"Welcome Peter, Mr Maximoff", FRIDAY calls as they walk into the elevator, "heading right up". Peter waves her hello on his ride, as always waving hello back. "So ready for the movie today babe", he turns to Pietro.
The speedster grumbles, "yeah, but I got training before that", he slouches, kicking at the floor and — gently — at the side of the elevator.
Peter giggles at his boyfriend's antics, kinda like MJ does with him, "training with your sister, Uncles Vision, Clint, Scott and Auntie Nat. It's gonna be fun!". Cheering up from Peter is the avenger's kryptonite, Pietro second weakest only to Tony. "Besides, I'm gonna work on the car with Uncle Bucky and Uncle Steve, so I'll be busy too but I'll meet you there".
It's not the best, but does sell Pietro on focusing on finishing their training so they can start their movie night. MJ had gotten her date night with him earlier in the week and he wasn't gonna waste his turn. He speeds off to change, saying goodbye to Peter for the latter to drop his bag in his own room. More avengers block his path on the way back to the elevator.
"Hey Kid!", Tony shouts as Peter comes to view. "Hi Tony, Uncle Bruce, Uncle a Rhodey!", Peter waves back, the three stopping their talk. Tony speaking next, "wanna come over to the lab before our movie?". He shakes his head, "promised I'd work on the car with Uncles Bucky and Steve, sorry Tony".
Shaking Peter's anxieties off also became common place around the tower, grabbing his shoulder their unspoken way of telling him to shut up and stop stressing over them. Tony had to use it to prevent his apologetics. "Go have fun, but you're mine tomorrow, that's under contract!".
Peter waves goodbye to all three, rushing downstairs for their 4 hours of repairs and upgrades. Most of them 4 were Bucky and Peter teaching Steve how to use half the tools present. He was so late back upstairs that everyone else was already sprawled around one of their smaller living rooms.
Wanda and Vision in their love seat, Loki and Thor in their own sofa opposite wandavision's — Loki in snake form draped over Thor's shoulders — finally Pietro and Tony on the ends of the centre sofa, leaving room between them for Pete. The Lord of the Rings movies that night. Loki loved a certain Elf, and Thor a certain bruiser. They watched all 3 movies, kinda, everyone had fallen asleep by the end of the second one. On orders FRIDAY still played the third one. Overall a great night, though not a morning.
First a flash of light shines through the window, earliest hours of the morning, followed by a shaking boom. Peter's Spidey Sense woke him up between the 2, the rest jumping up with the sound. "What was that!", Wanda yells, everyone shifting into battle stances — even Peter though no one noticed — all lured to the window.
It looked like a meteor shower... but of comets? Over a dozen balls of glowing Fire raining down over the Lower and Upper Bays and the waters beyond. All with beautiful tails behind them like regular comets. The instance they touched the water, it started freezing, ice creeping to the coast.
The rest of the avengers crowd the room immediately, just in time for Tony to call "FRI, what was that". She props up a holoscreen replaying the footage, slowing its speed just before landing for them to see. Thor sighs, "Skaði".
"The fuck is that?", Tony asks to a 'Language' protest from Steve and a mocking Bucky. Loki takes lead in explaining. "Skaði, mother of the Jötunn and goddess of winter and ice. Matron of Asgard's Jötunn, her descendants are why Asgard's surrounding mountains were frozen". Peter immediately recognised the name, it worried him. "After Ragnarok I presume they were spread across space, landing here now".
"Ok, What do we do?", Steve asks the room, setting them all together into their action plan. Tony would track the ice titans with his satellites, everyone else would split off around lower Manhattan and western Brooklyn. "Wait!", Peter shouts, thrashing through the Avengers refusal to let him help, "I'm trying to say, Loki knows about them, more than any of you! And he can fight! He can help, please!".
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A year to Remember. Part 3, The Conclusion
Fanfiction(Part 3 of A Year To Remember) Peter finally knows who his Zoo friends are, and everything is finally settling down. However while his friends - The Avengers - don't have any more secrets from him, he still has one last one he's keeping from them. S...
