Hey y'all, in case you didn't get my message before, that's right, I'm re-writing our old favorite Which Me Do You Like! I want to say thank you so much to everyone who had continued to love and read this story over the years, and it's because of all of you that I've decided to re-write it! I hope you all enjoy the new version of Which Me Do You Like, and please let me know you favorite moments from the original and I'll try to keep as much as I can the same, along with your favorite moments from the MCU which I'll try to keep in this story as well.

But for now, sit back, relax, and re-enjoy Which Me Do You Like!

~Scruffy

Disclaimer: As always, nothing I write is making any money, Minnie is the only thing that belongs to me, Marvel is owned by Disney, and I hope they stop fucking things up in the MCU. (We all know what I mean.)

The expansion of a business is a very risky matter, there are risks as well as opportunities to go wrong at every turn. When a business expands it is a tentative, slow process- Unless of course the business in question is an already worldwide success like Stark Industries. The completion of Stark Tower was only declared after the successful usage of the Arc Reactor as the only power source for the building. A success that should have been celebrated by Tony Stark, if it hadn't been for what he liked to call his little side project helping save the world. Pepper Potts had gone to DC, Tony had gone to- Well no one was really sure where Tony had gone, classified information and all, and Tony's assistant, the young woman he'd hired on after giving Pepper the reins to his company, was left to work in the building alone. The press release had been sent out and she was working in her brand new office, full of brand new furniture and a pretty potted plant she'd bought herself at Trader Joes that morning. Scheduling interviews for Tony, fielding calls, the things an assistant does when given a brief reprise from the daily insanity the assistant of Tony Stark goes through.

Her name was Simone Strong, or Minnie, if you were Tony. It was a name she'd grown to liking though, it reminded her almost of Minnie Fay from Hello, Dolly! Though, for the life of her, she couldn't sing. What she could do however was help keep Tony updated on anything he needed to know about, and run his life, something she'd liked doing so much in LA that when he offered to keep her on throughout the move to New York, she'd said yes immediately. Minnie sat at her desk, fingers typing out a reply to a request for an interview about renewable energy, giving the sender a few options for dates when JARVIS, the AI that Tony had run throughout the entire tower spoke up. "Pardon me Ms. Strong, but there appears to be a security breach in the penthouse."

The penthouse? That was where Tony and Pepper intended to live, it was not where she expected there to be a security breach, if Tony had come home, JARVIS would have simply told her that, but as she was supposed to be alone, aside from the security guard downstairs making sure that she was the only person in and out of the tower, it made no sense that someone could get all the way to the penthouse before JARVIS would have informed her. "What the hell?" she muttered as she pushed away from her desk, pressing send on the email she'd finished writing before she ventured out to the hallway. Her office was on the ninetieth floor, three floors down from the penthouse. As she stepped into the elevator she felt the power surge for a moment, and gripping the walls of the elevator as it bounced she was suddenly filled with anxiety as she thought of all of the movies she'd seen featuring plummeting elevator scenes. The lights flickered for a moment before the elevator began to rise again. "JARVIS," Minnie squeaked. "What the hell was that?"

"There appears to be a great deal of energy being used on the roof," the AI told her. "I've tried turning off the power, but something turned it back on." she waited in agony for the moments before the elevator stopped and opened its doors slowly with a soft ding, Minnie practically launching herself from the doors before she froze in shock. There really was someone there, and he looked- Well in all honesty he looked ridiculous, but it was too startling coming upon a person who shouldn't be there to focus too much on the green and black leather, and the gold- What would you call that? A crown? A Helmet? A homage to antlered animals? It would have made Minnie chuckle if the man hadn't turned at the sound of her heels on the dark granite floor. He looked as surprised as she was to see another person in the tower, and he turned to her slowly, as if he was studying her.

"J- JARVIS-" Minnie stuttered before he held a hand up, placing a finger to his pale lips.

"Shh- shh- shh" he said softly and she fell silent, her eyes locked on his as he seemed to inspect her and then stalked towards her, walking around her in a circle. "I thought this building to be empty." he said as he walked around her, Minnie turning her head as far as she could one way to keep her eyes on him before snapping in the other direction, not trusting this man behind her back. "Tell me, who are you?"

"I- I'm no one." she said as he moved around her left side, looking at her with mocking amusement. "I mean, I'm- I'm alone." she wasn't going to sell out the security guard, praying that JARVIS had told him there was a security breach and that he'd called the police. Though how he got up there in the first place, she didn't know.. Oh god, what if he was dead? That poor sweet little twenty year old boy who had been so excited to work for Tony Stark.

"Why does an empty building have an employee inside of it then?" the man asked and Minnie racked her brain for an answer, thinking desperately of what she could tell this man without telling him who she really was.

"I-" Minnie started to speak before her savior came in the form of her boss landing his suit on the landing pad and walking through the process that stripped him of his armor. He looked in at Minnie and the man whose name she didn't know and gave her a seemingly casual smile as he walked in the door.

"Ah, right on time," the stranger said as he turned to Tony, his hand moving to grip Minnie's arm in a grip she never would have expected from him. "Please tell me you're going to appeal to my humanity."

"Uh, actually I'm planning to threaten you." Tony replied as he walked towards the bar at a casual gait, his eyes scanning the woman held tight by Loki. Her face looked pained, though that could have been the grip Loki had on her arm, nonetheless, Tony's eyes darkened as he looked at the man. "Let the girl go."

Loki looked down at Minnie who at 5'3" really lived up to her nickname, before drawing her closer. "You should have kept the suit on if you were planning on making demands."

"Yeah, it's seen a couple of miles, you have the blue stick of destiny, You want a drink?" Tony switched gears suddenly, making Minnie frown. Was he really going to just casually talk to this man? Was he seriously going to do nothing while she stood there being… Manhandled? Minnie opened her mouth to speak but catching the look in Tony's eye as he looked at her made her shut her mouth again, he was planning something, he was… Oh god she felt dumb, he was buying time. The two talked as Minnie mapped out the floor of the tower, they were on the ninety third floor, if she could make it downstairs- well they always said in emergencies not to use the elevators in an emergency, so if she could make it all the way down the stairs she could get outside and get to the police, She'd be safe if she could get outside.

And the next thing she knew the man was pulling her forward while he stalked towards Tony, speaking lowly, like he was amused as he said "How will your friends have time for me, when they're so busy fighting you?" and with that he lifted the scepter in his hand, the one Minnie felt stupid for not having seen before and placed it to Tony's chest, eliciting a small yelp of terror from Minnie, assuming she was about to watch her boss get gored. But then nothing happened, the man's scepter seemed to have placed against the arc reactor, and he looked confused, not longer as intimidating as he had been mere moments before, in fact he'd let go of Minnie's arm, something she hardly noticed as he placed his scepter against the arc reactor again.

"Performance issues," Tony was saying as the man looked at his chest with a frown, before being suddenly grabbed by the man. Minnie yelped again, half town as the man walked towards the window and spoke to Tony between running, or staying and helping. As she looked around Tony tried to gesture to her, a wave of the hand in the direction of not the stairs, but his and Pepper's bedroom. The sound of glass shattering suddenly breaking her from her hesitation as she looked around at the place where her boss had just been.

"Tony!" the scream escaped her lips as she looked on in horror, the man looking around at her as the wall to her left opened up and the new suit was deployed, rushing out the window after her boss. Minnie stood in horror before she ran to the bar, grabbing a glass off of the top of it as the man took a step towards her, before Tony was suddenly in the window, the Iron Man suit around him protectively as he spoke.

"And there was one other person you pissed off. His name was Phil." and with that a repulsor blast to the chest had the man on his back. Minnie looked over at Tony as he mask of the armor opened. "Get out of here Minnie, get somewhere safe." he told her. "I don't know what kind of shit it is, but the shit is about to hit the fan."

"Yeah, no kidding." Minnie said as she looked at him before there was a blast of blue light behind Tony. She looked out past his shoulder as the light went into the sky and seemed to separate a hole in the sky, a darkness beyond the hole let her know what she was looking at, some sort of wormhole, and there were people, no, creatures coming from it.

"Minnie, go!" Tony shouted at her before the helmet closed and Minnie turned to the stairway, pushing the door open and starting to run down the stairs, her brain moving faster than her feet as she ran down one flight, turned and continued down, ignoring the doorways onto different floors, until she took one turn too fast, the heel of her shoe catching the edge of the stair, sending her rolling down the stairs in a series of painful thuds and grunts of pain from Minnie. When she hit the cement wall she lay there for a moment, her knee felt like hell, it had twisted when she'd fallen, and she sat up gingerly, trying to blink away the flashing lights in front of her eyes. A loud booming outside made her remember what she was doing and after standing, Minnie slipped off her Alexander McQueens and left them there, between the sixty seventh and sixty sixth floors.

It was tough going, getting down the stairs with her knee swelling and throbbing as she moved carefully, her cheek hurt as well, but not nearly as badly as her knee, which, looking at it, she would definitely describe as wrenched. Minnie's movement was getting slower the further down the stairs she got, limping and putting as much weight as she could on the hand railing as she went down the stairs. It took maybe fifteen minutes before she saw the sign for the lobby and opening the door to the lobby she leaned against the wall for a moment, taking a breath as she tried to steady herself before she started to limp her way across the empty floor towards the front doors, but after she paused to look around at what was happening Minnie started to reconsider. The city was in chaos, there was no other word for it, purse chaos as creatures rode strange ships around the sky, shooting at people, cars, buildings, a large armored worm twisting its way through the sky as it followed a tiny red moving man, the very one she realized was her boss. She held onto the security desk for a moment before she caught sight of the security man.

"Paul!" Minnie limped towards the blond haired kid who was barely out of his teenage years who turned and gave an astonished gasp.

"Ms. Strong!" he rushed over towards her and caught her around the waist, trying to keep her weight off of her injured knee. "What happened to your face Ms. Strong, and your knee? Did those things do that to you?"

"No, I fell down the stairs." Minnie told him as she lifted a hand to touch her swollen cheek and groaned softly. "What's going on out there?"

"It's aliens ma'am." he told her and she nodded.

"Yeah, I mean I got that, but it- is anyone helping Tony?" she asked.

"There seems to be." Paul replied as he looked out the door. "What were you doing coming out here Ms. Strong? I hope you weren't planning on leaving because that's not going to happen."

"I didn't think, I was just trying to get away." Minnie shook her head. "I just- I need to think for a minute."

"You need to get somewhere safe." Paul insisted as he pulled her closer to the security desk, and away from the danger.

"I know, I know." Minnie racked her brain, trying to think of the best place to hide. "I just- I can't believe Tony doesn't have a safe room of some sort or like a panic room." she ran a hand through her half still pinned up hair and she groaned. "Somewhere safe, somewhere safe, somewhere-" Minnie opened her eyes and looked up at Paul. "The arc Reactor room." she told him and he seemed to think for a moment before he nodded. "The big one, downstairs." she told him. Paul stood up, his arm around Minnie's waist, her arm over his shoulder as he helped her downstairs, to the basement.

Minnie let Paul help her along to the Arc Reactor room, scanning her badge in front of the the scanner before the door unlatched and she pulled it open, Paul helping her inside before setting her down on the floor, the blue light of the Arc Reactor making everything in the room glow blue. "You'll be safe here." he told her as he started to turn and leave.

"Wait, Paul," she said when she realized he was leaving and he turned. "Aren't you going to stay?"

"I'm going to go see if there's other people who need help. We were lucky this building was empty, other people aren't so lucky." he told her and she stared at him before calling out again.

"Paul-" he turned, a hand on the door as she held a hand out towards him. "Be careful." she lowered her hand and he gave her his sweet half smile that would have any girl weak at the knees, if she hadn't been weak at the knee already.

"Stay safe Ms. Strong." he told her before he opened the door and closed it behind him.

"JARVIS," Minnie spoke up. "Seal the door." And with a loud thud, Minnie knew the door was sealed, and she sat there on the floor in the basement of Stark Tower, with the whole world going to shit above her, her knee twisted and possibly broken, her cheek throbbing and a feeling of anxiety settling in along with the pain as the adrenaline started to fade away. Now would have been the perfect time for her to faint, to black out and lose consciousness, but she wasn't built that way. And so she waited, for the events of upstairs to fade away, for the fighting to stop, and for her boss to seek her out, to tell her what had happened, who that man was and how they were going to move forward.

But until that happened, Minnie had nothing to do but wait.

Well, that's it, the first chapter of the new and improved Which Me Do You Like! I hope you liked it, and I hope you'll remember to favorite and follow to get updates for when this story continues!

Be excellent to each other!

~Scruffy.