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David dropped the boxes in his arms with a grunt. Wiping the sweat off his brow, he glared at his friends, "You know, when I volunteered us to move all this equipment from the storage room A to storage room D, I wasn't expecting to have to actually do any work."

"Go to hell!" Brian spat, face red with effort as he and Toshi maneuvered a desk through the door.

Toshi's response was much less vitriolic, but no less strained. "It'd be a serious abuse of our powers, David."

Peter, waiting behind the two blondes with his own stack of boxes, just shrugged, "Not to mention, showing off in front of all these cameras would only bring trouble."

David rolled his eyes, "Like I didn't think of that! They're updating the security system, all the cameras on this side of the building are down."

"Wait," Brian said as he and Toshi froze, "seriously?"

"Yeah," David scoffed, "Why do you think I wanted to do this today?"

"To spend the weekend with Liz?" Toshi quickly replied.

David scowled. "…It can be two things."

Peter hummed, leaning back and looking down the hall. "…Well what do you know? The cameras are down."

"Awesome. Toshi, back off." Toshi did so, setting down the desk as Brian reached into his shirt, pulling up his mask. He cracked his knuckles, grabbing the desk with one hand and turning it around before marching into the room. David winced as he dropped it back to the ground—right-side up, but a bit harsher than he though was necessary. Peter walking in with his boxes balancing on one hand was much less flashy, but no less impressive.

"Okay," Toshi drawled, rolling his shoulders as he instantly bulked up. "I propose we get this done as quickly as possible so we can brainstorm a way to get back at David. Agreed?"

"Agreed," Peter and Brian replied, the three dashing off to empty the storage room. David would have protested, but he did want to use his friends' superpowers to finish up a chore to celebrate his semi-official girlfriend getting accepted into ESU's summer semester. A little revenge against him was a small price to pay.

The trio finished their task in record time. Toshi deflated—for lack of a better term—arching a brow at David. "In the future, could you not ask us to do something like this again?"

"Believe me," David held up his hands, "this was a one-time thing. If not for Liz, I wouldn't have asked."

Brian huffed, pulling down his mask and tucking it back in his shirt, "How is she doing, by the way?"

David dropped his hands, a proud grin on his face, "She's ecstatic. I always knew she had it in her—despite her protests."

"To be fair," Peter leapt into the air, flipping around to stare down at them from the wall, "ESU's got a pretty intimidating academic reputation. Granted, that's mainly for the hard sciences, but it bleeds out onto the other fields."

Brian shuddered, "Can you not do that?"

Peter—who was crawling down the wall towards a filing cabinet—paused, "Do what?"

"Slink down the wall like that out of costume."

"It's weird enough when you're in costume," Toshi agreed. "What with the bug-eyed lenses and skin-tight spandex."

Peter scoffed, "You guys wear skintight costumes too." He flipped off the wall, sticking face-up, perpendicular to the wall, pushed off it, and landed on the edge of the failing cabinet in a squat. "Least you finally took my advice and started wearing cups."

Not even David could suppress a shiver at the unnatural acrobatics. "It's a little freaky, Peter."

"Well tough," Peter rolled his eyes, "not like I can turn it off." His words came out with a mumble, but they heard them all the same.

Brian hummed, rubbing his chin, "You…You really can't, can you?"

"Nope," Peter shook his head, vaulting off the cabinet and squatting on the ceiling. "Don't have that option like you two do."

"I don't rely on an outside source for my powers," Toshi huffed, "Er, no offense, Brian."

"None taken."

"But," David gestured to the Japanese Hero, "you do have a sort of…off-switch, don't you?" Toshi made to reply, only to fall back, lips curling into a thoughtful frown.

"I can get too tired to properly call on One for All."

"Bully for you," Peter clapped slowly. "When I get too tired I end up losing control of my powers."

"…What?" his three friends asked, all together.

"Well, sort of," Peter scratched the back of his head (something weird to see upside-down), "it's mainly after I've been swinging around the city for days with little sleep. My mind gets sluggish, body goes on autopilot; sometimes that ends with me…damaging public property."

David pursed his lips, "In…what way?"

"Mainly putting sizeable dents in AC units. Occasionally breaking off pieces of brick walls." He blushed under their stares, "But the worst is when I get drunk."

"Ugh," Toshi groaned, rubbing his forehead, "I know the feeling."

"Do you?" Peter smiled, bemused, "Because the one time Johnny got me drunk—don't ask—I ended up trashing Reed's lab." David stared in unabashed shock. "Thankfully, Reed was understanding of everything, and even thanked me, because apparently seeing all the scraps mashed together led to a couple breakthroughs."

David and Brian blinked, before turning to stare at Toshi, who blushed. "Uh…last time I got drunk I just bulked up different parts of my body at random. Looked like a misshapen doll—Gran still has pictures, I think."

Brian chuckled, "Never have I been so glad that I need a suit for my powers."

"Sure," Peter shrugged, jumping down from the ceiling, "but it also makes you vulnerable when you shower."

Brian snorted, "The day I get attacked while cleaning my bits is the day I start reevaluating my life choices."

"Only at that point?" David arched a brow.

"It's all been pretty good so far," Brian shrugged.

"Except for the times Murlun almost let you die," Toshi scoffed.

"His name is Merlin," Brian corrected, "and it's not like that!"

"Brian," Peter pat his shoulder, "you gotta admit, it's a little skeevy."

"Oh please!" He waved his arm at Toshi, "He went through the same shit I did!"

"I went to a school to learn how to use my powers to be a Hero," Toshi countered.

"But they did throw you into the grinder when they wanted to test you," David added.

"…Maybe." He stared at Peter, "But at least I had people teaching me."

Peter just rolled his eyes, "Oh, like you didn't learn more your first month here than four years at that school."

Toshi huffed indignantly, "I learned things in the safety of a class under several pairs of watchful eyes." He relaxed, lips spreading into a smile "Though it's only now that I've truly applied what I've learned." Peter let out a triumphant shout. "That's not an admission!"

"Too late," Peter grinned, "you said it! Hero school's useless, the streets are where it's at!" Another person might have been offended, but they all knew that Peter was just yanking Toshi chain for the sake of it. He'd once confided in them that, whenever a new, young vigilante popped up, he'd track them down and do his best to convince them to do something, anything else. Usually pointing them towards the Avengers or X-Men.

A bit hypocritical, if David was being honest, but Peter had been in the game since he was a kid.

"Hey," David turned as Brian tapped his arm, "we're done here, right?"

"Should be."

"Great," Brian fully slapped him on his shoulder, shoving him a bit, (he may not have had super-strength at the moment, but he still had half-a-head and one hundred pounds on David), "want to get a quick flight in before it starts raining tonight. You and Liz go spoil each other." Their friends laughed, but David couldn't find it in himself to get too annoyed.

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A/N: Having continuous super strength is a goddamn nightmare, when you think about it. Doesn't help Peter's case that he's a lightweight (now that I think about it, he's not really resistant to toxins like some Heroes, so much as his body's able to filter them out very quickly. So he can still be poisoned and stuff, but he'll recover very quickly). Be sure to leave a review. Later.