" This is the most stupidest idea you've ever had, Peter!"

" Stupidest isn't exactly a word..."

" Peter, so help me, I'm gonna electrocute you if you say anything else stupid right now." Bella warned as she used her super speed running alongside him.

Peter rolled his eyes behind his mask as he held onto the web that was stuck against the back of the van that was basically dragging him down the road. " Okay! So, maybe this wasn't my best idea-"

" It shouldn't have even been an option!" Bella interrupted him and as she looked at him she glared.

Peter continued to struggle keeping ahold of the web and shot another web at the back of the van thinking that would help him. " Y'know, some help would be nice right about now." he mumbled.

Bella rolled her eyes. " Y'know, dangling off the back of a van by some web is not that smart." her eyes then widened whenever she saw the guy in the back of the van with some anti tech blast at them. " Spidey, watch out!"

Peter moved out of the way just in time as a bright purple blast of energy shot past him, breaking the right side of the back door of the van off and it fell onto the road. Bella was already around it since she had a better chance of seeing what was in front of them.

Bella eyes grow wide as the guy shoots another blast but the van was turning a corner which made the guy lose his grip on the anti tech gun, she moved to the right side as the anti tech gun rolled out of the van and off the road.

She yelped as he was swung over towards her. She managed to jump over him so she was on the other side now and glanced over seeing that he was being swung beneath a row of trashcans. Her eyes widened as he hit a mailbox that was made into some bricks.

" Are you okay?" she skid to a stop once she got to him. Peter quickly got up and took a deep breath but it sounded shaky. 

" Yeah, yeah. I'm good," he starts to say and she frowns. She knew that he wasn't good by how he sounded and she was about to open her mouth to protest but he said, " let's get going before we lose them!"

He then turns around and starts running in the direction the van went and thankfully they weren't that far ahead of them.

Bella wished he wouldn't push himself so hard but she knows if she says anything about it he wouldn't listen. She watched as Peter swung a web at the other back door of the van but it came off whenever he pulled.

Peter groaned and threw his hands up in the air frustrated that it didn't work. " Ugh, just great."

" You could take a shortcut." Bella suggested with a shrug of her shoulders as Peter started looking around for a shortcut.

" I'll meet you there." she told him and he nodded and started running towards a gate.

" Thanks!" he called out to her before jumping over the gate and she started running down the road towards the van.

Bella runs down the road trying to catch up with the van. She glanced at each side of her every once in awhile keeping an eye out for Peter since she hasn't seen him yet and she was beginning to worry something happened to him.

" Woah!" she yelled whenever something crashed in front of her, well, more like on her, making the both of them crash into some trashcans that were on the sidewalk.

" Sorry!" a voice said and she looked above her to see that it was Peter. She let out a relieved breath she didn't know she was holding. " Thank goodness you're alright."

She looked at him and that made her realize the position they were in and it seemed like he realized that too because he quickly got off of her and helped her up. " Yes, yeah. I-I'm fine. Sorry I crashed into you."

" It's fine-no time for apologizes, let's go slowpoke!" and with that she took off running down the road.

Peter sighed. " It's times like this I wish I had super speed." he mumbled and shot a web towards a tree above a nearby house.

He jumped onto the roof and while he runs across the roof he notices a familiar blue blur running on the road a few inches away from the van and he smiles behind his mask, glad that he finally caught up to the van.

" Thought you could get away from me, huh?"

On the road Bella surges, which is just pure electrical power that flows through her hands and she sends a ray towards the van's tires, hoping it would slow them down. She let out a cheer whenever it made the left tire in tire in the back flat and now the men were slowing down just the slightest.

Glancing above her she notices a familiar red and blue figure running on a roof and he was ready to jump onto the roof of the van when something grabs him from midair and flies away. Her eyes widened and she stops running.

" Peter!" she yells as if he could hear her.

She had no idea what that thing was that grabbed him and she had no idea where it was taking him and that's what worried her. From what she saw of the thing that grabbed Peter it looked like a huge vulture.

She wished that her and Peter had ear pieces or some other way to communicate because that would be very helpful for her now. Looking in front of her she realized that the van was long gone and to be honest she just cared about where Peter was and for his safety.

She raised her hand to the side of her suit and pressed a button. " Um, Uncle Tony? Please don't get mad, but I need help."

****

Bella zooms over to the park Tony told her they were at and she let out a breath of relief seeing Peter sitting on top of a jungle gym and Tony's Ironman suit was flying in midair in front of him.

" Bella!" Peter called out once he noticed her running up to them. He was beyond relieved that she was okay since he had no idea where she was.

" Peter! Oh my gosh, you're alive." she said and stopped running, standing in front of the jungle gym. 

" You're welcome." Tony said.

Bella nods and looks at him, relieved that he got Peter. " Yeah, yeah, thanks."

" So, how'd you fine me? Did you put a tracker on my suit or something?" Peter asked and Bella took this time to look over him. Confusion crosses over her face whenever she noticed he was soaking wet. What did he do? Go swimming?

" Actually, Bella was the one that called me and told me you were missing." Tony said and Peter glanced over at Bella and they locked eyes with each other.

" Really?" he asked and she nods.

He smiles. " Thanks." she smiles back at him using that smile that makes his heartbeat a million miles per hour.

" And I put everything in your suit. Including this heater." Tony told him and Bella could literally see the smoke around Peter as he lets out a content sigh.

" Whew, that's better, thanks."

Bella looks up at Tony. " Wait, you're telling me that I was able to communicate with Peter through my suit the whole time to find him?"

Tony nods. " Yeah, I thought you knew that."

Bella glares up at him and waves her arms around dramatically. " Does it look like I knew that?!"

" What were you thinking?" Tony asked in a more serious tone.

Peter gestures to his right. " The guy with the wings is obviously the source of the weapons I gotta take him down. Bella wanted to get to the bottom of this also."

Bella pointed at him. " Hey, don't add me into this, I don't want to get in trouble for trying to stop you from doing something stupid."

Tony looked at her. " Which obviously didn't work considering that I had to pull him out of water." he said harshly and Bella looked down at the ground, a frown forming on her lips as her shoulders slump.

Peter frowns, hating that Bella was in trouble for something he did.

" Don't be hard on her, Mr. Stark. This, this was my fault." Peter speaks up and Bella looks up at him with surprise. Surprised that he was defending her.

" Yes, you're right. This is you're fault. You thought that you could just take him down now, huh?Steady, Crockett. There are people who handle this sort of thing - " Tony starts to say, but Peter interrupts him.

" The Avengers?"

" No, no, no. This is a little below their pay grade." Tony says and Bella rolls her eyes.

" Mr. Stark, you didn't have to come all the way out here. Me and Bella had that. We were fine." Peter shrugged his shoulders.

Bella scoffs while crossing her arms.
" Says the dude that was dangling off the side of the van by a web."

" Yeah, that's not smart." Tony said.

Bella nods. " Exactly what I said."

" And oh, I'm not here." Tony adds and the helmet opens revealing an empty space where Tony's face should have been. 

Bella frowns, a little disappointed that he wasn't there in person. She wondered if he would care enough to be there if she was the one that got thrown into a lake or whatever it was. As she looked at Peter she noticed how his face falls.

" Look, forget the vulture guy, please. And I'm talking to the both of you when I say this." Tony told them.

" Why?" Peter asks and Bella knew he probably should've kept his mouth shut.

" Why? Because I said so!" Tony raises his voice at the end of the sentence.

" Just, stay close to the ground. You too Bella. Build up your game helping the little people. Like that lady that bought you the churro." Peter sighs and looks down at the ground. Bella climbs up onto the jungle gym and sits on the right side of Peter.

" Can't you just be a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man?" Tony asks Peter.

Peter looks back up at the Ironman suit even though Tony wasn't even there. " But I'm ready for more than that now!"

The hel. met of the suit closes as Tony says, " No, you're not."

" That is not what you thought when I took on Captain America." Peter argues.

Bella nods. " He does have a point.."

" Bella, don't even think about encouraging him with this. Don't think that I'm not gonna tell you're brothers that you did this tonight." Tony told her.

Bella eyes widened. " What? Why? They, they don't need to know this!"

" I'm telling them because you haven't answered their 20 phone calls or their 14 text messages. " Tony said and Bella sighed. She knew she was going to get a lecture when she got home and she wasn't looking forward to it.

" Trust me kid," Tony was now talking to Peter.

" If Cap wanted to lay you out, he would've. Listen to me, both of you." Bella looked up towards the suit as she crossed her arms over her chest. "If either of you come across these weapons again, call Happy."

Bella and Peter share a look of confusion whenever they hear a car engine. " Are you driving?" Peter asks.

" You know, it's never to early to think about collage. I got some pull at MIT. End call." Tony said and Bella sighed.

" No, I don't need to go to call-Mr. Stark-" Peter quickly says, but it was too late because Friday then said,
" Mr. Stark is no longer connected."

The Ironman suit flies off as Peter mutters grudgingly. " That's awesome."

After a moment of silence between the two teenagers Bella decides to speak up. " I'm sorry."

Peter looks over at her and shakes his head. " Why're you sorry? You got nothing to be sorry for. It's my fault I dragged you into this mess."

Bella shook her head. " I'm the one that followed you."

Peter shrugs his shoulders. " You were just being a good friend."

Bella's heart aches at the word friend. She sighs and looks away.
"Yeah...friend."

Peter frowns, afraid he did something wrong. " Belle?" he asks and she bites her lower lip at hearing the nickname he only used that would normally form butterflies in her stomach and it would've now if she wasn't so upset.

" Bella?" he asked again as Bella started climbing down the jungle gym. " I...I better go. I got a lecture waiting for me at home." she said quietly. Peter opened his mouth to say something but she was gone.

****

Bella gets home in no time and only hopes that her brothers are asleep because she saw that that all the lights were off.

She got the spare key out of her pocket and quietly opened the door, peaking her head inside she saw that all the lights were indeed off and it looked empty. It was quiet, all she could hear was the sound of her heart beating very fast.

Stepping inside of the house she quietly closes the door behind her and lets out a sigh of relief once it shuts tight as she leans her back against it. She let out a surprise yelp as the lights turn on and she had to squint her eyes to get them adjusted to the brightness of the light.

" So, how was Liz's party?" Andrew asked with an unamused face.

He was leaning against the wall by the light switch and Xander was sitting at the counter drinking a cup of what she assumed was coffee. Neither of them looked happy.

Bella gulped and stood up straight.
" Oh, uh. It, it was great."

Xander raised an eyebrow. " Oh yeah?" he challenged and Bella wasn't for sure what to say to that.

" I don't remember you leaving the house in your suit." Andrew crossed his arms over his chest as he stared at her and Bella shrinks under his intimidating gaze.

" So," Xander says as he stands up and walks over to the dishwasher to put his now empty cup there. " Uncle Tony called."

Bella nods and suddenly her throat felt dry. " Oh? How-how did that go?"

" What the heck were you thinking?!" Andrew asked her, his voice raising with each word and Bella winced.
" Going after criminals on your own without telling anyone? You could've gotten hurt! Or worse, you could've died."

" I wasn't exactly alone-" Bella heard herself say and her voice sounded so small.

" Yeah, because Spider-Boy dragged you with him." Xander said after closing the dishwasher and turning to face her with his arms crossed over his chest.

Bella frowns. " It's Spider-Man actually..."

Xander rolls his eyes. " I don't care what the bug boy's hero name is. I just care that we didn't know where you were tonight. We couldn't find you and had no way of tracking you. We should've put a tracker on your suit." he said, mumbling the last part mostly to himself.

" I was trying to stop Peter from doing something stupid! And yes I know that didn't work, but at least I tried! If it was me doing what Peter did the both of you would've done the same thing!" Bella told them, raising both of her hands up in the air dramatically.

" That's-that's different." Xander pointed at her and Bella rolls her eyes. " No, it's really not that different."

Andrew sighs and walks over to Bella. " Listen, you know we both love you, right?" he asks and Bella sighs then nods. " Yeah, I know. Love you too."

Andrew sighs. " We just want you to be safe and not try to get yourself killed every night. We're fine with you wanting to help people and be a hero, follow in our uncle's footsteps with being a hero."

" But you could've at least told us what you were doing so we wouldn't be searching all over Queens to find you." Andrew explained and Bella looks up at them.

" I'm sorry guys. I really am sorry for not telling you. I just....I wasn't really thinking other than that I knew I had to make sure Peter was okay because-"

" Because you love about him." Xander interrupted her and she blushed.

" W-what? No!" Bella quickly said and the two older siblings share a look.

Andrew nods. " Yeah you do. It's quite obvious."

Xander looks back at her. " I'm actually rooting for the both of you. I even came up with the ship name Peta. Or it could even be Belter. But I think I like Peta more." he says and his siblings look at him weirdly.

" What? I have a lot of free time." Xander defends himself and the other two share a laugh.

" I promise next time I'll be more careful." Bella said and Andrew pulls her in for a hug. " That's all we're asking for."

A/N yay I finally published another chapter! I hope you guys enjoyed it & don't forget to check out some of my other books!