The Invisible Coder (Natasha x OC)

Chapter 10- I could literally eat a horse at this point

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"Ms. Stark, you may want to wake,"

FRIDAY's voice was softer than I remembered it being as I slowly blinked my eyes. Avengers' tower was in view, and there was a crowd of people at the entrance I was about to go in.

Just great.

I landed with a smooth clank. My stomach was growling furiously at me as I started to approach the door. Reporters and paparazzi clouded my way, but parted once I started to push through them.

"Do you enjoy being Tony Stark's daughter?"

"Did he make you the suit, or did you make it yourself?"

"Is Ms. Potts okay with being your mother?"

I ignored all of their questions and finally made my way inside, commanding FRIDAY to lock the doors.

I, unfortunately, could still hear them through the glass doors, so I, unfortunately, had to hear one of them shout, 

"Do you still have nightmares about Loki?"

I stopped, rigid, and spun around, giving the reporter a look of pure annoyance(which he couldn't see through the mask) before continuing on my way.

On my way in, machines immediately started pulling off parts of my suit, dismantling it. Once it was completely off of me, I sprinted to the kitchen with all the energy I had and whipped out a granola bar, the closest thing in my reach. I demolished it before moving on to an entire apple, then a pear. I was so hungry I could barely enjoy the food before it found its way to my stomach. I then polished it all off with 3 tall glasses of water.

Dang, I had been hungry.

"FRIDAY, is anybody home?" I asked.

"No, I believe it's just you and me, Ms. Stark," FRIDAY replied.

I chuckled when she called me "Ms. Stark" and asked her what I'd missed.

"I'm not an excellent source of knowledge to look to if you'd like to find an answer for that. I suggest that you check the local news or go through the security cameras,"

"Oh, Tony'll kill me if I do that,"

"Also, Mr. Stark wanted you to check your lab when you got home,"

"Will do,"

I grabbed a chocolate bar and savored the sweet taste as I started down the stairs to my lab, trying to stretch out the remainder of my muscles.

"He advises you not to mess with them," FRIDAY said.

"Oh, I'd never do that," I lied.

"Of course not, Ms. Stark," FRIDAY replied, sounding as sarcastic as an AI can get.

I laughed, amused. "Why do all of Tony's AIs sound like a more polite version of himself?"

"I don't have an answer to that, Ms. Stark,"

"You can call me Bryce, if you want,"

"Roger that,"

I'd finally reached my computer lab. I flung open the door and gasped as I walked inside.

Two other suits were sitting in the center of my lab. I excitedly ran towards them. Unlike the one I'd worn to get back home, these two were different- one was magenta and silver...

Author's Note: I do not own the original picture.

And the other was red and gold, just as his Iron Man suit was.

Taped on the table next to them was a sticky note that read: "Wasn't sure which color you wanted, so I did all of them. I made them a while back and was going to show you them the night of the party, but clearly, that didn't happen. Merry Christmas. Or Happy Birthday? Yeah, that's right, I remembered your birthday. It's in 2 weeks. You don't have to remember mine, of course. Love, Dad. 

P.S. By that I mean that you should at least remember Pepper's birthday."

I smiled and shook my head, examining the suits. How did he find a way for them to fit me? Then again, he probably had the tech to make them adjust themselves. They were really cool, honestly speaking. They were really high-tech, too. It took all of my willpower not to dig in and start tinkering, trying to find what powered them and all that good stuff.

"Ms. Stark? You may want to see this," FRIDAY said.

I turned to see that FRIDAY had turned on multiple of my monitors and was playing many different news stations at once. I pulled over one of my desk chairs and watched.

"...and here, we have a terribly destructive fight between the 'Iron Man' and the 'Hulk', both of them destroying the city, one in an attempt to demolish everything and the other in an attempt to stop the other," one of the reporters was saying.

I leaned forward, watching as Hulk tore through a city, smashing into everything in sight. Tony Stark in an enhanced-Iron Man-suit-looking-suit which he had referred to as "Veronica". Hulk tore at buildings and threw cars across the city in an untamable rage. The clip ended there, and they moved on with the news report.

"Many people are severely injured and there were some fatalities, but we don't know enough yet. The real question is, will this continue to happen? Should the Hulk be arrested? The question is in the air, but nobody has stepped up to it quite yet,"

"Mute," I commanded. FRIDAY turned off the speakers. "How long ago was this?"

"About 10 hours ago, Ms. Stark. It took a while to get from Africa to New York. You actually slept through the night on the way back,"

I pushed away from that cluster of monitors and turned to a different one.

"Where are they now?" I demanded, opening my hacking program.

"They have concealed themselves from the public," FRIDAY informed me.

"Makes sense," I grumbled, searching around the globe for their last sightings. "Where is the Iron Man suit currently located?"

"Somewhere in Missouri,"

"Great. Can you specify 'somewhere'?" I searched for signs of Stark tech in Missouri before realizing that the Iron Man suit was not a registered weapon.

FRIDAY proceeded to give me some coordinates, which I punched into the system. I pulled up a map. 

"One and a half hours away... I can make it if they don't move," I concluded. 

"What are you doing, Ms. Stark?" FRIDAY asked.

I turned to my new suits, grinning. 

"I'm going to help them,"