Unlikely Hero
Pepper sat with May and MJ as they talked about the wedding, when the sound of glass braking made them jump. The three watched as Rose stepped out of the dimensional hole. “Oh, hey everyone.” She greeted, with a smile. “Please tell me, the walking American flag isn’t here.”
“Uh, no.” Pepper said, unsure of what just happened.
“Good.” Rose sat next to MJ on the couch. “So what are you talking about?”
MJ stared at her friend. “Where did you come from?”
“The training room.” Rose answered. “Captain Rogers was being a prick. So I left and came here.”
May chuckled. “Let me guess. He wanted you to train.”
“Yes. After I told him no, on more than one occasion!” The teen huffed in annoyance. “He’s lucky I didn’t throw him into a wall!”
The three girls laughed and smiled. “Well tomorrow I wanted to have a day with the girls. Do you want to come?”
“A day with the girls?” Rose asked, confused. “What is that?” The other three other women didn’t know how to answer that. “What? For the first thirteen years of my life I lived on an island. With very little contact with the outside world.”
Pepper cleared her throat. “Well, Rose, a girl’s night out is when a group of women go shopping, get their hair and makeup done, and just have fun.”
“I see.” The blond teen smiled. “However I don’t like wearing makeup, besides lipstick or nail polish.”
“You are wearing makeup right now.” MJ pointed at the blonde’s eye shadow.
“That is not makeup.” Rose stated. “That is my skin.”
“Who has green skin? And only on your eyes?”
“I’m a shapeshifter. I can change my skin color, look.” Rose closed her eyes and changed her eye shadow from green to blue.
“Wow!” May said, starting at the girl’s eyes. “I wish I could do that. It would make morning routine, so much easier.” The girls all chuckled.
“Oh, Rose.” Pepper said, getting everyone attention. “What did you and Peter do that week on your inland?”
“What do you mean?” The girl asked.
Pepper cleared her throat. “It’s just, Peter wouldn’t say anything about it.”
Rose raised an eyebrow at the woman, when it don on her. “Oh, you wish to know if we had sex.” She said, smiling and chuckling. Both May and Pepper were a little pale at the bluntness. MJ on the other hand looked ready to burst out laughing. “If you must know. No, Peter and I have not had sex, of any kind.” Both woman let out a breath and relaxed. “Although, I must admit, it was a waste of a perfect opportunity.”
May and Pepper’s eyes flew open. “Oh my god.” MJ said, falling into a laughing fit. Rose followed soon after. May and Pepper looked at each other the proceeded to laugh as well.
That is how Peter found them, when he walked in. “What are you girls talking about?”
May shook her head and snapped out of it. “Nothing, sweetie.” She said, getting up and kiss the boy on the cheek. “I’m going to start dinner.” She walked past him and walked to the kitchen.
Pepper stood up and kissed the boy on the other cheek. “I’m going to help your Aunt. We are going to need a lot of food for everyone.”
Peter smiled and sat down next to Rose. “Am I aloud to ask what that back there?”
“Bake where?” Rose tried to play innocent.
“You opened a portal in our dimension! How?!” The boy was starting to get excited. “Thor said it was the mirror dimension. What is that?! How does it work?! Can you open it anywhere?! How-” Peter was interrupted by a pair of lips crashing into his.
When Rose pulled back with a smile. “I will answer your questions later. For now you are going to have to wait, love.” She stood up and walked to the glass wall. “I have a A.I.M base I need to infiltrate, in Germany.” She pulled out a gate card and changed into Mystic. “I will returned in an hour.” He said, summoning his mask.
“Do you need help?” The boy asked, a little concerned.
“I’ll be fine.” The mage stated, opening his gate. “I’m not going to fight. Just getting information on thither base and operations.” With that the boy stepped though the doorway and left.
Peter watched as the magical door closed and disappear. He sighed and sat back in the couch. “MJ?”
“What is it?” The girl was flipping through the TV, trying to find a movie to watch.
“Is it just me or has Rose been acting strange lately?” The boy asked making the girl stop what she was doing.
“Rose acting strange?” MJ looked at him. “She is strange.”
Peter chuckled. “I know. What I mean is, has she been different then she usually act?”
“What do you mean?”
“I don’t know. It just feels like she has been distant lately.” The boy stated.
MJ took a moment and thought. “Now that you mention it. I asked her if she wanted to hang out yesterday. But she said, she had to meet someone.” The girl stated. “I just thought it was one of her contacts.”
“What are you guys doing?” Ned said walking into the room.
“Peter keep an eye on your friends.” Tony said, walking behind the teen. “I found this one trying to sneak into my lab.”
Peter chuckled. “Sorry, dad.”
“Sorry, Mr. Stark.” Ned said, sitting down.
“Ned?” MJ got the boys attention. “Have you notice anything different with Rose?”
“Different how?”
“Different like distant.” Said Peter.
“What’s this? Having a little girl trouble, Pete?” Tony asked taking a seat.
“Rose has been kind of distant lately.” The boy stated. “At first I thought she was just doing more superhero work. But lately it’s like she hasn’t wanted to be around me.” Peter looked to his friends. “MJ said, Rose was also busy when she talked to her.”
Tony hummed and thought. “The last time a girl distant herself from me, she was cheating on me.”
“What?!” Peter’s eye widen. “I… I didn’t even think of that!”
“Don’t listen to him, Peter.” Pepper said, from the kitchen. “Rose isn’t like that.”
“Yeah, dude.” Ned smiled at his friend. “Rose is probably just busy. I mean you and her are the people’s champions.” He stated, making the others laugh at the title. “I bet she just has a lot more to do now, like you when you started to work with the Avengers.”
“Yeah, but Rose isn’t with the Avengers.” MJ stated. “She doesn’t like Captain Rogers for some reason.”
“Don’t worry, Peter.” May said, walking up behind the teen. “From what we talked about earlier, she wouldn’t do that.” She hugged the teen. “You should just ask her if something’s wrong.”
Peter smiled. “Thanks, May.” He said. Then as the woman pulled away, a thought came to him. “Wait! What did you guys talk about?” The three girls in the room looked at one another, not sure what to say. “What did you talk about?” The boy asked again, a little concerned at what they might say.
“Boss!” Friday drew everyone’s attention. “There is a giant machine attacking New York!”
Tony stood up and looked at the TV. “Show me.” He ordered. An image of a robot destroying a building popped up. “Have you told the team?”
“Yes, boss. They are getting ready and heading to the Quintet.”
“Get my suit ready and tell the others to hurry!” The man said, rushing to his fiancé and giving her a kiss on the cheek. “I’ll be back soon.” He rushed to the door. “Come on kid!” He yelled as he ran out.
Peter jumped over the couch and ran to the door, before turning back around and kissing May on the cheek. “See you later!” He said, and ran out the room.
Both May and Pepper chuckled and continued to make dinner. Ned and MJ sat on the couch and looked at the news.
At the Quinjet, Peter rushed to join the others.
“Okay, team!” Cap said getting the others attention. “Let’s go!”
“Wait!” Peter shouted.
Everyone turned to him. “What is it, kid?” Clint asked, putting his bow on.
“This will take too long.” The teen stated, and pointed to the jet.
“It’s not like we have a lot of options.” Sam said.
“Yes, we do.” The boy grinned and pulled his gate card from the arm strap. “Friday, where is the robot now?”
“At the south side of Manhattan.” The AI informed.
The boy thought of the city and threw the card at the ground. The door appear as Peter put on his mask. “We can take this.” He said, opening the door to the sounds of sirens and a building being destroyed. The team smiled at the teen and walked to the door.
On the other side, Captain Rogers looked around and surveyed the situation. “Okay. Thor, Vision, War Machine and Iron Man! Keep that thing from causing any more damage!” The four men nodded and took off. “The rest of us are going to evacuate civilians!” The rest of the team nodded and ran in different directions.
Time Skip
Spider-man heard a scream for help and turned to a woman trapped under some ruble. An old man was trying to use a broken street sign to lift it off her. “I got you!” The hero said, landing next to the man.
“Thanks.” The man said, as the hero moved the ruble off the woman. Once it was off, the man patted the hero on the back. “Thanks, son! If you ever get hungry you can come here!” The man said, pointing at a sign of a pizza shop.
“Thanks, Mr.” The spider said.
“Lee. Stan Lee.” The man said, before a car was crushed near them.
“Sorry, got to work right now! Get somewhere safe!” The hero took off, swinging to the top of a building and looking for some.
“HELP!” Someone screamed from a half destroyed building.
Spider-man jumped into action and swung to the sound. “Where are you?!” He screamed looking around and finding nothing. Then his senses screamed at him to move.
He jumped up and landed upside down on the ceiling. Just in time for two knife to fly through where he just stood. “Not bad reflexes.” A man in a mask said.
“Dude! What the hell?!” The hero asked, ready to jump away.
“Names, Taskmaster.” The man stated. “And I have a job to do.”
“Taskmaster?” Spider-man looked at the skull mask. “Yeah. I herd of you. You’re a mercenary.”
“Good to know.” Taskmaster said. “Now, be a good little spider and go to sleep!” He threw a ball on the ground. It exploded and began to release a purple gas in to the air.
“Karen, what is the best way to get out of here?!” The young hero asked.
“The best way out would be to go straight up.” The AI showed a path for the hero to take, though the raising smoke. “Your mask will protect you from the gas.”
“Thanks, Karen.” The spider waited for the smoke to hide him better before moving.
“I should warn you. Something is jamming my connection to SI.” Karen informed.
Peter jumped outside on the roof. His sense screamed again, so he jumped away as another gas bomb hit the ground. Taking a look around, he saw the masked man. Taskmaster held a gun in his hand, aimed at the hero’s chest. The merc fired, sending six darts at the hero.
Spider-man jumped to the side and watched the darts fly by, when his senses screamed again. A claw lashed itself onto the hero’s leg and sent a shock of electricity throughout his body. Peter screamed and fell to the ground, twitching in pain. His eyes half open as he watched the other man refilling his dart gun.
“That was easy.” Taskmaster walked up to the hero on the ground. “But money is money.” He aimed the dart gun at the sided again. “Now, take a nice nap.” He pulled back on the trigger. When a hand landed on his wrist, pulled his arm into the air and made him shoot into the sky.
“Now, that’s not very nice.” The second man said, with a smirk on his face.
Taskmaster master pulled his arm away and took a large jump back. “You!”
“Here I was, watching that monstrosity.” The new man pointed to the robot in the distance. “Destroying this city. When what do I find? Two masked men ruining my view.”
Peter open his eyes widen, as he saw who just saved him. “Loki!”