CHAPTER 7
THE HYBRIDS
The Avengers had taken a brutal hit, four of their strongest members were just brought down the night before by an unknown Assailant going by Maverick, a complex scan done by both Black Panther and Iron-Man have shown that Maverick is some kind of Bionic Genetically Enhanced Super Soldier, with the strength to best both Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel and Jennifer Walters aka She-Hulk at the same time, even somehow destroying the Mutant Miracle Metal known as Mysterium. Alongside him was his partner, a recent menace that has been plaguing New York streets stealing from Technological Storage Holds. Iron-Man had set out to track down and neutralize this threat to the world. A spider person with the strength to tear through Adamantium and Vibranium was impossible. Those were the three strongest metals in the World, maybe even the Universe. And two teenagers had just completely decimated them. But Tony Stark always had a plan, as he decided to call in backup. The X-Men.
AVENGERS TOWER
The heavy hitters of the X-Men as well as those of the Avengers had all gathered together in the Avengers Tower, having scene as well as Jean and every Psychic across all of Krokoa having felt something incredible, Power, power they had never felt before, Charles had even made a direct comparison for it to feel like the Phoenix, and those statements were backed by Jean herself, the current host of this cosmic force of life and power, another power of a mere mortal was somehow competing with it. This anger that Jean felt towards it, this was something the redheaded mutant had never felt before, like the Phoenix itself was being threatened by something, and that could not stand, for the Mutant Race, she would not allow it.
Storm and Magneto didn't like that they had been called away from important matters on Arrako to come solve a human issue, Magneto never being one to interfere with the affairs of the humans, but times had changed and now was the time to be making friends instead of enemies and having powerful beings such as this against them wouldn't be for the best in anybody's side. So he was here, albeit begrudgingly. While Storm, even if she had responsibilities to protect Arrako, the matter is, that those shockwaves had somehow managed to cause massive quakes that even damaged Krokoa. Rogue just wanted something to punch, and after something dared threaten their home, that was not going to stand, they finally had a place where they could be themselves, that won't be taken away from them ever again.
"Thank You all for coming" Tony said to the X-Men. "Now, we might've seen the news about this Maverick character?" he questioned, pressing a remote, the TV switched on. Showing The Daily Bugle news networks report on the subject.
'It truly is dark times for our heroes' folks, as mere Months after losing one of our city's greatest protectors, Spider-Man, may he rest in peace, but now, new villains have risen to fill in the void he had left behind, Maverick and Shadow-Spider, yes, one even mocks our deceased hero'
Magneto's dark thoughts were on how the humans had already begun to panic. These two adversaries had spired a distress in them. But if this Maverick was able to decimate the Mutant Metal of Mysterium with nothing more than his hands then maybe that is something to be cautious off? Cyclops was the first to ask a much more strategic question, "What exactly where these two after that they were willing to break into the Avengers home base?" Stark kept quiet on this one, not sharing the information, he put on his helmet to cover his thoughts from Jean, she could never know what the Gene Triggers were and what they were capable of doing to any non-mutant or even Super-Powered being on Earth. Jean wasn't able to read his mind anymore, but what she was able to sense was his immediate distress at Scott's question. What was he…?
…What was stolen, was an experimental Super Enhancement, similar to Extremis" Tony answers, lying through his helmet. "It was something I came across a while back in an old Hydra Base and locked away for safe keeping"
Rogue spoke up "Ah recon you didn't destroy the damn thing?" she questioned
"No Rogue, I did not" he answered
"And now these mysterious individuals have it" Magneto adds in.
IN PETER PARKER'S APARTMENT
W-What?
Oh no…oh no, No, NO! It, it was one of those things, one of the same things that had tormented her nightmares for so many years, the same thing that had possessed and corrupted Peter before, but what was he doing with it now. Mary Jane Watson, now known as Jackpot, she had come to check up on her friend, but to see this, that he was in trouble. Peter however, he was stunned, then his face drops and he thought 'What was she doing here?' 'You know better yet, why is she here?' Peter looked down at his Symbiote Suit, then casually, not minding that she was even there, he morphed his suit into casual clothing, Red and White T-Shirt and Black Sweatpants, he walked over to his fridge, opening it and grabbing some beers and walking back to her.
He cracked open a can "Okay MJ' he says in a deadpanned tone "What are you doing here?" he asked. MJ stared baffled at him, what…what was she doing here "I…What're you doing with one of those things?"
He was confused, Things? What did… oh, okay. He took a sip of his drink, what was he supposed to tell her, he wondered, but did he have to tell her anything, it's not like she had any say in his life anymore. The woman who had thrown him away like an old boy toy, they had ended things and that meant that she had no claim to his life anymore, and never will again. And what again was she doing in his new apartment, she didn't belong here.
"Things? You mean Ravager"
"I don't care what he's called, it's a space parasite…"
"PARASITE!" Ravager's head grew out of Peter's shoulder, staring right into Mary Jane. He growled at her, his sharp fangs barred with each psychotic snarl in her face "LISTEN HERE YOU RED HEADED SLUT…!"
"Ravager, down, I can handle this" Peter yells at his Symbiote. Ravager looks back, almost with a look of sadness, like a yelled at child, puppy dog stare and all. Retracting back into Peter, letting him talk to MJ by himself, Peter doesn't hear the Symbiote in his head but can still feel his presence there, turning back at the redhead. "Mary Jane, it's good to see you" he says with a smile. That smile falling down "What're you doing in my apartment?" he says with a much sterner voice, almost aggressive in nature. "Oh wait, where are my manners?" he says as he face-palms, he offers her a can "Drink?" she takes it, but doesn't take her eyes off of her former spouse, worried as to how casual he was acting about having a space monster linked to his body.
He takes a seat on his coach, MJ doing the same, still cautious of not only him, but of that thing, Peter glanced at her face, her fingers tapping at her drink, her eyes shaking and focused on him, and lips perked shut. "You're nervous" he tells her
"Y-No" she answers
"I've done a lot of interrogations MJ, I've seen the signs, I can tell you're nervous that I'm under the influence of some evil space creature" he states to her. She remained silent of him having outright stating her thoughts to her. "Well relax, I'm fine"
She looks at him drinking Lite Beer, he never drank before, but she needed to change the subject and change it fast "I…I like your new place, you got a new job?" she enquires him on it
"Yep, Horizon Labs, pays way to good and lets me help the world, my way"
"That's amazing for you Pete"
[SHE'S CHANGING THE SUBJECT] Ravager says to him [I CAN SENSE YOUR EMOTIONS, YOU DEEPLY CARE FOR THIS WOMAN, BUT YOU WERE SCORNED BY HER]
'Shut Up!' he grits his teeth to say
"What was that?" MJ asked
"Nothing that concerns you" Peter coldly says to her
MJ looks at him distraught, the way he just casually dismissed her concern, this wasn't the Peter she knew, the nice guy who always checked up on her, even if they were no longer together, they were still friends, they could still be close. She puts her hand on his, looking at him
"Hey Peter, I'm just been worried about you"
"Yeah Right" he rolls his eyes "Then where were you a couple months ago when I was on my death bed"
MJ shut up, she… she was living comfortably with her boyfriend Paul, they were just being a happy couple, but that doesn't excuse the way he's talking to her. He chucks his hand free from hers "But hey, that's in the past now, just like any claim you have to say we're friends" her eyes widened, he, he wouldn't say that to her, would he? "Peter please I'm just"
"What? You just what? MJ"
She was quiet "Peter please calm down, that suit is making you"
"This suit is nothing, Ravager and I are friends, we help each other, sure he sometimes gives me nightmares, but I'll take does nightmares over being your favorite boy toy, that's Paul's…" Peter stops, looking forward at the door, his peripheral vision switching to Night Vision, and he sees someone waiting outside the door. "I…is Paul waiting outside?" he asked in an aggressive tone
She nodded.
He sighs "You know what, let him in here, you should both hear what I've been too much of a stupid coward to say to you" MJ slowly walks towards the door, opening it and allowing her boyfriend Paul Rabin inside. Everybody's worst character. Said absolutely everybody.
"Peter I've been listening in to the way you've been talking and I think…"
"Oh you think now" Peter cuts off "Wow! Congratulations, Paul can think for himself now, want a cookie"
Paul and MJ were both struck by this. "Hey, don't talk to him that way. I don't like the way that suit is making you act, you're not yourself"
He starts laughing, pressing his mouth to his face "Not 'myself' what do you know about me? Maybe this isn't the 'Suit' maybe… think about this now, maybe I'm actually hurt by what you did, ever think of that, no wait if it isn't you, you don't care" his words hitting harder
"That's not right, Peter snap out of it!"
"There is nothing to snap out of Watson, this is all me and how I feel, ever thought of that, No? I know you haven't. To busy hooking up with any guy who gives you attention, Tony Stark for example"
"Hey, don't talk to her like that" Paul tried to punch Peter, "MJ and I are happy together, you're just jealous Parker"
"Yeah, you are truly perfect, Perfectly Pathetic"
This stuns them both. "W…wait Peter, stop, you aren't Yourself, I know we aren't together, but I still care about you" Mary Jane said to him and this, Peter's heart stopped, she still cared. What a joke
"You still care… is that supposed to be funny. You came to my home with the man you chose me over, I loved you and you tossed me aside like a piece of trash, I loved you, you here I. Loved. You!" Mary Jane was stunned by his words, because it was true, all of he said was true, she kept her mouth quiet
"You were hooking up with a guy that just showed up out of nowhere, while I was jeopardizing my relationships with everybody, my friends, Aunt May, my friends hardly trusted me, I had to work so~ hard to rebuild those relationships while you were hooking up with someone else" he screamed at her "You don't get to ever say you care about me when all of that is words"
Peter clenched his fists, wanting to just punch her in the face and be done with it, his anger affecting Ravager on the inside but he was keeping it under control, keeping all of it under control, years of love for the redheaded woman in front of him, but right now, all he felt was complete, Utter, Contempt. "So, Please, before I actually get the urge to punch you in the face, leave"
Mary Jane was ready to start crying, her Tiger, but he was no longer her Tiger, his eyes, glaring at her with a ferocity that she had never seen from him before, especially never would such anger would be aimed at her, he… he hated her, and he never wanted to see her ever again. Turning around along with Paul, who glared at him, he glared at Paul back with Blood Red tendrils coming out of his back, with bladed tips. This immediately made Paul turn around, opening the door, walking out of the door and Peter slammed the door on them.
Peter sat down on his coach, angry at Mary Jane had come here to act like she cared about him, after everything she had done to him, after her betrayal, she came here believing that he would still be the same nice idiot who she could play. Sitting up straight with his hands on his face, groaning in anger that the woman he once loved thought she could just play with his heart.
But, what did this mean between him and Zoe? Was he…could he love again, how did he feel about her through all of this, after what he had just do to Mary Jane, someone he's known since he was 15, the woman who was there for him after Gwen died. Was what he just did wrong? Should he maybe go and apologize to her? It would be the right thing to do, Right? [OKAY DUDE, I DON'T UNDERSTAND HUMANS, BUT WHAT SHE DID TO YOU, YOU DID THE RIGHT THING] To answer his question for him "Don't try to influence my thoughts" he says to his Symbiote.
As Mary Jane and Paul leave the building, he holds her close to him "It's okay Mary Jane, you're a great woman, and he never deserved you to begin with" Paul says, trying to comfort his hurt woman and Mary Jane herself couldn't understand why he would feel such a way, they had broken up before, so what was so different about this one. What had she done to elicit such an anger from him and the worst part, she couldn't tell if that was his own rage or Symbiote Rage.
SOMEWHERE
A Massive Block of metal was lifted into the air, then lowered with the sounds of grunts, lifted up again and again. Sophia Markov aka Track, was doing one finger pushups with a massive metal block on her back, sweat poured down her (Sexy was the only word for it) figure, she wore a lot of clothes, but underneath all of that, she had a figure that most supermodels would die for and she was fit too. With arms that would make other female body builders pale in comparison.
Dressed in a Black Sports Bra and Blue Tights, she grits her teeth at the exercise, heaving pools of sweat forming below her. Next to her, was her good friend, David Johannson aka Maverick. He was performing the same training as the girl, except without the blocks
"R-Remind me again… why I'm training harder than you?" She questioned through struggling grunts "I have a block and you don't"
He taunts her "What, too hard for yah, you are the one who spent that last couple of days behind a desk, trainings too hard for you"
She shakes her head "You wish" grinning at him "I was just wondering when girls started doing the heavy lifting over the big strong men"
"Oh it is On" the two continue to go at it "10923, 10924, 10925…." All while the likes of Shadow-Spider and a man, he stood at 5'9, she had to look up to see his face. He leaned on the door, his arms crossed as he watched on. This 5'9 giant of a man had a Square Face, noticeably strong cheekbone and a jawline. He also possessed Violet, Almond, Deep Set Eyes, with arched eyebrows, as he stood with at the frame of the door, his body, being Toned to perfection, with arms like a man who never skipped the gym but never went to Overload. He wore a Tight Black Shirt, showing off his muscled figure a Black and Red Leather Jacket, Black Trousers, with Red lining on the sides, a black belt with two chains attached to either side, and Red Combat Boots, his trousers tucked into them.
"Man how competitive can those two be?" he says in an optimistic tone of voice. With Shadow-Spider lifting an eyebrow at him "What?" he asks. She just shakes her head and walks away from him. Leaving him confused he asks again "What?!" she said nothing, having left the training area. Katie moved towards the end of the hallway, and opened the door to what appeared to be a laboratory, this old Hydra Base was a really useful thing, especially for when it came to needing labs. She stepped into the joint, moving towards a table to find a computer, containing half the things they had stolen, half of the chemicals and serums anyways. A centrifuge operating, accelerating whatever was within it, while on the computer, it showed 'DNA MODIFICATION 47% COMPLETE' it was going smoothly, no need to rush her little project.
Katherine walked out of the lab, locking the door behind her as she did so, then out of nowhere, poof, in a small gust of wind and spark of light, she was gone. After a few minutes, she reappeared on a High Rise in Manhattan, not in her suit but in casual clothing, too casual. In Avengers Tower, as the Avengers and X-Men came up with a plan to counter these new threats, Black Panther's gauntlet started glowing, he faces down to check it out, eyes widening and then a smile crept up his face
"My friends, it would seem our new spider has made her way to…The Lower West Side?"
"How do you?" Tony was about to ask, but the Wakandan King cut him off
"During our last encounter, I was able to get a read on her teleportation signature, so if she used it I would be able to track her, it hadn't worked before, but it would seem that she was within close proximity. The Lower West Side. But by the readings, there's nothing in that proxy, no tech, no organizations, nothing"
This had them stumped, what was there that would garner her attention, but they weren't going to wait around to find out, as Rogue, Captain Marvel and Iron-Man and Vision were all headed there immediately, Logan was riding on his motorcycle, Tony called Widow, she was the closest to their target.
Meanwhile in the Lower West Side, Katie walked down the streets, her hoodie up above her head as she walked down the street with her head lowered, the body of someone else made a small frump as she bumped into them, "Hey!" a woman's voice sounded of. Taking off her hood, she crouched down to help her up, there in front of her, was a visibly Asian American Woman with short Purple Hair.
Zoe Zander got up, looking at the woman who pumped into her "Oh s-sorry, didn't see you there" the two women stared at each other for a moment, Kate looked down at her hands, she was carrying a book 'Advanced Astro-Energies and the Robotics Power'
"You're a scientist?" Katie asked
Zoe looked down at her hands "Oh no, I mean but, more of a Chemist and Virologist really" Katie raised an eyebrow "Then why the Astro-Ergo Manipulation Book and what is clearly for someone into Robotics?"
"Oh, this is… for my…boyfriend, I mean he isn't my boyfriend but I thought…you know we've been on a" Zoe rubbed the back of her head "I'm sorry I shouldn't bore you with someone else's romantic life"
"I can relate to romantics, I mean my Ex-Boyfriend cheated on me with his Ex-Girlfriend" Katie revealed, a bit too much to be saying to a stranger "Oh cheaters are the worst type of people"
"I know right…hey you seem to fun to hang around with, wanna go grab a coffee at the Mean Bean?" she said pointing her thumb back
Zoe thought about it, she did have work in the morning, but hey it was coffee with what was substantially a new friend, needed more of those, and thus, she nodded and the two ladies went to get their coffee on but unknown to them, was that the Avengers and X-Men were nearing the unsuspecting spider-woman and woman of science. Later at said coffee shop, Katie and Zoe were laughing with one another,
"Okay so you said this Ryan likes to talk about nothing being a competition- but he's the most competitive guy you'll ever meet" Zoe reiterated
Katie stifled down her laugh "Oh no, competitive is too little of a term, if something isn't a competition, you can bet yourselves he'll find a way to make it one"
"And your girlfriend, what's she like?" Zoe asked her
"Oh she's strong, takes shit from nobody, absolutely nobody, like a Celestial could attack the earth and she'll be more pissed off that her favorite cooking show was interrupted"
"I can relate to that, Cooking is Life and Life is Cooking is my favorite show, despite me being an absolute mess in the Kitchen"
Katie takes a sip of her coffee "Preach Sister, give me a knife and I'll cut up everything but the Food"
The two women went back to laughing, "Hey, this has been great meeting you Katherine:
"Call Me Katie Darling" she says in a Fake British accent "Only if you call me Z"
The two wink at each other, with Zoe handing Katie her number and telling her to actually get herself a phone, it could save her life, she tells her this as she leaves, Katie just enjoying a night to herself, no stealing, no being a regular human pers- [SPIDER-SENSE]
God-Fucking Damn It!
A man walked up to her, brown hair covered underneath a Soccer Hat, he wore red sunglasses despite it being the middle of the night. Yeah real subtle asshole. Katie glanced up at her assailant, sighing, she got up from her chair, went back to the Barrister and asked "Six Cappuccinos, Two Hot Chocolate Extra Whip cream, Five Mogo Hulk Special with two sugars and One Espresso Latte extra strong. To Go" Katie dropped a 100$ "Keep the change" after she got her orders, she went back with Cyclops, and sat down
"I take it you know who I am?" the Mutant General asked. She nodded. "Then you know why I'm here" she nodded again "Listen, I know you and your friend have been stealing technology, but all of that can be absolved if you stop and return home with me to Krokoa" he offered her
She held unto her bags of Coffee, looking around while he was still talking "Mutants shouldn't be fighting, we have a home now, you don't have to steal in order to survive" he tells her, still no response "You won't be judged like you are right now and…"
"Does that deal offer extended to Maverick as well?" she asked. Cyclops kept quiet, it didn't, he wasn't a Mutant, but really, neither was she… completely
'Scott, her mind, she's keeping me out somehow' Jean said over the Psychic Link "I mean, he isn't a Mutant but he is a human with Powers, just like Mutants are"
"What?" he was confused
She raised an eyebrow, then sleekly chuckled "Never mind that now. But I'm guessing since Maverick isn't a Mutant he isn't going to be Invited 'Home' she air quoted the word home. Not buying into any of this but there was a reason she was so confident in this situation. And one she was more than keen to share in due time.
"But another thing is that I do like the idea of your offer, but I don't think it extends to me the way you think it does"
Now Scott was confused, what did she mean by that? She could see the confusion on his face, she looked to the side, focusing her ears and listening in on the conversation between The X-Men from across the street.
"You think Cyclops has got this?" Rogue asked
"Cyclops is a marvelous tactician and negotiator" Magneto answered. Then his face straights "Be ready to move in when he fails"
Magneto raises up one of the Miniature Cerebro Devices, scanning the woman to find out who or what she is.
"This shouldn't be right"
"What is it, Erik?" Storm asked, noting the concern in his voice
Katie could hear their conversation, Scott was able to spot that she wasn't listening to what he was saying, she was making it very obvious about her being focused on something else. So Scott once again asked her if she would be willing to return home and that the Invitation to Krokoa was open for her,
"I said that invitation wasn't as open to me as it wouldn't be open to my friends. I wouldn't go anyways"
"This is not a decision I can make for you"
Outside, Storm and Magneto performed a rudimentary scan on the girl in the shop with the General of Krokoa, Magik, never being one to worry, had a look of concern on her face, this girl, she had no weapons, her powers were mainly that of an Insect, like the last bug, she didn't really care for it when she heard he passed on. But right in front of her was a man who had protected mutants for his entire life.
"I should go now, something about all this doesn't sit well with me"
Storm placed a hand on her shoulder "It will be alright dear Illyana, Cyclops can handle himself well"
She nodded and looked back, before something caught her eye "Ugh? Am I crazy, or is she looking right at us?" Yana noticed
The X-Men and Avengers all looked at the window, and indeed, Katie was in fact, staring right at them from almost a quarter of a city block, she breathed on the window then wrote 'I SEE YOU' with a heart at the end. Scott was confused by what she had just done, but she just smiled at him, stepping up with her bag of Coffee, she handed him one of her cups and gives him a stern warning
"Stay away from, Stark, Summers. We're after him as well as a few other things, Mutants have no place in this, so do what you do best and stop being heroes" she says to him as she walks away. As she steps out the coffee shop, Rogue was waiting for her outside in a hood, Katie puts up her hood as she walks across the street, buying a crepes from a woman selling them, she put on a pair of headphones, paying off a parking meter for two more hours. As the two teams watched the girl, they noticed something, she was good, just helping people and taking care of people, Storm found this trait rather admirable albeit coming from a dangerous thief.
Cyclops looked at Jean "Well, what's she thinking?" Jean tries to access her thoughts, slipping through the cracks of her Psychic Shielding, but she found she couldn't, even with the Phoenix Power, the Psychic Shielding that girl had was next generation, made by someone who could…
"…someone who could keep even you out" a voice reaches out to Jean, reaches out to all of them, even easily bypassing through Iron-Man's Psychic Dampeners, laughing at them "Oh do I so love that look, when an Inferior Being, meets a Higher Power" the voice daunts at them, telling them to give up this pointless pursuit for a man who would just as easily betray them if he thinks any of them a threat. This catches Iron-Man off completely, did, did that voice know about Peter, no way did it know, why would something that can do that care about someone so insignificant, he would have to pay Parker one more visit and this time, he would make him tell him what was really going on. While she was walking away, Katie looked back and faced the Heroes and X-Men, blowing a kiss at the group as she completely vanishes, neither Stark, Jean or T'challa able to track her any longer.
And with that, the group had been taken back to square on one who this girl was, but Stark had vowed to go and interrogate to a certain Ex Wall Crawler on the situation.
THE FOLLOWING EVENING
Peter was at work, he had decided to spend the whole day at work instead of night to get that money, but even with all that, not all was right in Parker land, his vibrant smile missing as he focused on his work, at the moment, he was examining a small particle left behind from Shadow-Spider's teleporting as well as that energy signature Maverick left behind. But that didn't excuse his long face, as Zoe rolled in slowly on her chair, her face frowning just as his was
She reached out a hand to his cheek "Everything chip P?" she asked him. He snapped out of his thoughts 'Oh right, Zoe?' "Ugh Yeah, everything's…fine" he sighed, she puffed her lips, everything was not fine "You sure, you look like someone died" that would be disrespectful to him if nearly everybody he knew hadn't died at least once before, maybe even more. He smiled albeit a weak smile "No~ Nobody died, I…Zoe, if I told you on a date, hypothetically that I had to run and do something, what would you think?"
She pondered the question "I would be a bit angry and ask where you were going"
"And if I said I couldn't tell you?"
"I'd suspect you of doing something stupid or not wanting to be on this date and ask where you were going" Zoe answers, now she started to get confused by the questions. What was he getting at?
"And if again, I said… I couldn't tell you to keep you safe"
"I'd call you an idiot"
This shoots Peter for a loop, wanting to protect his friends and family is not an idiotic move, keeping them at a distance is what keeps them safe, letting Gwen get to close is what got her killed, it was what got Aunt May shot, which wasn't like it wasn't good for anything, because she was dead now. He let Mary Jane and she left him for Paul. He remembered last night, him telling her to fuck off, for choosing Paul over him, making him feel worthless for months while she was living with her happy life.
But now he looked at Zoe, she… she made him feel… something he hadn't felt in a very long time, what was she feeling, it was like, he… he didn't know what this feeling was, no… had he forgotten the feeling.
He looked at her and couldn't stop imagining all the horrible things that had happened to the women he loved, to the people he cared about, when they either died,
"Zoe… if I told you that people around me always died out, or left me, or ended up hating me. Always the same all because I wanted to keep them safe"
"What?" she said confused "Peter, did you hit your head again?" Zoe asked.
Peter chuckled, she was right when he thought about it, he was sounding kinda crazy, 'But… it's time, I can't make this official if I can't tell her the truth and…I want to tell her' Peter stared at Zoe, taking in a deep breath
"You… you want to go to Joe's tonight, best dumplings in the city"
Zoe almost drooled at the mention of this, "You had me at Date and secured me at Dumplings. Friday 7Pm, don't be late"
"If nothing comes up"
And with that, the two had another date planned out for each other.
WEDNESDAY
AVENGERS TOWER
The Avenger and X-Men continued to set up a plan to deal with this growing threat, yesterday they had managed to find one of them, Katie, the Shadow-Spider, where she was confronted by Cyclops, they had given her an invitation to Krokoa, but something Magneto had discovered with the Miniature Cerebro devices. Now that information was being shown in the Avengers Security Hubs
"This is Shadow-Spider's DNA sequencing and it doesn't make a lick of sense to me either" Black Panther said. Showing the screen "The Scans show her possessing an X-Gene, making her a Mutant"
The other X-Men were confused, if she was a Mutant then what she doing here instead of on Krokoa. And what were they finding so confusing?
"Then a deeper look showed that she also possessed an Inhuman Factor in her DNA, as well as Traces of Eternal DNA and even a Super Soldier Serum" The king explained further
This shocked everybody in the room, how could one being possess everything, Mutant, Inhuman, Mutate, Eternal, what was she? Carol was the first to ask that question, to which no one had any semblance of an Explanation as to what this woman they'd been fighting and one who had the strength to best Captain Marvel, not that she would ever admit that, ever.
"And then there was this…" he shows something else in her DNA, something that any and all close examinations on the blood sample he acquired from her "…This, has no distinction, nothing we do can identify what this part of her DNA is"
And just like that, their new Omega Level Mutant showed to be much more than a Mutant, she… she was everything, that explained her monstrous strength and abilities, all those genetic factors combined, that made her something far beyond that of a normal Mutant. Maybe even more than an Omega.
Looking around, Magik was the first to notice something odd
"Where are Stark, Kurt and Drake?" the Russian Mutant Half Demon asked. To which none had an answer too
"Actually, Kurt and Bobby went to visit a friend that lives close by here" Jean answered "Logan is doing Logan things"
PETER PARKER'S APARTMENT
Peter Parker, once Spider-Man, now Ravager, was getting ready for a night, a night unlike any other, a night that needed to be perfect, a night that was not allowed to go wrong, or he would, kill everyone in the room and then himself. As he morphed his Symbiote into the perfect White T-Shirt, Black Leather Jacket and Red Sneakers, The Shirt having a PlayStation controller on it, he had bathed seven times in the last hour to remove any foreign smells from him and taken a smaller bath in perfumes to smell nice
[THIS BETTER NOT FLUNK BUDDY]
"Maybe this isn't a good idea?"
[WHAT! THOSE SOUNDS LIKE THE WORDS OF A COWARD AFRAID OF HAVING A LIFE AND YOU CLAIM TO WANT A NORMAL LIFE, IF DAREDEVIL CAN HAVE A WIFE, YOU CAN]
"Maybe I'm not destined to have a family, maybe…"
Ravager grows a tendril and slaps him in the face
[TONE DOWN THAT TALK YOUNG MAN!] Ravager yells
"I am literally older than you"
[NOT RIGHT NOW YOU'RE NOT, NOW, THIS GIRL, SHE MAKES YOUR HEART BEAT QUICK AND WANT TO DO…STUFF?]
"…." Silence with raised eyebrows
[AND SHE MAKES YOU WANT TO DO STUFF WITH HER]
"…." Silence with disgusted eyebrows
[NOW GO ON THIS DATE TOMORROW, KICK ASS, GET ASS AND~ YOU HAVE VISITORS]
Someone knocks on Peter's door 'Oh thank God'
[I HEARD THAT]
'Get out of my head'
Peter goes to open the door, and finds three of his closest friend there, Bobby Drake, Kurt Wagner and Logan. Stepping in, Logan immediately goes to the fridge and finds Four Crates of Beer with a stamp that says 'For Logan. Touch and Risk Snikt' "That's real thoughtful of you, bub" he takes the crates and all four men are on the chairs
Peter being the owner of the home decided to break the silence "So what brings my favorite mutants to this humble apartment?"
Bobby also taking a cold drink answered "Iron-Man called us in for that Maverick situation, whatever the guy did in front of Avengers Tower shook the entire world. Even Krokoa felt the quakes form whatever he did"
"Ay mi frend, those tremors shook everywhere, Latveria, Wakanda, Krokoa, this Maverick is a mighty one, strange we are yet to see from him again"
"Yeah and apparently, that Shadow-Spider chick's an Omega like Bobby here" Logan added "So, came here looking if yah know anything webs"
Peter looks in the mirror, Ravager staring back at him, and then he looks back at his friends "Do you guys trust Tony?"
Logan shook his head 'No' Kurt and Bobby were more confused on the question, when Logan looked at them, then back at Peter, and he nodded to the feral mutant.
"I… I didn't lose my powers" Peter reveal to them. surprising the two, The General Story told to the rest of the Superhero Community who didn't know what Tony did was that Peter lost his powers and decided to retire from being a Superhero, just living the normal life he had sacrificed to become Spider-Man.
"If you didn't lose your powers then what happened?" Kurt asked him
Peter cracked his back "Tony depowered me" he revealed, to the shock of the two Mutants "Yeah, said that I couldn't be controlled, was too much of a wild card to be left lose"
Iceman and Nightcrawler couldn't believe what they were hearing, but then they remembered who they were talking about, Iron-Man, reckless billionaire, something so stupidly reckless was a daily past time for him. Going as far to depower one of the greatest defenders of this city and one of the greatest heroes of all time, that was a mistake with hair on it.
"Oh we are so not helping that ego maniac do anything" Bobby yelled
"Agreed" said Nightcrawler
As the group agreed up on this, Wolverine's senses picked up on something, and then so did Peter's Symbiote Spider-Sense shot up, looking around as the feral man continues to sniff, but a quick gush of wind is felt in the room, it had come… from the kitchen, but there was nothing there, the men all slowly approached the kitchen, in the direction of that brief wind and… on the counter… there was a note.
'Want answers, Brooklyn Bridge. Come Alone' with a ghost emoji at the end. Peter turned it around and written very largely was 'NOW!'
The group were all stunned, where had that letter come from, and Peter could only think of one person who could have done it.
"It was Shadow-Spider. Had to be" Peter states
The rest look at him in shock "You sure?" Bobby asked
"Yeah, our last interaction, she… she called me, Peter. She knew who I was" Peter admitted. This shocked everyone even more, when people such as A.I.M, Hydra all had problems with finding out his secret, and this girl comes in suddenly knowing all of it including where he lived. This was a problem; she was a problem.
Suiting up, his date wasn't until tomorrow, he could do this without worry, the others were about to follow him, when he flashed them a smile and a thumbs up, not even wording it, but his face said it all, 'I've got this' shooting a web as his mask forms around his face, he begins to swing away, letting the others discuss amongst themselves about what to do.
While he swung across the city towards one of the most meaningful places in his life. 'She… she doesn't know about Gwen does she?' he slingshots himself forward, traveling faster than before 'She knew about me, does she know about May and Gwen?' 'How does she know who I am? I… I think, oh my God Miles?!' he was near the bridge, stopping on the side of an apartment, he could see the Bridge, and all the memories of Gwen come flooding back into his mind, so much so that Ravager could even feel it
[THIS… GWEN, SHE WAS IMPORTANT TOO YOU?]
"Yes"
After that brief interaction, he shoots a web line and runs up the Bridge, stopping at the exact spot that Gwen Stacy died, and there she was, just sitting there, her hood was down and her mask was next to her lap, she kicked her legs in the air as she heard him land. A smile creeped up her face, brown hair and eyes on full display.
"You came, didn't think you would" she had the accent of someone raised in Queens
(A/N: I Don't know what that sounds like so I can't write it. Sorry)
"I came, I'm alone, like you said"
She smiles as she turns around, her Round Freckled Face, Brown Eyes and Long Brown Hair tied in a Ponytail, she was wearing a kitty cat Head brace as she stared at him.
"Hi"
He replied awkwardly "Ugh Hi~"
The two Spiders stayed eyes locked on the other, but taking a closer look at her face, he could see it, she… she looked familiar, he had definitely seen her before, but how, from where.
She smiled at him
"It's g- it's good to see you again, Peter"
He dissolves the mask, apparently not needing it to speak with her. She smiles at him, seeing his face again. He walks up to her, taking a seat on the edge with her, she rested her head on his shoulder
"Does this place… does it mean something to you?"
She looked to think about it, this was a touchy subject to her, she faced towards him, then let out a small chuckle "Yeah, it was where my parents proposed to one another" Peter had a bit of a warm feeling inside, for years, the Brooklyn Bridge had been a constant reminder of his failures, but seeing that to another spider, it was such a symbol of Love. That was something he needed in life, even if it wasn't his happy memory, the happiness of others is always enough motivation for him to move forward.
"Hey thanks for coming by the way"
"You're, welcome" he answered "What… what made you think that I would come alone?'
Peter didn't understand why, but this girl, her face, her smile, she looked, she looked just like~ {SPIDER-SENSE} the both of them but on their masks and turned around to see incoming, Missiles! Peter created a Shield, but the missiles released an EMP of sorts, for him, he was unaffected by the blast, retracting the tendrils into his body, coming down hard… was Iron-Man or better Mysterium-Man 'Oh Shit' Ravager got into a fighting stance immediately, focusing squarely on the man in the Iron-Suit in front of him "ARGHHH!" but that scream, it drew him out of his fighting mentality, facing his left to see… Shadow-Spider, bound by Mysterium shackles, she was struggling, using all her strength to try and force the mutant metal apart, but she couldn't, the metal had lowered her overall strength, she… she couldn't do anything, not with Magneto there, beside Iron-Man, the two men who believe they are always right,
"No longer shall you and your confidants harm our great nation, Abomination" Magneto's voice roared to through the air, the abomination part coming from her being a combination of Mutant, Inhuman, Mutate, Eternal and something else entirely, such a genetic combination was an affront to Nature's chosen children. Them. "Now you will come with us and stand trial for your crimes against the sovereign nation of Krokoa"
He wrapped more Mysterium around her body, the almost living metal snaking around her body, constricting as she begins to lose breath, her eyes daunted at the age old mutant as he squeezed the life from her with the one thing that could hold her. The metal slithered around her neck, crushing her windpipe even further as she continued to struggle, tears forming in her eyes as the darkness began to creep over the light, her head was heavy, breathing was impossible.
And while all of this was going on, Peter, The Ravager, was absolutely mortified by the way Ororo, Mistress of the Elements, one of the most kind hearted Mutants alive, watched on as a child was being strangled to death. Goddess Status really went to head, No? Ravager cocked his fist back [SYMBIOTE PUNCH] the blast of tendrils rushes to Magneto, but to the master of magnetism, his magnetic field burning and disintegrating the Symbiote mass,
"I would implore you to not act any further Parasite"
Magneto referring to the parasite being the one who uses a Symbiote for power, Ravager growled at being called that, teeth bared and eyes sharped, winding his arm back, building up more muscle to it as a mass of white tendrils forms around his hand, jumping up and launching this attack [ANTI-VENOM BOMB] Throwing the massive Anti-Symbiote attack at the Master of Magnetism, the collision of this attack and his magnetic field, the explosive force of this attack is enough to make him lose focus enough to cause him to let Shadow-Spider go, falling from his magnetic grip and off the Brooklyn Bridge.
The memory of Gwen falling to her death replayed in his mind, the Goblin throwing her off, his miscalculation of the wind speed, and the force of which she fell to the whiplash snapping her neck, his eyes narrow as he dives off the bridge, shooting a web line at the ground, he speeds up and catches her before shooting another line and U Swinging back to the top of the Bridge. "Thanks" Shadow-Spider says on awakening, she continues to struggle for her freedom,
"It is useless child, do not resist or suffer further harm" Magneto lands, above him are Storm and Rogue, along with Magik, Sunspot, Iron-Man, Captain Marvel and She-Hulk, all standing before them
SHIT!
Storm descended "Cease sister, we wish you and the Amalgamation Behind you no ill will-" Katie lifted her brows and shouted "Sorry but I don't role with bondage as a hello, maybe you could try_" she was shut up by Magneto "_But we must take her in for the crime of attacking Krokoa" Katie once more with raised brows muffled words but she was still gagged with a piece of metal.
Struggling and Squirming to break out of the Mysterium Bonds, she turned to the man who saved her, her eyes said it all, widening in fear, as she was raised into the air to float before Erik Magnus upside down. Electromagnetic Energy coursed through his body, actually becoming visible to the naked eyes, the man glares at her with confusion
"What are you, child, our technology shows you being Part Mutant, Part Inhuman, Mutate, Eternal and something completely Unknown" He stated to her "So before we take you to stand trial for attacking our home, I ask you reveal what you are"
She glares at him back with equal contempt "Fine, you want to know what I am, Better than you for starters, isn't that what you said to the humans, 'We are your Genetic Superiors in every way' she quoted him "Well that's what my Kind is to you, your genetic superior, we are everything you listed and more, Mutants, Humans, Mutates, as one of my kind, I would like to introduce us, We Are… The Hybrids" she smiles when she says this, looking at him in the eye as she says this, then with a big smile she says to him
"Oh and by the way, I want you to know that we are more than capable of replacing you, and difference between us is… we don't need a bunch of us to fight one person. But it fun when we jump people"
This statement confused him, but then it made sense, as he turned around, he spotted her associates, Maverick and Track. Track wore a White Kevlar Sleeveless Top, An Orange Crop-Top Jacket, with Long Arm Gloves, an Orange Belt on White Shorts, Orange Thigh Highs and Red Combat Boots.
"This is the third time I've had to bail your butt out of a bad situation, making this into a habit, are we?" Maverick questioned with a smirk
Shadow-Spider responded with a sarcastic laugh "Can you get me outta these now?" Maverick Geo-Leaped (Teleported) next to her, grabbing the metal by the sides, to which Magneto questioned what the boy was doing, Mysterium could not be… only for his thoughts to be snapped just like the Mysterium was. All the Mutants were stunned, Stark had said that the boy had the strength to destroy Mysterium, but seeing it with your own eyes, that was something completely different. Ravager helped the young girl up, she glares at her friend who saved her
"This isn't a normal thing" she says smugly
He chuckled a bit, his hand to his hips "What, Me bailing you out of situations?" he grins "Never"
But up above, Track was doing something a bit different, her fists clenched tightly, eyes narrowed and focused squarely, on the master of magnetism, she bared her teeth as a burning orange and red glow emitted from her body, forming into something akin to flames. And even as some of them were on the ground level, they as well could feel the intensity of said flames, as she began to burn brighter and hotter. A transport disc opened up right above her, and falling out from it, Magik with her Soul-Sword ablaze with Blue Energy, and she herself was in her Dark-Chylde form, coming down on the unsuspecting Hybrid, Track remains staring down at the Mutants, and as Illyana swung her sword down on the girl, her eyes moved back and before the Mutant Demon Witch could even understand what was happened, she felt a pressure on the back of her neck, and her target, completely disappeared, a sparkle of orange flames passed by her face.
And Track was behind her, holding her by the neck and glaring down at the lowly Mutant, a smirk on her face, Magik takes a back swing at the girl, and once again, she was gone, moved so fast, Yana's body hadn't even moved from the spot from which she was held up, her eyes widened as, and before she could even feel what was about to happen-
-Darkness
That was all she saw next, then nothing.
Track was holding her body, Wolverine was unsure if the girl was still alive, unable to smell it with the amount of heat that the girl was generating, she throws Magik to the X-Men's feet, Cyclops immediately checks up on her,
"It's okay, she's alive, but I think she has a cranial fracture. Jean, get her to the Healing Gardens" Cyclops ordered his wife, she nodded, and teleported there immediately.
Ravager stood there shocked, next to Shadow-Spider whom was still rubbing her neck from having her throat crushed
"Yep" she suddenly said. Ravager looks at her "That girl, looking at her, you could never tell she's a little shy bean, especially when she can also be heavy protective"
Track looks at the Master of Magnetism, she lifts her clenched fists at the man, and fires a him a massive Burst of Solar Energy, with him creating a shield of electromagnetic energy in order to protect himself, but that doesn't stop the power from her attack to send him flying back. She follows this up by rocketing towards the 70yr old man, attacking him with a flying kick, as the dust clears from tat first attack, Magnus finds himself with his body dug into the ground, he groans in pain, wiping the blood from his mouth as he faces up, rising off the ground and out of the way of Track's attack, and she collides with the ground.
In the air, Storm generated massive amounts of lightning to strike the girl, the power ready in her hands as she screams out "Calm yourself Girl, before I am forced to put you down" Track looks up at Storm, the clouds above her turning dark, circling around as lightning burst out from them, the Goddess Mutant's eyes emitted her pinkish lightning "So make your choice carefully" she says, looking down at the Hybrid. Meanwhile, Maverick fought against Rogue, Captain Marvel, Iron-Man and Cyclops, blocking a kick from Rogue with his sidearm, and catching a punch from Captain Marvel, Cyclops fires his Optic Beams from the front, and with a single kick, he deflects the beam into space, he moves back to dodge a kick from spin kick Carol, to which she launches an Energy Beam at the Bionic Being, slapping the attack at Rogue, it hits sending her down to the ground, teleporting behind Carol, he attacks her with a low jab, followed by a high jab, then a left hook and then a swing fist and ending with an uppercut, sending her flying back and into the side of the bridge.
As Rouge gets up, rubbing her head, a pair of Red Sneakered Feet step up to her, she faces up to see Shadow-Spider, she was looking down at her, a look of sheer malice in her eyes, Rogue jumped up but she caught her by the foot,
"Let go ah' me"
"Not before you listen"
Spider-Sense, Sunspot came flying at her, throwing a straight punch across her face, but that punch phased right through her as he did as well, the arachnid Hybrid then drags Rogue down, spins her and throw her at Sunspot, she hits and the two are sent flying into the side of the bridge, [SYMBIOTE STRIKE] Ravager comes down with a violent mass of tendrils coming down at her, she teleports out of the way, reappearing on one of the Industrial Cords holding up the Bridge, Rogue zoomed towards her at an insane speed, Shadow-Spider teleports in her trajectory, with Rogue's fist already outstretched, Shadow-Spider grabs her by the fist, snapping her wrist, Rogue screams in pain before being pulled in to an upkick, teleporting again out of the way of a Symbiote Punch, teleporting behind Ravager, she cocked her fist back, he spun around to counter her next act, but… there weren't any, she didn't do anything
"Don't stay here, Please"
And she teleports away from him.
Back with Storm and Magneto vs Track. A quick scan from the Armored Avenger from below marks Track as… an Omega Level Mutant. So this fight, was a battle between three Omegas, all their powers charged up and ready to face each other, but having managed to easily damage Magneto, showed that she was something to be worried about. Track's power, Solar Energy Manipulation, Storm had obviously seen this before in Gabriel Summers, and immediately knowing what to do to take her down.
Track stares at the two Omegas. Storm then steps up to face the Burning Hybrid, staring her down with the eyes that have seen many horrors
"You will go no further child" Storm says to her
"And what does this matter concern you, our quarrel is not with your 'Holy' Land" she says holy with air quotes "Why not head back to your paradise and forget you ever saw us, or else I'm going to do something you'll regret" she says casually with a hint of arrogance and malice "Do the smart thing and go back to forgetting whom you truly are"
Storm was rather confused by her words, but chose not to speak on it "We welcome you to Krokoa child, I suggest taking the Invitation"
Now Storm spoke with arrogance, to which Track herself smirk, the two powerful women simply staring each other down, Shadow-Spider caught a punch from Rogue and Sunspot that sends her feet skittling on the ground, she jumps back, landing her own across Rogue's face, Iron-Man throws a punch at Ravager, Peter blocks it, confused as to why Stark would attack him, but then again, this was the same man who took his powers away.
"What the hell Stark?!" he screams
"I knew you couldn't be trusted, you're with them, and I'm taking you down with them"
He fired a point blank Uni-Beam, sending him flying into the sky, Ravager shoots out multiple tendrils out of his back and shoulders, connecting to the Towers of the Bridge, staring back at the man of Iron flying at him, shooting missiles at him, [SYMBIOTE SHIELD] the Tendril shield is enough to protect him from the incoming missiles, and better, they were filled with Anti-Venom, Peter then absorbs the Anti-Symbiote formula, [CARNAGE SPIKES] Shooting out multiple blood red spikes of strengthened Symbiote matter, but these aren't enough to even cut through the mutant metal, before being butted in the head, before being blasted by a Repulser Beam, sending him to the ground, Ravager shot a web-line, winding up on the ground, his feet thread the ground and slingshots himself up back up to the towers, his vision blurred away from that last hit, and Tony rushed him again
"I offered you a post on the Avengers, and you spat it in my face" Tony elbows Peter in the face, Peter hits him back with a side jab, this does nothing to Iron-Man but move his head, Stark then delivers a rocket knee to his torso, followed by a rocket powered uppercut to the head, sending him flying, his brain rummaged inside his head, he was already repairing the damage to his internal organs, and his skull, coughing out blood, Tony grabs him by the back, lifting him up and once again, continues to law it on him, beating him into a pulp once more, Peter feels each devastating blow to the head, the last time anything had hit this hard, was when he battled against two wielders of the Phoenix Force.
After that devastating beating, Stark held Ravager up over the ledge of the bridge, he cocked his fist back to end him
"I told you, you should've done as I said"
Shadow-Spider flipped Rogue over her head, then fazed through an attack from Sunspot, facing up, she saw the ordeal going on between Ravager and Stark, her eyes go wide on witnessing this, and as Rogue tries to capitalize on her distraction, delivering a heavy strike to her head that knocks her back, followed by a blast to the back from Sunspot and then the two coming at her at once, a kick from Rogue and a Solar Punch from Sunspot, the Arachnid Hybrid is able to block them both at once, pushing them both off her, her hands and eyes glow a magenta color different from the light purple they usually did, as the winds began to pick up around them at a powerful pace, enough to even gander Storm's attention, because this was not her doing and the winds, would not obey her.
"No!" Shadow-Spider screams as Tony delivers that final punch and sends Ravager over the ledge and towards the rocky waters, with a quick twirl around while spinning her hands lower, she throws up her hands and a tornado forms from all the dust, debris and matter around them, conducting massive amounts of electrical energy sending them everywhere. This Ionic Vortex, sends massive amounts of energy everywhere, as well as pulling everything on the bridge into it as it moved, one of the bolts strikes Tony, forcing him to let go off the Unconscious Ravager, of the edge of a bridge, sending him falling to his death.
MEANWHILE
Up above, Track and Storm were engaged in a simple display of power, with a massive wall of fire behind Track, and a hurricane behind Storm. Both of them simply standing in the air, forces of nature at their beck and call, Water, Ice and Winds all forcing themselves at Track's blaze, both showing off the massive amounts of power at their display. Something was wrong with this scene though, and Storm was the first to see it, Track, her face, she was completely, unchanged, sure, steams of energy radiated from her eyes and mouth, just like Vulcan, but something was off, she wasn't speaking, she wasn't bosting of her power, no..,. she was calm and collected.
Until finally, she cracked a smile, the first time throughout their entire confrontation in all of this, The Queen of the Blaze, allowed herself to show an emotion. "Why the smile?" Storm questioned her
"I girl can't smile anymore" she lifted an eyebrow with a smirk
Storm met her with the same "You don't peg me as an aggressive type, yet your power is so familiar"
Track folds her arms, her toned arms flexing in her arm gloves, "My Power? Vulcan"
"Indeed" she answers "He would usually boast about his might. Before being put down"
Track and Storm stare at one another, pillars of fire erupting behind the Hybrid, and a massive Tundra behind the Mutant Goddess, this display of power was more than just visible to the people of New York, but was also becoming detrimental to them as well. Track noticing this, the Daily Bugle sent a Helicopter to broadcast this, the mountain of Solar Energy erupting from Track, affecting the electromagnetic waves of every machine around them, first the news cameras begun to short out, then the chopper steering, until finally, the blades themselves, the chopper blades halted in place and the vehicle begun to descend at an uncontrolled pace,
"Mayday, Mayday, this is Chopper 9 and we are going down!" the pilot screamed out. The reporter and cameraman inside both began fearing for their lives as they were sent crashing towards the ground. But that fiery death would never come, as the three would find themselves rescued by Maverick, having left his fight to protect the innocent, floating over the ground, he would slowly descend and put them down, before saluting to the news reporter and flying back to beat the shit out of the X-Men and Avengers.
But this was truly confusing, if these guys were truly bad guys, then why would that guy just save those people, Captain Marvel, Storm and Magneto all thought this, but when the Master of Magnetism returned his gaze to the Solar Hybrid, what he found was a fist, mere inches from his face, she delivers a devastating jab to his face, shattering his helmet on impact and sending him flying towards the ground below, his body splashes on the water, skipping across the Hudson until he crashes somewhere in the Upper East Side.
"Erik!" Storm yells, then turning back to face the Sun in human form. The Girl's body burned like a star, even generating the same amount of Solar Energy as one, yet somehow, Iron-Man suit could detect no radiation, at all.
Storm now enraged, lightning dancing around her form, thunder crackles around her body and through the clouds as The Wind Rider summons a massive Tundra of Water and Ice directly above the Sun Child, the Ice and Water of an Omega Level Mutant pour down on her at extremely cold temperatures, enough to even weaken that of a star…but Track was far stronger than any normal star, covering herself from the rain, she lets out more of her flames, completely burning away the water and ice, leaving nothing of it to even challenge her blaze, and from that brief explosion of power released from this child, that pushes Storm back and her tundra dies down even further, while this youth's power seems to grow even further.
Ororo can sense the power this child wields, for a brief moment, she sensed it rise beyond that of what Storm herself is able to wield and again, she sees that smirk across this girl's face, "What's wrong, feeling a bit out of your element?" her voice is calm as she says this,
But then Storm goes in charging at her, Lightning powered all through her body as she charged straight for Track, delivering a punch right to her jaw, sending Track flying back, spittle of blood come escapes her mouth on that strike, 'T-That's surprising?" Track immediately sets rolls herself straight, just in time for Storm to attack her with a heavy straight jab, to which Track is able to block her with her sidearm, but as soon as the Mutant removes her fist, she delivers a devastating front kick to the chin, Track grunts on the pain 'Forgot, she actually has hands' Storm follows up her assault with a quick side kick, 'She's quicker than you Ororo, don't give her a second!' she launches said kick, Track is able to counter this by grabbing her ankle, surprising the Weather Goddess, the Hybrid pulls her in and begins spinning her around, before tossing her back towards the Bridge Towers, Storm flies through the air at remarkable speeds, but commanding the air around her to act as a cushion, slowing herself down tremendously a she lands and uses the bridge towers as support, Track rushes towards Storm, but she slows down, her face showing clear hesitation, one of which Storm notices as well, blasting her with a huge Cryo-Kinetic Blast, the cold power nearly freezing over her flames, to quick she overpowers and shatters from immediately 'Damn it, why'd we have to be fighting here!' Track internally screams.
As Track looks around, unable to find her opponent, Storm reappears directly behind her, Track manages to turn her head around, only to receive a fast cross punch to the face, sending her flying and skidding across the water like a peddle, Track is able to sustain herself once again, blood dripping down her forehead and mouth, just as Storm is able to land a devastating cross kick to the face, knocking the Hybrid up once more.
With the others watching on now is astonishment, Maverick stands as Iron-Man continues to scan him, watching on as Storm has the upper hand, Rogue even taking a moment to hail her friend from below
"Sorry Butterscotch, but looks like yah friend ain't as tough as she claims to be" Rogue taunts the Bionic Human "Storm has got this in the bag"
Maverick looks at her with his arms crossed, watching the same fight she was, but then, Carol, She-Hulk and all the X-Men and Avengers notice something was off, that look in his eye, he knew something was amidst here, but- but what?
Back with the two Warrior Women, Storm rushed back to Track, her hands coming down with a double axe-hand, knocking her down towards the bay, crashing into the ground, cratering it, Storm lands, immediately raining down a heavily tow of Lightning down on the aggressor, the crater expands from the force of this attack.
Storm stares at the crater she had created, the smoke clearing out to see, Track was still standing, albeit a bit bruised up and bloodied, as Storm has remained relatively untouched throughout this ordeal, though she huffed out a few breaths, not having had to exhort herself in such a way in a while. Track wiped the blood from her mouth, staring into Storm's eyes "Gotta say, the talk of the Weather Goddess Omega Level Mutant wasn't all talk at least, you being a Class S is actually an accurate description of your power" Track states
"What do you speak of a 'Class S'?"
It was at this moment that all camera and speakers, News would reach the rest of the world as every major Broadcast Media were here to get a story on what was happening and the entire world was watching. Latveria, Wakanda, Symkaria, Krokoa, Avengers Mountain, The Sanctum Sanctorum, Scarlet Witch's Home, all were watching for what Storm meant.
To which Track was happy to explain "Oh right, we told you what a Hybrid, a being possessing an X-Gene, The Inhuman Factor, Mutate Super Serums, Eternal DNA, and Two others you can't identify. When you scanned me earlier, I registered as an Omega level, but what if that isn't how I am to my kind"
The world stood still, what kind of being was she, A Hybrid Amalgamation of every super powered species on Earth and more, Reed Richards immediately began running the calculations, that this girl would indeed register as an Omega Level Mutant, but if she was saying that she was truly something more powerful than one.
Track's wounds already begun to heal, albeit slowly as she continued to speak to Storm, the African Goddess charges towards her once more, Track dodges out of her way, appearing where Storm was standing before
"Impatient are we? Don't be in a rush to die Goddess"
Storm kept quiet, 'That moment, I was wide open, and she could tell… what's her game?'
"Like I was trying to inform earlier, Hybrids have different scale of power to your generation, your scale of Beta, Alpha and Omega couldn't keep up anymore when every single Hybrid, scales to being Omega and have Evolved Far Beyond that scale"
Her eyes wide as this new information sends as this new information sends a shock down her spine, Erik already scanned her with the Cerebro devices and indeed, she registered as an Omega Level Mutant, but if that is merely the base power unit for her entire species, then was she truly stronger than Storm, or is this just mere speculation to make her put her guard down.
"Nonsense" Storm says
To which Track smirks "Is it now, the term Class S isn't to refer to an Omega, it's where you stand on the pecking order, with an entire System in place, similar to your own, but used to vastly display a much different range of Power" she rests her left hand on her hip, "Class S is a regular Omega, nothing to special there…" she completely waves off the entirety of Mutant Power like it were nothing while explaining this. The Mutants of Krokoa watching this were infuriated with this, but continued watching in order to fully study this new threat and if her words hold true
"Class S is where I don't know, Vulcan is in terms of Raw Power. S is Apocalypse and SS is, I don't need to further explain, but know that every Power Unit is an entire Omega Level, higher than the one that comes before it, meaning frankly, this fight was over before it began"
"Your right"
Storm snapped her fingers, creating massive sonic booms directly in front of Track, the intensity of the boom was enough to stagger Track, long enough for Storm to deliver an uppercut to her face, sending her into the air.
While again with the X-Men and Avengers, Maverick sat there watching the fight as it picks back up, Iron-Man continues to scan Maverick's genetic technology, but once more, the code behind it is simply too much for the suit to process, but that doesn't stop him by gloating to the Bionic Human
Getting in his face "I take it that you lost all bets with your friend there, guess she was all talk after all" to which Maverick simply lifts his hand and one shots Iron-Man away "I wouldn't doubt Track stark"
As Storm continues to deliver devastating gut punches to the Hybrid, spittle of blood leak from her mouth, following this up with a thunderous left hook, Track flips away from her, she opens her eyes to the roar of Thunder and cracking of Lightning, gathering all her power into the tips of her fingers, generating and condensing a power 30times greater than the energy contained within that of a Star, Track stares in awe as Storm sends that attack right at her, at 6times the Speed of Light. Guarding herself, this attack connects, exploding in a flash of thunder and lightning, shattering the glass of every window in a mile radius and creating a small tempus of winds, pushing away cars, buses and other vehicles across that Area of the City.
Storm hovers in the aftermath of her latest outbreak, staring at the smoke and dust left in her wake, se huffed, never having to exude that kind of power into her muscles to give herself the strength to match an opponent like this before, her muscles were aching and her body winded, but from a bout like that, Omega or not, same as her, all her rants about being Superior was nothing more than that, rants.
The haze of burnt and Ionized Air began to clear out, in the shadow of that haze, Storm's eyes widened to the shock of Track still being there and still standing, but worse than that, not only was that last bout not this finishing attack she wanted to be, but she could tell… something… something had changed about Track.
Silence filled the air as they all saw Storm staring at Track, the Hybrid not moving an inch, Rogue, Iron-Man, Storm, Magneto, the people around the world were all frozen, what? Had Storm proven her wrong?
Storm herself in staring at the Hybrid in the sky, her body unmoving like a statue, completely still from what Storm had done, and even the Goddess Mutant was a bit worried, had she overdone it, the girl said she could take it but…?
"Man!" everyone stares up at her. Track spat out a bit of blood "That, Hurt!" Track grunted out, her uniform had been torn by the attack, leaving half of her top remaining on her, but she was more or less no worse for wear "Ughh! I'm gonna be tasting blood and pennies for a bit, but hey, if you don't bleed in a fight, if you can't feel the Rush of Battle, then are you truly a warrior?"
Storm stared on at her, she was taking all of that like it was no big deal, one of her thigh highs was completely vaporized, half of her top as well, with one of her arm gloves burnt to half, but as for her body, she was bleeding a bit, but other than that, there was simply no damage done, and even Storm had to admit this, she had been generating an electrical charge in her brain since this fight began, that had done nothing to her, as well as trying to take the air from her body, almost as if her body had no need for it in the first place.
'I'd hate to say this, but she might actually be toying with me'
Down below, Carol was the first to notice something was off, looking around the ground, that's when it becomes, clearer, they were missing two important guests, the ones who started all of this in the first place,
"Wait!" Carol yells "Where are Shadow-Spider and Ravager?" she screams out
Then the entire group realize this, that the two whom had been used to start all this, had completely disappeared fully, Maverick, sitting in the air, smiling underneath his mask. Iron-Man having been the one to attack Ravager, but where had the Hybrid Spider gone, and up above, Track was smiling
"Finally~" she sighs 'Be safe April, love you' she crosses her arms and sets herself on fire again. Letting out a might of Cosmic Solar Winds, pushing back Storm with just that alone, the winds felt hot, a burning sensation in her body, and she felt it, or more than that, she couldn't control it, whatever this woman had done, it was as if Storm's power no longer obeyed her.
The girl begins cracking her neck, looking at her opponent while flexing her muscles and stretching herself, she smiles while staring at Storm, the all-powerful Weather Goddess stared at the Hybrid, cracking the rest of her muscles until finally she speaks out "Can I say to you, that letting you beat into me, was really hard for me to do" Track admits. To which all the Mutants and Avengers grew a fearful tone, if what she was saying was true
"What nonsense do you speak?" Storm interrogated her foe
To which Track did one thing, she smirked "Oh, is it Nonsense?" she outstretches both her arms, even snuffing out her flames and staring straight at Storm "Why not take another shot at me and_"
Storm calls down a massive bolt of lightning on the girl before she can even finish her sentence, not wanting to continue on this gibberish any further, she stares at the lightning as it strikes down her opponent, or so she thought, as Track, floats out of the stream, not having changed or, taking even an ounce of damage to her and even her Sports Bra wasn't even tattered at all
"Yeesh lady, not even gonna_" Not waiting, she hits her with another bolt, an even stronger one
"You talk too much" she groaned out. When out of nowhere, a hand presses down on Storm's shoulder, the weight of it was strong enough to fully hold her down, she couldn't move out of the way, so charging up a lightning fist, she comes around with a spinning back hand, delivering it right to this assailant in the face, only to nearly break her hand in the process, she looks down at her hand and indeed, it was nearly broken, a sharp pain rushing through it. But glancing up, she sees the person she had struck… it was Track, turning around, that bolt was still there, had… had it not struck her.
Track, the woman was in nothing more than a Combat Bra and Shorts, her shoes and thigh highs had been burned away so she was not dressed for combat at the moment. The Hybrid rushed the Mutant,
"So like I was saying before you so rudely interrupted me, I was going to say take another shot at me and see if I'm spitting gibberish, but you just proved my point and wrecked my favorite Thigh Highs, so" cracking her knuckles "Let's see if this Goddess is a true Warrior" she rushes at her, she raises her leg for an Axe-Kick, Storm once more supercharges her knuckles, although she skits at the pain in her hand, bringing down the kick, Storm is able to block it with a shield of ice, blasting herself off of Track, the Hybrid dodges to the left, immediately going back in with a low jab to the ribs, Storm coughs out a might of blood on that one, she follows this up by sending a tiger claw strike to the head and palming her face.
Track lifts her up and drags her alone with her, bee-lining towards the ground with Storm in toe, The X-Man holding onto her hand before being slammed into the ground, cratering it. The refusal to quit and will burning in her eyes, Storm releases a burst on energy to blast the Hybrid off of her, and Track, with a devious grin on her face, backs off, Storm now full of rage, charges at The Sun Wielder, that grin growing, Track charges back at her, delivering a hook fist right to her face, followed by a knee kick to the stomach, Storm could feel the impact of that attack from her spine, if her back wasn't broken, then her ribs most definitely were,
"COME ON!" Track roars, the thrill, her heartbeat pounding in her ears, her impact of each strike on contact, the rush of blood throughout her entire body "MORE!"
Delivering a devastating double uppercut to Storm's jaw, knocking out a tooth or probably two from her mouth, as Storm stops in the air, her vision was blurry, her ears rang, her body nearly fell from the sky, just managing to hold her own, Track's arms bulked up, becoming even more refined muscles as she began generating in both her hands, twin energy spheres, her grin expanded even further out as the power emanating from her grew even further out, her Orange Flames becoming Much more Red with Black, and in this simple color change,
Gravity around the area around them began to contort, the ground rose up and broke apart, melting away, as did the water, as huge masses of water drew out of the Hudson River, evaporating into steam as the heat grew and grew beyond anything one thought was possible, and the conditions and chaos only grow further, Iron-Man is forced to leave his armor as the skies begin to turn a reddish orange, red lightning crackled through the skies, every ounce of metal began to evaporate away and his control over the electromagnetic spectrum, whether it be the light that was encompassing them, all of it, he was back to being a child in the camps, Powerless before his Superiors
Storm faced up as well, Black-Panther, She-Hulk, Captain Marvel, Rogue, Cyclops, Wolverine, Iceman, Nightcrawler, Sunspot, all look completely flabbergasted by what they saw, and by what they felt,
'HHAAARRGGHHHHH!'
The roars thundered throughout the city, the heroes and X-Men felt completely powerless as they watched on as something they had never seen before, legs shaking as breathing became impossible, pressing her hand against her chest, before collapsing to the ground, eyes wide "That's… what is that?"
Magnus looked on "Power my dear, Power"
ON ARRAKO
On the Second Mutant Nation formerly known as Mars, that is now the home of the Arraki Mutants, the leaders of the Great Ring of Arrako can all feel this power coming from the Mother world. Even in the depths of Arrako, in a pit buried under a mountain of Mysterium Sealing away his power, The Omega Level Energy Manipulator, Gabriel Summers Aka Vulcan, the Youngest and Strongest of the Summers Brothers, even in a massive pit in the center of the planet, restricted by Mysterium, the Omega can feel this power, this collection of solar energy. It was almost unreal even to one such as himself.
ON KROKOA
Hope Summers, and all Mutants were watching this, not only was one of their strongest being devastated by what claims to be a Superior Evolution to the Mutant Race, but now shows to possess the power to prove said claims, as Mister Sinister watched this, he could not help but imagine the possibilities if he could acquire DNA such as that, The Elder Mutant En Sabah Nur also felt the tremendous power and he could only feel one thing, 'I Must have that for myself'
Emma Frost, one of the Mutants who held the power of the Phoenix was also one to be able to telepathically feel this might and what she felt, It Rivaled The 50% of the Power of the Phoenix Force she wielded.
THE FANTASTIC FOUR'S CABIN
Reed Richards, the smartest man in the world, and his daughter, Valeria Richards, both were trying to calculate the sheer level of power emanating from this Hybrid in New York, and once more, they could detect Galactus levels of Power, and then, the power continued to rise dramatically, it had already doubled the power of Galactus and now tripled.
BACK IN NEW YORK
Fear was nothing new to mutants, they lived their entire lives afraid of the Humans who judged them for being different, so much so that they would create weapons to slaughter their kind, and many times, The X-Men had stood tall, trusted in one another, fought for one another, stood together through so much and even if they had to stand alone, they stood tall.
They had faced demons from Limbo
Sentinels
Time Travelling Warlords
Killer A.I
Human Segregation
Evil Mutants
But this, this was something else entirely
Legs finally gave out as Rogue and Magneto both dropped to their knees, unable to remain standing, Rogue; herself couldn't stop sweating buckets, she had been face to face with the Phoenix Five and she had still stood tall, but this… this thing in front of her was far beyond anything they had faced before. Magneto, his mind took him back to his childhood in the camps, powerless to do anything as the humans ripped his mother away from him and slaughtered his people in their homes. He had never been powerless again since that day, never, until now.
Storm was never one to back down from a fight, she stared down this burning monster with intensity, but she could feel it, all the energy in the area, the storms, the winds, the lightning, the thunder, besides from the one she was using to remain afloat right now, all the rest, it was servant to the Hybrid before her, and for the first time since she was given the title, she didn't feel like an Omega Level Mutant, she felt like she was a mere child before this entity, the Superior Being had shown her the truth and now, all she could do, was resist.
Track appeared right in front of Storm's face, that same ear to ear grin on her face, "Listen Storm, you and the Mutants were branded to be the most dangerous species, the Apex of Human Evolution" she pumps her fist up, and a light released for a second. Storm was confused as to what she had just done, but then, as if she had been struck, a quick pain to the left side of her face, as if something had sent a quick jab across her face, followed by an uppercut to the chin, three more to the torso and another across the right side of her face. And with that last strike, Ororo Monroe, Mistress of the Elements, The Wind Rider, Goddess of Storms, had been bested. Falling to the river, Rogue flies to save her lifelong friend, but while that was happening, Track raised her hand, generating a massive ball of energy, that Ball of Raging Star Energy was barely as large as she herself, but the power inside it was already shaking the earth, eclipsing the skies with the light it generated. Maverick, having been seated in the sky this entire time, just casually watching what his friend had been doing, shook his head, and teleported behind Track, she continued to generate the energy at an alarming rate, until… all of it disappeared.
Track turned around and was immediately chopped on the neck, her vision blared into unconsciousness, falling down, she was caught by her teammate, Maverick looked down at her, his expression bland as he stared at the Heroes and X-Men, all still completely traumatized by what they had just witnessed, and for the first time since they met him, Maverick smirked "Come looking for us, we like a challenge" and with that, he was gone.
After setting Storm down on the ground, Rogue was the first to say it
"Wat was that?" her voice was afraid
As was Magneto "I… I don't know my child" he was struggling to simply breathe. They all were, checking his scanners, all the radiation was completely gone, even the excess their bodies had absorbed from her Sun, that had disappeared as well. Then Carol was the first to say it "S-She had more power than the Phoenix"
All of them who had experienced The Dark Phoenix and The Phoenix Five, all of them remembered the feeling, Cyclops had been the leader of the Phoenix Five and even he had never seen that much power, that girl, she couldn't just be another Hybrid right,
"That girl, The Hybrids? They're a threat to everyone" Iron-Man said
And all of them were beyond frightened, even Wolverine. While Iron-Man, in his head he was thinking back to Ravager and Shadow-Spider, he knew those two were hiding something, he checks the remains of his armor, the gauntlet, to show the same serum that he had used to depower Peter, now he knew, that kind of power could not be allowed to exist, not when the people need him. This is like he always said, Imagine a world without Tony Stark.
LOCATION: UNKNOWN
TIME: UNKNOWN
…Darkness.
That was all they could see for out.
Were; were they dead?
FLASHBACK
Iron-Man lunging at them with Missiles, then throwing them off the Bridge, before everything went dark
"I've got you!"
A female voice screamed
Whose Voice was that
It sounded so… familiar, so trusting.
Why was it so trusted, but I guess that doesn't matter?
BEEP!
Opening his eyes, green goop was all around him, a limited window of view, he could see something, a Pod with a limited window of view, there… there was something it, he thought, but what… what was that. He tried to move his hands, or maybe just his fingers, anything. But he couldn't, he couldn't move his body.
BEEP!
BEEP!
What, what was that sound?
A shadowed figure stepped in front of him beyond the glass, she spoke to him
"You're awake, that god" her voice, so familiar
He glanced up, seeing her face, it was Katie, Shadow-Spider?
"H-How do you, feel?"
"W-Where_ am I?" his voice said through a speaker. Since he was muffled with a breather and tubes through the goop allowing him to breathe.
"You're home, don't worry, worry, we're gonna help you" she said with a smile
She placed her hand against the window, raising his hand, he pressed his against hers, there was a warmth between them
"W-Who are you, really?"
She looked down for a moment, then, taking a deep cusp of air and letting it out
"I'm- my name's April, April Katherine Parker"
That last name, Parker. His eyes widened. Her last name was Parker, she had Spider-Powers, Brown Hair and Eyes, she talks like a Queens Born and Bred. She smiled at him, a spark of electricity coming out of her eyes
"I've missed you…"
"…DAD"
TO BE CONTINUED
Well. Well. Well
Who saw any of that coming? You, Yes or No?
Well at least you now know why I called it Hybrid, also what do you think of the Hybrids, a Combination of the X-Gene, Inhuman Factor, Mutate Genetics, Eternal DNA and Two Unknown Genetic Components. A species that is in overtly a Superior Race to Mutants, shown as how Track, a Class SS Hybrid, was able to completely destroy a Goddess Omega Level Mutant such as Storm (Who has just been getting every single form of Glaze Possible in the Main Universe, like seriously people, get off her metaphorical DICK) as well as having power directly compared to the Phoenix Force and Galactus.
Also if you didn't get it, Track has a variant of Vulcan's Power and he could sense her despite being trapped in the depths of Arrako and even Hope Summers and Jean Grey could feel her power, Sinister wanting that power for his experiments and Apocalypse for himself.
What did you think of the way Storm fought while the X-Men were being held back by Maverick, and the way they watched as Storm was tearing into Track, only for her to turn it around and completely decimate the Omega Level Mutant with a power so large they confused it for the Mutants God.
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