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Another AU Story

((I think I'll do these every once and a while, since the Jarek one almost killed some people. That was fun. This one is actually based off of a plotline that I'm still not entirely sure I want to actually use in the webcomic. {but there's a strong possibility I will someday.}

So, here's the story behind the read more. It's quite a bit longer than the last. And keep in mind I'm still reeeeally new at writing fight scenes.))

Rebecca ran through the Helicarrier as fast as she could to get down to the cargo bay. She had finally claimed her place among the Next Avengers, but there was a condition... Emma swore that if she was late to one training exercise she was right back off the team. There was no way in hell that clone of Cappy's was kicking her off after all the work she put into getting in! It was bad enough she made her try so hard in the first place. Being a Stark she should have been invited immediately and not have had to crash the party. But- that wasn't important. What was important was getting her ass down to the cargo bay.

When she ran in the rest of the team just turned to look at her with slight annoyance. This was clearly not a rare occurrence with her. Despite her heavy breathing she straightened herself up and took that overconfident Stark demeanor, "Hey guys. Don't worry, the party can start now!"

As she moved to her place beside a particular boy he took a moment to smack her slightly on the back of her head. She muttered to herself a little bit as he whispered in her ear, "You know I'm sacrificing a lot to be here with you in case that suit of yours needs a tune up or a recharge. The least you could do is show up on time."

"Relax, Michael," she whispered back. Not that everybody couldn't hear them anyway, "Won't happen again. It was a fluke~"

Emma glared a little bit. The blonde had a million and one words for Rebecca, but she knew the time and place. She turned back to the others and huffed slightly, "All right. Since everyone is finally here, let me tell you what today's training will be... We're going to land down in an abandoned city. Upon entering we will have no more than five minutes to compose ourselves before finding ourselves under attack. Our task is to find and neutralize all threats within the city. Questions?"

She eyed each individual in the room. Three young Asgardians. One Half Giant. A human spider. A time bomb. An eternally bored infiltrator. That damn Stark girl and her mechanic. They were going to have one hell of a time...

"Yeah, I got one," the spider raised his hand slightly to accompany his question, "Who are the threats? Can we know that? Is that like one of those things that we have to find out when we get there?"

He was met by a cold stare... not that he minded. Peter had always thought Emma had gorgeous eyes. After a moment she turned toward the bay door, "Several members of the Avengers have been contacted, but I don't know which ones accepted and are waiting down there."

"We can rest knowing my Father won't be there. None of you would be a match for the God of Thunder!" the elder of Thor's twin boys smirked confidently, twirling his sword.

"That's enough. You all can choose your preferred methods of getting down there. But you better choose fast because you only have a couple minutes before the door opens."

Emma and Agent Scarlett helped those who needed parachutes into them and gave them brief, but effective tutorials on how to use them. The Asgardians would be taking Váli's pet magical flying dear... thingy. Michael busied himself with readying Rebecca's suit, since she'd likely glide him down to the ground herself. When the door opened they all took their 'preferred methods' and met in the center of the city. It wasn't just abandoned recently, but had the feel of something closer to Chernobyl to it. Nature was reclaiming it... if it wasn't so eerie it would be beautiful.

Little Thrúd tugged on Váli's jacket to get his attention. He knelt down to be closer to her (the half-giant was much taller than the rest of them, a brilliant 6'7") and she told him of the various 'targets' she had seen on the way down. He nodded and stood, "Do we work as a team, Miss America, or are we on our own?"

"We're on our own this time. If teams occur, so be it, but I will not be leading this one."

Everybody gave an understanding nod... then broke off to their normal teams. Váli, Módi, Magni, and Thrúd quickly took tops of the abandoned buildings. Rebecca and Michael made their way inside them. Peter? He just climbed up the sides like the Amazing Spider-man that he was. This left Emma, Scarlett, and Lyra alone. Lyra... was more than nervous, "Do you really think that it's okay... for me to be here?"

"Your dad thinks that you need to learn control. I don't know how this will help, but he was pretty confident you should be here."

She nodded a little bit... then the three took to the streets.

It wasn't long before the first round of battles began. The twins were headed up against the biggest threat of their lives- literally! Rebecca and Michael watched from afar as Pym swung his arm into another building, seemingly taking one of them out. It was almost amusing watching him flail around while those boys jumped on him like fleas.

They made a point to stay hidden as best as possible. They weren't on par with Agent Scarlett, but they were making due for now. Their biggest threat would have been Black Widow... but they were certainly hoping she was not about to show up. Michael had his computer set up and he was doing some serious typing. She couldn't help but feel a little bad... he certainly wasn't helpless (being able to turn most of his body into adamantium certainly made him a tough opponent) but he wasn't the type to go into battle with the rest of them.

An explosion- they both looked up to see Spider-man trying his damnedest to web down Iron Man not far from Pym's battle with the twins, "How many do you think are here, Michael?"

"Uh... well, it could be any number... at least 5 I'd think. And we've seen two. So there's still three waiting for a good fight."

"Tsk... and Spider-man found the big prize. OH! Wait, look! There's one of the old Avengers now... he's watching someone... see him?"

The man moved closer to her, keeping low to the ground, "That's Hawkeye, right?"

"Oh yeah."

"Going after him?"

She laughed, "Oooh no. I'm going to wait to see how this plays out before I join this party."

He smiled a bit. It was good to see that she wasn't being so... reckless. He went back to his computer and started his typing again. He was setting up all of his systems to do emergency syncs to Rebecca's suit. With them, he could get the nanos to do just about whatever he wanted.

A creek... Michael continued as if he didn't notice it... Rebecca just didn't. Another creek... tack tack tack- From a hole in the ceiling a man jumped down. Michael quickly whirled around to block the man's claws with his arm- a huge CLANK was heard throughout the city. Even Giant-Man stopped to look... momentarily before Módi tried to throw his sword into his eye.

The two men stared at each other for a moment. Finally the attacker smiled, "Angelus."

Michael nodded a little bit, "Logan."

They pushed each other away and Rebecca took that opportunity to move between them, "Wolvey! Good to see you~ Let's dance!"

"With pleasure," it took him only a moment to tackle her out of the building.

It was a short struggle in the air; he had been nice enough to not claw her; and she was able to kick on the thrusters and fly back up. Of course, he held on for a moment, but then jumped into the building, digging his claws in the side to go pseudo-spider. She kept her distance, not entirely sure how far he could actually jump, "Well damn, Wolverine! You blew my cover! ... At least you can't fly."

The brunette lowered her goggles to shield her eyes, waved goodbye to him, then flew high up above the city to watch. Over the left eye she could see a screen. Michael was typing to her... she really needed to get an intercom... 'Watch out for Tony.' She scoffed a little and looked around. Tony had just tag-teamed Logan and threw poor Peter right at the brute, then began to fly up towards her. She smirked and nodded, "Okay. This will be fun."

Rebecca shut down her thrusters and floated for a moment before turning and dive-bombing. Tony moved out of her way to avoid the in-air collision, then watched as she fell momentarily, 'Is she nuts? Holy shit!' He held his breath before she turned the thrusters back on and weaved her way through the buildings. Daddy huffed and went after his little girl... almost concerned at how reckless she as, but remembering that this was a training exercise and he was supposed to be fighting her.

Of course his little baby girl was just having fun. Flying top speed for her nanos through the city, sharp turns here and there, trying to throw him off of her tail... a little bit of a flip here and there to keep it interesting. She worried only a little... he was keeping up pretty well. He might even be faster... she didn't like that idea- "WO-HOAH!"

She had just managed to change direction in time to miss being hit by a flying She-Hulk! The green beauty crashed straight through a couple buildings... a throw like that had to have been the Hulk. Rebecca gulped... she knew that no matter what she didn't want to fight him. Aaaand she was lucky to remember where she was long enough to fly up out of his way as he jumped through the hole his daughter had flown through. Suddenly she was concerned... where the fuck had Tony- BAM!

Iron Man had taken down Machina with a well-timed repulsor ray!

Her mind raced... she was falling... had he somehow disabled her suit? 'Re-connecting with you now.' ...oh, how Michael was an Angel. Her thrusters burst back on and she righted herself just before hitting the ground. She flew back up into the air... Daddy was waiting. She gasped- Daddy... Pym... Hulk... Wolverine- they were all lined up in their own little battles! One big move and she could...

"Ay dios mio," Michael sighed and smacked his forhead. He calculated the same thing she had from his little safety hole. He prepared the program... knowing it likely wouldn't go well. But she would activate it herself if he didn't, just... much slower.

Machina and Iron Man faced off... He was curious to see if she was going to give up yet... the power in the Machina suit rerouted...

Hawkeye, who had gone unnoticed by the rest, readied his arrow. He licked his lip and waited for her attack.

The 'M' on her chest lit up momentarily before letting out a huge ray blast. Tony was only barely able to dodge it. Hank wasn't so lucky, he got the full blast to the chest and began falling back. The two green Banners went to grab him to make sure no one else got landed on- after all most of the Next Avengers and their own Avengers were in the way of the Giant's fall.

As soon as her blast was fired, Hawkeye fired his own arrow at her. It grazed past her as she started slowly falling towards the ground. His eyes widened when he realized his mistake- not that he had missed her... but that-

BOOM!

The explosive arrow crashed into the building behind Rebecca and blew her into the building across the street. Tony moved forward a little, then screamed into Hawkeye's ear piece, "HER SUIT WASN'T ACTIVATED ANYMORE! SHE DRAINED THE POWER WITH THAT BLAST!"

Clint was lucky he had thrown down the ear piece and his arrows and was climbing down to try and find her. Michael, too, was running as fast as he could into the building where she landed. Tony flew down and stumbled, almost crashing as he pulled off his helmet, trying to get to her.

Her abrupt landing had knocked out a support beam and caused part of the ceiling to collapse on top of her, pinning her down. A pretty sizable chuck of pure cement was blocking the view of her legs. She was completely out cold.

~*~

The room was adorned with all sorts of flowers, teddy bears, chocolates, balloons... all varieties of 'get well soon' presents. Every member of the Avengers and the Next Avengers and just about everybody she had ever met in her lifetime had come to visit her. She thanked each of them for coming and told them all she was fine and that they shouldn't worry. Darling Hawkeye had given her the biggest bear he could find. And three others. She reassured him each time that she did not blame him.

Pepper was harder to deal with. Poor Mama Bear had went ooon and ooon about how she should never have had Michael build her that suit. That Michael was an idiot for letting her convince him and he should have known better. That Tony should have done more to shield her, etc etc... Rebecca was getting a headache from all the concerned yelling. It wasn't really anybody's fault. It was something she knew could happen when she donned the Machina identity. And hey, she wasn't dead or anything.

Pepper finally hushed and sat by her side, rubbing her leg, "You're going to keep doing this anyway, aren't you?"

"I had planned on it... sorry."

Mama bear sighed. Baby bear grinned slightly. Papa bear wandered into the room like a schoolboy waiting for a lecture from the principal. Pepper said nothing to him. He sighed and looked at Pepper's hand, set gently on Rebecca's one remaining leg, "Michael and I... were thinking we could try to make you a prosthetic. Completely functional. Made of nanos or my tech or maybe some combination of the two."

"Hey, as long as I can walk on two legs again I don't really mind what it's made of," she beamed.

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