a/n: revised as of 5/3/19. i think this is the last of it :O
we're on the move kids. It's kinda crazy how hard it is to get this timeline down. The MCU highkey has so such a confusing timeline, but anyways the work I put into research for this fanfic is kind of insane so here's the 7th chapter! Please read and review ! :o
regarding everyone's ages, there might be a point where it all gets mixed up, of you notice that the ages don't make sense please please please point it out to me! This is still a work in progress with me trying to figure out the timeline and what happened when. For now the main thing is that Peter and Ned are older than Alyssa and Leo is older than all three.
you might think, "13 is a bit young for a freshman" but Alyssa's birthday is late in the year so technically she's just a bit younger than most of her peers.
disclaimer: refer to first chapter
Cast (as introduced in this chapter):
Artemis Misra - Deepika Padukone
"A year ago everything was different. And now I look back and I realize that a year can do a lot to a person." - Unknown
1 Year Later - September 2014
"Lisa! Get up or you'll be late!"
With a huff of breath Alyssa slowly opened her eyes, then blinked quickly to adjust to the sudden change of brightness within her room. It was silent for a second before the quick tapping sound of her dog's paws hitting the hard wood floor of their home made its way to her ears. The door creaked open as Sunnie happily entered her owner's bedroom. The large 2 year old dog let out a happy bark before hopping onto the teenage girl's bed.
Sunnie was a cheerful malamute that her father had gotten for her at the end of summer last year. So much had happened in a year's time and now it was Alyssa's first day of high school.
"Hey good girl," Alyssa mumbled sleepily to the dog that decided to wake her by burrowing herself into her owner's bed. A bark was her response.
It's been a year (and a few months) since Alyssa's gained her abilities. Tony Stark and Bruce Banner had discovered in her blood and cells that she was carrying a dormant Inhuman gene that awoke when she made contact with the green mist, or the Terrigen Mist to be more exact. That Wednesday night/Thursday morning she had undergone Terrigenesis in her sleep. She didn't even recall being wrapped up in her cocoon or breaking out of it that day it had happened. Tony and Bruce never really told her how they got this information but she trusted their word.
Alyssa pushed herself to sit up, absentmindedly petting her dog as she ran her other hand through her messy thick hair. In a years time Alyssa went from a gangly 13 year old to one who was...just a little less gangly. She'd built up a bit more weight and muscle throughout the year. She decided to get bangs that covered the majority of her forehead and her hair now reached a bit past her shoulder blades in thick waves of black. She was also due to lose her braces in a few months
The girl found herself nervous to start a new school year, considering she missed a lot of her final year of middle school for the sake of running tests and such at the Avengers Tower with Tony Stark.
September 2013
"We were having dinner and she just started screaming, Tony you said my daughter would be ok," Bianca said frantically as Alyssa lay on a large bed in one of Tony's many rooms on his tower's many floors.
Rather than Bruce, an actual doctor whom Tony trusted had been called in to check on Alyssa and her health. Dr. Misra was printed on her name tag.
"There's nothing wrong with her health wise, her vitals are perfect, she's not under or overweight, her blood pressure is fine, her pulse is currently steady," Dr. Misra cut in. "You're daughter is a perfectly healthy teenage girl, and I think we'll just have to wait until she wakes up to find out what caused her so much fear and distress," the woman explained with a soft smile and Bianca couldn't get herself to relax with the sight of her daughter practically being engulfed by the large bed while being hooked onto a heart monitor.
It was about an hour later when Alyssa gasped awake. The sights of red and blue and spiders slowly fading away from her mind.
"Alyssa?" a gentle accented voice called out to her and Alyssa turned to see and pretty Indian woman coming closer to her. She assumed this woman was a doctor considering the stethoscope hanging around her shoulders and the white doctor's coat the hid what looked like running clothes.
"Who...who are you?" Alyssa stammered out and the woman, Dr. Misra, gave her a smile.
"I'm doctor Artemis Misra, but you can call me Artie if you want," she suggested kindly and Alyssa relaxed if only a little.
"You're...pretty young to be a doctor," she said absentmindedly and the woman let out a hearty laugh as she began to check on Alyssa and her vitals.
"Thank you very much," she chuckled out as she checked stuff off of her clipboard and took several notes. "JARVIS could you please call up Ms. Andrade and company?"
"Of course Dr. Misra."
"You're family has been very worried about you," Artie told the young girl lying on the bed, and Alyssa blinked.
"Really? Why?"
"Well a normal night having dinner, and suddenly your daughter screams then faints? I would be worried too," Artie explained and Alyssa furrowed her eyebrows in confusion. She didn't remember screaming or fainting during dinner last night. She could hardly remember anything aside from being in the middle of eating and then sudden darkness.
"I..I fainted?"
"Lisa?" her mother's voice filtered in through the doorway and Alyssa perked up.
Bianca rushed into the room with Andrew and Leo only a moment behind her, and the woman moved to quickly gather her daughter in her arms.
"Lisa are you ok?"
"Ma I'm fine, I'm just a little hungry if anything."
"Alyssa doesn't seem to remember what happened last night," Artie pointed out as Tony entered behind the family. The man raised a brow curiously.
"No recollection of the screaming or the fainting?" the man piped in and Alyssa shook her head.
Tony hummed and he and Artie shared a look.
It was a few weeks after the first screaming incident when Tony and Bruce finally came up with a solution. They and Artie kept Alyssa under observation to assure that she wasn't suffering through some sort of late side effects that could potentially harm her made by the mist. In that time, Tony engineered and finalized the perfect way for Alyssa to keep her third eye hidden.
He created two small buttons that she would place on her temples, and with a press of the button on the right side, a holographic image would materialize to hide her third eye from view The buttons would even blend themselves into her skin. She had used a prototype on her first few days of school but rarely needed to use it since she began attending school less and less.
Artie had theorized that Alyssa had gained some type of extension ability with her new features, yet they couldn't prove the theory until Alyssa showed signs of her possible abilities again.
October 2013
"I have to be homeschooled this year," Alyssa whispered into the dark and with a rustle of clothing and movements the light turned on once again. The Filipina turned her head slowly to look at her two best friends and was met with Ned and Peter's looks of sadness and disbelief.
"Homeschooled?" Ned whispered.
"Wh-wh...what? Why? Why?" Peter stammered out.
It was one of their weekly sleepovers and Alyssa found that she could not sleep without mentioning this to her friends and decided that saying it would be the best move.
"Y'know how I said I was sick…" Alyssa trailed off, turning to her side, "I guess it's...a little more serious than I thought...So I have to be homeschooled."
"Lisa… are you gonna be ok?" Ned asked worriedly and Alyssa could see that Peter looked more distressed than usual.
"I'll be fine...but I guess we won't be leaving Midtown Middle together," Alyssa joked but they could all tell it was strained.
"Well….we'll still see you right? We'll just go to your house after school!" Peter whispered, trying to remain positive about the sudden shift in situation. Yet the cringe on Alyssa's face made the smile on Peter's fade.
Alyssa, Leo and their mother would be staying in the Avenger's tower for the time being but she wasn't allowed to reveal that.
"I have to stay with my dad…" she lied and the knot in her stomach tightened.
"But...but why?"
"The doctor who's helping take care of me, she's in DC. So it'll make more sense to be close to her."
"Do you think you'll get better soon…" Ned whispered after the silence left them all overwhelmed.
"Yeah...I hope so."
Alyssa moved around the home slowly, Sunnie following after her as she made her way to the bathroom to do her business and then back to her bedroom to get changed. After Alyssa stopped going to school she tried to talk and see her two best friends as much as she could, yet most of the time, in the Avengers tower she remained. As much as the adrenaline and happiness of the situation overwhelmed her, she had little time to be happy or admirable when she was watched over and monitored for the sake of her safety. It was during this did they discover the development of her powers.
With the opening of the third eye came the new addition of mental abilities. Alyssa began to realize that she was seeing things before they happened or that were happening somewhere else, and she would feel an odd awareness for things she shouldn't be able to be aware of. One of the biggest abilities was when she was able to make people see what she wanted to.
There was a day where Alyssa felt no want or need to leave her bed and when Leo had entered her room to take her to Artie for the usual check up she just wished that he couldn't see her lying there.
November 2013
Alyssa turned 13 a few days ago. Her mother had arranged for her to go see Peter and Ned so they could be together for her birthday. Yet those plans were ruined when the night before her birthday Alyssa felt a force in her mind push her away from reality and into a place that was not the Avengers' Tower.
Alyssa breathed heavily as she looked around her. She wasn't sure how she knew, but she knew she was in Greenwich. The weather was dark and dreary and the image around her was slowly coming together as though a fade away effect had been put on reverse.
"Your world and your family will be extinguished!"
Alyssa screamed when black entities shot towards her but soon she was left panting as she watched it pass through her figure as though she wasn't there. They made contact with something and with a turn of her head she watched as Thor the God of Thunder was thrown back by the power.
With a gasp Alyssa put a hand to her mouth.
How was she here?
With Thor and the odd aliens unaware of Alyssa's presence, they took the opportunity to fight without holding back. And despite them not being able to touch, hear, or see her, Alyssa ran to hide.
When the fighting ended the scene faded away and Alyssa found herself gasping awake in a large bed once again hooked up to a heart monitor. She soon found out that she'd been in an unbreakable daze for 2 days straight.
Ned and Peter had missed her birthday. She had missed her birthday.
A few days later she felt such a deep sadness that she had no desire to see anybody or even get out of bed. She didn't respond to her two best friends and she ignored her mother and brother. She was in a depressive episode (Artie said it was a normal reaction to a sudden large change in her life) and she had just wanted to be left alone. She could sense her brother coming to get her and she wanted, no needed, for him to just leave her alone. She wished she wasn't even there at that moment.
She could recall how Leo entered her room gently, aware that she was saddened by the events of the past few days.
"Hey Lisa...Artie's here for your check up," he called out to the dark room. With a flick of his hand the lights turned on and Alyssa burrowed herself into her too large bed.
"...Lisa?" the older boy called out. Alyssa could hear him moving closer to her bed. She nearly yelled at him when he pulled the covers back but paused at the look of confusion on his face. Leo dropped the covers as he stared down at what he assumed was an empty bed.
"Lisa?"
Alyssa watched as her brother began to frantically search the room. After a moment he ran out and Alyssa straightened up, listening as Leo returned with Tony and Artie.
Tony didn't seem as frantic as Leo but quickly called out to JARVIS.
"JARVIS locate Alyssa Andrade."
"Alyssa Andrade is on her bed in the tower, sir."
Tony tilted his head in confusion and Artie moved toward the bed as her brother ran his hands through his hair.
"There's nobody here Tony," the woman said yet Tony knew better. JARVIS wouldn't be wrong about something like this.
Tony slowly moved forward, standing beside Artie before cautiously sweeping an arm around the bed. A few sweeps of his arm and he made contact with something solid. One second there was nothing there and suddenly there was Alyssa.
It was silent for a moment, "You have invisibility too?!" Leo gasped out.
Alyssa hopped down the stairs more awake than earlier with Sunnie still following after her loyally. The malamute was happy that her owner was awake and finally able to give her some much needed attention.
Alyssa was dressed simply for the first day of school. Her hair was tied into two braids, with her bangs left brushing the top of her round glasses. She wore an oversized NASA shirt tucked into some mom shorts, with a belt finishing off the outfit to keep her shorts in place.
"Come on happy girl. Mom probably fed you already but I love spoiling you so," Alyssa brushed her hair behind her ear as she grabbed 3 doggy treats. Alyssa pat her thigh and motioned for Sunnie to follow her into the living room, the pup obeying with a happy yip.
"Alright sweet girl, sit?" Sunnie did so, her tail moving back and forth joyfully. "Good girl!" and the dog was fed a treat.
"Ok Sunnie, lie down." Sunnie was awarded another treat after she let out another yip and lay on her stomach.
"Catch," Alyssa tossed the final treat into the air and with a small leap the malamute quickly claimed it with a snap of her mouth. Alyssa laughed heartily and gave her beautiful dog a rob in between her ears before moving to make herself breakfast. Today was the first day of high school and she was too nervous to eat yet too anxious not to. She wasn't even able to make it to freshman orientation day so she was completely unprepared. No locker, no books, no classes.
Today would also be the first time she saw Peter and Ned in person. It's been a month since she saw them in person, considering all the adults in her life were rushing around trying to make sure nothing would go wrong once she went back to school.
"Lisa?"
"Hey mom," the girl greeted as the woman made her way down the stairs.
"How are you feeling?" Alyssa hummed as her mother cupped her face gently, her calloused yet warm hands easing the anxious feeling in the girl's stomach.
"I'm fine, just a little nervous."
"You'll be great, everyone will love you," she rubbed her daughter's smooth cheek and Alyssa chuckled.
"It's high school I really doubt anyone will actually care."
"They do. Just not for long," Leo bounded down the stairs with his backpack on his back and his duffle bag in his hand; poking out of the large Midtown High duffle bag was two baseball bats.
Midtown High wasn't technically known for its athletically inclined students, but it didn't mean there weren't any. Leo had made his way onto varsity after his freshman year. He was one of the only left handed players on the team aside from a senior who didn't start and was one of the best first basemen in the city, according to their mom's raves.
"You have practice on the first day?" Bianca questioned as she moved around the kitchen, Leo dropping his duffle bag by the door and giving Sunnie a quick pet.
"Tryouts after school. They're today and tomorrow," he grabbed a banana from the fruit basket.
"Isn't baseball season in the spring?" Alyssa asked with a mouthful of cereal and her mother gave her a swat on her arm for talking with her mouth full.
"Doesn't mean we don't practice," Leo took a bite of his banana and ran a hand through his hair. The boy had cut it the beginning of sophomore year and it was now neatly styled in a way that Alyssa couldn't make fun of. "You doing your running thing?"
"I think I'm gonna join cross country. I wasn't able to sign up because of," a motion to her third eye and Leo nodded, "Might even do track in the spring."
"Well worry about that later, you have to be at school early to get all your stuff," Bianca gathered up Alyssa's finished cereal bowl and Leo made to throw his banana peel away.
"Are we picking up the other two?" Leo questioned, grabbing his duffle bag and grabbing his lanyard of the hook the wall. Making sure his car keys were there, Leo looked at the clock and glanced at Alyssa when they noticed how early it really was.
"Um no...I'll just see them at school. I kinda wanted it to be a surprise."
"You sure?"
"Yeah, yeah I'm sure."
"Lisa."
Both teens turned to their mom and the woman held up a small case that looked like it was meant for contacts. Alyssa nearly forgot about concealing her third eye considering she didn't need to do it in the tower or at home.
"Oh right."
Grabbing the case, Alyssa opened it and took out the two small buttons residing within. With a press to her temple and then to her other one Alyssa secured them in place, then with one press of a button Alyssa's third eye was hidden from view. They had tried to use her illusionary powers to keep it hidden, but when she got to nervous her powers would wear off. For now a holographic reflection of her skin would do.
"There you go," Bianca looked between her two kids and tried not to think about the worst case scenario, "You two go...be great!" she said with a clap of her hands and Alyssa laughed while Leo playfully rolled his eyes.
"Gotchu mom."
"Okay ma."
Bianca couldn't help it and gathered the two into a hug. "Be careful okay?" Both teens wrapped an arm around their mother in return. Alyssa nodded into her mother's shoulder while Leo patted the woman's back in reassurance. Sunnie happily bound around their legs, wanting to be included as well.
"We'll be fine mom, it's just high school," Alyssa joked as they pulled away from the group hug. Alyssa quickly gave Sunnie a kiss goodbye.
"Maybe that's why I'm so worried."
Alyssa let out another laugh and soon the Andrade siblings were out of the door.
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