"Why?!" Sue cried out. As she stood up, only for the gorilla holding her down to smack her across the face, sending her to the
floor.
She withered in pain and looked up to see a look of hate on Doom's face, "I'm sorry, they're still a little hard to control," he
raised a fist and suddenly the gorillas around her began to cry out in pain, holding their heads. And there, resting on Doom's
right hand index finger, was a golden yellow gem the size of Sue's eye.
"Strap her into the machine," Doom ordered half heartedly as he turned to see one gorilla enter with Johnny's body tossed
over his shoulder nd Reed's body being dragged behind him.
Sue tried to fight, but found the closer she got to the machine, the weaker she became. And finally she couldn't move anymore
without every single tissue causing her whole body to quiver. She was shoved into a pillar along with Johnny and Reed, her
limbs locked in place with straps as Doom and his army watched.
"It's a pity really," Doom spoke, his voice partially muffled to Sue's ears, "I had hoped to break down all my thorns today...but it
would seem I will have to make special arrangements for Peter."
'No...not him,' Sue cried, wanting to cry out to beg for his life she threw away her pride, she didn't care. Peter...he had to live.
That man, that wonderful man who was so damn selfless and kind. He gave so much for them, willing to become a criminal for
them, willing to be...to be everything she needed him to be.
And in that moment, when Sue Storm was strapped into a machine and believing she was about to die did she realise, she was
head over heels in love with Peter Parker.
Beep! Beep!
"Hm?" Doom held up his hand as a hologram displaying an aerial look at the town, green dots circling the entire area. And then
suddenly, there was a wave of red cross appearing on the North side.
"What's going on here?" Doom hissed, "all troops, move to the Northern quadrant, get me a visual!"
Sue strained to keep her eyes open, slowly more and more of the green dots began to disappear, replaced with red crosses.
And then suddenly the image changed, it looked like a video stream from a gopro. And the image shown set a shiver down
Doom's back and a spark of life into Sue's heart.
A black and silver car, heavily armored and flying through the air. A giant cannon from its trunk and several smaller repulsors
canons along it's side and back. And inside in the driver's seat was the man Susan Storm loved.
Peter Parker.
With Peter:
I growled, "how the hell did Doom get access to a fucking army of Balurrians?!"
"Well, since there is a Negative Zone in this world, one can assume it also has a race of Balurrians living in it," Sexy reasoned.
"But how?!" I cried out, "did he like become their BFF's while he was trapped there?" I pressed the canons and fired another
dozen of them out of the sky. "I hate these wookie rejects!"
Soon all the Balurrians in the area were circling in around my position. I hit the steering wheel hard, causing the car to spin
quickly, sending out repulsor blasts out in quick successions. I managed to clear a route to the streets, immediately I bought
the car down and hit the road.
I spotted a giant green portal forming in the football field in the middle of town, I'm assuming that's where I had to go. I could
fly, but it would take away a lot of energy to maintain that elevation, now however I could direct 98% of my total energy into
the canons.
"Prepare Angle lock-on system," I called out, suddenly the HUD on the my helmet displayed a 3D landscape of 90 feet of space
around me, including the Balurrians who were flying right behind me.
"Lock on," I took out a keyboard from the car's main dashboard and inputted the aiming preamiters, each Balurrians was taken
a different flight path, I had to predict each one and allot a canon to it. Soon each flying white ape had a canon pointed at it,
"fire!"
BOOM!
Ten small cannons around my car fired off a condensed stream of muon particles, puncturing the Blurriness hide and body.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Forty Balurrians fell. They kept coming but my automatic weapons system was more than happy to keep mowing them down.
Beep beep!
"Warning, energy blast incoming-"
The hit was so jareing my car was sent flying into the air, trunk over hood before the stabilizers kicked in and it righted itself,
floating in the air.
I looked out, Doom was floating before me, his armour glowing with power as his army of Balurrians swarmed up behind him.
The car's windshield opened up and my seat unplugged itself from my suit. I walked out onto the hood of my car and stood tall
and proud, the armor shining in the sunlight.
"Impressive armour," Doom looked me over, "I'm unable to scan it...what is it made off?"
"Unstable molecule fiber fused with the special secret sauce from KFC," I shrugged.
Doom scoffed, "unstable molecules...I see. Impressive, once again I'm reminded you're not as dumb as you would like people to
believe."
I couldn't help chuckle, "yeah, I guess so," I looked around, "so...Balurrians huh? How did you get them to obey you?"
Doom looked startled, "how do you know of these creatures?!"
I shrugged, "I took a dimensional picnic to another world. So? I answered your question, will you answer mine?"
Doom scoffed, "they will do much for what they hold dear," his right hand moved behind his body, he didn't want me to notice,
but I did. A rock...a yellow glowing rock...no way.
"You got your hands on an infinity stone?" I gasped.
Doom looked startled, "what?! How do you know of the stones?!"
"I know a lot Doom," I began to think, blue is space, red is reality, green is time, purple is power, yellow is mind or that must
mean… "the mind stone...no wonder they all obey you."
Doom growled, "Balurrians! Attack!" he held the stone up and immediately they all cried out in pain before charging forward. I
see, so the stone did control their minds, how did he even get it? Isn't it supposed to be in Loki's scepter? With HYDRA?!
Pew! Pew! Pew!
My car began unloading into them, the Balurrians falling before they even came close. And then Doom struck. He threw his
arms forward, sending an EMP flying right at me. I leaped away, my car swirling to the right, just in time to avoid it.
The back of my costume began to shift, creating a small backhold with thrusters on it. Immediately it clicked on and I took off
into the sky, flying into the sky.
"Interesting," Doom sent a blast of energy, which I swirled and voided, "you're armour is impressie, nanoweave technology
applied with...magic?!"
"Yup!" I cried out as I tackled into a Balurrian and threw him into another. I then jumped away, just as Doom formed a magical
circle and sent a blast of energy at me.
"How?! How is this possible?!" Doom cried out.
"The same way you learnt magic Doom, through hard work!" I hissed as I raised my palms and sent out repulsor blast.
Doom immediately formed a shield of magic to protect himself, but the force of my improved repulsors pushed him back far,
forcing Doom to land on the roof of a tall building.
I quickly followed him, the Balurrians tried to follow, but luckily for me, Doc had my back. "Enemies targeted," his robotic voice
came, the Balurrians turned and gasped, seeing all the canon on the car pointed right at them.
BOOM!
I landed before Doom, the both of us ignoring the cries of pain from the Balurrians slowly falling down from the sky.
And then, we attacked. I released my Unibeam, Doom did the same with blats of magic.
BOOM!
The entire building's roof collapsed form the feedback of the attack. The ground below our feet gave out as we flew down
several stories. I jumped between the rubble, using it as a jumping points to leap towards Doom.
"Die Spider!" Doom cried out as he constantly sent out blasts of magic that I barely managed to avoid.
I quickly shot out a web line and grabbed a falling chunks of rock and swung it sideways at Doom. Seeing the ht coming the
villain blasted it away before sending large waves of energy at me.
It circles around my body like a bunch of chains, tightening around me to fix my arms to my body. But I wasn't really worried.
Out of my backplate a large silver arm popped out and fired off a web line, allowing me to safely swing down to the floor
below that hadn't gotten caved in from mine and Doom's attack
Doom floated down slowly, his cape billowing in the wind. I looked down and was surprised, "the bands of Crimson Bands of
Cyttorak? Impressive."
Doom grew tense as he raised his right hand and snapped his fingers, "delusion."
A shimmer of green covered his body as he vanished into thin air. But I knew he was here….I knew, because I could see him
coming right for me.
I ducked and dogged, avoiding the invisible strikes. "That won't work Doom," I told him, "it's pointless," I leaped into the air and
swung my free legs at his helmet, the man managed to avoid by the skin of his teeth.
He took to the sky once again, I choose to remain grounded. He dropped the invisibility spell and hissed, "how?"
"Simple," I replied tapping the lens, "I can detect trans dimensional energies. It's not much, but it's the one thing I have learnt
technology can do when it comes to understanding magic."
"I see...you have come far in your goal for vengeance Spider...I applaud you," Doom growled, "but now...this is where you end,"
he snapped his fingers and suddenly the entire sky began to go green.
"Witness the genius of Doctor Doom! Witness the power I discovered during my incarceration in that horrid world! The power of
destiny!"
KAKOOM!
Lighting came down, suddenly the building's window were blasted open as Balurrians came flying in surrounding us.
"You may have shown your strength Spider, but in your rash choice you failed to save what was really important! And because
of your stupidity, I Doom shall rule the world!" Doom cackled, throwing his arms wide apart.
"DOOM! DOOM! DOOM!" the Balurrians cried out, raising their mighty fists in barely held excitement.
The sound of victory were ecstatic, the entire town rumbled with power coursing through. And then, something cut through the
cries of 'Doom', a single loud voice.
"Wahahaha!" I cried out throwing my head back and laughing as hard as I could. Balurrians were stunned, slowly they acquitted
themselves as they watched me half harder and harder.
"What I the meaning of this?!" Doom hissed.
"Please-please, don't stop! Wahaha!" I stomped my feet on the ground repeatedly, "this is too much! Oh this is good!"
"What are you laughing?!" Doom cried out, "answer! Doom demands it!"
I slowly my laughter to a chuckle, "y-you want to know why?" I snorted, "simple. It's because you think I'm actually here!"
Doom blinked, "what?"
And then the armour moved, turning into a semi liquid state and slipping out of the crimson bands bdining it. Balurrians cried
out in shock but could do nothing as the liquid moved towards their forced master like a liquid snake.
The black and silver material immediately bound around Doom's body, seeping into his armour's machineries and systems,
slowly destroying it from the inside.
"What-is-happening?!" Doom cried out as he found parts of his armour completely seizing functions.
Slowly a blob of the liquid metallic material around him came out and took the form of my Spider-man mask. "If you still don't
get it," I opened up the helmet like a face plate, revealing nothing was inside, "ta-da! You've been punked son!"
Doom's eyes widened, "what?!"
BOOM!
Another explosion, but this time, it was different. Everyone looked up at the sky and sure enough, the green hue covering it was
slowly dying away, the dimensional energies reversing.
"NO!" Doom cried before turning to the 'face' sticking out of his body, "where is the real you?!"
With the real Peter Parker:
I looked at the interface on Sue's pillar and released my stingers, "well, you could say I'm kind of ruining your whole evil plan," I
shoved the metal claws into the machine and immediately it clicked open, releasing Sue.
I grabbed Sue, her eyes slowly coming into focus as she blinked, looking at me, "Peter?"
I grinned, "hey there Blondie, fancy meeting you here."
Sue smiled softly, I smelt joy rushing out of her, "Peter...you're here...thank God I," she looked down and lust quickly followed,
"ah...you're naked."
I looked down and sure enough I was, well, I did have a pair of boxers on, but that wasn't important.
"Yup," I nodded, "I am. Had to use my armour to distract Doom, he pretty much bought it."
KAKOM!
We turned around and saw a giant blast of green energy come flying out of a building, leveling it to the ground. I reached up
and touched the bluetooth headset I was wearing, causing a holographic display of my suit's HUD to appear around my face.
I winced, "Doom just blew a casket."
"That's not the only thing he's going to blow!" Johnny cried out.
Sue finally took her eyes from me and looked around, realising she wasn't the first one I had saved as Johnny, Ben and Reed
stood protectively around us.
"Sue...are you alright?" Reed asked softly.
Sue nodded, "yeah...I think," she looked up and framed, "this machine, it did something to my powers."
I nodded as I helped her stand, "it's a sort of leech for dimensional energy, the kind you guys produce. Doom was siphoning ti
for something, but I managed to shut it off."
"You never cease to amaze me kid," Ben snorted as he smiled at the rest of them, "I missed you guys."
"We missed you too big guy," Johnny grinned before looking down at Ben's robes, "also...did you become a monk or
something?"
"It's my apprentice robes wise guy," Ben growled.
"They suit you Ben," Sue smiled as she tried to walk forward only to stumble, I immediately caught her, "damn, I'm still a little
weak."
"Guys, we need to focus up here!" Reed cried out pointing at the sky to a flying green dot surrounded by white gorillas,
"Victor's coming for the machine," Reed turned to his oldest friend, "Ben, think you can break it?"
"Hell yeah!" Ben cracked his knuckles.
"Johnny, you need to take the flying monkeys, Sue, Peter and I will deal with Doom," Reed called out before turning to me,
"think you can work without the suit?"
I snorted, "I won't have to," I raised an arm and suddenly, out of the collapsed building a blast of energy shot out as my suit
came flying towards me in it's liquid metal form.
It reached us in seconds and blasted into my chest, quickly surrounding me whole and reforming into its original state.
I rotated my shoulders, "systems working at 100% capacity."
"Dude...make me one, please," Johnny begged.
"Focus up," Reed called as Doom hovered over us, his army surrounded the football field.
"Richards," Doom growled, "Parker...I did underestimate you both. Richards' stupidity and rash emotional choice and
Parker's...deceitful nature."
I scoffed, "really? Because if you didn't like that, then you're going to hate this!" I snapped my fingers and suddenly ten black
surveillance drones shimmered into existence all around us, one right before me and the FF, one near Doom's army and the rest
floating far far away.
"What are these?" Doom asked.
"Surveillance drones. I had them built for...another purpose," I cleared my throat, "but, I figured now would be a great time to
use them as well. They have been recording this, all of this. Our fight and you're grand scheme. And you know the best part?
It's being transmitted all over the world, live streamed through several social media accounts. Meaning right now, the entire
world just watched you admit trying to rule the world."
Doo scoffed, "and I should care why? What does a God have to care for ants?"
"Because right now, those ants are readying their armies and planning to aim their biggest guns at you. Because last time a
mad man tried to rule the world with an army by opening a gateway to another world, they did nothing. This time, I'm sure
they're eager for the chance."
And just then, a giant shadow suddenly loomed over our heads, covering the entire town. We all looked up and saw the
helicarrier floating above us.
"Doom," I heard Fury's voice came out of the speaker's in the football stadium, "stop and desist with your plans for global
domination, or we will be forced to stop them for you."
"You cannot do this Fury!" Doom cried out, "I am a diplomate! I have immunity!"
I could almost hear Fury smirk, "oh? Didn't you hear? Your immunity ran out two minutes ago when the emergency General
Election meeting conveyed and labeled you as an enemy to humanity. Meaning-"
"-You're ass is ours!" Johnny cried out, "Flame on mother fucker!"
"It's clobberin time!" Ben charged into the machine, smashing through the pillars one by one.
"NO!" Doom cried out, "attack! Destroy them all!"
"Fire at will," I heard Fury's voice call as suddenly all the weapons on the helicarrier were pointed at the Balurrians.
It was outright war. The Balurrians ignored Doom's orders and instead chose to fly and attack the helicarrier. Johnny sent
fireballs at the one's being slow, blowing each one out of the sky.
"No! NO!" Doom cried out as he sent a blast of energy at the helicarrier, only for it to be deflected by a repulsor blast.
Flying out of the helicarrier was a bright red and gold suit, it quickly fired off dozens of rockets, blowing up the Balurrians that
tried to attack the ship.
"Sorry I'm late, had to put the kid to sleep," Tony's voice called out into my helmet.
I grinned, "better late than never."
"Doom!" Reed called out as he enlarged his hand and grabbed the first pillar Ben had broken.
"What do you want Rich-" Doom turned just in time to see Reed swing it at him. Doom flew away, but just then something hit
him in the gut lining him to the ground.
I turned to Sue, "did you do that?"
"Yes," Sue grunted in pain, "sorry, I can't do much more."
"It's fine Sue," Reed spoke, "Peter...stay with her...I need to finish this."
I wanted to object but the pain and hate in his eyes...I knew the guilt he was feeling inside was eating him up. Besides...I already
got my revenge, the world knew Doom for what he really is, a monster. It's Reed's turn.
"Go get him," I told the man. He nodded and walked to Doom, the man slowly getting on his feet.
"You are a fool Richard," Doom grunted holding his gut in pain. The metal plates broke off to reveal the circuit underneath,
Sue's attack really hurt him that's for sure, "a moronic fool. Nothing you do is off consequence."
"You're right...I am a fool," Reed nodded, "but...if I stop you...then that's more than enough for me," he charged ahead.
Doom constable fired bolts of energy and Reed dodge them all, using his flexibility as a means to doge the beams and get in
close.
"You destroyed my home!" Reed socked him across the face, "you hurt the ones I cared for!" He punched Doom in the gut,
sending him flying up. Reed threw his hand forward and grabbed Doom's leg and whipped him into the ground, "you tried to kill
this world Victor! Why?! Why did you do all of this?!"
Doom slowly rose from the ground, his face plate cracked, he held his left arm, it was broken, twisted the wrong way.
"Because you left me there to die," he raised his right hand, the stone on his finger glowing, "no more! Doom will still rule!" He
held up the gem in his hand, "I call forth the powers that be! Rip into the flesh of my enemies, and in turn I will-"
BOOM!
The ciant circular machine Doom used came flying through the air like a discuss and crashed into Doom.
"I'm sorry, were you saying something?" Ben asked he and Johnny stood on either side of Reed.
Sue and I joined them, the five of us glaring him down as he pulled himself out of the wreckage. He was about to speak when
suddenly a wave of energy passed through us.
Doom looked down, "no!" the stone was cracked, huh, so I guess it wasn't an infinity stone. But then what? I activated Web
Vision and looked, and sure enough, I saw dimensional energy, similar to the kind around the portal and the monkey's Doom
had summoned. Had he created some sort of proto-mind stone?
"You fools! Do you have any idea what you have done?!"
"If it gets you in trouble? I don't care," Johnny growled.
"NO!" Doom yelled as suddenly the stone in his hand exploded, taking his entire arm with it.
BOOM!
Doom was on his knees, his right arm up to his elbow had been blown off. He sat there in pain and suddenly a giant portal
opened up behind him.
Doom turned slowly, "no, no, no!" he stumbled onto his feet and tired to run. Out of the portal giant green tentacles came
rushing out and grabbed him, binding him and lifting him into the air.
"NO! STAY AWAY! NO!" he cried out, terror striking his heart, fear leaking out of him like water from a stream. He blasted the
tentacles with magic, but they just kept coming back.
"Should we do something?" Johnny asked.
"No," Sue hissed, "he deserves this."
I looked at Reed, the man's eyes narrowed, not in anger, no, in worry. "No," Reed spoke, "no one deserve this."
"Stretch he tried to kill us!" Ben argued.
"Which is exactly why he should stay here, where he'll answer for his crimes," without another word Reid stretched forward,
lunging after Victor.
Doom was slowly being dragged into the portal, his arms failing about for help. Reed reached out and grabbed him, pulling
with all his might.
"Richards?!" Doom gasped in shock.
"You're not getting off that easy Victor!" Reed cried out as he pulled him away. But it was failing the tentacles were too strong.
"Leave him Reed!" I cried out, "he's not worth it!"
"You should listen to the boy Richard," Doom growled as suddenly reached up and grabbed the side of Reed's face with his
remaining hand, "I would rather die than owe you my life."
KRACK!
Reed was sent flying back. "Reed!" Johnny flew up and caught him, the right half of his face smoking.
"DOOM!" I roared, turning to the man, but it was too late. Without Reed there to pull him away, the tentacles won, pulling Doom
into the portal and then sealing itself shut. Doom was gone, I cursed, it wasn't fair, even in the end when he lost, he still got
the last word.
"Reed!" Sue and Ben ran to Johnny, who flew down with Reed's unconscious body before us. He laid him down and we quickly
surrounded the man.
I gasped, this time, Victor didn't just leave...he left a reminder for us before he did. A reminder...to always remind us of what he
did to us. To remind us how far he pushed us all.
The right half of Reed's face was burnt, like melted plastic. His hair was burnt off the side, his skin still smoking.
Sue was crying, Ben looked away in shame and Johnny was gritting his teeth. But me...I had another problem.
There was only one time Reed Richards ever got this sort of scar...and that was a very bad time. In the Ultimate universe Reed
Richards had gone mad and became evil, he nearly destroyed everyone in his world, hurting Ben, Sue...everyone.
And in retaliation Johnny had burnt off a side of his face, scaring him, marking him. And now...I couldn't help wondering if my
Reed Richards was on the path to become the Maker...and that scared the hell out me.
But for now...I'm more worried about making sure my friend was alright then what he might become one day in the future.
I like Reed, I really do, but, this one, the young one with more brains than a sense of maturity is a chemical recipe for disaster.
Anyway, there we go, Doom, in all his glory. The stone he used WASN'T THE MIND STONE just something similar.
Suit- you like? I figured since I can't give him Venom just yet, doesn't fit into the story, I might as well give him somethign
better. Hehe. I was actually thinking about this since chapter 20, planning the suit out and laying down the foundations for it.
Anyway, yes, the secret identiy thing is permanant. No take backs, no cons. sorry if you don't like it, but I refuse to remain as
stagnant as other writers are, life moves on, we have to adapt as well.