Silver Spider Spanked { DominiqueTrix

[KingCrowley]

"But you are already training us! Why do we need education?" Pietro asked, narrowing his eyes at Steve, Tony and Clint as the three of them stood before the three children currently sat on the couch. Sometimes the young man's English was a little broken, but for the most part everyone seemed able to understand him.

"An education. I think you just answered your own question, lightning." Tony answered, shaking his head. "It's not enough to just be heroes, what if that falls through and all you end up doing is working in some cramped office or greasy take out place?" not that Tony would let that happen, especially with Peter since he would help out his little Spider financially if needed. "Being a hero doesn't pay the bills kids."

"Well it should!" Pietro snapped, getting agitated. "We have to bust our ass-

"Pietro." Steve warned, voice level. "Language."

"--butts to do our job and we get no moneys." he argued. "We barely get decent allowance." he muttered under his breath and he was lucky that none of them managed to hear that otherwise Pietro might just end up going broke for the next month.

"Which is why you need an education as well as hero training." Tony interjected, "You'll learn English, Math, Science, the usual."

"So we can be completely American speaking citizens." Wanda frowned, up until this point she had been looking at her finger nails and playing with her hair, not really paying attention. However, she didn't like the fact that she and her twin brother were being taken from their Sovokian routes and made to be---more American---especially with English lessons.

"Honey, it's not like that." Steve assured, since he could understand why that would frustrate her. "No one's saying you have to change who you are, but Tony's right---some education wouldn't hurt, and besides you're all fourteen--"

"Fourteen and half." Pietro interjected since he and Wanda were a couple months older than Peter was.

"No, zip it kid. The adults are talking." Tony scolded, growing annoyed by Pietro's attitude. He sent a look to Clint, since essentially he was Pietro's keeper.

"--and you should all be in school anyway." Steve finished off, he could tell Wanda and Pietro were definitely not partial to the idea of starting school, but up until this point their little Spiderling had been quiet and Steve wondered what his thoughts on the matter were.

"Okay tarantula, you've been pretty quiet. What's your thoughts on this?" Tony asked, turning his attention to Peter who sat on the left side of Pietro.

Peter sat quietly beside Pietro while the other teen complained about school. Peter Benjamin Parker, on the other hand, was a nerd. He had been a huge fan of Mr. Stark since he was little. He knew that Mr. Stark didn’t remember saving him or meeting him at the Stark Expo when he was little, but that was alright with him. It had inspired him to study hard so that way one day he might be lucky enough to work for him.

He just didn’t think working for him would involve being bitten by a radioactive spider, getting powers, losing his uncle, and being found by the genius via Youtube.

Clint rolled his eyes at his mentee’s complaints. He thought the accent and his inability to use proper English was actually charming in its own way. Regardless, they had to make sure that all three kids had something to fall back on.

“You know, an education is pretty important no matter how you look at it. It helps you earn respect. Isn’t that right, Nat?” Clint smiled back at the Black Widow while she strolled into the room.

“School?” Nat asked before raising an eyebrow at Clint, “If you put any of these kids in the type of school I meant to I swear I will-“ Nat stopped before prattling off in Russian. A language she knew Tony and Steve knew. The threats she had taught to Clint long ago.

Clint grinned and shook his head at her. “No, Nat. Public school. You know how Peter goes to Midtown Tech?”

“Oh… Right, yes. But… The twins won’t be able to get into that school,” Nat said flatly. Maybe reverse psychology would help them out.

Clint saw where Nat was going and shot her a knowing look. “Yeah, they would have to test in, wouldn’t they? They’ve been so against an education, I doubt they would want to go to a school with such an elite education.”

Peter paled a bit and looked at Nat and Clint while they talked. Offending the twins was probably not a great idea, and Peter didn’t know how he felt about being the golden child to compare the two with. He jumped a bit when Mr. Stark spoke, blinking for a moment.

“I… Um… I like… I like school,” Peter said with a soft blush. “I-I was going to join the academic decathlon, and the debate team,” Peter mumbled. He could sacrifice a bit of sleep to keep up with school and hero work. Peter was not about to give up being Spider-Man for school.