Loving Yous A Little Bit Hard Sometimes / Bruce Banner

3. Bondage

Cowboy like me / Aemond Targaryen / Mitch Rapp out now!

"Hello there, I'm Alisha Stark, can I offer you some Ooey gooey Lida Lu dairy free ice cream in return for my release?" Alisha questioned. "And my friend of course." She added. Ebony stared back at them unphased. 

"I'm coming kid." Tony assured but she couldnt hear him past the ships barrier. 

"String them up." Ebony declared 

"I'm not really into bondage." Alisha countered. 

"Tony whats going on up there?"

"I'm heading in Banner," Tony assured. "I think I'm going to lose coms however-"

"Tony? Tony!" Bruce shouted staring up at the ascending spacecraft. "Do you see Alisha? Tony!"

Stephen was dangling fine needles pointing at him in all directions. Alisha stood hanging as well, her arms and legs chained out to the sides as Ebony got closer to Stephen.

'All this time I've served Thanos I have never failed. If I were to return to our rendezvous on time the time stone still attached to your vaguely irritating person-' Ebony told Stephen.

'Hey Stephen is now my vaguely irritating person!' Alisha shouted at him 'you leave him alone!' Stephen glanced her way. "I stick up for my friends even when dangling upside down and all the blood is rushing to my head." She assured him. 

''There would be judgment' the little fiercely sharp needles started pierce into Stephen skin, magic seeping out of them. 'Give me... The stone' he demanded

''I knew I should've stayed in bed today.' she called over to him. "What were you doing before Bruce fell through your ceiling?"

"Getting lunch." Stephen answered through a pained breath. 

''Wow you are a really loyal piece of hardware.' Tony told the Cloak after he almost blasted it.

''Speaking of loyalty,' Peter said Tony spun around.

'I told you to go home!' Tony reminded him angrily.

'I was gonna go home, it was just such a long way down and I thought I could probably help you and I sort of stuck to the side of the ship, and this suit is ridiculously intuitive by the way so if anything it is your fault that I'm here.' Peter told him quickly.

'What did you say?' Tony questioned sharply. 

''I take that back and now I'm here in space.' Peter countered, innocently. Peter smiled sheepishly up at Tony. 

''Where I didn't want you to be.' Tony told him 'this is not just some field trip this is a one-way trip!' Tony told him 'do you hear me? don't pretend you thought this through!''

''I did think this through.' Peter argued.

''no you didn't you did not think this through!' Tony told him, 'you could not have possibly thought this through!''

"Tony?" Alisha whispered. 

"Hey kid, I'm here." Tony agreed, 'hold on tight."

"Nowhere to go." Alisha murmured. 

"Who are you talking to?" Ebony hissed. 

"Myself." Alisha answered, turning her head towards him. "Sometimes I need expert advice." Ebony rolled his eyes marching back to Stephen. 

''You can't be a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man if there is no neighborhood' Peter told him 'OK that didn't really make sense but you know what I'm trying to say.'' Peter pleaded.

''Come on we got a situation... all right see him down, the wizard.. right there...' tony told peter. 'he's in trouble I don't really care about him but he has the stone.' He looked to Alisha hanging there.

"I'm starving! Are you sure we can't stop for ice cream?" Alisha pondered, Tony chuckled. "Honestly this is bad hospitality!" She went on. "Gods you people are just-" Stephen glanced her way, she was just like Tony and nothing like Tony all at once, she winked back at him.  ALisha never knew when to stop. 

"Alisha we need, we need her... okay what's your plan?' Tony told him and Peter crouched down looking at the blades sinking into Stephen's skin.

"Oh, ow, thats... ow." Alisha whispered watching Stephen squirm. "You were a doctor you are used to needles." 

"I still am." Stephen griped. 

''OK have you ever seen this really old movie called aliens?'' Peter questioned. 

"God, enough with the pop culture references kid, my sister is in trouble." Tony corrected. 

'Painful?' Ebony said as the needles dug deeper into Stephen. Alisha struggled against her restraints. 'I bet it is, they were originally designed for microsurgery.' Ebony told him and anyone of them-' he turned around Tony's blasters fired '-can end your friends life and instant!' he added. 

''I gotta tell you he's not really my friend' Tony admitted 'but her I'm gonna need her back.'

'Anthony can you be nice for like five minutes!' ALisha pleaded.

'Saving his life is more of a professional courtesy' Tony went on.

'You save nothing, your powers are inconsequential compared to mine.' Ebony told him, pompously. 

''Yeah but the kid has seen more movies,' Tony informed him blasting a hole in the wall and sending Ebony out. The needles flew away from Stephen as well but Stephen started to fall through the hole his cloak reached for him but he slipped through its grasp.

'TONY!' Alisha yelled. She was secure her chains being tugged in every direction but she was staying on the ship. 'Get the wizard!' she demanded as he flew towards the hole in the ship.

Peter webbed his hand keeping him on the ship but that didn't work and he fell through, Alisha couldn't breathe, this wasn't happening. But peter used his new suit to propel them back into the ship while Tony sealed it shut. Tony blasted off the chains from Alisha and she collapsed into his arms

'Thank you,' Alisha held tight to her big brother and her rapid heart beat matched his own. 

"I got you kid." Tony assured. 

"You alright over there Strange?" Alisha called out. 

"Just peachy." Stephen muttered. ''you okay?' he asked looking her over.

'Me? you're the one that just had magical microsurgery needles digging into your flesh!" Alisha exclaimed.

'We need to make a plan.' Tony added.

'Alisha?' Peter questioned.

'Hey Peter!' Alisha hugged him tight. 'I'm really you were here to save us but... WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE!'' Alisha demanded. Peter had become like a son to Tony but like a little brother to Alisha, she always wanted a little brother to pick on. 

''I just wanted to help.' Peter begged as she looked over his suit.

'I wanted to give it to him!" Alisha shouted stomping a foot down. 

'Not really the problem here Lida.' Tony reminded her.

'Right, right... you like the suit. Tony and I have been working on it for you.' Alisha informed him.

'I love it Alisha, I love it. Thank you. this suit is ridiculously intuitive too,' peter added.

'Focus!" Stephen demanded, Alisha turned to him, right now was not the time. "We need a plan, we need to get home and we need to get this stone as far away from Thanos as possible.'

"Do you know how to fly a spaceship?"