~5~

It's been 4 months.

4 months since Peter found some of the kindest people on earth.

4 months since Peter had met his new family.

4 months since he realized he was on the wrong side at the civil war.

But it's also been...

4 months since he was Spiderman...

4 months since he ran away from home...

4 months since he's seen his dad...And he really missed him...

It's true. Peter has been living with the ex-avengers for 4 months now. He loved them and they loved him. Even Sam was being a lot nicer and accepting to him.

Natasha stopped bothering him about whatever he might be hiding, and it felt so much better being called Peter instead of Parker.

He made a mental note to himself to, the next time he needs a fake name, to use something random like Tom or something.

Peter was currently lounging around and flipping through the minimal TV channels. He sighed as each channel turned up a disappointment.

Wanda came in the room and sat down beside Peter. "Hey Peter!" She said happily. Peter turned off the TV and smiled back at her. "Hey Wanda."

She grabbed his hands in hers and looked into your eyes. "Peter... who is your father?" She asked.

Peter's mouth went dry. He knew he couldn't lie to Wanda because she could read his mind... but that didn't mean he had to tell the truth either.

"Oh well that's not really important..." Peter mumbled. Wanda grasped Peter's hands tighter.

"You know I could figure it out if I wanted to, but I promised myself to never read deep into someone's mind without permission." She sighed.

Peter smiled and squeezed her hands back. "Thank you Wanda." Peter smiled. She was about to reply, but a loud whirring noise made them both jump up.

"Wanda?" Peter asked nervously. She looked around panicked and grabbed Peter's shoulders.

"There's an intruder. Peter I need to get you to safety." She said quickly and Peter nodded. In any other circumstance, he would have jumped into action and taken on the intruder, but he couldn't risk his identity.

So he ran with Wanda, but they didn't get very far...

There he saw all his family fighting someone oddly familiar. It was the guy from the alley that paralyzed Peter temporarily. The same guy who started this whole mess of Peter having to run away from home because Tony yelled at him for being late.

But what was he doing here?

The man made eye contact with Peter and smirked."Did you really think you could escape me?" The man shouted. The avengers looked around confused as to who this man was yelling at.

Peter glared at the man, without drawing suspicion from the others. Suddenly Wanda was pushing him down beside a couch.

"Stay here, I'm going to help them." She said and ran off into the other room.

Peter peaked from the side and saw his family getting their butts kicked. That guy had more of the paralyzy stuff so Natasha and Sam were down. Peter saw Wanda rush towards the man, but she got hit with the same smoke as the other two.

She dropped to the floor, still conscious like the rest, but unable to move. Bucky and Steve surrounded the guy and Peter felt something he hadn't felt in a long time.

That buzzing noise in the back of his head, warning him of a fatal danger to come that could easily be prevented with a simple intervention.

Peter looked over and saw the man about to stab Steve with some sort of red glowing knife...

Red always meant death. Well except in Peter's suits case... but when villains had red, it meant death. Peter knew if he didn't intervene Steve would get stabbed and would die.

He saved Peter outside when he had nowhere to go. Peter has the power to stop Steve's death, and he won't make the same mistake twice.

This was his chance to do the right thing, even if it comes with consequences for him afterwards. He took a deep breath and ran out from behind the sofa.

The confused and panicked looks of those he loved just made him all the more determined to stop this guy.

"Peter no! Get back!" Natasha yelled, but Peter ignored her. He saw the knife, and the smug look on the villains face.

Peter shot a web and grabbed the knife, but clearly the unknown villain expected this, so he threw two paralysis smoke bombs at the super soldiers and they fell to the ground.

Steve had a look of fear and gratefulness as he realized that this kid just saved his life.

The villain smiled. "So nice of you to join us!" Peter glared. "Who are you?" He sneered.

The man just laughed. "Oh, don't worry Spiderman, you'll find out one day..."

Peter sighed. Great. His secret was officially out for sure now. He couldn't just blame the webs and hero tactics on some sort of experiment he tried out anymore.

They knew he was Spiderman now. So he might as well try and catch this guy.

"Come on man, don't you know anything about how hard secret identities are? Sheesh you just blew like, 4 months of cover." Peter said in his usual sassy tone.

The villain shrugged and leapt at Peter, who dodged and punched the man. "Wow Spiderman, you're putting up much more of a fight than last time." He sneered.

Peter rolled his eyes. "Well I mean, not being paralyzed kinda makes me fight better."

The man scoffed and rolled his eyes. "Alright, enough child's play," he said and grabbed Peter's arm, "I'm finished with you for now, but just know, I'll be back."

And with that he threw Peter across the room and into Steve's bookshelf. The whole thing cracked and broke as Peter groaned in the wooden rubble.

The man spun around and disappeared into a mysterious cloud of smoke. Just as he did, the paralysis wore off the heroes and they ran over to their injured family member.

As shocked as they were, their kid just got thrown into a bookshelf, so that was problem number one.

"Peter! Oh my god are you okay!?" Bucky shouted as they ran over. Sam and Natasha helped Peter up as he brushed off some wood chips from his pants.

"Yea I'm fine, not the worst thing I've been thrown into before." He shrugged.

Steve looked at Peter with his captain eyes and everyone got a slight shiver down their spines.

"I appreciate you saving my life Peter. So thank you, but you have some explaining to do kid. Lots of it."

Yay! Finally into the good stuff! Action! Panic! Spider-Man's back everyone! Or is he? Guess you'll have to wait for the next chapter to find out! Thanks for reading!~Taco