Ch 77 Vulture revealed

"I'm guessing Spider-Man is really popular now." Steve.

"Like you have no idea." Peter said.

In Midtown News, Betty and Jason spoke how Midtown High beat the country's best to get the championship as well as death, with other students giving interviews about the experience and Roger saying he couldn't lose a student on a trip again.

Everyone looked at him in sympathy, realizing how that incident had made him care for students even more than before.

Everyone thanked Spider-Man, with the Spider-Mania sweeping the school. Peter walked past the people watching the news with a smile on his face.

"Feels good, doesn't it?" Tony asked.

"Yeah. For now." Peter said.

"Attention isn't always the positive kind." Benjamin sighed.

Peter met Ned, who asked how it felt to be famous when nobody knew him and he found it crazy, though he refused to tell anyone. Ned said they'd be late to class but Peter said he wasn't going. Ned said he was already in trouble for ditching the Decathlon while Peter said the wingset guy was stealing from Damage Control and that's how they'd catch him. Ned said they had a Spanish quiz but Peter said he won't come back here as Mr. Stark was moving upstate.

"That is not up to you!" Aunt May said to Peter.

"I was dreaming high and being delusional, like most teenagers." Benjamin said.

Ned asked if he wanted to be a high school dropout and he said he was beyond high school.

"No one is beyond high school." Hope said.

That was when Principal Morita arrived and told Peter he had detention in his office.

"You screwed up this time, didn't you?" Steve asked and Peter nodded, "All of us do."

Peter was then in detention with two other boys and Michelle as a discipline video of Captain America was shown, saying the kids knew they had done wrong and were just trying to be cool, so they should take it from a guy who has been frozen in ice for 65 years that to be cool you just have to follow the rules.

Everyone laughed as Steve said, "Yeah, this is really embarrassing for me."

"If the principal wasn't Morita's grandkid, you won't even do it." Bucky said.

"Yeah, seems no different from a dancing monkey." Sam agreed.

"It's pretty ironic I'm telling them to follow the rules." Steve said and all laughed again.

Peter got up and walked out while the coach noticed too late.

"Kid, are you asking for suspension or something?" Pepper asked and Peter sighed.

"Teenager." Aunt May sighed.

"Yeah, take it from a guy who lives in a school where teenagers have discovered superpowers, they are your worst nightmare." Logan said.

He asked Michelle why she was there and she said she liked sketching people in crisis, showing him his own sketch and laughing.

"The rebellious phase. Been through that." Hope said.

"Yeah. Me too." Tony said.

Peter later took web fluid and returned home, wearing his suit and asking Karen to help in finding the guys he fought under the bridge. She said she could run facial recognition from footage as she recorded everything she saw, calling it Baby Monitor Protocol.

Everyone chuckled as Scott said, "That is a cute name."

"For a sweet boy's suit's protocol." Natasha said and Peter blushed. The Black Widow of all people had called him sweet. Which everyone except him knew he was.

Peter asked her to roll it back to last Friday and was shown a clip of him in his mask, pretending to tell Liz in front of a mirror as Spider-Man how he was Peter's friend.

Everyone laughed as Peter blushed and Clint said, "Kids do a lot of embarrassing stuff."

Peter told her to go further and this time he was holding a cosplay hammer, posing as Thor.

Everyone laughed as Loki said, "Spot on impression."

"What did you say?" Thor asked.

"Nothing." Loki said.

"Sorry." Peter said to Thor and Odinson.

He asked her to fast forward to the bridge fight and asked about the men. Two of them were not found in records but one of them was identified as Aaron Davis who had a criminal record along with an address in Queens.

"Oh! Aaron!" Benjamin said.

"You know the guy?" Fury asked.

"I know his nephew. He also has Spider-powers." Benjamin revealed to everyone's shock, "His name is Miles Morales. Great kid."

"And what about Aaron?" Hill asked.

"Unfortunately, he became a supervillain called Prowler who me and Miles put into prison all the time." Benjamin said.

"Tough luck." Sam said.

Peter decided to pay him a visit as Karen asked to turn on the Enhanced Interrogation Protocol and he agreed.

"Shouldn't have." Peter said.

Later, Aaron opened the hood of his car only to be webbed to it as Peter arrived, talking in a deep voice, telling him to give him information. It was actually the Enhanced Interrogation Protocol.

Everyone laughed as Logan said, "That thing is making you sound like a Daredevil wannabe."

"Yeah. It's embarrassing." Benjamin said.

Aaron asked what had happened to his voice, saying he had heard him by the bridge and knew what a girl sounded like. Peter said he wasn't a girl but a man.

Everyone laughed as Peter asked, "Do I really sound like a girl?"

Peter asked for names when Aaron simply shut the hood and he backed off, with Aaron realizing he had never done this before so he deactivated interrogation mode.

"Better." Aunt May said.

Peter said the weapons could be dangerous and one of them had cut Delmar's in half, with Aaron knowing the place as both of them discussed the sandwiches.

"Yeah. Those were great." Aunt May said.

Peter told Karen never to the mode again as Aaron said Peter asking the man to shoot him was brave and said he didn't want those weapons in the neighborhood either, saying he had a nephew there.

"Miles?" Peter asked.

"Miles." Benjamin confirmed.

Peter asked about the guy with the wings but Aaron simply said he was a psychopath dressed like a demon but he did know where he was gonna be. He knew someone who was going to deal with him and an overjoyed Peter started walking away, until Aaron pointed out he had not given the location.

"You really are bad at this, aren't you?" Hill asked.

"It's pretty hard to be a pro at this part." Steve said, "Even I can't do it."

Peter came back as Aaron told him he needed to be better at this part of the job.

"He's right." Natasha said.

Peter protested he was intimidating.

Everyone chuckled at that as Peter looked around in shock, "What? I am?"

"And Daredevil can see with his eyes." Odinson joked and laughter increased.

The location was Staten Island Ferry, 11. Peter walked away, saying the web would dissolve in 2 hours. Aaron protested, saying he had ice cream but Peter said he was a criminal who deserved that much.

"Well, that can be intimidating." Tony joked and all chuckled.

Peter later flew to the ferry with Spider wings and hung on the side, activating Reconnaissance mode, with the spider drone flying and finding Herman and Adrian both, though he didn't know Adrian.

"Oh I will soon." Peter said.

A call from Aunt May came but he said he couldn't talk right now and would call back later.

"Sorry." Peter said but Aunt May just shook her head.

The drone also found a guy called Mac Gargan who had an extensive criminal record including homicide.

"Oh no!" Aunt May said.

Karen asked to activate Instant Kill but Peter refused again and asked the drone to scan for a white pickup truck, which it eventually found along with the men and weapons and Peter realized this was perfect as he had the weapons, buyers and sellers in one place.

"Life is never perfect, kid." Thor said.

Then a call came from Tony Stark and Karen picked up in spite of his protests, with Tony asking if he had a sec. Peter said he was at school as Tony complimented him for DC and said his father never given him support and he was trying to break the cycle of shame. Peter said he was in the middle of something and Tony asked not to cut him off when he was complimenting him.

"All this because I never contacted you when I should have." Tony sighed.

Tony was about to say something when a buzzing sound was heard and Peter said he was at band practice, which Tony found odd as he had quit 6 weeks ago but Peter cut the call in spite of Tony's protests.

"And now I'm in trouble." Peter said.

Peter used webbing to snatch one guy's key and jumped down, joking the deal was at 10:30 and they had missed it before wrapping their guns in webbing and pulling them back. He then flipped and kicked a guy away, making him on to the edge.

"You're doing good." Steve complimented.

Peter then dodged Herman's gauntlet and webbed his hand as Herman told Adrian via comms Spider-guy had come. The two men he had thrown tried to get up but he webbed bike and hit them with it, jokingly asking if they were okay and saying it was hard.

Everyone laughed as Clint said, "I think only you should be allowed to talk in fights."

"Yeah. I'll annoy the other guy enough to surrender." Benjamin said and all laughed.

Peter told Herman the other guy was way better with the gauntlet while throwing a web grenade which knocked out the guy behind.

Everyone clapped as Sam said, "Impressive."

Then Adrian arrived, knocking out one guy by bashing his head on the truck and him and Peter looked at each other before FBI arrived, shocking Peter who wondered what they were doing there.

"Oh no!" Pepper said.

"Parker Luck for you." Logan said.

Adrian then emerged in his suit and fired his gun, throwing a car at the FBI as Peter barely pushed them off and he flew up, freeing Herman with the gun and telling him they were getting out. Peter tried to catch Herman but he ran off so he fired a web at Adrian as the FBI fired. Adrian fired his gun as several people almost avoided it.

"Oh no!" Bucky said as everyone tensed.

Peter attached another line to a car to help himself and then leapt up to avoid another shot before attaching another web to Adrian and used it to swing away. Dodging more shots, he leapt back onto the ship and fired a web, struggling with Adrian. He then activated a taser web and Adrian was shocked enough to let the gun go.

Most people sighed in relief.

"Not yet." Benjamin said.

The gun started firing randomly, destroying bits of the ship as Peter wrapped it in webbing. Adrian told him not to mess with things he didn't understand as the gun caused an explosion that slowly started splitting the ship in half, filling it with water while Herman jumped off and escaped with Adrian.

"Shit!" Sam and Rhodes said as all tensed again, worse than before.

Peter asked for an X-Ray of the boat with a target for the strongest points and on getting it, fired web grenades at all of them, slowly managing to stabilize the breaking with all the webbing.

Everyone clapped as Hill said, "Good job."

Peter and Benjamin were tense though. So was Tony.

Karen said he was 98% successful and then he saw he had missed a point. As a man clapped for Spider-Man, the webbing broke apart and the ship started falling apart again, with the people falling and cars being submerged.

"No!" Natasha sighed as the others watched in horror.

A shocked Peter jumped off and grabbed a broken web line before firing another, trying to hold the two halves together with all of his strength.

Those who didn't know the outcome watched with bated breath, praying Peter succeeded as he was good kid trying to do good.

The ship suddenly started rejoining itself as Peter jumped back down, wondering what had happened. It was Iron Man, pushing the halves back together, with several mini-thrusters joining him. He greeted Spider-Man as the man clapped for him and applause broke out.

"Now that sucks for you." Logan said to Benjamin.

Peter swung around as Tony used his lasers to weld the ship's halves together. As Tony flew up, Peter asked if he could help but Tony said he had done enough. At Adrian's lair, he said he was now he was on Iron Man's radar and asked Mason to get the high-altitude seal, which Mason said Adrian wouldn't regret.

"That's not good." Fury said.

"Nope." Bruce agreed.

Peter was sitting alone when Tony flew by, mocking him by saying 'Last time on Peter screws the pooch.' He said he had told him to stay away and instead he had hacked multibillion dollar suit to sneak behind his back.

"Because I didn't put the security properly!" Tony said, knowing this time he was gonna get a reality check for his treatment of Peter.

Peter asked if everyone was okay and Tony said no thanks to him.

"So….you have never messed up?" Logan asked Tony who sighed.

Peter got up and said the weapons were out there and he had tried to tell him but he hadn't listened. None of this would have happened if he had just listened to him. The suit opened and Tony walked out, saying he had listen and called the FBI and saying he was the only one who had believed in him while everyone else said he was crazy to recruit a 14-year old.

"What are you talking about?" Rhodes asked, "We never knew you recruited a kid."

"So…..you lied right there?" Peter asked but got no answer, which was answer enough.

Peter said he was 15 but Tony told him to zip it as the adult was talking, asking if somebody had died and that'd be on him. "And if you died….I feel like that's on me. I don't need that on my conscience." Tony said.

"I get that you do care for him. But your treatment of Peter is unacceptable here." Steve told Tony who winced in shame.

"We didn't ask you to recruit him and give him military grade weapons. You did that." May said.

"You said you had called the FBI." Fury said, "But you never contacted the kid after dumping him on Happy. Only twice. So you never kept him in the loop. If you talked to him just once a month, this would have been avoided, Stark."

"Peter is not blameless as he did look into stuff that shouldn't have been his concern. But you are not blameless either." Hill told Tony.

"This wasn't working out….because I ignored you kid." Tony said to Peter in shame.

"Let the scene end first." Logan said.

Peter apologized but Tony said sorry didn't cut it. Peter said he had wanted to be like him and Tony said he had wanted him to be better. It wasn't working out so he'd need the suit back forever. Peter begged him to not take it away saying, "I'm nothing without this suit." Tony said, "If you're nothing without this suit, then you shouldn't have it."

"If that's how you treat him, he's better off without it." Fury said.

"I get the lesson you're trying to teach but your way and reasons are way off." Clint told Tony.

Tony said he sounded like his dad.

"Much worse." Tony said, now seeing for himself how bad his treatment of Peter was.

Peter said he didn't have any other clothes and Tony said they'd sort it out.

"So….you're the one that sorted it out?" May asked Tony as she pressed her hand into a fist while he paled.

"Y…yes." Tony paled.

"You made him dumpster dive again after mocking him for that!" May said angrily while Tony looked down in shame, "Couldn't you have bought him clothes?"

Tony didn't answer, knowing there was no defense for this.

"I get you were upset after the breaking of the Avengers and all that but you shouldn't have treated Peter the way you did." Pepper said.

"I'm sorry kid." Tony simply said to Peter and Benjamin both, "Both of you. You didn't deserve to be treated like that. You messed up yes. But so did I."

Peter didn't answer at all, feeling a bit angry at Stark now for his behavior, now himself realizing how he was way off base there. Benjamin simply nodded as he was a more mature man and they continued the recording.

Peter returned home in clothes he had gotten from dumpster diving. May opened it, looking furious. As Peter sat down, she said she had called all day and he hadn't answered which was unacceptable. She had called 5 police stations, 5 of his friends and Ned's mother. Peter said he was fine but May told him to cut the bullshit, saying she knew he had left detention as well as his hotel room in Washington and that he snuck out of house every night and it wasn't fine.

Everyone watched the scene, feeling a lot of emotions due to the emotional scene.

She asked Peter to lay it out and he said he had lost the Stark Internship, equating it to losing the suit. He said he had thought he could work too hard but screwed up. She hugged him to comfort him as he apologized for making her worry. May said she used to sneak out too and sniffed him, telling him to take a shower as he smelt like garbage.

Peter looked like he was about to cry from all the emotions and May hugged him for comfort as he hugged back.

Next day, Peter was in front of Morita who told him he was a good and smart kid and should keep his head straight, to which he nodded and then got out. Ned asked if he was expelled and going to the school with the crossbow principal while Peter said it was an urban myth.

"Yeah. We got a lot of those." Bucky said as the mood lightened a bit.

Peter later sat in detention as Michelle drew a picture of him and laughed.

"Okay. I wasn't that bad." Hope said.

"Trust me, I was really shocked when she started behaving like a normal person." Benjamin said.

Peter later gave a correct answer in Spanish class and finished the Death Star LEGO with Ned as they did the teenager handshake and fist bump.

This time everyone smiled at the sweetness of the scene due to Peter's condition.

As Peter was walking, he found Liz in the way and said she had calculus 5th period to which she said she was doing Homecoming stuff. Peter apologized for the Decathlon but she said it was most important last week and then she had almost died. He said it wasn't cool and then confessed to liking her, which she knew to his shock and said he was terrible at keeping secrets.

Everyone laughed as Vision, "That is ironic."

Peter then stuttered, saying they should hang out and all that.

"Don't worry kid. You're better than me." Steve told him.

He said she'd already have a date for homecoming but she said she was so busy planning it she had never gotten around to that part. He asked if she'd like to go with him and she agreed, with both agreeing it was cool.

"Congratulations." Wanda smiled, amused by his awkwardness which was really sweet.

"T-Thanks." Peter blushed.

"First time Parker Luck got good." Benjamin said.

Peter backed a bit before saying he was going the other way and the two walked past each other, now seeming happy.

"Good for you, kid." Scott said.

Peter returned home and told May he needed her help. Later, they picked a party suit for Peter as he wiped his shoe with cloth. May then kept down a corsage while Peter opened a deodorant but it was empty. He later watched a video with May, learning to tie the Windsor knot while May also did the movements. He managed to do it and she complimented him. He was later in a suit as the two danced a bit to music.

"You are awesome, you know that?" Hope told May who smiled.

Later, May drove Peter in front of Liz's house and asked about his plan. He said he'd open the door for her, tell her she looked nice but not too much as it'd be creepy, to which she agreed and when he'd dance with her, he'd put his hands on her hips so he'd got this.

"More than Steve ever did." Bucky said and all laughed while Steve sighed in embarrassment.

He walked out and the two kissed each other's cheek as May drove away. He knocked on the door and someone opened it. He was shocked to see that someone was Adrian.

"Wait what?" Sam asked in shock as everyone else was also shocked.

"Is he….?" Natasha trailed off, easily connecting the pieces, which wasn't hard for anyone.

Adrian said he must be Peter and said he was Liz's dad.

"Twist of the century." Tony joked for the first time since the boat scene and all agreed.

"Yeah. One hell of a twist." Fury said.

"And I thought Vader being Luke's dad was a twist." Benjamin joked to lighten the mood but it was too tense now.

"I don't think you have this now." Bucky said.

"Nope." Peter said.

The two shook hands as Adrian complimented Peter's grip and led him in, where Liz's mom said he looked handsome. She went to get Liz as Adrian asked why he was so pale.

"Because he's standing in the same room as a criminal." Hill said.

Adrian asked if Peter would like something to drink but Peter said he wasn't old enough to drink, which was the right answer. And then Liz arrived in her dress, with Adrian saying she looked beautiful. Peter said she looked really good and Adrian said it was the right answer again. Peter gave Liz the corsage as Adrian said he'd be the chauffer but Liz's mom wanted to take pictures and asked Peter to smile. He smiled as best as he could while the pictures were taken.

"No one's gonna smile under those conditions." Wanda said.

Peter said Adrian didn't need to come but Adrian said he was going out of town so he'd drop them while his wife said he always came and went.

"Because of his criminal dealings." Loki said.

Adrian kissed his wife goodbye as they all walked out and later Peter was in the car with Liz as Adrian drove, asking Peter what he'd do. He was startled but calmed down when Adrian asked after graduation and he said he didn't know. Liz asked Adrian not to grill Peter as Adrian said kids going to Midtown High had their lives planned out. Peter said he was a sophomore and Liz said he had an internship with Stark.

"Bad idea." Logan said.

Peter said he didn't intern for him anymore as it got boring, shocking Liz as he got to hang out with Spider-Man.

"If there's one thing Tony isn't, it's boring." Pepper said and all chuckled.

Adrian asked how he was and Peter said he was nice as Liz showed him a photo which he found cute. As they stopped due to traffic lights, Adrian asked if he had seen Peter somewhere due to recognizing the voice and Liz said Peter had done the Academic Decathlon with her and was at the party. Peter said it was a great party with lots of windows but Liz said he'd been there for 2 seconds and disappeared, like at DC. Adrian said the event in DC was terrible and that Peter would have been glad when he showed up. Peter said he had watched it from the ground as he wasn't in the elevator. "Good old Spider-Man." Adrian said as the green light glowed on his face.

"Uh-oh. He has it figured out." Scott said.

"Which is really bad." Thor said.

Liz told him about the light and he drove again, reaching the school as she kissed him and he joked he'd give Peter the 'dad' talk. She told Peter not to be intimidated and walked out, greeting her friends.

"More like the 'bad guy' talk." Odinson said.

Adrian took out a gun and hid it from Peter's view, asking if Liz knew. When Peter asked what, Adrian realized she didn't and said he admired that because he had secrets of his own. He said nothing was more important to him than family and told Peter he had saved his daughter's life which he'd never forget so he'd give him one chance. He'd walk through the door, pretend none of this happened, and never interfere in his work or he'd kill him and his family to protect his.

Everyone watched, tense. This was one of the tensest moments any of them had seen, which said a lot. They were unable to even comment.

Adrian said he'd just saved his life so Peter thanked him. He told Peter to go in there and show his daughter a good time, not too good though. Peter got out, looking conflicted as Adrian drove off.

"What'll you do now." Wanda asked.

"Just watch." Peter asked.

Peter walked in as Ned waved to him and Michelle gave him the finger.

"What's wrong with her?" Scott wondered.

He walked in and told Liz, to her shock, that he was going, and that she deserved better. With that, he ran off, leaving her behind.

"That took courage." Steve complimented Peter as all looked at him in sympathy, "You are a good kid. You got heart."

"T-Thank you." Peter said as humbly as he could.

Peter ran off, throwing away his clothes and getting his homemade suit. As he ran out, a gauntlet knocked him down and it was Herman, telling him he had chosen wrong.

"And this guy is here." Fury sighed as all paled.

Peter realized his web shooters were thrown away and tried to run to them but Herman knocked a bus into him, knocking him into another. He got up as Herman knocked him into another.

Everyone cringed at the painful scene as Aunt May grasped Peter's hand tightly.

Herman then knocked that bus down and Peter fell out of shattered glass. Before Herman could finish him, a web wrapped on his hand. It was Ned.

Everyone clapped as Hope said, "Go kid!"

Peter complimented his shot and taking the shooter, webbed Herman to a bus.

"And he's dealt with." Tony said.

Peter told Ned the guy with the wings was Liz's dad, shocking him and said he needed to tell Tony, asking Ned to call Happy and get a computer to track his phone. Ned asked if he'd 'e okay and Peter said they needed to catch him before he left town and swung away.

"Well kid, now you're gonna go to a fight." Sam said.

"Yeah. Big fight." Peter said, "And he wouldn't hold back like you guys did."

"Nope." Benjamin said.

"Good luck." Wanda said and he smiled and nodded in appreciation.

"Let's continue." Logan said.