PARKER AND HOLLAND IMAGINES

COOL? - PETER

"HEY! DEBRIS COMING, 9 O'CLOCK!" Tony Stark barely had time to shout out instructions before a large boulder was heading her way. She threw up her arm, intending for it to block her face when the large rock finally hit her, however out of her wristlet, a huge shield emerged, and the force of the boulder hitting it threw her across the field.
"(Y/N)! YOU ALRIGHT?" Stark called out to her, continuing to fight off the large pieces of land which was being launched at them from afar.
"NEVER BETTER!" She said, throwing up a thumbs up for a final, convincing tone.
"Hey, you sure?" Spider-Man called as he swung past.
"Showing up late, as usual," she said, a small smirk playing on her lips as she avoided his question. "Now are you gonna help us? Or swing around and look pretty?"
The young superhero stood up, clutching her side as she tried to catch her breath. She activated her bracelets, and she seemed nearly invisible, apart from a slight sliver of an outline. She took a deep breath before pushing as hard as she could, sprinting with all her might.
In order to stop the various debris and rocks from hurtling towards the city, she would have to get close to the source of the launching, a source which was still unknown to both her and Tony. She could only assume this was the work of a rouge machine, or a newly relevant nemesis.
Upon closer approach, all she found was a small, hovering contraption; a purple, glowing gem encased in a metal cage. The ground under and around it came up in chunks, raising in altitude before being launched at full speed towards were Tony and Spider-Man were deflecting the pieces from the city.
She moved slower, trying to maintain stealth in case this machine could sense movement. Given the location, (Y/N) could only assume that this machine was planted, likely part of a bigger plot. She approached carefully, still undercover from her wrist cuffs, and she cautiously disarmed the machine.
Disabling the invisibility charm, she quickly began to hover with help from her ankle cuffs, and she flew back over to where Tony and Spider-Man were standing. She landed next to them.
"Well?" Tony asked, his suits face disengaging, leaving his own to talk to them.
She raised her hand, opening it to reveal a purple stone, one that caused Spider-Man to own a look of surprise. Tony took it from her hand.
"Mr. Stark, what is that?" The kid in the red suit asked. This was the first time she had heard his voice outside of battle, and she had only just recognized it from being the same voice as the kid who sat behind her in history class: Peter Parker.
She stared at him momentarily, drowning out the conversation between Tony Stark and herself.
"(Y/N)? You getting this?" Tony asked, waving a hand in front of her face.
"Of course," she replied, only now entering the conversation.
"This is highly advanced alien tech, if either of you come across this again, you have to get it to me immediately, we don't know how dangerous this stuff could be," Tony closed his hand around stone, the glow surrounding it disappearing.
"You, get back to the labs, run diagnostics on this equipment; I wasn't sure it would be functional yet," Tony said, pointing to her and her bracelets. "And you," Tony said, turning back to Peter, "get back to Queens, before you get hurt."
"But Mr. Stark—" Peter began but was swiftly cut off.
"You're the friendly, neighborhood Spider-Man, remember? That means no alien, and no fighting alongside Iron Man, got it?" Tony said, making his face disappear behind his armor again, and flying off towards Stark Tower before Peter could get a comment in.
"Thanks for h—helping, Peter," she said sincerely, only a slight stutter in her voice.
"You know who I am?" He asked, his face becoming confused under the suit.
"I—I gotta go!" She initiated the flying feature on her ankle cuffs again, soon taking off in the same direction as Tony.

As history class began to approach, she began to panic. She feared that despite not saying two words to Peter all year, that he would somehow recognize her as being the face behind the mask from last night.
She walked into the classroom, and a small smile found its way onto her face as she saw Peter was sitting there, but she quickly covered it as she sat in front of him and waited for class to begin.
Like almost every other day in school, the end of the class period came, and Peter and herself had not spoken. She was glad, although a bit of disappointment settled in her gut, that he hadn't figured out her secret, second identity, but that relief was gone when the bell signaling the end of class rang.
"Hey, (Y/N), can we talk?" Peter said as she was already up and almost out the door. She stopped in her tracks and waited for him to catch up to her.
"S—so what did you want to talk about?" She asked, her face going flush from her embarrassment.
"Well, I heard you've got an internship at Stark Industries, and I do too so I was thinking we could like talk about it sometime."
"Uh... yeah, yeah, sure. We can..., talk about that and... stuff," she looked up at him, but the second he turned to look back she turned her face, the skin on her cheeks getting even redder, if that was possible.
"Cool, so we can do that," Peter said. "See you later I guess..., uh, at the internship?"
"Yeah, see you... there," she quickly turned into the next classroom, desperate to get away from him before embarrassing herself even more.

She hunched over the lab table, her goggles securely on her face, as she moved to mere millimeters away from the magnifying glass on the table, trying to locate the loose wire on the bracelet she had used the previous night.
"How's the work going?" Tony asked as he entered the room, slightly startling the girl working diligently on her machine.
"Don't bother me, I'm concentrating," she said through clenched teeth, trying to keep her focus on the work in front of her.
"Oh, I can see that. I just came by to see how everything is doing in 'boy world'," Tony said, putting his hand up to quote the phrase boy world.
"Tony, you are not my dad, so go away," she said.
"Right, I'm not your dad, so I can intervene all I want, right?" Tony said. She looked up from her work, giving Tony a chilling glare. But he didn't back down. "Well, I'll leave you to your precious work, but a Mr. Parker wanted to speak with you about something from school? Now, I can only assume this isn't the same Mr. Parker you go on and on about on a dai—"
"Shut up!" She said abruptly, concerned for the next phrase that would've come out of Tony's mouth.
"Oh, so it is? I'll send him right in." Tony left, and held the door open long enough for Peter to come in. Her face immediately turned a beet red. She looked back down at the work in front of her.
"Oh, hey is this uh—"
"Don't touch it," she said loudly, as she noticed Peter reaching towards the ankle cuffs that she wore last night. "They are finally working and I don't want to risk it."
"Right, sorry," Peter said, putting his hands in his pockets. "So, are you making this for Tony? I assume it will be added to his armor?"
"No, this is mine actually." She didn't even comprehend her slip until Peter stood there staring at her.
"This tech is yours, that means—"
"Shit."
"—Your the girl from last night. You stopped the—boulders?" Peter said, looking at her more intensely now.
"Uh—" She couldn't even get a sound out before Tony barged in, uninvited like always.
"There's my two lovebirds, has he asked you out yet?" Tony looked her dead in the eyes, then turned to look at Peter. "She is hopelessly in love with you, you know?"
At this comment, Peter began to burn up too.
"Oh, would you look at the time, I almost forgot I had a meeting. Silly me, well I'll catch up on you two later, okay?"
Tony left, clearly only visiting in the first place to embarrass both of them immensely.
"Well then,... uhm—"
"Sorry," she cut Peter off.
"Oh, no need to apologize. I came here to ask you out, for dinner, or something," Peter looked at the ground embarrassed.
"Oh—" she said in response, to overwhelmed to say anything else.
"You don't have to..." Peter trailed off.
"But I want to... have dinner with you. If that's cool?" She said, looking up at his face for the first time.
"Cool," Peter smiled a large smile, which she returned.
"Cool."

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