Issue 28: Avenger's Initiative Part X

"What I'm trying to say is, with Great Power comes Great Responsibility, and I don't know about you all, but I'm not going to just let Loki get away with this. I'll go alone if I have to."

"As long as I'm here, you're never alone," MJ held his hand.

"No, we're in this together…" Iron-Man sighed.

Fury smiled at the famous phrase and said, "I like that saying. Mind if I steal it?"

Peter shook his head and laughed, "Words are free Fury, do as you please, but in return, you have to say that this isn't your first rodeo."

Furry frowned and said, "Well it isn't."

Peter chuckled as he stood up, and said, "According to the mythology, he's cocky, a showboat, and loves to be the center of attention. Hey, he kind of sounds like you, Tony. I don't suppose you have any idea where Loki might be headed?"

Tony was tapping his finger on the table, and said, "I might if this Loki guy is a showman, like me. He is, right?"

Thor nodded his head when Tony looked at him for answers and said, "The biggest ego in Asgard."

"Well if I were going to going to perform an invasion and I wanted everyone to see, well, I would...That son of a bitch!" Tony figured out where Loki was going to do this and started cussing up a storm.

They then began their plan of assault. Thor and Ironman decided to stall Loki for as long as they could while Bruce and Black Widow took care of the portal. Peter and the rest would be on crowd control and civilian rescue. 

Spider-Man then looked to Fury and asked, "Can we warn the people somehow, like using the civil defense siren."

Fury looked to him and said, "It's no good from here, our communication systems are down and we can't connect with any outsiders right now."

Peter looked to Stark and said, "How about you Stark, think you can hack into the emergency warning system and activate the sirens."

"Already on it, Spider-Man!" Stark said was tapping away at the table showing his glasses run a computer code script, after activating the alarm they set out heading towards Stark Tower. 

Along the way, Peter called up the future Defenders and sent them a warning, "Something big is about to go down, alien invasion big. Do your best and save as many people as you can, you can use the old bomb shelters and subway tunnels to start helping evacuate the citizens."

"Are you for real?" Luke said with a bit of worry in his tone.

"Yeah, this isn't a drill, as of now we're at war with another world. Luke, you're in charge of the group, take care of your team." Suddenly a massive surge of energy swept out over New York, the sky lit up as a ring-like portal opened up and hundreds of Chitauri began their assault.

Peter and MJ took off along with the rest of the ground forces.

Spider-Man didn't need to wait for the order and just reacted. As he began webbing up the Chitauri and crashing their vehicles into each other, he hopped from building to building making sure to help evacuate the civilians and lead them to safety. 

An explosion went off as a group of Chitauri were about to take down the whole building. However, Peter webbed up the damage area and used his suit to make a group of drones that would target any Chitauri nearby him.

In the heat of combat, he grabbed hold of a family by webbing their waist together and began transporting them to the underground Transit System with swift jumps and swinging motions. Once they were safely on the ground, he gave them directions to the nearest bunker and told them to get to the bomb shelters before returning to evacuate more.

MJ was swinging around taking out Chitauri left and right. She saw a group of kids running from the laser attacks and webbed up a dome to protect them while she took out the aliens. Faster than the human eye could perceive, she leapt in the center of a cluster of enemies and kicked a Chitauri into another of one and shot a rail-gun version of her webbing pellets through their armor. 

Webbing a line into another alien, she swung around in a circle, jumping and ziplining to around the battlefield while knocking, grabing, and throwing any enemies she could get ahold of into the alien in the center of her cobweb.

Once she cleared out the area, MJ delivered a powerful electric current down the line, shocking everything within the trap with a lethal voltage that fried their armors alongside their bodies.

She then grabbed the kids and started transporting them to a shelter. The Spider-Heroine created two flying drones that orbited her body to protect her while she traveled through the gaps in the city buildings.

Along the way, she spotted a few more citizens and webbed them up and carried them with her while the Spider- Drones shot down anything that came close to them.

Back with Peter, he was carrying away a new group of civilians, when he stared at none other than JJJ and his son protecting his family and a few dozen other people from a group of Chitauri with M-16s. 

"Huh? So that's why JJJ isn't up my ass. His wife is still alive in my universe." 

Peter swooped in and quickly kicked the head off of one of the Chitauri and webbed up one of the guns on causing it to explode in the other Chitauri soldier's face.

"Spider-Man!" The group of survivors shouted, "Good to see you too NY but now's not the time for idle chit-chat." Peter looked around and back to the crowd and said, "Well come on folks alien invasions not stopping any time soon, let's get you to a shelter. Peter webbed up a net and said, "Everyone on."

As everyone stood over the web, Peter picked it up and began flying towards the nearest shelter. Along the way, every civilian he found, he webbed them up into the net as his Automated Turrets dispatched the nearby enemies. 

As he flew towards the shelter location, JJJ said, "Spider-Man would you answer a few questions?"

Peter looked down at him in amazement and said, "Really? You're asking me now?"

"A decent Journalist would never pass up this opportunity," JJJ responded.

"Oookay?! Make it quick!" Peter said as he neared the subway.

"Are you some kind of half bug man under that mask? Are you some kind of mutant? Why do you risk your own life to help others?"

"No, I'm not some weird human-bug hybrid, I'm still human. Yes, I'm a mutant, but so is everyone else on this planet, and I do this because with Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility. JJ if you had my powers what would you do if something bad was happening and you knew you could stop it?"

"But why the mask?" JJ asked as he knew he was almost out of time.

"Have you seen the freaks I fight, they have superpowered abilities, tech you can't even imagine, and they all share one thing in common, they want Spidey dead. I may be super powered, but my loved ones, not so much. Are you getting the picture yet JJ? And besides..." Peter landed next to the subway tunnels, "The mask is pretty cool."

Peter flew away after sealing up the entrance with his webbing, along the way an explosion occurred as Peter saw a young black kid, around a few years younger than him falling from an apartment complex window. 

Peter webbed him and pulled him back up as he jumped inside the building. Shooting out his webbing he held up the damaged part of the building and began grabbing the family as he leaped over to a nearby building. He then started to clear out the enemies in the area while saving as many lives as he could, after taking this batch to a shelter, the Kid who fell from the building hugged him, and said, "Thanks Spider-Man!"

Peter looked at the kid and thought he seemed familiar when the boy's father shouted, "Come on Miles! Spider-Man has more people to save!" Peter's eyes widened as he looked at his Universes Miles Morales walking away with his dad. 

"Whoa! Wonder if he'll still become a Spider-Man in this world? Well, only time will tell."

Up at the top of Stark towers, Bruce was knocked off the building by a random Chitauri and transformed into the Hulk to survive the fall. When he landed and saw the chaos around him. The angry green giant didn't even pause before he started smashing into the Chitauri invasion force.

Peter had just cleared out a block, when a Chitauri warship came zipping through the portal. While it was flying overhead, he activated his Magnetic control, and turned the first ship around before he started ramming the ships into each other. 

A massive explosion went off as the ships came crashing down over NY, Peter captured all the metal and used it as projectiles against the cover of the Portal.

Suddenly, Peter heard a loud roar and saw a green dot flying towards another warship and began ripping it apart with his bare hands. Peter laughed and said, "Good to see you, big guy!" 

The Hulk looked to Spider-Man and said, "You no afraid of Hulk!?"

Peter laughed as he said, "Why would I be scared of you? You don't hurt people who don't hurt you right?"

"Bug man smart!" Hulk said laughing as he slapped Spider-Man on the back sending him flying into the ground.

"Ops," Hulk said looking at the small crater made by Peter's body.

Peter felt a surge of pain ripple throughout his body. Thankfully his suit absorbed most of the damage. If he hadn't been wearing it, he swore that every bone, muscle, and organ would've been ruptured or broken in some way. 

Peter jumped back up and surprised the Hulk, before saying, "Easy big guy, I'm squishy compared to you, and it's Spider-Man, not bug man."

While he brushed the dust off him, the Spider-Hero turned to the remaining ships invading their world and said, "Wanna have a competition to see who can take out the most?"

No sooner than the word's left Spider-Man's mouth, a bolt of lightning descended on a nearby warship causing it to fall towards the ground.

Peter quickly webbed up the giant monstrosity with his Organic Webbing and safely landed it Central Park. Now any survivors in the ship wouldn't be able to get out to cause havoc, not to mention he would later claim this tech as his own.

Peter heard Thor laughing, "Can I get in on this competition as well."

"What about Loki?" Peter asked.

"He's been incapacitated, they're working on the closing the Portal now, we just need to buy them time."

"Sure but try not to destroy the city, if you can aim the wreckage away from the city that would be appreciated." Peter said before he started controlling another warship with magnetism. 

Suddenly all the Chitauri inside his captured vessel were shot out the whale-like ship and were thrust back through the portal, left to float away dying in the void of space. He then pulled the massive ship to the ground and webbed it up like his other one. However, unlike the other, he now had a captured perfectly intact spaceship. 

Next, he focused all his attention on destroying the warships. He began slamming the ships into each other like wrecking balls and tossing them through the portal with his Ferrokinesis alone while Thor and Hulk were completely destroying the ships like they were made of paper.

Giant Green Fists and Hammer blows combined, sending multiple shattering blast of shrapnel that Peter redirected and used to kill off even more Chitauri. Thanks to their close proximity to each other, Peter was able to keep most of the damage localized in Central Park, but there will still thousands of smaller units slipping pass them and flooding into the city.

Thankfully, they had the full might of Avengers kicking ass all throughout the city. 

Several sonic booms echoed out as Peter suddenly looked over to the tower when he saw Ironman blasting off into the distance. He noticed that he was carrying a missile on his back, and that the portal was beginning to shrink.

Peter waited for Stark got close to him and used his magnetic power to pull the rocket off of Tony's back before launching it straight into the Chitauri Mothership as the portal closed.

"Thanks for the assistance, Spider-Man!" Stark said as he thought of what almost occurred.

"No problem, Ironman! Let's clear out all the stragglers!" Spiderman said as he looked to the remaining Chitauri forces still fighting on the surface.

They jumped into action as they started killing off the stragglers.

Captain America was standing in the center of a street, teaming up with Black Widow and Hawkeye as they took down enemies left and right.

Bullets flew from Natasha's wrists, arrows shot out alongside a shield that bounced off enemy combatants, and dozens of Chitauri soldiers perished under their melee attacks.

Peter jumped in and created a series of turrets that began to assist them, Tony shot everything in sight, and MJ webbed in taking out dozens of Chitauri at a time.

The Hulk and Thor teamed up smashing down any remaining warships when Peter even noticed the Defenders way off in the distance supporting the people and taking out some enemies of their own.

As they joined together and faced down the last wave of Chitauri Tony said, "Hey, there's a Shawarma place not too far from here anyone else want to try it after this is all over, I've never had it before."

"Ohh! New Avenger rule, you pick the place, you're paying!" Peter shouted.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah! I'll pay!" Tony said as he put his helmet plate back on.

"Okay, then let's do this," MJ shouted as they charged into the battlefield.

Peter jumped in as fast as he could, punching, kicking, and using his powers to his fullest extent. Bones snaped, radiant green blood gushed from within the armor that was crushed under the weight of his heavy blows, limbs and organs reduced to dust through martial technique alone. Spider-Man held nothing back against the alien invaders and showed the new power he was granted by his Totem in full.

Thor shouted as he slammed his hammer through a wave of Chitauri sending them flying around like rag dolls. Lightning tore through them while the hammer turned them into pulp, and throughout the whole slaughter, Thor's face was vibrant and full of joy.

MJ really showed off her inventions as she created several types of cannons, fire, sonic, electric, vibration, the blasters were direct, and focused so the Chitauri armor never stood a chance as the shots slammed through their bodies. She knew more than anyone that holding back now would likely result in her death. It was her first war with an alien species and couldn't afford to pull her punches.

Cap threw his shield cutting through Chitauri soldiers before MJ webbed onto it and began swinging in a circle. As the shield cut through more enemies, she let go and let the shield fly towards Peter. In response, he webbed it up and bounced it back to Captain America, taking out a few more aliens before the American Hero caught it and jump-kicked a Chitauri's head off.

Ironman fought alongside Thor and Hulk, shooting down targets from a distance and covering the two every chance he got.

When another ship tried to get close, Thor actually managed to pick up the Hulk and threw him into a hoard of enemies.

While the angry green giant crushed them easily, Tony and Thor shot lightning strikes and lasers at their targets from a distance, wiping out dozens of enemy combatants with every blast. 

After a few hours of this, they all stood back to back panting after attacking the final Chitauri soldiers fell before them, 

"Okay, that's it. I can't take anymore. I'm starving!" Tony shouted.

Now that the battle had ended Peter then said, "Let's go eat, and then deal with the cleanup right after." Peter pointed to the half-destroyed City, "We can't just leave a mess like this. I'll lose my Friendly Neighborhood Title."