A/N: I blame Ozhawk (soulmate shorts AKA the Crackship Armada), sergeant_angel(from Ao3- Ring them bells) and CeliaEquus (from Ao3 - Fate has a twisted sense of humour) for the inspiration and the need to write this shorts.

Short chapters and written quickly because I (I quote Sergeant_angel) will "not allow myself more than a day to write them because I will sit on WIP forever if I let myself", a sentiment I truly concur.

Please read their stories if you enjoy the soulmate AU!

Tony spent the rest of his life (after his mark appeared) in chagrin.

He was Tony fucking Stark! He's never been questioned for his competence (apart from the inadequacy of staying sober). So when he read his soulmark, "Move over, let me show you how the pro does it." He throws a fit, demolishes a room or two before Rhodey tells him to get his panties out of his ass (ok so he did that with a blow to the head and dumping his whiskey in the sink).

Tony then decided that his soulmate might be just barking up the wrong tree and was determined to prove her why he was so much better than her in every way in true Stark fashion. Overwhelming odds and lots of liquor.

It was supposed to be an easy mission. Get in, get to the control room, retrieve data and get out. What could go wrong?

Tony was so never going to say those four words again because clearly saying it jinxed it. It wasn't his fault that the mission became such a massive shitstorm as well. (So he might have been somewhat drunk, but he was in the middle of a pity party when the spy twins came. Not his fault.)

Apparently the facility had some hard ass encryption that couldn't be done remotely or through a Trojan. He tried to get Jarvis to do it. Or he thinks he might have because he only remembers vaguely getting dragged out into the quintet jet by Legolas and quite possibly Spy-barbie.

Tony wasn't even sure how they had managed to get him into the control room without him even in the suit but if anyone could have done, it'd have been the spy twins. He sits at the keyboard, trying to crack the code which wouldn't have been such a pain in the ass had he not been pissed drunk. But that is what he'd like to say, he really isn't pissed drunk (he has a high alcohol tolerance) though he is keen on pretending to be pissed drunk so as to pass off his inability to hack the database. But really, the person who created the database must have been a genius if he couldn't even hack it.

So deep in thought he was, that he didn't really pay attention when someone else entered the room or the consecutive conversation, but he did catch parts of it, particularly when they were doubting his competency.

"Quake, he's been at it for thirty minutes already. You think you can beat Tony Stark?"

Tony can hear the smugness in her voice as she replied, "If he's been at it at thirty minutes and he still hasn't gotten it, then I'm pretty sure I could."

The billionaire makes a derisive noise, not even glancing at them and mutters out loud to no one in particular. "Like as if an agent would be better than me in hacking."

She shoves his chair aside saying, "Move over, let me show you how the pro does it."

He does this perfect imitation of a goldfish as he gapes at her. His mind fizzes and Tony stares at her a little longer before muttering to Spy barbie, "She didn't just- She just-"

His soulmate raises an eyebrow at him then at spy twins. Robin hood shakes, gripping his side, laughing hysterically. "Are you two okay?" she asks Robin Hood then to spy barbie who looks only smug but offers no explanation to their reaction. Tony isn't sure he wants her to explain to his soulmate why Legolas is laughing so hard.

The great debate on what his soulmate had been a pro compared to him had been a long on-going and very verbal, occasionally physical discussion. Pepper was in the belief of patience or tolerance (and he is offended by her implication that he has no patience), Capsicle was in the belief of maturity (he is very mature, thank you) and the rest seemed to swing between his "genius" mind and his "magical hands" (no innuendos intended). And whenever they suggested that, let's just say, the contractor who fixes his rooms probably has him as his only client.

"Sorry, it was based on a firewall I created awhile back," she shrugs unapologetic, "and you were a bit slow for me. I can't believe it, Tony Stark couldn't crack my encryption." She types rapidly on the keyboard with a smirk. "Done. Let's get out of here." which only causes Hawkass to burst out in a new round of laughter because she cracked it in three minutes. He is never going to make new arrows for Hawkass again.

His soulmate with dark hair and dark exotic eyes tosses him his thumbdrive and eyes the wall, before blasting the wall to bits with her weird finger motion.

"You know, I always thought you were chattier, judging by how much Agent Barton moans about you to DC."

"Say something to her!" snorts Legolas and he elbows Tony in the ribs. Legolas shrugs at her, "Sorry Quake. I guess he lost his tongue."

"I didn't even think it was possible to ever shut him up," Spy barbie added.

"Beautiful, quite possibly a better hacker than me and super-powered. I take back all my tantrums!" he finally says (Legolas who retold the story to the other Avengers insisted that he squeaked, but that it absolutely not true. Do not trust the Big Bird.)

"Huh. Didn't expect that." She says with a bemused smile. "You know I became a hacker because of those words. Although the other parts were a bit questionable. Why on earth did you throw a tantrum?"

Hawkass still laughing hysterical, grabs onto his soulmate's shoulder, "Quake. You said.. show you how a pro does it." He gasps for breath.

Quake. Tony finds he likes that call sign very much.

"Oh." She grins at him with those exotic eyes. "Well I'm certainly a better hacker than you."

Tony finds that he's actually okay with that. He will let her have that.

Just that. He is definitely better than her in everything else.