05 - RED RIDING HOOD

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PETER AND KAELYN WATCHED AS A FLOATING, SENTIENT CAPE TAPPED TONY STARK ON THE SHOULDER

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PETER AND KAELYN WATCHED AS A FLOATING, SENTIENT CAPE TAPPED TONY STARK ON THE SHOULDER. Tony jumped, turning to the cape and saying, "Wow, you're a seriously loyal piece of outerwear, aren't you?"

Slowly, Peter spun a web down from where they were hiding, revealing himself to Tony and announcing nervously, "Yeah, uh, speaking of loyalty..."

"What the..."

"I know what you're gonna say!" Peter exclaimed before Tony finished his sentence. Kaelyn still hid in the rafters, not wanting to overwhelm Tony at first. She suggested the waiting, especially since she knew Mr. Stark was going to have an overwhelmingly negative reaction to both of them being on an alien spaceship.

Before Peter could even finish his sentence, Tony sighed, "You should not be here."

"I was gonna go home —"

"I don't wanna hear it!" Tony asserted, sounding frustrated, "Trouble comes in pairs with you, where's the other one? I know she's here."

Leaping down from the rafters and landing gracefully, her mask came off and her red hair tumbled over her shoulders as she smiled sheepishly at the man, "Hey, Mister Stark!"

While he looked at her disappointedly, Peter continued with his explanation as to why he was exactly where he wasn't supposed to be, "— but it was such a long way down and I just thought about you on the way..."

"And now I gotta hear it," Tony finished the sentence, looking annoyed at both of them, "Kaelyn, you're here to be the voice of reason and keep him out of trouble, not to be influenced by him."

She just shrugged, "Felt like having some role reversal?"

Tony just shook his head, looking at Peter who was still trying to explain, "We just kinda stuck to the side of the ship! And this suit is ridiculously intuitive by the way, so it's kinda your fault that we're here."

"God damn it," the man muttered. "What did you just say?"

Immediately, Peter stumbled over his words causing Kaelyn to giggle as he stammered, "I take that back! And now, we're here, in space."

Tony stepped closer to the two of them, "Yeah, exactly where I didn't want you guys to be. This isn't Coney Island. This isn't a field trip. This is a one-way ticket. You hear me? Don't pretend you thought this through."

"No, I did think this through," Peter argued as he grabbed Kaelyn's hand to keep her close.

"I know you didn't. Kaelyn, you're smarter than this. Both of you are. You guys could not have possibly thought this through."

"You can't be a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man if there's no neighborhood," Peter tried to defend with his final point, but he stumbled over himself per usual, "Okay, that didn't really make sense, but you know what I'm trying to say."

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