"Dimitri Romanov get your ass down here right this instant!" I yelled up the stairs. It was nearing noon and Dima, my boyfriend, had still not gotten out of bed.
"I'm trying to sleep" Dimitri moaned loudly . I sighed deeply.
"I didn't want to do this Dima but you leave me no choice," I cleared my throat. "Dimitri will get out of bed and come down stairs to see me. Dimitri will get out of bed and come down stairs too me," I sang my siren's song slowly repeating the line over and over again in my sweet clear voice.
"Don't lose your voice… We got training later today." Ashlyn flipped a pancake.
"Dimitri is still in bed." I whined angrily. he drifted down stairs wearing a tshirt and boxers
"I am getting out of bed and coming down stairs to see my beautiful girlfriend Scarlet." He got to me and snapped right out of it.
"Why do you get the super useful powers" Ashlyn sighed
"I don't know? Maybe because a higher power knew I would end up with Dimitri and I would have to use it to get him out of bed." I shrugged
"I guess Mr. Higher Power thinks being able to slow down time will somehow number one get me a boyfriend or girlfriend , and number two make them get out of bed." Ashlyn smirked
"You have Thomas?" I suggested. I knew that Thomas was desperately in love with her.
"I could sneeze and Thomas would be my boyfriend" Ashlyn smiled and blushed
"Attention!" Tony Stark was standing in the living room.
"Sorry Mr. Stark" Ashlyn sighed "Wanna pancake?"
"No thanks I have to pass." He said in his usual tone.
"What do you need, Sir?" I stood at attention.
"At ease," He seemed satisfied by my reaction.
"What is going on?" Dimitri asked uncertainly.
"You have new teammates coming, I'll explain in 5 minutes when they come in." Tony looked towards the team.
"New team mates!" I asked in shock.
"You didn't think it was only you four, Cora, and Maggie?" He said with a small, yet noticeable smirk.
"Kinda..." Thomas shrugged.
"Well think again I have just been alerted that their plane has landed." He turned toward the small group of teens. "Now best behavior," The small group walked over to the landing pad.
The door to the plane swung open and in emerged five more teenagers. The first two was a bright couple. One a hispanic girl with warm skin and chestnut hair, the other a tannish white boy with dark hair styled handsomely. His appearance screamed preppy rich fuckboy. Next was a taller blonde all american boy who seemed a bit disoriented. Then last of the pack a smexy red head and I mean red not ginger but full on flame red. She was dressed in a white flowy fringed backless shirt and short jean shorts. Next to her was a tall boy with messy sandy blonde hair and grey eyes. He was decentralized muscular, but not as much as the poor disoriented kid. The update like
Dima looked at me carefully as if inspecting my reaction to the onslaught of new people. Which was one of confusion. Only three of them even faintly resembled past avengers. I take that back the last two were carbon copies of young avengers.
"Welcome new recruits I am Tony Stark," His eyes froze over the rich fuckboy; of course they knew each other. "You're Frank and Ellis Mckinley's son aren't you? Sam, right?" He looked at the teenager.
"Yup," Sam leaned back as if he was a blessing to the entire world, and we should all fall to our knees in worship.
"And I'm guessing this is the lucky lady." He smiled at the girl.
"Excuse me Mr… I'm my own person! I am no man's property!" The girl huffed.
"Feisty.." He chuckled.
"Sorry Mr. Stark… This is Amanda Ramirez…" Sam sighed.
"Hmm… alright now, who are you?" looked at the confused boy flipping through his clipboard.
"Sterling Jones, Sir," He responded stiffly.
"Alright, here is your room key and all that shit," He tossed him the small envelope with the key card and key.
"Thank you ," He nodded and headed up the stairs.
"And that leaves me with…" He looked at the two remaining recruits.
"Natalia Anastasia Victor" She said flatly "And that is Francis John Rider, He goes by Flint," She suppressed a small smile.
"Natalia goes by Natty Catty," He smirked. The girl turned to him.
"Flint!" She gave him a death stare.
"Natalia or Nat please," She said calmly.
"So if you don't mind telling me what your abilities are I am only curious." He looked between the two of them.
"Nat here is a female spy and assassin, She can beat up, kill, seduce, and get info out of everyone. She also speaks twelve languages fluently. I can shoot anything with anything," The kid Flint said proudly.
"Ha, I guess they weren't kidding when they said new Avengers, here are your room keys," He handed them the keys and they both exchanged glances and climbed the stairs.
"That girl looks like my sister" Dima said confused
"Yeah I noticed that too…"
"Okay I am going to leave you all to get acquainted before I call in Cora and Maggie to take their new mission control ground strategist in." Stark waved to us and left the room. The compound was located on a private island in the bahamas/caribbean area.
"Hey do you want to go help the new kids upack?" Ashlyn asked kindly
"Sure," Dimitri I am sure he was just confused about the girl who was the mirror image of his sister. We all got off our butts and went to help the new kids unpack.
I followed Dima into the room that was supposed to belong to Natalia but instead of the quiet serious girl We got a couple making out in the room a box open and only a few pictures unpacked.
"Um," I let the scoff slip from my lips. Flint rubbed the lipstick from his lip while She dabbed more on. Both of them gliding past the incident.
"Hello I don't believe we have met," The girl said in a heavy russian accent I hadn't noticed before.
"Nat don't screw with them ," The boy laughed
"Fine," Her voice shifted back to a plain vanilla american accent.
"I am Scarlet Chernobyl and this is my boyfriend Dimitri Romanov," I said happily. The girl's eyes lit up
"Romanov as in Natasha Romanov!" She looked so excited.
"Yes," Dima looked at me in confusion.
"How cool I wish I was related to her. " She said in a daze.
"You look just like her." He commented looking at her again
"Thank you," She blushed. Flint was setting a framed picture of a group of teens in front of a victorian manor on the dresser.
"May I ask where you came from?" I asked as I helped Nat pullout bedding.
"The second chance program, you may not believe it but Nat is nothing but trouble," Flint teased. I had never heard of it.
"How long?" Dima asked trying to gauge their relationship.
"We were in the program a year but funding ran out so…" Flint shrugged. Nat seemed like the less sociable one of the two. I didn't mind so far I really liked Nat even though we hadn't had much of a conversation.
"You two have only know each other a year?" Dimitri questioned confused by the strength of their bond.
"No Natty and I have known each other since we were thirteen, about four years we have been dating for a year." Flint responded
"Oh I see." He smiled that explained their dependency on each other. Flint was now putting away Natalia's stuff in the drawers .
"Thanks, Hun," She kissed his cheek
"Sam!" A voice rang out through the center.
"Should we go check on that?" Dimitri questioned
"Unfortunately yes" Nat sighed
"Well, it was nice meeting you" Dimitri and I waved, and sprinted towards the other room.
"Sam! I swear!" The couple was yelling at eachother. Dimitri and I looked around the room where the couple were arguing competitively
"What do you swear!" Sam raised his eyebrow he was lying on the mattress next to a tall stack of boxes.
"I swear that if you don't get off your ass I will not help you unpack."
"Jeez woman… I liked you better when you were the sweet little mexican cook." Sam poked his tongue out. .
"I think we should leave…" I whispered
"Oh… Sorry I didn't realize you were here." Amanda smiled, discreetly shoving Sam.
"Hey!" Sam scowled.
"Romance in Paradise" Dimitri smiled at me.
"So… I'm curious… Where are you guys from?" Amanda sat on the couch still wrapped in plastic.
,"It's a long story…" I sighed
"I got time" Amanda smiled
"And I have to unpack…" Sam sighed
"That's the spirit" Amanda kissed him lightly.
"Do you want to tell the story?" I smiled at Dimitri. He shrugged
"Well a lot of us were taken from our family and given injections to alter our DNA and make us have super powers. Forced Mutation is the simple way of putting it. Most of us were kidnapped and others like me were orphans. They told us that we were heroes but we were really just doing Hydra's bidding
"Holy Shit… That's rough dude…" Sam interjected
"Yeah all I did was use the prison guards Donut addiction." Laughed Amanda
"I still can't see you as a criminal mastermind. " Sam chuckled
"Don't underestimate my powers" Amanda spoke in a fake deep voice.
"I thought Nat and Flint were the criminal masterminds?" Sterling loomed in the doorway
"Fuck off Sterling" Sam pointed the finger in his direction.
"Sam…" Amanda sighed
"Language !" He yelled in an annoyed manner.
"So… What are your mutations?" Sam turned his attention away from the blonde.
"Me?" I put my hand on my sternum.
"Yeah… Actually all of you"
"Well I use vocal modulation to control and create supersonic waves." I started "and" I tucked my shirt up in the back then let my wings spring out of my back.
"That's really cool" Amanda Exclaimed
"What about that other girl?" Sam said nervously
"What other girl?" I asked confused
"The one making pancakes… She looks a lot like you Amanda." Sam smiled at Amanda
"Oh, that's Ashlyn,she can manipulate time," Dimitri said nonchalantly wrapping his arm around my waist pulling me closer
"What?" Sam spoke confused
"It is very confusing next time you see her you can ask her," I said flatly
"Alright Cool…" Sam smiled
"Attention Everyone must meet in the living room for meet and Greet, and cookies." SAM's voice echoed through the penthouse
"Thanks SAM!" I moved towards the door
"You three coming?" I smiled
"Coming Scar," Dima smiled and grabbed my hand. We entered the commons. Nat and Flint were already there munching on Chocolate Chip cookies. Flint had half sticking out of his mouth as Nat giggled happily.
"Alright… I'm here to unfortunately explain everything to you." Tony entered the room. Two girls around their ages entered behind him, hugging clipboards to their chests.
"These Cookies are delicious" Flint mumbled through the half chewed cookies in his mouth. Nat rolled her eyes.
"So, You second chancers… Will mostly keep the same jobs." He began explaining.
"But all my Mission Control teammates aren't here" Amanda whined
"No but you will be working along with Cora and Maggie." They stepped up.
"Won't be the same" She mumbled
"Maybe, but we look forward to having you join us," Maggie said brightly. Her soft brown eyes alight with enthusiasm.
"Oh, ok…" Amanda smiled weakly
"Anyway, I know the you mutants had partners, but that WILL change." Mr Stark continued. "You are now a team but as you know I don't do teams very well so I can't give much advice.
"Thanks for the positive enthusiasm… " Sam spoke sarcastically
"Hey! It's my job to be the sarcastic asshole." Mr. Stark yelled.
"What isn't there room for two," Sam protested
"Gosh, it's like your parents cloned me." Stark sighed.
"Thank you sir," He smirked
"Don't get a big head…" Stark sighed
"Like yours," Coughed Nat.
"Alright is this a big prank or something" Stark looked around for cameras
"Nah, Take it easy Stark." Thomas laughed.
"It would be funny though" Ashlyn giggled.
"Oh! You're Ashlyn!" Sam exclaimed.
"Yes," She smiled happily. 'No, Ashlyn, he has a girlfriend, he's not yours' I thought.
"So Ms. Birdy was telling me about your mutation." Sam began flirting. Where was Amanda?
"Well, I can bend time slow it down speed it up stuff like that sometimes time jump but only about twenty four hours."She blushed nervously. I walked up between them.
"So Sam where is your girlfriend, Amanda?" I said a bit loudly.
"Yum cookies!" Ashlyn changed the subject while shooting glares that could kill a cat at a Sam.
"So Scar what do you think?" Dima whispered in my ear.
"I think this is the beginning of a perfect team." I smiled Watching as the team ate cookies and laughed. We would make a kick ass team.