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At least once a month, the Avengers & co. got together for 'team bonding' as dubbed by Steve. Sometimes it was movie night or the group would make dinner together or something of that nature. It usually ended in fights both physical and verbal with the occasional tears.

All in all it was very fun.

For this month's team bonding night, they were doing game night. Tony had been in charge of buying games and had almost succeeded in buying Hasbro Gaming before he was caught by his husband, Steve. With the addition of Stephen and Nat to babysit, Tony made the sensible decision to only buy a few games. And by that we all know it was more than a few.

This would also be Peter's first team bonding experience. He had been a part of the team long enough that he could have been invited to others but always had something else pop up. But this time the arachnid would be attending. If he was lucky, he would be able to escape without any traumatizing experience. Steve still had flashbacks whenever he saw flamingos and Wanda couldn't look at apples without crying.

But that's another story for another time.

This particular story starts off in Stark Tower at 6:00 pm on Friday night. Tony with a little help from his husband had already prepared dinner and laid out the games for afterwards. The group of heroes slowly began to arrive.

Once the majority of the gang was there (the OG 6, Peter, Stephen, Wanda, and Mantis), they sat down to a three course meal of chicken noodle soup (with Finding Dory shapes), dinosaur chicken nuggets with Kraft mac and cheese, and chocolate Snack Pack pudding. Everyone was given the choice of apple juice or chocolate milk (to which Tony replied with 'Can my apple juice be fermented?'). Despite their ages and jobs, the heroes were amused and delighted at their dinner.

After a quick cleanup, they split into groups. Bruce, Thor, Peter, Tony, and Stephen were on Team Kick Names leaving Mantis, Nat, Clint, Steve, and Wanda on Team Take Ass. Tony was disappointed that he didn't get to be on the team with a cuss word in the name but quickly let it go after Steve whispered something in his ear.

The teams walked over towards the couches where the board games had been set up. As they transitioned from the kitchen to the living area, Tony wrapped his arm around Peter's shoulder and whispered "if we loose, you're out of the will" before calmly walking towards his husband. Poor Peter was left dumbfounded and simply shouted "I was in the will?" Unfortunately for the youngest member he received no response.

The first game that played was Sorry. It wasn't really a team game per se but Tony made up some point system that definitely made no sense in order to appease the opposing team. The game began and it started off pretty well.

Until Tony sorry-ed Peter. The teenager simply stared at him before saying as saltily as possible "what the fuck, Antony?"

Half the team burst into laughter while the other half screamed "LANGUAGE!" to mock Steve. Tony sat there dumbfounded, trying to decide whether to laugh, cry, or scold his not- actual- kid for cussing. In the end he did a combination of the first two, laughing so hard he began to cry.

The game continued with Mantis winning after completely dominating. Bruce had been one little thingy (whatever those game pieces are called) away from winning when Mantis sorry-ed him. The scientist dropped to his knees as dramatically as possible and screamed "Noooooooooooooo!"

Tony pretended to console him, patting his back comfortingly. "There, there you poor thing"

"Don't bring my financial situation into this" Bruce retorted, dead serious.

Peter burst out laughing as he placed a point under Team Take Ass. "Mood!"

Everyone else in the room looked so confused but they decided to ignore it. At this point, they were used to Peter's antics and Gen Z humor and twitter lingo.

Sorry, they decided, was not the best game to play with such highly competitive superheroes that were not above petty fist fights over a child's board game. Instead, they decided on a less competitive game that surely wouldn't end in tears. Oh how they were wrong.

It was at this moment when the next game was being pulled out from under the cabinet that Pepper Potts walked in. As in kick-ass CEO Pepper Potts that knew how to run a business and probably sue you for even looking at her the wrong way because she's just that awesome.

The new game chosen was Monopoly.

Which, might I add, is an awful choice when you have kick ass CEO Pepper Potts playing. Let's just say it didn't end well. While Pepper casually filed her nails on the couch with a barely visible smirk, Clint walked out after saying "there are no friends in Monopoly; only war and tears". Tony was crying into a sadly non-alcoholic capri sun with Steve curled in a ball under the coffee table and Nat muttering in Russian. Mantis was so overwhelmed by the strong feelings that she had to leave the room while Wanda continuously ran over her strategy, desperately searching for where she went wrong. Stephen left presumably for the Sanctum but threatened to call the police if anyone tried to call or follow him and Bruce locked himself in his lab. Peter helped Thor tip a coach before hiding underneath the now overturned piece of furniture. Thor, on the other hand ran into the kitchen to stress eat the entire supply of pop tarts.

All of this because Pepper had placed double hotels on both Boardwalk and Parkplace within three rounds and owned over half the board.

But that's what you get when you play Monopoly with a world renowned CEO.

After Tony managed to stop bawling into his drink, he began a successful argument that since Pepper was his CEO, his team got the point. Thus tying both teams with one point each.

Following the disaster of a game of Monopoly, UNO was pulled out next. Just because they save the world and New York City on a weekly basis doesn't mean they're smart. Pepper is smart though so she left before any further damage could be done.

Peter started by placing a red reverse card on the pile and casually mentioning the meme about reverse cards. This prompted Tony Stark drunk on tears and capri suns to say in a wise voice "the reason the UNO reverse card can deflect any attack is because the letters backwards is NO U." He had a proud smile on his face before it quickly fell into one of fear. "I shouldn't have said that" Tony whispered "the Illuminati is after me now"

"Mr. Stark" Peter looked up in pure admiration, "you are so brave an-"

Steve interrupted "Tony, you need to sleep. It's been two days"

Of course, Tony ignored him. After that delightful insight, the game continued on as normal as it could possibly be with superheroes involved.

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"You're a cheating piece of shit!" Steve screamed

Tony retaliated with "You're just a pathetic liar who thinks he can get away with anything. WELL guess what? I'm taking Peter and the rest of the team and we're LEAVING!"

Peter stood up from the coach to move between his not-actual- parents and say "okay, I think we're done with UNO"

Steve's head whipped to face Peter with a deranged look in his eyes. "We're not done! I have to get him back! He gave me three- THREE! Draw four cards at the same time. That's twelve cards, Peter. Twelve"

Clint spoke up. "Peter, maybe you should stop"

The teenager shouted "I'm just trying my bestpacito!"

The entire group turned to face him with a look of pure confusion and disappointment.

"Hand over the suit"

"What the hell, Anthony?!"

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Next came Candy Land, which Peter won. Tony got a point for his team during Chutes and Ladders with Nat claiming victory in Life. In the end, Team Kick Names won with twelve points.

"I demand a recount!"

"Clint," Nat stared at him like he was stupid. Which he was. "This isn't like an election. You don't do recounts here."

The archer stared at her for a second before shrugging. "Whatever"

Tony looked down at Peter with a look of fatherly love. He rested an arm on his shoulder before saying "you did good, kid. You did good."

Peter couldn't look happier. "Does this mean I'm back in the will? Can I keep the suit?"