Chapter Three:
"Hello Midtown High!" an intern named Andrea said as she walked into the lobby, "I'm Andrea an intern here at Stark Industries and I'm going to be your tour guide today."
"Oh no." Peter muttered to Ned. Andrea was one of the lower interns that Peter is over.
"Ha!" MJ snickered at him.
"Oh! Mister Stark, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that this was your tour. I thought I was given the Midtown High tour." Andrea said as she noticed Peter.
His classmates started looking around for Tony, murmuring to themselves about who Andrea could be talking to since they didn't see Tony Stark around them anywhere. Andrea was just staring at Peter, her eyes unwavering a smirk slightly appearing on her lips.
She knows exactly what she's doing. Peter thought to himself as everyone around him kept looking and murmuring to each other about what was going on and how they were confused.
"Peter, sir?" Andrea said pointedly as Peter attempted very hard to ignore here. But, of course nothing got by his classmates who then turned and stared at him, each of them going mute almost immediately silent.
"Say something!" Ned whispered as he jabbed Peter in his side with an elbow.
"Uhhh…" Peter said intelligently.
"No, thanks Andrea. Young Mister Stark here is attending the tour as this is our school's field trip." MJ said, stepping up and taking on her no-nonsense persona that was used specifically for SI—a…nicer version of her actual self.
"Oh, of course, my bad Miss Jones."
"No worries at all, Andrea. Continue with the tour." Peter said.
"Yes, absolutely Mister Stark." Andrea nodded and got right to it, "Alright everyone! First things first, lets check your badges! For those of you who have internships here such as Ned and MJ you won't have to worry about it as you should already know the spiel."
"Wait, Miss Andrea, did you just call Peter Parker…uhhh…a Stark." Flash demanded.
"Yes, young man I did. Why do you ask?"
"Because Penis Parker isn't a Stark! He's a nobody!"
"I'm sorry, what did you just call him?" Andrea asked tightly at the same time as Miss Zwick said, "Eugene! You need to mind your language and how you talk to your peers! If you cannot control yourself, you will sit in the bus with the bus driver until you can."
Andrea seemed pacified by that and decided to continue with her tour. "As I was saying we will be talking about your badges. Everyone here that has a visitor's badge has the level one which is coded with the color black. There are different levels of course, gold being the highest reserved for the Starks, the Avengers, and select interns as well. The ones in between the black and gold levels are as follows: green, blue, and red. They go in that order as well.
"Moving on to the first floor of our tour, we will be visiting the Hall of Elders as Tony Stark himself named it. It's a floor full of Tony's old inventions to include the old arc reactor that inspired him to create the small one that saved his life after being kidnapped and held against his will while fighting to keep the shrapnel from entering his heart. Any questions?" Andrea asked with a smile as she stopped at the entrance to the Hall of Elders.
Abigail raised her hand, "Why is it called the Hall of Elders?"
"Ahhh, that is a good question! Tony Stark said it was because the older inventions were basically dinosaurs and thus were elderly in comparison to others. If there are no other questions you guys can go ahead and feel free to split up and meet back in about 30 minutes so that we can move onto our next stop."
"Let's go this way." MJ said tugging on Peter and Ned's arms and pulling them towards a section called "Howard and his Harem". Where they went to look at the old flying car that Howard Stark had created and had gotten to work back in Captain America's day.
"Peter can you believe that your family is this awesome?!" Ned gushed.
"First of all, Ned you literally see them almost every single day and you eat breakfast with them on the weekends. What even, bruh?" MJ said with a roll of her eyes.
"Shut up, Michelle." Ned grumbled as he folded his arms defensively.
"You're just mad that she's right." Peter laughed.
"You're not wrong." Ned conceded but continued to look around at all the things around on the walls.
They continued to look at the exhibits for next few minutes in order to take in all the history and the amazingness that was the Stark family. Ned spent most of his time gushing about the inventions that decorated the halls and that went up to the ceiling. Mostly getting overwhelmed with the technically inclined Starks and how Peter was clearly about to start following in his grandfather's and father's footsteps. Peter on the other hand started to feel overwhelmed and was sharing looks with MJ. He was honestly just happy that Flash hadn't been with them and that his Aunts and Uncles haven't come out of the woodwork to bother him in the last 35 minutes.
"Shoot! Guys, we've got to go to the meeting place!" Peter said as he started to run to there without them.
"Slow down, Penis Parker!" Flash shouted as he watched Peter fly towards the group. Flash then stuck his leg out as Peter rolled his eyes at Flash as he started coming to a complete stop. Peter having not seen this coming until the last second had to take the deal that was dealt to him and with a deep breath he tripped over Flash's leg. He was fortunate enough to turn it into a stumble versus falling fully onto the ground and thus embarrassing himself even more.
"Walk much?" Flash snickered at Peter as he attempted to regain his balance. "Also, how did you get our tour guide to call you 'Mister Stark' instead of your real name? Did you pay her off? Solicit her in some other fashion?"
Peter tried hard to ignore Flash as much as he could.
"Oh! I'm sure that you sold your body for sex, huh?"
"Shut up, Flash!" Peter shouted, bringing attention to them and their conversation.
"Excuse me, Penis?!" Flash growled as he approached Peter threateningly…once again. "Say it to my face you little bitch."
"Shut. Up." Peter said, staring him down fiercely.
Flash swung and hit Peter across the face with a right hook…or at least would have had Peter not dodged it in time and blocked him from attacking again.
Just then Miss Zwick walked up to the boys and said, "Is there a problem here, boys?"
"Not at all, Miss Z." Flash said and then backed away from Peter glaring at him and miming punching Peter's face in.
Having walked at a normal pace and not freaked out about returning to the group Ned and MJ watched the ending of the debacle with Flash. Ned looked concerned and shocked that Flash would try something like this in the presence of not only their teacher but also the tour guide of Stark Industries (WHERE THERE ARE SECURITY CAMERAS EVERY FIVE FEET). Ned took a deep breath to try and calm himself down.
MJ on the other hand looked like she was about to go fight Flash herself (and she would win—nobody including Flash doubted that) but instead steeled herself and after taking a deep breath she walked to Peter and grabbed his hand in solidarity.
"Thanks, babe." Peter whispered to her.
"Shush, moron." MJ rolled her eyes at him but nudged him with her shoulder, causing Peter to smile a little bit at her. Ned soon joined them and shortly after the tour was on the move again.
"We're about to go up to the labs now. In order to ensure your safety and the safety of those working in the labs do not touch anything! If you touch anything you will be asked to leave immediately. Obviously this should go without saying, but there is one exception to this rule; if you are an intern here at Stark Industries you're allowed—given that you have the correct level of access—to assist if required. Now please follow me and we'll get everyone situated with some PPE for everyone to remain safe in the labs as well. For those of you that don't know, PPE stands for Personal Protection Equipment. Which is basically just goggles, gloves, and sometimes a jacket. For you all though we will be wearing goggles and gloves. Take one paid each." Andrea said as they all arrived at the entrance to the lab 4 floors above where they were previously.
After putting on the gloves and goggles everyone filed into the lab where they came face to face with none other than Mister Anthony Edward Stark himself. And Peter knew that this was going to be a fun lesson for the whole class to endure. And if Andrea had already (as Peter suspects) gotten a hold of the rest of the interns and they then in turn got ahold of his parents what was about to happen wasn't going to go very well…for Flash. Or him, really.