A/N: sorry this is a little late, I really have no excuse.

Disclaimer: do you think I'd be here if I owned marvel?

He was ill.

Her father was ill. And that wasn't even the worst part. He was dying, the very thing that kept him alive was slowly killing him. She had suffered enough when he was lost in Afghanistan, she didn't want to think about what she would do if he died.

She ran away from the workshop as fast as she could without making too much noise. She wanted to cry, but her eyes wouldn't allow it, they were as dry as they had been for years.

She decided to do the only thing she had ever done when her eyes wouldn't allow her to cry.

She suited up.

It felt brilliant to feel the wind on her face, to jump from roof to roof, no one ever knowing she was there. Sometimes she even used her powers to give her an extra boost, so she could jump higher run faster.

The next roof was rather far, so she took out her sword and jumped until she could jam the blade between 2 bricks, sometimes her training really did come of use.

She climbed to the roof of the building and sat on the tiles, like she used to do as a child.

"Come on O!" Sam had called down to her, the excitement in the 6year olds voice was evident. Be never did call her oracle.

She carried on climbing to the roof, master would kill her if he knew what she was doing, but she didn't want to seem like a wuss.

When she reached the top she had no idea what was so special, you could see the lake, and the forest, and the training pitch but it was no different to what she saw everyday, just this time she was higher up. She didn't like being higher up, she decided.

"Sam it's too high" she whined. She was terribly annoying when she got frightened.

They climbed down carefully, checking holds again and again so that they didn't fall.

The next morning, the master wanted to test her with heights so she spent all day scaling a 90 ft wall without a harness. She never did find out how master knew of her fear.

The next morning she walked into the gym to see her dad trying to beat the hell out of Happy, she didn't know who she felt worse for:Happy for being punched, or her father for punching so weak.

She saw pepper and another woman sat on the chairs that had been put in the corner of the room in case anyone wanted to watch Tony or her train.

"Who's she?" Orna asked to no one in particular. She was sure she had seen the woman somewhere.

"Orna, this is Natalie my new assistant."
Pepper answered as if it was obvious.

"Since when do you need an assistant?" Orna asked "you'll just go along behind her doing everything again"

Pepper gave her a cool look before Tonydragged Natalie to the ring to punch Happy. She continued to watch the woman while her father and Pepper talkeduntil she brought Happy to the ground. Orna was sure only assassins new that move, but she
could be wrong.

"OH MY GOD!" Pepper screamed while Tony just laughed.

"Happy!" Pepper cried obviously concerned with the drivers welfare.

She took her fathers finger print and asked "will that be all Mr Stark?"

Pepper cut in at this point and said "yes that will be all miss Rushman"

She started to walk away until Orna called "WAIT"

The red haired woman turned with her eyebrows raised, as did her father, Pepper and Happy.

"Wanna spar?" She asked the woman. There was a challenge in her eyes, she hadn't had a real challenge in years.

Natalie nodded slowly.

it was a long fight.

Every kick Orna threw would be blocked, every punch Natalie threw would be caught and thrown back, but Orna had an advantage, she could feed her self energy.

She had discovered she could do this when she was 10 years old, she figured if she could turn her power into anything, she could turn into things you couldn't see like energy or thoughts or feelings, it was how she could see the future.

She fed herself energy and she could feel the other woman beginning to tire, that's when she started to slip up.

They were extremely tiny, so she was obviously well trained, but she was certainly not used to getting tired. Her hand wouldn't come straight back to her chin after a punch allowing Orna to throw in a couple punches, she dropped her guard slightly when
she kicked so Orna could throw in a round kick, she lost strength to put in her blocks when so she stumbled, and she got repetitive.

After she started the same combination she had just done, Orna was able to catch her kick and floor her.

She had won, and ultimately made a new friend in the process.

Natasha was shocked.

It had been years since she got a challenge like that, let alone got her arsehanded to her on a silver plate. The girl was incredible.

Fury and Coulson had debriefed her on the girls background, she came from a similar situation to Natasha herself, but she seemed to be better.

She had taken strategies Natasha had used for years and unraveled them within seconds, she fought with never ending speed and power, and she seemed to calculate every move her opponent made. She would be brilliant to fight beside. But she didn't really
want to have to fight against her ever again.

The next morning the Starks, Pepper, Natalie and Happy left for Monaco, where Tony had sponsors in the race and could do some business about the expo while he was there.

Orna knew something was bound to go wrong, and she wanted to stay out of it for as long as she could.

A/N: Orna beat Natalie/Natasha! This should hopefully give you some idea about how good Orna really is, and that they will hopefully become good friends, fingers crossed!

I really hope your enjoying reading this as much as I am writing this, I know Imay not be the best writer but that doesn't make it any less fun.