As the 'children' filed through the door of the observation room, Tony quickly noted that the eldest pair were holding hands, and the others all seemed to be paired off in some way as well. The girl, (was her name Rose or something?), smiled slightly at Tony as she noticed his curious gaze on the strange group. Fury cleared his throat to speak, but before he could say a word one of the younger twins skipped up to Tony and said with a huge smile, "Hi! My name is Lily, and you're Tony Stark! We are going to have so much fun together! What with you being our new 'guardian' and all," At this point her twin skipped up to Lily's side and continued her sister's overenthusiastic greeting in the same energetic manner.

"Not that we really need a guardian, seeing as how Rosie and Eagle are MORE than old enough to take care of us legally, but at least this way we get to meet the Avengers! We can't wait to meet everybody, especially Captain America! No offense Iron Man."

Tony had a rather confused and overwhelmed look on his face, and muttered, "None taken," as the two little girls continued on their shared rant. Rose noticed his expression and seemed to take pity on him,

"Lily, Lila?" She said to the two girls, who were just about to continue speaking. The girls closed their mouths and turned to look at Rose in unison (Now that, Tony thought, was kind of creepy).

"Maybe you two should let Director Fury speak, I'm sure you will have plenty of time to talk to Mr. Stark and the rest of the Avengers later." The girls looked guiltily at their feet for a moment before flashing Tony a quick smile and skipping back to their previous place near Eagle, who smiled at the pair and turned back to Fury with laughter in his eyes,

"You were about to say something, Director?"

Fury cleared his throat once more and glared at the group before starting again. "As I was trying to say," (insert additional glare from Fury to the group), "This is Iron Man, or as you obviously already know, Tony Stark. You will be staying with him in the Avenger's mansion until further notice."

Lily and Lila giggled, then once of them (Lily? Lila? Tony wasn't really sure) said "We already knew that."

Fury scowled at them, "Finish packing and report to the flight deck in an hour." The group filed out of the room, Eagle giving Fury a nod in affirmative before following.

Fury seemingly repressed a sigh of annoyance and turned to walk out a different door, "Good luck with them Tony, you're going to need it."

Tony watched Fury walk out of the room, a shell shocked look plastered on his face, what exactly had Fury thrown him into?

Forty minutes later, on the flight deck of SHIELD headquarters….

"Sir? You know that your design could infinitely be improved if you permitted one of us to examine those blueprints more closely."

A flustered engineer, not long a member of SHIELD's weapons and technology department, looked down in astonishment at the two little kids standing in front of him. He fumbled for words as his face scrunched up in confusion. "Look, kids, I don't know how you got here, but I'm pretty sure that I know a lot more than you about designing undercover weapons. I graduated among the top of my class at MIT and you two probably aren't even in middle school yet, not to mention…" he paused, noting that the kids were just looking up at him, smiling like they had heard all this before and didn't care in the least. "Uh, what are you two smiling for?"

The girl laughed, "You are new here, yes?"

The engineer raised his eyebrows, both at her question and the way she phrased it, "Yeah, how can you tell?"

The girl looked to her brother, still smiling. Her brother smiled in return, then turned back to the engineer, "Well, long story short, Sir, we cannot really tell you anything since you have obviously yet to be briefed on the matter. However, I can assure that we both have more than enough experience with technology to see that your design can vastly be improved with only a few minor modifications."

At this point, a side door to the flight deck opened and six other children of various ages entered, each wearing a backpack. The group instantly found an open space to set down their bags, and the eldest walked over to the still flustered engineer. The young man couldn't help but smile slightly as he took in the expression of the engineer, "So, you've met Gadget and Gizmo I see."

The engineer blinked, as if just recovering from a trance, "Uh, kind of. They didn't tell me their names; they just said they could improve my designs."

The young man gave the twins a look, "I thought you were told to stop messing with the new guys?"

The twins laughed, "We were," said the girl, "but we just could not resist."

The young man rolled his eyes, "Alright you two, get back to the others and let this guy do his job." The pair started to walk away, and the engineer heard the boy mumble,

"His design WAS flawed, or at least it could have been better…"

"Don't mind those two," The young man said, snapping the engineer back into reality once again. "They do that to almost all of the new people. I go by Eagle, the girl was Gadget, and her brother is Gizmo."

"So um, what did they mean, when they said they could improve my design?" The engineer asked uncertainly.

Eagle laughed, "Honestly, you would have to ask them if you want specifics, my specialty has nothing to do with technology. But if you are asking if they were serious, then yes, they could improve your design; actually they could improve almost any design. They are really good with technology, it is what they do." He looked over his shoulder as a door opened in Director Fury and Iron Man entered, "I have to get going, nice talking with you though!" He turned and jogged back to the group he entered with, accepting his backpack from the girl he had entered with earlier. The group walked over to the Director and Iron Man, apparently discussing something, then Iron Man lead them to the Avenger's Jet that had arrived less than an hour earlier and the group (minus Director Fury) climbed on. Moments later the jet launched itself out into the open sky, leaving a very bewildered engineer in its wake.

Sorry I didn't update for forever! I just didn't really know where to go and my inspiration had deserted me. I'm not really sure where this chapter came from either to be honest, the bit about the engineer just made me smile. I wanted to paint a better picture about the characters of my OCs, and how they do have a sense of humor.

Just so you know, Iron Man/Tony was wearing the suit the entire time, although if you want to imagine he took off his helmet after he knew the 'kids' knew, be my guest (it's what I do ). Also, the engineer will not be an important part of this story, he was just something that flew out of my mind onto the screen and decided to stay!

Thanks so much to my reviewers for chapter 3, Legion 22 and LetThereBePeace97. Also thanks to "your new cool fan," who left a review a couple of months after I originally posted the first three chapters. I really appreciate all three of you!