The op breakdown wasn't as horrible as Peter thought it would be. Bobby, Johnny, and Wyatt actually seemed to enjoy it which surprised Peter. He still hated doing them and now he was leading it. He couldn't quite figure out how that transition had happened. It turned out that while there was no video of the three, there had been some reports from people saying they saw Spider-Man and someone on fire. The reports weren't necessarily believed without visual evidence but it was enough to make Peter nervous.
Peter also couldn't figure out how he had become the training coordinator. Bobby had always loved getting in the gym with Peter. It didn't matter if it was running on the treadmill, lifting weights, or sparring. He saw it as a chance to get better.
Peter quickly discovered that Wyatt was an expert at hand to hand combat. He knew a dozen different martial arts as well as the ones that were inherent to his tribe in Oklahoma. Peter turned him loose on Johnny and Bobby when it was clear that Wyatt knew way more than Peter did. In the back of Peter's head he really wanted to see Wyatt spar with Natasha. Clint was the only one that came close to being able to match her and that was just because he had known her for so long. She still outclassed him. Peter thought Wyatt might actually be able to give Nat some competition.
Johnny didn't love the gym. It took Peter a couple days to figure it out. He finally realized that the only reason Johnny was agreeing to train in the gym was because Johnny knew it helped solidify them as a team and gain the trust they would need if they had to face anyone again. It was a humbling moment for Peter when he realized he was leading his own team which of course turned immediately into mild panic.
Firebrand wasn't seen after their confrontation and there were no more fires. Peter wondered if somehow they had scared her off. The whole situation bothered him but it was rapidly pushed into the back of his brain as school took over. He thought they were all feeling the same unease which is why they didn't stop training together. But study sessions quickly replaced the research on fire mutants.
Biology was the challenging class of the semester. Chemistry, Physics, and Engineering were all classes that Peter could sleep through and still ace...they were just intuitive for him. Biology he actually had to crack open and book and study for the tests in order to maintain his A. Thus was born a weekly study session before the afternoon class that included Davis.
Wyatt and Bobby were not in the dreaded Biology class that plagued Johnny, Peter, and Davis but since the study session was at the house they had to endure the misery that the other three faced every week over a weekly quiz. They generally retreated to one of the upstairs bedrooms and either watched tv or played video games until the other three decided they had enough and leave for campus. Then everyone would meet at the Odyssey to try to forget about the quiz they had just taken.
Peter was flipping through flash cards quizzing the other two when he heard Bobby from upstairs. "Peter, turn on the tv."
Frowning Peter grabbed the remote. He was about to ask what channel when a shot of Iron Man filled the screen. Panic seeped through him as he watched his dad fire his repulsors.
"The sky of New York is once again filled with the Avengers battling what seems like a multitude of creatures, although it doesn't seem to be a coordinated attack. We're getting reports that one of the prisons used to hold the likes of Abomination, aliens from the Chitauri invasion, and other villains the Avengers have kept us safe from, suffered a containment loss resulting in all of its prisoners being set free."
Peter was on his feet. He was four hours away. Quinjet could get here and back in less than 2 hours. It would be over by then. Another image flashed across the screen of Bucky firing at an alien while engaged in hand to hand with someone he didn't know.
"Peter, there's nothing you can do. You can't get there in time." Peter felt Bobby's hand squeeze his shoulder.
"I can get you there."
The four looked at Davis in confusion.
"I can get you there." He looked over at Bobby, "We have some mutual friends. They were the ones that got me out of Australia." He looked back at Peter. "I can form something similar to a wormhole. I call them slipstreams. I can get you there."
Peter activated the Iron Spider suit. He knew he was risking a lot on someone he knew nothing about but these were his friends, his family, his dad. "Get me there." He looked over at Johnny and Bobby who had assumed their forms. "This isn't your fight. You don't have to go."
"Shut up and let's go." Johnny growled.
They all watched Davis open a small portal in their living room. Peter thought it was similar to the ones Dr. Strange created but this one wasn't orange. It was blue.
"Follow me." Davis stepped into the slipstream with Peter, Bobby, Johnny, and Wyatt right behind him.
Peter shot Wyatt a look.
"There's no way in hell you're leaving me here."
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FRIDAY had painted all of the escaped prisoners on Iron Man's HUD. It was going to be impossible to contain them all. While a lot of them had instinctively rained down destruction on New York, taking out their frustrations at being locked up for so long; others, the smarter ones, potentially the more dangerous ones, had simply escaped. The ones that could blend in with the stampede of innocent bystanders had. The ones that couldn't had just fled. When Tony figured out what had caused the breach there would be hell to pay. Half of these things he had been involved in their original capture. He really didn't want to have to do it again. "Cap, you've got three coming in hard on your six."
Steve instinctively threw the shield, knowing it would hit its target. It didn't stop the onslaught that was continuing to come. The Chitauri were blindly destroying everything in their path. With no unifying leader they simply destroyed. It reminded Steve of the Hulk...whom he really missed in the moment.
Tony ran through the data on his HUD. He and Rhodey were the only two that could see all the players on the board. "FRIDAY, why has Spider-Man's transponder lit up?" Dealing with a malfunction in the middle of a battle would be a nightmare.
"Uh, Tony...". Rhodey had seen the same transponder signal light up. He, however, had the benefit of facing in the right direction when a portal opened.
"That would be because Spider-Man is here and he apparently brought friends." Natasha's voice rang through the com channel as Tony's heart dropped into his stomach.
"Spider-Man...don't you have a test this afternoon." Tony ground out the words. This was the last place he wanted his kid to be.
"Yeah, so if we could wrap this up it would be great." Peter paused as he fired taser webs at a group that currently battling against Sam and Redwing. "Hey, can you do me a favor and paint the four others that are with me as friendlies."
"FRIDAY, paint Iceman, the guy on fire, the guy that just kicked a Chitauri through a window, and the guy making blue portals as friendlies." Tony was going to ground Peter. He wasn't sure how he was going to accomplish it but Peter was absolutely with out a doubt grounded.