Chapter 6: What?!

Lizzie grinned when she looked ahead to see the A.I.M. robots blasting through downtown, but it turned wicked when she realized she and Sam had beat everyone else to the fight. She gave a shout, and the second Sam let go of her she was flipping through the air only to land on the back of a robot. And when she looked up to see the others approaching, she couldn't help the smirk that spread on her face. Sam gave Steve a brief apology before the soldier could spot his daughter, busily beating the hell out of the robots. Her father thought he was having a heart attack when he looked up, only to see her caught by one of them. But as he started forward he gasped.

Lizzie snarled, her blue-green eyes glowing blue as she twisted in the grip of a robotic arm, pushing it open and jumping from it, only to throw her shield in mid-air. Nicole laughed when it tore through the weak metal only to return to her a few moments later. The German jumped into battle alongside her daughter, Steve soon joining in. The other Avengers were soon fighting with them, taking out the robots before the ex-shield bastards.

But just as everything seemed to be going good, a shot rang out, and everyone was shocked to see Steve hit the ground.

And he hit hard.

Letting out a scream of pain, Steve had no choice but to stay on the ground as Nicole rushed to cover him. The rest of the team quickly recovered from the shock of seeing the soldier downed, and as soon as they could, Tony and Sam swooped in to retrieve the man. With him on his way back to the tower (the others could hear his screams of protest even from where they were) his friends fought back twice as hard against the enemies until not a single one remained. Natasha seemed to retrieve something from the ruined remains of the robots before she joined the others in returning to the tower.

Paying no mind to the flurry of traffic violations they gained, they were back at the tower fast than they should have been, and were shocked to see Steve trying to fight against his friends and Tony scanned his back.

"Let me go! Tony! Sam! I need to get back!"

"We're fine daddy!" the man tried to turn around as his daughter approached. "Uncle Tony, what happened?"

"A bullet ripped through his spine. Thankfully it's not still in him." the man glared at his friend. "No, actually, we should be thankful his spine only had a small nick taken out of it, otherwise he'd be confined to a bed."

"Ha!" Steve jerked away, finally freeing himself from the two. He grabbed Lizzie, holding her shoulders. "And you are now forbidden from going out with us on missions!"

"Uh, no I'm not." she pried his hands off. "I didn't get hurt, so you can't keep me from going."

"Guys I think we have worse things to worry about." Natasha moved forward, pulling something into view. "Now that we know you're fine, we need to discuss this."

Steve snarled when he saw a red skull painted on the piece of metal in his friend's hand. "Red Skull? Again?!"

"No, even worse." the redhead sighed, putting it down. "His daughter, Sin."

"Who?" Nicole looked between the Russian and her husband. "There's another Schmidt to worry about?"

"Unfortunately." Natasha shrugged. "We thought we had her contained in prison, but it looks like she's out now."

"What?!"

"Hey don't look at me like that Steve. Hydra must've released her recently, along who knows who else."

Lizzie looked confused. "So, this 'Sin' woman was controlling those robots?"

"Looks like it."

"Then we need to find her, before she finds us."

"Oh great," Bruce chuckled. "You're talking like your father now."

"I'll take that as a complement."