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Way back home

“Oi, Penis!-Penis!”
Peter rolled his eyes and knew Ned was doing the same next to him.
“Puny Penis Parker! How does it feel knowing every single day that you are just a pathetic orphan who doesn’t have anyone who cares about him? Your aunt is probably wishing she died just to get away from you. Or better yet you kill her with your Parker curse. I still can´t believe you got accepted into Stark Industries as an intern, I am sure it was just out of pity, no way puny Penis could make it on his own.”
“You know what, Eugene? I really don´t understand your fascination with male genitals. But it would explain why you are such a dick all the time.”
“Whatever, freak. I am sure Peter would know more about male genitals, I bet that is how he got into his internship sucking dicks all day long.”
“In contrast to you, Eugene, Peter can make it on his own, he doesn’t need his mommy and daddy to pay everyone to let him in, he is intelligent enough to not need that unlike you.”
With that last comment she, Ned, and Peter left a spluttering and red-faced Flash behind.
“Thanks, MJ.”
“Whatever, loser. But you should really stand up to him yourself.”
“I know, but I can take it. I´d rather it be me than someone who doesn’t know he has a loving environment.”
He and Ned did their special handshake before he said goodbye to MJ and turned around to walk a couple of streets towards where he knew his dad would have parked his car to pick him up.
His dad usually didn’t pick him up and would send Happy, but his dad didn’t have anything on his schedule today, so they had agreed to spend the day in the workshop tinkering around, improving their suits and stuff.
Peter threw himself into his dads´ car. Thank Thor his dad had chosen one of his less flashy cars. A matte black Audi Rs8 with black leather seats and hot rod red stitching with some gold thrown in every now and then. But you could only see that from the inside due to the tinted windows.
His dad smiled at him and rightened his signatory sunglasses.
"Hey, kiddo, how was school?"
"Fine."
"Really? Usually, you start rambling about your day before I can even get a word in edgewise."
"Well too bad, just because I don't want to talk about how Flash never shuts up about how I am just a charity case for you and that you only took me in because you felt sorry for me. Or how I had to prostitute myself to get into midtown in the first place and to get the internship at SI…"
"Hold on, hold on! Friday, dear, take over, please."
After he reassured himself, that she had indeed taken over the driving, he turned in his seat towards Peter.
"First of all, stop with that shit. I don't give a flying fuck what somebody thinks and says about you. Wait, that's not true, I do care if some asshole spreads some bullshit about you, and I want you to give me his name later. But what I mean is that you shouldn't be listening to him, you´re amazing!"
"You´re my dad, you´re supposed to say that…"
"Because I am your dad, it gives me eternal bragging rights about you, so I know exactly how incredible you are!"
"But I´m just… you know, me. Nothing special about that."
"Nothing special?! You do realize that all the Avengers basically adopted you? Hell, given the chance to adopt you, there would be a huge fight among them. And then they would have to fight against Pepper and me first. Lucky for us, you already are our kid."
Peter looked at his dad uncertainly.
"I´ll mio bambino, you´re the most precious and special out of us all! Your goodness and willingness to keep up with all our crazy lives and to keep making us smile, no matter how bad our day was. You help Steve get accustomed to the 21st century. You helped Bucky feel welcome just as much as you helped everyone else in the family. Those two grandpas adore you. Natasha can be maternal towards you, something she probably wouldn't have had the chance for if not for you. Bruce, god kid, you´re one of the few people to want to talk to Bruce and not the other guy. Bruce was getting really frustrated for always being dismissed in favor of the Hulk. Katniss and Birdbrain simply want someone who keeps playing Mario cart with them, even if they suck and they like someone to have prank wars with. Thor simply likes you and is an excitable guy. Rhodey loved you the moment you were born and made him ´Uncle Rhodey´. Wanda loves having someone here who is closer to her in age than us ´older avengers´. And don´t you dare tell anyone I said that! And Vision is basically an android with J.A.R.V.I.S.s´ voice and a glowing stone on his forehead. And kind of your sibling? Can´t you see how you make everything better for all of them? Not to mention how much better you have made my life… and Pepper´s and Happy´s. You should ask them, how hard to deal with I was before you came along."
Next to him, Peter had started crying halfway through his dads´ speech. But his dad wasn't finished.
"You shouldn't let someone walk all over you, just because you could hurt him physically…. Maybe you could train some more with Cap, learn how to pull your punches, and control the strength behind them, to try and pick up some special tricks from him. And you can always defend yourself with words, you are quite snarky as Spider-man, just transfer that over."
Offended, Peter crossed his arms over his chest and pouted. Which, Tony wouldn't dare tell him, looked adorable and reminded him of the time when Peter was a toddler and looked just like this.
"I am not snarky as Spider-man. I am just using gen z humor… and I know how to pull my punches, I do it all the time on patrol. But training with Captain America sounds awesome! I would really like that."
"Yes, you are sassy! You can hide behind gen Z humor, but I know the truth. And I know you pull your punches with the criminals, however, maybe the more you train with capsicle the more it becomes second nature, and he can give you some pointers seeing as you both have super-strength."
"If I am sassy, I learned it all from you!"
"Betrayal" Tony mock gasped, clutching his heart "by my own kid nonetheless."
This caused Peter to laugh for the first time since he got in the car. By the time they arrived at the tower and were pulling into the garage he was still giggling.
The first thing, Tony did upon arriving was to pull his son in for a bone-crushing hug. He felt Peter returning the hug and melting against him.
"It´s gonna be alright, Pete, it will get better, and you can always come to me. Now, we need to get upstairs, or Pepper is gonna call because she´s worried about you."
Not thirty seconds later, Tony´s cell was ringing. After he took a look at the display he laughed and showed it to Peter. It was Pepper calling. Peter chuckled and took the phone from his dad.
"Hey, mom."
--
"Yeah, we just arrived at the garage and are now coming up."
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"k, see you."
Once they had arrived at the penthouse Peter was immediately engulfed in a hug from his mom.
“Hey, mom.”
“Hey, sweetheart. How was your day?”
Peter gently extracted himself from the hug and went to put his stuff away.
“It was fine.” He answered while walking away.
“Peter.”
Damn, why did dad have to get into this? He didn’t want his mom to know about all this, his dad knowing was already bad. But this, this was worse. He hated worrying his parents. They already had so much on their plates already. They were always making time for him, but he knew they were busy.
“Fine, dad, “ he rolled his eyes and turned around to face his parents “It wasn’t fine, mom, ok? I hate going to school and having to be poor puny Penis Parker who has no parents. Who is living with his aunt because no one else will have him. I am sick of it, alright?! I want to be able to be myself, be Peter Benjamin Nicholas James Parker Stark, to be able to go outside with my parents, to finally be open about living in the Tower with you. I love Aunt May, but I want to be able to see you at my school functions. I want to be able to be openly proud of you both, not just because of some hero-worshipping going on. I don’t want to be that kid anymore who gets the same pitying look every time someone asks who my parents are, and I have to tell them there´s only me and my aunt.” With that he stormed off to his room, leaving his parents behind, flabbergasted.
It took a while, his parents probably wanted to give him some time to calm down and discuss things with each other, but then there was the inevitable tentative knock on his door.
He sighed and called at them to come in.
“Hey Pete” his mom and dad sat down on his bed, where he had been lounging for the last twenty minutes.
“Hi” he murmured looking down at his hands.
“Hey, none of that Bambino” his dad gently nudged his chin up, to get him to look at them.
“Sweetie, we never knew you felt like this... why didn’t you tell us?”
“I didn’t want you to worry. You have already so much to do, and your calendars are full. You are doing like four full-time jobs between the two of you. I didn’t want to cause you any more stress.”
His parents sighed at that and pulled him in for a hug. He buried his face in his dad's neck and could feel his moms’ arms around him from behind. He felt her hand card through his hair and could feel himself settle down.
“Cucciolo, we want to know these things, we want to know if somethings bothering you. That is the only way we can make it better for you. You are never causing us any stress, only by hiding from us. And we will always have time for you!”
“Honey, we can change the situation if it is making you uncomfortable. We can schedule a press conference and announce you to the world.”
“Really?” Peter looked at them hopefully.
“Of course, miele, I mean I would prefer we waited until your 18th birthday, but we can do it sooner if that is what you want. But I didn’t want you to grow up like I had to, as a show monkey who always had to perform and grow up in front of the press. We can organize be a small, controlled press conference where we can announce you to the world as Peter Benjamin Nicholas James Parker Stark”
“I – I want that.”
“Alright, then we will set it up.”
They stood up and Tony reached down to grab one of Peter´s arms and pull him up.
“Come on, it´s time for little spider-babies to eat, then it´s going to be a movie night with the rest of the family.”
Peter smiled at the thought of a movie night, he knew they were going to watch Star Wars because once the rest of the family heard about his little rant earlier, and they would hear about it, they would do everything they could to cheer him up. This would include his favorite food and his favorite movies.
By the end of the evening, Peter was cuddled on the sofa in between his mom and dad. his head was nestled on his dads´ chest and his mom was carding a hand through his hair. He had been right, his family had ´surprised´ him with his favorite pizza and Star Wars already ready to start when he had walked out of his room with his parents earlier on. Even his beloved Iron-Man blanket was already unfolded and ready to be snuggled under.
He loved his unconventional family.

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------------- a few days later--------------

(for everyone who can´t see this picture:

Stark Industries @StarkIndustries
Stark Industries is announcing a press conference for April 15th.
Attending will be CEO Pepper Potts, her husband Tony Stark and a special guest
posted 4:17 pm, April 13th, 2017
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They had intended for the press conference to be on a Saturday to make sure that Peter could start the week with his real identity and without having to go through the abrupt change from one day to the next in the middle of the week.
His dad had also decided to invite his academic decathlon team for a field trip to Stark Industries.
The field trip was scheduled to be on the Friday before the press conference. Peter was not really looking forward to having Flash in his home. But at least he could prove to him that he didn´t lie about his internship. It was just a little bit more extensive than he had told them before. He knew that MJ would bring her crisis notebook to draw Flash´s expression. She would probably get lots of material from him too since he was fairly certain his dad would do everything to embarrass him in front of his teammates.
And he knew that his aunts and uncles would all make an appearance, he was certain his classmates would love this trip but that didn’t mean that his aunts and uncles wouldn’t embarrass the hell out of him.

---------------the next day--------------

Peter walked into the classroom for his academic decathlon practice next to Ned who was gushing about the rumor that Mr. Harrington had a special announcement to make. Peter internally smiled at knowing that it was true and knowing what it was he knew his best friend would lose it and not stop rambling about it. No matter how often Ned would visit him at the Tower, he would always fanboy about it. Never mind that Peter had been living with his mom and dad for a few years now. At first, he had lived with his Aunt May, a close family friend. It was to keep him safe, and he had understood but nevertheless, he had been glad to finally move in with his parents again. It had been easier when he was a little kid to live at Aunt Mays´ because he had been too young to not blurb out his real home was Stark Tower and to invite friends over to the apartment.
It made almost every aspect of his life easier.
Well, apart from being apart from his parents most of the time, his mom and dad had tried to spend as much time as possible with him without attracting too much attention from the media.
The other downside was Flash´s bullying. And he knew that Flash wouldn’t be able to keep himself from taunting him no matter where they were. And in the tower that wouldn’t go over well for him. But, he supposed, Flash had it coming.
So, he listened calmly while Mr. Harrington announced what he already knew, that the acadeca team was granted a field trip to Stark Tower. Next to him, Ned was freaking out and this time, Peter didn’t suppress his smile at his best friend’s excitement. The rest of the team seemed equally excited, well, apart from MJ.
Mr. Harrington was distributing the NDAs and the permission slips. Peter had to smile a bit when he got it, now he needed a permission slip to visit his own home. His family would find that hilarious. They wouldn´t stop teasing him about that anytime soon, that’s for sure.
“Oi, Penis, guess who´s secrets will be exposed soon! Then everybody will know that you are just an attention whore!”
“Shut up, Flash.” Thankfully, Flash let it be and sat down by his friends again.
Suddenly, seeing Flash get confronted about his behavior by his family didn’t seem so bad at all. Funny, how quickly one can change their mind. He just hoped his family wouldn’t kill flash. Or maim him.

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The days leading up to the field trip were not fun for Peter. Flash had decided to step up his game and made it his mission to taunt Peter every time they met, which was seriously too often in Peter´s opinion.
It became an almost hourly occurrence that he was taunted with the unimaginative nickname “penis”. And on top of that, Flash had now decided to shove him into lockers when he wasn’t reacting to him anymore. He was glad that it wasn’t too warm yet so he could get away with wearing long-sleeved shirts, and of course, his advanced healing helped tremendously.

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So I finally found one of the fics I have been searching for XD
It’s the number 3 on my list:
https://archiveofourown.info/works/33221779
The Many Times Peter Parker shocked Midtown
by WreckedItRiley

(I’ll try to figure out a better way to make it a direct link)

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FIELD TRIP TO STARK INDUSTRIES

Peter shifted his weight from one side to the other. Showing Flash up had sounded like such a good idea the whole time and even now he couldn’t deny that it had its appeal. But he still wasn’t fond of the idea of having the acadeca team in his home. Even if they wouldn’t get to see his actual home in the penthouse.

Suddenly he felt his stark watch vibrate. His dad had texted him to ask if he was alright. Whenever his vitals spiked too much, his dad would get an alarm and it was basically guaranteed that he would get at least one text in extreme cases, his dad would call or come to his location.

His dad was keeping an eye on him whenever he could and had no qualms of attaching a high-tech GPS tracker watch with various extra functions to mislead him from the fact that it was a tracker.

First, his dad had wanted to essentially solder the watch to his wrist but had been convinced by the rest of the family to not do that for safety reasons. Because of his status as Tony Stark’s intern (alright, son and spider-man, but not many people knew about that, at least not yet), he was a high-risk target for those who knew about his secrets.

Having a watch soldered to his wrist wasn’t exactly inconspicuous, so his dad had made the watch removable.
He quickly pressed a discreet button at the side of the watch twice to let his dad know that he was okay.
It was a system that they had worked out since texting was too impractical when he was at school.

One press meant that he needed help and wasn’t okay.
Pressed twice meant that he was okay and, his dad could calm down.

His acadeca team had met up at the school to drive to the tower. It was ironic how he had to go to school just to come home with his team, not an hour later. His family had found that hilarious. They had teased him without mercy, which to be fair, he would have done too, if he was them.

Now, his team stood in front of the tower, where their teacher, Mr. Harrington, was giving out last-minute instructions.

For some reason, he was looking at Peter when it came to the not wandering off part.
He ignored the annoyed and exasperated look he got from Mr. Harrington when he didn’t react to the thinly veiled scolding.

Of course,
Flash couldn’t help but let out a mocking laugh and tell his friends how Penis deserved what will be coming for him once the Tony Stark realizes that he had lied about having an internship with him.
Peter was glad that FRIDAY didn’t have as many sensors and microphones outside where they stood. His dad would flip once he heard exactly how Flash talked to him.
Even though his dad technically knew how Flash treated him, it was a whole other ballgame to witness it mostly firsthand (he just knew that Friday would report everything that happened to him directly to his dad).

Finally, Mr. Harrington seemed to be finished with his monologue (or he realized that no one was listening and gave up) and lead them inside the building.

The lobby of SI was amazing and even though Peter had been here and seen it for so many years, he was always amazed by it. His mom had designed it mostly, so it was classic, elegant, and expensive without losing the homey touch.

MJ was just looking up from her book, she had already seen and drawn everything she wanted in the lobby, but she quickly put the book away and opened her crisis notebook since it was basically guaranteed that she would get lots of material.

She had promised Peter and Ned to draw Flash when he realized that Peter had indeed an internship.

Ned, as always was super excited, never mind that he had been there, just a few days ago.

His classmates were literally staring with their mouths hanging wide open and even Mr. Harrington had to take a moment to try and take it all in before he made his way over to the front desk that was designated for registration.

Peter followed him with his eyes and gave a quick wave over to Carly who seemed to be on duty today. Over the years, he had gotten to know the people working in the lobby pretty well, considering he was always wandering in and out the tower (or swinging, but then he was usually just jumping out a window, even if that tended to always give his parents almost a heart attack, not to mention he was always wearing his suit when he did that) and extremely chatty.

Carly´s eyes widened when she saw him, and he could see her suppressing what had to be a huge grin. Yes, he was so screwed. There was absolutely no way that nobody would approach him and call him by embarrassing nicknames.
And that was only the employees because he knew that his dad would get involved in some way or another or the rest of their crazy family.

Honestly, he was expecting Clint to fall out of the vents at some point to interrupt their tour.

By now, Mr. Harrington was coming back to the group with another familiar face in tow.

Before Peter could stop himself, he was greeting her.
“Heya Mads, so you´re stuck with tour duty, huh? Lost against Cameron again?”

The rest of the team looked at him as if he had suddenly grown a second head, apart from MJ and Ned, of course. Mr. Harrington was already opening his mouth to scold him for being disrespectful or something, but Madeline was already answering.

“Yeah, I did Pete. But just seeing you here makes it worth it. I am sure that this won´t be a normal tour and we will have lots of guests.” She gave him a wink and laughed.
Peter´s shoulders dropped, it was official, he was going to die from embarrassment today. Please, Thor, couldn´t the ground open itself and swallow him up?

“Yeah, that´s exactly what I am afraid of.”
He muttered and gave her a weak smile, which only made her laugh harder.

The rest of the acadeca team was still staring bewildered at him and Maddy.
“Now that this is done, let´s get started, shall we?” Maddy asked before starting to hand out the badges she was carrying in a carton. The badges were all white with a black ´guest level 2´ printed on them.

“What does level 2 stand for and how many levels are there?” Cindy asked.
“Guest level 2 means that you are here for a visit with access to wherever your registered tour guide leads you, except if I would accidentally walk you somewhere where something classified would be overseen or the upper levels.

There are ten levels.

Level 1 is for the press who aren’t here regularly, as the foreign press.

Level 2 is usually reserved for tours.

Level 3 only gives access to the press who often have business here and it only grants access to the press conference rooms.

Level 4 is for lobby employees since they usually don’t have to move to the higher levels in the tower.

Level 5 is for the lower-level interns since they most often don’t work on the most highly classified
products and are more likely to be on the younger range of the college students we employ.

Level 6 higher level interns, who more often work on classified material, although Mr. Stark mostly manages the avengers' gear and innovations for SI. After Mr. Stark finishes the concepts, the labs fabricate, build and test everything. But the interns are encouraged and required to come up with their own innovations. It doesn’t even matter in which field, it can be engineering, mechanics, electric technology, medicine, or biology, basically, every scientific field can be found in this building or one of SI´s partner firms.

Level 7 is for most of the office workers, like the lawyers, the HR, IT, and PR people.

Level 8 includes department heads and the higher-level office workers, plus the more seasoned workers here, who have greatly impacted the continuing success of Stark Industries.

Level 9 is reserved for the division heads, their assistants, and the avengers, who aren’t residents here and live outside of New York and friends and family from the other avengers apart from Tony Stark and Colonel James Rhodes.

Level 9 also includes security apart from Mr. Happy Hogan who is Tony Stark´s personal bodyguard and Head of Security.

Level 10 is for the CEO Pepper Potts, Tony Stark, their friends, the Avengers, Tony Starks personal intern, and a few other people. The badges mostly look the same.

Your guest badges don´t have your pictures or names on them because we will reuse them again for other tours to save resources.

All badges from level 3 and up have your picture, your name, your pronouns, and your position in the company.

Some individuals have distinct colors, like Mr. Stark, who doesn´t exactly need a badge but he has a red and gold one for obvious reasons. The Avengers and level 10 are the exceptions to having to wear their badges inside this building since Friday will recognize them.

Any questions?” she asked at last.

The team stared at her, overwhelmed by the added information and too occupied with processing to ask more questions. Meanwhile, Maddie continued to hand out badges, leaving out Peter, MJ, and Ned.

“Now, that everyone has a badge you will have to go through the scanner one by one. Friday, Mr. Starks AI will announce you. Usually, we don’t have to use this as Friday immediately recognizes every face as soon as you enter the building, but we like to do it for tours and press. It helps keep out unwanted surprises.”

Maddy went through first.

“Madeline Thomas, level 6. Public Relations department. Welcome back to Stark Industries, Madeline. Enjoy leading your tour and have a good day!”
“Thank you, Friday!”

The class formed a line and went through it one by one. Flash, having shouldered his way to the front of the line as if it would earn him a prize proudly walked through first.

“Eugene Thompson, guest level 2. Welcome to Stark Industries.”
Flash looked proud as if he had won the lottery, even if he had grimaced at being called by his real first name, which he abhorred.

“Cindy Moon, guest level 2. Welcome to Stark Industries. Enjoy the trip and have a good day!”
“Betty Brant, guest level 2. Welcome to Stark Industries. Enjoy the trip and have a good day!”

It went on like this until only Mr. Harrington, MJ, Ned, and Peter hadn’t gone through.

Mr. Harrington went next.
“Roger Harrington, guest level 2. Welcome to Stark Industries. Enjoy the trip and have a good day!”

Peter gestured for the others to go on before him.
MJ rolled her eyes and went on.
“Michelle Jones, intern, and friend, level 10. Welcome back, MJ. Enjoy your tour and have a great day!”
“Thanks, Friday,” MJ answered nonchalantly.

Ned went next, leaving Peter on the other side.
“Edward Leeds, intern, and friend, level 10. Welcome back, Ned. Enjoy your tour and have a great day!”
“Thank you, Friday,” Ned answered politely.

The team on the other side was gaping at MJ and Ned. They couldn’t believe what they had heard.

Peter nervously chewed on his bottom lip before taking a deep breath and walking through the scanner. Aware that everyone was watching him, he squared his shoulders and tried to appear confident.

“Peter [classified] Parker [classified], [classified], [classified], [classified], personal intern to [classified] aka Tony Stark. Also known as [classified], [classified], [classified], [classified], [classified]. Welcome back [classified] Peter. Boss sends his regards as well as Boss Lady and they wish you a nice trip. Boss also stated that he will require you to work later after your trip, so you don’t have to go back to school. Enjoy your tour and have a great day, Peter!” (just imagine a beep sound for the classifieds :P;)

[Peter Benjamin Nicholas James Parker Stark, resident, avenger, third in command, personal intern to Irondad aka Tony Stark. Also known as Underoos, Mini-Stark, Mini-Boss, Junior, Stark Junior. Welcome back home Peter. ]

“Thanks, Fri,” Peter muttered, knowing that his dad had done this completely on purpose.

His team was staring at him like he had grown a second head, again. He was tempted to look at his shoulder to see if it was true, it wouldn’t surprise him. If anything like that would happen to him it would be today.

Peter smiled awkwardly, uncomfortable with the attention focused solely on him.
“I told you I had an internship. I guess I am pretty high up in the chain of command here.”

He tried to explain the many classifieds in his announcement. Out of the corner of his eyes, he could see Maddy trying desperately to get her smile under control. She was so going to pay for this, he thought.

“That doesn’t explain MJ and Ned.” Abe finally said. Many of his teammates nodded in agreement. Flash still looked completely shocked.

“I guess I talked a lot about Ned and MJ on my lab days with Mr. Stark. About how Ned´s hacking is amazing and how MJ is an activist interested in the legal aspects to improve our future. So, one day, Mr. Stark asked to meet them and later gave them internships, too. And I guess since they´re my friends I can technically take them anywhere in the building, so he gave them a level 10 clearance.”
Peter nervously rambled, scratching the back of his neck.

Maddy took that as her cue to get started on the tour.
She led them over to the elevators.

Suddenly, Peter found himself reconsidering if Friday really didn’t have any sensors outside since she had wished everyone a good day and field trip except Flash. But he was sure that only he (and Flash) had noticed that.

“Hey Peter, did you notice that Friday greeted everyone personally with pleasantries except Flash?” Ned gushed, maybe a bit too loud as Flash immediately turned around and fixes them with a nasty glare.

Thankfully he didn’t dare say anything, since their teacher was between them. but he could hear some others from his team snicker at that, Flash had obviously offended more people than just Peter with his behavior.

In the elevator, everyone was excitedly discussing what had just happened. Peter just rolled his eyes, tried to ignore everyone’s comment on his clearance, and stuck close to MJ and Ned.

Once the elevator doors opened, Maddy led them to the left corridor and started explaining the history of Stark industries, always gesturing to the pictures of the events she was referring to.

They were led by pictures of Howard Stark, his flying car, and many more inventions from Howard Stark. Then the pictures changed, Obadiah Stane was only mentioned briefly and there was no picture of him visible, since he had tried to kill his dad, sold weapons to terrorists, and was just in general, not a decent human being. There was a noticeable gap in the timeline when Afghanistan happened.
It was designed deliberately this way, it signaled the change from the weapons manufacturer to, well, basically everything. And of course, it also featured Iron Man now. This led to the Avengers Museum.

The corridor that they had just walked led around the museum in a circle and they ended up at the elevator again.

The tour was pretty interesting even though Peter knew all that already, but he busied himself with only listening half-heartedly and instead of studying the pictures more closely. The rest of the team listened with rapt attention, even Flash was shutting up for once and not mocking Peter.

They took a short break to allow everyone to stroll back to something they found interesting.

Peter, MJ, and Ned went back to the Stark Expo where Howard had presented the first flying car (which hadn’t flown) just to see Steve and Bucky.

His uncles often told him stories of what had been in the time before the war and during it but were always cautious to not go too much into detail if they were recounting something that happened in the war.

Almost as soon as they had arrived at the pictures Peter felt his Spidey Sense tingle (not Peter tingle, thank you very much!)

He tried to inconspicuously look around but didn’t see anything out of the usual when he heard it. It was almost silent, but with his super-hearing, he could hear it without a problem.

He looked up and a bit to the left from his position where he knew the vents were located.

“Ned, you should step a bit back and to the side. MJ, you too.”

His friends looked at him confused but obeyed, nonetheless.

And not a second too soon, because the vent grill moved and then Clint stuck his head out of the vents.

“Hey, Petey, why are you watching this boring old stuff?” he asked.

“I always like Uncle Steve´s and Uncle Bucky´s stories and I wanted to see if I can find them in these pictures.” He explained and pointed to the picture where Steve and Bucky were located next to Howard Stark and the non-flying flying car.

Clint pouted and grumbled “Why would you want to look for the grandpas? It is not like their faces have changed much, damn that super-soldier serum. They should try and make an anti-aging cream based on it. People would go crazy to buy it.”

Peter just smiled and shrugged, while MJ and Ned were openly laughing at Clint's grumbling.

“Uncle Clint, could you please go back upstairs and tell dad that I am fine and don’t need you to check up on me, especially since I know that you´re most likely all in the common room watching Fri´s feed and eating popcorn.”

Cling suddenly got serious “Then why didn’t you tell us about that kid?”

“What kid?” Peter tried to ask innocently.

“The one, who has been giving you a hard time the whole time you have been here!” Clint wouldn’t let this go, and if Clint was this bad, he didn’t know how bad his dad would be. Although, he should probably be grateful that his uncle had decided to approach him when only Ned and MJ were with him and not without his full team present.

His dad would kill Flash and the rest of the family would probably assist him and come up with alibis for later.
“Oh, that’s just Flash...” Peter said.

“I will let that lie for now, but don’t think your dad or the rest won´t bring this up!” With that, Clint crawled a bit back, replaced the vent grill, and was gone.

Peter exhaled and tried to calm himself down. It would be fine; everything would be alright.

By now, it was time to go back to the group, their time was up and now they would be visiting the Avengers Museum.

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This time they went through the door directly across from the elevator.

His teammates gasped when they saw all the paraphernalia that was visible behind the glass displays.

Immediately they swarmed out and went to the displays of their favorite superheroes.

There was Captain America, Iron Man, Hawkeye, Thor, Black Widow, the Hulk, War Machine/ Iron Patriot, the Falcon, the Black Panther, Scarlet Witch, Vision, the Winter Soldier, Doctor Strange, and even some for Pepper Potts, Shuri, and Loki.

His dad had even added one for Pietro Maximoff, Wanda´s brother.

Wanda had cried when she found out.

„Hello, Peter.“ Vision was walking over towards them in his human-looking form, which most people didn’t even know about, as he didn’t use it when the Avengers had missions.

„Hey, Viz.“

„You have quite the Fanclub upstairs, everybody’s watching how your day is going like it’s ´The Truman Show´.“ Peter groaned and facepalmed.

„Great just what I need… my family is watching me like stalkers, and I won’t have any privacy whatsoever today.“

„I wouldn’t say stalkers, they are merely concerned and rightfully so as it seems.“

„Can you please leave Viz! I don’t think it will look good if I am talking to strange men on the tour.“

„As you wish Peter. I will leave. But I am instructed to inform you that your dad is watching, and I am sure that he will want to talk to you later!“

Peter facepalmed again.

„Oo, Penis why are you harassing that man?“

"Leave me alone, Flash," Peter grumbled, not wanting to deal with Flash right now and risk drawing any more attention to himself.

Surprisingly, Flash backed off almost immediately. Confused, Peter turned around. Behind him, MJ was glaring at Flash.

Seemed like, Flash didn't want to get roasted by MJ again.

Mr. Harrington once again remained oblivious to everything that was happening around him.

He was happily perusing the museum, specifically the Hulk display. Swiftly, Peter, Ned, and MJ went to their favorite exhibits.

Ned went to the Captain America one. He still wasn’t quite over his hero-worship of Steve.

Peter wasn’t sure he would ever be, to be honest. MJ first went to the Black Widow exhibit and then the one about Pepper Potts.

Peter went to the Iron Man one. His dad would always be his favorite superhero.

He could almost hear his dad taunt the others and cheer that he was looking at his display.

/ Iron Man facts/

1. He loves his coffee, don’t touch it or dare keep it from him unless you are prepared to take the repercussions. (Captain America once tried and still can’t talk about what happened, without shivering.)

2. He loves his shawarma after a battle. A tradition that was founded after the battle of New York in 2012.

3. Dr. Stark created over 50 different suits, all with various color schemes, each with specific qualities to suit each situation.

4. Iron Man’s suits started with features that gave him the ability to lift up to 100 tons (90,718 kg) in weight!

5. His favorite superhero is Spider-Man.

Peter almost teared up on the spot when he read the last fact.

He knew his dad loved him and was proud of him and all, but it was something different to see it so publicly broadcasted (even if it was talking about Spider-Man).

He quickly took some deep breaths and looked directly at one of Fri´s cameras and tried to convey everything he was feeling for his family specifically his dad right now, in just one look.

He knew he was understood when his watch vibrated not a second later in a Morse code pattern.

Living with at least two spies for most of his life is useful for stuff like that.

.-.. -.—

´L Y´

“Love you”

Peter realized and smiled.

The three friends eventually met up again at the Spider-Man display.

Ned and MJ were laughing at the fun facts.

/Spider-Man facts/

1. Is the only superhero who can sneak up to every single Avenger and scare them. (Even Black Widow and the Winter Soldier)

2. Spider-Man is the only person who is allowed to braid the hair of other Avengers. (Yes, we mean Thor, Loki, Black Widow, and the Winter Solider specifically.)

3. Spider-Man is insisting on being hyphenated. So don’t forget to do that, he’s very serious about it!

4. The first suit Spider-Man went out in was homemade, as were his web-shooters. (No, it doesn’t come out of him. His webs are synthetic and can be specifically tailored to the situation with his new suit and web-shooters.)

5. Iron Man is his mentor.

6. When Spider-Man was a kid, he was once saved by Iron Man. Ironically, Spider-Man wore an Iron Man costume.

7. Iron Man is his favorite superhero. 8. Spider-Man is terrified of spiders. He will scream and jump to the ceiling as soon as he spots one.

9. Thor and Spider-Man share an obsession for pop tarts.

10. Spider-Man is the only superhero who is loved and protected by every superhero and mercenary in the city. He is a cinnamon roll, not even Doctor Strange, Director Fury or Loki can dislike him.

“Wow Peter, Spider-Man has more facts than any other superhero” Ned gushed.

Peter just shrugged while MJ asked, “You´re terrified of spiders?”

“You try getting bit by one, then getting scarily sick only to wake up and be able to stick to things.

Hell, yeah, I am afraid of these. But they are incredibly fascinating creatures and as long as they are behind glass and not near me, I am fine.”

MJ nodded, accepting that he had valid reasons.

“I bet you wished you were as cool as Spidey, right loser? You can never even dream to be as cool as Spider-Man, Penis. So, get out of the way before your Parker luck infects Spider-Man and the people around him die too. Like your parents and uncle. Bet they were glad to be away from you.”

Peter and his friends just shared a look before they turned to walk away.

“Yeah, walk away and leave just like everyone in your life leaves. I bet your family was glad to get rid of you even if that meant having to die. Maybe you should try it too before you kill anyone else.”

Wow, Flash was definitely not pulling his punches today.

Which was dumb, since the NDAs and paperwork most of his team had to sign explicitly stated that bullying was not tolerated, and any bad behavior would be documented and brought to the attention of the superiors and the school.

And of course, Friday was keeping an especially close eye on him since his family was watching.

Peter was just glad that Flash had chosen to harass him and not somebody who didn’t know that he was loved by his family.

Even if that meant he had to hear such utter bullshit directed at him. Besides, he was Spider-man, he could take it.

He chose not to react and instead walk over to Maddie to chat for a bit.

MJ and Ned went with him since they wanted to get to know her too.

They chatted for a bit until Maddy called everyone back to her again.

“Alright, everyone, now we will go to the exhibition area that features most of SI´s new releases. You will also be able to see some recent releases and the most popular ones. There will also be some visible breakdowns of some steps during the production. And some background information like ideas on how to find inspiration and circumvent problems. That should be interesting for STEM school students like you.”

The others began chatting animatedly amongst themselves.

Peter, MJ, and Ned hung back and talked about their weekend plans. Peter told them about the plans for the press conference.

He also told them about the surprise party his dad was sure to plan for afterward, since he tended to do stuff like that and was not subtle at all about it, because he forgot about Peter´s super-hearing.

His friends laughed and agreed with him.

Peter completely forgot that his family was listening and was now teasing Tony, who had indeed been planning a surprise party for his son, about how he truly wasn’t subtle at all.

Pepper´s only comment to that was “Gigantic stuffed bunny.”, before she had to leave on a one-day business trip. which was delivered so dry that it had all the avengers bursting out in laughter again.

Tony huffed indignantly and muttered something about an “ungrateful family, who didn’t appreciate a perfectly reasonable gift and didn’t know how to party.”

But he was smiling as well, showing that there was no real heat behind his comment.

Once they reached the new exhibit room, everyone dispersed again in small groups.

The three friends decided to start on the oldest project and work their way up to the latest ones.

Once they came to the projects that had come out about two to three years before this day, a new name started making an appearance, even if it was only P. B. Parker.

Peter proudly showed his friends those and proceeded to explain some of the processes behind the finished projects, taking care to call his dad ´Mr. Stark` all the time, in case someone was walking by.

He didn’t notice that by now most of his team was listening to his anecdotes and even Madeline, the tour guide, was listening and not so surprisingly learning new things.

However, Flash scoffed at Peter´s story of how the web fluid from spider-man had been adjusted so it was now usable for field medicine in crisis areas.

“You wish spidey was working with you, or even in your vicinity. I bet spidey is way too cool to even be near you. You really shouldn’t be spreading such lies. You´re destroying spidey´s reputation, stop taking others down with you.”

Peter sighed and finished his story.

Then he straightened, turned around, and looked Flash up and down with a raised eyebrow.

“You know what, Flash? You may be able to bully me in school, where the teachers turn a blind eye to it because your parents silence them with ´charity´ money.”

He made quotation marks with his fingers saying ´charity´.

“However, I won´t let you bully me at my workplace. I let it slide the first few times it happened earlier. But I have a reputation to uphold here, and I won´t be bullied at a place where I am respected and have earned my place high up. So do us all a favor and shut up, you´re ruining the tour for all of us with your constant need to prove that I don’t have an internship here. So just stop talking and let the others enjoy the tour without having to listen to you talk.”

There was a beat of silence before the students (except Flash and his friends) broke out in quiet snickers, this was the first time Peter had spoken up against Flash without Flash attacking someone Peter cared about.

MJ was busy drawing Flash in her crisis sketchbook, who was beet-read and didn’t know what to say to that.

Mr. Harrington decided to say nothing, as he had tried repeatedly to get Flash to back off, which only resulted in him getting repercussions instead of his student.

He had even been told by the principal, that he was supposed to let Flash be.

So, he saw absolutely no need to intervene when Peter finally put Flash in his place especially since he didn’t have to stoop as low as Flash and use childish insults.

He coughed lightly to hide his amused grin, even if no one, who had they been looking at him would have been fooled.

Peter turned back to his friends and walked with them to the next project with his name attached to it.

The rest of the group minus Flash followed, eager to hear stories from Peter about the background of the projects.

Once they were almost at the end of the exhibit, there was a small plaque mounted on the wall.

Ned glanced at it before doing a double-take and grabbing Peter to the plaque.

He dragged Peter over, which prompted the rest of the team to follow and then read aloud.

“The mentioned initials, P. B. Parker, which can be found throughout this exhibition belong to Tony Starks personal intern.

P. B. Parker was personally scouted and recruited by Tony Stark as his personal intern at the age of 13.

Making him the youngest intern and only personal intern of Tony Stark ever.

Mr. Parker has his own lab, next to Tony Stark and is usually involved in at least 15 ongoing projects throughout the whole company and the fields SI participates in.

For the most part he works as Spider-Man´s personal technological adviser and helped develop the web-shooters, that help Spider-Man catch criminals.

In addition to that, he is the only worker at SI, apart from Dr. Tony Stark who is being trusted to work on the Avengers gear.

While still in high school, Mr. Parker manages his personal projects, the company projects, the Avenger gear, and online courses at MIT.

He has experience with collaboration projects. These collaborations include Dr. Anthony Stark, Dr. Robert Bruce Banner, Princes Shuri of Wakanda, Dr. Helen Cho, and within several departments of Stark Industries.

We here at SI are very thankful for Mr. Parker and believe he will continue to create great things in the future.“

“Jesus Peter, you take classes at MIT? How? With school and a full-time internship?! Seriously how?!” Betty asked.

The rest of the team nodded.

Peter shrugged.

“School is not really that hard for me. Sorry Mr. Harrington, but most of the stuff you teach, I have known for years.”

Mr. Harrington shrugged, he and his colleagues were well aware that they weren’t actually teaching Peter anything he didn’t already know.

“Then why don’t you graduate early?” Abe asked.

“I considered it, but honestly, I don’t want to be the 15-year-old at the MIT campus. I even talked it over with Mr. Stark and and my college advisor, he told me I should not do it and instead take some courses which interest me and not stress myself out about college just yet. And my Aunt May agrees. And this way I can graduate with my friends. So, I took some online courses and do most of the material during class. Sorry, Mr. Harrington.”

Peter shot him a sheepish look.

Mr. Harrington just smiled at him.

“Peter, we are well aware, that we are usually not teaching you anything at school that you don’t already know.” Peter´s face got beet red at that. Suddenly they were interrupted by Friday.

“Peter, I am sorry to interrupt your field trip, but the ´home alone´ and ´boss baby alone in New York´ protocols have been activated. I have transferred all the necessary meetings into your calendar. An appropriate suit is already ready for you in your office and everybody else had been informed. Mr. Graham has been informed and will meet you in conference room C in 15 minutes.”

Everyone froze.

This was the first time they had heard Friday speak apart from the greeting at the beginning of their field trip.

Peter groaned, of all days it just had to be today, didn’t it?

Mom was out of the country on some business trip, that had been scheduled a few hours before, so that she could just about see the beginning of his tour in the museum but had to leave. At least she was scheduled to arrive home before the end of his field trip and dad had obviously another thing that he had to deal with somewhere outside of New York.

Out loud, he confidently answered Friday, already slipping into his business persona.

“Thanks, Fri. Is there anything that you can tell me about why D- Mr. Stark had to leave? Any intel on how long it will take?”

Before Friday could answer he had already reconsidered. “Send it to my tablet, Fri no need to publicly broadcast everything now. And send me the notes for the meetings I need to attend.”

Peter suddenly had a StarkPad in his hands without anyone knowing where it had come from. He was already walking away, simultaneously reading on his tablet and talking to Friday on the go it seemed.

Mr. Harrington finally seemed to unfreeze as soon as Peter started walking away.

“Peter! Peter Parker! You can´t just leave the tour! Come back!”

By now, Peter was already gone, and Mr. Harrington deflated.

“Don´t worry, Mr. Harrington. Peter is authorized and perfectly capable of handling this. He will rejoin our tour as soon as the protocols have been revoked and he doesn’t have to handle anything important anymore, but Mr. Graham is a very important client of ours. So, let´s get going, shall we?”

All she got in return were some silent nods.

Everyone was still in shock about how Peter had transformed in front of their eyes, even if he had only been a bit more confident than in school and how he had ignored Mr. Harrington was simply badass.

“Next stop will be the Public Relations department, in short, the PR office. If any of the workers there asks for your input with marketing or something like that, feel free to give your honest opinion. But if they are working, I have to ask you to please not disturb them. We will launch some new products soon, so their work schedules are packed. They have to prepare statements, come up with marketing slogans, commercial stuff, and so on. Carly, another intern there, has agreed to give us a short overview of everything, but we will only stay there about half an hour, maybe even less.”

Since Midtown was a STEM school, nobody had any issues with that.

They were not nearly interested as much in the PR aspects as they were in the technological aspects.

Well apart from Cindy Moon, Betty Brant, and MJ.

But MJ very seldom showed emotions, so it was difficult to tell if she was interested or not.

After the class had visited the Personal Relations office and heard an admittedly pretty boring speech about what PR people did, they continued to HR.

In Human Resources, they only stopped for ten minutes or so since everyone pretty much knew what HR did.

Now, they were on their way to the legal department.

They were walking by some conference rooms, which were fully encased in glass. Suddenly, Cindy stopped and caused several students to bump into each other. She shakily pointed her finger to one of the conference rooms.

The others followed her point of view and gasped.

There, in the conference room, dressed in a fancy designer suit stood Peter Parker. He was leaning over the table, his hands put on the tabletop.

And Peter Parker, who never raised his voice was angry and almost screaming.

“NO, Stark Industries will not make an exception for you and produce you some weapons just because you feel like it.”

“Mr. Parker please understand that it would be handled very discreetly, and Stark Industries would be very well rewarded.

“For the last time, the answer is no. Or did you miss the press conference in 2008 where Tony Stark announced that the weapons manufacturing division would be halted and not revisited?! And let me remind you that Tony Stark is a billionaire who is very capable of investing his money. If you don’t have any other reason for coming here and wasting my time with useless ideas on what we should produce for you, you can leave.”

“But, Mr. Parker, the US Military would profit from this, our soldiers fighting for and protecting the homeland and freedom would-“

“General Jafrein, I will stop you right there. As you know I have the power and authority to suspend our contracts with the US Military since you can´t seem to respect the direction Stark Industries is taking.

And let me remind you, that Tony Stark is Iron Man and has graciously allowed the US Military access to one of his suits, which is currently operated by Colonel James Rhodes.

As Iron Man, Dr. Stark is protecting the freedom of not only the US but the whole world, so don’t you dare accuse him of not caring about this.”

“H-“

“You will leave now, general before I am forced to have you escorted out by security and banned from the premises.”

With that, Peter turned around and froze upon seeing his team standing there with open mouths.

Madeline, MJ, and Ned were smiling at him proudly.

Peter smiled sheepishly and allowed the general to walk out of the door before him.

He watched as the general stalked angrily away, huffing, and puffing all the way to the elevator.

Peter made a mental note to talk about that particular general with his parents.

Military folks were often obnoxious, but this one had been particularly stubborn.

"Ok, but what the fuck just happened?" Flash apparently couldn’t hold it in anymore.

“Geez, Flash just shut up for once!" that was Cindy, today seemed to be the day where everybody was confronting Flash about his behavior.

Peter just sheepishly scratched the back of his neck.

“Turns out my original meeting was crashed by the US Military.”

He said it like it explained everything that had just happened.

And maybe it did because Maddy nodded knowingly.

Most of the employees had to deal with the military once in a while and nobody liked it.

“Look guys, I will probably explain everything later, now I am late for my meeting with Mr. Graham. So please excuse me.”

The others still looked kind of shocked.

“Holy shit, Peter is hot in a suit.” Cindy blurted out.

MJ just smiled.

“He is taken Cindy, sorry. And I won´t tell you by whom.”

Cindy grumbled a bit but was quickly distracted as they were now walking to the legal department.

Chapter Text

While his Acadeca team was visiting the legal department, Peter was internally freaking out on his way to the next meeting.

Almost before he had reached the conference room, he felt his calm business demeanor come back and push the other thoughts out of his mind.

He had to focus on different things, right now.

He could freak out later.

“I apologize for the delay, Mr. Graham, but I was derailed by the military.“

“I completely understand Mr. Stark and Friday informed me of the delay, so it’s fine. We all know that the military doesn’t like to be kept waiting and can be very – loud with its demands. Besides, this gave me time to revise my notes again and get a head-start on some paperwork I wouldn’t have gotten to do in the lab without getting interrupted.“

“Alright then, let’s get started. The bugs with the new Stark phone have been fixed and the headphone series is almost ready for testing right?“

Peter flipped through his notes while talking.

He absentmindedly noticed that he and his dad will have to look over the finished products soon, to test them out themselves and fix any bugs that might occur when they tested them.

This was one of the few parts of the company that his dad actually enjoyed doing. Apart from inventing new technology, of course.

“Quite right, we will enter the test stage for the headphones in approximately two weeks. The Stark phone is ready to be looked over by you and Dr. Stark. The intern labs have requested your input on some projects. In addition, Dr. Stark had some meetings, that he can’t attend because he had to fly out. However, those meetings weren’t the most important so they have been rescheduled.“

“I will visit the intern labs later today. I am actually on a field trip here right now, so I will probably have to explain some things to my classmates. Some still don’t  believe I have an internship here.“

Peter self-consciously scratched the back of his neck as he chuckled. “Well, to be fair, you are not exactly an intern, Mr. Stark.“

“I know. But I am really looking forward to the press conference. It will make so many things so much easier. I can finally use my full name and be completely open about my family.“

“I imagine it will be a relief, not only for you but your family as well.“ „Well, thank you, Mr. Graham, I think this concludes our meeting today. Let’s have another one when dad and I have fully tested the Stark phone and probably the headphones and whatever comes up in the meantime.If there is anything that needs immediate attention, Friday will inform one of us.“

Both of them stood up and shook hands.

“Have a nice day, Mr. Stark.“

Peter left the meeting room and went to his own office next to his mom’s and his dad’s unused one.

Once there, he quickly typed up some notes before looking at the clock.

“Fri, where is the tour group right now?“

“The group appears to be having lunch in the cafeteria on the 48th floor, baby Stark.“

“Ugh, Friday, I told you to lay off the nicknames please!“

“I can’t to that mini-boss. Big boss had instructed me on using them for you, as you know. However, Lady boss has ordered me to only use them in friendly company, not in front of low-level employees and not in front of guests or tour groups.“

´Well thanks for that, mum.´ Peter thought to himself.

Suddenly he realized how hungry he felt.

He decided to join his friends again for lunch and the rest of the trip.

This day would soon be over and tomorrow the world would get to know about his existence as Tony and Pepper Starks son and heir to Stark Industries.

Although, getting away from Flash had been nice.

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Meanwhile, the Acadeca team was still discussing Peter. His behavior, his clothes, his obvious level of authority….

The topics were endless.

For once, Flash was noticeably silent, but everyone could see that he was seething.

The team wasn’t able to concentrate on the stop at the legal department since their thoughts were occupied with Peter.

At lunch, everyone was still not over the peter topic.

MJ and Ned just rolled their eyes and refused to answer any of the questions they were asked apart from a pretty standard answer.

“He told you all, that he is working here.“

Later, while the others were still having lunch, Peter showed up.

He wasn’t dressed in his form-fitting suit anymore, but also not in his former attire.

He now wore chino trousers with a nice-looking button-down and a cashmere sweater on top.

He quickly grabbed himself some dinner and ignored the stares he received from his teammates as he sat down next to Ned and MJ.

“Did I miss something important? Where did you go after I last saw you?“

“We visited PR and HR, then saw you and went on to the legal department, which was pretty cool“

MJ answered him because Ned had just taken a huge bite from his lunch and was busy chewing, but eagerly nodded his assent.

Peter ate his lunch and tried his best to ignore the whispers from the others while he talked to MJ and Ned.

Five minutes after Peter had finished his food, Madeline came back to corral them all together to resume the tour.

“Will  you be joining the tour again, Peter?“

“Yes, we will be visiting the labs, right?“

“Yes, we will.“

“Great, some interns have requested input from me so I can do that then.“

“Of course.“

While the others were disposing of their trash and dishes, Peter discreetly pulled out one of the granola bars that was specifically made for enhanced people like him, Uncle Steve, and Uncle Bucky.

“Alright, let´s move on to the labs. We will start with the intern labs, where you can look around and ask some questions. But, please be careful and don’t touch anything. Be quiet and respectful.“

Excited murmurs broke out.

And for once today, they were not talking about Peter.

Chapter Text

They left the cafeteria and Maddy led them to the nearest elevator.

“Now, we will visit this lab for about fifteen minutes. You can take this time to look around and maybe ask some questions but remember to only talk to interns that aren’t handling chemicals, dangerous utensils, or appearing way too tired and invested in their work.”

Madeline spoke and everyone agreed to her directions.

“Alright, Friday, to the intern labs, please.”

The lights flickered once in affirmation and the elevator started moving.

Once they had arrived Madeline led them to the entrance of the lab.

Usually, the interns would call Peter all sorts of annoying nicknames, (most of which he secretly liked but would never admit) like Mini-Stark/ Mini-Boss/ Junior / Stark Junior.

But lucky for him, Maddie had already announced them as a tour group, before one of them could call Peter by a nickname, so the interns would know to refrain from using nicknames.

“Hello, dear fellow interns, I bring you now a special tour group. Please remain from shouting and scaring the kids. Yes, Sam, I am talking to you!”

The intern named Sam looked offended and made a halfhearted attempt at defending himself while still concentrating on his project.

Otherwise, the interns didn’t look too bothered by their presence, too used to it for it to be exciting anymore.

Until... One of the interns, Mark, turned around looking for something and spotted Peter.

“Peter!”

The other interns’ heads snapped up.

“Peter´s here?”

“Mini-S… Junior!”

Peter internally screamed at Danielle for almost blurting out the Mini-Stark nickname.

“Hey, guys.”

He self-consciously scratched the back of his neck.

With that, the spell was broken and all the interns started talking all at once.

“Can you help me with this coding on the new Stark Phone”

“Please look over this before Marshall comes here, I can´t afford to screw up again. He had been on my butt since the last time.”

“HELP please Peter, I just can´t get the formula for this right.”

"I can´t get this connection between the two elements right, I need you to take a look at this, please.”

Peter looked at Mr. Harrington to see if it was alright for him to go and help the interns.

However, Mr. Harrington just stared open-mouthed ahead at all the tech.

Peter shrugged his shoulders and turned to walk to the interns and help.

He heard no protest, so he accepted that as quiet permission.

He went over to Liam, the intern who already had had problems with their superior once, so he was hyper-vigilant.

He helped Liam, it was a simple code that didn´t have any errors or problems with it.

He went on to Sam, the one who had once scared a tour group so bad, that a kid had fainted when he screamed out in excitement upon his new prototype working exactly as it was supposed to.

Next was Gina, who he helped to make a connection between the two elements, and then he looked over the coding of the new Stark Phone (well a part of it, it was all divided into different parts).

While he was doing that, the rest of the class was completely ignoring whatever Madeline was talking about and they were all staring a Peter instead.

Madeline noticed after she had been talking through about a third of her monologue and stopped talking.

MJ was furiously scribbling down on her sketchbook.

Ned was grinning brightly at his best friend showing his brilliance and genius intellect openly.

Mr. Harrington was still staring at the tech and seemingly unable to say anything or close his mouth.

Flash´s mouth was open too.

He was looking at Peter in shock, like the rest of the class.

However, Flash´s eyes also glinted with malice.

“Ey, you.”

He said to an intern that was trying to get by him to fetch something from the material drawer.

“Yes, can I help you?”

The intern asked good-naturedly despite the rude form of address and the obvious lack of respect.

“How much did Penis here pay you all to be allowed inside and pretend to be an intern and somewhat useful to have around? And how did he manage to hack the computer lady to announce him and his merry band of freaks as if they were something…”

“Excuse me?”

The intern, Flash had spoken to was usually very mild-mannered and friendly, so when he raised his voice, it was noticed.

Every other intern knew to never, never under any circumstances get on Tom´s bad side. He was a teddy bear until you managed to make him angry.

Then he turned into a grizzly bear.

“What did you just say?”

“I-I…” Flash apparently knew that he had done something wrong this time.

“You did not just accuse one of the most brilliant human beings all of us have ever met of being worthless… not to mention that disgraceful nickname you just called him…”

“Hey what´s got you all riled up, Tom Tom?”

And yes, that was Tony Stark who just walked completely unannounced into the intern labs.

Labs that he usually only visited on occasion with a forewarning them.

“He-he… He insulted Peter.”

“Did he now?” Tony Stark was now smiling ferally. The interns all scrambled to get out of the way.

Peter somehow seemed to not notice any of the turmoil around him. He was deeply immersed in solving some complicated-looking calculations and applying them to a modular-looking gizmo.

They had only seen Tony Stark looking this feral once and it hadn’t been pretty.

A businessman had insulted Pepper and insinuated that she only got her position because she was sleeping with the boss, which was so incredibly misogynistic and asshole behavior that everyone had thoroughly enjoyed watching Tony Stark tear into him.

Someone had filmed it and that video was one of the most treasured ones they had of the genius.

Someone really had to upload it to YouTube or something.

But, for some reason, Tony Stark only smiled ferally at Flash.

Peter was still completely immersed in helping some interns on the other side of the room.

At least, that´s what it seemed like.

Peter had noticed what was going on, he just chose to ignore it in favor of doing something productive and helping the interns. He was working, he didn’t want to focus on Flash´s behavior.

After an uncomfortably long silent pause, Madeline finally spoke up.

“Dr. Stark, I thought you were away?“ Maddie asked the genius astounded.

Although she shouldn’t have been surprised that Tony was stopping by, after all, it was Peter´s academic decathlon team.

“I was, but now I am here again.“ “Now, how would you kids like to visit the Avengers´ training room and meet some Avengers apart from my fabulous self?“

Peter´s groan was drowned out by the loud cheers from his classmates.

Even Ned was cheering.

That earned him a dirty look from Peter, but Ned just smiled at him and continued cheering.

Like he hadn’t met the avengers a hundred times already.

MJ just smirked at his miserable expression and got out her crisis sketchbook and a sharpened pencil.

She was enjoying his discomfort and crisis way too much.

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Everybody gathered in the elevator again.

“To the Avengers gym, Fri, please.”

“Yes, Boss. Would you like to let Capsicle, Triple threat, Manchurian Candidate, Legolas, Platypus, and Jolly Green know that you are on your way with a tour group?”

“Yeah, why not. Let ´em know. And tell Birdbrain to get down too.”

The class quietly snickered at the nicknames for the team.

But seriously they did it quietly because they were in the same elevator as Tony freaking Stark.

Well, Peter, Ned, MJ, and Tony obviously didn’t.

And, yes, the Avengers gym required a whole level.

Steve liked running, sue him. A short track wasn’t really practical for that.

Everybody had an area where they could train according to their specified powers/ abilities and such.

That´s not to say that they didn’t train together plenty.

But Bruce liked his meditation room, Natasha her ballet/ dance studio, and the enhanced had an extra weight room to lift.

“Alright, we´re here. Keep your paws to yourself, don´t be rude, all that jazz. Now, we will step into the Avengers gym.”

The class had barely stepped out of the elevator when they saw an arrow flying at them.

Everybody apart from Peter, MJ and Tony screamed and flinched away, even Ned.

A few feet away from them the arrow exploded in confetti and pink glitter.

At first, nobody seemed to notice that it was practically aimed at Flash, who had shouldered his way to the front and was now covered in confetti and glitter.

Most of the team started talking about it immediately, Flash being the loudest, bragging that he had known that it wasn’t real and hadn’t been scared.

Tony waited a few moments, smirked, and winked at Peter.

“Well, we can just rewatch it, play it Fri.”

Out of nowhere, a hologram appeared that showed the scene from moments prior.

They could clearly see Flash screaming and certainly looking afraid of the arrow coming straight at him.

This garnered laughs from everyone but Flash, who looked miffed at being called out like that.

“Moving on” Tony continued.

He led them further into the gym, past some equipment made for other Avengers.

There the assembled Avengers were already waiting for them.

“May I present the most super-secret boyband. The Avengers. From left to right, Steve Rogers also known as Captain America; Sargent James Buchannan Barnes known as White Wolf; Natasha Romanoff the Black Widow; Clint Barton, Hawkeye, whose skills you experienced a few minutes ago; Bruce Banner the Hulk although I am sure you all will fanboy over his science side more since you´re all Nerds; Sam Wilson the Falcon and last but not least, honey-bear, Colonel James Rhodes, Iron Patriot, although we all know that war machine was superior.”

Luckily no one commented on Bucky´s new name as ´White Wolf´, all of them tended to get overprotective if someone questioned it.

But it seemed, that even Flash had enough common sense to not provoke an assassin.

And he was still covered in pink glitter.

Rhodes playfully rolled his eyes at Tony´s jab and opened his mouth to reply.

Steve, who knew that this could and had in the past escalated into a heated debate (a PowerPoint presentation on the superior name had been made and presented), decided to step in and nip this in the bud.

“Hey, you´re Peter´s decathlon team, right?”

They nodded, too starstruck to reply, Captain America knew about them. Captain America!

Peter rolled his eyes.

“Alright, we´re going to show you some self-defense moves for a bit and afterward you are allowed to test them out. You can fight an Avenger or one of your classmates. Maybe if we´re quick enough everyone can even go two rounds.”

That got the class excited and moving.

They all went to their favorite Avenger (I have literally no idea how many people are on this team)

The avengers had paired up in pairs of two to coordinate better.

Steve Rogers – Bucky Barnes

Natasha Romanoff – Bruce Banner

Clint Barton – Sam Wilson

Tony Stark – James Rhodes

Once everybody was fairly even split up, even Mr. Harrington was participating.

Madeline, their tour guide, who had been allowed to join in was also participating.

A little self-defense skill could never hurt.

Although Stark Industries offered all their employees free self-defense courses.

Peter walked up to his dad while his teammates were busy learning some new tricks.

“You weren’t truly gone, were you? You just wanted me to show off. Just like now.”

“I was gone, bambino. But maybe it wasn’t on Avengers business. Besides, I wanted you to show off and I didn’t want to attend those meetings. I am especially thankful that you handled the military. Win-win.”

Peter groaned.

“Payback´s a bitch.”

“Language, Паучок. Don’t let Steve hear you say that. He doesn’t like that kind of language.”

Natascha sidled up to them.

“You know what, Romanoff…”

Steve shouted from a few yards away.

Damn super-hearing.

They chuckled.

“Now, go back to your class, Spider-Baby. We´ll talk later.”

“´m not a baby.”

Peter grumbled but obeyed and walked over to Ned and MJ.

They were at his dad´s and Uncle Rhodey´s station.

After what was about twenty (20) minutes of getting shown some easy moves and trying them out a few times to get them right, Steve called them all over to the boxing ring.

“Alright, now that all of you have been shown some moves, who wants to try?”

Flash had apparently already recovered from his earlier embarrassment and shouldered his way to the front.

“I want to start. My father had me taking training in some martial arts for a while now, so this should be easy.”

Steve didn’t let this rude behavior faze him, although those who knew him knew that this particular muscle in his jaw was only flexing when he was getting angry.

“Who do you want to fight then?”

“I want to fight Black Widow. I will even go easy on her since she is female.”

Peter groaned and facepalmed. 

Seriously, how dumb was Flash?

Insulting one of the most dangerous assassins before you are going to fight them?!

Dumb move. You didn’t even have to be a genius to know that.

Natasha just dimpled innocently at Flash, but her eyes were flashing just a shade more dangerously.

“Thank you so much.” She said, making her voice a bit more high-pitched.

“Please make sure Friday sends me the footage of this,” MJ whispered to Peter, who had to hold back a laugh at that.

The other Avengers, all well aware of just how skilled Nat was, had to hold back their laughter as well.

This kid was deserving of what was coming for him.

Flash and Natasha walked into the ring.

They got into their fighting stances.

Peter could already see several weak points in Flash´s stance.

He was curious how Nat would play this. Maybe she would let him stumble around or…

Too late, as she had literally won in one, single move.

Once, Steve had given the go, Flash had rushed at Natasha and swung his right arm at her.

She had turned a bit, grabbed his arm, and thrown him over her shoulder, pinning him in place with his right arm outstretched behind his back.

He quickly tapped out, when she made no indication of letting go, even going as far as pushing his arm a little higher until he whimpered.

Then MJ chose to fight Nat too.

She did a good job, too, managing to hold her own for a few minutes.

“Good, MJ, you did what I told you about last time. Next time we will be working on some more moves to overpower a bigger opponent.”

“Cool.” She answered nonchalantly.

Next was Abe, who chose to fight Sam and was doing decent against him.

They went through the whole team, until only Peter hadn´t fought anyone else yet.

“Hey Паучок, you haven´t fought yet. Let´s spar.”

“But Мама-паук, why? Do I really have to? We sparred yesterday.”

“I am sorry, Паучок, did I phrase that as a question?”

Peter grumbled a bit but ultimately got into the ring with his spider mom.

“Alright, Peter, Nat you know the rules.”

They nodded to show that they did.

As soon as Steve gave the go, they started.

It was like a dance, action, and reaction, forward, backward.

Kick, Block, Punch, roll, dodge, the full works basically.

Beautifully choreographed, nobody had a clear advantage.

Apart from the obvious that Peter couldn’t rely on this superstrength. But he still had his spider-sense (NOT Peter Tingle, thank you very much!) to help him.

After a few minutes of not being able to take the other down long enough to warrant a tap out, Steve ended the fight.

“Very good, Peter, you have really improved since the last time I was watching you spar. Maybe next time you could try sparring with Bucky, he has slightly different training than Nat, so that could be useful.”

Peter nodded, a bit out of breath. Training with Uncle Bucky sounded like a good idea.

“Don´t think I won´s still spar with you, Паучок, you´re not off the hook yet.”

“I would never think of it, Мама-паук, promise.”

“There´s no way, Puny Pen-Parker managed to fight the Black Widow for so long. What did you have to pay to get her to not beat you to a pulp, huh? I Bet you spent a lot of time on your back for this…”

“You LITTLE…”

“Bucky, no”

Peter effortlessly switches into Russian.

"НЕТ! Стоп. Вы не можете убить его!"

["NO! Stop. YOu can´t kill him!"]

"Но позвольте мне немного потрепать его, сломать ему нос или что-то в этом роде."

["But, let me just rough him up a bit, break his nose or something."]

— НЕТ, дядя Баки, и никаких увечий. Я действительно ценю мысль, стоящую за этим, но, пожалуйста, успокойся.

["NO, Uncle Bucky, and no maiming either. I appreciate the thought behind it, really, but please calm down."]

“Хорошо, но если он так скажет еще хоть одну неуместную фразу, тебе придется вытащить меня из него!”

["Alright, but if he so says just one more inappropriate you will have to pry me of him!"]

“— Пожалуйста, успокойся, дядя Баки.” ["Please calm down, Uncle Bucky."]

"Я спокоен." ["I am calm."]

“Let me deal with this, on my own, please.”

He put his hand on Bucky´s chest and lightly pushed him back, using some of his super strength.

“Alright. But you better deal with him properly.”

“Now, Flash, as you can see, you are now on the bad side of all the Avengers. You spend all your time trying to tear me down, so why don´t we deal with this once and for all? You and me in the ring. Same rules as before.”

Flash, who had impressively managed to only falter slightly under the withering gazes of the Avengers, cockily arrogantly raised his chin and agreed.

It didn’t take Peter long to drop Flash on the mats.

He had let Flash at least try to land a punch unlike Nat and then he put him down efficiently.

“Next time, don’t play around, Паучок. Put your enemy down at the first chance.”

Peter just nodded, hoping that Flash had finally learned his lesson.

This little altercation had taken up so much time, that the rest of the class couldn’t spar a second round, but they probably wouldn’t have been able to.

After seeing, Peter Parker, don a form-fitting suit, dress down some military general, seeing his many contributions to SI, and seeing him helping out interns at an astonishing speed, they shouldn’t have been surprised to see him ace this as well.

But to be fair, they had only ever seen, timid, nerdy, geeky Peter Parker, who didn’t defend himself and let Flash bully him, only speaking up if Flash attacked one of his friends or other kids.

To see Peter soar at SI and finally beat Flash was too much at last.

They were shocked.

Literally standing there with their mouths open.

Again, apart from Ned and MJ.

Tony cleared his throat and gestured to Maddy.

“Now, Maddy here will take you downstairs to a conference room where you can take some time to breathe, and then there will be a Q&A, I think.”

He looked at Maddy for confirmation, who nodded.

“Yes, of course, I gather I will see you there, later, Dr. Stark?”

Tony winked at her and nodded.

She laughed and began to lead the decathlon team back to the elevators and situated them in a conference room.

Once there, she left the room for a few minutes, knowing that Friday would alert her if anything was going down in there.

Almost as soon as she had left the room and the door closed behind her, the spell was broken, and everyone seemed to break out of their stupor.

They all started talking at once, asking questions, getting louder by the second.

Peter´s eardrums felt like they were going to explode, after being on edge the whole day his senses were very close to a sensory overload.

“Silence!” MJ shouted suddenly, aware of her friend’s condition.

“He can´t answer any questions if you´re talking over each other and he isn’t even obligated to answer them. “

Peter smiled at MJ, grateful for her intervention and support.

Ned squeezed his arm in silent support as well.

“I´ll just explain some things, to hopefully clear up some more questions. Yes, I spar with Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow. Fairly regularly actually. SI is the only company that offers its employees free self-defense training and seeing as I´m Dr. Stark´s personal intern my self-defense training is a bit more… advanced and intense. Yes, I can speak Russian. In fact, I now know several languages. And I know all the Avengers. I don´t think I can say more, though, since that is pretty much everything, I can say without violating any documents I had to sign to work here. NDA´s and stuff.”

The others didn’t seem satisfied, but seemingly got that he wasn’t going to say anything more on this topic, so they dispersed into smaller groups to talk about everything and gossip.

Flash still looked quite shell-shocked.

Peter just hoped that he had learned his lesson now.

Chapter Text

They were only waiting for a few minutes until all the Avengers assembled at the front of the room. 

The room was designed for panel discussions, so there was a row with seats at the front of the room facing the audience.

One by one, the Avengers walked in and took a seat.

Sam was the first to walk in, then Clint, Loki, Thor, Rhodey, and Tony. Natasha came next but left the seat next to Tony empty and took the second one next to him, then came Bruce, Steve, and Bucky.

They were all dressed in casual clothes, the Avengers from the Gym session had showered and put on clean clothes.

The Avengers talked quietly with each other, every one of them flashing a quick look at Flash once every while.

“We´re just waiting on one more guest,” Tony announced to quell the nervous energy that had become apparent from the teenagers.

“Sorry, I´m late, everyone.” Pepper walked into the room.

“Absolutely no problem darling, we didn’t start without you”, Tony got up and kissed her on the cheek.

Once she sat down, he retook his seat.

“Alright, now that we are all here, let´s get this party started. Each one of you will get to ask at least one question, you can direct it to all of us or just to one specific person. Who wants to go first?”

At his question, almost every arm shot up. 

Peter left his hand in his lap and looked suspiciously at his family. 

Yeah, this was gonna be fun. 

Not.

Cindy was first. 

“My question to all of you is who is your favorite superhero? It doesn’t have to be someone directly involved in the team, it could also be a comic hero or vigilante.”

“That is a very good starting question.” Steve smiled kindly at her. 

“My favorite superhero is Queens. You would know him as spider-man. I am from Brooklyn myself, and I see a lot of myself in him.”

Bucky went next. “Spider-guy is also my favorite. He once stopped my arm in a fight. He´s strong.”

Then Bruce, Thor, and Loki. All of them repeated the same hero as their favorite and with a short anecdote. 

“Man of spiders is worthy!” Thor boomed.

Bruce was a lot quieter. 

“I like his point of looking after the little guy first, we need more heroes like that. Don’t get me wrong, we still need heroes for the big threats but some looking out for the little one helps a lot.”

“Spider-man is the least repulsive of the Midgardian heroes and he likes my magic tricks,” Loki added.

Finally, it was Tony Starks turn “Mine´s gonna have to be Underoos, too. Sorry Platypus” he added, looking at Rhodey.

Rhodey just waved it away with a smile, “No worries, he is my favorite too.” 

Even Pepper admitted that she loved Spider-man, although it was seriously close with Iron Man, at which Tony positively beamed and the others rolled their eyes good-naturedly and grumbled about “Inflating his massive ego even more.”

Meanwhile, Peter was torn between dying from embarrassment and beaming with pride at being the favorite superhero from all the Avengers, even though it was his family, so did it really count? 

Or were they just saying that in front of him?

Luckily, for him, MJ had noticed his spiraling and pinched him in the arm to snap him out of it.

They went on with the typical questions, how did it feel to be an Avenger? – Amazing.

How did Hawkeye manage to be so good? – practice, lots of practice

How did it feel to be one of the few female superheroes out there? – Great, although the men on the team treated her like one of their own and she wouldn’t have it any other way and they were all terrified of her (everyone sans Pepper agreed, even Tony).

Then things got a bit trickier. 

Abe suddenly asked who the strongest Avenger was.

Surprisingly, no one immediately claimed that title.

Bruce finally spoke up. 

“Frankly, we haven’t tested that one beyond friendly competitions yet. However, the strongest Avengers are Thor, Hulk, Spider-Man, Steve, and Bucky here. We will have to test that out in reality.”

Things kept being interesting since Betty asked for the weirdest hobbies among the Avengers or the most unexpected ones. 

Bucky admitted to liking crocheting and being quite good at it. 

Steve liked gardening and farming his own vegetables and fruits. 

Tony injected that Spider-Man was always hanging out on the ceiling which they all admitted was pretty weird.

Loki revealed that he liked reading romantic novels.

Thor liked pottery and crafting something with his own hands.

Bruce admitted to loving puzzles, as they were very calming. At least as long as you found the pieces you needed quickly.

Tony loved baking and cooking his Nona’s recipes, it´s all chemistry and science he defended himself. And, he added a bit sheepishly, it was one of the few connections he had to his mom and Nona.

Clint loved fishing because it didn’t matter if he had his hearing aids on or off, he didn’t need them for it. He found it to be relaxing.

Natasha unsurprisingly loved to dance, especially ballet, which she admitted she had also occasionally managed to rope Spider-Man into. 

It was one of the few things she liked about her past from the Red Room.

The students talked excitingly about all the hobbies from the Avengers, some completely unexpected, some not.

Finally, a shrill thrill was heard, and everybody calmed down again. 

“Okay, last question everyone, then we will take some pictures and chat in a more relaxed manner with all of you.”

This time, it was Sally, who got to ask her question.

“What was the weirdest enemy, you ever had to fight?”

Bucky answered.

“Hands down, that weird ass purple slime monster.” 

After various muttered and not so muttered “Language”s (poor Steve) could be heard, the other heroes agreed with Bucky´s answer.

Of course, everyone remembered when the Avengers had to fight an actual purple slime monster. 

They had only managed to defeat it because it didn’t like electricity.

Consequently, Spider-Man had webbed it up with taser webs to keep it confined.

Then Iron Man and War Machine, because Iron Patriot sucks as a name, fired multiple repulsor blasts at it, while Thor´s hammer and Hawkeye´s arrows shocked the monster. 

The slime monster had shrunk in on itself until it was small enough to be collected in a jar and packed up.

That concluded the Q&A session the acadeca team had scheduled with the Avengers (& Pepper Potts), but as promised the Avengers patiently took pictures and stoke up conversations with the teens. 

But sadly, or rather not so sadly, if you took Peter´s opinion on it, their day came to an end and the field trip was over.

Peter had to admit it could have gone way worse than it actually went, he was proud of his family for restraining themselves and respecting his wishes to reveal himself to the world at his pace.

However, his dad had insisted on Peter staying “for internship reasons” which obviously was bullshit, but they didn´t know that. Now, they believed it to be completely real.

But Mr. Harrington finally believed that Peter had an internship and let him stay. 

He said goodbye to MJ and Ned and went over to his dad.

“Thanks, dad. For being so lowkey and everything today.”

His dad squeezed his shoulder and spoke up, pointing behind him.

“Actually, Peter, I have a surprise for you. Turn around.“

“Hey, darlin´”

Came a southern drawl from behind Peter.

“HArls!”

Peter shouted and dashed towards the blond boy. 

The rest of the class was confused. 

Which they should have gotten used to by now, but oh well…

Then Peter finally reached Harley and was hugging him like a koala. 

“I thought you could use some support for the press conference tomorrow, so I flew out to get Harley for you.“

“Thank you!“ 

Came the muffled shout from Peter since he had buried his face in Harley´s neck and didn’t make any indication of letting go any time soon.

The acadeca team was still confused, but they were shooed out of the building now, so they had no choice but to leave.

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---------Press conference-------

Tony and Pepper walked into the room full of reporters. 

Without stalling, Tony made his way to the stand and began his speech.

“Today we will be announcing something that we have wanted to broadcast to the world for quite some time but didn’t for various reasons. We didn’t want to invoke the pressure it would bring with it and allow for a natural, as much as possible upbringing. Pepper and I have invited you here today to reveal our son and heir of Stark Industries to the world.”

Tony continued to talk over the excited murmur that had risen. 

The murmurs quickly abated when they realized that Tony wouldn’t give them time to ask questions.

“Our son is a 15-year-old genius kid who attends high school and has by now interned in most of our departments at SI. He has already various inventions under his belt and takes online college courses at MIT and recently Harvard as well, he is on his way to earning several degrees in business, engineering, chemical engineering, and more. He will come up here and answer some questions, but please refrain from shouting and behave like the civilized people Pepper can sue you to be.”

Nervous laughter was heard. 

Nobody doubted that Pepper could and would do that and nobody was willing to risk the combined wrath of her and Iron Man.

“Please welcome our son, Peter Benjamin Nicholas James Parker Stark.”

Tony stepped back and went to stand next to Pepper at the back of the stage, close enough for both of them to intervene if anything should happen. 

The applause was Peters´ cue to come onstage. 

Upon hearing it, Peter walked into the room and upstage to his parents.

He had decided to wear a suit to make a good impression and his dad had taken him to his personal tailor, not wanting him to feel uncomfortable in a not perfectly fitting suit. 

He was wearing a button-down beneath a nice navy suit and black dress shoes. 

Thankfully, his parents hadn’t forced him to wear a tie to this, they had understood that he wanted to be himself and, as his dad had added, he had enough time to wear uncomfortable ties in the future.

Although, he was sure they wouldn’t have been too uncomfortable as his dad would have forced him to get ones, which would surely have been comfortable. 

Everything he wore now, was brand new to make a good impression. 

Which he was very thankful for, he wouldn’t have wanted to stand in front of this many people with his old clothes on. 

He was also really thankful for the clear contact lenses his dad had invented for him that filtered out the light and the nearly invisible earbuds that filtered the noise and the camera flashes out in order to not overwhelm his senses. 

He walked with his head high and confident like his dad had coached him to. He smiled a bit shyly and made his way to the stand.

“Hi, just in case you missed it from the unpretentious way my dad was announcing it, my name is Peter Benjamin Nicholas James Parker Stark.”

Chuckles were heard throughout the whole room at that, nobody could deny that Tony Stark had a thing for being dramatic. Least of all Tony. Saying “I am Iron Man” in a room full of reporters kind of refuted that.

At first, no one dared to ask questions but after a few seconds hands shot up to ask questions.

Peter chose a woman in the second row, who hadn’t shouted out at him.

“Madelyn Brooks for the Washington Post, who do your countless names stand for?”

“Peter because I guess my parents liked it, I don´t really know why they chose Nicholas either. That is a question you will have to ask my parents.

Benjamin is in honor of my Uncle Ben who helped raise me, he and my Aunt May are also the ones that I can thank for the second last name Parker as it made it so much easier to fly under the radar than Peter Stark. James is for my godfather Colonel James Rhodes, Uncle Rhodey to me. And, well I assume you all know what the Stark name means.”

The journalists and everyone else in the room laughed at the last sentence, it was typical Stark humor, that sentence could have also come from Tony Stark himself.

Next, Peter chose a man in the last row.

“Tristan Sower, New York Times, what courses do you take at MIT and Harvard? How do you manage that with school and interning at SI?”

“As dad said, I am studying engineering and chemical engineering at MIT. At Harvard, I am studying business management, business law, and corporate law. Occasionally, I also log in on some political lessons and international diplomacy. I plan on taking some history, economics, and coding courses over the next semesters. As soon as I have finished my bachelor´s and master’s degrees anyway. I actually answered this question to my classmates just yesterday, although they were under the impression that I only took a course at MIT. Since my courses are mostly online and self-study, I am able to do most of my work for them while in school, during study hall and the teachers usually allow me to work on some stuff during their lessons if I am already finished with the material. I guess this already half- answers your second question as well. As I do most of my stuff at school or on the ride to and from school, I don’t have too much to do at home. And with the interning I do, I can sometimes incorporate it into projects or material I have to learn. That is actually really helpful because I mostly am able to directly transfer what I have learned and use it in real life which significantly brings down the time I have to study.”

“Charlie Filch, New York Post, why do you still go to school, if you are already attending college courses?”

“My friends mostly. I don´t want to be treated as some kind of genius-protégé. I want to be able to spend time with my friends, talk about school stuff, and experience the same kinds of things they do. College comes early enough. Also, dad wanted to allow me to have a normal childhood without having to watch my every step being recorded everywhere. And thanks to the fact that my name and existence wasn´t worldwide broadcasted” at that he glanced at his dad who watched him with a proud smile, his arm slung around his mom who had an equally proud smile on her face. “I was able to experience a normal childhood, well as normal as possible when your dad is the literal Iron Man, your mom the Pepper Potts, and your aunts and uncles are the Avengers.”

Again, laughter filled the room. It was seldom that a press conference at SI was filled with this much laughter, usually, there were only press conferences when announcing a new product line, or a change in the industry, and rarely now announcements regarding Pepper and Tony.

“The Daily Bugle, Zoe Light, how come you are 15 and call Pepper mom and Tony dad, their relationship is only public for the last 5 years or so.

At that, Tony and Pepper interjected, “You´ve said it yourself, our relationship has only been public for five years. We have been together for almost 18 years now. Making Pepper my PA happened when we had already been together a few years, making her CEO and stepping down was already the plan back then. Becoming Iron Man was only a small part of that decision. But I hated being CEO, I am much rather head of R&D, staying in my lab and inventing stuff and tinkering instead of going to business meetings. Luckily, for me, Pepper really likes being CEO and we still discuss and decide the strategy of SI together.”

“Again, the Daily Bugle, Zoe Light, I have a follow-up question. Tony, you were rumored to be a playboy twenty years ago and even up until before announcing your relationship to Pepper.”

“Exactly, rumored. And I was, but only until I met her and looked in her eyes and heard her dress down someone for being inappropriate. That´s when I fell for her. What can I say, I fell hard.” 

He shrugged and looked at her lovingly. 

His mum hat blushed during his dad´s little statement and looked at him with an equally adoring gaze.

Peter had to restrain himself from rolling his eyes at that, but he couldn’t suppress the smile, he loved how in love his parents were. Even if they could be kind of sappy at times.

“Jayden Hayes, The Post, how is it having Pepper Potts and Tony Stark as parents. They must be away quite a lot, Pepper with her job as CEO of the largest tech company and Tony as Iron Man.”

“Well, I don’t know anything else, so for me, it was completely normal. When I was about four or so I realized for the first time that it was not normal to be living away from your parents because of security concerns and that having a driver/ bodyguard was also not common for most people. But otherwise, I´d like to think that we´re still a pretty normal family. At home, we´re just like any other family, we fight, we talk, and we laugh together. We have a standing movie, and game night, though we don’t play monopoly with mom anymore because she always destroys us. Apart from that, we are just mom, dad, and me at home. Sure, whenever dad is away on Avengers’ business we worry, but I think that for families who have members of maybe the police force, firefighters, or military, it isn’t that different. So, we´re not the only ones who worry whenever one of us is away. It is hard, but that is how it is. As for mom being away, sometimes a business needs to be conducted face to face to be successful. Otherwise, I don’t know, I think my parents are great, they always listen to me and make time for me, they support and love me without conditions or anything like that. I know for a fact that when I was younger, they would stop working sometime around four p.m. so they could spend some time with me and after I went to sleep, they would continue working.” 

Peter shrugged, not knowing what to add to that. He turned to find his mom smiling with tears in her eyes and his dad had also somewhat shiny eyes. They quickly drew him in for a hug and whispered “I love you” ´s before going on with the press conference.

The question-and-answer session continued for a while, the whole family now replying to questions and afterward, they posed for some pictures together. Once they were done, they walked out of the room. His mom and dad holding hands while Peter walked next to them with his dad’s arm slung around his shoulder.

The pictures turned out great. 

Peter was standing in front of his parents, wearing his navy suit which went great with his mom´s blue dress and his dad´s black suit. They were all smiling brightly. His mom and dad had each a hand on one of Peter´s shoulders and were holding onto each other’s waists with their other hands. 

(I would absolutely love a fan art for this)

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Thank you to the amazingly talented Chikn_wing for this FanArt!
I feel so honored that you decided to make something for my story.

Thank you for taking the time to do this!

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