I'm Spider-Man (MCU)

Chapter 77: Dragon Bones & Elixer

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A/N: The next arc starts soon. This is the last recap sort of chapter. I know some of you are getting impatient and want some action. I'll give you a hint to the next arc: Green.

With Red garbed ninjas appearing in every major city around the world, the news picked up on this fairly quickly and began broadcasting any information they could gather.

That information being groups of ninjas that patrol the streets, stopping crime and saving those in need. The whole world was divided on their opinion of this new group of vigilantes.

Some loved them and others hated them. A few cities mobilized their entire police force trying to catch them but the Hand is just too skilled and slippery to be caught by some undertrained police officers.

It certainly didn't help that the Hand isn't afraid to kill the more hardcore and unredeemable criminals, and steal money from all of their 'victims' as well, which would only fuel the opinions of those that hated them.

Though Peter didn't mind.

He has the Hand in these cities to stop crime, not win over public support or anything of the sort. As long as his subordinates stick to the rules and do their jobs, Peter is happy.

Speaking of the rules, Peter knows that although he killed many who opposed him, there are still some in the Hand that are unhappy with the new regime so to speak.

Malik and those that followed the now deceased Sowande being one group of them.

Peter has Scythe keeping these people watched and listed down. They may not rebel as Peter thinks, but it's always best to keep a lookout. Who knows, maybe after some time passes they would come to like the new Hand.

He'll just have to wait and see.

Other than the Avengers and Hand business, nothing much has changed in Peter's personal life.

He's still dating MJ, friends with Ned, and lives with his aunt May.

MJ has been seeing her dad a lot after that Christmas night. Fury comes to visit her and her mother Grace a couple of times a month now, which they were happy about.

MJ knows that her father has a very busy and secretive job so she was just happy to see him. Their relationship improved enough in the past months to where she calls him dad and he gets a hug every time he shows up now.

Peter sees him every now and then but he usually likes to give Fury some space when he's with his family. He has all the time in the world to spend with MJ but Fury doesn't.

Not to mention the fact that Peter sees Fury a lot as Spider-Man already, so he didn't need to spend more time with the man. Especially since Fury doesn't exactly like Peter as he's dating the his daughter.

'When he finds out that it's actually Spider-Man that's dating his daughter, I wonder how he'll react?' Peter thought.

As for Ned, he's still working on that video game that he started making shortly after they released Candy Crush. Peter offered to help multiple times, but Ned refuses to allow anyone to even look at it, as he wants it to be a surprise.

Peter didn't mind not being involved. He was busy with the Avengers and the Hand anyway.

May was the same as always. She still worked part-time at the hospital, thanks to the millions Peter is now making from Parker Games.

Something big that happened to May and Peter was moving out of their old apartment. Their landlord saw the news clips about Peter making Candy Crush and being the sleazy man that he and many landlords are, he raised the rent by almost double, which is illegal by the way.

May was the first to find out and freaked out, cursing the man's name for hours. When Peter found out as well, he just shrugged and said 'why don't we just move?' And so they did.

May found a nice house nearby for a bit less than a million dollars. They bought it after some inspections and moved in a month later. They had to wait about a month for a couple of repairs and redesigns to be completed.

If they were going to have their own house it had to be perfect. Especially since they now had the money to make it that way.

Their old landlord was swiftly reported to the police after the move. If he would do this now, he has likely done it before, so the police simply asked the residents of the building and found multiple cases of this happening.

The landlord was arrested shortly after their move, which was good news for all of the other residents.

Peter's spare time after the move was mainly spent on building his A.I. and studying the Dragon Bones and resurrection elixir that the Hand had stashed away.

He made sure to have Scythe gather all of the bones and Elixir the Hand had, not trusting it in the hands of others.

The A.I. was something Peter started working on before the United Nations meetings started. Peter has high requirements for his Artificial Intelligence so it's going to take longer than a few months to finish making it.

Peter wants his A.I. to not only help him with his company, heroic duties, and side projects but also watch over and assist the Avengers and the Hand. As a watchful eye, keeping Peter informed about any wrongdoings, as well as a way to assist both separate organizations during their duties as well.

There are so many ideas and expectations in Peter's mind when it comes to this A.I., like the ability to access millions of cameras around the world and use that to report crimes, but making something with that kind of power will take time.

As for the Dragon Bones and Elixir, Peter found that he was out of his depth when he received them. When studying the bones, all he saw was an old dinosaur-looking bone. He could feel some energy in them, which he thought was probably Chi, but no technology that he had access to was useful when it came to mystical energies.

Using modern science and technology, Peter found that these bones were old and fossilized. Other than that he couldn't study the energy inside them, so he went to Kamar Taj to find a solution.

Peter had a similar problem when it came to the Resurrection Elixir as well. The black substance had large amounts of the same energy the bones had, but none of his equipment could get a read on it. All he found out was that it was a mixture of fossilized bone dust and human blood.

Looking at the manufacturing process that Scythe gave him, Peter confirmed his findings. The Hand would use both the bones of Dragons as well as human blood to make the black liquid that would keep their former leaders alive.

They would often force human subjects to provide most if not all of their blood reserves to create the substance, killing them in the process. The combination of the two elements was done so in almost a ritualistic manner, which Peter wasn't sure was necessary.

Peter didn't plan on kidnapping and sacrificing people for more power, so he would need to figure out a way to alter the recipe so to speak.

Yeah, he could get unlimited longevity, an upgrade in his powers, and the means to return from death, but at what cost? He wouldn't sacrifice his morals for something so little. Especially when Peter could use the Mystic Arts to alter and maybe even enhance the Elixir.

When he returned to Kamar Taj for help with his studies into the Dragon bones and Elixir, Peter was once again told that the Ancient One was busy.

Ever since he brought up her possibly joining the Avengers, the Ancient One became distant all of the sudden. He knew that she was torn between the plan she formed for her future with the Time Stone's help, or saying 'f*ck it' and joining Peter to change everything.

Peter would give her some time to think before confronting her about it again.

Seeing that she was hiding from him, Peter went to the library and started researching Chi and mystical ways to study objects and substances.

Chi is a mystical form of energy that is present in every life form. From insects and fish to brainless animals and humans. Anything that is alive has Chi. Some ancient groups with mystical knowledge have learned how to channel chi, using it for both therapeutic and martial arts purposes. As a weapon, chi is capable of generating an internal force that removes the need for charging momentum into attacks.

Although Chi is mainly an internal energy, it can be used externally if you have enough reserves to wield outside of the body. A good example of this would be the iron fist, Danny Rand, and any other that came before him.

With the Chi boost from completing the Trial of Shou-Lao, the mythical dragon of K'un-Lun, and the origin of the Iron Fists power, Danny would have so much Chi that he could use it externally for things such as healing others and the generic Chi blasts.

Sadly, the 5 founders of the Hand are nothing but dust, so Peter would have to learn how to manipulate Chi from the books in Kamar Taj.

After looking for a while, Peter found a few practice techniques for using Chi and a handful of spells that can be used to scan items. He even found one spell that breaks things down to their base ingredients.

If he were to use this spell on the Elixir, the bone dust and blood should separate from one another but he would have to test it to find out.

A/N: 1630 words

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