By some miracle, Peter went three weeks without running into trouble. Fate was smiling upon him!

But all good things must come to an end. Thus, it was a bright Tuesday morning when Peter found himself at gunpoint.

His spidey sense was tingling like mad and Peter subtly hit the floor's panic buttons (one that activated the shielding around the desk and the second, which sent an alert upstairs, could someone please rescue him because he was pretending to be a normal teenage boy).

There was no need to panic. Actually panic was going to be pretty difficult given the fact that the robber seemed to be wearing a horse mask.

"You do realize you look like an out-of-control meme right? Or at least an out of date one. Honestly, should have gone with the shark costume," Peter quipped. "I'm going to have to get a picture of you from the security cameras after this and post it on the internet. I can already see it now, 'Held at gunpoint by a horse meme'. It will be brilliant and I will go down in internet infamy. You know how people love their memes."

"Shut up!" the robber said. "Now hand over all the money you have."

"Hmm, and you also realize that this isn't a store, restaurant or eatery and it isn't like there is a cash register that I can just pop open to hand you the cash," Peter intoned bored. This guy was shaping up to be more and more incompetent than the robbers Peter stopped on the street. Standards had to be slipping.

"Like seriously, I have like ten bucks in my wallet and you came just after all the deliveries had stopped by. You know, if you had come in like an hour earlier, the cash box would have had like $40 bucks, bringing your loot up to do $50 dollars."

"Stop talking!" The robber snapped. He jerked the gun forward, threatening. "I know you got money! This is Stark Industries, you people are practically swimming in money!"

"You know who else has money?" Peter asked. "Banks. Like there are four banks within walking distance from here and you decide to rob SI? Like dude, you need to rethink your priorities and goals. Or maybe that horse mask is making you crazy? Maybe you're becoming a living meme? Robber Horse Meme! You know I always wanted to be famous on the internet. I could set up a blog that covers my days here. It will be epic. All I have to do is blog about the insanity that happens here."

That was a brilliant idea. Sure, this was the first time he was being held up by a criminal, despite Seika's worry that it was going to constantly be happening. But there was enough insanity here, that it would be a bestseller online. Just yesterday someone painted the cafeteria in rainbow colors. Not just the walls, everything from the cups, plates, utensils, tables, chairs, even the napkins were rainbow colors. No one had confessed to the crime yet.

"You need to shut up kid!" The robber snarled. "Or you're going to be full of more holes than cheese!

Well, given that Hawkeye was now hanging upside down from an air vent, taking aim at the robber, the chances of that happening were now slim to none.

'Thud'

And the robber was down! Three, two, one, out!

"Not bad, kid," Clint said called out from the air vent. "You held up better than I thought you would."

"What? That I didn't become a headless chicken screaming the minute the guy pointed a gun at me?" Peter deadpanned back. "Excuse me for not being a proper damsel in distress."

Clint grinned. "I think I'm going to like you," he said. "You're either recklessly stupid or stupidly brave. Either way I think you're gonna fit here better than Tony gives you credit for."

"That doesn't make me feel better!" Peter said. It didn't. It definitely didn't. Aunt May was going to kill him if she ever found out. But that didn't matter because she was never going to find out about this little incident (or that it was supposed to happen more frequently than normal.)

Why exactly did he accept this job again?

A short chapter, but hopefully I did Peter's first criminal attack justice. Another story is coming up for this verse. Just another crossover I wanted to write. It happens concurrently to How to Trap a Spider (I think, it might wrap up first before this one finishes like a side story). Ah we'll see. :P Anyways as a smaller teaser here's the summary:

It was well known that Tony Stark had no impulse control. So he wasn't quite sure why Pepper was so surprised that he returned from San Fransokyo with two genius brothers and their personal healthcare robot.