The Stank-Man protocol
Peter could almost laugh. The great Tony Stark, genius extraordinaire, fooled by a simple collage graduate.
See, Peter knew Tony was going to recruit Spider-Man. Daredevil was ‘old’ enough to make his own decisions, and Deadpool was far too much of a wild card.
The other vigilantes were the same, either too old, or far to wild (read; scary) to be blackmailed into fighting Captain America.
Well… except for one. And he couldn’t let Stark get to them. Even if it meant he would have to go in their place.
So, he planted video of Spider-Man, using a voice changer to make his voice sound high and young.
He knew that soon enough Stark would come looking, and come looking he did.
He had KAREN, his AI he made, alert him when Stark found the videos, while he got busy making the android he had been planning.
Aunt MAY (Mechanical Android Youth-Bot) was a completely life-like robot, with instructions to act like a completely normal aunt.
He based her off his long-dead actual, aunt May.
Unfortunately, that was only the first aspect of making sure Stark thought he was 16.
He would have to attend school. There was still a little while left, so he used Aunt May to enrol him in a local school, Midtown High. He had heard it was for smart kids, so it may help explain to Stark why he was so mentally developed when he was ‘16’.
Sure, he was a genius anyway, but he couldn’t let Stark know by showing of his different degrees, so this would have to do.
It may help with Stark under-estimating him as well.
For a while.
Now there was the problem of going to school looking and sounding like a 27 year old.
However, he had developed an invisible mask, using mirroring techniques to make his face seem much, much younger.
He may have overcompensated a little bit, and sure, now he looking 14, instead of 16, but hey. It worked.
The voice modulator he had used in the videos was miniscule, so he added that in the mask as well.
All he needed to do was go get some kids clothes from the store.
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Tony was frustrated. There was almost no super-hero’s available to help out with detaining Cap.
None.
Daredevil (Like most of the other vigilantes), as much as he hated to admit it, scared the shit out of him and there was no way he was recruiting Deadpool. That guy would probably kill them all himself.
That left him with no real options, apart from what was left of SHIELD.
Unless….
“Boss, I have found one hero that may be suitable for your mission.”
Tony snapped his head up towards the ceiling, regardless of the fact that wasn’t technically where FRIDAY was positioned.
“Yes?” he answered, trying to keep the excitement out of his voice. Never know who could be listening.
“Spider-Man is a local Queens vigilante, and has the capabilities you have asked for, and after running a scan on his voice, he seems to be in the range of 15 to 16. Should we try to find his identity?” she said.
Tony couldn’t care less about if someone was listening, he whooped and waved his hands around.
“Hell yeah baby girl! Let’s catch ourselves a spider!”
He was silent for a minute before FRIDAY spoke again.
“From what I can tell, he climbs into the same apartment every patrol. The apartment is under the name of May Parker, who has a child named Peter Parker in the correct age, and according to his medical records, the same height and size as well.”
“HOT DAMN!” he yelled, “Any more info on the kid, FRI?”
“He appears to have moved into the city a few months after Spider-Man, but there was activity inside the apartment before the aunt came into custody of him and it, and the apartment had been owned by his late parents. It is possible he was staying with them before he properly moved here. He attends Midtown High School, and has a 4.0 GPA”
Tony nodded. This was definitely Spider-Man. He looked around before downloading the coordinates of the apartment and zooming off.
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Peter was stirred from his scientific breakthrough by an alert from KAREN that Stark had not only discovered the videos, but was infact heading straight here.
He blinked. That was fast. Stark must be desperate.
“KAREN, activate Stank-Man protocol” He said nonchalantly, before slipping on the mask and setting up the room to hide the actual suit, and ‘hide’ the fake suit.
He heard a knock on the door, and he heard Aunt MAY open it. He heard the pleasantries exchanged, before his Aunt calld him in.
He had been schooling his acting skills, so he let his face show surprise and shock.
“Uh-Mr-Sir-Tony-uh-You’re Tony Stark- Uh Sir I am a huge fan but why-“
“Why am I in your home?” The man grinned, and Peter could just feel the arrogance rolling off him.
Nevertheless, he forced his face into somewhat of a more relaxed position, “Uh yeah- Not that your unwelcome, but this is a bit of a surprise, Sir-“
“Just call me Tony.” He said, those teeth gleaning.
“Well, uh Tony, may I ask why you wanted to visit me?”
Tony made a completely not suspicious look at Aunt MAY,
“Would you mind giving us a bit of privacy, you know, company secrets and all.”
Peter wanted to vomit. Sure, he had built Aunt MAY well, but he didn’t think THIS would happen. Did the man have no shame eyeing up a recent widow?
Aunt MAY left to room, and Peter pretty much zoned out while Stark gave his ‘for the honour’ speech about kidnapping Captain America, somehow managing to pass it off as star(k)struck fanboying.
He listened, however, when Tony ‘found’ his ‘hidden’ suit. He stumbled across his words, nailing the point that the kid needed a mentor.
Tony took his leave, confident he had tricked the kid well enough to fight for him, completely unaware he was the tricked one.
Hey guys, I really liked the idea of Peter being older, but I also wanted Civil War to happen, so this happened. This legit took me like 2 weeks to write bc I was trying to figure out how to make tony look like a good guy in this, until my friend looked over my shoulder and was like “why he gotta be good tho” so complete credit to my bro. Anyway I will probably make a second part bc I really like this AU, and I completely encourage any of you to use the idea if you like it! I would love to read more like this. I do need to decide at what point does peter tell tony, and how far does their relationship progress before the reveal, so give me feedback about that. Otherwise love yall so much!!!