Chapter 8
Peter was elated. He was finally allowed to be on a mission. True, it was mainly just citizen evac, and damage control, but he was still doing more than others!
“KAREN! Scan nearby buildings for lifeforms.”
“3 life forms in the building to the left.” KAREN said.
“Thanks!”
He swung in to the room, where there were two women and a child. He grabbed the child and one of the woman, and quickly swung them towards the safe house.
He got back to the other woman, when KAREN alerted him that the building was highly unstable and could collapse.
He thought quickly.
“Ma’am, there is a safe house down the street, it has big red flags. This building is about to collapse, so I’m going to lower you out the window onto a net, and then you are going to run towards it, ok?”
She nodded, and he attached a web to her, slowly lowering her down.
Just before she hit the net, the building crumbled around him.
It was black for a second, but when he came to, it was still black.
He was trapped.
He turned on coms with the team. Tony didn’t come with them on this one, as he was still injured from the last go with the mutant lizards.
The eruption of sound on top of his probably-concussion hurt but he ignored it.
He didn’t want them to think he was weak. It was fine, he could lift this.
Could he?
“Uh, guys I need some help?”
“Can it wait? We have some more important things to do? I’m sure you can handle it, you aren’t weak.” That was Cap.
“Oh, but he’s the baby avenger! We have to help him” Sam always mocked him like that.
Suddenly he felt a rush of adrenaline. Now was his chance to prove he wasn’t weak.
“Ok, I’m just going to turn this off for a second, it might make a bit of noise.”
He muted himself and the mic.
Then he stood up. There may have been a slight problem because one of his legs wasn’t working. It was definitely broken.
Eh, it would be fine.
He used KAREN to activate the Splint Protocol, and then he started to lift. It was tearing him apart. This was definitely bigger than the roof he lifted at Homecoming.
Eventually he got it off. His muscles were on fire. He still had work to do though. He webbed himself to the top and surveyed the damage to him and the suit. He definitely broke his leg, and he had a concussion according to KAREN. His arms had stretched tendons.
Overall his body was on fire. But he wasn’t weak. The others kept going with injuries so he would to. Hell, once he saw Steve get shot twice and move on, and Natasha get stabbed and just take out the knife.
This was fine.
He spotted some of the mutant lizards heading towards the safety centre. He had to stop them!
He turned comms back on.
“Hey Spidey, you good now? Hope your papercut or something is better now.” That was Natasha.
“Yep, I’m fine. Uh there are lizards heading towards the centre, can I get clearance to deal with them?”
Mr Stark had made it so he had to get clearance to fight any threat, which was annoying during fast-paced battle.
“Yep, get em Spider-Kid.” Captain said.
He switched off the comms again.
He swung towards them, and stumbled as he landed, making sure not to land on his bad leg.
He attracted the attention of the lizards.
They were huge, scaly creatures, with incredibly sharp claws and spines they could shoot. They were annoying to clean up after as well, the spines melted into goo after a while, so trying to clean large spots of sticky goo? A bad idea.
Another bad idea was trying to fight the lizards with a broken leg, but hey.
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He had almost done it. There were just 2 left.
He webbed up one with the tazer web, which shocked it to death. He was too preoccupied with making sure it was dead to notice the other one launching a spine at him.
Until it was in his back.
He screamed, and pulled it out, but it shot another, that hit him in the shoulder.
Pain wracked his body, but he had to kill this last one before it killed him.
He tazed it until it was burnt, and then collapsed for a bit.
He turned on comms, hoping someone would notice his pain. He was still on mute though, so his sobs didn’t reach the others.
“Is the weak baby here?” Sam asked.
Peter sobbed again. He had to pull himself together. He unmuted, and in the most cheerful voice he could muster confirmed.
The battle was finished, and they were picking up everyone in the quinjet.
He webbed the stab wounds shut before they could bleed anymore. He knew if they were found out, everyone would think he was weak and couldn’t even defend himself.
The jet picked him up. He sat at the back, hoping the obvious holes in his suit wouldn’t be noticed.
As he sat down, pain shot through his entire body and he had to bite his tongue so he wouldn’t scream.
“Good fight everyone.” Cap began his mission report. “However.. SPIDER-MAN!”
Peter sat straighter up.
“Yes?” he asked, hating how his voice wobbled.
“What were you doing? You left a civilian to fend for themselves? You cant get lazy! I thought you were doing well! I was very wrong. How many other people did you let do tha-“
Caps voice blended with the backround. He was aware of how he was crying now. The criticism was too much. He couldn’t take it. As much as he tried to justify it before, he did something very stupid. No one else would go on with the battle.
“Spidey?” Cap said, confused. One moment the kid looked alert, albeit tired, and the next he was sobbing.
Steve walked up to him, and put his hand on the teenagers shoulder. He felt something sticky.
When he pulled his hand back, there was a mix of the kids web, blood and the green spine goo.
He looked at it in horror. The kid had gotten stabbed and he was yelling at him?
Everyone else looked at Peter was well, as Steve had taken off the web that was preventing blood flow, so a gush of blood was spewing out of his shoulder.
The last thing Peter heard before he passed out from the pain was “I can’t believe we made him keep going like that’
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When he came to, he was greeted by the whole team. They were staring at him.
He didn’t know why, but it definitely felt like he had done something wrong.
“I’m so, so sorry I know I messed up the whole battle-“
“Kid, I can’t believe you are trying to apologise after you nearly died to save those people.” Tony said, embracing him in a hug.
He pulled back from the hug,
“However, we are going to have a little talk about how it is very not ok to do that.”
He stood up and took the Avengers out of the room.
As the door closed Peter could hear Tony being Tony.
“I cannot believe you guys would be that irresponsible. You not only didn’t protect the kid, you made him feel like he deserved to be injured! I replayed the comms. You guys are complete assholes and I can’t understand why you insist on being such a dick to Peter. He has done absolutely nothing wrong, yet you guys treat him like shit!”
The monologue faded off as they walked further away, but Peter heard enough. Tony was totally part of the dad club now.
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