"Match confirmed. Welcome Boss," Friday chimes as the lab door opens.

"Yes!" I whispered loudly as I grab Morgan's hand and quickly enter the lab. I make sure the door is locked behind us as we get down the stairs as quickly as possible.

I look around the lab and head straight for Tony's desk.

Morgan pulls me back, "We're not supposed to go over there unless Daddy's here and he's not here."

I look at her for the first time since the closet and I realize how scared she really was, "Hey Morgan it's gonna be alright. I'm just going to go over there to see if there's anything that can help us get out of here and help Peter and Harley. Ok?"

She nods and I climb over there. First, I went over to his computer.

"Friday, can you pull up security footage?"

"Sure thing, Boss. Showing security footage," she responds. She really didn't know I wasn't Tony.

I look over at Morgan, "Close your eyes kid."

She nods and I look at the screen. Harley was unconscious by the floor but Peter was still fighting. Or attempting too. There were multiple guys going at him. Suddenly I see Peter punch a guy and the man goes flying back. Peter's a skinny seventeen year old, how is he able to hit that guy so hard? He then does a backflip and I realize he's wearing a mask. My eyes bug out and my draw drops. Admittedly I don't have time to comprehend that so I think I'm gonna focus on helping him.

I search through Tony's draws for something that might be useful. For a guy with three kids, he does not put good enough locks on the drawers. In a drawer that most of its contents were covered in dust, I pull out a prescription bottle. I turn it around and I find out it's nitroglycerin. Why would Tony have nitroglycerin?

Again I don't have time to think because I hear Peter groan. I take the pills and start grinding them up.

"Morgan, do you play dough down here?"

She nods.

"Can you give me the containers? Empty please."

She rushes off to empty her play dough as I continue grinding the pills and looking for string.

Once she gives me the containers I make small holes in the top and thread a piece of twine through them with a not on the end so it stays inside. Then I put the powder in the four different containers and seal them with duct tape.

Just as I finished we heard pounding on the door. I grab the bombs and some matches.

I look at Morgan, "Is there another way to get to the kitchen from here?"

She nods and she runs while I jump over to the staircase. I decided to ditch the crutch, it would only slow me down.

We reach a door hidden behind some shelves.

"Stay hidden and don't make a sound. Okay?"

She nods and I slowly open the door. I could see Peter growing tired but he was still fighting. Over to the side I saw Harley just as he was waking up. He gave me a confused look and I raised a play dough container and a match. I waved for him to get to safety. He seemed to get the gist because he ducked behind the island. I lit a match and threw it into the room. If Peter is who I think he is, he should be fine.

"Morgan get ready to run," I say just as we hear a loud BOOM!

I grab her arm and yank open the door. The kitchen was practically destroyed. All the furniture was broken and scattered everywhere. All the men were unconscious. I could hear the footsteps of the others coming down the hall.

"Harley!" I call and then I see him push some rubble off of him.

"Fine. Where's Peter?"

We hear a groan and Harley rushes to release him. Peter stands up, obviously a little wobbly and sore but mostly okay.

Peter looked at me, "You made a bomb?!"

"They're trying to kill us!"

"Not that you two aren't having a lovely conversation but we gotta go. How many more of those do you have?"

"Three."

"Give em here. Peter go start the car. I'll meet you guys."

We nod as we race towards one of Tony's cars, Peter carrying Morgan who was really freaked out.

When we get there Peter exclaims, "We don't have the keys!"

"Don't need them," I say as I quickly pick the door lock and then begin hotwiring the car. Peter puts Morgan in the back seat and slides into the passenger seat. We see Harley come running out of the house.

"We need to go right now," he says as I hop out of the way into the back seat. He throws the car in reverse and we speed off. Ihea BOOM! In the background and turn to see smoke coming out of the windows.

"Where did you put the bombs?"

"By the hallway and garage entrances," Harley said as he drove.

Peter looked back at me, "Where did you learn to make bombs?!"

"Where did you learn to be Spiderman?," I shoot back.

Peter's jaw drops and he's about to retort but Morgan decides to chime in, "Where are we going?"

Harley shakes his head, "I don't know. The compound?"

Peter shakes his head, "No ones there. They're on a mission. Plus Friday's hacked so she could just tell the people where we are. That means we should avoid cameras and phones and probably the car."

"May's?"

Peter shakes his head again, "I don't want them follow us."

Harley slams his hands on the steering wheel frustrated, "Okay. We can't contact anyone because that'll tip the bad guys off. We can't hide anywhere because every superhero we know isn't in town at the moment and we have no idea where Tony is and again we can't call him because most likely the bad guys will get to us first. Have I covered everything?"

We all nod.

He sighs, "Anyone have any other ideas?"

I hesitate, "I know a place we could hide and someone who could help us contact Tony."

Peter turns around, "Really?"

I nod, "But we're gonna have to ditch the car and walk a little bit."

"Done," Harley says as we continue to drive into the city.

We drove for about an hour before we found some place to ditch the car. Morgan and Peter had both fallen asleep. Peter was healing slowly and Morgan was just freaked out so Harley and I are pretty glad that the car ride is silent. Both of them talk a lot when they're freaked out. It at least gave me time to think but it didn't really help with the throbbing in my leg.

Harley pulled over and he gently shook Peter awake. I did the same to Morgan.

We all climbed out and Harley picked up Morgan while I leaned on Peter for support.

They looked at me, "Where to?"

I gesture towards my left, "This way. It's a bit of a walk from here. You guys ready?"

They nod and we began to walk.

After sometime we arrive in my old neighborhood in the Lower East Side. Unsurprisingly, the streets were still pretty crowded even though it was close to midnight.

Peter looked around, "This is where you used to live?"

I nod, "Before the snap. On and off ever since. Come on."

We walk down the street and I bow my head passing certain shops. I couldn't risk be recognized right now. We eventually came to an old building outside the busier areas of the neighborhood.

I point, "Through here."

I limb away from Peter and lift up part of the fence that I had broken years ago.

Peter looks wary but eventually both climb through and I limb through closing the gate behind us.

I gesture for them to follow me.

We walk towards the side of the building that had the fire escape.

"Peter, do you mind jumping up and pulling the ladder down?"

He nods and jumps and the later comes down.

I look up at the ladder and sigh. It's gonna be harder climbing up because I can't bend my knee. Great.

After slowly making our way up the ladder we climb the stairs until we were by a window near the top of the building. I tug it open and gently step in.

"We'll be safe here," I say as they climbed through the window. I couldn't help but smile as I look around. The place hadn't changed. This top floor was a huge loft that had a rickety old staircase at the edge of it.

"Harley if you walk to the other side there should be a circuit box. Can you hit the switch?"

He nods as he lays Morgan down on some blankets.

Peter looked at me confused, "They still power the building?"

I shrug, "The landlord was nice enough to keep the power on when we asked. He was an old friend of my mom's."

At that moment the lights flicked on. On the walls were maybe hundreds of paintings I had done over the years. The quality of my drawings have definitely gotten better over the years. On one corner across from us the name "Carmen" was spray painted it had books and papers scattered about. In the other corner the name "Dani" was spray painted. There were notebooks and a guitar in that corner. In the corner we were in now the name "Jarvis" was spray painted.

Harley came back over and collapsed on some blankets, "I never thought babysitting would be so hard."

"Agreed," Peter said with his eyes closed already.

"We should probably think of a plan but I'm too tired to think of something. We can do that in the morning," Harley says as he starts to drift off.

I glance over at Peter and see that he's knocked out too. Tomorrow is going to be a long day.


"...and that is how we will help improve Stark Industries," he finished up with a satisfied smile on his face.

I sighed in relief. We had been in a meeting most of the evening and I'm pretty pissed that we missed bedtime with Morgan and spending the evening with the boys since Peter and Harley leave tomorrow morning.

Pepper and I got up and shook the gentlemen's hands and walked them out of the conference room.

"Finally! Pep they took forever," I say dramatically as I collapse in a chair.

She rolled her eyes, "You're being dramatic. Do you think the kids are asleep?"

I smirk, "Probably not. They were waiting for us to come home so they could prank me. I heard the boys talking about it last night."

She raises an eyebrow, "And you were just going to let that happen?"

"Of course not," I say with a scoff.

We both laugh as I say, "Friday pull up the footage of the house please."

"That is unavailable.

I sit up confused, "Friday ignore whatever command the kids gave you. Pull up the footage of the house."

"That is unavailable."

"Tony?" Pepper asks concerned.

I had a sinking feeling in my stomach, "Friday pull up your access logs."

"Restarting in 30 seconds," she responds.

"Override 81001!"

"Access denied." The room starts to glow red.

"Sugar Honey Iced Tea!" I say as I grab my phone and start accessing Friday's program. I internally roll my eyes. I somehow always manage to curse around Morgan but filter myself everywhere else.

"Tony what's going on ?!" Pepper asks me alarmed.

"Friday's been hacked and I'm trying to undo their fail safe so she doesn't restart her data."

"Tony…"

"One sec," I say.

Suddenly the room turns back to its original color and I sigh a sigh of relief.

"I managed to shut her down until I can figure out exactly what they did."

"Good. We need to get home," she says with a dead serious look on her face. The worry is laced into her voice.

I nod and grab my keys as we sprint out of the room.

We drive back to the house in silence praying our worst fears aren't going to be confirmed.

When we arrived I felt my heart stop. All the lights were off and there was a smile on the lawn outside. The house itself looked like parts of it had been blown up. The overall structure was the same but all the glass had been blown through and they could see the inside of the kitchen from outside. We could also see other major damage on the walls.

"Oh my god," Pepper said before she ran inside.

"Morgan! Peter! Harley! AJ!" she screamed as she ran around the house.

I stayed outside knowing deep down they weren't here. I noticed several different sets of tire tracks and that my car was gone.

Pepper comes back outside the tears already pouring down her face, "Tony. They're gone."

I swallowed trying to keep my panic at bay because I know Pepper would completely lose it if I did.

"I know," I say as I pull her into a hug.

With my other hand I tap my glances so they were on but nothing was on because I couldn't use Friday anymore.

"Activate YINSEN."

I wait for YINSEN to load and Pepper turns to me, "YINSEN?"

I nod, "Yes It's New Intelligence Established Now. I made it a while ago when I was in that armor phase. He's updating."

Yinsen interrupted us, "How can I help you Tony?"

"Hack into the security cameras and show us what happened here."

A light emitted from my glasses and Yinsen showed us all the images he could conjure up. We saw two strange men enter the house. Peter and Harley start to fight and then more enter. Harley gets knocked unconscious. Another sneaks upstairs to go after AJ and Morgan. Peter struggle to hold his own against the others who must be enhanced. Suddenly there was a bomb that blew up the kitchen and we see AJ and Morgan enter the seen. They wake up Harley and Peter and run towards the car with Peter. Harley takes two bombs from AJ and lights them as he runs out of the house. They get in the car and speed away.

I sigh, "At least they're alive."

Pepper nods, "But where would they go? Do you think they realized something was wrong with Friday?"

I nod, "Yeah. That's why they didn't call us. They wouldn't go somewhere where Friday could access. Probably not to May's since Peter wouldn't put her in danger."

"So where?"

I shrug, "I don't know and it's probably best we don't until we know what's going on. We should head to the compound we're there's tech and allies we could use. They should be back at the compound soon."

Pepper nods and lets out a shaky breath, "Tony I'm scared."

"Me too but at least they have each other."

I pull her into a hug and tried to block out the panic that was settling on my chest.