A/N: Thank you all for fav/following/reviewing. Sorry it took so long, blame band camp and well, just band in general. Hope you enjoy the final chapter in this little spin-off crusade I had going on.
Camp Hero State Park
Long Island, New York
United States of America
Peter Parker stood quietly next to Mara as Tony talked to former S.H.I.E.L.D. Assistant Director Maria Hill. A Quinjet sat parked next to the lighthouse where Peter and Mara had battled the bounty hunters. Agents carrying large guns ran around the area, trying to erase any evidence of their encounter with the aliens.
Cad Bane, Ketsu, and Embo were shackled in the advanced jet. Peter kept shooting glances at the bounty hunters, hardly paying attention to the conversation before him.
"Ma'am, we can't find any trace of him." A voice said over the radio attached to Hill's hip.
"Kid, are you sure you didn't see which way he went?" Maria asked Peter drawing him out of his thoughts.
Peter huffed, he hated when people, A) called him a kid, and B) talked down to him like he didn't know anything. "For the thousandth time, I wrapped the overgrown iguana in enough webbing to tie down a rhino, there's no way he could have escaped on his own." Peter said defensively.
"Well, he did." Maria muttered before grabbing her radio, "All agents, extend the search zone another ten miles, see if we can't get local LEOs to send up a chopper." Maria ordered.
"LEO?" Mara whispered.
"Law Enforcement Officer." Tony replied.
"We'll handle the rest from here. You guys better get going before the FBI and DHS get here." Maria told the three.
They each nodded and walked towards the Avengers Quinjet that sat in the empty parking lot nearby.
Walking aboard Peter and Mara sat together in the back as Tony jumped into the pilot's seat, armor deactivated.
Peter took his mask off and used his hand to push his sweaty hair out of his face.
"You did good out there." Mara said while strapping on her seatbelt.
"We did good." Peter replied.
Mara took his hand into her own. "So…"
"So? Does this make us… a thing?" Peter asked blushing slightly.
"As in a 'romantically involved thing?" Mara asked laughing a little and leaned in closer to Peter, "I think it just might."
"Can you two please get a room?" Tony yelled from the front. "And buckle up, we're landing."
Peter quickly grabbed onto the seat next to him steadying himself as the Quinjet shook as it landed. Once the plane landed and the ramp lowered, Peter was the first one off followed by Mara and Tony. Pepper and Happy stood at the end of the landing pad waiting for the three.
"I assume you managed to make sure the kids got back home?" Tony asked Happy who nodded in the affirmative.
"Car's waiting around front for you two." Happy told Mara and Peter.
The two started to head in that direction when Tony called Mara over. "I've got something for you in my lab." Tony told the red head.
"Fri if you would have a drone bring me case 1993." Tony ordered.
A second later a faint buzzing sounded overhead, and a drone dropped a silver brief case in front of Tony. The same kind of case Tony had given Peter before Germany.
Tony bent over and picked the case up before presenting it to Mara. "Figured if you're going to help the kid out, might as well do it in style." Tony said and opened the latches and out popped a black and silver uniform.
Mara stared wide-eyed at the suit, she picked it up and held it in front of her.
"I designed it based off the hologram images of your Inquisitor outfit, with some minor modifications." Tony explained, pointing to the sleeve where a silver "A" was in the place of the Imperial insignia. "The mask is attached to the hood, which can be detached from the main suit, in case you need a disguise on the go." Tony explained, pointing to the different parts of the outfit.
"And finally, your utility belt. Equipped with a blaster holster, lightsaber clip, and some pouches for smoke pellets or any other Imperial agent gadgets." Tony said pulling out a silver and black belt.
"I don't know what to say." Mara struggled to say examining every part of the suit.
"A thank you would suffice." Tony nonchalantly said. Pepper lightly smacked him on the arm.
"Thank you, Tony. It's perfect." Mara said, not taking her eyes off the suit.
"Okay, can we go now?" Happy asked, gently nudging Peter along.
Mara nodded and put the suit back into the silver briefcase.
Mara Jade stood behind Peter as he fumbled with his apartment door's lock. After successfully turning the key he spun around and looked Mara in the eyes. "So, I guess I'll see you tomorrow before school?" Peter asked, a small grin forming on his face.
Mara gave him a quick kiss before walking into her apartment across the hall.
"I'll take that as a yes." Peter said as she walked through the door.
"If you're lucky." She whispered back, not wanting to wake Miss. Watson, or anyone else on their floor. Closing the door behind her, Mara walked through the dark hallway into the kitchen, setting her briefcase on the counter and headed towards her room, but stopped as she passed the living room. Turning on the ball of her foot, Mara whipped out her blaster pistol and pointed it towards the chair in the dark room.
A click sounded and the lamp next to the recliner cut on revealing an unknown dark-skinned man, wearing all black, with a black eye-patch over his left eye sitting comfortably in the chair.
"Identify yourself." Mara ordered while switching the safety off her blaster.
"So, you must be the infamous Grand Inquisitor I've been hearing so much about. It's very nice to finally meet you in person." The unknown man said sitting up in the chair.
"I said… Identify yourself." Mara sternly ordered stepping closer to the man.
"Nicholas Fury, but you can just call me Fury." He said standing up out of the chair.
"Fury, I've heard about you." Mara cautiously said lowering her blaster.
"So, tell me, Grand Inquisitor. How does one of the Galactic Empire's highest-ranking government officials turn traitor and end up in High School?" Fury asked walking closer to Mara.
"Needed a change in scenery." Mara answered.
"Try again." Fury said unimpressed while crossing his arms in front of his chest.
"I don't see why I have too." Mara spat back.
Fury scoffed at her wit. "Stark's showed me the file he has on you from your Rebel Alliance friends. But I wonder what the kid will really think of you once he knows what actions you did when you worked for the Empire?" Fury asked, his voice having a slight threatening tone.
Mara raised her blaster again, aiming at Fury's chest. "You don't know what you're talking about." She hissed.
"The shuttle of children you murdered because they were suspected of being 'Force-sensitive'. The part you played in the destruction of an entire planet, along with all two billion of its inhabitants. The prisoners you're accused of torturing. The list goes on. Mrs. Jade, you are a threat, and I don't care if you finally decided to see the light, but I will end you if you even just hover over the line." Fury threatened. Not bothered by the deadly weapon pointed at his chest.
Mara stood there motionless. Trying to keep her cool. She watched Fury walk out of the living room and out of the apartment into the hallway.
Holstering her blaster, she walked after him to make sure he left. Walking out the door, Mara looked down both sides of the hall, but he had disappeared. Sighing, Mara prepared to shut the door but felt a presence behind the door in the apartment in front of her, Peter's apartment.
"You can come out; I can sense you back there Peter." Mara said.
The door opened, but it wasn't Peter standing there. His aunt May Parker stood there, a small blush covering her face from getting caught eavesdropping.
"Oh, Mrs. Parker. Sorry I thought you were Peter." Mara said in slight surprise.
"I didn't mean to snoop, but I heard some loud voices, and then I saw that man leave Miss. Watson Apartment." May explained, slightly embarrassed about getting caught. She stood there in a night gown, her hair messy and her face looked like she had been rudely awakened. Most likely after Peter had barged in after they went their separate ways.
"It's no bother." Mara said smiling back at the woman.
"Well, it was finally nice to meet you, Peter's told me a lot about you." May said.
Mara let out a small laugh, "Has he now?"
"All good things, though I worry about him. Especially after he got hurt by that robot thing the other night. But I know if I try to stop him, he'll only want to do it more." May said trailing off. She crossed her arms in front of her chest, sighing at the thought of Peter.
Mara hung her head slightly, "I blame myself for that, I put him in danger." Mara confessed.
May looked up at the teen, but her smile remained on her face. "Honey, don't blame yourself, Peter would have found a way to put himself in danger one way or another."
"As the Force wills, I guess." Mara scoffed.
May gave the girl a confused looked, "Uh, sure. But I should let you get going, it's late. Or really early." May said and then walked back into her apartment after wishing Mara a good night.
Mara did the same and walked back into Miss. Watson's apartment, stripping her clothes off on the way, to tired to care to put anything on to sleep in, she climbed into her bed and threw the covers over her body and drifted off.
Six-thirty AM came too early for Mara. She hit the snooze on her alarm two times already. Groaning, she slipped out of bed and quickly threw on a random T-shirt and some leggings. Not bothering with her hair, she put it up and walked into the refresher to finish getting ready.
Walking back into the kitchen, Mara saw Miss. Watson watching her morning news channels in the living room in the same spot Nick Fury had been sitting hours earlier.
"Morning dear." She softly said after noticing the red head grabbing some breakfast before she went out to meet Peter.
"Good morning Miss. Watson. Anything interesting happen overnight?" Mara asked, though she honestly really didn't care about Earth's domestic events, she still tried to make simple conversation with the woman. She poured herself a glass of the weird white milk while she quickly ate.
"Oh, let's see, the Secretary of State resigned and announced that he's challenging President McCord in the Republican Primary next year." Mara started to tune the older woman out, not exactly caring for domestic politics. "Oh! And there's reports of a lizard man running around the city. They're calling him 'The Lizard.'" The older woman laughed, while Mara started to choke on the milk she was drinking.
"I know, very creative of a name." Miss. Watson laughed.
Mara quickly gathered her things, already stressed and tired with dealing with a short amount of rest, Fury, and now there's a Trandoshan loose in the city, and the public knows about it.
"Have a nice day!" Miss. Watson called after Mara as she quickly went out the door and nearly ran into Peter.
"Wow, what's with the rush?" Peter asked.
"The public knows about Bossk being loose, Miss. Watson said it's all over the news." Mara explained, worried about what the bounty hunter might do next.
Peter placed his hand on Mara's shoulder attempting to comfort her. "It'll be fine. S.H.I.E.L.D.'s on the case. Our job is done. Let's just go to school and try to be like regular high schoolers."
Mara stood still for a moment, thinking over what he said before nodding in agreement. "You know how difficult that is for me. Standing on the sidelines."
"Welcome to my world." Peter laughed.
The two made their way out of the building and towards the bus stop at the end of their block.
The two remained in comfortable silence as they made their way to the school. Though Mara occasionally looked around to make sure there wasn't an overgrown lizard tracking her down.
About a half-an-hour later Mara and Peter stood in front of Midtown High. MJ, Ned, and Betty stood together near the entrance as they usually did while other kids pushed their way pass to get into the school. Occasionally one or two kids would stop and talk to the trio, most likely asking about the kidnapping, but quickly moved on.
Mara and Peter slowly made their way to the group. Betty was the first one to notice the two and quickly ran over to give Mara a hug.
Mara stared confusingly at the blonde as she hugged the red head tightly.
"Tell your cousin or uncle…whatever, but thank him so much for saving us!" Betty cried but continued to hold onto Mara.
"Uh… Sure, glad that you're okay and that you guys didn't get hurt. Too much." Mara said.
Peter went over to Ned and did their 'secrete handshake' before hugging each other. "You alright?" Peter asked Ned, and then looked over to Michelle.
They both nodded their heads. "The guy-slash-alien who kidnapped us said he wanted to grab you too. Was this all about your relationship with Tony Stark or what. Because what did you do to piss off a bunch of aliens?" Michelle asked.
"Uh…" Peter trailed off.
"They wanted me, let's just say I managed to make some enemies before moving here. I'm sorry for getting you guys mixed up in all of this." Mara spoke up. Even though she wasn't telling the full truth, she didn't miss a beat as she explained it to the three.
"Oh, well, no one got hurt and Iron Man saved the day in the end. So, job well done." Betty said patting Mara on the shoulder nervously.
"What about Flash? How's he handling all of this?" Peter asked.
Ned, MJ, and Betty all looked at one another. "You mean you haven't seen his story over the past eight hours?" Michelle asked the two who both shook their heads 'no.' "It's been nonstop banter about how Iron Man saved him, and how he has Iron Man's autograph and been showing it off to everybody."
The first bell rang for school to start while the five continued to talk. Walking into the building Michelle and Betty headed off towards their respective classes while Ned walked with Peter and Mara to their lockers.
"So, that lizard guy I've been reading about on the news, that wouldn't happen to be one of the bounty hunters who kidnapped us, would it?" Ned asked the two.
"Yep." Peter said popping the 'P'.
"Oh, great." Ned sarcastically trailed off.
"Don't worry, I'm sure he's off licking his wounds somewhere." Mara chimed in.
Ned nodded his head and patted Peter on the shoulder, "I've got to get to first period. See you guys at lunch?" He asked, slowly walking backwards down the hall.
"Of course." Peter replied.
Ned turned around and walked out of the hall while Mara and Peter went in the opposite direction. The two quickly made their way to the staircase to walk up to the third floor of the school.
The staircase was relatively empty, but Mara slowed her ascent when they passed a window overlooking the city before her. Looking out the window, Mara concentrated, feeling a slight disturbance in the Force. She glanced over at Peter who had a concerned look on his face.
"I sense it too." Peter said.
Mara's eyes widened as she pushed Peter away from the window and an explosion blasted the wall in. Seconds later the fire alarm went off.
Running up the stairs, Peter grabbed Mara and shot a web at the ceiling and pulled them both up just as the door shot open and several kids ran out of the third floor and made their way down the stairs, but stopped once they saw the debris at the bottom of the third flight of stairs. They quickly ran back through the door and Mara hoped they were going down the flight of stairs on the other side of the building.
"You have your new suit?" Peter asked as he lowered them down, and quickly webbed the door shut, preventing anyone else from coming down this way.
Mara yanked her backpack off her back and pulled out the black and silver suit. She quickly put it over her clothes. Peter quickly stripped down to his Iron Man boxers and threw his suit on over top of it and put on his mask. Mara did the same.
Another explosion hit the school, making the staircase shake violently. "What the hell is attacking us Karen?" Peter asked his A.I.
"She says it's an unknown source." Peter said aloud.
"The first explosion sounded and had a yield similar to a thermal detonator." Mara spoke up, slightly surprised at the sound of her voice through the modulator in her mask.
She pulled her lightsaber out of her bag and attached it to her belt.
"You've been carrying that around?" Peter asked, looking at her weapon.
"You have your web shooters." Mara replied and leaped over the railing to quickly drop to the first floor. Peter landed gracefully next to her.
Mara used the Force to open the door and was met with a chaotic scene of students running around trying to get out of the school, but debris covered the front entrance.
Another round of explosions rocketed the building. "Where's Tony?" Mara asked.
"He and Pepper left for Malibu early this morning, I can't get a hold of them, I left Happy a message." Peter said as a random kid came up a did a selfie with Peter before running off.
"What. Was. That?" Mara asked.
"It's an Earth thing." Peter replied and the two quickly ran into an empty classroom across the hall. Closing the door behind them, they left the lights off, the only source of light coming into the small classroom was from the busted windows along the far wall.
Peter turned around and webbed the door shut, making sure no one would get in their way.
"Karen says the authorities have surrounded the building, but they want to keep everyone inside until they can be sure there are no more explosives." Peter spoke up but he quickly pulled Mara down as a red laser bolt struck the ground where she had been standing moments earlier.
Mara activated her lightsaber and deflected another round of blasts.
"He's in the building across the street, sixth floor!" Mara shouted as she deflected another blast.
Peter looked at the building and back at Mara. "Go! I'll hold him off." Mara ordered and vaulted through the broken window into full sight of the sniper.
Peter Parker waited a moment for Mara to draw the sniper's attention away and leaped out of the window and ran across the street to the building where the sniper was holed up in. Peter looked over to the cops that had taken cover behind their squad cars.
"Looks like we're on our own." Peter told Karen as he started to scale the building. "Activate infrared."
Peter's vision quickly shifted, and he could make out a single heat source standing on the floor above him, the outline of the person was defiantly not human. Definitely lizard like alien.
Peter shot a web directly above him onto the overhang of the roof and he propelled himself up. Crouching directly beneath the window, Peter pushed off the wall and slammed himself through the window into the Lizard guy.
"Hi'ya." Peter said and used a web to pull the laser rifle out of Bossk's hands.
The Trandoshan hissed in anger quickly got to his feet and grappled Peter. The momentum carried the two out of the window and Peter attached a web to the side of the building to slow their descent. Landing not so gracefully, Peter rolled to his feet where Mara ran up next to him.
"It's the Lizard!" Peter heard someone shout from across the street. Several pedestrians were huddled around each other, all of them taking videos with their phones. Peter wanted to yell at them to stand clear, but the police beat him to it.
"Surrender bounty hunter!" Mara ordered, pointing her saber at Bossk.
The bounty hunter turned his gaze to Mara, "Never." He hissed and he pulled out a silver and red cylinder device and threw on the ground.
Green gas emitted from the device. Peter and Mara quickly stepped back, though it quickly expanded and some of it landed on Peter's arm. "Mother erm'… Holy shit that hurt!" Peter cursed as the green gas quickly dissolved some of his suit while leaving burn marks on his skin.
"Dioxis gas. Very deadly when inhaled and apparently it can be modified to melt through our suits." Mara said as Bossk laughed at the two and pulled out several thermal detonators.
"You're outnumbered and outgunned. Surrender Bossk, it's your only option." Peter told the lizard alien as Mara redirected the poisonous gas away from the two.
Bossk threw one of his detonators, using his web shooter Peter grabbed the detonator out of the air and launched it directly up into the sky. The detonator exploded before it could fall back to the ground.
Bossk hissed and charged Peter with his clawed hands lashing dangerously close at Peter. Mara used her free hand to Force push Bossk to the ground.
After he fell, Bossk rolled to his feet and threw another detonator at the ground between Mara and Peter. The explosion knocked the two of them off their feet and to the ground.
Peter quickly jumped to his feet, but he noticed that Mara was still on the ground. Peter concentrated on her saber and used the Force to summon the weapon to his hands.
Bossk stopped in his tracks, slightly taken aback by Peter's ability to use the Force. "Jedi." Bossk hissed. "It will be a pleasure to rip the flesh from your bones." Bossk and Peter slowly circled each other, waiting for the other to make the first move.
Peter activated the purple blade just as Bossk charged him. Spinning the blade in his hand, he slashed at Bossk, missing him by inches. Bossk swiped at Peter's midsection, Peter defensively swung the saber, cutting Bossk's fingers off.
The Trandoshan roared in pain as he held his right hand, the saber cauterized the wound, preventing blood from flowing out.
Peter stared horrified at the bounty hunter. He never meant to butcher him. Mara came out from no where and punched the lizard on the head, knocking him out.
Mara walked over to Peter and patted his shoulder. "Don't stress about it. Trandoshan's can regenerate limbs." She told him.
That didn't make Peter feel much better, but he knew it was either Bossk's fingers, or Peter's stomach. "It's still disgusting." Peter muttered, handing the now deactivated lightsaber back to Mara.
"Comes with the territory." She said, clipping the weapon back to her belt.
Peter webbed Bossk's hands and feet together, and then webbed him to the Midtown High School sign at the front of the school.
"Ready?" Peter asked extending his arm out to Mara.
The redhead nodded and wrapped her arm around Peter's back, and he shot a web off at the tallest building near them and started to swing away from the battle scene.
"Karen, has Tony or really anyone gotten back to me yet?" Peter asked his A.I. as the two landed on top of a nearby roof.
"Mr. Hogan is attempting to contact you now." Karen said and a picture of Happy's caller ID popped up on Peter's UI.
"Kid, we leave you alone for an hour and you've already managed to blow your school up? I'm taking the suit back!" Happy yelled.
"Happy, lay off the kid." The voice of Tony Stark interrupted Happy's tirade.
"Kid you and Mara alright?" Tony asked.
"Yeah Mr. Stark, we're fine. Tell Ms. Hill that we captured Bossk, he's tied up at the front of the school. The cops said that they were going to wait for the military to take custody of him… So, she might want to beat them to it." Peter informed Tony.
"I'll let her know. We're altering our flight plans now that way we can get back to you guys." Tony said.
Peter eyes went wide at the realization that he cut Tony and Pepper's vacation short. "No, we got this. Crisis averted. No more bounty hunters left. We captured all six." Peter pleaded with Tony.
"You can never be too sure kid. Ya' never know what this…Sinister six has planned. Rather make sure all six of them are secure in a S.H.I.E.L.D. or government prison before I jettison off to the beach." Tony replied and then immediately cut off the comms.
Peter sighed as he took off his mask, sitting on the ledge of the roof, letting the cool spring breeze brush against his face.
"I take it that they're on their way back?" Mara asked Peter. She also had her mask off. She walked over to join him, slowly sitting down next to him. He took her hand into his own as they stared off into the city.
"You think that we're still going to go on that field trip into the city coming up soon?" Peter asked, laughing slightly at his attempt to change the subject.
"Why not? What's the worst that could happen?" Mara laughed while Peter shook his head.
"Please don't say that. Last time you said something like that a murderous lizard blew up the school." Peter playfully responded.
"Well." Mara gently said turning her head to face Peter's. "I think if anything were to happen."
"We can handle it." Peter finished her sentence and leaned in for a kiss.
Mara responded by doing the same.
The Scoundrel Six: An In A Galaxy Far Far Away Story
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Written By
Starkiller2886
Original Characters created by
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Special Agent Daisy Johnson watched as agents brought in containment fields of several new alien prisoners that Assistant Director Hill had captured earlier. Five different capsules were being brought into the base for holding until the government could find a permanent place to put the aliens.
Fitz, Simmons, and Mack had already gotten the remains of the sentient robot assassin. Already trying to dissect and reverse engineer the thing.
"Coulson, what are we supposed to do with them?" Daisy asked the S.H.I.E.L.D. director as he stared at several monitors with an assortment of information.
"We'll study, interrogate, and learn as much about their galaxy as we can. Especially before we have to hand them over to the government." Coulson simply replied and walked down the hall to follow their new prisoners.
Daisy stood there for a moment, slightly confused. "Well no Shit." She said after him and turned to walk in the opposite direction. 'Maybe FitzSimmons might actually have some useful answers for me.' Daisy thought to herself as she walked away.
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A/N: I hope you all enjoyed this story. I'll try to start and post the actual sequal to Rise of the Son as soon as I can.
May the Force be with the people of El Paso Texas and Dayton Ohio.