Y/n went on more and more missions, retrieved more and more data, got better and better, but they still hadn't found what they were looking for. All of these HYDRA raids, all these hours, they were all pointing to one thing.

Finding Loki's scepter. 

Morale was getting low, and even with Cap's amazing pep talks, everyone was getting tired of the raids. 

Y/n hummed as she walked into Tony's lab, Bruce sitting next to him. She walked with one hand behind her back and one in front of her, presenting a plate with a slice of cake on it. Tony smiled.

"Hello Zappy, whatcha got there?" Bruce looked up and y/n smiled.

"Oh, just some cake. Here's your piece. I didn't know you were here Bruce, oh wait, boom!" She swung her other arm around her, almost flinging the second piece across the room. She placed the plates in front of the two men.

"I'm great, I know. Sooooo, whatcha working on?" Bruce's eyes widened and Tony shrugged.

"It's an improvement for JARVIS." Y/n chuckled.

"JARVIS can't be improved, he's perfect."

"Thank you Miss L/n." Y/n smiled as he responded.

"No problem dude. So what improvements are you making?" Tony shrugged again.

"Science stuff, you probably wouldn't understand." Y/n nodded.

"Yeah, I barely understand anything you say." Tony smirked.

"Right back at you." Y/n waved to the two men and walked out. As she closed the doors she heard a yell.

"Thank you!" Without looking at Tony she yelled back.

"Screw you!"

Bruce looked at Tony.

"We have to tell someone about this. We can't just keep it a secret. Secrets always go wrong and lying always goes wrong, and we are doing both!" Tony looked at him.

"I think you'll find that that means they cancel each other out. We're fine. And I didn't lie. Ultron is an improvement on JARVIS. He will keep the world safe, JARVIS keeps us safe. See? Improvement. And I don't think she would understand. Or Cap. So for now we are keeping this to ourselves, right Banner?" Bruce nodded with a frown. Tony smiled and clapped his hands.

"Good, let's get back to work."

~~~ Time skip brought to you by Elmo and Rocko~~~

Clint shot arrows as he stood on the seats of the jeep. Natasha kept her head down as she drove, Y/n clinging onto the side of the car. She kicked one soldier back before grabbing one of the poles attached to the roof and swinging over Nat's head to slam another one. She smiled as Tony flew by. She kept flinging soldiers around left and right. Nat turned the car and let it drift as the three of them jumped out, in line with everyone else.

"Shit!" Y/n chuckled as she watched Tony swear after flying into an invisible force field surrounding the building. Steve, however, frowned.

"Language. Jarvis, what's the view from upstairs?" Y/n punched a man as Steve responded.

"The central building is protected by some kind of energy shield. Strucker's technology is well beyond any HYDRA base we've taken." She kicked more men down as Thor answered back.

"Loki's scepter must be here. Strucker couldn't mount this defense without it. At long last."  Y/n turned as Nat rolled a grenade into an enemy car. She smiled as the men went flying. She lept forward to take more men. Natasha sat up on the unconscious men she had just taken down. (a boss move)

"At long last is lasting pretty long." Y/n turned and saw a man sneaking up on Clint. She teleported over and punched him in the back of the head. They both fought together, him shooting his arrow, and her taking down the men around them. Clint sighed.

"I think we lost the element of surprise." Y/n shrugged as she kicked more men back. She smiled as she heard Tony speaking over the comms.

"Wait a second, no one else is gonna deal with the fact that Cap just said 'language'?" Y/n laughed as she responded.

"But Stark, by God's given grace, how else would one respond to such profanities?!" Steve sighed as the others laughed.

"Come on Y/n, that was mean. And, I know, It just slipped out." Y/n laughed as he threw his motorbike at a group of men.

"Get your anger out magic man, that's it." Clint pulled his arrow back, but as he shot, a blue blur went by. He turned back behind a tree as Y/n frowned and spoke in a low voice.

"What the f..." She was cut off by the blur going past her and knocking Clint to the ground. Clint slowly stood up as a boy walked past him.

"You didn't see that coming?" Y/n teleported in front of him, which made him stumble back. He sped away, but Y/n once again teleported in front of him.

"Look here, pretty boy!" But once again, before she could finish, she was interrupted. The boy grabbed her and sped forward, pushing her with her back against a tree. He held her hands above her head, stopping her from teleporting.

"Hello princessca. So, you think I'm pretty?" Y/n smiled as she tried to move her arms.

"Hopefully you're not as fast in all areas, cause that really would be a shame." He was taken aback, and Y/n used this as an opportunity to kick him in the stomach before running off.

Y/n teleported over to Clint and found him on the floor, a wound on his side.

"I'm glad you came back from your flirting session to help me." Y/n slapped him on his side before realizing that that was where he was shot.

"SHIT! Sorry! Wait, no! Stop making fun of me! I'm taking you back to the quinjet, hold on." Clint reached his arm up to hold her shoulder. She quickly brought her hands up to her cheeks and pressed them. They were back in the quinjet when she spoke into comms.

"Clint is down, a shot in his side. I took him back to the quinjet." Steve nodded, even though she couldn't see it.

"Good job Y/n." She took a breath.

"One more thing, there's a dude, enhanced, on the field. Watch out." Right as she said it, Steve was flipped over by him.

"I actually just met him. Stark, we really need to get inside, take Y/n. Y/n, see if you can get inside." She nodded, and within seconds she was inside the building.  

"This place is grim, to say the least." Stark smiled.

"Drawbridge is down people. Y/n meet me inside." She nodded and stopped listening to the comms. She heard glass breaking and teleported inside the room. She fought some of the men as Tony blasted them. She ducked as the blasts came her way, and when she stood up all the men were on the floor.

"Is it nap time? How come nobody told me?"(I really want people to get this reference)

The two of them walked into the next room to see a man deleting things off a computer. Tony shot him with his blasters and stepped out of the Iron Man suit.

"Sentry mode." Y/n smiled as he walked over to the computers.

"Yay, its nice to see your ugly mug again." He shook his head and pulled out a device, holding it up to the computers.

"Alright Jarvis, you know, I want it all. Make sure you copy Hill at HQ." Y/n walked around the open room as everything was downloading.

"I've got a feeling they're hiding more than files here." Tony nodded.

"Spot on kid. Hey J, give me an IR scan of the room real quick." Y/n walked over to a wall as Jarvis spoke.

"The wall to your left. I'm reading steel reinforcement and an air current." Y/n smiled.

"Wait, is this a secret door?" Tony walked over with a matching grin.

"Please be a secret door, please be a secret door, please be a secret door." They both put their hands on the wall and pushed. The wall moved to the side, revealing a secret tunnel. Tony grinned.

"Yay."

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Word count: 1404

Can you possibly guess who I chose as the love interest? Nah I'm too subtle.

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