AN: Writing is hard:(. Alright first of all I just want to thank everyone who read this. I now have 13.5 k reads (10.8 k on fanfiction and 2.7 k on wattpad) and I never expected it to be such a hit! So thank you to everyone who reviewed, favorited, and followed this. It really means a lot. So here is chapter 4. I'm happy to announce that I now have an actual plot in my mind for this story! lol. Anyways thank you again for reading and I will update faster. Hope you enjoy this :)
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Peter's stomach quenched as he watch the robot's eyes turn off again. What the hell is going on? He thought.
Natasha was the first one to snap out of it and she rounded on Tony.
"What the hell Stark? Peter is in grave danger because of you." She said sternly.
Tony took a step back. "I-I didn't think this was going to happen."
"Of course you didn't! You never think, do you? You just let it happen and deal with the consequences because you're Iron Man. Bitch please. Now look what happened. Your only son is in danger. You better sleep with one eye open a night." Natasha yelled lunging at Tony.
"Guys! I'm fine." Peter said stopping Natasha.
"What about the next time Peter? God, this is not good." Steve said breathing heavily.
"Whatever. Let's just think about what he said. There are no strings on me. What does that mean?" Peter wondered.
Bruce's eyes widened. "He's going to build another body."
"What?" Clint asked.
"It's probably going to be something bigger and stronger." Bruce said.
"Before we do anything, we gotta get Peter to a safe house." Tony said.
"I know a place." Replied Clint.
"No." Peter said sternly. "I'm doing this with you guys."
All the Avengers turned to look at Peter.
"I'm serious!"
"Not happening." Steve said.
Peter gave a big sigh. "I swear we just had this conversation."
"Peter pack your bags and Clint get ready to take him." Steve said, ignoring Peter.
"You can't be serious!" Peter exclaimed.
"Peter, go. Now."
"Nope. Not happening." Peter said as he sat down on the blown up couch.
"Fine I'll pack your bags then. Tony, watch him." Steve said as he headed towards the elevator.
Tony took a seat next to Peter and rested a hand on his shoulder. Peter ignored him.
"Pete, I'm really sorry about this. God! What if you die? I-I can't." Tony said right before he burst into tears. "I-I love you Pete and if something happens I don't know what I'm going to do. That's my biggest fear, you know? Losing you and everyone else."
"Dad, you're not going to lose me." Peter said turning towards his dad. "I can handle myself. I've fought a bunch of monsters before, I'm sure I can do it again." He said trying to reassure him.
"I-I know. But Peter, this is different. This is a huge mess and I don't want you to get hurt. The way I've programed Ultron is him to change the world for the better, however, by the way he's acting right now…he wants something else but I don't know what."
"Well for one thing he wants to kill me and the rest of the Avengers." Tony looked down at his feet and Peter regretted saying those words. "But, uh, I'm sure you guys can fix it. I mean you're the world's mightiest heroes. One of you guys is a freaking god."
Tony didn't respond and he held his head in his hands. Peter sighed. He did not want to stay in the safe house but he hated seeing his dad like this. He was always so confident in himself, maybe a little too confident and he never took no for an answer. But the Tony that was in front of him was totally broken. He just saw his dad let all his shields down and it was terrible.
"Fine! I'll go to the safe house." Peter said.
Tony looked up gratefully at his son with his bloodshot eyes.
Steve came downstairs with his bags five minutes later. "Alright Peter lets go. Clint!"
"Coming!" Clint responded, running into the room. "Alright let's go!"
"Bruce, while we're gone call the school and tell them Peter probably won't' be coming for the rest of the year." Steve said. "Natasha and Thor? Start working. We'll be back soon."
"Alright guys! Stay safe and….stuff. Bye!" Peter said to the rest of his family.
"Peter!" Natasha exclaimed.
"What?"
"You're leaving for God only knows how long and I don't even get a hug! Your, sir, are unbelievable." She said crossing her arms.
Peter dropped his bags and gave his aunt a hug. "Stay safe okay?" He told her. They pulled apart and Peter gave her a smile and was about to turn around when he felt her grab his hand and then felt something small slip into his hand as he was pulled into another hug.
"It's an extra com. Just so you can keep in touch with us." She whispered into Peter's ear. They pulled apart and Peter shoved his hands into his pockets and dropped the com into one of them.
"Thank you." He mouthed.
Natasha nodded and gave him a wink.
Peter was about to step away from the group when he was pulled into another hug by Thor. "I will miss you Peter." He told him. Peter smiled sadly. "I'll miss you too."
"Be sure to get me some pop tarts." He told him quietly. Peter laughed. Steve had banned Pop Tarts from the tower after there had been a full out war against Clint and Thor for the last Pop Tart. It wasn't very pretty. Let's just say that Clint was left electrocuted and Thor had an arrow in his leg.
Peter pulled away from Thor and turned toward Bruce. "Good luck out there big guy."
"Thanks Pete." Bruce smiled as they began to hug each other. "Don't do anything stupid, alright?"
Peter rolled his eyes at his uncle. "I won't promise anything."
"Ready to go Pete?" Steve asked.
"Uh...one second. I just need to...grab, uh, something." He ran into the elevator before he got a response and went to his room. He took the spider-man suit that was under his bed and shoved it in his school backpack and headed back down stairs.
"I just grabbed a book." He told his family when he got to the main room. "But I'm ready now." He said with a smile. He gave one last goodbye to the team and headed towards the jet.
The jet landed a couple hours later on a big green field. Peter stepped out of the jet after his parents and took a look around the place that he would be staying. There were was lots of green space, a house, and a barn. A farm. He was on a farm.
"Welcome to my farm." Clint said smiling happily.
"Your farm?" Peter asked.
"Well, it's actually Shields farm now. I gave it to them for a safe house a couple years back. But it's still mine."
"Why the hell do you have a farm?" Peter asked still weirded out.
"Why do you not have a farm?" Clint responded.
"Why would I want a farm?" Asked Peter.
"Why wouldn't you want a farm?"
"Guys!" Steve exclaimed.
"Yeah?" They both asked.
"Can we get back on topic please?"
"Oh yeah! Right! Okay, so I contacted two agents that will take care of Peter." Peter made a sound of protest at this. "Their names are Agent Smith and Agent Nelson." Clint said while they were heading towards the house. Clint opened the door to the house and Peter slowly walked in with his bags in his hands. A man with sandy blonde hair and a woman with jet black hair tied back into a ponytail came towards them and shook hands with Peter.
"Hello Peter. We've heard so much about you. I'm agent Emma Smith and this is Agent Patrick Nelson. We'll be taking care of you for the next couple of months."
"Months?" Peter asked, groaning.
The two gave him a reassuring smile. Peter turned to his parents and Clint, who gave him a sad smile.
"I guess this is it, huh?" Peter said.
Steve and Tony both gave him a hug at the same time. "Stay safe, okay? I really can't lose you guys." Peter told them
"You have so little faith in us Bambi." Tony laughed.
Peter shrugged. "I just don't want you guys to die."
"And we won't." Steve reassured him.
Peter nodded slightly. His parents turned towards Emma and Patrick to give them their thanks for taking care of Peter. He sighed and turned towards Clint.
"Alright, you listen here Katniss. You better not die because I swear to god if you do I will be stuck alone with all these other people and honestly I will go insane if I am. Also, I'm not too psyched that you only have a bow and arrow to defend yourself."
Clint laughed. "I got to say I'm not too psyched about it either but come on no one can use a bow and arrow better than this guy." He said pointing to himself. "Also to leave you alone with the rest of the Avengers would be a crime against mankind. I mean sure Tony knows how to have fun every once in a while but no one is quite like your fun uncle Cint." He said with a thumbs up.
Peter smiled and gave him a hug. They pulled apart quickly because they never have sentimental moments with each other. Clint cleared his throat to get Steve and Tony's attention. They turned around and Clint motioned with his head towards the door. "We should probably go guys."
They both nodded and gave their final thanks to Emma and Patrick and then turned to Peter. "Okay listen up Pete," Tony began. "Please don't try and follow us. You're number one on Ultron's list alright? You keep on saying that you don't want to lose us. But what if we lose you? Just please stay here. I promise everything will be alright in the end."
"Dad I'm not ten alright? I know the stakes here. Please don't make promises you can't keep." Peter said as Tony looked down guiltily.
"Try not to blow up the house Pete." Steve said smiling.
"Aw come on that happend once."
"It happened five times Pete." Tony said.
"Okay you don't have a say in this. I've lost count on how many times you've blown up the lab." Peter shot back.
The trio laughed and was in a comfortable silence. "Alright we really should go now it'll be a couple hours to get home." Steve said.
Peter nodded.
"We love you okay? We aren't keeping you here to punish you. It's because we love you."
"Okay." Peter responded giving them a weak smile.
It's been a couple days since Peter came to the farm. The com that Natasha gave him has been quiet so far. Basically life was uneventful for Peter Parker. He did the same thing each day. He woke up, got ready, ate breakfast, watched TV, locked himself in his room, and only came out for meals. Emma and Patrick weren't the funnest people in the world to say at least. They rarely talked and they weren't his family.
He had been miserable and hadn't wanted to call Gwen until today. He picked up his phone and scrolled down to Gwen's name.
Gwen answered on the first ring.
"Peter!"
"Hey Gwen."
"Oh my God. The whole city is talking. Are you okay?"
Peter could tell she was crying. He couldn't blame her he was too. "Yeah," He sniffled. "Yeah I'm fine. Um, listen we might not see each other for a while okay?" Peter started explaining what had happened with Ultron and his message. "Right now I'm in hiding and I can't tell you where because it's a secret. But I love you okay? But, um, if you want to breakup that's okay. You probably don't want to get involved in all of this."
"Peter for being second best in your class you really are an idiot."
"Second best? Are you sure about that?" He joked.
"Pretty sure." She joked back. "But I don't want to breakup okay? Listen I got to go but I love you okay? You do know you called in the middle of a school day right?"
"Shit! I didn't even think about that! Sorry!" Peter heard her laugh on the other side.
"It's okay, love you!"
"Love you too!" He replied. Gwen hung up and Peter smiled to himself.
Calling Gwen had now become part of his daily routine: he woke up, got ready, ate breakfast, watched TV, locked himself in his room, talked to Gwen for a couple hours, and only came out for meals.
Peter was lying on his bed when he heard faint noise from the com that was on his desk. He bolted up and ran straight to his desk, put it in his ear, and heard Bruce say: "Guys, is this a code Green?"
All he heard was garbled feedback in response.
"Shit." He mumbled.
"Thor? Status?" He heard Bruce again.
"The girl tried to warp my mind. Take special care, I doubt a human could keep her at bay. Fortunately, I am mighty." He heard Thor say.
"Whose ever up we got to move." He heard Clint say. "Guys?" Clint said again.
"Natasha, I could really use a lullaby." He heard Tony say.
Peter was panicking now. The Avengers were in trouble and he was locked up in this stupid farm that Clint, for some reason, owns. The hulk was now out and Natasha wasn't answe-
Peter was cut off from his thoughts when he heard Clint say: "Well that's not going to happen. Not for a while. The whole team is down. You've got no back up here."
Peter had heard enough. He grabbed his spider-man suit that he had packed just in case and ran out of his bedroom.
"Alright listen up cause I don't have a lot of time." He said to Emma and Patrick when he reached the living room. "You guys are going to take me to wherever the hell the Avengers are, okay? And before you start to argue that you're job is for you to keep me here I'm just going to remind you that Nick Fury has a soft spot for me and I can get you guys fired, alright?" Peter knew that he couldn't get them fired. Shield needed every agent they had left after Shield was taken over by Hydra but Emma and Patrick didn't need to know that.
The two reluctantly agreed and took them to a jet that was in the forest which was what they used to get here.
Peter was there before he knew it. He looked at the scene before him and saw that the Hulk had basically destroyed everything.
"Alright guys you can just hover over the buildings over there." Peter said pulling his mask on
"Are you sur-" Patrick began to ask.
"Trust me I'm sure." Peter said.
The latch of the jet began to open Peter took a deep breath checked his web shooters one more time and jumped out. He was falling. Fast. He put out one arm and shot a web from it. The web connected with a building that was falling apart and Peter began swinging, shooting one web after another. Finally he found a high place to land to check out his surroundings. Looking around he saw several civilians running around in terror.
"Oh Bruce, what did you do this time?" He sighed to himself.
Peter turned around and groaned. What he saw was the Hulk and Iron Man having a fist fight. Except Iron Man was a larger version of himself. Peter assumed that his dad had used the VERONICA program the he invented a couple months back. Without even thinking he ran across the top of the building and jumped off, swinging towards the scene.
His dad saw him almost immediately. "Peter? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE!"
Peter waved at him as he swung past. He landed a couple feet away from the Hulk and Iron Man and Tony, who was distracted by yelling at Peter, got a good hit to the face from the Hulk.
Peter sucked in a breath. That looked like it hurt. "Sorry about that daddy-o" He yelled out.
Tony was back to fighting the hulk and yelled at Peter. "IF YOU DON'T GET OUT OF HERE I SWEAR TO GOD…"
Tony was thrown towards a building and slowly got back up heading towards the Hulk. Peter took a deep breath. "Wait!" He yelled at his dad. "Let me do this!"
"Peter…"
Peter ignored him. He could do this. He walked slowly and cautiously towards the Hulk and ripped his mask off. "Hey, big guy." He said to the Hulk. "Remember me? It's Peter." He said slowly.
The Hulk seemed to recognise him and seemed to calm down a bit and took a few steps back. Natasha wasn't the only one who could control the Hulk.
"That's it." He said coming closer, holding a hand up for the Hulk to touch. He did and that seemed to do the trick. The Hulk stumbled back and before Peter's eyes he could see him transforming back to Bruce.
Peter turned around to see his dad marching up towards him with his suit on except it was back to normal size.
"Uh, dad. I can explain." Peter said.
"Explain it to me when the rest of the team is here. Give me a second." He said turning around. "How's the team." Peter heard his dad say. "By the way Peter's here."
Probably talking to the team. Peter thought. A couple minutes later he saw a jet coming from up above. When it landed he saw Steve come running out to give him a hug. "Thank God you weren't killed." He said and then pulled away, looking pointedly at Peter. "What the hell were you thinking, young man." Peter looked at the rest of the team who were standing behind Steve, including Bruce who now had a fresh pair of clothes on but looking guilty.
"I was thinking that I could help. Natasha gave me an extra com and I heard that the team was down and that the Hulk was out and destroying some city and dad had no backup. Last time I checked I saved hundreds of lives and a city just now. What more do I have to do to prove myself?" Peter asked.
"He's got a point guys. I think he could really help." Natasha said.
"But Ultron-" Tony began.
"Nothing Petey can't handle." Clint said rubbing Peter's hair. Peter, of course, threw his hand away but grinned a little.
Steve and Tony exchanged looks. "Alright! You can join." Steve said.
"Really?" Peter asked, excited.
Tony nodded and gave him a smile.
"Cool!" Peter exclaimed, his geeky side coming out. "You guys are amazing!"
"Come on guys we should probably leave." Natasha said.
The six- now seven- climbed into the jet.
"The news is loving us...everyone else...not so much." Natasha informed everyone.
"Wait! I was on the news!" Peter exclaimed. "I hope they got my good side."
"Hate to break it to you kid, but you don't have one." Clint said from up front.
"Hey!"
"Where are we going?" Bruce asked.
"Back to old McClint's farm." Clint responded.
"Aw come on!" Peter moaned.
AN: There you have it! Chapter 4…
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