The Chaos Squad

School AKA Even Worse Hell

In an average family, the first day of school would start like this:

The child would get up with an eagerness that would die later on. They would be excited to see their friends again, but the heavy weight of homework and tests would eventually make them sob internally. They would get out of bed and eat breakfast with their family, in a perfect and synchronized fashion that would die off later as they started to sleep in more. Then they would head off to work and school.

This was not what happened in the compound.

At exactly 7:00 AM, when everyone was meant to be eating breakfast and putting the last of their supplies in their bags, Peter was still asleep, Shuri was high on caffeine after pulling an all-nighter in the lab (something that would bite her in the butt later), Loki was with Steve, Bucky, and Sam in the kitchen, Tony was also high on caffeine in his own lab, Bruce was on his perfect schedule, and T'Challa had been up for hours because he was in Wakanda and was hours ahead.

At 7:15 AM, it was complete chaos. Yelling for missing items and eating half cooked toast before running out of the door to meet Happy at the car. The head of security was not amused.

"Are you guys gonna do this every day?"

"No," Peter said, "Just... forgot the date..." His eyes landed on the other two, "How the hell are you two--?!"

Peter has his usual clothes on, a t-shirt with some writing (this specific one read 'I survived my trip to NYC'), a grey jacket, and some dusty sweatpants. On the other side of the spectrum, both Shuri and Loki were perfectly organized and put together. Shuri had a t-shirt with a purple logo on it, a cardigan, and her hair in lots of tiny braids and pulled into two space buns. Loki's hair was brushed neatly and fell freely on his shoulders, wearing a black collared shirt and blue jeans.

"Peter, we both grew up in formal society," Shuri said.

"Everything was exhausting, but you learn how to put everything to the last possible moment and still turn out looking great," Loki added with a cocky grin.

Peter shook his head, adjusting the stack of books on his lap and taking mental note to buy a backpack after he lost his last one again. By the time they got to the school, the first bell was ringing to remind the students to head to class. They got out of the car and Peter grabbed their wrists to lead them through the winding hallways.

"Mr. Stark made sure we're in the same classes and we have lockers next to each other."

"What, he doesn't trust us on our own?" Loki raised an eyebrow.

Peter mocked the expression, "Do you trust yourself not to lose your cool and threaten someone?"

"Touché."

After pushing through the mob of students swarming the halls, they came to a set of lockers in between classrooms. Peter fiddled with the lock on one and punched it several times before it popped open. Shuri attempted to open her's and when the lock wouldn't budge, she pulled out a mini tool back from her purse, because girls' purses were infinite wormholes for storing items. Loki tried opening his lock once, gave up halfway, and just lazily waved his hand to open the door. As Peter put all of his books in the little metal box, he felt a tap on his shoulder.

"Ned!"

The high schooler grinned at him, "Where were you? You haven't responded to my texts for an entire week before school!"

"Yeah, things have been a little hectic around the compound," Peter gave a guilty shrug, "Oh, Ned! You have to meet the newcomers! Guys!" He turned around and attracted the attention of Loki and Shuri, "Guys, this is Ned, my best friend and man in the chair."