Violet Tides: A Spider-Woman Story

Chapter 6. Tony

Tony pov

Upper floors of the tower were buzzing with activity even though it was well past 12. After calming Peter down from a near panic attack Tony finally managed to find out what was wrong. Peter and Spider-woman were breaking up a bar brawl when one of the customers pulled out a gun and aimed it at peter. Spider-woman jumped in front of the bullet and it hit her in the stomach. She managed to slow the bullet down enough so that it just bounced off peter. Spider-woman fainted when Peter applied pressure to the wound, he didn't want to move her so ran to get help. when he had returned she was gone. Peter explained Spider-woman's invisibility so he had just thought she had turned invisible but when he reached out nothing was there.

Tony was concerned for this Spider-woman. Ever since Peter had come into his life he was suddenly aware that anyone could be under the mask. Tony pulled up all the information he could find on Spider-woman, surveillance footage, videos and photos, police reports. He was having Friday analyse the blood samples he had collected. He found out that Spider-woman started heroing around the same time as peter. She was brought into the spotlight with a viral video of her stopping a bank robbery while making a joke out of the robbers. There were several websites dedicated to the "spiders'' that collected every bit of information they could find on them. But unlike Peter, Spider-woman was much better at hiding her tracks. Partly due to the invisibility thing. She was spotted all over New York. From Long Island to Hell's Kitchen. The most recent post on the website was from last week a video of her catching a fallen crane then pulling it up. But Tony could still not find anything that would lead him to her identity. But he promised Peter he would keep an eye out.

"Friday I want you to create a new file on Spider-woman and run the 'finding the underoo' program on it"

"Sure boss"

Tony took a deep breath, and looked over to Peter who was sleeping beside him.

"Friday, call a meeting"

Natasha pov

It wasn't unusual for Tony to be up at all hours. It was unusual for him to wake everyone up and call them into a meeting at two in the morning.

"What is this about?" Steve asked, side-eyeing Peter, who was picking out dried blood from his hair. 

The avengers did not look like world saving heroes in pyjamas and messy hair. The only one that looked even slightly put together was Natasha. Hair perfect and even in her pyjamas she looked stylish. She took note of everyone present. All of the avengers except for Thor, Wanda and Sam. Even the newly emancipated James Barnes was present. Tony stood at the head of the table connecting the tv screen to his phone.

"This is why we're here" he pressed play on a video. Natasha focused her attention on the screen.

It was a badly lit bar where a group of men were arguing. It quickly turned violent. Suddenly spider woman and spider-man swung into the bar breaking up the fight. Peter turned away from the screen and shielded his eyes. One of the men pulled out a handgun and aimed it at peter. Spider-woman tackled the man, as he hit the wall there was a loud Bang! Several bargoers screamed. The camera shook before being pointed back at the group. The bullet went clean through Spider-woman and bounced off Peter's suit. Spider-woman collapsed, Peter webbed the dude up before catching her fall.

Tony pauses the video and turns to the group.

"Any questions?"

Natasha crossed her arms and leaned back in her chair.

"I'm assuming this happened earlier" she said.

"Correct."

"And you called a meeting in the middle of the night because?" Clint yawned.