It began like any other week at S.H.I.E.L.D Academy, or at least so Scarlet thought. Walking beside the normally chatty Spider-man whom was unusually quiet today. Scarlet better now known as Ben to New York's favorite web slinging hero and his other friends. Even if he knew Scarlet had somehow come down with a cold it was odd for the hero to let the other not hear his non stop babbling. Little did Scarlet know his quiet friend was brewing over his current failure at having romance in his life yet again. Spider-man fluffed on his date due to a last minute mission, The Trapster was at his antics again which only held up the spider. Long story short Peter Parker received a break up text that was 3 messages long. There goes his love life or so he thinks.

While they continued their walk from the training room Spider-man kept smelling a weird but pleasant smell. Kind of like warm coconut cookies. He considered the smell coming from himself seeing as he hugged his Aunt May while in costume before leaving the house. But Aunt May doesn't own anything remotely smelling like this so he was no curious. And paid no mind to it. Until now it was unbearably alluring and made his mouth water. So he decided to speak up on it. "Wow the warm coconut cookie smell is making me hungry," he said with a laugh. Scarlet looked at him weirdly and nodded and replied "Right? What smell?" sniffling to show the point of him being sick. "Oh sorry I totally forgot you got sick Ben, are you feeling any better?" Spider-man says as he looked worriedly at his companion. "Throat still a little scratchy but no big deal" Scarlet expressed flatly. And before Peter could jump to a conclusion Scarlet shot him a look. Huffing Spider-man let it go for now.

Just at that moment they come to a corner and no one other than the main bickering partner and bigger pain in the ass, Nova bumps into them. "Hey Web for brains watch where you're going!" says the space hero. "Me?" says an incredulous spider "You ran into us walking pale." That started nothing but more bickering and insults thrown. Scarlet not feeling any of it yells at them for being idiots and goes to leave not feeling the extra frustration. Which leaves the other two heroes gaping like fish and feeling like the kids Scarlet had just called them out to be. Both sighed letting it go for now at least. "Sorry webhead I was just on my way to remind you about tonight's school dance." "Crap I knew it was something I was forgetting. Later Nova" was all he heard before rushing off to go help make sure the dance plans were going well. "Yeah oh okay" Nova said to an empty hallway. He was hoping to get in a word about a date for the dance but seems like The Ultimate Spider-dork had other plans.

Later that evening moments before the dance, the teen known as Sam Alexander while outside work was talking to Danny getting his thoughts on how to ask a guy to the dance for the first time. Danny was so easy to talk to Sam himself was shocked at the ease of the Kun Lun native taking his bisexuality. Though he had no idea himself how his space friend to do said task of asking out another male he still offered a listening ear and the advice to just say it to whomever had his eye and go from there. Sam fidgeted more before complaining about the non help until Danny gave him. Danny then offered to be a test to help build Sam's courage.

Meanwhile, Spider-man was busy making sure everything was perfect, even if he didn't have a date for tonight. Once, he himself saw no flaw in the over all look of things Spider-man left the rest up to his long time friends Mary Jane Watson and brother from another mother Harry Osborn. The two laughed and flirted as they sent their friend Peter/Spider-man to go rest a bit before all the merriment. He had been working so hard to keep them all safe even after the Amazing heroics before the S.H.I.E.L.D. graduation ceremony. He was in no way going to dispute or try to argue down a focused Mary Jane Watson he'd been learned there is no changing her mind once it's made up. With that our hero went to unwind a bit and use the S.H.I.E.L.D. luxury spa center. After a good shower scrubbing out all the kinks and knots earned throughout the day he decided to hit the sauna and relax a bit dozing off.

When he woke he saw it was 2 hours until the party started. Being the sure fire heartbreaker he thought in his mind he was he had to go insure he was ready to be fashionably late and steal the show at the same time. So off to his room our wall crawling hero went to prepare for tonight. And as for Scarlet spider he was still not feeling all that much better he was planning to skip the dance. He wasn't all that sociable even if most of his talking happened in his circle of fellow spider powered heroes. He decided he was in no mood or health to be out living it up so he just laid back down and continued his sleeping.

Three Hours Later

The party was in full bloom the heroes all enjoying themselves, even White Tiger had let her wild side out and was dancing like there was no tomorrow. Then again it could be her competitive spirit showing up when Kid Arachnid challenged her to a dance off, saying 'He felt she had no rhythm despite her cat like powers.' He learned the hard way she did in this silly dance off that she was unfortunately was beating him in. Peter stood by watching with party in full swing waiting to make his glamorous entrance. After watching Ava embarrass Miles he made his entrance. All eyes were on him as he made his way to the stage from the ceiling with a strut that would have made Billionaire Tony Stark proud. Jumping down onto the stage Peter greeted everyone and wished them a fantastic evening before he went to about his business to mingle amongst his colleagues. After two hours of wild dancing, drinks, and laughter Peter noticed something was up. Two things were off to our wall crawler. First being seeing Amadeus Cho and Sam Alexander slow dancing and yes kissing also. He couldn't believe his eyes a strange couple indeed but hey if it worked he would be happy for buckethead and his new love interest. Second thing he noticed off was the lack of presence thereof from the snarky quick witted attitude slinging Scarlet Spider wasn't in attendance of the festivities with everyone else even though he reclusive by nature. Being the concerned protective friend he was Peter decided to grab 2 drinks and a few snacks on a tray and go to check on his friend. And off he went…...