Peter Parker may be a genius that goes to a super expensive genius school for geniuses that he and his aunt can only afford because of a scholarship he got for being a genius but he is really stupid. Usually his stupidity is not on purpose and is caused by inexperience or just a gigantic brain fart. And then other times he's just so stupid you think don't you go to a school for geniuses? The answer to the question of course is a surprising yes. It may be unsurprising when Peter is working in the lab on chemical formulas or robotics no kid his age is able to accomplish. Some people that know his Spiderman secret believe that in addition to awesome muscles, increased metabolism and heightened senses Peter also got stupidity from the spider bite. It's so bad in fact that even Tony Stark and Bruce Banner get whiplash from Peter's two moods.

1. Genius

2. Absolute Idiot™

The point of that really long paragraph was to introduce the reasoning behind a certain event. The story starts in Peter's apartment, the one he shares with his Aunt May when he isn't spending time at Stark Towers. It was late at night on Sunday. May was still at work despite the time while Peter locked himself into his modest bedroom with a large pot of coffee. He needed more caffeine in order to stay awake for long periods of time due to his increased metabolism courtesy of a mean spider. Normally he would either be Spidermanning across the city or in bed due to certain rules created by May Parker and Tony Stark. But tonight Peter had to work double time in order to finish a presentation for his Spanish class.

Thankfully, he had already finished recording the footage needed so all he had left to do was edit. It was kinda difficult to properly edit a video at nearly one in the morning on a Monday but he made it work. Using the skills taught to him by Tony, Ned, and YouTube, Peter had the project finished in less than an hour. That sounds like a lot but he wanted it to be perfect.

And it really was. So at 1:23 a.m., Peter titled his project "A Film by Peter Parker" and hit save before falling asleep almost instantly.

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The next morning was rough. With only 5 hours and 37 minutes of sleep, Peter's daily routine felt a thousand times harder and a thousand times slower. But he managed to shower and brush his teeth and eat breakfast and pack lunch and everything else he needed to accomplish all before Happy came to drive him to school.

Before meeting Tony, Peter would just walk to the subway and hope he didn't miss his train. But then Tony learned about that and decided Happy would drive the teenager to and from school. Peter being Peter had of course declined the offer, making up an excuse about not being a bother so Tony being Tony threatened to ground him if he didn't let someone do something nice for him. so long story short Peter was not grounded and had a reliable ride to school.

Peter's Spanish class was his last period of the day so he had to get through the remainder of his classes with the added anxiety of presenting. By lunch, Peter was getting fairly nervous, maybe a little more than normal. Then came his seventh period class where he had to be excused in order to talk himself out of a panic attack. And then finally it was eighth period and time to present.

The teacher (a particularly crabby woman) drew names out of a hat to play their video. Peter was thankfully not chosen first which kinda helped with his nerves. But while watching the video, Peter began to grow more anxious as he saw what a great job that student had done. He knew that his video was nowhere near as good (despite the fact he had undoubtedly the best project in the class).

Peter was chosen fourth to present. Walking up to the front of the room with his laptop (courtesy of Tony Stark), he could feel his classmates' eyes watching him. He knew he was getting worked up over nothing but it was still nerve-wracking nonetheless. The teenager plugged in his laptop and searched his files for "A Film by Peter Parker". After finding it, he hit play without stopping to check the day it was created.

Instead of hearing himself speaking Spanish in front of a blank wall, Peter instead saw a passing landscape.

"New York. Queens. It's a rough borough but, hey, it's home."

Peter's classmates began whispering as the video continued playing. Peter began frantically trying to stop the video but found it was frozen. In a last attempt to save his dignity, he slammed the laptop shut but for whatever reason the film continued.

"Who are you talking to?" Happy's voice sounded through the speakers.

"No one. Just making a little video of the trip"

"You know you can't show it to anyone"

The video began to skip. Showing Peter on a private jet. Peter in a hotel room in what looked like pajama's as he talked about Germany and Captain America going crazy. Peter freaking out over a Spiderman suit. Peter fighting with Iron Man and against Captain America. Peter in a cAR WITH FREAKING TONY STARK WHO JOKED ABOUT PETER'S REALLY HOT AUNT MAY!

In real life, Peter was blushing furiously and trying to find the projector outlet in order to end his torture. His cranky teacher was shouting at him to stop playing games. Unfortunately for Peter, there were about a thousand cords that looked exactly the same. So he tried his luck and began randomly pulling a few out. The lamp turned off and then a couple fans. Another lamp and then the mini-fridge stopped whirring obnoxiously.

Peter was near tears at this point as he tried to stop the video before it finally ended. He stood up and discreetly wipes away the tears in his eyes. "Soooo...any questions?"

Every student raised their hand. Peter decided to call on a few people, starting with Ned's girlfriend Cindy.

"Why were you in a Spider-man suit fighting the Avengers?"

Peter began to fidget nervously. "Well, you see...as part of my internship I work on Spider-Man's stuff. So I was trying the suit out for him since we're the same height and stuff. That was actually Spider-Man fighting the Avengers though. Not me."

"But we could hear your voice"

The young hero chuckled nervously. "Next question"

Thankfully the teacher interrupted. "There will be no more questions. This will all just a clever ruse to prove his internship. I have had it up to here with your lies. Go to the office Peter. I will be down in a minute to explain the situation to Mrs. Jones"

Peter opened his mouth to speak and try to argue his innocence but was cut off once again with a "Now!"

He quickly picked up his backpack and practically ran down the hallway to avoid his classmates' states.

The entire walk to the office, Peter could only focus on holding back his tears. Walking into the office was another story. The secretary, a nice young man named James that always greeted Peter, looked up to see his favorite student.

"Hey, Peter. What can I do for you?"

Peter looked up with a sad smile. "Actually I need to see Mrs. Jones. I'm kind of in trouble"

That really shocked James. Peter really only came into the office to help out since he was such a good kid. Hearing that the straight A student was in trouble really came as a surprise.

But James didn't press for any explanation and instead buzzed for the principal. Since she was in a meeting, the secretary gestured towards an empty seat for Peter to wait in. James left after a few minutes to run a few errands, leaving Peter alone. The second the door closed, Peter began crying freely. He hated being in trouble and he hated being called a liar.

"Calling Mr. Stark"

Peter's head snapped up at the sound of Karen. Despite going to a school for geniuses Peter had forgotten about the AI built into his watch specially made by Tony. Karen has special programming to call Tony whenever certain things happened like a sensory overload, anxiety attack, nightmare, increased heart rate, crying, and a few other things.

Unfortunately, Peter couldn't stop the call. So all he could do was sit there while Karen contacted the billionaire. Luck was against Peter as Tony actually answered the call.

"Peter?"

"Hey Mr. Sta- I mean Tony. Im fine. Really. I think there's something wrong with Karen. She must've contacted you by accident so we should really check that ou-"

"Peter. Karen says you're crying. Why are you crying? It's okay to tell me."

"Wellll..." Peter hesitated. "It's really nothin-"

"That means that it's definitely not nothing."

"I accidentally played the film I made when I was in Berlin in front of my class and my teacher sent me to the office cuz she thinks I faked the entire thing to make my classmates think I actually have an internship with you"

A pause. Peter waited for Tony's response, praying it wouldn't be anything too bad and/or drastic. After a minute or so, Tony finally said "ok" before hanging up. Peter simply sat there, confused and worried. He didn't have too much time to worry about what was going to happen when James came back with Mrs. Jones.

Peter promptly stood up and followed the principal into her office. Mrs. Jones sat down and gestured for Peter to do the same. The office was silent except for the muffled sound of James typing and shuffling papers. Mrs. Jones and Peter continued to stare at each other in silence. After a a minute, she spoke.

"Your teacher tells me this isn't the first time you've said you have an internship with Stark Industries. Is she correct?"

Peter nodded. "Yes"

Mrs. Jones gave a small smile. "Do you have an internship with Stark Industries?"

Peter nodded again. "Yes"

The smile disappeared from her face. "Mr. Parker, you do know that Stark Industries only hires interns in college, right?"

Peter nodded. "Mrs. Jones, if you could just call Stark Industries and ask about me they'll tell you I have an internship there."

The principal sighed before speaking. "You are a smart kid. You have the highest GPA out of the entire school. Not to mention your ACT and SAT scores were both less than 5 points away from perfect. I know you aren't the most popular kid in school but faking an internship with one of the world's leading technological companies is not the way to gain friends. If word spread about your lie and Stark Industries learned about it, we could be sued."

"With all due respect, Mrs. Jones, you wouldn't be sued"

She laughed condescendingly. "And why not?"

"Because I wouldn't sue my own kid" came a new voice from the doorway.

Peter and Mrs. Jones turned to see Tony Stark standing in the now open doorway. The teenager smiled brightly at seeing his not-dad coming to his rescue. The principal was shell shocked to say the least.

"M-mr. Stark. What an hon-"

Tony waves a hand. "Let's cut the chit chat. I came because my kid was crying and his AI alerted me. Then he told me he was in trouble for lying about an internship. As you can see, he is not lying. Now do we still have a problem?"

Mrs. Jones simply shook her head no.

The billionaire smiled. "Good. Now I'm taking my kid home. Oh! And you'll see to it that Peter won't be in trouble for this, right?"

Mrs. Jones nodded her head. "I'll take care of that immediately"

Tony smiled once again. "Good" he turned to face his not-son "ready to head home?"

Peter smiled up at him and nodded. "Ready"

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