HEY GUYS! JUST A WARNING THAT THERE ISNT AS MUCH PETER AND MJ AS THE OTHER CHAPTERS, BUT THE SUPERHERO STUFF HAS TO COME AT SOME POINT, BUT DONT BE MAD, THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT LATER ON! LIKE A LOTTTTTT! ANOTHER WARNING, THIS IS A CHAPTER THAT WILL MAKE SOME PEOPLE SAY AWWWW SO I'M MAKING UP FOR IT, SO STAY TUNED, R&R, FAVORITE, AND FOLLOW ME AND THIS STORY! (I STILL DONT OWN ANY OF THESE CHARACTERS.)
CHAPTER 4: Lots of Work to Do
Peter P.O.V.
Well I'm glad I'm starting to make the first move now. I'm starting to get a lot better with this relationship stuff. The three of us snagged the first 3 seats across from each other in the middle row. Still trying to focus and get good grades is still really important.
My phone rings and Happy is texting me.
HAPPY: Hey, I'm getting you out of school soon. You have to see what Tony left for you.
PETER: Seriously? It's the first day of school. How important is it?
HAPPY: Life changing important.
Oh wow, Tony left that big of a surprise.
PETER: Okay, I'll be waiting on it.
It really does suck that I can't even get through half of the day without any type of superhero stuff coming up, but this is my job now. I have to do what I was meant to do. Tony Stark's words are turning into mine, and I'm going to live up to his expectations.
Because he always wanted me to be better. The teacher walks into the room and I see the syllabus placed on the table. I hope we don't have to do the get to know you game. I freeze up, literally and I get so nervous my ears feel like they've been intensified so my voice is the only thing I can hear, and everything else is faded out.
MJ leans over to my desk, whispering into my ear."That syllabus is our token to ratting these teachers out if they decide to change their rules without making a new one and giving it to us on paper." I quietly laugh at her as she smiles, but I think she can tell I was thinking a lot.
"Peter, are you okay?" She asked, and I knew she was going to."Uh, yeah. Happy texted me and he's picking me up early. Hopefully I'll be able to come back and we can hang out off campus if you want to."
"Of course I would want to. At least you're telling me when you're leaving though, and you might have more work to do anyway. That's the life of being a superhero." Urghhh, but we're going to have to make some deals because I can't leave school everyday. What if I get injured and it's over?! What degree can I grasp and use to get me an actual job? Heck, I won't even have a diploma to lean on, but that doesn't do a lot for the future anyway. Sadly, I still need it to get out of here.
The teacher is done typing on his computer and when I see his face he looks new. I know a lot of teachers here and I've never seen him before."Hello everyone. So, my name is Mr. Hubert and I've been teaching at this school for a year and a half now." What? He's got to be lying. Wait, I forgot that my attendance was terribly bad when I got the Stark Internship so they could've been hiring during the school year or even over the summer and I just didn't even notice.
"So I do have two dogs, and a fiance." A few boys in the back start cheering and when I look and see who it is, its none other than Flash Thompson and just a few of his friends, since he has a lot of them. He lunges at me and I just turn back around. I should've just kept looking at the teacher because he knows that I'm here and there's more Penis Parker and Dick wad to come this year.
"We plan on getting married soon so that should be pretty fun. I've been teaching technology classes for 13 years so I feel pretty advanced in this form of study." Oh please. If somebody asked him how to make a whole suit made out of technology he would be forced to quit his job.
"But that's enough about my background. Now let's start with yours." I really want to roll my eyes to the back of my head but I feel like that would be disrespectful so I keep them straight. I realize he's been staring at me and I don't know why.
"Are you ready to share?" He asked me. I point to myself and I feel really stupid doing it."Oh. You were talking to me? Okay, I'll go." I stand up and see a whole classroom filled with people, and I can feel my ears projecting my voice and everyone fading out before I even speak. MJ just smiles at me which makes me feel a little bit better.
"Peter Parker. We need Peter Parker to go to the office, thank you!" The woman on the monitor says. Thank God."Uh, I have to go so I'll-"
"Hey, you can finish some things about yourself before you leave." Oh my gosh, why can't he just take the hint that I'm too nervous and I simply just don't want to.
I walk over to my backpack and grab it."My name is Peter Parker, I like Star Wars, and I have to go so I will be here tomorrow. I think. Anyway, bye." I'm out the door.
"Where ya going Dick Wad?! Does the new Captain American need you?!" He asked as his friends are laughing. Well, that's the first Dick Wad I've heard for the school year.
HAPPY- Go to the bathroom. No kids are in sight this time.
PETER- On my way
I keep forgetting that Happy is extremely impatient so I start picking up the pace. That, and I really want to see what's going on at the Avengers Tower. It feels so wrong for me to actually be an Avenger now, since Tony isn't here to be one with me. Man, I wish he was still here.
He would've been helping me figure this out. He could've saw me make my first suit. He would've been able to meet MJ. I miss him if I haven't said that already. I go into the bathroom and right when Happy sees me he starts walking out.
"Let's go Peter. There wasn't any kids, it's just the smell is making me sick."
The two of us get into the car and I hit the button so the door can close. May would ever let me have a car like this, but it's awesome. We start driving and I see the iconic A that's on the building, and my heart is beating really fast. I still have no idea what this is going to be when I walk into this building.
Happy stops the car and we both get out. I stand there for a moment, needing to take everything in."Come on Peter. I'd like to inform you that the surprise is inside." I start walking next to Happy and going up the stairs. I look around and it looks exactly like it did when I took one of the web shooters for me and MJ's date last night, but it was dark and I was rushing so I just assumed it looked the same.
CRAP. I didn't get the web shooter back. Shit…
Well if they don't ask for it then I guess I'm in the clear for now."Peter!" I can hear Morgan's voice from the echo the building brings."Hey Morgan! What's up?" She runs over to me and I pick her up and embrace her. I'm trying not to get emotional as I look at the mini Tony Stark.
"Hi Peter." Pepper says as she was slowly walking behind her very happy daughter."Hey Pepper. How are you?" I free my other arm so I can hug her.
"Oh, just running a company, that's all."
"Oh, so are you the new boss around here now?" I ask her. Tony told me a story before when he made Pepper CEO of Stark Industries. He told me a lot of details and I guess that's what Happy was telling me when he said Tony was a hot mess. Apparently there's more stories about Tony that I would love to hear.
"Well, since you're here, I guess that's the surprise we wanted to tell you about Peter." Pepper smiles as she starts walking into Tony's legendary inventing room. I look over at Happy trying to understand what all of this means, but of course he's not telling me.
"Go in. Everything you want to ask will be answered in that room." He pats me on the shoulder and I start walking into the room with Morgan still in my arms. I look around at all of his suits and the work he has done.
"Tap the button on the table. It's an important message." Pepper tells me. I put Morgan on the floor and she goes over to hold Pepper's hand. I tap the button, and there it is. A hologram of Tony Stark.
"Well, I see that homework isn't the reason why you wouldn't want to come Peter. I have something for you." I stare at him in disbelief."Ever since my father took on this goal, he always wanted me to do something great with it, and I did just that." I laugh. That ego dude. I see Pepper roll her eyes with a smile on her face.
"Now Peter, there's a lot of other things I would've done, because our world is still erupt with chaos, and that's when you come in kid." My eyes and my brain are fully engaged as a blue screen is shown right in front of me.
"Although that untalented and spineless Mysterio raised havoc, there is a multiverse, and you might meet a lot more people with superpowers soon. A portal in New York is going to be opened and that's where they will come from." Really cool! Maybe a new Avengers team could happen."But you may have enemies that want to chop your head off and you'll be with me if you aren't careful." All my hope was put down the drain. I mean the team could still happen, but the chop your head off is dark.
"What I'm trying to say kid is that you have to be smart. You have to have your own brain, your own decisions, and your own ideas. So, what I created for a peaceful world, what I did and what needs to be done now, is resting on your shoulders. Stark Industries is resting on your shoulders kid." I can't believe what I'm hearing right now.
This is what they were talking about. This is really something I was meant to do. I'm the CEO? This is blowing my mind."More inventions need to be created in order for you to figure out what's going on with this multiverse, and see if this is a potential threat for the entire world. You don't have that much time. I believe in you, Spiderman." He smiles at me and the hologram is shut off.
I got to talk to Tony Stark again. I haven't heard his voice in the longest time. Wait, I didn't even think to say anything to him! What the heck is wrong with me? Maybe he can't hear me if I say something back. I don't know how all of this stuff works.
"Well, replay that in your mind. You want to be CEO Peter?" Happy asks me. I would say yes automatically. For Tony of course, but then I realize that I'm a 17 year old guy who is trying to get through my last year in high school with a girlfriend, and do I really want her to be apart of all of this mess? The last thing I would want is for any of these new enemies to even say her name.
But this is my chance. This is my chance to really step it up and save the universe from a threat that's an Avengers threat. Portal after portal could open up from people so dangerous I can't even picture it and I'm more worried about a high school diploma? That sounds ridiculous to me.
"Yes. I want to be CEO of Stark Industries." I say proudly."Yayyyyyyy!" Morgan says as she somehow has silly string in her hand. Whoever allows that girl to have silly string needs to watch out. She's adorable though so I cant help but go over and pick her up again. She laughs hysterically as I see Pepper and Happy glance at each other.
"Well Peter, I just want you to know that it's a lot of responsibility. Trust me, I know. This is something for adults, and I know you're going to be a young adult but it's based off of a lot of decisions and taking some risk." I'm a teenager. Out of all age groups I think we take the most risk out of anyone, but I want to listen to her advice.
I have no idea on how to run a business and she has years of experience so she knows what she's doing."We knew you would be excited about the news, but we want to know if you really want to do this. I mean, we have to know so we can tell the board, but for your sake. Are you really willing to add this to all the other stuff you got going on?" I don't care about the diploma over the entire world's peace and safety.
"I'm sure." I say proudly again, and Morgan puts her head on my shoulder hugging me. I hold her tight and smile at Pepper and Happy, wanting to get started on what I have to do as soon as possible.
Let's see what the multiverse can throw at me.