A/N
There are two references to a movie and TV show in this. One is a very subtle reference to Jurassic World, and the other is a more obvious reference to Sherlock! Let me know if you find them! I'll say what they were in the next chapter!
Two months later
Steve was sure this was it. He stood in the middle of Central Park, New York, facing Tony and his army of Iron Man suits and loyal 'rule-followers'. Behind him was Natasha, Clint, Pietro, Wanda, Vision, Sam, Peter (who had defected several weeks ago), Skye and her inhuman friend Lincoln.
"Tony, I don't wanna do this." He called, and heard a robotic laugh from the central gold and red suit.
"If you don't, then why are you here?" He asked, folding his arms and shrugging at Rhodey, who was to his right.
"To settle things once and for all. This can't go on." Steve answered, taking his shield from where it sat on his back and getting it ready for the inevitable.
Then one of Tony's suits that was uninhabited fired a shot and the chaos began. Everyone from behind Steve and Tony ran forwards and the fight began. Skye and Lincoln took down three suits within seconds, Wanda took down another, Natasha, Peter, Clint and Pietro teamed up to take on war machine as Vision, Sam and Steve took on Tony and the rest of the suits.
Steve reflected an energy blast back at Tony via his shield and threw it in his direction, which struck Tony's arm and knocked him off balance. Sam sent icer bullets at him, hoping against hope one would penetrate his armour and take him out for a while.
Peter had webbed war machine's vision as Pietro spun him in different directions as fast as he could, and Natasha tried to get a good spot to tackle him.
Clint had climbed a nearby tree, and was firing arrows everywhere to help his teammates.
Wanda and Skye were laughing in the middle of destroyed Iron Man suits, as more and more started coming at them, with Lincoln draining the energy of some as they came close, and using the energy to further enhance his power.
Laura sat inside Coulson's office with Kim, watching the news report of the battle unfold. She was leaning her head back and not really paying attention, staring at the ceiling and counting down until something really bad happened, as it inevitably would in these situations.
The door opened and Coulson, Fitz and Simmons shot in, Coulson talking rapidly to Skye through her earpiece.
Kim shook her head and drowned it all out, smiling weakly at Fitz, then turning her head back to the battle.
It got worse with every second. The hulkbuster had come into play, even though Bruce had vanished several days ago, not wanting to get involved, and Vision had left Tony to Steve and Sam, who were struggling slightly without their omniscient friend.
Laura's head snapped up suddenly, as an obvious twist of pain ran through her body, and showed on her face. She keeled over, gagging and nearly falling off her chair. Kim grabbed her shoulders and Coulson pulled her up.
"Laura, what is it?" he asked, but she couldn't answer as another ripple of pain spread through her. "Tell me what's wrong with you?" he asked; louder and more severe.
"The baby… it's coming." She stammered through panting breaths.
Coulson looked up at Simmons, who shook her head.
"I've never been trained in that field… I have no idea what to do!" she answered, her eyes unnaturally wide.
"Oh for gods sake just get me to the nearest hospital you idiots!" Laura all but yelled, using Kim as a prop and getting to her feet. "And Coulson? Get Steve there. Right now." she growled as Hunter and Bobbi rushed in, and took over getting her to the garage- Hunter picked her up bridal style and ran towards the garage, Bobbi and the others following closely behind.
Coulson got Skye up on his sat phone as he jogged behind the others.
"Sir?" Skye answered immediately, out of breath.
"I need you to stop the battle immediately and get Steve to the nearest hospital. The baby's coming and Laura will kill him if he's not there." Coulson said, entering the garage and hopping into the drivers seat of the SUV with Laura, Fitz and Simmons in the back. May and the rest of the team took the larger SUV and followed them out of the doors.
"Roger that, sir. Over and out." Skye said, before turning off her comm., blowing up another iron man suit and running towards where Steve and Tony now fought.
"Tony! Steve! Stop!" She shouted, throwing her hands out between them.
"Skye what the hell are you doing?" shouted Steve, preparing himself for another round.
"Laura's in labour. We need to go right now!" Skye shouted back, and Steve promptly dropped his shield in shock, and locked eyes with Tony, who had his mask lifted up now.
"Go. For now, a truce." Tony snapped, turning away and starting to talk frantically to Jarvis.
"What hospital?" Asked Steve, picking his shield up and addressing Skye sharply.
"Bridgepoint." She replied. "We can make our own way there. Get Sam to fly you." She said, and ran to gather the team as Sam grabbed Cap's arms and they flew away.
"Skye, where are they going?" Natasha yelled, as the iron man armour she was fighting suddenly turned and started to fly back towards Avengers Tower.
"Laura. The baby's coming now." Skye panted. "We need to get down there. Bridgepoint hospital."
Natasha nodded, and ran to their hijacked S.H.I.E.L.D. SUV that they had 'stolen' from Coulson when he 'wasn't looking' (They all knew he was, but he didn't exactly want to punish them for it).
The rest of Cap's team jumped inside, and Natasha drove them, as fast as possible, to the hospital.
Laura and Steve arrived at basically the same time, Steve dropped from out of the sky as Laura was being wheeled in by emergency teams.
When he landed, there was a joint screech of surprise from Laura, the entire medical team, Coulson, Fitz, Simmons and Hunter.
"Oh thank god." Laura breathed, as Steve rushed towards her, the med team looking, open mouthed, at him. They continued in after Steve had explained that he was the father, leaving everyone else outside.
"What do we do now?" Asked Hunter, after they had long since disappeared out of sight.
"Do some of you want to wait out here and others can go in and wait outside for Tony and everyone else?" asked Coulson, making a move to lead Kim, May and FitzSimmons inside. Bobbi nodded and her, Mack and Hunter took a seat on a small bench near the exit.
Hunter sighed, then pulled out his phone.
"Hunter… is that Angry Birds?" asked Bobbi sceptically, leaning over and peering at what he was doing.
"I was halfway through a really difficult round when all this happened. I'm finishing." Hunter retorted, mocking offense. Bobbi just rolled her eyes, and they spent the next hour taking turns at defeating the pigs and waiting for news or more people to arrive.
When the battered SUV finally arrived, ten minutes before Tony, Bobbi was furiously tapping at Hunter's phone, now playing fruit ninja. Natasha shot out of the car and looked at the three agents sat together.
"Where are they?" she asked as a form of greeting. Bobbi didn't even look up, so Mack had to remember where Laura was.
"floor five." He said. "We're now just waiting on Tony and Rhodes, then we can go inside as well. I think it's gonna rain." He said mildly, letting the others troop in, and the three paused their games and laughed when Natasha had to hand over all her weapons, Clint was forced to remove his bow and arrows and Peter even had to take off his web shooters. Skye, Pietro, Lincoln and Wanda smirked at each other as they walked past the hyped up security; they had got away with their powers.
Two hours passed, Tony arrived, earning immense tension in the waiting area from the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and Avengers in the room. They barely spoke, except for the grins and snorts every time they heard Laura insult Steve. It was incredibly funny to hear Steve obviously try not to come up with a witty comeback and instead say something to soothe her and help calm her even a little.
Soon, a nurse walked out of the room, smiling.
Coulson and Tony stood immediately, needing any news.
"She's sleeping at the moment, but Steve's got the baby. It's a boy." She said, then walked away down the corridor, avoiding various inhumans and robots as she went.
"A boy!" Tony exclaimed happily almost bouncing up and down at the prospect of a grandson.
"Wonder what they'll call him" piped up Skye from the other side of the room.
"Obviously Leo." Called Fitz from the seat next to Coulson.
Tony scoffed. "No, no, no. They'll name him after his grandfather, obviously." He said, pretending to do a hair toss as a tired Steve walked out of the room, still in his uniform, but no baby.
"Stark, she wants to see you. The rest of you can take it in turns after he's seen Laura." Steve said, and led Tony inside the room.
"Hey there, Mommy dearest!" he said as he sauntered in and caught eyes with a very tired and disgruntled Laura. She rolled her eyes, but handed the small boy over to Tony who laughed and cooed at the little boy, who was sleeping.
"You got a name?" he asked, ignoring Steve a little and directing the question at his daughter.
She looked at Steve, who nodded and watched Tony for his reaction.
"Jamie Clint Rogers. Jamie after Bucky; and the middle name is obvious." She said, smiling up at her father.
"I hear no 'Tony' or 'Anthony' in that name! What does Barton have that I don't?" he said, mocking offence as he handed Jamie back to Steve.
"The next one, if it's a boy." Steve assured without looking up from his sleeping son.
"But… listen, there's something I need to tell you." He said, sudden serious taking over his face.
"Yeah?" Laura said warily.
"Anthony is actually a girl's name. So the next one can totally be called Tony!" he said, and Laura and Steve rolled their eyes but smiled softly.
"Sure…" Laura said, holding her arms out to take Jamie back from Steve, who unwillingly handed him over. "So… did I interrupt something? Because you're both looking rather battered." She said, trying to innocently get them to spill the details of the battle.
Steve and Tony just looked at her, then at each other for a split second, and Tony took it as his cue to leave. He smiled at Laura and ruffled her hair, then, without even glancing at Steve, strode out.
"Really?" asked Steve, folding his arms and looking incredulously at her.
"What? I was just curious!" She whined, pouting slightly. "I'm tired…" she said, her eyes drooping slightly.
"Don't fall asleep just yet… I think we're gonna have to introduce Jamie to the whole team, and more…"
Laura groaned, and propped herself back up, getting comfortable again, but wincing as she sat.
An hour and what seemed like ten thousand visits later, Laura was sleeping peacefully, with Steve and Coulson watching over her.
"What happens now?" asked Coulson, now watching Steve, who had his head in his hands and had changed into jeans and a spare S.H.I.E.L.D. top.
"This can't go on." He said, as though this made any sense to Coulson.
"What?" he asked warily, although he felt like he knew the answer.
"The war… we have to surrender. Whatever punishment, I'll take it, but I can't keep risking my life when I have a kid to look after." He said, looking at Coulson for advice. Because that was all Steve had ever seen this great man as; a mentor and a friend.
"You'll quit avenging?" Coulson asked sceptically.
"Probably not, but the war is something that will need to stop. If I serve time, so be it, but I can't risk them anymore. It's too much." Steve replied, rubbing his forehead.
"So what, you'll just surrender?" Coulson asked sceptically.
"I suppose I'll have to. What choice do I have?"
Steve and his team were back in central park, watching several dots get closer and closer from the horizon; Tony and his army of repaired suits.
"Why exactly are we back here?" asked Natasha, who was armed to the teeth once more.
Steve didn't answer, but everyone subconsciously knew.
The dots were getting close enough now that they were distinguishable as the trademark red and gold suits of Iron Man.
Then, something Steve didn't expect; a round of bullets from each of the suits. Steve raised his shield and covered himself and Natasha, as everyone else deflected the bullets with powers or hid behind those who had them.
Skye took out her gun and fired back, then using her powers to break apart one of the suits so entirely that it would take months for Tony just to find all the pieces.
Wanda boosted Lincoln up, and he fried the circuits of another suit, rendering it useless.
Pietro broke a suit apart faster than a bullet once it landed next to him, and in less than a second, had all the different components laid out neatly in a line on the side of the battlefield.
Natasha and Peter were once again tackling war machine, the two flexibly avoiding all attacks, and were really starting to bug Rhodey as they got more hits on him than he did on the two combined.
Clint had resumed his earlier position in the tree, once more
Steve was trying desperately hard not to hurt Tony as attack after attack hit him and his shield.
"Tony… stop." He said, deflecting another energy blast.
"Why?" Tony shouted, firing again and nearly knocking Steve over.
"For Laura. I surrender… take me in." Steve said, dropping his shield and taking a step towards Tony.
"What are you doing? They'll throw us in jail if you surrender!" Pietro yelled.
"We were beating them! We were winning back there!" chimed in Peter.
"We were winning everything except the argument. And they're not arresting Captain America... they're arresting Steve Rogers. That's a very different thing." Steve said back at them with incredible calm as Tony lowered himself to the ground and produced a pair of handcuffs from behind him. "Stand down, troops."
The NYPD showed up incredibly quickly after that, taking away all of Steve's team, to await trial next week.
It was over.