"Iceman, check the door to your right." Clint, Bobby, and Johnny were clearing the exterior perimeter. The infiltration team consisted of Steve, Bucky, and Peter with Nat and Wyatt as the secondary team. Iron Man and War Machine were on aerial while Sam and Davis covered their egress.

Bobby still marveled that he had a functioning earpiece that didn't ice over. Stark tech was awesome. He moved to his right and iced the handle to break the lock. Opening it he quickly scanned the room. "Clear."

The intel on the location of one of the escapees had come out on Thursday. Plan in place, the boys were sitting in a briefing by 5pm Friday night. The facility that their target was holed up in was moderately defended and their target was bio enhanced. Peter had come across bio-enhanced individuals a couple times before but the rest of his team hadn't. No one quite understood why you would voluntarily replace functional parts of your body.

Proceeding to the infiltration Peter followed Steve through the door. "Watch the upper levels. FRIDAY's picking up some readings. Could be our guy." Tony's voice rang through everyone's coms. Peter glanced up. Karen wasn't picking anything up yet. "Karen, narrow beam scan floor two." He watched the readings come across his HUD. "I've got movement on the second floor."

"Ok, Spidey. Check it out but take Nat with you. Wyatt, you're with us." Steve kept moving forward with Bucky. Peter scaled the wall next to the stairs leading up to the next level. He scanned the landing and hallways before dropping down lightly on the floor. He felt Nat crouch down behind him. Karen lit up three dots in a room at the far end. Muting his mask he spoke, "Nat, three in the room at the far end. I'll go high, you go low."

"You want backup?" Steve's voice rang through the coms.

Peter glanced back at Natasha who shook her head. "No. We're good." They proceeded down the hall, pausing only slightly when they heard gunfire below. When they were closer to the door, Peter flipped up to the ceiling. Webbing then handle he opened it from above allowing himself and Natasha to stay out of the line of fire from the barrage of weapons fire that exploded from the room. The moment there was a break in the fire, Peter lowered himself just enough to fire webs at two of the three in the room before darting back up out of the line of fire. Except this time it was an electrical burst. "I don't remember any intel on electrical burst weapons. It's our target firing, I got the other two."

Natasha fired two taser discs from her gauntlets and rolled out of the way of the next burst. "Someone got an upgrade." She had been able to catch a glimpse of their target when she fired the taser discs. When originally captured his bio-enhancements just included some cybernetic limbs. Apparently now his cybernetics shot electrical bursts.

"Hey Torch, want to come give us an assist?" Peter had darted down again in an attempt to hit their target only to get hit in the shoulder with an electrical burst. The dampeners in his suit had absorbed it but it still stung a little. He felt the temperature change and he scampered to the side as Johnny landed in front of the door taking a full blast of the next electrical burst. Able to absorb the burst he simply walked into the room and grabbed the targets cybernetic arm, scorching the mechanism, bending it back and forcing him to the ground. "Are you done?" Johnny looked down at the target target who was nodding furiously. Natasha and Spider-Man walked up next to him.

"He's done." Natasha hit him with a taser disc to knock him out. "Target captured." Natasha announced to the team. The remnants of gunfire echoed for another minute before all hostile targets were neutralized. The boys headed to Quinjet 1 with Clint, Wanda, Vision, and Bucky so they weren't around when SHIELD showed up to retrieve their escapee. They'd spend the night at the compound, debrief in the morning, then head back to school the next day. At this point, Tony just kept one of the jets at the regional airport north of Cambridge. Peter had gotten his pilots license so it just made traveling between school and the compound so much easier.

The flight back was brief and the boys were unloaded and asleep before the rest of the team made it back. They were also up before 7am preparing for the briefing. When they walked into the command center it was obvious Steve and Natasha had been up all night. Tony was nursing a cup of coffee. Peter slid into a chair next to his dad and the rest of the teams filtered in.

"Anything happen after we left?" Peter swiveled in his chair to face his dad.

"No, SHIELD just took their time getting there so we had time to go through some computer files that were there which started a little research project when we got back." Tony took another sip of coffee and nodded toward Steve.

"Successful capture last night but more importantly we gained a little bit of intel while waiting on SHIELD." Steve threw an image onto the screen. "As some of you experienced first hand, our target had gotten some cybernetic upgrades since breaking out. Up until now the main person supplying bio-enhancements has been a 'Fixer' operating out of the New York area. He's gone by the name "Mr. Fix" and "Techno" but his real name is Paul Norbert Ebersol. SHIELD has had him under surveillance for a while. Our target had not made a visit to him which means there's a new player on the field. SHIELD is analyzing the tech. Most cybernetics work like Bucky's...they're tied directly into the nervous system and function like a real limb. This one was different." He put another picture up on the screen showing the back of the target from last night. "This one was tied directly into the brain stem. It's a lot more complicated and all evidence points to the idea that our fixer came to the target which means he's mobile."

Clint leaned forward. "Biology lesson aside, why do we care?"

Davis spoke up first. "Because if you're tying into the brain stem not only is it a level of technology that isn't supposed to exist but it also opens the door for control to be taken by an external source." His focus at school was biotech. By all accounts this technology should have been years off from being functional.

Steve nodded. "Controlling another person is something various factions have been playing around with for years. It looks like someone has possibly figured it out."

Sam looked at the picture of their target on the screen. "But this guy wasn't being controlled last night was he?"

Natasha shook her head. "We don't think so. But, it makes us want to know who upgraded him."

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Davis hung back to talk to Steve about potential biotech leads. The rest of the team went to grab their bags to head back to Boston. Tony grabbed Peter, stopping him from heading upstairs with everyone else.

"So I was thinking...Pepper and I have to go the SI annual board meeting the week you have Spring Break."

Peter hadn't even thought that far ahead, although Spring Break was less than a month away. "You want me to watch Morgan?"

Tony frowned. "Well, no. Although I kind of wish I'd thought of that. We're taking her with us."

"Seriously? Why?" Peter couldn't imagine Morgan going to Hong Kong for a week. Tony could barely make it through a board meeting. Maybe he was planning on using Morgan as his excuse to escape.

"Pepper. Anyway, I was wondering if you wanted to take everyone out to California for the week. You could stay at the house. Ned could come down and the girls could go with you."

"You'd let us stay at Pepper's Malibu house for a week, by ourselves, with girls." Peter looked at his dad skeptically.

"Ok...well, Pepper's houses became my houses when we got married so stop calling it 'Pepper's house'. And you're all old enough not to do something stupid. Most kids your age are heading to a beach for a week and doing way worse. The house is secure so you don't have to worry about the press or anything else. What do you think?"

"I think that's an awesome idea. Thanks dad!" A week away would be great. He was pretty sure everyone would be on board.

Tony grinned, "Yeah. Just don't make me regret this."

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Three weeks later all five boys were on the jet with MJ and Jennifer headed towards California. Peter looked over at MJ who was in the co-pilot seat. FRIDAY was capable of taking off, flying, and landing but it tended to freak out air traffic control if there was no one in the cockpit so Peter handled take offs and landings. They had just left New Jersey's regional airport's airspace so Peter pulled the headphones off. "Ned's Spring Break isn't until the following week so he won't be able to hang out the whole time but he thought he could swing a couple nights."

"It'll be good to see Ned. I've emailed and texted him off an one since he left. He seems really happy out there, sounds like he's got a good group of friends that are all in the computer department." MJ tucked a leg up in the seat and looked out the window. The view was amazing but they were about to lose it in the clouds.

Peter frowned. He hadn't texted or emailed Ned nearly enough. He should have done better staying in touch. "Yeah, I can't wait to see him. I hope he's staying out of trouble. I think his roommate is one of the boys from that coding camp. He talked about him some over Winter Break." He glanced back at the group in the cabin of the jet. "Think Jennifer's doing ok or do we need to go rescue her?"

MJ shook her head. "Jennifer can more than handle the guys. Plus Wyatt's there...I don't think you realize how much they talk."

Peter shrugged. "Wyatt's a good guy. Other than the foot height difference between them they make a cute couple."

MJ reached over and playfully slapped him on the arm. "You have zero room to talk about any one's height." She smirked when he acted wounded. "So why don't you like the guy from the coding camp?"

"Ned didn't let that one leak?" Peter smiled at MJ's confused look. "He must be better at keeping secrets than I thought. The coding camp was a cover for some maniac's attempt to take over the would via computers. We had to rescue him. Full Avenger op. Even SHIELD showed up. That wasn't the bad part. A couple of the boys figured out what was going on and one of them uploaded a worm that Steve, Nat, and I had to go disarm. The one and only time I've worn something other than a Spider-Man suit. It was eating everything with technology or metal which is..."

"Which is your entire suit." MJ smirked.

Peter smiled. He was discovering that he liked taking to MJ about some of this stuff. The really bad stuff was still a work in progress and was definitely going to take time. But the rest of it...it as nice to have someone else in his life he could talk to. "Yep. I had so much Kevlar on I almost couldn't move. Which turned out to be a good thing. As a defensive measure it lowered the temperature. I was cold for a week."

Both of them turned around when Johnny poked his head up. "How long is our flight?"

"A little under 4 hours. Aren't you glad you're not flying commercial? This thing moves a little faster." Peter twisted fully around in his seat. "Everyone doing ok?"

Johnny nodded. "Did Tony say if there's beach access? Davis and I may run out to one of my storage units and grab some surf boards." He had spent a lot of time in California. Sue and Reed had a house out there which is where they lived prior to relocating to New York.

Peter shrugged. "All I know is that it's a house in Malibu. Dad said he had them leave two cars in the hanger so we won't have to squeeze into one."

Johnny shook his head. "I still can't believe he's letting us do this. Who in their right mind trusts this many 19 year olds in a house in Malibu unsupervised."

MJ laughed. "Good thing we're all responsible adults who won't do anything stupid. Plus, I think it's a reward for a job well done. I heard you all did good on that last mission."

Johnny shrugged, "All in a day's work I guess."