Morgan had woken up really early. She was thinking about everything that happened, the whole night. The sun was shining and she was feeling weirdly okay. She sat down at her table and looked at her plans. She had never really thought she could be a hero. Morgan always helped heroes, made tech for them, made their looks in her head. But she never thought, even a little, about her being THE Iron man. She was always just the smart mechanic behind the tech.
•••
She looked through all the costumes she had made before. And then she found it. Her father's plans. Red and gold ironman suit. How predictable, she thought. The suit was the same as the little boy's costumes, that she saw on Halloween when she was a kid. When she was a kid she always thought about her dad coming from the sky and kissing her on her forehead. She looked at the suit once again. She liked it, after all, it was too much but still, she liked it. After a while, she decided that she wanted to play around with the suit. She changed the colors, made it less noisy and she added some of her newest tech.
Now it looked like something she would wear even though it still reminded her of her dad. A smirk showed on her lips:
'Denmark, make me a prototype.'
'Yes, Miss.'
She looked at the plans one more and left the room with a thought about Tony.
She went downstairs and sat down in the living room. Everyone was asleep. What a beautiful silence. Suddenly Morgan spotted a light on the balcony and Carol appeared walking through the balcony door
'Morning.' said Carol with a big smile
'Can't sleep?' she asked and Morgan nodded. Then she sad next to Morgan and putting her hand to her shoulders
'What about you?' whispered Morgan
'Oh, I just brought some donuts. You want some?' asked Carol and even without answer she pulled them from her bag. She always looked full of joy and energy. Her hair was fluffy and shiny and her old black jacket complimented her eyes.
'Nice, thanks.' smiled Morgan and Carol gave the smile back
'First day of training. It'll be fun.' said Carol as she swallowed a piece of donut
'You should call ur mom. She is really worried.'
'True.' said Morgan. She had a bad feeling in her stomach but she decided to call her anyway.
Carol understood that she should leave and she left. The phone started ringing
'Hello?' said the voice in the phone
'Hey mom, It's me.' said nervously Morgan.
She expected a lot of shouting and bad words but it was just silence.
'Mom?' Morgan said quietly
And her mom just said
'I was so scared that something might happened to you.'
'-mom.'
'And I think you made the right decision.' she never thought that her mother could accept the dangers of being in the Avengers. And now this
'Thank you. I am sorry mom. I am sorry I locked myself in a big house all by myself. I'm really sorry I made you worry and that-'
'It's okay Morgan. I'll come to visit you as fast as I can. Enjoy your time. I love you. Bye.' said the voice and ended the call. It was surprisingly okay.
'How was it?' sounded Carol's voice from the kitchen
'Fine, I guess.' chuckled Morgan
•••
After a few hours of Carol and Morgan talking and watching Netflix. Everybody came down. The blond boy suspiciously looked at her when he was coming down to the kitchen.
'Okay, guys. Today, we have some things to do. But first, every one of you will have your morning training.' said Peter.
'I'll show you the training rooms, so follow me' everybody finished their meals and followed Peter through the building.
The training rooms were massive full of lots of different things and also full of light. Peter was talking about loads of things you can try there. But Morgan was more and more scared. She had never really fought someone. She wasn't the fighter she was always the smart one.
'So Carol and Talia solo training. Ben with Cass. And others solo too.' said Peter. Everyone walked away to train only Miles and Morgan staid standing there.
'Pete?' asked Morgan quietly
'I don't... I don't know how to, u know fight.' said Morgan sadly and Peter came closer to both them
'I guess me too.' said Miles sadly. Peter smiled and patted Miles's hair
'You kid will train with me. And Morgan, you can try it with Young Captain.'
Morgan's heart stopped
'Can't I train with Carol?' asked quickly Morgan
'No, she is too much for you. She has her own training. Try it with Cap. He will spare you, I promise.' said Peter and walked away with his arm on Miles's shaking shoulders.
Cap looked at Morgan and came to her with one hand in front of him
'Don't be scared. I'll try to be easy on you.'
They shook hands and Morgan felt more and more scared.
'First without weapons. But pick a weapon for later.' said Cap and picked up his iconic shiny shield.
A memory rose in her mind. A memory of Steve Rogers coming to their house and asking her dad to come with him. That night her dad decided to go save the universe. And that morning she saw him as he was taking the shield and she came to him:
'Daddy? Where are you going? Why are you taking the shield?' she asks him. Tony turns at her and smiles at her
'I need to give it back to someone special.' says Tony and leans towards her
'More important than mommy?' asks Morgan
'No, darling but he is very special too...I just wished he would have realized that.' says Tony with a sad smile.
'Don't be sad daddy. For me, you are the most special person in the galaxy.'
says Morgan and hugs him tightly.
'Yes, Morgan ur right. I'll tell u a secret but shhhh.'
'Yesss?'
'You are the most special for me too.' whispers Tony and picks her up to kiss her. They both laugh for a minute and then Tony said sadly:
'I have to go, but we will see each other very soon. I promise.' says Tony and gives Morgan a kiss on a cheek
'Bye daddy say hi to the special one.' says Morgan, not knowing her dad will not come back
'Haloooo. Did you pass out or what? Chose something.' said Cap with his hand moving in front of Morgan's face
'Oh... sorry. Give me a sec.' said morgan and looked at the weapons.
There were all kinds. Knives, swords, shields... but only one caught her eye. It looked like old Ironman's gloves. She picked them up and took a careful look at them.
'Okay, let's go.' they both (without the weapons) walked into a big white room. Morgan looked around and Cap said:
'Let's change.' all of the sudden a big thing came from the ground and Cap walked into it
'Ugh... what a trash tech.' said Morgan and tapped on her watch
'Strech fit 001 please.' her whole outfit started to change to a one big, black, fitness, overall.
Then she waited for Cap to change.
•••
After a few minutes, Cap was in his fitness outfit too, looking suprised and confused
'How, how did you change that fast?' asked Cap with confusion in his voice
'I'll have to update some systems around here.' said Morgan with a little chuckle. And then the stress came. She tried to remember all these action movies and stuff, but she was so stressed she couldn't even speak.
'Here we go. First round. I'll try to be easy.' said Cap and made a fighting pose. Morgan tried to copy Cap but it eventually didn't work out. He started running towards her and made an energic move with his hand. Cap missed Morgan's shoulder just for a little because she bent down and slid to the side
'This is easy?' she asked jokingly and tried to avoid another one of Cap's hits. This time he hit her in her shoulder and tried to smash her to the ground.
'You should see me doing hard.' smiled Cap. At the moment a millions of thoughts flew through Morgan's head.
How to fight?
Noone've ever taught her that.
All of a sudden she grabbed Cap's hand and made a random move with it. It magically worked Cap was on the ground. He stood up and looked at her
'So medium.' he said ashamed of himself
'Now let's do one with the weapons.'
they walked back to the room with the weapons. Cap took his shield and walked back. Morgan looked at the gloves and then up to the roof
'Wish me luck.' she whispered and the gloves automatically get on her hands. It was weirdly nice feeling having them on her hands.
'Let's do this.' smiled Morgan.
Cap was very good with his shield, and also he stopped being easy on her. But it seemed to her that every time Morgan won he got angrier and angrier.
'I have a feeling-' said Morgan right before she blocked Cap's punch
'What?' yelled Cap through the sounds of the fight
'I have a feeling you hate me.'
Cap stopped for a moment and then he said
'No, I don't... I just...'
'What?'
'In my universe Tony... he wasn't that big of a hero.' said quietly Cap as he slid away from Morgan's blasters.
'Excuse me?'
'I just... he... Just forget it okay?'
'No.' Morgan hit Cap's chest and tried to put him to the ground
'No... forget it.'
'C' mon.'
'No.' Cap was getting angrier and angrier. He started to push Morgan and hitting her with his shield
'Cap.' Morgan was getting terrified
'I said NO!'
'CAP.' Morgan fell hardly to the ground and hit her head
'Stark?'
•••
'Morgan?' she heard a familiar voice. She was back in her dream world
'Dad. I... I am so glad ur back. But why? Why am I back here?' Tony gave Morgan a hand to stand up. Morgan was supriesed by sad face of Tony's.
'Dad is something wrong?'
'They need you. So I have to protect you.'
'What do you mean?
'Something that you think is helping you through all your fears but actually, it is stopping you from becoming who you are.'
said Tony with a straight face
'What fears? You mean my anxiety?'
Tony nodded and looked at her
'Peter is helping me but he could never...'
'Not a person, a thing.' said Tony. He looked stressed and scared but Morgan didn't notice. She was too busy thinking
'My pills! They are helping me. But I still don't understand?'
'Love, I need to go. But we'll see each other soon.'
'But dad what does this all means?!' yelled Morgan at Tony as he was disappearing into shadows
•••
Morgan woke up. Leaning towards her was Peter, Steve, and Carol
'Morgan!' yelled filled with joy Steve. It was the first time he called her by her name
'I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to hit you that hard.' said Steve as he and Peter helped Morgan get up. Everybody was around her trying to help. Talia brought water and Miles something cold for her head.
'Are you okay?' asked quietly Pete
'Yeah. It's all okay I just need to talk to you for a sec.' she looked at Pete and stood up
'Calm down genius. Ur still weak. You need rest for the day.' said Carol and held her in her arms
'But-'
'Don't worry. I'll take you to your room.'
•••
After a while, only Pete stayed. Steve stayed for a little longer too, still trying to apologize but than he left for the training.
Peter sat on her bed where she was lying
'What did you want to talk about?' he asked
'I had a new dream. When I passed out, I went back to the place with dad.'
Peter looked satisfied
'What happened?'
'He said he need s to protect me. He was acting weird and he said: Something that you think is helping you through all your fears but actually it is stopping you from becoming who you are.'
Peter thought for a little and turned back to Morgan
'I'll think about that. But now, rest.' said Peter, hugged Morgan and left.
Morgan fell asleep hoping her dad will appear again.
