Hey guys! Can you believe it? Endgame is coming out Friday!

The gang's (mostly) all back together. The OG Avengers. The Big Kahoonahs. Etc., etc...

Anyways...Let's get on with the show!

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A few days after I was released, I quickly settled back into the mansion, constantly thinking about everything Fury had said.

To me, it was odd I was remembering him after all these years, but I strangely found it comforting.

I walked towards Tony's room and saw Natalie helping him get ready for his birthday party, stopping to listen in on their conversation.

"Can I ask you a question, hypothetically? Bit odd. If this was your last birthday party you were ever gonna have, how would you celebrate it?"

"I'd do whatever I wanted to do with whoever I wanted to do it with." Natalie walked out. When she noticed me, she nudged her head in his direction.

I nodded and walked in.

"Hey, kid. Ready to party?"

"Not really. But i'll try since it's your day."

"That's the spirit!" He took a swig of his scotch as he walked out.

I grabbed his arm. "What is going on with you?"

"What are you talking about?"

"The excessive drinking, the wild attitude, everything!"

"Well, one, the drinking has always been a thing. Two, the whole attitude thing is-."

"Tony, I know about the palladium."

"I don't know what your talking about."

"I know it's killing you, and you haven't told anybody."

"That's crazy."

"Just like you are right now."

"I-."

"I almost lost you once. Don't make me lose you again." I said walking out.

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"Okay: first kiss?"

"Zeke Stane," I replied. Clint gave me a look. "Spin the bottle, 15 years old. Not my best moment."

He shrugged. "I gotcha. Now your turn."

"Let me see," I took a sip of my drink. "Ever been engaged/married?"

"Once. Not my best moment either. You?"

"Engaged. And that's all I will say."

"Angie!" Pepper said, running towards us. "I need your help. NOW."

"Be right back."

Though confused, I followed her. "I don't know what to do," she said motioning towards him. Tony was in his Iron Man suit, drunk off his butt.

"Me either. Wanna take a breather?"

"Yes, please."

As we walked out, we bumped into Rhodey.

"Hey, Pepper. Hey, Ange."

I smiled. "We're going to get some air."

Rhodey asked, "What's wrong?"

We walked over to where we could see Tony. Pepper said,"We don't know what to do."

"You gotta be kidding me," he said as Tony fell over, drunk. "That's it, I'm making…."

I grabbed the phone from his hand. "No, no, no. Don't call anyone."

"Angie. This is ridiculous. I just stuck my neck out for him."

Pepper shook her head frantically. "We know. We get it. We're gonna handle it, okay! Just let us handle it."

Rhodey grabbed his phone. "Handle it. Or I'm gonna have to."

We nodded and Pepper headed over to Tony.

Tony's voice came through the speakers. "You know, the question I get asked most often is, 'Tony, how do you go to the bathroom in the suit?' Just like that."

Pepper yelled to the crowd, "Does this guy know how to throw a party or what?"

Tony muttered something to her.

"Unbelievable! Thank you so much. Tony, we all thank you so much for such a wonderful night. And we're gonna say good night now, and thank you all for coming."

They started to argue about something and finally he said, "Pepper Potts. She's right. The party's over. Then again, the party was over for me, like, an hour and a half ago. The after-party starts in 15 minutes. And if anybody, Pepper, doesn't like it, there's the door." His repulsor blasts the door.

"That's it." Rhodey stormed off towards the lab. I followed hot on his trail. He got in one of the suits.

"What are you doing?"

"The only thing I can do." He said as the face mask closed

"He's not going to be happy."

"Does it look like I care?" He headed off towards Tony in his own mark suit.

When I got back to the party, I saw Rhodey and Tony fight it out . Clint ran up to me, "Where the heck have you been? We need to get out now!"

I shook my head, "There's no way I'm leaving these two to duke it out."

"Rhodes knows what he's doing. We need to go." He grabbed my arm dragging me out.

We headed towards my car. Clint took my keys and got in the driver's side.

I got in, slamming the door behind me. "Where are we going?"

"Away." He started the ignition.

He was really starting to get on my nerves. "Clint! Tell me now!"

"Let's just get out of here first." He sped off, saying nothing else.

"Fine," I said, watching the house fade out of view.

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"SHIELD?"

"Yep. They have to debrief you."

"Okay….cool." I was completely mesmerized.

A booming voice broke my trance."Ms. Jarvis," the man said. "Second time in a week. That must be some sort of record for us."

I muttered to Clint,"When you said 'debrief', I thought it would be Coulson interrogating me. Not the king of the spies."Clint snorted.

"King of the spies?" Fury chuckled,"You definitely are a Stark."

I winced. "Sorry, I thought you couldn't hear that. Guess the Starks were bound to rub off on me."

"I can tell. Now, if you'll follow me, we need to you to get us up to speed on your uncle's condition." I motioned for him to lead the way.

Soon after, we got to his office and sat down. "So, I'm sure Coulson told you of his condition."

"Yes, sir."

He leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms. "What do you got?"

"Nothing. I can't find anything."

"Have you asked any of your colleagues?"

"How do you know about them?"

"Ms. Grey and Dr. McCoy have been consulted on prior projects before."

I raised a brow. "And why should I believe you?"

"Just answer the question, Ms Jarvis," The literal one-eyed man asked.

"Not exactly, but they said there isn't any known element that can replace the palladium." He just grinned. "Are you saying there is?"

"Maybe."

I was growing frustrated. "Decode the code for me, please!"

"Ms. Jarvis, have you ever thought of anything unknown?"

"An unknown element?" I laughed. "There is no way we would discover one,let alone create one, in time."

"But someone might."

"Someone like…."

"Well, Stark's a genius, isn't he?" he asked.

"He may be a genius, Fury," I replied, "but if he looking for something, he would have already."

"Tony had to get his genius from somewhere."

"Howard? How's he gonna help? He's kind of, like, DEAD!"

"But his files aren't."

I furrowed my brows,"How?"

"That is where we come in," he replied. "We can have the files delivered to the mansion as soon a possible."

"Okay, do it." I stood up and grabbed my things. "Well, if that's all you needed to know, then I guess I'll be going," I saluted.

Fury stood up, "Actually, I have something for you, too."

I furrowed my brows, confused. Fury nodded to Clint, and Clint walked off, coming back with a file box.

"What's this?"

"A key to your past."

I opened it and pulled out a journal.

Property of Jeanette Margaret Jarvis

"How'd you get this?"

"I….SHIELD acquired them after her death."

"What for?"

"I can't tell you that."

"Why?"

He looked me straight in the eyes. "When your mother found out she was sick, she made me promise that I would never tell you. She wanted you to tell you herself."

I didn't totally understand his reasons but I nodded. Throwing the journal back in the box, I grabbed the box and headed for the door. I whipped back around to ask, "Why did you assign Barton to me?"

"Another promise I made to your mother."

"What was that?"

"That I would keep you safe." I gave him a once-over. His mind was a fortress; the only thing i could see was grief.

I nodded and Barton followed me, taking the box from me.

"Agent Barton. I need to speak with you." Fury said.

Clint gave me a look and handed me the box. "I'll meet you in the lobby."

I nodded and left the room, tuning into their conversation.

"Yes, sir."

"I hope you remember what we discussed."

"Yes, and?"

"What have you got?"

"Nothing. She hasn't said much since then."

"Nothing. Nothing at all?"

"No, and I don't think she will. Not for a long time."

"And about the other?"

"She does act weird around Pepper but nothing more than that."

"Alright, then. Keep it up."

With that I cut the link. Oh, god. What am I going to do?

Someone tapped me on the shoulder. "Angie, you okay?"

"Yeah," I replied, nodding. "I'm just exhausted. Let's go home."

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Once we got back to the house, I pulled out the journals and started reading.

'My darling, I am sure if you are reading this I am gone from this world. The story that I am about to tell you has not been told except to a few. In time, you will learn who those are. If you have been given these books, then you have met one. The story of how you came to be is long, twisted, and complicated. But the best place to start is at the beginning.'

As I continued to read, my emotions clouded, causing the lights to flicker. Once I saw what I was doing, i slammed the book closed and threw it across the room.

The door burst open, Clint entered with bow drawn.

"What happened? You okay?"

"I'm fine. I just threw a book." I gave him a confused look. "What's a bow going to do? Skewer someone to death?"

He rolled his eyes. "Whatever, kid." He bent down and picked up the book I had thrown. "You started reading them?" I nodded in reply. "Didn't like what you saw?"

"Not necessarily. But it was nice to see that I have been lied to my whole life." He handed me the book. "I see why, but it still hurts."

"You want to talk about it?"

I shook my head. "I'd rather not." My head began to throb. "I think I'm gonna turn in. See you in the morning?"

"It is morning."

I looked over at my clock. 3:00 A.M. "A more godly hour, then."

"Alrighty, then. Holler if you're dying."

I gave him a thumbs up and threw myself on the bed.

Why didn't y'all ever tell me what really happened?

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The Next Morning….

Ring. Ring. I rubbed the sleepiness out of my eyes and saw the ungodly caller ID.

"Speak and be recognized by your empress, mortal."

"I knew the Starks rubbed off on you, Jarvis. Just not to that capacity."

"What do you want, Fury?"

"I'm sending you the coordinates now. Get here as fast as you can."

"Why now? It's…" I looked at my alarm. "5:45. Running on less than three hours of sleep here."

"Not my problem. Now, get here. You can blame your uncle then." Click.

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Driving in the parking lot, I saw Tony sitting in the giant donut on the store.

"A donut-shop?" the spy asked, as I got out of the car.

I rolled my eyes. "Just go with it."

Fury called out to him. "Sir! I'm gonna have to ask you to exit the donut."

Tony peered over his sunglasses and looked at me. "Angie?"

I shook my head. "Just get down here!"

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"I told you I don't want to join your super-secret boy band," Tony said rubbing his eyes.

"No, no, no. See, I remember, you do everything yourself. How's that working out for you?"

I started nodding off as the two continued to bicker. The bell on the door woke me up and I turned to see Tony's assistant walk in. Sure, Clint….Classified my ass….

"We've secured the perimeter but I don't think we should hold it for too much longer."

Tony peered over his glasses. "You're fired."

"I don't think that's up to you, Anthony," I said, giving her the seat next to Fury.

Fury moved over to let the woman sit down. "Tony, Angie, I want you to meet Agent Romanoff." Tony waived in reply.

"I'm a S.H.I.E.L.D. shadow," she said. "Once we knew you were ill, I was tasked to you by Director Fury."

"I suggest you apologize."

I glared at him, "Tony, shut up."

"You've been very busy. You made you girl CEO, you're giving away all your stuff. You let your friend fly away with you suit. Now if I didn't know better...," Fury said.

Tony straightened in his seat. "You don't know better. I didn't give it to him. He took it."

"Whoa, whoa. He took it? The little brother walked in there, kicked your ass and took your suit?" Fury turned to Agent Romanoff. "Is that possible?"

"Well, according to Mr. Stark's database security guidelines, there are redundancies to prevent unauthorized usage."

I raised my hand. "Um, Rhodey was authorized."

Fury looked at me. "What do you mean?"

"I may or may not have let him use the War Machine suit to control Tony while he was drunk."

Tony yelled, "What do you mean you let him take my suit?"

"I let him use it to keep you from hurting yourself, NOT take it to the U.S. Army."

"Same thing, Angie!" He turned back to Fury, "What do you want from me?"

Fury shook his head. "What do we want from you? What do you want from me?" Romanoff got up and headed out the door. I moved next to Fury so I could look at Tony.

"You have become a problem, a problem I have to deal with. Contrary to your belief, you are not the center of my universe. I have bigger problems than you in the southwest region to deal with." I heard the door jingle and saw Romanoff return. Fury nodded to her, "Hit him."

Romanoff injected something into his neck.

Tony yelped,"Oh, God, are gonna steal my kidney and sell it?" The rash on his neck slowly went down. "Could you please not do anything awful for five seconds? What did she just do to me?" he said rubbing his neck.

"What did we just do for you? That's lithium dioxide. It's gonna take the edge off. We're trying to get you back to work."

"Give me a couple of boxes of that. I'll be right as rain."

Romanoff knelt next to him, "It's not a cure, it just abates the symptoms."

Fury stared at Tony's neck, "Doesn't look like it's gonna be an easy fix."

"Trust me, I know. I'm good at this stuff. I've been looking for a suitable replacement for palladium. I've tried every combination, every permutation of every known element."

Fury glanced at me and then Tony, " Well, I'm here to tell you, you haven't tried them all."

I knew that Fury had a plan, but I still wasn't sure what the end game was. I just hoped it didn't have anything to do with what I had been seeing in my dreams.

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STARK MANSION

"Whoa, slow down, Rhodey. What happened?"

"They were analyzing the suit and the general told me that Hammer is being hired to weaponize it."

"Hammer's going to blow someone up. You saw all the videos of his prototypes."

"I know. I'm sorry, I didn't know this was going to happen."

"It's okay. What are we going to do?"

"I don't know, Angie. I'll see what I can do."

"Okay, stay safe."

"Bye, Ange." Click.

I headed towards the living room where Fury and Tony were, listening on their conversation.

"What do you remember about your dad?"

"He was cold, he was calculating. He never told me he loved me," he replied. "So, it's a little tough for me to digest when you're telling me he said the whole future was riding on me and he's passing it down. You're talking about a guy whose happiest day was when he shipped me off to boarding school."

"That's not true," the agent replied. "And need I remind you, you sent that niece of your's to one as well."

"That was her idea, not mine. And also, you clearly knew my dad better than I did."

"As a matter of fact, I did. He was one of the founding members of SHIELD."

I stepped down the stairs as some agents walked in with a large box.

"What?" Tony replied, seeing the box. "Wait, what's this?"

Ignoring him, Fury put a hand on Romanoff's shoulder, "Natasha will remain a floater at Stark with her cover intact. You remember Agent Coulson, right?"

"Yeah," he groaned.

Fury turned to Tony, "And Tony, remember, I got my eye on you. " He glared as he left.

The redhead turns to Tony. "We've disabled all communications. No contact with the outside world. Good luck."

Tony turned to Coulson. "Please. First thing, I need a little bodywork. I'll put in a little time at the lab. If we could send one of your goon squad down for a Starbucks run, or something like that, that'd be nice."

Coulson smiles at him. "I'm not here for that. I've been authorized by Director Fury to use any means necessary to keep you on premises," he explained. "If you attempt to leave or play any games, I will taze you and watch Supernanny while you drool into the carpet. Okay?"

I laughed, "I think he got it."

"Enjoy your evening's entertainment.," He says. "Ms. Jarvis, follow me I need to speak with you."

I follow him to a separate room. "So, what's up?"

"First, there's a box in your room with some more of your mother's things. Secondly, Barton will continue to shadow you. Don't let Tony find out about him."

"Tony's met him already, he just doesn't know the SHIELD part."

"Let's keep it that way."

"Yes, sir." I got up to leave. "Oh, and by the way, nice going back there."

He smiled, "I try."

I laughed as I leave the room.

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That night I headed down to the shop with some pizza. I heard Howard's voice playing.

"So, from all of us at Stark Industries, I'd like to personally show you my ass. I'd like to… I can't… This is… I can't… We have this, don't we? This is a ridiculous way… Everything."

I continued to walk down the stairs. When I heard him say, "Tony," I stopped in my tracks.

"You're too young to understand this right now, so I thought I would put it on film for you. I built this for you. And someday you'll realize that it represents a whole lot more than just people's inventions. It represents my life's work. This is the key to the future. I'm limited by the technology of my time, but one day you'll figure this out. And when you do, you will change the world. What is and always will be my greatest creation is you."

I put the pizza next to Tony and lay a hand on his shoulder. He took it in his and kissed it, giving it a squeeze.

"Why didn't you tell me they knew?"

"Well, I kind of find out the night of your party, " I lied.

"How?"

"Um..." I stammered. "An agent brought me to Fury when things got crazy." Nice going, Angie.

"Romanoff?"

I shook my head. "No. Somebody else…."

"I'm still a little mad about the suit thing, but thank you for knocking some sense into me."

I snorted. "About time."

"Whatever. Now, get out of here and let me work," he pushed me towards the stairs. "Go hang out with your boyfriend or something."

I yell, "Clint is NOT my boyfriend." I headed up the stairs, hearing Tony's laughter fade away.

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So, I followed my uncle's advice and hung out with Clint. The classic pizza, coke, and video games.

"Oh, no you didn't" I yelled.

"Bring it on sister."

My kart darted past Clint's and sped right in to first place. "Oh, yeah."

Clint just slumped in defeat. "But...how did you?"

"The student has become the master," I said bowing to him.

He crossed his arms and pouted, "Cheater."

"How do you cheat on Mario Kart?"

"I don't know! You...you!" He sputtered.

I shook my head, "Uh, uh. No whining. Play again?"

"No, I'm done." He took a swig of his coke as he got up. "I'll be outside. Holler if your dying or something."

"Come on, Clint. I'll let you win this time."

"It's not the same. Bye!" He went out the door and slung himself on the roof.

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