Irondad and Spiderson One-Shots

Light of My Life: Pt 1

Peter's parents are alive in this one.

"Dad? Dad!"

"Over here, kid."

"Hey Dad, I have a cool idea for my spider suit!"

Tony listened as Peter began to go on a rant about adding invisibility. He still remembered the day he took Peter in as his child. Peter and May were taken aback by the offer to adopt him, which Tony couldn't blame. But ultimately, they agreed. May was happy to share custody as she saw Peter's happiness. She saw the joy it brought him to work alongside Tony.

And now here the boy was getting excited over adding a new ability to his suit. Interestingly, things were mostly the same between them. The only changes were that Peter now lived with Tony, called him Dad instead of "Mr. Stark", and the Avenger's "Uncle" or "Aunt." It just came to show how much of their relationship's father/son element was already there. The adoption was more so to make it legally official between them. Little did the pair know that something would try to get in the way of it.

You see, Peter was well aware of his parents leaving him with his Aunt May and Uncle Ben. After speaking with S.H.I.E.L.D years later, he would find out that it was because they were spies. They were trying to live a normal life afterward, even having Peter much later. Unsurprisingly, however, they would be at risk of being found out by their enemies and thus had to run off.

All Peter could do was wonder why they would have a kid when having enemies puts you at great risk of being found. Why did Peter have to suffer the consequences of his parent's actions? Never had anything angered Peter more than people suffering because someone else didn't think things through. Needless to say, Peter had decided since then to stop missing them and not look forward to seeing them. Why look forward to seeing people that lack the foresight to recognize that having spies for parents means never being able to have a normal life? Sure, it wasn't normal still, but at least it didn't stop him from having any kind of normalcy. No amount of Avengers, Spider-Man, Iron Man/Tony Stark, mutants, or even literal Norse gods would take away the normalcy of going to school, meeting with friends, getting grounded by Dad, or getting his help with homework. That normalcy is what any kid deserves to have in life. Even the enjoyable ones like family picnics or getting ice cream.

Having spies for parents would never allow that. They would be gone all the time if they kept him anyway. If anything, they're gone now. As far as Peter was concerned, Aunt May and Pepper were his mothers, and Tony Stark was his mother and father. The Avengers and Fury were his Aunts and Uncles. Ned, in his friendship with him, was his brother. MJ was his love, and little Morgan was his sister. They were his family.

But it seems his biological parents didn't agree. They just showed up one day in front of Stark Industries, asking to meet Stark himself.

"Mr. Stark."

"Yeah, Fri?"

"A couple wish to speak with you."

"Yeah? Who are they?"

"They say they are Mr. and Mrs. Parker, sir."

The man froze on the spot.

"Come again? Repeat that?"

"Mr. and Mrs. Parker."

He had no idea what to say. What was Peter going to think? Tony knew fully well how his son felt about them. Was he even going to be interested in meeting them? How would his biological parents feel being told about the indifference Peter had towards them all these years?

How do you even start a conversation with them as the adoptive parent!?

"Uh... yeah, let them in."

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