Chapter 7:

Winn was sitting on pins & needles as Tony made the call to his friend Steve Rogers aka Captain America.

I had to admit that I was excited too.

Then it happened.

"Hey there, Cap...I'm with her right now. She's excited to talk to you, & her boyfriend is too...yeah, he's a fan of yours...OK, I'm going to put you on speaker so you can talk to her. Here we go," said Tony who then hit the speaker button & placed the phone in the center of the table.

"Hello, Miss Danvers," said a man in a warm, friendly voice. "Hello, Captain Rogers. It's great to talk to you, sir," I said with a big grin. "It's great to talk to you too. I've heard lots of great things about you," said Captain Rogers. "Thank you. I've heard the same about you," I said. The next thing I heard was a chuckle.

"I wanted to ask you about Hydra, sir," I said. A silence then fell over the room. I got the feeling that this group was tough for Steve to talk about.

He then got right down to it.

"Hydra is a terrorist group that I used to battle against during World War 2 & later on when I woke up in your time after being in suspended animation for many years," he said. "They're very secretive & sneaky. They even went so far as to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D. & destroy that agency before Director Fury, Tony, & I brought it back. Hydra even kidnapped & brainwashed my best friend Bucky & made him believe that everything he was fighting for was a lie. He even tried to kill me while under their influence."

I felt myself tear up listening to him. To hear Steve describe what this group was capable of doing tore me up inside. Winn took my hand in his.

"So what did you, Tony, & the other Avengers find out about Hydra that made you want my help?" I asked. Steve took a deep breath before answering.

"We found out that they have aligned themselves with someone who is looking to control the world," said Steve. That got me thinking.

I wondered if it was my aunt Astra, but she was now in a federal prison in a Krytonite-laced cell serving time for crimes commited against the Earth, a sentence she somberly & sadly had accepted so she was out.

Then my thoughts turned to someone even more evil then her. Her husband Non.

While Astra wasn't able to escape prison time, Non did & had gone into hiding according to what the DEO had found out & later told me. I began to wonder if it was him.

That's when I made up my mind.

I looked at Winn, then Tony, & lastly the phone.

Then I said it.

"I'm in. When do we get started?"