Chapter 003 [...Tormented and Attacked…]

Chapter 003 [...Tormented and Attacked…]

I felt something against my stomach. Immeasurable pain, and I woke up. A blurry tree was in front of me and I tried to figure out how long I had been standing there when I moved my hands. The sound of shackles locking, pulling me back to swing back and forth. I was chained to the ceiling with arms far apart, the abyss under my feet. Above my head a low ceiling.

This was a problem. In front of me wasn't a tree but an angry tall guy with three tattoos on his bald head. He pulled his arm back and punched me in the stomach. I threw up blood.

My mask was nowhere to be seen so the projectile fell far below into the abyss. Some hitting him, accidentally.

"You are an amusing one. I've never seen a mortal with such strength before." Amora slinked into view her hands glowing with power as she floated a broken staff down beside her, "Midgard is as interesting as I've heard, I can see why that blonde fool continues to play at being mortal."

I was in so much pain, vision blurry but I got out, "Not that different from you, though you're a few thousand years out of date, while the caveman aesthetic is very chic, it's not our current decor. It would be a shame if something happened to it."

With that I pulled down with all my strength, breaking one of the chains, and punched him in the chin, Skurge stumbled veering away from the edge before I whipped the chain around his throat and pulled him down as he smashed his face off the ground completely out. It looked like Asgardian physiology wasn't all that different from humans, a knock to the chin would down anyone, before I could break out from the other chain, a glow of power stopped me.

"Normally I would be beyond angry that my plans were disrupted again," she made a face of distaste as she looked at Skurge. It turned to a smug one when she continued to monologue her plans like a two bit bond villain, "Only he was more so an annoyance. Hela's lapdog who bayed for too much blood for my liking. You just saved me a lot of time and extra planning, thus for your reward, one of Asgard's strongest weapons, for you."

She floated it up and raised my free hand to forcibly grasp the Staff-

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There on the couch. I was in my house. I grabbed my head trying to remember what I had been doing before. My head pounding as tidal wave of something roared in my mind. I was feeling strangely angry, and I didn't know why.

I say the t.v. glow its blue electric screen onto the couch. Why couldn't I see the front? Why was I so far away?

Fear gripped my every step. Heart pounding I turned to see her lying still with her eyes open. An angry red forked tree on her skin, marks of someone struck by lightning. Rare and almost never happened, but she had it snaked up her arms and onto her face curling around her right eye. Large cauterized wound of a lightning strike in her side.

DEATH OF AUNT MAY.

She...her face was so peaceful.

ANGER.

It couldn't be. Lightning… it didn't happen indoors. There was a KRAKA-BOOM outside. I walked down the hallway and opened the door to see Thor in the air rotating his hammer. Slamming his hammer down and cracking the entirety of the sub-urban area.

Why. Thor wouldn't… This doesn't make sense. S methi g was wr ng.

KILLER OF CITIES.

Cities burned, buildings melted from repulsor beams. Others in ruins by missiles. The IRON MAN faceplate quiet as he laid waste to the city. Blood running down the streets...

BREAK THE-

$#@% %$@%%%#

-AvENGeRS

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I landed atop the icy ledge overlooking the Murderers that had no right joking and laughing. Ant-Man, Wasp, alongside Thor, and Iron Man. The Hulk nowhere to be seen, unsurprising because they were attacking him the last I saw them. We were at the outskirts of Amora's Golden Palace in the ice lands of some place in Asgard.

They must've followed me to finish the job, not that I would let that happen. The Iron #$%$ flew with his legs unbroken.

Let's fix that. I jumped, using the sun behind my back to keep him from noticing my airborne body. Slamming into him with the berserker Staff, quickly flipping him and smashing him into the Asgardian lapdog. I ripped his Arc Reactor from his chest, crushing it, before going for his head.

I had to finish this fast, a prolonged fight wouldn't work in my favour as they were still new to this and thus weak.

A large crackle of thunder and Spider Sense blared, I jumped backwards as Mjolnir passed by my head. A supernova for my Spider Sense, nearly overriding everything in my body to make sure I absolutely kept from being hit under all circumstances.

A female voice hovered just out of range, "Tony! Thor what's going on!?"

The sycophant answered her, "Thy mortal is under the Berserker Staff rage, it increases strength to that of an Asgardian at the cost of his mind. He can't be allowed to continue wielding it."

Distracted it cost him the battle, smashing the Staff against his hand, causing him to yell with pain as he dropped the hammer.

Good. Maybe he'd understand now. Then thrust the sharp end of the staff to pierce his sternum. It barely dented his skin as he flew hundreds of meters back, making my job that much harder as I grit my teeth in fury.

He had dropped his hammer. It thunked as it fell through the snow and hit solid ground. I walked over without anyone stopping me as none were in condition to before lifting it.

Thunder crackled from the clouds above before streaking down like a tidal wave smashed into my body. The world opened to my senses, I could smell ozone, the weight of my being became heavier. I almost laughed overjoyed at the feeling of power. Only the power had also cleared my mind of the strange cloud, and I saw what I had done. Iron Man laid on his back with a gaping hole in his armour. Thor wasn't in sight as Ant-Man had been knocked out by the initial strike and Wasp was nowhere to be found.

"No...I, he..." Shame and humiliation filled my body. I almost kill- I was...I shouldn't have. I should've been strong enough.

It was Enchantress' fault. It was hers, not mine. My hands shook, the orange glow of the broken staff lighting up the mountain side. The cloud returned with a familiar coarse fit. o, I should've been strong enough. My anger at my inability to control my mind came back this time directed at Enchantress.

It was her fault.

My mind roared with something but less intense from before, the left side of my body glowing with fiery liquid glow, the right with blue lightning. Both in tandem powering my me, and helping focus my mind on the Enchantress.

I was going to make her pay.

There was a voice trying to tell me something but it was too quiet to listen to.

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I crashed through the roof of her palace, cratoring the flooring and sending cracks up the foundation, surprise in her (&%Y$ eyes. She sat in her golden green throne room surrounded by jewellery mountains high. The place an architectural wonder, but I only wondered what it would be like in ruins.

I lifted the Hammer and storm clouds brewed. Lightning crackling down my body, her eyes wide with shock and fear, she quickly waved her hand. There was a strange glowing green mist on my left hand holding the staff that dispelled. I felt my fingers unstick a little-

BOOM.

I turned to see the giant gold doors flying towards me, reacting with lightning speeds, I smashed them with the hammer sending them towards the walls with a resounding BOOM. However, they were a diversion as a repulsor beams hit me in the chest.

It was enough to only push me back a little when I heard a tiny voice shout, "Fastball Special!" I noted my spider sense blaring but couldn't see anything. Until a giant fist just appeared out of nowhere faster than I could react sending me flying backwards.

There was an explosion of dust and debris about twenty meters behind my flying body as my spider sense blared again. Using the hammer to twist and throw the staff at the person that just landed, it slammed into him at high velocity knocking him back.

The strange fog I hadn't realized was weighing on my mind lifted and I tried to understand what had just happened. My spider sense blared and another beam came barreling towards my head. I twisted my head to dodge and jumped towards him, he wasn't going to listen to reason I was sure, Tony wasn't exactly well versed in mind control. He wasn't fast enough and it was back to having the same thing happen again but this time I left the hammer on top of him instead of ripping his Reactor out.

I tried to calm him down.

"Right, uh this is embarrassing. Sorry about that Thor. Iron Man. The staff is gone from my hand," I showed them the empty one, "The Enchantress had the magic stick the staff to it so I couldn't let go until recently. Again real sorry."

I didn't feel calm inwardly but outwardly I showed I was in control.

"Yeah that's great an all, but could you lift the Hammer off me?"

I blinked, "Right of course." I lifted it off him. He got up slowly and turned to me. He put a hand on my shoulder, before putting his left on my chest. A sudden pain and I flew twenty meters into a pillar.

"Now we're even. That's for destroying my Arc Reactor."

I raised a hand from the rubble and pointed it at him, "That's fair." Honestly, it assuaged a lot of my guilt, having attacked them with the intent to hurt earlier.

Thor marched up to the massive throne, lightning flaring from his eyes. Saying he was a little angry was like if you said storms were a little windy.

"Enchantress! What is the meaning of this?!"

Her eyes were however locked on my right hand for some reason, "Oh you know, women need a little excitement in their lives. You seemed to be having such fun in Midgard, I just had to experience it for myself."

He growled, "Why did you kidnap him, he has no bearing with Asgardians." Felt oddly touched Thor was getting angry on his behalf. That or it was because Amora.

"Normally, I wouldn't care for mortals except to toy with them, I had wanted to get a little payback for when he beat my minion and myself, but now…"

She looked like she was building up to something, as she stepped closer Thor and Iron Man getting ready to fire, the Wasp ready to fire as well alongside the 60 meter tall Giant Man. Though wondered when they had gotten here, having not noticed them during the fight.

She disappeared and reappeared within a cloud of green mist about ten meters from where I stood, "Join me."

I thought about it, "No." I tried. Really hard not to get mad.

"I won't allow you, Enchantress-" Thor stopped mid-steam surprised as everyone else was.

She looked confused, "What do you mean 'no'?"

I could understand what everyone was thinking. She lived up to her name the Enchantress. She was beautiful in a strange ethereal way. Looking at her I could see people falling over themselves for her just to talk to her, just to stare at her. Maybe under different circumstances and if I hadn't known her, I would've too.

Except she made me hold the staff. I don't think anyone quite understood what it was like having someone mess with my mind. Their reactions showed that, but I wasn't letting that go any time soon.

I was going to respond in a very classic Spidey fashion until I could reassess exactly how I was going to get revenge.

Instead I said, "Okay first off you look like you don't eat healthy or ever exercise. That and you look like every schoolgirl bully valley stereotype graduated and just went to a university full of them and came out on top. In the worst possible way." I also added, "You're also ugly."

She blinked, "What?"

"Oooh snap." The Wasp said.

"Is he allowed to say that? That's going against the bro code, right?" Tony muttered, "Hey, so if he's saying no, I could always help you with-"

"Quiet, Tin Man." Enchantress bit out. Wow, she was mad. She turned with barely contained rage to face me, "Think twice mortal."

"Well," I might've but after those visions, "If you wanted me to add more..." I took a deep breath and went on a yo mama segment. For about twenty minutes.

There was silence as everyone processed this.

Enchantress said, "What?" As if she was still stuck on what I had said earlier.

Thor turned away from us and seemed to let out a quick snort. He couldn't hold it in for long before he started to laugh.

"Quiet!" Thor only laughed harder, "Shut your mouth!" She sent a blast of energy sending him into the column, it just wasn't his day. Before she was attacked by both Wasp and Tony with lasers.

I just threw Mjolnir as Thor shot back with lightning knocking her out. Or so it seemed as she dispersed into yellow dust.

"Did...she just die?" Wasp asked.

"No. She escaped." Thor said his shoulders shaking as he tried to keep a straight face.

"Ah."

Thor turned to me with a grin, "You are definitely worthy of that hammer. I haven't laughed like that in a long time."

"I aim to please."

"Indeed. Now that the battle is won. Spoils of war are generally given to the most worthy and he in turn chooses who to give them to. Technically you have no limit however three is the most common number chosen and is the least offensive, she won't mind that. Anymore and you might have problems."

I looked to the mountain of jewels before realizing the perfect form of revenge, "Where's the library?"

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We arrived back in New York, luckily it was still night time. I also read through a large number of Enchantress' books before leaving. Thor handed a number of them over slapping my back that nearly bowled me over, stating something about worthy spoils of war. I didn't really understand when this had ever been a rule in comics but hey I got magic now.

"So, you beat us up, destroyed my Arc Reactor, and made us go on a trek through Asgard."

"Which was so cool to see!" Wasp said very happily. She was one of the more fun Avengers, nice to see that stayed true in this universe.

"But you kind of attacked us-"

"Aye, it was a fun battle! Haven't had a good match in a while."

"You just fought the Hulk," Ant-Man said exasperatedly.

"Aye it was like the battle was yesterday."

"It was."

Tony started again, "Anyways, what I'm trying to say is-"

"Tony just give him the Avenger's Card," Wasp interrupted again.

Tony sighed, "Fine here, don't lose it. I'm not making you any replacements."

The card was quite literally the coolest thing, I knew I was going to be dissecting it the first chance I got. I said instead, "So does this give me a discount for Avenger's merchandise?"

He looked at me, before his faceplate flipped down and he blast off towards Avenger's Mansion.

Wasp giggled, "Don't worry Tony's just mad that he got beat up so quickly, he likes you too."

"I'll send him an Iron Man chew toy."

Managing to get a hold of Ant-Man I told him how I wanted to talk to him about invention ideas that would be beneficial to the both of them and he was skeptical at first but agreed after I quickly explained some ideas for a super prison and potential uses of Pym Particles. The dude was a straight up genius on the level of Tony, but got less recognition because he wasn't showy as Stark. Or made WMDs, not that I was harping on him either.

"Spider-Man a word." Thor said. I walked with him to the side where the others couldn't hear.

"Alright, Hammer Time whatcha got for me?"

"Now that you have caught Amora's eye and have pulled that 'prank' of yours," referring to what I had turned her palace into. Having found one of her staves she had storing some immense power, at least from my perspective, for her it was pocket change.

Thor smirked once I explained that I wanted him to overcharge all the staves and hammer them into the foundation. The result was a square kilometer Disney Candy Theme Park Ride of gingerbread house goodness. She wasn't going to be happy about that, especially when Thor said she likely wasn't strong enough to reverse it for at least a few months afterwards. I would've never been able to otherwise, "There will be others, I realize now, that my presence on Midgard brings attention from my enemies. If you would like, I would be honoured to help a fellow warrior avoid their notice."

He was probably talking about his brother Loki, but I got the feeling that it was someone a little more important, "Sure. It'll be fun."

"Splendid, once we have the Mighty Hulk on our side once more it will be great fun." He boomed a laugh.

"What happened to the Green Man anyway?"

His face contrite, "Ah. Yes, that was a trick my Amora, but it was our fault as well. We drove him away when we treated him like a monster."

"Don't worry about it man, it's not like you meant it in a bad way, I'm sure you two will be buddy buddy in no time."

He seemed happier, "Thanks Spider-Man. We will talk again soon. Farewell." He left with the rest of them for Avenger's Mansion.

Wow, I just realized how rich they were. I held up a small golden coin. I would be joining their ranks soon enough.

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Landing in front of my house I found the lights open and realized Aunt May was up at 1AM.

That, was a problem.

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I walked in expecting her to maybe be asleep at the table. Who am I kidding I was Spider-Man.

"Hello Peter." If I hadn't been expecting her that would've been such a bond villain line.

"Hello Aunt May."

"Peter we need to talk." She put a quiet hand on my shoulder and instantly I relaxed it not realizing how tense I had been. She lead us to the kitchen where I sat down on the chair looking at my glass of water and cold dinner.

"I know you're a good boy, and growing up to be a fine young man. But you're still my responsibility, I can't have you out till Midnight. You're to be home by 10 o'clock, that's my bedtime."

She continued almost seeming hesitant but assaured, "If you're late you call, before ten. If you do call, it will be that you are heading home. That's the law in this house Peter. Do we understand each other?"

I was quiet for a moment, "Sure Aunt May. That's fair."

She let out a small breathe, "Ah lovely! Now how about a slice of banana cream pie."

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She had given me a curfew. Me. A curfew. I've never had any curfew placed on me, even my alternate's memories didn't ever have a curfew.

Honestly reeked.

Still…I understood her, and didn't want to worry her in the slightest. She was a wonderful person watching out for me.

I looked at the stack of rune scribed books on my shelf giddy at learning magic I was having a hard time falling asleep. The best part of today was that I had gotten an Avenger's Card. Even if Tony had been a little reluctant after I destroyed parts of his armour and beat them all. (Even if it was by surprise, it still counted.)

Of course I had to take it apart as soon I had gotten it and took out the tracking chip and left it nowhere near my house.

I liked Tony. But I wasn't stupid.

Darkness encroached as I had a massive smile on my face. Even with the mind control, today was amazing. Tell me there's something better. Go ahead, try.