Author's Note: warning, guestappearance(s) both canon/non-canon ahead.
"The nano-molecular functionality is instantaneous. His cells don't know they're bonding with simulacrum."
Kya and Natasha were Bruce and Clint and Dr. Cho patched the archer up.
Bruce's lit up face reminded Kya of an excited child. "She's creating tissue!"
Dr. Cho's smile was small, but full of pride. "If you brought him to my lab, the regeneration cradle could do this in twenty minutes."
Kya couldn't help but look with child-like wonder at the process that Dr. Cho had every right to brag, the entire setup was beyond amazing.
"Uh-Oh, he's flat-lining. Call it. Time?"
The twenty-four year old looked up to see Tony walking in with a tray of drinks.
"No no no, I'm gonna live forever." Clint chuckled stiffly. "I'm gonna be made of plastic."
The billionaire playboy smirked and handed Clint his drink. "Here is your beverage."
Dr. Cho pressed a few more buttons on the machine. "You'll be made of you, Mr. Barton. Your own girlfriend won't be able to tell the difference."
"Well, I don't have a girlfriend."
Kya and Natasha looked at each other out of the corner of their eyes and smirked. Technically Clint wasn't lying, he just wasn't telling the entire truth.
Dr. Cho, meanwhile, smiled. "That I can't fix. This is the next thing Tony. Your clunky metal suits are going to be left in the dust."
Tony only smirked in amusement. "Well, that is exactly the plan. And Helen, I expect to see you at the party on Saturday."
"Unlike you, I don't have a lot of time for parties."
Kya raised an eyebrow, knowing that there was something else. She smirked when Dr. Cho cleared her throat asked in a less confident voice.
"Will Thor be there?"
-Time Skip-
Kya breathed in a out as she lulled herself into a trance. Even though she left the islands, she still continued the practice of meditation. Especially with her extra special abilities.
When Kya was little, she found out that she could go in and out of the Spirit World and communicate with the Spirits. Before she left, her Grandmother taught her how to defend herself against unfriendly spirits. As she experimented spiritual abilities, she learned how to travel between the Avengers Tower and her home on the Water Island. She used this to introduce Clint and Natasha to her biological family. The two assassins learned chi blocking while at the islands, making them more deadly than ever.
Even though sparring with one of her teammates helped and lashing out at a punching bag were good remedies, meditation was what really helped her when her thoughts were running wild. And because the Avengers Tower was so large, it didn't take Kya long to find a secluded room where she could meditate in peace. On more than one occasion, she found herself being joined by some of her teammates (mainly Natasha and Bruce. Sometimes Steve - usually when Natasha's there - but Bruce was the one who came the most for obvious reasons.).
But at the moment, she was alone. And she definitely needed it too.
Especially since now all she seemed to think about for the past three days was the flirty Sokovian Speedster.
He probably flirts with every other woman he sees. It's not like you're anything special to him.
As Kya continued to meditate, she started feeling two different spirtual signatures on the Spiritual Plane. One was an appending sense of danger; as if something very bad was about to happen. Curious, Kya reached for the dangerous feeling signature and let the vision the signature brought fill the images in her brain.
Buildings were crumbling, children were screaming.
People were dying.
Kya looked around as destruction rained down on Sokovia. She tried to heal whoever she could get her hands on, but it wasn't enough.
A woman starting screaming for someone, either a son or a brother. The waterbender saw Clint look around. When he saw what he was looking for, he darted from the S.H.I.E.L.D. safety boat. He picked up a little boy in his arms and turned to run back to the boat when a Quin-Jet started flying towards him and the little boy.
Clint knew what was going to happen as the Quin-Jet got closer and closer. He turned sharply to shield the little boy when a blue-ish silver streak ran in front of him, effectively block Clint and the little boy from certain death.
Kya gasped as she was yanked from the vision. This wasn't the first time the Spirits have shown her visions. Most of the time, they made sense. But not this time.
And that made Kya worry, a lot.
Why were the Avengers in Sokovia? And why was Pietro Maximoff most likely taking life stealing bullets for Clint?
Speaking of the silver haired Sokovian, as she shook off the shock from the previous vision and started focusing on the other spiritual signature, the more she kept thinking about him, the more the signature became more potent. Which met that Pietro was either somehow or directly connected to the spiritual signature. And something that set it apart from the previous vision was that it didn't feel like a vision at all. It felt like a message.
Furrowing her eyebrows in curiosity, Kya closed her eyes and opened her mind to the message. It didn't take long to hear a voice. The voice was female. Young, about her own age, maybe older, but not by a lot. And it had an accent. Sokovian maybe.
Save him Kya, you have to save him!
A knock on her door pulled her away from the message and out of her trance. The knock was followed quickly by Nat's voice.
"Kya?"
Shaking her head to rid - and horrendously failing - herself of any thoughts about Pietro Maximoff, the vision, and the voice, the waterbender stood up and made her way towards the door. When she opened it, she was greeted by the sight of a mildly irritated Nat with a very familiar friend perched on her shoulder.
Kya gasped in hapiness. "Chi Chi!"
Chi Chi was Kya's flying Lemur Bat. At first Chi Chi was meant to act like a carrier pigeon and deliver letters from where ever Kya was to her family. But when she learned how to travel from her world, through the Spirit World, to her old home, Kya immediately took the lemur bat as a pet that could travel from the islands to the Avengers Tower whenever she wanted.
Clint loved Chi Chi, so does-did Coulson, and Nat - usually - Fury has a love-hate relationship with Chi Chi since that incident where she got loose on the Helli-Carrier bridge, which was what lead her to being grounded.
Said lemur bat cooed happily and hopped on her mistress's shoulder before curling her tail around her neck. Kya scratched her furry companion behind the ears before raising an eyebrow at Nat.
"What?"
Nat raised an eyebrow back and remained silent. Kya rolled her eyes and continued petted one of large Chi Chi's ears. "Oh come on, you love Chi Chi."
Natasha sighed. "I do, but not when I find her digging through my stuff."
Kya pursed her lips to keep a giggle from escaping, remembering an incident when Chi Chi got a hold of one of Nat's guns. Ironically, Chi Chi grabbing one of Natasha's guns was followed by the Hellicarrier bridge incident. Long story short, Nick had to get a bullet removed from his behind.
"Anything else Nat?"
The red head nodded. "Yeah. The party is in a few hours. Head up to your room and start getting ready."
The waterbender nodded before turning the lights off in her meditation room and closing the door behind her as she followed Nat to the elevator. Since each Avenger had their own floor at the tower, Natasha pressed a kiss to her surrogate daughter's forehead as she dropped her off at her floor before heading up to her own.
Kya leaned against the door after closing it. Chi Chi flew off her mistress's shoulders and to her designated corner of the room completed with a food dish and pillow to sleep on.
Sighing, the twenty-four year old pushed off the door and started getting ready.
-Time Skip-
"So what do you guys think?"
Kya was video chatting with two of her best female friends in New York. Darcy Lewis, and April O'Neal
Kya met Darcy when Thor brought Jane to the Avengers Tower to meet the team. Darcy, of course, followed. When the two met, they immediately hit it off with each other.
The waterbender met April while covertly investigating rumors about what Eric Sacks was experimenting on. Along with the unappreciated reporter, Kya met the mutant turtles Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo. She helped them escape the mansion and get to New York. After promising to keep their secret, she made life long friends with April, the turtle brothers, and the turtles father/sensei Splinter.
At the moment, she was showing April and Darcy the dress she was going to wear tonight. (Author's Note: Picture Kya wearing Diana's silver dress from Batman vs Superman)
"Well?"
With a dropped jaw, Darcy was the one who spoke first. "Damn Girl! You look like a sexy moon goddess!"
April nodded in agreement, with the sparkling silver dress and the way the waterbender's silver hair cascaded down her back, Darcy's statement was 100% true.
The reporter started to frowning when Kya started braiding her hair. "Do you have to wear your hair up? Darcy's right, you definitely have that sexy goddess persona going on. Not that you won't when your hair's up, it would just be a nice change."
Kya smiled at her friends as she continued to braid. "I just like it better up. If I'm in a fight, I'd prefer it if I wasn't dragged back by my hair at some point thank you very much."
The waterbender chuckled to herself when her friends groaned and/or rolled their eyes. After she finished, she started wrapping a thin, blue ribbon around the braided length of hair. She kept talking to Darcy and April as she finished with the ribbon and started twisting it up in a Queen Elsa bun.
"So Darc', how's it going with Ian?"
The Taser Queen - a nickname Kya gave her after the intern told her about the time she and Jane first met Thor - shrugged with a tiny smile on her face. "It's going okay. He's a little geeky, but otherwise okay."
Both April and Kya stared at their friend for a moment. Kya raised an eyebrow. "Which one do you want to be Darcy, the pot or the kettle?"
Darcy snorted. "I'm dorky, not geeky."
Something off screen made Darcy turn her head. The Taser Queen frowned. "Oh come one! Five more minutes."
Apparently the person off camera was insisting because Darcy groaned. "I gots to go."
Kya and April smiled at their friend. "See ya Darc'."
Darcy looked at the person off camera again before looking back at Kya. "Jane says to tell Thor she said Hi."
The waterbender nodded. "I promise. Bye Darcy."
The intern waved. "Bye Sexy Moon Goddess; bye Reporter Woman."
Both woman rolled their eyes at the nicknames their dorky friend gave them she signed off before smiling at each other.
"I should go too. I promised the turtles we would watch more Odd Couple tonight."
Kya raised a playful eyebrow. "All of them or just a certain red-bandanna wearing turtle?" (Author's Note: Yes, I ship the 2014-2016 movie version of April and Raph together. Don't judge.)
April cheeks turned slightly pink as she glared at her friend. "All of them thank you very much."
The waterbender giggled and held her hands up in surrender. "I'm just saying, you guys have been getting closer these past few weeks."
The reporter's glare got worse. "This video-chat is over."
Kya giggle turned into a full fledged laugh. "I love you my friend!"
April stuck her tongue out before closing the video-chat. Kya chuckled lightly before starting to apply makeup. When she was finally ready, she gave herself one last look before joining her surrogate family upstairs.
-Time Skip-
Usually parties weren't her thing. But if she was with family and friends, she wasn't one to complain.
"I'm very happy chasing cold leads on our missing persons case. Avenging is your world."
Kya frowned as she sipped her vodka; she remembered that James 'Bucky' Barnes was Steve's best friend from WW2 and the Winter Soldier. She knew where he was, she knew exactly where he was. About six months after S.H.I.E.L.D. fell, Kya tracked Bucky's spiritual signature to Romania (Author's Note: That is where Steve and Sam found him right?). She remembers when she took a Quin-Jet there and helped him restore his memories.
-Flashback-
Kya gritted her teeth and kept a hand ready to quickly uncork her waterskin as she climbed up the fire escape to the designated window. The waterbender took a deep breath as she climbed over the rail and carefully unlocked the window. She peaked through the curtains and saw the room to be empty.
Frowning, she climbed through the window and started to look for clues to see where he had gone. There were groceries on the counter, so he didn't leave-
A gun being clocked and aimed at her head cut off her line of thinking. Kya held up her hands to show she didn't mean any harm.
She turned around slowly. "Bucky-"
"You were with him." The gun lowered slightly, but not completely as Bucky saw her face. She nodded.
"Yes."
The gun lowered again. "Who is he?"
Kya lowered her hands. "Someone who's very important to you. And you to him."
She uncorked her waterskin and gloved her hands in water. "Let me help you remember who you are."
The former HYDRA assassin looked at her glowing hands with suspicion. He looked into Kya's bright blue eyes, looking for any signs of betrayal. Not that she blamed him, for all he knew, she might crush his head.
The waterbender smiled reassuringly. "It's okay."
Bucky kept looking into Kya's eyes. Not seeing any signs of suspicions, he nodded. The waterbender gently placed her hands on each temple and concentrated.
The memories came in a rush.
What looked like a young Bucky was pulling what looked like a young Steve off hard schoolyard ground. Memories of the boys growing up together and being inseparable flashed through Kya and Bucky's minds.
Up to the moment Bucky rescued Steve and pulled him out of the water.
Kya pulled back with a gasp. She watched as Bucky stumbled back against the refrigerator as he processed the memories that just shot through his head.
"Steve-"
"Understands why you were doing what you were doing. You weren't you."
Bucky buried his hands in his hair. "That doesn't change that I did those things."
Kya walked forward and placed a small hand on the former HYDRA assassin's shoulder. "Again, you weren't you. Hydra stuffed you brain into a blender and hit frappe. Right now, you're James Buchanen Barnes, Steve's best friend."
She smiled and gently squeezed his solder. "I can take you to him-"
"No."
The waterbender's eyebrows furrowed. "But-"
"I need to come to terms with what I've done."
Kya pursed her lips before nodding in understanding. "Okay. When you're ready for someone to find you..."
She fished a locator out of her pocket and handed it to him. "Press this button."
With that being said, the waterbender walked towards the window and climbed out. But before she could climb over the fire escaping railing, Bucky's voice stopped her.
"Thank you."
Kya looked back through the window and smiled at the other super soldier. "It was my pleasure, see you soon Bucky."
With that, she climbed over the railing for the fire escape and started to run back to where she hid the Quin-Jet.
-End of Flashback-
The perks of spiritual powers.
Kya sighed and continued to sip at her vodka. She saw Steve now standing next to Thor and a couple of his veteran buddies. Finishing off her drink, the waterbender placed her now empty glass on a table and walked towards the group.
Steve smiled at her and wrapped an arm around her shoulders. "Hi."
The girl smiled and leaned into Steve's side. "Hey."
The super soldier and waterbender turned their attention back to Thor and the veterans.
"No, no, no. See this... This was aged for 1,000 years in the barrels built from the wreck of Grunhel's fleet. It's not meant for mere mortal men."
Since Kya and Steve weren't 'mere mortals' the god of thunder handed each of them a glass of the Asgardian brew.
One of the veterans scoffed. "Neither was Omaha Beach Blondie."
Kya noticed that the veteran looked familiar, but she couldn't place where.
"Stop trying to scare us. Come on,"
Thor sighed before pouring the veteran a glass. "All right."
Kya sipped the brew before sighing happily, completely unaffected by the supposedly powerful drink. "That is good alcohol."
Unfortunately, the affects for completely different for the veteran.
"Excelsior!"
Kya pursed her lips to contain her giggle as she helped some of the veterans load their friend into the elevator. After walking down the stairs, she saw Steve leaning against the bar. Which happen to be the bar Nat was perched behind.
The waterbender watched with a smirk as Natasha and Steve talked to each other by the bar. Kya knew that her surrogate mother and the super soldier had feelings for each other. It's been palpable since S.H.I.E.L.D fell.
-Flashback-
The waterbender had her long silver hair tucked up into a hat as she stepped onto the escalator with Natasha and Steve. She couldn't believe that the place that has been her home since she has been ten years old was corrupted.
"Kiss me."
Kya looked at the spy and super soldier in front of her as said super soldier looked at said spy with confusion.
"What?"
The waterbender caught onto what her surrogate mother was trying to do. "Public displays of affection make people very uncomfortable."
Steve looked at the silver haired girl with furrowed eyebrows. "Yes they do."
Natasha rolled her eyes and grabbed the man out of time's face before slamming her lips onto his. Kya faced her left to avoid looking and the Hydra agent seeing her. Nat finally pulled away and walked of the escalator.
"Still feel uncomfortable."
Kya smirked at the super soldier's red face. "I don't think that's the word he would use."
-End of Flashback-
Natasha leaned in close to say something to Steve before walking off. Kya took the opportunity to walk up behind Steve.
"It's nice. You and Nat."
The super soldier turned around to face the waterbender. "No we haven't... That wasn't-"
Kya laughed. "It's okay. No Bylaws have been broken."
She let her eyes trail in the direction Nat walked off in. "Nat's not the most open person in the world. With you though, she seems very relaxed."
Steve, in denial, shook his head. "No no... Natasha, she just likes to flirt."
Kya shook her head and placed a hand on the super soldier's hand. "Steve, I've seen Nat flirt. You've seen her flirt, up close. This isn't that."
With that, the waterbender turned on her heel and walked away. Leaving the man out of time to silent ponder on what she said.
