Peter walked into his room that night and found that MJ and Annie weren't there. He then saw that the window was open and he ran to the window and saw the Green Goblin riding away with MJ and Annie.
"NO!" Peter cried and he sat up and found that he was in bed. MJ woke up and looked to Peter.
"Everything ok?" MJ asked and Peter's forehead started to glow yellow and then the glow went away.
"Yeah, it wasn't a vision, it was just a bad dream, so everything's fine." Peter sighed in relief and he got up and walked over to Annie and found that he had woken her up. She wasn't crying though which was a good sign.
"Hey baby." Peter sighed in a soothing voice.
"Are you ok?" MJ asked in concern and Peter gently picked Annie up and went over to MJ and sat down beside her as he held Annie on his shoulder.
"Yeah. I just wanna make sure I spend as much time as possible with Annie." Peter replied.
"You've never had bad dreams before. So I assume that you're concerned about something." MJ sighed as she put one of her arms around him. Peter looked to her and decided to talk to her about it.
"I don't fight like I used to. Every time I go into a fight I can't stop thinking about you and Annie. That's why I couldn't kill Harry. I was worried that it would fuel the fire and someone would come for you and Annie." Peter explained and MJ seemed to get a tighter grip on Peter and Peter felt pain fill his chest and Annie started to cry.
"Why is she crying?" MJ asked.
"Because I'm in pain." Peter grunted and then he felt the pain go away. "Hey Annie, it's ok. I'm alright." Peter sighed soothingly as he rubbed the back of Annie's head which had a little bit of brown curls on it and Annie slowly stopped crying and when she stopped Peter kissed her on the top of her head. "That's right baby girl." Peter said this and MJ couldn't help it.
"Why were you in pain?" MJ asked.
"I have a bruised rib and lung. It should be healed by the morning though." Peter replied and then he took Annie over to her new crib and put her in it and then he walked back over to MJ and pulled her in close to him. "I'm ok M." Peter reassured her.
"No you're not, but I'm gonna leave it alone." MJ sighed.
"No, ask anything. Please. I can talk to you." Peter replied and MJ decided to take the opportunity.
"Are you attracted to Gwen?" MJ asked.
"What?" Peter said as he couldn't help but smile at how ridiculous the question was. "No." Peter laughed. "Our relationship is strictly professional. Also she's like a little sister to me. It would be really weird." There was a short moment of silence and MJ decided to say exactly what she was thinking.
"What's going on with you? You've been so angry lately." MJ asked and Peter pulled MJ closer to him slightly.
"I'm really worried about you guys getting hurt. I don't want anyone else suffering, on my account." Peter replied and MJ put her hand on Peter's face and gently turned it to her.
"You know it's not your fault. You have done everything you can to protect people." MJ said and Peter kissed her and then he pulled away slightly and leaned his forehead on hers.
"I know. Ever since I was turned into a winter soldier, I'm just trying to figure out what to do about my anger. Every little problem just sets me on edge now. Every mission just," Peter started and he sat up and realized what was angering him so much recently. "That's what's wrong. I've been thinking about everything as a mission. That guy said that the word "Mission" would put me on edge and he couldn't have been more right. I need to change my mindset." Peter said and then he smiled and looked to MJ and kissed her again and as he pulled away he bit down on his lip. "I love you." Peter sighed and MJ smiled.
"Glad I could help. Now let's go to bed. Your turning 18 tomorrow and who knows what Tony has planned." MJ sighed and then the two fell asleep….
Peter walked into the kitchen the next morning as he yawned and suddenly everyone jumped out from random places.
"SURPRISE!" Everyone yelled and Peter jumped two feet in the air and then he looked at his watch in confusion and then looked back at everyone.
"It's 7 in the morning." Peter sighed tiredly.
"Well you weren't expecting it, were you?" May asked and she walked over to Peter and kissed him on the cheek and then she pulled Peter over to a seat and handed him some coffee. MJ walked over and sat down and handed Annie to him and Peter held Annie and smiled…..
They had all been celebrating Peter's birthday by having Birthday Pancakes which were cooked by Bruce and Nat and everyone was having a decent time. Even the Guardians had flown in to celebrate the occasion.
"What in the ass?!" An unfamiliar voice yelled as a guy with red and black spandex walked in. He had two swords and two guns as well. Everyone looked confused. "Your birthday is today? They didn't tell me that! I would have waited at least a day!" The guy said and then he walked over to Peter and held his hand out. "Hi there, Deadpool's the name and kicking ass and hunting down people who don't know their place is my game." The guy said and Peter shook his hand.
"Hi, I'm," Peter started and Wade finished his sentence.
"Peter Parker, if I'm not mistaken?" Deadpool said and Peter realized he was holding Annie and was concerned. "Aw, who spawned this cute little thing?" Deadpool asked as he sat down beside Peter.
"I did, with MJ." Peter replied in confusion. "Uh, what are you doing here Mr., uh, Deadpool?" Deadpool paused and then stood up and got angry.
"SON OF A BITCH!" Deadpool shouted. "That dickwad lied to me!" Deadpool took a breather and then looked back to Peter. "Be honest with me Peter Piper, what do you do for a living?" Deadpool asked.
"Um, I'm a super hero." Peter replied as he and everyone else in the room were taken back. "What do YOU do?"
"Oh well, I was supposed to kill you today, but I was lied to and the evidence seemed to be pretty overwhelming but I guess it was fake." Deadpool replied. "So tell me Peter Pan, what color is your super unitard?"
"Uh, red and blue." Peter replied.
"Oh what the fuck?! You were the guy trying to take down the bad guy! The bad spider guy was the one in the black, and they told me that HE was YOU, but YOU are on my side." Deadpool said in frustration.
"Oh the guy in black is dead sadly." Peter added regretfully.
"Well, looks like I'm not getting paid." Deadpool said and then he sat down by Peter.
"Wade Wilson, right?" Tony asked as he had been looking at his phone and Deadpool looked to him.
"Why yes Pants Know It All. I'd take my mask off so we could talk face to face, but you don't want to see my messed up ugly mug. It looks like a kid thought my face was play dough and they fingered it relentlessly. I'm just lucky as shit that my lovely fiancé doesn't care." Wade says. "So…does this party have any alcohol?" Deadpool asked.
"It's 9 in the morning." MJ pointed out.
"And you weren't invited." Quill added and Deadpool turned to Peter.
"The least I can do is try to add a funny sarcastic narration on your birthday party, you know, since I was going to kill you and was wrong. Also, this was kind of supposed to take up my day. Now I have like 14 hours to fill up." Deadpool sighed. "That douchebag sent me to kill a good guy, and if I had known I would have scheduled four hours with Vanessa, 3 hours to jack off, 2 hours to have an epic montage with the X-Force, and then fuck the rest of the day, literally and metaphorically." Deadpool said this and Peter let out a laugh.
"SO what douchebag sent you to kill me?" Peter asked out of curiosity and Deadpool looked straight at the audience and broke the fourth wall.
"This my friends is where the plot has a nice unexpected twist." Deadpool said and everyone looked confused.
"Um, who is it that you're talking to?" Peter asked and Deadpool looked back at the audience.
"Oh I forgot, we're not in one of MY stories, the Spiderverse isn't used to fourth wall breaks." Deadpool sighed and Peter looked at the audience.
"Sorry, It's just not USUALLY my style." Peter joked and Deadpool looked back to him.
"Well I don't USUALLY kiss and tell but since this fuckwad wronged me," Deadpool started and Peter looked back to him. "I may as well ruin his fucking reputation. It was this ugly dumbass who I assume was the love child of Harry Potter and Ozzy Osborn. Wingardium Leviosa THAT!" Deadpool said this and Peter put 1 and 2 together and looked worried.
"Harry Osborn sent you?" Peter asked and Deadpool nodded.
"Yep that's the cock swallower that tried to murder you. So tell me, Peter Parker, why's this shitbag want you dead so badly?" Deadpool asked as he stuck a foot on the table and crossed his other foot on top of it.
"Because they wanna make me a weapon to do their dirty bidding by force. But him and his father have sent several people after me and they have either ended up dead or they're in jail." Peter replied as he seemed a little bothered and Deadpool slowly looked to Peter.
"Where did you get your spider powers Zac Efron?" Deadpool asked and Peter looked at him with a frown.
"I got them from when a radioactive spider bit me and screwed up my DNA and genes." Peter replied.
"What can you do then High School Dream Boy?" Deadpool added.
"Um, I can climb walls, I have super strength, I'm kind of fast, my reflexes are really good, I can heal very fast, and I have a spider sense that warns me about things. I also created a chemical thing that allows me to shoot spider webs." Peter explained and Deadpool gasped.
"You're like me but better! I have super healing, and I'm flexible, durable, fast, and I have great reflexes. But you get to be like a spider and you look like David Beckham had sex with Hugh Jackman and made a gift from God. What the hell even IS this bullshit?!" Deadpool sighed.
"Your face can't be that bad." Peter said.
"Oh it's not just my face. It's my entire body and this is what I look like." Deadpool said and he took his mask off. Everyone looked horrified.
"And I thought Mantis was ugly." Drax sighed.
"You, um," Peter started. "You look, great." Peter lied.
"His skin looks like the outside of an avocado." MJ said as she was grossed out.
"An avocado, thanks. I've heard much worse from my lifetime friends. " Deadpool said and then he put his mask back on.
"Anyways, we should let Peter open up his gifts." May sighed. Everyone gathered around.
"OO! This is gonna be fun! It's like Christmas in August." Deadpool said and Peter kind of smiled at him and he let out a laugh. Gamora walked over to Peter and handed him a long thin box.
"I had this made for you." Gamora said as she smiled proudly and Peter opened the box and it was a sword and the handle had Peter's Spider logo on it. The blade of the sword also had webbed engravings on it. Peter looked at it as he thought it was the coolest thing ever and he looked to Gamora.
"Gamora thank you. This is awesome." Peter sighed and he put the lid of the box back on it and then Nat walked over to Peter and handed him a small box.
"Um, before you open this, I'm gonna warn you, it took me months to track down and I hope you like it." Nat warned Peter and Peter opened the box and it was a watch that Peter recognized immediately. May gasped at the site of it and Peter felt tears well up in his eyes.
"What is it?" MJ asked.
"My dad had a watch like this, but the engraving on the inside said," Peter started to explain and Nat finished his sentence.
"America is too great for small dreams." Nat said this and Peter quickly took the watch out of the box and opened it and found the engraving and the tears fell down his face and he looked to Nat.
"This is my Dad's watch. Where did you get this?" Peter asked.
"In a pawn shop in Washington D.C., and it was definitely hard to track down." Nat replied and Peter studied the watch and noticed a few burn marks on the leather and realized that his father had worn it the day he died and he leaned his head back for a second and then pulled himself together. "There was a note in it and it was pretty burnt up but I asked a few friends to analyze it." Nat said and she handed Peter a black leather folder and Peter looked to Nat as tears filled his eyes.
"Is this the letter they were going to send to me when they landed?" Peter asked and Nat got a few tears in her eyes and nodded. Peter opened the folder up.
"This is some shit, right here." Deadpool sighed sadly.
"Shut up or I'm gonna have you kicked out." Tony snapped.
"Alright, don't get your fancy panties in a wad." Deadpool sighed.
"Peter you don't have to read this now." May said as her voice shook.
"They knew that they could have died." Peter said to May and everyone grew silent. "Dear Peter," Peter began to read. "We love you more than you could ever know, but we hope you understand that sometimes we sacrifice everything so that others don't have to. We make the hard decisions so that others don't have to. We struggle through pain and risk, so that others don't have to. So I hope you understand that if we don't come back, it is because we have tried to save millions from the pain that you are going to have to go through. We love you Peter. With all of our love, Mom and Dad." Peter read and then he closed the folder and closed his eyes for a second. "I've always wondered if they were proud of me, and this letter just told me that they are." Peter sighed and then he looked to Nat. "Thank you. I needed this, so bad." Peter then put the watch on his wrist and closed the box and set it aside with the folder and MJ hugged him.
"Alright my turn to give the Spider Child his gift." Thor sighed and he walked forward and Peter frowned at him. "I know, it's Spider MAN, just open the gift." Peter opened it and it was a silver spider.
"What is it?" Peter asked in curiosity.
"Touch it." Thor replied and Peter touched the spider and it glowed blue for a second and then the glow turned red. "It will attach to your suit emblem and once it does only you will be able to wear your suit. It's similar to my old hammer, which only the worthy could wield, except it's much more personal. Since you touched it, you're the only one who can put your suit on. Others can touch your suit and lift it but if anyone tries to put it on who isn't in your bloodline, it will electrocute them." Thor explained and Peter smiled slightly.
"Thank you Thor." Peter thanked him genuinely.
"No problem." Thor sighed and then Bruce walked over to Peter.
"If you think that's the end of the personal connection gifts then you're mistaken. I contacted Nick Fury and got something of your parents as well." Bruce sighed and he handed Peter two black boxes that were the same and they had a CIA seal on the front of the boxes and Peter took a breath in and opened the first box and saw his moms face and almost had an emotional breakdown.
"OH we don't have pictures of Mary and Richard. He hasn't seen them since they died." May sighed and everyone seemed sad as Peter tried to hold it together. MJ grabbed Annie as she could see that Peter's grip on her was loosening and then she put her free arm around Peter for support. Peter pulled himself together and opened the other one and saw his father's face and closed his eyes as a few tears fell down his face and then he looked down at both of the items that were in front of him. There were a lot of burn marks but they were still in good condition.
"I never knew they were in the CIA, did you?" Peter asked May and May shook her head.
"I had my suspicions. I knew they were officers of some type but that's all they could tell both you and I." May replied.
"These are their CIA badges and I.D.'s aren't they?" Peter asked and Bruce nodded. "Thank you Bruce." Peter sighed and then Quill stepped forward.
"Don't worry, my gifts not gonna make you cry." Quill sighed as he walked over to Peter with a medium sized box that had green wrapping on it. Peter grabbed it and smiled at Quill.
"It's good seeing you by the way bro." Peter sighed and Quill smiled back at him.
"It's good seeing you too." Quill said and Peter opened the box and there were a bunch of books in it. "I remember how you said that there are times when you miss physics and so I got you a book on every type of physics that exists in space and on earth." Quill said this and Peter's mouth dropped and he started to geek out a little bit.
"This is awesome!" Peter yelled and Quill grinned from ear to ear.
"Yeah I thought you'd like it." Quill laughed.
"Like it, I love it. Thanks man." Peter sighed and then he gave Quill a side hug and then saw Steve step forward with another medium sized brown box.
"Mine will probably make you cry." Steve said and then he looked to Peter. "Your father fought in many wars Peter, and these are his medals and bars." Peter took a deep breath in and started to look through the box and found about twenty medals and his father's bars. Every time he touched one of the medals it was almost as if he could feel his father's presence. Peter then closed the box and looked up and Tony walked over to Peter with a folder.
"I think you deserve to know that this exists, and that even people far away know about you and who your parents are." Tony said and Peter opened the folder and saw a picture of a monument of Peter's parents and then there was a metal casting of Peter's Spider-Man mask that had been attached to it recently and there was a big plaque speaking about his parents and then a second smaller plaque talking about Peter. His parents statues were very similar and the mask was placed between his parents. Peter read the big plaque to himself and then he read the plaque about him out loud.
"Peter Parker, the Spider-Man, also the son of Mary and Richard Parker has now gone through with his family's legacy and has saved people from the pain that they didn't deserve to endure. Peter Parker carries on the family motto, with Great Power Comes Great Responsibility. Mary and Richard must be incredibly proud wherever they are." Peter finished saying this and closed the folder and leaned back in his chair and took several deep breaths in and he then looked to everyone and nodded. "Thank you. I needed this." Peter sighed and everyone nodded in understanding. Then Peter turned to MJ and gently took Annie out of her hands and he cradled Annie on his shoulder. May looked to Tony and nodded approvingly.
"The monument is in Algeria Peter, where the plane crashed." Tony informed Peter and Peter nodded. Suddenly Deadpool stood up and pulled his wallet out and handed Peter $20.
"Happy Birthday kid. Have a nice life. Hopefully when we run into each other again it will be to fight side by side and take down some ass hole." Deadpool sighed and Peter took the $20.
"It's nice to meet you Deadpool." Peter said as he smiled slightly.
"No, no, no, you have earned the privilege to call me Wade. Anyways, I'd love to stay and play but I don't think Mr. Fancy Pants Billionaire likes me very much. So see yah later." Deadpool said and then he left….
That night Peter finished putting Annie to bed and then he felt MJ put her arms around him and she started pulling him over to the bed and he laid down with her and she started to kiss him…
Peter was sleeping when he had a dream that was using the time stone powers but was a vision of the past. He was having them all night long and when MJ woke up to get some water she noticed that his eye was glowing green and she was worried. She stood there waiting for him to wake up, but when he didn't she went out of the room and found Tony in the kitchen grabbing some water as well.
"Hey, Peter's having a vision." MJ sighed tiredly and Tony nodded.
"Well isn't that great?" Tony replied and both Tony and MJ went back into the room and they waited for Peter to wake up to see if everything was ok. Little did they know he wouldn't wake up until morning…
MJ and Tony had been awake for three hours and the sun had just peaked into the window when Peter finally woke up. Strange enough he woke up calm and stress free.
"What's going to happen?" Tony asked and Peter looked at them.
"Oh nothing, I was using the time stone for something else." Peter replied as he slightly smiled.
"Went back in time to see your parents?" Tony asked.
"Yeah." Peter replied and MJ walked over to him, sat behind him and wrapped her arms and legs around him and hugged him tiredly…..