Andi didn't really have anything for her to 'suit up'. Unlike the rest of them, she had no kind of gear or outfit. Just her powers, which she had never actually used in this kind of scenario before.

Digging around through the clothes she had bought for herself when Clint took her out, she found a pair of black tights and a black T-shirt that was slightly more suited to her frame than the Stark Industries shirt she wore when she was indoors. It wasn't exactly battle attire but it would have to do.

Before she knew it, she was on a jet, along with the Avengers, speeding through the sky toward the Arican Coast. She had no idea how they got there so fast since it seemed like they were casually just floating from within the jet. It was some great technology, she had to admit that.

Soon enough, they landed at the shipyard, and the back of the jet opened up. They slowly started to file out, with Tony hanging back. "Banner, you're on call but hopefully it won't come to that," he said before looking at Andi. "You. Stay. Don't try to be a hero." And with that, he too was gone, leaving Andi alone with Bruce.

"I don't think they thought this through completely if they preferred having you in a contained jet with me rather than on the ship with them," Bruce said, and Andi assumed it was an attempt at humour. Which was admittedly funny.

Andi glanced to him before walking to sit down in one of the co-pilot chairs. "You should give yourself more credit," she told him softly.

Bruce tilted his head to the side a bit before shaking his head. "Not really. Maybe I could, if it was possible to control... the other guy. But it's not. At least, not always." He moved slowly to sit down as well, a seat away from her, but he was staring at a point on the wall behind her instead of at her. "What good is a superpower if you need someone else to help calm you down?"

"I think it's amazing," Andi said without hesitation, causing Bruce to look at her with a little confusion. "You've got the strength, and you've got the brains." She continued. "You're indestructible. If you were in control of that too, you'd be too perfect and heroes can't be perfect."

Bruce looked at her for a moment. "What makes you say that?"

Andi shrugged, but took a moment to think of her answer before responding. "I've been around people who have always strived for perfection. They wanted it in me. They wanted it in themselves. But they could never achieve it because it's kind of impossible. Only, they refused to understand that," Andi explained, meeting Bruce's gaze. "Seeking perfection... that's not what makes a hero. It's what makes people bad. Like Ultron, thinking he can perfect a solution for world peace. But you... You know you're not perfect. That alone makes you way better than a lot of people, even if you feel the need to smash stuff every once in a while."

Bruce looked at her long and hard for a moment, and he opened his mouth to say something, but before he could, there was some noise on the intercom. Both Andi and Bruce looked to the speaker and Bruce got up to press a button, allowing him to speak into a mic. "Guys?" He called out. "Is this a code green?" There was nothing but noise on the other end, but Andi guessed that things were not going well.

Bruce continued to try and contact the others through the intercom, but Andi had other ideas. She knew she was supposed to stay put but she couldn't. Maybe catching Wanda and Pietro by surprise would help. She needed to try.

So, while Bruce was occupied, Andi snuck out of the jet through the doors that were already open when the others got off earlier. She could see the ship in the distance, among a bunch of others that were just stuck on land rather than water. It was just a couple of feet away, so she broke into a run toward it. She was only halfway there when there was a loud sound of metal against metal, and her gaze flew up to the sky to see Ultron grappling with Tony, who was in his Iron Man suit.

Things were definitely not going well.

Looking back down, Andi caught sight of a back door that was opened slightly so she went straight for it. As soon as she was in the ship, sounds of battle surrounded her. She was on a bottom floor, but she looked up through a metal grill just in time to see a flash of blue. Just like that, a couple of people were knocked to the ground, including Captain America.

She doubted Pietro would notice her but considering he was not by Wanda's side, she had a feeling the other Maximoff twin was working her own magic, most likely with the members of the Avengers that Andi could not currently see.

Andi decided to get a floor higher, through a staircase she found off to the side. The area was suddenly quiet, and Andi realised why only once she got on top. Off to one side, Thor was walking like he was dazed, and his eyes were red, clouded by a vision. Wanda had gotten to him.

Not far away, she spotted Steve moving to sit down on the floor, clouded by a vision as well.

Knowing she had to work quickly, Andi moved away from Thor and Steve, and behind a few large metal structures that were situated like a maze. She didn't sense so much death, fortunately, but she also couldn't tell where Clint and Natasha were.

Andi had just come up from behind a set of gears when she saw, straight ahead, Clint stationed at a corner and looking down over the ledge in front of him, bow and arrow in hand. Not far behind him was Wanda, slowly making her way to him as discreetly as possible. Andi's gaze flew to Wanda's hand and she saw the red mist floating around her fingers, ready to claim another victim.

Without thinking, Andi shot forward just as Wanda lifted her hands, and the red mist that should have projected onto Clint, hit Andi instead. Her eyes glazed over, irises turning red, and she became unbalanced on her feet.

* * *

"Andi?" Clint muttered in surprise, holding a hand out to grab her arm and prevent her from falling. It didn't really help though, because almost immediately, he let go to grab an electric arrow before putting the tip of it to Wanda's forehead. She froze up and her body began to spasm a bit, as small electric currents coursed through her body. Sudden wind pushed Clint back and he fell through a glass window and onto the other side.

Pietro stood in his place, removing the arrow from Wanda's head and picking his sister up. His gaze briefly landed on Andi who had now fallen to her knees, hands reaching out to hold onto something to keep her steady. Pietro knew what she had been through in the labs and so he knew what she was experiencing right now. Her fears.

Pietro hesitated. He could take Andi away from there, but he also knew her views were not aligned with his and his sister's. As much as he hated that she had been hit with Wanda's power, there was nothing he could do. He just shot Clint an enraged look because he blamed him for what happened to both girls, and then he sped off with Wanda.

Clint got up and dusted himself off just as Tony's voice entered his earpiece. "We could really use a lullaby right now. Those twins got to Banner and he's taking to the streets., but I don't know where Andi is so I'm going to go check out the jet—"

"She's here," Clint spoke back, climbing through the broken window to see Andi curled up in a ball on the floor. Whatever she was seeing... it couldn't be good. "She snuck in during the fight so she's safe from Banner but... like the rest of the team, she's down. I'd be down too if it weren't for her but you're going to have to subdue Banner on your own. There's no backup here."

Bending down, he helped Andi to her feet. She was groggy, barely moving on her own, but he managed to get her up and walking till he came across Nat, in a similar state.

"Alright. I'm calling in Veronica," Tony said. And while he took care of the Hulk rampaging through town, Clint got to the rest of the team and helped them get to the jet, where they remained on standby till Tony dealt with their code green.

* * *

"Mija."

Andi blinked and suddenly she wasn't in a ship anymore. No, she was back in the labs. The ones she grew up in. Her mother was in front of her, and beside her, two men in white coats. They held syringes in their hand. Andi knew they were meant for her.

"You're doing very well, mija," her mother spoke, a tight smile on her face. It was very clearly forced, but Andi, as a child, did not notice that. "Soon enough you'll be stronger. The strongest. You're capable of quite a lot but we need you to be better."

Andi wasn't responding. Nor was she moving because she was strapped down to a bed. Upon looking down at her body, and seeing a bit of blood around her wrists, Andi realised it was because she had been fighting against her restraints.

"No more trouble this time, okay? We don't want to put you in solitary again because it slows down our process."

Andi knew what that meant. Flashes of all the times she had been confined to a cell after being injected with something that turned her brain to jelly. Andi could see and speak to the dead but in confinement, there was just so much she saw and heard that she was barely able to speak for hours once she was out. Sleep was impossible to come by for days.

"And tomorrow we're going to upgrade the tests," her mother continued while the two men came to stand on either side of Andi. "Baron Strucker recently acquired a stone that could help speed up the tests and enhance the effects on you. I know you'll do me proud, mija."

Whether or not she actually did, Andi did not know. But her vision began to black out as the men stuck needles into her neck and it felt like fire was coursing through her veins.

* * *

Andi's eyes fluttered open and she was somewhere different again. Not in a ship and not in the labs, but in the jet. There was a voice drifting through the air. Andi recognised it. Agent Hill. She wasn't listening to what she was saying through the intercom though. Instead, her eyes moved around, and she noticed that everyone else seemed to be dazed, just like she was, because of something Wanda had forced them to see.

Andi had never actually gotten a taste of Wanda's power directly because Wanda always refused to use it on her, no matter what, an even this time, it was more of an accident because Andi had gotten in the way. But she realised just how powerful that one ability was. Just like Andi had yet to reveal the same of her own powers. She was just too scared to.

"There's been no call for Banner's official arrest but it's in the air," Hill was saying. The voice was close by and Andi turned to her right to see Tony sitting in a chair and looking at Agent Hill through a screen. Andi herself was curled up on the floor right beside him but she slowly moved into a sitting position.

"How's the team?" Hill asked.

"Everyone's... we all took a hit. We'll shake it off," Tony said, glancing back at Andi briefly. Upon realising she was awake, he stood up.

"Well, until we find Ultron, stay in stealth mode. And away from here," Agent Hill advised, to which Tony nodded before the screen went blank.

Tony moved from his chair and went to sit down on a ledge next to Andi. He wasn't looking at her, but she knew he wanted to say something.

Since he didn't say anything yet, though, Andi jumped at the chance. "Where are we going?"

Tony let out a small sigh and clasped his hands together, while glancing briefly at Clint, who was at the controls. "A safe house, apparently." He then looked at Andi. "You still think you can reach out to the twins?"

"She didn't do this to me on purpose," Andi said softly.

Tony nodded and looked down at his hands. "Clint told me. And I remember telling you not to be a hero."

"That's not really something you can decide whether or not to do," Andi argued. "I saw an opportunity to help, and I took it."

"And it was an accident that could have been way worse. Or could have caused more physical instead of mental damage. Damage that you might not have come back from," Tony retorted, looking at her. "And if something like that had happened, I feel like that's on me."

Andi was about to protest and say that it didn't need to be on him but he stopped her.

"I know what you're going to say," Tony sighed and put his head in his hands. "Look, I don't... I'm not great with situations like these, but you took a hit and that's exactly what I was trying to prevent. I took you away from the labs that day because I didn't want you to go through any of that anymore but you're making that hard by putting yourself into those situations on your own. That's not what you deserve."

Andi bit down on her lower lip and looked down at the floor, unsure of what to say. She wasn't used to compassion, or people caring about her. The twins came at a hard time in her life and though they were caring, they also had their agendas. Tony... he had goals too, but he apparently wasn't willing to use everyone to try and achieve it. Not if it meant harm could come to those involved.

But it was still her choice to make. Tony may have saved her but she wanted to fight the good fight.

"Let's just put this on the back burner for a while. You need to rest," Tony said, interrupting her thoughts. He reached out and very awkwardly patted her shoulder, whilst looking away.

"All right, kids," Clint's voice sounded throughout the jet. "We're home."