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Chapter 6
Jade and Franklin both became closer friends after that, the both of them worried about what their powers could do to the people around them. Tony and Reed were quickly working to produce a wrist band for Jade that would safely restrict her powers to what she could learn to manage. They had decided that they would change the suppressant so that Jade could have more access to her power when she was able to control it.
Jade was wandering round the Avengers mansion one day when she heard an angered roar. She quietly followed the noise to see a giant green man throwing a wild looking man with peaked brown hair round the room. She watched as any wounds that appeared on the man quickly healed over. Six metal claws slid from his hands, from between his hands.
"Alright Bub, that's it, no more throwing me round like a rag doll." The man said.
"HULK SMASH PUNY MAN!" The green giant roared.
Jade remembered her daddy telling her about the Hulk. He just needed to be calmed down. Seeing as she'd never done anything to the Hulk, then he wouldn't be angry at her, right? So she might be able to calm him down.
She walked into the room.
"Stay back kid!" The man with the claws warned.
"I can calm him." She said. Hopefully. She added in her thoughts.
The Hulk turned his attention to Jade, before turning back to the other man.
"Kid, stay back!" The man warned again.
She was close enough to the Hulk to touch him now. She reached up, and tapped the side of his leg. He looked down, growling. She smiled up at him. "Hi, I'm Jade. You must be the Hulk, right?"
The Hulk nodded, and looked at her curiously. Her smile grew, and she changed her hair colour to the same green as his skin. The Hulk cocked his head to one side, and Jade held her hand out to shake.
"Friends?" She asked.
The Hulk carefully took her hand in one of his massive hands. "Jade Hulk's friend." He said. Then, the Hulk started to change, and shrink. Jade knew that she had managed to calm him. Soon, a brown haired, tired looking man was standing before her. "Wh-what just happened?" He asked.
"The kid managed to calm you down." The other man said.
The man who had once been the Hulk looked down at Jade. He knelt down in front of her. "That was extremely dangerous for you to do." He said.
"My daddy told me that the Hulk only needs to be calmed down. So, I thought I could do it, because I had never done anything to make him angry."
"Well, had you not been able to do that, then you could have gotten hurt. What did the Hulk say to you?"
"That I'm his friend." She said. "I asked him if he wanted to be friends, and he said yes."
"Well, I doubt that he'd harm you now then." He said. He looked across the room to the other man. "You should have stopped her Logan."
"He did try." Jade said.
"What the Kid said Banner. But I wasn't exactly expecting a kid of four to come in and calm the Hulk after he'd been throwing me round the room!"
"I'm six actually." Jade said.
"You look four." The first man, Logan, said.
"Jade?" She heard Steve call.
"Here Steve!" She said.
Steve jogged into the room, and took in the sight of Logan and Banner, the later of which had obviously just been the Hulk. He looked at Jade. "Are you alright Jade?"
"Fine Steve. I'm friends with the Hulk!"
Steve looked gob-smacked. "W-what?"
"She calmed the Hulk with ten words." Logan said, shaking his head. "And got him to agree to be friends. Is she related to Mystique? Her hair was black when she came in."
"Not that I'm aware of. Her mother was English. Her dad's Tony." Steve said, in a state of shock. "As far as we're aware, the ability is a part of her magic that she gets from her mother. You calmed the Hulk?"
"Yep. It wasn't hard. I just tried to be friendly."
"Friendly. Right." Steve said, shaking his head. "Tony's going to have a heart attack." He groaned.
"He's not going to be mad, is he?" Jade said, nervously nibbling her lip.
Steve's eyes widened. "No, of course he isn't." He came over, and picked her up. "In fact, he's in quite a good mood. He and Reed just finished the bracelets. Come on."
He carried Jade from the room, and jade looked over his shoulder, and waved to the two who remained in the room. When Steve and Jade were out of the room, Bruce turned to stare at Logan.
"Well, that was unexpected."
"Definitely." Logan agreed. "I heard that Stark had a kid, but I also heard she was terrified at any noise above ordinary speaking levels."
"The Hulk's not exactly quiet, is he?" Bruce mused. "Perhaps it was because the Hulk wasn't like anything she could link to her past. Except the noise."
"Whatever it was, she was a lot braver than I thought she would be." Logan said, pulling a cigar from his pocket, and sticking it in his mouth and lighting it.
"Just promise me you won't try anything reckless like that again, Jade." Steve begged the small child as he walked.
"Alright Cap. I just thought that it might be good to help."
"Your heart was in the right place, but that was dangerous. You could have been hurt, and that is the last thing anyone wants."
"Right." Jade said, nodding.
When they got to the lab that Tony and Reed were working in, Steve placed Jade to sit down on one of the counters.
"Oh, you found her, great." Tony said, smiling at his daughter. "You have fun wandering round Jade?"
Jade nodded, smiling.
"She made friends with the Hulk." Steve said. Tony dropped what was in his hand, and Reed spat out his drink.
"What?" Tony asked, eyes wide. He immediately began checking Jade over for injuries. "Are you alright?"
"Fine daddy. The Hulk's my friend."
"Apparently, she calmed him with ten words." Steve said. "When I got there, Bruce was Bruce. I didn't see any of it."
"But you aren't hurt?" Tony asked Jade.
"No." Jade said, smiling.
Tony nodded, relieved. "Alright then. That's good to know. Now, the bracelets are finished." He grabbed what he'd been holding previously, and brought them over to where Jade was. There was two, one for each wrist. Each one was plain metal, of medium width and thickness. He placed one on each of Jade's wrists. "How does that feel?"
Jade didn't take long to respond. "There's not as much power available to me. Like it's receded, but I can still use it."
"That's what you're meant to feel. Each time you gain control over the power that you can access, and are used to it, we'll make you a new set, which will allow you access to more of your powers." Reed said, smiling at her.
Jade nodded. She was glad that her power was suppressed, letting her control it. She knew that she couldn't control it all. The only reason she hadn't hurt anyone was because she was able to keep calm. But that wasn't always going to be the case. Now she'd be less likely to hurt anyone.
"Come on kiddo. Let's go home. Otherwise Pepper'll have my hide for keeping you out to late." Tony said, picking up his daughter.
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