Running Fearless ( Avengers Fanfiction)

Chapter 22

There isn't a word to describe feeling a multitude of emotions all at once. Maybe there was no one word that could encompass such a feeling. It was strange really, how Clint went from feeling just one emotion to feeling many. He was standing there in the aftermath of Tony's blowout and Pepper storming off, wondering if he should leave. Katie had went off to try and talk to Pepper and he wasn't sure what he should be doing.

"I always knew a Tony Stark party was more exciting firsthand than the crap they write in magazines." Darcy whispered over to him. He looked over to her with an unamused look and she simply shrugged before hovering back to where Jane and Thor stood. Clint looked over to Tony who was pouring himself yet another drink and for the life of him he didn't know why he did it, but he walked over.

"Don't you think you've had enough?" Clint asked and Tony lifted his head and scoffed before downing the liquid that was in the glass. "Is it really that big of a deal?"

"I'm sorry, have we entered some alternate universe where you believe we're friends who converse regularly?" Tony asked grabbing the bottle of scotch and emptying it into his glass. "How about you do yourself a favor and walk away there hawkboy."

"I'm surprised she made it this long without leaving your pathetic ass." Clint muttered turning away, but Tony heard every word.

"I'm sorry, what did you say?" Tony asked closing the distance between him and the archer. "You want to run that by me again?"

"Hey!" Bruce said coming over. He'd been watching the pair for a while, waiting for just this moment. "Let's just cool it, ok."

"No, the fucking bird man has something to say, and I think he should say it!" Tony snapped taking a step closer, only for Bruce to raise his arm and push him back.

"Hey, I'd be happy to. I said I'm surprise Pepper made it this long without leaving your pathetic ass!" Clint replied his eyes glaring holes in the scientist. "I mean it takes a special person to hook themselves with a guy whose pining away for another woman."

"Eat me!" Tony seethed and Clint took a step forward only for Steve to appear from somewhere and pull him back. The pair struggled to be released when something happened that no one expected. The lights flickered. Everyone stopped and lifted there heads to the lights above them.

"Uh, Thor, was that you buddy?" Darcy asked looking over to the Asgardian.

"I'm afraid not lady Darcy." Thor replied before lifting his hand calling for the mjlonir. Once his hammer was in his hand, Thor looked to his friends. "I fear something is not right."

"Well you're not the only one." Steve said as the lights continued to flicker. He looked over to Tony who looked just as confused as everyone. "Stark, what's happening?"

"I don't—" Tony tried thinking, though his mind was a drunken mess. "If it's a storm, it shouldn't effect the reactors like this."

"Then what else could it be?" Steve asked and Tony pulled from Bruce's grasp sitting down his glass. "JARVIS, what's happening with the lights?"

"I'm sorry, sir...I can't—I—"

"JARVIS?" Tony asked only to get no reply. "JARVIS, answer me!" still nothing. "Shit." he walked over to his holocomputer and tried bringing up JARVIS' mainframe. When he began searching for a source of the malfunction, the screen began flickering before it along with the lights went off. Just as quick as they went off, the back up generator started bringing only dim lights.

"Stark?"

"Cap, will you let me think?!" Tony snapped trying to search his brain for an answer. "This isn't possible. I tested and retested the arc and Katie did the numbers. The only way this could be happening is if someone—" and that's when it hit him. That's when Tony realized what was happening. "Fuck!" he suddenly ran to the elevator, pressing the button.