Alone

59: New Threat

Peter POV:

The bus was quiet besides the hum of the engine and the occasional soft conversations shared between classmates. Elizabeth sat next to me, her eyes shut and head resting on my shoulder, and her fingers laced with mine. It would be another thirty minutes until we'd arrive at The Museum of Modern Art. 

I yawned feeling my eyes begin to shut as the bus began to cross over a bridge, I leaned back resting my head on the seat. I began to drift off when I felt a strong jolt of anxiety rush through me, I sat up quickly, the hairs on my arms standing straight up, Elizabeth opened her eyes, giving me a look of confusion as I stared out the window behind her. I felt an overwhelming sense of fear as my eyes took in every detail of the unnerving object floated above Manhattan, it was round and large and looked to be something out of a science fiction movie. Elizabeth turned, her eyes landing on the threat we had yet to understand, she turned quickly, a sense of foreboding behind her eyes.

"We have to go." She said in a soft but serious tone. I nodded, scanning the bus to see if anyone had noticed yet, with some sense of relief everyone seemed oblivious. I leaned forward reaching and tapping on Ned frantically, he pulled his earbud out, looking at me.

"Ned, hey, we need you to cause a distraction," I said, Ned's eyes shifted past me.

"Holy shit. We're all gonna die." Ned stood up and moved to the back of the bus as the other students turned to look at him, "There's a spaceship!"

As everyone's attention was centered on the ship above the city, I opened my bag, putting on my web shooter and then shooting a web to open the emergency exit window on the bus. I grabbed Lizzy's hand and climbed out of the window, putting on my mask, Elizabeth carefully climbed out after me, I pushed off the side of the bus, pulling Elizabeth with me and flying across traffic. I shot my web just as we fell off the bridge, swinging towards the city. I held onto Elizabeth so she wouldn't risk being seen using her powers without her mask. As we reached the city, we landed on top of a building, quickly changing into our suits before taking off again. 

"What do you think that is?" Elizabeth yelled as she flew through the air. 

"I don't know, probably aliens again, they like it here for some reason," I said, trying to lighten the mood, now landing on a building right below the ship. I looked at the street below, taking in the amount of damage, cars looked like they had been thrown, buildings were falling apart. 

"Peter," Elizabeth tapped my shoulder and motioned to a park a few blocks away where a loud roar-like sound erupted. 

Elizabeth POV:

We got to the park just as a large creature charged at Tony, before it reached him I jumped in front of him, holding back the creature. 

"Hi," I looked at Tony.

"Hey, where'd you come from?" 

"A field trip to MoMA," Just then the creature grabbed me throwing me across the park, I gathered the darkness breaking my fall. 

"Uh, what's this guy's problem, Mr. Stark?" Peter said shooting his webs.

"Uh, he's from space. He came here to steal a necklace from a wizard." 

Peter attempted to hit the creature but was grabbed before he could make contact. The creature swung peter around before throwing him across the park and into a tree. As Tony and I shot at it, it grabbed a car that was nearby throwing it at Tony, who flew out of the way. I quickly used the darkness to grab the car and hit the creature on the head. The monster got back up quickly letting out a loud roar, just as it was bout to hit me, a man flew past us. 

"Lizzy, that's the wizard. Don't let him get away." Tony yelled.

I nodded, gathering the darkness and pushing myself off the ground. I flew quickly towards the wizard who seemed to be unconscious and was being followed by a tall grey man, a swarm of rocks surrounded the grey man's feet. Without looking behind him, the grey man waved his hands around throwing random objects toward me, I moved to dodge a large billboard. As the wizard guy flew forward the light poles bent around him, catching his cape, he fell toward the ground but the darkness surrounded him and brought him to me. I grabbed his arm and began to fly back to the park when there was blue light coming from the ship and it pulled him up, my grasp slipped from him and he shot up towards the ship, I used the darkness, trying my best to pull him back to me but to avail, the grey man with the wave of his hand pushed me into the blue light and I was being pulled up into the ship.

"Uh, I kind of have a problem," I said as I entered the ship.

"I'll get her Mr. Stark." I heard Peter say before my comms went out. 

I crawled over to the wizard guy who was still unconscious, I then heard footsteps behind me and I quickly gathered the darkness, but before I could use them the tall grey man raised his hand and threw me across the large darkroom of the ship. I got up quickly, and with swarms of shadows I attempted to grab him but he held up his hand stopping them before they could reach him, he walked over to me slowly, he raised his finger lifting me in the air and pinning my arms to my side. 

"Very impressive manipulation, but I am afraid it will not work with me." his voice was nasally as he spoke. I attempted to speak but was unable. "Do not fear me, because I will not kill you. I am Ebony Maw, a child of Thanos, and today I will not only bring him the stone but a new child to call his own." he wore a proud smile as he spoke. "But for now, I need you to not cause any problems." 

He moved his finger to my forehead tapping lightly, suddenly I felt a sharp burning pain in my head. 

"This will keep you occupied." He said with a smile as the pain worsened. 

Peter POV: 

I held tightly onto the side of the ship as it quickly flew from Earth. I climbed up its side, desperate to find a way inside to get to Lizzy.

"Pete, you gotta let go. I'm gonna catch you." I heard Tony say from my comms.

"But Lizzy is in there!" I began to feel light headed as I struggled to get air. I ripped my mask off in an attempt to get more air but it did not work, "I can't breathe."

"We're too high up. You're running out of air." Tony said.

"Yeah. That makes sense." I felt my my grip weaken and I fell back. Suddenly something hit my back surrounded my body, as it covered my face I took a deep breath and realized it was a new suit. As I hit the ship I grabbed it quickly. "Mr. Stark it smells like a new car in here!" I said as I stood up. I looked at my suit with excitement.

"Happy trails, kid. Friday, send him home." Tony said as he flew towards the ship. 

Just then a parachute shot out the back of my new suit and I flew back. "Oh, come on!" I yelled. Before I could get far from the ship I shot a web. As the ship left earth's atmosphere and entered space, I reached for the side of the ship and gripped on to it tightly stepping into an opening and looked back at earth, everything seemed much smaller from up here. "We should've stayed on the bus." I said as the doors shut, and I took one last look at Earth.  

(hii, Im excited to get into Infinity War! I am basically done with school so I will be able to post more consistently! I apologize for these last few chapters taking forever but I appreciate you all for sticking around lol. anyway hope you all enjoy!)