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Who: Gwen, Peter and YOU
What:Gwen and Peter are asking for help to set up a party. With posters.
Where:Throughout the Train
When: Morning Day 23

After chores are done, Gwen and Peter set about on a very important task. The last few days on the train have been, in a word, bullshit. And both Spider-Teens have decided that another party is what the train needs. But they refuse to be the only two setting this thing up, so they're busy enlisting help.

Via posters that Gwen spent three days working on. It's in black and white, sure, because Gwen refuses to spend points on anything in the store. She's saving them for something. But the detail on it shows Gwen absolutely knows what she's doing when it comes to art.

And the poster is simple. Just balloons, musical notes, pictures of people dancing and having a great time. Peter was amazing and did the lettering. It was a beautiful team effort, probably with a lot of giggling and everyone's favorite Spider-Couple being ridiculous about it.

They're stuck up in random places throughout the train. On sleeper cabin doors, on random walls, even on the wall between the engine and the rest of the train. But not the luggage car door. It still smells too much for Gwen to go near it.

And should anyone stop to read said posters? They say the following:

WANTED! YOU! YES, YOU!
It's time for another train party!
And for that, we need people to help with the following;

Decorations!
Food!
Refreshments! (no alcohol, sorry)

Music is covered. If you feel the need to volunteer please see Gwen Stacy or Peter Parker. Thanks!

That's it. That's the poster. Someone volunteer as tribute, Gwen spent three days hand-drawing every single one of these things.

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{ A. Closed to Gwen. }

Peter's sitting on her bunk with his legs crossed and laptop sitting on on his lap as he works on their collaborative playlist. He had a bit of a rough time after the dream/nightmare thing but somehow, he's bounced back and now laughing and smiling again as he plans what songs should go on the Party Play list. Which he definitely named 'Party Music for Party People and Party Spiders.

"So obviously, we have to put Radioactive on here." He gives her one of his looks like 'those are just the rules.'

{ B. In the Gym. }

Peter's seated on the ground of the gym with his laptop. He's messing with some of the music on it and drinking a can of monster. He clicks play on the screen and then hops up and just casually strolls to the other end of the gym.

"Oh." He suddenly realizes his problem-he has super hearing, of course he can still hear the music. He shakes his head at his own stupidity and then ducks his head out of the gym to flag down the nearest person. "Hey, c'mere, please? I need you test something for me-nothing bad, I just need to know the sound range of my Laptop."

{ C. Distracted Spider. }

Peter's still in the gym but he might have gotten distracted and is now playing Portal.

Edited 2020-02-14 05:03 (UTC)

Tony was just stepping out of his room in fresh workout clothes (which just meant his black tank top and cargo pants) when Peter was calling to him. His eyebrow rose at the request and followed.

"Music for what?" He asked. However, just as he got close, he spotted one of the posters. Reading over it, he looked very interested until toward the end where he scowled at it. "I'm bringing booze and you can't stop me. But I'll also let you use my speaker I made. I made it out of a bucket."

He continued into the room and looked around. "I can barely hear that and this place is empty."

Peter's listening, honest. The thing is he's also focusing on his laptop and fixing the sound so Tony can probably hear This song playing in the back ground because of course he's listening to Imagine Dragons while testing the sound.

"Now?" He pauses though as Tony's offer registers and a huge grin over takes his focused expression. "Oh my god, really? That's so awesome-can you teach me how to do that?" If Tony wasn't expecting Peter to get really excited about that then he doesn't know this kid well at all.

"Actually, Mr Stark. Can I maybe borrow your laptop? You can be right here with me, if you want, but I just wanna blue tooth some of your music to my laptop... if that's okay. So that, you know, there's music you like too?"

Tony gestured with a hand to raise the volume up before he gave the 'ok' sign. However, he started listening to the words of the song and it was strangely powerful. So he looked up a bit surprised at the exuberance, but not because he wouldn't have guessed Peter would do that but because he'd lost track of their conversation.

"Sure, go ahead," Tony agreed, still slightly distracted. "And.. not just because of the song.." It was totally because of the song. "But. you know how much you mean to me right, kid?"

Peter's head and bobbing gently side to side as do his shoulders as he listens to the music, his toes tapping as he messes with the sound.

"'Cause I'm top of the world hey! I'm on top of the world hey! Been waiting on this for a while now...♪" He's even singing softly as he works on getting the music up a little more.

"He looks up at Tony's response, a smile on his face that falters a moment as he takes in what Tony just said. This sounds like a loaded question, but never the less, he smiles again. "Love you too, Mr Stark." He tells him.

Tony listens to Peter sing. Seeing the kid with so much life would never stop healing the wound that was left when he saw the boy fade away.

Whatever dark or heavy place his mind was, Peter's response to it makes him smile and pull free of it. He breathes a small laugh and looks down at.. well, nothing. This was another good example of why he always liked having things to do to keep his hands busy. It also gave him an excuse to look elsewhere.

Although it makes him think of the other weirdness (good weird) going on in his life. "I'll go get the speaker so we can figure out the best volume with that and my laptop.. but, uh. I need to talk to you about something. It's not a bad something, okay? Just.. I'm not all that sure how this is going to work here, but I gave Ignis my ring. We're.. engaged, sort of."

Peter's absorbed in what he's doing again, not noticing if Tony's looking him a certain way. However, he looks up again from his music scrolling and looks confused-something to talk about? Oh god, what has Tony found out about now? There's probably a list of thirty of forty things he could get in trouble for but he relaxes a bit when Tony assures him it's not bad. So he's not in trouble.

"Aww, that's adorable." He flashes a smile at his mentor in a slightly teasing way. Just don't mention anything about him needing to give Gwen a ring and he won't flip out and die of embarrassment. Although he might at the next song that plays. It's only on there because it's fun. He doesn't mean anything by it, honest!

"Uh... what's up Mr Stark?" He decides to skip the song to the next one.

That reaction is almost enough to get the man of iron to blush. He laughs awkwardly and rubs the back of his neck, ducking his head a little in embarrassment. "Yeah well.. I didn't have any flowers like you did at our last mission. Not to mention he makes me really happy and seems to like putting up with me. Anyway- what did you end up getting Gwen?"

The song that started caught his attention and he rolled his eyes. "Did you write that song?"

He comes over and takes a look at his playlist. He was impressed by the number of AC/DC songs and other good ones. "The other thing that's going on is.. this wasn't my idea but.. Ignis and I are taking steps to formally adopt Madoka." He looks at Peter unsure of his reaction. "Again, I'm not completely sure how that works out while being here in 'captivity'. But.. since we're doing that with her, I was wondering.. your aunt is here but I know I've acted like a dad to you too. But.. it's up to you. I mean, it won't change what we already have but if you want I can also do that with you."

"Uh.. I can see why you might think that, but no. Simple Plan did." He answers, happy to leave the Beatles playing and then blushes a little at the thought he got Gwen something special. "Um, actually I got her a bracelet. It says five, six seven eight.' on it, ya know, since she's a dancer and all." He ducks his head down to focus on the screen.

He looks up again as Tony mentions the whole adopting Madoka thing and he almost chimes in with a comment about how he'd always wanted a little sister but he doesn't because of Tony's next words. There's a bit of a pit in the bottom of his stomach. Sure, he'd love to be able to call Tony Stark his dad-although he still prefers Mr Stark since that's just kinda his thing.

"Oh..." He falters, realising he should probably answer. "I um... I don't know." He admits, starting to fidget with anxiety. "I just... um... I think you'd have to talk to May, about that but I uh... I kinda keep hoping Ben will come back. Or maybe even my real-I mean, that's not to say I don't think of you as my real dad but-you get what I'm saying right?"

"Clever," Tony remarked, giving the boy a genuinely impressed nod of his head hearing about the gift. "She loved it, didn't she?" He was just going to pretend Peter got his ability to pick out great gifts from him. Ignoring the gigantic bunny when he was losing his mind, of course.

He watched as Peter stuttered and started getting nervous over the question. Tony sat down next to the young man and put his hand on his shoulder. "Hey, hey, slow down. It's okay. My feelings for you are never going to change, ever. You're still my number one and my idiot intern, okay?" He offered a small, gentle smile at that little tease. "I get it and I know it has nothing to do with me. I just needed to ask you, okay? You deserved the invitation even if that's just not us. We're friends and you can still come annoy me whenever you need to just like you do now. I didn't want you to hear about Madoka and get jealous or feel bad that I didn't ask you. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you that your parents and uncle Ben will be on the next platform, okay? We just never know here."

"Yeah..." He says a little distractedly, unable to help the bit of guilt pooling in his stomach. It's probably silly and a little unhealthy to hold out hope for something that has such a low chance of happening but accepting Tony's offer of practically adopting him would feel too much like giving up on the family he misses so much. It's not that he doesn't want Mr Stark to be in his family-he just doesn't want to give up yet. He pushes the guilt aside for a moment though and then offers Tony that same teasing grin from earlier, though there's still perhaps the look in his eyes isn't quite as bright.

"So.... did you know, I've always wanted a little sister." He says, saying the words out loud though, seem to help release the guilt a little.

"...I'm still your kid, right? Like.. you'll still claim me?"

It was possible it was unhealthy, but Tony thinks it's pretty unrealistic to expect anyone to do otherwise. They all missed and wanted their loved ones to find them again. Despite his relationship with Ignis, a part of him longed for Pepper and Morgan and he was pretty sure he always would.

He noticed the difference in Peter's expression, but he was hoping he could get the sparkle back in his eyes. It was a heavy topic but they'd navigated well enough, he thought. "No, I didn't know that. And now you sort of have two. Madoka and Buttercup," Tony answered with a smile of his own.

At the question, he rolled his eyes playfully and then pulled the kid in to a hug. "Of course. Besides, it's not like I have any choice in the matter," he joked and ruffled Peter's hair (which he knew the kid just loved). "You're not going to Rick Roll us again are you?"

Mission accomplished, the sparkle is back the moment he thinks of having two little sisters. He'll take the best care of them. He's not sure he could convince Buttercup to think of him as a big brother but maybe he'd ask? That might be weird though.

"Waugh! Mr Stark!" Peter lets out, laughing a little as he's pulled into the hug. He can't really do much about the hair ruffle besides make a face. And then, at that last question he laughs hard and reaches for the screen-trying to press play on 'Never Gonna Give you Up' instead, he hits the Pokemon Theme. Of course he has it on his computer, why wouldn't he?

"Do you wanna be the Very best, Mr Stark? Like no one ever was?" He asks through a laugh.

Tony didn't have hardly any time to enjoy his victory of avoiding being Rick Rolled when something worse comes on.

"What the.." He groans and put a hand over his face. What fresh hell was this? "Your real super power, is being ridiculously annoying!" He accused and then tried again to get a different song on.

He gave Peter such a weird look as the song started to play. "You have Spice Girls?!"

Before Tony can get the song changed, Peter at least gets to sing along with the first bit which, of course is.

"I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was~ To catch them is my rea-Aww." Peter frowns as Tony changes it. "Annoying? I'll have you know that song is a bop, Mr Stark." He looks completely unapologetic. The next song starts and he just shrugs.

"May loves the Spice Girls-uh don't tell her I told you though-they're like her guilty pleasure."

Edited 2020-03-01 06:56 (UTC)

"It wouldn't be a Party Spider playlist without it," Gwen agrees, stretched out behind him on her bed and scrolling her way through the music on her phone, humming to herself a bit as she tries to find something to put on.

"Oh...Renegades by X Ambassadors is a good one, too."

"I already added it." Peter says distractedly, sifting through all the music he's collected on his laptop over the years. There's a bunch on here he doesn't even remember downloading. Oh Limewire, never forget.

"Uh... what about like actual Party songs? Should we subject people to things like Cotton-Eyed-Joe, Electric slide, YMCA... or... I'm gonna pretend I don't have the Chicken Dance on my computer." He decides, shaking his head. What made him want to download that he has no idea. "Ooh! What about like... the Star Wars theme?"

"Mmmm," Gwen hums for a moment and then she wrinkles her nose and shakes her head. "Too soon after Rick Rolling the entire train."

Let's be semi-reasonable spider-idiots, Peter.

"...maybe? Hard maybe."

She leans in to look at his list for a moment, turning back to her phone to scroll through.

"I have a metal cover of Baby Shark."

Peter waits have a second, deliberating all the music he could add. Already, the run time was getting pretty up there-close to five hours but that's not too much.

"...I'm adding them." He decides before throwing them on the playlist. He freezes a moment, eyes going wide at her statement and looking over at her like the mischievous spider-kid he actually is.

"Send it." he says excitedly. "Actually, play it. I wanna hear that."

He clicks through more music, looking for more there are actual dance moves to. Does he have the Macarena? Yes! Added to the list along with the Cha Cha slide and the Cupid Shuffle.

[ A party is exactly what this train needs. At least, Evie thinks so. So when she sees the requests for help, she hunts down the first Spider-kid she can find.

Peter, somehow, reminds her of Carlos. All high energy, thinking and doing a million things at once. Even when he's sitting at his laptop doing nothing, there were still reminders of her brother back home.

She tilts her head to look at what he's playing and it's a game she's never seen. ]

Okay, what is this game and how is it played? And do you still need volunteers for food for your party?

[ Peter's got his music playing softly as he plays his game, his foot bobbing gently with the beat as he sings along to This song. ]

You're everything I need and more, baby it's written all over your face♪

[ He pauses as he realises he's not alone and his cheeks flush a little. ]

Huh? Oh yeah. You solve puzzles by making portals. And yeah, yeah we do-Part of the reason I'm in here is for volunteers.

[ Not because he got distracted playing video games and singing along to Beyonce. ]

[ Evie isn't one for teasing people, but she's seen Peter and his girlfriend around, so the song puts a smile on her face, eyebrow twitching upward faintly. ]

You better dance with Gwen to this song at the party, otherwise I'm going to be very disappointed in you.

[ Okay, maybe some light teasing. Just a bit. Also? Don't mind her sitting on the floor nearby. ]

What a coincidence. The reason I'm here is to volunteer. What kind of foods were you thinking?

[ well. That was. Embarrassing. He switches the song to Something else.

Um. there's a bunch I have on here, that remind me of her... [ Wait. that's not the point of this! He gives his head a shake and fires a orange Portal at the ground by a turret so it falls over. ]

Oh! Uh.. like Party foods, you know like uh... veggie platters, fruit platters, chips and stuff. Maybe little triangle sandwiches? Just finger food stuff.

Relax. I think you two are the most precious thing on this train. I'm not teasing you. You're both endearing and clearly in love with each other.

[ She can spot this shit a mile away, Peter. And she loves seeing it. ]

Triangle sandwiches. I can manage those. And I can fry some potato chips for this. Any flavor preferences for any of that?

Um... thanks?

[ he's not too sure what to say to that but he'll accept it if they become the train's favorite couple. ]

Uh... not really, if you can make like... dip or something that'd be cool.

Beedee knows he should stay near Cal, but this train is still too interesting. He's scanned most of it. Several times over, in fact, to see if anything's changed. But, no. Nothing is different save for where people can be found. He's walking through the gym car, intent on getting to the next one over, but what Peter is doing is far more interesting.

So the small bipedal droid stops nearby and leans in a bit to look at the laptop. Of course, a bit here means he is most likely in the way and doesn't realize it.

It'll take him a moment to, a quick glance at Peter's hands on the keys and then the droid follows Peter's arms up to his face where, looking from Peter back to the screen and then back to Peter, he beeps out something that sounds like it could be an apology and steps out of the way, still watching the screen carefully and with much interest.

Peter's not expecting company as he's completely focused on his game, biting gently on his tongue in concentration and absentmindedly singing along to this song.

"I knew you were trouble when you walked in~♪" He sings. ""So shame on me now~♪" He pauses his singing as his game is suddenly interrupted and he blinks curiously at it, unable to help it when he automatically responds to the beeping. "It's cool."

"Wait! No! Shit!" He yelps at the screen as a turret roast poor Chell. "Aww..."

Well, crap. Beedee knows the sound of defeat when he hears it and he cringes some, watching the game again and stepping back just slightly. Another sound of apology, another glance at Peter and then a curious head-tilt at the game again.

About this time, Cal arrives and, watching what his droid is doing, he heads over and has his own apologetic look on his slightly scarred face.

"He's not interrupting anything, is he? He's still very curious about everything on the train. I blinked and he was gone."

Peter's a bit distracted by the bot and doesn't immediately notice the new comer but at least he's not singing TSwift anymore. He sits up a little straighter, a little bummed by the 'game over' flashing on his screen but that's okay.

"Hm? Oh no. Really, it's okay. I've already beat this game like five times-I was just b-" He stops and glances suspiciously from one end of the gym car to the other to make sure Tony wasn't around. "I was just bored." He states.

May had been ropped in - willingly of course - to help Gwen and Peter organise the party tht they wanted to hold. It wouldn't be the first one she and Peter had worked on together but it had been awhile since they had done something. It should be fun. Making her way into the Gym, she finds him sitting against one of the walls concentrating on whatever it is that is currently open on the laptop.

"Peter?" she calls out as she approaches him.

Peter's beaten this game before but he's still absorbed in it as he watches the screen, taking special care with whatever puzzle he's working on to advance to the next level.

"Hm?" He looks up, barely, from his game. "I'm here-just uh.. playing Portal. What's up, Aunt May?"

May shakes her head at his comment. Obviously he was keeping something from her but she didn't mind. At least it wasn't harmful. "Haven't you defeated that game a few times already?" she asks as she sinks down next to him. "I was just coming to see how the planning was going."

It took Romeo a little while to find Gwen but when he did he waved at her and ran over. "Miss Gwen! Hello!"

He had seen the posters and he thought that having another train party was a really good idea! Especially since those dreams had been strange and some were pretty scary! A party would be perfect to bring everyone's spirits up!

"I saw your poster for help! I can help!"

Gwen's busy putting up another poster when she hears Romeo coming. The kid obviously gets the best grin Gwen has, a look of delight crossing her face when he offers to help.

"Oh, yeah? Okay, tell me what you got, kiddo, because we could use all the help we can get."

"I can help make food! I'm good at cooking and I can help with refreshments too! I'm good at making coffee and if we want things from the shop I got points and I like making things so I can help with decorations I made some for mister Ignis' birthday and it was really fun!"

He says it all in practically one breath, and grins at her. He is willing and ready to help!

"Hopefully somewhere in all that, you took a breath. I don't think Ignis or Tony would be happy with me if you passed out," Gwen teases, thinking about the kids offer before nodding.

"Okay. Yeah. Why not? We can get a few people together to help out with cooking. Sounds good."

Romeo just grinned at her, he won't pass out! He's used to speaking fast!

"I'm sure mister Ignis will want to help!" He told her, "Madoka too! She's really good at art so I bet she will make really good decorations!"

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