"You mean he wasn't with you?" I asked nervously. Hawkeye shook his head.
"I thought he was with you."
"Come on, then. Let's just find him and get out of here; I don't like this place. It's too sweet for my taste." I whispered. They walked down the hallway looking for their lost leader.
James's P.O.V.
I opened my eyes to find myself strapped to a table in a small room.
"Ah, so nice for you to join us, son of Captain America." An evil feminine said gleefully.
"Who are you? Show yourself!" I snarled in rage.
"Oh, you'll find out soon enough." the voice retorted evilly and laughed. "My secret plan is going as accordingly to as planned." the voice replied sinisterly.
"What are you planning?" I demanded furiously.
"If I told you, then it wouldn't be a secret." the voice snickered.
"Great." I muttered sarcastically. 'I hope Hawkeye and Rosemary are okay, especially Rosemary.'
Rosemary's P.O.V.
We continued to walk through the many twisting hallways with no avail. A huge vine grabbed Rosemary and Hawkeye, and dragged them through a secret door.
I woke up and found myself lying down on a white labratory table. 'Where am I?' I thought nervously. I sat up in a sitting position and looked around the dimmly lit room. A boy with red hair laid down on another lab table a few feet away from where I was sitting in.
"James!" I exclaimed running up to his table. He looked up at me surprised.
"Rosemary, how were you able toget free from the straps on your lab table so quickly?" James asked quickly. I made a confused face.
"What do you mean? There were no straps holding me back." I explained confused.
"Me and Hawkeye both have straps holding us down to these tables." James explained. I pulled out my sword and James's eyes widened in panic.
"Uh...isn't there an easier way to do this?" I smiled.
"Don't worry, I'm a professional." I reassured him. In one swift swipe, I sliced through the straps and I barely missed his face. James let out a sigh of relief.
"Let's go get Hawkeye." James said. He showed me where Hawkeye was struggling to get free from his bondages. When Hawkeye saw us, he relaxed and I swiftly cut him free.
"Okay, let's find the creep and take 'em down." Hawkeye said furiously.
"Not so fast." the voice commanded. Venus Fly Traps surrounded us. 'That voice...it's so familiar.' I thought.
"Penny?" I called out nervously. The Venus Fly Traps disappeared underground and a small red tulip grew out of the ground instead. Its petal unveiled a girl with crystal wings the same age as Pym and she was about 6 inches tall. Then, she daintily flew off of the flower and grew until she reached 5' 4''. Penny had curly black hair, brown eyes, a pale face, wore a dress with sunflower petals wrapping around her body, with a thick brown strap going around her upper torso, and a pair of yellow flats.
"Rosemary!" Penny squealed. SHe ran over to me and I accepted her into a warm embrace. I smiled and gave my cousin a kiss on her pale cheek.
"I haven't seen you in ages!" I exclaimed happily.
"I missed you so much." Penny whispered nearly crying with tears of joy.
"Rosemary and little girl get back, before the mystery voice hurts you." Hawkeye commanded. We looked at each other and laughed.
"I am the mystery voice." Penny said after we calmed down. Just then, Tony and the other Avengers burst through the wall sending concrete flying everywhere.
"What's going on in here?" Tony demanded angrily.
"My little cousin found us." I said proudly.
"She's your cousin?" Pym asked astonished. 'Rosemary's cousin is hot.' Pym thought.
"Yep, name's Penny." Penny introduced herself. She looked at Pym and nearly squealed. 'He's so cute.' Penny thought.
"My name is Pym."
"I'm Azari."
"I am Torunn."
"I'm Hawkeye, your cousin's friend."
"Lucky, I couldn't make any friends." Penny said sadly.
"Why not?" Pym asked confused.
"Because they all ended up thinking I was too annoying and weird." Penny said miserably.
"That's too bad. You wanna be my friend?" Pym asked cheerfully. Penny brightened.
"Sure."
"Yes!" Pym whispered. They gave each other high fives.
"I'm Tony. You set up some pretty impressive traps back there." Tony complimented her.
"Thanks, I learned from the best, Rosemary." Penny said proudly.
"Really?"
"Yep, she taught me everything I know."
"Do you have a place to stay?"
"Well, I've been living here since..." Penny trailed. Ever since 'The Incident' Penny had been living in Paris. I noticed Penny's sudden mood swing from happiness to sorrow on her face. I sighed.
"Since 'The Incident'." I finished solemnly. I gave Penny a comforting hug.
"What's 'The Incident'?" Azari asked curiously.
"You don't want to know!" Penny cried. She buriedher face in my chest and sobbed. Tony gave me a questioning look and I let out another sigh.
"We don't like to talk about it. It's...complicated." I rubbed Penny's spine softly as she weeped. I nearly broke down with Penny, but I needed to be strong for her. 'She needs me to be strong for her. I can't fall apart now!' I desperately thought.
"Do you want to join our team, Penny?" I asked her gently. "You can if you want to." I added.
"I-I don't want to be a burden," Penny said hoarsely. I gave the Avengers a pleading look.
"It's no burden, Penny. You seem to have very strong capabilities that we could use," Tony reassured her with a look of sympathy.
"O-Okay, then, I'll join," Penny sniffled.
"Yes! 2 new sisters in 2 days!" Pym exclaimed happily.
"It appears you changed a lot of things here in the lab, but it'll have to do," Tony observed thoughtfully.
"Oh, sorry! I didn't mean to; I can change it all back if you want me to."
"Don't worry about it, but could you do away with all this vegetation for awhile? We need to stay here, so that I can rebuild our friend, Vision's body," Tony explained.
"Who's Vision?"
"Ah!" A voice yelled. James was being pinned to the found by a black bear cub.
"Blackie!" I called cheerfully to the bear. The bear glanced at me, ran over and tackled me. The cub grunted in greeting.
"Sorry about that!" Penny apologized. "Who are you?"
"I'm James. Why do you have a huge bear?" James asked exhausted.
"Me and Rose found her when we were little. The Mama Bear had been hunted, so we took her in," she remembered the old times when she, Rosemary and Abigail had gotten themselves into a whole lot of trouble as children.
"Who hunted the Mama Bear?"
"Rosemary did. The Mama Bear was trying to eat one of her tiger cubs. However, I've gotten over it."
"How long have you been hunting?" Azari asked me. Finally, Blackie had gotten off of me.
"Since I was 3," I said proudly.
"And how old were you when the Mama Bear was killed?" Torunn asked astounded.
"Um...9 years old."
"How old was Penny?" Pym asked.
"7 years old." Everyone stared at me open mouthed.
"What? I was very adventurous as a kid," I grumbled indignantly with my arms crossed.
"Do you guys want to go sightseeing?" Penny asked changing the subject.
"Sure, but let us get settled in first," I chuckled amused.
"I almost forgot my manners! Welcome to Paris, the City of L'Amoure," Penny greeted good humouredly.
"What's the City of L'Amour?" Pym asked confused while earning a giggle from Penny.
"The City of Love," Penny answered mischievously. We all stared at her, and Hawkeye faced me.
"She has the same mischievous face as you do right now. This can't be good."
"Nope, it definitely can't be good," I said fiendishly. Penny and me high-fived each other and Hawkeye gulped.
After Penny had shown us around the lad and helped us settle in, Tony suggested we make some simple household furniture. We worked until 7 o'clock at night, we chose our bedrooms, and unpacked. Tony walked into my room where I was lying in a hammock made of leaves and vines twisted together, petting my tiger cubs.
"Hi, Tony," I greeted him with a sweet smile. "What brings you here?" I asked him pretending not to know why he was here, when I knew he wanted to talk about what happened earlier today.
"What was the 'Incident' that Penny had cried about earlier today?" I sighed obviously letting him see how much I didn't want to talk about this particular topic. He winced.
"It's not something I like talking about, but let's just say for the most part that, it was the reason why my family has gone, my home was destroyed and why a lot of people I loved and cared about are gone," I finished heartbroken.
"I'm so sorry. How old were you and Penny?"
"I was 12 and she was 10."
"I'm terribly sorry."
"Don't be. It's not your fault. We don't like talking about it," I muttered bitterly.
"Alright, just don't be angry at us for being curious about your past."
"I know. Good night, Tony," I crawled underneath me blanket of soft flowers.
"Good night, Rosemary," Tony said and left the room. He silently walked to his room for the night.
The Next Day
The next morning, Tony woke up early and cooked eggs, pancakes and bacon for everyone on the small red brick fireplace they had built yesterday. They also had built a small refrigerator to store water and other things and a large wooden table and chairs were also built for their kitchen. Penny, me and Torunn walked into our make shift kitchen.
"What are you cooking, Tony?" Torunn asked him curiously. The smell of bacon was new to her.
"Eggs, pancakes and bacon," Tony answered; he flipped a pancake up into the air and caught it in the frying pan.
"What's this 'bacon'?" I whispered into her ear what bacon really was and she made a horrified face. "It's still edible?" She asked in disbelief.
"Yeah, but it's still really good. Me and Rosemary used to eat it almost everyone month," Penny reassured her.
"But, why only once a month?" We walked over to the table and sat down to eat.
"Pigs weren't very abundant, because we lived on a tropical island," I answered with a sigh.
"Yeah, our home was beautiful," Penny reminisced and she began to eat the eggs on her plate.
"If you don't mind me asking, what your home like?" Tony asked curiously as he took a seat beside Penny.
"It was beautiful beyond imaginable!" Penny squealed.
"Morning guys!" Pym called. He took a seat across from Penny.
"Morning," Penny called just as cheerfully. Then, Hawkeye and Azari walked into the room. Azari sat on Pym's left side; facing Tony. Hawkeye sat on Pym's right side; facing Torunn.
"Morning, beautiful," Hawkeye flirted. Torunn blushed bright red and I caught her red handed, I smirked at this.
"Morning, Hawkeye," Torunn greeted shyly. James silently, stalked into the room and sat across from me.
"James, when do you want me to fix your shield generator?" I asked trying to strike up a conversation.
"Maybe later on, when I'm more awake," James moaned.
"What happened?"
"Pym here wouldn't let me sleep all night long," James answered annoyed. I giggled at this.
"Sorry, it was payback," Pym apologized but it was obvious that he didn't mean it.
"What did I do to you?" James demanded furiously. Pym whispered something in his ear, which made James, put on an indignant face.
"I didn't say that! That was Hawkeye," James retorted.
"What? That Pym has a crush on-" but Hawkeye was unable to finish because Azari's hand covered his mouth to keep him from continuing.
"Hawkeye, don't," Azari warned him.
"Guys, come on. Let's eat breakfast in peace," Tony announced over the noise making the boys calm down, until the end of breakfast.
"'Kay, who wants to go sightseeing?" Penny asked excitedly.
"Me!" Pym volunteered.
"I'll go too," Torunn added.
"In that case, I'm going too," Hawkeye declared.