Chapter 43: Squeezing Lemons Underwater
I sat down on the couch across from Felicia, and said "So, what's the plan?"
"You need a plan?" Felicia asked with a smirk. "I thought you already had a plan."
"This was a surprise." I said.
"I thought the thing about being a master planner is that you're never surprised?" Felicia said.
"Well, we all forget a thing here and there, and it can still turn out good. Take this, for example."
I gestured to the windows, where there was clear water, and a large assortment of sea creatures all swimming around.
We were sitting around in the living room of the underwater house that I made on Felicia's planet. We were going to spend a week here as a vacation, because apparently I spent too much time worrying and planning, and I needed a break.
"So I'm not worth looking at, you think the sea is more beautiful?" Felicia said, as she got up and sashayed her way to me with a twist of her hips in her step, and dropped herself into my lap.
"Of course not." I said with a smirk. "But it's always best to tease the main event, and bring a lot of suspense. That's why they have teaser trailers, and trailers, and why directors drop tiny hints as they get closer to the release date for their movies." I put my arms and spider legs around her, and massaged her softly. "Wouldn't you say so?" I whispered huskily.
"Of course." She said. "But you have to remember, the teasers and trailers get better as the movie or show comes closer."
"I think they do start with a show of the most anticipated moments of what's going to happen in the upcoming event, right?" I said.
"Aren't you getting that right now?" Felicia asked, then to prove her point, she leaned into me, making her breasts press against my chest, and so that we were breathing in each other's faces.
"Then there's the behind the scenes featurette." I said.
"Now see, the directors have already watched the movie by the time they release those." Felicia said. "And considering we're the directors here, we can't do that until we make the whole thing, can we?"
"Then as the hiring manager, I have to discuss your pay." I said.
"I think I have a very good idea as to how I'll be paid." Felicia said.
"Think of this as a forefront pay, the contractual minimum, and the rest will come in proportion to how well this goes, which I am very confident that it will go very well." I winked at her, then with no warning, I stood up, and switched her position so that I was carrying her bridal style, and I took her up the stairs to the game room, which had a round waterfall in the center of the room.
"What game do you want to play?" Felicia asked, waggling her eyebrows at me suggestively.
"You know this isn't the real game room?" I asked. "This is only a small part of the house that you have seen, the majority of the house is hidden. How about a game of trying to find the hidden part of the house?"
"Well, I'm supposing it's hidden in this room, right?" Felicia said, getting out of my arms.
"Yes, it is." I said, wanting to see if she would find it out before I revealed it.
"Let's see." She said, looking out the windows. "This is the highest place in the house, and the only room on this floor. Which means that the secret entrance can't be hidden in the walls, as it is transparent and glass, unless this isn't really glass, but that's too obvious for you. So it has to lead down, and it has to be hidden in obvious sight, and practically obvious." She turned immediately, and jumped into the waterfall headfirst, and I smirked, then jumped after her.
I shot a web at her to pull her into me, then I grasped her with my spider legs, and said "I'm impressed!"
"That's not the only way I'll impress you." Felicia said, then we started slowing down, and then we landed on the artificial floor made by gravity disks softly.
We walked out, drenched, and Felicia said "While I do love to be wet because of you, I don't think it's cool to make a mess all around the house."
"Because we totally won't make a mess out of it anyways, right?" I said.
She positioned herself in my arms so that she was looking down at me, and said "At least it won't be water."
"Because water is cleaner, then?" I said, pushing her against a wall, and I gave her a kiss on her neck, then sucked at it, which she moaned at.
"Hey, teasers and trailers, remember?" Felicia said. "You have to wait, mister."
"Wait for what?" I asked, looking up at her with a mischievous look.
"The release date." Felicia said.
"Hey, everything happens before the release date." I protested.
"Yeah, well the hiring manager doesn't tell the director what to do, the director decides what to do." Felicia said, then she pinched my ass with her toes. "And the director directs, not the hiring manager."
"Yeah, well, he also fires if things don't go the way he wants." I said, then I tickled her with my spider legs.
"So you're going to fire me now?" Felciia said in between laughs.
"No, I'm going to give you a sneak peek at your possible pay." I said. "Then if you don't want to do the job, then I'll fire you."
"How could I say no to such a proposition?" Felicia said. "Show me your equipment, and the filming locations you have in mind."
"I knew you wouldn't be able to reject such a nice job." I said, putting my hand on her ass, and carrying her like that through the doorway, which automatically dried us, and then I took her to the bedroom on this floor, then I dropped us on the bed.
LEMON STARTS! IF THOU WISHETH TO KEEP THY INNOCENCE, SKIP THE ABOMINATION!
"I like the dark setting of the background." Felicia said. "It's a perfect filming location, but I need to do some of the directing here."
"You're no longer the director, Kitten." I said. "This is a new job offer, and I'm the director. You like that offer?"
"I don't have the job experience you do, so of course." Felicia said.
"Glad to see we're on the same page here." I said, then I laid a kiss on her neck, and sucked at it, making her moan, then went down slowly, making her sounds grow louder and louder.
"This movie needs to pick up the pace." Felicia said, as I laid a kiss on her stomach.
"This isn't a movie, it's a show." I said. "And don't worry, the pace is about to pick up."
I kissed her in between the legs, then I pulled her panties down, and stuck my tongue in very little, teasing her, then I pulled out after she started moaning, and said "You like that, Kitten?"
"I do, don't stop." She said in between moans, as I used my spider legs to stimulate her even more in her sensitive spots.
"How could I say no?" I said, then I dug myself back in, and immediately sped up, going fast, and she started moaning even louder, and after a minute, I decreased speed, teasing her but continuing to do my job.
"Faster." Felicia said.
I sped up, and she moaned, then I increased my speed, and she started screaming in ecstasy, and after a couple of moments of her screaming and tightening, she started screaming even louder, then after a few moments, she let go, and my face was covered with her juices.
"That… was… good…" Felicia said in between pants. "My turn."
"Be my guest." I said. "You are the star of the show, after all."
We switched positions so that she was sitting in between my legs, and she looked at my cock, then said "How do you hide this in your suit?"
"Magic." I said, putting my hands in her hair, and wrapping my spider legs around her, pulling her closer.
She put my cock in her mouth, and started sucking it, putting as much of it as she could in her mouth, which was barely half of it.
I pushed her in, making her gag, and then she looked up at me with a smirk, and I winked back, then I started making her move back and forth with my hands, making her continuously gag as she sucked me, and I said "That's more like it."
She obviously couldn't say anything, as we continued, then after a few minutes, I gave in, and said "I'm about to cum."
She sped up, and moments later, I let go, then she started swallowing, and moments later, it started dripping out of her mouth, and I pulled out, knowing that she wouldn't be able to be able to take it all without choking, and a minute later, I finished cumming, and I looked at her streaked face, and said "Matches with your hair, Kitten."
"That's true." She said, then she got up so that she was sitting in my lap.
I used my thumb to wipe her lips and cheeks clean, and I kissed her, which she reciprocated, then I used my spider legs to untie her bra, then threw it somewhere across the room.
"It was getting in the way." I said in between kisses, as I fondled her breasts.
She moaned into the kiss, and I flipped so that I was on top of her, and her arms just dropped onto the bed, and we parted for a second, and she looked at me with lust filled eyes, then she turned her arms slightly, and used her hands to pick herself up slightly, closing the inch wide gap between us, and kissed me, and I kissed back, pushing her back down and making her arms lose tension again, and I squeezed her ass with my hands, using my sticky powers to create tension there just the way she'd like it, and she moaned into the kiss even loader, and I angled my dick with my spider legs, seeking entry.
"You want to have fun with the kitty?" Felicia moaned out in between kisses.
"I do." I said, inserting my head just a little bit, and she moaned.
"Do you think you can please this pretty kitty?" Felicia asked, putting her hands on my shoulders as she got into a more comfortable position.
"I know this pretty kitty will be pleased." I said, then I kissed her on that same sensitive spot of her neck, making her moan.
"Do it." Felicia said, giving me the permission I was requesting.
I pushed myself in fully, making her moan, and I started thrusting in and out, and she started screaming, and I went even harder, making the bed shake, and her hands grabbed even harder to my shoulders to no avail, as they fell down a moment later, and she couldn't do anything other than grab at the bedsheets.
"Peter!" Felicia screamed out in ecstasy, and I kissed her shoulder, then bit at it while still thrusting, and after a moment, I let go, and there was a mark left.
She continued moaning and screaming as I went on, then after a few minutes, she said "I can't keep it in anymore!"
"Then let go." I said, speeding up.
She screamed even louder, and moments later, I felt her loosening, but I continued, not giving her pause.
"Show doesn't pause." I said. "Not until the director says so."
"And when will he say so?" Felicia moaned out, tightening back after several moments.
"When he's satisfied." I said, speeding up.
"That's how long?" Felicia managed to ask.
"We'll see." I said, thrusting even harder.
Felicia moaned loudly, and said "You think you can put three times my dedication in?"
"I can do five." I said, speeding up even more, and I still hadn't blurred to her view.
"Three's enough." Felicia grunted, grabbing at my shoulders again.
"Can't have the other episodes not having enough action." I said, going faster.
The room was filled with our sounds, and minutes later, Felicia said "I'm close."
I sped up, and said "No, you're done."
She loosened almost immediately, and said "Damn your strength."
"It's the reason you're having the time of your life." I said.
"True."
I sped up even more, and several minutes later, I said "I'm getting closer."
"I'm almost there." She said.
I sped up, making her moan even louder, and moments later, she released, and I released right after her, then pulled out after a minute, then made a mess on her thighs and stomach.
"First my face, now my lower body." Felicia said. "I'm starting to think you are a very good director, to make me have such nice lines."
"Glad that you think so." I said, getting up so that I was sitting on my knees.
Felicia used her hands to pick herself up, and said "One more round?"
"Of course." I said. "The last aspect of the plot can't be left uncovered, can it?"
"No, it can't."
And so, the lemons come to a close, after having been squeezed.
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The next morning, I woke up to a weight in my arms, and I looked down to see a sleeping Felicia.
I smiled, ignoring whatever I had seen in my nightly message from Thanos, and I kissed her forehead softly, then I went to the bathroom and took a quick shower, then I went to the kitchen wearing nothing but a pair of shorts(and underwear, obviously.)
I started making breakfast, and a few minutes later, I heard Felicia wake up and go to the shower, then a while later, she came, hugged me from behind, and said "What's for breakfast?"
"Me, if you'll have me." I said, hugging her back with two of my spider legs as I used my remaining appendages to flip above pancakes, ten at a time per limb.
"You're going to be my every meal of the day for a week, even dessert." Felicia said, trying (and failing) to tickle me.
"Ooh, I must have a lot of nutrients then." I said. "To be able to have me for so many meals."
"The best." Felicia said. "It's like a strip of gum, you know? You can just have it all day, and never get tired."
I flipped the last pancakes onto the plates, and set them on the table, Felicia still hanging on me piggyback style.
"The smaller stack is for you." I said as I set the plates with pancakes in front of two of the chairs, wanting to see how she would react.
"You can't treat me better than you treat yourself?" Felicia asked.
"Yeah well you're going to take from my stack anyways, and- what are you wearing?"
I was putting her in her seat gently when I finally took a proper look at her since she hung onto my back, and I was stuck between being amused and unamused at her outfit.
Her hair was still slightly wet, and it was laying on her shoulders, one of which was bare, and the other of which wasn't. The shirt she was wearing was the one I was wearing under my suit when I came here, which I had changed out of when I arrived here. She wasn't wearing any pants, just panties.
"Got a problem with it?" Felicia asked. "Then deal with it."
"I didn't have a problem with it, but ok." I said, sitting across from her. "Every third pancake is chocolate flavored, the others are normal, and all have chocolate syrup on them."
Felicia licked her lips, then dug into the meal.
When we were done, she had had twenty-four percent of my stack, and all of her stack, just as I had predicted.
Several days later, we were sitting in the living room, and I said "So we're leaving tomorrow, right?"
"Do we have to?" Felicia whined.
"Felicia, while I am down for staying here for a year, your legs are quite literally jelly at this point."
"Hey, at least you gave me those braces." Felicia said, standing up.
I looked at her knees and ankles. I had made her braces so that she would be able to walk rather than just falling down, and she was incredibly grateful for it.
"That's true, but now that you're standing, are you wearing at least something under my shirt?" I asked, looking at how my shirt was big enough to cover her body half the way to her knees.
"Why don't you find out?" Felicia playfully said, dropping herself onto my lap.
"If we go at it again, your legs will turn into spread, they won't even be jelly." I said.
"I like my legs spread around you." Felicia said, leaning for a kiss.
We kissed, then after a moment I felt a disturbance in the form of a portal from the future, and I gently pushed Felicia away from my lips, ending the kiss prematurely.
"Why?" She asked, then she looked at the direction I was staring at, and she got off my lap as we both stood up, looking at the newcomers.
There were five kids, teenagers with spider legs, three of them were girls, one of the girls a platinum blonde, another of them a brunette, and the last a redhead. One of the boys had platinum blonde hair, and the other had brown hair that was wavy in a very familiar way.
"Hey Kids." I said, realizing who they were. "I'm sorry for dying on you guys."
"You didn't die on us, but ok." The redhead said. "Of course you'd say that."
"You know me." I said. "Melina, right?"
"Yeah." Melina said. "I have no idea why we're even here really. What's going on here at this point of time? You kinda sent us back here to tell you to roll with it, and to calm down, but I want to know where and when we are, this place is familiar, but I don't know the exact place, some things seem off…"
"I recognize this place!" The platinum blond boy said, he looked like he was 16 years old, like the rest, except for the brunet and the platinum blonde girl, they looked at most 12 and 14 respectively. "This is the underwater house on the beach planet Dad made for Mom!"
I looked at Felicia, whose eyes widened at that exclamation, and said "I'm proud."
"You're… You're my kid." Felicia said, surprised. "Can I hug you?"
"Of course." He said, and got into Felicia's arms, then took a sniff and scrunched his face, then said "Mom, I wish I didn't have Uncle Logan's powers, I can smell a little too much."
"When is this?" Melina asked again. "And Hector, we could all smell that the moment we entered."
"Sorry about that, guys." I said. "But ignoring that, for our minds, it has been almost a week since our first meeting with Rogers, but we're going to go back in time to the day we had the press conference."
Melina looked like she was calculating for a moment, then she opened her mouth to say something, but the youngest kid beat her to it.
"So Melina is only a few months away, Magda, your mom probably just figured out about you, and Hector-" the boy's eyes widened as he realized something, and his eyes took on a mischievous glint, and he said "And Hector, you're-"
"Don't finish that, or I will beat you up." Hector said, glaring at the brunet from Felicia's arms.
"Got a problem with it, Hector?" The newly revealed Magda said, teasing her slightly younger brother as well. "Or is it just something you can discuss with that girl you're seeing, what's her name? Oh yeah-"
"Maggie!" Hector whined from his mother's lap, and I chuckled.
"He never stops talking about her, Dad." The brunet playfully complained to me. "You'd think he didn't know his name but he only knew hers, from how much talks about her! Like these days, it's all about-"
"I don't need Dad knowing her name years before meeting her, Garth." Hector said, glaring at the newly revealed Garth.
"Garth?" I said, frowning ever so slightly at the context by which I knew the name. "Who's your mom?"
"Can't say, you haven't met her yet." Garth said, miming a zipping of his lips with his fingers. "And you probably already know, thanks to someone saying something very stupid."
All of the kids were glaring at Hector, and he hid his face in Felicia's chest, not wanting the combined wrath of his siblings.
Felicia looked at me confusedly as my brain went hyperspeed, processing this new piece of information.
All of a sudden my spider sense blared, and I dodged a shard of metal that was about to hit my eye.
"Melina, you've inherited too much of your mother's attitude." I said, smiling at her as she had another metal shard in her hand, aimed at me.
"Yeah well, Dad said to tell you not to overthink." Melina countered.
"Ok, ok!" I said, raising my hands in surrender. "I won't think about the piece of intel Hector gave… too much."
Melina huffed. "Hector, you are going to have a stand up date with my knives and guns when we get home."
"Ok Lina, don't chew into him that hard." Magda said, with small sounds of support from her other siblings. "He messed up, but that's what was supposed to happen, otherwise Dad never would've sent Garth."
"True." Melina said. "Fine then, only punches then. But we have to leave now, before you guys act too stupid."
Hector attempted to get out of Felicia's arms, but she held onto him tightly, and he said "You'll see me again, in about nine months, apparently."
She let him go, and he got up, then Magda made a portal back to the future, but before they entered, I called out to them.
"Kids!" I said, and they turned to look at me. "1. What's your name? 2. How's the future looking? 3. This is the second most important message or whatever, tell your moms I said hi. 4. This is the most important. I'm so proud of you guys, even though I haven't seen you guys save anything yet. I'm so proud of how you guys talk to each other, and how sweet you guys are with each other, and you all look beautiful, and I love you guys,and I couldn't be happier."
"Only Dad would say that." The platinum blonde girl said with a smile, then she jumped into my arms, hugging me, and the rest of the kids joined the group hug. "I'm Anastasia, but you probably guessed that."
"I'm so proud of you guys." I said.
"The future's looking good. We're happy." Magda said.
"That's good." I said. "Have fun guys. And Garth, tell your mom that I'm proud of you, and I know that we're going to raise you to be as good as your namesake."
"That feels more like a message for me." Garth said.
I rubbed the back of my neck. "Yeah, well, I don't know what to say to her, but I know some stuff, and I know she'll appreciate it."
"Bye Dad." Garth said, getting out of the hug. "See you in a couple years, and moments."
The rest of the kids got out of the hug as well, and went to the portal, and I kissed each of them on the forehead, and they left, then the portal vanished, as if it was never there.
Felicia stepped up next to me, and we watched the dark blue of the deep sea swirling for a few moments, then Felicia asked. "So… who was Garth's mom?"
"Long story." I chuckled.
Chapter 44: The Injustice of Things
I and Felicia stayed where we were standing, looking past the place where there had been a portal, and staring at the dark blue color of the deep sea.
"So, who's Garth's mom?" Felicia asked.
"Long story." I said, chuckling.
"That you won't say." Felicia deduced.
"I won't explain too much." I said. "All I can say is that she's from a different universe."
"Coolio." Felicia said.
"In a way." I said. "Now, do you want to go back to New York? We have to give everyone the good news."
"Ehh, let's wait till the week is over." Felicia said. "We can leave tomorrow, around lunchtime."
"Yes ma'am." I said, saluting.
"Stop acting so happy. The last day is so that you can clean up the house, and remove any smells remaining."
I groaned. This was going to take a long time.
The next day, around late afternoon, I was done cleaning the house, and we were prepared for our return trip.
I made a portal, and we walked through, and closed the portal behind us. I looked at our surroundings, taking note that a discussion was taking place in the living room, and we had just landed ourselves in the middle of it.
"Hey guys!" I said enthusiastically. "What's up!"
I flopped onto my couch, and a moment later Death appeared, and sat on my leg.
"Hey Legend." Death said. "How was your trip?"
"It was good." I said. "While I was there, I found out something." Everyone except Felicia groaned, thinking that I had found something important for my crusade, which wasn't necessarily untrue. "I'm not that bad." I said, not understanding why they would suppose that I was busy with my job.
"I'm sorry, did you not start planning while you were cleaning up?" Felicia said with a smirk.
"That's different." I said, waving a hand in dismissal. Then I narrowed my eyes, realizing something. "But weren't you the one discussing about how our son will not go to Midtown, and how he'll have enough siblings fo-"
"Son!?" Several people screamed out.
"Oh yeah." I said. "We got visited- or is it we will be visited, I don't know. How about we phrase it this way. In a week, Felicia and I were visited by teens from the future. One of them wa-"
"Let me do the questioning." Aunt May said. "You two will be doing the answering, me and Nari will be asking."
"Fuck." I said, realizing how this could go wrong.
"Ah, Peter." Uncle Ben said. "Hell hath no fury like a woman."
"Don't I know that." I said, groaning inwardly.
"How many kids were there?" Aunt Nari asked immediately, asking the one question that I didn't want to be asked.
"Five." I said.
"Who was the oldest?" This time it was Aunt May.
"Melina."
"Who was the youngest?" Aunt Nari asked.
I hesitated.
"Who was it?" Aunt May and Aunt Nari both pressed.
"Garth." I said.
Immediately all the extra-versal people's eyes widened, along with Wanda's.
"Yeah." I said. "Apparently my paranoia was legit."
"It usually is." Miles said, in slight shock from the name drop.
"Then that means we have to speed things up in the Terran field." Kaine said.
I walked up to the council table,and pulled up a globe. "Sexi, could you please draw up for us what are the biggest problems, and where they are based?"
"Before that." Wanda said, looking hesitant yet happy. "There's something you need to know."
"I already know, love." I said in Sokovian. "And I couldn't be happier."
I opened my arms in an invitation to hug me, and Wanda jumped into my arms, and kissed me as I spun her, extremely happy that we were going to be parents.
I stopped spinning after a few moments but I continued to kiss her back, until a throat was cleared in the background.
We parted immediately, to see a somewhat amused Aunt May. "I take it you met your child?"
"Yeah!" I said, still holding Wanda in my arms. "She was beautiful, and kind, just like her mother."
"Did she have your legs?" Wanda asked.
"Yeah!" I said, happy. "They all did!"
"Who were the two children that are yet to be mentioned?" Aunt Nari asked.
"Felicia, you want to answer the question?" I said.
"Certainly." Felicia said. "Both of them had platinum blond hair. One of them is currently on the way."
There was a moment of silence, then Sue said "Well, you certainly didn't take your time, Peter."
"Excuse me?" I said in mock indignation. "You guys literally kicked me out of the house, to spend a week at a beach house. You didn't expect any less."
"True." Sue said.
"Back to topic." Kaine said, looking at the globe with a frown. "We have several agencies that need to be dealt with. The Hand, HYDRA, Big Man's operations, The Nine Families, Manfredi's stuff, and most importantly, Oscorp."
"Danny, Kaine and I are infiltrating Hand as our civilian personas." I said. "Currently it seems that within the next few weeks we will meet the leader of this Finger."
"We're really calling it a Finger?" Cindy asked, amused.
"They have five branches, and they're called The Hand, it's only fitting that they be called Fingers." I said. "Not my fault that they're several hundred years old and they needed an old geezer to give them the name."
"Fair enough." Cindy said.
"Next up, HYDRA." I said, as the globe changed so that it had HYDRA logos at every HYDRA base.
"I have a suggestion." Melina said, like Nat's mom Melina. "The Widows have all gone off to their own places, for the most part. There are only nine of us still living here. I suggest that you contact them with those gadgets you gave them-"
"They're called L.I.P.s." I interjected.
" Those gadgets that you gave them. " Melina said with emphasis, and I chuckled lightly. "They can be sent to the bases closest to them, and in one day, you could find yourself the possessor of all the information and resources that HYDRA was in control of."
"We have a debt to settle with them." Josef said. "We can take about one fourth of those bases, and leave the rest for the Widows."
"Do you have any reservations against such a play, Melina?" I asked.
"No." She said.
"Then it's settled." I said. "In three days, HYDRA will be dissolved, and their assets will be held by either S.H.I.E.L.D., W.E.B., or the governments of the countries that the bases are located in. I will assign to who goes which base, and which bases must be taken with stealth, versus which must be taken without."
"W.E.B.?" Aunt May asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Right, I forgot to say anything about that." I said sheepishly. "When the Widows said that they wanted out of the house, I made an organization under my vigilante persona. W.E.B. stands for World Egis Bureau. It's a way for me to have a ghost of a trace, so that in situations like this, I don't face the chance of loss of support as I'm hiding things, such as this. W.E.B. is a web for the world, to catch any pests that try to attack, and to catch the world when it's falling." The globe showed pictures of web logos all over the world, signifying hideouts I made. "These are where I made hidden bases. They are all strategically placed and armed, so that they could do their part should a full planetary attack occur. I gave one of these to each of the Widows, wherever they wanted to base, I gave them codes for that safe house, and they've settled there, or somewhere near, or somewhere far away, it doesn't matter. W.E.B. has social media accounts, which I have followed, as a way of discreetly announcing our presence. We are the reason why Big Man has been having a little more trouble, as the illegal and illicit activity has been under attack by the Widows, who have the W.E.B. logo on their shoulder pads. This was an agreed upon venture between me and the Widows, as it has given them their own freedom, and their own standing. I may have stolen inspiration, and made it so that the W.E.B suits condense into these." I lifted my hand, displaying a ring on my finger that had the W.E.B logo on it. The extraversals all smirked, while the others looked confused, then noticed our expressions, and shrugged, or understood that they wouldn't understand the joke.
"I thought you weren't going to bring this up." Yelena said.
"So what, you're the new Fury now?" Ben asked.
"That's not what I'm doing here." I said. "I'm not Fury. We have the Spiderfam, we have the Redback Spider, I am the Dark Knight, I am Vengeance, you should be able to see the pattern, and know who I am basing this off."
"Clearly you couldn't at least drop the paranoia." Ben said.
"Ahh, so now I'm going to be good old naive Peter Parker, that doesn't kill Goblin after losing whatever is left of his family, neither am I supposed to kill a dude that's name is fucking Killmonger, nor am I supposed to kill anyone." I shook my head in exasperation. "I seriously don't understand. Did you just not see what happened in the Beginning of Time, or are you just that dense?"
"You took the name of the Justice League, follow their example." Ben said.
"I'm sorry, I thought you had a problem with my paranoia, now you're telling me to keep it. You want to decide?" I said.
"I want you to stop crossing the line!" Ben exclaimed, jabbing my chest with a finger.
"What's the line?" I said, my voice lowering to a deadly calm. "Don't kill, be a pain in the ass to the anti-heroes, let your family wither to bits in front of your eyes? I'm sorry, that happened to me once, and it won't happen again."
"They're not dead." Ben said. "Don't act as if they are."
"But they are!" I shouted, getting in his face, so that my nose was half an inch away from his. "I lost one family! Like hell I'm losing another!"
"Are they really your family?" Ben asked, and everyone else took a gasp at the accusation. "Cuz from where I'm standing, you just have bloodlust as a way of ignoring what happened in another life, and you need an excuse to fulfill the bloodlust."
There was a moment of silence, then Kaine tried to push his way in between us, and said "Peter, he didn't mean it. Don't do something you will-"
"I didn't want to do this, Ben." I said, cutting Kaine off. "Peter Parker of Earth-616 kicked you out of his house, and I'm asking you to get the fuck out of here, before I make you. These are your family as much as they are mine, so I'm telling you to spend time away, and you'll understand why I do what I do. Go, NOW!"
I screamed at him, and he looked at me defiantly, and I looked at him as if to ask if he was asking for a beating.
"Ben, don't." Miles said.
"No, I will." Ben said. "Are you going to kill someone, and come back home then hug your kids with the blood still on your hands?"
"Ben, you just fucked up really badly." Kaine said, seeing the rage fill my features.
"You're fucking dead." I said, then in a flash, I ripped my head off, and threw it at him with so much force that it went through his left hip, making his left leg fall down disconnected from his body.
Ben jumped back, reacting to the blare he received from his spider sense a little too late, and managed to land on his spider legs.
I walked on, using my spider sense to guide me, not even bothering to reattach my head, and I unleashed my claws from the wolf amulet, the stingers from my Other, and the stingers I had from Wolverine.
"Peter, enough." Aunt May said with finality. "I'm not sure if you can hear me, but you need to stop."
I stopped, and sheathed all my weapons, then turned around and reattached my head.
After several moments, I said "Ben, if you want, you can stay. But I hear one more thing about my killing again, I don't know if you'll even want to know what I'll do."
"The Injustice of this is quite interesting." Ben said, not stopping. "Might I add, it has a wonderful woman by its side as well."
"I know that that was just an accident, and you didn't mean the accidental play of words." I said.
"Peter, he's wrong." Kaine said. "You're more like the Super that's in Phantom."
"No, he is not wrong." I said, turning around. "I lost all of my family, my people. I am willing to kill, but guess what, it's not for revenge. I'm not about to kill two hundred plus kids. I'm not about to kill a friend. I'm not about to kill the man or woman I look up to. I'm not going to put my half clone in his deathbed. But you know what, you were right." I went up to his face. "They're not my family. Supes had a family, people that were his crutch. No one is my crutch, because I can't do that again. Everyone here, they're the needles and threads to my wounds. I can't have a crutch again, as much as I hate to admit it. I want it. So badly. But you know, where Supes was Yellow…" I let my emotions come into my eyes full force. "I'm White."
I turned away, and said "I'll be in my room." I would've gone somewhere else, where no one could reach me, but I didn't want anyone to worry, and deep down inside, I kind of did want someone to follow me.
I sat down on my bed, which was infused with magic so as to be able to increase or decrease size depending on how many people were on the bed.
I looked at my Parkerwatch, and said "Sexi, can I get a globe?"
Immediately, a globe appeared, with any points of interest highlighted with their respective logos, depending on their loyalties. There were bases, merc bars, government buildings, missiles, planes currently in the air, everything.
I played around with the map, choosing which Agents or Widows would go to which base, and any specific instructions.
After two hours (thank you super speed!), I was done, and I moved on to the next problem: Tombstone's operations.
I analyzed everything, then I came to the conclusion that if I took care of the crime lord now, I would bring Goblin out prematurely. But if I waited, then Goblin would ripen, and emerge. I wasn't going to wait for him to come out with his gadgets and all, yet at the same time, I didn't know what version of the Goblin serum he had. Did he have the Oz, or the spider venom, or a faulty super soldier serum, or a Goblin serum similar to one of the other universes, I couldn't say.
I was about to suit up and head out to find out, when there was a knock on the door.
"C'mon in." I said, after hearing the heartbeat.
Nat walked in, and sat next to me, looking at the zoomed in globe that was now only showing New York City.
"You're going After Norman, huh?" She said, after a look.
"The HYDRA bases have been assigned." I said. "This was next on the list."
Nat sighed, and held my hand, placing our hands against her baby bump.
I got lost in the heartbeat for a moment, then I pulled my hand away, sighing.
"You think Reilly was right." Nat said. "He's not."
"He was right, Talia." I said. "How can I be a father, when I ripped a child of his own father? How can I be a father, when there is blood on my hands. I kill, and say that I do it for my family, but if I am faced with an ultimatum to either kill or save my family in front of me, I would torture the man to his death, then I would hug you while the blood is still on my hands. A family is supposed to be one's crutch when they need it. I always need it, yet I only have stitches. Ben was right, I only ever kill for my lust."
"Do you think I will be a good mom?" Nat asked.
I looked at her. "I'm not dumb, I know where you're going with this. We're different, Talia."
"This isn't about you, it's about us." Nat said, uncertainty in her voice. "If I'm a bad person, and you're a bad person, then the end product can only ever turn out to be a bad person. Granted I'd love her anyway, but the point still stands."
"See, that's true, and I'd be worried, if you two were bad people." Aunt May said, from the doorway. We looked at her in a 'when did you get here' way, and she shrugged. "Natasha left the door open."
Aunt May walked in, closing the door after her, then she came and made us give space so that she could sit in between us, and hugged us, bringing us into her.
At first we both resisted lightly, and Aunt May just gave us a look. "Stop trying to try." She said, "You both need reassurance. You guys can't find it within each other. Stop trying to keep up the whole unemotional assassin act up, and help yourself for once. If you really wanted to get out, you would use some of your strength."
We both gave up, and relaxed into her hold, relishing the touch.
"There we go." Aunt May said in an unmistakably maternal tone. "Let it all out, all that stress. I'm here for you, and I'm proud of both of you."
"Aunt May, I fucked up." I said after a moment. "I just kicked my brother out of my house."
"Hmm, I haven't seen my siblings ever since I kicked them out, so I'd say it's a hereditary thing. Which is what you two are worried about." Aunt May said.
"Yeah." I said in a wet voice.
"Let me tell you, it's not your fault." Aunt May said, then she kissed my hair softly. "He was wrong, and you were wrong. He was coming from the higher moral ground, but he wasn't coming from the higher rational thought. Yes, not killing is an admirable notion. Yes, having that thing that quote unquote makes you different from the bad guys is a good direction to go. But you said it before, I think it was when you were talking to Fury at Starbucks. If the world only has heroes and villains, then the population would thin, and people would needlessly die. The anti-heroes risk the most, and are the ones who truly keep the world safe.
"And you know, he wasn't really on the higher moral ground. He was comparing you to a dictator dude, if I understood correctly. He may have had an admirable notion, but the one who truly respects life is the one who takes the price of the blood on his hands.
"But that isn't to say that people like him aren't needed in this world. The world does need innocent righteous anger. But he should find it within you to respect your standing.
"I'm so proud of all of you. You guys are putting your everything on the line, for everyone else. You guys know I'm ok with killing, and that I even told you to do it at some point. You're all my kids, and I can't wait to meet my little assassin granddaughter.
"Just know this, the two of you. While Ben may have been talking about how there's this line, and not crossing it is what makes you different from 'them' that's not true. Crossing the line typically makes you an antihero. The line between an antihero and a villain is whether you want to do what's difficult. A villain obviously has no qualms about killing or stealing, even if they don't have to do it. Anti-heroes though, they will do what's needed, if it's needed. Now granted, there will probably be a dude or two that walks everywhere with guns out, and they're probably blowing up every single gang building, but that's something else, and not entirely unneeded."
We sat there in silence for a while, then Aunt May pressed her lips to Natasha's hair, and pressed a light kiss.
"I can't wait to meet my little assassin." Aunt May whispered.
"So you're fine with your grandchild getting her first kill at max, like ten years old?" Nat asked. "She'll probably have impeccable aim with unbalanced knives by the age of six."
"And I wouldn't have it any other way." Aunt May said. "She's your daughter, and you're both apples of my eye; even if I'm not the one that raised you, I'm still so proud of you." We both consciously tightened our hold on Aunt May ever so slightly. "You both are two of the strongest people that I've met, and I'm proud to call you my kids. You both do what you have to, because you want to. Your daughter will be amazing, I know it."
We just sat there, sinking in her words, then after a moment I let out a yawn. "I kind of want to stay like this for a while. Feels comfy."
"My thoughts exactly." Aunt May said. "Will you stay, Natasha?"
Nat just tightened her hold on us. "I'll stay here." She said.
We just sat there for the remainder of the evening, relaxing.
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Several hours later, we all got up, as it was mine and the Fantastic Four's turn to patrol. At first, they were planning to leave without me, and in Sue's words, give me a much needed off day, but I got out of my room as they were getting ready.
The four of us came to the living room suited up, and I deactivated my mask, and looked at them seriously.
"You guys are ok with me hanging out around you guys, right?" I said, not letting any of my apprehension show.
"You're chill, bro." Johnny said, looking at me. "I won't be able to car geek with anyone else, so you're with us to stay."
"If you could have a mature discussion once, Johnny." Sue said, exasperated. "Just once, is all I ask." Johnny sputtered at that.
"I did!" Johnny said.
"Yeah, when?" Sue challenged.
"When I was telling Peter I was fine with you and-" Johnny just realized that he shouldn't have brought anything of that sort up, so he cut himself off. "I mean, yeah you're right! I never keep up mature conversations!"
Sue looked like she was going to blow Johnny up, and I felt bad for him. "Sue." I said, laying a hand on his shoulder. "Please don't get mad at him. This conversation happened a long time ago, I think. It happened all the way when we were dealing with the Inheritors, and I was saying my goodbyes to y'all. He doesn't need you to tear him a new one, not yet."
"Not yet? What's that supposed to mean?" Johnny asked.
"It means you'll fuck up later on." I said, with a smirk.
Johnny sputtered, and I ignored him, opting to look at Sue instead, who was right in front of me.
"We're your family, Pete." Sue said, after looking me in the eye for a while. "That doesn't mean you have to depend on us. You're going to die a long time after us, if we have anything to say about it. What do you say to officially becoming a part of our family, and becoming one of the Fantastic Four?"
By now, Sue was basically in my arms, and Johnny was mentally broadcasting about how he never signed up for so much sappy shit(But inwardly, he knew that we would'nt be his family without some sappy stuff, and he loved it, but he would die before he admitted it.)
"It's Ben's call." I said, tearing my eyes away from Sue, and looking at Ben. "If you don't want me around, I understand perfectly. I would ask Flameass as well, but he's not mature enough to make decisions."
Johnny looked like he wanted to protest my opinion on him, but I shot a web at his mouth, effectively shutting him the fuck up.
"I was actually the one who suggested it." Ben admitted. "Like, you were basically already the fourth guy for us, and you and Sue were already hitting it off, and we always go on patrol as the four of us."
In the meantime, Johnny put his head on fire, trying to melt the webs, but I mentally chose webs that would harden with temperature, so it only got harder, till it was like glass, then it cracked, and fell to the floor in shards, making a large sound.
Everyone rushed into the room, trying to find the source of the sound. I sighed, then cleaned the mess up with my magic. "No need to worry guys." I said. "Johnny here just made a small mess."
Sexi nodded sagely with hints of a smirk, as if she knew something.
I raised an eyebrow at her. "What's going on?"
"You were about to kiss Sue, that's what." Sexi said, and I inwardly groaned, then shot a web at a corner of the room, then pulled a Spider-Drone out, and crushed it with my hands.
"Ouch, my feelings." Sexi dramatically said, clutching her hand to heart.
"Ouch, my privacy." I countered, then I frowned. "I don't think that was a very good rebuttal, but the point I made stands true."
"Speaking of privacy." Kaine said, and we all looked at him. "We need all of the W.E.B. bases have their walls reinforced with lead, and our suits have to have lead weaved into them, and the house needs lead incorporated into the walls, and any private places. Plus some spells, but me, Peter, and Tess can manage that."
"Don't tell me." Miles said. "You're expecting the Injustice storyline?"
I nodded soberly. "My father's many things, chief amongst them a man with expectations, and ideas."
"Do we know for sure that there is going to be some sort of meeting between us and them?" Cindy said.
"My kid's name was Garth, Crescent." I said. "Don't tell me that you don't recognize that name."
"I do." She said, "But is it too hard to believe that it's something else, or based on someone else?"
"Well, considering our luck?" I said. "Yes, it is too hard to believe it. I'm pretty sure that's phase two, or whatever."
"Fair enough." Cindy said, nodding. "But whose side will you pick, should it come to that?"
"Constantine's." I said.
"I respect that, but are you sure?" Kaine asked.
"Does it look like I am?" I said.
"No, it doesn't." Ben said.
"I never asked you." I said.
"Peter." Kaine warned.
"Right, my bad." I said, moving as if the tension had never risen. "Sexi, can you reconfigure my suit to the Fantastic Four colors?"
My suit shimmered for a moment, changing into the usual blue, with a dark blue spider running along the suit, and the Fantastic Four logo in the center.
"Let's go, fam." I said, clapping Ben Grimm's shoulder.
The four of us went to the exit, and left.
A while later, we were going across the city, in our own ways. I was swinging with Ben in my arm, Johnny was all "FLAME ON!!" and rocketing, and Sue was using her forcefields to fly with us.
"So, about this whole thing." Sue said. "How about we go to Baxter, and you clarify everything for us?"
"After our shift?" I requested. "If a crime happens during our shift, I'd feel guilty. And let's do it at home, some others will want to hear."
"Fair enough." Sue said, and we went along.
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Four hours later, we were flopping onto the couches, where everyone else was waiting for us.
Ben sighed contentedly. "Ahh, it feels so good to remember that I can be a normal human again. Granted I wasn't stuck as a rock for too long, but that just sucked."
I looked at him, where he was sitting on the couch in his human form. "I know this is a bad joke, but you rock either way."
"That is disrespectful." Ben said, in mock indignation. "I'll have you know they ate pebbles, not rocks."
"No, pebbles aren't old." I said. "You're old, for a human at least."
"You're one to talk about age, right?" Ben said.
"I am." I said. "Because I don't have pebbles for a brain, which means I am smart ."
"Yeah, you have your web shooters instead." Ben said. "And I'm not talking about the ones one your limbs, Webhead."
"You're talking about the one that's right on top of my ass!?" I said jokingly. "I thought I kept that one secret!"
"You have one on top of your asshole!" Johnny and Ben exclaimed at the same time. "Ewww."
I took a look at their expressions, and burst out laughing. "You guys actually thought that I was serious."
"Ok, enough joking." Sue said. "What is going on? What's so special about my stepson?"
"So, remember how I said I'm like from another universe and all that?" I said, and I received nods. "So, a multiverse resembling this one wasn't the only comics they had. There was another one. And one of the main characters in those, was named Garth. Thing is, he died in some continuities. And in one of the more popular runs, he had a girlfriend when he died, who loved him very very much. I saw Garth, and I could see the similarities. He was probably named after him, and he didn't confirm or deny when I said something about his namesake."
"And knowing that dude, you're expecting him to actually do that, in the future." Ben said.
"Yeah." I said. "Thank goodness I probably won't have to really deal with Invincible as well, that was hell. He'll probably pop up, but he won't be a part of this universe, hopefully."
"And how would you know that?" Sue asked.
"Oh, the comic franchise that he exists in exists here as well." I said cheerfully.
"Ok." Johnny said. "But what's this Injustice thing? To me, it seemed that was the main reason you were worried. I'm pretty sure that that world was filled with villains that are scary and yadda yadda, but the word Injustice had you guys all frowning."
I looked at him in surprise. "Burnt Brain, you should act a little more like this. I forgot you could be smart, no offense."
Ben and Sue chortled at that, and Johnny looked straight murderous.
"I will." He said with an almost predatory grin. "You were trying to steer the topic away."
"Fuck you!" I exclaimed. "You should know that I don't want to say it for your sake, so you don't alienate the alien. But if you want to know, I'll spill."
Sue moved over and sat next to me, putting her hand over mine. "I think we want to know. But just know, we're here for you."
Johnny pretended to gag, and I ignored him, and pulled Sue towards me, eliciting a surprised yelp from her. We rested against each other, her head in between my shoulder and head.
"Thank you." I said. "Sexi, since you're listening in, might as well be here for real."
A portal appeared in the center of the room, and Sexi fell out, landing in a handstand, then spinning up and landing into a couch with gusto.
I rolled my eyes. "Anyways, we're all here for a reason. I'm going to tell you guys what all the anti-hype is about."
"Now that's a word." Johnny said. "Anti-hype."
"Anyways." I said. "As I said, it's from another comic franchise, the whole thing. This world is commonly believed to be darker, but I think it's more of perspective. Most of the heroes there work from the shadows, while in this omniverse/multiverse/whatever-verse, it's more of the heroes mostly working from the skies downward, except for the hero here and there. Anyways, let's imagine such a world. There are only a few heroes that work from the skies. Two of them are two thirds of what's commonly known as the trinity." I cast a spell, and gaseous depictions of the Big Three of DC's Justice League, in the suits which I believed to be their best ones plus some alterations, basically just figments of my imagination as to how I thought they would look best. "You can tell which two are the sky heroes, and which one is the shadow. The one clad in black is called Batman." He was wearing the SnyderCut suit. "He is the one I've based many of my operations off of. He is also known as the Vengeance and Dark Knight in his universe. He is super smart, and paranoid, similar to me, but not as powerful. He's actually a normal human, but his parents' death drove him to seek vengeance. But even with all that, he doesn't kill. Some of his kids do, but he doesn't. Next up, Wonder Woman. Yes, lazy name, I know." She was wearing her full body suit, minus that weirdass "v" they put as a skirt. "She's a demigod, and she's an Amazon, they kinda live on their own place, and hate on men, for the most part. It's kinda complicated and annoying, but it doesn't really matter. Anyways, she's the Princess of Themyscira, the island where they live. And she has this lasso that compels you to tell the truth. She's powerful, and kinda cool. Several thousand years old, you know the drill. Last and the focus of this discussion, Superman." He was wearing the black suit from the SnyderCut, but the cape was attached to his insignia, rather than his shoulders. "They're all for lazy names, but who cares. As the name suggests, he is super strong, fast, can fly, all around super. He isn't human, he comes from another planet called Krypton, which was destroyed, and he was sent as a baby by his parents. His parents died, but he was too young to really remember. He landed, and was adopted by a couple in a small town, grew up there, then his powers started to show. He's a Kryptonite, and they get their powers from yellow sun radiation. So when he lived here long enough, he started displaying his powers, and all that stuff. Now look at our boy scout here. He doesn't have any true reason to do what he does, except for the morals his adoptive parents instilled within him. No loss, no drive, no pain, no nothing. Now imagine, such a strong man, he's practically immortal in his own eyes. Which means he subconsciously raises the people he loves to the same rank. Now, what happens when his wife is killed, along with his unborn son?" Everyone gasped at that, seeing the obvious anguish that the man would be in. "He's already powerful, and he knocks out criminals on a daily basis. But even with his efforts, his family is gone, because Batman didn't kill his nemesis, the Joker. So now, he sees that the world needs correction, and an iron fist. He creates a regime under his name that has his banners flying in the sky. He kills people, breaks people, and that's the Injustice storyline. It's about how the Justice League split, and war started, over this. There were people that I greatly respected and looked up to, that he killed without remorse."
"Dick Grayson was a legend." Miles said silently.
"He was." I, Kaine, and Ben said.
I stood up. "Anyways guys, the reason why I wanted lead lined things was because Supes can see through everything, except for lead. Now If that'll be all, I'm heading to sleep."
"Peter?" Aunt May called, as I was walking upstairs.
I paused. "Yes Aunt May?"
"If that happens, it'll be his fault there'll be a corpse laying on the floor." Aunt May said frankly.
"He has allies that make him basically untouchable." I said. "I'll be lucky not to be the corpse, but we'll see."
I went to my room, and lay down, preparing myself for messages from Thanos.