Tony Stark sat back in his chair eyeing everyone around the large, black, circular table. Clint was standing toe to toe with Fury, waving his hands threateningly before the one eyed man. Romanoff was behind him, a hand upon his arm trying to calm him but secretly ready to jump in the fray.
Steve sat opposite the billionaire, elbows on the table and head in his hands. Tony swivelled his chair to glance at Dr Banner who stood against the door, arms crossed over his chest, glaring a hole into the other two occupants of the table. Tony followed the man's gaze with a sly smirk and eyed the two Gods sitting to his left. Thor sat closest to him, twisting his hands together glancing between the argument and the other occupants of the room. His brother was lounging in the chair, looking as though Christmas had come early amongst the chaos.
"I will not be anywhere near that monster!" Barton shouted. "I trust him as far as I can kick him!"
"But if this Thanos is real –" Fury started.
"Oh he is." Thor jumped in. "Our father –"
"Your Father." Loki added in, crossing his arms and averting his gaze.
"Father has fought him before. He is real and very dangerous. This threat must be taken seriously."
"I'm sorry Thor, but how can I trust the God of lies? And what is this based off?" Barton snapped back.
"Loki states that the Umber-ellia are the link." Thor told the room.
Loki rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Umbrella Thor. Umbrella is all I know." The room turned back to the ex-villain.
"As in the object?" Romanoff asked.
"I know not." Loki confessed. "All I know from my time under Thanos' command is that he had a plan involving something called Umbrella." Tony caught the glance between Fury and Agent Hill who was poised in the doorway of the meeting room. "From the information I managed to gleam Thanos already has connections with this Umbrella, a contract so to speak. Something they have offered him to control the majority of the population of Earth." Tony rocked back in his seat absorbing the Intel.
Fury gave a heavy sigh and glanced around the room. "It may take some time to search through this information. What control can you guarantee over Loki?" He turned to Thor.
The God of Thunder raised arm in the air flashing a silver bracelet locked around his wrist. "My brother cannot use his magic without my permission and cannot leave a distance of 30 feet from my presence." Loki gave a silent snarl at Thor, tightening his arms over his chest.
"In that case, while we search through the information we have; he shall have to stay with you all at Avengers Headquarters." The room erupted into shouts and swear words. "Enough!" Silence descended. "There is nothing else I can do with him. At least with you, you can ensure he behaves." Fury concluded turning from the two assassins and stalking from the room, Agent Hill hot on his heels.
Everyone in the room glanced suspiciously around before Tony broke the moment. "Well we might as well catch a flight back. I could murder a burger and a good night's sleep. I'm sure alcohol's included in there somewhere."
The ride back to the tower in the heli-plane was tense to say the least. Barton and Romanoff flew the plane with Dr Banner perched between the two seats. Rogers sat in the bench seat just behind Romanoff, slipping glances to the back of the plane. Tony sat in the centre of the plane on the opposite bench completely unfazed by the tension in the transport. Thor and Loki sat on his bench by the door.
Once the Plane landed on the platform at the top of the once Stark Tower, now the Avengers Tower/Stark R&D and general Stark Business Tower, the troop exited the transport and started down the stairs into the main Living room and Kitchenette.
"If it helps anyone I'll keep Loki and Thor on my floor and the rest can share Bruce's floor below?" Tony suggested as he pushed on the door into the Living room, the lights brightening before the group.
"Two hours late! It's a record; you're actually early." Everyone froze grouped in the doorway. A head poked up over the back of the long sofa and took in the group of heroes and villain. Tony dropped his arms to his side and lowered his head as the rest of the group took in the woman.
She swung to her feet, placing a bottle of larger onto the coffee table in front of the sofa. She was petite and slim in frame, dark curly hair cascading over her shoulders and framing a gentle heart shaped face. Large Hazel eyes flickered between each Avenger, a smirk gracing her bow shaped lips.
She stood in bare feet wearing suit pants and a plain black shirt, her suit jacket draped over the back of the sofa she had been stretched out on. She sashayed over to Tony and stood before him, standing a (not so) impressive 5 foot 2 inches tall in front of him; craning her neck up to look the Billionaire in the eye.
"Em..Avengers business? Couldn't avoid it?" he asked timidly, shying back from the petite woman. She narrowed his eyes at him and then launched herself at him, catching him around his neck. Tony wrapped his arms around her waist and swung her round, both of them releasing a laugh. An honest smile graced his face as he dropped his head into her hair flowing over her shoulders. The woman pressed her face into his neck eyes closed.
A cough brought them both back before the Captain spoke up. "And what about Ms Potts?" He asked primly.
Stark barked a laugh as he gently placed the woman back on her feet and turned to Rogers, hugging the woman to his right side flush against his body. "Steve Rogers, AKA Captain America." He stated holding his palm out the super solider. "Spangles? My sister, Anubis Marcus."
The woman barked a similar laugh, leaned forward and extended her hand out to the man. Rogers blushed, stammered and took her hand; which she firmly shook. "Pleasure." She commented.
"Sister?" Natasha asked, mouth dropping open.
Tony then proceeded to introduce her to each of the Avengers. Once they reached Bruce she grasped his hand a moment longer and locked eyes with him. "An honour Doctor. I have loved your research papers on Radiation, in fact my company have been looking into its more direct uses in medical research." Bruce reddened around his cheeks and neck as she released his hand, muttering unintelligible words.
"Thor Odinson, God of Thunder." She reached a hand towards the muscle bound Asgardian but the behemoth had other ideas. He stepped forward catching her around her arms, lifted her clean off her feet and into a bear hug.
"Sister of Stark it is most pleasing to meet you." She patted him on the side as he lowered her back down.
"Wow if everyone greeted me like that I'd be swooning." She laughed rubbing her ribs, turning to the last individual. She extended her hand to Loki who grasped her fingers and pressed a kiss to her knuckles.
"Believe me you have not met the best yet." He stated, drawing forth a bubble of musical laughter from the woman. Tony prickled slightly and stepped between the two.
"I don't remember you planning on swinging by." He told her.
"When do you ever?" she bit back. "Pepper arranged it. I've a lot of business these next few weeks, including business with you!" she prodded his chest. "But when do you ever remember your sister planning on visiting." She flung a hand to her forehead and swung away from her brother dramatically. He laughed, catching her from behind and pulling her back.
"You know my memory for these things." He stated, pulling her into a hug. "But this must be the expansion of the business into the States. Right?" he teased.
"So you do remember something's." She laughed, pushing him away, drifting back to the sofa and snatching up her bottle of Becks. She dropped back to the sofa and swung her legs up. "It's been an 18 hour flight and I am shattered. Go do what you need to. I'm going to finish this and crawl into my bed." Motioning to the bottle in her hand.
"Hang on." Natasha said stepping up to the back of the sofa, peering over to the woman. "You sound nothing like Stark."
Both siblings sighed. "They act alike." Clint dropped in.
"She was raised in England. Hence the accent." Tony elaborated.
Bruce shuffled closer. "Anubis? As is A&D United?" Anubis flashed a smile at him.
"Oh I like this one." She swung up onto her knees, elbows planted onto the back to the sofa. "The very same. We are expanding into the Sates, making business contacts between well established companies already here. Including Stark Industries."
"But if you're his sister, how come you don't co-own Stark Industries?" Natasha interrogated.
"I wasn't in the Will." She replied seriously. Steve and Bruce shifted uncomfortably. The two women stared each other down.
"Well let's get your rooms sorted. Bruce why don't you take Romanoff, Barton and Stars and Stripes down to your floor? I'll get Reindeer Games and Gladiator set up, up here." Bruce led the way to the elevator and pushed the button for down while Stark led the two Gods to the right hand corridor, pointing out two rooms with doors facing each other across the corridor. "Not too much distance I hope?" he asked them.
Loki glared at both men and stomped into the room, back turned awaiting the sliding door to close. "It is more than satisfactory Son of Howard." Thor replied, pulling the man into a bone crushing hug. "Good dreams Friend Stark." He finished, walking into the remaining room.
Tony hugged his ribs as he returned to the living room, in time to see his sister place her empty bottle onto the kitchenette bench. They smiled at each other. She stopped before him, pulled him down into a hug and dropping a kiss on his cheek. "Night Tone." She said, slipping past him and heading down the other corridor to her spare room.
"Will you still be here for the anniversary?" he asked quietly, still facing into the living room.
She stopped, just out of his sight. "I plan on flying back home for it." She whispered back.
"I'll be coming with you." He replied, just as softly.
"Thank you." Then she carried onto the end of the corridor and turned left into a bedroom.
Tony wandered over to the large expanse of windows and gazed out, not quite seeing the view. Lost in his thoughts of asking his sister how much more she knew. Suddenly very unsure of bringing her into this or sending her away from this.
Well drop me a review and let me know what you think of this idea. It's been clawing at my brain for a while now, so I had to get it down on screen.