Recall

It was a warm morning in a small villa of the coast of Southern France. It was around 9 in the morning, and a young woman of small stature, lightly tanned porcelain skin and long dark hair was doing yoga on the roof patio of the villa. The only sounds were the young woman's occasional deep breaths and a few birds chirping in the trees. She had started her meditation, and thus began floating a few inches off her yoga mat, when a cell phone near her began ringing. The woman's left hand began glowing green, as did the phone, before it floated itself into her hand and she answered the call.

"Mendoza."

"How's France, Mendoza?"

"Honestly, Hill. I have two weeks left on my vacation, and that fiasco in New York you had me clean up was bad, so this had better be worth it." Sonya Mendoza was not playing games, she was forced on her leave, so she decided she would piss her bosses off as much as she could.

"Well, since you asked so nicely, and you obviously don't pay attention to the news, you need to get here, like yesterday. S.H.I.E.L.D. is officially under ash and still in flames. I need you here in the private sector Mendoza, Romanoff managed to get you off the radar, but not before Stark found out about you." There was a silent moment where Agent Maria Hill almost thought Sonya had hung up on her.

"What?!" Her voice was sharp and laced with disbelief.

"A Stark jet will be in the private field in Agde in three hours. Mrs. Potts, who was on business in Greece, knows you as an associate of mine from Argentina, who is currently on vacation in the south of France. Play the part, and we'll see you soon."

"Fine."

After saying that Sonya hung up and the phone in her hand began to disintegrate surrounded by the dark green glow. Sighing loudly, and cursing the stupid organization to hell, she got up and made her way into the villa to close everything up, pack and get dressed to leave.

The Stark Industries jet looked almost out of place in the small French Airport as the slightly below average height young woman, dressed head to toe professionally in Chanel. The door to the plane dropped down and Sonya climbed up easily. She greeted the lovely Pepper Potts, and they had an easy conversation before Ms. Potts decided to catch a nap while they were just over Portugal. They arrived in New York quickly, and Sonya Mendoza was in the newly renovated "Avengers Tower" much quicker than she would have liked. She sighed as Pepper Potts left the elevator and told her that she'd find Tony and Ms. Hill at the top. Sonya simply nodded and bid her a good rest of the day before the doors closed and her demeanor changed completely. Sonya reached into her handbag and pulled out a silver circlet, with a very faintly glowing emerald gem at the center. She slipped it on her head evenly and smiled wickedly as the doors of the elevator opened. Maria Hill was waiting on the other side of the door and cracked a smiled at Sonya's attire.

"Wow, is this pretty much what you looked like during covert ops?"

"Funny. Bruce is here too, no? I can feel his energy, but that is not important, where is Mr. Stark? I was told this is a meeting with him." Sonya's light tone stopped at the mention of the billionaire and Maria nodded. She was about to speak when she was cut off by the aforementioned man.

"Normally, I'd joke around about how all you people get your names from Russia, but I have a more important question. Why you, when Romanoff had the power to delete herself when she posted everything, why you?" Tony Stark's words made her turn to face him, and that's when she noticed that Bruce Banner was with him. She gave a small smirk, that widened when she saw both men's eyes flicker to her crown.

"Why me, you ask? For the same reason that Dr. Banner chose to destroy his work, for the same reason Tasha is always working to destroy Red Room, for the same reason you, yourself, make your suits to your biological measures. So that other people, more wicked people, do not aid history in repeating itself. Tell me Mr. Stark, you call yourself a genius, yet you are very slow at understanding the mentality of those around you." As she spoke, she approached the pair and Tony seemed to shrink into his suit. She offered a hand to Bruce Banner with a smile playing on her lips.

"Sonya Mendoza, pleasure to finally meet you Dr. Banner."

Dr. Banner gave her a bemused smile as he shook her hand gently.

"You...you know me?"

"Well, I'm sure to get you in the Avengers Initiative, someone told you it was S.H.I.E.L.D. that keeps the people after your brain at bay. Also, up until recently, we kept certain...incidents from becoming public knowledge. Do not worry about that by the way, Tasha deleted me from the system, but since I have...had a certain level of authority, everything I was involved with, even just by name, was erased as well, anything the 'Other Guy' did doesn't exist. At least, not to anyone other than you, whomever you may have told, and me. Besides, Hulk and I are very well acquainted." Sonya smiled at Bruce's almost horrified expression, she would have laughed, but she didn't want to seem rude. Tony on the other looked mildly impressed, Sonya quirked an eyebrow is his expression briefly before directing her next few choice words at him.

"Since that is all settled, I am sure I was not called here from my vacation for simple pleasantries. It also seems that you have certain positions available for those of interest, no Mr. Stark?" They had only just noticed that Sonya had a slight accent, slightly muddled and implacable, but not unpleasant. Tony nodded and gestured for them all to follow him into a secure conference room, there he proceeded to list why she need to work with him.