Spider-Man: Lost and Found (18+)

Chapter 8: The Way of the Spider

"I don't know about this..." Robin groaned to himself.

He stood just outside the tower in the grass, looking straight up at Peter casually sitting on the side of the building, several stories up.

"Trust me!" Peter called down with an amused chuckle. "The best way to learn is either through practice... or through intense life threatening pressure!" He called back, causing Tim to give a nervous gulp. "I prefer practice, but you know." He shrugged. "That's just me."

"You got this, Robin!" Wally called from across the yard. Tim looked back to see the speedster training with Starfire and the others, with Superboy, Miss Martian, and Aqualad watching on the sidelines. "No pain no gain!"

"Ignore him." Peter waved it off. "Falling isn't really an issue." Then he motioned the boy wonder towards him. "Come on, climb up here!"

"What if I DO fall?" He groaned as he approached the wall, sticking his hands to it.

"Don't worry, you'll catch yourself." Peter waved it off.

Tim raised a brow at that in confusion. "What do you mean, I'll catch myself?"

"Don't worry about that now." Peter waved it off as Tim slowly started scaling the wall. "Just focus on this right now."

"Okay." Tim said, looking down repeatedly with shaky breaths. "Okay... its okay. You got the grappling hook."

"You're doing great." Peter called down at him as Tim climbed another foot.

"You're like thirty feet high!" Tim groaned.

"And you'll probably climb higher." Peter shrugged. "Don't worry, worst case scenario, I'll catch you."

"I am SO gonna break my neck." Tim groaned as he kept climbing.

"You will NOT." Peter scoffed, looking off across the yard, waving at Cyborg and the others.

"What is the point of this, exactly?" Tim asked as he continued climbing.

"You need to be able to stick to the wall by CHOICE," he explained, "NOT because you can't help it." He shrugged. "I feel like that's the bare minimum."

"Yeah... sure." Tim panted as he continued climbing. "And I'm sure YOU didn't break your dresser in half just by TOUCHING it."

"Actually I DID." Peter chuckled. "And it wasn't the dresser, it was the bathroom wall."

"What!?" Tim gasped, stopping to look up at him in shock.

"Yeah... told my aunt it was a rat." He shrugged with a shake of the head. "Can't believe she bought that."

Cyborg stood by Raven as stood beside the training circle. Starfire and Wally were sparring in the center. The speedster ran straight at her, only for her to parry his attack, throwing him to the dirt.

"You still don't form a plan before you attack." Starfire said, helping him up apologetically.

Cyborg and Raven watched Peter and Tim from across the yard, with amused looks.

"He's doing pretty good with him." Cyborg shrugged.

"He's probably just overthinking it." Raven shrugged nonchalantly.

Cyborg nodded at that. "Probably..." he glanced over at Raven hesitantly, then asked. "You still mad at him?"

Raven glanced over at him with a sharp gaze, then rolled her eyes.

"Of course I am." She said, then gave a sigh, as she watched him. "But I'll get over it... eventually. " She shrugged.

Cyborg laughed at that.