The alarms at the tower were flashing.

"JARVIS, what's happening."

"From what I can tell sir there seem to be reports coming in of a giant mutated lizard on the Williamsburg bridge."

"Well, that's something new." Clint was already suited up and it didn't take long for the rest of the avengers to follow his example. Tony stopped beside Bruce.

"I don't think this qualifies as a code Green." Bruce nodded but Tony continued. "Can you do me a favor and try to get ahold of Pete. I don't know where he is tonight but I want to make sure he stays away from that part of the city."

"Of course Tony." Tony nodded and gave Bruce's shoulder a quick squeeze before his face guard clanked shut and he grabbed Steve.

"I can show you the world…" He teased as they flew over the city.

"Really Tony is right now the time for that."

"Come on Cap it's a lizard, not Doctor Doom. This should be quick and easy… and maybe afterward…" Cap blushed

"We can hear you." Natasha's voice sounded over the coms. "We can all hear you."

"I'm simply romancing my husband" Tony teased

"That's it, I'm taking out my hearing aid."

"Clint." Steve was using his Captain voice "And Tony Stop."

"Kill Joy."

"Metal Head."

"Bird brain."

"Clint I swear to god if you make me stop this car…" Natasha threatened and the coms went silent Tony was smirking until he looked down at Cap.

"Friends. What has taken thou so long?" Thor asked when they touched down on the bridge. His hammer travel was much quicker than other modes of transportation. "Not to worry the man of spiders has the civilians, but the lizard man is getting away."

Tony quickly got eyes on the scene. Cars were strung up on the bridge by webbing and a giant looking lizard was rampaging down the bridge. He caught sight of Spiderman briefly as he was securing a black car to the bridge.

"Thor's right Cap. Spider-Man is handling the civilians and whether or not you like him he's doing a good job of it. We should take care of big, green, and scaly." Steve nodded when he heard Tony over the coms.

Peter had no idea what that thing was. It was big and scaly and kind of gross looking. He was glad he got there so quickly and had had his hands full stringing up cars. So far he'd only gotten one good hit on the guy and hadn't had the chance for any witty banter. Peter secured the car to the bridge and looked over at the giant lizard standing ready to fight.

"Somebody help!" Spider-Man heard the scream looking down the bridge. "My kid is trapped!" Peter had to choose; he could fight the monster or save the kid. It wasn't even a choice in his mind. He took one last look at the lizard before swinging back toward the car in question. He pulled off the back window throwing it into the water below.

"MOM DAD HELP!"

"Hey, hey hey hey hey." He called out to the struggling child. "Hey, buddy it's ok."

"Get away!"

"It's alright." The boy continued to scream afraid of the masked vigilante. And how could Peter blame him. He took off his mask; the kids life was more important than his identity. "Hey look I'm just a normal guy. Alright." The boy nodded looking much calmer if still afraid but less of Spider-Man now and more of the car he was currently stuck in. "Wanna hold onto this?" Peter asked holding out his mask. The boy nodded and Peter tossed it to him. "Hold my mask. Alright, what's your name?"He looked around the car and caught sight of a bag with the name JACK stitched in clear black letters. "Jack?"

"Yes." The boy, Jack, confirmed

"Let's get you out of here." Peter began to crawl into the car and it creaked "Stay very still."

"Alright"

"Ok I gotcha." He made it to the boy. "Ok now look, I'm going to undo the belt you're going to hold onto that seat." He said nodding to the driver's seat in front of Jack. "Ok on 3. 1.. 2.. 3.." He clicked the belt and the boy braced himself on the driver's seat. "See how easy that was? You did a great job." he reassured Jack smiling. So far so good.

And he jinxed it. The car had caught fire and Peter's head snapped to the flames as they quickly climbed up the side burning through the webbing. Peter barely had time to shoot another web at the bridge with one hand and grab onto the bumper of the car with the other. "Ah!" The strain on his muscles made him cringe but he kept his grip. "Jack climb now!"

"I can't!" The boy was frozen in place in fear as the flames climbed higher.

"Yes you can." Spiderman had to strain to keep hold of the car trying to pull it up but being unable to do so. He cursed inwardly and tried to think of something, anything that could help Jack. He was not going to let this kid die!

And then he remembered; he had been only 8 at the time.

Peter had been kidnapped, it wasn't him they were even after. But somehow he'd gotten caught up in an A.I.M attack, and the men had grabbed him as leverage when they realised their plan was failing. Of course his new family had saved him. The Hulk had very nearly killed the man who'd dared to even touch the tiny brown haired doe-eyed child.

But Peter had been so scared afterward. He'd had nightmares and would jump and hide when someone so much as touched him without him expecting it. But then his pops had let him wear his cowl around the house and somehow it had made Peter feel brave and strong.

"Put it on. The mask it's gonna make you strong." Peter told Jack. "Jack trust me. Put it on. There you go, that's it! That's it buddy that's it. Ok buddy, now climb. Come on Jack" He ordered trying not to show how very afraid he was as the metal beneath his fingers bent threatening to break. "Do me a favor, a little faster ok bud. You're doing great buddy you're doing great! That's it keep coming." He was almost there just a little more. The car slipped from his grip the metal bending too much for him to keep hold of. "NO!" Things seemed to slow and Peter webbed the kid and prayed…

Peter closed his eyes in relief. He had him. He pulled the kid up to him and pulled his mask back on before crawling up the bridge and depositing the boy in his father's waiting arms.

Peter had never felt such overwhelming fear in his entire life, and he had to watch his parents leave on dangerous missions every other week. There was just something about seeing the little boy knowing that he was the only one that could have saved him. And the relief of seeing the father hugging his son like nothing else in the world mattered.

"Jack. oh god! Thank god my son, my son. Oh my son, my son." Jack's dad had tears in his eyes as he clutched at him and Peter felt a warmth in his heart as he thought of his own parents. He turned to look at Peter and the teen didn't know for a moment if the man was going to accuse him of something or thank him. One could never tell with New Yorkers and what with the way the police had been treating him. "Who are you?" was all he asked.

"I'm Spider-Man." He said and he swung home crawling into the tower. Peter had hacked JARVIS a long time ago and he used that now to delete the video footage from his entrance into the tower. He was met with Bruce and thanked god that he had his civvies on. "Oh hey... hey Uncle Bruce."

"Peter I've been trying to text you for the past hour! How did you even get up here?" Peter's eyes widened and he fumbled for his phone.

"Oh umm… well, I took the… elevator. Maybe you just didn't notice? And I'm so so sorry Uncle Bruce I had my phone on silent. My bad."

"I'm just glad you're alright." Bruce sighed. "There was an attack on Williamsburg bridge. The other's are out after the thing."

"What really?" Peter didn't even have to feign surprise. The Avenger's had been there. Dang, Peter was so preoccupied with Jack he hadn't even noticed. A slight dread filled him at the thought remembering his maskless face. Had anyone seen him? Did they know he was Spider-Man?

"Hey Peter relax your parents are fine, they lost the Lizard and are headed back to the tower as we speak." Bruce attempted to calm him misinterpreting his fear. Peter nodded still lost in thought.

His parents would never let him continue as Spider-Man and Peter had finally found his reason for existing. He didn't care about the blonde shooter. He'd fooled himself into believing that if he hunted the man down than he would somehow make the world safer. But he was wrong. The world didn't need any more avengers they needed Spiderman. Someone for the little people, someone to help them when heroes couldn't.

Peter heard the distinct sound of Iron man's suit coming off as he landed on the balcony. Peter looked at Bruce and smiled before going toward his parents. He would fight them on this if he had too. "Hey dad, pops." he waited wondering when the shoes was going to drop. Tony just smiled at Peter and ruffled his hair.

"Hey Pete, man that lizard gave us the slip. I swear I only took my eyes off it for a second."

"Fury want's to debrief us, we need to go to the meeting room he has vital information." Natasha informed them as she walked past. There was no shouting or disappointed looks pointed at him and Peter breathed a silent sigh of relief. They didn't know. Peter watched his dad's making their way toward the meeting room and he remembered the boy and his father.

Tony and Steve were shocked when Peter bowled them over from behind. Things had been so tense around them all lately and it seemed that the dam had broke because in a matter of seconds they were a giant pile on the floor. Peter was hugging the life out of them and they were reciprocating. "Sorry I've been so distant." Peter whispered.

"It's ok Peter. We know these past few weeks haven't been easy for you. We just want you to know that we love you."

"I love you guys too." Peter pressed himself into the loving embrace of his dad's for a minute more before pulling away. "Sorry, you guys have a meeting."

"Eh," Tony shrugged "Meetings can wait. You're more important than Fury any day."

Peter smiled and laughed. "Yeah well, I got homework too so.."

Steve kissed Peter on the head "Goodnight Petey."

"Night Pops, Dad."

Fury played the video footage over again zooming in on the Lizard.

"That thing is definitely humanoid" Bruce commented, "Like a genetic mutation."

"Not gamma radiation?" Steve asked but Bruce shook his head.

"Not Gamma, I don't think, but certainly something along those lines."

"We think" Fury said from another screen in the room as he looked at them all from wherever he currently was. "That it's a strain of the super soldier serum. Except this one is focusing more on outside DNA specifically lizard."

Steve sat up straighter. "Where did it come from."

"Right now we're not so sure. Our best guess is Oscorp. Romanov."

"On it." The Russian nodded not needing Fury to elaborate any more than that.

"I knew Osborn was a sleaze."

"Should we be worried about Peter?" Clint asked and it made the room go silent. "He was visiting Oscorp."

"Just tell the kid to stay away. I doubt Peter's visits have anything to do with our scaly friend."

"Of course not!" Steve commented sternly as if daring anyone to point fingers at Peter. But of course, no one did. Peter was a good kid, everyone knew that.

"Peter?" Steve knocked on his son's door.

"Come in." Was the slightly muffled answer and Steve opened the door maneuvering around Peter's usual clutter.

"Hey sorry to wake you up I just wanted to talk to you." Steve had decided he'd be the one to tell the teen about the danger of Oscorp because he was less biased than Tony and Peter would know he was being serious not just Tony being his usual self.

"Shoot." Peter nodded giving him the go to talk and that he was listening.

"We think the Lizard that attacked tonight has something to do with Oscorp. I know you've been going there recently, but I need you to promise to just stay away from there until we're sure. Alright buddy."

Peter had sat up sometime during his words eyes sharp and he nodded at his Pops "Yeah alright."

"I just wanted to keep you in the loop." Steve winked and Peter smiled.

"Much appreciated. Night." Peter was asleep before he hit the pillow. His Pops frowned at the sight of the bruises on his son's face but they seemed to be fading. He tucked the blankets securely around the teen before leaving.