I laughed, "oh right, you're still only twelve right? Give it a few years, you'll come around."
"I doubt it," Riri snorted as she threw her hands up, "fine, I'll give you two soem room, hey J-man!"
"Yes Ms. Strak?" the JARVIS AI asked.
"Is my dad's lab free?"
"I believe so, but might I remind you that you aren't allowed-"
"-Override code: Riri-is-awesome-0927!" she cried out causing the AI to shut up mid way. She walked out chukleing evil with a
grin, "come to mama you expensive shiny new toys!"
Felicia smiled as the doors closed behind her, "oh yeah, she's Tony's kid alright...how did you met her?"
"Her mom had used an experimental drug to save her life and couldn't fix the after effects, so she came to Tony for help, I just
happened ot be there when she did," I as as I turned, noticing how we stood on opposite sides of the same table, a visible
distance between each other.
"I see...so...the suit's nice," she smiled, looking it over, "I like the silver and black much better. Did you have someone special in
mind?"
I smiled, "are you asking me if I made it in homage to you?"
Fecalysis smirked, "well, you are currently wearing a full body black and silver suit, so...yeah."
I chuckled, "maybe..." I noticed her own torn and beaten up suit, I reached over, she didn't move as I touched a poorly formed
stitch made into her costume side, "yours is a little worn in."
"Yeah," she admitted with a chuckle, "I couldn't' get a replacement. So I had to make due."
"Silver seemed to have decent enough tactical gear."
"Yeah, but it wasn't bullet proof," she snorted, "sexy and sinfully perfect, but this suit still had it beat."
"I see...and the bracelets?" I asked.
She touched those and smiled sadly, "did you really think I would ever get rid of them?"
I looked up, I didn't realise how close I was standing until I saw how big and bright her eyes seemed to glow. She leaned
forward, but I moved away.
Felicia looked surprised, stung even. She looked down, and I knew then this was going to be a difficult hour.
"I didn't want to just leave," she whispered, "but...I had to hurry. I needed my dad to help, he taught me everything he knew to
get into and out of HYDRA, and along the way...I realised you still hadn't returned to being Spider-man...I knew then I shouldn't
have left at all. But eventually...you did and I was so...happy. Peter I know you can't just forgive me and move on, I know that but
I...I'm begging you please, at the least I want to be a part of your life again."
I looked away, "Felicia...so much has happened. So much you weren't there for...I needed you with me and you weren't there."
"I am now," she reached out, her hand touching mine as she slowly squeezed, "and I know it'll take time, but now, I have all the
time in the world for you."
"And what if Fury refuses to give Walter a pardon?" I asked pulling away from her grip, "what if he demands something else
before that?"
"I doubt he would want to risk pissing you off again after what you did," Felicia smirked.
I looked at her, I glared and slowly her smile dropped. I spoke, "I don't know if I want to be with you."
"Peter...I'm not asking to be together again, I'm not that stupid. But...I just want to be a part of your life," Felicia reached out,
this time I didn't move away as she held my hand, "and...I'm alright with just being your friend.."
Friend?! Friend?! FUCK THAT! ARGH! I hate this!
"Fine," I pulled away, my mask covering my face to hide my anger, sadness and the thousand other emotions I was feeling,
"so...Francesca?"
Felicia's eyes went wide, "Tony?"
I shrugged, "didn't see did you?"
"No I...oh god, Silver is going to be heartbroken," Felicia whispered.
I snorted, "yeah...so, are you going to be staying here? Or are you going back to Smykaria?"
"I...I guess I can stay here, that is if you want," she replied with a weak smile.
"You should...MJ and Liz miss you," I replied.
Felicia snorted, "yeah, I'm sure they do. Probably want to kill me too after what I did. I doubt I can return though, I mean...high
school? After all I did...it just seems like a step down."
"Now you know how I feel everyday," I chuckled.
"But it's not like you can go now huh?" Felicia laughed, "I mean...can you? With your secret out there and all?"
"I dont' know," I sighed, my mask slipping down, the tension that was building up had been cut down to nothing, literally. I didn't
know how, but suddenly it was like the past year hadn't happened, "I mean...I didn't really have time to process all of this. Hell, I
haven't even checked Twitter since it happened."
"Oh you should," Felicia smiled as we leaned against the lab wall side by side, "there are so many people coming out in support
of you it's not even funny."
I blinked, "really?" I held up my SA and mentally ordered it to bring up my Twitter account. Immediately I saw the rush of
notifications I had gotten.
TheAmazingSpider, Peter! Will you go the prom with me?! Please say yes!
TheAmazingSpider, you're sixteen?! Damn it all to hell! Now I'm a pedophile!
TheAmazingSpider, how in hell is a sixteen year old allowed to act like a vigilante?!
I was surprised, out of so many message a majority of them were about how I looked. "Am I really that good looking?" I asked
in surprise, cause I'm sure Steve and way better looking than me.
In response Felicia smiled, "yes, you are," she leaned forward, and this time I didn't pull away as she placed a kiss on my lips. I
felt...happy. Satisfied, the memory of her betrayal was there but...maybe I could deal with it another time.
Just then the doors opened up, Felicia and I broke apart and moved away from each other faster than the blink of an eye. I
turned to see an amused Riri standing over us with a raised eyebrow.
"I thought you said you were going to fight," she snorted.
I sighed, "it's difficult to yell when you're running on two hours of sleep." Felicia just smiled, seemingly smug about getting past
my cold exterior...again. Fucking pussy cat.
"Well...whatever," Riri shrugged, "Tony asked me to bring you both to the living room, he and the creepy goth chick finished
talking."
I raised an eyebrow, "and he's still alive?"
Riri blinked, "yeah...why wouldn't he?"
"No reason, come on," I got up and without even thinking I offered Felicia my hand. The girl smiled as she accepted it, holding
tight before I realise what I did and pulled away. I wasn't ready for that just yet.
Felicia said nothing as we walked back to the living room in silence, Riri seemed to notice the awareness and kept quiet, which
honestly made it all the worse.
The doors to the living room open and we all gaped, "what the fuck?!" Riir cried out.
Tony smiled, "hey you guys, how's it hanging?" he said stuck on the ceiling. A red aura around him and Wanda down below.
"We're leaving," Wanda said, walking away, her face furious.
As she walked Tony came crashing down, "argh!"
"I got you," I said, holding my hand out and using the absolute limit of my telepathic powers slowed his decent so he wouldn't
break anything.
He landed on his feet and sighed, "oh thank god."
"Since when you can you do that?" Felicia asked in a whisper as Riri rushed to her dad's side, checking up on him.
"I told you, it's been a long time," I replied, turning to Wanda who now stood out in the cold of the balcony, her arm crossed as
she stared off into the city, confused and form what I could smell, angry.
"What happened?" I asked Tony as Felicia and I approached him.
"I...I told her something she didn't want to hear," Tony replied, looking away in shame.
"What?" Felicia asked.
"She...nothing, look it's personal for her, just...make sure she's safe okay?" Tony sighed, "that poor girl has had enough on her
mind, right now she needs someplace that can help her..."
I looked at Wanda and sighed, "yeah...I know just the place," I turned to Felicia, "stay here Felicia, I'll be right back."
"No," she shook her head, grabbing my hand, "I promised I wouldn't leave you again didn't? I'm keeping that promise."
I sighed, "fine...don't say I didn't warn you though..."
Sometime later:
SLAP!
Felicia held her check in pain, "shit! That fucking hurt!"
"How dare you?! You think you can do what you did and just come back like nothing ever happened?!" Jean screamed, even I
winced at the sound, and I wasn't the one who had gotten slapped!
Felicia hanged her head, she looked exhausted, "yeah...I know."
"Why? Why did you do this?!" Jean yelled, "do you even understand what you did to him?!"
"Jean I-"
"-Nothing! No! You can't just come here after all this time like nothing happened!" Jean roared as I sighed and stayed away, the
red head growled as she lifted a lamp itno the air and threw it at Kitten's head.
"Hey! Watch it!" Felicia cried out, ducking down, the lamp shattering above her head, "you almost got me!"
"Oh I'm going to do a lot more than that!" Jean roared as slowly everything in the room started to levitate into the air.
"Ah...shouldn't you be stopping them?" asked Kurt, who along with the other X-men were forced to sit in the sidelines and watch
Jean confront Felicia.
I sighed, "Jean, that's enough."
The red head turned to me, growling, "Peter, you can't just...just pretend she didn't do what she did!"
I sighed, "I know..but this isn't the answer. Control yourself Birdy...please."
The red head looked at me, she sighed and slowly began to lower everything back down, turning to Felicia who looked revelied,
"oh, we're not done yet, Felicia," she spat.
I sighed, rubbing my head, "I knew this would happen," I turned and walked to Scott, patting his shoulder, "call me if she tries
to kill Felicia again."
The shade wearing boy nodded, "ah..right."
I nodded and left, closing the doors to the living room behind me as I went to Charles's office, opening the door without
knocking and walked in, "sorry about that, Jean and Felicia...well, they weren't handling the reunion well."
"It's fine," Charles nodded with a smile as he motioned me inside, "Wanda and I were just get acquainted," said mutant stood
with her back facing us as she looked out the window overlooking the gardens outside.
"So...what do you think?" I asked, waiting for the girl to speak.
She was silent, thinking obviously. She turned ot Charles, "so you would take me in...no questions asked, no demands? No
tuition?"
Charles nodded, "yes."
"Why? No one does anything for free."
Charles smiled, "I see you share your father's caution...well, you see the reason is simple...there will soon be a great divide in
our world, the side of humans and mutants and if one can't provide a safe haven for the latter, then I fear it would be a very
cruel world in the future for our kind."
"You're building an army," she galred.
"For peace," Charles replied.
"Kind of a paradoxical statement there professor," Wanda snorted, "HYDRA preached the same thing, control for peace. Are you
the same?"
"My students will not fight a battle they have no stake in...and I will not let my desire for cooperation to disarm my student's
rights to protect themselves. So...yes Wanda, I may strive for peace, but I am no stranger to war."
Wanda looked away, back at the garden outside humming to herself. She then turned to me, raising an eyebrow, "well? What do
you think of all this?"
I sighed, "I don't' agree with the Professor," the statement brought a smile to Charles' face and a look of surprise in Wanda's.
"Why is that? I thought you trusted this man?" she asked.
"I do, I trust him with my life and more importantly the life of my friends, but I don't' agree with his view on certain things...but,
at the same time, I would rather be his ally than enemy."
"Why is that?"
"Well, I find being on the side of a mutant who can brainwash you is much better than being his enemy," I shrugged.
Wanda's eyes narrowest the bald man, "then how do you know you're not just saying that because he's controlling you?"
Charles threw his head back and laughed, "why Peter, she seems to be more like you than I thought!"
I smiled, I patted the collar of my suit, the black material shimmering for a second, "my suit has an inbuilt telepathic blocker, I
had it installed and turned online every time I visit him. I may trust him, but my thoughts are private to only me, I don't like him
that much."
Wanda looked at the bald man and then to me, "can you make me one of those?"
I shrugged, "I have a couple in my car's dashboard, won't' be a problem."
"So, you'll stay?" Charles asked with hope.
"Yeah...why not, it's free right?" Wanda shrugged, "but I refuse to do something I don't' want to. If you even think about it-"
"-I promise you, that is the last thing in my mind," Charles assured the girl with a bright smile on his face, "welcome Ms.
Maximoff, to the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters," he then closed his eyes and focused, I felt a minot telepathic blast going
out and immediately there was a puff of blue smoke next to Wanda.
"Ep!" the girl squealed as she jumped back as suddenly Kurt appeared next to her.
"You called professor?!" the excited boy asked with a smile.
"Yes Kurt," Charles smiled as he turned to a curious looking Wanda, "this is Kurt, he's a student here as well. Kurt, this is Wanda,
she'll be joining us starting today. Could you show her to a spare bedroom please?"
"Ja Professor! I would be happy to!" the boy smiled, turning to the girl and immediately stiffening as suddenly he began to
stammer, "h-hello."
I smiled, smelling the lust rolling of Kurt and the curiosity in Wanda. "So, ah...what's your favorite colour?" Kurt asked.
She raised an eyebrow before pointing at her scarlet robes, "you blind?"
"N-no!" he gulped, "please! Follow me!" The girl said nothing as she let him guide her out of the room.
I chuckled the moment the door closed behind her, "ah, love."
"Hm, indeed, it can make a fool of us all," Charles smiled as rolled from behind his desk, "and speaking of love...Felicia has
returned."
I sighed, rubbing my temples as I did, "I really don't want to do this now Professor."
"As your friend Peter, I would disagree. I would say now is exactly when you need to talk about it," the man insisted, "how do
you feel?"
"Knowing that she's back?" an immediate smile formed on my face, "happy. But then..I remembered what she did."
"And you're worried she would do it again?"
I nodded, "yeah...and...I feel like it's not fair."
"What do you mean?"
"She left Professor. She left me and then comes back and I'm supposed to just forgive her? Just like that? Like nothing
happened? It's not fair!"
"How so?"
"I was hurt, for so long...you saw the way I was before, when I...when she left..."
"And you feel she owes you? You feel she didn't suffer enough?"
"I...no, I-"
"-Peter, love isn't about checks and balances, it's about accepting someone regardless of whether it's fair to you or not and
being with them because you want too."
"So I'm just supposed to forgive her?!"
Charles was quite, deathly so. He waited I became visibly calmer before speaking once more, "Peter...what's more important?
The fact she left you, or the fact that she came back?"
I thought, and for a moment I wanted to say that she left. That I couldn't' forgive her but then I thought, I really thought. And I
realised...in time, maybe one day we could be together, I think.
I sighed, "let's just go out...I need to make sure Felicia and Jean aren't killing each other."
Charles smiled, "seems like a good idea," I opened the door for him and we moved back to the living room where things
seemed to have settled back down. Jean and Felicia sat on chairs across from each other, the redhead glaring while Kitten
seems to be have another hand mark on her face.
I raised an eyebrow, "she slapped you again?"
Felicia grumbled, "yeah."
Kathy yawned, "it is 4 in the morning, do we really have to do this drama now?"
"If you really think that you could have left an hour ago," Evan smirked as he, Kathy, Scott and Rouge all sat on a couch near
the back, watching all of this eagerly, Evans even had a bowl of popcorn in his hands, munching on the treat like this was one
movie to enjoy.
I sighed, "I'm sorry we dropped in on you all like this, I wouldn't do it if it wasn't urgent."
Scott shrugged, "it's fine, a mutant needed our help, it's what we do. So will she be staying?"
"Yes, Ms. Maximoff will be staying with us," Charles said proudly.
"Wait...Maximoff?" Evan's eyes widened by a smidge, "as in Pietro Maximoff?"
I nodded, "she's his twin sister."
"Sister?!" Evan's eyes shot open.
Kathy also looked surprised, "wait...that means that her dad is Magento?!"
"Holy shit!" Evans' cried out, "Peter! What were you thinking?1 What if she's, she's-"
"-A psychopath?" Wanda's voice cut in, we turned to see the girl standing there, her arms crossed defensively as Kurt stood
nervously behind her, rubbing his hair nervously.
"She ah, she wanted to see the TV," the german boy squeaked out.
"You have a problem with me?" Wanda asked, walking in and standing over Evans who squealed in fright.
"N-no," he gulped, "ah...you're not going to hurt me are you?"
"No, she isn't," I spoke up, Wanda looking at me with a raised eyebrow, "she's actually a big softy. In fact, her favorite TV show
is my Little Pony, so while she may be a brony, she is definitely not dangerous."
Wanda's eyes wided, "what are you talking about?"
I blinked, "ah..just a little light humor to break the tension," I looked around, everyone staring at me, I sighed, "sorry, working
on only 2 hours of sleep here people."
Wanda rolled her eyes, "God you're weird."
"Like a motor without a purpose," Scott snorted.
"Like a wheel without an axel," Evans joined in.
"Like a dog without a cat to chase!" Kurt tried to join in.
I smiled, "actually, I think I got a cat to chase," Felicia smiled, though the glare Jean shot her made the girl quieten down.
"So, I don't know about you all, but this is more than enough drama for one night," Scott said, yelling loudly, "I'm going to bed,
I suggest you do to Peter, you honestly look exhausted man."
I nodded, I really did. I was way too busy working on Smkariya, HYDRA, SHIELD and then...Felicia. Wanda looked rested and even
Felicia to a certain degree. But me, not so much.
I opened my mouth to speak when suddnely Sexy interuptted me, "Peter! We have a situation here! I've been monitoring SHIELD's
system like you asked me too and I found something interesting."
My suit's system light up a hologram displaying a list of wanted criminals SHIELD had on public listing. And there, on number 1,
was me.
Name: Peter Benjamin Parker
Age: 16
Alias: Spider-man, Spider
Species: Enhancement human
Threat level: Level One (Armed and Extremely dangerous)
Wanted for: The Destruction of SHIELD HQ
And attached to the file was a picture take off my Spider-man Instagram page, very artistic if I do say so myself.
Jean's eyes widened, "Peter, what did you do?"
I sighed, rubbing my temples, which I seemed to be doing a lot off lately, "it's a long story. HYDRA infiltrated SHIELD and tried
to build weapons to subjugate and take over the world. I stopped them."
Charles groaned, "you blew up SHIELD's main headquarters?"
I nodded, "yes."
"Peter don't mess with me here," Jean glared, "what are you planning?"
I looked at her, she refused to back down, glaring me down. So I sighed and tapped my suit, giving a mental command to kill
the psychic dampness. I then taped my temples, motioning to Jean and Charles, they immediately got the message.
As one they closed their eyes and scanned my brains. I could almost feel them scanning my surface thoughts, and their eyes
shoot opened almost immediately.
Jean gasped, "n-no! Peter you can't! It's too dangerous! If you do that you'll paint a giant target on your back!" Charles said
nothing, his mind racing as he understood what I planned to do.
I nodded, "I know...but, I refuse to let HYDRA and SHIELD get away scott free."
"I'm coming with you," Felicia spoke immediately, "I know I have no right to ask you, but please, let me help."
"You can help by staying safe until this all blows over," I replied rashly.
"Peter...please," she begged, walking towards me, "please...Tiger, whatever you're going to do," she reached out and touched
my hand, "we can do it together."
I sighed, "sorry Felicia...but no," and channeled bio-electricity through my body into her, shocking the girl.
"Ep!" she gasped, falling down into my arms. I had to admit, it felt good doing that. I sighed and pushed her back into her seat,
she was knocked unconscious.
I turned to Jean, 'take care of her,' I asked mentally.
The girl looked unsure, but nodded, 'I will...'
"Peter..." Charles finally spoke, "if you do this….then-"
"-I know."
He smiled, "why is it that you feel you must carry this burned on your shoulders alone?"
"Because...someone else might get it wrong," I turned and walked away.
"If you ever need sanctuary...don't hesitate," Charles spoke up, making me stop in suprised, I turned and looked at him curious,
he smiled, "it's the very least I can do...for what you are about to do for us all."
I nodded, "I'll think about it," and walked away. The X-men looking confused and unsure while the Professor just sighed,
rubbing his temples in discomfort.
I walked out of the mansion and got into my car, flying off into the night. I reached the city in twenty minutes and the moment I
parked the car in the basement the entire complex was filled with soldiers, all dressed as SHIELD agents and with their guns
pointing at me.
"Spider-man, you're coming with us," the muffled voice of the lead agent on the field ordered.
I raised my hand, not even putting up a fight. I knew the consequences for my actions, but I also had a plan. And more
importantly, I knew this was the first step in truely changing the world. Fuck canon. Fuck it all. It's time I do something with my
powers and abilities rather than just help people, but save them.