I smiled as I ended the spell, "it's called the whips of Vastha, pretty cool huh? It was the last spell he taught me, it took me forever to get it down."
"You can do magic?!" MJ shirked in silent awe.
I shrugged, "oh please, don't sound too surprised. I'm awesome like that."
Liz blinked, "what else did you see there? You're like fifty there right? Did you like have a wife and kids? Were you married?"
That question gave me pause. MJ and Liz leaned in to hear the answer, and I knew I couldn't tell them the truth. MJ had just started dating Mark, and form what I heard it was going great. But if I tell her, 'oh hey MJ, remember that girl version of me that visited us? Well I lied, she's actually our daughter from another world where we both got together and had a kid!'. Obviously, that can't happen.
I shook my head, "no. I was alone. That version of me had quite being Spider-man and instead became a forensic scientist. Pretty cool dude, if I do say so myself. But he does have this stupid looking goatee," I ended with a grumble.
"What about us?" Liz asked, "did you see a version of us?"
I schook my head, "no, sorry. That me figured it would be best if I didn't learn too much about the world, that way it won't hurt like a mother fucker when I leave them all behind," I lied.
MJ hume, "damn. I would love to know what I end up as."
"Why? Wondering if you and Mark end up together?" Liz asked lilly to which MJ blushed a shade similar to her hair.
We chatted for some more time, just three friends. We talked about MJ's new play and how she got the lead in it. We talked about Liz and Johnny's date to Florida where Johnny had to save her from an alligator. All in all, it was a good day.
And then, just as I was going to pay for our coffee the TV in the coffee shop caught my attention displaying the latest news of a bombing in California. An act of terrorism, the Mandarin claimed responsible. And Tony had officially just challenged him to a fist fight.
I sighed, Iron Man 3 ladies and gentlemen.
"Is he going to be okay?" MJ asked me in a whisper as we left the coffee shop.
"He will be," I took out my tablet, "Sexy, call up Pepper and tell her the Spider is coming to give his assistance."
"Shouldn't we tell Mr. Stark first sir?" Sexy asked.
"No, he's too stubborn for it," I sighed.
"Are you going?" Liz asked as we walked up to my car.
"Yeah," I opened the door and got in, "he had my back with my suit and he gave me this bitching AI-"
"-Damn straight," I was teaching Sexy how to gain some attitude, so far it's been a success.
"I owe him," I smiled at the girls, "don't wait up," I drove out, leaving them behind.
"Damn it," I heard MJ grumble, "that was my ride."
I drove the car into a secluded alley before kicking in flight mode and lifting off vertically into the air. I engaged stealth mode, making me invisible to radar, and took off full throttle towards Malibu. I punched in Tony's home address, he did just give it out on national TV.
"How long till we reach?" I asked allowed.
"4 hours sir," replied Doc, my onboard AI for the car.
"Alright then, Sexy, call Sue and then home, I need to explain my absence as best as I can," I sighed, guess it's time to lie again.
Four hours later:
We were coming up on Malibu air space. I had actually taken some time to sleep and now yawned fresh and awake. I quickly changed into my Spiderman costume, I had taken time to repair it and it was now good as new. Though I figured it would be time to upgrade soon….provided I manage to get enough capital to do that.
"We're currently flying directly over Mr. Stark's recidence," Sexy called out, I looked down and sure enough there it was. And we weren't the only ones here as it was surrounded by news helicopters, a few of which I knew must belong to the Mandarin.
"Great," I looked around, so far the copper looked normal enough, maybe they were bidding their time, hm… "Sexy, do you think you can hack into the onboard systems of these choppers?"
"Of course, who do you think I am?" Sexy replied.
"Good. I'll go down, you and Doc stay up here and be on patrol. The Mandarin has control over several helicopters disguised as news choppers. They should come at the house from the sea, if you spot anyone of them with a system that has freaking rocket launchers in it take over and crash them into the sea. Got it?"
"Understood Spider, good luck," Sexy replied.
"Thanks," I opened the door and leaped out, "I'll need it." I dropped down twenty feet onto the roof before landed in a roll. Immediately twenty or so rocket launchers popped out of the ground, pointed at me.
"Hault! Identify yourself," I heard JARVIS call out.
"It's me, Spider-man, tell Tony I came to help," I ignored the rockets, obviously if they were any harm to me my spidey senses would have warned me. I walked over to the edge of the roof and jumped down.
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