peter in the soul stone after sam and bucky explain to him what the accords and the fight at the airport were really about and he realizes he was blackmailed into fighting for the wrong team:
you taught me the courage of stars before you left
another one??? another one?????
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There’s a boy on the screen. He’s handsome—in the teenager kind of way—and with soft brown eyes. But he looked young, too young to be showing up on the screen.
And why he was even on this screen, Steve didn’t know. It was made by FRIDAY for those in contact with…the Avengers? Or at least whatever they make up now.
So why there a kid here?
Peter Parker
Missing
So not confirmed dead. Good. Whoever the kid was, he was definitely a kid, and going missing was better than…going.
But who—
“That’s Peter.” Rhodey’s voice startles him. Steve turns sharply on his heel to look the other man in the eye. He looks exhausted. Who wasn’t? But Steve guessed that having your best friend lost in space did a number on you.
“Who is he?” Steve asked. Rhodey shows somewhat of a smile before tapping on the screen again to show multiple pictures of the Peter kid. A better look showed him being very young, sixteen at most. There were a couple candids of him laughing, a few videos of him talking, but multiple with Tony in them.
And honestly? Steve had never seen Tony happier.
“The two of them…” Rhodey begins. “They had something. Did them both good. They had a cute little mentor/mentee thing going.”
When Rhodey senses Steve doesn’t really understand, he sighs and continues.
“Peter was a good kid. A genius. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone combined you and Tony’s dna to make him.” Rhodey chuckled a bit sadly. Steve returned with a smile.
“A reckless genius with a hero complex?” Steve inquired.
“Exactly.” Rhodey paused and the smile faltered. “Kid lost his parents really young. Lived with his aunt and uncle…until he was about 14. His uncle was shot one night.”
“Shot?” Steve asked with wide eyes. Rhodey nodded.
“Right in front of him. In some Queens alleyway. Tony says he still blames himself.” Rhodey’s voice was wispy.
And then it hit Steve.
“Is he Spider-Man?” Everything would make more sense if he was. Rhodey sighed before nodding.
“Before you go off on Tony for bringing a kid into this, he didn’t know until it was too late. The kid would have done it anyway. The day Ben Parker died changed him.”
“How old?”
“He would have turned 17 in August.” Rhodey’s voice caught in his throat a bit.
“Would have?” Steve wondered mournfully. Rhodey didn’t respond, instead changed the screen slowly to a different picture, this time of one of Peter and Tony both passed out at their respective lab stations, and by the look on Rhodey’s face, Steve figured he took it.
“Neither of them have great self preservation skills. The kid can go days without sleeping and doesn’t even realize. Tony says he gets nightmares a lot.”
“Nightmares?” Rhodey nodded again.
“It’s complicated. Peter got a building, sorta, uh, dropped on him. By his homecoming date’s dad.”
“He what?” Steve exclaimed. “A building?”
“Again, complicated. Kid just hasn’t really come back from it.”
“Not sure that’s a thing you can come back from.” Steve concluded, and Rhodey gave him a hum in response. Something faltered in Rhodey’s demeanor suddenly.
“Pepper got a message from Tony. He’s…we don’t know where he really is. We’ve got an idea but…”
Steve hated this feeling. He thought he had gotten somewhat over it (half the world dying isn’t something you completely get over), despite him missing Bucky late at night. When it’s too dark to see and his last words echo in his dreams.
He’s lost a lot of friends, too many friends.
And suddenly he realized, he couldn’t really afford to lose another. Despite everything that happened between him and Iron Man.
“His oxygen runs out tomorrow morning.” Rhodey’s voice truly broke for the first time. “Or maybe it already has, we don’t know when the message sent.”
“Jesus, Rhodes. We can’t lose him too.”
“You’re right.” Pepper’s voice spoke definitely from the doorway. Her eyes were red and puffy from crying, her hair a bit frizzled. “I haven’t been planning this wedding for a year for nothing.”
“Hey Pep.” Rhodey said softly. “How you holding up?”
“Been better.” She was a wreck, and rightfully so.
Steve begrudgingly rememberers the conversation he overheard last night.
“I can’t raise my kid without him, Rhodey. I just can’t!”
“We’ll find him, Pep. I promise.”
“Why didn’t I… tell him?”
“Pep, how could you have known?”
He had forgotten she was pregnant for a moment…and he doesn’t want Tony’s child to grow up without him either.
“We’ll get him back.” Steve says with shaky confidence, which earns him a grateful look in her eyes. Her eyes then trail to the screen, and more tears fall.
“Oh God.” She whispers. “Peter—he wasn’t—he wasn’t in the video.”
“Pep…” Rhodey seemed to have realized something as well.
“What? Should he have been?” Steve said, trying to read their faces.
“Steve,” Rhodey turned and faced Steve. “Peter went up with Tony.”
“Against Tony’s will.” Pepper supplied with a fond eye roll. “Rhodey…you know what that means.”
Steve did too.
Peter was dead.
He went up and didn’t come back down.
“What are we going to tell May?” Rhodey asked after a moment.
“What can we tell her?” Pepper replied tearfully.
“Is May his aunt?” Steve asked quietly. Pepper nodded.
“Basically his mother. Peter…Peter was all she had left.”
And then no one talks.
“I can go tell her. If you want.” Steve offers.
“No, it should be me,” Pepper said. “I’m her friend. And he was her baby.” She subconsciously rubbed her stomach. That’s her baby.
“I hate this.” Rhodey’s voice choked again, summing up just about everything Steve was thinking.
Buck, wherever you are, take care of the kid. Of Peter.
~
It’s the middle of the night when Carol Danvers comes to them and tells she can get them to Tony. Steve doesn’t hesitate when she makes them a portal to jump right through. There’s light for a moment before he sees the ship. He knows he’s followed by Rhodey and Bruce, but he’s the first one to see Tony. He’s obviously broken. Starving and pale, with tears evident down his cheeks.
“Tony!” Steve has to admit he missed the man. Tony doesn’t wait, he runs into Steve with minimal energy, but wraps his arms around him.
“Who’d you lose?” Steve already knows.
Tony takes a deep shaky breath.
“I lost my kid.” He sounds older.
And Steve doesn’t respond out loud, instead he kept the grip on the man he once thought was his enemy.
Rhodey follows suit, and when Steve lets go, Tony goes right into Rhodey’s arms.
I’m getting my friends back. I’m getting Sam, Wanda, all the Wakandans…Bucky. Especially Bucky.
Petition for there to be a Tony Stark cameo in every marvel film after A4 where he’s just chilling while the world goes to shit
signed
RDJ takes over as the new cameo guy in each MCU film. It’ll just be little things like:
Tony with cucumber slices on his eyes, treating himself at the spa; he hears a loud crash outside. He peels the cucumber slice off one eye, looking outside the window. Giant Man has just thrown a tractor trailer across town. He lays back down, “Glad it’s not my problem.”
Peter Parker has had a long adventure and then he gets a ping on his phone. It’s a video of Tony and baby Morgan playing with a Spider-Man action figure.
A quick flash on the news of interviewers hounding Tony while he’s feeding pigeons at the park. “Would Iron Man like to comment?” Tony just stares blankly at them, “Iron Man? Who’s that?” then rollers skates pop out of his loafers and he zips away.
peter parker’s first day in college, he’s walking up the stairs, and suddenly a shiny-ass audi rolls up in front of the front door, silver fox!tony stark gets out of the car, everybody watches, the students’ jaws are on the floor, and the ever unmoved tony just withdraws his hand with a paper bag in it to peter, “you forgot your lunch, pete”
Avengers AU – If Tony was Peter’s biological father
Tony is super protective of his son. And Peter, inspired by his dad, becomes Spiderman anyway (his dad and his Uncle Rhodey figure him out in a second though).
god im just thinking about how much going to public school in the MCU would’ve made me hate captain america. every time i got caught giving some bitch the finger or writing on bathroom walls or ditching class or stealing books from the library cause i got a fine or what have you, and then they gave me lunch detention or ISS and i sat in that dumbass eraser-smelling room and im in My Chair (the chair i always sit in and yell at anyone else who tries to take it), fuming, arms crossed, full of teen angst and hating everyone around me, and AGAIN had to watch this stupid fucking video ive already seen so many times that i know it by heart and every word grates on my eardrums and i’d just see this fuckin familiar face
and i would be ready to LOSE MY SHIT
Villain Origin Story
god imagine Steve giving Peter his Captain America is Disappointed in You face/lecture over something dumb and Peter just fucking dissociating and zoning back in to “Peter! Are you even listening to me???” and looking him in the eye and being like “I’m completely immune at this point. You can’t even touch me.” and walking the fuck away
canon.
the real reason why Peter agreed to fight cap at the airport
Shuri improved the Black Panther suit so T’Challa would be safe, making it invulnerable to explosions and strong blasts. Safe against what killed their father.
Do you know what Tony added to Peter’s improved suit? A parachute that opens with voice command, safe against what almost killed Rhodey.
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