Artemis narrowed her eyes "I'll meet you back at the house" she said then went to Salt "Agent Carbonell" someone said from behind them and Art turned around to see Coulson.
Artemis sighed and headed to his car with Salt following "you've been ignoring me" Coulson said as Salt strapped Peter into the car seat "you see why" Artemis said pointing to her prosthetic arm.
Coulson nodded "don't worry I'm working on something that will help but until I have a stable power source for it, I can't come to work" Artemis said
"Good the less people there that know the better" Coulson said "I'll tell the Director"
They pulled up to the mansion and Art opened her door and got out along with Salt. She walked over to get Peter "it'll just be you. Hill and the Director right" she asked and Coulson nodded "good the last thing I need is for them to get distracted on a mission" Art said then shut the door.
They got into the house and Salt went to go put Peter down for a nap
Artemis entered the lab while removing her jacket and saw Tony there looking at her arm design
Tony looked at her and winced "Art I'm-" he began seeing the prosthetic "stop it wasn't your fault" Art cut him off then tapped his chest where she saw a glow through his muscle shirt "now what's this" she asked.
Tony smiled "a mini arc reactor" he said then began explaining how he escaped captivity "wait hold up, you mean to tell me you build that thing in a cave" Artemis asked amazed and Tony nodded "you want to help me build a more reliable one" he asked and she nodded excitedly.
They work all night on the new mini reactor
Around five they finished and Artemis walked to her room but made a detour to Peter's nursery. The nursery was blue with glow in the dark stars on the ceiling. Artemis saw he was up "hey baby why are you up" she asked and Peter giggled at her and held his arms up.
Artemis laughed and picked him up "it looks like I'm not getting any sleep" she muttered going to Peter's toy box and got the stuff hawk out.
A quarter to noon Artemis was in the living room with Peter trying to get him to walk "come on Peter, come to Mommy" she said and Salt was standing by with a camera waiting to film him.
Peter looked up from his stuffed Hawk and laughed at her "I'm killing Clinton next time I see him" Artemis muttered. Salt laughed putting the camera away and as Artemis stood up and stretched "Mama" Peter said crawling towards Artemis.
Artemis laughed picking him up as Tony came up from the lab "hey I'm going out" he said and Artemis nodded.
Artemis set Peter back on the floor "so Salt how are you and Matt" she asked walking to the kitchen with Peter crawling after her with the hawk still in his grasped.
Salt followed her with a frowned "We're just friends Art" she said and Art rolled her eyes "right and I don't have very good dreams about Clinton" she muttered.
Salt sighed at that wishing those two will just together already
The rest of the time was spent playing with Peter and trying to get him to walk.
Tony got home an hour later and went straight to the lab and a few minutes later Artemis and Salt entered the lab and saw Tony looking at a suit design "is that how you escaped" Artemis asked and Tony nodded "I think I have something that can power your arm" he said "what" Artemis asked "a mini reactor" Tony said "I'll build you one but you have to let me build you a suit"
Artemis thought about it then nodded "It has to be flexible" she said shaking her brother's hand "great let's get to work" Tony said "Salt design Artemis a suit while we build another reactor"
Over the next few weeks a lot of projects were going on; Peter was designing a suit, Tony was working on flight boots for the two suits and Artemis was making her new arm out of a strong iron and putting the reactor into the palm.
Tony finally finished the boots and arms "Start mark, half a meter, and back and center." He said to the camera
"Tony are you sure this is a good idea" Artemis asked looking up from checking the arm and making sure Peter was still on the floor beside her "of course it is" Tony said.
Salt rolled her eyes "at least have Dummy on standby" she said then went back to the suit design
Tony rolled his eyes "Dummy, look alive; You're on standby for fire safety." he said to the robotic arm holding the fire extinguisher.
Artemis sighed "Okay. Activate hand controls, sis." Tony instructed, in a ready position
Art sighed and pressed a few buttons besides her then gave Tony a thumbs up
"We're gonna start off nice and easy. We're gonna see if 10% thrust capacity achieves lift. And 3, 2, 1…" Tony said to camera
Artemis looked up just in time to see Tony do a back flip into the wall and Dummy sprayed him with the fire extinguisher
Artemis and Salt laughed "what went wrong" Tony asked taking the boots off and walked over to his sister
Artemis looked up "your body mass wasn't stabilized" she said "that's why I'm adding a flight stabilizer to my arm"
Tony nodded and began building him some.
An hour later Artemis was finally finished with her arm "Salt take Peter upstairs" Artemis ordered as she set on the medical bed.
Salt nodded, picked up Peter then headed upstairs "Art you ready" Tony said getting the anesthetic ready. Artemis nodded. Tony sighed then gave her the anesthetic "this is going to hurt" he said "I probably felt worse" Art said.
Tony then picked up the arm as the anesthetic began to work "you might be out a few days because of the pain" he said and Artemis nodded "think of a happy place" he joked.
Artemis glared at him "what, you have to have a happy place" Tony said "my happy place involves a very hot man that loves archery" Artemis said causing Tony to smile "there's my sister that I love."
A few days later Artemis woke up to see her brother finishing his flight stabilizers "how did it go" she asked surprising Tony.
Tony looked at her "stupid Ninja Sister" he muttered walking over to her
"The attachment went ok but you have to try it out to see if it's up to par" he said.
Artemis looked at her arm amazed and moved her fingers "it looks just like a human hand but iron" she said then lifted her arm up slowly and barely winced "I not felling any pain" she said
Tony grinned "Salt will be down later to show you your suit" he said then walked over to his work table.
A few hours later Artemis was practicing with her arm while Tony placed his flight stabilizer on his arm.
Pepper then came downstairs with Salt "I've been buzzing you, didn't you hear the intercom?" she asked, carrying a box and two cups of coffee.
Artemis took her cup of coffee from her walked over to the holo table with Salt.
"I thought you were done making weapons?" she asked, looking at the arm piece Tony had on, admittedly it did look like a weapon.
"We are" Art shrugged "That's a flight stabilizer."
"It's completely harmless." Tony said, he put the setting too high and shooting backwards.
Artemis snorted "I didn't expect that." Tony said standing up "Obadiah's upstairs." Pepper said
"Ok, great, I'll be right up." Tony said. Pepper nodded then left.
Tony took his flight stabilizer off and left.
Artemis turned to her assistant "show me my suit" she asked and Salt nodded pulling up the suit design.
Artemis started bouncing in place when she saw it "it's like my spy suit" she said and Salt nodded "yeah it's made of a metal alloy that's allows you to do your ninja moves but it's almost indescribable" Salt explained to her.
Artemis grinned hugging him "I love you Salt" she said slowly moving the image around to see the full suit.
Salt smiled "oh archer called while you were out" she said. Artemis looked over at her "what he want" she asked
"to see when he's going to get his partner back" Salt responded
"and you told him"
"you have to make sure your brother's alright before coming back"
"he believe you"
"Nope, so I told him you'll call him when you're not busy"
Artemis sighed then grabbed her phone off the work table "I'll call him now" she said going upstairs.
She got upstairs just in time to hear her brother yell
"It doesn't matter!" Tony said, "We own the controlling interest in the company."
Artemis frowned at that but decided to ask her brother later since she didn't really want to show Obadiah her arm. She doesn't trust him at all so she decided to head to her room.
When she got there she saw someone sitting on her bed and holding Peter up in the air smiling and Peter was laughing "what the hell" she said "how'd you get past Jarvis"
The person chuckled "Salt let me in" he said Artemis sighed and laid down on her bed looking at the two "he loves that hawk you got him" she said "a few days ago I was trying to get him to walk but all he wanted to do was play with that hawk"
Clint Barton, a.k.a Hawkeye, chuckled and laid down beside her with Peter sitting between them. He then looked at Artemis arm "what happen to your arm" he asked.
Art glanced at her new arm "it was blown off when I was in Afghanistan" she said "I built in a weapon"
Clint rolled his eyes "figures you would, what you built in" he asked.
Artemis smiled "a Taser" she said.
Clint laughed "Coulson will love that" he said causing Art to laugh
Peter got tired of being ignored and hit Clint's stomach "oh Peter you got an arm on ya" Clint said as Peter laughed. Clint picked him up and held him above him "you're a brat kiddo" he said as Artemis laid her head on his shoulder
A few hours later Salt quietly open Artemis's door and smiled at the scene in front of her. Artemis was curled up to Clint's side with an arm over Peter who was on Clint's chest. Clint had an arm wrapped around Artemis's waist and a hand on Peter's back "Jarvis take a picture and send it to my phone along with my laptop" Salt whispered "yes Ms. Mercer" JARVIS replied.
Salt silently shut the door "not dating my ass" she whispered
A few days later Clint took Peter back to his aunt and uncle. Salt sent the picture to Nat and Artemis, who made it her background on her phone and computer
Right now Artemis was back down in the lab with Tony and Salt
"Day 11, test 37, configuration 2.0. For lack of a better option, Dummy is still on fire safety," Tony said to camera, then turned to look at Dummy, "If you douse me again, and I'm not on fire, I'm donating you to a city college." he threatened, as he prepared for his first flight with the flight stabilizing gloves.
"Alright, nice and easy, just gonna start off with 1% thrust capacity."
Artemis smirked and put on her left stabilizer and her boots waiting for her turn to test. Tony lifted off the ground and it was actually working
Tony then cut the power and grinned at his sister "Nothing blew up so I think we are ready for another around." said Tony as he gained his balance on the floor. He turned to Dummy who was following his every move. "Dummy, please don't follow me around with it, either, cause I feel like I'm gonna catch on fire spontaneously. Just stand down! If something happens, then come in." Tony ordered. Dummy whined as he lowered the fire extinguisher nozzle.
Artemis giggled "Art bring it up to 2.5. I want to take this slow." Tony said and she nodded
"And three, two, one."
Tony went up into the air a little bit higher and with more power than the last test.
While Tony was trying to gain control, he flew backwards and over to his expensive foreign cars.
"Okay, this is where I don't want to be!" he exclaimed, and then whined, "Not the car, not the car! Yikes! Table!"
He managed to fly away from his cars and now was all over the shop.
Artemis decided to move to the door since Tony was losing control but he put his hand in front of him to stop advancing.
He laughed nervously as he began moving back to the launch grid, "Could be worse! Could be worse! Could be worse! We're fine! Okay… okay…"
When Tony landed on the pad Artemis cut the power. Dummy lifted the fire extinguisher up and pointed it at Tony.
"No! Ah-ah-ah-ah! Ah!" Tony exclaimed, stopping the robot before he was doused again. Artemis grinned at the success
"Yeah, I can fly." Tony smirked, full of himself then looked at his sister "your turn"
Artemis nodded then walked over to the pad as Tony went to the computers while taking off his stabilizers "1% first Tone" she said and Tony nodded activating the power
Artemis then lifted off the ground and smiled "sweet" she then looked at Tony "bring the power up to 2.5%" she said "are you sure you want to do that in the air" he asked and Art nodded
Tony then turned the power up and Artemis lost control for a second and almost ran into a wall "Art watch out" Tony said. Art throw her hands up and stopped herself.
She then went back to the pad and landed so Tony cut the power "now let's add them to the suits" she said grinning.
Tony nodded grinning as well
Artemis was putting her suit on and looked at herself in a mirror "Salt does this suit make my butt look big" she asked and Salt ignored her going over to the computer
"You ready to go test the suits out" Tony asked after Jarvis finished putting his suit on
Artemis nodded as the face plate of her helmet came down.
"Jarvis, are you there?" Tony asked.
"At your service, sir." the British voice responded.
"Art can you hear us" Tony asked
"Loud and clear" she responded as she stretched to see how well the suit fit. She nodded to herself when she felt the suit move with her almost like a second skin
"Engage heads up display." Tony ordered.
"Import all preferences from home interface" Tony said.
"Alright Jarvis, what do you say?"
"I have indeed been uploaded, sir." Jarvis informed, "We're online and ready."
"Can we start the virtual walk-around?" Tony asked.
"Importing preferences, and calibrating virtual environment," Jarvis added.
"Do a check on control surfaces, Jarvis" Artemis said.
"As you wish." Jarvis replied, and then set to his task and a virtual replica appeared on the built in screen inside her helmet.
"Test complete." said Jarvis "Preparing to power down and begin diagnostics."
"Uh…yeah… Tell you what," Tony interrupted, disregarding what Jarvis said, "Do a weather and ATC check."
"Start listening in on ground control." Tony instructed
"Sir, there are still terabytes of calculations needed before an actual flight is…" Jarvis started.
"Sometimes you have to run before you can walk." Tony said, before his thrusters came on, Artemis smirked turning her thrusters on and was soon shooting up out of the curved ramp and shooting into the night sky,
Art laughed and cheered along with Tony as they flew through the air, looking at Malibu spread out before them. Artemis felt like anything was possible in her suit. Tony flew round the huge lit up Ferris wheel
"Alright, let's see what this thing can do." Tony said, shooting straight up.
Artemis laughed knowing her brother would do something like this
"What's SR-71's record, Jarvis?" Tony asked.
"The altitude record for fixed wing flight is 85,000 feet, sir." Jarvis answered.
"Records are made to be broken! Come on!" Tony exclaimed.
Artemis followed for a while then stopped "Tony stop the ice would cause the suit to sort out" she called
"Sir, there is a potentially fatal buildup of ice occurring." Jarvis informed.
"Keep going!" Tony said, ignoring the warnings.
"Higher!" Tony ordered Jarvis.
A minute later Tony began falling back and the suit wasn't responsive "Damn it Anthony" she said flying up to catch him, but before she could the suit came back online "you idiot you gave me a heart attack"
Tony laughed "let's go home" he said and the siblings headed to the mansion
When they got there they hovered on the roof "kill power" Artemis ordered then landed like a cat when Jarvis did.
When Tony landed he crashed through the roof, crash landing on top of the piano, then through to the shop, crushing an old vintage blue roadster.
Artemis rolled her eyes and hopped down the hole and removed her suit "that was fun" she said as Dummy douse Tony with the installed fire extinguisher
Salt helped Tony up as Artemis waved Dummy away "that suit must be heavy" Artemis stated then looked through the holes in the ceilings "Pepper's going to kill us" and Tony nodded