Hello everyone! Sorry that I haven't been active on fanfic as much as I would've liked to, but I have finally come up with a new chapter for Heroic Homecoming! Once again, this is just a side project mini-series so it won't be anything too grand. Anyways, I really hope you that enjoy this new installment of this story!

As usual, reviews and feedbacks would be greatly appreciated.

Chapter 2: Street-Level Heroics

West Village, Manhattan, New York

Jessica and Carol were walking down the street on a sunny day on the bustling streets of the heart of the city as they were out to go shopping for Jessica's dress for her first homecoming experience. Jessica was still star-struck that she would get to experience something like this because someone had actually cared enough about her beside Carol.

She wanted to make sure that she would look her best for her Homecoming Dance as she and Carol were going to prepare thoroughly for that in a fashionable manner. Jessica couldn't help but to smile as her cheeks flushed red constantly as they were walking in the crowd of busy people.

Carol nudged her best friend on the side as she teased her, "You look like a tomato."

Jessica frowned at her as retorted, "S-shut up!"

Carol laughed out loud as she said to her in a incredulous manner, "I've never seen you like this, Jess! Relax. You're gonna be have a blast at Homecoming!"

Jessica then sulked as she replied, "What if I make a fool of myself?"

Carol put her arm around Jessica's left shoulder as they turned around the corner of a block and said, "You won't. Pete's crazy for you, and you're crazy for him so everything is gonna be just dandy!"

Jessica then looked at her best friend as she smiled and said, "Thanks for doing this for me Carol, it means a lot."

Carol lightly punched Jessica on the shoulder as she said, "Hey. There's a reason why I'm your best friend."

They entered a fancy clothing store called Brunello Cucinelli as they were about to turn another corner.

Inside Brunello Cucinelli

As soon as Carol and Jessica entered the store, they were met with huge selections of high-end clothing line that were imports from Germany to Italy. The clothing brands were so highly sophisticated and famous that it was going to cost way more than just a pretty penny.

Jessica looked at Carol in a concerned manner and said, "I don't know if we should be here. We clearly don't have enough money for this."

Carol patted Jessica on the back and said, "I got you covered."

Jessica then frowned at her and said, "This is not fair."

Carol chuckled as she replied, "Just deal with it."

Jessica retorted, "Come on, Carol. I know that you still might have some good amount of money from Air Force, but I don't want you to pay for the whole thing. Can we split it at least?"

Carol regarded her carefully and said, "Do you have money for it though? It's still gonna be pricey."

Jessica retorted, "Of course I do! I'm not that poor! Although….I'm not proud of where this money comes from."

Carol then looked down as she said almost in a whispering tone, "Hydra."

Jessica didn't say anything as she stood there. Carol then rubbed Jessica's back as she said in a chipper tone, "Hey, it's ok. You're a superhero now and you've found someone else besides me to ground you as an Avenger and a human being. Things are gonna be better for you."

Jessica let out a weak smile as she said, "Thanks."

They walked down a tiny flight of stairs to look through a selection of short red dresses they had. Jessica's favorite color was red. And boy, did it look good on her. She was going rummaging through the clothes as Carol slightly furrowed her eyebrows at Jessica and said, "You do realize that they'll probably have Dress Code for the dance, right?"

Jessica picked out a thigh-high dress with spaghetti straps as she said, "What the hell is a Dress Code?"

Carol palmed her face as he let out a groan.

Jessica twitched her eyes at her and said, "What?"

Carol let out a deep sigh as she said, "I'm so glad that I came with you."

Jessica almost scowled at her best friend as she said, "What's that supposed to mean?"

Carol crossed her arms as she said to her, "I know that you're a specialist in seduction but that's not what the gig requires."

Jessica put the dress over her body as she twirled like a enthusiastic schoolgirl and said in a playful manner, "Peter will like it though."

Carol said in a stern tone, "So will all the all the seniors pent up on testosterone at the school. You do realize that they will literally go goo-goo-ga-ga over you, right?"

Jessica let out a sly smile as she said, "It's ok! I'll just use my fear pheromones on them to make them piss their pants and run home to their mommies!"

Carol snapped, "Jess! That is not funny!"

Jess let out a giggle as she said, "Ok! Ok! Sorry, I was just playing around, you know?"

Carol said, "We're picking a different dress."

Jessica rolled her eyes as she said, "Fine…"

As they were going through lines of expensive and fancy dresses, Jessica blankly asked her friend as she was looking even a shorter dress this time. "So, when did you go to your first homecoming? And what was it like?"

Carol swatted Jessica's hand on the short dress as she gave her a stern look. As Jessica was sulked, Carol giggled and sighed. She then said, "I went to my first homecoming when I was 15 years old, and looking back at it now it was pretty fun. Just dressing up in a fancy dress and going to a dance party with your friends was really memorable at that time, and I also had a hot date: Oh yeah, his name was Jack Johnson…he turned about to be a dickwad by Senior year but the dance was fun."

Jessica giggled as she gave her full attention to her best friend's nostalgic story.

Carol added, " Back then, I didn't have all of these powers. I was just a normal kid from Boston going to school every day and doing just regular girl things like going to the mall, being a cheerleader for your school's football team and going on dates with pretty boys instead of superhero-ing around and punching the crap out of Super Skrulls. I actually had to study for tests back then."

Jess then playfully nudged Carol on the side and said, "You still have tests in a way…"

Carol sighed and then said, "Yeah, but at least it doesn't come up with No.2 Pencils with Scantron Sheets with complicated AP Physics questions. Now my tests are more… "

She clenched her fists as she smirked, "Direct. And I like that."

As they were carefully selecting the garment for Jessica's date with Peter, they came across a young black teenager girl with her mom going through another line of fancy dresses. They overheard bits of their conversation here and there as Jessica said to Carol, "Heh, looks like she's also going to the Homecoming Dance at Peter's high school."

Carol held up a semi-modest looking red dress as she said, "It's that time of the year."

Suddenly then a white, male security guard and a white female employee of the store stood in front of the young girl and her mom. The young female employee said to the mother, "Excuse me, ma'am. Can I help you two with anything?"

The mother replied, "Oh no. We're just looking for a perfect dress for my daughter to wear for her first homecoming."

The female employee almost sneered at the mother and said, "Are you...sure that you're in the right place?"

Carol and Jessica were listening to every bit of the conversation but Jessica was listening more effectively thanks to her super-hearing abilities that were granted from her spider powers. The mother replied in a suspicious manner, "Yes…we're shopping for a dress-"

The employee interjected, "Are you sure that you can afford buying here?"

As she asked that question to her, Jessica subtly took out her Skrull detector on her wrist and guided it forward in front of the verbal fray that was going on and nothing was coming up. Carol said, "Well?"

Jessica was starting to get angry but said in a calm fashion, "No greenies."

The mother replied in an appalled fashion as she said, "What's that supposed to mean?"

The young girl tapped her mother on the shoulder as she said, "Mom, are we in trouble?"

The mother looked at her daughter in her dark brown eyes and said, "No, Katie. We're not. Everything's gonna be ok and we're gonna get you a dress, ok?"

The employee then said to them in a cold stern voice, "You need to leave here."

The mother stood up against the employee and said, "Give me one exact reason why my daughter and I should leave." The employee said to her, "We don't want your kind here in this part of the town."

Then the daughter said to her mother, "Mom, did she just say what I think she said?"

Then the security guard began to search run his hands on the mother's body as he began to search if she stole anything, which she didn't obviously. Then the neck-bearded guard began to shove them and said in a ruffian manner, "Get outta here! You heard the boss! We don't want you here!"

As soon as Carol and Jessica saw the mother and daughter being pushed out of the store, they stepped in front of them and Jess said, "What the hell are you doing? These two didn't do anything wrong!"

Carol added, "Yeah! I mean the girl's going to her first homecoming dance and she's getting her first dress!"

The female employee tried to explain, "Well, they don't belong here."

Carol gave her and icy look and said in a stern voice, "What does that mean? What you mean they don't belong here?"

Jess nodded in agreement as she was blocking the ill mannered security guard who was obviously checking out her boobs. The female employee almost hissed at Carol, "Have you seen what they can do? Last time someone who looked like them came in here, he stole something!"

Carol, Jess, the mother and the young girl were in complete shock as Jess said bluntly, "You're a racist."

The employee pleaded, "Now, now. Let's not get hasty with the 'R' word. I can explain- "

Carol cut her off and scowled at her and said, "Shut up. I need to see your manager."

The employee yelled at the security guard, "Get them black people out of there now!"

As the young woman screamed, the people inside the store began to wonder what the commotion was about as they began to look in the direction of the inappropriate guard and the employee. Carol began to drag her off to find her manager as the employee couldn't do anything against Carol's grip. She looked back at Jess who was giving a deadly, venomous look to the guard.

She sighed and thought to herself, 'Oh boy…that guard's gonna need new pair of underwear soon.'

Jessica began to use her fear pheromone on the guard as the brute man became paralyzed and began to tremble where he stood. Jessica continued go give him a murderous glare at the man and said in a cold, stern voice, "You're gonna leave the woman and that child alone, or I will make sure that you will have nightmares about me for the rest of the year. You got it, pussy?"

By the time she was done, the guard's pants in the crotch area was soaking wet as he ran out of the store. After awhile, Carol managed to find the manager came out and fired the racist employee on sight. And the people were cheering and clapping at her and Jess's heroic deeds.

The young black girl looked at Carol and Jess and said, "You two are my hero."

The mother said to them, "Thank you. We usually don't have many people sticking up for us like that."

Carol said to the mother, "It was nothing. We're just trying to do the right thing you know?"

Then Jess said patted the young black girl on the shoulder and said, "She's right. It doesn't take much to be a hero. All you have to do stand up for yourself, but especially others who need help."

The young girl shook Jess's hand and said, "I'm Katie. Katie Robertson. What's your name?"

Jessica replied happily, "Jessica Drew. I'm a Private Investigator."

The mother then asked Carol with a bright smile, "And…you are?"

The blonde woman shook the mother's hand and said, "Carol Danvers. I'm an Air Force Colonel."

The mother replied excitedly, "Amanda Robertson, nice to meet you both."

Then she looked at Jessica and said, "I don't mean to be rude, but you smelled really funny when you were talking down to that guard."

Carol gave Jess a sharp suspicious look and Jess laughed nervously and said, "Oh ….haha. It-it must've been the bad pizza…probably like expired cheese or something."

Amanda laughed at that and said, "You're funny."

Jess replied, "Most people don't think so, but thanks."

Katie looked up at Jess and Carol and said, "So, what are you two doing here? I'm going to my first ever homecoming and my mom's gonna buy me a dress!"

Amanda chuckled at that and added as she looked at the two heroes, "I don't suppose you're here to do shopping for homecoming?"

Carol said, "Well…..we are….sort of."

Katie and Amanda furrowed their eyebrows a bit and Katie asked, "What do you mean?"

Jess's cheeks blushed beet red as Carol said, "My friend, Jess here is from the UK and she's never been to a homecoming dance before and she got a date with a guy who's willing to take her to her first experience."

Katie perked up and asked, "Oooh, who's the guy? And which high school are you going to?"

Jess was still blushing as she replied, "His name is Peter Parker, and he's taking me to a Homecoming Dance at Midtown High."

Katie almost squealed, "Mr. Parker? He was my biology teacher last year!" She then giggled and added, "He was such a dork, but everyone in the class loved him."

Carol snorted and snickered, "Mr. Parker, that's cute."

Jess also snickered but continued to blush at the same time at time. It was true: Peter was a dork, but he had that charming way of earning people's trust in a light-hearted manner that Jess thought was just so adorable. Not only that, he was probably the bravest man she met, especially considering that he was the one stood up for her when she wasn't able to stand up for herself during dark times.

Katie added, "He and my brother Randy, were buddies when they went to ESU together back in the day. And now Randy's working as a social worker and Mr. Parker's working in Horizon Labs as a scientist."

Jessica smirked at that and said in a joking manner, "What a nerd… going from a science teacher to a working in a lab, heh, typical Pete."

Amanda said to Jess and Carol, "Well, did you two find what you're looking for yet?"

Carol sighed and chuckled, "Not yet. We're still looking for the right dress for Jess though."

Amanda friendly gestured the two women over to them and said, "Shop with us! Why don't we look for some dresses together?"

Jess brightened up and said, "That sounds lovely."

Please let me know and give me feedback about this chapter! And also, the next chapter might be the last one for this story because you know, it's a short series. Also, for those of you wondering when the next chapter for Secrets of Oscorp will be added, it's coming soon. Just you wait...it's gonna be a dandy.

Once again, thanks for all your support!

P.S. the second season for AoS is so much better than the first one. And Zombiecat138 and I have come up with a name for the JessicaXPeter shipping: Spider-Love!