present and she rushed in, she didn't know why, but she just thought she could help them, rushing inside, she saw four men and two women all wearing ski-masks as they ordered the cashier to put the money in the bag, but there was someone else there, a man wearing what looked like brown and yellow quilt over his body and large metal gauntlets on his arms as he ordered the rest around

"Come on guys, get that money in there and let's go" the quilt man ordered, his arms crossed over his chest "I don't wanna have to deal with the cops, that Daredevil guy or that kid that sets himself on fire tonight okay"

Laura stepped into the bank, staring each of them down with her hands in her jacket pockets, she was able to perfectly assess the combat skill and level of danger of all of them, the ones in ski-masks, not a threat, but the quilt man she was uncertain of what he was, one of the goons came to her, he was arrogantly walking towards her and laughing, saying something she wasn't bothering to listen to as he put his hand on her shoulder

SNIKT

The sound of her claws unsheathing and the sudden splat of blood on the ground was om the ground, the man dropped to his knees holding his severed stump that used to be where his hand was as she punches him in the face with her other hand, knocking him out, the others took aim at her

"Wow, calm down little lady" one of the women said with a British Accent and her hand shaking to hold her gun

"Why don't yah just put the knife away and we can get this settled, huh mate?" one of the men said this time with an Australian accent

But when he saw that the knife wasn't in her hand it was coming out of her hand, and it was dripping the blood from the guy whose hand she sliced off, but before she could attack further, the quilt man stepped up

"Okay Missy, I don't know where you got them shabby powers from and frankly, I don't care" he said as he raised up both his gauntlets at her,

The Gauntlets charged up and fired a burst of what looked like concussive force, the blast hit her with the force of a thousand punches as she was sent flying into a truck with enough force to be sent capsize it, as she awoken, she found her vision was slightly blurred and her hearing was impeded, but she could hear somebody calling her name "Laura? Laura?!" the voice got louder as she awoke to see once again, Peter Parker as he was trying to wake her up. As she awoke fully, she stared at his face and noted that he was wearing a red bandana around his face to try and hide his face, but why was he trying to hide his face, actually it would make sense to hide his face from people who were trying to kill him, he picked Laura's broken body up and watched as she healed from a few broken ribs, or more likely heard it, as he placed her on the ground, he heard the man trapped inside the truck screaming and rushed to save him, confusing Laura as to why he would waste time saving lives but thinking about it, why did she do the same inside that bank earlier.

The bank doors are suddenly blown off its hinges, revealing the goons carrying the money alongside who Peter registers as Shocker and Shocker not recognizing him without the red and blue tights

"Now who the tarnation's this red neck idiot, man, kids these days really thinkin' they can come out and be superheroes" Shockers said with a mocking tone in his voice

"And here I was expecting a threat, it's just you Herman"

"What how do you…SPIDER!"

Laura looked at him confused, Peter Parker…was Spider-Man?

UP NEXT: SPIDER-MAN RETURNS

CHAPTER 2

SPIDER-MAN RETURNS

A BANK ON THE UPPER EAST SIDE

Laura watched on as she was confused to learn about Peter Parker, the depressed science kid in her class was actually New York's 2year hero, Spider-Man and all she thought was…Kitty's gonna be so happy to hear this.

Meanwhile Peter glared at Shocker through the bandana he had tied to mask his face since he didn't have his suit or Web-Shooters, especially his Web Shooters, was gonna make it hard for him to carefully restrain criminals, so he decided that it would just be better if he left them unconscious. Shocker wasn't new to the game, he had heard stories about the Spider, said that the goblin was the most dangerous man in the entire city, maybe even the world as he took on the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D and remained at large, but it was the spider who brought the tyrannical madman to his early grave on the Brooklyn Bridge where the Goblin claimed hundreds of lives, but the spider had gone into hiding after that, maybe all that death and destruction was too much for his young mind to handle, but seeing him here now, Shocker couldn't help but laugh, seeing that he didn't really look like much, and with no hero work in the last 6months, he had to be rusty.

Laura got up, unsheathing her claws while Peter tensed his muscles as he readied himself for a fight, Shocker's goons headed to their getaway car with the money, but they were intercepted by Laura who stood in front of them with her claws out, rushing towards them, she ducks and slides underneath them as she slices one of their tendons, causing him to fall to one knee as she uses her foot claw to kick a guy in the thigh, stabbing into him as she flips off and uses her legs to grasp her head and flip her unto the ground. Meanwhile Peter was fighting against the Shocker, who fired his high pressured shockwaves at him, without his Web Shooters, Peter was slightly less mobile but that didn't mean he was stuck, as he leaps 10ft into the air over Shocker's head, landing behind him as he delivers a left hook to his head, staggering him, Shocker charges up his gauntlet and swings at him with the force, Peter ducks underneath it to dodge and delivers a spinning elbow to his side, staggering once more as he bends to his side, Peter jumps and delivers a spinning back kick to his chest, sending him flying back into that same truck that Laura crashed into, Laura had just finished up with her five, blood on her hands and all of them groaning in pain as she stabbed them a few times but only in places that would make them non-lethal, Shocker already feeling that he was outclassed, decided to do the only thing he could think to do, run away, firing his Shock Blasts at the ground, he was sent flying into the air as a means of escape, and without his web shooters, he might actually escape, but Peter wasn't willing to let that happen, he leaps to a building, running on the walls as a group of people run out of the bank, a woman soon to be a mother was escorted out of the building, but before she was carried any further, she screamed her thanks to Laura

"Thank You!" the pregnant woman screamed out "Thank You from both of us"

"It is okay" she said as she went to reclaim her motorcycle and gave chase after Peter and Shocker

Shocker blasted on the ground, propelling himself few feet into the air while Peter jumped from rooftop to rooftop, using his surroundings to give himself a boost and keep up with the Brown and Yellow Quilted Man with shock gauntlets 'What a normal life you've come back to Peter Parker' he thought internally as he grabbed a street light, spinning of it to propel himself even more. Shocker was running from the web swinger, but he guessed that he couldn't call him the web swinger anymore since he no longer seemed to spin webs. Peter found this so stressful, he was so used to swinging off webs to chase after his bad guys that he was visibly angry about going so slow, 'Not to self, always leave home with Web Shooters, or at least a spare set, God I need to catch this guy, I refuse to lose to the Shocker! On my first night back in the game' and with that motivation, he continues to chase after him, leaping from building to building, avoiding blaster fire and blaster fire, when he looked down and noticed Laura on a motorcycle riding after the pair. Shocker saw the girl chasing after him from above 'Okay I cannot deal with two of those super freaks tonight!' he aimed both gauntlets at her, firing at her, she quickly maneuvered to dodge it, and she did, but the impact on the ground sent her bike tumbling and her flying into the air uncontrollably as she neared the ground. 'No!' Peter screamed as he instinctively made a put his hand in a web finger position, a quick flashback of Gwen appeared in his mind, of her falling off the Brooklyn Bridge as the Goblin threw her over, the flashback ended "No" he grunted with determination as he makes the pose and shoots out a stream of webbing from his wrist, where the girl was about to land head first on the ground, she thought to herself 'This is going too seriously hurt!' but then she doesn't hit the ground and her face is actually flying a few feet from the ground, as she is suddenly pulled up before hitting a car, tumbling in the air as she is grabbed by the waist mid-air as she is swung across the city, she looked up at the person holding her, it was Peter as he swung on a web line, that apparently fired out of the base of his wrist,

"So, you have powers too?" Peter asked with a slight smirk on his face "Not every day I meet someone with powers who doesn't try to kill me" he said looking at her deadpanned face

"Do not assume I will not try to kill you for so casually touching me" she said almost growling at him but also with a slight smirk

Peter looked down and his hand was on her waist and wasn't going any lower or higher, and he thought to himself 'Wow this girl has a nice body…think that later Peter…or better yet, NEVER!' he internally screamed as he dropped down from his web line when Shocker fired at them, Laura noted on how he was firing himself into the air, his air time and the way he positioned himself to land

"Throw me at him" Laura said as soon as she figured out his timing

"What!?" Peter screamed more confused that she would even suggest such a strategy "That's crazy, I'm not gonna throw you hundreds of miles like a Fastball, you could get yourself killed"

"I have a Healing Factor that can restore damage from nearly anything, nothing unless complete disintegration, decapitation or drowning will kill me" she stated with a bit more aggression in her voice "Okay then, just be careful Laura"

'3'

Shocker jumped once more, as he did, leaving another massive crater in his wake as he is propelled into the air, Peter and Laura both taking note of their internal clocks as they swing through the air, the cold rain on their faces, it doesn't deter them in the slightest as they glare at Shocker

'2'

Shocker once again fired another shockwave at them, this time they dodge with Spider-Man throwing her up into the air as he double-knee cannonballs down to the ground, using his newly discovered 'Organic Webbing' to create two web lines and with a hard pull, he slingshots himself into the air, grabbing Laura in an arm lock as he twirls her through two shockwaves one, then the other and.

'1'

SNIKT!

She unsheathes her claws as he throws her at Shocker, she flies through the air with her claws at her side, and as soon as Shocker shoots up into the air, she drives her claws through his gauntlets, damaging them, she lands on the ground and makes a perfect landing as she sees her handy work, Shocker's gauntlet was extremely damaged, causing him to take it off and throw it away before it exploded on him, as he looks at the girl in front of him, Spider-Man lands behind him

SHAK!

And to the complete shock of everyone and even Peter in his mind, he screams 'WHAT THE HELL ARE THESE?' looking at his wrists, he sees that he had ejected spikes from his wrists, they were about a foot long and looked to be made of bone, they were sharp on the tip and on the sides as well. Shocker couldn't believe what he was seeing, he was surrounded on two fronts by two children with sharp pointy things coming outta their hands, he was down a gauntlet and was outclassed physically as well, so he had just one option left for him, he removed his other gauntlet, dropped it on the ground as he took to his knees and his hands behind his head, he surrendered and that was all he could do now.

LATER

Shocker was webbed up hanging upside down to a light post but no notes were left for the police as Laura and Peter stood and watched as the police took him away. Peter stole a glance at her from the side 'So she has powers too, cool' Laura stole a glance at him, her eyes not meeting with his as he had stolen one earlier

"You are Spider-Man?" Laura asked still with a very stoic expression on her face "Katherine is a fan of yours"

"Hmm, Katherine? Oh you mean Kitty"

"Yes"

"Huh good to know I actually do have people supporting me, really nice"

Laura headed down to where her Motorcycle was 'parked' and as she thought, it was destroyed 'Logan is not going to like this' she thought internally as Peter walked up to her and asked calmly

"Want me to give you a ride home, I've still got a few more hours before I have to head home"

"You have a curfew?"

"I have an aunt whose heart would fail if I don't show up soon"

"Then go home"

"Nah, I think my last good deed of the day should be making sure the fair lady makes it home without a problem"

Laura pondered this, he was complimenting her while not trying to flirt with her, the only other male to speak to her like that was Warren Warrington and she did not like him,

"Okay"

He held her by the waist, something she found that he did softly and she did not quite hate,

THWIP

They were in the air, swinging through the city at the same heights as the High Rise, she found that at that height, the world was more beautiful, the lights, the sounds of the city and the people as they swung up and down, closing in on the ground as they did so, she could almost touch the ground before they were whisked up his web line, the trip back to Westchester was spent mostly quiet and Laura enjoying the pretty lights of New York City, the city that never sleeps.

WESTCHESTER

THE XAVIER INSTITUTE

Kitty Pryde and Bobby Drake were snuggled together on the coach with a red blanket covering the both of them, Bobby's powers meant that he would be increasingly cold, but tonight, he had it under control for his girlfriend. The two were channel scrolling because there was nothing on, while in the Kitchen, Jubilee and her pseudo father, Logan were both just making themselves midnight snacks while Logan gave her a lecture on how to take down a ninja assassin

"Now your first lesson is to know that you are being stalked by an assassin, they will try to stay silent and hidden in the shadows, your job is to notice them without making it look like you've noticed them"

"So what, I'm just supposed to do what, move my eyes around without making look my eyes are moving"

"Yes"

"YES!" the joyful screams of Kitty were heard throughout the entire house, causing for everybody to rush down to the living room and see her standing with both hands shot up to the air and a massive grin on her face

"Kitty what happened?!" Scott yelled as he came down stairs in his underwear and multiple kiss marks on his face, Jean walking next to him and her lip-gloss smeared

Everyone raised an eyebrow for the two of them but then back at Kitty asking what made her so happy and made Bobby cover his ears as if he were trying not to bleed out from them

"Look!" she points out to the TV which was on The Globe News

"And tonight eye witnesses lay claim that a female Vigilante rescued them from a hostile bank robbery committed by six armed criminals and one Herman Shultz aka The Shocker and in more news, this new Vigilante was aided by what witnesses are claiming to be the return of New York's very own superhero, Spider-Man" the announcer spoke over the TV Station "It has been 6months since the horrifying events on the Brooklyn Bridge committed by the late Green Goblin that claimed the lives of hundreds…folks at home, if this is true, then I just personally want to say Spider-Man and to the girl who arrived first, my sister was in that bank and she's expecting her first baby, they both and I want to just say, Thank You"

Around the same time as this Broadcast ending, Peter swung Laura into the Xavier Mansion, surprised that she actually lived in such a lavished home, the grounds alone were huge and then the mansion looked to be a 13th Century British Castle, whoa. He dropped Laura off at the door

"Thank You for flying air spider, I take cash, kisses and free burgers" Peter joked as he took a bow to Laura

She smirked slightly at him, making sure to not let him see that he actually got her to both smile and blush. Peter raises his head to a slightly softer but still stoic expression, he let out a wide grin as he raised his hand to shoot out a web line and head home. Laura entered the mansion and is greeted by her father and adopted sister

"Where've yah been?" Logan asked his daughter, his usual overly gruff voice in full audio

"Out" she answered with her usual deadpanned expression

"And where's my bike?"

"Gone" she coldly answered

Laura went up to her room, she saw Pryde and Jubilee going to theirs when she suddenly stopped, they stopped to when they noticed her staring at them

"Ugh, is everything okay?" Jubilee asked, slightly creeped out

"Yeah, like you're kinda scaring me" Kitty added to Jubilee's question

"Goodnight" Laura finally spoke up and entered her room, surprising the two women by her actually talking to them.

In her room, Laura sat on her bed, the shadow of the woman from before creeping up from her corner, and with the most gleeful and sadistic voice of a woman

"Hey X, I see you met a cute boy tonight, never thought of you as the romantic type, can't wait for you to kill him too, or maybe I will when I finally find you again, because you know what you are, you aren't a person, you're a weapon, you're my weapon"

Laura rolled up in her bed, trying to make herself as small as possible as her claws popped out, she looked at them, hating them for what they made her, for the weapon they made her into be, but as she cried about the hundreds of terrible memories, the blood on her hands, all the people she killed

'Thank You'

The memory of the woman she saved flashed through her mind, then the memories of the people leaving the bank all those lives she saved, not taken, saved, how all of them were so happy to see her and were not afraid of her, they thanked her for 'saving' them. This memory brought something to her, she felt hope for the first time in her life, she felt happy saving those lives and them being able to return to their families and loved ones

"You are a weapon" the shadow figure roared through the corner, scaring her

"It's always nice to meet someone else trying to do good" Peter's voice cut through the darkness engulfing the room

Both Laura and the shadow stared back towards what appeared to be a bright light, a voice in her head that said she was good, she listened to that voice and it felt nice, she laid back on her bed while the dark voice continued to scream, she did not hear her anymore.

FOREST HILLS

Peter returned home, he climbed in through the window since it was so late that night that he didn't need to worry about May being awake, he told her he was just going for a walk, that was a two hours ago and now he was home. He snuck into his room and landed, but when he did, he saw her again, the ghost of the lost love, she stared at him her eyes covered by the grey blonde hair, but even without her eyes, he could still see her staring at him

"Who are you?" she asked with a chill in her voice, her head slightly lowered

"I'm not ready to get back just yet" he said with a slight smirk on his face "After all, I need to repair my suit" he said with more life in his voice

"Are…you sure?" the ghost asked a new question, stunning Peter for a moment "Are you sure of this?"

"I am" he said determined, his eyes fixed on her "I truly am sorry Gwen, I'm sorry I couldn't save you from what happened and I know I don't have the right to say this, but I love you and I promise you, I will try to do better"

The apparition doesn't speak to him, it just stands there in the corner, not moving, not speaking, only staring at him, until finally she smiled at him "I Love you too" were all she whispered to him before finally, she vanished.

THE NEXT DAY

BAYVILLE ACADEMY

Peter sat alone at the Gym stands, he was by a margin the most athletic person in the school, he mayn't have looked it, but he could bench press 10tons, run over 100km/h, perform a quintuple backflip in the air without stopping once and jump from the ground to the roof, but at the moment, he was working on something in his notebook, he sat with his legs crossed, trying to design a new spider-suit since his original one was currently less than operable. Laura sat across the bleachers from him, she also wasn't taking part in this meaningless exercise, she was much faster than all of these people and had much better reflexes than all of them, this would not be an issue. Peter noticed her looking at the gym without much enthusiasm in her face, he wanted to change that, he packed up his stuff, moving towards her, as he entered the court, he caught one of the balls without looking

"Hey!" Duncan screamed at the top of his voice "Yeah you dick weasel" he attempted to insult Peter

Laura noticed Peter in the crowd talking to Duncan, as well as Kitty, Scott, Jean, Rogue, Tabitha, Jubilee and all the other X-Men,

"Oh dude's gonna get his shit clocked" Jubilee stated

"Can't help but feel sorry for guy" Scott added

Duncan yelled again for Peter to give him back the ball and Peter did so without question, not really in the mood for all of this, as he handed him back the ball, turning his back to the dumb jock, his Spider Sense Buzzed in his head, and once again, he evaded the ball without looking simply by tilting his head a bit to the left, Duncan felt angered that Peter had dodged his ball, taking another ball from his teammate, he throws it at Peter, effortlessly catching it, he looks back at them with a glare

"Really dude, when my back's turned, have some…okay never mind I don't think your incompetent brain can comprehend the word dignity"

"I'm gonna put some dignity on your face!"

"Woah, a full sentence without any breaks, it learns"

Peter comes down from the steps and tells the school jock that was honestly just a Flash Thompson rip off to him to do his worst. Duncan grabs the ball and so does his entire team, Scott doesn't think this is fair, 6 on 1 against just a scrawny…his words are cut off when he sees Peter take off his baggy hoodie and shirt to reveal he wasn't so scrawny, not even close, Peter looked like he lifted weights and could actually take Duncan in a fight, the school jock threw the first ball, to which Peter caught with ease, another guy threw another to which he caught with his other hand, the third guy threw another, he used the ball in his right hand to deflect it, a fourth is thrown and once again, this time with left hang, deflected, hitting the guy who threw it, a fifth and he caught it with the two balls already in his hand, sandwiching the fifth with them, letting it fall to the ground as he throws one of the balls back at the fifth guy, it hits him square in the face, knocking out one of his teeth and like that, this was now a 5 on 1, jocks 0, nerdy kid 1.

The jocks started throwing more ruthlessly, but to no avail as Peter ducked, dodged and weaved out of the way with acrobatic skill that was almost inhuman, as if he were used to dodging things much faster than the hand thrown balls, Laura was stunned by his grace, as if he knew were each ball was going to be before they were even thrown, he was untouchable through a barrage of red rubber balls being thrown by 5 jocks at once, before catching two in a spin move and throwing them back at them, knocking down two more with their own momentum. Leaving it to be only three left, he glared at them, two of them running away realizing this was a losing battle, now stood there alone, void of all his protection and soon his reputation in the school, gone as he and Peter stared each other down, neither willing to lose any ground, but to all his very limited knowledge of anything, Duncan chose a coward's way out

"Freak!" he yells as he leaves the gym

Peter looked down at the ball he still had in his hands, looking at the hoop he bounces the ball on the ground as he walks out, throwing it away as he steps out, Scott, Jean, Kitty, Amara, Pietro and Fred all watched the ball as it moved through the air, making the hoop to all their mouths agape as Peter, the nerdy science kid who was new to the school just embarrassed the entire dodge ball team with ease.

This display left Laura more curious about him now than before, she may've known he was Spider-Man, but what exactly were his powers, he was strong by what she saw last night, him being able to lift up an entire mail truck with ease, he was fast the way he was keeping up with that man without even using his webs, and he was agile, by what she saw just now, what else could he do, besides sticking to walls and making webs.

But this display made more than just Laura interested, it also left the Brotherhood who were watching also dumbfounded that one kid who didn't even look as big as the guys he just took down absolutely wreck all their shits, Pietro was the first to notice how quickly he moved, that was no human level of speed, still not as fast as him but that was quite fast.

Todd didn't care, neither did Fred who was just eating his cheese crackers as he watched and muffled

"Dude's got some sick skills" Fred said through munches of food

"He can definitely move, but it's obvious he's just athletic, nothing to big" Pietro responded to Fred

"He's pretty good" Todd added, clearly impressed

"Would the two of you stop that, he's quick fine I'll give him that for a human" Pietro specified finally admitted his impression

LUNCH TIME

"Like, dude couldn't be touched" Kitty yelled in admiration and enthusiasm "I mean, dude comes to school, wears baggy clothes and is kinda cute, and dude has the athletic skill of a Olympic gold medalist"

"I will admit the kid has some moves" Scott admitted

"More zhan just zhat mein friend, he can truly move" Kurt added

"And he made Duncan cry, I think we all laughed at that part" Bobby inclined who Duncan ran away screaming "What about you Laura, what do you think?"

Laura side eyed Drake, she didn't like Drake so she continued to drink her soda, she liked soda, and to no one's surprise, she didn't even answer him at all, just drinking her drink

"Come on babe, what do you think of the guy?" Warren asked her with a toothy grin

'Did he just call me babe?' she growled in her head as she imagined stabbing, choosing to ignore him but the thought did bring a smile to her face

"Come on guys, I'm sure the guy just does a lot of gymnastics training at home or something, probably another rich guy like Roberto here"

Sunspot flipped her off but he did like being rich so he hung back afterwards

"He was restraining himself" Laura finally answered making everyone's mouth agape by her comment and the fact that she spoke

"Wait, what do you mean restraining himself?" Jubilee asked, making everyone surprised she was even here

"How long have you been here?" Amara asked her with a raised brow

Jubilee frowned at this question "Since disco went out of fashion" she answered her, crossing her arms

Laura didn't say anymore, but that didn't stop her from being curious about him, she wanted to know what his powers were, what he was capable of, she knew he was strong, but by what standards, was he simply above normal human or was he superhuman? Jubilee poked her cheek, granting a growl from Laura as she looked at her

"You're staring" Jubilee says with her hands on her hips and an enormous smile on her face

"I am not" Laura coldly said with a deadpanned expression

"You like kinda are?" Kitty stated with her own huge grin "I mean he is Kinda Cute; you are really hot I can see the two of you"

SNIKT!

Was the only sound needed to shut Kitty up as she goes back to eating her food. Laura on the other hand just thought about the sentence she just spoke 'Did-she say I was hot'

"You know, it's weird but I think I've heard his name from somewhere before" Bobby says to the group

LATER, NEW YORK CITY

Peter had once again taken back to his role as the primary guardian of NYC, something he was still regaining his skill in, he was currently swinging through the city, practicing at his newly gained powers, such as his new Organic Webbing, he spun these webs from his wrists just like he did with hos shooters, but these cost him nothing and web fluid was expensive, and then there was those spikes that he ejected from his wrists…

…CRASH!

"Of course, of fucking course"

THWIP!

He shoots another web line and heads towards the cause of the crash, another armed robbery, this time, it was a Jewelry Store as all three perpetrators were holding guns, but they were indeed just normal thugs, unlike Shocker yesterday.

"Come on guys, the Kingpin wants this job done quickly and he don't tolerate failure"

"Yeah, remember that guy who just too just a dollar for his family"

"Poor dude"

The three of them took the jewels and the money and rushed to their car, but they couldn't because their car was currently stuck 7ft in the air suspended by webbing stunning the Thieves

"What dah…?"

"Oh those are shiny; they really make your eyes pop" Peter quipped

"Spider-Man?!"

They all raised their weapons at the returned wall crawler and fired on him, Peter dodged out of the way, but everything seemed, strange, everything slowed down the moment his Spider-Sense went off, he was actually able to see the incoming bullets, and think of the best way to dodge each and every one of them, he leaps out of the way and towards the thugs at the same time, shooting two web-lines at them, as he lands in a barrel roll, pulling them both in as he goes for the third with an uppercut, with enough strength to usual stagger him a bit, but now, he sent the man flying into the air and landing on the ground completely unconscious, 'That shouldn't have been able to do that' he thinks to himself as he bends his neck to dodge a bullet fired at his head from behind without looking, the guy who shot it stunned that he just did that "And you shouldn't have done that" he shoots a web ball at his hand, sticking him to the ground, but then he remembers that there were three of them and begins looking for the first guy, looking around, he notices something, the spectrum of his vision changes, becoming more attuned to light and heat, he can literally see the body heat of the man running away with the bag of jewels 'Wow!" he shoots a web line and swings up towards the building, as the man runs through an alley, he immediately finds himself on the other street, looking for a safe place to run, he's webbed and pulled up to the air, where he and Spider-Man have a face-to-face

"Oh God!" the thug shouts "Please, please don't kill me!"

"That depends on you, you said something about the Kingpin earlier, who is he?"

"I can't say anything, please, I'm begging you!"

Peter drops the man, he was a mere two feet away from hitting the ground, when he caught him with a web net, striding down the line, he glares at the man through his mask

"Tell your boss, he can do as he likes, but when I find him, he's gonna wish he stayed in whatever hole he crawled out of"

THWIP

And like that, in front of all the people, filming the return of the Amazing Spider-Man as he swung away from the man he left in a net, he shoots up into the air and with another thwip, he races underneath a train rails system.

THE XAVIER INSTITUTE

Laura had grown curious as she laid on her bed, for years she had the same thoughts about herself, that she was nothing more than a monster wearing the skin of a girl, the blood on her hands was in thousands and she knew there was nothing she could've done to make it go away, but then the Parker boy comes along, calling her a hero for helping him save those people, if those people knew who she truly was, if Parker knew who she truly was, then they would be disgusted by her. But that didn't stop her curiosity about the Parker boy and his abilities, so much so that using the computer in her room, she looked him up and who she saw in the picture and who she saw in school couldn't be the same person, 'He was a dork' comically round glasses, small, white shirt and brown pants, smooth brown hair and eyes, small frame, she looked at the age of the picture taken, it was from two years ago, he was 15yrs of age and now he was 17, the change was amazing, she looked up his hobbies, places of occupation maybe,

"He's a Photographer for the Daily Bugle?" Laura asked confused, knowing that someone of Peter's intellect could probably get a better job than that "Wait, he's listened to currently be living in Forest Hills, Queens, that is a One Hour Drive from here, who are you, Spider-Man"

Laura took her jacket, moving to the garage where she proceeds to steal another of Logan's motorcycles as she drives out of the compound

NEXT CHAPTER: TALON LEARNS OF THE SPIDER

CHAPTER 3

TALON LEARNS OF THE SPIDER

FOREST HILLS, QUEENS

Spider-Man lands on the rooftop of an average elderly home in Forest Hills, he was careful not to be seen, that was something he was never good at as Peter Parker, but as Spider-Man, he was always being seen, and that at the moment would be bad for his secret identity, he went into his room through the window, quickly taking off the suit he had customized to act as his uniform until he can finish the one he was working on, putting the suit away he puts on some civilian clothes, while going through his cupboards, he noticed something, something he hadn't needed for a while, he saw the box he kept his web-shooters in, he opened it to find not only the shooters he built, but all the small canisters he kept filled with web fluid, his first real invention. He lifted up the shooter and aimed it at his ceiling, pushing the button, for it only to squirt, he unloaded the current canister, seeing it was empty, he took it out and snapped a new one in, it locking immediately as he shoots a line out, it then shoots one out from his new organic spinnerets in his hands, seeing how the two were exactly the same, well they weren't, he left both strands there for the same amount of time, to discover that the organic ones lasted for much longer than the chemical ones, it being decided which was better for him, it didn't mean he was going to throw out his shooters, they were still his creation and he was going to keep them, (Who knows, maybe one day I'll meet another spider and they'll need help with these. Huh, like the chances of that happening are likely.)

As Peter thought about this, the revving of a motorcycle riding on the road to where the two had last teamed up was present. Laura wanted to know more about this Spider-Man and how Peter had managed to go unnoticed for so long by Cerebro and the Professor, so she stopped at where she knew he had been recently, the scene where the public announced the return of their city's hero, she looked around until she found what she had been looking for, Parker's Scent, she followed it to where it lead and her learning more about his patterns, while swinging through the city, he stopped to buy a hotdog, one in which she also paid for with extra hot sauce, while eating it, she continued to follow his scent, seeing people cheer on as she did, he made a break through the Brooklyn Bridge, her ignoring all and any forms of traffic laws by driving on the sidewalks, making it to the other side and towards the Queens Borrow. She was able to quickly pick up Parker's scent once again at a construction site where the NYC Police had just finished with making an arrest. Laura looked for his scent across buildings, she continued her search for him but something else catches her attention, it was the sound of something crashing, multiple things crashing, it was cars, something was coming at them rather quickly and what she saw was truly terrifying as it towered over her, she possessed the ability to see in the dark, otherwise she wouldn't be able to see this monster, it looked like a giant reptile man creature, easily 7ft tall as it towered over her, the creature roared out in the night as its massive frame nearly shook her, but she wasn't scared so easily

SNIKT!

She unsheathed her claws and lunged towards the creature who swept at her with its own clawed fingers, she ducked below it as she drives her claws into its leg, pulling it out, she slashes it with her other arm to the torso, but it quickly slapped her away, sending her flying as she crashes into a car, getting back up like nothing had happened, she rushes it again, as it swipes at her again, she slides in between its giant legs, slashing at its tendons, causing it to fall to its knees as she jumps on its back, stabbing into its shoulders, the toughness of its hard reptilian scales made it hard for her claws to pierce through as easily, but she was still getting through to it, but this creature was much stronger than it looked, jumping back and slamming her through a concrete wall, but still she holds on and using her foot claws to dig into it and hold on at the same time, but the creature was smarter than it looked, using its tail, it grabs her off of it and throws her back into the street before charging at her, grabbing her by the arm in its jaws, lifting her up and throwing her aside once more into another car with its mouth, as her arm heals, it comes at her again, she wasn't sure hoe something so big could be so fast, but that didn't stop her from using her foot claws to slash at its jaw, causing it to hang off one side and it was badly bleeding, getting up, she ducks under a swipe, using her claws to once again slash at its hand, nearly cutting it off again, but all the wounds she had inflicted started to heal, showing off the creature's regenerative abilities, rushing at her with its restored jaw, she dropped on her back driving her foot claw up its neck, causing it to roar in pain, she drags the claw across, slitting its throat, as she performs a cross kick slitting the throat once more. The creature was bleeding profusely from the throat as it held its nearly open wound, she jumped up to stab into its eyes but once again the beast's speed allows it to spin back and attack her with its tail, knocking her away once more as it grabs her with one giant arm, covering her entire body as it picks her up, biting into her shoulder as it spins her around and slams her on the ground, the teeth marks on her body were visible as she struggled to stand up, but it lunged at her again, THWIP, a web line latches on her back and she's dragged up to the air, where she is grabbed from the waist by the very boy she was looking for, Peter Parker, Spider-Man, but he was different, his suit was different, one that she had never seen on any TV Screen or the one that he wore last time they 'Teamed Up'. Peter's new suit chose to adopt mainly the color red for most of it, the suit was mainly a red thermal with extra thick padding on the upper part of his arms, with the padding lowered on the lower parts, the red on the suit started from the shoes going all the way to the chest, the fingers of this suit were black along with the shoulders, on the back and his hand, there was a black square shaped attachment, the neck region and the mask, for the mask it had scarlet red eyes with no base, and on his chest, A Large Black Spider Symbol, with the four other arms being larger than the four inside. Laura looked up at the new suit and thought to herself 'How my…Laura what're you thinking?!" she screamed in her head and Peter, still holding her by the waist

"We can't keep getting seen like this, people might start to think that we're an item, not that it would be bad" Spider-Man quips in a flirty way

Laura blushes as she pushes against him, making sure to avert her gaze from him to not let him see that she was indeed blushing profusely, this just makes Peter smile as he holds her tight and jumps off the side of the building he was latching unto, Laura liked the wind on her face and blowing through her hair, as she was swung through the air, if not for the giant Lizard creature, she would actually be enjoying this. The lizard ran away as it was still healing from the wounds Laura had inflicted on it

"Hey Laura by the way if you want to do this Vigilante thing at night, I suggest you wear a mask" Peter said, trying to make conversation

"This is serious"

"I know, that man lost his family because of the Lizard thing"

"Man?"

"Yes, his name is Doctor Curtis Conners, he was a scientist who believed he could cure most ailments and even amputations by giving humans animal characteristics, such as Reptilian Regeneration"

"And that did not work out well for him, could be worse"

"Really how?"

"He could be a Man Spider" Laura says with a cheeky smile as Peter realizes that she had made a joke

"Gasp, she can make jokes, now I truly have seen everything" Peter says with a gleeful tone

"You are an idiot" Laura says trying to keep her deadpanned expression 'Trying'

The two landed where Laura's sense of smell had tracked Doc Conners to, and of course, it was a sewer

"I just finish this new suit and the first place I get to use it in. is in a fricking sewer"

Peter presses his palm against the manhole cover, knowing how heavy they are and how hard they are to remove from the ground, she was slightly stunned when she saw him lift it with no issue, and without actually grabbing it, he placed it down and stood up to her "Ladies first" he gestured to which she scowled at him, he raises his hands in a 'Don't be mad' gesture to which he dives straight down first, and she takes the ladder, when she arrives in the dime sewer, the lack of lighting makes it nearly impossible for a normal person to see, but Laura's enhanced senses allow for her to see in the dark

"Parker? Parker?"

He slides down on a web line right in front of her face, she could see it but she could tell that he was smiling under the mask

"You called milady" Peter quips with that same smile "Don't tell me you missed me already?"

"Oh yes, I missed my big strong man to protect me" Laura made another joke putting a surprised smile on his face

"Two jokes in one day, at least now I can say that I've made you laugh twice an only in two weeks of knowing you"

This made Laura slightly blush, but she didn't turn around to show it, the two were moving through the sewer, Laura in her black boots she always wore and Peter on the ceiling above her, the place was extremely dark and neither had a flash light so how they could perfectly navigate it, was a wonder, Laura had the ability to see in the dark, something that she had but her father did not, as for Peter she asked

"How can you see in this place? in this darkness?"

"What? Oh something that showed up a few days ago, apparently I have Inferred Vision, I can hone in on a person's Body Heat and follow that spectrum"

That was even better than her ability to see in the dark, he could possibly track targets through concrete walls, another thing that she thought made Peter Parker dangerous, but right now, her target was this Doctor Curtis Conners.

"What can you tell me about this Doctor Conners?" Laura asked, her deadpanned voice "Is there any way to take him down?"

"Yeah, that's actually why I got here so late, I had to make a Lizard Anti-Serum before coming here, good thing you were here to stop him from hurting anyone, that would've been bad"

"Yes" she coldly said "His hide is very thick; I do not know how you are going to inject it"

"I normally puncture it through the gums, but that usually follows after a long punch out and me nearly losing an eye or an arm, or having his tail knock into my tooth and having to get a dentist appointment"

"You are very strange Peter Parker"

"And you are very beautiful Laura Kinney"

This sudden compliment made Laura once again blush, 'Beautiful me, no, monsters aren't beautiful and if he knew me, he wouldn't call me that' she thought ashamed of all the things she had done, if he knew who I truly am, he would be afraid of me, she unsheathed her claws as her enhanced hearing picked up on something, it sounded like metal clanging and claws scraping, Peter's Spider-Sense was going off, but only in a small buzzing, it wasn't loud enough to mean they were in serious danger SHAK but that didn't stop his Stingers from growing when his muscles tensed

"Shit" Peter cursed under his breath as he never had any control over when those would come out, something that Laura takes a notice too when she saw him struggling with them

"Are those…?"

"Stingers"

"Appropriate name given their shape and bone like structure, do you have trouble controlling them"

"Yeah, and they hurt like hell, is it like this for your claws, do yours hurt this much?"

She raised up her hand as if to show him something and with a quick buzz of his Spider-Sense, he moved his head back

SNIKT

She unsheathed her claws showing the bottom that connected directly to her balled up hand that there was blood on the ends, and he understood that hers hurt her as well

"Does it still hurt?" he said with a concerned tone

"Yes, but you learn to get used to it" Laura answered him

"What else can you do?"

Laura pondered his question, wondering if it would be safe to disclose such information about herself so quickly "I can lift and support 900pds on my body, enhanced speed, and Agility, I have a Regenerative Healing Factor that prevents me from ailments, most poisons and can restore my body from severe and fatal injuries, I also possess superior senses and you have seen my claws"

"Yeah, huh?"

"What is it?"

"We have a lot of the same powers"

"What?"

"I have Super Strength as well, 10tons though…"

That part of it stunned Laura, she knew he was strong but until now, she didn't know how much, he had easily blown but her and Logan out of the water in terms of strength

"Continue"

"I also have Enhanced Speed, not sure how the limits on that one yet, I have Enhanced Agility and Reflexes"

"Jean thought you might have Super Intelligence, and that was how you were able to take on Duncan and his goons"

"Well she wouldn't be and also would be wrong, because I do have super I.Q but that isn't a superpower, I'm a natural born genius"

"Doubtful, you're too much of an idiot to be a genius"

"Can you explain how Doctor Henry Pym's Pym Particles work off the top of your head"

"No?"

"Pym Particles work by extracting matter from a subject most times an object and sending it to a pocket dimension known as Inner Space, if you want to return that object to full size, you will take matter out of the Inner Space and place them into said object"

"So you are smart, what else can you…do?"

"As you can see, my body emits a small electrostatic field induction that I can use to adjust to the magnetic field of any object around me and stick to them"

"Saying you can stick to walls would've been sufficient anything else or is there more?"

"Uh I can heal faster than normal people, but nothing on your level"

Laura smiled knowing that if the two of them fought, her healing factor would be quite the edge against him, evening out their strength difference and she could already tell that her Adamantium Claws were superior to his Bone Stingers, so that would cut out those as a possibility as well

"Oh and I have Spider-Sense"

"Spider-Sense?"

"Oh basically, it works like an early detection system in my brain that alerts me to incoming threats before they even do anything, sometimes it's a punch before its made and others it can be something like a ball being thrown at me. It can also map out areas so while I'm swinging I don't accidentally hit something, and I sometimes use it to make pancakes without burning them. And really the honest only real weakness I've been able to find is that it works to tell me what that danger is, if I don't listen to it, it won't matter, well that and distractions"

This power actually truly frightened Laura, it basically worked like a form of precognition, that if one was to try and attack him, this Spider-Sense if real would basically be the perfect tool against stealth, it would be able to detect anyone and anything in a vicinity that would mean you harm, this was an ability that Laura was truly interested in, what other capabilities did it have, but those would have to wait as she caught the Lizard's scent, coming closer to them.

Laura and Peter rushed towards it, going downward towards a tunnel that led into a deeper part of the sewer, the water running down was obviously not the best, but there was a man down there

"Remind me to burn these clothes" Peter says

"Remind me to burn this skin" Laura responds

The two of them rushed down there, being pulled towards a treatment plant where they both were able to get out, the machines around them peeped and dialed as the water passed through the distillation funnels, they stood there, both of them smelling like sewage and that was terrible, Peter in his new suit was already thinking about how he was going to have to clean this thing several hundred times to get this smell out and Laura was just trying to catch the scent of the Lizard, by the smell of it, she could tell it was circling around them. Spider sense blares off, Peter grabs Laura throwing her aside as the Lizard comes charging in at them, but throwing her away only allowed for the Lizard to charge at his outstretched arm, biting into him as he was dragged back, picking him up by its mouth, spinning him around before throwing him to the ground. Peter gets back up immediately, although through the pain of a bleeding arm with several bite marks in them, Laura gets up as well, not having been able to see the Lizard charge at her before Peter tossed her out of its path…SNIKT, she unsheathed her claws as she begun using both her hands and her foot claws to climb up the wall, while Peter fought the Lizard directly, he delivers a left jab to the snout, followed by a right, he continues with a cress kick then a stinger uppercut slicing its jaw open, the creature moves back, holding the almost dismembered jaw as Laura drops down on top of it, driving her claws into its back, the creature's screams of agony as her Adamantium claws drive into its body, spinning its tail aroud to try and remove her, it once again drives at Peter, causing him to evade the giant beast, shooting a web line, he pulls himself in and delivers a flying kick to the head, as it was disoriented, Laura spins around its body, holding herself on the neck as she slashes upward, leaving two claw marks on the jaw, along with Peter's stinger uppercut, but as it rose its head up in pain, Peter, shooting two web lines across from them, pulling himself back hard before shooting at it, using a double front kick to send it falling unto its back, Laura flips off it, landing on her feet as it falls on its back, Peter grabs the Anti-Serum and rushes in to try and inject it, but Lizard swung his body to the side, using its tail to knock him back, the anti-serum falls to the ground and through the drainage tanks into the water

"NO!" they both scream in unison as the Lizard jumps on the walls, bursting through the ceiling, the two teenagers chase after it, Peter gestures for Laura to get on his back, to which she outright refuses to, so Peter is forced to drag her, putting her arms around him and webbing them closed, causing her to growl at him, but he ignores it and his screaming spider sense as he shoots a web line, swinging up to the streets. The Lizard bursts out of the sewers, derailing cars and causing accidents, while Spider-Man and Laura were chasing after him on a web-line, the Lizard stops and faces back towards them, the two of them separating as he slides her under a swipe from the Lizard creature, using her arms to push herself up and slash it off with her foot claws, the creature roars in pain as Spider-Man delivers another tackle to the ground, taking down the 8ft creature, as he leapt into the air, growing both stingers out as he drives both of them multiple times into the chest of the transformed scientist, splattering its blood everywhere, this giving Laura an idea, as the Lizard grabs him with its tail and throws him off of it, getting back up all be it weakened, Peter came crashing against the side of a building. Peter slid down the side of the building, slightly dizzied, but surprisingly, this didn't hurt anywhere as much as it did the last time he fought the Lizard, Laura helped him up to his feet as she had figured out a plan to taking down the Lizard

"I have a plan" Laura just blurted out

"Shoot" Peter simply responded, a little groan in his voice

"Shoot?"

"Like lay it on me, tell me what it is"

"We need to bleed him out, it will not matter if he can regenerate if he has no strength to stand"

"Lead the way Miss Kinney"

The two unsheathe their blades at the same time running at the once staggering creature who before was barely able to stand properly and after Peter and Laura dodge the creatures attacks, Peter leaping over while Laura sliding under, her using her foot claws to slice at the monster's arm, causing it intense pain as it holds its nearly severed hand, while for Peter, he shoots a web line at the back of its head, the lizard tries to smack him away with its tail and he rolls in the air to dodge it, shooting the web line to the back of its head, pulling himself in for a flying kick to the back of the head, driving his head in the ground. Laura continues to slash at it, going for critical hit each time, stabbing, gnashing and slashing the Lizard Man ferociously each time, while Peter lays into it with vicious punch after vicious punch, driving his fists into the creature, before his fingers claw out, clawing at the creature as well, he grows out his stingers as well using both to tear the creature to pieces, blood splattered everywhere with the two of them even carving a massive 'X' with the clashes directly into the chest, before finally, the creature dropped to one knee, covered in claw, punctures and slash marks, but it refused to go down, charging once again at the pair like a wild animal, Laura jumps out of the way while Peter stands to take the beast head on, using his arms and legs to keep it's jaw from closing, it raises up its head with his still in its mouth, jumping out, she webs its eyes shut, struggling to remove it, the beast is grabbed from behind by the tail, Peter pulls the creature and begins spinning it around and around, until finally throwing it across the street, its body digging through the ground as finally, the Lizard was done. Spider-Man and Laura looked at each other, her patting his back as she noticed him panting after that massive through of a creature easily the same size as a semi-truck, the two of them headed towards the creature, not sure what to do with him since they lost the Anti-Serum, Peter knew he could make another one but he would need time and the original serum would help to quicken it, but he didn't have either,

"We stopped him" Laura said, sounding accomplished "he is no longer a danger"

"Yeah, too bad about the Anti-Serum though, I can't make another one without a vile of the original serum and I don't have that, so Doc Conner is stuck like this"

As they sat there contemplating what to do, the sound of a car pulling up was heard by Laura, she looked out and indeed a red family wagon stopped just short of the crater and a woman with long golden brown hair ran out of the car

"Curt!" she screamed as she ran towards the crater

"Is she insane?" Laura said with a concerned tone

"Wait, that's Curt's wife" Peter explained to her

The three of them all ran down into crater, as she held her beaten and bloodied husband, his slashed up body already beginning to slowly heal, Spider-Man and Laura slid down into the crater after her

"Wow, Miss you have to get outta here" Spider-Man said

"No I can save him; I have a cure"

She shows it to them, another Anti-Serum

"Curt kept it in case something like this ever happened again, so he made a Gene Cleanser, if administered at the right amount, it will render inert any animalistic DNA while leaving the Human Part of it completely untouched"

"Hey this is just like what I made" Peter exclaims excitedly

"Are you sure the Cleanser will not harm any other forms of DNA?" Laura asked

Curt's head is lifted by Spider-Man, she opens the vial, pouring it down his throat that had just healed from Laura cutting it, and the Lizard begins to revert back to normal, the sound of bone retorting inward, shrinking was most audible to Laura, her enhanced hearing meant that even if she covered her ears, but then she heard the creature's groans begin to sound more and more like a man's, until finally there, was a naked blonde man with only one arm. Peter quickly weaved a web blanket for him to cover up all that

"Don't worry, sweetie, I brought some pants for you in the car"

"(Groans) Ugh? Spider-Man? And a goth girl I don't know, well thank you for helping me"

He tugs the web blanket closer to himself, starting to shiver cause of the coldness of the night, Spidey and Laura faced each other

"You know; we make a pretty good team"

Laura frowned at this, she wasn't a hero, she was a killer, killers aren't heroes,

"I'm not a hero"

"You are to them"

He motioned towards the Conners family, Curt, his wife and son who came down to hug his Dad with tears in his eyes, seeing a family reunited after almost being torn apart, this warmed her heart, she smiled at the sight

"Hey, I never got your name Miss?"

Laura thought about it, she looked at her hands, the claws in them had cost so many lives, so many were just because her handlers at the facility were evil, evil and sadistic men and women who loved to spread violence and make living weapons, and her claws, they were her weapons, they were made for killing, but right now, they were used to save a family, to reunite loved ones, her Claws, her Talons.

"Talon" she answered with a smile

Peter recuperated that smile as she for the first time since he'd met her, didn't have a deadpanned expression on her face. Doctor Conners put on the pants that his wife brought for him, he, her and their son were about to leave, when the kid ran back and hugged Laura tightly

"Thank You" he said through tears "Thank You Talon" he said before running back to his parents, the family being helped out of the crater by the two supers with them, escorting them to their car as they were very tired and this had been a long night. But unknown to the duo was that they were being watched, by a man, Russian, mid40s wearing a Lion Main underneath a significant armored vest, the teeth of multiple different animals decorated his bulky arms, his appearance was threatening on its own.

"Hmm, a Spider and Wolf, two hunters of different sizes, different houses of mother nature's kingdom and two Predators, defeating the Reptilian Beast, impressive"

ON THE ROOFTOPS

Peter and Laura were sitting on a rooftop of a Pizza Joint, the owner of the place said he owed Spider-Man his life, so he offered him a lifetime supply of free pizza anytime he came over, and wanting to celebrate him and Laura saving a family, he got them a special order.

"So have you ever had Pizza before"

"No, is it spicy"

"Yes, you said at school that you like Spicy foods, so I told Dan to make it extra spicy for you"

"That wasn't necessary"

"I know, but I did it anyway"

She smiled at him, taking a slice of Pizza, Peter picks up a slice, the two stare at each other with a slight blush on Peter's face, taking a bite out of their Pizza Slices, the two share it until they had nothing but an empty box and were finishing up with the bread sticks, Peter lets out a satisfied groan as he laid down on the rooftops with a wide grin on his face

"Hey, I forgot to ask, what're you doing in New York Anyway? just asking" Peter asked her, remaining in his laid back position

"I…I came to learn more about you, I was actually on my way to your house"

"Why?"

"You…interest me"

Peter eyes go wide as she says this, almost blushing as he looks at her pretty face, once again he goes thinking she's pretty and she is, no question

"Oh ugh like what?" he says, struggling to keep his words with his face nearly turning red

"For one, why at school, were you so determined to get me to laugh"

"Oh because you and me are alike"

"We aren't anything alike"

"I used to be gloomy all the time too"

This caught Laura off as she didn't expect someone like Peter to ever be sad, he always seemed to have a cheerful attitude, the first time she saw him, he seemed to be going through depression, but for him to be sad all the time, she didn't see it

"Liar" she said with a slight chuckle in her voice

"Really, what makes you say that?" he asked with a smile

"Because you make too many jokes and you smile too much for me to believe you were moody" she answers, smiling back at him

"Well believe it or not, I actually used to hate the world, I was the runt of the litter wherever I went, bullied, picked up, embarrassed" Peter says with a slightly more serious tone "I was the scrawny kid that if a girl looked at, they'd laugh, but there was one thing I had over most people, I was smart, that was it, I was the smart kid, the kid who did everybody's homework, who planned to get into MIT, work at a famous tech company, but then I attend a Science Trip to Oscorp where one of their experiments is one take a guess…"

"…Spiders" Laura says sarcastically

"Ding, she wins one, can she guess the other two to win the grand prize" Peter jokes "But seriously, you would never think of it, but one of those experimental formulas they were pumping with a failed Super-Soldier Serum, they called it Oz, and then it bites me, just right one my hand leaving a huge mark, I run out of the class, everybody laughs and a day later, I wake up literally taller, bulkier, I no longer needed my glasses to see and for the first time in my life, I didn't feel like a total loser"

"Why do I sense a sad story coming?"

"Because my first thought as a kid who comes from a supportive but struggling family is too try and make some money to support my Aunt and Uncle" Peter answers "And of course, I try out at wrestling with my new strength, I attend a few matches, I make a few hundred bucks a night to take down every fighter they bring against me, but then I do something I regret to this day"

"When the promotor for my match refuses to give me the money he owes me for winning his little match, I decided to just walk out of there, but on my way out, a robber runs past me, the cops behind me scream for me to stop him, guess what I do?" Peter asks in a wailed tone "Let me guess 'You think well of course, I'm spider-man, I stopped him, I caught the man and I saved the day' except you'd be wrong, I let him go and when the promoter yells at me for not stopping him, I say to him 'Not my problem'"

Laura was beginning to regret coming here, she can feel the hurt in his voice, she can see it in his eyes, she almost doesn't want to know, but she just has to ask

"What happened next?"

"I decide to go home and start thinking of another way to make money, but when I arrive, I find so many police cars parked outside our home, an ambulance carrying away a body, it was my Uncle Ben, the man that was essentially my father, was dead and all I could do was hold my mother figure and cry with her, but then I wait, I listen to the radio and I hear the cops have the man who did it cornered" his voice starts to sound almost angry, vengeful

"I put on my mask and I hunted the man down, he was escaping in a stolen vehicle, and he was about to meet his worst nightmare. I track him down to an abandoned warehouse he was hiding in and I corner him, I scream and rage about the man he had killed that night, and I start to torment him until I finally have him up against the window and I see his face" he stopped dead in tracks to catch a breath before continuing "I see that bastards face and I instantly recognize it, because it was the same man I let go that same night, meaning because I didn't stop that man, because I was selfish, I had to loss something as well and that my dear Laura, is where Spider-Man was born"

"I'm so sorry Peter"

"It's okay, it's been over a year now, and I've lived my life through some wise words he always instilled in me 'With Great Power, must also come Great Responsibility' the way I translated it was that if you had the power to help someone, you do it, because whatever happens next to that person, you could've prevented it"

"Wise words, from a wise man"

"Thanks, and I guess I talked so much that I never really asked for your story, so Miss Talon, indulge me"

Laura think about it, and wonders what he would think of her if she told him that she was a mutant assassin and killer

"No, not yet, but I promise, when I'm ready"

"And When you are, you'll have your friendly neighborhood Spider Listener being all Ears" Peter joked

The two of them dropped down from the rooftop and they head over to Laura's bike, he gets on and smiles

"See you around, Spider-Man"

"Hope to see you too, Talon oh and my address is…"

"Don't worry, I'll find you" she says with a wink as she drives off

Spider-Man laughs as he steps away from the scene, shooting a web-line, pulling himself into the air as he swings away from this.

WITH LAURA

Laura rides her motorcycle in the dead of night, the lights kept up bright as she has a huge blush on her face, she couldn't stop thinking of the Parker boy, of Peter, she could tell that he carried even more baggage than that, ones he was unwilling to share, but if she wouldn't free all of her own darkness, then maybe she shouldn't make him free all of his. Laura makes it back to the institute, and the first figure she sees is Logan with his arms crossed with a disappointed Dad face, he stood there as she parks the bike in the garage

"I…brought it back this time" Laura quickly said with a smile "Am I in trouble?"

"Hmm, let me think, you trash my first bike, then you steal my second to go on a mysterious joyride with a boy by the way"

"WHAT!?" the sound of Kitty's joyous

Kitty fazes through the door to the garage, holding and shaking Laura

"You went out with a boy, oh my sweet dark pale beauty you need to come with me now, it is time for girl talk" Kitty excitedly giggles the entire time with a massive smiling grin on her face, dragging Laura along as she was somehow found herself powerless to stop her as Kitty drags her to the living room and screams at the top of her lungs, getting the attention of Rahne, Rogue, Scott, Jean, Bobby, John, Sam, Amara and Evan

"Wow, everything okay darling?" Rogue asks the excited kitty

"Yeah it's just, Laura snuck out to be with a boy, it's time for girl talk"

The girls pick up and drag Laura upstairs, her still trying to figure out what exactly is even happening.

WITH PETER

After leaving the scene, Peter swung through the city, stopping the occasional crime here and there, some muggers, purse snatchers and one convenient store heist before finally making it back to his new house in Forest Hills, he snuck into through the cellar basement, making sure to be quite as he heads upstairs. But then the lights turn on and he sees someone he didn't hope to see again, but knew he would encounter one of these days again, a middle aged African American with short black and grey hairs, as soon as Peter noticed him he shot a web ball at his hand, sticking him to it

"I see those new powers of yours are really something" Nickolas 'Nick' Fury interpreted "So am I stuck here for an hour or does this stuff not dissolve"

"Don't play coy with me fury, I know you already have countermeasures for my new powers" Peter snapped back "What're you doing here?"

"I wanted to see it for myself, the great Spider-Man, back in action after a 2month leave, how's it feels"

"Good, at least for the next 6months when you get to draft me to your little team"

"If what my scientists told me about you is true then maybe I no longer have jurisdiction over you"

"Wait what?" Peter asked and Fury immediately handed him an IPad, Peter reached out for it carefully, seeing what his Spider-Sense has to say…and that is nothing

Peter takes it, looking at what appears to be a scan of his genetic structure and it showing some kind of genetic marker or something, but it was different from the Spider part of his DNA

"What is this?" Peter asked still whispering to not wake up his aunt

"That is called an X-Gene kid, it makes you something a lot more valuable than you were before"

"Why?"

"Simple, its makes you a Mutant, like those kids at the Xavier Institute, like that Goth Girl with the claws"

"Okay Fury what do you want, to spy on them for you?"

"Nah I don't do that, I'm just here to explain to you why you're getting these new powers, my team seems to think that when Osborn exposed you to his super soldier spiders, it stifled back your X-Gene replacing your original powers, but now that it's active, instead of fighting against your spider side, it's Complimenting it, adding new tricks to your arsenal, my personal favorite are those spikes in your wrists"

"Stingers"

"Nice name kid, what else yah goth for me"

"I know make my own webs, I feel stronger than before, faster too, everything tends to slow down if I focus it, I can see Inferred, and I have claws"

He shows Fury his clawed fingers, this actually putting a coy smile on Fury's face

"Man kid, you just had to level up the way you did, finally got some other offensive abilities I see, good for you oh and that Laura girl, what do you think of her"

"She's nice, little rough around the edges but who isn't, she has some major baggage but hey in this life, who doesn't have thousands of things they'd rather take back"

"Good answer kid, now go get some sleep before your aunt comes down with her gun again"

"Again?"

Fury walks outside, Peter opens the door right after he closes it and Fury of course, is just gone…one day, he's gonna learn to do that, going upstairs to his room, the mess that is his room, he thinks on how he's basically gonna have a girl over and she's gonna see this, and so he acquires himself to work.

CHAPTER FOUR

SPIDER-MAN GOES TO THE INSTITUTE

THE XAVIER INSTITUTE

Laura with her years of training had been instilled to always wake up at a certain time on her own, every day at that specific time, recently, it was getting easier to wake up in the morning without nightmares of the things she'd done. Sometimes she would still have them, rivers of blood beneath her feet as she watched more people be slaughtered by her hands, a chain on her neck, held by the shadow of the woman who tortured her, but recently, those nightmares had become less terrifying, because for the first time in her life she had someone who she knew was carrying their own heavy baggage of having led to death and they accepted it.

She opened her eyes from her sleep, and got ready, having to wait for Scott Summers to get out of the shower, him leaving fully dressed, his hair was even dried and she was shocked 'That man is weird' she steps in, coming out a few moments later, she gets ready as she goes with her usual gothic look, but she wears a pink sweater on top of it, the first time for her to be adding color to her attire, she rather liked it. Going down to the garage, she goes to once again steal Logan's motorcycle, but she quickly stops when she gets the quick scent of somebody, it was Logan and he was there with Ororo

"Young Child, may we ask were you are off too at such an early morning?" Ororo asked, her arms locked below her waist and her voice sounded concerned

"Somewhere important"

"Somewhere or Someone?" Logan questioned

She growled when he made an assumption

"Relax kid, we know about the Parker kid, the Professor got a reading off of him when you started the school week with the kid, wasn't sure why but Cerebro malfunctioned around him, like he was and wasn't a mutant" Logan explained to his kid "So…Spider-Man eh?"

"Peter is very nice and smart"

"Peter? Didn't know the two of you were on a first name basis"

Laura once again growled at her father

"But if you say the kid is good, I'll take your word for it, we'll go get him later, you, go do what you have to do"

Laura smiled, then all of a sudden, she hugged her father, Logan and Ororo both surprised by this as she puts on her helmet, getting on his bike as she drives out of the compound

"Do you think the boy is good for her?" Ororo asks, holding Logan

"Don't know, never met the kid, but she seems to like em, then I'll let her do her own thing"

"You sound almost like a father, Logan"

"That and I can swear his scent on her was vaguely familiar"

Laura hit the open road, the shadow of the woman stood in front of her trying to speak but to the teen aged girl, their words were inaudible as she rode right past it, the shadow fading away as she did.

FOREST HILLS, QUEENS

Peter Parker, having cleaned up not just his room, but also the entirety of the house, he realized that he invited a girl over and had spent three hours of the night cleaning up the house, even removing the cobwebs that had been bugging (No Pun included) Aunt May for a while, everything in his room that would be garbage, cleaned up, everything arranged and after getting out multiple pictures he had taken of Spider-Man/himself, including ones of him in his new suit, swung to the Daily Bugle and after a trial with Jameson, he managed to sell them for 790$, Betty was so happy to see him, as well as Eddie, he'd missed Eddie, Robbie and Ben Urich, he'd missed his work friends. Peter hadn't slept all night, but he didn't feel as tired as he normally would, his best guess was that a part of his new abilities was an even more reduced need for sleep and even more enhanced Endurance and Stamina, so he was done cleaning the house and decided it was time to take a shower.

While Outside, Laura felt Peter's scent grew exponentially stronger as she continued to go down.

She could see children ahead of her, laughing with each other while they played basketball hoop. She came to a stop when she neared them and watched with little amusement behind her black helmet as the kids quickly scurried to the side while saying "Sorry"

She let out a small nod, trying her best to gesture that it was alright.

This was a nice neighborhood.

She proceeded to go down until Parker's scent commanded her to turn left on Ingram Street.

She went down the street for a couple of seconds until she abruptly stopped in front of a blue house with the address of fifty-one. The house looked like any other within this neighborhood. From the outside, it looked to be two stories with an attic, presumably a basement if the window at the bottom of the house was anything to go by. There was a nicely kept garden in front of the house, one that rivaled Ms. Munroe's.

Parker lived here.

She got off her bike and approached the house, from what she could smell only two people resided within the average home. She quickly hurried down to the side of the house after analyzing that no one was around to witness her doing the act which would bring unwanted attention and suspicion.

The backyard was of moderate size, housing multiple plants in a variety of pots with two chairs and a table on a stone pathway that led to a side door. She pressed her body against the wall of the house as she heard the rushing of running water right above her. She moved swiftly until she reached the side door which she watched through the small window it had and observed nobody was inside, and the lights were still out.

She couldn't see Parker down but she could hear his heart beat through the running shower, he was taking a shower, (wonder what he looks like back there?) she could also here that he was on the phone with someone

"Pete, it's good to hear from you again man, I was starting to think that I'd have to come down over there and beat you outta your depression myself"

"That would be bad for my secret identity Johnny"

Laura thought to herself if this was therealjohnnystorm, his supposed friend that was the Human Torch of the Fantastic Four,

"So is it true, is The Amazing Spider-Man and The Handsome Human Torch back in action?"

"We aren't calling ourselves that, but yes, I guess we are"

"So who's the chick I've been seeing you with, maybe you can introduce me to your new lady friend"

"Johnny Bartolomeo Storm, do you ever think of anything that isn't cars or girls"

"Nope"

By their conversation, she was led to believe that this was in fact the Johnny Storm and that Peter's secret identity was known by him,

"Come on Man, is it someone I know?"

"No"

"Well man, spill, what's she like, at least gimme a name bro"

"Ugh Fine, her name's Laura happy?"

"Laura, that sounds hot, what's she like?"

"Little rough around the edges…" she heard Peter say, sparking her to immediately furrow her brow in annoyance at the comment. "…But…she is," she heard him genuinely say which made her posture lighten significantly.

She was not a-

"No matter what she says," she let out a breath as a tender feeling washer over her.

Like yesterday, he was saying what he truly believed.

She couldn't help but remember how he thought she was a hero like him

She wasn't…

…but…she was more than what Kimura thought of her and Parker's words helped reaffirm that belief.

She carefully opened the window to the Living room, carefully and quietly sneaking inside, using her years of stealth training to her not make a sound when she entered. Carefully going up the staircase to the upper floor, finding a hallway decorated with photos of age, the first one displaying a young woman in a wedding gown holding the hand of a man in a suit-both of them smiling widely.

She looked at the man in the aged photo who she could only assume to be his Uncle. He bore a resemblance to Peter, their smiles were so similar that it was almost uncanny. Photos of him and Peter's Aunt decorated the hallway, with one of them having the two holding a baby alongside another couple.

There was another photo next to that one, it was one of a young, brown haired, brown eyed boy who wore almost comically large round glasses.

It was Parker, he was such, a nerd.

He looked to be around the age of eleven, smiling as he held a science award with his uncle behind him.

She looked at it for a bit wondering what his childhood was like.

When it came to such things she could only imagine for she never had one.

Although the smile he had when he was looking at his uncle reminded her of the ones she used to have with her mother…

She shook her head and left the room, remembering what her mission was.

She wanted to tell Peter something important as well as gather more knowledge about him.

Moving along the hallway, she stopped at the end of the hallway in front of the door where his scent was the strongest. She looked around, wondering if there were any traps but there wasn't. she rotated the doorknob slowly, careful as to not make any noise that would alert others to her presence.

She entered the room.

The fragrance of his scent was intertwined with that of cheap air freshener that poorly masked the faint smell of chemicals.

The walls were colored light blue, the floor was tidily kept, with all the clothes arranged in his cupboards, everything else of important was in his drawers. There were countless posters raging from Captain America and Albert Einstein adorned on his walls. He had a full sized bed that sat in an oak bed frame and a headboard that housed multiple books. They were all about science, each book covering each field with some covering all various disciplines such as Biochemistry and Biophysics.

"He studies science." She thought, advanced sciences

It would explain the faint smell of chemicals she detected when she entered his room.

Across from his bed was a table where his computer sat. Above it was shelves that housed even more books and awards, all relating to science and they smelt of being recently cleaned, except a simple microscope that had been cleaned numerous times and kept pristine.

Beside that though was a massive box that caught her attention. It was a massive black box that had a picture of an old TV connected to one of those systems Drake uses on the main TV back in the mansion. She reached for it with the contents of the box shaking as she did.

'Nintendo Entertainment System' it read in yellow font with the top left reading 'Lego'

What was this?

She shook her head; she was getting off track. She put it back in its box and continued observing her surroundings.

She walked towards his window and noticed small droplets of dried-up blood that blended themselves within the dark oak frame. Judging from the smell they were from battles long ago.

She decided to follow the faint smell of chemicals.

She opened it and was greeted with boxes. She scoured through each one gently. On the left side of the closet was a box that took up most of the space, it was an old and beaten box that was simply labeled 'Parker'. It contained beakers and flasks, among all the components when it came to mixing chemicals. On the right side, there were boxes that her nose beneath them contained metal.

She moved all the boxes to the side quickly and efficiently, remembering every spot they were in until she reached the box she was looking for and grabbed it with care.

She placed it on the ground and took the lid off, only to be greeted with two metallic objects that she could only describe as 'Bracelets'. She grabbed them and observed every angle of them. They seemed to be some type of weapon due to the nozzle and the trigger but she hadn't seen anything like this before.

The closest thing that resembled them were the gauntlets that the KGB supplied its agents, but those were rudimentary.

Despite the bracelets being bulky, taking up almost all of the lower wrist, they were ingeniously made. The trigger perfectly mirrored the shape of her upper palm, while the nozzle barely stood out, making it easy to conceal. There was also an interchangeable cartridge on each device that popped out when pressed lightly.

She picked it up and put it back in, watching how it snapped back in its place instantaneously.

'interesting,' she thought

Whoever made this was a genius, the placement of the trigger made it so that unintentional activation was impossible and that if needed, changing cartridges would be fast and efficient. She didn't know what was inside the cartridges, nor what would happen if the trigger were to be pressed but she was bound to find out.

Although they piqued her interest immensely, she decided to place them on the ground and move on. The next object was a belt with the same craftsmanship as the bracelets. The belt contained the same cartridges that the bracelets used though there was a digital camera alongside a USB.

She picked up the next content of the box, which was a smaller box, opening it, she found multiple devices, including another set of those cartridges that were just as small as the others, but these ones had a green label on them, maybe the contents inside these ones were different from the others somehow. The next device was a quite small, a very small flat red spider shaped device, what was this? she looked at it, trying to examine it, but she just couldn't figure out what it was so she put it down. The next content in the box was another device she didn't understand, but this was a spherical one, metallic casing but looking like the casing was designed to expand, that's when she realized that it was a Bomb. Putting it back quickly to not set it off, she stopped pillaging through his box of gadgets and put it back down. She bent down grabbing the final content of the box which was a simple notebook. Despite knowing she'd already taken too long. She decided that she would risk it and browse through the contents of the book. She flipped through the pages mindlessly, stopping only when she recognized something. There was a diagram of the bracelets, according to the notebook, they were called 'Web Shooters', and it described almost every little detail and function of the device.

The cartridges were high pressure containers of 'web fluid' with the nozzle having an adjustment ring to change the patterns of the webbing. She read the notes; each cartridge contained a mixture of chemicals that when exposed to oxygen would form a thin, tough and flexible adhesive that resembled a spider's silky webbing which would dissolve after an hour.

She was so lost in reading about these 'web shooters' that she didn't hear the running water of Peter's shower no longer running and the closing of the door to the bathroom.

She flipped through the pages more. The flat spider shaped device inside the box was called a 'Spider Tracer' it is a device designed to transmit a signal directly to the Hub in his mask, drawings of the inside of the mask proved that, it having a digital map of the city inside of it. The cartridges of web fluid that possessed a green marking over them were an extremely concentrated acidic compound that was strong enough to eat through most metals in seconds, a note was written next to it 'Always have neutralizing agent on hand', this actually shocked Laura, and made her think if it could eat through her Adamantium Claws, and finally the last one was the spherical device, which was the most shocking, It was titled 'Web Bombs' containing the same amount of webbing as a single cartridge, the web bomb used the same high-pressure as the Web Shooters, but when fired, explodes at enemies, trapping multiple of them in web nets without even having to fight.

Parker made all of this…

She thought that he was incredibly intelligent as she browsed through te contents of the books more, it contained designs for other tools called 'Concussive Blasts' and a tab folded into it, she opened it and read

'Got into another fight with Shocker today and noticed he lost some gear while we were fighting, I mean he's in prison and a supervillain wouldn't be good if he got this stuff back, I'mma go work on this stuff downstairs in the basement with the other stuff' the note read

The basement? She thought

But before she could make left from right with her thoughts, a knock on the door knocked her out of her daze, realizing that Parker had stepped out of the shower

"Laura, you know I can see you in there right, can you please step out so I can put clothes on, then we can talk about how you broke into my house" Peter said calmly

"Okay" she responded

Closing her eyes as Peter opens the door, knowing her way out even without her sight, she steps out of the room, waiting in the corridor as Peter gets dressed. Stepping out of his room, he wore a blue T-Shirt with a PlayStation Controller on it, and Red Sweatpants and no shoes, she looked at him and his arms through the shirt, that was when she noticed just how much muscle he really had, he wasn't as big as Logan but to say he was skinny would be just wrong, his hair was still wet but the water caused his brown hair to shine, and the small amount of water on his face truly shinned just how attractive he really was.

"So, you wanna tell me what you're doing here so early?" Peter asked, his voice a mix of confusion, angry and curiosity "There something I can help you with?"

"I wanted to learn more about you"

"You could've consulted the internet, there are a lot of J. Jonah Jameson slander articles about me and even newer ones since I came back"

The two remained silent for a brief moment, just staring at each other in the corridor, with the only light being the ones from their eyes, both of them could see in the dark

"I read your notebook" Laura said, with her almost deadpanned tone of voice "You are very intelligent for a 17"

"'Gasp' that is how many compliments you've given since we started teaming up, didn't think it was possible" Peter joked

"I take it back; you are still an idiot"

"And she's back so what'd you wanna know about your favorite wall-crawler?" he asked her with a quirky smile "Actually, hold that thought, my Aunt is still asleep and she is elderly so maybe we should go down to the basement"

Laura nodded as the two headed down to the basement, opening it, she found the place to be like a small lab

"Benefits of having a job at Horizon Labs, it really pays, and it kept me busy these last few months"

The basement had several works in it, but one of the things that caught her attention was something of a fabric cutter that was on his work bench, it must've been what he used to design his new costume, then there were beakers full of compounds, the chemicals for his webbing and rudimentary designs for the unfinished tools she found in his notebook.

"I did not know this was here"

"Yeah Aunt May's worried I'm doing mad scientist stuff down here, cloning sheep, breeding new life all that stuff"

She raised an eyebrow "Would cloning sheep be an issue?" obviously waiting for his response to how if she told him that she was a clone of someone else and was a killer

"If you asked me two years ago if cloning was possible I'd say science fiction, but you're looking at a guy who was infected by one of Oscorp's Super Soldier experiments and now has super powers and two nights ago found out he was a mutant from 'the' Nick Fury so I'm gonna just say that nothing is impossible." He explained to her

"Super Soldier, as in Captain America?"

"Yep, or maybe what Fury and his agent Maria Hill called me once, but I never really understood it XXIVA or 24A"

And that clicked in Laura's head, he was a weapon like her, but the way he talked, the way he acted, as if he had no idea what he truly was, he belonged to a weapons program just like her, or belonging to a different fraction of one, but the last letter 'A' did that mean he was their first success were there more.

"Yeah that always confused me"

"You know Nick Fury, the Head of S.H.I.E.L.D"

Before he could answer her question though another voice chimed in, one that Laura didn't recognize

"What's up boss? [Gasp] you actually brought a girl down here, finally I thought I would be the only woman in your life" the voice said but Laura knew not where it came from

SNIKT

"Who is that?" Laura growled out

Peter immediately rushed to calm her down, putting a head in front of her in an attempt to calm her down

"Relax, that's just Yuri and I thought you were in SLEEP MODE!"

"Shush, your Aunt is sleeping" Laura and Yuri joked at the same time

"Okay, I like her, hi I'm Yuri and no it doesn't mean that"

"Hello Yuri, I am Laura Kinney"

Laura and Peter sit down as Yuri makes the coffee, Laura looks around, finding pieces of tech scattered around the small lab, she remembered one piece in particular, Shocker's Gauntlets, pointing at it

"Oh yeah, that isn't the first time I've had to deal with Herman and definitely won't be the last so I've been looking for weaknesses in his gear as well as just…wait a minute, I was supposed to ask you questions, so mind if I asked?"

"You may ask me anything?"

"Who are Laura Kinney?"

"What?" she asked confused

"I mean, when we were asking each other about our abilities and our pasts, you said you weren't ready, but you would tell me later, I want to know, if that's okay with you"

Laura looks down at the floor for a few seconds before raising her head to face him, this boy had saved her life twice although she would never admit it, he had genuinely tried to make her laugh and be happy, he could trust him with her past, her expression quickly lowers to one of a sad one as she prepared herself mentally, the tone of her voice lowered to reflect the sadness and pain of the memories she was now reliving

"I…I wasn't born, not like other mutants, not like you, I was grafted in a lab, a fetus scrapped together by scientists and madmen obsessed with spreading pain and violence, creating living weapons for the sole purpose of taking lives and spreading death"

"You're a weapon." The words ran through her mind

Tears welled up in her eyes as her face couldn't hide the pain, the hurt, the desperate expression that was on her face hat expressed all these things.

"After my incubation, I was left alone, (as they told me) and once I was old enough they begun my training"

Laura's voice dropped when she said that, the sheer sadness in her voice was enough to almost overwhelm Peter, she went on to talk about the woman that was in charge of her, her handler as she was called, the name they gave her, X-23, because that was how many times they failed to create a perfect clone of her father, Weapon X. she was trained to do one thing, to kill, in every way, every manner possible, never allowed to speak, never allowed any form of care, of love, just pain to steel her to be an unfeeling killing machine, they trained her day in and day out until she was 8yrs old which they begun to irradiate her body, forcing her mutant genes to activate, they burned her skin until they got what they wanted

~SNIKT

Laura unleashed all her claws, from the two that were in her balled up fists and the ones in her feet. Shortly after her X-Gene was active, they then grafted the Adamantium directly to her claws, turning them from simple bone to the metal he sees now. And after that, her training only intensified, getting worse as she grew older and when they thought they needed to counter her if she ever escaped, they created Kimura

"Who's Kimura?" Peter asked, almost afraid to know who she was just by the shiver of Laura's voice

"Someone who chose to be a monster, someone who enjoyed breaking every bone in my body and someone I was never able to kill, the Facility created her specifically to counter me, her skin is impenetrable and she is stronger than the average human" Laura said, almost sounding afraid to speak of her "She is the only thing I'm afraid of, whenever I close my eyes, I see her face, her sadistic smile and the way she said my name 'Hey X!'"

"Is she still out there?"

"Yes and I fear that one day, she will find me, and drag me back to the Facility"

"They can't just make you into a weapon, that's just a crime against life, against any kind of science, they can't make you a killer"

"Except they did, I killed people for them, many people for them and for those paying them, and I believe I remember one of their clients being a man named Osborn and another named Fisk"

'Of course Norman would use a child as a weapon, the more I hear about him the more I want to go and burn his grave'

"How did you escape?" Peter asked her, his face holding back the tears that were forming in solace of the poor girl in front of him

"My mother, the woman who birthed me, she…she got me out of the facility, but she was unable to join me in being free"

"What happened?"

"They laced her with Trigger scent. They made me kill her" Laura's pained voice turned into one of tears

"What's…what's Trigger?" Peter feared for an answer, because Laura's face, her voice, the sadness and pain these monsters had inflicted on her,

"A…A Scent they created, one that is almost odorless to anybody else, but if I get a whiff of it on a person, I lose control of my actions, and I kill them" Laura finally broke down in tears, her pain finally coming out to the surface of everything. Peter immediately rushed and held her in an embrace, simply allowing her to cry out her eyes, the cold stoic goth persona washed away and replaced by this young girl who had been through so much trauma and pain, a damaged young woman who had been through so much.

MORNING 08AM

QUEENS FOREST HILLS

Laura struggled to open her eyes, as if they had been closed for a long time, opening her eyes to see Peter laid next to her, his face pointing to hers, at such a close range, her face turns bright red as she has never been this close to a boy before and it wasn't to kill him, but thus felt different, her face turned red as she stared at him, she didn't know what this feeling is, it wasn't that she couldn't avert her gaze, it's that she didn't want to.

She looked down at herself, still unsure what this feeling was, but it made her happy, facing back towards him, she turns his hair away from his face, she leaned in slowly to give him a kiss on the cheek before getting up, she put on her boots as she stepped out through the cellar, turning back to face the boy who laid innocently in bed. She stepped out of the home but was stopped when three familiar scents caught her attention, she whipped her head to the side to see a black limo pulling into the Parker Driveway, inside was her father, and three others.

EARLIER AT THE INSTITUTE

Scott, Jean, Kitty, Kurt, Rogue, Evan, Jubilee, Amara, Roberto, Rahne, Sam, and Bobby were all watching as Logan, Ororo, Forge and the Professor were all dressing in fancy attires and looking as if they were going to a fancy party, but thanks to experience from all of them, and a slight telepathic read from Jean, the answer comes to them

'We're getting a new student' they all unanimously thought

"I wonder who it is?" Scott asked

"Hey maybe it's that Parker guy from school" Jubilee enquired

"Could be, Cerebro did have a new mutant detected a few days ago, maybe it is him" Scott added

"Gotta be, hope it is, the dude is not only cute, but what we say him do at school, the kid like has some serious moves" Kitty screamed, before covering her mouth

Jubilee wonders what she's talking about, so Jean psychically projects the Dodgeball scene from school into her mind

"Wow! Imagine that guy on our team, did he really do that"

"To me it looks like the kid has some form of training, he didn't just move on pure instinct, and also, has anyone seen Laura today, she didn't come down for breakfast"

"I'm just gonna finally say it, that girl gives me the creeps, the way she just sneaks up on people and what's her connection to Professor Logan anyways" Evan asks

"Ugh isn't it obvious" Kitty questions "She's his illegitimate daughter from a love life he didn't know he left"

"Really" Tabitha said with an arched eyebrow

"Students, you know its rude to spy on people like that, I have taught you better, if you want to know where we are going, then you may just ask us" the Professor states with a smile

"We're sorry Professor, we just haven't really expected anyone and we don't know who he is" Scott stated

"Don't worry your red shapes Summers, the kid's not gonna take your spot as Chucks favorite, but he might just take the smartest from old Beastie, if he ever steps out of that dankly lab of his"

"If you're going to be bringing in a new student, then maybe having another student would help sway their guardian about us" Scott proposed the idea "Seeing the benefits of coming here would be beneficial"

"He does pose a great point Charles, maybe we should bring both young Summers and Miss Grey along"

"I suppose that's a great idea" Jean answered "Kids, take care of the Institute while we're gone, Kitty, Rogue, Kurt, you three are in charge"

The three salute the green eyed red head with the face and figure of a model as she floats both herself and Scott down the stairwell, their casual attire is good enough for the trip so they are already ready to go. Entering the limo with Storm as the driver, the group of five drove off out to recruit a new member to their family.

PRESENT

Logan stepped out of the car, visibly stunned to see Laura still there despite her not having come back to the institute and she wasn't as stunned to see him, she knew he was coming but she thought she would be able to sneak out before they got here, they were a bit early and now she was very likely in trouble… Shit!

Ororo stepped out of the car next and finally the Professor was carried out along with his wheelchair, they all witnessed the girl just staring confused on Logan's motorcycle, as she quietly drove off with the bike and the group head into the home. The sound of the door bell ringing is what wakes Peter up, he jumps up startled as he wakes with the sound, feeling his side, he doesn't see Laura, sad, he really wanted to wake up to her pretty face but then he finds a note stuck to his side

'THANK YOU'

This put a smile on his face, but then he remembers that the Professor was supposed to come by today and that must've been them at the door now, seeing that he wasn't wearing a shirt, he then felt the embarrassment of the fact that he was sleeping next to a girl, without his shirt and she left him a note and a kiss on the cheek

"Peter Parker you are in trouble"

Upstairs, Aunt May answered the door, revealing, Logan, Ororo, Scott, Jean and Professor Charles Xavier,

"Good Morning Dear Mam, my name is Professor Charles Xavier, I am here about your nephew"

"Did he do something?"

"On the contrary no mam, he hasn't done anything wrong, may we come in and speak to him" Charles asked with a soft and friendly tone

May nodded and the group entered, Scott admiring how nice the home was, it wasn't anything fancy like the Institute, but it was really nice, he could see how a person could live here, then he looked at one of the family portraits and fond that the kid they were here to see was Peter Parker from his school, but he looked different, like a total dork. Scott almost couldn't hold his laugh as he saw the then and now pictures playing in his head, and that now would come upstairs from the cellar and both Scott and Jean's jaws would break the ground as he walks upstairs with no shirt on, muscles and perfect six pack on display,

'Scott what the fuck?!" Jean telepathically yells at Scott

'What are they feeding that kid and why didn't we notice that at school?' Scott psychically asked back, eyes with wide and Jean struggling to take his eyes off him

Peter looked at Ororo who motioned to him to look down, looking down, he noticed he had no shirt on and immediately getting flustered, he frantically started apologizing as he rushed upstairs, coming back down a few minutes later with a red T-Shirt and a Blue Hoodie, sitting down on the chair next to May who just chuckled.

Jean glared at Peter, angry that he took away her show, Scott glanced down at Jean scared that he may lose his girlfriend to a guy who just lost his shirt.

May sat staring at Peter, as did Charles, Logan and Ororo, before finally May asks Peter a question

"Is it true Peter?" May asked seemingly out of nowhere

"Is what True?" Peter inquired to know what she was talking about "May, what is it?"

"That you are a Mutant? that you have certain 'Gifts'?"

'Quick Think of something' May come on, me, the only thing special about me is up here" he said gesturing a figure to his head, implying his brains

"Peter, I can always tell when you come up with random lies, before I just ignored it, believing you would come to me when ready, but if this is it, please come clean"

Peter stared at May, he could see it in her eyes that she wanted the truth and she wanted it now, so with a heavy heart and a massive sigh, Peter raised his hand with a clenched fist, all of them waiting to see what he would do or what was too happen

SHAK

The sound was surprising to everyone but Logan, what was surprising to the war veteran was what came out of the boy's wrist, a foot-long spike, that looked to be made out of bone, Logan looked down at his claws, he knows the Adamantium in his body wasn't his, they used to be made of regular bones, and now this kid, had a similar ability and then his name, Parker, his eyes, his scent, all of it was so familiar but how.

"Stingers, I call them Stingers, I don't really know the exact details but apparently, they can cut about anything I've put them against"

"What exactly have you tried cutting with Bone Spikes" Scott asked, curious of how long this kid has had his powers

"Well, I car, solid steel, a vending machine that refused to give me soda, a guy who tried mugging me and failed badly" Peter explained to the group, to the surprise of May who heard that her nephew had stabbed somebody "You didn't kill somebody, did you Peter?" May asked extremely worried for her nephew "What? May come on…me kill someone, I was actually just going for a punch, but they sorta popped out last second and I stabbed his leg". Charles noticed something about Peter though, he was somehow unable to read his mind, some kind of static or buzz was keeping from being able to establish telepathic contact, Ororo noticed this and quietly asked the professor if anything was wrong, but he chose to stay quiet to not arouse suspicion.

"Okay, are any of you guys' mutants too" 'Duh of course they are, come on Peter, make better excuses'

"Indeed Young Mr. Parker, all of us at the Institute are in fact mutants, I myself am a telepath, my dear Ororo can control the Weather, Scott shoots Optic Beams of Kinetic Energy every time he opens his eyes without his Sunglasses" Charles explained to the young brunette boy

"Oh so that's why you use Ruby Quartz for your shades, the only reason one would need those would be to hold back massive amounts of energy so using them to block your power is pretty cool"

"You figure that out by yourself bub?" Logan smugly asked

"Yes and that was after two minutes of talking to him that first day of school" Peter revealed "Wait, you knew that these were Ruby Quartz and you just said nothing?" "What would I have said, 'hey dude, cool ruby quartz sunglasses that are designed to hold back massive amounts of energy, can I borrow and see if you blast my head off" Peter joked, getting a laugh from Jean "I'm a telekinetic by the way" she said, using her mind to lift up a cup from the table, take it to the tap fetching a water before bringing it back "Nice" Peter responded

Charles then begins to explain what the Institute was, of how they already had several students who trained to control their abilities, while to others, it was a home, not everyone took kindly to mutants, many would chase out their children, believing them to be monsters or demons, so Charles offered homes to them, a place they could belong. Peter found this to be extremely noble, but what really caught his attention, was when Charles offered him a scholarship there, those were the only words he needed to hear and then it was just a matter of patiently waiting for Charles to shut up so he can ask one question in return Where Can I Sign?!