I had spent most of my time with Wanda, watching a show that she picked and painting our nails, we even made cookies, then at the end of the night we went to our own rooms to sleep. But even by this time I was still up, thinking about accidentally revealing my identity to Peter, I was so stupid.
I wanted to blame dad because well it was his fault but it was also Peter's fault for not going straight home like he usually did. It was my fault for just teleporting in, I definitely should have called first.
I turned to my side when I saw an explosion outside. Wanda, Vision, and I showed up to the open area and looked out the window to see the flames coming from trees in the distance.
"What is it?" Wanda asked.
"Stay here, please." Vision says and leaves to go check it out.
Wanda and I stood there but we both turned quickly. I had wrapped vines around the intruder and Wanda had pointed a knife at him.
I sigh and let him go, smiling with relief that it was just Clint.
"Guess I should have knocked." He pushed the knife away.
"Oh my god!" Wanda sighs and we walk over. "What are you doing here?"
"Disappointing my kids." Clint runs over and shoots one arrow to the left side of the room and the other to the right side. "I'm supposed to go water skiing."
"Sounds like that would have been fun." I say and he grabs Wanda's hand.
"They thought so too." He nodded.
"Shame." I shake my head. "So, why're you here?"
"Cap needs our help." He said and looked at me. "You're welcome to help us. He told me you might want to and we could use it... unless you were against it."
I nod and follow him but we don't make it far.
"Clint!" Vision calls as he comes back. We stop. "You should not be here."
He turns and Wanda and I slowly turn. "Really?" Clint asks. "I retire for what? Like five minutes and it all goes to shit."
"Please consider the consequences of your actions." Vision tells him.
"Okay, they're considered."
And just like that Vision walks through the trap and gets overloaded, his lifeless robot body floating unactivated.
"Okay, we gotta go." Clint says and starts running.
I follow but slow down, stopping. I look back at Wanda who remains in her spot, my eyes darting from the window back over to her.
"You're not running? Why aren't you running?" I ask.
"I've caused enough problems." Wanda says as she fiddles with her sleeves.
I teleport back to her and Clint runs back over to the both of us. "You gotta help me, Wanda. Look, you wanna mope, you can go to high school. You wanna make amends, you gotta get off your ass."
Vision gets out of his trap and he goes towards Clint, punching him with what looked like little effort but it sent him back. Clint muttered something about stretching before going to fight Vision.
His punches went through the bot most of the first hits. Then Vision blocked him and Clint punched the metal, doing absolutely no damage at all. In fact the only damage that was done in that short minute was Clint breaking his arrow against the bot.
"This is painful to watch..." I mumble.
"Some help would be appreciated." He went and kicked Vision just to have his foot go through and Vision put him in a headlock.
"I'm not that powerful yet or ever." I remind him.
"Clint, you can't over power me." Vision says.
"I know I can't but she can." He managed to say and Wanda circled him.
"Vision that's enough, let him go." She played with the magic in her hands. "I'm leaving."
"I can't let you go." Vision says.
With that she overpowers Vision with her magic and helps Clint get free. I pull him over with a vine. She apologized to Vision as she was using her power.
"If you do this ... they will never stop being afraid of you."
"I can't control their fear, only my own." She sent him down into the ground.
Clint and I both went over to look, seeing that she sent him pretty far down.
"He'll be okay." I say looking at them. "He will, now let's go."
"Come on, we've got one more stop." Clint started moving and we followed. "Mel, you gotta change into your suit."
"Not a problem, let's get to the car first." I say and he nods.
We got in the car and I opened my PD, going in and quickly changing only to teleport back to the backseat of the vehicle and close the portal, opening the protein bar I brought with me.
"Who else are we getting?" I asked curiously, poking my head between the two seats.
"A friend?"
"You don't sound so sure."
"He's someone's friend."
I chuckle and lay back on the seats.
"I know you can teleport and all but the seatbelt, now." Clint says.
"You're such a dad." I roll my eyes playfully and put the seatbelt on. "Where is this person? I can get us there much faster."
"I think that would be best. He's all the way across the country."
He gives me the coordinates as he starts to drive. I put them into my suit and look for the street, I smirk and open a portal in front of us.
"Voilà. San Francisco, California. Two feet forward."
Wanda smiles at me and I hold out my fist with a smile.
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We had picked up Mr. Scott Lang, also known as Ant Man, though he didn't do much socializing, just got into the back of the van with little questions since apparently Sam told him most of the situation. It wasn't too long into the ride that he fell asleep.
I got in my PD for the rest of the ride, opening a portal to get us to Germany without having to cross any actual borders since I knew dad and Nat set up to alert if anyone came in or out of the country.
I sat in there until we parked in the airport parking lot. While we waited, Wanda and I played 21 and I won most of the time. When the blue buggy pulled up I looked at Wanda.
"The deck is tricked." I say and teleport to lean on the van crossing my arms. "Cap, Birdie."
They nod. "You know I wouldn't have called if I had any other choice." Steve shook Clint's hand.
"Hey, man, you're doing me a favor." Clint tells him and looks at Wanda. "Besides, I owe a debt."
"Thanks for having my back." Steve tells Wanda.
"It was time I get off my ass."
Steve looks at me. "You too, kid."
"I'm only here because I don't want anyone to get seriously hurt." I say walking over. "Also this is my rebellious teenage phase, so here I am."
Steve smiled and nodded then looked back at Clint. "How about our other recruit?"
"He's rarin' to go." Clint opened the door to the sleeping man. I pulled my mask up. "Had to put a little coffee in him but... he should be good."
The man woke up to the door opening. "What time zone is this?" Scott asked but looked shocked when he saw Steve, walking up to him and getting a hand shake. "Captain America!"
"Mr. Lang."
"It's an honor." He said. "I'm shaking your hand too long. Wow! This is awesome."
He turns to Wanda. "Captain America. I know you too. You're great!" He turns to me and holds his hand just above my head, as if measuring my height. "Oh wow, you're much shorter in person."
"Hopefully, still growing." I say with sarcasm.
He smiles and turns back to Cap, squeezing his pecs and sighs satisfied. "Look, I wanna say, I know you know a lot of super people so ... thanks for thanking of me."
"Hey man!" He pointed to Sam.
"What's up, Tic Tac?" Sam said.
"Uh, good to see you." Scott nodded. "Uh, look what happened last time when I—"
"It was a great audition, but it'll never happen again." Sam chuckled.
"They tell you what we're up against?" Cap asked.
"Something about some psycho-assassins?" Scott asked.
"We're outside the law on this one." Steve told him. "So if you come with us, you're a wanted criminal."
"Yeah, well, what else is new?" Scott asked.
"We should get moving." Bucky said.
"We got a chopper lined up."
"Unless you have a picture of exactly where we're headed, so we can avoid all this conflict." I said hopeful, my smile fell when no one said anything. "I know, if you had that, we wouldn't have gathered everyone."
'Aufmerksamkeit! Bitte verlassen Sie den Flughafen sofort, es tut uns leid, dass wir Ihre Flüge stornieren oder verzögern müssen.'
"They're evacuating the airport." Barnes says.
"Tony." I say, of course he knew we would be here.
"Tony?" Scott asks.
"Suit up." Steve tells everyone and looks at me. "Go do your thing."
"One sec." I teleported and punched Bucky as hard as I could, adding a bit of the blast to it.
He laid on the floor and I crouched down. "I know it wasn't really you," I whisper. "but that's for my dad and Nat."
I teleported back to my previous spot. "I'm gonna help people get into the parking lot so you guys hurry." I start walking away. "Don't worry, I won't get caught." I teleported away.
⊹⊱≼3RD PERSON POV≽⊰⊹
Bucky got back up, rubbing his jaw. "I guess I deserved that."
"You really did." Sam tells him while laughing as they walk away.
"I clearly missed a big chunk!" Scott says to everyone. "Man.. What did you do?"
"Please, everyone just suit up."