CHAPTER 2
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Liz drove by what was left of Stark Tower. The out side was a total wreck. All of the letters of Stark had fallen off except for the A. A? "Why does that seem important?" Liz thought. Liz went in side the garage. Thankfully no damage had been done to Liz's favorite place. She parked her car next to her other ones before leaving to find Tony. The inside of the Tower was a mess there was lots of broken glass and things were thrown around in an unorganized manner. She looked down at her phone hoping to see a text from Tony. No such luck. Before she even got the chance to look up from her phone to see what she hit she ran into something. No. Not something. Someone! It was a man! He wore a black suit and had dirty blond hair. He had something hanging from his back. It was like a satchel except it had some thing in it. Make that somethings. 12 somethings to be exact. They were black like his suit. They looked like arrows.
"Who are you?!" The man asked.
"I could ask you the same question. Your the one intruding in my Tower!" Liz said clearly ticked off.
"What? Your delusional! This is Tonys tower! Your the one intruding!"
The man's voice was rising. This wasn't good. When ever someone started yelling Liz started yelling. And things never ended well when that happened. Liz usually ended up saying something she later regretted.
"How did you get in here? J.A.R.V.I.S may not be the sharpest tool in the shed but he's smart enough to know when to not let some one in" Liz said
"What?! How do you know about J.A.R.V.I.S?!" The man said pinning Liz against a wall.
"I designed him." Liz said planning her retaliating strike on the him.
A look of shock, confusion, and fear crept onto the his face. Seeing that her enemy was clearly distracted, Liz took the chance to sweep the mans legs out from underneath him. The man placed his foot on Liz's stomach pulling her down, rolling her over, and sitting on top of her.
"Nat! We have an Allegiant agent! Third floor!" The man spoke into his com.
"Why does Nat sound familiar?" Liz thought. She pushed the thought aside and thrust her hips up and throwing the man off her. They were both up in seconds. And both ready to fight. Liz threw the first strike. Which was blocked by the man who pulled her forward and thrust a jagged elbow into the small of Liz's back. Liz breathed out in pain before she groaned. The two continued to fight. Minutes later a red head woman showed up. A brown haired man showed up behind the new figure.
"Tony?" Liz said get confused looks from the two other people.
"Liz?" Tony said walking toward her
"Wait Elizabeth?" The red head said looking shocked.
"Natalie?"
"Oh my god! You grew up! A lot. You were what? 16 last time I saw you?"
"Yeah. I'm 21 now. How's Tony been treating you with work? And why on earth are you dressed like that?"
"Ok I am SO lost. Would some one like to explain what's going on here? Starting with you Nat. Who the heck is Natalie? And how do you know and Allegiante agent?" The man asked.
"Oh, yeah. Um do you have some time? There's a lot I need to tell you."
~v~
Natalie, or Natasha, what ever her name is explained every thing. It was still super confusing. And Liz still didn't know if her name was Natalie or Natasha. And this dirty blond haired guy was really annoying. More so than Tony. Liz didn't even think that possible until now. Apparently his name was Clint Barton and he was Natalie/Natasha's partner. Either way Liz still hated him. Clint finally spoke up.
"So do we all have secret siblings that no one but Nat knows about?"
"Wait what?" Tony asked.
"Nothing sorry. Um, SHIELD accident."
Tony just nodded his head.
"No Clint. Just Tony. As far as I know. We all know Thors brother, Steve was an only child and even if he did they would probably be dead. And I don't think Banner has siblings." Natasha said
Liz stood up. She walked to the fridge, grabbed a soda, and started for the elevator.
"Liz...come back. Where are you going?"
"The garage. Where else."
"After changing into shorts and a t-shirt, and putting her hair up Liz walked into her favorite place in the world. Her garage. It smelled of oil and metal. In one corner she had a punching bag. On the other side she had a couple cars. One of them was covered by a tarp the other two out in the open. In a dark corner in the back out of plain sight was a table with a tarp covering it surrounded by cob webs. In the middle there was an island like counter. It was very large. Along the walls there were shelfs with different tools. Liz looked around. It was exactly how she left it. Messy and unorganized but organized enough to where she could find any thing and every thing. Just the way she liked it. She went over to the car under the tarp. She ripped it off. Underneath the battered and dusty tarp was a black, old, and rusty 1970 monte carlo that Howard Stark had given her the year she turned 10. She looked at the car before sighing.
"Hey old friend." She said quietly.
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After a long day yesterday, falling asleep under a car again, and the car falling completely apart, Liz desperately needed to get out. She hadn't been to New York for some time. Not since high school. Five years to be exact. Liz was deep in thought trying to think about everything that had happened the past few days. Tony had flown into an alien portable, she found out that Natalie Rushman was indeed Latarsha Romanoff an agent of Shield, and that gods were real. None of this made any sense to Liz. How these things being real these were just fairytales, myths if you will. As she was walking through the streets she bumped in to a vibrant red hair with freckles.
"Lizzy?" The girl asks
"Hannah?" Liz asked shocked
"Wow long time no see. What? Five years?" Hanna said.
"Yeah. Since high school. That would have been 07. Wow."
The two girls walked down the street together laughing and talking. Liz thought back to high school. Hannah and her had met their freshman year and instantly become best friends. Next to Maddy who Liz met as a kid.
"So what are you doing in New York? " Liz asked Hannah
"Um I actually just started working for Tony or Pepper or who ever runs the company. It's a lot of fun. What about you?" Hannah replied simply
"Well after seeing the footage of the battle I had to come pay Tony a visit. So um I'm not doing any thing you want to come by the Tower? I could use your skills with a little project."
"Sure."
~v~
As the girls stepped out of the elevator and into the construction zone of the communal floor to grab lunch before heading down to the lab they saw Clint (Liz nicknamed him Legolas though.) And Natasha sitting at the bar talking.
"Nat?" Hannah asked
"Wait you know Natalie? I mean Natasha?" Liz says.
"Un un I'm the ONLY person who calls her Nat. She Natasha or Tasha to every one else. Back off." Legolas say
"Hannah?" Natasha says
"Ok what's going on? How do you know Natasha? And why is Legolas so up set?" I say.
"Hey!" Tony says walking out of the elavator. "I'm the only one who gets to call him Legolas."
"Fine then. Katniss."
"Look can we just figure out how Nat know this Hannah girl?" Clint/Legolas/Katniss said
"Red?" Tony says in shock turning to see Hannah.
"Hey Tony." Hannah says
"Ok so any way how do you two know each other any way?" Liz says getting every one back on the topic.
"Hannah is my cousin." Natasha says
"Wait what? Red. The quietest sweetness most wouldn't-hurt-a-fly person I known is cousins with a master assassin? No that's not physically possible." Tony says
"Tony I may be shy and gentle but push come to shove I can use a gun." Hannah says.
"And she can use it well." Natasha adds
God this day has been insane. Liz decided to try and get some unlikely sleep.
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Liz woke up from a night mare in a cold sweat. She could hardly sleep, and after that dream there was no chance of sleep. Liz looked at the alarm on the night stand next to her bed. 3:13 am. No one was going to be awake. No one to bother her. Where ever she went in the Tower she would be alone. Liz got out of bed and put on a blue tank top and a pair of black sweat pants. She put her brown hair in a braid down her back. She tied her shoes and went down to the gym.
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Liz flipped the switch illuminating a large room with mats, punching bags, weights, treadmills, bicycles, and a water fountain. Liz put her ear buds in and started running on the treadmill. Centuries by Fall Out Boy was blasting in her ears when she heard the faint creak of the door. Liz looked at her phone. It was 4:00 in the morning. As she looked up she saw a blond, muscular, and tall man. Steve Rogers. She had never seen him be for but the way Howard Stark had talked about this man she knew that this man who was staring at her was Captain Steve Rogers. Liz took her left ear bud out and let it dangle while she heard the song change to See You Again in her right ear bud.
"Shouldn't you be asleep?" Liz asked.
"I slept for 70 years mamma. And I could ask the same about you. What's your excuse?" The captain asked
"Simple. I couldn't sleep."
"Steve Rogers." The man says introducing himself
"Elizabeth Stark. Most people call me Liz though."
"Funny. I didn't know Howard had a daughter."
"There's a lot you didn't know about dad...I mean Howard."
"Um...So you like to run?"
"Yeah I'll do just about any thing to get a work out in."
"I see."
Captain Rogers walked over to the treadmill next to Liz and jumped on.
Liz stoped her treadmill and walked over to the punching bag. She didn't know how to punch but she figured she might as well try. She started throwing punches. Her wrist were rolling and it hurt her knuckles but she kept punching. She heard Captain Rogers' treadmill stop and walk up next to her. Liz kept "punching" as Captain Rogers stood next to her silently. Liz was starting to get scared. Captain Rogers was just stairing at her. Then something happened. Captain Rogers pushed. Falling to the ground she grunted in pain. She looked up at the captain with death in her eyes.
"What the hell was that for?" Liz yelled.
"Widen your stance." The captain said before turning back to his treadmill
Liz ignored his advice. Captain Rogers pushed her to the ground for a second time! Liz looked at him her eyes full of hatred. What was this guy's problem? And why would her dad ever be friends with a jerk like this? Liz was seriously starting to hate this guy. The cycle continued. Liz ignored the captain's advice, and he continued to push her to the ground. Finally Liz gave up.
"Well fine! How the heck do you want me to do it?!" Liz asked getting really pissed off.
The captain smiled. He pushed her leg out and walked away grabbing something out of a small box on a shelf. As he walked back he looked at her.
"Hold out your hands." He said.
Liz did as she was told and he wrapped her hands. When he finished he turned and faced the punching bag.
"Now. When you're throwing a punch you want to have a nice center of gravity." He separated his feet a little wider then his shoulders. "Keep moving. Stay on the balls of your feet, that way you can easily move out of the way." He started to bounce around and threw a punch. "Put your whole body into the punch, not just your arms." He threw a couple more punches. Liz watched as his punched got stronger and harder. He threw one more punch and the punching bag broke and flew at least ten feet across the room. Liz looked at The Captain with wide eyes.
"How...did you do that?" She asked, bewildered. He smiled meekly as he grabbed another punching bag and hung it on the hook.
"I've had a lot of practice. Now. Your turn." Liz faced the punching bag and stood how he told her to. She was about to throw a punch when the alarm went off. She looked at The Captain.
"Jarvis what's going on?" She asked.
"Miss Stark, it appears that there are two intruders in the building."
