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Battle
Thor’s return to earth was in a battle full of Doom Bots.
Not that he really minded. He liked greeting his friends and announcing his presence dramatically. Being the dramatic back up by using the Bifrost was as Dramatic as one could really get.
He greeted his old friends through a loud yell or through comms. But noticed over the comms he had heard new voices. New comrades to have joined the initiative. Some were semi-familiar.
He had met Conel Rhodes during the Ultron incident. He was flying with Tony, as well as commander Falcon, or ‘Sam’ as the Captain had said. They had joined them in battle and fought heroically.
Some heroics came from some unexpected persons, in his opinion. The witch they had fought in the battle of Ultron was fighting with them, but he cut off his suspicions early because… well she was scarlet witch, and she seemed to be doing just fine on her own. Another was the lost friend Captain had been searching for, but he seemed as strong and as capable as the Captain himself.
The first truly new one he was introduced to was a shrinking man, who had appeared out of seemingly nowhere. Earth’s magic had gotten better. He had thought, but he proved to be particularly clever. And strong.
The second was probably the most shock when he heard a child over the comms 10 minutes after he had arrived.
“Nice to see you joined the party kid.” Tony said through the comms and he listened to the reply.
“Oh yeah, I saw a lighting bolt and thought electro decided to take over 5th avenue again… but it was just you guys.” he said in a deadpanned way. Then a sudden flash of red and blue, but mostly red, knocked out a row of doom bots in front of him. A masked man in red and blue swinged from what looked like a web.
“Who are you child?” Thor asked suspiciously as the child was sifting through the doom bots that he just defeated. “And what are you doing?” he asked in a loud voice, the child jumped a bit.
“Uhm...Hey-Hey I-I’m Spiderman...woah you-you’re Thor .” the Spider child seemed to be in awe, and he would’ve acknowledged the praise if he wasn’t so suspicious. He lifted his hammer a bit and the child back up. “Woah, woah hey...same side. I was just- well I guess it was a bit of a hope and-”
“Get to the point.” Thor said lowly.
“Right, right. I was trying to find a way to track these guys. They must have a power source that shuts them down somewhere. So if I can see where their commanding signal is coming from I can-” he was interrupted by a blast of a doom boy he had to dodge. Quick, Thor noted.
“I will provide cover and you may be able to achieve what you are able to in battle.” Thor said standing in front of the Spider Child. The boy nodded and set back to work.
Thor hammered through the on coming doom bots for 5 minutes before the kid said “I have a location!” and shot a web to the sky scrapers.
Thor called Milner back through the bots and flew up to fly next to the boy, that didn’t protest to his coming. Thor noticed he hadn’t called for back up, so he had assumed that the Spider Child had expected him to come. When they landed at the warehouse near the sea, however, he noticed the boy had a shocked face on when he looked to Thor. He didn’t say anything though.
They battled robots and Thor noticed that the Spider Child was exceedingly strong. Strong and quick and made good use of those webs. Thor didn’t notice the smile that spread on his face when the boy started to quip, and most of them were bad but the god had joined right along as he swung and threw his hammer.
They had managed to shut down the base, and Thor had only turned for a second to inform the other they had done so but when he turned back around to find the boy, he was gone. Thor smushed the disappointment at not praising the child for his work and flew to greet his friends more properly at the tower.
He noticed the Spider Child's absence but did not say anything.
OoOoO
The next day was Friday.
“And then he called it back through the bots and-” Peter was cut off by his telling of the awesome battle at lunch. Ned was soaking up every second of his tail that he was whispering loudly but excitedly about the battle yesterday and fighting with Thor. Not leaving a single detail out, no matter how small, just how Ned liked it. Then Flash had dumped milk all over him and it had cut him off abruptly.
“Sorry. Did I interrupt your nerd fest?” Flash asked mockingly and Peter grumbled about how he was going to go to work smelling like expired milk. No one heard him obviously. Oh well. He had a sweatshirt in his locker that he could cover up the milk with anyway. Even if it was a bit too hot for a sweatshirt, the tower was pretty cold.
“Come on dude. That wasn’t cool.” Ned defended with a furrowed brow.
“Come on Parker. Milk is good for your bones.” Flash looked smug and Peter rolled his eyes.
“That’s if you consume it.”Ned grumbled ”And I think if you consume cafeteria milk it might do more damage then good.” Flash laughed and walked away, well more like strutted really bad.
“It’s fine dude, chill.” Peter said, catching Ned’s arm as he got up. Ned sighed and sunk down.
“You fight gods dude,” Ned said “and you have to put up with Flash beating your ass?” Ned looked at him as Peter pushed his fries around with a fork. He sighed as the milk on his shirt was sinking through his shirt and chilling his skin.
“I’ve got work today, the Avengers are having a party and I’ve gotta babysit.” Peter said instead putting a fry into his mouth, and Ned sighed at the deflection.
“That sucks, you stuck with Babysitting duty that it.” Ned said and Peter looked almost offended.
“I think I got the better end of the deal I-”
“-Love those kids.” Ned smiled a little “I know.” Peter nodded seriously.
“Damn straight.” he huffed and popped another fry into his mouth and Ned let out a laugh.
“What’s the party even for?” Ned asked when he calmed down.
“No clue.” Peter said through a mouth full of fries.And thought for a minute. “But they did say after I put the kids to bed I should come up anyway. You know just to say hi or something or another. They said it didn’t really matter how I dressed.”
“That’s cool, but who are you saying hi to exactly?” Ned asked and Peter shrugged. Ned then proceeded to nerd out about what the Avengers could have in store for him. Now that Ned was mentioning it, he was wondering a little himself too.
Maybe it was a scientist they wanted to introduce him to? But Tony had too big of an ego to brag about him and give him away even if he did brag about him. Plus that could mean he lost the decay rate algorithm, which wouldn’t happen because Peter wouldn’t tell anybody anyway. But if Tony wanted him to be a science intern again, he’d suggest a spot with one of his scientists at R&D. Peter never even had the thought of him being Tony Stark’s intern. He wasn’t smart enough for that, in his unprofessional opinion. Maybe they wanted him to meet someone as Spiderman? But if that were the case they’d have asked him to bring the suit. They would never compromise his identity. So what could they want him to see or who do they want him to meet? He was just Peter Parker, and they knew that.
He shrugged it off for now, but he still wondered a bit at the back of his mind.
And that milk smell was gonna be in his cloths. Oh man. Maybe it would dry by the end of the day.