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It was the Avengers bi weekly meeting and they were still on edge. It wasn’t alien Invasion level worry, but the last mission had left everyone shook. It had spiraled from something so minuscule that it had flown under everyone’s radar, and if it wasn’t for Peter and his knowledge on street level crime who would have known what would have happened.
Now the worry of two new vigilantes popping up out of nowhere had everyone tense. They weren’t actually that new, Clint had helpfully informed them. The two had fought in the streets for longer than the Avengers had been formed, but mostly worked against the smaller threats that the Avengers didn't.
But after a famously dangerous Organization that the Avengers had been tracking for a month had been taken down, the rumors had spread to even tony. And apparently it was due to the two red clad hero’s. Deadpool, who was often referred to as the merc with a mouth and daredevil, the man without fear. There was a spoken third that was said to be there, but for the life of him Tony wasn't able to track down who it was.
Now the hero’s were seated at the now vibranium table (tony had told Shuri that she didn't need to, but almost immediately after hulk had hurled it though the wall of the room that they were in.) as they discussed what they were to do.
“Clint, what else do you know about them?” Bruce asked, hoping to get more information about the two.
”I have already told you everything I know about them!” Clint said, putting his hand up defensively. “Hell the devil guy was more of a cryptid than not, I don't even know if he’s human at this point!”
”Is he enhanced?” Steve asked. Even though all the members on the team could handle themselves, who knew what the vigilantes could do if they were hostile. Especially to peter. He knew that the kid could hold his own but he was still just a kid, and whenever Steve came to the tower half of the time Tony’s freaking out because of another wound that the spider had managed to gain. And it wouldn’t be honest to say that he wasn’t also freaking the fuck out whenever the kid got hurt too.
Tony had given a suit to Peter that would relay black to Tony about what was happening during any of peters missions and whenever he got injured. But peter had managed to override the system, shutting it off for over half of the time he patrolled. Tony was both amused and extremely irritated about it but was unable to fix the problem. It was both a blessing and a curse that the kid was so smart.
”The pool guy is, he can regenerate and from what I’ve heard is impossible to kill. For the hornhead, I have no clue. But he’s almost as good a fighter as Nat, we can't rule him off yet.” Clint replied.
”So what do you think we should do about them?” Natasha asked, saying what everyone had been wondering the entire time since the meeting had started.
”I don't trust them,” Sam said, glancing towards tony. “We don't know enough about them to consider them safe and from deadpool's track record I would say that that option has already been thrown out of the window.” Bucky grunted in agreement, leaning against the corner wall of the room.
”they could be good allies if we give them a chance, we have already made enough enemies.” Bruce argued.
”Bruce is right, we need all the help we can get even if it means working unethically,” Steve said, shifting in his seat.
”they’re dangerous, who knows what they are willing to do next!” Sam said, slamming his hand on the table.
The conversation devolved into a fight, it was unfortunately a common sight whenever there was a meeting, it was something that they had always tended to fall into. Natasha raised her hand, everyone in the room quieting down immediately, Tony was thankful that everyone knew to listen to her.
“I believe that it would be best if we talk to them,” she said, earning a disapproving grunt from Bucky, “but we can't lower our guard, there are still strangers to us and putting any hope on them would be foolish.”
“I agree. Even though we shouldn’t trust them, we need more alliances in this line of work. And if they’re as good as I’ve heard it would be a great way to cover the more lower level crimes like Peter.” Clint commented, looking towards the vigilante.
“I don't know guys, most vigilantes don’t really like working with people like us.” Peter said, shrinking down even more as the rest of the Avengers turned to face him. Even though he was comfortable around them, they were still THE Avengers. And yes technically Peter was one too but he was more like an honorary member. They would try to keep him out of the bigger fights and he loved tony so much but he wasn't a little kid anymore! He was already sixteen! And may or may not be the missing member of team red (yes he and Ned will be workshopping the name).
”you’re working with us and you are a vigilante, who says they wouldn't too.” Captain America said. The other people around the table murmured in agreement, and never has Peter wanted to disappear more in his short life. Maybe he could secretly build a teleportation device in Tony's lab for moments like this, and if that doesn’t work he should just shrivel up and die.
“Yeah but I'm different! Most vigilantes hate being in teams, and the government!” He yelled, waving his hands around as he spoke.
”Peter, I know that you know more about vigilantes than us, but we should still make sure that they are on the same side as us even if they don't want to team up.” Tony said, giving Peter's shoulder a small reassuring shake as he did.
Peter just wanted to scream out everything. That he was working with them, and that they weren’t as bad as everyone says, that they were on the same side and they really didn't have to worry about the other red hero’s. but that would mean telling them that he was working with a dangerous mercenary and a guy who on average would beat people into comas at least two times a day. He knew that the Avengers were protective of him, he was the youngest member and he was pretty sure half of them were competing with tony to adopt him. So that option was definitely off the table.
“..yeah ok Mr. Stark” Peter said, internally preparing for his own funeral when Wade inevitably announced that Peter was working with him. He could try to bribe him with a two dollar sticker sheet of my little pony stickers but there was only a 50/50 chance that it would work.
“Everyone in favor of Natasha’s idea?” Tony asked. Everyone in the room held up their hand. “Now we just need to figure out how to get in contact with them..” Tony trailed off, looking down as he thought.
A chime went off, startling the man out of his thoughts. He looked towards Peter as the boy pulled the phone out of his hoodie pocket.
“Sorry guys, I've got to go, talk to you later!” Peter said as he jumped out of his running towards the door. The group was able to catch the caller id as Peter stumbled out to get the call. As soon as he got to the elevator Steve spoke up.
“Did it just say a “really good lawyer”?” He asked in case he read it wrong.
“Is Peter in legal trouble?” Bruce asked as he turned to tony.
”you’d be surprised with the amount of people trying to sue Spider-Man.” Tony said flatly.