From The Ashes, We Rise Like The Phoenix

by SpiderWidowFam88

On Titain, instead of Peter turing to dust, Tony turned to dust. Peter spent a long 3 weeks on that ship in space, thinking he was gonna die, until, during his last few hours alive, Captain Marvel came to his rescue.

8. In Order to Rise

Ross doesn't know what to make of any of this...

Apparently, he's been dead for 5 years, he doesn't have his job any more, he's not on the accords committee because apparently that's not a thing anymore, and he's no longer Secretary of State.

To say that these last few weeks for him have been shitty would be an understatement.

Also, coming back and realizing that the world knows who Spider-Man is now is quite shocking. He always had a fascination for the web slinging hero. Always wondered who was behind the mask.

He didn't expect it to be a mere kid underneath the suit. If anyone found out about his past plans for the spider, then he would be in prison right now for threatening a minor with such cruel actions.

He didn't expect that Spider-Man would save the universe either. He wielded all of that power and survived where anyone else would have died.

Spider-Man truly is a remarkable specimen that he needed to get his hands on.

With the most powerful man in the universe under his control, no one would be able to get in his way ever again. He could have his job back, his position, hell, he could even become president with Spider-Man at his side enforcing his rule...

The only problem is trying to catch the spider...

He knows that he's been under extensive medical care for the past few weeks since the battle. He was just recently moved to Stark Tower actually. So, he knows that the man would be under watch 24/7. He just has to come up with a way to trick the Avengers and try and get close to Spider-Man when he's all healed up.

It's a good thing that he has some contacts with a certain organization that specializes in making soldiers...

All that's left for him to do is wait for the right moment to strike...

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It was a Sunday when Ned got a call...

He was hanging out in his room trying to catch up on anything science related that he missed out on. Funny enough, all science stuff that has been new from the past 5 years has been from Peter or from Dr Banner, which is awesome considering they're his two favorite people in the world!

He was browsing the internet and stumbled across one of Peter's papers and he just had to read it and see what his long time friend had come up with.

Suddenly, his phone on his dresser started to ring. He got up from his chair and made his way over to his dresser to unplug his phone and looked at the caller Id.

It wasn't one that he could instantly recognize, but then again it could be someone who lived these past 5 years and had a change of phone number. Quite hesitantly, Ned picked up his phone and answered it.

"Hello?"

"Yes, Hi is this Ned Leeds?"

"Yes? Um, who's this?"

"Oh, I'm so sorry, I'm Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker's fiancée. I just wanted to talk to you for a bit, if that's alright with you?"

Ned was in a state of shock. Gwen Stacy. Peter's fiancée. Calling him. He can't believe what he's hearing. He took an embarrassing amount of time to answer her question when it finally registered in his brain.

"Yes! That's fine! Please, I've been dying to know but I didn't think just walking into the tower and asking where my friend was at would have gone over well." That startled a surprised laugh out of Gwen. Ned blushed, he didn't know if she was laughing at him or not.

"Yes, that probably wouldn't have been the best idea, our head of security can get a bit...mean sometimes. But, that's just his personality."

"Happy?"

"Yup, that's the one. Anyways I called to talk to you about Peter. Today, he finally woke up for the first time since the battle."

"Really!! OMG, he's alright, right? He's not that hurt, wait...what are you talking about Ned, of course he's hurt he's been in the hospital for weeks.

...Sorry for my dumb questions I'm just worried about him." He rambled on, hoping Gwen wouldn't laugh at him. But she did no such thing, when she spoke next, she had a calm, gentle tone to her voice. It kind of sounded like when a mother talked to a child.

"No, it's alright Ned, I completely understand where you're coming from. Trust me, it's been a rough couple weeks here too. But to answer your questions, he's in the clear now, with a couple more weeks of healing and some physical therapy he'll be as good as new." Ned could hear the relief behind her words when she said that. It must have been 10 times as hard for her to see her future husband in that kind of state.

"Well that's a relief. Has he woken up after that first time?"

"No, he's been asleep ever since. He only stayed up for 5 minutes and then he passed out again. He doesn't have that much energy in him so he'll be quite tired and groggy until he replenishes his energy stores, I would invite you over but I don't think seeing him asleep will help you. Maybe when he can stay awake for more than a couple minutes, you can come visit. Does that sound good?" She asked. Even though he wanted to go and see his best friend right now, he knew she was right. He wanted to see his friend when he was awake and could talk to him. He's missed him so much...

"Yeah that sounds perfect. Thanks again for actually calling me. It means a lot." He said, quietly.

"It was really no problem Ned. Do you think you can do me a favor actually? I don't have Michelle's number, do you think you could call her and tell her what I told you? I don't want his friends to stay in the dark." She asked. Ned hesitated for a second before he responded with a yes.

MJ wasn't at all that happy when she found out Peter was engaged. She was grumpier than usual and Ned caught her looking at photos of Peter and Gwen. He could smell out jealousy from a mile away and he knew that's what was happening with his friend. When he tried to confront her about it though, she stalked out of the house without another word. He hasn't seen her in a couple days.

He knew that this was something that she had to get through herself but he still felt helpless. Even though he's closer with Peter, or was closer with him, he still considered MJ a good friend even if she had a gruff exterior.

It seemed like he couldn't help either one of his friends...

After he said his goodbyes to Gwen, he was about to put the phone down but she spoke up again.

"Hey, before I go, you can save this number under your contacts. This is my personal number so if you ever need to get in contact with me, you have it. Just don't sell it to the public please. I know you're good at keeping secrets, so just label the contact as Gwen if you would." Ned was stunned, she let him save her number in his phone? This was a pretty awesome day! He found out his friend was gonna be alright and he had the personal number of Gwen Stacy.

He quickly agreed with her and the both of them went their separate ways. He set his phone back onto his dresser before flopping back down onto his bed.

He's not sure how to feel about all of this. He's happy that his friend continued to live when the world was in shambles, he's happy that he found love in a beautiful, young woman, he's happy that Peter has finally received the recognition that he deserves...

But that doesn't make him less sad. He's missed all of those milestones of Peter's life. He missed all of his birthdays, his first time driving, his college experience and his first time having a drink.

He's missed so much in just a blink of an eye...

He breathed in then exhaled a breath. Well, there is nothing he can do about it now. All he can do is try to move on and continue on with his life as best as he can. He looked over to his phone on his dresser with some hesitation.

He'll call MJ after dinner. He doesn't want to experience that right now...

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Later that night, Gwen found herself in the penthouse floor with everyone huddled around the tv, watching Frozen II thanks to Morgan's demand.

Not that she minded a bit of Frozen, to be honest it's probably one of her favorite princess movies, but right now her mind was on other things.

Morgan was cuddled up close to her chest with her head buried beneath her ribs. Her little arms were wrapped around Gwen's stomach and she was clutching the young woman's shirt into her little fists.

Her parents and brothers were on her left, Pepper, May and Tony were on her right, Steve, Bucky, Sam, Rhodey, and Happy were sitting on the other couch across from them, and Nat and Clint were sitting on the floor leaning against the couch with Clint's family surrounding them.

A couple days ago, Clint returned back to New York with his wife and kids. He didn't want to leave them alone but he certainty didn't want to leave Peter until he knew for sure that he'd recover. Lila and Copper were sitting in between their parents while Nathaniel was sitting in Nat's lap.

On the other side of the room, Wanda was sitting in the love seat by herself with a book resting on her lap, she was watching the movie and sometimes, Gwen would catch a small smile on her lips, Thor was sitting on a beanbag with a six pack of beer and some snacks scattered around him, and Carol was on a small couch with Bruce, with her legs tucked underneath her, staring at the tv with a smile.

Harley and his family actually went to bed early. His mother was shown to a guest room while Harley steered his sister to a room so she could sleep too. After that, he came back in and told them that he was "hitting the hay" and left without another word, which caused Gwen to roll her eyes fondly at the man. That was about a half an hour ago.

What made Gwen so distracted though was a certain fiancé of hers...

Peter's been a constant in her mind throughout these past few weeks that he's been in his coma, well he's been a constant in her mind for the past 5 years to be completely honest.

She has no idea where she would be without him. He literally saved her life the first time she meet him, and he didn't even have his suit on then.

He's so lovable and kind and just an overall amazing human being that it physically hurts her to see him like this. All weak, and tired. He can't even stay up a couple minutes without passing out.

She can't believe that she came so close to losing him. Without Danvers blood, he would have died in an operation room, all alone. She knows that Peter doesn't really like surgery that much. It freaks him out and the idea about him dying in one of the rooms he hates so much makes her heart clench.

She could never express how thankful she is to Carol after what she did to save him. Without her... she doesn't even want to think about it. She doesn't think that she'd be able to go on if she lost him, I'd hurt too much.

Before she spiraled further downward, KAOS spoke up in place for Friday.

"Good evening everyone, how's your night been?" She asked in a gentle voice. Everyone looked round in confusion, some of them had no idea who this new voice was at all. Gwen decided to speak up.

"It's been alright KAOS, what are you doing here? I don't mean that in a bad way, I just thought you were in Peter's glasses and suit. Since when have you been installed in the penthouse?" She asked in confusion.

KAOS hummed, "Right before Peter left on the mission, he installed a part of me here to help keep an eye on things while he was gone. I'm sorry that I never told you, but everything seemed to be fine so I didn't intervene."

All of them understood the hidden meaning behind the AI's words though. Peter installed a part of his AI here to help look after his loved ones. That new piece of information caused warmth to spread through Gwen's body and made her heat clench at the same time. Stupid, lovable idiot.

Before anyone could speak up Tony said, "Wait, so Pete made his own AI? How come I was not informed of this? And second, what's KAOS stand for?"

Even though no one could see her, they could sense her smirk as she talked, "It stands for Kick Ass Operating System. Peter thought you would like the name."

They all looked at Tony's reaction. He was staring with wide eyes at the ceiling, with a little glint in his eyes.

After a couple seconds he huffed and looked away, "Damn, I should have thought of that. Is it weird that I'm a bit jealous?" Which caused most of the room to softly chuckle at Tony's antics. Gwen smiled at the man and received a small one back before talking to KAOS.

"So, what did you want KAOS?"

"Peter has authorized me to show you this message that he left for you incase of an emergency." Everyone's breath hitched at that. So Peter left them messages incase something happened? He was prepared to not come back. He knew the chances were against him and this is what he left them. But, he wasn't dead so why was KAOS going to show them this. Before they could ask, she spoke up again.

"I believe his exact words were "If I know my family, which I do, I know they'll be all mopey and sad and depressed if I don't give them something to quench their buckets full of guilt while I'm stuck in a bed for weeks." He also said that for Gwen to completely ignore that statement once he realized what he said." She said with an amused tone to her voice. Which caused a couple people to laugh at the part with Gwen.

So he left a message for them incase he couldn't tell them this himself. According to what he said, he probably made a couple different messages in case he either got hurt or died. Gwen quickly shook her head to clear those thoughts out of her mind before addressing the AI.

"You can play it KAOS."

At this point, Morgan was no longer dozing on her side and was completely awake and ready to watch her brother's message to them. KAOS projected a light and suddenly, standing before them was Peter in the outfit he had on before they brought everyone back. Gwen had to cover her mouth with her hands to stop herself from gasping out loud, seeing Peter not hurt.

"Hey everyone, if you're watching this message, that means something happened to me, but yet, I cheated death again and I'm still alive." He smiled out towards the whole room, looking at everyone like he was actually there and not a couple floors down in a hospital bed.

"The first thing I want to say is, wow...we did it. If you're watching this, that means we won, and that every family is finally back together. Now, a lot of people might disagree with me here, but if everything in the universe is back how it was before, minus the heart break, then I can accept whatever happened to me." He said with a smile. Gwen shook her head, of course her fiancé thought like that. His heart is way to big for this universe. But, despite what she thinks about the subject, she knew that she wouldn't be able to change his mind about that. And the more she looked at his hologram, the more she didn't care, as long as she got him back...that was good enough for her.

When he talks next he speaks directly at where Morgan is sitting against Gwen's side, "Hey mongoose, I know this might be scary for you and all but I promise you, I'll be fine, ok? Your big brother will be absolutely, positively A-Ok. You don't need to worry about me Mo. I'll be back and running around in pink with you in no time." His smile softened even more before he spoke again, "I love you 3,000."

At this point Morgan was sniffling and almost crying her eyes out, the whole room was feeling a little misty eyed after that message too.

Then his hologram turned and took a scan of the room before speaking, "To the Avengers, this is not your fault, stop blaming yourself, and if you do blame yourself, fucking stop, pardon my French." He said with a smirk. The the Avengers all laughed at that. He's a lot funnier when he isn't trying to save the whole universe.

"Seriously, stop blaming yourself. Whatever I did, it was my own doing, alright? I probably did something stupid and it, like costed me my arm or some dumb shit like that. No matter what happened, it isn't your fault." He said with a mock glare.

They all knew that their burden of guilt would not leave with just a couple of words but it made them all feel a bit better for the fist time in weeks.

"Really quickly before I leave, we're getting ready to complete the first snap to bring everyone back so I gotta be quick but this is probably my most important message." His eyes somehow landed on Gwen's figure, even though he wasn't there. Honestly how could he know where everyone was?

Peter smiled softly at Gwen before speaking, "Gwen, I understand that you're no doubt hurting right now, and I wish I could be up and comfort you about it but I'm not, so this will have to do until I wake up. First, you know I love you more than anything in this whole universe Gwen, and I would never intentionally try and hurt you. I'm really sorry i did and I'd spend my whole life making it up to you if that's what it took." He took a breath before he continued.

"You know first hand what a mess I am, and I know you'd say that I wasn't one if you were here, but since you're not, I'm gonna have to live with all these thoughts for now. Anyway, back to the point, you know I'd give up anything to come back to you and last year, I said something during my proposal that I wasn't lying about. Do you know what I'm talking about?" He asked with a raised eyebrow. Gwen's wet eyes widened when she remembered what he said during that beautiful moment. About how he'd even give up Spider-Man for her. Surely he didn't mean...

"I intend to keep that promise to you Gwen" was all Peter said before he continued on. Making everyone in the room except for Gwen confused.

"Oh, before I move on, I just want to just say that if you want me too, I'll sleep on the couch for a month if you're mad." He said with a small chuckle, causing everyone to laugh, even Gwen as tears were leaking out of here eyes. Then his smile faded a bit and he actually looked quite serious for a moment, causing everyone to stop and listen, all leaning forward in anticipation.

"Seriously though, I've put a lot of thought into what I'm about to tell you all, and before you try to tell me otherwise, I've already made up my mind. When I get back and I'm fully healed...Spider-Man will be taking a break... indefinitely. I will be spending all my time with my family now, not patrolling the streets of New York." He said. The whole room was in shock, they didn't know what to say. Gwen's eyes widened when she heard him say that out loud and it made her heart skip a beat. Before anyone could say anything though, he spoke up.

"Now, I said Spider-Man will be taking a break, as in me patrolling around the city. But If Nat still needs me for a couple missions, I'll go on them no questions asked. I do have a plan for Spider-Man to still be a thing, it just won't be me behind the mask." He said which caused everyone to look at his hologram in shock.

"As you're watching this, I've told KAOS to activate Project Legacy. She should be contacting the person that I'm trying to get ahold of and if all goes according to plan, they'll be a new Spider-Man swinging around New York within the upcoming year." Peter said with a small smirk across his lips. No one in the room knew what he was talking about. Project Legacy? For the name they can infer what that means but the real question is who?

"I'm gonna give you all a hint about who it is. Let's just say even if Tony and I aren't related whatsoever, we do have some similarities. It seems that both of us have a knack for picking up super powered teenagers. That's all you get for now, but we'll talk more about it soon when I'm actually up on my feet. Talk to you all later." Peter's hologram winked before he completely disappeared.

Everyone was completely silent in the room for a good 10 seconds before it was actually broken by Bucky who said,

"What...The...Fuck."

"Language Buck!"

"Oh shut it you old man. Back in the day, you used to swear like a sailer so don't you go telling me to watch it." Bucky said with a slight smirk, causing Steve to blush red and Sam to laugh.

"Um, does anyone know what Project Legacy is?" Carol asked from her spot on the couch. Everyone looked at each other in confusion. None of them have heard of it, not even Gwen, hell, not even Nat knew what it was.

Gwen's eyebrows furrowed in confusion before she looked up to the ceiling, "KAOS? Can you tell us what Project Legacy is?" She asked.

"Certainly," KAOS responded. "Project Legacy was something Peter thought of after the decimation. It was meant to teach a group of young, super powered individuals on how to come together and work as a team, a unit, a family. They would train under the original Avengers to learn the ways of being a hero while also learning how to control their power, if they were enhanced." She finished.

Tony frowned, "Alright...," he said, somewhat hesitantly, "Then who's in the Project so far? I mean, he's obviously found another kid who has spider powers but who are the others?"

"I believe one of them is Clint's protégée, Kate Bishop," when she said that, Clint looked up, "After Clint went AWOL, Peter tracked down Kate and offered her a spot on the project. She was actually the first one recruited on the team. But, originally she said no to Peter and he respected her wish." She took a second before she continued speaking.

"However, a couple years after the snap, Kate contacted Peter saying that she wanted in and of course, Peter welcomed her with open arms. He said that when he found more people, he'd start her training. Since, he wanted to train them all together so they could work to be a team. As of right now, all 6 of the teens have been contacted with Peter's message. But, I don't expect anyone except for Kate anytime soon since their families have just been recently brought back from the dead." KAOS said.

After she said that, the others didn't know what to think. Peter's been doing so much within the past 5 years that if anyone else would have taken his work load, they probably would have spontaneously combusted right on the spot.

He's been working on time travel, he's been working on school, he's been studying the stones, he's been working on Spider-Man, he's split his little amount of time that he had up with his family, he barley got any sleep, he went to therapy everyday for a couple months, he's been a somewhat father figure/brother to his sister, he's engaged, and to finally top it all off, he's been trying to bring together a new team of Heros.

Honestly, is there anything that this man can't do...

Mostly everyone in the room was thinking the same exact thing, but Bruce was the one to speak up, "You know, the more I learn about what Peter has does, the less I'm surprised by him. Who can do all of what he's done, and still have a smile on his face everyday?" He said while rubbing his head with his good hand.

"That's my nephew, always looking out for everyone but himself. Even if it costs him everything he has. I always hated how he'd give up his sleep when he was a teen." May said with a sigh of resignation, shaking her head.

"That can't be healthy for him." Gwen's mother, Helen said. She was looking at where Peter's hologram was just standing with a frown across her face.

"I ran a few tests on him...with his permission of course," Bruce added when he saw Tony's glare before he continued, "and his biology allows him to be more active than the normal human being. He needs so much energy just to get him through the day that eventually, I helped him out and made a calorie bar for him. It contains 10 times the amount of calories that is recommended per day. That bar alone has 22,000 calories in it and if anyone of us would eat that bar, there would be consequences. Even I can't eat that much!" Bruce exclaimed.

"What all that means is, Peter can go a long time without sleep and it wouldn't effect him as much as it would for us. Yes, there would be some side effects like he'd be a lot more grumpy and sluggish and his brain wouldn't be working at peak physical condition but he could last a decent amount of time. He once stayed up for two straight weeks when Harley and I were out of the country for a business meeting over in Europe." Gwen said with a shake of her head.

"So, what other kind of powers has the kid developed in the 5 years we've been...gone." Tony said with a curious tilt to his head.

"Well, as you know, he purrs when he is extremely relaxed. That's also a great way to help tell if something is wrong. If he's with us, and doesn't purr, then we know something is up. Another power he got during the five years is his venom." Gwen said with a slight smile.

Tony blinked at her for a second, "Venom? As in fangs and all?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.

Gwen nodded, "Yeah, his fangs only come out when he wants to though. The one bad part about it is his venom is very deadly to humans, just a drop of it can burn through someone's skin. He has to release it a couple times a week or else he gets really agitated and will lash out on someone."

Clint furrowed his eyebrows in confusion before looking back up to Gwen, "If his venom is deadly to humans, then how do the two of you..." he didn't need to finish that statement, everyone could guess what he meant.

Gwen blushed bright red and tucked a strand of her hair behind her ears to try and cover up her red ears. Both Laura and Nat elbowed him in the side, causing him to hiss in pain, "What? I just want to know how she's not affected by the venom." He pouted.

Gwen cleared her throat before speaking up, not making eye contact with anyone, "When his fangs grew in, he was afraid of that so he figured out what the anti venom was and gave me a shot of it. He apparently found a permanent immunity to it because he's never had to give me another one." She said, her checks still red from embarrassment.

"You have no idea how many times I caught them sucking each other's face off in our dorm room after he gave her that shot. Honestly, I spent more time out of the room than in the room thanks to their active sex drive." Harley said while walking into the room with his Pajamas on. If it was possible, Gwen's face turned 5 shades darker as she tried to glare at a smirking Harley. The whole room erupted into fits of laughter, even Gwen's family. Her father was slightly smiling too.

Over the past couple of weeks, her mother and father have gotten more comfortable with the fact that she is engaged. They've had the time to watch some videos of Peter and have been told stories about him too.

Her mother wants to meet him already and see who has made her daughter's life so much more better while they've been gone. Her brothers just want to meet Spider-Man and her dad is kind of in the middle. He's no longer growling under his breath when someone brings up that she's engaged so, that's a plus.

Gwen looked back to Harley and glared, "What are you doing here? What happened to going to bed?"

Harley shrugged, "KAOS told me that Ace left a message, that fucking prick."

"Watch your language, there are children in the room." Pepper said with a slight glare.

"It's not like Morgan hasn't heard worse from Peter himself. He's the one that taught her her first word. Which, may I remind you, was 'Fuck'." Harley said with a raised eyebrow.

"Wait, Peter taught her her first swear word?" Tony asked with wide eyes.

"Yeah, Ace has quite a potty mouth."

"I'm honestly kind of proud of him...Is that right? Should I be proud that my protégée taught my daughter her first swear word?" Tony asked, which caused everyone to roll their eyes at him. Pepper turned to Harley and asked something that has been nagging at her for a while.

"What's the story behind the Ace nickname anyways? I'm kind of curious." Pepper asked.

Harley laughed, "So a fun fact about our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is that he's an excellent poker player." He said while moving over to the floor, next to the couch Banner and Carol were sitting on.

"What! I refuse to believe that Pete can play poker." Rhodey said while looking at Harley. He shrugged his shoulders, "Believe what you want man, it's the truth. I call him Ace because no matter how many times it looked like he would loose, he always had a god damn Ace up his sleeve to save his ass. He'd always win, he never once lost a game of poker up at MIT."

Gwen looked at Harley with a raised eyebrow, "And how come I didn't know about your guy's poker matches, hmm?" Harley looked kind of uncomfortable in the room after Gwen finished.

"Uhh, you know, I'd love to tell you the rest of the story but I can't. Yeah, sorry...but I'll let Peter explain it to you when he wakes up. I'm sure he'd love to tell you why we went out to play." Harley said, not making eye contact with a glaring Gwen.

Gwen looked up at the ceiling, "KAOS? Do you know why the two of them went out to play poker without telling me?" She asked. Harley's eyes widened at her words.

"Yes I do know Gwen, but it seems that I'm not authorized to tell you the exact reasoning." She said. Gwen smirked up at the ceiling before continuing, "Initiate Protocol Gwen's right."

"Certainly Gwen...they would go out on their little endeavors because Harley wanted Peter to have "the full college experience". He apparently never knew how good of a poker player Peter was so he kept on dragging him back when he did find out. Peter never really complained about it since it helped him train his skills incase he ever needed them for a mission." KAOS said. Gwen looked back at Harley with a raised eyebrow with her arms crossed underneath her chest.

Harley sputtered, "W-what? How did you do that!! I made sure that no one was allowed to get her to talk about that! I spent months making that code!!" He said.

"Well, Peter installed the Gwen's right protocol incase I ever needed to get into one of the classified files and it wouldn't let me. My protocol allows me to override anyone's file, no questions asked." She said with a smirk.

"I hate you so much right now."

"Aww, thanks! I love you too."

By the time the two of them were down, the whole room was in loud fits of laughter. Some people were even on the floor and crying from laughing too hard, like Sam and Bucky.

After everyone composed themselves, KAOS decided to speak up again, "I believe you all wanted to know who the other ones on Team Legacy were. Am I correct?" They all nodded their head so KAOS continued.

"As you know, Kate Bishop is Hawkeye, she is 18 years old and Peter plans to let her lead the team since she has had the most experience." When Clint heard that his protégée was going to lead, a proud grin made its way across his face.

"The next person is Nathaniel, Nate, Richards. He is 17 years old and he will be under the alias of Iron Lad. He has quite a fascination with Iron man and his suits so he made his own at the age of 13, that was when Peter found him." Tony smirked, "Who wouldn't be fascinated with me, I'm awesome." He said which earned him a smack across his head from Pepper.

"The third member of the team is Cassie Lang. From my knowledge, her father or mother don't know that Peter asked her if she wanted to join, so I don't know how that's going to go. But, she will be under the name of Stature. She is 17 years old and is the third oldest on the team."

"The Fourth member of the team is Karolina Dean. She is also 17 years old and her name will be Lucy in the Sky or L.S.D. Don't ask me what it means, cause I have no idea why they picked it. Anyways, she has the ability to fly and she can also control Solar energy." That caught a lot of people's attention. The ability to control solar energy? That's quite a unique trait.

"The fifth member of the team is Victor Mancha. He is the oldest of the bunch at 19 years old. Him and Peter haven't come up with a name for him yet but Victor said he didn't mind it that much. He has super speed, strength, is very intellectual, has a photographic memory, has Electromagnetic manipulation, and he has Technopathy, which is the ability to control electrical machinery and read electrical signals."

"The sixth and final member of the team is Spider-Man. I believe Peter didn't want me to tell you who he was. He wanted to introduce the kid himself so I'll just tell you that he lives here in New York and he's around the same age Peter was when he first started."

To say that everyone was shocked was an understatement. Most people couldn't believe that Peter found all of these kids and offered them a place with the Avengers. They all trusted Peter's judgment though, so if he thought they all were fit enough to be a hero, they'd believe him.

"That's a pretty impressive roster." Steve said, impressed that Peter has done all of this already, even though he's been in a coma for 6 weeks.

The final battle took place at the end of April and Peter's been in the coma for 6 weeks. It's the first week of June, Tuesday the 3rd, when he woke up that morning. After they called the rest of the team that he was awake, they all rushed down to the MedBay to try and see him but he was already sleeping against Gwen's shoulder, which disappointed them. They spent the rest of the day up in the common room, hoping that they'd get some new news about him.

They're all glad that he's finally woken up and he shows no signs of pain so far, but they all want to make sure for themselves. The ones that were in the room did tell him that he'd have trouble seeing color out of his right eye for probably the rest of his life. All Peter did was shrug and said he would fix it, which caused them all to laugh.

"Well I guess we'll have more kids in the tower very soon, won't we?" Sam asked, even though it sounded more like a statement than a question. Nevertheless, the other nodded their heads.

"Ohh please, if I can deal with Peter during his teenager years, we can deal with other kids. They can't be more rambunctious than our Spiderling." Tony said with a fond roll to his eyes.

"Ohh trust me, he hasn't gotten better. If anything, he's gotten worst than when he was a teen. He still attracts danger like a magnet too." Gwen said shaking her head.

Morgan suddenly laid her head down onto Gwen's lap and instantly cuddled up and closed her eyes. Gwen looked down at the child and smiled at her. She shifted Morgan up to her shoulder and slowly got up from the couch. She looked to Pepper and Tony before speaking.

"I'm gonna lay her down and then head to bed myself, it's been a long day." She said Pepper nodded and Tony smiled at her. She went over and said goodnight to her family before saying goodnight to the rest of the Avengers. She then made her way over to the hallway that their rooms were located in.

Back in the common room, everyone was watching where Gwen left with a fond smile on their faces. Sam smirked before speaking, "How long until she tells us that she's gonna have a kid herself? Anyone wanna take a bet?"

"I'm honestly surprised she isn't pregnant already, but I have no doubt that before they are even married, she'll be pregnant...Actually, I'll bet you all that within the next month, we'll be getting news about the next Parker being born." Harley said casually while looking at his phone.

"I'll take that bet. I've got 100 bucks on this, who else?" Bucky said. Most everyone in the room took the bet. Most people thought they'd wait until after the wedding, while Harley, Nat, Tony, Pepper, and surprisingly Gwen's parents bet that they'd have a kid before the wedding.

Little did any of them know that the next of the Parker line was already slowly growing inside of Gwen as they spoke...

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It was three days later, on Friday, when Gwen found out...

By then, Peter has woken up a total of 10 times but hasn't stayed up longer than 5 minutes each time. He only could say a few words before he passed out again. Each time, Gwen was right by his side, watching over him.

But for the last couple nights, she hasn't been able to get a good nights sleep. She's been tossing and turning all night long and overall, she's just been really uncomfortable.

Tonight was no different.

Well, more like really early morning. Gwen woke up at 4 in the morning on Friday, her eyes snapped open and she got up and made her way over to her and Peter's bathroom to empty out her stomach.

After she was done, she laid her head back against the wall and closed her eyes. She slowly breathed in through her nose and out from her mouth, trying to calm her upset stomach.

She doesn't understand why she's been having trouble sleeping. She's probably gotten herself sick with worrying about Peter for the past 6 weeks. She slowly pulls herself off of the floor and makes her way over to her bed again.

About halfway to bed, she suddenly froze in her place and her eyes widened in shock. A thought popped into her head all of a sudden and she's internally freaking out.

When was the last time she's had her period?

She was scheduled to have her period the week that everyone came back and Peter snapped. With all the different emotions circling around her, she must have forgot about it since she was too busy worrying about Peter.

She's 6 weeks late...

She shakily exhaled a breath before moving over to her bed to sit down and take a breather.

"Ok, it's alright. Step one, make sure you're not freaking out for no reason Gwen." She mumbled to herself, "Friday? Is anyone awake right now?" She asked.

"Natasha is up and sitting in the common room. Do you want me to inform her that you acquire her assistance?"

"Yes please."

Not even a minute later, Gwen heard a knock on her door. She quietly welcomed Nat into her room before sitting back on her bed with Natasha to her right. She can see the woman's concerned frown from the corner of her eye but Gwen needed a second to gather her thoughts.

After a couple seconds of silence, Nat broke it while resting her hand on Gwen's shoulder.

"What's the matter? Friday said that you needed help."

Gwen looked over at Nat before speaking, "I haven't had my period in 6 weeks." She said while tucking a strand of hair behind her ear.

Nat's eyes widened in surprise. Of course, she had her suspicions about it, but hearing Gwen say it out loud really solidified her belief. She quickly shook her head before talking to Gwen.

"Are you positive."

Gwen huffed, "I was so emotional when Peter had to leave for the mission that I didn't realize I missed my period. And, you know, we spent the night before together and I...didn't really make the connection...You know, I've been off the pill for over two months," Gwen said which caused Nat to raise her eyebrows in surprise. Gwen continued, " We talked about it and decided we would try for a kid because we knew it wasn't always guaranteed we'd have one, no matter how many times we tried to plan for it. I was just so worried about Peter when he was in his coma that I thought that all of the symptoms, my trouble sleeping and all the soreness was just because of my emotional state. But, then I threw up 5 minutes ago and my brain just jumped to a different conclusion."

Nat slowly rubbed circles across the younger woman's back to try and comfort her. After a couple moments of silence Nat said, "What do you want me to do?"

"Can you go and get a pregnancy test for me? I don't want to go out and have some random person recognize me and take a picture. That's the last thing I need right now."

Nat nodded her head, "Yeah, I'll be back in 20 minutes. Try to rest until I get back, ok?" Nat got up and walked over to Gwen's door and walked out into the hallway, going to her room to get changed and headed out to the nearest store.

A half an hour later, Gwen was sitting in the bathroom with two, positive, pregnancy tests...

She held one of them in her hands and exhaled before shutting her eyes. She can't believe it, she's actually pregnant. With the child of Peter Parker...

Gwen softly chuckled. Tears started to run down her face when she realized that's she was going to be a mom. They both were going to be parents.

Just then, the door to the bathroom slowly opened and Nat stepped in. She looked at the test before smiling at Gwen. She walked over to where Gwen was sitting down and brought her in for a hug. Gwen circled her arms around Nat's middle before speaking, "I'm gonna be mom," she repeated to Nat, still not quite believing it.

Nat smiled, "You both will make amazing parents."

Gwen chuckled wetly before removing herself from Nat to wipe her eyes on the sleeves of her shirt. She didn't feel like being by herself right now and, she also wanted to sit down with Peter so if he woke up she could hopefully tell him, if he stayed up long enough.

She looked Natasha in the eyes, "I'm gonna go sit down with him for a while. Do you think...you could keep everyone up here until I come up? I'll tell them sometime afternoon." She said.

Nat nodded her head, "Sure, I'll keep the hoards upstairs for the whole day while you give him the news." She smiled.

"Thank you Natasha, for everything this morning."

"It was no problem Gwen. I'm just helping out my family where I can. I'm glad you called for me."

The both of them got up and went their separate ways. Nat walked back out to the common room to wait for the others, while Gwen got dressed in some comfy clothes before making her way down to the MedBay.

Hopefully, Peter would wake up soon...

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Flash was not looking forward to going back to school...

Since the beginning of the week, their school has been bringing in all the snapped kids to test them and see where they stand so they can place them in the correct classes for next year.

Not a lot of people from his age group were blipped, the only people that he still knows in school is the AceDec Team, everyone else got to graduate and they've all moved on.

All of his friends have moved on...

For Flash, dying has really put a couple things into perspective for him. For starters, he realizes what a giant jerk he was to everyone in his grade. Second, he realized that he's not the "cool" kid anymore so his tough guy act isn't really gonna work anymore. And lastly...

Peter Parker is a legend...

That's probably the most shocking piece of information that Flash's has learned over the past month and a half. Peter Parker is Spider-Man, and has been for the past, what, 7-8 years?

He was bullying a superhero...

He was bullying his favorite hero...

He was bullying an Avenger...

To say that Flash feels guilty about always picking on Peter would be an understatement. He downright is disgusted with himself and his actions. He can't believe that he was that mean. And for what, he was jealous of a superhero? That's a really great reason to bully someone, isn't it?

He wants to apologize to Peter, but the last he heard was that Spider-Man was severely hurt during the battle for earth and will probably be incapacitated for a while. Which kind of puts a damper on his plans.

He also didn't want to try and send a letter to him, that just doesn't feel right at all...

Anyway, it's finally Friday and it's the last day of testing for the blipped students so they have the rest of the summer off after today. Flash isn't really looking forward to it if he's being honest, he's got no friends to hang out with, he won't be able to go anywhere, and his parents will be gone for business trips for most of the summer.

He has no idea what to do...

Suddenly he bumps into someone while walking down the hallways and the both of them rubble down onto the ground. The hall is pretty empty except the two of them so no saw what just happened.

When Flash spots who he ran into, his eyes widened, "Oh shit! Sorry Leeds, that was my mistake. I wasn't watching where I was going." He stands up and offers Ned his hand to pull him up. Ned looks at it with slight hesitation, which Flash can't really blame him for, before slowly extending his own hand and accepting the help.

Ned turned to look at Flash in the eyes when he got back onto his feet, "Why are you helping me?" He asked bluntly while staring at Flash in disbelief.

Flash sighs, "Look Leeds, I guess dying has put a lot of things in perspective for me and I've realized that I was a complete jerk to my classmates. I just want to say that I'm sorry for everything that I did to you in the past." Flash said while not making eye contact to with Ned.

Ned's mouth was hanging wide open like a fish out of water. He couldn't believe his ears. Was Flash actually apologizing to him? Someone pinch him cause he's no doubt dreaming right now.

"You're...sorry?"

"Yes..I-I am."

"And this isn't just because my best friend just so happened to save the universe, is it?" Ned asked with a raised eyebrow.

Flash blushed, "N-no, I'm actually really sorry for how I treated both of you and MJ. Like I said, I guess coming back from the dead kind of made me think for a second and I realized how stupid, and dumb, and idiotic I was."

Ned stared at him for a couple seconds before slowly smiling at him and extending his hand out towards the blushing boy, "I forgive you."

"Y-you do? Why? I was so mean to you guys, I'd understand if you hated me the rest of your life."

Ned shrugged his shoulders, "Ehh, Peter would have forgiven you. It's in the past Flash, as long as you don't do it anymore, we're cool." Ned smiled.

Relief crashed through Flash like a freight train. He's really glad that Ned doesn't hate him for the bullying. But, he knows MJ will be a lot harder to convince next year so he'll have to work a little harder for that one.

"Hey, I have an idea. What about next year, you sit with the rest of us at lunch. Abe, Cindy, Betty and Charles are all going to sit with MJ and I. I'm sure they wouldn't mind having you there with us." Ned suggested to Flash.

He didn't know what to say. He constantly bullied his age group since middle school, mainly Peter and Ned, and here was Ned, one of his main targets, asking if Flash wanted to sit with his friends next year during lunch class.

"You want me to sit with you guys?"

"Sure, as long as you don't be a jerk to anyone of us, I'm sure they'll all be cool about it too. MJ might give you the cold shoulder for a few weeks though, but didn't worry, she was that way with us too."

Flash couldn't find the words to express how grateful he was to Ned at this moment in time. All he could do was dumbly nod his head and accept the offer. Ned smiled at him one more time before slowly walking tot the exit in the front of the building.

Flash was left behind in the hallway staring at where Ned was moments ago. This strange warm feeling his his stomach is growing by the second and Flash can only think of one thing as he grabs his stuff and starts his tread home.

'Is this what having a real friend feels like.'

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It was around 7:00 in the morning when Peter woke up, 2.5 hours after she had found out that she was pregnant.

Gwen was sitting on the side of his bed, slowly running her hands through his tousled up brown curls. He looked so peaceful when he slept nowadays. She remembers when he would constantly wake up from nightmares at least 3 times a week. She's so happy that he doesn't have them as often anymore.

When he does have them, they are about space. Even after so many sessions with his therapist, he still hasn't fully gotten over the space problem. It's a lot better, of course but still not fully where she would have liked it to be.

He can say the world now and only look a little bit uncomfortable and he doesn't get spaced out as often as he did. But, he still can't bring himself to watch any space movies yet, he says it still brings up too many horrible memories, which she understands, she's not mad at Peter about it.

She's mad at the universe...

No matter what her fiancé does for this world, it always seems to have fun messing with his life, even though he's one of the very few people who try to keep it from destruction. It's like he does something good for the universe, and the universe repays him by trying to kill him.

Even after all he's been through and the amount of times that he's been knocked down, he still gets right back up with a smile, (sometimes a forced smile), and he continues on with life.

Besides Peter's saying about power and responsibility, Peter has another major philosophy that he lives by.

When he was at a low point during his life, when he first got off that ship and she had first met him, she'd catch him saying this phrase over and over again to try and motivate himself to continue forwards. And it worked out really well for him and he's been living by it ever since.

'Life is about solving problems, and every obstacle is the way forward.'

Throughout the years of knowing Peter, she'd come to live by that same philosophy too, even if she hadn't realized it before.

All she has to do is wait for him to wake up, then they'd conquer this challenge, together...

She felt movement underneath her and she looked down and her eyes landed on her fiancé's beautiful, doe brown eye. She smiled down at him before leaning over to lay a kiss on his lips. He gently brought his hand up to cradle her face while kissing her back.

After a few moments they pulled apart and smiled at each other. When Peter stopped to fully look at her, he instantly grew concerned. She didn't look well at all. She was a little paler than he remembered, her eyes were a little bloodshot and red like she'd been crying, and there was this look in her eyes that told Peter that something was wrong.

He pushed himself up and ignored the protests of Gwen so he could sit back against the headboard of his hospital bed. He took the hand that was still in his hair with his left hand, and gently squeezed it.

"What's wrong?" He asked in a soft voice.

Gwen huffed, she shouldn't be surprised at all that he realized something was wrong before she even said anything. She smiled at him before continuing.

"Nothings wrong, I promise. It's good news." She said with a soft smile.

Peter nodded his head for her to continue on and tell him what it was. But before she did, she took a couple seconds to collect herself before starting.

"So I've been a little sick for the past couple of weeks since you've been in the hospital," Peter was about to butt in but she cut him off, "It wasn't your fault Peter, it's something else." When he nodded his head, somewhat reluctantly, she carried on.

"So I...also haven't had my period in six weeks. I was suppose to have it the week you left for the mission but I was so consumed with worry that I didn't even realize that I missed it."

Peter was shocked. Contrary to popular belief, he wasn't a complete idiot, he knew what that meant. And seeing as how they had sex right before he left on the mission...he can infer what she's trying to say.

Before he can get a word in, Gwen pulls out the two, positive, pregnancy tests from her pocket and hands them to Peter. He picks them both up with his slightly shaking right hand and looks at them.

There are so many thoughts running through his head right now but the most predominant one is six words that will change his life for the better.

'I'm going to be a parent.'

He looks up at Gwen and she's smiling at him with tears in her eyes, he huffs a small laugh before he crashed into Gwen and brings her underneath his chin, cradling her to his chest. He can feel his shirt starting to get soaked with happy tears but right now, he doesn't care, he's going to be a father in 8 months!

Peter hasn't felt this awake in such a long time, he feels like he could take on the world. This small piece of information has made his mind run thousands of miles in just mere seconds with all of these different thoughts about his child.

Gwen pulls away, not by much, to look up into Peter's eyes with tears leaking down her face, "We're gonna be parents." She said a little breathlessly, like she still couldn't believe it.

Peter laughs, "Yeah, we are."

Gwen cuddled right up to him on his lap and placed her head right over his heart. Into the silence and peace of the room, Gwen said three words that still, to this day, make butterflies rise in his stomach.

"I love you."

"I love you too."

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Word spread around the tower pretty quickly that Gwen was pregnant. Their whole family was in a constant stage of excitement. Peter was gaining his strength back, he's been up for most of the day, and Gwen's gonna have a baby in 8 months! Life honestly couldn't get any better.

Also, let's just say a lot of people owe money to Nat, Harley, Pepper and Gwen's parents. The Avengers refuse to pay Tony anything though since he's a billionaire. Which caused him to mumble freeloaders under his breath, which, in turn, caused Peter to slightly chuckle when he heard about it.

A couple days after he woke up, on Monday, he called Ned to catch up with him. He hasn't heard his friend's voice in so long that he may have had a couple tears leaking down his face at the end of the call. He also asked Ned if he had MJ's number so he could text her to tell her he's alright and up now.

After he sent a text to MJ, she responded within the minute saying that she hoped he recovers soon and she wishes that when he feels better, they can meet up, just the three of them like old times.

A week after he woke up, he was cleared from the MedBay by Helen Cho but with the promise to take it easy and not do anything too daunting. Which, considering who he is, is a lot harder than one would imagine.

Gwen was constantly by his side, checking on him and making sure he was alright. She sat with him in the common room for most of the day before they both made their way into their room for the night.

Peeper and Morgan were always by his side too. They have temporarily moved into the penthouse with them so she could help keep an eye on Peter if Gwen had to go down and deal with some company problem. Morgan would cuddle up right next to him and just sit their all day in between himself and Tony.

That's right...Tony.

He honestly can't believe that he's gotten Tony back. He's spent the last 4 years trying to find a way to bring him back for Morgan. And now that he's here, Morgan can have her real father back and he can have his too.

When he saw May again, he barreled into her and hugged her so tight that he was worried that he had hurt her. All she did was smile with tears in her eyes and hugged him back just as furiously.

The Avengers have also been really great company.

Considering the Compound is completely destroyed, they all have taken residence in the floor just below the penthouse that was original rooms for Avengers. But for meals and stuff, all of them come up to the penthouse because they know traveling for Peter is still a little difficult with his injuries.

He also hasn't told anyone, except for Gwen, that the Stones left some of their power with him when he snapped his fingers.

He doesn't want anyone to know about it or hear it. If he tells someone, they could all be in danger from people who want to possess the power. He only told Gwen because she is his fiancée, his best friend, and he hates keeping things from her. She deserved to know that he carried all that power now.

Also, it's not like he's going to use the power. Of course, if one of his family members is in trouble and there's really no other way, he'll us it to save them but other than that, these powers he has shouldn't be used just for small everyday tasks. He has this power now, so he has the responsibility to keep it away from all who wish to posses it for evil.

And he'd be damned before he let another one of his family members die...

While he's been healing, Harley has taken the job of acting CEO while both Gwen and Peter are not there. He's not half bad at the job and it's making a million thoughts run through Peter's brain. Maybe he could pass it off to Harley so he could spend more time with his family when the baby is born.

Anyway, another thought pops into Peter's head during the second week of June and he brings it up to Gwen one night when they're both sitting and relaxing in the couch.

"So, I've been thinking..."

"Oh no, Peter thinking? I think the world's gonna end."

"Hey, I'm trying to be serious and you're picking on me? How rude Gwendolyn."

"Ohh no, my full fist name? Wow, this must be pretty serious then."

"Yes, yes it is so if you'd let me finish.."

"Let me think about that first then I'll get back to you."

Peter rolled his eyes with a small smile on his lips, it seems that the pregnancy has made Gwen way more sassy than usual. He kissed her on the cheek to try and convey that he wasn't mad, but he was serious, he had something to tell her.

She looked over with an amused smile but sat there and listened nonetheless.

"So, I've been thinking that we need our own place, house actually." He said.

Gwen's eyes widened before a smile broke out on her face, "I was actually thinking the same thing."

"Perfect! I'm glad we're on the same page because I found this empty property that's a perfect place to live. It's about 50 acres of land and the plot as nothing on it so we can design our own house. And the real kicker is that it's an hour away from all three of the places we'd go, The Tower, The Compound, and The Lake house." He said with a wide smile.

"That sounds perfect! When can he start building the house? We'd only have a couple months since it'll start snowing before you know it. Summer goes by really fast."

"Well as luck would have it, I just payed for the land today. Everything is complete and we now own it. All we have to do is design our dream house, give it to the builders, and let them work their magic."

"Have I ever told you how amazing you are?"

"Not today you haven't, I don't mind hearing it though." Peter said with a smirk.

Gwen leaned over so her lips were ghosting right above his, "Well, you have to earn those types of rewards Web-head."

"You know, this is the type of stuff that got you pregnant the first time."

"Shut up and kiss your fiancée. She misses you." She playfully pouted at him before smirking.

Let's just say, Gwen's hormones have made her a little bit more sexually active than usual, which is saying something considering before the second snap, she was already trying to seduce him into their bed 5 nights a week.

Peter also started his physical therapy sessions. He's actually working with Carolina, his therapist, and Rhodey to try and gain back his strength in his right arm. It's been slow going but he is getting back his strength a little bit more each time he goes.

Another problem has also just recently surfaced. The world has been asking more and more questions about what happened. To try and stop all the rumors, Peter has been in contact with the president herself to try and clear up anything that's not true.

Towards the end of the month, The President and Peter organized a press conference for all the Heros to attend and answer any questions people have. It's also where The President will give Peter his medal.

When she first told him she would be giving him a medal, he tried to politely decline the offer and said how he didn't need one. But, with the President and your family hounding you on it, he was no match.

It will also be the first time the world has seen him since he's snapped. So that's how he found himself in June on the 25th, getting ready behind stage with the rest of the Heros. Gwen, Harley, Morgan, May, Happy, and Pepper were all sitting in the front row because they couldn't be on stage with them.

The President introduced the other Heros first before she introduced him. Before Tony went on stage, he told him it was because she left the best for last, which caused Peter to roll his eyes at him.

"Now, I'm sure you all know the great sacrifice one man made during the battle. We all know him as Peter Parker or Spider-Man. He has just recently healed up enough and he will be making an appearance today and will receive this special medal just for him. We all owe him our lives, but the least I can do right now is give him a medal for my gratitude. So, without further ado, I introduce to you, Peter Parker!" The President, Elizabeth Kelly, finished before signaling him to come on out.

Peter walked out with his glasses on and he plastered on a smile for the cameras. He waved to everyone out there and he made eye contact with Gwen through his glasses. She gave him a smile, showing him that he had this. He reached up and took his glasses off so that everyone could see his silver, right eye.

He still had a little trouble seeing clearly through his right eye and all of the colors were still kind of off for him. He is upgrading his sunglasses though to look like actual glasses so they can help him see a lot better and maybe, help him with the color problem.

He walked over to The President and took her left hand with his slightly, trembling right hand. He made eye contact with her and she smiled in understanding. He moved back a couple of steps so she could pin the medal on his suit pocket.

"Peter, we give you our thanks for saving this universe. We are all eternally grateful. Thank you Spider-Man, for your service." She said with a smile. The press broke out into cheers and whistles for their hero. Peter turned around to smile at the crowd before making his way up to the pedestal to talk.

"I just wanted to say that I'm happy that I'm back up on my own feet finally. You all have no idea how boring it was sitting in that bed forever." He said which caused his family and the crowd to laugh. Even the President was smiling behind her hand.

"As you could probably tell by my appearance, I didn't come out of the battle unscathed. My eye is kind of messed up and so is my arm, but that's not gonna stop me. I'm here today to answer any of your questions that you have and I need to clear up some rumors that are floating around. So, ask away, but please ask one at a time. I don't really feel like having a headache."

Literally everyone raised their hands to try and be called on. Peter called on people and answered all of their questions.

"Are you actually the one responsible for the plan to bring everyone back?"

"Yes, I am. I worked on it for 4 years."

"What's your relationship with Tony Stark?"

"Well, he was my mentor before Thanos came around but towards the end, he became more like a father figure to me I guess." Peter said while looking at Tony with a smile. The billionaire smiled back and nodded his head, silently telling him it was the same for him.

"Now, we all know that most of the Avengers were snapped but, to those who remained, how was your relationship with them? I'm specifically referring to Miss Romanov."

"When I got off that ship 5 years ago, Nat kind of became my mentor when I lost Tony. After a while and lots of sparring matches, we became a lot more. We kind of have this weird best friend, brother sister, aunt and nephew vibe going on. It's one of the reason I got this," Peter said while pulling up his left sleeve to show off his tattoo, "I wanted to show her that I cared about her and if she ever needed me, I'd have her back. And what better way to show someone that than to brand their symbol on your skin." Peter smirked over at the crowd when they laughed at his joke. His face then adopted a softer look before he looked back at Nat. He could tell that she was affected by his words and if it was only them in the room, there would be tears in her eyes, no doubt.

The questioning went on for a little bit longer. With Peter answering them to the best of his abilities. He also debunked a lot of weird rumors that were floating around about him. Like there was one that he's actually an alien, or how he wasn't actually the CEO of SI.

After the questioning was done, people started to move and leave but he stopped them. He wanted to say one more thing.

"Wait everyone, listen. I have another important announcement to make. Almost dying has put a few things into perspective for me and I've come to a decision that I want everyone to hear," he said. He looked around the room before taking a breath and preparing himself for this.

"I can't do this any longer. The whole going out on patrol, getting stabbed and shot, then coming home bleeding to my family. I'm not going to put them through that anymore. So, starting today, you will no longer see me out patrolling New York," the press was about to explode before he cut them off, "Now before you try and rip my head off, let me explain. I said you will no longer see me out patrolling. Last year, I've found someone who is worthy to take my legacy as Spider-Man and continue doing what I love doing, and I know that he'll protect New York like I have previously. I can't give you his name, but the president herself knows and has already approved of said person." He said, which caused the whole crowd to mumble to themselves.

A new Spider-Man? Surly no one could live up to the heroic deeds of Peter. But at the same time, if Peter thinks he's worthy, then he must be a pretty special guy.

"He has the same abilities as me so don't worry, he'll still be Spider-Man, I'm just passing the name along to him. He will be the same web slinging hero, just with someone else behind the mask I assure you."

He was about to conclude his speech when someone in the 3rd row, a blond women raised her hand. He could see Tony wince behind his glasses out of the corner of his eyes, which automatically flashed warning signs in his head.

He put on a fake smile and pointed to the woman.

"Hello, I'm Christine Everhart, I just wanted to ask you a question about one of your previous statements, if that's alright." She asked. He could still see how Tony looked uncomfortable so he made sure to be ready for whatever question she asked.

"Sure, go ahead." He said with a fake smile.

"Do you really think that Tony Stark is the right father figure you should be looking up too? I mean, considering his past I'm sure you're aware about how he acted towards people back then."

The room turned dead silent after her question. All the Avengers and family were looking at the woman with a glare. Peter looked her directly in the eyes before speaking up.

"Whatever you may think, Miss Everhart, I assure you it's not the case. I can confirm that he's no longer like that. Now, that's enough of that." He said with a slight glare.

"But from our knowledge, you have been the main male role model in his daughter's life for the last 5 years. She will feel a lot more comfortable with you than her real father. Maybe that's a good thing too. He doesn't know how to act around her, aren't you a little worried that he might mess her up? He obviously can't look after you since you almost died 2 months ago," she didn't even get to finish because everyone was looking at Peter who was radiating a dark aura. Everyone in the room was looking at him in anticipation, waiting for what would happen.

Steve looked at Peter's face and he had a sudden flash back to the battle. The only other time he has seen Peter with that look across his face is on that battlefield when he was facing down Thanos. The look he's giving the reporter sent shivers down all the Avengers spines.

"I said Enough." Peter said so calmly that some people would misunderstand his words if it wasn't for the hidden layer of venom in his words. Apparently, everyone could hear the venom because everyone took a step back from him, even some of the Heros who didn't know him that well.

Nat saw that something was gonna happen if she didn't calm Peter down in the next 5 seconds. She walked from her spot to stand on his left and whispered some words to him that only he could hear with his enhanced senses.

"Don't do anything stupid, there are millions of people watching us right now. Please, try and stay calm." She nodded at him before moving back to her spot next to Clint.

Peter closed his eyes and breathed in through his noise and out through his mouth 5 seconds later. He looked Miss Everhart in the eyes before speaking.

"I'd appreciate it if you didn't talk shit about my family right in front of me. You don't know what happens when we are all together, you don't know how any of us act, you don't know us, period. Now I think we are done here so if anyone else has any comments about my family, I'd keep them to yourself. The last person who talked about my family in a negative way..." Peter brought up his right and and snapped his fingers to finish his argument, effectively ending the conversation. "Now if anyone else has a question, a real question, I'd be happy to answer it." It seemed like everyone was just scared shitless of an angry Peter. Literally, no one was even making eye contact with him. Suddenly, Peter's hearing caught a reporter in the back trying to be seen and heard.

"Yes, you in the way back. You had a question?"

The little reporter made her way through the sea of people so she could look at him. She gave him a friendly smile, which he returned.

"Yes, hi, I'm Beth Williams I just wanted to know if you could explain your reasoning behind your retirement? I know you said to spend time with your family but were you referring to your fiancée, Tony, the Avengers?"

Peter smiled at the young reporter in gratitude, happy for the distraction that she gave him. That's when her question registered in his mind. One of the reasons he's retiring now is also because he's gonna have a kid in 7 months. He makes eye contact with Gwen to see if she wanted him to tell them.

She thought for a second before she nodded her head in acceptance. The world was going to know sooner or later. It might as well come from them and not someone else who saw Gwen in a couple months when she starts to show more.

"Well, almost dying kind of put a few things in perspective for me. I realized that I could have left my family behind. I could have left Pep, my mother in every way except for blood behind, I could have left Tony, Nat, hell even Steve. I would've felt bad not leaving him some sort of goodbye." He said while smirking at Steve. The captain rolled his eyes at Peter's behavior but laughed nonetheless.

Peter continued, "But, what solidified my retirement for me was...I realized I could've left my soon to be wife without her soon to be husband...and our unborn child without her/his father." He said with a smile.

The whole crowd gasped in surprise when they heard that. Gwen and Peter are expecting a child!! Everyone turned to look at Gwen and saw that she was smiling at Peter with a hand on her stomach.

Honestly, Gwen was having a hard time believing it herself. For the last year, all she's been thinking of is starting her own family with Peter and now, it's finally happening. The construction of their house will be starting in a few days, Peter's strength is slowly returning, they have all their family members back and to top it all off, in 7 months they'll have a little baby in the family.

Gwen couldn't thank the universe enough for letting her have her perfect future...