Peter stepped off the steps of the jet and looked at the landscape in front of him. It was unlike anything he had seen. He, Bobby, and Ned has been glued to the windows of the jet as soon as land had come into sight, breaking up the expanse of blue. But, actually looking at the view in front of him was something entirely different. He heard movement behind him and turned to look at Ned who wasn't looking in the direction of the cliff overlooking the ocean but at a huge house.

"Awesome!" Ned murmured as he looked at his friend. "I can't believe Ms. Potts has a house in Hawaii you didn't know about."

Peter smiled. He had never asked. Something told him that Tony and Pepper probably owned a lot of property he didn't know about. It just wasn't important to him. It never had been.

Morgan caught sight of her brother and instantly threw her arms out. Tony frowned as he handed her off to Peter. If Peter was anywhere within her line of vision she demanded that he pay attention to her. Luckily, Peter was always willing to spend time with her. Tony sighed and adjusted his bag to compensate for not having Morgan on one side. Peter, on the other hand, had no trouble managing a 6 month old and his bag. Perks of having super strength.

Everyone made their way inside. The boys froze in the entrance as Tony pointed them in the direction of their wing. "I can't believe we have a 'wing'." Bobby looked around in amazement. He had experienced culture shock going from his family's tiny apartment in New York to Professor Xavier's school but this was on a whole other level. "Whoa...check out the pool."

Peter and Ned looked in the direction Bobby was staring. Tony, anticipating the question, nodded. "Yes, you can change and get in the pool. Pep and I will get Morgan settled."

Morgan instinctively tightened her grip around Peter's neck. Peter grinned. "Or, you and Pepper get settled and Morgan and I can explore this side of the house." Peter followed the other two boys, Morgan in one arm, bag still thrown over the other shoulder.

Within the hour, all three boys were in the pool and Morgan was attempting a nap. Attempting being the operative word. Giving up on the nap, Morgan and Pepper joined Tony under a cabana and watched the boys in the pool.

Tony realized he enjoyed watching Peter just be a teenager. More often than not he spent his days and nights watching Peter take on more than most adults would or could. He, himself, had never been big on vacations. In his younger years, what probably seemed like vacations to the average person were incredibly stressful for him. He honestly couldn't remember a time that he had relaxed. He wasn't sure he knew what it meant to relax. But, he was guessing that he was experiencing a moment of it now. As far has he knew, there was no pending threat, no Stark Industries emergency, Peter hadn't taken on any supervillains recently, and everyone was healthy. He knew it wouldn't last, but for now it was nice.

The boys discovered a path that led down to the beach and spent the majority of their days alternating between the pool and the beach. Peter loved being in water. He had been swimming before and was a fairly proficient swimmer but had never really spent time under the water. There just wasn't much to see in the Atlantic Ocean, the beach at Coney Island and some of the others I'm the area were really the only time he'd been in the ocean. The ocean here was full of fish and coral. He had even seen a couple of sea turtles. The boys finally figured out that if they had snorkel gear they could stay under longer so they talked Tony into letting them drive into the nearest town to buy gear.

Ned and Bobby looked at Peter when he came out of his room wearing a baseball cap and hoodie. "That really works?"

Peter shrugged. "Yeah, for some reason people look past you." With the press hounding Tony and Pepper after Morgan had been born, Peter had quickly embraced baseball caps and hoodies at Tony's suggestion. They all knew the fact that he was Tony's biological son would come out eventually but he wanted to put it off as long as possible.

He pulled the car out of the garage and they made their way down the mountain into the closest town. Snorkel gear secured they decided to stop at a local restaurant for lunch. Peter still had a baseball cap on but had let the hood fall back. He smiled at his two friends as they discussed the latest fortnight season. He was glad Tony had encouraged him to get to know Bobby. He was a great guy and it was nice to have someone to talk to who wasn't 100% normal. He thought of Ned as almost a brother but there were times that Ned just couldn't understand what he was going through. Ned always thought his powers and abilities were cool. There were times that Peter hated his abilities...well, maybe hate was too strong of a word. He was content to be lost in his thoughts until he heard "...Stark...". He looked around and realized that it had come from the table next to them.

"I heard it was Stark and that girlfriend of his. Not many other people have access to a jet that can take off and land in their front yard."

"Wonder what they're doing here. Shouldn't Stark be out pretending to save someone? Or pretending to be inventing something?"

"Or destroying something."

Ned looked over at Peter. "We should go."

Peter shook his head. "It's fine."

"It's really not. Ned's right. We should go." Bobby glanced over at the group at the table. It would be easy to change the temperature of their food. He thought better of it when he realized how calm Peter was seemed.

"They both keep telling me to ignore stuff like this. Which is exactly what we're going to do." He noticed their waitress coming over with their food and shifted his arms out of the way. She sat their plates down in front of them just in time to hear another rant about Tony Stark. She smiled at the three boys and make sure they didn't need anything before swinging around to the other table and slapping their check down.

"Tony Stark is quite possibly one of the most amazing men in this generation. Not only is he a visionary and a genius, he risks his life time and time again to save people. People just like you. So instead of bashing someone you've never met why don't you do a little bit of fact checking. The number of people that he has saved as Iron Man is mind boggling. I know this for a fact because my mother was one of them. She was on the president's plane when it was targeted. When she was plummeting to earth she thought she was going to die. Until she and everyone else that had been tossed out of the plane were snagged out of mid air by Iron Man." Not waiting for a response she walked away leaving the table of people in shock.

Peter had to fight back a grin at the looks on their faces. He completely enjoyed his food and left a ridiculously large tip when they left.

The boys spent the entire afternoon snorkeling. When they bought the gear the man at the store had warned them that even though it didn't seem like a strenuous activity it would wear them out quickly. When Pepper suggested a movie none of them protested. Peter thought Ned would be out before 8:00. Bobby would probably make the end of the movie but would then sleep like a rock. Peter just felt like he had done a normal patrol. A few minutes into the movie he heard his dad's phone vibrate.

Tony looked down at his phone and stood up when he saw who it was. Answering it as he walked down the hall towards his bedroom, he was aware Peter was following him. "You know we're on vacation, right?"

"I know. Forget I called."

Tony had put the phone on speaker after Peter had shut the door behind him. "You might as well at least tell us what's going on."

Peter heard Steve audibly sigh. "There was an attack in Hong Kong. Same weapons as we found in Africa. The group didn't make a clean escape and they have hostages. China is asking for help. One of their hostages is the Chinese presidents' niece."

Peter watched his dad. He had been paying attention enough in civics class in school to know how big of a deal it was that China was asking for help. And he knew how big of a presence SI had in Hong Kong. If Iron Man didn't show up when the Avengers were asked for help, SI would face the consequences. He answered Steve without giving his dad the chance. "We'll be there. Send the info to FRIDAY."

Tony clinched his jaw. This was the very last thing he wanted to do. "When?"

"We're leaving within the hour which means you two have about three hours." Steve knew Tony's jet was slightly faster than the Quinjet. "Tony, I'm sorry."

"Yeah. See you in Hong Kong." Tony disconnected the call and looked at Peter. "You don't have to go."

"If you're going. I'm going." Peter crossed his arms. He really didn't expect a fight about it.

Tony let out a sigh. "Grab your gear. We'll need to leave soon. Easiest place to land is going to be the SI tower instead of going to the airport."

Peter headed to his room and grabbed his bag before going back to the living room. He could tell from the look on Pepper's face she had already guessed that he and Tony had to leave. The looks of confusion on Ned and Bobby's face told him that they had no idea what was going on. He saw Tony coming out of Morgan's room. "We should be back tomorrow night. Hold down the fort." Peter smiled at Bobby and Ned. Ned had realized what Tony and Peter were doing and would fill Bobby in after they left.

Tony leaned over and kissed Pepper. "I love you. We'll be back tomorrow night."

Pepper and the two boys watched Tony and Peter walk out. After the door closed she turned to look at the two boys. "I'm going to check on Morgan then go to bed. Don't stay up too late."