Iron Assassin

Chapter 12: Who's Bruce

"Hey, Pietro... hurry up." I was trying really hard to concentrate on that sentence. Wanda thought me how to talk to people using her powers. It's been very difficult to master this part of her power. I am only used to talking normally.

"I am coming." It was even weirder that I could hear his voice in my head. I knew I was crazy but not that crazy to hear voices inside my head.

"Did you just make that joke." Wait Pietro can still hear me.

"Yes I can, we should probably work on that next training day."

"Yeah you are right." Then all of a sudden everything went dark. I was still awake though. It looked as almost something was thrown into my eyes to blind me. I went to move my hands to get whatever was on my eyes off but I came to realize that my hands were bonded behind me. I tried to rip whatever was holding my hand but that had no avail. I heard a whoosh sound and felt my hair fly back.

"What is going on here?" Pietro finally arrived.

"This has nothing to do with you," a girl said with pure hatred coming from her voice. I knew that voice though but I was told she was dead.

"Well you tied up my friend here with some sort of spider-man webbing." That must be what was blinding and binding me.

"That's kinda what I do. Now will you let me go so I can bring her back to my earth." I knew exactly the voice now the was no doubt in my mind.

"Gwen?" Peter told me she died. How is she here? Why does she have webbing?

"How do you know my name?" I could feel her grab my arms and pull to make sure I was not going to move. She seemed scared that I actually knew her name.

"We were best friends for years. It was you, peter, and me all handing out. I was a third wheel most of the time but you guys wouldn't let me leave. So how could I not know your name." She ripped of the webbing covering my eyes and looked at me. What I saw was not Gwen's face, it was a person in a superhero suit. It was definitely a girl in the costume for reasons everyone would know. The costume was mostly white with black. Around the arms and inside the hoodie was red with a web pattern. That makes sense why she used webbing. Her mask was also white with red around where her eyes would be.

"Dude that suit is awesome." She was taken aback by this. She almost bumped into Pietro by how far she jumped back.

"Um... thank you, but you have already seen this costume before."

"I am not who you think I am. You are from another earth, right."

"Well I followed you through the portal thing and I do believe I am on a different earth. Where am I anyway."

"You are on Earth 1."

"Why are we Earth 1 if we don't know about any other different Earths?" Pietro asked.

I whispered, "because we are the best earth." That probably wasn't true but it's ok.

"Oh and to be more specific you are in Chicago."

"Wait Chicago, when I followed you I was in New York."

"Ok see I am not the Nicole you are looking for. I will take you to New York. We will go find this other Nicole and you can take her. I don't know what she has done but it seems she is very important to you. I will even allow you to keep me tied up." She seemed to be contemplating the option I gave her. Pietro was giving me a weird look the whole time probably wondering why I gave her such a good option for her and not as much for me. To be honest it was all kind of for Peter.

"Alright I will accept that."

"Well, Gwen, I would like to go to my apartment before we travel to New York." She grabbed my arms and started pulling me along.

"Fine but I want you to stop calling me Gwen and call me Spider-Woman."

"Fine Spider-Woman."

"Great, you may lead me the way."

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"Oh hello Nicole. Looks like you got in some trouble there. Well I saw that coming." I pushed my way through her. Gwen tried to stop me from being rude but I really wanted to be. "Oh you got a bunch of calls. Some guy named Phil wanted to talk to you." I looked at the phone receiver to see I had 5 messages. I assumed all of them were from Phil. Probably all different numbers also because of the whole spy thing.

"Are you going to recall?" Gwen said.

"I don't really know the number." All of a sudden the phone rang.

"Well speak of the devil," Raven said while rummaging through the fridge. Gwen cut the webbing to let me free and then I picked up the phone. I heard frantic noise in the background as soon as the phone was picked up.

"Phil, is everything okay. It sounds like a crazy house over there."

"Has Daisy come to see you."

"Yeah and she asked me to join the Secret Warriors. Then I told her that I wasn't an Inhuman and she walked out without another word. It was like she was a different person."

"She has been infected by something."

"Ward!!!!"

"I am not going to ask how you know but yes. They are trying to get more Inhumans together. Daisy might have assumed you might be one and came to you. I know you are not but maybe she didn't figure that one out yet. Do you know where she is?" He sounded like he was freaking out. I know exactly why, he thought of her as a daughter and now she is being controlled by this Hive thing that took over Ward, it has got to be heart wrenching.

"No, she immediately left without saying anything after I told her I wasn't an Inhuman. I will keep you updated if I hear anything."

"How will you contact me."

"I have my ways."

"I know you do. Stay safe out there, Nicole."

"You to, Phil. Go get Daisy back."

"I will." He then ended the call. I could have tracked the call but that would have been a little much. I put down the phone and looked around the room. Pietro and Gwen were sitting on the couch. Raven was still in the fridge.

"Are you done?" Pietro asked.

"Yes and it was Phil."

"Like S.H.I.E.L.D. Phil."

"Yes."

"Hey I am going to go back to my room," out of nowhere Raven called out closing the fridge as she walked away. That was a little strange to me. I walked behind the couch were Gwen and Pietro were sitting the same time Raven's door closed. I did not have a good feeling about what she was doing.

I whispered to Pietro, "Hey keep talking to Gwen to make it seem like we are in our own world. I don't feel good about what Raven is doing so I am going to listen through the door. Make sure she doesn't suspect a thing."

"Alright, I will take your word for it." I walked over to Raven's door and put my ear to it as Pietro started to make normal volume conversation with Gwen. There was no noise until a minute went by when I heard a dialing of a number.

"Hey Bruce I have some news for you." I heard mumbling from the phone but nothing I could understand.

"You know I am more skilled then that... Anyway I found out who the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. is it is someone named Phil... That is all I could get for now... No, nothing else I know about Tony... Oh I believe that Nicole has gained super powers of some sort... No, I will not take her out I do have some self-control... Ok, I will keep you updated... Bye." I heard her end the call and put the phone down. Now I know for sure that she was talking to someone and telling them information she found out about me. That is why she decide to live with me. I busted into the door full of rage. I looked towards Raven and she was staring back in pure shock.