"Okay everyone, you are dismissed." Fury orders.
Tony's eyes shift to meet mine as a devious smile crosses over our faces.
"RACE YOU!" we shout in unison.
As soon as the words were out of our mouths, I bolted to the doorway. Opening the door into the hallway, I chose to slip to the side. On cue, Tony comes speeding down the hall: straight past me. I smirk, as this was part of the plan. I take off running down the hallway Stark ran down just moments before in search of the playboy. As Tony comes into view, an evil plan replaces my naive one thought of seconds ago. I see the man burst through an exit onto a giant landing pad of sorts, and seconds later I do the same. Seeing where the final destination is that I need to be heading, my slow jog turns to a speedy run. As he gets nearer and nearer to the aircraft we need to get on, I catch up to my competetion. When my footsteps get closer and closer, I switch out my footing to make it appear as if he is in the lead. Sneaking up behind him, I swing my leg out, knocking his feet out from under him. With no time to react, he tumbles to the pavement. He looks up, just in time to see me board the quinjet. He glares at me, and I return his gaze with a smirk.
"Cheater!" he yells.
"What were the rules?" I defend.
He mutters something, incomprehendible as he lifts himself from the ground.
I look around the aircraft in search of a seat, sitting in the far corner. A few moments later, the rest of the Avengers come strolling into the quinjet, trying to hold in their laughs at Tony-unsuccessfully. As the hatch closes, the remaining team members all take a seat. Although my attitude seems confident and a social-butterfly, but on the inside I'm insecure, closed off, and more often than not; depressed. I tend to get in a depressed, sulking mood quite a lot, but hopefully not many notice. I hate the feeling of being vulnrable.
"Arrival in t-minus three minutes." the pilot reports.
As said, the quinjet landed on the landing pad of the Avengers tower three minutes later. The hatch opens once again for us to exit and we all file out: me bringing up the rear. My eyes squint at the bright sun in the sky, surveying my surroundings. After all, I have no idea if I can even trust some of the people here. Even if they seem nice, I have a hard time trusting people.
"Ah, home sweet home." Tony smiles.
All of a sudden, a woman comes rushing up to Tony, eyes full of joy and a slight bit of anger. They join in a tight embrace and eventually come apart.
'SLAP!'
Without a warning, the woman promptly slaps Tony in the face, leaving a light bruise. I can't help it: I bust out laughing at the site. They all turn to look at me with looks of amusment, laughter, and irritation. (Can you guess who?)
"I've been calling you all day, where have you been?!" the woman demands.
"Calm down Pepper, we were just working some things out in SHIELD. We have a new team member actually." he stands back to let her look at me.
"I see..." she says, obviously embarrased at being caught fighting by a new person.
"Pepper, Lumina. Lumina, Pepper." Tony introduces.
"It's nice to meet you Pepper." I smile, but on the inside, I was terrified she wasn't going to like me.
"You too Lumina. Come inside you guys!" she grins.
I hear Tony let out a breath he was holding, now walking in the door. After following everyone indoors, my eyes wander the room, taking note of every detail I can possibly remember. The inside was very modern, with a touch of class to it. Really, I just wanted to board myself up in my room and practice my abilities, but I wanted to be polite.
"Okay, I can practically feel the excitement pooring off of you. So, you can go see your room now." Tony smirks.
"Where is it exactly?" I ask, trying to hide the excitement, but failing miserably.
"Have JARVIS direct you. JARVIS, direct Lumina to her suite please." Tony orders.
"Right away sir. Miss Moon, please step inside the elevator. From there I shall direct you, as to not disturb the other resdients." a British voice says.
"Okay then.." I reply, confused as to what exactly this 'JARVIS' is.
I make my way over to the elevator and the door shuts.
"Your suite is on the 48th floor Miss Moon." the voice says.
"Um, no offense, but what exactly are you?" I ask curiously, pressing the 48th button.
"I am JARVIS, an Artificial Intelligance, or AI if you will, made to help the Avengers in any way I can." JARVIS responds politely.
"Well, thank you JARVIS."
"For what Miss Moon?" he asked, confused.
"For helping me get to my room. I appreciate it." I reply.
"It is my pleasure." I swear, if he was a person, he would be smiling.
A small 'ding' notified me of my arrival and the doors open, revealing a hallway.
"Go down the hallway to your right, your room is number 5." JARVIS directs.
"Alright." I reply.
As I walk down the hallway, I notice that the security cameras are following me, watching me.
"Okay, can you stop that you guys, it's very uncomfortable!" I yell, looking straight into the camera lense.
On the other end of the cameras:
"Aw, what? You don't like being watched?" Tony chuckles.
Lumina rolls her eyes and approahces the door.
...
"You better not have cameras in my room, or I swear, I will string you up my your pinky-toes and beat you like a pinyata." I say, making my voice as eerily calm as possible. Ah, the wonders of scaring people shitless.
"Not one, I promise you." he responds over the intercom-thingy. (Whatever you want to call it)
Without giving myself time to get worked up about it, I throw open the door.
"Oh. My. God.."