Earth-69
The work of returning Peter to his home universe was going well. Inside the Baxter Building, Tony Stark was revamping an old Negative Zone viewer, Reed Richards was calculating the new trajectory the portal should take, while Sue Storm and Pepper Potts were downstairs, scanning the residual photons of Peter's body to find exactly what his home universe was. After all, there was no way of knowing if his universe's methodology for classifying the multiversal spectrum was consistent with this one's.
At the moment, though, Reed and Tony were relaxing. The portal was booting up for a test run, while the Multivac was running Reed's calculations. Both had sampled the fruits of the invention Tony had been working on before being interrupted—a lemonade machine. That made lemonade out of nothing.
"You know, this should have a built-in icemaker," Tony said, painstakingly transferring ice cubes from an ice bucket to his glass. Reed didn't even have little tongs.
"Typical engineer, wanting some gadget strapped on to everything that's already a gadget," Reed replied.
"Typical scientist—doesn't think people want ice cubes in their lemonade." Tony drank, simpering in pleasure with the ice-chilled lemonade. "Now this is how you relax after a hard day's work."
"Ha!" Reed went.
"What?"
"You've never worked a day in your life."
"How can you say that? I invented IronTech. If you add up all the places I'd saved, I bet I've saved the world at least twice. And if we're just counting the good parts..."
"That all comes easy to you. You never exert yourself, apply yourself. You just do what's fun."
"I'm the hardest-working guy in the city," Tony countered. "The Stark stud service—that's me. Ask any of my customers, they'll tell you I'm a hard worker." He drained half his glass in one gulp. "Speaking of, this is hard lemonade, right?"
The door to the lab opening with a slight whoosh, the toddling form of HERBIE entering. "Apologies for the intrusion, sirs. But the calculations have finished computing. The portal has successfully formed an Einstein-Rosen Bridge. And Ms. Jessica Drew is here to see you."
"Jess?" Tony said wonderingly. "Shit, should I be avoiding her?"
"She referred Peter to us," Reed told it. "Show her in. Then go check on Peter. As soon as those scans are finished, we can send him back."
"Oh, good, so we have time," Tony said.
"Time for what?" Reed asked, before Jessica made her usual entrance—always looking like she was about to perform a striptease, only wearing clothes so she could take them off...
"Is that hard lemonade?" she asked.
***
Pepper escorted Peter to the lab, though it was hardly necessary: the lay-out was much the same as 'his' Baxter Building. She wore a white cotton blouse, braless from the way her nipples thrust out, and then a pale green skirt with a long slit up the left thigh. He could see a garter belt flash out with every other long, modelesque stride. Although the Pepper back home was equally beautiful, there was something open about this Pepper, something primal, that was simply mouthwatering.
No one was at the lab when they arrived, so they sat and waited, Pepper once more asking if he needed anything. Coffee, tea, or me? came to Peter's mind, summoned up from some old movie. He declined.
A few minutes later, Sue came out of the lab. She was wearing the usual bodysuit, though it looked particularly tight at the moment, and not because she had put on any weight. She was smoothing her hair, her lips glistening wetly, and it didn't look like lipstick from where Peter was sitting.
"I'm going to need your clothes off," she told Peter.
After an explanation, Peter put his boots into the cabinet, following his masks, his gloves, and his shirt. He kept his pants on, and that was a compromise.
The cabinet hummed, scanning his clothing for any particles that could serve as clues to where in infinity he had originated from. Now, Sue led him into the sensor room. There were two high stools in there. Sue sat on one.
The only place for Pepper, following along, was the other one, unless she chose to stand. So, hooking her high heels on the rung, her skirt open at the slit, Pepper sat. Sue mimicked her posture, tablet on one thigh, allowing her other leg to go straight, foot on the floor. Sue could peek under the executive's skirt almost to her panties.
Peter too was watching Pepper, his eyes wide as he took in her long legs, then looked away.
Sue handed Pepper the tablet and started pulling on a pair of thick gloves, lit-up LED lights in the palms and fingers, representing the working sensors built into the material. "Hop onto the table," Sue said. "This won't take long."
Peter jumped up, suddenly unsure of what to do with his feet. Something about being barefoot always made him neurotic. He didn't know if he wanted to ball his toes up, spread them wide—he had no idea what was comfortable, not outside his home, on an unfamiliar surface.
Pepper quite looked the way he looked, though. Leaning back on his hands, his long muscular legs dangling down the table, the bulge of his manhood pronounced. She could see a thin line of hair moving up to his navel and she was excited by it, snatching every chance she could to take her eyes off the tablet and onto Peter's...
Pepper's phone beeped. She checked it quickly, an absent smile gracing her lips, typed in a quick note, then sent it and holstered the phone.
"New guy?" Sue asked."Scuse me," she said to Peter, taking his arm and pulling it out straight, then feeling out his fingers like a blind woman.
Pepper appeared engrossed in the tablet Sue had handed. "All data's coming in clear. And no. Not new. Same guy as ever."
"How is the little bean doing?"
"Bean?" Peter asked. "Wait, you have a son?"
"Yeah," Pepper replied, sounding bemused until she reminded herself that Peter wasn't from around here. "Why? Do I have my tubes tied where you're from?"
"No... but you're not a superhero, either."
"Iron Woman's hardly a superhero," Pepper argued. "She's more of a... troubleshooter."
"Uh-huh," Sue said. "This is why we wear spandex, Pete. Armor, leather, all of that goes straight to your head..."
Peter sought to distract himself as Sue pulled on his earlobe and pushed her gloved finger into his ear—he wished he hadn't run out of Q-tips a month ago and never bought more. "You mind if I ask who the father is?"
"Tony."
"Tony?!"
"And what's wrong with that?" Pepper asked, clearly well-versed in defensiveness.