Tony stood under the overhang and watched Peter and MJ walk down the steps of the plane. He was glad Rhodey had given him a heads up that Peter had been in France. After all these years, Peter could still render him speechless when he caught him off guard. There was no logical reason why Peter and MJ couldn't go to Paris so there would be no logical reason why Tony would be bothered by the idea of Peter being in Paris. But, since he had a heads up he should be able to cover. He waited until they got closer and walked over to meet them, hugging MJ and kissing her head and then hugging Peter. "FRIDAY said you went to Paris. How was the city of lights?"

"Beautiful. I'm glad Peter brought it up. It seems like every time we've tried to go something has come up." MJ smirked at the sheepish grin that spread across Peter's face. Every time they had planned to go to Paris the something that came up was always superhero related.

"Two days was the perfect amount of time." Peter adjusted their bag on his shoulder. "What did we miss?"

Tony shrugged and turned to walk into the compound with them. "Stock prices are up after the Hong Kong product reveal, Thor and Loki got to see New Asgard for the first time. Pepper's horses get here next week. Nothing too exciting."

Peter glanced up and down the empty hallways. They weren't exactly in the middle of Avenger ops, but there were usually way more people milling about. "Where is everyone?"

Tony shook his head. "No idea. They only call me for the big stuff. Are you headed back to the city?"

Peter nodded. "Yeah, I just want to grab something out of the lab. If everyone is going to insist that I be "inactive" I want to do some testing on the stealth suit." Peter realized next had greatly exaggerated the word 'inactive' and he was shocked at his dad's restraint in teasing him about it.

"That's a great idea. Maybe do some training with Miles. As you discovered when you were younger, there's really no one that can keep up with Spider-Man when he's swinging without causing a lot of chaos. I worry about him not having backup."

Peter nodded. "I was thinking the same thing. He seems to listen to me and I have no idea why."

MJ smiled. "It's because you're the Spider-Man. He sees himself as just a Spider-Man. He's always going to idolize you." She laughed when Peter rolled his eyes, making very clear that he didn't see why anyone would idolize him. "I saw him a couple weeks ago. He came by to say hi. He did mention that he thought there was a new player in town."

Peter frowned. "Is it ok if I go out tonight?" Miles being worried about a new player in New York worried him. New York had no shortage of gangs but for the most part they were consistent. The same groups tended to run everything. The Maggia still had their hands in everything although they had been losing power over the years after some of their key members had been arrested during the Terrigen drug incident.

MJ nodded. Peter very rarely asked for permission to do something Spider-Man related. He'd make the attempt but more often than not he just ended up in situations. She knew he had been feeling guilting over missing so much while he was gone and she appreciated that he was trying. "How'd you get the stealth suit to work?" She followed Peter and Tony into the lab. They had been messing around with integrating the same technology Tony used on the Quinjet into the suits for years and hadn't been overly successful. She was curious when they managed the breakthrough. She had noticed over the years that both of them tended to come up with solutions to whatever problem was plaguing them out of no where, generally when they were working on something completely unrelated.

Peter grabbed a containment unit off a table. "I'm not sure I have fixed it which is why I want to try it out." He looked over at his dad as they started walking back out of the lab. "Did FRIDAY finish integrating?"

Tony nodded. "About an hour before you got here so I decided to stick around." FRIDAY's integration had been painstakingly slow. Merging months of information together had taken longer than he anticipated. "I'm still testing her. There may be some bugs that need to be worked out so heads up."

"We're you able to assemble all of the data we accumulated?" Peter pulled open the lab door to exit, letting his dad and MJ through before closing it again.

Tony chuckled. "The amount of data we have will take years to go through. Reed's going to handle the astronomical data. Between what they mapped and what you pulled off of the jump drives he's like a kid at Christmas."

"Speaking of, have you heard from Rocket yet?"

Tony shook his head. "No, but I imagine they're just going to pop in unannounced once they have the jump drive."

MJ shook her head. "I used to think it was surreal that we...two kids from Queens...were dealing with presidents and kings. Then I met a Pegasus and I thought that surely that would be the pinnacle of the weirdness in our lives. But no...you had to top it by becoming friends with a talking raccoon that is using Thor's credits to buy you a jump drive for the Quinship."

Peter shrugged. "You'll like him. He's incredibly sarcastic."

"Plus it was good use of funds. I'm basically bankrolling New Asgard. Norway isn't quite up to speed with Asgardian currency. It seemed to be a good trade." Tony crossed his arms and watched Peter put their bag into the trunk of Peter's car.

Peter glanced over at his dad's car which was parked next to his. "When are you headed back to the lake house?"

"I'm going to check in with Rhodey before I head out. See if he's heard from Carol yet."

Peter looked around the parking deck which was full of familiar cars. "Is everyone out on a mission?"

"I don't know. I told you, they only call me for the big stuff." Tony smirked at Peter. "Be careful tonight."

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Davis looked up from the computer screen as Tony closed the door behind him. "You know you're not going to be able to keep him out of this. He's eventually going to end up getting involved. He always does."

Tony scrubbed a hand over his face and sat down in the chair next to Davis. "I know." He looked at the various screens. "Anyone having much luck?"

"Nat's ready to go. Hong Kong Sanctum has eyes on the head of the Triad. They think it'll get messy so Logan, Kitty, and Jean are headed that way. Steve called and asked Dr. Banner if he would bring the gamma detection equipment and configure it to the rings. He's hoping it will narrow down where their guy is hiding. We have satellites tracking my father so as soon as we're ready we can go." Davis looked over at Tony, "We are going at some point, right."

Tony nodded. "Where's Rhodey?"

"Dr. Banner needed some convincing. He went with them to make sure he didn't Hulk out." Davis studied the expression on Tony's face. "I don't need a babysitter. I know what's at stake. Plus, Bobby's here too. He just ran out to get pizza."

"Davis, there's a reason Steve didn't call me to help with the gamma detection. Afghanistan hits a little too close to home. You're watching surveillance on the man who tried to kill you and did kill your sister. That's a lot to deal with." Tony watched Davis, he had seen the neutral mask of defense too often and on too many people, himself included.

Davis took a deep breath and debated his response. "My father died a long time ago. The man that we're surveilling is just the next target."

Tony knew he wasn't going to make it through Davis' facade any time soon. He turned his head when he heard the door open and saw Bobby walk in with pizza boxes. "Just know if you need anything..."

Davis smiled. "I know. And I appreciate it."

Tony stood up. "I will leave you two to your pizza. Let me know if anything changes. I'm heading back to the lake house." He paused at the door. "Just a heads up...FRIDAY's integration is done, but I'm still testing her. If anything seems off, let me know."

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Peter landed lightly on the rooftop, watching a black suited figure crouched near the edge, surveilling the street below.

"I know you're there." Miles turned to his right and watched a Spider-Man suit appear.

"How did it look?" Peter sat down on the ledge next to Miles and looked down over the city before turning back and looking expectantly at the other Spider-Man that has shifted to sit next to him.

"It's actually pretty cool. You can't really see anything. If you look really hard you can kind of see something shimmering a little but no one would ever know to look." Miles grinned at Peter. "I'm glad you're back. How was space?"

Peter shrugged. "Very cool part of the time. Utterly terrifying at other times." Peter paused for a moment. "We didn't get him. We got the Power Stone away from him but he disappeared before we stopped him."

"What does that mean? Is he coming here?" Miles felt a little bit of fear creep under the bravado that he always felt when he was wearing the suit.

Peter shook his head. "I don't know." He looked down at the streets below him, full of people who had no idea what was out there. Shaking himself out of the spiraling thoughts of what might be on the horizon, he turned to Miles. "MJ said you thought there was a new player in town. What's going on?"

Miles shrugged. "I can't figure it out. There's a lot of tension with all of the gangs. The Maggia always managed to maintain control. Lately, it seems like they're losing some of their territory but I can't pin down who's stepping in." Miles sighed, "Maybe they're just imploding and turning on each other."

Peter stood up. "Let's see if we can find out." He waited for Miles to stand up. Even with the mask on he could tell Miles had a grin on his face. Swinging through New York wasn't something anyone but Miles understood. It was fun to share it with someone. He waited until Miles dove off the roof before slinging his own web and following. Triggering the stealth mode, the second Spider-Man disappeared into the night sky.