From The Dark | Peter Parker x OC ✔️

Chapter One Hundred Forty-One

A/N: ooh this chapter is a game changer

some foreshadowing for iw/endgame that you might not understand right now, but it's still important, nevertheless and it will make sense soon!

i'm finally on my summer break now and i'm so relieved the semester is finally over. i started rewatching all the marvel movies and somehow, i got through iron man and iron man 2 without bursting into tears, which is a complete surprise. i'm not sure if i'm gonna make it through endgame bc when i watched it in the theater the first time, i promised myself i would never watch it again but here we go anyway

also we are getting soo close the end of this book and i just can't wait to show y'all the new cover that i spent like a bajillion hours working on.

i'm probably going to change the cover after adelaide gets— oops, i've said too much.

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"Now watch the city burn, Director Fury."

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That very same day, Adelaide had plans to stop by Lukov's lab.

After she had demonstrated her powers for him, he had been over the moon. She had been the solution to all his problems and she was more than happy to help. It wasn't every day she got to experiment with a whole new element.

Lukov was there before her as usual. She wondered if he spent his entire day here in the lab.

"Good evening, Adelaide," he greeted her, "Are you ready?"

She nodded, "Just tell me what you need me to do."

He looked like he hadn't slept in over a day. Nevertheless, he was working hard over his concoction. It looked like a miniature version of a particle accelerator. The pipe looped around the entire lab into an oval that was being held up by beams and on one side was a prism with a small pipe running underneath it that was connected to a closed, cylindrical vial that she assumed would collect the Luxium after it had been processed.

Lukov was working with his wrench, sealing in the last screw and when he was done, he stepped back to admire his work. Adelaide studied it, wondering how her father would perceive it.

"Now, Adelaide, I need you to stand over here," Lukov said, pointing to the other side of the accelerator on the opposite end of the lab where there was a narrow pipe extending out from it. He was standing behind a wheel next to a pressure gauge that ready zero at the moment.

He tossed her a pair of safety goggles. She put them on and made her way over to the other side of the lab.

"If the light gets too bright, close your eyes, okay?" he shouted across the room, "Now, I need you to focus your powers and concentrate a beam of light through this extension. Keep your eye on the gauge and try to contain the beam perfectly aligned with the safety mark on there. Go over and everything will explode. Stay below and we'll run out of Luxium before we can get it to work. This is really our only shot. No pressure."

Adelaide nodded. No pressure. If this failed, they would never had a shot at making it work again. No big deal. As she studied the machine, she realized something.