The Amazing Spider-Woman [PP]

1.

"Y'know what? I changed my mind, this is a bad idea." Tony said, walking into the lab where his daughter was working.

Jess sighed, pushing her chair away from the table she had been working on and turning to face the one behind her. Unlike her dad who seemed to like to take up the whole room when he worked, Jess liked to have everything in a small, compact area. Her portion of the lab was three work tables pushed together in a horseshoe shape that she could roll back and forth between in her office chair.

"Dad, we can't keep having this debate." She whined, her back to her father as she pulled up her new suit design on the holoscreen.

Jess had no interest in doing a total suit overhaul at the time being, she was happy to keep the blue and red and continue masquerading as Spider-Man while she came up with a better design. However, now that her father knew about her alternate identity she had the ability to add more bells and whistles to her preexisting suit. She wanted to upgrade her webshooters and formula as well as add an AI but as soon as she pulled up the diagram her dad swiveled her chair around, forcing her to face him.

"You want me to stop trying to keep my daughter, my only child, safe?" Tony asked rhetorically, sounding appalled.

Jess rolled her eyes, moving her holoscreen so that it was once again in front of her so that she could continue her work.

"No, dad, I want you to trust me to keep myself safe." She grumbled, zooming in on a flaw in the shock cushions she had incorporated into the feet of her suit and made a mental note to test and fix those later.

"I do trust you, I just don't-"

"Trust anybody else, I know." Jess finished, closing the holoscreen so she could look her dad in the eyes. "But, dad, I've been given a gift from the universe, a way to help people, and with great power comes great responsibility."

"Oh my god- have you been hanging out with that spider-kid?" Tony asked, rerouting the conversation to avoid the validity of his daughter's point and Jess groaned, pulling her holoscreen back up to avoid her humiliating father. "'Cause I don't want any spider-children crawling around anytime soon, do you understand?"

"I'm barely sixteen!" She gasped, thankful for the holoscreen so that she didn't have to look her dad in the eyes. "Not that you'd let me near him anyway. If you didn't like the Spider-Man quote you could've just said so!"

"Fine. I don't like the Spider-Man quote." Tony huffed, turning off the holoscreen.

"Okay, how about this, then: I just finally know what I have to do. And I know in my heart that it's right." Jess said, looking for her dad's reaction to his quoted words.

"Who told you that?" He asked, clearly taken aback.

"Pepper." Jess shrugged. "She told me that's what you told her when she was worried about your safety."

"Why must you women in my life always gang up on me?" Tony joked in an attempt to mask how emotionally vulnerable he was in that moment.

Of course, his daughter could see right through it and walked around her work table to hug him.

"You built your powers, and I was given mine. Let me do what I know in my heart is right." Jess pleaded softly and her father hugged her tighter.