They couldn't expect things to stay calm on the villain front forever, a week after Peggy was buried some kind of evil scientist attacked with a bunch of robots.
It was difficult fighting giant metal guys but they got into the swing of things quickly.
Her brother would blow them part with his repulsers or missiles, Steve would smash open their shell to expose delicate wiring and circuit boards while she cut through the armor then Clint of Natasha would destroy the delicate innards with a well-placed bullet or arrow.
Hulk was just smashing them to bits and after finding that hitting them with lightning just gave them more power Thor was doing the same.
But the robots were smart they separated them "ok so were battling a robot army and all I have is a bow and arrows, what's wrong with this picture?" Clint asked over the comms.
Beth who was slicing through the robots with her laser then slicing through the circuits was an energy sword her brother had given her just grunted a reply her body was bruised and she was sure she had a broken rib from a punch shed taken from one of the robots.
But they were starting to win until she heard a cry of pain; she recognized the voice as Steve's and she flexed her feet repulsers coming to life on her feet she shot up a robot slicing along her waist.
She cut its head off with her sword.
She saw Steve on the ground standing up from what had to be a blow to the head and a bot was coming up behind him she bolted forward before she knew what she was doing he turned just in time to see her flash in front of her and to see the blood spray.
At first it didn't hurt until she felt something warm and wet traveling down her chest whipping her hand over it she found her fingers come back smeared faintly red.
Her sword clattered when it hit the ground and she herd someone calling her name "iron jackets down" was shouted through the comm in her ear but she could barely hear it.
Steve spun around at the shout of his name and saw Beth suddenly in front of him and then something wet hit his face, she touched a trailed of red suddenly flowing from a wound in her chest and then she was on the ground as he cried her name.
He threw his shield hard enough to decapitate the offending robot "iron jacket is down" he said into the comms as he started fighting harder to keep the robots from crushing her.
Then he saw his chance, in his arrogance the scientist was above the robots graving his shield he aimed carefully "ironman I see a shot" he warned and then threw with all his might.
The blow knocked the man off his platform and ironman took his place then the robots all started to power down some of them exploding, Steve graved Beth and bolted out of the herd.
Once away from the metallic things he set her down on the side walk and saw her visor retract her mouth was bloody and her eyes were closed "come on, open your eyes" he said quietly and saw them twitch.
When she opened her eyes her vision was blurry but she could see Steve looking at her plain as day.
"Why did you do that?" he demanded and she couldn't help grinning "made a promise, to look after you"
He stared at her "idiot how can you do that if your dead"
She tried to shift but her entire body went tense with agony "coul-couldn't let you ta-take that hit" she stuttered vision darkening she could feel her body going slack "made a promise" her voice got breathy and then it was nothing but darkness even as Steve called her name.