Marvel: A Symbiotic Life

"We are live from New York, 778 Ocean Ave. Behind me, as you can see the building is on Fire." The female reporter said as the camera moved towards the burning building. "The Firefighters are having a tough time navigating through."

The building was five-story one, it was rather old compared to the other buildings around. Fire could be seen bursting out of the windows on the 4th and 5th floor. People could be heard screaming from the inside.

Fire and smoke coming out of everywhere, it was a mess. Some fire-fighters could be seen helping and carrying out injured civilians, but it was hard for them to go on to the above floors that were fully engulfed in flames. Two firefighter trucks could be seen constantly spraying pressurized water, trying to put out the fire. But the flames were too massive and was everywhere. If it wasn't stopped quickly the nearest building also had the chance of catching fire.

Suddenly, the camera zoomed in on a red-n-blue wall-crawler, who was carrying a lady out of the building. Swinging off from the window, placing her on the ground. As the lady thanked the hero, before he jumped off yet again trying to save lives

"It seems that Spider-Man is trying to help our firefighters." The Female reporter announced as the camera tried to capture the live footage of him saving the day.

But another two individuals were also helping Spider-Man. The camera focused on another individual, who was wearing a long black cloak with a hoodie that was hiding his face. He seemed to appear from time to time pulling civilians out of thin air. And a girl that was wearing a white costume was helping him.

"Two new heroes seemed to have appeared in New York, yet again trying to save the New Yorkers." The female reporter said enthusiastically, smiling, she was too happy for her own promotion than the lives the heroes were saving. "Well, with how much chaos that has been going on lately, any help is appreciated," she said. The first reporter to announce a new hero was an easy way to get promoted, and she just caught two. She was dreaming her way to the chief reporter with the fish she caught.

After that with the help of Tandy's daggers, Spider-Man pushed off a water tank from the nearest building to the fire engulfed one setting the fire off. People cheered on the new heroes.

Peter and the two new heroes (Cloak and Dagger) were gaining positive media attention as they saved dozens of people from the burning building. With Max's tinkering, even the Daily Bugle was promoting the Heroes of New York.

Max had created various fake accounts and hacked into some well-known accounts, anonymously posting positive news about the new Hero society. After the Sokovia incident, most people lost their faith in the Heroes. Turning some into criminals and others like the X-men into outright terrorists.

And with Mob bosses like the King-Pin, secretly bribing News-Channels to publish bad news. Also, made the new Heroes crime-fighting life a misery. It wasn't hard to find out that King-Pin was doing that, even though Max couldn't kill him before. He made sure to take all of his money, from every bank account he had in the US. It was going to financially cripple the criminal organizations for quite some time.

People loved negative content, it created more gossip, more discussion, and media coverage. So, Max used the same physiology tactics to move the attention to the Hydra and how there were still some people officially on the loose due to political schemes. Also give away some key evidence, on how some US officials were abusing their powers to subjugate the Mutant population. And how they were linked to Hydra. Not all of it was true, as Max had mixed some lies into it to spice things up.

This information was actually gathered by Wakanda, they were keeping it at hand to use them if ever needed. So, Max used them. They were the best black-mailing materials available.

As people ate the Negative contact up like cookies, it boosted the reputation of anyone who acted against that Hydra or tried to help in general. It was how he was controlling the Internet.

But controlling the press was a little harder, as Max had to sometimes blackmail the CEO's of giant news publishing channels directly, telling them to publish something good about the heroes.

But Max was careful of what he was doing because the last thing he wanted was people to notice something was wrong. It was the same reason why he wasn't publishing any things about secretary General Ross. It was still a wonder to Max, how Wakanda had so much dirt on him.

And another reason was because of T'Challa l. Who was going to announce Wakanda to the public, and this information might be needed to motivate the General to act accordingly.

But he didn't keep the info on William Stryker to himself, even though he was dead. Max pulled out every little thing he did against the mutant population. As a result, the X-men were getting a break from the media.

His tinkering with the media brought the attention of several powerful people as they were trying to know who it was, holding a stick up their asses. But Max was used to dealing with cyber warfare even before he came to this world.

It boosted the reputation of Heroes like Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Iron-Fist to another level. Max felt a little bad using such villainous tactics to do his job. But it was for the greater good he explained to himself.

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Max wasn't going with Peter anymore as he was focusing on developing his abilities. There was another day left before he would head out with Steve to help the heroes, so he needed to prepare himself as well.

In his normal symbiotic form, Max could control every part of his body, he knew what happened all around him. It was quite overwhelming at first.

It was complex but at the same time was easy. As Symbiotes don't have any complex organs like humans, it was easy to control. So, his energy manipulation based power worked better with him than the original user Shaw.

His healing factor also increased after the whole ordeal with Sabertooth. As of now, he could probably regrow his 'host's' head if he wanted to.

Max was a little hesitant about having a permanent host, he had the best technology to build himself a new body. But was a little hesitant, as having a body would mean, he could take damage from sharp weapons like swords.

Tomi's Godkiller and Grasscutter swords were the best examples. Max didn't know what materials they were made out of. But it was just as strong as Adamantium. Its properties were magic-based and Max couldn't 'consume' them.

Max was making plans to make himself a permanent body, he could bond with. He was going to do it when he returns to Wakanda, as he didn't want to rely on Peter or any other hosts in the future.

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