I believe that this is chapter six.
IMAA is not mine, but Sarah and Leilani Marley are.

The elevator carried Sarah up to the 75th floor and she watched out the glass walls as the road became smaller and smaller before the elevator came to a smooth halt. The doors opened with a ding, and Sarah walked out into a large room, nodding to the security guards next to the elevator as she passed. Pausing, she took in her surroundings. The room contained a lounge area with people talking quietly amongst themselves. Turning towards the furthest wall, she walked on to the doors which she assumed lead to Bruce's office. The security guards next to this door stopped her.

"Excuse me miss, but I can't let you in." Sarah sighed and forced a smile.

"I've gone over this with the receptionist. Bruce is expecting me, and if you fear for his life, you're welcome to escort me in." The security guards exchanged gazes, then nodded and opened the door, ushering her in. They stopped her after they shut the door and they looked on at Bruce, who was pacing and talking with someone on the large screen behind his desk, lacking to notice their presence.

"Look, now is not a good time to be doing this, with the economy in the state that it is. We have to wait, and probably keep an eye on Stark Industries…" Sarah cringed. "…because I can't anticipate what Stane is doing."

"I understand Mr Wayne, but we have to think about…"

"We don't have to think about anything." Bruce ran a hand through his hair and sighed. "It's getting late. I suggest we continue this at a later time, perhaps next week." The two businessmen exchanged goodbyes and the video feed faded to a blank, black screen. The security guard to Sarah's right cleared his throat. Bruce turned, and when he saw the security guards flanking Sarah, he laughed. He could see how they worried; Sarah was wearing a black leather jacket with dark navy jeans, her military boots and was holding a motorbike helmet under her arm, with a glare to match.

"Tom, Sam, its fine. You can leave Sarah with me." The guards nodded, gave Sarah one last judgmental frown and then left, closing the door quietly behind them. Sarah broke out into a grin and ran at Bruce, jumping into his waiting arms. Bruce spun her around and then put her down. Both were still smiling. Sarah was the first to speak.

"Hey."

"Hey." Sarah ran a hand through Bruce's hair.

"No grey hairs. Sure you're not dying it yet?" He laughed and pulled her over to two comfy chairs. Sarah took a seat and watched as Bruce made two mugs of hot chocolate. He gave her one and took the seat across from her. They sat in silence for a few minutes, taking each other in.

"It's been a long time, hasn't it?" Sarah sipped a mouthful before replying.

"Yes, it has. Well, it's not like we didn't keep in contact." Again, silence, but a comfortable one. Bruce set his mug on the coffee table.

"So you're going okay? There's nothing bothering you too much about the US of A?" Sarah smiled.

"Well, apart from the fact that I am dragged into every violent situation that occurs in a ten mile radius, nope, nothing at all."

"You said that you wanted some tech." Sarah sat her mug next to Bruce's half-empty one and pulled her knees to her chest. She looked out to the light-lit city as she spoke.

"Mum's into something big. Something is going on with SHIELD and it's got something to do with Iron Man and the Mandarin, plus every additional bothersome and frustrating player in the game. I want to find out what's going on. I can build most of the things but I need the basics to start."

"What do you have in mind?"

"First I'm building a secure network and computer to work on, and then from there, I dunno." Sarah rubbed her face with her hands. "Bruce, something is happening, and I don't want people I care about getting hurt. I know you are extremely capable of taking care of yourself, but please, be careful."

"Sarah, I'm the last person you should be worrying about."

"I know. But please."

"Of course." He looked at his watch. "It's going on a quarter to ten. Don't you have school tomorrow?"

"Fine, mock the younger one. But yes, I do."

"You attend the Tomorrow Academy, right?" Sarah stood, stretching out above her.

"Yes Bruce, I do. Next year will be my last year then I expect a well-paying job offer from you." He stood as well.

"What sort of best friend would I be if I didn't?"

"Well maybe a seriously atrocious and egocentric one?" They smiled at their banter. Bruce picked her helmet up from his desk and twirled it in his hands.

"Do you even have a licence to ride one of these? I thought you were only sixteen…"

"Since when did you ever worry about licences? I'm pretty sure that your 'secret' car and bike and jet aren't even registered!"

"Cruel. Besides, everyone knows about them, so I don't worry. C'mon, I'll take you down." He grabbed her hand and led her out of his office, the lights turning off automatically after them. They found the lounge area deserted, and the elevator ride was swift and quiet. Bruce had yet to let go of her hand. The doors opened on the ground floor and the only person there was Melissa, the receptionist. Bruce took a detour over to her. She looked up as her boss approached with the mademoiselle she had to deal with earlier.

"Mel, I want you to remember that Sarah is on the 'anytime' list and I don't care if I'm in a meeting with the president, you send her up. Understood?" Melissa nodded and glared at Sarah. She just gave Melissa a sweet smile and let Bruce pull her towards the entrance of the building. The automatic doors opened and the chill of the night hit them. They stopped in front of her bike.

"Are you going out tonight?" Bruce looked up at the sky.

"Probably not, I might leave it this time. They haven't put the light up, so they're not in desperate need, besides, I beat up everyone dangerous two nights ago." Sarah started the engine.

"You meet with the president?" He smiled.

"You never know what might happen, you of all people should realise that." She poked her tongue out at him. "I'll send down the gear you'll need for the computer during this week."

"Thanks. Now you don't owe me." Sarah fitted her helmet over her head and flicked the visor down. She gave Bruce one last nod and then set off, heading back to NYC, her bike's lights one of the only on the streets of Gotham.

Half grey and half multi-coloured splodges of blurriness were the first things that Tony's eyes attempted, and failed to focus on when he opened them. He shut them quickly and covered his eyes with his hand. He then jerked up when he realised that he wasn't in bed, instead he had fallen asleep at his computer in the armoury and the data on Leilani Marley was still up on the screen. Rubbing his eyes, he spun the chair around to the digital clock that the computer projected onto the wall.

"Shit!" Tony bolted from the chair, pulled his Mark 2 backpack onto his shoulders, pocketed his phone and flew out the armoury. As soon as he was outside, he pressed the chest piece, and never faltered a step as the armour covered him. Before the armour was even fully on, he started the repulsers and went supersonic. Taking only two minutes and forty five seconds to fly over New York, he landed in an alley close to the Tomorrow Academy without anyone noticing Iron Man in their presence. It took him another fifteen seconds for the armour to return to the backpack form. Sprinting out of the alley, he knocked people aside and ignored their protests as it took him three minutes and thirty seven seconds to tumble through the door of his physics first period.

Six minutes and fifty three seconds late.

Gasping for breath, his teacher just glared and continued the summary of his lesson for the period and Tony looked around for his friends. Rhodey was covering his face with his hands (ignoring his presence at all cost), Pepper was talking to Rhodey and Sarah was staring at him with a slight smirk. He walked over (while attempting not to gasp for air) and took his seat next to Sarah, who was now wearing a full blown smirk. He elbowed Sarah in the side as he placed his backpack on the ground, and he received a brilliantly positioned fist to his left-side kidney. He gasped in pain, but managed to disguise it when the teacher looked over.

The teacher left the classroom to go and get the information for them that he'd forgotten. The whole class started to talk, including Sarah.

"So. Slept in?"

"Ah, um, maybe. I may…have never…actually…made it to bed?" Opening her notebook, Sarah just sighed.

"Have you never learnt that pulling all-nighters never does anyone any good?"

"Hey! It wasn't an all-nighter, I just fell asleep at my computer."

"I seriously doubt that you were studying, so what were you looking at?" Tony quickly looked away from Sarah's gaze and opened his notebook, heat flushing to the back of his neck. The way he was going, Sarah would find out by the end of the day.

"Nothing much…just some stuff to do with Stark Industries." Lie. The word echoed around his head and he held back a grimace. He didn't like doing it, but sometimes things were best kept secret. The teacher made his way through the door, and Sarah couldn't comment on Tony's last reply. Sarah could see Tony wasn't comfortable, so maybe something was going on with the company. The two engineers didn't speak for the rest of the period, and only trivial conversation at lunch, as Pepper invaded all discussions and demanded the spotlight.

The end of the day came quickly, and the four of them; Sarah, Pepper, Tony and Rhodey left the campus and started walking together through NYC. Sarah would usually break off at one of the main streets to head west whereas Tony and Rhodey, usually accompanied by Pepper, would continue heading north-east. As they made their way closer to the dividing point, Pepper, in a short amount of time where she would pause for breath, looked up, and a lone figure on top of a building caught her eye. Stopping, she continued to stare as the lone figure, dressed in black, scanned the crowd.

"Pepper?" The others had realised that she had paused. Movement caught the corner of her other eye and she noticed that there was not one, but at least ten of the black clad figures atop buildings, all scanning the crowd. Suddenly, they all disappeared.

"Pepper?" Rhodey put his hand on her shoulder. She snapped out of her thoughts.

"Yeah, no, it's all good. Thought I saw something, just was a bird. It's just a bird." She chuckled nervously and continued to walk. Rhodey and Tony exchanged glances, but continued walking anyway. They stopped on the corner where Sarah split off from them. They exchanged goodbyes and Sarah turned west, while the others turned east. As soon as Sarah was out of hearing range, the two guys started on Pepper.

"It wasn't a bird, was it?"

"No. At least I don't think it was a bird. There seemed to be figures in black on the rooftops that seemed to be looking at all the people walking, but they disappeared, so I thought it was all good."

"What did they look like?"

"Dressed in black. Wait." She thought for a moment. "I couldn't see their faces. They were also black." Tony pulled the others to a stop.

"Pepper. Are you sure you couldn't see their faces?" She stared at his face, a mixture of fear and recognition.

"I'm sure. Tony, what is it?" As the words left her mouth, the three heard screams from behind them. All of them spun to look, and the road was in chaos. People were running and screaming everywhere, and black clad figures were the cause of the chaos.

"Because I think that it was the Tong. Oh no." Tony fell silent. "They're going after her. They know!" Tony took off running towards the chaos.

"Hey, Tony, man, wait!" Rhodey realised that there was no point chasing after him, both Pepper and him pulled out their Bluetooth headsets and placed them in their ears. Then they took off running towards the armoury as fast as they could.

Sarah said goodbye and headed down the main road that she took to get to her house. Pepper seemed nervous at something, but she didn't seem like she was seeing a ghost or anything, plus Sarah assumed that it was one of the things that they didn't want her to know about. So, she kept on walking. That was until people started screaming. Stopping in her tracks, she turned towards the screaming, but before she could move, a hand went to her mouth and one arm went to her chest, and the person dragged her into a side alley. The attacker was taller than she was, and most likely male, considering the calloused hand on her mouth and muscular arm around her chest. As soon as the unknown person stopped moving, she flung her head back and heard a satisfying crack as she broke the nose of her attacker. He gasped and let her go.

Her head was throbbing in pain but she had a feeling that if she didn't do anything now, she was going to be in a whole lot more by tonight. Turning, she ducked as the broken nose ninja took aim at her head, and nearly got her. She went to run, but then three more ninjas (for god's sake, ninjas!) made their way into the alley. She could still hear the chaos from the main street as she guessed more ninjas were creating havoc to distract from the fact that they had her in here. A hand grabbed her left arm from behind so she span clockwise and brought the ninja closer and used her right elbow to smash his already broken nose. He let go and fell to the floor, out cold from the pain. The adrenalin was flowing through her body, but fear nearly paralysed her as she realised that the three ninjas coming towards her were armed.

Backing away as fast as they were approaching, she nearly tripped over the unconscious ninja and the one with the staff came at her. She ducked his first blow, but it was a feint and she took a hit to the right side of her ribs, winding her. As he came closer, she kicked out at his shins and got a blow in, but he went for the right side and winded her again. Gasping for air, she didn't realise that the other two had moved behind her and she gasped, unable to speak, as a blade sliced across her back in one fluid, long stroke. In one last final attempt, she tried to place a roundhouse kick to the ninja behind her. It landed in his stomach, and he made a small sound, as if the blow had hardly landed. Then she took a blow to the head from the staffed ninja and she collapsed in a heap on the ground, her eyes closing without her recognition, bright blue light flooding her last conscious moments.

I want to leave it there because I'm keeping the chapters roughly 2000 words each, and this one is edging up to 3000. Reviewing is always nice.