Peter looked at Coulson like he had just said something extremely obvious. Which he had.

"There was a giant alien invasion in the middle of the city. I'd have to have been living under a rock in, I dunno, the middle of the Sahara to not have heard about the Avengers."

And then what Coulson said hit him "...you don't mean...are you here to recruit me? I mean, that'd be...ridiculously awesome, but don't you guys have, like, minimum age requirements