THUNDERSTRUCK, marvel

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BIG NEWS

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SATURDAYS WERE ONE OF LEXI'S FAVOURITE days of the week. She was finally free from having to wake up early for school and had all day to do whatever she wanted and that usually meant spending time with her friends. The blonde was hoping that today would be one of those days but she knew that it might be hard to get them all on board to do something that she would actually consider fun.

It was reaching ten o'clock as Lexi sat in the spare bedroom of the home she shared with her mom at the desk that was covered in an assortment of random mechanical parts. When Lexi first started to overtake the spare bedroom, it wasn't necessarily something she intended to do. But there had been a definite amount of joy that she felt that day her mother had come in, looked at the mess and told her they might as well turn it into her official lab. So she'd been using the room as a lab ever since.

With music playing over the speakers in the room, Lexi almost didn't catch her phone ringing on the other side of the desk. She'd been so focused on what she was working on, that she didn't see the screen light up until she pulled back to get a different look at her project. It was then that her phone caught her eye and she looked over at it.

"Shit! How long have you been ringing?" she exclaimed, sliding her chair down the length of the desk to grab her phone and quickly answered it without looking at who it was. "Quill's Escorts, who would you like to date tonight?"

"I think that's the weirdest one yet."

"You underestimate me."

"Can you blame me?"

"Nope." Lexi paused. "Is there any news on where she is?"

"That's why I called," Tony Stark told her.

Even though she'd always known that Tony Stark was her father, it was still a little strange to see his name come up on her caller ID. But recently, seeing his name on her phone also usually came with the oddest mixture of relief and anxiety.

"I don't think this is the kind of conversation we should have on the phone," Tony told her. "I've sent a car for you."

"When will it be here?"

"Now."

Lexi's brow furrowed as she slid backwards and craned her neck so she could see out of the room, into the living room and out the front window. Just as he'd said, there was a black SUV pulling up out front of the house.

"You didn't think to give me any warning?" she protested, standing up and looking for her bag. "I mean, I need a few things when I leave the house."

"This is kind of important."

"No duh, it's important, it's about my sister!" she said, leaving her lab and heading to her bedroom where she found her purse and grabbed it. "Doesn't mean that I don't need, like, at least two minutes' warning."

"Come on, don't keep Happy waiting."

"I would never dream of doing such a horrible thing to that man," she told him, opening the front door.

"I'll see you soon," Tony told her.

"That is how time works," she answered. Then paused as she locked the door. "I'll make it there safe, you know. Happy wouldn't let anything happen to me."

"I know," he said.

"Okay. Bye."

After her father said his goodbye, she hurried over to the car and slid in the backseat, giving a smile to Harold "Happy" Hogan, one of Tony's closest friends, chauffeur and bodyguard on occasion. Happy was one of the people that he trusted most in the world, doubly so when it came to his daughters. For six months, he had been much more protective over Lexi and though it was annoying, she couldn't blame him.

Six months earlier, Lexi's younger, half-sister Juliet had been kidnapped by the evil organization known as Hydra. They weren't really sure how it had happened. Or, if they did, they hadn't told Lexi about it. It was awful, having gone six months without hearing her little sister's laugh or seeing her smile. Juliet and Lexi may have only been half-sisters, but Lexi adored the younger girl. The thought that she was off somewhere being tortured by evil people made her stomach all tie up in knots and want to vomit.

In the car, Lexi sent a quick text to her mom, Kimberly Quill, to tell her that she was going to be at her dad's. A second after she sent the text, she sent another one saying that it was about Juliet. Her mom was always careful about letting Lexi see Tony, not wanting him to be a bad influence on her and she knew that Kimberly was feeling even more conflicted in the last six months. On one hand, Tony's other daughter had been kidnapped. But on the other, Tony would need his other daughter.

Before long, they reached Avengers Tower and Happy guided Lexi up to the floor that Tony was on. The closer they got, the more anxious that she felt. If Tony felt that it was an in-person conversation, then it had to be big news. Hopefully good big news. She could only think of one thing that would constitute bad big news and she was hoping desperately that it wasn't that.

Happy guided her to a conference room and then left her. Lexi took a breath and then entered the room, seeing her dad and a redheaded woman that she knew to be Natasha Romanoff waiting for her. Neither of them were sitting down at the table, so Lexi didn't either.

"What did you find out?" she asked.

"Maybe... possibly, where she is," Tony told her.

"What?" she exclaimed, eagerly taking a step forward. "You've found her?"

"Maybe," Natasha repeated.

"There's this Hydra base we're going to go shut down. It's bigger than the others we've gone after and we're pretty sure it's where Strucker is," Tony explained.

"Strucker? That Hydra douchebag with the stupid monocle?"

"Yes."

"He's the one that's in charge of Hydra's human experimentation, isn't he? That's what you told me, right? If he's there and you think that Juliet is there, too, then you have to let me come with you," Lexi said as if it was the simplest thing in the world.

"Absolutely not!" Tony protested.

"Dad-"

"I'm not putting my daughter in danger!"

"I'm not saying bring me into battle and use me as a meat shield, jeez! I want to come with you. If Juliet is there and you rescue her, there should be someone in the quinjet that can stay with her. A familiar face. You all will be busy with fighting those Hydra bastards and you can't leave her alone in the quinjet after everything she's been through!" Lexi pleaded. Tony still looked hesitant. "I have no way of fighting, I haven't got a suit or superpowers, I don't want to be in the fight, I can't be in the fight. But I can be there to comfort my sister after you rescue her."

"You'll stay in the quinjet?" Tony questioned her, "no sneaking out or anything?"

"No, I promise. I'll stay right there inside of it the entire time, I promise, Dad."

"If she helps run comms, she'll have to stay in the quinjet," Natasha suggested.

"Yes! Exactly! I will help with comms! Please, please, she's my sister, too. You're not the only one who misses her."

It may have been a bit of a low blow, but it was the truth and it seemed to do the trick as Lexi saw the dawning acceptance in her father's eyes. Not only was he realizing that she was right, but also that continuing to argue with her would only lead to them going in circles for much too long. Lexi was a Stark after all.

"You better get to the quinjet, then."

Lexi smiled. It was time to get her sister back.

an. ahhhh omg I'm so excited about this fic you guys! like you have no idea how pumped I am about it! also, if you don't know who a character is it might be one of -sebstanstan's characters, since this is a crossover, after all.