Answers to reviewers' questions or statements:

treyalexander63917: I'm not really sure, apparently some time before Avengers Unity Squad after his stint as a half ass super villian and his 'Revengers' team.

Sakra95: Yeah, seems people like the FF, Wolverine and Capatain America were the only ones in there time to really recoongnize Peter as a great hero. The others probably didnt realize it until years later when he either died or did something none of them could pull off even though the latter seems to be every other year.

Phenomenal Excelsior: Yeah, guess the guy thinks that what works in fantasy land works in the real world.

cabrera1234: A Hulk Wolverine hybrid.

coki13566: Well from what I've seen of this 'Dark Starhawk', it dosent seem as powerful considering that Nova and his borther alone were able to beat it when the likes of someone with the Pheonix Force required an entire team of Avenegrs, X-men or both at the same time plus a few more to take it on whenever it cropped up.

Superstar Kid: Yeah, Peter and Wanda's relationship will put a bad taste in Simon's mouth and create quite a bit of tension between the two, mainly on Simon's part. Peter will be just wondering what the hell is up Wonder Man's attitude, unaware that Kaine will be slipping that knife in deeper and twisting it because he can.

Gundamfreedom0: It'll be a while until Peter gets full mastery of the Phoenix, like when the Incursions begin.

Hivedragon: It was in the Wolverine and the X-men comics.

Mr unknow: No, something worse.

alec-potter: We'll be getting plenty of Peyer and Phoenix moments soon. Kaine's one of the main charcaters of this story, at least for the first half, ergo he gets his due screen time, don't like, don't read.

insaneauthor050701: No, his temperature increases the angrier he gets, else he never would be able to remain conscioues after absrobing the likes of the power Cosmic or even the Ghost Rider's powers. Check your facts before throwing any kind of shade there pal.

Blaney: Well get ready to shed more tears as this story goes on.

Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel characters seen, mentioned or used.


"So, any word on Peter's progress?" Jessica Drew, aka Spider-woman, asked as she sat down next to Susan Storm while the matriarch of the Fantastic Four reviewed a few notes on a thesis she was working on.

"Slow" Susan said with a sigh "He's progressing, but not as fast as we hoped"

"Is the Phoenix giving him trouble or something?" Jessica asked with a frown.

Sue shook her head at this "No, I think Peter's just a little hesitant is all. I mean the last time he really started to dive into it's power he... well you know"

"Yeah..." Jessica said with a downcast expression as memories of what happened in Wakanda came to her mind.

Even now they were still rebuilding and according to T'Challa, it could be years until the damage from both the X-men's attack and the Dark Phoenix was fixed.

'They're still finding bodies in the ruins of the capital' Jessica thought darkly 'And each one they do find is another case for Hill and SHIELD to build against Peter'

It was times like this that Jessica wished that Fury was still in charge. True the man in her opinion was only slightly more competent than Hill but at least he knew when to leave well enough alone.

"How's Carol holding up?" Sue said as she turned towards the dark haired woman "I haven't seen or heard of her much since Wakanda"

"She's..." Jessica was about to say 'doing alright' until the image of Carol's state entered her mind. After a few seconds, Jessica sighed and shook her head "She's really shaken up from the whole thing still. I mean she saw the guy she's been crushing on for over a year turn into a homicidal dark god of death and killed one of our friends in front of her"

Sue nodded at this before she turned back to her computer and looked at the paper with a frown before she sighed and shut down the terminal and leaned back in her chair and let out a sigh "Times like this where I wonder how the hell the world keeps spinning with all that's going on in it"

"Yeah, makes you think" Jessica said with a small grin before she adjusted herself in her chair "Hey Sue?"

"Yeah?" the Invisible woman said as she glanced at Jessica with curiosity.

"Do you think that Me and Carol can go visit Peter soon?" Jessica said a little nervously "I mean we haven't seem him since Wakanda, well awake that is, and I think he and Carol need to talk about what happened"

"What about you?" Sue questioned "Do you and he need to talk too?"

"Not really" Jessica said with a shrug "I mean what's there to say?"

"A lot I imagine" Sue said with a small smile.

"Well, maybe after he and Carol's talk" Jessica said with a snort before she glanced out the window with a worried expression "So, who else out there knows about Peter being the new Phoenix?"

"Doom probably, something tells me this wouldn't have flew under his radar" Sue said with a frown "As for out there in Space? The Shi'ar, defiantly. SWORD just spotted one of their scout ships at the edge of the system before they lost it"

Jessica's eyes widened at the name of the intergalactic empire "A scout ship?"

Sue nodded with a grave expression "And I have no doubt it's only a matter of time until they send something, or someone with more firepower to try and take Peter out. You know how they are with the Phoenix"

"Well, it did wipe out one of their planets with millions of people when Jean was it's host. There's no telling how many worlds the oversized bird took out on it's way to Earth that belonged to the Shi'ar" Jessica said with a sigh "Just can't seem to catch a break with them, huh?"

"I think their thinking the same thing about us" Sue said with a grim chuckle before she rubbed her temples "Why do I get the strangest feeling that things are going to get worse from here on out?"

"Cause Peter's 'Parker Luck' has been augmented by a Cosmic powerhouse... literally" Jessica said in a dry tone.

As the two women continued their conversation, they were unaware of a small drone hovering over the rooftop of a adjacent building, a small hammer symbol on it's side., a recording device sending a encrypted transmission back to it's operator.

...

When Kaine finally re-emerged from the Mansion, a part of him hoped that someway somehow the Unity squad had brought the Hulkverine down. Maybe someone like Thor or even the Green Hulk appeared to offer some much needed muscle to the fight. Instead he saw Deadpool being stabbed by the Hulkverine's claws before being tossed into Simon before the lumbering monster picked up a chunk of earth and threw it towards Iceman who had constructed a shield of ice to protect him, Kitty, Firestar, Janet and Captain America.

"What took you" a pained voice spoke up from behind Kaine, causing him to turn and see Sunfire climbing back to his feet, blood running down the side of his face.

"Sorry, got held up in the cafeteria by the guys that brought this thing here" Kaine said as he glanced back down at the device in his hands and flipped the switch that Beast said would turn it on and begin powering it up "Think you can keep big gray and ugly over there busy long enough for this thing to work?"

Sunfire nodded as he took a shaky step forward before he rose into the sky and rocketed towards the Hulkverine as Kaine got into position to hopefully take the Hulkverine out for good.

'I'm half tempted to see if we can call Peter to come and roast this mofo' Kaine thought with a snort before the image of Wolverine's skeleton raced through his mind 'Uhh, maybe it'll be too soon to ask anything like that'

Kaine was dragged out of his thoughts by the enraged yell of the Hulkverine as Sunfire was blasting at it with everything he had left him.

"Oh would you just shut up already?!" Kaine shouted as he heard the alien device 'bleep' before he blasted the Hulkverine with the molecular manipulation device, causing the Hulkverine to roar in agony as his Adamantium bones located in his arms and legs were 'broken' before his healing factor and the nanobots the metal is secreted from rushed to fix the damage.

The Hulkverine fell to his mangled knees, his left arm looking malformed as the bones and muscle inside raced to rearrange itself. His legs were a mess, the ankles and knees pointing in unnatural directions before the Adamantium coating the bones inside briefly receded so the actual bones could be 'popped' back into place and the torn skin healed up. The Hulk hybrid gritted his teeth in pain, his rage building as he glared up at Kaine with wide, furious eyes before he raised an arm and slammed it into the ground. Kaine's spider sense went off before the grey Hulk even lifted his limb and was already on the move, doing his best to avoid the chunks of earth being thrown into the air by the miniature earthquake the Wolverine equipped Hulk made.

'Where's our Hulk? Hell I'll even take Thor or Sentry if he's still alive, anyone that can actually fight this guy that isn't a freakin pansy like that sorry excuse of an actor hovering nearby!' Kaine thought in annoyance as he landed in a crouch before making another jump as the Hulkverine, now back on it's feet slammed both arms into the ground again, upheaving even more earth around it.

The Hulkverine growled at the Scarlet Sider's efforts to evade him and was about to pounce on the man before Wonder Man suddenly landed in front of him with a stern look on his face, his hands glowing with ionic energy.

"Let's try this again… stop" the man said as he took a single step forward, the ground shaking from the force he used and the energy he was radiating.

The Hulkverine saw this and growled in a threatening tone, his claws at the ready to skewer the man as they maintained eye contact.

Kaine saw the Hulkverine was distracted and was about to fire off another round from the device in his hands, this time aiming for the Hulkverine's head when the large grey brute suddenly let loose a loud, ear piercing roar that caused everyone present on the battlefield to cover their ears in pain.

"RAAHHHHHHHHH!" the grey hulk bellowed as what looked like arcs of gamma energy raced across his body in a manner similar to the actual Green Hulk as it pulled his hands back.

"Oh shit" Kaine said before the Hulk slammed his hands together, creating a powerful shockwave that seemed to level the entire area, and sending Kaine flying back, his grip on the device lost as he was forced to protect his head from chunks of wood, stone and earth the size of his torso from hitting him.

Simon gritted his teeth as he struggled to maintain his position, creating a field of ionic energy around himself to deflect the chunk of earth from hitting him as he tried to search through the dust for signs of the grey Hulk.

'Where did he go?' Simon thought before suddenly three large Adamantium claws emerged from the dust cloud, heading right for Wonder Man's head.

Simon narrowly avoided the deadly claws before he took a step back as the other three claws emerged from the dust cloud, along with their owner and began to swipe at the powerful man with animal like savagery.

'Is there any trace of humanity in this thing?' Simon thought as he ducked, evaded and blitzed around the Hulkverine's attempts to impale him.

The Hulkverine began to grow enraged as every attempt it made to kill the powerful superhuman before it was met with failure. He was simply too fast for the large grey muscle-bound brute to hit. This thought caused the Hulk hybrid to grit his teeth in rage before he let out an enraged yell at yet another failed attempt to stab Wonder Man before he was suddenly blinded by a thick coating of web that encompassed most of his head. The action caused Simon to pull back in slight surprise before Iceman raced passed him on an ice slide and began to shoot ice needles at the Hulkverine's legs. This caused the Hulkverine to fall to one knee before he was blasted in the back by Sunfire who raced over the claw wielding gamma irradiated being.

"Now you fall beast!" the mutant from the Land of the Rising Sun stated as he prepared to incinerate the Hulk before it grabbed a chunk of earth and threw it at the hovering mutant, forcing him to duck and allow the Hulkverine to rip the webbing off it's face with a grunt.

The Hulkverine growled at the sight of Sunfire and was about to engage the Mutant before Kaine suddenly blasted it again with the matter manipulator, breaking the massive being's arms and legs again before Sunfire unleashed a literal fire storm towards the wounded Hulk.

"BURN!" he shouted over the roar of his flames as the Hulk's skin and flesh burned under the high intensity flames.

"RRAAAAAGGGHHHH!" the Hulkverine screamed in rage and pain before it was silenced by another blast from the molecular manipulator.

"Did we get him?" Iceman asked as he came to a stop next to Kaine who was still aiming the alien device towards the burning crater that the Hulkverine was in.

"Don't know" Kaine shrugged before he glanced at Simon's hovering form "Oy, go make yourself useful and see if he's down or not"

Simon glared in annoyance at Kaine while Bobby shook his head "Why do you have to antagonize him?"

"Cause I know he won't do anything" Kaine replied with a snort as he lowered the alien device in his hands as he watched Simon approach the crater while Sunfire cut off the flames he was attacking the Wolverine hybrid with.

Simon barley had a chance to look down before a massive charred body flew up from the crater and slammed it's Adamantium skeletal hand right into the man's face, knocking several teeth loose and sending the powerful hero flying into the school.

"Oh shit" Kaine paled as he quickly brought up the alien device to blast the Hulkverine with again before it did something unexpected.

It unsheathed a claw and then ripped it out of it's 'socket' and threw it right towards Kaine who was tackled out of the way by Iceman. However, the scarlet clad spider wasn't the Hulkverine's target, it was the alien device he was using. the Adamantium blade tore through the molecule manipulator with ease, sending sparks flying as the alien energies within ruptured and ignited in a small but powerful explosion that sent the nearby Kaine and Bobby flying in separate directions.

'Note to self, bring one of Peter's armored suits next time… or just re-enforce this one' Kaine thought with a pained grunt as he felt his shoulder pop out of place while he skipped across the broken, uneven terrain before he came to a stop beside a large pair of gray feet that he knew didn't belong to Beast 'Oh come on!'

The Hulk growled at Kaine as the flesh on his arms began to heal at a rapid rate, causing the scarlet clad hero to gulp as the Hulkverine towered over him.

"Uhhh… want to be friends? You know, misunderstood clones with a bad attitude gotta stick together… hehehehehe, right?" Kaine chuckled nervously as the Hulkverine reared it's claws back, intent to drive them into Kaine's torso when he was suddenly pelted by several blasts of microwave energy fired from Firestar.

Kaine used this moment to leap away from the distracted brute before he could refocus on the clone of the Amazing Spider-man while Firestar flew circles around the enraged Hulkverine and continued her assault on his slightly burnt form. Several seconds into her barrage, the powerful mutant realized that she'd have to up the ante of her attack. With a heavy sigh she retreated a few meters higher up into the sky before she centered her sights on the glowing form of the Hulkverine. Her eyes narrowed as she raised her glowing hands towards the claw wielding brute as it looked like he was about to leap at her.

"You know buddy, all that metal inside you might make you tough…" Angelica said as the air around her began to heat up as her form glowed and burned hotter "But it also means I'll have something to help me burn your ass from the inside"

She then unleashed a wave of Microwave energy towards the Hulkverine just as he tired to leap at her with a roar. The force of the energy wave collided with the mutant hulk and slammed him back into the ground and began to burn his skin and the ground around him. The Hulkverine brought up his arms to protect his face only to growl in anger once he saw the metal of his claws begin to glow cherry red under the intense heat… before they started to burn his hands.

"GAAHHHH!" the hulk shouted in rage as the intense burning sensation made it's way down into his wrist and began to travel up his arm towards the rest of his body.

Deadpool couldn't help but let out an impressed whistle as Firstar as she unleashed what could only be described as supernova mixed with a hell storm at the grey skinned Hulk "Man, that's hotter than the planned threesome I have in mind with Mini Mouse and Daisy Duck when I go to Disney"

Kaine, who had come to stand next to the infamous mercenary, glanced at Deadpool "Uh, what?"

"Oh nothing character that will never get a chance on the big screen if Sony being assholes have anything to say about it" Deadpool said as he reloaded his shotgun and charged towards the fight with a yell as he fired off several shots at the Hulkverine's horribly burnt face.

Kaine watched the man go for a second before he scratched the back of his head "No seriously, what the fuck?"

Before Kaine could think more on it he ducked as the Merc with a mouth flew over him with a pained yell before slamming painfully into the side of the school before falling through the heavily damaged wall and into the hallway on the other side. Kaine blinked at the hole the red and black cladded mercenary made before he felt his spider-sense flare up as the area around him darkened.

The Scarlet Spider looked over his shoulder and paled as he took in the large towering form of the Hulkverine, his burns slowly healing with bits of Adamantium coated bone, still glowing cherry hot red, exposed to the elements. Kaine gave the being of rage a sheepish smile before he shot several web bullets into its face, causing it to grunt in surprise before Kaine made to leap away as the Grey Hulk slammed his claws into the ground only for the red and black clad hero to vanish in a silver blur.

The Hulkverine blinked in surprise before it soon roared in rage at missing the spider powered man a second time "RAHHHH!"

Not too far away from the enraged weapon of mass destruction, a silver blur raced by again before it left a startled Kaine standing ten meters away from where the Hulkverine was with a strong case of motion sickness.

"What the hell…?" Kaine groaned as he lurched over and felt like he was about to vomit.

"Sorry about that, but I figured motion sickness is preferable to being crushed or stabbed to death" the silver blur said as it appeared in front of Kaine.

The Scarlet Spider looked up to see Quicksilver standing there with a small smirk on his face.

The twin brother of the Scarlet Witch held his hand out and nodded "Quicksilver, brother to the woman that your brother is apparently getting sticky with, nice to meet you"

"Uhhhh…" Kaine said before the Quicksilver suddenly pulled him to the ground as Wonder Man was sent flying over them with a pained yelp, having been punched by the Hulkverine not moments ago.

"Simon" Pietro said with a nod towards the man as he climbed back to his feet with a groan "Still down on your luck I see"

"Quicksilver" Simon growled out in annoyance and pain from the Hulkverine's hit.

The Speedster glanced at the Hulkverine with a raised brow "Who's he?"

"Hulkverine, the unholy love child of Hulk and Wolverine that no one asked for" Kaine said as he brushed some dust off his suit "Fucker's tough"

"They usually are" Pietro said with a nod as he saw Rogers rushing over to him with Iceman and Janet by his side. The son of Magneto gave the Patriotic hero a nod "Captain..."

"Nice to see you again Quicksilver" the nearly hundred year old man said with a relieved sigh.

"Please tell me you brought a Hulk with you" Iceman said as he looked around for signs of Bruce Banner's other half.

"Fraid not" Pietro said with a sheepish grin "I was actually here to talk with Scarlet Spider about something"

"About what?" Kaine asked with a frown under his mask.

"Our respective siblings" Pietro said in a bland tone, causing Kaine's brow to twitch.

"Son of a bitch... I'm out here getting my ass handed to me by some inbred looking Hulk and he's actually shacking it up with the Scarlet Witch?! Where the hell is the justice in that?!" Kaine asked no one in particular.

"There isn't any" Pietro said with a eye roll before his attention was dragged back to the roar of the Wolverine Hulk hybrid "So, any ideas on how to take him down?"

"We tried to use some alien thing to break the molecular bonds of his skeleton, see if that would work but..." Kaine glanced at the now destroyed alien device with dread "I got nothing"

"Maybe not..." Janet said as she eyed the Hulkverine with narrowed eyes before she glanced at Captain America's shield and then at Quicksilver "How fast can you run?"

"I've outran radio waves" the mutant replied with a shrug "Why?" Janet glanced at Steve before she held her hand out "Cap, may I see that for a second?"

Steve nodded as he unclasped his shield and handed it to Janet as she placed one of her regulators on it and had it shrink down to the size of a quarter before she grunted.

"Damn, this thing's heavy" she muttered before she handed it to Pietro who took it without complaint, already having an idea of what the longtime Avenger had in mind "Alright Pietro, this is what you need to do..."

The Hulkverine growled in rage as it pinned Simon to the ground, it claws raised over it's head as it prepared to drive them through Wonder Woman's head as the hero glared up at him defiantly. Sunfire was doing his best to try and distract the Hulk from his teammate but his attacks had lost much of their strength and he himself was barely still standing.

"Stupid monster... o-over here" Sunfire groaned in pain as he felt to his knees, struggling to keep conscious while the Hulkverine roared into Simon's face before it made to stab the man-

"Delivery!" a voice shouted up from behind the monstrous Hulk, causing it to turn just in time for something small to fly right into it's head traveling at over seventeen thousand miles per second while Quicksilver raced pass the Hulk too fast for it's eyes to track.

The Hulkverine only had a second to grunt in surprise as it's head snapped back tot he point that it's neck almost snapped and it's head was severed from it's body. Simon used this opportunity to escape from the Hulk's immediate vicinity as the large gray brute stood there for a second before it cell to the ground with a heavy 'thud. Quicksilver raced back around and came to a stop a few meters away from the downed brute as blood began to leak from the small hole in it's head. He reached down and grabbed the edge of the coin sized shield from the Hulk's head and tried to remove it but found the shield was too embedded in it's head.

"Uhh, a little help someone?" Pietro said as he tired to pry the shield out.

"I've got it" Simon said as he appeared at Pietro's side and grabbed the small disk and with little effort on his part, plucked it out of the Hulk's head, causing a small stream of blood to squirt out.

"Thanks" Pietro said as he made a face at the damage done to the Hulk's face now that he was up close.

He could see exposed adamantium in the wound before it was covered by the regrown flesh and skin of the Hulkverine. Simon clicked his tongue at the sight before he saw Firestar, Kitty and Steve approached and tossed the star spangled hero his iconic shield back.

"I believe this belongs to you" he said as Steve caught the shield and nodded while he placed a regulator he got from Janet on it and returned the legendary shield to it's natural size.

"Thank you..." Steve said before he frowned at the small crack along the edge of the shield that must have made contact with the Hulkverine's Adamantium skull while Pietro tapped his foot against the head of the now unconsciousness Hulkverine before he glanced at Steve.

"Well, now I know what it'd be like to throw a shield made of Vibrainium condensed down to the size of a coin while traveling at Mach twenty three into a skull made of Adamantium. We should do this again sometime" the speedster said with a smirk.

"Hopefully not too soon" the star-spangled banner wearing Avenger said with a tired grin as he placed his shield on his back and let the magnetic clamps set it in place.

"Uh not that we're not happy to see you Pietro, but why are you here exactly?" Firestar asked as she landed with a slight stumble before Kitty caught her.

"I was bored and wanted to make sure he stayed alive" Pietro said as he nodded towards Kaine who was busy having his shoulder popped back into place with Janet's help.

"Why's that?" Simon asked with curiosity.

"Because if he dies then Spider-man is likely to get all… and well if that happens then Wanda will probably get all… because their, you know…" Pietro said with a shrug before he suddenly appeared next to Kaine and gave the Scarlet Spider a pat on the head "Plus I've grown fond of the man in the three minutes and thirty seconds I've known him"

"Aww thanks Quicksilver, that means a lot to me" Kaine said before he let out a pained hiss as Janet helped popped his shoulder into place.

"There ya good, good as new, sort of" Janet said with a chuckle before she glanced at the downed Hulkverine "Soooo… what do we do with that guy?"

"We find out who sent him" Laura said as she stared at the large behemoth with a bank gaze before it darkened "And then we gut every last one of them for trying to destroy this school…"

Kaine snorted at this "Sounds good to me"

"We're not gutting anybody" Steve said with a sigh before he held up a hand to his ear piece "Stark, you there?"

"Yeah cap, what's up?" Tony replied from his end, the sound of repulse blasts echoing in the back ground followed by sounds of gunfire.

"Everything alright Tony?" Steve asked with a frown.

"What, oh yeah. Just AIM trying to steal my new suit of armor I was hoping to use for a long overdue vacation I had planned into space for a few weeks" Stark replied before several more repulse blasts went off "So, what do you need?"

"I need a transport strong enough to hold a Hulk" Steve said as he glanced at the unconscious living weapon of mass destruction "Mixed with a Wolverine"

Tony let out a low whistle at this "Wow, what the hell did you catch Rogers?"

"Honestly Tony, you wouldn't believe me until you saw it for yourself" Steve said with a tired sigh as he watched Scarlet Spider begin covering the Hulkverine in as much webbing as he possibly could while Iceman and Firestar watched, ready to start blasting at the Hulkverine with their respective elements should it try anything.

After a few seconds, Kitty suddenly placed her hand on Steve's shoulder and shook it slightly to get his attention. The near century year old man glanced towards Kitty with a curios expression on his slightly bruised face.

"Yes Miss Pryde?"

"Uh, can you come down to the medical ward in the school really quick?" Kitty asked a little nervously.

"Is something wrong?" Steve asked worriedly, causing Kitty to shake her head.

"No, at least I don't think so… it's just um…" Kitty trailed off as she tried to think of a way to explain what had happened before she let out a sigh "The Professor just told me that Cable, he uh, he woke up"

"Cable?" Steve said in surprise at the mentioning of the powerful time traveling Mutant's name "He's here?"

Kitty nodded "Yeah, he was brought here not long after… after what happened in Wakanda by Deadpool oddly enough. We've been monitoring him and according to the Professor and Beast, he just woke up a few minutes ago and is asking to talk with you about… well I guess about what's happened"

Steve nodded at this "Understood… maybe he can ask a few questions of my own while we're at it"

"Like if all of this…" Kitty gestured to the devastated grounds around them "Was supposed to happen?"

"Among other things" Steve said as he began to make his way to the school with Kitty leading the way.

Kaine watched them go before he turned towards Pietro "So, how far are they along?"

"I think I walked in on them before they were about to have sex" the speedster said with a sigh.

"Ah, so pretty far" Kaine said with a nod.

Janet couldn't help but smirk "Are all you Spiders that fast at getting a woman into a bed?"

"When we want" Kaine said as he glanced at Janet with a bemused look under his mask "Why?"

Janet's answer was to pull his mask up to his nose and crash her lips against his own...


And done.

Next chapter, Jessica and Carol arrive in K'un-Lun with Wanda's children, Wiccan and Speed...