TWELVE - SAVE IT FOR SPIDER-MAN.



The Stark family of three plus Pepper, Silvia, and Felicity all stood in various spots around the large room. A hologram of information about Morgana Pendragon was set up in the middle, one page of many. Tony Stark stood the closest to it as he read the information, his two children close behind him doing the same thing. Pepper and Silvia were off to the side. The two of them were listening and watching and occasionally speaking up when it was needed as the three Starks occasionally spoke up after reading something about the ancestor. Felicity stood the farthest away with her arms crossed. She was watching everything, eyeing them all. She would speak up once in a while as well to comment on something that was said, but other than that the girl stood stoic and quiet.

Not even two hours ago the two males had gotten back from Kamar-Taj, coming back with no luck in finding Doctor Strange.  Immediately when the two of them got back, they were thrown the news that Eliza had figured out who her and Killian's ancestor was.  Ever since then, everyone has been searching up information and reading about the woman that has entered their lives in a not so kind manner.

"So this...woman," Tony started, "Well, her spirit, actually, was trapped inside a vase that your mother kept," he pointed to the twins, "and someone raided the warehouse, broke open the vase so her spirit would be free, and now she wants some crystal to bring her back to life so she's terrorizing Eliza until she finds it. But hasn't done anything to Killian, yet. And she's a very powerful witch from whenever King Arthur was alive, and she's the Twins' however many greats-grandmother.  Ellie's having nightmares and freakish visions because of her, and that's giving my daughter some hellish headaches.  Yet she has done nothing with Killian.  Why?"  He sucked in a breath of air and then let out, turning away from the projection. "We still have some things to find out and it's already complicated."

Eliza and Killian glanced at one another before back at their dad.  Felicity was the one out of the teens to speak up, "Let's not forget that Morgana can't be hurt."

Tony rolled his eyes, and Killian groaned as he hung his head low.  Eliza simply looked pissed and annoyed.  The two women in the room just looked confused.  Silvia was the one to talk out of the two, "And that's because she's not living, correct?"

"She's a spirit," Eliza explained, "they can't be hurt or wounded in anyway.  I tried to, but it didn't work so well."

"I'm gonna find whoever broke the vase and throw 'em in the Amazon River," Killian stated matter-of-factly.

"I'll help," the sister stated. The twins then bumped one another's fists.

"What do we do with all of this information?" Pepper asked. She took a step forward as she motioned the hologram. "We know who she is and what she looks like. We know what she wants. But we don't know why she's torturing Eliza like this and why she's doing nothing with Killian. Or where she is, or who broke the vase. There are many things we don't know, so what are we going to do with the things we do know?"

Everyone was quiet then. They were all thinking over the woman's words. Eliza bit the inside of her cheek as nerves started to flow over her. She didn't like feeling nervous, but she hated Morgana. The teen wanted the ancestor gone from her life, but deep down Eliza felt as if it was going to take a long while for that to happen. Killian glanced at his twin and noticed her fidgeting hands. His jaw went slack, because he was nervous of the outcome and all that was happening as well, but he was also equally pissed. He grabbed one of his sister's hands and held it tightly in his own to let Eliza know he was there with her, and that he wasn't going anywhere.

"We make a plan," Tony spoke up after an intense stare down at the information about Morgana.

Killian then spoke up, "I have a plan. Fight."

"You can't exactly fight something that can't be hurt," Silvia stated.

"Well, you could.  You'd just lose eventually," Felicity said.

Pepper sighed and shook her head, "Don't encourage him."

"The plan," Tony paused and looked at his two kids before at everyone else, "is to find out what this crystal is and what it does, and why Morgana wants it.  We then see if anything can hurt her.  If so...  That is we fight."

"We?" Eliza questioned, eyebrows shooting up in question.

"I'm your father, I'm not letting you fight alone," the man replied.

"But she's been torturing me!  Not you!  I should be the only one fighting her," Eliza insisted.

"Um, you're my sister and whoever tortures you, tortures me," Killian said.  "You can't do this alone, anyway."

"Thanks," she rolled her eyes.  "Really helps to know you have faith in me."

Killian was about to speak again when alarms went off on Felicity's iPad.  The Korean jumped and grabbed the device from a nearby table.  She quickly turned off the alarms as everyone watched her, tapping some things on the touchscreen with a concentrated expression.  Seconds later her dark brown eyes lifted and looked directly to Eliza.  "Morgana just blew up an orphanage with her magic.  The news isn't too happy."

Without hesitation, Tony pulled up the news channel over the information on the evil woman.  Everyone winced at seeing the burning building.  Instantly, the news anchor's voice was heard.

"...freaking out.  There were many casualties, mostly children between the ages of five and eighteen.  People are saying that someone with the same abilities as Vixen did this – someone the people have started calling The Witch – and this action is making us wonder if the magic Vixen and rogue Jinx have are safe. This person even had a similar hood as the female vigilante.  Citizens are already turning against Vixen."

The screen changed from the burning building to a crowd of people.  A man around his late thirties was currently being interviewed by another news anchor.

"Of course I'm pissed!  Magic did this to the kids, who's to say it wasn't Vixen or Jinx dressed differently?!  Neither came to help, after all! They aren't heroes or vigilantes.  They're killers and are dangerous.  Magic shouldn't be natural – kids are dead because of it! It is evil. It is corrupt. It's the devil's work! I don't consider Vixen or Jinx our heroes anymore. Not with what just happened. They both should quit, leave the saving to Iron Man and the rest of the Avengers. Save it for the big guys. Save it for Spider-Man."

Eliza's jaw went slack. Her hands formed into fists, eyes glowing the golden color as a empty mug that sat on one of the tables smashed into the wall. Felicity jumped to the side given that it was only a few feet away from her, and three adults simply stared at the twins. Killian was pissed. But was calm – a danger for him. Eliza was pissed but quite the opposite of her brother – a natural danger for her. She quickly turned to leave.

"I'll be back," she stated.

"I'm coming with-."

"No!" Eliza snapped and turned to face Killian. Her pointer finger was on his chest. "No way in hell. You don't have anything with Morgana at the moment and I plan on keeping it hat way. Stay here, Killian."

"You're not the boss of me," he told her.

"Neither of you should go," Tony said sternly. "You can't just go rampaging to Morgana because she's ruining your imagine."

"I don't care about that!" Eliza yelled. "She killed kids, Dad! Kids! That... If you never took us in, or if we never knew about you, we could have easily been in that orphanage! That is why I'm pissed. I could care less about my reputation as a vigilante. So just let me go find Morgana!"

Tony was silent for a moment. A hard look was on his face, one that none of them could read that well. "No."

"Dad!"

"C'mon," Killian groaned, "Why not?"

"You know why," Tony told them both. He then point to the door with his hand. "Now go to your rooms. Silvia and Pepper will make sure you'll get there."

Killian huffed and started walking out of the room, while Eliza glared at her dad. She wanted to scream at him until he let her go fight the evil ancestor, but she knew that wouldn't work. So after a long second of them having a stare down – father and daughter – Eliza finally looked away and stalked out with Silvia behind her; Killian and Pepper already quickly left the room. The walk to her room wasn't long. In fact it was pretty short. The nineteen year old didn't say anything as Silvia left. She simply closed the door and leaned against it. Her mind was reeling with what she could do from her spot in her room. She came up with nothing. Absolutely nothing.

That was, until her eyes landed on her vigilante suit that laid in a pile near her closet. Eliza stared at it for a good long while, and debated on whether or she should actually put it on and do what her mind was suggesting for her to do. Eventually she locked her door and put a magic seal over it to make sure no one got in. She slipped the suit on, knowing deep down she'll probably get caught one way or another, but ignored that feeling as she fixed the mask and hood. The vigilante then opened a portal and stepped into it. Her feet stepped into the messy warehouse where all of her mother's things used to be. The belongings had been since moved elsewhere.

A dangerous look came over her face as she heard a specific voice.

"Took you longer than I expected."

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