When Peter woke up, he didn't open his eyes just yet. He wanted a few more minutes of warmth, snuggled up to his dad. Then he remembered. Aha! Today was the day he could leave his bed in the med bay. Peter closed his eyes, prepared for another few hours of sleep, because it was still dark out. Suddenly he heard a noise. Footsteps. It sounded like someone attempting to be quiet, but failing miserably. Normally, if Peter heard footsteps at night, he would think nothing of it, thinking it was a member of the team getting a late night snack. But this time, his spidey senses were going off the charts.
Trying not to wake up Tony, Peter smoothly slipped out from under the man's arm and hopped off the bed silently. He made his way over to the doorway and peered out. The footsteps stopped. Peter shrunk back behind the doorway, steadying his breathing. After the footsteps started up again, Peter slipped through the doorway and into the hall, using his amazing senses to guide his way towards the intruder. All of a sudden, red goggled eyes appeared in front of the teen. Peter's eyes widened and jumped back, but not before the intruder landed a solid punch right where the little spiders wound was. Peter couldn't help but cry out in pain. The wound was still very tender and the punch sent a wave of pain throughout him.
Peter curled in on himself and the assailant took that opportunity to kick his legs out from under him. He kneeled on Peter and the boy gasped for breath. Peter shivered as he felt the cold steel blade of a dagger being pressed to his throat. "Who…are…you?" Peter managed, voice sounding strained. "Oh me?" Asked the man with the orange goggles. "I'm the one who's going to finish the job that I should have completed last time. To kill you, Spider Man." It suddenly dawned on Peter that this was the man who had stabbed him in that alley way all those nights ago.
"Peter!" cried Tony, his voice chock full of panic. He had woken up to Peter gone and had freaked out. Now when he saw an intruder on top of his son with a knife to his throat, he lost it. Immediately, he summoned the iron man armor and he blasted the man with repulsors. The man flew off of Peter and crumpled against the wall. However, he recovered quickly and escaped through the window. Tony started to go after him, but then he remembered Peter. He swiveled around and jogged over to the kid, who was now sitting up against the wall, hand pressed to his side.
"Pete, are you alright? Is your side ok? Who was that guy? I'm going to KILL him!" Tony exclaimed and crouched by the boy. "He was…the guy who threw the dagger at me in the alley way. He punched my side right where my wound was, but I'll be alright." Peter blinked owlishly at his dad. He had hit his head pretty hard when he had had his legs kicked out from under him. Tony took Peter's head in his hands gently and turned his head from side to side.
"Does your head hurt, underoos?" Tony asked, saying the nickname fondly. Peter shook his head from side to side violently, before he stopped realizing it made him dizzy. "Don't lie to me Peter." The kid noticed the use of his full name and winced. "I mean, a little bit, but It's just a normal headache I'm sure." Peter rushed out.
Tony narrowed his eyes at the boy. "Friday, give me a full report on Peter," he said with a smirk. Peter's mouth dropped open. "What? That's cheating!" the teen exclaimed. However, there was no response from the AI. "Friday, you there?" asked Tony. Silence was the only answer he got. Tony helped Peter up and they made their way over to the control panel. Tony's arm was tight around the little spider protectively. He guided Peter over to a chair and sat him down before making his way over to the panel. He clicked away on a keyboard and occasionally pulled up some holograms of the building.
"Friday's been hacked!" came the angry shout after a few minutes. Peter winced as the loud noise upset his headache. "That must have been how the dagger dude got in without Friday warning us," Said Peter, hand against his forehead. Tony noticed the kids distress and made his way over to him. "It's alright kid, I'll reboot her tomorrow." But deep inside is chest, Tony knew he would be doing much more than rebooting Friday tomorrow. He was going to hunt down the man that almost killed his son.
The next few chapters are gonna get exciting! School has started up from spring break for me so I don't have as much time to write. I'll do my best on updating as much as I can!
