Friday was pretty much just as boring as every day had been for Ava Grace. She woke up, fed her cats, chilled out in front of the TV while on Tumblr simultaneously. Oh, the gardeners came. That was sorta cool. She sat cross-legged in the middle of her garden and talked to them while they worked. They chuckled at her jokes and weeded her garden. She always enjoys it when they come over. Besides them, her only visitor is Dr. Bruce Benner, and he's no fun.

At about 2 Bruce decided to show up. Ava had just showered and was getting dressed when he knocked on the door and let himself in. She laughed under her breath and said 'No courtesy, as usual.'

"Ava?" He called out "Where are you?"

"In the bathroom!" She said, hooking her bra behind her back.

"Are you, um, well, are you using it?" You could practically hear the blush in his voice.

She sighed audibly. "No, I'm getting dressed, I just showered." She pulled on a pair of comfortable gray yoga pants and tied the string.

"Oh, alright then. Please come out when you're presentable. I have a special treat for you today."

"Yeah, yeah." She mumbled, remembering every time he had said that to her, even though he didn't have anything special, just another MRI or CAT scan or results that told her nothing about her origins or why she was the way she was. She sighed again, quietly this time, and pulled on a dark blue tank top. She ran a hand through her unruly and short black hair, not even bothering to dry or style it. She walked out of the bathroom, padding across the hall and picking up her favorite cat, whom she had gotten when she first got the hospital. His name was Hudson, after the river in New York she could see from her house where she used to live. Then she walked out into the living room while Hudson rubbed against her neck.

The first person she saw was Bruce. Then Iron Man, full suit. The Captain America, also suited up. Thor was looking around, seemingly amused by the decorations. Then Hawkeye, with his bow and arrows. And, last but not least, Black Widow. All Russian-spy-ed out. Ava almost dropped Hudson in surprise.

~~Earlier that day~~

"Banner, why did you bring me here?" Tony said, obviously annoyed.

"Because," Bruce said, a slight gleam in his eye "I want to discuss the possibility of a secret weapon."

"Not so secret anymore." Was Tony's only comment.

"Well, there's this girl. She's very nice. But she has the oddest ability. She can control any of the four elements. She can burst into flame, shoot a column of water at you like a firehose, make tree roots grow up from the ground and entangle your feet, create a windstorm with a flick of the wrist. It's positively amazing. The oddest part is, she's human. There is nothing about her that's alien in any way. There's just something a little odd with her DNA. None of us scientists at S.H.I.E.L.D. can figure it out. Anyway, she can do all these things, but she gets very tired very fast. She's an impractical fighter. And the other, I was thinking, what if someone managed to defeat all of us? There would be no one to protect Earth. We need something, anything, to be there as a fail-safe in case we just can't do it."

Tony looked thoughtful. "So, basically, there's a girl who can control the elements and we're going to use her to get the bad guys if we can't do it ourselves."

Bruce furrowed his brow. "I suppose that's an easier way to say it. But when you say it, it sounds like I'm not confident in our abilities. Which is untrue. I'm just overly confident in our enemies' abilities. I'm only telling you this so that you can round up the troops, per say."

"Oh, alright." Tony said, taking out his phone. He started typing.

"Um, you should probably get going. Everyone's pretty scattered. Thor is off in Norway, and Steve is in San Francisco. I honestly don't know where Clint and Natasha are."

"I just texted everyone. Not sure if Thor is going to be able to text back. He'll probably just use his oversized hammer and smash the phone." Tony's phone beeped. "Text from the Captain. 'Be there in twenty.' And Natasha texted 'Hawk and I are on our way.' Ohh, looks like they were together. Suprised they could make it. And Thor said 'Be rear doom' What the hell? Wait, second message. 'Be there soon, stupid autocorrect'." Tony re-read the first message and started laughing hysterically. "'Be rear doom!' Jeez, that is hilarious! Anyway, they're all heading over."

Bruce smiled. "I can't believe I didn't think of that."