Super Weird Family

Atlantis and a spider

Peter and Megan were sitting side by side of one another as Mary and Richard were sitting across from them and were all enjoying dinner.

"I can honestly say this is the best casserole I've ever eaten." Megan informed Peter's parents. "Possibly because I've never many casseroles."

"Really? What do you usually eat in your house?" Richard asked her as he took a fork full of casserole.

"I mainly cook for myself." Megan admitted. "I lost my parents to a gigantic feud between my family and our cousins. It's a lot more terrifying in context. But my parents sent me here to live with my uncle John to escape...they didn't make it."

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that." Mary said apologetically.

"It's okay. Anyway, since he saw I was old enough to trust me to be able to take care of myself alone, I basically cook, eat, and clean for myself when he's away." Megan explained to them.

"Oh, and what does your uncle do?" Richard wondered.

"He works with the government. He never gave me the specific details. Classified." Megan explains as she took another fork full. "So...Peter mentions a sister, but I can't help but notice she's not here."

"Yeah, Kara. She goes to a more private school upstate." Richard explains to her. "She got enrolled to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters."

"Huh, I don't see why they wouldn't also want Peter." Megan commented as she looked to her friend. "He's one of the best students in the school."

"Well, they only had one opening and Peter saw it was best to allow Kara to go as he was used to his school and since she didn't seem to have a good time fitting in with his school." Mary explained to her, making the most plausible lie she could.

"Hm, that makes sense." Megan guesses.

During their conversation, they missed the radioactive spider crawling around and landing on Peter's jacket.

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Aquaria swam down back to Atlantis where she saw Queen Fen was awaiting her return in the throne room.

"Queen Fen, I'm sorry to say I wasn't able to convince Namor to return with me." Aquaria apologizes as she kneeled before the throne.

Fen seems to be understanding as she got up, carrying the trident as she went and cupped the child's face. "Do not fear, dear child. I knew he would be less than welcoming on the idea of seeing me again. After all I did to him."

"What you did was to keep him safe." Aquaria stated just as Orm entered and Fen stopped the conversation.

"Apologies, Queen Fen, that I kept you waiting for so long." Orm apologized as he kneeled.

"Your transparent aggression towards the surface world has left Atlantis exposed, Orm." Fen stated to her nephew. "Do you deny it?"

"That ship would have discovered us." Orm defended.

"No, it would have not." Fen stated. "Our magic continues to protect us. We are a myth to them. They doubt our very existence."

"So we just hide?" Orm asks. "Every day the surface dwellers grow stronger. They have guardians with them now with powers. The same guardians that are responsible for my family's death!"

"Your parents' were murdered by a volcano that was not the fault of the surfacers, but the one who attacked them." Fen defended the surface, due to the fight against Darkseid.

"Death by collateral damage in a surface war doesn't comfort me!" Orm stated. "They kill our race. They poison our oceans. They will destroy this planet and take Atlantis with it. We must protect our people and attack!"