Chapter 7
"Steve isn't here, so I vote that Vision take over. Who's in?" Clint asked.
"No, no, no, no, no. He's barely two years old, he can't!" Tony protested.
I rolled my eyes and observed the team argue. Even the twins became exasperated with their fight and began arguing with each other. Vision remained silent and seemed to contemplate each argument. I thought he should intervene, because he would simmer the ordeal.
"It is my vote that we rescue Steve. I am deciding to do just that. Now, if you want to do other things such as initiate more battles, then you can do that. But if you are going to join me, I'm leaving tomorrow morning at seven. Now, if you'll excuse me." Vision said.
He gave a curt nod and walked away to his room in the tower. The arguing had halted and the team seemed to be thinking of their response.
"I'm not going." Thor said, letting his heavy hammer sit on the table.
"What?" I asked.
"Me neither. It's too dangerous." Clint added.
My eyes flickered over to Tony. He was staring back at me. I gave him a pleading look. Gosh, Tony please Tony be on my side.
"C'mon guys, he's our team mate!" Tony slammed his fist down on the table, "If we ignore this, what are we going to do when one of us goes missing? Should just ignore it?"
Wanda took my hand and pulled me close to her so she could wrap an arm around me. My vision was dizzying as the argument raged on. Clint shouted more and Natasha shouted at him about shouting. Thor roared back at the two. My eyes began to flood with tears but I quickly wiped them before any of the team members saw.
I just wanted Steve back, I wanted him to train with me and joke around with me. The team needed him back to keep us moral and to keep us from falling apart like we were right now without him to lead us.
Electricity began flowing through my veins and it twitched between my fingers.
"He's fine on his own! I know he'll join us in due time." Thor rebutted.
I couldn't help but become more agitated. Anger boiled within me and only fired my shock even more.
"Tony it doesn't matter!" Clint barked.
My hands reached forward onto the table and sent the building shock out of my body onto the surface of the table. The electricity buzzed around the table like lightning strikes. Pietro grabbed my arm and yanked me away back against the wall. My breathing stopped for a moment before I unintentionally increased his gravity and made him slam against the ground hard.
Wanda panicked and shrieked. I released him as soon as I realized what I had done and he quickly zoomed out of the room.
"I-I need to go." I mumbled.
I traveled out of the room and waited until I reached my bedroom to break down in tears. Physical pain seized me as electricity surged through my veins once again with no where to go be released. I couldn't stand the agonizing, burning pain and screamed to the heavens until my lungs gave out.
There was a hand that repeatedly tapped my arm. I groaned and turned on my side, annoyed. Sunlight was illuminating my room and keeping me more awake. Eventually I gave into the intruding guest.
"What do you want?" I asked.
Vision was standing next to my bed with his crystal blue eyes staring down at me. Normally, somebody would be afraid of this situation, but I was accustomed to being woken up by a witch, a god, a man in a metal suit, and robots that I just couldn't be fazed anymore.
"I'm sorry to interrupt, but it's 6:30 and I am leaving soon. Can I assume your presence?" he asked.
I nodded quickly.
"Oh, yes, of course. I'll be there. Thank you." I responded.
He left me to my peace, well, more to my lonesome and horror. My mouth gaped open to see that my metal bed frame had been struck with electricity, probably in my sleep, and had charred holes in it's structure.
I sighed heavily and realized how weak I was. I couldn't even stand out of my bed without nearly collapsing. My breakdown last night used all of my energy and sleep couldn't replace all of it. Oh, and Pietro. I needed to apologize to him for being so unacceptably violent towards him, and probably to the entire team as well.
My head spun when I took my first steps out of my room to be met with an empty floor. Nobody was hustling to get breakfast or watch television or converse about training- it was eerie. My first thought was the pantry where I ate as much food as I could manage. Within a few minutes, I was able to run and put on my uniform.
Stark designed my uniform to be durable and outstanding. It was charcoal gray and along the sleeves was an illuminated and physically glowing electric blue gradient, with the same pattern appearing on my legs as well. I grabbed my blue gloves that matched and headed out to the quinjet.
I almost squealed with delight to see the entire team suited up on the quinjet studying a holographic map. The sunrise shone through the windows and cast a silhouette on the team. I stared in awe at the scene that I would probably never see again.
"Coming?" Stark asked.
Pietro avoided my glance, actually, most of the team did. The only person who didn't was Vision who was not there to see me lash out like that. I sat next to him and listened for what Tony was going to say.
"Listen up, guys. It's going to be very difficult to find Steve, but we will manage. Wherever he is, he will be with other mutants. They are expecting us to come after him, so we must be prepared at all times. Now, last we saw him was in Ukraine. Magneto has a base in Ukraine, we just need to find it. We'll spread out in pairs. If you find it, it is imperative that you do not go inside until we have all arrived. Understood?" Tony announced.
"What if we find Magneto?" Banner asked.
"You won't, he hides until the rest of his mutants aren't able." Wanda answered.
I shuddered and looked around the room. Banner and Natasha were partners, surprisingly Wanda partnered with Vision and Pietro partnered with Hawkeye. Thor came and sat next to me, taking up nearly two seats.
"You will be my partner. Is that alright?" he asked.
"Of course."
Tony was alone, but I knew that he preferred it to be that way. He could handle being by himself and didn't exactly mesh well with any one person on the team. I would be happy being his partner because him and I had intellectual discussions often and we learned by each other.
I was hurt that Pietro didn't choose me. Not that we were exactly close friends, but he and I worked well together. Even if it wasn't Pietro, it would be Wanda or Natasha or Vision.
Thor took out a large cell phone and began clicking on the screen with his giant fingers that continually pressed the wrong buttons.
"Do you need some help?" I asked.
"Ah! Yes. Jane gave me this communication device and I can't seem to press on what I'm supposed to." he replied.
I chuckled and took the iPhone 6 plus out of his hands and clicked back to the home screen.
"What do you want to do?"
"Um, she said to face call her before I went on missions."
I clicked on the facetime icon and went to her contact name and called her before handing it back to him. Jane quickly answered from inside her lab.
"Hello Jane!" Thor exclaimed.
"Hi, Babe! What's up?"
He gave a wide smile.
"I'm about to go on a mission. Brielle is next to me!"
He moved the camera so I was in the frame and I waved at her.
"Hi Jane! How's the work?" I asked.
We had a long talk before her technology began acting up and she had to hang up. We had about three more hours until Ukraine, and Pietro was sitting alone. He clearly doesn't want to talk to me, but I can't just let him remain upset with me! I excused myself from Thor and went to sit next to him.
"Pietro," I tried to get him to look at me, "I'm really sorry about what happened yesterday."
His hard expression didn't fade and instead he put his head down and pulled his knees up to his face.
"I couldn't control myself and you are one of the last people that I would ever want to hurt. I hope that we can still be friends." I added. Still nothing. I tried putting my hand on his arm but he zoomed across the quinjet to the front where Tony was sitting.
That stung, a lot. With a heavy heart, I sat back in my seat and pulled out one of my notebooks that specialized in electromagnetism. I browsed through the pages and unsolved equations and frankly didn't have the energy to sort through them. The more I discovered, however, the stronger and more diverse my powers were.
The rest of my time was spent scribbling mindlessly with a lot of drawings and Greek letters while simultaneously being ignored by the rest of the team. It wasn't until we were exiting the quinjet that I would have my next interaction.
"So, where are we going to go?" I asked Thor.
He shrugged and swung his hammer around aimlessly.
"I'm not sure. I don't know this place well, I will let you take the lead, Lady." he responded.
We walked together for a couple hours. Occasionally, a team member would ask if anybody has found anything with the same deafening silence. I finally turned off my ear piece, not wanting to hear their voices when they refused to talk to me.
"Is there something wrong?" Thor asked.
"Well, the team is very upset with me about last night, which I'm not sure why. I mean, you guys have certainly done worse things to each other and the next day you're drinking beer with each other," I turned to face him, "I don't want to cover up my actions like it wasn't bad, but it wasn't purposeful at all."
"I don't think the team expects you to do act out. They have high expectations for you and expect you to keep up to them. Everybody expects me to be a pig-headed idiot and don't care when I get upset." he replied.
I huffed. There was no reason for me to have high expectations forced upon me. My powers weren't completely controllable yet and my emotions were equivalent still to the day of my experiment. Even Cap got in fights and was never held accountable!
"Why are you still nice to me?" I asked.
"Because I see your value and have seen your future."
"What do you see in my future?"
He laughed a big, hearty laugh before messing up my neatly straightened platinum hair.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you."
I honestly tried making it longer! I could have gone longer, I will jam a lot of content in my next chapter however. Thanks for reading x