#16--April 29, 2019
Prompt: Ooo! I just had another idea! Pete uses his spidey-ness to epicly prank Steve, and he’s so confused because how the hell did his shoes end up on the window outside and when he confronts Tony he just laughs. What do you think?
Steve looks at the window, dumbfounded at the sight before him. Because, and if his eyes aren’t tricking him, his shoes are sticking to the window. On the outside. “Uh, Friday?” Steve calls out to the AI hesitantly, still not completely used to talking to her.
“Yes, Captain Rogers?” Friday asks, sounding slightly mischievous and faux-innocent.
“Do you happen to know why my shoes are outside on the window?” Steve asks, rubbing his head as he stares at his favorite pair of running shoes.
“I do not have any footage of that event,” Friday says, sounding smug. Steve furrows his eyebrows, suspicious, but decides to leave it alone. He just shakes his head as he stares at the shoes once more. Taking a step forward, he examines how they’re stuck to the window. It appears that web? is wrapped around the pair of shoes and is holding them to the window.
Hmm… Steve thinks to himself. Didn’t Sam and Bucky mention something about a spider guy back in Germany? Now that he’s got the who, Steve has to get the why. And he knows exactly who he’s going to ask. But first, he needs to find a new pair of shoes.
Once he’s acquired a pair of running shoes, Steve makes his way down to the lab. “Thanks, Friday,” Steve murmurs as he reaches the ground floor. Steve immediately heads to his right and down the hall that only one person, or how many that he’s aware of, is allowed to be in. Steve stands nervously outside of Tony’s lab, rapping on the door.
He hears a muffled “Let him in, Fri” past the AC/DC and the door slides open. Tony’s sitting at his workbench, tinkering with his Iron Man suit. “What’s up, Cap?” Tony says, lifting up his head and looking at Steve with a perked eyebrow.
“Uh, you know that spider guy from Germany?” Steve asks, standing awkwardly in the middle of the workshop, arms crossed over his chest. When Tony continues to stare at him, he elaborates. “He uses webs, right? Do you know if he’s here?”
“Why?” Tony asks, placing down the part he was messing with and staring at him. Steve just sighs and gestures Tony to follow him.
“You’ll see." Tony drops his stuff, intrigued, and follows the soldier out of his workshop. They make their way to the elevator and then up into the common room. Once there, Tony looks around with a raised eyebrow.
"What am I looking for, here?” Tony asks the Captain. Steve just points towards the window and Tony looks at where he’s pointing. As soon as Tony sees the shoes, he bursts into laughter. He laughs so hard, in fact, that the others that were still sleeping come out of their rooms to see what the fuss is about. Steve just looks at him, unimpressed. When Tony finally manages to stop laughing, all he does is clap Steve on the shoulder, shakes his head a few times, and makes his way back down to the lab.
“Wait!” Steve calls after him. “What am I supposed to do?" Tony just sends a wave towards the man as the elevator doors shut behind him.
It’s that afternoon when Tony next sees the perpetrator. Peter’s sitting at his worktop, putting together a new webshooter design when Tony decides to speak up. "So, something interesting happened this morning,” he says casually, seeing the kid freeze out of the corner of his eye.
“Oh?” Peter hums, sounding a tad nervous. “What happened?”
“Nothing, really,” Tony says casually. "Steve wanted to go on a run this morning only to find his shoes missing so he went out to the common room to look for them. Turns out someone attached them to the window. On the outside of the Compound. With webs.“ Tony finally lifts his head and looks over at Peter who’s staring down at his hands. "You wouldn’t happen to know anything about that, would you?”
“What-? No-oh-oh-oh-oh,” Peter says, not sounding convincing at all. “Why would I know anything about Captain America’s shoes?”
Tony raises an eyebrow. “Oh, so you’re telling me that you didn’t steal the poor Capsicle’s shoes and webbed them to the outside of the common room window with web fluid that you and I only happen to have access to?" Peter looks guilty before a grin forms on his mentor’s face. "Thanks, kiddo. You’re not in trouble, I needed the laugh.”
The tension in Peter’s shoulders diminishes and a grin of his own forms on his face. “Really? I’m not in any trouble?" Tony chuckles.
"Nope, though Steve does suspect that Spider-Man was involved, though,” the man says, looking at Peter from behind his safety glasses (because if Tony doesn’t want the kid to get hurt, he needs to set a good example and blah blah blah). Peter’s face pales and Tony laughs. “You may want to keep your identity on the down-low for now, kiddo.”
“Y-Yeah,” Peter says, a blush returning color to his face. “Probably don’t want the group to find out a teen’s been webbing up all of their stuff.”
“You’ve done it to everyone!?"