Stories Focussed On Spider-Man

Mama Bear P2

Info: here's the part 2, as requested! Keep your eyes peeled for a reference I included to Veggie Tales!

"Oh my gosh," Pepper breathed, eyes staring in shock at the sight in front of her. She was cuddled up next to Tony, both of them working on StarkPads while the news played in the background. Several other Avengers were lounging in the living room, doing their own various activities. She perked up as soon as the newscaster mentioned the name of New York's youngest vigilante, Spider-Man. Apparently he had gotten in a fight against the supervillain less than an hour ago. It was bad.

The footage played, showing a shotty, grainy image of the fight that went down. Next to her, Tony mumbled something about how they obviously didn't have a StarkPhone. Pepper could've cared less as to what he said as she watched in horror as Spider-Man was thrown straight through a building. A brick building.

She covered her mouth at just the thought of how much pain that must have caused the fifteen year old. Somewhere in the room, Clint made a comment about how it would leave a mark and Pepper couldn't help but find herself silently agreeing. Yet, somehow, Spider-Man got up. Pepper wasn't sure if it was the camera or the boy on screen, but someone was trembling. She really hoped it wasn't Peter. He shot a web and catapulted himself over the building and back into the fight with the lunatic.

"Hey, Doc Oc!" the teen yelled, successfully getting the supervillain with four mechanical legs - Doc Oc - to turn away from the bank he had decided to be so cliché in robbing. "My preferred type of pest extermination is RAID. I never throw my pests through buildings!"

"I will squash you like a bug!" Doc Oc howled, extending his arms to attack the hero. Spider-Man successfully dodged them for several seconds.

"If I had a quarter for ever time I heard that line, I'd be as rich as, like, Tony Stark!"

Pepper's fiancé chuckled at that line and Pepper found herself relieved that he wasn't too injured to keep up his usual banter.

"Or, y'know, I might be able to actually aford lunch money. Whichever comes first," the vigilante continued. As funny as the line seemed, the CEO of SI made a mental note to make sure it was all just that - a joke. She wouldn't be able to live with herself if the teenage protector of Queens was struggling financially while she was living it up in the tower. Mindlessly, she typed a reminder into her StarkPad to address the issue immediately.

She flinched violently when Oc finally succeeded in landing a hit. One of his, in her opnion, massive arms slammed on top of Spider-Man with enough force to make the pavement crack. She winced in sympathy, wondering how Peter was handling the insane amounts of pain he had to have been dealing with. "I hope he's okay," she mumbled with concern.

Tony shrugged beside her. "I've seen him take worse hits." The woman paled at this. Peter's dealt with worse?

"He's a real trooper, don't know how he does it," Steve added, sounding awfully impressed.

Pepper nodded in agreement. "He's really brave," she admitted after a moment. He was a fifteen year old young man - a kid, really - and he was out fighting battles that even the police couldn't handle with nothing but that thin spandex to protect him from harm, without thinking twice about it. And then, after the fighting was over, he didn't ever seek medical help. Extraordinary.

"Hey, I'm brave two, right Pep?" Tony smirked.

Pepper rolled her eyes and elbowed him playfully. "You wear a suit of armor that shoots missiles from any angle and gives you 360 degree vision when needed. He wears red and blue spandex. You both do great things, but there's a difference in risk." She stood up, noticing that the video had ended and the newscaster had moved onto the topic of water buffalos. "I'm gonna call him and make sure he doesn't need to swing by the med-bay for a patch up." As she left, she missed the glances between the three men she left behind.

"Dude," Clint gasped, "I think you've got competition."

"What?" Tony sputtered.

"She said she accidentally saw his face last week," Steve gossiped, "maybe he's really attractive?"

"Oh my gosh," Tony cried.

"You've gotta step up your game," Clint warned. "That Spider-Man has a lot of natural charm and charisma."

"B-but I'm Tony Stark," Tony countered, "charm and charisma are practically my middle names!"

"Look, I'm sure it's nothing," Steve sighed. "If anything, it'll probably pass."

"You're right," Clint admitted, "we're overreacting and thinking of the worst-case scenario."

"Still," Tony frowned, "a date night couldn't hurt." Needless to say, Tony made went all out taking her to dinner the next evening.

I promise I'm not done yet, I'm just procrastinating finishing my AP Physics summer assignment, as one does, and I felt this was a good place to stop. I love this concept so much, if I don't get it out now and declare the chapter finished, I'm never going to finish my schoolwork!😂