The Spider & The Butterfly

Symbiotic Relationship

Peter and Star were exploring the convention center as intended after their run-in with the Avenger Iron Man. The latter finding herself fascinated by all the technology on display. Nothing on Mewni was as strange as the stuff on planet Earth. "Oooh! So much nerd stuff!" she said excitedly. 

"It's not exactly 'nerd stuff'" Peter politely defended. "A lot of school's have their inventions here. They even have high end schools like Horizon."

"Do you think our school has anything?"

He shrugged. "Dunno Star. If I wasn't busy busting criminals, I probably would've had time to enter something amazing in."

Star grinned smugly at him. "Oh yes. Because Peter Parker, top of the class nerd of Midtown, just needs to expand his ego." she mocked. 

"Oh ha ha." he sarcastically laughed. "Let's check the back. Maybe we'll find a lead on that Ghost guy."

With that, the two undercover heroes made their way to the more VIP area of the expo. After a pretty short conversation with Harry, who was also out of school, and his father and leader of the multi million company Oscorp, Norman Osborn, they lucked out with a non superhero encounter with Tony Stark. Although their identities, were almost leaked due to Star's enthusiastic nature. After that fiasco, it was time for the main event. 

The two got what could be considered front row seats near the state. In front of them was a large projection screen with outlines of Tony's armor on both edges of the screen. The blue Stark Expo logo between them back dropped by  a starry sky. The MC emerged on the stage with pillars of fire and cheers to greet him. 

"Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Stark Expo. The technological event of the year." he announced while holding his hands out to the side. "With your host, the technological man of the millennium, Tony Stark!" he finished gesturing up to the ceiling. On cue, Iron Man fell down in his signature stance with a *clang* and was greeted by cheers and firecrackers. 

"Yipee!" Star cheered, clapping her hands excitedly. "That was so cool."

Iron Man's faceplate slid up, revealing Tony behind it. "Thank you everyone. I'm sure you all are about to unveil some groundbreaking technology here today. But let's be honest. You came here to see the new suit. Am I right?"

The crowd roared its approval. Tony gestured to center stage. Another armor emerged, rocking the same color scheme as the one he had on, but less gold around most of the body and blue circles lighting up on the legs and arms. "I give you... the Mark 50!" The crowd continued to cheer, and Stark gave a grin of satisfaction. 

"Tony Stark is nothing but a selfish capitalist." a voice boomed from no where. 

The crowd died down to murmurs as people tried to find the speaker. Tony flipped his faceplate on to find the intruder. Meanwhile, Peter grabbed Star so they could costume up away from the crowd. Ghost had phased through the ceiling and descended down behind Iron Man. 

"While an employee at his empire, Stark took control of my ideas, and left me out in the cold." Ghost revealed, his voice echoing across the building. "So now I've come to take control of his ideas" Ghost descended into the Mk 50 armor and took control. 

Tony barely had time to turn around and block the two repulsor blasts shot from his now rogue armor. He recoiled a bit before aiming his own. "I don't think so." he declared before firing. Ghost deflected the attack into a large purple casing on display, causing it to topple. Webbing shot out from the side, and it pulled the display and it's table back on its feet as people evacuated. 

"Guess who?" Spider-Man sarcastically asked as he flipped to the scene. Rainbow Witch ran up beside him. "I hope it's the mailman! I've been waiting on a package of kick butt!" she answered.