Chapter 1
No one POV
A toddler was in his crib crying as screams came from outside. He had brown curly hair and spiders all over his body. He could communicate with them and they felt what he did. A woman ran into the room to quiet her bawling child when the door to the house was busted down. The woman held the boy to her chest as the invaders rushed into the house. The woman and boy were dragged outside where people were being split into two groups.
One of the men that were attacking grabbed the child from the woman’s arms and she begged them not to take him. She weeped for her son to be with her but the man just walked away with the toddler. The boy started screaming for his mother and fought the man. Finally the boy broke free of the man’s hold and ran. He screamed for his mother but she was nowhere in sight.
The man that the toddler had escaped from grabbed his arm harshly and started to drag him somewhere. The child screamed and cried once again but the man kept a strong hold on him. The man stopped when a large purple man came to them. The attacker immediately let go of the wailing child and the large man kneeled by him.
“What is wrong little spider?” He asked in a sweet voice. The toddler tried to calm himself enough to speak.
“I I lost m my family, sir,” the child said hiccuping.
“I’m sorry to hear that what is your name?”
“I’m Peter.” The child had calmed down a significant amount and the spiders started moving off his body.
“Well little spider how would you like to come with me? I’ll become your new family,” the man said and held out his hand. Peter nodded his head and took the large hand in his. The man turned and started walking to where the ships were. Just as they were getting on one the guns started going off and people were screaming.
Tears came to the his eyes and the large man started to rub his back in a comforting manner. They walked to what looked like a small bedroom and the man laid Peter down to rest. Just as he closed his eyes sleep over took his body.
~thirteen years later~
Peter POV
I woke to a throbbing headache and a pain in my body. I groaned and slowly pulled myself out of my bed. I stretched out my back and a satisfying crack was heard. I walked to the door and opened it going into the hallway. I walked down the hall and to the gym to train. If I didn’t complete my training before I ate, father would be furious with me.
When father was mad with me I would have a punishment to deal with. When I was six I couldn’t complete the requirements he had set for me. He had a surgeon add four metal limbs to my back and they did it without medication. I ended up passing out part way through the procedure and my body rejected them at first.
I ended up losing all the feeling in my body. Father had not made me get anymore attachments to my body since then. He sometimes enhances my senses for a punishment as well but I can live with that. What really hurt was when he would take away my food rights and I wouldn’t be allowed to eat.
I have a fast metabolism so when I don’t eat the small portions I already get I’ll be in a lot of pain. I almost starved once from a punishment. I couldn’t beat my sister, Gamora, in a sparring match so I wasn’t allowed to eat that day. The next day the same thing happened and the next. Finally after the fifth try I passed out from malnutrition and father allowed me to eat.
I was very grateful for that and ate enough to get my nutrition levels back to a healthy level. I’ve stopped sparring with my sisters for that reason and others. I wouldn’t say I envy Gamora but I do wish I could be more like her. She has never had a punishment and has father’s respect and pride. I yearn to have the look that father has for Gamora. But even though she was a traitor to father he still has the look for her.
Nebula is a different story Father doesn’t care for her. She loses a limb everytime she fails father and I feel sorry for her. She is also a traitor in father’s eyes yet each of them get more from father then me. I was pulled from my thoughts as I reached my destination. The gym was large and had a lot of things to train with.
~Timeskip~
After a few hours of training I went to go eat some food with Father. He always ate with me except when he had to go do something alone. I would not eat until he came back but father had just gotten home today from some business.
I walked into the room where we always ate and saw father was not yet here. I went to my normal seat and stood behind the chair and waited for him. I stood there for ten minutes until father finally walked into the room.
“Spider, you may sit now,” he said sitting in his seat. I nodded to him and sat down. I started to eat quickly since I hadn’t eaten in a few days.
“How was training today?”
“It went well, sir. I still need to work on my enhanced senses but everything else is going good,” I answered calmly with my eyes stuck on my plate.
“That’s great but are you ready to finally fight for me?” He asked in serious tone. I looked up at him and saw that he was pleased. It made me want to smile at seeing that.
“Yes, sir, I am ready to fight for you and your cause.” I kept the eye contact with him and he smiled at me.
“Excellent, spider, we start by going for the power stone.”
“No disrespect, sir, but how will you contain the stones?” I asked curiously.
“I had this made when I went out for the past couple days,” he said and lifted up a golden gauntlet with six places for the stones. I looked at it in awe and father smirked at me. “We leave soon so go get ready.”
He got up from his seat and left the room. I was quick to follow and went to my room. I went to my closet to get my armor out of it. It was a metal suit with a dark blue spider on the chest. It also had gold lining around all of the dark blue and on the mask two white lenses for me to see. There was also a hole in the back for my extra limbs to come out.
I put the armor on as quickly as I could and started for the ship we would be leaving in. When I got there Father was already on board and so was the children of Thanos. As soon as I got on the door shut and we started our departure. It didn’t feel like it took too long to get to Xander but that might have been from my excitement. As soon as the ship landed we got out there was already many people dead and the others were getting separated into groups.
I followed father into the main building and there was an older lady held down by ebony maw. Father walked right in front of her and she didn’t seem intimidated at all.
“Give me the power stone and we will help you and your people after I’m done here,” he said in a completely serious demeanor.
“I will never give it to you and the people of Xander will not need the help of you,” the woman said from the ground.
“Well I tried to do this the nice way,” father said with a shrug and walked back. “Spider, take care of her.”
I nodded and walked in front of the woman. She showed no emotions until shot my metal limbs out. Terror flicked across her face as I stabbed her in the stomach with one of the limbs. I plunged another and another into her stomach.
“You should have taken the deal,” I said quietly and thrust the last limb through her head. I pulled all of them out of her and she fell into a heap on the ground. I turned to my father and he was already on to the next step. Proxima midnight brought the orb to father. He broke it up and took the power stone out of it.
He looked pleased as he placed the stone on the gauntlet. He started walking towards the ship again and I was close to follow him. As we made it on the ship the guns started going off and the screaming came. The door was soon shut and we were heading off once again.
“Where are we going next, sir?” I asked as I walked up next to Father.
“We will be heading to Asgard to retrieve the space stone from Loki Odinson,” father said not looking at me. I was about to turn and go somewhere else when he said something else. “Go and rest, spider, we have a large thing to accomplish later.”
A smile went across my face as I turned and walked out of the room. I went to one of the empty room and laid down. I closed my eyes and fell asleep thinking about later.