The Mighty(and Girly) Avengers

The explosion resulting from the clash of the Avengers' incredible weapons with the cosmic cube resulted in a glow that blinded the team of heroes for an instant. When the glow ceased the five Avengers were static, trying to process what had happened at the moment.

The first to recover was Thordis. The Goddess of Thunder took her hammer back and slipped it into her belt and soon after she pulled her perfectly trimmed blonde hair out of her face.

"By the blood of Freya!" she said "She escaped"

"Not exactly," said Iron heart inside her red and gold armor "she simply ceased to exist in the explosion of the cube. We don't know what she had in mind, but apparently, we stopped just in time"

"Let's leave the speculation behind," said the woman dressed in gold. "She's gone. Let's get out of here and confiscate all the Amazon serum. We don't want her making any more Amazons or anyone taking advantage." She quickly grabbed the shield attached to the wall where Superia was standing nearby. "Do you have any new information, Tasha?"

Natasha was confused. She was pretty sure that she was with three other men. But now she was sure they were her team and some of her best friends.

"No. All the escape routes were under my control," said Natasha almost lost in her thoughts.

"Good," said Iron Heart over the radio system. "Mission accomplished, Pepper. Superia is no longer a problem and we got all her assets"

Natasha just listened over the radio to the response from the team's financier. "Perfect. Go back to the base and get what's left of the Amazon serum. After that you are free.

Natasha felt relieved and immediately picked up one of the boxes with the vials containing the serum. She knew it was a variant of the serum she had received shortly after her first menstruation at the ballet school that was the cover to the red room academia in Moscow.

Upon returning to the jet she slept soundly and only awoke at the Avengers base in the tower of the Maria Stark Foundation on the southern part of Manhattan. The hangar seemed to be different than she remembered. The place seemed to have more technological gadgets, but they were smaller as if designed for women's hands. In the same hangar, she also noticed Iron Heart being stripped by her armor's the disassembly system.

First, the outer layer had been removed. Natasha kept marveling at the process. Dozens of small robot arms came down from the ceiling and removed each of the screws and latches that sealed the outside. Then there was the mesh of circuits that served as the armor's sensors and were the suit's central nervous system. This mesh did not hide Riri's attractive body.

Riri slowly undressed herself from this mesh. And Natasha for some reason could not take her eyes off her teammate. Her eyes scanned every part of that attractive young body. Natasha's mind almost screamed that Riri could be her daughter, after all, she was only eighteen years old and Natasha was practically twice her age. However before she could break through her questioning and the shame of the taboo she had imagined came Virginia "Pepper" Potts, the president of the Maria Stark Foundation and the legal heir to the industrial empire built by the Stark family.

"Hey you heroine," said Pepper with a smile on her face meanwhile she was doing her best sexy voice.

"Hey, you boss lady. Look what your baby got" said Riri pointing to the Amazon serum boxes trying to sound younger and upbeat "Is that enough to justify the sugar you invested in me?"

Pepper kept her smile and said, "Yes, I don't regret any term of our contract nor the gifts and the opportunities I give to you."

Natasha's head had been flooded with new and at the same time old information. Riri was Pepper's sugar baby and had become the test pilot for the Iron Maiden armor series thanks to Baby's persistence and the fact that she had created her armor in her college dorm room based on the old Iron Maiden model Pepper had created for her former girlfriend and second pilot Bethany Cabe.

“Tasha,” said Pepper looking to the former spy, “are you ok?”

“Y..yes,” Natasha said snapping from the chain of thoughts that had filled her mind

“You don’t look fine.” Pepper replied to Natasha’s uninspired answer “go home, take a rest. You need to confront the facts. Elektra is back from the dead and sleeping on your couch. You need to make a decision about her.”

"I see" Natasha replied before she went to the changing room.