The sun was just rising when I woke up, yawning
and stretching as I looked around, rubbing the sleep from my eyes to find myself in an oddly familiar room. It took me a
moment to realise where I was.
I looked to my side and saw Susan resting her head on one of my arms, a large blanket covering her body's modesty as her
hair danced down her body. She was finally letting it grow, I liked short hair, but she just seemed...sexier with it going long.
I wanted to say something, to whisper good morning, but before I could, she woke up, growling. She humned, her eyes
flickering open as she looked up, her eyes blinking away sleep as she smiled at me, "morning Peter."
"Morning Sue," I smiled back, "did you sleep well?"
"You know we didn't do much sleeping," she smiled as she leaned forward, capturing my lips in a kiss. She moved her body on
top of mine and smiled at me, "last night was..."
"Amazing?" I smirked.
"Spectacular," she whispered, kissing me again, but slowly the happiness in her eyes seemed to slip away as she looked down
at me with a sad smile, "but...it was last night...and...I...I'm sorry Peter, but I can't do this...not with you."
I smiled, reaching out as I cupped her face in my hand, "I know...I promise you Sue, I've never hated being as young as I am than
I do right now."
She smiled, "I know...and I'm sorry," she leaned down and kissed me again, tucking a stray strand of hair behind her ear as the
sunlight danced across that golden curtain, "if you need me Peter...as a guide, a friend, a shoulder to lean on or anything...I'll
be there. But I can't….I can't be anything more than that."
I sighed, "damn my luck..." I looked into her eyes, trying to memorise every single detail on her face and on her body, because I
knew, just knew, that one day, I would forget it all. I sighed, "damn it all Susan Storm, why do you have to be so difficult?"
She smiled, and without a word, she leaned down again, this time though, I knew it would be the last.
Her fingers danced down my face, seemingly trying to map every line on it. Her lips soft and now familiar against mine. But just
as I started to get into it, Sexy's voice came out.
"Peter, I'm sorry to interrupt, but you're getting a call from Mr. Stark and he says it's urgent," the AI stated quickly.
Sue pulled away and smiled, "duty calls."
I groaned, "can you tell him to wait? I should at least say a proper goodbye..."
"I'm sorry Peter but-" her voice suddenly cut off, replaced by Tony's, "Peter! Get your ass over here now!"
"Get out of my suit's system Stark!" I yelled back.
Immediately the voice changed back to Sexy's, "apologizes, Mr. Stark is quite...good at finding out my weak points. It won't
happen again."
Sue chuckled as she crawled off me and plopped on the bed, "go on Peter...I'll see you later."
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I sighed, with great regret I got out of Sue's bed, knowing it would probably be the last time I would ever be in it. I turned
around, she smiled, and I smiled back, emptying on the inside.
I snapped my fingers and immediately my costume came alive and shot onto my body, clinging onto my form like ink before
spreading and covering me wholey, suiting me up in my Black Spider costume.
I left out the window, Sue waving goodbye as she held her sheets up to cover herself. I jumped and gave a mental comand, the
shield shaped silver backpack wicked alive, the thruster I had installed roared, sending me flying into the air.
The speed, the thrill of the elevation, all of it helped me to forget the pain. The pain of not being with someone I knew liked
me. And the pain of all the things that happened to me the last few days. All of it just seemed to come crashing down and I...I
just let the wind rush past my head to drown it all out.
I flew to the Avenger's tower and landed on the long wearly ramp Tony had as a balcony, quickly walking inside his pent house
where I found him pouring over a bunch of documents on his holotable, looking at them frantically.
"Good morning Tony," I nodded to him as I walked inside, "why did you call?"
"Good morning? Why? Didn't you just reveal your secret identity to the world yesterday?" Tony asked, sparing me a glance
before returning to his work.
"Just an expression man," the suit pulled away my mask revealing my face. I looked up at the documents Tony was pouring over
and groaned, "hey...are these SHIELD documents?"
"Yes, the program I had installed yesterday into the main terminal finally came through, it's-" he stopped and looked at me.
Perring at my face as he narrowed his eyes.
I blinked, "ah...can I help you Tony?"
He looked me over, and then, without hesitation, he said, "you had sex didn't you?"
My eyes shot open, "what?!"
"Don't' bother denying it kid, I can tell, you have that happy go lucky smirk on your face."
"I always have a happy go lucky smirk on my face!"
"The same week when you had to say goodbye to your Aunt and Uncle for possibly the rest of your life? I don't think so.
Plus...you're glowing," Tony smirked, "so, who's the lucky lady?"
I sighed, "someone I won't ever be seeing again... so can it, please," I pointed to the files.
Tony chuckled, "fine, lucky dog," he pulled up the files and pushed one in particular over to me, "I thought you would want to
see this."
I motioned to the hologram with my fingers and made it larger, narrowing my eyes as I recognized the document.
It was an official pardon from the President of the United States for one Walter Hardy. Felicia's father. And it was dated nearly a
year ago.
I groaned, something wasn't right. Why did Fury have this? Why did SHIELD? They planned on having Walter rot for the rest of
his natural life in prison. But now...why a pardon?
Something didn't add up in my head, it didn't make sense. A mystery was before me, but I didn't even understand what I was
searching for.
"Where did you find this?" I asked Tony.
"In Fury's personal computer," the man replied, "it wasn't easy and took JARVIS, the most sophisticated computer AI on the
planet over ten hours to do it, but I managed to crack it open."
"What else did you find?" I asked him.
"Nothing else of importance," Tony groaned, "although there is mention of some secret project here called Project
Insight...which I have a vague memory of Fury telling me about."
"You don't remember?" I asked surprised.
"It was during that time when I was working myself to death right after the Battle in New York," he replied, I nodded in
understanding, no wonder he didn't remember. But I did.
Project Insight, HYDRA's secret plan to destroy any and all threats to their reign. But now...hm, could this have something to do
with Walter's pardon? Maybe HYDRA planned on using this to incentivise Felicia to free her father, but after she did it herself
found it pointless?
But then...why did Fury have it?
I racked my brain for the longest time but I couldn't figure it out. Something was missing here...something big.
"Sexy...can you search for any reports of famous and expensive artifacts being stolen from the most dangerous and secure
places in the world?"
"Doing it now," My AI replied as my mask reformed over my face, the screen serving as an augmented reality HUD displaying an
image of the entire planet Earth before me as small dots came all over the place.
"Now...remove all the ones where the thieves got caught or were even identified," Felicia and Walter were too good for
something like that to happen to them.
Immediately the number of red dots came down to around ten.
"Now, I want you to from a line from the oldest heist to the newest," I watched as the trail began in Rome, a bust was stole.
Then England were painting vanished, to Paris, to Tokyo to half a dozen other crimes before finally stopping at Bulgaria, an
Eastern European country I wasn't overly familiar with.
But, right next to it was something I knew. Sokovia. The country that was featured in Avengers 2: Age of Ultron. Which is also
base to a secret HYDRA base.
I groaned, all these places...they all sounded familiar. I blinked, a sudden connection forming in my head, an odd one to be
sure, but a connection.
"Sexy, do we still have a copy of all those HYDRA bases we found for Fury in Wyndham's lair?" I asked, it was a long shot, but
something told me it was worth it.
"Yes, would you like me to display them as well?"
I nodded and watched as the AI did just that. They were represented by dots of blue. And immediately the pattern formed. Out
of the ten heists I suspected Felicia and Walter of commiting I found the six matched up exactly with the locations of the first
six HYDRA bases.
They then divulged from there, but, the pattern was set. The first one didn't match up, Rome was an oddity, but the next there
fit the picture.
Maybe those three places were coincidental, London, Paris and Tokyo were metropolitan cities, HYDRA would of course have a
base of operations there.
But the next two, they were smaller and while still had things to steal, they weren't all that common places. Like Zimbwaya,
which fit Felicia's MO, steal from the rich and corrupt. So that means, until the fifth place, they were just following this list, and
then...they moved on.
They changed courses, all these bases were empty. Fury admitted as much, but maybe they found something in them? But why
would she even be attempting this? Tracking down HYDRA bases? That's...that's just fuckign stupid.
"Peter," Tony said in a warning tone, "you might want to see this."
I truend of my augmented reality setting and looked at the billionaire. The man pushed another hologram at me and I read it
eagerly. I looked through the files and immediately I realised what I was holding.
It was a location, just outside of Rome, the first location Felicia had stolen from. The document stated that a signal from this
location had come and activated the Doom robot I had in my lab, causing it to free Doom form the Negative zone and cause
the worst day of my life.
And, attached to the location was a video. A video of a person in black sneaking into my room and tampering with the Doom
robot, placing something inside, I suspect he was the reason the robot even came alive.
The person wore all black and had a face mask covering his lower face. The files listed as his identity as unknown, but I knew
him. I recognized him immediately, if not from his long mop like hair then from his metal arm.
Bucky Barnes. The Winter Soldier. The man enslaved by...HYDRA.
"Sexy, put the location onto the map," I said with a far away voice, my thoughts running a hundred miles per hour as I watched
the map of the globe from before displayed before me. And slowly, the pin pin of a HYDRA base mixed with the red of Felicia's
theft.
Six out of ten heists, six and I knew the last place she targeted had a HYDRA base too, that made seven out of the ten place
Felicia Hardy is suspect to have stolen from also containing a HYDRA base.
It suddenly clicked.
My suit moved back from my face, my confused and conflicted face. Tony looked at me with curiosity, "Peter? Kid? Are you
okay? What happened?"
"I...I need to sit down," I replied as I moved to the sofa and plopped on it, my eyes far off in the distant.
HYDRA was responsible for Doom. I know this now. They...they had the Winter Soldier reactivate the Doom bot and then sent a
signal to activate it. They broke me and...Felicia began tracking them.
"Kid. Are you okay?" he asked again, and again, I ignored him.
How did she even know? How did she know any of this? One was a coincidence, twice a pattern, seven times is a fucking sign
from God less subtle than Hulk throwing a temper tantrum!
And she was following it. The places form the Wyndham list she could have just memorized. Hell, I wouldn't' be surprised if she
did. But Rome? And Sokovia? No, no way in fucking hell.
She couldn't have known about Rome, the files were in Fury's computer. It took Tony Stark ten hours to get into it
and...unless...he told her.
But why? Why would he?
I gasped, surprise, shock, confusion and then anger. Pure unfiltered anger.
"Tony," I growled, turning the man who took a visible step back as I got on my feet, my suit retracting over my face, covering
my entire body, "thank you, I'll talk soon."
"Why? Are you going somewhere?"
"Yeah. I'm going to fucking kill Nick Fury!"
Tony's eyes winded, "what?! Why?!"
I ignored the man, walking to the varanda, I needed answers, I demanded answers! "Peter! Peter wait! JARVIS!"
Immediately three suits of armour came out from hidden compartments all around the room, stopping me from leaving. I
snarled and turned around, "Tony, don't."
"At least tell me why Pete! I deserve that!" Tony demanded.
I looked at him, I snarled as my mask retracted showing my enraged form, "Fury had something to do with Felicia leaving."
"What? Kid, what are you talking about?"
"She's been targeting HYDRA bases Tony!" I yelled as I mentally ordered Sexy to send him the data I gathered and the model
globe I made, "look! Look at that and tell me that's not a fuckign pattern!"
Tony groaned as he did just that, looking the format over and slowly, his eyes began to wide, "shit. But why? Why would he do
this?"
"Walter Hardy," I growled, "he's the greatest fuckign thief in the world. Able to get in anywhere...including-"
"-HYDRA bases," Tony concluded as he looked down, going over the data, "what are you going to do?"
"I'm gonna find Fury and beat him until he tells me the truth!" I roared.
"W-while I don't say he doesn't deserve it...maybe, maybe you should hold off."
"Why? Why should I do that Tony?!" I demanded.
"Because I think your ex needs your help far more than Fury," Tony said, "if she is tracking HYDRA, then it's only a matter of
time before...well, something-"
I turned and dashed away, 'no! No! No! Not again! I have had it with those fuckers taking things from me!' I slipped past Tony's
robots and ran out to the balcony, jumping and taking off into the sky.
I began to think, really think.
I have been patient too long. I figured I should let things run their course because I had my plate full here. But now...I realised I
should have done something about this a long time ago, HYDRA is a plague, I'm so worried about changing things too much I
wouldn't recognize them that I let these fuckers get away when I could have stopped them.
But now? Now after Doom revealed my identity to the world, losing everyone Peter Parker and I care for, losing so very much, I
have had all I can take.
So...fuck canon, I'm making my own rules. I'm going to find HYDRA, destroy every single base they own and then burn them
alive. Let's see them regrow it when they have nothing left.
I flew over to the Baxter building and landed on the veranda. I opened the door and walked in, finding Sue and Ben cleaning up
the place.
The blonde noticed me first, she smiled the same smile she gave to Peter Parker, her employee, not the one she had this
morning. I knew then, what we had was gone, but...I still needed to talk to her.
Sue waved, "hey Peter, that was fast. What did Tony want?"
I faltered, "Sue I...we need to talk," she grew worried, I felt doubt come out of her body.
"Ah, anything I should know?" Ben asked in a confused tone.
"Just a little advice," I told him as I motioned Sue to follow me.
We entered my lab and I locked the door behind me, turning to the woman who looked confused, "Peter, is everything alright?"
"Sue...I..." my mask moved away, my eyes looking into hers as she reached up and gathered my hand in hers.
"Peter...you can tell me."
I sighed, "I just found out that Felicia is tracking HYDRA bases around the world."
Sue blinked, "and how did you find that out?" I showed her the data by displaying it on my lab terminal. She took a while to
study it, inspecting every angle, but in the end, she came to the same conclusion.
She looked at me, "are you going after her?"
"I am...but not just her," I growled, "I'm going after HYDRA. The whole of it. I'm going to burn it all."
"I see...and your doing it to get her back," Sue said as she looked at me, holding my face in her hands.
I squeezed her wrists, "I….am I doing the right thing?"
Sue smiled, I didn't know how, but she had the courage to smile and say, "yes...you are. I meant what I said Peter...just that
night, that's all I can give you. But Felicia...when you had her, you were happy...happier than you were when you didn't have her.
So go, be happy."
"What about you?"
"Will you stop thinking about other for once and worry about yourself Peter Parker?!" Sue snapped with a glare, "I'll be fine...I
made my choice and I will stick to it, it's part of being an adult."
"I...I don't' know if I'm going to be with her again Sue...or even if I can. After what she did I-"
"Peter," she cut me, "don't you owe it to yourself to at least try?"
I smiled, placing my forehead next to hers, "thank you", she said nothing, just smiling in return as she squeezed my hands
between her's. We stayed there for a little while longer, I held her in my arms and rested, just one more moment of weakness I
knew Sue allowed herself, and I was glad she did.
We walked out of the room to see Ben standing in the kitchen counter looking very curious at the both of us, "what happened?
What were you doing in there for so long?"
I sighed, "I found Felicia...and she's in trouble."
Ben's eyes widened, "what?!"
It took me a while to explain, but I did. He understood and offered to come, but I denied him, this was a stealth mission. He was
a bit angry, but he understood.
I went back to my lab and began packing supplies, getting food and water and putting them into my suit's backpack. I then had
Sexy search for any news about any precious jewels or other items being brought into Sokovia, Felicia wouldn't be able to resist
that.
I was airborne within ten minutes, my car now in flight mode as it soared across the Atlantic. I had Doc pilot the car as I placed
a call to Richard.
"-I see...so you're going after HYDRA," the man humming through the phone, "but why now?"
"Other than the fact I just discovered they were behind the worst day of my life and I now have nothing else to lose? I decided
to do something about them. Don't' worry, I'll be careful," I promised.
He sighed, "fine...just...be safe son. I almost lost you once," he said nothing else as he cut the call.
I sighed rubbing my eyes, so much to do. Damn you Felicia...you better have a damn good explanation for this when I find you.
"Sexy, do you have a possible location for Felicia?"
"Yes Spider," a holographic image of a giant set of royal jewel appeared on the screen, "these are the Smykaria royal jewels,
they are the prize holdings of the Smkaria royal family. They are to host a banquet in two day at the palace and have them on
display. There is an 75% of Ms. Hardy showing up there."
"But the last place we saw her was Sokovia," I argued, "why would she be in Smykaria."
"The two nations share a border, as such it would extremely easy for Ms. Hardy to travel between the two countries. And the
royal family match Ms Hardy's MO, rich, powerful and by the claims of several freedom fighters in Symkaria, extremely corrupt.
There are also rumors of a new trade partner supplying arms to the civil discourse happening in the country coming in from
Sokovia. There is a 63% chance that this HYDRA."
"Meaning it would be the perfect place to find someone who's tracking HYDRA and loves stealing jewelry," I concluded with a
sigh, "how long until we reach?"
"Around 8 hours giving our current speed," the AI replied.
I leaned back and sighed, nodding, "great," I looked out the window at the sky passing by. What am I going to say to her? What
am I going to do? Should I just walk up to her say, 'hello sweetie?'
Or...fuck me. I don't know, I just don't know what to do with her. I need her to tell me why she did what she did, but then...I
don't know, or care. HYDRA has to go and I have to make sure she's safe.