For the next few weeks I was on the same routine. Get up, go to school, walk home, train, and go back to bed. I think it was the longest period of time that I had actually been in school. The others seemed happy that I was starting to act like a regular kid, but Thor was still cautious around me.
Coulson kept checking up on me to see if I was harming myself in any way. I wasn't. The only self pain I inflicted was remembering, but it was nice to know that people actually cared for a monster that was born to destroy to world.
I thought that no one cared. At least I couldn't remember anyone that cared. I still didn't remember how we found out that Steve was my father. No matter how many times they told me, nothing seemed to click. I didn't remember getting shot on the helicarrier and I didn't remember that much about the Winter Soldier. I was still lost, but not as lost as before.
While in Coulson's office one day, he offered me something that I couldn't refused. "Will, I know that losing your memory can be hard, but I know how you can get away from all this. I want you to come join my SHIELD team. I could use someone with your experience in the field with my men" he offered.
"Wow. Really, but how will we cover this? I mean, I'll be gone for however many weeks" I said.
"I'll tell the Avengers or Clint will. I think this will be good for you. You've probably been through more than my team" he replied "Skye, I mean Daisy, has been shot and Agent Morse has been captured by Ward and shot, and Simmons has been to another planet and back, and Fitz has had some brain damage due to Ward".
Coulson talked about his team for another ten minutes. "I already feel like I know them" I commented "if I'm going with you, then I better get home to pack. Can you call Clint for me?"
Twenty minutes later, Clint was sitting in the office while Coulson was explaining to him why I was leaving. He seemed to understand. "What exactly do you want me to tell the others?" Clint asked.
"Tell them that a teacher at this school knew about my whole situation with the Avengers and asked me to join their SHIELD team for a few weeks" I shrugged.
"But SHIELD was destroyed, so is that very believable".
"Technically SHIELD wasn't destroyed, just downsized. I'm the new director of SHIELD. Maria Hill knows. Doesn't she work for Stark?" Coulson said. Clint nodded.
"I'll tell Hill, she can cover for us" Clint stated "come on, Will, let's get home so you can pack".
Clint drove me home to pack and then drove me to the coordinates that Coulson told us to meet him at. We met him in the middle of a field that was far from the city. He was waiting for us in in a jet.
"I'll see you in like two weeks, I guess" Clint said driving off.
"So, Coulson, did you bring any of your team" I asked.
"I actually did" he replied leading me into the jet. Sitting there were four people.
"Will?" a woman with brown hair asked. She looked familiar.
"Will doesn't remember anything that well. I'll just let her explain" Coulson stated "oh yeah, guys, this is Will. Will, these are Agents Morse, May, and Mackenzie. You already know Daisy".
Agent Morse was a tall blonde woman. Agent May was an Asian woman that looked like she had a real chip on her shoulder. Agent Mackenzie was a tall black man.
"I would prefer if you called me Mack" he said.
"Just call me Bobbi" Agent Morse added.
"She looks weak" I heard May whisper to Coulson as they walked into the cockpit. I just sat in silence for the ride to the base. When the jet landed, Daisy showed me around and introduced me to some of the other agents including the two scientists Fitz and Simmons and a man named Hunter. Then she showed me a place where I could sleep.
"What happened to you?" she asked.
"It's a little fuzzy, but I was taken by Doctor Doom twice because he wants me to be his weapon, and then I sacrificed myself to Ward to save my family" I stated.
"Why don't you remember that well?"
"Ward erased my memory".
"Why would he do something so twisted and evil? Hurting a child is just pure evil" she said.
"He said I was property of Hydra. He said that I didn't deserve basic human rights because I was a weapon. He broke my knee when I tried to escape".
"You know we're looking for Ward. When we find him, you can have the first shot at him" Daisy said.
"You know we should really for a support group for those that have been hurt by Ward. You, me, Fitz, May, and Bobbi. I'm sure there are more" I joked.
"I've never seen you this way. And I mean defensive".
"It's how I cope" I interrupted. Daisy left to go talk with the others while I got settled. After about ten minutes, I got bored and decided to go look for someone. I found everyone except Coulson in a small recreation room.
"Hey" I said to get their attention. They all turned.
"Will" Simmons said "we were all wondering how you met Coulson and Daisy".
"You want the long version or the short version" I asked.
"The long version please. We want to get to know you" she replied, her British accent filling the room.
"Okay. Then I'll start front the beginning" I sat on the couch and told them my life story, my powers. I did, however, leave out the part where I'm actually older than all of them.
May looked impressed. Mack, Fitz and Simmons looked sympathetic. Daisy and Bobbi looked like they understood, and Hunter looked skeptical.
"Why didn't Hydra use you before the day you were rescued? I mean they could've use you any other time they wanted" he said.
"I wasn't ready until then. I wasn't strong enough until that day" I said.
"Yes, but it just doesn't add up".
"You try being raised by Hydra and then being thrown into a world that you were supposed to destroy with people you were supposed to kill. Then try being shot in the stomach and falling off a helicarrier. Then watch as your family is hurt and lost and killed while you sit there helplessly watching the madness unfold. While you're at it, try being taken by a psychopath twice and following his orders to save those you love. Try forgetting who you are and everyone you ever knew and cared about. That's just scratching the surface of what I've gone through" I snapped. Hunter looked shocked as did the others.
"I never thought of it like that".
"Well you should have. Now I don't care if you think I'm weak, but trust me, I'm not. I'll prove it to you if you wanna go a few rounds" I stated.
"I think we're good thanks for asking" Fitz stated, putting his hands up in surrender.
"What exactly have you guys gone through on during your time at SHIELD" I asked.
"Ward pushed Simmons and I out of a plane in a container. We sank to the bottom of the ocean" Fitz said.
"I was shot by Hydra and got my powers" Daisy said.
"I was possessed by some Kree spirt" Mack stated.
"I too was captured by Ward. He beat me, broke my knee. Then I took a bullet for Hunter" Bobbi replied.
"I went after Ward and almost got myself killed" Hunter hung his head. We all turned to May.
"No comment" May whispered leaving the room.
"She doesn't like to talk about that" Simmons said "anyway, Will, what do you like to do in your free time?"
"What free time? All I do is train and suffer" I said "all of my scars never fully healed. It hurts to move, but I suffer through the pain".
"Why didn't your scars fully heal?"
"I was taken by Doom again before they could heal and then I was taken by Ward" I said. I turned around and lifted the back of my shirt so they could see the scars.
"Oh my. How?" Simmons started.
"How did my back get to be so messed up? That's because Doom whipped me, trying to get me to comply" I interrupted.
"That's just messed up. Why does everyone want to use you as a weapon?" Mack asked.
"Because I can destroy the world and everyone in it" I was staring at the floor "bad people would get a lot of money if they sold me to Hydra or AIM or Doom".
"This is like way beyond child abuse" Bobbi said.
"I'm not a child" I mumbled "I'm seventy-two technically".
"What was that?" Daisy said.
"I'm technically older than all of you, seeing how I was born in 1943" I whispered.
"How are you still this young?" Simmons inquired.
"They froze me just hours after I was born and unfroze me in 2000".
"Why would anyone do such an evil thing? We all knew Ward, but this doesn't sound like him or Hydra" Fitz argued.
"You clearly haven't seen the real Hydra before, and the Ward you knew is gone. He was replaced with something that is pure evil".
"I know, but I was just hoping" he sighed.
"I get it, but he's hurt all of us in more ways than one. He deserves to die".
"No one deserves to die" Simmons said.
"Go through the last fifteen years of my life and tell me whether or not those people who hurt me, who raised me, who wanted me to be their weapon, deserve to die. They all do. The world would be better off if they weren't here. It would also be better off if I had never been born".
"Will, don't say that. The world is safer with you in it because you are good and you save people" Daisy stated. I got up and went back to my room. I curled up on the bed and stayed in the same position for the next few hours.