Needless to say, Andi barely got any sleep that night. While Hydra was one step closer to being shut down, thanks to the Avengers, the world was also facing a new threat. It seemed there was no end to the evil in the world, but Andi supposed she shouldn't be so surprised by that. Her father always preached that to her, when he recited his sermons in the hopes that it would have some effect on her.

While there is good in the world, there will always be evil to balance things out.

And Andi was seeing now how true it was. After all, she hadn't been exposed to much of the good till recently.

Andi knew it was morning when light began to stream in through a small gap in the curtains, and it was the only excuse she needed to get out of bed. Still dressed in the jeans and T-shirt she had worn to the party the previous night, Andi got into the lift and headed straight upstairs, to the scene of the crime.

The elevator opened up into the room that looked the same way it did before she went to bed last night. Broken glass littered the floor, along with a lot more debris from whatever else was broken because of Ultron's robots. Glass crunched underneath her sneakers as she made her way further into the room, only to pause when she heard voices. She recognised them immediately. It was Maria Hill, in conversation with Steve.

"He's all over the globe," Hill was saying as she walked with Steve. "Robotics labs, weapons facilities. Reports of a metal man, or metal men, coming in and emptying the place."

It sounded a lot like Ultron was creating a robot army. A heavily armed one. But what did he hope to accomplish? Surely the extinction of the Avengers couldn't be the only thing on his mind.

"Fatalities?" Steve asked as they began to climb a set of stairs. Andi remained underneath it, able to see them a bit through the slits between each stair.

"Only when engaged," Hill replied. "Mostly there are guys left in a fugue state, complaining about bad memories and worst fears, and 'something too fast to see'."

Andi recognised that description immediately, and so did Steve, apparently.

"The Maximoffs," he concluded with a small sigh, their voices getting more distant as they walked further away from her. Andi followed, now mounting the stairs as well. "Makes sense that he'd go to them. They have someone in common."

"Except they don't." The two of them stopped at the top of the stairs and Andi peered from around the corner to see Hill handing Steve a tablet. She caught a glimpse of a dead body, but she didn't need a longer look to recognise the face of the man who had tormented her for a good part of her life. Strucker was dead.

The two continued walking and Andi followed again, this time not bothering with being quiet. Steve and Hill had gotten further ahead of her already, and she bumped right into Clint as he came out of a hallway to join the rest of the team.

"What are you doing up?" He asked, raising an eyebrow but not stopping in his stride toward the labs. Andi took that as encouragement to keep going along with him.

"Can't wake up if you were never asleep," Andi murmured in response, shoving her hands into the pockets of her jeans.

"Whatever Ultron is up to, we'll figure it out and put a stop to it," Clint assured her, slowing his pace a little bit so she could keep up with his longer strides.

"I know," Andi nodded. "And I intend to help."

Clint, for whatever reason, didn't argue with that logic like Andi had expected him to. Or maybe it was because they had already entered the lab and a conversation was going on.

"Strucker knew something that Ultron wanted us to miss. That explains why he was taken care of," Steve was saying, while Tony looked at the picture of dead Strucker on the tablet. He looked up briefly when she and Clint entered and he met her gaze momentarily. It looked like he wanted to say something, but decided against it when Natasha spoke.

"Yeah, everything we had on Strucker has been erased," the redhead explained, staring at a computer screen.

"No," Tony piped up and all eyes went to him. "Not everything."

And like that, moments later, all the Avengers — and Andi — were digging through paper trails, for anything they could find that could connect the dots or make sense. Andi honestly didn't even know what she was looking for but she looked through files anyway.

"Baron Strucker had a lot of friends," Bruce murmured as he opened up a file.

Andi glanced his way and so did Tony. He managed to speak before her, even though they realised the same thing. "I know that guy."

Bruce got up and walked over to Tony, handing him the file. Andi moved in closer as well to get a better look at the picture. She definitely recognised him. Her green eyes travelled up higher on the page to read the name. Ulysses Klaue.

"He operates off the African Coast," Tony continued. "Black market arms."

At that, Steve shot Tony a disapproving glance and Tony sighed. "There are conventions, all right? You meet people. I didn't sell him anything," he defended himself. "But I remember him talking about finding something new. A game-changer."

"I know him too," she piped up, and then all gazes landed on her.

"You've met him?" Natasha asked, walking closer, but also carefully as though she didn't want to trigger something within her.

Andi nodded, prying her gaze from the picture and looking to the redhead. "Well, not exactly met, but he and Strucker have been in contact. I remember Strucker always talking about something called Vibranium."

It was clear that Andi had no clue what Vibranium truly was, but the shared look between Tony and Steve told her that they definitely knew.

"What's that?" Thor spoke up, and they all turned their attention back to the file. Thor was pointing at some marking on Klaue's neck. "Looks like a brand."

Andi shivered, thinking back to the time she was branded. Well, technically there were two types, if she counted the tattoo she'd been given while under experimentation. Instinctively, her hand lifted to rub the back of her neck, her fingers grazing the 07 that was etched into her skin permanently with black ink.

Bruce made quick work of looking up what the branding was online, and he finally got the answer. "It's a word in an African dialect, supposedly means thief." Andi didn't understand anything from that, and Bruce continued. "The dialect is Wakandan."

Tony and Steve shared yet another look, which everyone noticed. "So Ultron is going to try and acquire vibranium."

Andi furrowed her eyebrows together in confusion. "I don't get it. What's so important about vibranium?"

"It's the strongest metal on Earth," Steve said, glancing briefly to his shield that was sitting on top of one of the tables in the lab.

When he said that, Andi needed no more explanation. It was clear what Ultron wanted with the vibranium now. And Andi spoke the words that everyone was thinking. "He's going to make himself a stronger body." A near indestructible one, in fact.

"Where is Klaue now?" Clint asked, walking closer to the group.

"Somewhere in the African Coast, probably," Tony replied. Andi could practically see the gears turning in his head as he came up with some kind of attack plan. "We have to stop Ultron from getting any vibranium."

Steve nodded. "If you can try and pinpoint his location, we can get there on a jet and hopefully stop things before they even begin," he glanced to everyone else.

Everyone nodded, and so did Andi, which caught Tony's attention. "I'm sorry, but did you think we were letting you come along?"

Andi stared at him for a moment before slowly nodding. "Well, yeah. I can help you. And right now you need all the help you can get."

"Yes, but you're a kid, and that's where I draw the line," Tony explained, clearly not willing to budge. "This isn't some kind of joyride or a field trip. Ultron is getting stronger, and the twins—"

"The twins trust me," Andi cut him off. "They were the only friends I had in those labs and even though our situations were different in those labs, they looked out for me. I can try and talk to them. They'll listen to me."

Tony still seem unconvinced but before he could say anything, Thor spoke up. "She might be right."

"Are we actually sitting here and debating over letting a fourteen-year-old come on a dangerous mission with us?" Tony retorted, glancing to Steve with an expression that Andi guessed meant he hoped he had a supporter in this.

"She may be fourteen but she's as strong as any of us, if not more," Natasha spoke up, causing Andi to glance at her. Nat crossed her arms and looked at her as she spoke. "I saw the way you destroyed one of those bots last night. I'm pretty sure you could do much more, given the chance."

"We didn't take her away from a life of being a weapon for Strucker to become a weapon for us," Clint added on.

"I didn't want to be with Strucker. But I want to help here. There's a huge difference between what Strucker does and what you guys do," Andi insisted, looking to Tony again. "I'm the only one who has a chance at trying to talk down the twins."

Tony was not happy at all with the idea, but most of them were looking to Steve for some kind of input. He sighed and looked at Andi briefly. "You can stay in the parked jet with Banner. I don't doubt that you're strong, kid," Steve told her. "But we're not bringing you into the direct line of fire unless absolutely necessary."

Andi figured she wasn't going to get any better than that. At least if she was going, even if forced to stay in a parked jet away from the action, she could figure out a way to get to the twins. It was better than being stuck here and feeling helpless when she knew she could help.

Tony still didn't seem very pleased with the idea, but for the time being he didn't say anything. Deep down, Andi felt like he knew they could use her, but he wasn't ready to let someone like her risk their lives. To Andi, it spoke volumes about his character, even if she was mildly annoyed by the fact that he was basically acting like he could tell her what to do. She understood where he was coming from, and that kind of cautiousness from another person regarding her wellbeing was not something she was used to. She wasn't sure how to think.

She didn't get much time to think about it in any case, though, because Steve spoke again, urging them to prepare themselves. "All right, everyone. Suit up."