The next day Artemis was in the dance studio doing ballet when her phone rang "yes Tony" she answered "what color do you want your suit" he asked.
Artemis thought for a second "Purple and Black" she responded then hung up.
Artemis went back to ballet as the TV played in the background.
"Tonight's red-hot red carpet is right here at the Disney Concert Hall, where Tony Stark's third annual benefit for the Firefighter's Family Fund has become the place to be for L.A.'s high society."
"The Stark Sibling's haven't been seen in public since Tony Starks bizarre and highly controversial press conference." Here Art stopped dancing and faced the TV
"Some claim that Tony Stark is suffering from post traumatic stress, and that Artemis Stark has hidden from the press for reasons unknown. Whatever the case maybe, no one expects them here tonight."
Artemis glared then went up to her room to get a killer dress on. Art walked into her closet and looked through her dresses "why is this in here" she muttered looking over a pink dress "I'll give it to Nat or Rory."
She then came to a purple dress she never seen before, she took it off the rack and held it up to her body and looked in the mirror.
She smirked just as there was a knock on her door "Sis you feel like crashing our own party" he asked "yeah already have a dress picked" she called back.
She slipped the dress on and smirked "JARVIS how do you think I should do my hair" she asked "I suggest curled over one shoulder" the AI replied "thank you JARVIS" she said.
She heated up the curling iron while she did her make-up, she made her eyes look smoky and dangerous. Then she curled her hair over her shoulder; lastly she put on black heels. She looked in the mirror and smirked knowing if she was at HQ then recruits would run scared, expect Casey.
Art walked out of the room and down to the living room where Tony was waiting. Artemis smirked at Tony's shocked face "oh gess you have Mom's smirk" he complained knowing that smirk means trouble. Art shrugged taking Tony's offered arm "I can't help it Mom was badass" she said "can't argue with you there" Tony said.
The two got to the Disney Music Hall and Tony got out of the car, throw the keys to the valet and hurried around the car to help his sister out of the car.
The press gasped when they saw Artemis arm but she just smiled "thank you Tony" she said kissing his cheek and the press ate it up.
Tony smirked knowing his sister was being affectionate because the press played right into their hands, it was something their mother taught them
~Maria Stark looked at her children who were fighting about whose better Captain America or Bucky Barnes. Howard looked over his paper at them "I'm blaming you, Nikko, Lily and Peggy" he said to Maria then went back to his paper.
Maria rolled her eyes "Children that's enough" she said and the two stopped instantly "remember this okay when out in the press make sure to behave as if you're closer than Bucky and Steve. If you do then the press will eat right out of your hand." The siblings got mischievous smiles and ran out of the room "Maria did you just tell them that to get them to behavior when in public" Howard asked.
Maria looked at her husband shocked "I would never lie to my kids like that" she said. Howard gave her a look "ok maybe a little" she admitted causing him to chuckle and kiss her temple.~
Cameras flashed and people asked for autographs
"Do you remember me, Tony?" A big boobed blonde asked
"Sure don't" Tony stated didn't even bother to look.
Obadiah was giving an interview, but turned to see them. His face set, Artemis eyes narrowed at that remembering what Salt told her about the look on Obadiah's face when Tony mentioned the killings with stark weapons.
They walked up to him. "What's the world coming to, when we have to crash our own party?" Tony asked, smiling.
"Well look at you both."
"We'll see you inside." Art said, and led her brother inside, but Obadiah stopped them before they could get to the doors.
"Hey, take it slow. I have the board right where we want them." He said
"Yeah, sure it's just cabin fever; we'll only be a minute." Tony said
They both walked to the bar where they ordered something to drink
"Rum and coke please" Art ordered putting a 50 in the tip jar. She watched the talk between Tony and Coulson while sipping her drink and smirked when Tony blew him off to go dance with Pepper.
A second later her drink was taking "you better be someone I like" Art said and turned to see Jasmine Barnes standing there taking a drink of the alcohol "I swear why I agree to play these things I never know" Jazz said
Jasmine Barnes is someone who the Stark siblings known their whole life since her godfather is their father. She even used to babysit them when they still lived in New York.
She's a cellist that they hire to play most of the benefits they have. Plus she is Salt's mom but you couldn't tell by look at her since the women in their family age gracefully and slowly.
Art shook her head and ordered another drink "what did someone hit on you again" she asked and Jasmine nodded.
Art started looking around then grinned when she saw Clint, with his back to her, talking to someone "Miss Barnes" Coulson said standing in front of Jasmine.
The two women looked at him "care to dance" he asked holding out his hand. Jazz looked at Art "go I'm going to get Hawkass to dance with me" Art explained and Jazz accept.
Art walked passed a balcony, then backed tracked and grinned seeing Tony and Pepper alone but decided to give some privacy.
She reached Clint and tapped his shoulder "Artemis, nice to see you" he said turning around.
He then gapped her dress, yeah sure he seen Artemis in dress for undercover missions but she never wore one that caught so much attention as this one.
Clint notice people looking and took Artemis hand and kissed her knuckles "care to dance" he asked.
Artemis nodded and Clint led her to the dance floor. They began dancing and the rest of the world just faded away.
A few people away Salt was dancing with a man and noticed Art and Clint dancing close and the look in their eyes.
She grinned excusing herself from her partner and walked over to her mom only to see her dancing with Coulson.
She raised her eyebrow and looked between the two couples then took a picture of each on her Stark phone. She then sent the pictures to Nat, then decided to head to the bar.
She ordered a martini when someone came to stand beside her "so who's the guy getting chummy with my sister" Tony asked as the bartender gave Salt her drink and he order his.
Salt glanced at Tony and saw he was looking at Artemis and Clint "he's ok" Salt said "Grammy likes him."
Tony nodded at that since if Lillian Steward approved of someone then they're ok.
Tony then looked towards his right and quickly looked towards Salt again "the blonde coming towards us does she look mad" he asked and Salt nodded.
The blonde arrived and Salt walked away since it was Pepper's job to deal with Tony's one night stands.
Back to the dancing assassins, Artemis smiled at Clint "so how are you and Morse" she asked for once not growling out Morse's name.
Clint sighed since it was a known fact that Natasha Romanov and Artemis Carbonell hates Bobbi Morse "good" he responded "you let her meet Grammy yet" Art asked.
Clint shook his head just as Tony appeared "I have to steal my sister" he said and Clint nodded. Art walked after her brother as Clint went to go play big brother to Salt.
Tony showed her some pictures as they walked "what the hell" she asked flipping through them "I don't know let's go talk Obadiah" Tony said
The two walked over to him "I'll let you talk, my kind of talking usually involves physical harm" Artemis said "that was Mom's approach and what do you do anyway" Tony asked but Artemis just smirked.
"Have you seen these pictures?!" Tony demanded, Obadiah pulled them further away from the paparazzi "Artemis, Tony, you can't afford to be this naïve."
"Naïve?! I was naïve before, when you they told me this is the line, we don't cross it, and this is how we do business" Tony said as Artemis seethed at being called naïve, the last person that called her naïve ended up in the hospital for six months.
"Listen, if we're double-dealing under the table, are we double-dealing?" Artemis asked, Obi looked at them both in the eye and turned "Come on, let's take a picture. Picture time everybody!"
Artemis gave the cameras a fake grin while linking arms with Tony "who do you think locked you out? I filed the injunctions against you, it was the only way I could protect you both." Obi then walked away
Artemis then began thinking all the ways she could torture Obi maybe have Nikko, which as usually includes Wade's, help. No wonder her mom never liked him.
The siblings got into the car and headed home with emotionless faces.
They got home and Artemis wiped off her make up then began putting her hair up so it wouldn't get in the way.
"The fifteen mile hike to the outskirts of Gulmira can only be described as a descent into a hell, a modern-day heart of darkness. Simple farmers have been driven from their homes in peaceful villages, displaced from their lands by warlords emboldened by a new-found power." The reporter said
Tony was sitting on the couch screwing on his suits arm as he watched TV
"Villagers have been forced to take shelter in whatever crude dwellings they can find in the ruins of other villages, or here in the remnants of an old Soviet smelting plant."
Artemis wince when she heard the gun fire no matter how many times she killed, it's the unjustified killings that got to her.
"Recent violence has been attributed to a group of foreign fighters referred to by locals as the Ten Rings."
Artemis looked at Tony remembering him telling him about the terrorist group that held him in that cave. Plus Fury told her about the new terrorist group that popped up.
"As you can see, these men are heavily armed and on a mission; a mission that could prove fatal to anyone who stands in their way." The T.V showed the weapons.
Artemis got her assassin face on and stood on the platform to help with the assembly of her suit.
"With no political will or international pressure, there's very little hope for these refugees. Around me, a woman begging for news on her husband, who was kidnapped by insurgents, either forced to join their militia..."
Tony then aimed his hand and shot a blast at the lights at the other side of the room.
"Desperate refugees clutch yellowed photographs, holding them up to anyone who will stop. A child's simple question, 'Where are my mother and father?'"
"There's very little hope for these refugees; Refugees who can only wonder who, if anyone will help."
Tony then raised his hand and aimed for his reflection at the window that separate the stairs and the lab. He fired at all three of them
Artemis moved so Tony could get his suit on
Once he was done, both helmets face plates dropped down.
It didn't take them long to get to Gulimira
When they landed they saw men lined up against the wall about to be shot, while women and children were cowering near trucks, clearly about to be loaded in them, some already were. Men with huge Stark guns were around
As they tried to shoot the siblings they just returned the fire.
The ones near the women and children used them as human shields. The siblings put their hands down, if they even thought about trying the explosions on them, they'd kill the innocents.
"JARVIS, enable tagging" Artemis commanded, white target circles appeared, she looked at each attacker and locked on their faces, "JARVIS, fire the shoulder bullets."
Every attacker fell dead, freeing the women and children.
Thermal vision showed a man cowering behind the wall. Tony saw this and punched through the wall, showing the second in command of the ten rings. Artemis glared at him, not that he could see her face through the mask.
"He's all yours." Tony said, throwing him to the floor. They shot up into the air.
A huge missile came and hit Tony, "Tony!" Artemis yelled, and flew down to see him unearth himself from a crater in the ground
Artemis used her arm rocket to destroy another missile that was heading for her.
A missile were fired at Tony again but he dodged it and shot a tiny missile then proceeded to walk away like a bad ass. Right at the moment… BOOM!
"Show off" Artemis said to him "jealous" Tony replied back
Then they finally flew away, quickly.
"So was that an explosion worthy of Captain America" Tony asked
"oh please Bucky's better" Artemis said
"Do you really want to get into this now sis"
"yeah I do"
Over in Stark lab Salt, who was monitoring them, laughed since once a week those two get into this same argument
The phone ringing broke the fight up before it could even start
"Answer it." Artemis said
"No, you answer it." He fired back
"Tony it's probably for you anyway."
"Fine, hello?"
"Tony?" Rhodes voice said on the phone
Artemis sighed ~at least it's not Coulson or Clint~ she thought
"Who's this?"
"It's Rhodes."
"Sorry, speak up please."
"I said it's Rhodes. What the hell is that noise?"
"Sorry, I'm driving with the top down."
"Yeah, well I need your help right now, Artemis too, is she there?"
"Huh, it's really funny how that works isn't it." Art commented
"Yeah, speaking of funny we've got a weapons depot that's just been blown a few miles from where you were held captive."
"Huh, looks like someone stepped in and did your job for you." Tony said
"Why do you sound out of breath, Tony?"
"We just got finish jogging and are on our way home" Artemis said
"You sure you don't have any tech in that area I should know about?"
"Nope!"
"Good, because I'm staring at two now and they're about to be blown to kingdom come." Rhodes said
"That's our exit." Tony said, and then hung up as the jets came up behind them and then zoomed out of there
When the whiplash, the high-speed military plane tailing Artemis locked on and fired a missile at her, she powered off and dropped a few hundred feet where the missile couldn't follow, then got back up to the right altitude, and saw Tony was flying right next to her, both birds behind them "This isn't really going to plan." Art said
"Nope." He agreed as they opened fire on them. "Deploy flaps!" Tony yelled, and both of their suits' flaps sprung open, hoisting them backwards, confusing the planes.
"Jarvis call Rhodes" Artemis order "hello" he answered
"Hi Rhodey, it's me."
"I'm sorry, who?"
"What you're asking about, is me…and Artemis"
"See, this is not a game. You do not send civilian equipment into my active war zone." Rhodes demanded
"Ok, it's not pieces of equipment, it's me and Art, we're in the suits!" he yelled
Artemis dropped low enough so they couldn't detect her while Tony was under one of the planes. But the other pilot spotted him
As the jet tried to shake him off, Tony lost grip and fell back crashing into the wing of the other jet.
The plane went down but the pilot ejected his seat, but there was no chute.
Only about a thousand feet from the ground, there was still no chute. Artemis growled and shot down to the pilot "Jarvis kick the capacity up" she ordered.
A second later Artemis went faster and when she got to the pilot she reached forward and rip the chute out, it fluttered out, and the pilot was safe, Art flew away
"Tony, Artemis, you still there?" Rhodey asked.
"Hey, thanks."
"Oh, my God, you two are crazy sons of a bitches."
"so what's up Rhodey?" Tony asked.
"You owe me a plane. You know that, right?" Rhodey said.
"Yeah, well, technically, he hit me." Tony countered,
"Now are you going to come by and see what we've working on?" Artemis asked in hope.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, the less I know, the better." He said "Now, what am I supposed to tell the press?"
"Training exercise. Isn't that the usual BS?" Tony said.
"It's not that simple," Rhodey countered
When they got back Artemis set back and watch Tony get his suit removed, Salt was messing with the prototype of Captain America's shield on the desk behind Tony.
"Sir, the more you struggle the more this is going to hurt." JARVIS said
"Yeah, c'mon Tone it's not that bad!" Art said,
Pepper came to stand next to Art, who stared at her, staring at her brother, who looked around, before saying "Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing."
"Are those bullet holes?" she asked
Artemis inched away from Pepper "well I'm going to bed" she said and ran out of the lab before Pepper can yell at her; Salt followed a second later
Give Artemis drug lords or enemy assassins any day but when it comes to Pepper's temper that's one thing she'll avoid.
A few days later Artemis was at an old dance studio just to get out of the house.
She saw movement in the mirror and held back a smirk since these people were obviously amateurs because seriously who tries to attack someone when they have a wall of mirrors in front of them.
A few minutes later she finished and headed to her bag to get a drink of water. She then picked up her bag and began leaving but when she got to the lobby she smirked and went to the rafters. She placed her bag down and got out her sais.
She waited for them to come into the lobby and smirked when they came in guns first and there was three of them -this is going be easy and no fun- "Billy check the parking lot" the leader ordered as he and the other checked everywhere expect up.
Billy came back "her motorcycle's still here" he said and the leader nodded.
Artemis stood up and threw her sai at the other guy and it stabbed him in the heart. She moved quickly as Billy checked the dead guy and the leader looked towards where the weapon came from.
Billy looked at the sai scared "sir I think we're dealing with Sparrow" he said. The leader looked at him "she's just a myth along with her partners" he said "but sir the Sai has a Sparrow charm hanging from the end" Billy said.
Artemis smirked she loved being called a myth it's so fun to see their faces when they get proved wrong.
The leader sneered at Billy just as another Sai came and killed him.
Billy stood up scared and pointed his gun around trying to find her.
Artemis landed right behind him "here's a tip, always look up" she muttered into his ear.
Billy dropped the gun and turned to face Artemis "you're Sparrow" he causing Artemis to smirk deadly
"yep tell me who hired you and I'll won't tell my protective partners that you tried to kill me" she said
Billy gulped "Obadiah Stane" he said "he's going after your brother."
Artemis eyes narrowed "okay here's what you're going to do. You're going to get into contact with Stane and tell him you finished the job and that someone else killed your two pals" she said then grabbed his shirt collar "and if you tell anybody about me being Sparrow, I will have Hawkeye kill you"
Billy nodded as Artemis glared her assassins glare. She released him and he ran.