Chapter Fifty-Four

Wait


Tony agreed with her, though he refused to go into it that night. It would take a while to remove the damaged suit and he insisted on being with Kagome. Fury, sensing Tony was going to play the minor card if pushed, agreed, adding that if it wasn't going to be reported he wanted the whole team to hear it.

Thor walked the other Avengers out, allowing Pepper to squirm out of the hold Tony had her in; though she lost her shirt and her dignity doing it. Not being the kind of person who takes humiliation well, she stalked back to the bedroom to cool down and change clothes.

When Thor returned, they decided that Tony's suit was broken in too many places for Thor to carry him safely alone. Kagome just wasn't strong enough... but then her bow vibrated against her back, surprising her into looking over her shoulder at it.

"Wait, I think I can help!" She tore a sheet of paper off one of Pepper's legal pads and folded it into an origami doll before asking Thor for a hair.

He pulled one and handed it to her, wondering what she was doing. Tony was no less curious, though he recognized the chanting as the same kind of magic she'd employed before. However, it shocked him as much as it did Thor when the doll she was praying over came to life in her arms.

A chibified six-year-old version of the godling, it kissed her cheek and squirmed down before running over to the astonished original. "She did it! She did it!," little Thor crowed before trying to lift Tony.

"What have you done, Priestess?" The prince asked, staring in wide-eyed horror at the overly cute midget copy of him.

"Its a shikigami. This is my first time making one, so he's not perfect... but he'll be strong enough to help, even if he's a little guy! Give him a chance, please?"

"If Thor doesn't want him, can I keep him?" Tony begged, torn between laughter and amazement.

"I want my hair back after we move Tony downstairs," Thor demanded. "If my mother saw him, she would move the whole tree to keep him."

She promised, even as Tony tried to cajole her to keep it. "Tou-san, I'll make you one of yourself. I'm not a dark miko to keep Thor's hair against his will. I need to learn how to do it better anyways. Shikigami should be exact copies."

Pepper came back to the living room, curious about the noise they were all making. She looked between the two Thors, instantly entranced. "He's adorable! Where did you come from?" she asked the puppet.

"Kagome made me! I'm going to help carry Tony downstairs!" He dashed back over to the damaged suit. "Let's go, Thor! We'll crack him open like a crab and pull him out!"

Tony ribbed Thor mercilessly over the shikigami all the way downstairs, even after the threat of an accidentally cracked head.