Steve raised his shield and redirected Vision's beam back at him forcing him to doge sideways before throwing his shield nicking Vision's left leg before calling it back to him.

"That's enough." Fury boomed over the intercom sounding frustrated. "I'm calling it. It's a tie. Go away, I'm done with you."

Vision came down and shook Steve's hand saying, "Well fought."

"Ya that was good." Steve agreed as the pair walked off the field.

"Are we going to take a break or keep fighting?" Sam asked Hill and Bruce.

"I suppose the god above will tell us." Hill said with a smirk, "He really is having too much fun with this com system..."

"Be glad I can't put you in that arena Agent Hill." Fury's voice boomed.

"No breaks. Natasha, Rhodey, you're up."

Bruce watched the battle before him with clenched hands forcing his breath to be slow and even. He hadn't watched Natasha fight very many times. He usually quickly devolved in the beast especially when he saw her in danger. It was equally reassuring and terrifying to watch her fight. She really was something spectacular as she dodged and blocked the stun-beams and fought an opponent that should out strip her by a mile. That's what was terrifying about it though. The more he watched her fight the more and more he realized how outmatched she really was by everyone. He had the hulk and couldn't get so much as a broken arm, but Natasha was so soft of vulnerable.

Steve's hand on his shoulder and voice behind him broke Bruce's forced calm gaze as Steve said, "She's the best fighter I've ever seen."

Bruce just nodded his agreement, but his muscles were still tense.

"She knows what to do in every situation and always picks the best possible option and I know what you're thinking, she doesn't have super serum, or a suit or mind control... but that's what makes her Natasha. She doesn't need it. Sure sometimes she's out gunned and she's almost always out muscled, but she can handle it, and when she can't, that's what we're for." Steve assured him.

"Ya, ya of course." Bruce said taring his eyes away from the tiny woman in the ring and giving a forced smile to Steve.

In that moment he missed it, he wasn't really sure if that was a good thing, but the next thing he knew Natasha was on the ground passed out and Rhodey was falling from the sky only to be slowed by a plumb of red mist. Steve took off at a dead run towards the arena and as Bruce turned around his heat froze in his chest. Bruce knew better then to run to her with his already elevated heartbeat, but he pushed himself as fast as he could go taking deep calm breaths.

"Black Widow wins." Fury said over the loud speaker, but Bruce wanted to suggest an eye exam to him as Steve lifted Natasha's limp body off the forest floor and cradled her to him in his large strong arms.

"Natasha." Bruce said as he met Steve half way back to him, "What happened is she ok?" He asked his fingers already on her strong pulse.

"Bruce?" She asked with a groan her eyes fluttering, but not opening.

Steve walked her back to the truck as Bruce kept pace with them. Steve set her down and Bruce knelt in front of her looking her over. Her hand was locked around one of her electric rods and as Bruce unclenched it and removed the weapon Natasha hissed in pain. Her hand was slightly charred from the electric current that must have been the cause of her lack of consciousness.

"What did you do?" Bruce asked brushing hair out of her eyes as the fluttered open too look at him blurred and dull with pain.

"Used the widow's bite to... short the suit, but not enough power or reach... Linked the two... back-shock is a bitch though." She mumbled regaining her breath and coming back to herself as her eyes cleared and her head lifted to look at him properly.

"You took all of the back charge from the suit?" Bruce said incredulously. "What were you thinking? That could have killed you!" Bruce wanted to shake her to make her realize what her death could mean. She couldn't do shit like that.

"Not all." She said holding up her hand to show that what Bruce had passed off as char was actually a thin piece of cloth melted to her skin.

Bruce ran the tip of his finger across a less scorched area of fabric and said, "Silk. You used silk as a semi-buffer. You knew this was going to happen so you used silk to block some of it letting enough get through you that it wouldn't block the rebound that would be needed to fry the suit..."

Natasha smiled and winked at him saying, "Isn't science fun?"

"No." Bruce said matter of factly before stepping back and letting the medical team treat her.

"How's Rhodey?" She asked.

Bruce really wasn't sure so he looked around and found him pouting over his suit as the team of mechanics that had just finished repairing Sam's wings worked on the shorted suit.

"Pouting." Bruce said still unimpressed with Natasha's stunt.

Natasha laughed and Fury called Steve and Wanda into the arena.

At the end of the day it was starting to get dark, but they fights were over. Natasha had lost to Vision and tied Steve. Vision had fallen victim to Wanda's manipulation as had Rhodey. Sam maneuverability and speed had proved to much for Wanda as had Steve's super serum. Steve was the only one that never lost a match, but he tied two. Over all the group learned a lot about the fighting style of the others and to what lengths they were willing to go to win.

Dinner that night was a noisy affair put on by Fury, Maria and Bruce as the fighters cleaned up and met them in the main dining area long cleared of other members.

"I coulda had your ass in a heartbeat if I was using my full power." Rhodey assured Wanda as they entered as the last two to the table.

"Keep dreaming mini Stark." Wanda teased taking her seat between Rhodey and Vision."

"That was an excellent fight this evening." Vision told her passing her a bowl of mashed potatoes. "Let us hope we never have repeat." He said with a smile.

Wanda smiled back at him scooping out some potatoes and said, "Ya I really wasn't sure what was going to happen when I tried to give you that illusion considering you're half cells hav vibranium, what was it like?"

"If you could imagine what it is like to have a computer as a brain then imagine someone pulls up a video on your mind and forces it to the front. It was very distracting, I was able to be aware of my surroundings and I knew what was happening, but it was taking up so much of my current awareness that it was very hard to concentrate on anything else. And then to find myself moving without my on volition was a very uncomfortable experience; I could not break free. I thank you for the experience though, it was very enlightening."

Wanda smiled and the pair joined in to their dinners still talking about powers and their fight.

"You gunna come train with me some more tomorrow Nat?" Steve asked her.

"What you want me to kick your head a round some more?" Natasha asked.

"Ya, seriously what was with all those head shots?" Steve asked with a laugh.

"I was trying to keep that shield in front of your face and keep you fighting blind. That's how I got your legs out from under you so well that one time. Might have had you too if I had any more of those shock disks left." Natasha said teasingly elbowing him in the ribs playfully as he went to take a bite of green beans causing him too drop the fork full into his lap.

Bruce, Sam, and Fury laughed as Steve blushed cleaning off his shorts. "It'd take more than one of those tiny things to land me on my ass Romanoff."

Natasha gasped dramatically saying, "Language Steven, Captain America doesn't like that type of talk."

"You know what Romanoff?" Steve said pointing at her.

"What Rogers?" she quiped back at him.

"Eat your dinner." he said lamely turning back to his own glowing pink around the edges.

Everyone laughed and ate and enjoyed their time together as the official new Avengers.