ok back on track, time skip in the beginning and describing what happens. I really do want to know what you are thinking of this so far. If you have any questions don't be afraid to ask!
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The next morning Alisha woke up, said bye to the twins, and so started her 4 year 'vacation' up in the Alps. Everyone visited her as often as they could, with the exception of Tyler, Halder and Thor. She even got to know Mira, who always came with Steve and Susan.
Mira acted like her mother, strong and confidant but with more humility then most kids her age. She acted like a young lady even at the age of 3, but when she was alone with Alisha they goofed off like no other. They became quite close over 4 years and Alisha was happy to see the young girl grow. She always asked Mira about her horse Holmes, and Mira always said that she was taking good care of him.
She saw Lance very rarely because his training was long term, so after about 2 years they both decided to just stay good friends because they had grown apart and the long distance relationship just wasn't working out. When he did visit though, he would help her with her projects. They would also play pranks on his Father, little ones like dumping a bucket of water on his head or mixing his brandy with scotch. It was fun but they didn't do it as much as they would have during their younger years.
The twins came every weekend because of training with Natasha. Even if Natasha couldn't make it because of a mission, Tia would take over and drill them to her mother's specifications. After 4 years she was to the point that she could spar with the Black Widow herself and hold her own for a time before Natasha trolled her into the ground.
Tony and Pepper didn't visit her as much as Natasha and Clint with the twins, but when they did it was a prolonged stay for weeks. Most of the time he would call Alisha and talk to her for about 30 minutes getting updates on her and vice versa every day. Tony would make sure to take off the months of November, December, and January for the holidays. He also took a week off for her birthday and even St. Patrick's Day where he let her have a glass of any drink she wanted. It would mostly be a shot of something or a mix of Rum and Root Beer. He would also drop in unannounced 5 times a month in his suit so she had someone to spar with. She never put on the suit again without his permeation or his supervision and, thankfully, she never needed to for danger. With his help and the sparing with Natasha, she could hold her own against her Father, usually the matches ended in a draw but when she won; she never let him love it down. Jane had taken to recording each sparing match and both of them would never let him live it down; they had proof that his daughter was a good match for him.
On her birthday, almost everyone made it. It was ether Clint and Natasha, or Lance and Bruce who couldn't make it (with the exception of Thor and Halder). They came with simple gifts. Stuff that she couldn't get all the time like chocolate or home-made food. Susan always brought her a large helping of her lasagna that she had made the day before and frozen over night. Steve came with pictures of Holmes as he was growing up, and videos of the SHEILD meeting where her Dad and Bruce would be the ones interrupting for different reasons. He also brought some pictures of Tyler showing he was growing to look like his Father did now. Fury had assigned her own hover craft that was on the hover carrier and said that was it till she was 18 years old. Bruce brought her some updated psychology books and articles of new theories that had been discovered over the years. Her Dad and Mom brought her new cloths since she was growing out of the old ones and her Dad even got her some updated editions on her suit. Thor would send letters about once a month giving Jane an update on how he and Halder where doing.
It wasn't as bad as she thought it would be, living away from civilization. She enjoyed her alone time to think and invent new things for her friends and for her suit. She put her wings into the suit for more silent and stealth missions, if she ever had any. She also put some vibritioum on the arms of the suit so she could be able to protect herself with thoughts a little more. But being away from her family for 4 years had been taking its toll. She also thought she was going crazy, not only did she feel once person watching her but now she could feel two different feelings of being watched at different times. Like the normal protective watching, then there was an observation watching like a hunter watching for the weak link in the herd. She also missed being able to go outside and walk around, calling her friends and hanging with them, going over and spending the night at THEIR places instead of them always spending it here with her.
"Seriously Dad, just for my 18th birthday week, then I will come back up here. That's all I want for my birthday this year, to spend it with you and my friends down at sea level" Alisha pleaded. She had been developing cabin fever for the past 6 months and was at the point of begging her Father. "I will let you win some of our sparing matches."
"Hmmmmmmmmmm, very tempting Alisha" Tony said, you could tell he was smiling at the thought "But no, we don't know what will happen and I don't want to risk it." Tony said firmly over the phone.
"Alright how about just on the hover carrier? At a lower point and over that week slowly descend? You could keep track on me while we descend and then see if it's ok to be at sea level. We are going to have to do it eventually so why not now?! No time like the present." She said in a chipper voice. All she wanted was to see the city again.
Tony thought for a few Moments, thinking out loud until he finally agreed. "We will have to check with Fury but I think he will be ok with it. And if not we could just use something else." He said.
Alisha's smile was almost breaking her face; she was jumping up and down on her couch and punching the air in success. "Thanks Dad. So I will see you next week for the week trip?"
"Yes, but you will hear from me sooner than that. We are going to spend your birth week slowly going to sea level weather it's on the hover carrier or not. Love you Ali" He said with a smile.
"Love you to Daddy. And thanks" Alisha said before hanging up. Once the phone was on the table she screamed. Jane opened the door and smiled.
"Mission success?"
"Yup! After 3 months of trying to convince him I finally broke him down. Not that I don't love being here I just need to see the city again."
"I know, and I feel the same way. That is why I am going with you." Jane said smiling. "I will send a note to Thor, telling him."
"How are you going to do that?"
"Heimdall. He probably already knows." Jane said, looking up thoughtfully.
"Ah, yes him. Wish I could meet him and thank him for watching over us" Alisha said. At that Moment she felt the familiar feeling of the protective watcher, like he was saying you are welcome.
"Well, it's time for dinner. Let's have that last piece of Susan's Lasagna as a calibration feast" Jane said with a smile.
"Why Dr. Foster. You up and read my mind" Alisha smiled, taking out the food from the freezer and placing it in the oven to slowly heat up. They both ate the food with adoration and gusto and a week later where packed and ready to go. Alisha had a few extra things with her, color coded backpacks for her friends. They where the wings she had finally finished and tested. She was planning to give the packs to her friends during her birthday dinner. The gold one was hers, green for Lance, black for Tia, purple for Tera, red for Halder, and blue for Tyler.
"Sooooooooo, what are these?" Tony asked, picking them up. He could practically pick it up with one hand it was so light.
"Something for my team." Alisha said, packing them away.
"What, nothing for me? Now I am underwhelmed."
"Just wait till you see them in action." Alisha smiled.
Tony looked more closely and sighed. "So that's where all my vibridioum went. Thanks for telling me Alisha."
"You're welcome." She said placing her personals bag near her seat. "Off to the hover carrier!" she yelled, sitting in the copilots seat. She looked over to the pilot and was happily surprised to find Clint sitting in it.
"So birthday girl, what do you want to do?" Clint asked, giving her the headphones.
"I would like to fly this craft to its destination."
"And so you shall. Let's see how good you have gotten with flying" Clint said as he saw her Iron Maiden suit being placed onto the side compartment.
"Ok, any maneuvers we will be flying today?" She asked, flipping a few switches, turning the controls over to her side.
"Nope, just get us there. The coordinates are already in the system. It's all up to you. This is your final test Alisha, good luck" Clint said, leaning back and putting some sunglasses on, ready to fall asleep.
"I I cap." She said, turning the engines on. Once her Dad, Mom, and Jane where in and seated, she took off.
"Hay Merida, why aren't you paying attention to where we are going?" Tony said from behind him.
"Because this is Alisha's last test. I can't help her at all." Clint said in a relaxed voice. "I have the utmost confidence in her, after all when Natasha was here I came as well. Taught her more advanced maneuvers and how the navigation system works."
"Yah Dad, sit back and enjoy the ride" She said, jerking the craft so Tony was sent back into his seat. "And no canoodling in the back or you are flying by yourself" She said pointing back to her Dad. Tony glowered at her and slumped into his seat.
It turns out that the hover carrier was not too far off, only over Italy. Alisha landed the craft fairly well. A little bumpy at first but nice and easy so not to brake anything. She looked over and Clint who was fast asleep.
She looked back at her Father and smiled. He winked at her. She turned back around and pressed a red button. Lights and sirens where going off like mad. Clint jumped and then unbuckled his seat. He grabbed a parachute and tossed one to everyone else. He opened the back and did a face-palm.
"April fools!" She sang behind him, picking up her luggage and some of the backpacks.
"Alisha, that was unclad for. You nearly gave me a heart attack!" Clint yelled.
"Well she is a Stark; I would be surprised if she hadn't taken advantage of the situation. Besides, it serves you right for falling asleep in the pilot seat" Natasha said, coming around the corner. She smiled at Alisha and even gave her a small hug. "Welcome to SHEILD headquarters."
"Thanks, where are the twins?"
"The where on a recon mission last I heard. They will be back soon, but Lance and Bruce are here already." She said seeing Alisha's disappointed look.
Natasha told her that they were in the lab and gave her directions to where it was. Alisha thanked her and went off as Natasha and Jane started talking. For some reason Jane squealed and was jumping for joy after Natasha had told her something.
It was very warm inside the carrier so Alisha decided to get changed. She went into the girls restroom and got changed into a short light green skirt with jeans that where skin tight. She had on knee high black conies with glow in the dark laces and she had on a gold tank top with a jeans vest. She also had dark green gloves with the fingers clipped off. As she came out of the restroom she bumped into someone, the coalition sent her to the ground.
"Oh, sorry. I didn't see…you" She said looking up at a tall bright blond haired man. His hair was down to his shoulders and he had a fuzzy goatee that was light brown. His eyes where brown as well and he was smiling.
"Small as always I see. I didn't see you all the way down there" The man said in a light sarcastic tone of voice, offering his hand to her.
Alisha gasped, and then smiled. "HALDER!" She squealed, excepting his hand and then jumping up to hug him.
Halder smiled and held her hesitantly. He didn't want to hurt her. "Ay, tis me" He said, almost sounding like is Father.
"Wow did you grow, you look major fly!" She said as he put her down. He had definitely gotten more buff while training on Asguard. He also had a couple of nasty scars on his face. He was in normal jeans and a T-shirt.
"You grew too. I almost thought you were a fair maiden…almost" he said jokingly.
Alisha shook her head. "Still joking around as ever. Well even if you are a bad prankster without your leader I am glad to see you. I was just going to go see Lance in the lab. Want to join me?"
"Yes I was heading there as well, but I lost my way. This carrier is like the maze I had to get thru to pass one of my tests, but without all the monsters and traps." He said, following Alisha.
He truly had grown buff and tall. He was two heads taller than her and three times as wide. She smiled as he regaled her with his adventures. They both entered the lab to be met with a smiling Lance and a, as always, laid back Bruce.
"Hay Lance. Man you have grown as well. I need to get back here and just spend a year with everyone. After I finish that is just what I will do." Hal said, embracing Lance in a strong hug.
Lance did the same, a strained face on as he was nearly crushed. "Thanks, I almost thought you where you're Father. It's the goatee that gives it away, not the same color."
"Yah I have gotten that a lot since coming here. Oh and by the way, happy birthday Alisha. For all the birthday's I have missed" Halder said, smiling and pulling out a small present. Alisha opened it sighed. A small spider on a necklace was in the box. "For old time's" Halder shrugged.
"Well at least it didn't jump out at me this time." Alisha said as she took the spider off and placed it on her charm bracelet.
"I was not going for scaring this time, just for a creative apology" Halder said with a smile.
"Why you apologizing bro. You didn't do anything to her yet. You just got here, and I hope you are willing to share. She looks cute from behind." came the smooth voice of Tyler.
Lance snickered and placed his head on the table, trying not to burst out laughing. "You just opened a can of worms my friend" He said to Tyler.
Alisha turned around and smiled and Tyler. She was almost taken aback because he didn't look like the baby faced boy she knew all thoughts years ago. He was tall, though not as tall as Halder, with lean muscles that just made your heart stop. But Alisha didn't show her emotions just smiled and said "Thanks for the complement. You have definitely grown bolder since I last saw you, 7 years ago."
Tyler looked her up and down with a surprised face, and then smiled his cheeky grin. "Well if it isn't the little Stark child, was it your birthday we were celebrating. I had almost forgotten you were still alive. I would have thought you had frozen to death up in the Alps."
"Tyler, shut up. This is not the time for bad mouthing." Lance said, glaring at Ty.
"Just like old times" Alisha said, rolling her eyes and sitting next to Lance. Halder and Tyler embraced each other and talked. They also arm wrestled, Halder wining but Ty still putting in an effort.
She had hoped that Tyler would have grown up by now, but obviously not. "Hi Alisha, happy birthday" She heard from behind her. Alisha turned around and smiled. Mira was there with a card and a smile.
"Awwww thanks hun. Did you make this" She asked, kneeling down to Mira's level and taking the card she was offering.
"Yah, I spent all last night doing it" She said proudly.
"Awwww, that's so sweet. I will open it when I open the rest of my gifts ok?"
"Ok, want to go exploring with me?" Mira asked eagerly.
"After we meet up with everyone I will definitely go exploring with you" Alisha smiled.
Mira had on a yellow sun dress and black leggings with pink shoes. Her blond hair was in curls down to the middle of her back, her eyes shining with curiosity.
"Hay Iron Maiden. How are you doing now that you are with people again?"
"I am doing very well Mr. Rogers. I am thankfully out of my gilded cage and with better and more relaxed company." She said going over to Steve and shaking his hand. She could see Tyler rolling his eyes but saying nothing. Tony, Susan, Pepper, Natasha, Clint, Thor, Jane, and the twins following behind him.
"All right everyone now that we are all here, let's get this little shindig going. We will be descending at a slow rate for the next five days until we get to New York. Then you make your own decent to ground level." Director Fury said to the group as Alisha and the twins embraced. "The party will be taken outside as requested from the birthday girl herself, follow me. We have made sure that there will be little to no turbulence."
Everyone followed him, Alisha and Tyler being the last. Alisha looked at Tyler and smiled. "Besides the fact that we really don't like each other, I would say you are looking good these days" She said with a smile, and with that she was out the door, leaving a flabbergasted Tyler behind to catch up.
Hmmmmmmmmmm, they are going outside, on the carrier, in the middle of the sky. Hmmmmmm ya cant see anything going wrong ;D. What cha think so far everyone? Please review
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