PAIN [PETER PARKER]

0.4

May 7th, 2016

The trio entered Peter's room. Gwen was surprised at how plain his room was. There were no posters on the wall or any type of decorations. There was only a small twin bed and desk.

Once the boys were inside the room, Gwen shut the door and then she locked it. Tony walked over to the garbage can to spit out the meatloaf that was in his mouth, "As walnut date loaves go, that wasn't bad."

"Whoa, what do we have here?" Gwen ask's, walking over to the collection of parts on Peter's desk, "Retro tech, huh? Thrift store? Salvation Army?"

"Uh, the garbage, actually," Peter admits, looking down at his feet.

Gwen nods her head, "You're a dumpster diver. Nice."

"Yeah, I was," Peter stated, "Anyway, look, um, I definitely did not apply for your grant."

"Ah-ah!" Tony interrupted, "Me first."

Peter gave a small nod, "Okay."

Tony looked to Gwen as he spoke, "Quick question of the rhetorical variety."

The younger Stark then pulled up and projected a video from her phone. It was on a loop and showed Peter stopping a speeding car from crashing into a bus. Gwen gave a smirk, "That's you, right?"

Peter shook his head and tried to hide his shocked expression, "Um, no. What do you... What do you mean?"

"Yeah," Tony countered, "Look at you go. Wow! Nice catch. Three-thousand pounds, forty miles an hour."

"That's not easy. You got some mad skills," the girl agreed.

Gwen put away the video as she sat on his bed crossing her legs, watching Peter as he walked over to the desk in front of her and started to mess with the devices on it.

The boy fiddled with a pen, "That's all- That's all on YouTube, though, right? I mean, that's where you found that? Because you know that's all fake. It's all done on the computer."

Tony mumbled to himself as he looked up at the ceiling, Gwen noticed that something caught his eye.

"It's like that video. What is it?" Peter tried, wanting to cover up the fact that he was a hero.

Gwen looked out the window with a smug smirk on her face as if she didn't have a care in the world, she scoffed "Yeah, yeah, yeah... Oh you mean like those UFOs over Phoenix?"

"Exactly, Peter agreed, giving her a smile.

Tony then picked up a stick and poked at a hatch in the roof, "Oh, what have we hear?"

The Spider-Man suit falls from the hatch and hangs, all tied up in rope. Peter instantly runs and takes it down, throwing it into his closet.

"Uh... That's a.." Peter tried, but he knew that he was caught and they knew his secret.

Gwen moved on the bed to where she was facing the door and she was leaning her head on the wall. She gave Peter a innocent look, with a smirk, as she spoke, "You know for someone who is at the top of their class, you should really be smarter with how you hide your suit."

Peter opened his mouth to speak but Tony beat him to it, "So. You're the.. Spider... ling. Crime-fighting Spider... You're Spider-Boy?"