Further appreciation to all those who have read and especially those who have reviewed my stories. Thank you all! This is a supplement to my ongoing Senshi Muyo storyline. If you have not read Senshi Muyo, please do so (And Enjoy!).

At the advice of the Law Firm of Hild, Tokimi, and Associates, I bring you the following disclaimer: I do not own either Oh My Goddess! or Marvel Comics... Or certain other copyright protected material herein. This story is for entertainment only and not for profit.

Hild Takes Manhattan: A Senshi Muyo Supplement

Part Five: No Good Deed...

"You need me Tony."

Stark blinked. "Pepper... Are you coming on to me?" He asked genuinely surprised. "Because if you are, either I need a drink or you've already had one too many.''

'Pepper' waved dismissively. "I've never felt better Tony." She paused. "It's you I'm worried about."

"Oh yeah? In what way?" He asked attempting to read her. Normally it was fairly a simple exercise to analyze her mood and opinions and therefore give himself the opportunity to either disarm or ignore her arguments about whatever she was choosing to argue about. Today she seemed impenetrable.

Of Pepper Potts many qualities, Hild could easily tell anyone that the woman was unerringly loyal, driven by integrity and honest to a fault. This meant that Pepper could never resort to deception to obtain her goals and she would fail miserably if she ever attempted to do so. Fortunately the Mistress of Niflhiem was more than capable of lying to achieve her objectives and with adeptness gained from millennia of practice.

"You're working yourself too hard again Tony."

He smiled with relief and started to assure her. "Pepper, I pro..."

She held up a hand. "Don't even try to tell me otherwise. You aren't as good at lying as you think... Not to me anyways."

Stark's eyes widened at her assertiveness. Well... If she actually thought that then maybe...

"Okay... I guess I have been down in the workshop a bit much lately. What do you ... What do you suggest?" He smiled that disarming smile of his.

"Take the night off...Heck! Take the rest of the week off Tony. The world will get on just fine... Stark Industries will get along just fine even if Tony Stark decides to not personally stand like Atlas carrying the world."

Tony blinked again. Pepper was being very assertive today. Perhaps he ought to humor her a bit.

"Well... Atlas hmmm?"

She nodded.

"Somehow... I never quite saw myself quite like that..."

"It's true enough though." Hild smiled as she picked up the bottle of Gin from his desk.

"I... " He focused on it like a schoolboy caught with a spitball. "I have no idea how that got there."

"Well." Hild smiled as she willed the tiniest curse into the bottle as she held it. "I suppose...If you promise to take at least a little time off... And I mean today... I suppose I can overlook it.

"Just this once." She warned holding a finger up.

"Just this once?" He repeated.

"Just this once."

"Well." He said smiling and relieving her of the bottle. "Can I offer you a drink?"

She held up her hands in protest. "No... I think... I think one of us still has to be here and I'm thinking... I'm thinking that probably needs to be me." She smiled feigning a tiny bit of nerves as she headed for the door. "I really need to get back to work... You know ... I could probably use an assistant. That would be a good idea... Well have a good night Tony."

"Good night Pepper." He smiled fondly.

Hild walked away with a smile and headed back towards Pepper's office. By chance she saw Carol Danvers walking in.

"Oh Carol! There you are!"

"Hi Pepper. You said Tony wanted to see me about something?"

"It's well... It's more like I was checking my notes and it looked like he had written something about that but he didn't elaborate about what When I asked he didn't seem to remember or maybe that he wasn't paying attention... Uh he's down in the workshop."

"Thanks Pepper." Carol said. Tony Stark... Billionaire genius. He can calculate figures just as good as Reed Richards but if they both didn't have keepers they'd both be completely lost!" Carol mused to herself.

"You're welcome." 'Pepper' nodded and shrugged the tolerant shrug of Tony's professional keeper as Carol passed her and headed to the workshop to see what Tony wanted.

Carol stepped curiously into the workshop. "Tony?"

Stark looked up from his glass surprised. "Carol! What brings you here?"

Pepper was right. He's completely forgotten whatever it was he wanted to see me about it looks like. "Pepper said you wanted to see me."

"Did she say about what?" Stark asked confused.

"No. She said you didn't say?"

"Oh well! It couldn't have been that important. I'm sure I'll remember it... Whatever it was." He smiled considering his glass.

"Care for a drink...?"

Hild smirked as she left Stark Tower. Danvers was just as incapable of turning down an open bottle as Stark. Thus both of them would get a sample of the curse Hild had placed on the bottle. Those two are in for the worst hangovers they've EVER had. The curse would make them both miserably sick to all but the smallest amounts of alcohol. Some might consider her methods cruel but it was worth the judgment to help Iron Man and Ms Marvel get clean.

See Kami? You can quibble about my methods all you want but I care about them too!

Presently she headed off to find Deadpool. He should be finished playing by now and I have work to do. Reuniting people one mutant at a time!

To Be Continued...