It's Sunday afternoon and Peters spidey senses spikes up. It feels like electricity just ran through his body.
Peter changes direction and swings off towards the immediate, threatening danger. It takes him ten minutes before he reaches Manhattan to see the destruction.
He internally cringes as the deja vu he's feeling because not too long ago on a Sunday, robots were attacking and now here they are again.
"Eve, hook me up to their comms please" Peter instructs as he slams into a robot. "Having a party without me?"
"An unplanned party" Bucky corrects.
"Spidey, you're on civilian duty" Steve orders.
"I don't know if you noticed but there's no civilians around. If I see someone, I'll help them but I'll continue fighting until I do" Peter responds after a moment of scanning to find no civilians.
"Do what Cap says, he's in charge" Sam instructs.
"Aren't you the people's person? You should want to help save civilians and if you don't, this job isn't cut out for you" Clint informs.
"I just said I will but so far there are no civilians" Peter points out as he hits another robot.
"It's not that hard to listen to a simple task. I can see you still hitting robots when these mortals are in grave danger" Thor informs.
"I scan no civilians" Peter rolls his eyes.
"Lay off Spidey, focus on your own robots and if people are closer to you, help them" Bucky interrupts.
"Bucky, Spidey needs to be on civilian duty. Buildings and vehicles are getting damaged, civilians could be trapped" Steve argues.
"I can't hear anyone in the buildings near me or vehicles and my AI did a scan showing no bodies. Would you fucking cool it and help fight these robots instead of arguing?" Peter questions while another robot goes down.
"ROARRRRR!!!" Hulk screams as he stomps on some robots near Peter.
"Hey Hulk!" Peter greets.
"Friend!" Hulk smiles.
"Yeah big guy, we're friends" Peter smiles. "Want to help me smash these robots?"
"Hulk smash!" Hulk replies, smashing some more robots.
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Peter's tired. He's so fucking tired and annoyed.
Throughout the entire fight Steve, Sam, Clint, and Thor wouldn't leave him alone. Eve disconnected the comms but every time he saw them in battle, they just had to say something.
Bucky would try to get them to shut up when they were near him but it wasn't enough. They just followed Peter or run past him and yell at him for doing something wrong, not listening to an order and shutting off his comms.
"He wouldn't help the mortals!"
"He turned off his comms!"
"He didn't listen to any of my orders!"
"He almost made Hulk stampede us!"
Now that was pretty funny. When Steve, Clint, and Hulk were near him, the two former kept yelling at him that even Hulk got annoyed.
"He was talking back!"
"He wouldn't watch our six!"
"He didn't help the team!"
"ENOUGH!!" Fury shouts making all four heroes shut up. "You all act like children. I saw the footage on my way ove-"
"What footage?" Steve interrupts.
"Do not interrupt up Rogers" Fury practically growls. "And Spider-Man is innocent. There were no casualties, nobody even in the area. Bucky, want to add something?"
"He fought the robots and that's all that matters. He helped the team by doing that" Bucky exclaims.
"Bruce?" Fury prompts.
"Ummm well the Hulk likes him and he doesn't like them all yelling at him right now" Bruce admits.
"Look, a civil team! Now would you four stop complaining to me about nothing?" Fury spats.
"Why are you suddenly helping him? You get annoyed as easily at us when it comes to him" Clint points out.
"I do get annoyed but right now he isn't doing anything and I mean it Spidey, not a word" Fury warns, pointing a finger at him. "You four are making me think I'm a preschool teacher! There are two men over a hundred years and acting like toddlers! How can you guys even be a team when all you do is complain and fight? You're lucky you three were even on this mission because you're still benched but I was down people."
"Lucky? We deserved to be on that mission! We sure did a hell lot better of a job than Spidey" Sam protests.
"I'm getting a headache from you guys belly aching all the time. I'm only on this team because you guys need good PR. There's still a lot of hate for the messes you guys cause after battles and then you have the audacity to ditch. You guys don't care about the people at all, you only care when the threat is world ending because you live in this world. I mean you don't even help with the clean ups! Whether I'm on this team or not, I would've showed up anyways to help protect the people who live in this city" Peter chimes in.
"This could just be a stunt you are pulling man of spiders. We know nothing about you and you haven't proven to us that we can trust you. Trust comes in many forms and you've failed at them all" Thor declares.
"It's hard to trust you guys too" Peter retorts.
"You three are still benched for the rest of the week until Monday. I want you all to stop bitching and moaning and go help the clean up crew who are still out there" Fury demands only for no one to make a move. "Everyone, go now. Chop, chop."
Everyone leaves the room muttering hateful and accusatory things about Peter but he tunes them out. They all hop in the jet and fly back to the destruction they left. Peter was going to go help the clean up crew later when he left but Fury helpfully pushed those plans to now.
"I'll be with the EMTS, I don't trust Hulk fully right now but he'll come out if you guys really need the help" Bruce informs to which no one protests to.
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Bucky and Peter mainly stick together, lifting debris, and cleaning up destroyed robots. Sam, Clint, Steve, and Thor are off somewhere else and the clean up crew is scattered everywhere.
"Was the team always like this before I joined?" Peter wonders breaking the silence.
"They argue like how siblings argue, sometimes it's worst" Bucky shrugs.
"I made it worse" Peter states.
"They just need to act like grown adults and get over with their toddler filled acting" Bucky responds.
Peter doesn't say anything and picks up a robot piece to discard it. A nagging feeling forms in the back of his throat and he lets out a sigh.
"I'm not letting anything they say get to me, I was trained better than that. I don't care what they say but I don't want to keep you and Steve separated. He's your best friend and I put a hold on that friendship. I was honestly a little excited to meet him too. I loved hearing your stories, all of them and I'm just sorry I messed things up between you two" Peter apologizes.
"I don't blame you kid but it's also not your fault. I want you to stick around, Steve will pull through eventually and I'm glad you like my stories" Bucky assures. "Our friendship will be fine."
Peter kind of doubts that but he doesn't voice his thoughts to Bucky. He wants to have some sort of hope that Steve will get his head out of his ass and not drag Bucky through the dirt. He's fine if Steve doesn't like him, he just doesn't want to ruin Buckys family.
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Breaking Chains, Rising Vigilante
FanfictionPeter Parker escaped Hydra when he was eleven years old thanks to his parents raising him there. Forced to live on the streets of the city, he found his own freedom. Becoming the vigilante known as Spider-Man was the best decision he ever had. Now...
