Sorry I have been gone so long! School takes everything out of me. I dislike college. :/ Well anyways, I talked to Antman and he kicked my but into gear to finish this chapter. I have started to cross post on Ao3 but this is still getting posted to. I will put a notice if there is a chapter to look for on Ao3 because I don't want unsafe material posted here etc. etc. Love y'all sorry it too so long.

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All the best! - Hunter!

It shouldn't have been this easy to get away, Tony thinks as he sits on the bus heading toward California. He had his arc reactor taped over so that people couldn't see the light, he figured that keeping his identity as close to his chest as he could manage would be best. They had all left him. He woke up in a hospital by himself, after they had forgotten him to die on the floor in his lab. Tony sank into himself, pulling the fabric of his jacket tighter around him. He was exhausted from his escape from the escape from the hospital and he suddenly felt glad that he had the time to sleep on the bus out of town.

Clint woke up to someone's fist banging on his door.

"Agent Barton, sir! There is an attack on the city!" The voice broke through Clint's conscious and he was up and alert in a matter of seconds. He raced to the door and pulled it open and had to move to dodge the fist about to beat the door again. He growled at the random Shield agent in front of his door.

"Why am I just being informed of this now?" He growled. City under attack or not he was not a nice person when first awoken.

"We didn't find you at the hospital and Miss Potts is unreachable, sir."

"What do you mean she is unreachable? She should be at the hospital."

"No sir, we believe the attack started just before she got there, we can't locate a Mr. Happy either."

"Then who is with Stark?"

"That's the thing sir—"

"What?"

"Stark is missing."

With a growl Clint shoved past the agent in his doorway and went racing down to Tony's lab. He needed to get his gear before he went hunting for the missing billionaire. Clint prayed that Tony had been taken and hadn't woken up. The thing he wanted most was to make sure that Tony didn't wake up alone.

Captain Steve Rogers was having a very, very bad day. A new super villain had attacked the city of Manhattan and it was bound and determined to destroy everything in sight. Hawkeye had been nowhere to be found and Iron Man was still in a coma. So with two of their best long distance fighters out of the game they were having a rough go.

It was massive, whatever the hell it was, he thought. OH SHIT! It also flew; Steve discovered as he dodged as giant claws swept too close for comfort.

"Thor please tell me you have something on what this thing is." Steve barked into the communicator.

"I'm sorry Captain. I have never encountered a beast such as this." The god of thunder could be seen barely attempting to strike the beast with lightening.

Steve jumped over more cars that had been partially crushed than he cared to think about to get closer to the team. He needed eyes above but their main man for that job wasn't there.

"Widow! I need a visual from above, is there any weakness?" He was trying to figure out this beast.

"Of course Captain" Her voice came through smooth and almost like this inky black to his ears. He didn't like the sound but there wasn't much he could do with her at the moment, he still wasn't sure what was going on between the Widow and Hawkeye. The two had been dysfunctional since Tony had slipped into the coma.

"SMASH" Steve looked up in time to see the Hulk landing on top of the giant creature and tackling it to the ground.

I sure hope that he can take care of that thing. Steve thought as he turned away from the monster to try and get everyone away from the epicenter of damage.

Clint had gone running out of the building as soon as he could get past the Shield agent in his door. He sprinted all the way to the hospital, praying that he found anything to lead to where the billionaire had gone.

Out of breath he reached the hospital and the staff looked at him like he was out of his mind. They had started to like him while he stayed with Tony, he was quiet and he stayed out of the way whenever they had work that they need to finish. He found the head doctor for Tony's ward quickly.

"Please tell me you know where Stark is." Clint barked at the doctor.

The man in the white coat blinked at Clint and then shook his head. Clint let out a shout and punched the nearest wall, putting a serious dent in the plaster. He spun on his heel and left at a run back towards the elevator of the hospital.

"Please, please be okay Tony. Please don't be taken by someone." Clint whispered as he ran out into the street. He spun in circles once he hit the sidewalk trying to find the elusive billionaire.

Clint was so wrapped up in his worry that he didn't even see the smoke billowing from not far away in the city, or hear the explosions. He continued to look around to find the face of Tony. When he was unsuccessful he began to run back to the tower and find Pepper as soon as he could.