Battle at Stark Tower

----- January 13th, 2012 - Queens, New York -----


"Y/N? Jesus Christ, what happened to you?"


Peter walks over to me and pulls off his mask as I crawl in through his window. I was completely drenched in the waters from the Hudson. My cape was leaking all over the floor.


"Big big albino black man chucked me into the river."


"Why didn't you fly before you dropped?"


My eyebrows raise at the 'suggestion'. 


"Why didn't I just fly? God, why didn't I think of that?.. Of course I thought of that. I was too tired. I'll just get him next time."


I turn over to his bed and flop onto it. 


I'll get him next time. This was just a temporary setback. 


"How's Dr. Connors?," I ask him.


"He uh said he had to head to a tower for something."


A tower? 


Tombstone mentioned something about a 'tower going boom'. I really hope that's not where he's heading. But knowing the shit that happens in my life, he's definitely heading there.


"Peter, check the tracker. Knowing them, they probably found it already."


Peter moves over to his laptop where the receiver to his tracking device is plugged into. He picks it up and moves toward me. 


I run my hand through my hair, trying to squeeze the water out faster.


"It's still working. They haven't found it yet."


"Of course they found it already. It's a trap. They wanna lure us wherever it is they are."


I sit up and grab the laptop from is hands. I look at the screen to see where it's transmitting from.


"Oh. A tower near the center of Manhattan.."


I know exactly where they are.


"Peter.. Get Dr. Connors on the phone."


----- January 13th, 2012 - Upper East Side, New York -----


The elevator was going up to the top. The sun started rising a few minutes ago.


I had to sneak my way in due to the hundreds of people outside. Apparently they heard gunshots from within. And where there's danger, people always show up. Mostly to record it.


 If I'm right then Tombstone and his men will be waiting.


I still don't understand why they wanna blow up Stark Tower.


A ding signals I've reached my destination. The doors open to reveal Tombstones men lounging around the unfinished tower. It had nearly no furniture and the lights were off.


Tombstone was just outside above the 'Stark' Logo.


I run full force into one of them, they go soaring into a wall. 


The others hop to their feet.


I freeze one of them and bash another's head into the ice. As another stalks toward me, I lift the frozen guy and throw him. 


I hear a grunt to my left. When I look over one of them was injecting something into themselves.


His skin turns to a shade close to Tombstones but not as strong.


So that's why they had Connors.


He moves closer to throw a hook. I attempt to block and get pushed back a few feet.


I throw a jab to his chest to hear a crack but he's still standing. He grabs my arm and headbutts me, sending me reeling. 


I grab my nose and crack it back into place.


I reel back give him a heavier headbutt. As soon as it makes contact, he ragdolls to the ground.


I turn back to a few others to see them also enhanced like Tombstone. They all run at me. They all grab me and hold my arms back.


Deciding to surrender, I allow them to drag me out to where Tombstone is. He was waiting, staring out onto the city. There was a detonator in his hand.


"You're just in time for the fireworks, Superfreak," Tombstone bellows out.


Tombstone slowly turns to face me. I was thrown to the ground as the thugs all clambered back inside.


"Is now the time when you tell me your evil plan?"


He lets out a deep chuckle, "How bout you take a guess?"


He wants me to figure it out?


Fine.


"You've never met a Stark in your life. So it's definitely not personal."


"Keep going," he urges.


"There's no money in it for you.. That is unless you're being paid to do it. But I don't think you're the type to do another persons dirty work."


He smirks, "Warmer."


"...It's a power play. You wanna drive Stark out of New York."


"Exactly. I don't take kindly to people tryna take my city," He takes in a deep breath, "Which is why you.. Will go out in a blaze of glory along with this tower."


Tombstone raises the detonator into the air.


I start laughing causing him to lower the detonator and look at me. He looks at me in confusion.


"What? What's so funny?"


In between laughter, I manage to say, "Oh just two things that I find hilarious."


"What is it?," he demands while frowning.


"Well, first off, One thing people tend to forget about me. My skin is pretty much unbreakable. You really should have been able to figure that out in Harlem."


"And the second?"


I look up at him, "Web."


He looks even more confused, "Web?"


I smile and nod my head, "Web."


Two webs shoot out from above and land on both of Tombstones arms. We both look over to see Peter up higher, pulling on his webs hard.


Both Peter and Tombstone tug on the webs, fighting for dominance.


For one moment, it looks like Peter would be able to yank the detonator away. But in the next, Tombstone tugs hard on both webs and Peter is sent flying toward him.


Tombstone catches Peter midair by the throat, the detonator still in his other hand.


He squeezes Peters throat harder causing him to go limp. Shit.


But I could still hear his heartbeat.


Good, he's still alive. 


May would've killed me.


He turns back to me, "You really thought Web-Spinner here could overpower me?"


He raises the detonator and slams down on the button.


.....Nothing Happens.


No explosion or implosion.


Nothing.


"He didn't need to overpower you. We just needed to distract you. Seems a certain doctor managed to do some good despite the bad he was forced to do."


Tombstone lets out a deep growl, "Well, if all you needed was a distraction, then I guess you don't need bugboy anymore."


He tosses Peter off the side of the tower.


Fuck Fuck Fuck


I quickly stand and make a beeline for the edge.


But before I can jump off, I'm grabbed. I'm lifted by the throat by Tombstone. 


I claw at his hand as he squeezes tighter and tighter, lifting me over the edge.


I stop clawing and raise my hands to the sides. The moment arms are wide enough, I close my fists and clap them together onto his ears. My fists clap hard against Tombstones ears.


He loosens his grip and shakes his head to stop the ringing, "It's too late, Superfreak. Ain't no one to save the bug now."


I look down to see Peter falling, still unconscious. He's not even halfway yet.


He can't die today.


Who am I gonna play games with? What would May say? 


I look back to Tombstone, who was grinning. That stupid stupid grin on an even stupider man. 


I feel my eyes becoming hotter the more angry I get. They sting.


And I have a right to be angry. This idiot made a huge mistake.


Don't!


FUCK!!


WITH!!!


ME!!!!


I let out a yell as I look down to his arms. My eyes reach the boiling point. Two red hot beams burst out of my eyes. 


They slice through his arm and I drop off the edge toward Peter.


I flip and fall with my back toward the tower. 


Looking down I see Peter falling through the sky. Down even farther is the crowd from earlier but now accompanied by reporters. Seeing something falling, they all backed up.


I burst forward going faster and faster to catch up to him. When I manage to get close enough, I reach out to grab his arm.


When I grab his wrist, he slips from my grasp and falls even faster. I look down to my hand to see the Web-Shooter I just pulled off of Peter's wrist.


I quickly put it on and shoot a web toward him. I pull causing him to shoot back upward.


When he gets closer, I grab him by the torso and fly over toward a building. I place him down gently, turning my head back upwards.


Tombstone was looking off the edge as one of his arms was falling from the tower. 


My eyes start sizzling and I shoot off toward his direction.


On my way back up he eventually notices me. He goes to back up but I shoot a web at him. Both to keep him there and help me move faster.


When he goes to tug once more, He makes me skyrocket forward causing me to hit into him.


He goes flying into the air. I burst toward him and lift him by his backside. I keep pushing as I bring us higher and higher.


He tries a few times to hit me with his only arm but I shrug it off.


He wants to play dirty, then we'll play dirty.


I keep flying higher and higher as the sun continues to rise in the distance.


Going faster and faster with him squirming, yelling and kicking. 


I continue to fly and ignore him as we burst through the Troposphere.


Then the Stratosphere..


And Mesosphere...


Halfway through the Thermosphere, Tombstone stops kicking.


I push him a bit higher and away from me. He starts falling back down. 


Falling.


Falling.


When he gets far enough, I burst through the air at him. I reach him and start pushing down. Due to gravity, we go faster then we did going up.


I jab him in the spine to wake him up. He deserves to be awake for this.


Falling back down to earth we fly back through the Mesosphere, Stratosphere, and Troposphere.


On the way, my cape starts burning and my suit ripping. 


We get closer to the ground as we fly back past the top of Stark Tower. I keep pushing  as get even closer to the floor. 


Eventually we slam into the open spot at the base of the tower. The dust and rock ripped up and exploded everywhere. The dust covered nearly everywhere. 


I slowly stand up from the mini-crater in the ground.


I pull myself out and look up into the sky at the dark blue shade it was this early in the morning. 


When I look back forward, the hundreds of people in front of the tower was already thousands. They were being held back by police and police barriers.


The reporters had their cameras facing me.


A bunch of them were cheering while some others were confused. Probably expected Iron Man.


I should say something. Like a catch phrase. But what?


There's no need to fright, Superman's got might.


Nope, that sounds stupid.


There's no need to worry, Superman will make crime scurry.


Hell No, even worse. And way too specific.


...Perhaps?


I start levitating in the air. My burnt up cape flowing in the wind. 


Most of the crowd goes quiet.


I put on one of the biggest smiles I've ever had.


"There's no need to fear, Superman is here."


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