"Steve open the door, things are happening!" Tony said, banging on the door to Avengers HQ. They had gotten teleported to New York by Dr. Strange to visit the Avengers and get some training in, but Cap wasn't answering the door. It was hot out, and Ruby was melting. She was wearing relatively light clothes, but she felt like she was gonna die. Finally, someone answered Tony's relentless knocking and yelling into the intercom, bt it wasn't Rogers. "Yeah? Whaddaya want?" Ruby gasped and was about to speak, but was interuppted by Maki.

"Oh hey, its Bruce Banner." Bruce noticed the three new faces with Tony, and stick his hand out for them to shake.

"Dont think I've met your new friends before, Tony."

"Yeah, you can meet 'em inside. Ruby here is burning." Ruby's only response was a breathless "pigii".

"Oh! Right! Come in. We'll take the elevator up." Inside the elevator, Bruce introduced himself as the Hulk, while Ruby, Maki and Peter introduced themselves. Tony then filled Baner in on the situation, and explained to him how the redhead duo needed some training to prepare them for the coming fights.

"...and I need you to show Ruby and Maki where the training room is. I need to make some upgrades to Maki's suit." Banner thought as they got off the elevator into a pretty big, science-y room.

"I can't, but I can get my new assistant on it." He replied as if it were a cue. And to answer that cue, out came a familiar blonde wearing an Avengers assistant badge.

"Ciao Ruby-chan! Hello Ms. Tomato-chan~" The blonde chirped.

"Oh no." Maki didn't look even the slightest bit pleased. Ruby on the other hand, was ecstatic.

"Mari-san!" Ruby jumped over and hugged her.

"Looks like you guys know each other, huh." Banner piped in.

"Pretty sure we all know Ohara." Tony replied.

"Yep! I met Tony and Maki at a party, and I go to school with Ruby here!" Mari cheered, spining Ruby arond. "I don't know that guy though." She added, pointing to Peter.

"I'm Peter Parker." He said offhandedly, as he was looking around the tower.

"Alright, I'm gonna go. I'll be over there if you need me. You can come too kid." Stark said as he went to his mini lab, with Peter following behind. Maki looked over to Banner.

"So what are you doin'?" She walked over to his desk.

"Just trying to replicate Steve's super serum in case anything were to happen to him."

"C'mon, Maki-chan! Let's training!" Mari screamed. Maki sighed.

"Hope you get it down. See ya." Bruce waved back as Ruby, Maki, and Mari were off to the training room.

As they were walking down the hallway, Ruby precieved Maki's constant look of distaste ever since Mari arrived.

"What's wrong, Maki-chan?" Ruby asked her friend. Maki looked at Ruby with an icy stare that cut through her entire being, sending shivers down her spine. Mari saw this and jumped to Ruby's rescue.

"Maki-chan here doesn't like me very much, but she never told me why~" Maki's only response was the same glare that she gave Ruby, only it didn't affect Mari at all.

"Why don't you like Mari-chan? Is it some sort of long, winded backstory or something?" Ruby inquired, now wanting a lengthy backstory like alot of heroes have. To her dismay, Maki had a straightforward answer.

"She's super annoying. Always screaming and jumping all over the place... it gives me a headache." Mari leaned in closer to Maki.

"C'mon, I can't be that bad, can I?"

"You'd be surprised."

The trio finally arrived at the training room, and it was huge. There were some sturdy walls that looked like Maki could practice shooting with her repulsors, while there were also dummies that Ruby assumed she could throw around. There was also ample space for Maki to fly and Ruby to swing.

"Wow..." Ruby breathed, awestruck.

"Cool, isn't it? S.H.I.E.L.D spared no expense for this place~" Mari said, spinning into the spacious room.

"I mean you do need the best equipment for Earth's Mightiest Heroes." Maki replied dryly, despite also being impressed. She punched the Arc Reactor on her chest, which made her suit start to form around her body.

"You remember your web shooters, Ruby?" Maki questioned, turning to Ruby.

"Uhh... my webs are organic, Maki-chan." Ruby replied.

"Oh, well let's get started then." Maki said, placing her helmet on her head.

"Yeah!" Mari jumped over to them. "Let's training~!" And with those words the trio went and trained.

Ruby practiced web-swinging with more efficiency and speed, while Maki worked on her aim and standing her ground while using her blasters. Mari oversaw what the two were doing and gave them advice. Ruby then had the idea to watch some of the animated series and look at the MvC games to get ideas. The mech-suited redhead thought it was an OK idea, but she decided to look into Marvel VS Capcom 2 more than any of the animated series. Ruby flipflopped between the 60s Spider-Man cartoon, the Spectacular Spider-Man, and a bunch of UMvC3 comb videos. The two then went and tried out what they had learned on the dummies. Ruby learned a simple Web-Ball, and the more complex Spider-Cannon and Web-Throw. Maki found out that there were smart bombs in her suit, as well as learning that she can make a huge repulsor blast over her head. She knew about the deadly Proton Cannon, but didn't figure out how to use it. In about an hour, they'd gotten some good work done, and were on break. Mari threw them two bottles of water and grabbed a yellow vial of what Ruby assumed was lemonade. Mari sat down next to the redheads and chugged down her "lemonade".

"You did good, you two~" Mari said to them.

"Thanks. Think this'll give us a good edge against those guys." Maki panted, gulping down her water.

"Yeah! I feel super strong!" Ruby cheered, obviously still full of energy.

"Ah~. Glad you feel that way! We should head back now." Mari said, standing up.

"Oh... we're going home?" Ruby inquired, a but dissapointed.

"Yeah, kid. We don't wanna waste any time, right?" Tony popped out of what seemed like nowhere.

"Yeah. I wanna go home." Maki added.

"I wanna show Peter what I've learned!" Ruby jumped.

"You've probably learned more that I do." Parker added.

As the heroes said goodbye to their friends, we go to later in the night, where a janitor is cleaning the tower. He notices an empty vial on the ground near the training facility. He picks it up and brings it to his eyes. A label can be seen on the vial, which read: Experimental Super Soldier Serum