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Stephen groaned softly. He opened his eyes to see he was floating in a sea of crystal needles. He looked forward and saw the thin alien standing in front of him.

"On all the time I have served Thanos..." Spoke the alien. He walked closer to Stephen. "I have never failed him." He was quiet, staring at Stephen. "If I were to reach our rendezvous on Titan with the Time Stone still attached to your vaguely irritating person...there would be judgement."

The needles closed in on Stephen. They began to pierce through his skin. Stephen grunted softly.

"Give me..." The alien spoke. Stephen grunted. "...the stone."

A small shield formed around the Eye of Agamotto as the needles pierced every part of Stephen.

Meanwhile Tony had quiet snuck his way right above them. He watched as his husband was being tortured. He was spooked by a suddenly tap on his shoulder. He turned his hand toward it, ready to blast. It was Levi.

"Wow, you're a seriously loyal piece of outwear, aren't you?" He asked.

Suddenly Peter lowered himself down on a string of web. "Yeah, uh, speaking of loyalty..." Tony turned to see Peter, jumping off the webbing and landing safely on his feet.

He was surprised, mad, confused and worried. "What the..."

"I know what you're gonna say." Peter started talking, trying to explain why he'd disobeyed his dad before Tony went off on him.

"You should not be here." Tony pointed at him.

"I was gonna go home-"

"I don't wanna to hear it." Tony interrupted.

"But it was such a long way down, and I just thought about you on the way..."

"And now I gotta hear it." Tony said, looking angrily at his son.

"...and kinda stuck to the side of the ship. And this suit is ridiculously intuitive by the way."

"God damn it." Tony said under his breath, looking away.

"So, if anything, it's kinda your fault that I'm here." Peter said. Tony turned to him quickly. He regretted that real quick.

"What did you just say?"

Peter stuttered. "I-I-I take that back. And now, I'm here in space."

"Yeah." Tony stepped closer to Peter. "Right where I didn't want you to be." He was inches away from Peter. "This isn't Coney Island. This ain't a field trip. This is a one-way ticket." He was going off on Peter. "You hear me? Don't pretend you thought this through."

"No, I did think this through."

"I know you didn't."

"I did think this through."

"You could not have thought this through."

"You can't be a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man if there's no neighborhood." Peter said. Tony stared at him. "Okay, that really didn't make any sense, but you know what I'm trying to say."

Tony stared past Peter. His breathed in shakily. "Come on. We have a situation." He looked down below at Stephen. Peter followed him. Tony pointed at Stephen. "See him down there? He's in trouble. What's your plan?" He asked. "Go."

Peter looked at Stephen. "Um... okay, okay... uh... okay." He stood up and faced his dad. "Did you ever see this really old movie, Aliens?" Peter asked him.

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"ARGH!" Stephen yelped in pain as the needles kept up their torture. "URGH!"

"Painful, aren't they?" Asked the alien. "They were originally designed for microsurgery, and any one of them..." There was a thud behind the alien. He turned around. Tony was standing right behind him with his hands up, pointing at the alien, ready to blast him. "...could end your friend's life in an instant."

"I gotta tell you, he's really not my friend." Tony spoke. "Saving his life is more of a professional courtesy."

The alien lifted his hands, lifting up two large metal objects. "You save nothing. Your powers are inconsequential compared to mine."

"Yeah, but Peter's seen more movies." Tony spoke. He blasted a hole on the side of the ship. The alien flew out, along with his devices.

The needles got sucked out through the hole too. Stephen yelped, getting sucked out. Levi caught him, but the suction was too strong that Stephen was ripped right out of his grasp. Peter caught his dad with webbing, but was getting sucked out too. He held onto a rod sticking out of the ground of the ship. He groaned as he tried pulling Stephen back into the ship. The rod broke, pulling Peter into the hole on the wall. Four mechanical arms stuck out from the back of Peter's arms, keeping him inside the ship.

"Yes! Wait. What are those?" He asked himself. He pushed himself off the wall with his feet and went back into the ship, taking Stephen with him. Tony sprayed a layer of adhesive on the hole in the wall, sealing it.

"Ugh!" Stephen groaned as he hit the ground hard. Levi floated past Peter.

"Hey Levi, been a while." He said. Levi appeared to be looking at him, then turned back around and went over to Stephen; aiding him. "Cool." Peter said.

Tony's suit retracted itself back into the arc reactor. He walked past Stephen. "We got to turn this ship around."

"Yeah." Tony said. "Now he wants to run. Great plan."

Levi placed himself on Stephen's shoulders.

"I want to protect the stone." Stephen followed Tony.

"And I want you to thank me." Tony said, standing at the front of the ship. "Now, go ahead. I'm listening."

"For what? Nearly blasting me into space?" Stephen asked.

Tony turned to him. "Who just saves your magical ass? Me."

"I seriously don't know how you get your head into that helmet." Stephen sighed.

"Admit it, you should've ducked out when I told you to. I tried to bench you. You refused." Tony walked in circles. Stephen walked slowly toward him.

"Unlike everyone else in your life, I don't work for you." Stephen said.

"And due to that fact, we're now in a flying doughnut millions of miles away from earth with no back up." Tony said.

"I'm back up." Peter said, raising his hand.

"No, you're a stowaway. The adults are talking." Tony hushed him.

"I'm sorry. I'm confused at what happened here. Did you bring him with you?" Stephen asked Tony, pointing back at Peter.

"No, he snuck onto the ship when I told him to go back home and stay there." Tony said. "Now Oliver is all on his own, scared because he doesn't know where his dads or his brother are."

Stephen turned to Peter. "You left Oliver all alone?"

"I didn't mean to. I sensed danger and came. It's what I do. It's what we do." Peter said.

"And he doesn't know if we're ever coming back." Tony said. "I don't even know if we're ever coming back."

Stephen shook his head at Peter and walked over to Tony.

"The ship is self-correcting its course. Thing's on autopilot." Tony said.

"Can we control it?" Stephen asked. "Fly us home?" Stephen walked closer to Tony.

Tony kept walking away. He was dangerously quiet. Peter watched the situation.

"Tony."

"Yeah." Tony suddenly looked at Stephen.

"Can you get us home?" Stephen asked.

"Yeah, I heard you." Tony looked around. "I'm not so sure we should."

"Under no circumstances can we bring the Time Stone to Thanos." Stephen spoke. He was serious. "I don't think you quite understand..."

"What?"

"...what's at stake here."

"No." Tony stepped closer to Stephen. "It's you who doesn't understand..." Tony was extremely close to Stephen. "Thanos has been inside my head for six years. Since he sent an army to New York, and now he's back. And I don't know what to do. So I'm not so sure if it's a better plan to fight him off our turf or his...but you saw what they did, what they can do. At least on his turf, he's not expecting it. So I say we take the fight to him. Doctor." Tony said, making it obvious he was totally serious. "Do you concur?"

Stephen stared at him with a serious face. "All right, Stark. We go to him. But you have to understand...if it comes to saving you or Peter or the Time Stone...I will not hesitate to let either of you die." Tony's facial expression fell shocked and heartbroken. "I can't...because the universe depends on it."

"Nice." Tony looked down. "Good, moral compass." He patted him on the shoulder. "We're straight." He walked past Stephen. The atmosphere grew sad and full of tension.

Stephen stared at him, deciding whether to say something else. He kept his mouth shut.

Tony sighed. "All right, Peter." He walked up to Peter, who was at a loss of words and didn't know what was going on. Tony took his arm and knighted Peter with it. "You're an Avenger now." He said, and walked away from him.

Peter watched his dad walk away. He didn't know what to say or what to do. He just looked ahead of him and puffed his chest out. He felt so proud of himself. He was full of pride and accomplishment. Today was his day.