Last time: Didnt we learn not to touch glowing stones.
Pepper arrived. He didnt get to see her any earlier because he had to deal with all shield and loki stuff. Not wanting her anywhere close to that bag of crazy. They were to meet now, have some time to be happy that he didnt die. Now she had to wait.
"Cant go see her now J, doing a search and rescue. Tell her I am in the shower or something do not let her in the work shop!"
Jarvis was silent. He really couldnt waste any time about Pepper. She will understand. He was lacking so much information it wasnt funny at all. He had no idea if they were forward in time or send back. He will find them, and will not lose them. A small part of Tony brain deiced to imagine how Fury and the rest of the avengers would react to it. He basically lost Banner and Spidey in less then a day left alone to his own wishes. That must be a new record or something.
51 minutes after time zero. Knocking on the door. "Tony come this moment out. You are hiding injuries from me arent you! Please dont tell me you are dying! I am not believing a word of what Jarvis is saying! " Her voice came over the speakers, Jarvis relaying what Pepper was probably screaming on the other side of the door.
"Sir, you may wish to think about responding?"
"Um, Pepper. I am fine. Completely fine. Everyone is fine. Absolutely cheerfully fine. I would actually preferred the rabbit problem by now. I would even have taken a hulk rabbit of anger and rage at this point. I think a green rabbit would be really nice. Wonder how a rabbit climbing walls would look like. Would it hop up, and what about the ceiling there it would be able to h-"
"Open this door." Pepper voice in a near panic rolled over. "What is happening to make you panic, because you are sounding like you are panicking, Tony." Pepper was now panicking, great that went well.
"Pepper, pepper listen. Its fine. It is fine. Give me just a bit of time okay. I need to concentrate."
Silence, oh he was sure Pepper was stubborn, but at least this meant from here on Jarvis was attempting to calm her down. He shifted a file and looked over the math. That Jane is really amazing.
"She is listed as Thor girlfriend." Oh he said that one aloud.
"Wouldnt peg Thor to be into smart ones."
59 minutes after time zero.
"Sir I am noticing a energy rise in the same spot where the gem last was." Stark took a breath in, and moved away from the spot. He made his way over and behind a table and observed what was happening. A live feed, with all sort of updating read outs, was on the monitor beside him. The build up was 6% now, that made more sense. It lasted for 38 seconds before the light flashed the readings going crazy for that seconds. And Banner was grabbing onto Peter shoulder, pushing the stone out spiderman hand and hugged him close to his chest. His back to the stone that landed on the floor. 2 seconds, the read out showed the stone to be again in passive mode.
Tony throw caution out the window and hugged the two avengers. "Have either of you had Thai. Because I am ordering a bunch of Thai food now. "
Both looked confused, so Tony spoke on.
"Where were you? You have to tell me all about it. J, move that thing to a safety container." Bruce let go of Spiderman and looked around. "I dont understand. Where we were?"
"Is this some cosmic joke on my expense because I am not laughing." Peter was frowning having moved to glare at one of the monitors in a corner. Checking the corner of it. Checking the time. Time.
"You were gone for 1 hour." Tony affirmed what the spider kid was probably complaining about to the cosmos.
"No, I... " Bruce looked down on himself checking if he still had cloths. Seeing they were not destroyed he relaxed a little bit, he took off his glasses and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "I reached towards him and then you are hugging me and him both, Tony."
Tony let a slow breath out. "You were send one hour to the future..." Then he looked over Peter who was watching as Dummy was moving the stone in the safety container. Well it was a question how safe it was to begin with. At least he wasnt trying to touch anything.
"Promised me stress free environment. No tension. No surprises." Bruce stage whispered to himself but loud enough to be heard. "What do I get? Near explosion and ... getting send into the future for one hour? I should file a complaint about wrong and misleading advertisement." It broke the tension that was radiating from Tony even spiderman turned away from the gem.
"Well thats my fault... If I were not here I guesses things would have been peaceful."
"You kidding? I would so blow something up in the first 48h for sure! Ask Pepper. Oh Pepper!" Tony eyes snapped to the door, he forgot about her.
"I informed ms. Potts that the situation has resolved itself. And that you will join her shortly."
"Did I say you are the best Jarvis? Because you are. You are the best J. " Tony hummed.
"How about we start working on that gem from tomorrow? And take the rest of the day off?" Bruce recommended and Peter nodded. Feeling obligated to explain his action the teen added.
"Yeah sounds good, I would like to be there when you do any tests on it. I apologize again for kicking you mr. Stark, but I knew it wouldnt harm me. My spider sense didnt tingle."
"Spider ... sense? Are you eating flies, not judging if you do. But do you?" Tony questioned as he was making his way over to the door, followed by the other two.
"No. Its hard to explain but... after I got this powers, my senses dial up eleven and I started to notice that I can tell if something is about to harm me or not. If I am in danger or not. It... like...a tingle in the back of my head. I dont know how else to explain it, mr. Stark."
"So that wall climbing is it a suit thing or can you do it with out it? "Tony Stark didnt get a answer as Pepper spotted them and the billionaire focus turned towards her. That lead to Bruce and Peter awkwardly sitting on the couch eating thai food while Pepper and Tony interacted. Which was fascinating for the two newcomers. Tony and Pepper both talked over each other, didnt listen to each other, screamed at each other. And Pepper was promising to kill Tony if he ever dare do the stunt with the nuke again. It ended with them hugging causing the two guest to concentrate heavily on the food.
They would have left them alone from the start but Tony was quite insistent for them to sit down and eat. The one time Bruce stood up to leave, Tony stopped his flood of words looked at him and told him to sit down.
A minute passed and the hug ended and Pepper looked over at the guest on the sofa. "I am sorry." She silently dried her cheeks as at one moment some tears did leak out. Thought before either of them had a chance to say anything the red head went on.
"Tony only said that he is getting two roommates to live with him in his text. I truly hole he didnt just kidnap you from the side of the street. I am Pepper Potts, ceo of Stark industries."
"I am dr. Bruce Banner. Nice Meeting you, ms. Potts... "
"He is the Hulk." Tony interjected, causing the redhead eyes to widener and openly look at Tony before looking over at Bruce. Who sunk onto himself, awaiting a bad reaction of some kind. "I saw the videos." Potts said a bright and brilliant smile appearing on her face. "Thank you for saving Tony. You are more than welcome here. If he annoys you tell me and I will hit him over the head for you."
"Thanks." The scientist said smiling a bit himself. The woman looked over to him. It made Peter wonder why did the two break up? Stark looked like he really cared about her and somehow the two were a good fit. Yet he was told by Rhodey not to mention Potts around Tony if possible or the word pepper.
"I am Peter Black." Peter easily said, having little trouble to smile and kept on going with half truths. "I meet mr Stark during the invasion. He was nice to offer me a place to stay."He maybe felt a little bad about not explaining a bit more. Seeing Pepper frown for a moment.
"What about you parents?"
"They died." Peter looked down, letting the redhead assume wrong that they died in the invasion, and not when he was a little boy and didnt even remember them. "I didnt have anywhere else to go." He added which was true but not for the reasons she assumed.
"Oh I am sorry Peter." Peter was thankful Stark didnt blur out his alter ego. Or that either tried to correct his not quite lies. The rest of the evening passed in relative clam. They watched a movie, and Peter excused himself when it became late.
Entering the room, the floor that was now his, Peter sighed. "What a day." He spoke to himself and instead of going to sleep he moved to the bag with his costume and activated his utility belt. The next several hours Spiderman was taking apart his gear and putting it back together, fixing the holes in his costume. It cleared his head and relaxed him.
"Friday I need several...I mean Jarvis could you open a shopping list. I am on my last two web fluids here."
"Of course, mr Black." The AI said, making Peter decide on not correcting it. Its better if he just get used to Black as his name. He could not tell Jarvis to call him Parker. He dictated the list of things he will need as a distraction. Looking out the window Peter promised the city that he will get out on the street as soon as he could. If he was promising it to this city or the city from the future he wasnt quite sure.
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