Chapter 3: Iron Man

It's been five months since Spider-Man started operating and the majority of New York loved me, however, I've began to notice that many people are now listening to JJ Johnson and started to hate me. Which is why I accepted to an interview at the Oprah Winfrey Show tomorrow. I need the people to be on my side in the future as it'll be easier for my plans. I watched as the news reported the disappearance of Tony Stark who has been missing for 4 months. Tony should escape in a week or so…I should probably head over to Afghanistan.

"Karen prepare the spiderjet."

"Yes Peter."

The spiderjet rolled in. It was like the X-Men jet except this was the same colours as my costume with my glowing blue lines running around its black shell with a spider symbol. It had a single jet engine at the back which is able to power the jet into Mach 2. I entered to jet and sat in the pilot's seat but I wasn't flying it. Karen was. The cave top opened wider this time and the jet rose vertically and turned invisible before it flew off.

~2hrs later~

"Karen park here." Ordered Peter. The jet stopped mid-air and the hatch opened, Peter jumped from the invisible ship his own invisibility turned. He glided while using thermal vision to scan for heat signatures. Finding over three dozen he headed towards that direction. With his superior senses he could smell smoke and gunpowder and his ears could pick up the sound of explosions.

Straightening his body to allow faster travel, he quickly arrived at the area. Closing his gliding wings he released his stingers and dropped down from above slicing a terrorist cleanly in two.

He ran towards another one before stabbing him in the chest before he ducked under a meaty arm slicing it off he turned his torso and cut through the man's neck before he even had a chance to screen.

Sensing someone behind him he stuff and flashed the blood off his stingers. "It is not polite to stare Mr Stark." He turned to face the man in a crude looking metal suit.

"Spider-Man. You're real?" he asked in disbelief.

"I am sure I am real Mr Stark. Now get ready we have company."

Ironman and Spider-Man stood back to back and began fighting the terrorists. Peter with his stingers and Tony with his bullets and rockets. Peter webbed two terrorists together and swung them at Tony who riddled their bodies with bullets. After they finished Peter looked at Tony and could tell the suit wouldn't hold up. Not even a second later the suit broke apart revealing the thin man underneath with a glowing orb in his chest cavity.

"You look like shit." Peter commented.

"Feel like it too." Said Tony as he caught his breath. He looked at the scrap at his feet. "While it broke apart under stress. Mark I was a clear success." He then looked at Peter. "So where's our ride. I assume since you're here you came in some vehicle."

"Look above you Mr Stark."

Tony looked above him only to see nothing. "I don't see any-Holy Shit!" said Tony as the jet appeared above him. It slowly landed not making a single sound.

The hatch opened and Peter walked inside, he stopped and looked at the still gaping Tony. "You coming?"

Tony shook himself out of his daze and ran towards Peter. "I'm coming."

They went inside and the hatch closed before the jet rose and flew off into the air. As they sat down Tony looked around in wonder.

"The tech in here are decades ahead of the current tech. I mean I have holographic tech but not on this level. Did you make this?" asked Tony.

"Yes I did with the help of my darling assistant." Answered Peter.

"Let me guess. Autopilot?" asked Tony indicating to the self-flying jet.

"You're quite talkative Mr Stark but no. Say hello Karen."

"Good afternoon Mr Stark." Said the A.I.

"Is that an A.I?" asked Tony as he thought he was the only person in the world with a personal one.

"Yes this is Karen. The greatest A.I on the planet far surpassing Jarvis."

"What? How do you know about Jarvis?" asked Tony perplexed at the thought that someone could hack his A.I without him even knowing.

"Exactly." Said Peter mysteriously. "There's tech on earth decades ahead of humanities most advance technologies Mr Stark."

The two talked the rest of the way before both arrived at Stark Tower. Peter undid the invisibility as the jet landed gently at the front door drawing attention from onlookers who did the first thing that came to their mind. Film. They knew this must be Spider-Man's Jet as the symbol was on the sides. Peter looked at Tony as he walked out the jet.

"We shall meet again Mr Stark and word of advice. A viper can be under any carpet at any time. One only has to look over his shoulder to ensure he is not bitten in the back by its venomous fangs." With that said the hatch closed and the jet rose before turning invisible and flying off.

IN AN ADVANCED HELICARRIER

"Hill. Coulson. What do we have on Spider-Man?" asked a dark-skinned bald head man with an eye patch. He was looking out a large window with his turned to the two agents.

"Just the basics Director Fury but we know that either he is enhanced or he is a mutant with spider powers or a man with a really powerful suit. He has shown extreme strength, speed and agility with an unnaturally flexible body. He has extreme control over his body and powers and we've concluded he has enhanced senses as well sir. We know nothing of his identity sir and recent news has shown him to have incredible vehicles as well." Said Hill as she handed Fury the tablet.

Fury took the tablet and looked at it to see Tony Stark talking to Spider-Man who was in a jet that looked like it came from a sci-fi movie. They talked before the hatch close and the ship began rising before it turned invisible.

Fury thought for a while before speaking. "Either he is genius or he a benefactor but I believe it's the former." He handed back the tablet to Hill. "Add Spider-Man to the Avenger's Initiative."

"Are you sure sir?" asked Coulson finally speaking up.

"Yes. Something tells me we're gonna need him in the future." Said the man mysteriously.

AT STARK TOWER

Tony sat on the ground eating a hamburger as he looked at the crowd of reporters in front of him. He sighed at the eager look in their eyes before he pointed at one. The man though startled he was chosen asked his question.

"Mr Stark, Dailey Bugle. What happened in Afghanistan? The army only recovered the corpses of over 3 dozen men. Any comment on that?" asked the man.

"Yes." Said Tony as he swallowed. While he didn't care what the media said about him. He knew that sometimes that the media could be the downfall of the most powerful men. "While in Afghanistan, I managed to escape my captors with the help of Spider-Man. We were under heavy fire from the any from both bullets and rockets so we did the only thing we could. We returned fire, clearly as you can see we won. You." He pointed at a woman.

"So you're saying you murdered people?" asked the woman.

"Please don't twist my words because you want a juicy story. I'm saying that we defended ourselves from more than 30 armed terrorists." Said Tony causing to woman to fume at the accusation. "No more questions, also I'm shutting down the weapons industry of Stark Industries. We shall now only be focusing on medical and technological advancements moving forward. Thank you." With that he walked out of the conference room ignoring all the shouting behind him.

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It has been a day since Tony's press conference and the media has been in a frenzy about the shutdown of Stark's weapons program. Peter sighed as he swung through the city. He landed on the side of a building and crawled inside. Turning invisible he went inside and hopped onto the ceiling. Looking below he saw a woman talking to an audience and cameras were pointed at her. This woman was Oprah Winfrey.

"As you know we invited New York's own hero, Spider-Man unto the show which he accepted but some are sceptical about whether or not he'll show up. Maybe he's already here and we just don't know it ready to pop out and scare the audience like the alien monster some said he is." Said Oprah causing the audience to laugh.

"You have a frightening intuition Ms Winfrey." Said Peter. Even though he didn't shout his voice carried across the entire set causing everyone to look at ceiling. Some jumped in fright and most screamed but Oprah merely smiled as he landed silently on the floor and sat opposite her. "It is a pleasure to meet you." He said as he shook her hand.

"You as well Spider-Man. So how are you?"

"I'm fine. Had a bit of trouble on the way here but nothing I couldn't handle." Said Peter.

"Well sorry about that but I'm sure the world is dying to know what made you decide to become a hero."

"I just got up one morning and said to myself. I have these extraordinary powers why not use them to help people and then here we are."

"So were you born with them or were they given."

"A little bit of both. It laid dormant inside me until something triggered them to awaken."

"Some people have theorized that you aren't human underneath the suit while some say you're just a robot designed by the government to oppress the people. Is there any truth to these rumours?"

"Well first I am not a robot but I am the former." Answered Peter. He knew this question would be asked so after careful consideration he decided to just tell the truth and be done with it, not like they could do anything about it. After the diagnostics ran by Karen he found out that he skin, bones, organs and muscles have become so dense that only a weapon from Wakanda might injure him but only slightly. He could also lift over 240tons and run up to a speed of 140mph. "I cannot tell you what I am but I can tell you I wasn't born on this planet merely raised on it."

"So a real life superman?" asked Oprah

"You could say that but I only have some of his powers like strength, speed."

The question and answers continued for about an hour but Peter never gave any important information.

"And that's all the time we have. Do you have anything to say to the people of New York Spider-Man?" asked Oprah.

"Yes." He then looked into the camera. "Sometimes it's best to embrace the unknown. If man hadn't embraced fire then humanity would have still been stuck in the prehistoric era."

UNDISCLOSED AREA

"What are you going to do about this intruder Nick?" asked a man.

Nick Fury was in his office staring at the large flat screen TV which showed the men and women of the World Security Council.

"If anything should happen to Spider-Man New York will be thrown into chaos. We can't do anything to him anyway. Not even our best minds can track him." Said Nick.

"So you are allowing an illegal powered alien to roam earth freely?" asked a council woman.

"SHIELD will soon contact Spider-Man one way or another." Said Nick. "I believe his powers could be of use in the future."

"Are you still bringing up that stupid initiative?" asked the same woman.

"Pass events have proven to us that we are severely out gunned or have you forgotten that Kree nearly blew up our asses a decade ago?" asked Nick rubbing the Council's sore spot.

There was a brief silence before a council man spoke up. "Fix this Nick."

With that they disappeared from the screen.

Nick only sighed and looked out the window.

Peter swung through the city at break neck speed. Why? Two Iron figures were fighting near Stark Tower. Peter arrived on the scene and look at the officers.

"Evacuate the civilians. I am going to stop them."

The officers nodded and ran off leaving a few. Peter quickly jumped into the fight of metal men and kicked the bulky armour in its face sending it into a building side.

"Sorry I lost my invitation so I let myself in." said Peter.

"Nice of you to join the party Spidey." Said Ironman with a smirk.

"What have you gotten yourself into Stark, barely a month back and you're causing trouble," sighed Peter.

Tony only ignored him and said "You could've just told me Stane was going to betray never, you didn't have to be so cryptic."

"You're smart, I was sure you could have figured out. Now let's get this trash off the street before it causes anymore damage." Said Peter as his stingers popped out.

"Do those come out of your body?" asked Tony in curiosity.

"Yes, now less talking. More fighting. On second thought, I'll just use my fist." The stingers disappeared and Peter ran at Stane who flew at them.

Latching a web on the metal giant's foot, he pulled the man to the ground slamming him into the pavement before he threw him at Tony who blasted him into the sky.

The man caught himself and shouted. "Stark! Spiderman! I'll kill you!" he shot multiple rockets at both.

Stark flew out of the way while Peter's vision slowed down. He ran at Stane, he jumped unto a rocket and began running on them. Arriving at Stane, time returned to normal he kicked Stane to the ground but Stane managed to grab hold of him. He release point blank bullets all of which hit Peter in the face before he slammed him to the ground just as he reached it.

Stark flew down at rapid speed and caught the armour before flying it to the atmospheric edge where ice began forming on both of them suits.

"Are you crazy? You're going to kill both of us!" shouted Stane as both of their thrusters failed sending both of them back to the ground, however, Tony's thrusters came back online while Stane's own only activated enough to soften his landing.

Stark bombarded him with repulsor blasts to the chest before Spider-Man appeared, stingers out. Suddenly he began slashing so fast that afterimages began to appear. He suddenly stopped and pulled the stingers back in, a second later Stane's armour slid off him as neat cuts appeared. Stane fell to the ground and looked up a Spider-Man in horror.

"What are y-ack!" Ironman appeared behind him and punched him knocking him out cold.

"I was tired of him." Said Tony as Peter looked at him. "And besides he was gonna be all cliché like 'What are you?' and then you'd say 'I'm Spider-Man' then you'd have just knocked him out. I just did it faster."

Peter chuckled as he looked at Tony as Tony's face piece opened. "I like you Stark."

"Sorry I'm not into bugs."

"I didn't mean it like tin man. And spiders are arachnids dumbass." Said Peter as he webbed up Stane before throwing him to Stark.

Tony managed to catch him and looked at Peter, "Why do I have to carry him?" he whined.

"He's your baggage. Now come on Ironman. The authorities are waiting." Said Peter as he walked away not seeing the thoughtful look on Tony's face.

'Ironman huh? I like it.' Thought Tony as he followed. He suddenly stopped.

"Tank missile!" He incinerated the pieces of the suit. "I learnt my lesson."

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"I am Ironman."

The crowd went wild over Tony's statement.

"I fucking love that line." Said Peter as he heard the line which kick started the entire MCU. He was currently stuck to the ceiling invisible with only Tony and Jarvis knowing his in the room.