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[yes-i-am-happyaspie]

Accidentally Worthy- happyaspie  

gifted to Quailey_TallTale for the @irondad-fic-exchange

Rated: G  No Archive Warnings Apply  Words:3762 

Summary: While Tony is at Peter's school trying to hold an assembly, a bad guy- a bad robot? comes busting through the ceiling. Of course, Peter can't stay out of the fight but even without his suit, he manages to get by. He also manages to scare the life out of his mentor turned father figure. But more importantly, Peter saves the day and is totally worthy.

Part 59 of the Tony Stark is a Good Mentor series

    ***excerpt below the cut ***

"Aren't you excited?" Ned asked as he and Peter rummaged through their lockers in preparation for the assembly that had been scheduled.  The ninth and tenth-grade portion was meant to be taking place for the first two periods of the day and everyone was hustling to get to the gym.

"I'm excited that I don't have to go to Spanish," Peter replied, poignantly shoving his Spanish Two Workbook into his locker along with a few loose papers.

Ned paused to give his friend an incredulous look. "But you're not excited that The Tony Stark is coming to our school?  Peter, that's badass," he stated in seriousness.  Like the rest of the school, he couldn't think of a better way to spend half of the school day.

Peter rolled his eyes and huffed a laugh.  "I literally see him every week, Ned. I have a bedroom in his penthouse.  If anything him coming here is just weird," he said though he could understand everyone's enthusiasm.  Had this same assembly been planned just a year and a half prior he would have been beside himself at the opportunity just to be in the same room with the man.  

"But this will prove that you two know each other. That has to mean something. They'll have to believe you after today," Ned pressed.

Peter sighed and looked up from where he'd been digging around in his backpack to make sure that he'd removed all of the unnecessary textbooks. "I don't actually care if they believe me or not.  The reality that I know Mr. Stark isn't provisional to a bunch of high schoolers accepting said reality. There are no such contingencies," he said with finality and then stood up to close his locker.  

With a nod of his head, Ned clapped his own locker shut and lengthened his stride so that he could catch up with Peter who had already started walking off. "Okay but I can be excited about it, right?" he asked with a broad grin.

"Sure, Ned," Peter smiled back "You can be excited about it."

Getting into the gym was more of a chore than it should have been. It seemed as though all two-thousand-five-hundred-and-seventeen students were all trying to squeeze their way inside at the same time. Teachers were posted at each entrance, checking student ID's and running off the upper-classmen who just wanted to get a glimpse inside.  It was a cluster of boisterous activity and Peter couldn't have been any more thankful to finally get through the doors and seated at the very top of the bleachers, away from where everyone else was clamoring to get a front-row seat.

Then at eight-fifteen on the dot, the principal approached the microphone and attempted to get the large group to quiet down.  Of course, it didn't work.  Everyone continued to shout, chant, and talk amongst themselves.  As they did so, Peter used his elevated position to his advantage and started scanning the crowd of adults that were huddled together at the opposite end of the large room.  

It didn't take long for him to spot Tony and he wasn't sure how everyone else hadn't noticed him as well.  He was wearing a four-piece suit and was the only one in the room with sunglasses perched on his nose.  Then he noticed some other people were milling around just outside the door that was behind the man and squinted his eyes to get a better look.  He sighed when he realized who it was and fished his phone out of his pocket.

'Mr. Stark, why are Thor and Captain Roger's here with you?' he rapidly texted, knowing that even if the man's phone was on 'do not disturb' it would still ring for him.  And as expected, seconds later he watched as Tony pulled out his own phone and began to read the message.

'They wanted to come,' Tony texted back, then scanning the sea of teenagers for his favorite young adult. Though that task became more difficult as he stepped forward and the large group erupted into cheers that echoed off of the walls.

Peter covered his ears in frustration before taking a moment to text back.  'I thought this was an SI STEAM thing?' he asked because he'd not really been paying much attention to the announcement and when he'd spoken to Tony about it the man hadn't mentioned any sort of Avengers involvement.  

'Cap likes to color and Point Break is a physics anomaly, so there's that,' Tony shot back with a shrug of his shoulders followed by, 'where are you?'

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