Issue 22: Avenger's Initiative Part IV

"Can you come home with me?! Johnny shouted with a red face as he repeated Angel's question.

"I, live with my aunt, and well, let's just say that she's...not exactly a fan of Mutants," Angel explained with a downcast look.

Everyone looked to Johnny with a "Do it, or we'll kill you expression," and watched as he said, "Well, I don't mind. We have plenty of rooms in the Baxter Building, and you could stay there until you're ready to ready to tell your Aunt. I'm sure Sue would love to have another girl in the building."

"And I sure you won't mind either!" Peter declared winking at the two of them and causing Angel to blush and MJ to smack him in the back of the head.

After driving back, the group said their farewells, split up and waved goodbye while being dropped off at their houses. Peter and MJ went to bed that night, and thought of the scholarship money they would be making when they went back to school.

However, they had no idea what they were in store for.

Peter woke up the next morning and got dressed for school. After petting the Bamf on the head and giving him breakfast, Peter dashed out of the house and met up with MJ, Harry, and Liz, at the bus stop.

On the way to school, they talked about their experience at the beach and what happened after, MJ and Peter managed to convince them that the Spider-Heroes and the X-Men showed up to save the day and that the reason they didn't meet up sooner was that Johnny dropped them off at a different location.

When they arrived at Mid-Town High, they were walking through the halls going towards their lockers when Flash showed up, and as usual, he to try and bully Peter.

However, when he saw Liz hanging her arm around Harry's elbow, the veins on Flash's forehead almost popped when he shouted in anger, "WELL, WELL, WELL! Liz, I didn't think you'd be hanging around Puny Parker and his loser friends."

Peter opened his locker door and sighed before saying, "Don't you get tired of this Flash? I'm mean what does bullying even do for you? What is so wrong in your life that you have to do this every time we meet? Daddy not giving you enough love, or maybe you just feel the need to crap on everyone around you because your life sucks?"

Flash's face turned red in anger, "Watch yourself, Parker!"

Peter grinned and moved over in front of him and said, "Or what? You'll hit me? Come on Flash do it! Let's see how much money your family willing to spend on the lawsuit. I'll charge you with assault and sue your ass. Come on Flash let's go!"

Peter had had enough, he couldn't beat Flash up, but he could threaten him now that he had some money to throw in his face.

"Go ahead, we'll take this to court, we'll hire a lawyer, and get this finally done with. Cause I'm sick of your shit, and I'm not going to put up with it anymore." Peter huffed before he started taking books from his locker and glared at Flash.

Flash almost choked on his own spit as the whole crowd stared him down. Flash growled as he pointed his finger at Peter and said, "S.s.s Shut up! You're not worth it!"

Flash then looked back at Harry and Liz before saying, "What a shame, I thought you had better taste."

"The only shameful thing here is you, Flash. The saddest part of it all is that you can be something special, but you waste your time doing stupid things like this, for stupid reasons. Get your shit together and leave me and my friends the hell alone!" Peter shouted out with a serious look on his face.

Everyone who was standing in the hallway was completely silent, when somebody said, "Da~mn!"

The kids broke out cheering and shouting praise when Peter slammed his locker shut and walked off to class, leaving a stunned and speechless Flash.

MJ followed behind him, and with a worried expression, she asked, "Something wrong today?"

Peter shook his head, "No, I'm just tired of going to school here. I wouldn't mind if we had some good teachers or something new to learn, but all I feel like I'm doing is wasting time."

Peter rubbed his hands back and forth through his hair in frustration and sighed as he entered the homeroom class. He picked a seat next MJ and placed his head on the table. Waiting for the insufferable school day to end, he decided to try and sleep.

Shortly after the bell rang, the teacher entered the classroom and MJ shook Peter while saying, "Peter, wake up. You're not going to believe this!"

Peter opened his eyes and his jaw hung open, standing before them was none other than the agent of S.H.I.E.L.D, Natasha Romanov herself. She was standing at the teacher's desk and staring at Peter and MJ with a very attractive smile.

Everyone in the classroom was chatting about how beautiful and young she was when she stood in front of the chalkboard and wrote her cover name while she said, "Good morning students, I'm your new teacher Laura Matthers."

Black Widow smiled at the two wide-eyed Spiders-Heroes in the classroom, and if Peter didn't know any better, he could have sworn that he saw her smile before she continued her introduction, "I'm new to Midtown, so, please, treat me well."

Some of the kids in the class laughed when held her hand up to silence the children, which oddly worked for some reason, and Natalia then said, "We also have some new students transferring in from a few different places, and a student returning after being absent for a year."

The door opened as a group of people entered that made Peter and MJ go wide-eyed, "Please introduce yourselves to the classroom please." Natalia asked.

A young handsome boy, with shoulder-length blond hair, came up to the front of the class wearing a grey long sleeve shirt, blue jeans, and sneakers. "My names Danny Rand. It's a pleasure to meet you all, and I hope we get along in the future. A famous philosopher once said, a healthy mind is nurtured by the teachings of his peers and mentors like a plant, and I hope I can look forward to absorbing such teachings."

A few guys called him weird and mean names, and a lot of the girls were staring at his looks and body while drooling, the jealousy from the men in the class was really focused on him.

Peter almost laughed, "Yep, that's Iron Fist!" he thought as the next person came forward.

"My name's Angel Jones. I had some personal stuff happen which led to me transferring here! I hope we can get along!" Seeing Peter and MJ in the crowd she waved her hands at them drawing all the eyes in the room on them.

Angle was dressed in a skirt, white leggings, and a long-sleeve black 'Go Spidey' shirt that had half of Spider-Man and Spider-Woman as logo around her breast.

Both MJ and Peter blushed at their friend wearing Spider-Hero apparel and tried their hardest not to burst into laughter.

Next up was a 6 foot well-built black man with a yellow muscle shirt and baggy short cargo pants. He had a strong physique and a handsome face that many girls in the classroom were blushing over.

"My name is Luke Cage, I was transferred here from Harlem High, and I like basketball, hanging with friends, and I'm pretty passionate about science." Luke being the same age as Peter didn't surprise him. Based on how old Danny was and how old his future wife is.

Speaking of his future wife, Peter was completely blindsided by the next student to walk through the homeroom doors.

"Hi...My name is Jessica Campbell, I was in a coma for two years," Jessica declared with a lot of lethargy in her tone.

Jessica had long pinkish-red hair and crystal clear blue eyes. She was wearing her brother's hand me downs, so they looked really baggy on her. The clothes she wore were, a red t-shirt with a checkered flannel long-sleeve button-up shirt over it, long blue jeans on that were rolled up to her ankle, and a backward baseball cap on top of her head.

Once she stood with the rest of the new students, Natalia told them to take their assigned seats.

MJ waved to Jessica and when the two's eyes met, a bit of happiness could be seen in Jessica's eyes.

"MJ, you know her?!" Peter whispered.

MJ frowned before answering, "Yea Peter don't you remember that time I got interested in journalism?"

Peter nodded his head and noticed that a girl that looked a bit like Jessica did exist in his memories, however, that girl had short black hair, was constantly covered in Gothic attire, and thick makeup.

Suddenly, the image he had in his mind slowly merged into the girl he saw today.

Peter had no idea that the girl MJ constantly called Bell, was actually Jessica Campbell.,

She was the president of the school journalism club, and she went through many different looks during their Jr High years.

"That's Bell!? Oh wow, I feel like crap. I'm a bad friend…" Peter almost shouted.

Jessica walked up to them and said, "Hey been a while Red." She tried to smile, but Peter could still see her trying to cope with her loss over her parent's death.

For her brother, their parents been dead for over two years, but for her who just woke up a few days ago, it was still new.

Jessica sat down next to her, the two started talked for a bit, when class started Peter sent a message to MJ through the Symbiote, "Hey do you know Jessica's brother?!"

MJ looked at Peter and sent back her answer, "No, he was in college that was out of state when Jess and I became friends, so I never got to meet him. Hell, I didn't want to meet him either. He was the one who made it so the hospital wouldn't accept visitors other than direct family. Bell said that she didn't get along with her brother because he had issues with their mother. I guess the tension between the siblings was so bad that Bell never even told me his name."

Peter believed that there was more to why Phil had chosen to do what he did when he suddenly idea as he thought, "Someone with a grudge against their parents maybe? He was trying to keep her safe from someone or something. Not to mention his change from Campbell to Jones…Looks like Spidey-Detective should investigate this case."

Angel ran over to Peter and MJ giving them hug and introducing herself to Jessica, Flash who was sitting in the back dropped his jaw and thought, "How come Puny Parker always has such beautiful women surrounding him."

Angel sat down across from Peter and MJ and told them what happened after Johnny brought her home,

Sue because of being a few months into her pregnancy acted very irrational towards Johnny when asked if she could live with them. Sue thought he did something unbecoming to her and begged for her not press charges.

To which Angel replied by laughing before she cleared up the situation. After showing them her powers and telling them what happened they gladly let her live with them, of course, Sue made sure to give her the room across from hers and Reed.

Reed was very interested in her powers and began studying her abilities, Angel didn't mind because she wanted to know more about her own power as well. With Sue helping him, the Fantastic-Couple managed to discover information on her powers in great detail and even gave her an unstable molecule suit so she wouldn't have to worry about running around naked after using her fire form.

Luke Cage and Danny sat next to each other began talking, "It appears that they are already good friends. Maybe they met up before this?" Peter thought.

He then turned to Jessica and said, "Hey, Bell. It's been a while. Glad your back from dreamland."

Jessica lifted a brow as she tried to recall who Peter was, and when she realized it was the same nerdy kid who used to hang around MJ, her eyes widened as she said, "Pete? Is that you?"

Yep, the one and only! Unless I've been replaced by a Peter-Bot or a Skrull. Which I don't think I have. So, How are you doing?" Peter asked with an innocent look on his face.

Jessica winced at the bad jokes, they used to talk about doom-bots and which elected officials they suspected of being Skrulls when they were kids. Just recalling it embarrassed her.

"If it makes you feel any better I've walked more than a few miles in your shoes. I know what it feels like to lose your parents. If you ever wanna talk about it just let us know." Peter pointed to him and MJ.

"Thanks, Peter, It's good to see you again, Red." Jessica nodded her head but didn't say anything else. She just stared off into space for most of the day.

"You too Bell," MJ responded before sighing.

Peter sighed as well. He knew that it would take time to numb this mental scar, but he still felt terrible. The accident happened almost a year before he was bitten in this timeline, and now he was sure she had her powers. The chemicals mixed with the radiation created by the visit from Galactus activated her powers. The healing just took a long time.

Jessica had awoken from her coma months ago and was catching up on her schoolwork while her brother hid her from the public.

However, she didn't seem to mind. Staying busy with something like her school work was the only thing keeping her sane. Thanks to her hiding from dealing with the trauma of losing her parents, Jessica managed to catch up on her school work. But during the whole rehabilitation process, her brother was constantly worrying about her health.

Jessica wasn't getting any sleep these days, and he thought that she might hurt herself, but it wasn't what he thought it was. Jessica was testing the limits of her new powers. She didn't feel tired, or worn out, until the third night, and with that information, Jessica spent 3 days awake with only 4 hours of sleep needed to start studying.

Peter waited for the class to an end before he should start asking questions.

When the bell rang, Natalia asked Peter and MJ to stay for a while so they could talk. Once the classroom emptied, Natalia then smiled at them and said, "Now my students, admit it you missed me."

MJ turned to Peter and said, "I think your personality is rubbing off on her."

"I have that effect on people," Peter replied throwing his hands up in a what-ever gesture.

Natalia then gave them a serious expression before she said, "Your Mission is to help train Luke Cage, Danny Rand, and Angelica Jones so that they are combat-ready. We need you to make sure that they are able to handle being a superhero that can perform as well as you two. They're future Shield Agents, so I expect you to perform your jobs like professionals and train them right." By this, she meant that keep them from destroying city property while saving the day.

"Why do we have to train them?" MJ asked before she tilted her head in confusion.

"You've been using Shield resources to train you, nothing wrong with giving back a little. Is there?" Natalia declared with a knowing grin,

"Okay but the resources we've used don't add up to that big of a paycheck. Heck, I could pay it myself," Peter said while he crossed his arms and frowned.

Natalia pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to Peter, taking it he read it over and almost crushed the document in surprise as he questioned, "Is Fury serious?"

Natalia nodded her head in affirmation.

"Okay, you win, Fury. Not even I would be dumb enough to pass this up," Peter said looking at the outline of what he had been offered.