The Reunion begins
It took four months but it the end they did it: they build the teleporter. And if everything would go as it was supposed to go it would bring Pym to Asgard and back. "Are you sure you want to do it?"
Pym turned towards Tony a frown making its way on his features. "Why not? I mean, the teleporter is ready to go and we only have two months left until Ultron attacks." He then made a swift motion and turned all wires on and climbing down from his spot on the machine.
"You know that if something goes wrong you are trapped between the worlds for all eternity." Tony's stern voice rung in his ears.
Without any doubt Pym stepped into the machine and smirked at Tony. "Then it's only good that it works."
Sighing tony smiled a bit at his youngest adoptive son. "Greet her from me when you meet her."
"You can do it yourself the moment I'll bring her home." Pym said grinning and pressed a button on the inside of the cabinet and got himself engulfed by a bright flash of light, before he was teleported into another realm.
Just a moment later raced through the tunnel between the different realms and then found himself pulled to the side and crushing on his feet. "Ow!" He growled as he hit the ground and the light disappeared. Moaning he straightened his posture and shielded his eyes against the brightly shining sun. It took him a moment but then he realized he didn't know that kind of architecture. Gaping he took in his surroundings. He stood on a bridge – that looked a lot like a rainbow – in front of an island on which enthroned a mountain-like castle and a lot of floating levels. But before Pym could even set a foot on this island a dozen knights came rushing towards him.
"Hey! Ehm… could you please tell my, where I find a girl named Thorunn?" Pym called to them, but the only answer he received was a loud cry.
"Intruder!" One of the knights yelled, whereupon Pym stopped in his tracks.
The young man swallowed hard. „O-Oh…" With that he shrunk himself and began to fight the knights. As soon as he paralyzed first squad the second lunged for him. "Oh, you got to be kidding me!" He cursed under his breath as he tried to avoid his attackers' spears. And as he did so a man out of the first squad ran to the palace and into the throne room.
As soon as he burst through the gigantic double doors the knight raised his voice. "Thor, my king, we have an intruder." That caused Thorn to look at the knight and a young woman next to him to listen closely. "He fights back by forces but he doesn't hurt anyone. He is shrinks and stings your men with yellow lasers, your grace."
That caused the young woman to jump up from her seat and run out on the balcony. She sat her eyes on the bridge and gasped at the sight.
"What shall we do, my king?" The knight asked bowing.
"I'll deal with it." The young woman said sternly and flew from the balcony towards the bridge.
"Withstand!" One of the men called as he tried to split Pym in half.
Avoiding the knight's sword Pym growled. "Damn it… stop it! I don't want to hurt you!"
"Show no mercy!" Another man called and was ready to strike. Just as Pym was about to be split a voice cut through the air. "Cian, stop!" His attacker froze and lowered his sword, whereupon Pym let out a breath of relief. He grew to his actual size and looked up to the girl that was about to land on the bridge.
Her long, blonde, wavy hair was blown in her beautiful heart-shaped face. She wore a short, white fighting dress with golden ornaments combined with golden leg armor and boots. On her right wrist she wore a golden bracelet that hugged it like a second skin that replaced the blue one she once wore. To complete her look she wore a helmet on her head, well it was more a golden headband than a helmet that had two golden wings on each side of her head. The two streaks she had once bound together were gone as well, but there was no doubt about who stood there in front of Pym.
She looked at the knight and watched him as he bowed his head after he took his helmet off. "But, my princess, he-" He looked up at her, his deep green eyes in her sapphire blue ones and his longer brown hair, which was pulled back into a ponytail fell over his shoulder.
"No, Cian. He is of no danger." She told the knight. A grin spread across her beautiful face as she walked towards the young male Wasp.
"T-Thorunn?" Well Pym was confused and overwhelmed by her appearance, because he had never seen her wearing a dress before.
"Pym!" She called, ran the last feet towards him and threw her arms around his neck. "It's so good to see you again!"
"My lady, you know the intruder?" The curious knight – Cian – asked.
Thorunn turned towards the knight and lay a hand on Pym's shoulder as she spoke up again. "He isn't an intruder. He is an old friend."
"Of course." The knight bowed and took his leave.
Pym frowned upon him. "Who's this?"
"He is a knight of my guard. He entered on the same day I did. We are friends." Thorunn told him.
He looked at her, smiling slyly. "Friends? As in 'friends with benefits'?"
"What? No! Also, I'm the princess, such a behavior would be inappropriate." The princess said.
Pym laughed at this. "Oh come on! I mean, look at him. He like the Asgardian Adonis, tall, muscular, handsome, polite. What would you want more?"
Thorunn froze, lost in thought. She was thinking of someone, that Pym was sure of. "Hello, earth to Thorunn."
Suddenly she blinked and shook her head. Smiling she turned to face Pym again and happily grabbed his hand. "Come on! You will be our guest of honor on the feast tonight."
"Ehm…" Slightly confused he blinked at her and remembered what he actually came for. "To be honest there is something I need to talk to you about." Pym said in a lower voice what caused Thorunn's mood to drop.
"Oh, okay, then let us go somewhere private." Pym nodded and let himself be guided by her across the island, into the castle and up on a balcony.
Sighing Pym took his seat next to her on a bench on the balcony. "So, what do you want to talk about?" She smiled at him and looked into his deep blue eyes as he held his breath.
"Ultron is back." He said, what caused Thorunn's smile to be swiped off her face. Silence followed.
After some painful moments she shook her head. "N-No… that's impossible."
"I'm sorry but it's true. He returned a year ago. I tried to fight him, but I failed and just barely made it out alive. He gave us a year to reunite the old team and fight him. If we don't he will destroy everything as soon the deadline is over. And there would be another thing." Pym told her guiltily.
She took a shaking breath and braced herself. "What?"
"He said he had to settle some unfinished business with you." He told her, whereupon she took another deep breath.
"Okay, so I shall help you to reunite our friends and beat Ultron for good?" The blonde asked finally looking at him again.
Pym nodded. "Roughly said, yeah, pretty much. You're in?"
Thorunn laughed. "You really need to ask? 'Course I'm in." Pym grinned and hugged his adoptive sister until a deep voice startled them.
"Where you are in?" Thor's thundering voice asked behind them.
Thorunn turned and stood up surprised. "Father?"
"Hi, Thorunn's dad." Pym greeted the god.
Slightly smiling the god nodded at him. "Hello, Henry."
A chuckle escaped him. "Please, call me Pym."
"Fine, Pym. But now my daughter shall answer my question." His gaze turned back to the young Asgardian as he looked down on her.
"Ultron is back, father. He threatens my family and I have to bring those hardliners back together for that we have even the slightest change against Ultron." Thorunn told her father and began to slightly smile up at him. "I promise you, father, that I will make it back in time."
"If that is so… But promise me to call me as soon as you got problems." The god reminded his daughter, what caused the girl to groan.
"But father! I'm old enough and perfectly capable to fight and-" She cut herself off and blinked confused. "Wait… I'm allowed to go?" She looked at Pym, who seemed equally confused.
Thor chuckled a bit and gently lay a hand on is daughter's cheek. "Of course, my daughter. Here it is a bit different, but on earth? It is clear, that I trust you and I know, that you will beat this robot to shreds. But when you're in trouble call me and I will help you."
"Thank you, father." Thorunn said and hugged the god of thunder tightly before she pulled back.
Smiling Thor caressed her cheek once more. "Now go."
Thorunn curtsied lightly. "Thank you, father. Farewell." With that she grabbed Pym's wrist and ran through the palace, off the island and down the rainbow bridge.
"Where are we going?" Pym called over the wind, although there wasn't a wind to call over.
Grinning the girl turned to him. "The Bifroest."
Pym laughed a bit and pulled her to a hold. "We won't need it, princess. I found another way."
She looked at him, confused, as he tapped on his left arm. "What are you doing and why do you have a radio set on your arm?"
"This isn't a radio set." He told her grinning and waited for his arm to peep. "Tony, we're coming back."
"Then what is it?" The Asgardian asked curiously.
"I'll explain, when we're back at the Avengers-Tower." With that he grabbed Thorunn's hand and they were engulfed by the blinding light. It took them just mere moments before they reappeared inside the Aveners-Tower in New York City. As the doors of the teleporter opened up and a bit fog flooded out they saw Tony standing before them.
The princesses face light up. "TONY!" She screamed and lunged herself at him.
Smiling brightly he hugged her back. "Hello, my girl."
"I missed you so much!" Thorunn exclaimed and hugged both men once again.
Pym held her tight and smiled into her hair, that he reached easily, because he was now as tall as Thorunn. "We missed you too."
As they pulled back Tony took a closer look at his adoptive daughter and smirked. "I never thought to see you in a dress."
"In Asgard I'm kind of the princess, you know. I have to wear it, but with the leg armor it is acceptable." Thorunn told him and knocked on her golden armor.
Tony smiled. "Looks good. You look good, no more than good. Thorunn you look beautiful."
Blushing the girl bowed her head, smiling. "Thank you, Tony."
"Great." Pym exclaimed, smiling and clapped his hands together. "Now that we are through with the greeting we can proceed with our actual plan."
Thorunn took her headband off as she turned to Pym, who made his way towards a computer. "Then let us hear your plan, Pym."
She stood next to Pym as he typed something into the machine. "As you know we have to bring the old team back together. To do so we have to find them at first, but to our luck we never left their side these last years." With these words pictures appeared on the screens in the room that showed the three boys in different scenes and where they lived.
"Let's see… Azari is living in Vaconda, Hawkeye's in San Francisco and James in… Camebridge?" Thorunn asked, if surprised or confused she didn't know.
"Yes." Pym confirmed and began to calculate each route. "I would say we get our majesty first. He would be the easiest to convince."
Thorunn nodded and grabbed her headband. "Good, let's go."
"Yeah. Tony, is the Stark-Jet ready?" Pym asked as he led Thorunn to the flight deck.
"Refueled and ready for take-off." Tony said smiling.
Grinning Pym replied. "Perfect."
Thorunn frowned. "Wait a sec, what happened to the Quin-Jet 2.0?"
"Blown up three years ago." Pym said as if it wasn't a big deal.
"W-What? How?" The princess was shocked.
"Aliens blew it up before we were out safely. But hey, look at us, we are great." Pym exclaimed, turned away from the monitors towards Thorunn and looked at her, grinning.
"Great?! And what is this?" Thorunn asked enraged, grabbed Pym's arm and pulled him towards her. As he stood before her he swallowed hard under her intense gaze. Nervously he looked at his arm as Thorunn pulled the sleeve of his jacket down to reveal his mechanical arm.
Ashamed he looked to the side. "This… didn't happen on that day."
"When did it happen then? I assume you weren't just bored out of your mind ragged your arm yourself!" Enraged she pushed Pym back, but just a bit.
Hesitantly he raised his gaze to meet hers again, what caused Thorunn's eyes to soften. "Could we discuss that later? We've got to go."
Thorunn sighed upon this and nodded. "Fine. But we will talk about this."
"Okay." He said sighing and after a few silent moments he looked at her again, smirking. "I think you should change before we leave."
The young Asgardian laughed at this. "And how do you think I'm supposed to do that? This is all I have."
"Don't panic. Your old room still exists." Tony told her, put a hand on her back and began to lead her towards her quarters.
"Thank you, but I might outgrew them." Thorunn said as they nearly reached her old room.
"No fear, Alice will help you." Tony opened the door to Thorunn's old room and walked her in.
The Asgardian frowned. "Who is Alice?"
"What can I do for you, Tony?" A gentle, euphonious, female voice asked.
Smiling Tony looked slightly up. "Good morning, Alice. We need female support down here."
"How can I help you?" She asked politely.
"We need fitting clothes for this girl. Preferably clothes one could wear in the jungle." Tony said, looking at Thorunn. A few seconds later a hologram of a beautiful woman appeared on a screen. Thorunn took a step back as the hologram inspected her.
"Very well, Mr. Stark." Alice said and the hologram disappeared. "Task completed." Then after a few seconds the wardrobe in her room opened and in it stood two manikins with different outfits for Thorunn.
"Y-You can't be serious." Thorunn said as she saw what Alice picked out, what caused Tony to chuckle.
"It's a perfect attire for the jungle and the everyday life. You can't constantly wear your armor." Tony told her and caused her to smile.
"Yeah." She said sighing. "The outfits are actually really pretty."
Suddenly Pym appeared behind them. "Good, then take them and we leave."
Thorunn turned, nodded and did as she was told. After she grabbed her clothes Pym led her to the flying deck and began to enter the jet.
"Good luck." Tony said and smiled up at Thorunn and Pym.
"We bring them back." Thorunn assured smiling and entered the jet.
"We will make it back in time." Pym said and entered after Thorunn. He walked into the cockpit and began to start the engine as the young Asgardian set next to him. It didn't take him long to pull the jet into position and fly off.
AN/:
Sorry for the late update but the network crashed and I couldn't update :'( I'm so sorry!
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