"Listen, I'm gonna be leaving the states for a little while, I need you to look out for the city just until I get back." Peter whispered into his phone as he was walking through the hallways of the tower. He needed to act fast if he wanted to catch up with Karli and her group of super soldiers.

"Yeah, of course Pete, I've got your back. Mind telling me what's happening though?" Kate said from the other end of the phone.

"Just look on the news and you'll get a pretty good idea about what I'll be doing the next few days."

"Those attacks?"

"Yeah, I've gotta take care of them. I'm partially to blame for something that happened with them and I've got to fix it. Can you drop off a message at Murdock's for me? Basically telling him what I told you."

"Yeah, I've got you covered, just stay safe."

"I will, thanks Kate."

"Anytime Pete." With his message passed along, he hung up his phone and started to head down to his lab to grab a couple things he might need on the way.

Once he got there, he changed into his combat gear which consisted of combat boots, black jeans, his utilities belt, his dark red maroon leather jacket and his spider bandanna that would go around his face.

The only difference from his previous suit like this, was his right arm sleeve was completely torn from the jacket, showing off his metal arm for everyone to see.

He looked at his reflection in his wall length mirror and nodded his head before he grabbed his web shooters and hid a secret pistol in his right boot.

Just incase...

After he got all his gear, he made his way through the tower and took the elevator up to where they stored some of the stealth jets for missions.

He was about to enter the jet and make his way over to Munich, Germany when a voice from behind him stopped him in his tracks.

"Where do you think you're going kid?" Sam called out. Peter turned around and came face to face with both Sam and Bucky standing ten feet away with raised eyebrows.

"I got some business that needs to be dealt with." He said casually while shrugging his shoulders, hoping to play the whole thing off.

"Without telling anyone? Yeah I don't think so kid, tell us what's really going on or we're gonna go down there and tell your mother." Sam glared at him which caused Peter to scoff.

"Good, go down there and tell her. I'll be gone by the time she gets up here."

"This has something to do with those attacks, doesn't it?" Bucky asked, completely ignoring Peter's threat of leaving.

"It has everything to do with those attacks." Peter narrowed his eyes in anger, "You guys weren't here during those five years, but something I did, one of my choices...may or may not have started this whole damn thing. But I was in a coma for awhile, so I didn't know it escalated until I finally had time to check up on things. I need to fix this, it's my problem."

"We'll it ain't just yours no more, we're coming with you. Because there is no way in hell we're going back down there and lying to the family about how we didn't see you. I quite value my life." Sam said as he pushed past Bucky and walked towards the jet.

Peter scoffed and rolled his eyes before he looked at Barnes with a raised eyebrow, "You coming or not."

"You want me to?" He could here a little hesitation in the man's voice which caused Peter to internally smirk.

Glad he could still get that type of reaction from someone like Bucky...

"Keep your thoughts about my mother to yourself and I'll completely ignore that problem until we're done with this one...But all bets are off when we are, in fact done. I'll decide then if I have to kick your ass." Without another word said, Peter turned around and boarded the jet.

Barnes sighed and rubbed a hand down his face, "Shit, he's going to fucking kill me." He said to himself before he walked onto the jet as well.

It was gonna be a long ride to Germany

Back down in the common room, the rest of the family just got done watching the rest of the news when they finally realized that three members were not accounted for.

"Where's Sam and Buck?" Steve asked, looking around.

"Where's Peter?" Tony asked.

Natasha's eyes wandered around the room for any signs but she didn't see anything out of the ordinary.

She started to have a bad feeling.

"Fri, where are they?" Tony asked his AI, hoping that she could find them.

"It seems that the three of them have just left the building. They took one of the stealth jets from the upper level." She informed them all.

"Why did they need to leave so suddenly?" Sharon asked with narrowed eyes.

"The hanger has cameras, yes?" Yelena asked with a raised eyebrow, getting a nod from the billionaire.

"Play back the footage from the hanger. I wanna hear what they're talking about." Natasha said.

They listened to the footage from the hanger and when they watched through it all, they all took a second to absorb all the information that Peter had just given them.

All the information they had no idea about...

"What the fuck did he do that makes this his fault." Tony scoffed.

"Probably a lot of things" Ana muttered to herself, which caused everyone to look at her.

"What do you mean by that?" Gwen asked.

Ana sighed, "Gwen I know you find it hard to see Peter as...as what he is. But you never saw him like I did. He tried to hide that part of him away from you, so you could never see it. With me though? He let the monster out to play, because that's what I did too. We did things that the both of us aren't proud of, but we did it together to hide it from you."

She took a breath before she continued on, "I can one hundred percent guarantee, that Peter is keeping something from us. Wether it be for our own safety or not still remains to be seen, but he obviously trust Barnes and Wilson to help him get it done."

"Or maybe it's more the fact that Bucky and Sam weren't alive during those five years, that's why he took them along, they wouldn't know about anything." Steve pointed out which was in fact a good point.

Natasha bit her lip, "Can we track that jet?"

Tony shook his head, "No, they must have taken out the tracker before they left the building. I can't get a reading on it."

"Well, the only thing we can do now is wait and see what pops up on the news. If we can't track them, we'll wait for them to show their faces. The three of them together aren't really that subtle." Tony rolled his eyes.

If only he knew how true that statement really was...

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Now, if anyone were to ask Peter how the mission went? He'd say it went fantastic and be done with it.

He didn't need his family to ever hear about how he, Sam and Bucky got their asses kicked by eight super soldiers who were stealing medicine.

Yeah...the former assassins and Solider would never hear the end of it...

They also had their first run in with "New Cap" which was, just a fucking blast and a half.

But at the moment, the three of them were walking down a random road in Germany after losing the supply trucks and the super soldiers.

Lucky them...

Peter had come so close to getting his hands on Karli, so fucking close but he slipped up for one second which caused the three of them to tumble across a field in the middle of nowhere.

And he couldn't call the jet because like he said, they were in the middle of fucking, nowhere.

Emphasis on the nowhere...

Fucking fantastic day all things considered...

Could you hear the sarcasm in his voice?

Anyways, at the current moment, Peter was trying hard not to smirk as he listened to the two men argue like little children.

The highlight of his trip so far...

"I'm telling you, they've gotta be apart of The Big Three."

Bucky rolled his eyes, "Not this shit again."

"I'm saying, Androids, aliens, or wizards."

"That's not a thing. And even if it was a thing, these guys aren't any of them, they're fucking people."

"It's definitely a thing."

"No, it's not."

"Every time we fight, we fight one of the three."

"So, who are you fighting now, Gandalf?" Barnes scoffed which caused Peter to snort in amusement.

"How do you know about Gandalf?" Sam asked.

"I read The Hobbit back in 1937 when it first came out, I know who Gandalf is asshole but that's not the fucking point of this. The three of us almost got our asses whopped by eight strangers."

Peter scoffed, "We did get our asses whopped, as much as it pains me to say that."

"Yeah well, we've gotta figure out what to do about them. No matter if you think you're responsible for this kid, these people are stirring up trouble and they need to be stopped." Sam said.

Bucky hummed before a slight smirk slid across his face, "Sorry about Redwing by the way. Such a tragedy what happened to him."

"No, you're not." Sam glared at him.

After that, both Barnes and Peter went quiet for a few minutes, trying to think of what their next course of action would be.

Of course, Sam decided now was a great time to tease the both of them...

"What's going on in those big cyborg brains of yours?" Sam asked as he started to chuckle.

"It's computing." They both said at the same time.

"You know what? I can actually see it. I can see the gears turning." Sam smirked at them, "Oh, they're malfunctioning, shutting down. Yep, they're on fire." Sam laughed.

Barnes rolled his eyes, "We gotta figure out where the serum's coming from."

Peter scoffed, "Yeah. And how in the hell after eighty years are there eight Super Soldiers running loose?" He said to keep up the facade while in reality he knew exactly how it happened.

But he didn't want to tell them that...

Just then the three of them heard a vehicle approaching them from behind and Peter had a pretty good guess about who it was...

Soon enough, he was proven right when Walker and his sidekick came driving down the road and coasted right along side them.

"So that didn't go as planned, huh?" John Walker, AKA New Cap said to the three of them but they weren't having any of it. As the truck stopped and opened the door for them, they continued on like they didn't even see him.

"Let's keep going." Peter heard John say to the driver. A second later the truck continued coasting right beside them, "Look, at least we know what we're up against now, huh? And we're pretty sure it's one of the Big Three, so..." He said which caused both Bucky and Peter to scoff.

"Aliens, androids, or wizards?" Sam asked with a raised eyebrow but Peter could here a smug tilt to his voice.

Fucking prick, fraternizing with the enemy just because he gets his stupid reference...

"Pretty sure." John nodded his head.

"There's no such thing as wizards." Bucky exclaimed.

"All right, then it's aliens, or androids..." John said which caused Peter to scoff.

"Or Super Soldiers." He commented which caused the two people in the truck to stare at him in shock.

"Shit, Super Soldiers, for real?" John's partner asked.

"Yeah."

"Wow. All right, well, then we gotta work together."

"That's not happening." All three of them said together.

"I think we stand a much better chance if we all just..." Bucky didn't even allow the guy to finish before he interrupted him.

"Just 'cause you carry that shield, it doesn't make you Captain America."

John scoffed, "Look, I've done the work, okay?"

"It's not about doing the work, I've done ten times the amount you have and do you see me walking around as the new cap? No...because I'm not him, I'm Spider-Man, just like you are John Walker, not Steve Rogers." Peter said.

He didn't understand why the government needed to give the shield away, it was perfectly fine in that fucking museum until they decided to pass it along to a random Solider.

This is why Peter hates the government, shitbags the lot of them...

"Look, it's twenty miles to the nearest airport. You guys need a ride. Get in." John said as he forced the driver to stop and he opened the back door again.

The three of them looked at each other and sighed before climbing in with Peter on the left side, closest to the driver, Sam in the middle and Bucky on the right closest to the door.

Once they were all situated in the truck, the driver started the car back up and John turned to look at them, "Okay, so we've got eight Super Soldiers on a bulk supply run. Why?"

Peter heard as Sam silently sighed before he answered, "They say their mission is to get things back to the way it was during The Blip...Maybe they're just trying to help." He said which caused Peter to snort.

"They had a funny way of showing it." Peter muttered under his breath.

Now don't get him wrong, even if what Thanos did was terrible, the aftermath wasn't all that bad, all things considered.

Country's came together, there was no more fighting for territory, just one big happy planet, with people just glad to have someone around to help them rebuild.

That was one of the only positives about Thanos.

He brought Earth together for those short five years...

And then the other half came back, which included some asshole politicians who thought they didn't have to care for all this shit because it wasn't the world they remembered, so they tried to fix it, tried to separate the world again.

And apparently Karli didn't like that.

He saw where Karli was coming from, truly he did and it's not like he wanted to kill the kid but she wasn't giving him much of a choice. There was one major rule that he always made sure to tell everyone in Madripoor, made sure that they never broke it.

People with serum, which claim to make super soldiers, are bad news and have no place on his island.

And as soon as he was out of the picture, she broke that rule and let the fucking doctor in.

Became super with her friends and left Madripoor completely defenseless.

He had to stop her, one way or another...

"Well that serum doesn't really have a great track record. No offense." John said while looking at Bucky before he spoke to everyone, "We need to figure out where they're going."

"How'd you track them here? The Flag Smashers?" Peter asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Uh, no, we didn't track them, we tracked Sam, uh, through Redwing." John's partner said which caused all three Avengers to glare at the two others.

"You hacked my tech?" Sam said, angry at his suit being violated by the government.

John chuckled, "Sorry. It's not exactly hacking. It's government property. Kind of the government." He said.

"Um, no that's not how that works. Sam's tech is my design, so if the government is placing trackers on my shit, I'm gonna have a big problem." Peter glared at John.

"Listen, everyone is grateful for what you did, but there are still rules you've gotta follow Spider-Man, even if you did save the universe." John said.

Peter scoffed, "I don't like people messing with my shit. I'm the only one who completely understands how my stuff works. What would have happened if you placed that tracker in and it caused a part of the suit to fail, hmm? You could have jeopardized any of our next missions."

"Well we aren't the tech guys, we just follow orders." John said, not even offering an apology for hacking, his, tech...

Assholes...

"Do...Do they always just stare like that?" John asked Sam when he saw that both Bucky and Peter hadn't stopped staring at him for the past minute.

"You get used to it." Sam glared.

"Okay, look...I know, things have gotten kind of, uh... chaotic. The GRC, they're doing the best they can to get things up and running smoothly, post Blip."

"Reactivating citizenship, social security, healthcare."

"Basically just managing resources for the refugees who were displaced by the return."

"The Global Repatriation Council does all that. I get that. So why exactly are you two here?" Sam asked.

"Well, they provide the resources and we keep things stable. Usually violent revolutionaries aren't good for anyone's cause." John shrugged his shoulders a bit.

"Usually said by the people with the resources." Peter pointed out.

"We've got a lot of resources. If you guys, if you joined up with us, we could..." John started but was instantly stopped by Bucky.

"No." The old assassin said.

"I got mad respect for all of y'all for what you did to save us. But you were getting your asses kicked till we showed up."

"I had that handled." Peter rolled his eyes, "Five more minutes and all eight of them would have been on the ground."

"Just admit, you needed the help."

Bucky scoffed, "Who are you?" He asked to John's parter.

"Lemar Hoskins." The man said said.

"Look, I see a guy hanging out of a helicopter in tactical gear, I need a lot more than Lemar Hoskins."

"I'm Battlestar. John's partner" He said which made Peter stare blankly at the two of them. Are you serious? Fucking Battlestar?

Jesus Christ...

"Battlestar?" Bucky scoffed, "Stop the car!!" He exclaimed towards the driver. The man pulled off the road and stopped at a building that lead to a nearby town.

Bucky was the first to get out along with Sam not far behind, leaving Peter the only one still in the truck, "Look, I... I get it, okay? I get the attitude, I do. You didn't think that the shield was gonna end up here. I get it, Bucky, Sam. And I'm..." He called out towards the two men who were leaving but by the end, he turned to look at Peter. He could only see his eyes since he still had the bandanna around his face but he could tell the man wasn't in the best of moods.

"I'm not trying to be Steve. I'm not trying to replace Steve. I'm just trying to be the best Captain America I can be. That's it...It'd be a whole lot easier if I had the savior of the universe on my side." He said.

Peter scoffed, "It's always that last line." He said in anger as he too jumped out of the truck and followed the two older men towards the town.

Once he caught up with them, Bucky spoke up, "Well that was a pleasant first meeting."

Peter huffed, "Sure, yeah, great first meeting." He said sarcastically.

"I have a feeling we're gonna see a lot more of him on this little journey of ours." Sam said.

"You guys, you don't have to stay with me you know? You can go back, I'm sure you have other things to do." Peter said.

Sam scoffed, "In your dreams kid, the others would kill us if we left you alone to deal with this shit. We're staying."

"Ditto." Bucky said.

"Well...thanks I guess. I'll see if I can contact the jet to come around and pick us up." He said.

An hour later, the three of them had just gotten onto the jet and were currently trying to come up with ideas on how to continue on this little journey of theirs.

Peter was off to the side though and was making sure that all the dumb trackers the government put on his tech were dealt with while Sam and Bucky were sitting down opposite each other.

"You should've never given up that shield." Bucky muttered.

"You think I wanted this? That Steve wanted this? We didn't know they were gonna give the shield to someone else, if I did, I would've never gave it up." Sam said.

While they continued talking shit out, Peter took out his burner phone and opened up Kate's number.

SpiderBitch

Hey, your mother owns a security company, right?

ArrowBitch

Yeah, Bishop Security, why?

SpiderBitch

Cause I need an extra layer of security to make sure the government don't hack my tech

ArrowBitch

Lol!!! Why the government hacking you?

SpiderBitch

Who the fuck knows, they placed a tracker on Sam's tech and didn't tell any of us. Not taking any more chances with those assholes

ArrowBitch

Yeah sure, I'll help, cause you know, I'm the best friend you could ever ask for. You have the app right? I'll send you my password to add that extra layer of protection.

SpiderBitch

Yes I do, Thank you. You are a life saver!

ArrowBitch

No problem Pete!

Once Peter was done fixing Sam's tech or at least what he could, he went over and sat down on top of a crate and looked at Sam and Bucky.

"What's the next course of action." He asked.

"Well, I may or may not have an idea." Bucky said a little hesitantly.

"Oh, I don't know if I like the sound of that." Sam said.

"Just hear me out first yeah? Walker isn't gonna have any leads for us, these are super soldiers we're talking about, so...let's go to someone who we know has lots of information on super soldiers." Bucky said which caused Peter to perk up. He knew who Bucky was talking about and he had to hand it to him...

It was a bold move...

Sam scoffed, "Not a chance."

"He knows all of HYDRA's secrets. Don't you remember Siberia?" Bucky pushed on.

"So what, you're just gonna go and sit in a room with this guy?" Sam asked.

Bucky hesitated for a moment and stumbled through his wording before he answered, "Yes."

"I think it's one of our only options Sam." Peter said. He knew exactly where everything was coming from, the soldiers, the serum, everything. But he didn't want Bucky and Sam to know that because if they did, they'd ask questions and he didn't need them to know his big secret.

So he played the part...

They didn't need to know he was the Power Broker...

Sam sighed and ran a hand down his face before he spoke up, "Alright, let's go see Zemo."

Peter smirked, "SCARLETT, set a course for Berlin."

"Certainly sir."

As Peter leaned back in his seat to try and relax for the short trip, his watch vibrated.

The watch that IVAN was connected to...

He looked down and read the message on the watch and scowled. IVAN had picked up where Karli was heading. Apparently she was heading towards a airfield somewhere in Slovakia with the supplies that she just stole.

Not on his watch...

He sent a message to his task force over in Madripoor, the people who worked directly for Shelby and told them to go after her, and shoot anyone on sight.

If they managed to get a few of them, that was fine with him...

That'd show Karli that he wasn't playing around anymore...

When they were roughly ten minutes away from Berlin after another hour flight, Peter had gotten another update from IVAN saying that one out of the eight soldiers were killed.

Well better than nothing...

"SCARLETT, tell the prison that the three of us will be landing shortly. We need to have a little chat with Zemo."

"Already done it sir." Even if he couldn't see her, Peter knew his AI was smirking.

He rolled his eyes, "Even to this day, you still give me a hard time. Can't I ever catch a break?"

"Have you met yourself? That won't ever happen."

"Yeah whatever, let's just get going." He scoffed.

He could tell this was gonna be one interesting mission, that was for sure.