First of all, massive apologies for the almost-month gap between stories, I assure you, it was meant to be two weeks maximum! So much has happened since last month, I've lost a family member, had so many problems with my car, worked my ass off in work for the last month so my pay better be amazing and I somehow managed to gain hours in work for the holidays but I do have a week off next week so I will definitely be updating!

As unlike my previous stories, I will not be updating numerous chapters on the day of release unfortunately.

I will be updating every Tuesday though!

Disclaimer: I do not own any Marvel characters that may be used or any Marvel storylines or arcs.

Claimer: I only own the character Elizabeth Jones (Lowri Jones and any other names she uses) and her story past, present and future.


"We've got another mission lined up and we've thought as a team that we think you're ready to get back out in the field." Bruce said slowly. Lowri had looked at Bruce wildly and wondered if he had gone crazy.

Once Lowri got over the shock of the invite, she began getting excited about the prospect of actually getting back out in the field, she felt as though she was ready.

That thought passed through Lowri's head as she flew high in the sky. The snow touched her skin for a half a second before it melted. The snowy backdrop of a woodland in Sokovia made their mission slightly harder than what was expected, but, every mission comes with hiccups.

Everyone had their small tasks to do. Lowri's was to take out the sentry towers with Tony. She rather enjoys flying up to the towers, surprising the guards with her fire. Everyone else was to take out the men on the ground.

Lowri found it so much easier now to channel her fire properly, thanks to the cuffs that Maria Hill slapped onto her wrists and it was so much more powerful. Despite her body core temperature being much lower than what it used to be, her fire came out hotter than ever.

"Ri, sentry 45 degrees to your west. Take 'em out." Tony said over comms. Lowri flipped over the final guard on the sentry tower she was currently working on and took him out. She breathed out heavily as she straightened up.

"Got it." She replied. The hairs on the back of her neck suddenly stood on end and in her experience, that means that something fast is flying towards her from behind. Lowri formed a fireball in her hand and spun to see a guard strapped to a jet pack and she threw the fireball at him before he could think of changing his route, he fell from the sky when the fireball hit his chest and the fire spread to the jet pack.

Lowri threw herself off the sentry tower at the same time and she watched as he fell with flailing arms and a busted jet pack, he rolled in the thick snow to stop the flames from eating at his clothes and singeing his skin, before getting shot in the shoulder with a familiar arrow.

And then Clint drove past with Nat at the wheel of big truck, clearly not theirs. Lowri spied Steve moving beside them on his motorcycle, he looked serious.

Lowri summoned her fire to her once more and she flew off, heading west to where the next sentry tower stood. There were three armed guards ready for her, all aiming guns in her direction.

But Lowri was quicker than these three men, it was as though she was moving in fast forward while these men were stuck in slow motion.

She ducked and dodged each bullet before delivering her own knockout hits to two of the men, both of whom fell to the ground where Nat swiftly dealt with them, having left the truck somewhere behind, while the last one ran at Lowri and punched her square in the shoulder, she fell backwards with that punch and kicked out at the remaining man but he jumped backwards and whipped out a handgun.

He was close the railing as he pulled out a handgun, he shot at her once and the bullet went straight through her stomach and out through her back. A wave of pain washed over her and she stumbled backwards, she hit the rail behind her and grasped onto it, she pressed her hand to her stomach and straightened up.

The man threw his handgun to the side and grabbed his other weapon, a Hydra weapon. Lowri's breathing hitched but she refused to let this man know she was scared, she kept a stony face as she stepped towards him.

He shot at her again, the pain was definitely worse than being shot with a regular gun, she was thrown back against the railings and all the wind was knocked from her. Despite the pain from her stomach, she threw herself at the man in front of her, she knocked the Hydra weapon from his hands and she brought him over the railing with her.

Lowri kept her arms tight around him but he was desperate to get away from her, Lowri only let go when they neared the ground. She let go and rolled away from him. Lowri let out a hiss of relief when the cold snow got in contact with her burning stomach, probably burning from the Hydra weapon.

As Lowri straightened up, she looked down. The Hydra weapon had done more damage than she had expected. The shot had burnt a small hole in her suit and her skin was blistering. Her stomach was sore to touch but she dropped her hands and moved on.

"Any more for me, Stark?" Lowri asked as she turned on her tail and run up a slope in the forest and threw herself into the air.

The moment of free flying was short-lived. Another guard with a jet pack dove down on her and wrapped his arms around her tightly, trapping her own arms. He tugged her further into the air with him, twisting her body harshly. There wasn't much she could do, so she summoned her fire once more and heated herself up to become unbearable to touch.

The man had no idea what she was doing because no flames were present but she was unbearably hot to touch.

The man cried out in pain when he realised what she was doing. He dropped his arms from around her and she fell, she summoned her fire and flew up level with him, immediately she kicked out his flying gear and he dropped to the floor, he landed on his feet with a tumble and he swiftly pulled out his gun.

The man took aim but before he could take the shot, he was thrown backwards into a tree and he collapsed and fell at the base of the tree, thanks to Thor and his hammer.

Thor nodded at Lowri and spun his hammer, then he shot off into the air.

"Shit!" Tony cursed over comms.

Lowri dodged another flying solider and booted him from the sky, melting his flying gear as she flew past so he fell to the floor and was taken out by an angry Bruce.

"Language!" Steve put in quickly. "Jarvis, what's the view from upstairs?" Steve asked.

Lowri noticed a tank rumbling straight for Nat and Clint and she immediately set it on fire and it burned intensely from the inside. She flew off swiftly and her eyes caught onto one of the smaller sentry posts, dug into the ground and partly covered over, it was shooting blue beams out.

"The central building is protected by some kind of energy shield, Strucker's technology is well beyond any other Hydra base we've taken." Jarvis replied.

"Loki's sceptre must be here. Strucker couldn't mount this defence without it. At long last." Thor said, he sounded relieved, like a massive weight was lifted from his shoulders. Finding the sceptre was the goal he had set when he arrived back on Earth all those months ago.

Lowri silently agreed with her as she spun on a large group of soldiers rushing at her. A brief image crossed her eyes and she was sucked back into late 1945, in the cold, cold Russian forests.

She was in a similar forest, snow all around them and still falling, the trees were reaching high into the sky. She was with different companions though, none were millionaires, Gods, or skilled assassins, they were simply men fighting for their country. They were still taking down Hydra bases but this time, technology was far behind and there was a lot more bourbon involved.

Lowri was snapped out of her dream and back into reality by a man taking a swing for her. She blocked the hit and swept his legs from underneath him. Before she could deliver the knockout hit, another man was almost on top of her with another hit.

She blocked this one too and hit him in the face, upwards to break his nose and she crouched on her knees and in one single move knocked the guy out at her feet.

Lowri rolled away and down a slope from the rest of the men and darted to her feet as she reached the end of the slope.

"At long last is lasting a little long, guys." Nat put in smoothly.

"Yeah, I think we lost the element of surprise." Clint added.

Lowri ran along a path in the forest and dodged a low hanging branch which hit a few of the men closely following her.

"Who needs the element of surprise anyway?" Lowri asked, her words came out breathy. "It's always best for your enemies to see you before they fall."

"You read too much." Clint put in almost straight away. Lowri rolled her eyes and then ducked when she sensed another man behind her. He toppled over her and Lowri dashed off quickly.

"That's not from a book. That's experience, mate." Lowri replied with a smirk. She could practically see Clint scoff at her relaxed wording.

"Wait a second. No one is gonna deal with the fact that Cap just said "Language"?" Tony asked. Lowri smiled at Tony's words. She hadn't actually noticed it.

"I know." Steve sighed. The same man that had been pursuing Lowri for some time was still behind her but now he was shooting at her. She dropped to the floor in hopes of confusing him again but he seemed a bit more alert now so she pulled out her rarely used handgun and shot him in the shoulder, as he fell, dropping his own gun in the process, she shot him in the knee.

"Stop following me." Lowri hissed before moving on.

"It just slipped out." Steve added.

A blue shot narrowly missed her and she stopped short of a man wielding a Hydra weapon, facing her. She shot up her fire shield and the man stepped back in alarm. He fired a testing shot at the fire wall and was disappointed when the Hydra weapon turned out to be useless.

Lowri threw a fireball in his direction when he was distracted and she ran off.

"Clint!" Nat yelped. Lowri felt a twist in her gut. Was Clint hurt seriously? Was he hurt at all?

"We have an Enhanced on the field." Steve reported.

Lowri stopped for a short moment and was promptly shot at so she sent up her fire wall and immediately she heard a sharp hiss and a yelp.

She looked down, a young man was on his ass in front of her, he had very light, almost platinum blonde hair and sunken eyes, almost familiar, and he wore ragged running clothes. He looked up at her with wide and scared eyes, and the look made Lowri lower the firewall.

Where the hell had he come from?

The young man was on his feet in a blink of an eye and was gone from her sight within a second.

"Enhanced is male, young, maybe 20-25. He's extremely fast. Watch out guys."

"Clint's hit." Nat said urgently. There was a slight pause. "Can someone deal with that bunker?" There was another pause. "Thank you."

Lowri jumped over a man in front of her that had a gun aimed at her head and she quickly broke his shooting arm. She shoved the man away from her and moved on.

"Stark, we really need to get inside." Steve insisted. Lowri had eventually shaken off all of the men following her. She slowed to a stop and tried to catch her breath.

Lowri heard close gunfire and she darted behind a tree as a spray of bullets scattered the snow where she had just stood. She peered around and spied more shooters, she tossed multiple fire balls in their direction.

"I'm closing in." Tony reported.

Lowri dashed off as the shooters became disorientated with the fire and she shot off into the air. She looped back into the shooters and shot a long stream of fire at them before flying away. She landed near to where Steve was, who was now without his motorcycle. He was stood alone, having just taken down a man. Steve looked up at her when she landed and his expression changed from warmness from seeing her again to seriousness when he became alert.

"Get down!" Steve yelled at her. He crouched and stilled his body as he drew back his arm holding his shield, Lowri threw herself to the ground and rolled away, seconds after the spot she had been stood in had blown up.

Steve flung his shield at the men behind her and she heard a hard thud and a cry of pain. Lowri stopped rolling and landed on her back, she glanced at the men, now all on the ground, and then she looked up at Steve.

He stepped up beside her, smiled and offered her his hand.

"Thanks." Lowri breathed as she grabbed his hand and he pulled her up with a firm grip. He released his hold on her and she brushed herself down from the snow.

"Any time." He answered cockily. She raised an eyebrow at him and he smirked. "Thought you were taking out the sentry towers anyway?"

Steve retrieved his shield by pressing the button on the end of his wrist that activated the magnetic field on his suit.

"I ran out of targets." She said smugly. Steve let out a breath, as if he was laughing. "I thought I'd go further afield for more."

"The drawbridge is down, people." Tony reported almost happily.

Just ahead of Steve and Lowri, there was a thump, causing them both to turn around sharply and face the noise but they relaxed when they saw it was Thor landing on the ground hard, using his hammer to knock out numerous men around him.

Thor straightened up as Lowri and Steve took off at a jog towards him. Thor turned to face them with a serious look on his face.

"The Enhanced?" Thor asked.

"He's a blur." Steve said. "With all the new players we've faced, I've never seen this. In fact, I still haven't."

"He's fast. He ran into my fire wall and I got a good look. He looks familiar. At least, his eyes do. I've never seen him before. But I dread to think at what's happened to him to make him run that fast." Lowri said, both Steve and Thor looked at her.

"Do you think Strucker experimented on them?" Steve asked in a low tone. She shrugged her shoulders and raised both hands in a 'I don't know' gesture.

"I wouldn't put it past him and List. They're sadistic bastards." Lowri said, she noticed how Steve's eyebrows went up but he said nothing about her language.

"Clint's hit pretty bad, guys. We're gonna need evac." Nat said over comms, she sounded panicked and she had a right to be. Her friend's life was on the line.

"I can get Barton to the jet." Thor answered. He turned to Steve and Lowri. "The sooner we're gone, the better. You two and Stark, secure the sceptre."

More men tramped over the brow of the hill in front of them and a looming tank breeched the hill.

"Copy that." Steve said, he glanced at Thor, who raised his hammer. Both seemed to know what to do. Steve looked back at her and wrapped an arm around her swiftly, he tugged her to him. "Hold onto me."

Lowry wrapped her arms around Steve's waist quickly and curved her body to better her grip on him. For a very brief moment, Lowri felt the beginning of a panic attack take hold but then she squashed that feeling deep down and she felt horrified with herself for feeling that, she was no longer scared of him.

"Looks like they're lining up." Thor mused as he tilted his head at the men rushing towards them, brandishing their weapons wildly, as if they had a hope of defeating a God, a living legend and a fire controlling mutant.

Steve raised his shield in an instant and braced on the ground while Lowri held onto him tightly. Being this closed to Steve set her on edge and that was only because they have had little physical contact since she recovered from that damn serum that almost killed her and him.

The last time that Thor and Steve had used the shield and hammer together like this, Lowri had been knocked into a tree and she fell unconscious for a good few hours. She didn't particularly want that to happen again, so she held on tightly to Steve.

"Well, they're excited." Steve noted as he angled is shield to cause the most effect. Thor brought his hammer down hard upon Steve's shield and the force that ricocheted from the shield ran in a straight line at the men running at them. Dust was thrown up into the air before the force knocked each and every man cleanly out, trees in close proximity to them were cut down and the tanks that had been rumbling along behind the men, crumpled where they were and a split came down the middle.

Lowri felt the jolt as the two weapons connected soar through her body and she had to tighten her grip on Steve to stop herself from being flung away from him. Her breathing came hard but she found herself comforted the closeness of the two of them. As Steve straightened up, she loosened her hold on him and dropped her arms from his waist, she stepped back with a blush slowly creeping up on her face.

"Find the sceptre." Thor ordered before he swung his hammer and flew off into the air to aid Clint. Steve turned around and spied Lowri with her head bowed.

"You're doing fine, Ri." Steve breathed out, he reached out and a placed a hand on her shoulder. She glanced up and looked into his eyes. Her cheeks were still burning but she found his eyes to be locked onto hers. Whenever she looks into his eyes, she finds that she loses herself in them and that's something she really can't help.

"And for gosh sake, watch your language!" Tony put in. At this, Steve looked down at the floor and sighed.

"That's not going away anytime soon." Steve sighed, Lowri cracked a smile and a small laugh passed her lips. She reached out and nudged his chest.

"You're doing fine, Steve." She said with a smile, there was a moment's pause as he looked back up into her eyes again. He seemed to remember where he was and what they were doing, slowly, he took his hands from her shoulder and glanced down at the ground, breaking eye contact with her. He looked back up again and gestured to the large castle standing just beyond the treeline.

"Shall we?" Steve asked invitingly.

Lowri looked up at the castle with a grin on her face, she turned back to him.

"We shall." She confirmed. She set off a run first, knowing full well that he could catch up with her very easily. As they ran, side by side, the castle loomed over them, the dark stone making it even more intimidating that what it already is.


Thank you to all who takes the time to read my story, I'm glad there's people out there who like them!

I can't believe that this is the fourth story!

As I mentioned in the last chapter of my previous book, I'm still interested in uploading a series of oneshots (chapters) based on Lowri's life before being Elizabeth Jones (Maybe one or two after she was Elizabeth Jones). It won't be out for a few months at least, but I'd like to know if anyone would be interested in reading them?

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