Guess what, over 4,000 words in this chapter. Ug my fingers feel like they are going to fall off. But it is all worth it in the end. So Alisha is heading to the Rogers horse ranch. Wonder what will happen when Alisha and Tyler are under the same roof for an extended amount of time. Probably not what you think but you will have to read to find out! Have fun!
I do not onw the Avengers team they belong to marvel and Stan Lee (God bless him)
"I am really nervous about this month Clint. I mean I know I am going to be at their house and I know Tyler won't try anything stupid while his Father is watching but…I am just nervous" Alisha said as she clicked on a darker layering to the window as she sun shone through.
"I know what you mean, but I had the pleasure of transporting Tiana to the hover carrier today and she didn't say anything about Tyler. That's always a good thing" Clint said as he leveled the craft out after they had taken off.
"If he tries anything, you are to call me right away. Understand young lady" Tony said from the back as he looked out into the sky ahead.
"I think I will tell Steve first then tell you when you pick me up so you don't make a nuisance of yourself" Alisha said, brushing her father off.
Tony sighed and went back to sit down. Pepper had decided to not come under the argument that 'Alisha is a big girl and can take care of herself. If you baby her to much she will begin to shun you'. He sat down in a huff, maybe Pepper was right.
Alisha's phone rang then. "Hello...Oh hey Mom…Yah I am fine…Yah Dad is here…Yes he is being annoying but he pulled back surprisingly…Yah I am safe and had a lot of fun with Lance…Ok love you too Mom"
"You know you can go to Steve if anything happens." Clint stated heading a bit West, Southwest.
"Yah, I know. I will if I don't feel comfortable. Hopefully he has learned from last time" She said balling her hands into fists, thinking of when Tyler last pulled something on her birthday.
Clint rolled his eyes and fell silent.
After 45 minutes in the air they touched down in the large backyard of the Rogers family house.
"Welcome back Alisha. It's been to long" Susan said. She went over to Alisha and gave her a big, welcoming hug. Steve shook her hand then, surprising her, gave her a hug as well.
"It's only been 2 months. Not long at all. So where are Tyler and Mira?"
"They are out taking care of their horse and colt. As you know one of our mares died and we just recently adopted another one. The previous owner didn't know she was pregnant. We told them and offered to give the colt back, but the guy said that we could keep him if we wanted. Mira wanted a horse of her own so we gave him to her. She takes care of him and Holmes every morning and evening. You will never guess what his name is" Steve said, walking into the medium sized two story house with her bags.
"Hmmmmmmm, Al, in memory of me?"
"No but close. She has named him…Stark" He said rolling his eyes. "She named him Stark because that was your last name. She actually wanted to name him Alisha, but we said no."
"Oh boy, imagine what type of horse he would be with a girly name like Alisha" She said sarcastically.
"Your suit and other things are in the barn. I don't want you spending all your time there ok? I will allow it because everyone needs a sanctuary now and then. But remember why you are here."
"To settle the differences and the grudge me and Tyler have" She sighed. Her bedroom was on the top floor across the hall from Mira's. Tyler had the basement and Susan and Steve had a bedroom on the main floor. It was a nice cozy house for four, even five. It felt homey and worn into.
"I really like this place, it feels welcoming"
"Thank you Alisha. I designed it myself. Oh and both your bedroom and Mira's have trap doors that lead to the attic. It used to be Tyler's before he needed space, he moved down to the basement 3 years ago when he started really growing."
Alisha had never actually spent the night here. She was too young to be left alone when she had the opportunities, and as she grew up she wanted to spend as little time with Tyler as possible.
"Alisha! You're here!"
"Mira! Yes I am here and am going to be sharing the upstairs with you! Thank goodness school is almost over for you" Alisha said as Mira ran over to her and jumped into her arms. "Wow, have you grown in the last 2 months. You seem taller. Or maybe I am shrinking. I hope it's the first one because I am to short as it is."
"No I have grown about an inch!"
"Wow, an inch?! Now that is impressive."
"Yah, it is impressive." Tyler said from the back door. He had on a guy's blue tank top, black jeans, and an actual cowboy hat.
"Wow, you can pull of any look now can you" She said. It was hard not to stare at his biceps and triceps. They even glistened with light mist from the morning. She stopped looking at his arms then turned her attention back to him in general.
He stood there for a few moments, and then walked over to her. He took the bag she had been holding, another one from his father, and walked up the stairs with it.
"Thanks, I guess. But you didn't have to do that I could have done it myself." Alisha said as she followed him and took her serum case.
"I wanted to help, at least a little" Tyler said, not making eye contact.
"Thanks I really do appreciate it. Now I just have one question." She said with a smile.
"Ok shoot."
"Who the hell are you and what have you done with Tyler Rogers" She commanded softly, staring at him and pointing her finger at his chest.
"I am Tyler Rogers and I have done nothing to myself if you must know, well lately." He said with a smile.
Alisha's face contorted a bit at the remark. "Yah it's you. I really didn't need to know that by the way."
"Well, you asked" He said, opening the door for her with a half smile.
Alisha looked at him, still very confused, then before stepping into the room she scanned for any trip wires, buckets on the ceiling, and anything something glistening on the floor.
"I haven't booby trapped your room Alisha. Contrary to belief I have changed a bit in the past 2 months, thanks in part to Tia and Tera. They helped out a lot."
"Put you thru the ringer did they?" She asked as she unpacked her other bags as Steve and Clint brought them up for her. "I will have to thank them profusely by having them come with my when I finish my next project" She said as she pulled out the blue prints of her small time travel device.
"Well…in a matter of speaking. It was more along the lines of talking and discussing" Tyler said as he helped as much as he could, before giving up and just sitting on the floor. Alisha emptied all her bags but the one she had made on Asguard.
She had a full sized bed with red covers and white blankets. She had a wood desk to the right, a night stand to the left, a closet where she was hanging her jackets and more showy clothing, and a dresser with a mirror that flipped.
"What's in that one?" Tyler asked, pointing to the Asguard bag.
"My Asguardian clothes and gifts. I really don't want to pull them out because they are a bit to flashy for my tastes."
"What kind of gifts?"
"Clothing, some shoes, and a shield and sword" She stated, placing her bags under her bed and then sitting down in the comfy desk chair. Her charm bracelet jingling quietly on her left wrist.
"Really?! Weapons?! Well I feel kinda jealous." He said, folding his arms in front of him.
"Ok this is too much. What did your Dad, or my Dad, do to convince you to be this nice to me?! Or was it Tia and Tera?" she asked. She didn't want to be treated differently if other people where forcing him to. She did enjoy not being put down by him, but she didn't like other people to force others to do anything they didn't want to do.
"I swear I am just being myself. Can't I have a good conversation with an old friend?!" Tyler said in an annoyed and defensive voice.
"I hate to break it to you Tyler, but the way you have treated me in the past has been…well…let's just say that's not particularly how friends treat each other on a regular basis."
"Whatever" Tyler said, getting up and heading out the door.
After hearing the door to the basement close, Alisha gathered her blue prints and headed down as well. "Um Steve, would it be ok if I go to the barn and work on something for a while. I haven't been able to tinker in the last 2 months and I would really like to get my project at least built soon."
"Was Tyler being mean to you again" Steve asked.
It seemed to Alisha that everyone was on edge about her and Tyler being under the same roof for an extended amount of time. "No he wasn't. In fact, he was really nice. He just wanted to talk to me but I guess I frustrate everyone at some point."
"Well, you are your Father's daughter. Are you sure he didn't do or say anything?"
Alisha was getting a little annoyed at this. "Did my father threaten him? Is that why he is being so nice? Or did someone convince him against his will to be nice to me. Because if that is the case I really don't want that. It is nice to have him be nice to me for a change but it's still wrong to force someone to do something or act in some way unlike themselves."
"No I am positive that he has not been threatened or anything like that to act nice to you. That's why I am asking if he was a bit harsh with you. It's very strange and a bit unlike him. Maybe he has gotten out of the hole 'bully Alisha' stage." Steve confessed in a hushed tone.
"I agree, but I am glad he is acting of his own accord. Sooooooooo, can I go?"
Steve paused for a moment, weighing the options. "Yes you can, but come back in when lunch is ready. You can go back out depending what you are in the middle of."
"What do you mean?"
"I have worked with your father enough to know that there are steps you have to take when tinkering with anything. Just try not to blow up the barn and everything with it."
"I promise. And if that does happen I will come running into the house screaming bloody-murder." Alisha said as she ran back upstairs to get her shield and sword and then headed out to the barn.
She stepped in through the front and took a right, passing the family horses. She stopped at Holmes's stall.
"Hey buddy. Long time no see. How have you been" she said reaching her hand out, letting her horse come to her. He felt along her palm with his lips and then extended them to her shoulder where her hair was. He then though it would be a good idea to pull on a lock of her hair, making her head jerk. "Ha ha very funny Holmes." She said pulling on his harness and dislodging her hair from his lips. He was a soft pepper color with a brownish glint to it hair. His main was black with gray streeks. He seemed like an Arabian mixed with a Clydesdale but one could never tell when you bought them from an animal shelter.
She brushed her hands over his snout and up his face as he slowly stuck his head out and brushed his lips over her cheek. She extracted half an apple from a place near his stall and offered it to him before she resumed stroking his long face.
After he had finished munching, she kissed him on the snout and walked down to the end. The end right stall had been tricked out into her own personal work room. It was extended into the next stall so she had plenty of room to work. She inhaled the smell of animal and metal and tools and smiled.
3 hours later, and a lot of noise, she had her shield installed into the left wrist part and her sword in a pocket under the vibridium, programmed to pop out so she could use it. She had broken the shield into 1/6ths and then welded them back together so it could fold out into her arm and then unfold into the solid shield. She was very proud of her work. She was about to get in her suit and test it when a phone rang from the opposite wall of the barn. She walked over to it and answered "Rogers's family horse barn, how can I help you?"
"Alisha, I have been calling at the top of my lungs for the last 15 minutes. Guess this is the best way to reach you." Susan commented.
"Sorry, I was too focused on my work to pay attention to anything else." Alisha said truthfully.
"Well, lunch is ready. I made some grilled cheese with creamy tomato and chicken soup."
"Oh yah, this is what I have been looking forward to the most during my stay here; your amazing home cooking. I will be right there" Alisha said before hanging up the phone and sprinting out the barn and up to the back door.
The island on the other side of the kitchen counter was set up for the entire house to just sit and chill. Tyler was at one end and Mira was at the other. The stools where so high it looked like Mira had to climb up them.
"Alisha, sit next to me!" Mira exclaimed as she pointed to the stool next to her.
"Ok, I guess I could sit there" She said, slowly going over to the stool and hopping onto it.
"So what are you working on?" Susan asked.
"I am working on two things. One is a new addition to my suit. The other is a secret. I want to be sure it will work so I don't want anyone to know about it."
"Can I come and watch?" Mira asked before she took a big gooey bite of her grilled cheese sandwich.
"I don't know if that is a good idea Mira. We don't want you to get hurt." Steve said, sitting next to Alisha.
"Well, she could watch me test out the new features to my suit. Nothing flammable just something that pops and slides out." Alisha said, seeing Steve about to argue against it.
"That's so cool that you can make things like that suit!" Mira said, looking upon Alisha with much adoration and hero worship.
"Well technically my Father built it but I could build another one if I wanted to."
"Could you build on for me?"
At that question both Tyler and Steve spewed their drinks out of their mouth at Susan and yelled "Absolutely not!"
Alisha was trying very hard not to snicker or laugh at the now stock still Susan in front of them covered in liquid. Alisha got up, went over to the kitchen, got a hand town, and offered it to Susan.
"Thank you Alisha" She strained, took to towel, wiped her face and arms off, and then glared at her boys.
"Sorry honey. I was just…um…caught off guard?" Steve suggested while Tyler slowly moved off his chair.
Susan balled the now wet towel and threw it at Steve, took his plate and said "Make your own lunch" and gracefully walked to the bathroom to wash off.
Steve sat there, the towel over his face. "Well, that could have been worse."
"Dad, don't say that. You'll jinx it" Tyler said, taking his plate and moving outside. He didn't want his food to be taken as well. Alisha quickly finished her lunch and got to work cleaning up the kitchen so Susan wouldn't have to do it.
"Alisha you didn't have to do that. I was going to make Tyler do it." Susan said from the bathroom door.
"Well I just thought I would help out, you work so hard on cooking and cleaning I wanted to make it a little easier on you" Alisha said smiling.
"Oh that's very thoughtful." Susan smiled as she began to clean the plates.
Tyler walked by and whispered "Kiss ass" To Alisha.
"Maybe you should learn, it may come in handy" She whispered back and looking at Susan then back at him. "So Mira, want to see me test my suit?"
"YES!"She yelled and hoped down from her seat, reached up, grabbed her empty plate, and tossed it in the sink before following Alisha out to the barn. Alisha had the suit on in no time and contacted her father to tell him she was testing out some new modifications. Tony gave the ok and then she was ready.
"Are the shield and sword functioning's uploaded JARVIS?"
"Indeed they are Miss. Shall I activate them?"
"Hold on I have to get to a safer area." Alisha said before the face plate flipped up. "Ok Mira we are heading out to the horse arena just in case ok? I want you to stay on the outside while I test this." She said walking over to the gate.
"Ok, but I can still watch right?"
"Yes you can" Alisha then shut the gate while Mira climbed to get a better vantage point. Tyler was right behind his little sister, helping her to stay up by being a back brace.
"Can't wait to see this blow up in your face" Tyler said sarcastically.
Alisha rolled her eyes before the plate came down again.
"Ok let's try the shield" She said, taking a defensive stance and holding her left arm out "In 3, 2, 1" a section of her armor extended out and then unfolded in a very quick circle, forming into the shield. The shield was connected to her upper wrist so she could still use her repulcers if she needed to. "Appears to be functioning perfectly. JARVIS any faults or problems with it?"
"No Miss, the shield seems to be a perfect fit. Congratulations"
"Thank you JARVIS" Alisha said, swinging her arm around seeing how it affected her mobility, but nothing was wrong, she just couldn't stretch her wrist all the way back. "Ok now the sword."
"Yes Miss, spring activation ready on your command."
"Sword eject in 3, 2, 1" She raised her right arm so it was straight up pointing at the cealing and let the sword eject. It went sailing up and right into the support beam on the ceiling of the arena, the force causing her to lose balance and fall onto her back. "I wasn't expecting that" She commented, staring at the sword that was hilt deep into the wood. She could hear Tyler laughing. "It's a good thing I decided to do that in a covered aria or else it could have landed on the house and killed someone" Alisha stated.
Tyler stopped laughing and contemplated before surging and saying "Good point, it was still funny as hell watching that."
Alisha rolled her eyes as her shield refolded into her arm and fired up the jets. She hovered at the sword, getting a full grasp on it and the turned the jets off, planning on letting gravity do the work. Nothing happened. She looked up and growled in frustration. She pulled herself upside down, placed her feet on either side and pulled. The sword slowly came out of the wood. About half way out she stopped pulling and just hung there. It soon slid out and Alisha glided back down to the ground.
"JARVIS, reduce power on ejector and try again."
"By how much Miss."
"By 75%."
"Already done Miss and ready on your command."
"Eject in 3, 2, 1" She did the same and it sailed up, only half way to the ceiling. She caught the hilt and sighed. "Ok now reduce this power by 50% and I think we are good." She said. She did the test again. The sword ejected just above her hand so she could catch it right away. She nodded, satisfied with her results, and headed back to her work space. She took off her armor and smiled. "Job well done."
"That was so cool the way you flew up there, and then you where hanging from the ceiling, and then it shot up again and you caught it! I wish I could have a suit like that." Mira said, acting out everything that came out of her mouth.
"Yah it is cool, but it took a very long time to master. And it was very painful" Alisha stated as she walked off the platform with her suit on, closing the door to her lab and walking back to the house.
"It was still cool." Mira said, running ahead.
"So what did you think Ty?"
"I thought it was a little flash, overly done, and way too sneaky. So in general it was perfectly you." Tyler answered honestly.
"I am flashy, overly done, and sneaky?"
"Well you like to impress, you over dramatize things and do things over the top sometimes, and you are sneaky about what you plan and what you do. Tell me if I am wrong."
Alisha tried to but couldn't. He was right. "No you are right but that is just in front of people I don't know and when I want something. I tend to be more laid back all the other times." She stated jogging in front of him and turning around to face him and walk backwards.
"Yah I have noticed. You where really laid back when I did all thoughts things to you" Tyler said, placing a hand behind his head and not making eye contact with her.
"Well I grew use to it over time. It became a part of you." She said, stopping in front of him.
He came to a halt a foot away from her and stared at her. He took a deep breath "About that Alisha I..."
"Tyler, get in here, now!" Susan's voice came from the opened back door. "You are going to help me make dinner!"
Tyler sighed and looked at Alisha, an almost pleading expression on his face.
"You had better get in there before she gets any more upset" Alisha said in a quiet voice, walking behind him and pushing him to the door.
"Do I have to?"
"Well, if you want your mom happy for the rest of I don't know how long, you do" Alisha said with a smile.
Tyler smiled as well and went in. They were having chilly that night and Susan was making her sauce for lasagna that had to sit and simmer for 48 hours before it was good. During dinner they sat at the dining table and talked. They all wanted to know about Alisha's time in Asguard, so she went over everything. That night she went to sleep happy. She had thought that Tyler would be looking for another fight but was happily proven wrong.
"This is becoming more and more perfect. Even the soldier boy has a special place for her. My revenge just got even better" Loki said from the mirror as he watched Alisha sleep. "Sleep little Stark child, very soon you will help me avenge my failure your heroic family brought upon me" He said through gritted teeth and then vanished.
What's Loki up to? How is he going to use Alisha to help him get back at the Avengers? So the plot thickens. We are nearing the time travling portion of the story. I don't know if I want it to be very long or semi short. Any thoughts about that? Should I make the time travle just a quick there and back or long? Tell me in the reviews!
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