Penny Parker was a genius. She was offered a full ride to NYU as a freshman in high school, knew her way around lab better than most girls her age knew their way around a mall, and was able to take apart and put together her dad's Porsche (which got her grounded for two weeks, no matter how impressed he had been) at the age of thirteen.
She was exactly like her father, Tony Stark. Her father was also a genius, but despite this, there was one thing that he could not understand. Why was it so difficult to have a relationship with his daughter when they were so similar?
Tony had never been good at communicating with Penny, who had been the product of a one night stand. When she was younger, they were inseparable. No one could break up the dynamic duo, or terrible twosome, as Pepper would call them. When Penny grew older, they began to drift apart. When Tony became Iron Man, they stopped talking all together.
Tony would try to reconnect with his daughter, but after too many missed recitals or forgotten birthdays, she wasn't interested in anything that he had to say. Things only got worse for the teen when her dad had invited the Avengers to move into their home in New York City. None of the Avengers saw her either, with the exception of Clint, who was the only one that she would talk to on occasion. All they really knew about her was that she was smart, what she looked like, and that she spent most of her time locked in her room… or so they thought.
At night, Penny was out on the streets of New York fighting crime as Spider Woman, the vigilante superhero or pesky menace, depending on who you were asking. She wasn't the shy geeky girl who never seemed to be paying attention, but always seemed to know the answer anyway that her school knew. She wasn't the angry teen that secluded herself and tinkered with gadgets that her dad knew. She was Spider Women, the confident superhero who protected others and saved the city on multiple occasions and wasn't afraid of anything.
But right now, she was just Penny Stark, skate boarding home after a long day of not learning anything at school and trying to avoid the spots where the school bullies tended to hang out. Penny knew that she could defend herself against those jerks, but knew that some people might get suspicious if Puny Penny, as head-jerk Flash Thompson called her, suddenly knew how to fight like some sort of *gasp* superhero!
Penny walked through the front entrance of Sta- Avengers Tower (she still hasn't gotten used to the name change) and smiled at Joan, the girl working the front desk. Joan returned the smile and went back to her work as Penny entered the elevator, swiped the card that allowed her access to all floors, and pressed the button that would take her to the private floor that she shared with Tony.
There was a note on the counter addressed to her from Tony saying that he would be gone for a couple of days. Well, at least he though to write a note this time. Penny grabbed a soda and headed into her room to work on her web shooters before going out tonight.