"What the hell happened to you?" Steve asked, guiding the beaten and bloodied Peter into a seat, lightly squeezing the sides of the teen's nose before Peter hissed in pain "Yeah, that's definitely broken"

"What happened?" Peter asked "I found a threat to national security, told Luna about it and she beat the shit out of me"

"She likes doing that doesn't she?" Carol asked from the doorway "Hi Peter"

"Hi Carol" Peter waved.

"So, did you get any good hits in on her?" Carol asked, pulling up a seat next to the shorter teen and smiling at him.

"Why does that matter?" Peter asked.

"So that's a 'No' then?" Carol said with a raised eyebrow.

"Maybe" Peter shrugged, hissing again as Steve lightly tapped the side of his head, Luna's fist having split the skin and drawn a large amount of blood.

"Christ, say what you want about Luna's political prowess but I'll be damned if that woman doesn't know how to put somebody down" Steve chuckled.

"Can we do anything for him?" Carol asked, a worried expression on her face.

"Besides not laugh at him, nothing's gonna make him heal quicker than his healing factor, from the injuries I've heard about you taking, your nose should be right as rain by tomorrow morning" Steve said, standing up and placing his hands on his hips with a heavy sigh "But that does rule out today's sparring session"

"That's a bad thing?" Peter asked in a confused manner.

"You won't learn how to avoid getting your nose broken as fast" Steve shrugged.

"Eh, I can live with that for a while longer" Peter said with his own shrug.

"So what national security threat did you find?" Steve asked, checking Peter's face for any more injuries he might've sustained with realizing it.

"Well this one was... hold up, you sounded really calm about that, does national security not seem like that big a deal to you?" Peter began before going of on a questioning tangent.

"Eh, most threats to national security are usually some asshat with a plan for world domination" Steve said in a by-the-numbers manner "You usually just rock up, punch them in the face once and then give a speech... so your new threat anything like that?"

"Well... have you guys ever fought thirty feet tall bipedal tanks that can launch forty-five nuclear weapons each?" Peter asked with a grin.

Steve then froze in the middle of examining Peter before looking at Carol who, in turn, had a horrified look on her face.

"Okay, we're taking you to Fury, now" Steve said, helping Peter up and rushing him out of the med-bay.

"And you sure you're right about that?" Fury asked, his tone not disbelieving but instead an uncertain one "That's quite a large accusation to throw at Oscorp Peter"

"I know that Fury, but I swear I'm not making this up, send an email to Stark and I'm sure he'll give you the files I got for him"

"The files you obtained illegally?" Fury asked with his arms crossed.

"You, uh, you're not angry about that are you?" Peter asked with a sheepish expression.

"Angry? No, not at all, I'm impressed if anything" Fury chuckled "You've shown yourself to be resourceful and not afraid to get your hands dirty, it's good to see in a kid your age, not like our little goody-two-shoes Ms Drew"

"Yeah, she doesn't like me very much does she?" Peter asked.

"Not at all, but can we get back on topic?" Fury asked.

"Right, so how am I gonna stop these Metal Gear models from enslaving the world?" Peter asked with an excited grin.

"You aren't, at least, not alone" Fury said, pressing down a button on the table in front of him, several different pictures appearing on the table of all the members of the Avengers, presumably as their communicators activated "Avengers, assemble"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, you're just gonna call the Avengers in to take care of this and not give me a piece of the pie?" Peter asked in a disappointed manner.

"Not at all, this is gonna be your first field op with the team, think of it as your initiation into the team" Fury said with a movement of his hand "If you do well here, we'll think about adding you to the roster"

"You're... you're seriously considering making me a member of the Avengers? As in, saved the world from big scary aliens and are heralded as national treasures?" Peter asked.

"Of course, and before we get on to giving you your company benefits we need to get you a new suit sorted out, thermal gear isn't gonna cut it on the team kid" Fury said "I'll get you set up with a new costume in a few days, so just sit tight while we think up a plan of how we're gonna deal with these Metal Gear things, alright?" Fury asked.

"Company benefits?" Peter asked in confusion.

"Oh yeah, upon being accepted into the Avengers, and as a registered S.H.I.E.L.D employee you'll receive a complimentary T-Shirts, backpack, coffee mug and bumper sticker as well as bronze level access to the S.H.I.E.L.D computer and a bronze level company card that's linked to a constantly refilling bank account in your name, though the bronze level's daily spendage caps at one hundred bucks" Fury explained.

"Are... are you kidding me?" Peter asked.

"Nope, though we might lose the bumper sticker for you, seeing as how you can't drive yet" Fury nodded.

"Wow" Peter said with a blank expression "Just... wow" Next Chapter: Apologies Estimated time remaining: 5 Hours, 12 Minutes