Hi everyone! I got the new chapter for Star Ray up early! I was going to wait until Saturday to put the new chapter up but I decided that there was no harm at uploading a new chapter tonight. NOTE that I will not always do this! The only reason I'm uploading on a Tuesday night is that I'm excited to share with all of you a part of Calliope's past. This might shed a little light on her personality so hopefully, you all like it. It is on the short side but I promise to make up for it in the next few chapters. Once again I don't own Marvel only my OC's.

Memories/past Present time

"Calliope wake up! CALLIOPE!" I hear someone screaming my name but who is it? I definitely know them, but I can't put a face to the voice I'm hearing. I don't have any friends so the list isn't very long on who it could be. "Calliope you have to wake up. Come on, kid!"

It's definitely a male and he sounds pretty desperate. Maybe I should wake up and reassure him that I'm alright. Wait a minute, why am I sleeping in the first place? I don't remember falling asleep recently, and wasn't I supposed to do something important? Did I forget to make dinner again? Did I do my homework? Maybe I should ask Christopher-

That's when it hit me... I need to wake up!

"NOOO!" I screamed as I bolted upright trying to get back to my feet. I need to help him! He's not okay! I have to help him before they try to kill him.

"Woah, take it easy," Someone tells me as they gently put their hands on my shoulders, trying to calm me down and keep me from getting up. "Don't get up so fast. You got hit pretty hard."

Looking around I realize that I'm still in Aardwolf's warehouse, but I can't see Christopher anywhere in the vicinity. The only one by my side is Clint. I need to warn Clint about what happened. Maybe he can help me save him.

"Clint he's gone!"

"What do you mean? That monster? Yeah, I know I was the one who drove him. By the way, where did that thing come from and where's your boyfriend?"

"No Clint you don't understand that thing is Christopher!" I cried to the agent. I start to panic since I don't know what to do. This isn't how we expected the mission to turn out. I never should have said yes to this assignment! This is all my fault! I'm only 16 years old, I'm a teenager, not a superhero. I'm supposed to be at my job or at school. Why am I trying to save the world from some psycho wanna be mutant gangster? I don't know what to do anymore! We need help!

"What? Kid, you're not making any sense. Listen, I need you to calm down. I can't help you unless you calm down and explain to me what happened. Okay, Calliope, calm down," He said, holding me against his chest as he tries to calm me down. Normally in a situation like this ordinary people would focus on their breathing, but I don't need air to survive, so I'm at a disadvantage. I have nothing to focus on, but I need to at least try because if I don't I won't be able to do anything for Christopher, and he needs me now more than ever.

"Okay, I'm okay, or at least as much as I can at the moment," I stutter, still rattle by today's events.

"Alright, can you explain to me what happened? Because I just had to shoot a couple of arrows at a monster who didn't seem fazed by me in the least bit."

"That's what I'm trying to tell you! That monster is Christopher," I answered as I try to steady my voice. Clint didn't respond, he only looked at me, urging me to continue with my explanation. "Okay so after you got knocked unconscious, Christopher and I went in to attack Aardwolf and his goons. It took some time but we did it, but that's when we found the bomb. Aardwolf was going to detonate the bomb and turn everyone into monsters, and then-"

I couldn't finish the story as a sob racked my entire body. I shut my eyes as tightly as I could, trying to forget what just happened. Maybe if I try hard enough I'll wake up and this will all be a nightmare! I know it's not possible, but what else can I possibly do at a time like this.

"Kid, tell me what happened next," Clint asked me softly as he rubbed circles on my back.

"There was no time left- if we waited any longer you would all be dead or worse. You could have ended up like us, or Aardwolf. I-I came up with the idea to absorb the radiation because we can handle the exposure to it, but I never absorbed that much before. Ch-Christopher said that he would do it since he could handle that amount, but that's when it all went wrong," I hiccuped, trying my best to finish the story. "He managed to-to do it. He absorbed all the radiation... but he started to seize. I tried to help him, but it was too late. He mutated right in front of me. I-I tried to help him but… he started to hit me. I didn't know how to re-react and I just froze. The-the last thing I remember is getting blasted through the wall."

"That's when I woke up," Clint informed me. "He was going to keep coming after you. He was looking for your body in the rubble, and I think if I hadn't had stopped him… he would have tried to kill you. I distracted him for as long as I could and threw him off your scent. The only way to do that was to send a few explosives at his feet. The floor broke apart from underneath him and he fell into the sewers. That's when I lost him."

"He was looking for me?"

"Yeah, but kid I don't think you should be happy about that. He obviously wasn't in his right state of mind. He was trying to kill you."

"No, Clint you don't understand!" I yelled at him "What I mean is if he kept looking for me, someone he loves and tried to kill me, who else will he look for in this state and try to kill? Let me remind you he doesn't like you guy in the very least!"

"We need to find him fast! Can you track him?"

"It's not that easy he's different now. I could before since I've spent so many years with him and I knew what the radiation that ran through his veins felt like but that's not the case anymore. His chemical and biological makeup is different now. The type of radiation running through him is different, so I can't track him anymore," I explained to Clint. Before he could respond Clint paused and answered his Comm set.

"What? Hill I can't hear you?"

Hill why is she calling? Whatever the case is it must be terrible news because Clint went rigid and all the color from his face drained.

"Hold it off for as long as you can we're on our way. Okay, kid, we need to move now!" He said as he started to run to where we had left our vehicle. I flew to keep up with him since my legs were shorter than his.

"Clint what about Christopher? What's this it that's attacking them? Isn't Hill with my sister? Is she okay?" I asked him, but Clint kept running as we left the warehouse, ignoring my questions."Clint, what happening?"

Something's off I can feel it in the pit of my stomache. Clint is ignoring my questions and he refuses to look at me. This whole day has been off and I couldn't understand why, but everything keeps going downhill. First, S.H.I.E.L.D. decides to move my sister to a different safe house without giving us a proper reason as to why they were moving her again. Then they chose to keep some sort of file from us (because it had nothing to do with this assignment is what they said), and now Clint won't tell me what was happening. I can't take it anymore! They're making my anxiety rise with all these secrets!

"Clint tell me what's happening! I can't help if I don't know what's going on!"

I noticed he slowed down only slightly as he continue to run. I don't understand why he doesn't want to tell me anything, but I need to know. Sliently, almost to like a whisper, he say, "He's at the safe house."

I froze in my spot once Clint said this. If he's the one at the safe house- is he attacking it? From the look of complete panic Clint's in that would be a yes. But what made my heart stop is the fact that Cristina is at the safe house and now she's in danger. The one person who is supposed to be safe is now in danger.

Without another word, I flew away leaving Clint behind. He'll catch up eventually, but I need to get to Cristina. My sister doesn't have any powers, so she can't defend herself like I can. She was lucky enough to escape the experiments but now that left her at a disadvantage compared to myself and Christopher. I just need to hurry and reach her. The safe house S.H.E.I.L.D. moved her to is on the other side of town, so If I hurry I can save my sister, get her to our apartment, and then return to Christopher before they hurt him.

Everything is a blur as I hurry to my sisters' location, but by the time I arrive, it was too late. I couldn't even process what I was seeing. The safe house is half-way destroyed as Agents from S.H.I.E.L.D. try to take Christopher down without getting killed themselves. Civilians were running everywhere trying to get away from the area, but I don't care about them or anyone else for that matter. They weren't important to me, their lives didn't mean anything to me in the slightest. All I care about is saving my baby sister, but I'm too late. Why-

I woke up with a gasp, startled by what I had just dreamt of as tears streamed down my face. I hate those memories so much but I know deep down they'll never leave me. That day will haunt me until I die and I deserve it after all. I failed them.

I continue to lay in bed under the covers holding myself, trying to forget the awful dream that plagued me every night since I lost them. No, it wasn't a dream…. it's a nightmare, I thought to myself. Nothing that awful could ever be considered a dream. Dreams are beautiful and exciting events that you hope one day will become reality. This is the opposite of that. I lay here lost in thought trying desperately to forget the moment my life fell apart before my eyes. I can still remember the amount of blood that we all shed that day. I can still feel it running across my skin. As is I never recovered from that day... maybe I haven't.

Sometime later I get notified that Loki is in S.H.I.E.L.D. custody and the team is on their way back to the helicarrier. The only downside to this is that we still have no sign of where Clint went. What we do have is basically a group of man-children who fought over Loki like he's a toy. Men I swear. Well, what should I expect when I'm told that Thor and Stark have just joined the search for the tesseract.

Hi again I hope all of you like this weeks chapter! No, that doesn't mean I won't post this Saturday I won't make you guys wait. Feel free to send me a message if you have a question and leave a review. If you notice any mistakes please let me know right away! I can't improve the story if no one tells me that something is wrong and I want to make sure all of you enjoy the story.