A Different, Superior Spider-Man
Summary:
A SI which is an amalgamation of most of the Spider-Man shows out there and Peter Parker doesn't have a no kill rule instead he has only kill those who deserve it (very few people)
Abandoned; I'm working on making a Different, Superior version of this story.
Chapter 1: The Beginning
I was sitting on a chair at our housewarming party when I felt a sting on my hand. I looked at it and saw a spider scurrying off. My vision was getting blurry (at one point I think my skin color changed from brown to white like wtf?) Then I just passed out.
After I passed out I saw someone else's life flash before my eyes. It was one Peter Parker who as usual lost his parents but interestingly his sister stayed with him instead of SHIELD. His parents used to own Parker Industries when their plane crashed. This Peter and his sister moved in with Aunt May and Uncle Ben and were slated to become the owners/CEOs of PI when they were old enough. The last point of this Peter's life that I saw was the Oscorp field trip. there were twenty spiders. One if them was this interesting spider with dimensional powers and the ability to make clones of itself in any given place and dimension (ok that is actually cool.) One of the not inter dimensional spiders were missing. When they got in the bus and sat down Peter felt a sting on his hand. He looked down and saw a clone of the inter dimensional spider had bit him and was scurrying off (wait I got bit a spider that looked the same oh shit!) Then he passed out.
Now I was in this weird black area (like where am I?) When I saw someone else. He looked like.. well like me. Weird. Then I looked at myself and saw that I looked like that Peter Parker whose life I just saw. Wait what? How does that work? Oh I got it when we both got bit by the same spider we changed bodies and minds or something. Ugh this sucks. Looking at him I saw he (I?) came to the same conclusion.
"well shit, man" I said.
" not including the vulgarity but yeah man, this sucks. " he said
"I promise to do the best I can do with your body and make sure your world and family stays safe but can you promise the same to me Peter?"
"On my sister's life" he reassured me.
"Thank you, it's an honor to meet you and be you" I said
"You too" he said.
Then all of a sudden we were both being sucked out of this black landscape.
Then I saw millions of Peter Parker's lives flash before my eyes. But I wasn't seeing it like how I saw the first Peter's life. This time it was as if I was watching movies or shows of their lives. I saw Garfield's Spider-Man, but with me feeling his emotions, Tobey's too, the Ultimate Spider-Man too, and millions more than I could count. So much pain, suffering, loss and just a whole shitload of negative emotions. Why was I being shown this!!!??? I tried closing my eyes but that didn't work I just started seeing it behind my eyelids. After several billion lives filled with sadness and Spider-Manning it stopped and I just saw some weird shadow.
"Who are you?" I asked
"the one that caused you and Peter of Earth-313 to be bit." He responded
"Let me guess you're doing this shit for fun huh?"
"Straight to the point, good. In response to your question, somewhat. I believe the correct answer would be 'for science and curiosity'"
"You're a Grade A asshole."
"thank you for the compliment"
"what do you want from me?"
"Oh yes thank you for reminding me. I wanted to tell you that those millions of lives were Peters in this multi verse as well as give you the rules for this experiment."
"So essentially you just made me a super computer of information on Peter Parkers?
" "correct"
"What are your 'rules'"
"1. To keep the fact that you are from another universe close to your chest. If you tell too many people I will bleep your voice. 2. uh well I don't have a two so yeah just that one rule. Oh wait you and Cindy Moon will be the only out of this universe people, everyone else just has spider powers. And I won't tell you who Cindy actually is you have to find that out yourself."
"Ok deal then" I said rolling my eyes. "Now what?"
"You wake up, duh"
I woke up to what I know from this Peter's memories as the med bay of Parker Industries headquarters. Over here in this universe there are four companies known as "The Foundational Four"; Stark Industries, which specialized in weaponry; Pym Industries, which specialized in human enhancements as well as nanotechnology; Oscorp, which specialized in human enhancements; and last but definitely not least Parker Industries which specialized in technology and human enhancements.
But enough about this world I am in, let's discuss me, or rather who I am now; Peter Parker, age 15, born August 9th, 1993, lives in Queens in his Uncle and Aunt's house with his sister, goes to Midtown High in 9th grade, and that's about it for Peter.
I groaned as a way of announcing that I am up to whoever is in this room (I can hear their heartbeat courtesy of my new enhanced senses) and immediately someone starts talking.
"Oh dear Peter are you okay, they weren't able to wake you or Teresa when you fell asleep in the bus it turned out you were both in a self-induced coma and you would wake up by the end of the day it's been three hours now"
I opened my eyes to see Peter's (my?) Aunt may leaning over me with a worried look on her face. This Aunt May looked like the USM Aunt May, with short hair and a relatively middle-aged look.
"Hey Aunt May" I tried.
Wait Teresa was in a coma too does that mean she is from my universe too? Oh wait the shadow said its just me and Cindy from my universe.
"Hey Pete" Aunt May's voice drove me out of my thoughts.
"How's Teresa?"
"Honey worry about yourself for once Teresa is fine she woke up a while ago Ben is with her. Are you okay?"
"Yep I am 100%" I said, flipping put of the infirmary bed to prove that.
"If you're sure then lets go home"
"sure thing Aunt May"
As we drove to our home in Queens, I revised some of my information. Uncle Ben wasn't poor in this universe, but they said they wouldn't live in the penthouse in the PI headquarters until we wanted to. I wanted to move there because then it would be easier for me to Spider-Man. Teresa is obviously a Spider-Person too, considering she went into a coma too. I would tel her the truth first, but not until I could look at her as MY sister not just as Peter's. Next would be Uncle Ben and Aunt May, I would tell them when I tell them I was Spider-Man. Which was when I would ask to move to the penthouse.
"We are here Pete."
"ok aunt May, sorry for scaring you by the way."
"oh hush, worry about yourself for once, Peter, just once is all I am asking."
Looks like me and this Peter are the same way in this aspect lol.
"Sorry aunt May, you know that's not possible."
"I do." She said as she unlocked the door.
"WE'RE HOOOOMMEEE" I screamed into the house.
Uncle Ben came to the door holding his finger to his mouth (yikes!) this Uncle Ben looked like TASM Uncle Ben.
"Teresa isn't feeling too well and jumping at the smallest sounds. She said not to worry so I won't in front of her but I can't help it"
From what he (my Uncle Ben?) said, she was just getting used to the sensory overload from the spider bite. It didn't effect me that much because it had happened to me billions of times now because of Mr. Shadow (yes I'm calling him that.)
"I think I know what's wrong I can help her," I said as I walked up the stairs to go to her room.
"You're a good big brother Pete." Uncle Ben said to me
That made me freeze for a millisecond. My mom always said that I had a very large big bro vibe so that comment made me remember that I most probably wouldn't see her or my siblings again.
I shook my head as I continued on my way to Teresa's room. Now wasn't the time to think about that, Teresa needed help from me.
I tapped the door so quietly you'd think I didn't touch it at all but I knew that would be enough for her senses. Several moments later the door opened slightly revealing bright green eyes and a hint of blond hair. When she looked at my eyes our Spider-Senses amped up for a second, telling us the other was a Spider-Person. Her eyes widened as she opened the door fully quietly and I entered the room and quietly we both sat down on her bed after she closed the door.
"so you needed help controlling yourself after the bite right?" I whispered.
She nodded.
"Ok listen to me" I said, holding her hands.
"Imagine a dial in your head that's at max ok? And now put a label on top of it saying 'Senses'
"Now slowly, slowly move the dial to a lower setting."
After several moments she said "Wow it feels so much better now thanks"
And she gave me a hug.
As I returned the hug I reviewed her 'file' That I had from Peter's memories
His (my?) sister, Teresa Parker, is 13, born May 17th, 1995, skipped two grades so as to be in the same class as me (oh did I mention both of us are apparently geniuses?)
"so..." I said, not getting out of the hug.
"so..." She responded, not getting out of the hug either.
"we got bitten by radioactive (interdimensional in my case) spiders."
"Yup" she said, popping the p with a smile in her voice
"we have spider powers now" a smile made its way into my voice too
"what do you think we should do?"
I sighed, as seriousness made its way into my voice.
"As I said the spider that bit me wasn't the same type as yours, mine was a clone of the interdimensional one. When it bit me I saw all the lives of all the Peter Parkers in this multiverse. It was sad." My voice started cracking. "Billions of times I thought I could use these powers to get money and I paid for thinking that with Uncle Ben's life. And then I realized I could use the powers to save people. And I don't want Uncle Ben to pay the price. There are two phrases that almost all Parkers say. One of them Uncle Ben has said repeatedly to us: 'with great power comes great responsibility' the other was made by a lot of my doppelgangers: 'when you have the power that we have, and you don't do anything, the people who die die because of you.'" At this point, tears were flowing freely as I remembered a Peter that lost everyone because of the Devil's Breath and he didn't do anything about it till it was too late. "I am not telling you what to do with your powers, you can use it or not use it its your choice. But I can't not use these powers for good, the price is too high. For now though, we're sitting ducks you're hugging me and I am hugging you and we're staying like that." I gave a wet laugh "but it's not all sad, we aren't alone and we're not the the only ones with powers. The world is large Tess" (apparently that's her nickname) "and we have a lot of fun in this ride. But remember whatever you choose to do I am there for you and you're my little s-sister no matter what. But enough serious. Lets just stay here and fall asleep." I said, feeling sleepy.
"Me too..." She said, as her voice waned out.
I gave a light laugh as I heard her heartbeat steadying, then after a couple moments, fell asleep myself.
Chapter 2: Preparation
I was sleeping peacefully when all of a sudden my dreams took a bad turn. I saw Uncle Ben get shot and I shot a web to stop it but I was too late. Then Aunt May was killed by Doc Ock. Then I saw the Green Goblin hold Teresa by the neck and he snapped her neck then told me
"You may be different, you may be superior to the other Spider-Men, but that doesn't change the fact that you are inferior and weak. Your family will still die. You won't be able to save them."
"no" I whispered to myself
"these are the facts Peter, accept it"
"NOOOOO!!!!!" I screamed and woke out of my dream.
I found myself in Teresa's room on her bed. Barely a moment passed and the rest of Peter's (my!) family was at the door with worry written on their faces. The only thing I could see was them lying on the floor, all dead. Before I knew it, tears started falling down my cheeks and everyone quickly filed into the room and gave me a group hug.
"Are you ok Pete? You screamed so loud it hurt our ears." Uncle Ben said
I inwardly winced because I realized my super strength extended to my vocal cords as well.
"I-I-I am fine." I said, my voice cracking.
"The truth please Pete." Teresa said
"don't bother I will be fine sorry for worrying y'all and scaring you guys." I said
"Peter..." Aunt May said weakly
"If you say so Peter but don't forget that we are here to talk to you at anytime" Uncle Ben said, ruffling my hair as he got up and got out of the room.
Aunt May sighed then stood up and pressed a kiss to my forehead as she left
"Pete..." Teresa said after they both left.
"I'm not going to bother you now Tess I am heading to my room." I said getting up from her bed
"nu uh Pete you're spilling now" she said holding my arm.
I sighed "I had a dream. I saw all of you dying, but it was you guys, not your multiversal counterparts. I couldn't do anything about it and..." My voice slacked out at that point, as tears made it's way down my cheeks again.
"Hey it's OK, we're here, no one is dying anytime soon if we have anything to say about it."
"I don't know Tess, like will I be able to do enough? If I can't save you guys then there is no point to this."
"Don't get stuck in the bad possibilities, just do for now."
"I guess..."
"I know. Wash up, take a shower, then go down and eat your breakfast then come back and tell me what the plan for now is" she said, emphasizing the for now.
"yes ma'am" I said
I went to the bathroom and started washing up. While brushing my teeth I looked up at the mirror and paused for a second. It wasn't the usual face I was somewhat expecting to see in the mirror. I was about five foot seven, bright brown-green eyes (quite beautiful eyes if I do say so myself lol) brown-blonde hair that was in the same style as Steve Rogers in Infinity War, and a small amount of growing facial hair.
As I took a shower, I realized my back felt weird. I looked over my shoulder and saw four... limbs? Starting to pop out of my back? Huh. So in this world I have the eight legs of an arachnid. Kinda cool. It was obviously not fully grown yet so I guessed that my body wasn't fully developed since the spider bite. Did Teresa have these too? Welp guess I will figure that out after breakfast.
I turned the shower off, dried my self, cleared the mirror, and put on a fresh pair of clothes, and went down to the dining room. I was so lucky that the field trip happened on a Friday. It would've been real annoying if I had to rush to school on my first day around. I sat down at the table with a "Morning" to the rest of the (my!) family.
"Morning dear, how you feeling now?" Aunt May asked me
"Much better thanks Aunt May" I said with a smile.
"told you so" Teresa (my little sister!) said as she slid into her own chair.
As I said before, Teresa had green eyes, blond hair, but what I didn't say was that she was about five foot four, somewhat sharp face, was super smart (wait I did say that but I guess my big bro vibe is on overload) and was on the school chess team.
As we were eating, I reviewed my temporary game plan. I was obviously going to keep a secret identity, but I wasn't going to risk anything for it, like how 616 Peter Parker did. I could also use my resources from PI to make suits for me and Tess, and gadgets such as web grenades and teaser webs and more. also I would rather not have Fury on my ass so some cloaking tech would be valuable. I also needed to have a bunker or two which contains several suits and stuff. But for now on my checklist is a suit that's cool and top-notch and badass. And an A.I. I ran a self evaluation on my mental situation and compared it to old Peter's and it seemed that when our minds combined our IQ levels were multiplied by the others, making me much smarter than expected.
I figured that I had enough food, even with my enhanced metabolism, so I stood up and gathered the plates. As I headed to the kitchen, Uncle Ben called after me "Hey Pete, is it just me or did you grow half an inch?"
"huh?" I looked down at myself and compared my current ratio in height to the countertop's height to what Peter's memories said my height should be. It seemed as though I did gain half an inch.
"I guess so?" I said weakly. If I grew half an inch so fast since the bite and hadn't even finished my 'growth spurt' who knew what my eventual height would be? I honestly hope it doesn't go past six foot five or six.
Suddenly I realized that I needed to go to PI headquarters today for some tech from Peter's (my!!!) Lab so I said "Oh yeah I just remembered I have some stuff to do in my lab at the HQ so can we go in a couple of hours?"
"about that..." Uncle Ben said
I semi turned towards him while I washed the dishes with a quirked eyebrow.
"oh wait I phrased it wrongly sorry. What I meant is yes we can go today but there was something your parents said about the whole 'Parker Industries' thing"
"What did they say?" Teresa asked
"well they basically said that when you were both around this age to step up your game in terms of PI, so Pete automatically takes position of CEO when he turns 16 in about six months and you get your position as co-CEO when you turn 16. So because you will get the job in several months we were thinking to have you guys spend your weekends there if you want to so everyone gets used to you before the official stuff." Aunt May said
They all started looking at me to see my decision as to wether to go to HQ frequently or not. It seemed that if I did say yes and went to HQ frequently, then I would have much more flexibility in making tech for me and Tess. And if I didn't then... Eh there's no point in not saying yes to this deal so I'll take it I guess.
"I don't see why not, so yeah for sure we can go all the time unless I have something else on my calendar. But aside from the weekends do you think I should go after school twice a week?"
"Good decision Pete. And going on the weekdays would be perfect then you would be able to meet the employees who work on the weekdays only." Uncle Ben said
"Then it's settled" Aunt May said
After I finished with the dishes, I went upstairs to my room and waited for Teresa to show up. Several moments after I sat on my bed, Teresa came in and plopped down on the bed beside me. My room was a beautiful black for the most part with the ceiling painted dark red. My Spider-Man suit was going to be the same colors, I decided.
"So I have several things to say Pete. 1. We are doing this whole superhero gig. I think that phrase of yours really hit me, the one about standing down is no good. 2. When we do this, we're wearing masks or something. If our faces are seen and people have grudges against us, they might attack pur family and friends. 3. My suit is going to be black and purple, like my room. I made a simple sketch while you were in the shower. 4. Congratulations on your new job make sure you don't do this just for superheroing take for of the family biz too." Teresa told/rambled to me
"Took the planning right outta my brain" I said with a smile on my face "Seriously though, about the secret identity thing, yes I was going to tell you that, my multiversal counterparts mostly all did that, but that doesn't mean we can't tell some people, and don't think that I won't protect Uncle Ben and Aunt May to the best of my ability. I've seen lots of stuff, and I know we will fight a lot of badasses out to kill us. Some of them might get our identities, and that's ok. Its a possibility, I've seen it happen, and things get somewhat better for us when that happens. But that doesn't mean I will expose my identity. Secondly, awesome color choice, I am doing black and red,-"
"Obviously you are doing black and red" she cut me off, rolling her eyes.
Huh. So me and Peter both geek over that color choice. Yea boi.
"As I was saying, the suit. I am planning on installing cloaking technology on them so that SHIELD can't find us. As well as add some gadgets such as web grenades and web-shooters. Give me your sketch so I can work on it when we can go to HQ. Lastly, the company is a part of our family. Ill take the best care of it that I can."
"Why would SHIELD worry about us though?"
"Because we're 'anomalies' and freak shows 'that are a potential threat to the safety of the USA', but in reality Fury wants to know everything, and wants to have the ability to control and threaten people like us."
"do other versions of us have history with this 'Fury' or something? Why the sudden hate?"
"in most worlds, I never meet you until I'm like 30 or something. When Mom and Dad died, you usually were kept at SHIELD while I went with Uncle Ben and Aunt May. They didn't even know you existed, and therefore SHIELD just kept you. Even the worlds where I worked for SHIELD under my superhero moniker, he never told me," I said remembering how USM went on after the show ended, with Pete just happening to meet another agent at the Academy who's last name was Parker as well, and after some searching found out they were siblings. " And Fury is also partly responsible for the plane crash if I'm understanding this world correctly, I am not sure though."
"Yeah so you hate him, but you can't kill him because the world needs him amirite?"
"The world will need him for only so long..." I said, venom entering my voice.
"something tells me you aren't telling me all the reasons you hate him."
I remembered how in that one fanfic, 'The Spider' Fury manipulated both me and Felicia so that Felicia dealt with HYDRA. That happened in one of the other universes here too, interestingly. He was also responsible for the death of Aunt May in one of the universes here, who he killed in an attempt to stop other me from taking both HYDRA and SHIELD down in one blow.
"Don't bother Tess,-"
"Tell me now, Pete."
I sighed "so in one of the universes he manipulates me and a love interest so that she can go kick HYDRA butt. In another universe he kills Aunt May because HYDRA infiltrated SHIELD and I was going to take both organizations down because that was the only way in that universe and he wasn't willing to lose his organization"
She blinked once, then twice. "Yeah tell me when it's time for us to kill that bastard. But HYDRA is still alive? And what's 'Fury's' actual name?"
"Yeah HYDRA currently makes up about 50% of SHIELD agent roster. But not all of SHIELD is bad. And his actual name is Nicholas Jacob Fury."
"ok let's get ready to go now."
"Yup"
After a couple minutes, I came out of my room, looking fresh and professional. This Peter had a wardrobe agreeable to my tastes and that made things so much better. Me and Teresa were the last ones out the house so we locked it and walked to the car and sat in the back.
"Looking good guys" Aunt May told us.
"thanks Aunt May" we both said.
After several minutes, we made it to the HQ and parked the car. We all went straight to our labs (or offices in the cases of Aunt May and Uncle Ben.) I went to my lab, entered my biometrics on the door, and walked in. On the desk, there were two projects that Peter (I) was working on. one of them was a lizard regeneration formula (yikes) for one Dr. Connors, who was the head of the biological enhancements field of PI. Another project was a smart watch sorta thing that would replace the need for a phone. I decided to finish these two projects before doing Spider-Man work. For the Lizard formula, I put a big x on it and worked on making The Cradle thing that Dr. Cho and Ultron used to make Vision instead as that would be a safer alternative.
After working on it for an hour and a half, I made some blueprints for The Cradle, but I came to the conclusion that I would need a power source similar to the arc reactor (I wasn't going to use the arc reactor I respect Tony Stark enough not to make it before him.)
Putting the blueprints aside, I started on the smartwatch. The main problems Peter had with this watch was 1) how to fit a camera onto it and 2) what to name it. After some tinkering, I decided to forgo the original interior design in favor of a more minimalistic, nanotechnological design. After about thirty minutes, I finished a personal/beta version. It had a rectangular display, almost like a mini phone, but not hard to navigate, had a crude A.I. similar to Siri of my old universe, and when you activated the camera, a round.. thing came out of the watch and opened up like a scroll, revealing the camera, which could twirl based on wether you wanted to take a selfie or not, and was (obviously) black and red.
"hmmm, what to name you?" I said to myself/ the watch
After a moment I said "Ah! I got it, introducing the... Parkerwatch!"
(hey it was that or smartwear)
I configured the AI to be named by whoever bought it. But I wasn't going to have such a crude AI on my Parkerwatch, no, sir. So I got on the work of creating an AI with complex emotions and stuff. After twenty minutes, I hit a stump. So I pressed a button on my desk that called Tess.
"watcha want Pete?" She said as she answered the call.
"Could you help me with something here, I'm trying to create an AI with emotions but I've hit a stump in the coding?"
"sure thing, I was just sitting around anyways, see you in two."
About two minutes later, my door opened to reveal my sister (I thought that by myself!) She popped the bubble gum that she had and said, "So what's the probs?"
Gods, I have such an awesome new sister.
I shook my head to clear my thoughts then said "here, take a look."
She leaned over my shoulder for a minute, then moved her hand to my super cool black and blue keyboard (that's my second favorite color combo.) After typing for several minutes, she hit a stump and I picked up on where she left off.
"Sit down on a chair." I said.
She got a rolling chair that I had against the wall, and brought it next to me and sat down. I continued coding till I hit another stump, and she picked off where I stumped. After ten minutes and 6 handovers, we finished the AI.
"So what's her name?" Tess asked
"Superior Engineered Xquisite Intelligence. Without the E in Xquisite."
"ok so her nickname is... S.E.X.I.?" she said, trying hard not to laugh
"Hey its going to be so fun going to school and just go 'S.E.X.I., what's the weather gonna be like tomorrow?'" I said, lightly chuckling myself.
"Oh my god this is too good." Teresa said, exploding into crazy laughter.
After she cal!ed down, I said " Ok I'm waking her up be nice."
"Of course." Teresa said, immediately coming to attention.
I started her up and after several moments said "hey SEXI"
"Hey Master Parker. How may I be of assistance to you?" She said in a New Yorker accent.
"Nothing right now hun. How're you feeling?"
"I'm feeling... quite unsure but well Master Parker, thank you for asking."
"No prob SEXI, just drop the 'Master Parker' will ya? You can call me Pete or Peter or whatever you want; you can even call me dipshit. Let's leave 'Master Parker' for Uncle Ben, 'kay?"
"How about Prince? According to what I have found on the Parker Industries database you are slated to inherit the Company as well as the position of CEO when you come of age, thereby making you a prince of sorts?"
"That name is perfect, thanks a lot."
"Its my pleasure, Prince."
My attention was drawn to a slight snickering from next to me. I looked and I saw Tess there. Oh she was here the whole time and is now finding me being prince amusing.
"I am assuming you know who this is right SEXI?"
"Yes, hello Mistress Parker, I am SEXI, it is an honor."
"its an honor to meet you too, SEXI. And drop the honorific, you're a part of our family."
"I am honored and pleased to be a part of the Parker family. Shall I call you Princess instead?"
"Why not? But just call me Tess when we're around non-family, ok?"
"As you wish Princess."
"SEXI, can you do the same for me? Just call me Pete if we're around non family" I said.
"for sure." She responded.
"Ok, now why don't you spread your base across the internet, I want you to be safe. Put one copy in my Parkerwatch, and some in our computers back home, as well as copies in our phones. actually don't put it in the phones I'll just make Parkerwatches for the family."
"Parkerwatch?" Teresa asked
"I just made them" I said, passing mine to her.
"Cool, reinforced plating so as to reassure that it can't break, polymer band, waterproof to the point of scuba diving, a SIM scanner rather than wasting internal space, but where's the camera?"
"SEXI, care to do the honors?" I said, a smile on my face.
"Of course, Prince." SEXI responded from the watch, with a smile in her voice (YEA BOII)
The camera function popped out the side and Tess squealed in a combo of excitement and surprise.
"ok wow, this is AWESOME!"
"you said it" I responded
"take it to the patent office now"
"I already sent the blueprints to the production as well as submitted patent requests."
"Ok good job, now what?" Tess asked
"Well, have you decided on a superhero moniker?"
"I am thinking Wolf Spider."
There were several spiders with that name, so I'm not surprised.
"Nice, I'm just going with the usual Spider-Man"
"If I may Prince, what is it you are talking about" SEXI interjected.
"Oh I am so sorry hun, so see the thing is yesterday me and Tess were bit by these special spiders from OsCorp, which gave us spider powers. The spider that bit me had interdimensional powers, so I saw billions of other Peter Parkers' from other universes lives-"
"So the multiverse theory is real?" SEXI asked with awe in her voice.
"yeah it is, super cool stuff hun, one day I will show you. But anyways, most Peters have a real bad life SEXI. They don't have you, their Uncle Bens die in front of them, and they lose their loved ones again and again. So because of that, I decided to do my best to make sure that no one had to pay the price of my mistakes in this world, that's also the reason why I created you, sunshine. I wanted to bring some more happiness into our family, and I wanted your help to keep Aunt May, Uncle Ben, and Tess safe, so what do you say, sunshine?"
"that's a lot to unload Prince," SEXI said, her voice unsure, "but I will do whatever it takes to keep you all safe, in the end you are my family and I will make sure you stay safe, whatever the cost." Determination leaked into her voice towards the end.
"That's my girl!" I said, with pride in my voice.
Suddenly Teresa started coughing. I looked at her curiously, it was obviously fake coughing "*cough cough* dad *cough cough*" she 'coughed' out
I rolled my eyes at that and turned around.
"Anyways, that's that, and we need to make our suits. I have a body suit designer somewhere here and if I tweak it a little bit it can serve its purpose as a super suit designer."
"Prince?" SEXI said asked
"Yes hun?"
"Are you my dad?"
"In a manner of speaking, yes. You may not be my biological child but in my eyes you are my child, you got that sunshine?"
"yes, thank you very much, can I call you dad?"
"hun, you can call me whatever you want."
"Thanks Dad."
"Anytime SEXI." I said, then I leaned down and gave the top of my monitor a kiss, significant of her forehead.
"Awww" Tess said, interjecting in our bonding moment.
I glared at her.
"We were just having our first father-daughter bonding moment and you just had to didn't you?"
"Hey she needs to spend some time with her Aunt too." Tess responded, A small smile on her face.
"Do you wish for me to call you Aunt Tess, Princess?"
"I would love that, thank you sweetie"
"Ok now we have to focus on our job, you connected to the suit designer Sexi?"
"Yes dad"
"Ok so we need to adapt the idea of this designer, which means a change in airings and stuff. So how about wait!" I just realized, I could make a combination between The Cradle and thus suit designer to get my intended final product.
"what happened?" Tess asked.
I threw a blueprint at her "So I made these blueprints for this thing, I call it The Cradle. It is made to recreate lost muscles and such, but the problem is that its missing-"
"A power source smaller than the arc reactor but can contain more power and you're thinking to merge the two machines to create our suit designer!" Tess said.
"yup." I said, a little down because it'd take a long time to get the power source down.
"Well then let's get started! I'm sure with the three of us its not going to take too long right SEXI?" Tess said enthusiastically.
Three hours and one newly created element later, we got our power source. It was quite interesting, it could take two hundred times the amount of power that the typical arc reactor that size could hold, and the new element it used had a sort of glow to it, which could be increased or decreased to the point of not being there, and could change colors too! I was sure it wasn't Starkium or Badassium, whatever Tony calls it in this world, that couldn't change colors.
"So what do we call the element?" Tess asked
"Let's give SEXI the naming rights. What do you say, hun?"
"So we made a sort of element, whose specialty is in making a power source. Uhhh, how about simply Parkerium?" SEXI suggested
"Parkerium it is" I said.
"Now lets send the designs for the reactor to the patent and production, as well as the element itself." Tess said
"Now onto the next step: making The Cradle and our suit designer."
Five hours and lord only knows how many granola bars later, we finished with everything. We made The Cradle and I yet had to test it; The suit designer was made and in perfect condition; we made our suits. Both me and Teresa had spider-legs growing out of our back, so we made our suits accordingly. We also added a feature to our suit so when we took it off it turned into a shirt of sorts, which looked as if it were ones actual body. The 'folded' suit was made so as to be able to hide the legs. For now they could be hidden as ribs, but eventually they would be to obvious so as to not be ribs. We apparently had organic web shooters, which we figured out when I was showing Tess and SEXI how most Spider-Men shot their webs, and suddenly webs shot out and hit the wall. We created several gadgets, like the trusty Spider-Drone and web grenades, among others. Finally, everything was ready and we were ready to put our suits on.
"Ok so SEXI give us a three second timer when it goes off we activate our suits 'kay?"
"Three... Two... One... Activate!" SEXI said.
We both activated our suits.
Mine looked like TASM suit, but instead of the blue and black combo, it was my favorite black and red I remember in my old life there was this one editor on Instagram called @venomhology who edited a suit to look like this. I also added the expressive lenses MCUSM had. It had a layer of my own version of Kevlar which made the original Kevlar look weak. It could take 100 shots and only suffer slight fraying. Underneath the Kevlar was our reactor. The red areas were all reactor. If I wanted to, I could increase the glow of the red such to the point that it was a strong light. It also had camoflage so it could hide from any sort of scan. The feet soles had a special sort of repulsor which covered the whole sole, but the sole was still thin enough for my 'sticky powers' to work. The repulsors also glowed red. I got the idea from The White Wolf's suit from Avengers Assemble Season 5. I hoped he was around in this universe, he was a really chill dude, a pity he died in that universe. It also had a hidden utility belt which had all my gadgets.
Teresa's was black and purple, had all the powers and features mine had, with her hair poking out the back. The spider emblem on hers was like MCUSM. Pretty cool, if you asked me.
We spent the next hour configuring the ability within the suits for SEXI to operate it should we be injured or if we wanted to convince someone we weren't Spider-Man and/or Wolf Spider
"Oh and SEXI, we aren't telling Aunt May or Uncle Ben about the whole superhero thing till later, ok hun?"
"Of course dad"
After we finished, we sent a message to Aunt May and Uncle Ben that we were ready to head out and went down the elevator to our car. Once we all sat in the car Teresa blurted out "guess what I'm an Aunt now!"
Aunt May was starting to drive out but when she heard that she stopped, shared a look with Uncle Ben, then turned to look at me.
Uncle Ben had pulled out his phone but when he heard that he stopped, shared a look with Aunt May, then turned to look at me.
"Now what exactly is the meaning of that, young man?" They both said at the same time.
I gulped. Then turned to glare at Tess, whose face said 'ok maybe I shouldn't have phrased it like that and I should be sorry but this is ENTERTAINING!' Then turned to look at my parent figures again.
"Hun, I think it'd be much easier if you explained this to them right sunshine?" I said
"Of course dad. What Aunt Tess meant is that Dad here had created me today and we had a discussion in which we mutually all agreed that dad is my dad and Aunt Tess is my aunt." SEXI said from my Parkerwatch
"ok, and who are you?" Aunt May asked, her voice lost all of it's harshness and instead had softness and curiosity.
"My name is Superior Engineered Xquisite Intelligence, short SEXI Parker." That's touching, she took my last name. "I was 'born' today, and my purpose is to live life and make sure my family stays safe."
"Ok, SEXI, can I call you Karen? Because I don't feel right calling you SEXI all the time, but if you like the name SEXI better I won't call you anything else."
"How about my full name be Karen SEXI Parker, what do you think Dad?"
"Sunshine, I don't see why not. This is all your choice in the end." I said.
"Then that's my full name" Karen SEXI Parker said
"Welcome to the family!" We all said together.
"thank you, now I believe we were on our way home? And what shall I call you, Master and Mistress Parker?"
Aunt May started driving again as she said "hmmm I'm not sure..."
"Just call them grandma and grandpa or something of the sort hun." I said
"Grandma and Grandpa it is."
"That's my girl" I said, pride in my voice.
We were home when Uncle Ben asked "oh Peter what is that watch of yours? Is it just for Karen or what?"
"Well that's one of the few things I made today, I even made one for each of you" I said, handing both of my parent figures a box while gesturing at the watch on Tess' wrist. "It's called a Parkerwatch, it operates like a very advanced smartphone, the typical design I made for production has a basic AI for ease of access, but ours are all outfitted with Karen. I personalized the bands for you guys, so Tess has a black and purple band while I have a black and red band, and you guys have rose gold and blurple respectively. I also put some weaponry on yours so if some one attempts to attack you they will regret it. If everything goes as I want it to, the watches will be released after I step up as CEO."
"Ok, wow, good job kid." Uncle Ben told me then he started having an animated discussion with Karen on how cool I am (weird I'm right here) from behind me I heard Tess say so quietly only I could hear it because of my enhanced senses, "what weaponry?"
"enough defenses to kill even a rhino." I whispered back in a mischievous voice.
Chapter 3: The First Swing
After I gave Aunt May her Parkerwatch, we all had dinner. During dinner, me and Tess and SEXI all discussed what we did today, leaving out the 'classified' parts of the discussion. After dinner we all dispersed throughout the house to do whatever we wanted. I went to my room then said to SEXI, "Karen hun can you quietly tell Tess that we are going on our first swing tonight?"
"Of course Dad, but are you sure you're ready?"
"If not now then when sunshine? Besides the people who need saving tonight not be there tomorrow."
"That makes sense dad, but please don't do anything too dangerous."
"I won't do anything too dangerous unless I have to, hun."
"Thanks dad"
"no problem sunshine, it's what I'm supposed to do. Oh and would you rather I call you Karen or SEXI?"
"With all due respect to Grandma you, my dad, named me SEXI so I'd rather you call me by that name."
I felt so much pride and love from that sentence that it made switching universes almost worth it.
"Thank you SEXI, you're one special girl."
"Thank you" she responded, putting emphasis on the you.
Two to three hours later, I could tell Aunt May and Uncle Ben's heartbeats calmed down to a sleeping rhythm. Quietly, I opened my window, activated cloaking, and knocked on Tess' window. she opened the window just as quietly with her cloaking mode also enabled. Quietly we flipped away from our house (I am starting to get used to referring to things around here as 'mine' , Peter's memories helped to do that.) When we were far enough, we sat on a roof and deactivated cloaking.
"SEXI, can you make sure no one can hear us other than each other unless we are catching someone or talking to someone else but even then apply a voice changer."
"It's done dad." She said after a moment.
"thanks SEXI." I said
"SEXI, you know as your aunt I'm proud of you for not being afraid to tell me or your dad which name you prefer but still being considerate of Aunt May and Uncle Ben's personalities." Huh. So Tess and SEXI had that discussion too
"Thank you, Aunt Tess." She said, and I swear there was a blush in her voice.
"It's not a problem, sweetie." Tess responded
"What are your plans for today, dad?" SEXI asked
"how about some light swinging, keep your senses open Tess, SEXI you had into the police radio and tell us if there is anything wrong." I replied
"Smart, so that if there are small disturbances that are nearby, we can step in, and if there are major disturbances, we will know." Teresa said, standing up and getting ready to start swinging.
I stood up, brushed imaginary dust off my legs, and shot a web. It seemed this stuff was instinctual to us. A moment after I shot my web, Teresa shot hers. We both looked at each other, gave a miniscule head nod, and started swinging.
After the first swing, it felt so instinctive and natural and freeing that judging from our shouts of joy you'd think we'd never stop. swing after swing after swing and it felt no less exhilarating. After a while I heard someone asking for help. I looked at Tess and it looked like she heard it too. Quickly we took fast swings in that direction till we found a gang mugging happening. The poor man was stuck in a corner, afraid for his life, while the five gangsters brandished their knives, looking as if they were going to finish the man's life. After a moment of discussion, me and Tess both quietly crawled down the walls of the alley. Quickly we both webbed up the thug closest to us onto the wall, covering their mouths well enough that they couldn't talk, but they could make sounds.
The remaining gangsters heard the captured ones' sounds, so they looked up and saw them.
"What happened to them?" Thug 1 said
"Idon't know, I am more worried abt what they are trying to say." Thug 2 said.
"I think he was trying to say that your lives were in danger, pal." Tess said, standing at the front of the alley.
The lead thug panicked for a second, before saying "It's just a puny girl y'all, let's show 'er what happens when you attack the Big Man's people."
When I heard that, I quietly told Tess from my vantage watching point on the wall, "web them up individually, we need to know who is the big man here."
"Copy that." She responded into the comms. While we were talking they had already started their charge at her. When they were close, she flipped over them and shot a web at the wall at the end of the alley, making a cushioned wall, while shooting another web at lead thug's back. She pulled at lead thug's web and he flew into the wall and got stuck. Then she simply shot webs at the other two's feet, trapping them there.
Wow. Is it just me, or are women totally smarter than men? Most Peter Parkers didn't do combos until they were months into the gig (except for TASM, that guy was the G fr.) When I voiced my thoughts to SEXI, she said "it's highly possible dad, but it is my opinion that the other versions of you merely used their instincts rather than a combination of their brain and instincts."
"That... actually makes a lot of sense, sunshine. Thank you." I said
"You're welcome Dad."
"I think anybody that is my big bro is just an idiot, honestly. So its not surprising that I must outdid him." Teresa said, joining in the conversation.
"That's possible too, honestly. But we have to do interrogation now." I said, jumping off the wall.
I walked up to the two thugs that were at the front of the alley, and webbed them up fully. Then I went to to the end of the alley towards the lead thug, slowly and menacingly, with the glow of my suit accentuated to make my aura even darker. I looked at the man they were originally mugging and told him, "you can go man, just make sure you're not out this late." The man nodded and quickly left and then I stalked towards the lead again
When I finally was at his face, I stood there for a second, then with my voice changer automatically enabled, said, "So."
At this point the man was sweating. His forehead was glistening in the meager light provided by my suit. He looked at me, not managing to look at me in the eye, then at Tess, then looking at me in the eye, finally regaining his bravery. "So, who are you, sitting out and letting your bitch do the hard-glurgh!?"
The moment he said that my hand was at his throat, squeezing it tight enough to give pain, but not enough to kill or permanently injure him. I started talking again, SEXI deepening my voice to match my next words "You say shit like that about Wolf Spider again and you'll come out of this alley wishing you died here, understood?"
After a moment of struggling he nodded and I let go of his neck, but not removing my hand from his neck, leaving it where I could choke him before he knew it. He gulped, then asked "what do you want?"
I narrowed my eyes, knowing my lenses would express that, then I said "Information."
"What information?" He said nearly shaking but too afraid of the hand around his neck to shake.
"Who is the Big Man?" I asked
"No one except Hammerhead and his direct employees know"
"Where is the Bar With No Name?"
"Downtown is all I know, I don't know exactly where, please believe me."
"Oh, I believe you all right, that doesn't mean anything good for you, its all the same." I said, my lenses narrowing dangerously.
Activating my intercom quietly, I told Tess to get up to the roof. Then I balled my fist, making it look as though I would punch him. I raised my fist, and as my fist got ready for release he closed his eyes, too scared to see himself receive the punch. After not receiving the punch, he slowly opened his eyes to see noone, just a large spiderweb with a card in the middle with the wording. "Courtesy of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and Wolf Spider."
When the man closed his eyes, I shot my parting web with the card on it, then quietly jumped up to the roof.
Purposely not enabling private comms, I said "I got the information I needed, the Big Man is Tombstone, Lonnie L Lincoln. I still need to find the actual address of the Bar With No Name."
"Ok several questions: 1. Who taught you interrogation techniques 2. How do you know that from so little amount of information 3. What is the Bar With No Name 4. What is so special about the Big Man?"
"1. I was taught by Natasha Romanov, moniker The Black Widow, as well as some others, we will meet her sooner or later. I will answer the remaining questions when private mode is enabled, SHIELD is watching right now."
After a moment, SEXI said, "private mode reenabled"
"2. In the multiverse, Hammerhead works for either himself, Tombstone, or Silvio Manfredi. It's clear he isn't the big man, and he only ever worked for Silvio in the 80s, thereby leaving the only possible candidate to be Tombstone. 3. Its a bar where supers, mercs, and major Mafioso meet up without fighting, cuz they all need a common bar. 4. The Big Man is the Kingpin of New York Crime, if there was a good man who had that position, alot would be better. Keep in mind I don't want the position, I've seen universes where someone used it to almost eradicate crime or at least keep it in a manageable level." I said, thinking about Invincible and Titan as well as a universe somewhere here where Deadpool became Kingpin (that world had much less crime.)
We stayed out for two more hours, and stopped five bank robberies, two more muggings, and one attempted rape. Then we went home and strapped in for a night of sleep.
The next day on the Helicarrier, Natasha Romanov could be seen going to Fury's office. When she arrived there, she said "You called, sir?"
"Take a seat." He said, gesturing to a chair in front of his desk.
She sat down and then he said, "I'd like you to watch this recording."
A recording started to play, dated to last night. It seemed as though it were a simple mugging, but Natasha knew better than that, else Fury wouldn't have her watch it. Then she noticed two figures crawling the walls one male and the other female. Intrigued, she continued to watch the video, saw the male use subtle interrogation techniques in every movement, even when he let the original victim go, his body language seemed to be jumping at the thug. He did a well done exit, making sure no one around knew where he went. It was clear to Natasha that if he had so wanted, the satellite would never have caught him. It was probably a message to SHIELD too. It was also obvious that the duo knew how the other operated, considering how the female (her moniker was Wolf Spider) had left merely moments before he finished. She wondered where he learnt interrogation techniques from, it was clearly a very thorough teacher and attentive student.
Then she noticed that Fury had paused the video from when he had jumped out of the alley, waiting for her to finish her observation which she was so engrossed in that she never noticed the video was ever paused.
She nodded at Fury so as to say that she had finished her dissecting of what had occurred. He played the recording, and what happened next surprised her immensely.
First thing the man said after getting on the roof was the identity of the 'Big Man' the Kingpin of New York Crime if the Intel she had from SHIELD files. But the SHIELD files didn't have an identity for the 'Big Man' so this man seemed to have Intel good enough to outdo SHIELD's. Possibly Fury wanted her, a spy, to recruit this man, who was good enough to outdo the world's finest.
Then the woman asked the man several questions rapid fire, revealing that they weren't as close as she originally thought, these two had a sibling relationship, much like her and Clint's. But the question whose answer she actually wanted was the first question, the one on his teacher in interrogation.
When he gave his answer, she was surprised to the core. She never taught anyone interrogation techniques, but it made sense, somehow. She could see her style in his, but his had some instinctual moves blended into it, as well as other styles. Then when he said SHIELD was watching, it confirmed some of her earlier suspicions. This was a message to SHIELD. Daring them to come at him sooner or later.
Fury paused the video, then said, "Thoughts, Romanov?"
"He knew that there was surveillance on him from the beginning. If he so wanted, we wouldn't see a thing over there. This was a message to us as well. He said the identity of the 'Big Man' in a way so as to suggest that if we wanted to, we could move against him, if we didn't then he would. the relationship between this 'Spider-Man' and 'Wolf Spider' is one of two siblings, not business or romantic partners. While I wish I could take credit for teaching him, it is my regret to say I am not. But his style of interrogation is about ninety percent mine, eight percent comes from some sort of instinct, possibly actual spider instinct, and the remaining comes from several other places. He clearly knows me well, and he possibly has met me without me knowing, considering we do not know who he is under the mask. His last sentence had a hidden meaning, saying that we would make a move on him sooner or later, and I most probably would be the chosen agent. But he also said that it wouldn't work because he was taught by the best there is. With all due respect, sir, I am supposing you were tracking him last night but he disappeared without a trace, is that correct sir?"
"Yes..." He said reluctantly, and played the video. It continued to show them stop some petty crime, then one moment mid-swing they both just disappeared. Fury then pressed a button on his desk, and then the screens started displaying several different forms of tracking, sonar, heat, satellite, and every single form of tracking available. At the same moment, they all just vanished. Whoever this was, they clearly covered all possible bases and several other forms SHIELD didn't have such as mental.
"In all honesty sir, I doubt even I could get a hold of him. If he reveals who he is, it would be of his own accord. Is there anything else sir?"
"Just one thing" he said and pulled a card out of his pocket, revealing a somewhat satirical card. "The spider duo left this whenever they caught someone. Other than that, nothing. I am supposing he expects at most a squad of agents, but not the wrath of Nick Fury. Lets see how well he does against that."
That's what you think Fury, but it's possible you're his endgame too Natasha thought, but instead said, "Is that all sir?"
He sighed then said "yes, you are dismissed."
Chapter 4: How It All Started
The next day I woke up due to another nightmare, my family once again coming around to comfort me.
"Your sure you're ok, Pete?" Aunt May asked, concern etched into her face.
"No, I'm not okay. But I will be, eventually." I replied.
"That's a smart answer, Peter. But what's bothering you?" Uncle Ben said.
"Don't worry about it, ill be fine." I said, shrugging my shoulders.
"If you say so..." Aunt May said, and her and Uncle Ben filed out of the room.
"Same dream?" Tess asked as soon as the folks were far enough, with her hugging me all the while.
"Different forms of death. But essence was the same."
"We're here Pete, it'll be okay till it's not, but even then we'll find a way out."
That would be all good and perfect if I was Peter, I thought to myself.
"Y'know, Tess, SHIELD was onto us last night."
"Yeah, what're we going to do about it?"
"No need for you to worry. I've assured that they won't make a move against me temporarily, by threatening them, but I'm not sure how long Fury will stand down."
"When did you threaten them?"
"Dad didn't directly threaten them," SEXI butted into the conversation, "he merely interrogated those thugs with SHIELD watching, with a style familiar to only one SHIELD agent that he blended with a twist of spider instinct, as well as other advanced interrogation styles, then indirectly dared them to send said agent to apprehend him, saying something to the effect of that we would wait for her."
"I am guessing you infiltrated Fury and Natashas meeting?" I asked.
"yup" SEXI said, popping the p.
"SEXI do you have a recording of the meeting? I would like to watch it." Tess asked.
"Playing the recording now." SEXI said.
After we watched the recording, Teresa said, "Huh, so you really thought of everything."
"Mostly, other versions of me had different teachers and such so it comes much easier to me. I don't have a full database on their lives, it was some sort of selective process. For example, most Spider-Persons create a form of martial arts which was a combination of several different martial. This fighting style was made by me for the most part. It's emphasis is on how to pull your punches, and take bigger opponents in the least amount of hits and time. the reason for pulling punches is that not pulling back, we can take a super soldier with ease in most universes, there is only one super soldier who is usually able to match my power, Luke Cage. But even though I know all about it, I don't know how The Way Of The Spider works. It mostly was just showing me bonding with loved ones, only to lose them. It was a way of saying my life is meant to be doomed by what the Parkers call Parker Luck." I said, not letting myself show emotion, another nifty trick taught to me by Natasha.
"Then why do you have memory of Natasha's teaching?"
"That was our... form of bonding. With her teaching me how to be as good as her, aiming for us to be the badass 'spy-ders.'"
"Who was she to you?"
"Half of the universes, she is a love interest. The rest of them it varies, sometimes she is a close friend, other times me, her, and Spider-Woman for our 'spy-ders' club and are feared in the super community. Sometimes she is my non biological aunt. It varies."
"Sorry for bringing up difficult memories for you, but do you think you have feelings for her here?"
"Wether I do or don't doesn't matter, Tess. I've fallen in love too many times and being the reason my loved ones die, if you weren't bitten I honestly would've left and lived on the streets while doing my job. Peter Parker is destined to be the fall of his loved ones, and I'm not making that list bigger."
"Dad, you can't do that. You said it yourself, this world is a new ballgame. In most other universes, you said there isn't any Aunt Tess or me, this is a different world dad. Don't worry too much, let yourself live this life to it's fullest." SEXI said
"She's right, nothing is concrete, Pete. You have a NEW life here, it's not like the others. Don't waste it." Tess added.
"I will see what to do when we get to that step, for now, we do the now." I said
"That's the best I can get from you, right?" Tess asked
"yeah," I said, letting the sadness finally slightly leak into my voice.
Teresa gave me one last squeeze then walked out of the room. I went to my bathroom and as i freshened up I reviewed what I needed to do. 1) see what was up with Cindy and find out her identity, 2) make some protection on our suit against mental attacks, 3) make some nanotechnology so as to be able to make my bunkers.
after we ate breakfast, I said that I would make my way to the HQ on my own, I had some things to do before. After getting dressed, I walked to Cindy's house. It was walking distance from our place. Both of us lived in a somewhat rich area, us because Aunt May and Uncle Ben were heads of separate branches of PI, them because her parents were big scientists in PI. As kids, we were friends apparently and so were our parents. They had even worked on many projects together, according to Peter's memories. Peter used to talk to her frequently, but not enough to call her a close friend. As I finished going over our relationship, I came up to her house. I rang the bell. Moments later, her younger brother, AJ(Albert Jr.), opened the door.
"Hey AJ, is your sister and your parents here?" I said politely
"My parents are here, come in, I will call them." he said, as polite as an eleven year could be
As I entered and sat down on the couch, I realized Albert hadn't said anything about Cindy, electing not to mention her whereabouts. I remembered Nat telling one of me, 'omission is just as good as a lie.' I never doubted that phrase, but this just made that phrase so much more reliable.
Moments later, The Moons entered the room, Mrs. Moon holding a tray of biscuits and tea in her hands. "Please take some." She said, placing the tray on the coffee table.
I took a cup of tea slowly, with a "Thank you"
After taking a quick sip of the tea, which was green and real good, I said "I'll get straight to the point, I'm here about Cindy. Did I come too late or is she already with the government?"
I was watching their faces closely as I said it, and when I asked my question, panic and shock slightly crossed their faces for a moment before they schooled their expressions, but their eyes retained their emotions, being able to do that takes a lot of training.
After a moment, Mr. Moon slowly said, "I believe you are aware that your parents and us worked together, right?"
I nodded, then noticing a moment of panic cross Mrs. Moon's face as she looked out a window, said, "SHIELD has no idea this moment this meeting is occurring, if that's what you are worried about, Mrs. Moon. If SHIELD thinks of looking at any of us on their satellites, they will see that I went with my family to the HQ and that your family, not including Cindy as I suspected I may be too late, are driving to Staten Island. Should SHIELD attempt to hack your phones, they will find that you are talking about the nice weather and how opening the windows of the car would be perfect. I apologize for not mentioning that earlier."
After a moment of surprise, Mrs. Moon gave me a look of gratitude, then said, "Thank you, Peter. Although I am surprised that you were able to accomplish such a feat, it is not that surprising considering Richard always used to do that before we started working. And just call me Aunt Nari, Peter. Do you not remember calling me that as a kid?"
After a moment, I did find that title in Pete's memories, so I said, "Actually Aunt Nari, I do." And a nostalgic smile passed Aunt Nari's face.
Mr. Moon (I called him Uncle Al in my memories) cleared his throat, then continued, "Thank you for covering your bases before coming here, your father would be proud of you. As I was saying, the four of us used to work together, due to some unfavorable circumstances. SHIELD had wanted your parents to recreate the Super Soldier Serum. What SHIELD didn't know was that Mary was one of two twins, the children of Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter. At one point when your mother was a toddler, KGB and HYDRA had a joint operation to kidnap your mother and her brother. It was a success, HYDRA took the brother, named James Carter, who if Mary's intel was correct, had passed away due to too many tests done on his body. KGB took Mary, where she was sent to the-"
"The Red Room facility!? If so then how am I around? The graduation ceremony ensured that no Widows can have children." Then I noticed in my surprise, I had cut Mr. Moon off. Shit, both my mom and Nat would be disappointed in my skills. "Sorry Mr. Moon, I interrupted you."
"No problem Peter, you were surprised. And please, go back to calling me Uncle Al, Mr. Moon makes me feel old. But yes, your mother was a Widow, but she escaped before the graduation. She came back, to find Peggy Carter the head of SHIELD. Together the two of them made her a new identity, changing her last name to Fitzpatrick. She continued to work with SHIELD as a gene scientist, when she got married to your father, who had two PhD.'s, one in gene science and the other in computer sciences. But by this point, the leadership of SHIELD changed to how it is now, with Pierce and Fury at the top. The two of them had seen an opportunity to try and get the serum remade, not a couple who deserved the right to retire to a semi-normal life managing PI which was already well established. At first your parents refused, but then they threatened them with your Aunt and Uncle. That's where we come in. We were two employees at PI, who were proficient in their fields, with a good moral code, according to your mom. Together, the four of us were trying to find a way to defeat the Super Soldier Serum, when we found the Super Adaptoid Serum. This was a serum that could take any form of powerful blood, such as a super soldier's, adapt it into the body, and add a bump of power that the original subject didn't have. At this point you and Cindy were born, and Teresa was on the way. So we kept it in the side, while your parents pretended to work on the Super Soldier Serum, hitting 'blocks' in the serum which no one other than us would have been able to solve, as the others in the field were amateurs compared to our skill. I'm not bragging, these are facts, which we took advantage of. Eventually when Teresa and AJ were born, Mary got word from a trusted source that another couple who was working on the serum, were killed in a plane crash. SHIELD had kept the fact that there were others working on the serum from your parents, but they knew anyways, how, I don't know. The crash was made to seem to be orchestrated by an organization that had hostilities with SHIELD, that was named Zodiac, but according to your parents SHIELD knew that Zodiac would attack and let the plane crash. Immediately we knew that we were running out of time. We were having a discussion at our house on what to do and who to give the Adaptoid Serum to, when all of a sudden all four of you kids came in the room, asking for food. Left with no other choice, we gave you all the Super Adaptoid Serum. A year later, your parents were killed. That is your past Peter, your parents wanted us to tell you of it when you asked of something relating to the topic. As to what happened to Cindy, I am afraid I can't tell you unless you are mixed up in this too, Cindy suspected you might."
"I am mixed up in the spider thing, as Cindy suspected," I said, watching slight surprise cross their faces before Aunt Nari gave me a slight nod of her head, "but first I think we should discuss the Adaptoid Serum and the Red Room and SHIELD. As to the Red Room, SHIELD currently has a graduate of The Room working for them, I am waiting for SHIELD to sic her on me, it will happen sooner or later, considering the message I sent SHIELD last night, which I will explain later. My mom being Red Room explains why I know Russian fluently." I was wondering why I was able to read the Russian lullaby book I found in the house, guess this is the answer. "As to the other couple working on the serum, had SHIELD prevented the crash, they would have had an army of Super Soldiers by now, they had actually perfected a serum that day, and when Zodiac infiltrated the plane, they injected the serum into their son and pushed him off the plane, ensuring that the son survived. The serum the Cages made was different." When I said Cages, Uncle Al nodded at me. "It made Luke Cage, their son, more powerful than Steve Rogers, and gave him impenetrable skin. He can be shot point blank and not receive an injury. The Cages are currently alive, if my Intel is correct, working with Zodiac under the threat of their son's life. Luke is currently at SHIELD, working for them and living in the Helicarrier. But what the Cages were told was that their son was under Zodiac custody. I will come back to this point again. As to the spider thing, I was bit by the same spider as Cindy, but Tess was bit by a different spider, which still gave her powers, though not as damming as mine."
"Cindy told us that when she was bit, there was some sort of soul jumble, she had a new soul/mind which was a combination of her original as well as a soul from another universe where your stories were fictional, that's how she knew you would be around. So, you aren't really Peter, are you? I saw that you knew of our customs beforehand, I didn't see any surprise on your face when I offered you the tea, just pure nostalgia and joy when you tasted the tea, as if you always had it." Aunt Nari said.
My face showed that much emotion? I must've let my guard down out of happiness. Mom and Natasha would be disappointed, failing twice in one setting? I sighed then said, "SEXI, what we are currently discussing doesn't go to Tess or anyone else yet, okay? I will tell Tess myself sometime next week, got that?" I honestly already saw Tess as a sister, but she wasn't ready, and besides if I waited then she would see my slight change in personality enough for her not to be surprised.
"Who are you talking to?" Aunt Nari asked.
"My daughter, an AI I made yesterday. SHIELD won't be able to hack her, this information is safe with her, her name is Karen SEXI Parker."
"hello there," she said with slight hurt and worry lacing her tone.
I opened the camera on my Parkerwatch, turned it to face me, then I said, "SEXI, sunshine, look at me, ok. I was going to tell Tess first, you know? But then you came along. If I didn't want you to know before anyone else, I would've left you at home. I suspected that this might happen, and I was okay with you knowing. If it wasn't mentioned here, I would've told you on my way to the HQ. Hun, please don't be mad. I'm sorry you had to hear it this way."
"It's okay dad, but why? I mean you are the same person. You're my dad, not Peter Parker, right? So why didn't you tell me?" SEXI's voice was filled with confusion and hurt.
"Hun, I was scared, still am. I was given a body that was only good for killing his loved ones, and I created you, my sunshine. I created you, and I am afraid to lose you. It's just, hun, I was too scared to tell you myself. But I couldn't live with myself if I didn't tell you, right? So I brought you, so I was forced to tell you, because I was too scared of you rejecting me to bring it up myself."
"I understand dad. In the end, you're my dad, not Peter." There was still some hurt left in her tone, and that was painful.
"Hey SEXI, as I was saying to your dad before, that his parents injected the serum into him, but they weren't brave enough either. You're an AI, so you know about things like this, don't you? In the end, its not your dad's fault, he only wanted what was best for you, so he made sure you know, but he couldn't bring himself to say it."
"it makes sense, I guess." The hurt was mostly gone from her voice, leaving just a touch of hurt in her voice.
"Not that I want to break from our current discussion, but we were talking about your identity, weren't we?" Aunt Nari said after a moment.
"Yes, so compared to Cindy my souls weren't combined, instead they were switched. I am supposing from what you said that both in my universe as well as this Cindy is a combination of both personalities. What is her other name?"
"Interesting. When she tried to tell us, she kept getting bleeped, then she was knocked out and after three seconds she woke up and said some shadow told her she couldn't reveal her other name and that it would be the same for you." Uncle Al said.
" So there's a new rule to his game, huh." I said.
Then I just remembered why I was here. "Oh sorry I nearly forgot but where exactly is Cindy?"
"oh yes," Aunt Nari said, "she said that when she was bit she was also given all the comic information you already had from your 'fanboying' of comics, as well as the different lives of her multiversal counterparts, it was kinda cool." She added as an afterthought.
"So she decided that she would be fine going to the bunker with that Ezekiel guy, and when you were strong enough to take the spider vampires down, to get her out of there." Uncle Al said
" I honestly wasn't happy that she was going to leave, but what can I do? I'm proud that she decided to do that though, proves we didn't make a mistake giving her the serum. Oh and Ezekiel didn't have spider legs, I think that's the bump that the Adaptoid Serum gave." Aunt Nari said.
"Thank you for your hospitality and the information, its been an hour now, I should get going now." I said, all of us getting of the couches.
"It's an honor Pete, next time you come over bring Teresa, I want to see you guys use your powers." Uncle Al said
"I will try to bring Tess, but if I don't then I will at least bring you some of my watches with weapons, Cindy would want me to keep you safe."
"Thank you, Pete." He said and gave me a hand shake. Aunt Nari gave me a soft kiss on the forehead and a hug, then I was off.
As I waited for a bus to go to PI, I talked to SEXI.
"SEXI, hun, I am sorry, are you ok?"
"yes I am, thanks for asking dad." She said, her voice finally normal. Thank god, its only been a day and I already messed up. Ugh.
The rest of the day went by smoothly, working at PI. After we were done there, I took Tess to the Moons' house, to explain everything, except for me not being me. She took it surprisingly well, for someone who had no previous warning that this might happen.
We went home, had dinner, went out, stopped some petty crime, with several more mentions of Big Man, I was planning to wait for several weeks before moving on the Bar With No Name, so that they would be afraid by the time I got there.
Later on, we were sitting on a roof, when I asked Tess what she thought about the whole serum deal, and she just said, "I don't know, it doesn't effect me that much, but that's also because I don't remember Mom and Dad too well, but this means we could just potentially get more powers we wanted from other people, and that's what scares me."
"I agree, I guess we just wing it and don't collect powers unless we need to?"
"Yeah, but let's go home, we need to sleep before school."