Hey ya'll! I'm throwing a nice twist in here at the end, since I know how much you all love those, however, if you read my Agent Coulson one shot- Heart Of Gold- you'll understand this reference before I spell it out for you guys in the next couple of chapters. (So, if you want to get it, check out the one shot, the answer is in there.) I hope you enjoy this chapter, I'm sorry if it's not quite to standards, I'm still a little shocked about the guy who died. He was so young.

Disclaimer: All Marvel characters belong to Marvel. I wish I could write for them... Enjoy the chapter, and please review!

When I woke up the next morning I heard the shower running in my bathroom. I got up and groaned softly at the feeling of my head. I went downstairs and smiled seeing Amanda making breakfast with Felipe. "Did you know Felipe went to cooking school?" Amanda asked and I smiled.

"It doesn't surprise me." I said. He handed me a glass of water and two aspirins, I smiled gratefully as I took them, and drank the entire glass of water.

"Where's Daddy?" Kayla asked from her seat at the table.

"Honey, daddy was in a car accident last night." I said and her eyes grew wide. "He's okay, but he had to sleep at the hospital last night."

"Is that how come Pepper slept over last night?" she asked and I nodded.

"Yeah sweetie, Tony was in the accident too. We're going to go to the hospital to pick up Daddy, so why don't you draw him a nice get better soon picture huh?" I asked and she nodded before she abandoned her bowl of cereal and ran upstairs.

"You can get Bruce today?" Dallas asked as I sat down at the table. I nodded and Felipe set a plate down in front of me. I smiled at the eggs and bacon in the shape of a happy face.

"I know you only eat it when you are depressed, but the grease will help with the hangover." he said.

"You know what else helps with hangovers?" Dallas asked suddenly. "Red Bull." he went to the refrigerator and pulled a 12oz can of red bull out and put it in front of me.

"That is disgusting." Felipe said as I cracked it open and took a long drink of it and then ate a piece of bacon.

"Ah, Felipe, this is sooooo good." I groaned and he smiled lightly, but still looked disgusted. After I finished my breakfast, Pepper came downstairs looking fresh faced and ready to face the day. Even though facing the day consisted of going to the hospital to check on her husband's condition. I got up and wordlessly went upstairs to shower, and get ready to face the day. By the time all of us were ready I had wrestled Kayla into one of her new dresses, brushed her hair and done it up with a cute bow I knew would most likely be decimated by the end of the day. She had drawn two pictures and was following me around asking me a million questions about the hospital.

"Oh look, Phil is here, go find Amanda." I said to her when Phil walked into the house. She ran off to find Amanda and I sat down on the stairs with a small sigh.

"Min-" I held my finger up to stop him. He stayed silent for a minute while I took a few deep breaths and then I lowered my hand and opened my eyes with a smile.

"Sorry Phil. It's been a long morning and I'm a little hung over." I said. He smiled lightly and nodded before he held out his hand. I took it and he pulled me off of the stairs.

"I'm here to escort you to the hospital." Phil said and I nodded.

"Yeah, I guessed." I said as I covered my eyes with my hand. I let out a sigh and then nodded. "I need my sunglasses." I said and he smiled lightly.

"Phil?" a female voice asked and I looked around him. A girl a few years younger than myself was standing there, she had blonde curly hair and looked a little nervous.

"Heather," he turned to her and held out his hand. She walked over, slipping her hand into his and smiled at me. "Minnie, this is Heather Monroe, Heather, this is Minnie Banner."

"It's nice to meet you," she said shaking my hand. "Phil has told me so much about you."

"Well it's nice to meet you too." I smiled at her.

"I guess I really should thank you, Phil says that if you hadn't told him to go for it, he never would have... Well, gone for it." she shrugged with a smile and I nodded slowly.

"You're the painter, right?" I asked and she nodded with a smile. "That's right, good job Phil, she's way cuter than the cellist." I said and he rolled his eyes.

"Thanks." he said shortly while Heather shot him a questioning look. I mouthed 'tell you later' and she grinned. "Is Pepper here, is she ready?" he asked and I nodded.

"Pep! Phil's here." She came into the hall with Amanda and Kayla who had- of course- managed to mess up her hair. I sighed and knelt down, fixing the bow and then took her hand and we followed Phil out to the car.

Happy was waiting at the hospital when we got there, he opened the car door for us, and did the same as before, hurried us into the hospital through the reporters who were dying to get a comment.

"Pep, we should make a statement." I said and she nodded.

"I know, I wanted to get the girls inside first." she said and I smiled lightly. "Girls, stay right here with Happy." she said and they nodded as we turned and walked back outside.

"Mrs. Stark, Mrs. Stark!" people were shouting as we walked outside.

"I haven't seen the doctor today, but I'm told Tony is in stable condition, we would like to thank you for your interest, but we ask that you please let him heal in peace. The same goes for Dr. Banner and his family, who will be released today, though again, we ask that you please let us heal in peace." Pepper said to the reporters.

They took some more pictures and I nodded to them before I walked into the hospital. We went to the room Tony and Bruce were in and I was surprised to see Tony still asleep. Bruce was up, and wearing a pair of scrubs, he was leaning over Tony's bed, checking his pupil reaction.

"Why hasn't he woken up?" I heard Natasha asking as we pushed open the door. They grew silent as we walked in, Makayla ran over to Bruce instantly and he picked her up, letting her hug him tightly.

"Mommy said you were in a accident." she said and he nodded as he put her down on his bed.

"Yeah, I was." he nodded. "But I'm okay now." he said, and turned around only to be hugged tightly by Amanda. "I'm alright." he laughed lightly. "Little bruised up, but I'm okay." he said as he hugged her back.

"You scared us." she muttered before she let go of him and walked over to Tony with Pepper. I walked over to Bruce and kissed him gently.

"How is he?" I asked and he sighed.

"He's stable." he said softly. "But he hasn't woken up."

"What does that mean?" Pepper asked.

"It means..." Bruce said hesitantly.

"It means what we did is working." a voice said from the doorway. We turned and saw Erik Selvig walking into the room. "How long did it take?"

"About twenty minutes." Bruce said while everyone stared at them in horror.

"What happened?"

"A little disorientation, slurred speech, what we guessed would happen." he said. "He held on until he saw the fire hydrant."

"Okay." Selvig pulled a small notebook from his pocket and wrote it down before he went to check Tony's eyes like Bruce had done already. "Uh, you, young lady, take the children to the gift shop." Selvig said to Heather who looked at Phil in surprise and he nodded.

"Honey, go with Heather." I said to Kayla who held her arms out to Amanda. Amanda picked her up and smiled gently at me.

"Bye Daddy." she said.

"I shall accompany them." Thor said standing up. Everyone waited until they left before anyone spoke again.

"Call me crazy, but I think we're missing something here." Steve said standing up.

"This wasn't just an accident." Selvig said and I looked at Bruce. "We are in the process of... Erasing Tony's mind." I covered my mouth with my hand and Bruce nodded.

"HAMMER," Phil said. "Has been trying to get the information from the Superhero Registration act, so they can push the Fifty State initiative. SHIELD had Tony create a software to keep the information under lock and key, well, when HYDRA attacked the Banners, we knew that we had been compromised. Tony destroyed the technology, had every file burned, hacked every government system we could get him into, and wiped everything he could find. Problem is, when they got some of Dr. Banner's DNA, it was with a weapon, made from an element we were unaware of." Phil continued. "Probably something left behind from the attack on earth; lord knows people have been doing dumb things with that stuff."

"Like those girls that decided to rob banks with the blasters?" Natasha asked with a small scowl.

"Yeah, or like the armor being sold to other governments on the black market." Clint nodded.

"Needless to say, Tony realized what we were up against. After a few less than encouraging meeting with Norman Osborn, Tony realized if they can hurt the Hulk, they could get the information they wanted."

"So he decided to wipe his brain?" Pepper asked in horror from where she was sitting with Tony's unconscious form.

"He knew he had to do something." Erik said looking at her. I looked down and Bruce lightly touched my hand. I looked up at him and he wrapped his arm around my waist.

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you." he said softly. "But Tony made me swear."

"But, but he'll be okay, right? He'll remember me and Happy and everyone, right?" Pepper asked.

"We don't know Pepper." Erik said softly. "We hope he will, but otherwise, we may have to establish the last thing he remembers and then go from there."

"Well, when will he wake up?"

"We don't know." Erik muttered. She let out a long sigh and looked down at Tony with tears rolling down her face. I detached myself from Bruce and walked over to her and wrapped my arms around her in a comforting hug. She hugged me back and I looked at the Avengers.

"So what are we going to do about HAMMER?" I asked and everyone looked at me. They were silent, I knew they had been wondering the same thing, but no one wanted to ask.

"We're going to fight back." Steve said suddenly and everyone looked at him. "HAMMER, HYDRA," he said. "They're bullies. And I don't know about you guys, but I don't like bullies."

"That's a good point captain." I said as I stepped away from Pepper. "But the government created HAMMER to enforce the fifty state initiative. That means that those training camps are already being set up..."

"We're going to need some help." Natasha said after a moment.

"Leave that to me." Phil said simply. "The main thing is you guys. When HAMMER finds out what Tony's done, the shit is going to hit the fan and fast." he looked at us. "You'll all be fugitives."

"Let us worry about that when we get to it." Clint said from where he was sitting with Natasha. "What we need to worry about it him." he nodded to Tony.

"We should send him back to Malibu." I said and looked at Pepper. "The most likely scenario is going to be him waking up with no idea about any of this. Send him back to Malibu, and if he wakes up and he does remember, good for us, if he wakes up and he doesn't remember, not only will HAMMER have a harder time finding him, but we have an easier alibi for his memory loss. Post Traumatic Stress does wonders to the human psyche."

"And if he suddenly wakes up one morning remembering everything that happened?" Pepper asked and I shrugged.

"Then good for us, but if not, I think we should keep him as far from all this as possible, at least until HAMMER realizes what he's done." I said and Phil nodded.

"I agree with Minnie. Pepper can you have his jet take him like that?"

"Oh please if we can install a stripper pole and a disco ball, I'm sure we can accommodate this." she said. "I'll call the jet and let them know we're moving him when he's safe to be moved." she looked at Bruce.

"He should be okay to be moved." Bruce said. "He doesn't have a head injury or anything like that."

"The only problem is HAMMER keeping us from being able to take off." Pepper muttered softly.

"If you get him out of here, we'll make sure HAMMER doesn't notice." Bruce said confidently.

"How will you do that?" Phil asked and Bruce looked at Steve, then to Clint and Natasha.

"By giving them something else to look at." Natasha said, catching on.

"Pepper." Phil said as she started to get out of the car at Stark mansion. "When you get back to Malibu I want you to get in touch with one of our head agents out there." he took a small notepad from his pocket and wrote down a name and phone number. "Her name is Agent Bluefox-"

"Oh, Ida, I love Ida!" Heather said and Phil smiled lightly.

"She'll help you out as far as keeping in the loop goes." he said as he handed the paper to her.

"Who is this person?" Pepper asked without looking at the paper.

"She's a good friend, and a founding member of SHIELD."

"A founding member, she must be getting up there." Pepper said softly and Heather smiled.

"By her appearance you'd never guess." she said and Pepper looked at the paper. Her mouth dropped open and she looked back at Phil.

"But this is-"

"I know."

"Does-"

"No, she doesn't know."

"Whose choice is it to not tell her, Director Fury's or hers?"

"It's just never come up." he said simply. "Minnie has no idea how lucky she is... Genetically speaking." he said and Pepper nodded slowly.

"Well do I… Tell her?" Pepper asked and Phil shook his head.

"Doing that at this point is unnecessary. She'll find out what she comes from soon enough."

"What about everything with us?" Pepper asked and Phil cocked his head slightly. "By the sounds of it, HAMMER and HYDRA- I mean, it sounds like they want to start a war."

"That's exactly what they want Pepper." He said and she sighed.

"Leave it to Tony to sleep through the end of the world." She muttered and he gave her a small smile. "I feel like I'm never doing enough."

"Pepper, you're keeping Tony Stark safe. That's more than enough." He said and she nodded before he started the car up again. "Get Tony to California, and give Agent Bluefox a call." He ordered before he pulled out of the driveway, leaving Pepper to stare at the phone number, before she turned and walked into the house.