CilanTheGreat: Alright alright alright two posts in one day~
Darthjennab: Wow that's great considering we didn't post for a few months a while back
CilanTheGreat: Shh don't bring up the past….
Darthjennab : ANOTHER SUPER LONG ONE! Have I mentioned this chapter is my favourite yet?
CilanTheGreat: Multiple times yes...
Darthjennab: SO MUCH DICK AND SPUD COMING UP
CilanTheGreat: Mhm it's pretty great, enjoy the chapter~
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Robin and Tony held each other's stares, Tony, because he was trying to be stern, and Robin, because he could never back down from a challenge. Robin had to admit that when Tony was being serious with him it put him on edge because Tony was never Tony when serious. He and Tony were always butting heads over the smallest of things, He loved Tony, he was family but they never seemed to go at least a week without an argument. Alfred had always said it was because they were so much alike, Dick could never see it but he could never doubt the all-knowing Alfred.
"Robin."
This was where the real trouble was going to start, it hadn't even started yet and Dick already knew Bats was going to ground him. "Ah hey, Batman, what a small world, I didn't know you would be here too…" Batman glared at him, making the boy wonder shrink in his place, nothing good could come from this at all.
"Hehe Hey Iron Man, Batman what a-er surprise?…"
The two older heroes watched as Spider-man slowly walked over to them, his hands wringing nervously. "Spider-man, I'm guessing Fury sent you and your team out on a mission?" Tony asked, arms crossed with a disapproving stare. Spider-man laughed awkwardly, his toe tapping the ground.
"Uh yeah, you could say that. Robin here wanted to tag along so I let him…" Before either of the adults had a chance to scold the young spider another explosion went off in the distance.
"You two can wait, mission first, punishment later." Batman said, turning towards the chaos behind them.
"...Spider-man, take him to the cave."
Tony's eyes narrowed while Spider Man looked at the Bat in surprise "I can't just leave my team!" "Bats, he knows about the cave?" They both exclaimed only to have Batman not answer and swiftly walk away completely ignoring the two.
"BATS!"
Peter watched the Bat walk away, a cold sweat breaking out on his forehead when Tony's eyes started focusing on him. Peter did his best to ignore him and notified his team as to where he was heading. "How the hell do you have access to the bat cave!" Nova yelled over another explosion "That doesn't matter idiot! Don't worry about us Spider Man we'll be okay." White Tiger voiced back, "I've got you Robin, you'll be okay" Robin didn't answer back, his head swinging back limply as Peter lifted him up bridal style.
"You were awake before…" Peter huffed then looked up at Tony "I'll take care of him, I promise." Iron man didn't bother to reply as he followed Batman back into battle. Peter hated lying to him but after today, he knew Tony would find out sooner or later. Now wasn't the time to worry, Dick was in trouble and it was up to Peter to help him.
^._.^ May the force of the batsy be with you ^._.^
Dick's head hurt.
Like, really hurt.
Run over by a train kind of hurt.
Sitting up, a groan escaped his mouth alerting the half asleep Peter of his wake. "How you feeling baby bird?" Dick glanced over at Peter who was perched on the side of the med bed, his mask was off but the rest of his suit was still on his person. Dick looked around, noticing he was now in the Bat cave and instead of being in his Robin costume he was in a pair of comfortable sweatpants and a t-shirt.
"What happened? Did you change me? Dude!" Peter scoffed then hopped off his resting perch. "You never answered my question," with a sigh Dick massaged his temples his head shaking back and forth repeatedly. "I don't know, I'm kind of distraught, heavy on the dis…" Peter couldn't help but roll his eyes, "Now is not the time to butcher the English language!"
"Someone's not whelmed-"
"Dick!" Robin chuckled then held up his hands as a sign of peace. "Alright, I get it something went wrong, last thing I remember was being knocked back by some explosion and then...Oh no, Tony was there!"
"Wow Dick, thanks for telling me things I already know-"
"Don't be rude! How long was I knocked out for anyway?"
Peter shrugged his shoulders.
"Just a few hours I guess, the team said the Avengers and the Justice League apprehended the situation and Tony and Bruce will be here soon." Dick watched as Peter fiddled with his fingers, his face scrunched up in worry. "You're thinking Pete, you make that face every time you're in deep thought…" Peter looked away towards the zeta tube Batman and Iron man were sure to enter through. "I'm pretty sure Tony knows now and I'm pretty sure this might be our last team up for quite some time." Dick frowned at that, last team up? What did Peter mean by that?
"Peter this can't be our last team up, I'm not dead or anything-"
"That's not what I meant Dick, Tony never wanted me in the superhero 'gig' in the first place! Ever since he took me in, he always sheltered me and tried to keep me away from all of" Peter flailed his arms around crazily, gesturing to everything around him "All of this! I'm doing exactly the opposite of what he wants!" Peter's shoulders slumped a look of utter defeat written all over his face and Dick didn't like it. Peter was basically like his older brother and he always knew what to say when Dick felt like all the hope in the world was gone. Peter was Dick's rock when things were tough and Dick wanted to be Peters.
"Pete I-"
Recognizing
Batman 02
Authorized guest A14
There went the zeta tube… "Come on Bats, we've known each other for years, why don't I have my own code?"
"Tony now is not the time-"
"Come on Bats, I think the least you could do is give me one."
"Why do I even bother with you anymore."
"You love me that's why~"
Peter swallowed as he heard Bruce and Tony get closer, Dick didn't like the look the other had on written in his face. Reaching out Dick gripped Peter's hand and sent him a reassuring smile, this wasn't much but it was something. "Robin good to see you're... okay..." Tony looked at both Dick and Peter his eyes wide with surprise and Dick couldn't help but snort at that. "For a genius you sure can be slow-"
"Robin."
Peter shifted slightly under Tony's gaze and wow did that pebble look interesting. "Hey Tony, surprise?" Tony continued to stare at Peter, arms crossed over his chest, he wasn't wearing the Iron Man suit anymore so the bruises were clearly visible. It only seemed to make Peter feel worse.
"I had a feeling when Bruce told you to go to the cave but I couldn't help but deny it." Tony murmured to himself as he walked closer to the spider. "Tony it isn't what it looks like, well it's exactly what it looks like but that's not the point!"
"Then what is the point, Peter!"
"Remember that trip I took to OSCORP?" Both Bruce and Tony scoffed at that and groaned out at the same time. "Ugh, OSCORP…" Peter nodded then continued.
"Well I was looking around and I saw this spider, it was a weird looking spider but it landed on me and I was like 'wow it likes me', but then it bit me and then I was like,' wow, rude spider', but then I started getting this fever. Remember Steve was freaking out because he thought I had a fever, then he sent me to bed. BUT when I woke up BAM I had powers and you guys inspired me to become my own hero, kinda, and so I did…?"
Tony looked Peter up and down, looking very confused "Your story made no sense but, I'll take your word for it." Peter grinned sheepishly, his stories never made much sense
"Bruce, did you know about this?"
"Of course, I did."
"Then why didn't you tell me!?"
"I thought you knew."
"How did you even find out?"
"I'm Batman."
Everyone gave Bruce an unimpressed look but didn't bother replying to that, "Tony I really like being a hero, it makes me feel like I can actually do something. Like I actually belong in the tower with everyone else."
Tony sat next to Dick resting his head on his hands "I don't know baby boy, if something happened to you I don't know what I would do." Peter let go of Dicks hands so he could grasp onto Tony's, "I know this is hard Tony but I've been training, if you want I could even train with the Avengers on a daily basis." Tony stared up at Peter, hazel meeting baby blues, he didn't know if he could let his baby boy go.
"Peter…"
"Tony if you're really that worried I have an idea." Tony broke eye contact with Pete so he could look at Bruce "And what would that be?" Bruce rested a hand on Peter's shoulder, a small smile creeping onto his face "Maybe Peter can train with Dick's team, they're all around his age so it'll make things easier for him. If you'd like Peter, your team could come too, we can't have too many young heroes, now can we?" Peter's eyes lit up at that.
"Really? Pete gets to train with the team?!" Dick interrupted his own blue eyes shining happily, Bruce chuckled at that. "If that's what Tony wan-"
"PLEASE TONY!" Both teens screeched out together, their arms clinging to Tony. Tony sighed then looked down at the two, he could never say no to them…
"Fine, but this means I get my own code-"
"YES! THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU-"
Tony shook his head then patted their heads, his eyes reading 'this is all your fault.' Bruce smirked down at Tony his eyes reading 'you'll thank me later.' "We should get going Petey, we'll see Brucie-kins and Dickie bird later~" The two bats frowned at Tony's choice of nicknames but Peter laughed.
"Yeah later…"
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Recognizing
Robin B01
Dick waltzed in from the zeta tube entrance, twinkling eyes hiding behind his dark shades and his face adorning the biggest grin ever. Bruce had drugged him up on painkillers and had told him if he was going to come to the team hideaway he'd have to take it easy, but he was bouncing off the walls and too hyped to care.
Making his way around the cave, Dick found his way to the team sitting room. There he found Artemis and M'gann chatting about whatever it was girls chatted about and Wally rolling around on the floor.
Walking over to the girls, he cupped his hands around his mouth "Is he okay?" He whispered making sure he was loud enough for the other boy to hear. The girls laughed at Robins question "I think he finally lost himself," Artemis answered eyes glancing over to the redhead on the floor. "You know I can still hear you, right?" Wally yelled out finally coming to a stop on his back "That's the point baywatch." Artemis quipped back not missing a beat, Wally grumbled a few words under his breath, his attention finally focusing on Dick.
"Rob, I've been bored out of my mind! Where the hell have you been?" Dick smirked then plopped himself down next to Wally on the floor. "I was up in New York helping Batman with the whole Avengers initiative."
Helping was truly an understatement but they didn't need to know about that "Oh yeah, Flash was telling me about that! Something about GL being an idiot and this whole plan being bad for his health." Dick let out a little cackle but covered his mouth quickly, Wally smiled at him making his cheeks turn a slight red.
"Well Flash isn't wrong about this probably being bad for his health, I'm pretty sure Bats is going to have gray hairs by the end of all this." Wally snickered at that "Oh before I forget, I have something to tell the team! Where is everyone?" Wally hopped up, his grin mirroring the one adorned on Dick's face
"I got this!"
Before anyone could utter a word he zipped out of the room and was back in a few seconds flat.
"They're coming~"
"WALLY!"
Yelled an annoyed Conner from some part of the mountain, minutes later he stomped into the room with a highly amused Kaldur following. "Superboy, Aqualad, nice of you to join us, how's it going?" Wally asked .
"Why you little-"
"Don't be like that Conner, Wally was only playing!" M'gann interrupted sending him A soft smile that seemed to calm him down considerably. "Robin, Kid Flash has said you would like to speak with us?" Kaldur asked gently sitting down in a vacant seat. Dick's grin from before somehow widened and with a grin like that the team could only see trouble.
"Well earlier today, I was working with my friend Spud and his team-"
"Spud?"
Conner interrupted
"It's what I call him, short for Spider-man anywa-"
"You know Spider-man!" M'gann exclaimed, her eyes full of excitement
"Does he look just as hot in person as he does on T.V?" Artemis asked in a slight daze "Ew, what? I'm not going to answer that but yes I do know him an-"
"I bet he's hella hot and you just don't want to tell us-"
"CAN I FINISH MY STORY? Anyway, I was out with Spud and his team and we were fighting these people called 'AIM Troopers' and they were pretty tough but I think we did pretty good." Dick wasn't lying he was just stretching the truth "Iron man was kind of skeptic at first but Bats talked him into letting Spud and his team train with us, isn't that great?!" The team stared at Dick, their eyes wide.
"YOU KNOW IRON MAN?"
"DUDE!"
"Who's Iron man?"
"Does this mean we get to meet him?" Dick glared at his team, arms crossed over his chest "Did you guys not get the point of my story? This isn't about Iron man-"
"We know Rob but come on, Iron man? How'd you manage that?" Wally asked, "He and Batman have been friends for awhile, he's kinda like family I guess?"
"What does Iron man have to do with Spider-man though?" Conner asked, he clearly didn't realize how close to home his question was. Dicks hand gripped at his knee, but the rest of his body looked relaxed, the only one who could really see the tension in the others body was Wally.
"He kind of takes charge of Spud and his team, it's not really important. What we all need to do is pay attention to how he and his team work. We could probably learn a few from them and we sure as hell can teach them a few moves too."
"When is Spider-man going to join us?" Kaldur asked, he had sort of a pensive look written around him
"Soon I guess, Bats said he'd bring them around later, all we gotta do is wait."
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Peter sat in the med bay of the helicarrier, fidgeting slightly under Tony's gaze. They had been sitting like this for awhile, he and Tony had made their way back here since neither of the other Avengers knew about the whole Spider-man thing yet… Tony hadn't spoken to him the whole trip there and Peter felt like the other was still slightly mad at him for the whole thing. He felt bad, yes, but he didn't regret his decision. Being Spider-man was a great choice but it wouldn't have to be so hard if Tony would just say something, anything.
"Was Spider-man really your only option?"
Huh? Hours of not talking and that's the only thing he had to say?
"What do you mean by that?" Peter asked, eyes narrowed slightly. "You aren't really a man, not yet anyway, Spider-kid or Spiderboy seem like way better options for you right now. Spiderling would be great too~" Peter gave Tony an incredulous look, out of all the things… "Is that all you have to say? You haven't spoken since we left the cave and all you have to say, after hours of silence is that my name sucks?!"
Tony reclined back in the chair he was occupying, the look on his face unimpressed. "What did you want me to say?"
"I don't know, anything I guess! Yet you sat there quietly and didn't say anything making me feel like an idiot and… If it matters that much, I wanted to be called the Human Spider…" Peter yelled, mumbling the last part in slight embarrassment. Tony stared at him quietly for a few minutes then sighed, "Peter I didn't mean to make you feel like that, I swear. I'm still trying to wrap my head around this whole thing." Peter slumped in his seat across from Tony, his head falling into his hands.
"I'm sorry I just wanted to make you proud, I wanted to help! Before Uncle Ben died he told me that with great power comes great responsibility. That spider bite gave me the power and I- I just feel like it's my responsibility to use it and help others. I want to be more than just Tony Stark's useless ward in a house full of heroes, I want to be something else, I know it might sound selfish…" Peter stopped talking when he felt a hand rest on his head, looking up Peter was face to face with Tony who was kneeling in front of him.
"Peter I'm so proud of you, always going to be proud of you and you aren't useless, you are so much more. I'm sorry for not saying anything earlier but I was scared that maybe...maybe I'd freak out and say the wrong thing. You know me and my way with words?" Peter laughed a little at that, a tear rolling down his cheek. Tony moved his hand down from Pete's head, cupping his cheek, his thumb wiping away the stray tear.
"You're special to me baby boy, basically my son, I don't know what I would do if I ever lost you." Peter broke out of Tony's hold, his arms wrapping around the other's shoulders in a loose hug. "I know Tony, I'll be careful I promise but-"
"You need to do this. I know, I get it." Tony wrapped his arms around the boy's middle pulling him closer. They both stayed in that position for a while, just basking in the others presence. When Tony pulled away he pressed a small kiss to the others forehead a small smile forming on his lips.
"You should probably go and tell your team about the young Justice training thing, huh?" Peter nodded then gave Tony another quick hug before he left to go tell his team.
"That leaves me with the hard part, telling Fury…"
Great.
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Darthjennab : Poor Spider-kid, his life just got so hard- er harder
CilanTheGreat: Welp Uncle Ben did warn him.
Darthjennab: I need more Pete and Tony in my life, man
CilanTheGreat: Same it's what keeps me going during the day...that and Hamilton.
Darthjennab: … not that again.
CilanTheGreat: I RECOMMEND THE HAMILTON SOUNDTRACK TO ALL THOSE WILLING TO LISTEN TO IT!
Darthjennab : Songs we listened to while writing this: The Hamilton Soundtrack
CilanTheGreat: Lin Manuel Miranda is a musical genius and a great man~
Darthjennab: John Williams is better tbh… ANYWAYS, thanks for reading!