I'll be your family now

Kids X

Duck. Kick. Defend. Punch. Punch. Duck.

Sweat shining in Peter's forehead, his brow furrowed in concentration as he tried to think and fight at the same time. He had found a pattern in Steve's movements, and if he could anticipate his next one he'd be able to stop it and get the upper hand in the combat.

It was the first time he trained with the Avengers, and man, he was excited, not only because he was training with the Avengers, but because they thought that he'd be able to catch up with them.

It wasn't much, just an exercise to see his real potential, how strong and fast he really was, how he acted in a combat, etc.

"Why can't we use weapons? I'm sure I could stole your shield again" Peter said as he ducked an attack.

"We talked about this" Steve responded, concentrated in his movements "No talking while fighting"

"Helps me concentrate" Peter tried to shrug, but was quickly interrupted by Steve's fist in his chest "Man!"

"Head in the game, Underoos!" the kid heard Tony shouting as his dad came in and, being honest, it did deconcentrate him a little, Tony doing High School Musical references? He was rubbing off on his dad.

Peter rolled his eyes and tried to look once more for the pattern; and he anticipated the next punch to his jaw, catching Steve's fist in his own, which was surprising enough. But Steve thought fast, aiming a knee to his side, throwing him off balance and making him fall with a grunt, that had hurt.

"Watch out, Capsicle!" Tony said "If you even bruise him I'll beat the crap out of you"

Steve rolled his eyes, extending a hand for Peter to take and getting the kid back up.

"Sorry, Pete"

"Don't worry, it was mostly the surprise of the impact" Peter looked at his dad, who looked concerned and affirmed in his direction "I'm fine"

His dad walked to him "You better be" he responded, looking pointedly at Steve.

"I said sorry" he put his hands up "Anyway, it was impressive, what you did there"

"Yeah! A kid almost got you, Steve!"

"How did you know the punch was coming? Spider senses?" Steve was actually curious, he wanted to know how the kid worked, he knew how everyone in the team fought and their best and weak points, except Peter.

"I realized your attack pattern, I anticipated it, sadly I did not see your knee coming" the kid laughed.

"Wow, you got brains, kid!"

"Of course he has, not everyone is like you, Steve" Peter saw his dad roll his eyes, and for a second he wondered if he was being serious or teasing, when he smirked he knew it was the latter.

"Yep" Peter jumped off of the platform they were fighting in "I'm offended, really"

"You both know what I meant"

"Yeah, we do, but we just like to mess with you" Peter smirked before drinking a whole bottle of water.

"Oh, no! There're two of them now" Steve followed Tony off the platform, feigning distress.