Vision found Wanda asleep in her room, moving restlessly, her hands sparking with red energy. "Wanda?" he said, shaking her shoulder gently.

She didn't wake up.

Vision resisted the urge to groan. "Wanda, please wake up." He put his hands to her face and closed his eyes. Wanda.

She jerked awake. "Vision?" she asked blearily. "What's, what's going on?" She sat up and frowned at him. "What did we say about doors?"

"It was important," he said. "What were you dreaming?"

"I don't know, it was strange..." She rubbed at her temples. "It was just us, but different. We were fighting for some reason."

Vision felt his heart sink. "Wanda, did you give that dream to Allie?"

Wanda's eyes widened. "No. Why?"

"Because she's trapped in another timeline and she can't wake up." Vision helped her up. "Come on."

Wanda's eyes widened. "What?" She followed him quickly. "What's going on?"

He explained it to her quickly, and by the time they were at the hospital room Wanda was up to speed.

"Wanda!" Natasha rose to her feet. "Can you fix this?"

Wanda stared at the little girl on the bed. She'd never seen Allie that still. She glanced at Clint, who was still guarding her. "May I?"

"Yeah." He stepped back hesitantly.

Wanda put her hands to Allie's temples, and closed her eyes. She was immediately sucked back into the dream she was having, which, apparently, was a vision of an alternate universe.

Allie was standing in the ruins of Wanda's hometown, in the middle of the church, watching two scared young twins speak to a hulking metal robot.

"Allie!" Wanda knelt to hug the child. "How are you here?"

"I don't know," Allie sniffed, curling into the embrace. "Take me home, Wanda."

"I will." Wanda focused on the waking world, their own timeline, but her gaze was distracted by the other-Wanda, who turned and looked straight at them.

Other-Wanda's head tilted as she frowned at them, and red tendrils began to snake towards them.

Wanda reacted instantly, and threw herself and Allie forward, into the future.

It was a dark basement. Steve and Sam stood over a hunched figure. It was Bucky, his eyes haunted.

"No," Allie wailed, seeing her favorites looking so solemn.

Wanda leaped them forward again, trying to find a happy place in this universe where she could concentrate and keep Allie calm.

They ended up in a battle, where all the Avengers and people Allie didn't recognize were fighting against terrible monsters and someone with a purple face wielding a giant golden glove. It glowed with an eerie, multi-colored light, and as they watched he vaporized a mountain.

Allie huddled into Wanda's neck. "No, no I don't want to see this."

"Okay, okay." Wanda went back to a place she knew would be safe. The Avengers compound from before.

Only Tony, Vision, and Rhodey were there, solemnly watching a football game. Rhodey's braces lay discarded on the side. A flip phone sat on the side table, angled so Tony could see it.

Hurry," Allie whimpered. "I don't like this place."

"Shh," Wanda soothed, rubbing her back lightly as she hugged her. That's when she realized. "I gave you the vision earlier, I linked you to it, after we spoke to Mr. Ross," she said, eyes widening. "Oh Allie, I'm so sorry. I never meant to-"

Allie shook her head furiously. "I don't care, I don't care, take me home Wanda please, let's get out of here."

Wanda closed her eyes, and focused.

Wanda opened her eyes and pulled back, absorbing the red energy from Allie's mind as she did so. She wavered, dizzy from the inter-universal trip, and Clint pushed her gently into a chair. "It was my fault," she said, dropping her head into her hands, "it was my fault, I'm so sorry."

Allie stirred, and everyone's eyes snapped to her. She shifted, blinked, and brought up a small fist to rub at her eyes. "Wh'happened?" she asked tiredly. "Daddy?"

"Allie!" He scooped her into a tight hug, his heart bursting with relief. "Allie, are you awake?"

"M'awake," she replied, nodding into his shoulder. "I'm really tired, I had really really really bad dreams..."

He rocked her lightly. "You're fine now, sweetheart. You can rest."

"No more dreams?" she asked.

"No more dreams," Clint promised.

Allie lifted her head. "Where's mommy?"

"I'm here baby," Natasha said, leaning over to hug her. "Everything's fine now."

"Okay." Allie let out a soft sigh, and went back to sleep. Real sleep this time. No dreams.

Clint tucked her into the bed carefully and pressed a kiss to Allie's forehead. "Thank you, Wanda," he said, turning to the young woman.

She looked up, her eyes wet with tears. "But it was my fault," she whispered, stricken. "I-"

"Hey," Clint said firmly, grabbing her hands. "It was an accident, wasn't it?"

"Yes."

"And you brought Allie back to us," he continued. He kissed her forehead in a fatherly manner. "Thank you. Now get some rest."

Wanda nodded, and let Vision help her up and lead her out.

A~A~A~A

Allie was grumpy. Those six hours she'd spent in the vision had exhausted her, and now that she was allowed to sleep, they wouldn't let her go to sleep. Bruce came in and woke her up with a scan ten minutes later. And everyone came to see for themselves that she was okay, and people kept walking in and out of her room. And Allie just wanted to sleep!

She ignored everyone else, turned into a gecko, crawled under the bed, and with her sticky feet clung to the metal bar. She fell asleep almost instantly.

She woke up eight hours later, back in bed, tucked under the covers. Loki was sitting on the chair, gazing at her steadily. "Hi," she said, and coughed.

"Good afternoon," he said, and leaned forward to help her take a sip of water. "How do you feel?"

"Hungry," Allie decided, after a moment.

Loki quirked a smile. "I would imagine so. I'll go fetch you some breakfast."

"Thank you Loki."

He gave her an elaborate bow. "Milady." He left the room.

A moment later, Thor entered. "I heard you were awake," he said quietly.

Allie held up her arms. "Hug?"

"Always." He sat on the edge of the bed and hugged her tightly. "I am very glad you're safe."

"What happened?" Allie asked.

So Thor told her about Wanda's glimpse into the alternate timeline, and how Allie had been sucked into it, and then how Wanda had brought her back.

Allie sniffed back some tears. "So all that really happened to the other versions of you guys?" she asked.

"Yes it did, I suppose."

Tears began to trickle down her cheeks. "But everyone is so sad," she sniffed. "And everything is all messed up."

Thor hugged her close. "Things will get better for those other versions," he said, and hoped the multiverse didn't make him a liar.

Allie let herself be comforted by Thor's awesome hugs, and when her tummy rumbled, she giggled.

Thor raised an eyebrow. "Was that thunder, somewhere? I didn't call for a storm."

Allie giggled again. "No, it was my stomach."

He cast a disbelieving eye on her. "Your stomach? Your stomach has the power of Thor?" He poked at it gently. "Are you sure it's this stomach?"

She giggled and wriggled as he tickled her.

Loki entered the room bearing pancakes and milk, and all tickle fights were postponed on account of lunch.

A~A~A~A

"Daddy?"

"Yes baby?"

"Where's Wanda?"

Clint raised an eyebrow at her. "She's around somewhere. Why?"

Allie sprawled into his side. "Cuz it's been a whole hour since I got out of the hop-sital and she's the only one who hasn't come to see me."

"And the only one who hasn't given you a present?" Clint asked knowingly, gesturing to the toys and the candy.

Allie huffed indignantly and whacked him on the arm. "No, daddy, not for that. Is she okay? Because that dream-vision-thingy was really scary and I was really scared."

He sobered, and hugged her close. "I'm sorry, sweetheart. I love you so much, you know that, right?"

"I know daddy. I love you too." She pressed a kiss to his cheek. "The other-Clint didn't have me, you know."

"He didn't?"

"Nope. That Clint was married to Laura and had Coop and Lila and another baby."

Clint made a face. "That's weird."

"Uh-huh. And mommy was all 'lone."

Clint frowned. "She was, huh?" was all he said aloud.

"Yup. And Steve kissed Sharon. That was gross."

Clint snickered. "Who's Sharon?"

"I don't know." Allie leaned against his chest with a sigh. "And Bucky was in a cryostatic, no, cryo-stasis, tube, and everybody who fought was in Wakanda. Hey daddy, we should go to Wakanda, it'd be really cool."

"We'll get there eventually," Clint murmured. "Why was Bucky in cryo?"

"Because him and Steve went to stop the bad guy from getting the other five supersoldiers," Allie said matter-of-factly.

Clint's heart dropped into his throat again. "What?"

"Yeah, and then them and Tony had a big fight and-"

"No, baby, about the five supersoldiers," Clint said urgently. "Where were they?"

"Russia," Allie replied, and frowned as she tried to remember. "I think Russia. It was really cold and empty, and they were all in ice tubes."

"And who was the bad guy?" Clint asked.

"I don't know."

Clint scooped her up. "All righty, let's go talk to Steve."

"Okay." Allie turned into a bird for easier transport, and they went to go find Steve.

He was speaking to Tony about fund allocation, but they both quit the conversation gladly.

Tony reached out a hand to the sparrow. "Hey, Jack," he said, letting Allie hop onto his palm.

The sparrow tilted its head quizzically.

"Jack, like Jack Sparrow," Tony explained.

"There should be a Captain in there, somewhere," Steve quipped, and looked proud of himself.

Tony snorted. "Somehow I knew you were going to say that."

"Anyway," Clint said, "Cap, we have a problem."

They both stopped joking immediately. "What's up?" Steve asked.

"In the other universe, there were five supersoldiers on par with you or Bucky," Clint said. "Allie saw that they were still in cryostasis somewhere in Russia."

Tony interrupted. "But that's impossible. HYDRA never had samples of the serum."

"Never?" Clint asked.

Steve spoke up slowly. "Tony...we never did find out what the Winter Soldier was sent after in 1991."

"My father's death wasn't enough?" Tony asked harshly.

"They'd left him alive until then," Steve retorted. "What changed? What was he working on?"

"I don't know," Tony said. "Let's find out."

It took them twenty-four hours to completely exhaust every resource. It wasn't written down or recorded anywhere in any SHIELD or HYDRA databases that they'd encountered.

Tony scrubbed at his face with his hands. "Steve, we gotta ask him," he said.

Steve sighed. "I know. I'll speak to him."

When they asked Bucky, he went still. Sniper still, his gaze focused on something no one else could see. "I don't remember," he said. "there's... I remember the mission, but I don't remember why..." He blinked and came back to himself. "I'm sorry."

"It's all right," Steve reassured him. "We'll figure it out."

Tony cleared his throat. "I've been working on something that might help, if we could use it on you and Allie to help your memories."

"What?" Bucky asked.

"BARF," Tony replied.

Steve raised an unimpressed eyebrow.

"No really," Tony said. "Binarily Augmented Retro Framing. It's a way to work with traumatic experiences."

"That acronym is a traumatic experience," Bucky told him.

"I know, I really need to change it. FRIDAY gets twitchy every time we work on it. I think that AI has a gag reflex or something." Tony shook his head. "Anyways, it's through the testing phase so it should be okay to use on other people."

Bucky nodded, and then hesitated. "Who's going to be able to see it?"

"You can pick who you want in the room," Tony told him. "As long as it's not me."

Bucky nodded. "Thor, then. In case of things."

"No problem."

The B.A.R.F. worked perfectly. Unfortunately, Bucky remembered everything but the location of the base where the five supersoldiers were stored.

"Is it safe to use on Allie?" Steve asked.

Tony nodded. "It should be fine."

"Should be?" Thor asked dangerously.

"Kids' brains are more elastic," Tony explained. "And they can't focus as well as adults can. The images will jump around a bit, maybe, but it should be fine."

"And it won't hurt?" Steve asked.

"No."

"Great. You can tell Natasha that we need to put Allie in that headset." Steve clapped him on the back.

Tony gulped. "You're the leader. You tell her."

"It's your invention," Steve retorted.

They both looked at Bucky. He snorted. "No."

Clint spoke up from behind them. "I will tell Natasha."

Tony held up a hand. "I'll tell Allie what it means."

He found Allie with Vision, Pietro, Wanda, and Loki, trying to cheer Wanda up. Allie was quite happily hugging the older girl as they ate a bag of chips.

"Stark," Loki said, standing.

"Hey guys. I need to talk to Allie."

"Is this about the puke thing?" Allie asked, not moving from her position sandwiched between the twins.

"BARF," Tony corrected.

"Gross," Pietro said.

Allie frowned. "Do I have to do the thing too?"

Tony nodded. "I'm sorry, sweetheart, but we need your memories of what happened in the dream."

"No," Wanda said, "let me do it."

"Did you see the supersoldiers?" Tony asked.

Wanda glanced away.

"Then we need Allie," Tony said. "I'm sorry."

Allie stood up, her chin tilted defiantly. "I can do it," she announced bravely.

Tony kissed her forehead. "Thank you, munchkin."

A~A~A~A

Natasha was not happy with sticking Allie into any invention that made her relive the vision of the other universe, but she knew they had no choice.

Allie put on the headset, and Tony calibrated it to her brain. Loki sat with her to guide her concentration as she thought of the dream.

"Why is he doing it?" Sam grumped as the rest of the Avengers huddled in the waiting room.

"Because Loki has been training her to keep her mind calm when she shifts into inanimate objects," Bruce replied calmly.

"One of us should be with her," Clint said, his hands twitching nervously.

Natasha placed her hands over his. "It's going to be fine, Clint. She knows we're right here."

Tony flicked a final button. "All right, baby, go ahead."

Allie squinched her whole face, concentrating with all her might. "Okey-dokey arti-chokey."

The blank room began to flicker, and then it resolved into a large room with five cryotubes in it. An unshaven Bucky, a battle-weary Cap, and a bruised Tony also appeared a moment later.

Allie curled into Loki's side. "This is the place. They were fighting."

He stroked her hair. "We're fine, Allie, it's just a memory. You can change it however you like. Take the three of them away, just focus on the room. And the bad guy. Show us the bad guy."

Allie put her hands over her eyes, and frowned. "Uhhhhhh... this guy."

The three superheroes disappeared and a perfectly average man appeared instead.

"This guy," Allie said triumphantly.

Tony slammed the console triumphantly. "Yes! FRIDAY save this session!"

Loki gave Allie a high-five. "Good job, little one."

Tony came in to retrieve the headset. "See, not that bad," he said. "Give me five seconds."

Allie got distracted, and the scene changed.

A battle field appeared.

Allie screamed as beams of energy began to shoot through the air around them. "No no no no!" she shrieked.

Tony yanked the headset off her, and the image disappeared. He grabbed her in a hug. "No, listen to me, it's over," he coaxed, squeezing her tightly. "Everything is fine, it's over, I promise."

Clint and Natasha rushed into the room.

Allie threw herself at her parents and latched onto them both. "Nap," she complained. "I need a nap."

Natasha kissed her cheek. "You can have whatever you want baby. You were so brave." She picked her up. "Come on sweetheart."

A~A~A~A

Allie took a long nap, a nice warm bath, and went back to bed. Very subtly, Vision influenced her dream to include only rainbows and unicorns, and then rejoined the rest of the Avengers.

"You're not going," Steve was telling Bucky flatly.

"Steve-"

"No. What if there's something that makes you turn back?" Steve gave him a Look. "I can't justify going up against six supersoldiers, Buck. I'm sorry. You have to stay here. Whatever else you remember you can feed us from the control room."

Bucky accepted this reasoning with a scowl and stepped back.

Steve, Tony, Vision, and Thor were on the team to get the supersoldiers. Natasha, Clint, Wanda, and Bruce were on the "bad guy" front, looking for the man who destroyed the Avengers. Loki and Pietro were given babysitting duty.

By the time Allie woke up, Baron Helmut Zemo was in the custody of the United Nations and the five aggressive supersoldiers were found dead in their cryotubes.

Everything was going to be fine.

It took Allie a few days to be able to fall asleep peacefully, but the vision/dreams didn't come back, and life continued.

A/N: End of cliff-hanger, yay! Next chapter, more Pete-n-Allie shenanigans and fluff :)