"Remind me again why I didn't just apparate and meet you all at the airport." Hermione groaned as they hit another pothole jostling them all in the way too small yellow beetle.

Steve and Sam were sitting in the front set while she and Bucky had squeezed themselves into the back. She had thought it made more sense for Sam to sit in the back with her given that they were the two smallest, but Bucky wasn't having it and crawled in behind her. She wanted to laugh at his blatant act of possessiveness but just let it go for now.

"Because you wanted to experience riding in a cracker box for yourself?" Sam questioned smirking at her in the rear view mirror.

She chuckled before groaning again when the next bump practically bounced her into Bucky's lap. Steve had hissed out an apology but she didn't blame him, she was pretty certain there were no shocks on the dilapidated old VW. She turned her head to apologize to Bucky but he was grinning at her and bouncing his eyebrows so she just rolled her eyes before returning her ass to the seat.

They pulled through the parking garage and continued going up until they reached an empty level. Steve pulled the car in a spot and parked. They took turns crawling out of the car, Hermione gratefully taking Stevs offered hands as she crawled through the front seat out onto the concrete. She squeezed his hands in thanks before roping them so she could use her hands to press against the car's boot and stretch. She groaned as her spine cracked with the movement and laughed when she saw the other three men doing the same. If the ride was rough on someone her side she couldn't imagine what it was like for three grown men, two of which were much larger than your average male.

They waited in silence until the squeak of wheels approaching on the asphalt alerted them to a vehicle heading their way. A big white van came into focus and pulled in next to them, roughly three spaces down. The driver door opened and shut and a man walked around the front coming to stop in front of them.

"Cap." He greeted with a nod and a small smile as he took in the group. He sends the same nod to Sam and Bucky before turning to Hermione.

"Ah baby Stark. It's a pleasure to meet you. Natasha has told me all about you." He said and reached a hand out for her to shake.

She took the hand offered and gave him a friendly smile. "Mr. Barton, the pleasure is all mine."

Clint's eyebrows shot up his forehead. "OK maybe Nat didn't tell me everything considering she left out the fact you're british!" he laughed and hearing the sound of it Hermione joined him.

She had heard a lot about Clint Barton aka Hawkeye throughout her years. He was a definition Shield agent for years, but then surprisingly had a secret family tucked away no one knew about. She wondered if he and Tony realized they were similar in that regard. Looking at him now she assumed maybe he did, but Tony probably didn't put it together.

"We're sorry to pull you out like this, but you know we would have never called if it wasn't important." Steve said as Clint moved to open the door, letting the woman in the passenger seat out.

He waved him off. "No problem, you're doing me a favor. Plus I owe a debt."

"Wanda." Steve nodded to her. "Thanks for having my back."

She rolled her eyes. "It was time to get off my ass." She approached Hermione with an odd look on her face. Hermione having been excited to meet her met her half way. They both reached out their hands at the same time and allowed the other to sense their powers. Wanda startled looking surprised at what she was sensing. Hermione smiled and let out a pleased chuckle. It appeared she was right about the extent of the powers that made up the scarlet witch. While she held no magical powers she was full of supernatural ones. She wouldn't be surprised to know she had some squibs in her family tree and that whatever experimentation that was done on her and her brother was successful because of this. Yes, Wanda was powerful, and she didn't even know if the girl had realized the full extent to her powers yet.

The two girls were interrupted by a clearing of the throat and bth blushed when they turned to see Steve and Clint staring at them amused.

"What about the new recruit?" Steve asked seeing they were one short.

Wanda sighed and shook her head while Clint groaned, moving to throw open the van doors.

"I have no idea where you found him. Wouldn't shut at first, then tanked. We had to force some coffee down his throat once we arrived but he should be raring to go." He said sarcastically as he threw the door open startling the man laying across the bench seat.

"WOAH!" He shouted trying to get his bearings. "What time zone is this?"

Hermione had moved back to their car to pull out their bags from the trunk. Bucky had come up beside her and was helping her to take out Sams and Steve's equipment. They heard Steve being introduced to Scott Lange and silently shook in laughter as he embarrassed himself over and over again. Even from her spot she could see the blush on Steves cheek as the man fawned over him.

Steve cleared his throat and explained that technically this mission was outside of the law, and that if he went along with them he could potentially get in trouble if they were caught. He was sure Sm had explained that to him before he but he just had to hear agreement for himself. He felt bad enough dragging the others into this, he didn't want them going in blind.

"Well luckily I am used to working outside the law."Scott replied with a self deprecating shrug.

Hermione scoffed. "Mr. Lang I do hope you aren't talking about the VistaCorps incident." Her voice makes the others turn towards them. Scotts face bore a surprised expression, one at the british accent, and two at her knowing who he was at all.

He did a double take between her and Steve a few times before he comically shook himself and walked over to her with a hand raised.

"Sorry, not used to having any of the big guns actually know who I am." He said with a self deprecating chuckle. "And I am afraid we haven't been introduced, even if you know me by my less than stellar criminal record."

Hermione shook his hand before giving him a smile. "Hermione Granger, and in Britain we are big on the Robin Hood types. You steal from the rich to give to the poor, that's legendary to us." She winked. "Plus I was always a fan of the way you drove your former employees car into his pool." She wiggled her eyebrows with a laugh.

Scott let out an embarrassed chuckle rubbing the back of his neck with his hand. He looked around to see the others looking at him with raised eyebrows and amused expressions.

"Yeah well at least my party tricks have gotten better over time."

Steve clapped his hands and got their attention, grabbing his shield from the hood of the car.

"Alight lets get going. Barton, did you get a chopper lined up?"

Clint nodded poised to respond when the overhead speakers went off, speaking in German. She sighed, lifting her head in frustration at the words and Bucky cursed under his breath.

"They are evacuating the airport." Bucky said when he noticed the others didn't understand.

"Which means…?" Scott asked.

"My brother is here." Hermione groaned at the same time Steve said "Stark."

Steve and Hermione walked side by side under an underpass and then hurried towards the helicopter that was waiting for them. They were less than 100 feet from it when an electro-disabler was shot onto the top of it. They watched as the sparks fried the systems. They looked up to see Tony in his iron man suit landing with Rhodey dressed as war machine.

"Wow, it's so weird how you run into people you know at the airport. Don't you think that's weird?" Tony said as the faceplate lifted and he approached them.

"Definitely weird." Rhodey answered. "Hello again MiMi, lovely to see you, you know you look entirely too pretty to be hanging around an old airport." He flashed his boyish grin and Hermione shook her head.

"Rhodes I told you not to flirt with my sister, especially not when I want to knock her head in. What the hell were you thinking?" He had turned to Hermione and his voice rose with every word.

Steve took a step in front of her raising his hands. "Tony stop, listen to us for a minute. The doctor, the psychiatrist, he is behind all of this." He was rushing to explain when a pop to their lft had Blaise and T'Challa appearing in his Black panther suit.

"Captain, Hermione." He greeted them both coolly.

"Your highness." Hermione gave a cheeky boy that drew a smirk out of Blaise.

Tony rolled his eyes and cleared his throat. " Anyway, Ross gave me 36 hours to bring you and your little group of misfits in. That was 24 hours ago." He looked over at hermione. "Can you help a brother out?

"You're after the wrong guy." Steve growled before Hermione could answer. She reached up to grab his hand and hold him back, knowing he was protecting Bucky from their reach. The movement did not go unnoticed by Tony whose eyes locked in on the action.

"He's right Tones." Hermione pleaded.

Tony pointed between their connected hands and her. A judging look on his face.

"Your judgment is askew." He said to her before rounding on Steve. "And your old war buddy killed innocent people yesterday."

Steve growled letting go of Hermione's hand to reach behind him and grab his shield, preparing himself for the inevitable fight. "And there are five more super soldiers just like him! I can't let the doctor find them first, Tony. I can't!"

Seeing his extreme aggravation as well as his defensive pose Natasha tried speaking to him directly. "Steve . . . you know what's about to happen. Do you really wanna punch your way out of this one?"

Before Steve could answer Tony let out a loud groan.

"We don't have time for this." He cupid his hands around his mouth and shouted "Underoos!"

In a move no one saw coming, a small figure swung over the head of the group before shooting a white substance from his wrist that grabbed Steves shield a millisecond before a second blast encased Steves hands in the substance. Hermione jumped in shock looking at the mysterious goo deciding that it quite reminded her of spiderwebs.

"Nice job kid!" Tony addressed the blue and red clad form sitting on a scaffolding near them.

"Thanks. Well, I could've stuck the landing a little better. It's just the new suit… Well, it's nothing, Mr. Stark. It's-it's perfect. Thank you." the boy stumbled out. Hrmione felt her head swivelling back and forth between her brother and this new person.

"Yeah, we don't really need to start a conversation." Tony groaned, rubbing his face with his metal hand.

"Okay. Cap . . . Captain. Big fan, I'm Spider-Man." he boy pointed to himself and despite being confused Steve found himself nodding back to him.

"Yeah, we'll talk about it later. Just . . ." Tony sounded completely done now.

The boy didn't notice and raised a hand to wave at them all "Hey, everyone."

Hermione, able to get past her shock of his entrance turned to her brother with narrowed eyes. The ends of her hair sparkled with rage.

"ANTHONY STARK! IS THAT A CHILD?" She pointed at Peter up on the scaffolding who shied back at the anger in his voice.

Tony glared up at Peter now placing the blame of his scolding on him. " . . . Good job. Now I am in trouble."

"You've been busy." Steve said seeing the impressive group Tony had gathered, even now knowing the new recruit was a child he was impressed as he hadn't been able to free his hands yet.

Tony turned to Steve and glared at him. "And you've been a complete idiot. Brainwashing my sister with your good guy persona, dragging in Clint. 'Rescuing' Wanda from a place she doesn't even want to leave, a safe place. I'm trying to keep . . . I'm trying to keep you from tearing the Avengers apart."

"You did that when you signed." Steve said calmly.

Tony scoffed, looking at Steve in disgust. "Alright, We're done. Hermione you are going to go back with the prince and your people. You are going to forget any of this even happened." Then he directed the rest to Steve. "You're gonna turn Barnes over, you're gonna come with us. NOW! Because it's us! Or a squad of J-SOC guys . . . with no compunction about being impolite.

Come on."

Hermione felt bad when she heard the exhaustion in her brother's tone. She could see in his eyes he was honestly worried about how this would play out. She looked at the group that was gathered around him. He had some prize fighters on his side. T'Challa was something else entirely, she knew he and Steve had gone head to head before and it was an even match. Tony and Rhodey both had their suits which provided them with excess strength as well as fire power and flight. Natasha was a force to be reckoned with. What she lacked in powers or gadgets she made up for in skill. Looking at her now though, hHermione had a feeling she wasn't exactly sold on being on Tonys side of this. Then there was the new kid and she didn't know what he could do yet but was impressed by what little she had seen. She let her eyes drift to Blaise and saw he was already watching her.

He raised a brow as if questioning her as what she was going to do. She knew he didn't have a dog in this fight, he would help T'Challa to the best of his ability but he wouldn't harm anyone. Nor would she, They had an unfair advantage and both of them would only use magic to help or shield. With a simple nod and half smile they made the silent connection that they both agreed on that.

Steve didn't answer Tony as his comm went off in his ear.

"We found the quinjet, It's in hangar five, north runway."

Steve looked at Hermione, trying to read her face for her agreement to proceed with their plan. She gave him a tiny nod and a half smile. He returned it before facing Tony again.

"Alright let's do this."