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PIETRO MAXIMOFF; MUTANT AND PROUD; EX TERRORIST; CURRENT MUTANT ACTIVIST AND AVENGER

[risinghoperp-blog]

Those who answer the call in the dark - Wasp, Thor, Black Widow and Quicksilver

[pietroxxquicksilver]

While he understood a fight was going on, there was a point between the fifth ninja he knocked down with a fast punch and the sixth in which Pietro couldn’t really tell completely what had been going on. First they came there because of electromagnetic pulse, so it was probably a metalokinetic, then the ninjas showed up so it was probably ninjas but Pietro had no idea how ninjas would be able to generate such a pulse. I mean, if they were anything like tech-based-nijas Pietro would understand what was happening but those guys were using ancient magic or something. 

“I was about to ask the same thing.” Pietro replied to Natasha, he wasn’t really keen on believing this whole mess was going down. It looked like a bad action movie directed by a talentless piece of bread. When the creature made of shadow attacked Thor Pietro was sure this had to be some kind of hallucination because there was no way this was happening for real. Pietro was about to run and get Thor out of the thing’s way, when he started to hear the buzzing noises coming from something behind his back. When he looked at the hornets flying towards him Pietro seriously couldn’t look more pissed off. “What the shit?!”

As much as he wanted to just go away and just pretend this whole mission never happened, Pietro wasn’t gonna leave his teammates in there to die or worse face this terrible reality by themselves. “Is it just me or this mission is bringing up more questions than answers?” He started running towards the ninjas, presuming the hornets would follow him so he turned a few inches from hitting the ninjas that way the hornets would hurt them instead. He did that several times, for he wasn’t about to be outrun by some insects. At one point he did that to some of the ninjas attacking Natasha, hopefully that would make her life a little easier. “You’re welcome.” He shouted to her as he kept running.

[risinghoperp-blog]

Thor’s lightining openened a hole trough the ‘Beast’, but once it went trough it the creature healed and gained a more solid form. The Beast prepared to punch the god of thunder right in the face. While the ninjas that were hit either by Thor’s full strenght or his hammer, Mjionir, become dust across Central Park. The Beast can’t be affected by iron, metal or electricity. It is barely a real being, more like a creature of the deepest corners of the dark dimension that was summoned to this place and will anihilate anyone who considers a threat or an enemy.

While Quicksilver and Black Widow took down some of the ninjas, there are still many others. The ones Quicksilver left to be attacked by the hornets were killed and turned to dust, but another group of 6 with heavier artilary started their attack on Black Widow using bigger swords, maces and axes. None of these ninjas operate or attack using modern weapons, only weapons found centuries ago. They deem Balck Widow a threat that should be contained without the use of their magic arsenal.

A cloud of hornets assemble on the form of a humanoid creature with two arms and stops their pursue of Quicksilver, instead the ‘Swarm’ stands in the middle of the fight looking around. Quicksilver has a small hornet attatched to his suit, the Swarm detects it and slowly it vanishes between the lightings and the darkness. All the hornets emerge from the one in Quicksilver and the ‘Swarm’ grabs him by the neck with one of its four arms. This creature is sentient, their target is Quicksilver and they are prepared to eliminate.

Janet was trying to help her teammates from afar, she kept using her ‘stings’ on the ninjas only to knock them down nothing really serious. She didn’t want any more dead people dust around, but that wasn’t really on her heands as she watched. Janet returned to her full size and looked for the cilinder, she expected it to have some sort of answer. Before she could reach the cilinder someone shot an arrow in it - very symilar to Clint’s. “Clint?” She asked, presuming her teammate was in another state at the moment.

[sonofodin-thor-blog]

                    To watch his lightining go trough whatever it was they were facing gave the Odinson some chills, even if he would never admit it. As far as he was concerned there should be no creature in all the Nine Realms able to witstand such an attack. Thor prepared his position to try a more physical approach to his attack, he threw the almighty Mjionir in the creature’s direction before the creature maanged to throw its punch in his face. Unfortunately Thor still received the punch full force and had himself. The punch was much like those of Frost Giants but this body wasn’t as strong as the one he had back then so the punch actually injured him and made him go trough some trees.

                    On the ground, fallen from the pain he just went trough with a single punch, Thor tried to look around and raised his hand calling his hammer back. “Whatever it is, it has strenght.” Thor told his fellow comrades, if he wasn’t able to witstand a blow from this thing it would surely end his fellow Avengers’ lives. Thor stood up prepared to finish off that creature in the name of the honor of his name. There was no way the fist son of Odin would be taken down by a creature made of darkness. Once again he called upon lightings, this time to make sure all his wrath was released. “If thy wants a fight, it’s time to make it a fair fight.”

                   From the few moments they’d been in this battle, Thor realized these so called ninjas were no mere human beings and yet they were still presenting a huge set back to his mates. “Protect thyselves from the lightinings.” The Odinson shouted as he began flying, holding the hammer now with both hands. It all came falling from the sky, a lightining storm centered around Thor with rays of lightining falling on the ground. The Mighty Avenger aimed for the ninjas and the creature of shadows, presuming that if he hit whatever held Quicksilver would damage the fast Avenger.

[theblackwidowsbite]

Natasha gave Pietro a nod, he had just taken out one of the ninjas that had apparently made it their mission to finish her. But there was not time to dwell on that, there was no time to try and come up with ideas to take whatever they were up against down, because they were not afforded a single second to regroup. They all had someone on their back, they were are fighting no longer to contain the threat but to survive. Nat had never saw herself as being in disadvantage, she was after all only human, she was fighting alongside gods and mutants, but right now she was feeling like maybe she was in beyond her deep. Then she remembered a battle in which she had felt the same way, a battle that if they hadn’t won would result in earth being occupied. You are not doing this for you, she reminded herself, even if when a maze came close to crushing her skull was a bit hard to remember. 

She was about to say something to her teammates while dodging an ax by a mere inch, when her voice caught in her throat. The creature made of shadows was not solid, or as solid as darkness could look like. Natasha’s mind was trying to produce an explanation, but there wasn’t any. It was in this brief description that the edge of a sword managed to catch her on the thigh. Whatever material and modifications her suit had, Tania had made a big deal out of giving them all upgrades, helped her not lose the leg, instead she was just forced to her knees, there was blood and she was momentarily out of combat. She just needed a respite. She continued to roll and dodge the ninja’s attacks, she had to fight back or they were going to kill her. It was then than she saw a creature reaching for Pietro. “Pietro” she heard herself scream just as the creature got a hold of him. Even if she hadn’t been struck earlier there wouldn’t been much she could do. The ninjas were still all around her. 

When she heard the sound of an arrow piercing the air, Natasha found herself turning towards where the shot might have come. There was no time to try and look for the origin, a maze came down next to her. Natasha continued to try her best at avoiding being killed by the ninjas when she heard Thor yell to look for cover. Her mind was racing and all measures against lighting were useless in a park where every few meters there was nothing much that could be used for cover. Natasha rolled to dodge another hit and then braced for the incoming lighting. “What are going to do?” Natasha yelled to be heard above the chaos, she was talking to everyone but particularly to Jan. They had to act fast, maybe try to regroup, or they were going to be defeated by whatever or whoever was causing this. The sky lit up with yellow light. Natasha waited.

[pietroxxquicksilver]

For sure these guys weren’t just ninjas because as far as he had read or watched on these western movies, ninjas didn’t just puff out of existence after being killed. Well, technicaly they couldn’t be killed considered they were just becoming dust. It was something else. Pietro tried his best to take down as many ninjas - or what the hell those things were. While Thor was being punched by the freaking creature Pietro caught his hands full with ninjas. Quite literaly, he had just fast-punched one of them and now his hands were filled with dust. Part of him felt really dirty because of such thing. The others apparently were also filled with their own problems, so he just kept going as fast as he could until he realized it was too late. Until that moment he never felt like he wasn’t fast enough for something, but this time not even his speed helped him.

As soon as he could turn around to see the Swarm of creatures that had just showed up behind him - or from him he wasn’t quite sure - he was already struggling to breath. One of the creatures’ many arms was pressuring his neck, he tried to grab said arm but the insects just escaped his reach or stung him, which wasn’t the most pleasuring sensation to say the least. His mind couldn’t think so fast without enough oxygen getting to him, he was not sure about what could he do in order to set himself free of this creature. Pietro kept trying to grab the creature with his arms, his wasn’t even touchign the ground at this point for the creature was holding him high. Probably it knew if he was in contact with any surface he could just run. Pietro couldn’t bring himself to take the creature’s arm of him, he wasn’t going to escape this. All he could think was this was such a pathetic way to go.

Last thing he remembered before thigs going all dark in his herad was hearing Thor shouting something, Natasha asking what to do over the coms and then a huge flash of light. Pietro fainted from the lack of oxygen.

[mostingeniusparadox]

Scarlet Witch #9

[theblackwidowsbite]

the world don’t stop, it’s on again || pietro & natasha

[pietroxxquicksilver]

Natalia wasn’t a name much different from what she used nowadays, but Pietro guessed there was something emotional about not being able to use her name anymore. To pass as american, he tried to use Peter as an alias but never managed to stick to it. “Both are really gorgeous names, if you ask me.” And yet each of them carried some sort of different personality, he felt like ‘Natasha’ was more the super spy and assassin version of it. Natalia sounded more like the kind of girl who was into fashion shows and shopping. He noticed she felt a little bad about talking about her real name, he could only imagine what reasons she had not to really use it anymore.It was better not to ask, that might make her uncomfortable. “Names are funny. I was born on Romania, named Pietro but after some time and lessons with Magneto I actually found my real identity with the ‘mutant’ name.” Quicksilver really was a name for him, not just an alias. It meant he was no longer trapped within the human nature of his family. 

Natasha really seemed to enjoy the idea of going to Mexico, which was somewhere nice from the time he spent there. “I could.” Pietro hadn’t really thought about going over the borders of the country, but it seemed like a nice activity especially after such an exausting practice alongside the team. Pietro really needed some good time right now and he could tell Natasha wasn’t on another page, she also wanted to relax a bit. “Just hop on my back and we’ll be there in minutes.” 

[theblackwidowsbite]

“Thank you” she said with a smile. There wasn’t much else she could tell him, not a story of how her parents had named her, or how they almost named her something else. Natasha liked Pietro, he seemed to understand her, almost as if he knew exactly how it felt, not that their situations were even remotely familiar, but she guessed deep down they were both doing this to make up for what they had done in the past. She also liked that he didn’t ask more, it was clear he had read her expressions, and didn’t even comment or apologize for bringing it up. If she was to make friends with someone today it seemed that Pietro had been a really good choice. “Quicksilver” she said with a smile “mercury…” she said dragging the letters, “strong enough to dissolve silver and gold” she smiled again, she had never given any thought to his code-name, as that is what she referred to it. She had been given hers because of the things she had done. But Pietro had referred to it as his mutant name. “Do you mind if I ask why you picked it?” the hypocrisy did not escape her, she had all but made it clear she didn’t want to talk about her real name, and she had blatantly asked him about what he had just called his real identity. 

“Just like that?” she asked with small disbelief, she had seen so much, the battle of New York had definitely opened her eyes to most things, but she could not imagine how he could just run to Mexico with her on his back. “Are there any risks?” she asked, she was afraid something might happen to him or her, but if this was safe then it totally changed the game, imagine using this during missions. “Do you get exhausted? Are there any limits… like say we get stuck there until you recover?” she was overthinking this, and it was supposed to be fun. “You know what, let’s just go, we deserved this don’t you think?” she finally said while putting a hand on his shoulder. 

[pietroxxquicksilver]

While he still had his own reservations and questions about the woman with the red hair, Pietro was willing to save everything for a bette rmoment. This was the whole point of this ‘going out’ thing, they would get to know each other and Pietro would probably learn a lot more than he imagined if he achieved success in making Natasha feel comfortable. Everyone was a better talker once they felt comfortable, she would be no excuse. Also, from another point of view, it would be nice for him to go out and have an actual conversation that didn’t feature how baddly the society dealt with issues such as the mutants being killed. Sure, that was important but Pietro could use some other subjects to lighten up a bit. When she mentioned his current codename, Pietro couldn’t help but to blush. Unlike Wanda - who claimed she felt like her alias was a calling of some sorts - he had no particular reason for his nickname other than it matched his color scheme and there was also the part of his hard being silver. “Do you realize when parents name a child ‘Kevin’ just because they feel the name is nice and it suits the child?” It was a rhetorical question, the very situation which ended up giving the perfect example of the day he choose such name. “My--Maygneto told me that once I chosen my mutant name I could change as I saw fit.” Another reason not to pay much attention to it. 

With a smile on his face Pietro placed Romanoff in his back, listening to her question and rolling his eyes. It was amazing how most people - mutants or humans - were so flabbergasped by how his powers worked. “We’ll get there and we’ll have fun.” He replied to her, making sure she felt the confidence on his voice. Once she settled down with her questions and decided that she deserved that, Pietro finally prepared himself to start running. “Three things:” Pietro put himself in racing position. “One. I am pretty sure I deserve this, don’t know for you.” Now he was mocking her with his words. “Two. If you feel sick just tell me so we can make a vomit break. “ Then he just started and within less than a minute they were in Mexico. “Three. Hola!”

[avengers-of-the-galaxy]

Quicksilver

[risinghoperp-blog]

Those who answer the call in the dark - Wasp, Thor, Black Widow and Quicksilver

[pietroxxquicksilver]

If someone had asked him what he expected to face on his first official mission alongside the Avengers he woouldn’t guess it would be in such a darkness. He had to admit something lit up on him when he first heard this was all caused by electromagnetic pulses. Maybe Magneto had managed to escape whatever prison the government place him in. That brought the question to his head: was he really about to ally himself with humans against the man who made him see how much of a blessing being a mutant was? Pietro did’nt trust himself to do this kind of choice, nor was he prepared to witness his sister on an opposing side to him.

Didn’t take long for him to get to Central Park - super speed and all that shit - but he couldn’t really think of what to do in such darkness. He agreed with Natasha with nothing but a look, before the team stepped inside the Park and all hell broke loose. At least he was able to run from anything that someone was throwing at them, without a scratch. In the dark it was really hard not to hit some trees on his way, but he didn’t hit anything hard enough for him to faint so that was really a start. “This really isn’t getting–” Before he could actually finish his sentence Thor called upon his magic hammer and lightining helped him actually see. “Nevermind.”

Still, he wasn’t quite prepared to see actual ninjas. “Do you guys usually face ninjas?” He asked, now using his speed to run towards his ennemies so he could knock them down. That was much easier now that he could actually see who to punch. Pietro wasn’t aware that ninjas could move so fast. Sure, they weren’t as fast as him but still it was pretty fast.

[risinghoperp-blog]

Thunders and lightinings lit up the skies and provided the battle a proper soundtrack. Janet was flying trough what appeared to be ninja stars when a huge metal cilinder was opened by a group of ninjas. Using her wasp stings Janet took them down, but not before what was inside the cilnder was able to crawl out. As Ms. Van Dyne watched as a figure made of shadows crawled out of the cilinder, a ninja attempted to finish her with his blade and the only defense act she could think of was blasting her sting on him full mode. Her wasp sting ended up killing the ninja, who turned to dust right in front of her eyes.

“Oh… no.” Janet hadn’t seen anything like that before, she returned to her full size and hid behind a tree as the creature made of shadows walked out of the cilinder. A group of ninjas targeted Natasha Romanoff, they were in five as they jumped around her and began their attack. Those ninjas were aiming the humans of the group, even if their DNA had been altered somehow they were still human at nature. The shadow creature flew above the skies and then it went down like a cannonball in Thor’s direction while a cloud of hornets flew out of the cillinder towards Quicksilver.

[sonofodin-thor-blog]

                    Of all his battles against Midgardians threats, he never once saw this amount of people wearing black outfits and blades. He kept trying to take them down with a hit of Mjionir, which worked just fine considering how punny were they to him and such weak bodies they had. Even for a stronger human body this was still better than most humans, Thor knocked them out with punches or hits of Mjionir very easily.

                    Despite all the noise, he was still hearing the others trough the device on his ear so he heard Ms. Wasp react to something. “Is aid needed, Ms. Wasp?” His question was quickly answered by the appearance of a man made of shadows, somehow alike the dark elves Thor had seen in his youth but he doubted that was an elf. Mjionir came to his hand and he once again summoned lightining, this time aiming for the creature made of shadows.

                  If the lightining wasn’t able to take this thing down - something Thor really considered highly probably - he wasn’t sure of what to do. It was one thing to battle human ennemies from an unknown source but this creature already looked like it was much beyond what humans were. “What is this creature?” He asked his fellow Avengers, not sure if this was something Midgardians usually dealt with. 

[theblackwidowsbite]

Natasha didn’t have time to answer Pietro that yes, they faced ninjas more often than it should be realistic, some bad guys really went for the tropes. She was cut short by a sight that would take her weeks to bury deep in her mind, something or someone, made entirely out of shadows. It took her a moment to shake the confusion, or maybe it was Jan’s voice reaching her, Natasha had to get to her. “What the hell is go-” she said as she made a beeline towards Janet’s position. However she was cut short by a group of ninjas.

“Are you guys for real?” she asked while trying to fight them all at once. She had taken a page out of Morse’s book and had a pair of batons with her. Tania had made some upgrades to her widow bites but these ninjas moved way to fast for her to lock on to them. It was as if she was hitting them with a pillow, they just wouldn’t go down. Out of the corner of her eye she could see the shadow figure going after Thor, and something that looked like wasps? hornets? making their way to Pietro. 

Natasha could not afford getting distracted by that, “guys? you alright?” she shouted just as one of the throwing stars grazed her shoulder “chert voz'mi” she said in an angry tone. Now she was pissed. Natasha managed to get a ninja to chase after her, using a tree she managed to get some leverage and land on top of him long enough to shock him using her widow bites, “okay who is next” she told the rest of the ninjas with a smirk.

[pietroxxquicksilver]

While he understood a fight was going on, there was a point between the fifth ninja he knocked down with a fast punch and the sixth in which Pietro couldn’t really tell completely what had been going on. First they came there because of electromagnetic pulse, so it was probably a metalokinetic, then the ninjas showed up so it was probably ninjas but Pietro had no idea how ninjas would be able to generate such a pulse. I mean, if they were anything like tech-based-nijas Pietro would understand what was happening but those guys were using ancient magic or something. 

“I was about to ask the same thing.” Pietro replied to Natasha, he wasn’t really keen on believing this whole mess was going down. It looked like a bad action movie directed by a talentless piece of bread. When the creature made of shadow attacked Thor Pietro was sure this had to be some kind of hallucination because there was no way this was happening for real. Pietro was about to run and get Thor out of the thing’s way, when he started to hear the buzzing noises coming from something behind his back. When he looked at the hornets flying towards him Pietro seriously couldn’t look more pissed off. “What the shit?!”

As much as he wanted to just go away and just pretend this whole mission never happened, Pietro wasn’t gonna leave his teammates in there to die or worse face this terrible reality by themselves. “Is it just me or this mission is bringing up more questions than answers?” He started running towards the ninjas, presuming the hornets would follow him so he turned a few inches from hitting the ninjas that way the hornets would hurt them instead. He did that several times, for he wasn’t about to be outrun by some insects. At one point he did that to some of the ninjas attacking Natasha, hopefully that would make her life a little easier. “You’re welcome.” He shouted to her as he kept running.

[risinghoperp-blog]

Those who answer the call in the dark - Wasp, Thor, Black Widow and Quicksilver

Janet Van Dyne was leading this squad to Central Park, where Tania and other brainiacs had pinpointed some electromagnetic anomalies. This blackout wasn’t just some power surge, it was something much more important. While they weren’t telling the newspapers, neither was SHIELD, everyone who dealt with the real things on this world knew about this. No normal thing ever happened in New York these days.

While the Wasp arrived there by flight, just like Thor, Quicksilver and Black Widow went there by feet. By really fast feet.

The place was cold, but not only cold because of the night, it was somethign else entirely. Ms Van Dyne felt chills in her spine as she grew back to her normal size. She looked over her sholder to Thor, the tall blond guy was a nice shield in worse case scenario. “Do you want to go in first, big guy?” Janet asked, then turned on her headset. 

Just as they walked within the area of the park Janet heard something, in high frequency. It felt like a explosion inside her ears. Then all the Avengers were attacked from the darkness around. Janet managed to duck whatever they were throwing at them. “Assemblel!” She commanded them and pressed a buttom in her belt, shrinking to her wasp size and starting to fly and try to escape what they were shooting at them. 

[sonofodin-thor-blog]

                   This darkness was not something Thor had experienced ever since arriving in Midgard, it brought to him memories of that time he had to face the Dark Elves. Much before their anihilation, clearly.

                   The Avengers suspected such darkness was being caused by some sort of evil, Thor had not much say on it. During his time in Midgard he learned that all kinds of weird things usually happened concerning their tech, so this might as well be another one. Yet there he was, flying to the place called Central Park. He had nice mornings in there, Jane told him this placer was great for relaxation.

                     “Sure, Ms. Wasp.” He replied to Wasp as he stepped withint the Park and then it all went down. Thor held Mjionir closer and used it to hit whatever projectiles were being threw at them. One of such projectiles nearly hit his face, but he managed to escape with only a scratch. Thor decided it would be better for the whole team if they had some sort of light to guide them so he raised Mjionir and called up the thunder. The skies light up with lightings, which helped with the illumination of the place.

                     Thor giggled and looked upon the enemies, now a little more visible to the squad. Apparently they were people dressed in black outfits with some sort of blades or something. “Are they…” Ninjas. The word came upon his mind for some reason, like someone shouted the answer to him. “Ninjas! We got ninjas in our hands, mates!” Then he threw Mjionir at the enemies, aiming to hurt two or three.

[theblackwidowsbite]

Natasha was used to being assigned missions, usually those were get in, do the job, get out. They were a different kind of dangerous, and the thing most different, she worked them alone. But that wasn’t the case anymore, not since the day the avengers were formed. There were still many things Natasha was getting used to, but being part of a team was no longer one of those. Now as they made their way to Central Park at impossible speed, she thought how there will always be something she was not prepared for.

“This really is something” she said more to herself but flashed a smile towards Pietro, as she trailed behind Jan and Thor, Natasha checked that her gadgets were working and ready to go. Everything was pitch black, and every part of her sensed danger. 

It wasn’t long before they were attacked. Natasha heard Jan’s command and something inside her stirred, she was becoming soft for this team, but she had no time to dwell on those feelings. She tried her best to be hit but the darkness made it impossible, until Thor lit up the sky. Once she was able to see the attackers it was go time. She smirked at them before attacking. 

They truly were a good team, they new each other strengths and weaknesses and knew how to play off of them. Complimenting each other, having each other’s backs, “You would think by now the bad guys would’ve learned not to hire second rate thugs…” this was of course not true, as Thor had pointed out they were dealing with ninjas, highly skilled ones, but Natasha did always had a sense of humor, even if in this case it only made the attackers angrier. 

[pietroxxquicksilver]

If someone had asked him what he expected to face on his first official mission alongside the Avengers he woouldn’t guess it would be in such a darkness. He had to admit something lit up on him when he first heard this was all caused by electromagnetic pulses. Maybe Magneto had managed to escape whatever prison the government place him in. That brought the question to his head: was he really about to ally himself with humans against the man who made him see how much of a blessing being a mutant was? Pietro did’nt trust himself to do this kind of choice, nor was he prepared to witness his sister on an opposing side to him.

Didn’t take long for him to get to Central Park - super speed and all that shit - but he couldn’t really think of what to do in such darkness. He agreed with Natasha with nothing but a look, before the team stepped inside the Park and all hell broke loose. At least he was able to run from anything that someone was throwing at them, without a scratch. In the dark it was really hard not to hit some trees on his way, but he didn’t hit anything hard enough for him to faint so that was really a start. “This really isn’t getting--” Before he could actually finish his sentence Thor called upon his magic hammer and lightining helped him actually see. “Nevermind.”

Still, he wasn’t quite prepared to see actual ninjas. “Do you guys usually face ninjas?” He asked, now using his speed to run towards his ennemies so he could knock them down. That was much easier now that he could actually see who to punch. Pietro wasn’t aware that ninjas could move so fast. Sure, they weren’t as fast as him but still it was pretty fast.

[theblackwidowsbite]

the world don’t stop, it’s on again || pietro & natasha

[pietroxxquicksilver]

There were very few things Pietro knew about his colleagues, but the one who seemed the most mysterious of them was the red haired assassin. Maybe learning more about her could be useful, he couldn’t rule out the possiblity of any of these so called teammates turning on him and his sister. Sure, that wasn’t the kind of thought that would make him feel more at home in their headquarters but Pietro really wasn’t all about trust. Especially because he was on a team surrounded by humans that really had the power to voice out against problems concerning the hatred against mutants and he never saw any of them doing shit. “Is your real name Natasha?” He asked her, out of curiosity, considering she was some sort of spy it wouldn’t be the strangest if she never revealed her real name.

When asked about any places they could go, Pietro couldn’t really think of anywhere good enough, especially after practice. Then a idea came to his mind. A good idea, especially if they wanted to try something new. This would certainly give them a lot to talk about. “Maybe somewhere far wouldn’t be all that bad. There’s a nice place in Mexico that serves the best mocca I’ve ever tasted.” He blurted out, it was somewhere he liked to go at least twice a week. They wouldn’t even need to get a Quinjet or anything, he could run there with her if she agreed. “Or we could always go to your place.” He finished with a smile, Pietro was starting to like the idea of this little talk with caffeine.

[theblackwidowsbite]

The question took her by surprise, she tried her best to appear as if he hadn’t caught her of guard, it wasn’t that he had asked something she wouldn’t share, it was that she never even imagined he would think she wasn’t using her real name. “Yes” she said with a small laugh, “in a way…” she added, “it’s a diminutive of my real name” she made a small pause, “Natalia” she had not said that name out loud in a long while, heard it, well that had been not long ago, but never spoke it. The name held memories, good and bad, but it was her past, and that she wasn’t sharing with anyone who hadn’t been involved in it. “I couldn’t really part with my name…” she said looking at the ground, she had used many aliases, she had been given many names, and yet the one she decided to use when going straight had not been far from the truth. She shook her head, this was getting dangerously close to feeling territory. 

Natasha had barely started to think about places far from the tower when she realized that he was not joking. “Mexico?” she said with a wide smile, “you could actually run… carry me… take us to Mexico?” she had heard of his powers, seen him in action, well as best as one could see him, but she had never been part of it. “My place is actually a floor down” she informed him, Tania had offered a room and Natasha had gladly accepted, not that she didn’t have a couple of safe houses around, but she wasn’t sure she wanted anyone to find out about those yet. “I think these have worldwide reception” she said while holding their communicators, “you know if something happens they can reach us…” she pushed the thoughts about going to another country not being the most reasonable idea away, when was the last time she had done something for fun? “let’s go to Mexico” she said with a smile.

[pietroxxquicksilver]

Natalia wasn’t a name much different from what she used nowadays, but Pietro guessed there was something emotional about not being able to use her name anymore. To pass as american, he tried to use Peter as an alias but never managed to stick to it. “Both are really gorgeous names, if you ask me.” And yet each of them carried some sort of different personality, he felt like ‘Natasha’ was more the super spy and asssassin version of it. Natalia sounded more like the kind of girl who was into fashion shows and shopping. He noticed she felt a little bad about talking about her real name, he could only imagine what reasons she had not to really use it anymore.It was better not to ask, that might make her unconfortable. “Names are funny. I was born on Romenia, named Pietro but after some time and lessons with Magneto I actually found my real identity with the ‘mutant’ name.” Quicksilver really was a name for him, not just an alias. It meant he was no longer trapped within the human nature of his family. 

Natasha really seemed to enjoy the idea of going to Mexico, which was somewhere nice from the time he spent there. “I could.” Pietro hadn’t really thought about going over the borders of the country, but it seemed like a nice activity especially after such an exausting practice alongside the team. Pietro really needed some good time right now and he could tell Natasha wasn’t on another page, she also wanted to relax a bit. “Just hop on my back and we’ll be there in minutes.” 

[theblackwidowsbite]

the world don’t stop, it’s on again || pietro & natasha

[pietroxxquicksilver]

On the past few weeks Pietro had less and less time for himself, because he was trying to be in a lot of places around the same time. He had to see what he could do for the mutants of the city while trying to find some sort of income and training with his new team. At least he and Wanda had worked together using their habilities back when they were in the Brotherhood, so that was something. Even if now they had to work alongside some others, they were still not completely new to this teamwork thing. Pietro liked how the Avengers trained, because he felt like they were demanding something out of him. Yes, he was still the fastest and probably the better out of the whole team but their machines were a lot more useful for his own skills. Maybe he couldn’t get any faster, but at least he was being forced to work in ways different of those he was used to.

When they weren’t training, he had not much interaction at all with any of the members of the team. It was his own nature, not to mix with others, so he brought his hand to his pocket and checked the news on his phone. It was running all too well, until he saw the article about the announcement made by Stark concerning the new members of the team. They called them the ‘New Avengers’, but the whole article was only praising the human members of the team, as if him and Wanda - also the Tigra girl - were threats that should be dealt with caution. That didn’t make him happy, at all. Pietro was already too angry when it came to this prejudice against the mutants, but to see how foward they could be about such thing. Part of him felt like he would prove them all wrong by being the best hero in the job, but there was still a voice in his head saying ‘Humans are the ones who can’t be trusted’. 

Considering Wanda was already out of the room when Natasha said their lastname Pietro considered she was actually talking to him. He put his phone back in his pocket, still feeling angry about the article he just read. “Yes?” He replied to her right before she mentioned she wanted to take him out for coffee. Social, that was something he wasn’t. Art all. “You can…” Before he suggested she called Wanda instead, Pietro realized he could really use some social bonding at the moment. And caffeine. “Actually, yes. I should try to be more social myself, so we can do that. And coffee.”

[theblackwidowsbite]

Natasha was relieved to hear him agree, it would’ve been very awkward if he had said no. Not that she would’ve minded, she could say that at least she tried. Talking to people was not the problem, she had decided, talking to people you sort of like and wouldn’t mind becoming friends is the problem. She is used to playing many parts, she has no trouble being liked by a mark, or infiltrating groups, or charming unsuspecting people. This is different, this whole thing she has been doing as of late, drinking wine with Pepper, shots of whiskey with Tania, teasing Steven, part of her want these people to like her. Part of her is scared they might actually do it. And right now she’s about to add another person to that list. There was something about the Maximoffs that made Natasha felt at ease, she might as well tried to get to know them better.

It was true she had read their files, but that didn’t compare to actual conversation. She had seen them in action, they had combat skills and knew how to work with others. But as she had been reminded that wasn’t everything there was to life. “You got any place you prefer?” she asked with a smile, not caring if the relief was plastered in her face, no masks for this, no act, “or we can always just go for the one that’s closer” she was bad a keeping up conversation, she hoped this wouldn’t get weird. It was easier if she was just trying to get information out of him, or get him to do something for her. No wonder Pepper was so worried about her social skills. Making friends, friends that would last, had always been the last thing Natasha ever wanted. But maybe it was worth a try. 

[pietroxxquicksilver]

There were very few things Pietro knew about his colleagues, but the one who seemed the most mysterious of them was the red haired assassin. Maybe learning more about her could be useful, he couldn’t rule out the possiblity of any of these so called teammates turning on him and his sister. Sure, that wasn’t the kind of thought that would make him feel more at home in their headquarters but Pietro really wasn’t all about trust. Especially because he was on a team surrounded by humans that really had the power to voice out against problems concerning the hatred against mutants and he never saw any of them doing shit. “Is your real name Natasha?” He asked her, out of curiosity, considering she was some sort of spy it wouldn’t be the strangest if she never revealed her real name.

When asked about any places they could go, Pietro couldn’t really think of anywhere good enough, especially after practice. Then a idea came to his mind. A good idea, especially if they wanted to try something new. This would certainly give them a loit to talk about. “Maybe somewhere far wouldn’t be all that bad. There’s a nice place in Mexico that serves the best mocca I’ve ever tasted.” He blurted out, it was somewhere he liked to go at least twice a week. They wouldn’t even need to get a Quinjet or anything, he could run there with her if she agreed. “Or we could always go to your palce.” He finished with a smile, Pietro was starting to like the idea of this little talk with caffeine.

[theblackwidowsbite]

the world don’t stop, it’s on again || pietro & natasha

Nat was adjusting well to her new lifestyle. It was a big change from moving country to country searching for ways in which she could help, she tried to think of it as freelancing, but she knew it was atonement. At least now she was back at working missions, she has always been good at that, a small consolation. She knew that deep down some were still not totally on board about having them being part of this, whatever this was. The government, the news, everyone had an opinion, but she was glad to know that she had joined a team of people that didn’t back down, that despite what they might encounter they would continue to fight for this world. “Yeah I bet they weren’t that opinionated when the sky was being ripped open over New York…” she had found herself saying more often than not, but mostly she said it for her teammates, the word still new when it crossed her mind, she wasn’t doing this to be liked, she was doing this because she had to. But she also knew that some of the people around here were used to doing things differently, she knew some of them were heroes even before joining the avengers, and so she put a good front for them, she encouraged them, she reassured them. 

The training session was hard, not physically, thanks to krasnaya komnata, some would see it as a silver lighting, she saw it as living on borrowed time. Training people with superhuman abilities was hard not because she had to teach them how to use them, but she had to make sure they knew how to use them together. Some had worked with a team before, but most of them were used to doing solo work, and that she was an expert. Adapting from a life of not trusting anyone but yourself was hard, she still wasn’t sure she completely trusted all of them, but she could trust that they all wanted to do something, to be something. Most of them knew beyond the basics, like how to wound not kill, but being in a fight with others around, well it required learning that one’s back is not the only one that needs watching. Is learning that you help where you can, is learning when is your ability useful to others, is learning how sometimes combining certain abilities is your only chance at winning. 

As they exited the training room she almost ran into one of the newest recruits. She hadn’t talk to him much, besides the ‘business’ relationship. She wasn’t one for friendships, nothing lasts forever, life had taught her that much, but from the personal files, she had learned that maybe they had more in common than she thought. Maybe getting to know her teammates better wasn’t such a bad idea, she remembers clearly what a mess the avengers were just before New York, it was a miracle they made it through. “Hey Maximoff” she called out, “you busy?” Natasha asked, it felt weird, she had never willingly attempted to initiate a situation that would lead to long conversations, but there was a first time for everything, “Pepper says I should be more social, you know try to strengthen the bond with my teammates, so you up for some coffee?”

[pietroxxquicksilver]

On the past few weeks Pietro had less and less time for himself, because he was trying to be in a lot of places around the same time. He had to see what he could do for the mutants of the city while trying to find some sort of income and training with his new team. At least he and Wanda had worked together using their habilities back when they were in the Brotherhood, so that was something. Even if now they had to work alongside some others, they were still not completely new to this teamwork thing. Pietro liked how the Avengers trained, because he felt like they were demanding something out of him. Yes, he was still the fastest and probably the better out of the whole team but their machines were a lot more useful for his own skills. Maybe he couldn’t get any faster, but at least he was being forced to work in ways different of those he was used to.

When they weren’t training, he had not much interaction at all with any of the members of the team. It was his own nature, not to mix with others, so he brought his hand to his pocket and checked the news on his phone. It was running all too well, until he saw the article about the announcement made by Stark concerning the new members of the team. They called them the ‘New Avengers’, but the whole article was only praising the human members of the team, as if him and Wanda - also the Tigra girl - were threats that should be dealt with caution. That didn’t make him happy, at all. Pietro was already too angry when it came to this prejudice against the mutants, but to see how foward they could be about such thing. Part of him felt like he would prove them all wrong by being the best hero in the job, but there was still a voice in his head saying ‘Humans are the ones who can’t be trusted’. 

Considering Wanda was already out of the room when Natasha said their lastname Pietro considered she was actually talking to him. He put his phone back in his pocket, still feeling angry about the article he just read. “Yes?” He replied to her right before she mentioned she wanted to take him out for coffee. Social, that was something he wasn’t. Art all. “You can...” Before he suggested she called Wanda instead, Pietro realized he could really use some social bonding at the moment. And caffeine. “Actually, yes. I should try to be more social myself, so we can do that. And coffee.”

[pietroxxquicksilver]

no life

When he was younger, Pietro thought jogging was a waste of time.l So was everything else. Much before his powers manifested themselves he was already bored with the whole world around him, he didn’t think anything was interesting or worthy of his attention. While Wanda had her hobbies, like reading or something, he had the habit of watch people from their village. This bored him to death because their lives were always the same. Back home everything was the same, he had nothing to do. So his mother, or rather - Marya, suggested Pietro started jogging alongside his classmates.

This was nothing but  apoor attempt of hers to have Pietro fit in with the other students, like he was normal. She knew he wasn’t normal,later he would see she tried her best to make him human passing. At least it ended up leading to an activity Pietro would carry for his whole life. Even though it got more boring withhis mutant awakening, Pietro kept jogging. It was a nice way to try and keep up in pace with the slow world. He wasn’t running, he wasn’t faster than sound, he was just going with the flow.

New York as hardly like that, he could remember how he felt the first time he walked around the city. It wasn’t much compared to now, he didn’t get any time to look around and something, he was running errands for the Master of Magnetism and such. Then he was busy around the world,trying to help his people. Jogging wasn’t one of his priorities, but he still managed to do. With his return to America he had more time to do it again. Even with the whole training alongside the other Avengers, Pietro still managed to escape every once in a while and go jogging.

It wasn’t normal, but it was something nice.

[mikejbecker]

AVENGERS Quicksilver