"Pepper, Peps, wake up." Tony said, tapping Pepper lightly on the face. She groaned and pushed his hand away. "C'mon Pepper, wake up.."
Tony kept glancing back over his shoulder. He'd ran from Loki the moment he knew he was in trouble. From what he could tell, he and Loftus were still searching for him, along with a formidable robot army who had been present on the Helicarrier.
"Tony." Tony jumped as he heard Loki's cool voice waft over him. He turned around to find himself in Loki's prolonged shadow.
"C'mon. You're not thinking straight. Let's get you some hot chocolate and a biscuit. Alright?" Loki said kindly, holding out his arm. Tony just blinked at him.
"I am thinking right." He bit back, Loki looked slightly put-out, but continued anyway.
"Tony, you don't know what your doing." Loki half pleaded with him, Tony glared at him. "You just had a bad dream, that's all. You're Tony Stark, seven year old and McDonalds lover." Tony just continued scowling, before turning back to Pepper.
"Pepper... Wake up."
"Ah Loki, you've found him! Now what?" Loftus's voice sprang to life but Tony pretended he couldn't hear it. On the contrary, Loki whispered something and they launched into a whispered conversation that was barely audible.
"Right you are." Loftus said, Tony could hear footsteps advancing on him, but he was more focused on waking up Pepper. A hand grasped his shoulder, and he kicked out, foot connecting with the small gap between knee cap and lower leg, Loftus staggered slightly but resumed his stance almost at once.
Seizing the moment, Tony took the opportunity to grab Pepper from under the arms and pull her away, out of reach of the now hobbling Loftus. Pepper began to stir.
"What..? What-?"
"Shh Pepper c'mon its alright." Tony cooed softly, Pepper looked at him bleakly.
"Who are you?" She questioned, looking slightly frightened as Tony pushed her into a cleaners cupboard and shut the door, ear pressed tightly against it.
"Uh, Tony." Tony said, sticking out a hand and Pepper shook it.
"Cool. I'm Virginia. I like kittens and sushi." Tony nodded.
"I'm gonna call you Pepper, okay?"
"Why Pepper? My names Virginia. Why am I here? Who were those people? Am I still dreaming?" Tony rolled his eyes slightly. Girls were such pains.
"Clint, what the hell are you doing?" Natasha said. She's been studying the archer for a while, and while everyone else was exhausting themselves searching through CCTV footage, laptop webcams, Mobile signals, Clint seemed to be in his own little word. Touching the screen of his phone every now and again.
"Reading." He replied simply.
"Reading?" Natasha questioned in disbelief "Reading what?"
"FanFiction." She sighed.
"Two of your best friends have gone missing, and you're reading FanFiction?"
"Well, yes." Clint shrugged, not taking his eye off the virtual page. Natasha smacked him around the head.
"Is it relevant FanFiction? Did Loki write it?" She glared at him, and he smiled slightly.
"Well no, but the person who wrote its called Loki'sArmy0602." Clint went back to scrolling down his phone. Natasha grabbed it off him.
"Why do people name themselves after bad people?" She sighed, reading a paragraph and sending the phone back to the homepage.
"Cool I guess. I mean, Loftus sounds way cooler than 'Steve' doesn't it?" It was Natasha's turn to shrug then.
"But reading FanFic's about yourself? That's kind of vain. You should read Marianne's. It's Star Trek and stuff. Way cooler." Natasha told him, and Clint couldn't help but grin as she tossed the phone back to him and he slipped it in his pocket, pulling the laptop closer to himself as a substitute.
"We know you're in there." Loki called, trying to push the door open, but Tony and Pepper had pushed a cleaners trolley in the way along with a few other things to prevent the door from opening.
"Tony, what're we going to do?" Pepper begged, looking worriedly at him. Tony looked around for an available escape source, and his eyes rested on a small window that was almost at the ceiling.
"If I give you a leg up, do you think you'd be able to reach that?" He pointed at the window and Pepper nodded. "Good."
He helped her up, and in no time she was gently pushing the window open, she repositioned herself and climbed through it, before turning precariously around again and seizing Tony's outstretched hands to help him up. However, their attempts were proven fruitless as at that very moment, Loki and Loftus burst through the door.
"Quick Tony!" Pepper yelled as she attempted to hoist Tony up, but there was no such luck as as soon as his feet left the ground, were they pulled back down again, taking her with him.
"Grab them." Loftus ordered and a hoard of robots clanking and groaning walked forward, picking up Tony and Pepper as they flailed around before putting them in a fireman's lift.
"Let us go!" They both yelled in unison as they were carried away down the corridor. Loki was about to follow but Loftus stuck his arm out.
"You damn well better know what you're doing." He growled, before stalking off down the opposite corridor. Loki remained standing where he was. Watching as the two kids screamed at the robots. Maybe this wasn't his best idea.
Loki'sArmy0602 = 99th reviewer
marianne= 100th reviewer
that's why I gave them mentions :)
i think think I've gotten Tony's and Pepper's ages mixed up. Ignore the seven year old part, just think young and innocent and naive :) That ought to do the trick :)
Thanks for reading so far!
