The group all entered the conference room and gazed around in awe at the large room and floor to ceiling windows that viewed out across the New York rooftops. At the front of the room, the Avengers watched the group of teenagers who finally seemed to notice their presence.

A few squeals were heard and the murmurs increased as the students faced the Avengers before them, staring down from their raised, almost stage-like area. Tony seemed smug as the teenagers watched them in admiration, revelling in the attention as always.

The entire group of heroes turned their heads towards the door as the youngest member of their group of miscreants entered the room looking tense. Tony gave him a big smile which he timidly returned before joining his boyfriend on one of the chairs towards the back.

Every single Avenger turned their glare on the final boy to enter as he proceeded with an aura of self-importance surrounding him, despite the purple shiner that decorated his cheek, courtesy of one Harley Keener.

The Avengers seemed a bit taken aback by his dishevelled state, but one glance at the smug smirk the Tennessee boy was sporting, and their questions were answered fairly quickly. Wanda, who had shown up late, arrived through the back door and ruffled Peter's hair before heading up to join the rest of the avengers. They all seemed to be scanning the group that had taken their places on the chairs laid out for them.

Once everybody had settled down, the group turned their attention the one and only Tony Stark who had stepped up to the podium. "Hey there everyone," The man started "As I'd hope you're all aware, my name is Tony Stark, owner of Stark Industries and Iron man. Behind me is the rest of the Avengers. Your tour group has been selected for an exclusive Avengers Q&A, so feel free to ask us any questions you want, though, do try to keep them respectful and bear in mind that we do not have to answer them if we don't want to."

The group nodded and within moments, almost every hand in the room shot into the air. The first few questions were regular enough, Cindy asking about how much each of the Avengers trained weekly and Abraham asking Tony about his first robot, Dum-E.

Betty decided to ask Natasha who can lift the most weight. Peter almost groaned at the question, knowing what was about to happen. Natasha shot him a smirk before answering, "Well, Steve and Bucky can both lift a lot, Bucky beating Steve out a little bit, but Spiderman can out-lift both of them, no question."

This was met with whispers and loud protests from Captain America and The Winter Soldier, but they quickly shut up at the glare they receive from the redhead. Sally seemed to be the only one confident enough to question the whereabouts of said spider, but the Avengers merely shrugged it off, claiming he was busy.

By then, people seem to finally be comfortable enough to ask about Peter. While he knew it was coming, Peter still wasn't happy about it. "So, um, how do some of you guys know Peter?" Tony cleared it up pretty quickly, however. "Peter's my personal intern, he's over a lot and everyone around here loves him, he's part of the family." He says with a smile towards the blushing boy in the back row.

Some of the students 'awe' as Peter buried his face in his chuckling boyfriend's neck to hide his embarrassment. The group chuckled at Peter before continuing with the questions. Having ignored him for basically the whole time, Tony decided to bite the bullet and call on Flash to see what he had to ask.

Flash smirked when he was finally picked. Peter was surprised but relieved when he merely asked about ages for internships. "College-age is when we allow interns into Stark industries, good question," Tony answered reluctantly. However, Flash was not done.

"So how the hell did Emma get a job here then?"

Tony turned to face the boy and if looks could kill, Flash would be 6 feet under, courtesy of Tony, Natasha, Bucky, Loki, and Harley. The rest of the avengers looked on, confused. They were aware that the boy had said something to cause the tension in the room to skyrocket but couldn't figure out what.

Clint, Wanda and Shuri put two and two together pretty quickly when they saw the reaction of their teammates and Peter stiffen at the words. They looked disgusted with Flash's low blow, virtually outing the poor boy to the entire room. The class seemed shocked that Flash would say something like that about Peter to the avengers, who were clearly protective of their fellow classmate.

Thor, Steve, Sam, and the few Avengers left, remained confused but fuming, understanding that this boy had said something to upset the spiderling. They were aware that this was the boy who had been tormenting Peter and that alone was enough to get them angry.

"What did you just say?" Loki asked the boy menacingly. Flash finally seemed to realise his monumental error as the God of Mischief appeared before him suddenly, holding a blade to his throat. The blade was curved, made specifically or it to be almost impossible to heal a wound inflicted by it. Nobody dead-named the one human he cared for.

At his brother's obvious anger, lightning began to crackle around the God of Thunder as his anger overcame him. Tony started angrily ranting about absolutely destroying Flash's life and ensuring he'd never get into university or get a proper job.

Bucky stepped forward and grabbed Flash by the collar, dragging the boy from the room and away from a glaring Loki. Wanda turned to look at Peter, realising how awful he must be feeling only to find him curled up in his boyfriends lap sobbing.

Petr hadn't wanted the Avengers to know about his past self and had misinterpreted the Avengers disgusted looks at Flash for disgust about him being Trans. Harley had him in his lap and was holding the hysterical boy close, attempting to calm him down and reassure him, but nothing seemed to be working. Wanda had had enough and started heading towards the boys, almost flinching at the wave of grief and sadness that hit her, coming from the young spiderling. Natasha was hot on her heels.

Before the women could arrive, they saw Peter's teacher arrive at the boys' side. "Peter, look what your lies have done now, you've been antagonising poor Mr Thompson all day, your friend here beat him up and now he's been taken from the room! What do you have to say for yourself?" She questioned the boy angrily.

Peter had started to shake midway through the woman's rant and Harley was glaring angrily at her. Thankfully, the two women had heard the entire thing and were more than willing to rip this woman in half.

"What do you think you're doing?" Natasha shoved the woman away from her ребенок паук and shoved the teacher against the wall as she glared at her. The teacher was taken aback but merely stuck her nose up at the glaring redhead. "His, boyfriend," She said the word with disgust, which only angered Natasha more, "Beat up one of my best students and Peter has been antagonising poor Flash all day and it needs to be put to a stop." She declared haughtily. "I'm sure his father will be pressing charges," Natasha smirked at this, knowing that he could do nothing against Tony. "Shut up and get out." Was all Natasha responded with before she turned to join Wanda in calming Peter down.

Shuri appeared from nowhere, dragging the protesting teacher from the room with ease. Eventually, Wanda pulled Peter and Harley from the room, leaving the rest of the avengers to question his classmates.

Betty hesitantly began to explain to the fuming Avengers about Flash's actions towards Peter. She brought up him belittling him regularly and the beatings he received daily. As Tony started to shake with anger, Cap motioned for her to continue but she seemed reluctant. So, with a sigh, Cindy took over. "He also had the habit of calling Peter names, like Penis and a few more. Some of them we didn't really get but they seemed to hit the hardest, like when he called Peter Emma earlier he does that a lot."

Tony stormed out of the room in a rage, followed quickly by T'Challa and Rhodey. Sam sighed and gestures for the class to stand up, smiling sadly at MJ and Ned when they made eye contact. He directed the group out of the conference room and led them into another room with a few security guards and Anna, with instructions to keep them all there.

This was going to be a long day.

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