The fire

Recruitment

Tony Stark tapped his sun glasses against the table impatiently as Nick Fury entered the room. He had plenty of more important things he'd rather being doing right now. One being trying to fix his relationship with Pepper, who had been ignoring him at breakfast again? Sometimes he struggled to figure out what he'd done wrong this time, to procure such an icy greeting.

"I'm going to get straight to the point, I've been trying to figure this out for the past 48 hours, I've had some of my best agents searching all morning, but nothing. So Maria if you will." The director looked tired and frustrated as he adressed the team, who all looked slightly taken aback but the Directors abruptness.

"This is 20 year old Emilia Ivy Taylor. Born in Dieppe, France." The image of a girl appearead in front of the agents. She had very tanned skin with freckles over her nose, her eyes were a striking blue and her hair fell in sandy blonde curls down to her ribs. "We don't know alot about her, only that she was 13 when MI6 took her in, where there she was part of a specialised unit until the age of 18. Up until that point she had a pheonamal track record, skilled in Karate, brazillian jujitsu, hand to hand combat, speaks several languages, computer whizz, as well as having increased thermogenic rates in her body which means her body has also adapted to regenerating cells, at rapid rates in order to keep her body healthy."

"In English?" Natasha asked raising her eyebrows at the mass of science that exited Agent Hill's mouth.

"It means her body produces heat to huge amounts and that her body heals itself?" Banner replied quickly summing up Agent Hill's words.

"Yes, she can produce fire and is near enough unkillable." She responded.

"What happened when she was 18?" Clint asked curiously, drawing back to the information they had been given.

"She disappeared."

Banner looked at Fury, shocked. "How does a 18 year old with those abilities disappear from MI6?"

"With great ease apparently, according to them there was an altercation regarding a mission and the next day she didn't turn up to work. They tried to track where she'd gone but everything had been wiped. She had managed to delete every single file they had on her. There has been no trace since."

"What was the mission which caused the altercation?" Clint asked.

"We don't know MI6 wouldn't tell us." Fury responded clearly frustrated.

"Why is Firework sudddenly our problem, can't the brits just sort out their own mess for once." Starks tone was full of bordem. He had now somehow found a glass of whisky to finish during the meeting.

Fury spoke again.  "No-one had seen or heard from her for two years. Until last week, CCTV caught her walking out of a club with this man." A picture of tall broad man with dark hair and matching dark eyes appeared in the hologram. He had a deep scar down the side of his right cheek and his arm was tightly around Emilia's waist. From anyone elses point of view, they were a couple out clubbing. To anyone looking close enough it was obvious she didn't want to be there. You could only just see her fists clenched tightly by her side and if you looked long enough the 'smile' became an angry frown, not to mention the gun which was hidden in the mans jacket, pushing against the girls ribs. "This is Luca Romano, involved in the black market dealings between America and England. He sends containers over to america and stores them illegally. They usually only contain arms or drugs. This morning the FBI raided one of his bases and a container was found completly blown apart." He flicked his hand and an image of melted steel mixed with rubble came up. "The container had been blown up from the inside out and blood remenants were spewed up what was the back wall. The container was tracked back to where it came from and the result was 400m down the road from where Emilia was abducted in England. Usually we would leave this to the CIA, after all they've been tracking Romano for months. But Taylor is an enhanced, injured, scared 20 year old on her own in an unknown environment, probably on the run."