Something like love | Peter Parker

18

We walked into the dance. The gym was decorated beautifully, with streamers and balloons. The room was littered with almost the whole school including the staff on one of the walls was a table full of cups, plates, punch and snacks. Peter and I walked onto the dance floor and danced for a little while before Ned came up to the two of us. He was wearing a red t-shirt under a grey blazer and a matching fedora.

"Peter. I need to talk to you. Its very important. Its about" he leaned over to Peter and whispered in his ear "that Vulture guy"

"It's okay Ned. She knows about him"

"Oh." he said plainly. It was obvious Ned didn't like me all that much. I don't blame him, if someone had showed up in the middle of the year and took away my best friend I'd be mad too.

"Well I need to show you something. Come on" he started to walk out of the room.

"You can come Lily"

"Okay" I followed the two of them through the dark, empty halls into the computer room. They had a holographic tracker lighting up one corner of the room "What's this?" I asked

"Your dad made it"

"No, I know that, I meant who are you tracking"

"Oh. We're tracking that Vulture guy I told you about."

"Alright"

"Look Peter" Ned said pointing to a little spider symbol hovering above a school.

"What does that mean?" I asked

"It means he's here" Peter turned to me, a panicked look on his face. He ran out of the room and I turned to follow him. Ned put his hand on my shoulder and stopped me.

"You have to let him go. You can't help him with this"

"You don't know that"

"Unless your some weird hybrid of a human and a insect I really don't think you can."

"Well, I'm not a hybrid but I have something much better"

"What?" I held up my hand and pointed at my special ring I had used back in Germany. "What's a stupid little ring going to do?"

"You'll see" I ran out of the room and Ned followed me, excited to see what I meant.

We walked out the front doors of the school and around the back. We hide behind a school bus so he wouldn't see us.

Peter was already standing in front of The Vulture in his suit. I flipped up the top of my ring and my Iron Man suit surrounded me entirely.

"What the-"

"Still don't think I can help him?" I whispered

"I-"

I pushed him aside and walked out and stood beside Peter.

"What? You can't fight your own battles?" Said The Vulture trying to get in our heads. He was old and wrinkled. His hair was thin and white. His suit looked a little tight on him and he was laughing hysterically.

"What's the matter? Don't think you could handle two of us?" His laughter stopped instantly.

"Your a woman?!"

"What's wrong? Are you afraid your going to get beat up by a girl? Is your ego that fragile?" This should be easy.

"How dare you!"

"Yeah whatever are we going to fight or what?" I fired a laser at him which obviously caught him off guard, because I knocked him right on his back. I flew over to him and placed my foot on his chest with enough force to keep him on the ground. I fired one more laser that ended up knocking him out. I checked his pulse. He was still alive.

"F.R.I.D.A.Y. call the authorities."

"Yes Miss Stark. I've placed the call"

"Good." I grabbed the main power source from his chest plate. "Ned could you grab me a roll of tape?"

"Sure" he ran into the school through a exit in the back and came back out a moment later. I tied up the old man and pressed another button on my suit, pulling it back into my ring. I smoothed my hair.

"Did you just have it in there the whole time? Where did you get it? Who made it? Who are you?"

"Woah Ned slow down. Yes it's been here the whole time, my dad made it for me and my real name is Adeline."

"Wow. Wait how did your dad know how to make a Iron Man suit?"

"Let me clarify. My real name is Adeline Stark. Tony Starks my dad. And he's Iron Man so, that's how he knows how to make the suit."

"Your dads the Tony Stark?!"

"Yup. He also made Peter's suit"

"This is so cool! Wait, how do we know your not lying about all this?"

"I've been to her house Ned. I also went to Germany with her AND I helped her dad design my suit. I've met Mr. Stark a few times. He's really cool."

"It's true! You should come to my house sometime. You can meet my dad yourself."

"Really?! Oh my god!!! I can't believe I'm going to meet Iron Man! That's so cool! What happens if he's not there? Is he cool in real life? This is so exciting!!!" Ned was starting to fangirl over my dad... it was a little weird.

"Yeah, you two can come over tonight if you want. You just can't tell my dad about the Vulture guy or about the dance. He doesn't know I came, and if he knew about this he'd kill me."

"Okay deal" Ned said excitedly.

"Okay" Peter agreed and we all walked back in the school just before the authorities came.

What a unique Homecoming dance. This day is certainly one for the books.