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Chapter 11
I exit my room and make my way to the main room. Tony should be getting ready to head off to Russia and we are all supposed to see him off.
"Where is Stark? He and Miss Kuthrapoli should have been up from the lab by now! The Russians are launching in an hour!" I hear Fury yell once I reach the main room. "Have you seen him, Dr. Banner?" Fury questions as I make my way over to the group.
"Not since I've been in the lab. I reminded him about it before I left," Banner answers.
"Have you seen him, Miss Smith?" Fury asks.
Great, I thought I could just sneak my way over to the group, so much for that. I think.
"No," I answer.
"Agent Hill, can you see if you can find him?"
"Yes, Sir," Agent Hill answers and begins to make her way to the hallway.
"No need, I am here," Tony announces as he walks in, Siri is close behind.
Everyone turns around and looks at him.
"Where is your suit?" Fury questions and I can tell he is getting angry, "You do know the Russians are launching in less than an hour?"
"It's on the roof. Shall we go?" Tony says with a smirk and makes his way to the elevator with Siri.
I look at Fury and see he has his eye narrowed at him, clearly annoyed.
"Well?" Tony says as the elevator door opens and he and Siri step in.
Fury lets out a huff of frustration, but makes his way to the elevator with us close behind.
Once we are all in Tony pushes the button for the roof.
"What were you doing?" Fury asks, turning so that he is facing Tony.
"Finishing up with a few ideas for the new prototype," he answers, "And I got a little side tracked," he says with a smirk while looking at Siri who smiles.
Fury rolls his eye. "That all could have waited until you got back," Fury says just as the elevator dings and the door opens.
Tony just shrugs as we all make our way out of the elevator.
"Here is the prototype; you know what you are supposed to do right?" Fury questions as he hands him the briefcase with the prototype in it.
"Yep, fly to Russia, attach it to the satellite while not getting caught, which is disappointing because you know how I love to make an entrance," he says with a smirk.
"Just suit up, Stark, and get ready to go," Fury says annoyed.
Tony lets out a little chuckle and walks over to where he has his suit. He has it on in no time.
"We are counting on you, Stark," Fury says seriously, "Now go, or you are going to miss it."
"Be careful," Siri says to him.
"I will," he says and then gives her a kiss.
"Get going, Stark," Fury orders and they break apart.
Tony then flips his mask down and flies off.
"Think he will be able to do it without making a scene?" Natasha asks as we file back into the elevator.
"Let's hope," Fury says as he pushes a button.
The elevator ride is silent and as soon as it dings, we all step out.
"Dr. Banner, Miss Kuthrapoli, I want you two down in the lab looking over those ideas," Fury orders.
Banner nods and then makes his way to the hallway with Siri following behind.
"Is there anything you want us to do, Director?" Natasha asks.
"Actually, I would like to talk to Thor. As for the rest of you, nothing at the moment, just make sure that Miss Smith does her training sessions today," Fury answers, "When Stark gets back I will gather everyone."
"Yes, Sir," Natasha says then walks out of the room.
Clint, Steve, and I follow her out as Thor stays to talk to Fury.
I am just about to turn down the hallway to my room when Natasha stops me.
"Your training session with Clint and me starts in 15 minutes," She informs me.
"Ok," I say as she turns to catch up with Clint and Steve.
I sigh as I begin to walk down the hallway to my room. Not only do I have a training session with Natasha and Clint, I also have one tonight with Tony, Thor, and Steve. The sessions always leave me exhausted and I barely get enough sleep, but at least my hand to hand is getting better and I am also great at controlling my abilities now. I just need to make them stronger.
I reach my room and then open my door and step inside. Once I close my door I turn on my lights.
"I was wondering when you were going to get here," I hear Loki say behind me and I jump.
I turn around so that I am facing him.
"So do tell me, where was Stark heading to in his Iron Man suit?" he asks.
"Russia," I answer.
"Why is he going to Russia?" he asks stepping closer to me.
"Why should I tell you?" I say, sounding more confident than I feel.
"Because I can kill you if you do not," he says simply yet threateningly.
I still don't say anything, I just stare at him. He just smirks but I can tell he is annoyed that I am not answering him.
"You know after our last conversation I felt the need to do some research on you, and I will tell you that I found out some very interesting things."
What could he have possibly found out? I think nervously as he stares at me, waiting to see what I will do.
I do what I think is the best option and still don't say anything. He obviously realizes this and continues to speak.
"Frankly, I am surprised that you are helping these people. I mean after what happened with your parents…"
"Don't," I say starting to get angry, he sees this and his smirk grows. I look at him and see that he has a mischievous glint to his eyes.
"Unless there is another reason as to why you continue to stay here with them," he says walking behind me. I begin to turn to face him but he stops me by putting a hand on my shoulder.
"Could that reason be revenge perhaps?" he asks softly in my ear.
"I…" I start to say but he cuts me off.
"You know you want it, and I can help you get it," he says walking back in front of me. "All you have to do is help me, and you can start by telling me what Stark is doing in Russia."
What should I do? I wonder. He could help me but then if I do get tangled up with him it could blow the façade I have made for myself here. But he definitely could help me…
"Well?" I hear him ask impatiently and I am pulled out of my thoughts,
"Let's assume that I do want revenge. Who is to say that I don't already have a plan?" I challenge.
"I'm not saying that you do not, and do not try to lie to me, I know you want it. I can see your bitterness, your anger, I could see it the last time that we talked and now I know the reason, and I do not blame you," he says with a smirk. "With my help you could accomplish it and maybe even gain more than you thought. All you have to do is help me, be my spy and inform me of what their plans are to stop me, and who knows; maybe the revenge you want will help my plan as well."
I think about it for a little bit.
"You better hurry; you wouldn't want to miss your training session with Agents Barton and Romanoff."
"How did you…"
"Not important," he says holding up his hand to cut me off, "What is your decision?"
"I will help you," I say, "If you help me."
"I already said I would and I am very interested to hear what your plan is and how you plan to accomplish it, but that will have to wait until the next time we meet. Now, though, I need you to tell me what Stark is doing," he demands.
Once I am done telling him, he smirks and then laughs.
"Those fools are playing right into my hands," he says after a minute.
"What do you mean?" I question.
"Until next time, Miss Smith," he says and then he is gone.
What did he mean by that? I think and then glance at the clock on my nightstand.
"Crap!" I exclaim and then hurry out of my room and make my way toward the training room.
"You're late," Natasha says once I reach the training room. "What were you doing? I told you, your session started in 15 minutes," She asks skeptically.
Come on think of something to tell her and make it convincing! I order myself mentally.
"I changed my clothes and then I had to go to the restroom," I lie. Stupid, but it works. I think.
"It took you 25 minutes to get changed and use the restroom?" she questions skeptically with a raised eyebrow.
"Well, if you must know…"
"How about we get to warming up?" Clint suggests, cutting me off.
Natasha turns her attention to him. "Yes let's," she agrees, but I can tell she is still skeptical. "Let's stretch," she says.
We stretch for about 15 minutes.
"For today's lesson, you are going to try to attack Clint and I," Natasha says walking around me and then makes her way to stand by Clint. "We, of course, will be coming after you as well."
"Two against one, how is that fair?" I question with a raised eyebrow.
"It's not, but then again, most of the time your opponents are not going to be fair," Natasha answers.
"We will, however, let you make the first move," Clint says.
"O…Ok," I say nervously. As far as I am concerned my hand to hand still stinks, there is no way I am going to be able to beat them…yet. I think .
"Whenever you are ready," Clint says, breaking me out of my thought.
I shake my head to clear it. I look at them both and see they are already in a fighting stance. I get into one as well.
I keep my eyes on both of them and decide to try and attack Clint first. I bring my leg up to kick but he catches it and pushes me backwards and I land on my butt.
"Ok, now what did you learn?" Clint asks me.
"To not try to kick you again," I say as I stand up and rub my butt.
Natasha rolls her eyes.
"Next time be quicker and plan your attacks," he says, "Let's try again."
This time I didn't get to attack first because, this time, Natasha aims a punch at my face. Luckily I am able to dodge her blow. However I am not as lucky with Clint's attack because he soon kicks my legs out from under me.
I land once again on my butt, but this time they don't stop. As I begin to get up Natasha tries to kick my head. I somehow manage to catch her foot. I am just about to push her backwards when Clint grabs my other arm and pulls it behind my back at an awkward angle, and kicks my legs out from under me again.
"Ah!" I cry out, and let go of Natasha's foot.
"That was a little better," Clint says as he lets go of my arm and helps me up.
"We still need to work on your technique," Natasha says.
We keep on practicing until we see Agent Hill walk in.
"Director Fury would like you all in the main room," she informs us.
"I am assuming that Stark is back," Natasha says as we exit the room.
"Yes," Agent Hill confirms.
Once we reach the main room we make our way over to where Tony, Siri, Bruce, and Fury are standing. I also notice that Tony is out of his Iron Man suit.
"Was the mission successful?" Natasha asks.
"Yes, Stark got there, without being noticed, and attached the prototype to the satellite," Fury answers.
"So, what do we do now?" Natasha asks.
"I've got a few ideas, but right now I want Stark, Dr. Banner, and Miss Kuthrapoli, to show me their prototype ideas," Fury says, "The rest of you are dismissed," he says to the rest of us.
*3rd Person POV*
"So what do you have so far for ideas?" Fury asks as they enter the lab.
"Well, we have one," Tony says handing him the paper with the idea, "Although I don't even know if it will work or if it is even logical. We still need to see what else we can come up with."
Fury looks over the paper for a few minutes. "I want you to know that I am bringing in more people for this project," Fury informs him as he finishes looking over the idea.
"Why?" Tony asks, "We are more than capable of doing this."
"I know that, Stark, but we need to have a working idea as soon as possible. Let's say that Loki is on Earth and he decides to let it be known, you are not going to be able to work on this if you have to go out and fight him," he explains, "This will be better in the long run."
"Who are you bringing in?" Banner asks curiously.
"Erik Selvig, Jane Foster, and Darcy Lewis," he answers.
"Are you sure that is a good idea?" Banner asks.
"Yeah, I agree with him. Isn't Jane, Thor's love interest? Loki could use her against him, and you are really going to bring Erik Selvig back after everything that happened last time?" Tony asks.
"They have already agreed to help and should be here sometime tomorrow," Fury says and then exits the room.
"Well it looks like this lab is going to be getting a little more crowded," Tony mumbles.
"Yep," Siri agrees.
"But I can understand why Fury thinks it is a good idea though," Banner inputs.
"I guess, but I still do not think it is a good idea," Tony says.
"Neither do I," Banner agrees.
"But it could help you guys out a lot," Siri says.
*Candance POV*
I hear a knock at my door and glance at my clock and see that it is 7.
I open my door to see Steve standing there.
"Ready for your training session?" he asks me as I close my door.
"Yep," I say and we make our way to the training room.
Once we reach the training room we make our way over to where Tony and Thor. Tony is in his Iron Man suit.
"So what are we working on today?" I ask.
"You are going to stop us from attacking you by using your abilities. We will all be coming at you all at once," Tony answers.
"Ok, let's get started," I say excited for this session since I can use my abilities.
The first one to try and attack me is Steve. He throws his shield at me, but I use my force field to block it. I then use my telekinesis to send his shield flying toward him, he dodges it.
I then turn to my right and see that Thor is running toward me with his hammer. I quickly use my telekinesis to send him flying into the wall.
I look and see that Steve has now recovered his shield and is once again coming toward me; I also notice that Thor has gotten back up as well. I however hear the sound of Tony's suit getting ready to fire from behind me and quickly turn around. Just as he fires at me I put my force field around me, however all I had time to do was put up a weak one, and the force of the blow sends me flying backward into Steve. We hit the ground hard.
"Ow," I mumble rubbing my head.
"Are you ok?" Tony asks walking over to us.
"Yeah, I will be fine," I say although I know I am going to be sore in the morning. I can already feel bruises starting to form on my back from colliding with Steve.
"You're bleeding," Steve says from behind me.
"What? Where?" I ask.
"Your head," Steve answers.
I bring my hand up to my head and feel around the back of it, and sure enough I am bleeding.
"Here let me help you up," Steve says standing up himself.
"She may have a concussion, we should take her to see Banner," Tony says.
"No, I will be fine," I insist.
"I agree with Tony," Steve says.
"As do I," Thor agrees.
"Fine, let's go see Dr. Banner," I say defeated.
"Are you ok to walk?" Steve asks.
"Yeah," I say and begin to walk forward. All of a sudden though I become very dizzy and am about to fall, but Steve catches me and then carries me to the lab.
"You are not going to need stitches," Bruce says looking at my head, "But you do have a mild concussion, so you are going to have to take it easy with your training session for the rest of the week. At the end of the week I want you to come back so I can see how you are doing," he says as I stand up from the lab table I was sitting on. "If you feel sick at any time though I want you to come and see me."
"I will," I assure him.
"I would go get some rest," he says.
"Let's get you back to your room," Steve says.
"I am fine I can get there myself," I assure him.
"It is fine I don't mind," he insists.
"Thanks for the offer, but I am fine," I say again.
"Ok, if you are sure," he says as Tony and Thor walk out of the lab.
"I am really sorry about that," Tony says, "I could have seriously hurt you. Maybe that was a little too much since you are still trying to strengthen and get better control of your abilities."
"I tried to tell you that," Steve says a little angry.
Tony starts to say something but I cut him off.
"Guys don't I am going to be fine, no harm done," I say with a smile.
"Yes, that is very good news, Lady Candance," Thor agrees.
"I am going to go to my room now and get some sleep, goodnight," I say to them and then walk past them making my way to my room.
"Goodnight ," they call in unison.
Today has been a long day. I think once I reach my room.
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