Being an Avenger

Hair Style and Strucker

The hairstyle in the picture is what Lilly's hair looks like now. Just imagine it blonde.

I looked in the mirror at my new hairstyle. I mean it's an okay style it's just it looks bad with a scar on the right side of my head. I looked over at Maria and my mother who were admiring the new style.
"Maybe you should get some color. Be the Emo Star" Maria said making my mother laugh. I raised my eyebrows at the two grown women who were acting like little kids when they see something hilarious.
"No" I said, "now get out." I pushed them out of my bedroom and locked the lovely door that I've been locking a lot lately. I wonder what the suit would look like with my new hair style. I groaned loudly and plopped onto my bed. I rolled over and buried my face in the soft pillow that felt like a marshmallow.
Soon I decided to face the music and walk out to help. When I say face the music, I mean listen to Stark make fun on my new hair. He did the same thing when I cut it not too long ago. I walked down the hallway toward the main area where Tony and Bruce were until Steve entered the room. "He's not really hiding" Steve said handing Thor a tablet.
"What's that?" Tony asked as he strolled over his fellow Avengers. Thor handed the tablet back to Steve who then showed it to Tony.
"Another message. Ultron killed Strucker" Steve said as I looked over Tony's shoulder seeing the horrifying picture.
"And he did a Banksy at the crime scene, just for us" Tony said.
"This is a smokescreen. Why send a message when you've just given a speech?" I asked crossing my arms over my chest. 
"Strucker knew something" Steve replied, "Something specific- that Ultron wanted us to miss."
"Yeah, I bet he-" mom said as she walked over to a control center, where various digital files were up on a screen, all streaming with information, "Yep. Everything we had on Strucker has been erased."
"Not everything" Tony said.

Soon we were all looking through files that were on paper instead of a computer. Bruce was looking on a computer for any information that wasn't erased by Ultron. Well everything like physical files that we have on Strucker.
"Known associates. Well, Strucker had a lot of friends" I said flipping through a file.
"Well, these people are all horrible" Bruce said dropping a file onto the table and opening another one.
"Wait. I know that guy" Tony said as Banner passes him the photo he was looking at. It was a man that seemed like he sold stuff that was probably illegal. He didn't look like the nicest person in the world, "From back in the day. He operates off the African coast, black market arms."
Me and Steve gives Tony an accusing look. I crossed my arms over my chest and raised my eyebrow at Stark, "There are conventions, alright? You meet people, I didn't sell him anything."
Steve gives me the photo allowing me to see the photo of a man named Ulysses Klaue. He sounded strangely familiar. Stark saw my face of confusion and decided to speak up a little bit, "He was talking about finding something new, a game changer, it was all very "Ahab."
Thor points to the scar on the back of Klaue's neck, "This."
"Uh, it's a tattoo. I don't think he had it-" Tony started but Thor cut him off.
"No, those are tattoos, this is a brand" Thor said as Banner identifies the brand on Klaue's neck on the computer.
"Oh, yeah. It's a word in an African dialect meaning thief, in a much less friendly way" he told us.
"What dialect?" Steve asked.
"Wakanada...? Wa...Wa...Wakanda" Bruce said making me raise my eyebrows. Before any of the other team members knew I knew exactly what came from Wakanada.
"If this guy got out of Wakanda with some of their trade goods-" Tony started.
"I thought your father said he got the last of it?" Steve asked.
"I don't follow. What comes out of Wakanda?" Bruce asked. I looked at Bruce then over to Steve's shield.
"The strongest metal on earth" I said crossing my arms over my chest.
"Where is this guy now?" Steve asked as he turned toward Tony.

Third Person P.O.V

In a Salvage Yard along the African Coast Ulysses Klaue was talking on the phone in his office, "Don't tell me your man swindled you. I sent you six short range heat seekers and got a boat full of rusted parts. Now, you will make it right, or the next missile I send you will come very much faster."
Klaue ends the call and connects to another call with a small smile forming on his lips, "Now, minister, where were we?" Suddenly the lights go out causing a commotion in the salvage yard causing Klaue to pick up his gun. Klaue points it at the door, however his gun is yanked out of his hand.
Klaue looked down to see his gun already disassembled, the parts lined up neatly on his desk. Even the bullets were placed in a nice little row. Pietro smiled.
"Yes," Klaue said, not missing a beat, "you're the Enhanced. One of Strucker's prized pupils. I know what you can do... And what your twin sister can do. Do you want a candy?" Klaue pointed to a bowl of hard candies on his desk, but Pietro just rolled his eyes.
"Every day the world is crazier," Klaue continued, "the rules are now... Well, what rules, right? At some point it's just hard to be afraid anymore."
"Everyone's afraid of something" said Wanda as she entered the office.
Klaue nodded. "Cuttlefish," he said.
The twins gave him confused looks, so he went on, "Deep-sea fish. They make lights to hypnotize their prey. I saw a documentary. Terrifying. So if you're going to fiddle with my brain and make me see a cuttlefish, then I know you don't do business and aren't in charge... And I only deal with the man in charge."
Ultron flew up behind Klaue just outside his window. Ultron blasted Klaue to the floor and got through the window. "Oh there is no man in charge." Ultron pushes him out the hallway and hovered over him.
"Let's talk business," said Ultron to Klaue.
A little while later, Klaue and a few of his workers brought Ultron over to a set of barrels . The markings on the barrels warned that the contents were toxic, so when Klaue smashed one open, Wanda and Pietro stepped back avoiding the splash.
But the substance inside wasn't actually immediately dangerous. The labels were a ruse to keep otherwise curious customs agents away. From the barrels Klaue pulled bars of a very rare metal with special properties. This is what Ultron had come here to find.
"You know, this came at great personal cost. It's worth billions," said Klaue, gesturing at the barrels, which all contained the same precious metal. Killer robot or no killer robot, Klaue was not going to give his goods away for free.
Ultron closed his eyes for a moment, briefly connecting to the Internet, and then he opened them again. "Now, so are you" he said, "I've transferred the money to your dummy holdings. Finance is so weird. But I always say: keep your friends rich and your enemies rich and wait to find out which is which."
Klaue gave Ultron a needle-sharp look.
"Stark..." He said.
"What?" Ultron asked instantly on edge.
"Tony Stark used to say that to me," Klaue said as he backed away from Ultron. "You're one of his..."
Ultron seemed to grow confused at this. "What? I'm not..." His expression darkened. "I'm not. You think I'm one of Stark's puppets? His hallow men? But I- where are you going?"
Ultron reached out and grabbed Klaue's arm, "I am.... Look at me.... I am.... Stark is nothing..." The robot sputtered, upset. But when he could see Klaue wasn't listening, he reacted in anger, he cut off Klaue's arm then pushed him into the barrels. Ultron suddenly seemed to regret the action, almost embarrassed. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It's going to be OK. I won't hurt you. It's..." But Klaue wasn't listening. He was already stumbling away, with his henchman supporting him.
Pietro and Wanda shared a look. The emotional outburst from their new mechanical leader was troubling.
Ultron turned and addressed the twins, trying to justify his behavior. "You don't understand," he explained. "It's just... I don't like being compared to Stark. It's a thing with me. Stark is... He's a sickness."
"Oh junior..." said a sarcastic voice.
Ultron and and the twins turned to see Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor striding in from the entrance on the far side of the hull.
"....you're going to break your old man's heart," Tony finished.
"If I have to" Ultron sneered.
"We don't have to break anything" Thor said as Lilly slowly walked out from the shadows. Her new suit hugging her perfectly in all the right places. The suit was black
with two blue lines on her inner thigh and outer thigh. She also had her well known white star in the middle of her chest. She had black combat boots on to match with her suit. To go with her new suit she also had a black mask that covered her nose and mouth.
"Clearly you've never made an omelet" Ultron said.
"He beat me by one second" Tony said.
"Ah, this is funny, Mr. Stark. It's what, comfortable? Like old times?" Pietro asked staring at Stark.
"This was never my life" Stark said.
"You two can still walk away from this" Steve said.
"Oh, we will" Pietro said as Lilly walked in between Steve and Thor with Tony in front of them.
"I know you've suffered" Steve said..
"Uuughh! Captain America. God's righteous man, pretending you could live without a war. I can't physically throw up in my mouth, but-" Ultron said with sarcasm dripping from his robotic mouth.
"If you believe in peace, then let us keep it" Thor said.
"I think you're confusing peace with quiet" Ultron said.
"Yuh-huh. What's the Vibranium for?" Lilly asked staring at Ultron who basically towered over her small form easily.
"I'm glad you asked that, because I wanted to take this time to explain my evil plan!" Ultron said as suddenly the Iron Legions attack Stark, Steve and Thor; Stark then attacks Ultron. Lilly decided that she would take on the enhanced twins instead of the Iron Legions.
A robot grabbed Thor from behind. Thor smashed the machine to the ground. Steve sidestepped, dodging the reach of the robot that was attacking him, and ducked to kick the feet out from under it. Lilly saw one of the twins heading for Steve. She ran up the stairs and pushed Wanda away from Steve.
"You could walk away from this" She said before Wanda pushed her to the ground. Lilly tilted her head and got up just as a robot flew towards her. She quickly set it on fire before it could get to her, she grabbed it and sent it flying into one of Klaue's men. Then she saw Pietro grab Thor's hammer and fly backward into some cargo boxes. She ran over to see if he was okay but Steve beat her to it. Pietro started to rise seeing Steve in front of him, Steve hit him with his shield making him fall back.
"Stay down, kid!" Steve ordered before running to continue the fight.
Lilly watched Wanda whisper something into Thor's ear using her abilities to put him into her spell. Before She could react Wanda was gone. She walked up the railing and watched as Thor walked around in a daze. Lilly lit her hands into flames and looked around. She turned and Wanda stood in front of her. Wanda sent Lilly flying into the wall. Lilly groaned and slowly stood up lighting her whole body on fire.
"Come at me, Witchy!" Lilly hissed as Wanda charged. Lilly grabbed Wanda's wrist burning Wanda's skin. Wanda hissed and Lilly's fire disappeared, "does it hurt?"
Pietro sped past knocking Lilly off her feet. Wanda took this advantage and sent Lilly into unconsciousness.

"Wake up, Willow" said a familiar voice. Lilly opened her eyes to see Cade. He had a cut on his face with fresh blood dripping from the wound. A sharp pain shot through Lilly. She looked down to her side to see an arrow sticking out of it. Clint's arrow.
"You're losing blood, Will" Cade said trying to pick his little sister up. Lilly hissed in pain as Cade helped her up. Their father ran over wearing his suit. He had his gun ready to shoot anything that would harm his family.
"WILLOW!" He yelled rushing over and helping Cade pick up Lilly.
"Hands up!" yelled a familiar voice. Lilly looked to see Steve ready to throw his shield at them. Why was he on the other side? Why did Clint shoot her? Cade held Lilly close to him with fear in his eyes. Lilly knew this was fake. She tried to wake up but she couldn't.
Lilly couldn't stop herself. She broke out of Cade's hold and wrapped a vine around Steve hanging him upside down. Steve struggled to get out of the vines. Natasha ran at Lilly punching her in the face. Lilly stumbled back from the impact glaring at her so called mother. Lilly charged at her but Natasha grabbed ahold of the arrow in Lilly's side. She pushed the arrow in deeper causing Lilly to scream loudly. Cade rushed over hitting Natasha. Cade quickly grabbed Lilly and picked her up off the ground keeping her close as blood leaked from Lilly's wound.
The scene faded and Lilly found herself at the hands of Loki. The feeling of Loki sending the memories into Lilly's mind made her scream loudly. Loki didn't hesitate to make the pain increase. As the pain increased so did Lilly's screaming. Natasha ran over but was stabbed by Loki's scepter making her fall.
"MOM!" Lilly yelled trying to get up but she couldn't. Soon her vision became blurry and she fell unconscious.

Lilly's eyes fluttered opened slowly to see that she was off the ground. She was being carried bridal style by Steve toward the jet. To her knees and down were draped over Steve's right arm and her back was against Steve's left. Lilly looked around to see they were almost to the jet. She turned her head into Steve's chest. Steve looked down at her and smiled sadly.
"Hey sleepy head" Steve said looking at her. Lilly didn't say anything but get comfortable in Steve's arms. Steve smiled slightly before walking into the jet. Natasha saw Lilly and tears formed in her eyes. Steve saw Natasha's face and walked over giving Lilly to her. Lilly rested her head in her adoptive mother's lap. Natasha rubbed Lilly's arms like she use to when she was a child.
"Танцы медведи, окрашенных крыльями вещи почти помню и песню кто-то поет один раз после декабря кто-то держит меня безопасной и теплые лошадей, буланые серебро Буря мультфильмов, изящно танцевать на моей памяти" Natasha sang softly as Lilly felt her eyes close slowly once again. The familiar lullaby made Lilly fall asleep. (Dancing bears, painted wings things I almost remember and a song someone sings once upon a December, someone holds me safe and warm, horses prance through a silver Storm, figures dancing gracefully across my memory)