"So, who thinks Peter will ask MJ out and who thinks he won't out of some stupid noble reason?" Cindy asked.

"Definitely won't." MJ said. She couldn't have forgotten a boyfriend, could she?

"Definitely towards the end." The rest of them chorused.

"He's not going to ask me out, I mean, why would he anyway? Does he think I'm pretty and therefore have value?" MJ asked, frowning as she finished. Why did that feel so familiar?

The screen turned to night as May spoke to a crowd for a homeless fundraiser, stating when she blipped back and found her apartment was now taken, the wife who lived there thought she was the husbands mistress, the mother thought she was a ghost, and thanking Spider-Man for being there tonight for the fundraiser.

"May..." Happy whispered, a slight smile on his face as he looked at her. This, this is where they were happiest, together, after the Blip. Even if he hadn't remembered Peter before now, this is where he should be, with him, with her if they could, happy together.

"Are you ok buddy?" Tony asked Happy, who nodded, wiping his eyes. He hadn't even realised he had started to cry.

"I will be, we just need to get back to help Peter." Happy said. "Need to be there for him."

"We will be, somehow, we'll be there for him." Tony assured him. "First, got to work out a way to save the universe without dying and all that when we all get back to 2024."

They went around the back and high-fived as Peter unmasked, talking about how stiff he was and how great May was, beginning to discuss the trip as Happy came back with a giant check from Stark Industries for the fundraiser, the two of them awkwardly flirting as Peter looked between them, asking what was happening.

"Yeah, what is happening?" Sprite looked weirded out.

"Well when two adults love each other, sometimes this happens." Flash laughed.

"You're an insect to me." Sprite shot back, raising an eyebrow as Flash flushed.

"What are you, 12/13?" Tony asked.

"Something like that." Sersi said, putting her hand over Sprite's mouth before she could speak up again.

"Heads up, Nick Fury is calling." Happy said, Peter asked why he was as the phone began to ring with an unknown number. Peter tried to stall as Happy insisted he speak, before Peter declined the call, heading back out to speak to the public, promising to call after his trip. Happy then answered Fury and insisted Spider-Man wasn't ghosting him.

"He sent Fury to voicemail? Does he value his life?" Clint asked with a hint of mirth.

"He's clearly fearless." Natasha smirked.

"Or clueless." Happy shuddered. He hated talking to Fury, even if he had put Fury in his place after all of this was done.

Peter met with the press as they began to bombard him with questions.

"Are you the Head Avenger now?"

"No, I'm not."

"Who would be the new Head Avenger now?" Steve asked. "It's not like we have a command structure."

"I'd assume it's either Clint, Bruce or me." Rhodey stated.

"Makes more sense than anything else really." Betty said. "I'm not sure why they'd think someone who had only just joined and would only be, what, 17 now, would be?"

"Well they don't know he's only 17 do they?" Ned pointed out.

"If Aliens come back, what are you gonna do?"

"You can see him panicking behind that mask. Someone get him out of there." Yelena frowned. She liked this kid, from what she had seen of him, she didn't want him to be panicking like this. She told herself, when this was all over, she'd seek him out, see if she could help him in some way, if she could.

"Does anyone have any neighbourhood questions?"

"They're leeches. I doubt it." Sam snarled, seeing them close even further in on Peter.

"What is it like to take over from Tony Stark? Those are some big shoes to fill."

"He doesn't have to fill my shoes, he's better than I ever was!" Tony protested.

"He's got alot of expectations on his shoulder, they know you were his mentor, and you saved the universe, they'd expect him to match that if needed." Eddie noted as everyone glared at him. "Hey, I get what the kid's done, I'm all for him, but from their point of view, he should be stepping up if you trained him. I'm press, I know how they think, in any universe."

"He doesn't need to do anything more than what he already does, he already steps up enough." Bruce insisted.

"Agreed entirely, he's a true hero." Spider-Man 2 said.

Peter thanked everyone for coming before swinging away, looking at a mural of Iron Man on a nearby rooftop and crying.

"Peter, I'm so sorry." Tony said, hoping that somehow, some way, Peter could hear him. "I'm sorry I'm not there for you, but believe me, I wouldn't do what I'm going to do, what I did, if I didn't know you and the others would be here to carry on the fight afterwards. To give you a life, I'd do it again."

"Nobody blames you, Tony, far from it. He blames himself. I know I probably do." Steve said.

"I know I blame myself for not somehow stopping it." Bruce admitted.

"As do I, Tony. I blame myself for not stopping him, even now." Thor said.

"We're all fucked up, but none of that is on you, Tony." Clint assured him. "Peter clearly blames himself too, and yeah, we'll help him through that, but it isn't your fault, got it, Stark?"

"I hear you Robin Hood." Tony chuckled. "I just wish there was some chance I could tell Peter not to cry at all, I did the right thing and did it for those I love. I wish I could tell him how proud of him I am, and how nothing he could ever do would change that."

Peter ignored his phone as he packed an old suitcase, looking at the Spider-Man costume and turning away from it as May threw a banana at him, remarking how he can sense bullets yet got hit by a banana, asking if his Peter-tingle could sense it. Peter begged her not to name it his Peter-tingle.

"Really? Peter-tingle is so cute though." Betty whined.

"I call it a Spider-sense myself." Spider-Man 3 said, as Spider-Man 2 nodded his agreement.

"So you are both Peter, right?" MJ asked.

"That's classified." Spider-Man 2 said jokingly.

"But seriously, are you?" Kate asked.

"We already answered that we weren't." Spider-Man 3 stated. Spider-Man 2 nodded, let it be a surprise.

Peter told her he really needed a vacation, she said he deserved one but to pack his suit, she had a tingle about it, as he begged her to stop saying the word tingle. Peter then closed his wardrobe and looked at the Iron Spider suit before closing his suitcase, the initials BFP visible on the front.

"Who's BFP?" Ned asked.

"I recall May telling me about him once, Ben Franklin Parker, her husband who was killed, Peter's uncle." Happy said as the mood turned somber.

The scene changed to being on a flight, the teachers discussing chaperoning whilst Flash taunted Peter about planes being like buses for richer people. MJ told the stewardess Flash was only 16 as he blipped, his champagne being confiscated as Brad came past, a lot older than Peter remembered, remarking about classic MJ.

"This guy looks like a tool." Yelena drily remarked.

"God I hope you don't end up with him MJ." Hope told her.

"I don't, I don't recall all of this obviously with Peter missing from most of my memories, but I remember I never even kissed Brad." MJ told them. "Not even sure Brad is into me, just notices me, which I guess is nice." She shrugged.

"Brad definitely was into you." Ned told her. "Didn't he tell you he liked you?"

"I don't recall it." MJ said.

Peter asked about Brad, Ned telling him that all the girls were after Brad as MJ laughed at something Brad said. Peter asked Ned for help getting Peter next to MJ, Ned told Betty he needed her to swap with Peter due to his allergies, causing Mr Harrington to get Betty to sit with Ned, MJ with Brad and Peter to sit at the back with Harrington.

"I'm sorry Peter!" Ned cried, seeing his plan backfire.

"I'm sure Peter didn't blame you for it at all." Cindy smiled.

"I'd say it's a shame Cindy and I were gone and weren't on the trip, but that would have meant we were Blipped too, and that would have been far worse for our families." Abe stated.

"I'm glad you two weren't at least, it would have been worse if we all vanished." Betty told them with a smile.

"I'm just sorry I was such a jerk in high school." Flash frowned. Seeing these videos, seeing the disapproval of the Avengers it drew, it had made him have a long think about himself, and he knew he had to change himself up in some way, to be a better person.

Whilst Peter stewed in the back and tried to figure out a way to get with MJ, Ned and Betty began to talk after ignoring each other to begin with, laughing together after a while.

"Is it love?" Cindy smirked as Betty and Ned flushed.

"I think it is!" Scott joined in with the teasing.

Peter pulled Ned at the end of the flight and spoke about MJ and Brad, Ned told him not to worry as Betty came up to Ned, calling him babe and kissing his cheek.

"So what's all this?" Abe asked, smirking.

"It was only for this week!" Ned protested.

"A summer fling, eh?" Cindy joked.

"I mean, I care for Ned and all, and I know he does for me, but I mean, it wasn't ever going to last. He's a genius off to MIT, and I'm gonna be a world famous reporter one day." Betty told them. "But friends? Definitely."

"Ten bucks they're back together by the time we finish all of this?" Bucky asked Sam.

"You're on." Sam grinned.

Peter asked what happened, Ned explained they were dating now, the plan to be a bachelor was a boy talking, now he was a man with a woman.

"A real move of maturity." MJ blithely stated as Ned and Betty both flushed.

At security, Peter was pulled aside, seeing his Spider-Man suit with a note from May, he began to panic as the security officer just held up a banana and said "This, no." as the scene cut to the main terminal, and a giant screen showing Iron Man on it.

"I guess the entire world loves me even more now?" Tony asked, trying to inject some humour into yet another reminder of his own mortality.

"Like your head needed to get any bigger Tones." Rhodey shot back at him.

"I like how she went for the banana and not the suit." Scott said. "I aspire to have that level of I don't care about anything else in my job as this woman."

"You don't already have that?" Matt asked him. "You seem like the type of person who doesn't care about what others think, Scott."

"Well it's a gift." Scott shrugged.