Tony Fries My Face Off
Bruce gave us a signal and Ironman immediately flew up in the air. He stopped just below the vaulted ceiling and aimed his hands at me. A white hot burst of energy shot towards my face. I was tempted to remain where I was just to see what it would feel like.
I took too long deciding what to do and ended up flying across the room. My helmet prevented my face from being burned off thankfully but now I was embedded in a hole in the wall.
"Scared I will dent your suit, Tony?" I taunted as I pulled myself out.
"As if, Greek," Tony said as he shot a few more blasts in my direction. I just barely had enough time to dive out of the way before they hit me. "The only thing stronger than what I made this suit out of is Cap's shield."
"Hate to break it to you," I grunted as I launched myself over Tony's attacks. "But my armor is much stronger than vibranium."
"What does it have to be made out of to be stronger than vibranium? Did you mix it wi—"
Tony's words were cut off by my first offensive attack. He'd gotten close enough for me to grab his ankle and yank him down to the ground. His metal covered head hit the mats with a resounding clang.
"Woah! I didn't even see him move!"
That's a new voice.
I looked towards the elevators to see a whole gaggle of students, a teacher and a tour guide staring at Tony and I in awe.
"Friday, what is this?" Tony's voice groaned from within his suit. He was struggling to get to his feet after I brought him down.
"Sir, I did try to tell you that the class Pepper had scheduled for a field trip was here." A woman's robotic voice came over the speakers in the gym.
"Oh, yeah." He said. "I forgot about them." He sighed as he finally reached his feet. "Hello, everyone! Welcome to the Avenger's Tower! I hope—"
"Mr. Stark, is it true that Peter has an internship here?" One of the taller students in the front rose their hand, interrupting Tony as he spoke.
"Don't be ridiculous Flash, even if Peter did have an internship here, there is no way that he would know Mr. Stark personally." Another girl from the group said, rolling her eyes.
"Peter?" Tony asked. "As in Peter Parker? What school are you from?"
"Uh—Midtown High, sir." A rather short boy said from the front. As I looked longer, I realized he had someone hiding behind him.
The part of Tony's helmet that covered his face lifted up so you could see him better. "This is Peter's class, right? Knowing his luck, it would be." He looked around at each of the students before finally settling on the student that was hiding. "Peter! Stop hiding and face the music like a man!"
"H-hi, Mr. Stark." A quiet voice came from behind the short kid as the one hiding slowly stepped into our line of sight.
"Wait, you actually know Pen-Peter Parker?" The first kid—Flash I think—said loudly.
"Of course! Heee's mmmy...intern, yes. My personal intern." Tony was obviously going to say something else (at least it was obvious to me, the rest of the students and the teacher hardly bat an eye).
I narrowed my eyes at this Peter Parker. He couldn't just be an intern with how familiarly Tony was saying his name. Not to mention how my powers connected to him almost immediately. Thinking over the Avengers team as I knew them, I'm pretty sure that I wasn't missing anyone. So I mentally ran through the vigilante heroes in New York that I knew about. Dare Devil? No, I'm almost positive he's an adult out of high school. Deadpool? Absolutely not with how he was just hiding behind his friend. That left...Spider-Man. He has partnered with the team a few times over the last couple years.
I let out a chuckle almost involuntarily, drawing all attention to me.
"Who are you?" Flash demanded. His tone threw me off, reminding me of a few kids I grew up with when I went to middle school.
Deciding to mess with him, I focused on my appearance underneath my armor. Without changing my height or my build too noticeably, I was now a few years older than they were. I took my helmet off and tucked it under my arm. Ignoring how I startled Tony, Bruce, and Steve, I smirked. "I am Percy Jackson. The new hero on the Avengers team."
Jaws dropped and I laughed.
"You can call me the Greek Warrior though." I said almost last second, thinking about what Tony called me during our very short fight.
"Dude, do you not care about your identity?" Tony asked in shock.
I shrugged. "Why should I? Nobody here knows anyone in my family personally."
"He's got a point." Bruce pointed out from the back.
"Where are you from? Greece?" Flash asked incredulously.
I shrugged. "Manhattan actually. What I want to talk about is what you were about to call Peter before you corrected yourself."
He suddenly broke out in a sweat.
"Now, I have no idea what you were going to say but I know it was not his name." I started stalking towards him slowly. "I start school this year at your school and I'd rather not see you messing with him or anyone else while I'm there." Somehow in the middle of talking, I had taken Riptide out and it was hanging by my side almost casually.
"Ummm, but he won't be going with that." Bruce hurried to assure the teacher who had gone very pale. "Right, Percy?"
"Oh, of course." I smiled easily. I put the cap back on the tip and it shrunk to a familiar ball point pen. I twirled it around my fingers before putting it in my pocket. "I don't need a sword to teach somebody a lesson."
"Percy, we've seen your school records from...before," Steve said. "Are you sure you can make it in a school for geniuses?"
I sent a sharp look his way but waved his concern off. "I've gained some coping techniques for my dyslexia and ADHD." I answered. "I'm a lot smarter than my transcripts from them make me out to be."
The field trip ended soon after that. Peter, and his friends Ned, and MJ got permission to stay at the tower since they would be coming here after school anyway.
"Since when were you going back to school?" Bruce asked me once we had all gathered in the kitchen.
"And since when were you so young again?" Tony added.
"I changed my appearance before I took my helmet off, obviously, Tony," I rolled my eyes with a smile. "And I decided to go to school again when I realized that Spider-Man would be letting the school bully pick on him every chance he got. By the way, Tony, you need to work on your general combat skills. There is only so much your suit would be able to do if it's all out of weapons."
"We were interrupted!"
"Wait, how did you know I was Spider-Man?" Peter rose his hand like he was still in school. He sat on the edge of a sofa that also held Ned, Bruce, and Clint. "And you guys didn't tell me you caught him."
"They didn't catch me." I corrected. "I let them take me in once I realized the hydra could have gotten to them in the crossfire. It was a last minute decision."
"And how did you know he was Spider-Man?" MJ asked. She was sitting on a chair mostly removed from everyone else but still close enough to Peter to suggest that she was most comfortable with him.
I smiled but didn't answer.
"Now is not the time to be keeping secrets, Percy." Natasha said. "We need to know how you found out so that we can fix it. Peter has enemies that could try to get to him through his family."
Rolling my eyes. "I am the god of warriors, Natasha." I said.
"You're a god?" Ned asked, eyes wide.
I nodded absently, a sudden idea having caught my full mental attention. "Excuse me, I need to contact some of my people. I will be right back. If you wouldn't mind filling Peter and his friends in?" I looked to Steve who nodded even though he appeared confused.
"How are you going to contact your people?" Tony asked. "You don't have any technology on you."
I smirked without looking back. "That's for me to know and you to wonder about."
The second I entered my room, I closed my eyes and reached out with my mental connection.
"Hey, Luke. You up for going back to school?"
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