The start of year two is among us! In this chapter we learn off everything that has happened during the time skip, and How the Avengers deal with being less busy these days.

Year two. This "volume" is the last before things kind of split up and the stories I write will become more singularly focused. Currently this series focuses on everybody. S.H.I.E.L.D., the Avengers, The X-Men. But after this next year things will begin to split. Things will be more centrally focused. Instead the Avengers and X-Men sharing this book. There will just be X-Men centric stories, Captain America based stories, Torunn based stories, Spider-Girl based stories, and many more. I'm still questioning if I want to put everything in this one story. Or post them separately. There's a lot however so I'm thinking I might just keep it all in here so it's easy to read.

For this year things should a little calmer, with less moving parts. Closer to a normal comic book, now that I'm not too focused on setting everything up. Hope you guys enjoy this chapter!

YEAR ONE

EAST RUTHERFORD NEW JERSEY, METLIFE STADIUM, JANUARY 9, 2011 , 3:55 PM EST

"LET'S GO GIANTS WOOOO!"

"LETS GOOOO!"

"YEAHHHHH!"

The crowd continued to shout and chant as their favourite team began to get into the supposed victory position.

The Quarterback wasted no time kneeling on the ground and the clock trickled down, getting closer to zero and ensuring New York's favourite football team got the win. The score was currently 24-17. The Giants had led the Saints for nearly the entire game. And the crowd continued to get louder and louder whenever a touchdown was scored, or a big hit, or an interception was made.

It was amazing. And for the Avengers, they hadn't had this much fun in a long time. James, Francis, Torunn, Azari, and Pym stood beside each other, cheering with everyone else. They had gotten tickets to the divisional playoff game, a must see according to Francis. And so the group labeled it a team bonding exercise and headed out just the five of them.

It was a little tricky not getting noticed, but they could be very covert and managed to disguise themselves well enough. They all wore big jerseys, blending into the crowd. Azari covered his distinct tattoos with a hoodie, and Torunn smeared war paint over her face. James hid his hair behind a cap, and Francis and Pym insisted that they could look generic enough without any extra effort.

And they had managed well, allowing the heroes to have a normal Sunday. Because that's what it was. A normal Sunday.

It was crazy to think that this was normal. It was just a few months ago that the entire New York Area was a bunch of metal, and bombs and yet now they were enjoying a football game in the New York snow.

They were lucky, blessed, to be able to enjoy this. All because one teenage boy could apparently warp reality.

It was insane. But you didn't look a gift horse in the mouth. Ever since that day in September the world began to shift, truly shift back to how things had been, in a good way, things began to move extraordinarily fast.

It was a little bit of a hassle in the first month or two, as people who were still alive from before Ultron attempted to migrate back to their respective homes. Airports were full for weeks, even now they were getting an extreme amount of service, but it didn't really matter because people were happy.

Old businesses were back, as well as schools, and other establishments. In some cases it was sad as certain folks weren't around to claim what was rightfully theirs, but in a lot of cases people were going back to a better place.

From September even until now the currency was extremely wonky. From numbers you might have seen in the great depression, to inflation rates James wasn't sure it should have been legal but it is what it is. It was much better than before.

S.H.I.E.L.D. was working overtime. There were so many legalities, and processes the world was lacking at the moment it was almost obscene. Apparently you couldn't just go back and claim your house. And houses weren't supposed to have free utilities and there needed to be tenants, and the produce wasn't supposed to just come back, and the market was ruined, and etc, etc, etc. The United Nations was going ballistic.

But as always the Avengers saw this as a win. It was unfortunate that a lot of people were killed by Ultron and would never be able to reclaim their jobs. But suddenly there were tons of job openings and that was a good thing.

For example during the years of Ultron's reign no one was paying teachers to teach, and even when they killed the murderbot that hadn't changed. Teachers teached, because there was a need, and there had been a lot of people who taught, but hadn't necessarily had a teaching degree.

Well now they were getting employed, and getting paid for their hard work. There had been a lot of people with knowledge, who didn't necessarily have the credentials to back up their status who had stepped up when the world needed them most.

Everyone knew that things weren't going to be perfect, no, but for once it seemed they were at an excess. There were plenty of resources, and plenty of jobs, which they were grateful for. At least people would be able to start living again.

For the Avengers they had moved into the Mansion in no time at all. Setting up shop at their old home, currently the Biodome was mostly empty. It was sad to see, nostalgic at times, but it was better being closer to where everything was.

Thanksgiving had come by quickly and this time they had many friends to share it with. Riri, Amadeus, Jim, And most of the X-Men came down from Westchester to celebrate the occasion. And then of course there was the first Christmas and New Years just passed and things were just great.

The Quarterback kneeled down once more as the ball was snapped and the game ended. The crowd was roaring, electric, and it was honestly beautiful. It was great to care about something as trivial as football again.

"Oh man. We have to do this again sometime." Francis told the group as they exited the stadium, heading to their 'Avengers-Mobile' as Francis had dubbed it. It was just a Kia Sorento but whatever, nobody else knew it was just a plain old car, did they?

"I Agree!" Torunn nodded excitedly "It was amazing. We must go back."

"I had fun," Azari admitted with a smile "The season is almost over though. Maybe we can try another event soon."

"I don't mind." Pym agreed, a small smile, on his face. And you took those where you could get it. The young hero had been going through a lot since learning of true heritage. So getting him to actually enjoy something was a challenge, but one they did their best to make happen.

"We'll see what else is there when we get home. Maybe we can get Riri, Amadeus, Tony, and Bruce to come out next time as well." James added and they all heartily agreed. It was good to not have to worry so much anymore.

As they got to the car, James bolted to the driver's seat, but wasn't fast enough as Francis hopped in first with a laugh.

"Oh come on Francis, I wanna drive." James pleaded as he pulled on the door handle, of course he had locked the car.

"No shot."

"Man, but you drove here."

"As the only adult, on this trip. I believe I will be the only one driving the vehicle. Now get in the passenger."

"Oh man, that hasn't gotten old yet." Pym remarked sarcastically, and James had to agree, but resigned to his fate headed into the passenger seat of the car, whilst the rest hopped in the back.

It seemed like ever since Francis turned 18 a few days ago, he had been pulling the adult card on the others any chance he could.

He wasn't sure what he was gonna do if he had to deal with that for an entire year. That would be hell on earth.

"You know Francis, you only have to be 16 to drive a car." Azari pointed out. But the blonde simply scoffed "You guys were too young so you wouldn't have known but you always let the older person drive. Everyone knows that."

The others simply rolled their eyes at Francis' antics, he was always making something up in jest, making the team laugh as he always seemed to be doing these days. It was fun, but for Torunn she sometimes wondered, what else would they be doing.

They kept up with training, yes. They went out and made appearances at schools, and did public speaking events, and kept spirits high. But honestly they barely had to do that anymore, spirits were as high as they had been in 13 years.

With S.H.I.E.L.D. in the mix they heard less, and less from the government these days. Which honestly was nice, but it also meant they weren't exactly needed. There wasn't the Masters of Evil, or Ultron to deal with so...what to do?

For Torunn. Her instinct was to go to Asgard. She loved Earth, and would stay with the boys if they asked, they were family. But at the same time they were all fairly young, and they didn't have anything to do.

When the Avengers weren't Avenging, what did they do? Well they all had jobs. Tony had been taking care of a Tech empire. Her father was the protector of the nine realms. Black Panther had been the King of Wakanda. Ant-Man had been a brilliant scientist, Janet had been a famous fashion designer. Hawkeye had worked for S.H.I.E.L.D.

Captain America and Black Widow relished their anonymity and raised James in the quiet suburbs. They had fought long enough. Point being that the Avengers had jobs, they had lives outside of superheroing. Something her and the others didn't.

Or well, at least some of them didn't. She was still a princess of an entire realm. She had duties she could attend to in Asgard. And Azari was the Prince, soon to be King of Wakanda. He was probably going to take a trip there in a month or two's time.

It was Francis, Pym, and James she was worried about. What were they going to do when no villains showed up for months on end? Sit around in the mansion? Keep training for a fight that may never come?

They had avoided the conversation long enough but it was time to start thinking ahead. They had never really thought the world could get to this state of peace in their lifetime, and that was a big reason they had forego'd secret identities.

She couldn't imagine enrolling a genius like Pym in 8th grade. Or an international icon like James in the 11th grade. It just didn't make sense. Francis couldn't go to school either. Hiding one day at a stadium with thousands of people was one thing. Doing it in a class of 20 for a year was impossible.

And it honestly worried her. When the Avengers weren't Avenging, What. Would. They. Do? What did they even like? What interested them. She hoped they understood they couldn't be superheroes 24/7. And so as they were stuck in traffic Torunn couldn't help but ask the question she feared they were all dreading. What to do now?

"Guys." Her voice rang out in the quiet of the car, instantly all eyes were on her "I think we should talk about...Well, you know. Our future."

"Mmmm, what about it?" Francis questioned

"Well I'm worried about you guys. Now that things are better, what are you all going to do?"

"What we always do. Train and fight whatever bad guys show up." Francis said with a shrug, but even he seemed to know that was a weak answer.

"You can't do that all the time. There are 12 months in a year. We never fight that long. We haven't fought in a while."

"It's what we have. I don't get to go to the magical kingdom and live life Tor. I have to stay on Earth and figure this stuff out. I don't know."

"I'm not going to school. If that's what you're wondering." Pym jumped in quickly "I can't do school, I've always been homeschooled and that's not changing. Riri and Amadeus have to go but even they are in advanced classes, so I'll continue to do studies online. And I'll just work with Tony in the lab on Stark Tech stuff. I really don't mind it, and I don't consider it superheroing."

"Well...I guess that's okay." She conceded, before turning to look at James who simply sighed "I really don't know. You have to understand...Captain America is my life. It's the only thing I've ever really known."

"Of course James, but Torunn is right. You can't be Captain America 24/7." Azari told his friend honestly

"Yeah, but If I'm not a superhero, what am I? What does James Rogers like, I don't know. He likes fighting and helping people. He doesn't know if he wants to go to school and he's probably never going to know, because he can't."

"We could probably manage it."

"Yeah but...I just don't know. Do I want to be a businessman, or maybe I'll work construction, or maybe I'll go own a bodega, or I dunno know I'll be a fitness instructor. Maybe I'll go work for S.H.I.E.L.D. because honestly I just don't know. I get it. I'm not even 17 yet. There's a lot of life to live, but I don't know what I want to do with it, besides the obvious."

"Well you need to see what interests you." Azari told the Super Soldier "I don't envy your predicament. If I didn't have Wakanda I might be in the same place. We didn't really get a chance to figure out what we like other than fighting and punching people in the face. But maybe Torunn is right and it's time to find out."

"Easier said than done, Azari." Francis said with a sigh, he and James were in the same boat. What to do with life now that they weren't constantly dealing with battles every waking moment of the day?

"Team, come in." Tony's voice suddenly rang out loudly, in their car.

"Tony, what is it?"

"A disturbance in the middle of New York. I'll ping the location. I have a Quinjet flying over near the stadium with your stuff, get it and get ready for a fight."

It was a little ironic, as it had felt like they were done with these things, but it seemed like the fight truly never stopped. And so Francis made a sudden U-Turn and they were off. Ready to fight the world's battles once more.

Life talk could come later. This was now.

HEROES OF TOMORROW

"Alright Tony, what are we looking at?" James questioned as they made it to Times Square, people were running away fear evident in their eyes, and this was not something the Avengers missed.

"They call themselves the Wrecking Crew. They are...Legacy Villains if you want to call them that. Some of the first we've seen since the world has returned back to form."

"Wrecking Crew...It rings a bell. 4 Guys, wildly strong." Francis remembered "Guy with the crowbar is the leader right?"

"Exactly. You have to be quick to stop them from destroying the place. Because they don't seem to be doing anything else."

"Alright. Here's the plan. Torunn you and Wasp-

"Yellowjacket."

"Huh?" James questioned confusedly. He wasn't usually stopped in the middle of an explanation, and definitely not because of some...name change.

"It's Yellowjacket now. That's what I want to be called."

The entire team shared a look of confusion, while Pym kept an even look on his face, clearly not pulling their leg. Each of them had questions they wanted to let fly, but Azari quickly realized they wouldn't have time for that.

"James, you were giving us our roles." He prompted the Super Soldier. James nodded and quickly began to speak again pushing whatever Pym had been saying to the back of his mind.

"Right as I was saying Torunn, you and Yellowjacket focus on Wrecker and Piledriver. Torunn Wrecker is the strongest and the one with the crowbar. Yellowjacket, Piledriver is the one in the white and red. Francis play the distance game, you are our ace, these guys aren't the smartest bunch, and a well placed arrow should be able to knock the crowbar right from Wrecker's hand.

Panther, you and I are dealing with Thunderball and Bulldozer. You take Thunderball, I'll get the huge one, and if you need an assist call for it, alright? Sounds good everybody?"

"Sounds easy enough." Francis spoke and the rest of the team nodded in agreement.

"Great, well then let's go get these guys." James called and the Avengers quickly jumped into action.

Torunn and Pym were the first to go. Pym had quickly shrunken down and landed on Torunn's shoulder and she took off headed straight for the Wrecker and Piledriver. As Torunn got closer to the Wrecking Crew she unsheathed her sword ready to attack Wrecker and Yellowjacket jumped right off her shoulder and grew big before Piledriver's face and blasting him with his Wasp's blast.

It didn't make him hit the ground but it did disorient him and it made Thunderball and Bulldozer look around in wonder.

Wrecker had looked briefly at his partner in crime but it was brief as Arnbjorg was coming down on his face. Just in time he had gotten his crowbar in front of his face and clashed with Torunn's sword. Only using his unnatural strength Wrecker was able to push Torunn back. But even then it hadn't hurt the Asgardian Princess who seemed to be relishing the chance to fight.

Torunn was completely focused on Wrecker and so she didn't pay any attention to Bulldozer who was charging at her from the side. And thankfully as she clashed with Wrecker once more, she didn't have to. Like a freight train James came running in shield first and smashed against the man who was 300 pounds of muscle and he went crashing to the ground.

Azari flew in right after James but Thunderball seemed to have an idea of what was going on and wasn't having any of it, jumping away from the Wakandan

"So you guys think you can take on the Wrecking Crew huh?" Thunderball snarled at Azari, who simply dropped into a fighting stance "Well you're going to regret it!"

The man rushed forward with some speed, but it was nothing out of the ordinary and Azari managed to dodge the ball and chain that made a small crater in the ground. Azari was faster than the man, and had better reflexes. But Thunderball was most definitely stronger, and it was going to take some strategy to knock him down and out.

Azari made a move towards Thunderball once again, flying forward and dodging the ball and chain he threw at him, Thunderball had left himself open and Azari was ready to strike, but suddenly the ball and chain that he had already avoided swerved around unnatural and smashed into Azari sending him flying to the ground.

"Ha. Bet that's gonna leave a bruise aint it?" Thunderball taunted. And the attack had hurt, but it didn't hurt as much as it should considering his vibranium weaved suit absorbed most of the impact. Instead, Azari stood up once more and was ready to fight again this time understanding what he was dealing with.

Thunderball and Black Panther engaged in the dance once again, This time when Azari inevitably dodged the ball and chain he didn't waste time gaining speed through the air and sending a blast of electricity at Thunderball, who while shocked to the core, toughed it out and recalled his wrecking ball. However Azari was also ready for this and turned around mid air and grabbed it's chain and swung it right for Thunderball's face, knocking him down and out.

"Thunderball is down." Azari told the other's "I'm gonna get started on contacting S.H.I.E.L.D."

"You do that." Hawkeye was the first to answer "And Tor, you gotta let me get a good shot in or I'm not sure how I can help you out."

All he got was a grunt in return, but it was as good as he was going to get when she was fighting. Her and Wrecker were almost at a standstill. They had clashed once again and both had come out okay from the exchange of Sword and Crowbar. Each time they clashed they both began to use more power.

Torunn wasn't at her limit yet but she had to admit. This Wrecker was very strong.

"You have no shot girlie." Wrecker began to taunt "I've gone toe to toe with your old man, You're not half the fighter he is."

"Big talk, I'm not the one who's getting tired." Torunn pointed out and it was true, It wasn't that obvious but the hands on hips and loud huffs was indication enough. "Face it, you're out of practice, and no match for my blade."

"We'll see about that!" Wrecker called and charged with his magical weapon. With Captain America he had evaded the man called Bulldozer for the eighth or ninth time. It seemed he had gone into a near berserker rage after he had shoulder checked him into the ground. Now he was just biding his time and waiting for the perfect opening.

Unlike the others, Bulldozer didn't have a special weapon to fight with. Instead he had been given the special armor he wore. But it was obvious Cap's shield and special strength was more than enough to disrupt the man in it.

Bulldozer was faster than the others, and that allowed him to pick up some great speed and ram into his opponents, but his helmet also affected his vision, and it was obvious as there were times he flat out missed Captain America when he could have hit him.

When Bulldozer came rushing towards James once again, it gave him the opportunity to press his advantage. He flipped over the huge man and threw his shield at his back, toppling him to the ground once more. Bulldozer got up and was ready to charge at James once again but instead he was met with the fist of James who simply reared back and punched, nearly as hard as he thought he could.

Bulldozer looked around dazed for a moment, as he stumbled in the street, he tried to look at Captain America and focus on his target but he was seeing stars. "That hurt." he said before he fell to the ground unconscious with no plans of getting back up anytime soon.

"Bulldozer's down." He told the others as he strapped his shield to his back.

"Holy shit!" Hawkeye called on the line "Dude you just like...took him out with one punch. I didn't think you were strong enough to do that."

"Learn something new everyday I guess." James said with a shrug. Truthfully he hadn't thought he could take out Bulldozer with a punch either. He mustered up all his force and he expected it to hurt, but he didn't expect him to get knocked out. But James had been getting stronger every single year. And particularly he did already feel stronger than where he was months ago.

It was something to think about later. "Torunn, Wa-Yellowjacket. Need an assist?"

"No."

"I'm fine."

The two heroes responded quickly. They weren't lying either. Pym easily avoided Piledriver's fists and decided to end the fight before it could go on any longer .He grew to over 20 feet to the surprise of Piledriver and grabbed before throwing him down to the ground creating a Piledriver sized crater.

He then punched him with his massive fists three times, knocking out the older super villain. Torunn saw Piledriver hit the ground and realized it was time for the fight to end. She avoided a swing of the crowbar and kneed Wrecker right in the stomach. He took the hit and stride and smacked her across the face with a crowbar, but she took it like a champ. And this time as she flew forward she purposely went around him leaving him open to Francis who made his first move of the day, a perfect shot of his arrow right at Wrecker's hand dislodging the crowbar from his possession.

He went to dive for the weapon but Torunn was ready and her electrified fists collided with his face sending him careening to the ground down for the count.

"Nice shot Hawkeye." Torunn complimented the archer who hollered back from the rooftops "You know what they say. Teamwork makes the dream work!"

"Indeed it does. And we did a great job." Black Panther agreed "S.H.I.E.L.D. is around the corner, so we should make our targets secure and then we can go home."

"Yeah, go home and talk." James added, looking at Pym who just rolled his eyes and sighed before making sure Piledriver was secure. The rest of the Avengers just couldn't help but be worried. They wanted to make sure Pym was okay, and was it really wrong of them to be worried?

WESTCHESTER NEW YORK, XAVIER'S INSTITUTE, JANUARY 9, 2011 , 4:30 PM EST

"Come on guys, let's ramp up the intensity!" Jessica yelled into the microphone. Her voice blared into the Danger Room that currently held Jesse, Monique, Miyuki, and Liam. It was Jesse and Liam vs Monique and Miyuki and things weren't looking good for the guys.

"If you wanna be an X-Man you gotta fight harder than that!" She yelled again, as Bedlam narrowly avoided getting socked in the jaw by Monqiue.

The Blue, Gold, and GeNext team watched with interest as the four recruits trained. All of them could remember doing the same thing once upon a time, training as hard as they could to make sure they would become X-Men.

It was weird being on the other side of the glass. "Monique is good. Like...really good." Ray commented.

"Yeah, she's so strong." Lily commented, in awe of the girl's immense strength as her fist hammered against Bedlam's energy shield.

"Honestly I think her IQ is the best thing about her. She always makes the right play." Jane added in.

"Dibs." Olivier and Jimmy called at the same time, before glaring at one another "No way Jimmy, We've had dibs on Monique since day one."

"Uh nuh uh. M's been on our radar for months." He argued.

"Boys relax. It doesn't matter anyway. The X-Men are probably just going to assign the four of them to a roster soon enough." Megan interrupted the incoming fight.

"Well, I don't care which one we get either way. They are all very good. It shouldn't be hard to convince the X-Men to let us out now that we have even more covering." Sofia pointed out

"No it shouldn't. But it still doesn't change the fact that there isn't too much to do. Let's face it, we aren't getting sent out, because we don't have to fight." Megan explained to the young and eager heroes

"Exactly, aside from that one weirdo a couple of months ago. We haven't had to deal with much mutant hate or bigotry. For now it seems like we can just take it slow." Talia said

"Yeah, well not fighting is boring." Michael sighed as he watched Liam's blast finally break down Miyuki's forcefield.

"It is." Talia agreed "But we have to remember we train to use our powers so we don't become a danger to ourselves and others. Being an X-Man...Well, it's an assumption that the world is still as much of a nasty place as it was 13 years ago. Not having to fight against mutant hating bigots or some mutant killing robots is a blessing."

"So you think we won't ever have to fight?" Pavel questioned the oldest of them all.

"Well...I didn't say that." Talia offered a smile "I'm just saying guys, we should enjoy the time we have without fighting, because you all will miss this time more than you believe."

"You're probably right." Michael said with a sigh "I wonder what the next thing we end up fighting is going to be anyway."

"Probably whatever the Avengers throw at us." Thomas responded "They seem to know where the fight is."

"Even the Avengers haven't fought anybody in months." Megan pointed out.

"Wrong." Jane said immediately "They're fighting the Wrecking Crew right now." as she lifted up her phone the others immediately crowded around it and watched as the Avengers dismantled the Wrecking Crew.

"You think they...need help?" Jessica asked

"Maybe...I think if we use the Blackbird we can-

"Seriously guys." Olivier interrupted Michael with a scoff "There about 2 minutes away from having them all in cuffs. I get your desperate for some action but jeez."

"Your right, your right." Michael admitted hastily, "Besides, I think the fight down there is over anyway."

The group heroes looked down to the Danger Room to see Miyuki and Monique cornering Liam who was all by himself. He tried to run around them only to be hit by a forcefield, and then Monique grabbed him by the front of his shirt and reared back her fist ready to hit.

"Alright Liam. Call it we won."

"Okay, Okay. You won, now let me go M." Liam conceded. The girl had a big smile on her face and gladly let Liam go. "Woohoo!" She whooped and Miyuki quickly joined her as they jumped around the Danger Room proclaiming her victory.

"Alright Gold Team. It's your turn to go and get the next batch of trainees." Jimmy told them. The five members of the Gold Team quickly left to go critique the young trainees and then bring the next group in.

There might not have been so much action at the moment. But hanging out with their friends. And enjoying everything New York had to offer wasn't so bad either.

MANHATTAN NEW YORK, AVENGERS MANSION, JANUARY 9, 2011, 5:30 EST

"And so as you can see people, the group known as the Wrecking Crew are being apprehended by S.H.I.E.L.D. Unfortunately the Avengers have already left the scene but footage shows that our heroes dealt with the group admirably. It's a New Year but we still find ourselves using an old rhetoric. Thank You Avengers."

Azari muted the TV as the others filed into the living room where he had been watching the news for the past 20 minutes. Everyone had taken some time before they gathered around for this semi-serious meeting.

It wasn't serious enough where they felt Tony or Banner needed to get involved. And Amadeus and Riri didn't need to be involved either. Azari could only hope that whatever Pym told them was good enough, because he seriously didn't know what he was going to do if their little friend was going insane.

"Alright we're all here. And let's just cut the bullshit. Pym tell us what's going on? Why the sudden name change?" Francis started before he had even taken his seat.

It wasn't how the others might have said it, but it was basically what they were all thinking, so they turned to Pym looking for answers.

"Look there is no BS about this. Like I told you before we fought the Wrecking Crew. This is really just my choice. Yellowjacket. I like it."

"So you switched names because...You liked this one better?" Francis questioned skeptically.

"Giant-Man just isn't honest enough, I'm not Giant nearly enough to justify the use of that name. Ant-Man well...Let's be honest, I never explored the Ant side of my heritage very much. And Wasp well it's okay, but Yellowjacket is cooler. So I switched to Yellowjacket."

Pym couldn't help but smile as he saw the dumbfounded looks on his friends faces "Look I told you guys after everything I was fine and I meant it. I'm okay, I just...switched names. If it's a problem I'll switch back."

"No. It's fine." James insisted "I guess we were all just surprised Pym, but we should have taken you at your word. Sorry about that."

"James is right, we have been worried about you, but we should also trust you more. I hope you can forgive me." Torunn added

"Me too." Azari gave him a nod and a shrug.

"Yeah same." Francis added lastly, just a bit awkwardly. Pym just laughed and smiled at his friends "Guys of course I forgive you, don't worry it's understandable."

"Great well then...meeting adjourned?" Azari questioned.

"No, no not yet." Francis answered after a moment "James how the hell did you just one punch Bulldozer? How strong are you?"

"Well...I've been thinking about that myself to be honest." James told them "Tony always told me my father didn't have superpowers, but that the serum had boosted his body to the peak of human ability, but I'm starting to believe either Tony just didn't tell me how strong he was for some weird reason or my father hid his strength."

"Could be both. Or maybe it's the addition of your Mother's serum." Azari offered.

"I don't think so. All I know is that I've been getting stronger every year." James explained to them "And well if Tony was right and my father wasn't...superhuman, well at the very least I can say we are not the same."

"Definitely not. I estimate the force of your hit against Bulldozer was at least 2 tons. That shoulder barge you did at the beginning was definitely even more." Pym explained.

"Huh well that is interesting. How strong do you think James will get? Stronger than Torunn." Francis asked Pym

"Not likely." Torunn teased "I am the Goddess of Thunder."

"Torunn's right. If James ever reaches where Torunn is strength wise, then we need to re-evaluate everything we know of his body of work." Pym explained once more. The team thought about for a little while, nobody saying anything, and really they just enjoyed each other's presence until Azari let out a yawn, jarring them out their little moment

"Well now if that's everything…" The tired Prince started "I think I'm going to go, I need some rest."

"Yeah, I need some sleep too." James admitted

"I've got nothing better to do, TV?" Francis directed at Torunn and Pym and quickly the two heroes agreed.

Whilst they split up enjoying their time either getting ready for sleep or enjoying some old cartoons, they all agreed. This was a great start to the year.

So that's the first chapter of the second year. I'll probably post the second chapter sometime next week, but if I'm feeling like it, it must just come earlier. Until next time!✌