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"Tony!" Captain Steve Rogers strode into Tony's workshop in the Avengers Tower after punching his override code at the door. "You're late again Tony!" he reprimanded after the billionaire once again failed to show up at a debriefing. "Tony!" he called out again but he was ignored by the man who had his face covered with a welding mask to protect it from the flying sparks of whatever it was that he was building. Steve strode over to the man and tapped his shoulder, unmindful of the embers that were flying from the welder. "Tony!"
"I'm coming, I'm coming Capsicle!" Tony emerged from another door surprising Steve as he stared back and forth from the person he was still touching to the playboy who seemed to have just gotten out of the shower. "I have no idea why you people - mainly SHIELD - insists on these monthly meetings. That's what we have reports for!" he stood right in front of the confused blond and snapped his fingers in front of the man's face when Steve did not acknowledge his presence. "Capsicle!"
"What? But.. Who? Tony?"
"Come on Cap, they're waiting for us." Tony ushered the other man out of his workshop before he could say anything else. The person who had been welding shook their head at the warning glare Tony left them before the duo was completely gone. They just shrugged and went back to work.
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"Tony, I thought I told you not to mess with..." Bruce Banner trailed off at the sight of a woman with long, wavy dark brown hair and deep brown eyes sitting on his desk at his shared laboratory in the tower. "Oh. You're not Tony."
"Actually I am," the woman smiled, dimples appearing at the top of both cheeks as she stood from the computer table. "Natalia Antonia Stark," she held out her hand to the astonished man. Banner was staring at the woman whose charming smile looked so familiar and yet so out of place on her beautiful face. "It's a pleasure to meet you Dr. Banner."
"Uh.. Bruce, call me Bruce."
"You can call me Toni." she offered with a smile.
"I think that would confuse the poor man baby sis." Tony strode into the lab and smirked at the physicist who was gaping at them. He stood purposefully next to her to make it exactly clear what their relationship was - not that his endearment hadn't given it away yet.
"You're... But... How?" Banner stammered out, his eyes wide as he took in the similarities that made it very clear just who the woman was.
"I thought you were a doctor, Brucie-bear?" Tony mocked, earning him a head slap from the woman.
"Don't insult his intelligence Tony."
"Sir, the prototype is ready." Jarvis' voice interrupted Tony's response.
"Thank you Jarvis." it was the woman who answered the AI. "Come on little bro, time to check on my baby." Tony glared at her, still rubbing at the back of his head. "It was nice meeting you Dr. Ban - Bruce."
"Uh. It was nice to meet you too." Bruce Banner had seen a lot of shocking and almost inexplicable things in his life and yet he had to admit that this particular experience could probable make it to the top ten - if not the very top. He shook his head and watched as the door slid close. Somehow, the woman had felt very familiar but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.
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Natasha found it odd that Tony was standing in the middle of the training room - the reinforced one - in his Iron Man suit when she went looking for him. As far as she knew - and there was a lot of things she knew - the man had never practiced with his suit, especially not inside the tower. Just when she thought it wasn't going to get more odd, another suit came flying at Tony. This one though was not in the same red and gold color, this one was in purple and pink. The two suits clashed, with the red one flying backwards and the purple one flying up again.
"Too much firepower." she recognized that as Tony's voice from the hundreds of times he'd talked their ears off through the comms.
"I thought there was no such thing?" the other one had a slight inflection to it that told Natasha it was a woman. Besides, who else would wear a pink and purple suit?
"Did you even control that move?" Tony asked again.
"No, I let Jarvis fly me here and just sat back to enjoy the view." the snarky response had Natasha unable to control her laughter especially since she'd never heard someone else use that much sarcasm on Tony - not including Clint that is. "Busted!" the woman said as both suits turned to look at the assassin.
"Go away young lady." the red suit landed in front of the purple one.
"Don't you young lady me little bro." definitely a woman, especially when the purple suit put its hand on its waist.
"But..."
"I told you I'm done Tony. I'm not hiding anymore." the purple suit turned to face Natasha fully and the mask slid up to reveal a face that was both familiar and not. "Hi. Natalia Antonia Stark. Pleased to finally meet you." the redhead stared dumbfounded at the woman whose hand was outstretched in greeting. Everything was clicking into place and now she had to ask herself just how exactly had Tony Stark - the biggest loudmouth of them all - been able to hide something like this for so long?
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Clint had gotten pissed at Tony for something he'd said - angry enough that he needed to calm down and the only way for him to do that was to do some target practice. He then decided to go to the training room for some much needed stress relief but there was someone already there. He's impressed with her skill especially when she repeatedly hit her targets with throwing stars. He was doubly impressed when she threw three stars in quick succession which all landed on vital organs of the target she'd been practicing on. Deciding he had enough of watching and that it was probably his turn to show off, he fired an arrow at the next target's head, his weapon whizzing right at her ear making her lose concentration on her next throw. The throwing star she'd been holding went right past Clint's cheek and seeing as he was standing in the far corner of the room behind her, he was sure that was a fumble on her part.
"You missed," he said rather cockily as he stepped into the room.
"Look again Hawkeye." she didn't turn to face him as she picked up all the throwing stars that she'd used. He looked behind him and gaped at a target dressed as a terrorist with the throwing star right in the middle of its forehead.
"Wait, who are you?" he asked when the woman began to walk away.
"Toni Stark." she said with that familiar mischievous grin. Then before she turned back, she threw one last star at the target that Clint had shot. It was thrown in such a precise manner that it had split Clint's reinforced arrow right in the middle. But before he could ask how she'd done that, the woman was gone. Clint was left staring at the space where she'd been wondering how the hell Stark had managed to turn himself into a woman.
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"Tony! The board is arriving in fifteen minutes!" Pepper Potts, former PA of Tony Stark and presently CEO of the multi-national company stepped into the billionaire's apartment at the Avengers Tower.
"I'm not going to that meeting." she heard the grumble before she even came into the room She opened the door just in time to see the genius fall out of bed courtesy of a long, naked leg under the sheet.
"Go away Tony!"
"Talia, I didn't realize you were back." Pepper felt a flare of jealousy at the woman who was sleeping in her on-again-off-again boyfriend's bed.
"Just got in a few days ago and Tony hasn't let me rest since." she peeked out at the blonde woman through the comforters.
"Last night wasn't my fault." the genius on the floor protested and Pepper was left not wanting to look further into his words.
"Just get up and get out of here Tony. I'd like to get some more sleep in before the upgrades on the suit are finished."
"Fine." Pepper walked out of the room but not before she saw the tender way Tony tucked her in bed and kissed her forehead sweetly. She raised a hand to cover her mouth - unable to stop the choked sob from coming out. She left the bedroom and decided to wait for Tony in the living room while she composed herself. Now was not the time to start crying - they had work to do.
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Thor had just arrived from visiting Jane, leaving his trademark scorched ring on the helipad. He entered the Tower to look for his comrades-in-arms but could not find any one of them. He went straight to the common living room and found a woman he did not know sitting on the couch watching a movie.
"Hey Lightning Man! You're back!" Tony greeted enthusiastically as he emerged from the attached kitchen with a bowl of popcorn. "How was Jane?"
"Lady Jane is well." Thor asked. "But who is that Lady on the couch?"
"Oh, that's my twin sister Toni." Tony said. "Come I'll introduce you." the tall blond followed Tony to the couch where the woman had apparently not taken notice of their interactions. "Baby sis!" the woman finally looked up as they stood in front of her. "Meet Thor, Prince of Asgard, God of Thunder and one of the Avengers." the woman who looked much like Tony's female counterpart stood up and raised a hand in greeting. "Thor, this is my twin sister Toni Stark."
"It's a pleasure to finally meet my brother's teammate."
"The pleasure is all mine fair lady." he took her hand and gave it a kiss, as was the proper greeting in Asgard. She giggled softly at his manners then gave Tony a look.
"Would you like to join us for movie night?"
"I'd love to." Thor grinned. "But I would like to cleanse myself first." she nodded and smiled before retaking her seat.
"You can join us when you're done." then her attention was back on the movie.
"Are the others not joining us?" Thor asked Tony before he could sit next to his sister.
"They were called out on a mission. They should be back soon." Thor just nodded and excused himself from the room almost bumping into Bruce who had been watching the interaction from the doorway.
"Dr. Banner, what are you doing there?"
"Hey Thor, I was just going to get a bottle of water." though he answered, his gaze was on the woman snuggled close to Tony on the couch. He had not realized that Thor hadn't moved from his spot and almost jumped when the god spoke again.
"She is a beautiful woman, is she not? And she is more polite than Tony as well." he observed making Bruce nod. "I wonder how he was able to hide her for so long." the blond said some more things that Bruce didn't care to pay attention to. He just kept on looking at the woman who was so familiar to him. He just couldn't shake the feeling away. Somehow, he was going to find out. After all, Tony was not the only genius in the tower.
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