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Midtown School of Science and Technology is a school for genius children, among those qualified to attend such a school is one, Peter Parker. Peter is an extraordinary kid for a number of reasons; the fact that he lives in Avengers Tower, scoring an internship at Stark Industries, being a certifiable genius, and one of two current heirs to Stark Industries all being counted among some of the boy’s more impressive feats. Then to throw his night job of being Spider-Man into the mix and the boy becomes well on his way to being the next Tony Stark. Except he isn’t. Peter Parker is a private boy, well aware of his talents and his potential but not one to flaunt it to the world. He does his work and never expects to receive recognition for it, something his entire family both loves and hates about him.
Still, as Peter Parker sits next to his best friend Ned and his girlfriend MJ in Mr. Roger Harrington’s AP Chemistry class, he can’t help but have a mix of emotions as he stares down the offending piece of paper that had been passed out to the class. It was a permission slip to this year’s special field trip, the location being Stark Industries. One tiny part of him felt a surge of excitement because, finally, he could show his class that he wasn’t lying about the Stark Industries Internship despite Flash’s insistence that there was no way Penis Parker could score an internship like that. The other, more dominant part of him felt a sheer sense of panic. He was going to take a guided tour of his home and the company he would inherit with Morgan someday. That was the most idiotic thing he had ever heard. If that wasn’t enough, there was the issue of Peter’s most recent father figure, Tony Stark. Since Peter had come back after the snap, Tony had spent more time with Peter and had become more protective of him as well. Now that they had established that yes, they did see each other as family, neither wanted the other to be hurt. Peter had a feeling that would extend to include Flash’s biting comments. The biggest problem, though, was the fact that field trips never ended well for Peter. He got superpowers when he went to Oscorp. The Washington Monument elevator collapsed because of an alien bomb on the last one. When Peter went to MoMA, he ended up in space. And who could forget the summer vacation from hell that Fury hijacked? He was a senior now, and goddamnit Peter Parker just wanted one field trip in which he didn’t almost die!
“Dude, this is going to be so cool!” Ned said excitedly as he too read the destination of the field trip. Of course, Ned didn’t have the same plethora of reasons to hate the idea as Peter had. He got to get excited to go to Avengers Towers because, sure, he had been there before to hang out with Peter, but he didn’t get to see anything other than the living areas. This was going to be fantastic for him.
Nodding with a tight-lipped smile, Peter tried not to project his misgivings about the field trip on Ned. After all, it wasn’t Ned’s problem that Peter couldn’t have an uneventful field trip.
Fortunately or unfortunately, while his excitement could blind Ned, Michelle “MJ” Jones could not, “Hey loser, you gong to be good with this? It has to be a little awkward going on a field trip to your house.”
Smiling at MJ, Peter shrugged and nodded, “Thanks, I’ll get over it. Besides, I’ve never taken the tour before; it might be good to learn a few things I didn’t know about the company.”
“Shut up, we both know that you have been learning everything you can from Pepper so that as soon as you graduate from MIT - yeah, I know about that one - you are ready to take the reigns like she has suggested, allowing her to retire and help Tony raise Morgan.” Peter stared at his girlfriend in shock at how well she knew him. She wasn’t wrong, which made Peter’s heart skip a beat as he realized that, damn, he got lucky with MJ. “But you’re right; we’ll get through this. Together. I’m stuck with you, loser.”
Before Peter had a chance to respond, the bell rang, and everyone shot up from their seats, collecting their stuff while excitedly talking about the field trip. “Mr. Parker, please stay behind,” Roger Harrington requested as the class left.
Peter paused before nodding slowly and finished packing his things. Hesitantly, MJ and Ned left Peter alone, and the door swung closed with finality, “What’s up, Mr. Harrington?”
“I wanted to talk to you before the field trip due to your behavior on some past class trips. I’m reminding you that even though you are an intern at Stark Industries, while on this field trip, you are technically my responsibility, and you can’t just run off or disappear without telling anyone. Got it?” Harrington asked as he leaned on his desk.
Smiling nervously, Peter realized how that might have been a problem and given the teacher a small panic attack. “Yeah, I got it, Mr. Harrington. I’m sorry for causing an issue on past field trips.”
Nodding, Roger smiled at his student, “Wonderful, unless you have other concerns, that’s all I wanted to talk to you about.” After Peter shook his head, Roger smiled, “Then you’re free to go! Have a great weekend, kid, and don’t forget that the permissions slip must be turned in by Wednesday to go on Friday.”
When Peter Parker arrived at Avengers Tower that afternoon with Happy Hogan, he was admittedly unprepared for the number of people there. In the common area was Natasha, Clint, Bucky, Sam, Wanda, Rhodey, Tony, and Morgan. Upon seeing Peter, Morgan grinned and ran towards him in delight, “Petey!” She squealed happily as she jumped into Peter’s arms.
Not missing a beat, Peter easily lifted her up and swung her around before resting her on his hip, “Hey Mo! What’s up, Princess Buttercup?”
“Not much, we were just talking about your field trip to the tower! Are you excited to show the class around your home? Do they get to meet us? Can I go to school with you if you’re technically going to be coming back here anyway? This is going to be so cool!” She yipped happily as Peter set her down and walked with her to where everyone else was.
While Morgan was talking, Peter shot an accusing look over to Tony, who seemed to have found something on his Stark Watch to be more interesting at that moment, “Uh, yeah, I’m sure the field trip to my house is going to be great, but I don’t think you can go to school with me, you’re dad will miss you too much.”
“But I want to hang out with you! Daddy will get over it!” Morgan said sadly as she stomped her foot.
Everyone stifled their chuckles at Peter’s shocked face, the kid obviously not knowing what to do or how to calm her down, “How about this, after the field trip, we can go and make whatever you want in the lab. So long as it isn’t dangerous.” Morgan’s eyes lit up, mischievously, “And it can’t be an Iron Man suit.” Peter added, causing Morgan to pout. Still, the idea of having lab time with Peter was enough to make her agree to stay home from Peter’s school next Friday anyway.
“Mo, why don’t you go to work on your homework? I’m pretty sure Pete would like to talk with us.” Rhodey offered from where he was.
Catching on, Happy smiled and held his hand out, “Come on, kid, I’ll go help you. I won’t get too much longer where I can help you with your homework.”
Once Happy and Morgan left the room, Peter groaned and slumped on the chair, “Come on, kid, it won’t be that bad!” Clint said from where he was sitting across the room from Peter.
Narrowing his eyes, Peter huffed, “I have never had good luck with field trips, and a field trip to my house seems like I might be tempting fate.”
Natasha looked up, “Oh come on; you’re field trips can’t have all been bad.” Tony looked over at Nat and started shaking his head, “Right?” She asked, a little less sure of herself.
“I got superpowers in my freshman year field trip to Oscorp. If we want to be technical, then the school counted Germany as a private study field trip. My academic decathlon trip ended in me getting locked in a weapons bunker and the Washington Monument’s elevator collapsing. No one can forget my junior year field trip to MoMA, in which I went to space and became dust with half the universe for five years. Then, of course, there was summer break when Fury hijacked my field trip to work with Beck, who psychologically tortured me and got me arrested. Then created an attack on London that I barely stopped before finally releasing my identity as Spider-Man to the world. If it weren’t for SHIELD having an alliance with those shape-shifting aliens and Pepper having Stark Industries hack into the feed and release the untampered version of events, then I would still be wanted for terrorism. I graduate in a few months and don’t want anything to mess that up.”
The Avengers blinked at Peter in shock, “Well, we were going to try and pop in on the field trip and embarrass you, but I’m kinda scared to now.” Sam said.
“No! No! Please, I’m begging you, please no popping in on or checking up on me during the field trip, it’s already enough that the entire student body doesn’t believe I actually have an internship with Stark Industries, but what would happen if a lowly intern also happened to know the Avengers?”
At that, Tony groaned, “Kid, you’re taking away like all of the fun in allowing a school field trip to happen! I’m retired! I need entertainment!”
“Get a dog or something! Please, Mr. Stark - fine! Fine, I get it, Tony - please don’t hijack my tour. I just want to get in and out.”
There was silence for a few moments before Tony huffed, “Fine! So long as there isn’t a legitimate reason for us to show up, we will not interfere. You have my word.”
Smiling, Peter nodded with higher hopes that this field trip wouldn’t end in catastrophe.