"Hi," Peter held out his hand and Aqua obliged by reaching out and taking it, "I-I'm Peter. But you know that because Mr. Stark just said it… Well – anyways! N-nice to meet you!" Aqua chuckled as Peter kept shaking her hand while stumbling over his thoughts and works. Oh my lord, he's a dork… Tony brought home a dork, she laughed inwardly.

"Hi. I'm Aqua," he kept the shake going – and going and going. "Um, sorry about before. Tony and I had something to work out." She glanced over to Tony and he just nodded slightly. Suddenly, she noticed that Peter had finally stopped shaking her hand. Instead, he leaned in a little closer.

"You call him 'Tony'?" She looked back, giving a strange raise of her brows.

"Um, yeah? I mean, I've known him for five years now… I'm not sure why I wouldn't, or couldn't…?" She looked over to Tony, who just kind of shrugged.

"Wait, five years? But you're not an Avenger, right? I don't recognize you." Tony placed a hand on Peter's shoulder, pulling both teens' attention his way, and finally getting Peter to let go of her hand.

"She's part of the group now. Same as you. Except," Tony points to her while holding Peter's eyes, "she's got more authority than you. She's lived around the team for five years, training with them, and learning the ropes. She's also got almost complete access to Friday."

"Almost?"

"Yeah, almost. There's a pesky 'private' label that Tony can put on anything that Friday has access to. And anything labelled 'private' means that I can't access it." She sent a playful glare up to Tony and placed her hand on her hip and pointed a finger, "one day. One day, I'll get access to the 'private' label."

Tony smirked and pushed her finger down, "yeah. Sure. One day…" A moment passed as Tony rolled his eyes. They all just kind of glanced at each other and burst out laughing, the earlier moment of jealousy and anger pushed away.

"So, who have you been training with?" Peter questioned, wiping a small tear from the corner of his eye.

"Depends on what kind of training you're talking about," Aqua replied, coming off her laughing high. Peter gave her a questioning glance, somehow confused. "I've trained with pretty much everyone. Nat for close combat, Clint for long-range, Steve for weight training, Bruce for science, math, and medicine, Thor for subjects beyond our world, Tony for science, math, and tech, Wanda for powers, and Pepper for cooking." She simply shrugged. "And I spar with Nat, Clint, Steve, and Wanda on an almost daily basis."

Peter looked at her, dumbfounded. How was the concept of her training with the others so hard to understand? Of course, she did. She's lived around most of them since she lived in Avengers tower, why shouldn't she train with them?

"Why don't the two of you take a turn on the mat?" Tony broke the silence. Peter looked like he was still trying to comprehend training with the Avengers. Aqua chuckled and nodded.

"I'd be down," she replied. Peter shook his head.

"A what on the what?" Aqua put her hands in a prayer position, looked towards the ceiling and just laughed while Tony placed the bridge of his nose between his pointer finger and thumb, chuckling to himself.

"A turn on the mat. As in you and I spar for a round or two." Aqua could not believe she was having to explain this.

"Oh – Oh! Yeah! That'd be awesome! When?" Tony placed his hands on their shoulders.

"Now."

"Ok. One round. No powers. Mainly close combat. No leaving the mat. No breaking bones, unless it happens to be a nose. But even then, let's try to avoid that." Tony looked to Aqua, who nodded confidently, and then to Peter, who looked a little terrified, but nodded nonetheless. "Ok. And, begin."

Aqua took a steady stance, studying Peter, trying to estimate what he'll do. She noticed his left heel move inwards just slightly, shifting his weight and beginning a lunge. He pushes off, thrusting himself towards her with his right hand pulled back, ready to land a hit. Seeing what was coming, Aqua transferred her weight, pushed Peter's now out-stretched fist to her right, shifted to her left, grabbed his wrist, slightly twisted, and brought him to the ground with his arm behind his back, placing her left leg next to his left flank and her right knee on his back.

"What the heck?" Peter mumbled. Tony chuckled and shrugged, showing the younger boy there was nothing he could do.

"Ya give?" Aqua questioned with a sly smile.

"Yeah. Yeah, I give." She released his wrist and helped him off the mat. He lightly rubbed his wrist and just stared at the mat, trying to see where he went wrong.

"Another round? Best two out of three?" He asked, not even looking up.

"Sure." Aqua shrugged, moving to the other side of the mat, readying herself for him to come again.

"How long have they been at it?" Nat asked Tony as she lightly sauntered into the training room.

"Round 15. At this point, is it even a round?" Tony wrapped one arm around his front, placed his other elbow on top of it, and placed his chin in his hand. Peter was sweating and breathing hard, clearly getting tired, while Aqua merely looked like she had gone for short jog.

"Oh, nice Aqua." As Aqua's official close combat trainer, Nat felt pride at watching Aqua fight so confidently and so well. Even if her current training partner wasn't the most trained, Aqua was doing well, keeping her movements light and quick as she accurately guessed what Peter was about to do.

"Nope," Aqua answered. "Right around round five, it turned into a training session. He's studying my moves and trying different things to bring me down." She dodged his fist again, pushing him to the side and roundhoused Peter's legs from under him. He turned over, letting himself lie there and catch his breath.

"Ouch. You ok, kid?" Tony hissed and grimaced as a sympathy pain hit him. It had been a while since he sparred with anyone, and he had been considering taking Aqua for a spin, but seeing what she was putting Peter through made Tony realize that that may be a bad idea for his older bones.

"Yup – the spar… ended a while… ago… Now, we're just… getting to know…. Each other.." Aqua chuckled and reached her hand out to help him up. Peter chuckled back, almost mockingly, and accepted her hand. Aqua patted him on the back as they moved off the mat, Peter clearly more sore than she was.

Yup, getting to know each other. Can't wait to learn more.