Artemis smirked at the woman "hello Ms. Rushman, it's nice to meet you" she said keeping up appearances
"You too Ms. Stark" Natalie replied
They talked for a few then Art joined Pepper at a table "Hammer's looking for you" she said causing the ex-assassin to groan "dude can't take a hint" Artemis said "I'm this close to sicken Grammy on him" she held her index and thumb an inch apart
Pepper smiled at the girl who's like her sister "oh won't you give him a chance" she joked.
Artemis looked at her "I rather face Grammy when she's pissed" she said wincing.
Salt soon joined them "so have you figured out what Matt's hiding" Artemis asked
Salt shook her head "no, but I'm going to let him tell me when he's ready" she sighed.
Art shrugged "if it was me I'll force it out of him" she said
"we know" the other two said causing Art to smile
Salt then thought about how to approach the subject of Art getting over Clint but couldn't decide how.
Art glanced at Salt knowingly since she's been trying to figure out who gave her the advice.
Artemis suddenly went tense "why do I have a feeling my brother is doing something stupid" she said causing Pepper to look at the TV
"Artemis" she pointed and Artemis looked and groaned
"I'm going to see Happy to get my belt" the brunette muttered standing up.
Pepper called Natalie over.
"Natalie, where's Happy?"
"He's waiting outside."
"Okay, get him, I need Happy."
Artemis followed after her when someone with an arc reactor walked onto the track "Happy" she called seeing him.
The bodyguard looked at her "I need my belt" she said and Happy nodded going to the car and getting the device.
He handed to her and she placed it around her waist.
Happy then grabbed a suitcase and followed Natalie inside
She placed her right palm over the buckle, which was shaped like the inside of a sniper scope, making the suit unravel from the belt. The colors were the same but the purple was the more dominant color.
Once the suit was on her Artemis flew to where the man was and blasted him. The man hit her with the whip making her stagger "sorry pal, I only let current people whip me" Artemis said
"ARTEMIS LILLIAN" Tony yelled through the com link "I didn't need to know that" Artemis laughed at him
In the restaurant Salt heard the comment through the comlink she placed in her ear when Artemis left "Artemis is getting beat and she makes sex jokes" she said to Natalie since Pepper went with Happy.
Natalie rolled her eyes "she wouldn't be Artemis if she didn't" she comment. Salt sighed watching the fight and saw Artemis pull Tony out-of-the-way as Happy rammed the guy with the car.
Salt watched the fight as Tony joined as Iron Man. The man was winning for a while until the siblings coiled the whips around their arms and jerked the man towards them, then punched him in the stomach.
Salt winced since she's seen people punched by Artemis full force and adding an iron arm and Tony's punch, the man would be lucky not to be coughing up blood for a week
The man was done and Tony ripped the arc reactor from its harness on the mans chest, and the man fell to his knees. The crowd around them burst into cheers.
The man began laughing as the cops dragged him away. Artemis let the suit turn back into a belt and frowned knowing from experience that bad guys only laugh like that if they have a ulterior motive.
Artemis hung out in the restaurant as Tony went to go talk to the man in French prison.
Salt joined her "so" she began as Artemis looked at her. Salt didn't even wince at the bruise forming on Artemis cheek used to it by now "I'm not telling you who gave me the advice" Artemis told her.
Salt sighed at that "it's not that I'm not glad you took someone's advice about moving on from him, it's that I know you rarely only take certain people's advice and I know none of them gave you that kind of advice recently" she explained.
Artemis smirked then dropped it seeing Hammer coming towards her "Salt if you leave me here by myself, I will kill you" she hissed.
Salt looked confused just as Hammer joined them "Artemis honey" he said and Artemis held back a wince.
Salt sighed then glance at her starkphone as Hammer flirt with Artemis.
"Ms. Stark the new car is here to take us to the airport" she said and Artemis nodded standing up "sorry Justin maybe another time" she said then left with Salt trailing behind.
Artemis smiled when she walked outside and saw her fans but one little kid about 6 stood out among the rest. She walked over to him and smiled
"Bonjour" she said and the boy smiled at her "quel est votre nom" (what is your name)
"Tyson" he whispered, his yellow eyes wide amazed, and Artemis held back a smirk knowing this kid lives up to his name.
She then noticed his picture of the Iron Siblings standing back to back "voulez-vous que je signe cette" (would you like me to sign this)
Tyson nodded with a smiled and Artemis took the picture then signed it. Before she handed it back she discreetly took out a business card and slipped it into the boy hand along with the picture.
Tyson looked at the card 'XAVIER'S SCHOOL FOR GIFTED YOUNGESTERS' and looked back at Artemis. She winked and signed a few more pictures before she walked to the car where Salt, Pepper and Natalie were waiting patiently.
Happy drove off after Artemis got settled "that was nice of you" Salt said. Artemis smiled "I can do nice things sometimes" she whined causing Salt to roll her eyes.
The ride to the French Prison was filled with mindlessly chatter.
Tony got in and Artemis smirked "I'd always knew I have to pick you up at a prison some day" she said
Tony glared at her "and I always thought I'd have to help you hide a body someday" he snarked.
Artemis smirk became a grin "I have another friend for that" she said "but next time I'll ask you to help"
The siblings continued snarking each other as the three women watched on "are they always like this" Natalie asked.
The other two nodded "wait until you see them in their weekly fights" Pepper said with a smirk "it's fun to watch"
Natalie looked at them and began wondering if those two should be placed on a team with Clint or not. If Tony's anything like Artemis with pranks and revenge then SHIELD wouldn't stand a chance against those three. Artemis and Clint are bad enough, in fact some agents are still twitchy from when those two got revenge on them for a comment about Walsh.
Happy pulled into the airport where the plane was and they all boarded.
Once they were in the air Tony disappeared somewhere, Pepper was seething, Salt was talking to Natalie and Artemis was cleaning her fingernails with a pocket knife.
Artemis phone rang and she answered it "Yellow" she answered since only selected few have her personal number
"so I seen the fight on TV and was wondering if you at least made a sex joke about the whips" the woman on the other end asked.
Artemis smirked and started playing with her pocket knife "of course I did" she said
Nikko laughed "I taught you so well"
Artemis rolled her eyes "Nikko you were the bane of my parent's existed as I grew up, you got me hyper, cussed and other stuff then sent me back home" she said
Salt and Pepper snorted and Natalie hid a smirk, since it sounds just like Nikko, heavens knows Amber's going to be weird when she gets older.
The only sane one in that family is Rogue
"I know I would've done the same to Salt but Lily scares me" Nikko said.
"Grammy scares everyone" Artemis said and everyone agreed
On the other end Nikko smirked and peeked into the living room "anyway the real reason I'm calling is because Morse is at Lily's" she said
Artemis perked up at that and put the phone on speaker "are you serious" she asked
"Yeah, Clinton brought her to meet Lily and he was not aware of my visit or that Jaz is home"
The other three crowded around the phone "wait, Bobbi Morse is at my house when I'm not there, what the hell" Salt whined
"I think that was the point but I'm here, so it's a fair trade. She's only been here 5 minutes and Lily's around scaring her"
Artemis smiled "I love Grammy, I want to be like her at that age" she said and Salt nodded
Nikko peeked back into the living room and saw Jaz sitting in an arm chair glaring at Morse "Jaz is glaring at her and it's awesome so I got a go before they have all the fun"
"I want details later" Artemis said as she hung up
Artemis smiled "my godmother is awesome" she said
Pepper turned to Natalie
"that was Nikko Felix, a family friend and Grammy is Salt's grandma Lillian Steward but almost everyone calls her Grammy she's also Artemis's godmother" Pepper explained.
Nat nodded with a smile "and Morse" she asked.
"A blonde bitch" Salt muttered hoping to god that Morse won't be disrespectful to Grammy because Coulson can barely stop the fights between Carbonell and Morse now.
After they got home Artemis and Tony went down to the lab and Artemis shook her head to clear her dizziness and set down on the couch as Tony set in his hot rod interface
"Anton Vanko was a Russian Physicist who defected to the United Stated in 1963, however, he was accused of espionage and deported in 1967. His son, Ivan, who is also a physicist, was convicted of selling soviet-era weapons-grade plutonium to Pakistan and served 13 years in Kopeisk Prison. No further records exist.
Artemis shook her head again and walked up to the door just as Rhodey entered "hey bro" she said the went stumbling up the steps.
She waved to the three women talking on the couch and headed towards her room. She got there and walked towards her nightstand where an old style jewelry box set. Artemis set on her bed, laid her metal palm flat and went to change the core of the reactor.
She then grabbed the device that tested her blood toxicity "75%" she sighed and laid on her bed.
She laid down throwing a ball in the air as her phone rang "answer" she commanded not feeling like getting up.
Yinsen, who Artemis installed into the Malibu home at the beginning of the year, answered the phone "ARTEMIS LILLIAN STARK, WHAT THE HELL" Clint's voice rang in the room.
"What did I do" she asked not up for a talk that would probably be about Morse
"Why were Nikko and Jaz rude to Bobbi"
Artemis rolled her eyes "I don't know, think of who you're talking about, Nikko is rude to everybody and Jaz needs to get laid"
"Well they had no reason to be rude to her, she was polite to them"
Artemis growled "Ok I'm tired of all this talk about how polite Morse is" she began sitting up "you ever wonder why me, Nat and Salt hate her. It's because she's a rude bitch that can't handle not being one of the top three assassins at SHIELD, so she always a bitch to us, but when you're around she's so nice it's sickening."
Artemis stood up off her bed and walked towards her phone with her assassins glare
"Plus there's a reason she's dating you Clint beside the fact that you're hot. It's because she's knows I'VE BEEN IN LOVE WITH YOU FOR TWO YEARS" she screamed as tears welled up in her eyes
"Artemis" he whispered shocked
Artemis gave a watery chuckle as she picked up the phone "no don't you even dare say any of that cliché crap" she then hung up her phone and glanced at it.
She tighten her hand and cracked the screen. The screen lite up and showed a picture of Clint. Artemis glared then with a scream threw the phone against a wall breaking it.
She slid down the wall she was leaning against and brought her legs up to rest her forehead on her knees then began crying.
Down in the lab Tony was working "Sir, Miss Stark is crying in her room" Yinsen said. Tony looked up amazed "why" he asked "she just confessed her love to Agent Barton" Yinsen replied.
Tony ran out of his lab and up the stairs passing the three women who were still on the phone.
Natalie looked up the other two who just shook their heads knowing the siblings are going to have a sibling moment
Tony entered his sister room and saw Artemis huddled against a wall. He slowly walked to her since if he ran, Artemis would kill first talk later, since there's only five people that she lets see her like this.
He got on the floor beside her and put his arm around her to bring her to his chest. He rubbed her back and kissed the top of her head as she cried into his chest, although if anyone asked them about this moment they'd deny it. Pepper and Salt saw them like this once but they never brought it up
The next morning Artemis laid on her hammock in a bikini outside enjoying the sun as people were inside getting ready for Tony's party.
The siblings didn't talk about Artemis break down last night and Clint has called Salt all day as well as Artemis's back up phone, both of which Artemis ignored.
"Tony" she called seeing him pass the balcony.
Tony stopped and looked at her "Grammy's said she's not going to be here until late tonight, so we can expect her tomorrow" she said and Tony nodded.
Artemis went back to sunbathing and smirked when she heard Tony yell at a worker for checking her out. Sure Tony may not seem like it but he's overprotective of her sometimes mainly with men.
Artemis phone rang and she glanced at it "yeah Jaz" she answered
"Artemis don't hang up"
Artemis took the phone away from her ear and glared then hung up.
Inside Salt was looking over the cater list when her phone rang "Hello" she answered
"Salt why is Artemis ignoring me" the voice whined
Salt sighed "maybe because you're an idiot that needs to let her have some space" she said glancing outside to see Artemis torturing the poor workers by stretching.
The man sighed "okay, just tell her Fury's not giving me any missions until he feels Walsh is up to par. So she can call me whenever"
Salt frowned since she never heard Clint sound so defeated "I'll tell her, but Clint you have to understand Artemis never been good with emotions" she said
Clint rubbed his face "I know, I'll let you get back to work sis"
"Bye bro" she said then hung up.
That night Artemis was in her room looking for a dress to wear and decided on a simple purple strapless party dress and a black leather jacket. She had her haired curled and wore black ballet flats.
She walked downstairs and saw the party was already started
As the night went on Artemis was back to acting like her self pre-SHIELD aka a party slut that went against everything her dad said.
Artemis was halfway drunk but snapped out of it when Salt came over with a glare and dragged her away from the guy she was grinding against.
"Salt" Artemis said because it's take a lot to get her drunk so her speech wasn't slurred "your brother is in the Iron Man suit and being stupid, plus he was being mean to Pepper" Salt snapped "so get your shit together and go get your brother out of the suit."
Artemis imminently sobered up "come on" she said running back into the house. Artemis growled seeing Rhodey heading to the lab "shit Salt start trying to get people out" she said heading to the lab.
Salt nodded and left
Artemis got to the lab and saw Rhodey suiting up in the Mark II "Rhodey stop let me talk to Tony" Artemis said grabbing her belt off her desk.
Rhodey finished suiting up and looked at her "sorry Artemis, he's gone to far for a talk" he said then flung her to the side knowing Artemis can take hits like that.
Artemis stood up with a growl "ok that's it" she said putting her belt on and making her suit appear.
She ran up the stairs just as everyone cleared out and Tony and Rhodey started fighting with Another One Bites the Dust playing "really he could have chose a more badass song" .
Artemis sighed and blasted them "both of you knock it off" she said.
Rhodey blasted her and she flew out of the window "Hey I'm the only one allowed to throw her out of a window" Tony said hitting Rhodey.
Artemis flew up to the room as the two Iron Idiots fell through the floor to the living.
"Happy get Pepper and Salt out of here" Artemis ordered and Happy did as ordered. Artemis even saw Natalie run probably to call Fury
Tony, no matter how drunk he was, still managed to give Rhodey a beat down. He looked at the crowd cowering outside, and he roared. Everyone fled in terror.
Rhodey stood up and slammed the kitchen sink into Tony. He landed in the fire-place, an explosion following his face plant. He pulled out and raised his hand at Rhodey. Rhodey put his hand up too, both repulsors activating.
Artemis ran between then with her repulsors up "both of you stand down right now" she ordered using her recruit training voice
"You think you got what it takes to wear that suit?" Tony mocked Rhodey ignoring Artemis.
"Right about now, neither of us have what it takes." Artemis said knowing she's been acting stupid lately.
"She's right. We don't have to do this, Tony."
"You wanna be the War Machine, take your shot."
"Put them down!" Artemis snapped.
"You gonna take the shot?"
"Put it down!"
"NO!"
"DROP IT TONY!"
"TAKE IT!"
Artemis fired both repulsors causing a double explosion, knocking the men back and Artemis staggered and fell to the ground with a groan
I know Tony was a little oc in this chapter but Artemis is one of the only family members to actually pay attention to him and Artemis is his little sister so I figured Tony would be protective of her. Anyway for those that read Captain America's cousin the fourth chapter should be out soon. I also take ideas so if you have any either PM me or leave it in a review