"Avengers Assemble!" Francis yelled. The guy ran out and got in formation.

"Barton! What've you done now?" James yelled, he flipped his holographic shield on and took the spear-head point. Azari turned into his lighting-panther Pym grew to his very tallest.

The boy was screaming, it hurt my heart. He was holding his head and pulling at his hair.

"Calm down, Benji, calm down." I'd done my research on the Hulk. It'd be natural that the boy would have the same problem. He looked at me, tears in his eyes. I pushed my way between Hawkeye and Patriot. James handed me his shield, I put it on the ground and it vanished.

"Mattie…" Hawkeye said softly. I shook my head.

"Benji? Can you hear me Benji?" I moved closer, inch by inch. "Hey, hon, calm down, that's a good guy, deep breaths, c'mon, it's okay." I put my hand gently on his arm and he started taking deep breaths. He stopped twitching and went down to his normal size, his clothes… on the other hand… did not. He hung his head, he felt clammy and sick, Hawkeye and James helped him inside.

I tucked him in my bed and dabbed the sweat off of his forehead. He was a very handsome boy, I little older than us, but that doesn't mean much. His dad was the biggest bad ass in the avengers, I wasn't going to let him leave. I shut off the light and closed the door. James attacked me. He wrapped his arms around me.

"What the heck were you thinking? That's the Hulk's son! I was so worried about you. Why didn't you take the shield? God, I'm so glad you safe." He squeezed my tightly. I let him hug me, he kissed my forehead. I patted his arm and walked to the kitchen to see what I could fix for dinner.

Hawkeye was in there, waiting for me, peeling and apple with his knife. He threw them both down and came over to me. He pushed me up against the fridge.

"Don't. Ever. Do. That. Again." He pressed his face into my hair, but he pulled away from me and leaned back up against the counter as Pym flew in. I felt like I was being bounced around form boy to boy and I was getting whiplash.

"Mattie, do you want to stay with us? Tony bought us our own 'Next Avengers Mansion'. You wouldn't have to work anymore! We could see each other every day!" He grew to his normal size. I saw him look at Francis and then back at me.

"Where?" I pulled out a pack of hamburger and some french fries. "Tony's back in town? That's awesome, how is he?" Pym brushed at an invisible speck of dirt on his yellow armor.

"Not exactly, he's staying in space with Pepper." He shrugged, I knew that hurt them all, Tony was like a father to them, he had raised all of them except Francis. I started to cut up some pineapple.

"I'm sorry." Azari bounded inside and grabbed an apple out of the bowl and kept running,

"I will smite thee cat!" Torunn chased after him wearing only a towel, she never had any flaws with her body. Francis started laughing. Pym's eyes were huge. I just shook my head.

"Don't tear up the house, please!" I yelled. I heard a crash and I put my head down on the counter. "What did they break?" I whimpered.

"Best friend Mattie?" I looked at Torunn and she held out the object.

"Yeah? Just tell me what it is." I didn't want to look at it.

"It's you picture, you know, the one with you and James is clothes from the 40's." I held my hand out. I looked at the picture. The frame was completely smashed. The glass was gone. I pulled the picture out and threw the frame away.

"Please, go get dressed. I'll make supper." I pushed it into the corner of the cabinet door.

"I'm sorry, Mattie." Az apologized.

"It's okay, it could've been worse." Pym patted my shoulder and left. Hawkeye was tightening the tip on one of his arrows.

"Do you want me to help you?" he asked. I shrugged.

"If you can work a grill, you can cook the burgers." He took them from me and went outside.

I went to check in on Benji, he was tossing and turning, he was still clammy. I put my hand to his forehead and his eyes snapped open. I pulled it away. He leaned up,

"I'm sorry," he looked so pitiful.

"You're fine. I'm sure James will want to talk to you later, supper will be ready soon. I could bring it in to you." He shook his head.

"Um, do you have any pants I could wear?" I nodded and riffled through my drawers. I handed him a pair of James' old sweat pants. "Thanks." I patted his leg and let him have some privacy.

I flipped over and cuddled against James. His arm went around my back. I sighed.

"Good morning," he kissed my forehead. I didn't want to get up. I smelled something burning. I shot up. I was sleeping on the hide-a-bed in my couch and there was smoke billowing out of my kitchen. Hawkeye was right behind me. Wait. I turned around, confused. Never mind. I guess I had slept out on the couch or something…

"What's going on here?" I yelled. Azari was fanning the smoke away from a pan. He gave me a helpless look. I opened up the window to let relieve the smoke. Once it cleared, he held up the pan and asked innocently,

"Pancake?" I took a deep breath.

"What happened last night, why was I in the same bed as you?" I backed Hawkeye into a corner. He just came me a 'what do you mean?' look.

"C'mon, Francis." I don't know what happened after I checked on Benji when he went to sleep in the bedroom Aze slept outside, Pym slept… somewhere and the others just found somewhere to crash. I remember watching TV…

"Oh! Never mind, uh…" He ran outside, dodging the question. I went to pack my stuff- the guys had talked me into going to live with them for a while. I threw my clothes into my suitcase. Benji stood in the doorway awkwardly.

"Hey, B," I flopped down on my bed; I was going to miss this place.

"Hey," He put his hand on his neck self-consciously.

"I was wondering, how old are you? I didn't think that Bruce and Betty ever hand any kids, and they were both kinda… old-ish, when I saw them…"

"I'm closer to 19, but I was grown in a lab, these people stole my parents DNA and made me… I guess." I nodded.

"Bummer," I stood up and started to straighten up the bed. Benji came over to help me. "Oh! You don't have to do that!" He shrugged.

"At least you know who your parents are."

"Huh?" He grabbed my suit case for me.

"You know, I grew up on the streets of Ultron city, don't remember my parents." I walked into the living room. Everyone was talking and laughing. Hawkeye and James stood up when they saw me. I took my suitcase from Benji. I left the house keys on the coffee table with a note about where I was going.

"Ready, M?" James grabbed my bag.

"Yeah, this'll be fun, right?" Pym flew by my ear and snuggled against my neck.

"Mattie," Hawkeye held me back, everyone was piling into the car they had rented. James was waiting for me to come to the car. Benji looked uncomfortable being in the confined space. "You wanna ride with me?" I nodded. He handed me a helmet and put his sunglasses on. His bow attached to the side. I held on tightly as he took off down the street, Pym held on for dear life. He popped a wheelie I squealed with delight.

Two day later,

"This place is awesome! Have you seen the movie theater? How about the pool? Why are you all so… chill?" I slowed my running through the halls of this beautiful house. Everyone else was just kinda ambling after me.

"You're just so excited… and this isn't that impressive." Azari said sadly.

"But it is amazing! You have everything you could possibly want!" I twirled around and around in the hallway. Torunn smiled.

"Guys?" James said. Everyone turned to look at him. "Our parents are on the video screen; they want to talk to us. Benji, uh, could you and Mattie stay out here please?" I looked at the pictures hanging on the wall.

"Hey, B. Do you know who these people are?" He looked at the picture of this big group of funnily dressed people. There was a bald guy in a wheel chair, with a really pretty red-head hanging on a guy with red glasses. In the back there was a girl with a white streak in her hair and she was leaning on a guy who looked like a pimp, he had a Bo stick and a pack of cards; but they both looked like they could kick your ass with a smile on their face. There sure were a lot of them; they looked like one big dysfunctional family.

"Oh, those are the X-men." I looked at him. "You know mutants…"

"Who?" I hadn't ever heard about them.

"They were genetically gifted, like this guy," he pointed at the bald guy, "Charles Xavier, he was the strongest Telepath in the world until that lady," he pointed to the red head, "Became the Phoenix, life incarnate." I nodded, I followed the story. "Oh! This girl," He pointed to a girl with a yellow rain coat and pink sunglasses, "Her name was Jubilee, she turned into a Vampire. These two," he was talking about the kick ass couple in the back, "Are Rogue and Gambit, they were awesome, Gambit had a little bit of a woman problem… he liked them all. Rogue's power was pretty insane, whenever she touched anyone, she'd absorb that person's memories, powers, and life. No one really knows where they ended up." He looked so happy telling me about these people.

"How do you know all this stuff?" I pulled him down the wall of pictures with me.

"I just picked it up, I guess." He was so calm, so much different than his crazy form, we still hadn't come up with a superhero name for him, we didn't want to use the hulk, but it looks like we'll have to.

"Do you want to play a prank on the others?" I joked.

"Like what?" He had a mischievous look in his eyes. His forehead touched mine. I smiled he knew what I wanted to do to them. The others ran out of the room and Benji started growling and shaking, but he was just faking it. The others didn't know it, though. I jumped in front of him when they went into battle-mode. Hawkeye was about to charge with his knife. The look on their face was priceless. It was horribly mean, but it was just… worth it.

"Joking! Just kidding!" I yelled. Benji laughed really hard.

"You thought…. Ha! You really underestimate me, my friends. I'm different from my dad. I have to feel a real threat to turn into that ball of joy you saw the other day." Hawkeye put his knife away and James pulled me behind him. I went back over to Ben.

"So what did your parents want?" I put my hand in the crook of his arm. Hawkeye rolled his eyes and left.

"Our parents are going to be here with us, just for a while," Pym chipped in.

"My parents are staying in Asgard, for now." Torunn snipped. She eyed Benji appraisingly. She was totally smitten.

"Okay, so we need to go see what the kitchen has right? How many people will be eating?" I did a quick tally.

"Fourteen." Benji said, "Azari's mom is a mutant."

"Was she in the picture?" I asked, running down the hall to where it hung. I pulled it off the wall and skidded to a stop in front of another picture on the wall.

"What is it?"

"Mattie?

"Best-friend Mattie?" I stared at the picture, not believing what I saw.

"Oh my God!" Pym said. The kick-ass couple in the background of the big picture were standing on the steps of a big mansion that said 'Xavier's school for gifted youngsters'. But that wasn't what was strange, they were holding two babies, a brown headed little girl with an 'M' monagrammed on her onezie and there was a boy who looked like his father, red eyes and all. I pulled the picture out of the frame and looked to see if anything was written on the back,

"Mattie and Milo,

Your momma and papa love you two sugas, don't you ever forget that.

Love,

Anna Marie and Remy LeBeau." I dropped both of the pictures. I heard the glass shatter from the group photo.

"It's… me."

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