A forgotten tour

Chapter 5

Chapter five:
Eventually the volume in the room began to increase as everyone processed what just happened. Lisa, the queen she is, got them to quiet down and raise their hands.
How she did that I'll never know.
MJ picked Cindy first. "Just to clarify, that was princess Shuri of Wakanda, right?"
"That's correct."
Next. "Are you two really dating?"
"Yep."
"Why didn't you tell us?"
She gave them her usual stare. "Because it wasn't any of your damn business, and nobody actually asked."
True facts.
"What about you and Peter?"
"What about us? We've never been in a relationship. You guys just assumed stuff, and we never denied it."
"Oh."
"How'd you meet?"
She glanced at me. Right, I should answer this one. "I knew Shuri through my internship. If you haven't figured it out, I'm pretty high in the hierarchy here. So when there's a convention that brings together all branches of SI and partnered companies, I get to go. That's where I met Shuri, who became a close friend. A while after that I introduced her to MJ, they hit it off and started dating."
After that the questions lessened, and finally we were done,
Poor Lisa, her tour was completely disrupted.
"Ok, so let's get back on track. Where are you guys headed next?"
She glanced at her schedule and sighed. "We're going to the cafeteria for lunch, but it'll be shorter than normal. We've lost some time."
I smiled sheepishly. "Sorry about that. But I'm hungry, so mind if I tag along?"
"Oh not at all Peter."
I waved my hand and all my computers locked down. "Cool, let's go!"
I really was hungry, but I also just wanted to hang out with Ned and MJ.
Just before we entered the elevator I got an alert from EDITH.
"Peter, someone is taking pictures in your lab. FRIDAY is deleting them as we speak."
I sighed. I bet I knew who that was. "Thank you EDITH. Please pull up visuals."
EDITH was something dad gave me when I became an official intern. Sure I already had Karen, but that was in the suit which I didn't wear all the time. The way I saw things, Karen was Spider-Man's AI while Edith was Peter Parker's.
Edith was contained in an earring which allowed her voice to only be heard by me. She could pull up holographic images which could only be seen from one side, that way no one be watching me and see what I was looking at.
She was also connected to Karen and Friday which is how she got the live feed from my lab.
As I suspected, Flash was snooping around. Why couldn't that idiot just accept that I wasn't lying.
"Ok guys, you go on ahead, I forgot to do something in the lab. I'll catch up."
Ned waved but MJ looked suspicious. But she too turned and walked away.
As soon as I entered my lab I coughed pointedly. "Whatcha doing?"
Flash bolted upright. "Oh. It's just you."
I was annoyed before, but now I was kinda mad. "Care to explain what you're doing to my lab?"
"Trying to prove this isn't your lab, duh."
"So you still don't believe me? Did you not hear me talking about my work?"
He shrugged. "Yeah, but that was all gibberish. And the whole avengers thing, I know it was just a charity case. You made up that intern lie to make yourself look cooler."
Man this dude was dumb. I didn't feel like dealing with his crap.
"Look Flash, I don't care if you believe me. But you are breaking a bunch of rules here. Those forms you signed to get in here state that SI can sue you for breaking the rules, and can legally ruin your life. Those rules include not touching things and no taking pictures, which you have disobeyed. Reporting that would ruin the tour and you'd be banned for life. But I have friends on this tour and I want them to have fun, so I won't say anything, as long as you keep it together."
He had paled a little bit, but kept his cocky smirk. "Sure. Whatever."
"Friday, delete all lab footage of Eugene messing around."
"Of course Peter."
Normally I wouldn't have the authority to wipe the footage, but in my lab I can do whatever the hell I want.
Flash started walking away. I guess he was going to catch up to the group. But by now they'd be down in the cafeteria already. He's lucky I came back here, otherwise he would be stuck. He didn't have the clearance to operate the elevators.
I ran up to him and got us the elevator. He just ignored me. Fun.
I made sure he couldn't hear me as I whispered to Edith. "Check to make sure he hasn't taken anything from my lab."
"Yes Peter... I can confirm that Eugene does not have any items on him that he did not have at the beginning of the trip. Friday has also deleted all photos he took in your lab."
"Thanks Edith." I really needed to work on her. She was still too robotic. I was just kind of scared to mess with her coding, it was pretty intense.
But anyways, we reached the floor and joined back up with the group. After getting a crap ton of food from my usual place, all the places, I sat down next the MJ and Ned.
"So how're you liking the tour so far?"