Truth is... I'm a Stark

Wasn't so bad after all

Junior Stark was having a very bad week: his uncle Happy was in hospital, his dad was supposedly dead (again!), his house blew up and just when he started to believe things might not be so bad, his mum got kidnapped. So yeah, his week had really sucked so far and wasn't seeming to get any better. Junior hated New York, sure living with his grandma Peggy and her husband was great but he couldn't help but worry if this arrangement would be permanent, if it was only a matter of time before he was confirmed to be an orphan. He missed Malibu, he missed his friends, heck he missed his stuffy old private school, he missed Uncle Happy, he missed his house, he missed his parents. His mum and dad could be dead for all he knew and he didn't even get to say goodbye.

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Peter had spent so much time moping in his new room that it got to a point where his grandparents had just decided to let him stay there, only bothering him when it came to mealtimes. This meant the young boy had time to open his laptop and engage in some, well, fair to say questionable activities without fear of getting caught.
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Ew no not that, get your mind out of the gutter. It wasn't anything disgusting, just kind of ...... illegal. Let's just say if you asked Junior, then he definitely didn't hack into SHIELD's world security network to try and find his parents on his own, but if you asked Nick Fury he is still to this day trying to figure out who or what managed to breach his security system. To make a long story short, with the help of JARVIS (and his superior hacking skills) he was able to locate his father and access the security cameras of the site he was at. So his dad was alive, that was good, his mum was alive too, great! Aldrich Killian had fire powers??!! Well, that was awesome, but he knew it definitely wasn't good.

Junior watched with morbid curiosity and excitement as his father leapt over machinery in attempt to apprehend Killian and save his mother while Rhodey focused on evacuating the president. Everything was going so well until his mum fell of a crane. His mum was dead, it was certain, the fall alone would kill her, the fire that would meet her at the bottom only confirmed the the imminent reality of her certain death. A sense of hopelessness filled Peter as he watched his father desperately summon his numerous iron man suits in a last ditch effort to avenge his mum and defeat Killian.

"I am The Mandarin!" Killian stated as he backed Tony into a corner, Peter audibly gasped; he definitely didn't see that coming. 'This was it', he thought his dad was going to die mere minutes after his mother, he couldn't watch. Suddenly, someone drop kicked Killian, or the Mandarin, across the floor, affectively saving his father's life. Junior was overjoyed to see that his father's saviour was his mother, there Pepper Potts stood in all her glory, her whole body emitting an amber glow. What followed was the most satisfying takedown he'd ever witnessed, Pepper killed Killian with surprisingly good combat skills and her newfound extremis powers, while Tony stared in shock and pride with a look that said, "yeah, that's my wife. Be impressed." Junior stared at his laptop breathlessly. His mum was awesome.

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When Tony Stark returned home, wearing a Dora the Explorer watch rather than his normal Gucci, Peter didn't know what to think. On one hand, he was still angry; his father did give a supervillain (and the whole world) his address, causing him to need to move to New York and leave his friends, but on the other hand he was just happy to have his parents back and on the other other hand, he was baffled because Dora the explorer, really???

Tony explained to his kid who gave him said watch and it only brought up another issue that Junior was uncertain about: another kid that his dad seemed very fond of? Junior wasn't sure if he was jealous or if he just so appalled by the boy's fashion sense, or lack there of, for his father but he knew he wasn't happy about it. But then he actually met Harley, and then the older boy shot his father with a potato gun and Junior was sold, he had a new pseudo brother, awesome.

Harley helped Peter see the bright side of things: a new school meant new friends and truth be told, Junior hated his old private school; it was full of stuck up kids (except from Harry and Gwen) who only associated with him because he was clearly a lot richer than all of them combined yet none of them had heard of the 'Parker' family, here he'd attend a mostly middle class STEM school where he could blend in easily. His father even payed a retired SHIELD agent to pose as his 'Aunt May' she was still fairly young but was forced into early retirement after a compromised mission left her missing her left leg. Tony hooked her and her husband up with a modest apartment in Queens and a high-tech personally made prosthetic leg in exchange for her to look after Peter and attend a few parent teacher conferences, she seemed nice enough and she was a friend of his Aunt Sharon, so Junior didn't mind.

Over time, Junior began to like living in the Tower; he was closer to the other Avengers and was able to help out in the Intern Labs, which was cool and endlessly surprising to the college kids who worked their. Also, Peter didn't hack SHIELD again, not only to avoid getting caught but because he knew all the real tea was with the FBI. 😏

So Peter was able to put the whole Mandarin incident behind him. His dad was alive, his Uncle Happy had made a full recovery, he had a cool older brother, his mum didn't have fire powers anymore, but that was for the best and he managed to make a friend at his new school, Midtown High, Ned was just as dorky as Peter was, he loved legos, Star Wars and science. Plus, Dora was an awesome show. Junior's life was going great! Maybe moving to New York wasn't so bad after all.
{AN: I was the BIGGEST Dora fan when I was younger. I had tons of merch: backpack, suitcase, backpack that you could change into a suitcase, shoes, shirts, video games, you name it I had it. Can you blame me though, Dora was lit! 😂}