Toni POV

When I reached the next destination, I was greeted by a group of armed men. I stayed a few feet back, but the approached the car anyway.

The car was surrounded before I could pull away. One of them tells me to roll down the window.

I floored the gas pedal, and drove off. That was way too close.

That could have been the right one. But I didn't see anyone with a death symbol on their shirt. Maybe Eric Castle was different.

I came to the conclusion that those men were a bunch of hoodlums. I brushed that off and continued driving.

Suddenly another car slammed into mine. I spun out of control before crashing into a pole.

It took me a minute to get over the crash. I found that I was uninjured, but trapped. With great effort, I was able to free myself from the seatbelt.

I used my elbow to break the window. With great effort, I was able to climb out. I felt the broken glass slice my arm, but I ignored it.

My car was almost completely totalled. Dad was going to kill me. But that wasn't half my concern.

I salvaged a few things and started walking, following the map. I was slightly glad I bought it. My GPS was smashed and my phone was out of reach.

A few miles shouldn't be too bad.

Tony POV

I was in my suit searching for my daughter. There was no sign of her.

"Anything yet?" Clint asked.

"Nothing. "

I continued to search.

"Stark, we got something." Steve said.

"You found her?" I asked eagerly.

"No, we found her car." Natasha said.

I traced where they were. When I came to the scene, I seen Toni's car smashed against a pole.

But she was gone.

"He took her!" Clint was outraged when he saw the blood on the broken window.

It was only the passenger's side that was damaged, so hopefully she wasn't hurt too bad.

"Hang on." Steve said. He knelt to the ground.

At first we didn't know what he was trying to see.

But looking closely, we saw he was looking at something. It was footprints.

If they were Toni's, that meant that she wasn't hurt from the accident.

"Ok, she couldn't have gone far." Steve said as he stood. "We have a better chance if we just follow these."

It would take longer, but at least we knew where we were going.

Toni POV

I woke up. Even though I don't remember falling asleep. The last thing I remember doing was...walking? But...where?

When I tried to stand, I realized that I was tied up to a chair rather tightly. The ropes peeled away a layer of my skin every time I moved.

The room I was in was completely dark. I couldn't tell where I was or how to get out.

"Well, look who finally woke up." Someone said in the dark room.

I looked around but saw no one.

A single light clicked on. I saw a man standing in front of me. He looked just like Frank, only younger. This had to be Eric Castle.

"Eric." I said softly, still not fully awake.

"You know my name." Eric gave me an evil grin.

"Of course. "

"But the question is, how? My brother promised he would never tell my secret."

"I found you on my own. He wouldn't tell me."

"Lies! He betrayed me!"

"No he didn't. "

"We'll you couldn't have found me on your own."

I sighed. "I had to hack S.H.I.E.L.D."

"It makes sense now. They have been trying to find me for at least twenty years."

"You murdered two innocent people. S.H.I.E.L.D agents. Of course they would come after you."

"Oh they were far from innocent. All I wanted was to talk, and they tried to kill me."

"So you killed them to save yourself. " I said softly.

Eric nodded. "Why do you care anyway?"

"Because those agents you killed were my parents." I said, but immediately regretted it.

Eric slowly turned towards me.

"I knew you were a Cortex. The very last one."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, there was a reason I've been hunting you down. Your parents ruined my legacy by exposing my crimes. No one ever took me seriously anymore. I lost everything."

"Well that's no reason to kill them." I snapped.

"You don't understand. I was offered a deal if I got rid of everyone under the name of Cortex. But up until now, that has been impossible." He smiled at me.

I knew exactly what he planned to do, he was going to torture me if not worst.

"We'll talk later." Eric said before leaving the room.

I felt a sharp sting in my back before everything went black.

Tony POV

I followed Toni's footprints, along with some others, to at an old-looking twenty story building. I started to rush inside, eager to find my daughter.

"Stark, wait for backup." Coulson said through the earpiece.

"Can't, my daughter's in there." I said.

"Wait for backup." he said again.

It seemed to take forever before everyone finally came.

"What took you guys so long?!" I demanded.

"Not all of us can just fly at the speed of light, Stark." Natasha said.

"There are twenty floors in this building, she can be on any one of them. We will search each of the floors carefully before moving on to the next one." Steve said. "This man, no doubt, has many armed men. Be careful. Let's go!"

We walked inside the building. The first floor was empty so we moved on to the second floor. Still nothing. Third floor had just a few men. We easily snuck past them and onto the fourth floor.

After the sixth floor, we were starting to doubt if Toni was even here.

"The profile led us here, Stark." Clint said. "We can only look."

I was losing hope, but we continued the search.

Toni POV

When I woke up, it felt like I had been hit by a ton of bricks.

Eric was standing in front of me.

"What did you give me?" I asked groggily.

Eric shrugged. "Just some truth serum."

"I thought you were going to kill me."

"I was." Eric shrugged. "But then I remembered hearing that you got some big promotion at S.H.I.E.L.D and thought you might be of some value to me."

"I don't know anything, I just work there. And I didn't get any promotion!"

"Well, let's see what you do know. First of all, where did you get your information about me?"

"I told you, I hacked S.H.I.E.L.D."

"How did they get my information?"

"I don't know."

"Tell me." Eric said sternly.

"I don't know how Director Fury got it."

Eric sighed. "Give her another dose."

"Their coming for me!" I said before everything went black again.