My Lab?
"Wait what?!" Flash asked still in shock, he had his hand clenching his neck to ease the pain. Mr. Thompson was equally surprised, and the rest of the class had their jaws slacked. However, before more people could ask questions the elevator dinged and one more person stepped off.
The man looked at Tony, then Pepper and then to Peter. He smiled at his nephew. "So, who's the one trying to hurt my future boss?" The kids pointed Flash and the boy gulped big time.
"You two are coming with me." The man walked over and began to escort Mr. Thompson and Flash towards the door. The teens all the while to in shock to even ask who it was. Pete smiled as Happy walked the two to the door.
"SO, WhAt ThE F*** is going on." Finally, someone other than Flash had asked the question and the three in question turned around to face the asker. This time it was none other than one Michelle Jones.
"Well, I do believe we just kicked those two out, Right Junior?" Pete nodded and let go a soft sigh. The day was really beginning to be long… Way to long for his own liking.
"No… What is it with you three?" She pointed towards Tony, Pepper, and Peter who had all at once gone a bit stiff and shuffled back a bit. Tony rubbed his hands through his hair and Pepper said nothing.
"Well, we're… we're Pete's adoptive parents. When his aunt died, Me and Pepper came to the decision to adopted him. He had been living with us already on the weekends, so it wasn't a crazy change but… It wasn't something he wanted to advertise." Mj nodded, she could understand why it was Peter after all.
However, that didn't make her any less angry about this. She turned from Mr. and Mrs. Stark and looked Pete in the eyes. "You and I are going to have a conversation, and you're not getting out of it." Pete really regretted not telling her sooner.
"Okay now that that's over with, we can all head down to the cafeteria. Mr. and Mrs. Stark, will you be joining us?" Harley had finally managed to regain control; he was worried he had lost it all long ago. However, Mj's anger seemed to quiet everyone down.
"Well, Pete is Mr. Delmar in?" Pete nodded; he was there most days.
"Yea, I guess we'll come with, makes it less hassle if Mr. Delmar doesn't have to bring it upstairs." Harley nodded and the group followed behind him as they walked towards the elevator. The group stepped on slowly and Friday began to move towards level 60. It was the smallest, yet most important food court.
The floor had Mr. Delmar's and a shawarma join, not to mention the ungodly amounts of Pizza places. Ohh and a Chick-fil-A.
The elevator eventually came to a stop and the teens swarmed out towards different areas. Their cards had 40 dollars' worth of food credit on it and so everyone was free to get anything. Pete, Tony, and Pepper all headed over to Mr. Delmar's and picked up their Sandwiches, fries, and drinks. Fri had already notified Mr. Delmar about ten minutes prior.
The three walked over towards a door on the far wall near the elevator. The door had a keypad and required identification to get in. The three pulled out their cards and began to swipe in. "Hey Dad, can Mj, Ned, and their parents join us." Tony nodded and the three waited a few seconds for the four to get their food.
"Hey guys, you can eat with us." The four-headed over and walked in with the Starks. The room was cozy and well decorated. There was a lounge area in the corner and a drink machine in another. A nice couch sat in the centers with a coffee table in front of it. And on the wall in front of the couch sat a 60-inch tv that played a news channel.
"Wow." The two chaperons let out and the group had a small laugh.
"Yea, this is the Avengers room on this floor. We usually order to the penthouse but, we also like to come down here two." Pete had said it and the four nodded. The group mainly ate in peace and no one really wanted to say anything.
"SO… You're a Stark?" Pete nearly did a spit take, and Tony could only laugh at his son. Pepper, on the other hand, rolled her eyes and let Pete speak for himself.
"Well, yea… I'm more or less their son. They treat me as such, and we spent time with each other." The group nodded and Pepper decided to speak up.
"Yea… Me and Tony have two kids, Pete here would technically be the first, I guess… And then there's Morgan. She was with Happy but now I bet she's with Rhodey or someone." Tony nodded; he had already checked.
"So… Peter, was the internship real?" Now all three of them almost did a spit take. They really needed to stop drinking while talking to these people.
"Yea… yea I had an internship before this and that's how I know Tony. Feels weird saying that, but anyway, Me and Tony had more or less became inseparable before the adoption and the adoption itself felt more like we were just setting it in stone." Both Chaperones raised an eyebrow at that.
"What do you mean?" Ms. Leeds had asked it and both Chaperones seemed to be on the same page.
"He's talking about becoming the Heir to Stark Industries. Him and Morgan will run it together. When Pete first started, we never expected him to become what he is now but… Honestly, we couldn't think of someone better. He's a part of the family and… and honestly, he's everything I ever wanted in a son and everything I want in my replacement. However, knowing both my kids… I fear neither of them will do Pepper's job. Both like the lab tooooo much." Pepper rolled her eyes and the three let go long laughs.
"Okay, so… When were you going to tell us?" Mj had finally asked the question… And all three Starks had no clue how to answer it...
"I… I, I wasn't going to until… until we got out of High School." Mj let go an exasperatingly long sigh and shook her head. Pete always worried too much for his own good. However, she understood why and smiled at Peter, he did it for their safety.
The group ate in relative peace after that until Harley knocked on the door. "Hey, it's time to go." The group exited and rejoined everyone else who had already lined up at the elevator. They all stepped onto the elevator and Harley looked to Tony.
"Can you… um, you know." Tony nodded and spoke in a calm but serious voice. "Fir take us to the lab." The A.I. gave an affirmative and the elevator began to move upwards towards the 91st floor of the tower.
It was a long ride and some of the teens began to get antsy but finally, the door opened, and a ding sounded. Everyone stepped off and they stood in a small hallway. There were doors lining the halls but the first one was most interesting.
Over the top read 'lab' and the front wall was made of glass. Various projects could be seen and many of the students oood and aaad at everything. Pete just smiled and walked into the lab area.
Everyone else then stepped forward and as Tony stepped it, most of the equipment began to be revealed through different storage units in the walls. The Iron Man suits were on full display and other stuff began to come through as well.
"Okay everyone this is my lab where me and Pete work most of the time. We've got projects on multiply different completion statuses and even some intern work to. You are free to look around but please don't touch." The groups all nodded and began to look around.
Nat's widow bits were out, a version of Buck's arm, a new work in progress shield for Cap was laying on a desk, and some of Clint's arrows were strung throughout the room in differing locations.
"Look it's the new Iron Man armor!" Ned raced over to get a look at it. However, it wasn't the newest armor, it was mark 48. Mark 49, the newest version was currently on Tony's person and mark 50, was being worked on in Pete's lab since the two had been in there pulling a late night.
"Yea and look there's Captain America's shield!" This time Betty had spoken up and the group all looked in her direction. The ooos continued for a while and all the while Tony and Peter laughed at the classmates making small comments and other things.
However, after an hour the groups had to leave and said goodbye. Mr. Harrington, the man who hadn't been able to find his voice since the beginning of the tour wished the Starks a good day and thank Harley. The teacher quickly gained control of his students and pulled them towards the door.
Mrs. Jones and Ms. Leeds decided to let Ned and Michelle stay. The two would be dropped off around 5 that night and could stay and hang out with Peter until then.
"So… you going to tell her?" Pete raised an eyebrow at Ned. Ned let out a laugh and Mj didn't need to know everything yet, for now, Michelle could stay in the dark about… well, you know what, and if you don't know…
Well, she can stay in the dark about the other lab room that was currently hidden behind one-way glass. It was a complete mess, Iron Man blueprints thrown throughout, web shooter components all over and even a full load rack of Spider-Man suits. Plus, there was a surprise for Ned two…
Authors Notes…
Welp, there'll be a one-shot coming soon for the last bit, another Field trip with another idea that hasn't been done… wait, make that two, An airsoft match (Big difference from pain ball,) there's also an abused Mj story in the works, and maybe a pissed of Pepper two… *Cough, Cough… Someone took the suit from a certain spider boi.
I hope everyone enjoyed this and feel free to leave comments!
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