Chapter 7: Questioning.

A/N: I apologise for any spelling mistakes I make.

3rd POV: Peter and Reed sat in the interrogation room in silence. The wallcrawler tried really hard not to stare at the half of Mr. fantastic's face that was scarred, but it was kind of hard not to since it was HALF of his face.

Venom's comments weren't helping.

"He looks like the melted cheese of a pizza." The symbiote said aloud.

"Can you not?" Peter asked his symbiotic partner but was ignored.

"You could probably use that half of his face as putty." Venom continued.

"Venom -" Peter tried to get a sentence out but was continuously rebuffed.

"His face looks like the inside of other people's assholes." The klyntar continued on.

"VENOM!" Peter yelled at his symbiote, annoyed with his former enemy.

"What?" The symbiote asked back.

"Can you not insult my friend, please? I'd like to hear what he wants without you talking crap about his face." The wallcrawler requested.

".......fine, fine. I'll keep quiet." The symbiote allowed, making Peter breathe a mental sigh of relief. "For now." Venom quickly said before he cut off the link.

"You -" Peter was about to speak before he felt the connection between he and the alien get cut off.

Taking a deep breath, Peter leaned back in his chair and asked the one question that was on his mind.

"I would ask how you're doing, but I think I'll just go for the blunt path this time." Peter said, getting serious. "How'd you get that scar on your face, Reed?" He asked.

Reed stared Stone cold at the webslinger, his non scarred eye twitched before the leader of the fantastic four chuckled and brought his left hand to his face as he gingerly touched the ruined flesh on his face before giving his answer.

"As you know doubt may know, the Avengers tower was infiltrated by the black cat." Reed began, his tone bitter at the mention of the cat thief before it returned to neutrality. "She went into Iron Man's forge and made her very own armour. We went to apprehend her, which was less than successful, and when I managed to get a hold of her, she blasted me with her unibeam and..." He then motions to his face. "I got this." He ended, a ragged inhale and exhale coming from him, most likely from his mind suddenly bringing up the memory of what caused him the scar and searing pain.

Peter said nothing, taking in all of the information that Reed said. The theory of felicia making her own armour from the forge to help her steal and evade her pursuers was a little more plausible now.

"Why am I here and not in my cell, Reed?" Peter asked. "I haven't done anything wrong to warrant an interrogation." He added.

"You're right. You haven't done anything." Reed agreed. "Yet." He then added, causing Peter to raise an eyebrow at the stretchy hero. Reed then pulled out a cylinder and placed it at the centre of the table. The cylinder opened to reveal multiple images. "A third group has decided to cause a ruckus in new Yorkz attacking S.H.I.E.L.D bases, prisons, convoys, and outposts." He listed off. "And whenever they finish what they do, they always leave a symbol, more specifically..." Richards then points at a certain image and enlarges it to show the same spider symbol that Spiderman currently has. "This one." Reed then narrowed his eyes at Peter. "So I must ask, what is your connection to them, Peter?" He asked.

"There is no connection." Peter replied honestly. "I've only recently heard about this group. I have no idea what this group's agenda is nor why they're using my symbol." He added.

"And how can we be sure of that?" The co leader of the registration act asked back, his tone sceptical. "For all I or anyone knows, you created this group in case you were arrested and had given them orders to cause chaos whilst you were imprisoned. You hated yourself for joining the registration act. You hated yourself for getting May Parker and Mary Jane killed and passed the blame onto Tony as a way to get rid of your gui-" Reed never got to finish his sentence as Peter suddenly stood up from his seat and got real close to Reed's face.

A tense silence filled the room before Peter broke it.

"Don't." The wallcrawler spoke slowly. "EVER say their names ever again." He then slowly sat back down, his cuffed hands resting on the table. "Let me make something really clear to you. I joined the registration act because I was promised that the people I loved would be given protection should anyone try to harm them. They didn't get that protection, and they are now buried six feet under because of that, and you can try and say that it was my fault, and I admit that after thinking about it, it is partially my fault for believing that Stark would follow through with his promise but at the end of the day, the fault was fully with him and he deserved to die." Peter said, glaring at his former colleague. "So let me repeat myself one last time. I don't know anything about this group, I didn't create it, and I sure as he'll don't lead it. So unless you want to talk about something else, I'm gonna ask you politely to get the hell out so I can be taken back to my cell." He ended, waiting to see what Reed will do next.

The leader of the fantastic four said nothing, merely shutting off the cylinder and putting it away before staring back at the spider themed hero.

"There is another reason I wanted you to speak to you." Richards began, peaking Peter's interest. "I wanted to offer you a second chance at being part of the registration act once more." He offered much to the surprise of the nephew of May Parker and the venom symbiote.

"Is he fucking serious?" The symbiote couldn't help but ask.

"I....don't know." Peter responded to his alien partner. "I'm sorry, I seem to have misheard you. Did you say you wanted me to rejoin the registration act?" He asked in disbelief.

"That's exactly what I said." The stretchy hero answered.

"Venom am I dreaming?" Peter couldn't help but ask the symbiote.

"No, no, you're not." The klyntar simply answered back.

"OK, just making sure." He said before focusing his attention back on the member of the fantastic four. "Why?" He asked, feeling suspicious.

Right when peter asked that, Venom felt the piece that he left on Black Widow nearby and got an idea and gained control of it.

(With black widow)

Natasha Romanoff was walking by the interrogation room before she blacked out and almost collapsed on the floor before she placed her hand on the wall and regained her footing. Her eyes opened to show her eyes being completely black, showing venom having control of her through the piece he gave her before returning to their regular colour. Venom had Black Widow enter the observation room that could see into the interrogation room that Mr. Fantastic and Spiderman were in. Seeing no one inside, black widow stepped in and closed the door before heading to the various monitors that were recording the interrogation and began to type a few commands on them gained access to the camera in the room. The symbiote controlled natasha then went to another monitor and placed her hand on it where the symbiote extended tendrils to it and plugged into the machine and opened up a window that gave her access to the osbcorp satellites.

(Interrogation room)

"Parker, I've got Widow in the observation room and a monitor that has access to oscorp sattelites." Venom advised.

"Why?" Peter asked, confused.

"Because when you inevitably refuse the offer, you could use this chance to expose another dirty secret to the world once we go live, and everyone can watch Richards crack once you reveal that it's broadcasted. I mean, look at him. He looks like he's a second way from going insane." The symbiote explained to his host.

Peter looked at Reed and noticed that whilst his facial expression was calm and collected, he could see the look in his eye. It was a look that showed that Reed wanted to be anywhere but in the interrogation room, and whenever Reed spoke or when peter asked a question, the stretchy hero would clench his jaw or his hand for a brief moment, his eye would twitch or he would sharply inhale, seemingly trying to contain his anger. Another thing that peter noticed was that when he stood up as if going to attack Reed, the member of fantastic four seemed all the more willing to fight him and perhaps brutalise him.

Whatever was going on with Reed made peter go on edge, and he was ready to act if needed.

"You know what? Go ahead, let's go live." Spidey said, and Venom ordered the controlled black widow to activate the oscorp sattelites and livestream the interrogation room.

(New York)

People were going about their lives as best as they could given the circumstances that have been forced upon them, but all that came to halt when the various screens glicthed out and showed the interrogation room. Everyone stopped what they were doing and stared.

Not only New York, but the entire world paid attention.

(Triskellion- interrogation room)

"There's a reason, Peter." Reed began, adjusting his seating position a little. "You were the first hero that Stark chose to reveal their identity to the world, the first street hero who new yorkers paid the most attention to whether you realised it or not. Anything you did affected people's opinions on certain things. You were the face of the registration act, and you brought the most heroes to join our side than anyone else. You made them believe in the cause." Reed then leaned in close and put his hands on the table. "And we want that to happen again. We want you to be the face of the registration act once and show the world that we are in the right. Think about it, you can join us again, get given a higher position in the Avengers, and you can help us take down Captain America and his followers and bring justice to the city." He offered, wanting Spiderman to take the deal before adding. "You believed in the cause once Parker, for what was right, surely you can believe in it again. All you need to do is accept and also denounce everything that you revealed before killing Iron Man." He said.

Peter frowned at what he was told, Reed wanted him to be the poster boy of the registration act? To say that everything he revealed was lies?! Hell no!!!!

"You know, there's a saying Reed...." Peter began. "Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice, shame on you." This got Mr. fantastic to frown, but Peter pushed on. "And as for 'What was right.' Is it right to forcefully have the xmen sign the registration act?" Peter asked the fellow hero?

(X mansion)

The xmen and students paid attention to the broadcast, and when peter brought up that the xmen might be forcefully registered, everyone paid attention.

Emma frost remembered when Tony Stark came over and asked who the xmen were allied to, and she told him that they would remain neutral and would want nothing to do with the registration act.

To find out they might be forced into signing was alarming and made her pay close attention.

(Interrogation room)

"I don't know what you're talking about, Peter." Reed said, narrowing his eyes at the airachnid. "Stark agreed and promised not to have the xmen be involved." He stated, getting a scoff in return.

"You say that, but I know that Tony wouldn't keep that promise. I mean, he couldn't keep mine, so why should he keep any others he's made?" Peter asked before glaring at Richards. "Don't try and lie to me, Reed. I know what I saw in the archives in the tower, and not only were you planning to force them to sign it, you were planning to keep track of every mutant by capturing them and implanting micro chips into them and invade their privacy and freedom!!!" He suddenly bellowed before standing up. "IS THAT YOU AND EVERYONE IN THE REGISTRATION ACT BELIEVING WHAT'S RIGHT?!?!?!" Parker yelled out, and Venom quickly commanded natasha to upload the necessary information into the sattelites and transmit it to every screen in the world.

(Rest of the world)

Everyone stared at the screens, their phones, tablets, etc. To read all the information that was suddenly uploaded. Mutantkind became scared as they read what was to happen to them. Some were to be chipped, others were to be imprisoned, and others to forcefully sign the registration act. Mutants that saw their names in the Intel shown made plans to leave New York and seek refuge somewhere else and pray they wouldn't be caught.

The xmen, on the other hand, were enraged at what would happen to them and their kind. They had remained neutral throughout the civil war and wanted to stay away from the registration act but it seemed that they weren't going to have a choice, they scrolled through information and saw the plans to take them down should they rebel and where they would be locked away.

They've had this kind of treatment from Senator Kelly and trask and the mutant haters, but to have this from fellow heroes and people they've called allies and friends?

This just made them furious and prepared to do rescue operations for the mutants that were on the registration act's radar and put the mansion on high alert.

(Triskellion - interrogation room)

"You're no hero, Reed." Peter growled out. "You're a liar, a mad scientist, and a dictator. You talk about how you're not like doom, and yet here you are. Actually, that's just an insult to doom as he's gotten better throughout the years!!!" He yelled. "I will NEVER join the registration act, and I will never be a pawn in someone's game ever again. Oh, and by the way..." Peter smirked before motioning to the camera in the corner of the room. "This whole conversation has been broadcasted to the entire world." He said, causing Reed to sharply turn to the camera before he started hearing rapid footsteps outside of the interrogation room, and started hearing panic over comms.

It was at this point that venom released his control of black widow, causing the Russian spy to stumble slightly before regaining her bearing and putting a hand to her head.

"What am I..." natasha trailed off as she groaned, feeling a slight headache.

"So..." The voice of Peter Parker caught natasha's attention as she turned to see Peter staring down Reed Richards. "Do you have anything to say to our viewers?" He asked.

Spiderman's symbiote enhanced spidey sense tingled as everything went in slow motion. He watched as Reed rose from his seat, pulled his fist back as far as he could before thrusting it forward to punch the airachnid as hard as he could. Peter instinctively brought his cuffed arms to shield himself from the hit and when the hit connected, he was flung back but with Mr fantastic's fist covering Spiderman's arms from the camera, the venom symbiote took the opportunity to increase it's host strength which allowed the wallcrawler to break his cuffs free and regain the full extent of his abilities back.

Spiderman then smashed through the wall of the interrogation room and ended up outside and falling towards one of the many flight decks of the triskellion. Peter right himself in midair before landing on his feet and cracking the ground, catching the attention of those nearby. Before anything could be done, someone else roughly landed opposite Spiderman, and everyone turned their attention towards the other person and saw that it was an angry Reed Richards, his limbs elongated, and his fists enlarged.

"I'm gonna destroy you, Parker!!!!" The leader of the fantastic four cried out.

"I beat you once Reed...." Spiderman began before tensing and getting ready for a fight. "And I will do so again." He firmly stated.

It was time to humble a scientist.

A/N: Right, another chapter done. There's not much to say other than there will be a fight next chapter. Also, I'd like to add that I'll be off on holiday for 3 weeks starting tomorrow, so if you guys wonder why there are no chapters, you know why.

A/N: Anyway, thanks for reading this chapter. Feel free to leave a review and, as always.....PEACE✌️✌️

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