So, this chapter is going to have a lot more action than the last one, I promise, and it'll include the Avengers, so you know it'll be fun. So, I've noticed that I've kind of been centering the story around Shay mostly, which is actually an accident, I meant to have all of the kids have equal screen time, but Shay is just so much fun to write, so she's most likely gonna be the one that I write most, but I will add more of the others.
WARNING!- This chapter includes a Stony moment, which I did warn you about in the first Chapter, if you don't believe me, go look, so if you don't like, just skip the part after the Rocky and Tony moment, and just read the last sentence.
Disclaimer- If you recognize it from anywhere other than this story, I don't own it.
~~~~~With the Team~~~~~
Belle hated when missions turned out like this.
When missions that were supposed to be covert turn into the exact opposite, and they have end up in the middle of a huge fight.
It happened more times than not.
It's not that the team wasn't stealthy, remember that they'd broken into the Helicarrier, but they had an annoying tendency to argue when they were in a place that they thought nobody could hear them, and a lot of times, they ended up wrong. None of them liked to turn down a challenge either, if they were challenged by the enemy, well they just had to come out and beat them, their pride (usually Shay's) wouldn't let them say no.
Which is how they got into this situation.
What had started as a simple mission, take down a bunch of drug-dealers who were enhancing the drugs to make the people who took them temporarily go on an insane rampage, but it could never be as easy as it seemed. First, there were about 10 drug-dealers, all armed with guns and explosives, and they had about 30 of the people who had taken the drugs working with them and now they had insane people running after them with machine-guns and giant knives.
"Well, we've gotten out of much worse situations." Belle thought as she and her friends all stood back-to-back in a circle in the center of the room.
"Hey, Ethan." She said, turning to the boy in question.
"Yes, Belle?" He responded, though he knew exactly what she was going to say.
"Now might be a really good time for you to get angry." She told him as the insane people started to walk toward them, creepy grins on their faces.
"Couldn't agree more." Then there was a loud ripping noise, and a quiet growl turned into a loud roar. Then Junior stood in the circle where Ethan had been standing. Only for a second though, because he roared and jumped at the approaching madmen.
Then all hell broke loose.
Iris and Archer disappeared, both of them working much better in the shadows, they were most likely going to take out the drug-dealers first. She heard the familiar sound of Shay's rockets, and the girl propelled herself headfirst into the fray. Thunder shook overhead, and Alek let out a battle cry as he threw himself at enemies, using his muscle and his lightning to take down enemies.
Belle lifted up her shield and bashed enemies along the head, knocking them out, and then threw it at the 6 people approaching her, sending all of them to the ground while the others backed up. The shield flew came back to her and she took a quick moment to look around.
The enemies seemed to be getting back up, but all were certainly worse for wear than at first. An arrow flew by her head and a crate of the drugs exploded.
"Yeah," She thought. "This won't be too hard."
~~~~~With Tony~~~~~
The last thing that Tony had expected when he tracked the drive that the intruders had used on the Helicarrier, was that it'd lead him to a very normal, although very high-tech, mansion all the way in Sunnyvale, California.
He knew that the mansion belonged to Mona White, a head scientist for NASA, who lived there with her 15-year-old foster daughter, Shanelle White.
But he was more concerned with Shanelle.
The people in the audio that they'd gotten had sounded young, around Shanelle's age, and he had researched the girl before taking off to the mansion. He knew she was a certified genius, and was in her senior year at high school, because of how many grades she'd skipped. She'd been in several technology and computer classes for the past three years, and had passed them with flying colors, and she was the top of her class in every subject she had, especially the math and science classes she took.
It was a story that almost reminded him slightly of himself.
But Shanelle didn't know her real parents, her mother was a surrogate, and she had died 7 years ago without ever having met her daughter, and Tony couldn't find anything about her father, it was like he didn't exist.
But there were other questions to be answered, like, if it was Shanelle, how did she do it? How did she manage to board and leave the Helicarrier while it was in the air? And who was it in the audio with her? He was hoping all of those questions would be answered with his visit to her house.
He landed on a balcony and walked into what looked like a living room, not really bothering to look around at all. He knew that the flash wasn't in this room, he watched the tracker that he had in his helmet.
"Turn 30 degrees to the left and walk 15 feet Sir." Jarvis' voice came in loud and clear, and Tony did as he said, knowing his AI would lead him to wherever the flash was.
~~~~~With the team~~~~~
Shay was in the middle of shooting the mindless, insane, zombie-like lackeys in the legs. They were supposed to stop, not kill, but these people had all willingly taken the drugs, so she figured that Cyclone wouldn't mind paralyzing a few people, or taking off a few limbs.
Then, a familiar voice came in through the speaker in the helmet, Arnold's voice. Arnold was an AI that she had programmed into her suit, named after Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator. "Shanelle, I regret to inform you that somebody has broken into the mansion." His calm, southern drawl came in loud and clear.
Shay frowned, landed on a walkway above the fray, and slunk into the shadows where nobody could see her. "Can you give me a visual?" She asked. Immediately, a video of the mansion hall popped up in front of what she was currently seeing. She saw Iron Man walking into the hallway that held the bedrooms and her lab. She quickly pulled up her holographic computer.
She began typing in codes that were made specifically for an occasion like this. She remotely activated her other suites and sent them out of the secret exit in her lab, an exit that led to a field next to her house, and quickly set up their autopilot to take them to the first place she thought of, Ethan's house in Wisconsin, but she made them grab the more important schematics and most of flash drives. She quickly copied all of the data she had on her home computers onto the one that she had on her suit, and them made a virus that deleted them off the ones she had at home.
There was nothing else of actual importance in her lab, aside from Rocky and the drive from the mission, but she trusted Tony Stark to not harm her robot. As for the flash, well she hadn't gotten a chance to look at it yet, which sucked, but if worst came to worst, she could just steal the copy they had at Cyclone.
It only took her about two minutes to do this, and when she finished, she flew back to the fight.
~~~~~With Tony~~~~~
Now when Tony got to the hallway, he seriously hoped he wouldn't have to go into either of the bedrooms, that just felt like a little too much of an invasion of privacy. So he was relieved when Jarvis told him that had had to keep walking forward, right into a wall, covered by a painting.
He took the painting off the wall, but saw nothing but the pale yellow paint that was on the surrounding walls.
"Well," He muttered sarcastically. "I don't think I can walk through the wall, so my guess is that there's a secret entrance, like in those awesome, cliche movies." He knocked on the wall to confirm his thought, and, of course, it was hollow behind it.
He looked around, slightly touching the walls, looking for something out of place, something that was different than the surrounding areas. It was when he took a step back, and heard the quiet creak of a loose floorboard. He immediately knelt down, and pulled it off, there was a number pad underneath it.
He smirked. "Well, this shouldn't be very hard. Jarvis, a little help here, would ya?"
~~~~~With Rocky the Robot~~~~~
Rocky didn't know what to think about the man that entered Shay's lab, there were very few people allowed in here, and Rocky had never seen him before.
Wait, Rocky had seen him before, on several posters in Shay's room, and a poster in the lab. That means that Shay must like him, so that means that Rocky likes him too! The man appeared to be looking for something, Rocky could help! Rocky knew where everything in the lab was!
He chirped happily and rolled up to him.
The man had a suit, like Shay's, only his was red instead of black, the same color that Shay had expressed interest in for the next suit she made, the fourth version of her suit. The man looked down at Rocky before kneeling down in front of him. His helmet opened up, revealing a man's face with a goatee and a small smile.
"Hey little guy, what's your name?" He asked, like he would get an actual out-loud answer and understand it, he was talking to Rocky like he was talking to another human.
Rocky turned to his side and showed the engraving on the side of his body, the one that said "Rocky," in big letters.
"Rocky huh? I love that movie. Well, Rocky, could you help me find something?" He asked, and Rocky nodded his head/claw happily.
"Well, I'm looking for a flash drive, a special flash drive, one that has only been in here for about 3 days. It was used about a week ago." He told Rocky.
Rocky thought he knew which one he was talking about, the one that was labeled "Avengers." He chirped and started rolling over to the desk, running over a Dr. Pepper can on the way.
The man followed him, stepping around the mess on the floor. Rocky stopped in front of the desk and gestured at the drawer. The man opened it up, and pulled out the flash drive.
He paused for a second, as if making sure it was the right one, and then smiled at Rocky.
"Thank you, Rocky, you've been a big help." He patted Rocky's claw like Shay did, and Rocky cooed happily.
The man began walking out of the lab, sending a wave at the little robot. Rocky copied the action with his claw. The man paused, and bent to pick something up near the entrance by the lab, and then the man was gone.
~~~~~With Tony~~~~~
Tony had gotten the flash drive, determined that it hadn't been looked at, but it had been copied, and then given it to Furry, but his mind was still occupied.
The girl had a lab, a nice lab, and a cute, little robot. He wished he could've stayed longer, but he had to be quick, so he couldn't look around as much as he'd wanted.
But the girl, Shanelle, interested him more than the lab did.
He sat in his lab in the Avengers Tower, formerly Stark Tower, just spacing out and staring at the schematics table. The girl reminded him a lot of himself, he'd read up on her, he knew that she had a sarcastic personality, and she was wearing a smug smirk in almost all of the pictures that he'd seen of her. That was another thing, she even kind of looked like him, the same hair color, same eye color, same face and nose shape, she had the same wavy hair that Tony would had if he grew his hair out. It was almost like they were...
Related...
"Tony?"
The man in question jumped when an unexpected voice broke him out of his thought process. Steve was standing in front of him, waving a hand in front of Tony's face, looking concerned.
"Oh, uh, hi." Tony said, backing up from Steve slightly, a slight blush on his face. Steve had probably come to drag him up for dinner, Tony forgot to eat a lot, so Steve had taken it upon himself to come down to the lab to get him during meal times.
"Are you okay, Tony?" He asked, eyes concerned.
"Yeah, Steve, I'm fine." Tony tried to wave it off like it was nothing, but the man had known him for 11 years, he knew him so much better than that.
He laid a hand down on Tony's forehead, making the blush on the man's face darken slightly. "You're not sick." Steve said, more to himself than anything.
"Steve, relax, I-I'm just thinking about something." Tony said, stuttering slightly.
Goddammit, he was 38 years old, he shouldn't be acting like a 14-year-old girl with a crush.
Steve didn't seem convinced, but he apparently gave up. "Dinner time, come on." He told him, gesturing to the door.
"Uh...can you give me a minute?" At Steve's face, Tony quickly added on. "I'll be down in less than five minutes, if I'm not, I'll let you come up here and drag me downstairs, but I really gotta check something." He tried to convince the Captain.
Steve agreed to that, slightly grudgingly. "Fine, but hurry up." He said, turned around, and started to walk out of the lab, leaving Tony to stare at his retreating back. Well, not so much back, Tony was actually staring at something a little bit lower. He let himself indulge for a minute, before the door shutting behind Steve knocked him out of his trance.
"Dammit Stark! This has to stop!" He groaned, turning back around and back to the computers and schematics table. He had more important things to think about than Captain America's perfect ass.
He picked up something that he had picked up at the lab, he had grabbed it absentmindedly, not knowing why he did it, but it came in handy apparently. It was a crushed Dr. Pepper can, the one that Rocky had run over when he was showing him where the flash drive was.
He needed to check something.
"Jarvis..." He started hesitantly, kind of unwilling to ask the question.
"Yes, Sir?" The AI responded.
"Can you get Shanelle White's DNA off of this can?" He asked, already knowing that he could.
"If she was the one that originally drank from it, of course Sir." Jarvis replied.
"...I need you to run a DNA comparison."
So, a lot of things happened in this chapter. The Mini-Avengers went on a mission, Tony sneaked into Shay's mansion, the first Stony moment of this story, you got to see into Rocky's mind, and Tony's going to run a DNA comparison between him and Shay, so he's going to find out about the whole, you know, daughter thing.
Fun.
