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The Iron-Spider legs propel Peter up and away from the hole in the doughnut ship, as Tony sprays Nanites onto the wall to seal the damage, he turns to see the Cloak watching him.
“Hey, we haven’t officially meet.” Peter extends his hand but the cloak ignores him levitating its way back to the Wizard “Cool...”
Tony lands on the ships primary platform and retracts the armour back into the housing unit on his chest walking past Strange as he gets to his feet.
“We’ve gotta turn this ship around.” the Wizard says breathlessly still catching his breathe from the torture.
Tony scuffs “Yeah, no shit Sherlock.” he heads for the front of the ship studying the expansive view-port with the stars flying by at the speed they are travelling at, reaching down and squeezing his left wrist to calm his racing heart to clamp down on the panic rising in his chest. “Typical, now you want to run, great plan” shaking his head.
Already irritated. “No, I want to protect the stone” Strange shoots back.
“And I want you to thank me now. Go ahead, I'm listening.” Tony retorts, sarcasm roiling off of his grin, as he turns around to face the sorcerer he spots Peter up on his perch watching their verbal spar as his head jumps from side to side like he's watching a tennis ball, he tries but fails to suppress his smirk.
“For what? Nearly blasting me into space?” Strange snaps back.
“Uhh no” Tony says offhandedly as he activates his AR Glasses and begins to study the controls to find a way to turn the ship around. “but me and The Kid that just your magical ass.” while he talks, Tony has noticed similarities to some of the Chitauri technology from New York, “Hey Kid, get down here, start decoding those controls over there using Translation Matrix Chitauri-Language-C6 I’ve just sent it through to your suits hard drive.”
“Got it Mr Stark.” Peter leaps down rushing to help out.
“I seriously don't know how you fit your head into that helmet.” Strange mutters as the vigilante runs past him.
“Yeah I know I’ve got an ego, for some reason people keep telling me that” Tony tells the sorcerer “It's probably because I’m almost always right and it really annoys them. Speaking of, admit it. You should have ducked out when I told you to. I tried to bench you. You refused.”
“Yes well fortunately for me, I don’t work for you.”
“And due to that fact, we're now in a flying doughnut billions of miles away from Earth with no backup.”
“Hey.” Peter, mirth in his eyes, sticks his head out from under the controls, “I’m back up.”
“No,no,no.” Tony shakes his head at the kid, “Your a stowaway, keep working on those controls.”
“Wait, hold up.” Strange raises his hands, “I’m confused as to the relationship here, wh-what is he, your ward.”
Sticking his head out again. “No, just his intern, oh I’m Peter, by the way.” He finishes with a casual salute before returning to work
“Doctor Strange.” Stephen introduces himself.
“Right… I’m Spider-Man then.” Peter shouts back awkwardly.
Tony shakes his head in silent laughter at how the kid has managed to defuse the tension and also help to start calming him down. “Alright by the looks of it the ship is self correcting its flight path, things on autopilot.”
“Any way to control or disable it, fly us home.” Strange questions Tony, who is concentrating on translating the controls. “Stark?”
“Ugh...Maybe, still haven’t found anything” Tony replied quietly. “How’bout you Kid, you got anything yet?”
“Hold on just finishing this next glyph,” Peter Responds. “Alright I got something this input translates to Autopilot Active, and this next one is for Autopilot Destination, right now it's set to: Titan - Dead Planet.”
“Nice work Kiddo.” Tony reaches over and ruffles the Kids hair, who immediately reaches to correct it. “Is there anything on a Location Log or anything like that? we don’t know what their designation of Earth is.”
Doctor Strange watches the two’s back and forth as they work on finding them a way home.
“Ahh yeah I think this is it,” Peter mumbles back to him as he hits a few of the inputs that he has already translated, “Whoa...”
A highly detailed hologram pops up in front of him and Tony, of a dirty orange colored planet that's surface is cracked and part of what looks like it south pole has started to fall away out into orbit.
“Right” Tony says as he approaches the hologram, “that looks like our current destination, Titan - Dead Planet, I’m gonna go ahead and give that a one star rating.” He swipes his hand to the left and a new planet shows up. “Ah-ha how I’ve missed those green and blue colors.”
Peter studies the hologram of Earth, “Hey Mr Stark look at that.” He points excitedly to the right hand corner where some information is listed. “Earth’s called, in space talk, Terra or Planet C-53, and Human are called Terrans.”
“Ha nice work Kid” Tony praises him before hitting a few more inputs as he feels the ship lurch around going back in the direction that they came from “We’re going home.”
-20 Minutes Later-
“Alright I’ve set our destination to upstate New York just outside the Avengers Compound” Tony informs Both Peter and Stephen as they are entering Earth’s Upper Atmosphere. “Once we get there hopefully Bruce has been able to find and get in contact with Vision, when we find him we’ll have the location of two of the stones, Thanos has the Space and Power Stones already. I know Thor dealt with the Reality Stone a few years ago in London so hopefully it's somewhere safe, as for the Soul Stone…” He trails off looking to Strange to see if he knows anything.
“Unfortunately as far as the Masters of the Mystic Arts are aware we haven’t heard of anything in millennia, while none of the stones are very well documented there is even less known about the Soul Stone.” Stephen informs him
“Oh well that may work in our advantage if he can’t find it eith--”
“MR STARK.” Peter shouts from the front of the ship as he runs back towards Tony and Strange.
“What is it Kid?”
“We aren’t slowing down and we’re headed straight for the Lake Next to the Compound!”
-TBC-