Chapter 6
She was forced to attend Tony’s fund for the fire something or other she was horrible with names she was also forced to wear an evening gown from the very back of her closet something that made her look human before the transfusion but like a super modal after.
She quite enjoyed the race she and tony had with two Ferrari's and she enjoyed the way peoples jaws dropped upon seeing her even more, no she wasn’t vain at all but it was nice to see people react.
She headed straight for the bar once she got passed the doors and a man was there waiting for her “miss stark” she looked at him confused and made a not very intelligent sounding uhhh noise
“Agent Coulson, we've met before” he held out a hand and she shook it
“Yeah I remember, I guess you want to put me to work?” the man barely twitched his lips in a smile “something like that yes”
The next time she saw tony he had created a new element, their house was destroyed, they had an entire tower for a home, and he had a girlfriend...
She didn’t know which one surprised her most.
When she found his girlfriend was pepper she was defiantly more surprised by that.
First arriving back at the tower she smiled at her brother who had yet to notice her, she walked along the landing platform smiling all the while steps near silent despite the heavy metal that surrounded her.
Once she was close she raised her hands “reach for the skies” her brother jumped at her sudden voice spinning around and then he laughed “hey! Welcome home” he said and she grinned at him as he came from behind the bar and she hugged him
“I heard our old place is a little waterlogged, what happened? You decide to tell them our address and piss em off” when he glanced away she stopped laughing “really tony? You piss someone off then challenge them to come after you?” she didn’t know whether to be amused or exasperated so she settled for both
“Hey I had it under control” just then pepper came from somewhere “tell her about the speedster incident”
Beth’s greeting was cut short and she looked at him one brow raised “speedster, incident?” he looked novice for a moment “anyway where have you been? It’s been what a year since we've seen you?”
It was a horrible change of subject but she made a mental note and rolled with it “year and a half, I been bouncing back and forth between new genie and England for a while, but SHIELD no longer needs a lap dog to fix their toys so I’m back” she slumped onto a bar stool “really?” he asked and she nodded “yep” she popped the p then looked at pepper.
“So tell me about this roadster incident” tony groaned.
He told her all about it and everything else that had happened as he led her down to his personal lab, aka their lab.
“So I’m gone a day and you start a miniature war with a jet and then destroy the arc reactor? Swear to god I just need to stop leaving you alone, and what's this whole house fell into the sea thing?” her brother rubbed the back of his neck “yeah well, that's what happen when missiles hit it”
She stared at him and blinked a couple of times then dropped her face into her hand “I need to stop leaving you alone”
He looked at her with a little brothers indignity “keep that up I might just regret saving this” he made a motion toured a part of the lab and she looked then her eyes went wide In a case was what had started to become her own suit but she’d been forced to stop making because she was being run around by SHIELD so shed had to make due, “holy hell, you finished it?” she questioned walking up and around the suit.
She stared in wonder as he explained what all he'd done to it.
Unlike his armor hers didn’t have to be as thick because it didn’t need to protect her as much, the serum shed been dosed with made her hardier, even if she still got hot or cold easily.
Her suit didn’t have an arc reactor so it couldn’t store much in the way of weapons it was more for protection, like her brothers suit it covered a large amount of her body, made of a Kevlar like material with flexible metal plates attached to it.
She had the same repulsers on her boots as her brother but her hands were free he said he'd adjusted them so they weren't needed, she didn’t really need them anyway but she didn’t tell him that.
The upper part of her face was covered in a helm with a visor that she could choose to be clear or tented, a bottom part that covered the rest of her face deployable at any time.
It was discreet but the suit also had pockets where she could stick a few gadgets that would help in a fight she had a laser or two in her gauntlets but other than that she didn’t have a need for any weapons other than maybe a couple of knives.
To say she was excited to put it on was a understatement, dropping the makeshift gear shed been using she stepped up and donned her armor it took less than 2 minutes and she shifted once it was on feeling the way it shifted.
It felt like coming home to an old friend she looked through the display “JARVIS, you with me buddy?” she questioned the display flashed slightly and a few different icons came up on the left hand corner “always miss” the AI said in her ear “upload my personal preferences please” the default icons switched and readings came up on the inside apparently that's the only place they were visible “What say we take this pony for a ride?” she looked at her brother already in his ironman armor and grinned “you sure you can handle being shown up?” he laughed “give it your best shot” his repulsers fired and he shot off through to tunnel she looked at the display “what do you say JARVIS? Should I kick his ass?”
“you are undoubtedly the older sibling miss” she grinned and flexed her feet felt the repulsers whir to life and lift her off the ground then she turned and shot off out through the tunnel and shot strait passed her brother who'd been waiting on her.
She looked back at her brother, visor tenting and mouth being covered by the rest and grinned from behind it “come on slow poke, don't let an old woman show you up!” he rocketed up to her but she managed to stay just ahead testing out the new suit and grinned as she and her brother raced around new York and laughed.
It felt like she was finally home.
She ignored the feeling of something missing