I know I said there was only one more chapter after this one, but change of plans! You get two more chapters!

Pepper and Natasha walked up the stairs to get into the Stark Expo and took their seats, ready to see Hammer's presentation. He danced on the stage, getting an applause, but they all knew if it was Tony, the applause would be bigger. Right when Hammer got to the stage, Emily and Melody were helping Clint up the stairs and through the door. A huge security guard got in front of them while putting his hand up, stopping them. "You can't go in there without a pass."

"Are you fucking kidding me right now?!" Melody screamed at the security guard. "Do you have any idea who I am?"

The guard looked her up and down unimpressed. "No, and I really don't give a shit."

Her mouth dropped and Clint shut his eyes, knowing exactly what was going to happen. "You probably shouldn't have done that."

"I," She started out with an annoyed smile. "Am Melody fucking Barnes." The guard's face then twisted into realization and fear at what he had said to her. "Now," She moved in so she could read his nametag. "I'm gonna give you a choice, Doug. You can either let us pass into my family's expo which I shouldn't need a pass for or I can get someone here right now to get you mistakenly involved in something very bad which will have you living in Liechtenstein for the rest of your life!" He stared at her in fear, but still didn't know what to say. "Do you know where Liechtenstein is?" He shook his head. "It's a 62 square mile country in-between Switzerland and Austria in the Alps!"

"I don't want to go there." He told her while shaking his head.

"I don't think you do, Doug." He reached behind the security guard's counter and pulled out three passes. Melody snatched them out of his hands and gave him a smile. "Thank you for your cooperation."

"That's my girl." Emily commented as Melody picked up Clint's arm and put it around her shoulders.

"Damn, Melody." Clint commented as they began to walk.

"Oh, he deserved it." Melody told him as she and Emily opened the door.

Right when they got into the auditorium, Justin was already standing on the stage. "Do you think we can stop him?" Emily asked.

"Ladies and gentlemen, today I present to you the new face of the United States military. The Hammer drones!"

"Nope." Melody answered as she looked to the drones rising up from inside the stage with perfect arc reactors. "We need to find Pepper and Natasha."

"But as revolutionary as this technology is, there will always be the need for man to be present in the theater of war."

"Please don't tell me he made a suit." Clint complained as Hammer backed up to make room for something big.

"Ladies and gentlemen, today I am proud to present to you the very first prototype in the variable threat response battle suit and its pilot, Air Force Lt. Colonel James Rhodes!"

"What?!" Melody yelled out as the stage opened.

"And he made a suit." Clint spoke while hanging his head.

"More like Tony made a suit and Rhodey kind of borrowed it." Emily explained.

"I don't care!" Melody yelled at them. "Tony," She whispered. "Please get here soon."

Rhodey put his hand up in a salute, causing all the other drones to do it and then Hammer. "For America and its allies, Hammer industries is reporting-"

There was a sound in the distance, causing everyone to turn around to see Iron Man flying into the expo. Melody smiled a little bit and then turned back to Emily and Clint as the crowd erupted in applause. "We have to work on getting everyone out of here."

"I can barely walk, Mel." Clint protested.

"Ivan's gonna do something big here and now." Melody argued. "He wants to make a scene and all eyes are on the Stark Expo. This is the perfect place and all these people are about to be in the middle of a battlefield."

The crowd got silent once a gun on Rhodey's suit aimed right for Tony. "Oh no." Melody whispered.

"Is that you?" Tony asked Rhodey as he began to step back.

"No, that's not me." Rhodey spoke in a panicked voice. "I don't know what's doing that. I can't move. I'm locked up! You have to get out of here now! The whole system has been compromised!"

Everyone began to scream and run towards the exit as Melody, Emily and Clint pushed their way through the crowd to find Natasha and Pepper. Tony flew out of the auditorium, sending the drones to begin shooting after him. Glass fell down on everyone around them and Rhodey and all the drones flew after him.

"Pepper!" Melody yelled right when she saw her strawberry blonde hair.

Pepper turned around and the two began running to each other. Melody threw her arms around Pepper and then looked to Natasha as Emily and Clint moved to join them. "We have to get to the control booth."

Natasha nodded and Melody wrapped her arm through Pepper's with Emily and Clint following and Natasha leading the way. "Who is that woman?" Pepper asked as she subtly looked behind her.

Melody looked to Pepper, knowing they had a lot to talk about. "My mom."

Pepper's eyes widened as the two continued walking and Melody gave her a cheesy smile, hoping that Pepper wouldn't kill her for keeping something like that from her. "We have a lot to talk about, young lady."

They both turned away from each other, Melody nodding in agreement. "You have no idea."

Rhodey had all his guns locked on Tony and all the drones followed him, wreaking havoc on the crowd of people.

Hammer also had the idea of going to the control room and he beat the others there. "What's going on?" He asked the man who was working the computers. "What's happening?"

"The software has been overridden." He told him as he continued to work on getting back control.

"What? What do you mean it's been overridden?"

"Someone took over the drones." He told him obviously.

"That's impossible." He turned to the man next to him who was also trying to get control back. "Call the guards."

"All the phones are down, sir." He told him quickly, still trying to work.

"Well…then call their cells." Hammer was starting to feel hopeless.

"Their cells aren't working either, sir."

"He's locked us out of the mainframe." The first man told him.

"Who's locked us out of the mainframe?" Melody asked as she walked down the stairs with Pepper, Emily, Clint and Natasha.

"Please, please," Hammer spoke while waving his arms towards them. "Go away. I've got this handled."

"Have you now?!" Pepper yelled at him.

"Yes I do!" Melody was about ready to drop kick him in the face. "In fact, if your guy wouldn't have shown up, this wouldn't be happening. So, please, go away! Thank you!" He turned to the man working on the computer and whispered, "Listen, we've got to get these bitches out of here."

"That's it." Natasha spoke before looking to Emily who nodded in agreement. Emily grabbed him by the back of the jacket, punched him in the face and then Natasha took the back of his jacket, slamming him down onto the table while pinning his arm behind his back. "Tell me who's behind this." Natasha demanded. "Who's behind this?"

He rolled his eyes, but Natasha twisted his arm even harder. "Ivan. Ivan Vanko."

"Where is he?"

"He's in my facility."

Natasha broke away from him and Clint shrugged. "We could have told you that, Nat."

She rolled her eyes at him and turned to Emily. "We've got to get to Hammer's."

"If he's even still there." Melody spoke up.

"Go." Clint told them. Melody turned to him with her eyes growing slightly wide. They had been through everything together up to this point. "I won't be much help with my wound." They all looked down to his leg which was now tied up so he wouldn't lose any more blood. "Go and I'll stay here with Pepper."

Melody leaned forward, pulling him into a kiss that Clint wasn't expecting, but he kissed back, wrapping his arm around her lower back as she held onto his face. When they pulled away, Melody stared up at Clint, not even expecting herself to do that. "Be careful."

"You be careful." He told her before she pulled him in for one more quick peck on the lips.

The girls ran off and Clint watched as Pepper pulled her phone out and began to call the cops. "No, honey. Don't call the authorities."

"Step aside!" Pepper demanded to Hammer. "Step aside!" Clint smiled at her as Hammer moved out of her way, knowing that Pepper didn't even need him to be there with her. She could handle it all herself. "Tell me everything you know. Go."

Natasha reached into her purse and pulled out a SHIELD uniform, giving it to Melody. "We had this made for you."

Melody looked down at the uniform and then at Natasha, a little creeped out by the gesture. "When did you people measure me?"

Together they ran out into the chaos to see Happy going towards them. "Nobody's answering their phones. What's going on?"

"Get in the car." Natasha commanded. "Take us to Hammer Industries."

"I'm not taking you anywhere." He protested.

"You want me to drive?!" Melody asked him angrily right when she reached him.

"No." He protested. "I'm driving." Melody nodded like she knew that was exactly what was going to happen. "Get in the car." The three of them got into the back seat when Happy noticed who all was in the car. "Emily?"

"My mom's back!" Melody yelled while looking at him. "Can we all get over it?"

With that, Happy began driving and Natasha and Melody began changing into their SHIELD uniforms. When they got to Hammer Industries, Natasha got out and looked to Happy as he got out of the car. "Stay in the car."

"I'm not staying in the car."

"I said stay in the car." She told him firmly.

"What are the three of you wearing?" He asked while looking at their outfits. Emily began to climb the steps and break into the building. "Look, I'm not letting any of you go in there alone. Especially you, Melody. It's my job to protect you."

"I can protect myself." Melody protested as she opened the door once it became unlocked, but Happy made sure that he went in first. Happy got into a fist fight with the first guard that tried to stop them and the girls went forward, ready to take on the rest.

Natasha slid past the first man who tried to take them on and threw a device at him that began electrocuting him. Emily ran forward, jumped up on a table and kicked one of the guards in the face while Melody knocked one of the men down to the ground and then used him as the leverage to jump up and kick someone else in the face.

The three joined each other again, looking back to see Happy still fighting with the first man. "Nice job, Melody." Emily commented as they turned around and continued down the hallway to get rid of the others.

Natasha threw smoke bombs at two of the guards and Melody kicked one of their feet from under him, sending him to the ground, hitting his head hard. Emily knocked the other guy down easily. The three of them moved back up and went after the three men coming after them. Natasha wrapped a string around his neck, sending blows to the others, taking two down. Melody ran after the one who got past Natasha and jumped on him, swinging around him until she knocked him down, taking the mace spray he tried to use on her.

She flipped head back up and Emily ran and jumped over her, breaking one of the man's arms after he tried to get to Melody. When he tried to fight back, Emily elbowed him in the face and flipped him over on his back.

The three of them got up from their spots and walked side to side through the hallway of all the men they had taken down. One got up and decided to give it another try, but Melody just sprayed him with the mace spray, not even bothering to look at him as he screamed.

They all went back to where Happy was still fighting the guy who went after them. They watched on as Happy was struggling. "Should we help him?" Natasha asked Melody.

Melody sighed while shaking her head. "It'll only make it worse."

Happy then leaned in, biting the man's ear, Melody making a face, imagining the pain. Happy then punched him the gut as hard as he could two times and ended it with a punch in the face, landing him on his back. "I got him!" Happy yelled happily, but quickly saw all the other guys lying on the floor.

Melody threw her hands in the air with a shrug. "You coming, Hap?"

He let out a sigh and walked over to them tiredly. "I got him. Did you see that?"

She placed a hand on his back and began rubbing it. "I saw it, Happy."

Natasha burst through one of the rooms with her guns out, but all they found was two dead men hanging from the ceiling and no Ivan. "This had to be where they were keeping him." Emily spoke as she moved past Natasha.

Melody moved right to the computer and began clicking and typing things, totally focused on what she was doing. "What are you doing?" Happy asked her, Natasha and Emily also wondering the same thing.

"I'm rebooting Rhodey's suit." She spoke quickly, trying not to get distracted. While she was working on the reboot, Rhodey was working on destroying Tony in the planetarium. "Almost done." She announced. And by the press of one more button, Rhodey had control of the suit. Melody smiled and a window popped up of Tony's webcam which she had also hacked. "You got your only friend back, Tony."

He rolled his eyes at her and looked into the camera. "Stop hacking into my stuff."

"You shouldn't have taught me how to hack in the first place."

"Well done with the new chest piece." Natasha commented while moving right next to Melody, reading all the things that came up on the computer monitor. Melody looked up at the other monitor, noticing everyone working in the control room at the Stark Expo had taken control. "I'm reading a significantly higher output and your vitals look promising."

"Yes, for the moment, I'm not dying." Melody shut her eyes at his response and Pepper's eyes grew wide once she heard that.

"What do you mean you're not dying?" Pepper asked him, Tony's eyes growing wide at the sound of her voice. "Did you say you're dying?"

"That you?" He tried to casually play it off. "Nope. I'm not. Not anymore."

"What's going on?" She asked in a panicked voice as Natasha continued to look at the computer which was tracking the drones.

"I was gonna tell you."

"You were gonna tell me?! You really were dying?!"

"You didn't let me-"

"Why didn't you tell me that?!" Clint and Hammer stood next to Pepper uncomfortably, feeling like they were in the middle of a very personal argument.

"I was gonna make you an omelet and tell you!"

"Hey," Natasha spoke. "Save it for the honeymoon. You've got incoming, Tony." Melody leaned forward looking at the screen again. "Looks like the fight is coming to you."

"You're gonna need some help." Melody commented, looking at all the drones going for him.

Tony looked to Melody, not wanting to get her involved on all of that, but also at the same time, knowing he could use her. It was one of the very frustrating things about being a parent figure. "Suit up and get down here, Mel."

She smiled at him, happy that he was actually letting her go fight with them. She felt like he knew she could do it. Like he really did trust her. She turned around to Happy. "Do you still have the suitcase suit?"

"Yeah, I have the suitcase suit. Do you need the suitcase suit?"

"Of course I need the suitcase suit." Melody told him obviously. "How else am I supposed to suit up?!" He opened his mouth like he was going to argue more with her. "Go get the suitcase suit!"

Happy ran off without further argument and Melody turned back to the screen with Tony on it. "Pepper?"

"Are you okay now?" She asked him, still obviously annoyed with him.

"I am." Tony assured. "Don't be mad I will formally apologize when I'm-"

"I am mad!"

"Not fending off a Hammeroid attack!"

"Fine." She sighed out angrily.

"We could have been in Venice."

"Oh, please." She spoke with an eye roll.

"I got it!" Melody turned around to see Happy hurrying to her with the case.

Melody took it from him and Emily hurried to her, stopping her before she put on the suit. "Melody," Emily was about to tell her not to go. To stay here and wait to see how it turned out. But when she saw that sparkle in her eye of wanting to do something so bad, she knew she couldn't. She and Melody were just starting to make things work. They were just starting to get along and she couldn't ruin it now. Melody wasn't a little girl anymore even if that's the only way she wanted to remember her. She was a grown up and she had to let her be a grown up. "Be careful."

Melody smiled at her and nodded. "I will, Mom."

Emily pulled her in for a quick hug and when they let go, Melody stepped on the suitcase suit, letting the leg began to assemble as she reached down and began to pull the rest of the suit on her. The helmet locked on, signaling the finishing of the assembling and stepped back, getting ready to fly out of the ceiling. "Someone might want to call the cops on Kyle and Joey in the next room." With that, she was off as everyone else stared up at her worriedly, praying for her safety.