I woke up at like one which I didn't mind since I had stayed up from eleven to three am working out downstairs. Honestly, I broke the rest of the punching bags we had so I hope things go smoothly from here on out. I also beat my record for weight lifted; now it stands at 350 lbs.
I got up and stretched up before getting a pair of jeggings and a grey tank top together. I jumped in the shower. After a shower I blow dried my hair and put it in a high sophisticated ponytail.
Checking my phone I walked back to my closet, two new messages.
One was from Coulson, 'Meeting today?' right I need to make sure Tony/Pepper remembers.
I grabbed a gray cardigan sweater from my closet and put it on before going back to the bathroom and back to my phone.
The other was a number that my phone didn't know but I recognized easily, 'Hey? been trying to get in touch but u wont pick up. Just wanted to say im coming into LA for a week, thought maybe we could get a drink?'
When in doubt, just don't respond.
I went through the motions of putting on makeup before stopping with my foundation brush in my hand. I looked from my phone to my almost all used compact before closing it and putting it back in the bag. Foundation had been one of my best friends for a while, it was the ultimate tool to secret keeping; and I got amazing at applying it too.
After deciding to skip makeup for the day I decided maybe some cereal would be a good breakfast. I walked downstairs and poured some cereal into a bowl with some milk before sitting and eating it, "Jarvis, what's up for the day?"
"Well Miss Stark, your brother just gave Pepper your hack into Stark Industries; other than that it's supposed to be seventy two on this nice October day. It's the twenty eighth by the way and Tony will be home at seven tonight."
"Wonderful," My sarcasm thick before catching it, "Wait he gave her my hack?"
"Yes Miss."
With a sigh and ran my hands through my hair, "If she loses that I will kill her."
"Also Jon called while you were sleeping, said a woman is at the Industries to see you, a Miss Barbra Morse."
I smiled at the name; I hadn't seen Bobbi in forever. "Alright, I'll head right over."
I grabbed my keys and wallet after breakfast. I threw on my leather jacket, leaving it unzipped and headed down to my green bug, gamma. I threw my messenger bag, that still had my laptop, in the back seat.
Bobbie Morse was an intern at Stark a while ago over during two summers ago before getting a real job in Massachusetts or New Mexico or something like that. I haven't really seen her since but I get the occasional email to just keep up with each other. Ironic that her and Thomas would both be in town though; she met him once and hated him so I can trust she didn't plan it.
I stopped at my regular coffee place and got my regular, Jon's regular and what I remember Bobbi liking.
Walking into Stark I felt every one's eyes on me but my eyes were trained straight ahead knowing my routine well enough to jump without thinking and ignore everyone who may have stopped me from getting to the elevators.
I went right to Jon's office to see him talking to a woman with blonde hair like mine used to be; she was in a blue embellished top and black pants but I caught the glimpse of purple converse beneath them and smiled and coughed making them aware as I held out Jon's coffee for him.
"Jenny!" Bobbi shouted happily and my smile grew as I squealed in response, hugging her tightly.
"Bobbi!" I let the taller woman go and was at arms length before I handed her the coffee and continued, "How have you been?"
Her eye glided over me and she smiled, "Living it up as always, and yourself?"
"No different really, finally done with school though."
"Good for you, knew you would be done quick."
Jon seemingly had just gone back to working but looked up at me at this so I shared a glance before shrugging, "Yea well, I was determined."
Bobbi smirked at me, "We all know that when that happens it's game over."
"You can count it." I smirked back motioning to the chairs in front of the desk.
We sat down and just talked. We joked about guys, Tony, the things we did, college, what she has been up to; we really just caught up a bit.
She has finally gotten over the guy she came here to get over, the two years ago that we became friends. I think his name was Kenny but I can't really remember despite all the times I had heard the vague story. Something about how they were engaged and he just started growing distant, I know something else happened but she never told me.
She came here two years ago to get over the guy, now she was dating some linguistics guy from Oregon who she seemed … content with.
We joked about my hair and Jon threw in his rocket science comment making me glare but she laughed agreeing with him.
I let her in about my breaking up with Thomas during Spring Break and she was shocked but made me laugh about it due to her hating him so much. She, of 'course, drilled me about why I broke up with him, but luckily my assistant came to my rescue.
We filled each other in on our jobs and families. I managed to let it slip that Tony was locked out of Stark for the time being, she knew what that meant. She offered her skills but I shook my head; me and Bobbi both going all out would end in a nuclear war.
"Excuse me, Miss Stark," Jon held out the office phone and I took it curiously mostly because he had just called me Miss Stark.
"Hello?"
"Jenny! You just get here at the industries?" Pepper's voice came over the other line.
"Yea, I slept in and a friend came in, why?"
"You don't even need sleep, why do you sleep in?"
"That's only a theory; besides my sleeping habits is there a reason for this?"
"Yes, I'm um, in your brother's office cause I didn't know where else to go but I don't think-"
I sighed, "I'm on my way."
"Je-"
I handed the phone back to Jon and rolled my eyes looking apologetically at my friend, "Bobbi, I am so sorry, I-"
Bobbi side smiled, "Don't worry about it, we can meet up later, I'm here for three days."
Sadly I did have to go help Pepper, "I am really sorry, but coffee tomorrow would be good?"
"Yea; ten thirty at the usual spot." She held up her empty cup and we walked to the door, "See you tomorrow Jenny." We hugged and she began walking away and I was going to walk with her but stopped.
"See you tomorrow!" I turned back into the office, "Jon, can you bring up the inventory list of weapons that were scraped? The arc reactor would be on there, and it would say the files have been read into lately."
Jon began typing furiously, "Should I use your username and password to get in?"
"Yes, call me when you do." I couldn't wait any longer and so took off taking the stairs this time and running to the lobby only to get grabbed.
I was spun around and pulled to keep walking with an anxious Pepper and Agent Coulson, "Pepper, what's wrong?"
She shook her head and struggled to explain but her words came out quietly, "Obadiah ordered the kidnapping of Tony, he meant for them to kill him."
Kill him? Obi meant to kill Tony? Hell no. "Pepper, that won't happen alright? Calm down." I made the motion of a deep breath and she nodded following my lead.
"Miss Potts, can we move onto seeing those files, I can have men here in three hours." Coulson pushed us with a wary eye to the people that walked around us in the hall giving a weird look.
"I don't even get a hello?" I asked smiling at Coulson and he gave me a condescending look.
"That's because we haven't met Miss Stark." I noticed him emphasis on the word miss and I caught the fact that me being an agent is secret; and to be honest, I don't remember telling Pepper.
"Does that change the fact it is polite to say hello when you meet someone?" I asked and Pepper looked even more confused now.
"Let's just get moving shall we?" He said this time in the voice I knew I couldn't joke with so I nodded.
"That sounds good, Jenny's office would be next to Tony's so not that way, Jon is in his office so we could use that except its glass all around so he could just see in." Pepper remarked nervously and I shook my head.
"My laptop is in my car." I looked straight at Coulson and he nodded professionally to me and I walked purposefully to the exit, jumping the gates without a second thought though I heard Pepper and Coulson both go through.
I looked for cars nonchalantly and looked back to my followers, casually catching the sight of Obi watching us through the glass. He met my gaze and I couldn't find the strength to smirk, "Coulson." I spoke unsure of myself, "Call your back up now, until then can we discuss my agent privileges?"
"Wait you two do know each other?" Pepper said suspiciously and I broke my gaze with Obi, speeding up my walk and unlocking gamma.
Coulson ignored Pepper completely, playing along with me, "What agent privileges would those be?"
I pulled the driver's seat up and grabbed my bag before pushing the seat back into position, "You know; my badge, my title, my gun, anything."
I put the computer on my car and pulled the ear buds out of the bag as well before throwing it back into the car, "Your anger management disqualifies you for the gun or even a taser."
Rolling my eyes I set everything up and held my hand to Pepper for the usb, "I don't have any anger problems alright; I just have a problem with everyone else making me angry." I waved my fingers hoping to get Peppers attention to give me the usb but still nothing, "Pep, I need the info."
"I will give it to you when you explain what is going on." I turned to face her slowly rolling my eyes.
"Pepper. Hand it over."
She smiled with a laugh, "Jenny, you don't scare me, I want to know how you know Coulson and what he does."
"Miss Stark you speak one word and-"
I waved him away, "Yea, yea; He's with SHIELD a government program of secret agents that work as peacekeepers and assassins. I work for him, now USB."
Pepper seemed stunned and Coulson was shaking his head disapprovingly, "You can't be serious?" She was looking us over and I was done waiting.
This is being far too drawn out. I just want to show Coulson everything then, with backup, go kick Obadiah's ass.
Spinning I shot into action, elbowing Coulson in the stomach, turning to block his punch, and swiftly grabbing his gun from his holster at is hip.
I pushed him backwards, not hard at all but he still flew back a few feet and I removed the safety, shooting into the sky and looking back at Pepper, stone faced.
"USB Pep. Now." With wide eyes she handed it to me, and I smiled politely, "Thank you." I inserted it and looked to Coulson still smirking as he brushed himself off, "This is a perfect example, by the way, of what happens when things don't go my way."
He was glaring at me, "That was unnessacary."
With eyes straight at the screen as I opened up exactly to the info I handed him the ear buds, "Manage your making me angry and I don't any management at all." I still had the gun in my hands and as he reached for it pulled it away, "Hell no, mine now."
He said my name in a warning tone but I ignored him pressing play and stepping back so he could listen and watch and scan through things.
I looked to Pepper and truly out of politeness smiled and said, "I'm sorry Pepper, that was rash."
She nodded, "But you would do it again."
I shrugged and smirked, "Wouldn't you?" I stashed my gun in my boot and made sure the safety was on, I didn't need my foot to get shot.
She was speechless and I took pride in that as I looked around and my eyes drifted back to the building to see Obadiah had moved and I couldn't help but feel like he has something big going on.
I could see the clip playing and my eyes narrowed at the screen with Tony looking as bad as he did I felt my nails cutting into my palms and Pepper touch my arm but I shook it off when I heard my phone ring, 'Its raining men!'-that's Jon's ringtone… he chose it.
"Jon, talk to me." I answered automatically.
"Hey Jenny, so I have the whole program up now, it says that none of these weapons have been looked into within the past moth but when I look manually, the arc reactor is being studied as of today."
I laughed out loud, "Someone tried to cover their tracks… if only they were better at it. What power would Obi have though if he only had the reactor; which is a secret to build, even from him?"
"I don't know, shipments look pretty regular for the past week although the engineering department has been lacking in their job logs which is something you should have probably picked up on… being one of the heads, you know."
Coulson turned to me handing me the ear buds and I nodded to him. "Shut up Jon, I've been busy, I'm a super spy." Coulson glared. I smirked.
"Yea yea. I'll call you if I find anymore."
"Perfect, thanks Jon." I hung up and began to explain to Coulson and Pepper, "So Obi is trying to perfect the arc reactor, for what is what will be fighting us. Now if he perfects it, we are screwed. So I'll go stall with the engineering team and Pepper go with Coulson to get his people because I dont want to," have to worry about you too is what I wanted to say, "Trust Coulson to do it on his own." Coulson rolled his eyes and I ignored it, "We good?"
"Yes and Jenny, I'll be in touch." Coulson said officially and I pointed at him.
"You better be!"
Pepper and I looked at each other for a moment and I hugged her, "Stay safe alright?" she whispered and I smiled pulling away.
"And you please." She nodded before following Coulson to what I'm sure would be a black boring company car.
I turned to go back into my industries and I couldn't think of any better way to stall than to do something I hate.
"Vanessa!" I called and she looked over nervously from her center desk and I smiled kindly knowing she was already fearing for her job.
"Jenny, I was told-"
I cut her off, "I could fire you on the spot Vee, and you know it. You work for me because you are a good worker and friend; right now you are being neither."
She looked down almost ashamedly and I felt bad for pulling the boss card before smirking back up at me and nodding, "What do you want me to do?"
"Call an engineers' meeting, every engineer in the building, except Obi."
She gave me an odd look, "So it's true huh? The mutiny?" She had already begun typing.
"On his part it is, on ours, its fighting for our rights."
She pushed a red button on the desk, "All engineers to meeting room 4, meeting room four. If any engineer is missing they will promptly be removed."
I smiled, "And Obi?"
"I cut off the top floor, saw that he logged on his computer five minutes ago."
I smiled graciously at her, "Thank you so much, now I need to talk for hours…. Wish me luck."
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I was listening to one of our engineers drone on about some mini missile firing thing that I had already figured out two miscalculations in but kept quiet about.
I really hate meetings.
Like really hate them.
They are pointless when everyone is less smart than you.
I'm not sure I have ever been to a meeting I liked.
Okay so maybe there was one… but it was a meeting in which they gave candy- ANYBODY would like that!
Snapping back to reality and checked the time, it was five. I had been in this room with these guys for far too long with some crap that I would promote two of them if they suggested ideas that I liked.
I stopped listening at three, took a short nap that if anyone asked-I was thinking, and now I was just BORED.
Thankfully my phone started singing the chorus of its raining men, all over again.
"Excuse me a moment sirs." I said to them all interrupting whoever was talking as I stood and walked just out of the door, holding it open a crack, and pulled out my phone "Jon?"
"Jenny, I have news."
"Wonderful, also when you get a chance could you bring some toy down here, a cube would be good; something quiet, you know I hate rudeness."
"Of course, I will do that but first I have to say-"
"Oh and some candy, preferably sweet tarts or smarties though nerds are alright."
"Sure, am I breaking into Pepper's stash or…?"
"Tony has some in his office, second drawer, be my guest."
"Alright I'll be down soon, but I really need to tell you-"
"Can you just tell me when you get here?"
"Jenny."
"Fine, what is it?"
"Obadiah is searching the building for you and the engineers, and there is something else checked out of that scrapped pile. An immobilizer."
I gulped, "Alright, just get down here alright, meeting room 4." Tony had said the immobilizer was too risky when I had told him about it and I had left only one in existence since he deleted my notes but now it came back to bite me.
"Be there in a second."
I hung up and turned back into my room with fifteen of the smartest engineers and my mind whirred into overdrive, as one spoke, "Have you made a decision?"
"No, now comes the interview portion of it all, who likes candy?"
They all looked at each other strangely and I smiled, "You can be honest."
They all slowly nodded and agreed so I smiled, "Great! Knew I hired you for a reason." I took my seat once again and began thinking of ridiculous questions and some professional that I could ask but not before mumbling to myself, sarcastically, "Children."
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It had been about fifteen minutes since Jon had called and usually he was pretty snappy with this stuff. I sent him a quick text but no reply and so after asking everybody to dicuss who they think the next president will be I got up to leave to room to cries of "Democrat!" "Republican!" "Independents!" and many more.
Children. Who try to be adults.
I left the room as they all were arguing and looked around carefully before making my way for the stairs. I climbed them quickly before stopping at my floor and walking once again carefully wary of others towards the offices. After not seeing anyone in my own office I became suspicious and ran to my/Jon's desk, searching for what I hoped wasn't needed.
Finally I found the gel ear plugs in the third drawer and slipped them on.
I had made this and I knew just how to counter it.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
Leaving my office I moved to check Tony's when I saw Jon, basically frozen by the desk. The blood drained from his face as his eyes met mine in what was a mixed apologetic and scared look.
I retrieved the gun from my boot in a heartbeat and snapped my head in every direction but I so no sign of Obi still being there. I slowly made my way to him keeping my gun pointed and glancing over everything in the room before firmly pointed at the door, "Jon, you are going to be fine."
He looked at me doubtfully, or at least I would have thought so, I continued, "I designed this, it paralyzes you for forty minutes but after that, you are fine. You will experience dizziness and fatigue though, please remember to grab the side of the desk so you don't fall."
I saw the rubex cube that he had probably been meaning to bring, by the corner of the desk and the drawer open that held bags of candy that my and Tony love, I looked back to him, "Thank you, and I promise you will be fine, but right now I have to fine Obi alright?"
I know he couldn't respond but I still had to say that as I nodded concern at him.
I put the gun back in my boot and tried making my hair cover my ears, if I heard Obi I would freeze as though frozen when actually my ear plugs do block out the key note of the device and Obi wouldn't think to change the note, it would change the whole dynamic.
I somehow had snapped into everything Clint had taught me as I walked confidently yet aware through the hall, down the stairs and back to my meeting room.
When I saw the door open I knew something would be wrong. Without letting it look like I was even fased I kept walking and even began to speak, "Okay now, will everyo-" I cut myself off mid sentence at seeing the empty room and then I heard a voice behind me.
"Jennifer Stark." I froze knowing if he thought he had paralyzed me everything would be a lot less trouble.
I glared as he moved around me to the front and I saw the device in his hands and I knew I had done right, "This device was another one of yours, wasn't it?"
I wanted to reply wittily but if I did he would know so I stayed frozen.
"it's a complete waste of talent that your own device should be used against you," He leaned closer and said in a low tone, "You could've joined me, you would still own half the company, but instead you stood by your brother." I was calculating the amount of time it would take for me to punch before he spoke again, "Maybe you weren't as smart as you thought, maybe you are just a girl."
I moved quickly, kicking him first in the gut with the strength I had been storing up and he flew across the room. I walked threateningly towards him and took my gun from my boot pointing it at him, "Obadiah Stane you are under arrest." He looked up at me loathing and I smirked, "Move and I'll shoot."
I pulled out my phone with my left hand and with a careful eye on Obi dialed for Pepper's cell.
"Hello?"
"Pepper? I have Obi here if you want him, get Coulson down here now."
I hung up and began to think over my options. Backing up slowly I kept my trained eye on Obi with the gun hand steady, "Vanessa!" I shouted out of the door loudly.
I had lots of practice shouting through this building, I knew she would hear me, "Yea!" I heard and smiled.
"Mind bringing me some duck tape?" I shouted back. After a second I heard the sound of heels and I smiled, "Thank you!"
I don't quite know what happened next but by the feel of it…
I'm pretty sure I just got stabbed in the back.
Or… more literally, shot in the back.
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"Hey Jen! I'm home!" Tony had just gotten home and saw his sister's usual jacket on the coffee table. It was already dark out and he had assumed her home, and the home phone rang with Peppers picture next to it, since it was right by him he picked it up but couldn't even manage a word as he heard the high pitch wiring and felt his body stiffen on its own accord.
"Easy," He heard Obi's voice behind him with the whirring and was internally panicking as Obi continued talking to him.
Tony couldn't do anything but sit on the couch helplessly as his arc reactor was pried from his body, the words that hit him hardest however were the last things Obadiah said to him. He picked up the jacket Tony had seen his sister throw on so many times and unfolded it before tossing it in Tony's lap.
At the sight at the two perfect puncture holes, both surrounded by a deeper shade of red; it could be said that if Tony hadn't been frozen he would've tried killing the man there and then.
Instead he just tried to look threateningly as Obi tusked his tongue calmly, "Your sister was a smart person Tony, perfect waste of talent." Tony was racking through equations and solutions and tests that they had run over the possibility she may be immortal and at the time they were fooling with the idea but right now he was wishing it more than anything.
Obi was leaving and Tony was struggling with little change against the paralyzation when Obi turned back to him, "And I wish you hadn't gotten Pepper involved, I would've much rather she lived."
Tony watch him leave with a pained expression because he had just taken out the two most important women in Tony's life and all Tony could do was sit.
Then again, Tony never was very good at listening and was doing his best to move with the jacket tight in his grasp, despite Obi, in minutes.
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Jennifer Stark had fallen. She instantly tried applying pressure hoping that it hadnt damaged anything important but the pain itself was killer as she was bent backwards hands reaching behind herself to the source of it all; a horribly aimed bullet in her waist.
She had been on the ground as Obi said something to Vanessa and Jenny looked up at the two of them with a vengeful expression. Vanessa refuse to look at her and if Jenny wasn't pissed right now she would feel sorry for the girl with tears in her eyes.
Obadiah caught her eye as she kneeled up, taking quick breaths and ignoring the throbbing pain in her side. He crouched down to her level and spoke clearly, "I was there for you, holding the two of you up all this time and you couldn't help me with this?"
Jenny's body had switched into complete overtime mode as the pain kept growing and her breathing kept quickening, Jenny replied as sarcastically as she could, "I'm loyal, so shoot me." She coughed and took a deep breath as her shoulders slumped and yet her deadly glance was aimed for Vanessa, "Oh right, you did."
Obadiah shook his head patronizingly, and patted the dark haired girl's head, "I warned you about being naïve, now-"
Jenny had taken her chances as she swung with her right across his face and landed a slightly imperfect hit but powerful as he fell back on his ass and she grabbed the closest of his feet and twisted it as hard and quick as he muscles allowed.
The crack was audible and so was his cursing at the pain.
The movement forward had cause her to instinctually put her right hand back to her waist but froze at the sound of, "Don't move!" She heard the shaky voice of the traitor herself.
Jenny turned her head slowly to meet the darker gaze of Vanessa, "We used to be friends. We would sit at your desk and just talk and joke like normal people and now you are shooting me in a meeting room; and for what a job?" There was a reason Jenny was part PR officer and a psychiatrist.
"Shut up, sometimes we get told to do something and we don't like it but we do it anyways."
She didn't seem too sure of herself, Jenny thought before speaking, "But why? Cause he's your boss? With me dead, how do you think he is going to pick this all up? You will take the fall, and you know it."
Jenny only heard the muffled sound of the silenced gun before a force made her hit the ground. Okay maybe not a good idea to argue with the mentally unstable person with a gun.
Now bleeding from her left shoulder too Jenny was close to giving up with these two. Her teeth were biting upon her bottom lip as she tried to keep her body from convulsing. She felt a hand grab her good shoulder collar before giving it a hard tug and surprisingly tugging her jacket off.
She tried spinning to grab it again but the sudden movement made everything dizzy and she was double as she fell back down.
She did feel her left hand moving and thrashing about as she tried to mentally tell herself to calm down but she could feel herself losing it as she began to want to give into thrashing about.
She only heard the door slam before her eyes closed and she lost it.
Twenty minutes went by and should anyone have gone it they would've been shocked at what they saw.
Jennifer Stark laying on the ground, pale as heck with a sickly shade of green in her face, dressed in casual wear that at areas were soaked in her own blood. They may assume her dead but her lack of movement even.
However, if that person would look closer they would see no wound, anywhere on her body. No reason for death, anywhere on the girl.
If they would walk in twenty five minutes later they would see Jennifer Stark's eyes open and for the second time in her life gasp, surprised to still be alive.
She rolled over and coughed violently towards the floor. At the sight of own blood coughed up she wanted to puke, it was a deep red with distinct hint of green and scared Jenny to no end.
Once she stopped shaking and coughing she was actually able to stand without her head feeling like it weighed a million pounds. Shaking her head slowly she tried running her hands through her messed hair and took a struggled breath, "Well, that was mutiny."
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Tony grasped his best friend's shoulder desperately as he was regaining his strength, "Where is she? Jenny, tell me you've talked to her."
Rhodes held onto Tony as well and answered, "Not once today," Tony rolled his eyes and tried to stand pushing the hand with his sister jacket into Rhodes who took it, shocked, "Tony she-"
Tony ignored him and found himself able to walk, "Where's Pepper?"
"Pepper? She's with a five agents gone to arrest Obadiah."
"That won't be enough." He suited up while Rhodes inspected the jacket knowing Tony the lengths at which Tony loved his sister.
"Tony, I'm sor-"
The suited man spun on his best friend with the mask off, "Rhodes, you find her! Do you understand?"
Rhodes looked empathetically to his friend, "I will, but Ton-"
Tony blasted one of his vintage racecars to the side and stood ready for take off, "Rhodes."
Rhodes gave in and asked, "Need me to do anything else?"
"Keep the skies clear." And with that Tony flew off, blasting through the ceiling hole he had already fallen through once.
"Damn." Rhodes remarked before leaving for his own mission.
He walked made sure he had his own gun as he looked at the red jacket on the passenger seat before going into the industries. He had already tried calling her three times with no answer and as he was walking he dialed her assistant's number.
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Jon had gotten all his feeling back but the building had completely gone into lockdown. All doors were locked to the infinite of all safety regulations of the above floors. He had repeatedly tried calling his boss and was honest to god worried about her. She had said she would be fine but she did usually answer her phone. Only after five minutes of him trying to get out by breaking the door down did his phone ring.
He hurried to answer it, "Jenny?"
"Jon, it's Rhodes."
"Good evening sir, I don't know if you know but we have a situation here."
"I know, Jenny was shot, where is she?"
Jon was stunned, "Jenny was shot?"
"Where was she?" Rhodes got impatient and was already using his override code to get into the building,
"Meeting Room 4, she had gone against Obadiah."
Rhodes hung up on the man and Jon sat confused and helpless. Then he remembered he was in Tony Stark's office and Tony Stark's office was connected to Jenny's Office by a side door.
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Rhodes rushed into the building and past people trying to stop him due to the lockdown. He ignored them completely and basically ran as fast as he could towards the meeting rooms. One tan dark haired assistant got in his way and held onto him pulling him away, "Sir you have to get to your –"
"Miss, get back to your desk, I'll only be a minute." He shrugged her off and came to the meeting rooms and found the door with a four on it.
"Sir you cant be here." The woman persisted and Rhodes ran into the door with all his might.
It didn't budge, "Miss, to your desk." Then the door thumped back. Rhodes stood frozen, "Jenny?" He whispered to himself before shouting it through the door, "Jennifer Stark report!"
Jenny on the other side of the door tried shouting back but her voice cracked, she tried once more, "Rhodes!" Her voice was hoarse but coming back.
"Stand back."
She obeyed and took a few steps back.
Rhodes pointed his gun at the lock and handle and fired twice.
Jenny jumped back even more at the gun shots.
Then the door opened and she didn't even have to see him to run at him hugging him immediately.
He hugged him back with a breath of relief, "You're alive. What the hell? How does that happen?"
Jenny stepped back from Rhodes and glared at the woman not too far away who stood shocked, "I don't know," No one knew of her gamma treatment except Tony and Pepper and SHIELD, "But I'd like my gun back right about now."
The woman took off and Jenny ran after her, leaving Rhodes hanging behind confused. Jenny caught up with the woman within eight steps and grabbed her arm roughly, "The gun, Vanessa, give me it and then leave, you are fired."
The woman slowly shook her head and Jenny rolled her eyes before she heard her own name called, ""Jenny!"
She turned to see Jonathon running towards them with something in each of his hands.
Jenny recognized them immediately and smiled, "Jon, good to see you."
He smiled back at her, "I wish I could say the same, you don't look very good."
She rolled her eyes again, "Don't be a smart ass, come here." She hugged her assistant who smelled of peppermint before they both stepped back and she looked to his hands, "I thought you had never seen star wars?"
Jon chuckled and handed her the mechanisms he had found in her office hidden, "I haven't but it's not like I lived under a rock, I know what they are."
Jenny took one in each hand and stepped away a bit before twirling them and triggering the beam of laser to come out. Smirking she looked to Jon and Rhodes, "We ready?"
Jon nodded and Rhodes decided he was way over his head to say no, "Then let's get moving."
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Tony however was getting thrown around
His suit had loss power quickly against the stronger arc reactor and the only solution he saw now was to blow up the major arc reactor in the factory, whether he cleared the roof or not.
Just as he was telling the plan to Pepper, Rhodes was calling off the army from getting between the two feuding suits. Jenny was impatiently pulling into the factory area. She had told Jon to go with Rhodes for his own good and he listened to her because he knew better than to argue with her when she had weapons that could kill him.
She jumped out of her car and could see the damage done and could hear the bigger suit on the roof of the building. She ran to the other side of the building to the fire ladder and jumped pulling herself up onto the roof with struggling breaths at the booming voice of Obadiah's taunting.
She felt fatigue coming to her and she reminded herself she had just died a few minutes ago, "You know Tony, I never had much taste for this stuff but I must say I am deeply enjoying the suit!" She saw the giant metal from the back and twirled her sabers from her belt. Obadiah's arm raised and Jenny moved silently closer, trying to stay hidden.
When she heard the rapid fire though she looked straight to her brother, who looked desperate as he tried to shield and as the glass from beneath him just split and fell Jenny gasped but held in a scream.
She just saw that he had grabbed onto the metal frame and was holding on for his life, "How ironic Tony; trying to rid the world of weapons you made the best one ever, and now, I'm going to kill you with it."
Jenny saw Tony talking down to someone but she couldn't hear and she saw the metal suit raise it's other arm and decided to act. With her lit up blue and green blades she ran at the metal suit.
The blue blade dug into the back of the suit but wasn't long enough to hit Obi himself and Jenny spun to the front of him after the initial strike and twirled them rapidly burning into the metal of the suit's closest hand with the missile on it.
"Jen!" She heard Tony shout and smiled at Obadiah's own surprise.
"You're alive?" He questioned aloud and Jenny's smile grew.
She shrugged and tried cutting into the metal of the front plate of the suit, "You know the saying, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger."
Obadiah waved his arms shooting off the randomest of weapons to get the girl but she moved too quickly, drawing his attention away from her brother.
"Jenny!" She heard again and she groaned.
"Sort of busy Tony!"
"Jenny! The reactor!"
It was like the cables just connected in her head, they were blowing up the reactor of the factories and frying the entire rooftop. She looked back at Tony knowing his position would be right in the energy's path.
With one final strike she jumped and ducked away, jumping to the higher grid of the roof. She looked down to her brother desperately trying to figure out how to get him up here when she heard the crackling and only had time to turn off her sabers before the blue electricity rushed out and Tony was actually carried out by the power and has he grabbed the grate she was on, flipped onto it.
Jenny tried to ignore the crackle of power as it surged into the sky and was electrocuting Obadiah Stane as she grabbed her bother and pulled him closer to her. She was looking for a pulse when the electricity died out and the thump after thump could be heard as Obi fell into the very weapon he tried to control; needless to say, he failed.
Jenny could feel the pulse yet the glowing of the arc was missing from his chest and she tapped it not sure of what she could really do. It flickered back on faintly and she laughed with relief as she hugged her still unconscious brother, "Oh thank god, thank god." The fact that she didn't even believe in god didn't come to her as she was just happy he didn't commit suicide with that act.
"Tony!" She heard Pepper's scream from the ground.
After a few deep breaths looked over the edge of the roof at the red head, "He's alright," She smiled satisfied and nodded, "Yea, he's alright."
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I were getting ready for the day as I was wearing a one shouldered dress that stopped about mid-thigh that was a forest green color and a black and silver belt with it. I stood in my silver sandal flats and pounded on my brother's door, "Tony Stark, get your-"
The door opened to my brother suddenly, "Ass out here, I know." Tony? On time? He grabbed a tie from his desk in his room and then walked right past me, "Also, watch your language, would you mind tying this?" He threw his tie at me and I caught it with an eye roll.
I followed him to the living area, "That's what you have Pepper for bro," I slipped it around my own neck and tied it easily thanks to the good old European private boarding school education before taking it off again. He was pouring himself some orange juice so I waited but then I noticed the tie's color, "Did we match purposely today?"
He looked at me putting the o-jay back and shook his head, "I just chose a tie at random," I looked at him skeptically, "But now that you mention it we will look great."
We left on time for once and went back stage of the press area of the industries where Jon, Pepper, Rhodes and Coulson were all sitting watching a previous interview of the incident. Most of the reporters were already here and Rhodes looked like he was just getting ready to go out.
We were greeted and I hugged Rhodes extra tight, I even hugged Coulson… just to make him annoyed.
Rhodes went out ready to go talk and introduce us as usual.
Pepper remarked that the cuts on Tony's face should be covered and I threw her my purse, "Be my guest."
She started on that and Coulson motioned me over, "Advise your brother, these cards, he'll listen to you." Sure, he always does that. I nodded anyways, "Also, I would prefer to have you back in New York in a few days. I have a lead or two to follow up with a hand chosen team, you have been selected as well as agent Barton. Plus Fury would like you to start filling Roger's history in."
I nodded with a smile, he hand chose me, "Sounds good Coulson, I'll be there."
He looked back to my brother and I did as well, "Okay and Mr. Stark, stick to the cards, you have ninety seconds." He looked to me, "You have sixty."
I nodded and Tony took the cards and began making fun of them a bit, "Really a body guard?"
"Yes a metal strong flying body guard Tony, didn't you know, we had those."
He smiled at me and Pepper moved to catch Coulson leaving while I figured I should get out there and explain that I didn't get shot, there was no tension between me and Obadiah Stane and I don't own light sabers, "Good luck." Tony said sing songly and I smiled.
"Alright and Tony, when you get up there-"
"I know I know, stick to the cards."
I caught the title on the front page and smirked remembering me and Tony's conversation in the cave, "If you want but just keep in mind, Black Sabbath had it right all along." I took a few steps backwards and winked at him quickly before turning and walking but loudly humming the refrain to the song Iron Man.
"And here is Miss Stark to answer any question you may have because, like I said, Tony Stark will not be answering questions."
I put on my press smile and walked past everyone to where Rhodes had moved from the podium, "Hello there everyone, I understand that the behind the scenes of Stark Industries is kept very down low so any questions we have will be answered now."
They all moved at once and I chose just one, ignoring the woman in the front row because she was annoying.
"Miss Stark, many of your engineers said they received contradicting orders from you and Obadiah Stane before being forced to work on a classified project, any comment?"
I took a deep breath, no news of Obi trying to take over is supposed to be confirmed, "I had been using the engineers and he came in and told them all to go back to work. Did he over rule me, yes, but he had that power. Next question?"
"Miss Stark, is Mr. Stark truly recovered from his traumatizing event?"
I leaned forward, "Can you please define recovered for me?"
"Are you avoiding the question?"
"No I'm questioning your word usage, recovered most likely means is he clinically sane. By which definition, yes, he has truly recovered. Next question?"
"Miss Stark, where were you when the incident at the industries happened?"
"I was with a visiting friend, Bobbi Morse for some drinks at the bar." She would lie for me.
Questions continued and when I felt they were dying down I spoke finally, "And now I move aside for my brother to make you all aware of his perception of the night." I took a step back and to the side as he came up.
"It's been a while since I was in front of you all, I think I will stick to the cards for this one." The crowd laughed a bit and Tony looked back at me and I winked.
Then, Blondie the annoying spoke up, "Mr. Stark you can't actually expect us to believe that was a body guard that conveniently appeared despite the fact that-"
"I know that it's confusing but it is one thing to question the initial statement and another thing entirely to speculate that I am a, a superhero." Oh Tony.
"I never said you're a superhero." See, blondie the ANNOYING. Wasn't this a no question thing?
"You didn't." Tony was tripping over his own words, "Well good, cause that would be unrealistic and …" I kicked his calf lightly reminding him that he was losing it, "Fantastic." Tony, me kicking you means come up with something the press likes! "I'm just not the hero type, clearly, with this, laundry list of character defects, numbers of mistakes I've made, many of them public-"
He was projecting. I had to study Sigmund Freud for a week and knew him like the back of my hand and this was one of the one things he talked about. Tony felt this way about himself and being him, felt the need to say them upfront. Course I tell Tony that and he would scoff.
Rhodes stepped in front of me for a moment and whispered, "Stick to the cards."
Tony shooed him off and continued holding up the cards and I began tapping my foot to the beat in my head, "Truth is," Tony's hand drifted down and I smirked, "I am Iron Man."
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A month passed before I actually made it back to NYC and when I did it was only for three days before going back to Cali. We had started completely from scratch with the company and hired all new people for the sake of loyalty and with that comes a lot of work.
Sometime in late April I was finally caught up with Tony and Pepper and Jon enough that I felt I could leave my job for a while. I got on the flight out of Cali before getting the call from Coulson, "Jenny? Reroute yourself, I need you in New Mexico."
He sent the summary of the case report to my phone and I told Rhodes where to fly to.
The plane touched down and I saw Clint waiting with a silver car. Grinning I shouted down, "Ready to get hammered?"
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Hey everyone! THanks soo much for staying on this long and i promise iron man 2 will be shorter so we can get to the avengers ;) But the vote will end 10.21.12 - this is the day the Thor chapter comes out and then if the vote falls the way it is leaning we will have some fluff before a third of Iron man 2 comes out. If you have any questions for me please go ahead.
But really THANK YOU ALL SOO MUCH you are all wonderful!
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Ali: Rant all you want haha i love hearing it and now that you mention it he is sort of like bob the builder... i may use that ;) And thanks for the vote, i agree. its like fire and water, together it works.
dancergirl16161: Yay! I sort knew that but thank you for confirming :) i try to keep up with both the movies and the comics and yea Clint and Jenny would definitely be ... fiesty ;)
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WolfDarkfur:Thanks! I tried to make them as realistic as possible
moon82993: See thats the problem if i make it Steve/Jenny because Tony will be like scarred for life that his sister is with a seventy year old.
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sashaxh: Can you keep a secret? Shhhh... should Jenny ever walk down the aisle at that time point, Fury may be walking her down (Fatherly)... him or Tony
Vixen fox: Thank you and yea i was sad at that too :/ it was difficult to write but i hope i did it justice
Fyen:Thanks for your vote and they would be cute
Cathie Cathie: mmm is jenny going to be in the avengers iniative? good question.. what do you think ;)
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Thanks again to you all, I love you all and love to hear from you 3
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