Some Things Never Sleep

Chapter Twenty One

"So tell me what happened in San Francis?" Emma asked Susan as they relaxed in the hotel room in Vienna. She had just received a text from Steve telling her that they knew where her father was and they were now heading over to his location. He wouldn't tell her where because he wasn't sure if Tony was looking through their text messages. Emma understood that. In the meantime Emma and Susan were just hanging out in their hotel room. Emma had never been to Vienna before but she would've liked to explore the city under different circumstances.

"Uh...I don't know if I should." Susan said hesitantly and Emma just rolled her eyes at the dark haired woman.

"Come on, I'm bored and there's nothing to do." Emma responded as took a bite of one of the sandwiches room service had brought for them. "It's probably nothing that I've never heard before. The classic story of good versus evil."

"Fine. It was a year ago and it may or may not have involved the CEO of the company I worked for." Emma raised an eyebrow.

"Why? Was he like Stark? Annoying billionaire by day and lame superhero by night." Emma said jokingly and Susan shook her head.

"He was a villain technically speaking...so the opposite of that." Susan admitted and the smirk fell off of Emma's face.

"Oh, well, I'm sorry about that." Emma told her, not knowing what else to say.

"Yeah, he was recreating the Pym Particle that Hank Pym created. The Pym Particle was a shrinking particle that went into this suit he created to put into simpler terms. Everyone thought the guy was a crazy old man for keeping it hidden like he did. I didn't even believe that he had actually created it. I thought it was some story someone made up...propaganda." Susan said quietly before she continued. "I was wrong. My boss recreated the suit and my best friend and I helped him because we didn't think anything of it. It was almost too late when we realized what he was doing. So we contacted Pym to help us and then got this other guy in on the whole thing too...he was some sort of thief, an Ex-con, that I had doubts about at first but he turned out to be a good guy."

"So then what happened?" Emma asked curiously when Susan paused.

"We stopped him." Susan told her solemnly. "It actually turned out that he wasn't using the suit for his grand master plan of global destruction like every other villain. No, he was going to sell the suit to Hydra." Emma raised her eyebrows at that. She wondered how this escaped the Avenger's notice. Probably because they were a little busy dealing with the aftermath of Ultron to deal with a psycho CEO. Still...the fact that Hydra almost got their hands on a weapon like that was slightly disturbing.

"So greed was his thing then?"

"Yes, it was. We had to blow up the whole building just make sure that Hydra didn't get anything." Susan said sadly. She looked incredibly hurt by the destruction of her workplace.

"I'm sorry...I actually heard about that in the news. I know how much you loved working there." Emma told her, trying to be sympathetic. It was a concept that she was still learning how to emulate but she was getting the hang of it. She was genuinely sad to hear something that had brought Susan so much joy was now gone.

"It's fine." Susan told her. "It's not like I'm unemployed or anything. I'm working with Pym and he's really great...a genius of a man." Emma laughed.

"Don't let Stark hear you say that. Wasn't Pym technologies the competition of Stark Industries back in the day?" Emma asked teasingly and Susan nodded.

"Yeah, Peggy never let me forget it either." They both smiled as they thought of the woman whom they admired more than anyone else in the entire world.