AN: So yeah- another True fic in a new universe. I know! I know! I seriously have a problem that I don't think will ever be cured! This is most likely a one shot- I just saw Endgame and rewatched all of the Avengers movies and this popped into my head. If anyone wants me to continue I'll try to write more!

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"Ms. McCallan. Why am I not surprised to see you here?"

True looked up at the principal and smiled. "Ah Mr. C, my day just isn't complete without seeing your smiling face!" She said as she put the incident slip in his outstretched hand.

Mr. Coleman read the report and sighed. "Disrupting the class and being disrespectful. That is the third time this week True. Let's go have a chat."

True followed him into his office and threw herself into a chair. She twirled her hair around her finger and tuned out the lecture since she'd heard it twice this week already.

"You know I have to call your guardian."

That got her attention. "What?"

"I told you last time that if you were in my office again I would be calling your guardian in for a conference since the emails I sent have not changed your behavior."

True was not all that worried about this turn of events. The school had Tony's contact information and he talked to her about the emails but it was more along the lines of 'don't get caught' then 'don't do it again'. She was sure he'd be just as cool about things if he had to come in to talk to the principal. Mr. Coleman stood bringing her out of her thoughts. "Come."

True followed him to a small room next to his office which contained a few desks. He pushed her into one of them then set a stack of paper and a few pencils in front of her. "Since I can't trust you to behave in class you will sit here and write me a 500 word essay on why it is important to show respect and then another on how your disruptions affected the teacher and the other students."

"I'll pass."

"This is not optional. You have until your guardian gets here or the end of the school day, whichever comes first."

Several hours later True was working on her tenth artistic masterpiece when the door opened and Mr. Coleman came in. He shook his head when he saw she had not even attempted the essays. "You have made things worse for yourself. Come, your guardian is here and I have explained why we needed to speak with him. He would like you to join us."

True hopped up and led the way back to his office, stopping short when saw Tony was not alone. "Tony! Seriously?"

"Sorry Doolittle. I told you last time- third strike and your out." He smiled and patted the chair next to him. "Plop your little butt down so we can continue our delightful discussion with Mr. Coleman."

True didn't remember him saying that but then again she didn't listen to his lecture anymore than she did Mr. Coleman's. "Uh no. No. Thats ok. I'm good over here."

"Sit." Steve barked causing both Tony and Mr. Coleman to jump and True to rush to the chair. "Is everything Mr. Coleman told us true?"

"I don't know. I wasn't in here to know what he said." She pouted earning her a stern look from Steve. "Well I wasn't!"

"Have you been disrespectful and disruptive several times this week?"

"Define disruptive- hey!" She yelled as Steve suddenly stood and pulled her from the seat.

"Excuse us for a moment." He pulled her out of the office and into room next door. The walls were thin so both Tony and Mr. Coleman heard the smacks followed by exclamations of pain. They returned just as quickly as they left and Steve shoved her back into the chair, eliciting a wince from the child.

"Answer my question."

"Yes sir." She said quietly doing her best to ignore her burning rear.

"True has only been enrolled for three months yet she has been in my office seven times in that short span. Her teachers should not have to deal with her behavior while trying to teach the other students." He opened True's folder and took note of how many detentions she'd earned on top of her visits to his office. "I have to be honest. When Nick asked me to allow True to attend this school and explained who True was and who her guardians were I did not expect this kind of behavior. This school had strict guidelines and other students would be close to being expelled had they done as she has. I know Mr. Starks generous donations will keep the board from approving an expulsion however if there are anymore incidents this month I will be forced to suspend her."

"I understand. You should not have expected ANY misbehavior as we and Director Fury made our expectations very clear before her first day. Didn't we True?"

"Yes sir."

Tony spied something hanging on the wall behind Mr. Coleman and smirked. "Maybe you need to use that wicked looking paddle hanging behind you. I'm sure that will whip this little delinquent into shape."

"Tony!" True yelled in horrified outrage.

"While this is a private school and corporal punishment is allowed it is not something I use except in extreme circumstances." He looked at Trues file again. "Though I may amend that since I will not be able to expel her. Director Fury has already signed the form giving me permission so it is within my right." He had to force the grin from his face as he saw all of the color drain from Trues face.

"And I will support you should you do so." Steve said. "What is her punishment for her latest incidents?"

"She will have in-school suspension for three days. This means she will sit in the room you made use of early for the entire school day. Her work will be brought to her and a teacher will check on her through out the day. She also owes me two 1000 word essays."

"You said 500!"

"That was before you refused to do them."

"You disobeyed him too? Man kid you are racking up the points today on the Caps naughty board!"

Steve ignored Tony as he stood, pulling True with him. "She will have them for you tomorrow."

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The ride home was silent aside from Tony singing a few lines of whatever song was playing. As soon as they got inside Steve sent True to her room with a swat and a warning she better be there when he comes to speak with her. Once she was out of sight Steve turned his angry gaze on Tony. "Why didn't you tell me about the emails?"

"Slow your roll Captain Sparkles. I talked to her about the issues brought up and she told me she wouldn't do them again."

"And you believed her?"

"Course not. I'm not as naive as you. I punished her and warned her about strike three and since she didn't want you involved in her punishment she managed to behave...at least for a few days."

"You punished her?" Steve asked disbelievingly.

"I'm not a total pushover. I made her stand in the corner for 30 minutes then clean my lab." He struggled with even giving her that small punishment but he didn't want to sit through the 'she cant have two sets of rules, one when she is with you and one when she's with the rest of us' lecture again.

Steve realized he didn't even know what else she'd done to know if that was an appropriate punishment. "Let me see the emails." Tony pulled them up on his phone and let Steve read them. "She defaced school property and shoved another child down on the playground too? Tony! A stint in the corner and a bit of cleaning was not enough. If you wanted to handle it you should have spanked her!"

"I told you I'm not comfortable doing that!"

"And she knows it!"

"Well yeah but I - well even though it worked on me when I was a kid and that's saying something- I just don't think that's the go to when she does something!"

"You know it's not but True knows the rules and knows what she can expect when she breaks them." Steve took a few calming breaths. "At least you tried which is more that I expected."

"Thank you?" Tony said not sure if he'd been insulted.

"Just do me a favor- from now on you tell me about any issues at school. All right?"

"Yeah sure. You got it Cap!"

Steve nodded then headed to True's room. He gave a quick knock then entered to find True laying down on her bed with her arms crossed petulantly over her chest.

When Thor came to him with this beautiful child he'd rescued from a planet that was about to be destroyed he didn't know what to do. He contacted Fury who demanded she be brought to SHIELD since she was not from earth. After talking to the girl and putting her through rigorous testing they'd discovered she was stronger than an average child, telekinetic, could control the elements, speak to animals, and had an IQ that was almost genius level in science and math despite the fact she couldn't read.

She was not completely honest about everything though. They found out she was an insanely talented thief and could break into just about anything regardless of the safety protocols when she slipped into one of the labs and stole some rather dangerous items because they 'looked fucking awesome'. At that point it was decided she would go Avengers HQ and live with him since there weren't as many dangerous things to get into. Plus JARVIS was able to counter everything True tried when she attempted to break into a place she was not supposed to be.

They'd spent the last year dealing with her grief, teaching her to read, finding out that she was a formidable warrior that had a talent for knives and getting her caught up caught with how things were on earth. Since she was a child he knew she needed a lot of love, structure and discipline to become a well rounded adult so he decided to send her to school and he'd set up ground rules and the consequences for breaking them. All of the Avengers loved her and made sure she towed the line, well all except Tony. He had his moments but for the most part he was just as much of a child as True was!

"You know according to some of the videos I watched you could get into big trouble staring at a child like that."

Steve shook his head. If he didn't know the girl was from another planet he would swear she was Tony's kid. "I don't think you want to add to your considerable tally so you'd do well to watch your tone and words. Stand up!"

"Jeeze no need to yell!"

He took a seat and pulled her in between his legs. "Repeat the rules to me."

Ugh. True hated this. Every time she got into trouble he made her do this. "Don't do the D's-" At Steves raises eyebrow she quickly added disobey, disrespect, or be dishonest- and don't put myself or others in danger."

"You managed to break all of them in the span of a week!"

"I didn't lie!"

"No? What do you call telling me everything was going great at school and that you'd been staying out of trouble?"

"Ok you got me there." She said sheepishly then frowned. "But I didn't endanger myself or someone else!"

"You did when you pushed that child down on the playground. What would have happened if they'd fought back? You could have lost your temper and really hurt her!"

"Oh- well- yeah- but Tony already punished me for that!"

"Which is why I'm going to let that go this time. You are still in quite a bit of trouble. What do you think Fury will have to say about this?"

True gulped. "You didn't tell him did you?" The man was way to observant for her comfort. It was his fault they used corporal punishment on her because he'd noticed her hands would unconsciously flick towards her rear as if to cover it when she got into trouble. Several questions later and she'd be forced to admit that's how she was punished by her brother. Then there was the eye patch and the fact she'd never seen him smile- the whole package just terrified her!

Steve had to stifle a laugh at the look on her face. "No but its possible Mr. Coleman will. He is his brother-in-law and a former agent after all."

True gulped and opened her mouth to reply when her cell phone when off. When she saw it was Fury she had no plans to answer it but one look from Steve had her picking it up.

Steve didn't know what Fury was saying but the girl was getting paler by the second. The conversation was short and she set the phone down with shaky hands. "What did he say?"

"H-he said if I keep messing around and end up getting suspend he is coming here to whip my as- er butt with his belt and he won't care if you already punished me." She replied miserably.

"Then that will be more incentive to behave." He tilted her chin up so he could maintain eye contact. "Now your actions at school are inexcusable and you are going to get a spanking for them."

True quickly found herself over Steve's knees and her skirt was flipped up. Steve shook his head when he saw the shorts she had on under it. The girl was adamant she would not wear a dress or skirt but this was the school dress code. Clint was the one who offered this compromise even though Steve didn't think they needed one. When he voiced that later on when they were alone Clint simply said "Chose your battles." He didn't understand at first but when he thought about it he realized Clint's experience at being a father trumped the little experience he had so he let things lie.

One tug and both the shorts and her underwear were down around her knees. The first swats were much harder than he normally gave her at the start so she was quickly crying out with every smack. By the time he deemed the punishment over the skin from the top of her backside to the top of her thighs was bright red and she was a sobbing mess.

Steve rubbed her back as she tried to bring herself under control. He knew he was hard on her but she'd broken too many rules and he wanted to make sure this punishment stuck for a while. He pulled her underwear and shorts back up and flipped her over so he could cradle her in his lap to provide the comfort she needed. She latched on to his shirt and cried herself out and after a few moments she looked up at him.

"That really hurt!" She pouted.

"Good." She kissed her head. "I hate doing that so please behave so I don't have to do it again."

"Your awful good at it for it to be something you hate." She grumbled.

"It's not worth doing if it-"

"Isn't done right. I know I know."

"You know do you?" He poked her belly eliciting a watery giggle. "Your sass is going to earn you another trip over my knee!"

"Okay okay! I take it back!"

Steve dropped another kiss then put her on her feet. "Alright. You have two essays to complete and I want them done before dinner."

"But Steve! That's not enough time!"

"Two hours will be plenty of time. Stop whining and start writing."

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True was just finishing the first essay when she heard a knock on her door and Tony poked his head into the room. "Go away!"

"Aw come on Doolittle!"

"You know snitches get stitches and I'm skilled enough to take you down."

Tony scooped her up, took her seat, and gently set her into his lap. "I didn't have a choice this time. I didn't want Cap doing to me what he did to you!"

"He wouldn't!"

"Probably not but I'm not about to test that theory. Not after the lecture he just gave me!" He kissed her cheek and hugged her close giving her his best kicked puppy look. "Forgive me?"

True couldn't stay mad at him, not after all of the times he'd covered for her. "Fine. But you gotta take me to your lab later and let me practice my hacking skills."

"Deal." He looked at her papers. "Now how much do you have left?"

"I just finished the essay on respect. Now I gotta do the one on how disruptions affecting other people. I have no idea what I'm supposed to write!"

Tony stood and put her in the chair then flopped down onto her bed, legs crossed at his ankles and his arms behind his head. "Let's talk through it."

The words flowed much faster with Tony's help and after just a half hour she was done. She kneeled on the bed and put her hands on his chest. "Can I go to your lab now?"

"Ah no. I'm sure the Cap would see that as rewarding you and I'm not getting lectured again because of you!" He gathered her into his arms and stood up all in one movement. "Dinner is almost ready anyway so maybe tomorrow. For now let's go down to the kitchen. I'll try to snag you a dessert before Captain Sparkles says you can't have one due to you behavior today."