Tony knew there was an alien invasion way before Director Coulson called, alerting him. It wasn't too hard to spot since some of then landed on there Tower, starting to attack it, working there way in. Quinn was in the living room with Gage when she felt a shudder in the Tower and JARVIS speak up "Tower is under attack. Tower starting lock down in five minutes. " Quinn and Gage both jumped up. Gage looked confused. "What the hell is going on?" Quinn looked out the large living room window. "I think I know." He came to the window, seeing the same horrifying sight as her. Someone was trying to be a copy cat. There was a large portal in the sky, some machine generating it a few miles away.
Aliens of all sorts, armored and large were running about the streets, hanging off buildings, attacking and killing innocents. And now some were trying to get inside the tower. Quinn quickly turned, heading down tot he lab. Gage followed. "Wait, Quinn, we need a plan." She put the numbers in. "Oh believe me,I have one." "Attack is not a plan." She rolled her eyes, walking inside the lab. "It's a perfectly legit battle strategy. Let my dad know I went ahead." Gage glared as she walked to her suit that was on display. "Your not going out there alone. It's too dangerous." She glared. "If I don't more innocent people could get hurt or killed. I'm going." Gage growled. "JARVS, stop her." "I cannot, unless her life is directly in danger or if she is under an influence." Her suit started forming around her. He shook his head, glaring at her. The faceplate came down over her face. She spoke, her voice metallic thru the suit. "Don't look at me like that, we can fight later." She took off thru the ceiling hole made for the suits. He growled, running his hands thru his hair, going to gear up.
TJ was already geared up, putting magazine in his gun when Gage found him in the living room. 'TJ, wheres your dad?" "Upstairs, talking to mom. It seemed serious. Clint was floating around there to." Gage nodded, going up the stairs. Clint walked past him down the hall, looking pissed. He stopped him. "Hey, what is it?" Clint glared. "Stark convinced Kim to get in a suit and fight with us." Gage wasn't gonna say how impressed and proud he was of his future mother-in-law but he knew Clints anger. She had little to no battle experience. Gage nodded. "Go ahead with TJ, Quinn already is out there." Clint's eyes widened. "By herself." Gage glared. "I couldn't stop her." Clint shook his head, getting a bow out of his quiver. "Just like Stark, yeah, I'll keep an eye while I can." He ran down the hall, to the elevator. Gage went to his room to gear up.
Tony lead Kim down to t he lab. She looked nervous as Tony brought her over to the gallery of suits. He spoke. "JARVIS, bring out mark 35." "Yes sir." She watched as an all silver suit rose from the circular platform. It was thin, agile but just as tough as the Iron Man suits. Tony smiled weakly to her. "I'd be all romantic and say I made this for you, which I did but we don't really have time to elaborate on that." She swallowed, smiling weakly, nervously. "How do I use it?" Tony started to go to the computer, typing furiously. "JARVIS will tell you everything, a walk thru and if needed he can control it." She nodded. "I just step here?" He went to her, watching. "Yeah. Just step up and it'll automaticlly start wrapping around you. It's coded to you." She took in a breath, stepping onto the platform. The suit started wrapping around her, snug and comfortable and felt so safe. Once the faceplate went down the HUD suddenly came to life with numbers and stats and trajectory. She breathed out. "Whoa...this...this is kinda overwhelming." "It is at first but you get used to it." She nodded. "ok, how do I fly?" Tony smiled. "Tell JARVIS the percentage of flight you want. Lets tart with 1%. tell that to Jay." She spoke nervously. "JARVIS, flight at 1%." Suddenly she was hovering a few inches off the ground. "Whoa! Whoa..." She was a bit wobbly but overall was doing ok.
Tony smiled but his smiled faulted when he heard gun fire in the hall and the tower take another shudder. "Sorry, not enough time for a tutorial. JAY, be gentle with her. It's her first time." He smirked weakly, already knowing she was rolling her eyes, before the suit flew thru the ceiling. He quickly got into his own suit, taking off, following her.
Quinn was busy shooting the alien invaders, flying thru there air with ease. She suddenly heard her uncle Steve in her comm. "Quinn, do you copy?" She smirked. "I copy. Got the rest of the boy band here?" Steve threw his shield at one of the aliens, cutting it in half. He winced as he got his shield back, covered in black blood., splattered on. "Rodger that. Hulk is busy Midtown taking down a group of these things. The rest of the family out here?" She shot at an alien. "Clint's on the roof, keeping cover, Gage is gearing up and my mom is already out here with my dad behind her." There was silence on the comm a moment. "Your mom is out here?" Quinn smiled. "Yeah. Dad built her her own suit. Plus even so it's a little too dangerous to stay locked up in the tower. She'd be a sitting duck-" Suddenly one of the aliens caught her leg while flying, bringing her crashing to the ground.
She growled in pain as she shot it but then heard Gage in her comm, seeing him running over. "Quinn! You ok?" She got up, quickly, flying above him. "Fine Mr. Worry wort. Stop worrying about me, we got a job to do." She heard Gage's displeased sound. "Maybe I wouldn't worry if you'd stop and think about your actions for once." She glared into the HUD. "Yes because stopping to twiddle my thumbs is exactly whats gonna save these people." TJ groaned into the comm. "enough with the marital bickering, we got a job to do. I'm still working my way out of the tower." Quinn glared, flying off.
Gage growled, getting his swords out, cutting and slicing thru aliens like they were butter. He was pissed and worry and beyond scared and at the moment didn't care if he got hurt. He heard Tony in his comm. "Gage, might want to slow down. You get caught by one of these then my princess loses her boyfriend and bodyguard." Gage glared. "Fuck off Stark. Partly your fault anyway. Damn fucking genetics, making her run head first into battle, with no fucking plan." He sliced thru an alien, black blood splattering onto his face. "Gage! Calm down." "Fuck off Stark. I don't want to talk to you." Tony sighed, keeping an eye on Gage. His anger made him reckless. And since he was specialized in hand to hand combat, it made him worry more.
Kim was flying above the city, trying to get a hold of the sliver suit. "Jay, please, a little help. How do I shoot? I think I got flying down." JARVIS spoke up. "Sse the weight of your palm, there's a small weight registry inside the repulsers." She tested it toward a building, nearly getting thrown back. She sighed. "ok, I got this.." She flew down to the rest of the battle, shooting at some of the aliens. Clint spoke in the comm. "Looks like the queen got a handle of the suit." Kim smiled inside the suit, shooting at some aliens "Yeah. Seems like it. Still is really new." "Just be careful out there." Kim smiled at the worry in his voice. "I will. You do the same."
Quinn was busy flying thru the city, starting to look for the source. Gage saw that she had stopped attack. He spoke in the comm. "Quinn, what he hell are you doing? Why did you cease fire?" "I found the source generating the portal. I'm gonna go investigate." Gage growled. "Dammit Quinn, stop. Let your dad inspect it." She glared. "Why? I'm just as smart, just as capable. You know I'm not actually a princess." "Yeah, more like a spoiled brat." She growled. "Fuck you." Steve came next to Gage. "Gage, calm down. She has just as much right to fight as us. Shes a soldier." Gage growled, glaring. "Shes a 17 year old girl Cap. A 17 year old girl who's too smart for her own good yet still can be so naive of the world around her. Your a soldier, Clint's a soldier, I am a soldier but she is no fucking solider so don't you ever say that about her." He growled, slicing thru an alien.
Quinn heard Gage's entire rant to Steve. She hated how it made her hurt. A Spoiled brat, not a soldier. She was just a able to fight, even more so then the rest of them. He still fucking thought of her as that little five year old dreaming of her Iron Man suit. She ignored these thoughts as she got to the portal generator, Hulk was busy smashing quite a few aliens. She tested it with a quick repulser. It didn't bounce off. Good, no force field. She spoke in the comm. "I found the generator, it doesn't have a force field. I'm gonna try to stop it" She heard some protest, mostly telling her to think it thru but I she thought it thru more and more people will be hurt. This needs to stop. She fired her repulsers at it. Continuing to fire. Until it exploded. She was short lived in her victory as a huge shock wave hit her, throwing her against the nearest building, knocking her out cold. The Hulk saw this, catching her easily, cradling her as he landed. He laid her down, gently moving her with a large green finger, a few grunts as he inspected her before he finally roared in anger and sorrow. His God daughter was hurt, possibly dead
Gage heard the roar, he had felt the shock wave. He pressed his comm. "Quinn?.." Silence. He panicked. "Quinn!" He cursed, running toward where the Hulk was,with her body. The aliens were dead, mostly. Now they were too thin to really be a threat. Cap and Hawkeye could take care of the rest of them. He saw Quinn on the ground,her armor scratched up and dented. He ripped off the faceplate, listening for breathing. Nothing. His heart stopped before he quickly found the manual buttons to take off the suit, getting her out of it. He started doing CPR as Tony flew over. "Oh God...Quinn...shes alive?" Gage continued the CPR, talking to Tony as he did the pressed on her chest. "Barely. Shes not breathing." Suddenly she was coughing then breathing, heavily but hasn't woken up. Tony picked her up.
"I'll take her to the hospital." Gage nodded. "I'll meet you there after everything's cleared." Tony nodded before quickly flying off. Gage heard groaning from the side, seeing Bruce turned back. He went to him. Bruce spoke. "Quinn...is she ok?" Gage frowned, forcing down his panic and worry. "Tony's flying her to the hospital now." Bruce nodded wearily. "Let me clean and we can go." Suddenly Steve was in the comms. "All's clear here. Whats the situation?" Gage swallowed his worry, the lump forming in his throat. "Quinns hurt, Tony's flying her to the hospital now." "Rodger that, I'll let the others know. Meet us at the tower." "got it." He leaned down, helping Bruce up, helping him walk to the tower which was only a block away.
It felt like hours till they all got to the hospital. Gage was restless, running his hands thru his hair. Tony was trying to comfort Kim as much as he could while TJ was pacing. Clint was leaning against the wall, arms crossed with Steve and Bruce sitting down, looking just as worried. Gage felt his eyes water, thinking back to there fighting. God, he was stupid to think he could get her to stay behind, to wait for them. Why did he even try? Now she could be dying, again, because of him. The battle of over quickly because of her. He knew countless lives were saved because of her. Everyone had a few injures but otherwise in good shape. He knew it was because of her. Suddenly the doctor came out, Tony and Gage both jumping toward him. Gage speaking first. "How is she?" Both looked just as scared. The doctor sighed. "Shes fine. Shes experienced some head trauma but there's no way of telling if it's affected her yet. Shes still asleep from the medication. There was some brain swelling but we took care of that. She'll be just fine." Tony spoke. "Can he go see her?" Gage looked at Tony, wondering why he would let him see her first. He was her dad, he should go first to see her, always. The doctor nodded. "Of corse, come this way." He followed the doctor to the trauma ward she was in, opening her door. He walked in, hating the familiarity of this. It felt they always ended up in a hospital some how, someway.
She wasn't as pale as last time, that was a relief as she sat next to her, holding her hand but her head did have some bruising. There wasn't as many monitors as last time but they stilled bothered him. Most of them were on her head, monitoring her brain activity, a heart monitor on her finger. He let out a shuddering breath "We have to stop meeting like this princess.." He smiled sadly, holding her hand tightly. A few moments later she started to wake, groaning. "ow...my head.." He smiled. "Quinn, your Akiva. Thank God." He leaned over, hugging her gently, kissing her cheek but he felt her tense up. He pulled back, looking her over. "Are you ok? Are you in pain?" She shook her head. "No. No I'm not. Just...who are you and why are you hugging me?" He flt his heart stop. Swallowing the lump forming in his throat. "What are you talking about?" She frowned. "I mean who are you. I don't know you, do I?" He got up, pressing the call nurse button. He couldn't believe this was happening. She didn't remember.
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