Tweak

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Tweak says, "You flunked flank?"

Ned Leeds (guy_inthe_chair) wrote in avengers_logs,
@ 2021-01-06 12:04:00

Entry tags:

-open thread, ned leeds, peter parker, peter quill, tony stark

Who: Ned and OPEN
What: "Studying"
When: 4pm Wednesday
Where: Lobby of Stark Towers
Rating: Low

Ned had homework, but he was kind of over school. Senioritis was growing strong in Ned and he was trying to care... but not really. He didn't have an apartment here because he still lived at home, but Ned still wanted to feel like he was part of everyone else so he came every day to study. Today the studying consisted of writing a new hacking program instead. That was still valuable learning, right? This particular program was meant to access any new car that had more computer in it than maybe it should. He was reminded of when Peter borrow Flash's car. With this new program, Peter could 'borrow' any car he needed if it came to it. Of course Ned knew that if bad guys ended up getting ahold of the program, it would suck, but he was confident in his encryption protocols.

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thehoffs_twin
2021-01-07 04:00 am UTC (link)

It was weird being on Terra again. It was even weirder that everything was exactly the same.

Work was the same. Life was the same. Actually the only thing really different was his room at the Tower was slightly cleaner ...but that would change fast. He really did hate doing laundry and all that space was too tempting to fill. Maybe he needed to buy an arcade system. That would be cool. Or a new Playstation. He could have little Peter over and they could game. It'd been way too long since they'd hung out.

He thought about pulling his phone out and messaging him when he saw a somewhat familiar although not really face in the lobby. He'd been introduced in passing at some point but he didn't really know the kid. So he had to fix that, clearly.

Launching himself rather casually onto the chair, he gave a head nod. "Sup. You're Peter P's friend, right? Ted? Fred? Jerome? Something like that right? I'm Peter too, but since I'm older and cooler, I get the full Peter name and he gets the initial."

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guy_inthe_chair
2021-01-07 08:03 pm UTC (link)

Ned sat up a little more because he knew most of the people in Avengers tower were important. When he looked over, he recognized who it was mostly because Ned liked to keep himself informed on all the superheroes as much as possible. "My name's Ned. And you're Mr. Star-Lord, right? You helped Peter in space, right?" He heard all the stories. He basically demanded it from Peter when they returned.

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thehoffs_twin
2021-01-11 04:17 pm UTC (link)

"Please," he said lazily. "Mr. Star-Lord's my father."

It was a lame joke, and he immediately regretted it. Yondu wouldn't have appreciated the joke. Neither would Ego. Ugh. Now Peter made himself sad. Awful.

"Kidding. YEah, I'm Star-Lord, kid. The one and only. If it makes it easier, I'm Peter and little Pete is ... that. Pete. I told him he has to earn the 'r'. Anyways," he continued, stretching out on the chair. "Yeah. I totally saved him. Helped everyone out. I'm basically a big deal. It happens. But you're his best bud, hey? So that's something and awesome." See? Peter could compliment other people. "Ned. What do you do around here then? Did you get adopted by another super?"

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guy_inthe_chair
2021-01-11 05:08 pm UTC (link)

Ned didn't seem to read too much or too little into Star-Lord's ego preening. Had he done it like Flash did, it'd be easier to spot, but for Ned, Star-Lord's ego was firmly where it should be - he was a super hero after all.

"What? Oh, no. I still live with my parents?" He was still a kid so that wasn't lame, right? He hoped so. He still looked somewhat bashful regardless.

"I just came to hang out and work on some stuff? I know I'll be moving in later when I'm out of school and this place is cooler to hang out in than like, my room."

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thehoffs_twin
2021-01-14 06:16 pm UTC (link)

Peter gave him a look before realizing what he said. "OH! I meant like ..is there a super that is bringing you into the fold, but then I guess it's Peter P who is a mini super. Glad you have parents though." And that was true. Peter knew how much it sucked being an orphan. Or an orphan with a lot of fathers apparently.

"What kinda stuff you working on?" Peter's brief Ravager style education had given him no school like information. He was pretty lame that way. Even if Ned could explain it in Peter terms, Peter still wouldn't get it. Still he knew he should ask. So he did.

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guy_inthe_chair
2021-01-14 08:22 pm UTC (link)

Ned didn't consider Peter a mini super, but maybe Ned was a little biased. He gave a nod when Quill said he was glad he had parents. Since Peter was an orphan too, having lost his parents at a young age, Ned was always sort of sensitive to that. His mom tried to include Peter as much as possible.

"Uh -" Ned looked at him, trying to figure out if Star-Lord was going to be judgy or not. He decided that, no, he shouldn't be. "A program to help Peter, actually. Like when he's got to do superhero stuff, but doesn't have his costume on?"

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the_iron_man
2021-01-09 03:38 am UTC (link)

For someone who hacked into the Pentagon on a dare, this was like spider-sense, only tech based. Tony wandered by and abruptly veered in Ned's direction, sitting down next to him and taking a long drink of coffee. From head to toe, Tony mastered the artful mess. Hair perfectly spiked up with just enough product. He wore a rumpled vintage concert tee - Van Halen's 1984 - jeans, and a pair of Tom Ford sneakers that had clearly seen better days, considering how many scuffs and molten metal burn spots marred the leather.

"Hey, kid. What's up?" he asked, before taking another long drink of coffee. Coffee was a much more adult option, compared to trying to cope by indulging in the hair of the dog that bit him last night.

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guy_inthe_chair
2021-01-10 03:24 am UTC (link)

Ned did not have a great poker face so when Tony Stark approached, he sat up straighter and suddenly closed his laptop... like that wasn't going to give anything away at all. "Nothing! I mean, well, not nothing because it's obviously something, but just like, you know, homework and stuff. Boring stuff, really. Super boring." He gave Tony a smile that was awkward at best.

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the_iron_man
2021-01-10 05:17 am UTC (link)

Tony leaned back a little as he looked over at Ned, just sitting and staring. Nothing else. A hard blink broke the awkward silence that settled in after Ned's awkward smile as he squinted a little, soaking in the whole vibe and all available info going on right now.

"Super boring homework. Sure. Homework moment." He didn't think that was it at all and coughed a little as he sat up more too. He was into that whole mentor thing, which meant he would try to be a very hungover adult jumping to a possible (but uncomfortable) conclusion. "You know, if that's the stuff boys look at? Hot chick pics. Or maybe guy pics. Or both. You know what? It's all ok. Totally normal. Nothing to be embarrassed about. Miiiiiiight wanna be careful about where you're doing that, capisce? The lobby's a little...public."

Tony shrugged and took a long, long drink of coffee. At the same time, he stared straight forward, processing how vaguely traumatized this was for both of them and hoping he managed that chat as PC as possible. Probably not, knowing him.

Also? This coffee wasn't spiked, which he felt like he desperately needed for a moment like this. Better scramble for an escape route so they could both save face.

"I can keep heading back upstairs. If you don't have actual homework. That I can help with."

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guy_inthe_chair
2021-01-10 02:34 pm UTC (link)

Ned almost dropped his laptop. What Tony was implying was definitely not what he had been doing. Sure, maybe he did in his own room, but he had no desire to do that in public and - Ned paused in his panicked thoughts. Was Mr. Stark remembering the excuse he gave the principal a few years ago? Ned wasn't sure the man could remember that.

A little red in the face, he stuttered. "Uh, no, no! Definitely not doing that. Nope. None of that here, Mr. Stark. I'm not that - uh. Let's just go with no."

He took a breath. "I was.... maybe making a program to hack something?"

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the_iron_man
2021-01-11 12:18 am UTC (link)

Tony held his coffee in one hand, and held the other out as though waiting for something to be put in it. Sure, he didn't like having things handed to him, unless it was from someone he trusted. And since Ned was close to Peter, that was enough of a two degrees of separation ideology for him to be ok with it.

"That's a lot better than awkward thing being awkward," he admitted. "I do that on my lunch breaks. What're you trying to get into?"

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guy_inthe_chair
2021-01-11 02:16 am UTC (link)

Ned looked at Tony longer than maybe someone who knew him better would have looked at him before acting. He blinked and then seemed to realize that Mr. Stark wanted his laptop... probably. He awkwardly-in-a-hurriedly turned his laptop to face Tony and then handed the laptop over to him.

"Uh. Well, I was thinking Peter might need like, some sort of program that could unlock and start cars? Or any vehicle, really. Like, in case he's not all geared up and stuff and he needs to get somewhere fast?"

Now he was worried this was the stupidest idea ever and he just said it to Tony Stark of all people.

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the_iron_man
2021-01-11 10:24 am UTC (link)

Tony looked at it as he listened to what Ned had in mind, his eyes skimming over the programming in progress. Ned had talent, that was for sure, and looked through for any flubs. There weren't any.

"This is solid work. Except for one thing. That whole auto theft thing. If you add in a wifi script to link in knock out every nearby security or traffic cam, I think it's doable." Tony paused and looked at Ned as he passed the laptop back over, impressed with what he had seen. "Don't tell anyone that I told you that. How long did this take you?"

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guy_inthe_chair
2021-01-11 03:35 pm UTC (link)

Ned's eyes lit up because that was a great idea and it made total sense - Peter wouldn't do any good if he was caught stealing a car and charged as a kid on a joy ride or whatever. "Wow, yeah, okay!" He nodded, eagerly filing away the suggestion to work on later. This is why Tony Stark was the best of the best.

"Uh, a couple days? Don't tell my teachers, but sometimes when the stuff they're teaching is boring I pull up stuff like this to work on."

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the_iron_man
2021-01-11 08:10 pm UTC (link)

Some might say that he was trying to steer Peter into not doing as he would do, but he also tended to end up in weird situations. Like when he stole a poncho from a wooden Indian. This sort of hack job might come in handy someday.

"Not bad at all. You are going into programming, right? Gotta school picked out yet?" He kept one eye on Ned as he took another long, fortifying drink of coffee.

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guy_inthe_chair
2021-01-11 10:05 pm UTC (link)

Tony Stark was intimidating - at least for Ned. It was meeting someone you heard a lot about and knew was really smart and you wanted to impress them, but also not come off as trying to impress them so they wouldn't be annoyed with you.

It was complicated.

"Yeah. I mean, that's the goal? I don't know about schools. I mean, the obvious choice is MIT, but that's far away from here and if Peter plans to stay here, I want to too."

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the_iron_man
2021-01-11 11:01 pm UTC (link)

Tony took in that, and then patted a hand on Ned's shoulder a couple of times. If anyone could pull any strings, it was him. While it was a nearly four hour drive if the traffic wasn't bad, he knew faster ways to get there.

"Remote classes are a thing, and there's quinjets or Strange's portals if you two want to take classes during the day. MIT's not that far away." He stood up, clutching the mostly empty coffee in one hand. Time to go get a refill. "We'll work something out, but I'd like to have you intern here. Stark Industries and SHIELD are always hiring programmers. You've got talent. Keep it up."

Tony smirked and nodded, pointing off in one direction, toward the Starbucks in the lobby. "I'm going that way. You want anything?"

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guy_inthe_chair
2021-01-12 12:07 am UTC (link)

He hadn't thought of using the Avenger stuff to get to MIT. He had no idea how it would be to use quinjet or a portal to get to class, but he was sure it would be badass.

"Really!? Interning with Stark Industries would amazing Mr. Stark!" His parents would probably faint from joy, but not before he did. "That would be great. Thank you, Mr. Stark. I won't let you down." Hopefully.

When he gestured to the lobby, he looked and then shook his head, but obviously actually a little touched by the offer, Starbucks or not. "Uh, no. But thank you for that too." He smiled

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the_iron_man
2021-01-12 01:56 am UTC (link)

"Hey, no prob," he said with a smile. "Keep doing what you're doing, and don't worry about a thing. Internship is easily doable, easy to give you two recommendations for college too. Just...don't get caught doing whatever you're doing. That I know nothing about."

It was one of those gray areas he told people to operate in, at least where they could still have some plausible deniability. He liked Peter and Ned, and an internship would open a lot of paths so they could do what they wanted to do in the future.

Tony made a little toasting motion with his cup as he headed off.

(ooc: end scene? <3 )

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	guy_inthe_chair 2021-01-12 02:21 am UTC (link)
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	the_iron_man 2021-01-12 02:47 am UTC (link)
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thespiderling
2021-01-13 07:04 pm UTC (link)

Peter had joined Ned in the senioritis - along with some hefty doubt on if college was really the right option for him. There was so much he could do full-time as Spider-man, and while that wouldn't pay the bills, he’d feel like he’d be failing the city if he didn’t give it all the protection he could. And if high school was hard enough for his distracted mind to handle, what would college be like? Between that and the endless scholarship applications May was nudging him to fill out, he was the twitchy kind of stressed.

"Hey!" Peter said, flopping down next to Ned, his attention already curiously on his friend's computer. "You're not studying for that chemistry test, right? Cause I was thinking about putting that off till tomorrow." Like any good procrastinator would.

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guy_inthe_chair
2021-01-14 05:33 pm UTC (link)

He lit up when he saw his best friend - he always did. "Peter, hey." He grinned even more, then shook his head. "No way. I mean, I know I should be, but I was actually working on a thing for you? It's not like, done yet, but Mr. Stark was just here and he gave me a good idea so I have to add that part. Then it should be ready to like, make for you." How he was going to give it to Peter, he wasn't sure. Maybe a fob?

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thespiderling
2021-01-17 03:55 am UTC (link)

"For real? Thanks, dude," Peter said enthusiastically, easily distracted away from his worries about school and college and everything else when there was the promise of new tech. He peered over at the computer, scanning what Ned was working on. The coding was so advanced that Peter couldn't work out what it was for, but he knew it had to be a stroke of brilliance. Ned's programming always was. "So what's the gist of it?"

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guy_inthe_chair
2021-01-17 04:06 am UTC (link)

"Uh, okay, so, basically. Like, you know how sometimes when you're just being Peter things happen and you don't always have time to put on your suit and stuff? Or like, maybe something happens to the suit and you can't web or whatever. So I thought I could make you this program that helps you unlock and turn on any car that's like 2010 and higher." Which was most cars nowadays. "And Mr. Stark came by and gave me a great idea of adding this like, canceller for any video surveillance in the area. You know, so no one sees you actually stealing the car and stuff."

He looked at his friend, trying to gauge if Peter was into it or not.

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thespiderling
2021-02-03 05:40 am UTC (link)

"Woah." Peter was impressed with the scope of Ned's work. He had been stuck in a number of situations where a fast ride would've come in handy - but beyond stealing Flash's car at the Homecoming dance, he usually had to think of other ways around it. And sometimes that cost time that he needed to save someone's life or subvert a disaster. "This is really, really cool. A little illegal, but man, your brain makes me glad you're on Spider-man's side."

Peter grinned at Ned and set his backpack on the ground, settling in. He could see the two of them talking this over and figuring details out for a while. "Do you think you could somehow write in a code so it singles out cars that haven't moved from their parking spot for a while? That might make it easier to fly under the radar with this."

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