Own Nothing
The ride back on the helicopter to the airport was stiff, awkward and full of tension. "Well that went according to plan." Tony stated.
"You better not speak to me." Darcy stated as she worked on her tablet. "You're in time out."
He stared at her, brow arched. "You're not serious Kid?"
She glared at him over her glasses and then looked back at her tablet to ignore him. Her jaw was clenched and she kept fisting her left hand as she scrolled through her tablet.
"F.R.I.D.A.Y. how much longer until we get to the plane?" Tony asked his phone.
"Ms. Darcy asked me not to speak to you Sir, you are in time out." The AI sounded amused.
Tony sighed and glared at Darcy who continued to ignore him as she got more absorbed into the information on her tablet. "That's dirty."
When they finally landed back at the Avenger facility Darcy stormed past him, seething. "Would you talk to me?" Tony shouted at her as they walked into the common room. "I said I was sorry, I actually apologized, but he was the one who started the wager." He glared at Darcy. The others looked up from they were doing and stiffened.
Darcy spun on her heel and glared at Tony. "You gave him the idea Tony!" She shouted at him. "I'd wager on it." She mimicked his voice.
"I don't sound like that." He told her. "And besides this whole thing is your plan. All of it Dr. Lewis- Malcolm. We both know that dino is going to go on a rampage like a teenager with daddy's credit card and it will kill people."
"She." Darcy seethed.
"What?" Tony looked at her.
"The Indominus Rex is a she." Darcy pulled out her tablet and pulled up the information she was looking at earlier. "It finished downloading while we were in the meeting." She stated calmly, it was all the biological information about the Indominus Rex. The makeup and history of it. The others stared up at it in awe, this was their first time hearing about Darcy and Tony's pet project. "A T-rex base, because that wouldn't be scary enough. They mixed in cuttlefish, tree frog, and." She frowned. "Velociraptor." She glared at Tony. "She has the ability to camouflage, regulate her body temperature and she's intelligent, and from the notes, she can sense thermal signatures. So yay. InGen created a Dino zoid."
"Are you sure this isn't something HYDRA wouldn't do?" Steve asked as he moved to stand next to Darcy.
"This is InGen, they've always been like this." Darcy stated numbly.
"So what's the plan?" Tony asked her.
She scoffed. "They're plan, for when she's escapes?" She looked up the holo-monitors and sighed. "Send ACU units after her with non-lethal weapons."
"What?" Steve asked, outrage. "She'll kill them."
Darcy nodded. "They put over $60 million into her. It'll be asking you to kill Bucky." She looked up at him. "Could you do it?" He stiffened and she quickly looked away. "They'll start closing the parts of the parks closest to her down, maybe they'll call ferries. But I doubt."
"Why wouldn't they?" Wanda asked.
"They would never open again." Darcy answered. "They have a high power weapon, they can put that on the helicopter and use that is she gets too far." She sighed. "But honestly, she needs something." She stared at the picture of the dinosaur and enlarged it to examine it. "More teeth?" She whispered.
"Glad you're actually putting your doctorate to good use." Tony muttered.
"You're still in time out." She spat back. "You had no right to offer me up like that, you were supposed to offer up Captain America for the day."
"What?" Steve looked up and glared at Tony.
"It isn't my fault that Simon wanted to poach you! How was I supposed to know?" Tony asked.
"It doesn't matter now." Darcy whispered. She looked through the notes of the Indominus. "She ate her sibling when she was younger, so wasn't socialized. So she doesn't really know what she is, let alone where she's at on the food chain. People are going to die." She looked at Tony. "We've should've done something more. Why didn't we? We were right there." She asked in a broke whisper.
"Hey." Tony reached out and pulled her into a hug. "He's sending over a contract this week, I'll talk to him then. We'll figure something out." He comforted her. "It isn't your fault." He patted her head. "But for the time being, just think about how pissed your Dad is going to be when finds out that you went on the Island."
She pushed him away. "You suck, Tony!" She turned and stormed away as her phone started ringing. She looked down at her phone and saw it was her Dad. "You son of a bitch Stark!"
"Don't put me in time out next time!" He cackled.
"Hey Dad? What's up?" Darcy answered the phone as she flipped Tony off. She left the room leaving Tony there with the others.
"I want to know what is going on." Steve stated, arms crossed as he glared at Tony.
"It's a Marauders thing, you prefects just wouldn't understand." Tony smirked at him.
"I understand that reference." Steve stated. "Darcy bought me the books."
"Damn."
It was a very busy week that had Darcy groveling to her Dad, her sending expensive camera equipment to Sarah and chocolate to Kelly all because they were upset about her go to Jurassic World when she promised that she wouldn't. Now, she didn't make that promise a second time. She narrowly avoided because the Avengers were called out and she had to get to work. She was luckily that happened three times this week or that excuse would never fly with her family, she was so happy that she worked here.
By Friday afternoon, she entered the boardroom set up for the meeting between Pepper, Tony and another business partner when she saw that it was Simon Masrani. "Mr. Masrani." She smiled at him.
"Dr. Lewis-Malcolm." He stood up to greet her. "I was rereading your proposal and I quite enjoy it. I had wished you had come to work for us, how did you manage to evade us, I wish to know."
"It's just Darcy, and I dropped Malcolm. And I don't really use the whole Doctor when I'm not in my field." She explained. "And I'm never in my field here."
"Then you are wasted here." Simon smiled at her.
"Oh we're not wasted enough around here." Tony stated as he and Pepper entered the room. "Pepper prefers an actual work environment."
Darcy rolled her eyes and stepped back so Pepper and Tony could greet Simon. "Pleasure to see you again, Pepper, Stark."
"Always, now have you've gotten a look at our proposal?" Tony asked him.
"I have." Simon nodded and turned to Pepper as all four of them sat around the table. "I understand it that you were busy when they came to me."
"I was, but Darcy had given me the file before she left and I agree, I think it will be beneficial for both you and the Avengers to show all of us giving back more than just money to the Earth." Pepper looked over at Darcy who smiled at her. Pepper turned back to Simon who was staring at Darcy. "I think with Jurassic World's technology and research capabilities and our funds and connections we can revive the Earth back into something good."
"And all of this because you looked into my new Dinosaur Ms. Lewis."
Darcy smiled at him, well he didn't call her Malcolm. "She's a beautiful but deadly beast and if there's one thing Mr. Masrani my Dad has always taught me, drilled into my head is, life finds a way. That and don't trust InGen." She gave him a look. "And I don't, and that's why I never came to work with you. Is because of them, it's not a dinosaur, they've created a weapon."
"Be it, a cheesy 80's sci-fi, Hitler riding a dinosaur kind of a weapon." Tony muttered.
"I see." Simon looked between the three of them. "And what will you do with the Park if she gets out, it'll be yours."
Pepper and Tony both looked at Darcy for an answer, curious, because they could tell the question was not directed to them. "I would turn it into a research facility, let the animals continue to live. Bring the trainers back, we still have too much to learn, and we can use the Island as our base of operations for the Earth Revival Project. They have rights, the dinosaurs, they have souls, just like we do, and just because they were extinct millions of years ago doesn't mean anything. We brought them back, they're here now and we can't just kill them, that's murder." She looked at Tony and Pepper. "That's their sanctuary, and I think we should protect them like Site B and continue with Earth Revival from there." She looked at Simon. "It's the best course of action."
"Without InGen?" He asked.
"Certainly." She replied. "We could use a mixture of SI, S.H.I.E.L.D agents that we trust and maybe run through some training Avengers." She looked at Tony and Pepper who looked thoughtful. "Besides, I'm sure not all of InGen is bad, it's like how all of S.H.I.E.L.D wasn't HYDRA." She shrugged.
Simon smiled at her. "You've given me a lot of food for thought my dear." He waved in his lawyers. "I have the contracts for you to sign, your lawyers already looked them over."
Darcy's eyes widened at the thickness of her contract and looked at Tony and Pepper's. "Why is theirs smaller?"
"Because it is your idea." Tony stated with a smirk and Pepper eyes him curiously as she looked through her own packet just to be sure. "Of course yours is bigger."
Darcy nodded slowly and took the pen from the lawyer and signed where they told her to. She felt like she was signing her life away, it took forever. Pepper and Tony were done for five minutes before she was done. She finally capped the pen and turned to the others. "Anyone hungry?" She asked.
Tony smirked at her. "Why don't you and Pepper go and get us a table somewhere, Simon and I will meet you there."
Pepper gave him a look before standing up. "Don't talk shop too long boys." She gave a smile to Simon before she and Darcy left the room.
Tony turned to Simon as they lawyers gathers the paperwork up to be filed away. "You just signed your company over to her didn't you?"
Simon smiled as he flicked his eyes to the closed door. "How long do you think until she notices?"
"She'll be pissed." Tony stated. "I'm impressed." He smirked. "You found a way to steal her away and give her the park all in one go."
Simon gave him a friendly smirk. "I've researched Dr. Lewis-Malcolm and she has potential to be something great, do you really think that you are helping her by keeping her here?" He stood up and nodded to Stark. "The company only goes to her in the event of my death. And the Indominus Rex has not killed anyone yet."
"Key word, yet Simon. Times still ticking." Tony glared up at him.
"It appears so." He gestured to the door. "Shall we, we have a lunch with some lovely ladies."
