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C183 Spider-Man
🕑 Added 2022-12-11 05:47:56 +0000 UTCThe next day, Peter woke up in his bed alone. MJ felt weird about sleeping over last night since her father knew about it now.
She had an odd feeling, as though her father would storm into the bedroom guns blazing, or tasked some nameless Shield grunt to surveil their nightly activities.
Of course, no amount surveillance could penetrate the houses enchantments, but she was still weirded out either way.
Needless to say, MJ rushed off soon after her mother dragged Fury out of the house, so Peter enjoyed a whole pizza and some fizzy soda all to himself that night.
‘Sometimes alone time is good too.’ Peter thought at the time.
Fury was probably ecstatic when MJ returned home that night, though that was definitely ruined when she ignored him out of embarrassment and rushed to her bedroom.
After all, no teenage girl would ever want to talk about the time she spends at her boyfriend's house with her father.
Maybe her mother, but that depends on how deep the relationship is between them.
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After doing his usual morning rituals, Peter suited up and returned to the Tower. It’s still the weekend so school wasn’t a problem.
Stepping into Tony’s penthouse, Peter was surprised to find him along with Pepper and an unfamiliar woman arguing amongst each other for some unknown reason.
Though after a second look, Peter had a good guess about who the unknown woman might be.
Maya Hansen.
“..and old girlfriends” Pepper states sharply with an annoyed look on her face.
“She's not really.” Tony denies with a shake of his head.
“No, not really. It...it was just one night.” Maya tries to back up Tony and defuse the situation, but somehow she only made it worse.
When Pepper saw Tony nodding alongside her, as if Maya's words would save him, she rolled her eyes in a huff.
“That's how you do it, right?” She says with a look of sadness and contempt. “Hit it and quit it.”
The reason for her contempt was obvious, though the sadness wasn’t.
Pepper has always wanted to be in a relationship with Tony. The only problem was her fear of being thrown away after their first night together.
After all, Tony has a long history of sweeping women off their feet, bedding them, and then never speaking to them again.
“...” Tony had nothing to defend himself with.
“And you wonder why my answer is always no...” Pepper states with a shake of her head.
“What?” Tony could no longer keep quiet. “Peps, I've said this once and I’ll say it a million more times, you are different.”
“Sure...” Pepper says unbelievably.
“You may not believe me now, but I won’t give up.” Tony says, hoping to win her over in time.
“Is...is this normal?” Maya whispers as she watches Tony and Pepper continue to bicker amongst themselves.
“Yup, this is very normal.” Peter makes his presence known.
Maya jumped as she turned to see Peter standing behind her.
“Holy sh*t...” She mutters in shock. “You’re Spider-Man.”
“Yeah, that’s me.” Peter waves as he hears the shouting get louder.
“It's a stupid bunny, relax about it!” Pepper yelled as she threw a stuffed animal at Tony.
“I got this for you.” Tony says as he caught it and tried to hand it back.
“I'm aware of that.” Pepper says in annoyance, not accepting the gift.
“You still haven't even told me that you liked it!” Tony yells.
“I don't like it!” Pepper admits without a hint of shame.
“I asked you three... Wait, you don't like it?!” Tony exclaims.
“What are they even arguing about anymore...” Peter asks in confusion.
“I have no idea.” Maya shrugs with a stumped look.
Suddenly, Maya remembered why she came here and turned her attention to Peter in an instant.
“Umm... Can we talk somewhere in private?” She asks as the shouts resembling an old married couple start getting louder and louder. “It’s beyond important.”
She originally wanted to explain everything to Tony, as she at least knew him a little, but her presence seemed to cause a lover’s quarrel to break out, derailing her plans completely.
“Sure, follow me.” Peter nods as they leave the yelling lovers behind.
...
“Alright, what’s up?” Peter asks as he brings her into a small meeting room.
“Before I say anything, I need protection for myself and my son.” She says and would keep her mouth shut until she gets what she needs.
“Easily done. You both can stay in the tower.” Peter agreed easily, surprising her into stunned silence.
“I-I didn’t think you would agree so easily...” Maya stutters as a relieved smile blooms on her face.
“Well, we have the space.” Peter says with a shrug. “Besides, whatever this is must be extremely dire if you came to a group of superheroes for protection.”
“It is...” She says as she takes a deep breath before saying something that actually surprised Peter. “You need to evacuate this building immediately.”
“Huh? Why?” Peter asks in confusion.
“Aldrich Killian is planning an attack against you guys. Well, mainly Tony.” She says as she looks out of the window and her eyes go wide in shock.
Following her line of sight, Peter could see a group of helicopters headed their way. Looking closely, he could see what appeared to be loaded missile launchers attached to them as well.
“Well, you weren’t lying. That’s for sure.” Peter nods as each helicopter lets loose its entire payload of missiles at once.
“Oh my god...” Maya whispers in fright.
“Calm down. You’ll be fine.” Peter says as he waves his hand and opens ten large portals in front of the building.
As the missiles were about to strike the side of the defenseless tower, huge golden portals appeared, showing the image of a vast endless dark space on the other side.
In just a moment, the portals sucked the missiles Inside before disappearing as if they were never there.
“How did you...” Maya felt like she was on an emotional roller coaster.
“Magic.” Peter answers as he turns his attention elsewhere.
The now weaponless helicopters were pulling off and trying to retreat. No doubt, the pilots were shocked by the unimaginable defenses of the Avengers tower.
“Where do you think you’re going?” Peter muttered as he gave out some orders. “Jarvis, contact Nightcrawler and have him go after those helicopters. Imprison the inhabitants in the detention floor for questioning and land the helicopters on the rooftop.”
“Done, sir.” Jarvis replies, surprising Miss Hansen.
“That was?” She asks but forgot about everything when she saw a blue man appear on the side of one of the enemy helicopters. “What the...”
In an instant, Nightcrawler yanked the door open and teleported the pilot away before taking the controls and setting the chopper down on a nearby building for the time being.
This continued over and over, as each pilot was teleported into a cell and every helicopter was safely landed.
“That was quick work.” Peter praised with an impressed nod. “Jarvis, give Nightcrawler a nice bonus this month for a job well done.”
“Yes, sir.” Jarvis replies.
“That was easier than I thought it would be...” Maya says with a stumped look.
When she heard about Killian planning an attack on the Avengers Headquarters, she knew it was about the right time to jump ship.
She wanted to do so for a while now but stayed out of fear for herself and her son.
Sadly, she didn’t stay long enough to learn exactly what Killian was planning, just that he was going to target the building itself, but she didn’t expect Killian's grand plan for revenge to be thwarted so easily.
It came and went in just a minute and not a single blemish was left on the building whatsoever.
Killian had failed so spectacularly, leaving Maya both impressed and stunned beyond belief.
‘Is this how strong the Avengers are?’ She thought in wonder. “I don’t know why I was so worried before...”
“What the hell just happened?” Tony storms into the room alongside a worried-looking Pepper.
“Done fighting like an old married couple?” Peter asks as Nightcrawler starts moving each helicopter to the roof of the tower one by one.
“Shut up, why did you cover the building in portals?” Tony asks as he didn’t see the missiles.
“Because your old friend Killian just tried to blow us up.” Peter says as he points to the helicopters and gives a quick explanation.
...
“I just want to make it clear that he was never my friend.” Tony states after getting caught up to speed.
“Our building was almost blown up and that’s all you have to say?” Pepper asks with a pointed glare.
“I feel another argument brewing...” Peter comments.
“...” Both parties turn and look away from each other upon hearing that, refusing to prove Peter right.
“Sir, multiple high-temperature readings are approaching the building from the street.” Jarvis suddenly informs them.
“High-temperature readings?” Tony repeated as he wondered what that could mean.
“Oh no...” Maya mutters worriedly.
“Oh no, what?” Tony asked.
“Don’t those explosive guards we faced have high body temperatures?” Peter asked.
“Oh, sh*t.”
A/N: 1541 words :)
