Eleven
"Come on", Peter urged himself. He was crouching on top of Liz's neighbours house, watching the party go on below. "Just swing in and say 'Oh Hey, I'm Spider-Man, Peter's friend'. It should be fine".
Gathering his nerves, he slowly started to rise into a standing position when a bright blue light blinded him. Recoiling, he fell backwards off the roof only to be stopped by a hand grasping his arm. Looking up, he saw the masked face of Boo staring down at him.
"Hey Spidy. How's it hanging?" Emil asked cheerfully as he pulled Peter back onto the roof.
Once he was safely steady again, Peter whirled to the boy. "Can you not scare me half to death?" He asked in annoyance.
Emil held up his hands in mock innocence. "That was not my intention. I just thought I should drop in on you for once, since your always the one who finds me".
Peter stared at him suspiciously. "What gives?" He asked. "Normally I have to encourage you to talk to me. So what are you planning Boo?"
Emil shrugged. "Maybe I wanted to show you something. Something that can make the others take you seriously as a hero".
Peter was intrigued but still suspicious. Whilst Boo had not done anything since he had escaped from hydra, he still was a assassin and one of hydras top agents. He also never did anything that didn't benefit him in some way. "Why?" Peter asked, standing up to face Boo properly. "Why are you doing this?"
Was it Peter's imagination or did Boo look a bit sheepish?
"Well, I saw what happened to that sandwich shop", he mumbled, eyes fixed on his shoes. "I have often brought food from there. It's nice. But I did some digging and found that the people who sold those weird weapons are in the middle of selling some now. And it's just...." Emil broke off, not quite believing that he was about to say this to the spider boy. "... I kinda want to do something nice for once. I don't really want to be hunted forever. Stark might had gotten me pardoned but if I don't become apart of shield or the avengers in some way then the government is going to come after me again. And I promised my father that I wouldn't get captured".
Peter didn't really know what to say. He was rather shocked to find that Boo actually had a heart. He knew that the other teen had a heart, but he didn't know that he actually cared. "I don't believe you", Peter crossed his arms. "You could have helped me fight off those bank robbers or you could have come to me sooner. You're an assassin and you tried to fight me. Why should I believe you?"
Emil ducked his head. "I knew that you were still bitter about that", he muttered.
In truth, Peter had actually forgiven him. He was just bringing it up to see how Boo would react.
Emil sighed. "I hated being an assassin. I have been trained to kill people since I could walk. I have been tortured, electrocuted, beaten in so many ways. I was just a child-
But then I escaped and met people, people other than hydra agents. I had people actually care for me for the first time. They taught me what it was like to be a teenager, to be more than an assassin and a killer. They taught me how important life is. And I regret it".
Emil laughed slightly as he realised he was crying. Tears fell in rivers down his cheeks, turning the material covering his lower face damp. "I regret it", he repeated. "I regret each and every kill".
"Aww don't cry. Please don't cry"-
Peter didn't know what to do. It scared him slightly to see the tough and normally cheerful sarcastic boy cry. He panicked for a moment before doing the only thing he could think of.
Emil stiffened as he felt Spider-Man hug him. He froze for a minute, still unused to physical affection, before hugging back. Softly, he rested his head on Spider-Man's shoulder until his sniffs died and they parted awkwardly.
Peter shuffled his feet, thankful for the mask hiding his embarrassed blush. Glancing up he realised that Boo was not so lucky. Pink coated the areas under his eyes and spread over his neck and ears. His blue eyes were slightly red rimmed from crying and he looked as awkward as Peter felt. He found it slightly cute.
"So the thing you wanted to show me?" Peter prompted, shaking his head slightly. 'Cute? Since when was Boo cute?' Peter shook his head more firmly.
"Ah yes", Emil jolted. "Do you mind?" He asked, holding out his arms.
He heard Spider-Man laugh. "At lest you ask this time. Sure".
Wrapping his arms around the other's shoulders, Emil teleported them off the roof.
They landed on a grassy bank behind a bridge. Peter stumbled for a moment, unused to teleportation. Emil held a finger up to his lips before pointing to the other side from where they could hear voices.
Peter peered round the side of the bridge then looked up at the arch. "Hold on to me", he whispered to Boo. The other boy did not question it and Peter soon felt the boy wrap his arms around his neck with his legs wrapping around his waist. Once Boo was secure, Peter began to climb up the wall and under the arch. With a better view, both boys were able to see what was happening below.
A huge blue surge lit up the night as a man fired a large gun into the air. "Now this is straight from Sokovia", he was saying.
"I don't want something too big. Why are you trying to up sell me man?" Another guy with dark skin complained. The first guy back tracked, turning to rummage around in the back of a white van.
"Times are changing", a third man spoke up. "It's time we changed with them".
"I'm just looking for something to stick somebody up", the second guy complained again. "Not shot them back in time".
"So this is where the robbers got their stuff", Peter whispered.
"Told you so", Boo replied.
The sound of yodelling broke the quiet. Emil heard Spider-Man curse and watched as he pulled out his phone. His eyes widened as he saw Ned on the screen. Emil's Brain connected the dots and he mentally groaned.
Meanwhile, on the ground two of the guys had pulled guns out on the second guy who was protesting. Thinking fast, ignoring his thoughts, Emil let go of Peter and dropped to the floor.
"Hey!" He called as he felt Peter land next to him. "Why don't you shot something else".
"If you want to shot something, shot at us", Peter joined in.
The two men shrugged.
"Fine".
Just as they turned, Emil and Peter charged. Emil went for the guy on the left whilst Peter aimed for the one on the right.
The first guy grabbed a electronic hand held thing and punched Peter. The force of it sent him flying back so that he collided with the stone bridge. The other guy turned and lunged at Emil who dodged out of the way. Using the moment, the two guys quickly got in the white van and began to drive. Jumping forward, Emil teleported himself onto the roof of the van.
Holding on tightly, Emil peeked over his shoulder to see Peter had tried to web the van but was now being pulled along behind it. He could hear the grunts and cries as Peter collided with several objects as the van swerved. Emil grunted as the van turned sharply round a particular corner, almost tossing him off in the process.
Pulling himself forward, Emil tried to reach the front of the van. Unfortunately, the movement alerted the guys inside that he was there. He yelped suddenly as a purple beam broke through the roof, missing him by a few centimetres.
They had lost Peter a short while back but Emil was sure that he would find time to catch up. Anyway, Emil could not worry about the other boy. He was mainly worrying about being shot. Turning his body just in time as another shot missed him.
Emil turned his head, spotting Peter running alone the roofs above them.
"Hang on Boo!" Peter called.
Emil would have responded, if a giant claw had not grasped him and pulled him swiftly into the air.
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