"Time travel." I said in disbelief

"Yes, time travel." Whatever the fuck Fury is smoking, I want some.

"Time travel?" I raised an eyebrow. They couldn't be serious, they had to be messing with me.

"Yeah Bonnie, time travel." Tony confirmed.

"Time travel." I repeated shaking my head.

"YES BONNIE WHAT IS IT ABOUT THE CONCEPT OF TIME TRAVEL THAT YOU CAN'T MOTHERFUCKING UNDERSTAND?!" Fury yelled.

"ALL OF IT! IT'S ONLY POSSIBLE IN MOVIES. IT'S LITERALLY JUST A CONCEPT AND IF I DO FUCKING TRAVEL BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS IN TIME WE RUN THE RISK OF CREATING A GREAT, BIG, MOTHERFUCKING PARADOX." I yelled back.

"Right." Stark clapped his hands together. "I see where you're coming from. We've actually been working on the technology a while. And S.H.I.E.L.D just so happens to have the most state of the art tech in the business. And how do I know this? Well Fury my one eyed friend you really should consider getting a better firewall on your computer network."

"You've got to be fucking kidding me." I said out loud. Seriously I still don't believe this crap.

"Nope, all real Princess." He grinned at me.

"Alright, let's just say for arguments sake I believe you and you're crack pot story, what's the plan then?" I perched on a table.

"We send you back in time with some files and our notes and some evidence to prove you're from the future and then you go find the old doctor and get him to tell you all his secrets. Then you zap yourself back here, we make the serum and boom. Instant hero. Also, see if you can get some blueprints off my dad."

"Oh yeah because I'm totally not going to look suspicious as fuck and then get myself arrested or accused of being a spy. Plus time travel? Who wouldn't believe in that?" I said sarcastically. "And how exactly am I going to get back, huh?"

"That's easy. I'm going to go with you to calibrate the device that'll send you back. Plus it's not like anyone else can go. Steve being there would fuck with the space time continuum, Tasha's Russian so she'd get accused of being a spy. And Barton had no clue what's going on so it's just you princess."

"Why can't you just go?" I asked.

"I'm not a people person. Plus I'd probably just end up punching my dad in the face." He answered honestly.

"Okay then. Fine. Fine. Let's do it. It's the dumbest plan I've ever heard but let's do it."

"Great. Capsicle, you and Romanoff take Bonnie down to the shooting range. I wanna get her to learn to use the weapons I designed for her." Tony ordered practically skipping over to one of his work benches.

"Time travel." I said again.

"Bonnie you're beginning to sound like a broken record." Steve commented as we were standing a few hundred meters away from the target.

"Sorry, I'm just absolutely baffled. Also why is all my stuff pink?" I was rather annoyed at that.

"Probably so it doesn't get mixed up with the rest of our stuff." Tasha replied closing the cabinet and laying down on the ground next to us aiming her own rifle.

"Oh and Bonnie, one more thing, be careful with the recoil." Steve said as he pulled the trigger on his gun. His aim was fucking ace.

Tasha fired next and hit her target bang on in the center. I fired mine and I don't even care where I hit. I was not prepared for the recoil. "FUCK!" I swore.

"Told you." Steve said reaching over and adjusting my grip and hold on the gun.

"I work better with short range and hand to hand. Why do I have to learn to use this thing?" I said firing again and rubbing my shoulder.

"Because the more you know the better. I'm also going to teach you to use the most common guns from the 40s in case you get separated from these ones." Fine he had a point.

Tasha was really impressed with my hand to hand skills. I managed to pin her several times and I'm pretty sure that's hard to do. She also liked my pistol action. I just needed to work on my weight distribution and my long range weapon skills. That last one wasn't going to be fun though.

"So... do I have to do more long range practice?" I asked fluttering my lashes.

"Hell yes you do young lady." Steve answered for Tasha. "You are literally being sent into a war zone you're going to be trained in everything from long range weapons to the art of potato peeling."

"Okay. Should I also be doing some first aid training then?" Poor Steve was worrying out of his mind already.

"NO! Wait. Yes. Yes you should." He replied.

"Maybe not some..." I thought aloud. "Take five guys I've got an idea."

I quick-stepped away before they could stop me, not that they would, and headed for the elevator. Although I preferred the stairs as they made me feel like I was getting there faster, it was not strictly true. It only felt that way as I didn't have to stand and wait around for the elevator.

"Fury what's my cover story?" I shoved open the doors, interrupting whatever it was he was doing.

"Cover story?" He raised the eyebrow we could see. "I wasn't aware a drop in, drop out mission required a cover."

"Can't you get by one sentence without unleashing the sass monster? I didn't even make a comment about your eye patch." He glared at me.

"Fine Agent Carter, why do you think you need a cover?" He asked seemly annoyed.

"Well Captain, Dr Erskine was an incredible scientist and a very smart man. We're idiots if we just think we can drop in, steal his recipe for his blue ice pop and be done with it. Even if we did get the formula it would be encrypted and coded. This mission needs to be one for the long haul. We need to gain his trust. Even if we get the exact formula there is no guarantee we can replicate the serum. I need to be there when he makes it. I need to be there while they're still searching for Steve. Trust me on this Fury, I need a cover."

"She's not wrong." Natasha said from the doorway.

"Of course you followed me." I breathed.

"You know, you're going to need to get better at telling when someone's tailing you Carter. This is a stealth mission after all." She walked up to the group of people pulling pieces off of the time machine and placing them elsewhere. One guy was banging parts against the bench top. If this is what scientists did all day maybe I am cut out for that kind of job.

"Nurse." Peter said from across the room. I wasn't aware he was even here.

"Nurse?" I asked.

"Yeah, nurse." He confirmed. "You'd be needed with Steve's transformation and it's an easy position to gain trust. Plus if you could work on the Doc yourself it'd be even easier, granted you could prove your skills that is."

"I think I have just the way to do that." I replied.

"Great you just need to instantly gain some nursing skill and pray to god you can pull off being a full trained nurse." Fury ever the pessimist.

"Actually," One of the scientists spoke up. I swear I recognized him from somewhere. "We have created a mind-memory enhancing drug. We've used it before but it wore off fairly quickly on our subjects. With Bonnie's already enhanced cell structure she'd either hold it longer or it would flush out of her system faster. And unlike when Stark tried using her as a pincushion, this drug has already been tested. And is safe."

Now I know where I recognize him from. He's the guy I met in the labs a month or so ago. He was just a rookie then, back when I was getting my blood tests done.

"Well alright then." I agreed. Now I am a little uncomfortable with the idea of being injected with a substance I don't know, to do something I don't understand by someone I don't really know but I really don't have much of a choice. Plus Stark didn't mean any harm, he just wanted to help. "Now I need to get back to my weapons training. I'm still getting used to the recoil."

"Bonnie I was thinking, maybe we should team up on this mission, I'm worried about you going alone." Peter said coming over.

"Peter you know we can't do that. For one thing you are a terrible liar so you could never go undercover. That, and the more people we take back in time the more suspicious it becomes."

"I know. I just worry about you." He said holding me tight. He kissed my forehead. "I love you, you know that right? Come back safe Bon Bon."

"I will. I promise." I lied. There was no way I could promise that.

"Okay dad, let me at it." I said holding my stupidly pink, camo print rifle at the target.

"Adjust your stance, remember, like I taught you." He said watching me.

I changed my footing and shifted my posture and angle. "Okay?"

"Okay, good. Now fire."

BANG

I looked into the scope this time and fired again.

"Okay don't fire anymore." He commanded walking over to the target. Even though I was used to it and standing correctly the recoil still hurt like a bitch. I thought Stark specifically made these for me and my weight. Just as he brought back the sheet Stark came in.

"Here, Princess, try these." He handed me some very hard and lightweight shoulder pads. And even though they were hard they felt soft to the touch at the same time. I strapped them on each shoulder and they covered the whole blade and the top of each side of my chest, stopping a my arm pits.

"Thanks."

"You said you were having some problems with the recoil. They'll protect you from that plus they're bullet proof so they'll keep you safe from fatal wounds too." he grinned and tousled my hair. "And when your done you nerd in shining armor is ready for you."

"What's this about a nerd in shining armor?" Steve asked.

"Bonnie's got an admirer." Tony teased.

"I do not." I replied.

"You do too. Lover boy asked Peter if he was you boyfriend after you left."

"And what did he say?" I asked, raising a brow.

"Well he said he wasn't but he should ask Flash."

"That little snot rag." I grunted. "I have half a mind to smack him."

"Wait, I thought you were into Flash." Tony said.

"Well, originally I never was. But then he was really supportive and sweet so I was like yeah maybe this could work out. But no, I asked him out the other day and he said no I don't deserve you so I'm not going out with you till I'm a good enough person. Whatever. Plenty of other fish in the sea."

"Hold up." Steve interrupted. "You're giving up, just like that?"

"Just like what?" Tony asked.

"Like that. At the slightest sign of trouble you're just giving up?"

"I'm not giving up I just don't want to fight against the winds anymore. You can only fight for so long until you inevitably get blown over anyway so I've just decided I don't want the struggle before I get knocked down. The entire world is against us being together so maybe that's the way it should be. Maybe I should just let fate decide."

"Bonnie relationships were never meant to be easy. Fighting against the winds is what makes us alive, standing strong instead of being bawled over makes us human." Steve stepped closer. Wasn't he just saying I shouldn't date Flash? I am so confused.

"But why shouldn't it be easy? Who says everything has to be difficult?" I dropped down to the floor like a 5 year old taking a tantrum. "I don't know, maybe I'll feel different about after the mission. Have some time to clear my head." I sighed. Steve patted my head and went back to the targets letting of some more shots.

"Cheer up princess." Tony said as he strapped on my glorified shoulder pads.