Artemis woke up just in time to see Rhodey fly off with the suit "Jarvis shut off everything expect the com and navigation system in the mark 2 suit" she ordered taking off her helmet
"Right away Miss Stark" Jarvis replied
Artemis limped over to her brother, who was coming to "I want Donuts" he said as Art helped him up.
Artemis was inside the empty donut shop at the counter while her brother was outside in the donut sign.
The suit was back into the belt and Artemis was rubbing her forehead while taking a sip of her large coffee.
"Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to exit the donut" she heard and looked up when her brother came in with Fury a minute later "oh joy just the person I want to see when I'm hungover" Artemis groaned as the two set at a booth.
Fury glared at her "Carbonell, do not get me started on your attitude" he said.
Artemis shrugged going back to nursing her hangover
"Fury, I told you, I don't want to join your super secret boy band."
"No, I remember, you do everything yourself."
Artemis felt someone sit next to her but ignored them as Natasha walked up to the booth
"We've secured the perimeter, but I don't think we should hold it for much longer."
"Huh." Tony's eyes became wider. "You're...Fired."
Artemis smirked "that's not up to you" Natasha said sitting down beside Fury
"Tony, I want you to meet Agent Natasha Romanov" Fury said smirking at Tony's face
"Hey" Tony said irritated
"I'm a SHIELD shadow once we knew you were ill, I was tasked to you by Director Fury" she explained.
"I suggest you apologize" Tony said
"You've been rather busy; you made your girl your CEO, you've given away all your stuff" Fury said pointing at the eldest sibling "You let your friend fly away with your suit" he said amazed "Now if I didn't know better"
"You don't know better, I didn't give it to him; he took it" Tony interrupted.
"Whoa, whoa…he took it? You're Ironman and he just took it?" Fury taunted "Little brother walked in there, kicked your ass and took your suit, is that possible?" he turned to Natasha at the last part
"Well according to Mr. Stark's database security guidelines there are redundancies to prevent unauthorized usage" Natasha said with a smirk on her face, she then stood up and walked away
"What do you want from me" Tony asked him
"What do we want from you? No, the question is; what do you want from me" Fury questioned "You two have become my problem, a problem I have to deal with and contrary to your belief you are not the center of my world…I have bigger problems in the Southwest region to deal with"
Artemis smirked still ignoring then person staring a hole into the side of her head.
Natasha walked back over to Tony and Fury "hit them" Fury ordered with a snap.
The person beside Artemis reacted fast and slammed her down onto the counter and jabbed a needle into her neck and released a substance.
Artemis groaned as someone check her neck and saw the lines retreat some
"Get the hell off me Felix" she growled moving her feet back to trip her.
Nikko fell back and Artemis stood up to fix her jacket as she glared at the mutant.
"Ugh! What are you gonna do steal my kidney and sell it?" Tony groaned "Can you not do a terrible thing for like ten minutes…what did you do to us" Tony blinked as the contents entered his blood stream.
Artemis didn't blink as much as her brother since she was used to being drugged and knew how to deal with it
"What did we do for you" Fury corrected him "Its Lithium dioxide; it'll take the edge off for now. We're trying to get you back to work"
"Give us a couple of boxes of that and we'll be right as rain." Artemis said perching herself on top of a booth seat behind her brother
"It's not a cure. Just abates the systems." Natasha denied.
"It's not gonna be an easy fix" Director Fury said looking down at Tony's neck to seeing the poison lines
"Trust me we know; We're good at this stuff. We've considered every combination or permutations of every known element as a replacement for the palladium core" Tony snapped at him
"Well I'm telling you, you haven't tried them all" Fury informed them.
Artemis set on the rail at the house with a glass of whiskey in her hand. Fury and Tony set in front of her in chairs
"That thing in your chest and your arm is based on unfinished technology" Fury informed them
"It was finished; it just has never been particularly effective until I miniaturized it and put it in my chest and into Artemis's arm" Tony snapped
"No, I would say the arc reactor was a stepping stone to something greater" Fury said leaning back in the chair. "It was gonna kick off an energy race that would dwarf the arms race. He was on to something big, so big that would make the nuclear reactor look like a triple A battery" Fury chuckled
"Just him?" Artemis began going to pour herself another drink "Or was Anton Vanko in this too?"
"Anton Vanko is the other side of that coin; Anton saw it as a way to get rich but when your father found out and he had him deported" Fury grabbed one of the drinks and began drinking it. "When the Russians found out he couldn't deliver they shipped his ass to Siberia and he spent twenty years under a rock in a drunken fueled rage; not exactly an environment you wanna raise a kid in…that was the son you two had the unfortunate experience of crossing paths with in Monaco"
"You told us we haven't tried everything, what do you mean we haven't tried everything, what else haven't we tried" Tony asked him.
"Howard said you two were the only ones with the means and knowledge to finish what he started" Fury shrugged
"He said that?" Tony said in disbelief that Howard Stark would say that about him.
"Yup, are you two them people" Fury questioned. "Are you, because if you are you can solve the riddle of your heart" he said leaning closer to Tony pointing at the arc reactor.
"I don't know where you got your information but he wasn't my biggest fan" Tony informed him remembering the years of fighting or just ignoring him.
"Plus, I acted out against him any chance I got" Artemis informed
Tony nodded at that knowing that was true, mainly because Artemis embraced her Italian heritage more than Tony.
"What do you two remember about your dad, hmm?" he asked
"He was cold, he was calculating; he never told me he loved me…he never told me he even liked me, so it's a little tough for me to digest that he told you the whole future was riding on me, Artemis maybe but not me, and he passing it down. I don't get that; we're talking about a guy who's happiest day was when he shipped me off to boarding school"
"That's not true" Fury said shaking his head
"Well clearly you knew my dad better than we did" Tony said in a sarcastic tone
"As a matter of fact I did; he was one of the founding members of SHIELD" Fury said as he looked down at his watch. "I've got a two o'clock, you're good right, and you got this right" he said pointing at the two gray cases being set down next to the siblings
"What, no" Tony said completely confused "Got what, what are we suppose to get" Tony stood up also.
"Natasha will remain a floater in Stark; with her cover intact, and Nikko will stay to keep you in line" Fury said slipping on his jacket.
Tony traded looks with his sister, Nikko Felix keep them in line; It's like Fury didn't know the mutant at all.
"You remember Agent Coulson right" Fury said motioning to the senior agent "Oh and Tony, Artemis, I got my eye on you" Fury stared them down before turning and leaving again.
Artemis rolled her eyes
"We've disabled communications; no contact with the outside world" Natasha informed them professionally "Good luck" she turned walking away
Tony turned to look at Coulson
"Please, first I need a little body work, I'll put a little time into the lab and if we could send one of your goon squad down for some coffee bean from Starbucks or something like that" Tony said as he walked to Coulson
"I'm not here for that, I've been authorized by Director Fury to use any force necessary to keep you on the premises; if you attempt to leave or play any games I will tase you and watch Super Nanny as you drool on the carpet, kay?"
"Hey, I did not build that thing so you can use it on me" Artemis pouted
"I think I got the idea" Tony said nodding.
"Enjoy your evening entertainment" Coulson smirked then walked off.
Artemis looked at one of the cases and was shocked to see one was labeled M. Carbonell
A little while later Tony was watching an old movie of their father along with looking through Howard's journal.
Artemis was looking through their mother's case, most of it was WWII stuff and some of SHIELD. Not only was Maria Carbonell Stark a founding member, she was also an agent.
"Tony, Artemis" Artemis head snapped to the screen hearing the remorse in her father's tone "You two are too young to understand this right now so I thought I'd put it on tape for you. I built this for you and someday you'll realize that its lot more than just people's inventions. It represents my life's work, this is the key to the future" the film ran over the original Expo model "I'm limited by the technology of my time, but one day you'll figure this out and when you do; you'll change the world. What is and always will be my greatest creation…is you two"
Artemis blinked back tears at that and Tony looked at her "feel like breaking out" he asked and Artemis shook her head while rubbing her eyes "I'm going to look over Mom's stuff" she said.
Tony nodded leaving the lab
Artemis was now at the bottom of the case where there was a file labeled Winter Soldier
Artemis frowned because there's no way Maria could know the Winter Solider, he was after her time.
She opened it and gasped, inside was papers about kills that were Winter Soldier's M.O. How was that possible Winter Soldier is close to her age and he's not a mutant.
She stopped when she came to a written letter
Artemis,
If you're reading this then I'm dead and you've probably meet Sweetcheeks already, every spy does. He was an old friend of mine that the was turned, made to forget his memories. I'm not going to tell you who it is just in case someone looks through this. But Arty just reunite them that's all I ask
sincerely,
Mom
Artemis frowned at that leave it to her mom to be cryptic and that both of them calls Winter Soldier a nickname.
Artemis looked up when the lab door open and Nikko appeared with Grammy and Jasmine.
Artemis put the file away and stood up to hug Grammy "I see the party got a little out of hand last night" Jasmine smiled
Artemis rolled her eyes pulling her godsister into a hug "where's your brother" Nikko asked
Artemis foreign innocents "he's not upstairs" she asked
Nikko gave her a look "I don't even know way Fury bothers, those two are like their parents, likes their freedom" Grammy said
Artemis smirked going back to the case
She pulled out a picture it was of Bucky and Maria hugging "I remember this" Nikko smirked taking it.
Grammy looked and smiled "yeah, those two were siblings in everything but blood" she said.
Nikko handed the picture to Jasmine "you mean after me and Maria threaten him" the mutant smirked.
Grammy nodded "yep"
"Plus if Bucky was still around Clinton would have multiple bullet holes in him" Grammy said
Artemis sighed she was wondering when one of them would bring up Hawkass "I don't want to talk about him now guys, I have more important things to figure out, like me not dying" she muttered
The four then began looking through the box when Artemis gasped "what" Jasmine said
Art pulled out a sea blue marble ball necklace "I remember this Mom always wore it when she was alive, I wondered where it went" she said
Grammy smiled "the Howling Commandos all chipped in and got that for her birthday"
Everyone looked up when they heard a car pull into the garage "Tony what's in your passenger seat" Artemis asked closing the case and walked over to the car.
Tony smiled as the four stopped and he hugged Grammy "The Expo model from the film" he answered
Nikko, Jasmine and the siblings began setting it up "why do you have this" Artemis asked once they were done.
Tony smirked "it holds the key to saving our lives" he said
The other two went to go sit on the couch leaving the siblings to theirs science.
"Jarvis, can you please Vac-U-Form a digital wire form. I need a maniputable projection." Tony ordered
"1974 Stark Expo model scan complete, Sir."
Tony grabbed the hologram and lifted it up, turning it around to place it in the middle of the room.
"Uh, how many buildings are there?" Artemis asked
"Am I to include the Belgian waffle stands?" Jarvis said. Grammy snorted at that leave it to the siblings to make AI's that are sassy
"You know what? It was a rhetorical question just show us." Tony then made the hologram spin. In mid-spin it went vertical in the air as the siblings brought some chairs over "Jarvis, Yinsen, what does that look like to you? Not unlike an atom." Tony asked
"An atom, Sir?" the AI questions
Artemis smirked at that
"In which case the nucleus would be here." Artemis stated pointing at the large globe in the center of model. "Highlight the Unisphere, please."
The globe in the center lit up an orange-ish color. Artemis spun her finger, making the globe turn, and then expanded her hands to make the globe larger.
"Loose the footpaths. Get rid of them." she ordered
"What is it you're trying to achieve, Sir, Miss?" Yinsen asked
"We're discovering, sorry, rediscovering a new element. I think." Tony responded
"Loose the landscaping, the shrubbery, the trees. Parking lots, exits, entrances. Structure the Protons and Neutrons using the pavilions as framework." Artemis put her hair up as Jarvis complied to her commands.
Tony clapped then threw his arms out expanding the atom
On the couch Grammy was smiling, separate the Stark sibling are a force to be reckoned with but together their unstoppable much like how their parents were.
"Been dead for almost twenty-five years and still taking us to school" he murmured.
Artemis smiled twisting around to look at each component. "Jarvis, run diagnostics similar to file AES-1" she ordered. Tony pulled the atom in smaller again staring at it in his hand with disbelief.
"This is a viable replacement for the palladium core" Artemis grinned wildly at Jarvis's words.
"Excellent" he murmured.
"Unfortunately it is impossible to synthesize" Yinsen informed them.
The siblings smirked, they can make anything possible as Dummy snapped his pinches ready to work "Get ready for a major remodel, fella's we're back in hardware mode" Tony said
Nikko was helping them as she slammed the sledge-hammer into the concrete "why did we deicide to let Nikko use the sledge-hammer" Artemis asked
Tony shrugged as they began building part of the particle accelerator "Nikko, where's Amber" Art asked
"With Wade" she responded
"Who's watching Wade" Tony asked
"Logan, Rogue and Gambit"
"I have a question, did Salt go with Grammy and Jaz to New York" Artemis asked.
"Yeah, so how well do you know Natasha" Tony asked
"She's my other partner, Hawkass flipped her a few years back" Art replied
"Yeah sometimes he regrets it when you two gang up on him" Nikko smirked
Art shrugged "He's the one dating Morse, when he knows me and Nata don't like her" she muttered
Tony rolled his eyes "why do you call him Hawkass" he wondered
Art smirked "his code name's Hawkeye and he has a really nice ass" she responded
Three days later the particle accelerator was just about finished when Coulson came in "I heard you broke the perimeter" he said
The siblings looked at him weird "yeah that was like three years ago, where you been" Tony commented
"I was doing some stuff." Coulson replied
"Yeah? Me too, and it worked. I'm playing for the team Coulson. You and all your Furry Freak Brothers. You gonna let me work or bust my balls?"
Artemis ignored them as she tried to find something to make the coil balance
"What is this doing here?"
Coulson lifted up a shield that was red, white and blue, with a half a star in the center
Artemis rolled her eyes hoping Coulson wouldn't started fanboying again
"That's it!"
"You know what this is?"
"It's exactly what I need to make this work!" Tony grabbed the shield.
Tony had Coulson lift the coil while he placed the shield under the coil. Then he measured it. "Perfectly level!"
Artemis snorted at Coulson's face, knowing he wants to taze Tony now.
"What" Tony asked looking at him strangely
"Nothing, goodbye; I've been reassigned. Director Fury wants me in New Mexico" he informed.
"The land of Enchantment" Tony replied
"So I heard" Coulson replied "We need you."
"More than you know." Tony snarked
"Not that much." Coulson walked out
Artemis followed him out "Hey Coulson" she said and Coulson stopped and looked at her "take Walsh with you, she needs the experience"
Coulson nodded
Artemis shredded her top leaving her in a sports bra as Tony walked over to the control panel and slipped a clear prism into the particle accelerator
"Initializing particle accelerator" Artemis stood next to Tony as he stood next to the wheel that would be used to synthesis the new element.
Tony slammed his hands down on the wheel turning it slowly as the energy hit the prism
"Approaching maximum power" Jarvis informed
Tony grabbed a large wrench he brought over with him and set it on top of the wheel to turn it.
He grunted in strain as the wheel barely moved
Artemis grabbed the wrench handle and began helping Tony move the wheel
The beam of energy passed over the wall burning into it.
"Whoops" he said nonchalantly as the turning got easier.
Artemis smirked as they moved the energy source toward the new arc reactor.
Sparks were flying from the energy cutting through the wall. As the energy went closer and closer to the center triangle of the new arc reactor it began to let out a loud whine.
The siblings turned it harder to assure it met right in the center. It glowed brighter and brighter causing Artemis smiled
Tony's arm lunged forward ending the process with a flick of a switch; the wrench clattered on the floor.
It shined brighter a second more before settling down within the small triangle.
The siblings went under the coils to get to the bright new element. They both stared at it a few minutes before Artemis grabbed some pliers to pick the element up with.
Artemis studied it with a small smile
"Congratulations…you have just created a new element" Jarvis said.
Artemis carefully placed the triangle into the new arc reactor it glowing brightly from the new energy.
"The reactor has accepted the modified core" Yinsen informed them as Tony stared closely at it.
"Let's do the other one" Tony smirked and Artemis hurried to set up the new reactor for herself as Jarvis began running test on the other one
So the next chapter is gonna take me long as I have to plan out how Artemis would fit in to the final battle or if I should have her going around destroying the droids. If you have any ideas feel free to tell me