"Come on. Let's get back to the group," I say as I smile at her. "So do you go by Katherine, or do you have a nickname?" I ask, trying to make conversation on our walk back through the hall.

"Usually Katie... or Kate."

"Which do you prefer?"

"I really like Kate, but everyone calls me Katie. I really don't care, you can call me Katie, too."

"I like Kate," I tell her. We smile at each other as we come down the stairs and rejoin the team in the living room.

We play games and tell jokes the rest of the night. Best night of my life. If I would've known it would be like this, I would've signed myself up. Finally, I have a family.

It's been a few days, and the team is doing great. We've all gotten to know each other and we've become as good of friends as you can in just a few days. Today is the day Spider-Man gives us our first mission. Yep, Spider-Man. Fury assigned him to check in on us every few days and today he wants to see what we got. We're all anxiously waiting for him to contact us.

"Ugh, what's taking him so long?" Emily groans, "Ms. America needs to see some action!"

"Oh no, are we really gonna start talking in 3rd person?" I ask.

"Ohhhh, now I get it!" exclaimed Sam, "'Ms.' because your mom was Ms. Marvel and 'America' because your dad is Captain America!"

"You seriously JUST got that?" asks Bobby.

Do we really need to wait for Spidey? We could just go and find ourselves a mission or a bad guy to stop, " says Kate.

"We were told NOT to do ANYTHING until we received instruction from Spider-Man," I reply, "so, naturally, I like your idea. JARVIS, scan all S.H.I.E.L.D. frequencies. Find us something to do."

"Looks like the Wrecking Crew just robbed a bank down town, sir," he says, "Sending you the coordinates now."

"Maybe we should start with something a little easier," Bobby warns, "I mean there's four of them."

"And there's five of us," Katie retorts, "Let's go."

As we arrive on the scene, I realize we probably should've listened to Bobby. This might be too big for our first mission. But I'm determined to prove myself... And the team.

"Alright. Kate, use your speed to run in there and cause a commotion. Then while they're confused, we attack. Emily, Sam, you two will drop in on 'em from above. Bobby and I will meet them from the sides," not bad for my first plan.

Kate speeds off in the Crew's direction while Sam and Emily take to the skies. Kate starts circling the gang, causing a small tornado, throwing them off their feet.

"New Heroes...fight!" I'll work on the catch phrase later.

The team surrounds the Wrecking Crew. Ms. America jumps Piledriver, using her flight, shield, and reflexes to stay out of harms way while sneaking in punches when she can. Daredevil-definitely the best fighter on the team-begins beating on Piledriver. DD's speed and agility make him too hard for Piledriver to hit, making him furious. Mystery uses her telekinesis to throw random things at Bulldozer from all angles, and her super speed to get out of the way just in time when he charges her. Kid Falcon and I take The Wrecker. I keep my distance, shooting exploding arrows at the oaf while Kid Falcon swoops in on him from above, then takes off again, shooting hard-light at him from his wings. We seem to be doing pretty well. Until The Wrecker swats the bird out of the sky. Kid Falcon goes flying and lands hard.

"No!" yells Kate.

The quick distraction is all Bulldozer needs to send her flying, too.

"Everyone fall back!" I tell the team through our comms, "Kid Falcon and Mystery are down."

Mystery, Daredevil, Kid Falcon and I begin to fall back.

"No!" Ms. America refuses, "We can still win this!"

"Get out of there, NOW!" I yell.

Too late. Piledriver only lands one punch, but it's all he needs. Mystery-still badly hurt-speeds in and grabs her and carries her back to the team. With impeccable timing, The Avengers decide to show up. They make quick work of the crew.

After a couple hours of being lectured by Fury, we find ourselves back at base, wondering why we were so stupid. What were we thinking? We had no team training. We're being restricted from any more missions until further notice.

"I'm sorry," I hear from the doorway. I look up to see Emily.

"It's alright. We were out of our league. Are you, Kate, and Sam okay?"

"Yeah, I got everyone healed up. I should've listened to you. You're the leader."

"Some leader I am," I scoff, "I almost got 3 of you killed on our first mission."

"That's not your fault. Don't be so hard on yourself," she kisses my cheek and walks away.