When she woke up, Isadora was staring at a ceiling. It was unfamiliar though, the ceiling in her room on the SHIELD helicarrier was a different color.
"Ms. Stark, your father has requested you get changed and come to the kitchen, he has things to discuss with you." Jarvis said, his appearance scaring her.
"Thank you, Jarvis but I don't have any clothes." she said.
"Mr. Stark had clothes stocked in your bedroom." Jarvis said.
"My room?"
"Yes, the door at the end of the hallway."
She stood up and went to the the door, opening it and peering into the hallway. Sure enough, there was a door at the end of the hallway with a sign on it. 'Isadora Stark'. She smiled at her last name and walked to the door. She opened it, and was filled with awe.
The room was painted a burgundy color with the trimmings a pearly white. The floor was a nice burgundy carpet. A queen sized bed sat in the middle of the room, the blanket and pillowcases a mix of burgundy and white. The closet was on the left end of the room and she swiftly walked to it. There was an electronic wall panel next to them. The doors of the closet had a monogrammed Stark 'S' on them. She tapped the wall panel, bringing it to life, and a catalog appeared, asking her what she wanted to wear.
She scrolled through the list and pictures ad finally found something she was comfortable in.
The closet spurred and then soon after, the doors opened, revealing the outfit she chose. Black leggings, white and black striped crop top, Adidas slides, black socks, topped off with a creme colored cardigan.
Isadora walked to the bathroom on the right side of of the room , directly across from the closet. She closed the door and immediately started peeling off her clothes. There was a full length mirror on the back of the door that she stood in front of for a minute. Isadora inspected her body, head to toed. Bruises and scars scattered along her body, some old, some new. She ran her fingers along the old scars, feeling the ridges that were embedded. The scepter wound in her back had cleared up, becoming a small pink scratch.
After her shower, she walked out of her bathroom, drying her hair with a towel. There was a box sitting on her bed, sitting perfectly with a bow on top of it. She walked over it, carefully inspecting it.
She slowly pulled apart the bow, deciding to use it for her hair, and opened the box. Inside the box was a beautiful Rolex. It was chocolate colored and encrusted with diamonds. It was definitely more than 14 karats.
Out of the top of the box fell a card. It had a few words on it.
'For all the time I missed out on.'
Tears streamed down her face and she smiled at the joke. After she got dressed, she walked out of the room.
"Jarvis?" She called
"How can I help you, Ms. Stark?"
"Could you please navigate me to the kitchen?"
Jarvis proceeded to tell her how to to get to the kitchen.
Tony sat in the kitchen at the table, staring down at a tablet.
"Uh..." Isadora started, finding it difficult to form a sentence.
"Izzy please, my penthouse is your penthouse. Help yourself to anything in my fridge." Tony said.
With his permission, Isadora bounded to the refrigerator, her stomach rumbling.
"Dad, can I cook for you?" she asked.
Tony beamed at her calling him dad. It took him a second before he replied, "I don't usually eat breakfast, but I'm willing to eat something sweet and sugary." Tony answered.
"In that case, Jarvis can you play something off the Billboard charts?" Isadora asked.
"Certainly, Ms. Stark." Jarvis answered.
"You just told my A.I. what to do!" Tony said, freaked.
After having cooked a batch of French Toast Sticks, Isadora served her father, sitting syrup next to his plate.
"A daughter that can cook?" Tony exclaimed.
"Culinary Arts was one of my eight majors." Isadora said.
Tony smiled at her and bit into his food. He chewed it for a second and moaned at the taste. "This is amazing!"
Isadora blushed, and shrugged her shoulders, while digging into her food.
"Do you like your room?" Tony asked.
Isadora beamed. "I love it! It's perfect." she said.
"Good, because it's permanent."
"What do you mean?"
"I would like for you to live with me. I checked your files, you live on the helicarrier. I would like for you to have a home when you're not off on missions."
Isadora pondered his idea for a second. After finding no reason not to agree with it, she nodded.
"I'm cool with that." she said.
Tony smiled at her, she responded with a smile.
"Canary come in, we've got a target on Loki in Stuttgart, Germany." Hill said.
"On my way." Isadora answered.
"Dad, they've found Loki, I gotta get down there to help." she said.
The duo had been sitting around in his garage, testing out different upgrades to his suit.
"Sure thing, see ya kiddo. Be careful." he said.
She ran to her room and pulled on her suit, making her way to the top of the tower. She jumped off and set her immediate flight to Germany. From Manhattan to Stuttgart took about 15 minutes. She caught up with a quinjet and flew with it. Natasha looked over at her and smiled. She smiled back.
"...elder people. Let him be an example." Loki's words finished.
At that second, Captain America shot out of the rear of the quinjet. He landed in front of a man and hid himself and a man in front of him.
The blast refracted off of his shield and hit Loki.
"Ahh!" he screeched.
Isadora landed next to the Captain and stood proud.
"Ya know, the last time I was in Germany and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing." Caprain Rogers said.
"The Soldier and the Canary. The Man out of Time and The Woman Lost in Time." Loki said, standing up.
"I'm not the one who's out of time."
"Loki, drop the weapon and stand down." Natasha said through the intercom on the quinjet.
Loki shot a blast towards the jet but it moved out of the way. Captain threw his shield at Loki and it hit him and boomeranged back to him.
Canary started to get all the people away from the fight and towards safety. The people scattered but she made a pathway to them as they screamed.
Captain engaged Loki, punching him straight in the face. When he didn't react, he swung his shield at him, but Loki parried his strike and they engaged in scepter-to-shield combat.
Loki hit the Captain and he fell, rolling and landing back on his knees.
Captain launced his shield at Loki but he knocked it out of the way. The Captain ran up to him and swung his fist but Loki dodged it, turning and swinging his scepter. He missed and the Captain punched him. He didn't react and Loki swung his scepter lower, hitting him in the back and knocking him over.
The Captain went to get up but Loki put the butt of his scepter on his head, holding him down.
"Kneel." he whispered.
The Captain grabbed the butt of the scepter and knocked it out of the way.
"Not today!" he said, getting up and high kicking Loki in the face.
Canary helped more people get out of the way and put up a force field around the fight so that no other humans would be stuck in there.
"The guy's all over the place." Natasha said to her.
Loki picked up the Captain and threw him.
"Agent Romanoff. You miss me?"
The PA system on the quinjet was overrode and AC/DC's Shoot to Thrill started to play.
Isadora smiled, "I knew he would follow me."
Loki and Captain Rogers paused in their fight and Isadora took down the force field.
Iron Man landed out of the sky and shot at Loki, knocking him back into the stairs of a building. Iron Man held out his arms and weapons lined down them. His arc repulsors started up.
"Make your move, Reindeer Games." Iron Man said.
The Captain and Canary walked up next to him and Canary made her hands steam.
Loki's armor wore off and he held up his hands.
"Good move." Iron Man said, as his weapons powered down.
"Mr. Stark." Captain addressed.
"Captain." Iron Man said.
The quinjet landed and Canary handcuffed Loki and Natasha walked him to the quinjet.
Canary stayed for a second. The Captain's voice sent chills down her spine. They make her deepest parts tingle. The few words he had spoken to her father made her melt. Her heart rate sped up, her face heated up, and her knees felt like Jello.
She composed herself and got into the quinjet.
"What? Don't feel like flying tonight?" Iron Man said.
"I'm tired lol, that force field took a lot out of me, Dad." she said, pulling her hair out of it's tight ponytail.
"Did she just say lol?" Natasha asked.
"Yes, indeed I did, Romanoff." she replied, sticking her tongue out at the red head.
The Captain stayed back, his features thoughtful.
Why did Loki let up so easily? Why is his hair so long? Why did that woman say lol? What does lol mean? Why did that woman's words make my heart race and my body tingly? Why does she look so familiar?
Tony walked up to him, as the woman laid down on a seat and placed her arm over her eyes. Her simple actions dazzled him and he found that he couldn't look away.
"Is he saying anything?" Fury asked over the phone.
"Not a word." Romanoff answered.
"Just get him here. We're low on time." Fury instructed.
The Captain constructed him self. "I don't like it." he said to Stark.
"What, Rock of Ages giving up so easily?" Stark said.
"I don't remember it being that easy. This guy packs a wallop." Steve said.
"Still, you are pretty spry for an older fellow." Tony said, making Isadora laugh from her spot. "What's your thing, Pilates?"
"What?" Steve asked, confused and Isadora giggled again.
"It's like calisthenics. You might have missed a couple of things, doing time as a Capsicle." Tony joked.
Isadora tried to control her giggles but failed. When Steve looked back at her, she quickly composed herself and put her arm back on her face.
"Fury didn't tell me he was calling you in." Steve said.
"Yeah, there's a lot of things Fury doesn't tell you." Tony said.
Lightning stuck, scaring the pants off of Isadora, she curled into a ball in her seat. She reached in between the cushions and pulled out her ipod. She put it on shuffle and placed her earbuds in, soothing her running nerves.
Loki looked around scared.
"What's the matter? Scared of a little lightning?" Steve asked
"I'm not overly fond of what follows." Loki responded.
Thunder rumbled again and lightning sounded again. Isadora whimpered again and clutched herself tighter.
Steve turned to her and stared intensely at her. He placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder. When she jolted away, Steve retracted his hand.
Isadora immediately felt bad. She had jolted away due to the electric current she felt when Steve touched her shoulder, right where her soulmark was. Her skin tingled there but she couldn't exactly out and say it.
"It's okay Izzy." Tony said.
Suddenly there was a loud bang on top of the quinjet. Lighting struck worse and Steve and Tony started to suit up. Tony tapped Isadora's shoulder lightly and she glanced up at him.
"Time to suit up, Izzy." he said, locking his helmet in place.
Tony walked down the strip and pressed a button, opening the back hatch. The wind howled as Steve yelled, "what are you doing?"
When the hatch was fully let open, a man hopped onto it.
He looked around for a second, his gaze lingering on Isadora for longer than she would have liked.
Tony stepped forward, his repulsors winding up and the man knocked him backwards with his hammer. The man snatched Loki out of his seat by his neck and flew out of the quinjet.
Isadora flew after him, following him with no strategy in mind. She turned her com on.
"And now there's that guy." Tony said.
"Another Asgardian?" Natasha yelled over the wind.
"That guy's a friendly?" Steve asked.
"Doesn't matter. If he frees Loki or kills him, the Tesseract's lost." Tony said.
"Stark, we need a plan of attack! Steve yelled.
"I have a plan. Attack." Tony answered.
'I'd sit this one out, Cap." Natasha said.
"I don't see how I can." he replied.
"These guys come from legend. They're basically gods."
"There's only one God, ma'am. And I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that."
Isadora closed in on Thor, following him to the side of a cliff. She hid behind something so he wouldn't see her and crouched down.
Loki groaned as Thor landed and dropped him to the ground rather forcefully.
"Where is the Tesseract?" Thor's gravely voice asked.
Loki chuckled, "I missed you, too." he said.
"Do I look to be in a gaming mood?" Thor yelled.
"You should thank me," Loki said, getting up. "with the Bifrost gone, how much dark energy did the Allfather have to muster to conjure you here to your precious Earth?" Loki said.
Thor dropped his hammer and ran up to Loki, picking him fully up and holding the back of his neck.
"I thought you dead." Thor said.
"Did you mourn?" Loki asked.
"We all did. Our father..."
"Your father." Loki cut him off.
He smacked Thor's arms away.
"He did tell you my true parentage, did he not?"
Loki walked off, passing Isadora but not seeing her. He clutched his back as he walked, feeling older than he was.
"We were raised together. We played together, we fought together. Do you remember none of that?" Thor asked him.
"I remember a shadow. Living in the shade of your greatness. I remember you tossing me into an abyss. I, who was, and should be, king!"
"So you take the world I love as a recompense for your imagined slights?"
Thor walked towards Loki, pointing an accusing finger at him. "No. The Earth is under my protection, Loki."
Loki laughed. "And you're doing a marvelous job with that. The humans slaughter each other in droves while you idly fret. I mean to rule them, as why should I not?"
"You think yourself above them?"
"Well, yes."
"Then you miss the truth of ruling, brother. A throne would suit you ill."
Loki punched past Thor, moving back the way they came.
"I've seen worlds you've never known about! I have grown, Odinson, in my exile. I have seen the true power of the Tesseract, and when I wield it..."
"Who showed you this power? Who controls the would-be king?"
"I AM A KING!"
"Not here!" Thor yelled, gripping Loki's shoulders. "You give up the Tesseract! You give up this poisonous dream!"
He pauses for a second before he continues. "You come home."
Loki seems to consider this for a second, but then laughs at him. He shakes his head.
"I don't have it." he says simply.
Thor steps back, his anger surging through him, motioning for his hammer to come to him and wields it like he's about to swing.
"You need the Cube to bring me home. But I've sent it off, I know not where." Loki says.
Thor pauses, getting his rage in check. "You listen well, brother. I -" he is cut off by Iron Man shooting into him and knocking him off course.
"I'm listening." Loki said, like the asshole he was.
Isadora crept from behind the rock she built. "Very interesting conversation." she said to him.
"Ahh, the Woman Lost In Time. It was a very interesting conversation indeed." he replied.
"Why do you keep calling me that? The Woman Lost In Time?" she asked him.
"You are lost, are you not?" Loki answered.
"No, I'm where I belong." Isadora answers quickly.
"Whatever was done to you, has changed you almost completely. Yet, how you seemed to possess more power than before never ceases to amaze me."
"I don't understand."
"Your regression is what I cannot understand." Loki replies, circling her and examining her top to bottom.
Isadora started to say something but was interrupted by the forest below the cliff shattering. A distinct and newly made clearing was in the middle of it all. Boys will be boys, she scoffed.
"Catch me if you can!" Isadora screamed as she manipulated the air to pass her father.
"Five hundred dollars to the winner!" Tony yelled.
At that, Isadora propelled herself faster. Tony saw this and acted immediately, telling Jarvis to charge up all the repulsors to 100%. He passed his daughter quickly.
"You thought you were gonna win that easily? Pfft, maybe you're not a Stark after all."
Isadora scoffed and played with the winds, pushing him downward as she sped towards the SHIELD helicarrier that had recently come into view.
"Nevermind." Tony said, trying to gain his balance again.
Isadora pushed the winds off of him when she got enough distance between them. But she didn't see the jet crossing her path and ran into it headfirst. Tony took that chance to zoom past her.
Isadora peeled herself off of the side of the jet and sped up, gaining quick on her father. Tony started to land as soon as they got above the helicarrier but Isadora pushed him away with the winds and landed gracefully with a bow.
Tony's suit sputtered as he landed next to her, less than gracefully.
"Cheater." he grumbled, but reluctantly handed her five hundred dollars.
"I won fair and square, you're just mad because I beat you." she said, sticking her tongue out at him.
"Whatever. Wanna see where I keep my suit?" he asked.
Isadora perked up even more, if that was even possible. "Hells yea!" she replied.
By the time Isadora and her father finished catching up, Isadora had been able to go to her chambers and change back into the outfit she was wearing earlier. She had also been able to put on some makeup and fix her hair, putting it up into a messy bun.
Isadora walked with her father and Coulson to the meting room afterwards, all of them conversation about sending Coulson on a trip and a replacement for the arc reactor in her father's chest.
"Iridium. what do they Iridium?" a voice asked.
"It's a stabilizing agent." Isadora answered, as all three of them entered the room.
"I'm just saying, pick a weekend. I'll fly you to Portland. Keep love alive." Tony was saying to Coulson.
"It means the portal won't collapse on itself like it did at SHIELD." Tony said, walking further into the room. Isadora took a seat next to Natasha and placed her feet up on the table. As she glanced around the table, she locked eyes with Steve and then quickly looked away as she felt a weird tugging sensation in her gut.
"No hard feelings, Point Break. You've got a mean swing." Tony said to Thor, tapping him on his bulging biceps as he passed him.
"Also, it means that the portal can open as wide and stay open as long, as Loki wants." Isadora said, producing a pack of Sour Patch Kids from her pocket.
Tony walked over to Fury's set of computers and quickly inspected them, tapping the screens.
"Raise the mizzenmast. Jib the topsails." Tony joked to all of the agents on computers.
Suddenly, he yelled out, "THAT MAN IS PLAYING GALAGA!" and pointed to the agent who was, in fact, playing Galaga.
"He though we wouldn't notice, but we did." Tony said.
Isadora giggled at her father's antics and continued to munch on her candies. She took no notice to the way Steve's head snapped her way when she giggled.
"How does Fury even see these?" Tony said as he put a hand over his eye.
"He turns." Hill answered.
"Sounds exhausting." Tony said.
"The rest of the raw materals, Agent Barton can get his hands on easily. The only ajor component he still needs is a power source of high- energy density." Tony clipped something on one of the computers after configuring all of them to accept his invasion.
"Something to kick-start the Cube." Isadora said.
"When did you become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics?" Hill asked Tony snarkily.
"Last night." he answered back, equally as snarkily as she.
"The packet, Selvig's notes, the extraction theory papers. Am I the only one who did the reading?" He asked.
Isadora shook her head and pointed to Dr. Banner.
"Does Loki need any particular kind of power source?" Steve asked, taking no notice to the way Isadora's gaze snapped to his at his commandeering voice.
"He'd have to heat the Cube to 120-million Kelvin just to break the Coulomb barrier." Dr. Banner said.
"Unless Selvig has figured out how to stabilize the quantum tunneling effect." Tony said, walking to Dr. Banner.
"Well, if he could do that, he could achieve heavy ion fusion at any reactor on the planet." Dr. Banner said.
"Finally someone who speaks English." Tony said.
"Is that what just happened?" Steve said, sounding completely confused.
Isadora giggled again at his ignorance but stopped as his gaze snapped to her, putting her head down and blushing.
"It's good to meet you, Dr. Banner. Your work on antielectron collisions is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage-monster." Tony said, shaking Bruce's hand.
Bruce was rendered speechless for a second before he recovered himself and replied his thanks.
"Dr. Banner is only here to track the Cube. I was hoping you and your daughter might join him." Director Fury stated, appearing from nowhere.
"I would start with that stick of his. It may be magical but it works an awful lot like a HYDRA weapon." Steve said.
"I don't know about that, but it is powered by the Cube." Fury said. "And I'd like to know how Loki used it to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys."
"Monkeys? I do not understand." Thor stated.
"I DO! I understood that reference." Steve said proudly, causing Isadora to break into another fit of giggles.
"Shall we play, doctor?" Tony joked with Bruce.
"This way, sir."Bruce joked back, gesturing for Tony to follow him.
Isadora started to get up and follow them but was stopped by Director Fury.
"I want you to show Captain Rogers to his quarters." he commanded.
"Aye, Aye, Captain." Isadora joked.
Fury scoffed and rolled his eye. "Like father, like daughter."
Steve stood up and followed Isadora without a word as she walked the familiar route to the quarters. She was glad he didn't say anything to her because she knew she'd only end up becoming a stuttering mess. She picked up a random tablet from a passing agent along the way and looked for an open room. She audibly gasped when she realized that the only rooom available was the room net to hers.
She played it off as a cough and walked a little faster. She realized her breathing had turned shallow with the thought of realizing that Steve Rogers was walking behind her and could very well be looking at her behind.
She gathered herself as she passed her bedroom door. She stopped in front of the next door, the room that Steve would occupy. She handed him a key-card and produced the universal key that she had. She opened the door for him and stepped aside.
He started to go in before he stopped and looking into her eyes. They stared at each other for a second too long and Isadora gathered herself and started to walked away. When Steve, tentatively grabbed her shoulder suddenly, she stopped and turned back to him.
He stared at her again before saying, "You look familiar."
The words on her shoulder started to tingle and she could feel every letter. She paid no attention.
"Well, I am Tony Stark's daughter." she replied.
Steve quickly gasped and begun to fall backwards. Isadora grabbed his forearm quickly, as to keep him from falling.
"Are you okay?" she asked him.
"I'm more than okay, I'm ecstatic, but now i think we have a bit of a problem." he replied.