Author's Note: I promised I'd be back. Now this one is taking influence from a few different shows and some of the comic book cannon as well but I promise it'll be worth it. I will also be going into depth with some characters I skimmed last time, and maybe introducing some new ones. Also hopefully wrapping up some plot lines I left. I own nothing

Summer Showdowns

1 Time With Friends

Piper Parker was running late, what else was new. She ran out of the subway and straight into a tall thin figure. Her baseball cap went flying and her hood fell. She swore and scrambled for her hat. It was grabbed by the figure she'd run into. She smiled and brushed it off. It had Thor's hammer on it and Piper pulled her hood up, trying to keep her face as hidden as possible.

Even though it had been about three months since her identity as Tony Starks adopted daughter was revealed the press still hadn't gotten the interview they wanted. But anyone who could was selling pictures to any magazine and news paper who would buy them. The boy held out her hat. She smiled and took it.

"Thanks." She said shoving it back on her head. He nodded.

"No problem." She smiled again and ran off. The boys eyes followed her as she disappeared around the corner.

MJ's foot tapped on the sidewalk as she checked her watch again. She sighed as she stepped down the sidewalk. She turned as a familiar voice called out to her.

"MJ! Wait up." She smiled as Piper came racing down the sidewalk in a Captain America hoddie and a Thor baseball cap and what looked like a pair of her dads shades.

"Thought you weren't gonna show up for a minute there." Piper laughed.

"When have I ever intentionally ditched you?" MJ rolled her eyes and grabbed Piper's arm.

"You ditch me and Harry all the time, that's why you're here." Piper flinched slightly. MJ was right of course but Piper couldn't exactly tell her that she had ditched them so often to go web swinging around town saving lives.

"Dad and I got caught up in the lab." That wasn't technically a lie, they had been distracted in the lab working on the suit redesign for Spidergirl. It wasn't going well. Tony wanted a full suit of armor, with every defensive measure he could think of. Piper thought that was a bit of overkill. Besides it put her identity in jeopardy and even if she was strong enough to lift that much metal, which she knew she was, it cut her off from most of her powers. She couldn't wall crawl through metal, and the stiffness cut off most of her flexibility. She'd put her foot down after a short argument. MJ laughed.

"I know, you two are always working on something." MJ dragged Piper into the studio. She shook her head. She couldn't help but wonder why she let herself get dragged into these things as MJ led her into a changing room.

Flash Thompson couldn't believe he let Liz drag him here. He was just glad that no one from school was here as he glanced around the dace studio. Liz did look particularly good in tights though he mused as the door from the girls changing room opened. He swore as he spotted Mary Jane Watson stepping out in a black leotard and tights. Then someone else followed her in, someone he'd been avoiding for three months. Piper Parker laughed as Flash stared.

The last time he'd seen her in something close to what she was wearing now was when they were ten at a pool party. He'd pushed her into the pool that day. Not four months later her uncle had been murdered and she'd disappeared for a week. When she'd showed back up she was more surreptitious, someone had taken her in but she refused to talk about it. He'd never really stopped ribbing her about it. Not until the truth came out that her adoptive father was in fact Tony Stark. He'd avoided her since.

He blinked hard. Piper normally wore baggy clothes and the difference in the leotard was stunning. He'd never knew Parker was built like that. She was slim, she always had been but the muscles he could see beyond the tights were well toned. The arms were too and he could almost make out a six pack through the black spandex.

"Remind me why I told you that Nat taught me ballete?" MJ laughed.

"Because you tell me everything. Or at least you used to. You never did tell me what happened between you and Sam." Piper shrugged away from her.

"Not really something I wanna talk about right now. We're still friends so that's good but honestly I don't know." MJ frowned as Piper stretched her leg up on the Barr.

"Do you still like him?" Piper shrugged.

"I don't know, maybe. Can we talk about something else, anything else." Her eyes scanned the room and went wide as she spotted a familiar figure, two actually.

"Like maybe why Flash and Liz are here?" MJ glanced around and spotted them shaking her head as she shrugged.

"No idea." Both of them stopped talking as the instructor walked in. She smiled around, raising an eyebrow when she spotted Piper. Her face had been plastered all over the papers lately.

"Miss Watson, I didn't realize that the friend you were bringing was a celebrity. Welcome to the class Miss Stark." Piper frowned slightly.

"I prefer Parker, or you can just call Piper." The instructor nodded.

"Alright Miss Parker, do you have any previous ballet experience?" Piper smiled and nodded, stretching her other leg up on the Barr. The instructor nodded, motioning to a speaker setup.

"Pick a song then, lets see what you can do." She heard Flash snicker as she headed over to the speaker set. The instructor shot him a glare as she scrolled through the songs. She made her selection, an acoustic cover of One Last Time by Ariana Grande, and stretched her back. The music began and she let it carry her off for a little while.

Flash would never admit it out loud but he was impressed. He'd never known a person could bend the way she did, let alone Parker herself. Spinning and twisting to the melody she seemed to become unaware of the world around her. She looked more relaxed when dancing than he'd seen her since her uncle died. Soon, too soon if you asked him, the music ended and she landed in a resting pose and the room burst into applause. Even Liz looked impressed. The instructor nodded.

"You've had some professional training?" Piper shrugged.

"I mean kind of. My aunt was a prima ballerina, briefly. She taught me." Also not a lie. Of course she'd been on a deep cover mission when she was a prima but ballet was always something Natasha excelled in. She even had her own studio in Stark Tower. The instructor nodded.

"It shows. You wouldn't be interested in joining us on a more permanent basis would you Miss Parker?" Piper was about to answer when her phone buzzed. She smiled apologetically and pulled it out of her bra. Glancing at the caller ID Flash saw her eyes narrow slightly.

"Sorry I gotta take this." She stepped out of the room. Liz elbowed him and he realized he'd been staring. MJ frowned at the door. The class continued after a moment. Several hours passed in which Flash realized that there were more muscles than the ones he worked at football. He was going to be a sore mess after this. At least they weren't doing lifts like Liz had threatened. These girls were definitely more heavy than a football or even what he normally benched. Piper never reappeared.