"A school? Just for people like me?"
"Yes Steve, look I'm just saying it'll do you good to mix with people your own age. It'll help you adapt to the new world out there."
"The new world it terrifying."
"I've found someone for you to room with. He's a nice kid. You ship out next week." And just like that Mr Fury left my room, as calm and cool as ever even though he'd just turned my world upside down.
I sat on the plane on the way to the school, I didn't want to be here. I wanted to be back in 1942 with Bucky, we lived next to each other on the military base so we were instant friends. I was genetically engineered to fight in the war but unfortunately something got messed up and I was too 'young' that didn't stop me hijacking a plane to fight Hydra. I ended frozen and they found me a year ago, since then I've been living in a government facility living like it was the 40's, but it just didn't feel like it without Bucky...
"Are we nearly there?" I peered at the pilot, it appeared that he couldn't hear me. I slumped in my seat and picked up a magazine, I flipped to an article about Howard Stark's son Tony. The headline read ' Boarding School for Stark after Iron Man fiasco!' I couldn't help laughing slightly, an expensive boarding school being used as a punishment? Lucky guy but then again he's a Stark, Starks are always lucky guys. Fur had mentioned him a couple of times saying that he'd built himself a supersuit and using it whilst drunk had destroyed some new tower he'd had built. A 17 year old billionaire genius? Didn't get much luckier than that. I stared out the window as we started to land, there were quite a few other planes landing at the same time aswell as a couple of boats.
We were all led to a large auditorium where Nick Fury was stood at a podium on stage. There was some sort of symbol on the front of the podium, I'd seen it on some of the doors at the facility where I lived I assume that Fury was head of it. I sat next to a meek boy with quite large glasses; I smiled at him warmly which caused him to turn away. This was going well already.
"Everyone quiet! Now!" I jumped as Fury spoke above all the noise, which I must admit was quite difficult to do, the instant silence amazed me. "Well done at least we've established that you can all follow orders. Welcome to Helden Island School, I'm headmaster Fury. This is a school for a specific type of individual, here you will learn how to, not only, defend yourself but also how to work as a team. This means that you will be assigned teams for the rest of your time here, you won't get to choose these teams as they've already been assigned. When you hear your name called walk through the doors behind me and you'll be escorted to your block." There was whispering in the crowd, people were trying to guess who they'd be placed with, I didn't particularly care. I was here to make myself a better person, so that I could help more people and make sure that what I did counted.
"Will this take long furry?" I looked over to see Tony Stark smirking, surrounding by some pretty girls which was obviously natural for him.
"It's Fury Stark."
"Your mother named you Fury?"
"Stark. Quiet. Now." Tony sat there and continued to smirk, he was pretty cute when he was smirking. What a disturbing thought. "Now, the first team I'll be announcing is the Avengers, you'll be announced using your code or 'superhero' names and all official members of staff will address you by these from this point."
The whole room was tense as he started calling names.
"Thor." A tall, long haired boy stood up, he appeared to be carrying some sort of hammer as he walked through the doors.
"Black Widow." A small redhead was the next to walk through the doors, her guns gleaming as she did so.
"The Hulk." The meek boy next to me got up and walked through the doors, I found myself wondering why he was called The Hulk since he seemed to be the complete opposite of his code name.
"Hawkeye." A bow wielding boy was the next through the doors to the unknown behind them.
"Iron Man." Poor saps, having Tony Stark on their team, now they'll never get a look in at the action. If Fury was planning on punishing them as a unit they'd rarely get an relaxation time
"And finally, Captain America." I stared at Fury, my jaw dropping slightly. This team seemed like he'd built it out of the 'best' candidates, possibly except Stark. I walked slowly through the doors and joined the line of people behind it. We were led to a small black block with a huge silver 'A' painted on it. I could see buildings far more colourful than ours in the distance, maybe our unit was the most serious.
"So you're the super soldier hm?" I jumped as the girl stood next to me smiled at me. "We've all heard a lot about you from Fury, he told us you got frozen?" I nodded slowly as Tony Stark waltzed over to us.
"So you're the thing my dad was so proud of?" He looked me up and down, " well you're cute but I can't see anything else that impressive about you Capsicle."
"Don't speak to him like that Tony!" The girl snapped, taking my arm and leading me to the room I'd been assigned. "Looks like you're sharing with Bruce. He's a nice guy, you'll have fun." She smiled as she walked away. I walked into the room and saw the meek boy sat at the computer desk.
At least I wasn't sharing a room with Tony Stark.
