Ten

Peter had no idea why he had been so nervous in the first place especially since he hadn't expected this mission to be so, well boring. He had managed to squeezed into an air vent and was now looking through the air vent trying to catch anything juicy that he could report back to Fury or Agent Hill. So far there was nothing.

Peter was still holding the USB in his hand. He had been in this stupid air vent for two hours and these guys hadn't even gone on a lunch break. Didn't they ever get tired?

If this had been any normal, boring mission Peter would have just crashed in and gotten what he wanted. But unfortunately he was dealing with HYDRA and nothing with HYDRA was ever easy. But it wasn't like Peter could stay in the air vent for the rest of his life.

"Karen?" Peter murmured under his breath. "What's the suggestion?"

"There are twenty-two people in the room under you, Peter." Karen murmured back. "The first computer available is underneath you. You would have eight seconds before anyone could realize what you're capable of and stop you."

"Great. Thanks Karen."

Peter bit his lip. It was now or never otherwise he would have to spend the rest of his natural born life hiding in an air vent and that was not acceptable. Not to mention that he would absolutely die of embarrassment if people found out that he spent more time hiding in an air vent than actually being useful.

Peter sucked in his cheeks. It was now or never, with his foot he kicked the air vent down as pair of eyes started staring at him. He just had to jam the USB inside the first computer he saw. That was all he needed to do.

Immediately, he heard yelling as dozen of people rushed towards him with small stun guns, but Peter was too fast for them. He used his web shooters on them and sticking them against the walls. Other times he simply grabbed the stun guns and threw them again the wall so that it would break.

Peter was feeling a rush of adrenaline as most people fell to the floor. Wow, he could do this. He could really do this. Once the majority of people had fallen to the floor, Peter saw his chance and jabbed the USB into the nearest computer.

Peter saw a green screen flicker on the computer and he relaxed. Finally. He had done it, he had finally done it and he hadn't failed Agent Hill or Fury.

Peter felt a chill go down his spine. Spidey senses. Though a little too late. Peter felt something sharp hit the back of his head and then everything went black.

"Are you ok?" Steve asked Tony looking slightly confused. Tony looked paled and all the anger seemed to evaporate from Tony's face. Steve turned back to Bucky with a slightly scolding look. "What did you say to him?"

Bucky shrugged looking slightly guilty. Perhaps he should have sugarcoated it a little bit for Tony's sake, especially since he was acting like a chicken with his head cut off. But how could you sugarcoat HYDRA? Especially when an immature dork like Peter was involved. "I told him the truth. That if HYDRA hasn't killed Peter he's probably halfway brainwashed by now."

Steve crossed his arms across his chest and gave him a you-probably-shouldn't have done that-look.

"Nobody is getting brainwashed and nobody is getting killed." Wanda said trying to maintain her composure as she stared at Vision. "Right? How much longer until we get to Malibu? It feels like we've been on this stupid plane forever."

"Two hours," Vision replied. "We could make the plane fly faster, but it would require extra gasoline."

"We have extra gasoline," Natasha commented. "Let's move a little faster Vision." Natasha turned towards the group. "We need to think of a plan first. What are we going to do to save Peter? We don't know what HYDRA is capable of, we need to think of something-"

"I have a plan," Tony replied with a tight jaw. "Attack."

"Great plan." Steve said sarcastically. "Now I know why Bruce didn't want to come with us. You will pull out the Hulk in him especially with the temper that you are in."

"Bruce stayed behind in New York so that he could take care of Peter in case he got hurt." Tony rolled his eyes. "Though it would have made more sense that he should have come with us instead of waiting in New York."

"He didn't want to come because he didn't want to be dragged into a fight," Bucky said. "And there will be a fight."

Peter opened his eyes slowly. Everything hurt. What had happened? The only thing that he had felt was something sharp against his neck. "Karen?" he croaked out hoping that his AI and fellow companion would answer him. "Karen? What the hell happened?"

"P-Peter, error-s-something, d-danger-"

"Karen?"

"Error, I ddon't-"

"I think that's enough for now, we don't need your talking friend." Someone pulled the mask off from Peter and his eyesight stung ever more. Why was everything so bright and where was everyone? Where was Karen?

It took Peter a moment to realize his surroundings. He was in a dark room with only a bright light on top of him like in the movies. A tall man wearing dark clothes was in front of Peter with a trace of annoyance and indifference.

It took a minute for Peter to realize that he was tied to a chair and it took another moment for Peter to realized that he was bound so tightly to this chair that he couldn't get up no matter how much he wanted to.

"Who are you?" Peter managed to ask. He still felt so incredibly sleepy and drowsy.

"Carlton." Carlton responded as he stroke his cheek. "And you're the famous Spider that has been all over the news. At some point we were going to grace you with our presence, but it seems that you made the choice for us. No matter, for that we are grateful." He pulled out the small USB and shook it in front of Pete's brown eyes. "Now Mr. Parker would you care to explain what this is? Your little AI wasn't very helpful."

Peter bit his tongue. "I don't know-"

His sentence was cut off when Carlton slapped him so hard across the face that Peter felt like he had broken his jaw. Blood dribbled around his mouth and that's when he noticed the metal arm that Carlton had that looked similar to Bucky's. "That's one," Carlton said calmly while Peter tried to hold back his tears. His jaw hurt badly. "Lie to me again see what happens."

"Land the plane here," Natasha told Steve as she pointed to the empty grassy field that wasn't too far off from the coast.

"Why?" Steve frowned. "This isn't the airport where we are supposed to land."

Natasha looked at Tony. "Nick called me. Something is wrong. They can't contact Peter."

-End of Chapter Ten-

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