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2. Tony is Peter's adopted father, but they don't talk about May at all.
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Tony looks at the spaceship. It screams trouble to all the other Avengers, but to Tony, it screams something else.
"This tech is advanced beyond anything I could think of. Heck, anything Peter could think of!"
But yes, to the others, it had DANGER written all over it for all they could care. Not that they couldn't handle it, they just don't want to deal with this crap on anybody's typical Wednesday. That being said, they really didn't need Spiderman to show up. Scratch that.
Tony didn't need Spiderman, no, Peter to show up.
Peter swings into the clearing.
"Hey Mister Stark!" He shouts, shooting a web at an alien without looking. Tony smirks.
"Show-off." He counters. "Kid, I thought you said you were all tied up with homework and Lego sets!" Tony shouts, blasting an alien with a repulsor.
"Who's a show-off now?" Peter asks, kicking an alien trying to sneak up on Captain America.
"Thanks kid. I thought we agreed no talk on the comms?" Steve asks and Ironman shrugs.
"Just asking the kid where he's been." Tony says, flying to assess the rest of the aliens.
"Homework was too easy and me and Ned finished the Ultimate Collector's Millennium Falcon set yesterday. We were just showing it to MJ today." Peter says. Tony looks at the blur of red and blue swinging past him.
"The one I got Ned for his birthday?" Tony asks. He had to go all out for the kid, and the kid's friends are included.
"Yeah," Peter says, knocking a ray out of one of the aliens hands and webbing it to a building to study with his dad later.
"That was four days ago! That was a 5,000 piece set!" Tony says, looking at the battle, shaking off awe.
"5,195." Peter says, and with a glare from Steve, Tony stops talking, diving back into the fight after making sure Peter was doing well. He still wasn't 100% ok with him doing this, but Natasha trained him and Peter was decent with the fighting before May passed away leaving him to Tony, so Tony couldn't deny him something he already learned to love. Tony blasts an alien as if to justify his conversation with himself. He continues, losing himself deep in the fight to fight his fears concerning Peter. In fact, he almost doesn't notice the fight is almost over, and he definitely doesn't notice the first time Bruce calls his name, or Steve, but when Clint shouts,
"Hey metal head! Check up on Peter, he's surrounded!" does Tony look up to see all of the Avengers busy with the last of the aliens, and Peter, trying to smart talk his way out of a gang of the creatures.
"We don't wanna go there, we just met!" Peter says, but can't help the shake in his voice when the head of the little group points a ray at him.
"Pete! I'm coming in from behind!" Tony shouts, shooting a blast at the alien with the ray. The alien ducks, shooting the ray at Peter, and Tony's misfire turns to friendly fire. "Crap, I shot him!" Tony says angrily, shooting all the aliens with just as much anger. This catches the attention of the Avengers, and they each finish up their separate fights to run to Tony, who has stopped still at the sight that greets him. They also stop still.
Drowning in a billion dollar Spiderman suit sits a young Peter Stark.
Of course she did. When Pepper first received news of Peter's deaging, she first asked if he was ok, then ordered everything a 4 year old-looking Peter could possibly need before even hanging up the phone.
Thankfully it was there when they got back to the tower. Tony was hugging a confused-looking Peter to his chest, the Spiderman suit still wrapped around him to keep him warm, he seemed to get a tiny cold from the mix of alien tech and Tony's repulsor. He sniffed and wiped his nose on the oversized sleeve of his suit.
"You're going to want to clean that." Tony mutters, but Pepper's spotted him.
"You shot him and this happens?! This is why I don't trust you to do anything!" She shouts, and Peter shies away from her. "Oh, Peter baby, come here," Peter curls farther into Tony.
"You're scaring him." Steve suggests helpfully.
"Why would I be scaring him-"
"Ironman good! He don't need to be in time-outs, Ironman and Captwain 'Marica, and, and the Av- Av-" Peter struggles with the word.
"Avengers." Natasha says, and Peter nods so enthusiastically Tony fears his head might fall off.
"Theys all good and 'piderman, and and you can't yells at thems." Peter says, his face set with a pout as he looks at Pepper with the cutest glare anyone's ever seen.
"Yes, they are all good, and you are too, but sometimes they aren't careful, and that's why I need to yell at Ironman." Pepper says slowly, and Peter thinks about this for a minute, some of the Avengers starting to disperse to take care of themselves, or the media waiting for anything about the fight.
"Then thems needed to be yelled at, but yous is a nice mom so me yell at thems for you." Peter says, reaching for Pepper.
"Traitor!" Tony shouts, a mock glare plastering his face. Steve starts to walk off, trying to hide his laughter. If Tony and Pepper weren't hilarious at parenting Peter before, then they were stand up comedy gold now that he's actually in need of parenting.
"No! You needs time-outs! No suits, Ironman, how does that feels?" Peter asks.
"You remember?" Tony asks, concern written across his face.
"Remembers what?" Peter asks.
"Peter, what do I need to make an explosion?" Tony asks.
"Tony!" Pepper shouts.
"Theres is many ways to do exposions, but me likes using fires better, but yous like using 39.10." Peter rambles.
"That's the atomic number for potassium." Tony says. "Peter how do you know that?"
"Me don't know." Peter says shyly.
"We can figure that out later, but you really like Ironman, right?" Pepper asks.
"Me loves Ironman because he's my daddy." Peter says, and Tony takes him. Pepper pulls out one of the boxes she had delivered and sets it down, folding back the flaps.
"Let's see." She says, pulling things out of the box. She holds up Ironman onesie pjs. "I think you might not fit in your Spiderman suit for a little, so I got this," She says, and Peter looks at them in awe.
"Me gets to be just likes my daddy?!" He says with such excitement he almost falls out of Tony's arms, letting out a tiny cough that hurts Tony more than it hurts Peter.
"Yeah!" Pepper replies with just as much enthusiasm. She unpacks other things too. "I got you an Ironman bowl, an Ironman spoon, an Ironman hat, an Ironman shirt, some more Ironman pajamas, and everything else Ironman themed I could find!" Pepper says, and Peter reaches towards the ground, and Tony puts him down. Tony heads to the kitchen for a snack, and Peter and Pepper disappear, Peter returning a minute later, dressed in the Ironman onesie.
"See?!" He calls to Tony, tiny feet pattering into the kitchen. "Me's just like you!" Peter shouts, and Tony lifts him into the air, pretending to make him fly, just like Ironman. Just like Tony. And that is one of Tony's biggest fears.
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