Clint? Laura? Where are you? (Book 1)

Tony to the Rescue?

Chapter 3

Cooper was driving at 60km/h down the road.

"What's going on?" Lila asked.

"I'll explain when we get to Stark Tower" Cooper replied just as a car not far in front blow up.

"Oh my gosh!" Cooper exclaimed swerving the car to avoid flying debris. Thud.

"What was that?" Cooper said as something landed on top of the car.

"It was me" Tony said dropping down in front of the car, in his Iron Man suit, which was now coming to a halt. Cooper had hit the brakes hard.

"You don't drive bad for a kid" Tony remarked as police sirens could be heard, "keep driving and don't stop until you get to Stark tower ok, I'll tell Captain America to look out for you."

"Can't you take us there?" Cooper asked.

"No, I have to deal with your tail" Tony said about to fly up into the air when a police car pulled up next to him. Two officers got out.

"What's going on here Mr Stark?" One of them asked, "and why's that kid driving a car?"

"Well someone blew up that car down there" Tony said pointing "and these kids are in danger so don't even think about arresting him or me for that matter" Tony said firmly.

"Very well then. What can we do to help?"

"Close the road both ways, don't let anyone in and yes you'll need more than tasers" Tony said answering all of the police's normal questions.

"Where's Natasha, Cooper?"

"She was still at the farm fighting off some people all in black." Cooper explained.

"Ok, now go" Tony said as Cooper pulled away from the scene.

"Please be ok Natasha" Tony hoped.

Cooper arrived at the tower's front entrance, wondering what to do. It was bigger than Cooper had expected it to be and there was more press around as well. Then he noticed someone walking out of the entrance and over to the car. A male probably in his 30s with brown short hair. He knocked on the window of the car and Cooper wound it down, so the man could speak.

"Are you Cooper?" he said.

"Yes. You're Captain America" Cooper said confidently. Cap nodded.

"Move into the back so I can drive" Cap said.

"So what's your actual name?"

"It's Steve" He said driving the car round the back and into Tony's garage.

"Out you get"

"What about Nathaniel he can't walk yet?" Cooper asked.

"It's fine I'll carry him. Help your sister get out" Steve pointed. They walked through the seemly never ending garage to Cooper and over to a set of twisting metal stairs. Once up them they headed towards an escalator on the other side of a very busy lobby. Steve pressed button 14 and the lift started to move upwards. No one spoke during this very long ride. Ping. The doors opened to reveal a corridor with glass walls either side which showed office after office. Cooper and his siblings followed Steve through this maze of identical windows. Finally they stopped next to a huge office which also had glass walls. A woman with ginger hair sat behind the desk and waved at Steve before coming out to greet them.

"Tony said you'd be coming" The woman said joining them in the corridor, "I'm Pepper and you must be Cooper, Lila and Nathaniel" She said in a kind voice. "Where's Tony?" She asked Steve.

"Not sure he just told me to bring them up to the penthouse" Steve said.

"He went to find Natasha" Cooper said looking up at Pepper.

"Ok, which is where exactly?"

"Well she was at the farm last but I don't know" Cooper said Pepper tried to hide her panic as to where Tony was or might be.

"Ok lets go on up and get you guys comfy" Pepper said ushering them in the direction of another lift. This time it wasn't silent though as Pepper waffled on. The doors opened. Cooper was shocked at the size of the place up here.

"Woah!" Cooper exclaimed looking round the room.

"Yes it's big and you'll soon learn you're way around it, but first lets get you and you're stuff into some room shall we" Pepper said trying to keep the mood as cheerful as possible.

Tony was almost back at the farm when he heard gunshots. Flying in closer Tony saw Natasha virtually surrounded by people dressed in black just as Cooper had described. Natasha seemed to be able to fight all of them off but not quite enough to defeat them. Tony flew down next to Natasha and stood back to back to her.

"Hey Natasha" Tony said as if it was a normal day.

"What took you so long?"

"Bad traffic, a car exploded"

"Stop talking and fight already" Natasha said as she ducked a bullet and fired one of her own. Tony sent out a blast of power hitting one person in the head knocking them out cold. The rest of the people in black looked slightly taken back by this before resuming their fight patterns. Natasha had noticed the patterns and had started acting on them. Taking shots in their drawbacks. Tony didn't have quite the same approach he just aimed and fired. The people eventually went down.

"Now time for questions, who are these people Natasha?"

"I will answer that, but here. Right now we need to get these into the highest security prison cells you have under the tower." Natasha said holding her hand just above her waist.

"Are you hurt Natasha?" Tony asked

"No, I mean it's nothing" Natasha said.

"Ok then hold on, we're going back to the tower" Tony said as Natasha hung on to him as he flew into the air.