Peter could not help correcting him under his breath. "It's Spider-Man, not Spider-Ling."
"Spider-Man?" Tony teased deliberately. "You're still practically a baby yourself. At most, you're a... Spider-Boy?"
Peter struggled to keep his expression neutral and pretend he knew nothing, doggedly arguing, "You copied this off YouTube. Everyone knows you can find anything on there..."
"Is this fake too?" Tony snapped his fingers again, and J.A.R.V.I.S. began projecting another video.
In the video, an out-of-control car barreled down a street as pedestrians screamed and scattered. Just as it was about to crash into a bus, a red-and-blue figure suddenly appeared, swinging over on a strand of webbing. He landed in front of the bus before the collision and reached back to pin down the car's hood. The tremendous force and momentum sent the entire rear of the car rearing into the air, but those seemingly slender arms held its front firmly in place. In the end, it could only slam heavily back onto the ground.
After making sure the car had stopped safely, the figure sprang off its hood as though his feet had springs, leaped onto a tall building, and quickly vanished.
"Look at those moves. Whoa, nice catch! Forty miles an hour, a three-thousand-pound car." Tony looked at the boy before him and switched off the projection. "That's no easy feat. You're pretty impressive."
"It's all fake..." Peter's explanation sounded painfully unconvincing. "It's computer effects... like... like..."
"Right, right... like the flying saucers over Phoenix?" Tony said. "I don't think I've lost the ability to tell real footage from computer effects, Spider-Boy."
"It's... it's Spider-Man." Seeing that there was no way to explain himself out of this, Peter could only give up. The one thing he still refused to surrender was his codename.
Unfortunately, he was facing Tony,