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I woke up with a start. I rubbed my eyes and yawned. The time on my clock read: 2:30 am. Our Monopoly City game had gone on until 10 o'clock which is when we went to bed. Beating Tony had made my day. Well...actually, it couldn't top when Steve and I watched Netflix. Definitely not. My mind wandered and I absentmindedly searched my chest for the stitches with my finger. Once found, I just laid my finger on top of it. I was going to miss doing training exercises...and well anything else fun. But, I knew this was for the best. Besides, I had a promise to Tony that I intended to keep. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad. Only for a couple of days. I could hang out with Steve. I smiled at the thought. I picked lint off of my sweater, and thought of the look on his face when I had decided to join them for Monopoly City. He had seemed...happy. He deserved to be happy. He had already been through so much. My thoughts were interrupted by a voice. "Not in the spy business with your daddy anymore?" I looked around my room. I even turned on my light. No one in sight.

"Who are you?" I asked suspiciously.

"Don't you remember me?"

"No." I was starting to think the voice was coming from my head. It had to be.

F.R.I.D.A.Y.'S voice rang out. "Ms. Jade? Who are you talking to?" I ignored the A.I.

"I was one of the men you and your dad apprehended. 3 years ago. The bombing in Ireland." I remembered that incident. All of the guys responsible had been arrested. Did they escape?

"Okay," I said slowly. "How are you speaking to me?"

"That isn't important right now."

"Ms. Jade?"

"F.R.I.D.A.Y. it's okay. I'm talking to myself."

"So, what do you want now?" I asked impatiently.

"I've already gotten what I wanted."

Then it went silent. Suddenly, I heard a noise. "F.R.I.D.A.Y?" No response. I pulled out the gun that was underneath my pillow. Call me crazy, but I was used to doing that. You never knew when it would come in handy. I walked out of my room, and contemplated waking someone up. Then, I saw a figure running down the hall. I ran just as fast to catch up to him. It was exhilarating to run…..but exhausting all the same. The figure sprinted out of the compound. I was so close, I could touch him. I tackled him, and pain followed. I think my wound decided to split open. Now I had broken my promise to Tony. I didn't recognize the man's face.

He only smiled. "Look who it is." I recognized his voice.

"It's you. The voice inside of my head."

He chuckled. "It is. And you're going to let me go."

I pulled out my gun and aimed it at his head. "I don't think so."

"Really? What if I told you there are highly dangerous explosives inside of your boyfriend's and father's room?"

"Real funny. By the way, he's not my boyfriend."

"Then I'm right about the father thing. Correct?" He sorta was. I did think of him as a father.

I shook my head. "That's not important. You're coming with me."

"I'm not lying. I suggest you let me go."

"Prove it," was my response. I suddenly noticed a beeping sound and he pulled something out of his pocket. It was a timer. The kind that were hooked up to bombs. The timer read 5 minutes. I eyed him suspiciously and got up, feeling slightly dizzy from the loss of blood.

He got up. "See you around. You've got a little blood on your shirt." He hurried off and I only shook my head in disgust. My chest was soaked with blood. I had to hurry. I was feeling weaker and weaker by the second but I ran as fast as I could back into the facility. I hacked into Steve's door and it slid open. I did hear a beeping sound.

I shook Steve awake. "Steve. Wake up!" I practically yelled.

His eyes opened, and I noticed his shirt was off. "Ava? What's going on?" His eyes widened when he saw my chest. "What happened to you?"

I shook my head. "Not important." I had to get things fixed quick before I fainted.

"Steve. There's a bomb in here and in Tony's room." I looked around, and opened up his closet. There was the bomb. I broke open the bomb and started deactivating it. The bomb was deactivated with about 2 minutes left. "Done." I hacked into Tony's door. I shook Tony awake.

"What the hell, Ava?" His eyes saw my shirt. "What….."

I interrupted. "No time...there's a bomb in here…." My voice was growing weaker. Any second and I would faint. My vision started becoming blurry. I couldn't think. My world started turning black.

Tony's POV: I watched as Ava fainted. Her shirt was soaked with blood. She had said something about a bomb. I looked around the room, and found it underneath my bed. I had to move a few Black Sabbath shirts to get to it, but I got it.

Steve came in just as I was pulling the bomb out. "Get Ava to a doctor." I commanded.

He picked her up and carried her off. I deactivated the bomb with seconds left. Easy. I inspected it. This looked like it was new. I looked for a logo, or at least an indication on who it belonged to but nothing. Defeated, I set the bomb down and made my way to the med bay. I found Steve sitting down in the waiting area. I sat down next to him.

It was silent for a minute before he spoke. "I want to know what happened. Who's responsible."

I nodded. "You and me both."

He shook his head in disbelief. "It all happened so fast. We go to bed everything is fine, and then I wake up and she's bleeding and there are bombs in both of our rooms."

"There was one in your room too?" I asked. He nodded.

"F.R.I.D.A.Y.?" No response. "F.R.I.D.A.Y.?" We waited about five more minutes. "Someone shut F.R.I.D.A.Y. down."

I stood up. "I've gotta go fix this and check out if I can find out anything." He nodded and I rushed off to my lab. I knew he wasn't going to follow me. He would wait for an eternity if he had to. I turned on my computer and sure enough, it said F.R.I.D.A.Y. was offline. I turned her back on. While I was waiting for her to boot up, I checked the cameras. Nothing. The cameras were shut down too.

I rubbed my temples. "FRIDAY?"

"Yes, Mr. Stark?"

"Status report. Anything unusual happen earlier?"

"I remember shutting down. Before that, something strange did happen."

"And that is?" I grabbed a soda out of the fridge.

"Ms. Jade was….talking to someone. She claimed she was talking to herself, but I believe otherwise." I took a big gulp of soda. What did she get herself into now?