Ferry brave
Aaron was doing some shopping and was returning to his car when Dronie flies behind him and the lights all spark off leaving only the one above him. Ava dressed as White Tiger and Peter come down dressed as Spider-Man and webs Aaron's hand to his trunk ready for the interrogation.
"Remember me?" Peter asks in his Interrogation voice.
"Hey-" Aaron was gonna say before he backed off into Ava.
"We need information and you're gonna give it to us NOW." Peter states to him.
"What happened to your voice?" Aaron asks.
"What do you mean, what happened to my voice?" Peter asks.
"I heard you under the bridge. I know what a girl sounds like." Aaron explains and Ava just bursts out laughing at that.
"I'm not a girl, I'm a guy!" Peter informs him.
"I don't care what you are, boy, girl." Aaron replies.
"Come on, man! Who's selling these weapons? We need to know. So you either give us some names, or else." Peter tries threatening when he slams his trunk and Ava steps back in surprise.
"You two ain't done this before, have you?" Aaron asks them.
"He's done it a couple of times." Ava corrects him since Peter didn't move.
"For the love of...Deactivate Interrogation Mode." Peter says and Dronie flies back onto Peter's chest symbol.
"Look, man. These guys are selling weapons that are crazy dangerous." Ava informs him. "They can't just be allowed on the streets like this."
"She's right, if one of the can cut Delmar's Dogega in half-" Peter was saying while Aaron wasn't really paying attention.
"You know Delmar's?" Aaron asks him.
"Yeah, best sandwich in Queens." Peter replies.
"Sub Haven's pretty good." Aaron informs him.
"Nah, it's too much bread." Ava states, getting in on the conversation.
"I like bread." Aaron turns around to tell her.
"Come on, man." Peter now starts begging knowing he doesn't have the weapons or the need to actually threaten him like he used to in his S.H.I.E.L.D. days.
Seeing they're getting nowhere with him, they start leaving.
"Stupid Interrogation Mode. Karen, never ask that again." Peter tells his A.I.
"The other night, you told that dude, if you shoot somebody, shoot me." Aaron remembers and the two heroes stop to look at him. "That's pretty ballsy. I don't want those weapons in this neighborhood. I got a nephew who live here."
"Who are these guys?" Peter asks him. "What can you tell us about the guy with the wings?"
"Other than he's a psychopath dressed as a demon, nothing. I don't know who he is or where he is." Aaron tells them. "But I do know where he's gonna be. This crazy dude I used to work with...he's supposed to be doing a deal with him." He informs them and they know they can use that.
"Where's the deal taking place?" Ava asks.
"Staten island ferry, at 11." Aaron informs the two of them.
"That's in half an hour." Peter states.
"Great, thanks." Ava says and they start leaving.
"Oh, that's gonna dissolve in two hours." Peter tells Aaron, referring to the webbing on his hand.
"No, no, no. Come fix this." Aaron tells him.
"Two hours. You deserve that." Ava replies as they keep walking.
"Come on, guys, I've got ice cream in here." Aaron informs them but they just keep walking.
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The two of them make it just as the ferry was leaving the station and Ava leaps onto the top of the ferry as Peter crawls around to find them.
"Okay, Karen, activate Enhanced Reconnaissance Mode." Peter tells his A.I.
"He's up front, main deck." One of the members say and Peter can see the back of the head of someone. "I hate this guy."
"That's the guy who was with the other guy with that weird shocker thing and from the school." Peter remembers. "Who's the other guy?"
"There's no record of him in my criminal database." Karen informs him.
"Ava, one of the guys are heading your way." Peter informs his partner.
"Copy that. I'll keep on him." Ava promises.
"Dronie, keep an eye on this guy. We don't want anyone slipping away on us." Peter tells his drone as it starts to fly away and keeps his camera on the guy.
Ava is at the back of the ferry and her scanners start looking at the new guys. Before leaving, Peter updated Ava's mask so now she can talk to Karen as well.
"Who's that new guy, Karen?" Ava asks as she scans his face.
"Mac Gargan. Extensive criminal record, including homicide." Karen informs her as Peter reaches them.
They watch as the Shocker comes back and meets them.
"White pickup truck." He tells Mac and one of his crew go looking for it.
"Dronie, scan the ship for a white pickup truck." Peter tells his drone and he flies off and finds the truck and after scanning it, they see it's filled with alien technology.
"Okay, we have the dealers, the sellers, and weapons all in one place." Ava states and looks to Peter. "This is Christmas for S.H.I.E.L.D. agents."
"Then we are gonna be having a holly jolly holiday." Peter states and they get ready to engage when...
"Incoming call from Tony Stark." Karen informs them.
"What?" They both ask, not knowing why on earth he would be calling them.
"Don't answer that." Peter tells his A.I. but it was too late.
"Mr. Parker. Got a sec?" Tony asks.
"Uh, me and Ava are in the middle of something right now." Peter tells him.
"Nice work in D.C. my dad never really gave me a lot of support and I'm just trying to break the cycle of shame." Tony tells him.
"Tony, can we call you back?" Ava asks.
"Don't cut me off when I'm complimenting the two of you. Anyway, great are about to-" Tony was saying when the ferry horn goes off. "What was that?"
"We're at the ferry. We're in the middle of a superhero thing right now." Peter tries to explain quickly.
"Really? What's going on?" Tony asks.
"Look, we gotta go. End call." Peter tells Karen and Tony vanishes from their screens just in time for Peter to web the keys to the truck away from them.
After that, Ava and Peter leap down, ready to relive their glory days of agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
"Hey, fellas." Ava greets them. "The illegal weapons ferry was at 10:30." She informs them.
Peter webs two of them and pulls them at each other as Ava dodges a swing from Shocker and takes the web grenade that Peter gave her and uses it to keep him stuck.
"In all honestly, I was expecting a better fight." Ava states. "But I guess it just proves just how good we are."
"I gotta say, the other guy was way better with that glove." Peter says as Dronie comes back and places himself back on his chest and he replaces his web canister.
One more guy comes charging at them from down the car parking.
"You wanna take him, or me?" Ava asks Peter.
"Wait for it..." Peter says when a trip mine goes off and traps the guy.
They look further down and finally come face to face with the winged menace and were about to take him down when Peter senses go off and they're suddenly surrounded.
"Freeze! FBI!" Several of them say.
"What the heck? FBI?" Ava asks, wondering what they're doing here.
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation." Karen informs them.
"We know what it means, but what are they doing here?" Peter asks when the wings come out of the truck and the man is holding a weapon and starts flying at them and starts firing.
"Why doesn't anyone listen to us?" Ava asks as Tooms flies and throws a car at them but they move out of the way.
Toomes fires and frees Shocker.
"Get to the top deck. We're getting out of here." Toomes tells him.
Peter shoots a web to stop Shocker, but Toomes' blast vaporizes the web and he starts escaping. Peter shoots a web at Toomes and starts holding him down as the FBI agents start shooting but Toomes fires back as bullets don't have any effect on his suit.
Peter webs him again and tosses the webbing to her and they both use their combined strength to keep him at bay when he spins his wings and sends Peter out fo sea.
He thinks days and uses his webs to swing back at the ferry as Toomes cuts the webbing with his wings.
"This is getting seriously annoying." Ava states and Peter agrees as he webs the weapon he's carrying.
"Activate Taser web!" Peter tells Karen and the web starts electrifying and Toomes drops the weapon and it starts to randomly fire.
Ava and Peter dodge every blast as Peter webs the weapon to stop it from firing.
"You're messing with things you don't understand." Toomes informs the two of them.
"Oh, yeah. Like we haven't heard that before." Ava states and chases after Shocker as Peter webs the weapon and throws it out into the ocean as it suddenly explodes.
"Whoo, that was close." Peter states and runs with Ava when Toomes flies in and takes Shocker with him.
"Damn it!" Ava says seeing they escaped. Luckily, nobody on the ship was hurt as Peter finally catches up with her and sees Toomes escape.
"He escaped, didn't he?" Peter asks her.
"Really? What on earth would ever give you that idea?" Ava asks him sarcastically.
"Yeah, Spider-Man! White Tiger!" They hear people on the ferry cheering and they turn to see everyone spotted them.
They take in the attention, liking it until Peter's senses go off and he turns to see Iron Man floating in the air.
"Oh, were in trouble." Ava says, nervously. This isn't the best way on making a good first impression on one of her heroes.
"Nah, I'll handle him. Just get back home." Peter tells her knowing he can deal with Stark.
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Shocker knows that there is to much they can do now that they have the FBI, Spider-Man and White Tiger and Iron Man now looking for them.
"So that's it? You're just gonna run?" Toomes asks him.
"The feds we're waiting for us. And now we are on Iron Man's radar? Yeah, I'm running. You should be too." He informs Toomes.
"You know I can't."
"What can we do?" Shocker asks and Toomes looked to Mason.
"Can you get that high altitude thing up and running in time?" Toomes asks him.
"You serious? Yes, you won't regret this." Mason promises.
"You in?" Toomes asks him.
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Back at the ferry port, Peter watches the ferry gets pulled back into port after what just happened and Iron Man finally joins him.
"Previously on Peter screws the pooch, I tell you to stay way from this. Instead, you hacked a multimillion dollar suit so you can sneak around behind my back doing the one thing I told you not to do." Tony recaps as if Peter's some newbie to this superhero gig when he's even doing this longer than Stark himself has been Iron Man.
"Everyone's safe. I've got more information to take down a freak who's sending dangerous weapons out into the world. While I was at it, stoped more weapons from being sent out and saved lives." Peter recaps everything Tony seems to have forgotten about. "What do you want from me?" He wonders.
"They're okay, no thanks to you." Tony states.
Now Peter gets mad and looks towards the suit of Iron.
"No thanks to me? I'm sorry, those weapons were out there, and it doesn't matter what you say. They are in my neighborhood, making them my problem. No matter what I tell myself, I am still an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. at heart. And nobody ever lisneted to me unless I was wearing a mask, inside or outside of S.H.I.E.L.D. that's why Agent S existed in the first place. So when I see people in trouble, I'm going to help them!" Peter states to the suit of armor. "Who am I even kidding? If you cared this much, you'd actually be here." He says when the suit opens and Tony Stark steps out.
"I did listen, kid. Who do you think told the FBI?" Tony asks him. "Do you know I'm the only person who actually believed in you? Everyone said I was crazy to rely on not only a 14 year old, but an ex-S.H.I.E.L.D. agent after everything that went down in Washington." He states.
"Well, guess what, Stark? I'm the one who was there when S.H.I.E.L.D. collapsed. I was there to clean up the messes you caused. I am the one who will ALWAYS run into the fire if I hear screams coming from the flames! You think you're this high and mighty hero, but I'm the one who was always there, and you never realized it. So you have to stop treating me like I'm some rookie. I have been doing this for twice as long as you have been Iron Man. I've been doing this while you were still selling weapons! So don't tell me what I can and cannot handle. I know my limits, I know what I can do, I know what can be done. You can take away my suit, take away my gadgets, but I am still going to fight, because I am Agent S. I will always shield people from harm. No matter the cost." Peter finally tells him.
Tony looks surprised at the kid who was able to actually stand up to him, and he's never met someone who could stand up to him like that. They're usually awestruck by it's him or other things. And he's right, he isn't a rookie at this hero business. He's grown up inside of S.H.I.E.L.D., an organization built on saving people. This kid literally doesn't have the heart to stand by and watch people suffer if he can do something to stop it.
"Fine." Tony finally says, seeing things from his point of view.
"Fine?" Peter asks, as he was expecting something else.
"You're right. You're not a rookie, and I need to stop treating you like one." Tony realizes and takes a step back and rubs his head. "Just do me a favor, don't get yourself killed. It's just...if you died, I feel that's something I have to live with. Just try to stay safe." He begs the kid before leaving into his suit.
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After that conversation, Peter then returned home where Ava was waiting for him anxious to learn what happened.
"What happened? Did he expel us from spuerhero-ing? Tell you off?" Ava asks, throwing questions at him.
"No, were fine." Peter assures her while taking a seat on the couch. "And I'm pretty sure he can't do that. We might've lost any chance of joining the Avengers, but that's something we could live with." He admits since he knows telling Tony off will have more consequences later.
"God, I need a good nights rest after today." Ava says while calming herself down and heads for bed.
"Right behind you." Peter says, agreeing with her. Standing up to Tony Stark takes a lot out of you.
-
After a few days, there hasn't really been any appearances of the Vulture and the two think that's either a good thing because they scared him off, or he's planning something big and can't afford to be seen or found.
With Homecoming approaching, Peter thinks maybe he should take the gang's advice and ask Liz out. One date never hurt anybody.
After school, Peter looks around and finds her preparing for Homecoming.
"Hey, Liz. I...I just wanted to apologize about the whole decathlon thing." Peter says.
"It's fine." Liz assures him. "Last week, decathlon was the most important thing, but then I almost died."
"No, I-just I'm-...god, I'm terrible at this." Peter whispers to himself. "I just mean it wasn't cool...I just...I guess you already have a date to Homecoming." He guesses.
"Actually, I was so busy planning it, I never really got around to that part, so..." Liz tells him.
"Do you want to...go with me?" Peter asks.
"Yeah." Liz replies and Peter is shocked to hear that.
"Really? I mean, cool." Peter replies before walking away and in doing so, he runs into some lockers. "That hurt." He says before he continues to walk off.
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Peter comes home to find Coulson is back, and that's perfect timing for him.
"Coulson, Ava, I need the two of you to help me." Peter tells them and he fills them in on what's up.
Coulson finally helps Peter learn how to put on a tie as best as he could.
May came in and gave him a hand in dancing, you'd be surprised at how good she is.
Even Fitz-Simmons video chatted to him about the best outfit to wear.
On the day of Homecoming, Coulson drives Peter to Liz's place in Lola while Ava went by herself.
"Okay, game time. Run down the plan." Coulson tells Peter, acting like it's a mission briefing.
"Open the door for her. Tell her she looks nice, but not too much because that's creepy." Peter recaps the advice he got from Fitz-Simmons. "And when I dance with her, I'm putting my hands on her hips." He remembers his advice from May and knows he can do this.
"And remember, just have a good time. Your second first date. It'll be fine." Coulson promises him as Peter takes the corsage as Coulson drives off and Peter walks to the front door and rings the doorbell, ready for this.
But he wasn't ready for the door to open and he comes face to face with the Vulture.
That was unexpected, even by his standards this was shocking to say nonetheless.
"You must be Peter." Toomes says to him.
"Yeah." Peter says, doing his best to keep his cool like he was trained to.
"I'm Liz's dad." Toomes says while holding his hand out and Peter shakes it. "Hell of a grip. Come on in here. Come on." He says and leads Peter inside.
Peter walks through, a bit nerve racked as it seems his personal life always catches up with his hero life.
"Hi, Peter." Liz's Mom's voice breaks him out of his head. "You look very handsome." She complimented.
"Thank you." Peter says.
"You got his name right?" She asks Toomes.
"Freddie?" Toomes asks, trying to be funny.
"Peter." She replies. "I'm gonna go get Liz." She tells Peter.
That just leaves the two of them alone, and this is the definition of a uncomfortable situations.
"You all right, Pete?" Toomes asks. "Because you look pale." He says and Peter sees he's slipping in his skills. "You want something to drink? A bourbon or a scotch, or something like that?"
"I'm not old enough to drink." Peter tells him, keeping his voice calm at least.
"That's the right answer." Toomes tells him when Liz comes down. "Wow. Wow, do you look beautiful." He tells us daughter.
"Please don't embarrass me, dad." Liz begs to him.
"Doesn't she, Pete?" Toomes asks him.
"Yeah, you look amazing." Peter agrees with her father.
"Once again, that's the right answer." Toomes says.
"Is that a corsage?" Liz asks and Peter almost forgot about that before giving it to her..
"Well, hey, I'm your chauffeur, so let's get this show on the road." Toomes tells them.
"No, no, no. We have to take some pictures, babe." Liz's Mom says and Peter does his best to keep calm but this is one of the weirdest positions to be in.
"All right, come on, I'm going out of town and your stop is on my way." Toomes tells them. "Come on, Pedro." He tells Peter and they leave, and something tells him he should've gone by himself.
-
The trip there was kinda filled with awkward silence until Toomes interrupted the eerie silence.
"What are you gonna do, Pete? When you graduate, what do you think you'll do?" Toomes asks Peter.
"I'm not entirely sure, to be perfectly honest." Peter says, since he can't actually say he's going to be a official member of S.H.I.E.L.D. for when it actually does become a official organization again. Since, as far as anyone is concerned, it's destroyed.
"Don't grill him, dad." Liz begs of her father.
"Just saying, you know. All you guys who go to that school you pretty much have your life planned out, right?" Toomes asks.
"Yeah, no, I'm just a sophomore." Peter tells him.
"Peter has an internship with Tony Stark. I think he doesn't have to worry." Liz tells her dad.
"Really? Stark? What do you do?" Toomes asks.
"Well, it's not exactly a internship that much. It's like he calls me, I help him out with whatever it is. It's always something different each time. Meet a few interesting people. Not a big deal." Peter says, doing his best to lie. But it isn't entirely far from the truth.
"Not a big deal? You get to hang out with Spider-Man." Liz reminds him.
"Really? Spider-Man? What's he like?" Toomes wonders.
"Yeah, he's nice. Great guy." Peter says, trying not to hang himself up here.
"I've seen you around, right?" Toomes asks. "I mean...somewhere. We're-have we ever...? Because even the voice."
"He does academic decathlon with me." Liz offers as a solution. "And he was at my party."
"Great party, beautiful house." Peter says.
"You were there for like two seconds." Liz reminds him.
"Well, yeah. I thought Ava explained, my uncle needed me to help him. His car broke down the street, and he doesn't trust mechanics with it." Peter tells her.
"Well, what about when you disappeared in D.C.?" Liz asks and Toomes starts piecing everything together for himself.
"That's terrible what happened down there in D.C. though. Were you scared? I'll bet you were glad when your old pal Spider-Man showed up in the elevator." Toomes sees, trying to see if he can give a good excuse to where he was.
"I wasn't there. I didn't go up, but I watched it happen on the ground. It was a good thing he was there that day." Peter says, but he has a feeling that he's been outed out.
"Gold old Spider-Man." Toomes says as he's figured it out and he makes it to the school. "Here we are. End of the line."
"Thanks, dad." Liz says.
"You head in there, gumdrop. I'm gonna give Peter the dad talk." Toomes tells Liz.
"Don't let him intimidate you." Liz assures Peter, not knowing he isn't intimidated easily as she leaves.
Once she leaves, Toomes pulls out a gun and turns to face Peter.
"Does she know?" Toomes asks Peter.
"Know what?" Peter asks.
"So she doesn't. Good. Close to the vest. I admire that. I've got a few secrets of my own." Toomes says and now Peter knows he's outed. "Of all the reasons I didn't want my daughter to date. Peter...Nothing is more important than family. You saved my daughter's life. I could never forget something like that. So I'm gonna give you one chance. You walk through those doors, you forget any of this happened, and don't you ever, ever interfere with my business again. Because if you do..I'll kill you...and everyone you love. That's what I'll do to protect my family. Do you understand? Hey. I just saved your life. Now what do you say?" Toomes asks Peter.
Peter isn't intimidated by this guy. He's taken down warlords, terrorists, took two bullets to the chest. But he knows he needs to get out of here first, and he already knows his decision.
Shield people from harm, and stop people from harming others.
"Thank you." Peter tells him.
"You're welcome. Now you go on in there and show my daughter a good time, okay? Just not too good." Toomes tells Peter as he exits the car and Toomes drives off. Unknowingly with Peter's phone inside so he can track him.
Once he knew Toomes was gone, Peter made it inside and avoids the homecoming dance and races through the halls to put his outfit back on.
As soon as he made it outside, he gets hit by Shocker's gauntlet sending him flying.
"He gave you a choice. You chose wrong." Shocker tells him.
"Yeah, I've heard that before." Peter states and gets ready to shoot a web when he realizes he's out of web fluid. "That's not good." He states and knows he needs to rely on his skills. He runs behind the buses for Shocker to punch it and sends him flying into another bus.
"You know, I wasn't sure about this thing at first. But damn." Shocker says as Peter runs in to give him a roundhouse kick when Shocker interrupts his kick and sends him flying into the bus and smashes the bus on its side.
Peter then crawled out of the bus after that tumble.
"Why did he send you?" Peter asks.
"Guess you'll never know." Peter says when they hear something hitting against metal and they look up to see White Tiger coming in and she kicks Shocker, sending him flying and using Peter's backup web shooters filled with web fluid and stops him.
"Oh, thank god, it's you." Peter says and Ava helps him up.
"What's going on here?" Ava asks him as he stands up.
"Look, the guy with the wings is Liz's dad." Peter tells her.
"Why am I not surprised?" Ava wonders while being shocked at the same time.
"Look, Karen, can you track my phone?" Peter asks.
"Searching; phone located." Karen tells him and they know where to go.
"Come on, we've gotta stop him before he leaves town." Peter tells her and they both race off.
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