Stark Crossed Lovers

Chapter Nineteen

Peter had a long day at school. Two tests, gym with Flash, and he was out of his normal environment. They had to move to a different school building in Queens due to Midtown being a mess. Oc had left the school looking a total mess. Peter met up with Ned after gym and decided he would walk to his apartment instead if taking the bus, before going and seeing Sam later in the evening. "Hey man!" Ned exclaimed seeing his best friend walking towards him. "Hey," Peter said weakly as he threw up his hand. After they did their handshake Ned smiled and asked "So, how's the lady friend?" Peter returned the smile, thinking about Sam fondly as he always did, "I actually haven't heard from her today, maybe I should give her a call." Ned had grown to care for Sam the more Peter talked about her. She made Peter happy and that made Ned happy. That and she also loved Star Wars. "You should see if we can sneak her out Peter." Peter started to chuckle before pulling his phone out of his pocket. But looking at his phone made his face fall. He had  missed calls from Sam. He was feeling something he didn't always feel, fear. He immediately started to dial Sam, no answer. Then again, no answer. Over and over again he tried. To his dismay every time he called there was no answer. "Dude what's up?" Ned questioned seeing the fear painted over Peter's face. "I gotta go, now," Peter said urgently running towards an empty ally. "Ooo Spider stuff? Awesome!" Ned couldn't help himself. "Ned no, not awesome. I think Sams in trouble," Peter said whipping the suit out of his back pack. "Dude. Damsel in Distress?" Ned said still finding the situation somewhat cool regardless of the look on Peters face. "If May calls you asking about where I'm at come up with something good," Peter called down to his friend as he shot webs to the sky slinging himself towards Stark Tower. He assumed that Tony would probably be in his lab, where he always was, so he skipped right over the front door to the tower and went straight to the window that led into his lab. Reaching the window he realized that Tony was upset about something. The sensation of fear grew bigger as he looked at his mentors face and he frantically banged on the window. Tony looked up and called FRIDAY to open the window. "Hey Mr. Stark!" Peter said in a rush, ripping off his mask. "Kid what's up?" Tony said acknowledging the pain in Peter's face. "Wheres Sam?" Peter said in the most calm voice he could. "I told you, virtual friends and nothing more, you're not allowed to see her." Peter cut across him because he was missing the point. "That's not why I am asking, I have missed calls, I tried calling back but she didn't answer, I just have this feeling..." Peter trailed off hoping his sense was off, but deep down he knew it wasn't. "Alright, fine let me check out her location," Tony strongly doubted that she could leave without him knowing. But he took his phone out anyway to appease the kid. Tony went stone faced, her location read unavailable. "She's turned it off," Tony mumbled under his breath, getting up out of his desk chair and rushing towards an elevator. "She turned off her location?" Peter said frantically following Tony towards the elevator. Tony sighed, and stepped into the elevator, "We got into a disagreement about.." Tony trailed off and thought about what to say to Peter, he decided it wasn't important and said, "It doesn't matter, she took off from the lab and went upstairs but I thought she just went to her room." Peter stared back at Tony. If Sam wasn't here where was she? Once they got off the elevator they both rushed upstairs to her door. They found their way blocked by a locked door. “Hold on,” Tony said fiddling in his pocket for keys to unlock Sams bedroom door. Through the door Tony and Peter were both disappointed to see that she wasn't in the tower at all.  “I feel like I'm going to be sick,” Peter spoke, thinking out loud. Though Tony felt the same way he had to toughen up to find his daughter. “You can be sick once we find her, come on,” Tony said rushing to the elevator to go back to the lab. “We don't even know where she is sir,” Peter said in the elevator the pain echoing in his voice. “Not for sure, but I have a pretty good idea,” Tony said, his voice full of determination. Once in the lab Tony immediately walked into his suit and went to fly off before looking back at Peter. “If things get too dangerous you need to go ho..” but Peter interrupted him. “Not this time Mr. Stark. Not with Sam involved.” Tony found it endearing that someone felt so deeply for his child, he was glad Peter couldn't see his face. If only he wasn't Spider-Man. “Just don't die,” Tony snarkingly replied to Peter before they both took off through the lab window, off to find Sam. “Where are we going sir?” Peter questioned after a bit of web slinging through the city. “The only person outside of the superhero world that knows about Sam is Ursula, so were going to him.” Tony tried to joke through his anxiety about what Oc was doing to his kid. “Ursula?” Peter questioned getting the joke but not finding it funny. “My jokes aren't as witty when I'm worried,” Tony replied, acknowledging the distaste for his previous joke. It took them awhile to find the old warehouse but eventually they made it. They decided to land on a nearby tree so they could see into the building through the window. What they saw was frightening. There, inside Ocs warehouse was Sam, tied up to a chair. He seemed to be interrogating and her and when he got answers he didn't like he went ballistic. “He's trying to get information out of her.” Tony stated as the anger built up quickly inside of him. “But what about?” Peter questioned. “I don't know kid, let me just use my super hearing,” Tony said sarcastically. Peter looked up at Tony and said “Oh yeah fair enough.” Tony looked at him and rolled his eyes then said “We need a plan.” Peter analyzed the building thinking about the situation. “I will take the sides and you handle the skies” Peter said taking off towards the window of the building. “Kid what's that supposed to mean ?” Tony called out to Peter. “I don't know but it sounded cool in my head,” Peter yelled back before reaching the side of the building. Peter began slowly crawling up to the window. “Hey KAREN,” Peter said to his A.I. “Could you tell me what they are saying?” The calm female voice responded immediately “Certainly Peter.” The A.I. was able to boost the sound of Sam and Ocs conversation so Peter could listen without being heard. “Be smart kid, where does he keep it?” Then he heard Sam, “I would say in his pants but that wouldn't always be true.” Sam responded back. If she couldn't physically fight then her wit might just be her best weapon. Even Peter couldn't help but laugh quietly at Sams comment. “No you little brat THE MONEY WHERE DOES YOUR FATHER KEEP HIS MONEY?” Oc screamed at Sam. She was trying to keep herself together but he was starting losing control, and she was getting scared. “Oh that's what you're looking for? Well in that case I'm not sure, maybe under his mattress like a hillbilly.” Oc picked up a chair and threw it passed Sam's head. “That's okay child,” he said trying to sound calm after his outburst. “If you won't tell me I will just have to pull it out of you,” Oc said moving one of his giant mechanical arms towards Sam. She shut her eyes so she didn't see his creepy claw coming her way. Then she heard a familiar voice. "Hey Oc! Why don't you attack someone with as many hand as you? Karen turn in instant kill mode." Peter's suit popped four extra limbs out. Sam laughed, she was relieved that Peter had come to her rescue. Oc looked up in surprise but smiled an evil smile, a smile that read clear that he wanted to rip him apart. Sam looked between the two, she was happy Peter found her but scared that he would get hurt. Then, the fight began.