C3 : Becoming friends with Spider-man.

Nick was dragging Peter along down the schools corridor by his arm with his tail, "Come on Nick, let go! I said I can walk by myself."

"Fine, then lead the way to the infirmary, with the way Flash treated you, you must be familiar with it by now." Nick said as he looked back a Peter, letting go of his hand at the same time.

"Thanks, it's this way." Peter said as he walked around a corner, but he came back with a loud thump, sitting on the ground again holding his nose.

Agent Coulson walked around the corner to let Nick see why Peter had fallen down again and again he picked Peter up by the arm using his tail, "You were saying something about being able to walk by yourself, hehehe." Nick laughed as Peter was still rubbing his sore, red nose.

"Mr. Stark, Mr. Parker, what are you doing out of class, the bell just rang." Said Agent Coulson.

"Some blond idiot decided it was a good idea to punch the first friend I have ever made in the face." Nick said with a little hostility, Peters checks went a little red in embarrassment, he was now standing up by himself.

"You must mean Flash Thompson."

"Yeah him, so I threatened him a little bit to put him in his place because he was racist towards me." Nick explained with a bored expression.

"By threatened you mean?"

"This." Nick said as he disappeared from Coulson's view in a puff of red smoke.

Agent Coulson could feel his trained instincts telling him to dodge forward, out of the way from the danger behind him, but he suppressed them and his panic and turned around to face Nick and the point of his stinger not far from his eye.

"Except I didn't just do this," Nick told Agent Coulson as he lowered his tail and retracted his stinger, "I also strangled him with my tail a little, lifting him off the ground by his neck until he was on the edge of suffocating... oh! And of course I also verbally threatened him as well."

Agent Coulson was completely studded by how calm and honest Nick was being to him, he thought that at lest this job won't get boring.

"Hah... fine, go get some ice for your face Mr. Parker and then bring Mr. Stark to my office." Agent Coulson said as he walked off down the corridor they just came from.

"So was that one of the teachers here?" Nick asked Peter next to him, acting dumb to Coulson's real and fake identity.

"He's the schools new Principle and I mean really new, he showed up just a couple days ago." Peter told Nick as he started walking again.

'Natasha must have already infiltrated Stark industries, otherwise there isn't any other way for shield to know I would be coming here but she probably did it now because of me and not because of uncle Tony.' Nick thought to himself as he walked besides Peter down the corridor.

Peter lead them to a room with a bed on wheels and lots of posters on health and safety in it, Peter walked to the mini-fridge that was underneath a desk, he opened it and pulled out a blue ice pack.

As Peter put it to the spot where he was punched Nick asked him, "So... do get picked on a lot by this Flash kid or did he just punch you because I was there next to you."

Peters face became a little sad at the mention of his bullying, "No, it wasn't because of you... Flash is intimidated by how much smarter then him I am and so he try's to put me down by bullying me on a daily basis, I try to not let it get to me but the constant name calling and disrespect does get to me at times." Peter told as his face became more down cast.

"You don't have to worry about that anymore Peter, I'll look after you from now on." Nick told Peter with the widest grin he could muster, "But you have to do the same for me, when people try and do the same to me, because I know they will try to discriminate against me with the way I look. So what do you say, deal?" Nick then reached out one of his hands and put a little smile on his face but you could tell from his tone that he was serious about them looking out for each other.

When Peter saw all this he was shocked a little but then smiled happily, grabbing Nick's outstretched hand, "It's a deal!"

...Principle/Agent Coulson's Office...

"So from what I have gathered, you, Mr. Thompson assaulted Mr. Parker without any warning and you then made racist comments to Mr. Stark soon after that, does sound about right?" Agent Coulson asked aloud rhetorically to Flash, who was sitting in a chair in front of Agent Coulson's desk.

He had his head down, looking down at the floor with a angry look in his eyes, like he was ready to lash out at anyone near by.

Nick and Peter were also sitting in chairs in front of his desk, Peter still had his blue ice pack on his face and Nick was playing with his tail by making shapes in the air, when Nick would more it near Flash he would flinch from it being so close and he would then inch farther away from Nick in his chair.

"So what! He's a FREACK! He almost killed me!" Flash shouted at Agent Coulson but cowered when Nick's tail got dangerously near him again.

"I already know about that, Mr. Stark was quite upfront about it, but he seems to have down played how... disrespectful you actually were." Agent Coulson said choosing his words carefully.

"I honestly thought you were better then this but is seems you are not above saying such harmful words." Agent Coulson said with a saddened tone, Flash just lowered his head even more his chin touching his chest, like he was trying to make himself small so he wouldn't be noticed.

It was then that a loud rev of a car engine was heard from outside the office window, on the main road in front of the school building.

A couple seconds later a red and gold Lykan Hypersports car was seen speeding into the school bus parking spaces, the lift side suicide door opened and out climbed Nick's uncle, Tony Stark.

"It's Tony Stark!" Peter shouted with a bit of excitement, he was a huge fan of Tony after all.

"Did you call him Sir?" Nick asked Agent Coulson as he also looked out the window, at Tony stomping up the path to the main doors.

"That's right." Agent Coulson replied, at the same time he also nodded his head to Nick's question.

"Alright then, I'll go get him." Nike then disappeared in a puff of red smoke, reappearing besides his uncle outside the school, before Tony knew what was happening Nick had already teleported them both back to Agent Coulson's office.

"I told you not to do that without warning." Tony said to Nick who was behind him as he wafted away the red smoke from his face, Nick just shrugged his shoulders and said, "You would have taken too long finding this room if I didn't."

"Still though, you could have at least said hi before you teleported me." Tony said as his face softened from the upset face he had on before.

"So that was teleporting! Is that you mutant ability? Then what is your stinger? And what about your extra arms?" Peter asked Nick excitedly, his ice pack forgotten after he found a new interest.

"Who's this?" Tony said looking back at Nick with a eyebrow raised at Peter's actions.

"My new friend, Peter Parker." Nick told his uncle, "He's a little bit of a nerd about these things, a really good guy though, unlike some people." Nick said as he looked over to Flash who had his mouth open wide again at who was had just appeared next to him.

"So this is the racist little sh!t who insulted my nephew." Tony growled angrily at Flash.

Flash's face instantly dropped, he looked like he was sh!tting his pants.

"Mr. Stark, we spoke over the phone, I'm the Principle here at Midtown High school, like I said before your nephew got into a little... altercation with one other student, Mr. Thompson here."

Agent Coulson said to Tony as he looked from him to Flash and back.

"I would like it if we can more past this without causing much... let's say fuss."

"Why is he even here?!" Flash shouted when he heard the conversation between Agent Coulson and Tony.

"Flash you really need to watch the news, I tried to tell you before." Peter spoke up when he heard Flashes shout, "Nick is Mr. Stark's Nephew, Nick's mother is Mr. Stark's sister, there was even a whole press release about it." Peter said as he opened his phone and brought up a video of the press release, Peter held up his phone to Flash's face and you could see Nick's mother holding a baby Nick as she stood next to Tony.

"Oh yeah, uncle Tony I need a phone, thought I should ask before I forget, you'll be able to get in touch with me as well." Nick told Tony as he also watched the press release video.

"Yeah, I also forgot to get you one and if thinks like this keep happening then I would rather have you call me and then teleport me here and back instead of having to drive." Tony said as he also watched the video.

"While we are on the topic," Peter said as he put away his phone, "How far can you teleport?" You could see the excited gleam in his eye.

Agent Coulson's ear's also seemed to perk up at the question, Nick didn't miss this but he didn't care, "I can teleport to anywhere I can see and anywhere I have been before, distance doesn't matter."

"Is there any delay when you teleport?" Peter asked him getting more interested.

"No delay, even when it's a great distance." Nick told Peter.

"Alright that's enough of that, you guy's can talk more later, let's deal with this first." Tony said as he looked back at Flash.

Flash thinking he was forgot became scared again, even more so then before because he actually knows now why Tony was here.

"If you don't want to get the police involved then this can be quickly sorted but if not then this might get difficult for everyone, especially because Nick is a mutant and even if you get your best lawyer's on it there will be a lot of push back, it could do a lot more harm then good to you and Nick. So, what do you want to do?" Agent Coulson asked Tony.

"Perhaps you are right and from what you told me Nick has tort this kid a lesson he won't soon forget." Tony said looking down at flash, "Oh and you will be getting an earful about that from your mother." He said as he looked at Nick.

"Ok good, then we'll do it this way, Mr. Thompson with be suspended from school for a whole month, he is the main cause of this after all," Agent Coulson said as he looked at Flash, "Mr. Parker and Mr. Stark you will be suspended from school for a week, all of you will of course be getting the homework that you would have gotten if you would be going to class and will be expected to have it all done to a high standard when you come back. Can you agree with such a punishment, Mr. Stark?" Agent Coulson said as he faced Tony.

"Yeah that's ok." Tony answered.

Flashes face was down cast as he left the office.

"Its was nice to meet you Mr. Stark." Agent Coulson said as he held out his hand for a hand shake.

"You too." Tony said as he shacked his hand.

Tony, Nick and Peter then left the office together, "Come on you two, let's go get you a new phone." Tony said as he looked at Peter and Nick.

"Yeah, would you like to hang out this week, I could use the help getting familiarised with school life." Nick asked Peter as they walked back to the class room to get Peters and Nick's things.

"Yeah, I would like that and I thing my aunt May would like to meet you as well." Peter said back.

When they came back to the class room the lesson was on going but when they walked in it all went quite, Peter walked up to the desk that they sat at and started packing up his books and Nick grabbed his backpack.

It was still quite when they left, all the students were just looking at Nick, "Come one lets go already." Tony said at the class rooms doorway, everyone's eyes went even wider, even the teachers.

After they left they could hear the class room they just left become loud with the shouting and talking of the students, talking about what they just saw, Tony Stark and Nick Stark, in the flesh.

...

Tony, Nick and Peter left the school in Tony's red and gold Lykan Hypersports car, they drove to the closest Apple store, where they bought Nick the newest iPhone, they got silence and stares there too.

When they got back into the sports car, Peter showed Nick how to use his new phone and he also gave him his number, Tony made sure they both had his, just in case.

They were driving to Peter's home, so Nick could hang out with Peter more and to meet his aunt May, at Peter's apartment in Queen's.

After Tony pulled up outside of the apartment building, Peter and Nick jumped out of the sports car and then entered the building, Tony drove off as soon as he saw that they entered the building, he knows that Nick could get home at anytime he wanted and so he wasn't worried about him, not much at least.

A couple flights of stairs later they were standing outside of Peters apartment, opening the door Peter called out, "Aunt May, are you home?"