Chapter Six: Peter and Gwen

"You're Spiderman, and I love that. But I love Peter Parker more."

-Gwen Stacy

"Aw, come on!" Peter cried out under his Spiderman mask. As if it wasn't bad enough that Fury wanted to recruit him for the Avengers (not that he wasn't flattered, but it would make keeping the secret hidden from Aunt May a whole lot difficult) but now he had to take care of this insane killer robot.

Though killer might not be the right word.

The robot was only a foot taller that Peter and shaped like a round human, it wasn't even attacking or destroying stuff or people, it just kept following him like a very dumb puppy. His web shooters helped him elevate his body to the adjoining building, his eyes never really left his girlfriend and the only person that knew his secret, Gwen Stacy.

Gwen was staring at him with wide blue eyes and Peter would have laughed if the situation was far from funny.

"Look out!" Gwen cried out.

Peter turned around, but before he could even blink the robot's large hand slammed into him, knocking him to the ground. Peter groaned a he fell to the floor. He wondered how he was going to explain this to his Aunt May.

"You ok, kid?"

Peter opened his eyes and blinked. Were his eyes confusing him? He didn't think so. The man in front of him look very much like-"You're Tony Stark." He blurted out without thinking.

Tony smiled. "You know me, great." He offered his hand and helped Peter up. "What's your name?"

"Spiderman."

Tony paused. "A little cheesy, but what can we expect from you kids today." He turned towards the robot. "Benny shut down."

The robot fell limply on the ground.

Peter gaped at him. "That was your robot?"

"Pretty good, huh?" Tony said. "His real name in the Benedactor IV, but I just call him Benny. We wanted to talk to you."

"And you had to send a robot after me?" Peter felt dizzy. "And we?"

"The rest of the Avengers," he shrugged as Clint, Natasha, Bruce, and Steve got out of black cars. "Minus one, Thor is in Ass whatever, but the ones that count are here and it's not easy trying to talk to you, when you're zipping all over the place."

"Oh, good." Natasha said. "You're getting acquainted. It's nice meeting you, Mr. Parker, I trust Fury mentioned us. Either way, I'm Natasha Romanoff."

"Not really, I mean you didn't need to be mention." Peter said. "How do you know my name?"

Clint shrugged. "SHIELD knows everything. I'm Clint Barton." He looked over his shoulder and motioned towards the two shyer guys on the team, Steve Rogers and Bruce Banner. "And that's Steve and Bruce, they're quieter."

"And have a smaller ego." Natasha quipped.

"Well, you already know my name I assume." Peter murmured noticing that people were curiously watching. "But can we go somewhere more private." He noticed Gwen and ushered her over. "This is my girlfriend, Gwen Stacy."

"Hi," Gwen threw them a nervous smile. "Nice to meet you."

"Ditto, Gwen Gwen." Tony said as he threw Steve the car keys. "Since you know Peter's little secret you two can ride back to the Tower."

"Welcome to Stark Tower!" Tony boomed as the silver glass doors opened letting Peter and Gwen in.

Natasha coughed.

Tony rolled his eyes. "Fine, Avengers Tower so picky."

"Wow," Gwen's blue eyes widened as she looked around the spacious tower. "It's beautiful and everything is wireless, right? Everything is controlled by voice or the sound of a button, I heard of houses like that, but this is incredible."

Tony grin nodded proudly at Steve as if staying, I-told-you-so while Steve rolled his eyes.

"I would be happy to assist you in any way I can Miss Stacy, Mr. Parker." Jarvis said smoothly.

Tony laughed as he watched Steve jump. The soldier still wasn't used to the AI. "Easy, Rogers. That's Jarvis."

"Is he another robot?" Peter asked weakly.

"No, he's the AI Artificial Intelligence." Steve recited.

Tony grabbed a drink from the bar. "You kids want to see the labs? I'm in the middle of creating a new suit-speaking of which I need to know how you designed those web shooters to come through the cloth."

"Oh, this?" Peter said. "I just tinkered with some stuff."

"You tinkered?" Tony paused. "You really are a geek, not to worry the science bros always need a third."

"Science bros?"

"Tony and me." Bruce rolled his eyes embarrassed. "It's what Tony calls us."

"If you don't mind Dr. Banner I would like to see your lab," Gwen quipped. "I'm very interested in your study about gamma radiation."

Bruce looked flattered. "Of course Gwen, I would be honored. Come this way."

The rest of the team watched as Bruce and Gwen left chatting about something that some of them barely understood.

Tony looked mildly disappointed. "I can't believe Gwen choose Bruce over me and my suits."

Clint looked amused. "You're actually disappointed, aren't you?"

"It's time," Charles told Dr. Madison. Dr. Madison looked up startled. "Now? But it's far too soon-"

"Yes, now." Charles snapped. "Or should we wait, until the so called Avengers and SHIELD get more power? They already have a demigod and Stark on their side, not to mention the Parker kid. No we need to act fast, destroy them, we destroy SHIELD and HYDRA overpowers."

Dr. Madison didn't speak for a moment. "Who do you want to send?"

"Siren."

Dr. Madison bit his lip. "She's still transition-"

"Nonsense," Charles interrupted. "Her mind's been thoroughly wiped, she has been on missions for months. She's one of us now."

"Why not send the Winter Solider instead?"

He shook his head. "They know who he is, they don't know Siren."

-End of Chapter Six-