"Is everything here just an illusion by Beck?" Steve wondered.
"I doubt most of it is, but anything to do with Mysterio, probably." Strange agreed.
"He was a hero though? We saw him save lives!" Abe protested.
"He saved us in Prague!" Betty said, turning to Ned. "Him and Night Monkey! He saved us in London too, didn't he?"
"He was causing all of it." Ned told her, shaking his head.
"What's a Night Monkey?" Quill asked.
"He's this hero in Europe!" Flash said excitedly.
The next morning, Ned is being cared for by Betty before he speaks to Peter, Ned tells him being knocked out by Nick Fury is the coolest thing to ever happen to him, Peter says he's happy to not go to Prague as Mr Harrington tells them that the tour company upgraded them and they're going to Prague, introducing their coach driver, one of Fury's team.
"Fuck whoever is pretending to be Fury." Tony snarled.
"So they're just going along with this, not questioning the sudden upgrade at all?" Hope asked.
"Hang on, is that Roger Harrington?" Bruce asked.
"Do you know him?" The Midtown alumni all asked.
"He used to let me into the computer lab, back when I first became Hulk, he was at college at the time." Bruce said. "He's a good guy."
"Peter doesn't have anything go the way he wants, does he?" Nebula asked. "Feel a bit sorry for the kid."
As they drove through Austria, Flash bragging it was a private driver as Dimitri shook his head, Peter checked out the glasses from Tony, reading the note Tony had left him, telling him for the next Tony Stark, he trusted Peter. Putting them on, the system loaded up, identifying itself as E.D.I.T.H.
"Wow, that's very advanced tech." Spider-Man 2 noted.
"IT IS IMPRESSIVE, WE SHALL KEEP THIS ONE ALIVE FOR TECHNOLOGY." Venom told Eddie who just shook his head at this point at the threats to eat people. He knew Venom clearly didn't really mean it with the people in the room, they'd grown to like them in the last few recordings they'd seen.
"I want to know what it can do." Rocket grinned.
E.D.I.T.H told Peter he now had access to all of Tony's protocols, and it stood for "Even Dead, I'm The Hero." before it explained how he now had access to all Stark Industries weapons systems, satellite programs and access to read all texts and see all phone usage whenever and from whoever, which he looked around the bus on, scrunching his face at Ned and Betty texting that they missed each other when sat next to each other.
"How could you give that to a kid? Do you know what good could be done with all of that in the hands of the military?" Rhodey asked Tony, who stared at him.
"I do know what good could be done, sure, but I remember the Mandarin, I remember Hydra. I know what could be done by those in government with bad intentions." Tony said. "The kid's good, his head and heart are so firmly pointing North its unreal, if anyone could use it responsibly, it's Peter." Tony insisted.
"That kind of tech shouldn't exist, it's too dangerous." Natasha said, steel in her voice as Clint nodded. They knew what kinds of danger were out there, better than most of the room even, what kinds of madmen would do anything to possess that.
"That's his angle." Scott spoke up as everyone turned to him. "This thing has access to everything Stark Industries? Beck used to work for you? He wants E.D.I.T.H, he wants Peter to somehow give it to him, the Elementals? I bet it's designed to make Peter believe they're best with Beck."
"Son of a bitch, I think Thumbelina is onto something." Tony shook his head.
"Good catch Tic Tac." Sam congratulated his friend.
"Well we don't know that for sure yet." Bucky spoke up. "But yeah, it looks likely."
"Humans really want to use this level of tech against each other?" Ikaris asked Phastos, who glared at him for a moment before sighing.
"Why do you think I walked away from them for seventy years? I told Ajax, when they used the bomb on Hiroshima, that Druig was right, that they didn't deserve to be saved. I realised how wrong that is now, but yeah, humans at their core can be cruel to one another. This level of technology, of course they'd use it if they could."
"I know it's been said, but we can't let something with that capability exist, Tony." Steve spoke up. "You remember Hydra, so you know its too dangerous. When we get back, please, before we go, shut it down."
Tony said nothing as they all turned back to the screen.
The bus pulled into a stop for a fifteen minute break as Dimitri grabbed Peter and pointed out a woman in the distance waiting for him, going with her, she told him to strip and put on a stealth suit that Fury had provided.
"Are you alright, MJ?" Betty teased as she could see the fire in her friends eyes at this woman watching Peter start to strip.
"Damn, fake Fury at least puts the effort in to keep up the appearance that he is Fury at least." Clint stated. "This is exactly the kind of thing Fury would do. Beck's good at his research, I'll give him that."
Before he could change into it, Brad walked in, stating that he had to go after snapping a photo, Peter raced after him before Brad said that he also liked MJ and had to show her the picture of Peter changing in front of a woman to her, to torpedo Peter's chances.
"Why would I ever be into a jerk like that? I'm sure Peter would have had his reasons, if he wasn't into me." MJ flushed as Betty grinned.
"So, when do you think you'll end up with Peter?" Betty asked her.
"I hope I don't." MJ said bluntly to her.
"What, why?! Clearly you're into him and he's into you!" Betty protested.
"I forgot all about him. Why? What was so bad I had to forget him with a wizards spell? He could be dead for all we know, back where we're from. I don't want to get hurt, and I don't want to hurt him." MJ explained.
Peter brought out E.D.I.T.H to try get her to deal with the photo Brad had of him, E.D.I.T.H asked Peter if Brad was a target, after he said so, E.D.I.T.H stated she was launching a kill vehicle, as Peter began to panic.
"This is why you can't leave dangerous technology in the hands of just anybody, Tony!" Bruce pinched his nose. "We all know Peter wouldn't have set murder bots on another kid if he'd known anything about how this E.D.I.T.H worked at all. You gotta shut it down when you get back, you can't let this kind of technology exist."
"I hear you, I do. But I can't, I can't just leave the kid with nothing." Tony said, defeated.
"He won't have nothing. He will have all of us to back him up." Strange told Tony with a strangely warm smile.
Flash grabbed the glasses and asked Peter how much they cost, in a hurry, Peter accidentally slapped Flash, knocking him out and taking the glasses back.
"I guess I kinda deserved that." Flash admitted, rubbing his head. He had wondered how he had injured himself on that trip, he recalled being unconscious for a time, and a searing pain, but he had no idea how it had happened. There was one small mystery explained at least.
As he tried to call off the drone strike, everyone began to ask if Peter had knocked Flash out, distracting them with a fake baby goats sighting, everyone turned as Peter leaped out of the bus, used his webs to destroy the drone and landed back in.
"How close did we all just come to dying?" Betty asked, her eyes wide as they took in the sight.
"Well fortunately Peter was there to save the day." Ned smiled.
"Yeah, but he did also cause it." Betty said, eyes dropping at the glares she received. "I'm not saying it was on purpose, but I mean, I'm sure he'd agree with me!"
"Sadly, I think he would." Happy frowned.
Betty complimented him on his new hairdo, the wind having swept it, as Peter sat back down and got E.D.I.T.H to delete the photo, as Flash sat back up, wincing in pain.
"So, gonna try learn it properly with no instructions? This will be fun." Yelena grinned.
"At least I'm conscious again." Flash muttered.
"It does look pretty good on him." Hope noted as Scott narrowed his eyes jokingly.
"Do I have to show him who the better bug is?"
"Spiders are arachnids, not bugs!" Spider-Man 3 chimed in as everyone laughed at Scott. Peter-2 nodded to Peter-3, who smiled back at him, a warm feeling in his chest.
"At least for now, it's not too bad, I'm just worried about what will happen when they have to deal with Beck again." Natasha frowned, bringing down the mood again.