"We didn't come here to arrest you Cap. I talked SHIELD into offering you one more chance to register," Iron Man explained.
"You want us to surrender? I'll take my chances," Cap replied cooly.
"Come on Cap. It isn't like it helps anyone but the bad guys if we fight each other. This goes against everything you believe in," Spider-Man said.
"You're one to talk," I sneered. "How's Mary Jane feel about Sandman knowing your address?"
"Cap we're not living in the 40s, the public doesn't want us to hide who we really are. They want to feel safe about us and this is the only way it's going to happen. You know me Steve, you know I'd only do this if I truely believed in it. We don't need to fight. Just let me tell you our plans," Iron Man explained raising his mask so we all could see his face.
Cap didn't buy it. I knew. The only reason I knew was because he was going to shake Iron Man's hand, Cap thought ahead and stuck an electron scrambler on his hand ahead of time. "5 minutes," he replied before shaking. Then just as expected Iron man's armor started malfunctioning and Cap punched him. Goliath grew larger. And the fight was on.
My Spider-Man sense went off and I ducked as Spider-Man threw something at me. "Spidey you really think you can pull that on me?" I asked as I shot a webline at him, he dodged it.
"Nope. But I expect this will," Spider-Man replied as he jumped and disappeared.
"...Cap?" I asked.
"That suit's made by Iron Man, it's got a stealth mode in it," he explained.
My spider-sense went off, "Cap duck!" Spidey nearly hit him. Iron Man was back online and flew fast and took Cap with him. "So you sold yourself out for a fancy costume, Pete?" I asked Spider-Man as I shot a webline at him but he dodged it.

"I'm a sellout for making the right decision?" he asked as he punched me in the face.

"The right decision? The right decision for who? Venom? Sandman? Kingpin?" I punched him back. "You painted a giant target on yourself. You're the one who always talked about how keeping your identity a secret was so important!"

"And I realized that it doesn't have to be that way," he attacked me with his mechanical spider legs but I jumped out of the way.

"Yeah, right. How'd Stark brainwash you?" I asked as I tried to kick him several times but he dodged each one.

"You're too young to understand any of this yet Jason. Once you have a family of your own maybe you'll understand," Spidey shot a webline at me, I sidestepped it.

"You're 7 years older than me, it doesn't make a difference," I grabbed a hold of two of his mechanical legs and threw him at Human Torch.

"And that's exactly why you don't stand a chance against me!" Spider-Man declared as he cloaked himself again. He knew turning invisible wasn't going to work on its own. What was his plan? My spider-sense went off again, I ducked but was then met with a kick to the jaw from Spider-Man's invisible foot. He anticipated my move. I closed my eyes and focused my spider-sense to look for Spidey. Where would he attack me from next?

I jumped up as Spidey attempted to tackle me then shot a webline at him and yanked him towards me, kicking his head in the process. "That invisibility trick isn't gonna work on me twice," I told Spidey as he uncloaked himself.

"Guess I underestimated you," he replied as he tried to punch me in the face. I ducked and countered with a punch of my own, he jumped behind me.

I turned and met Spider-Man's punch with a punch of my own. We both hit each other in the face. I kicked my leg out as I fell back in an attempt to kick him in the jaw but missed. Spider-Man shot a load of webbing at me. I backflipped to avoid to getting hit by the webbing and my spider-sense went off again. Thing is this time it wasn't from Spider-Man. He sensed it too. Lightning crashed to the ground and sent everyone flying. I landed hard on the ground next to Dagger and Hulkling.

"What the hell was that?" Hulkling groaned.
We all looked at where it struck and my heart sunk as I saw the God of Thunder standing there, hammer raised. Thor was here and he looked pissed. I wouldn't have worried as much if Mr Fantastic and Yellowjacket weren't so calm. They must have had something to do with Thor's return, meaning the other rebels and I were in trouble.
"Thor what are you doing? It's me man, Falcon," Falcon tried to calm down Thor.
"Where were you? Everyone thought you were dead," Dagger said.
"No Dagger, that will be you," Thor stated before throwing his hammer and knocking down Dagger, Falcon, Daredevil and myself.
"We've gotta get out of here. This is wrong, really wrong," Dagger started to panic.
"You aren't going anywhere," Thor slammed his hammer on the ground and shot lightning bolts at us.
We were all on the ground in pain, we were no match for Thor. Hercules was helping Cap out so we couldn't get any help from him. "That's enough Thor. SHIELD's clean up squad can handle it from here," Mr Fantastic told Thor.
"Somebody switched it off," Hawkeye said.
"Then let's get back into action," I replied.
I turned my attention to Mr Fantastic and started to fight him until I heard it. It was an undescribable sound and when I turned to look I saw the unimaginable. Goliath was shot through the chest by Thor.
"Oh God... No!" I stared wide-eyed.
"Thor killed Goliath," Dagger muttered.
"Fall back! We're getting out of here!" Falcon ordered as he flew by holding Cap who was knocked out.
"No!" I yelled as I lept towards Goliath, except I didn't leap, before I got off the ground Xavin grabbed me and pulled me back to the group. "Thor you bastard!" I struggled to get out of the grip of my friend. Cage punched me in the face and I stopped struggling, partly because I was nearly out cold and partly because Thor shot a lightning bolt at us. We were dead... at least I thought we were. Invisible Woman created a force field around us. She saved us.
"Get out of here," she told us.
"We can't leave the others..." Patriot said reffering to Nico, Goliath and Wiccan.
"We have to..." Cable told him. "Get close, we only get one chance. Cable managed to active Cloak's teleporting powers and get us back to the base.

*Later...* While I was bandaging my bruised ribs(I was trying to figure who to send the "Thank You" card to: Thor or Spider-Man?) Speed ran into the room, "Jason!Cassiesaysshe'sthinkingaboutregistering!WeneedtotalkheroutofitASAP!"

"What? Tommy, slow down. Your words are all coming out at once," I told him.

"Cassie. She's registering," he told me after taking a deep breath. I finished bandaging my ribs hastily and followed Tommy to where Eli, Kate, and Teddy were already talking to Cassie.

"Guys I'm sorry. I don't want to betray you but... it just seems like the right thing to do, you know?" Cassie tried to explain.

"No, we don't know," Eli said coldly.

"They freakin' kidnapped Billy! How in the world would joining them seem like the right thing to do?" Teddy asked furiously.

"It's only because we're not registering that we're getting captured. You're acting like they're the bad guys here. They're not," Cassie continued to defend the registration.

"I can't believe I'm hearing this," I said. "Thor KILLED Goliath! Last I checked the bad guys kill."

Cassie just looked down.

"Just go register. If that's what you wanna do then do it. We're not stopping you," Eli told her.

Cassie started to leave the room and stopped at the doorway looking back at wanted to say so much but there was no easy way to let it all out so she turned and continued out.

"Cassie, wait!" Kate chased after her.

"I can't believe she'd join them after what they did to Billy,"Teddy clenched his fists.

"Well half the people who registered are like family to her one way or another. Like Pym and Wasp," I pointed out. "I don't like it any more than you guys but that's probably why..."

"I can't believe she'd betray us like that," Eli punched the wall.

"This is getting really bad..." Tommy sat down.

Stature, Nighthawk, and Cable left to go register within the next hour. After Cap told us to pack up. We were going to move to a new safehouse. We were at war now. And we got our asses handed to us in the first battle. Then again we were ambushed. Either way our numbers went down and theirs were only going to increase since they started their Initiative. Even if theyt were only training C and D list heroes if Iron Man's side got 100 of them we'd start dropping like flies. I hoped that Cap had a plan. He probably wouldn't be involved in any fights anytime soon though. Iron Man did a number on him.

The next day Human Torch and Invisible Woman joined us. They didn't like that Mr. Fantastic, Iron Man, and Pym cloned Thor. Cap didn't believe it was the real Thor to begin with. Something clearly went wrong with the cloning process because the real Thor wouldn't have killed Goliath. I still couldn't believe it. He just killed him in cold blood. Then he tried killing all of us. How could any of the other heroes still believe in the Registration Act if it led to this. Thank god Invisible Woman saved us.

Molly had spoke since we got back and I was getting worried about her. This was no place for her. If Nico didn't get captured they probably would have left to Canada right away but after this they're just as long and confused as any of us. They can't just leave without Nico but can they afford to stick around? I needed to try talking to them about it. I met with Chase, Victor, Xavin, and Karolina outside of the Leapfrog.

"Guys I think you should go," I started.

"Go? Go where?" Karolina asked. She knew what I meant. She just wanted clearity.

"Canada. Hiding. Somewhere else. Somewhere safe. Look what happened. All of could've been killed by that... that thing!" I elaborated.

"We can't leave Nico behind," Victor pointed out.

"Look. I'll get her out of there even if I have to go into the Negative Zone myself and yank her out. Just leave now. For Molly's sake. She's already traumatized enough. Things aren't getting better any time soon," I explained.

"Yeah, but we're not traumatized. Maybe we wanna fight still," Chase stated.

"Are you kidding me? Molly's just a kid! Think about her! She's not ready for this, she should be as far away from this as possible!" I couldn't believe I was having this argument with them.

"And you think just because you're related to her that you know what's best for her?" Chase shot back.

"Well I'm not stupid. You really think she's ready for this? You're not even ready for this! I'm not even ready for this! There's no way my 13 year old cousin is the least bit ready for this!" I honestly wanted to punch Chase in the face but I held back from doing that.

"STOP!" Molly screamed. She came out of the Leapfrog. "Jason's just looking out for me! He cares about me. I know you guys love me as much as he does and you guys don't like him but he's just trying to help. It's not his fault that he wasn't there when you guys were so don't blame him for that. And Jason I wanna fight. I'm scared and I know I'm not ready but that Thor was a bad guy and we're the good guys so we have to kick his butt and save Nico."

"Molly..." I looked at her. Her heart was in the right place. As much as I didn't like the idea I realized there was no changing their mind. "Okay, but I'm training you Mol."

"Okay, so it's settled then. We stay. We kick butt. We run. Great," Karolina clearified.

It's been a week since the last time I saw Miu and nearly a week since Goliath's death. We started texting more than we talked on the phone because the few conversations we had on the phone were awkward. We both wanted a normal relationship but was that still possible now that I'm on the opposing side of a war. We figured we might as well try and decided to have dinner together and forget about the war.

"WOW! Miu you look... WOW! You're pefect!" I hugged her lifting her off the ground as she closed the front door behind her. She was wearing a yellow dress with a light shade of pink in the middle and she had her hair curled. She looked like an angel.

"You don't look bad yourself," Miu kissed me and smiled as I put her down.

"So what I was the plan for tonight, again? Going back up to your room and then doing it for a few hours, right?" I asked jokingly.

"You've gotta buy me dinner first," she replied flirtaciously. Then she gave me a look that said, "You know I wasn't serious about that, right?" I returned the look with a look of my own that said, "Yeah, I know."

"Okay, let's not waste any time then," I wrapped my arm around Miu and we started walking.

Miu and I had dinner at Olive Garden and actually ended up having a good time. My superhero career practiclly disappeared as we talked about normal things like how her finals went, soccer, movies, plans for the summer. I stopped stressing about the war for once which was definately a plus.

"You're the best boyfriend in the world," Miu told me as we walked down the street together after we left the restaraunt.

"It helps that you're the best girlfriend in the world," I replied.

"I never had a boyfriend who cared for me as much as you do. I mean it isn't even like my other boyfriends were douchebags or anything it's just... you're different," Miu moved closer to me.

"I feel the same way about you. I was only in one other serious relationship before us* but I didn't feel the same way for her. Like... I think the way I felt for I felt for you after just a few days and then this," I told Miu. *= Jason goes out with Kitty Pryde in Parts 1-3 of Aracnor.

"Remember like a month ago, when we first started going out?" Miu asked me, we stopped walking.

"What about it?" I was unsure what she was reffering to.

"When we both said we think we might love each other..." Miu started staring into my eyes. "I love you. I really love you Jason."

"I love you too Miu. I mean it. When I'm around you every problem I have just-"

"Disappears. Like we're the only people in the world," Miu finished my thought. We kissed. Nothing else mattered right now. Just this. Just us. There wasn't a war. No one died. Only Miu, myself, and our love for each other. Perfect.