A/n: Hello, everyone. I have decided to rewrite A New Avenger for the New Avengers to better reflect some of the changes that have occurred through my writing, and through the expansion of the MCU. This story will still follow the same plot line as previously, but a few more details will be added in, including the prologue, which adds details to Melody's past! Please enjoy and leave me a review!
Charles Xavier was a cautious man by nature. But this was taking it to a new level. He looked at the child in his arms, trying to imprint this memory in his mind forever. She was just a few hours old and already had a great destiny in place. He knew it would be better for her to grow up away from her family, but his wished it wasn't that way. He trusted her parents to have surpressed her mutant abilities, and knew that would allow her to live a normal childhood.
He knocked at the door and waited impatiently for an answer. A young boy, no older than ten, opened the door slightly, looking out cautiously. "Hello," he greeted the boy. "My name is Charles Xavier and your parents are expecting me."
The boy opened his mouth to respond until a woman's voice echoed out to the porch. "Professor Xavier!" A young woman swept out of the house, excitement making her dance. Her and her husband had desparately wanted a baby girl, but due to complications with her last pregnancy were not able to have anymore children, so when she was approached by a young mother seeking someone to adopt her daughter, Edith Barton was more than happy to adopt the baby girl, even before she had been born. "Clint, it's time for bed. Ask Barney to read a bedtime story tonight," she told the boy who had opened the door. He gladly nodded and went to find his older brother. She invited Xavier into the modest house, offering him something to drink, which he turned down.
"This is her, your new baby girl," he told her without a preamble. This was hard on him. He saw the baby girl, Angel, like a niece, being good friends with her parents. He wished they were here with him, but this was going to be too difficult for two mutants whose powers were influenced by their emotions. He gently handed the baby over to Edith, who immediately began cooing over the small child. Her husband, Harold, entered the sitting room at this point, also very excited to meet his new baby girl. He sat next to his wife, admiring the baby girl.
With everyone in the house sufficiently distracted, Xavier began the other portion of why he was here. He began to adjust the memories of the family members, making them think that Angel was their daughter, or sister, by natural means, thus futher hiding her from her destiney, as advised by her parents. It was an easy enough task to do, but it broke his heart that he had to do it.
When the households memories had been adjusted sufficiently, Xavier left, returning to where Alex was waiting with a nearby car. He sent one last tendril of thought towards Angel, now Melody, sending her a sense of comfort and love that should follow her throughout her life while also ensuring that the mental blocks on her mutant abilities would hold. Satisfied, the two mutants left the quaint farm in Iowa to head back to the Institute and provide comfort to grieving parents.
Melody's early childhood was full of love and laughter. She was never aware of Harold's abusive nature. Harlod saw her as his precious princess, and valued her above all others in the family. Then came the car accident that left the three Barton children as orphans, a fate that Melody's birth parent's coulnd't have prevented.
She spent the next five years on the streets, stealing to survive. It was hard, and she almost died many times, but she never felt alone. She was in an alley one night, trying desperately trying not to freeze to death when a shadow covered her. She looked up, truly looking like the child she was and not someone hardened by living on the streets. "Hello, sweetheart, my name is Nick Fury, what's your name?"
She managed to stutter out her name. The scary man with the eye patch offered her a hand, which she took slowly, unsure as to why this man was interested in her. She had heard about what happened to girls living on the streets, and she didn't want to end up like those girls. "What do you want with me?" She asked, prepared to fight her way out of this situation.
"I want to offer you a home, for as long as you want it." He could see the distrust in her eyes, and rushed to comfort her. "You don't have to do anything, and I don't expect you to repay me in any way."
She looked him in the eye, and saw no evidence of lies, so she agreed, and quickly went to live with this man, this Nick Fury, and a multitude of agents, who were all happy with the youngest addition, who quickly decided that she wanted to become an Agent of SHIELD and began her training as soon as she could. She was trained by Maria Hill and Fury until, at the age of thirteen, SHIELD located her older brother, Clint, who was recruited. It was a joyous reunion for the Barton siblings.
Clint continued training Melody, helping her refine the skills that Fury had taught her already while adding in his own skills of sharpshooting. When Natasha was recruited, she helped with Melody's training, bringing the three closer together.
All was going well until Loki showed up, stealing the Tesseract and making life worse for Melody by kidnapping her brother and almost killing Maria and Phil. She vowed that day that Loki wouldn't go unpunished and began devising a plan to bring him to justice.