On the way to the flight deck I spot Iron Man flying outside the huge Helicarrier window. I watch him shoot by with a trail of smoke behind before I turn and run through the halls.

This is it

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This is it. I don't know what to expect when we find the Tesseract or where we are going, but I know Loki will be there. And I have to bring my A game. I have to try and finish this. They're counting on me. Am I ready to face him again?

Once I spot Rogers and the others I hurry to catch up. He, Romanoff, Barton, and I walk to the nearest plane.

I breathe when with them, feeling a bite small around the group of heroes that have had their own miraculous stories of valor. And I'm just a kid fighting for her dead parents. I might be close to the same age, but I'm also shorter than all of them and generally smaller, with significantly less experience.

"So kid, I guess you're an Avenger now. Think you can keep up?" Natasha Romanoff asks as she strides beside me.

I shrug. "I'll try my best, but I've never been on a mission before, so this is all a bit new to me."

"You'll get the hang it soon enough," she smirks.

We approach the small aircraft as a young agent looks up from his clipboard. "Uh you guys aren't permitted to be in—"

"Son, just don't," Rogers cuts him off.

He looks nervous for a second and Cap just moves past him to board

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He looks nervous for a second and Cap just moves past him to board. The rest of us do the same. I hear the guy mutter when I walk past him, "And I'm gonna get fired..."

Once we're in the air I realize something. "Where's Thor?" I ask as I stand, holding the handle above me as Steve does the same beside me. Clint is in the pilot seat with Natasha in the other as co-pilot.

Rogers is about to answer me but then he looks out the windshield.

I do the same to see the demigod soar past us using his hammer as a flight ticket, rocketing through the air to where we are headed.

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