SO THIS IS SET SOMETIME AFTER THE AVENGER'S MOVE. JADE STARK IS MY OWN OC. I DON'T OWN AVENGER'S OR H2O JUST ADD WATER.

PROLOUGE:

FOUR YEARS AGO

One 10 year old Alexandra(Alex) Stark was on vacation with her family.

Her parents, Tammy and Eric Stark( Eric is Tony's brother. The two don't talk much), were sitting on the remote island of Mako Island for their yearly family summer vacation.

The island was sandy only around the edges, but the rest was all thick jungle and there was a large normal volcano in the middle of the island.

Alex was getting bored sitting on the beach and her parents wouldn't let her get in the water without her life jacket, which Jade really, really hated wearing.

She looked back at the thick jungle, and her curiosity sparked.

She pushed her raven black hair out of her face, reveling her bright green eyes, then went over to her parents who were sitting underneath a sun shade.

"Mommy, can I go explore in the jungle a little bit?" Alex asked her mother.

"Sure honey, just don't go too far and be careful," Tammy Stark replied, "and put some shoes on as well."

Alex was wearing a blue two piece swim suit under her green t-shirt and some shorts, she pulled on a pair of blue tennis shoes she always had with her and headed into the thick trees, if you were too see her walking through the woods, you wouldn't expect her to be here for playing on the beach.

Anyway….

After putting on her shoes, Alex walked into the much cooler jungle. Most 10 year old girls would have freaked out and gone back to the beach when they saw the huge spider in the ginormus web between two trees, Alex, on the other hand, starred at the spider curiously for a moment, then continued deeper into the woods.

Pretty soon, Alex ran into one of her favorite things in the world. Rocks that were perfect for a very skilled 10 year old girl to climb on.

Alex loved climbing, almost as much as she loved swimming… that is swimming without having a life jacket making it hard to breathe on.

Alex, who did know just how far she had gone from the beach, which was a really long way, began climbing up the rocks.

She had reached the top and was about to continue on, when she noticed something.

A large hole in the rock. It looked like a slide, and this little girl loved going down slides.

So as you can imagine, Alex was at first just inspecting the slide, but leaned in to close and slid down it.

The slide was relatively short and rather smooth for a rock formation. If Alex was a bit older she would understand that maybe water used to flow down the rocks here like a small river.

At the end of the slide, Alex found herself in a cave, the celling of it as at least ten feet high and very soft sand was under foot.

Alex, still not worried that she may not be able to climb up the slide, went down deeper into the cave, which turned out to be a twisty turny tunnel.

Alex wasn't sure how long she walked, and didn't really even care to be honest. She just really wanted to see where this led, she felt like she had to go down the tunnel, not even the slightest bit afraid that she might run into an animal or something down there.

After a good length walk through the tunnel, Alex turned an uphill corner. And her face lit up so much when she saw what was around the corner.

There was a very large pool, or a large pond or something in a circular cone like cove.(The whole cove and pool is about twice the size of the moon pool in H2o)

And the water was the clearest blue Alex had ever seen, it was really amazing to see. The pool took up most of the cave, leaving about four feet from the pool to the wall on all sides.

Around the edge of the pool, there was a darker color of stone(just like in H2O) and it looked more like someone had placed it there rather than it being natural. And all around the edge of the pool, there was a ledge, then the water got deep.

Alex looked up, the walls went up like a cone, getting nearer to echother towards the top, and at the top there was a circular hole, revealing the now dark and starry night sky. Alex figured that she was probably inside the volcano.

But despite the fact that it was night, the cave was actually well lit, Alex swore it was because of the water that almost seemed to glow or something.

Then Alex walked to the edge of the pool and looked in, she saw her reflection looking back at her.

Alex then remembered something. Her parents weren't here to tell her that she had to put on a life jacket to go swimming. Alex slipped off her cover up green t-shirt, revealing the blue swim suit top, and choosing to keep she short on, Alex stepped into the pool and onto the ledge.

The water was cool, not so cold that you couldn't swim in it, and noticeably warmer than the water outside the cavern.

Suddenly, the ledge broke right where she was standing, and Alex fell into the pool completely, somehow managing not to hit the sides or the ledge around the broken area.

Alex resurfaced. But rather than being freaked out by the breaking ledge, she smiled, after all, she was probably going to jump in anyway.

Alex swum around in the pool for a while, occasionally grabbing onto the ledge.

She looked up when the pool suddenly got brighter and began to bubble. She looked up to see the full moon right over the hole at the top of the celling.

Alex's eyes widened in shock as bubbles of pure water began to rise up from the pool, defying gravity.

The pool got noticeably warmer, hot even, then freakishly cold one second later, then back to warm, then cold again, then warm, the process repeated quite a few times and the moon beams seemed to be like a spotlight on the 10 year old.

All the while, Alex just stayed right there in the middle of the pool. She looked quite a bit scared, but not scared enough to want to get the heck out of that pool and run off.

Then the moon passed, leaving the mouth of the volcano. All the bubbling stopped, the water bubbles in the air disappeared and the water returned to its original temperature.

Alex let out a breath that she didn't even know she had been holding, and swam back over to the ledge and pulled herself onto a sitting position.

She cupped some of the water in her hands and looked at it like she was expecting it to do something, but then let it fall back into the pool.

"I'm gonna call this place the Moon Pool," Alex said to herself.

After a few more minutes of just sitting there, Alex finally realized that she had to get back to her parents now.

She pulled her shirt back on and put on her shoes and walked back through the tunnel until she got to the slide. She tried to climb up the slide, but found that it was too smooth and too steep for her to climb up and the walls were too far apart to be of any use to her.

She tried several times to climb up, but all her attempts ended up with her sitting on either her head or her butt on the sandy floor of the tunnel.

Then a random thought came into her head, and she ran back to the pool.

She dove in, and went underwater, and smiled when she realized she was right.

When she had been swimming earlier, she noticed that there were rings around the pool, which she remembered her teacher in school saying rings on the side of rocks around water means that the lever of the water rises and falls.

Alex, being rather smart for a 10 year old, figured that must mean the water goes somewhere, and as it turns out, there was indeed a tunnel from the Moon Pool to the ocean outside.

Alex took a deep breath and swam through the tunnel, completely forgetting that there were probably sharks outside of the Moon Pool.

Most people would have run out of air before they got out of the tunnel and to the surface, but Alex found that she had breath to spare when she came up, but most of that breath vanished when she surfaced into the warm air of the night combined with the much colder water than in the pool.

She also noticed that she wasn't far from shore, and the light of the full moon helped her see where her parents had a fire going on the beach.

She swam to the beach, which was a distance that no one should be able to swim, let alone a 10 year old girl, and came up on the beach not far from her parent's fire.

She decided to walk along the edge of the jungle to her parents.

Alex was met by a smothering hug from her mother.

"Alex! Honey, there you are, we've been worried about you, where were you? You've been gone since four o'clock!" her mother exclaimed, "And why are you all wet!"

Alex, for some reason, felt compelled to not tell her parents about the Moon Pool.

"Oh ummm… I went into the jungle and got lost, then I fell into a river," she said, remembering that she had in fact seen a river on the way to the moon pool.

After that, her parents brought her over to the fire to get dried off, and the brought the story she told them.

They spend the night on Mako Island then left the next day.

Mako Island was not far off the coast from New York City, where they lived in a rather large flat.

And that was the day Alex found out just what happened to her in that Moon Pool. She was a mermaid with a golden/bronze colored tail.

And no, she never told anyone, not a soul. Alex didn't have very many friends anyway.

And from there, the young mermaid's power's grew, she found that she had powers to go along with her water powers, and to stay out of the light of the full moon. She found that she always had exactly 10 seconds to either dry off or hide after getting even one drop of liquid on her before her tail appears.

Her little sister, Lilith, was constantly trying to figure out why she was so secretive all of a sudden. Lilith, was five the night Alex went into the Moon Pool and became a mermaid, and also was staying with their grandmother and wasn't on the trip to Mako. Lilith was the worst kind of curious, which made Alex's life quite a bit harder.

So the little mermaid became very alone in the world, the very few friends that she had moved away or broke off their friendship with her because she became secluded from them. But swimming always made her happy, and she didn't mind being alone, she actually preferred it.

The only friends she actually had were dolphins, which seemed to just love her to death, and sharks actually seemed to tolerate her, never actually attacking her, letter her come close, but didn't quite love her as the dolphins did. Sometimes Alex swore the dolphins were more like family than her actual one.

Her only friends were actually dolphins. She had three that seemed to like hanging around her, she named them Sam, Cassidy and Dena. Alex figured that would be the closest thing she ever got to friends.

Alex figured that her life would just be one in the shadows, going for long swims behind everyone's backs with a golden bronze tail. No one would ever know who she was and no one would ever bother her. She would have a normal life… with just more running and hiding when she comes in contact with liquid and having a mermaid tail.

No creepy government to bother her or try to expose her, no one to use her for her powers, maybe she'd help a person or two, but wouldn't go all super hero and get her name out all across the world that Alex Rayne Stark, niece of Tony Stark was a mermaid.

Well… she was partially right….

CHAPTER 1: PRESENT DAY

Four years… it had been four years since 10 year old Alex Stark had gone on vacation with her family and become a mermaid. For most people, June 1st is just a day, it's a bit more special for Alex.

Now fourteen years old, Alex sat in her Moon Pool, on the fourth anniversary of her being a mermaid.

She looked at her golden/bronze tail, the moon pool water seemed to make it sparkle… well, water always makes her tail sparkle.

This wasn't just an anniversary though. It was a power up as well.

You see, every year on the anniversary of her becoming a mermaid, she would find herself with another mermaid power.

When she first got her tail, she had the ability to boil water into steam, on the one year anniversary, the freezing power came in, the two year anniversary, she found she could move water with her mind, the three year anniversary, she could make water into jelly like shapes or crystalize it.

And she was wondering what the fourth year anniversary was going to bring to her.

The new power never actually began working until 10:00 P.M, the time that she was in the moon pool when the full moon was over it and gave her the tail she had today.

At the moment, it was only 5:00 P.M. Weather it was an anniversary or not, Alex was always usually out for a swim around this time. She didn't like hanging out in her family's flat too much. It was too confined for her, too crowded and stuff, she wished they had a real house, or at least a bigger flat.

The ocean however, the ocean was unlimited, full of sea creatures to keep her company, but they were spread out, not all crammed together.

She really wanted to stay in the Moon Pool and relax for a while longer, but her uncle, Tony Stark, had invited her and her family over to dinner at his new tower, which would run on its own clean sustainable energy next week. His old tower got destroyed in the battle four months ago.

So Tony was throwing a dinner party for some of his co-workers and since her dad, Eric, worked for a branch of Stark industries, they were invited too.

Alex slipped under the water and swam out of her Moon Pool cavern. Once she was out, she did her little superfast swimming thing back to the secluded spot on the rocky beach to dry off so she could get home and get ready for the dinner party.

Alex really didn't want to go, her mom insisted that she dress up, Alex hates dresses.

She tried to convince her mom into letting her wear some nice jeans and a mindly formal blouse earlier that day, but her mother said that the party was formal. And when Alex asked if she could just stay home she mom said no because it would be 'good' for her to see her uncle. Alex didn't really ever get to see her uncle Tony very often.

Anyway, Alex dragged herself out of the water and onto dry sand. She used her powers to dry herself off then stood up, tail replaced by legs. Alex wore some torn up jeans and a lime green tank top and some flip flops, black hair hanging loosely around her shoulders, reaching just past her mid back, bangs falling in her face no matter how many time she puts them behind her ear but they are too short to put them as part of any hair style.

Alex walked the two blocks to her flat and got out her key and unlocked the door. The dinner party was at 6:00, it was about 5:15 now.

Alex seemed to be the only one in her household who dosnt take two whole hours to get ready for something like this, mainly because she refuses to put on makeup or let anyone touch her hair, she does her hair herself and leaves it as simple as possible, either straight down, in a side braid, in two braids, two pony tails or one pony tail, nothing else.

"Sweetie, I told you to be home by 4 to start getting ready," Tammy Stark said as Alex passed her perents room to get to her own, "We have to leave at 5:45 if we want to get there on time, it's already 5:15."

"I don't need two hours to get ready mom," Alex muttered and entered her room.

Alex took one look at the slightly poofy yellow dress and accessories her mother had laid out on her bed for her, and went straight to get closet to pick out her own things.

"I don't know how many times I have to tell mom that I don't have and will never get my ears pierced," Alex muttered as she shoved the rose shaped earrings her mother picked out for her into her drawer filled with all the other earrings her mother got her that she will never wear.

After two minutes, Alex decided on a dark red dress that fell just above her knees with some black flats and a black cuff bracelet.

She pushed all the makeup off to the side and ran a brush through her hair a couple times to get a few tangles and bits of sand out, but she was pretty sure there was still sand in her hair, but didn't really care.

Yes, as you can tell, Alex and Tammy have VERY different tastes in fashion.

Alex stepped out of her room, just about ten minutes after going in to get changed.

Lilith was probably almost done by now, her father might be done, and her mother was probably still doing her makeup to the tiniest detail.

Alex actually wanted to go back out into the ocean, but she doubted she could get away from her family long enough to go for even a small swim before they shoved her into the car and went to Stark tower.

After what seemed like forever, Alex's family finally came down stairs, Alex rolled her eyes when she saw them. Her 9 year old little sister was wearing cherry red lipstick, enough foundation on her face that Alex was pretty sure could cover her whole body in two layers, waaaaay too much mascara and purple eye shadow a light purple dress and two inch heels and her brown hair curled and styled in a way that looked rather simple for taking a billion hours to do.

Her father just wore a nice suit with his black hair smoothed back.

And then her mother had her brown hair perfectly straight, wore at least five in heels, a blue dress that came just below her knees, a lot of mascara, red lipstick, again with enough foundation to cover her body in at least three layers, a bit of blue eye shadow and held a blue purse just a few shades darker than her dress.

Out of the four of them, Alex was the least dressed up and fancy like.

"Alexsandra, what happened to the dress I laid out for you!" she exclaimed.

"Well let's see, I'm not a fan of wearing yellow poofy dresses, headbands hurt my head and do absolutely nothing for me, I'm never getting my ears pierced so the earrings were usless, I don't do makeup, and I think I'm going to break my ankle if I even try to wear the heels you gave me," Alex listed off on her fingers.

Tammy was about to argue when Eric cut her off, "I think you look great honey, now we better get going on we're going to be late."
"Why bother being on time, Tony's going to show up half an hour late anyway," Lilith muttered as we headed out the door.

ALEX POV

You know, when I was 9 years old, I had a toy phone, no interest in boys (Still don't), only cried when I missed the morning cartoons (I still watch cartoons a lot) hated coffee(still do) and loved to play in sand and didn't mind getting dirty or wet(still the same).

My little 9 year old sister, Lilith, on the other hand, has the newest most expensive and breakable phone, has already dumped two guys, thinks cartoons are for 'little kids' and cries if there's a bug within a 10 mile radius(I do have to admit I once did this too), has coffee every second she can and won't even sit in the sand in her new swimming suit.

What the hell happened in the five years from when I was 9 and now that she's 9?

I've come to the conclusion that I'm still partially mentally a 9 year old. Anyway….

Anyway, we got in the car and began driving through the city traffic to get to Stark tower. You know, Stark tower is only about a fifteen minute drive from my flat as long as the traffic isn't too bad. And for an uncle who lives so close, I see him maybe… two or three times a year in person. And when I do see him, it's usually a party like the one we we're going to now.

I looked down at the dress I was wearing, more specifically, my legs. I know this sound weird, but I think I like my tail better than my legs. It's more… comfortable I guess?

Anyway, the car pulled into the lot that was being used for Tony's party.

Lilith wasn't going to be wrong; Tony was probably going to be late… I have no idea how he can be late for a party at the place where he lives, but he can. We'd probably be greeted by Pepper or Jarvis and not see Tony until the Dinner began.

We entered along with a bunch of other guests. I didn't recognize most people, but I saw some of my other family members in the crowd.

Of course Lilith ran off with her favorite cousin, who was her age, leaving me the only 14 year old there, alone. Aside from me, Lilith and our cousin Lilith's age, there was no one under the age of 20.

As expected, Pepper found and greeted them first.

"Eric, Tammy! So good to see you, and Alex, you too!" Pepper did her usual greeting.

"Hi Pepper," my mom replied brightly.

I waved my hand in response, not really saying anything… I never really did.

"Tony will be down in a minute, I made sure he wouldn't be too late," Pepper reassured.

"Sounds like my younger brother," Dad muttered.

I smirked when he said that. We all moved into the large dining room, there was a lot of people already sitting and chatting.

"You guys can go take a seat near the end," Pepper said, pointing to four chairs near the end.

I took the one nearest to the edge, seeing a door near it, knowing it was a bathroom, and wanted as easy access to it as possible if any liquid should be spilled.

My mom sat next to me, much to my dismay, and my dad next to her, the fourth chair left for my sister when she decided to show up. The chair at the edge of the table was empty and so was the chair across from me. I realized just who I would be sitting next to when Pepper sat across from me.

Guess I would actually get to talk to my uncle tonight, that's going to be weird. I barley talk to ANYONE let alone my famous uncle.

About five minutes later Tony made his all so dramatic entrance press flashes their cameras, Alex did her best to turn away from them, preferring NOT to be all over the news for being a teenager and Tony's dinner party.

"Hey Alex, how's my favorite niece," Tony greeted.

"Hi Tony," I replied quietly.

I'm pretty sure Lilith and I are his only nieces but whatever.

Anyway, the second he said favorite niece, the press was all over us.

"Mr. Stark, over here, can I get some good pictures of you and your niece?" one photographer said.

"Sure, c'mon Alex," Tony said and half dragged me over for the photo, or shout I say photos. About fifty photographers took about fifty billion pictures of us each.

I did my best to smile, but the truth is, I really don't like attention. For two reasons. One because if people are paying attention to me, it makes my secret harder to keep and two; because after all this time alone, I guess I'm just not ready for large crowds of attention.

Anyway, the reporters finally let us get back to our seats to eat.

The food was served, and I ate my usual amount that I always eat.

"You can take more you know," Tony said.

"I'm good, this is usually how much I eat anyway," I replied brushing my hair out of my face again, only to have it fall back into place.

"You really need to eat more sweetie," my mom cut in and placed another large scoop of food on my plate.

"Mom!" I protested and caught her arm before she could place another scoop on my plate, "You know I won't eat that much, I never do."

"Take more than a table spoon this time then, were at a dinner party Alex, you're supposed to eat at least some of the food," my mom said, placing the scoop of food back where she got it from.

"I'm pretty sure this is more than a tablespoon," I muttered.

After that, my mom went back to talking to some other lady across from her, ignoring me again, much to my relief.

"Still not getting along," Tony smirked, remembering a fight me and my mom had from the last time we saw him.

"We never do," I replied, poking at the piece of chicken on my plate with my fork, "Probably never will."

Well this is so not how I planned my mermaid anniversary to go, at all. I wanted to just swim all night, stay alone, but here I am, sitting at a table in a crowded room surrounded by food and such.

Tony mostly talked to the other adults around, to me a little. After the dinner ended, everyone just kinda got up and mingled. I was happy to be left alone, and that no drinks got spilled during the dinner, but now I had to be even more careful because now people were walking around with drinks.

I leaned against the wall of the room, watching people dance and talk. I looked at the watch I had hidden under the black cuff bracelet and my eyes widended.

It was five minutes to ten o'clock!

And I can't believe that I'm just remembering this now, but from 10 to 11 on the night of my new power, it glitches… a lot. Whatever I'm going to be getting to do could reveal me to the whole party, which includes the press so to the whole world even! The biggest power spike would be right at ten, but there would be a lot of smaller ones throughout the hour.

"Shit," I muttered under my breath. Now it was four minutes to 10.

I was about to head into the bathroom to wait out the largest of the power spikes when, of course, my little sister and out cousin her age, Camme, walked up to me.

Camme wore a dress just like my sister except black, and had blonde hair with a blue highlight in it. I want highlights in my hair, red maybe!

Anyway! No time to think about that now I've got three minutes before a power spike!

"What?" I asked when they just stood there and looked at me for a sec.

"Why do you look so nervous all of a sudden?" Lilith asked me.

"Me nervous, no I'm not nervous at all, why would you think that?" I replied, but I think I paled a bit when I realized I only had one minute before a power spike… probably less.

"Hey look, I gotta go," I tried, placing my hand on the door knob.

Lilith turned to Camme.

"See, I told you she's nervous around everyone," Lilith said.

They turned back to face me, but confusion spread across their faces.

"Alex? Where'd she go?" Lilith asked.

I rolled my eyes, was she really going to pretend I didn't exist again?

I took a step forwards and leaned in right up to my sister's face. She still looked around like I wasn't there.

"You're sister is fast if she can run off in the short time we looked away," Camme commented.

I didn't say anything. Mainly because I figured out what was happening. No one in the room could see me, and it was ten o'clock exactly.

"C'mon, I bet she snuck off to go for one of her walks on the beach," Lilith said and they melted back into the crowd.

I slipped into the bathroom, which was behind the door I was trying to get in before Lilith and Camme showed up, and locked the door behind me.

I almost scram when I looked in the mirror. You see, the thing was, I was right in front of the mirror, but the mirror didn't show that I was there. I looked down, I could see my hand just fine, but the mirror showed that I wasn't there at all.

"Oh my gosh," I said to myself.

That was weird, my voice sounded a lot quieter than it should have.

Suddenly, I reappeared in front of the mirror.

"Invisibility," I breathed. I can go invisible now!
The power glitches again and I faded from view of the mirror then reappeared about fifteen seconds later.

I decided that I should figure out what to do next. I could try and spend the next hour in the bathroom while I uncontrollably turn invisible for short periods of time.

Someone knocked on the door.

"Hello, anyone in there?" a voice I recognized as Pepper said just outside the door.

'Oh crap,' I thought.

"Uhh, just a minute," I said from inside. Of course I had to be in another glitch when I said that and my voice was a lot quieter than usual, echoey like.

"Alright then," Pepper's voice sounded really weirded out by my echoey voice.

I felt relieved as I heard the click of her high heels fade away.

I looked at me watch; 10:06. I just had 54 more minutes of hiding out in the bathroom.

Then I slapped myself.

Mom said we were leaving at 10:30. And knowing my mom, she was going to parade me around for 10 minutes to say goodbye to all her 'friends' and 'family'.

So more like 24-I mean 23 minutes of hiding.

23 minutes to figure out what the juice I'm going to do to avoid making a disappearing act in front of the crowd outside and to not disappear on the ride home.

Great way to spend an awesome anniversary right?

I looked in the mirror only to find myself reappearing, but only staying that way for a couple seconds.

It seems like I was invisible more often than I was visible.

20 minutes.

"What am I going to do?" I muttered, running a hand through my hair, just a habit when I'm slightly (or a lot) stressed.

"Do you acquire assistance, Miss Alex?" a familiar voice echoed in the room.

"No-no I'm fine, Jarvis," I replied, I had totally forgotten about Tony's AI system.

"I am to inform you that your uncle is looking for you," Jarvis informed.

'SHIT!' I screamed in my mind.

"Okay, I guess I'll be out in a second," why did I let myself reply with something so stupid. I can't go out there! I can barely stay visible for more than a few seconds!

I could just stay in here, I'm used to having to run away and hide from people or not show myself due to mermaid problems, but even if I did that, it still doesn't solve my problem for when the 18 remaining minutes before I get paraded around anyway are up.

I took a deep breath. I wished it was anything but invisibly at the moment, I couldn't make up an excuse for this.

When I got my boiling power shortly after becoming a mermaid, liquid around me couldn't stay in liquid form and the house got really hot, so I blamed the heating system and spend the 10 to 11 hour on the beach away from people in my secluded rocky area while puddels around me disappeared into clouds of steam.

When I got my freeze power, no liquid could keep from turning to ice and the house felt like winter with no heating system, so again, I blamed the heating system and spent the hour on the beach and ice skated on the frozen puddles.

When the floating water power came in, I had learned my lesson and spent the entire day in the moon pool and played with the floating bubbles and shapes of water.

When I got the making water into jelly or crystalizing it power, I stayed in my rocky beach area and laughed when puddles turned to goop and poked them with a stick until they turned back into normal water, in which case they would shortly re-crystalize or re-jellify. (FYI Jellify is now a word if it wasn't already!)

But here, I couldn't run off to my Moon Pool or my secluded rocky beach area or blame it on the heating or cooling system. Well, I could use the invisibility to sneak out and go, but the second they realized I was gone, everyone would freak and I would get into trouble when I randomly returned after 11.

Then I had an idea. What if I could blame sneaking out on the heating and cooling systems?

I looked at the air duct near the floor on my right. There may be speakers to speak to Jarvis in here, but this was still a bathroom, so that meant there were no security camera's to catch me in the act.

On the down side, this would probably ruin the party, but it was the only plan I had.

I crouched down near the vent and raised my arm up, I made my had flat, letting my freezing power turn the water molecules inside the ventilation system freeze. The effect was almost immediate. The air got very cold, to the point where I could see my breath.

I could hear surprised screams and shrieks at the sudden cold from outside the bathroom door.

I was cold, but if I wanted to pull this off, I had to make the air even colder, so I turned up the power, and froze even more water molecules in the air.

"JARVIS, WHAT HAPPENED!" I heard Tony yell to his AI system.

"Sir, the vent appears to have frozen from the inside," Jarvis replied.

"TURN THE HEAT WAY UP THEN!" Tony ordered.

"Doing so now sir," Jarvis replied.

Before I had time to react, Jarvis had turned up the heat, and the ice in the vents began to melt.

And some of said melted ice dribbled out of the vent and right onto me, getting me a bit wet.

"Great," I muttered.

'Ten… nine… eight… seven… six… five… four… three… two… one,' I counted down mentally. I sat down on the floor before my golden/bronze tail replaced my legs.

I quickly dried herself off, then immediately put my freeze power back into action, this time a lot more powerful, making it even colder.

"Sir, the vents are still freezing and the heating controls have a thick layer of frost on them," Jarvis informed then added, "The temperature of Stark Tower has now dropped down to 17 degrees F. and still going down."

Tony did exactly what I was hoping he would to do. He ordered everyone out of Stark tower until they could fix the cooling and heating system.

And in the confusion of everyone trying to get out of the now freezing tower, I slipped out of the bathroom.

NORMAL POV

Alex slipped out of the bathroom, most people were already at the door, which was good. Alex could follow behind and not get seen.

What she didn't know is that cameras were everywhere in Stark Tower.

Anyway, she managed to get to the bottom floor without anyone noticing her fading in and out of visibility.

Now that she was outside, she slipped quickly hid behind some bushes.

It was now 10: 20, 40 minutes of glitching left. She knew the glitching would die down soon, glitching less and less often, but for now, the longest she had been able to stay visible had been 20 seconds. But she was never invisible for more than a minute at a time. Yea, she had been counting seconds while she was in the bathroom, trying to figure out how the invisibility worked.

She felt the power shift her body back into visibility, only to become invisible eight seconds later.

During her invisibly period, (yes she could tell when she was invisible or not by now) she noticed a puddle of water near her feet, and when she looked into it, she could see herself.

But she was invisible at the moment, yet she could still see her reflection in the water.

"Alex?" she heard the voice of her father calling, "Alex?"

"Shit," Alex muttered for about the billionth time that night.

It was only 10:23, she couldn't go out now, the glitching was only just starting to go down. She knew at about 10:35 the glitching would just be in small amounts but would still happen.

I really should have thought up an escape excuse. Why didn't I say I wasn't feeling well, and used my powers to make my skin hot or something? Or maybe just 'forgot' the party was tonight? After 4 years of doing this you would think I've learned something on hiding and what risks to and not to take and slipping out of major parties like this.

"Alex!" Dad called out again.

I stayed put, not like I had a choice though.

I nearly had a heart attack when my dad poked his head around the bush, looking for me, but of course, I was still invisible, so he kept looking. I stayed behind the bush for 7 more minutes, 10:30. I felt the invisibility glitches go way down.

I stayed there for five more minutes, I was visible for most of it, only turning invisible for about 10 seconds now.

Okay, I could work with that. Only about ten seconds for about every five minutes. This is something I'd just have to risk.

I took a breath and slipped out from behind the bush, melting into the crowd of people before anyone could notice the 14 year old girl coming out from nowhere.

Before I found my dad, I ran into Pepper.

"Alex, there you are, your Dad's looking for you," she informed me.

"Oh really? Umm, sure where is he?" I replied quickly, I didn't want to stay in the presence of one person too long or I might disappear.

"Over that way… but Alex are you alright, you seem kinda nervous," Pepper asked me.

"Oh, yea I'm fine," I reassured her, making my voice as calm as possible, which is something I've somewhat mastered.

Before Pepper could say anything else, I waved and went to go fond my dad. I think I was melted into the crowd when my powers glitches again. I held my breath, no one noticed me disappearing or reappearing 11 seconds later.

It surprises me that no one would notice me disappearing like ghost. Well, then again, they do see Iron Man flying over the city all the time so maybe a disappearing girl isn't all that strange. NO it's totally is strange, people just must be too distracted to notice the invisible 14 year old.

Anyway, I found my parents soon enough. Mom announced that we were leaving in ten minutes. As she began to say bye to people, I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned around to see Tony behind me, a concerned look on him face.

"Alex, are you alright, you've been looking pale, invisible almost," he asked.

I knew right then and there, he saw me go invisible at some point.

"No, no I'm totally fine, we actually about to leave right now, by Tony," I said quickly then followed my family who was retreating to our car by now. I heard Tony following me.

My family was pretty far ahead of me, and Tony wasn't far behind me. We were out of sight of the crowd. And of course, glitching occurs.

"Alex!" Tony looked around for me. I took the opportunity to run off to my car. I looked at my watch. 10:42. 18 full minutes of glitching left.

I became visible just as my car came into view. Luckily, my parents and Lilith were too busy loading themselves into the car to notice my appearing out of thin air.

I got in the car just in time to see Tony appear from around the corner. I looked away from him and he just looked at me rather confused. Then the car pulled away.

For the most part, I managed to keep the glitching down since the hour was almost up. My feet kept disappearing though, guess I can go only partially invisible.

'I am so screwed,' I thought.

OK SO THERE'S THE PROLOUGE AND CHAPTER 1, KINDA LONG THOUGH. ANYWAY, SO I STILL DON'T OWN ANYTHING. I GOT THE INSIPRATION FOR THIS STORY FROM ANOTHER AVENGER'S MERMAID STORY, SO CREDIT TO THE PERSON WHO WROTE THAT.

SO THROUGHOUT THIS STORY, I'M GOING TO BE RERENCING OTHER SHOWS. IN THIS PARTICULAR CHAPTER/PROLOUGE, THERE ARE REFRENCES TO TWO SHOWS. YOU GET EXTRA POINTS IF YOU TELL ME WHAT TO SHOWS IN THE COMMENTS SECTION, I'LL TELL YOU THEM IN THE AN OF THE NEXT CHAPTER OF THIS STORY.

ALSO, GIVE ME IDEA'S FOR A BETTER NAME FOR THIS STORY