Chapter 14: Homecoming: The Ferry
You walked to school the next day. The events of what happened in Washington still replaying in your mind. Then you felt a tap on your shoulder. You whipped around to see the one and only Peter Parker.
You opened your mouth to say something but Peter cut you off.
"Y/n. Look. I am so sorry. I'm such an idiot! I didn't tell you and I should have. I should have come to you. I shouldn't have done anything to the suit without telling you. I should have told you about my real plans. You have always been there for me and I don't even show you how much you mean to me... I MEAN YOUR FRIENDSHIP MEANS TO ME! Not what I uh said before. Not that you don't mean anything thing to me! You do but I-" You cut him off by hugging him tightly. He hugged you back burying his head in your neck. "I am sorry for everything..." He mumbled.
"It's ok..." You shook your head slightly. "I forgave you the moment you saved my butt in the elevator." You chuckled lightly. Peter did too.
"That doesn't make what I did ok." He hugged you tighter. "I promise that I will never do it again. Ever." He sighed. "And I am sorry... I was just scared... that you would get hurt. I know you told be that you would be fine. I know you would. But I just couldn't help myself from worrying..."
"It's ok Peter." You rested your forehead on his shoulder.
"For all I know you are stronger and more powerful then I will ever be." Peter lightened the mood.
"Don't count yourself out yet Peter." You laughed. "Just for the record I worry just as much about you. When you were missing yesterday, I was literally freaking out!"
"I'm sorry..." You could tell from his tone that he was really sad and regretted everything.
"No. It's ok. It's over and done with now." You smiled. "Plus I kinda owe you. Spider-Man saved my butt on the elevator. I wouldn't be hurt of course but everyone would know my secret." You giggled.
"Actually." You two finally broke the hug. "You saved my butt like two months ago remember. The gun shot?" He reminded me.
"Ooooh! Right. That." You laughed.
"So now we're even." Peter smiled. The two of you walked to school together and it was actually really nice having everything back to normal. Well normal for you anyway.
When you walked into the school halls you were greeted by the same loud buzz of teenagers everywhere. You saw the school news report. It was on the Hunter and Spider-Man. Mainly Spider-man.
"Up next, the Spider-man mania is sweeping the school. How can you show your Spider Spirit?" Chad the news reporter said.
"Dude! Dude! Dude!" Ned came shuffling up to the two of you. "What is it like being famous when nobody knows it's you?"
"It's crazy." Peter laughed.
"Should we tell anyone?" Ned smiled.
"No." You shook your head blankly.
"Should I tell anyone?" Ned asked again.
"No. That's not a good idea." Peter looked at his friend weirdly.
"Ok." Ned gave in. "Oh, we gotta get to Spanish class." Ned started to walk in the other direction.
"Oh, I'm not going to class." Peter pointed over his shoulder to the door.
"What?" You and Ned questioned at the same time.
"Guys I figured it out." Peter started. "The wing suit guy is stealing from damage control."
"By the way I call him the Vulture." You told Peter.
"Right. Well he's stealing from damage control. What he takes from damage control, that's how he builds the weapons. So all we need to do is catch him." Peter chimed.
"But we have a Spanish quiz." Ned was concerned.
"Ned. I'm probably never gonna come back here. Mr. Stark is moving the avengers upstate. When I bring this guy in-"
"Dude. You wanna be a highschool dropout?" Ned looked really concerned at his friend.
"I am so far beyond highschool right now." Peter went to walk out of school but he ran into a teacher.
"Parker!" He faked a happy tone but then dropped it. "My office." Peter followed the principal to his office. You and Ned waited outside.
"Y/n?" Ned asked you. "Can you hear what they're saying?"
"Yeah." You nodded. "Umm... Peter's not going to get expelled. But..." You listened more. "He's going to have detention but mainly this is a warning..."
Peter then walked out.
"So you're not expelled." Ned asked for confirmation.
"No. I'm not expelled." Peter confirmed. "But hello detention for me..." Peter chuckled a little.
"Well to be fair you were going to drop out of school so it's fair enough." You said jokingly. Peter smiled in return. The rest of the day was normal. You had a Japanese quiz and aced it! Normal classes. You were in science when you got a text from Peter.
Pete: Going home. Further development on Vulture.
You replied
Y/n/n: ok. If you have any breakthroughs or do stuff I am coming. No buts!
Pete: Yep! Not having any repeats... haha.
Y/n/n: 😅
Pete: 😁
You put your phone away and continued listening to your science lecture. "What was that about?" Ned whispered to you.
"Nothing much. Pete's gone home." You shrugged.
"What?" Ned whisper yelled. "Wait. Since when did you call him Pete?" Oh crap... uh this looks weird. AAH! You're taking too long to answer! Ned'll get the wrong idea.
"Meh. Just a nickname I stuck to." You shrugged. Ned seemed to believe it. Good.
The next two lessons were long and boring that is until you got a message from Peter.
Pete: I found out the identity of a guy at the bridge that night! Meet me at the parking lot 2 km from school.
Y/n/n: got it. Nice work! 😉
Pete: /(^-^)/
Luckily for you the bell for lunch rang at that moment. Perfect. "Hey Ned, I'm going out for a bit ok? Cover for me." You whispered to Ned as you ran out he door.
You changed into Hunter and swung off the the parking lot where you met Peter. "Hey Spidey!" You greeted him. "So who did you find out about?"
"There's this guy called Aaron Davis or something like that. He was the buyer at the bridge. He was a criminal record and stuff." Peter told you. You nodded in understanding.
"Wait. What time did you leave school?" You asked.
"Umm... first period?..." Peter smiled innocently.
"YOU SKIPPED DETENTION!?" You yelled at him.
"I had to. Otherwise I would've never found out about this guy." He defended.
"Still!" You smacked the back of his head lightly.
"Hey! Don't get angry at me!" Peter defended.
"You know Aunt May is gonna find out about this. She will kill you." You assured him. Peter's eye lenses widened at the realisation that May is seriously gonna kick his butt for skipping. "Your funeral buddy." You laughed at his reaction.
"Can we just focus please?" He tried changing the subject.
"Fine. Fine." You put your hands up in mock surrender. Then you heard Peter talking to the computer voice.
"Would you like me to activate interrogation mode?" The computer asked. You remember your dad doing this with you. This was gonna be funny.
"Sure. Go for it Karen." Karen? Who's that?
"Who's Karen?" You asked Peter confused.
"My suit computer lady. I gave her a name." Peter smiled.
"Huh. Ok. Cool." You shrugged. "Let's do this." You walked to a pillar in the parking lot. "So that's the guy there?" You pointed to a guy opening the back of his car.
"Yep... Ok Karen activate interrogation mode." Peter instructed. He jumped out from behind the pillar and web the guys hand to his car. "Remember me?" Peter's voice was all low it was hilarious. "I need information your gonna give it to me now! Come on."
"I-uh... wait. What happened to your voice?" He asked.
"What do you mean 'what happened to my voice'?" Peter asked.
"I heard you on the bridge I know what a girl sounds like." That was it. You cracked up laughing as you emerged from the pillar. You walked up to the two.
"Nice one." You pointed to the guy still laughing.
"I'm not a girl! I'm a boy-I-I mean I'm a man!" Peter was getting all annoyed. You just laughed more.
"Look I don't care what you are. Boy? Girl?" The guy shrugged.
"I'm not a girl! I'm a man!" Peter got all annoyed. "Come on, man. Look, who is selling these weapons. We need to know. Give me names. Or else." Peter huffed.
The guy slammed his boot shut. This made Peter all nervous and he stepped back behind you. You didn't even flinch. "You 'ain't ever done this before huh?" He pointed to Spider-Man. You nodded your head in response also pointing to Peter. "I know you have though. You're a lot smoother and cooler." He complimented you.
"Thanks." You smiled.
Peter huffed. "Deactivate interrogation mode..." A small robotic spider flew back into his logo. "Look man." Peter voice was normal. "These guys are selling weapons that are crazy dangerous. They can't be out on the streets. Look if one of them can cut Delmar's in half-" The guy cut Peter off.
"You know Delmar's?" He asked.
"Yeah best sandwiches in Queens." This is gonna be a looong interrogation...
"Sub haven is pretty good." The guy shrugged.
"Eh too much bread." Peter shook his head.
"I like bread." The guy shrugged again. You just stood there the whole time facepalming.
"Come on man please." Peter begged. "Ugh. Stupid interrogation mode. Karen don't ever do that again..." Peter walked off. You still didn't move.
"The other night. You told that guy 'if you're gonna shot someone shoot at me.'" The guy stated. "That's pretty bold. I don't want those weapons in this neighbourhood. I got a nephew that lives here." Peter stopped at this and turned around and started walking back excited.
"What can you tell us about the weapons guy?" You asked.
"Other than he's a psychopath dressed like a demon? Nothing. I don't know who he is or where he is." Peter huffed again annoyed. "...I do know where he's gonna be..." The guy continued. Peter perked up at this.
"Really?" Peter asked.
"Yeah. This crazy dude I used to work with, he's supposed to be doing a deal with him." The guy responded.
"Yes! Yeah!" Peter went to walk away.
"Uh... Spidey?" You called him back.
"What?" Peter asked confused.
"I haven't told where you don't have a location." The guy sighed at Spider-Man's cluelessness.
"Oh! Right! Right. Sorry I just-" He walked up again and rested an arm on the car. "Where is it?"
"Can I give you some advice?" He asked.
"Hmm?" Peter hummed.
"You gotta get better at this part of the job..." He smiled at me. "Or at least let her take over. She's a lot better than you at this stuff."
"I don't understand." Peter leaned on the side of the car trying to look cool. "I'm intimidating."
"Staten Island Ferry. 11." The guy smiled.
"Yes! Thank you! Hey that's gonna dissolve in two hours." Peter referred to the webbing on the guys hand.
"No. No. No..." He pointed to his hand. "Come fix this. I got ice-cream in here!"
"Nup! You deserve that! You're a criminal. Bye mr. criminal!" Peter walked away.
"Hey!" The guy huffed. "I have so much sympathy for you right now." He spoke to you. "Working with that kid all day has got to be a pain."
"You have no idea." You laughed.
"So... Hunter right?" He asked you.
"Yup that's me." You smiled.
"Are you and Spider-Man a thing?" He asked.
"What!? No!" You huffed. "Why does everyone ask that!?" You huffed again and walked off.
"Wait! Can you-" He started but you cut him off.
"Nope!"
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Time skip brought to you by melted ice-cream *sniff sniff*
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You and Peter were swinging through the city building until you landed on a porch. "Ok. There's the ferry." Peter nodded towards the massive boat. "Ready?" He asked you.
Then his phone rang. "Incoming call from May Parker." Karen informed Peter.
"Ignore it. I'll call her later." Peter whispered to Karen. Then your phone buzzed. It was May. You ignored it as well. "We need to ditch our phones next time." You smiled.
"Ok. Ready." You nodded. "The guys are over on the deck."
"Ok. Let's go over there and listen for a bit." He pointed to a flat area above the parking deck. The two of you crawled over and stayed there while using your enhanced hearings to listen to their conversations.
"Who's that guy on the left?" Peter asked Karen.
"Mac Gargan. Extensive criminal record including homicide." Karen informed you. "Would you like me to activate instant kill?"
"No! Karen. Just stop it with the instant kill already." Peter huffed.
"Ok. White pickup truck." A guy came up to Mac and told him.
"Ok droney, can you scan the-" Peter started.
"Spidey." You cut him off. "Field vision. Remember?" You gave him a 'duh' expression.
"Oh! Right. Right. Sorry." He told you. You just rolled your eyes and used your enhanced vision you see the whole ship layout.
"Ok. It's in the middle at the car parking area." You told Peter. "There's definitely weapons in there..."
"This is too perfect. We've got the weapons, the buyers and the sellers all in one place!" Peter chimed.
"Yeah..." Peter's phone rang again.
"Incoming call from Tony Stark." Karen stated.
"No! No! Don't answer don't-" Peter freaked out but was cut off.
"Mr. Parker." You heard your father's voice. "Got a sec?"
"Uh... I'm actually at school." Peter came up with an excuse.
"No your not." Karen corrected. Your dad didn't hear it though.
"Nice work in DC..." Your dad said.
"O-okay." Peter went along.
"My dad never really gave me a lot of support and I'm just trying to uh, break the cycle of shame." Your dad stated.
"Uh, I'm kind of in the middle of something right now..." Peter tried to end the conversation.
"Don't cut me off when I'm complimenting you. Anyway, great things are about to happen-" The ship's horn blew. "What is that?" Your dad was suspicious.
"Umm... I'm at band practice." That came out more as a question...
"That's odd... Happy told me you quit band six weeks ago... what's up?" Your dad was on to Peter..
"Pete. The keys." You informed him.
"I gotta go. Uh- end call!" Peter told Karen.
"Hey-" Your dad's voice was cut off.
"I'll take those!" Peter webbed the keys out of a guys hand. "Yoink!" You and Peter jumped down to fight the guys. "Hey guys. The illegal weapons-deal ferry was at 10:30. You missed it!" Peter webbed two guys in front of you and you ran forward and flip kicked another guy off the boat. Peter webbed him to the gate before he fell in the water.
The 'shocker' guy came up behind you and tried to punch you. Peter kicked him out of the way and webbed his hand.
"Thanks." You smiled.
"No worries." Peter smiled. Two people behind you tried to get up. "Woah. Woah. Not so fast." Peter webbed them and their bike and threw them across the deck. "Oh sorry. My bad. That was a little hard."
"I gotta say, the other guy was way better with that thing." You you sighed at the shocker. "Honestly. I'm shocked."
"Hey I was gonna say that!" Peter whined.
"Beat cha to it." You laughed and shot to block pointed arrows at two more guys running towards you.
There was a banging sound behind you. You turned around the see the vulture guy. You and Peter were just about to run at him but were interrupted.
"Freeze! FBI! Don't move!" 5 guys with pistols aimed at you shouting. "Get on the ground! FBI!"
"Woah! What? The FBI?" Peter questioned.
"The FBI is the federal-" Karen started.
"I know what the FBI means! What are they doing here?" Peter asked.
Just at that moment a pair on metal wings burst out of a van revealing the Vulture. The FBI agents turned their aim to the Vulture and started firing but the metal wings easily rebounded the bullets. "Get out of the way! Out of the way quickly!"
The Vulture fired the gun at you and Peter. It narrowly missed as the FBI agents dived to the side. The Vulture was flying directly towards you.
"Look out! Look out! Move! Move!" You pushed people out of the way as the Vulture picked up a car and used it as a battering ram. You managed to move everyone out of the way but the car hit you.
"HUNTER!" Peter yelled after you as you hit the water with the car on top of you. "HUNTER NO!" Peter yelled again. The Vulture fired the gun to stop Peter from saving you. You were stuck underneath the car and the salt water stopped you from opening your eyes.
"Get to the top deck. We're getting out of here." The Vulture instructed his men. Peter webbed Vulture's foot to stop him from flying away easily. Vulture fired the gun multiple times at Peter and the ship. Every time Peter went to go and save you the Vulture would shoot at him and he would only narrowly miss. "Hunter! No! Please! Let me help her!" Peter was begging Vulture who just ignored it. Peter webbed him again but his wings cut the webbing and he went to fire at Peter again but peter webbed the gun and pulled it out of his grasp.
Meanwhile you were struggling for breath. The car had completely blocked you off from getting out of the water. Deeper and deeper you were sinking. You couldn't take it any longer your took a quick short breath it was more of a gasp. The water filled your lungs. It burned, you coughed and coughed under the water. It hurt. You were drowning. You were dying. You felt yourself slipping away... your last thought: Peter... You felt nothing as the water filled your burning lungs. Everything went black...
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No...
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Everything went red.
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Peter's POV
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"HUNTER!! NO!" I tried and tried but the Vulture wouldn't let me save her. She was going to die! I couldn't do anything about it. I finally managed to web the gun out of the Vulture's grasp. It hit the deck and was bouncing around uncontrollably. I quickly webbed it over and over again until it was completely covered.
"You're messing with things you don't understand." The Vulture said as he flew off. I was about to say something when the gun blew up and bright purple lasers flew out of it. It cut the ship in half, right down the middle. Bursts of water shot up through the cracks! I was torn. I had to save y/n! But the ship was falling apart!
"Oh God what do I do!?" I was almost crying at this point. Y/n's voice echoed through my head. Save those who cannot save themselves. Never put me first you hear me Peter. That was from the night y/n saved me from dying by that gun shot. "Karen, give me an x-ray of the boat and target all the strongest points!" Y/n I am so sorry I can't save you. Tears poured down my masked face as I jumped around the ship webbing all of the areas Karen targeted. I grouped them into clumps. I finally landed. I had done it.
"Great job Peter. You were 98% successful." Karen stated.
"Wait. 98?" I questioned. I random guy cheered 'Yeah Spider-Man!' But then all of my webs started snapping. "No! No! No! Nononono!" The water filled up the car area. I had to think fast I ran and jumped webbing two sides of the ship leaving me hanging in mid air holding the ship together. My arms hurt like hell. I had to do this! "No! Ugh!" I was failing I could feel it... I'm so sorry y/n. I failed you... this is all my fault.
Then out of nowhere from the water, there was a flash of silver in the corner of my eye. I was too busy focussing on the ferry I was currently holding together to give it much notice. But I definitely saw something. I closed my eyes from the pain trying to hold all of this together.
I then heard noises. Tink. Tink. Tink. What was that? I slightly opened my eyes and the pressure on my arms slowly stopped. Tink tink tink tink tink. "What the hell?" I looked around as I was lowering. I saw a silver figure with bright red eyes. Amazing electric red eyes. Y/N! She was shooting roped arrow after arrow at all of the strongest points and securing the ferry. She was alive! There were more 'tink's but y/n wasn't causing them. I looked out the window and saw... Tony Stark. Oh crap...
"Hi Spider-Man. Band practise? Was it?" A bunch of tiny jets attached themselves to the boat and pushed the two sides together while Hunter was pulling on the chained arrow to close the gap as well.
A massive wave of relieve rushed through me as I saw y/n. She really was alive and here... I failed her. The relief vanished and turned into sadness. Wait. Why are her eyes red? The only time I've seen them like this was at the airport when she shot like a million arrows at once. Why are they red now?
Mr. Stark flew across the ship melting it back together.
"Mr. Stark is there anything I can do?" I asked.
"Oh I think you've done enough." He snapped at me.
I saw y/n coughing on her knees. On the top of a building. I swung over and ran over to her.
"Hunter? Are you ok!? What happened!? I am so sorry!" The tears poured down my face again. Y/n was coughing up water over and over again. I couldn't do anything to help her.
She finally stopped coughing up the water she took a sharp breath in and closed her eyes. Once she opened them again they were blue again. She looked like she had just come back to consciousness. She looked at herself and then at me and she smiled.
"Hey Spidey. Did I miss anything?" She joked and coughed again. I quickly wrapped her into a tight embrace. I hugged her close to me. She was alive and here. Alive, breathing and talking to me... No thanks to me. I was about to pull away from the hug out of guilt that I failed her. As soon as I unwrapped my arms around her, she wrapped her arms around me burying her face in my crest. How could she look at me. I betrayed her. She almost died because I didn't help her. Yes. Because what did I do? I tried to save a ship and I failed. She mumbled something against my suit.
"Thank you."
"What!?" I pulled away. "Why are you thanking me? I failed you. You almost died because of me. You were dying and what did I do? I-"
"You saved 100's of people who would have had no chance of surviving." She cut me off harshly by covering my mouth so she could talk. "I said thank you for doing just that. You saved 100's of people. You actually fulfilled your promise. You promised me that you would not put me first ever again. I made you do that and you did it." Her eyes were full of happiness. "Thank you. Even though the webs broke. Dad and I would never have been able to fix it if you hadn't bought us time. Do you understand that?"
I nodded and hugged her again. "Why were your eyes red?" I asked.
"When I was about to drown- well actually I did drown." She corrected herself and another wave of guilt flushed over me. "My eyes panned open and my vision was red. Arrows shot out of my body everywhere and cut the car on top of me to pieces. I used it as a base to jump with all of my strength out of the water and since I went into protection mode all strength and stuff was multiplied by like 100." She smiled at me.
"I am so-" She cut me off again.
"No! None of that!" She covered my mouth again. "You listen to me right now Parker." Her tone was very tough and strong it sort of scared me... "You have NO blame at all WHATSOEVER!" She yelled the last part and I was a little taken aback. "You saved those people! You did what you needed to do! I am fine! I swear to you if I hear one more 'I'm sorry' I WILL SLAP THE CRAP OUT OF YOU!" Holly s**t! She is scary right now...
"Ok! Ok! Ok! I will not! No more! Got it!" I frantically waved my hands in assurance.
"Good." She turned back into her usual happy self. She stood up and put out a hand for me to take. I took it and stood up. I took my mask off holding it in my hands. I was looking at it wondering if I deserved it after all of this... Y/n then walked up to me and kissed my cheek and swung off. "I gotta go home! See ya Spidey!!" Then she was out of sight. HOLY CRAP! Y/N JUST KISSED MY CHEEK! OVERLOAD OF HAPPINESS!!!!!!!!!!!! I can die in peace now. My happy thoughts were cut off my the Iron-Man suit flying over and landing in front of me.
"This time on Peter screws the pooch, I told you to stay away from this. Instead you hacked a multimillion dollar suit to do the one thing I told you not to do."
A/N:
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