"Good to go on this end. The rest is up to you two." Tony's voice fills the living room of Stark Tower.
"You disconnected the transition lines? Are we off the grid?" Pepper goes through her mental check list.
"Stark Tower is about to become a beacon of self-sustaining clean energy." Tony replies.
"Well, assuming the reactor takes over and it actually works?"
"Maybe?" Raven questions. "Me and Tony built that thing its gonna work." Tony lets out a snicker as Pepper shoots her an amused look.
"Light her up, Rave." Tony commands. Raven switched her attention from the monitor with Tony's view on it to the control panel just below it, punching in the combo and lighting up the tower.
"How does it look?" Pepper asked.
"Like Christmas but with more…me." Tony states. It was Raven's turn to laugh now.
"Gotta go wider on the public awareness campaign. You need to do some press. I'm in D.C. tomorrow. I'm working on the zoning for the next three buildings." Pepper starts off on a rant, Raven nodding in agreement.
"Pepper, you're killing me." Tony started "Remember? Enjoy the moment."
"Then get in here and I will." Pepper responds.
"Geez guys, keep it PG." She called from down the hall. Pepper let out a snort of amusement. Raven had moved down there once she saw Tony landing, she needed to find her notebooks for 2012, they held all the info she needed and something big was coming. Thanks to Loki's attack on the facility and with him taking Clint, she was pretty shaken up.
"Sir, Agent Coulson of SHIELD is on the line." J.A.R.V.I.S' voice sounded from her watch.
"I'm not in. I'm actually out." Tony replied.
"Bad Joke!" Raven called to him.
Tony rolled his eyes at her. "Is he calling here for Raven?" He asked the AI.
Raven replied instead. "He would have called me if he needed me."
"Sir, I'm afraid he's insisting." J.A.R.V.I.S informed them.
"Close the line Jarvis. I got a date."
Raven ran back over to Pepper as she stared at the monitors, checking that everything was stable and all the calculations her and Tony made were good, everything was stable she looked to Pepper.
"Levels are holding steady... I think." Pepper said, glancing at Raven who gave her a nod for a response.
"Of course they are, I was directly involved. Which brings me to my next question: how does it feel to be a genius?" Tony asked.
"Already am one." Raven stated. Tony gave her an amused look.
"I was asking Pepper." He stated. "For a genius you need to smarten up."
"Well, ha, I really wouldn't know now, would I?" Pepper said dryly.
"What do you mean? All this came from you." Tony Replied.
"No. All this came from that." She points to the arc reactor in his chest plate.
"Give yourself some credit, please. Stark Tower is your baby. Give yourself... twelve percent of the credit." Tony smiled at her.
Raven immediately slapped her palm to her forehead. Wrong move. She thought.
"Twelve percent?" Pepper asked.
"An argument can be made for fifteen."
"Twelve percent? For my baby?" Pepper asked in disbelief.
"Well, I did do all the heavy lifting. Literally, I lifted the heavy things." Tony began. "And sorry, but the security snafu? That was on you." Tony ended with a smirk and sat down in the couch.
Pepper let out a long. "Oooooh." And sat down next to him, as Raven made her way to the bar.
"My private elevator..." Tony started.
"You mean our elevator?" Pepper asked, putting extra emphasis on the second to last word.
"...was teeming with sweaty workmen. I'm going to pay for that comment about percentages in some subtle way later, aren't I?" Tony asked.
"I'd get familiar with the couch, if I was you." Raven called from the kitchen as she poured a couple of glasses of champagne for the three of them.
"It's not gonna be that subtle." Pepper agreed.
"I'll tell you what. Next building's gonna say 'Potts' on the tower." Tony sent Raven a smile as she handed him and Pepper a glass.
"On the lease." Pepper gave Tony a smile. And checkmate Raven thought and smirked at Tony.
"...Call your mom, can you bunk over?" He asked Pepper.
"Sir, the telephone. I'm afraid my protocols are being overwritten." J.A.R.V.I.S cuts in.
"Mr. Stark, we need to talk." Tony picks up his phone and the voice of Phil fills the room.
"You have reached the life model decoy of Tony Stark, please leave a message." Tony deadpans.
"This is urgent." Coulson states. Catching Raven's attention. Is this about the break in at the facility? I thought SHEILD was calling in the Avengers... Last time I checked Tony didn't make the cut.
"Then leave it urgently." Tony states. At that moment the elevator doors open, and Phil walks out.
"Security breach!" Tony exclaims then turns to Pepper. "That's on you."
"Not a breach." Raven calls from the couch as she gets up, and Tony Turns sharply to her. "He has my ID badge." Tony turns back to Phil who holds up a badge with Raven's name and photo on it. She walks over to him and Phil gives her the badge. "Thanks boss." She sends him a smile.
Phil turns to Tony. "Mr. Stark." He says.
"Phil! Come in." Pepper exclaim once she sees him.
"Phil? Uh, his first name is Agent." Tony said.
"Come on in, we're celebrating." Pepper continued ignoring Tony.
"Which is why he can't stay!" Tony exclaimed.
"We need you to look this over." Phil said as he Holds out a file for Tony to take. "Soon as possible."
"I don't like being handed things." Tony states. Raven let out a snort.
"That's alright, `cause I love to be handed things. So, let's trade." Pepper passes her glass of champagne to Coulson and takes the file from him, then takes the champagne glass from Tony and passes the file over to him and sends him a smile. "Thank you."
"Official consulting hours are between eight and five every other Thursday." Tony said dryly.
"No, myself and Pepper changed that to Monday to Friday, so he's okay." Raven called to him, from the kitchen.
"Not a word out of you, Pipsqueak! I am still angry that he got in here with your security card." Tony called back to her.
"This isn't a consultation but thank you Jackson." Phil smiled over to her. And she shot him one back.
"Is this about The Avengers?" Pepper asked excitedly. "Which I...I know nothing about." She amended. Raven let out a snort as Pepper realised her mistake.
Tony turned around and walked over to the desk they were working at earlier. "The Avengers Initiative was scrapped, I thought." Tony started. "And I didn't even qualify." He called over from the other side of the room.
"I didn't know that either." Pepper said. Sounds like Fury wants to bring him in. Raven thought.
"Yeah, apparently I'm volatile, self-obsessed, don't play well with others." Tony listed off.
"That I did know." Pepper said with a smile.
At the same time Raven said. "Even I knew that."
"This isn't about personality profiles anymore." Coulson retorted.
"Whatever. Miss Potts, Agent Jackson, got a second?" Pepper walked over to Tony who places the files into his own databases.
"You know, I thought we were having a moment." Tony whispers to Pepper.
"I was having twelve percent of a moment." Pepper retorted, then her face darkened with concern. "This seems serious, Phil's pretty shaken."
"How did you know?" Tony asked. "Why is he 'Phil'?"
"He's always been Phil." Raven retorted.
"Maybe to you, kid." Tony shot back, and Raven smiled a little at that.
"What is all of this?" Pepper asked, drawing the attention of the squabbling duo.
"This is, uh..." Tony expands his arms and different profiles appear in holographic form floating in the air in front of Tony, Pepper and Raven. "This." He finishes. Screens appear of Captain America in action, the Hulk roaring as he attacks the Army at Culver University, Thor fighting the Destroyer and another is of Loki and the Tesseract, to which Stark and Pepper look on in awe.
"I'm going to take the jet to D.C. tonight." Pepper whispered.
"Tomorrow." Tony whispered back.
"You've got homework." Pepper informed him. "You've got a lot of homework."
"Well, what if I didn't?" Tony asked.
"If you didn't?" Pepper repeated.
Tony let out a soft. "Yeah."
"You mean when you've finished?" Pepper amended. Tony nodded his head at her. "Well, um...then..." She whispers something in Tony's ear, He let gasp and Coulson looks away in embarrassment, as Raven turned sharply around and sprinted over to Coulson calling out.
"PG! Keep it PG!" Pepper chuckled a little at the Agent and Tony rolled his eyes at her. Raven shot them both a smile and called out to J.A.R.V.I.S. "Hey J, open 1E." The wall left to the kitchen island extended out and parted to show a variety of weapons. Ranging from small knives to pistols to a miniature crossbow. Raven grabbed the two pistols and locked them into her holster armour, grabbing the extra magazines and sliding then into the small holders on the thighs, and locking in the crossbow to her right leg she pulled out two knives and stuck them in her combat boots.
"You're just a walking armoury, aren't you?" Tony asks in amusement watching the young Agent armour up.
Phil looked over to him with a smile. "Agent Jackson takes her job very seriously."
"Damn right I do." Raven responded. "Agents getting shot willy nilly and now E.T. makes an appearance I say I've earned the right to carry as many weapons as I can." Pepper gave her an uneasy look after her statement. Raven new Pepper wasn't a big fan of Raven's line of work, but her skill set made her perfect for the job and the pay was pretty good to, so she had relatively no complaints about her job.
"E.T. good one." Tony laughed then turned to Pepper. "Square deal. It's the last date." And Pepper kisses him. Raven turning and joining Coulson at the elevator.
"Work hard." Pepper calls to Tony.
"See ya Tones." Raven called to him.
"You not staying Pipsqueak?" He asks her, as Pepper joins Coulson and her in the elevator.
"Nope, got a job, unlike you!" She called to him as the doors closed, but not before seeing his worried look.