This will probably be a longer chapter. Thanks for reading. Any ideas or questions you have, go ahead and ask me about them.
The Avengers followed Coral into the back room. This room was obviously the room where most of Coral's meetings took place. There was a desk at the end of the room, a long table to the right, and a small bar to the left.
Coral walked over to the bar. "You guys want a drink?" She asked.
"Do you have any scotch?" Tony asked, leaning onto the bar to get a better look at the drinks.
"We're not thirsty." Steve answered, glaring at Tony.
Tony stood back up.
"Ok then, that's your choice." Coral said, grabbing down a bottle and pouring herself a glass. She walked over to her desk and sat down on it.
"So, what were we here to talk about again?" Coral asked, taking a drink.
"My family." Clint growled.
"Oh yeah, right, you're family." Coral said. "What about them?"
"They went missing. Disappeared without a trace." Clint stated.
"Hmm. That seems like a job for the police." Coral said. "Unless," Coral quickly continued. "You want to know how to find them, or how they were found."
Clint couldn't even hide the surprise on his face.
"Oh come on, Hawkeye. You don't think I'm an idiot do you?" Coral asked. "If you have a family, you would try everything to keep them out of the records."
Clint didn't answer.
Coral stood up and walked to her chair behind the desk. "Unfortunately, if there's no record of them, then you can't track them." Coral said as she walked.
"See? I told you guys you this." Tony said.
The Avengers started to turn and walk away.
"Of course, that is the case, unless someone has figured out another way to track people down." Coral said, sitting down into her chair.
Clint glared at her. "You son of a bitch." He growled.
Coral smiled a mischievous smile. "I've been trying to crack this my whole life. A few months ago, I actually succeeded. Now, I have people all over come asking to use my machine." Coral said.
"Hold on, you cracked this before me?" Tony asked, incredulous.
"What's the matter Stark? Never been upstaged before?" Coral asked, smirking.
"That doesn't matter." Steve interrupted. "Take us to whatever you use to do this."
Coral stood up. "Here's a few reasons why I won't do that Captain. One, the machine I use is very fragile, and costs a lot of money to use." Coral said. She rubbed her fingers together, obviously wanting payment. "I don't let people use my machine without some form of payment."
Nobody had realized Clint had moved until he was holding a knife against Coral's throat.
"You listen to me right now. My family is missing, and you're the only person standing in my way. You want payment? How about I won't kill you if you show us the machine." Clint said angrily.
Coral pushed the knife away from her throat. "I guess that could be an acceptable form of payment." Coral said quickly.
"Good." Clint said. He put his knife away.
"Okay then. Where is it?" Steve asked, glancing at Clint, who was holding Lila again now.
Coral pointed to behind them. "On the wall next to the door is a button below the light switch. Press it, and a panel will slide open." Coral said.
Tony looked over at Coral while the other Avengers walked over to the door. "I'm curious. How were you able to build all of these secret passageways and other stuff into the building?" He asked.
"Wait, who told you about the secret passageways?" Coral asked.
"Wait, there's actual secret passageways in this building?" Tony asked.
"No, of course not." Coral quickly said. "What I meant to say was that if you hire the right contractor, and tell them you'll pay extra for extra things put in, then they'll do it."
"Really? Who's your contractor?" Tony asked, pulling a pen and paper out.
"Stark." Natasha said.
"Nevermind." Tony said, putting the pen and paper away.
Steve pushed the button on the wall cautiously. Sure enough, a small panel slid open to reveal a secret compartment. He looked inside. The only thing inside was a box. Steve pulled it out. Inside the box was a hard drive, some cables, and a dna scanner. "You're kidding, right?" Steve asked, pulling the stuff out of the box.
Coral eyes widened as he pulled the stuff out. "Be careful with that!" She shouted. She got up and took the box out of his hands. "This stuff is expensive." Coral said, taking the box back to her desk.
"It's just a bunch of useless junk though." Steve stated.
Coral looked up at him as she sat down and turned her computer on. "You need to get out more Captain. A lot's changed in the time you've been frozen." Coral said. She started plugging the wires into her computer.
"So this is the amazing technology that's going to find Clint's family?" Bruce asked, eyeing the cords suspiciously.
Coral nodded.
"So, how did you make this?" Tony asked.
"To make a long story short, I reprogrammed a mapping program on my computer, hacked into the Pentagon and downloaded every person's DNA onto this hard drive, then just bought a DNA scanner from a friend of mine." Coral said. "Easy."
"That doesn't sound very easy." Natasha whispered to Clint, who didn't answer.
"If it was so easy, then how come you didn't finish it sooner?" Bruce asked.
Coral finished hooking up the wires. "There we go. Now all we need is some DNA from your family, and voila! We can find where they are." Coral said, ignoring Bruce's question and looking up at them.
"Hold on, what do you mean, I need their DNA?" Clint asked, putting Lily down.
"It's a DNA tracker. Obviously you'd need their DNA to be able to track them." Coral said.
"I don't have any of their DNA with me." Clint said.
"Well then, I can't help you there. I don't have people's actual DNA on here." Coral said tapping the hard drive.
"Hold on, if you need their DNA to be able to use this, then how did someone find your family?" Natasha asked.
A loud crash of thunder came from outside. The Avengers all looked at each other.
"Is that who I think it is?" Tony asked.
The door opened behind them. They all turned to see Thor walk in.
"Loki has gone missing from the Asguard dungeons." Thor said as soon as he walked in.
Coral rolled her eyes. "I've really got to get a new security detail." She muttered.
"How'd you know we were here?" Natasha asked Thor.
"I asked Heimdall where you were, and he used the bi-frost to move me here." Thor said.
"Yes because that is a reasonable explanation." Coral said sarcastically.
"You said that Loki disappeared from your dungeons? How?" Steve asked, ignoring Coral's remark.
"Why don't you ask me yourself?" A voice came from behind them.
The Avengers spun around to see Loki standing in the door way.
"Did you miss me?" Loki asked.
"What are you doing here Loki?" Thor asked, pointing his hammer at Loki.
"Why don't you try guessing?" Loki asked, smiling.
Coral stood up behind them. "What is going on with my security today?" Coral asked aloud.
"Oh, you mean them?" Loki asked. He opened the door behind him. There were dozens of bodies lying in pools of blood behind him.
Coral stared at the bodies. "You son of a bitch." She muttered.
Loki closed the door behind him.
Something clicked inside of Clint's brain. "You took them." Clint said angrily.
"If you mean your family, than yes." Loki said.
"Where are they?" Clint asked, holding Lila's hand tightly.
"If I told you, than I wouldn't have as much fun." Loki said.
"I swear if anything happens to them-" Clint started to say.
"What? Are you going to kill me?" Loki asked.
"By the time I'm done, you'll wish that you were dead." Clint growled.
"Ooh. As scary as that sounds, I'm not here for you, or your daughter." Loki said. "I'm here for the DNA tracker."
"What do you need that for?" Bruce asked.
Loki didn't answer him.
"I'm not giving it to you." Coral said coldly.
"I'm not asking." Loki said.
The computer in front of Coral disappeared, than reappeared in Loki's hands.
"Exactly what I needed." Loki said. "Now, I'm leaving."
"I will not let you leave here with that Loki." Thor cautioned.
"Well, it's a good thing you're not leaving." Loki said.
Just as he said that, a voice blared above them "The building will self-destruct in two minutes."
Steve glared at Coral. "Out of all the things you had to put into your building, you had to put a self-destruct?"
Coral shrugged. "There's a lot of stuff here that I don't want other people to put their hands on. So hell yeah I put a self-destruct into my building." Coral said.
"Loki!" Thor shouted.
Loki was walking out the door.
Natasha ran to the doorway to stop Loki. As soon as she got there, gunfire started going off. She hit the floor hard.
Everyone ducked down as gunfire sprayed into the room. It stopped after a minute.
"He's trying to keep us in here, that way we'll go down with the building." Steve said, standing up.
"We have to get out of here." Clint said.
"Wait, didn't you say there were passageways in the building?" Tony asked Coral.
"Yeah." Coral said. She walked over to the bar and pulled out a bottle.
"Is this really the time for a drink?" Clint asked.
Coral dropped the bottle onto the floor, reached behind the bar, and pulled something. The bar moved to the side, revealing a passageway.
"Well, look at that, you didn't completely screw things up when you built this place." Clint said. He picked Lila up and walked into the passageway. Everyone else followed.
When they reached the end of the passageway, they climbed up a ladder and ended up on the road in the middle of Mystic.
"Do you think it's blown yet?" Nat asked when everyone was up.
A loud 'boom' sound and an explosion came from Coral's building.
"I'd say it has." Coral said.