" you guys didn't die! come on, "

secret rescue

rain

When Tony opened the door for the new arrivals, it was just chaos from there. They played Twister, laser tag (?somehow?) and then charades where Clint pretended to kiss Stephen when he got 'Tony Stark'.

When the group left the Stark Residence after the long after school 'homework session', only Tony (obviously) and Stephen remained. He had insisted on staying to help clean up the mess that had resulted from the 'homework session'. No one else refused his offer and they all left the two together.

Later that night, Natasha told Tony she was pretty sure 'stuff' happened while they were cleaning but Tony promised that the closest 'intimate' thing that happened was when they both reached for the same trash bag by accident. Natasha just shrugged it off and told Clint.

Tony was laying in bed, the only thing illuminating the room was the glow from his phone. He had swiped off Natasha's text page and was going to shut it off when he got a text from an unknown number.

*unknown number*: Mr. Stark, this is Ned, if you remember us from school? We were just at your place?

Tony frowned and replied.

04: yes?

*unknown number*: We've got a little problem…

04: what sort of problem?

*unknown number*: Peter is stuck in the bank near the library

04: a bank? Why a bank? It's 9 pm.

*unknown number* is typing…

Tony sighed as he waited for Ned to reply. He sat up and squinted out of the window. It was pretty dark out. His phone buzzed.

*unknown number*: its complicated. Can you get here and bust him out? There are robbers inside and we think they have guns. They trapped him inside.

Tony raised his eyebrow but quickly got out of bed.

04: um…okay? I'll be there give me a minute

He stuffed his phone into his pocket and grabbed his nanotech suit which was compressed into a jacket and slipped it on.

He silently opened his window and hopped out. He began to sprint down the road in the brisk night when he paused after a few streets. It would take him at least ten minutes to run to the city. He panted as and looked around the familiar street.

Stephen lived here.

He blinked mindlessly for a couple of seconds before scanning the letter boxes for Stephen's. He then ducked past the front door to the side where he calculated was where Stephen's bedroom was he.

Tony sighed, knowing very well Natasha would tease him about this in the morning as he activated his booster boots and rose up to window's level. He softly tapped on the window. A crash from inside followed.

Tony winced and watched as the window opened to reveal Stephen's face. Stephen stepped back in surprise, to see Tony there.

"What the hell are you doing here?" he exclaimed, glancing at his bedroom door.

Tony hopped inside, his boots deactivating. "I need your magic portal things," he quickly explained. "I need to go to the city to help Ned and Peter,"

"The new kids?" Stephen frowned, "What's so important-"

"Peter stuck in bank with some armed robbers or something," Tony shrugged. He glanced around Stephen's room. It was ten times smaller than his own and on the floor was a bunch of books, which he presumes was what made the crash sound before.

"Bank? Armed?" Stephen exclaimed again.

"Come on, I need to help them," Tony rolled his eyes. "And I can't get there fast enough, so, I need your help,"

Stephen sighed for a bit before pushing about some books on his desk to get his Sling Ring. "Fine, but if we die it's your fault,"

"Deal," Tony stood behind Stephen as he created the portal.

...SceneChange...

Tony and Stephen quietly hurried down the road to the back alley of the bank where they found Ned hiding behind a rubbish bin.

"Oh my god, you're here. Peter's stuck inside," Ned puffed.

"Right," Tony looked around.

"You brought Stephen?" Ned asked. "Hi, Stephen," Ned quickly smiled.

"Hey," Stephen pursed his lips. He shivered a bit in the cold. "How do we get in?"

"Peter went in through there," Ned pointed to a ventilation shaft a few meters above them on the wall.

"How…?" Stephen frowned.

"Do you need help getting up?" Tony asked.

Stephen turned to him. "Nah, I got this," he did some motions with his hands and in front of him appeared a hovering golden plate. He stepped up to it and another one appeared in front of it. As he stepped forward the one behind him disappeared until his got to the shaft where he climbed into.

Tony shrugged. "Cool," he activated his booster boots again and went up to the shaft as well. He looked down to Ned. "Tell us if anyone comes,"

The pair crawled through the small space until Stephen dropped down into a room.

"I can't believe we're breaking into a bank," Stephen sighed.

"Shhh," Tony stood beside him. He clicked some things on his phone and a pair of glasses materialized onto his face. Stephen just watched. "Okay, there are people in the next room," he whispered.

"Where's Peter?" Stephen asked.

"Oh hey guys," a quirky voice came from behind.

Tony whipped around and went to punch whoever it was.

It was Peter, of course, except he ducked the punch and stood back up. "Sorry," he whispered back. "Both of you are here?" he took off his mask.

Tony and Stephen glanced at each other and then at him. "What is this outfit you're wearing?" Tony poked Peter.

"It's nothing-"

"Wait a second, this is that spider thing on Youtube, right?" Tony looked up at Peter.

"Spiderman, right? You're Spiderman?" Stephen raised his eyebrow.

"Yeah, whatever," Peter bit his lip. "Don't tell anyone please, only Ned knows,"

"Right,"

"Not even us will know unless we get out of here," Stephen reminded them why they were there.

"The robbers are over there. I think they're having trouble with the machine," Peter muttered. "I didn't think they would have guns," he put his mask back on.

Tony clicked a button on his glasses. "Hmm, alright. Come on," they quietly edged closer to the door. "There's three of them. When I blast the door down, Peter, you sneak around and go behind them. I'll handle two of them, Stephen you can deal with the other one,"

"Okay…" Stephen said, unsure about the whole thing.

"Ready…three, two, one, GO!" Tony's boots re-materialized just before he kicked the door open. "Put down the weapons!" he yelled at the surprised robbers.

Tony raised both arms, which had palm-glowing gauntlets on each hand. Peter disappeared and Stephen wrapped a golden chain he had summoned around the third person. He ducked his head behind them as well, realizing he was the only one without something covering his face. Tony has his helmet on.

"Your turn kid," Tony said to Peter. He quickly webbed the three guys up separately and attached them to the walls. "Good job,"

"They're just kids, Terry. We got busted by kids," one of the perps complained.

The three of them began to sneak out of the room when one of the other guys kicked a cabinet which fell onto the alarm system. A loud siren deafened them.

"Let's go!" Stephen yelled.

"Out the back door!" Peter redirected them. They sprinted out of the bank and into the alleyway where they were greeted by Ned.

"You guys didn't die! Come on," They all sprinted through the back of the stores until they were well away from the sound of sirens.

The team paused at an empty park, all them panted.

"You," Tony pointed to Peter. "have some explaining to do,"

Peter sighed. "I know," Before he could continued, everyone turned their heads when they heard sirens again.

"We should really leave," Ned pointed out.

"Yeah,"

"Okay, good night then. We'll see each other tomorrow," Tony waved good bye as the two pairs parted. He and Stephen walked for a bit down the path. "That was exciting,"

"It was dangerous," Stephen pointed out. He put his hand into his jeans pocket when he froze. "Sh*t,"

"What is it?" Tony frowned, facing him.

"I think I dropped my sling ring,"

"Is that bad?" Tony asked.

"Well, for one we'll have to walk home in this cold and two, I'm gonna have to sneak another one out of the Sanctum,"

"Another one?" Tony smirked, continuing to walk.

"Yeah, I do loose them a lot so it won't be awfully suspicious," Stephen exclaimed.

"Are you cold?" Tony raised his eyebrow at his friend.

Stephen was wearing on a t-shirt and jeans and it had began to very lightly rain. "No," he plainly said.

"Liar," Tony frowned. "You've got goose bumps. Here," he shrugged off his jacket and shoved it into Stephen's hands.

"I'm not wearing that thousand dollar jacket. It's all nano-tech, isn't it?" Stephen put it back into Tony.

Tony shrugged. "And? You're cold,"

"Well now you're the one wearing only jeans and a t-shirt," Stephen sighed. "You're going to be cold.

They both quickly sprinted under a tree when it began to start to heavily rain. "Argh, it's still ages away until we reach home," Tony groaned.

"Does your nano-tech turn into an umbrella?" Stephen hopefully suggested.

"No yet," Tony sulked. "I haven't programmed it in yet," He looked up at "Can't you create an umbrella with your magic hands?"

Stephen shrugged. "I can try," he raised his hands slowly and muttered some words. There were some sparks but nothing appeared. "Well then I guess we have only one thing to do and that's to run in the rain," he sighed.

Tony groaned and he turned to Stephen. "You're going to wear the jacket,"

"No way, you're going to get sick if you get drenched,"

"So will you,"

"I was sick the other day so I won't get sick this time," Stephen insisted.

"That's not how it works," Tony pouted. "Wear it you stupid bean," he kept pushing it into Stephen's chest.

"Fine, if you shut up," Stephen held the jacket. Tony look satisfied. "Now, are you ready to walk through this rain?" The rain had gotten a lot heavier.

"Can't be too bad," Tony shrugged. He grabbed Stephen's hand and looked forward. "Ready?"

"Let's go," They stepped out into the rain and began to speed-walk down the road.

...SceneChange...

When Tony stepped out of the car the first thing he heard was; "Stop avoiding him, Tony," from Bruce.

"What do you mean?"

Bruce walked along side him as they entered the school grounds. "Stephen. All week you two have been low-key flirting but never talking about the issue,"

Tony sighed. "Well there's just never been time to discuss it,"

Bruce raised his eyebrow but frowned when Tony sneezed. "Are you sick?"

Tony quickly shook his head. "Nope, I- *sneeze*- probably just got some dust up my nose or something,"

Bruce blinked but shook his head. "Anyways, you need to talk to him,"

Tony shrugged as they went though the double doors into the main school building. "Oh well I guess. I'll work it out,"

Their conversation was drowned out but sudden loud yelling from around the corner near the lockers. Tony and Bruce walked to it and was astounded by the scene.

There were toilet rolls scatter everywhere, at least one dented locker door and Gamora had Than against the lockers. She had her finger just centimeters away from his face.

"You just mess everything up- don't you!" she yelled. She looked awfully intimidating.

To the side was Natasha and Clint, who approached Tony and Bruce.

"Welcome to the show," Clint smiled, with a muffled voice. He was holding tissues on his very bloody nose.

"What happened?" Tony asked.

Natasha glanced back at the scene, where more people had crowded to watch. "Than's been suspended until the authorities and such look at our evidence. I think Gamora and Nebula's parent's don't want his as a 'bad role-model' so they're cutting off some of their extra-curricular activities as punishment,"

"Punishment for being related to that jerk?" Bruce frowned in confusion.

"I dunno man, but they're both getting real mad at him," Clint shrugged. The four looked back at the scene.

Nebula had now walked up to their cousin and delivered a clean punch. By now, a large crowd had formed and they could hear Coulson's voice in the distance.

"Let's get out of here," Natasha let the others back out into the garden.

"Why are you bleeding so much?" Bruce asked Clint.

"It all began because Than came up to me," he explained.

"He blames Clint for 'telling on him'," Natasha fumed.

"Then Nat, Gamora and Nebula came up to defend me," Clint finished. "It has been a chaotic morning,"

Tony sneezed again. "Are you sick?" Natasha said, worriedly.

"No," Tony insisted. "Probably the hay fever,"

"Tony, it's literally 15 degrees out here [Celsius]," Bruce sighed.

"Fine, I may be sick but don't tell Stephen otherwise he'll actually murder me," Tony muttered.

Almost on cue, Stephen and some of the others came up behind them.

"Hello crew," Sam exclaimed but faltered when he saw Clint's bloody face. "Damn, that fight in there got rough,"

"The only casualty was Than, let me assure you," Clint said smugly, but then had to run off to the bathroom for more tissues.

Then Stephen sneezed.

Natasha took a moment before pointing at them both. "HA!" she broke into a smile.

"What?" Stephen stared blankly at Bruce and Natasha's sneaky faces. He frowned at Tony who just meekly shrugged.

As Natasha and Bruce confused the rest of the group by whispering things at each other, Tony spotted Ned and Peter enter the school gates. He did a bad fake cough and then eyed Stephen. "Ahem, I need to go and check out the thing with Mr Willaims," he slowly left the group.

Stephen caught his drift and tried to sneak off too but Natasha caught him. "Where are you going, wizard boy?"

"Um, to get more tissue's for this cold?" Stephen made up an excuse and then a perfectly timed sneeze came along too. Natasha shrugged with a wink and then turned back to help get the glitter out of Carol's hair.

Stephen left the group and met Tony, who had seemingly rounded up Ned and Peter. He led them all into an empty science room.

"Alright, now that we're along, explain," Tony crossed his arms.

Peter bit his lip. "Well, a couple months ago, I was visiting this museum science lab place and they had this special spider exhibit-"

"But then we realized one of the spiders were missing-" Ned interrupted.

"And then the next thing I knew, I had been bitten by something which then I thought was just a mosquito bite or something-"

"Now we know it was the missing spider,"

Peter continued, "But then I was sick for like a whole month before I got all these cool powers,"

"Powers? So you're specialized," Stephen asked.

"Uh, yeah," Peter nodded. "See, I'm all sticky so I can climb on walls,"

"And he has a-uh…Peter Tingle too!" Ned added.

"Spider-sense!" Peter corrected. "Anyways, I made these web shooters to help me, look,"

He whipped out his hand in a special motion with his wrist and a mental band appeared around his forearm. He put his hand into a position and shot a web out. He looked up at Stephen and Tony hopefully.

Tony walked over to where the web landed and picked it up. "You made this?"

"Yeah, it took a while but I created the perfect formula for them," Peter replied.

Tony glanced at Stephen. "This is good stuff. You're a smart kid,"

"What are you doing now then? With the whole 'saving people' thing," Stephen frowned.

"Oh that, I just some times do night patrols," he shrugged.

"It's dangerous though," Tony said, sticking the web onto a table.

"Yeah well it's also dangerous for the people who are in trouble and at least I can defend myself," Peter smiled.

"Well I guess we can't stop you but we can help you,"

"Like last night?" Ned piped up.

"Yeah, like last night,"

...ooft...

ahh,, im so sorry for being a bit late,, uh i have been having an art/drawing spree, all in the middle of an assignment that's due soon,,,ahhh

anyways, the comic's 2nd page's half done [lineart and colour is left,,] so that's coming soon unless i get killed by due dates ahha,

thanks/DJ