It was Saturday, a whole week has passed without Tony Stark asking one question. The teens didn't know if they should be relieved or scared, probably both since they have felt like someone has been watching them for the past month, more so than usual.

Banner and Barton hasn't told anyone about the teens being superheroes. Why should they? It wasn't their secret, and if it was, they wouldn't want someone else to tell it without their permission. Though Banner has been going through hell with trying to keep Tony from hacking into S.H.I.E.L.D. again, and from spying on Peter a lot more than he already was. Banner knew one thing for a fact: When Stark found out his adoptive-son is the wall-crawling hero also known as Spiderman, the hero Stark has been stalking, was Peter Benjamin Parker Tony could either freak out, have an heart attack and/or yell. Bruce didn't know, and wouldn't want to be in the room when Tony did find out.

Barton, on the other hand, has been trying to keep his mouth shut so he wouldn't tell Natasha or Barnes. Both of his fellow spies didn't know yet, though he did suspect that Barnes might've known. Natasha was hard to tell if she ever knew anything through, but Director Nick Fury has told him that he didn't inform Natasha of the teens secret identities.

Clint Barton and Bruce Banner both has been trying to figure out why the teens seemed so reluctant when they asked why they didn't tell the Avengers who they were, because if they had known from the beginning that a bunch of teens were taking the Avengers place (sometimes) in fighting the villains of New York, they would have made sure to keep an eye out on the Ultimates.

But why would a bunch of teens who's all about to be 18 tell the Earth's Mightiest Heroes about them being only teenagers? The reasons varied, depending on which of the heroes they were talking about.

Captain America? He would lecture them on how dangerous their jobs were, and that they are too young to die, and that they should wait until they were older. Second reason? He was Captain America! Who would want to get told off by Captain Steve Rogers?

Thor? Well, he's kind of hard.. But Thor would probably ask about their 'battles' and the foes they have faced. And no one wanted to see Stark get upset about the 'battles' and 'foes' they have went up against. So he would caused a bunch of trouble for the teens.

Ironman, well he'd get furious and stalk off to his lab and not come out for awhile. And when he did, he would ask why they didn't tell him about them being who they were and if they answered that question wrong, who knows what could happen.

The other Avengers, Barton, Banner, Romanoff, Wilson, Barnes.. They were fine, as long as they didn't help Thor get them into trouble..

SHIELD HQ:

Coulson was getting sick of having to deal with Stark, who's been stalking him and the Ultimates (Both as the Ultimates and them as normal everyday people), now he has to deal with the Avengers knowing he's alive, and Tony.

S.H.I.E.L.D. has been trying to block Tony from finding out who the Ultimates were, but Skye couldn't keep that going forever, so far Stark has beaten everyone but her. If Stark comes close to getting the file, Skye has gotten permission to destroy the files on the Ultimates.

Skye being Skye, looked at the files herself, and when she saw that the Ultimates wasn't even 18 yet surprised her. FitzSimmons and Ward was in the room with her, so they all knew who the Ultimates were. Peter Parker, Daniel Rand, Luke Cage, Ava Ayala, Sam Alexander, and the youngest member: Miles Morales.

"Sir, why is a bunch of teenagers working for SHIELD as superheroes?" Ward asked.

"They were apart of a special group made by Director Fury-" Coulson replied but stopped when Skye asked a question.

"Like the Avengers?" She asked excitedly, with Fitz and Simmons looking on in curiosity, and May with a blank expression on her face.

"No, not exactly. The Avengers were made to defend the earth from aliens and other things SHIELD agents couldn't. The Ultimates were made for different reasons." Coulson told them. FitzSimmons both nodded in understanding, Ward and May looked disinterested but Skye looked like she wanted to know more.

"Can you tell us more about them?" Skye asked with hope in her voice.

"I'm sorry, Skye, but I can't." Coulson replied before leaving the room to go talk to Fury about the teenagers

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The Ultimates were grounded, which, of course, meant they had to stay in the tower or follow Tony and Bruce around like lost puppies.

Being grounded in the Avengers Tower wasn't as fun as they first thought it might be.

It was boring.

Tony made sure their week was going to be the most boring week they ever had. They couldn't do anything, and the worst of all, they can't be the Ultimates when they were grounded, which left it up to Miles.

"You guys think Miles is doing alright?" Luke asked the rest of the group, who nodded.

"He's doing better than us." Sam complained, getting glares from Danny, Peter, Luke, and Ava. Sam was the reason they were grounded because he thought it would give them off time, but instead it gave them boredom, and Tony Stark watching their every move (At least it felt that way).

"Stop complaining you idiot, you're the reason we're here in the first place!" Said Ava, who looked annoyed. She loved Peter, Luke, Danny and Sam like brothers, but they are annoying brothers.
"C'mon, it isn't like I thought he would ban us from everything!"

"Sam." Peter, Luke and Danny said in unison, warning Nova to shut up before Ava tries to hurt him.

"Yeah, yeah."

The rest of the week passed by slowly, and they had no idea if Fury knows their grounded or not, they hadn't seen Coulson at the school either, so they had no idea. Hopefully Coulson found out somehow, or Barton told Fury about them being stuck at the tower without no phones, tablets, computers, TV's.. etc.

When they finally were un-grounded, the first place they went to was the SHIELD helicarrier, and then find Nick Fury.

"Where the heck have you five been?!" Fury yelled. One of his best teams out for the count for two weeks!

"Grounded." Peter grumbled before walking the rest of the way into Fury's office with the other Ultimates.

"Yeah thanks to idiot over there." Ava pointed to Sam, who looked slightly guilty, just not enough for Ava's liking. Fury did not look pleased at all, SHIELD has been trying their best to get Stark from getting the identities of the superhero team called the Ultimates. Fury assigned his best hacker to the job, Skye, who now wants to know why SHIELD has a team of teens.

"Nova, next time you want a day off, tell me instead of getting grounded!" Fury's voice rung throughout his office, making Nova gulped and nod. "Now, I have an assignment for you all."

The next words out of Fury's mouth shocked them all, they didn't honestly think Fury was going to team them up with the Avengers anytime soon, at least until all of the Avengers knew who they were.
Fury knew he was risking the teens identities to the Avengers, to Stark, but he needed his two best teams on the job. Meaning both the Avengers and Ultimates were going to team-up. It wasn't his best idea, he'd had to admit, but it was the most logical.

~~Saturday: 8, AM~~

The Avengers all got suited up and onto the quinjet for SHIELD within one hour. Which was surprising seeing as Stark didn't go to bed until 4 AM, and had to get up. It took them half an hour to get there, and when they did Barton and Romanoff was waiting for them.

"Legolas!" Stark called out to Barton,who rolled his eyes at the nickname. "Why does Fury want us here at this time of morning?" Stark complained, before following the two spies with the rest of the Avengers.

Fury was furious (no pun intended?), the Ultimates were late, again, and the Avengers were already on the helicarrier. Fury wanted to talk to the Ultimates first about the mission, but now he has to make the Avengers wait. And one thing you do not want is bored Avengers on the helicarrier, last time Tony talked Thor, Barton, Romanoff, Cap, and Banner into a water balloon fight, which caused computers and Agents to get soaked.

"One-eye!" Stark yelled once he entered Fury's office with the other Avengers. Tony Stark was drunk and sleepy, those two combined has never been good. With one of the Ultimates being 13 years old, a drunk Ironman was not good, at all.

"Stark." Fury nodded to the Avengers, who nodded back as a way of greetings.

"What's the assignment Fury?" Cap inquired, sitting down at one of the many chairs in the room, while Stark, Banner, and Romanoff sat on the couch, and Barton & Barnes just continued to stand.

"You will all be going on a mission with the Ultimates as a test run, if the mission goes wrong, the Avengers and Ultimates won't have to go on anymore missions together. If it goes soundly, you will be doing more missions with the Ultimates." Fury stated, causing Stark to grin.

Banner and Barton both were panicked, but only Banner showed it. Cap seemed confused, and Barnes.. lets just say he was with Banner and Barton on the panicking. Falcon smiled to himself, he had a idea about who the Ultimates were, but now he could see if the Ultimates was who he thought they were.

The Avengers were all waiting patiently, even Stark (surprisingly) when an Agent came busting through the door to Fury's office, which turned out to be Luke's father, who looked panicked.

"Agent Cage you can't go in there!" Another Agent called after him, but he didn't pay the other agent any mind. Walter walked up to Fury's desk, holding up the clipboard.

Which read; Ultimates medical reports. Fury didn't know why but he had a gut feeling something went wrong before he even read the line that said the Ultimates stopped a bunch of criminals with powers, said powered criminals gotten an upper hand for a moment and managed to put both White Tiger and Spider-man in critical condition, with Iron-fist with a broken leg and wrist, Power-man knocked out (In a coma) with a broken leg also and Nova with a broken arm.

"Avengers, you'll have to wait another day." Fury told the Avengers before getting up and walking out of his office following Walter Cage. The Avengers sat there, staring at the door, wondering why Fury paled when he looked at the piece of paper.

Hawkeye, though, saw a piece of the paper. Not that he'll tell the rest of the Avengers, he's only going to tell Banner.

"Wanna see what made One-eye look almost scared?" Tony asked, getting annoying looks from Romanoff, Cap, Barnes, and Barton, while Bruce slipped out of the room to head to the med bay.

"Banner!" Hawkeye shouted in a whisper like voice, running after him, once he caught up with Bruce, he told Banner what he saw on the paper.

Bruce could feel the Hulk wanted to be let out, to smash the people who put the Ultimates into the hospital. Bruce didn't know why the Hulk seemed protective of the teens, but then again, he doesn't remember everything he does as the Hulk. Maybe he had met the Ultimates before and not remember it.

"Stark is going to be heading towards the med bay also, since he most likely asked another SHIELD Agent where Fury was headed. One of us will have to lead him away from the teens, you up for this Banner?" Clint asked the scientist who looked deep in thought.

"Banner!" Hawkeye shouted in a whisper like voice, running after him, once he caught up with Bruce, he told Banner what he saw on the paper.

"Doesn't Peter's friend, Billy, been here for the last four weeks in another section of the med bay?" Bruce wondered out loud, causing a chuckle from the spy. Bruce looked over to the spy, who had a small grin on his face.

"Well, looks like you're going to be the distraction." Clint said before splitting ways with Banner and heading towards the section of the med bay where they keep people in critical condition, and the people with powers (And some without).

Fury didn't expect to see Spider-man's mask off, but he also didn't expect to see the large wound on the teens stomach.

The White Tiger wasn't as beaten up as Spider-man, so her mask was still on, even if it was ripped and showed half of her face. The three other teens were much, much better. Powerman was in a coma but was expected to wake up sometimes that night or the next day.

Barton walked into the room, but stopped in his tracks as he saw the teens, Nova and Iron Fist were both sitting up, but Peter, Ava and Luke were all laying down.

"Barton." Fury said from behind him, causing him to turn around. "If you even think about-"

"Fury, both me and Banner known for almost two weeks now, sir, we won't tell." Barton answered, with a small smile before his face turned more serious. "What the heck happened to them?"

"Hill's working on getting the whole story." Fury stated simply.

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Banner walked into the now ten year olds room carefully. Banner had no idea how he was going to manage to keep Stark away from the teens area of the med bay at the moment, hopefully Billy could help him with that.

Two Hours Later:

"Well Billy, welcome to the family!" Stark welcomed the child into the family, seeing as he has been wanting Banner to adopt him for awhile now. Only thing that is missing is Peter and the others, and then everyone would be there.

"Banner, I'm happy you're thinking of adopting Billy but you have to think about the life he's coming into." Cap told Banner was he clapped the scientist on the shoulder before leaving to go back to the tower.

"Another member of the Avenger family, huh Banner?" Natasha teased him before also leaving to find Barton with Barnes.

"Friend Bruce, I am happy for your addition of the family!" Thor smiled at Banner before following the three other Avengers out.

Bruce had no idea why he made the rash decision of adopting of Billy, in one way he was excited, in another he was terrified. But that was life, wasn't it? he asked himself.

Tony wouldn't stop asking him about Billy. When they gotten to the tower, Tony asked Jarvis to see if the teens were there, and seeing as all of the teens were in the med bay at SHIELD, Jarvis couldn't find any of them.

"Tony, calm down." Cap said, trying to keep Tony from hacking into the teens phones and using their GPS's against them.

Unbeknownst to them, Bruce slipped out and went back to SHIELD HQ, however Bruce didn't notice Sam Wilson following him until it was too late.

~~ Time Skip ~~

Hospital Room: C21, thirty-seven minutes later.

Luke Cage was awake, and was currently talking to Sam Alexander and Danny Rand. They all couldn't believe they had all gotten beaten up by criminals, even if the criminals had powers.

"SHIELD isn't gonna let us go anytime soon.." Sam mumbled, looking at his two friends who were both asleep from the pain medication.

"That is not going to help us with mister Stark." Danny agreed.

"Man, we're going to be in a lot of trouble with him." Luke said with a sigh. Only Ultimate that wasn't currently in the hospital or even hurt was Miles.

When Bruce walked in, the three teens that were awake was playing clue, with soda cans not to far from them.

"They let you drink sodas?" Bruce asked, frowning at the cans.

"Yeah, as long as we only drink more water than soda." Luke shrugged his shoulders before moving his character again on the board. Bruce nodded before looking over at Peter and Ava, Bruce could hear the Hulk roaring in the back of his mind, somehow, but he didn't understand why the Hulk seemed so.. furious.

"Banner, are you alright?" Danny asked, looking at Bruce with concern on his face. Bruce snapped out of his thoughts, nodding at the teen and getting the clipboard to see what treatments they had given the teens.

"Where's Barton?" Banner asked with a confused frown.

"Eh, he can be anywhere." Sam answered.

"Banner, where are yo-" Falcon asked, walking down the corridor when he saw Bruce in a room with Peter, Luke, Danny, Ava and (Sam) Alexander, with half of their superhero suits still on. Banner had his back to him, talking to Luke and Danny. "Hey Doc?" Wilson asked, walking into the room, making Bruce stiffen up. Of course, somebody else on the team had to find out, Bruce thought to himself before turning around to see Sam Wilson, standing there with shock on his face.

"Wilson, don't tell no one. We were planning on telling, but things keeps getting in the way." Luke explained, and Danny and Nova nodded their agreement, while Bruce just went back to reading the words on the clipboard.

"Don't worry, I won't tell nobody. Soooo, who else knows?" Wilson asked, sitting down in one of the chairs in the room.

"Well, there's three Avengers that knows; You, Banner, and Barton." Danny replied with a shrug.
Later that night, Luke heard Peter's phone go with a text alert, he looked at the time to see it was 11:08 AM, he knew Peter didn't text a lot of people, and since both MJ and Gwen are out of town, and Miles was (probably) asleep, it left only Stark who would text him this late at night, and surely enough it was.