Aunt May hugged Peter tight, so tight he couldn't breath "Aunt May...oxygen...need to live" he said gasping for breath. The pair was standing outside the airport's central doors waiting for everyone else to turn up. "Are you sure you go everything?" Asked May for the fifth time today. "Yes Aunt May, if i forgot anything I would have remembered it by now cos you keep pestering me"
"I'm just make sure you have everything, I'm allowed to worry Peter" Peter gave a scrupulous look
"Are you sure you got everything?" Came a voice, "Yes Dad. I swear if you ask me one more time I'm hitting you with a drumstick!" Gwen appeared with her Dad in the crowd of just them as it was 5 o'clock in the morning, large suitcase with her a logo spray painted badly on the dull silver wheeled box, the strange ghostly pink lizard like enblem, which had been her hero suit emblem/bands logo. "Peter have the others turn up yet?" Gwen said speeding up her step slightly. Gwen's dad had his work uniform on, that of Captain of the New York Police Department. "I thought I tought you some deuctive skills Gwen" he joked, placing a large duffle bag on the brickwork outside the airport door.
"Yeah, I can tell when you steal my chocolate bars Dad" she glared at the police captain, he smiled apologeticly almost but his eyes said 'I paid for it so it was mine to do with as I please' "Mrs Parker, Peter good to see you both well" he greeted the pair standing alone.
The police Captain looked at his daughter then to his watch, he sighed smiling at Gwen "I'm sorry sweetie but my shifts about to start, call me when you land" Gwen smiled at her Dad, her drummer side screaming internally 'not hug him outside in public' but she did anyway "Alright Pops, I'll call when I arrive in my new digs, not before" the hug was broken off so Gwen to point with her last point "Whatever you say Gwenny, goodbye I love you" he turned to the Parkers standing there, one being awkward the other respectful "Look after her" "I'm sure he will captain Stacey, now go do you job captain I'll make sure they get in safely" he warned Peter he muttered the response "Pretty sure that's Harry's job" just loud enough so Gwen could hear but not her father.
As the N.Y.P.D captain left, Gwen tried to hit Peter with a drumstick, he 'danger-sense' going off saving him again "You're the worst Parker" he strugged, smiling an ever so 'I did it, what are you gonna do smile' Aunt May had an eyebrow raised 'Peter is there's something your not tell me' expression across her face "I'll tell you later, when Gwen can't deny the truth" he whispered, the woman nodded.
Gwen was always confused by Peter's aunt, Mary Jane described her as an old woman in a subsiously young an attractive body and the fact she an brazenly talk about well, her love life infront of him like a highschooler was really off putting. "So are you looking foward to UA Gwen dear?" Asked the old woman in Aunt May's young body, the highschooler obviously sniggering in the back still.
The pink tipped blonde nodded "Yeah, I mean come on this is going to be one of the weirdest and most exciting experiences of my life and that's before you factor in the one time I accidentally went through someone elses head" she mentally shock herself, the sight of the inside of someones nose was disjusting, it took theropy to get rid of the fear of noae she had for a year. May for her part nodded, Peter snickered. "It's not funny Peter I was terrified an 4 years old!" Peter burst out laughing not being able contain himself, eventally spluttering out "Okay okay okay, it's snot funny" Gwen's left eye twitched. Aunt May gave Peter a disapproving look, elbowing him in the gut, hard but not too hard to cause pain.
Peter clutched his stomach in fake pain anyway. Gwen an May exchanged a nod and eyeroll of 'boys'. "So Pete, you looking forward to spending a year with MJ without having to worry about her aunt?" Peter's eyes bulged out of there sockets, if he'd had been drinking it would have all come out of his mouth with the surprise of the comment. May raised an eyebrow looking at her red faced nephew "Peter is there something you're not telling me?" Peter face filled with dread, Gwen with almost evil glee. "Oh Peter you haven't mention the news yet?"
Peter gawked slightly, he knew exactly what Gwen was doing, she was playing on the fact that Peter Parker, ex-wallflower and living warning sign, was to force him to admitting that he liked MJ to his aunt, or something like that and Peter had no way out. "What? News Peter?" Peter gulped before spouting some nonsense "There had been a collapse in the North Atlantic fish market causing a drop in the value of cod fillets by 26% and the UK fish and chip shop market to lose about 25% of their income yesterday" he said flashing a massively fake 'sincere' smile. May looked slightly concerned at that news "Oh what happened?" Peter looked up in thought carefully "I think a volcanic eruption near Iceland caused a new island to rise up from the straight causing shipping to go into total chaos, I not know the full detail I only scheme read the article"
Gwen looked less than impressed at this turn of events, how did May buy that load of bullshit Parker just pulled, to be fair it sounded mildly convincing, convincing enough that later she'd have to tell MJ just so she knew Peter thought the best way of distracting his aunt from her was fish, what was he a cat? She looked at Peter's almost shark like smile, it was becoming a one up game now, and it looked like she was the chump in this.
"Peter did you remember to exchange some money?" asked May to her nephew, he gave a nodded "I got my last Daily Bugle check converted to yen, stop pestering that's the 4th time you've asked me that" he said jabbing a finger in her direction, May for her part rolled her eyes. Smiling at her nephew "Fine I'll stop pestering you, but here" she pulled out a wad of cash "Get something to eat, I don't want you going hungry" Peter was about to open his mouth to refuse when May gave him a glare, he smiled and took the money "Thanks Aunt May"
May smiled, looking at her watch, she'd accidentally taken a morning shift for this week, too be fair to her neither Peter or May knew when the month had started. May gave Peter a straight look grabbing him by his face "I'm gonna miss you Petey" he smile, a sincere smile that only gave to their mothers "Imma miss you too, I'll call as soon as I can" May nodded pulling him into a hug, it was the kind of hug that you really didn't want to end but hit had to, pulling apart the elder Parker began walking off, towards the small run down car they still had, it was the first time it'd been driven since Ben died.
May smiled as she pulled the door closed, she could see Peter and Gwen having a conversation, Peter apparently fervently denying something, whipping the mist that had began to form in her eyes, she smiled a sad smile, starting up the engine "If only you could see him now Ben, oh you would be so proud" May rarely brought Ben up in front of Peter for the simple reason that it nearly brought her to tears every time she said the name. Pulling away she looked as MJ had appeared Peter growing steadily more red faced about something. She could only smile about that, that boy was very stupid for someone so incredible brilliant.
"Fish stocks, what does he think I am, stupid?"
Norman put his hand on his son shoulder as he placed the final bag on the ground, Harry was slightly confused when Norman had taken him personally, as in Norman Osborn, had driven him to the airport, and the thing that freak out Harry was he was smiling the whole way to the airport, his proud little smile that didn't quite fit on his features to an extent. "I'm proud of you Harry" he said finally.
Harry smiled up at his Dad, not sure of what to say, Norman wasn't exactly the best Dad but he did try and be at least semi-decent sometimes "Thanks Dad" Norman then straighten his green tie, he's sparking with what only could be pride. "No need to thank me Harry, you did it all by yourself, now go show them why Osborn is a name to be respected" he said closing the trunk of the car with the press of a button. Harry nodded, yeah it'll be easy it's only what did Gwen call it 'the Cambridge of Hero schools' no biggie. "Are you coming to see us off Dad?"
Norman smiled slightly, nodding "Yes, I wanted to wish all of your friends good luck, not that I believe they need it Harry, but I just wanted to make sure you got on the plane without exploding" Harry chuckled, grabbing his bags, strapping his hero suit container to a duffel bag he began walking towards the airport door were the sounds of a very defensive Peter was heard "I'm not calling you a fish MJ!" Norman and Harry gave an odd look to each other, both Osborn's knew Peter had a tendency of making things worse for himself and things seemed to be pretty bad at the moment.
The Osborns found found Peter backing away from Mary Jane, her face full of playful smugness, it seemed to be her almost default facial expression, as Peter was slightly red faced by the proximity, her having grabbed him by his hoddie's collar slightly "You're lucky I don't punch you Tiger" Gwen was snickering having recorded the whole thing on her phone. "I'm sorry we should go Dad should disturb the lover's quarrel" Both Peter and Mary Jane went bolt straight, having released the hoodie both of them turned to face Harry, death glares on there face.
"Harry, so go to see you" Peter greeted his friend through gritted teeth, face completely scarlet, Mary Jane's face was less scarlet but it night have been her hair off throwing the color balance. "I'm really glad you're hear" she chimed also through gritted teeth, Gwen waved an smirked at Harry "Nice to see you Sharpshooter, boy have I got news for you" Harry smiled at that "So shouldn't we check in?" stated the Osborn heir. Norman watch with slight amusement, 'Teenagers' was his only thought.
The large open check in hall of the airport was completely vacant bar for a small queue in another brand of plane seemingly going to Germany, and the other to Japan, with no queue at all. As the others began walking Harry looked at his Father "Do I need to phone home once we land?" Norman smiled "Only if you want me to put you thought to my assistant, text me when you get into your accommodation, and send me a picture I want to see what the company funded" Harry smiled that was as much as a goodbye he was going to get "Seeya Dad, I'll text you that picture" he said wandering off to join his friends whilst waving, Norman waved back. That little proud smile on his face.
Peter looked at Harry "Dude your Dad was smiling, you sure that was him?" the pair were sat waiting for Gwen and MJ to come out of the toilets, Harry gave Peter a look "He can smile Pete, he's not an alien" Peter looked back incredulous "You sure about that, I hear all big company CEO are lizards and the earth is flat" he whispered, both of them smirking "Why do people believe that?" asked Harry "Most Lizards I've met have been very financially sound" "No about the flat earth thing, even I know that gravity would be different"
"Yeah, the bit that always get me is the NASA parts of it, like 'Oh yeah we pay people to stand there and turn people around before they fall of the edge of the world'" Peter said waving his hands, trying desperately to forget the ordeal of trying to secretly shove his webshooters in his suitcase before going through security, which for the most part had been a breeze, bar when Peter had to explain he'd accidentally left a high powered electromagnet in his bag, he knew if forgot something and that something was a web cartridge, they let him keep it thank christ.
"That the unbelievable bit? Says the only guy in New York that can get picture of Spiderman without breaking a sweat?" "Hey I break a sweat doing it, just not enough to stain my clothes" Harry looked at him "But can't afford anything else by the cheapest deodorant?" "Alright Richie Rich, sorry I don't have Lynx Gold with real gold in it"
The pair had taken off their backpacks and had placed them on the ground next to there seat they'd secured "Why again is our flight at 7:30?" "Cos it was the cheapest flight?" asked Harry shrugging "Oh are you going to be joining us in the peasant seating?" asked Peter, glaring at his ticket, to make today even more awkward for himself, he had no idea who he was sitting next to, it was either Gwen or MJ and he had a sneaking subsumption that it was the later, he knew Harry seat the row in front of him. "So what was that little argument about earlier?"
"You G friend was insinuation things about me and Mary Jane" Harry raised an eyebrow "G friend?" his expression seemed to change instantly after repeating the phrase "No Pete, me an Gwen aren't, we're not, I mean" Harry was cut off by Peter giving a clearly faked puzzled look "I meant Gwen friend, what were you thinking?" Peter said far too smugly. "I hate you" muttered Harry.
"Well, I'm going to grab some food hold down the fort for me, you want anything, I fancy something filling" stated Peter changing the subject, Peter had to give it to Harry, he had way more practice with the witty banter than he did, being Spiderman had it's advantages but he had to let Harry win at least once otherwise he'd never be goaded into anything Peter was going throw at him. "Sure, have fun Peter" He said stretching out on the bench he was on as Peter stood up. "Apparently MJ really likes baked goods" Peter glared at him.
Gwen looked at Mary Jane wash her face for the 5th time today "Are you actually trying to turn into a fish?" she asked, the red head shot her a glare that could melt steel beams "You're getting far to much enjoyment out of this" Gwen shrugged, loving the flustered MJ that stood before her "It's not my fault your flustered by Pete" MJ face began heating up slightly "I'm not flustered, who's flustered? Not me!" she interrupted not looking herself in the eyes in the mirror. "Alright but you're the one sitting next to him for how longs the plane flight?"
Mary Jane was hated to admit that one of her oldest childhood friends had well become slightly, only slightly, attractive, sure MJ was all confidence when it came to other boys, turning them down left and right it was fun to flirt but with Peter he was just, nice to talk to. But flirting with him was just a game her younger self thought was fun and she'd kept it up yet when her god damn hormones court up with her the flirt didn't help at all AND to make it all worst those feeling popped up the same time Pete's uncle died and he didn't need her trying to get him to date her no he needed a friend. "Come on, we better go don't want to keep the boys waiting" said Gwen patting her on the back "I'm sure Pete's just as bad as you are" MJ smiled at that.
Peter did have a unique way of getting flustered, both utterly infuriating and adorable, making the flirting all the sweeter "For some reason I don't doubt you" Gwen looked at her for a moment, smiling something sinister "If you don't ask him out by the end of the year I'm going to ask him out for you" MJ glared as she walked passed Gwen "I'm just waiting for the right time"
The deadpan look on Gwen's face said otherwise.
"Why are there 2 extra chairs in the class?" asked Midorya, Tenya just explained "Mister Aizawa said there were required"
MJ stared out the window, being sat by the window seat with Peter in the middle, he was mindlessly staring off into space mumbling something stupid, the plane hadn't taken off yet and for some reason the news was playing on the tv's in the plane, the Daily Bugle Tv station running through all the big headlines "Surpising lack of fish in the news Peter" stated Harry giggling from the seat in front of him. Peter gave a very deadpan look at his best friend "Ha ha, go fish yourself"
Then breaking news hit the screen, JJ himself appearing with his favorite words saying 'MASKED MENACE GONE FOREVER?!" Peter looked in slight horror, how did he get the written word on a web so wrong "News just came in from Central Park, Spiderman has left a message about his retirement, and good riddance to the menace!" Peter had to use all his 'acting' skills to not curse his boss' name at the top of his lungs. The image of the web he'd spun last night had appeared on the screen between a couple of football posts, clearly reading
'Hey New York, Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman here, I'm going off the web cos something came up don't worry I'll be back as soon as I can, and if I pop up anywhere else just remember I'm always thinking of my Big Apple, kisses Spidey, bar you JJ no kisses for you'
"Seems like he's work up over not getting any kisses from Spidey" stated Gwen chuckling to herself, she couldn't say this at home but Spiderman did decent work, sometimes but the New York Act had been to deeply drilled into the hero course students to actually support the spider full, "Don't blame him, probably get splinters from the mustache" mumbled Peter, trying desperately to keep up his secret identity.
Harry smiled as someone sat in the seat next to him, he and Gwen ideally talk about some hero course students, that an the fact Kamala had posted a new selfie, Peter was always surprised how often she posted on social media, how did she have the time, MJ seemed to be deep in thought about something, Peter decided not to disturb her, the way her eyes were analyzing the clouds in the early morning light seemed to give him enough reason to leave her alone for now. "Hey Pete you got competition, take a look"
Peter raised an eyebrow as a phone was passed to him through a chair, the chair back, god did Gwen have a weird quirk sometimes, looking at the picture on the phone it was well, Ms Marvel and Spiderman's selfie from last night with the caption 'Look who I caught, we got a selfie before he left' Peter raised an eyebrow "Doesn't count, she's an avenger insider help I call" stated Peter, Gwen retracted the phone and typed a comment. "Well Mr Parker, we'll see how she responded to that"
5 hours into the 14 hour flight Peter felt something land on his shoulder, he'd been dosing slightly trying to catch up on sleep that he'd missed out on and so was everyone else, apparently everyone else had pulled an all night as well, the tv in front of Peter seemed to be mindlessly playing a radio station or something, he turned to look at the thing resting on his shoulder.
MJ with a content smile, she'd been reading something the book was still in her lap, Peter took it gently and placed it back into her bag, silently cursing himself for not putting the bookmark in the page, he moved to get more comfortable, he looked at MJ face for a brief second, he sighed to himself, might as well make it more comfortable. He moved the armrest between them slowly, everything he did slow and deliberately, as he armrest was moved out the way MJ seemed to curl up into his side in an instant. Peter turned a lovely shade of crimson.
Looking at his watch he sighed, 13:12, resting his head atop MJ before closing his eyes again, he really need to catch up on his sleep. Yawning and stretching the side of his body that MJ wasn't attached to, Peter lent back an returned to his dreams.
He didn't notice Gwen's phone in the chair recording his every move, or her suppressed giggling "Money shot"
Harry looked at Gwen's video after he woke up an hour later, he looked at Peter being secretly very careful with MJ, then at the pair still snoring away behind them "Agree with me here, we will never let this go" "Do we even have to agree Sharpshooter? Lets wait until we land before we show them" Gwen had a devious smirk on her face. "Oh this is gonna be sweeter than the time MJ let slip 'Tiger' when I first met her"
Gwen raised an eyebrow "I'll get Pete to tell it, it's was back at Midtown it well worth a wait it's seriously the best thing I've ever heard come out of Pete's mouth" Gwen raised an eyebrow in higher "That's not a high bar" stated the blonde turning back to her phone, scrolling through the notes that she'd left herself, Gwen planning face was present through the whole thing. Harry knew this but let Gwen plot he wasn't about to be court up in any of this. "So who do you think we're meeting at the airport?" Gwen shrugged "Maybe are new teacher? or the Principal or something"
Harry nodded "I'm going to go with or something"
People tend to notice Pro-heroes standing in airports, holding signs with English letters people also noticed that, but if your Pro-hero Midnight well, par for the course at this point, maybe the hero costume was a bit much, the teaming mass of people leaving baggage claim was more like a maelstrom of bodies and cases, normal it settled down at this time, it was pass the rush of people coming in for business trips and the like, but did collecting the luggage really have to take so long, seriously what with these kids. 'God' Midnight thought 'I would rather be teaching' leaning up against the railing still holding out her sign for 'Horizon Students' she grumbled to herself. "Oh Midnight could you pick up the new students for me, why of course Principal Nezu it would be my pleasure" a cough enough out from in front of her.
Looking up uninterested Midnight sore well a very normal looking boy, brown hair, hazel eyes with a plain looking hoodie and jeans look, he moved his arm down "Are you here for the Horizon students?" he asked, in fluent Japanese "Yes, why do you ask?" she had a pretty good idea "Oh I'm the only one with my bags at the moment, the other kinda got held up" Midnight raised a eyebrow mask moving with it. He gave a sheepish grin as Midnight found the large trolley full of suitcases besides him "There indesposde at the moment, airplane food" he said, Midnight gave a knowing nod. "Come round here and will wait for your friends" she gave a look of 'your name' "Oh Peter, Peter Parker" "Pro hero Midnight" Peter nodded an smiled "I'll be back in a moment"
Midnight watch as Peter began pushing the trolley around, god how much stuff did they pack? it was stacked nearly as tall as the handle, normal someone of well Peter skinny proportions would have struggled be he wasn't even red faced, must be stronger than he looks. Finally after about a minute of walking around Peter arrived next to Midnight he smiled, putting the breaks on the trolley before pulling out his phone, and texting something to someone, he looked up "I told them were to met us" he seemed unsure of something. He took a moment to look at Midnight in her costume, all of his face seemed to expand in surprise "Is that what people normal wear here?" he seemed to being going red
Midnight chuckled "Only if you in my line of work" Peter eyes bulged slightly "Aren't you a teacher?" "Yes" Peter seemed to make the sound of a vibrating phone, he gulped averting his eyes "Right, you don't teach the support course right?" Midnight shock her head, Peter seemed to relax "Oh so you're a gentleman are you?" "No, more like a kid from Queens?" he shrugged trying not to look Midnight in the eye.
Midnight seemed to relax, this kid obviously didn't have complete control of his teenaged mind yet so she gave him a mild pass. "So your on the support course?" she asked, "Yeah, I mean with my quirk just being an early warning system it's not really useful for you know, punching" he said shrugging, Midnight nodded "You say that but I wish I had something telling me about incoming attacks, would make taking out multiple targets easier" Peter shrugged "I mean that's true I could do that but" he gestured to himself, he's very skinny body "I'm not exactly trained or anything, also building stuff just easier for me"
The pair then descended into the awkward silence after the awkward small talk. It took minutes before the silence was perferated by Peter mumbling something to a tune "Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can" an so on, he only stopped when he sore Midnight actually look at him. The buzz of the phone echoed out of Peter's pocket "Oh they're on there way, apparently the nuts weren't all there" Midnight gave him an light chuckle.
3 more minutes of stoic silence and a dark ginger teen broke the silence "Pete!" the ginger boy was followed by a red head and a blonde all of them running towards the barrier, apart from the blonde who ran through it. Midnight looked at them for a moment 'Aizawa owes me for this'