54 Revenge is A Dish Best Served Cold (Part 4-Finale)

~Natasha Romanova Pov~

How? None of this makes any sense. Parker, the guy my team looked into, who we all thought was clean, was even capable of something so, cruel...

I could do nothing but clench my teeth in anger. I trusted him completely... He... He was the only person out of my partners I trusted the most, and he does something like, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬? It didn't make any sense, but I had to face reality.

His abilities were the same, his suit, his face, the way he spoke, and even his voice. There was no mistaking that it was undeniably Peter, but why? Why do this to someone you've known for practically years?

It made me want to vomit. This was beyond sickening...

*Tch!* I scoffed, annoyed by myself. Parker needed to be stopped. The rest of my team (avengers), will be here soon...

Still, my mind couldn't help but worry, especially when I remembered Daiko... The true mystery in all this sudden mess... His appearance was too strange. I'm a person who checks everything to be safe, even among my companions, but I've never heard of or seen someone like him.

He was an anomaly, and I can't help but feel that he was tied more to this story than what meets the eye. But that didn't matter anymore. He was going to stop Parker, and I wasn't going to stop him...

Luckily I had escaped before he destroyed the building. More importantly, I needed to get this info to the rest of us... And I didn't know how I was going to break it to them.

I spotted the three looking worried...

"Nat? Your alright! Thank goodness you're safe." Jean shouted, the others following her closely. Now I really wasn't sure how I was going to go about all of this...

"Where are Peter and Daiko? What happened in there?" Rogue quickly asked.

"I don't know how, but they seemed to be fighting when I was up there!..." I quickly told her.

"What!? We can't just leave without them, especially Peter! We have to go and find them both!" Mary Jane said loudly.

"You can't Mary! Listen, Peter isn't who you think he is..." I said, but my voice lowered as the words left my lips.

"What do you mean, did something happen?" Jean asked, rogue also looking at me expectantly too...

I couldn't just tell them that our best friend Peter assaulted their, our 'other' friend. That would shatter them all, especially Mary... But I had to. You can do this Nat.

"Listen... I don't know how to go about this, but...-" I said before I was interrupted.

*RUMBLE!*

*RUMBLE! RUMBLE!*

The entire area shook once again. I couldn't do much here but wait...

'I just hope whoever Daiko really is, he ends this all...'

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~Daiko's Pov~

"Come out Parker!..." I said to him. My last attack launched him all the way here. I can see, and smell his disgusting blood...

*Tingle~*

"Huh?"

I suddenly felt my body vibrate for a moment. Sensing the attack, I quickly backflipped away from where I was standing before a pillar of fire blazed where I stood. It was magic, his magic.

That meant he was close by...

"Looking for me!" I heard his voice shouting from below.

I looked down to see him with civilians a couple of feet away from him, while he was grasping a child... I clenched my teeth, my anger was still boiling. I needed to end this soon.

"First you assault someone you've known for years... And now you take an innocent child hostage!!!" I shouted, angered.

"Nah uhh! Move any closer, and the kid goes, fucker!" He said shouting, his suit's claws pressed against her neck, already drawing blood. I looked at the little girl's face.

I could see her tears flowing...

"Mo-mommy!!! Help me, please! *hic* *hic*" She cried.

My anger was beginning to get a hold of me... I needed to suppress it more. I needed to be calmer.

"Parker... Let the child go." I said.

"So you can kill me? Fat chance, I have a higher purpose, Daiko! You wouldn't understand! Everyone here will die, including, this kid here!" He said.

I on the other hand was thinking of how I was going to get the little girl and everyone to safety...

I wasn't fast enough. I wasn't strong enough either. If I had my ki, I could have wiped him from the face of the planet by now. And even if I use my new strategy against him by overwhelming his senses, he could still kill the girl...

'Damn it all!' I thought frustratedly.

"Peter! What are you doing?" A voice I remembered emerged, it was, Jean.

Peter glanced to the side, but his hands seemed to draw closer to slitting the child's throat.

"What do you want? I don't have time for petty talks!" However, as soon as he said this, then suddenly, a small smile crept up on his face...

"No... It can't be, Peter..." Jean said, her figure trembled. Her mind was disoriented, and a being as volatile as she was to get distressed, would possibly lead to the 'phoenix' emerging, a threat they couldn't possibly handle at the moment.

'Think Daiko! Think!' I shouted to myself. Countless ideas formed within my mind on how to stop this situation from escalating any further...

However, I realized that I already had the answer. It was right in front of me too.

I inhaled, exhaled... Calming my nerves, I stopped my emotions almost completely...

*DING!*

[By remaining calm, whilst also utilizing more extremely intense emotions, the host has achieved an epiphany... The host's 'form', will now evolve...]

?(Special)? 𝑨𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 Primal Instinct/ Passive Active Lvl 1/50: The saiyan's ascended version of ultra instinct. This technique allows the user to use martial arts more smoothly as well. Through this 'transformation', the user will have an explosive increase in reaction time and attack speed by +250% and 50% per level respectively. (The overall bonus is 250 times and 35 times base) (Can also be stacked on other forms)

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~Omni Pov~

As Peter was about to utter a word, an incredible amount of heat glazed the atmosphere...

"L-look, over here!" A civilian man pointed. Everyone then looked toward where he pointed. The source of the heat was none other than the saiyan himself...

His body vibrated, his knees weakened... A metamorphosis approached, and everyone looked on in wonder.

'What's he doing!?' Parker thought. Now alarmed.

However, Daiko began changing... His hair began lengthening. Going from shoulder length to the lower end of his back. Half of his dark hair suddenly gained a white luminescence...

They all looked on with awe, his 'transformation'. Something about him was different, not just his appearance...

The atmosphere now had a certain edge to it. No one could describe it, but it felt like the heat before suddenly shifted into an icy cold tundra...

Daiko, who was still slumped forward, slowly began straitening his posture. His muscular body moved as if it was boneless, as well as with unbelievable smoothness. It was almost as if he was made entirely out of liquid...

Daiko then slowly opened his eyes, the coldness instantly seemed to have doubled. His hair now half-glowing pure white like snow, giving him an ethereal edge.

"I said not to move!-" Parker said. However, to Daiko, time felt as if it had stopped completely, each word from Parker looked as if it was countless times slower...

However, he ignored what the fool was going to utter, especially since deadmen told no tales...

As Parker spoke, his eyes shifted. He slowly began blinking. An action that took only a millisecond to conduct, was now, literally akin to mere minutes for the current Daiko. And that was all the time he needed.

As Parker blinked, Daiko vanished with his newfound speed. Arriving in front of the menace, he crushed Parker's hand, and in another burst of speed, he carried the girl to safety.

The saiyan finished preparing, and quickly grabbed Parker's head, carrying him into the middle of the city.

When time resumed, everyone saw felt a gust of chaotic wind blow them away, with Jean only seeing Parker and Daiko missing, with the little girl now far away in safety...

~Daiko's Pov~

Holding his face in my arms. His helplessness gives me more joy than anything I've experienced in a long time.

I'll make sure to treasure this moment...

"MMMMRPHHHH!!!!" He tried screaming, but it was muffled by my hands. He gripped my hand tightly, trying to remove them.

"Pathetic... Your struggles are meaningless..." I said, grabbing his other hand, and crushing it as well.

"AARRGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!" He shouted.

My hand barely kept his voice from coming out. I held him up more, this time, I crushed both his legs almost instantly. Throwing him to the concrete floor.

"I-Is that Spiderman?" A woman shouted.

"It is, what is that guy doing to him!" A man chided.

They looked on at what I had done to him. But it only served to irritate me more as they seemed to care about such filth.

"You save these people, but they don't know what you really, are..." I said to him, his eyes filled with tears. His muffled screams lowered, and now I can feel him begging me to stop.

"LISTEN WELL... YOUR 'HERO' RAPED AND BEAT HIS OWN FRIEND, THREATENED TO KILL A CHILD, AND THREATENS TO KILL YOU ALL..." I shouted.

"And this is what I do to pathetic rapists like you..." I whispered in his ear. I grabbed the nearest lamp post, slicing it in half with a kick. I then twisted it while using my hands to make the ends, and its body jagged, and sharper...

I then walked back over to the filth.

"Since you like sticking things in women, it would only be fair if it happens to you, right?" I said, slowly making my way towards him.

*Step...*

"NO-NO-NO, PLEASE, DON'T DO IT!!!" He shouted.

*Step...*

"You didn't stop..." I said, aiming the lamp post in the proper, location...

"So why should I?" I continued.

"Prepare to feel what she felt. Prepare to feel hopeless..." I said, tightening my grip on the lamp.

"NO, NOO, NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!-"

I stabbed it through him from his rear, allowing it to go straight through his mouth. His intestines getting regurgitated through his mouth... The people, they vomited. Me?

I was satisfied...

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