"I didn't start anything," Peter insists, with all the same anger he directed at Tony Stark that day at the ferry. "You threw a punch at me, and when that wasn't good enough for you, you kicked me. That's not testing my reflexes. That's being a bully."

Peter's aware he sounds whiny and fifteen, but right now, he doesn't care about what he sounds like. What he cares about is being right.