Three days later, when the Ultimates aka Peter and his friend got back, they were greeted by Tony, who was giving them a death stare. To them, Tony was half of what Fury was, so they weren't all that scared, but on the same note, they were very scared of what he might have found out.

When they made it into the lobby of Stark Industries, they were met face to face with Tony Stark.

Maybe they should have called, but it might not have been the best idea to say 'Hey Tony, hope you don't mind, but me and the others are the Ultimates. We can't come back 'till we get done here, cya later!'.

They were standing in the middle of the Stark Industries lobby, about to be yelled at by the Tony Stark, himself and yet, they were more scared about if Tony didn't trust them enough, even if Tony did find out their secret it wasn't like he was going to tell everyone, right?

"Peter, about time you all got back here!" Tony said, keeping his voice surprisingly calm, which got Sam to look at him and laugh. "Why are you laughing?" Tony asked.

"Because, you never act like this. You are like a man-child!" Sam said, not helping the others at all.

"Tell me where you were at, please?" Tony asked, kindly, to kindly for their liking. Peter and Luke shared a look, before looking at Ava and Danny, who both also had the same look on their face.

"Luke's parent's in New Jersey, to help out with - er, something to do with their work." Peter answered, looking at his friends for help. Tony just shook his head, before staring at them again.

"It's the truth, Mister Stark. My parents wanted our help with something, so we helped them. We didn't know it would take so long." Luke answered honestly, since Peter did answer honestly also.

"Jarvis, did they lie or not?" Tony asked his AI, sometimes they hated Jarvis, sometimes they love him.

"Yes, sir," Jarvis replied. "They were not lying this time, sir." Tony just stood there shocked for a minute, before asking the big question;

"What were you all doing for them?"

"We were helping them, with their work." Ava said, talking to him like he was a child. When he threw her an unimpressed look, she just brushed it off and smiled. Peter, Luke, and Danny just had blank looks on their faces, Sam on the other hand, was smirking at how Ava talked to Tony Stark.

"Jarvis, hack into their phones and whatever else," Tony said, looking Peter dead in the eye. "Why are you all being so hard at just telling me?" Tony stood in front of them, staring at the teens waiting for them to continue.

"Maybe because, we learned going around and telling people isn't always easy." Peter answered, half truthfully. Knowing the truth behind the sentence, the Ultimates all agreed.

"Sir, their phones and tablets have SHIELD locks on them." Jarvis replied, getting Tony to stare at his adopted son even more. What did they not want him to know so badly? It couldn't be all that bad, could it? Tony's thoughts were going in over time. He just wanted to know why, why Peter wasn't being honest with him sometimes.

"Why are there SHIELD locks on your phone?!" Tony asked. He couldn't believe it, why did they have SHIELD locks on their phones and tablets? After a few minutes of them not answering, he sighed before telling Jarvis to hack into the SHIELD locks and open the phones up. "Jarvis is going to tell me what's on the phones, if you don't." When none of the teenagers tried to protest, he took that as a sign that they didn't care.

He told Jarvis to tell him and the teenagers, before Peter stated;"The phone and tablets have nothing on them, other than science! We were helping them with science. Our friend, Doctor Connors works for them also, my father worked with Doctor Connors." Peter snapped, not knowing why, but it felt good that he didn't have to lie about Doctor Connors.

"Sir, I looked at their phones, it appears to only have some science stuff and phone numbers, and photos. On their tablets it has school folders where their school stuff is in." Jarvis answered, making Tony look shocked, again.

"Truth? Yeah, it's the truth!" Sam said with a smirk. "I don't even like school, but these nerds make me." All four of the others glared at him, which made him mutter sorry.

"Excuse me?" Ava said, glaring at him, which in turn he ran.

"Idiot" Peter, Luke and Danny said in unison, which made Tony look at them in confusion, it wasn't usual for Tony to give them that look anymore. It was normal because he didn't understand them half of the time, or all of it.

Tony noticed at how Peter and his friends always act like nothing can bother them. He could tell that even if they act like it didn't bother them, he caught sight of some fear in their eyes before it turns back into nothing. Luke always tried to get the others out of trouble, and the funny thing about it, he noticed Peter and Danny do the same thing. He could swear he saw a hint of fear in Sam's eyes as he ran from Ava, but in Ava's eyes, he just saw amusement. Danny, he could only say a few things about Danny, and that was that he liked Danny, and that Danny and Luke were good kids. He couldn't say that about Sam, because whenever trouble comes their way, he tries to figure out a way out of it, instead of thinking of what it might bring them to. Ava, she reminded him a little of Natasha when she was angry, and she looked like she could kill someone with just staring at them long enough, which was why Tony did not mess with her. At all.

Yes, he's afraid of her, like Natasha. Which he'll never admit, because admitting that wouldn't help him, at all. Tony wasn't afraid of the Hulk, and yet he was of Natasha -even if he could get why he was afraid of her, she's frigging scary!- and Ava, who he couldn't figure out why he was afraid of her. She was a teenager for crying out loud! Even the other teenagers looked a little bit afraid of her.

"Tony, I swear we didn't mean to stay helping Luke's parents so long. They just wanted help with something, and we had to help them, which took longer than we thought it was going to take." Peter said, knowing it would be better to tell the truth than lying, and because of Jarvis.

Tony just stared at him, waiting for him to continue. Peter, Danny and Luke always seemed to stay together on most things, always helping each other out when they could, Tony could tell that those three were always trying to help out Ava and Sam any way they could. Sometimes, it reminded him of the videos of the Ultimates, on different type of missions and villains.

"C'mon dude! We already told you that we were helping Luke's parents!" Sam snapped, getting annoyed. Between Ava wanting to kill Sam and Tony trying to figure out where they were. Oh yeah, they're gonna to be in even more trouble now.

"Sam!" Luke, Peter, Danny, and Ava yelled in unison at Sam, who decided to run, again, but this time he ran smack into Steve.

"Ouch.." Sam said as he collided with Steve before falling on his butt.

"Are you alright?" Steve asked, giving Sam a hand up. The teenager just looked like he was afraid of something, which confused Steve. Sam was in the Avengers Tower a tower full of superheroes.

"Fine... oh no." Sam said as he took his cell phone from his back pocket, its screen broken into a bunch of little pieces. Sam turned around to see the other Ultimates trying not to laugh at how stupid he was for running into Steve, which he could get why he shouldn't have ran into Steve, but dang it.

"Guess we didn't need make you do something stupid, you ran into Mister Rogers." Ava said, grinning at how Sam screwed himself up this time.

"I'll fix your phone, Sam." Tony said, getting all the teenagers to look at him. Tony was just mad at them a moment ago, not to mention they were all still in the lobby. Little did they know that Tony was planning on putting a bug in Sam's phone so he could track them where ever they been going.

"Hmm, so now you're not mad?" Sam asked, making Peter and the others roll their eyes. Steve just stood there awkwardly, not knowing what's wrong, yes Tony's been a little bit of a nut case because of Peter and his friends not being back yet. Tony in return just grinned before grabbing the phone and walking to the elevator and said over his shoulder;

"Yeah, by the way you're all going to be helping cleaning up one of the floors!" Tony yelled over his shoulder at the teenagers, which all the teens now knows Tony isn't going to let them off so easily.

Plus Tony has Sam's phone, that's not going to end up good if he finds out about the un-hackable files on Sam's phone. Steve walked out of the Tower when he saw Tony leave he didn't know what to say to the teens.

"We should head back up whatever floor, we have been living on." Sam said, with a sceptical look on his face. He didn't believe Tony was going to fix his phone like he said he was going to.

"Yeah.. Any idea what Tony is going to do with the phone?" Peter asked as they all walked to the other elevator, all thinking the same thing: Tracker.

"Probably tracker, he might put one on it, or download something into it." Ava replied, with a knowing look on her face. It's a big chance, too bad they didn't know Jarvis downloaded bugs on their phones and tablets when he hacked them.

"Tracker? We are going to have to be careful then." Luke added. If they didn't want to get caught as the Ultimate's then, they were going to have to ask SHIELD for some extra phones for when they were in the field.

"It would be wiser to buy another phone, other than getting tracked by your older one." Danny said, they all nodded in agreement. They made a deal with Jarvis, he don't tell anybody what he heard, unless he asks one of them first. Unless he wanted to get hacked.

"What do you guys want to watch tonight?" Peter asked, as they walked into their shared floor. They shared with Tony and Pepper also, even if they tried to talk Tony into just getting them another floor, or even a hotel and they would be fine. They all had to admit, Tony Stark was a stubborn guy.

"Big Hero 6?" Sam asked which all got took down as fast as it came. Apparently Sam liked superhero movies, who would have guessed.

"Superman Returns?" He tried again, which also got shot down.

"No superhero movies, please?" Ava asked, knowing that Sam wouldn't stop until he got told to shut up.

"Mission Impossible?" Luke asked, turned out no one wanted to watch spies, and a secret agency that was trying to be all bad, and like SHIELD in some ways..

"What about Transformers?" Danny finally asked, which didn't get shot down. Everyone agreed on that one, which was surprising since they seen the movie over a dozen times.

"Sounds good, been wanting to see the new one." Luke said, knowing that everyone wanted to see Transformers 4 since it came out.

Everyone still thought Tony was going to put a tracker in Sam's phone, but they weren't sure if he was or not. Hopefully he wasn't going to, it wouldn't turn out good if he did, everything the Avengers known about them would change forever. The only thing they could hope was that the Avengers would still see them as normal teenagers, which might not happen.

~~~~ Avengers ~~~~

Tony was up late in the lab that night, so he didn't know Peter, Luke and the other teenagers were watching Transformers. He didn't have to walk through the living room part to get to his bedroom.

After trying to go to sleep for two hours, he finally gave up. The nightmares were too bad, he just couldn't sleep with them coming back each and every time. He just wishes Pepper was there with him, she usually made all the nightmares go away.

As he got up from his bed, he looked at the clock, which so boldly, said 3:48 AM. He thought no one else was up, so why not just go to the kitchen and make himself something to eat before going back down to the labs, as he walked down the hall towards the kitchen, he heard something on the TV, he figured someone was up watching TV or something. He did not expect Peter and all his friends to be up watching movies, which, if he was right, they were watching Transformers, the first one. Peter, Luke and Danny shared one couch while Ava took the other, and Sam was laying on the floor, asleep.

If you asked Tony, it looked like Sam was cuddling a tsum tsum, with a pink blanket over him that said 'HUG ME' on it. Tony took his phone out to take a few photos of them all, the light from the TV putted a slight glow on them all as he took the picture, the pictures looked funny, but his favorite was of Sam cuddling that tsum tsum. He was in the shadows, trying to stay hidden for as long as he could.
Tony liked to think he could stay hidden for as long as he wanted to in that doorway, which he didn't know how wrong he was. He didn't notice Peter moving, or getting up out of the couch, while Danny and Luke made it look like he was still there. Peter came up behind Tony, and nudged him a little bit forward with his hands, Tony didn't know what touched him, he just screamed and jumped backwards right into Peter, who caught them both effortlessly.

By that time, Sam and Ava were awake because of all the noise and were laughing with Danny and Luke. The billionaire didn't see the 'Surprise Attack' coming, which made it all the more funnier.
Tony didn't know what to say, Peter sneaked up on him, like a ninja! No one other than Romanoff, Barton and Barnes could do that! Which didn't help ease away the thoughts that were going through his mind fifty miles a minute. What if Peter was Spidey? Didn't Coulson say that Spidey almost died on a mission with the Ultimate's if it wasn't for Nova?

"What the heck! Why would you do that?!" Tony asked, trying to catch his breath.

"Uh, maybe because spying on us, isn't gonna help you out at all." Peter replied with a smirk, everyone else in the room laughing at how Peter just scared the crap out of Tony Stark.

"Ugh, you didn't have to sneak up on me!" Tony said, glaring at the teenagers. He knew it was worth it, the teens would get a laugh from it, he never seen all of them laugh at the same time. It was new, and he had to admit it, he liked seeing them all happy. "So.. Whatcha watching there?" he asked, getting blank looks in return.

"Are you blind?" Sam asked bluntly, knowing no one else would say it. Sam was the only one who was more annoying without his mask on, all the time.

"No, are you?" Tony replied, staring at Sam with a smirk before adding; "Your phone should be ready by tomorrow at 8 am."

"We're watching the Transformers." Peter said, before Sam could make things worst for them. Knowing Sam was going to make it worst, it was just how Sam was.

"So I can see... How many did you watch?" Tony asked, eyeing the television that had Transformers 4.

"This is the second one, Mister Stark." Luke replied, turning back to watch the movie. Tony didn't know how long they have been up, but seeing as two of them had a nap. But he couldn't help but wonder why they were.

"My name is Tony, you know?" Tony asked with a smirk, wanting to see if he could get the teenagers annoyed, which as he could tell, wasn't going to be an easy job. He still couldn't understand how Peter and him didn't drop to the floor when Peter scared him, if Tony was correct, Peter caught both of them before they hitted the floor. He had to be stronger than he looked, or something like that.

"Just watch the movie!" Ava and Sam yelled in unison, throwing all kinds of pillows at him. He sat down lazily next to where Peter sat, apparently Danny and Luke decided to let Peter sit by him. If you asked any of the Avengers, they would all say the same thing; Peter, Luke, Danny, Ava and Sam all acted like they were hiding something, something big. But none of them were sure about it, that's just the thing, they could never get hard proof, even Fury refused to help them out with it. Which says a lot, since the teens aren't SHIELD, Luke's parents might be SHIELD, but that didn't mean anything, did it? He sure hoped not.

After an hour, most of the teens were asleep, other than Sam and Ava, who had a hour or two nap. They were watching Transformers 2, again, Transformers were good movies. Luke and Danny both went to sleep after the end of Transformers 4, while Peter went to sleep halfway through Transformers 1. Which left Tony, Ava and Sam awake.

It didn't help always thinking about 'what if' something like in the Transformers movies actually happened, the Battle of New York was bad enough, and that was just one of the many alien races out there. Thor, he's from Asgard, while Nova person/alien was from Xandar, and Loki was from Jotunheim, who knows what other kinds of Aliens that's out there.

When Peter moved, Tony noticed something, Peter's pants leg rose up, and showed a bullet wound, when did Peter get shot? Tony didn't want to wake Peter up, but he also wanted to know when he got shot in the leg. Tony made a mental note to ask about it later, he was curious and wanted to know what idiot shot Peter.

~~~~ Ultimate's ~~~~

The Ultimate's all got up around six AM to go to SHIELD helicarrier to see what's wrong, Nick Fury hardly called them to come in at six in the morning. Which was why the Ultimate's were tired and, was wondering what was so big that SHIELD had to have them for? it couldn't be that big, could it?

Like always, SHIELD couldn't do the job, well not when it has a mutant with powers they couldn't control, that's how they got onto a quinjet with someone from SHIELD flying them to Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, the X-men were better at bringing in mutants than they were, sure Spiderman has been getting mutants to come to SHIELD, but the New Warriors were still new.

"Ultimate's, how may we be able to help you?" Charles Xavier asked, the X-men and Ultimate's teamed up a few times, all missions going well. Not including the mission where Spidey and Wolverine were in the jungle, or switched bodies..

"There's a mutant issue SHIELD doesn't know how to handle, we figured you could help him much better than we could." The White Tiger replied, knowing it was the truth.

"Mutant issue?" Logan asked, knowing how SHIELD was, they probably thought they were going to put the mutant in one of those jails. To say Logan didn't like SHIELD was one thing, and it was true.

"Yeah, that's what we said when they called. The mutant is new, and they don't want to hurt the mutant, nor get any SHIELD agents killed." Spidey answered, both Logan and Spider-man knew how Fury could be, but Logan was only going to help because Spiderman and his team asked, not because SHIELD wanted them to.

"It's up to Logan and the other X-men, on 1-10 how dangerous is the mutant?" Xavier asked. Spiderman and Power-man looked at each other for a minute before answering in unison.

"Nine." The other Ultimates looked at Spiderman and Power-man in confusion, SHIELD didn't tell them that the mutant was that dangerous.

"We'll help, under one condition," Logan said, with his arms crossed over his chest, the Ultimates nodded, knowing what he'll ask would be for the best of the X-men. "SHIELD stays away from us, unless you -Ultimates- needs help." The Ultimates just stood there looking at Wolverine in confusion, why would they only help if it meant the Ultimates needed help?

"Deal." The Ultimate's said, knowing they need the X-men, and that they could count on them. As the Ultimate's and X-men walked to the SHIELD's quinjet, that was waiting for them, Wolverine stopped dead in his tracks, before shaking his head.

"We'll go in the X-men's." Wolverine stated, not giving no one room to argue him on the deal.

"If you Ultimates want, you could fly with us on Blackbird." Storm said with a smile. They all walked to the X-men's jet, which just got repaired by Forge, for a moment it looked like Forge was going to put up a fight before letting the jet out, but he just shook his head before walking past them.

It was six when they left to go to the Helicarrier to help Fury out with the mutant issue, it just turned seven as Blackbird landed where the mutant was. The Mutant took their help, and when Wolverine putted some kind of necklace (Or metal-thingy?) around his neck to stop his powers from over-loading like it did. The X-men decided it'll be better for him to stay at Xavier's school than at SHIELD being treated like a prisoner (Logan's words).

That's how they ended up at the Infirmary, visiting Billy around. To say the kid was getting sick of the teens or Cage's always being there was an understatement. He was more than sick of it, he hated getting sick, not to mention he was like a prisoner. Even if he could walk away once he gets better, which looked like it could take awhile.

"Hey Billy, what ya doing?" Sam asked, hopping onto the side of the bed, making sure not to sit or hurt Billy when he sat down on the edge of the bed.

"Listnin' to you" The nine year old replied, looking up towards the television. "Can you turn on the TV?" Billy asked with a pout, which Sam just rolled his eye at.

"Kid, I'll turn on the television, but seriously pouting at me or any of the other Ultimate's won't get you no where." Sam replied with a chuckle, as he got up and grabbed the remote and turned on the television to Disney XD. "Not sure what nine-year-olds watch, yeah, here." Luke and Peter walk into the room just at that moment. "About time!" Sam said, hoping down from where he sat on the counter next to Billy.

"Sorry. Hey Billy want an ice-cream?" Luke asked, before walking over to him from the door and began talking to the kid.

"I'm gonna go talk to Fury about that deal with the X-men we made, cya in a few." Peter said, walking out of the door and started heading towards Fury's office. Maybe Coulson could help them out.