So… here's my Second story called 'A Spider-woman and her Spider-man'. Basically the premise is Peter Parker and Jessica Drew have sort of reverse origins. While both were raised and trained by HYDRA, Jessica was able to escape when she was around 15. For the next 10 years she has gone on to become one of Earth's greatest heroes as The Spectacular Spider-woman!
While Peter was kept imprisoned and brainwashed into becoming a nearly emotionless killing machine with a dark sense of humor. The Avengers team that attacked the HYDRA base Peter was 'stored' at was composed of Captain America (Steve Rogers), Iron Man (Tony Stark who is not a member anymore, more of a part time), Hank and Janet Pym (Giant/Ant Man and Wasp), Hawkeye (Clint Barton) and Black Widow (Natasha Romanov).
Anyhow the story will be dealing with Jessica trying to help Peter become more human and come into his role as a hero. Trust me, it is nowhere near as easy as it sounds. Jessica will have her work cut out for her from both HYDRA's 'conditioning' of Peter and skeptical heroes on wheatear Peter can be helped or saved.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Marvel characters seen, mentioned, or used in this Story.
Chapter 1
Avengers Tower, New York City, June 1st 2:33 PM
A woman in a red and yellow body suit with raven colored hair, green eyes and a body to put some of the greatest supermodels to shame was currently sitting in a conference room of sorts where 'Earth's Mightiest Heroes' meet and plan out the day to day operations of the team and its members. The woman in question was Jessica Drew aka The Spectacular Spider-woman, one of the very first Avengers and second in command to the current team that is composed herself, Captain America (Steve Rogers) the leader, Hank and Janet Pym (Giant/Ant Man and Wasp), Hawkeye (Clint Barton) and Black Widow (Natasha Romanov) and Blue Marvel (Adam Brashear).
Jessica had just returned from seeing her friend Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel off who is now a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy. On her return she was greeted by a (to her surprise) bruised and weary Steve Rogers who told her to meet him in the conference room. And now here she is, waiting to see what the First Avenger wanted to discuss.
"Jessica… at 1400 hours yesterday Iron Man had come across hidden HYDRA base while he was in Germany for a business meeting with a few companies on a joint venture." Steve started off in a professional manner. The mention of HYDRA immediately caught Jessica's attention.
"How did Tony go from a boring business meeting to finding a HYDRA base?" Jessica questioned a bit confused.
"Stark had JARVIS running scans of any activity of AIM who have been reported in the area. JARVIS discovered a radio signal that they were using to communicate that mentioned the location to a nearby HYDRA base and after investigating a little further, Stark called us in." Steve explained.
"Thanks for the heads up Cap" Jessica stated sarcastically but with no venom.
"Sorry Jess, but I figured you would rather spend some time with your friend Carol as she will be off Earth and out of communication for the next several months." Steve said. And it was true, she'd rather spend the day with her best friend than fighting a bunch of people who ruined the first 15 years of her life.
"Sooooo… who'd you take with you to back up Stark?" Jessica asked
"Adam was at the time at some sort of science convention in Miami, and with you on SWORD's orbital base with Carol, I took Clint, Natasha, Hank, and Janet to meet up with Tony near the base to plan out our attack. At 1900 hours… we assaulted the base with me, Clint, and Natasha infiltrating the base while Stark, Hank, and Janet kept the defense forces busy." Steve seemed to hesitate to want to continue and Jessica noticed but decided to wait and see what happened to have Steve end up looking like he got caught in a slug fest between Blue Marvel, Sentry, and Hyperion. "We discovered that the base was the center for project 'Arachnid Alpha Phase'" Steve said grimly.
Jessica felt her heart skip a beat at the name of the project that made her. When Jessica was only a baby she was stolen from her parents and put in a HYDRA experiment that was trying to create their own version of a Captain America super soldier. They ran numerous tests on her before injecting her with a similar formula the Red Skull used back in World War 2 when she was 13, only it had the DNA of several different spiders in it to try and boost her potential abilities. The formula gave her strength and speed that surpassed even Captain America along with the bonus of unintentionally activating her latent x-gene which allowed her to produce a type of bioelectric blast from her hands with enough voltage in them to drop a blue whale at full power.
Then all of sudden she remembered that Steve said 'Alpha Phase'. "Wait, wait, wait, what do you mean Alpha Phase?" she questioned.
Steve looked uneasy and looked at her with a sympathetic look "Tony had JARVIS download the files that were stored on the base's computers and discovered that you were labeled as more of a side experiment than the actual project itself, a backup for all intents and purposes. In fact, Tony has discovered that Project Arachnid started a good year before you were kidnapped. We also found the end result of HYDRA's plan..." Steve trailed off
"How bad were they?" Jessica asked already fearing on just how far HYDRA twisted this person into a monster and has a feeling if Steve's appearance is anything to go by on how the encounter went.
Steve had grim smile before saying "He broke both of Barton's arms in three different places, Natasha has a broken collar bone and a cracked skull, and I ended up with a few bruised ribs and a mild concussion." Steve sounded off the injuries he and his team received, which caused Jessica to wince after hearing just how bad they got it. Steve continued "It took Stark and Hank to contain the man after they and Janet arrived."
'It took both Giant man and Iron Man to take one man down?' Jessica though in shock on the amount of power needed for just one man. "What happened next?"
"The 'Spider-man' as Tony and Janet have taken to call him was heavily sedated, both to help keep him restrained and to help him from moving around and heal the numerous broken bones and fractures he received from Hank when he 'had enough and put his foot down'… Tony's words not mine." Steve spoke with some exasperation.
"Is… is he here now?" Jessica asked hesitantly. She was sort of curious to meet what was apparently her both her predecessor and successor and like her and different in more ways than she cared to admit if what Steve has described is true or not.
"He's down in medical heavily restrained and monitored. Personally, I didn't want Fury or SHIELD to get anywhere near him." Both Steve and Jessica knew what would likely happen to the man. SHIELD would more or less use him in a similar fashion to what HYDRA had in mind, and honestly they both couldn't really tell what would be worse. Yes SHIELD were the 'good guys' but in the past Fury and SHIELD have both done things 'for the greater good' that leaves the Avengers, X-men, Defenders, Squadron Supreme, and Fantastic Four feeling uneasy and distrusting of the spy organization. Hell it's because of their actions both known and unknown that caused Natasha, Clint, Bobbi, and herself to leave and join up with the Avengers or in Bobbi's case the Defenders.
Jessica licked her lips nervously before looking Steve in the eyes and saying "I want to see him"
Steve stared at her for a moment before nodding and leading her towards the elevator that would take them down to medical and to have Spider-woman meet… Spider-man.
And that is the first Chapter of 'A Spider-Woman and her Spider-Man'. So far it's established that Jessica is a hero to the world and a member of the Avengers, while Peter was until recently an agent of HYDRA. Next chapter will be the meeting for these two almost mirror images of each other and what the rest of the team thinks of this situation, and Fury (the old White one for now) and Shield will be acting similar to their Ultimate verse versions and won't let a potential asset like Peter get away that easily.