Chapter 5

Jack was humming a song as she made herself a sandwich. She had the tower to herself for the day as her dad was out saving the world and Pepper was at some sort of business conference or something like that, given what she was like most people would think Jack would use this opportunity to throw a party but she knew better than to do that after the last time Tony and Pepper were out of the house and she threw a party, so instead she was going out. With her sandwich in one hand and her bag hoisted over the opposite shoulder she went to the elevator to leave. But when the elevator door opened she was met with the sight of a group of people she didn't recognise with the exception of the man in the middle, who she recognised as Loki from reading the SHIELD report that was given to Tony.

"Let me guess." Jack said in an even tone to hide her nervousness, a trick she had perfected through multiple kidnappings. "You're here for dad. Sorry, he's not in at the moment but I'd be happy to tell him you dropped by so he can get back to you."

"Ah, yes. The Stark's spawn. I've heard about you." Loki said.

"And I've heard about you, and quite honestly it hasn't been good. So if anyone needs me I'll be in my room."

Jack quickly turned and ran as Loki told two of the people with him to give chase.

"JARVIS! Lockdown!" she yelled as she dodged an attack, grabbing a plate and lobbing it in return.

"Yes, Miss." JARVIS said.

Jack made it back to her room and dove through the doorway, a thick metal door slammed down behind her with the two men on the other side.

"JARVIS, contact dad." She said as she calmed her breathing.

"Sir is already aware and on his way, he says to stay safe in your room." The A.I. told her.

Jack laughed. "As if that's going to happen."

Jack pulled off her wig and went over to her wardrobe and pulled out her Imp costume, as she got changed she grabbed her phone and contacted Peter.

"Peter, there are some strange people in the tower." She said once Peter answered.

"Okay, I'll be over as soon as I can." Peter told her before hanging up.

Jack finished getting dressed, checking herself in the mirror to make sure she got everything right.

She then spent a long time separating her window from the rest of the lockdown so she could get out.

Spider-Man swung through the city towards Stark tower to help Jack out with whoever had invaded the tower. Jack hadn't sounded worried over the phone, in fact she sounded like it was just a minor annoyance, but then again she had a bad habit of not taking a lot of situations seriously until someone got hurt. When he was just a block from the tower he stopped swinging in shock when he saw a large hole open up in the sky and creatures come flooding through.

"What on Earth?" Spider-Man questioned as he looked up at the portal.

"I have no idea." The Imp said as she flew over to him, having finally managed to sneak passed the lockdown. "I only just got out my room to see that thing."

"Well, whatever they are they're bad." Spider-Man said when he saw the aliens causing destruction.

"Well then, let's go do our stuff." Imp agreed.

As the two vigilantes fought aliens and rescued civilians they noticed other heroes fighting the aliens, Imp recognised them all from when she hacked SHIELD to get a look at the Avengers project her dad had been considered for; there was Ironman, Captain America, the Hulk, Thor, Hawkeye, and the Black Widow.

"I guess the Avengers thing happened after all." Imp commented to herself.

Imp let out a yell as a laser from one of the alien's guns nearly hit her in the head.

"Oh, it is on!" she grinned, her eyes lighting up with a madness she usually got when she was able to go all out in her attacks.

Imp reached into some pockets she rarely used because of the type of bombs she kept there and threw some at a cluster of aliens, she cackle like an insane person when they blew up in a spectacular explosion.

As the two vigilantes continued to fight they started to gravitate towards saving civilians rather than fighting the aliens and left the fighting for the Avengers, Imp mostly did this because she ran out of her most destructive bombs and had to conserve.

Spider-Man swung into a building through a hole that had been blasted in it.

"Is anybody here?" he called out.

"Help!" his sensitive hearing picked up the cries of distress.

Moving through and removing rubble Spider-Man eventually found the trapped people and guided them out of the building to the ground. He then went back into the building to search and rescue more survivors before moving on to the next building.

Meanwhile, the Imp worked to save people on the street with a some of them being the ones that Spider-Man had lowered to the ground, she led a large group of people out of the danger zone while protecting them from alien attacks.

"Look out!" one of the adults in the group called out.

Imp turned to see a large cluster of aliens heading straight for them.

"Go! I'll hold them off!" she instructed the group who nodded and continued running.

Having used up her most destructive bombs earlier Imp now struggled with fighting the aliens she had easily took down not that long ago, while swinging by Spider-Man quickly noticed and dropped in to help out.

"How are you doing?" Peter grunted as he dove to the side to avoid being impaled.

"Not good, all my useful bombs are almost gone." Imp panted. "You?"

"Down to my last canisters of web fluid."

"Not look good is it?"

"Nope. Hey, what about those new weapons you've been working on?"

Imp looked to her belt where her prototype secondary weapons were strapped.

"Worth a try." She shrugged, then winced as her shoulder hurt more than she was expecting.

Imp reached to her belt and detached two metal cylinders with a few buttons on them, she pressed a button on each and flaming dagger blades popped out of each. She flipped them in her hands to get used to the feel before attacking, she was fairly clumsy with her new weapons but she was able to use them enough to fight because of the training Natasha had given her while she was posing as Tony's assistant.

After dispatching the final aliens that were focused on attacking them Imp and Spider-Man went back to helping out citizens.

Spider-Man and Imp were working together to help someone trapped under some rubble when Imp's phone rang. Imp put her back to the rubble to continue to support it while she turned off her voice changer and answered her phone.

"Yeah?" She asked as Spider-Man managed to get the guy out from under the rubble, allowing her to drop the piece she had been supporting.

"Jack, I just wanted to let you know that I may not always show it but I have always been proud of you and that I'm sorry for not being a better dad." Tony's tired voice came through the phone.

This got Imp worried, the only times Tony ever talked like this was when he was completely drunk, she knew he wouldn't risk getting drunk while saving the world which meant something else was making him speak like this.

"Dad, what have you done?" she asked.

Imp got her answer when she saw something flying towards the hole in the sky, a closer look revealed it to be Ironman with a missile on his back.

"Dad! Dad, no!" she cried out when she realised his intentions.

"I'm sorry. But know... know that I love you. And I..."

Ironman flew into the hole and the connection was lost.

Imp would have cried out but she was in complete shock, she didn't even notice when all of the aliens suddenly dropped to the ground dead at the same time, she just kept her eyes on the portal with her phone to her ear. The portal started to close and Imp felt her heart clench.

"Come on, dad. Come on." She whispered.

"The portal was just about closed when at the last second Ironman fell through with the portal closing fully just a second later.

"Yes!" Imp cried out in relief.

"He's not slowing down!" Spider-Man cried out.

Sure enough Ironman was still falling.

Imp's heart clenched and was once again frozen until the Hulk jumped from a building and caught Ironman. This spurred her into action and she took off towards them with Spider-Man swinging behind her. They arrived and landed on a building overlooking the Avengers and were caught off guard by the loud roar the Hulk let out, looking down they saw Ironman without his faceplate but with his eyes open and saying something they were too far away to hear.

"Oh, thank the deities." Imp sighed in relief as she fell to her hands and knees.

Spider-Man crouched down beside her and gave her a one-armed hug.

"As if they was any doubt he'd survive." He said.

"Yeah." Imp gave a stuttering laugh.

They watched Ironman stand up before the Avengers made their way to the tower.

Spider-Man stood up and checked his web fluid.

"I think I have just enough to get home." He said. "I should go now so aunt May doesn't worry too long. I'll meet you back here when she lets me go to help with those still trapped."

"I better get back to the tower quick." Imp said as she stood, mindful of her injuries. "Dad still thinks I'm locked up in my room."

Both waved goodbye to each other and headed home.