Jake met me on the sidewalk with a worried look on his face. "Peggy, are you sure about this?" He asked.
I plopped down the last step. "Yeah, I'm sure about this." I said. "I am going to punch Rylen in the fricken nose and kick Tyler where the sun don't shine."
Jake laughed. "I am going to laugh when that happens." He wrapped his arm around my waist with his hand protectivly on my scar.
We walked for a few moments in silence to Sophie and Lucas' house. "Oh! They're sending Rylen up to Asgard after school today." I told Jake.
Jake's eyes got as big as quarters. "Really? Oh Anna isn't going to like that."
Before I could respond, Sophie and Lucas came running out of the house. "Peggy! You don't have a wheelchair anymore!" Sophie tackled me with a hug.
"Hey Sophie." I said. "I see you've noticed." I took Jake's hand and we started walking again. "They're sending Rylen up to Asgard today after school."
Sophie and Lucas nodd. "Do you think she'll change?" Lucas asks.
I shrugged my shoulder. "I have no idea, though I'm going to punch her in the face if she says anything today."
Sophie cracks a smile and Lucas plugged in his earphone's to listen to music. We walk in silence again until we meet Scar and Anna who are furiously making out at their stop.
"Hey, um. You guys? Um, detach for a moment." I call out.
They both pull away, red faced. "Whoops." Anna muttered and then gasped. "You're not in a wheelchair!" She took Scar's hand and pulled him over to us. "What happened?"
I laughed. "I walked?" I said and rolled my eyes. "Come on, we're going to be late for school."
We started walking until we reached the courtyard, Rylen's group still blocking the doorway. Anna makes a growling sound in the back of her throat but I stop her as Rylen and Tyler step out as usual.
"Hey look! Ms. America." Rylen said. "And she's out of her wheelchair! Oooh, so dangerous."
Tyler, who looks nervous continues. "Yeah..." He clears his throat. "Like she couldn't beat me up."
Okay, that was it. I stormed over to Rylen and punched her right between the eyes, after I heard a satisying crunch from her nose and her hitting the ground, I moved on to Tyler.
"You son of a bitch." I kicked him between the legs and punched him in the eye. He crumpled like a paper bag.
Jake ran up to me. "Peggy, that was amazing." He said and hugged me.
I laughed and took his hand and we walked to class like there was no care in the world. Mr. Langdon didn't even look at us funny when Rylen came in with a broken nose and Tyler with a black eye. I think he knew they deserved it. So I listened to fake facts about Ironman until PE.
"Hey Babe, you ready to do some boxing?" Jake wrapped his arm around my waist.
"Hell yeah! That means I get to punch Rylen even more." I said as we parted for the lockerooms.
Jake laughed. "Don't get too carried away." He said and walked into the lockeroom.
I laughed silently and fallowed the maze of lockers until I reached mine where Sophie and Anna were already changing.
"Hey Peggy!" Sophie said. "Ready for some boxing?"
"Yeah! Another reason to punch Rylen." I said and started changing into my PE clothes.
Anna laughed and tied her running shoes. "Count me in on that."
After we got our PE clothes on, we walked into the gym to see that punching bags had been set up everywhere.
I whistled. "This is my kind of party." I muttered under my breath as we reached Jake, Skaar and Lucas.
"Hey Peggy, they only have a number of punching bags so try not to break them." Jake said.
I laughed. "I think that's impossible for me." I kissed his cheek. "Are you guys comeing to train after school? I have a new idea that will help us train like a team." I said.
They all nodded. "Wait, even I have to train?" Skaar asked.
I nodded. "Excersizing is a way to blow off steam, which in your case is a good thing."
Anna laughed. "Oh we won't want that to happen would we?"
Skaar cracked a smile. "Oh shut up." He muttered and punched Anna in the shoulder. "See! I'm blowing off stress right now!"
We all laughed and turned our attention to Coach Jackson who was yelling at Rylen for comeing in late.
"- a bloody nose is no excuse for comeing in late because 'you couldn't bare the pain'!" He yelled.
"I couldn't see because I got blood in my eyes!" She yelled back. "This school is going to hell!"
Coach sighed through his nose and turned to the class. "Okay, anyway. We are going to start boxing!" He paused as the class groaned. "Yeah keep whining." He said. "Peggy's going to come up here and show us how it's done." He nodded to me.
I taped up my hands and walked to the punching bag in the middle of the room. "You want to tape up your hands so that the punching bag doesn't tear the skin." I paused an held the bag with my right hand. "Which ever is your strongest arm, you punch that first."
I demonstrated by throwing a couple of punches at the bag while Coach held it down. "See, the trick is to dodge it once and a while- you can let go now." I punched with a my anger and soon the bag flew off the hook.
"Wow." Coach Jackson said. "That was amazing."
I nodded and tightned the tape around my wrists. "I go through about three punching bags a day."
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So at the end of the day, we got to have a little match between me and somebody else. Coach picked Hannah Luis because she was the only one(excluding the avengers) that could knock down a bag. She only knocked down one, I think she's on steriods.
I taped up my hands and slid on my boxing gloves as Jake put my mouth gaurd in.
"Okay ladies, I want a good clean fight, if your down for ten seconds you're out. Three minute rounds." We bumped hands and he blew his whistle. "Go!"
We circled each other, Hannah scowled at me and punched. I dodged and punched at her face. Hannah was too slow to dodge it and got punched in the nose by my left hook. She went down but scrambled back up. She punched at my throat and I blocked it and punched her gut and few times and then in the face. She went down and was down for five seconds, six, seven, eight, nine, ten! I had won.
Coach scowled like he had faith in Hannah who drowsley lifted her head up. "My head hurts." She mumbled and touched her split lip. "Owie." Her boyfriend Marcus helped her up and started walked to the nurses office.
Jake clapped me on the back. "Nice job." He took my mouth gaurd out. "You couldn't of gone easier on her?"
I slid my boxing gloves off and started unwrapping my hands. "Hey, if she could knock down a bag then she could knock down me if I let her."
Jake smiled. "Well, she's just a normal kid you know."
I shrugged. "Oh well. She was punching me too." I stood up and started walking to the lockeroom.
Jake pecked me on the lips and parted for the boys lockeroom. I ran to my locker and changed in like thirty seconds because the bell for art was going to ring in a minute. I ran into art right as the bell rang and slid into my seat in the back.
"No change today class, keep working on your projects." Mrs. Wanker said after she called roll.
I took out a blank sheet of paper and I began to draw Anna and Skaar is action. Anna had her full battle dress on and Skaar was in full hulk form. Anna had her hand out for her hammer and Skaar held a Chatauri in each hand. I took out my green to shade in Skaar when Mrs. Wanker walked over.
"Oh my goodness Peggy, this is amazing." She gushed. "It almost looks just like a picture!"
I blushed. "Thanks."
"You've got some serious talent, have you thought of going to art school?" She asked.
That sounded just like what Mr. Bledsoe said. "No, I'm going to join the army."
Mrs. Wanker pulled a seat from the table infront of me and sat down. "My husband is in the Army. Colonol actually, I haven't seen him in a year."
I looked up from the picture. "Really? Is he alive?"
Mrs. Wanker nodded with tears in her eyes. "Yes, he sends me letters every week. I think you are really brave to join the army."
I nodded. "It runs in the family."
Mrs. Wanker laughed and wiped her eyes. "Of course it does. I bet you've been thinking about serviving since forever."
I nodded. "It's all I want to do."
So my last classes were a blur. I just remember Jake meeting me at the end of the day to walk home to train. I had so many excerzizes to try with them that my Dad had taught me.
"Did you guys now that Mrs. Wanker's husband is in the army?" I asked as we walked home.
"No, why?" Jake said.
"Because she asked if I ever thought of going to art school and I said I wanted to join the army. She said her husband is a Colonol and she hasn't seen him in a year."
"Wait, you want to join the army?" Lucas asked.
"No dur dipshit." Sophie smacked him upside the head. "Do you know who her Dad is?"
Lucas rubbed his head. "Sorry." He said sarcasticly.
I laughed and swung Jake's hand. "Do you really think I would go to art school instead of joining the army?"
Lucas blushed and looked down. "I thought it was kind of odd."
We all laughed as I opened the door to my house. "Dad! I'm home!"
There was no answer but there was a note on the table which read:
Peggy,
I was assigned with a mission and I won't be home for a couple of days, the mission is in Russia and Natasha is with me along with Clint, Sophie and Lucas are going to stay with you. Try not to bust some heads, love you!
Dad.
I looked over at Sophie and Lucas. "Did you know about this?"
They looked confused. "About what?" Sophie asked.
I showed them the note. "That they went on a mission." I said.
Sophie shook her head. "No, it must've been last minute."
I nodded and clapped my hands. "Are you ready to train?"
