Peter Parker and his trip to Stark Towers

chapter 7

Peter knew this training room well. It was the one that his dad had modified for him. There were beams of different lengths and textures that he could stick to and swing from. He always made sure to train here because it gave him the greatest chance of winning and he liked to beat Earth's mightiest heroes. 

He could see his Aunt and Uncle sparring on the mat. Steve threw a punch that Nat was supposed to dodge. She caught it and spun Steve's arm around and took his body with him, he hit the floor with a dull thud. Natasha leaped down to straddle Steve's chest but Steve pushed up with his arms and shoved her onto the floor next to him. She kneed him in the side causing him to roll away from her in pain. Nat used the momentum to push him onto his front, she followed through by swinging her leg over and applying pressure to the back of Steve's neck. Steve tried to throw her off but evidently failed, he chose to tap out instead. 

good choice thought Pete as the two righted themselves. 

Natasha approached the group and Steve went to go get water bottles. 

"Afternoon kids, I'm Black Widow as you know and that over there is Steve or Captain America. " Said Natasha when she reached the group. She then turned to Mr. Harrington and asked: "The kids all signed the waiver right?" He nodded in response, he was a little bit awestruck and let's face it who wouldn't be?

"Alright kids, Teach over here gave me the all-clear so we are gonna show you some fighting tricks" The class lost it.

Peter groaned he figured by now that everyone knew about Flash and how he treated Peter and that this whole exercise was probably just to embarrass him and Flash, two for the price of one. Steve came over lookin' all righteous and gave the class a 'Captain America™' stare and that seemed to calm them down. 

"Right kids, we're gonna need a volunteer," Steve said with a smile and he didn't even flinch when almost every hand in the class went up. 

"You!" Tasha said pointing to Flash who was jumping up and down like an excited "Eugene Thompson" 

"Call me Flash," he said enthusiastically but Natasha was already walking away towards the mat, he followed behind her like a lost puppy.  "OK Flash hit me" Flash scoffed like it was almost too easy. He put up his fists all wrong for the way to combat what Natasha was preparing for. He threw the lousiest of punches in the history of all punches one that Nat dodged just by moving her head. She then did a similar thing to what she did to Steve. She fiercely twisted his arm and threw him to the floor, this time however, she just turned back to the class barely concealing her smirk. "That was pathetic, how about someone else". 

Only a few were bold enough to put their hands back up, but not many wanted to face the same embarrassment that Flash went through. "Hey how about you" Steve perked up "Skinny lookin' kid hiding at the back" 

"Stevie knows better than anyone that the skinniest kid it's always the weakest and by the looks of what Bдoba (Widow) did to that poor kid then it won't take much to be the strongest kid in the room" Everyone turned as Bucky walked into the gym and clapped Pete on the shoulder. Bucky squeezed his shoulder just a bit too hard, making it very clear that he knew just about everything and there was no way he was escaping this. Bucky dropped his hand and he felt Peter move forward. 

Peter slowly made his way, slowly, to the mat. Natasha was swinging her arms she was ready for him to go hard, but he couldn't risk it, he had to protect his identity, he couldn't face any more attention in school. 

"Right kid, try hit me," and Peter did he threw a punch, one with significantly more technique than Flash did. This time when Nat went to grab his arm he pulled it away before she had the chance. She then chose to go on the offense and tried swinging at him. Peter dodged and blocked for a minute or so until Natasha caught him square on the chest and pushed him to the floor. 

" I thought it was just taps?" Peter hissed 

" And I thought you were better than this kid. Why do you think we did this? huh? Square up kid and fight like you were trained by me!"

fine peter thought. He picked himself up off the mats and brought up his fists. This time he fought to win. 

The two heroes danced around each other. It could only be described as majestic. Finally, Peter managed to catch Nat off guard and had her on the floor. Steve very helpfully called that the end. 

"Лучше, несколько ошибок, но ничего мы не можем сгладить на данный момент (Better, Few mistakes but nothing we can't smooth out for now,)" Natasha whispered to him as they walked over. Nat had made sure Peter learned Russian the second she knew he was sticking around.

They arrived back at the group and Peter scuttled away whilst Natasha and Steve ran through some of the moves that they had just done, thankfully they demonstrated on each other rather than any of his classmates. After that, they took a few relevant questions and then proceeded to dismiss Happy saying they could handle it from there, grumbled something inaudible and ambled back to the elevator.

"What say we head to where you guys are staying tonight?" said Steve once the elevator had closed. The class started buzzing at the mere suggestion. 

Peter very quickly remembered that they were staying on his floor and that his Lab was there and also so was his spiderman suit, web-shooters and just about everything else that would reveal who he was. He pulled out his phone to text Karen, he looked over at Steve and made a suggestion that screamed GIVE ME A MINUTE. The Captain sent him a nod so small it was barely noticeable but Pete saw and Pete understood.

Peter: Hey Karen is there anything on my floor that is particularly 'for my eyes only'

Karen: There was but Boss' meeting ended sooner than he thought and so has taken the liberty of making the place as 'other's eyes too' friendly as he can

Peter: Cool. Thanks, Karen can you lock up and blackout the lab for me. Also, who is on my floor right now?

Karen: The whole team except for who is with you now. In addition, there is Wade and a surprise for you. 

Peter: Okayyyyyyy thanks Karen

Peter slipped his phone in his pocket and gave Steve the all-clear and they proceeded to the elevator. The class at this point had almost given up being in awe of Peter and his seemingly endless list of secrets he kept.  But if the whole team was there and his boyfriend and his kind of half-ish brother, well then Flash didn't stand a chance.