Peter woke up in his room again. He really hated this place. He knew he didn't belong here. He got up and went to training. He had been here since he was a baby after his parents didn't want him and sent him here. This was hell. He had been planning to escape soon though, just to get high enough in the ranks and then disappear. After all, that's what the Black Spider did after he completed mission.

"Mark? Anything for me today?" Peter asked.

"Look kid. I know what your trying to do. I'm sorry you had to live like this. And all I want to do is make your life right. I left a key under your bed okay? Use it tonight. The main generator takes at least 45 seconds to reset at 1:36 at night. Your have the time to get out without being seen. With your speed you should be fine." He replied quiet enough for only Peter to hear.

"...really? Your not kidding." Peter said with tears threatening to fall.

"Peter. Stop crying. I trained you better. Now get to your room".

Peter walked down the hall. This was it, he was escaping

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Peter woke up and hour before he was going to escape. He packed all he needed and put the watch on his hand. He had taken out the tracker and was going to put it on a train going in the opposite direction he was going. He looked at his watch and watched as all the lights shut down, and he ran. He ran and fast as he could. He reached for the door and ran out of it, the cold snowy air freezing his face. He was free.

Peter put the tracker on a train running west. So he headed Northeast, he was going to New York. He wanted a normal life, and that's what he was getting. So he set off.

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Tony woke up and went to the kitchen. He got his coffee and went to the lab. He started going through the photos of Peter all those years ago. "Tones? Look. I know it's hard but you have to get over it. Talk to someone. The team knows somethings up. And your gonna have to tell them." Rhodey said.

"I know Rhodes. I just..."

"Tony. Just do it."

Tony called a meeting in the lounge room. Better he say it than Natasha, she always found out everything. Tony walked to the room and waited. He saw all the Avengers walk in, including the newer recruits.

"Stark. We have to train including you, you can't just sit around for no reason." Steve said.

"Shut up Steve. Haven't you noticed what days I get 'lazy' on??" He snapped back.

"Twice a year. One on June 31st, the other on April 28th." Natasha said. The others gave her weird looks, "what. I notice things. Both you and Pepper are like super depressed on these days.

"Yeah...umm..those days are my son's birthday...and the day-" Stark said. "You have a son?!? Can we meet him?" Bruce said excitedly. Everyone nodded even though they still looked shocked. "Umm. No. The other day was when he went missing, or died. No one knows. I don't even know." He said, tears stinging his eyes. "Tony I'm so sorry. I had no idea" Steve said, sympathy lacing his voice.

"It's fine. I gotta go." He said. And he walked out, and went to his lab to drown in tears.

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Peter was still in hiding. He had been wandering the streets for some time when a woman which he later knew as May, let him in. Over the next few nights they got close and she asked if he would like to stay permanently. Peter was so happy he started to cry.

"Peter? I know this is a lot to ask, but how about going to school? There are a couple good ones around." She said one night.

"Uhh..I never really thought about it. But if it makes me feel normal for once..I'll do it."

May enrolled Peter in school under the name 'Peter Parker', and he was set to go the next day. "Bye May! Love you" He said as he walked out the door.

Peter took the bus and stepped in front of Midtown High, he had passed the enter exam with flying numbers. He stepped inside and went to grab his schedule. "I need my schedule please" He asked the woman at the counter. He gave him her name and went to his locker.

"Hey Nerd! Why don't you just go back to your little LEGO land like the little kids do!"

Peter heard some kid down the hall and turned to see a bully insulting another kid. "Hey! Why don't you just leave him alone!!" He yelled.

The kid turned and sneered at Peter, "Guess your gonna join the list of losers new kid." And the kid walked away leaving the other on the floor with watery eyes. "Hey. I'm Peter." Peter said.

"I'm Ned, Ned Leeds."

And that was the start of a huge friendship.

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"Pstttt. Peter?" Ned whispered during class.

"What?"

"How was patrol last night?"

"Fine. Not much happened. I mean the Avengers are still looking for me. I don't know why" Peter shrugged.

He had become the one and only Spider-Man a few months back. He wanted to do good and prove he wasn't just some experiment. He had been stopping muggings and small crimes around town, but he had to lay low once the Avengers started trailing him.

"Your dismissed class" the teacher said. And the bell rang, so Peter ran outside and started patrol.

Peter had stopped a couple small crimes when his spider sense picked up something behind him, he reached behind him and caught a small needle, one that was supposed to knock him out.

"Dang it! How the hell did you do that again?!?" Hawkeye asked as he stepped up next to Spider-Man. "You do the same thing every time Clint." Hawkeye raised his eyebrows but did nothing. "Why are you even looking for me?" Peter asked. "Look man, we just need to ask some questions. Nothing much." "You think I'm a threat." Peter said. Clint opened his mouth to replay but closed it.

"Look Mr. Hawkeye Sir, tell your friends that I have declined their generous offer. Again."

"Sorry, but I can't take no as an answer again." Clint replied.

Peter used his spidey sense to catch 3 darts but wasn't quick enough to catch the 4th that hit his neck. "Damnnn....you suck dude." And Peter fell unconscious.

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"Hey kid. Wake up."

"Kid?"

Peter opened his eyes as water was poured over his head. " Dude! What the hell! I was sleeping for once."

"Sorry Spider-Man but you need to answer some questions for us." Cap said.

"Wowwww, all the Avengers. This is such a nice surprise. To who will threaten me today?" Peter said, sarcasm lacing his voice.

"Me" and the one and only Natasha Romanoff stepped out of the shadow.

" so..Spider-Man, who are you?" She asked.

"Hmmm...let's see. My name is..something your not gonna find out." He replied.

His response got him a slap from behind on the face. "Ouch. Why'd you do that?"

"Answer the questions son" Steve said, his eyes filled with anger.

"One, don't call me that, I don't have parents and you're not my dad. Two, I don't have to answer your questions, I have a right." Peter said.

Cap just sighed and walked to Bruce and grabbed something from his hands despite Bruce's attempts of stopping him. "We're gonna get answers, and we are going to get them now."

Peter raised his eyebrows in question but quickly started convulsing when he got shocked. Captain America just tased him. Man, everyone hates him today. "Look...man...I..have stuff..to do.." Peter said gasping.

This went on for another hour. Eventually all the Avengers left the room leaving Peter in pain alone.

"So little spider, why so secretive?"

Peter looked up and saw Black Widow standing against the wall. He looked to see if the others were around, but noticing none he waved her over with the little movement he had. She said down next to him and waited.

"Look. I already had my whole life taken away from me. I don't want it to happen again. I'm finally happy and I have people who actually care for me." He said.

"Hey...I know but we can only help if you tell us."

"Look miss black widow romanoff" he started.

"Call me Natasha."

"Okay. Natasha. I had a hard life. My parents left me when I was a baby. I lived with some bad people and they made me into something I wasn't, so I left."

She flashed him a look of sympathy and took off the cuffs around his hands. "Come with me"

He followed her down a few halls and went into a bedroom with a lot of knives on the walls "your not going to murder me right?" He asked nervously.

"No. I like you."

And so they talked for a while. They even got to the point where he told her his name was Peter, but that was it. "Peter. Why do you wear the mask?"

"I don't want them to find me again. And I don't want my fear to be seen as a weakness" He said.

"NATASHA. THE SPIDER GOT LOOSE." Stark yelled. He ran into the room and froze when he saw both Natasha and Spider-Man playing cards on her bed. "What the hell" he muttered. "Just come to the lounge. Both of you"

In the lounge, Peter said on the sofa awkwardly. "Sooo...." he started. "Shut up kid. This is where the good guys talk" Steve said. Natasha saw the hurt in Peter's eyes and said "Steve. Shut the hell up. He is a hero." Steve's eyes widened along with everyone else's. "And why?" Bruce asked. Natasha looked at Peter and he nodded, and so she told his story.

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They all talked for a while, and all warmed up to the young hero. "So. Peter. When do we get to see this amazing face." Clint asked. Peter looked down "umm...I don't know." "Baby spider. You can trust us. You have a family now." Peter looked around at his new family and slowly pulled off his mask. All the faces in front of him were shock and horror. "Your just a kid." Natasha said. Steve looked sick. "I hurt a kid. Oh my gods."

"Look. I chose to be a hero. And this is how I'm going to stay." He said.

All the Avengers but Stark had eventually gone to bed after a while even though they were hesitant about Peter's night activities.

"So. Kid, what's your past story."

"I told you. Parents left me. And I was an experiment." He replied.

"No. I mean who were your parents?" Stark asked.

"oh. I don't know. I never knew. I was told they left me. And I believed it."

"Why don't we find out for you?" Tony said.

"You can do that?"

"Yeah. It takes a while but yeah."

And so they did it.

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Peter had gotten the best sleep he had in a while. He got up and walked to the kitchen and was greeted by the others. They were in the middle of breakfast when FRIDAY spoke up.

"Sir? The results for Peter have just finished."

"Stark? What's Friday talking about?" Natasha asked.

"The kid wanted to know who his parents were." He said shrugging. "Pete? You ready?"

Peter nodded. " it seems that Peter's parentage matches to you and miss Potts." And then Tony collapsed.

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Pepper was still waiting for Tony to wake up. All the Avengers were acting weird around her for no reason and this kid was sitting in the chair next to Tony. "Who are you?" She asked. "Spider-Man" He said. "You're so young!" He laughed and said he got that a lot. They then started talking for the encyclical 15 minutes about his school and his Spider-Manning and she talked about how she was the smart one who ran the company. They laughed a lot.

"Pepper?" She heard Tony ask.

"Tony! Your awake! Why the heck did you faint."

"Cause. We found Peter. We found our baby boy."

Pepper gasped and stumbled back. "What?..you found our baby? Is he okay?"

"Yeah. I'm fine." The kid behind her said.

"You're..you're my baby? Oh my gods. Peter!" She hugged the teenager and sobbed. He hugged her back and had tears running down his face. "Mommy. I missed you so much." He said.

Tony got up slowly and hugged his family and smiled. This family was never going to be torn apart again.

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Peter had become a huge part of the Avengers. He had new aunts and uncles(tho his favorite was Nat), and he really was happy. Aunt May still visited and he was still patrolling as Spider-Man. He knew that he was going to be safe and happy, so all he did was go to sleep next to his mom and dad during Star Wars and smiled, happy he could finally feel normal.

~fin.