Chapter 5

When the class were back in the elevator, Emma announced their next stop on the tour. "Next up is our brand new Avengers Museum! This has not been unveiled to the public, so this is a real treat! You are getting a sneak peak before we announce it next week." This got the whole class excited as Superhero popularity continued to rise daily ever since the attack on New York in 2012, so they were looking forward to finding out more about their favourite heroes.

When they arrived on the correct floor the class practically ran out of the doors, all eager to see the new museum. They were stopped by Emma before they could get too far though. "Right everyone, I know you're excited, so I'm not going to force you to take a guided tour with me. You will have one hour to look around, but you are not to leave this floor. You'll all meet me back here when your time is up."

With that the room descended into chaos with all of the students running off to find the exhibit for their favourite Avenger. Ned grabbed Peter's arm and ran off to the Spider-man exhibit while Peter groaned and tried to drag his feet. He thought it was stupid looking at a case dedicated to him, especially when his friend already knew everything that would be included, but Ned's enthusiasm couldn't be stopped. Harley and MJ simply laughed at Peter's reluctance.

"Woah dude look it's got different Spidey-suits in here!" Ned exclaimed when they reached the case.

"Ned you have literally worked on several of the suits with me!" Peter hissed at his best friend, hoping to calm him down.

Unfortunately this had the opposite effect. "Oh my god! There's stuff that I've worked on in the Avengers Museum! This is so cool man! Look it even has a bit about Spider-man's 'Guy in the chair'! That's Me! Peter I'm in the museum!" Ned's voice was getting squeakier the more he went on, but luckily he was smart enough to keep his voice down.

Peter just rolled his eyes and told his friend that he'd insisted on that inclusion for Ned. This just resulted in more excited squeals from said friend.

Peter wandered off to other exhibits in the room, not wanting to seem rude and completely disinterested. Besides, he hadn't seen all of the complete cases and displays; even though it all contained information he already knew about his family, it was nice to see how it had all been arranged and come together. Also it was fun seeing the evolution of different suits and how advances in one person's suit could influence changes in someone else's. He listened to some of the audio snippets his family had recorded, detailing bits of past missions or interesting facts about themselves. He especially enjoyed the times when you could hear his family arguing with each other in the background, such as when Clint was complaining that he didn't "like this idea, Tony! I don't wanna sound stupid on repeat in your museum for hours every day!" Peter knew Tony would've kept that in especially to annoy Clint. He liked that it gave others a chance to see that the Avengers really were a family, albeit a dysfunctional and weird one, not just some random ragtag group of heroes who were forced to work together.

He watched his classmates moving around the room, mainly choosing to head to whatever Avenger's area had just been evacuated by a large group, so he wouldn't have to hear anyone fawning over his family or discussing how 'hot' any of them were.

It was only when Peter was heading back over to his little group of friends that he passed his, or rather Spider-man's exhibit once again. Flash was stood there staring at the display case like it held the answers of the universe. Peter noticed that his friends were stood close enough to eavesdrop and moved over to see what they were up to.

"Dude, you've got to hear this! Flash has been waxing poetic about how incredible Spider-man is. It's hilarious! You should so tell him that it's you man!" Ned greeted Peter in a laughing whisper.

Just then Flash spoke up to his large group of friends. "Look, it says here that one of his first acts of heroism was helping a little old lady across a street and she then gave him a churro. How cool is that?!" Flash's friends looked sceptical but knew better than to disagree with him. "And then look his first real bad guy was called the Vulture. I remember seeing about that fight in the news, it was the same night as our homecoming dance! I bet it was so cool!" Just then he noticed Peter and Co lurking near by.

"Hey Penis! You missed homecoming right? Were you sulking that you couldn't get a date? I bet you were doing something lame like watching musicals and eating ice cream with your aunt."

If only he knew, Peter thought. Instead, he simply retorted with "I was there with Liz actually. Can't say I was paying attention to where you were, but then again I'm not obsessed with you, like you seem to be with me." Peter motioned for at least Harley to follow him and headed off towards the elevators, since their hour was nearly up. Flash just spluttered behind them but couldn't come up with a retort in time. Then he went back to gushing about how amazing Spider-man was.

"That guy is like actually obsessed with you darlin'," Harley laughed. "Proper fanboying over there, seriously!"

"It would totally ruin his day to find out that he's been insulting his favourite hero all this time!" MJ replied.

"You should totally tell him Peter!" Ned chimed in. Peter just shook his head with his face in his hands.

"Just make sure that when you let him know I'm there with my sketchbook or at least a camera. I could fill a whole book with the look that'll be on his face." MJ actually laughed for once!

Luckily before Peter's friends could go any further in their plans to ruin Flash's day (not that he didn't deserve it!) Emma came over to them to speak to Harley and Peter. "Hey guys, the next part of the tour is supposed to go to another one of the labs but hardly anyone is in there at the moment and I was wondering if maybe we could go to either one of your private labs, or maybe your joint one?" She asked with a hopeful smile.

Harley and Peter looked to each other in sync and said, "Not it!" before laughing.

"Guess it's the joint one then." Harley said. Peter nodded along with him.

"Not sure what state its in though, maybe we should have someone check that it's all clear before everyone goes in." Peter said, not to anyone in particular; he was more trying to remember what was the last thing he and Harley had been working on in there. Neither of them could do serious, official SI work in there because they got too distracted working together and more often than not ended up making out on the sofa or against one of the numerous lab tables in there. They mainly worked on their suits and fun experiments in the shared lab, so if they forgot about it for a while, it wouldn't negatively affect the company. If they had anything that required complete focus, they would retreat into their separate labs; they wouldn't disturb the other whilst they were in there, unless they spent too long without nourishment or sleep.

"Well, why don't you two go on up and sort things out, maybe pull up a couple of your projects or experiments and we will join you in say, ten minutes? If you need longer just get Friday to let me know." Emma smiled brightly, glad that she would have something more interesting to show the class, so that she could prove to Mr Stark that she could do her job well, and that appointing her as SI's first tour guide was the right choice.

Both boys agreed and Harley grabbed Peter's hand to pull him onto the Elevator.