Avengers: New Blood (Peter Parker)/ A.M

8. The Avengers' New Blood

The next day, all the Avengers were gathered, waiting for Captain to come.

He was talking to Maria who was informing him about the latest Ultron's whereabouts.

Andria was in the control room, searching for any new strikes.

She knew what Maria would tell Captain.

Ultron had gained access to everything and he was sending his suits and the Maximoff twins to do his dirty job.

As she was scrolling down on a tablet, a message from Ultron appeared in the screen.

It was a photo of Strucker's dead body and a message written on the wall with blood: 'Peace'.

When Andria reached the room where the Avengers were, they all turned to her with questioning looks on their faces.

She moved forward, giving the tablet to Captain.

"What's that?" Stark asked.
"A message. Ultron killed Strucker," Andria explained, as Stark got the tablet.

"And he did a Banksy at the crime scene, just for us," he said.
"This is a smoke screen. Why send a message when you've just given a speech?" Natasha pointed out.
"It's possible, Strucker knew something that Ultron wanted you to miss," Andria said and Natasha nodded.

"Yeah, I bet he...yeah. Everything we had on Strucker's been erased," She said, while looking at her computer.

As the faces of the team fell with disappointment, Andria remembered she had seen boxes of files for everyone they had a record on in the computers.

The first day she had arrived at the Avengers' Tower, she had been bored and so she had started exploring.

Those files were kept in the storage room.

"Not everything," she said and everyone turned to her.

"What do you mean?" Steve asked.
"Follow me," She said and turned, heading to the storage room.

"Hey, Andria, care explaining where are we going and why?" Clint said, catching up to her.

She stopped and turned to face them.

"The first day I came here, I went around, trying to find something to pass the time. When I got to the storage room, I found couple of big boxes full of files for everyone you have a record on. I read some of those and I'm sure I saw Strucker's name somewhere."

When Andria finished explaining them, everyone stared at her in total shock, with Stark being the first one to snap out of it.

"You work for me, right?"
"Practically, yeah. Why?" Andria asked, confused.
"You're great. New blood! I think we all agree that we need a mind like this and since from last night we all saw you can put up a fight...Welcome to the team, kid. You're officially an Avenger," he said and walked past by her, heading to the storage room.

"What?" Andria asked as Banner and Thor followed him.
"We would make a welcoming party, but time is kind of pressing us right now," Thor said.
"Yeah, but welcome either way," Banner said too, as they both smiled.

"Good work, kid," Captain said, patting her shoulder and following the other three.

"Come on now! Don't tell me you're surprised...I mean, you're Ace, after all," Clint said mockingly, though, clearly proud, leaving her alone with Natasha who had a smirk on her face.

"You know, it kind of sucked being the only girl in the team," she joked, making Andria scoff.
"Yeah, I bet it did. Still, you know Maria won't let me come with you guys."
"She will. Because if the Avengers want you to be their new member, it means that you're good enough to fight off their battles."
"And then they were seven!" Andria said sarcastically, though, she finally felt she had found what she was always meant to do.
"Yeah! You are the Avengers' new blood, Ace!" Natasha said with a big smile on her face, as the two of them joined the others in the storage room.