US Triskelion, New York City, Late Sunday night
"Just a kid," Tony Stark said.
"We were all kids once," Nick Fury mused.
"When I was a kid, I stayed home and watched TV," Clint Barton added.
Tony scoffed. "I invented cellular technology.
"Is that true?" Clint asked.
But the small talk was over when the new Spider-Man woke up in his cell, behind a force field door. "Wow. He is just a kid," Tony said.
"It's not the kid part that bothers me," Jessica interjected. She and her fellow Ultimates were standing around, no masks, no helmets, no sunglasses. Fury wanted them to seem at least slightly welcoming to keep the kid from freaking out too bad. After all, under the circumstances, he might think that he was under arrest. (He wasn't, of course, it was just the most secure place they had with a bed for him to rest in. And he had a recent history of spazzing out, too. It was the best possible move.) "It's the Spider-Man part." Jessica didn't care too much about not freaking him out, clearly.
"The outfit is in bad taste, young man," Fury said, holding the Spider-Man mask up. "Miles Morales, welcome to the Triskelion."
The cell was actually appropriate, as it happened, because he immediately started freaking out again. "You! You-- I didn't-- oh boy. I didn't DO anything!"
"What did he do?" Fury asked.
"Hello? LOOK at him!" Jessica pointed out.
"Not exactly a federal offense," Fury reasoned.
"We can't have that happening," Jessica fought.
"His blood work is back," Tony announced as he projected the data from his Iron Man gauntlets. "The kid's the real deal."
"Is he a mutant?" Jessica checked.
"No, just-- Just altered," Tony said as he read through the files. "Not unlike you and very like Peter Parker.
"What does that mean?" Jessica asked as she read the data next to Tony. "How can this be?"
"Did you try asking him?" Clint checked.
"Yes!"
"Before or after you hit him?" he followed up.
"Well...."
"Everybody out," Fury announced. It wasn't a suggestion. It wasn't an order. It was just something that was going to happen, goddammit.
"I'd like to stay," Jessica said, defying the tone.
"You can write about the disappointment in your blog. Out."
"What does this mean?" Jessica repeated on her way out of the room.
*****
Jessica made her way outside. She needed air. There was another Spider-Man, and he was just some kid. Younger than Peter was when he was bitten by the spider. "Very like Peter Parker," she repeated. There was only one test spider. What was going on?
Her pondering didn't last very long, of course, because the lights behind her suddenly went out, then flashed back to the emergency red lights. Sirens sounded. She could hear the sound of an explosion and glass breaking on the other side of the building, along with a roar of... thunder? And then Nick Fury got on the comm. "A-team, top side!! Maxwell Dillon has escaped. ELECTRO HAS ESCAPED."
Jessica pulled up her mask, fired a web, and started to swing up and around the building. As she made her way around, she could see the blue, glowing figure of Electro fighting Iron Man. At first, his shock attacks seemed to be deflected by Iron Man's energy shields, but that didn't last too long. Electro got into the armor and drained the batteries, dropping Iron Man from the sky.
Before Electro could follow up, three arrows passed through his electric form. "Arrows?" Electro asked, turning around and firing a large electric blast at Hawkeye. "Really?" The shockwave threw Hawkeye from his second story perch.
But all of that gave Spider-Woman a chance to swing up from behind and sucker-punch Electro in his stupid face. That knocked him off-guard, but it wasn't enough.
"Don't even know who you are!" Electro declared before hitting Spider-Woman with a blast that - while not hurting as much as the insult - sent her flying into a SHIELD garage where Fury, Miles (who had been given his mask to wear), and several agents were preparing for the fight. It just happened to come to them a little sooner than expected.
"EVERYBODY TAKE COVER! SHUT THE PERIMETER!" Fury yelled. Outside, attack choppers scrambled, but were taken down by electrical blasts just as quickly. "Take cover if you're not equipped!"
That was enough to get Electro's attention. But as he turned to prepare a lightning strike inside, several bullets went through him. They jolted him back, but didn't do any actual harm. "Tried to ruin my life, huh, Eyepatch? Guess it's my turn." He darted inside, creating a field around him to deflect any bullets Fury or the agents fired. "And I know I should just leave, but the chance to fry you to ash is just too yummy."
Fury turned to Miles and ordered, "Kid, run--" But he wasn't there. Behind Electro, a large metal crate started rising into the air.
"I would really love to hear you scream, Fury," Electro taunted.
And as Fury said, "Huh," realizing what was about to happen, Spider-Man turned visible and threw the crate into Electro from behind. It had enough mass to actually affect Electro, who turned around in surprise.
"NO!" he yelled.
Spider-Man said, "Wow, you're really like all lit up and stuff!" as he leaped into the air.
"You're dead!!" Electro shouted. "I saw you die!!" He fired a blast that Spider-Man dodged with ease. "How are you still alive??"
Spider-Man grabbed another crate and dodged another blast before nailing Electro with it. "Me?? How are you made of electricity??"
As Electro pulled himself back up from the ground, he saw Spider-Man start to fade... and then disappear. "What did... How did you do that??"
Spider-Man suddenly appeared right behind him, touching him in the back of the neck with a small spark. "Heck if I know."
Electro turned to face Spider-Man and patted his neck. It stung a little, but it it wasn't actually painful. Not yet. "That's it? What did you think that was going to NNYYAAAAGH!"
Electricity started arcing off Electro as he collapsed to his knees in sudden, excrutiating pain.
"Kid, get down!!" Fury ordered, taking the moment to finish Electro off with several gunshots. With Electro's powers out of his control, the bullets hit flesh and clearly hurt, and that was enough to drop him, bleeding on the ground. He was still alive, but he wouldn't be putting up a fight soon.
As they got up and made their way into the garage, the Ultimates circled around Electro's body, but they couldn't stop looking at Spider-Man. They were going to have to figure out what to do with him.
[OOC: Adapted from Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #5 yet again. And Jess doesn't even hit Miles this time. A step forward!]
"We were all kids once," Nick Fury mused.
"When I was a kid, I stayed home and watched TV," Clint Barton added.
Tony scoffed. "I invented cellular technology.
"Is that true?" Clint asked.
But the small talk was over when the new Spider-Man woke up in his cell, behind a force field door. "Wow. He is just a kid," Tony said.
"It's not the kid part that bothers me," Jessica interjected. She and her fellow Ultimates were standing around, no masks, no helmets, no sunglasses. Fury wanted them to seem at least slightly welcoming to keep the kid from freaking out too bad. After all, under the circumstances, he might think that he was under arrest. (He wasn't, of course, it was just the most secure place they had with a bed for him to rest in. And he had a recent history of spazzing out, too. It was the best possible move.) "It's the Spider-Man part." Jessica didn't care too much about not freaking him out, clearly.
"The outfit is in bad taste, young man," Fury said, holding the Spider-Man mask up. "Miles Morales, welcome to the Triskelion."
The cell was actually appropriate, as it happened, because he immediately started freaking out again. "You! You-- I didn't-- oh boy. I didn't DO anything!"
"What did he do?" Fury asked.
"Hello? LOOK at him!" Jessica pointed out.
"Not exactly a federal offense," Fury reasoned.
"We can't have that happening," Jessica fought.
"His blood work is back," Tony announced as he projected the data from his Iron Man gauntlets. "The kid's the real deal."
"Is he a mutant?" Jessica checked.
"No, just-- Just altered," Tony said as he read through the files. "Not unlike you and very like Peter Parker.
"What does that mean?" Jessica asked as she read the data next to Tony. "How can this be?"
"Did you try asking him?" Clint checked.
"Yes!"
"Before or after you hit him?" he followed up.
"Well...."
"Everybody out," Fury announced. It wasn't a suggestion. It wasn't an order. It was just something that was going to happen, goddammit.
"I'd like to stay," Jessica said, defying the tone.
"You can write about the disappointment in your blog. Out."
"What does this mean?" Jessica repeated on her way out of the room.
*****
Jessica made her way outside. She needed air. There was another Spider-Man, and he was just some kid. Younger than Peter was when he was bitten by the spider. "Very like Peter Parker," she repeated. There was only one test spider. What was going on?
Her pondering didn't last very long, of course, because the lights behind her suddenly went out, then flashed back to the emergency red lights. Sirens sounded. She could hear the sound of an explosion and glass breaking on the other side of the building, along with a roar of... thunder? And then Nick Fury got on the comm. "A-team, top side!! Maxwell Dillon has escaped. ELECTRO HAS ESCAPED."
Jessica pulled up her mask, fired a web, and started to swing up and around the building. As she made her way around, she could see the blue, glowing figure of Electro fighting Iron Man. At first, his shock attacks seemed to be deflected by Iron Man's energy shields, but that didn't last too long. Electro got into the armor and drained the batteries, dropping Iron Man from the sky.
Before Electro could follow up, three arrows passed through his electric form. "Arrows?" Electro asked, turning around and firing a large electric blast at Hawkeye. "Really?" The shockwave threw Hawkeye from his second story perch.
But all of that gave Spider-Woman a chance to swing up from behind and sucker-punch Electro in his stupid face. That knocked him off-guard, but it wasn't enough.
"Don't even know who you are!" Electro declared before hitting Spider-Woman with a blast that - while not hurting as much as the insult - sent her flying into a SHIELD garage where Fury, Miles (who had been given his mask to wear), and several agents were preparing for the fight. It just happened to come to them a little sooner than expected.
"EVERYBODY TAKE COVER! SHUT THE PERIMETER!" Fury yelled. Outside, attack choppers scrambled, but were taken down by electrical blasts just as quickly. "Take cover if you're not equipped!"
That was enough to get Electro's attention. But as he turned to prepare a lightning strike inside, several bullets went through him. They jolted him back, but didn't do any actual harm. "Tried to ruin my life, huh, Eyepatch? Guess it's my turn." He darted inside, creating a field around him to deflect any bullets Fury or the agents fired. "And I know I should just leave, but the chance to fry you to ash is just too yummy."
Fury turned to Miles and ordered, "Kid, run--" But he wasn't there. Behind Electro, a large metal crate started rising into the air.
"I would really love to hear you scream, Fury," Electro taunted.
And as Fury said, "Huh," realizing what was about to happen, Spider-Man turned visible and threw the crate into Electro from behind. It had enough mass to actually affect Electro, who turned around in surprise.
"NO!" he yelled.
Spider-Man said, "Wow, you're really like all lit up and stuff!" as he leaped into the air.
"You're dead!!" Electro shouted. "I saw you die!!" He fired a blast that Spider-Man dodged with ease. "How are you still alive??"
Spider-Man grabbed another crate and dodged another blast before nailing Electro with it. "Me?? How are you made of electricity??"
As Electro pulled himself back up from the ground, he saw Spider-Man start to fade... and then disappear. "What did... How did you do that??"
Spider-Man suddenly appeared right behind him, touching him in the back of the neck with a small spark. "Heck if I know."
Electro turned to face Spider-Man and patted his neck. It stung a little, but it it wasn't actually painful. Not yet. "That's it? What did you think that was going to NNYYAAAAGH!"
Electricity started arcing off Electro as he collapsed to his knees in sudden, excrutiating pain.
"Kid, get down!!" Fury ordered, taking the moment to finish Electro off with several gunshots. With Electro's powers out of his control, the bullets hit flesh and clearly hurt, and that was enough to drop him, bleeding on the ground. He was still alive, but he wouldn't be putting up a fight soon.
As they got up and made their way into the garage, the Ultimates circled around Electro's body, but they couldn't stop looking at Spider-Man. They were going to have to figure out what to do with him.
[OOC: Adapted from Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #5 yet again. And Jess doesn't even hit Miles this time. A step forward!]