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Iron Man takes Peter to a abandoned play area to dry off and explain what happened.

"Then when I was able to catch up with them, some guy with giant wings came swooping in and took me up when that parachute opened and he dropped me." Peter finishes explaining like he was reporting a mission report to Fury.

"How'd you find me anyway? There a tracker in the suit?" Peter asks Stark.

"I put everything in your suit. Including this heater." Tony tells him when his suit warms up and dries off.

"Oh, that's better. Thanks." Peter tells him.

"What were you thinking?" Tony asks him.

"The guy with wings must be the source of the weapons. That means I need to stop him." Peter tells him.

"Take him down? Crockett, there are people who handle this sort of thing." Tony informs him.

"Yeah, S.H.I.E.L.D. usually does it. And guess what, he has Avengers battle weapons." Peter informs Stark. "I mean, Chitauri grenades, the Dark Elves black hole grenades, everything that have been in your past battles."

"Well, that's something I'll definitely need to look into." Stark replies to that informs.

"And you didn't need to come all the way out here, aren't you moving the tower upstate or something?" Peter remembers from the news that he sold Avengers tower.

"Well, I'm not actually here." Tony admits and raises the mask to see he's not inside. "Thank god this place has WiFi, or you would be toast right now. Thank Ganesh while you're at it. Look, forgot the flying vulture guy, please."

"Why? This is what I'm good at. This is my entire life. Fighting criminals with dangerous weapons, that's what it means to be a S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent." Peter tells him.

"Last I checked, you're no longer a S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent." Tony reminds him. "Look, just stay close to the ground. Build up your game without S.H.I.E.L.D. while helping the little people, like that lady that bought you the churro."

"How'd you know about that?" Peter asks.

"You get a lot of YouTube videos." Tony explains to him. "I mean, can't you just me a friendly...neighborhood Spider-Man?"

"Yeah, and last time I looked, those guns are in my neighborhood. And I've got Ava, so I won't be facing him alone." Peter replies.

"Listen to me, if you come across these weapons again, call Happy." Tony says as Peter hears a car revving

"Are you driving?" Peter asks him.

"You know, it's never too early to start thinking about college. I got some pull at MIT." Tony offered before hanging up.

"What does that have to-"

"Mr. Stark is no longer connected." FRIDAY interrupted him and flies off leaving him.

"That's still cool." Peter says and starts walking back.

On his way back, he finds a piece of their weapon has broken off and it's power source is inside of it and wonders what it is. And more importantly why it looks familiar.

-

At the hideout, the Vulture, Adrain Toomes, lands and places his wings off and removes his mask.

"Idiots." Adrian says while removing his helmet.

"Boss?" Mason calls. "Your wife keeps texting you. Something about a brake light." He tells Toomes.

"What did I tell you about looking at my phone?" Toomes asks, in a bit calm voice.

"Sorry. You left it out. You know I'm a curious person by nature." Mason reminds him as he takes the phone. "I finished designing that high-altitude vacuum seal. In case you want to, you know, go for the big one?"

"You're still on that? I told you no. The answer is no. Forget it." Toomes says as the van returns.

"Whoo! I mean, that was badass." Shocker tells Toomes.

"How many times have I told you not to fire them out in the open?" Toomes asks him.

You said move the merchandise." Shocker reminds him.

"Under the radar. Under the radar! That's how we survive. If you bring Damage Control or the Avengers down here, we're through." Toomes reminds him. "You're out there wearing that goofy thing, lighting up cars calling yourself the Shocker. I'm the Shocker. I shock people. What is this, pro wrestling?"

Whatever, old man. Come on." Shocker says not caring.

"Look. I know you don't give a crap about anything. But I do. I built the whole place because I got people I have to look after." Toomes tells him.

"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah." Shocker says, still not caring.

"You know what? I can't afford you. Get out of here." Tooms finally tells him. "You're off the crew."

"Yeah, All right. Wonder if you can afford me out there, though. With everything I know." Shocker tells him.

"Excuse me?" Toomes asks.

"I'm just saying...maybe your wife would like to know where you really get your money from." Shocker says.

"You know what? You're right." Toomes says before turning to Mason. "That work?"

"I don't know." Mason answers.

"I can't afford that." Toomes says before picking up the weapon and aims it at Shocker and disintegrating him.

"Damn." His partner says seeing that.

"I thought this was the antigravity gun." Toomes tells Mason.

"What? No, it's that one." Mason says pointing to another weapon.

Toomes then drops the gun and grabs the Shocker glove.

"Here. Now you're the Shocker. Go and find that weapon he lost." Toomes tells his partner.

-

The next day, Peter filled Ava in on what happened and why he didn't show up and now they're in shop class trying to dismantle the weapon.

"Hey, thanks for bailing on us." Ned tells Peter as he approaches them.

"Yeah, well something came up." Peter says and shows him the device.

"What's that?" Ned asks.

"I don't know. Stole it from some guys that tried vaporizing me with it." Peter catches him up.

"It looks like a power source, not of this world." Ava tells him as Peter rips it free.

"Maybe. But it's connected to all these microprocessors. That's an inductive charging plate. I use that to charge my toothbrush." Ned tells her.

"That means that whoever these guys are, they're combining alien tech with human technology." Peter tells the two of them.

"That is literally the coolest sentence anyone has ever said." Ned tells him as they look over the thing.

"It...it just looks so familiar. I remember seeing one of these while we worked in S.H.I.E.L.D., and I have a perfect memory, so I should know." Peter says.

"Which just means it's not human based." Ava tells him.

"Yeah, which isn't good." Peter replies since if this thing comes from Avengers battles as he suspects, it's dangerous. And instead of a nuclear protective casing like they had in S.H.I.E.L.D., they're now keeping it in a five dollar backpack.

They start after school and start walking through the halls.

"First, I say we put the glowy thing in the mass spectrometer." Ned tells them.

"Okay, we've gotta stop calling it glowy thingy. It's a power source." Peter says when the guys he recognized as the ones who were in the truck andhe leaps behind a wall with Ned and Ava behind him confused to what he just did.

"What's wrong with you?" Ava asks.

"That's one of the guys who tired to kill me." Peter explains. "Maybe they can lead us to the guy who has those wings."

"How do you plan on doing that?" Ava asks as the two of the guys go into the workshop.

"Stay here." Peter says as he goes into Agent S, silent mode and follows the two of them into the classroom.

"Man, can you imagine what the boss would say if he knew where we were?" He hears one of them ask as he sneaks in. "It's saying there was an energy pulse here."

"There's no sign of the weapon. And even if it was here, now it's gone. As are we." He says and Peter quickly ad quietly hides under the table and sticks underneath and waits as they pass like he's not even there.

Peter waits for the right moment and releases a Spider-tracker he invented a while back. It's what he used to use when he was on solo missions for S.H.I.E.L.D.

-

They decided to take this back to their place, and it seems Coulson is still out on S.H.I.E.L.D. business so they keep it in the living room.

Peter pulls out the tracer for the drone and it pulls out a hologram map of New York.

"This is so cool." Ned comments holding the device.

"They're in Brooklyn." Ava says. "But they're on the move though."

"Where are you guys going?" Peter asks the map.

Time passes and Ava brought them over their bag of Doritos from the kitchen as Peter is hanging from the ceiling.

"Staten island." Ned informs them in their current location.

Later on, Ned and Peter are working on the Death Star as Ava is working on her new taser claws that Simmons had made for her.

"They're leaving Jersey." Peter tells them.

Now, Ned is asleep on the couch, Peter is sleeping on the ceiling while Ava fell asleep at the coffee table working on her claws when the tracker starts bleeping and Ned is the first to wake up as he's wearing Peter's mask.

"They've stoped." Ned tells them and they snap to attention and see their location.

"Maryland?" Peter asks.

"What's there?" Ned asks.

"Possibly their base of operations." Ava suggests.

"They have a base?" Ned asks.

"Dude, a gang with alien guns run by a guy with wings? Yeah, they have a base." Peter informs his friend.

"Badass." Ned comments. "But how are the two of you going to get to them if they're 300 miles away?" He asks when Peter and Ava look to the academic decathlon poster that is taking place tomorrow.

"It's not too far from D.C." Peter says.

-

They're on the bus in their way there when Peter's phone goes off and he looks to see it's Happy Hogan.

"Hello?" Peter asks as he moves to the back to have this call in private.

"I got a blip on my screen here. You left New York?" Happy asks from Stark tower and Peter then remembers his suit has a tracker.

"Yeah, it's just a school trip. It's nothing. Look, Happy, I gotta say, you guys tracking me without my permission is a complete violation of my privacy. I left S.H.I.E.L.D. so that I didn't have my every move tracked." Peter informs him when Ned points to the tracker he's holding. "That's different."

"What's different?" Happy asks, overhearing.

"Nothing. Look, it's just the academic decathlon. It's nothing big." Peter informs the man.

"Hey, I'll decide if it's nothing big...sounds like nothing big, but remember, I'm watching you." Happy warns him.

"Well then, Agent S is going into radio silence." Peter informs the man before hanging up.

They make it to Washington and make it to the hotel.

"This place is huge." One of their friend comment.

"I've seen bigger." Flash says.

"There's a bird in here." Another says.

"You brought your laptop, right?" Peter asks Ned.

"Why?" Ned asks.

-

They make it to their hotel room and take the Spider-Man suit out where Ned goes into its database to find the tracker.

"Peter, why are we removing the tracker from your suit?" Ned asks a bit curious.

"Because we have to follow these guys to their boss before they move again, and we don't want stark to find out about it." Peter explains.

"So you're lying to Iron Man now?" Ned confirms.

"No, I'm not lying. He just doesn't understand me and what I can do. He thinks I'm a kid, and I'm immature. Even thought I was there when they first became the Avengers. Literally in the same room and he was more immature than me. I was threatened by the God of Mischief while trying to figure out his game plan and didn't even flinch." Peter informs Ned and that isn't even the craziest thing to happen.

He finds the tracker and slowly disconnected it. "All right, Happy. Enjoy tracking this lamp." Peter says and places it on the room lamp.

"There's a ton of other subsystems in here." Ned informs them and the two agents take a look at the computer. "But they're all disabled by the Training Wheels Protocol." He says while chuckling.

"What? Turn that off." Peter tells Ned, not believing Tony Stark would go that low.

"I don't think that's a good idea. They're probably blocked for a reason." Ned says.

"Come on, man. I don't need training wheels. I'm sick of this guy treating me like I'm a kid." Peter states.

"But you are a kid." Ned reminds him.

"Yeah, a kid who's S.H.I.E.L.D.'s greatest Agent, took two bullets to the stomach and lived, fought off robot super soldiers and HYDRA mind control. And during that time, where was he? In Malibu, drinking martinis. So who's the child here?" Peter asks.

"I'm just saying, what if this is illegal?" Ned asks.

"Wouldn't be our first time doing something illegal." Ava informs him.

"Yeah, I can handle this, Ned." Peter promises him. "Think of it this way, you're helping an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. tracking down criminals. Making you a unofficial asset of S.H.I.E.L.D."

"You have those?" Ned asks.

"Not entirely. You know, anymore." Peter admits since S.H.I.E.L.D. is basically dead.

Ned finally gives in and turns it off and the suit gives off a glow before shutting down again.

"That was weird." Ava comments. "But that seems to be Stark's alley."

-

Peter gets himself ready to head out and sees that the men are on the move.

"Okay, Ava, you stay here and look after the power core. I'm gonna go take a look at their base and see if they plan on moving again." Peter tells her the game plan and leaves them.

He had a bit of a run in with Liz and the others as they're going swimming and Peter continues on leaving.

When he got outside, he looks and sees them all having fun as it seems everyone is there, except Michelle who seems absent but Peter knows she's not into swimming or things like that. He's known that since when he first went to school before the whole Norman Osborn thing went down. Back when he was first dating Gwen.

Shaking himself out of his head to get rid of the bad memories, Peter places on his mask.

"Good evening. Peter." A female voice says.

"Hello?" Peter asks while looking around.

"Congratulations on completing the Training Wheels Protocol and gaining access to your suit's full capabilities. So where would you like to take me tonight?" The voice says and Peter realizes Stark put a artificial intelligence in his suit.

"I put a tracker on someone I'm trying to...track." Peter says.

"Tracker located. Plotting course to intercept target." The A.I tells him.

"All right, as long as I'm back in time for the decathlon, I should be fine." Peter says before swinging onto a truck that's going in the direction he needs.

The tracker leads him out of town and into the middle of nowhere.

"Detecting three individuals." The A.I. tells Peter as he approaches a gas station.

"God, why does everyone always choose a gas station for a hideout? It's such a cliche." Peter states and leaps on the sign.

"Hey, suit lady, what are they doing?" Peter asks.

"Do you want to hear what they're saying?"

"I can hear what they're saying?" Peter asks in shock.

"Activating Enhanced Reconnaissance Mode." She says and Peter can in fact hear them.

"I got the gauntlet from the Lagos cleanup. The rest is my design. Can't believe they're still cleaning up that Triskelion mess." He hears Mason say.

"Yeah, you and me both." Peter says hoping they can't hear him. "So they're in a middle of a heist. This could be where they get their stuff from."

"Would you like me to engage Enhanced Combat Mode?" The A.I. asks.

"Sure, why not?" Peter says.

"Activate instant kill." She replies and his eyes go dark and red.

"What? No, I don't want to kill anyone." Peter informs her as the eyes go back to normal. He leaps and shoots a web to the top of the gas station itself only to fall and hit his face.

"What just happened?" Peter asks as he stands back up.

"You jumped off the sign and landed on your face." The A.I. informs him. Peter tries shooting the sign again only for multiple dozens web blasts leave his shooter instead of one of them.

"What's wrong with my web shooters?" Peter asks her.

"Rapid-fire is the default for enhanced combat mode." She informs him.

"Why would I need rapid-fire? What usage is that?" Peter asks, not seeing any purpose as he's able to do that just by rapidly pushing on his shooters. Okay, for this occasion it's useless.

"Would you like to see other options?" She asks and Peter sees dozens of options. "You have 576 possible web-shooter combinations."

"Stark, you seriously overdid this." Peter states. "That one." He says looking at one that looks like a his normal shooter.

"Great choice." She says as Peter shoots and a taser web is activated and shocks the station sparking the lights.

Peter drops the web and climbs the station "What was that?" He asks.

"Taser webs."

"Taser webs? I don't want Taser webs." Peter states and watches the crooks talking.

"You seem to be unfamiliar with your web shooter settings. Would you like to run a refresher course?" She asks Peter.

"No. Just...you choose." Peter gives up and says.

"Sure thing." She replies and Peter watches the man with the Vulture wings comes flying in.

"There you are." Peter says and watches as he lands on top of the truck and drops some devices and drops inside the truck somehow.

Peter waits as the truck passes him and he leaps on top of it and looks at the device he used to get in.

"Woah, it's like some kind of matter phased shifter." Peter comments in the tech. "Fitz would be going wild right now if he were here." He says and watches as the guy inside places everything in a bag before leaping outside.

Peter waits as he drops the bag before webbing it to him.

"Hey, Big Bird. This doesn't belong to you." Peter informs him as he leaps back into his wings and flies at Peter. He jumps out of the way and aims to shoot him but the web splits off and avoids him.

"Are you serious?! What was that?!" Peter questions as he starts avoiding his wings.

"You told me to choose." The A.I. reminds Peter.

"For the love of-just rest everything back to normal status." Peter commands and grabs onto the guys wings.

That turned into a terrible idea on his part as he's immediately dropped and he hits the small devices before tumbling into the truck.

"Okay, no more playing around." Peter promises and leaps up to fight, only for his head to hit the ceiling of the container.

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