Chapter 2, nuff said.

However, one thing I want to clear up: In this AU, Natasha didn't betray Tony in Civil War.

Also, I hid a reference to a HISHE somewhere in this chapter. Go see if you can find it! I may have not copied it word for word, but it's pretty obvious if you've seen said HISHE.

Real talk, has anyone played Among Us? It has completely immersed me, it's so good. Anyway, nobody cares about the author's life, they want a story! Here we go-

Peter P.O.V

I've been having panic attacks for a while, so I know how to effectively hide them from everyone else. Aunt May and Mr. Stark don't need to be burdened with all this, they're so busy all the time.

At first, it was harder, the going to bed at 2 AM and waking up to, "go to the bathroom", but I can sleep better than I did before, and I don't mess up with projects I work on with Mr. Stark when a panic attack randomly occurs.

After FAINTING in front of the WAKANDAN KING AND PRINCESS (I'm so embarrassed), I started working on some new Widow Bites for Ms. Romanoff with Mr. Stark.

But of course, the peace couldn't last.

The elevator quietly dinged and King T'Challa and Princess Shuri stepped out. I internally furrowed my eyebrows, What is going on, I thought they left? Something isn't right...

Mr. Stark walked out of the office next to the lab. "T'Challa, Shuri, what's going on?"

The King responded, in a low voice, "Tony, I am sorry for the short notice, but Wakanda has been attacked, we recieved a transmission. Our plane has been sabotaged as well. The tech is not Wakandan, but from what we heard, it is much more dangerous than our strongest weapons. We were hoping you could help. "

I was instantly on alert, and Mr. Stark seemed to be too. "How could it be stronger than a Wakandan weapon? I thought those were the strongest out there. "

"So did we. Ramonda said that a... thing flew down from the sky and rained hell on my country."

I remained silent, but I was piecing together who this could be, and with this knowledge, came a panic attack. Stupid enhanced senses.

I quickly scrambled to my work station and started doing something.

It started like it always did. Back at the apartment with May. I was staring at my suit in the closet. She was at the doorway to my room. She said, as kindly as humanly possible, "You're not brave enough, sweetheart."

"I know this isn't real!"

"Do you, though?"

My hammer came down on a nail in a board.

I was back on that building, after the ferry incident. My body felt like it was splitting apart from all the force of the ferry splitting in half.

Iron Man was next to me, he mask retracted. "You're not good enough." he coldly spat.

Hammer hit the nail.

Then, I was under that warehouse again. That goddamn warehouse. I couldn't breathe. The weight was too much.

Vulture stood there, his mask in his hand and his wings on his back. "You're not strong enough."

Hammer hits the nail.

And then... I was transported back to that stupid fucking night. The worst night of my life.

I was kneeling down on the sidewalk, in front of a burning building. Looking down at my Uncle's body.

His eyes remained lifeless, but his mouth moved. "You had the power to stop this from happening, I could have been living my life. But you were selfish, just a stupid little kid! I died because of YOU!"

All the voices blended together, and the hammer raised above the nail...

And missed.

I bent slightly down and caught my breath.

The Vulture combined with Ben's death, Tony's scolding, and my sudden hesitation to be Spider-Man all came together to create panic attacks. I'd been experiencing them for the past few months, and I knew, if I went to stop the Vulture, they would only get worse. But I was the one with the most knowledge about him, his motivations, his tactics, and his threat level.

I'll deal with that later, though. For now, I had to tell Mr. Stark.

Tony P.O.V

I was worried about all of this.

Wakandan weapons were the most powerful in the world, powered by Vibranium. I couldn't think of a single thing more powerful than something Wakandan-made.

Peter called out, in a small voice, "Mr. Stark?" and started moving his way towards me.

I quickly said, "Peter, not now, I'm busy-"

But he cut me off. And thank god he did. "I know who these weapons belong to. Adrian Toomes."

I froze. The Vulture had always been a sore thumb between us, and I couldn't bring myself to talk about it to him.

T'Challa and Shuri were looking on in confusion. I couldn't blame them, the supposedly soundproofed room still couldn't stop their conversation from reaching a teenage intern's ears? We both approached the issue at the same time.

"Must have been a bug, I'll-"

"I'm Spider-Man!-"

We both abruptly stopped. He blushed, I groaned.

How does he keep his identity secret? I'll never know.

T'Challa was looking like he was about to either laugh his royal ass off, or reprimand me for taking a teenager to a fight over something that didn't concern him.

Shuri was gaping.

Obviously, they were both surprised, but before either of them said anything, I bellowed, "HOLD THE QUESTIONS!"

Then I confronted Peter. "Are you sure it's him Pete? I thought you beat him..."

"He could have gotten out, legally or illegal. Also, he has ties to weapons that potentially COULD cause more damage than a Wakandan weapon. The thing that bombed Wakanda was said to be flying. And besides, don't you know, whenever you imprison your enemies, they just escape and vow revenge?"

Hot damn, I had really underestimated the Vulture situation. "Alright, we got our man. Now we just need to find him and stop him, and also his associates."

I glanced back at the Wakandan representatives. T'Challa looked calm, but Shuri looked like she wanted to ask a billion questions to Peter within the next 10 minutes.

I thought Peter deserved a little comeuppance after pulling that stunt, so I let her ask her questions to Pete.

She was surprisingly respectful and slow while asking her questions, though she looked and sounded eager. He answered each one with the exact same speed and tone.

These 2 were destined to meet.

A.N. pLeAsE RNR, follow and fav I have self esteem issues and I need cOnTeNt ok done advertising the review button bye