A/N: Hey guys! So if you've read my other stories, this general plot might seem familiar but it is completely separate and different from anything else, that stuff really doesn't represent me as a writer anymore. Over this year/ period that I went without updating I had a bit of a "writing identity crisis" where I really thought if I was still writing what I wanted to write and not just doing it as a chore. So I took a break and really refreshed until I started feeling like I wanted to write again and while inspiration hasn't completely returned it is starting to come back. This is the result of that! Thanks for reading and feel free to leave thoughts or ideas!
-Sienna's POV-
"Gah!" I shouted for probably the hundredth time that day. Sparks flew from the device I had been working on in my dad's lab.
"Is everything okay?" FRIDAY asked.
"Yes, just messed up a little. These things have been trashed for a week and I need to get back out there." I sighed.
I'm Sienna Talia Potts-Stark. Also known as the Dragonfly, a name that I had just gotten from a rude news reporter who was against superheroes. I got my powers from HYDRA, it happened years ago but they just woke up recently. My powers were that I could move things with my mind, only small things however, nothing huge. To help out with getting around I made some special attachments that were essentially the jets on the bottom of the Iron Man armor. Most of my shoes could have this attached, to protect to shoes and myself I also had armor that went with it.
I'm also a pretty good shot with a bow and arrow. Non lethal of course, I designed the ends to leave nasty bruises and depending on where I hit it could knock someone out for a good while. I made several types of arrows, Clint Barton helped me out, he's also the first person who helped me out when I began this Dragonfly stuff. Dad got pretty mad when he found out but he knew there was no stopping me.
I'm not a rebellious teen or anything, heck I go to a nerd school in New York, I'm in band, I'm on the decathalon team, it's not like I'm doing drugs or something.
Mom (who doesn't know about any of this) just says he's overprotective but it gets annoying. Some things I get, like making me wear this weird digital mask to change me entirely whenever I go to school, but then there's things like adding five trackers to my backpack. It's annoying.
Back to Dragonfly, why do they call me Dragonfly? It started when a reporter, who hated dragonflies and superheroes, compared me to a dragonfly, small and insignificant according to him. Unfortunately for him it backfired and people loved it. My costume is a dark green dress type thing with blue armor on my knees, shoulders, and elbows. To cover my face I use a gold and blue volto type mask that Wanda helped me design. Right now, only four people know who I am, Wanda, Vision, Clint, and my dad.
This started a year ago, a little after Sokovia. That battle I was terrified, for several reasons but the main one being that I was helpless, stuck at home, watching the news coverage. After that my powers woke up and I began sneaking out to stop petty crimes.
It's been getting harder in High School, especially with all my extra curriculars and having to explain why I can't hang out or sleepover. It's also the first time I'm going to school that's not online and one with actual, normal kids my age.
"Your father has arrived." FRIDAY told me.
"Thanks, did he bring anyone with him?" I asked, starting to gather my things.
"Not today, he is coming up now."
"Hey FRIDAY, what time is it?" I asked suddenly realizing that it was a school night and I hadn't started homework or eaten anything more than the giant bag of doritos that sat next to me.
"It's nine and you are still working and I'm going to assume homework hasn't been done yet." My dad answered me.
"Oh hey. So how was your day? School was great and actually I don't have that much work." I smiled.
"That's a lie and stop eating all the doritos." He sighed, "Do you want sushi? Let's get sushi."
A few minutes later we were sat at on a table and I was devouring sushi.
"This weekend we're gonna be at the place upstate." Dad said.
"What? I thought," I swallowed the piece of sushi still in my mouth, "We were gonna stay here or I was going with Mom again."
"She's in Paris," Dad got a far away look, "But it's just for a weekend and I let Wanda decorate your room."
"Nice." I responded, "I should get to studying and stuff."
"No leaving the tower tonight." My dad called out as I walked away.
"Frick." I muttered under my breath. It was easy to bypass some of the security on the tower, but lately it's been taking me a longer time than usual.
My room was on the 80th floor, the view was amazing. Also on my floor was a study, a gaming room that was barely used since I didn't have people coming over, a bathroom, and a small kitchen.
The first thing I did was shower and change into PJ's, if I wasn't going anywhere may as well get comfortable. Next I finished the few math problems I had, wrote a paragraph of an essay that wasn't due for a could weeks, and finally started studying decathlon stuff.
My friend Michelle and I had been working on making flashcards (so many papercuts) all week, we were still alternates but we were hoping that next year that would change. At some point I fell asleep and the next thing I knew my alarm was blaring.
Groggily, I turned it off and started to get ready as fast as I could. I tried to neatly put all of my stuff into my backpack and asked FRIDAY to get an outfit together from my closest.
Grabbing the clothes the AI decided on, some days it came out with a hideous outfit but today it worked out. I put on the light blue jeans and the grey pocket tee and pulled on a red cardigan.
My hair was actually cooperating with me today, it was a weird mix of red and brown and was a wavy frizzy mess. I pulled it into a low pony with one of those braids going along the side of my face. Grabbing the necklace I wore everyday to school I put it on and my features suddenly changed. My nose got smaller, my hair darker, my eyes went from brown to blue, and my jaw was slightly softer. Outside of school, or whenever I didn't go out in the public, I wore glasses unless it was Dragonfly business, but to school to try and hide my appearance and bit more I wore contacts.
"You left some stuff in the lab yesterday that you may need." FRIDAY said to me.
"Oh thanks for reminding me." Once the elevator stopped I ran over and grabbed what the AI was talking about: the Dragonfly costume and my flute for band.
It was still early in the morning, there wasn't a large crowd outside of the tower yet so it would be easy to sneak out. Usually I would say bye to my dad or mom or whoever was in the tower that day, then go over to the small cafe a couple blocks away for breakfast and get stuff for lunch, then head over to my friend's apartment so we could walk to school together. If Mom was home then she might make me lunch but since she hasn't really been around lately and Dad can only make cocktails, it was better just to buy lunch.
"Bye Dad!" I shouted.
"Do you want leftover sushi?" He shouted back.
"No it's gonna smell later." I responded and headed down.
Taking a look in the elevator to make sure I looked completely unrecognizable, a stranger on the street might say I look like Sienna Stark but right now I was Savanah Smith, average and ordinary.
People hurried past me on the street, just like usual. After stopping by a cafe to grab breakfast (a parfait) and lunch (chips and a vegetarian sandwich) I waited outside of my friend's apartment complex for him. Every morning we walked over to school together, he thought I lived in a nearby apartment complex and it was nice to have someone to talk to before school started.
"Hey sorry I'm late."
"No problem Peter." I said, "We're still pretty early anyways."
"Four more weeks and then school is finally over." He responded.
"Bless." I laughed.
(Time skip: lunch)
The bell rang and students rushed to get out of the room as fast as possible, most of us did anyways. I stayed behind with Michelle as we packed up our things.
"C'mon loser." she said once she was ready to leave.
"If I'm a loser then why do you hang out with me?" I asked as we stopped by our lockers.
"Cause you're kind of cool. In an 'absolute utter nerd that's nice' kind of way." She smiled.
"Same to you."
We walked over to our usual table, she sat a bit aways to try and catch up on the book she was reading.
"Hey Ned." I greeted.
"Hello Savannah." Ned responded, "Is that a sandwich without meat? Is that even considered a sandwich."
"Not eating meat is actually better for the environment" I rolled my eyes, "It was vegetables, cheese, and tofu. And is really good."
"Ned you are literally eat a meatless sandwich as well." Peter pointed out.
"It's a grilled cheese." Ned pointed out.
We laughed until Flash came by, his daily stop by our table.
"Oh hey it's the nerd table, how are you guys?" He slung an arm across my shoulder.
"Thompson you are on the decathalon team and you aren't even a nerd's first choice." I pushed his arm off my shoulder.
"A little feisty are we today." He made a grab for my unopened bag of chips.
"Hey Flash, don't you have better things to do?" Peter asked.
"Defending your girlfriend huh Parker." Flash made his way over to the other side of the table.
"We aren't dating stupid." I said.
"Those two are closer to dating than you ever will be." Michelle said not looking up from her book.
Flash's group let out a low ohhh.
"Whatever losers, that's all you'll ever will be." He then left.
"Why is he so rude?" Ned asked, "You'd think there's better things to do."
"Honestly."
Just then the bell rang, signaling the start of the next period.