The moment Tony invited them to what he had dubbed 'The Sleepover Extravaganza', Clint and Natasha had not stopped pleading and begging Phil to let them go. It had been a week and a half since Clint had been sick, he wasn't sick anymore but Phil still felt a bit of apprehension. Finally, after being asked about fifty times in a row he gave in and told them they could go. Now the day was finally here.

"Tony said no pillows because he had it covered." Clint moved over to his backpack stuffing in his pajamas and an extra set of clothes.

Natasha walked over to Clint's bed and dropped her backpack next to his. "He also said no blankets, to just bring clothes. It kind of worries me."

"I think it worried everyone." he shoved his toothbrush into one of the smaller bags. That was everything, right?

"Who did he invite?" she had only seen him give an invitation to Steve and Bruce.

Clint sat down next to her and whispered while counting with his fingers. He let his eyes wonder a bit as he thought of who else Tony had invited, nope that was everyone. "He invited: Steve, Bruce, Thor, Loki, and Pepper. He also invited Bucky, Betty, and Jane, but Betty is going out of town and Jane said no. I think she's still mad that he ruined her science project while trying to make it 'better'. Bucky's mom wouldn't let him because she says Tony is a troublemaker. I don't think she knows he's the one who comes up with half of the pranks they pull."

Both of them jumped as they heard a knock on the door. "Oh. Hi dad."

Phil chuckled as Natasha and Clint jumped at his knock. It wasn't all the time he could startle them, one of them usually noticed he was coming by and alerted the other one. "Are you guys ready?"

"Yep!" both of them answered.

"You have your toothbrush, pajamas and extra clothes? As well as the list I wrote up with the numbers to call in case of an emergency?" Phil arched an eyebrow as he looked from Natasha to Clint.

"Yes, dad. We have our toothbrushes, we both packed our clothes and Tony said his dad was going to be there. I don't think there will be a chance to have an emergency." Clint grinned at Phil before getting up and grabbing the paper full of numbers from his desk.

The fact that Tony's dad was going to be there didn't exactly calm him down. He could barely even handle Tony, how was he going to handle all the other kids? "Just, call if anything happens."

"Relax Phil. If anything happens I'll just tie Tony down and make him go to sleep." she was joking of course. Only a little bit, not really. She was ready to tie Tony down if the need for it came up, she would ask Loki to help her.

Phil turned to look at Natasha and shook his head. "Let's hope it doesn't come to that."

"Come on, dad. What's the worst that could happen?" Clint smiled innocently at Phil before grabbing his backpack and heading out of the room, Natasha not far behind.

"A lot of things could happen." Phil said to himself before following his children out of the room.

Throughout the car ride, Phil kept going over what to do in case of an emergency. He wasn't paranoid, he just knew that with Tony anything was possible. Like the time he set the kitchen table on fire, or the time he decided it was a good idea to light up a rocket inside the house. No one had forgotten the pyro robot he had made for the science fair, the one Fury had promised to put a bullet through if he ever saw again. Not to mention they would be in his house, which meant there was more stuff to destroy the place with. "Alright, have fun guys. Remember…"

Clint laughed and shook his head. "The first person we should call is you; if you don't answer then we need to call Mr. Fury. If all else fails then we need to call Ms. Hill."

Phil smiled at Clint. "Making sure you guys remember that's all. I'll see you guys tomorrow night."

Both kids waved at Phil before making their way to the door, Tony was already waiting for them. "You guys are the first ones. Do you want the tour now, or later when everyone else is here?"

"Later" Clint and Natasha answered in unison. They weren't up to getting multiple tours.

As it was, they didn't have to wait long, a few minutes after they got there Steve and Bruce were dropped off by Steve's mom. Loki and Thor were the next ones to arrive with Pepper being the last one to get to the sleepover extravaganza. Tony wasted no time in showing them around the house. In a normal household, the tour would have been short, but seeing, as it was the Stark mansion it took a good half hour.

"Tony… where are we going to sleep?" Steve asked looking around the place.

Tony grinned and started walking in the opposite direction they had been heading to. "My dad had one of the rooms set up specifically for tonight. There's a big screen TV where we can watch cool movies, and also that's where all the pillows and blankets are. It's close to the kitchen, so we should be able to get snacks whenever we want as well. I have: ice cream, chips, cookies, pop-tarts, chocolate, and candy."

Pepper turned to look at Natasha and rolled her eyes. "Any actual food?" Sure, she liked junk food, but she rather have real food first.

"Pizza will be here in an hour. What do you guys want to do first?" Tony looked at his guest as they took in the room. His dad had ordered pillow pets from the TV; he had gotten one of each so there were many pillows. For blankets, Tony had begged his dad to buy them a set of snuggies.

"Really, Tony, pillow pets and snuggies?" Clint put his backpack down, grabbed one of the pillows and threw it towards Natasha.

Natasha caught the butterfly pillow and handed it to Pepper, there was no way she was using that one. "We could watch a movie."

Steve nodded, though he was more than likely going to be drawing or reading instead of paying much attention to the movie. "I agree with Natasha."

Loki and Thor merely nodded though neither of them looked to be that enthusiastic over it. Loki was inspecting a snuggie while Clint whispered in his ear. Thor turned to look at Tony and held up a snuggie. "How do you even put this on?"

"Easy, just slip your arms into the sleeves. Make sure that the opening is behind you not in front of you, kind of like a backwards robe." Tony demonstrated by putting it on.

"You look like an idiot." Clint said laughing.

"You're just jealous because you can never look as cool as me." Tony rolled his eyes, took off the snuggie, and made his way to the door. "Watching a movie sounds cool, but I have a better idea."

They all exchanged nervous glances before following him out. Bruce was right behind him, "Does your dad have a chemistry lab? I've got a few experiments I'd like to try."

Tony shook his head as he kept walking. "Nope, my dad doesn't really work with chemicals. He does have this though."

Everyone froze as they walked into a room that housed a robot. It wasn't moving, Loki and Clint thought that it probably didn't even work. Natasha eyed it suspiciously, she knew all about Tony's robots and she didn't trust this one. Steve looked at Thor, both of them with a sense of dread. Pepper was the only one who looked at the robot and shook her head, nope no freaking way.

"Nope, I don't think we should touch it." Pepper voiced as she moved towards Tony.

"I have to agree with her." Natasha added looking at Tony.

The others simply nodded in agreement, as they stared at the robot. "No way. Guys, I didn't build it, my dad did, there is no way anything can go wrong."

Clint shook his head and walked over to Tony. "Do you even know how to control it?"

Tony frowned at everyone; he really wanted to try it. His dad had asked him not to go anywhere near it, but since when did he actually listen to the man. Besides, his dad was currently busy in the lab creating something that he wasn't 'allowed to know about until he could grow a beard'. "Sure, my dad said it worked kind of like JARVIS. You tell it the commands as opposed to having to send them via computer."

"Yeah, but JARVIS is just on your computer." Bruce moved over to the robot and looked at it; he did want to see how it worked.

"Will you all just have a little faith in me?" Tony walked over to the robot and turned on the main switch.

They all took a step back as Tony turned the robot on. Clint didn't realize he was holding his breath until Loki nudged him. They both smirked, as the robot stayed in the same position, their suspicion that it was busted was right. Pepper and Natasha shared a look of relief while Steve and Thor shrugged, they could seriously care less. Thor just wanted to go raid the kitchen. It was Bruce and Tony who moved over to the robot and began fidgeting with the wires and making sure that everything was in order. A slow hum and the lights went out; perhaps Tony's dad caused it?

"It's busted, Tony." Loki finally said when the lights came back on a few seconds later.

"No it's not, maybe a cable is loose somewhere." Tony was still fidgeting with the robot and looking at the screen that held the stats on it.

Clint moved closer to the robot and sighed. "Dude, it's…" his sentence was cut off as the robot took a swing at him.

Natasha still hadn't relaxed, sure it wasn't working but Bruce and Tony were trying to make it work, which meant the threat was still there. She saw the eyes light up and pulled Clint back just as the robot took a swing at him. "Tony, turn it off!"

He didn't get a chance as the robot aimed for Tony next, taking a swing at him and then Bruce. Steve grabbed Pepper and ran for it as the robot turned to look at them; he wasn't going to give it a chance to even take a swing at them. Loki pulled Thor out of the room, Thor insisted on trying to fight it, Loki wasn't going to wait to get hit by the damn thing.

"Tasha, our turn to run." Clint turned and ran out with Natasha, the robot deciding to follow them, great. It wasn't a fast robot, but it took bigger steps than their tiny feet could. They could hear Tony running after the robot trying to yell commands and override passwords. So far, none of them were working.

"I told him he would end up setting terminator on us one day!" Clint yelled as Loki joined them.

Loki, who had lost track of Thor during the panic, sighed in relief as he saw Clint and Natasha. It was short lived as he saw the robot advancing on them. "Is this how sleepovers are supposed to be?"

"Maybe we should split up, there's two hallways up ahead. I'll take the right one and you guys take the left." Natasha knew this would happen, why hadn't she just tied Tony down the minute she got there? She hoped, the others had gotten to safety, she let go of Clint's hand as they split up.

Steve and Pepper had run for safety the minute the robot had turned its attention on them, luckily they hadn't been followed the minute they ran out. They continued running as they looked for someone who could help them, so far they hadn't seen a single staff person.

"Maybe they went home for the day?" Pepper said as they stopped to catch their breaths.

"Who knows, this place is so big they could be anywhere." Steve who was trying to catch his breath, tried to stay alert in case the robot found them. He smiled as Natasha came running towards them. "You alright?"

Natasha hoped Loki and Clint would be okay as the robot decided to follow them. A sense of relief came to her as she saw Pepper and Steve. "Yeah, we need to find a phone or Tony's dad. The robot went after Loki and Clint."

All three of them turned around as they heard metallic footsteps approaching. Their eyes widened as Tony came into view, the robot following him. Without a word, they all turned and started running once more.

Clint was happy the robot decided to follow them, he wouldn't have been too happy had it decided to follow Nat. They had to get him to stop following them so they could get to a phone; he was going to have to call Phil. Damn it, Tony! "Hopefully, it gets tired of following us." he said between breaths.

They were trying their best to keep running, but Loki was starting to lose steam. He would slow down, but start up again as the robot took a swing. That house was going to have many holes on the walls by the time this was all over. He shrieked as he tripped, Clint stopping to help him get back up. Thankfully, Tony grabbed the robot's attention before it could take a swing at the two boys. Now, it was chasing after Tony.

Tony had tasked Bruce with going to find his dad to tell him what had happened, while he tried to disable the robot by shouting codes. He really didn't see how it worked like Jarvis, so far the robot had tried to kill them all. As the robot prepared to make Loki and Clint into pancakes, he tried to push the off switch, only to have the robot turn and slam the floor right in front of Tony. He turned running back the way they had just come from.

"Come on, we have to go call someone." Clint grabbed Loki's hand and pulled him up. As they ran down the hall, Clint thought of what Tony had told him. He had said that no one ever slept at sleepovers because they were too busy having fun. This was definitely not fun, and he was sure they would all be too tired by the end of all of this to stay awake.

Bruce had run out of the room in search of the lab, Tony had shouted directions but he hadn't heard half of them. So far, he'd gone in a circle and ended up in the same room, then he had ended up in the kitchen where he found Thor. Now they were both walking around trying to find the lab, of all the things for Tony to leave out of the tour, not that they'd remember where it was to begin with. "We could find a telephone, call for help?"

"I would much rather fight this evil robot, we could be heroes." Thor said as he took another bite of his pop-tart. He had been quite sad to be pulled away from all the food, if they weren't going to let him fight the robot they could at least let him eat.

"How can a house with these many rooms not have a phone in sight?" Loki asked frustrated as they entered another room. They could hear the robot's stomping close by and were hoping to find the phone before it saw them and started chasing them again.

Clint kicked the nearest table in frustration as they entered yet another room that had no phone. "We can't give up though. If it smashes Tony into bits then that's his fault, but I don't want him hurting Nat."

Natasha was currently running away from the psycho robot alongside Tony. They had used the same split up method, which allowed Steve to make sure Pepper stayed safe. If they were lucky, then they had managed to continue with her plan to call for help. "After this is over, I'm going to break your computer."

"Hey! My computer isn't the one trying to kill us right now." Tony really hoped she was just saying it out of anger and not because she actually planned to do it. He ducked as the robot slammed down on a vase, throwing the debris at them. "Where the hell is Bruce?"

Loki and Clint where tired of walking around Tony's stupid house looking for a phone. They needed help before the robot killed them all. Clint smiled as they bumped into Pepper and Steve. "Hey, you guys are still in one piece."

Steve and Pepper had slowed down to a walk as they searched room by room for a phone or someone who could help them. So far, they had found the phone and attempted to call the police only to be laughed at by the operator. Aside from laughing at them, she had told them that if that prank calling the police was a serious offence. A sense of relief washed over them as they bumped into Clint and Loki. "Yeah, we tried calling the police but they didn't believe us."

"Can you blame them? It's hard to believe the whole 'Hi, Tony let loose Terminator and now we fear for our lives.' story." Loki knew it wasn't the time for an attitude, but he was tired of running away from the stupid robot.

They all turned to look at Loki, now really wasn't the time. Clint cheered up as he realized Steve was still holding the phone, he knew Phil would believe them. He grabbed the phone and ignored Steve's questions as he dialed Phil's number, no answer. Onto the next person on the list, Fury, he had to answer. Clint sighed as heard a very annoyed sounding Fury. "Mr. Fury, it's Clint, we need help. There's a robot chasing us and trying to kill us! We can't find Mr. Stark, the police didn't believe us and my dad didn't answer his phone." Clint stopped as he heard the sound of whirring and metallic feet. He turned to see the robot chasing Tony and Natasha; they were headed towards where they were. "Gotta go, he found us."

By this point, everyone was tired and losing speed. The robot was taking more swings at them and making more holes in Tony's walls. It took only one of them to trip over for the whole group to trip and fall. "Great, we're going to die because of Terminator." Tony muttered as he closed his eyes.

The robot was standing over them getting ready to smash them to bits when they heard a low hum and the robot's arms dropped to the side. They opened their eyes to see Tony's dad, Bruce, and Thor standing behind the robot. "What is going on here?" asked Tony's dad.

"I'm sorry, dad. I just wanted to show them how it worked, I didn't think it was going to try and kill us." He was still trying to catch his breath as he spoke. He was thankful Bruce had found his dad, another second more and they would have been pancakes.

As it was, Tony's dad didn't yell at him or anything, he simply shook his head and took the robot away with him. As they walked back to the room with the pillows and snuggies, all they could think about was sleep.

"We can watch a movie now guys." Tony said with a smile.

Everyone turned to glare at Tony; he still had energy to watch a movie? "No way, man." Loki turned to look at Thor who also shook his head.

Tony frowned "I think we did well, we can remember this as 'The night The Avengers were almost killed by The Terminator.'"

Steve arched an eyebrow. "The Avengers?"

"Yeah, it's the cool name Bruce and I thought of for our group. In this case though we're more like The Avengers plus Pepper. Sorry Pepper." Tony merely shrugged at her as he grabbed his own pillow pet and snuggie.

"It's alright, I rather not be associated with any group you're in." Pepper responded sourly. If being in the group meant being chased by robots, she was happy not to be a part of it.

By the time Fury got there with Phil, all the kids had fallen asleep already. It wasn't that they took long to get there, everyone was dead tired from all the running they had done and had fallen asleep as soon as their heads touched their pillows. Fury had gotten a hold of Phil and they both had headed over to the house hoping that either Howard had gotten the situation under the control, or that the robot hadn't gotten the kids yet. They both merely glared at Howard who shrugged off the situation and went on to discuss the new renovations he had in mind. There was no way Phil was ever letting them sleepover again.


AN: I know I said Friday, but I was so excited to have finished a chapter that I was like "I SHALL POST ONE TONIGHT!" I will still update Friday night. I just wanted to post something in celebration. This is one of the chapters that I really liked writing, and it gave me a chance to make it more group oriented than the previous ones. I hope y'all enjoyed it. Oh and Clint totally picked the penguin pillow pet. :D