A not so Casual Meeting (Obaara)

[Obaara Zipos]

She smiked as Tony spoke about becoming an Avenger. " Well. Maybe it takes time, but still, as i am not like others... with the centaur thing and all... it is extra hard for me to... what is the word? to make myself be accepted... no... i mean harder for me to... become a useful hero, is what i am trying to say. " She spoke with some annoyance and also tryint the use the right english words to best make herself be understandable. 
 
She grew surprised as Tony mensioned Thor and Strange. "Thor Odinsson and Dr. Steven Strange is Avengers too? " She asked with her usual, not perfect English. "My mother knew Dr. Strange... but i never met him yet. " She added, and was dissapointed that she never met the incredibly powerful Magician.

She smirked and then looked at his serious face. While it seems pretty amusing that something would built such a hi tech suit of armor in some cave, Obaara had a feeling that Tony did not enjoy it, or had not other choice. As she trotted towards where the portal or item was, she glanced up to see Tony flying in his Gold and Yellow suit. It sort of reminded Obaara of a Fire Demon. 

As Obaara insinctively followed the mystical energy flow, She arrived to see... a portal. She grunted, not really feeling easy about it. "Ummm... as a demon... i do not like this... if it was being used for personal transport... then portals usually close in a few seconds... but a spell must be keeping it open. " Obaara stared at the still active portal with great suspision and a long second later, demons began to exit from it at a fairly high rate, but instead of being organized, they started causing damage and low level destuction. As she saw the demons come from the portal, she grew bitter, guilty and fairly sorrowful, becoming teary eyed. "No... please! Not them again!" She grunted. As the demons of this class where the exact same class that she herself belonged to, if she would have been born a full demon. Most of them looked pretty human, but with red skin and many had horns.  
The full demons where somewhat stronger, faster and more durable then an average human. Obaara would defenitly be late to arrive back at the X-Mansion.   

[Tony Stark]

"I understand sometimes the super hero job isn't for everyone. Then again there are heroes in all shades of colors." Tony made that remark remembering the Heroes for Hire or even the occasional vigilante that showed up on the streets of New York. "Hm maybe one day you'll meet him I've met him before on occasions when the other Avengers have to come together." Tony said knowing it was important to know other people in the business and as friends it had gotten him far on many occasions.

Tony saw the demons forming they looked like humans at first glance but he doubted they were any thing of the friendly type. He could see that Obaara was upset. If anything he was starting to form an idea and he wondered if Obaara would accept the idea of helping him out. "Heay Obaara, if you can shut this portal off, if you know magic, that could be great. I can distract the demons long enough and send most of them back in the portal in the mean time. I understand if this upsets you, it doesn't bother me that much." Tony said knowing on more than one occasion he had been upset by something and had to find a way around it. he wasn't going to let the young X-Man get hurt in this, especially if she was a rookie.

Tony started to open fire at one of the closest fire demons as they were hurting some of the humans. The civillians were running the other way in panic and fear out of them and he could see why. The palms of his hands started to glow as he sent a blast of plasma towards the direction of the first one. "How about you guys actually pick on someone who can fight back instead of random humans. That's not exactly a good thing in my book." Tony said as he waited for Obaara to make up her mind. If anything he was willing to call Thor in to help shut the thing down but it looked like she could help.

Even if Tony didn't have his red and yellow Ironman suit, Tony would've had a chance to survive them in his human form with a fight against the demons. His Extremis Virus was very durable and he could probably handle several blows. The Extremis Virus was the one that gave Tony's skin an almost metallic appearance to it as he had shown it to Obaara minutes ago before this encounter with the demons. Someone was behind this but obviously they left in a hurry, and Tony couldn't help but wonder who it was. "I understand if you don't like it, Obaara but anything we need to shut the portal down so no other demons come through." Tony said putting a serious face on since he knew it was needed now.

[Obaara Zipos]

" Tony Stark... i am not a hero like that... i am more anti hero. " Obaara explained as the demons started attacking other people. She paused for a few long seconds, actually not wanting to harm her own kind, but as she looked around, seeing a number of people getting assaulted by the demons, she knew that she had to fight them. 
" Mr. Stark... Yes, i know enught magic to shut the portal down... but even if they are hostile to others... they are my family... of sort. " Obaara spoke, tryint to sound sure of her magical abilities... and did not want to make a fool or herself or make herself look weak... not infront of an Avenger. Her face grew dark... almost demonic. "While it dose hurt me to harm them, i need to do what i right... they leave me no choice " She said and reached out one of her arms and the other arm, she raised into the air. She had two powerful, enhanced weapons of her own that she could will to herself... witch she was doing with one of her weapons... a very old Katana.
While she waited for her weapons, she also cast the spell that was meant to close the portal. And after a longer moment of tryint to remember the spell, she used it, causing an invisible burst of energy to erupt from her hand into the portal. 
It however, got hard to focus, pretty soon and it was physically getting harder and harder to try and close it. As the portal slowly began to shrink, there was a soft whoosing sound... the Katana was flying to her. She however, really needed both hands for her to close the portal at a faster rate as the demons where still coming out of the portal. "I will be... with you as... soon as i close... it. " She spoke to Tony threght her teeth, and really had to concentrate to uphold the spell, as it was getting very difficult and Obaara was actually straining by now.
She did not want to admit to Tony that this is the most powerful kind of magic that she was currently capable of doing... and still... it was not fast enught.  She saw that a few of the demons moved in to attack her, to try making her loose her focus. Witch she did, for several seconds as one of the demons gruffly jumped at her, grabbing and harshly yanking one of her wings. Intensionally or not... there was a crack in of her bones in her wing, a breaking bone... making Obaara scream out in agony. Unable to focus on anything for more then a few seconds, she finally forced herself to focus on the postal again, trying her best best to block out the terrible pain. 
Somebody running towards them was the least of her concern until she was yelled at in a frendly manner. 
" Hold on, Ms. Ryder. " Yelled a female person, dressed in some kind of dark uniform, who also started shooting at the demons. Obaara did not glance at her as she was too focused right now. 

[Tony Stark]

"Sir I am starting to notice that there are decreasing amounts of magic energies in the area." Jarvis pointed out as Tony nodded. "Yeah that's because Obaara's closing the portal." Tony pointed out as he saw the portal he noticed that this was putting a heavy strain on the young centaur as she was trying to do her best. There was a sudden crack that even Tony could hear over the audio as Obaara hurt something or even broke something. "Obaara when this is over we'll get you to SHIELD med bey they have the best doctors around even if some of us don't like going to the hospital." Tony pointed out and there were other reasons why they couldn't go either.

As Tony flew forward to aid Obaara he quickly realized that she wasn't alone anymore as someone came up to help aid them. And their surprise she looked a bit familiar. "Heay where did you come from? Well if you can point and shoot the demons then you must be a good guy...er lady for that mater." tony corrected himself. Putting out his hands again he shot several more plasma blasts, but he also released another bit of arsenal on his back as he released some rocket like bombs in the air as they exploded in front of the demons and hitting some of them too. Tony was starting to have second thoughts on calling the Avengers, if a single Avenger and a centaur couldn't do it then they'd be in trouble.

"Heay how's the portal doing? Are we closed yet? I can only see that the decrease in energy on my Ironman suit." tony asked knowing he was probably better off lifting his screen to look. But he could see a fair amount through the screen of his helmet while he flew around to keep close by the other two. This lady who showed up just in time too needed some explanation but now was not a good time. Later would be better.

[Obaara Zipos]

She was a little torn between tryint hard to surpress the terrible pain, and straining her but off to close the portal already. She was sweating a lot by now, luckily they where outdoors and her horse smell would pobalby be very strong otherwise. Obaara kept her eyes and mind on the portal as best she could. By that time, the portal was small enught to only allow the most agive and determaned demons thregh... so the amount of demons who came threght was much more sparse. Obaara however, felt like she needed to reassure the Avenger that she was able to handle the situation. She did not want to embarres herself, to have Tony call in the other Avengers... it would make Obaara look very weak. "Al... most... done. " She grunted, while whe was using both of her hands to manage and control the portal.

The female newcomer spoke being sarcasting at first. "Originally.... Las Vegas. " She spoke but also intruduced herself properly. "SHIELD Special Agent Jones. " She said and was already shooting at the demons. But each demon hat to be hit several times from a normal weapon. for it too get killed and fade into a mist. 

It took a few more long seconds for Obaara to finally close the portal, but the fight was still far from over. She was gasping for air as she spoke. "The portal... is... closed. Now to... fight. " She held out one of her slightly shaking hands and did not want to move around, as it would probably make the pain in her wing much more painful. On thinking about this... the pain indeed came back into her body, unable to come with it, Obaara yet out a surpressed cry of pain. 

She held out one of her still shaking hands... willing the enchanted Katana to sail into her hand. The moment that she caught it, a few of the demons paused for a moment, uncertainly... but then contined there assault. Obaara stepped forwards, causing her wing to hang somewhat limpy. She was unable to close it currently and it was brushing against the pavement. She however, started slashing and gashing the demons... she also used an attack method, used by another Avenger.
She threght her Katana away, having it slashing a demon or two, who got in the swords way, sllicing the demons in half, killing them. She then willed the still sailing sword, stopping it, and making it fly back into her hand. 
 
She was however pained with the fact that she was killing off her own relatives... probably the brothers and sisters of her mother... or even her cousins for that matter. 

[Tony Stark]

"Ah yes I'm well aware of SHIELD." Tony pointed out as he was glad to get the news that the portal was closed Jarvis also responded that the magical energy that had put up earlier was now officially gone. Jarvis was just detecting traces of it off Obaara and the demons that were there. That was at least a lot better in this situation. "That's great news for the magic energy." Tony added. He realized that the part of him being aware of SHIELD may have not been in the best of tones since Tony and Nick Fury had never gotten along, only he had come together to try and help in the Avengers. In fact in his time in the Dimension of Age of Ultron, Fury had almost not allowed him join to team once but opted him in at the last minute since he had cooperated so well and other various aspects.

"Well lets just say that SHIELD and I don't exactly get along I do apologize for the bitter tone I had earlier." Tony remarked. Seeing all was left now was removing the demons, he had no idea of the pain and suffering that was going through Obaara at this moment. He hovered not far from where Obaara and the SHIELd agent had been as he sent out several more respuslive blasts towards the demonic creatures. their numbers, which was a good news for them would dwindle.

As he thought about it, that would explain why the waitress was able to handle Obaara, he was positive it was her. Tony had heard of several younger agents that were apart of the team like Scarlet Spider and Nova who he had seen helping out when they had the chance with super hero jobs. And it usually always made it to the news. "Only a couple more of them left. Then we're good." Tony pointed out as he knew they could do more long talk then mulitask at the same time

[Obaara Zipos]

Obaara was at a little disadtantage due to her wing being injured and was only capable of small steps ahead, but her Skill in demon hunting/slaying was the same... despite her great fatigue, whitch slowed her strenght down fairly... but her blade still managed to defeat the demons with ease. She however had to collect some of her willpower for her to not look like she was very fatigued. 
She was holding up pretty well, for her current state, but was very annoyed and angry to not be able to show her peak effort to the Avenger and the SHIELD agent. It made her seem like she hardly could fight at all. 
They almost finished off the whole invasion when suddenly another demon managed to make contact with her, sending a nasty bick into the ribcage of her lower, horse body, and another punch into her already broken wing. She yet out another yell, as she felt her ribcage crack and another scream of agony, from the pain in her wing. She was paralized by the unbearable pain, causing her to bust out into tears of pain and humiliation. 
" It hurts so badly!... please make it stop! " She yelled out in agony, crying and also gasping for air. She tried to hold and trying to ease the pain, but she was not able to reach either of her injuries. Crying and out of desperation, she sent a backhand slash to the demon, killing him, but accidently lost her grip, sending the Katana sailing for a distance, before falling onto the ground.
Not reliazing right away, the terrible pain caused her to loose focus over the rest of her body, and as she already hard to pee, and it was somewhat cold, the male horse body, gave away her sex organ. She could not have hid it even if she wanted and was afraid of what the agent and Tony might think of the whole situation, that she actually had the lower body of a male horse.   

[Tony Stark]

Tony was relieved to see that the fighting was over now as a large amount of the demons were killed and or down for the count. He had to thank Obaara and the SHIELD agent lady for that help. He saw that Obaara wasn't doing well either. He knew the attention was on her now as the situation changed to an emergency mode. Heck Tony had been in them a couple of times in his life where his heart almost gave out, luckily that hadn't happened in a couple of years.

Well Tony these days hadn't been surprised by much. He had recently adopted two boys with his wife Jamie Starflame and the boys had surprises all in their own. Not to mention he had seen many super heroes and villains in the Age of Ultron so this fit the bill to the strange part of things of being a super hero. It would certainly be a first for seeing a centaur girl like herself. Tony sighed, "I'm bringing her to the SHIELD med bay if it's the last thing I do. I don't want Fury getting in the way of the medical needs she needs right now." Tony said.

"Obaara if you can hear me I"m going to pick you up. Don't worry about it. But I ask that you don't move too much or I'll send both of us crashing to the ground." Tony said hoping that she would start to listen to him and since he was older here, she'd obey her elders. As Tony bent down he carefully put his ironman armor hands down on her gently as he strained himself a bit but managed to move enough to where he could get under her horse body. He knew the ironman hands were probably cold to the touch but he didn't want to worry about that right now. "Alright easy does it, on one...two...three." He said hoping that she'd learn on cue that she was about to be picked up by Ironman as her personal escort. Not like it was the first super hero he had rescued, the Nova kid he had done once before.

"And for the record you're not the first person I've had to move to the hospital. I ran into a kid named Nova who's a super hero who was unconscious and bleeding badly. Shipped him off to the hospital too." Ironman pointed out wondering how those younger heroes were doing since the last time he had seen them at SHIELD.

[Obaara Zipos]

She did not initially realize that shee was peeing, due to being in such pain that she was actually very dazed from it. On realising that she was peeing, she grew a little embarresed. Not like it was her fault how her body looked like or how it worked but still, it was a little embarresing. The female agent obversed, but had a genuine look of friendlyness and acceptance... rather then anger or hatred. 
 
Once she was done with peeing, she took a few careful steps forwards to spet away from the large puddle that had formed. She instinctively placed a hand on the base of her broken wing, to try and ease as much of the pain as she could.

She looked at the female agent and then Tony with a shy half smile, as if to apologize for the fast that she had the lower body of a male horse. She then listened to Tony, but was still pretty dazed, hardly understanding what the Avenger was telling her. Unknownly, she agreed to him, but said it in Demonic, but nodded gently in the end to make herself as clear as she could.  

She female agent lisened to Tony and nodded. "I understand, Mr. Stark... SHIELD can be a little hard headed and hard to get threght to, at times." The agent said, and agreed. "I will contact the Med Team to prepare. " She offered, trying to make SHIELD look like less of a pain for Tony. 
Obaara not effected by the cold hands, as her horse hyde was more resistant to cold, then her upper body. She however gave off a surpressed yell, as she was lifted at first, because the weight of her own body was putting pressure on her cracked rids. She balled her fists in pain and while she managed to hold in her yells of pain, her face and hands showed her pain and straining to not break out into screaming. Tears where reforming in her eyes as the strange 'cargo' took flight. 
 
The agent yelled out before Obaara was too far away. 'Ms. Ryder... i will have the rest of your ordered food, delivered the the School. " She said, and Obaara wandered briefly, where the agent knew her name from, but was sort of sure that the agent knew about the X-Men. 

[Tony Stark]

It wasn't long before Tony arrived hovering in the air as a massive foretress spread out before them. The flying ship in the sky was no doubt the hellicarrier and thanks to the agent Jones' permission Tony was able to get by with the security not being a problem at all. However he knew that SHIELD would let in with an important avenger aboard. Usually that was something serious. After landing on the deck some SHIELD agents looked surprised that he arrived with company in hand as 'strange cargo' would be the perfect fit.

"Well don't just stand there boys I need a med bay room open! Or I'd start to think that SHIELD agents are particularly lazy." Tony pointed out in a bit of an annoyed tone, he still didn't let Obaara down just yet as he held her tightly not wanting to drop her at all. Finally the agents stood there with a larger than normal stretcher. That was when Tony started to put her down on the stretcher and carefully too so he didn't hurt her any more than the pain that she was in.

"Alright Obaara these guys will take you to the med bay that Jones set up for you earlier I'll also hang around long enough to make sure you're alright too." Tony said knowing that it was his fault for getting her into the incident. Then again both of them had been attracted to the magical portal that had just opened. Tony knew that the air up here was much colder and windier as they were miles above the ground. The SHIELD hellicarrier was a massive metal fortress and had all their SHIELD agents living in side of it while they were waiting for things to happen on the ground. And it was lead none other by Nick Fury.

[Obaara Zipos]

She was a seeing starts and was nearly uncontious from the terrible pain her her left side of her body. She however also fell the cold... maybe it was due to her demonic nature but she was getting really cold on her torso.

She soon felt a hopefully reinforced and large stretcher, under her and after some effort, she clumsily managed to kneel down on it, but leaned as far right as she could. She listened to Tony and nodded, but was shivering gently. She asked for something to be able to cover herself with... at least her torso... but she did not realise that she naturally spoke in Demonic. She then switched to English.

" So cold... can i please have a blanket or something? " She asked quietly, this time in English.

Suddenly her eyes caught an approaching person... who wore all black clothing and also a long black leather-like coat, he also had an eye patch on his left eye. What made Obaara scared is that he was followed by several heavily armed people who wore protective armor... and all of them had the same kind of very dark blue or black uniforms... just like the people where was putting her on the stretcher and reading her for the med bay.
Even from the several yards that still seperated the person and the Tony and Obaara pair, he called over the them. 

" Mind telling me why there was  a demonic invasion in the middle of the city? " He called over to them. And when he finally got to them, he eyed Obaara up and down, in a fairly rude manner and paused for a few long moments, to study how her body looked. "Hellfire eh? Hellfire makes you dangerous... and quite frankly... we do not like dangerous people... and like others, demons also get more powerful as they age. " Fury said with some coldness in his voice. While he was not seemingly hostile, it did intimidate Obaara, who grew humiliated as well.
" It is not my fault!...  I can not help the way i was born, sir! " She said some some desperation in her voice and looking downwards the the ground. After a few seconds, she added. "Can i please have some warmth? " She spoke putting her hands to try and hide her flaming hands as best as she could. " Somebody get her a coat. " the person said and a second later, an unarmored... but still armed female, stepped closed, from behind Fury and took off her left leather clove, letting it fall the the ground and getting blown away by the strong wind.
Uncaring about the loss of her glove, she pulled her sleeve up, revealing a metallic arm. After a second... a repulsor formed on her palm. She started the repulsor, on a very low thermal setting, covering the torso and a little part of her wings and lower body of Obaara, with a nice warm rays. Obaara looked up at her... only to grow wide eyed in surprise... a part of her face was missing and silverish metallic skull was exposed. The woman... had... her skull... exposed! The female understood the shock of the half demon girl, and moved some of her longer hair to cover that part of her face. 

[Tony Stark]

"I may be one of the smartest men on the planet, Fury but I don't have a clue on why they were there. Someone intentinally opened a portal so they could come swarming in knowing that New York was a place where a lot of civillians are but also a super heroes living there too." Tony pointed out as he rolled his eyes seeing that Fury was once again in a foul mood towards others. The dark skinned man appeared in his usual attire and SHIELD uniform, there was no missing the director of SHIELD any day. Luckily the eye roll couldn't be seen, since his helmet mask was down over his face, and his eyes glowed a deep blue and his arms were crossed.

Unlike Obaara he did not exactly feel the cold and his metallic skin wouldn't have made much of a difference either. The extremis virus had durable skin which helped him survive some areas where normal humans could not so that was a plus. He wondered if Ultron had tried to torture him with the virus but instead Tony had gone under some changes where he survived and learned to live with it just as others had with their powers. Whatever the case was, it was too late now.

"I'm more worried about Obaara here you see she helped close the portal and fight off some of the demons with what was her name...Agent Jones?" Tony said trying to remember what the lady's name was who had been serving them food. It had happened so fast he was amazed at all that he was able to keep up all the information on hand. Luckily Jarvis could keep it all in track for him. "The portal is closed and we finished off what demons were there." Tony pointed out. "If anything I can scan the area to make sure no other portals have pooped up or signs of magic are in the area. Thor or I can probably handle them." Tony offered knowing that there had to be someone behind the demonic invasion that they had just recently.

"And I'm sure you don't mind me asking a question now who's your robot friend right there?" Tony pointed out seeing that she was obviously different. Though she did surprise him a bit he had not seen someone like her before but he figured she was working for SHIELD just like many other heroes or agents were. So he waited patiently for an answer as the medics were working on getting Obaara straightened out. He'd have to leave shortly to get back to New York.

[Obaara Zipos]

Obaara looked at Tony as he spoke, and thought. One of the med personel however, took her atteantion as he motioned for her to close her wing. She tired to lift and close it but let out a yelling grunt of pain and shook her head. The agent siginalled for two other of the med team member to himself, and as gently as they could took the injured part of her massive wing and helped her fold it. While it was much easer for close her wing this way, she velft pretty violated in her personal space. She just did not feel confortable with others touching her wing, even if they there medics and helping.
But even with help, closing her wing, hurt, causing the half demon to grimace in pain. "Thank you." She spoke softly, as she was pretty warn out from the pain.
"Special Agent Jones. " Fury corrected Tony with a light mood smirk, but then grew serious again. "Stark, If the portal was opened, then i could name a dozen suspects off the top of my head and Enchantress is one of them." he spoke. 
Obaara watched with interest as the cyborg girl was still using her repulsor to warm her up, but was also paying attention to how th medical team patched her up. Seeing as she was kneeling, they could not effectively reach the ribs of her lower body, but they where working on fixing her wing. breathing still hurt, and she was breathing in gasps, to try to get some pain away from her ribs. She then spoke up, as she head that Tony was offering to scan the area. "There is no... need to scan... the area,Tony. ... There are no... other demons around. " Obaara nodded gently.
The female cyborg looked at Tony as he spoke. She may have been near totally machine but she was not a robot. "Not robot... Cybernetic Organism. " She spoke briefly, and while she was a little offended that she was called a robot, she was not being a smart ass or lecturing to Tony.
Obaara glanced at Fury as he spoke. "Agent Connor here, has with with us for years now. She took an experimental AIM tech beam to save Cap... do not let her inner appearance fool you... she is with us. " The Director spoke, referring that the cyborg was fighting the good fight. Fury then looked over at Obaara. " We have need watching you for some time now, Zipos... or should i say... Celine Ryder. " Fury spoke, making Obaara grew surprised and pretty intimidated.  

[Tony Stark]

Tony winced noticing that the pain that Obaara was feeling was probably not good at all. He knew that some agents were lucky enough to have healing factors like some of the Web Warriors. Behind his mask he did wince a bit knowing that the pain was probably unbearable. "No kidding about Enchantress, there is also Loki himself the trickster god and Thor's brother. I'd place a bet, but I don't have the time for it." Tony said knowing there were other things going on at hand as well.

"Ah I do apologize for that mistake, and I'll take note of it that there aren't any of those demons either." Tony said with a sigh knowing his own past was nothing to be fond of. "You see where I'd live you'd probably have an advantage, Agent Connor I come from the world of the Age of Ultron where most things humans do now are run by machines. They think we humans are inferior, which is one reason why I tried to escape from that world." Tony said hoping his explanation would clear things up. Also not to mention he knew as well as Fury did that he and the director of SHIELD did not get along, especially when he was nearly knocked off the team when the first Avengers formed.

"Well if everything is taken care of I have a company to run back in Stark Tower or Avengers Tower as it's known as. I will take my leave if everything is in order her." Tony said. "Also Obaara if you're ever in the area of Avengers Tower you should pop in and say that it was a verbal invitation from Mr. Stark." Tony remarked as his flying repulsors were starting to work. He wanted to make this as less awkward as he could since he knew his place was at Stark Tower and Fury's was here. At least while he was back on the ground the air wasn't going to be so thick feeling and cold to add to it. Once he stepped out of his suit he'd be freezing cold and suffer like Obaara until he was warmed up.