Hey everyone! I'm not dead! I'm so sorry this chapter took so long but my cousin just had a baby and we were all celebrating and my family was dragging me here and there. It was all on Zoom calls so don't worry social distancing and stuff. There was also so mush work this week and I'm preparing for my AP exams so I'm just swamped. But that doesn't matter anymore, so here is Chapter 14!

Peter was seen running down the hall as fast as he could while stripping away pieces of his dress suit. He ran to the set of lockers that he hid his old gear under and grabbed everything before running off again. Peter was then seen running out a side door wearing his old suit and goggles. He looked around trying to figure out which way to go when the 'Shocker' came out of nowhere and punched him across the parking lot causing him to lose his web-shooters.

"Shit!" Sam cried as everyone else flinched in surprise and worry.

Tony began to bite his fingers hard enough to draw blood as he watched the screen in fear.

Peter looked up to see the "Shocker' slowly walking up to him. "He gave you a choice. You chose wrong." He looked down at Peter and laughed a little. "What's with the crappy costume?" He asked mockingly.

"Piece of shit." Wanda growled in anger and fear for what comes next.

Peter looked over at his web-shooters on the ground and ran for them but the 'Shocker' was a little ahead of him and used his gauntlet to punch the side of the bus causing it to flip around and smash into Peter sending him flying into another bus denting it several inches.

"Holy fuck!" Rocket yelled.

"A hit like that would have killed me instantly." Steve said in a weak voice.

"Dammit!" Natasha groaned in frustration.

The 'Shocker' looked at the gauntlet in awe as he stated, "I wasn't sure about this thing at first, but damn." He smiled and smashed the gauntlet as hard as he could against Peter, sending him flying again through the back of one of the buses flattening most of the seats. Peter groaned in pain before looking up and catching sight of the gum under the bus seat. "Gross." Peter whined.

"That is disgusting!" Shuri yelled. This is what school is like? She was fixing this.

"Millennials." Fury muttered while everyone else in the room had looks of distaste.

The 'Shocker' then punched under the bus causing it to flip several times while Peter was thrown around inside of it. The bus landed upside down and Peter fell out of the back as the 'Shocker' advanced on him. "Why did he send you here?" Peter asked as he tried to get to his feet. "Guess you'll never know." 'Shocker said as he raised his gauntlet for the final blow.

"No, no, no!" Tony yelled as everyone held their breath, even Fury.

But then one of Peter webs came from off screen causing both Peter and the 'Shocker' to look over. In all of his hat glory was Ned holding Peter's web-shooter with a determined look on his face.

"Yeah! Go friends!" Scott cheered as he remembered how his fellow ex-cons had helped him in a tight spot.

"Never thought I would be glad to see him." Bucky said as he looked at the screen with fondness as the rest of the room cheered and felt some of the tension from before release.

"Nice shoot!" Peter yelled at his friend before taking down the 'Shocker' in less than five seconds. "Yes!" Peter cheered. Peter ran up to Ned and explained that the guy they were looking for was Liz's dad to Ned's shock. Peter said he had to warn Tony and told Ned to call Happy and get to a computer to track his phone. Ned asked if Peter would be okay but Peter said they needed to stop Toomes before he left town and swung away. The scene changed to the back of Toomes's car to see Peter's cracked phone hidden under the seat.

"Nice move kid." Clint said with a glint in his eye. But he was worried about how this would go.

"Tony was too considering he never admits when someone else other than him is right. Considering how he left Peter to the wolves he wouldn't help at all in the coming fight, and he hated that fact.

"Here we go." Quill said as he shared a look with Gamora, who nodded to him and faced the screen once more.

The scene changed to Flash with his date in the car looking like she would rather throw herself off a cliff than be near him as he was apologizing (not) about how he ruined her night.

"I hate that guy." Drax boasted as everyone nodded their heads in agreement.

"That poor girl." Hope muttered.

But then out of nowhere Peter dropped down on the hood of Flash's car and deepened his voice telling Flash he needed his car and phone. Flash began to stammer as he explained that this was his dad's car but the scene smash-cut to Peter driving away and accidentally smashing into more than a few garbage cans. To Flash's horror.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Scott laughed as he fell to the floor followed by Clint, Quill, Shuri, Sam, Groot, and Rocket as they saw what took place. Everyone else managed to stay in their seats but were still laughing at Flash's face.

"That weasel got what was coming to him." Thor said with happiness.

"Mantis smiled as she felt that everyone was really happy and smirked at the screen and even Fury cracked a small smile.

It took a few minutes for everyone to calm down completely and get back to their seats. Shuri was still laughing and T'Challa chuckled a little in fondness at the boy on screen. He remembered when he was like that, still is if you look hard enough.

Peter was driving really badly as he held the steering wheel in one hand and Flash's phone with the other. Peter asked if Ned was there and the screen showed Ned in the school's computer lab with a headset wired to act as a makeshift com device.

"Impressive." Fury said, with a small nod of his head. Shuri thought the same thing and maybe thought she would get a few friends out of this.

Peter told Ned to track his phone and Ned told him that Toomes just passed the GameStop on Jackson Avenue. Peter turned the car in the right direction and asked where the headlights were because he was in Flash's car. Ned said he would pull up the car manual as Peter put him on speaker. Ned paused for a second before asking, "You stole Flash's car. Awesome." Peter agreed before he had to violently swerve out of the way of several cars. Ned asked if Peter was okay and Peter admitted that he had never driven before, only with his Aunt in parking lots and that this was a huge step up.

"I'll teach him to drive." Tony promised.

"Oh really? I'll teach him how to fly the Quinjet." Natasha said to Tony.

"Please, you can do that, but I'm teaching him how to fly the Wakanda Aircrafts." Shuri boasted to her brother's shock and confusion. He opened his mouth to refuse but Shuri gave him puppy eyes and he groaned in acceptance.

"Nice try, we'll teach him how to fly real spaceships." Rocket called out as the Guardians celebrated.

"All is well and good, but I will teach him how to fly on mythical creatures." Thor proudly proclaimed.

"Or a giant ant!" Scott said with excitement. Hope rolled her eyes as they got strange looks from everyone else. She waved them away with a fond shack of her head.

Peter asked if Ned got through to Happy yet and Ned said he did as he bypassed the backdoor security to Happy's phone. Ned happily spun around as he took in his moment as 'Guy in the Chair'. Toomes was then shown leaving his car and walking toward the warehouse to suit up.

"Fuck." Tony snarled.

The rest of the room tensed and Rhodey put a hand on Tony's shoulder to tell him that he was there for him as they all watched with bated breath.

Happy's voice was then heard saying how take-off was in 9 minutes. Happy then started to ask who was calling. Ned startled slightly as he pulled up Happy's face and introduced himself. Happy was confused so he clarified that he was a friend of Peter's and he had something very important to tell him but Happy looked angry and said, "You gotta be shitting me." Before he hung up. Ned closed his eyes and muttered, "Damn."

Everyone in the room was sending the Happy on screen death threats with their eyes.

"I'm going to kill him." Natasha said with a tone of voice that had a terrifying harmonious fury that caused everyone in the room to flinch just a little.

Tony felt the same way as he watched how rude Happy acted because he thought that just because they were kids they didn't know what they were doing. Is this how Peter feels all the time? He asked in his head. He dropped his head into his hands as he thought about all of the bad positions he can move Happy to instead of what he's been doing with the kid.

"Peter and Ned are at least a thousand times smarter than him." Shuri sneered at the screen. T'Challa nodded as he watched how Happy treated others that he thought were below him.

Peter asked about the headlights and Ned shifted screens and told Peter how to turn them on. Peter managed to get them to work and asked Ned about his phone. Ned changed screens again and told Peter that he stopped in an old industrial park in Brooklyn.

"Brooklyn." Steve muttered.

"At least now we have an area to search." Vision said.

"Yes, yes we do." Fury agreed.

Peter said that made no sense because Toomes said he was leaving town. Ned agreed and told Peter he reached Happy and said that he didn't think Happy liked Peter and said he thought that he was catching a flight and that he was taking off in 9 minutes. Peter asked for more information and Ned said that Happy was surrounded by boxes. "Boxes? It's moving day. It's moving day. He's gonna rob that plane. I gotta stop him!" Peter yelled out in horrified realization.

"Moving day!" Rhodey yelled.

"Fuck! Everything is going on that plane! Chitauri weapons from when S.H.I.E.L.D fell, my armor, Avenger equipment, my arc reactors, everything!" Tony yelled as he thought back on the plans he only listened vaguely to.

The rest of the room looked on in horror as they listened to what Toomes's was going to do. If they lost that plane whatever is left of the Avengers will come crumbling down.

"If Toomes's even gets one of those boxes," Fury growled, unable to finish that thought.

The Avengers, everyone rogue or not, didn't want to think about what would happen if Toomes got his hands on Avenger technology with alien tech as well.

"This is bad. This is really, really bad." Shuri said as she remembered the agreement to give a little vibranium to Stark to get him to stop nagging them.

Happy was shown on screen again as he went through the manifest for the plane. "All right, wheels up in eight minutes. We just got to load Tony's old Hulkbuster Armor, prototype for Cap's new shield, and the Meging- The Meg- The- Thor's magic belt." Happy called out.

"He means Megingjord." Thor growled, insulted by the mispronunciation.

"I'm not even going to try to pronounce that." Sam said.

Tony gnawed on his hand, wanting nothing more than to bitch slap Happy into next year for how inattentive he was, and how he treated other people. But mostly wanted to slap himself for how he let things get to this point. God I'm so bad at this. He thought to himself.

Ned told Peter he was close and he needed to slow down. Ned then told Peter he needed to turn right but Peter overshot the turn so he shot out a web causing Flash's car to flip on its side a skid for a few dozen yards before coming to a stop. The car fell back on its wheels to show the entire right side of the car was destroyed, and Peter let out a breath of relief. Ned asked if Peter was okay and Peter said he was fine and told Ned to keep trying to get through to Happy as he jumped out of the car and started to make his way into the warehouse.

"Happy is useless here." Wanda muttered. While she didn't hate Happy she never did have a high opinion of him, but now, Happy didn't seem to care. That is what really set her off.

Tony wanted to disagree, he wanted to stand up and say that Happy was a good person who was a loyal friend, and yes all of those things were true about him, but he couldn't, because he knew Wanda was right. One glance at Rhodey and he knew he felt the same way.

Ned said how it was an honor to help him and hung up to try and contact Happy again but the lights turned on suddenly. Ned spun around and saw one of the teachers at the school standing in the doorway with her arms crossed. "What are you doing here? There's a dance." She asked. Ned looked shell shocked as he scrambled to find an excuse. "I'm… looking… at porn." He finally said while giving the teacher a pleading look.

The whole room was silent for about 3 seconds before utter chaos erupted throughout. Every single person was laughing so hard that they forgot that they needed to breathe.

Almost everyone fell out of their seats and were rolling around on the floor. It took roughly 15 minutes for people to even begin to calm down. When they did Shuri was the first to voice the thought on everyone's mind.

"That was officially the greatest excuse of all time." She said with tears in her eyes from laughing so hard. She had to break several times before finishing the sentence because she began to laugh again.

Everyone took a few more minutes to calm down before looking at the screen again, instantly the mood turned foul as they remembered what Peter was up against, alone.

Peter hung by a web as he made his way down into the warehouse slowly. He dropped to the ground and saw the Vulture wings that Toomes wore still in their place. He turned down the hallway into the main room where all of the equipment Toomes's crew had was gone.

"Dammit! Smart." Natasha growled.

The Avengers looked uneasy. All of the evidence was gone except for the wings.

"Hey! Surprised?" Peter called out to Toomes. Toomes looked over his shoulder unconcerned but with a small genuine smile on his face and nodded to himself as if he was impressed. "Oh, hey, Pete. I didn't hear you come in." As he finished fiddling with something. "It's over. I've got you." Toomes gave Peter a look that was full of respect.

"Nothing is ever that easy." Banner muttered. Everyone held their breath as they watched the exchange.

Toomes smiled before going into another monologue of sorts. "You know, I gotta tell you, Pete, I really, really admire your grit. I see why Liz likes you. I do. When you first came to the house, I wasn't sure. I thought, "Really?" But I get it now." He said with a small nod of his head. "How could you do this to her?" Peter asked angrily. Toomes gave Peter a look of pity as he began to explain. "I'm not doing anything to her, Pete. I'm doing this for her." He said with a pleading tone, willing Peter to understand why. "Yeah." Peter said sarcastically before webbing Toomes's hand to the table causing Toomes to sigh. "Peter, you're young. You don't understand how the world works." He explained. That seemed to anger Peter the most, "But I understand that selling weapons to criminals is wrong!" Peter yelled. That seemed to be the final straw for Toomes as he nearly exploded in rage but managed to keep his voice soft to truly drive his point home. "How do you think your buddy Stark paid for that tower? Or any of his little toys? Those people, Pete, those people up there, the rich and the powerful, they do whatever they want. Guys like us, like you and me, they don't care about us. We build their roads, and we fight all their wars, and everything, but they don't care about us. We have to pick up after them. We have to eat their table scraps. That's how it is. I know you know what I'm talking about, Peter."

The Avenger listened to Toomes's speech in silence. Because even after everything that they thought they had done for the world they did in fact create some of their worst villains. Tony created Whiplash and Hammer, the Manderain, didn't bother to find out where his weapons were going, and decided that plugging unknown alien technology into a computer to try and learn what they were not ready to understand which created Ultron with the help of Wanda. S.H.I.E.L.D let Hydra grow. Thor let Loki lose himself to rage and feel like an outcast, Hope let Darren Cross rise to power and become the Yellowjacket, Gamora helped Thanos and Ronan in their conquests, and so many more.

Never once had any of the Avengers bother with helping the little guy, which is where the real power was. There were hundreds of murders and sexual assaults in New York and they did nothing. They never helped any of those people who were homeless when they had the money. They preached about how they only save the world, but they let it rot to shit while they deemed 'petty crimes' beneath them.

Peter was the only one, besides Wanda, who really understood what it was like to be a victim in that way. And that made them the best among them.

Peter listened and he did understand, he knew what it was like to feel unwanted, how he was beaten down by his own hero because he thought he knew better because he had a better suit. But he couldn't let Toomes win, because Peter knew that even though the Avengers weren't perfect, they were the best the world had. In this moment Peter knew he should have helped Captain America, because even though Iron Man was his hero, he lost that moral debate. But something didn't seem right, "Why are you telling me this?" Peter asked in a strained voice which clearly told Toomes he understood. Toomes flashed a look of regret at Peter sending the message that he was sorry for everything he did to him, and everything that had happened to him, before he steeled his expression. "Because I want you to understand. And, I needed a little time to get her airborne." He finished.

Everyone's eyes widened in realization as they could only stare in complete helplessness.

The Vulture wings smashed through the wall behind Peter and he jumped over it with a back-flip as the wings charged him again and again and again. Peter kept dodging each time having his sixth sense to help him. Toomes watched as had used a knife to cut through the webbing. "I'm sorry, Peter." Toomes called out and with a brief glance at his face, he truly meant it. Peter pointed out that the wings haven't even touched him. Toomes nodded in agreement but gave Peter a sad smile, "True. Then again, it wasn't really trying to." Peter's eyes widened and followed the wings path as they took out all of the support beams holding the warehouse up. Peter narrowed his eyes at Toomes and charged at him, but was too late as the entire building fell on top of his head, crushing him under ten tons of metal and concrete.

"NOOO!" Tony screamed. He had tears running down his face as it twisted into one showing true inner pain.

Wanda had tears in her eyes as well and put her hands up to her mouth like she did when she saw the bomb impact the side of the building days before the 'Civil War'.

Natasha ran from her seat and emptied her stomach's contents in the corner of the room and Clint ran to help her even though he looked like he wanted to join her.

Steve, Bucky, Sam, T'Challa, Shuri, and the Guardians were all shaking with rage as they could only watch.

Fury, Vision, and Thor looked away, unable to watch what happened to him.

Mantis was crying and Banner, Banner looked like he was going to kill Toomes himself, he remembered his threat to Wanda when they were building Vision. I could choke the life out of you and not change a shade. Only this time it was directed at Toomes.

Toomes cast a regretful look at the pile of rubble as it caved in on itself and sunk into the ground. He adjusted his jacket as his wings came up behind him and attached to his back. Toomes turned around, putting the act behind him as he looked at the plane on top of Stark Tower.

I know there was a little bashing in there for not just Tony but everyone, mostly. Not that much bashing so don't worry. Like I said before people tend to overlook a lot of things, myself included but hey. It happens. I also know that this story is far from perfect but I'm happy that so many of you like it. Thank you for reading! The next chapter, I really don't know but I will update withing the month so see you all next time!