Chapter 2
Peter was waiting two blocks from his school, with his camera in his hand. "Hey guys, it's Peter," An intro cuts in, 'one two,' and then a film in a camera can be heard with black and white lines before it shows peter in-front of a board of equations, seemingly explaining it to the camera, before flipping the board over and it said 'Peter Park0ur's guide to Science & Science Fiction'. The screen went black again and Peter once again appeared. "And today I'm going to take you with me as I spend the day with my mentor, who you've long awaited to be introduced to."
Peter has mentioned Tony once or twice or... too many times to count, in the three years he's know him. And his subscribers has asked to see him many times but he's always shrugged it off, never wanting to bother Tony about it.
"I'm waiting the head of security in the building that we work in, to come and pick me up. Usually, I take the subway but after that murder last week, T- my mentor wasn't having it. Subway privileges has been stripped." He confesses the last line, while rolling his eyes.
As spider-man he thinks he should be fine to do what he wants, and riding the subway isn't terrible, plus he's been stabbed before and lived. Which he told Tony- like an idiot, it helped his decision -but what Mr. Stark says goes... When Pepper isn't around.
"He should be here in about two minutes maybe less, till then I'm going to go over some of the rules me and my mentor came up with." Peter sighed and looked at the camera like he didn't come up with these rules. "He told me that recording the building he works at, and basically giving you guys an insider's scoop is me begging for him to hack into your YouTube accounts and send you an NDA which is basically sending majority of the MIT population an NDA but anyways; that means, I can't show you really know scientist and engineers, I can't go into level six and up labs and record, I can't- okay really I can't record ANYTHING"
He looks to his right, where a car is heard in the background. "And this rule sucks because usually when I get to *BLEEEEEP* it's around 3 o'clock and he's usually in a meeting till around 4:30. So I'd hang around with some interns, help around in some labs, do some homework, tinker around. Sometimes his wife comes by and I talk to her, she's the best person ever. No one deserves to be in her presence. " Another car is heard as he comes to the end of his rant about the rule, but this car is closer than the car before.
"Oh it's *BLEEP*!" He says, as he waits to for the car to come closer so he can get in. He settles in the car, the camera being at all types of wonky angles before he's content. "Okay I'll see you guys around... 5 o'clock"
Peter was standing behind a whiteboard filled with words, something his watchers were very, very used to. For a second it seemed like he was nervous but them his face brightened, and he was smiling like he was getting paid for it.
"Okay, so through the... first 2 (?) minutes of this video I have been bleeping certain words, because I want my mentor to be a big surprised revealed, because he's the co- I'm not saying this" Peter looks at something in front of him.
"It was your idea to bleep everything, and you don't even want to tell them the truthful reason?" A distorted voice came through the audio.
Peter gaped at the person standing before him, "I am telling the truth! I do want it to be a surprise because of how big a deal you are, in literally everything I talk about. Not because you're cool, you're a literal dork! If I grabbed a dictionary and went to the word dork, YOUR FACE WOULD BE THERE!"
A feminine laugh is heard in the background before the distorted voice is heard again, "No, if you looked for my face in the dictionary, you'd see it four times in, genius, billionaire, philanthropist. And that's a fact because I paid them to do that." Peter opens his mouth to speak but he's cut off. "Oh, and playboy but I paid them again to take that out."
"You know what Mr. Stark; I'm done because you completely gave away who you were."
The no longer distorted voice exclaims, "Did not!"
"Did too! Everyone knows you from that line."
"... Well, who fault is that? Mines who the stupid Capsicle, doing interviews, -eating me out of house and home- and telling my business?"
"Well if they didn't know, they surely know now!"
"If they know, it's because you said Mr. Stark!" The man, who was obviously Tony Stark, countered.
"Stark is a very common last name!"
"Nuh uh!"
"Yuh huh, you got, Benjamin Stark!"
"Dead."
"Ian Stark!"
"You're a STEM major!"
"Ned Stark!"
"Fictional!"
"Harold Stark!"
"Old!"
"Menachem Stark!"
"Really kid?"
"Pete Stark!"
"You stop it right now kid, this is getting really rude, I won't hesitate to ground you until you're EIGHTY!"
"YOU WO-"
"Boys, the camera is still on..."
"Right, sorry pep." The older man apologized to the woman who was obviously Pepper Potts.
"Sorry Mrs. Potts." Peter moved the camera from his face and sat it up on the table, “I have to cut that out.”
Pepper and Tony is now seen in the camera, Tony sitting in a chair and Pepper standing behind it.
“No keep it. They want day with your mentor and this is usually how it is. Keep it as authentic as possible and that’s how you’ll get great reviews.” Pepper instructs Peter.
Peter nods his head and turns to Tony, “Do you want to introduce yourself? Or should we get started?”
”Do I need an introduction?” Tony retorted with a smirk. Peter pushed him out of his chair and turned to the camera.
”We’re going to do some work and do the Q&A after.”
“I was going to say that.”
“No you weren’t,”
”I was.” Pepper rolls her eyes and walk away from the two boys and towards to door.
The camera fades to black, with the boys voices slowly fading with the screen.
When they’re seen again, the camera is at a higher angle, and they’re moving around the lab together, almost as one. There’re moments when they’d break out in song and dance to the music but throughout working together it was mostly in 2x speed and silent.
Until an explosion was seen and Peter and Tony both jumped back from it. Hand on his mouth and eyes wide Peter turned to Tony. "You blew up Black Widow's WidowBites." He told his mentor in disbelief. He shakes his head laughs awkwardly. "You're gonna get it. You're so gonna get it."
Tony glared at his mentee. "You handed me the wrong tool."
"Did not."
"Did too! F.R.I.D.A.Y!"
"Sir." For some reason the A.I sounded irritated.
"Who did it?" Peter and Tony asks at the same time.
"Well boss, you both played apart in the destruction. Which needs to be reported to both Mrs. Potts and Ms. Romanov."
Peter looked at his mentor and shouted. "Not it!"
"Damn you, Petey." Tony groaned and chased the enhanced boy around the lab. They were play fighting and running from each other. Then the camera once again faded and Tony and Peter were sat next to each other. Peter had his phone in his hand and was making a weird face at the camera with his left leg crossed over his right. Seemingly mimicking Tony.
“You ready?” Peter ask?
“Born ready.”
Peter rolled his eyes and he could be seen looking at his phone. “Starting off simple, how’d we meet?”
“It was after the Accords, you submitted an application and project to one of my foundations. Trying to get my head off of Avengers shiiiii- stuff, I decided to look through it myself. When I saw your work, I knew I had to do more with your brilliant brain. So I went to your house, asked if you wanted an internship, AND HERE WE ARE!” He claps his hands together, holding it tight. Telling their lie perfectly.
Peter nodded, “Wasn’t like that for me, almost pissed on myself.”
Tony looked at him, his mouth slightly agape. “Did you just curse?” Peter shook his head with a laugh. “You just did it too!”
”I’m an adult!”
”I’m almost 18.”
"Almost being the keyword."
Peter shook his head. "You know what, I'm tired of you. Movie night is cancelled!"
"No it's not, you're just saying that. You can't keep using that against me, it won't work."
"Well you know what, it's time I rise up from this disrespect you have given me!" Peter stands up and looks down at the superhero.
"Sit the hell down Hamilton and read the next one."
He sighs and scrolls on his phone. "What's your opinion about the accords?"
Tony just looked at Peter it seems as they had this conversation before and he has given him an answer.
And Peter can see the accusation all in Tony's facial expression. "No Mr. Stark, they really asked." He shows his phone. "I talk about your business, superheroes, mutants, enhanced beings, science as well. But that's what my viewers like to know about."
Tony shakes his head. "I know, I watch your videos, they're very educational kid, but I can tell government secrets. 117 governments at that. Next questions."
"Okay this is good." Peter says as he scrolls. "Am I your favorite intern?"
Tony laughs and ruffles his hair. "You're my only intern!"
He shakes his head. "We visit the labs all the time, you gotta count them too!"
Tony sighs and looks at the camera, "Yes, Peter is my favorite intern. Especially because of how well he keeps up with me, he's also a good role model seeing as there's a lot more kids in this building than I'd like. He's also very helpful when it comes to ideas, like the new StarkPads or going into the prosthetic business, or new foundations he's thought of. He's a genius, I'm lucky to have."
Peter smiles and they keep going. As the video comes to an end all Peter can think about is how lucky his is too.