A/N: So the spoiling that I did yesterday usually hardly happens, but I had done a lot of writing, and I didn't want it sitting there. Plus I'm actually updating this from my phone because I'm working, and it's hard typing summaries and stuff with just my little phone. :D Anyways, here's chapter two! I was also hoping that by writing it during winter I could forgot just how Hot I am. Didn't work.
I don't own The Avengers, Loki, Iron Man, or anything of the like. Just the thoughts inside my head, and Kaia, Gabby, and Nathan. And taking some personal freedoms with mythology and lore.
Kaia was talking away about the play that they saw during school that day while Gabby drove down the Manhattan streets. "I mean, it wasn't very long, but it was really good, and they said that someone from another High School wrote it."
"So now she's get in her head that she's going to finish writing a play over the break," Nathan filled in.
"Language Arts is your best subject, isn't it?" Gabby asked as she turned to the corner to the parking garage. She started to slow down with the traffic but didn't turn her blinker on right away. She had a bad feeling when she saw several cars pulling out of the same parking garage and a few men with blue suits were sitting on benches by the main doors.
"Yeah, my teachers weren't really surprised when I started taking AP classes this year instead of next year," Kaia nodded. "Although instead of sitting with all the sophomores I'm in class with Seniors, and that's not awkward at all." Nathan chuckled lightly. "And- hey, didn't we just pass the Tower?
"Yeah," Gabby nodded. "I think I may have seen some people from Hammer Industries there." Tony had warned Gabby and Kaia about Hammer, and said to call him immediately if he wasn't around. Which is exactly what Kaia did.
"Mmmmhhmn," the tired snuffle of Tony's voice filled the car speakers.
"Daddy," Kaia called out and they heard some shuffling. "Gabby said she same Hammer at home."
"A hammer?" Tony asked, sounding like he had just woken up when he heard Kaia's voice.
"Hammer Industries, Uncle Tony," Gabby elaborated. There seemed to be a crash over the phone.
"Hammer? Where?" Now he was more awake.
"I saw some cars, and what looked like some of his men at the Tower," Gabby told him as she turned a corner, headed to smaller public park where they could stay. They thoguht they heard other voices and the line was suddenly muted. Gabby raised an eyebrow.
"Daddy?" Kaia was also a little confused. Gabby pulled into the small parking lot, away from the few other cars that were there as they waited for Tony to answer.
"Where are you now?" Tony's voice came back.
"At a park just south of midtown," Gabby told them. She suddenly wished that she had let Tony install the video conference screen in her car. There were more voices and more movement in the background. "We were going to get our bags, and finish packing."
"So I'm thinking that you guys should fly out here now, and we'll worry about clothes and the like later," Tony said. "I mean it's not like we can't buy you guys some more clothes and-"
"Gabby?" Gabby looked over to her cousin and saw Kaia and Nathan pointing out the windshield. Her eyes widened a little and she started the car as fast as she could. They could see a smiling, and not in a good way, Justin Hammer walking towards them.
"Dritt," Gabby put her Norwegian class to good use. She put the car into reverse and slammed the pedal, the car kicking up snow and tires screeched on the ground.
"Hey, that didn't sound good, what was that?"
"I think we were followed," Gabby told him. She slammed the car into drive. "There's going to be a jet waiting for us right? Because I can get us there-" She slammed the breaks and both girls screamed when someone landed on the hood of the car.
"Kaia! Gabby! Talk to me here!" Gabby ducked and covered covered her head as the man tried breaking the windshield. There was a loud crack as it started to splinter. Gabby pulled her seatbelt off as Nathan and Kaia followed suit.
"Daddy? There's someone on the car," Kaia called out as Gabby pushed her way into the backseat. "They're trying to get in!" Kaia crawled after her as the guy tried again, the glass cracking more.
"We're gonna make a run for it!" Gabby kicked the door open and grabbed Kaia around the wrist as Nathan pushed her out. Pushing Kaia in front of her she pulled Nathan out and watched as the man jumped off the hood of the car, staring at her. "Go!" Gabby yelled as they started to run. Nathan had grabbed Kaia's hand as he took off running through the snow, Gabby right behind them.
She yelped when the man had grabbed onto her hood and pulled her back. He foot slipped on some ice and she fell in front of the man. Gabby kicked at his knees and he fell with the help of the ice and Gabby quickly gained tractiona nd took off running again. The man growled and pushed himself up running after her. She ran into the busy street, weaving around the labyrinth of honking traffic, catching up with Kaia and Nathan.
"Gabby! Kaia! Nathan!" Tony yelled, not knowing they had left.
"Stark? You sound a little distressed," Stark froze when he heard Justin Hammer's voice. "Those are some reckless kids there, just running into traffic like that, leaving a car behind with some school stuff in it. How are they going to learn if they don't have-"
"Shove it Hammer," Tony growled. "If you touch one hair I will personally show you what the Iron Man suit can do."
"Idle threats, Stark, idle threats." Hammer clicked his tongue against the roof of his mouth as his voice slowly changed to a females. "I'd be more worried about what one of my agents is gonna do if they catch them. Of course that's all you could do is worry, since the last two time we've met I've reminded you what it's meant to be pathetically mortal." Hela hung up the call before Tony could start yelling at her again. She looked at the man who came back empty handed and ran a hand over her face. "I want those them back here, I don't care how. But make sure you bring them back alive."
Gabby took a deep breath, hunched over, trying to compose herself as Kaia leaned against Nathan. They ran for ten minutes until she somehow found she had run into several men in black suits, literally. When she turned to run they grabbed her arm, and one called her name. She stopped when she recognized the voice.
"Uncle Phil!" Kaia called out and wiggled from Nathan's grip and hugged Agent Phil Coulson tightly. They had run into some SHIELD agents on lunch.
Gabby was leaning against Phil's car as he talked on the phone with first Director Fury, then Tony. Phil walked over and handed the phone to Kaia first who grabbed and pressed it to her ear eagerly. "Daddy!"
Phil put his hand on Gabby's back and she stood up slowly, having caught her breath a little more. "That was some fast thinking you did there," Phil said to the teen. "Learning a few things by staying with the Avengers?"
"Just a few," Gabby chuckled.
Tony and Loki were standing the closest to the phone as they talked to Kaia, Steve and Clint standing on the other side of the table. Tony had had JARVIS running scans on all of Manhattan, (Manhattan is rather large, sir,) before Phil had called them.
"Gabby was really fast as she ran, I thought she was gonna lose us even though we had the headstart," Kaia was telling them of their daring escape. "She even slid across the hood of a car, they honked at us, but they didn't know why we were running. And they we ran right into Uncle Phil and co-workers."
"You guys didn't get hurt did you?" Loki asked as he patiently waited for Kaia to tell her story.
"Nope! It was like Gabby knew exactly what to do. I think she kicked the guy in the knee pretty hard" Kaia praised. Loki had let go of a breath he hadn't been aware he had been holding. "I think all that time she was spending with Clint and Natasha really helped." Tony and Loki looked up at the archer and the top of his ears turned a little red.
"Well, don't worry about a thing, okay?" Tony told the younger girl. "Uncle Phil is gonna take care of you two, and we'll see you soon, alright? Then you can tell us in all the glorious details you want about how you escaped."
"Okay!" They could hear the smile on the girls face and Tony and Loki visibly relaxed. "Do you wanna talk to Gabby?"
"Please, kiddo," Tony asked. There was a shuffle then they heard a tired voice.
"Hello?" Car doors slammed in the background as they got inside of Phil's car.
"Hey marathon runner," Tony called out.
"I wish I was, then I wouldn't feel like my lungs are trying to leave my body," Gabby retaliated, leaning back in the front seat. She looked int he mirror and saw Nathan wrap an arm around Kaia's shoulders. "I'm gonna feel this all in the morning, I know I am."
"That just means a little more training is needed," Clint told her, and Gabby groaned.
"We're proud of you," Tony told her seriously. "There are a thousand and one ways that could have played out back there."
"I try not to think about it," Gabby told him softly.
"We have some things that we'll tell you when you get here." They didn't want to say it over the phone in case Kaia could hear it. "I'd say you earned that weekend stay in Malibu now."
"You are so lucky I don't have class tomorrow."
Nathan and Kaia held hands as they walked into one of SHIELD's offices behind Phil and Gabby. They knew that Tony wouldn't be happy that they had made the pit stop instead of going straight to the airport, but knew that Uncle Phil still had to follow orders. They walked inside one of the waiting rooms and Phil handed them a bottle of water each.
"I'll be right back, kay? Then we'll get you out to Malibu before they call here again." Gabby chuckled a little as Kaia nodded. A few minutes later the door opened and Nick Fury walked in.
"Kaia, we meet again," Fury stated and then eyed Nathan. The teen almost let go of Kaia's hand when caught under the one eyed gaze. "Well, well, I finally get to meet the infamous Gabriella Potts," Fury walked over and stuck out his hand, of which Gabby shook with a confused look. "Agent Coulson talks about you all the time."
"Makes more sense now," Gabby muttered.
"I heard that you three had quite the afternoon adventure today," he pulled a seat over to them and crossed a leg as he sat down.
"Do my Dad's know you're talking to us?" Kaia asked. Fury should have known that Tony and Loki would train her.
"I'm not going to ask anything that you didn't already tell them."
"That's a no." Kaia crossed her arms a little. "But okay, we'll tell you." Fury raised a eyebrow.
Kaia started to retell the story of how her extremely brave cousin had noticed the Hammer suits at their home, and then drove off as they talked to Tony. Of how when they saw Justin Hammer and the man in black tried to attack them, Gabby quickly made sure they got away first, and they ran, almost as fast as Captain America. Gabby had even jumped over a couple of cars, (Gabby quickly corrected her little cousin, telling him she slid so they wouldn't get run over,) until they ran right into Uncle Phil.
Phil has slipped into the room as Kaia finished her harrowing storytelling, and Gabby was blushing slightly from the praise.
"It all happened so fast," Gabby said to Fury. "Really, I don't know what was going on, and I kind of don't want to. I just wanna make sure that we get on a plane and down to the Malibu house."
Fury had listened without interrupting once then nodded and stood up. "Sounds good. Agent Coulson will take you to the quinjet that's waiting on the roof. You'll be there in a matter of hours." Kaia's eyes had gotten big. She had always wanted to ride in one of the quinjets, but couldn't since she was always told that they were for Avengers missions only. Gabby looked a little queasy.
Tony and Loki were the first to spot the black car pull up the driveway with Phil and the kids. Kaia jumped out of the car with Gabby quickly on her heels. Tony and Loki reached the first floor as the girls ran inside.
"Daddy!" She called out to the two men and Loki wrapped his arms around her first. Gabby ran past the two men and down the hall as Phil and Nathan walked in. "Gabby doesn't feel good," Kaia made a face.
"It seems that the ride in the quinjet didn't agree with her," Phil filled in.
"She's usually knocked out when she's on the jet," Tony supplied as he pulled Kaia into a tight hug.
"She spent half the flight talking to some guy," Kaia leaned back in Tony's arms and both Tony and Loki looked at her. "She was using her phone to video chat with some guy, who she claimed was just a friend, but we couldn't hear what he was saying."
"It must have been one of your phones," Phil said to Tony. "I couldn't get any information from it to find out who this guy was."
"For once I'm upset that I locked SHIELD out of my tech," Tony pouted a little.
"I can tell you his name," Nathan blinked when four sets of eyes turned towards him. "Her room is just down the hall from the one I stay in at the Tower."
"Mortals," Loki grumbled under his breath.
Gabby slowly stepped out the bathroom, a little color having come back to her face, and held a towel to her forehead. She stopped when saw Loki standing in front of her, looking down at her. "They snitched, didn't they?"
"Afraid so, darling niece," Loki wrapped an arm around her shoulders. She felt a refreshing force slide through her body, curing her very upset stomach.
"Are they planning a sneak attack?" Gabby dropped her head a little.
"Plotting, I'm sure," Loki told her as he started to rub her shoulders a little. He spotted Tony and Phil peeking around the corner.
"He's still getting used to everything, it's only been like ten years, and now this," Gabby groaned a little. "We had a long talk about stuff too, and I don't want them to rehash that." Tony's eyes had widened a little. "It's all moving slow, which is good, for both of us, because obviously he's still trying to work out those feelings for Peggy, and I can understand that." She blinked a little when Loki had stopped rubbing her shoulders.
"Star and stripes? Really?" Gabby dropped her head when she heard Tony's voice.
"I thought you already knew!" Gabby pointed at Tony and his eyes widened in mock innocence. "You can't say anything to him!"
"Me? I don't know what you're talking about, except that you're dating someone old enough to be your grandfather!" Tony retaliated.
"Do you think you could my new cards signed?" Phil asked her.