"What do you mean I can't go?" Jade asked Clint as he was gathering his weapons for the trip. Clint sighed and shoved some extra arrow heads into his bag.

"Exactly that. It would be safer for you if you stayed here," Clint said to her. Jade huffed and continued to follow him to the landing bay.

"I would stay with Bruce at the ship, I swear," Jade tried to convince him. He shook his head and stopped walking. He sharply turned around to face her.

"How do I know you won't run?"

Jade squinted at him. "I thought we were past this, and how do you know I won't run if you leave me here?" Clint rolled his eyes, turned back around, and headed for the ship. "What better way to keep an eye on me than if I came with you?" They stopped walking at the base of the ship's ramp. He turned back around to face her.

"This is where we part ways," Clint said. Jade opened her mouth to object, but a voice from behind interrupted her thoughts.

"You guys ready?" Tony asked. Jade turned around to look at him.

"Guys? You'll let me go?" Jade asked. Tony nodded.

"Ya, I have a hard time trusting you when we're in the same building, let alone when we're in a different country. You can keep Bruce company while we're kicking Tin Cans butt." Jade turned back around to look at a Clint. Clint pinched the bridge of his nose and gave a heavy sigh.

"Alright," Clint gave in. Jade gave him a huge smile and followed him into the ship. Jade sat on the familiar bench and watched as the rest of the team filed in.

"What's going on?" Steve asked as he walked in. It took Jade a second, but she realized the question was about her.

"The kid's tagging along. Is that alright?" Tony asked from the pilots chair. Steve looked down at Jade. She held up her hands.

"I said to leave her, but the girl was persistent," Clint said to Steve.

"I won't run. I swear," Jade said the second Clint finished his sentence. She wasn't irritated by their suspicions, they were completely warranted. She had caused the mistrust all on her own. Steve nodded and sat down across from her. When everyone was settled they took off.

-o-X-o-

They arrived without any problems. Jade spent the ride there listening in on Steve's mission briefing with the rest of the team. She had also over heard Steve reprimanded Tony for letting her come. She felt bad that she had caused such a problem.

As soon as the ship touched ground the team jumped out, leaving Jade and Bruce to fend for themselves. After they left Jade had started searching the ship for something to do. Bruce had sat on one of the many benches and started to type away on his computer.

"Wanna play Go Fish?" Jade asked after finding a stack of card games. She had also found that Tony had re-stalked Thor's stash of pop tarts. Jade made a mental note to hide them later. Bruce looked up from his computer and raised his eyebrows at her.

"Why? So you can cheat, like you did with Clint?" Bruce was only half teasing.

"Natasha told you about that?" Jade asked, embarrassed. She didn't think Nat would tell anybody. "It was meant to be a joke."

Bruce held back a smile. He had laughed uncontrollably when Natasha had told him about what Jade had done to his teammate. He thought it was genius, he had never thought to use Jarvis for something like that. Bruce was about to say yes to the young girl, but static from the intercom stopped him. Bruce and Jade stood and both walked up to the intercom.

"What's going on?" Jade asked. She looked up at Bruce.

"I don't know," He said before more static came through. This time, though, it was much louder. Bruce pushed a button and spoke into a mic. "Guys, is this a code green?" He asked. More static and no reply.

"That can't be good," Jade said to herself. A loud explosion outside made them look at each other and then bolt for the ramp. They looked around and saw that Ironman and another figure were fighting up in the air. "What do we do?" Jade asked.

"You're not goin-" Bruce was cut off mid-sentence and he flew back into the ship.

"Banner!" Jade yelled. She turned to run up the ramp when she saw who had caused it. "You," Jade said in amazement. It was the silver haired man from the forest, but this time he was with someone.

"You," He said back pointing at Jade. Jade slowly walked the rest of the way up the ramp.

"What are you doing?" Jade asked. He shrugged. He opened his mouth to say something, but a dark haired lady interrupted him.

"Pietro," The brown haired girl said. He turned back to look at her. "Talk later, we have work to do." Bruce shakily stood up.

"And what might that work be?" He asked. He was stalling Jade realized. Jade slowly crept around Pietro and closer to Bruce. The girl didn't answer. She held up her hand toward Bruce's head. Jade's eyes widened at the sight of red power begin to illuminate in the girl's hand.

"Down!" Jade yelled as she pounced. She tackled Bruce and together the went down, down through the floor that is. They landed in a heap on the ground. Jade was on top of him.

"Don't go crazy," Jade managed to say as she scrambled off him.

"I won't, I won't," Bruce said. They got to their feet as fast as humanly possible. They ran out from under the ship.

"This isn't going to go well," Jade said as the twins came off the ship and walked into view.

"That is quite a trick," Pietro said. Jade saw him tense, and immediately phased. She crossed her arms in front of her, and she felt something go through her. She turned on her heal and took a defensive position. Out of the corner of her eye she saw the other girl start to approach Bruce, and Bruce walking backward.

Jade could see that they were severely outmatched. She might be able to hold her own for awhile before she passed out, but Bruce had absolutely nothing to defend himself from the girl.

"Want to try again?" Jade sarcastically asked. If she could stall for time, someone might take notice of their predicament and help them out. Pietro smirked at her.

"Sure," He said. Jade phased and crossed her arms, but felt nothing go through. She heard a yell come from Bruce and her eyes snapped open. He was flat on his back. He started to scream in pain when red energy hit his head. Pietro zoomed over and stood by his sister.

"Banner!" Jade yelled again. She ran over and knelt next to him. He was holding his head as he sat up. He started to violently rock back and forth. "Banner, Banner, don't do this to me," Jade pleaded as his skin started to turn a shade of green. His arm shot out hitting Jade in the face. She flew several feet backward and landed on her upper back. She gasped for breath and sat up. Bruce was nowhere to be seen, what stood in his place was the Hulk.

Jade was back on her feet and was scared out of her wits. "Banner?" She quietly asked. The Hulk turned around to face her. His eyes were red and blood shot. Jade gasped and stepped backward. The twins watched in horror.

The Hulk let out a roar and jumped toward her.

Jade phased and tried to get out of the way. She was mostly successful. She backed away, and he swung his arm at her. She let out a small noise of surprise and ducked. When he missed he roared again. Jade held her hands over her ears. The Hulk threw his arms up, but this time Jade didn't phase. He brought his hands down, but he smashed them against the empty ground. Jade was gone.

She was moving to fast to see. She stopped moving and was tossed onto the ground. Jade was on her hands and knees and dry heaved.

"The correct response would be 'thank you'," Jade heard Pietro say. Jade gathered herself, slowly stood and turned to look at him. They were by a large boat, far away form the Hulk.

"Thanks," She said. She hated to admit it, but without him she would've been a human pancake.

Her head pounded. The pain from her head and the amount of energy she just spent also made her extremely light-headed. If you were wondering, no, it's not a good combination.

"Who are you?" The girl next to him asked. Jade looked at her.

"Jade Winters," She answered. "Who are you guys?" She asked. They had just attacked her, yes, but they also had saved her life so she figured it evened out.

"My name is Wanda Maximoff, this is my brother Pietro," Wanda said. Jade nodded.

"Nice to meet you," Jade said. "Now if you excuse me I have to get back to the ship." She tried to brush past Pietro, but he zipped around and stood in front of her.

"I don't think so," He said. Jade kept a neutral face and took a step back.

"Why not?" She coldly asked. She was trying to keep her thoughts straight, but she felt like she was going to pass out. Even as she spoke her vision was starting to blur.

"Because I told them not to," A voice from behind her said. She turned around, but she already knew who it was. "Nice to meet you, Jade," Ultron said. He landed and held out his hand. When Jade didn't move Ultron put his hand back down. "I'm sorry, is that not what people do when they meet new humans? Sometimes human habits are so weird."

Jade swallowed. This was bad, this was very, very bad. "What do you want?" She asked. She tried to keep her voice as calm as she possibly could. No point in letting him know she was scared.

"Didn't I already tell you?" He asked. "Peace in our time." He looked at Wanda, and she held out her hand. Jade didn't see what was happening in time and red clouded her vision before it all went dark.