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The drive to the airbase was boring, to say the least. The driver and the other S.H.I.E.L.D. agent in the car tried to get her to talk, but Piper refused to speak a word. She was still slightly unnerved and needed time to think. The drive provided the perfect time to think and to read the file.

Apparently, there was an item called the Tesseract that could be used as a never-ending supply of energy for the world. Piper had felt it a few days ago, a surge of energy so great it almost knocked her unconscious. But it had been stolen. That unlimited power was going to be used as a weapon.

She was asked to be a part of the Avengers Initiative, a group of supernatural people consisting of Steve Rogers, Thor, Bruce Banner, Tony Stark, Natasha Romanoff, and Clint Barton.

Piper knew Captain America, very well. The serum injected into her was a version of the original one used on him. She despised the Captain bitterly for having taken the serum and becoming famous with it. Without that, she would never have been subjected to the agony of being infused with the injection.

Tony Stark, or Ironman, was known to her as well. Thor, she had heard of through Norse Mythology, and Bruce Banner was the Hulk.

Natasha Romanoff and Clint Barton were more interesting in their anonymity. She read their whole file and felt a connection to them. They led the kind of life she used to, before-

'Don't think about that. It never works.' She stopped herself. Some parts of her past Piper couldn't go to, so intense and painful was her reaction.

Sighing, the girl closed the file and gazed out of the window. Looking ahead, she focused her eyes on the airbase, about five miles out and ten minutes away.

When they arrived, the two agents in the car profusely wished her good-bye and thanked her for riding with them. Though she didn't know it, Piper already had quite the reputation with S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. They thought she was a ruthless assassin, deadly and silent, but a few had heard of the gang she had sworn to protect. Those few spread the rumor around that she was made to protect the Earth and those who couldn't protect themselves. To the agents, Piperijanay was their guardian angel.

A quinjet was waiting for her with another unexpected passenger: the one and only Captain America. He stood with his back to Piper, studying the jet with a mixture of doubt and wonder. As she stalked silently beside him, the captain spoke to her.

"How did they ever come up with this technology? I don't know whether or not to trust such things."

Piper didn't answer, but stepped in front of him slightly so that he could see who he was talking to.

Captain America stepped back, obviously surprised. "What are you doing here, Miss? This is a restricted airbase."

Piper raised an eyebrow, her gaze cold. "I work with S.H.I.E.L.D., Captain Rogers. I was told to be here."

Cap. Rogers frowned. "S.H.I.E.L.D. uses fourteen year old girls as agents? Is that legal?"

Piper bit back a sharp retort. "I'm sixteen. And I'm not an agent. I'm helping out S.H.I.E.L.D."

Piper did look younger than her actual age, but only in stature. She was 5'9" and lean. The only curves she had came from muscles. In her face, she looked many years older than her actual years. Normally, her eyes were hard and indifferent. They were a holly green with gold flecks and always filled with a perpetual sadness and wariness. Piper stayed alive by trusting no one. Her hair was dark brown and cut raggedly around her face. She had scars all over her body as proof that she was a fighter.

The captain dipped his head in apology. "Sorry, ma'am." He held out his hand. "The name is Steve Rogers."

Piper raised her eyebrow again, before taking his large hand lightly with her smaller one. "Piper."

He nodded, and she turned to board the quinjet. Agent Coulson was waiting inside.

"Piper, I see you've met Captain America." He greeted her.

"Wonderful." She replied blandly, taking seat in the corner of the jet.

The captain came aboard as well and with Coulson, he began to go over the files. They talked awhile, and Piper listened with a level of her mind.

For Piper, thinking was on levels. She could multi-task incredibly well; doing one thing with one level of her brain and another with a wholly different section. This was what it was like to use your whole brain. It was true that she could manipulate matter. It only took some of her concentration, depending on the height of manipulation.

So Piper was hearing all about Coulson's love for Captain America, while she was also thinking about the whole 'Loki' problem and worrying about the gang without her.

A comment from the captain caught her attention. "So this Dr. Banner was trying to replicate the serum that was used on me?"

Agent Coulson answered him, with a glance at Piper. "A lot of people were. You were the world's first superhero. Banner thought gamma radiation might hold the key to unlocking Erskine's original formula."

Steve studied the video playing on the tablet on his lap. "Didn't really go his way, did it?"

"Only one other formula has ever been created that acted like yours, captain. With added extras, of course." Piper put in, speaking for the first time.

Steve leaned forward, confusion written on his face. "Then why isn't this person on Avengers Initiative too? Did something go wrong?"

Piper laughed bitterly. "Oh, something went wrong alright. The person killed every single person who knew about the serum and almost died trying to get it removed."

"Who was this person?" The captain asked, horror growing on his face.

Piper looked Captain America directly in his blue eyes. "Me. Because while you might have wanted to be injected, you gave others the idea to try it on other people who wanted nothing of it."

Steve leaned back with disgust for her clearly in his eyes. "You killed innocent people?"

Piper's eyes watered at the memories. "They weren't innocent, Captain. Do you know what they did to me? The torture, the…the pain?" she turned away from them. "They made me the monster I am."

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