"Wanda Aliona Maximoff…what the HELL are you doing here?!" Natasha yelled, her face red. She marched over to Wanda and put her hands on her hips. "I distinctly remember telling you to stay at the Tower with Peter and Pepper for this one."

"I'm sorry I-" Wanda said, her eyes wide.

"Don't." Natasha simply said. "You're here now. We can't do anything about it. But you will NOT be coming out in the field. You can stay here and stay out of trouble. We will talk about this after the mission." she said sternly. Wanda bowed her head and nodded biting her lip. Natasha tilted the younger girls chin up, forcing her to meet her gaze. Green orbs searching the younger girls face for a second, too many emotions for Wanda to read contained within them. "I'm not angry Wanda. Just disappointed. I'm trying to do this to keep you safe. So I would appreciate if you listened." Natasha said, her voice low and steady.

Wanda nodded again, feeling another hand on her shoulder. "Cmon kid. You can come sit in the main area where we can keep an eye on you." Clint said gently, guiding the girl to the common area.

Natasha rubbed a hand across her eyes. This kid really liked to stress her out. Cap went over and squeezed her shoulder.

"Does she not understand I'm trying to keep her safe?" Natasha said, her voice uncharacteristically fragile.

"Nat, she's a teenager. It's practically encoded in her DNA to disobey adults whilst she's a teen. I know you wanted to keep her away from this mission, and she can stay on the Jet. It's all good." Cap said. "We are landing soon, let's get ready."

What they HADN'T told Wanda was that this mission was tied to HYDRA, which is why Natasha was so keen to keep her away from it. The intel suggested there was a network underground facility at a Mall a couple hours away from the Tower - the Avengers basically had to assess and dismantle the facility.

Natasha picked up a few weapons before heading in to the main room, where Wanda was sulking on the sofa. She walked out, and handed Wanda a small earbud.

"This will link you to the comms. If anything happens here, yell for me, and if anything happens to me in the field I'll let you know…ok?" Natasha said, pressing the bud in to Wanda's ear and looping the wire round the side.

"Ok." Wanda said quietly, meeting Natasha's gaze. "Be careful. Please."

"Always, Little Witch." Natasha said, tucking a piece of Wanda's hair behind her ear and exiting the jet.

Wanda sat in the cockpit of the Quinjet, listening to the conversations of the Avengers over the comms. She knew they were probably keeping the talk to a minimum, so that she wouldn't worry. But it didn't fool Wanda, she knew something was going South. She felt it in her gut, that quite frankly…something was NOT right.

'Shit shit shit shit. Guys. We've got a problem.' Wanda heard Tony's voice ring over the comms, her ears pricked up.

'Language'

'What?'

'Some sort of self destruct bomb has been activated, it's got 5 minutes…guys we won't evacuate everyone in time.'

'Fuck. Ok.'

Wanda's eyes widened. There would be a lot of people in there. Pushing herself off the seat, she marched out of the main room and towards the exit. She could apologise to Natasha later…once she's helped.

The young witch jumped out the jet and ran over towards the scene, where she surveyed what she could do, whilst doing her best to stay hidden.

'Buildings starting to collapse too, everyone evacuate, bring anyone you can with you' Natasha's voice said over the comms. Wanda spotted the familiar red haired woman, running with an uncharacteristically concerned expression.

She knew she didn't have much time, and Wanda decided that if she could get in to the building and contain the bomb with her powers, then there would be less damage and more people would be saved. But she knew the consequences too. She herself would take the brunt of the blast. Wanda felt strangely at ease with that…she had been spending too much time with Natasha.

The girl started to run towards the building, using her powers to boost herself every so often. She kept her mind focussed, ignoring the shouts of her team mates - Wanda even pulled out the comms device.

"WANDS! WHAT THE HELL?!"

"WANDA! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Clint yelled, watching as the girl sped towards the building.

It was Natasha who realised what Wanda was planning to do.

Wanda heard a scream behind her. "WANDA NO!" It was Natasha. She saw her mentor running towards her, as Wanda approached the front of the building. "NO WANDA! GET AWAY FROM THERE."

Wanda silently apologised to her mentor, before slipping in to the building, that was slowly crumbling, Wanda guessed that the bomb was sending off tremors before it's big explosion. She helped the last of the civilians out, using her powers to do a sweep of anyone in there and then bringing them towards the door with little clouds of red swirls. It would've taken way too long without her powers. Once they were out, she saw Natasha dangerously close, and barricaded the door shut so no one else could get in.

She located the bomb almost immediately and moved over to it, seeing there was thirty seconds left. The building was collapsing around her now, it felt like a earthquake. She held her hands up round the bomb and let the red swirls release from her fingertips, she encased the bomb in a shield of red.

She was staring right at the bomb, watching as the timer counted down to her possible death. She just hoped everyone else would be alright. They wouldn't be hurt. That's what mattered. This was just repaying her debts to the team.

It became increasingly harder to contain the bomb, and the building was half collapsed, little pieces of rubble hitting her every so often. She could hear Natasha screaming still. She let a tear slide down her face.

She would be with her family now.

Blood started to trail from her nose due to the exertion, her arms were trembling and her forehead tainted with sweat. Not long now.

0:05…..

0:04…..

She heard Natasha again. "LITTLE WITCH! NO! PLEASE WANDA."

0:03…..

She heard someone trying to get through the door.

0:02….

Her arms were burning, her body was heavy, yet she'd never felt so empowered. She let her powers control her, they were coursing through her veins

0:01….

0:00

Wanda registered a deafening boom, felt as though her skin was being seared off, before she felt herself being blown across the building with an unbelievable force. Her body hit the crumbling wall with a sickening crack and her world was plunged into darkness.