The Spider-man << Marvel Cinimatic Universe Fanfiction>>

Regrets

Nine thirty had already come and gone, my foot tapping nervously on the ground as Rae hadn't shown up and neither had Mister Stark. I sucked in a breath, looking down at my watch as a knock suddenly came fiercely at the door. 

"Hi Mister Parker, can I come in?" Mister Stark stood in front of me, straightening his tie as I ushered him in from the hallway. "So, where is she?" He asked, looking around to see no hidden superheros.

"She didn't show.." I muttered, looking down at my feet in disappointment for failing him. He just quirked his eyebrow and placed his hands into his pockets.

"Well, I guess you'll just have to take me to her then. This has to happen today Peter, these people are not ones you want to me messing around with." I nodded, grabbing my jacket off the back of the door and backpack as well before opening it and following Mister Stark back downstairs. His limousine sat on the side of the street, him casually sliding inside as I stood there frozen for a moment.

"Are you getting in kid? I kind of need your directions." He looked at me over the top of his glasses, a waver in his confidence for just a moment. I shook my head, thoughts floating around mudding my mind making it a bit harder to really focus on the situation.

"Yeah, sorry." I hopped in, sliding my backpack from my shoulders into my lap as I looked across at him. "So, I don't suppose you can tell me anything about her. From before now." I was looking down at my shaking fingers as we rode, not really knowing what I would see reflected in his eyes. "Who she was.."

"Well," he hit his knee, wracking his brain for a moment, "She worked as a intern for a chemical engineering plant, one that specializes in the correlation between magnetic forces, the earth, and the biological properties that could tap into the same frequencies. Somehow, the founder named Rose Harlien figured out how to rewire the human mind to control earth and rock with elective emitters that when spiked by her drug pulsed electric and magnetic waves that could be controlled by the user. Morphing controlling and lifting naturally magnetic materials of a certain caliber. There was a fire in the labs and somehow she was contaminated by the drug and began to be hunted by the woman who made it, and ended up here." I glanced up, lungs tight as he and I made eye contact. 

"It changed her, and she didn't even have a choice." I mumbled it out, hands going around the back of my head. We rode in silence for a while until arriving at her apartment complex. The driver motioned us out, mister Stark quickly making his way up to the apartment as I stood, waiting outside. My mind was reeling, so much had happened to her, someone I knew so well and yet not at all, who had lied to me and used me as a shield. And yet I felt sympathy, because what had she done to me that I hadn't done to others.

We were both mistakes that never should have happened, but here we were.

Stuck together.

"Peter!" I turned my head upwards to see Mister Stark's head sticking out of a second story window, and his face did not look pleased. "You better come see this.." My feet moved swiftly, flinging me up the stairs and into her apartment with the door wide open. It was dark inside but for the light coming in the open window mister stark stood in front of. Blood pools sat on the ground, two large men laying in them, one with a slit through the throat, the other through his chest. A black stone knife of sorts lying on the ground behind them.

"There was a struggle.." He bent down, picking up the dagger from the carpet, he had done this. "But it looks like they got the better of her."

"We have to do something!" My throat was dry, it felt like I had tried to swallow a pound of steel.

He nodded grimly, obviously thinking the same thing. "Well then we better start now. If Rose is trying to get back her precious miracle powers, than your friend doesn't have much longer."