User blog:GazzaB9/A Peni Parker Story

I'm making a story about Peni Parker cause I'm obsessed with Evangelion right now.

Chapter One
General Thaddeus Ross stood there, a sweat drop slowly running down his head as he stared at the vast ocean in front of him. It wasn't hot in the slightest so he without a doubt was sweating in fear, not that he'd ever admit it. He stood there, his arms crossed as the massive machine behind him charged it. The media had dubbed it a "death ray", though Ross found the name childish and it infuriated him to no end that there was no other way of describing it.

The machine was, in fact, a death ray. It was a ray designed by the world's greatest minds in order to take down those... things... Ross wasn't high enough level to be told anything about them. All he knew is that the organization had started to call them "Old Gods". They had suddenly appeared six years prior and were initially very rare. But they've been showing up far more often as of late and, as much as Ross disliked the name, he knew the death ray was humanity's only hope.

At the bottom of the ocean sat Ross' target. The organization had dubbed it "Michael", named after the Archangel of heaven. A rather normal name for such an abnormal beast. Michael dragged its feet across the ocean floor, slowly making its way towards the cliff edge in front of it. When Michael was close enough, it began to swim to the surface. Ross spotted the shadow of the beast slowly getting larger and larger as it made its way up.

Once it finally reached the top, Michael burst out without a noise, the only thing accompanying its entrance being the water splashing around it. It floated in the ocean and, for a moment, Ross was in awe of its horrifying glory. Michael was like nothing he had ever seen before, with its solid black almost inky body and two mask-covered heads. But, eventually, Ross managed to snap himself out of his shock. "Fire!" he screamed at the top of his lungs and, the moment he was done giving the command, the scientists behind him launched the death ray.

A large pink and black beam of unknown energy blasted from the top of the cliff all the way to Michael, engulfing him in its light. Ross stood just underneath the beam, gritting his death in anticipation and worry as the behemoth in front of him completely disappeared behind the ray's blast. It only lasted a few seconds but to Ross and his crew, it almost felt like years as they all hoped, prayed, and waited. Moments later, the beam faded away, leaving behind a pillar of smoke that reached higher than the cliff and without a doubt could be seen from a distance.

As the smoke faded, Ross squinted for a moment before stepping back in shock. The smoke cleared away to reveal Michael still floating there with a simple crack on one of its masks. Ross and his men gazed in silence, unsure of how to react to the sight before them. They were in for an even bigger shock in a moment though, as Michael began to float out of the ocean completely, his feet gently standing on top of the water below him. It stepped forward, the ocean remaining as calm as ever, and slowly began making its way to the cliffside.

Ross' men instantly began to scatter. None of them knew exactly what Michael was going to do but they were all certain it wouldn't be good. The only person who stayed behind was Ross himself, who stood in total silence as the monster before him inched closer and closer. However, after the shock of the failure wore off, Ross turned tail and fled, getting into a small car and driving off from the sight as fast as possible. A short static-y noise came from the walkie talkie.

"Ross, did it succeed?" asked the woman on the other end.

"No!" Ross yelled back "I told you this whole operation would be a total bust!"

The woman took a few extra seconds to respond. Ross guessed she more than likely was cussing like a sailor at the machine's failure. "Okay, head back to base as fast as you can!" she said clearly panicking "make sure that thing can't follow you or even manages to get a vague understanding of where you're going! if the base's location is compromised, we'll have no hope of coming up with a plan B, let alone actually going through with it!"

"Roger!" Ross responded, placing down the walkie talkie before making a sharp right turn and driving off into the vast desert back to home base. The tires of his car could handle driving in the sand, so he could be as fast and as reckless as possible. In the base itself sat the woman herself: May Parker, who was pinching the bridge of her nose. She let out a long, exasperated sigh as he leaned back in her chair and cursed at the heavens.

"What do we do now?" asked one of May's many assistants.

"The only thing we can do" May said, clearly quite upset that this was her only remaining option, "bring me the spider". With those final words from May, the whole room went quiet, almost as if they were waiting for her to claim she was joking. No punchline came however and everyone was forced to accept their new task.

"Are you sure about this?" asked the same assistant with me spitting back "if I wasn't sure, would I have said it?!" The assistant nodded before slowly getting out of his chair and walking out of the room. "So" said the woman closest to May "who exactly do you have in mind for this?" May remained totally silent, not wanting to answer the question as even she knew the idea was terrible. But, at the same time, she had no better option. Separate from all of this in a high school miles away sat May's niece, Peni Parker.

Peni was a rather intelligent but quiet girl who didn't have the best of diets and was mildly chunky due to this. Despite being an easy target for these and a few other reasons, she didn't have anyone she considered a pully of hers, though there were several students she considered unpleasant. She sadly didn't have a place to call home. Instead, she slept in the home of whoever was kind enough to let her in that night.

Plenty had questioned her to find out why she kept sleeping in other people's houses, though she never answered them. Many rumors and theories flew around about Peni's seeming homelessness but the truth was far simple than any of them: her mother and father were no longer in her life and she didn't want to go to an orphanage.

"Peni?" her teacher said "have you been paying attention?" She hadn't. She was so caught up reading Moby Dick that she forgot to pay attention to the lesson. "Yes" she said in a flat voice, not wanting to get in trouble. "Well, if that's so, maybe you could tell me what this means?" the teacher said in a condescending voice, pointing towards a triangle on the whiteboard.

It obviously wasn't a triangle though, Peni knew that and she knew that her teacher wanted her to say it was a triangle to prove she wasn't paying attention. "Think, think, think" Peni thought to herself "this is a science class, so why would a triangle be important in a science class? wait, today's class was about Isaac Newton, wasn't it? and he was a... I've got it!"

Peni stood up out of her chair with a smile on her face. "That symbol is an alchemic symbol that means fire. You were just talking about how Newton was an alchemist alongside his other accomplishments" Peni stood there in silence, hoping she had guessed correctly. "Alright, I guess you were listening" her teacher said before going back to writing on the board. Peni breathed a sigh of relief before sitting back down and reading her book.

She read her book for the rest of the day, incredibly enthralled in the story and rarely to never putting it down. She got up to the sixth chapter of the book before the day was over and once it was she placed it inside of her side bag before heading outside. Waiting for her out there was May who gazed at her niece with a blank look in her eyes. "Peni Parker, I have a request for you", she said in an oddly stern and professional voice. "Um... yes, Aunt May?" Peni asked sheepishly.

"I would like you to follow me to my S.H.I.E.L.D. base if you would be so kind."

"Wait, the base?" Peni questioned, her eyes suddenly lighting up "you mean YOUR S.H.I.E.L.D. base?"

May nodded. A smile spread across Peni's face.

"I would love to!" Peni said, trying to contain her excitement. However, she was failing miserably as she was practically skipping in place with how much she was moving around. May pointed to the car behind her, which Peni entered with glee. That glee turned to confusion, however, as the first thing she noticed was the thick glass separating the back and front seats of the car. She attempted to reach out and touch it but the man in the driver's seat smacked the window to stop her from doing so.

May got in the car shortly after Peni, turning to her husband Ben, the man in the driver's seat. Ben sat emotionless gazing at the road ahead of him as May buckled herself in. "Are you sure there's no other way?" May asked, though her voice was muffled to Peni thanks to the glass. "There is no other way" Ben responded very matter of factly.

"I just don't understand why we have to do this. What if she's too young? what if it rejects her? what if... oh god, what if it kills her?" May's terrified questioning was stopped by Ben, who simply put his finger to his flip, telling May to shush. May did as she was told, nodding at Ben. On the drive to the base, the only thing that filled the silence was the white noise of the car. Noises which Peni found both oddly relaxing yet... ominous. A sinking feeling filled her stomach as if something terrible was about to happen.

Chapter Two
Coming soon.