Heroes Assemble

Chapter 3: recruitment

Meanwhile, somewhere in Russia. There was a hidden interrogation going on in the third floor of a hotel. Three men, two were younger, about mid twenties or so, and dressed in a red or a black shirt, jeans and black leather jackets, the third was older and dressed in a general's uniform. They were interrogating a woman in a black dress, and tights, tied to a chair. She had olive skin, green eyes and red hair. Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow, was doing her assignment to uncover a black market group. Suddenly, one of the thugs' phones rang. He answered and told the general it was for her. The general answered, but Coulson's voice came over.

"We have an F 22 exactly eight miles outside of your location. Put the woman on the phone or I will blow up the block before you can exit the facility."

The general put the phone under Natasha's chin. She held it there with her shoulder.

"You're needed at the base." stated Coulson.

"I'm working." complained Natasha in a smooth woman's voice with a slight Russian accent.

"There's a new assignment that needs your immediate attention."

"This idiot is giving me everything." Natasha explained, the general said something in Russian, she glanced at him. "You can't pull me out of this right now."

"Natasha, Barton's been compromised." Coulson said with some regret.

"Give me a minute." she said after a beat.

She glanced at her imprisoners. The general moved to take the phone, only for Natasha to kick him brutally in the shin. The other two raced forward to restrain her, only for one to get the chair slammed on his foot, whacked in the face by the Black Widow's hair. She leaped up and landed on top of the second guy, who she kicked to the floor. The impact broke the chair, freeing her. She then proceeded to stun the two men. Then she left the general hanging from an opening with a metal chain around his leg. She picked up the phone and her black dress shoes.

"Where do you need me?" She asked.

"We've begun the Initiative." explained Coulson, "You're bringing in the big guy."

"Coulson, Stark trusts me as far as he can throw me." Natasha claimed.

"Oh, I've got Stark, THE big guy."

Black Widow let out a Russian exclamation. This wasn't going to be easy, even for her.

The day before this, there was a flash of gold and red coming out of the water in night time New York City. The glint came off of a metal suit with repulsor technology. The suit caught a fishing line for a short man with black hair in a beard on his chin's fishing rod. He was trying to catch fish for his cat. He, however, got caught on a lamp post and will be known as the man who snagged Iron Man.

Anthony "Tony" Stark, is Iron Man, a billionaire genius, is the head of one of the most advanced technology and development industries in the world, Stark Industries. Well, he owns it, but doesn't run it. It's instead run by his girlfriend, Pepper Potts. The company was started by his father, Howard Stark, before World War Two. He used to make weapons, but an incident in Afghanistan changed it. He donned a super suit of his own invention and now tries to help the world without making weapons. Tony just rigged the tower, one of the tallest buildings in New York, to run on a massive ARC reactor;a self-sustaining power source. He's got a smaller one powering an electromagnet that's keeping metal shrapnel out of his heart.

"All right, Pep." said Tony in a crisp youthful proud voice. "Light her up."

"Okay." replied a smooth, crisp, woman's voice over the intercom system in Tony's suit, the once dark tower lit up like a Christmas tree. "How's it look?"