Spiderkid

Nightmares: Part Uno

(Back to your regularly scheduled everyone-knows-and-adores-Peter stuff. Just one more thing.
Brace yourself.)

Tony smiled at Peter as the boy swung another terrorist away. Fighting by the Spider's side and seeing how far he'd come blossomed something in Tony's chest that he hadn't felt many times before. Only when he listened to all the voicemails the kid left him. Watching as he made upgrades on his own suit that Tony had never even thought of. Swinging around New York while listening to him chat about how disappointing an A- was to him. Tony liked that feeling. Pride.

"Almost done here," Rhodey announced through the team's coms firmly.

"Good," Hawkeye said nearby as he let loose the last of his arrows. "These guys were really starting to annoy me."

"Agreed," Nat grunted from somewhere on the dark, smokey battlefield.

Steve rolled past a fire and whacked a terrorist in the face with a metallic pang as his shield made contact. He glanced up at Tony tiredly. "What were these guys here for again?"

Tony shrugged. "I dunno. Do I look like Wikipedia to you?"

"Do you really think–" Tiny-Scott kicked a guy in the face, knocking him over. "–that Wikipedia would know something like that?"

"They know everything," Tony commented as he blasted the last of the bad guys in the back.

"Well, Wiki-How is better," Peter dropped down next to Tony in his Spiderman suit. "They have pictures."

"Huh?" Tony raised his face plate to eye the boy in confusion.

"Nothing," Peter chuckled. "Inside joke."

The team converged on Tony's position, stomping out fires in the road and throwing burning trucks over the cliff to keep them away from the forest on the other side of the pavement. Sam and Bucky tied all the terrorists together quickly before joining their teammates.

They were all sighing in relief, assuming it was over. Those high tech weapons had really done a number on them.

Vision opened his mouth to say something - probably point out that Thor had been absent again - but sudden machine gun fire cut him off abruptly.

Wanda swiped the bullets out of the air as Cap threw his shield forcefully at the nearly-hidden attacker. It bounced off the guy's head and he collapsed to the ground with a thud. Natasha rolled her eyes at the weak attempt to take down one of the Avengers.

Tony glanced back at Peter grinning, knowing the kid enjoyed seeing both Wanda's magic and Steve's shield skills. Instead the Spider was staring at the ground quietly. He must have missed it, Tony thought, slightly disappointed.

Then he noticed the kid clutching his side waveringly.

"Mr. Stark?" He gasped and stumbled forward. Tony caught him, surprised by the boy's sudden exhaustion.

"Oh god," Hope stepped up to him and helped Tony lower him to the ground. It took Tony a second to see what was wrong.

"Shit. Oh mother of shit, no."

Steve didn't even have the heart to language him. 

"Pete, what did you do?" Tony whispered to the teen and pressed a hand to the wound in his stomach, blood flowing in between his fingers rebelliously.