The Triskelion:
Sneaking into the building was an easy thing to do. I was trained by the best, had the latest equipment on hand and the most
cutting edge AI in the world to get access.
Project Insight was almost complete, I am guessing maybe a year, maybe more before it would be weapons ready. Which meant
it had to be stopped, now.
I snuck into each helicarrier and hacked into its targeting system doing what I needed to do before moving on as quick as
possible.
But as I went though it's system I found something, the algorithm HYDRA planned to use to determine who was a threat to it's
reign, and who wasn't. When I watched the movie for the first time I assumed this was just a boring ass plot point, but now?
Now it was so much more.
I saw a list of names, names of people, men, women and children who would stand up and against HYDRA, a list of heroes. Matt
Murdock, Jessica Jones, Carl Lucas and even my own name were all here. A list of heroes...yes, I can use this.
I then planned a way to get every worker out of the place, it was the middle of the night, so only a skeleton crew was working,
it wouldn't be too hard to distract them.
My stomach churned as I went through what I planned to do in my head. I knew the moment I did this I would be kicking off a
set of dominos that would alter the course of this universe forever. But at the same time, I knew I had to do something.
Damn it...I need a drink.
Upstairs:
Nicholas Fury was not having a nice day. No, not at all.
Since Doom tried to take over the world a few days ago he's been working on stop to prevent the UN from invading Latveria.
The country was a third world mess and didn't need the blame for its rulers semi-psychotic actions leveled on it on top of
everything else it had going for it.
He was running from the UN building to embassies all week and it started to give him a nasty headache. Then came Parker and
having to make sure his family was safe, only problem was the moment they were in the clear all the data about them and their
location was wiped clean from all data holds.
He really didn't want to be the one to tell the kid he lost his family. And adding to his growing list of problems was Sokovia.
The Eastern European nation was in disarray as one of it's factory's blew up two days ago. Fury had a guess there was more to
this story than what meets the eye, the name Strucker came to mind. He was going to have to have someone investigate it.
But right now, at this very moment, he had only one thing in his mind, a bottle of single malt scotch in his hidden table drawer.
He opened the door to his office and stopped as he saw someone inside sitting in his chair and drinking his liquor. Peter
Parker, the Spider.
"I have to say Nicholas, this is an amazing drink," Peter sipped the alcohol and glared, "very good indeed."
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Fury froze, something was wrong, Peter wasn't smiling, he wasn't joking, he was serious. And worst of all, he called him
Nicholas.
"Peter..., how did you-"
"-The window," he pointed at the far wall where sure enough the glass wall had been cut open with some kind of laser.
"I see," Fury sighed as he walked over and picked up a glass, pouring himself a glass and sipping it, "so? What's wrong kid? I
didn't take you for the visiting type. You usually would text...is something wrong?"
He looked up, and for a moment Fury wondered if he should have instead taken out his gun. Fury waited, he waited for him to
speak, trying to guess what he would say next. But the words he said, Fury would have never guessed.
"I found Felicia," the Spider took out a pendrive and placed it on Fury's desk, "in there is a list of every HYDRA agent Strucker
had on file, meaning every mole in SHIELD, and there are quite a lot, so I would suggest you get started quickly."
Fury's one eye went wide as he looked at the boy before him and the pendrive. Thoughts of what this meant rushed through his
head, an explanation, justifications. He had them all ready.
Fury looked at the boy before him with one eye and spoke softly, "Felicia wanted to do it. She...said she didn't want to see the
man she loved become a half-dead body ever again."
He glared up at Fury, the tall black man felt intimidated and with reason. Many would underestimate the boy because of his age,
and those many people were idiots. He was possibly the most deadly member of the Avengers...and Fury knew it.
Captain America had a line he would never cross and his own moral code. Tony was wracked with guilt, Hulk and Banner were
powerful, yes, but a loose cannon. Thor was off world and wouldn't hurt his precious humans. Window and Hawkeye were
deadly, but in the end just human.
But Peter Parker? He was different. He started fighting a war against crime when he was fifteen, with the intelligence of match
Doom himself and the dedication to carry out a threat. He saw what he did to Magneto, he saw how he let Wyndham inject
himself with a potentially deadly formula.
All those times Fury was glad Peter Parker was on his side. But now, it would seem he was not.
The teenager sipped his drink again, nearly emptying the glass as he threw his hand out. Furby's eyes went wide as he felt a
large hand grabs his neck and squeeze, choking the man.
His legs began kicking as he was slowly lifted into the air. He dropped the glass he was holding, it shattered on his floor as he
scratched at his neck, trying and failing to free himself, only he couldn't.
"You bastard!" Spider cried out as Fury felt himself being flug across the room and into the far away wall. He crashed hard,
something broke with an audible crack.
The man held his side in pain as he looked up, the young man stood over him, finishing his drink and threw the crystal glass at
a wall, shattering it on contact.
He stood over Fury and reached down, grabbing his throat and pulled him up again, holding his body as Peter released two
silver blue metal claws and pressed them against his neck.
"You had no right," he whispered.
"S-she wanted to make sure you were safe," Fury gasped.
"And she what?! Decided to go after them on her own?! No Fury! You wanted Walter to do that, and the only way you knew he
would agree to do something so monumentally stupid was if his daughter asked him too. And you told her, a girl grieving for
her boyfriend, that the only way to protect him, was to leave him. You are a monster Fury!"
"I-It was the only way," Fury tried to explain, spots danced around his eyes, he was going to faint, he knew it, "it had to be
done, H-HYDRA was too big a threat!"
Peter dropped him and let Fury fall on the ground. Fury coughed as he rubbed his throat in pain, he looked up and found
Parker glaring down at him, his anger boiling just under the surface..
"We are done," he said in a cold emotionless tone, "anything I owe you or you owe me, it's done. I won't ask a single thing from
you and you don't' owe me anything. If the world is in danger, anyone, and I mean anyone but you can contact me. But, if I ever
see you again Nicholas Fury, I will kill you. Do you understand?"
Fury spat out a wad of blood, "you don't want to do that kid, you need our help."
"No, I really don't," Peter replied as he tapped his right chest, a small beep coming out, "Walter told me you have a backdoor
communication channel with him. If he doesn't get his pardon within the next few days I'll do to this place what I did to
Strucker's base."
Fury's eyes widened, "y-you did that?"
He didn't answer, he just turned around and walked away. His costume appeared over his head as he jumped out of the
opening he made in the window and flew away like Stark liked to do.
Fury pulled himself up and leaned back on the wall, panting, trying to force his hands to stop shaking. He was going to have to
label Spider-man a threat now. He didn't want to...the kid didn't deserve it, but after what he did, what he was capable off? He
couldn't risk it.
Fury limped over to his desk and plopped down on his chair, his ribs hurt, he must have something broken. He sighed, he really
needed a drink now.
He reached into his hidden drawer for more glasses, but sure enough, he found them all broken and shattered with a note
saying, 'deal with it'. Fury groaned as he leaned back, guess he was just going to have to drink from the bottle...seems
appropriate.
BOOM!
Fury's office shook,no, the entire building shock as suddenly the large concrete and front yard of the Triskelion exploded into
flames as concrete and steel flew up into the air before raining down.
Fury jumped to his feet and looked out his window, he watched as seemingly hell itself had risen up to claim him for his many,
many crimes. He looked down, a giant pit now there below, the secret underground shipyard, it had been leveled down to
nothing.
"Sir!" Agent Hill ran inside without bothering to knock, "Project Insight! It's gone! Someone sabotaged the systems, they blew
each other up!"
The man immediately knew who was responsible. He looked at Hill and spoke in a defeated tone, "was anyone hurt?"
Hill blinked, "s-sir?"
"Was anyone hurt?"
"Ah...no, apparently the workers had all been called out of sight by some kind of meeting. Apparently someone hacked into our
internal communications and had them all leave!"
Fury sighed as he dropped down to his chair, "so he's not completely insane...good, I doubt we would last long if he was."
"Who? Sir, do you know who did this?"
Fury nodded as he pulled the dripped off his bottle, "yes...get everyone away and safe Hill, I'll be sending you a list, I want
these agents brought in and questioned, quietly."
"Sir...was this HYDRA?" Hill asked.
Fury shook his head, "no...someone worse. It was a warning."
"For who?"
Fury gulped some of the burning liquid down and growled, "for me."
With Peter:
I landed on the roof of the Triskelion where my car was parked, and leaning against the hood was an amused Wanda and a
curious Felicia.
"I think I'm actually beginning to like you," Wanda smirked as she looked at the flames rising from the ground.
"When did you become a pyromaniac?" Felicia's asked as I walked over, a holographic screen displayed on my forearm as I
typed away at it.
"I only bring out the big guns when I'm pissed," I replied emotionlessly as I tapped my helmet to cut out all outgoing audio,
meaning Felicia and Wanda didn't hear what I said next, "Sexy, did you get all the files I requested from SHIELD's main system?"
"Yes Spider, all 212.9 TB are now being stored in an offshore secure data harvesting field, ready to be given out at a moment's
notice," the AI replied.
"Good," I smirked, I wasn't a fool, I knew Fury would be coming for me after what I did. Maybe he would give me a few hours
before that happened...for old time's sake. But he will be coming for me. And this would be my ace in the hole if he did.
"Don't you think you're being a little mean?" Felicia asked as I unmute myself, "Fury may be flawed but-"
"-But nothing," I snapped, walking to the driver's seat, "he thinks I'm someone to take lightly, he needs to learn, they all need to
learn."
"What?" Wanda asked with an amused smirk.
"Not to fuck with me," I hissed as we got into the car, Felicia riding shotgun while Wanda sat in the back.
"He's going to come after you..." Felicia warned.
I nodded, "yeah, I know. And I'm already ready for what he's going to do."
"Oh..." she looked away, unsure what to say.
I took off into the air and zoomed through the sky, shooting away from the burning headquarters of the SHIELD, hopefully out
of those flames a newer and better one can rise up...hopefully.
"It's faster than I remember," Felicia said, the awkwardness descending down on us again. It took us eight hours to get here,
eight hours of quite broken by Wanda's occasional request to play some music just to kill time.
"I made some upgrade," I said, still unsure how I should speak to her.
"Yeah, I can see," she chuckled.
"Yeah..."
"Just so you two know, I've seen former KGB operatives that talk more than you two," Wanda said with a snort as she looked
out the window, clearly amused.
"Where did you meet a KGB operative?" I asked surprised.
"In Russia," she shrugged.
"What were you doing in Russia?" Felicia asked.
"I was given a mission to kill some people, stupid really," Wanda snorted, "dumbasses got caught trying to steal from HYDRA's
reserves, so, Strucker sent me to send a message."
"I see..." I snorted, "well at least he isn't a complete idiot. I mean what kind of idiot keeps a list of names of people from the
secret organization he words for?"
"He was parrinoid Peter," Felicia snorted, "he didn't trust anyone in HYDRA, he always had something close by to escape or
strike a deal if he ever got caught."
"How did you even track him?" I asked.
"Silver helped a lot on that front," Felicia shrugged, "she and her father found out the reason Silver's mom died was because
of HYDRA's interference in their land. They swore revenge and...well, they ended up helping me a lot."
"I see...I was wondering how you got a Duchess to help," I nodded, "makes sense...so, are you sure your parents will be safe
back in Smykaria?"
"Don't' worry, Silver won't' let anything happen to them," Felicia assured, though she herself looked preoccupied with something
else on her mind.
I nodded. For a while everything was quite as we flew through the air. Wanda then finally spoke, "where are we going now?"
"Avenger's tower," I replied as I typed away at the HUD, "I already sent a message to Tony telling him you want to met. He's
agreed and is waiting for us."
Wanda's eyes opened, "Stark? Already?"
I nodded, "like I said, he knows he has a lot to make up for."
We flew into the Manhattan skyline and right to Avenger's tower. I parked on the roof, where there was an alloted helipad now
installed with my logo on it. Since I was coming over a lot in this way Tony thought it only appropriate.
We got out and downstairs where when we entered the living room we found Tony there waiting for us, along with another
surprise.
"Pete?" Riri Williams Stark turned and blinked, the girl dressed in a blue denim jacket with black undershirt and jean stained
with grease, similar to how a mechanic would look after a day at the shop.
I smiled as my mask retracted back, "hey there Ironheart, how's it hanging?"
The twelve year old girl grinned, "yes! I knew that name would catch on!"
"What are you talking about? I gave you that name," I snorted as we walked down to them, Tony dismissing the hologram he was
looking at as he noticed the women behind me.
"Peter...I see you found her," Tony smiled as he nodded ot Felicia, "been a long time kid. Glad to see you again."
Felicia grinned, "you too Tony. And ah...who is this?"
"Oh didn't you hear? I'm a dad now," Tony chuckled as he patted Riri who glared at the man, who ignored her adorable pouting.
"A...A dad?" Felicia turned to me, "okay, how long was I gone?"
It was supposed to be a joke, but it stung, I groaned, "too long," she looked away, obviously hurt, I'm a little ashamed to admit
that it felt good...but it did. I sighed and turned to Wanda, the girl looking down at Riri a look of longing and confusion in her
eyes.
"This...is Wanda," I motioned to the girl, "she's the reason we're here."
"Yeah...I know," Tony nodded as he patted Riri, "hey hon, why don't you show Peter what you're working on? I'm sure he'll love it."
Riri blinked, "what? Why? I thought we were going to have take out."
"Not right now," Tony whispered before urging, "please, go."
Riri nodded slowly, "r-right," she turned to me, "let's go."
"Right," I walked behind her, Felicia following us as we left Tony and Wanda behind. We walked into one of Tony's labs, the doors
to the living closed and I heard Tony ask, 'so, do you drink?'
"What's going on? Why is my dad acting so weird?" Riri asked in confusion as she lead up into what looked like a mixture of a
child's room and a mechanic's workshop.
Robots were flying around, almost alive, the walls covered with posters of some boy band I knew will be breaking up soon and
circuit boards nailed to wall.
I whistled, "damn Riri, this is a pretty sweet room you got going on."
"Thanks," Riri grinned, "I finally moved in here a few days ago and got to work. Hey, you never answered my question!"
I chuckled, "caught me huh? Well...you see Riri, Wanda has some...issues. She's here to get Tony's help."
"Huh...she's not like my sister or something is she? Because I'm pretty sure if he gets another surprise kid Pepper's going to
blow a capillary."
I chuckled, "no, no. But she does have daddy issues," I turned to Felicia, she looked around, her eyes looking but not observing.
I knew we needed to talk, I knew it had to be done.
I sighed, "Riri, is there any chance you could give me this room for a while?"
Riri blinked, "why is everyone trying to get rid of me today?! Do I have a booger on my head or something?!"
I laughed, "no Riri, I promise, it's just..." I turned to Felicia, she looked at me, "she and I need to talk."
"Oh...and who exactly is she?" Riri asked narrowing her eyes.
Felicia smiled, "well, you see, I'm his girl-" she stopped herself, her eyes blinking as the title seemed to slip out naturally.
I smiled, for some reason, the simple fact that she couldn't stop herself from saying the words' 'girlfriend' while around me
made me happy.
"She's my ex," I told Riri, "and right now she and I need to have a long overdue fight. So we're probably going to yell a lot."
Riri seemed to groan, "argh, love, disgusting."