Everyone followed Harley as he made his way out of the Hall of Heroes, and strutted towards the elevator.
Everyone piled in. Excited chatter and laughter coming from the students as they talked about their favorite Avengers.
The elevator stopped and everyone stepped out. They entered yet another posh looking room, the smell of the Air conditioner and food(mostly food) grabbed the attention of the students In their excitement they seemed to have forgotten how hungry they were.
Even Mj's face showed a relieved expression when she smelled cheese sandwiches from afar.
Everyone gathered with their friends after piling food on their plates, not caring about how much since Harley had said it was free.
Ned and Mj settled together. Ned began talking about the Hulk display they had seen earlier while Mj tuned him out and began reading her book.
"Say, Mj... I wonder if we could see Peter right now" these words caught Mj's attention, so she lifted her eyes from her book to look at Ned.
"I mean, it is Saturday, he did say he comes to SI on weekends, didn't he? Or maybe he didn't come, because of the fieldtrip? But he didn't know which day we were gonna come here right?" Ned thought out loud, not realizing that Mj's full attention was on him at the moment.
Mj wanted to see Peter. Mj had taken a liking to Peter and anyone who had ever known Mj could see that, she payed great attention to the boy and always looked out for him.
She, however, quickly got herself under control and brushed her thoughts about wanting to see Peter aside.
Ned quickly distracted from that topic, not for long, however, as soon, Harley came up to them with a smile on his face.
"So, you must be Mj, and Ned right? Peter always talks about you two." Harley said, his bored expression long gone, now replaced with a smirk.
Harley had heard them talking, and he would be lying if he said he hadn't felt a strange way about this tour group...well...now he knows why, they're Peter's classmates.
"Yeah! Wait...how do you know Peter?" Ned asked.
"I'm always with him, love annoying Stark with him." Harley finished, a genuine smile on his face as the memories of a screaming Tony Stark using Dum E as a shield against him and Peter's nerf guns flashed through his head.
Ned's face had a shocked expression on it, while Mj had an interested one(you never get that with her)
"Anyway, just wanted you 'ta know, that if Peter ever talks about a 'Harley' it's probably me" Harley said with a smile before walking away.
After a few seconds of stunned silence, Ned and Mj went back to eating, choosing to discuss the interaction later while interrogating Peter on his relationship with Harley.
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Peter twisted the door nob and made his way to the elevator.
After getting inside he collapsed on the floor and pressed his back up against the elevator wall, he wiggled around until he was in a comfortable sitting position.
"Fri....take me to the cafeteria...please" Peter grumbled out.
"Of course Peter"
"Than..ks" Peter muttered out.
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"Ding!"
The elevator doors opened and Peter stood up looking downward in exhaustion.
Peter walked out of the elevator.
And stepped onto the cafeteria floors.
And then he looked up.
"What the fu-"
Wide eyed Peter looked at his classmates which were currently occupying the cafeteria, they looked back at him with a similar expression.
Which brings us to why Peter was 𝘗𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨.
"...Peter?" Ned questioned.
"I told you we might see him today!" Ned exclaimed at Mj, who was too caught up with staring at Peter, who was in his pyjamas(a loose white shirt and some shorts) clutching onto his purple blanket tightly as he blinked and attempted to comprehend the situation.
"Parker?! What the crap are you doing here? Did you break in or something?" Flash exclaimed loudly, Peter winced as a reply and turned towards Harley.
"Har...ley..?" Peter quietly asked while rubbing his eyes.
"This is your class, am I right?" Harley said, letting out a small chuckle.
Peter walked over to him and face planted onto his shoulder.
"Whatttheheck is wrong with youuu!" Peter cried out, lightly hitting Harley with his hands.
"What was I supposed to do 'bout it?" Harley questioned, letting Peter hit him a little more before grabbing his hands and pushing them to the side.
"They had no idea about the not-intership thingy! You could've atleast warned me!" Peter yelled at Harley looking up at him.
It was then Harley noticed how Pale Peter's face had gotten, and the deep dark circles under his eyes.
"Peter when was the last time you slept?"
"It was Thursday you idiot"
"Peter its Saturday right now what the Jesus Christ are you doing."
"Leave me alone I need waffles right now"
Peter seemed to have forgotten that his classmates were watching the interaction and quickly dodged Harley's hands which were trying to grab him to go get waffles.
"PARKER" Flash exclaimed.
"Hmm..?..oh yeah they're here...oh no...Flash" Peter muttered to himself as he turned around to face Flash who was now storming towards him.
"HOW THE HELL DID YOU GET OUR GUIDE TO PRETEND TO KNOW YOU, HUH? TELL ME--" Flash grabbed Peter's collar.
Harley made his way over to them, knowing something bad was about to happen, he prepared himself.
"Excuse me bit-" Harley didn't even get to finish.
"--HOW DID YOU BREAK INTO ONE OF THE MOST SECURE BUILDINGS IN THE WORLD?!" Flash exclaimed, he punched Peter's face.
Harley grabbed onto Peter who had stumbled backwards from Flash's punch, he wouldn't normally do that, he would be able to withstand a punch from Flash before but he was way too tired for that now.
"Ow..man what the hell? I just want some waffles..please..." Peter said to himself, this just angered Flash even more.
Harley held tightly onto Peter's stumbling figure while glaring daggers at Flash, who cracked his knuckles in response.
"What the crap is goin' on here." Tony Stark walked into the room. Staring wide eyed at everyone.
Despite him only wearing an oil stained T-shirt and sweat pants, the entire room shifted as the man himself walked in.
The students finally began to process what was going on and reacted.
"Tony Stark?!"
"What the crap am I witnessing right now"
"Someone get the man his waffles"
"Flash?! What was that?!" Mr. Harrington exclaimed, apparently only now coming out of his trance to realise one of his students punched another.
But before Mr. Harrington could move, Tony Stark had already made his way to Peter, Harley and Flash, he calmly, yet firmly placed a hand on Flash's shoulder.
"Kid..get your hands off my kid" He murmured tiredly, yet loud enough for everyone to hear.
"YOUR KID?!" Peter and Flash exclaimed at the same time, only Peter sounded much more tired.
In shock, Flash stumbled backwards and Harley handed Peter over to Tony and Peter slumped onto him. Which in turn resulted in Tony stumbling and barely grabbing the boy, after all, he was tired too.
"Thanks Harley.." Tony said, before focusing his attention to Peter.
"Kid I gave you one job, get food, and I come to check on you and you're getting the living daylights beaten out of you" Stark muttered and dragged Peter to the cafeteria stalls.
Soft "I'm sorry Mr. Stark" 's could be heard as Peter followed Tony Stark, who was carrying 14 waffles on a plate, walking sloppily towards the elevator.
Mr. Harrington sent Flash back to the bus, to wait for everyone to finish the tour, he wordlessly complied as the security dragged him away. He was experiencing far too much shock to care about his current situation.
After all the commotion died down, the entire decathlon team turned towards Harley.
"Right so....how 'bout those upper level labs..?"
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