Sadly, the Avengers are not mine.
Natasha- or Nat as "Toni" insisted- sat on the couch watching TV. He hadn't had any missions since "the incident" and would just sit around and do nothing. He didn't have to worry about someone about to kill him (even though he was always ready in case there was), he didn't have to think about when would be the right time to strike on his victim, and he didn't have to listen to Barton share her feeling on their bad guy.
He absolutely hated it.
Nat was the type of person who couldn't sit still for too long. He needed something to do, he needed to be active. So he had spent most of the day working out and training, but even then he got bored after a while.
So now he sat on the couch, just out of the shower in a pair of sleep pants and a t-shirt, flipping through channels. Fury had said that the whole team could still do their jobs, but Nat was pretty sure he was reluctant to get them out on the field. And he couldn't blame the man, the Press would then find out, and who knows where they would go with the story. He was honestly surprised that Stark hadn't pulled a stunt.
Until she flipped to the news.
Nat saw the gold and red suit fly across the screen. Toni was fighting some giant robot creature. Nat frowned. Wait, Fury didn't call us in, he thought.
Just then Pepper came down the stairs. "Are you watching the news?" he asked Nat.
"Yeah, what's going on?" He asked, eyes glued on the screen.
Pepper let out an frustrated breath. "Toni said she wanted to go out and take the suit around the block. She said she just wanted to get it some fresh air. Apparently she had been working on it to adjust to her new height," she explained. "Well after much hesitation, I let her go out. I guess she ran into that thing."
The robot was at least 50 feet tall and had a human form. Toni seemed all right, but still, it could overpower her at any second.
"Well Fury didn't even call us in!" Nat cried, angry.
"Probably because he didn't want you guys to reveal yourselves," Pepper replied.
Nat groaned. "Well that's great. He doesn't want us to save lives because he's scared of publicity."
Toni shot a repulsor blast at the creature's chest, slowing it down a bit. But it then reached around knocked the Iron Woman right out of the sky.
"Toni!" Pepper shouted, fear in his eyes.
Just then, the billionaire flew back into view of the camera. The side of her helmet at a long scratch across it, and her right arm look pretty beat up. Toni flew at creature with all her force and knocked it's head clean off. She headed straight for the ground. Thankfully, Jarvis pulled out the small amount of energy the suit had left to slow her landing a bit.
When Toni landed, Nat heard gasps from behind him. He turned around and saw Banner, Claire and Cap. He hadn't noticed them come in. She turned back to the TV and saw what they were gasping at. There stood the female Toni Stark, in front of every reporter in Manhattan.
With her helmet off.
"Well Stark has gone and blown it for us this time, " Claire muttered, putting her head in her hands.
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