tightrope
2017
“AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!” is coming through fridays speaker. Nobody knows what is going on but they just go to caps floor without question, that was how missions were usually assigned anyways. once everyone was up there(including peter, Strange, t’challa, shuri and loki) bucky started.
“Fury has contacted us about a new threat. A HYDRA assassin, like bucky. She is like nothing we have ever seen.” bucky was looking at a screen before asking friday to project it. She did and there was on the screen a video of a girl, who looked no older than 18, holding a boomerang and walking towards some civilian. Then throwing her boomerang at them and decapitates them.
“What the fuck.” tony says to break the silence.
“She is a danger to the public and to everyone, we don't know much but we do know is that she is really out of it.” bucky states. “Is there any other identification?” natasha asks and almost everyone shrugs.
“The only other thing that we know, other than she works for hydra, she is brainwashed and she is dangerous is that she has purple eyes.” when cap said that loki, wanda and pietro perked up and had a look of terror and realization on there faces
“What?” tony asks and zooms in on her.
“Th-that's emilie, pietro Oh my lord pietro Emilia!” wanda says and starts to cry.
They hear loki mutter a few things under his breath and not even peter can hear it. “Okay so um who is emilie? And why is loki Oh my god!loki is crying” tony and the others turn to see wanda and pietro crying silent tears and loki is crying quietly.
“Um care to explain to us?” sam chimed in.
After loki finally stopped crying he started
“Back in 2010 she was taken to asgard for her powers and was supposed to stay in her cell all day, but i met her and found out that one she was amazing and two she didn't deserve to be there because she couldn't control her powers at the time.” everyone went silent. Then cap spoke
“What powers? She's a mutant?”
“No it's why her eyes are purple, she has shards of some of the infinity stones in her eyes, but they are mostly the power stone, so she has the power to create purple explosions, move things with her mind, and basically anything to do with powerful energy and moving things in reality, though it's only a shard it is very, very powerful. Nobody was able to get her to control her powers so we both thought she died.” wanda said tearfully.
Well what are we waiting for, we need her here, so we can try to control her powers. Here is the plan.”
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Bucky and natasha were waiting for there signale while pietro was running around the battlefield. Then over the headset everyone hears a faint sigh and pietro run back and say that she may not come.
He was wrong
As if on cue 3 black figures were falling out of the sky. They landed and were quick on their feet. Steve and tony started running towards emilie and wanda and pietro were on the other two.
Emilie had a mask like bucky's covering her mouth. In fact she had the exact same costume as bucky did when he was an assassin, only she was a girl and way smaller. Her eyes glowed purple and she started to run towards a nearby car and hid. Luckily cap knew this movie and so did tony. Tony blasted to car and she was flown back.
Steve ran towards her and jumped over her, snatching the mask off her face and pushed her to the ground. She turned around and Everyone froze, she was only 15! She didn't seem to realize that everyone had sympathy for her because she kept fighting.
Everyone got back into fight mode and hawkeye knocked his bow aiming for her, he shot and hit her. she didn't even flinch, she just pulled the arrow out of her arm and kept fighting.
Then when the hulk came out and a purple explosion erupted and there was purple smoke everywhere.
She was in the center of it, still fine but her eyes glowing purple.
Everyone tried to keep fighting. Eventually everyone got the smoke out of their lungs and kept fighting. Hawkeye noked his arrow and took aim with one of his special arrows
For missions to take someone in for questioning.
He took aim and fired the arrow at her spine. It hit just below the upper back, perfect. Everyone saw her eyes stop glowing for a moment then her eyes widen.
She looked around without the dullness in her eyes and tried to speak, as she looks at wanda.
“W-wanda? I-it its m...me.” and she falls to the ground. Bucky rushes over to her and picks her up bridal style. She looked calm but at the same time, in pain. He carries he towards the ship and as the rest of the avengers pile on he places emilie with wanda and pietro and they hed back to the tower.
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Emilies pov
I woke up in a bed so so much softer than any bed at the hydra base. Even a pillow, did i do something like kill tony stark.
Then the memories came rushing back to me,
Wanda sits on the bed and pietro sits on the ground
“We missed you, what happened?”
pietro asked and i stopped, all i could remember was purple, then shock like electric shock. I tried to talk but i felt something over my mouth, a muscle. I claw at it but my hands are in mittens and i can't get to it. I feel a sensation to itch my back but i can't reach it, huh weird.
Then wanda spoke “we don't know if you can control your powers yet so for now you will have to wear these.” I wanted to tell her i could control them and that they were making it worse but i couldn't, because of the stupid muscle. I turn towards them and they look very sad, no miserable. I lower my head as they leave. And now i'm all alone, once again.
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Loki woke up and was beckoned downstairs by his stomach. He went down and saw everyone else around a screen that looked like it was hooked up to a cell. He didn't mind it till someone started talking.
That person was bucky.
“It's the only way to keep her safe for now, it worked for me when i moved in.” then wanda chimed in, when did she get here.
“But what if she was trying to tell us something?” then tony. “Well i already have 3 assassins in the house why should she be any different, she isn't trying to tell us something, she is still in assassin mode.”
then bucky started again. “Well the restraints are working well for now and the muscle…” loki froze, mussel.
No wonder she couldn't control it, she probably wa trying to tell them she could, god he was angry now. “WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE TO HER!”
everyone froze as the god shouted.
He silently walked over to see the screen with a brunette haired girl in a pair of white pajamas and restraints on her arms, legs and as they said, a muscle over her mouth and nose. He was furious.
“You can be serious! Why do you think she was able to talk to you wanda. She is a lot more powerful than you think and you are only making it way worse!”
he had a look on his face that screamed you are stupid.
He said “i am going into her room to take off the restraints and help her control her powers, once i am done i will bring her downstairs. Is that clear?”
they all nodded as loki left the room, they looked to see loki on the screen taking of the restraints and her waiting till she lunged at his chest at full force. Everyone looked ready to fight till they heard her start to cry. They were hugging. That was new.
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Loki took of the muscle and restraints and as he did emilie lunged at him with full force sobbing in his chest, she was still the little girl he had met 8 years ago.
He hugged back and started to feel tears run down his face.
He had felt so guilty that he let thanos mind control him for the safe return of emilie but since he failed thanos, he also failed emilie. Then he remembered that she was still not in control of the shards. He turned off FRIDAYS camera and started to softly sing the lyrics of the first song he had ever sang to her.
“Some people long for a life that is simple and planned,
Tied with a ribbon
Some people won't sail the sea 'cause they're safer on land
To follow what's written
But I'd follow you to the great unknown
Off to a world we call our own”
Then emily's eyes started to glow purple as she started as well.
“Hand in my hand
And we promised to never let go
We're walking a tightrope
High in the sky
We can see the whole world down below
We're walking a tightrope
Never sure, never know how far we could fall
But it's all an adventure
That comes with a breathtaking view
Walking a tightrope”
As they finished her eyes stopped glowing and loki put his hand on hers and then started to dance abit, swaying back and forth as they humed the rest of the lyrics.
When they were done loki brushed her hair off her face using his hand
“My melody.” he said with a compassionate, loving voice. He ushered her out the door to look at all the avengers with fear replacing the comfort loki had given her. There faces molded into a fearful smile as steve and bucky got up.
“Well i hope you were right loki… hello my name is steve rogers, i'm sure you have heard of me but you can just call me cap if you want.”
and as he pointed to bucky he smiled “i'm james but you can just call me bucky if you would like. Now what do you want to eat?” she looked confused but shrugged. They all gave her a reassuring smile.
She was for the first time in years feeling at home.