Spidey AU's

Fox And Bird

This is short and chaotic. Peter doesn't have spider-powers. Read it how you want.

Peter was extremely nervous for his lab time that night. Apparently, Mr Stark had got a new recruit for the Avengers, but he didn't know much beyond that as his mentor just started grumbling about birds taking over. Birds caused a pang of loneliness in him, it had been a month since he and Bird had figured out how to control their mutations and lead a normal life. Separate. No longer did he wake up to beating wings and a stranger (but they weren't, really, were they?) yelling at him.

Fox. Whenever he heard it he would look around wildly, not sure whether it was in fear or hope. He remembered their final day together, they had wished each other well and hoped to meet again. They finally transformed back and saw what each other looked like, however they never exchanged names. They both moved on, attempting to get to a new normal. Which for Peter involved getting an internship with Stark after correcting the majority of the questions on the mock entrance tests. That led to taking an actual test where at the end they added real problems they were stuck on. When he solved all of that in under an hour they quickly got him an internship with Stark.

So yeah, that was how he somehow ended up in an elevator preparing for his imminent embarrassment. It didn't matter if the team tried to or not, he would still manage to make a complete fool of himself. He was so distracted thinking about the past, and if it was worthwhile to try to find Bird, or if he let Tony know about his other side, that he didn't notice when the elevator opened. The tension was thick for some reason, and was that shock coming from a faintly familiar scent?

He broke out of his stupor when he heard someone calling his name. "Fox! Fox! Is it really you?"
"Huh, shoulda realised what Tony meant when he said a bird was taking over the team." And with that Peter spring forwards, knocking the newest Avenger off his feet. "Now, now Bird. I thought you were faster than that."
"Well, it has been a month. A very long month." They began to fight, falling back onto their dynamic easily. The rest of the team didn't know that and thought Tony's intern had lost it and attacked the new recruit. They began trying to intervene but the two just moved out of reach and began shifting to their animal forms. Which scared the team more.

"*Insert science stuff*" Peter yelled in fox at Bird.
"Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science? *Insert more science*" Bird screamed right back, in a different language.
They kept this up for a few minutes, the Avengers growing more scared by the second, only to both switchback after Fox pinned Bird down and offer a hand up." You- you were just having a friendly match?" They gaped.
"Anyway... Back to why you're both actually here." Tony clapped his hands, feeling he hadn't had the spotlight enough in the past 5 minutes. "Peter, meet Harley!"
"So, Harley huh?" Peter stared at Bird 'No, Harley' his brain supplied.
"So, Peter huh?" Harley stared right back, neither backing down.
"Touché" Peter relented. Them they seemed to realise there were people in the room that didn't speak every language in the forest.
"So... We can totally explain!" Then they jumped out of the window, shifting so that Harley could catch him. The team just stared, unable to comprehend what had just happened.

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