chasing waterfalls [Peter Parker]

~53~

"Wait, what?" Peter sighed and put the object on the ground. Immediately, a light show of smoke was projected out of it. It was another monster, and Mysterio was fighting it. "The whole thing was fake?" Peter nodded. "But how did you get this?" Peter gestured to MJ.

"She found it. And she figured out who I am. And you." I looked at MJ, who nodded. "We gotta go warn Fury." He looked at Ned. "Look, Ned, I need you to call May, get her to call Mr. Harrington, say she wanted me and Nixie to stay with family in Berlin until this all blows over, okay?" Ned nodded. MJ looked shocked.

"Wow, you guys lie with such ease." I shrugged. Peter looked at MJ. "Don't tell anyone about this, okay? Anyone who knows is in danger." MJ nodded. I quickly put on my suit, and Peter and I went out the window.

Once we got to Germany, a car pulled up. Fury rolled down the window.

"Get in." We got in the car, Peter in the front seat and me in the back.

"Mr. Fury..." Peter started, but Fury stopped him.

"You've got a lot of explaining to do." Peter started to explain, but Fury shook his head. "Wait until we're secure."

We got to the building, and we went up to what looked like a conference room. In the room was Hill. Fury sighed.

"So is there anything you want to tell us about your girlfriend?" Hill sighed.

"He's talking about EDITH." Peter nodded.

"I know I made a mistake, and I'm sorry, but he is not who you think he is. Beck is a liar. Mysterio, the Elementals, it's all fake. He has some sort of illusion tech. That's how he tricked you and tricked me into giving him EDITH." He pulled out the projector. "It's a projector. I pulled it off the fire monster in Prague." Fury folded his arms.

"So all that death and destruction we witnessed was created by this?" Peter shook his head.

"No, not just this. I think he's using drones." Fury nodded.

"Well, if this is true, then Beck's very dangerous and we need to be smart. Who else did you tell about this?" Peter zoned out, thinking about something. "Parker? Parker!" Peter looked around.

"What's wrong?" Hill asked. Peter looked at me.

"It's Beck. He's here." All of a sudden, Hill faded into pixels. Fury looked at her.

"Hill?" Peter shook his head. The entire building faded to pixels, until we were standing in an unbuilt building.

"No, it's just an illusion." A blast from a drone flew right past us and hit Fury. Fury went down. I turned around to see a drone. It shot a blast at Peter, and he fell three floors. I went to fly down, but it shot me, and I ended up falling five floors.

As soon as I got up, the room went black. I looked around frantically, looking for any type of light. But there was nothing but darkness.

"Peter?" I called out, desperate for a familiar voice.

"Nixie, Nixie, Nixie." I heard Mysterio's voice call out, and I searched for the origin of the sound. "I gotta say, I'm disappointed. I expected more from a Romanoff." The line sent chills down my spine. "I heard stories about the famous Natasha Romanoff. The Black Widow. So I expected more from you. You're not your sister."

He showed up, shooting green smoke at me. I dodged the blasts, and flew towards him. But since he was an illusion, I went right through him and fell two stories. When I hit the ground, the environment changed. I was now in a room full of women with guns aimed at me.

"You said that your sister got you out of Russia to keep you from the Red Room." The room faded to black.

"You can pretend all you want. But you can't deny who you are." I saw a figure standing in front of me. The figure took a step closer. "You're a killer, Nixie. You may not have trained in the Red Room, but you're still a killer."

The figure stepped into the light and I shuddered. The figure was me, but different. This version of me was colder, stiffer, and wearing a different superhero suit. "This is who you are. It's in your blood." The other version of me held up her hands, ready to attack, and defensively, I shot water at her, closing my eyes. I couldn't watch myself get shot. She fell back down.

"I mean, you killed your sister." I opened my eyes to see Natasha, lying on the ground. All the life was drained from her eyes. She looked up at me, almost terrified. "If it weren't for you, she wouldn't have made that sacrifice." Tears were pooling from my eyes. "She was a hero. And now she's gone." I stepped back, shaking.

Now I was surrounded by the Avengers, all staring at me with accusatory faces. "If only the Avengers knew that they let in a killer." The Avengers started charging at me, so I did the only logical thing I could think of. I ran.

I ran for a few seconds before I came to the edge of a cliff. I looked behind me to see the Avengers were now gone. And the cliff was gone too.

"And to top it all off, you killed your boyfriend." The illusion faded, and I looked over at Peter just in time for a train to come bustling through, taking him with it.

"NO!" I screamed, running to the beginning of the tunnel. I collapsed to my knees, sobbing. Behind me, Mysterio sighed.

"I tried to tell you." I slowly stood up, now fuming. Mysterio wasn't just going to kill Peter and get away with it. My blood was boiling. I turned around, my rage becoming very apparent.

"I... am going... to kill you." Mysterio chuckled.

"There it is. There's the killer I was talking about." He sighed, smiling. "But no, you're not." I then felt a needle plunge into my neck. Then, my vision went blurry.