To say that Vanessa was pissed would be an understatement. She had stayed over at Pepper's for the night and when she woke up and asked JARVIS about her father she felt her rage snap. She was going to confront him about this midlife crisis of his.
She flew down the streets on her motorcycle to where JARVIS had said Tony was. She whipped into the parking lot of a doughnut shop gravel scattering and parked her bike. She ripped off her helmet chucking it to the ground as she walked toward the door only to be blocked by two men in black suits.
"I'm sorry ma'am, you can't go in there." One of them said. Now she knew something was up with him.
"You have three seconds to get out of my way before I land you both in intensive care." Vanessa said through gritted teeth as then men exchanged amused looks.
"Ma'am…" The other said as he laid a hand on her shoulder then faster than they could blink she stabbed each of them with her psionic blade causing to collapse in an unconscious heap on the ground as she walked in. She spotted her dad talking to Fury and Natasha in a booth seat and practically charged over to them.
"We secured the perimeter, but I don't think we should hold it for too much longer." Natasha said as Vanessa stormed in.
"DAD!" Vanessa growled.
"I thought you said you secured the perimeter." Tony said sarcastically trying to mask his fear as Vanessa charged up to him.
"What the heck was that last night?!" Vanessa fumed. "What is wrong with you? You blew up half the house and then ran off after you tried to beat the crap out of Rhodey. What the heck is your problem?!"
"You want to tell her or should I?" Fury asked looking directly at Tony who was staring down at his drink.
"Tell me what?" Vanessa asked glancing from her dad to Fury then did a double take. She grabbed Tony by the collar and forced his head to the side revealing his neck. "You have palladium poisoning! You said that you had fixed that!"
"Yeah, well I am, eventually." Tony said brushing her off. Vanessa felt the blood run from her face.
"You're dying aren't you?" Vanessa said quietly. "That's why you've been acting the way you have. You think you're going to die."
"I didn't want to worry you." Tony replied looking anywhere, but at Vanessa.
"You are such an idiot." Vanessa ground out. "I could have been helping you." Vanessa glanced over to where Natalie was sitting in a black cat suit next to Fury. "Oh don't tell me, you're an agent for him."
"I want you both to meet Agent Romanoff." Fury said wrapping his arm around Natasha.
"So I'm guessing Natalie is not your first name." Vanessa said.
"It's Natasha. I'm a shield shadow, once we knew you were ill, I was tasked to you by director fury." Natasha said.
"I suggest you apologize." Tony said eyeing her over his sunglasses.
"Telling someone to apologize after the crap you pulled is really not a good idea." Vanessa ground out as she grabbed a chair and plopped down in it.
"You've been very busy. You made your girl your CEO, you're giving away all your stuff, and you let your friend fly away with your suit." Fury listed off. "Now if I didn't know better…"
"You don't know better." Tony said annoyed. "I didn't give it to him, he took it."
"Whoa whoa, he took it? You're Ironman and he just took it?" Fury questioned unbelievingly. "The little brother just walked in there and kicked your butt and took your suit?" Fury turned to Natasha. "Is that possible?"
"Well according to Mr. Stark's database security guidelines there are redundancies to prevent unauthorized usage." Natasha said and Fury turned back to Tony.
"What do you want from me?" Tony asked.
"What do we want from you?" Fury asked as Natasha got up and walked off. "No, what do you want from me? You have become a problem, a problem I have to deal with. Contrary wise to your belief you are not the center of my universe. I have bigger problems in the Southwest region to deal with. Hit him."
Natasha injected something into his neck causing Tony to flinch.
"Ow, what are you going to do? Steal my kidney and sale it?" Tony said as Natasha moved his head so she could see his neck.
"With as much alcohol you take in? No one is going to want that thing." Vanessa said her arms crossed and still angry.
"Can you please not do something awful for five seconds?" Tony muttered to Natasha as the marks on his neck went away. "What did she just do to me?"
"What did we do for you, that lithium dioxide, it's going to take the edge off, we're trying to get you back to work." Fury said.
"Well then give me a couple of boxes of that stuff and I'll be as right as rain." Tony said shifting uncomfortably as Vanessa continued to glare at him.
"It's not a cure; it's just for the symptoms." Natasha said.
"And it looks like it's not going to be an easy fix." Fury commented.
"Trust me I know, I'm good at this stuff, I have been looking for a suitable replacement for palladium, I have tried every combination, every permutation of every know element." Tony said in an annoyed and tired voice.
"And I'm here to tell you, that you haven't tried them all." Fury replied.