How did you get back?!

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"In all the time I've served Thanos, I've never failed him. If I were to reach our rendezvous on Titan with the Time Stone still attatched to your vaguely irritating person, there would be...judgement. Give me... the stone." Ebony said interrogating Strange.

Tony and Peter were watching, hidden, from above. Then Strange's cloak tapped Tony on the arm. He raised his hand to it, ready to shoot, but saw what it was and stood down.

"Wow you're a seriously loyal piece of outerwear, aren't you?" he said.

"Yeah, uh, speaking of loyalty..." Harley said.

"What the-" Tony said and Peter groaned.

"I know what you're gonna say."

"You should not be here."

"I was gonna go home-"

"I don't wanna hear it."

"But it was such a long way down and I just thought about you on the way-"

"And now I gotta hear it."

"...And I kinda stuck to the side of the ship. And this suit is ridiculously intuitive, by the way. So if anything, it's kinda your fault that I'm here."

"What did you just say?" Tony asked seriously.

"I take that back. And now I'm here in space."

"Yeah. Right where I don't want you to be. This isn't Coney Island. This isn't a field trip. It's one-way ticket. You hear me? Don't pretend like you thought this through. You could not have possibly thought this through."

"No. I did think this through."

"You could not have possibly thought this through."

"It's just- You can't be a friendly neighborhood Spider – Man when there's no neighborhood." Harley said. "Okay. That didn't really make any sense, but you know what I'm trying to say."

"Come on. We got a situation. See him down there? He's in trouble. What's your plan? Go."

"Um. Okay. Okay...uh...did you ever see that really old movie, Aliens?"

Back to Ebony interrogating Strange.

"Painful aren't they? They were originally designed for microsurgery. And any one of them..." Ebony said and turned to see Tony in his Iron Man suit and Peter standing there."...could end your friend's life in an instant."

"I gotta tell you, he's not really my friend. Saving his life is more a professional courtesy." Tony said.

"You've saved nothing. Your powers are inconsequential compared to mine."

"Yeah, but the kid's seen more movies." Tony said and fired a rocket from his shoulder which pierced the side of the ship and started sucking everything out.

Strange started to be sucked out, but his cape wrapped around his arm. Unfortunately, his arm slipped from it and he kept going. Then Peter shot a web strand at him with one hand and held onto a piece of the ship with the other. It broke, sending them both towards space when his Iron-Spider suit's metal arms brace him to keep him from being sucked out.

"Yes! Wait what are those!" Harley said then Peter pulled them back inside just as Tony sprayed nanites onto the hole to plug it up.

Harley and Strange safely hit the floor. Ebonyiwas floating in space, quite dead. Then Harley stood and tried to shake Strange's cape's "hand".

"Hey, we haven't officially met." he said but it ignored him and went to Strange.

"Sorry babe." Peter said, focused, circled his hand unlocking a portal to Avengers Compound. "I can't lose you." he said, gave him a kiss and pushed him.

"Peter!" Harley yelled while it closed.

Peter stood there quietly for a second.

'I don't know if I'll make it this time. But if I do I'll tell him.' he thought with a hand on his stomach.

He had found out he was pregnant this morning and with Harley already in school didn't have the time to tell him.

"Let's hope we survive and I can tell him. Then the others." he said then turned around and went back to Tony and Strange.

"Where'd Harley go?" Tony asked not seeing him.

"Wang's been teaching me a few things over last summer and holidays. So I made a portal and got him into the Compound."

Strange and Tony looked at him in shock.

"Really?" Strange said and Peter nodded.

"OK then. Good job kid. That might actually help in the future over the years." Tony said.

Peter smiled and nodded.

"Now what's going on?" he asked back to business.

"We've gotta turn this ship around." Strange said.

"Yeah. Now he wants to run. Great plan." Tony said.

"No, I want to protect the stone."

"And I want you to thank me. Go ahead. I'm listening."

"For what? Nearly blasting me into space?"

"Who just saved your magical ass? Me."

"I seriously don't know how you fit your head into that helmet."

"Admit it. You should have ducked out when I told you to. I tried to bench you. You refused."

"Unlike everyone else in your life, 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."

"I'm backup." Peter said.

"No."

"I've been an Avenger for a year Mr. Stark so I really could do this."

Tony bit his lip knowing he was right so nodded.

"I'm sorry, I'm confused as to the relationship here. What is he, your ward?" Strange asked.

"No. I'm Spider-Man."

"This ship is self-correcting its course. Thing's on autopilot." Tony said.

"Can we control it? Fly us home?" Strange asked and Tony didn't make eye contact. "Stark?"

"Yeah."

"Can you get us home?"

"Yeah I heard you. I'm thinking... I'm not so sure we should."

"Under no circumstance can we bring the Time Stone to Thanos. I don't think you quite understand what's at stake here."

"No. It's you who doesn't understand. Thanos has been inside my head for six years...Since he sent an army to New York and now he's back! And I don't know what to do. So I'm not so sure if it's a better plan to fight him on out turf or his but you saw what they did, what he can do. At least on his turf, he's not expecting it. So I say we take the fight to him. Doctor. Do you concur?"

"Alright , Stark. We go to him. But you have to understand....if it comes to saving you or the kid or the Time Stone... I will not hesitate to let either of you die. I can't, because the fate of the universe depends on it."

"Good. Nice. Moral compass. We're straight." Tony said, turned to Peter and he put his outstretched arm briefly on either shoulder. "Alright, kid. Be the Avenger you started out as but better."

Peter looked at him and nodded.

"I'll do my best." he said.

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