Everyone was loving Ichigo's 'kill it with fire' response. So let's see what happens next.

P.S. The alpha's get a little bit weird in this one.

"Did anyone else think-" Tony started to ask before coughing a bit as he waved away what was left of the smoldering remains of the lingerie beg and it's contents. "That Strawberry's 'burn' response was just a tad bit excessive?"

Bucky and Steve both thinned their lips a little bit and nodded their heads as Nat chimed in. "It depends on what was in the bag," Causing all three males to look at her oddly. "What?" Nat said in a defensive tone before tacking on. "Even I've had moment's where even I wanted to burn something that Tony has given to me. I've just never met anyone with the balls to actually do it."

"She killed the lingerie that I bought for her Nat." Tony said in a disbelieving tone.

In truth, he wasn't all that sure how to react to the omega's reaction to the carefully selected items that he'd gotten for her. On one hand, he had been warned. And on the other...well, he was sort of torn between laughing and crying at the same time.

Laughing because who the hell set something on fire like that and still had the presence of mind to politely thank someone else before retreating to a safe place? And crying because that lingerie had been really, really, really nice and yes- he had sort of envisioned a more positive, and maybe a little bit of an affectionate response from her.

The moment that Nat realized what he'd said, she looked about like she was going to cry as she shouted, "What?! Nooo! No, no, no-"

"Don't try to pull a Clint and go into denial, Nat. The lingerie is dead. We all saw her set it on fire and then walk off." Steve deadpanned as the woman finally fell silent with a pitiful sounding whine.

"Was it pretty Tony? I feel like I should know if it was pretty." Nat said as she looked at the genius with wide, slightly hopeful green eyes.

"It was very pretty Nat," Tony said soberly as the woman whined again. "It was pretty and tasteful- none of that slutty shit that people usually buy for their omegas. It was exactly within the suggested parameters that you gave me. Nothing that showed too much skin. Only enough to tease and entice. I got colors meant to flatter her coloring, and make her hair and eyes pop. And I even had silk stockings cause I knew that Barnes would like them."

This time both Nat and Bucky whined.

"That bag had silk stockings Stevie." Bucky said as he stared at the still slightly smoking remains.

"Yeah, I heard."

"Why did the silk stockings have to die Stevie? They never hurt anyone. And they're so soft and silky and nice to the touch." Bucky said with a weird hand motion. Almost like he was trailing his fingers along someone's leg with a dreamy expression on his face.

Tony facepalmed as Nat hugged him and eyed Bucky.

Steve looked at Bucky with a funny expression of his own that was some weird cross between 'focus' and 'WTF, I've lost him'. It must have been a Captain look because only Steve could manage to pull an expression like that off without his face freezing that way.

"Steve."

"Yeah."

"We've lost these two." Tony said as he indicated both Nat and Bucky.

Steve made a weird, half hum/half growling sound before then saying with a straight face. "They were casualties of the omega-lingerie war."

"That's tragic." Tony said from over the top of Nat's head.

"I know. They were so young...and looked forward to so much."

"We'll have to bury them then."

"Yeah."

"I get Nat's porn collection." Tony said suddenly.

"Awesome," Steve deadpanned. "I got dibs on Bucky's. His collection is greater than yours, and spans different decades. Now let's collect these two and bury them before they start stinking up the place," Steve laughed a little bit as Bucky finally snapped himself out of his little daydream and swatted at him with a growl as Steve said in a mock excited tone. "Bucky! You've returned from the dead!"

"Fuck off!" Bucky snapped at him before Tony asked if someone could help resurrect Nat so that they could have a serious discussion about what the hell had just happened. And maybe get to the bottom of why their omega had reacted in such a negative manner to something that should have had her practically purring in contentment.

It took another few minutes for Nat to finally return to her senses.

Mainly because she'd suffered a shock and her pervy little mind was a lot like Bucky's and just couldn't handle it for the moment. But once she was herself again, she pushed all thoughts of the destroyed lingerie to the back of her mind, and tried to help them get to the bottom of things.

"I've never seen an omega do something so- so..."

"Out of character?" Steve supplied helpfully.

"Yeah, that." Tony said before tacking on. "I mean, what sort of omega would turn down something nice from an alpha in such a violent manner?"

"Well, it's not all that surprising really. I already know that Ichigo isn't really fond of things that have to do with sexuality or her gender but- I've never seen someone do something quite like that before." Nat said with a frown as she mulled over specific pieces of information about the omega to see if it might help them some.

"I have," Bucky said before going on. "While I was at Hydra. I saw a lot of fucked up stuff. One such thing was that they'd drag omega's into the bases for 'group relief'. They did a lot of horrifying stuff to these innocent omega's where they would lock them in a room with torture devices and about a hundred or more rutting alphas. I mean they forced them to take, and take, and take until there was nothing left but bloodied remains once they were done. And those poor omega's died screaming..."

"Are you saying that you think she might be one of those omegas or something?" Steve asked in an appalled tone. His tone belying his horror at the mere thought.

"No. I mean, I hope not. But what I'm saying is- that whatever it is that's got her so freaking repressed- there is a reason for it. And it must be fucking bad. Like worse than anything that Hydra could have done."

"Did you finish reading her medical file?" Tony asked suddenly.

"No, why?"

"I did," Tony said before going on. "And she has a lot of reasons to hate both her secondary gender and alpha's. She has a lot of reasons to want to avoid sex too. None of her previous experiences were...very positive ones." Tony said after a moment or so before continuing. "She's been attacked, beaten, nearly raped repeatedly- almost murdered on several occasions..."

Bucky made a face and motioned with his hand for Tony to shut up since neither Nat nor Steve knew anything about those incidents. Or at least he was sure that they didn't. And of course he was right.

"What?!" Both Steve and Nat shouted the moment that they both registered what Tony had just said, causing Bucky to bury his face in his hands and groan as the two alpha's cornered himself and Tony and demanded answers.