Secrets of Iron

emergency (what? it's not totally wrong...)

Wednesday morning she was almost late to school, almost. She walked in just as the bell rang. She quickly sat down at her usual place in the back. As she pulled out her notebook a paper plane landed on her bag with her name written on one of the wings. She picked it up and opened it up under her desk.

She had obviously missed something. To keep her cover up everyone thinks her parents are always on business trips and that she mostly lives with other relatives. The teacher had announced career day. Everyone's parents would come to school and present their job or company. Emma had no clue about who had thrown the plane but they had drawn a little apologetic face under the note. She folded it again and put it in the back of her notebook.

After her first classes she walked into the cafeteria to join the three sophomores sitting at their usual table. “What's up guys?” She sat down across the table while Ned and Peter turned to her.

“Man! Didn't you hear it? The police wants to catch 'Ninja'!”

She looked at him frozen in her movement. That was not helping her. “What the hell!” She broke out of her freeze.

“Exactly! She did nothing wrong! Why would they put her on top of the Wanted list?”

For anyone else it would have been totally out of the blue but Emma knew that the police was not the only one trying to catch her. Probably Shield's fault she was now proclaimed a criminal. But gladly she wasn't the only one that thought it was a waste of time to chase after someone just trying to help. At least her father and Peter had her back, even though Peter had no clue it was her under that mask. But he didn't really need to know he seemed to trust her even in costume.

Also she wasn't keen on telling anyone at all. Her dad had only found it out on accident and she was sure to be even more careful.

They had a really big discussion about it and even MJ joined it but Emma had to leave soon to get her books out of her locker and get to her room on time. The rest of the afternoon wasn't very exciting. One of her teachers made a pop quiz.

In the middle of her last period her phone buzzed aggressively in her bag. Gladly her teacher didn't notice it but it still didn't stop making little noises.

“Yes, Emma?”

“Could I go to the bathroom, please?”

As she got permission she quickly snuck her phone out of the classroom. Locking the stall she was in she picked up her still ringing phone.

“Dad! I'm in the middle of class!”

“Obviously not in class but any way. You need to get home ASAP. The teams not listening and told Fury the age of our little hero. He wants to check all systems for same body posture and similar skills. Your school's data base is the only one you're in.”

She was a bit confused from the wave of information. “What?!”

“You have to sign out and get here immediately. We can't risk Fury finding you. Cap said he would search at the 'smart schools' first so Midtown Tech is high on his list.”

While her dad was still giving more information through the phone she was already on her way to go get herself signed out for today.