Issue 53: Secret Wars Part III

"Keep a look out for me, would ya, Grease Monkey?" Peter asked.

MJ gave him a kiss on the cheek and said, "Of course!"

While the Spider-Couple sat outside and waited for it to get late, Harry had already returned home and went to sleep shortly thereafter. Sneaking inside, Spider-Man knew he had to be careful because Osborn had plenty of security. Thankfully Peter's Spidey Sense could allow him to avoid them perfectly. He quickly made his way into Harry's room first and used the Symbiote to check his body for the disease his mother was suffering through, and as he suspected, he indeed found the genetic damage responsible for it. 

Using Webster, he quickly cured his friend before moving on to his mother.

It didn't take Peter long to find a room with hospital equipment lined up around Harry's mom. He stayed on the ceiling as he lowered his Symbiote to start working its magic. After a few minutes of correcting the damaged genes, he quickly made his way outside.

MJ looked at him and said, "Is it done?"

Peter nodded his head and replied, "I think they're going to wake up feeling better than ever tomorrow."

"They?" MJ asked.

"Yeah, it was a hereditary disease. Harry had it too, and the disease was even more active with him. In just a couple years, the symptoms would start showing with early onset muscle degeneration, and then eventually, total paralysis. 

MJ hugged Peter, "Thank god for these Symbiotes. I still can't believe your parents managed to make these things."

Peter then said, "I know. MJ I've been thinking." 

He then webbed over to the nearest building and started swinging away, "I think I want to finish my parents work. If I could create a Med-Bed as they had originally designed, then could you imagine what that would do for Medicine, go into a hospital with a terminal disease, spend 5 dollars to cure it."

MJ laughed, "Now that's affordable health care, of course, you might just end up putting a bunch of doctors out of a job."

Peter shook his head, "Not all of them, there's no need for them to lose their jobs either, but they'll have to shift it to becoming researchers. After all, there is still a lot to learn about our bodies, and there are other things the suit can't help with, like childbirth, vaccinations, and improvement immunities." 

MJ nodded her head, "Still some people are going to lose their jobs,"

"That they are," Peter said in response, "But hopefully, people smart enough to become doctors can find another place to work. I'm sure there are plenty of places that won't have our tech for some time. Not to mention, you can't lug around a Med-Bed around everywhere. First responders will still need extensive training."

Peter then jumped over a large building as his Spider-Senses went off. A bullet had come inches away from hitting his eyepiece when he used his power to stop the bullet. 

"Okay, now who's dumb enough to shoot at me, I have Spider Senses you know?"

Peter and MJ dropped down as Webster located the place the bullet came from by tracing its trajectory. 

Peter and MJ jumped after the source when another bullet shot after MJ from a different direction. 

"Two shooters? Are they trying to split us up?" Peter said when MJ webbed off towards the other bullets direction. 

"I got this one Spider-Man, you take care of the other!"

Peter wasn't worried about MJ, but he couldn't help but get the strangest feeling that something was wrong. He sped up and landed inside a building that was under construction, he found a sniper rifle yet no one else around. 

He focused his Spidey Sense and searched the room. He saw two silhouettes observing him from the distance, and before they could do anything else, he webbed them over quicker than their eyes could follow. 

Peter placed his hands on the sides of their heads and crashed them together, knocking them out in an instant. 

Without waiting, he rummaged through their pockets, pulled out their wallets, and checked over their IDs. Running their history with Webster, he was surprised to discover that it was a couple of regular old citizens without any criminal records. In fact, they were regular people. One was a school teacher and the other a janitor.

Peter didn't know what was going on so he decided to contact MJ and tell her what happened on his part as he slapped them awake.

MJ responded, "I found the same...Augh!" MJ cried out making Peter panic. 

He webbed the guys up as he flew over to her destination at full speed. He reached a rooftop to see a woman in full body stealth outfit, the Sclera of her eyes were pitch black and the only part of her face that was showing. The woman was attacking MJ in an attempt to capture her. However, MJ was too quick for her. 

Spider-Woman leaped off the side of the building and used her Telekinesis to stop her attacker from moving seconds before she landed on the adjacent building and webbed her up. 

The assailant suddenly screamed, "You think you can stop us? Hail Hydra," 

Peter dropped down beside her and chopped the back of her neck, knocking her out in a single blow. He then opened her mouth and pulled out a fake tooth that, had poison in it. 

"You okay?"

MJ shook her head, "She was fast, and she could use some kind of Stun blast that could affect Spiderling," 

MJ said holding her side, as the suit healed over a small part of her waist, "Oh and she knew how to manipulate my Spider-Sense, she timed a gunshot with her friend's attack."

Spider-Woman pointed to the other unconscious man laying sprawled out on the roof. 

Peter frowned as he removed the mask to see a young Jessica Drew, aka Spider-Woman, except in this universe because MJ got the name first.

Peter examined her and said, "No freaking way!"

He quickly used Webster to pull a weakened version of Symbiote out of her body. 

Peter then tried to extract the memories from the species when it suddenly self-destructed by some strange electrical discharge that also damaged the Symbiote on his body. 

It wasn't enough to cause any real damage as the suit repaired itself, clearly they had no idea how much more advanced their Symbiotes were. However, had they not made upgrades to them, there was no doubt that discharge would have been lethal for their suits.

Peter started to freak out when he grabbed Jessica and MJ and used his magic to open a portal back to his place.

Peter checked over his house to discover it had been ransacked.

"Mr and Misses Parker?! Is anyone here?" Peter called out several times.

MJ was starting to freak out as well as she checked her house to discover that it was in a similar situation, she came back and said, "They're gone Peter, my Parents are gone!"

Peter didn't know what to do when he suddenly heard the phone ring. He walked over and picked it up and put it on speaker as heard a voice with a German accent on the other side beginning to talk, "Hello Mr. Parker, or should I say Spider-Man!"

Peter gritted his teeth, as he responded, "I take it that I'm talking to a Hydra agent then?!"

The voice sighed and continued, "It was unfortunate that we failed to capture Ms. Watson but I guess we'll just have to settle for her parents."

Peter gripped his fist and said, "If you so much as touch a hair on our family, I'll make sure you never live to see tomorrow! Do you hear me? One hair!"

"Easy Mr. Parker, we still have a use for you, after all, you wouldn't want to be responsible for the deaths of your girlfriend's parents, not to mention your own."

Peter froze as the voice continued, "I was surprised to find out that the Blank Gene we had been looking for had already been created. Your parents gave us the run around for many years, even going as far as to give us an inferior product of the Symbiote just to keep your precious Aunt and Uncle safe."

"How did you?" Peter questioned.

"Find out all this, well that's my secret, I trust a smart boy like you already know what we're after?!" The voice said mockingly.

"An exchange right, me for our family." MJ frowned when Peter said this.

"Right! Da! Da! Very smart boy! Don't try any funny stuff or else the family gets it! Meet us at the Hudson Docks Peer 53 in 3 hours. Bring my useless protégés back to me as well, and do remember that contacting SHIELD or any of your little friends Avenger friends, well let's just say, you'll get your family back in pieces."

Peter crushed the phone as he said, "You have no freaking idea who you're messing with!" He quickly spread his Symbiote around the room to remove any surveillance cameras that it could find. After cleaning out his house he went over MJ's and did the same thing, seeing the worry on her face Peter said, "It's okay, I'm going to take care of this."

Peter walked outside when MJ ran beside him and said, "What are you going to do!? Peter our, your parents..."

Peter hugged his girlfriend and said, "It's okay, I promise that everything is going to be alright. I just have to go pick up a power I need to pull this off. Watch over our prisoner for a while for a bit, would you?"

MJ looked to Jessica and said, "I'm coming with you!"

"They want me to come alone! I won't risk the lives of our families." 

MJ suddenly turned invisible, "There, now they can't see me coming. I told you were in this together from beginning to end right?"

"MJ, we don't have time for this! This is Hydra we're talking about!" Peter shot back.

"I don't care! There my Parents and I'm responsible for their wellbeing, I going Parker end of discussion! Did you forget were partners, not just lovers!?"

Peter sighed as he teleported Jessica into a Shield Prison on the Hellicarrier, "Fine, but stay close!"

MJ walked up beside him and said, "So what's the plan!"

Peter shook his head, "I'm going to go steal Prof. X's ability, and then I'm going to wipe Hydra of the face of the earth!"

MJ head jerked back, and said, "Why don't you just ask?"

"I will, but something tells me he won't appreciate me for doing so!" Peter then teleported over to Xavier's mansion and appeared inside his room. 

Charles being the psychic he is since his arrival, he sat up out of bed and said, "Who's there?"

"It's me, professor, I've come to ask for a favor," Peter said stepping out of the darkness and flipping on the bedroom light.

"Peter, Mary, so good of you to drop by, can I ask what you're doing here this late?" Charles asked as Peter removed his mask,

"I need your power. A dangerous group known as Hydra has my family, I intend to use your power to save them and put an end to that neo-nazi regime." Peter explained his situation.

Xavier frowned, "I can help you Peter, but what you're asking is, very invasive. My power is not something I can just give away, especially to someone whose mind I can't read."

Peter then said, "I'm sorry, I knew you'd say that, and I wasn't asking." 

He covered Xavier in his Symbiote and began copying his X gene, after a few hours Peter felt a wave of voices enter his head, he quickly used Webster to help him gain control over the power and placed limiters on himself so he wouldn't be forced to hear what people were thinking every second of every day. 

Peter pulled back Webster and saw the pissed of Charles as he stood up and shouted, "Peter how could you?!"

Peter pointed to his legs and said, "Your welcome, I also cured you of any cancerous cells that were building up."

Xavier was stunned as he just realized that he stood up, "I..."

"Peter shook his head, "I'm sorry, but I had no other choice. I'd love to sit down and explain what's happening, but I seriously just don't have the time." 

He activated his spell craft for a second again and ported them to the dock, where they were supposed to meet.

"Keep your distance from me, but keep sight of me until it comes time for the exchange," 

MJ nodded her head and moved into the shadows. 

Peter walked over to the dock and stood underneath a lamp post for several minutes before anyone came close to him.

A group of people could be seen walking over towards him, each of them was wearing Hydra uniforms and all of them had the same blackened whites of their eyes, 

"Symbiote Warriors!" Peter thought as he saw a middle-aged looking man walk up alongside them, he had a strange almost hypnotic spiral as irises and was wearing a lab coat.

The man smiled as he looked over Spider-Man and said, "Well at least you came alone, a bit sooner than we agreed on, but oh well, now come along like a good boy."