Author's Note: Yes, the ending was a bit threatening. But she was trained by the Widow and the Hawk, don't fuck with Spidey. I own nothing!

27. Truth

Piper 'arrived' at the school ten minutes after the ambulance and SHIELD rolled up to find out what had happened. Ava and Liz were answering questions while MJ sat in the back of an ambulance getting checked by one of the paramedics. Piper waited as patiently as she could before rushing up to her best friend and hugging her tight. MJ wrapped her arms around her friend.

"I'm ok Piper. I'm ok." Piper sniffled in her shoulder.

"I'm glad you're ok MJ." MJ smiled and pulled her phone out of her pocket.

"I got a few minutes of footage though, Spidergirl and Nova. Also Iron Fist saved us!" Piper raised an eyebrow.

"Oh? Who's that?" MJ laughed and began to explain while showing Piper the small amount of footage she'd gotten. Piper frowned.

"Since when does Spider-girl glow?" MJ frowned too.

"Not sure, maybe it was just a chemical trick." Piper shrugged.

"Could be, luminescent phosphorous would be my best guess. It would be the easiest and safest to make with what's available in the chem lab." MJ flipped her phone and began to write down what Piper was theorizing. Piper shook her head.

"Of course, that's all theory, I'd need a sample to be able to find out what it actually is." MJ nodded and grinned.

"Yeah but from you? I'm gonna trust your judgment, you're practically a certified genius anyway." Piper laughed as Sam and Ava came over to them. Ava hugged MJ.

"Thanks for what you did back there MJ. I owe you one." MJ shook her head.

"Nah, a friend of Piper's is a friend of mine." Piper's phone began to ring and she stepped aside to answer it. It was her father.

"Hi dad!" Tony breathed a sigh of relief.

"Piper are you at your school?" Piper shook her head, for someone so smart her father was almost always a bit slow on the uptake.

"Yeah, I head what was happening from Uncle Clint's SHIELD radio. I came to check on MJ. Everything's fine though. Spider-girl, Iron Fist and that weird bucket headed guy saved them." Sam stuck out his tongue at her. MJ mouthed 'Nova' at her.

"MJ says his name is Nova." Piper could practically hear Tony shaking his head.

"Are you sure you don't wanna go to private school Pipes? There are too many things happening at your school these days." Piper stepped a bit further away from the group.

"No dad, I'm not going to private school. I like Midtown High." Tony sighed.

"Fine." There was a noise like an explosion from his end of the line.

"Dad? Everything ok?" Piper was under the impression her father was in Washington not out on a mission.

"Yeah Pipes. The Avengers got a tip about a buried AIM base. Thought they might have Loki's scepter but no luck, just bombs." Piper flinched as another explosion ended the call. She swore under her breath and hit a button on her phone. JARVIS answered immediately.

'Miss Parker what can I do for you?'

"JARVIS check on dad please, he got cut off mid call. Is he ok?" There was a momentarily pause.

'He is alright Miss Parker. He and the other Avengers are currently in a skirmish with AIM scientists. The explosion knocked out his com unit, nothing more. He asks that you inform Miss Pots so as to prevent him getting in trouble again.' Piper laughed.

"I'll do that Jarvis. Thank you." She disconnected the call and turned back to the others. Danny and Ava were trying to look like they weren't listening in but MJ and Sam were unabashed in their interest. MJ laid a hand on her shoulder.

"He ok?" She nodded and hugged her friend.

"He's gonna be ok, I hope. I need to call Pep, but maybe after we can go for ice cream?" MJ nodded. Piper pulled up her contacts and clicked on Pepper.

"Hey Piper, everything ok?" Piper nodded.

"Everything's ok. Dad got called out on a mission and his com unit got knocked out. JARVIS says he's ok. He wanted me to let you know so he doesn't get in trouble again." Pepper laughed.

"Well I'm glad somebody let me know. I heard about what happened at your school today, everyone alright?" Piper nodded.

"Everything's fine Pep. MJ and a couple of my other buddies and I are gonna go out for ice cream."

"Sounds like a plan. I'll send Happy with the van." Piper thought about it for a minute, glancing over at Danny, Sam and Ava. They had no idea who her father was. Happy would be a big giveaway that something was up. But then again, a team needed to be built on trust.

"Thanks Pep!" Pepper nodded and bid Piper farewell before hanging up and calling Happy. He was excited to have something to do so he headed back to Stark Tower and picked up the van Tony had gotten when he'd taken Piper in. It hadn't been used often. He drove to the school and met up with Piper and her friends. He'd only met MJ before. She opened the vans door and gestured them inside.

"Happy this is Sam, Danny, Ava and you already know MJ." Happy waved at the teens. It was nice to see Piper making more friends, she continued.

"Guys this is Happy Hogan. He's my driver and personal security." Sam's eyes bugged.

"Wait what?! You have a personal driver!?" She ignored him.

"We wanna go get ice cream please Happy." Happy nodded.

"Seatbelts please." They all buckled up and Happy tapped a button on the console. A glass partition folded out of the floor separating the passengers from the driver. Sam turned to Piper who was pointedly looking out the window.

"Parker, explain." Ava nodded.

"Isn't he supposed to be head of security at Stark Industries?" Danny looked pensive.

"You're the rumored adopted child, aren't you?" Piper looked up at him then back down at her hands. She sighed. MJ grabbed her hand and squeezed.

"You don't have to tell them if you don't want to Piper." Piper shook her head.

"They deserve to know, I just wish Luke was here too so I don't have to go over it again." Danny nodded at her.

"If it is too painful you do not have to tell us." Piper shook her head again.

"No. Like I said you deserve to know. My parents were Richard and Mary Parker. When I was three they dropped me off at my Aunt May and Uncle Ben's house and got on a plane. I never knew why they left, or why I didn't go with them but their plane went down in the swiss alps. No one made it out of that crash." She didn't look up from her hands but it was clear to everyone that there were tears in her eyes when she spoke again.

"My Aunt May and Uncle Ben took care of me until I was seven. I stayed home sick from school that day. I heard somebody fall in the kitchen and went downstairs to see what was going on. My Aunt May was having a heart attack. My Uncle Ben had called the paramedics but she died in his arms before they ever got there." MJ was still holding Piper's hand.

"When I was eleven I had a stupid fight with my uncle. I honestly don't remember what we fought about but I ended up running away. He went out looking for me. I made it home around eleven that night all set to apologize but I never got that chance. The police were waiting for me at my house. He'd been shot and killed in a hit and run. I never even got to say goodbye." Tears dripped onto MJ's hand and she pulled Piper into a hug. Her friend sobbed into her shoulder for a moment before pulling herself together.

"I found my parents Will the next day. It listed someone else in case something ever happened to them. To this day I'm not sure why. But he took me in, just as a foster father at first, but when I was thirteen some bad stuff happened to him. But he made it through an officially adopted me after that. So here we are." Ava whipped her eyes and nodded. Danny nodded as well grasping Piper by the shoulder but Sam didn't seem to get it entirely.

"Ok but who dude?" Ava rolled her eyes and swatted Sam upside the head.

"Think about if for a minute Sam. Happy Hogan, Chief of Security at Stark Industries is also her personal driver and personal security." It took him a minute before his eyes went wide.

"IRON MAN IS YOUR DAD!" Piper heard a chuckled from beyond the supposedly soundproof divider.