AN: Howdy! You all hate me for that cliffhanger, don't you? ;) Anyway, thanks for the reviews. Almost thirty now!

Recap: Hammer just told the Avengers that Pepper, Jane, and Betty would be sold into a sex trafficking network.

"What?" Thor yelled, "You did what?"

Tony stared at Hammer coldly, "This is a sick joke. It has to be."

"They shouldn't be sold. I think. That wasn't part of the deal. Anyway, they're being transported to Alaska, I think. Maybe."

Clint bowed his head, sighing, "Another trail to follow." The rest of the team, minus Bruce, stared at Hammer coldly, especially Tony and Thor.

"Maybe we should've brought Bruce," Tony commented, "He could beat some sense into Hammer."

"It was a dangerous option. He could have went ballistic," Thor said, pursing his lips, "Alaska. Where is that?"

"It's a northern state," Steve said, "Very cold."

"Relax, guys," Hammer said, standing. Natasha, Clint, Tony, and Thor pointed their weapons towards him. He held up his cuffed hands, "Willing surrender? Oh, there's some footage of Pepper on the flash drive in that drawer," he motioned to a metal filing cabinet, "Poor girl."

Tony gritted his teeth, but Steve put a hand on his shoulder, "Focus. He's trying to do this to you." Steve turned back to Justin, "I want the records of exports from this facility right now. Page whoever has them. Right now."

Hammer put a cuffed hand up to the intercom, arrow and gun still trained on him, "Jesse, send the records down to room nine."

Days passed. The two women had left the room, horrified at the things they were told. Sex trafficking. They were going to be sold. Pepper felt like a caged wolf, rotating between pacing the room and sleeping. She was going to go insane if she stared at the red tinged on white any longer. It was sickening. She wondered when a guard would come for her. Wondered what man was going to get her. If Tony knew, he would be furious. While these troubling thoughts clouded her mind, she paced. Pepper just wanted to get tension out of her muscles. They were twitching from disuse.

While Pepper paced, Jane was sitting on her bed, meditating. She wasn't one for all the Zen crap, she was a scientist, after all. She believed in reason. So, while others would reflect on their life during meditation, she recited mathematical formulas. Jane paused when she heard Pepper screech in frustration. She chuckled sadly to herself, thinking that she should also meditate, and tuned out the rest of the world. She tried not to think about the imminent danger.

Betty passed the time differently than the other two girls. She saw a young doctor when she arrived, and he kindly gave her a book full of baby names and a highlighter. Betty considered names while her fellow prisoners stressed over their capture. She felt at peace. Today, she mused, was her appointment to find out the sex of the baby. She laughed at her bad luck and poured over male and female names.

Pepper sat on her bed, head in her hands. It was pointless to worry about things she couldn't change. Pepper, resigned, began to count to a thousand. She had nothing else to do. She couldn't formulate things in her head like Tony or plan an attack like Natasha. She was only Pepper. She could answer phones, make threats against people in power, and follow orders. That was the extent of Pepper's genius. One could say she was almost useless. Pepper realized she had a window. It would be easy for Tony to break into their cells, since one wall was facing out. She sighed, laying back onto the bed uncomfortably. Pepper noted the red stain again and decided that she would rather not contemplate it.

"Pepper!" she heard someone whisper. She went to the bars of her cell. Jane was looking at her from an angle. "Hey, Betty said she saw someone flying around outside."

"What?" Pepper asked, a lump in her throat, "When?"

"Just now. She wanted me to tell you."

"What color?"

There was a pause, but suddenly Jane answered, "Red. Wouldn't that be Tony?"

Pepper's heart sped up, "Yeah. It would be. His suit."

Jane laughed quietly, "They're here!"

"Give it a few minutes. Maybe Betty was seeing things."

"I was not!" Betty said in hushed tones, "I swear on my life I saw him."

Pepper pursed her lips, "But-"

"Pepper!" She turned back to her window to see a face hovering outside of her window.

"Tony?! Oh my God!" She was at her window in a flash, "What's going on? Why are you here? How did you find us?"

"Are you alright?" he asked, ignoring her questions. She nodded, and relief washed over his face. "Good. Stand back."

"Stand back?" She stood at the edge of her cell, against the bars, "Jesus, Tony. What the hell are you-" Cue the explosion. Pepper covered her face with her forearm to prevent debris from hitting her face and sirens began to blare throughout the prison. Steve and Thor were in the room a moment later. Thor swung his hammer, bending the bars like they were clay. He freed Jane, then Betty. Everyone came back to where Pepper and Tony were speaking in hushed tones.

"Reunion later," Steve said, "We have to get them out of here. Where's Natasha?"

Several men swarmed the cell, holding guns and tasers. Tony help up his repulsors, blasting just above the group. They started firing at the two. Tony pushed Pepper and Jane behind him, while Steve was figuring out a way to get Betty out of the line of fire as soon as possible. Instead, Thor stated that he would.

"She has the van. Don't worry." Tony yelled over the noise and took Pepper in one arm and Jane in the other, "Thor, take Betty. Be very careful, okay?" Thor nodded, jumping out of the room with a shocked Betty in his arms. "Steve, can you-" Steve already dropped from the building. Tony took Jane in one arm and Pepper in the other, "I always like having a woman on each arm." Pepper hit his metal head, earning a laugh from Tony, "Joking." His mask went down to protect his face and they were gently floating to the ground. Shots followed them out of the hole in the building, but they were aimed poorly. Pepper looked at her surroundings. It was the back of the prison. No yard where people worked. No fences. Nothing. Just woods and snow.

"Natasha has a big van that we were using. We could've got her faster with flying, but we had to have a way home," Tony explained when he landed. Jane ran over to where Thor was standing wrapping her arms around him. Tony turned to Pepper, "So we figured out a way to get you three out of there while we waited for our favorite killer couple to get here with a getaway vehicle. C'mon!" Tony said as guards began to realize where they went. He pulled Pepper into the van, slamming the door shut.

AN: There. They're out... Will this get boring now? Meh. I dunno.

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