Chapter 6: The Ancient Little Girl

Tony stark was good at finding information. It was kinda his thing. Nothing on the internet was safe from his prying eyes when it really came down to it. With the help of F.R.I.D.A.Y he could pretty much find anything. It wasn't necessarily legal, but technicalities am I right? I guess this was the reason he was so miffed that he was coming up with nil, squat, absolutely *censored* nothing. Who was this girl? No social media, no school records, not even a birth certificate. Of course she could be using a different name. Maybe that was it. But still! There should be at least one picture of her floating around on the internet!

Tony reclined back in his seat as he let F.R.I.D.A.Y continue running her search programs. He chuckled. Who needed Google when you had your own AI?

Maybe he needed a new angle, or at least a starting point. Thinking it over for a bit, an idea popped into his brain. That's it! He excitedly jumped up and ran to his interface and began typing. Old Cap had told him that'd he had seen Hazel while battling those robots from the other day. According to Clint, he had picked up the concussed Captain in a destroyed bakery. He had given him the address so that Stark could send a car to pick them up after the battle. All he needed was to hack the street cameras and viola! Movie of a little girl kicking butt from the comfort of his very own lab.

Tony gazed at the footage as it began. He started it a minute before the little bakery had been hit by the robot and Cap. His eyes moved from person to person walking down the street until… THERE! He saw her. The girl, Hazel was walking on the sidewalk just in front of the store windows carrying a coffee. She was relatively easy to pick out of the crowd with her curly hair. A moment after she entered the frame, the building exploded. Windows shattered. Dust and debris shot out and littered the streets as people ran from the fight, you know like any sane person would. All except one. The young girl shakily got up and watched the fight taking place in the now destroyed bakery.

Even from a shaky, static-ridden security camera located across the street, Tony could tell Steve was losing the fight. And apparently so could Steve's mystery girl. She held a large pipe and charged forward just as Steve began to get his can handed to him. Huh didn't Cap say she had a sword? Tony squinted and leaned in closer. For just a moment he could've sworn it flickered into just that: a sword. It was only for a second but Tony was sure he had seen it. Great. It's a magic sword, he thought. He hated magic. Give him science any day, but magic? No it was just too unpredictable and wild. And that's saying something coming from him. Technology was much more easy to handle to him.

He watched in awe as Hazel took down the robot with her sword/pipe (it was now flickering back and forth between forms as if it couldn't pick what form it wanted.)

Steve got up and seemed to be speaking to the girl from the looks of the video. They were only able to hold a short conversation before Clint came and interrupted. In the moment he took to climb over the rubble and for Steve to turn away from Little Miss Supposed to be Dead, she vanished. Just completely disappeared from the footage. Much to Tony's and video Steve's bafflement. Cap looked around furiously before being herded away from the scene by Clint.

"Now that was interesting. F.R.I.D.A.Y I have got to meet this girl!" Tony pushed away from his screen and tipped back in his chair. While it had been very interesting, it hadn't been as informative as he had hoped. While he now knew for sure Cap hadn't just imagined the whole thing, he had no idea where she had gone. I guess that idea was a bust, he thought dejectedly. Then F.R.I.D.A.Y interrupted his next thoughts.

"Sir, it would appear that the target reappears in the security footage."

Tony shot up at breakneck speeds, nearly tumbling from his chair. Sure enough she was back on the screen, seen walking away from the destruction. "Rewind back to where I stopped watching." The A.I. did as told and Tony watched in amazement as Sword Girl was suddenly just standing right where she had disappeared, as if she had been there the whole time.

It made no sense to Tony, until he remembered the magic sword. If this girl could make a sword look like a pipe, what was stopping her from making it look like she wasn't there? This kid had talent, he'd give her that, but even though she could make herself disappear, it wouldn't stop Tony Stark. Oh no, he was far too interested to just give up now.

"F.R.I.D.A.Y. I want you to run a facial search on that girl with every security camera in Manhattan you can get a hold of. I want to know the instant she sets foot on the island." He didn't know how long it would take, but Tony could be a surprisingly patient person.

Thank for reading my lil ol' fic. I promise this will be the last filler chapter! Sorry if there are any glaring errors I missed, or just bits that make zero sense. Writing on my phone sucks and autocorrect is both my friend and the bane of my existence! I love and read all of your comments so please tell me what you think and what you want to see! I'm thinking of wrapping this up in the next chapter or two so stay tuned.

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