Issue 62: Secret Wars Part XII

As the ground began to shake, and the God Machine started to collapse, Peter ran over and webbed up the Exemplars. He then started carrying them away while saying, "They're Fury's problems now. Hopefully they can lock them up somewhere far-far away. Maybe I'll have to make a special prison of my own if that doesn't work out."

Peter landed on the ground as the scrap from the God Machine started falling from the sky. He looked around and then headed towards the group of captives that he ordered DP to watch over. 

Seeing that everyone was okay and that Agent Hill, was dealing with the captives, Peter walked over and thanked her personally. 

"Thanks for the help, Hill, tell Fury that we have some highly dangerous prisoners to take care of. I'll send a report later, just don't remove the cuffs under any circumstance."

"Spider-Man!" Deadpool ran over, "I did good, right? Pat me!"

"Yes, Deadpool, you did well." Peter walked over to Agent hill and sent her a file, "This is every Hydra Base I managed to uncover. S.H.I.E.L.D should take down their targets immediately."

Agent Hill looked of the Data and said, "There are S.H.I.E.L.D Agents in this list!"

"Yes, so you and Fury should be busy for a while. However, cleaning up the house is going to be a lot easier with a to-do list," Peter responded.

"Thank you Spider-Man," Agent Hill said as she held out her hand.

"Fury will be even more thankful once you get to work. I'm going back with my Family now," Peter said as he shook her hand.

With that said and done he pointed to Wade and said, "Look out for him. I know he's crazy, but he's the good kind of crazy that can help out a lot. He's worth the headache…I think…"

Peter then looked to Wade before calling him over, Peter then used his suit and covered up Wade, Webster quickly started to cure his cancer making Deadpool feel like a million bucks. 

As he came back down, he looked to Spider-Man and said, "What did you do?"

"You'll find out later, or you could just remove your mask," Peter laughed as he left through a portal and returned to Avengers Tower.

His Family was still shocked as they saw all the people they saved. They didn't know if they should be proud or scared. Peter sat down and tried to convince them that it was better to let them be Heroes, the conversation lasted most the night when they decided to continue it another day since it was already getting late.

Peter spent most the night catching up with his parents. Everyone got the full origin story and heard what they've been through during their journey.

The young hero was sitting next to his father discussing what they would do for work, when Peter had an idea and said, "You could work for some friends of mine, MJ and I have plenty of connections. Next year we'll be going to the Avengers Academy next year, so you could apply to be a teacher there. Although S.H.I.E.L.D is mostly a spy agency, a lot of people there do good work, such as the other fellow scientists in the research and development department."

"You could also work for me, Mr.Parker!" Tony came in and sat down beside them, "I could use a few geniuses to help me out on some projects that have been keeping me busy because your son won't accept my job offer."

"I never said you couldn't bring people in on the research, but it has to stay close to the Avengers, anyone else is just no good. Can you imagine how fast that would blow up in our faces if people found about it?" Peter said slapping his hand on his forehead.

"Why? It's your property, it's not like...You know what? Nevermind, it just occurred to me why you're keeping this so close to the chest, keep up the good work kid." Tony said giving Peter a thumb up.

"I swear Tony, you got to stop leaping into things without thinking them through," Peter said staring him down.

Tony laughed before saying, "Sorry kid a leopard can't change his spots. Some people take the time to learn to walk. I'm the kind of person who likes to run first."

"Yeah, like a kid with scissors!" Peter shot back.

Peter's parents were shocked to see Tony Stark acting so close with their kid as if they were best friends. 

He looked to them and smiled before saying, "Peter has his own plans to create his company someday, so I don't mind helping out a friend's parents."

"You know I could always ask Reed Richards to hook you up with a place to work as well." Peter said making Tony shout, "Come on Kid, I offered first! What does the Baxter Office offer that I don't?"

Peter laughed and said, "And they're my parents, they can choose who they want to work for!"

His parents were happy to find out that their son was so together with his priorities and life goals, "You know your mother and I wanted to start our own medical company, the V.E.N.O.M project was designed to be a cure-all, but the suit was too volatile to be put to practical use. How did you work around that problem?" Richard asked.

Peter shook his head before saying, "Well, I used magic to speed up its understanding of the human mind, I essentially copied and pasted my morals and spirit into the Symbiote, thus helping it achieve a level of understanding that isn't normally possible without years of life lessons."

Peter then began to explain how all life is violent when they start out, "I doubt the material humans first absorbed in the oceans to create single-celled organisms weren't too happy with being eaten. All life is this way in the beginning. Chaotic, primal, volatile, and only evolution brings order."

They talked for a long time before they went to bed, the next morning Peter woke up and received a call from Fury, he picked up the phone and said, "You have reached the phone number of someone who just wants to sleep, please hang up, and don't try again."

Fury ignored him and responded, "Hey, good work with the Hydra Agents, because of the list you provided we've managed to clear out any moles in S.H.I.E.L.D."

"Better hire Prof. X to make sure. I don't know if the heads I cut off have all the information."

"Good idea. We took down the bases you marked out. How'd you get them on lockdown?"

"I have to keep some secrets, but if you must know, I just gave a little mental suggestion." Peter yawned.

"Speak clearly, kid," Fury huffed.

"I'm hanging up now unless you tell me you're going to give me some time off for my good work?" Peter said rolling his face out of his pillow and staring at the ceiling.

"Well, actually we had a mission for you, but seeing what you have planned, we'll need about a week to get things in order. Once that's dealt with, we'll talk about vacation days," Fury countered.

"Great, after this you're going to give me some time off, you hear me, Fury?" Peter sat up, "So, how'd you like the proposal?"

"Shield Academy's Triskelion becoming part of that ship you and Tony have been working on. I'll consider it." Fury answered.

"Great, I can't wait," Peter said as he got out of bed.

"I didn't say yes,"

Peter snickered as he hung up the phone, "Coming from you, I'll consider it is a yes."

He headed over to the window and hung up the call before turning around to go eat breakfast. Peter entered the lounge to see Aunt May cooking for everyone. 

"Peter, you're up! These are the bomb, I have to record their recipe so Jarvis can cook them for me." Tony said chowing down on her wheat cakes.

Peter smiled and started to join in on the meal when he turned to MJ and asked, "So, how are things?" 

Looking back and forth between her parents she smiled and responded with, "I think we've come to a conclusion, since they really can't stop us, they gave in, but dad says that he wants to help, since he's a police officer and all."

"I don't mind, it's good to work with the Police, gives us a lot more trust with the people, and we can work together to do our best to stop crime in NY," Peter said as he chowed down.

When MJ said, "Hey Peter, can you help me out with the patient we brought back." 

Of course, Mary Jane was referring to the Mutant Forge. 

Peter nodded his head, and after they ate, she and Tony took him to a medical room. After arriving at the mutant's room, Peter saw the unconscious Forge and said, "Yeah, I can help with this."

Placing out his hand and touching Forge's head, Peter started to send telepathic commands to reach what was left Forge's mind, "Your mind is a piece of broken machinery, anything having to do with Doctor Maynard, is nothing more than a virus which you need to make an antivirus program to delete."

Suddenly Forge's mutant power was activated, and quickly began fixing his mind, he took in a deep breath and shouted out as if he was being tortured. 

MJ and Tony started to panic, when suddenly, Forge opened his eyes.

"What the hell!" Forge shot up with a panicked expression. 

Peter turned to him and gave him a smile as he said, "Good morning, Dave Daniels." 

"How did you know my name?" Forge looked at him when Peter said, "I think Professor Xavier will be glad to see you're well, after all, you went missing a few years ago, and they all thought you died."

Peter then grabbed him and pulled him and MJ through a portal that led to the X mansion. He appeared inside Charles room, who was sitting behind his desk drinking a cup of tea.

When he sensed Forge's mind he looked over to see him in good health. He also saw Peter and MJ waving at him. 

He didn't know how to feel when he looked at Peter, he was both thankful for healing his legs, but also disappointed in him because of the whole Power copying thing.

Peter sent him his memories of what happened that night, making Charles shout, "Did that really happen?" in total surprise.

Peter nodded his head, and said, "I know, I betrayed your trust, but as you can see, I had good reasons."

He grabbed MJ and was about to teleport when he received a phone call, "Man, did I get more popular, or does this world not want me to sleep." 

It was from Johnny. 

"Yep, the world wants me to become a caffeine addict." Peter picked up the phone and put it on speaker as he answered, "You're speaking to the hero that vastly surpasses the Flaming Torch in popularity. How can your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man help you today?"

"You are not more popular than me!" Johnny shot back first before continuing on with why he called, "I need your help webhead, Sue's pregnancy is having complications. She's been getting weaker every day her belly gets bigger."

"Aren't you overreacting, that's what happens when carrying a child, the bigger they get, the more energy they sap from you," MJ said as she walked closer to the phone.

"I would normally agree with you, but Sue hasn't woken up, and it's almost been 18 hours since she went to sleep. You guys have those Symbiote things, I was wondering if you could use them to check on her condition," Johnny asked with a freaked out tone in his voice.

Peter teleported over to them and discovered he couldn't enter the building, "Reed has been putting up some new defense systems. Incredible, it looks like he managed to create a spatial distortion wave that reacts and interferes with teleportation methods."

Heading inside the building the old-fashioned way, he was led up to a medical room and saw everyone standing around Sue, who was hooked up to several machines and sleeping sounding on her own bed.

Walking over to her they were all greeted by everyone worried expressions. Reed was looking like he was at death's door. His eyes showed he hadn't sleep in weeks and a bit of his beard's stubble had started to darken.

Peter, walked up to him and placed his hand on his shoulder when he said, "I'll see what I can do, I promise that she'll be okay."

He then stretched out his Symbiote and started to check out the unborn Franklin and saw that his power was pulling more nutrients then necessary because it was following its natural instincts to grow. However, it just a bit too much for Sue to take. He figured her body would adapt given time, but during such a time, it put her and the baby's life at risk.

"I can help," Peter said as the entire Symbiote flew onto Sue and began charging her with his healing factor, and other powers. "Reed, your kid is a reality warper, a Mutant, and a very powerful one at that. My Symbiote can keep her healthy long enough until she gives birth, but you need to find a way to create some devices that can put up certain mental blocks on your future kid. You'll have teach him to control his power very slowly. Over time, I imagine he'll become one of the strongest heroes to ever live. "

Reed looked shocked at Peter's analysis when Sue suddenly opened her eyes. It was apparent that she was feeling better than she ever had before. She then looked around the room to see everyone staring at her and her belly before she said, "What's up? Why is everyone in my room, what's going on?"