(y/n) - your name

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Hello ladies." I beam up at Steve and Maria as I walked towards them since we all were heading to the labs as Tony and Bruce had called for a team meeting.

"Morning (y/n)." Maria smiles at me and Steve also greets me after giving me a look as we walked past Clint who was talking on the phone with his wife.

"Barton, we might have something." Steve calls out.

"Gotta go." Clint ends the call and joins us.

"Who was that?"

"Girlfriend." Steve nods and I trail behind to walk with Clint.

"Hows the kids and wife?" I ask him in a hushed voice, making sure no one else heard me and he looks at me with wide eyes.

"How did you-right, different universe." Clint sighs but smiles warmly as he thought about his family. "Great actually. Laura and I are expecting a son, our third kid. Natasha will be so disappointed to know it won't be a girl. We promised to name the baby after her." I chuckle, already knowing this but I let Clint tell me about it anyway.

"What's this?" Tony asks as Thor slams the tablet against his chest.

"A message. Ultron killed Strucker."

"And he did a Banksy at the crime scene, just for us."

"He partnered up with the Maximoff twins too." I yawn out, leaning against the table Natasha was working on as my arms were crossed.

"Why, they killed off the only thing they had in common." Steve says but I shake my head.

"They have you in common." I nod at Tony and he puts a hand on his chest like he was offended.

"Me? Why me?"

"Remember the missiles your company used to make." Tony's face pales and he nods. "Yeah. Those."

"Shit..."

"One was fired into their building and hits two floors below, making a hole which their parents fell in. The whole building starts coming apart and the twins hid beneath a bed when a second missile went through the building and lands right in front of them but it didn't go off." a few of the guys suck in their breath and I continue the story. "The twins were stuck in that room for days with that missile just 3 feet from their faces."

"That's..." Steve was just speechless and everyone turns to give Tony the stinkeye.

"What the fuck Tony." Bruce mutters out and he throws his hands up in defence.

"It's not my fault! Is it?" Tony looks at me and I shrug.

"I'm not sure about the timeline about that. I don't know if it links with the time you got kicked out of your company by Obadiah and he dealt under the table or if it's sometime else."

"It could be then!" Tony points at me and I shrug.

"Yep. Everything we had on Strucker has been erased." Natasha breaks up the tangent and gains all our attention.

"Not everything." Tony and I say and he hi-fives me.

"To the paperwork we go!" I call out and everyone follows Tony to where he stored all the boxes of paperwork he managed to salvage from the base. While we worked through the files, I kept peering over to Thor.

"Go talk to him." Steve nudges me with his shoulder and I look at him.

"Should I?" I whisper and he nods, gently shoving me closer to Thor. I stared up at him and I turn around to see everyone urge me to talk to him. I glare at them all and they quickly turn around and I sigh. "Thor..." I tug on his cape and he freezes. "I'm sorry." I mumble out and Thor lowers the files he was looking at. "please talk to me-" I squeal when he suddenly picks me up from under my arms like a child and carries me out of the room. I see everyone give me a thumbs up from behinds Thor's shoulder. "Thor-"

"-I forgive you Lady (y/n)." Thor sets me down on my feet and I gape at him.

"Why!?"

"I understand that the consequence of mother being hurt would not give Loki the incentive to help me take down the dark elves."

"But I could've done something Thor... I should've saved her..." Thor pulls me into a hug and I sigh out against his chest.

"You did all you could (y/n), I know you did."

"Thor, I should've saved her..."

"Please do not bear this guilt anymore. I should have known that you were burdened."

"Thor..."

"I miss her too." He mumbles quietly and lets me go, leading me back inside.

"So we're ok?"

"We are Lady (y/n), I could never be mad at you." I jump happily back into the room and Thor chuckles.

"So I'm guessing everything is ok between you two." Bruce says and I nod.

"Find anything?" I ask, already knowing that he did.

"What's this?" Thor asks as he takes the photo from Tony's hands.

"Uh, it's a tattoo. I don't think he had it-"

"-no, those are tattoos, this is a brand." Bruce identifies the brand and confirms that it means thief in a much less friendly way in African dialect.

"What dialect?"

"Wakanada...? Wa...Wa...Wakanda." I chuckle as Bruce stammers over the pronunciation.

"Bruce, you're too cute." Bruce stammers and blushes lightly. "So the guy got his hands on vibranium, the strongest metal on earth." I let the team members muse over this information as they start planning their mission. My powers wash over me and my hoodie is replaced with my suit.

"I have a question." Clint suddenly comes up to me.

"Shoot."

"What's up with the clothes? What happens with your hoodie?"

"Oh! They get transported back in my wardrobe." Clint just looks at me with surprise.

"What?"

"Yeah. When I was wearing my hoodie, my suit was in my wardrobe but when I transformed, the clothes switch places."

"So you don't magically just like poof, bring it out from thin air?" I shake my head. "Ok, and what's up with the dirt then?"

"What do you mean? I wash it every time I go out-" I stumble back, slightly panicked as the darkness had trickled up higher up on my clothes, like an infection that was spreading. "...it's not dirt..." I mumble out. It was more noticeable, looking like a white and black ombre suit.

"Are you ok?" I shake off Clint's words as my nightmare comes crashing into me.

Calm down!

I shake off the dark feeling that loomed over me, quickly nodding at Clint. "Yeah... I'm good..."

I hovered in the air quietly as I watched Ultron, the Maximoff twins interact with the thief that stole vibranium. I was waiting for Tony's signal as he, Thor and Steve were crouched on a ceiling beam.

All three jump down and lands behind the machine and twins. "Ahh, Junior. You're gonna break your old man's heart." Tony muses in his suit.

"If I have to."

"We don't have to break anything." Like the adorably clueless Asgardian he was, Thor butts in with his comment.

"Clearly you've never made an omelette." I flinch slightly when Ultron moves his eyes directly to look at me at my hiding spot before looking back at Tony.

"He beat me by one second."

How did he know I was here!?

Could he sense me!?

I look around, noticing some of the bots start appearing already and I panic as they swarm around the rest of the Avengers that were hiding.

This isn't supposed to happen!

"Guys, watch out. Ultron has bots circling everyone. He knew we're in here." I whisper in my earpiece, watching as hell breaks loose and Ultron attacks Tony as the bots all jump out to attack everyone. 

I let my powers crackle over my skin as I levitate the bots easily, combining them together in a giant ball and crushing them together. People start running down the stairs and shooting at the Avengers as I throw the ball of metal at Ultron. It collides into him and I quickly jump down as Ultron blasts through the ball and at me where I was hiding on the beam.

"Woah!" wind rushes by me when Pietro runs by me and I look over to see him fly as he tried to grab Thor's hammer. I cushion his crash into the cargo boxes as I surround a shield around him. Pietro looks at me in shock. "You good?" He slowly nods and I fly up to the higher decks, couching on the beams again as the enemy gets taken down but Wanda goes around giving everyone visions of their fears.

Clint stops Wanda before she could play her mind tricks on him, sticking an electro-shocking arrow on her forehead. Pietro throws Clint off and I catch him midair, gently letting him down.

"Whoever's standing, we gotta move! Guys?" Clint asks.

"Everyones hit Clint, I'm going after Bruce. Help the others ok."

"Be careful kid."