Next Generation

23: Meeting Wanda

The kids knew a lot about the woman who could emit destructive red balls of fury with only her hands and could peek into your head and jumble up all your thoughts. She was dangerous, Hydra made her that way.

The only reason she hadn't even joined them since the beginning was because the death anniversary of her late brother, Pietro was approaching and she always had a bad time coping.

JARVIS spent no time in tracking her location to Italy. She was nestled in a tiny house in the outskirts of Verona, snuggled up to a fire and sipping organic red wine from her clear glass. She picked up Tony's call almost immediately and agreed to boarding the jet that he was gonna send right over.

"There's no point in going to S.H.I.E.L.D. They won't have any information regarding them whatsoever since it's their first time here", Bruce calmly stated as he drummed his fingers.

"Wanda is the adequate person to turn to for this situation", Natasha added. "Stark, have you located her yet?".

"She's on her way. Apparently she was trying to find Romeo", Tony rolled his eyes as he settled on the couch. "I'm getting too old for this", he mumbled only to himself.

"She'll be arriving in two hours", Steve informed, walking into the room sporting another brown leather jacket.

"Nice", Francis said smiling, "maybe she can help Bucky with that whole I'm gonna attack you thing", he nonchalantly suggested.

Tony didn't even bother to cover up his laughter.

Clint's eyes grew so large and they quickly shot Francis a glare. "Francis!", he scolded.

Bucky knew Francis didn't mean it in an offensive way, the kid just spoke whatever was on his mind. Instead, Bucky cowered on his shoulders and looked away.

"Anyways", Jason tried to lift some of the room's tension, "did those dorks leave anything behind?".

"Do not dare call them dorks!", Torunn immediately protested, lashing out her sword and aiming at Jason's neck.

"Woah, calm down", Jason backed away slowly, holding up his hands in surrender. "Touched a nerve there".

"They brainwash you and everyone else and you still defend them? Geez did you like, sell your soul to them?", Victoria sneered.

Everyone in the room quickly gave her a look over. She was acting weird.

Tony's laughter grew louder.

"What would you know about family? You are a Stark", Torunn scoffed, flipping some of her blonde hair over her shoulder.

"Yeah and you're the girl that blasted down from some freak planet", Victoria shot back, rolling her eyes.

"Listen here-!", Torunn yelled already stalking her way over to Victoria, only to have Natasha pull her back.

"And no, Jason, they didn't leave anything behind", Steve said, trying to shift the conversation.

"Let's go welcome Wanda, she will be here soon", Thor tried to get the kids out of the room and somewhere else where they could finally calm down. His niece and nephew really did do their work on them.

They filed out hesitantly, not wanting to miss out on anything.

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A jet landed Wanda swiftly on the Tower's rooftop landing pad. This particular jet was a lot smaller than the Quinjet but was quite effective. Of course, the pilot was Agent Morris.

"Clint", was the word Wanda first gasped as her eyes landed on the archer. She ran to him and engulfed him in her embrace, as if he was the person she missed the most.