Tony had laid the plan for the Stark Expo out on a desk. His idea was just too big to question anyone where Melody, Clint and Emily had gone even if he was thinking about the three. "Jarvis, can you kindly form a digital wire frame to make a suitable projection?"

"1974 Stark Expo model scan complete, sir."

Tony picked the scan up and away from the original model. "Uh, how many buildings are there?"

"Am I to include the Belgium waffle stands?"

"It was rhetorical." Tony spoke, too focused to deal with Jarvis's sass at the moment. "Just show me." He began to spin the scan around and then adjust it so it was standing up. "What does that look like to you, Jarvis? Not unlike an atom?" He leaned forward going to the small circle in the middle which was the globe in the center of everything. "In which case the nucleus would be here. Highlight it." He spoke as he pointed at the globe.

He made the globe get bigger and looked around at everything else around it and began to get rid of the pathways. "What is it you're trying to achieve, sir?"

"I'm discovering-" He shook his head once he realized that was the wrong word to use. "Correction. Rediscovering a new element." He continued to study it, his hand resting his chin as he thought. "Lose the landscaping, parking lots, exits, entrances." With more things gone, the more it all made sense. "Structure the protons and neutrons using the pavilions." They began to go into the circle in the middle, losing its globe status and blowing his mind. "This is the framework." He whispered while chuckling about how brilliant this was.

And like that, the framework of the element was done. He threw his hands out so the atom grew, surrounding him. He looked around in wonderment, finding this all one of the most amazing things he had ever seen. "Dead for almost twenty years and still taking me to school."

He laughed as he shrunk the atom down to a small size. "The proposed element should serve as a viable replacement for palladium."

"Thanks, Dad." He spoke as he continued to look down at the atom with a more grateful glance.

"Unfortunately, it's impossible to synthesize."

Tony smiled, ready to accept that challenge. Nothing was truly impossible. "Get ready for a major remodel, fellas!"

Ivan had been ignoring everything Justin had told him. Instead of Justin using him, like he thought, Ivan was now using Justin. He had made his drones and then he had made his own suit along with more whips, powered by the arc reactor. Although, Justin had a plan to get his drones done faster by giving him one of the things he wanted.

When Melody woke up, she quickly noticed she was tied down to a chair. She began to struggle when a voice interrupted her. "It's no use." When she looked to her left, she saw Emily also tied up to a chair.

"Mom?" She asked incredulously. "What are you doing here?"

"Some SHIELD agents have been compromised. They knocked me out and dragged my ass here."

Melody began to look around in the all-white room, having no idea where they were. "Do you know where we are?"

"No idea." Emily spoke as she also looked around. "Who kidnapped us?"

"My evil ex-boyfriend and my evil ex-trainer." Emily turned to her, giving her a confused look, causing Melody to just shrug. "I had a bad girl phase." Then Melody's eyes grew wide, realizing something. "Clint. They took Clint too. Did you see him?" Emily shook her head, causing Melody to throw her head back desperately. "Clint, where are you?"

The door right across from them opened, alerting both Melody and Emily. Kyle and Joey both walked in to the room while holding Clint whose wrists were bounded together by rope. Melody felt a rush of anger and helplessness all at once. She continued to struggle more once the door shut and she saw Clint looking at her, trying to assure her in some way that he was all right and she didn't need to worry about him. "Hello, Melody."

"You crazy son of a bitch, get me out of here!" She yelled as she moved around in her chair violently.

"See," Joey began as he moved towards her. "We can't do that. You're Ivan's little present."

"Ivan's alive?!" Melody practically screamed out.

Kyle turned to look at Joey with an annoyed glance. "Shit," Joey spoke once he saw Kyle's face. "I forgot that nobody knew."

"Oh," Melody commented. "I get it. Kyle's the brains and Joey's the brawn."

They both turned to Melody annoyed when Emily looked back and forth at the two and asked, "There's no way you two boys are doing this all by yourself. Who you working for?"

The two boys looked at each other with a smile as Clint rolled his eyes. "So now you're quiet?" Clint commented.

"Shut the hell up." Kyle told Clint who just smiled even wider.

"So, which one's in charge?" Emily asked as she leaned back in her chair. "I mean, one of you needs to call the shots."

"No one calls the shots." Joey told them.

"Oh," Melody spoke in a confused voice while leaning back in the chair like her mother. "So, which one of you reports to Ivan?"

"We both do." Joey told him with a shrug.

"Don't tell them! Justin's gonna kill us!" Right when Kyle yelled that out, he shut his eyes and Melody's mouth dropped.

"Justin Hammer?" Melody asked. "He's the one you're working for? He has Ivan?"

Joey shrugged. "Yeah, he's our uncle."

"Shut up, Joey!" Kyle yelled at him.

"You already told them we worked for Hammer!"

"They're agents." Melody looked over at Clint, giving him a smile, knowing how easy this would be. "They're supposed to know how to get everything out of us!"

"I'm not an agent." Melody told him with a smile. "So, you can talk to me."

Joey shrugged while looking to Kyle. "She doesn't know anything."

"He's right, Kyle." Emily said with a smile. "She doesn't know anything."

Kyle rolled his eyes and looked back to Joey. "She's smart."

"He's right, Joey." Clint told him with a shrug. "She is smart." All three of them smiled as they looked from Kyle to Joey, ready to play with them.

Tony had worked all day, getting things ready to synthesize the new element and after a few hours, he was visited by Agent Coulson. "I heard you broke the perimeter."

Tony looked up at him. "Under your Supervisor's help." Tony spoke, referring to Emily. "Have you seen her by the way? And Clint? And Melody? They like disappeared or something." Coulson shook his head. "And that was like three years ago. Where have you been?"

"I was doing some stuff." He spoke as he moved around all of the things in his way to get to Tony.

"Well, me too and it worked." Coulson began to look around with a confused face, not understanding how all of this happened when he came across something in a box which took his breath away. "I'm playing for the home team, Coulson." He knew the only reason he came down here was to make sure he was working. "You and all your fabulous fury freak brothers. So, are you gonna let me work or bust my balls?"

"What's this doing here?" Coulson asked as he picked up a red, white and blue shield with one huge star in the middle that was cut in half. It obviously wasn't finished.

"That's it." Tony spoke once he saw it. Coulson looked down at it with a confused face and then back up at Tony. "Bring that to me."

"You know what this is?" Coulson was starting to get excited as he brought the shield to him. He was hoping that someone knew just as much about the Captain as he did.

"Lift the coil." Tony commanded as Coulson handed him the shield. He did as he said even if he was left confused. He put the shield under the coil and Coulson felt like he probably shouldn't have done what he told him to. "Now drop it." He did as Tony said which began crushing the shield. Tony moved behind him, picked up the level and put it on the coil. He gave a satisfied smile once it leveled out. "Perfect." He took the level off and looked back to Coulson. "I'm busy. What do you want?"

He shook his head, finally looking away from the shield. "Nothing. Goodbye." Tony blinked a couple of times, thinking it was random. "I've been reassigned. Director Fury wants me in New Mexico."

"Fantastic." Tony told him with a nod. "Land of enchantment."

"So I'm told."

"Secret stuff?" Tony inferred with a shrug.

"Something like that." Tony smiled a little bit and Coulson leaned in to shake his hand. "Good luck."

"Bye. Thanks."

"We need you." Coulson told him once he broke away from the handshake.

"Yeah, more than you know."

"Not that much." Coulson turned away and Tony watched after him while shaking his head, getting back to working.

Kyle and Joey were both rubbing their heads after Melody, Emily and Clint's talking. "What am I even doing here?" Melody finally asked while throwing her hands in the air.

Kyle moved up to her, giving her a smile. "You're Ivan's present."

Emily looked at the two worriedly. "You told me that. You never told me how."

"Because once Ivan gives Justin what he wants, you're going straight to Ivan's room and he's killing you with his bare hands." Melody blinked a little bit, her face growing serious, resulting in a bigger smile from Kyle. "What tough girl? You've got nothing for that?"

Melody moved in, getting her tough girl face back on. "Then why are Clint and Emily here?"

"Leverage." Joey spoke as he pulled out a knife from one of his baggy pockets, causing Melody to begin to twitch from how nervous she was. "And you haven't been behaving well, Melody." He stuck the knife into Clint's leg as he screamed and Melody began struggling even more to get out of her chair.

"Leave him alone!" Melody yelled to Kyle who was still right in front of her. "He didn't do anything!"

Kyle pulled out a gun and pointed it right at her head, causing Melody to let out a deep, frustrated breath and Emily to begin to twitch with nervousness. "Why don't you shut up or the next one is gonna hurt like hell."

"You wouldn't shoot me. Ivan wants me fresh and unharmed, right?" Melody told him with a smug smile.

"No, you're right." Kyle spoke as he moved to gun away from her, putting it down at his side. "But I'd shoot her."

Without looking, he put his gun up to Emily, shooting her in the stomach, knocking her chair down. Melody screamed and when she looked to her mother, her eyes were shut and she wasn't moving. "What the hell?!" Joey screamed. Melody couldn't take her eyes off of her mother. She searched all over for any sign of life, but couldn't find one. "Hammer told us not to kill anyone!"

"Shut up, Joey!" Melody turned away from her mother, taking huge deep breaths. She felt like everything was falling apart. She loved her mother. That was one thing she couldn't deny. And now, she wasn't getting up and it was destroying her from the inside. Kyle turned to Melody as she was fuming and leaned down on her arm rests on the chair so he could look her right in the eye. "You gonna behave now, princess?"

"You...psycho!" Melody head butted him and then kicked him in the balls as Clint elbowed Joey in the head, ripped the knife out of his thigh and stuck Joey to the wall by forcing the knife through his shoulder. Emily got up from her spot with the chair still attached to her and flipped over, breaking the chair by landing on Kyle, knocking him unconscious. "Mom!" Melody screamed as Emily took Kyle's knife and began to hurry to Melody, cutting her loose.

Right when she cut off the rope, Melody threw her arms around her mother and began to let tears fall down her cheeks. Clint took the knife from Emily, cutting his hands loose and then got distracted by something wedged between all the things piled as storage in the room. "I am so sorry." Melody began apologizing. "I am so sorry for every bad thing I had ever said about you and how mean I was to you. I didn't mean any of it."

Emily smiled and began to pat her back as Melody stuffed her face into Emily's shoulder. "It's okay."

"Are you okay?" Melody gasped out, breaking away from the hug to look at Emily.

Emily unzipped her SHIELD uniform and showed her the bullet proof vest where the bullet was still stuck in, taking it out like it was nothing with no blood anywhere. "I'm fine."

Melody was still shaking though. "When I saw you go down, I just-I thought-" Emily cut her off by pulling her into a hug as she continued to cry. "I love you."

Joey moved his free hand to the knife sticking him to the wall and pulled it out of his body. "I love you." Emily told her, feeling so much happiness that Melody had finally said it.

Joey aimed the knife at Emily's back so it would get both of the girls and he was about to throw it, when an arrow whizzed through the air and pinned Joey's other arm to the wall. As he screamed, both of the girls jumped out of the hug and looked to where they had heard the arrow coming from. Clint was in a crouching position with a bow in hand. They all let silence pass over them when Melody finally decided she couldn't hold back words anymore. "What the hell was that?!"

"I just saved your lives!" Clint spoke as he got out of the position he was in and limped to the knife on the floor, picking it up.

"Where did you even get a bow and arrow? How did you even make that shot?" She asked right before Clint shoved the knife into Joey's other arm, making sure he was stuck there this time as he screamed from the pain.

"It was sitting over there." He told her while pointing to all the things that were stuck in the corner of the room. "It's Hammer tech, though. I was expecting something to be wrong with it. And bow and arrow is my weapon. I have good eyes."

"Alright, hawk eye." Melody spoke sarcastically, causing Clint to roll his eyes.

"We've got to get out of here." Emily spoke to them.

"Are you okay?" Melody asked while moving to Clint while looking down at his leg. "Does it hurt?"

"Well it doesn't feel good, Mel."

She rolled her eyes and turned away from him. "We have to do something about him." Melody spoke while looking down at an unconscious Kyle.

They all looked over at Joey who was struggling to get out and then back down at Kyle. "Well," Emily spoke with a shrug. "I think the right thing to do is to tie him up." Melody looked up at her and smile. "Don't you?"

"You are so bad ass." Melody commented with a smile, causing a bigger smile from Emily, knowing they would finally be able to be mother and daughter.

Tony finally synthesized the element and put it into the arc reactor, proving to be a perfect replacement. "Dummy," Tony asked as he began to look around at everything all around the workshop scattered. "Can you clean up this mess?"

Dummy began to get to work as the phone began ringing. "Incoming call from a blocked number, sir."

"Phone privilege is reinstated." Tony spoke cheerfully after SHIELD had cut it all off to make him work. He leaned forward and pressed the speaker button, leaning in, expecting to have a conversation with Coulson about New Mexico or something else he needed to do for SHIELD. "Coulson, buddy, how's the land of enchantment?"

"Hey, Tony." Tony frowned once he heard the thick Russian accent come out of the speakers. "How you doing?" Tony sat there for a moment, feeling fear run through his whole body, making it cold. "A double cycle."

"You what?" Tony asked him nervously. Ivan was currently sitting in his cell with the two men sent to watch him hanging from the ceiling as blood dripped down his arm.

"You told me double cycle is more power." Ivan spoke, trying to jog Tony's memory of their talk while they were in the prison in Monaco. "Good advice."

"You sound pretty spritely for a dead guy." Tony tried to sound sarcastic, but he couldn't deny that he was scared of this man.

"You too." Tony shut his eyes, taking a huge breath before hitting the mute button. "Now, the true history of the Stark name will be written."

"Jarvis, where is he?" He asked in a stressful voice.

"Accessing the Oracle Grid." On the computer monitor, it showed the United States. "Eastern Seaboard."

"What your father did to my family over forty years, I will do to you in forty minutes."

He hit the button to unmute it before saying, "Sounds good. Let's get together and hash it out."

He hit the button to mute the call again so Jarvis could update him. "Tri-state area. Manhattan."

"I'm off right after I kill the Barnes girl." Tony stiffened at the mention of Melody. "I hear the men keeping me here got me her mother and boyfriend as well." Tony looked at the computer screen, shaking with the anticipation of getting the trace on the call. "I hope you're ready."

The line beeped, signaling the end. "Call trace incomplete." Tony banged the table before throwing his face in his hands.

"Call Melody, Jarvis." Tony commanded in a shaky voice. "Call her right now." The line rang, but then went to voicemail, causing him to bang his hand on the table again.

Ivan got up from where he sat, satisfied because he finally had the upper hand. When he walked into the room where they were keeping Melody, he saw Kyle tied to the chair and both of Joey's arms stuck to the wall. "Hey!" He yelled at Ivan. "Can you help us out?" Ivan rolled his eyes angrily and shut the door on them even though Joey screamed for him to come back.

Back at home, Tony sat there with his face in his hands, quietly weeping knowing Melody would be dead in almost no time until his phone began ringing. His entire heart was hurting and he wondered how he could even begin to have a conversation on the phone after he heard about Melody, but something was telling him he had to answer that phone. "Answer it." Tony spoke in a muffled voice to Jarvis.

Right when the phone stopped ringing, he heard, "Tony?"

He sat up at the sound of her voice. "Melody?" He got close to the phone, wanting to just be by her side already. "Baby, is that really you?"

"It's really me." Melody told him. "Are you all right?"

"Don't worry about me. Melody, honey, where are you?" He asked her quickly.

"Clint, Emily and I are in New York."

"New York?"

"Yeah, Tony, listen. Ivan's alive."

"I know. I just got a call from him saying that he had the three of you. Did you get out?"

"Of course we did." He smiled a little bit at Melody's obvious tone he thought he wasn't going to be able to hear ever again. "It's Hammer who's funding the whole thing. We're heading to the Stark Expo now, but we need you there, Tony. We need Iron Man there. Ivan's planning something big. We don't know what, but it's big."

"I found an element that replaces the palladium."

Melody's eyes grew wide. "What element?"

"Don't know yet. Just rediscovered it."

"So you're not dying?"

"Not anymore."

"Get to New York quick so I can hug you."

"On it, Mel."

Tony hung up the phone and put the new arc reactor in his chest. "You want to run some tests?" Tony asked Jarvis. "Run 'em and assemble the suit while you're at it."

"We are unclear as to the effects-"

"I don't want to hear it, Jarvis!" The arc reactor began to glow a blue white, checking the arc reactor out, causing Tony to begin coughing. "It tastes like coconut. And metal." He continued to cough as the light grew brighter. "Oh wow, yeah!" He loved this new element very much.

The way I have it planned, there are only two more chapters left, but you guys know by now that sometimes things don't go as planned. Hope you enjoyed! Review!