A field trip where?
“No.”
“You’ve got to go!”
“No.”
“Oh come on, they wouldn’t tease you that badly.”
“Are you kidding, Ned, I live with them. They would be merciless.”
“How bad could it be?”
“Well, Dad is a little shit when he wants to be, which is all the time. Captain dad may seem all, I’m Captain America, I’ve never done anything wrong, but you should see him. That man can be a nightmare. Assassin dad will just act like he doesn’t know what’s going on, until someone is annoying, and then he’ll go all protective dad mode. Nat and Clint will be all assassiny, and Bruce, well Bruce is a good person. Maybe he’ll go easy on me? Stephen will probably either ignore everyone, or help dad, so there’s no in between.”
“Oh you are going.”
“Heya Pete, how was school?”
Peter dropped his backpack on the ground next to the counter, and wordlessly grabbed the bagel from Clint’s hand, and began to eat it.
“That was my bagel. I could kill you for that.”
“No death threats before dinner.” Tony came into the room, and kicked Peter’s backpack into the corner. A little slip of paper fluttered out, and Tony grabbed it, read it, and smirked.
Peter realized what happened, and frantically grabbed at the paper, but it was already too late.
“Peter over here as a field trip.” Tony grabbed a pen, and signed the slip with a flourish. “Guess where it’s to?”
Bucky sprinted into the room, grabbed the bagel from Peter, who smacked him, and crouched on the back of a chair.
“On behalf of all of us,” Clint raised his eyebrows. “May I just ask, what the fuck?”
Now Steve ran into the room, Bucky yelped, and sprinted out the other exit, leaving the remaining people in the room slightly concerned.
“Don’t worry about them. Bucky took Steve’s favorite blanket, Steve’s trying to get it back.” Natasha pulled herself up onto the counter. “Is there anymore bagels?”
Tony looked outraged. “Steve’s favorite blanket is my favorite blanket!” Running after the two super soldiers, he yelled back to Peter: “Don’t think I’ve forgotten about that field trip!”
Natasha looked at Peter. “What’s this about a field trip?”
“Absolutely nothing! I, uh, have to go find Bruce?” Peter ran out of the room, hauling his backpack behind him.
“He’s got a field trip.” Clint dangled upside down from the cabinet. "To this tower."
“We’re going to embarrass him.”
“Definitely.”
“You two are such assholes.”
Steve blinked innocently down at Tony from where he was sketching, while Bucky just snorted, and flopped his arm Tony’s stomach.
“You come live in my home, and how do you repay me? You taking my fucking blanket.”
“Tones. We are married.”
“My blanket.”
“Married.”
Tony grumbled, and slid farther down, snuggling into Bucky’s arms, and whacking at Steve’s.
“Bed.”
“But I’m in the middle of this.”
“I can’t believe I’m the one to say this, but nope. Bedtime.”
“What time is it?”
“Three in the morning.”
“What?”
“Just go to beddddd.”
“Fine then.” Steve reached over and turned out the light, sliding down until he was level with the other two.
“Night.”
“Love you.”
“Go. To. Bed.”
“Can I just not?”
“Suck it up, it’ll be funny for us.”
“MJ, why do you hate me like this.”
“Meh, I think it’ll be funny too.”
“Traitors. You’re both traitors.” Peter flopped back onto his seat, and glared at MJ and Ned.
“Can everyone hear me?” Peter glanced up to see his teacher, Ms. Jones, standing at the front of the bus. “Has everyone signed the sign in sheet, so we can go? Anyone? Great! We should be to the tower in about ten minutes, so please, try not to loose anything.”
“It’s ten minutes, how much crap can we lose?”
“So apparently we can lose a lot of crap.” Peter sighed as he walked off the bus.
“Due, you’re the one who couldn’t find his phone.”
“Well, MJ was the one who’s pencils rolled across the bus!”
“We agreed not to speak of that.”
“And Hitler promised not to invade Czechoslovakia, MJ. Welcome to the real world.”
“Kids!” Ms. Jones yelled, effectively interrupting their argument. “We’re going inside now, so please, for god’s sake, be respectful. Now go, and don’t destroy the place.”
“Did Steve put in the new painting of the tower yet? It looked really cool last time we saw it.”
“I think so, it should be by the main doors.”
The group of students walked into the building, and were immediately stopped by a tall woman wearing a suit.
“Hey kids! Sorry we don’t have time to look around for a bit, but your tour had to be moved up on the schedule. I’m Kate, by the way.” Kate glanced around the group, saw Peter, Ned, and MJ, and smirked. Continuing, she said, “I’m going to give you all passes to get through security. Our Head of Security, Happy, is very particular about it.” She began to pass out badges, continuing to talk while she did so.
“There are three main levels of passes, Alpha, Beta, and Omega. There are three levels within those categories. The omega levels are for visitors and our cleaning staff. You will be getting Omega Level One passes, enough to get you into certain rooms, as long as I’m with you. The Beta levels are for our interns, and most of our staff. Then we have the Alpha levels, which are reserved for the Avengers and their families. Alpha three, the highest you can go, is reserved only for Tony Stark’s family, and Pepper Potts, the CEO.”
Peter glanced frantically at MJ and Ned. “I’ve got Alpha Three! What do I do?”
Ned looked similarly worried. “Me and MJ both have Beta level Threes. Do you think anyone will notice?”
“Friday announces anyone Beta and up. She’ll notify my dads that I’m here, too.”
“We’re fucked.”
“Yep.”
“Hey, Penis Parker! Bet you don’t even have a badge. Ready to show us that you were lying about the internship the entire time?”
“Fuck off, Flash,” Peter mumbled.
“Can everyone come up to get their passes, and then file through the detector? Make sure you go through the one that says Visitors, please.”
Peter slipped to the back of the group, MJ and Ned following. As Peter tried to sneak past Kate, she glanced over, and grinned again.
“Oh no, Peter, Ned, MJ. I believe you three all have passes?” When they nodded, she smiled even more. “Then go on through the other detector.”
“You’re awful.”
“I know. Now go!”
Peter walked very quickly over to the detector, hoping that if he was quick, no one would notice.
“Parker! I think you’re at the wrong one!” Peter looked over to see Flash laughing with his friends. Instead of answering, Peter scanned his pass, and walked through, MJ after him, and then Ned.
“Peter Parker, Alpha Level Three. Welcome back, Peter. I’ll inform Mr. Stark, Rogers, and Barnes that you are here.”
“Fuck.”
“Michelle Jones, Beta Level Three. Welcome back, MJ.”
“Ned Leeds, Beta Level Three. Welcome back, Ted.”
“Goddamnit, I thought he promised he wouldn’t tell FRIDAY to call me that.”
“You and I both know he was lying.”
“Well, I still hoped.”
Running over to join their class, they were met with looks of disbelief.
Kate jogged through, FRIDAY in the background: “Kate Harkness, Beta Level Three. Welcome back Kate.”
“Okay kids, let’s get going!”
Peter, MJ, and Ned all fell to the back of the group, where Flash met them. “Hey, Penis, who’s dick did you s-”
Peter sidestepped away, while Ned, and MJ stopped walking. From the vents jumped a large, purple blur, screaming at the top of it’s lungs.
“Clint, why.”
Clint jumped up, dusting himself off. “I heard you were here. FRIDAY made the lovely decision to announce it to our whole floor.”
Peter went visibly white. “Who’s here, and who’s coming?”
“Well, Tony, Steve, and Bucky were all in Tony’s workshop, something about Bucky’s arm, so they’ll be along at some point. Or in R&D, one or the other. Nat’s coming soon, Bruce is probably on the R&D floor, so he’ll show up when you visit those labs. Wanda, Stephen, and Loki are all practicing their magic, so you can bet they’re going to do something annoying, and Thor is currently in New Asgard, he left right after you did, so we’ll see.”
“So, everyone then.”
“Yep!”
“Shit.”
“Language!”
“Peter!” Kate called from down the hall. “Ned, MJ! We’re going to the R&D labs, come on!”
“Go on, enjoy the tour!”