Chapter 4
"Okay, well how did Tony pick you then?" Peter asked.
"We're connected," Harley said, spreading his hands apart and then bringing them together.
Halima raised her eyebrow at him. "Alright, alright, I saved his life during the Mandarin fiasco. He rebuilt the armor in my garage. He's been sending my family thank you gifts for the past few years, but I needed a place to be, and a better school since I'm smarter than all my teachers put together."
"Thought you said were you gonna keep all that a secret," Tony said, coming out of the Private Elevator with Princess Shuri and what looked like Riri Williams.
"Yeah well, Peter Parker looked very interesting at school, couldn't help myself," Harley said with a grin.
"Ah-huh," Tony said and then motioned at the two young women next to him. "May I present to you all, Princess Shuri and Riri Williams, the other two geniuses rounding out your quartet."
"We're not going to be with the other MINIONS?" Peter asked in surprise.
"Nope, you're a special breed of intern. You'll still go to Halima and Adam if you need help with regular projects, but you'll be Avenger Interns, we're waiting on the cool name," Tony told them, pointing at everyone.
Riri and Shuri both snorted, then looked at each other and smiled. Tony kept talking. "Harley and Peter, the intern projects for school, those are still going through Halima and Adam, everything else will be going through Bruce, Helen, Jane, and I, though I doubt any of you will need a lot of help, just raw material, and my lab space."
Riri looked excited at the prospect of a new lab space. Shuri looked intrigued, and Harley also looked excited. "Are my labs moving too?" Peter asked, slightly nervous. He had ongoing experiments.
"Yup," Tony said. "Don't worry, I've asked FRIDAY what can and cannot be moved, we'll move things over a little bit at a time, but you four will all have cubicles down here and have access to the shared lab space, as well as access to the Avenger Labs, and you four will each have your own section of floor 58, and living quarters in various levels of floors 61-100, yes Peter, even you. I've already spoken to your aunt about it."
Peter's face split into a huge grin. His aunt had been wary about letting him bother Mr. Stark about spending the night, but sometimes it was easier to crash at the Tower if his experiments were running late. "How'd you manage that Boss?" He asked.
"She's moving in too."
Peter paled and leaned his head back. "Are you serious?"
"Yup, don't worry, she has assured me that she is a "cool" aunt," Tony said, grinning at him. Peter groaned and dropped his head into his hands. This was going to be a disaster.
"I've also taken the liberty of reprinting your security pass since we've restructured the labs. There is a cheat sheet to the new lab structure on your StarkPads," Tony motioned at Adam, who startled and handed Shuri, Harley, and Riri shiny new StarkPads.
Peter glanced down at his phone and saw the new message.
"Boss," FRIDAY said, disembodied voice floating from the ceiling. "Mrs. Boss has asked me to remind you that if you are late for this meeting, she will-"
"I'm going!" Tony yelped, waving his hands around. "Peter, Halima, and Adam can handle the rest of the orientation," he said, running into the open elevator while tapping away on his phone.
Halima nodded and then yelped. "Actually, I have programs that need to be watched," she said, motioning towards Adam and Peter. "Peter is more than capable of doing it on his own."
She ran off to her section of the MINIONS lab, leaving Adam and Peter to finish the explanations. "Any questions?" Peter asked weakly, looking at the new badge Tony had shoved at him.
"The badges?" Riri asked. "How do they work?"
"Oh, you haven't met Happy yet, have you?" Peter asked with a grin. Beside him, Adam groaned and covered his face.
"Happy's our head of security," Peter explained, "and he's very particular about our badges. We're also a green company, so we almost never do reprints of badges, waste of resources."
Shuri nodded and then grabbed Peter's badge from him. "So how do you keep me from using your badge?" she asked.
"Each badge has a packet of information on it, that regularly gets sent to each of the several sensors on each floor. The packet includes picture identification, job status, and security levels, as well as a few other things, to the sensors. The sensors then determine if there are any anomalies and then pass that information along to FRIDAY."
"Okay, so basically Friday just knows if I'm supposed to have this specific badge or not," Harley said, taking Peter's badge from Shuri and turning it over.
"That would be correct," FRIDAY said, causing Riri to startle the slightest bit.
"FRIDAY are you or KAREN going to be our lab AI?" he asked.
"KAREN will still be working with you on any and all SPIDERLING related technology and equipment. However, I will be working with you on any other projects. BOSS has created a few more AI that I will be teaching to handle the security of the building as well as the needs of the first 20 floors and various other tasks of the building." Peter nodded as Riri proceeded to take his badge from Harley.
"Okay, but what about the colors, do we all get gold?"
Peter nodded, then paused and looked at Adam. "Their badges weren't with their StarkPads?"
Adam blinked and then flushed. "Oh yeah, hold on," he said and started digging through the orientation bin. He produced three badges on lanyards and passed them out to each of them. Riri handed Peter his badge back.
"Okay, but Adam's is orange," Riri said.
"Because I'm just a MINION. Co-head of them, but still, the Orange means I have access to the MINION floors as well as access to any part of the Tower that I might need temporary access too while doing MINION work. For example, if I were working on a project with someone in Engineering, I would be let down to the specific floor of my collaborator. I have access to all the public spaces, on levels 4 through 10, as well as access to the MINIONS living space on floor 62."
"Because we have gold, we technically have unrestricted free access to any level of the Tower, except the Living Quarters of people that have denied us access, which is everyone at the moment. That sort of information gets added to the packet on your badge as you meet other people in the tower and they give permission to Friday on either a short term or long term basis." Peter sighed.
"I think it's time to do the tour now, it's way more interesting than trying to explain everything up here in the labs. FRIDAY, 1st floor."