Lillianna had always felt uncomfortable around weapons and didn't even know how to use a gun. Unfortunately, after she had beat Thor up, the avengers had decided to bring their weapons along on their recruitment trips. Natasha's gun was pretty discreet if you discounted the fact that it clashed with her very stylish outfit, however it was pretty hard to hide the high tech bow and arrow that Clint had over his shoulder. They had made it through airport security easily enough, all Natasha had to do was show her shield badge and they would get anything they wanted, but now, after an hour's bus ride they were in the middle of nowhere. The official name of the town was Treville, but if it hadn't been surrounded by trees, Lillianna would have sworn that she had passed through a time machine into the old days of Tombstone. None of the buildings had numbers and people where just lounging around many of whom sported old style gun holsters or had double barrel rifles leaning on the wall behind them. She could see a group of men looking towards them and talking amongst themselves.

"How are we supposed to find them?" Lillianna said trying not to let her discomfort show in her voice.

"We'll simply ask directions." As she said this she started walking towards the group Lillianna had seen watching them. When they had gotten closer they could hear some of the conversation.

"City folk, pssht, pro'ly can't even use a real gun. Deys got dem fancy weapons dey do."

"Yeah, hey dey's headin' this way. Why don we show 'em how we do thing roun' 'ere." Natasha stopped right in front of the two of them.

"Could you tell me where I can find Edgar and Fredrick Waslar?"

"Perfec' opportunity Joey," He said to his friend before addressing Natasha. "Tell ya what. De ain't gonna be in the shop righ' now but we'll tell ya how ta get ter their 'ouse. But first ya's got to show us how good a shot ya are. How good ya shoot determines how good yar directions are." Natasha pulled out her gun but before she could ask for a target Joey interrupted.

"Not wid that. That aint no kind o weapon. Ya's got to make de shot wid a real gun." With that he handed her his sawed off shot gun. Natasha by now annoyed took the weapon and turned to scan the town for a good target.

"You see the sigh hanging down from out front of the general store?" Natasha directed the question at the rednecks who nodded. Lillianna watched as Natasha brought the gun up not seeming to take the time to aim and fired. The bullet had broke off the chain on one side and the weight of the sign swinging down broke the chain on the other side. As the sign hit the ground in front of the door the rednecks turned to stare at Natasha.

"I'll be. Ya hit it."

Twenty minutes later Clint, Natasha and Lilly had been led through town and had started through the woods, frequently checking their compasses to make sure they were going the right way. All of a sudden Lillianna was knocked to the ground from a small blast to her right where she had thrown a stick that had been in her way.

"Are you alright?"

"Yeah what was that?"

"It sounded like a land mine."

"These two must be paranoid or something, living way out here in the woods with land mines surrounding their house." Suddenly there was a loud cracking noise and Clint pulled Lillianna out of the way just as a tree fell right where she had been standing. Natasha and Clint walked ahead watching for more mines and any other sort of bobby trap while Lilly walked behind trying to step exactly where they stepped so she wouldn't set off any they missed. Soon they came up on an old shack that looked as though it might fall down at any moment.

"There must be an underground bunker of some sort. These guys must be good."

"Let's just hope we're the first ones to find them." Cint said as he knocked on the door. The door opened but all they saw was, a skin colored object disappear at the end of the hall.

"What in all creation was that?" Lilly jumped back nearly five feet.

"Let's go see" Natasha took a cautious step into the shack, before its owner appeared rounding the corner.

"Whach ya waiting for, Freddie? Ya should be on the cou - Oh. Sorry I'z 'specting my brother – Well make yurselves at home. Name's Eddie. Ya know, I feel I should recognize the two o' ya."

"They are Avengers. Ring a bell?" They all made their way through a door to the left and found two dilapidated couches and what might have at one point been a church pipe organ. The mess nearly drove Lilly crazy for want to clean it up.

"Oh Yeah ya mus' be the Black Widow and Hawkeye But who's the extra?" Before Lilly could answer, Natasha cut in.

"Chaos."

"Nice, who made that one up?"

"Group effort. We were hoping to talk to you and your brother. It's a matter of some importance."

"I tol' 'im the gov'ment would send somebody after us. Tol' 'im to quit evadin' 'is taxes. Tol' 'im it ain't legal ta send that stuff to them Make A Wish people. Tol' 'im –"

"As interesting as this confession is, we aren't here to arrest you."

"Ya Ain't? Well I'll be. He gunna get way after all."

"Where is your brother?"

"I Dunno. Left just a few minutes ago. Said he'd right back. Forgot 'is keys, he did. That's why I 'uz 'spectin him when you knocked.

Thud thud thud came the knock on the door.

"Tha'd be 'im now" as he said this, his arm seemed to stretch, and just kept stretching. 'Chaos' watched in shock as the hand at the end of an arm three times longer than any arm should have the right to stretch opened the door to the hall and continued to stretch! Only moments later, a man walked into the room if you could call it a man. He looked as though he were made of jello. Freddie noticed all three Avengers staring at the two of them.

"They come fer us Eddie! By golly I shoulda listened when isa had the chance. " He fell to his knees "Don take 'im he aint don notin' take me I'm da one ya want." His voice sounded as though it was cracking but without the deep tone in between the crack. Just the cracks.

"Freddie. They aint takin' nuther o' us away. So quit yer caterwaulin'."

"They aint? I tol' ya they wasn't gonna sen' nobody down 'ere, I did. Wha' they want?" Natasha seriously considered telling them she had got the wrong address, thought someone else lived here, anything to leave, but decided not to.

"We wanted your help with something."

"They wan' our help Eddie! The Avengers wan' our help!" Lilly cringed, they would regret this she knew it.

"Wit' what?"

"Can we explain that at the tower?"

"Sure"

"Ya aint tryin' ta trick us now. Get us in a car with no fight then cart us of to the big 'uose?"

"No"

"Then I'm in too Eddie."

"Eddie get a load o' this place. Huge it is. Clean too. Wonder 'ow he manages it? Pro'ly don't sleep"

"Freddie Shush Ain't polite saying things like that, we's guests, we is." They both procedded to walk around the room looking at things.

" These them?" Lillianna couldn't quite read Thor's face as he said it, but from his tone she could tell he was just about as thrilled as she was.

"Yeah"

"Well, what can they do?"

"I'm not entirely positive about Freddie, but it looks like Eddie can stretch himself out to extreme lengths."

"Freddie," he turned around as if he had just been caught doing something illegal.

"I didn't touch nufthin' I didn't."

"What exactly can you do?"

"Well, I's Eddie's assistant. Bes' mechanics 'round we is." He said it like you would expect someone to say they had just won an Olympic gold medal, not how someone says they fix cars.

"No, not that, I mean what can you do that is unique to you like your brother stretches, for instance?"

"Oh that, why didn't ya say so the first time? I bounce, an' I can spread myself like jelly, I's can. See" At this he started getting thinner until he looked like someone had made Jello on a cookie sheet. Stark walked up from behind him and put a hand right through his stomach, taking it out again immediately, then laughing

"He feels just like Jello too"