27 Issue 27: Avenger's Initiative Part IX

Spider Gods are cosmic entities like the Byonders, and Galactus. They only appear as the host would imagine them, so Peter tried to imagine a much more hospitable form when the speaker suddenly turned into MJ. 

Peter shook his head and then watched as she turned into a form that is similar to Madam Web, but much younger in appearance.

"Okay, now this I can talk to, I take it you're a Spider God/Goddess right?" Peter asked when the Spider God repeated her phrase, "Thy Totem is Champion! Does thou'st accept thy place amongst the Totems?"

Peter thought of the only time a Spider-Man rejected the Spider-God's aid, and that led to the creation of the monstrosity Poison, the half human/symbiote hybrid of Peter Parker, and thanks to their role being to protect all life and hold together the different realities Peter viewed them as extremely benevolent creatures. There were many higher beings such as these, for example, the Beyonders, and the beings known as Those Who Sit Above in Shadow, but they fed off of different things, whereas the Web of Life spread as much as they absorbed.

Peter nodded his head accepting his role as he said, "Yes, as long as I don't turn into some spider monster, and as a God-like being yourself should know what I'm talking about by looking like a monster." 

The woman smiled and waved her hand engulfing Peter in a web cocoon in this realm as well.

Meanwhile, during all the commotion everyone pointed their weapons at Thor and said, "What did you do?"

Thor looked at Spider-Man in amazement as he felt an ancient power that was no weaker than his father's Odin Force. He looked to the others and defended himself by saying, "It seems the young spider has gone a spiritual journey, a Totem God calls his name. A very old and powerful pantheon must have looked on in favor of his actions. Please do not fret over his condition, for it is a gift he is receiving."

MJ still looked very worried when Ironman Picked up the Cocoon and said, "We'll take him with us, and run some test on the Hellicarrier." 

However, that would be impossible for the current Tony Stark as the Symbiote would protect Peter from any of his scans.

MJ nodded her head and followed them back to the ship, while Thor was given time with his brother, he began to argue with Loki and begged him to give up the Tesseract and his insane mission, but they had reached an impasse. After their talk, he brought Loki back on board and said, "I'm coming along." 

Loki looked around at the Heroes before them and ginned, but when he looked at the Cocoon his eyes bulged, "Something you know about brother?" Thor asked tightening his grip on his hammer.

"No, just a silly superstition!" Loki said turning his head towards MJ.

Tony then said, "Isn't that kind of funny? A God talking about superstition."

"If you know something about this, why don't you prove it?" Thor asked taunting Loki.

To which Loki replied, "Please as if that childish provoking would work in a real-life scenario."

"Well if you don't know; you don't know!" Thor crossed his arms and leaned back against the Quin Jet and had a smug look on his face when Loki said, "Really you don't remember the legends fath...Odin use to speak to us of? Of course, you don't you were probably off killing something."

Thor frowned when MJ webbed his mouth shut before saying, "If you aren't going to say something useful then you shouldn't say anything at all." Thor laughed at his brother's predicament, making Loki stare daggers at MJ as he tried to speak in muffled tones.

She ignored him as they flew towards the Hellicarrier and landed meeting with the S.H.I.E.L.D agents that took Loki into custody, MJ was sitting next to Peter and was carried into the lab along with Loki's staff, and Bruce Banner.

"Who's this?" Bruce asked Tony who was putting Peter on the table, undid his armor, and said, "A friend, can you help run some scans on him."

Bruce walked up and tapped the metallic surface and held a device over it, "Odd, I've never seen an alloy with this composition before. Stark, can you remove this webbing."

Tony, who still had his Ironman Glove on focused a small laser on the webbing. However, it was no use. 

"Damn this is some tough stuff!" Tony groaned in frustration seconds before Thor's booming voice was heard.

"As I said before, you have nothing to fear. Your Spider-Man will be fine. Loki should be your main concern he plans to bring an army to this world and exchange the Tesseract to rule over it."

At that moment, Fury stepped into the room said, "I agree, right now we need to focus on finding that Tesseract! Doctor Banner, any luck on that?"

Banner turned around and scratched his head as he said, "Actually yes, the stuff you brought in might be able to lead us to the ones that he controlled, as they should emit a similar radiation signature."

"Then please continue to work on that. Spider-Woman I know you're worried, but he'll pull through this, we'll have our best shield doctors trying to help him."

MJ nodded her head and turned to face everyone, "I know Spider-Man would want me to focus on the task at hand. Doctor Banner, could you please watch over him should I have to leave."

Banner nodded his head and said, "Sure! Why not! Not like I can do anything else up here."

Peter. who was currently undergoing a metamorphosis, was out for quite a long time. A few hours had passed, and it wasn't until he heard Banner raising his voice about S.H.I.E.L.D building weapons using the Tesseract that he started to come regain control of his senses.

"Guys to be fair, an invasion of alien beings is coming to subjugate the entire planet, those weapons would be great asset in such an event. Although I don't understand why you were hiding it, Fury," MJ crossed her arms.

"Because I wasn't too optimistic about the weapons, I was betting on you, the Avengers being a frontline force so we would never have to use them!" Fury shouted making the room go quiet, when all of a sudden, he heard MJ call out for everyone to hold on to something. 

A massive explosion went off in the room, shaking the entire Hellicarrier and rattling everyone in the room. Both MJ's and Peter's senses were blaring and telling them to secure Doctor Banner as she jumped up and grabbed him, keeping him from falling or flailing about the room while she webbed up the rest of the crew with her Symbiote.

After the room stabilized she looked to Banner and said, "You okay!"

Banner was about to go green. He tried to calm down, even using meditation, but it looked like that wasn't helping much at all. 

MJ looked desperate when she thought of the only thing that might work, she peeled back her mask and said, "Please calm down Doctor Banner, we can't have you running wild with so many lives on the line."

"You're a Kid!?" Bruce seemed to have found something to take his mind off the environment.

Seeing that he was gaining back his focus, MJ smiled and said, "I'm 17 thank you very much, in some culture's that's considered an adult."

Bruce laughed a little and said, "Thanks." as MJ made the mask resurface.

She placed him down and ran over to Peter's side, noticing that his Symbiote was retreating back into costume form. 

Peter opened his eyes up and jumped up before shouting, "Holy Crap, it feels like there's lightning in my veins!" 

The Spider-Hero felt the changes to his body. His bones being the biggest difference had undergone a complete transformation. They now carried a dense and metallic sheen to them, but it wasn't a simple coating like Wolverine, but they were made out of something similar to his Spider Silk and had the properties of his M-Titan Alloy.

He also noticed that he had Organic Web shooters now used the same material produced by his Marrow to make incredibly powerful webbing. Of course, he had a way to make sure his organic webbing wasn't permanent. He would simply have to destroy the webbing with his powers. By disabling the Van Der Waals forces surrounding the material he could disintegrate them via removing the electromagnetic field around them and scatting the webs atomic bonds. 

He could also collect it and use it as material. So right now, it only existed as a purely combative-type webbing.

He also felt that his five senses were sharper than ever, his strength had increased several fold, and it was almost as if he could almost see the sequence of events to come just by focusing on his Spider-Sense. However, since he was new to the Spider-Sense upgrade, it felt like those visions were drowned out by a heavy fog. 

Once he felt like he had control of his entire body, he looked over to MJ and felt her run into him at full speed.

Peter grabbed hold of her and said "I'm okay. What's going on?"

"A lot," MJ looked back at the room covered in her webs when she released them everyone. Of course, they made sure to thank her for the save. 

While everyone was starting to relax a bit, Peter suddenly shot out a web and pulled his hand back retrieving a certain sharpshooters bow. All of this happened before MJ senses could detect the bolt aimed at Bruce's leg.

Seeing Hawkeye staring in surprise at Peter, he turned around and tried to run.

When he was about to give chase, Black Widow ran after while shouting, "I'll take care of Clint. Tony, fix the ship."

Thor had already left to check on Loki, and Fury had pulled a Batman on them, so they got to work. Tony slapped Peter on the back and said, "Glad to have you back with us Spider-Man."

Peter smiled and responded, "Thanks, I'll go check on Thor! MJ keep Banner from going green on the ship. Banner, I'm a big fan of your work, the thesis you wrote on Antielectron Collisions is groundbreaking, I had some questions involving why anti-hydrogen production rely on the rate of antiprotons being slowed in positron plasmas; but since we have to work to do, I'll save the chit-chat for later."

Peter then dashed off as Bruce thought, "What a smart kid."

Peter ran all the way towards the Prison they had built for the Hulk, Thor was trapped inside and was about to be forced out of the room when Agent Coulsen stepped up and pointed his weapon at Loki. Peter Arrived just as the staff was about to pierce through his chest when Peter webbed him and pulled him towards his grasp.

Loki then pressed the switch releasing the drop chamber in order to make Peter release the villain.

The hero jumped, flipping up onto the ceiling while webbing onto drop-chamber from above. Holding the several ton chamber, he reeled it back up before webbing a few extra lines to give support lines for the prison.

Peter then looked at Thor before asking, "Can you get out on your own!?"

Seeing things weren't going his way, Loki decided it was time to leave and disappeared like a puff of smoke.

Peter paid no mind to the god's escape and moved over to Agent Coulson. He saw that his lung had been punctured, so he wasted no time and leaned down to use his Symbiote and start repairing the damage.

While he worked to repair the damage, his Spidey Senses suddenly became active, giving him visions of what would happen if he healed Coulson completely.

Peter realized that something bad would happen concerning the fate of the world if he continued to go along this route.

However, that didn't mean he had to stop completely.

Once Coulson took a deep breath, Spider-Man retracted his Symbiote while looking over his body. He noticed that was still wounded and needed surgery, but the damage to his lung tissue had been repaired and the patient was out of critical condition.

Peter then webbed up his wound and placed him against the wall moments before Thor smashed out of the prison room.

"I can't heal him, but I don't have to let him die," Peter thought to himself.

"Is he?" Thor stood by Spider-Man who shouted in response, "Go get a medic!" 

Thor didn't wait as he began searching out S.H.I.E.L.D Personal to look for a medic.

When Fury arrived, Peter knew the two would take this chance to unite the Avengers and was forced to play along with Fury's schemes for the greater good.

Thanks to Bruce not losing it, the ship was in far greater condition, but still took a beating from Loki's mind-controlled puppets. So, they had no choice but to set the massive air-craft down for repairs. 

Fury gathered the Avengers around a table and threw out Colsen's bloodied Captain America cards and said, "These were in Phill Coulson's Jacket, I guess you'll never get the chance to sign them now. Agent Coulson passed away in surgery."

It took a while for everyone to register what he said when Fury sighed, "Yes, we were building an arsenal, but I never put all my chips into that plan. No, I was playing something even riskier. Stark knows this as the Avenger's Initiative."

Fury walked around them as he continued to explain, "The idea was to gather a group of remarkable people, to see if they can become something more. To see if they could work together when we needed them to and fight the battles we never could. Phill Coulson died still believing in that idea, the idea of Heroes."

Tony stood up and started to walk away when Peter said, "There this saying the man I consider my father quotes all the time." 

Tony stopped. 

"Each of us has powers and abilities that no other normal person has, whether it's super strength, insane training, or super brain power, and with each of our great powers comes great responsibility. Right now, we have a responsibility to put aside our differences and work together to save our world, and to do that we need to look past ourselves and see the bigger picture."