Scars. We all have them. Whether they are physical or not. I, however, have been 'gifted' with an abundance of scars.
I stood in my bathroom, staring at my reflection in the mirror. I lifted my tank-top up to reveal one of my many scars. It trailed across my hip, jagged and uneven. I ran my finger over it, chills erupting in my spine.
I know each scar and I remember how I got them. This particular scar I got when I was younger. Tony was first starting out on all his Iron Man stuff. Our good Friend Obadiah had gone crazy and tried to kill Tony and I.
Phil looked through the window in the door before opening it. He held his handgun out in front of him. My seventeen year old self followed behind him. Knowing all that Phil had taught me, I of course had my own handgun at the time. Pepper walked behind me with the other agents. Her heels clicked against the ground. She wore ap pencil dress, which wasn't the best for combat. I had a dress on too but it was looser so I could move more freely.
Phil stopped in front of a metal suit that looked scarily like Tony's.
"Looks like you were right." Phil said, looking at Pepper. "He was building a suit."
"I thought it would be bigger." Pepper said.
"Careful what you wish for." I said, remembering everything I was taught.
Movement caught Pepper and I's attention. She turned and looked for the source. Her gaze found a platform with open wires dangling from the ceiling. Phil climbed over a fence, quite gracefully I might add. I had to bite my tongue to prevent from saying a sarcastic comment.
Agents scanned the place, looking for signs of anything. I walked with Pepper, making sure nothing happened to her. Chains rattled to our left and I could see Pepper jump. She walked over to them.
"Pepper." I warned.
Two blue lights activated in the darkness. Pepper jumped and moved back. I aimed my gun in between the lights, ready to fire.
"Pepper, get back." I said, moving in front of her. The lights got brighter as they moved higher. Pepper screamed as the suit came into view.
"Go!" I yelled and she started running, me not far behind. I mentally thanked myself for not wearing heels. We ran back to where the agents were, Obadiah not far behind. They fired at him as I ran with Pepper. I heard the sicken thud of a body hitting the wall as Obadiah flung them aside in a attempt to get to us.
"Pepper, keep going and don't look back." I said. Explosion bit at our heels, stinging my bare skin. I looked over my shoulder. Obadiah became stuck, his arm just barely out of reach of me.
Pepper ran out into the parking lot. I ran out seconds later, my gun aimed to the building.
"Pepper." I heard in my earpiece.
"Tony!" She gasped. "Tony, are you okay?"
"I'm fine." He said.
"Obadiah, he's gone insane." She said, her voice slightly shaking.
I slowed my breathing down, but I never lowered my gun from the building.
"I know. Listen, you better get out of there. Where's Emma?"
"I'm here with Pepper." I said into my earpiece.
"Get out of there right now!" Tony demanded. The ground shook beneath us. We turned around to look at the empty parking lot.
Obadiah's suit had dug through the pavement in front of us. Pepper screamed as I moved in front of her.
"Where do you think you're going?" Obadiah hissed. He clenched his fist and pointed his revolving gun at us. In that moment, I felt defenseless. I had nothing but a pistol to protect me from the gigantic metal suit standing in front of us.
"Your services are no longer required."
I closed my eyes, waiting for immanent death.
"HEY!" We heard from above the building. We spun around in shock. Tony flew over in his suit, landing directly on Obadiah. They were forced back into the hole that Obadiah had previously come out of. I heard multiple crashes and bangs following them.
We could only watch helplessly as Obadiah threw Tony around. Tony flew up into the air. The suit Obadiah was using flew after him. They flew further and further up into the air.
I thought back to when Tony had flown up and his suit malfunctioned.
"Ice." I said, it finally hitting me. "He's gonna ice him."
I watched as Obadiah's suit fell from the sky and started plummeting towards the ground. Tony landed on the roof.
"Potts." Tony said.
"Tony. Oh my god are you okay?!" She asked.
"I'm almost out of power. I need to get out of this thing. I'll be right there." He said.
There were more bangs and crashes on the roof. I wanted to help. I didn't want Tony to die. It went silent as I saw flares appear from the roof.
My phone buzzed in my pocket. 'This is not the time!' I thought to myself. I pulled my phone from my pocket and answered the call from Tony.
"Emma." He whispered.
"Tony." I said.
"This isn't working. I'm going to have to overload the reactor and blast the roof."
"Well how are you going to do that?"
"You're going to do it. Go to the central console and open up all the circuits. When I get clear of the roof, I'll let you know. You're going to hit the master bypass button. It's going to fry everything up here."
I held the phone to my ear and turned to the now broken window.
"Where are you going?" Pepper asked.
"Stay here." I said. I walked over to the window, carefully not to slip and fall on the broken glass. "Okay. I'm going in now."
"Make sure you wait until I clear the roof. I'll buy you some time."
I ran over to the circuits and pulled down all the levers. The sounds of something winding up filled the air. I found the console and pressed a few buttons and flipped a bunch of knobs.
"It's ready, Tony. Get off the roof!" I yelled, looking up at the glass ceiling. Obadiah shot round after round at Tony. They bounced off his suit and shattered the glass. Tony clung to what was left as glass rained down on me. I screamed in pain as glass cut my arms. They weren't deep, more like scratches.
Obadiah continued to shoot at Tony, only managing to shatter the remnants of the glass.
"Tony!" I yelled.
"How ironic, Tony!" Obadiah yelled. "Trying to rid the world of weapons, you gave it its best one ever."
"Emma!" He shouted at me.
"And now, I'm going to kill you with it. You and your annoying niece, Emma." He launched a missile at Tony but it hit the wall to his right instead. "You ripped out my targeting system-"
"Time to hit the button!" Tony yelled.
"You told me not to." I replied.
"Just do it!"
"You'll die!"
"Push it!"
I took one last look at Tony before pressing the button. Electricity ripped through the air and collected in the middle of the room. I covered my head and tried to run towards the door. I felt as if I was struck by lightning. It whipped across my back, sending me towards to ground. Pain erupted in my left hip as I hit the ground.
I rolled over, my eyes finding the large piece of glass in my hip. I exclaimed in pain. Blood began to seep through my clothes.
Obadiah's suit came crashing through the ceiling, landing smack dab in the middle of the room. Electricity once again ripped through the air, this time more powerful.
I closed my eyes and let the impending darkness take me.
I remember what happened after. I woke up to someone shaking me. They had been in awe how I wasn't affected by the explosion. I was too. Looking back on it, it was my pendant that protected me. I, of course didn't know this at the time. They took me to the hospital where they removed the glass. It, of course, scarred.
I lowered my tank-top with a sigh and turned to the side, exposing another one of my scars. This one was curved and it ran across my left arm.
Pepper, Nat and I watched in horror as Tony raced around the track. The camera angels changed with every turn the racers drove. I could feel the worry radiating off Pepper.
A figure in an orange suit walked out onto the race track. It was none other than Ivan Vanko. We watched with wide eyes as he ripped the front of the suit open the reveal a chestplate with an arc reactor in the center. It powered on and two electric whips appeared in his hands. Electricity crackled on the whips as the top of his suit was burned away, revealing even more of his 'armor'.
One of the racecars flew around the track. He pulled his arm back and launched his whip across the car, cutting a large chunk of it off. The car flipped behind him.
Pepper and I looked over to Happy, who was holding the red case. I slipped my heels from my feet and held them in my hand as I ran. Pepper and Happy ran to the car. I, however, ran to the blue and chrome motorcycle behind it. I threw my leg over the bike and kick started the engine.
Happy and Pepper took off, me following close behind. He crashed through the yellow gates that led to the racetrack. I sped ahead, dodging the on coming cars.
I could only pray Tony was okay.
I swerved past car after car, trying to get to Tony as fast as I could. An explosion tore through the air. My stomach dropped.
I sped around the corner, Tony and Ivan coming into view.
"Oh my god." I said under my breath. Red flooded my vision as I raced towards him. I turned to the side, parking my bike and jumping off. My gun was in my hands and raised.
Happy rammed his car into Ivan, knocking him against the fence. Tony had just narrowly avoided being hit by the car.
"Are you okay?" Happy yelled. Pepper was screaming now.
"Yeah." Tony said, obviously out of breath. "Where you heading for me or him?"
They continued to argue. Tony moved to the back window of the car.
"Are you out of your mind!?" Pepper screamed at him.
"There was security."
"Get in the car!" She commanded.
"I was attacked." He replied, shaking a hand at Ivan.
"Get in the car!" Happy yelled at him as Tony moved around the car to get in.
I lowered my gun as I walked towards the car. He opened the door, grumbling to himself. I walked behind him. An electric whip appeared and sliced the door in half, hitting my arm in the process. I screamed in pain as blood soaked the sleeve of my dress.
Everyone was screaming. Happy backed the car up and hit Ivan again and again. Pepper was fumbling around with the case. Everything was a blur.
Ivan raised a whip and cut the car in half, just narrowly missing Pepper. Tony finally got the case but Ivan used a whip to knock his off his feet. Tony went flying across the road.
I moved from my position against the car. I looked at the case on the ground, knowing what I had to do. I stepped into the suit and bent over, grabbing the handles and pulling the chestpiece onto me. I let the suit assemble around me, feeling the cold metal on my bare skin.
I didn't have the arc reactor so I told JARVIS to use to backup power. The crowd watched as I kicked the car Pepper and Happy were in to the side so they could safe.
I turned towards Ivan, my fists clenched. I aimed a repulsor at Ivan, preparing to fire. Ivan swung his whip, knocking me aside. I tried to hit him again but he did the same thing. His whip struck across my chest, damaging the armor. I fired at him again but he swiped his whip to dodge the blast.
He managed to wrap a whip around my arm. I pulled against it but he wrapped the other around my neck. He pulled the whips back, launching me through the air. I regained my footing, only to have him launch me through the air again but this time I landed on top of the car. He yanked the whips down, bringing me to the ground. He pulled the whip from my hand and sent more electricity to my neck.
I clenched my fist, a sudden wave of anger flooding through me. I wrapped my arm around the whip, pulling him closer to me. He swung the other whip at me but I ducked to dodge it. I wound myself in the whip, bringing him closer to me.
I punched him in the stomach and collided the helmet of the suit with his head. I used the whips to my advantage and flipped him over onto his back. I reached down and ripped the arc reactor from his chest, rendering his suit useless.
The crowd cheered as the CRS ran over and hauled Ivan away. He spit blood out onto the street, laughing like a maniac. "You lose!" He said, his thick Russian accent making it hard for us to understand him.
I looked down at the reactor. Anger surged through my veins and I crushed it in my hand.
I turned so I was facing the mirror again. I had more scars but I didn't want to have a full on trip down memory lane. I pulled my hair back off my neck and looked at my last scar. It was small and faint but it was there. I got this one during New York. When the bomb went off in the bank, I was launched through the air and into the street. It wasn't a deep cut so it didn't leave a big scar.
I let out a sigh before turning around to answer the ringing phone. I picked it up and held it to my ear.
"Thlorien residence."
"Emma." They said.
"Director Fury." I said, trying not to let him hear how tired I was.
"I have a new mission for you. We will brief you tomorrow. I suggest you get some rest."
"Yes sir. See you tomorrow." I said before hanging up and throwing my phone on the couch.
A mission.
Author's Note: I gave you guys a little taste of her past in this. How do you like her replacing some roles in both Iron Man and Iron Man 2?
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