After the sappy talk the two relatives had, Peter waited eagerly for Steve to finish getting ready for lunch so they could go down. He hoped to speak to Tony about the arc reactor powering the tower. He had no use for it personally but Peter had questions about it that needed answering, such as how did he come up with the idea? How is the energy collected and the fused into the system to create electricity? Peter would find out soon enough because Steve had just stepped out of his room.
"Homework finished?" Steve asked as he walked over.
"Done and dusted, finally!" Peter said triumphantly. They both headed over to the elevator. Finally the doors opened and they walked in.
Steve stood there and remembered something he should probably warn Peter about.
"Hey, Pete." Steve said. Peter looked up at Steve. "You might meet a few of my team mates in a moment. They can be a bit... intimidating. Once you get to know them, they're fine."
Peter looked at Steve in wonder, trying to think who, out of all the people he had seen on TV would be the people down stairs. He was about to find out because the doors slid open and they both stepped out.
Before much could happen they were assaulted by Tony who practically ran into them.
"Sorry," he said off handed. "Wasn't watching were I was going."
They both shrugged it off. Tony then realised who he had bumped into after a moment of brain discombobulating and grinned.
"Ah, they finally join us!" Tony cried. "Steve, how did you actually get him to come down for lunch? First time in ages! As for you Pete, how did you get Steve here to laugh?"
Steve rolled his eyes at Tony's antics and Peter, only semi used to him, started mumbling incoherent words that sounded like 'what?'. When neither of them properly answered, Tony tried to encourage them.
"Well?" He pushed.
"People get hungry, they go and get food." Steve explained in a voice that sounded like he was talking to a child. Tony huffed.
"Well, how did you get gramps to laugh?" Tony said ignoring Steve. Peter was really confused. What was so shocking about Steve laughing?
"You know," a female voice said behind Tony. "Steve does laugh, he is human."
"No he's not!" Tony argued turning around. Peter could see a red head sitting comfortably on the sofa looking at her phone as if she had said nothing. "He's a robot with a stick up his arse!"
"Thank you for being understanding, Tony." Steve said sarcastically before guiding Peter away from Tony and to the sofa. The woman on the sofa looked up and then stood up.
"Good morning, Steve." She said politely. She then looked at Peter. Peter felt naked in front of her as if she was looking at him through his clothes and judging ever tiny thing about him.
"Morning, Natasha." Steve greeted. "Natasha, this is Peter, my great grandson."
"Hi." Peter said with a small wave. Natasha stuck out a hand which Peter shook.
"You have a firm grasp, Peter. That's always a good thing." Natasha noted randomly. Peter was confused but considering no one bat an eyelid over the unusual comment he assumed it was normal.
"Um, thanks." Peter said, unsure of the usual response. Natasha realised the discomfort she was causing Peter making her smile a little bit. Natasha then cleared her face of emotion and turned to Steve.
"We have done the debrief but Fury wants to clarify a few things from your report. He wants you to see him at some point today. He'll send a time to see him." Natasha informed Steve.
"I have to go too so I'll keep you company. I'm in trouble of something." Said a male voice coming from the kitchen area. You could tell the guy was smirking. Steve walked over to where the voice came from, Peter followed a step behind.
Crouching on the fridge in the kitchen was a muscular but lean man with short blondish hair. He was watching Steve and Peter as they walked in.
"Clint, this is-" Steve begun.
"Peter." Clint finished. "I heard you introduce him to Natasha. I'm Clint Barton."
Peter waved up at Clint but he was quite curious now.
"Why are you in trouble?" Peter asked.
"Something about not scaring the newbies." Clint shrugged.
"No, something about not shooting arrows at them." Natasha's voice called from the other room.
"Wait, what?" Peter was confused.
"Allegedly, I shot arrows at the new workers." Clint explained with a grin which said he obviously did it.
"It was caught on camera." Came Natasha's voice. Clint looked shocked.
"Wait, what?" Clint questioned. "I wasn't even in the room!"
"No, you were in the ceiling." Natasha replied wearily.
"Damn it." Clint muttered.
Just then, Tony's voice was heard by the lift.
"Yeah, just take it to the table and put them down. I don't like being handed stuff."
A pizza delivery man came in with nine boxes seemingly in a daze. First, Tony Stark greets him, then he walks into a room with a man crouching on the fridge. What makes it worse is when the guy on the fridge (Clint) does a flip of the fridge and lands delicately on the floor. Tony then hands the man an obscene amount of money which definitely covers the pizzas over ten times that amount.
"Keep the change." Tony said before sending the man on his way and taking a chair by the table. The others quickly follow including Bruce who had hidden himself in a corner of the room to read.
It's a nice lunch with a lot of small talk. Peter finally got to ask his questions much to the delight of Tony and even Bruce who explained in no little detail the process of creating an arc reactor and converting the energy into electricity. All the science babble as Clint put it, caused an argument. Clint groaned about all the sciency words causing Tony to defend his actions by saying he was educating an empty mind. When Clint tried to argue back asking for just a little less on the technical terms Tony increased the amount of technical language until even Peter was having trouble keeping up. Clint then complained and for everything Clint said, Tony opposed in one way or another.
Finally, Peter plucked up the courage to talk with Steve.
"Hey, Steve. What do you actually do?" Peter asked.
Steve looked over at Bruce and Tony.
"We didn't tell him." Bruce said answering the unasked question.
Steve then looked at Clint and Natasha.
"He is your relative under your guardianship, you have the right to tell him if you want. If Fury doesn't like it he can stuff it where the sun don't shine." Clint said.
Steve nodded before turning to Peter.
"I work for the government." Steve said. Peter nodded but couldn't help but feel a little downhearted. Seeing Peter's face, Steve quickly continued. "It's a private section of the government, a secret organisation known as SHIELD which stands for Strategic homeland something, something logistic division."
"Basically, his job is to throw his shield about, cover my arse and look pretty." Clint explained with a grin.
"No, it's to make people think he's actually good at something and have him show up and then make me look spectacular by calling me in." Tony argued. And so the arguments started again.
"Steve gets called in to stop terrorist attacks. He gets sent to a location and then defuses the situation by any means and then comes home to debrief." Natasha explained seriously over the argument.
Peter looked at Steve for clarification. Steve just nodded his head.
Just then, two identical beeps went of signalling two separate people that they had a message. Steve pulled out his phone at the same time as Clint pulled out his although Steve had a bigger frown on then Clint.
"Fury wants us there ASAP." Clint informed the others, still looking at his phone.
"What's wrong Steve?" Natasha asked, seeing his facial expression.
"He wants me to bring Pete as well." Steve said slowly.
Wait, what would this Fury guy want with him? Peter thought to himself. Did he know about him being spider-man? Was he planning on taking Peter away from Steve? Would the others care if he was being taken away? Where were they going to put him? Did they think he was a threat?
Peter's thought train was stopped when Tony spoke up.
"What the hell does that pirate want with Peter?" Tony asked furiously.
"It doesn't say. But Peter, if you don't want to come, you don't have to, I'll talk to Fury, find out what's going on." Steve explained.
"No, he should go now or Fury will adopt unconventional methods to talk to Peter, whatever he wants, he gets. He's just polite the first time he asks." Natasha stated in a monotonous voice.
"She's right. Take him now but we'll keep an eye on things." Clint said honestly. Steve stood up and looked both spies in the eyes, trying to detect if they were lying or not. They seemed to be being truthful. Steve put a hand on Peter's tense shoulder.
"Don't worry, Peter. Whatever this is about, we'll make sure nothing happens." Steve said encouragingly.
With that, Clint and Peter both stood up and followed Steve out of the kitchen area.
"Sirs, a quinjet is landing on the helipad area on the rooftop." Jarvis informed them.
"Thank you, Jarvis. We'll be there in a minute." Steve said as he called for the elevator. They all climbed in and started heading upwards.
I'm sorry to stop it there but I haven't updated in a while and knew I needed to but it's also late and I need sleep.
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I went to a Q&A session with the producers of Spiderman last week, it was amazing, I saw so many clips I was practically crying! Just thought you should know
People have asked if this will be based on Winter Soldier or Amazing Spiderman 2. I might add elements but otherwise, no, probably not.