Peter made a full recovery. It took almost another two weeks after his mini coma before he was discharged but he still recovered back to his regular self. Tony refused to let the kid out of his sight so he had May and Peter move into the tower.

Housing arrangements weren't the only change in Peter's daily life. The arc reactor caused some difficulties. For one, he couldn't go through airport security without being tackled. But Tony would never let him fly on a public plane anyway since he had a mini fleet of private jets.

Another problem was the medication. Twice a day, Peter had to take special pills in order to prevent his body from shutting down and rejecting the reactor.

And then there was his leg. Some of the heart problems that caused the use of the reactor also resulted in the amputation of his right leg. That had been a big change in Peter's life but Tony had built him a special leg that allowed him to return to his Spider-Man duties so everything was okay.

All in all, it wasn't too bad. And even if Peter didn't like the reactor he kinda had to keep it. At least until Tony and the other doctors in the house found a fix so that he wouldn't die from shrapnel in his heart.

Probably the hardest change was school. After his three week stay in the hospital, it was decided Peter would be tutored for the remaining five weeks of school instead of returning. This was mostly caused by the doctors and mainly Tony wanting the teenager to have as much recovery time as possible. Being taught at the tower wasn't that bad. For one his teachers (ranging from Dr. Strange, Dr. Banner, Dr. Stark, Dr. Cho, and Dr. Rhodes) were very hands on and worked at his pace which was pretty fast if I'm being honest. Another reason was he got to hang out with his heroes and do stuff he could only dream about doing in college, let alone his sophomore year of high school. And Peter's favorite part was starting school at 9 a.m. instead of 7:30.

But eventually Peter had to return to school. The first day was rough. First he had to be awake before 7 in order to shower, eat breakfast, and drive to school. Upon his arrival at school, stares and whispers followed him around. People gossiping about his disappearance and whatnot. Probably the biggest and worst change was the actual lessons. Considering he had been bored at school before his accident, his return was worse. While at the tower, Peter had managed to finish lessons he would learn in his senior year at college. While at midtown, he was back to electron dot diagrams and Lewis Structures. Needless to say, it was a major downgrade.

After being bit by the spider, Peter had a hard time regulating his body temperature since spiders are in fact cold blooded. If the teenager got too cold, he would essentially begin hibernating. Thankfully that had only happened once which scared Tony almost to death. But because of his body heat problems, Peter usually wore multiple layers in an effort to prevent his deep sleep. What he had forgotten over his long summer was his English teacher enjoyed having the room set at an extremely high temperature.

So after a few minutes in the classroom, Peter began to sweat. So he did the reasonable thing and took off his thick blue sweater with the Midtown emblem on it. The only problem was Peter had forgotten that he was only wearing a thin white t-shirt underneath. Meaning everyone could see a blue glow emitting from his chest.

"Mr. Parker, phones are not permitted in class" the ancient hag named Mrs. Grunion scolded

Peter looked up from his book (Of Human Bondage) and tilted his head in confusion. "Mrs. Grunion, I don't have my phone on me. It's in the pouch on the door" he pointed towards the shoe hanging pouch thing English teachers always have for cell phones.

Mrs. Grunion did not appreciate Peter 'talking back' and made sure to vocalize her thoughts, carefully and clearly enunciating the threat of detention. Peter did not appreciate the teacher thinking he was lying so he stood up, walked over to the door, and grabbed his phone. Being proven wrong really enraged the withered teacher.

"Well then what is the blue glow from your chest?!" she screeched, pointing at the arc reactor visible through his shirt.

Peter looked down to see what the old hag was pointing so rudely at (didn't her parents teach her that pointing is rude?) only to notice his arc reactor was on view for his class to see. He glanced up with a nervous grin on his face, trying desperately to create an excuse. "It's a pacemaker...?" the teenager said in an unconvincing manner. He shook his head in defeat. "I'll see myself to the office."

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Peter may have been an absolute idiot at life, but he was smart enough to give the office a fake phone number. Instead of Aunt May's office number, he gave the secretary Ned's. Thankfully, Ned was on vacation and answered on the third ring with a "what's up, kid?". While the secretary was busy calling Ned, Peter had discreetly texted his best friend to pretend to be his uncle. For whatever reason, the office decided not to check the teenager's file to see that his real uncle had died almost two years ago. But it all worked out in Peter's favor as he was sent home for the remainder of the day and only given one day of detention.

Since he had no ride to get home, Peter changed into his Spider-man suit semi-discreetly in an alley before swinging his way across New York to his apartment in Queens. He had debated on whether or not to visit Tony at Stark Towers but ultimately decided against it since he would have to explain why he wasn't in school.

The teenager reached his apartment in only ten minutes (a new record...not that he was counting) and climbed through the window. Aunt May was at work, Ned was in Cancun, and MJ was still at school so Peter flopped on the couch like a fish out of water to watch some TV. Halfway through season two of Bubble Guppies, the screen changed from mermaids singing about trucks to a news report.

This instantly got Peter's attention. He sat up on the couch and turned up the volume. The banner under the news reporter read "Tony Stark Missing". A chill ran through Peter's body followed by a sense of dread and panic and fear.

"-Stark was last seen leaving Stark Tower at 8:31 earlier this morning with two men whose identities remain unknown. Nearly three hours later, the police were called with a report of his disappearance. The security guards on duty at the time of Stark's vanishing were interviewed and said they 'thought those guys were colleagues of his or somethin'. We have protocols in place for these types of emergencies but he didn't follow any of the codes. If Mr. Stark is in danger, he was supposed to signal to us that he needed help but he didn't.'"

Peter turned off the TV and pulled on his suit again. Before leaving the apartment, he grabbed a pen and notepad before jotting down a quick note for May.

I'm going to find Mr. Stark

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Tony Stark was not having the best day. First, he had forgotten about a super important meeting that would really help with the next part of his plan to mass produce a new project. I won't bore you with the details but it would allow Tony to provide clean renewable energy to all of New York City at a much lower price than normal electricity. So he missed the meeting. So now he has to hope they will give him another chance. Then he got yelled at by Pepper for being an idiot and missing the meeting. And then he got yelled at by his fiancé Steve for not eating or sleeping or taking his medicine. After that he was kidnapped by some people that broke into his lab and threatened to kill Steve and Peter and everyone else he loved if he signaled for help or didn't cooperate. And then when he asked for Pepsi, they said "is coke okay?"

So it had been a pretty bad day.

In all honesty, this situation wasn't as bad as Afghanistan. It was still semi-bad but not full on bad. But Tony knew he would be able to escape hopefully without harm to himself or those he loved.

The kidnappers were pros. That much was clear. Despite the fact they were not wearing masks, they had managed to hide their faces from the security cameras in the tower and disguise their voices when speaking. Essentially throwing off anyone investigating the case. They also knew exactly what they were doing when they brought Tony to their lair. After the billionaire had stepped into the car, they had thrown a mask over his head and tied his hands together before hitting him hard on the head, causing him to lose consciousness. That meant Tony was unconscious for the trip to the secondary location and would be unable to find his way back to New York should he be able to escape.

Which brought on another problem and solution. The kidnappers wanted something from Tony but they hadn't told him what yet. Instead they had beaten the snot out of him until he was too weak to protest when they took out his arc reactor.

Tony tried not to panic. After all, he could survive for up to four hours without the arc reactor. But that also meant he only had four hours to be rescued and he didn't even know if anyone knew he had been kidnapped. In addition to that, his tracking chip had been disabled so whoever was looking for him would have to rely on other resources.

All in all, it wasn't looking good for the home team.

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The first thing Peter did was access Tony's tracking chip. Which failed since it was disabled. After that, he sat down and had a mini freak out about possibly loosing the closest thing he had to a father figure. And then he stood up and found the security footage for Stark Towers.

Peter watched as Tony calmly walked out the door and ignored the protocols of signaling for help. The teenager thought for a second before retracing Tony's steps into a conference room. He turned on the sound, but it looked like the villains had deleted the audio that went along with the video. Thankfully he was an awesome hacker and managed to solve that problem.

The footage began with Tony and two men in a conference room. One of the bad guys was considerably taller than the other and they bore resemblance to Harry and Marv from Home Alone.

"If you try to signal for help, we've got guys that can find Steve and Peter and anyone else you love and take 'em out like that" bad guy #1 snapped his fingers to demonstrate his point.

Tony nodded, clearly worried for his family but trying to show courage.

Bad guy #2 grinned. "What are you waiting for then? A written invitation?"

The trio walked out the door with Tony flanked by his kidnappers. The billionaire began chatting as if they were business partners, easily fabricating a story about considering going into the hotel business. It really was genius how Tony managed to pull off his regular charm and charisma while actively being kidnapped.

The footage ended with the group stepping into a black Jeep. Peter was just able to make out the license plate number and quickly asked FRIDAY to find the owner and possibly trace its whereabouts. Being the super awesome AI she is, FRIDAY also sent the plate number to multiple news and police stations across a tri-City area.

After that, Peter hacked into the surveillance cameras stationed across the city to trace the car's path. It worked until they turned onto a dark street and left NYC. Since there were no cameras located outside of city limits, Peter had to find a new way to find his dad/mentor/billionaire.

Being an avid watcher of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Peter knew he would have to travel to the last known location of the car to search for clues. Which is exactly what he did. He swung across New York in full Spider-man suit, totally not humming the theme song from Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Ok, he totally did.

In only a few short minutes, he arrived at the unlit street where the car had disappeared. There didn't appear to be any other streets to turn off to, so Peter decided to follow the path and see where it led. For the first part, the teenager was able to use the neighboring buildings to swing himself along the road. After a mile or so, the buildings disappeared, leaving Peter to walk the remainder of the way. He would've run considering his mentor/father-figure was in trouble but he was unsure of how long it would take to reach a building. So he conserved his energy.

He continued speed-walking along. The road had turned to dirt a few miles back, leaving dust to kick up and get into Peter's lungs. Still, he powered on, wanting to find Tony as soon as possible.

Little did he know that Tony was still almost tn miles away.

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Tony was trying not to panic. Because panicking leads to anxiety attacks. And anxiety attack's lead to trouble breathing. And he was already struggling with the absence of his arc reactor. Plus he didn't have anyone nearby to talk him down.

So basically panicking lead to a faster death. Or at least it would feel like it.

He was tied to a chair but his captors had left almost twenty minutes ago. Tony had managed to wiggle his left hand out meaning he could at least check the time. It only occurred to him a second or two later that he could now try to escape. He was still weak from his beating and of course not having his arc reactor, but the ropes were fairly loose so it would only take a little bit of effort to release himself.

Despite having just checked the countdown to his inevitable death, Tony found himself feeling bored. As in, 'can someone hurry up and rescue me or at least play some music?' kind of bored. Surprising but considering this wasn't Tony's first time being kidnapped and tortured and left without his arc reactor, it kinda made sense.

But unlike the last time he had had reactor stolen, there was no other one for him to crawl towards. There was no DUM-E nearby to push the present towards him and no Pepper to gift him the present.

And unlike his kidnapping in Afghanistan, there was no Yinsen to help. And unlike the Mandarin situation, there was no boy from Tennessee to help him and definitely no super smart CEO-girlfriend to rescue him. The only person actively searching for Tony was Peter. But Tony didn't know that.

So he powered on and continued wriggling out of his bonds. While his captors had been pros during the kidnapping, they certainly were amateurs when it came to tying ropes. Even in his condition, it only took Tony a few minutes to release himself from the ropes.

The first thing he did was check his watch. After a quick and super easy math problem, Tony deduced that he had just over two hours before he would die. #RIP. But considering how smart and resourceful Tony is, it would probably be more than enough time. Probably.

Now that main problem was getting out of the building and finding a way back to New York City before the lack of an arc reactor killed him.

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Peter was slowly growing tired. The only motivation he had was finding Tony. Since he had a long walk ahead of him, the teenager decided to pass the time creating plans for rescuing his mentor/father-figure.

So far, all he had was Step 1. Find Tony Step 2. Rescue Tony

As you can see, the plan was going great.

It took a lot of thinking and problem solving and critical thinking and basic thinking and just thinking in general, but Peter managed to come up with twenty-six plans in total. A-Z. He was very proud of himself for creating so many different back up plans just in case something unexpected happened or didn't happen. Or if the building was one story or five. Or if the bad guys had guns or knives. Or if the bad guys left their car at the building or not.

Peter did a lot of thinking on the long walk as you can tell.

Even with his advanced speed, Peter had still only managed to walk six miles in an hour. Normally it takes roughly fifteen minutes for a non-genetically-mutated-superhuman human to walk a mile. With the help of the spider bite, Peter could walk the same distance in only ten minutes. Peter tried to do the math to figure out how much time he had left before he reached Tony but had to stop when he realized he had no idea how much distance there still was to cover. The thought of not knowing irritated Peter even more so he quickened his pace, wanting to find Tony as soon as possible.

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Looking around the room, there wasn't much to look at. There was a single door with three locks and a barricade on both sides. On top of that, Tony had no way of knowing how many people were waiting for him on the other side of the door or if there were any at all or if they were bad guys ready to kill him or good guys trying to rescue him. There were a lot of unknown variables with the door so Tony decided to try his other options.

On the opposite side of the room, was a single window five feet off the floor with thick bars covering the glass. There was enough space between the metal poles that Tony would probably be able to squeeze through. That only left the problem of getting up there and breaking the glass. The billionaire began searching around the room for a loose brick in the wall. It took a while, but Tony found one and somehow managed to wriggle it out of its place.

Now that he had a glass breaking weapon thing, all he had to do was climb up to the window, break the glass, and climb through the bars. Tony used the chair to hoist himself up struggling to pull himself onto the window's ledge. With the brick, he punched the glass repeatedly before running it along the edges to remove any shards still remaining. Using what little strength he had left, Tony gripped the bars tightly and lifted himself onto the small ledge before squeezing through the bar's.

Before jumping off, Tony smartly glanced down to see where he would be landing. He was on the second floor apparently and the building was surrounded by dirt. Thankfully, there was a single tree three windows down from him. If Tony could safely shuffle across the outside of the building, he could use the tree to safely lower himself to the ground instead of jumping and hoping to not break any bones.

Tony paused and gathered what little strength and courage he had left before shimmying his way to the tree. It took almost ten minutes, mainly because Tony kept stopping to say 'you can do this' . But eventually he was in front of the tree. There was a small gap between the side of the building and the nearest tree branch, so Tony would have to jump and catch the tree before he fell. Without a second to think about his actions, Tony yeeted himself at the tree, just barely managing to grab the branch. With a small victory 'whoop whoop!' Tony began to climb down. The second he reached the ground, he took off running like a madman.

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