Chapter 6

Tony limped through the tower in his damaged Ironman armour as Nick Fury and some SHIELD agents took Loki away in heavy shackles, his mind never left the though of his daughter who had been locked up in her room during the entire ordeal but he didn't want her out until he was sure Loki was far away from her. His heart had felt like ice when he saw the metal door sealing her room and all the dents and blast marks in it but since it still remained solid and from JARVIS assurances he knew that his daughter was safe. When he felt Loki was far away enough he decided it was safe.

"JARVIS, release the lockdown." He said.

"Yes, sir." The A.I. responded.

The Avengers heard the sound of multiple metal doors and windows being lifted.

Tony walked over to Jack bedroom door just as it opened as the teen herself shot out, she bowled into Tony with so much force that he was almost knocked over.

"Dad!" she sobbed.

Tony felt immense guilt as he put his arms around his daughter, he had almost abandoned her again, he must have terrified her when she realised what he had done. Jack continued to sob into his armour some more while the Avengers stood by, the members who knew about Tony's daughter informing the members who didn't know..

Jack then pulled out of Tony's arms, grabbed a book from seemingly nowhere and started hitting Tony with it.

"You almost left me! Again!" Jack yelled, fuelled by her emotions. "Of all the reckless, inconsiderate things! How could you?"

"Ow! Ow! I'm sorry!" Tony tried to defend himself from his daughter's vicious attacks.

The Avengers were torn between amusement at Tony getting beaten with book by his own daughter and feeling sad for how upset Jack was.

Tony eventually managed to get the book away from Jack and she was back to crying in his arms.

"Shh, it's okay." Tony told her, show affection he wouldn't dare show in front of others under normal circumstance.

Jack eventually calmed down and began to feel embarrassed about her emotional breakdown. When she had gotten home and quickly cleaned up she hadn't really registered Tony's actions properly in her mind, but when she saw him it all came rushing back and her emotions took over, like her dad she didn't like to show her softer side and hid it using jokes and being loud. Jack pulled out from Tony arms again and looked at the other Avengers, she walked over to a de-Hulked Bruce Banner and gave him a brief hug.

"Thank you for saving my dad." She said.

Bruce blushed slightly at the unexpected hug and praise but managed to stammer a response.

"It was really the other guy, not me." He said.

Jack smiled at him, but it lacked the usual mischievous grin. "Well, when I see the 'other guy' I'll thank him but for now I'll settle for thanking you."

Bruce smiled in return.

"Now." Jack said suddenly, springing back to her usual self. "What sort of party happened while I was locked up in my room?" she motioned to the mess that had been the main room.

Jack did a good job at hiding her injuries and pain but Natasha was able to pick up on it, she wondered why but didn't voice that Jack was hiding something.

A man walked home, away from the disaster zone in the city, he had gotten caught up in the attack but was one of the ones lucky enough to escape with only cuts and bruises. But as he walked his mind wasn't on the invasion it was on one of the heroes who helped rescue him when he had been stuck under some rubble, the Imp. While he was being pulled out the hero's phone had rung and he answered it, but when she had answered it his voice was distinctly feminine, he quickly came to the conclusion that the Imp was actually a woman who was cross-dressing as a man; most likely to help with the whole secret identity thing.

But it hadn't been finding out that the Imp was actually a woman that had shocked him the most. After being rescued he hung around and was able to catch the Imp's side of the phone conversation, he quickly picked up she was talked to her dad when she called the person on the other end such, but then she started screaming at her dad not to do something and was looking up at Ironman as he flew a missile into the portal the invaders came from. He could draw only one conclusion from the entire thing, Ironman was the Imp's father.

And the man wasn't even done yet with his revelations. He actually knew who Tony's Stark's child was, Jaqueline Stark, or Jaqueline James depending on who you asked, a girl he had known until she was six years old before she had been taken away from her mother and their little family had been separated. He knew Mama J would very much like to know her daughter was one of the new heroes of New York, so when he got home he started planning his visit to a very high security prison.