Over in a Flash
Chapter 6: Captain Cupid
Have a smaller extra chapter today thanks to my good friend BlueShadow4, I'd recommend checking out his Spider-Man fanfiction " The Web of A Spider " It's been really inspirational in helping me write this and has been a jolly good read.
The next day Barry awoke not at 4 or 5 O'clock, in fact not even 6 O'clock instead he was awoken much later at 8 O'clock by the sweet voice of Wanda. "Wake up sleepy-head." She taunted to him "I got Pietro to leave you alone this morning, seeing as we were talking all night." She giggled. Well Barry was certainly relieved to hear that, but more importantly what was she doing in his room. Wanda noticing the panic on his face spoke up. "Steve sent me to get you; you're late for training."
Barry sighed of course Steve would send Wanda, he'd been asking Steve questions about her the previous day and Barry assumed Steve was trying to be a good friend by sending Wanda to wake him up completely misunderstanding that Barry wasn't romantically interested in her, sure she was cute and all but he didn't know how long he'd be here for hopefully he'd return home by the end of next week; he did still have to stop Zoom after all. "Right-well thank you Wanda." Said Barry flashing her a warm smile, Wanda then proceeded to smile back before turning around.
"I'll see you later Barry; let's talk again soon." She said walking off. Barry then quickly changed into his Flash outfit for training. "You bet, how about tonight?" He asked her. It wasn't like he had anything planned other than Black Ops with Sam.
"Yes, that would be nice." Said Wanda turning back to look at him one last time before walking off through the door. As soon as Wanda was gone Barry fist-pumped the air he then proceeded to put his cowl over his head and zoom off down the hallway towards the training room.
Upon arriving Barry caught the end of Steve's spar with Sam. Barry watched in awe as Steve parried punches from Sam. It was so elegant the way Steve fought, everything was so precise and plotted. It reminded Barry of Oliver and how he used to fight, but Steve took his fighting to a next level whilst Oliver had a more Kung-Fu style, Steve's seemed more reminiscent of boxing, quick light jabs, followed by various heavy hits and kicks it was like watching an artist at work. Poor Sam though Barry could see Sam beginning to slip up and make mistakes. Fighting a super soldier wasn't easy especially for Sam, he was only human after all. Eventually Steve got a sweep kick in knocking Sam to the ground. "The Winner is Captain America…again" yelled Rhodey from the side-line.
Steve reached down to Sam and helped him up. "Not bad Sam, next time try to keep your guard up more though." He said patting the Falcon on the back and walking over to Barry. "I see your finally awake." He said smiling at Barry. "Sorry I'm late Steve, my alarm didn't go off this morning joked Barry, causing Sam, Rhodey and Steve to start chuckling. They all understood that Barry had meant Pietro by alarm.
"I step out the room for five minutes and you all stop training for a giggle?" Said the voice of the Black Widow entering the room, with Wanda following behind her. Barry still didn't know her name with her yet to tell him and everyone else in the compound too afraid of her to tell him.
"Sorry Nat" Said Sam forgetting Barry was present and unaware of her name. The Black Widow or Nat as Barry now knew, shot Sam a glare that shut him up straight away much to Rhodey's amusement in the background.
"We have a mission Cap, there are some arms dealers selling alien tech most likely left from the battle of New York in Moscow, we need to send a team to stop them." Nat said.
Steve then looked over to Barry. Barry could tell from the look on Steve's face exactly what he was thinking, he was going to give Barry a test. "Alright everyone I want Barry, Sam and Wanda on this on this one." Steve said winking at Barry. Barry would have to explain to him later that there was nothing going on between him and Wanda, he'd just been curious about her the other day.
From that point on Barry continued his day as normal, destroying Rhodey in training but losing to Sam at Black Ops, it was around 4 o' clock in the afternoon, soon they'd be getting a quinjet to Russia but right now Barry was sitting in the sun alone wearing some shades Sam had lent him. (That guy really did seem to have too many pairs of sunglasses for one man.) When Wanda descended down from the roof of the compound beside him. Her long brown hair appearing golden in the sunlight as though she had just descended from the heavens. Barry sat up in his chair as she approached. "Wanda" He muttered.
"Yes Barry?" She asked curiously.
"When I said, let's talk again tonight. I didn't exactly mean Russia…" He said sadly.
"It's fine, we'll still be able to talk." She gently whispered.
"Yeah but Sam and the Black Widow will be there too." Barry groaned, he was not looking forward to this purely down to the Black Widow not trusting him.
"Well why don't we do something tomorrow instead?" She suggested.
"Yeah, like a date?" Barry questioned, not quite realising what he'd said.
"Yes, but erm what is a date?" she asked, not familiar with the term.
"Oh well-urm- you go have fun with a guy or a girl you like." Barry said whilst beginning to turn more red than his costume, he hadn't aimed to come to this but the direction this conversation was going in was not the right way.
"Right well/" Wanda was interrupted by Pietro running in beside her. It was about time he showed up, Barry found it odd he hadn't seen his Speedster pal all day but for once he was glad to see him.
"/Basically Sis, Barry wants to court you!" He exclaimed jollily, most likely over the moon at the prospect of his "best friend" and sister together, Barry's mouth dropped as Pietro said this, here was Barry thinking Pietro was going to help not make it worse.
"Oh. um that's sweet" she said clearly looking flustered and confused. "Well I need to pack for Russia, so bye-bye Barry and Pietro." She said using her magic to lift herself in the air back towards her room. Once out of eyesight Pietro ran over to Barry "That went well" He said to his friend but Barry just stood there in self sorrow, he didn't think it had gone well at all, and now he had a flight to Russia with her, Sam and the Black Widow; He'd rather take on Zoom any day.
This doesn't count as the chapter for this week expect that either tomorrow or Tuesday. It will also be a lot longer than the normal 1000-1300 words as once a week means longer chapters.