[FFML] [Fanfic][Marvel Cinematic Universe][Draft 1]Siblings Spiders and Squirrels! Oh my! Chapter 8 - Breathing Room and Jackals.

[O David Morgan]

Ragman Jack wrote:

Yay! The list has been kinda quiet recently :)


> Now Tony really wanted a drink. "Wait. He would need cameras,
> recording devices. Every single window on this place has an
> electrostatic charge to keep dirt off and scrambles the sensor of
> any camera pointed at it. He''d get nothing but static."
>
> "You're forgetting, Stark. Film cameras don't have sensors."
>
> "Film?" Tony asked. "He got around the tower's defenses using film?
> That's . . . insulting."

It's those birds, obviously, I just don't know enough to say how much 
of them is bio and how much is tech--so it *may* not be film, there's 
the possibility of avian cyberware recording the feed from a live 
visuals... would that make you feel better, Tony? ;)
Or it could be clockwork birds with oldschool film cameras for eyes. 
You can stay insulted by that if you like, hehe.


> "Haven't even . . . no . . . wait a minute . . ." Chris frowned. "A
> few years ago, my roommate convinced me to go to Maine on a seafood
> binge for summer break. Turns out he just wanted to get with some
> girl he met on the internet, so I had a rental car and some free
> time. Anyways, up near Canada, I ran into this guy calling himself
> Portal. He had bits of what looked like my Darkhawk suit, with a
> hole in the chest where the amulet would be. We fought, and then
> wound up teaming up against some dinosaur thing before he opened a
> hole in the air and went through. Never saw him after that."

Oh good :)
I'll wait to see exactly how much of the 90s Darkhawk you end up 
using, but Portal was pretty awesome.


> "Don't worry about it, Sir," Coulson said with a smile, "this
> particular lawyer was carefully selected for her, shall we say,
> special gifts."
>
> --------------------------------------
>
> "Captain Stacey," she said, handing him a card, "My name is
> Jennifer Walters of the firm of Murdock and Nelson. I have been
> retained as Doctor Banner's legal counsel."
>
> "This is a simple interview, Ms Walters," told her, his mind
> turning over rapidly. "Doctor Banner is not accused of any crime."
> Absently, he noted that she bore a certain family resemblance to
> Banner, which probably explained Banner's reaction. He filed that
> away in the back of his mind.

Argh... The Avengers were never really my strong suit; Hulk and 
Daredevil even less so. I'm guessing She-hulk but I thought she was 
permanently, er, green? Guess I should look this one up.


> "Ah, Parker," Two men had just left the school. One of them was
> more leonine, broad and face in body, the other lean, whippet thin,
> but she couldn't figure out what animal he reminded her of. Both
> bore impressive mustaches. It was the leonine one who had spoken.
> "I heard about your Aunt and Uncle and I'm dreadfully sorry. It's
> never easy to lose anyone you're close too."
>
> "Ah, thank you, sir," Peter said. "I . . . I'm just going one day
> at a time?"
>
> "The wisest course. Ah, and I see you've added someone else to your
> merry band."
>
> “E h? Oh! Doreen, this is Professor Warren, our science teacher.
> Professor, this is Doreen, my . . . er, we're still uh . . ."
>
> "They were placed with the same family," Harry volunteered. "We're
> introducing her to New York."
>
> "Nice to meet you, sir," Doreen nodded, only shaking Professor
> Raymond's hand when he offered his, first.
>
> "Please, call me Professor Ray," the man said. "And this," he
> indicated the leaner man, "is my brother Miles, he's teaching an
> advanced course here at M3 for the second year in a row." Doreen
> heard Gwen whimper, a low sound of pure dread.
>
> "Charmed." Miles Warren's voice was very level, tightly controlled.
> He did not offer his hand. "Are you a science major, Miss?"

Quoting the entirety of the above because I am rather confused: 
reading carefully, I can tell that the larger (?) of the two is 
Professor Warren, but how does Doreen know the name of the other one??


> Doreen repressed a full body shiver as she finally realized that
> Professor Miles hadn't taken his eyes off Gwen, not even when
> speaking to his brother, like . . . like a wolf on the hunt . . .
> no, not a wolf. He was more like a . . . like a Jackal. Jackals,
> she remembered a nature show saying, were predators and scavengers,
> feeding on birds, reptiles, and small mammals.

Oh, well, that explains a lot. That was before my time so I don't 
recognize his real name; you may also want to not capitalize the first 
use of Jackal. Up to you though, depending on how obvious you're 
trying to be ;)


> “Ororo! How — Jubilee! Truck!”

Yay! Big Jubilee fan as well :D though I've not gotten to pay as much 
attention to her as I might have liked.

> Ororo looked over as a red-haired woman entered the room and
> stopped.
>
> “I’m past threats, Logan,” Scott snarled. “If there is so much as a
> scratch on that bike, I will have Jean turn you into Elsie Dee
> again. Permanently. And then, Logan, and then I will take pictures
> and video and I will send them to everyone you have ever so much as
> looked at.”
>
> “Uh-huh.”
>
> “Logan, I said everyone. I will send them to Magneto, to Alpha
> Flight, to Omega Red, and Logan, I will send them to Wade.” Ororo
> had seen Logan angry, happy, horrified, in pain, and many other
> moods. This, however, was the first time she’d seen him turn white
> with fear. “Not one scratch, Logan.”

Oh yes. This just about made my day. ^_^ I am now tempted to photoshop 
those pictures, except I have no way to get them to Wade so that 
defeats the purpose.


> “Maybe we should just start buying Ikea,” he said. Pepper raised an
> eyebrow.

"The entire company?"


> ————————————————
>
> Bruce was very grateful for the sedative in his system, because
> without it, he probably would have flashed over to the Other Guy
> due to sheer shock. As it was, he stood there in stunned silence as
> Jen smoothly wrapped up the interview, got him out of the station
> and into her car before pulling smoothly out into traffic.
>
> Wait a minute.
>
> “Who are you?” Bruce demanded. “Where’s Jen? Jen. I want to talk to
> Jen.”
>
> “She gave him a side eye. “What? Oh.” She laughed. “Things are

Typo--extra " at beginning of that line.
Also, this scene clears up some lot of things, but I'm still glad I 
checked wikipedia :)

> Oh, wow. I mean . . .” he cleared his throat and held out his hand.
> “Steve Rogers.”
>
> Her hand was long fingered without being delicate and fit nicely in
> his his. “Rachel Leighton.”

Third name this chapter that I don't recognize >_<
Only Rachels that come to mind are Spider-Woman's kid and Ms Summers. 
I'm not going to look this one up yet though, and see what develops.
"Acquisitions" is not a good sign, though, especially as she hasn't 
mentioned the firm/company she works for.
(Oh, just noticed--double "his" there. Missed that on my first 
read-through.)

> ————————————————— Author’s note:
>
> “Poledra’s Test” refers to the stick with only one end mentioned in
> the books “Polgara the Sorceress” and “The Seeress of Kell”, both
> by David Eddings, who in turn was one of my influences. Here’s to
> you, Dave.

Ah, it's been too long. I know I read those but don't remember 
anything of them.

> A nineties-era x-men bio noted that Storm was trained in both
> unarmed and knife combat as well as her being extremely
> claustrophobic, which I remember being a plot point in the 90’s
> X-men cartoon.

She was claustrophobic several times in the comics as well, and IIRC 
she bested Callisto in combat during the time her powers were negated, 
so yeah. Totally comic-book canon, if not necessarily Cinematic 
Universe canon.

> Elsie Dee in the comics was a robot built by one of Logan’s enemies
> for reasons I never bothered finding out. Or if I did, I’ve
> forgotten them. In this universe though, Sebastian Shaw and Emma
> Frost both have very strange, very twisted senses of humor leading
> them to at one point cause Logan to believe that he was a five year
> old girl.  Why they had a pink and lilac outfit with accessories in
> Logan’s size is something you probably shouldn’t think about.

Thanks for clarifying. I know of Elsie Dee and Albert but again have 
seen very little of them aside from wikipedia.

> As to whether or not that’s Cassandra Fraser from Stargate SG-1 all
> grown up or if I’m just messing with you . . . I haven’t decided
> yet.

Ah, that explains why I didn't recognize her. Also explains her "joke" 
background. I hope you're never clear on that point now ;)

-Strike & Co.
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