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Joining Task Force X
"Tony? Hey Tony! Are you in?"
I knocked again. After waiting for a while without receiving any answer, I typed in the code to Tony Starks workshop. The door opened swiftly and I walked in.
"Tony? Are you here?"
Suddenly a head popped up from under a table. At a closer look I could see that it was an in grease and oil covered Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, who looked like he had spend the night underneath said table.
"Lisa?", Tony grumbly responded.
"Gosh Tony. What the hell?! Did you sleep here?", I asked as I rushed over to him.
"No, well I don't know. Maybe? At least I didn't intend on doing so...", he replied smiling while rubbing his head. I helped him up without being asked to.
"Did you drink last night or something?"
"No, no I didn't. I worked on the newest Iron Man suit. Something malfunctioned and then I... well I woke up here when I heared your nice and way too loud voice, calling for me."
I made sure he could stand on his own before letting him go again.
"Sure you're alright?", I asked worriedly.
"Yeah, just some bruises. Nothing too bad"
I watched him as he walked over to his newest creation and inspected it. I knew that he most likely wanted to find out what had malfunctioned so I decided to go and help him out a bit.
"Need some help?", I asked as I walked over to him.
"I believe that was not a question?", Tony chuckled.
"No it wasn't"
I smiled and took a closer look at the suit. My eyes travelled over to Tony. I knew him for three years now and I had started to notice that something was wrong with him for a few weeks. He was acting weird, always covering up most of his upper body. I followed his hand with my eyes as he brought it up to his neck to scratch himself. That's when I saw the black lines which covered most of his neck. My eyes widened. Hadn't Tony changed the core of the arc reactor? Without a second thought, I went in front of Tony and pulled up his shirt. A shocked shriek left his mouth as he tried to push my hands off. Taking a quick look at the reactor I let him push me off of him.
"What the hell, Lisa?!", he yelled as he covered himself up again.
"What's wrong with the core? And don't you dare tell me nothing. The black lines are back"
I gave him a stern look waiting for an explanation.
Tony looked at me shortly, sighed softly and let himself fall down into a couch next to the new Iron Man suit.
"You see, the lines actually disappeared for quite some time. The core seemed to work pretty well, but just not for the Iron Man suit. The suit is eating up the core way too fast, using up all it's energy and I don't really have any options left. That's why I am trying to build a suit, which pull less energy out of the core"
He looked up to me and weakly smiled.
"Why didn't you tell me? Shouldn't I get to know if you were to die? Seriously Tony. I will call Natasha now. Either Shield or Nick Fury should know what the f*ck to do"
Without waiting for an answer I turned around and ran out of the workshop, to the elevator and went up to my room. I picked up my Stark phone and dialed Natashas number hoping for her to pick up and not to be on a mission. Not even a second later Natasha was on the phone.
"Hey sweetheart. Is everything ok? Tony is not bothering you, right? Cause if he is I swear to god, I will kick his little, rich ass"
Without thinking twice I blurted out: "The black lines are back" I started telling her everything.
"I'm coming and I will take Fury with me. Do not let Tony go anywhere", she told me in a firm but warm voice before she hung up on me.
As soon as I entered Tony's workshop I could hear engines working. More specific: The new Iron Man suit has been activated.
I was by Tonys side within seconds.
"Tony, get out! Now! Or I will make you!", I yelled over the engines loud noise. As he didn't seem like he would I called out loudly: "Jarvis, turn off the engines. If not, I will turn you off" Immediately Tony stumbled out of the Iron Man suit which then fell to the ground, followed by a loud crash.
"As you wish, Miss Lisa"
"Thanks Jarvis, now please put the suit away and overwrite it with a code so Tony can't get to it"
"Yes Miss"
Satisfied I turned to Tony. I knew that Tony could get to the suit whenever he wanted to. Either because Jarvis won't be able to resist him or because he just cracks the code. Even though I knew all that, I let it be. Who knows when he would really need the suit?
"Damn, for a second I thought you would actually make me get out of the suit yourself. Was already afraid for my new master piece"
A shudder ran over my body as I recalled what he ment by that.
I couldn't remember much before the age of nineteen. I'm currently 25 years old and I am living with Tony to live a somewhat normal life and to keep an eye on Tony.
Before that I got trained by Shield with Natasha as my mentor, even though she somehow became somewhat like a sister to me throughout the years.
No one knew why I could do what I was able to do.
Only one thing was clear: I received my powers shortly before Shield took me in. Natasha was the first one to experience my powers as I had taken down her jet when she had tried to take me to Shield.
I was able to control and manipulate every kind of metal and I myself had a skeleton which was mostly made up out of metal. This was the reason for me being called "Fullmetal". Creative much, I know. Magneto had helped training me as it was the only chance for him to see such powers again, as he put it.
After they had run some tests on both of us they found out, that we were in no way related with each other which led to the conclusion, that I had not been born with my power as metal users weren't at all common. So I was most likely the outcome of some crazy scientists experimenting on me with some weird chemicals.
I couldn't remember any of that, which made me no big help for Shield to find out more about my background. Natasha told me that I had been found in Gotham City. I had done some research and found out about a man called Batman. I didn't really know what to make out of him as he didn't spark any interest in me. But there was a man who surely did. He had neon green hair, baby blue eyes, chalk white skin, bloody red lips and teeth covered in silver grillz. There were no clear pictures of him, sadly.
No zoom in on his face, nothing.
It were not the pictures that sparked my interest though, but the fact that whenever I closed my eyes I could see a more than clear image of this man. I could see every tattoo, which was a perfect contrast to his white skin. When I dreamed, I dreamed of him. I knew how his skin felt against mine, how his laugh sounded (the non-crazy one), the way he called my name and how his lips flet on mine.
Whenever I had these dreams they turned into nightmares. In one moment I could see the Jokers face right in front of me, the next moment I'm falling and landing in a thick substance which causes me not to be able to hear, see or breathe anymore. I always wanted to call out to him but instead I woke up drenched in sweat with my screams echoing through my room.
Everytime I had these dreams I would get up and not be able to fall back asleep anymore. I would go work out and then start my day like every normal human being.
A knock on the glass door to Tony's workshop brought me out of my daydreams. I turned around to see a smirking Natasha and a grim looking Nick Fury standing in the door next to her.
"Natasha!" , I called out happily and ran over to her, letting myslef almost get crushed by a big hug of her. After she let go of me again, I focused my attention on Fury.
"Sir, it's a pleasure to see you again", I say as I hold out a hand for him to shake. He just looked me up and down, took my hand, shook it and then gave me a small, almost non-existing smile.
"It's good to see you too Lisa, but you told Agent Romanov about Mr. Starks condition so I wanted to check up on him myself", Fury said while searchig the workshop with his eyes.
"Ah, yes, of course Sir"
As if he thought of this as his clue, Tony suddenly appeared next to me.
"Not this woman again. Lisa, you know I don't like her since she tried to go undercover here", he pouted at me.
I looked at him with a frown. I had thought that he had been over that incident after fighting with her and the rest of the avenger against Loki and his alien army. Guess he still held a grudge.
Without a warning, Fury pulled out an injection needle which he immediately embedded into Tonys neck. With a choked out scream of surprise, Tonys eyes widened and he fell to his knees.
As quick as possible I was by his side, making sure he was ok.
"That will keep his symptoms in check. He will be ok in a minute or so. How about we move to the living room to discuss everything further", Fury growled after I had shot him and angry look.
"Let's go", Natasha said and helped me with Tony, trying to follow after Fury.
We took the elevator up to the upper floors which were Tony's and my home.
After we were seated on the couch Fury pulled out a folder. "Task Force X" was written on it in big, black, bold letters.
I took the folder from him after Tony declined, saying that he didn't like stuff being handed to him (it's true, he hates it). I started looking through it. "Enchantress, Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, El DIablo, Killer Croc, Slipknot and Harley Quinn? What is this? The avengers of the FBI?", Tony asked chuckling after he looked over my shoulder.
I read every little detail and came to a hold after seeing the name of the man who had my life in his hands without having ever met him (or so I thought). The Joker. This Harley Quinn, previously known as Dr. Harleen Quinzel, was supposed to be his "queen", which made her his lover.
Something made me angry about that. Some part of me thought that my name was supposed to be printed there, not hers. The other part was trying to be serious, so that no one would notice my inner struggle.
I turned to the last page and found a picture of a man in a military uniform.
"Rick Flag?", I read out loud.
I knew this man. I had beaten him quite often in close combat training.
"He is their leader?", I asked looking up to Fury again.
He had a slight smirk on his lips.
"The thing is Lisa, the reason why I came here is not only to help Tony, but also to get one of our agents into this team. Agent Amanda Waller is the one who put together the Task Force X. I've known her for quite some time now and she has noticed you once in one of your training sessions with Colonel Rick Flag. She asked specifically for you. You see, I don't trust this woman. That's why I want to make sure you know all of this. Unfortunately, she is the only one who can help Tony", Fury sighed and looked at me with seemingly begging eyes.
"I want my best agent with the needed powers to go there"
"Where is there?", I asked, already knowing the answer.
"Gotham City", Natasha replied this time.
My heat skipped a beat.
"Ok, I will go"