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Steve's POV
You know, that Captain America guy.
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"Tony?" I ask, walking into his lab

"What's up, Spangles?" he replies. I roll my eyes.

"Your daughter, Bea, right?" I say

"Yeah, what about her?" he says. His eyes narrowed at me slightly, leading me to believe that he was protective of the teenager. As he should be. "I was told the mission went alright. Did she freeze up? Did the time thing happen? Did she get stabbed again?"

"No, none of that happened. She did excellent." I say, waving my hands dismissively. "Peter and you both now have mentioned this 'freezing up'. What is that?"

Tony sighs and puts down his tools and the arm piece of armor he was working on.

"Before I adopted Bea... She lived in an abusive household." he explains. "When she first started training, she could only fight bots on Level 2. Then she found her powers that we're still trying to figure out."

"She mentioned she could slow time... Maybe we should experiment if she can speed it up or even stop it?" I point out,

"Like... The time stone..." we hear

"The time stone?" Tony asks, "Wait, Wanda? What's a time stone?"

"The time stone is one of the infinity stones. They hold a power much more full than all of you combined." she says.

"So like, a powerful rock." Tony sums it up. "From space."

"I guess that's a way to put it." she says, "I don't know how it would make contact with Beatrice though, so it may be out of the question."

"Not necessarily. Maybe if they're so powerful, they can act like the sun?" Tony asks

"How so?" I reply.

"Well, the sun gives off solar flares. Maybe the infinity stones can do the same?" he asks, "Its a long shot, but maybe the thing did a solar flare like thing and it was around Bea when it happened?"

"Why would it be around Bea?" Wanda asks

"Someone was carrying it. Like, in a necklace." I say.

"Who would wear a sentient space rock necklace?" Tony asks

"If they didn't know it was an infinity stone." Wanda says, "They've been made into jewelry before by gods to give a gift to their wives. It was an efficient way of hiding them as well."

"Fashion those days..."

"That was before they were lost on battle and scattered across the nine realms." Wanda says, "Maybe even across more."

"So you're saying that the time stone was lost in a battle a long long long time ago, and it somehow found its way to earth, and it did a solar flare thing, possibly, and gave my daughter the power to alter time."

"Yes."

"Sorry but that sounds like udder bullshit. The chances of that happening are so low it's just not possible."

"Tony, your language." I warn

"Shut it, forties."

"We've gone from Spangles to Forties. Lovely," I pinch the bridge of my nose. "Wanda, is there any way you could use your magic to try and find where it's coming from?"

"She'd need to be using her power long enough for me to do something like that." she explains, "If she can slow time, she'll slow us."

"That's the weird thing. She only slows time for a few minutes, and it's ranged. It's like she has a bubble."

"So as long as she stays out of that said bubble, can you do it."

"It'd be strongest in the bubble, would it not?" she asks

"True. What if you activated your powers and walked into the range of her power." Tony suggests.

"That could work. We'd need a large area, though."

"Wait, she said her power is only limited to when she has a strong emotion. Panic or anger." I say

"That's right." Tony says, biting his knuckle. "Oh I'd hate to do this..."

"So the time stone didn't effect her badly then. Only enough to give her power when she needs it most."

"I still don't buy it, but..." Tony sighs, frustrated.

"What?"

"I don't know how to make her mad, but I know how to make her panic."

"How?"

"I want a training bot to do this. Not one of us. If it goes to hit her as her dad did, it could potentially make her panic and use her power." he explains, "I hate to do it though. I promised her id never let any harm come to her. Not on my watch."

"Tony, remember, it won't hurt her. If she slows time it won't hit her. She can dodge it." I say, trying to comfort him.

"I know, but still. I'm putting her in front of danger, I'm using her, Steve." he genuinely meant this if he was calling me Steve and not Spangles or some crap.

Tony was afraid of hurting her.

"We need to find out what is happening to her, or something bad could happen to any of us."

"We have to do this."

Tony sighs. "Let it be known I'm am not fond of this particular sentient space rock."

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Bea's POV
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"Bea, Peter. We have some new training bots out in the yard we want you to try." Cap says, stopping our training.

"Okay! We'll be out in a couple minutes, sir." I reply.

"Oh, and it's practice with no weapons, so leave them in your room."

I gave him a suspicious look, but I have to abide.

Peter and I do as we are told and go out to the yard. There's a regular bot out there in the center. Standing next to Tony and Cap is someone I don't know. I've never met her.

"Bea, you know Steve, this is Wanda. The Scarlett Witch." Tony introduces her to me. I look at Tony for a second.

"Dude you look like a mess, are you alright?" I question Tony,

"Well thanks." he says

"I'm serious, Tony. Have you been sleeping? I get why you can't, but have you tried?" I ask

"I'm fine, Bea. Trust me. I was up early this morning, working on this." he says, pointing to the bot in the center of the open field. "You're up first. It's hand to hand combat. This bot is really advanced compared to the other ones."

"Okay?" I mumble, walking up to it. The others backed away a little. I got into my position. The bot activated and immediately raised its hand at me.

I panicked.

The exact motions my dad did whenever he would try to hit me.

Time slowed with my feeling. I see Wanda rush into my field of range, her red sparkling powers activated. I look back to the robot, who's hand is still slowly about to hit me. I move away slightly and it completes it's movement, missing me entirely.

Wanda's eyes go wide and my time field goes back to normal.

"We were right!" she shouts.

"Right about what?" I ask, starting to get defensive. The bot threw a punch at my face. I stumble back and land on the ground with a thud.

I breathe heavily as I feel the blood starting to drip from my mouth. Tony stops the machine and rushes over to me, bending down to help me up.

"What the fuck?" I ask, giving him a death glare. "What were you right about, Tony?"

"We needed to figure out what was causing your powers." he admits, "So I programmed the bot to make you panic."

"You used me?"

"To be fair, I felt horrible doing it. Bea, I'm so sorry,"

"There were other methods than me getting hurt."

I walk off in a fit of anger. Tony gets up to run after me, but I don't want to see him right now. I turn around to scold him, but when I do, I see him running in slow motion.

I cast a field around him.

I would be amazed, but I'm too angry with him. With everyone.

"Did you know about this Peter?" I ask, looking to him. Making sure my best friend still was my best friend. And that he respected I didn't want to get hurt.

"I knew absolutely nothing, I swear." he says. I trust him.

I walk away, this time him following me.

"Bea, maybe it was a good thing, you know?" he suggests.

"How?" I ask. I honestly wasn't one to get mad all that often. But when I am pissed off, people say I'm quite... Lethal.

"What if your powers are going to hurt someone. They can prevent that. By knowing what it is, they can help you." he says.

"You're right. I'm just not up to seeing any of them right now. I'll talk to them when I calm down." I say, I start to walk away, "I'm gonna go back to training, if you wanna come you can."

Wowza. So, the time stone. Idk if y'all know this, but at this point, Dr Strange has it in his necklace amulet thingy. It's what helps him control time. If you haven't watched Dr Strange, I highly recommend it. Well, okay, if you're squeamish there's a lot of scenes. But yeah. If any of you don't understand, just drop a comment and I'll probably answer it.

Btw I have yet to watch Black Panther, I probably should have done that before watching Infinity War, but let's be honest I'm not that smart. So until then, my current knowledge is from Wikipedia and my Comic Book bingeing over the past ten tears. We cool? Yeah, we cool.