Peter shoved Bobby's hand off his shoulder as he rounded to face him. "You should have told me." The frustration he had felt since he had been sidelined culminated in an eruption Peter wasn't able to stop.
"It wasn't ours to tell." Voice calmer, Bobby didn't move from his position. "Tony didn't want you near it. It's the only way he could protect you." Bobby had sparred enough with Peter over the years that he knew that even if Peter hit him at full strength he wouldn't do any permanent damage. He didn't think it would come to that but he also had never seen Peter this mad.
"I don't need protecting." Peter knew he was yelling but he didn't care. "You should have told me. Do you have any idea what it was like watching all of that and not be able to do a damn thing about it?" Peter sucked in a breath. He knew he was out of control but he couldn't stop. "And now...". Peter turned and looked over at the door his dad had disappeared through. He hadn't felt this helpless since Ben had died. Slamming his fist into the wall next to the door, he stared at the wall for a moment before turning to look back at Bobby. "You should have told me." Before he could continue an orange portal formed in the hallway.
A very drenched Johnny, Wyatt, and Nat stepped through. All three of them immediately knew something was wrong. "Peter?" Natasha hadn't missed Peter's clinched fists or the hole in the wall or the apprehensive look on Remy's face or the fact that Bobby was still iced up. She purposely strode forward and placed herself in between Peter and Bobby. "Peter...look at me."
Peter forced his eyes away from Bobby and looked at Natasha. "I'm pissed at you too...you should have told me." His tone was softer than it had been. He was starting to burn out rapidly.
Davis cleared his throat. "He had the ring on and he iced Tony's armor. Dr. Cho is working on him." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a ring and held it out to Natasha. Dropping it in her hand, he looked over at Peter. "I'm sorry. We thought we could get it and get out without a confrontation."
Peter hadn't taken his eyes off of Natasha. "What the hell Nat...all of this for some rings?"
She slid her hand in her pocket and pulled a ring out. "All of this to eradicate the Ten Rings. It's alien tech." She leaned forward and put her hand on the back of Peter's neck and pulled him forward. "Peter...focus...don't jump to conclusions. Wait on Dr. Cho. Do you understand." She waited for Peter to nod before forcing a reassuring smile. Ruffling his hair she let go of him and looked back at Bobby. "Are we the only ones back so far?"
Remy spoke up. "Why don't I check with Fury and see where everyone is." He turned to head out of the medical wing and towards ops. He very much felt like he was an intruder in a family squabble.
Natasha waited for the doors to close behind him before looking back at the group of boys. She quickly gave each of them a once over to make sure there weren't any signs of injury. Davis had sunk down into a chair with his elbows on his knees. Bobby had returned to his normal form. Wyatt was staring between Davis and Peter, debating as to which one looked worse. Johnny walked towards Peter and nudged him with his shoulder. "Come on. Let's go for a walk."
Peter gave one last look at the door his dad had disappeared through before allowing Johnny to push him into the hallway.
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Remy stepped into ops and shut the door behind him. "Natasha's back. She's got their ring. How are the other teams doing?"
Maria looked over at him and pulled the phone away from her ear. "The leader of the Triad got away. They're looking. I'm trying to get an update on Afghanistan."
Remy crossed his arms and watched Fury and Maria. He got the distinct impression that none of the ops had gone according to plan. "Anyone else hurt?"
"A couple of injuries from the Hong Kong team. They're handling it there." Maria pulled the phone down. "How's Tony?"
Remy shrugged. "Dr. Cho has him."
Fury hung up his phone. "Anyone else besides Davis capable of portaling?"
Remy shook his head. "And I don't think Davis is up for it right now." Remy decided to leave off the part about it being entirely possible that they were all upstairs fighting. "Who needs to get somewhere?"
Maria looked at Fury. She could tell when he was planning something she was going to find questionable. "What are you thinking?"
"The cave system in Afghanistan collapsed. Wilson got hit so they're in the process of evac'ing him and Rhodes. There's only so much a Hulk and two super soldiers can do." Fury looked over at Remy. "Go to the common area and get me either the raccoon or a guy named Quill."
"I'm sorry...did you say raccoon?" Remy stared at Fury. "Ok, you know what, I'll figure it out." Ever since hooking up with Xavier he had met a multitude of not quite human individuals. Why not add a raccoon to the mix.
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Johnny looked at Peter who was currently leaning against the wall looking down at his feet. "What happened?"
Peter looked up. "Hell if I know. All I could see was the Iron Man feed. Davis said something about the suit getting iced." He rubbed his hand across his face. "The temperature got really low. He was unconscious by the time we got the suit off."
"Dr. Cho is the best there is. She knows Tony's physiology better than anyone else. Plus she has the best equipment in the world. She will do whatever she has to...you've gotta believe that." Johnny looked at Peter. He couldn't imagine how Peter was feeling. He had learned early on Peter did not like feeling helpless which is exactly what he was right now and there wasn't anything anyone could do to change it.
None of them had pushed back when Tony said Peter couldn't be involved. In retrospect Johnny realized they should have. "We should have told you. I could give you a million reasons why we thought it was the right thing to do and every one of those reasons would be wrong." Johnny waited for Peter to look up at him. "We should have told you."
Peter looked at Johnny. "Damn right you should have told me." Peter let out the breath he had been unconsciously holding. "I need to know how he's doing." He wasn't sure if he was telling Johnny or himself.
"Can't FRIDAY give you an update?"
Peter frowned. "FRIDAY is so messed up. She thinks it's 2017. I didn't have any kind of clearance in 2017. And I don't think I can fix her right now."
"Why does she think it's 2017?" Johnny subconsciously looked up at the ceiling before looking back at Peter.
"Trying to merge the two FRIDAYs together didn't go smoothly. She had almost three months of duplicate dates she had to combine after we got back." Peter frowned. They had looked at FRIDAY's programming after the protocol issue during the apartment fire. One of the broken pieces went all the way back to his senior year of high school. "When I snuck out in high school to trap Osborn I messed with her date." He smirked at the look on Johnny's face. "We didn't think it was that big of a deal but when she tried to merge the dates from the mission everything date related got corrupted."
Johnny shook his head. "You hacked FRIDAY in high school?"
Peter shrugged. "I was highly motivated." Peter took another deep breath and looked up at Johnny. "What am I going to do if he's not ok."
"The first thing you're not going to do is jump to conclusions." Johnny nodded his head towards the door to the MedBay. "Let's see if Nat can find anything out."