One great thing about being Spiderman was not needing to sleep that much. It helped after he'd patrolled, done homework and then had to get ready to go to school.

Aunt May really hadn't been a fan of the become a full-time hero thing. In fact, Aunt May had been… pretty angry at Mr. Stark for the whole fight in Germany. After she'd recovered from seeing Peter in his outfit, she'd called Mr. Stark and asked him to come over for a discussion where May could tell him what she thought of his not telling her when he sent "Peter off to risk his life."

She'd used his dad's old baseball bat to drive the point home, fortunately, Mr. Stark was really good at dodging. Peter didn't want to think what would happen if Aunt May had managed to brain Iron Man.

There had been a long discussion after Mr. Stark had stopped dodging Aunt May, and they'd gotten Peter down from the ceiling where he was totally not cowering.

And out of that conversation had come a scary and very wrong agreement between Aunt May and Mr. Stark. Peter was going to be the Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman but…

"That doesn't mean going after the mob, or a superhuman like the Abomination." Tony's eyes were fixed on Peter. "The suit has an emergency call setting for 911 that puts you at the top of the line and another one that gets you a direct line to me—you see people with machine guns, you use it."

"But—"

"You're not bulletproof," Aunt May said, an odd hesitation in her voice. "I won't tell you to not get involved if lives are at risk—I'd never ask you that. But other than that, you can call it in to the police and let them handle it."

"With a higher chance of any charges sticking." Tony was still investigating the dent in the wall where his Aunt had missed him.

"You don't think I can…"

"Ferry. Vulture."

Peter shut up.

Tony shook his head. "You did great, Peter, you stopped Toomes, but… Like you said, be a Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman."

"And people will be more likely to see you like that if you're not always associated with the kind of property damage Tony Stark is associated with." Aunt May was smiling. Peter really did not like that smile.

"Are you going to try and hit me with the bat again?" Tony asked. Peter looked up at the ceiling, once again preparing to head for sanctuary.

"You're expecting it now. I'll wait."

And here he was. It was actually kinda fun. Mr. Stark had hacked the police frequencies, so Peter was getting a lot better at grabbing people, and just yesterday, he'd stopped a car jacker by webbing the car to the street and the doors shut. None of that compared to the guy he'd saved from jumping to his death last week. The police had tried to talk him down, but he just dove off the building and Peter had managed to catch him in a web net.

It helped that he'd actually had time to practice with his suit and learn its capabilities. Not all of them. He still had Karen, and Dronie, as well as some of the new webshooter features, but not instakill mode.

Instakill mode freaked him out.

Peter touched down a block away from the school, stashed the suit in his backpack, though he kept the webshooters on. With that he started jogging to the school to touch bases with Ned and say hi to MJ.

It was then that Peter paused, staring at the girl who had just gotten out of the car, a backpack on her shoulder, multi-colored clips and a single white stripe in her dark hair.

It's the middle of the year… Peter thought. Is she a new girl? She looks a little lost.

"Hi!" Peter said as he walked to her. "I'm Peter Parker, are you new here?"