A Soul's Past and Future

Ross

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Chapter 23: Ross

Peter ran through the forest. The battle from the Avengers compound was still close behind him. He had no idea where he was headed or where to even go. Peter felt the stone. He looked down to his pocket to see the soul stone glowing.

"Why do you still try?"

"Because it's an imperfect world but it's the only one we got"

Peter skidded to a stop. Why was he running? This was his fight. He should be there alongside the other heroes in battle. A memory of Ross surfaced in his mind. The mission where Abby got caught. That was a trap. A trap in place to capture the Avengers and hold them captive.

"Now show me how far you'll go."

Peter turned around a bolted back towards the compound. Once the building came into view, Peter shot a web and swung himself up onto the roof. He pressed a button on his watch and the iron-spider suit formed around him. How it fit over his large hoodie and jogger? He didn't know but he really didn't complain.

Peter ran towards the edge and stopped. The battle field, it had completely destroyed the compound area. How did they manage to destroy half of the compound in such a short amount of time? Peter scanned the area, his eyes landed on Natasha and Steve fighting together. The guardians were fighting on the far-right side of the field. Peter squinted but didn't see Rocket with them. Iron Man flew above and shot his signature repulsor blasts.

Suddenly, Ant Man grow to giant man size, coming up from the debris. He opened his palm and Rhodey, Rocket and Hulk jumped down. Thor barreled through with his lightning, knocking many Hydra soldiers out of the way. Wanda was using her magic to throw aside the soldiers aside like they were nothing but flies, Vision was hovering beside her, using the mind stone to laser through them.

Shuri shot lasers from her gauntlets and T'Challa raced past her, engaging in close combat with a soldier. Falcon glided through the air, letting redwing lose. Bucky was shooting many of the soldiers on the ground. He used the butt end of his rifle to knock a soldier out.

"What are you doing here kid?" Peter turned and saw Clint on the roof with him, shooting arrows.

"I couldn't just leave." Peter said.

"I thought Steve came you a direct order to leave?" Clint raised an eyebrow.

"Well, I have a record of not following direct orders." Peter sassed.

Clint paused for a moment. "Fair enough. You got a comm?"

Peter blinked, not expecting Clint to just let him into battle. "Uh... yeah, I do."

Clint shot an arrow. "Good." Peter was about to join in battle when Clint stopped him. "Be careful kid." We can't lose you.

Peter gave a curt nod before swinging into battle. Peter was hoping he could last at least five minutes before getting caught be the other heroes. Now he went unnoticed for about thirty seconds, that was until he heard Sam yell out his name.

"PARKER!?" Peter cursed Sam and his loud mouth.

"Sam? Did you hit your head to hard or something? The kid's not here." Came Rhodey's voice.

"Could you scream my name any louder?" Peter asked rhetorically into the comms. It was silent for a moment. Peter prepared himself for the yells and questions.

"What are you doing here?"

"I thought I told you to get out of here!?"

"You better have a good reason of coming back here kid."

"Oh, you are so grounded."

"You have ten seconds to explain why you're here, kid."

"They want you too! That mission to the base, they were meant to capture all of you!" Spider-Man said. "She wasn't supposed to be there. They wanted to capture all of you and take you out of the picture, but they... they caught her and left us. If they can't get to me, they'll come for you."

"Kid, nice theory but they must be after you more than us." Steve said.

"Besides, you're the one with the stone!" Falcon yelled out.

"But they aren't coming after me! They haven't left their fights with you guys to overpower me! Don't you think they would try to come get me if they were only coming after me!"

"Wait, something doesn't add up." Ant Man's voice came.

"What is it?" Wasp asked.

"If they're after him for the stone, why aren't they attacking Vision either?"

No one replied to his question. What were they supposed to respond to that? They didn't even think of the fact that they needed Vision as well. Spider Man swung up and landed a bit away from the battle. He was sort of at the edge of the forest.

"Well, if it isn't our little spider soldier."

Peter narrowed his eyes, the eyes on his suit following his eye movement. Standing there in front of him was Thaddeus Ross. He didn't wield a weapon or wear any protection. In fact, he only had two Hydra soldiers standing beside him. What he was doing in the middle of the battle field? Peter didn't know.

"What? Not even a hello? Well that's a little rude. Of course, that won't be a problem once we condition you." Ross laughed darkly.

"What do you want?" Spider Man responded harshly.

"That will also be fixed. However, you know exactly what we want."

"The stone."

"Of course, it proved to be a problem when we needed that machine for the mind stone. Then you just had to get the soul stone before we could obtain it."

"So why capture them when you knew you needed Vision for the mind stone?" Spider Man.

"Well we still obviously needed them to get the other four infinity stones. Also, they are our creations. They'll be a perfect addition to our army." Ross smiled sadistically. "Of course, so will you."

"I will never join you."

"You see Spider, you will join us. The lives of your little stone guardian friends are depending on you."

Spider Man stopped. "What did you do to them!?"

"Oh, nothing that harsh... yet."

"You need them alive! You said it yourself that they would be added to your army!" Spider Man yelled out. The last sentence felt like poison in his mouth.

"Yes, I did say that didn't I. Although, that doesn't mean we'll hesitate in getting rid of them."

"Peter! Where are you!?" Tony's voice yelled through the comms.

Ross smirked, as if he knew Tony was nearing. "We'll be back Spider. We'll be back and we'll be expecting a proper answer."

One of the soldiers shot a smoke bomb and when it cleared, Ross and his bodyguards were gone. That's when Peter heard the familiar sound of repulsors and a loud thump behind him.

"What were you thinking running off like that? We thought you got captured when you didn't respond and then the soldiers started retreating! Where'd you even go!? What ha- Peter? Are you even listening?" Tony asked. Spider Man's mask retracted. Peter turned around and faced Tony.

"We need a plan. And we need a plan now!" 

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Lmao, I'm so creative in the title names. Uh, schools frying my brain and I hate it. Well I hope you guys are still enjoying this story and really hope you guys aren't finding annoying or that I'm dragging it out too long.

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