I woke up, shaking my head. My eyes were still closed, but I felt something stirring above me.

"You're awake. No need to fake it," A warm voice spoke.

I cracked an eye open and saw a beautiful red haired woman smiling down at me. I recognized her brown eyes instantly.

"Black Widow?" I yelped.

I had heard of her along with the other Avengers. Human, but better then human. Confusing to say the least, but I knew she was strong and deadly. I could almost tell how she tensed as f I would attack her.

Me. Attack her?

"She's awake," She called out, "You can call me Natasha."

I watched as Tony Stark and the same man who was somehow the Hulk came in.

"You're not going to pass out again are you?" He asked.

"What? No. I just want to know what's going on. Where am I? What happened?" I stammered.

"You're in Avengers Tower. New York," Tony explained.

"You were attacked 4 months ago by an Ultronbot. We took you in when you gave off strange readings at the hospital," Natasha explained.

"What kind of readings?" I asked.

I noticed that I was no longer connected to any tubes or wires. As I gave Tony my arm, he ran a Iphone sized scanner over my arm, uploading my latest stats, the other man explained more.

"My name is Dr. Bruce Banner. You obviously know I can become the other guy. 4 months ago, an AI created here went rouge. It was called Ultron. We fought and defeated it. But it had an army, thousands, scattered all over the globe. One of them attacked you in California."

"I remember," I nodded, seeing the terrifying blue and silver robot crash through my window.

"I do have to say you have excellent taste in cars," Tony nodded, "I salvaged it of course, repaired it myself and added some upgrades. No charge of course."

"You what?!" I thundered, "No!"

"It's ok Katherine," Tony gave me a charming smile, "I know cars better then anyone here. You can trust that the Vega is in better condition then before. Probably better then it originally was in 71!"

"No!" I yelled, panicked, "That was mine and my dad's car! Customized! You've messed with it! It's ruined! How dare you? How could you?!"

I roared my pain and frustration, sitting up straight and turning to Tony. The Vega was special and one of a kind, a car that my dad and I had spent 6 years building and perfecting. Scrapping parts, trading parts, saving bottles to recycle so I could buy a new door panel set. The hard work and effort and time that we had spent together was now gone! Tony Stark had thought he could buy my Vega's charm, my car's uniqueness, by an extension me! I could hear nothing now but the roar of my heartbreak in my ears as I hurled vicious, cruel words at the man who saved my life.

"You don't understand! You can't just buy something like that! You work on it, with family and love and time! You just destroyed years of my life and my car! No one would ever do this to you! Are you trying to buy me off? That robot attacked me because of you! You think you can buy points with me by saving my life and fixing my car? It doesn't work like that! You don't buy me off!"

"Katherine calm down," Natasha pleaded.

"My name is Kay!" I roared, "Not Katherine!"

"Kay, don't make this any worse," Dr. Banner said, "We can't afford for you to be emotional."

"Emotional?" I thundered, "He just ruined 6 years of my life!"

As I thrust my hand out to point an accusing finger at the "great and fabulous" Mr. Stark I felt energy build up around me. Since before Natasha had called the others I had felt something stirring around me. It was strange and comforting. Suffocating and free. Just as my finger jutted out to accuse Tony, a blinding white gold light erupted.

Tony screamed, ducking, Natasha backed away, placing a hand on her gun and Banner quickly walked to the door.

"I'll be back later," He breathed heavily and turned outside the door.

I stared shocked at my hand, unscathed and at the wall. A large black scorch mark, that still smoked was now burned permanently onto the pristine white wall. I heard thundering footsteps and looked terrified to the open door.

Thor brandished through, again seemingly too big for the entrance, followed by Steve Rogers and a man in a maroon jacket that I instantly recognized as Hawkeye.

"What's going on here?" A voice asked, none of the boys speaking it.

I looked as a blue blur stopped by the new scorch mark.

The new guy whistled low at the work and turned to me. He was shockingly handsome, a new guy as I was sure I'd remember his white hair and burning blue eyes.

"Hey sis, check it out!" He yelled in an Eastern European accent, I couldn't place where, but it sounded absolutely wonderful.

"What is that?" A woman asked. She looked similar to the man in skin color and accent. She was dressed however in a red and black sun dress, her long brunette hair falling to her waist.

"I guess Banner as right," Tony muttered, "Damn I hate being wrong."

"What's going on?" Steve asked,"Stark did your replusors go off again?"

"No," he shook his head, "It was her,"

He pointed to me and suddenly all 7 pairs of eyes were on me.

"Me?" I squeaked.