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A/N: I hope to finish up through chapter 32 this weekend or at least to chapter 30, we will see what happens. Any, I kind of forgot how much happens in this chapter. I was worried they were going to be short but this is over 2000 words and there's still about 15 minutes left in the episode. So... I'll just post this and get back to writing. Read, Review, Enjoy!
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Chapter 27: Luke
"I'm going to win this by a nose!" Spider-Man yells as we zip down the zip lines head first towards the barren land at the base of the volcano.
"No time for wisecracks." Fury snaps at him instantly.
"What? But there's always time for wisecracks!"
"Don't make me sorry I picked you over the others today." Fury shouts over the wind. "Focus on the mission."
He drops from the zip line.
I reach to the strap and pull the release cord.
"Focus?" Spider-Man continues to joke. "Aw, shoot. Parachute! Heh-Heh, fun."
I pull the parachute release cord as I plummet towards the earth.
The parachute pulls me upwards for only a second as I start to get closer to Spider-Man.
There are some guards near where we need to land.
"Webs, attack pattern 26-Delta," I shout up at Spider-Man as I float down past him.
"Delta? That's Greek to me." Spider-Man bounces off my parachute and flips over free falling right next to me.
I grab him and maneuver best as I can as he floats down, launching him at the oblivious guards below.
Spider-Man flies down as I look over to Agent Coulson and Director Fury, following their lead as they maneuver to land behind some large rock formations to use as shelter.
We land and I quickly unhook my parachute harness and crawl to look over the rocks.
Spider-Man sits below us, hiding and webbing as many guns as he can.
He jumps up and backflips, clumsily landing beside me but quickly gaining his footing back.
He quickly joins me to watch the scene below.
"Incoming!" Fury yells.
We all duck behind the large rocks as the bombs explode on the other side.
"Outgoing!" Spider-Man yells standing up and catching more bombs in his webbing and launching them back over the trench.
A blast nearly misses my shoulder, getting my attention.
Behind us.
"And more incoming," I report as Spider-Man looks with me. "We need to show the Zodiac who's boss here."
Spider-Man chases after me as I pick up a bolder over my head and launch it at the Zodiac coming up the side of the hill. "Next plan?"
"Fight fire with big rocks." Spider-Man muses behind me. "Nice job."
"Only kind of job I do."
"Beta team bug leader to alpha eye patch," Spider-Man jokes as he holds up his communicator. "Omega, roped cows at 11-86, what's the 4-1-1? Over."
"In English?" Fury orders, I can hear his regret in his voice.
"Are we sure running into a volcano, looking for a bad guy version of the super-soldier formula is really the best plan?"
"If we don't get the Zodiac Key in time," Coulson answers. "Scorpio will use it to power his super soldier machine, and make an arm of indestructible superhumans. And nobody wants that."
"Mission understood! Sir!" Spider-Man agrees.
"Stay on point, Web-Head." Fury adds. "Stage two! Commencing now! Here come the troops."
I turn around to see more Zodiac foot soldiers running towards us.
"Lock and load, we're going in." The order echoes on both of our communicators.
I grab one as soon as he gets close and throw him into another.
I punch the next one to the ground and one hit and Spider-Man joins me in keeping them at bay.
"We're pinned. Think you two can make it through the side entrance?" Fury's voice comes from my wrist as I deal with an unarmed soldier.
"There's a side entrance?" Spider-Man asks in surprise as his opponent falls to the ground.
"There's about to be." Fury confirms. "Fury to Tri-Carrier; do it."
The Tri-Carrier?
I look up as the large ship comes through the clouds.
Spider-Man stands next to me as we watch.
The missiles are too small to see until they fly full speed over our heads towards the volcano.
"Run," Spider-Man comments as we both run in the opposite direction hoping to avoid the effects of the blast.
The force of the impact stills knocks us off our feet.
"We'll keep the Zodiac busy here," Fury says on the communicators. "You two get that key and look out for Scorpio. He's deadly."
Spider-Man looks over at me as I give him a nod.
I look up at the large hole in the volcano.
I'm going to need a running jump to get up there.
I back up to get enough distance and get a running start as Spider-Man swings himself up and into one of the exposed hallways.
I don't know if I can get that high up.
I focus on running and jump onto the volcano and start to climb my way up.
There are a few ledges where I can jump from and soon enough we find a hallway that appears to lead to somewhere.
"Last one to the monitor room is a rotten magma-ball." Spider-man jokes as he swings down the halls and into the first room we come across.
I chase after him as we round the corner and see an empty room full of still working screens.
Perfect. The Explosion must have forced them to quickly evacuate.
Leaving everything unlocked for us to find and dig through.
This is too easy.
Spider-Man takes the screen on the right and I take the one on the left.
There's about two minutes of silence as we search through them.
I bet someone must be enjoying this, being as quiet as he is. Even if they are using it for evil purposed it's hard to deny the fact that this stuff appears to be cutting edge.
"Man, Scorpio's mad scientists are into everything." Spider-Man muses as he flips through the files and security footage, "future tech, doomsday weapons, pirating all the latest hit movies… so evil. Any luck on your screens? What did you find oh invulnerable one?"
It's all the same things Webs just listed; insane technology and weapons of mass destruction.
I swipe my hand across the screen again to view the next security camera.
Scientists in a lab, except.
Except.
Are they civilians?
They're not wearing the same costumes that everyone else around here is wearing.
They kind of look like…
"Those too Zodiac scientists working on that weapon…" I somehow find the words to get Spider-Man's attention. "Spidey, they're my parents."
Spider-Man doesn't react right away.
I swear I'd recognize them anywhere. That has to be them. It hasn't been that long since that night.
They look exactly like I remember them.
But how… how did they-?
"Wait!" Spider-Man shouts. "Your 'parents' parents? Like 'mom and dad' style parents?"
I glare over my shoulder at him. "Is there some other kind?"
"Well… actually yeah." Spider-Man doesn't miss a beat.
Aunt May. Right. That's all he has.
"I thought you told me your parents died in a plane explosion years ago?" Spider-Man shakes back to reality in record time.
"They did, at the hands of Scorpio. At least that's what I thought."
That was the story. I was the only survivor of that explosion. Coulson or Connors or someone told me my parents weren't found.
Couldn't be found…
And I was there. Nothing could have survived that explosion.
Right?
I've got to know if that's them.
"Sorry, Web-Head, this just got personal." I start to run out of the room.
I'm not sure where I'm going but I have to find them.
"You're on the key alone. I got to go find my mom and dad."
Webbing blocks my way out.
I abruptly stop and look back at Webs still standing in the same spot.
"Nuh-huh, those can't be your parents," Spider-Man argues. "Besides, what about the key?"
He looks over at a computer and runs over, pressing some buttons as we watch the footage of the key that Fury wants us to secure. "You know? Our mission?"
I don't have time for this.
"Your mission now; I just got a new one." I pull the thin layer of webbing out of the hole in the wall and make my way into the long dark hallway.
There's only one direction to go. The way we came in doesn't lead to anything.
So that only leaves the other direction.
Hopefully, it will let out in the main hallway. And all the science labs should be together.
I skid to a halt as the hallways as expected opens up.
Immediately and the guards start shooting at me.
I run up to the closet two and hit one and then the other knocking them to the ground.
The I knock the guns out of the next two's hands simultaneously and throw them against the walls.
"Luke, nice punch!" Spider-Man calls as he chases after me. "Hold up! Hold-! Not now!"
My watch springs to life but I don't hold it up to answer.
"We've secured the perimeter," Coulson reports as I blow through more Zodiac guards. "Working to randevu with you; have you located the key?"
I run towards the other guards shooting at us and start to disarm and take them out one or two at a time as I listen to Spider-Man take the call.
"Yeah, but we've also located something more important on the security cameras." Spider-Man answers. "Power-Man's parents. Here."
"Impossible." Coulson doesn't miss a beat.
I punch the next guard with more force than necessary sending him flying into others.
"Not impossible." Spider-Man corrects.
I turn to look at the guards behind me and see them caught in webbing.
"Very possible," Spider-Man explains. "And it looks like they're helping build the super soldier device."
"Walter and Amanda Cage were SHIELD scientists," Coulson answers him. "The best. They would never side with Scorpio. It must be a trap stay on mission."
They wouldn't right?
I throw another guard to the side.
SHEILD scientists and agents are top notch, there has to be a reason why they would corporate with Scorpio.
It could be anything, mind control, or brainwashing.
Would they even remember or recognize me?
"Why does everyone keep telling me to stay on mission?" Spider-Man whines.
"Because one of you is disciplined and follows orders and the other one is you." Coulson snaps.
"Ouch."
"Coulson out."
"Power-Man watch out." Spider-Man shouts.
I skid to a halt and look behind me to see two guards with the guns pulled from their hands.
I rush up to them and send them flying back into the wall.
"Nice job," I compliment.
"Only kind of job I do." Webs jokes. "Yeah, swagger doesn't really work as well for me as you. Huh?"
We're wasting time.
"Look I appreciate the help. But you have a job to do." I stop at a large bay door and pull it off its hinges. "Don't get in trouble because of me."
"Coulson says they're no way your parents are here with Scorpio." Spider-Man reminds me.
"We'll call back and ask him what he would do if he thought they were his folks," I report looking around the large storage facility.
Nothing in this one, time for the next.
"They've got to be clones or robots, or… some other kind of evil trap." Spider-Man tries to logic out.
I pull another door off its hinges and throw it behind me near Spider-Man. He needs to shut up.
"You want to stop throwing doors at me?" Spider-Man complains.
"Sorry, not at you, near you." I correct him.
Next door.
"Come on, Luke." Spider-Man keeps at it. "Protocol says we do the mission then we get SHIELD to find these 'maybe parents.'"
"If you were in my shoes, would you follow protocol?" I challenge him. "Or your heart?"
"Power-Man." Fury's voice comes from my watch.
I look down and silence it without a second thought.
"Wow…" Spider-Man muses. "Did you just hang up on Fury? Because you've never hung up on Fury. Hanging up on Fury is like-"
"Spider-Man!" Fury order's on his watch. "Report in-"
"Something I would do."
We're never going on another mission as long as we live after this.
"Heart it is." Spider-Man agrees, putting a hand on my shoulder. "But if we happen to come across the key on the way. It might keep up from losing our SHIELD allowance for the year. And behind you."
I look over my shoulder and grab the door. Allowing the Zodiac guard to run into it.
"Let me get that door for you."
"Certified funny." Spider-Man jokes.
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