fourteen.
Getting into Tony's lab wasn't hard. Peter'd seen Tony put the code in hundreds of times already... Okay, that was a lie, but he memorized the code by just seeing it once.
Friday didn't alert Tony about Peter entering the lab while he was gone because Peter didn't need to hack the computer system for the door code. Peter knew he needed to hurry. Tony wouldn't be off base for long.
He made his way to the back of the lab and sat down at Tony's computer. He slid his hand across the holographic keyboard and smirked when the screen lit up. Tony had a basic password, it was juvenile and stupid, which made sense because so was Tony. Peter typed in 'captainamericock' and was looking at Tony's background in an instant.
He was met with a photo of Tony and Pepper at a gala that happened over ten years ago, which led Peter to believe that Tony wasn't on his computer a whole lot anymore. It had all the same information that Tony's other computer had, but it was obvious that Tony hadn't put any effort into updating his background or anything of the sort in quite some time. Peter plugged a small chip into Tony's computer and a window came up.
With some tweaking, Peter was able to save passcodes and mission reports onto his chip. As he was about to close the window and remove the chip, he came across a folder he nearly missed.
'Parker, Peter B.' Clicking on it revealed that it was password protected. Once he was inside the folder, he could see that there were photos and summaries and mission reports and two other folders.
The names 'Fitzpatrick, Mary' and 'Cpt. Parker, Richard' stared back at Peter. He clicked on the folder that bore his father's name and dozens of extra things popped up onto the screen. Photos, summaries, mission reports, recruitment reports signed by Nick Fury. Every other page was stamped with the official seal of the C.I.A.
His mother's folder held the same things. There were pictures of his parents standing next to Wolverine, next to Nick Fury. There were matching death certificates that listed their cause of death as a plane crash but... Were they on a mission? Was the plane sabotaged? What the hell? Why did Peter never hear about this? Why was he never told?
Was it possible that Aunt May and Uncle Ben didn't know? No, that's impossible. They had to know. No. They couldn't have known, or else they would've told him, right?
Peter could hear footsteps on the stairs. He yanked the chip out once the folder was on it and pressed a couple of buttons to close everything. With the press of another button, the computer went back to sleep just like he'd found it and he slid underneath the desk to hide.
The door opened, and as the person walking around made noise on one side of the lab, Peter made his way around the other side. Whoever came in left the door wide open, which made it so much easier for Peter to escape.
He was soundless as he crawled up the wall and onto the ceiling to make his retreat down the hall. He opened the stairwell door and finally let himself land on the floor.
He jogged down the stairs to the basement and basically sprinted down to Wade's cell. "Wade, Wade, Wade!"
Wade had already perked up when he heard Peter's voice. "What's going on Petey?"
Peter skidded to a stop and held the chip. "I know what happened to my parents."