"Whatcha' doin' kid?" Iron Man asked me, looking at me kneeling on the floor.
"You know, stuff." I replied, looking a tad suspicious. I'm not gonna' let this ruin me. "How'd the meeting go? Fun stuff all around?" A moment of silence passed. Alright, that's a dead end. Hopefully nothing like the end of this encounter. What could I possibly say? I felt the smooth grey box against my hand. Got it. "Doctor, about earlier. What is this?" I asked, standing up and showing him the box. He squinted behind his glasses, trying to get a good look, before looking embarrassed.
"That's why I put it in the box. I have no clue." Iron Man cut in then.
"That's Stark stuff from the many himself." He pointed at himself. "Give it here." I walked up to him and handed it to him, but was really confused.
"The many himself?" He looked at me, amused.
"Me."I rose a brow. "Tony Stark." I paused, wasn't that Iron Man? Then it hit me.
They were the same person! He came out as Iron Man awhile ago, didn't he? Everyone freaked out because he was this really stuck up, pretentious guy who now wanted to be a superhero. I forgot about that.
"Oh, yeah. From Stark Industries, or something like that."
"The one and only. And this," He held up the box. "Is a, very simple, modelizer." All I could do was stare confused. "It models things to big or dangerous to do normally."
"Oh. That's cool. How's it work?"
"Simply." He held it in his let hand while pushing underneath it with his right on. Projections or holograms or whatever they were pushed up from the box and spread around the room. Volcanoes, missions to faraway planets, everything you could imagine as long as it was big and scary. "These are just the prototypes, simple models we've been using for awhile, so eventually you'll be able to program in your own."
This was, amazing. A grin erupted on my face as I saw the solar system, volcanoes, things I used to learn in school. This was,
"Awesome." Stark looked pleased before shutting it down with the same hand motion he used before.
"Thanks." He handed it to me and turned away. "Now if we could find out what to do with this." He stood in front of a scepter, the one that strange guy had before.
"Is that like the Tesseract?" It gave of the same feeling all the stuff the Tesseract broke before. Tony and Bruce looked concerned.
"What would you know about that?" Bruce said. So the Tesseract really was a big deal. Superheros and Agents worried about it all at the same time, that's not a very good thing.
"I fix things around Shield. I'm the mechanic. Just so happens the Tesseract breaks everything." They looked relieved. Tony spoke up next.
"Sorry kid, Pip? Was it?" At my nod he continued. "Looks Like this one breaks everything, too." I grimaced, but accepted the fact that anything Shield was involved in broke everything.
The conversation was probably over, but I then realized I should milk this for all it's got.
"Hey, Tony, and Bruce. Would you mind looking at some other things and telling me what they're about?" He nodded, pleased to be of service.
So I ran back into my office and came back with the box of science stuff. There was a lot of stuff.
(*^*)
It took Tony and Bruce only a short while to explain everything to me. They would have been great co teachers.
Now I sat out on the lab, on the side closest to my office, on a desk working on things while randomly shouting out questions. These guys were actually pretty cool.
At some point I brought my radio out, blasting the same station as always why humming along. I had patched it up the night before, so no troubles on that front. The Science Bros, as they prefered to be called, didn't mind the noise. I really appreciated that because I find it hard to work without it.
Currently I was working on some dumb looking gun, all we really need is a barrel and a trigger guys, while humming along to Xs and Os, a newer song that I found myself really enjoying.
And then Fury and Black Widow walked in. Well, more like barged in. Luckily Fury didn't seem to care about me all too much and began yelling at Tony.
"Why is your system trying to hack Shield?" My eyes widened. Not good. Then a notification popped up on Tony's screen. Oh shit.
"Trying to? More like did." Fury was angry now. Should I run? No, that'll attract his attention. Treat him like a T-Rex. "What's stage 2?" Maybe we don't have to know.
Now Steve burst in, and somewhere in between strange guy number two, who I still didn't really know about, slipped in.
"Shield makes weapons with the Tesseract." Yeah, they probably would. He slammed a giant gun thing down on the table. Oh, with the stage 2! With the Tesseract? That's probably really dangerous. And it would be able to break even more stuff.
"Explain that." Tony said, technically winning the argument. Fury looked furious, ironically enough, and pointed to strange guy number two.
"Because of him!" What'd that guy do? Besides wear a ridiculous red cape.
"My people have no trouble with your planet!" Was this guy an alien? Oh fuck.
"But other planets might. We have to be prepared." That makes logical sense.
"Doctor, you might want to remove yourself from this argument." Black Widow, are Agent Romanoff, spoke up.
"Why? So I don't Hulk out?"Was this guy the Hulk? What the fuck did I miss?
And then began the argument of the century. I could only pick out a few sentences, but that was plenty for me.
"You people are so petty. And small." Compared to you, fucking behemoth, yeah.
Then the Doctor got loud. Please don't.
"You want to see my party trick?" He was holding the scepter. Why was he holding the scepter. Everyone seemed very cautious, and not very happy, with him holding it.
"Put it down, Banner." Were his initials B.B, 'cause that's adorable.
The most terrifying thing was that Bruce seemed concerned that he was holding it, like he didn't realize he picked it up.
The computer dinged again. He put it down, relaxing everyone.
"Sorry guys, guess you don't get to see my party trick after all." I don't want to go to that party. "The Tesseract, it's," They were looking for the Tesseract? What the actual fuck? "...here."
Mother fucking shit.
Boom. An explosion went off, shaking the lab and throwing everyone around. My ears rang, my eyes stung, my entire body hurt.
Then I looked up.
I was with Bruce and Agent Romanoff. She was trapped under a pillar, or something and trying to get it off. I went to stand up and help her, as much as I could, but stopped.
Bruce was mildly green.
"Calm down, ." My eyes widened in fear. Fucking shit.
My eyes widened in fear. Fucking shit.
A dog stood in front of me. Dark brown fur, dark brown eyes, sharp teeth. It growled whenever I moved and followed me closely with its eyes.
I shouldn't have taken the alleyway home. But it was late and I was late and I wanted to get home quickly.
Now I'm gonna' die.
Unless I could give it something? Like a peace offering!
I reached slowly into my pocket, stopping as he growled.
"It, it's food. Promise. You hungry boy?" I don't get to interact with dogs all that much, mom doesn't like them, besides hanging with my grandma's. And they were the sweetest dogs ever in the history of dogs.
This one was not.
None the less, I made it into my pocket and got out, thankfully convenient, packet of beef jerky. One that I would be sad to see let go. I like my beef jerky, and I don't get to eat much of it, mom doesn't like it. Throwing one out with a simple,
"Here you go, boy." I was glad to see it stop it's growling and accept it with a hungry snap. It was really hungry.
And so began feeding the dog my entire pack of jerky.
Eventually we were sitting side by side watching the birds fly over.
"You know boy, you're a really good dog." I said raising a hand to his head and slowly giving him a comforting stroke. "In fact, you remind me of a friend of mine." A friend of mine, also known as someone I sort of know. "Jackson. A pretty rude kid, but only because he's scared of everything."
"You're not mean, you're just scared." I smiled at his when he whined. "You know what I'll call you. Jackson." A mighty bark roared from him, startling me. "That good, huh?" I look up at the setting sun. Setting? Oh no. I stood up and started to walk away. "I'll see you tomorrow Jackson. I promise!" Another bark, making me trip and struggle to stand again. That was terrifying.
And so began the adventures of a girl and her dog.