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A/N This turned out longer than expected... but I did follow my notes!
"Miss Romanoff, Mr Barton, Mr Stark requests your presence on the communal floor." J.A.R.V.I.S. awakens me. I stretch, reply, "Tell him we'll be up in ten." And proceed to poke Clint awake, much to his annoyance. The whole time we're getting ready he grumbles about the only time Stark's awake before eleven is when he wants us to be awake too. I smile and drag him up with me.
Tony's set it up like a business meeting and its nice to see him doing something professional. But there's only six chairs. So it's an Avengers meeting. He, Bruce and Thor are there when we get there, so when Steve hurriedly arrives, we're complete.
"So," Tony begins, standing up. "You're all probably wondering why I got us together today. Well, last night I was thinking, no I shouldn't start like that. The other day I was talking to Natasha and it got me thinking, no that's not a good way either. I was thinking, anyway... I don't know how to give these speeches, it's usually Capsicles job, no that was not what I was thinking, I was thinking that we're not a team. We need to talk about who we are, what's happened since New York... stuff we should know about each other. I know some of you guys, *cough* assassins *cough* probably won't like sharing this stuff, but we need to do it. So I'll go first.
"My name's Tony Stark. My parents were killed in a car crash when I was young. I was looked after by this guy called Obidiah Stane. I inherited my father's weaponry business. Six years ago, I went to Afghanistan to demonstrate a new missile I'd designed, the Jericho missile. The demonstration went fine, and then I got in to this truck. And we got ambushed. I got shrapnel in my chest, and when I woke up in a cave there was an electromagnet hooked up to a car battery strapped to my chest. My captors wanted me to make them a Jericho missile. There was another guy in there... Yinsen... He translated everything and helped me build the first arc reactor, which allowed me to get rid of the car battery. Anyway, I agreed to build them that stupid missile and built the Mark I instead. Yinsen gave his life to make sure I got out of the cave. I got out and made the Mark II, as well as a new arc reactor. All this while Stane was building another suit, a bigger one, and one day he stole my arc reactor and used it to power his. Pepper made me keep my old reactor, and I used that to keep me alive. I ended up killing him and the next day I told the world I was Iron Man. The same day Fury visited me and told me about this initiative.
"The next thing that really happens was that I started dying of paladium poisoning. That was around the time I started the expo back up again. You guys know all about what happened that month, in Monaco, at my birthday party, it was all over the news. Except one thing. That Natasha was ordered to become my personal body guard.
"Then New York happened and you guys know all about that, you were there. Afterwards I had panic attacks and I couldn't sleep, ever, so I made more suits. And when it got to 42, the Mandarin attacks started, I gave him my address, my house got blown up and everyone thought I was dead. Basically I, well Pepper, killed the Mandarin, I blew up all my suits and got the rest of the shrapnel removed from my chest. I've built a couple more suits since then, but I can sleep now. I'd say I'm as okay as I'll ever be."
He sits down and looks at the rest of us, seeing who'll go next. So I do. I stand up. "Umm, as you know, my name now is Natasha Romanoff, but my birth name was Natalia Alianova Romanova. I was born in 1986, in Volograd in Russia. Two years later, my little sister was born. I had a perfect life with loving parents, from what I remember anyway, until I was six, when I thought my parents and sister died in a fire, and I was kidnapped by the firestarter, who was the leader of this... organisation called the Red Room. I guess you could say it was like a school to begin with. They taught us languages, how to remember things, how to assemble and disassemble guns and other weapons. They were heavy on the physical fitness side of things, making sure we were ready for the combat training that came later. Two years after I began that life I could speak fluent English. They gave us steroids to prep us for brainwashing, and to make us stronger. After the brainwashing though, I still had my memories if I thought about them hard enough.
"After that the full combat training began, and the lessons on how to kill people. When I was twelve I left the compound for the first time in six years. I got the information and received no punishment. It was at this time they started to kill the ones that failed. When I was fourteen I killed a man for the first time. By the time I was fifteen I was the only one in the black widow program who hadn't been killed, because we had to kill the others, to make sure we were strong enough. However, the next year I knew I had to get out of there. Either by dying or running away. I ran away two years later when I became a freelance assassin, doing jobs to earn money. Two years later Barton found me in a dark place, where I asked him to kill me, and he brought me in to S.H.I.E.L.D. A couple of months later I became an agent, and I thought I was doing good. Six years ago, Budapest happened and I'm not going to talk about it, because it will just end up with Clint and me arguing about what really happened. I worked for S.H.I.E.L.D. And did what they wanted me to do, including becoming Stark's PA. The Avengers happened. I, like Stark, have nightmares about it, but I'm used to it by now. About a month ago, I was asked to interrogate someone at S.H.I.E.L.D. And it turned out she was my sister who I thought had been dead for years. At the same time HYDRA rose up and shit, but Cap can tell you all about that."
I sit down and Cap takes that as his que to stand up. "I guess it's my turn now. My name is Steven Grant Rogers, I was born in 1918. As a kid, I had really bad heath problems and I got beat up a lot. My parents died when I was young too, my dad of mustard gas, my mother of TB. My best, and only, friend was named Bucky. I tried to sign up to go to fight in the war a lot and I got rejected a lot too. Finally I was accepted and I got to undergo a procedure invented by men named Abraham Erksine and Howard Stark. I became muscley and all my health problems were gone. But I was forced to do a load of shows instead of going off to war. I was performing for the actual army when I heard Buckys's unit had been captured. I ran off and rescued them all. Then I got to put together a team to take down the remaining HYDRA bases. Bucky died falling off a train when we captured one of the scientists. I thought he did any way. We defeated HYDRA, well almost did and I flew a plane in to ice to stop it blowing up the eastern seaboard. I was frozen for almost 70 years and everything's changed during that time. Avengers happened and I suppose that doesn't really effect me, it was just weird like the rest of the world. I started to get back in to the world and then HYDRA rose again, bringing Bucky with it. You guys saw the news. And that's it I suppose."
Steve sits down, and Thor stands up. "My name is Thor, son of Odin. I could tell you tales of how I grew up, but I'll start with when I arrived on earth for the first time. I was banished here by my father. Lady Jane of your planet found me and took me in. Loki visited me and told me that out father was dead. He sent the destroyer to destroy me, but I regained the power of Mjolnir and defeated it. Then I went back to Asgard. Loki tried to destroy Jodenheim and I had to destroy the BiFrost to stop him. And then he fell in to an abyss and I assumed him dead. The next time I came to earth, it was because of him, and as you call it, the battle of New York. Then I had to settle peace in the nine realms. Once peace was settled, I was talking to Heimdall and he told me he could no longer see Lady Jane. Once he could again, I came down to Midgard and brought her back to Asgard. She had one of the infinity stones, the Aether, inside of her, and it was the one that the Dark Elves wanted. They infiltrated Asgard and killed my mother, but did not get Lady Jane. We committed treason to get out of Asgard, and then we defeated the Dark Elves. I visited my father and turned down the throne, and I have lived on Midgard ever since."
Thor sits down and everyone looks between Bruce and Clint, so Bruce stands up. "I don't know what to say. I became the Hulk because I experimented with Gamma Radiation. But I don't remember anything when I'm the other guy, so there's nothing I can say. Before New York, I tried to find a cure, found there wasn't one and focused on helping people. After New York, I helped people. Nothing changed. I'm sorry about all your lives and I hope they get better."
So everyone looks at Clint. "Look, I don't share this stuff but you know, I sort of owe it to you since you shared it with me. I was born in Iowa. I had an older brother and two parents, my dad an abusive drunk and my mum a druggie. Their car got wrapped round a tree one night and Barney and I were shipped off to an orphanage. Quite a few years later we ran away to the circus, Carson Carnival of Traveling Wonders, actually and worked as roustabouts. I tried shooting one time and I became Hawkeye: Kid wondershot. Trained by Swordsman and Trickshot. I caught Swordsman robbing from the circus one night and he offered for me to join him. I rejected him, and he left with Barney.
Later, Trickshot asked me to join him in raiding a criminal named Marko. But I killed one of Marko's guards and ihe almost killed me. Turned out it was Barney. I left Trickshot and became a freelance Assassin/Circus shot. Then Coulson found me and I decided to work for S.H.I.E.L.D. I found Nat some years later and brought her in. A load of missions happened. Budapest happened and I became 80% deaf. After New York... I had nightmares about killing you, all of you, not being able to fight off Loki's control. I worked for S.H.I.E.L.D. like normal and here we are now with no S.H.I.E.L.D."
"Well thank you for participating in this meeting, fellow Avengers. Is there anything else you want to say?"
Everyone else shakes their heads so I stand up and say, "Clint and I have been dating since Budapest, six years ago bye." Then he and I make our way quickly to the elevator and leave. A successful business meeting I'd say.