3:00am, Friday, June 13, 2014

"WAKE UP!"

"Shut up" MJ groans flinging her pillow at Ned's head.

Ronnie pulls MJ's legs off the bed. "C'mon. You said you would help"

"A seance on Friday the thirteenth. You're just asking for a ghost to appear" Henry mumbles.

"Let's go MJ" Shuri pulls MJ off the bed. "You're worse than my cousin"

Xander rolls his eyes. "Peter's done setting up. Come on"

"Fine" MJ playfully punches Shuri as they walk to the living room.

"Is your mom okay with this?" Peter asks Xander as they enter.

"You ask like we actually follow what she tells us to do off the battlefield."

Shuri snorts, "cause they don't" Shuri joins the circle of friends. "So what are we going to ask?"

"Are the next few Star Wars movies going to be as good as the originals?" Ned suggests.

"Are we ever going to see One Direction?" Shuri and Ronnie say. Henry gives the two of them a 'seriously' look. "What? We all have our priorities."

"How about if we'll all survive high school?" Everyone nods at Xander's suggestion. Apart from Shuri, high school is a main worry for all of them since the triplets are starting ninth grade and the rest are starting eighth.

They all hold hands as Ronnie tells the lights to dim.

"Spirits are you there?" Ned asks.

"It's not an ouija board genius" MJ tells him, rolling her eyes.

A puff of purple smoke emerges from the center of the floor. "You dare summon me" the smoke says. The sevens' eyes shoot open as they scurry away from the smoke. "Silly humans, you shall pay for this" he turns to a wide-eyed Henry "I have my eye on you" The smoke pushes MJ and Ronnie to the floor as it seemingly flies out the window.

Peter runs over to help MJ and Ronnie stand up. "You guys ok?" Ronnie nods, looking at her brothers with a similar expression to them.

"What the hell was that?" Ned asks.

"No idea" Shuri breathes heavily.

"Get Mom" Henry tells Shuri. Shuri runs into the master bedroom. It's a little strange that the noise wouldn't have woken Natasha up already. She opens the door to see the bedroom, but no redhead. "Natasha?" She calls out to the empty room. No open doors. The window has the lock turned. A few seconds pass of her staring at the empty bed. What the heck is going on? A call from Ronnie brings her out of her mind. She exits the room with a somewhat scared expression on her face. "She's gone" she tells them.

"What do you mean she's gone?" Ned asks panicked. "Are we here alone? Did someone kidnap her? We should go call the police?"

"NO!" The triplets stop him. "That's exactly what we can't do"

"Ronnie. Where is your dad?" Peter asks quietly.

"I don't know. Probably a tundra"

"What? Is he going sledding on the frisbee?"

"Peter" Xander and Henry interject.

"Yeah yeah, sorry not the time."

"Why would your Dad be in a tundra?" Ned asks.

The five turn their heads towards Ned and MJ. Yeah, they might've forgotten that they didn't know about their or Steve and Natasha's occupations. Henry and Xander nod at Ronnie, there's no point in them not knowing now.

"It's kinda, well really complicated, but long story short our parents are Natasha Romanoff and Steve Rogers. Also Xander and Shuri have the abilities of panthers and I'm basically a Russian female form of Captain America. I know it sounds crazy, but the three of us were the ones spotted in DC during that HYDRA fiasco" Ronnie tells them. She was a little worried that they would be angry that they weren't told earlier though they did it for their own good. But, if they didn't tell them now, it would cause more harm not knowing. "Ned are you ok?"

Ned nods, still processing the information.

"Really, cause I was only like 48 percent sure" MJ says, face morphed into a half surprised half normal badass expression. Henry raises his eyebrows, not being able to tell if she was lying or not.

"Well what do we do about this?" Ned finally asks.

Ronnie takes out her phone and hands it to Shuri. "Get the apartment on lockdown, try to get in contact with Sam. If he doesn't pick up, try to get Carter. If it can get Mom, there's no saying of it's abilities. I need to go hack into CCTV. Xander, call Nakia and see if she has gotten any reports about whatever the heck this is recently. Ned, come with me"

"Should we call Laura, if this is HYDRA?" Xander asks.

"No" Henry answers, gaining everyone's attention. "I don't know why but I know what it is. It's like a spirit. It's not physical. I kind of felt something strange while it spoke to me, like it was only speaking to me. It didn't seem fake though. It was just mysterious. Something like what possessed Ororo, but it's already created."

"I'm really regretting getting up now" MJ whispers to herself.

"Like a myth?" Peter observes.

"Well, Mom and Dad have dealt with aliens and a brainwashed World War 2 soldier. This wouldn't be the strangest thing to happen" Henry contemplates something else for a second. "I've been doing some research on how my dad died. He just disappeared. What if it has something to do with my blood or something."

"Do you remember which house you grew up on Bleeker?" Peter asks.

"Maybe if I saw it" Henry sighs.

"Your mom couldn't have lived there alone." Ronnie points out.

Henry sits on the couch and starts putting on his shoes. "Now that I think about it, there were some other people there. I don't remember them and I doubt they would remember me."

MJ tosses Ronnie her boots, showing Ronnie's super athleticism for reflexes. "Seriously, how did we not notice that?" Ned shrugs.

"Are you gonna be ok?" Ronnie rubs Henry's shoulder.

"Yeah" he puts his hand over hers. "If they say anything wrong you can go full out mom on them"

"Sam didn't answer and Fury has Carter doing something for him" Xander informs the group. "Looks like we're on our own for this."

"Do you want us to come with or should we go home?" Ned asks.

"You can come with if you're comfortable with that. Otherwise, nobody can know. Not even your parents." Xander answers.

"Are you kidding? A mission with the kids of Captain America. Of course I want to come." "This makes you a little less of losers."

The triplets smile a little. To MJ, calling someone less of a loser is either an insult or a compliment, so they choose to believe the latter.

Shuri puts her braids into a high ponytail, mimicking how Ronnie stands the best she can for just getting up. "First coffee, then we'll find Natasha"

"You're ridiculous" Ronnie laughs.

"C'mon, let's go solve a mystery" Ned shouts.

"Yes, like the Mystery Gang" Peter high-fives him while MJ questions her life choices.

"Let's go before we miss the train."