The Mission
Two years had passed since he had gotten home from the avengers compound, no one called, no one visited, and no one seemed to care, he didnt either. he moved on and assumed they did too, nothing much changed, Wade would pop in and out occasionally if he was in the state, he started working at the daily bugle just so he had an identity, he had plenty of cash from mercenary work but peter Parker needed a job, he met a few new people, turns out Ned's old girlfriend Betty worked at the bugle so he ran back into her, captain marvel stopped by on his 21st birthday and tool him to a bar when no one else showed up, after that she left, that was about 6 months ago. he met a thief who got called black cat, he always managed to catch her but in the end she'd escape, there were often times where she could manipulate him into helping her, saying she needed to pay some guys off or they'd kill her, other times it was just plain flirting that distracted him enough for him to get away. Morgan was 7 now, every birthday he'd get a phone call or a face-time from her and he'd send her a gift. other than that, well, that was it, nothing happened that was avengers level, just an occasional bank robbery or hostage situation, maybe a construction site falling apart, a few crime bosses that some one would beat him to, weather it was the daredevil or Luke Cage, one of them always beat him to it, there was also Jessica Jones and the iron fist but they only really showed when it was a big event like the triad, he eventually met a few of them, teamed up sometimes when the threat was too big for only one of them, he went on a date with Jessica once, didn't really work out, and that as it. He thought he wouldn't have to deal with anything avengers related for a while, but thats when he was proved wrong, by a nick fury in his apartment when he got home.
"I need your help" he said from the dark corner he was sat in
"Oh really i thought you'd want to go out for a beer" peter said sitting down across from him "What is it"
"I need a team" he started to say
"you have one" he cut him off "The Avengers, oh and then you have Phil's little thing, except well i guess its not really Phil's now that he's dead, uh you've got that fantastic four group dont you"
"Not what i meant, and how do you know about Coulson"
"When tony died he gave me access to every file he had access to, that included shield, i read all of them"
"Oh, great. anyways, i need something more covert, the avengers, well they dont exactly like stealth, its only gonna be a few missions so its nothing i need to be official, just a few people that can get the job done"
"Who all do you have in mind. and why do you need me"
"Well i needed some one that was as good as Wade Wilson"
"So get him, ill call him if you need"
"He's to uncontrollable"
"Oh right, you and Nat, always about control, especially when you cant kill the thing you cant control"
"Parker, that's not what i mean, if he wanted he could walk into shield and kill everyone and walk out like nothing happened, i need someone i know wont do that, or someone i could stop if they did"
"Whatever, who else is on this 'Team'"
"Well, there's you, Daisy Johnson, Wanda Maximoff, Matt Murdock, and i was hoping i could convince the black cat to join"
"And you need us why"
"Well you and black cat will be excellent at stealth along with Murdock, Daisy and Wanda are the cavalry if anything goes wrong"
"When and Where does this happen"
"Well on the 22nd is when we ship out, if your in ill need your help to get black cat in as well, we'll meet at the airport, tell them James sent you for the oranges and he'll let you in, from there its hanger 4. if you have a car you want to bring do so" Fury said as he got up and went to leave
"Do we get paid"
"Yes Parker, ill pay you" and with that he left, peter thought about it for a while before an alert came up on his phone, someone had triggered the silent alarm on a museum, "black cat" he thought, "But she's never been this sloppy, she wants something" as he hopped out the window and swung towards the museum.
As he arrived at the building he saw her just standing on the roof, curious of what was going on he landed just in front of her.
"well look who it is, its the Spider" The black cat said upon his arrival
"What do you want cat"
"Oh business before pleasure kind of guy are you"
"Just cut to the chase"
"Fine, you're no fun" she said pouting "i need cash, a lot of it"
"So why are you talking to me, go try and rob something"
"What so you can stop me and take it from me, i meant something legal, or less illegal than robbing places, id get a job but it wouldn't pay enough"
"Well you're in luck, SHIELD needs our help on some assignment, they said they'd pay us"
"So its rob something and get caught or just turn myself in to the feds"
"If you're in meet at this address" he said as he scribbled down his home address and gave it to her "Just knock or come through the window, its apartment 6b, on the 22nd, id say before noon just to be safe" and with that he left, she turned and went the other way and peter went home and slept, the next 2 days were normal, nothing weird just a mugging or two one day and a convenience store robbery the next. Now it was the 22nd and he was waiting for The Black Cat to show up as he packed, just as he thought she wasn't going to show up he heard a knock on the window and turned to see a woman, regular clothes and still silver hair, it was black cat without her suit, she had a duffel bag slung over her shoulder, she was wearing just regular skinny jeans and a short sleeve shirt, nothing flashy just casual. He walked over and opened the window for her.
"Cat??" he said trying to confirm his suspicions
"Felicia Hardy is my real name, Am i gonna see yours?" she asked peter, who was in his suit.
He deformed the suit enough to reveal his face "Peter Parker" he said helping her through the window "Is that bag all you brought"
"Yeah do i need more"
"As long as you have your gear and some clothes your fine"
"Alright, what all are you bringing"
"Well ive got my sword, my revolver, and some clothes, ive brought one of my extra suits but other than that they should have anything else id need"
"Makes sense, so is everyone meeting here or was this just for me and you"
"We've got to go to the airport, lets go" he said zipping up his bag and slinging it over his shoulder and started to leave to the parking garage, as they walked down he pulled his keys out of his pocket and unlocked the trunk of his fire bird and tossed his stuff in it "Put your stuff in the trunk if you want" he said climbing into the front seat
"You have a car" she said surprised while putting her bag in the trunk
"Yeah, i dont use it unless its Spider-Man business outside of town" He answered as she got in
"Well its a nice car, i might have to steal it from you one day" she joked as they pulled out of the garage and left to the airport
when they arrived he greeted the security guard with "James sent me for the oranges" and they let them in, he then drove to hanger 4 to find a big ass plane
"Welcome to the zephyr" he was greeted by nick "who's the girlfriend"
"Thats black cat"
"Ah, the master thief
"Yeah, i take it you're the government stooge i have to make sure wont arrest me when this is done" she said
"I wont arrest you as long as you listen to my orders"
"And i get paid in the end"
"I suppose"
"Alright, where do i put my stuff
"if you bored the plane someone will show you your room, and Parker can follow you once he pulls his car in"
"Where do you want it"
"Just in the loading bay, if you park it there someone will strap it down for you"
"Alright" and with that he parked his car and went to find his room, once he got situated he was told to go to the mission room. when he got there all it was was a big tv and a holo table, the people there were Daisy Johnson, Wanda Maximoff. Black Cat, him, and the two scientist Fitz and Simmons.
"Alright guys, do we need to do ice breakers or can you guys do that on your own" nick said as he walked in
"I thought Murdock was joining us" peter said
"He opted out, he didnt want to leave hells kitchen without a protector. now, mission briefing, we have a few hydra basses we need to take down"
"So why cant we just shoot a missile or send an actual team" Felicia said
"Because we are after intel not just eliminating them, parker do you have a stealthier suit than your bright red and blue"
"I can make one if you have a lab"
"Then get to it, Fitz, take him to the lab show him around"
"Yes sir" the Scottish man said before leading peter downstairs "My names Fitz, im the leading engineer at shield"
"I know ive read your file, im assuming you already know me"
"Ah yes, Spider-Man, you're quite impressive, you know some say you were trained by dead pool, is that true"
"Yeah, what is that gonna be a problem for you too" he said as they arrived at the lab
"No, just wanted to know if the rumors were true. So here is the lab, what do you need to build the new suit"
"just a computer and a USB to USB cord, oh and when they are done up there can you have Felicia come down"
"Who's that"
"The Silver haired one, Black Cat"
"Yeah no problem" he said as he handed him the cable "You can use any of these computers and if you need anything else that blue button is an intercom, just press it and ask"
"Alright, thanks man" he said as he walked to one of the computers and plugged his suit pod in, the computer started up and brought up a window, this was where he could edit the suit, "It needs to be stealthy, hmm" he thought. as he got to work, he started with something he already had, he pulled up the iron spider design and replaced all the red with black for better concealment, now what to change the gold to, it still looked awesome but the gold stood out to much, he thought about blue but it didnt look right, he got rid of all the gold bumps that hid certain uses or weapons, yes that'd get rid of combat power but it was a stealth mission, he tried just solid black but it was ugly, he had to have style, he tried almost every color but nothing looked right. it had been an hour and he had barely made any progress, the was when Felicia had came down the stairs and into the lab.
"What you working on spider" she asked as she eyed everything in the room, looking for something expensive and easy to steal
"Dont even think about it" he said hearing her pick something up
"Damn" she said putting it down "So what are you working on"
"My new suit, i need something stealthy but i wouldn't mind if it looked nice"
"Let me see" she said as she walked over and practically sat in his lap
"What are you doing"
"Helping"
"I meant by the fact that you're sitting in my lap"
"Well i needed to be able to see" she said, peter just sighed in defeat as he watched her work, she made the Spider logo on its chest larger, had the limbs of it stretch out and go across his, she made it a crimson red and had only the main torso a deep black with white webbing lines in it, the rest of the body was a dark gray with no web lines in it. "How does that look"
"I like it, Thanks"
"Ah so she is your girlfriend" a voice came out from behind them. Peter jumped around to find it was Wanda
"oh hey Wanda, and no she just sat on me and i couldn't do much about it"
"Are you calling me fat" Felicia had said pretending to be offended
"You know thats not what i meant, now put back everything you've stolen already, you're getting paid for this already remember"
"how did you even-"
"Just put the stuff back"
"Fine" she said and walked off
"She is a character" Wanda said
"Yeah well fury wanted her here because of her skill" he said as he turned back to the computer to to put some final touches on the suit
"Look peter-"
"Save it, i already know what you're gonna say, 'im sorry, it'll be different, come back to the compound we miss you' im not gonna fall for it this time"
"Come on, you cant be mad at Nat forever"
"Im not, im mad at you"
"What did i do"
"Its what you didnt do"
"And what's that"
"Call, text"
"Thats a two way street and you know it"
"Yeah and i tried"
"no you didnt" she tried to argue but peter just unlocked his phone and gave it to her, showing 3 different times he tried to call, 10 different messages, and 2 emails, they all stopped after 3 months within each other
"Now what are you gonna say"
"Im sorry"
"Whatever, i've moved on, let me finish this"
"Well i originally came to tell you that we'd be there in 10 but now its like 3" she said she walked out, peter, discovering this finished his suit design and hit upload, after a short time the pod beeped and and picked it up. he went to his room and sat on his phone until they got there, he realized he had a message from Jessica.
Jones: Hey nerd i need your help on a stake out
Parker: Can't im not in the state, Some SHIELD thing
Jones: Damn, can i borrow you camera then
Parker: Yeah if you need it, you know where it is right
Jones: Ill find it
Jones: Apartment 6b right
Parker: yeah, the digital should be in the living room and the film should be in my dresser, top drawer. Film or SD cards will be in a baggy in the 3rd kitchen drawer
Jones: Got it , ty
Parker: NP
And with that there was a knock on his door, "get ready Parker we'll be above the drop zone in 2 minutes"
"Wait drop zone" he said opening the door
"Yeah, you, Felicia and Daisy are halo jumping in, go down to the armory to get your gear"
"Alright" he said as he grabbed his suit pod and went down to the armory, there he met a guy by the name of Jacob Friday, the weapons expert, he was about 6' give or take, he was dressed in regular shield attire had semi long hair and glasses.
"Hey what can do for you" he said cheerfully
"uh Fury sent me down to grab gear for the mission im going on"
"Alright what type of mission is it, just basics like weather its stealth or not and how your getting in, i know the rest is classified"
"Well it's a stealth mission, or supposed to be i dont know how long it'll stay like that, and we are halo jumping in"
"ah you must be with daisy and that one silver haired girl"
"Yeah sadly"
"Well i'll give you what i gave the rest of them" he said as he went into the storage room and came back out and started talking as he put stuff on the counter "Well here you've got you're standard halo chute, you've got wall climbers, grappling hook with a built in repelling system, standard shield issue combat knife, a brute force hacking drive and probably the most important thing you'll take with you" he said as he plopped a gun in a holster lined with mags on the table, though he couldn't tell what model it was "A shield specialty, once you program you're finger print into it it'll work for you and any other prints you decide to put in it, and these" he said as he put more mags on the table "are breaching rounds, shoot this at a wall or door and it'll be out of your way so to speak"
"Thanks" peter said as he took the parachute, gun holster and breaching mags and went to walk away
"Wait, dont you need any of this stuff" he gestured to everything else on the table
"No" he said as he jumped to the roof and stood there
"Oh" and with that peter walked off and went to the cargo bay to find the others waiting.
"Took you long enough" Felicia said, already equipped with her suit and gear, along with daisy with the same
"Yeah the armory guy wouldnt shut up"
"Hey, go easy on him, he's new" daisy said
"Hey, you've gotta jump like, NOW" said a random nearby shield agent, realizing what was going on peter slapped his suit on and the rest of the gear on and jumped while the other two already had once it was brought up.
"What's the game plan" peter asked
"didnt you pay attention to the briefing" daisy had questioned
"I was told to go make a new stealthier suit due fury's request"
"Fair enough, we land on the roof after deploying our chutes at 2,000 feet-"
"Isnt that a little low for a halo jump"
"Well their radars would detect us otherwise, but because it's so low we have to be careful, im going to use my powers to slow me down more before hitting the roof, Parker i need you to make sure Felicia doesn't hit the ground to hard, you'll be fine with your powers on your own"
"Ok and after that"
"we split up and sneak through the base and plant the charges through out it, when someone finds the main computer we all group up, get the info and blow the charges"
"What charges" Black cat asked
"you didnt get the charges?"
"I didnt either"
"Great, none of use have the charges, looks like we have to find a new way to destroy the place" daisy said, "Oh shit, deploy your chutes" and they did and started to slow down, about 2 minutes later they were about to touch down on the roof, they were still coming a little to hot to their liking so he cut his chute, tuck and rolled and as he quickly recovered he caught Felicia, he then looked and saw Daisy using her powers to slow her self down.
"Oh my hero" Felicia said as she was set down on the ground
"Alright lets get to work, code names only from now on" Daisy said as she walked over to the edge of the roof and pulled out some binoculars "I'll be on the look out, you and The Cat go in another way, i know you can climb on the walls and stuff but what about you Cat"
"Not good enough for this, although, hey spider"
"What" he responded as he turned around to find her leaping at him, he caught her and she wrapped her arms and legs around him
"How easy is if for you to do this"
"Like holding a feather why"
"Well anytime it requires crawling on the roof or something i just hang to your back"
"I guess that works" he said as she hopped down
"Alright, lets get going" Felicia said as the opened the vent cover and crawled in, the searched the base for about 20 minutes before they actually ran into anything that they needed to do anything to. it was their weapons armory.
"Black Cat you go down there and see if they have any explosives, stay hidden and if they have anything we can use to blow up the base plant one and work your way back through the vents with it and plant them along the way"
"What are you gonna do"
"Well i'll find the computer, get the info off of it and find a way out. worst case scenario i get caught i'll fight my way out and steal a vehicle and get out"
"I dont like this but fine" and she dropped out of the vent and into the room and he continued on in the vents. about 5 minutes later her voice chipped up from their radios
"I found some C4, how much do i put and where"
"How much is there" Daisy asked
"Id say about 20 lbs"
"alright, id do a stick or two at at each grate in the vents, anytime there is an opening put a stick or three in the room and go to the next"
"On it" and she got to work, she put some around the armory and grabbed anything interesting she could while peter found the main server room
"Hey Quake i found the server room, what am i looking for"
"there should be a keyboard and a monitor at the end of one of the rows" as she said this he started looking for it.
"found it, what now"
"Plug the drive into the the USB port and it should do the rest on its own" He plugged it into the computer and watched as a menu came up on the screen and it said DOWNLOADING 0 of 5000 "This is gonna take a while " he thought
"How long should this take"
"How many files are there"
"5000 on this one and there is another 4 terminals"
"Uhh whats it at now"
"40"
"About 20 minutes in that one"
"Damit, how are things on your end Black Cat"
"Just peachy" she said as she planted one of the last few charges she had "Im heading your way now" as she jumped into the vent and stared crawling, this was when everything went wrong, a patrol of hydra agents walked into the server room as peter was plugging a drive into the next computer
"HEY, PUT YOUR HANDS UP AND TURN AROUND SLOWLY" one yelled
"Busted" he said over their comms as he was putting up his hands
"can you do something about it"
"Nothing quiet, Cat"
"HEY, TURN AROUND" they said slowly approaching
"Same for me, mine would be even louder" she said as a gun got pressed to the back of his head
"Fine, guess its the hard way" he felt the gun go off of his head and his spider sense warn him that it was about to comeback down and smack him but he jumped to the roof, planted his hands and spun and kicked him in the face knocking him to the ground, the other 3 responded by scattering for cover, peter did the same and picked up the gun of the man he knocked out, he could hear the others calling for back-up, e checked the gun for ammo and saw a full clip of 11 shots and one in the barrel. he quickly peaked from the cover and fired a few shots in the direction of a guy, he went down but peter got shot in return
"Shit they got me" he said
"How bad is it" daisy said as she saw 4 more troop transports show up
"Just a scrape but bad enough to keep me from escaping to easily" he lied, the bullet had hit the center of his leg and broke the bone, the latest download had finished and he quickly plugged it into a different computer "great another 3000 files" he thought
"I have an idea on how to get you out, i see a hanger with a plane in it, can you fly one"
"Yeah" he said hoping that it was like the quin-jet
"Well when you can get to the east wing, the hanger should be connected to the building if you can get there you might be able to get out"
"Alright, the last file just finished downloading" he quickly fired another two shots at a guy and took him down "Are you guys clear yet" he said as he took the last guy in the room down,
"Yeah we are, we just stole one of their cars and started driving, with your situation going on they didn't even notice, ill blow the charges when you're clear"
"Yeah dont worry about that" he said as he put a makeshift web bandage on his leg, "KAREN, send spider bot to them with the data, pull me up a map of the facility and mark where i have to go" he said hoping he could make it as a map came up and shrunk to the bottom left of his hub and a part of his armor formed into a drone and flew off into the vents and he took off out the door and down the corridor, putting as little weight on his leg as he could swinging where he could. he made it to the hanger after fight through some enemies and just avoiding others by shooting over their head but as he went to get into the plane his spider sense went off and he turned to find himself surrounded.
"You've got no where to run"
"Karen" he whispered where no one but karen could hear
"Yes" she whispered in return
"Is there any way out of this"
"None that would end up without you wounded so bad you die before you reach anywhere that could help you" she said sadly
"Initiate suit lockdown" he said
"You know this will leave you without any protection right" she said
"Yeah yeah just do it" and she did, his suit shrunk back down into its housing unit and it fell to the ground practically becoming a paper weight without the right person saying the right thing, as he did so the people surrounding him closed in as he put his hands up to surrender, once they reached close enough one walked up and knocked him out with the butt of their gun and everything went black.