Ch. 169

"Thanks." Gwen smiled.

"Oh look what do we have here?" Tony said as he noticed the old technology on Peter's desk. "Retro tech huh? Thrift store? Salvation army?" He asked.

"The dumpster actually." Peter answered.

"You're a dumpster diver." Tony replied.

"Yeah I was… anyway look, I definitely did not apply for your grant…"

"Ah-ah, me first." Tony interrupted. "Quick question of the rhetorical variety," Tony paused and removed his phone, a small hologram screen shot out of his phone and showed a person in a red and blue costume stopping a car thief. "That's you right?"

"Um… no… what do you mean?" Peter asked.

"Look at you go." Tony said as it switched to a video of the same persons stopping a car from crashing into a bus. "Wow! Nice catch. 3,000 pounds at 40 miles an hour, not easy. You've got mad skills." Tony said as he put his phone down on Peter's desk.

"I could do it." Harry shrugged before he started looking around the room.

"That's all on YouTube though right?" Peter said. "I mean that's where you found that right? You know it's all fake, all done on a computer. It's like that video…"

"Oh you mean like those UFO's over phoenix?" Tony asked just as Harry waved his wand and a small panel from above opened and a rope dropped down with a red and blue costume hanging off the end of it.

"Nope!" Peter quickly grabbed it and tossed it in a box before covering it with his body. "Uh…"

"Kid you're talking to Iron Man, Gwen and Spiderwoman, your smart, use your brain. You know we're only talking about it because we already know." Harry said.

"And you are really not a great liar." Gwen couldn't help but add.

"Oh fine." Peter sighed and walked back to his desk.

"So you're this… Spider-ling?" Tony asked, guessing at his name. "Crime-fighting spider? Spider-boy?"

"Spiderman." Peter corrected.

"Not in that onesie you're not." Tony said as he picked up the costume and began examining it.

"It's not a onesie." Peter said, giving Tony a mild glare.

"Let's ask the judges, guys do you think this is a onesie?" Tony asked as he held up the suit.

"Yep." Gwen nodded just as Harry responded with "most definitely a onesie".

"I can't believe this," Peter sighed. "you know I was actually having a really good day today? Didn't miss my train, this perfectly good DVD player was just sitting there and Algebra test, nailed it."

"So, who else knows about your powers?" Gwen asked.

"Nobody." Peter replied.

"Not even your unusually attractive aunt?" Tony asked, earning a small glare from Gwen and an eye roll from Harry.

"What? No, no… no, no!" Peter said shaking his head. "If she knew then she would freak out and if she freaks out then I freak out." Peter said as he looked down at his desk.

"You know what I think is really cool? This webbing." Tony said as he threw a pellet at Harry who examined it for a second before tossing it to Gwen, once she examined it she tossed it to Peter who caught it without looking. "The tensile strength is off the charts, who manufactured it?" Tony asked.

"I did." Peter said as he tossed it into a box.

"Impressive." Gwen said with more than little surprise in her voice. "if you really did that then I think algebra might be a 'just a little bit' under your level."

"You climb walls, how do you do that?" Harry asked. "Powers or tech?"

"Adhesive gloves?" Tony guessed.

"It's a long story." Peter replied.

"Lordy! Can you even see in these?" Tony said as held up the goggles that were part of Peter's costume and placed them on his eyes. "Oh I'm blind!" Tony said dramatically.

"I can see in those!" Peter said defensively as he took the goggles and costume away and tossed them in the box along with the web pellets. "I can see in those okay. It's just… when whatever happened, happened it's like my sense have been dialled up to 11. There's way too much input so they just help me focus."

"Oh god, that's not fun." Gwen said with a shake of her head. "But you do eventually learn to control it." She added.

"You're in dire need of an upgrade." Tony said with Harry nodding in agreement. "Systemic, top to bottom, hundred-point restoration. That is part of why I'm here. Why are you doing this?" Tony asked as Peter sat down on his bed. "I got to know, what's your M.O? What gets you out of that twin bed in the morning?"

"Because… because I've been me my whole life, and I've had these powers for six months. I read books and build computers, yeah I would love to play football but I couldn't then so I shouldn't now." Peter answered. "when you can do the things that I can and you don't, and then the bad things happen, they happen because of you."

The three Avengers in the room paused and looked at each other, a silent conversation happened between the three of them before they turned back to Peter who shifted in his seat, feeling like he was being judged.

"So you want to help people? Do your part? Be a good person?" Harry asked.

"Uh… yeah, help people." Peter nodded.

"Listen Peter, Harry and Tony are here for me." Gwen spoke. "Tony and Harry were my peaceful way in since we didn't think that you would appreciate it if we just rendered your Aunt unconscious just so that we could talk to you."

"No… I… I definitely would not have appreciated that." Peter said, easily agreeing with that statement. "Thanks, by the way, you know… for not doing that. Also… please never do that….ever."

"You're welcome, now much like you I have spider powers, which is why I want to know if you got your powers from the same place as me." Gwen said. "You seem like a smart kid, so I am sure that you could see the potential danger in letting nearly anyone getting powers. This time it was you, last time it was me, what happens if next time it's a rapist or serial murderer? Do you understand where I am going with this?" She asked.

"I… yeah, yeah I do." Peter said with a small gulp as he thought on what she said. She was right when she implied that it would be very dangerous to just let anyone potentially fall on spider powers, there would be chaos if tons of people started climbing up walls and swinging around the city. Many of them could turn to crime, if they weren't already criminals. Good lord, imagine if Flash Thompson got spider powers. "I… I um… I got them during a trip to Oscorp… or at least I think I did."

"Oscorp." Gwen quietly repeated.

"Oscorp." Gwen quietly repeated.

"Go on." Harry said before he gestured him to continue.

"I… well one day I was on a school trip to Oscorp, at one point I went into this one room by accident. What?" He blinked when he saw the three give him disbelieving stares.

"By accident?" Harry repeated, raising an eyebrow.

"By accident," Peter repeated, though not quite not as convincing as before. "anyway a spider landed on my hand and bit me. The next day I accidentally destroyed an alarm clock and a whole sink."

"Ooh, my first day I destroyed a whole table, a sink and a laptop." Gwen commented with a head shake. "What?" She said when Harry and Tony both raised their eyebrows at her.

.....

"How was your day?" Natasha asked when Harry came back.

"It was alright." Harry said as he sat between Natasha and Sif. "Me and Gwen went to meet the Parker kid."

"How did that go?" Sif asked.

"Well, we've agreed to give him training and we discovered where he got his powers from. Same place as Gwen did." Harry replied just as Padfoot came over and lied down next to Harry's feet. "Hey boy." Harry greeted him.

"Woof." Padfoot greeted him before he lay down and directed his gaze to the TV.

"Me and Gwen are going to go and take a look at Oscorp tomorrow." Harry told them.

"That sounds like fun." Sif replied. "Can I come?" She asked in a hopeful voice.

"Sure." Harry nodded, "I'll ask Gwen first but sure." He said earning a smile and kiss from Sif. Padfoot looked up at Harry and gave him a questioning look. "I'll ask Gwen." Harry told him.

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