Chapter 179: Spooked

Chapter 179: Spooked

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"Call Killian and set a meeting." Peter says after a moment of thought.

"What am I supposed to say? I can't even remember the guy..." Tony asks as his finger hovers over the call button.

"Hmm..." Peter hummed as he came to a realization. "What are we doing? You don't schedule your own meetings. You can barely take care of yourself."

"Hey!" Tony shouted in indignation.

"Jarvis, please contact Tony's caregiver and have her set up a meeting between Aldrich Killian and Tony." Peter instructs.

"I'm informing Miss Potts as we speak." Jarvis answers, knowing exactly who Peter was talking about.

"..." Tony looked slightly embarrassed.

"Make sure that she doesn't mention anything about the Avengers or Iron Man. Make it sound like Tony has a project that Killian would be interested in. If we can get him to come to the tower, then that would be the best scenario possible." Peter explains.

"What if he sees through our little ploy?" Erik asks.

"Then we go searching for him at his and every AIM-related property." Peter says with a shrug. "He can't hide for long."

"Miss Potts is calling his number as we speak." Jarvis says as security camera footage from the lower floors of the tower appears, showing a live image of Pepper.

A ringing sound played through the speakers as Pepper moved the phone to her ear.

"Hello? Who's this?" A man answers as the ringing stops.

"Hello, is this Aldrich Killian?" Pepper asks in business mode.

"Yes, who might this be?" Killian replies affirmatively.

"Pepper Potts with Stark Industries." She reveals what seemed to surprise Killian.

"Huh? What can I do for you? It's been over ten years since I've seen Stark." He asks with an upset tilt to his voice.

Killian attended the Bern 2000 conference on New Year's Eve, 1999 in Switzerland to present his think tank, Advanced Idea Mechanics, when he met Tony for the first and only time.

He was overjoyed upon meeting his idol, Tony Stark, and expressed being a fan of his work. Soon enough, Killian asked for Stark's support in his project, only to be shunned and ignored by the latter in favor of paying attention to the beautiful Maya Hansen.

After enough insistence, Tony gave in and said he would meet Killian on the roof of the building to talk, but sadly he never showed up.

Minutes later, a long list of properties appeared on the screen.

"List compiled, sir." Jarvis says.

"Good work..." Peter says as he looks over the list, which turned out to be much longer than he originally thought. "While we deal with this, Jarvis, I need you to do your best to track Killian and anyone that works alongside him. Also, be on the lookout for any facilities that could be related to AIM but weren't registered in their name."

"I'll do my best, sir." Jarvis replies and gets back to work.

Going over the names, Peter splits them up based on their vicinity to each other, creating five separate lists.

"Okay, we'll break into teams headed by each of us and start hitting these properties immediately." Peter explains as he hands over a list to each council member. "Feel free to recruit any of the Avengers for help and build your own team."

"I'll take Silk." Fury says as he snatches his list and walks to the door, waiting there for her to follow.

'Does he know?' Peter and MJ thought at the same exact time.

Peter didn't really mind if Fury figures it out, which is why he didn't go the extra mile to disguise MJ's voice.

He knew that sooner or later, Fury would need to know about their relationship and hero personas. Though the question is did he figure it out, or is he just trying to investigate the newest hero in town?

"Uhh... I'm not an Avenger." MJ tried to weasel out of going along with her father.

"No, it's okay." Peter says, smirking under his mask the entire time. "Go ahead."

Peter knew that he was currently playing with fire, but he just couldn't help himself. It was too entertaining of a scenario for him to let pass.

Receiving a short look from MJ, who didn't know how to refuse anymore, Peter watched in silence as she reluctantly follows her father out of the room.

"That was a risky move..." Tony whispers as he passes Peter on his way to go and form his own team.

'Yeah, but it's interesting and she'll have to work with Fury at some point.'

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"...tell Stark to shove his meeting up his a*s." A tan white man who appeared to be in his thirty's says as he admired the view from one of his many penthouse apartments.

He has slicked back perfectly kept blonde hair and wore a form fitting Armani suit alongside golden rings and an expensive looking watch.

[Insert picture of Aldrich Killian here]

Ending the call, Killian stared at the city in thought for a moment before turning around. Behind him stood two armed guards, each of them enhanced by the Extremis formula.

"We're leaving." Killian orders as he had a bad feeling about his recent call. "Bring the cars around and call in more men. We need to up my security."

A/N: 1500 words

????DONT FORGET MY STONES!????

[just do it... ???? I'm too tired to come up with some random scenario or threat today...]