Chapter 5

White Fox was at a conference with the Avengers. The National Intelligence Service had to fund Atlas foundation, and to their frustration, the Avengers would allow the operation in San Francisco if they get to observe the new Atlas members' capabilities. A reluctant agreement was complied despite the organization wishing they could operate without American heroes supervising them.

"On behalf of the South Korean National Intelligence Service, we can only agree if your assistance remains temporary" White Fox attempted negotiation.

"Not that we don't trust you or your secret agency but you can't just forget we are the top team of USA crimefighters" Tony Stark pointed out, "So you can't do whatever you want and expect us to not look for anything that screams 'bad idea' okay?"

"Stark" Captain America warned, "Manners, remember?" The first avenger then glared as Tony raised his arms in a mocking surrender. "Lately a lot of…'new' vigilante teams are being formed so Atlas shouldn't be that surprising, if that is all then—"

"Actually…" White Fox inhaled and exhaled deeply, "There is another project we would like to begin operating in San Francisco"

"Thank you, Fox, but I will take it from here" Jimmy Woo spoke up and all the Avengers' eyes widened. Ant-Man (Scott Lang) whispered to Falcone.

"I was sure the guy was mute or didn't know English well"

White Fox ignored the subtle comment, she was glad none of the Avengers knew the various abilities of her species. So far they were only aware of her strength and sharp claws.

As Jimmy was explaining his idea of constructing a school for gifted individuals (and saying why he couldn't just send 'gifted' Pan Asian students to Professor X's mansion), Ami checked her phone that was on her lap. A few texts from her spider themed girlfriend had been sent.

Ghost Spider sent texts such as:

Is the meeting less boring than a slow day of crimefighting?

Ami replied with:

Depends, what have you done today?

Gwen answered back with:

The most cliché superhero things that you'd think only happened in old cartoons.

She sent an Instagram link some civilian posted of Ghost Spider having minor but still noticeable scratch marks on her mask and shoulders. She was trying to hold a cat that didn't seem pleased with her. The fact that Gwen was willing to do hero work that was far less urgent than rescuing cats from trees was admirable. She smiled an chuckled a little until Bruce Banner cleared his throat. Ami suddenly snapped back to the reality that she was in the middle of a meeting and was caught texting during the discussion. Sitting straight and placing her phone back in her pocket.

"White Fox, pay attention if you have it" Jimmy arched an eyebrow. Then he continued talking. Ami was eager to end the meeting and head to an important place in the city.

After the meeting was over, Ami walked to a Mercedes car and as she took the ride, she looked at her phone. Gwen already sent a few texts.

G: So are you done with the meeting?

A: Yes, and I want to relax in the best place in the city.

G: Oh yeah? Where might that be?

A: Not telling, so just guess for the time being.

Ami sent a heart emoji after that.

Ghost Spider had a slow day of crime fighting. It was not a good thing to wish for crime to happen. On her patrol, she stopped a bike thief, helped a lost woman and tried retrieving an aggressive cat.

She was grateful that her spiders were regenerating the scratch marks but Ami would have wanted to treat her medically anyway.

It was a strange feeling for Gwen to be open about more than half of who she is to someone who was not part of the spider-verse. It was weirder to rely on someone to aid her, she should not be so codependant but Ami…just makes it easy to forget why she should be alone.