A Second Family

-Chapter 19-

EDITED
"Shuri!" T'Challa frowned, very disappointed. He began to carefully pull strands of confetti out of his hair. "I do not wish to deal with your pranks tonight."

  The princess and Peter high fived each other, "Nice one Shuri!"

  "Thanks Peter," she laughed, placing her hand on her hip. "Maybe you should have been paying attention, brother." Black Panther frowned before dusting himself of and walking away, leaving a trail of rainbow paper behind him.

  The two teens laughed, "Who should we get next?"

  "I've got an idea!" Parker smiled and both of them ran down to the labs, very careful not to break anything.

  "This is the lab?" Shuri asked, uncertain for some reason. "Is this really all you have to work with?" But there was a tone to her voice that said she was joking.

  "Hey, not all of us have a large supply of vibranium," he rolled his eyes, walking up to a small, portable machine. When the princess asked what it was, Peter replied, "It's a project Mr. Stark is working on. I'm not sure what it's actually supposed to do, but when you turn it on it becomes a super strong magnet!"

  "And what are we supposed to do with this?"

  "Well," Spider-Man started. "I was thinking about who we should prank and then Mr. Bucky came in mind." He grinned knowing that she was catching on.

  "Ah I see," Shuri picked up the small object. "I guess that's a disadvantage of having a metal arm. Poor guy." Both teens ran back upstairs and went into hiding where they could still see the Avengers. They were playing Scrabble, one of the most uneventful board games in the universe. Just Peter's opinion, don't mind him.

  Shuri flipped on the machine, a soft buzz coming out from it. She turned the nob to the first level. Parker was trying his very hardest not to erupt into a laughing fit as they watched Bucky's metallic arm slightly rise. Barnes had no idea as he was very focused on his conversation with Natasha.

"Hey," Nat had a confused look on her face. "Bucky, your arm." He looked over at it and nearly jumped at seeing it. He attempted to push it back down, but Shuri found this to be a good time to turn up the magnet. Bucky nearly fell over at the strength his arm was suddenly being pulled at.

The two teens behind this tried their very hardest not to snicker. "Pfft!" Peter laughed as Barnes fell over the coffee table in front of him. The kids kept laughing until they felt a presence behind them. Peter and Shuri turned around to see Sam Wilson.

  "You two behind whatever's going on with Bucky?" The teen's smiled and hid the small contraption behind their backs. "Lemme see that..." Falcon snatched the machine from them, and to their surprise, began playing with the different nobs. "Ha! It's fun watching him fall!"

  Shuri and Peter laughed with Sam, but knew they were screwed when they saw Natasha glance in their direction. Her stare stiffened as she left Barnes to deal with his "malfunctioning" arm on his own. "Shit!" Shuri cursed under her breath as she carefully turned off the machine. Bucky left lying on the floor exhausted.

"What is this?" Nat tapped her foot and crossed her arms, looking completely unamused. Peter went to speak but there was no point. "Don't even bother, you know you're behind this-"

"Yeah. How dare you," Wilson put a disappointed look on his face, though he was just as guilty. "Very disappointed."

The two teens glared at the man for completely throwing them under the bus. It didn't seem to get passed Natasha though, "I want you to go apologize to Bucky... you too Sam." Nat had to admit, she enjoyed bossing Sam around. She especially found amusement in his utterly shocked reaction. The three tried arguing, Sam seemed to be just as much of a kid as the actual kids, but Nat wasn't having any of it as she sent them on their way to go apologize.

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  "Why didn't you invite me? I wish I could've hung out with the Avengers all weekend," Ned complained as he walked with his best friend to school. With every step they took, the newly fallen snow crunched beneath their feet.

  "Ned, none of them really know you. Mr. Stark's I guess the only one and you haven't even had a real conversation..." Peter made a mental note to ask Tony if it would be okay to invite Ned over sometime.

  "Y'know, I feel like it's my responsibility, as Spider-Man's guy in the chair, I should get to know Iron Man and the rest of the Avengers," he smiled. "Just in case something were to happen. Maybe I'd need to call for backup." Peter just rolled his eyes, he knew his friend was being all serious.

  They sat down in their first period, luckily having the same class and awaited for the morning announcements. "Good morning Midtown High!" The faces of Betty Brant and Jason Ionello appears on the monitor. "The date is December eleventh and this is your daily news."

The two hosts stared at the camera for a few seconds, forgetting who was supposed to say the next line. Jason finally spoke up, "Today for lunch; pizza slice with potatoes and milk." He smiled cornily at his audience.

Peter drowned out the announcement until the important information came on, "-forms for Midtown's Nationwide scholarship application have been sent to schools across the country."

"Five applicants of the scholarship will be chosen to attend Midtown. Attending Midtown is great for college applications," Midtown High School did this scholarship every year for the "best minds" in America. It's not like Midtown's the best school out there, but it's better than others out there for it's STEM program.

"By next semester there will be five new faces," the two teenagers smiled as the monitor cut to black.

"I don't get why they do that stupid thing every year," Flash mumbled to a red haired girl who'd happened to had won the scholarship previously. "This school's not that great. There's plenty of better ones."

Peter glared at Flash Thompson from where he was sitting. That bully could be really inconsiderate sometimes. Parker sat his head down on his desk as he tried to listen to his teacher's lecture.

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