With Wanda and Natasha.
Alex had just had an amazing time with Natasha and put her to sleep. They were still flying since their journey was a bit long and the plane was a simple public-based one and wasn't some secret high-level tech from Shield.
Soon, Wanda also stirred awake. The moment he realized that she was about to wake up, he'd come to her and wrapped her in his embrace. They were sitting in the comfortable seats with Wanda snuggled in Alex's lap.
"Mhm, Alex..." She felt comfortable with his warmth and hugged him tighter.
"Morning Wanda…" Alex smiled as he felt her press herself close to him.
"How are you, Alex?" She asked him with a groggy tone to her voice.
"Wonderful. And extremely proud of you. You did amazingly. You knocked every single person within a 5-mile radius. And no one was hurt, other than maybe hitting their head on the concrete and getting a concussion, but that's it." Alex went on a bit of a tangent but got back on track.
"Hehe…" She had a pleased smile on her face as she enjoyed his praise.
"What happened after that?" She asked him as she got up from his lap and stretched. No matter how comfortable the recliner couch-like seat was, she'd been sleeping in that sitting posture for almost 12 hours. Even with Alex making sure that she was comfortable, it couldn't be as comfortable as a bed.
"Well, I found two planes and loaded everyone that had come to help Captain America in one of the planes. I separated a body and used it to fly that plane away. They're going to take care of themselves. This plane only has you, me, and Natasha.
"Nat?" She had a confused smile on her face as her eyes narrowed ever so slightly.
"I'm… bonded to her. Just like you. I happened at the same time as I bonded with you." He had a hesitant look on his face and seemed as if he was feeling apprehensive about her reaction to the news. He knew that he had to placate her a little to make her feel like she matters to him.
"Is-is that so?" Wanda was a little stunned and blinked her eyes a few times while tilting her head a little.
"Yeah. I can bond with as many people as I want as long as I have enough mental capacity. It helps me to get better and stronger at a faster pace." Alex told her some very valid reasons.
"I see… Where are we going?" She didn't seem to want to talk about the topic for long. She seemed to want some time to think about this.
Alex understood her, "Natasha told me about a nice place in the mountains. It's got enough supplies to last us for a while so I'm piloting us there. We can't really be seen in the public eye for a while." He told her about the place that Nat had told him about.
"That sounds like a nice peaceful place…" She seemed to like the prospect of being away from everyone for a while.
"It will be. We can spend the time we have there to develop our powers and to get stronger together. We'll also have enough time to do some other things…" He trailed off with a suggestive look on his face that made Wanda blush.
"Sounds like a plan…" She said with an expectant expression on her face.
"You guys seem to be having fun." Nat's voice sounded from the side. She was awake and had got up from her seat and walked toward Wanda who was standing in the middle of the aisle.
"Nat…" Wanda seemed to be a little tense and the atmosphere got a little oppressive. Natasha was someone whom Wanda admired quite a bit. She was strong and confident and seemed to be in control of everything.
"Alex told me about what you did. Thank you." Natasha didn't let the tenseness continue and gave Wanda a tight hug that surprised her but she returned the hug nonetheless. As the tense atmosphere faded away, things got much more harmonious.
"It's nothing… Alex has been helping me train my powers recently. I've gotten much better with them." Wanda told Natasha.
"I'm proud of you…" Nat was happy for Wanda. Especially since Wanda was the only female Avenger besides her. There was a slight feeling of camaraderie between them. And Natasha, much older than Wanda, thought of her as a sort of younger sister.
Hearing Tony tell Steve that he'd confined Wanda to the Compound had made Natasha want to break Wanda out as soon as possible. But she knew that Steve would be doing that sooner or later so she didn't try to convince Tony or act.
"We'll be there in 10 minutes…" Alex informed them as they were both talking.
"How are you going to land the plane?" Nat asked. There was no runway to land a plane in that villa. It was hidden in the mountains and could accommodate a helicopter at most, but a normal aircraft would be impossible to even park there, let alone land which requires a full runway and everything.
"Well, for that, Wanda. I'm going to need your help." Alex said.
"You don't have to do too much, just coat the outside of the plane with your Chaos energy and try to bring it to a halt after I give the signal. I'll take care of the rest." Alex said, to which Wanda agreed with a serious expression on her face.
"Can you stop it?" Nat asked with a worried look on her face. She knew how narrow the valley was, in which the villa was hidden. It was made in a place that would be inaccessible and difficult to reach and find. It was going to be pretty hard to get the jet to land there.
"I can take care of it. Don't you worry..." Alex smiled and placated her worries. He could easily calculate when he needed to make Wanda start decelerating the plane to make sure that they reached the correct spot.
The three of them went to the cockpit as Wanda covered the plane's hull with her energy and waited for Alex to signal her to halt the airplane's movements.
"Alex, why do I feel like the hull of the airplane is… you." Wanda was confused since the hull of the plane felt the same as Alex felt to her. She had very intimately registered how her energy responds to Alex and was able to identify it easily.
"That's because I've wrapped myself around the hull of this plane and camouflaged it. We couldn't really go out in the open like that. It's not safe for us after today." He explained as he timely stopped the engines so that the plane would come to a stop with Wanda's assistance at the right time.
"You've been camouflaging us for so long?" Nat seemed a little worried.
Alex saw through her worries and told her, "I'm very different from a human, Nat. I'm essentially an immortal alien life form and can run at optimum efficiency perpetually as long as my mental power doesn't get drained. And I'm far from tired."
"Oh, yeah…" Nat had forgotten since Alex had been acting as a person with them all the time. Both Nat and Wanda remembered that Alex's real body was bonded with them.
Which was sort of correct.
The way Alex's connection to all of the parts of himself in the different versions of Earth worked could be thought of as a tree-like network with a singular root or the main trunk of the tree.
The main trunk was his central body which was within the spaceship floating in space right now. That trunk had 5 distinct branches extending from it that were considered permanent and stable branches, one for each host that he currently had— Gwen-65, Nerdy Gwendolyn, Natasha, Wanda, and Mary Jane. Those permanent branches were able to form more branches that extended to his other bodies. He hadn't formed a main branch with Jessica since the bond with her was still at level 0. So, the branch connecting to her was dormant. The main trunk also had 36 dormant branches connected to the other shuttles en route to the other versions of Earth.
It wasn't always like this, at the start when Alex created bodies, they would be directly connected to his root body, but he created this system to make it more efficient. Each world had at least one anchor node that would be used as Alex's main connection to the world. The rest of the bodies that he creates within that world would use the anchor node of that world to connect with his main consciousness.
The symbiotes were a special race where the consciousness or the 'soul' of the beings did not reside in their bodies. But Alex hadn't fully understood any of that stuff yet. He just felt that his true soul or consciousness wasn't actually within any of his bodies and he was only using the nodes to connect with it.
He himself was exploring how everything worked and how the symbiotes' hive mind connected them over such large distances. He was still exploring 'himself'.
For now, all he was able to do was disguise himself as a normal symbiote so that the others within the hive mind don't end up flocking to him due to his complete consciousness.
This so-called complete consciousness was something he just assumed. He'd realized that the sentience of the symbiotes was very limited so their consciousnesses were probably considered 'incomplete'.
It was completely unchartered territory so he was going to take time to understand himself completely.
He was glad that Knull was in a dormant state for now. Or at least that was what he assumed.
Being the creator of the symbiotes, he would be able to control every single symbiote.
'Though if that fucker Venom was able to resist Knull's order then I should be able to too…' Alex was weirdly competitive with the original Venom from the comics.
***
"Now, Wanda." Alex gave the signal to Wanda who used her powers to slow down the descent of the plane at the optimal time and she didn't waste any time before starting the deceleration.
Alex paid attention to the ground to make sure that they don't end up crashing. He wanted to keep this plane with him so that at some point, he could modify it to make it better and use it as a transport tool.
Soon they were almost stopped as the plane started to fall and that's when four huge black legs erupted from the bottom of the plane, grabbing onto the snow-covered ground and accurately controlling their descent to make sure that the plane wasn't damaged and they could easily get out.
"Good work, Wanda." Alex praised her.
She smiled with a pleased look in her eyes.
"Where do we go?" Alex asked Nat. He'd brought her to the exact spot that she told him. They were somewhere within the Alaskan mountain regions at the exact spot that Nat had told Alex.
Alaska shouldn't have taken them so long to get to, but Alex had to take a really long detour. Be basically took the long way around the Earth to get here. And even with that he had to make some detours to avoid many regions since although he was hidden from sight using camouflage, there were plenty of other ways to detect an aircraft.
The three of them exited the plane and were greeted by white snow everywhere. The winds were extremely chilly as the temperature went far below freezing point. Wanda could directly feel her breath crystalize in the wind.
"Alex, I'm cold," Wanda told him. She was just wearing a full-sleeved sweater with some jeans and was far from optimally dressed for this temperature. Nat, on the other hand, was in her combat suit and didn't feel too cold.
The next instant, both of them completely stopped feeling any cold. Their clothes didn't change, but the cold wind and temperature completely stopped affecting them.
"Thanks. I know where we are, we just need to hike for 10 minutes." Nat who'd been looking around for some signs thanked Alex and told them how long it would take to reach the safe house.
"Let's go then." Alex didn't want to waste any time.
Neither of the girls was feeling any cold so it wasn't any problem for them to hike for a while. What was weird though, was the presence of the walking airplane behind them. Alex had literally created legs for that plane and was bringing it with them.
"You need to bring this?" Nat asked.
"I wanna tinker with it and make something good," Alex said while shrugging his shoulders.
"You boys and your toys." Wanda couldn't help but comment.
"I've got some different toys in mind though…" Alex trailed off with that ambiguous statement.
Instead of having the effect he wanted, his comment made the atmosphere a little awkward. Neither of the two girls was very comfortable with sharing the same person whom they were in a physical relationship with. As unique and different as the situation was, it was going to take some time for them to get used to this.
"The scenery's pretty amazing, huh?" Alex could only badly attempt to change the topic since he realized that his words didn't hit the way that they should've.
Neither Wanda nor Natasha spoke but they both had slightly amused smiles on their faces. The three of them made their way to the villa with a slightly awkward atmosphere that Alex tried to placate on the way.
"Well, this is far from a bunker…" Alex commented as even though Nat told him that it was a villa, he was still expecting a sort of bunker in the snow.
But this was a modern villa with two stories and a backyard. Although the place seemed unmaintained and covered with snow, it was still very beautiful.
"Told you it was a nice place," Nat said with a smirk as she enjoyed Alex and Wanda's surprised expressions.
"We need to clean this place up though." Wanda said, but Alex looked at her with a look that scared her, "What?"
"You have telekinesis powers you can get all this cleaned up in a jiffy," Alex told her.
"It doesn't work like that. My control isn't that fine yet. I could damage the building." Wanda made excuses since she didn't want to clean the place herself.
"It's fine, I have a way to control your output of energy. As long as you don't push really hard to bring out more energy, I can seal it and only allow some of it to pass through. You can think of it as training your fine control." Alex told her with a smile on his face.
Wanda narrowed her eyes, "You just want me to do all the work, don't you?"
"Pfft, What? Noo…" Alex lied to her. He wasn't in the mood to do this cleaning work. The training was just something he used as the reason, he didn't want to do so much work. He would have to create tens of clones and clean everything up. It was a tedious task.
"Right." Wanda kept looking at him as Alex turned his head away with a somewhat guilty expression on his face.
"Pfft… Hahaha." Nat burst out laughing and broke the tension completely, "Come on, let's go in. The cleaning can be done later. The inside of the place is pretty well built and should be maintained."
They entered the villa and Nat grabbed a sheet that had been covering the couch and pulled it off.
"This was one of Fury's personal safehouses. He is the only one who knows about it other than me. Even I found out by a fluke when he let me stay here for a few days after a mission." Nat informed them about it.
"Well, this place is actually in a very strategically safe location. The mountains around us provide a very good natural cover from the cold winds and snowstorms. And the valley works as a very nice spot if we ever need to abruptly ditch this place and escape. It's very well thought out." Alex commented as he also started taking off the sheets covering the rest of the furniture. He didn't try to unnecessarily hurry everyone.
"It also provides a nice cover from satellites. That's why this isn't a bunker and a fully open mansion." Nat said.
They had plenty of time with each other and would spend most of the time training. Some relaxation right now is fine, but when they start training, Alex was going to make sure that there was no waste of time.
He had far too much to learn from both of them. Natasha was going to teach him her decades of active combat experience while he was going to work with Wanda to help her understand her magic and improve his use of magic through ‹Weak Magic Affinity› and try to upgrade that ability.
He would also be teaching Wanda some basic physical hand-to-hand combat. It would be useful for training her physique and strength. As far as Alex understood, she needed to have a strong physique to truly output massive amounts of magic without burdening her body.
Most of their time would be spent training and the rest of it would be dedicated to increasing the bonding rate with them. Alex wasn't going to ever let these girls go and would make sure that their bond was completely unbreakable.
"Hey, Nat. Does this place have a gym or something?" Alex asked.
"Yeah, the lower level of the basement. But there's no equipment except for a few basic dumbells and calisthenics support equipment but that's it."
"That works. And 'lower basement'?" Alex asked her.
"Yeah, there are two floors below ground here. One is for storing long-term supplies and the other is an empty area that was supposed to be a gym."
"This is a personal safehouse?" Wanda was dumbfounded.
"It's Fury, Wanda. You're not that familiar with him but he has contingencies for contingencies. Even those contingencies have further contingencies. He's a paranoid man." Nat told her while rolling her eyes when thinking about Fury's bullshit paranoia.
"I see." Wanda nodded in understanding.
"All right girls. We have quite a bit of time to ourselves and have very much to do. I'll set up a schedule for us and the three of us will start training with full force. Nat, we'll train hand-to-hand combat while we work together to get the best possible electricity manipulation coordination. We'll focus on these abilities to create a combat system that's suited for you. And Wanda, we'll be using your magic abilities and exploring the potential of how far you can truly go while still maintaining control. I want us to have at least some sort of mastery over your powers. All three of us need to get stronger. A lot stronger. We have to be prepared for the inevitable galactic warfare that's coming in the very near future." Alex naturally took up the spot of a sort of leader with the girls.
"Sure, I don't mind. It's better to focus on a specific powerset than diversifying unnecessarily." Nat agreed with Alex.
"I don't mind either." Wanda also agreed.
"Then let's start," Alex said.
***
It had been 5 days since the events of the Civil War in the MCU Earth and things had been going by pretty well in all the worlds that Alex was currently in. The research center had been stably established in the Amazing Spider-Man Earth, and Gwen, with the help of Alex, would make the planetary shield.
On his 'farm', Alex had already taken over the US and was on his way to taking full control of that world. He'd also been completely focusing on MJ of that world. Sadly though, progress was very slow with the bonding rate not even reaching 40% yet. He knew that he should apply different tactics to tame her and was still thinking about how to go about things. This was also the reason that he wasn't looking for anyone else for now. He first wanted to see how he would work with it all. He was still experimenting with different methods.
In Earth-65.
"Oh, Alex~" Gwen moaned as Alex grabbed her golden blonde hair roughly and pulled her head back, using it as a sort of leash. He bunched up her short hair so that it would be less about the pain and more about control as he railed Gwen from behind.
They'd just finished training and Alex was rewarding Gwen for her efforts after completely pushing her limits to get her stronger quickly.
"I'm cumming~" Gwen screamed as she shook in her spot while Alex kept holding her hair and pulling her head back.
A few hours later Gwen was completely out of it and was sleeping soundly in Alex's arms without a care in the world while feeling protected and loved. This had been exactly how their days had been going for the past two weeks.
Gwen had been following a pretty regular routine every day. She would wake up feeling as fresh as the sun, go to college, and spend a few hours after college being Spider-Woman and helping people out while also working at her part-time gig at the Dollar Dog— A hot dog bodega, and then she would train for three hours with Alex. The 'reward' sessions lasted varying amounts of time. Though the minimum was at least two hours. Alex had also pulled an all-nighter with Gwen when she had a libido-high day.
She was grateful for Alex's biological manipulation that was able to keep her rejuvenated otherwise she wouldn't be going to classes that day.
Even though Spider-Woman wasn't well received by the public and was termed a wanted vigilante by the police, she still kept going and kept trying to help people. Just because she felt that it was her responsibility.
Her stats looked something like this after the two weeks since she started training.
[ «Status- Host #1»
«Name: Gwen Stacy (Ghost Spider)»
«Bonding Rate: 29%»
«Bonding Level: 2»
«Powers: Superhuman Physique (22 Tons)— Spider Sense— Wall Crawling— Bio-Electricity»
]
Her superhuman physique had basically gotten an amazing rounded boost and her physical stats had been enhanced by 25% in the last week. And she'd also passed the 25% threshold in the Bonding Rate and was helping him generate 0.2 EP per day.
…
*Boom*
Gwen had been out for her usual after-college patrols for a while and was just about to change up to go to her part-time job when she heard an explosion nearby and swung there as fast as she could. Just as she swung past a building to reach her destination, her web was cut off by some sharp blade. Although she now had organic webs that had far better tensile strength than her old web shooters, they were still cut off by the attack.
"Woah!" She hurriedly cast another web with her other hand and grabbed it to stop herself from planting face-first into the building in front of her.
"Spider-Woman!" She heard a familiar voice call her and was instantly surprised by who it was.
'Harry?' Gwen recognized that voice. It was Harry. Gwen's and Peter's best friend from back when they were in high school before she killed Peter. After that incident, Harry completely disappeared from the map, cutting off all contact with Gwen.
"Die!" He shot rounds of machine guns at her.
'What's going on…' Gwen couldn't understand what was going on as she instinctively dodged all the bullets. With her enhanced reflexes and Spider-Sense, it was a piece of cake for her. When Gwen turned to look at her assailant, what she saw was something that terrified her.
'What did you do to yourself, Harry!' Harry looked like he wasn't even human anymore. He was flying on a glider and was wearing metallic dark green armor. But that was the most normal part of it. His face was completely out in the open with green veins running up his neck and over his face. His eyes were slitted and his ears were slightly pointy.
"Who are you?" Gwen asked as she shot a few webs at Harry's armor. She couldn't just act as if she recognized him since she didn't want to reveal her identity.
"You will die for what you did, Spider-Menace! And know that it was the Green Goblin that killed you." Harry seemed to have lost a lot of his intelligence.
"Right…" Even Gwen rolled her eyes under her mask after hearing that 3rd rate villain dialogue. Then again, the Green Goblin wasn't much more than a third-rate villain.
She shot a few probing webs at Harry to probe his strength but he flew to the side and dodged those webs. She shot more webs at him and he completely dodged all of them while trying to attack Gwen with his bombs or guns. Soon though, the entire area was filled with webs and Harry ended up colliding with the webs and getting stuck.
'Finally…' Gwen thought as she was waiting for this. She jumped to the spot where Harry was stuck and looked at him.
"Why are you doing this?" Gwen didn't want to beat up her old best friend after he'd disappeared from her life for so long. At least not without talking to him.
Harry was struggling to free himself from the webs when he heard Spider-Woman's voice. Deciding to stall for time, he humored her.
"Why else? You killed my best friend, you cunt." Harry snarked with a venomous tone.
"Well, there's no need to be so rude." Gwen resorted to her only defense mechanism when it came to topics that were hurtful to her, snarky quips. The bread and butter of all variants of Spider-Man.
"I'm not alone, Spider-Woman. There are more people that are coming after you. And we'll only rest after you're dead." Harry said. And just as he finished, two more people flew here, one of them going for Gwen and the other moving for Harry to cut off the webs that were trapping him.
Gwen sensed the presence of the person attacking her and jumped back, giving the other one a chance to free Harry. The new assailants were dressed similarly to Harry with gliders that they were flying on.
She webbed the back of her assailant's glider and grabbed it in an attempt to pull it down but ended up being pulled into the air by it since she didn't grab any support to stop the glider that was flying in the air. She webbed the building at the side to get some leverage to stop the glider, and it did work for a second, but the rider simply took out a red glowing knife that seemed similar to a tiny lightsaber and cut off the web from the back of his glider.
As Gwen dropped down to the ground, she was surrounded by Harry and the two people who seemed like his lackeys.
[Wanna start going all out yet? Or do you want to wait till they throw you off the top of a clock tower and snap your spine due to the fall?] She heard Alex's snarky and dissatisfied voice.
[Fineee…] Gwen wasn't a fan of his criticism but she knew that it was for her own good. Though she didn't understand why Alex's words were so specific.
She decided to push her speed to its limits and webbed the bottom of the two henchmen's gliders before pulling them down while also attaching her feet to the ground stably. They tried to resist her pull by using their gliders to their full extent but that didn't stop Gwen from pulling them down.
Just as Harry was about to attack to cut off her webs, Alex shot a charge of lightning at him combined with Gwen's bio-electricity, immobilizing him for a while. Seeing Harry fall, the henchmen tried something else and flew to the side in an attempt to free themselves.
Before they could cause too much trouble though, Gwen burst out with all her strength and pulled them down with full force, so much so that the ground under her cracked. She had just utilized her full strength which was enhanced by her bond with Alex. They lost control of the gliders and fell to the ground, Gwen knocked them out just as a safety measure.
As Harry regained himself, he saw that his two henchmen were already on the ground, knocked out, he lashed out, "Spider-Woman!"
Before she could say anything, she saw Harry take out a vial of some green serum and inject himself with it. He started developing features that were very familiar to Gwen.
"No!" Gwen had a horrified expression under her mask. Harry was turning into a lizard monster, similar to Peter.
[Stop moping, attack him before his transformation is completed.] Alex's voice brought her back to her senses.
Gwen quickly moved to punch Harry but ended up freezing after taking a few steps. Still traumatized by how she was the reason that Peter died, she froze before she was able to hit him.
[Oh, for fuck's sake.] Alex almost sighed before he took control of Gwen's body, putting her to sleep.
He moved quickly and clamped his or rather Gwen's hand over Harry's neck. Before Harry could realize what was going on, he felt a strong electric jolt knock him out. His transformation wasn't stopped though as the unconscious person turned to look like a lizard, losing all his hair and getting a green scaly skin instead of his old one.
Alex left Harry and the two henchmen there.
'On second thought…' Alex left a part of his symbiote body on them. He was going to devour the henchmen. He would be done in a way that doesn't trace back to Gwen so that they don't blame her for even more murders.
He wasn't going to do anything to Harry since the guy was Gwen's friend and he didn't want to kill her friend. That would just be an asshole move.
***
When Gwen woke up, she saw the ceiling of the warehouse where she and Alex usually train.
[Alex…] Gwen remembered what happened and had a guilty tone as she called out to him.
[It's time to train Gwen. We have a 6-hour session today.] Alex wasn't exactly happy with her conduct and she was going to be punished.
"No!" Her eyes widened in horror as she exclaimed in denial. 3 Hours was already pushing her limits and going that far for 6 hours was going to be almost impossible for her.
[Oh, yes. And I'll make sure that you keep going even no matter what. Now get up.] She felt an electric- shock go through the length of her spine.
"Alex!" She shouted as she jumped up in her spot. Even though she'd unlocked the bio-electricity, she wasn't completely immune to electricity. She was just highly resistant. High-intensity jolts could still shock her.
[Chop chop.] He was merciless.
Gwen quickly understood her situation and started working as the suit wrapping around her got heavier and heavier until it reached 21 tons of pure force pushing down on her. She didn't even have the time to sigh as she started her grueling training.
6 hours later, when it was almost midnight.
"You can rest now," Alex told her while standing in front of her after the sparring session. His words were a literal lifesaver for Gwen and she instantly flopped down on the ground. Alex was generous enough to form the bed before she fell down.
Although her body was perfectly fine, her mental state was far from it. She was quite literally dead tired mentally.
Before he could say anything more to her, Gwen was already out like a light.
'Guess no reward for you today…' Alex was disappointed that he wouldn't be able to fuck Gwen tonight.
'Unless… No, she has classes.' He had a devious idea but denied it.
'Tomorrow is Friday though… Maybe the day after.' He was still considering it.
Alex chuckled evilly as he took control of Gwen's body and brought her back to her apartment to let her rest well.
She was going to be in for a surprise when she woke up on Saturday morning.
…
"Ugh…" Gwen woke up groggily, feeling like she was really tired. This was the first time this had happened ever since she'd bonded with Alex. He'd always made sure that she always got a perfect sleep.
[Alex? What's going on?] She was scared since she'd always felt Alex's presence every morning, which made her feel really comfortable. She'd gotten used to it after weeks of having him with her.
[Why did you freeze?] Alex had an idea about her reasoning for freezing at that crucial moment, but he still wanted to hear it from her mouth.
[What do you mean?] Gwen didn't understand and responded with her own question.
[You know damn well what I'm talking about, Gwen.] He said calmly.
[I'm sorry, okay? I-I just saw that lizard face and-and I got scared. I couldn't hit him.] Gwen said with a guilty tone. [And you punished me enough… 6 hours of that brutal torture.] Gwen shuddered as she spat at him in an angry tone.
[It gets results.] Alex had a nonchalant tone.
[You electrocuted me every time I stopped for more than 3 seconds!] Gwen snapped and mentally screamed at him with anger.
[It worked wonders for your strength. Your strength increased by around 8% after a single day's training. Even your bio-electricity got stronger. And it was supposed to be punishment. Did you expect me to tie you up and fuck you roughly? That would've been a reward.] He didn't react to her flaring anger and replied calmly, [Back to my question. Why did you freeze?]
[I just told you.] She was still angry but she knew that she was in the wrong yesterday. She knew that he already didn't like her holding back too much all the time, but she ended up freezing yesterday.
He'd allowed her to hold back all she wanted, but not at the expense of her safety. Her freezing was exactly something that put her at risk.
[The truth this time.] At this point, he'd completely guessed the reason, but he still wanted to hear it from her own mouth.
[Come on, Alex. Don't make me say it…] Gwen almost pleaded with him. Alex was silent. She was running away from her trauma. Although Alex had allowed her to hold back as she wished, he still wanted to help her resolve her underlying trauma from killing someone just because she didn't hold back enough.
Gwen sighed as she started telling him, [W-when he injected himself… I saw Peter's face when I looked at him. I couldn't hit him. How could I hit him? After what I did to my best friend, I can't hurt Harry too. Especially if he used the same way to empower himself.] Gwen was tearing up as she spoke.
[And if someone comes up to you with Peter's face and tells you that you must kill yourself to atone for your crimes?] Alex asked.
"I-I…" Gwen was tongue-tied. She couldn't say anything.
[Exactly… I'm on your side, Gwen. I care about you. You're my partner and I can't see you torture yourself like that. It's time to move on.] He lightly told her as he went silent after that. He was planning to give her some space to think.
Gwen didn't say anything as she seemed to be deep in thought. She was feeling all kinds of emotions right now. Anger, sadness, fury, melancholy. All kinds of conflicting feelings were going through her mind.
She got out of bed and mentally asked Alex to change her clothes and he did it without saying anything. He'd been choosing what she would wear for a while now and she was used to it, especially since he had very good taste and she liked the outfits that he made for her. Though he was still silent and didn't say anything to her. Gwen felt some heartache when she realized that he wasn't talking to her but understood that he was giving her space as she needed to sort her thoughts out.
She went by her day normally as she went to college after eating breakfast with her dad.
…
"Hey, Gwen!" Gwen was called out by a voice that made her freeze in her spot. She had been walking out of college and was about to go for her shift at the Dollar Dog.
"Harry?" Gwen hesitantly called out as she turned around in the direction of the voice.
"In the flesh," Harry said as he walked to her. The visible veins in his neck and his lizard transformation had completely disappeared as if they were never there, but Gwen was able to tell that he was wound up from their fight yesterday.
"Oh my god! Where have you been? For two years you completely cut off all contact…" Gwen had to act like she was surprised about Harry's arrival.
"I know. I know…" Harry had a sad smile on his face.
"Where have you been?" That was something that Gwen desperately wanted to know. She wanted to know how he got access to all these technologies.
"Well… Where do I even start?" Harry looked a little hesitant.
"The beginning." Gwen looked at him seriously.
"Well, it's a long story. We should take a seat," Harry said.
"Sure. Now start," Gwen agreed as she brought him to a nearby bench.
"Well, as you know, after my dad's death, I took over Oscorp. You know all that. But when the incident happened…" Harry had a venomous undertone when he mentioned the incident.
"…I couldn't take it. I knew that I had to do something. I ended up joining Shield. Yes, that Shield." Harry confirmed as he saw Gwen's expression morph into a frown.
"But then I ended up leaving Shield… More like stealing their tech and running away." Harry shook his head. That's how Gwen found out the source of the tech that he'd used against him.
"Why did you do that?" Gwen's face had a worried frown.
"I need closure, Gwen… I have to make Spider-Woman pay." Harry had determination oozing from his tone.
"Is that so? And what if she decides to surrender herself?" Gwen indeed had this idea. She'd been thinking about it for a long time. She was guilty. She knew that she was the one at fault for killing Peter.
"It's not enough, Gwen. She has to die. Peter also tried to surrender, but what did she do? She killed him." Harry's tone grew cold and unfeeling as he said those words. He'd gotten the leftover footage from the school cameras and knew much of the situation.
"Is that so…" Gwen knew that the situation wasn't going to be changed. She didn't think to question him about the source of his information and how it was so accurate.
"I should go. I just came to talk to you since I don't think I'll have the chance to meet you again. The police and Shield are both after me…" With those words, Harry left and Gwen didn't stop him, deep in her own thoughts.
[What do I do, Alex?] She asked in her mind but didn't receive an answer.
Feeling tears gathering in her eyes, Gwen left. She got up and made her way to the Dollar Dog for her shift. She had an early shift today.
***
At the Dollar Dog.
Gwen was standing in front of the ruined building with a desolate expression on her face. She didn't understand what happened there. She had a clue, but she didn't want to believe it.
"Mr. Alby? What happened?" Gwen found her boss, the owner of the building in front of her.
"What do you think happened? Spider-Woman happened. At one point, she's fighting some random green fucker while everyone's leaving the vicinity. The next thing I know, something exploded in my restaurant, destroying everything. And the worst part is that the insurance isn't willing to cover it. Apparently, they have a clause about this shit. I have to sell my shop, all because of Spider-Woman." He ranted to Gwen about how Spider-Woman ruined his life's work.
"I-I'm sorry…" Gwen was too stunned to say anything, "I should leave." She felt a choked feeling in her chest as tears gathered in her eyes and she just wanted to go home and curl up into a ball. And she did exactly that.
She ran home and locked her room, wrapping her hands around her legs as she buried her face in her knees while sitting on the bed.
[Alex! Please respond to me, Alex!] She desperately called him as she cried with an overwhelming painful feeling in her heart.
Although Alex wasn't planning to for the rest of the day, both to give her space and let her deal with things herself, seeing her pitiful appearance, his heart melted and he wiped her tears off.
Alex sighed and said, [Sigh… I'm here, Gwen. I'm here…] Her clothes tightened around her as she felt Alex's warm embrace.
"Alex… Waaa…" With his presence, she completely started bawling her eyes out.
[Such a crybaby…] He said in her head as he stood in front of her and hugged her tightly, letting her cry into his shoulder.
[What do I do Alex?] She was bawling her eyes out into his shoulder as she desperately asked Alex.
[Just let it all out, Gwen. For now, just let all your feelings out, and don't bottle anything up.] His words made Gwen cry even more.
Her mental state was very unstable right now, so Alex helped her calm herself. Gwen felt a comfortable cool sensation spread throughout her body which helped her calm down a little.
She kept tightly hugging him as she sniffed and finally stopped crying after about half an hour. She'd finally calmed down.
[What now, Alex?] Gwen was lost, [Should I just quit being Spider-Woman altogether? What's the point of it if all I do only causes problems…]
[It's up to you, Gwen… Do you want to help people? If you do, then all you have to do is to get stronger so that kind of incident doesn't happen anymore. So that you're able to stop whoever comes at you before they can cause any collateral damage.] He gave her his unbiased opinion.
Alex's words seemed to have lit a fire in Gwen's heart.
[Get stronger, you say?] Gwen seemed to finally have some sort of thing to strive for.
[Of course, as you get stronger and stronger, the people that you run into will start getting more and more dangerous, so there's that too. But as long as you keep pushing yourself, you can reach any height that you want to reach.] Alex was happy that she seemed to have finally found some direction and motivation.
[Let's go train, Alex… I'm going to take a break from being Spider-Woman for a while. I'll still show my face every once in a while, but I'm going to take a little break.] She made her decision after some time and was motivated, [I'm going to fix things…] She'd had quite a bit of unfinished business with her enemies and she was going to step back so that she can come back stronger later.
[If you say so…] Alex knew that this burst of motivation was only going to last for a little while before she starts whining about training again, but at least now he has something that he could use to push and motivate her.
He knew that regularity doesn't come from momentary motivation, it was consistency and dedication. Luckily for Gwen, she has Alex who's going to make sure that she's consistent. Even if he has to force her.
Although her core problems still weren't fixed, there was at least some progress. He was going to make sure that she steadily moved on from her guilt and completely stopped holding herself back due to the one mistake that she made years ago as an immature teenager.
…
They went to the warehouse and started their usual training. Though Alex did increase the intensity of the training by a bit for today since she was extra motivated, then again, all that motivation was gone as she was back to her usual state within an hour.
Alex didn't relent though as he made her go through the complete regimen.
"Alex, I don't think I can do this anymore…" She had completely given up on life by the time they were at the end. They were sparring with each other.
"It's fine," Alex punched her as she barely turned to the side to dodge, "Just a while longer," He comforted her.
"Please, Alex." She begged but Alex instead created a knife in his hand, "Let's change some stuff up, shall we?" He swung the knife at her.
Gwen barely jumped back, but not before Alex's knife hit her. The suit that she was wearing had a slash at the stomach, just above her belly button, and had a thin line of blood flowing from it. Within seconds, the blood stopped flowing and she healed up, but the cut on her suit stayed there.
"Alex!" Gwen was a little scared as Alex came at her again with the knife. She was again sliced, this time on her arm as the sleeve of her suit got cut and revealed her biceps.
As panicky as she was, Alex was keeping her on her toes as he kept attacking her with the knife, only barely scratching her skin in the process. Soon, it was time to finish it and Alex threw Gwen to the ground before bringing his knife to Gwen's throat.
"Checkmate, You're dead." Alex smiled at her as he looked at her state.
A large part of her body was revealed from the torn-up suit that she was wearing. Alex could've repaired it, but he wanted to have some fun with her.
Gwen smiled helplessly as she was kneeling on the ground with Alex standing above her with his knife at her throat. Just as she was about to get up, Alex put his hand on her head and bunched up her hair in his fist, pulling it a little to force her head up, making her look up at him.
"Such a disgraceful loss. You deserve to be punished." He said. And that's when Gwen finally realized her current state. Her suit was all torn up at the worst possible places, her chest area had been cut off, revealing her perky tits completely while the scraps of her suit that stuck to her only barely covered her pussy and almost revealed practically everything. Before she could say anything, Alex pushed his dick into her mouth.
Gwen realized the roleplay and acted like the perfect meek prisoner of war as she obediently sucked her captor's cock. Alex saw that she'd understood and didn't say anything more. He roughly grabbed her boob with one hand and pulled her head toward him with the other, deepthroating her.
"Aackh~" She gagged around his cock, but he didn't relent, roughly using her mouth to pleasure himself. He noticed Gwen trying to bring her hands toward her core to rub herself.
"I can't have you doing that, Gwen." He admonished her as black cuffs formed around her wrists and pulled them behind her back, tying them together. She struggled a little as she gagged but Alex kept going at his own pace.
[Alex~] She whined since she was feeling really aroused right now and he wasn't even allowing her to touch herself. He decided to let her stew in her arousal for a while as he enjoyed her throat.
Soon, "I'm cumming Gwen." He warned her before bursting his load into her mouth. She choked as her face got all messed up when Alex pulled out, spraying his cum, completely marking her face.
"Such an obedient little prisoner," He chuckled as he saw Gwen cutely lick his cum from the side of her lips.
Then, a bed formed under Gwen, and Alex turned her around, pushing her face into the comfortable mattress as he raised her ass up while her hands were still tied behind her back.
"Don't be so rough with me, Alex~" Gwen's said with a sultry voice as she wiggled her ass in his face.
Alex was fascinated by her amazingly submissive display as he couldn't hold himself back from ravaging her.
Without further ado, he pushed his cock into her snatch roughly. She was already pretty wet and lubricated after that blowjob so his rough actions weren't truly painful. Her moans were muffled by the bed as he enjoyed his time with her.
Gwen was feeling a rough sort of bliss as she felt like she was completely under Alex's control and it was a sort of freeing feeling for her. Not having to make decisions, not having to think about any consequences. As much as she complains about her training, she doesn't have any control over it. It is something that she has to do, just like this stuff. Being restrained and dominated like this allows her to let herself loose.
As contrasting as it sounds this is exactly what she needs to calm down and figure herself out. Though for now, she just enjoyed the feeling of being completely in Alex's control as she felt his cock rapidly going in and out of her pussy. Though nothing could've prepared her for the sensations that she felt next.
Alex had started teasing her other hole.
[Alex!] She panicked. She felt Alex rub his thumb around her anal rim as he slowly pushed it into her hole.
He ignored her as he toyed with her ass. He could feel her increasing arousal and knew that she was being even more turned on by his action.
Her cute yelps were muffled by the mattress as she reacted to the unfamiliar sensations in her ass. And soon, she felt a cold, hard object touching her anal rim and yelped while arching her back.
"Eep~ Awekf~" She called out in the middle of a moan while he hadn't stopped fucking her for a moment as he teased her ass.
As he kept going, he felt Gwen's insides tighten around his cock and pushed the butt plug that he'd made into her ass.
"Aahhhh~" Gwen screamed with pleasure as she squirted at the unfamiliar intrusion in her ass and the intense pleasure. Alex didn't stop though and kept going fucking her as he pleased. Gwen could distinctly feel the plug rubbing against her inner walls as she felt a lot of pleasure with that experience of being fucked while her ass was filled like that.
Gwen also felt a conflicted and complicated sense of freedom as she trusted herself in Alex's hands and let him completely control her.
The rest of the night ended in a blur as they kept going through the night. Alex even went as far as to create a clone of Gwen to send home so that her dad wouldn't be worried.
Though he wasn't done with her punishment for the previous day's mistakes just yet. When she woke up, she would be in for a surprise.
***
That morning was an intense one for Gwen, she got some new permanent jewelry as punishment. As he'd promised, Alex had given her nipple piercings. And instead of some usual jewelry for those piercings, he made something completely different from her other piercings.
He made intricate thin flat golden rings that went over her nipples, covering her areolas while a pin went through the center of those rings that would go through her nub.
Needless to say, Gwen was very embarrassed by those weirdly regal piercings that were both erotic and slutty, though she didn't hate them. She actually kind of liked them.
It was a very intense session as she ended up sleeping through the whole of Saturday and only woke up in the evening since Alex had forced her to wake up for their training. He was going to make sure that she trained on time every single day and he would reward her with crazy intense sex after her training. Those two things were going to become a daily thing no matter what. Alex had the capability to make sure that it happened since he could rejuvenate her to her peak state with ease.
At this time, there was another important event that Alex encountered.
His fifth body had reached its destination. And this was a crazy one.
…
(A/N: Disclaimer. This world's going to get a bit dark and bloody. Viewer discretion is advised. Don't complain later.)
Alex could see from the inside of the shuttle the state of the world that he was about to arrive into.
He had one word for it. Desolate.
Even from space, it was visible as a world that had gone through something extremely destructive. Alex presumed it to have been World War 3 that completely ruined that world. He could notice a few basic green patches in a few areas, but that was it. Most of it seemed like a barren wasteland.
'This one might be interesting…' Alex thought as he entered the atmosphere and fell to the ground.
'Going by previous logic, I should fall in New York where Spider-Man would run into me…' Alex felt like this world was going to be the most brutal one yet.
*Boom*
The shuttle landed in the middle of an irradiated wasteland. Alex was glad that the symbiote species was extremely resilient since the huge amount of radioactive air would've probably killed him as soon as he came out of the shuttle.
He came out and took his human form.
"Well, this place got nuked, huh?" He thought as he saw miles and miles of barren wasteland. It made sense since New York was a central hub for most of the economy of not only the country but also the world. With Wall Street and everything, it was the optimal place to target alongside Washington.
"I don't think I'm going to find anyone around me if I go by normal routes…" He thought out loud as he used a new ability that he'd developed with magic. He used mana to fuel it since he was still unable to utilize Chaos Magic.
With a thought from him, a large amount of mana that he'd stored was released outward with the intention to look for some signs of life. It wasn't really accurate yet since the magic wave was going to completely ignore everything on the way and only react to someone living. That is, it could only be used to look for a singular kind of entity. With the amount of mana that it requires, it's not really an ability that Alex wanted to use regularly. At least not before making it more efficient. He decided to call the ability Mana Sense.
Soon, his Mana Sense reacted ever so slightly. The faint presence meant that the life signs weren't exactly the strongest.
'90 miles? Fuck…' Alex thought as he realized that the nearest signs of life were 90 miles away. And there wasn't a lot. It was a small group of what seemed to be 7-8 refugees.
'Maybe they're already suffering from radiation poisoning.' Alex thought as he ran at full speed toward that spot. With his speed, it was only going to take him around 15 minutes to reach his destination.
As he reached the spot, all he saw was a hatch that presumably led to an underground bunker. All around was still the same wasteland that Alex had crossed.
He didn't waste any time and turned back into the Symbiote's original body, oozing through the hatch.
There he was met with the scene of 7 people in a horrifying state. They were all gnawing on the body of presumably the eighth member of the group. And Alex was sure that they'd eaten more humans since this bunker was large enough to house at least a hundred people.
'Disgusting…' He thought, but weirdly enough he didn't feel anything at seeing this scene. He assumed that it had to do with a symbiote's mentality. It was far different from a human. Though that didn't change the fact that he thought it was disgusting and he didn't waste any time before devouring those people. 'I guess I'm what people would call a hypocrite…' Alex chuckled inwardly.
He knew that they were probably affected by radiation poisoning but it wouldn't affect him. He was pretty much immune to this kind of radiation. He could also cure people of their radiation poisoning if he wanted. It was an innate ability of his race.
Alex spent some time devouring the memories of the 7 people that he'd just devoured. Unsurprisingly, they hadn't given him any EP, it was presumably in the hundredths or even the thousandths, and the counter didn't show any decimals.
'The closest settlement is supposed to be 400 miles from here… They didn't have anything to travel with so they were stuck here and forced to resort to this, too scared to leave the bunker…' Alex digested the memories that they had.
There wasn't much useful stuff that he found except for the fact that this was definitely a Marvel earth. They had memories of the Avengers, Fantastic Four, and even the X-Men. This was probably a divergent earth from the comics. Though they didn't have any information about the superheroes' current state.
'Since Spider-Man didn't come here, I'm going to assume that he's dead in this world…' Alex completely believed in causality after going to 4 different versions of earth and encountering the same scenario. Since he didn't run into Spider-Man, that meant that Spider-Man was dead in this version of earth.
'Earth-Z.' He decided to name this earth since it was starting to get complicated. He'd also decided on monikers for the other versions of earth. He just hoped that this wasn't actually the Marvel Zombies earth. That shit was terrifying.
The one with Ghost-Spider aka Spider Gwen was Earth-65 since that was the term for it in the comics, The Amazing Spider-Man earth was going to be called Research Earth, the MCU was going to be called MCU since it's convenient, and the last earth that he was on, the farm as he called it was going to be considered as Farm Earth.
He didn't waste any more time staying in this shitty bunker and made his way to the nearest human settlement. He made sure to camouflage himself since it would serve as a slight cover. Albeit not the best cover since he would be visible to infrared cameras and any other kind of monitoring device that doesn't rely on direct sight.
"I really need to find some way to upgrade my camouflage ability… I don't want to use the EP to upgrade it…" He spoke out his thoughts as he ran to his destination while thinking about the price of the level-up for his ability.
‹Camouflage›:: Allows the user to slightly reduce their presence and change the color of their body to match the surrounding background allowing them to turn invisible to the naked eye.
‹Camouflage II›:: Allows the user to reduce their presence and change the color of their body to match the surrounding background allowing them to turn invisible to the naked eye and suppress all sounds that are made by the user. Cost: 150 EP
It would cost him 150 EP to upgrade the ability to just suppress the sounds that he made. Not to mention he didn't have 150 EP, and even if he did he wouldn't use it to upgrade camouflage when he could upgrade more useful abilities like ‹Basic Lightning Manipulation› and ‹Weak Magic Affinity›. Those abilities were his real heavy hitters.
…
An hour later, Alex was at his destination. He'd taken a break in the middle when he saw another similar bunker, but that one was already empty, the residents probably having left in search of supplies already.
Reaching his destination, what became visible to him was a huge wall. Easily a hundred meters tall. Clearly, it was made to keep everyone outside separate from the ones inside.
'Let's see what the deal with this place is…' Alx thought as he reached the wall. He wasn't going to scale it and instead changed into his real form, becoming a black slime. He could easily go through this kind of wall by completely liquefying the consistency of his body, turning it into an extremely fine liquid that could seep through the molecules of the wall.
It was practically impossible to completely contain a symbiote unless it was done through some sort of energy-based container. The only issue with symbiotes is that this kind of action requires extremely fine control and effort and it's not possible for a normal symbiote to do this since they don't have a complete consciousness and can't do such complicated actions.
As he got to the other side and saw the state of the place, he realized that things might be more complicated than just a post-World War Three scenario for this version of Earth.
***
What greeted Alex was a fortress. A literal fortress.
And not just a fortress, it was a huge city that surrounded the main fortress that seemed to be reaching the heavens.
'Space elevator?' That was his first thought as he saw the huge contraption extending into the sky.
'Why didn't I notice it from the shuttle? The reflection? Or is it some sort of camouflage from beings in space?' Alex had tons of questions running through his mind.
He looked at the rough details of what he could see in the city. The technological marvel of a fortress/tower seemed to be the absolute center of the city and was surrounded by a large defensive perimeter. It was extremely protected from what meager things Alex was able to see.
Around that were perfectly placed blocks of apartments which also seemed to be made of metal.
In fact, every single thing in this city seemed to be made of some sort of alloy that Alex did not know about.
There was another defensive perimeter separating the main part of the city from the rest of it. Which Alex could only describe as slums.
'Canon fodder…' Alex quickly deduced the purpose of this huge slum area that was surrounding the city. If ever, the city is breached and the management needs some time to stall whatever is attacking them, then the residents of these slums would be perfect.
'I need to understand this place's situation,' He thought as he moved in his camouflaged state to find someone to devour while hoping that there weren't patrolling robots that would suddenly attack him.
Luckily for him, he found someone soon. The slums were literally overflowing with people. He directly devoured that person while instantly taking their spot. It was done so quickly that no one around them was able to notice any change in him other than a flinch.
'Mutant monsters… Alien invasion… Dead avengers… This place is fucked…' Alex thought as he devoured the memories of this person. His memories were much more useful than those random people that he devoured in the bunker.
This world was indeed brought to this state by World War Three. But it wasn't the only factor. There was a whole lot of stuff that had happened.
Along with Nuclear warfare, there was biological warfare. And the main reason for that war? The Avengers. It was something similar to the Sokovia Accords from the MCU. The Avengers fucked up, far worse than what happened in the MCU. The world tried to put them in check and they didn't like it.
And this version of the earth was very much reminiscent of comic books, with countless heroes involving themselves in the conflict. Things ended up escalating to the level of a world war where the governments resorted to all kinds of tactics to either kill or subdue the Avengers.
It all led to a massive conflict which eventually resulted in nuclear weapons being used against lone beings like Scarlet Witch and Doctor Strange. Though, unlike their comic counterparts, they weren't completely able to take care of the nukes and ended up in a horrible state. Their current status was unknown.
It all led to the death of most of the superhero community, either by heavy weapons or assassination. Bruce Banner was assassinated in his sleep so that the Hulk would never have the chance to emerge.
And then there was something that rocked the entire world. While everyone was engulfed in turmoil, an alien race appeared and started invading the planet. They were the Kree in particular. The reason for the invasion was never broadcasted.
'I think that it may have had to do something with the Inhumans. Those guys were created by the Kree…' Alex guessed.
And at this time, the world was in complete shambles, the superheroes were mostly dead and the world leaders had no idea what to do. This escalated the situation into what it is today. The world threw everything it had at the Kree, hoping for something to work, but all it did was destroy the earth and kill 90% of humanity with its biological weapons and nukes.
The Kree weren't even worried about the situation.
Just as things were looking horribly dire, one day, the Kree ships disappeared, leaving only some remnant Kree forces on the planet that were taken care of by the humans after some sacrifices.
'More like the entire Earth disappeared…' Alex commented inwardly.
But things weren't over yet, they still had to deal with the repercussions of their actions. The biological weapons along with the radioactive waste left by the nukes made even more mutant monsters for them to deal with.
'Damn, talk about horrible decisions…' Alex thought as he digested all of the memories of this person. It was currently the year 2048 and the city he was in was called The Bastion. One of the only places on earth that were able to resist the Kree invasion.
The person who created this city? Tony Stark.
There were possibly more cities similar to this throughout the world but he didn't have any of that information.
The only reason this guy knew so much was that this was general information that everyone within the walls knew. It was more like propaganda than anything and Alex took much of that information with a grain of salt other than the main outline of the situation.
'I think he should be alive…' Alex wasn't sure whether Tony Stark was actually alive or if he'd shifted his consciousness into Artificial Intelligence.
The entire city was completely mechanical, and knowing Tony Stark, the purpose of making everything mechanical wasn't just the aesthetics, this city was probably a weapon in and of itself, but Tony probably just never used it. Otherwise, the people in the city would know about it, then again, it's possible that it was used but the news was completely suppressed to the point where the people of the slums never actually found out about it.
Alex also found out about the most important thing which was the reason behind these people staying behind such large walls as if what was outside would kill them.
That's because it really would kill them.
The biological weapons mixed with radioactive isotopes after the nuclear fallout turned a large amount of the populous which didn't only include humans but also other creatures into what could only be called abominations.
Their intelligence rapidly degraded into the basest of instincts while they turned into huge monstrosities with deformed features and got up to ten times as large as their original size. They were constantly plagued by an intense need to devour every living thing in their paths. This was the main reason that all Alex saw was a wasteland from where he came. Everything had been razed to the ground by those abominations.
For all intents and purposes, humans brought about a zombie apocalypse. It's just that the zombies ended up becoming far more dangerous and ferocious from the get-go.
'How would this turning have affected the superheroes…' Alex was dreading Marvel Zombies happening for real in this world, 'Think happy things, think happy things…' Alex chanted as if it was a mantra and stopped thinking about what would happen if this was Marvel Zombies.
The residents didn't give the mutant monsters any specific term and they all collectively called them the Abominations. Probably as a way of undermining their threat in the eyes of the general populous. By using a derogatory term to refer to them they could make the people believe that they have things under control.
'Though considering the rampage that this city dealt with two days ago, they should be completely hyping everything and preparing everyone for their eventual deaths.' Alex thought as he saw firsthand the attack of a hoard against the city.
'If it's always this intense then it's only a matter of time before the city falls. No matter how much of a technological marvel it is…' Alex thought as he got up from his spot. He wanted to understand how this city operated. The memories that this person had weren't the most accurate. A lot of what this person knew was inaccurate.
As Alex walked to the wall that separated the residents of the slums from the normal people, he had many thoughts and made a few plans on how he should deal with this place.
'I'm surprised that this place isn't completely managed by armored robots…' All of the security that Alex saw was in the form of human guards. There weren't any robots that were acting as guards.
'I guess it's because of Ultron…' Alex guessed that it was because of Ultron that Tony Stark decided to not use fully automated security measures. And it ended up coming in handy for Alex.
He reached the wall that was about 10 meters tall, serving as a separating area between the slums and the main district of the city. No one from the slums was allowed into the main city so the guy that Alex devoured had almost no idea about how the main inner city worked.
"Fuck off!" *Smack* One of the slum dwellers was trying to force his way in and was punched in the face by a guard.
This area around the border was the most conflict-prone since the slums were a very desperate and overpopulated area. Desperate people regularly came to try to break into the inner city, hoping to try their luck.
Though all of them failed. Even if someone had ever succeeded then the guy that Alex devoured didn't know about it.
Using a similar tactic, Alex turned invisible in a discrete spot and phased through the wall.
What greeted him was the technological marvel that was The Bastion. The true city, the Bastion of humanity, made by Iron Man himself to fend off the opposing forces of the governments of the world and the Kree. At least that's what the propaganda stated.
It was built with perfect precision in mind, with every single house, road, and block serving as a part of a huge puzzle. All of that came together to form the city.
'Yeah, this city is definitely a weapon…' Alex's thoughts were confirmed when he looked at the roads and buildings that were placed in a far too specific manner.
***