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Skye had most recently moved to an apartment right smack in the middle of Brooklyn. Okay, so to be perfectly specific, Skye had bought over a whole building right there somewhere close to the Docks and had built up an innocuous looking building with the Shield Caterpillars' base spawning right beneath it with the allocated funds she received from the Directors.

Admittedly that getting superpowered people that are able to function as agents and black ops had been one of the limiting factors, but that is not the point. Having shot up from a no-name agent to the director of the Caterpillar division, Skye had taken an almost paranoia-inducing amount of caution.

So when she heard the pattering of footsteps behind her at 4am through an alley, she braced her power instinctively, holding her hands out to appear harmless but really it is just in case she needed to use her powers.

The lady who ran into her vision skidded to a stop, waving her hands panically, "Oh my god! I didn't mean to startle you, it's just that I was picking my drunk boss up and the car broke down then the men attacked and oh god I'm rambling. I'm sorry!"

Speaking of men, the group of three men came running towards them and clearly disregarding the both women of any threat. She pushes Pepper behind her. Sending a man flying with a well-landed roundabout kick, she ducks the shockstick, spinning into a roll and swipes the other man at the legs. He falls flat and as they recovered, Skye takes her icer and shoots the three man rapidly.

"Oh my god! Are you some kind of agent?" She rummages through her bag for something as she takes several steps away from Skye.

With the guys dealt with, Skye gives Pepper a wry smile. "I didn't expect for my soulmate to be The Pepper Potts."

The strawberry blond woman paused in her purse searching. "You know I always wondered why anyone would refer to me as The Pepper Potts until recently." Then she procured a phone and shook it angrily.

"Invincible my ass. I am Iron Man, my ass," she mutters to her phone. "It's dead," Pepper declares to Skye. "Got a phone I can use? The men kidnapped my boss and that's not going to end very well." She presses her temple tiredly.

"Which men? How many? How long ago?" Skye asks, rapidly making her way back from the direction Pepper had came from.

"Ten men and this weird looking floaty thing with a huge head about half an hour ago?"

"Modok, great." Skye turns to the phone, "Mobilising Alpha team. Modok kidnapped Iron Man. Thirty minutes ago at coordinates 17HCU329731." She spins about the car. No tire tracks, so by helicopter? She would need to go with them and mobilise perhaps the twins to guard Pepper.

"Are you like some kind of agent? Like Shield? Does Shield still exist?"

"Pepper. I'll assign some guards with you until we retrieve Stark. I'd like to keep this under the Avengers' radar so-"

"Well the Avengers are sort of at some secret base and not in New York at the moment and I'm coming along." She puts on a determined face.

"There's going to be fighting and there's a very high possibility that you're going to be a burden."

Pepper holds her hand out for the phone and dials a number. "Jarvis. Activate Rescue."

"Rescue? You know Rescue?" Skye blinks owlishly at her and in not more than three minutes, an armor similar to Stark's clips onto her and the faceplate snaps down.

She flips the faceplate up and winks at Skye. "Yes. Call me Rescue when I'm in this."