"What is it?"Thor asked, walking to the mark.

"I'm not sure," Tony said, still eying me, "Are you ok?"

"I'm fine," I said, staring at my hands.

They looked normal, long, tanned. They seemed no different from before. But I knew that something had just changed.

"Katherine," Steve came to my bedside, "I need to ask you to calm down. You were in an accident. Everything about you, from heartbeats to brain activity is off the charts. You just burned a wall. I need you to be calm. Please."

I looked up at his clear blue eyes and realized I was shaking violently. I breathed, steeling myself and trying to calm down. I could feel everyone's eyes shooting to me, even as Tony, Hawkeye and Thor looked at the wall. I could feel something stirring in the air, strong and consistent, like a soft buzzing, a thrum of a healthy engine, right by my ear. Every time I turned though, nothing was there. I couldn't shake that the white gold blast and the humming were connected.

"Kay," I looked up at the Captain, he made me feel safe, even if he was huge and I had just burned a wall,"You can call me Kay. I don't know what's going on, but I'll try to stay relaxed."

"Great," he flashed me a warm smile, "You must be starving, come with me and we'll get you some real food."

"Are you sure?" I asked, looking to Natasha who had taken Tony's scanner and reading a holographic report.

"Ya," He nodded, "It'll take them a while to compare readings."

I realized that he was giving me an escape and I took it with a smile.

He lead me out of the room and through the Tower, going down 2 levels and I gasped in shock.

Everything was automated, pristine and extremely expensive looking. We passed through automated sliding doors, I saw windows both into a very science looking lab and outside to the darkening New York skyline. I glanced up, seeing security cameras tucked away and most of all I saw mysterious doors with only a fingerprint and retina scan lock.

As we walked, Steve spoke of calming and non threatening matters. He talked of how he had a vintage 40s Harley bike and how refreshing it was to understand everything with Google. I laughed with him at the absurdity of the duck face craze that girls had taken and the strange obsession guys had with showing off pecs in gym photos.

I was relieved that he had taken me from the hospital room, while I still wore a plain white tank top and scrubs that someone had put me in, it was refreshing to see Steve didn't treat me as an alien. He made me feel safe and didn't prod me with dozens of questions or bury me with dark topics. I knew however it would be coming.

When we finally came to a silver and white kitchen, complete with an automated stove, I finally asked him.

"Why did you take me?"

"It was getting pretty hot in there," Steve nodded up above, "I figured you could use some fresh air."

"No," I shook my head, "Why did you take me from California? I was in a hospital already right?"

"Yes, but the doctors didn't understand what was happening," He explained, "We did. Well Tony and Bruce thought they might."

"No," I repeated, "Why? What's the real reason? I'm just one person. Right? Everyone has problems after being thrown and hit by an 18 wheeler."

"Not everyone," Steve sighed and put down the sandwich he was making, "Not everyone has their heart going so fast it can't be tracked."

"Fast?" I put a hand over my heart, "It couldn't be tracked by a computer?"

"Not by there's," a blue blur flashed into the room, "Hey there."

"Who are you?" I asked, "I don't remember you."

"Well I was held and experimented on by Hydra for a year. Then I teamed up with a psycho robot, during which you got knocked into a coma," He smiled at me, roguish and charming.

"His name's Pietro," Steve explained, "Don't worry he's one of us now."

"I'm going to need Google," I groaned as Steve chuckled, handing me a sandwich.

"From what we can tell, I.E Stark running a scan, the burn was caused by some sort of plasmic energy," Pietro explained.

"Plasmic energy? Kind of like Wanda's nuerokinetic blasts?" Steve asked.

"I guess that's the closest we've got for a comparison," Pietro shrugged, "But it's definitely not like hers. It's something completely different."

"You wouldn't happen to know what it is would you?" Steve asked me, I shook my head.

"I have no idea what's going on and that blast? I couldn't tell you what it is if you paid me."

"I think you should stay here for a while longer," Tony came in, "Please don't burn me. I ran the comparisons between your last doctor's visit, when we found you at the hospital, when you woke up a few hours ago and just now. You'll never guess what I've found."

"What is it?" Steve asked, taking a printed sheet from his fellow Avenger.

"Her bones have become stronger, denser, but at the same time, her weight is normal. Her heartbeat is 140 per minute, when it should be 80. Her body heat? Her respiration? All of them higher. That's not even the crazy part."

"What is it then?" Pietro asked, "Because she can't be speedy like me. We know that."

"Well before she shot at me, I thought she was, maybe slower," Tony explained, "But since then I looked into the head scans from Malibu and the ones here. Her brain activity was minimal during her coma. Only 8 spikes per hour and 3 minute beats of calm. Between the time she woke up two hours ago and now, that has tripled. Wanda also said she felt her neurons clicking faster then before."

"Her neurons? That means the way her brain is processing information faster now," Steve said, "Right?"

"Yes. However it doesn't explain the plasma." Tony shrugged, "I'll have to run tests."

"Excuse me?" I spoke up, "But being I am the one who shot plasma and somehow survived all of this don't I get a say?"

"Of course," Steve nodded, "What do you want to do?"

"I want to know how this happened. But I'm not going to be prodded and poked by a million scientists. I don't know if this is permanent or not, but I want it gone."

"Kay," Pietro looked at me softly, "That's not how this works. Stuff like this just doesn't go away."

"You can cure it," I looked sharply to Stark, "Can't you? Like everything else?"

"Look, we can help you and run the tests. Only me and Banner will do that, but there's no guarantee that this will go away," Tony explained.

I sighed heavily, putting my head in my hands. How cold this happen? How could life get turned around so fast and so strangely? I was normal! That was all I ever wanted to be! Why couldn't I be normal? I looked up at the three boys.

Pietro and his playfulness, Tony and his smugness, Steve and his encouragement. I realized then that maybe I didn't have it all bad. I nodded to Tony.

"I'll do it."

"Great!" He smiled, "I'll get everything set up. Come up to Lab 61 in about an hour or two."

He practically skipped away, tapping an earpeice and speaking a thousand scientific terms with Banner I presumed.

"As fun as it with you slowpokes," Pietro grinned, "I gotta run."

I blinked twice as he ran out of the room. I saw Steve smile fondly at the door.

"To think, a few months ago, he was trying to kill me."

"What happened?" I asked, "I'm guessing the girl he called sister and whoever this Wanda person is are new Avengers?"

"One in the same," Steve smiled, "Wanda and Pietro are siblings from Slovakia. Twins and were held prisoner by someone of Hydra. You know about Hydra right?"

"No," I shook my head.

"Well it started in Word War II..." I listened in fascination as Steve recounted adventures of WWII and how Hydra had slowly infested SHIELD.

How last year they had tried to stage a coup and destroy SHIELD and any of its allies, present and future. My heart sank as he told me somberly of his old friend from the 40s who had been brainwashed and kept on ice as Hydra's secret weapon. The story almost brought me to tears, knowing that his only friend from his past life had tried and almost succeeded in killing him. He continued into the discovery that Hydra had plenty of weapons, including two twins that had special gifts. Pietro who had superspeed and Wanda who had nuerokinetic power. They along with the treacherous AI Ultron had almost killed the Avengers only a short 4 months ago. His story fascinated me. How he had come from such a humble time in the 40s to a chaotic time such as now. He still had the same heart and strength that had made him the ultimate pick for Project Rebirth program.

"That's amazing," I said as we made our way upstairs to the lab.

"It is, I guess. To me, it's all part of the job. I was trained and picked to protect and serve. Weather that's the past, resent or future, it's what I'll do," Steve said.

"I'm surprised that you've told me so much." I confessed, "I never thought someone like you would care to talk to someone like me."

"It's why I chose to talk to you," Steve grinned, "You're just you. I know how hard it is coming to terms with a completely different life and waking up to a whole new world. You may not realize it Kay, but something happened to you and someone decided you were important enough to live. You have something special inside of you and you can use it."

"To become a hero?" I asked, shocked at his reasons.

"A hero or just you," He explained, "As long as you're true to your beliefs, then your doing the right thing."

I smiled at him as we walked into the lab.