Flash and his date we're driving to the dance in his dad's car discussing dinner.

"I'm sorry about dinner but I know when branzino's fewsh, and that was not fresh." Flash was saying when Peter and Ava land on his car.

"Flash, we need to commandeer your car." Peter tells him.

"Sir, technically, this-this is my dad's car, air. So I don't-"

-

Peter and Ava are off in his car and Peter is driving with Ava in the second seat while she's tracking his phone.

"We stole Flash's car. This is like some universal justice after everything he's done." Ava states while chuckling.

"Karen, where is he now?" Peter asks the A.I.

"Turn left three blocks down." Karen tells him.

"You can actually drive, right?" Ava now decides to ask.

"Are you kidding? Between Coulson and aunt Natasha, I knew how to drive earlier than anyone else." Peter states.

"Your phone appears to have stopped at an old industrial park in Brooklyn." Karen tells him.

"Why is he there?" Ava wonders. "You said he was going out of town." She tells Peter.

"Well, he must be doing some sorta heist or something, but...oh my god, it's moving day." Peter now realizes and remembers the earlier talk he had with tony about moving the Avengers stuff. "He's gonna rob all of the Avengers gear!"

"If he gets a hold of any of that, these street gangs would become unstoppable." Ava states.

Peter drives and sees he almost misses the turn but goes into a drift and spins them into a stop.

"Never do that again, Vin Diesel." Ava warns him.

"I won't make a habit of it." Peter promises and they exit the car and head inside the warehouse.

Peter goes in through the ceiling while Ava sneaks in through the windows and they see specs and cameras surrounding the Avengers tower and the jet with all of the gear.

"Looks like we found their base of operations." Ava says as she finds the wings.

"Another abandoned warehouse." Peter states and sees this is a serious cliche.

They move through the warehouse where they find Toomes by himself standing in the open.

"Hey!" Peter shouts out to him. "Surprised?" He asks and Toomes turns to face them.

"Oh, hey, Pete. I didn't hear you come in." Toomes says as he sees White Tiger. "You gonna introduce me to your friend?"

"It's over, Vulture, we've got you now. There's nowhere to go." Ava informs him while pulling out her claws.

"You know, I gotta tell you. I really, really admire your grit. I see why Liz likes you. I do. When you first come to the house I wasn't sure. I thought, really? But I get it now." Toomes says.

"How could you do this to her?" Peter asks and has Karen scan the room for any traps.

"To her? I'm not doing anything to her, Pete. I'm doing this for her." Toomes corrects them and Peter sends a web and sticks Toomes' hand to the table so he can't go anywhere. "Peter...you're young. You don't understand how the world works."

"Really? News flash, I know how the world works. I also know that selling weapons to criminals is wrong." Peter states since his entire life in S.H.I.E.L.D. was to keep weapons from hurting people l

"How do you think your buddy Stark paid for that tower? Or any of his little toys?" Toomes asks him. "Those people, those people up there the rich and the powerful, they do whatever they want. Guys like us...like the three of us, they don't care about us. We build their roads, and we fight their wars and everything, but they don't care about us. We have to pick up after them. We have to eat their table scraps. That's how it is. I know you know what I'm talking about."

Truth be told, they actually do understand what he's talking about. All S.H.I.E.L.D. has been doing in recent years was cleaning up the Avengers battles. But that doesn't mean they are going to start making their own messes.

"Why are you telling us this?" Ava wonders, not seeing why he's telling them.

"Because I want you to understand. And...I needed a little time to get her airborne." Toomes admits and Peter's senses go off and he grabs Ava before webbing the ceiling just in time to avoid the Vulture wings that are now flying on their own.

They both separate in order to give the wings multiple targets and it seems to be flying on its own around the warehouse and it keeps crashing into the pillars.

"I'm truly sorry about this." Toomes tells them.

"What are you even talking about? That thing hasn't touched us." Ava informs him.

"True. Then again...wasn't really trying to." Toomes informs her and Peter rushes over to her as the roof crushes above them and Toomes leaves hearing the plane is about to take off.

-

In the rubble, Peter is using all of the strength he can master to withhold the wall from crushing his sister who has been knocked unconscious by the rubble and the smoke.

"Ava, you being conscious would help me a lot right now." Peter states as he does his best to keep the rubble up. He pushes on farther than his usual limitations and keeps on pushing the rubble until it's off from ontop of him and then picks up Ava and brings her to Flash's car and takes off her mask to make sure she's breathing okay, but he knows she'll be safe and needs to rest it off and he needs to stop Toomes.

He goes and finds Toomes about to take off and webs onto his back at the last second before he takes off after the Avengers jet as it becomes invisible.

Peter holds onto the web with all of his strength and knows he made a bit of a mistake here.

As soon as Vulture lands on the plane, Peter watches as the wings become a cocoon and helps him get inside without being sucked out by the atmosphere.

Peter starts trying to get in when a drone comes off the wings and starts flying off.

"Karen, what are they doing?" Peter asks.

"The drone appears to be on course to the Avengers compound in upstate." Karen tells him.

"To make it look as if the plane is on course, when in reality they're hijacking it." Peter pieces together and starts to pull at the wings to get himself inside in order to stop Toomes.

-

Inside the plane, Toomes is inside the plane admiring his work while looking at all of the new tech they've commandeered when his wings start sucking off and he looks to see Spider-Man is still with him.

He gets back into the wings and Peter golds on as Vulture comes back around to strike. To avoid him, Peter starts moving up the side of the plane so he can't easily fall off.

"Peter, are you okay?" Karen asks him with concern.

"Oh, you know, it's just you're typical homecoming, on the outside of an invisible jet fighting my dates dad." Peter replies when Vulture comes in and Peter gets hit off the plane.

Peter then webs him and the plane causing Toomes to be slingshotted back at the plane and Peter almost gets thrown into the engine but throws a web grenade to stop himself from being obliterated.

"I can't believe that actually worked." Peter admits when he gets to the roof and sees Vulture coming back for another go.

"Doesn't this guy give up?" Peter asks as Vulture tries clawing him with his feet, but all that does is cause the engine to go out from the debris falling into it and the plane begins crashing.

"Peter, if the plane stays on its course, it will crash into New York." Karen warns him.

"Okay, got it." Peter says and webs onto the wing and starts changing its trajectory while Toomes is breaking into the plane itself as it begins to crash into Coney Island.

Peter holds onto the wing as best as he can before falling off and tumbling through the sand as the plane continues to crash.

-

Later, Peter wakes off and rips off his mask as his ears are ringing like crazy and everything has been muffled to where even his senses aren't working properly. As evidenced when Toomes comes flying at him again and all he does is get hit.

Peter gets up fast and sees just how damaged the wings are damaged but he still chooses to toy and finish him off.

"Hey, Pedro." Toomes greets before flying at him.

Peter waits until the past second and dodges the attack, which seems to be exactly what Toomes was waiting for as he flies back around and gets the upper hand on Peter and starts beating him before taking him into the air and dropping him.

Peter tries webbing Toomes to stop his fall, but Toomes brings him back up and continues to pummel him into the ground, until he's been weakened.

Toomes gets ready to finish him off when he looks and sees that there's a box filled with arc reactors that could be worth a lot and goes to steal them.

Peter starts getting up and sees that his wingsuit energy core is about to destroy itself.

"Your wings are gonna explode!" Peter tries warning him and webs him before he could escape.

"Time to go home, Pete." Toomes tells him.

"I'm trying to save you." Peter states when Toomes cuts the web and just as he thought, the wings die on him and he plummets to the ground.

Not willing to let him die, even after everything he put Peter through, he rushes into the fire and raises the wings off and finds he's still alive.

Peter quickly drags him into an opening where there isn't any smoke or fire and drops and the two onto the ground. Knowing there's only one thing left to do, Peter finishes the job and finally drops from exhaustion.

Luckily for him, Ava was able to get there while following them from Flash's car and picks up her brother and sees he needs to get treated and begins bringing him home.

-

Later, most of Stark's men and Happy make it to the scene and find all of the tech already webbed together along with Toomes with a note attached.

Found

Flying bird guy

-Spider-Man / White Tiger.

Ps; sorry about your plane

-

The next day, Peter was all patched up all thanks to Ava when they returned to school where it turns out that Liz is leaving town.

At decathlon practice, they need a new team captain and they decide to elect Michelle as the new captain.

"Thank you. My friends call me MJ." Michelle tells them.

"I thought you only had one friend." Ned remembers and looks to Ava.

"I thought it was a good nickname fo her." Ava defends when Peter gets a message from an unknown number.

Go to the bathroom

The message reads and Peter is confused to what this could be and excuses himself.

"Hey, where you going?" Michelle asks him and Peter points away from them. "What are you hiding, Peter?" She asks, still trying to figure out what he's hiding still.

"I'm just kidding. I don't care." Michelle says and Peter leaves, but what Peter doesn't know is that Michelle noticed the almost unnoticeable scratches he got during the fight and is putting the pieces together.

Not only that, but she's also has had a small crush on him ever since he left two years ago. But she wasn't going to tell that to anyone, especially not Ava.

-

Peter goes into the bathroom to find the last person he'd ever expect, Happy Hogan.

"Hey, Happy. What are you doing here?" Peter wonders.

"I really owe you one." Happy tells him. "I don't know what I would do without this job. I mean, before I met Tony-" he was explaining when a toilet flushed and a kid washes his hands before leaving the now awkward moment.

"Quick question, how long have you been here?" Peter wonders.

"Long enough to be awkward." Happy admits. "Boss wants to see you." He explains why he's here.

"Is he here, too?" Peter asks pointing to the stalls.

"In the toilet? No, he's upstate." Happy informs him.

"Upstate?" Peter asks as Happy starts leaving.

"Yeah, come on. Let's go." Happy tells him.

-

While traveling upstate, Peter gets to take a look at the new Avengers facility.

"Pretty impressive, right? They just finished remodeling the whole thing." Happy tells him as he parks and they enter the facility where they watch a quintet take off.

"Oh, there they are." Tony says as he meets up with them. "How was the ride up? Give me a minute with the kid." He asks Happy.

"Seriously?" Happy asks.

"Yeah. I gotta talk to the kid." Tony says.

"I'll be close behind." Happy promises.

"How about a loose follow? All right? Boundaries are good." Tony tells him and pulls Peter forward. "Nice job with the Vulture guy. You've got some mad skills for someone your age. Of course I shouldn't exactly expect anything less from a agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. I was wrong about you. I think with a bit working around the edges, you could become a real asset to the team."

"To the-to the team?" Peter asks, hoping he heard him correctly.

"Yeah. There's about fifty reporters behind that door. Real ones, not bloggers." Tony confirms and opens a display case with a new iron Spider-Man suit. "When you're ready, why don't you try that on? And I'll introduce the world to the newest official me,her of the Avengers; Spider-Man." He asks and Peter can't believe it.

He finally made it. This is what he was told he was destined to be. Fury, Hill, Coulson, they all said that one day he would become a hero.

He was destined to become an Avenger. Now he was being offered a spot on the team after everything he's been through. Fighting criminals, shielding others.

But why does he feel empty inside, like he doesn't want it?

"So, after the press conference, Happy will show you to your room, your new quarters." Tony informs Peter. "Where's he between? He's next to Vision?"

That's it. That's why Peter feels empty inside about doing this. Becoming an Avenger means leaving behind his entire life. His S.H.I.E.L.D. life, his recent life. It would mean leaving Ned, Ava, Coulson, Michelle and everyone else he loves.

"Yeah, Vision's not big on doors. Or walls." Happy warns Peter.

"You'll fit right in." Tony promises, but Peter knows he's not ready to become an Avenger yet. Even if it's what he's always wanted, he needs to be with his family.

Peter backs away from the suit and faces Tony.

"Thank you, mr. Stark. But I'm good." Peter tells him.

"You're good?" Tony asks, not following. "How are you good?"

"I mean, I'd rather stay on the ground awhile longer. I'm used to these big world end of the world adventures, but I need to be the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man for now." Peter admits. When he's older, he'll happily join the team he's been waiting to join, but he's not ready to leave his family.

"You're turning me down?" Tony asks him. "You gotta think about this. Isn't this what you always wanted? To become a hero, go as far as you can go?"

"Yeah, well, what we want isn't always what's best for us." Peter informs him. "I've been Agent S for fifteen years, and being Spider-Man has been helping me have a sense of normalcy. I just want to be planted on the ground, rather than flying high for the rest of my life. I'm not ready for all of this responsibility yet."

"Last chance, yes or no." Tony tells him.

"No." Peter answers, making his decision.

"Okay. It's kind of a Springsteen-y working class hero vibe that I dig. Happy will take you home I guess." Tony says.

"Mind waiting in the car? I need a minute." Happy tells Peter.

"Thank you for understanding, mr. Stark." Peter says and shakes his hand.

"Yes, mr. Parker. You're very welcome." Tony says shaking his hand.

Peter then starts to walk away when a thought comes to mind and he turns to Tony.

"Was that all a test?" Peter asks. "There isn't anyone back there, right?"

"Yes, you passed." Tony assures him before he leaves.

-

Peter makes it outside and looks around the facility knowing when he's ready, he will have what it takes to lead his own team one day. But as of right now, he's staying Spider-Man.

His city needs him and Ava. Spider-Man and White Tiger, the unstoppable team.