Chapter 13
"You know what let's kill Tony."
"No. Let's kill Thanos, make a girl team up and kill the mad titan."
"Doesn't sound like fun but let's fucking to this shit. I want to kill the motherfucker that killed my sister."
The 5 years between the snap and getting people back where confusing fun, tough times. It all really started the day Carol arrived, that was 23 days after the snap.
It took us 25 days from the death of 50% of life in the universe to the death of the mad titan. The journey to his death was long (kinda, it felt like it) and hard but there were some bright spots along the way, such as the story I'm about to tell you.
It was 23 days after the snap. I was outside practicing with Ryby, Kat & Pietro. That was all I could bring myself to do for 23 days. 23 long days. 23 days with no sign of those who died. But then something a glowing someone, landed at the edge of the training field.
I had yelled 'Hey! You can't go in there.' to the person approaching the building while chasing them. What I didn't know at that point was I was talking to the original Avenger, Carol Danvers a.k.a. CaptainMarvel. Who would later become one of my legal guardians along with my former enemy Natasha and a Viking Goddess.
2 days and one Tony Stark later we were sat in her space ship ready to go kill a bitch.
'No one throws up, please.' Requested Carol, 'And there are oxygen providing pins in the rear when we arrived at Thanos''
Space. The final frontier. Maybe. Maybe I'd find out Star Wars actually happened. Or I'd get to kill the person who killed my sister.
But truly what I was doing singing the 'Little Einsteins' theme to Natasha, in Russian, who was laughing at my antics.
'We should talk more about living arrangements and about what happened when we got back.'
'Of course'
'I had an idea about it.'
After that day life changed for me in more ways than anyone knows. I've not been to school since but I've learnt more about than I ever could've there however Brooklyn wasn't so pleased when I returned.
That time was instead split between space with Carol and Earth with Nat and the ghosts. I spent school term in space and summers on earth helping Nat basically run the world when no one else would.
5 years on top of 12 so not seeing Wanda wasn't the worst thing to ever happen. But everything that came after was, but that that is a stay for a later time.
Our next story is from 3 years after the snap when me and Nat went to San Fran to figure out what happened to someone Nat cared about. And I met a friend. But that's not the main story. The main story is that of us nearly being killed by someone I now call my sister.
'Yelena, Yelena come out wherever you are,' Natasha had whispered as we snuck around a cornfield maze as we were either chased or chasing Yelena Belova. A very deadly game of maze laser tag. But with actual guns. With bullets. And two of the world's deadliest assassins and a teenage girl with angel wings. Who herself was guarding a fellow teen in an insect-based costume. But it was better than that weird spider kid.
'Or Natalia you come out and play with me,' a voice responded.
'Time to fly, wasp girl,' I told Cassie.
'This isn't what I had planned for training, Y,' Cassie responded flipping her helmet down.
'Neither was what I went through but trust me this is better than that Cas. You still have a lot to learn and when Hope and your dad get back they'll train you until then we have segments of audio recordings from the FBI. So let's go see what we can see.'
'Look Natakya pretty birds in the air. We should shoot them down like we did in the Red Room.'
'Yelena do not do that, they're not trying to hurt you. They're simply training on how to use their wings, they're not with me. I tried to get them to leave but they wouldn't.'
'Well, well, is Natasha trying to save them. What are they your little pets?'
'More like the girl about to knock you out and her friend,' I said from behind her as I hit her over the head with a brick.
'Who are you anyway little ones? You don't look Red Ro-' I shoved a sock in her mouth before she could say anymore.
'I'm not. Neither of us were but we are here to help Nat, so only talked when you are asked a question or I will put another of Bruce Banner's gym socks in your mouth. Understood?' I asked trying to show Cas something that resembled an interrogation.
'Stop scaring her, all I want to know is if she still has the necklace I gave her.'
She spat out the sock to answer, 'Is that all this was about the necklace you gave me all those years ago?'
'It belonged to Wanda Maximoff and before her a high ranking member of HYDRA. I need it because it dulls abilities gained through infinity stones. I want it for Yulia here. She keeps seeing ghosts, more than me and you do.'
'It's in my back pocket.'
'You kept it on your person?'
'You told me to keep it safe and where's safer than on one of the only surviving Widows and one of the deadliest assassins in the world?'
'I honestly thought you'd give it to Daisy or even that Jemma girl. Or Alexei.'
'You told me to keep it so I kept it. We are sisters after all Natasha.'
From that day on I could choose fully when I used my abilities all of them. Even my ability to see ghosts, though I kept those I like and got rid of the bad ones, including Thanos. Who'd been following me around for a while now actually but I kept ignoring him and his speeches about balancing the universe. For gods' sake, the world wasn't a torque equation in Carol's physics class or even Tony's more confusing Quantum Physics class.