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"—okay, so don't get mad, but this S.O.S. came in halfway back to Earth, right? And since I'm Spider-Man, you know I couldn't just ignore it when someone was in trouble! So we landed the ship on a planet being overrun by weird magma... monsters? I was gonna say aliens, but then I realized I'm sort of an alien since I'm from another planet and I'm on theirs — It was just, it was so cool? I had to swing around and get a whole bunch of people to safety, and there were these huuuge lava bubbles that kept bursting way too close to the Benatar— Gamora was hanging out of the back of the ship, and she was holding onto Groot, and Groot was holding onto Rocket's tail, it was wild.

... Don't tell May! Um, but May, if you're watching this anyway... I'm 100% alright! I just have a few burns, but they're practically gone now. Like this one, on my elbow? Yeah. Totally not a problem. But that kind of led to us being chased around by these magma dudes in their weird cocoon ships, and we got a little off-course? So we might take a little longer than we thought. Especially since our ship got kinda busted up from rescuing a bunch of civilians from magma monsters. There's this place nearby that Rocket says he can gamble parts for, so that's pretty cool. I'm really bad at poker, but I mean, I can at least learn how to hustle pool... It's not technically illegal to hustle pool, right? Is it?

Rocket's a really good instructor anyhow, so if I can learn how to make a bomb and a shiv, I think I can handle a little space pool. How different from Earth pool can it be? Oh! And Mr. Stark, not that this is anything super critical, but how long can this suit surprise being out in space? I haven't tried it yet, but I was thinking maybe I can... like... push the ship to the way-station? Maybe use my webs like towing cables? It reminds me of that time me and Ben had to push our car to the gas station once because the gauge in it is super busted...

Speaking of cars, I definitely think I'm getting the hang of piloting a space craft. I don't drive it around by myself or anything, but Quill and the others let me do some laps around a planet to practice for my driving test, ssssooo... What I'm saying is maybe piloting a space ship is grounds for me to finally get a driver's license. Anyway... I miss you guys, but I'll be back super soon. Like, two more weeks, if things go right! And when I come back, I'll have to tell you about the meteor shower that ended up being poop rocks—"

Tony and Pepper stare at the feed with slack jaws and wide eyes.

They look at each other.

"I can't show May this. FRIDAY, hide this in a folder somewhere."

Pepper stands up quickly. "I'm calling Thor to pick him up."

Tony hefts Morgan under one arm and panics.

"Call Thor. Perfect idea. Where is Thor? Does he even own a phone yet?"

"He's owned five so far—"

"I'm getting in my suit."

"Do not try to blast into space again with your suit, or I'm divorcing you—"

"Morgan, sweetie, we're going to space to rescue Spider-Man."

"Nobody's going into space!"

the END.

A/N: It's finally done... A whole month of crunch-writing, tweaking, and all that jazz...! It was gonna be a 8-10 chapter endeavor about Peter and Tony whump, but by the time I got here... well, you know how it went, haha. It's not perfect and I'll probably be editing a bunch of stuff in it forever, but it's mine, and I'm glad I did it. I've never written anything this long (20,000+ more words than my other big fic, yikes!). But I hope it's wrapped up enough stuff for y'all, while still leaving a lot open for dreaming up a bunch of possibilities for the Avengers crew... Now I gotta sit here and wait for the actual Avengers 4. 8u8

Comments have always been so valuable and kept me going, so thank you so much to everyone to did that...! It helped me more than you'll ever know!