Thor threw his hammer and basically threw Rumlow out of the tower. "Come on!" Clint called as he fired an arrow to stun the enemy. B.J had her goggles on and was able to take them out, but to see Rumlow with a syringe aimed for her scar. "Nope!" B.J managed to dodge and ran out of there. Tony blasted them out of his tower. Bruce didn't have to Hulk out, but he did have to figure out what was in the needle Brock was going to use. "What was in it?" Clint asked. B.J was napping on the couch and Tony was tweaking his helmet next to her while watching Gas Money Garage. "I'm not sure. I could find out with some blood samples. Since Rumlow targeted B.J, I'll ask her for some." the gamma expert said as he left the room. He came to the couch and t.v to see B.J and Tony asleep. Bruce just rolled his eyes and woke B.J enough to ask for a sample of her blood. Groggily did she comply and sat up. Bruce took a couple needles full and left her to nap again after checking her temperature. Clint was making popcorn with one of Tony's machines again and the work room smelled of butter and salt. "Really? Get out of here, Barton." Bruce ordered. Clint was happy with how his popcorn came out and left to go to the door and watch Bruce work. The scientist worked on the samples and saw something unusual. "The reports said her DNA is half of Bucky's and the other is artificial, right?" Bruce asked. Clint made noise as an answer since he had a mouthful of burnt and overly buttered popcorn. "This thing is to unlock something within her synthetic RNA and DNA. In order to understand what exactly this does, we would need B.J to take it." Bruce determined as he wrote down some notes and hypothesis'. Clint went in the room and looked through the microscope. The strands of DNA were reacting to the substance from the needle in an odd fashion. Some of the strands were breaking apart, but the substance repaired them. "I think it's a healing factor. From what I hear from those who have them, they're a blessing and a curse." Clint thought allowed. Bruce dropped his pen and looked up. "Jarvis, put the slide on the big monitor." he ordered. Jarvis showed the slide and agreed with Clint's hypothesis about the substance. Both were stunned and looked at each other.
B.J was feeling a little better after eating and having a day to relax. Bucky was just glad her fever was breaking so quickly. The mission was a success, but at a cost. Bucky was now a target and if they caught him, Hydra would be able to get to B.J. "So, you have to hide again?" B.J sadly asked. She was starting to like having someone to relate and lean on someone who understood most of her troubles. Fury's habit of secret keeping didn't make him someone to relate to in her case and Natasha was always working or training. Having a family member gave her some dependences she wasn't able to have at a young age. "I'm sorry, Jess. Steve will watch after you. I forgot to tell you I made him your godfather in case something went wrong." Bucky said as he rubbed a thumb on her arm. B.J sighed and looked down childishly. "If that's what needs to be done. Just, tell me if you need help or Hydra lost your trail." She had ordered. Bucky smiled and looked at Steve. "Protect her or else I'll kick your ass." he ordered the captain. "Jerk." Steve said as he held his hand out. "Punk." Bucky took the hand and they left after that. The next week, they went to the kitchen to find Tony and Natasha whispering. "Oh, hey. How about getting my screwdriver? The oven broke." Tony asked once they noticed them. B.J looked around and saw the screwdriver next to the inventor. Tony saw what she was pointing to and stuttered. "He means his goggles. You know, the ones that magnify things?" Natasha saved. B.J sighed and left to look for them. Steve would have left with her, but the two held him back. When she came back, she saw all the Avengers whispering in some sort of debate. "I got the goggles?" she asked more than stated. Sam saw her and cleared his throat. "Thanks, kid. We have a question to ask you." Tony said as he took the pair of blacked out goggles with a confident smile. "Want to be an Avenger?" Steve asked. B.J felt proud, nervous, and excited. An Avenger was her goal since the initiative started. Fury wouldn't let her in on the program because she was so young and worried what Steve would do when he heard her last name and nickname. "Well?" Thor asked after a moment. B.J smiled and looked at them. "Yeah!" she shouted. Bucky wanted her to be an Avenger and asked Tony to think about it before he went into hiding. Steve smiled and ruffled B.J's somewhat short hair. "Welcome to the team, kid." Clint smiled as he shot her with silly string. B.J dodged and found the eggs in the fridge. "Prank war initiation? You're on." she laughed as she nailed Clint with an egg to his head. They started a large prank war that day. By the next morning, the tower was covered in forgotten stains and small holes. B.J helped get the place cleaned up and thought she saw something outside. She chose to wave it off as a bird and got a stubborn ketchup stain off the wall. After getting her assigned hallway, she went to get some breakfast. She soon learned that they had a scheduled everyone on a cooking duty. Today it was Tony's turn. "Did you see something?" he asked. B.J hmphed and looked around. "I thought I saw a bird earlier. Why?" she asked. Something on the back of her neck telling her to hide. "I guess it was just a bird." Tony was getting Jarvis to make breakfast as he was reading the paper. B.J sat down and calmed her breathing. "You okay, B.J?" Tony asked. He saw her getting pale. "Y-yeah. I'm fine. Can you get me some water?" Tony saw her having some sort of anxiety attack and got her the water. Jarvis got some waffles ready, so Tony gave her a plate. "Thanks. I just have this feeling that something bad is here." she said as she stuffed her face with her food.
Tony knew how to handle panic attack and anxiety. He had them himself and had his friends help him through it. Pepper was a big help when it was near the point when he was ready to jump out the window with nothing but the clothes on his back. B.J stuffed her face and started to calm down. "I smell Jarvis' waffles. Where's my plate?" Clint came in after he was done helping Natasha get dried silly string out of her long fiery red hair. Tony pointed to a plate and started tweaking a piece of his armor as Clint started wolfing the food down. "So, like being an Avenger?" he asked B.J. The teenager nodded with a smile and it lifted her out of her gloom at the fact she was a hero. One for others to look up to and not down on. She hated it when people looked down at her, both figuratively and literally. They had an unusual day off and got the tower clean before Pepper came to check on them. Every day, she would check on the Avengers living area to call for any necessary repairs or doctors. Tony loved Pepper for it because he was sure he wouldn't be able to do it anyway.
It was nice to know that someone takes time out of their day to check on you and it was especially warming for the hardened heroes. B.J sighed and went to take a nap on the couch to see a shadow figure in the shaded corner. B.J stilled as she ran over on who's figure it was. It intimidated her and B.J was ready to fight if she had to. He moved into the light and glared. Rumlow had a burned healing on his shoulder from the other week. "Hail Hydra." he growled. B.J felt something switch inside and she stood tall in obedience. "Good." he praised. B.J knew what was happening and her memories were slipping away. It was some type of code or cypher that would change her to what Hydra had wanted from the beginning. Loyalty, bravery, and a lifeless soldier. "Ten Miles Wide." Steve said with a calm voice. When Tony looked her over and saw how a cypher affected her, he and B.J created a counter active. They were mainly song titles and lyrics. B.J relaxed and started fighting Rumlow until he was on the ground. This was about the third or fourth time she had beat him down by now and he was pretty humiliated by that fact. His excuse was that she was made by Hydra. Steve helped tie him up in a cell. "You alright?" he asked. B.J shook her head and went for the couch again. Steve sighed and followed her so he could find out what was wrong. "You going to tell me?" he asked. B.J shrugged and free fell on the cushions. "Just, that cypher thing is weird. It really changes me and I wanted it gone." B.J had ended up saying. Steve sat on the chair next to the couch and turned on the t.v. "I know Bucky has one. I don't know what would happen if we said it or if there's a word we could say for him to return." the old man told the young girl. B.J sighed and watched the news for a few minutes. "I read about that. I heard it's Sputnik." she said as she finally remembered. Well, at least they knew what not to say in front of Bucky if he ever came back. Pepper came in and saw the two watching the news. "No missions? Tony just left with Hulk to knock Rhino out and help Web-head." B.J didn't respond and started reading a book she found. Steve acknowledged Pepper with a nod and turned the volume down. "How is she?" Pepper mouthed silently. Steve gave a look that said "Ups and downs". Pepper tsk her tongue and looked over the couch to see the B.J was using the book to block the light to getting in her closed eyes. "Maybe taking her out might help. Get her new clothes and stuff to decorate her room." Pepper suggested. Steve thought and made a thankful expression as Tony's assistance and girlfriend left to look at the other potential damages. Steve watched the television until B.J woke up. "Hey, I was thinking we could go and get knew clothes for you since you lost a lot in the fire." Steve offered. B.J sighed and decided to go along with him on this. She was also getting tired of wearing Natasha's clothes.
They went to a mall district and walked around to shop for clothes and other things, like posters for her room and shelves for the books she managed to save. "Can we get some lunch?" she had asked. Steve was feeling a little hungry himself and it was a little after noon. "Sure, where do you want to go?" he asked. B.J sighed and looked at a directory's restaurant listings. "Uh, I guess we could go to Five Guys." They left for the food court and had some fries with some soda to drink.
Brock managed to get himself free and looked around for stuff to bring back to Hydra. His mission was to control B.J, but since he failed, he didn't want to go back empty handed again. Jarvis made a silent alarm and Thor's bildshnipe. Bildgy, was let loose to put Brock in his cage and to guard the man. Said man heard the massive beat lumber to him and started running. It was instinct, but he didn't want to run. Finally getting control of his legs, Brock Rumlow turned and started wresting with the beast. Obviously he lost and was put back in his cage with the beast watching him as if he was food. "Good boy, Bildhgy." Tony praised as he patted the beast's head like he was a puppy that just learned how to play fetch. "Where is the little sniper?" Rumlow asked. Tony knew he was talking about Rumlow and kept his mouth shut as he walked off to get Thor's pet a treat for a job well done.
After getting a light lunch, Steve and B.J went back to the tower. B.J put her new clothes away and hung some of her new posters on her wall. It was going to be weird for her, but she knew this was average in a sense with her life. Being an Avenger and having Captain America wouldn't be that scary.