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Peter later wakes up to feel the container has stopped moving.
"Ow, that hurt." Peter comments.
"You appear to have a mild concussion." The A.I. That Peter almost forgot existed informs him.
"Okay, where are we now?" Peter asks her.
"I'm not sure. The container walls are hindering my sensors." The A.I. tells him.
"Okay, outcome 1, they hijaked the truck and we are now at their base. Outcome 2, we are wherever the container was supposed to be going." Peter tells himself. "Only one way to find out." He says while charging at the doors and busting them open.
He looks around and sees hundreds of containers like the one he busted out of.
"What? Where are we?" Peter now asks.
"The most secure facility on the eastern seaboard. The Damage Control deep storage vault." The A.I. explains and now Peter sees he's in trouble.
Peter does his best to try and pry the doors open with his strength but he knows it's going to take more than that to open them.
"The doors will most likely remain close under morning." She informs Peter.
"Just perfect." Peter says and knows he's gonna need to find a way to get out before then.
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Peter decides to start going through the containers to find something that'll help him get out faster.
"Hey, suit lady, I feel bad calling you suit lady. Don't you have a name?" Peter wonders.
"You haven't assigned me one yet." She informs Peter.
"Oh, so I can call you something like..Gwen?" Peter asks but then hears himself. "God, no. Not Gwen, that's too many bad memories. What about Karen?"
"You can call me Karen if you would like." She tells him.
"So, Karen, what else can this suit do?" Peter asks when wings come visible under his arms. "You know, while we're here, maybe we should run that refresher course." Peter says and exits the container to see what Stark gave him.
"Ricochet web." Karen says and Peter fires it to spring off the wall and onto a container.
"Splitter web." Karen tells him and Peter shoots it and that's what she used against the Vulture guy when it spliced on him.
"Web grenade." She says and Peter tosses it at the wall, causing it to explode.
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Later, Peter is just laying down on a container and wondering about what his friend and sister say about Liz.
"Should I ask Liz out?" Peter asks his A.I.
"Who's liz?" Karen asks.
"She's...she's just this girl in my class. Everyone I know says I should ask her out, but I don't know if I should." Peter says. "I mean, I don't have that good experience with girls. My last girlfriend was murdered by a psycho. And I don't even think I like her. My friends just think I need to give it a shot." Peter explains to his A.I.
"Well, I believe that your friends might be right. Getting out of your head is sometimes not a bad thing." Karen tells him.
"Yeah, but what if she's not right for me? I mean, I kinda like someone else. But I don't really think she's interested in me. Or anyone for that matter." Peter admits, thinking of Michelle. Yeah, he's always felt something between him and her, but he knows she isn't interested in anyone. Especially someone like him.
"Well, you're a S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist. Maybe some experimenting might work before asking the girl you like out." Karen tells him.
"You know, that's good advice." Peter admits, but shouldn't expect anything less from an artificial intelligence made by Tony Stark. But relationship advice isn't exactly what he would expect from him. Especially good advice.
"Hey, how long have we been here?" Peter wonders
"37 minuets." Karen informs him.
"What?!" Peter asks, completely annoyed and a bit frustrated at time. "I cannot take this anymore. There's gotta be something that can help me get out of here." He states before leaping inside the container and opens the bag Vulture had.
He looks and finds some sphere thing that must've came from the Dark Elves ship.
"That's useless." Peter says as he keeps searching and finds an Ultron head. "Man, I wish I was there to fight you." He tells the head and he searches and finds a second power core.
"Hey, it's like the energy core we have." Peter says looking over it.
"That energy core is an explosive Chitauri energy core." Karen informs him.
"Wait, you're saying it's a bomb?!" Peter asks, wondering how he didn't notice that over the years of collecting them for S.H.I.E.L.D. after the invasion. Yet again, they never told him what they were.
"It would require radiation to transform it into an explosive state." Karen informs Peter which calms him down a bit. Until he remembers that they're visiting the Washington monument and they have X-rays. Time to start panicking.
Peter webs himself at the doors and finds the lock.
"Karen, help me override this time lock." Peter says and knows this is going to take him a while.
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In the morning at the hotel, Ava and Ned are starting to get concerned about Peter now that they have to get to the decathlon's and they thought he'd be back by now.
"Come on, we gotta get going and either come up with an excuse why he isn't here, or pray he runs here fast." Ava tells Ned the plan and he grabs the core as they get ready to leave.
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Peter was able to get the doors open and hitches a ride on the leaving trucks and hopes he's not too late.
"Karen, get me to decathlon as fast as possible." Peter tells her.
"Sure thing. Just tell me where it is." Karen replies.
"Across the street from the Washington monument." Peter informs her and hopes that they're doing okay at the decathlon.
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At the decathlon, they're doing perfectly well and have went into sudden death when Michelle gave them the correct answer, winning them the decathlon.
That's when they start heading to the monument.
"We won. Told you we didn't need Parker." Flash tells them as they head towards the monument.
"Flash, you didn't answer a single question." Ava informs him.
"Taking it all in, Michelle?" Mr. Harrington asks as she's still got her head in a book.
"Oh, yeah. It's just I don't want to celebrate something that was built by slaves." Michelle states.
"Oh, I'm sure the Washington monument wasn't built by..." Harrington was saying when the guard corrects him that she's right. "Okay. Enjoy your book." He says before joining the rest of the group as they enter the monument.
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Peter is just a few blocks away when his phone starts ringing and he sees it's Ava.
"Oh, thank god. Ava, you're okay." Peter exclaims into the phone.
"Yeah. I'm fine. What's up with you?" Ava asks, never hearing Peter this anxious, or nervous.
"Where's the power core?" Peter asks her.
"Ned has it. It's safe. Oh, by the way, if anyone asks, you had a stomach bug." Ava informs him on the cover story when Liz's voice comes in.
"Peter, is that you?" Liz asks.
"Oh, hey Liz." Peter replies.
"Is that Liz?" Karen asks. "You should tell her how you feel."
"Please put Ava back on the phone." Peter asks of her.
"You flake. You are lucky we won. You know, I want to be mad, but I'm more worried. Like, what is going on with you?" Liz asks.
"Liz, please put Ava back on the phone!" Peter asks when she apparently hangs up. "I gotta get there." He says and starts running as he's down the street from the monument now.
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In the monument, the core goes through the x-ray, activating it.
"Hey, mr. Harrington, can I be the one to tell Peter he's expelled?" Flash asks as they go up the elevator.
"The Washington monument is 555 feet, five and one-eighth inches tall." The guide inside says, uninterested while Ava and Ned are in the back and Ava watches as his backpack starts glowing.
"That doesn't look good." Ava whispers and sees its gone from purple to blue.
"Notice how the marble and granite are cut around the stone." The guide keeps saying when the core erupted and destroyed the elevator.
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Peter makes it to the ground and sees the eruption from the ground.
"No, no, no. Karen, what's going on up there?" Peter asks as he makes it and passes Michelle.
"The Chitauri core had detonated, it's caused severe structural damage to the elevator." Karen informs him.
"My friends are up there." Michelle says.
"What? Don't worry, ma'am. Everything's gonna be okay." Peter promises and tries his best to disguise his voice (remembering how easy Gwen was able to tell who he was). He runs and starts crawling up the side of the monument.
"Estimating ten minutes before catastrophic failure." Karen informs him as he climbs up as fast as he can. "The safety systems are completely failing. The occupants are in imminent mortal danger."
"For the love of-I'm going as fast as I can! Tell me some good news." Peter says, getting sick of the bad news today.
"None of the occupants are injured." Karen says.
"I didn't mean it literally!" Peter says as he keeps climbing.
"You now have 125 seconds until failure." Karen says.
"What?! Why?" Peter asks and he sees they're moving everyone out of the elevator.
"Unexpected motion has caused the deterioration to escalate." Karen explains.
"Well, how can I even get in there?" Peter asks.
"Activating reconnaissance drone." Karen says when his symbol comes off and a small spider drone comes off.
"Has that been There this whole time? That's awesome." Peter says as the drone files off and now he sees what it sees.
"Locating optimal entry point. Proceed to southwest window. Karen tells him.
"All right, I'm on my way." Peter says and continues to climb up.
Once he reached the window, Peter stops and accidentally looks down.
"What's wrong? You've reached the southwest window." Karen tells him. "Why are you hesitating?"
"Yeah, I just haven't been this high up in a while. I kinda got used to ground level." Peter explains.
"You have also not reinstalled your parachute so a fall from this height would most likely be lethal." Karen reminds him.
"Thanks for the more bad news, Karen." Peter says and now needs to find a way to get inside the window. "Okay... Four inch ballistic glass is what they made this thing out of. So I'm gonna need to create momentum." He tells himself while using a web to lower himself and starts to swing himself into the window when he turns to see a helicopter approaching.
"This is D.C. metro police. Identity yourself." Someone inside tells him. "Return to the ground, immediately!"
"Yeah, like I'm gonna do that." Peter says before getting an idea. It's a stupid idea, but his friends and family are in there. He starts climbing up higher the monument until he reaches the top and he looks back at the helicopter.
"I'm gonna die." Peter states before leaping into the air above the helicopter and uses his wings to glide before webbing underneath the helicopter and swings towards the monument.
"Break!" Peter prays as he comes in at the last second as the elevator begins to fall and Peter shoots a ricochet web and it bounces off of the top of the elevator before repacking the elevator itself and Peter uses his legs to keep himself up.
"I did it!" Peter realizes, kinda amazing himself for a minute before the doors break off and he falls in as the elevator begins falling again and he shoots a web to the ceiling and catches them.
Peter then looks to see Liz, Ned, Harrington, Ava and a few others were the last ones in.
"Hey. How you doing?" Peter asks while messing his voice so he doesn't sound like himself. "Don't worry. I got you." He assures them and starts pulling them back upwards.
"Yes!" Ned starts cheering.
"Hey, Hey, hey. Big guy, quit moving around." Peter tells Ned since the movement is weakening his webbing.
"Sorry, sir. So sorry." Ned apologized as Peter reaches the top.
"All right. This is your stop." Peter tells them as Ava helps get everyone out.
Everyone gets out, leaving Liz left when the roof to the elevator gives way and she starts falling before Peter shoots out a web and catches her. While in doing so, getting some bad flashbacks to a familiar situation.
But he wasn't going to fail someone the same way twice.
He pulls Liz back up and everyone helps get her back on ground.
"Is everyone okay?" Peter asks Ava, but makes it seem like he was asking everyone.
"This is your chance, Peter." Karen tells him. "Kiss her." She encourages him when the web holding himself up breaks this time and he falls down the shaft.
"Thank you." Harrington tells him as he falls.
As Peter falls, he distinctly hears Flash ask, "Are you really friends with Peter Parker?"
But he decides not to answer, considering it's for the best.
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Back in New York and the Vulture's hideout, they don't have anything new to make because of what Peter did.
"Eight years, not a word from the fess, Nothing from those Halloween-costume-wearing bozos up in Stark tower." Toomes recaps. "And then all of a sudden, this little bastard in red tights shows up. And he thinks he can tear down everything I've built. I'm gonna kill him. I'm gonna find him.."
"Found him." Shocker says and Toomes looks and sees a news report about Spider-Man saving the decathlon team from Queens.
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They all return to Queens where Ava and Peter are met by Coulson who saw the news and rushed back to make sure they're okay. As soon as he reaches his kids, he engulfed the two of them into a hug.
The next day, the entire school has gotten into Spider spirit.
"This past weekend, Midtown's academic decathlon team defeated the country's best to win the national championship. Later that day, they also cheated death." Jason on the school news says.
"Explosion. Sally scream. Flash scream. Everybody screaming." One of the members of the decathlon tells them.
"There were purple lasers and smoke. It was F* tight, like a Bon Jovi concert." Another says.
"As you know, we made it out alive, and that's The important thing. I couldn't bear to lose a student on a school trip. Not again." Harrington says.
"Thankfully, no one was seriously injured thanks to the Spider-Man." Jason says. "Up next; the Spider-Man mania is sweeping the school. How can you show your Spider spirit?"
Peter and Ava walk through the halls hearing it on the televisions.
"Hey, sorry if I left you out or anything." Peter apologized to Ava.
"What, climbing up the Washington monument, swinging through the air, smashing glass, and about a dozen other things I don't care for?" Ava recaps for him. "You could've done it a dozen times, and I still wouldn't be jealous." She assures him.
"Good." Peter replies when they run into Ned.
"Dude, what is it like being famous when nobody knows its you?" Ned asks Peter.
"Eh, I'm used to it. I stoped several nuclear wars, one terrorist attacking, and a few other things and I never got appreciated for those things." Peter informs him.
"Speak for yourself. You were known all over S.H.I.E.L.D." Ava reminds him.
"Should we tell everyone?" Ned asks them.
"What, no." Peter tells his friend.
"Should I tell everyone?" Ned asks.
"Ned, that's not the best idea." Ava explains to him.
"Come on, we gotta get to class." Ned says and they start to head to class.
"Did you learn anything there?" Ava asks Peter since they didn't have time to talk in private yet.
"It seems that this wingsuit guy is stealing his tech from Damage Control. And what he takes from Damage Control, that's what he uses to build his weapons." Peter explains to her. "So all we really need to do is find out where he builds them." He tells her the plan.
"How do you plan on doing that?" Ava asks and Peter knows who to ask for help.
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After school, Peter and Ava return home where Peter connects his mask to their computer system and Peter pulls up Karen.
"Karen, you there?" Peter asks.
"Hey, Peter. How was your Spanish quiz?" Karen asks and Ava is shocked by this feature.
"Okay, I'm officially jealous." Ava admits.
"Listen, I was wondering if you can help me. I'm trying to figure out who the guys were under the bridge the other night, but I only got a good look at part of the license plate." Peter tells her.
"I can run facial recognition on the footage of tha encounter." Karen offers.
"Footage?" Peter asks, shocked to hear everything he's been doing has been recorded.
"It's called the Baby-Monitor Protocol." Karen informs Peter and he slams his face on the table as Ava chuckles.
"Yeah, of course it is." Peter says, not surprised by this point. "Okay, roll it back to last Friday evening, the arms deal." He tells the computer.
They watch the footage fast forward and sees what Peter was seeing.
"Those two guys on the right, who are they?" Ava asks.
"Searching law enforcement databases. No records found for two of the individuals, ms. Ayala." Karen tells her. "But the one individual identified. Aaron Davis, age 33. He has a criminal record and an address here in Queens."
"Then let's pay him a visit." Peter says and takes off his clothes where his Spider-Man suit is underneath.
"Would you like me to activate the Enhanced Interrogation Protocol?" Karen asks.
"Yeah, sure. Why not?" Peter supposes and wonders what that's like.
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