Chapter 4: Hermione

-August 3rd Hogwarts-

Dumbledore was beyond mad. After meeting with and her new 'guardian', Greer still refused to come to Hogwarts. What worse was the fact the subtle use of legilimency was in vein as he couldn't read the girls thoughts as he tried to probe her. He sensed an outside force preventing him from reading the girls thoughts, but nobody could probe minds than he could. He suspected her new guardian of blocking him but that thought was squashed as no recorded elemental mind walkers that are better than a trained wizard, and Dumbledore had nearly a century of practice. What was worse was the fact that she wanted to stay in that muggle school was inheriting enough. He needed the girl here to help redeem Tom, even if it means sacrificing her young life, to help him see the error of his ways. He is after all the leader of the light and sacrifices must be made for the greater good.

-August 3rd Xavier's School for the Gifted 1:23 P.M.-

Greer cursed her luck. She didn't know how Professor X had done it but he managed to recruit Agatha Harkness as her personal tutor in all things magic, and she is a taskmaster when it comes to the art, and here she thought becoming part tiger was difficult.

It has been a little over half-a-day since her first magic lesson and Greer is already for bed, because of all the mental exercises that she had to go through. Agatha made it perfectly clear before she would start the practical part, Greer must have a grasp on the theory behind each subject. Greer is use to loads of school work as she is often forced to do hers and Dudley's homework, while making sure Dudley get the hire grade.

"I can't take this anymore," Greer mumbled in frustration, as she read her third book on theory in the institutes library, only to be rewarded with a swat in the head with a ruler courtesy of Agatha's magic. "Ow!"

"No talking," Agatha said in a stern full tone as she stood on the other side of the room as she was telling a group of mutants a year or two older then Greer on why the Magical Societies closed themselves off to the rest of the world.

"Yes Ms. Harkness," Greer muttered under her breath only to be whacked in the head again with the same ruler. "Ow!"

Meanwhile, somewhere in England;

"But mum, you promised that the Girl-Who-Lived would be attending Hogwarts with me," an 11-year-old red headed boy complained to his mother.

"I know Ronald," the plump mother explained, "But it would seem that her guardians refused the invitation to Hogwarts. Don't worry dear, I've already sent him a howler."

With that Ron's mother gave Ron his fourth serving of dinner and Ron was instantly satisfied as he scarfed down the meal.

Meanwhile in another part an England two men had a young girl, with bushy hair, in a tank filled with greenish liquid. The girl had a breathing apparatus inserted in her mouth.

As one the man is looking at the charts on his computer, the other man asked, "Do we have any results Dr. Steven Granger."

"The results are the same Taskmaster," Dr. Granger replied.

"A pity," Taskmaster said as he walked over to him as he slowly drew out a knife from his sleeve, "Three years of research and your own daughter for what?"

"If I only had…" Steven started before the computers started beeping and he checked the results again and a grin formed on the mans face and Taskmaster put the knife back into his sleeve before Steven knew she had it out. "It's working! It's working! She is accepting the new DNA!"

"Good, Hydra wants to see her immediately," Taskmaster stated as she turned to leave.

"If you were going to kill me, you'd know I have plans set just for the event," Dr. Granger said with a grin, "I know Hydra is strong but with its recent…setbacks you can't risk it."

"It doesn't matter to me," Taskmaster replied, "As long as I get paid."

They were both unaware of the girls eye twitch and on the computer screen said, 'Subject 23A: DNA of Carol Danvers, Steve Rogers, and Weapon X successful DNA override of hosts DNA.'

-August 5th Bayville Mall 12:02 P.M.-

Greer, who had her holowatch on her, is currently chowing down on her grilled fish sandwich when she heard Bobby say, "Did you guys hear about the explosion in London the other day?"

Scott raised an eyebrow and replied, "Who hasn't? It wiped out three city blocks."

"Thankfully only one person died," Jean said with a hint of sadness in her voice.

"Dr. Steven Granger, a former brilliant scientist turned reclusive after his wife and daughter died in a car accident a few years back," Warren 'Angel' stated abs the others gave him stares as if he grew a second head. "What? My father had his eye on him before the accident."

"You're rich?" Greer asked in a fake tone as she looked at the hotdog he was eating.

Warren snorted, "Like you're one to talk. You're an heiress to billions."

"Which I was unaware of before my, condition, became apparent," Greer shot back as she stuck out her tongue.

"Real mature," was his reply.

"You haven't heard the weird part yet," Bobby said which caught the others attention, "from the reports, Dr. Granger had a working lab in his basement and when the rescue finally managed to get there, they found the man's body and their was no lab. The man's body also had high levels of unknown radiation coming from him. According to the exports the amount coming from him and him alone is the same amount as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima."

"Localized radiation to a single person," Jean said in a confused tone.

"What was he working on that had him doused with that level of radiation?" Scott asked.

"That's the thing, nobody knows," Bobby replied.

"I'd see what I can dig up," Warren replied.

"Does it involve us," Greer asked.

Jean looked at her and replied, "Knowing our luck, eventually us or the Avengers."

"Or both," Bobby added.

"Or both," Jean admitted.

Scott looked at his watch and said, "It's time for Greer to get Greer back. I don't want Madame Harkness mad at us for having Greer skip her afternoon lessons."

"Aww," Greer complained as the got up to leave.

"Do we have everything that we came here for?" Jean asked everybody.

"I've got the things Madame Harkness wanted me to get," Greer replied holding up six bags that looked to heavy for a girl her size to lift without effort.

"I got what I wanted," Bobby said as he managed to get the latest video games. "Also I didn't know this mall have stores for magic."

"They were hidden from the non-magical side," Jean replied. It didn't satisfy Bobby though.

Scott had gotten cleaning supplies for the interior of his car, and a gift that he was going to give to her later from Victoria's Secret.

Warren he didn't get anything, he'd only came to socialize and for the food.

Jean got herself some personal feminine supplies for herself and the other women at the mansion.

-SHIELD Helicarrier Location: Classified; Time: Unknown-

"What do you mean nobody knows what Dr. Steven Granger was working on," Fury asked his agents with a hint of anger on his voice, "Nobody works on that level of radiation without somebody knowing what he was doing."

"That is the thing sir," one of his agents said, "What we found at the scene was destroyed beyond use. All his notes gone. We did notice that somebody else was there too."

That caught Fury's attention, "How do we know this?"

"There was a set of footprints etched into the concrete that didn't match Dr. Grangers," another agent replied, "And it appeared that stuff was taken after the explosion happen sir. It appears that they only left things there that they couldn't use."

"So he was working on something for someone that this someone doesn't want us to find out," Fury surmised.

None of the agents responded to what Fury said before he gave them a look and got serious, "What in Sam Hell you lot still doing here! Go find what Dr. Granger was working on!"

The agents scrambled to carry out the director's orders. As the Agents left Fury started talking to the person behind him, "I assume you were paying attention."

"I heard enough," a red headed woman replied with a Russian accent as she loaded her pistols.

"Find me this second party, Natasha," Fury ordered.

"I may have a few leads," Natasha replied as she left the room.

-August 5th London 11:39 P.M.-

In the London alleyway a group of four men dressed in green uniforms, carrying weapons were looking for something.

"I joined Hydra so I can kill some capes asses, not chase some girl," one of the goons complained.

"Shut-up Cartman, that girl is worth more than you make in a year," a second goon retorted.

"You shut-up Kyle," Cartman replied back.

"Both of you shut-up," said the third.

"So your taking the asswipe Kyles side over mine," Cartman complained, "That's sooo typical of you Kyle."

"Jesus Cartman, I'm not taking nobody's side, I just want to get this over with like the rest of you. So just shut-up and find that girl," Kyle replied.

As they were talking the fourth Hydra goon saw something moving behind a dumpster and he instantly fired his weapon, but unfortunately the round ricochet off the dumpster then into a wall and into one of the bindings for a poorly maintained fire escape for a building which caused the fire escape to fall onto the guy.

"Oh my god! They've killed Kenny!" Shouted Stan.

"You bastards!" Kyle added.

Unnoticed to the three unharmed goons the girl, the once bushy brown hair now perfect wavy blonde, from the lab silently got out from behind the dumpster and quickly got out of there, before they noticed.

As the girl managed to escape her latest group of Hydra goons, her stomach growled.

"Keep it together Hermione," The girl said to herself. As she tried to suppress her hunger, she finally gave in when she saw a closed McDonalds and she licked her lips in hunger. She went to the entrance and realized it was locked as she gently tugged but unfortunately the door came off at the hinges. Fearfully she looked around and saw nobody noticed and she carefully snuck in, making sure she didn't break anything else as she looked for something to eat. Unaware that both Hydra and SHIELD are closing in on her position.

-August 8th Bayville Mansion 9:07 A.M.-

Greer is happy because she is finally allowed to use actual magic, granted it isn't anything to brag about as it was turning a feather into an aluminum can and then back. As she practiced in the dining room she heard voices coming from the front entrance.

"So what does SHIELD want with us?" Greer heard the professor's voice ask.

"I'm sure you've heard about the explosion in London that happened a few days ago," a feminine voice replied.

"Who hasn't, Carol" came the Professor replied back.

Greer decided to peek in and saw a blonde woman, in her early 20's, dressed in a standard SHIELD uniform, standing nearly 6' tall.

"Apparently Dr. Granger was using radiation for combining multiple super powered genes into a single person and he wasn't getting results fast enough," the woman, Carol said.

"Whose?" Charles asked in a serious tone.

"Mine, Steve Rogers, and…Logan's," she finally admitted.

Greer couldn't see the professors face but she could guess he is raising an eyebrow right now.

"I know what you're going to say but I'm barely in one place for a week at a time and I don't have time to help the girl out with her powers everyday," Carol stated.

"That's not what I was going to say," Charles admitted, "I was going to insist that you make regular visits to help the girl."

"I'll see what I can do," Carol replied and she left and Greer could see a van pulling up the front drive away.

When the car parked outside the front door, Greer saw a girl about her age get out of the van, alongside two adults in SHIELD uniforms. She saw the girl looked scared and nervous as she walked up to the front door carrying only a duffle bag.

"Greer, you can come out now," Charles said, without turning his head, "I want your help welcoming our new student."

Greer came out looking sheepish as she walked up to the front door. When the new girl saw Greer, her eyes widened as she saw the cat girl standing in front of her.

Greer held out her hand and, with her best smile said, "My name is Greer Potter and welcome to the Institute."

The girl stuttered as she shook Greer's hand, "T-t-Thankyou. I'm H-Hermione Granger."

"Don't be nervous Ms. Granger, Greer here is the result of genetic experimentation like you," Charles said with reassurance in his voice.

"R-really," Hermione asked.

"Sure am," Greer said with a feral grin. "At least you look human enough."

This caused Hermione to giggle a little.

"Greer, if you don't mind you two are going to share a room," Charles said.

"Of course I don't," Greer said with a smile, and she took Hermione's hand, "I'll show you where we are going to sleep. Be careful I shed."

"I d-don't mind," Hermione replied, "I l-like cats."

Greer's smile only grew as she led Hermione to their room.

To be continued...