Chapter 5: Tony Wants to Meet the Alien!
Tony Stark was having a perfectly normal day. He had went to bed at four in the morning, gotten up at three in the afternoon, drank an entire pot of coffee, ate a burnt piece of toast (how he could build a flying suit of armour in a cave out of scraps, yet he couldn't manage to make a proper piece of toast is beyond me), and was now holed up in his lab making cool additions to his suit. Like I said, perfectly normal.
That was until J.A.R.V.I.S. interrupted his work. "Sir, it would appear the S.H.I.E.L.D. has picked up an interesting transmission from space and have yet to respond." That was all Tony needed to hear to make his stomach drop. 'Please don't be an invading alien army.'
"Can you connect to the signal?" If he could hear what they were transmitting then he could properly prepare for yet another invasion. Tony felt like hitting something. They had just finished repairs to the tower!
The crackle of a radio signal echoed through the mostly empty lab. Tony sat impatiently, bobbing his leg up and down, for an agonizing four minutes and twenty-six seconds before he heard anything. And boy was he in for a shock.
"This is Jedi Knight Vanna Elarius requesting permission to land. I have a broken wing in need of repairs and must land. Food and water rations are low. Requesting immediate response. Over."
Well that certainly wasn't what he was expecting. Not only was it a female (not being sexist, he was just expecting a gruff, alien voice) but she sounded relatively young at that. If what this Vanna was saying is true, then this certainly wasn't an invasion. Tony started bobbing up and down in excitement. He had always wanted to meet a friendly alien! And a girl one at the sound of it. Of course she could turn out to be purple and covered in alien warts and tentacles. Plus there was the fact that Pepper would probably not like the prospect of him flirting with any girls not just an alien one. 'I still want to meet her though.'
He was just about to reply to the transmission when Fury beat him to it. So instead, Stark listened closely as Fury and the alien chick conversed. Her story was shocking. 'An alien diplomat and a refugee. What if she's wrong about being followed?' Tony thought about the science of wormholes and figured that if she was being truthful about how she got here, then they should have no problem with these so called 'Sith.' Finally the alien seemed to have enough with the questions and, with a surprising amount of diplomacy given the situation, requested an answer from Fury.
"I will have your answer in a few hours. Have a good day." Tony snorted. That was Fury for you. Inconsiderate and constantly making you feel like you're at his mercy. Well, Tony wasn't going to wait around to be asked to be apart of the welcoming committee when old eyepatch finally decides to have mercy on the poor little alien.
"Jarvis, get me the location of the Helicarrier. I think it's time for me to pay S.H.I.E.L.D. a little visit."
"This wouldn't have anything to do with the Alien ship orbiting the planet would it, Sir?"
Tony smiled mischievously as he summoned his suit. "Now what would give you that idea?"