Author's Note: First order of business, answering questions. A guest asked if I would be doing anything with this and Avengers Age of Ultron when it comes out. Honestly no. Mostly because there is already a lot going on in this story and it revolves around Piper and Spiderman isn't in the main movie cannon. Which I must say is unfortunate. What I'm most likely going to end up doing is using this story as a starting point and doing a full re-write of Ultimate Spiderman the series, I may eventually move on to Web Warriors which I have yet to see. I don't know I'm rolling with the reviews here so request away. Now this note has gone on far too long, I own nothing, enjoy.

9. Family Bonding

Piper barely made it to school that day. It wasn't that surprising that they hadn't closed the school down for the week. Super villains were a regular occurrence now a days. New York had gotten really good at recovering from their attacks. The school looked like nothing had happened except the cafeteria was cleaner than usual. The school day was boring and Mary Jane had rehearsal for her play after school so Piper decided to web swing over to the hospital. She changed in the alley next to the entrance and hurried inside. She was escorted up to Harry's room by one of Norman Osborn's hired security guards, he'd been around for a while. He stopped at the door and opened it for her.

"Thanks Frank." Harry looked up from the tablet in his hands. Piper smiled as he grinned at her.

"Hey hero, I brought you something from school." Harry grinned wider.

"Cheerleaders?" Piper laughed and plopped a couple of books down on the table next to Harry.

"Sorry, homework." Harry frowned slightly looking at the books as Norman walked in. He smiled at them and placed a hand on Piper's shoulder.

"Piper has your best interests at heart. She's a true friend. How about a ride home Piper?" Piper smiled at Norman and nodded.

"That would be great, thank you Mr. Osborn." Harry waved at Piper as she left behind his dad and Piper grinned as she waved back. Avengers Tower wasn't far from the hospital. Piper needed a nap before she trained with her Uncle Steve for the day. Unfortunately the universe was against her having a nap as Captain America met her at the doors to Avengers Tower as she waved goodbye to Norman Osborn. He was dressed in civilian clothes, a captain America t-shirt Piper had given him for his birthday which she had been amused to discover was on July fourth. Steve ruffled Piper's short brown hair as they made their way to the elevator. Once they were safely inside it Steve turned to Piper.

"Are you sure you're ok? I saw the blood on your sleeve yesterday but when I went to talk to you last night you were gone and there was an uneaten piece of cake on your desk." Piper nodded.

"Well I took care of the cake when I got home, from SHEILD." She whispered the last two words but Steve heard her. He frowned slightly.

"Why were you at SHEILD?" Piper sighed as the elevator let them off on her floor.

"Well, Nick Fury kind of offered to SHEILD train me, to help with this whole hero thing. Not that you, Auntie Tasha and Uncle Clint haven't been amazing since you guys found out but it was my fault that those psychos ended up at my school. My fault that one of my best friends is in the hospital." Steve put a hand on her shoulder.

"Everyone makes mistakes. We learn from them, learn to be a better hero." Piper nodded and grinned.

"You sound just like Fury. That was part of his sales pitch. He even brought up dad when he was starting out. It's pretty hilarious actually. Remind me to show you the video at some point." Steve smiled slightly. Piper made her way down the hall.

"I'll meet you in the gym, I gotta throw my suit in the wash and change into my workout clothes. Steve nodded and Piper disappeared down the hall. Natasha stepped out of the shadows. Steve was still getting used to the assassin doing this and only jumped a little when she spoke.

"She's a good kid. I just hope she sticks with it, I don't think she's gonna like Fury's plan." Steve raised an eyebrow at the red head.

"What do you mean?" Natasha smiled.

"You'll see. You'll see." Steve rolled his eyes at the woman as she walked off towards the elevator. He made his way to the gym that he, Clint, Natasha, Bruce and Thor had built into one of the many spare rooms on Piper's floor. There was a lot of equipment only she and Thor could get to. There was an obstacle course that ran up one of the walls and across the ceiling. Piper arrived a few minutes later and they started sparring.

A few hours later they were both sweating as he had her take a few whacks at one of the reinforced punching bags he used. She put a hole in it after about thirty hits. She grinned at him and shot a line of webbing across the room grabbing their water bottles. She pulled his out of the webbing with ease and tossed it to him. He glanced over at her wrist and didn't see her web shooter. He raised an eyebrow as she drank deeply from her Iron Man water bottle. She had a lot of Avengers themed things. Tony had gone a bit overboard when it came to merchandise. But it was all insanely popular and it paid for the upkeep of the team so it worked out rather well.

"Invisible web shooter?" Piper grinned and tapped her wrist. A device appeared, it was red and black like her costume.

"SHEILD does come with some perks. I've been figuring out what all it does. I found camouflage mode when I took it off my costume so I could wash the costume." She was interrupted a panel on the wall beeped and Piper walked over to it. It was a phone call. She answered it and almost spit water as Nick Fury popped up on the screen.

"Please tell me you encrypted this call." She choked out coughing on the water.

"Of course. I need you up at the helecarrier." With that he simply hung up. Piper rolled her eyes and turned to Steve who was smiling knowingly.

"Well looks like duty calls." Steve patted her on the shoulder.

"Good luck Spidey." Piper grinned and left to go change and get to the helecarrier.