***Rose Hill, Tennessee***

Touching down in Tennessee, Peter, Ava and Sam made their way into town and found their way to the Keener Residence.

Knocking did nothing as no one answered. Looking in through the windows, they just saw a living room that was free of its occupants.

"I don't think anyone's home," Ava said, backing away from the windows.

"Hey guys!" Sam called to her and Peter. He motioned for them to follow him around the back, to which they did. Little did they know that they were being watched from inside the house.

***Garage***

Walking around back of the house, the trio came to a garage.

"Should we check it out." Sam asked.

Ava shrugged and looked to Peter, to which he shrugged too but cautiously walked up to the doors of the garage, opening them to walk in. When they did, they saw a large work space with multiple tables connected and a desk, multiple monitors atop them. The three fanned out to explore the place, finding many things along the way. A couch, small cubbies for nails, nuts, bolts, and other assorted items. There were also boxes of tools all around, and Peter even found what seemed to be mechanical arm, like Dum-E 2.0 back at the Compound.

"Mr. Stark," Peter whispered to himself knowingly as he rubbed the tech, which didn't seem to mind. He was actually quite nice, replying with a handshake for Peter.

This made Peter smile. But that smile was by an unexpected feeling of alertness. Suddenly, his arm and neck hair rose up, meaning one thing: danger!

Swiftly, Peter jumped up and latched onto the ceiling of the garage, avoiding what seemed like a Nerf dart as it flew right through the spot he was just in. The swift motion made Sam and Ava look up at their friend in confusion until they were peppered by a shower of dart flying at them. The rapid fire of it and the hurt that came with it too made the two ducked behind desks and tables.

"You guys thought you could break into my garage?" They heard a little voice call out, "Ha, jokes on you!"

Peeking around the desk, Sam could see that it was a girl. A LITTLE girl at that! No older than maybe ten or eleven from the looks of it. And all the girl was armed with was just a Nerf blaster. This made Sam laugh and his confidence returned. "I got this," he said, cocky tone and all.

"No, wait! Sam!" Ava tried, but he'd already jumped up from his spot. No sooner than he had jumped out, he was once again hit with darts, but the effect was much more painful this time. Even shielding his face with his hands didn't help as the darts stuck into them as well. Outgunned and in pain, Sam retreated back to his hiding spot with Ava.

When he did, Ava was surprised to see that the darts were sticking to him. Reaching over and pulling one out, which earned a help from Sam, she examined the dart and realized that it had been modified. "Thumb tacks." She said, noting that the darts had thumb tacks glued to the tips of them, making them more dangerous.

"Nice try, doofus! But I'm no easy take! I'm surgical with this b***h!"

"Did she just quote Denzel in Training Day?!" Ava asked, more surprised than worried.

"This kid's nuts!" Sam exclaimed, attempting to take another dart from his face.

From above, Peter aimed his web-shooter and shot it at the blaster and another at dart cartridge. The cartridge slipped out easily, but the girl had a tight grip on the Nerf. She quickly reached in her back pocket and pulled out a Swiss army knife, and cut through the webline, ending the tug of war match.

Seeing that Peter had taken the cartridge, Sam looked out from the table and saw that the girl was out of ammo. "She's out, I got this!" He boasted jumping from his spot again.

Once again, Ava tried to stop him, "Sam wait!" but he ignored her call as he made his way towards the girl.

She was struggling with her cartridge, but they were both empty. Seeing this gave Sam more confidence as he jumped to pounce her, he was gonna show this kid who was boss.

But what he didn't know, was that she had a secret weapon. Throwing down her Nerf blaster, she reached and pulled up the weapon that had been hanging from a strap, pointed it to the unsuspecting nut coming at her and pulled the trigger, firing a shot of ammo which the size of a fist. The ammo: a raw potato. And it his Sam square between the eyes, making him lose his momentum and hit the ground with a plop, missing his target who had moved to the side just in time.

Pushing another potato down the gun's chute, she pointed it back at Sam and smirked. "Close, but no banana."

Pulling the trigger, another shot hitting Sam right on the cheekbone, causing him to let out a loud, babylike cry. "Was that a potato?!" The Hispanic whined, his hands up in surrender.

"Yep."

Suddenly, the potato gun was yanked up and of out of the girl's arms by a web from the wall-crawling man up above. Once in hand, Peter dropped from the ceiling and landed on his feet next to Ava who was now standing from her hiding spot and facing the little girl.

With her newly reloaded Nerf gun pointed at Sam, she asked, "Who are you, people?"

"Well for one, we're not here to rob or hurt you," Peter replied, his hands still up, the potato gun still in hand. "Nice piece of hardware you made here." Noticing a label on the side of the weapon saying: Potato Gun Mark II.

"I didn't make it."

"Oh...well then, who did?"

"My brother. I just made some minor adjustments to it."

"Well you sure know how to fire it." Ava stated. "Phew!"

"Thanks."

"Could you tell us where your brother is?" Peter asked her, hoping for the best despite the...shootout? Yeah, shootout that has just occurred.

"Hey, I asked a question first. Now answer the question!" She cocked her Nerf gun and held it closer to Sam's face. "Who are you?!"

"My name's Peter. Peter Parker. That's Ava,"

"Hey," the Latina waved with a light smile.

"And that guy you've got pinned down there is Sam."

Looking down to her victim, the girl kept her smirk as Sam nervously waved. "Yeah, hi. Could you maybe point that away from my face please?"

The sight and sound of Sam, the great "Nova" begging for mercy from a little girl brought a concealed laugh to Peter and Ava. But their introduction was cut short when,

"Sarah, what's going on out here?!" Another voice from outside called and gained the attention of the four.

Instantly, Peter recognized the young man before them. Even with the denim jumpsuit and bandana he had on. "Harley," he whispered to himself.

"I caught these yahoos snooping around in here, so I did what I had to do." The little girl, whose name was apparently Sarah replied.

"We weren't stealing anything, trust me," Peter interjected, "actually, we were here looking for you."

"Me?" Harley repeated confusingly. Why were they Looking for him? "You're not Child Protective Service, are you?"

Peter and Ava laugh and waved that off. Yeah, definitely not. Never wanna be in the job racket," Ava retorted with another laugh.

"Yeah, don't worry about that," Peter assure him, holding out his hand for Harley to shake, "Peter Parker."

Harley shook his hand respectively and then turned it to the Latina next to Peter.

"Ava Ayala," she introduced herself.

Then Harley's attention was drawn to the guy laying in the ground with his hands up, staring at the receiving end of Sarah Nerf gun. "Uhh.."

"Oh yeah, and that's Sam." Sarah stated in a sweet and innocent voice.

Harley encouraged her to stand down. "Sarah, I think you can take that off him now. They're all right."

Finally, Sam watched as the lethal toy was removed from in front of his face and scurried to his feet to stand next to Peter. As he did, he put a hand to his cheek, pain throbbing from close impact shot with that potato. A frickin POTATO!

"Sorry about that, Harley apologized to the three, "uh...how bout you guys come inside and we can talk about...whatever it was you came here for?"

"Yeah sure." "Sounds good." Peter and Ava both replied.

As the others followed Harley and his sister, Sam eyed Sarah with an annoyed face. And his mood only intensified when Sarah looked back to him and stuck her tongue out to him with a confident smirk. Momentarily stunned, Sam recovered and looked around the garage and found a wrench laying on a table.

Grabbing it, he turned around with his arm stretched backwards, ready to chuck it at her. But before he could, he was met by a glaring Ava.

"I know you weren't about to throw that, especially not at that girl."

"Dude, that is not a girl! That's Scarface's granddaughter!"

Ava's rolled her eyes at the boy. "Drop the wrench, Sam." She deadpanned.

Like a child about to whine some more, Sam groaned and reluctantly threw the wrench back into the garage before walking on with Ava into the house.

***Keener Residence, Living Room***

"A 'Time Heist'?" Harley had just listened to Peter explain the idea for time travel, a team, the Infinity Stones, and the possibility of bringing back everyone lost.

"Yep, that's why we're here." Peter replied, "We we're hoping you could come and help us out with this."

"But, but why me? I'm just a mechanic."

Be that as it may, Peter wasn't so easily out off by that. He saw potential within Harley, more than he let on. So not being too pushy but also being witty, Peter simply shrugged and replied with, "Well, maybe you could build something that could help us too."

This made Harley laugh a little, to which Peter did too. That last line truly hit Harley though, mainly because it sounded very familiar to something he'd said to an old friend a long time ago.

This them put Harley into deep thought. Sarah too. Suddenly, she slightly regretted the way she greeted these three...slightly. Her and her brother shared the same thoughts, but for Harley the weight was heavier. This was something he never thought he'd be asked to do. Going to help save the world. But now that it was here, he felt a certain...need to act. Almost like obligation.

The part about potentially bringing everyone back, that really caught his ears. Naturally, anyone would want to bring back a lost loved one, but with him it was his little sister that was the fire for this obligation. She was only one year old when the Snap happened, she never really got to know their mother. All she had was Harley. But if there was a chance for him to give her the chance to be with her mother again, he'd definitely want to take it.

Though Harley knew it could potentially be dangerous, he was sure that these guys, would be there and have his back.

Plus, he could help with the assembly too. Peter made mention of building a time machine. That was a another possible way he could help.

The feeling of a hand on his shoulder brought him out of his thoughts to see his little sister looking at him with a smile. That same smile that helped him get by, day after day every year. That smile was lethal. But it gave him the push he needed.

"I'm in." He stated.

"Really?" Peter asked, genuinely surprised by the response. After the rejection from Riri back in Boston, he was worried about receiving the same thing here. But apparently, that wasn't the case as he and the others watched Harley nod and chuckle nervously.

"YES! Awesome! " Peter seemed quite excited about this, and he had reason to. Believe it or not, this wasn't an easy thing to do; recruiting all of these people. But it helped and gave him more hope when they accepted, Sam and Ava noticed this and it !are them smile for their friend. "Sorry," he smiled, glad and slightly speechless. Slightly . "That's great. Thank you."

"Yeah. I just gotta make a call so I can get Sarah taken care of." Standing from his chair, he reached into his pocket, pulled out his phone and made the call. A few seconds waiting, two and half rings before the other side picked up. "Hey EJ! How's it going, man? Good, good. Hey, I was wondering if you could do me a favor? Well something recently came up, a bit of a...job offering, and I've gotta go outta town for a bit. So I was wondering, could Sarah maybe stay with you guys while I'm gone...please?"

Harley waited for the reply, as did the others. But they were relieved she m they saw Harley smile and hold up a thumbs up to them. "You can? Oh, great! That'd be great, thanks bro...yeah, we'll be by later. Thanks again, Eej...alright, see ya then. Alright, later."

Pulling the phone from his ear, he looked back to the others and nodded. "We are a go."

After dropping off his sister at EJ's, Harley followed the trio of young heroes outwards from town and to the Quinjet. He would dearly miss her, but he knew she was in good hands. EJ lived with his girlfriend, and his little brother lives there too. Plus, they had a there year old baby girl of their own who Sarah just adored. So Harley knew she'd be safe there.

After at least a good seventeen minute walk, they had reached a clearing in a small patch of woods. And within that patch of woods was their transport.

The Quinjet's engines fired up and hovered above ground before taking off, back into the sky.

"Wow. Now this is cool." Harley stated as he looked around and walked about the jet.

"Oh trust me," Ava said with a smirk, "you haven't seen anything yet. Heck, I haven't either."

And then she walked off to her seat.

"So where to now, Pete?" Sam called out from his seat at the helm of the jet.

Checking the list, Peter saw just one name left. One Kamala Khan. And her address showed her to be in Jersey City, New Jersey. So that's where they were going.

"Make a course to New Jersey, Sam." He said confidently, feeling a bit more pumped now. "That's our last stop."

Nodding at the order, Sam charted the coordinates and began to head in that direction.

As they flew on, Harley couldn't help but think back to his childhood years to when he'd first met Tony Stark and saw his Iron Man suit for the first time. The memory of it and the fact that he was here now probably because of that, it brought a smile to his face.

"Ha. Big jump from the garage, eh Keener?" He said to himself as he looked out the window to the passing ground below.

Well guys, Harley Kenner is here and on the ride! HAhaha! I know a lot of you have been wanting him, well he's here now. Hope you guys like how I executed his introduction, and that of his little sister's. 😆😂😂😂 That was one of my favorite parts to do tbh. I named her Sarah after Sarah Conner from the Terminator movies. Sarah Connor, Sarah Keener. Get it? 😁😁

Hope you guys liked the chapter and the teaser for their next recruit. Lmk what you guys think in the comments plssss!

Well, see you guys next chapter! Laters!