You're Spider-Man
Peter and Ava are on the subway way to midtown high, the school they've been going to since moving New York and not much has changed since Peter left last time.
Ned was more than happy when Peter returned. Michelle is still herself. That meaning she's hard to understand and yet very observant, and just wants friends.
She and Ava get along great, as Peter had no doubt they would.
And Flash Thompson...Yeah, he's still the same.
"Rise and shine, Midtown Science and Technology. Don't forget about your homecoming tickets. Do you have a date for homecoming?" The school announcements play as they walk to their lockers through the school.
Peter got to his locker and opens it to get what he needs when his senses warn him Ned is approaching and he smiles.
"Join me, and together...we'll build my new LEGO Death Star." Ned says in Palpatine's voice holding a LEGO Palpatine.
"What?" Peter asks, ignoring how others would mock them. He and Coulson used to do this like that all the time in S.H.I.E.L.D. when he was younger. It didn't bother him then, so some teenagers thinking he's lame doesn't hurt him. "That's awesome. How many pieces?" He asks Ned.
"Three thousand eight hundred and three." Ned tells him. "You wanna build it tonight?" He asks.
"I'll try, but uncle C's going out of town today, and he has strict rules when he's gone we need to follow or we face the Wrath of Coulson." Peter warns his friend and he laughs at that.
"Okay, Well, I'll knock out the bones of the Death Star at my place. And I'll come by afterwards. For the most part, the difficult thing is the base of it. The top half we can knock out in two hours, tops." Ned tells Peter as Liz Allen passes by.
Peter wouldn't exactly say he's got a crush on Liz but she's a nice girl and would like to get to know her better.
"That'd be great." Peter tells Ned, getting back on subject as they need to get to class.
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"So how do we calculate linear acceleration between points A and B?" The teacher asks the class.
"It's the product of sine of the angle and gravity divided by mass." Flash answers.
"Nope." The teacher informs him. "Peter, you still with us?" She asks as he's looking at a video that was taken about him.
"Yeah." Peter says before closing the computer and looks at the board. "Mass cancels out, so it's just gravity times sine." He answers.
"Right. See, Flash, being the fastest isn't always the best if you are wrong." She informs Flash who is now angry at Peter.
During chemistry class, Peter uses the chemicals to make a new batch of web fluid. Usually, he'd be able to get it from his labs.
But those labs no longer exist, so he now needs to survive off of what he can get from school.
During lunch, Ava, Ned, and Peter all sit together and talk about anything and they get onto the small crush Peter has on Liz.
"Look, Liz is nice, but I don't think she'd be interested in me." Peter tells them.
"Come on, what's wrong with you?" Ava asks him. "I've been your sister for a year, and I don't see anything she wouldn't like."
"He was like this with Gwen, when he was trying to ask her out." Ned informs Ava.
"Yeah, and I ended up doing that for him." Michelle tells them from across the table reading her book. "He's a lost cause."
"Then why do you still sit with us?" Ned asks her.
"Because Ava's my only friend and she sits here." Michelle informs him and that makes sense to them.
After school, Peter and Ava are training for the decathlon nationals in Washington.
During which, Flash made a sarcastic comment about having a date with Black Widow which ticked Peter off. Last he heard of his aunt, she also didn't agree with the accords and had to go into hiding.
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Afterwards, the two left for their afternoon patrol but stop at Delmars for food.
"Hey, what's up, mr. Delmar?" Peter asks as they enter.
"Hey, it's mr. Parker and ms. Ayala. The Coulson kids." Delmar says happy to see them. "A Number five and seven, right?"
"Yeah, mine with pickles, and smush it down real flat? Thanks." Peter says as they get to work.
"How's your uncle?" Delmar asks him.
"He's doing fine. Went out of town for a few days, business purposes." Ava tells him.
"How's that sweet ride of his?" Delmar asks referring to Lola.
"Lola's doing well. Running smooth as ever." Peter says as their sandwiches are finished and Peter pays the man.
"Hey there, Murph." Ava says to Delmar's cat and pets him.
"How's school?" Delmar asks them.
"Going well. It's better after everything that went down in Washington." Peter admits.
"Yeah, must've been scary with the whole boats falling from the sky." Delmar replies.
"Well, we're in New York now, it gets as safe in our crazy world." Ava informs them as they leave.
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Peter and Ava separate to take their normal route to get changed and find a safe place to hide their things and get changed into their suit.
Once in their suits, they start their normal routine of stopping the crimes, helping the people. But they mostly end up just waiting around for something to happen.
It's a real change of pace from their usual fighting to fend off the end of the world every other day. But it's a welcomed change of pace, it gets seriously stressful on two kids.
Before the sun sets, they met up on a fire escape near the tracks as they got a call from the Playground.
"So, she's able to run at super speed?" Ava asks into the phone regarding the newest Inhuman they encountered, Elena Rodriguez.
"Well, Mack's calling her Yo-Yo. And that does kinda sum up her powers." Simmons tells them. "She's able to move extremely fast, but she always returns to where she started running from."
"Well, that's kinda cool, wish we were there." Peter says, missing the team.
"We miss you guys as well. So how's the normal life treating you?" Simmons asks them.
"Oh, it makes me love it at some times, but when I'm in the mood for some real action there's nothing." Peter informs her.
"Which were sometimes grateful for, but we really wanna go back to fighting some big threats. The latest one was just Kraven." Ava adds, agreeing with Peter.
"Well, I've gotta get going. I'll make sure Fitz is around so you can talk with him." Simmons tells them.
"Yeah, we've gotta get going as well." Ava says.
"See ya, Jemma." Peter says and hangs up. "You just wanna head home?" He asks Ava seeing there's no more crimes any time soon.
"Yeah. Ned's supposed to be coming by as well." Ava remembers and Peter quickly changes his web canister as its running low when they notice some guys heading inside an ATM building.
"I think we've finally got some action." Ava says.
"I think you're right." Peter replies, agreeing with her.
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The robbers are all using high tech gear they bought off of the black market and are wearing Avengers masks.
"Yo, this high-tech stuff makes it too easy." The robber wearing the Hulk mask says.
"Told you it was worth it." The Captain America robber says.
Then they use a second device to take off the rest of the devices and start taking all the money out.
As they do that, Peter and Ava enter through the doors as their lookout guy is looking the wrong way and they see they're amateurs.
"What's up, guys? You forget your PIN number?" Peter asks as they all turn to face them and they see their masks.
"Whoa, the Avengers!" Ava says mockingly as they turn to fight the two.
Peter sends a web and yanks the gun out of their lookout guy.
"Hulk. Thor. Nice to meet you guys especially." Ava greets while sending them flying. "I honestly thought you'd would be more handsome in person." She tells the Thor goon.
Peter leaps to the ceiling and starts fighting off the Iron Man goon.
"Iron Man. What are you doing robbing a bank? You're a billionaire last I checked." Peter says before using his fist to punch Hulk.
The Captain America goon aims their device at Peter and pulls him into a gravity field.
"Whoa, this feels weird." Peter comments on the weapon as Ava kicks Captain America, making him drop the weapon and in turn, Peter.
"Wat the hell is that thing?" Ava asks when she gets pulled into the field and gets swung around the room. "I'm starting...to think...you're not..the Avengers." She says and Peter webs the desk behind them and pulls it at them.
Across the street, mr. Delmar watches the fight and calls the police.
"911, What's you're emergency?" They ask him.
"Spider-Man and White Tiger are fighting the Avengers in the bank on 21st street." Delmar tells them as money flies around the room and the two heroes are flipping around the room to take the Avenger Crooks down.
"All right, lets wrap this up. It's a school night." Peter says, knowing they still need to get to school.
Ava kicks the Hulk crook and knocks him out as he lands on top of Thor.
Peter webs the Iron Man goon with the gravity device onto the door.
"So how did jerks like you get tech like this?" Peter asks when the Captain America goon raises their laser device and aims at them.
"No!" Peter and Ava shout as they see him raise the blast radius and it sends a beam out of the gun and it hits Delmar's.
"Go see if he's there, I'll finish this up." Peter tells Ava and she runs off.
She runs into the shop and gets Delmar out along with Merph as Peter finishes up webbing the criminals for the police and they make their escape.
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Peter makes his way to his bag as Ava said she'd meet him back home. He made to where his backpack was supposed to be to discover his bag is gone.
"This just keeps getting better." Peter tells himself sarcastically and sees he needs to go home in his suit.
He makes his way up to his window and opens it up to crawl inside and drops down and he turns to see Ned is on his bed and looks and he has the Death Star halfway through when he drops it in shock.
Upon hearing the noise, Ava came rushing to see Peter is still dressed in his suit and Ned is there.
"Oh, that's bad." Ava comments.
"You're the Spider-Man. From YouTube." Ned says looking at Peter.
Peter quickly pushes the piece of the suit for it to retract off of him to get rid of it. "I'm not." He tries defending.
"You were on the ceiling." Ned says in shock.
"No, I wasn't. Wait, what are you doing in my room?" Peter asks.
"Your sister let me in. We were gonna finish the Death Star." Ned reminds him. "Wait, you knew about this?" He asks Ava.
"Of course she knows." Peter tells him. "Her, Uncle C, and a few close family friends know along with Tony Stark since he made my suit but that's it." He explains.
"Tony Stark made you that?" Ned asks looking at the suit. "Are you the White Tiger?" He asks Ava.
Ava sees now he knows Peter's secret there's no harm in him knowing her secret. "Yeah, I'm White Tiger." She confirms.
"Are you guys Avengers?" Ned then asks.
Peter and Ava look at him with hypothetical looks on their faces.
"Well, not per-se." Peter tells him.
"But at the same time, we're not-not Avengers." Ava also says since theirs the Next Avengers team.
"Look, Ned, you can't tell anybody about this. You gotta keep it a secret." Peter tells Ned.
"Secret, why?" Ned asks.
"Well, the whole reason that we came back here was because we needed a sense of normalcy. We just use our powers because we can't ignore them. Come on, Ned, please." Peter explains and begs his friend.
"Okay, Okay, Okay, I'll level with you. I can't keep this a secret. It's the greatest thing that's ever happened to me." Ned admits to them and they see they're in trouble.
"Ned, come on. After everything that we went through with the accords and S.H.I.E.L.D., I...Please, Ned." Ava now starts begging.
"Okay." Ned finally gives in.
"Just swear it, okay?" Peter tells his friend.
"I swear." Ned says and they're good with that.
"I can't believe this is happening. Fifteen years, I was able to keep my identity a secret only for that record to be ruined by my bag being stolen." Peter says as he runs a hand through his hair.
"Can I try the suit on?" Ned asks him. "How does it work? Is it magnets? How do you shoot the strings?" Ned keeps asking.
"Look, we'll explain everything at school tomorrow, maybe afterwards." Peter tells him and leads him out.
"Okay, wait, then. How do you do this and the Stark internship?" Ned wonders.
"This is the Stark internship." Peter says, as a lie for anything to happen to him while Spider-Man'ing, he tells them that it was the Stark internship that kept him busy. Stark agreed to it.
Now Ned understands and Peter drops to the back of the door.
"At least it was Ned, it's not that big of a problem." Ava assures him.
"It's because it's Ned is why it's a big problem." Peter tells her. "How close are we to creating that MIB neuralyzer?" He asks.
"About a few decades." Ava informs him.
"How about a time machine?" He wonders and even Ava's shocked their isn't a time machine yet.
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The next day, Ava and Peter walk with Ned to school and explain to them how they do what they can do.
"Wait, your parents were scientists for S.H.I.E.L.D.?" Ned asks Peter. "Why would they want a super soldier serum?" He wonders.
"To make super soldiers." Peter tells him as if that answer wasn't obvious .
"Did it hurt? Well, it probably would've hurt to have all your blood veins and DNA changed, right? Even it it would hurt, I'd still take it." Ned states. "Well, how much would it hurt?"
"I was born with it in my blood, Ned." Peter informs his friend. "There is no serum, it's literally my blood." He explains as they walk past the ATM place that was destroyed and Delmar's store.
"You guys we're here?" Ned asks them as they look at the destruction. "You could've died...do you lay eggs?" He suddenly asks Peter.
"What?!" Peter asks, completely confused. "No." He answers and they keep making it to school.
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"Can you spit venom?" Ned asks Peter during school.
"No." Peter answers.
Later, Ned was in a class with Ava and starts asking her questions.
"Can you summon an army of tigers?" Ned asks Ava.
"No, Ned." Ava answers and focuses on the classwork.
As the day goes on, Peter and Ava were constantly being asked about their powers by Ned when they got to gym class and were stuck with a featuring about Captain America.
"Do you know him, too?" Ned asks Peter.
"Yeah, we met a couple of times." Peter tells Ned thinking of when his life was simpler and when the Avengers were first formed.
"Thank you, Captain. Pretty sure he's a war criminal now, but, whatever, I have to show these videos. It's required by the state." Coach Wilson tells them.
"It's kinda ridiculous considering everything." Peter mumbles.
In the middle of class, Ned is still asking Peter as many questions as possible.
"Do avengers gave to pay taxes?" Ned asks.
"Can you please stop?" Peter asks his friend.
"What does Hulk smell like? I bet he smells nice."
"You seriously have to shut up now." Peter informs him.
"Is Captain America cool, or is he like a mean, old grandpa?" Ned wonders.
"Look, we'll continue this in private." Peter offers as a compromise since he doesn't need anyone else leading his biggest secret that he's kept so well for over 15 years.
"Hey, can I be your guy in the chair?" Ned asks. "Like How there's a guy with a headset, telling the other guy where to go?" Like If you're I a burning building, I could tell you where to go." He explains to him.
"Ned, we don't need a guy in the chair. I've been doing this for years, we're fine on our own." Peter says as coach Wilson approaches.
"Looking good, Parker." He comments as he passes.
"Let's see, for me, it would be F Thor, marry Iron Man and kill Hulk." Betty says from the bleachers.
"Well, what the about Spider-Man?" Another kid asks her.
"Did you see the bank security cam on YouTube?" Liz asks. "He and that White Tiger fought off four guys."
"Oh my gosh, Liz is crushing on Spider-Man." One of her friends say.
"Kind of." Liz admits.
"Oh, gross. He's probably like 30 or something." Betty tells her.
"You don't know what he looks like. What if he was seriously burned?"
"I wouldn't care. I'd love him for the person he is inside." Liz informs them.
Peter just rolled his eyes at that, hearing many people say the exact same thing, when his friend did the unspeakable.
"Peter knows Spider-Man!" Ned quickly says causing everyone to stop what they're doing to face Peter.
"What? No, no..I...don't know him." Peter tries lying seeing it's coming apart fast.
"They're friends." Ned says.
"Yeah, like coach Wilson and Captain America are friends." Flash adds.
"I...I've met him a couple of times, but it's through the...Stark internship." Peter tries lying better. "It's just not something I'm supposed to be talking about." Peter says through his teeth looking to Ned.
"Well, that's awesome. Hey, you know what? Maybe you should invite him to Liz's party, right?" Flash tells him.
"Yeah, I'm having people over tonight. You and Ava are more than welcome to come." Liz tells them.
"Yeah, it's gonna be dope. You should totally invite your personal friend Spider-Man." Flash tells him.
"Okay, it's not like we're besties or anything, and it's not like I can ask him to drop everything and stop by." Peter tells Flash. "I mean, there's an entire city that he protects." He explains.
"Yeah, right. He'll be there, right, Parker?" Flash asks when the bell rings and Peter looks to Ned in anger.
"What is wrong with you?" Peter asks him. "I've held my identity a secret for fifteen years and you can't keep it for a whole day?!"
"I'm helping you out. Didn't you hear? Liz has a crush on you." Ned informs Peter.
"Liz has a crush on Spider-Man." Peter corrects him. "If she knew it was me, she probably wouldn't be as interested."
"Dude, you're an Avenger. If anyone has a chance to get someone, it's you." Ned says and leaves.
"Wanna get a head start on the neuralyzer, or the time machine?" Ava asks Peter, seeing he's about to explode.
"I don't know what to do." Peter admits while pulling on his hair. "I can't turn Spider-Man into some party trick, but Flash is gonna mock us until the Earth ends if he doesn't show. And I can barely stand normal Flash. Not to mention the whole Liz crush on Spider-Man deal."
"And if we don't go, Flash is gonna use that to torture us as you said." Ava adds.
"Thank you, Ava." Peter says sarcastically.
"We're going to the party. Maybe leave Spider-Man as a last resort." Ava tells him. "Come on, what harm can it bring us?"
"If anything happens, you owe me five bucks." Peter dares.
"Deal." Ava agrees.
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That night, Coulson offers to drive them as he got home while they were at school to drive them to the party that night.
"House party in the suburbs. I miss these days." Coulson says as he parks Lola outside the house. "You guys are seriously going all out on trying to be normal."
"We always go all out on whatever we do." Ava reminds him.
"This was a mistake." Peter tells them. "You know what, let's just go home." He says not wanting to do this.
"Peter, it's going to be fine. Nothings going to happen, it's just a party. You're trying to fit in, this is the best way to feel like you belong." Coulson assures him. "I know it's a big change from the usual chasing down criminals, but give it a try and have fun."
Peter thinks for a minute and decides his uncle's right. As usual and gets out. "Yeah, you're right. Let's go." He says and gets out.
A kid walks up behind their car and sees it when Coulson speaks up. "Don't touch Lola." He warns the kid without even looking before driving off.
"Your uncle is protective of that car." Ned tells Peter as they meet up with him.
"Lola's a one of a kind." Peter tells him.
"Did you bring your suit?" Ned asks him.
Peter rolls up his sleve and shows he's wearing his suit underneath his clothes.
"Let's knock Flash down a few pegs." Ava says happy to do it.
They enter the house and see Flash is working as the DJ.
"Okay, were gonna have Spider-Man swing in...say you guys are right, and I git a fist bump or half bro hug maybe." Ned whispers to him when they see Michelle is here.
"Can't believe you guys are at this lame party." Michelle says.
"But you're here too." Ned informs her.
"Am I?" Michelle asks and walks away.
"You're right, she's complicated." Ava tells Peter, but he actually likes that about her.
"Hey, guys." Liz greets them. "Cool hat, Ned."
"Hi, Liz." Ned greets her.
"I'm so happy you guys came. There's pizza and drinks. Help yourself." Liz tells them.
"Great party." Peter tells her when something smashes across the room.
"Oh, my parents will kill me if anything's broken." Liz says and leaves them.
"Dude, go Spider-Man up." Ned tells him.
"You know what, I can't do this." Peter states knowing he has to be better than this. "Like I said, Spider-Man is not a party trick. Look, I'm gonna be myself."
"Peter, no one wants that." Ned admits.
"Penis Parker, what's up?" Flash calls from the DJ stand. "So Where's your pal Spider-Man? Let me guess, in Canada with your imaginary girlfriend? That's not Spider-Man. That's Ned in a red shirt." He calls them out and now Peter seriously wants to knock this guy down a few pegs more.
Peter excused himself to get to the roof and change into his suit while trying to figure out what he's going to say while wondering what he's doing. Is he gonna turn his own hero into a lame cosplayer?
And just to impress a girl who he doesn't even like?
To impress the guy who won't stop bullying him, his friend and sister?
While he was lost in thought he looks to see a huge blue explosion going off in the distance.
Knowing he can't ignore something like that, he rushes and swings off to find out what's happening.
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At the scene, under a bridge, two dealers are showing their newest weapons to Aaron Davis.
"Now this is crafted from a reclaimed sub-Ultron arm straight from Socovia." Shocker tells him holding the weapon that at the end holds the Ultron arm.
"Man, I wanted something low-key. Why are you trying to upsell me, man?" Aaron asks him.
"Okay, I got what you need, all right? I got tons of great stuff here. One sec." Shocker promises him as Spider-Man watches the deal from above.
"I got black hole hrenades, Chitauri railguns." Shocker says as his partner approaches Aaron.
"Times are changing. We're the only ones selling these high-tech weapons." He tells Davis.
"So this is where those ATM robbers got their gear." Peter puts together and sees they're using stuff from the Avengers battles to create weapons of mass destruction.
"I need something to stick up somebody. I'm not trying to shoot them back in time." Aaron tells them when Peter's phone goes off and he panics.
"What the hell was that?" Shocker asks.
"Did you set us up?" His partner asks and pulls a gun to Aaron.
Working fast, Peter drops off the bridge and faces them. "Hey, if you wanna shoot someone, shoot me." He dares the two of them.
"All right." He replies and pulls the gun on Peter. That's just what he was hoping for and he pulls the web out of his hand and they start trying to get away.
Peter races to stop them when Shocker pulls out a handheld device and punches Peter in the face sending him flying into the bridge.
"Oh, I hate Avengers weapons." Peter comment but also knows that's something even he would've made for S.H.I.E.L.D. once apon a time.
He webs the back of their truck and starts getting dragged through the streets.
Inside the van, they start trying to use their weapons to shoot Spider-Man but see constantly missing until they drift him into the side of a brick-mailbox and he looses his web.
"Great. Shortcut time." Peter tells himself and runs through the streets and backyards and runs past several parties, one where they were watching Ferris Bueller's Day off.
"Great movie." Peter comments and keeping on swinging and finally catches up to the truck. "I have you now." He says and leaps at them when suddenly his senses go off and he's grabbed by his shoulders and dragged upwards.
Peter looks up to see two glowing eyes and a face that looks like a vulture as he gets dragged upwards when his suit activates a parachute and he falls into the Hudson River.
Peter then starts struggling to get free of the parachute when something glowing picks him up and flies him out of the river.
He looks to see Iron Man himself saved him.
"Hey," Peter greets as he flies him to safety.
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