4. God Moving Over the Face of the Waters

*Thank you for the reviews, this one is a little short but I'll be back soon with more. I might have to bump this story up to mature because of Barton's mouth and some serious violence. Again I want to warn about the self-destruction.

*Hawkeye POV

All of us agreed to help our baby Avenger, even the great Tony Stark showed an ounce of compassion for once.

Soon after we all went to bed.

Far too early that afternoon we were woken up by a never-ending trail of people bringing in packages. Leto was standing outside her room all wide eyed and thunderstruck. "I didn't order all this," she said helplessly.

"Mr. Stark advised me to order more items based off your purchases and likes," answered Jarvis.

"Yeah just start expecting that," I smiled at her.

"Thank you Jarvis," she relented.

"My pleasure, Miss."

"Let's get some food while they finish."

We were eating left over pancakes when Stark walked in with his chest all poked out like a damn peacock, his signature strut.

"When you are done get dressed and come down to the basement," Tony Smiled.

"Only your suits are down there," I gave him the 'what the hell are you up too' look.

"I know," he shrugged then turned to rummage through the fridge.

"What are we doing?" asked Leto.

Tony turned to her with creamer in his hand. "You, sweetheart, are going to fix my suit. And Bruce has created an algorithm for Jarvis to help us get a read on your energy output. It's quite impressive, I'm surprised I didn't think it up."

"Oooh," she finished her last bite then rushed off to her room.

"Don't overdo it Stark. I don't want to deal with your whinny ass if she destroys the basement."

"She can't, the second we got her to SHIELD I had contractors building a room down there that not even a nuke could destroy."

I shook my head, figures he would have been planning on bring her here the second he saw her. We sat in silence for a few minutes until I noticed the elevator was moving down. "Come on."

Leto was in the elevator with her new clothes, green flip flops, jeans and a Foo Fighter t-shirt.

Banner, Thor and Rodgers were waiting for us in the basement. All of Tony's suits were lined up against the opposite wall. The room had recently been divided by a thick metal and concrete wall. A single door, similar to what you would find in a bank vault, was in the middle of the wall. Two large observation windows were on either side.

"Afternoon Leto, Barton," Banner smiled from behind his desk. Two large translucent monitors were in front of him running calculations.

"Hi," Leto looked around, a little shy now that she was about to be on display.

"Good day young Leto," Thor approached her and pulled her into a hug. She mumbled a 'hi' into his chest before he pulled her away just far enough to look down at her. "Banner tells me you will show us your magic this day," he beamed at her.

"Um, yeah," she smiled a little.

"Mine brother is quite good at magic as well," he finally released her. She backed up until she was by my side again.

"Well your brother was also a megalomaniac so let's not start comparing so soon."

"Wow Barton that was a pretty big word," Rodgers replied. I swear ever since he had gotten a hang of our slang and culture he'd gotten a little sassy.

Before I could respond Banner interrupted. "Leto are you ready?"

"Yeah. Do you want me to make it stronger for you?" she looked at Tony.

"Stronger? How?"

"Rearrange the crystal structure of the metal alloys that makes up your suit."

*Leto POV

A series of emotions rippled across Tony's face. First disbelieving, then fascination, then anger, then disbelieving again then the face he must have made the moment he thought up the Iron Man suit. I wasn't psychic but I swear I could hear him saying 'think of all the possibilities'.

"Thor will you get the door for her," was his response.

Inside the wall there was another room. Its walls were made of pyrex glass with metal mesh between the layers. "You know I can do this without blowing something up? If I couldn't I would have blown the ship up when I fixed Barton's shoulder," I looked back at them through the window.

"Yeah, but let's not take any chances," Tony grimaced.

I shrugged then stepped up to Tony's suit and placed a hand on its chest. There were patches on Tony's suit so weak you could cut through them with a q-tip. I giggled a little then released some energy to change the tin patches back to the gold-titanium alloy of the rest of the suit. Next came the harder part. Every crystal lattice structure of the alloy had to be rearranged. I pushed on every atom, making the structures more compact…stronger. The whole suit glowed a light blue as energy slowly seeped out of me. After a few minutes I was done.

I turned back towards the window. Thor's face was priceless; his eyes were big with a grin plastered across his face and his hands pressed against the glass. I couldn't help but laugh as I walked back out to meet them. Thor is nothing but a giant little boy.

"Jarvis run an analysis on the suit."

"I already have sir, the suit is far stronger than even you would be able to build given every material and infinite time." I swear Jarvis had a sarcastic tone to his voice.

Barton burst out laughing, "I don't know what's funnier, your face or how Jarvis responded."

"Sometimes I think I made him too real," Tony grumbled. I believe this was the first time he ever felt inadequate at creating his own tech.

"Sir, it is humanly impossible to create a suit that strong at least by mechanical means." Jarvis spoke after a few minutes; I guess he felt like he hurt his creator's feelings.

"He's not just trying to make you feel better. It is impossible. The technology just doesn't exist…for now I suppose," I said with hopefully a reassuring smile.

"Yeah," he brightened slightly. "So Bruce what readings did you get?"

Banner's eyebrows were scrunched together and the earpiece of his glasses was between his lips. "There was barely any output at all. "

"Told ya. I was only moving around a few things. Turning the tin back to the alloy gave off the most energy but there were so few spots it was negligible," I sat down next to Banner and looked at the screen. It was full of numbers and letters I would never understand.

He turned to look at me, "Would you be willing to do something that would require a lot of energy output? Only if you want too."

"You mean put Tony's little room to a test? Sure, what would you like me to do?"

"I guess I want you to blow something up."

"Dr. Banner?" The Captain looked doubtful.

"Don't worry Cap'n I will keep it contained. I need a large beaker of water…its easier if I have something besides air to work with."

A few minutes later I was back in the room. I focused on the water in the glass, forcing the atoms to move around and bounce off of each other. The water started to boil. I put out a hand and released a lot of energy all at once. The water skipped turning to steam and ignited. It was then that I felt a pull in my chest. I needed to let more energy out, I needed to let go…to feel what I did before. So I pushed more energy out. The beaker exploded but I wanted more than that. I broke down the atoms of the glass, which released even more energy and heat. My clothes were starting to char around the edges, my lips went dry and burned, the skin on my hand started to bubble. The pain was amazing, it was the best relief I didn't know I needed. So I gave it more energy. The pain was both inside and out now. My muscles were breaking down to supply the energy I had used up, breathing in the burning air had damaged my lungs and I could feel blood seeping in. My legs gave way and I landed on my knees.

"Leto!"

*Hawkeye POV

"Open the door!" I yelled but keeping my eyes on Leto's burning body.

"No! Don't it's too hot in there. If we open it, this whole room will ignite."

*Thanks for reading please tell me what you think. You'll start to understand where this story is going next chapter. The song is the Unkle version, go youtube it like right now.