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At 4:30 am, all five of the avengers kids woke up and left their guest bedrooms. They quietly snuck down to the meeting room on the second floor, as they had planned to the night before. Anastasia (who was on Steve's floor, the tenth floor) was the last to get there. When she walked in Aurora was sitting in a chair, talking to Aria, Alexei was messing with the security cameras, and Archer was sitting in the corner, sulking. When they heard the door close, everyone turned.
"Ana, you're here, good." Alexei said, relieved. "Aria, do you have our stuff?"
Aria nodded and opened a bag to reveal all of their weapons that she had managed to steal back from SHEILD.
Everyone quickly ran up and took theirs, leaving Atticus's in the bag. Archer went back to the corner and pulled out a knife to sharpen his arrows.
Alexei sighed, "Archer, we are having a meeting, stop sulking and get over here."
Archer dropped his arrows and walked over to the table. Technically he should've been the leader, as he was the next oldest after Atticus. But Alexei saw his chance and took it, and Archer wasn't in the mood to argue.
"So..."Alexei said.
"I have eighteen cameras, and twenty possible escapes on my floor." Ana stated, she knew the drill. It was their first instinct to look for cameras and exits anywhere they went.
"We have twelve cameras and eighty exits." Aria said.
Archer was next, "Uhh, sixteen and nine."
Alexei nodded, "So not heavily guarded, I've already disabled the cameras in here without disturbing the AI. It's fairly easy and I expect everyone to do the same on their own floors." He looked around, trying to remember how Atticus did this, "Next, we need to figure out what they want with us. Stark is probably the most vulnerable as he hasn't read our file. They all assume we are innocent children, so we have an advantage there." He paused. "Ana, we need you to get Stark to tell us what they plan to do to us. You know what to do."
Anastasia nodded, this was always her favorite part.
"Tonight," Alexei continued "We should figure out a way for them to let us leave, so we can get to know the area, you know?"
"Yeah," Archer said. "And then later we can figure out how to get out of this hell hole."
Aria glared at him. "We're not planning on leaving."
"Besides, it's not that bad," Aurora said, "In fact, I kind of like them. Both of my parents are really nice."
Archer leaned back in his chair. "Yeah, nice. Nice until they get their heads out of their asses and figure out that we are nothing but a problem. And what's going to happen to us then? We're going to wind up back in Russia, and next time we're not coming out alive."
"Archer!" Alexei hissed.
"What?" Archer shrugged. "It's the truth and you know it, I say we just leave now."
"Listen, just because your a miserable asshole doesn't mean you have to ruin it for everyone else." Aria scolded.
"Whatever." Archer mumbled as he walked out of the room.
Alexei sighed and ran a hand through his hair.
"What are we going to do?" Anastasia whined "Atticus always knew what to do."
"I don't know Ana."
Later that day, a twelve year old assassin showed up on the front steps of Avengers Tower. He had spent the night on the street and had already managed to get into a fight. He could feel the blood drying on his face and he people staring at him, but he didn't mind.
He opened the door and walked into the reception area. No one was there so he went over to the elevator.
Locked.
"Damn it." Atticus muttered.
He hit the door a few more times before he saw a panel on the wall.
Atticus smiled. "Perfect."
Atticus walked over. As soon as he got near it, a voice came out of the sky.
"How may I help you sir? Do you have an appointment with Mr. Stark?"
Atticus automatically recognized that it was an AI.
"Nope, I don't." He said.
"Would you like to make an-"
"Atticus ripped off the panel.
"Sir, I highly advise you not to touch that."
Atticus grabbed some wires. "Sorry bro."
"If you continue to do this I can and will call Mr. Stark." JARVIS warned.
Atticus pulled out an army knife and cut some wires, the light flickered. "Not anymore dude. What do they call you anyway?"
"I am JARVIS, but that's besides the point. If you even disable one system-"
"Sorry JARVIS, but we're already past that. Keep up next time." Atticus pulled out a few more wires and typed in a code on the keypad. JARVIS turned off and the elevator opened.
Atticus stopped on the first floor. He pressed the button again but the elevator wouldn't go up. The doors opened and he saw a blonde woman standing on the other side.
"Shit." He cursed himself for forgetting to disable the backup alert system.
He slowly reached over to the edge of the elevator and presses the door close button, while still maintaining eye contact with the woman.
The doors started to close and she wordlessly reached out to stop the door.
Atticus stood in the elevator. "Hi."
The woman raised an eyebrow.
"Uhh, are you gonna let me go or...?"
"No." She said.
"Ok..." He shifted his feet awkwardly. "Uh I'm just here to see my team, I didn't want to break the thing. It just kinda...happened."
She nodded. "You must be Atticus."
"Yep."
She stuck out her hand, "I'm Pepper."
He nodded. "So do you want me to fix the AI. 'Cause I can if you want me too."
Pepper shook her head. "Nah, Tony can get it when he gets home. What happened to your face?"
Atticus touched the cuts on his face. "Just a scratch, got into a fight with some crazy drugged up dude. No big deal."
"Here, let me see." Pepper walked closer and looked at the scratch. Atticus flinched back and instinctively put his hand on his gun.
Pepper pulled her hand back "It's ok, I'm not going to hurt you."
"Yeah I know, sorry-it's just...yeah."
"Want some ice? You're friends should be back in a few hours, they wanted to go grocery shopping or something, Tony went with. You can wait here if you want." Pepper said as she walked towards the kitchen.
He shrugged and followed her.
Two hours later Tony came home to see Atticus sitting on his couch with an ice pack on his face and a soda in his hand, watching tv. Pepper was at her desk working on something. They both looked up when Tony walked in.
"Hey." Atticus said before turning back to the show (a soccer game).
Tony looked at Pepper and pointed at Atticus. "What's the Russian kid doing on my couch?"
Pepper smirked and looked back at her computer.
"Hispanic. Not Russian. Just because I lived there doesn't mean I'm Russian. And calm down dude, I'm just waiting for my team."
Tony looked at Pepper again, who ignored him. "You let him in?"
Atticus got up and grabbed another soda. "Nope, I hacked your AI. You need a better password. JARVIS 5 is probably the worst thing."
"But- Pepper, you just let him-?"
She shrugged.
"Well, since everyone's back, I should probably be going. Thanks for letting me sit here Pepper." Atticus said as he walked towards the door.
"Yep, you're welcome here anytime." Pepper replied.
"Cool." Atticus walked past Tony and nodded at him "See ya later."
Atticus walked towards the elevator and left.
Tony turned to Pepper. "Okay, what just happened?"