Over in a Flash
Chapter 7: With Great Power...
Barry had arrived at the quinjet hanger first, almost dead on the crack of midnight, then again he was always going to get there first being the Flash and all. He waited around for about ten minutes until Sam showed up kitted out with his "Exo-7 Falcon" jetpack as he called it. He walked over to Barry. "So Barry, looks like we're the first here." He said.
"Yeah, I've been here about ten minutes no, beginning to get a bit bored of looking at this hanger." Said Barry.
"Well you're in luck that me and Redwing are here!" Exclaimed Sam.
"I'm sorry Sam but who's Redwing?" asked Barry seeing no-one else in the hanger.
Sam looked joyful and opened his mouth to speak when he was interrupted by the Black Widow loudly walking into the room. Her black boots clomping on the floor as she approached. Barry could tell that she had done that entirely for affect as if she'd had wanted too; she could have easily have snuck up on them without them even having noticed…. Well maybe just Sam.
"You're calling your drone Redwing?" Natasha asked curiously.
"Yeah, Tony said it's more than a drone, it responds to me and/" Sam said getting cut off by the Vision having risen up through the floor in front of him having caused Sam to jump back slightly.
"/He also said it was a prototype and that you should not be taking it with you." Said the Vision in his monotonous way.
"Aww come on Viz, I won't damage him." Said Sam back. Whatever Redwing was Sam really wanted to show it off.
The Vision kept his cool (not that Barry thought he was ever capable of losing it.) and replied with a simple yet straightforward "no". This prompted Sam to press a button on his wrist causing the top of his pack to come unclipped with a silent click, Sam then raised his arms over his shoulders and lifted the drone over his head presenting it to Vision. The Vision responded by picking it up out of Sam's hands and walking off towards the lab. "Thank you for co-operating Falcon" He said walking off.
Suddenly a familiar blue burst of energy swung past the Vision on his way out and stopping behind Sam, both Barry and Sam quickly turned around whilst the Black Widow decided she'd had enough and walked onto the Quinjet to do some last minute checks. Standing behind Barry and Sam was Pietro holding Redwing in his hand. "The Vision was walking away with this; it looked like it belonged to you Sam so I took it." He said proudly.
"You did what?" asked Sam shocked. "You JUST took it? From his robot hands?" he said sounding slightly worried now.
"Android…" said Barry correcting his friend.
"Oh no-no-no" said Pietro "I swapped it for one of the training drones."
"Oh like Indiana Jones." Said Barry, hoping they had that here.
"And like Indiana Jones, he's going to realise something's wrong, put it back Pietro." Sam said. Pietro just smirked and flashed off over behind Sam attaching Redwing to his back.
"There you go Sam; all done." He remarked "Now if you'll excuse me there's a sandwich in the kitchen with my name on it." He said before disappearing in a flash much to Sam's annoyance.
"Honestly Barry, that kid's going to get himself killed one day." Said Sam whilst shaking his head unapprovingly.
"Kid? He's only a year younger than me." Said Barry back to Sam.
"Wait how old are you exactly?" Sam asked.
"26" said Barry.
"He's 25?!" Questioned Sam confusingly. "I thought he was 23 and you were 20 or something."
"Must be a speedster thing; looking younger." Joked Barry pulling a Zoolander blue steel pose.
"Damn, really wished I had powers sometimes." Sam stated sorrowfully. Barry chuckled lightly at Sam's pain and put his arm around his shoulder.
"It's not our powers that define us Sam but rather our hearts" Barry said quoting something he'd read once.
"Are you two done hugging now?" Asked the voice of the Black Widow (Barry was right; she could sneak up easily on people.)
"Yeah we're good" said Sam breaking away from Barry's arm. "What do you need Nat?" He asked.
"Yeah is something up?" Asked Barry noticing a mild look of concern on her face.
"Wanda… She should be here by now." Said Natasha. Barry could tell that whilst she tried to show no emotion, she clearly cared for Wanda.
"I'll find her." Said Barry quickly, he had been waiting for a chance to prove himself to Natasha and this was the perfect chance, plus he too was worried if Wanda was missing. Before Barry could get an answer he zoomed off towards Wanda's room as he left he could hear in the distance from Natasha "That's what I was worried about." Followed shortly by Sam laughing and saying "Guess he has more similarities with Pietro than I thought.
Barry arrived in short time at Wanda's room knocking several times on the door to no response, fearing something had happened Barry opened the door finding Wanda sitting in the corner of her room in darkness huddled up into a ball.
"Hey, is everything alright?" Barry asked gently, turning the light on and walking towards her. Wanda looked up as if she was hoping it were Pietro but looked slightly saddened by Barry. Her eyes were red from crying and her hair was a mess, stuck around her face. She didn't say anything but Barry could tell she wanted to be alone but he had come here to get her and right now if anything she needed comforting.
Barry walked over to her slowly and sat down beside her. He didn't say anything as she hadn't answered his question and she didn't seem like she was going too. They sat like this for a few minutes before Wanda moved slightly closer to Barry, laying her head on his shoulder. Finally, she spoke. "Pietro and I, have been alone for so long. Without our parents it was just me and him, throughout Von Strucker's experiments it was just me and him but now it's me, him and the Avengers."
Barry understood where this was going, change was hard no matter how big or small it was. Barry knew this from experience, when his mother died everything changed, sure Joe and Iris were great people but they weren't his Mom and Dad and as a child it had all been too much for Barry. Wanda must have been holding this in all along.
"I don't even know who I am anymore, these powers, I don't even know if I can control them." She looked to be on the verge of tears again, so Barry did the only thing he could think of, he pulled her into a hug and didn't let go. Wanda slowly snuggled into his warm embrace as though it was calming her eventually falling asleep in his arms. Barry continued to sit there with her asleep in his arms even after Natasha came into the room to get them. She looked ready to lecture him but Barry just pointed to the sleeping Wanda causing Natasha to look down at her with a sadness in her eyes. She then mouthed thank you to Barry before leaving, probably to find Pietro, Sam and Rhodey to make up the new team for Russia.
Barry was slightly annoyed about not going but he'd found a use here as a pillow so Barry leaned backwards slightly onto the wall and as Wanda had done before him drifted off into a peaceful sleep. He sure hoped Pietro wouldn't wake him up in the morning.
Sorry guys I know I said a longer chapter but I really struggled to get this one out in time. I think until after my exams I'm going to keep the chapters at around this size of 1000-1500 words (sorry). I'll try and keep up with one chapter a week and sometimes if you're lucky maybe two. So thank you all for putting up with my poor schedule.