Issue 58: Secret Wars Part VIII
A few minutes earlier, over at the Washington Hydra base, MJ was holding back her barf as she stared at what was left of the Mutant Forge. Most of his body had been replaced by machinery and was plastered to a wall like some form of avant-garde art.
She was about to take a step forward when her spider-sense warned her to stop. She frowned because no matter which way she imagined herself moving closer resulted in her Spider-Sense going wild.
"Can you hack it, Spiderling?" MJ asked.
"My apologies, but the psionic energy here is too strong for me to override, the best course of action is to directly access the technology by removing the Mutant from the machine."
"Okay then, time to move!" MJ thought as she webbed towards the panel on the wall, as the web traveled, hundreds of the turrets carrying disintegration lasers opened fire on the webbing, turning each and every strand into a pile of ash.
MJ jumped out and began to dodge the lasers while taking small advances forward at a time. A laser shot at her feet forcing her to jump up when another laser shot at her in mid-air. Thinking quickly, she webbed the wall and pulled herself slightly over and dodged it within seconds of hitting her.
As she landed, she rolled forward and webbed the ceiling and pulled, dragging her upward with a diagonal direction while avoiding multiple laser shots.
MJ then heard Peter contact her, "MJ I could use your help on this one, how are things on your end?"
MJ was in the middle of performing unnatural gymnastic feats that could win her an Olympian medal when she responded, "Hello, you have reached Spider-Woman's answering machine. I'm currently busy dodge laser beams of death. Please call back at a later time."
MJ was slowly inching her way forward when a wall of light appeared that was quickly rising from the floor. She webbed the roof and pulled herself over the wall before it blocked her off.
A series of these walls began closing in front of her, forcing her to move even faster. MJ leapt over the last barrier and was seconds away from reaching the computer panel that was set up next to Forge's body, when suddenly, a blast of energy radiated from around him.
The walls behind her started to close in. Her Spidey-Senses were blaring like crazy when she quickly decided to open her bag of infinite space and pull in the screen of energy.
"I can't believe that worked...hahaha..." MJ breathed a sigh of relief.
Reaching out her hand, Mary Jane placed the Symbiote over the Computer Panel and forced the defense system to shut down. She then walked over to Forge and began covering him in the Symbiote.
She felt appalled as the medical assessment came up on her H.U.D. The spine, heart, and brain were the only remaining organic parts left on the mutant. MJ quickly started to recover his body by infusing him with her Chi. However, the damage done to this guy was beyond insane.
It took her 2 hours to heal all of the damage, so as a bonus she ended up copying Forge's X gene. She now found that she gained an intuition of sorts when it came to controlling and building machinery that surpassed common sense.
She then removed her Symbiote to reveal a completely healed Forge. "Why isn't he waking up?"
"The Mutant's mind is fractured, broken. He will not wake up without special assistance, a telepath would be helpful in healing his mind," Spiderling replied.
MJ sighed as she lifted his body up with her telekinesis and carried him back with her. As she approached the cells, she used her newfound power to disable the machines and start saving every prisoner she could. After reaching her way to Peter's parents, MJ wrapped them up with her Symbiote and began to heal their wounds.
When their eyes returned along with their health, they stared at the person in front of them in awe, "That's our project…" Marie, Peter's mother shouted in surprise.
She had long chestnut brown hair, and green eyes. Although she was in her thirties, she still looked amazing, especially now that her body was returned to full health. Not to mention, the extra Chi MJ gave her probably shaved off a few years.
"Who are you?" Richard, Peter's father shouted in worry, thinking that Hydra had figured out the Symbiote creation method. Richard looked a lot like Peter, only with a wider jawline and barely noticeable dimple on his chin.
MJ smiled and said, "I'm Spider-Woman, and I'm here with S.H.I.E.L.D. I'm a Super Hero that's part of a new group of world protectors called the Avengers!"
The two looked at each other in surprise, all the rest of the captives that were more recent arrivals already knew of the Avengers wanted to start cheering for joy when they heard this, but MJ placed her finger over her mouth and shushed them.
"We still have to get you guys out of here. There are over 500 of you so I need you all to line up."
"What are the Avengers?" Marie asked, when someone in line asked, "How you not know who the Avengers are? Just how long have you been here?"
MJ started leading them out while some people explained the alien attack to them.
They lined up and started making their way through the facility.
"All that happened in the last 12 years!" Marie spoke up.
"Oh, god, Peter! Do you think he's okay?" Richard began to worry even more.
Before he could finish the thought, everyone felt their bodies becoming lighter and started to float behind MJ.
"Please relax everyone, starting right now, I'm going to get you all home," MJ said as she began using her telekinesis to start flying them all up into the vents she came through.
As she led them up the massive complex duct system, she was glad that they had plenty of room to spread them all out side by side.
Other than the constant gasp and subtle cheers, she made her way back to Fury without encountering any major issues.
When she arrived at the entrance, she saw the bald leader messing with the Hydra Agents by taking over certain security protocols, locking them in various rooms, and attacking them with automated turrets.
"Having fun?!" MJ asked making Fury smile.
"Yes…It's about time you got back." He closed the minicomputer and placed in a pouch around his waist before asking, "That everyone?"
MJ nodded her head, when Fury said, "Avengers, bust down the door!"
"Knock knock!" Tony's voice was heard over the comms.
A large explosion was heard that was followed by intense gunfire, and people yelling out in pain.
MJ smiled at the sound of Hydra getting their butt whooped and said, "Let's get out of here now."
After exiting the facility Iron-Man landed next to them as a wave of unmanned drones flew inside the Hydra base and began clearing it out. "Spider-Woman! It's good to see you, where is your partner."
MJ looked back at Peter's parents before sending a text to Tony's H.U.D.
"Really!" Tony responded.
MJ then thought of the message she got from Peter earlier and said, "Okay Peter, Mission accomplished! Your parents are safe and sound now. I'm leaving them in Tony's hands for now."
Peter responded instantly, "Thank god, I'm glad you're all safe."
Peter truly meant that he took a deep breath and felt a wave of relief as he continued, "I'm coming to pick you up."
Two hours earlier after the message to MJ, Peter was fervently trying to come up with a way to pick out the Totems he would summon, he had already figured out four but the last two would be problematic.
He asked if the Spider-Goddess could help him view what his total selection is when the other elder gods started calling foul play on him. The goddess then smiled and said, "You can already access the web by using the Space, and Reality Stone, if it is just viewing the different realms, then you could easily accomplish such a task."
Peter sighed and spent almost two hours trying to construct a spell that he could use, and even Strange got in on the action. He gave Peter several tips before they put the finishing touches on the spell matrix.
With a smile on his face, he turned to Strange and said, "Thanks, I don't think I could have created the spell this quickly without your aid."
"Don't sell your self-short Parker. You did a great job thinking up the outline of the spell. Even without me, given enough time, you could have completed it by yourself," Strange replied slapping Peter on the back.
"Okay then, let's take a peek at my choices," Peter said as he activated the spell, his Space and Reality Merlin Stones powered the glyph as his mind drifted throughout the planes as he came across a massive web spanning out into infinity.
Peter placed his hand over it and said, "Better make this quick, I have less than 50 seconds remaining."
As he touched the Web of Life, he felt his mind spilled off into countless realities to see those who shared his connection to the web, after drifting throughout the realities for 42 seconds he pulled himself back to his body by canceling the spell out. Standing up he smiled, and said, "I got it!"
Peter then told Madam web of the of his choices.
First was the easy win. In Universe 919, there was a version of Peter Parker during the Secret Wars arc where he gained the powers of the Beyonder and managed to keep his mind human by putting on several limiters that kept him from abusing the power.
After defeating doctor Strange he recreated reality as it was, and returned home as an invincible hero, never reviving Ben, and altering the fate of his reality, merely stepping forward in his life.
Next is Ghost Spider from Earth-11638. In this reality Peter Parker's Uncle Ben never died, became corrupted by power, and raised Peter up with evil intentions. After becoming the Amazing Spider, a famous and popular and rich superhero, they used their resources built a transporter to bring Spider-Men from other universes and absorb their powers to increase his.
He grew stronger and stronger with every Peter Parker he absorbed until bringing the Spider-Man of Earth-616. After talking with the Prime Totem, the Amazing Spider made him believe that he arrived at his universe by accident.
Of course, that was a trick. 616 Peter was knocked out and woke up in in the Amazing Spider's lair, where he was attached to a machine which would absorb his powers.
The 616 Peter managed to convince his other of his errors, and when Ben was about to plug a distracted Spider-Man into the machine, the Amazing Spider disrupted the process and had his powers absorbed by the machine instead. After that event came to a close, he didn't die but was stuck in a comatose state as a consequence for his actions. His body was a vegetable, but his spirit, however, was trapped in Hell, where he felt that it was the punishment he deserved.
Sometime later after some certain events took place, he was given a chance for redemption and became the Spider-Ghost, a Spider-Man with the powers of the Ghost Rider.
In the universe Scarlet Which created during the 'House of M' event, Earth-58163, which normally should had vanished after Scarlet Which returned the 616 Universe to how it was supposed to be, but instead became a reality in of itself and continued on its own natural history.
In that world, Gwen never died, married Peter Parker, had a child together, and lived a happy life. Their son Richie Parker inherited Spider-Man's powers, became a hero in his own right as he grew up, and eventually became the next Sorcerer Supreme.
On Earth, Earth-51977 Peter Parker was chosen as the Nova Prime sometime after he was bitten by the spider, after jumping in front of mugger a tragic event took place, involving a ricochet bullet that killed the criminal. He turned himself into the police to be punished for his crime, but was released shortly thereafter, as it was an act of self-defense.
Unable to cope with being a murder, he could no longer continue on as a hero an hung up the costume. He lived a mostly normal life, he met with Mary Jane, fell in love, got married, and when his first child was born, he took up the costume once again to be a hero for her.
Sometime later, Peter's Daughter became the owner of the Black Self Sustaining Nova Corps helmet, and the two became crime-fighting heroes together. Since he couldn't bring Nova-Force over, he had to bring his daughter Mayday Parker over to help.
Next was Warlock Spider-Man, Earth-8545, the entire world was overrun with something called the legacy virus, where an omega level existence named Warlock sacrificed himself to merge their bioforms in an effort to save his best friend Cypher's life. Instead, the Virus mutated to become a new disease, a disease that was no longer fatal, but didn't limit itself to mutants and was infinitely more contagious.
Becoming vampiric in nature, it hungered for additional life energy and forced those infected to hunt for more victims. After a long period of time, Spider-Man managed to come to his sense and overpower the hive mind. He then went on to create a vaccine curing every one of the virus, thus saving the world. This Peter Parker managed to keep his powers of Warlock and went on to become a big-time hero.
Lastly, from the universe he helped create, Earth-616.2's Kaine Scarlet Spider also known as the version that went on to master the power of the Other and even got a nice spiffy magical suit made by a Spider-Man that learned magic, that not only enhanced his powers but The Other's power as well.
As they all were about to be summoned, MJ called him back, "I'm on my way to pick you up." With that he teleported to MJ's side, to see his parents standing close to her.