How to Prank a Billionaire

by scottystaco

Summary:

With Harley Keener and his family moving to New York City because of his mom's boyfriend's job, he hadn't expected there to be another intern working personally with Tony Stark. When the two boys meet, they both realize that Tony is a massive idiot ever putting the two boys in the same classes. Enter Michelle Jones with a smart prank idea that will making Tony feel like he's losing it. Between pretending to hate each other, dealing with Flash's school antics, and keeping their "rivalry" believable, Peter and Harley might just drive Tony insane...or get grounded for life. Whichever comes first.

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Notes:

School starts Wednesday. I’m going to crash out. The only thing I did this summer was watch Phineas and Ferb, bed rot, read fics, wrote, posted TikToks, and met Sam and Colby (YouTubers) and yes I died when I met them.

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Chapter 1: The Night Before Midtown

"Are you three excited for tomorrow?" May asks as she takes a bite out of her Thai food to hear two annoyed groans and sees one smirk.

"I can't believe tomorrow is the first day of school! Worst day of my life!" Ned complains.

Neds complaining elicited to some people turning in their seats and staring at their table. As per school tradition, May, Peter, and Ned goes out to their favorite Thai restaurant but this year, they invited MJ.

Peter hasn't been here in awhile besides ordering take-out. They still have the same red dragon painted across the wall behind the register that they had ever since the building opened up, the menus are sticky with the same meals listed out, and the comforting smell of soy sauce and lemongrass clung to everything and everyone's clothing's.

They're seated by the window, May and Peter able to look out, while Mj and Ned are facing the restaurant. They thankfully didn't get the waiter that hit on May and speaking of him, Peter hasn't seen him at all this night so he probably has the day off or a different shift. They instead have a different guy but luckily, doesn't hit on anyone. 

"Summer's too short, we need to make it longer. School takes up like eighty percent of the year" Peter pouts before stabbing his chopsticks into a pile of pad Thai.

"Oh enough, school will be over before you know it" May rolls her eyes.

"That's what everyone says and then school takes forever to end!" Ned argues.

"MJ, are you excited?" May asks, recalling her smirk.

"I can't wait to watch the crash and burn happen this school year" MJ replies with a smile.

"Don't jinx it MJ, please" Peter pleads.

"I don't know, my tingling is telling me tomorrow is going to be a great day!" Ned teases while staying hopeful.

"No, we are not doing that! May! See what you did?!" Peter asks only for May to laugh instead.

"Come on Peter, after the disasters but really cool events that happened last year, we need this year to top that in the most amazing and cool ways!" Ned explains.

"I don't think this year is going to beat the fact that you told a teacher during homecoming that you were watching porn on the school computer" Peter recalls making Neds face heat up.

"And you guys are just telling me this now?!" May asks, bursting out laughing.

"I overheard the teachers talking about it for weeks" MJ smirks.

"Oh god, I can't go back! I need to transfer schools like immediately!" Ned panics.

"Maybe they forgot?" Peter suggests but he knows it's a lie. Who could ever forget that hilarious moment? 

"Ned wishes he could get better at lying. Once I found out, I had to do all the lying for you" MJ scoffs.

"Well luckily for me, I have a few classes with you so you could do the lying for me" Peter recalls his schedule.

"I feel like I got replaced" Ned states.

"Get better at lying" MJ shrugs.

"I think that's a pretty good lie. If the tech department looked at the computers history, it'll prove that Ned did lie" May points out.

"I got detention for that lie before the tech department even looked. Once they did, the detention got removed so I mean that's good. They didn't even bother asking what I was doing in there again" Ned exclaims.

"You could've just said you were playing a nerd game" MJ rolls her eyes at the obvious. 

"Well I wasn't thinking straight! I was panicking! At least I didn't tell them the truth!" Ned pouts.

"If you did, they wouldn't have believed you anyways? I mean they would've thought you were showing early signs of schizophrenia or that something was just mentally wrong with you or that you were on drugs or consumed alcohol" MJ argues.

"Why don't you kids set up some goals for yourself to make sure you have a good school year? First one on the list is getting better at lying" May suggests.

"As much as that was pointed to me, I agree on this survival goal checklist" Ned hums in agreement. "We're already going to be sophomores and that is my reputation for teachers to remember me by, god what a nightmare."

Chuckles erupt at the table while Ned grimaces. He really hopes he can set a new and better reputation for himself.

"Second is coming to all decathlon practices and staying for the entire time" MJ adds with a pointed look towards Peter.

"What if it's urgent?" Peter questions.

"It better be or else Flash is going to have to take up your spot. Cat stuck in a tree? Not urgent. Someone crossing the road? Not urgent. Helping with groceries? Not urgent. The police is already on it and it's not too deadly? Not urgent" MJ lists.

"The last one seems kind of urgent" Peter protests.

"Police have handled crimes way before you, they'll be fine stopping a robbery" MJ rolls her eyes.

"Alien tech?" Ned asks.

"Urgent" Peter answers making MJ sigh, "Urgent."

"Let's hope that never happens again. You never even told us the full story of what went down" Ned recalls.

"Wait what? I thought you told me the whole story...right? The tracker led to the plane?" May wonders.

"No the tracker led to a villain lair" Ned shakes his head.

"A warehouse" MJ corrects.

The air stiffens at that. Mays concerned face is hard to look at so Peter looks away. He hates the silence that follows. It made it sound like MJ echoed the word and the whole restaurant heard it.

"You didn't tell me about the warehouse?" May questions.

He could still feel the sting of ash in his lungs, the heaviness of structures and debris on his back. He still hears the sound of Toomes metal wings hitting the support beams, the warehouse crumbling down, and the smell of dust and concrete mixed with the sharp scent of his blood.

"He left out details from the warehouse to us too like how'd it fall down?" MJ asks.

"It didn't fall down" Peter lies trying to keep his voice level and steady. They don't need to ever know what happened. He knows they mean well but he also knows they don't need to know everything. It'll only scare them and realize how much danger he got in and could still get into.

"So the video that circled online afterwards of a guy claiming he saw Spider-Man and the Vulture at that now collapsed warehouse is a lie?" MJ asks.

Peter looks at everyone's expressions, sees the worry and concern on their faces...except MJ's, she just looks skeptical.

"Don't tell me you fall for everything you see online to be true" Peter scoffs with a fake, light laugh. 

"Does Tony know?" May wonders making the air feel like it got cut through with a knife. 

Peter looks up at her, his hands fidgeting underneath the table. He listens in to the surrounding tables conversations to see that nobody is paying attention to them. They're all talking about their own lives, focusing on their own topics at hand. They've been talking quietly, not too loud to alert nearby tables.

It's not like Tony doesn't know but it's also not like Peter told him right away. He wasn't even planning on telling the billionaire. He was too embarrassed and too scared of what the man would think.

Would he not be an honorary avenger anymore?

Does he think nightmares are weak? That Peter can't handle this kind of life?

Peter ended up having a panic attack in front of him to make matters worse for himself. That was after he screamed himself awake from said nightmare with Friday alerting Tony.

"Yeah" Peter breathes out after a moment of tense silence.

Peter looks away from May before she could say anything. He didn't want to see the hurt crossing her features or the guilt on his own face to show. It's not like May hates the man anymore but he still feels guilty that he told Tony and not her even if it wasn't on purpose.

"Then that's all that matters, that at least somebody knows" May concludes.

He just doesn't want to worry her but he ends up doing so anyways. Tony told him not everyone understands this hero life, the hero business and Peter understands that, he truly does. May freaked out after seeing him in his suit and then yelled at Tony for a good two hours. Peter thought the man wouldn't make it out of their apartment alive. He knows May is still scared when he goes out but she at least understands the safety measures Tony put into his suit.

"Well let's hope there's no big evil villains and just your average bad guys instead this year" Ned hopes before shoveling a piece of food into his mouth and interrupting Peter from his thoughts.

 

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"I want to go home!" Abby Keener protests, stomping her foot on the ground.

"Abby, we talked about this sweetie. We can't just go back like that, this is our home now and I'm sure you're going to love it. You're going to make new friends at your school tomorrow and it'll get better, I promise" her mom, Willow, promises.

"I'm not unpacking" Abby argues.

Unlike Harley, Abby hasn't unpacked yet and they've been at their new apartment for a week now. She has cardboard boxes piled upon each other. Her only things that were unpacked were her essentials. Everything else sat untouched in the dusty, duct-taped boxes.

"Fine, you can unpack when you really settle in. As long as you're friendly tomorrow, you'll make a ton of friends" Willow settles.

 "Harley, this is bullshit. Tell ma this is bullshit" Abby curses.

"Abigail, do not go cussing around here" Willow scolds.

"Why don't we have a competition?" Oliver claps, gaining everyone's attention.

Oliver is Harley and Abby's stepdad. Their ma and him have been dating for three years and decided they needed a fresh start in New York City. They used to live in Rosehill, Tennessee which is a small town where everyone knows everyone and everything.

Harley hated it there. He had no friends and only stopped getting bullied after Tony left because he was finally able to stick up for himself. He was still an outcast though. His love for science made him weird and the easy education from school made him bored.

The only two things that made him happy about moving here is that he's closer to Tony and that he got accepted to a stem private school on a scholarship, Midtown High of Science and Technology. Although the man has money saved up for Harley for college, his ma didn't want to accept anymore and didn't allow Tony to pay for his high school. First day of school is tomorrow and he's honestly a mix of happy and nervous.

While he has two perks of this move, Abby doesn't. She had two best friends and she was on a horseback riding team. It's not that much but it made her happy. Harley doesn't blame her for being mad but he also knows they can't move back.

He's just glad he doesn't have to share a room with Abby since their apartment has three bedrooms. Only sad part is that he doesn't have a room only for his lab tools so he has to make do with his bedroom. It's not like he really cares, it's his ma that cared about separating his bedroom and lab time but oh well, can't do much about that.

Speaking of his ma, she already got a new job waitressing at a nearby diner and Oliver got a job at the local Queens police department. His first day is tomorrow too actually. His mom is the only one that already had her first day and that was three days ago. She already made friends with a coworker so it makes her work fun and she doesn't mind it. She said that the only difference is that there's always a ton of new people to serve and a lot of new faces everyday instead of the same old.

"What competition?" Abby asks skeptically.

"If you two actually enjoy your school day tomorrow and make friends, we'll all get ice cream for dinner. If you end up not making friends, try harder the next day and the ice cream is for motivational support" Oliver bargains.

"Any ice cream? No matter how big and how many topics I want to add?" Abby questions.

"Any" Oliver nods as he puts his hand out to shake on it.

"Deal" Abby agrees, shaking on it.

"Harley?" Oliver asks.

"Deal" Harley accepts.

"Let the games begin" Abby grins.

"Alright Primrose" Harley scoffs.

"Let's not start up a fight. Are you two all packed for school in the morning?" Willow cuts in.

"Yes" Abby and Harley say in unison.

"I'll be double checking those bags right now, you're sure?" Willow questions, not believing them.

"Ughhhh we'll go pack now" Abby relents.

"By the time you're done, maybe dinner will be here" Oliver winks at them.

"That won't make us pack faster" Harley points out.

"Yeah, dinner will get here no matter what. We're eleven and fifteen, not two and six" Abby rolls her eyes.

"Go pack" Willow demands.

"Whatever" Harley replies, heading towards his room while Abby goes towards hers.

Between the two of them, Harley got the bigger room. He did not totally in fact gloat in Abby's face but to be fair, he is older and he has to put his tools and projects somewhere.

Shutting his door, Harley grabs his brand new backpack and his supplies. Staring at it, he pulls out his phone to see Tony's last text wishing him good luck tomorrow. They were talking briefly earlier and Tony invited him to the tower after school. Without even accepting or declining, Tony said a driver will already be there tomorrow so he mind as well hop in. Harley was going to ask what that meant but then figured Tony texted his message wrong. He's positive the man probably hasn't sleep in awhile.

Nevertheless, he did accept the offer. Then when Tony wished him good luck, he couldn't help but say thanks with a Captain America gif. 

"You two better be packing!" Willow shouts through the thin walls making Harley groan.

He puts his phone down and stares back at the empty backpack and his supplies right next to it. Itching to go back on his phone or to tinker, he fights the urge and starts to pack. Hopefully tomorrow won't be so bad. He already got a tour of the school from the principal so all he has to hope for is that he doesn't get lost.

Chapter 2: The Lunch Table Conspiracy

It's the period before lunch and Peter is already starving, curse his enhanced metabolism.

Students are slowly coming in with a minute left before the bell rings to signal the start of class. Math class is one of the only classes he doesn't share with Mj or Ned but disappointedly, shares with Flash.

Watching Flash walk in is like a demon prowling around, ready to attack innocent bystanders. He knows Flash would never sit directly next to him but is still going to choose a close proximity seating choice. Easy for him, there's an empty seat behind Peter.

"Wassup penis Parker! Ready to realize that you're too dumb enough for high school geometry?" Flash asks.

Peter rolls his eyes and ignores him. He really wishes Ned or Mj was in his class to take the empty seat besides him. Flash's goon friend sits besides Flash and Peter can hear their chatter immediately. The class seating is split into rows with two desks paired next to each other. He hopes someone from AcaDec will sit by him but so far, he hasn't seen anyone except Betty who has a friend in this class already. 

Right as the bell rings, Peter almost jumps out of his seat when somebody plops into the seat besides him. It's not that he hates that the guy sat next to him, in fact he's relieved it's not someone like Flash and his goons.

"Hey, this is Mrs. Dores's math class right?" the boy besides him ask. Peter has never seen him before but recognizes the Southern accent, chalking that up to the fact he's probably new here.

"Yeah it is, I'm Peter" Peter confirms with a smile.

"Harley" Harley smiles back.

"Alright class! Shut up and listen up!" Mrs. Dores interrupts, silencing all chatter. She's got sharp eyeliner and her outfit screams no nonsense despite it being your average math teacher outfit. Her heals click onto the floor as she walks towards her desk. "My name is Mrs. Dores and I will be your math teacher for this school year! I'm going to take attendance, explain the rules for this year, and then we're going to watch Captain America's PSA about why math is important!"

The whole class erupts into groans but Mrs. Dores ignores it and starts going over the attendance.

"Why does every class play a Captain America PSA?" Harley asks in a whisper, leaning over towards Peter.

"To torture us" Peter whispers back. "They do this every year and for every occasion that comes up that he has a PSA for."

"Man I already want to punch Captain America in the face" Harley grumbles.

"Boys quiet down and please listen for your name to be called!" Mrs. Dores interrupts them making them fall silent.

 

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"Are there no such thing as ice breakers anymore? I can't believe we have homework on the first day!" Harley complains once the bell rings making Peter chuckle.

"So where did you move from?" Peter asks as the boys make their way out of class and into the crowded hallway.

"Tennessee" Harley answers. "I live in Queens now."

"No way me too! I live in Forest Hill!" Peter exclaims.

"Oh I live in Kew Gardens" Harley replies.

"That's like the next neighborhood over, it's not too far" Peter shrugs.

"Yo Parker! Already ditching your boyfriend?" Flash accuses as he slams his hand down on Peter shoulder which he throws off. "New kid, if you want to be in the popular group, you might want to stay away from this loser."

"Ah so this is the popular rich boy of this school!" Harley gasps.

"Flash Thompson" Flash introduces.

"No thanks, I don't give two horse shits about who you are" Harley declines.

"Good, I don't want to be friends with you anyways. I just thought you wanted to know how much of a liar Parker here is, always lying about interning at Stark Industr-" Flash begins to say.

"The only liar here is you Eugene. Stop flaunting around your money and do us a favor in shutting up. Now let's go get lunch before I decide to punch someone in the nose" MJ cuts in before grabbing Peter's wrist and yanking him away.

Harley is quick to follow, leaving Flash behind and they head off to the cafeteria which wasn't too far.

"MJ this is-" Peter tries to introduce while being dragged.

"Harley Keener, he was in my first period class" MJ interrupts.

They enter the cafeteria and head towards the back of the room to see Ned waiting for them.

"I was wondering what took you guys so long. I'm Ned Leeds!" Ned introduces himself to Harley while the three teens sits down.

"Harley Keener" Harley responds.

"Flash stopped us in the hall, sorry man" Peter apologizes.

"And to think this year he would've stopped" Ned sighs before picking up his peanut butter sandwich and taking a bite.

"What was he even going on about anyways? You intern at Stark Industries?" Harley questions, taking out his own lunch from his bag. His mom insisted that she made him and Abby lunch for their first day.

"Oh umm well...yeah I do" Peter nods. "But you know, just getting coff-"

"He's Tony Stark's personal intern, it's so cool! Flash is just jealous" Ned interrupts.

"Personal intern? So you work in his lab?" Harley asks.

"He builds all kinds of things for SI! He's even got to work on the avengers tech!" Ned exclaims.

"Ned!" Peter cuts in before he says anything more.

"How does he know you're lying? Do you got any proof?" Harley wonders.

"Uhh y-yeah I do" Peter nods.

"What do you want to see? He's got a lot of proof like pictures, Mr. Starks phone-" Ned starts to list.

"Oh my god Ned" Peter cuts in with wide eyes, his face turning red.

"You got Tony's number?" Harley questions.

"And he's not giving it away as much as I would love to hear about the billionaire getting random texts and calls from strangers" MJ chimes in.

"Nah that's ok, I got his number too" Harley waves off. He's not going to admit it but MJ is pretty scary.

"Y-you have his number too?" Ned stutters in shock.

"You just moved here from Tennessee and you aren't an intern" MJ recalls in disbelief.

"Wait how did you know I'm from Tennessee, I only told Peter" Harley asks.

"The accent" MJ answers. "What's his phone number?"

"How about we compare? Peter and I pull up the contact and we see if it matches" Harley suggests.

"Alright" Peter agrees.

"But you can memorize the number. How about you say the last four digits. If it's correct, Peter will say the middle digits?" MJ suggests.

"Fine, 8028" Harley answers making MJ and Ned turn to Peter with a questioning look.

"620" Peter confirms. "How do you know Mr. Stark?"

Man, Harley remembers the day like it was yesterday. Harley wanted to tinker in his lab, bored out of his mind. The snowstorm was driving him a bit crazy with his sister nagging him. He finally got her away and once he did, he grabbed his potato gun and made for the garage.

Only when he got to his garage though, he saw that the door was opened. He remembers closing it and a spike of fear rushes through him. He raises his potato gun, ready to strike the intruder, just to see a supposed dead man.

"Remember the Madarian drama? He crashed into my garage and I helped him repair his suit" Harley explains.

"You helped him repair his Iron Man suit?!" Ned gushes.

"Yeah it was so cool, I almost hit him with a potato from my potato gun because he was an intruder" Harley recalls. "Now how do you know him? He definitely did not hire a high schooler as an intern, especially a personal intern. He hates kids, no offense."

"We're the same age?" Peter questions.

"Well yeah and I was like eleven when I met him but that's only because he needed my tools. I had a lab set up in my garage. Now how do you know him?" Harley asks again.

"September Foundation. I submitted an application and I didn't even think I was going to get hired but then I surprisingly did" Peter shrugs.

"What days do you go in?" Harley wonders.

"Today, Wednesday, and Friday" Peter lists.

"Wait today? I'm going to the tower today after school, he said they'll be a driver here" Harley recalls.

"Oh yeah, Happy Hogan, his head of security" Peter nods. "He picks me up after school on internship days but today I'm coming in late so you'll be by yourself until later. I'll still show you the car though." 

"Wait why are you going to be late?" Harley questions.

"I'm stopping by the police department because apparently there's a new officer there and I usually bring donuts for the new officers" Peter explains.

"Oh my ma's boyfriend has his first day at his police department today, maybe it's the same one" Harley guesses.

"Wait this is so cool! Both of my friends work for Tony freaking Stark! MJ, are you hearing this?!" Ned squeals.

"Uh-huh" MJ replies disinterested as she flips her book page.

"Do you have any siblings? Pets?" Ned wonders.

"Younger sister Abby" Harley nods.

"Same! Her name's Haliya and she's eleven" Ned informs.

"She's eleven too! Do you perhaps lives in Queens too?" Harley assumes.

"Yeah! I live in Astoria! It's close to where Peter lives!" Ned nods. "Hali goes to the public Queens elementary school!"

"Same with Abby, I wonder if they're in the same class because that would be insane! I moved to Kew Gardens" Harley wonders.

"Oh they have to be friends! You know how much easier hanging out would be? Sometimes I couldn't go out because I had to babysit her but now I can just bring her along if you bring your sister!" Ned plans. "We should all hangout soon!"

"Let's see if they're friends first Ned, one thing at a time" Peter huffs out a laugh.

"So how's the move from Tennessee? Have you explored the city? Do you like it here?" Ned asks. "Most importantly, do you like Star Wars and Legos? We just finished our Lego Death Star over the summer!"

"You're breaking him" MJ informs.

"I'm sorry!" Ned apologizes.

"No, no it's ok. I've explored a little bit of the city but not much, it's a lot different from the small town I lived in. Everyone knew everyone and everything so it's definitely different. Uhhh I do like Star Wars and I used to build Legos but not anymore" Harley answers. "The Lego Death Star set looked cool though."

"Maybe you can build our next set with us! The Millennium Falcon is coming out soon!" Ned invites.

"Sure" Harley easily accepts.

"Hey, I have an idea" MJ announces making Ned and Peter turn to each other with worried glances. MJ usually ignores them during lunch either reading or drawing and says a few things here and there but she never starts a conversation, not really. This is like a one percent chance and Peter and Ned can't help but worry, feeling like someone's about to die.

"Am I going to die?" Ned whispers.

"No Leeds" MJ rolls her eyes. "You two are going to the tower later today and Tony is going to expect that you guys haven't met and will meet at the tower, right?"

"Yeah" Peter nods.

"Wait how come you call him Mr. Stark but she calls him Tony? I don't even call the old man that" Harley recalls how Peter says his name. 

"Not important. Look, why don't you two pull a prank? Don't act like you guys met at school, act like you guys just met at the tower but...you hate each other" MJ suggests.

"What?" Harley questions.

"Think about it. He's only got two teenaged interns and like you said earlier, he hates kids. He's hoping you guys hit it off and become friends thinking it's all going to be easy but what if it's not? What if...you two were jealous of each other?" MJ plans.

"She's right, we can pull off the ultimate prank on him!" Peter agrees, eyes lighting up with a mischievous hint in them. "It's the perfect time to do it to! There's no prank war going on right now so he won't expect it!"

"Wait prank war?" Harley questions.

"Oh umm well the avengers pulls pranks on each other a lot of the times and sometimes I'm there to witness it" Peter shrugs.

"And help out" Ned adds.

"Do you prank the avengers?" Harley wonders.

"No" Peter denies right at the same time Ned says, "yes!"

"Dude I feel so disappointed that Tony couldn't make us meet sooner! I mean you prank the avengers?! I gotta get in on that, first victim Tony Stark" Harley smirks. "Also, when did you meet him?"

"Last year" Peter claims.

"Ok, I got a few ideas for this prank" Harley hums in thought. "MJ, what are yours?"

MJ turns her sketchbook around revealing a drawing of Peter and Harley fighting with Tony panicking in the background. Her mischievous smirk turns into a smile, already imaging the chaos that will enfold. 

 

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"So which car is Happy's?" Harley asks before the four teens leave the building.

"Sleek black Audi, can't miss it. Now MJ, Ned, and I are going to leave before you. Stand behind a couple of people and then leave. Sit in the back by the way, Happy doesn't like when people sit in the front and if he puts the divider up, it means he likes you" Peter explains.

"Ok thanks, text me when you're on the way so I can make sure I'm ready" Harley informs.

"Got it, cya later!" Peter waves.

"Bye Harley!" Ned calls out.

"Bye!" Harley responds.

MJ stares at him for a moment before turning around and leaving with Peter and Ned in tow. After waiting a moment, Harley goes behind a group of people and exits the building.

Walking down the crowded steps of Midtown, he spots the car standing out in the pick up lane. Making his way over, he throws open the back door and jumps in.

"What's your name?" Happy asks in a threatening tone.

"Harley Keener" Harley answers.

"Happy Hogan, Tony's head of security. I'm taking you to the tower today" Happy introduces before pulling away and driving off.

"If you're his head of security why are you the one picking me up?" Harley wonders. "Weren't you his bodyguard too?"

"I have many jobs that I do for him. Are you going to talk the whole time?" Happy questions.

"Why are you called Happy?" Harley asks and in response, Happy rolls up the divider. "Does this mean you like me?"

No response.

"I'll give you a good rating, don't you worry your little head about it" Harley assures.

Still silence.

Divider up means he likes you?

Pshh liar.

 

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Flash watches Peter, Ned, and MJ walk out of the school with no Harley Keener. He saw the black Audi with the Stark plate already outside their school before he was let out of class. He always sees the car there on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays. Flash was about to let out a scoff when Peter would normally break away from his friends but instead, chokes.

Coughing up nothing, he sees Peter walk away from the car instead of usually going in. He finds it strange but maybe he got fired, Flash wouldn't be surprised if that happened.

But no...

A minute later, Harley Keener walks out of the school building and hops right into the Audi before it drives away.

Flash stands there dumbstruck.

He overheard Harley telling Peter how he's from freaking Tennessee so how in the ever loving fuck did he just get into Tony Stark's fucking car?!

Flash has a million questions but absolutely no answers.

All he knows is that he's pissed.

Chapter 3: Operation: Fake Frenemies

"Now I know she's a cat but what about a pink, sparkly leash? That way she won't get lost" Spider-Man suggests to the little girl, now holding her fluffy white cat.

He had to chase down the cat because she got spooked and ran out of the door. Peter would've thought nothing of it because there are a ton of outdoor cats in the city but apparently this cat is an indoor cat and is scared of cars. Peter was quick to get the cat after hearing the girl screaming and now she's safe in the little girls arms.

"And a crown?" Aurora asks.

"Don't forget the tutu" Peter reminds her in his crouched position so he's eye level with her.

"Thanks Spidey" Aurora giggles.

"Just keep a closer eye on Daisy, alright?" Peter informs.

"Ok!" Aurora agrees.

"Is anyone inside waiting for you?" Peter wonders because no one came out to help.

"My babysitter is run late today but she should be here quick!" Aurora explains with a big smile, revealing one of her front teeth is missing.

"Did the tooth fairy come recently?" Peter asks, reminding him of his own childhood.

"Yes! I got a dollar! My dad tied my tooth to the door thingy and yanked it out!" Aurora explains.

"The doorknob? I remember my uncle trying to make me do that...let's just say you're braver than me" Peter chuckles as Aurora laughs. "How was school today?"

"So much fun! I'm in first grade and today was my first day of school! My teacher Mrs. Kingsley is so nice! She gave us candy and we play so much games! We have a hamster as a class pet and tomorrow we are going to find out what the name is. We all voted on a name before school ended so Mrs. Kingsley has to count up the votes. I vote for Remy because I want him to be our cook!" Aurora exclaims.

"Oh I love Ratatouille! If he ever makes some food, you mind saving some for me? I heard he's only the best cook to ever exist and I can't pass on an amazingly good meal" Peter wonders.

"Yes!" Aurora agrees.

"Aurora!" A woman's voice calls out making Aurora and Peter look up.

"Hannah! I met Spider-Man! He save Daisy, she ran out of the apartment!" Aurora explains.

"Oh" Hannah replies, staring starstruck at Peter since she didn't notice him before. 

"Hi, you must be Aurora's babysitter?" Peter asks awkwardly. She doesn't appear much older than Peter but luckily, he doesn't know her.

"Yes I am, sorry. She was suppose to meet me inside but hearing what she just said, Daisy had other ideas. Thank you for saving her cat and waiting with her Spidey, we both really appreciate it" Hannah thanks.

"Hannah, can me and Daisy take a picture with Spidey pleaseeee?" Aurora asks making Hannah look at Peter.

"I don't mind" Peter assures.

"Sure but let's make it quick, Spider-Man's really busy" Hannah nods.

"Ok!" Aurora nods. "Can you do your Spider-Man thing while holding Daisy? I will do it with you!"

"Of course!" Peter agrees, taking Daisy.

Crouching down, he notices Aurora already getting into the signature Spider-Man pose.

"Fingers out, like this" Peter informs, showing her as he crouches to do the pose.

Aurora is quick to fix her fingers and before they know it, their picture is taken.

"Thank you again Spidey, Aurora say goodbye and thank you" Hannah instructs.

"Thank you very much Spidey!" Aurora thanks as she takes her cat back. "Bye!"

"Bye, stay safe!" Peter waves before shooting out a web and pulling himself up.

The whole point of him patrolling before going to the tower is so he can head over to the Queens police department near his house. It's where Uncle Ben used to work and he's still friends with them. Whenever there's new recruits, they become friends as well.

Hopping into the alleyway, Peter changes his suit and shoves it into his backpack. Officer Dames told him there's going to be a new officer from out of state today so Peter is set on getting donuts like he always does for new recruits. There's also a chance the new cop is Harley's moms boyfriend but people move to the city all the time so its hard to tell. Exiting the alleyway, he walks over to Dunkin Donuts and buys three boxes worth of donuts using Tonys credit card that he snuck into his wallet forever ago. Peter tried to leave at the tower only for it to appear in his wallet the next day so now he uses it to get donuts for his favorite police department.

Luckily for him, no one knows that he's Spider-Man there. They all know him as either Ben's nephew from all of those bring your kid to workdays and the occasional bring Peter anyways days, or as the kid who's almost always around. He's not allowed to look at their classified information but he still hears information that helps him out when he's patrolling. 

Walking into the department, Peter is greeted immediately by officers that he has either known for years or a few months, depending on the officer.

"Hey Peter" Officer Dames greets as he walks towards the front and exiting from the back door with a guy in tow.

"Hey Officer Dames! Is this the newbie? I'm Peter Parker and I got you donuts to celebrate!" Peter introduces.

"It's nice to meet you Peter, I heard a lot about you" the officer chuckles. "Thank you for the donuts, I'm Officer Flome."

"I hope you heard good things about me. Do you by chance have a like a umm I don't know how to word this but he told me you're dating his mom? His name is Harley?" Peter asks.

 "Yeah, you met him? I'm Oliver, Officer Dames was just telling me you go to Midtown Tech" Officer Flome recalls.

"He's in three of my classes and we had lunch together. We're friends now, I'm actually going to meet up with him at the avengers tower after I'm done here, I intern there" Peter rambles.

"And here I thought Tony Stark was crazy for inviting Harley over. Is it nice working there?" Officer Flome wonders.

"It's a ton of fun, I learn a lot of new things there from everyone! It sounds like Harley and I will be working a lot together and Mr. Stark won't be prepared for what we have planned" Peter explains.

"Peter is his personal intern, works in his lab" Officer Dames clarifies.

"Yeah but Harley will be too, it'll be fun" Peter assures.

"Well you two better not be causing too much trouble" Officer Flome responds. "I'll take those boxes from you, thank you again for the donuts."

"You're welcome but you should hurry in claiming your donut before everyone in the station fights for one. It's why I had to upgrade to three boxes instead of two and I know three boxes still isn't enough but I like watching everyone fight each other for donuts, I know how much you all love them. Were you an officer in Tennessee too?" Peter wonders.

"Yeah, I was. Not much crime there though, we lived in Rosehill which is a small town" Officer Flome nods.

"Oh yeah, Harley mentioned that. Well you have a ton of crime here that your days are never boring, I can promise that. Speaking of crime, anything I should mention to Mr. Stark?" Peter wonders.

"Nice try kid, avengers don't deal with your average crime" Officer Dames shuts down.

"But Spider-Man does and he's an avenger. Mr. Stark can tell him for you from me" Peter points out.

 "It's still classified" Officer Dames denies

"What if it's for Black Widow?" Peter tries.

"Then she definitely already got her information in someway that I don't need to know about" Officer Dames replies.

"Fine, if you hate me so much I guess I'll get going. You all only use me for my donuts" Peter sighs. 

"Don't let the door hit you on the way out" Officer Dames says, hiding his smile.

"Yeah, yeah. Oh Officer Flome, the donuts are in exchange for not arresting me. The deal has already been made since you accepted the donuts. Good luck on your first day! Bye everyone! Fight for my donuts!" Peter wishes.

Officer Flome makes a confused face right before Peter leaves.

"Arresting him? He doesn't seem like a troubled kid" Officer Flome asks, turning to Dames once Peter left.

"He's not but we were called to a scene where he wouldn't give a dog back to his owner. Apparently the owner was abusing the dog, now my family owns that dog. There was another time where he was trying to get people on the streets to adopt the animals at the animal shelter but since he doesn't work there, people were calling in and saying he's harassing potential customers, it was a whole miscommunication thing. He's a good kid, he won't let Harley get into any legal trouble for us to be called" Officer Dames assures.

 

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"And that concludes the tour of my tower" Tony concludes, ending the tour in his lab.

"Yawn" Harley takes a yawn while saying the word.

 "Shut up, your eyes lit up like a kid in a toy store. I saw the twinkle" Tony calls him out.

"Maybe you got something in your eye old man, there ain't no twinkle in my eyes" Harley denies.

"Oh there was definitely a bunch of twinkles. Anyways, did you bring your potato gun?" Tony wonders.

"No, I can't exactly take that to school" Harley points out.

"Sure you can, they don't have metal detectors or backpack checks. I should know" Tony claims.

"And how would you know that? Do you spend your day at a school?" Harley questions.

"God no but I know because I found that school for you and I know everything, I'm Tony Stark. How was your first day by the way? Make any friends?" Tony wonders.

"Yeah, some kid named Flash. Stupid name but he's alright" Harley lies.

"Wait Flash? As in Flash Thompson?" Tony asks with wide eyes, getting up from leaning onto a workbench.

Before Harley could respond, the elevator doors opens up to reveal Peter.

"Hey Mr. Stark! You wouldn't believe-" Peter cuts himself off short, looking over at Harley with his smile vanishing. "Uhh who is this?"

"I can ask the same thing" Harley retorts.

"Peter this is Harley, Harley this is Peter. Peter's my personal intern and Peter, I met Harley during the I'm dead drama and crashed into his garage" Tony quickly does the introductions, pointing to each boy.

"Umm hi, it's nice to meet you" Peter greets.

"Ok so what were you saying? You know Flash?" Harley asks, turning to Tony and ignoring Peter.

"Wait Flash? As in Flash Thompson? How would you know Flash?" Peter questions.

"Harley enrolled into Midtown and apparently became friends with Flash out of everyone" Tony grumbles at the end. "Listen Harley-"

"Oh that's umm cool, yeah cool. He throws great parties" Peter informs.

"But-" Tony tries to say.

 "It's nothing to worry about. I actually didn't even see Flash today but it seems like he was making new friends and being nice" Peter interrupts with a shrug.

"Yeah...Harley, just be careful around him. He's known as the school bully" Tony tells him.

"He seemed alright to me, you're worrying too much old man" Harley brushes off. "Are you also fifteen?"

"Yeah I am" Peter nods. "I think I saw you in my math class."

"Probably" Harley shrugs. 

Awkward silence fills the air. Tony looks back and forth between the teens before clapping his hands together.

"So I already told this to Harley but Peter, Harley is going to be joining you on your internship days. You two will both get picked up by Happy and driven home by him. Now, what do you two want for dinner? Pizza sounds good?" Tony asks. "Harley, what pizza toping do you like?"

"Pepperoni" Harley answers.

"Friday, order us some pizzas please. Now why don't we get building? You two can help me with my Iron Man suit" Tony suggests. "Last week Peter and I were starting to develop nanotechnology for my suit and we could use your help."

"Do we?" Peter mutters, loud enough for Tony and Harley to hear.

"Yeah, do we really need his help?" Harley questions, pointing to Peter.

"I would like this to be a great bonding experience. You guys get to help me build my nanotechnology suit and in exchange, warm up to each other or something like that, whatever teenagers do" Tony explains. "Or we can do something else? I got board games, video games, movies, you name it."

The two teens stay silent and after a couple more moments of awkward silence, Tony lets out a sigh.

"Why don't you two get to know each other then?" Tony suggests.

"What?" Harley questions, sounding bewildered.

"Come on, ask each other some questions. Harley, where did you move from?" Tony starts off with.

"You know the answer" Harley scoffs.

"Rosehill Tennessee, Peter where do you live?" Tony asks only for Peter to give him a pointed look. "Queens, got it. Harley, where are you living now? I forgot which borough, was it Brooklyn?"

"Queens" Harley mumbles.

"Hey I heard Forest Hills and Kew Gardens are pretty close to each other" Tony states only for silence to fill the room. "How's Abby? She's what? Eleven? The age I met you?"

"Yeah" Harley nods.

"Did your mom and Ollie get jobs? Where do they work? Your mom still waitressing?" Tony wonders even though he knows the answers.

"She's working at a diner close by the apartment and Oliver is working for the police" Harley explains.

"Didn't you just stop by the police station?" Tony asks Peter.

"Yeah, Officer Dames told me there was a new officer so I got donuts as usual. I met Officer Flome, he was nice. He promised not to arrest me by accepting my free donuts" Peter nods.

"Like you could ever get arrested" Tony retorts. "So you two only have math together?"

"I don't know, didn't pay attention to who's really in my classes all that much" Harley shrugs.

 "Uhh yeah me too. I was either probably talking with MJ or Ned or both to be paying attention" Peter shrugs.

"Ok well now since Peter knows where your mom and Ollie works, why don't you ask him where his aunt works?" Tony tries only for Harley to stay silent. "Ok then...Peter, what does your aunt do?"

"She's still a nurse" Peter reminds him.

"Well since you two know each other a little better, now do you two want to work with me on my awesome nanotechnology Iron Man suit?" Tony asks.

"I guess" Harley relents despite the excitement coursing through his veins.

"Sure!" Peter agrees but not sounding like his usual amount of happiness, Tony can tell.

He already wants this awkward moment to end and for them to be friends. He knows for a fact the two of them will cause havoc in the lab together so why aren't they?

Maybe he should've done more research on teenage boys.

 

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"Pizza's here boss" Friday cuts in through their music, effectively stopping the three boys from working.

"Alright kids, wrap it up and do it safely" Tony reminds them. "I don't want Pepper yelling at me for any of you guys losing fingers."

Safely stopping what they were doing, Tony suddenly remembers all of the awkward and tense air that had filled the room before. The same feelings swallows the room whole and he can't help but let out a sigh. Sure the boys were chattering away like he thought so while working on the tech but he at least got to hear them bouncing ideas around...even if they were trying to deny each others ideas.

Getting into the elevator and quickly exiting out with how fast it goes, they made it up to the penthouse without either of teens going up in flames from their burning stares.

"Hey Pep! You met Harley earlier but Peter joined us!" Tony points out the obvious, feeling seriously awkward.

"Hello Peter, how was the police department?" Pepper asks, remembering that Peter had told her this last week.

"I met Harley's moms boyfriend, he's the new officer but he accepted my donuts so now he can't arrest me" Peter simply explains.

"That's good to hear" Pepper warmly smiles. "You all had fun in the lab?"

"They were helping me with my nanotechnology suit" Tony informs while opening up his own pizza box.

The smell of pizza hits him in the face, welcoming him to the hot and ready to eat slices. The whole room starts to fill up with the pizza smell as everyone begins to grab their own slices.

"How was your guys first day? I heard Harley goes to your school now Peter" Pepper recalls.

"It was good, had math homework but I finished it already. We already have our first decathlon practice next week" Peter nods.

"And you Harley? How was your first day? Did you become friends with anyone? Join any clubs?" Pepper asks.

Harley hesitates for a second, his bravado slipping just a beat but he was not going to mess up this prank. It barley just begun.

"It was alright, I became friends with Flash but no I didn't join any clubs yet. Club fair is tomorrow" Harley answers.

"Oh Flash Thompson? He's...alright, just be careful around him. I haven't heard the nicest things about him. Are you planning on joining any clubs though? Peter's on Academic Decathlon, maybe you can join and be in the same club as each other" Pepper suggests.

"I don't know what Academic Decathlon is, we didn't have that at my old school" Harley claims.

"Well Peter, why don't you explain it to him?" Tony jumps in.

"Umm well there's six people who could compete during competitions. Right now we have one alternate. It's...well...we uhh go against other schools and answer questions. If Midtown gets it right, we get a point but it depends on who hits the buzzer first. If say we got the answer wrong, the other team has a chance to get it right. The questions varies on each subjects so there's math, science, history, art, English, and computer programming. We won nationals last year so that's the goal for this year" Peter explains.

"And you'd be a great fit on the team! I mean you keep up in the lab and is definitely way smarter than the other nerds on that team" Tony tells Harley.

"Doesn't seem like my thing" Harley shuts down. "Plus the team sounds full."

"Not if you beat someone else for their spot" Tony argues.

"Nah, I'm good" Harley shuts down again.

"Doesn't Ned do another club?" Pepper asks.

"Who's Ned?" Harley asks, scrunching his face up.

"Peter's friend and is also on the AcaDec team. What club is he in again? Didn't you use to be in it?" Tony questions.

"The robotics club" Peter nods.

"And what do they do?" Tony prompts.

"Build robots and fight other robots to the death, verse other schools. You can also just build whatever in that club. I sometimes join Ned if I'm not busy, the teacher doesn't mind" Peter claims.

"That interest you Harley? It seems right up your alley" Tony claims.

"Nope, maybe I won't join clubs" Harley denies.

"Clubs are fun, you should see what the club fair has to offer and sign up. Even if you sign up, you don't have to go to the second meeting if you don't like it" Pepper reminds him.

"I'll see" Harley shrugs.

"So what do you kids want to do after dinner? What time do you have to go home Harley?" Tony asks.

"I need to be home by eight, my ma and Oliver want to take Abby and I out for ice cream" Harley claims.

 "Alright, so we have some time. We can go back to the lab?" Tony suggests.

"Sure" Harley agrees.

"Is there an ice cream place near your apartment?" Pepper wonders.

"I think a couple of blocks down. I haven't really looked around" Harley shrugs.

"Ok just be careful, the city gets dangerous at night. Don't stay out too long" Pepper worries.

"Ok but I'm sure we'll be fine, Oliver is a cop" Harley shrugs.

Harley catches Peter wincing at that but he doesn't say anything.

"Still, be careful" Pepper informs making Harley nod in response before taking a bite out of his slice.

 

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Tony hated his suggestion. Why did he suggest going back to the lab? Hoping it would've been better after dinner, it seemed to get worse.

Instead of just shutting down each others ideas, they began fighting on who's right. Tony had to break it up. Now staring at the two teenagers, he tries to think of his next plan. Harley's going to be leaving soon so he just needs to find something to do in the meantime for the two of them.

"Why don't you two work on your own projects? Harley, since you don't have your potato gun, you can either work on something else of your own or I can give you SI work" Tony suggests.

"Can I work on SI work? All my notes and stuff are at home" Harley claims.

"Of course, let me show you to your desk. Peter, meet me at yours and let me know if you need something to work on" Tony offers but he knows Peter probably doesn't need anymore projects since he's got a lot right now. "This is your workbench. I can see you from mine but if I'm not paying attention, Friday is still keeping an eye out."

"Why is Peter's table closer to yours?" Harley wonders.

"Does it really matter? There's no reason" Tony claims.

"It seems to me that Peter is your favorite" Harley points out.

"My favorite is Dum-E, Butterfingers, and U, no matter how annoying they could get" Tony denies. "I don't have a favorite between you two. Peter has a desk slightly closer to me because that was the table available for him when he got accepted as an intern. It's not even that close to me anyways, definitely not arms length."

"Why'd you even hire him to be your intern? You hate kids and he's not a college student" Harley questions.

"Are you jealous? Are you two jealous of each other or something? Am I missing something here? Why haven't you two become friends already?" Tony asks instead only to receive no answers from either teenagers. "Look, put the rivalry behind you guys. You two are fifteen, not five. I definitely did not hire toddlers to keep around here. Friday, pull up something Harley can work on. Kid, you good over there?"

"Yeah I'm fine" Peter confirms.

"Alright, now let's all work and enjoy the music" Tony settles.

Friday plays the music and the teens are thankfully silent. Tony can't wait for them to go home so he can panic to Pepper about this.

Chapter 4: Operation: Best Friends

"What am I going to do Pep?" Tony asks once Peter left, swinging into the night skies with his backpack on his back.

"About going to your meetings?" Pepper hopes.

"About the kids! Tell me you didn't feel the awkward tension during dinner" Tony points out.

 "I did but maybe they're both just...warming up to each other" Pepper suggests.

"No, it's worse than that. They kept fighting over everything down in the lab and then after I sent them off to their own work benches, Harley was complaining about how Peters is slightly closer to me than him and asked if I favor him over him" Tony explains.

"Well what did you say?" Pepper wonders.

"Dum-E, Butterfingers, and U are my favorites even if they can be annoying. I thought they would hit it off! They both have the same interests and hell, they have three classes together! I saw it in their schedule but they said they only saw each other during math and that was only a 'probably'" Tony finger quotes.

"I don't think Peter can physically get jealous of someone and neither of them have anything to be jealous about" Pepper exclaims.

"Exactly! They definitely did not seem like they liked each other now and Peter probably doesn't even want to be associated with him because he decided to go be friends with Dash! I mean what if Harley is bullying Peter at school? I feel like he isn't that type since he used to get bullied but now I don't know!" Tony figures.

"Give them space, didn't it take you and Rhodey awhile to become friends? They're not robots Tony, you can't program a friendship into them. They need space to figure each other out" Pepper reminds him. "You can't make them bond over nanotech if they're too busy fighting with each other. Make them feel like you picked them both for a reason. Maybe even try to give them one thing to agree on, something that distracts them from competing."

Tony lets out a sigh and plops down on the couch.

"What's one thing they can agree on though?" Tony wonders.

"Fake getting hurt in the lab, I don't know" Pepper shrugs, joking around but Tony brightens up at that, lifting himself off the couch. "No, I did not mean that literally Tony. You cannot scare them to get them working together."

"But what if I can?" Tony questions.

"No! They both have their own trauma as it is" Pepper shuts down.

"It doesn't have to be a bad fake injury, you're onto something" Tony claims.

"How about this is our last resort? We think of other ways and if not...you can fake getting hurt" Pepper bargains, knowing that there is no way to change Tony's mind now.

"But what other ways?" Tony questions.

"We'll figure that out tomorrow. Right now? Let's watch a movie and give our brains a break" Pepper suggests.

Tony relents and plops back down onto the couch, his mind swirling with ideas and possibilities. He needs to work this out so a day like today doesn't repeat.

 

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"No way! That's hilarious!" Ned exclaims, bursting out in a fit of laughter.

Peter and Harley just told Ned and MJ everything that happened yesterday. They're currently standing at Harley's locker, waiting for the first period bell to ring with students roaming the halls. The hallways are loud enough that nobody was paying attention to their conversation, not like it really matters.

"Did he say anything after I left?" Harley wonders.

"No I think he was still in shock or despair or a mix of both" Peter guesses. "I didn't stay for long, I left a bit after."

"Why didn't you have Happy drive you back too?" Harley questions.

"You know how I mentioned an Officer Dames yesterday?" Peter asks making Harley nod his head. "He was in the area and texted me that he'd pick me up. He had to pick up his son from a friends house."

"How are you so close to cops anyways? Is it just so they don't arrest you? Oliver was talking about you when I came home and told me a few stories that Officer Dames told him" Harley recalls.

"My uncle used to work there so I already knew most of the cops. Whenever there's a new cop, I bring in donuts in exchange so they don't arrest me but it's more of a joke. I go there sometimes just to learn about the gossip or catch up or whatever" Peter shrugs.

"Yeah it's a shame they won't ever tell you classified information" Ned sighs.

"You can always sneak around, just don't get caught. Not like they could arrest you, you brought them donuts" MJ points out.

"Good point, I'll try that maybe" Peter nods, knowing she's just joking around but knowing her, she could also be serious.

The bell rings disrupting their conversation. Several annoyed groans echoes in the hallways while kids slowly make their way to their classes.

"Just why did we get stuck with history first period of the day?" Ned complains to Peter.

"Speak for yourself, MJ and I have Spanish" Harley replies.

"Yeah and I'm going, I heard she curses you out in Spanish for being late and then gives you a detention. If you don't understand that she gave you a detention because it's in Spanish, she doubles it" MJ informs before walking away.

"What?!" Harley gasps, chasing after her.

"That sucks for them, at least we have a different Spanish teacher" Ned states as they turn to walk to their history class.

"Thank Thor for that, I would get so many detentions" Peter claims. 

"Yeah but you have legit excuses" Ned argues.

"Not legit excuses that I could actually use" Peter reminds him.

"You ever wondered what it would be like if everyone knew?" Ned wonders.

"Yeah and it wouldn't be good" Peter answers.

 

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"We need to be prepared for tomorrow. Tony knows what's up so we can't slip up" Harley states while he slips into his seat next to Peter. 

The day has been going by pretty slow so far. They're now only in math class but they at least have lunch afterwards to make up for it.

"We also need to come up with other ways to make this seem legit. It's not like we can keep repeating ourselves" Peter points out.

"Work on the avengers tech and I'll call you out on it. Do you have any tech you need to work on for them?" Harley questions.

"Yeah it's umm Spider-Man's web fluid" Peter answers, lowering his voice.

"Wait you work on his tech too?! That's sick!" Harley exclaims. "Does he let anyone work on it?"

"Umm n-no he doesn't. Mr. Stark doesn't even know how to make a batch" Peter admits.

"Oh yes! Your best friend Iron Man!" Flash practically shouts as he stops at Peter and Harley's desk, standing in front of them. "And I'm dating Black Widow!"

"She would never go for you dude. You're not only too young for her but way out of her league" Harley scoffs.

"Where the fuck did you even come from?" Flash questions.

"What? You never had the birds and the bees talk?" Harley asks.

"I get more girls than you, you can't even talk" Flash spats.

"The girl that you took with you to homecoming? Your dad's business partners daughter? MJ talked with her and she wanted nothing to do with you" Peter recalls.

"You're the one who ran out on Liz, you're too much of a chicken. But thanks to you, I got to dance with her" Flash smiles.

"She talked with the daughter and MJ too, both of them wanted nothing to do with you" Peter informs.

"Oh so you want to keep talking today do you? I'll punch those teeth right-" Flash starts to threaten only for Mrs. Dores's voice to shout over everyone else's.

"Sit down or else you're getting detention!" Mrs. Dores yells just in time for the bell to ring at the end of her sentence.

Flash glares at Peter before circling around his desk and hitting him in the back of the head. Harley turns around in his seat and throws up his middle finger at Flash and before Flash can do the same, Harley whips his head back to the front. Flash scoffs and sits down in his seat.

 

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As soon as the bell rings, Peter grabs Harley and bolts out of the classroom. They lose Flash quickly as too many students are walking around and enters the cafeteria.

"He's such a prick. I'm going to bring my potato gun to school tomorrow and if he even talks, I'm shootin' one right at his big ass forehead" Harley declares.

"His parents are rich and donates money to the school, Principal Morita can't expel or suspend him but he will give you your punishment" Peter warns while finally approaching their table and sitting down.

"What punishment?" Ned questions while lifting up his grilled cheese to take a bite.

"If I shoot Flash with my potato gun" Harley explains.

"Woah you have a potato gun?! Can I see?" Ned asks.

"I'm bringing it tomorrow so sure" Harley agrees.

"Just take it out not on school property" Peter reminds him.

"Yeah, yeah" Harley waves off. "Anyways, we need ideas for tomorrow. Tony's going to come up with something to get us to get along but we can't let that happen. I already told Peter to work on the avengers tech if we're in the lab."

"Oh who needs their tech fixed?" Ned wonders.

"I got to make more web fluid" Peter claims.

"Which is perfect. Spider-Man's not an official avenger so I can point that out to a reason on why I should be making it instead" Harley points out.

"First Iron Man and now Spider-Man? You guys are so pathetic" Flash chimes in as he walks towards the their table.

"You again? Man you seem to love us that you can't leave us alone" Harley jokes.

"I saw you getting in the same car that takes penis over here to his fake internship" Flash calls him out.

"I don't know who penis is, all I know is that yours probably got cut off and that's why you're such a dick to everyone" Harley rolls his eyes.

"It didn't get cut off! And I saw you get into the same black Audi that Peter usually goes in!" Flash recalls.

"So you stalk Peter and now Harley" MJ points out.

"No! They're probably both male escorts!" Flash assumes.

"That's disgusting. Are you sure you ain't one?" Harley asks.

"No!" Flash denies. "All I know is that you got into the same car that Peter takes to his fake internship and I know you don't have a Stark internship because you just moved here from Tennessee!"

"Sounds like you're jealous but for your information, I do have an internship" Harley exclaims.

"Sureee I'm not buying it" Flash drawls out.

"I don't care" Harley deadpans.

"Club fair is after school, you sure you're sticking with decathlon?" MJ wonders, sick of the conversation and sick of Flash still at their table.

"Yes because I know I won't be alternate this year" Flash determines.

"Maybe you won't if you go away" MJ lies but it works. Flash smirks and walks away, gullible and naive. "Idiot."

"No wonder why he's an alternate" Harley chuckles.

"Are you thinking of joining decathlon?" Ned wonders.

"Nah, don't think it's for me" Harley shrugs. "Plus I can't join the same club as Peter. If Tony found out we can say goodbye to this prank."

"Which is why we can't let Mr. Stark think he has the upper hand in whatever he tries" Peter declares.

"It won't work anyways, I hate you too much" Harley jokes. "Maybe we should do a fist fight in front of him."

Peters heart jumps a beat and he can see Ned's eyes going wide from across of him. MJ doesn't look up from her book but he knows she heard that.

"I don't think that's a good idea" Peters denies.

"Why not? He'll break it up before it escalates" Harley points out.

Ned opens his mouth to say a lie but MJ beats him to it, thankfully.

"Stark knows Peter doesn't fight against Flash, he knows he won't fight against you. It won't work" MJ cuts in.

"You were just arguing with him in math but you won't throw a punch at his ugly face?" Harley asks. "Tony will get you out of any trouble with the school. He's got more money than his snobby parents."

"It's not worth it" Peter shrugs.

"I'll punch him for you then" Harley claims.

"No, it's...he's not worth it" Peter clarifies.

"He's a bully, it's definitely deserved. The bullies back in my hometown got potatoes launched at their faces" Harley informs.

"I would love to see a potato get launched at him" MJ informs.

"Me too!" Ned agrees, nodding his head.

"I'm going to get started on my math homework" Peter states, ending the conversation. He pulls out his math homework and eats a fry before starting it.

Harley exchanges a look with Ned who quickly looks away but doesn't bring up the topic again.

 

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"Tony, you missed the meeting I told you to go to! Now Happy and Rhodey are missing and Friday won't tell-" Pepper stops herself short in her yelling to stare dumbstruck at Tony, Rhodey, and Happy.

Tony has an expo marker in hand, pointing at a large, rolling whiteboard. Pepper looks at Tony in shock while Tony displays his own shocked emotions back. Rhodey and Happy look amuse which makes her mad.

"Friday wouldn't tell me where the two of you are and Tony, I told you that you were supposed to go to that meeting with me! What is this nonsense with the white board? You only ever use holograms so the white board must be bad news" Pepper questions in a yelling tone.

Looking closer at the whiteboard, she sees Operation: Best Friends written at the top and looks at Rhodey and Happy for answers.

"We were trapped in here, Friday wouldn't let us go" Rhodey informs.

"She told us Tony was hurt" Happy claims.

"I needed their help to come up with ideas to get the kids to get along!" Tony protests.

"Why didn't you just ask Clint? He has three children" Pepper reminds him.

"Oh...I kind of forgot about his little secret agents" Tony replies sheepishly.

"Isn't he at the farmhouse though?" Rhodey questions.

"Yeah but he's coming back soon and he can always call" Pepper suggests.

"Alright then, I'll go ask Barton when he gets back. Last time I called him when he was with his family and I got stuck talking to one of his little agents. I had to hang up before I was stuck talking to them for an hour" Tony settles.

"Dangle one off the building" Pepper reads out loud from the board, realization hitting her in the face. "TONY!!"

"I wouldn't let go! And-and wait for it, I would have my suit to catch them if I did!" Tony protests.

"I can't believe you right now" Pepper shakes her head as she reads the list. "I mean really? Start a fire and let them work it out?"

"Great for team bonding" Tony shrugs. "I also have your idea written down from yesterday!"

Pepper rolls her eyes and starts to walk out.

"Wait Pepper, take us with you!" Happy practically shouts as he and Rhodey scrambles away from Tony and towards Pepper.

"Really? I gave you guys chips!" Tony gasps.

"I'm supposed to be working!" Happy reminds him.

"You were!" Tony argues. "Honeybear, not you too!"

"Sorry Tones, I need to stay away from your bad idea whiteboard" Rhodey claims, leaving with Pepper.

"Well screw you guys" Tony huffs out only for the lab doors to close, leaving him with his bots. "Dum-E, U, Butterfingers, I don't suppose you three have any ideas?"

The only sounds coming from the three of them are their whirring and beeps. Tony lets out a sigh and flops onto his spinny chair, thinking of more ideas.

 

Chapter 5: Tony Stark: Victim of Teen Shenanigans

"Do we both have to sit in the back? Why can't I sit in the front?" Harley questions as Peter gets into the car after him.

The school day is officially over and Happy was there to pick them both up. He knows they don't get along but he seriously didn't think they'd start anything in the car.

"You're just mad because I told you when Happy puts up the divider it means he likes you" Peter retorts.

"He didn't put up the divider because he likes me better than you just like Tony" Harley argues.

"Happy definitely did not like you just like that, he hates people in general" Peter protests.

"Quiet! The both of you, just be quiet. I want a peaceful ride to the tower. I don't care about your rivalry, just leave it outside of the car" Happy interrupts from the drivers seat before pulling away from the school, hoping the two boys don't start again.

Just incase, he rolls up the divider.

For the sake of Happy, both teens decide to be quiet. Their main goal is to prank Tony, not anyone else, but they do need it to be believable so if Happy had to endure a minute of their fighting, then their plan is working.

They get to the tower fairly quickly. Happy was speeding through traffic but still stopped at the red lights. Happy pulls into the garage and parks the car with everyone quickly getting out.

"Thank you Happy!" Peter thanks.

"Thanks Hap, I appreciated the ride way more than him" Harley thanks.

"Don't call me that" Happy replies as he begins his walk to the elevator.

Peter and Harley look at each other for a quick glance before following after the man. They make  it to the elevator just in time before Friday closed the door.

"Did you get a cat?" Peter wonders.

"No" Happy denies.

"I can smell the cat" Peter argues.

"Ew the hell do you mean you can smell the cat?" Harley questions.

"Yes I got a cat, no you cannot come over" Happy relents just as the doors opens up to his floor level.

"Wait Happy!" Peter shouts only for Friday to close the door. "Damn, I really want to meet the cat. You think he'd be scared if I surprised him at his house Friday?"

"No, I think that would be an excellent idea" Friday claims.

"That's freaky and stalkery" Harley scoffs.

The elevator doors opens back up again to reveal Tony's lab. Strangely, Tony is standing in front of them with the music off.

"Put your wrists out" Tony instructs.

"Why?" Peter questions.

"Because I'm your boss and I said so" Tony argues. "Both of you."

Peter and Harley begrudgingly lifts up their arms, exchanging weird glances at Tony. Without saying anything, Tony slams a handcuff over their two wrists next to each other, locking them together.

"What the fuck?!" Harley curses. "Why are we handcuffed together?! Where's the key?"

"You know I can just dislocate my thumb and get myself out right? We can also use a tool to pick the lock with. My uncle was a cop, I know how to get out of handcuffs real easy" Peter lists.

"Which is why those are against the rules. We're going to play a game and if you don't follow the rules, Friday is going to zap you with a taser" Tony informs.

"What?!" Peter and Harley shouts at the same time

"You two are going to be handcuffed together until dinner so like two hours. After dinner, you're free. If you guys get out of your handcuffs, you'll still have them on during dinner and after. Not to mention, the lasers. I have a few tasks you will be doing while handcuffed" Tony explains.

"I'm not being handcuffed to him!" Harley shuts down.

"Well I don't want to be handcuffed to you either!" Peter protests.

"Well it's happening either way. If you don't like it, get out of the handcuffs and you'll be stuck in them for longer" Tony shrugs. "Now come with me back into the elevator so we can do the first activity." The teens grumble in response, following Tony into the elevator. "Take us to the training room Fri."

"Why are we going to the training room?" Peter wonders.

"You'll see" Tony claims.

The elevator stops allowing the doors to open back up. Walking out of the elevator, they see Nat and Steve fighting each other, one-on-one.

"Woah, we're meeting the avengers?" Harley questions.

"Uhh you already met the best one" Tony reminds him.

"Whatever you say old man" Harley replies and in that moment, Nat knocks Steve's feet from under him, leaving the captain to fall to the floor.

"Hey Peter, you must be Harley" Nat greets as she helps Steve up from the ground. "I'm Natasha."

"Yeah...wait you know the avengers?" Harley whirls on him.

"I met them all forever ago" Peter nods.

"I'm Steve, it's nice to meet you Harley" Steve introduces.

"Nice to meet you both as well" Harley responds.

"So Peter, you know that simulation room you tested out awhile ago?" Nat asks him.

"Yeah, why?" Peter wonders.

"Well the two of you are going to be fighting alongside each other against killer zombies" Nat informs. "Tony's idea, we're just here to monitor."

"What?! I can't fight!" Peter practically shouts.

"Come on, you can't even throw a punch? I can't fight attached to him!" Harley complains.

"Look, I get it, you two aren't getting along at the moment but these zombies, they don't care. They're a threat and their goal is for you to fail so they can take over the world. Against those zombies, it doesn't matter if you two like each other or not. What matters and what's important, is that you two are a team. And as a team, it's all about teamwork, in trusting one another to have each others backs no matter the circumstances. You need to rely on each other because trust isn't just about your feelings, it's being there for your teammate and fighting together against those threats. And communication? That's your lifeline. You're going to have to come up with a strategy together and watch out for each other. Yes your hands are cuffed together but use that to your advantage. If you can't communicate, you're not going to make it. You have to rely on each others strengths while covering each others weaknesses, and remember, you're stronger together than you'll ever be apart" Steve explains.

"Wow that was a real life Captain America PSA" Harley smirks.

"I'm never going to live those down, am I?" Steve sighs while Tony and Nat laughs in the background.

"I don't know, should we have another PSA marathon?" Peter suggests.

"Definitely not but I do hope you took something away from that. You'll need to come up with a plan and fight together" Steve sums up.

"Yeah but do we at least get weapons?" Harley wonders. 

"It's zombies, you're not punching against metal. You'll be fine as long as you work together" Tony rolls his eyes. 

"Ok but your simulations are pretty real like I'm positive if one were to bite us we'd turn into a zombie" Peter points out.

"You won't really die in there...probably. But fail, and you'll have zombie-themed nightmares for a week" Tony shrugs.

"More of a better reason to be teammates" Nat replies.

"Fine as long as we get this over with" Harley grumbles.

"Yeah, whatever" Peter relents.

"Good! You two hop into the simulation room and while it loads up, you better have a plan" Tony instructs. "Now, shoo."

Harley rolls his eyes but heads over to the simulation room with Peter besides him. Opening the door and closing it behind them, reveals a giant empty room.

"I'm older so I'm making the plan" Harley states.

"You don't even know when my birthday is?" Peter questions.

"I don't need to" Harley claims.

"Well do you even have a plan?" Peter asks.

"Yeah, you listen to me and we fight. Don't use the hand that's in the handcuffs because I'll be busy with my zombies" Harley explains.

"That's a terrible plan" Peter argues.

"Well I don't want to work with you" Harley protests.

"I don't want to work with you either but we'll fail if we do what you say" Peter states.

"We won't fail" Harley scoffs.

"As much as I don't want to work together, Steve's right. We're going to fail otherwise" Peter recalls. 

"Then why don't we just stand back to back?" Harley questions.

"That sounds dumb" Peter argues.

Before Harley could argue back, the simulation comes to life.

The once empty room is now filled with a bunch of green zombies, walking like Frankenstein, and calling out for brains. The room darkened but the buildings lights provide enough light to see. 

"Brains!" One zombie screams particularly close to Harley.

Harley turns around and punches the zombie in the face but it's only enough for the zombie to stumble. He sends a kick next, making the zombie fall to the floor and disappear.

Now back to back with Peter since he turned around, Peter is dealing with his own zombies. Since Harley isn't looking, he punches with his full strength, sending the zombie down and disappearing.

"This is easy" Harley states.

"Why would you say that?! Mr. Stark is going to up the intensity level!" Peter sighs.

"Great" Harley complains, punching another zombie.

Just as Peter said, more zombies starts to appear and they seem to be walking faster than they were before.

"That's your fault" Peter informs.

"Shut up" Harley scoffs. "Dang it why won't these fucking zombies stay down?!"

"Punch harder" Peter instructs.

"I'm sure you're weaker between the two of us" Harley rolls his eyes, sending a kick to the next zombie.

"BRAINS!!" A zombie screams, grabbing their handcuffed wrists.

Turning around in lightning speed, Peter sends a kick to the zombie while Harley punches him across the face. The zombie goes down, disintegrating.

"Your kick was pathetic" Harley comments.

"Your punch looked like it didn't even hurt" Peter retorts before sending his own punch towards a zombie that was getting too close to him.

A few more seconds goes by with the two keep fighting their own path of zombies when Harley yanks on the handcuffs.

"Woah! What are you doing?!" Peter shouts after getting pulled making him stumble.

"I was hitting the zombie! It ain't my fault he was coming up my left!" Harley exclaims.

"You still could have turned and used your right or even kicked with your left foot!" Peter reminds him.

"It already happened, who cares" Harley protests, sending another kick to a zombie. "What the hell is Tony doing? More keeps appearing, I got twenty on me!"

"Same" Peter claims as he puts sends a right hook towards a zombie. "I'd say we can leave through the door but it's probably locked."

"Fuck I can't fight them off much longer, we're getting ambushed" Harley points out, getting crowded by zombies. "I'll go right, you stay and be a distraction?"

"We're still handcuffed together idiot" Peter rolls his eyes. "And I'm not getting out of these handcuffs, I don't want to be handcuffed to you longer than we have to."

"Well I'm all out of ideas and I'm sure your ideas suck" Harley huffs out, aiming a punch at another zombie.

"Thor taught me a move called Get Help. He throws Loki at the bad guys to distract them but since we can't be separated, we can just run at them and throw ourselves. It'll knock them down and make them disappear" Peter recalls.

"I'm not doing that" Harley shuts down. "I'm sure you just made that up."

"I didn't make it up! Thor was here last month!" Peter protests.

"Yeah cause you're just best friends with the god of thunder" Harley mocks.

"Fine don't believe me but I don't have any other ideas" Peter claims.

"God you're useless" Harley spats.

"Like your idea was any good!" Peter recalls.

Harley spins towards Peter making Peter turn to look at him, zombies now circling the two of them.

"You've barely even knocked any zombies down!" Harley shouts.

"Yes I did! I knocked more down than you!" Peter shouts back.

"No you didn't! You probably don't even know how to actually fight!" Harley yells.

During their shouting match, they didn't even notice that the zombies disappeared and the normal light flooded across the room. They also didn't notice when the door opened, still screaming at each other until Nat clears her throat. Both boys turns their head to see her staring at them.

"You failed" Nat states.

"All because of him" Harley blames, pointing at Peter.

"No you failed because you didn't take my advice and work as a team" Steve exclaims while walking into the room. "If you guys worked together and communicated and agreeing with each other on a good plan, then you would've had a better chance."

"And your communication doesn't count cause all you did was criticize and yell at each other" Nat adds. "Tony's waiting outside."

With that, Nat turns and leaves the room with Steve right behind her. Without waiting a moment, Peter and Harley follows.

"Well that didn't work out as I thought it would. Congrats on failing though I guess" Tony sighs. "Alright, new idea. Follow me back to the lab."

Neither teen says anything as they follow Tony to the elevator. In the elevator, nobody says a word but it's cut quick with arriving at their destination. Getting out, Peters senses starts going off. Before he could say anything, Harley trips making Peter quickly catch him.

"Ow! I think you broke my wrist!" Peter complains making Tony turn around to see Peter holding onto Harley who is mid fall.

"The hell happened?" Tony asks.

"Harley tripped because he's a clutz and my wrist that is handcuffed, thank you very much Mr. Stark, now hurts probably in the way I caught him" Peter explains.

"Stop being a wuss, I'm not heavy" Harley scoffs, getting himself out from Peter's grasp. "I didn't tell you to catch me."

"I didn't want to face plant with you which was what you were probably trying to do" Peter argues.

"No! You probably tripped me!" Harley accuses.

"No I didn't!" Peter protests.

"Alright, enough" Tony cuts in. "Until dinner, the two of you are going to be working on a SI project for me. I want it done before dinner, it should be an easy task."

"Do I seriously have to work with him? I wanted to work on my potato gun" Harley complains.

"You can do that after dinner unless you guys un-handcuff yourselves and stay in it for longer" Tony reminds them.

"This is so stupid!" Harley protests.

"Well too bad, rules are rules. You can work on that table over there, it should have everything you need. Friday will pull up the project you two need to work on" Tony instructs, pointing over to a workbench that is farther than Peter and Harley's own tables. "Time's ticking and I want you to do exactly what the guidelines say."

"Ugh" Harley voices.

"I can't wait to get out of these handcuffs" Peter states before him and Harley make their way over to the table.

Neither of them will admit it to Tony, but they're actually having a blast. The zombies were fun and they know if they were to do it again after the prank, they'd absolutely destroy them all.

A hologram appears in front of them, showing the project that they need to complete. It's a simple robot design, it's basically for beginners. The two don't even need to say it out loud before agreeing that Tony just came up with this and it's most definitely not a project for SI.

Not to mention, they both know if they could work together on this robot project then they could overrule the lab. Sadly, the prank must go on.

"We're adding rocket launchers" Harley states.

"What? Mr. Stark just said to follow the guidelines and it says nothing about rocket launchers" Peter recalls.

"So? This is a project for beginners. I can do this in my sleep" Harley points out.

Tony looks up from his own tinkering with a sigh.

"That's not the point of this project. I want you guys to follow the guidelines and stop arguing. Do exactly what the guideline says. If you can do this in your sleep, then you should have no problem completing the task as it says" Tony cuts in.

"Ugh whatever, fine" Harley relents.

Tony spares another glance at the teens before going back to his own project. Harley and Peter let out small grumbles of protest but begins their work.

 

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Tony thought the teens would've been tired after fighting zombies and arguing with each other but it turns out, they still have enough energy to fight. 

Before the teens came over, Tony made sure there was two of each tools so they wouldn't be fighting about the tools. Instead, they're fighting about who gets to work on what, and how everything's fucking stupid.

They also love critiquing each others progress saying someone's too slow, someone's not doing it right, and so on. In response, Friday raised the music volume which Tony is grateful for.

The kids voices are in the back of his mind and unless they cause a fire or someone gets hurt, they should have one completed robot by the time dinner is here.

Oh but he was so wrong.

"Dinner is  here boss" Friday interrupts, cutting the music.

"Great, we'll be up in a second. You two finished the robot?" Tony asks as he walks over to their desk.

"I finished mine" Harley responds.

"Me too" Peter replies.

Tony doesn't think of anything with their responses but when he gets closer to their workbench, he can't help but notice how there are two robots.

"Why are there two?" Tony questions.

"Peter was working too slow" Harley answers at the same time Peter says, "Harley doesn't know how to build a robot with the simplest instructions."

"So you two built two robots?" Tony states but it comes out like a question. "Did you guys at least follow the instructions?"

"No" they both deny.

"I was done too early" Peter shrugs.

"I finished  before him" Harley argues.

"Alright then, turn on your robots. What do they do?" Tony wonders. "Pete first."

"What? Why him first?" Harley questions.

"Because if you added rocket launches and by the looks of it, you did, I rather not have anything explode until after. Now let's get this show on the road so we can eat" Tony explains.

"Sky-Byte activate" Peter instructs.

The robot turns on at the command, the eyes lighting up with life. Sky-Byte turns around, looking at the three individuals, before walking over towards the end of the table. "Protocol Soar."

Sky-Byte jumps off the table.

"Ha! You just destro-" Harley begins to say only for Sky-Byte to shoot upwards. It soars into the sky doing a double backflip before hovering over the table. 

"Nice work kid, that's really impressive" Tony beams. "Harls, your turn."

"Watch how it's done" Harley smirks before turning on his robots with a switch. "Rocket launchers."

The robot turns to the empty space besides Tony and starts launching the mini rocket launchers that were attached to its shoulders. Four rockets gets sent into the air, soaring through the lab.

The first one hits a target, one being a chair, another being the wall, the third being the floor, and the fourth being a vial. With that last hit, Peters spidey senses screams at him.

A loud boom echoes in the lab as the glass from the vial explodes, shards getting sent everywhere. Peter covers his ears, the sound being too loud for his enhanced hearing.

"Duck!!" Peter screams making the three of them crouch onto the floor with Tony running behind the table to be protected.

Harley and Peter share quick glances before looking over at Tony's panicked face.

"Well I'll say that worked out well, didn't it? The rockets did what they were supposed to do" Harley exclaims once the noise all dies down.

"It was built great and effectively but you're cleaning the mess up after dinner" Tony informs.

"Aw man, it's going to take me forever!" Harley complains.

"Dum-E will love to help you" Tony assures.

"Great" Harley grumbles.

"You two good? You didn't get hit, did you?" Tony questions.

"I'm fine, are you ok?" Peter asks.

"I'm good, Harley?" Tony wonders.

"Great" Harley replies.

"Alright then, let's go up to eat. Try not to step on glass so we don't track it outside of the lab, Pepper will kill and blame me for this otherwise" Tony explains.

"Ok" Peter agrees.

The three of them slowly gets up and turns around, eyeing the mess of the lab. There's a small hole in one of the walls, a back of the chair got destroyed with the chair now being flipped over, the vial is everywhere on the floors, and the floor has a big black burnt spot.

Harley looks sheepishly up to Tony who just sighs and walks towards the elevator, mindful of the glass. Peter and Harley follow and before they knew it, they were on the penthouse level.

"Why do you guys look like you just walked out of a war scene?" Rhodey questions as he sits down at the table.

"Dum-E made the most disgusting and killer coffee in existent, and I mean literal on the kill part. Not just screws and oil this time, he put random chemicals in there too" Tony lies.

"Did you blow up the lab?" Pepper asks.

"No, the lab is perfectly ok. There's just a small mess now but Dum-E and Harley will be cleaning it all up" Tony assures.

"Why Harley?" Rhodey wonders.

"Because he asked Dum-E for coffee and that is his lesson" Tony answers.

"Well a warning would've been nice" Harley goes along with it as he walks over to the takeout Chinese food.

"Wait, how come you two aren't handcuffed anymore? I didn't let you out" Tony asks in alarm.

"Oh I got us out when we were in the elevator because you said we could be un-handcuffed until dinner and now it's dinner time. Friday can vouch for us, she saw me taking it off in the elevator. Man, this smells so good, I'm starving" Peter explains.

"Did Tony not feed you? You know you can always come up for snacks" Pepper assures.

"Yeah I know, I just forgot" Peter claims.

"Friday?" Tony asks the ceiling.

"Peter is correct boss, I saw him taking off the handcuffs in the elevator" Friday confirms.

"Are you two getting along now?" Rhodey wonders.

"No, the robot thing was stupid. I made my own" Harley informs.

"It was like an elementary school project" Peter responds. "We were done with our robots in no time."

"Don't ask why they made two robots, I had to hear all the fighting" Tony cuts in while grabbing his Chinese food.

"So you didn't mean to have a robot war as part of a bonding exercise, got it" Rhodey hums, hiding his laughter.

"How was your guys day?" Peter wonders.

"Good until I had to have a meeting with some morons but everything's fine now" Pepper answers.

"Yeah, mine was good too. I didn't have much going on today" Rhodey nods in agreement. "How was school?"

"Oh yeah, did you guys join any clubs?" Pepper recalls.

"I'm sticking with just decathlon" Peter replies.

"I joined robotics with Flash" Harley informs.

"Oh did Flash quit decathlon?" Tony wonders.

"No, he's been on the decathlon and robotics team" Harley answers.

"And you still want to be his friend?" Tony questions.

"Why wouldn't I?" Harley asks.

"Cause he's a stuck up, snobby little brat who picks on other kids because he's rich and gets away with everything" Tony explains.

"No he isn't. I haven't seen him be mean to a single person" Harley rolls his eyes.

"Well I know we're talking about the same person but in very different perspectives because Flash is anything but nice" Tony responds.

"Maybe he changed" Harley argues. "You know I can be friends with whoever, right?"

"Yeah but-" Tony tries to argue.

"So let me be friends with whoever. You weren't like this when I lived in Tennessee" Harley recalls.

"Alright fine, I'll stop butting in" Tony relents. 

 

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Dinner was a bit awkward with the two teens ignoring each other but him, Pepper, and Rhodey kept pulling the two boys into conversations. Now, the three of them are back in the lab.

Harley and Dum-E are cleaning up the mess while him and Peter are working on their own projects. He isn't really paying attention until he hears Harley startle Peter.

"What are you making?" Harley wonders.

Tony glances up from his project to see Peter mixing his web fluid and Harley is standing over him. He really hopes this is Harley trying to become friends with Peter, his heart almost skips a happy beat at that mere thought.

"I'm working on umm Sp-Spider-Man's web fluid" Peter hesitantly answers.

"What?! No way! How are you working on his web fluid? Isn't his identity a secret?" Harley asks making Peter look up at Tony nervously.

"Spider-Man asked him to help him out since Peter perfected his web fluid and made it a little more advanced than it originally was" Tony chimes in.

"Y-yeah but I don't help him out all that much, just whenever he's busy" Peter adds.

"Wait if he's allowed to work on avengers tech, why can't I? Can't I help with like I don't know, the Falcons wings or Hawkeyes arrows or something?" Harley asks, looking towards Tony before looking back at Peter. "Do you get to work on their tech too?"

"Uhh sometimes" Peter shrugs.

"The avengers are particular about who works on their tech but I'm sure once they get to know you, you'll be able to work on their tech no problem too. You already met Steve and Nat so if they need their tech fixed up, I'm sure they'll come to you. Also, you help me with my suit?" Tony responds, helping Peter out.

"Yeah but I've helped you with your suit since I was eleven. Spider-Man's technically only an honorary avenger. I should be able to do something involving either his or the avengers tech. I'm more than capable and have more superhero tech experience than him" Harley points his thumb at Peter who flips his notebook closed.

Harley doesn't know why the notebook was important to close, all he saw was drawings on it and didn't get a good look since he was looking at the web fluid.

Unbeknownst to him, Peter closed the notebook because it had Spider-Man design drawings in them. Earlier he was coming up with ideas to upgrade Droney, the little spider drone attached to his suit. Yesterday he sent Droney out to follow some criminals while he dealt with the other criminals but the video feedback wasn't working.

"Superheroes are particular with their belongings Harley but like I said, they'll let you work on their things soon enough. I was planning on working on my nanotech suit soon if you want to still help me with that?" Tony offers.

"Fine" Harley relents because working on the Iron Man suits is still cool and he's only making a big deal out of all of this to make Tony believe their prank.

Which is why later, when Tony did start his nanotech suit and called Harley over and then invited Peter to join, the boys smirked behind Tony's back and started arguing.

 

Chapter 6: Bulletproof Lies

"I can't believe you guys fooled the Black Widow!" Ned almost shouts after hearing the story.

It's Thursday afternoon, school had just let out. Flash was thankfully absent so they had no one to bother them today. Currently, MJ, Ned, Harley, and Peter were on their way to Delmar's, talking about the prank.

"You guys are going to give him an aneurysm" MJ states but she's loving this. Her prank idea was the best thing that's ever happened. Peter has never seen Tony more frazzled in his life.

"Ok but we need to figure out something tomorrow. What if we watch a Star Wars movie and we both say different movies and then I bash on your favorite characters?" Harley suggests.

"Yeah but if we both fight over which Star Wars movie he'll probably give up and turn something else on" Peter figures.

"Then we'll have Friday choose a random" Harley points out.

"Alright yeah, that'll work" Peter nods.

Walking into Delmar's, the bell rings above signaling their arrival. Delmar turns around with a bright smile while Murph walks out from around the aisle he was in.

"Afternoon kids! The usual?" Delmar asks only for the three teens to nod their heads. "And you? What do you want? I've got a ton of options."

"Oh Mr. Delmar, this is Harley. He moved from Tennessee" Peter informs.

"I was wondering why I've never seen him around. It's nice to meet you, I'm Delmar. You moved to Queens?" Delmar assumes.

"Nice to meet you too and I did, yeah" Harley nods.

"How are you liking the city? You like it enough to stay or do you want to get out of here?" Delmar jokes.

"I like it, it's very different from where I grew up. Can I get a number two?" Harley asks.

"Of course!" Delmar nods.

"Oh Harley! Come over here! This is Murph, Mr. Delmar's cat! He's very friendly and the best cat you'll ever meet!" Peter exclaims as he guides him over to where Ned and MJ are crouched on the floor, petting Murph. Murph walks right over to them, letting Peter and Harley pet him.

"He's like the softest cat I've ever pet" Harley states.

"And the best cat, right Murph?" Peter asks only for Murph to purr in response. "Awww."

"Mr. Delmar, you better watch out before Peter steals Murph" Ned jokes.

"You steal him and I'll make sure you go behind bars" Delmar warns.

"I'd never steal him from you Mr. Delmar but if you ever need a cat sitter, let me know" Peter assures.

"Your sandwiches are ready" Delmar informs, ignoring Peter.

"I'll take that as you'll call me?" Peter replies.

"I won't be paying you" Delmar responds.

"That's ok, I'll happily watch Murph for free" Peter assures as he hands Delmar his credit card that Tony gave him.

"We'll see when the day comes" Delmar claims.

"Fine by me, have a good day Mr. Delmar!" Peter wishes.

All of his friends say their farewells and now they're back on the streets of the bustling city. It's a nice, breezy day out with the sun shining down.

They continue to talk about random things before they all split off into their own ways, heading on home. Right now, Peter is walking Harley home since he's still not a hundred percent sure where his apartment is.

"You'll remember the streets in the back of your head in no time" Peter assures him.

"You sure because this city is huge" Harley replies.

"You only need to know Queens unless you venture into the other boroughs" Peter shrugs.

"Do you know the other boroughs in the back of your head?" Harley questions.

"Some more than others" Peter claims. "But that's also only because I grew up here. Kids as young as elementary school walks home and go to school by themselves. It's normal even though it's dangerous."

"Oh, that's normal in my old town too but with a lot less crimes. The school was just very close by though" Harley adds at the end.

"How long do you think this prank is going to last before Mr. Stark catches on?" Peter wonders after a moment of silence.

"Hopefully not soon, I want this to last as long as possible" Harley wishes.

"I like the prank too but I can't wait till we can work together in building something to overthrow Mr. Stark out of the lab" Peter smirks.

"Man, that would be awesome!" Harley smiles. "How did you meet the avengers by the way?"

"They're always coming and going and whenever they need their tech repaired, they head into the lab. I just happened to be there sometimes when they came down and they wondered why I was there. I think some of them just wanted to test how smart I was because they know Mr. Stark doesn't like kids" Peter shrugs.

"Why do you keep calling him Mr. Stark?" Harley questions.

"Because it's polite and he's technically my boss" Peter answers. 

"You should call him Tony sometime, he won't be mad" Harley suggests.

"Maybe one day" Peter replies. "Oh we're almost to your apar..."

Peter stops short, his spidey senses tingling with danger. Harley stops to look at Peter weirdly, not knowing why he trailed off.

"Peter?" Harley questions. "Did you die on me or something?"

Peter ignores him. The hair on his arms rises and he looks around for the oncoming danger.

"Earth to Peterrrrr" Harley drawls out.

Peter hears a little kid crying to their mom and the mom giving in into buying her child chocolate. He hears the tapping of a cane, crossing the street. In the apartment down the road, there's a dog barking at the tv playing creepy music, most likely a horror movie.

Listening further out, he hears the loading of a gun. The bullets clinking together, getting in place. A man's breathing, heart thumping at a normal pace.

His eyes goes wide and he looks back at Harley to see him still talking to him.

"I gotta go" Peter announces.

"What? Why? And what just happened? You were like zoned out, completely ignoring me" Harley questions.

"I forgot I was supposed to meet my aunt at the hospital and she's probably freaking out wondering where I am. I-I gotta go. Do you know you're way back? Your apartments down the road, take a right, and it should be on your left" Peter quickly explains, all in one breath.

"Uhh yeah, o-ok. See you tomorrow?" Harley replies, feeling very weird and extremely confused.

"Yeah, see you!" Peter replies before turning around and running around the block.

"Weirdo" Harley huffs out.

Turning to head back to his apartment, he remembers what Peter said in how to get home.

Meanwhile, Peter sprints down the road and into an alleyway. He quickly changes into his Spider-Man suit, webbing his backpack behind a dumpster and swinging away.

"Karen, I heard a gun getting loaded up four blocks down. Are police there yet?" Peter immediately asks.

"It seems like the police were called two minutes ago to a jewelry store four blocks down. Pulling the fastest route up now" Karen informs.

A route pops up as Peter lets go of his web and shoots out another. He tunes into his hearing, listening to the man threatening the people inside of the jewelry store.

Taking a sharp turn, Peter drops from his web and lands in front of the store. Since the store has large glass windows, Peter can easily see the gunman waving his gun around while the woman at the cashier is telling him that she doesn't have cash in the cash register. Besides from her, the store is thankfully empty.

Peter opens the door, ready to get onto the ceiling, just for the bell above to signal his presence. Masking up his annoyance, he leans against the doorframe. The gunman doesn't turn the gun on him though so he's got to be real careful with how he plays this out.

"You do know, nobody pays with cash anymore, right? I mean everyone carries card on them, I literally just paid with card somewhere like an hour ago" Peter recalls his stop to Delmar's.

"I don't just want cash, I want the jewelry too" the gunman claims.

"Ok so pay for it and if you overpay, you get cash in return. That's how a transaction works" Peter informs.

 "Shut up you freak! Just let me do my job and get out of here" the gunman shouts.

"How about I do my job and you can go to jail!" Peter argues.

"One move and I'll shoot her" the gunman threatens.

"You and I have totally different meanings when it comes to shooting your shot. Plus, she looks younger than you so it would definitely be a no for me if I were her, not to mention the gun" Peter points out the obvious. "By why shoot her? You can't get anything if you shoot her. If you shoot me, the whole store is yours! I mean the cops aren't even here yet!"

Sadly the cops are still a couple blocks away, taking their sweet old time. Luckily, the gunman starts to slowly turn his gun away from the woman. Peter's ready to shoot out his webs but before the gun really leaves the woman, the man is ducking under the glass tables filled with jewels.

Bang!

Bang!

Peter ducks out of the way on instinct, the glass breaking into a million pieces. It would've been funny under different circumstances but this reminds him of Harley's rocket launchers yesterday with the vial. 

Speaking of Harley, "Incoming call from Harley Keener" Karen alerts.

The woman ducks under the counter, tears pouring down her face and hands over her ears.

"What? Decline" Peter answers.

Peter shoots out webs at the gunman but he ducks back down under the table.

"He is calling again, it might be urgent" Karen informs.

Another shot rings out and Peter jumps onto the ceiling, a bullet slicing his leg. 

"This is urgent!" Peter shouts.

Crawling at a fast pace, he makes his way over to the gunman.

"Accepting the call, he texted this is an emergency" Karen claims.

It would've been a smart move if Peter thought smartly on this but he didn't, he was too distracted with Harley's voice coming through the call.

"Hey Peter" Harley greets.

"I can't talk right now" Peter states.

Seeing the gunman under him, Peter shoots out a grenade web just in time for his senses to screams at him.

Before he can move, a loud bang echoes through the air.

A loud voice yells through his ears as the ringing from the gun splits his head into two.

Peter loses his grip on the ceiling, falling into a heap onto the floor.

He hears muffled voices talking, screaming.

He feels hands on him and pushes them away, dazed.

All of a sudden, all at once, everything comes back to him.

"Peter?! PETER?! WHAT WAS THAT?! WAS THAT A GUNSHOT?!" Harley screams but luckily, Karen already lowered the volume so his scream wasn't too loud.

"I just killed Spider-Man" the gunman next to him, all webbed up, keeps repeating.

"Oh my god, oh my god" the cashier woman panics.

Peter tries to sit up only for the woman to gently shove him back down and presses a rag down onto him. Peter looks down confused only to see blood oozing out of stomach.

"I'm ok" Peter assures.

"Don't move, let me keep applying pressure" the woman demands.

"Peter?!" Harley yells.

"H-Harley? I'm ok, don't w-worry. That wasn't-" Peter tries to respond.

"Are you ok?! That sounded like a gunshot! I know what a gunshot sounds like!" Harley exclaims,

"It wasn't a gunshot. I'm still on my way to the hospital but a car hit into another car. They seem alright though, the people in both cars. They're getting out right now, the airbags worked" Peter lies, gritting through his teeth to make sure he sounds ok to fool Harley.

The woman looks at him confused before focusing back onto the wound, knowing he's talking to someone she can't hear.

"Peter, I already alerted Mr. Stark. He is on his way, ETA is now one minute. The cops are down the road" Karen explains, silencing herself from Harley so he doesn't hear.

"Cops are down the road" Peter informs both parties. 

"You should call your aunt. If you're already late, she's probably still worried. Are you sure that was all it was? A car crash? It really sounded like a gunshot" Harley questions.

"Yes, just a car crash. The car rammed into the back of the trunk and it popped. I gotta go and call her, I'll talk to you tomorrow" Peter replies before Karen hangs up. Peter looks at the woman tending to his wound and sees her name tag. "Are you al-alright Ms. Kendra?" 

Kendra looks up confused, scared, and shocked, all three emotions mixed together at once.

"I-I'm good. A-are you uhh g-good? I mean obviously not" Kendra huffs out a nervous laughter.

"I'm good" Peter nods, making his head dizzy.

Bright red and blue lights are outside the window, lighting the place in bright and colorful lights. The door swings open, police yelling out instructions.

"Keep that pressure on Spidey!" An officer shouts over to Kendra while him and his partners grabs the gunman who is still muttering the same sentence. He's definitely in shock and maybe Peter is too.

Before any officers can rush over to Peter, Peter hears the familiar thunk of the Iron Man suit running over to him.

"Kid!" Tony shouts as he drops onto his knees. "Shit, ok. Kid, you're going to have to web that rag to you when I say go. Uhh Kendra, when I say go, you let go of the rag."

"Ok" Kendra shakily agrees.

"Three, two, one...go" Tony counts down. Kendra lets go of the rag while Peter quickly webs the rag into place. "It'll do for now, I'm flying you to the tower."

"Batman" Peter chuckles before letting out a harsh cough.

"Don't ever call me that again and don't laugh, Dr. Cho is going to kill me if you start coughing up blood before we even get there. Lifting you up now, don't puke" Tony instructs before slowly and gently, lifting Peter up into his arms. "Thanks Kendra, paramedics just arrived."

With that, Tony flies out of the building with Spider-Man in his arms.

Kendra watches them go in shock. She barely even registered the paramedics rushing in and running up to her. She can't help but think of her own dad when she broke her arm when she was little with how Iron Man acted with Spider-Man...

 

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"He's lucky it didn't hit anything major and didn't go through and hit his spinal cord or diaphragm" Dr. Cho tells Tony after completing Peter's surgery. 

"So he's ok?" Tony clarifies.

"Yes but he needs to be more careful, it could've ended badly" Cho sighs. "He should be healed by tomorrow though. No complications should arise but let me know if they do."

"Ok, thank you. Can I go in?" Tony thanks.

"Yeah he's just high on pain meds but it should wear off soon" Cho nods her head.

"Thanks" Tony thanks again before making his way into the room.

"Hiiiiiiiiiii" Peter drawls out, waving his hand in greeting once Tony entered the room.

"Hey kid, you feeling good?" Tony asks.

"Feelin' grrrreeaatt" Peter nods.

"I bet" Tony responds.

"'m hungry" Peter informs.

"Ok, what do you  want to eat? I'll have it ordered" Tony wonders.

"Cheeseburgers, d-don't forget the ssshhhake" Peter reminds him.

"Placing an order now" Friday claims.

"Thanksss" Peter thanks.

"My pleasure" Friday replies.

"Tv?" Peter asks, pointing over to the tv screen.

"Star Wars?" Tony assumes.

"Cars two" Peter denies with a small laugh.

"You heard the kid Fri" Tony chuckles.

 

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"Is Harley bothering you at school?" Tony asks making Peter snap his head up towards him.

Their dinner arrived thirty minutes ago and Peter is finishing up his food. He was allowed to leave the medbay so they went up to the penthouse and turned on the Phineas and Ferb 2nd Dimension movie. They sat in relative silence eating until Tony broke it.

"Uhh why?" Peter wonders.

"Well he said he's friends with Flash and I know you two aren't really getting along at the moment so I just wanted to ask" Tony explains.

"I don't really see Harley during school but whenever Flash is bothering me, he's not there" Peter lies.

"Ok just...if he starts bullying you, let me know. I know you two have a rivalry going on at the moment but I just don't want either of you two getting hurt. I do think you two can be good friends, you both love science and you're nerds" Tony points out at the end.

"I won't punch him" Peter assures.

"I know you won't" Tony claims,

"And you're a nerd too" Peter reminds him.

"Is Tony getting bullied by a high schooler now?" Rhodey chuckles as he walks into the room.

"Yes" Tony nods. "Get this brat away from me, he steals my food and then bullies me. What are you even doing here platypus? Thought you had to go to D.C?" 

"Wait you're going to D.C and you weren't even going to let me know?! I see how it is" Peter gasps.

"Well I thought I was leaving tomorrow night but the meeting got pushed a day earlier. I have to leave in a couple of minutes but I'll be back Saturday" Rhodey explains.

"I stayed over last week, this week I'm staying home" Peter reminds him.

"Oh right, sucks for you I guess" Rhodey chuckles.

"Heyyy I thought you liked me" Peter pouts.

"I'm his favorite, sorry kid" Tony fakes apologizes.

"I actually like Peter more" Rhodey favors.

"What?! What about all of our MIT days and everything after that?!" Tony practically shouts.

"That's exactly why" Rhodey claims.

"HA!" Peter laughs.

"I'm insulted honeybear" Tony scoffs.

"Fine by me" Rhodey smirks.

"Can you take me with you to D.C? I need away time from Mr. Stark and I promise I won't get into any trouble" Peter jokes.

"You're about to not see me for two days after tomorrow!" Tony reminds.

"I haven't really seen much of D.C, I was stuck in a storage vault" Peter shrugs.

"Maybe next time when I have a meeting with the president" Rhodey suggests.

"What does you meeting with the president have anything to do with me going?" Peter questions.

"So you can meet him, duh" Tony answers.

"WHAT?!" Peter screams.

"Alright, I gotta go. I'll see you both soon. Pete, stop getting hurt. I won't be able to help Pepper  with Tony's anxiety" Rhodey states.

"No promises" Peter smiles. "You can always text me during your meeting if you get bored."

"You'll be in class" Rhodey shuts down.

 "So? Mr. Stark does it all the time and I don't pay attention in class anyways" Peter points out.

"I'll pretend I didn't hear any of that incase May ever interrogates me. Bye Peter. Tony, be good" Rhodey responds.

"That's what you say to a dog. Like bye platypus, you be good and show them who's boss" Tony winks at the end.

"I'm leaving" Rhodey states before turning and walking away.

"Bye!!" Peter calls out. "What are we doing tomorrow? You don't have any more of those stupid bonding activities planned, do you?"

Peter scrunches his nose while asking the question, pretending to be annoyed.

"You'll find out tomorrow" Tony replies.

"Ugh" Peter groans.

 

Chapter 7: Master of Deception

"Hey penis, miss me because you can kiss being seated at decathlon goodbye! Next week I'm going to demolish you" Flash practically shouts as he strides over to where him, Ned, and Harley are all standing.

Classes were going to start soon since it was Friday morning and they were all waiting for MJ to get back from the bathroom. They were waiting exactly right outside of the girls bathroom but are down the hall.

"Peter's going to kick your ass so you stay as an alternate. If you're not smart enough to realize that he's smarter than you, you must be a real dumbass" Harley responds.

"Stay out of this Keener" Flash sneers.

"If you want me stayin' out of this then why come up to him when I'm around?" Harley questions.

"Cause you can't ever seem to stay away from him. What? Are you, him, and Leeds a throuple?" Flash asks.

"No but if you assume that every guy who has a guy best friend is gay, then you should really check yourself out. Last time I saw, your friend groups consists of many guys" Harley recalls.

"I'm not gay!" Flash splutters.

"Too bad, we all know no girl in this school wants to date you" MJ chimes in, coming up from behind Flash. "You'll have better luck with your goons because they're just using you for your money anyways."

"No they're not! They're rich too!" Flash denies.

"Makes a perfect coverup" MJ protests.

Ringggggg!!

"Ugh!" Flash replies before stomping to his first period class, just like everyone else in the hallway.

"He's such an ass. I really want to punch him but if Tony finds out, then he'll know I've been lying" Harley sighs in defeat.

"Oh he'll definitely find out" Peter agrees with a chuckle.

"At least he doesn't know how you guys have been pranking him this whole time" Ned smiles.

"Thank the lord for that" Harley laughs.

 

🕷

 

"Tony's in a meeting. Friday is going to take you two up to the penthouse until he's done. You aren't allowed to be working in the lab without his supervision" Happy instructs before the elevator dings open and he walks out.

The elevator closes once again and the boys keep ascending to the penthouse level. The two haven't said a word, they know Friday will tattle on them if they show the slightest hints that they don't hate each other.

The car ride to the tower was covered in silence. Happy threatened them that if they started fighting, he would drop them off on the sidewalk and will have to find their own way back to the tower.

Now getting off the elevator, they begin to do their own tasks. Ned thought it would be funny if they pull pranks on each other to drive Tony crazy so that's what they're going to do in the meantime, set up their pranks.

But first, they both had to steal some snacks. They had a small argument over a bag of chips before Friday said there was another bag. They kept telling the other to shut up and about how they're chewing too loudly, and so on.

Keeping up their appearance for Friday allowed them to easily separate from each other to begin their pranks.

 

🕷

 

SPLASSSHHHH!!

THUD!

Peter stares at Harley with a death glare while water drips down his hair and onto the floor. The ice cold water drips down his back, soaking his clothes. 

Harley bursts out laughing that he almost topples over onto the ground.

"Oh man, that was hilarious!" Harley laughs.

"Haha" Peter rolls his eyes.

"I wish I recorded that" Harley chuckles before plopping onto the couch only for the loudest fart to come out and echo in the room.

"I sure hope that doesn't stink up the room" Tony announces his presence, making Harley's face light up in embarrassment.

"I didn't fart!" Harley protests.

"Sounds like you did" Peter smirks.

Harley gets up from the couch and lifts up the blanket he sat on to reveal a whoopie cushion. 

"Must've left it there, my bad" Peter chuckles.

"Oh just you-" Harley begins to threaten only for Tony to shut it down.

"You two ready for the lab?" Tony wonders.

"I'm more ready that him!" Harley nods.

"Yeah, I'm going to go change thanks to Harley's ice bucket" Peter replies, gesturing to the bucket that fell behind him.

"Pick up the clothes on your floor while you're at it. Pep was going to do your laundry but didn't know if the clothes on your floor were clean or not" Tony recalls.

"Oh, she doesn't have to do my laundry. I bring my dirty clothes home to wash" Peter assures.

"Why? Just leave them here and we'll take care of it. That seems like a hassle bringing clothes back and forth" Tony points out.

"But-" Peter starts to protest.

"No buts. Dum-E does our laundry but sometimes Pep likes too" Tony reminds him.

"You never told me Dum-E does the laundry. You sure he washes the clothes properly?" Peter questions.

"The only thing he has access to in the laundry room are the proper bottles so yes" Tony assures.

"Ok then but if my whites turn pink I'm going to tell May it's because of you" Peter warns before turning around and heading into his room.

"He has a room here?" Harley questions.

"He had to stay a few nights cause his aunt had a night shift or she was on a work trip, things like that" Tony shrugs. "Which reminds me, I need to start setting up your room."

"I'm getting a room?!" Harley asks, dumbfounded.

"Unless you don't want to have sleepovers at the tower" Tony replies.

"As long as it's not Iron Man theme" Harley relents but is honestly super excited at the possibility of having a room in the tower.

"Pep is going to help design it. Now let's head to the lab before Dum-E throws a tantrum" Tony suggests.

 

🕷

 

Now Peter isn't stupid. He knows Harley went down into the lab while Tony was at his meeting and put up a few of his pranks. He also knew the water bucket was going to fall down onto him after hitting a trip wire but he did it anyways because he heard Tony in the elevator coming down and Harley doesn't know about his spidey sense. 

His powers actually helped him hear Harley setting up the prank that he thought Peter was going to be a victim to as soon as he came into the lab.

He heard Harley spraying shaving cream under one of his chair cushions so when Harley left the lab, Peter lifted up his cushion to see it ready to explode as soon as someone sits on the chair. So to fix that, Peter swapped his chair with Harley's chair.

Peter knew if he went down to the lab after Harley, he was going to miss the prank so that's why he rushed.

After quickly picking up his clothes, he practically ran to the elevator. The elevator was quick to shoot down and open back up only to reveal...nothing.

Harley was standing with Tony at his station, looking over his potato gun. Peter didn't say anything while he walked over to his seat.

As he get closer, he noticed Harley eyeing him. Peter looked at him with fake confusion before sitting down in his seat, with no shaving cream exploded.

Harley looks at him with wide eyes but turns away when Peter gives him a confused glance.

"Alright, let's head over to your station and fix this" Tony states.

"Ok" Harley nods.

He grabs his potato gun from the table and walks over to his desk, rolling up another chair that he instead plops onto. Now, it was Peter's turn to look up with wide eyes.

Tony grabs Harley's, that was Peter's, chair and sits down.

It all happened so fast but his panic felt slowed down.

Tony sat down onto the chair and shaving cream immediately exploded. Tony's jeans that once only had dried oil stains and his old faded AC/DC shirt, were now covered in shaving cream. Splatters of shaving cream were on his face and in his hair, making his hair look a bit white.

Harley and Peter both hold in their laughter while Tony's face morphs from shocked to kinda mad to surprised.

"Did you two work on this prank together?" Tony wonders.

"No that was meant for Peter! I don't know how his chair got here!" Harley exclaims.

"That was meant for you! I swear Mr. Stark I didn't mean for you to sit on the chair! I saw Harley putting shaving cream under my chair cushion so I switched our chairs but I didn't think you would sit on the chair!" Peter informs.

"Ok this is like what? The third prank of the day? Are you two really going to go at it all day?" Tony asks only for neither teen to respond. "I have a challenge for you two later but first, do you guys know how to cook?"

"Yea" they both reply.

"Ok and Peter, did your aunt teach you how to cook?" Tony wonders.

"No, my uncle did" Peter answers.

"Good, then you two will be cooking dinner later" Tony settles.

"WHAT?!" Peter shouts.

"I am NOT cooking with HIM!!" Harley shuts down.

"Then I guess we'll starve for dinner" Tony relents.

"That's ok, we'll order or have snacks" Harley shrugs.

"Nope. You two are cooking and that's it. Pepper will be there, ready to eat your dinner after a hard and long day of work" Tony explains.

"That's guilt tripping" Peter informs.

"But it's working" Tony smirks.

"What would we even have to make?" Harley wonders.

"Whatever you know how to make" Tony shrugs.

"Pasta's the easiest" Harley sighs.

"Meatballs too, that's also easy" Peter adds.

"See! You two are already working together!" Tony smiles.

"You're going to regret those words" Harley informs.

"You two can't possibly fight over pasta and meatballs, there's nothing to fight about" Tony rolls his eyes. "Now I'm going to go shower because of an escalated prank gone rogue and Friday will keep an eye on you two."

Tony gets up from the chair with shaving cream dripping off of him. He looks down at the mess and ignores it, heading to the elevator.

"Clean up the mess" Tony instructs before getting into the elevator and the doors closing behind him.

"I'm not cleaning this up" Harley states.

"I'm not the one who did this prank" Peter protests.

"It was meant for you!" Harley argues.

"Well now the mess is at your work table, not mine" Peter points out.

"Dum-E, can you clean up this mess on the floor?" Harley asks.

The robot beeps happily, already grabbing a rag, and goes over to Harley's table. Harley smirks up at Peter who just rolls his eyes while Dum-E cleans up the mess.

Peter ignores him and starts to work on upgrading Droney while Harley tries to go back to fixing his potato gun.

 

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Dinner was approaching and Tony drops both teens off into the kitchen. He's now in a clean set of clothes and shaving cream free. Harley grabs the pasta boxes while Peter grabs the meatballs. 

Harley grabs a large pot and fills it up with water before it's ready to boil. He turns to look up at Friday, ready to be done with the first part.

"Friday, set a timer for eight minutes" Harley instructs.

"Boiling water takes like ten minutes" Peter exclaims.

"It's definitely eight, I would know" Harley argues.

"It's ten" Peter repeats.

"Eight" Harley denies.

"Ten."

"Eight."

"Ten."

"Eight."

"No, ten."

"It's eight!"

"Ten!"

"Eight!"

"Enough!" Tony interrupts from his seat on the stool at the counter. "Friday, how long does it take to boil water?"

"Usually ten to twenty minutes depending on how much water is in the pot or how high the flame is or heat level is on the stovetop. I suggest setting it to high so the water will boil faster" Friday explains. "I'll set a timer for ten and if it needs more time, I will be able to determine if Harley needs my assistance."

"Ha" Peter gloats. "Thanks Fri!"

Peter then goes over to the oven and starts to preheat it to 350 degrees. 

"Now instead of fighting, just ask Friday" Tony reminds them.

"Whatever" Harley replies, rolling his eyes.

Not even an hour into cooking, Harley and Peter were already sabotaging each other. Tony wasn't paying attention to their tactics since he was doing work on his StarkPad until he smelt fire.

"Shit!" Tony shouts, almost falling out of his seat.

At this point, Harley had already put the pasta into the bowl but now the bowl is in flames. Looking over at Peter's meatballs, he can see smoke starting to form as well. Thankfully, Friday turns on the sprinklers.

"That was Peter's fault!" Harley blames.

"No it wasn't! It was yours!" Peter accuses.

Tony ignores them and gets the fire extinguisher in one of the cabinets and starts spraying the room. A couple of seconds goes by until he stops, fire no longer visible and the sprinklers got turned off.

Looking into the foamy kitchen, he spots the two foamy teenagers and their disgruntled looks. He can't help but let out a loud laugh making the two teens annoyed.

"Stop laughing, this ain't my fault" Harley states.

"Yes it is!" Peter protests.

"Ok, ok, I'll stop" Tony chuckles. "You two go shower, I'll order takeout. Pete, show Harley to the bathroom and can you let him borrow some clothes?"

"Can't you just have Dum-E do the wash and by the time Harley's done, the wash should be?" Peter questions.

"Dum-E will do the laundry but I doubt it'll be finished by then. Can you just let him borrow your clothes?" Tony asks.

"What about the gift shop downstairs? It's got clothes in there" Peter recalls.

"Why do teens just have to argue about everything? Fine. I'll go get some clothes for you Harley. Peter, just show him the bathroom in the hall if he doesn't know where it is" Tony sighs before heading off to the elevator. Friday quickly opens the doors for him and while he gets in, he grumbles, "Why didn't I get a warning that having teens in my tower causes all sorts of problems?"

Once the doors close, Peter and Harley burst into a laughing fit only to stop short because of Friday watching them.

"Find the bathroom yourself, it's not hard" Peter states before walking over to his own bedroom.

"You're just mad because you started the fire" Harley calls out.

"No, that was all you!" Peter argues right as he slams his door closed.

Luckily for Harley, he knew where the bathroom was.

 

🕷

 

"So, do I even want to know why this place smells like a fire and why I wasn't alerted and why the fire alarms didn't go off?" Pepper wonders.

"It was contained, I had it all under controlled" Tony assures.

"Is that why you ordered takeout?" Pepper questions, gesturing to the Korean food.

"I know how much you like Korean food" Tony smiles.

"This is why we don't leave children unattended with open flames. Well at least I dragged you to that meeting earlier" Pepper recalls with a sigh.

"Yeah the most boring meeting of my life" Tony rolls his eyes. "And I'm going to ignore that comment because I'm not a child."

"I don't know, I thought I heard you say how much you love meetings" Harley jokes.

"Oh? You love meetings Tony?" Pepper smiles.

"You're a little shit Keener" Tony curses.

"Takes one to know one Stark" Harley retorts.

"Maybe I shouldn't have picked up those clothes for you after all" Tony gasps.

"I told you that you shouldn't have" Peter recalls.

"Do you two have any homework this weekend?" Pepper wonders before Tony could say anything and fuel the fighting that's going to erupt.

"I finished mine" Peter answers.

"I didn't. You want to do mine? If you won't, I'll blackmail you" Harley warns.

"There is going to be no blackmailing and you're going to do your own homework" Pepper cuts in with fierce eyes.

Harley backs down even though he was just lying for the prank. He feels like Pepper just found out he committed murder or something. He hopes he never gets onto Peppers bad side, ever.

"Got it" Harley nods.

"When did you even finish your homework if Harley didn't even start his?" Tony questions.

"During lunch, the car ride here, when teachers pass out the homework, whenever there's a sub, just things like that" Peter shrugs.

"Why the hell do you start homework that early?" Harley asks.

"So I don't have homework over the weekend or once school's over with" Peter shrugs. "You should try it."

"Like I'm going to listen to you" Harley scoffs.

"Alright, let's be nice to each other. I have to deal with idiotic business people yelling at each other, I don't need to listen to you two bickering as well" Pepper cuts in. 

"Oh I got a question! Do you two not get along because you like the same girl?" Tony wonders.

"I don't have a crush on anyone yet" Harley shuts down.

"Yeah so definitely not that reason" Peter denies.

"Do you guys want to watch a movie after we're finished?" Pepper asks.

Peter and Harley try their hardest not to look at each other but it's like Pepper is playing right into their hands. They were just talking about their movie idea not too long ago.

"Star Wars?" Harley suggests.

"Yes!" Tony almost shouts making everyone startle. "My bad but yes. You both like Star Wars, that's great!"

"I bet I'm the bigger fan" Peter starts.

"No way in hell. You probably just started watching the movies" Harley rolls his eyes.

"We'll have Friday pick out which one to play" Pepper interrupts. "In the meantime, let's clean up our dishes."

 

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Friday ends up playing Empire Strikes Back and Tony almost wishes that Harley and Peter had different movie interests. Tony's sitting in between the two of them with Pepper on Peter's other side but they haven't stopped arguing about the characters for ten minutes.

Since they were too busy arguing, they haven't touched their popcorn or candy. They're sat untouched on the table, waiting for them to be done fighting.

Their arguments range from who's the better fighter, who's the best character of all time, and so on.

It's giving Tony a headache and Pepper wishes she took back the movie suggestion. They both feel like they're dealing with little kids rather than teenagers.

"Friday, turn on a new movie. Whatever came out that sounds good" Tony instructs.

"Hey!" Peter shouts.

"What the hell man?!" Harley questions.

"We are not dealing with you two bickering for the next two hours. Now, neither of you know the plot or characters in...Superman Legacy, ugh D.C, gross" Tony groans in disgust.

"I heard it's a good movie" Pepper shrugs.

"I like D.C but they should have a movie with all of Batman's children in it" Peter states.

"Before this delves into another fight, let's just watch the movie" Tony cuts in before Harley could say anything.

Listening to Tony, Friday plays the movie and the room becomes silent.

 

Chapter 8: Plot Twist: They’re Friends

Tony feels like he's stuck in the middle with no escape.

He never thought he would have to play babysitter. Hell if you told Tony he would take two kids under his wing and have them meet and come over to the tower for an internship, he would've thought you are insane and laugh in your face. Actually not just that, he might've sent you to the psych ward thinking you're losing it.

He's been playing mediator for three days now, ever since the two teens met. Tony didn't even know it was possible for Peter to hate someone like that, he doesn't even hate Flash all that much. Obviously he dislikes Flash but he doesn't hate him. So how in the hell does he hate Harley?

Letting Harley meet Peter, well he wasn't expecting his reaction either. He knew Harley had trouble making friends and with Peter's easy going nature, he really thought they were going to hit it off. It's unnerving that they haven't.

It's almost...weird.

"You wanted something Tony?" Clint asks making Tony jump in his seat.

"Really Friday? It would've been nice knowing that he was on his way down and was entering my lab" Tony calls out to the ceiling.

"My apologies boss but I did say he was coming" Friday apologizes.

Clint walks more into the lab and plops into a chair across from Tony. The chair slowly wheels him away allowing Clint to make himself spin.

"Sometimes I wonder if you're two children stacked onto each other" Tony informs.

"Really? Sometimes I think the same for you" Clint retorts with a smile.

"How's your family?" Tony wonders as he grabs his coffee cup to drink. 

"Good as always. I've been continuing Lila's archery lessons, Coop and I have been beating each other up in video games, and Nate has been helping me out with the chickens. I might steal Nat when I go back next time, Laura was already making plans" Clint informs.

"Go ahead, I'm not keeping her hostage here" Tony jokes while talking a sip out of his cup.

"How's your son been doing?" Clint asks making Tony spit the coffee right out. "And I thought little kids could be gross."

"Peter is not my son" Tony responds.

"Sure he isn't biologically but you still treat him as one. It's not a big deal as you think Tony, you've been great with him. He looks up to you" Clint assures. "Is this why you called me down here to talk? Is something up with him?"

"More like him and someone else" Tony replies vaguely.

"Father to father Tony, we're in the dad trio remember?" Clint reminds him about Scott. "Is he dating someone? I mean I think he should know the birds-"

"Ok, I'm going to stop you right there. It's a long story but I met this kid named Harley back during the Madarian incident and we stayed in touch. Apparently he moved to the city because of his moms boyfriends work and so, I invited him to be an intern here. He's smart, keeps up with me, all that jazz. I thought him and Peter would've gotten along but as soon as they met, they didn't want anything to do with each other. I tried bonding activities but those failed. It's been three days of them coming here and I feel like I'm dealing with toddlers. Also, Harley became friends with Peters bully!" Tony explains.

"Wow" Clint responds.

"Yeah!" Tony agrees, taking another sip of his coffee.

"Do they have any classes together?" Clint wonders.

"Three, math, gym, and history" Tony lists.

"Do you know if anything's going on at school?" Clint asks.

"They basically ignore each other. Harley says Flash has been nice and Peter told me Harley is never there when Flash is bullying him but I don't know if I should believe that or not" Tony sighs.

"Well Tony, you can't force teenagers to like each other" Clint informs.

"So the bonding activities were a bad idea?" Tony questions.

"I mean...yeah? My kids hate when they're forced to do an activity with someone they don't like" Clint shares.

"Shit so I made it worse?" Tony curses.

"I don't know about that but I'm not sure" Clint shrugs. 

"Well what am I suppose to do? They're coming again on Monday for the internship and Peter is suppose to stay overnight next week. I was going to have Harley join but it doesn't seem like a good idea since they don't get along but what if Harley gets jealous over the fact? What if he really does bully Peter at school and I'm making it worse?" Tony panics.

"We'll figure it out. Do you think they don't like each other because of jealousy?" Clint tries to think of.

"No I mean they're never fighting over me, just with each other" Tony tries to recall. 

"Can I see the footage of them doing each bonding activity you made them do?" Clint wonders.

"Yeah, Friday pull up the footage and show Barton everything" Tony instructs. 

After reviewing the footage from all three days, Clint bursts out laughing. Tony looks at him in shock and confusion. Clint's laughing so hard he almost falls out of his seat making Tony give him an annoyed look.

"It's not funny Legolas, this is serious! I have two teenagers acting like toddlers and I don't know what to do!" Tony tells him through Clints laughter.

"Ok, ok, I'll stop" Clint chuckles. Tony gives him a pointed look but finally, Clint stops laughing. "You know Tony, for a genius you can be a complete idiot."

"If you're just going to criticize me, you can leave" Tony reminds him.

"Tony, they don't hate each other" Clint claims, trying his hardest to not laugh again.

"Uhh did we watch the same footage because they definitely do" Tony argues.

"Oh we definitely watched the same footage" Clint grins like a maniac.

"So how do I fix this?" Tony asks.

"You don't" Clint responds.

"The hell do you mean I don't?" Tony questions.

"You don't, you're going to get back at them" Clint states.

"What are you talking about?" Tony wonders, completely lost.

"Oh you're in for some sweet revenge Tony. I'm proud to be teaching you about this moment when your kids are going against you" Clint sighs happily.

"What do you mean going against me? They've been going at it with each other" Tony clarifies.

"Tell me...did you ever have some crazy bonding scheme that Pepper said no to?" Clint wonders.

"A few, why?" Tony questions, getting annoyed with Clint skirting around the question.

"Want to tell me them?" Clint asks.

"Well let's see...lock them inside a room with nothing in it, making them sit through Cap going on a spiel about becoming friends, hold one of them over the balcony, me faking a serious injury to get them all panicky and work together to help me, ma-" Tony lists.

"That one. You're going to do that one" Clint interrupts.

Tony looks at him confused, not knowing which one he's talking about. 

"Just spit it out Barton, I don't get what you're trying to hint at" Tony rolls his eyes, giving up and giving him an exasperated look.

"They're pranking you" Clint relents.

"What?" Tony asks, thinking he misheard but there's no way he misheard that. 

"They're best friends by the looks of it" Clint explains.

Tony's head starts to spin, thinking back to each moment during the three days that they've been here.

"There's no way, they fight over everything!" Tony protests.

"Yeah, they really sold the enemies act or should I say...frenemies?" Clint smirks.

Tony blankly stares at him, thoughts swirling around his head.

"They're friends Tony, they've been pranking you this whole time" Clint clarifies as he leans back in his chair.

"You got to be shitting me" Tony states with wide eyes. He can't believe this is happening, when did this even happen?! 

"Nat and I pulled something like this on Fury. Obviously we were friends but we decided to throw in a little curveball and fake a scenario which would later, make us hate each other. Everyone at Shield believed it. Totally sold it. But now? Tables are turned, buddy. Time for you to hit back" Clint tells him.

"You're going to make this the most believable, over-the-top revenge prank ever" Tony agrees.

"Hell yeah I am" Clint accepts.

"Dum-E, roll out the whiteboard" Tony grins.

 

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"We should vandalize the tower" Harley suggests.

"Uhh why?" Peter questions.

"That's like illegal man..." Ned trails off looking at Harley strangely.

"You guys should spray paint on the side of the tower" MJ agrees.

"Ok so we're not going to do that" Peter shuts down.

"If you guys do anything illegal, I do not want to know about it!" Willow informs as she passes by them, grabbing her purse.

"We're not doing anything illegal" Peter assures Harley's mom.

"Even if we do, Peter will bail us out with donuts" Harley jokes. "Oliver was just askin' me yesterday if you're bringing anymore."

"I only bring them when there's new cops or if someone gets a promotion or if something good really happens" Peter shrugs.

"Does Tony ever get donuts because I have some preferences when you get them for us" Harley wonders.

"No he just gets anxiety and stress" Peter denies.

"I'm all for this prank but you guys are going to drive him crazy. If it were me, I would've made you solve your crap a while ago" Willow exclaims. "Now I'm going to work so don't burn down the fort. Harley, keep an eye on your sis and Haliya or am I going to have to put someone else in charge?"

"No, it'll be fine. See you soon ma" Harley rolls his eyes at the first part. 

"Thanks for letting us stay!" Ned thanks.

"Nice meeting you!" Peter tells her.

"Bye" MJ waves.

"I'm serious Harley, I will put one of your friends in charge next time if something happens or maybe they'll become your babysitter. Now I got to go, bye everyone!" Willow replies before shutting the door behind her.

"If anyone were to become the babysitter, it'd be MJ" Peter figures.

"Gee I wonder why, it's not like any of you are idiots in disguise" MJ sarcastically replies but she knows it's true, she's the most responsible one out of the group.

"Do you guys think Mr. Stark panics when he's by himself thinking about how you guys don't get along?" Ned wonders.

"I bet he does" Harley nods.

"Wait no, I hope not. I kind of feel bad" Peter admits.

"Why?" MJ questions.

"Because he does so much for me I don't want him to get really stressed out over this. It's suppose to be like a harmless prank" Peter explains.

"It is a harmless prank, he'll be laughing about this once he finds out" Harley assures.

"You can always ask Karen to ask Friday if Mr. Stark is stressed about this prank but like obviously don't say prank and say how you two aren't getting along?" Ned suggests.

"Who's Karen?" Harley wonders.

"No one!" Ned panics, eyes wide.

Peter mentally face palms at that response. How has Ned kept his secret? He has no idea.

"At least he didn't say she was a porn star" MJ sighs while she starts to sketch Ned's face into her crisis notebook.

"What?" Harley questions.

"Long story, you don't want to know" MJ responds.

"Ok then..." Harley trails off, confused.

Crash!!

"Abby what was that?!" Harley shouts towards her room.

"Nothing!" Abby answers.

"Why did your voice sound like it was comin' outta my room?!" Harley questions as he gets up from his seat.

"This apartment still echoes dumbass!" Abby exclaims.

Harley walks over to his room with Ned quickly in tow and swings open the door revealing his miniature potato gun broken on the floor.

"What the hell Abby?!" Harley practically shouts.

"I wanted to show Hali!" Abby tells him.

"Well now there's nothing to show her, you broke it" Harley points out.

"No shit, it is in pieces now. You're the one who told me it was for me!" Abby recalls.

"Yeah once it was done but it ain't done!" Harley replies.

"It was probably a mistake, I doubt she meant to break it" Ned chimes in.

"It's true!" Haliya agrees, nodding her head.

"Maybe she can help you fix it?" Peter figures while him and MJ walks into the room, hearing the commotion.

"Why does your voice sound familiar?" Abby asks, scrunching her nose in confusion.

Peters face turns to panic real quick but luckily only Abby was looking at him and no one else. His mind automatically goes to Spider-Man. He hasn't met Abby before but if she's seen a bunch of his videos, she would definitely recognize his voice. He really should've thought about a voice modifier when he started out, curse his fourteen year old self.

"So you break the potato gun and now you're going crazy? You're such a weirdo" Harley comments.

"You're a weirdo!" Abby argues.

"Peter's right. Since Abby broke it, she'll help you fix it. If you don't have the parts, take it from Starks lab, he doesn't care" MJ agrees with Peters earlier suggestion.

"Yeah Abby, you should help him fix it. Maybe you can add your own...designs to it" Haliya nods.

"Fine...can it be pink?" Abby sighs.

"You can paint it after it's finished" Harley relents.

"Fine" Abby repeats.

"Mr. Stark should take lessons" Ned chuckles making Harley and Peter let out small laughters as well.

"Maybe I'll ask Tony if I can invite Flash over one day" Harley laughs.

"Oh he's going to have a fit" Peter smirks in agreement.

 

Chapter 9: Operation: Stark’s Revenge

"Mr. Parker, do you want to tell me why you came into class late?" Mrs. Dores asks when Peter walks into her class, ten minutes late.

"I forgot I had this class next" Peter lies. "I'm sorry, it won't happen again Mrs. Dores."

"It's the fifth day of school" Mrs. Dores states.

"Yeah and I'm still remembering my schedule but I promise it won't happen again" Peter promises.

"You have a warning. Next time, it's a detention" Mrs. Does informs.

Peter nods his head and walks over to his seat while Flash points at him and laughs. Harley looks at him confused but doesn't say anything since Mrs. Dores is going on with her lesson.

Flash had other plans though.

Barely a second after, his spidey senses warns him from an oncoming attack from behind. Ignoring his senses, a paper ball hits him in the back of his head. He turns in his chair to grab it but before he can, Harley swipes it off from the floor.

He opens it up and without saying anything and scribbles something down. Turning back around in his chair, he throws the paper right back at Flash. Since Flash was looking down at his phone, he didn't see the paper ball flying his way.

Smack!

Peter and Harley hold in their laughter after watching the ball hit Flash in the face. It falls down onto his lap while Flash's face turns to anger. Harley sticks up his middle finger before turning around, making Peter do the same.

No more paper balls were thrown around during the period.

 

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"You think you're some hot shit Keener?!" Flash shouts, stepping in front of Peter and Harley, blocking their path from the rest of the hallway.

When the bell rang, Flash was quick to leave. They thought he left because he was embarrassed but nope, it was to stop the two of them from going to lunch.

"Sure" Harley shrugs.

"Well you're not!" Flash pathetically retorts.

"Ok? You're not hot shit either Eugene" Harley rolls his eyes.

"Whatever. We all know why penis was late to class" Flash scoffs, switching over to bully Peter.

"It's disgusting how many times you say the word penis. It's like you want to see his" Harley points out.

"I do not!" Flash shuts down.

"Sure you don't" Harley replies.

"You know Parker here has randomly started showing up or leaving early for who knows what ever since last year. Haven't you heard the rumors Keener? Parker here is either a male escort or he's trying to bribe the teachers to give him good grades cause we all know he's here on a scholarship but he isn't smart enough to maintain it" Flash explains.

"That's the stupidest shit I've ever heard you say and you say a lot of stupid shit" Harley chuckles.

"Those aren't even the rumors and I leave because of my Stark internship. Sometimes there's meetings interns have to go to and I don't make the times" Peter lies.

"Everyone knows you don't have a Stark internship" Flash scoffs.

"You literally told us how you saw me get into the car that takes Peter to his internship" Harley recalls.

"Supposedly! And if it were, then how come you don't go to these meetings?" Flash questions.

"Because he's been interning longer so he's at a higher rank" Harley claims.

"I'm not believing anything you two say. Neither of you have internships. We all know Parker made that up because his uncle got shot in front of him and that's why teachers took pity on him" Flash jabs.

Harley's right hand turns into a fist while his eyes darken like a storm cloud. Peters own eyes goes wide and quickly grabs onto Harley to pull him away.

"Let's just go to lunch, it's going to end soon" Peter cuts in with pleading eyes.

"What? I was just about to sucker punch that hoe!" Harley shouts.

"Let it go, please" Peter pleads while he drags Harley through the hall.

"Peter, you can't let him just talk shit to you" Harley informs.

"It doesn't matter Harley" Peter states.

"Yes it does!" Harley protests.

Peter lets go of Harley and spins around to face him. He sees the anger in Harley's face while Harley sees the hurt on his.

"It doesn't matter, now can we please just drop it?" Peter asks with a desperate tone.

The hallways are empty, everyone either making it to class or lunch. The bell rings and no one's left besides them and the silence.

"Ok" Harley relents with a sigh.

"Thanks" Peter thanks before turning back around and heading off to lunch. Harley follows after him and doesn't say a word.

 

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It's last period of the day and it just had to be gym class. Sure Ned, MJ, and Harley are in his class but he still hates it because he has to deal with Flash and making sure he doesn't accidentally out his own identity.

It's why when he's doing sit ups, he's making sure to go extra slow. He partnered up with Harley while Betty Brant and Ned partnered up together. MJ never participates so she's sitting on the bleachers and somehow, is still passing gym. If anyone else were to do it, they'd be failing. Peter doesn't know how she threatened Coach Wilson but it worked.

"Come on Peter, you're doing this slower than I was and I never had to do this bullshit at Rosehill" Harley points out.

"I just don't work out" Peter claims.

"Me neither" Harley retorts.

Coach Wilson blows his whistle, ending the exercise. Peter lets out a relieved sigh and stands up with Harley.

"I got fifty-eight! Beat that everyone!" Flash brags.

"You got exactly fifteen pushups in the two minutes you had Eugene" MJ calls him out making some people chuckle with laughter.

"No I didn't!" Flash denies while his face is all red with embarrassment.

"Quiet down everyone! We're moving onto dodgeball! You know how it works. Sport players on this side, nerds on that. Get moving!" Coach Wilson blows his whistle, making everyone run to their designated side.

"Flash doesn't play a sport, does he?" Harley questions.

"No but he used to play football. Coach Wilson doesn't care where he goes because he just doesn't care in general" Ned explains.

"I didn't even know this school had any sports teams honestly" Harley exclaims.

"It just isn't popular and the teams are always bad. Sometimes they'll be a good player or two in whatever sport but that doesn't usually happen" Peter shrugs.

"Alight everyone! Get on the lines, no cheating! On my whistle, you go. You all know the rules so don't be babies about it" Coach Wilson interrupts. After a moment of silence, letting his words sink in, he blows the whistle.

Nobody on the nerd side bothers to grab a ball because all of the athletes come crashing in. Balls are getting thrown everywhere making Peters spidey senses keep going off to which he ignores.

"Check this out Parker!" Flash shouts.

Peter turns his way despite his senses screaming at him and gets hit in the eye with the dodgeball. He falls down making Ned help him get up only for him to get knocked down too by a ball to his side. Harley grabs the ball that hit Peter and turns to look at Flash who is distracted, dodging another ball.

"I think you dropped this Eugene!" Harley calls out. Harley throws the ball right as Flash looks, hitting him right in the nose. Flash falls down with a thud while Harley flashes him an evil smile. "Oops."

"Thompson! Nurses office! Don't get blood anywhere!" Coach Wilson shouts.

Flash gets up from the floor and storms out of the gym leaving the trio to laugh. Harley hauls Peter and Ned up from the floor and even though Harley didn't get out, they all walk off anyways to join MJ at the bleachers.

"Finally, someone besides me hits Flash back" MJ comments once the boys sits down at the bleachers.

"Yeah that was awesome!" Ned informs.

"He deserved it" Harley shrugs. "You ok Peter? It seems like your eye is bruising."

"We should go to the nurse and get an ice pack" Ned suggests.

"No, it'll be fine. I'm sure it won't bruise badly, his throws aren't that hard" Peter replies.

"Fine only if we tell Tony that I'm the one who punched you" Harley agrees.

"Dude he's going to kick you out of the tower" Ned laughs.

"Seriously? Geez Parker, are you his secret kid or something?" Harley wonders.

"Definitely not" Peter denies.

"I wouldn't be surprised" Ned chuckles.

"Are you his secret kid?" Peter asks.

"Nope, just found a looter in my garage" Harley recalls.

"Oh my god are you drawing Flash? That's so cool! You did that so fast!" Peter compliments, noticing MJs drawing of Flash on the floor, holding onto his bloody nose and looking stressed and angry.

"You should hang that on his locker" Harley suggests.

"Maybe I should" MJ nods in agreement before turning to Peter, "and thanks."

A blush creeps onto his face making him quickly look away. Harley catches it though and sends Peter a smirk.

 

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Peter and Harley slide into the backseat of one of Tony's cars while Happy watches them through the mirror. He's about to pull away when something catches his eyes.

"Where did you get that black eye?" Happy questions.

"Oh uhh you know...earlier...today" Peter answers.

"Did you give him that?" Happy asks, turning to face Harley.

"What? No! Just because I don't like him doesn't mean I'm going to punch him" Harley exclaims. 

"Flash did" Peter mumbles.

"That kid needs to get expelled" Happy scoffs as he turns back around to face forward.

"It's fine, MJ broke his nose playing dodgeball" Peter sort of lies.

"It's what they say, Karma's a bitch" Happy replies while he pulls away from the school and enter the city traffic.

 

🕷

 

"You're taking up all the air" Peter tells Harley once Happy gets off of the elevator.

They made it to the tower in silence. Happy put the divider up and Harley and Peter decided to give the man a break so they stayed quiet. Even in the elevator, they stayed quiet until Happy left. Now, they just had to act a bit in front of Friday.

"I can hear your breathing from here" Harley argues.

"Your breathing is so loud it sounds like a cannon" Peter compares.

The doors opens up, revealing the lab but Harley continues.

"Oh yeah? Well your breathing sounds like a pugs!" Harley protests.

"Fighting already? You two just got here!" Tony cuts in from where he's working on his repulser.

"Harley started" Peter informs.

"No he did!" Harley claims.

"I don't care who started it. Let's just have a fun and calming lab day" Tony settles when he catches Peter's eye. "Who gave you that?"

"Flash" Peter answers without explaining anything further.

"Did you at least get a good punch in?" Tony wonders.

"You know I didn't. MJ broke his nose in dodgeball" Peter explains.

"I would've loved to see that" Tony replies.

"So what are we doing?" Harley wonders.

"You two can either work on your own projects or I can give you SI projects. I need to continue upgrading my repulsers but it shouldn't take too long, I'm almost done" Tony suggests.

"Are you upgrading it to better fit the nanotechnology?" Peter questions.

"Yeah but I'm also just adding more levels of power and all that" Tony nods. "I'll let you two know when I do the test run so you can watch."

"Sounds good mech" Harley replies before heading over to his workbench.

A couple of minutes passes by with Friday playing the lab playlist when Tony announces that he was done. Peter and Harley stop what they were doing and follows Tony more into the lab. He brings both teens to a safe distance while he goes to the testing area of the lab.

"So you think you figured it out?" Harley wonders.

"Of course I figured it out, I'm Tony Stark" Tony scoffs. "Don't ever doubt me."

"Pepper does a lot of that when it comes to certain things" Peter reminds.

"Oh shush. You want to see this in action or not?" Tony questions.

"Well then what are we all waitin' for? Go show off" Harley gestures.

"Gladly" Tony hums in satisfaction. Turning on his repulsers, Tony starts to lift in the air at a slow pace. "Hmm could work on-AHHHHHH!!"

Before finishing that sentence and cutting into a scream, Tony's repulsers go haywire. He gets shot towards the left before flying backwards and hitting the wall. Both boys are screaming his name as he falls and face plants onto the ground.

"Oh man, oh my god, Mr. Stark are you ok?!" Peter shouts in worry.

"Tony you conscious? Earth to Tony!" Harley calls out.

"His hearts still beating, that's a good sign. Mr. Stark, wake up" Peter instructs while holding onto his arm making Harley think he found his pulse but really, it was his enhanced hearing.

"You think he hit his head hard enough? It seemed like he landed on it" Harley recalls.

"Probably. Mr. Stark, wake up or else I'm going to trash the lab" Peter fakes threatens.

"Yeah come on Tony, we were joking. Peter and I get along great actually! Now we're both going to trash your lab" Harley admits.

"H'rley?" Tony whispers. "P-Peter?"

"Yeah?" Harley replies.

"What is it Mr. Stark? Where are you hurt?" Peter wonders.

"Y-you're...both grounded" Tony states while he moves into a sitting position.

"Careful Mr. Stark! You could've have broken something! Friday get-" Peter scolds.

"Wait...was this a prank to get back on us? How in the hell did you figure it out?!" Harley questions as Tony bursts into fits of laughter.

"That's not funny Mr. Stark, we thought you were seriously hurt!" Peter informs.

"I'm never caring about you again" Harley declares.

"I'm really thinking about trashing the lab" Peter claims before sighing. "Are you sure you're still alright? I mean that was still a bad fall."

"I'm ok kid, don't worry. It was all a part of my revenge to get back at you heathens" Tony smirks. "As for figuring it out, Clint is here and we talked."

"Oh my god you got dad advice from Hawkeye!" This time, it was Peter's turn to laugh with Harley joining in.

"Laugh it all up you two, you're still grounded for this stunt" Tony reprimands.

"Shouldn't you be grounded by your stunt to? Pepper can totally ground you" Harley argues.

"Uhh no, mine was for revenge purposes. You two on the other hand, just wanted me to have heart failure" Tony protests.

"Come on! You put me in Midtown with some of the same classes as Peter and expect us not to know each other before coming here? We all know you were thinking we were either going to be best friends or enemies so we were just picking the latter" Harley points out.

"Which was really evil of you. Since you two are friends though, want to explain that black eye?" Tony wonders, looking over at Peter's face.

"I wasn't lying, it's from dodgeball. Instead of MJ though, Harley threw a dodgeball at Flashs nose and broke it. MJ wasn't participating, she was drawing everyone in crisis as usual" Peter shrugs.

"Nice, good work on breaking that kids nose Harls" Tony high fives while Peter rolls his eyes.

"So we even now?" Harley wonders.

"Oh no, I'm still pissed but...I'm glad you two are friends and worked together against me. I knew you two had it in you" Tony smiles.

"Aww that's cute" Harley teases.

"Shut up" Tony swats him away. "You two are dangerous together. Thor, help me."

"We could build a missile next" Harley offers, face brightening up.

"You're definitely getting kicked out of the tower" Peter mutters.

"I miss the days when my biggest problem was Ultron" Tony sighs.

 

Notes:

The summer was definitely not 104 days. Tomorrow I have to force my introverted anti social self to be an extrovert so I can have friends in college unlike high school. Go me. Yay.