"What it's going on?" Jamie spoke in a loud voice for everyone to hear.
"Oh, Jamie dear" Jamie's mother got up from the sofa and her husband followed her both of them trying to get closer to their son, seeing such a confusing…situation?.
"Jamie?" Liv looked suspisciously at him , she knew this wasn't good news, but his friend only nodded "Good to see ya again, girl" Liv winked at Natasha.
" Jamie, son we're so glad to see you again" was some feet away from them.
"Stay…right there, what on earth it's going on? Who are you?" a worried and scared look came across his face.
"We're here to talk you about the Avengers Initiative, and we need to talk to you too, " Nick Fury got up from the chair he was sitting on and stand still like waiting for a sign or something else.
"You see, Jamie, we thought about this and it could actually be good for you to go with them…" said with tears in her eyes.
"Oh, no, I have already being locked up for 3 years, and I don't want to..." fear was the emotion filling Jamie's body at the moment.
"Wait, how do you know my surname?" the girl said in confusion until after some thinking she got it "Don't tell me…my uncle?..he's dead I have nothing to do with you anymore"
"We want some thing else from you, both of you, we can help you" Natasha said with a fake and professional smile.
"Yeah..my ass, that's the classical thing to say, Jamie let's go" they were about to go in the same way the came but they came across two large bodies blocking the way.
"I'm afraid we'll have to do this the bad way, Rogers, Barton please guide these two teenagers to the car outside" Fury gave them a signal with his hand to do so.
Hesitantly they both are escorted to the black car, and Jamie takes a deep sigh looking back at his parents, he doesn't know what to think, but at least he's into this whatever they're gonna do with Liv.
"What about my things?" Jamie looked back at his lodge that was in his house's wooden floor.
Steve being the ultimate charming person he is, smiled warmly at him and Liv, and go gets Jamie's things, and so they go off, back to the big Midtown of NYC.
"Don't worry , we already have your things at the Stark Tower" Natasha eyes her from the rearview staring at Liv's blue eyes, somehow her expression remind Nat of Coulson, and even made her smile…a little.
"So you're part of the new team, huh?" Tony Stark who was sitting next to Bruce and was holding a glass of wine looked at both teenagers through his sunglasses.
"team?" Jamie asked confused. He didn't have the slightest idea of what was going on, he seriously was feeling scared, he didn't want to go back in some sort of prison again, he wanted to feel free and relax with the very last best friend he had. He looked at Liv, she was looking through the window with her arms crossed and then she let go a slight snort and turned her eyes to Tony.
"Oh my God…it's night already and you're still wearing sunglasses" Liv said laughing a bit. Jamie gave her that "shut up" look and cleared his throat trying to avoid laughing. "and No we're not part of the team…" she smiled at Tony who took off his sunglasses and finished his glass of wine.
"yet…" Bruce completed Liv's phrase " we need you kids, it's for everyone's safety" His voice was very smooth and he had this calm aura all over him, even though he could turn into this big green rage monster at any time.
"This guy…with the…patch" Jamie did some awkward movements with his hands.
"Nick Fury" Steve helped him trying not to laugh.
"thank you…well Fury, mentioned this thing called…Avengers Initiative?" He said and Bruce looked at him calmly.
"that's how they assembled us all…they gather a bunch of people with inhuman abilities that save the world from evil forces" Tony answered crossing his leg.
"damn, guess we're now chosen to be the new generation of superheroes or something like that?" Liv said kind of curious.
"yes basically" Bruce said smiling at both kids.
The Stark tower was 108 floors tall and S.H.I.E.L.D. would use it as a base during the assembling of the new group of avengers.
Peter was already on the main hall waiting for the others. He would look everywhere and admire all the technology that Stark Industries used. There was a big round table in the middle of the room and 5 big screens surrounding it, there were also 6 chairs around the table, that meant he was going to be working with other people. He sat down in one of the chairs and suddenly the door opened and two girls and a boy walked in letting the door slide close behind them. They looked nervous though, the boy waved at Peter and he waved back smiling kindly.
"Hi, uhm…Peter?" the boy asked walking towards him and taking a seat. He was dark haired, with green eyes and was tall but thin. He wore a black shirt with the phrase "I hope you step on a lego" on it, jeans and his old black and white Vans.
"y-yeah" Peter blinked several times. "You are…" he said awkwardly, of course he didn't know the names of the others.
"Marshall…nice to meet you" cool, he was nice. Peter smiled at him and then looked at the other two girls that were looking all around the room open mouthed. "oh, those are Dianne and Jessie".
"Oh right, cool" an awkward silence got over the room and both girls sat down with the boys. One of them, Dianne was a curled brunette, she couldn't stop giggling about all that technology around them. Jessie, had bright brown shoulder-height hair, she was very thin but the same height as Dianne, she was staring at her hands that were placed on her lap, she would look at Marshall and then at Peter, who would smile at her but she'd look at him like if he was some sort of stalker.
"So, you're also here because of the…Avengers…thing?" Marshall asked Peter trying to cut that awkward moment of silence in the atmosphere.
"Yeah…Yes, I …Nick Fury talked to me about this a week ago…but he never told me about the others" Peter replied and Marshall nodded.
"and what do you do?" asked Dianne, smiling at Peter.
"have you ever heard about, a guy dressed in red and blue that swings all around Manhattan and saves people?" Jessie looked impressed at Peter.
"Spiderman? You are Spiderman?" Jessie smiled widely at him. Peter nodded and smiled.
"Holy Molly!" Dianne replied also laughing and smiling.
"I don't even…what…How comes that I've never heard of him?" said Marshall as he got confused.
The door slide open letting Liv and Jamie inside.
"Liv?!" Peter said as Liv looked at him surprised.
"woah…wait…what's going on?" Liv replied looking at his friend Peter.
"You are..." Peter walked towards her and Jamie, who looked confused as hell.
"You know each other?" Jamie asked and then looked at Marshall, Jessie and Dianne whose expressions were full of confusion as well.
"He's …Peter, Gwen's boyfriend" Liv told Jamie.
"He's Spiderman!" Jessie shouted with a tone of joy in her voice. Peter looked at her sighing.
"what? you're Spidey?" Liv smiled at Peter excitedly. He hesitated and scratched the back of his head nodding.
"yeah well…it's not that big deal" Peter replied, he was surely having the most uncomfortable meeting with his girlfriend's best friend.
"who are you guys?" Jamie asked to the others.
"I'm Marshall, she's Jessie and she's Dianne, you might be Jamie and she must be Liv right?" Marshall introduced them and smiled at both of them.
"How come we didn't know about you?" Jamie asked while sitting with them in the table.
"Well, looks like Fury has a plan or something and maybe that's why he never mentioned us to you" Marshall put an innocent expression on his face.
"Right…I don't even know what I am doing here, I should be at work and besides I don't want to be related to this crap in any way" Liv walked towards the door which suddenly opened letting Fury and Natasha to get in.
"Mrs. Coulson…I think you should take a seat, actually all of you should" They passed besides Liv whose nerves were boiling since they met at Jamie's home.
Everybody sat down and looked at each other. Jamie was getting kind of nervous already, and he was sure the others felt the same. Fury walked towards a panel placed in front of the table where everybody was sitting, he introduced some codes and then the same folder he had shown peter the first time they met opened letting pictures of the Avengers, their files and basic information were surrounding them on transparent holographic screens.
"You might be asking yourselves why you are here" Fury started while walking around the table "it's very simple, because we need to prepare for a massive attack…" everybody looked at him. "You may not believe that evil forces exist, but, they do. A lot of subnormal activity has been detected lately" Fury made a signal to Natasha who typed another code on the panel that made another folder to open up showing pictures of several attacks in different zones of New York. "We still don't have a hint of what is provoking all of this destruction, but we do know that it has taken innocent people lives..." Jamie looked at every single frame and picture, what kind of power would make all that destruction? He didn't even believe the Avengers were basically real; he had heard of them but never thought he would meet them, or even be part of a new generation.
"All of you possess some kind of, special talent or ability" Natasha spoke as she walked towards the table and grabbed the folder placed in the center of it. "And we, have been monitoring every single movement you make" she smiled at them.
"Okay" Peter spoke first. "You want us to be part of this, but how do you know we are ready?".
"That…"Jamie pointed at Peter showing his support.
"Well, we've made some research about each one's personality and skills" Fury headed to the control panel and typed something, suddenly the other holographs disappeared and a big holographic screen appeared in front of them. "You will be instructed or coached by.." Fury looked at them as a picture of each Avenger appeared on the big screen. "The Avengers".
Everyone's expression was priceless.
"But why us?..." Liv asked looking at Fury.
"Because you're the last hope we have…" Fury put his arms behind his back. They were very serious about all this, even Natasha's expression at them was all seriousness, she had known what being desperate was, and they were all desperate. "Now, you'll know who is going to be your instructor tomorrow morning. You will have separated bedrooms, your luggage and personal things are already there, if you see something's missing please let us know and we'll bring it to you" A big door slide open letting Fury and Natasha to walk in. "Oh, and welcome to S.H.I.E.L.D" the patched man smiled at them as the door closed behind him and the redheaded woman.
No one said anything after they left, they were all staring at each other until Jamie spoke.
"Well I think I will go check out my room…" Jamie stood up and Marshall did the same.
"I'll go with you… I want to be sure all my stuff is there" Marshall smiled at the boy who returned the gesture and then both left the room by the entrance door.
Liv sighed and looked at Peter and then at the other two girls, who were staring at her for a very long time "What?" she asked at them.
"You're agent Coulson's nephew right?" Jessie smiled kindly at her.
"…Yes…what's with that?" Liv asked trying not to sound annoyed but, How did Jessie know she was Coulson's nephew?.
"He was a great man…really…I got the opportunity to meet him" the girl placed a hand on Liv's who couldn't help but smirked at her.
"You have no idea…" Liv said and stood up from her chair. "Gotta go…I'm late for work, oh and Peter.." she turned and looked at the brunette who was staring at his hands on the table but turned his eyes to her "Gwen's waiting for you at the café…so better hurry dude" she turned around and walked out the hall.
"Oh crap!" Peter jerked his chair away and left running "See ya girls! Nice to meet ya!" and he was gone.
"What a bunch of weirdos…" Dianne said as she and Jessie stood up.
"Wait…am I weird?" Jessie asked innocently as she walked behind her friend to leave the Stark Tower.