Artemis got on her bike and place her helmet on "Jarvis call Salt" she ordered after activating the hud of her helmet.
Salt picture appeared along with the word calling "Artemis where are you Obadiah is crazy" she answered from where she was walking with Pepper and Coulson.
Artemis snorted "I could have told you that but I need you to tell Coulson to send some agents over to my old dance studio three amateur assassins tried to kill me" she said.
Salt snorted "he should have done his research on you" she said "are you heading to your house"
"Yeah" Artemis replied weaving in and out of traffic
"Well hurry Pepper can't get a hold of Tony and she calling Rhodey now" Salt explained "we think Obadiah already been there" Salt explained.
Artemis narrowed her eyes "Got it" she said then ended the call and speeding up.
She got to the house and saw Rhodey getting out of his truck. She shut off the bike and placed the kickstand down "who he send after you" Rhodey asked as they ran into the house
Art snorted "amateurs" she said throwing her helmet down on the table beside the door and hurried to the lab with Rhodey following
When they got there they saw Tony "Tony" they called he looked at them from the floor with the old reactor in "Where's Pepper?" Tony asked then noticed his sister "I thought Obadiah sent people to kill you"
"please it'll take more than his men to kill me" she said helping him stand up
Tony rolled his eyes then turned to Rhodes "where's Pepper" he asked again
"She's fine, she with Salt, some agents and Phil Coulson, they're about to arrest Obadiah." Rhodes said
Artemis smirked "I don't think that'll be enough" she said as Tony headed for one of his cars "Tony how about a faster way"
Tony looked and saw her pointing at their suits
Artemis slid in to her suit as Tony got screwed into his
"Let's do this." Tony said after he was finished
"You need me to do anything else?" Rhodes asked
"Keep the skies clear." Tony said, and then they were in the night sky, flying as fast as they could go
"Tony I got something to tell ya" Artemis said
"this better not be an if we're going to die speech" Tony responded
Artemis rolled her eyes "it's not" she replied "I'm an assassin that's how I survived the people Stane sent after me" Artemis winced she really never wanted to tell Tony but since she figured since Tony's on SHIELD's radar now she might as well tell him
"how long" Tony asked "since I was 18" she replied
"We'll talk after we live" Tony said and Art nodded.
"How do you think the forty-eight mark piece is going to hold up?" Tony asked Jarvis
"Your suit is at forty-eight percent power. It was never designed for sustained flight."
Artemis sighed as Tony told Jarvis to keep him posted "Tony we're in range of Pepper's and Salt's ear piece" she said
"I'm connecting too it now." He said, there was a faint beep and then "Pepper!"
"Tony! Are you ok? Obadiah, he's built a suit, a big suit and he's…"
"Pepper, we know. We're on our way, you and Salt need to get out of there now"
Pepper and Salt screamed and when the siblings turned the corner they saw a huge suit "and I thought you had an ego" Artemis said "hey" Tony whined.
Artemis flew in and punched Stane's suit as Tony landed by Pepper and Salt "how the hell are you still alive" Stane asked.
Artemis rolled her eyes "Please it takes more than your amateur hired guns to kill me" she said.
Stane growled and punched Artemis towards the building with the arc reactor.
"I'm going to kill him" she said standing up and flew to where Tony and Stane was.
Artemis saw him throw Tony and she growled "hey I'm the only one that can kick Tony's ass" she said then blasted the huge suit.
She then landed as Stane stood up "you have been a major pain in my ass since the day you turned 13" he said.
Artemis smirked that was around the time she started snooping everywhere "well I never really trusted you anyway" she responded. Stane shoot at her but Art dodged "neither did Mom"
"Your mother was a bitch just like you" Stane said.
Artemis growled "DON'T. INSULT. MY. MOTHER" she said blasted him with her repulsors.
Tony landed beside her as Stane stopped stumbling "you ready to take to the air"
Tony nodded and they both shot up in the air but it would seem Stane added his own adjustment "I didn't expert that" Art stated. The siblings looked at each other and nodded. They shot straight upwards but Obadiah grabbed Artemis' foot "I can finally get rid of you for real this time" he said.
Artemis smirked as they kept going higher and saw the ice build up around the sides of his suit, and knew it wouldn't be long until it froze the power supply and he fell like the heap of junk he was.
He had one of his huge metal hand around her waist "Oh yeah, how'd you solve the icing problem?" she asked
"Icing problem?!"
"Might want to look into it." Art said, freeing a hand and sent him tumbling down to earth
Tony's suit lost power and started to fall but Artemis grabbed his hand and landed on the roof
"well that was fun" Art said
"Art go help Pepper and Salt" Tony said just as Obadiah landed behind them "fine but be careful" Art said knowing this was personal for Tony.
Artemis flew down to the two assistants "Artemis" Pepper called as Artemis landed "Tony wants you to override the Arc Reactor"
Artemis nodded and they ran over to the controls. Artemis took off her helmet and gave it to Pepper "hold that" she said then began flipping the switches "Salt make sure the agents are all out of the building"
Salt nodded running to make sure
"Tony it's ready, get off the roof!" Art yelled up to him, he was on the glass roof directly over the reactor.
Obi shot some more, smashing the roof, glass rained down and Artemis covered Pepper from the glass. Salt then came back "they're all out" she said
Tony was now hanging through the roof; you could see his iron legs waving frantically. "Tone, it's ready!"
"Hit the button" he called back
"But you'll die!"
"Hit it!"
She then punched the button as Tony let go and fell through the roof. Artemis grabbed Salt and Pepper and flew them away as the ARC reactor basically exploded.
Obadiah fell into it and a huge pillar of blinding light was sent up right into the sky, and then it disappeared and half the city blacked out.
Artemis released Salt and Pepper over to Tony who was laying on the ground unconscious
While Pepper checked Tony over Artemis laid on the concrete giving a chuckled. Salt set beside her with a grin
"You have all received the official statement of what went on at Stark Industries last night, there have been unconfirmed reports that a robotic prototype malfunctioned and caused damage to the ARC reactor…"
The TV on the wall showed Rhodes speaking to the press. Tony was in a clean suit, with his hair slicked back and Pepper covering bruises and cuts on his face from last night's escapades, he was reading a collection of papers, one proudly bearing the headline 'Who are Iron man and Iron Woman?' with blurry photos of the siblings in the suits.
Artemis was sitting a crossed from them "You know, it has quite a nice ring to it, not necessarily accurate because my suit is gold…"
Coulson then came in "Here's your cover story" he handed Artemis and Tony blue cards.
"You both were on your yacht, we have port papers that put you in Avalon all night and sworn statements from fifty of your guests."
"See I was thinking maybe it could just be Pepper and me, alone."
Artemis smirked at her brother knowing that he finally figured out his feelings for his secretary
"That's what happened. Just read it word for word." Phil commanded giving Artemis a pointed glare
Artemis put a hand over her heart "that's just rude" she said "but true" Salt stated healing Artemis head wound she got from the glass last night.
"What about Stane?" Tony asked, Obadiah was dead, but the siblings couldn't say that just yet apparently
"He's been handled. He's on vacation. Small aircrafts have such poor safety records." Coulson explained sounding proud of his cover story
"So the whole cover story is they're our bodyguards?" Tony asked, flicking through the cards that explained who Iron Man and Iron Woman were "Kinda flimsy don't you think?"
"This isn't my first rodeo Mr. Stark, just stick with what's on the card." Artemis and Tony exchanged a look,
"you got it Coulson" Art smiled at him
"Just give them your sworn statements and this will all be behind you. You've got…ninety seconds."
Artemis stood up after Salt finished healing her wound
"Right, let's get this show on the road."
"I don't think it's that bad, me being Iron Man and Artemis being Iron Woman."
"You're not Iron Man." Pepper said
"I am." She helped him into his jacket
"No, you're not. You're not Iron Woman so don't get any ideas or I'll sick Grammy on you." She looked at Artemis sternly
Artemis nodded scared even Tony looked scared, Grammy is one person you don't want to piss off.
Salt grinned at that knowing Grammy would laugh after she lectured them.
"You know if I were Iron Man, I'd have this girlfriend who knew my true identity, and she'd be a wreck, always worried I'd die to save a crowd…" Tony trailed off
Artemis faked gagged "She'd of course be so conflicted, which would make her, you know, more crazy about me. Tell me what you think about that"
Artemis rolled her eyes and walked to the door with Tony following.
"And now, the Stark siblings will read a prepared statement. They will not be taking any questions."
Rhodey stepped aside and Tony took his place in front of the crowd while Artemis stood beside him. "It's been a while since I was last in front of you so I'm going to stick to the cards," He lifted his hand which contained the cue cards in question. Everyone chuckled lightly.
"There has been speculation that we were involved with the events that took place last night-"
"I'm sorry, Mr. Stark," Christine Everhart's annoyingly polite voice began. "but do you honestly expect us to believe that that was two bodyguards in a suit that conveniently appeared, despite the fact that-"
"I know that it's confusing…it is one thing to question the official story, but another thing entirely to make wild accusations, or insinuate that me and Artemis are superheroes."
"I never said you two were a superhero." Christine spoke matter-of-factly.
"No?"
"No." she shook her head.
In the waiting room Salt sighed already knowing they are going to announce the truth
"Well, good, because that would be outlandish and, uh, fantastic. We're just not the hero type. Clearly. With this laundry list of character defects, all the mistakes I've made, largely public."
Artemis muttered in her brother ear "speak for yourself" she said just as Rhodey leaned in Tony's other ear
"Just stick to the cards, man." he advised before stepping back.
"Yeah, okay." he nodded, clearing his throat to continue his speech. "truth is..."
The siblings traded looks and nodded, facing the press again "we are Iron Man and Iron Woman" they said together.
The coward went wild at that.
Later Artemis set in front of Clint at a dinner with Salt beside her "so they finally abbreviated the name huh" Artemis asked taking a drink of her coffee
"yeah" Clint replied "so you get a call from Grammy yet"
"no but I did hear from Jasmine but she just laughed the whole time" Artemis replied just as Coulson came and set beside Clint
"Fury's not happy with you" he said as the waitress came with their food and took Coulson's order.
Artemis shrugged "I was kind of tired of hiding in the shadows. I'm not saying that I don't love being Sparrow." she said "so I figure I'm not with SHIELD anymore"
"Actually Agent Carbonell, this could be a good thing" someone said from behind her. Artemis turned and saw Nick Fury standing there.