The air inside the throne room of Buckingham Citadel was thick with obsidian light and drifting vapors from the molten moat outside. Kara Zor-El leaned back in her obsidian-carved throne, the cold stone warmed by under-floor lava ducts, her legs crossed as she examined a glittering datapad covered in embedded rubies. Wanda and Natasha stood at the base of her dais, waiting for orders. The harem was silent, watching from the shadows.
"We're stealing three things," Kara said, tapping the datapad. "One: the Iron Man schematics. Two: the Arc Reactor blueprint. Three: J.A.R.V.I.S."
Wanda folded her arms. "Why not just take the whole building?"
Kara tilted her head. "Because it's more fun this way."
Scarlet magic crackled as Wanda extended her hand. A portal roared to life in the center of the throne room, swirling with chaos magic. The throne chamber dimmed as blood-red light illuminated their faces.
Natasha checked her twin Desert Eagles, each one gold-plated and diamond-encrusted, the barrels etched with intricate vines of platinum. They were chambered in .50 caliber—handheld artillery. She smirked faintly, locking them into her thigh holsters.
From the side of the room, Gwen called out, "Try not to blow up the servers this time."
Wanda didn't look back. "No promises."
Natasha stepped into the portal first. The glow swallowed her whole.
She emerged inside the cold, pulsing heart of Stark Industries' mainframe chamber, surrounded by blinking consoles and soft whirrs of high-tech serenity. Cameras blinked and swiveled to life.
"Unauthorized presence detected," J.A.R.V.I.S. intoned in his polite British cadence. "You are not permitted to be in this sector."
Natasha rolled her shoulder, eyes narrowing. "Hi, honey."
She raised her right Desert Eagle and fired. The camera exploded in a rain of sparks and molten circuitry.
"Security breach," J.A.R.V.I.S. responded flatly. "Activating defense systems. Notifying Mr. Stark. You will pay for this, you bitches."
Wanda stepped through the portal behind her, glancing at the ceiling.
"Did… did that AI just swear at us?"
Natasha reloaded her gun. "I think he's just upset about the decor."
Without wasting time, Natasha approached the mainframe and slid a glinting USB drive, shaped like a black diamond shard, into the core interface. Red lights flooded the room.
Download initiated.
Wanda scanned the screen, sifting through dozens of files. "His folder structure is a crime. Why are all the Arc Reactor blueprints in a folder called 'Tuesday_Backup3_final2'?"
Natasha wiped out another camera with a flick of her wrist. "Because even billionaires don't understand digital storage."
Suddenly, whirring mechanical arms dropped from the ceiling, followed by gun-mounted drones and mobile turrets locking into position. Natasha raised both pistols. Her arms blurred as twin streams of fire erupted—each .50 caliber round punching through steel like butter. The drones burst apart in fireworks of shredded plating and shattered optics.
Wanda followed with a red wave of chaos magic, hurling energy that liquefied circuitry and pulled magnetic panels off the walls.
Through the chaos, Natasha grinned at her partner's energy. "I love your style."
Wanda's eyes flashed red. "I'm still shopping for a weapon, though. Something evil. Like chaos fans. Razor sharp. Bleeds when opened."
"Classic," Natasha murmured, kicking a turret over and blasting it mid-fall. "You'll find your thing."
Far above the city, J.A.R.V.I.S. finally pinged Tony Stark.
Tony, in mid-flight over Los Angeles, took the alert. "You've got to be kidding me. Did someone just rob me with glitter?"
J.A.R.V.I.S., his voice broken from damage, muttered, "Yes. And they insulted my folders."
Tony wheeled mid-air, turning back toward the tower.
Meanwhile, inside the facility, the download completed. The Iron Man schematics, the Arc Reactor designs, and the AI core of J.A.R.V.I.S. were now stored inside the magical USB. Wanda layered her magic across the file, accelerating the final transfer.
The console flickered.
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