A/N: Hello lovelies! I'm treating you all today. Three, count them, THREE chapters. I'm very ahead in the story writing process, so I thought that you'd enjoy the whole story I'm telling with these chapters. I CANNOT WAIT FOR DOCTOR STRANGE. Sorry, I had to add that. I'm a bit of a Marvel fanatic, if you can't tell.
Disclaimer: I do not own Marvel, Disney, ABC, or the Avengers.
"So, tomorrow morning. I don't want to wake Callie right now, she's been sleeping horribly." I explained as Pietro gave Tony and Bruce the run down on the visible floating matter in the lab. It sparked red, and I knew Wanda must have felt it, because not even 30 seconds later, FRIDAY was warning me of Wanda approaching.
"We need to hide him." I said, grabbing Pietro's arm.
"Just put me in the safe room."
"They don't have one yet. Just the cell."
"Your room?"
"It doesn't exist. It's a closet, and extra office space. I checked."
"Dance studio?"
"Doesn't exist at all. Me? Don't exist here. Therefor, everything I designed and built, doesn't exist either. God I miss my car. And my studio. And my horses! Has Loki been taking care of them?"
"Loki?" Bruce yelled.
"Hush, I'll explain later. We need to hide him."
"Uh, too late." Bucky said as Wanda came into the lab. But she didn't clue in, and I felt Pietro sped away. Luckily, there wasn't anything paper at the moment, so he didn't leave a trail of falling paper in his wake.
"What was that?" She asked, as she must have felt the breeze.
"My wings," I lied, "Bruce wanted to see them."
"I'm still working on believing they are real." Bruce said, acting confused.
"Oh they are. I feel pain every time they sprout from my shoulder blades."
"Anyways, my side figured it out. We can go home tomorrow!" I said, smiling at her.
"That's great. How did they do it?"
"Same as the vibrations. Just need to send us through at a certain frequency and as fast as possible. It's all very technical. I trust my Dad has thought of every possible way this could go wrong."
"Hey, you may not be my daughter, but you are sort of family. I'd do the same." Tony said, as he still didn't like that there was someone as smart as he was in the multiverse.
"I know Tony. You are all family too." I said, looking at everyone in the lab.
"Okay, so this happens tomorrow."
"Can you make pancakes tomorrow?" Sam asked, as he leaned against the doorframe.
I chuckled and said, "Yeah. Right after breakfast then. I think my husbands wanted me there tonight, but they can wait another night. I have to explain in detail the shitstorm you guys are about to go through."
"Shitstorm? Been through that."
"Not this…civil war you guys brought on yourselves. I'm talking about a real being, whose goal is to ruin everything good about this universe and rule it all powerfully. He's the end, either of the world, or of the insistent fighting. He's biggest threat you will ever face. More powerful than all the worlds governments, than Hydra…Oh, wait…"
"What?" Bucky asked.
"I haven't made Malick and Carson sing like canaries yet. I haven't even explained half of what Coulson's been up to! Whose up for a snatch and grab? I can put this off for tomorrow night."
"Sera. You need to go home." Steve said, nodding towards the open fracture to my world.
"I can sleep when I'm dead. I can't leave here with unfinished business. It's like the Underworld. I can move on when my business with this world is finished. I just have to let my ride know…"
"Another recording ma'am?"
"No. And I don't think I should keep this from Wanda any longer." I said as Thor came in.
"I saw Wanda's brother." He said, confused.
"Pietro?" She breathed, tears instantly flooding her eyes.
"Yes. In my dimension, I was there to save him. But I wasn't here." I said, approaching her slowly to comfort her.
"I need to see him," she said, grabbing my arms as she cried.
"Thor, would you mind grabbing him," I said, trying not to show how much pain I was in. Her hands were red and enflamed with her powers, which we trying to burn my skin, but it just kept healing while it continued to burn. It was all very confusing, and painful.
"Wanda, stand down," Steve said, and it snapped her out of her episode. Realization washed over her and she began to release my arms, apologizing as I said, "I wasn't trying to keep it from you."
"ARSENAL," I asked, as I hugged Wanda. She wasn't sure how to hold her arms and I wonder when the last time she had a hug was.
"Yes Ma'am."
"Start recording."
"Recording Ma'am."
"Attention to whoever is in the lab right now. As of right now, Pietro and I have some unfinished business here. I will be staying another two days and then I promise we are on the first silver haired train home. Steve, Bucky? I love you guys, and you know I wouldn't be doing this if it weren't important. I would love nothing more than to be wrapped up between the two of you right now, but I have to do this."
"End of recording."
"Send it," I sighed as Wanda relaxed in my arms.
"Ma'am, is that wise?"
"Come on A. We talked about the sass." I chuckled.
"I was merely pointing out that Captain Rogers and Sergeant Barnes won't be happy when they receive this."
"I know, but I need to stay."
"If you're sure," She responded, to which I heard Tony chuckle.
"Send." I pressed.
"Message sent." ARSENAL responded before Thor walked in with Pietro. Wanda started crying, and had to turn her face away.
"You aren't him." She sobbed.
"Wanda, I know I'm not your brother in this universe, but I am in another. I am more than happy to come visit you here."
"I want my brother." She cried.
"Wanda, my Pietro can be your brother." I said as she sobbed into my shoulder.
"Wanda, Bucky comforted me today, even though he isn't my husband. But it was comforting, because he felt familiar. And so can Pietro. It might make your grief easier to deal with." As I finished my explanation, her sobs quieted, and she looked up at Pietro. She let go of me, only to slowly approach her brother's doppelganger.
"Wanda said she felt me die. I'm sorry you had to go through that."
"It changed me. And I don't think it was for the better." She said quietly.
As I watched Pietro and Wanda talk in the corner, I noticed Bucky watching me carefully out of the corner of my eye. Tony was busy fiddling with something to improve his suit, and Pepper was sitting beside him.
"Barnes, stop perving on Sera." Clint said quietly, knocking Bucky's right shoulder gently.
"I can't help it. I need to protect her." I heard him say quietly in return. Their conversation continued but I tuned them out as I watched Tony. He was tense, being in the same room as Bucky was making him edgy. But Pepper continued to talk to him about SI and how it was doing, how she was finally understanding his side after all I had ARSENAL explain to her about the upcoming threat to both of our worlds.
But what confused me is how Tony was looking at Bucky's arm with a familiar gleam in his eyes, and I casually walked over and started drawing on the note pad beside him.
"What are you doing Fireball?"
"I know that look well. I have it too." I said softly, showing him my ideas. He swallowed and narrowed his eyes saying, "Far too intuitive."
"I haven't met T'Challa yet. Does he want to help us bring these scumbags in?" I asked Steve, and his smirk was all I needed as answer, as he pulled out his phone
"You know, his situation was similar to yours." I said to Tony, and he looked up in confusion.
"Bucky, that is. Not T'Challa. The capture by terrorists in a war zone. Forcing him to make a weapon. Torturing him until he broke. Except they made him into a weapon. Took everything out of him that was human and stuffed what they wanted in. Except instead of it being three months, it was 70 plus years."
"He still killed my mother."
"Hydra's Winter Soldier did."
"Same arm."
"The one you blasted off his body. He's lost his arm, twice."
"He's not sorry."
"Trust me, he is. He just kept apologizing to my father when he moved in. Every time he saw him, and eventually, Dad stopped being as upset about it. He's a victim too Tony."
"I get it."
"Do you remember Yinsen?" I asked gently.
"Who is Yinsen?" Pepper asked Tony as he tensed.
"He saved my life. Back when I was captured. He was the one that put the electromagnet in my chest, to keep the shrapnel from reaching my heart."
"What did he say to you on your way out of the caves?"
Tony was silent, as he had to think about his past. I knew it was something my Dad didn't love to talk about, but once I got it out of him, he seemed to realize that even good people could be forced to do things by terrorists.
"Don't waste my life."
"Exactly."
"I'm having a hard time with doing the right thing. I do the right thing, I get in shit. I don't listen to the rules I get in shit."
"So don't."
"What?"
"The Avengers were never meant to be anything outside of SHIELD. But they grew to be a formidable force against Hydra and other agencies looking to continue their work. I bet you anything, you bring up Ross's past with Bruce, his want of super soldiers on his own leash, the UN will think twice about this. Yes Sokovia happened, yes Lagos happened. Both could have been much worse. The world doesn't see that right now. Show them. You need a PR manager. I had to do a press tour a few months after Sokovia. It helped the world see that we prevented disaster."
"What, a power point is going to change their minds?"
"It just may. If you do nothing, Ross will continue to bully everyone into agreeing with him. I bet you my inheritance that he was the one that pushed for this, that it was his idea."
"I have no doubt." Steve said, "After hearing about Dr. Banner's experience with the man, I don't trust him."
"I have a feeling, and I don't like it." Tony said, looking conflicted.
"What's that?"
"I think Ross is Hydra." He said, and I realized why I never liked him.
"Okay, I missed a few stragglers back home then," I sighed.
