(A/N: Genesis outfit for today above.)

It had been about a month since the boys and Raelynn arrived. I had been working with them every day to expand their powers and to control them. They were doing very well. However, we still hadn't talked about the elephant in the room. I could tell that they were curious and dying to ask why I had given them up, but they refrained from doing so. Tried to play it off nonchalantly. I saw right through it. After all, I was an ex-HYDRA assassin. I could also tell that they were growing attached. Even though I made sure to try and keep our relationship strictly professional while they were here, it didn't stop them from trying to get some kind of relationship with me. Raelynn was absolutely and completely understanding about everything. She was like a big sister for me. I told her the full story about why I had given them up and she was nothing but supportive. She also gave me her blessing to try and have a relationship with them but I just didn't know how. I mean, would they even want a relationship with me? After all I had done to them? When they asked the question of why I had given them up would that satisfy them enough to have no more need for me and then leave? Wow, I sounded desperate. As much as I hate to admit it, I was also growing attached. I guess I wanted to try and be their mother but I had no idea how. I was afraid. And I hated that. So I pushed the boys away and kept our relationship strictly professional. They hated it. I could tell. They wanted a relationship just as much as I did. Yeesh, this got depressing real quick. I am getting waaaay off track. Anyway, it was currently 1:30 in the afternoon and Thor had dropped by for a quick visit. I was sitting on the bar-stool eating lunch and watching the boys as they tried to hurt each other with their powers. I heard a little whirring sound and snapped my head to look at the Roomba as it sashayed its way into the kitchen/living room. My tense shoulders relaxed and I watched as Thor looked at it with amusement and bafflement. "What is this funny little ground disk and what does it do?" Peter Parker who was also eating his lunch said, completely deadpan: 

"His name's DJ Roomba and he's my only friend." 

I let out a loud laugh and clutched my stomach. 

The other supers in the room also started laughing. It was hilarious. We would stop laughing and then people would look at each other and snicker, trying to muffle their laughter, which sent us into another round of laughs. When we had finally sobered I explained what a Roomba actually was and Thor started to see the funny side. He started to laugh but nobody joined in because the joke was dead by then. Like he should be. Talk about awkward. 

"Here you go mama. Nice, hot cup of coffee." Rawiri said, handing me a cup of coffee. "Thanks kid." I replied, taking a sip.

"It's cold." I said.

"Nice cup of coffee?"

"It tastes horrible." I deadpanned.

"Cup of coffee."

"I'm not sure this is even coffee."

"Cup."

I snickered at his attempt at a cover up. 

"Hey guys?" MJ asked us. "I need another word for water. Our science teacher gave us homework." 

Oh, yeah. MJ was here also. She usually comes around after school to hang out and do her homework.

 "No bones ice." Rawiri said. 

"Ocean sauce." was Shuri's response. 

"Earth juice." said Loki. 

"I understand the kids doing it, but Loki, you're like, a thousand years old." said Tony. 

I let out a small chuckle and rolled my eyes at their antics. 

"Avengers..." Fury announced as he walked into the room. "...and friends." he said looking around. 

Oh yeah, that reminds me. So far, The Fantastic Four, Supergirl and Superman, X-men, Batman and Batwoman and Wonder Woman have gone home. With the promise to visit regularly. 

"I want to introduce you to someone. Everyone, this is Galina Volkov. She is going to be your new therapist." 

Before we had the chance to respond Peter strolled through the door and said much to our horror and amusement: 

"Skeletons aren't scary. We are filled with pulsing, oozing meat." 

There was terrified silence all around. I think in that moment we had all forgotten about the therapist. I flicked my eyes to Galina and saw her looking at Peter in amusement and surprise.

 "It's the meat that's scary. The meat!"

 I slowly got out of my seat and walked towards him. 

"How much sleep have you had kid?" I asked. 

"None." he mumbled, resting his head on my shoulder. 

"Okay." I breathed. 

"I am going to put the kid to bed while you guys deal with the shrink." 

I looked at Galina and watched as she seemed to be studying me and making mental notes of my interaction with Peter. I didn't like the way she was looking at me and the kid. I felt trapped. Like I was in HYDRA all over again. Being scrutinised under their gazes. I led him to his bed and let him sleep. I text his Aunt and let her know that he would be staying over here for a while. She let me know that it was fine and I went back to the kitchen/living room. I took note of the scene in front of me. Natasha, Bucky and Rene were having a race on who could assemble and disassemble their guns the fastest, T-Challa was sparring with Loki, Thor was learning how to fix an Iron Man suit with Tony, the kids were playing with their powers, Cap was cleaning his shield, Clint was fixing his bow, and Hulk, who Bruce had let out for the day, was sitting still so MJ could draw him. Fury was standing in the corner looking at them with irritation. He was trying to talk to them about Galina but they weren't having a bit of it. They completely ignored him. Galina had an emotionless expression on, but I could tell that she was studying us and was amused by what she found.

 "An intimidation technique." she said simply.

 All heads snapped to her. 

"What are you talking about?" Loki asked Galina. 

"What you are doing. It's an intimidation technique. You don't want a therapist but you know that you have to have one because boss said so." her Russian accent tinging her words. 

"So, you try and scare them off. By intimidating them. Reminding them that you are 'Earth's Mightiest Heroes' and don't need therapy. You're above all that." To say we looked surprised was an understatement. 

"For so long you have just been the Avengers. Your own little group. Helping out each other when necessary. Being a family. And then a stranger comes along. A therapist. An outsider. So, knowing that you don't have the authority to fire us, you try and intimidate us into quitting instead." 

The non-Avengers were snickering at our dumbfounded faces. To say she was good was an understatement. Awkward silence ensued. I think it was because of the fact that we got caught so easily. Galina let out a breath and walked over to Tony's bar and poured herself two shots, downing them instantly. She then poured herself a whiskey on the rocks and took a seat opposite everyone. Taking out a notebook and a pen from her bag she looked at us and said

"I understand one of you has recently come back from the dead. Would anyone like to say anything regarding that?" 

I raised my hand and said "Seeing as I am still alive and not dead, I hope that when I inevitability choke to death on gummy bears, people will just say that I was killed by bears and leave it at that." 

The people in the room snickered, meanwhile Fury and Galina looked at me with disapproval. I smiled innocently. 

"Miss Romanoff." said Galina. 

Nat looked at her and hummed in response. 

"When you found out that Miss Genesis was alive what was the first thought that went through your head?" she asked. 

I frowned and I saw her hands clench a little. 

"I don't feel comfortable talking about this in front of others." Galina just nodded. 

Her attention was fixed on my kids. 

"When you first found out about your mother what was the first emotion you felt?" Elias opened his mouth to answer but Ivy took control quickly.

"Miss Volkov..." she said her voice hoarse. "You are here to provide therapy to the Avengers. Not my kids. They are not Avengers, therefore, what you are doing is quite unprofessional." 

Galina smiled at us. Knox's phone dinged pulling us out of our staring competition and looked a little taken aback by what it said. He got up and turned on the TV. 

"...We are just now getting reports all over the world of out of this world anomalies. All around the world hundreds upon thousands of unidentified ships have landed and terrorised citizens. So far these aliens have taken over all of the world's military bases, leaving nothing but ashes in their wake. We have gathered exclusive video footage from a military base: Fort Benning in Georgia. Please be advised: this video may be disturbing to younger viewers." 

The video was grainy. There was fire. Everywhere. The military were firing. At what? I couldn't see currently. They were just out of view. People were shouting and screaming. There was an explosion. The military flew backwards. And then I saw them. Towering beasts. 9 ft tall. At least. Pitch black. Gnashing teeth. More beast than man. Long and smooth heads. Two arms and legs. Three fingers. Or claws. They had an exoskeleton. The bullets that were being fired at them ricocheted off easily. Bulletproof. Well, crap. One of the beasts walked towards the camera and, using its tail, slashed at it cutting the feed instantly. 

"The only question that people are asking now is: Where are Earth's Mightiest Heroes?"

Everyone in the room was pale. I walked over to my kids and put my hands on their shoulders. Cap was the one to break the silence. "Suit up."

(A/N: How I imagine the aliens to look like and how I imagine Genesis for the fight. Thank you, Pinterest!)                                            

                           *****************

How rude. I was being hung upside down with my hands strapped to my sides and my body wrapped in chains being tied to the ceiling. Not to mention, I was in space. A man walked into the room. Even from this angle I could tell he was hot. He looked human. But I knew better. I had encountered the beast inside of him just a while ago. His eyes widened slightly when he caught sight of me. He yelled something in an alien language to my guard. The alien guard looked scared. If an alien would look scared, he definitely was. I felt the metahuman proof chains around me loosen slightly and I snapped them with my right arm and flipped onto the ground in a classic superhero pose. Now that I was out of the metal I felt my strength returning. Using what little strength I did have I flung him and the guard into the wall with my metal arm rendering them unconscious. I could have used my powers, but that was something I wanted to keep secret for now. They wouldn't be unconscious for long. They healed fast. The noise must have alerted another guard because one came barging into the room. 

"Alpha..." he trailed off in English looking around the room.

 His eyes settled on me, struggling to pull myself on my feet. He charged towards me, but I passed out before I could see what happened next.

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48 hours ago:

"Everyone shut up! Pepper's calling me!" 

We were currently on a mission. We were going on a trip. In our favourite rocket ship. Zooming through the sky, Little Einsteins! Sorry. My immaturity was currently heightened. Anyway, that was Tony speaking over the comms. 

"Pass the weed Tony!" That was Rhodey. 

"Damn! Put your pants back on Stark. Nasty!" Sam. I internally groaned.

"Come back to bed Tony!" Steve.

"Damn. Did you just revive Ultron?" Natasha.

Pepper just sighed over the comms, tired of our crap. 

"Tony, what's going on? I just saw the report. Harley, Morgan, Knox, Rawiri, Elias, Peter, Raelynn, Galina and I are in the panic room. Is everyone okay?"

 Oh yeah, us supers were currently distributed all over the world. The X-Men and The Defenders were handling Europe, Team Arrow and the Guardians of the Galaxy were handling Asia, The Fantastic Four and Team Green Lantern were in Australia. The Avengers were handling North America along side the Suicide Squad. South America was being handled by Aqua-man, Batman and Bat-woman, Daredevil, Iron Fist and The Watchmen. Asterix, The Atom, Bat Girl, Cat-woman, Kane Wolf man, Ricardo Diaz, and Doc Savage were in Africa. Super-girl, Superman, Chen Na-Wei, Ghost Rider, Elektra, Mutant Ninja Turtles, Hell-boy and Zatara and Zatanna were in Antarctica. "Yeah, we're fine." Tony grunted as he shot a repulsor beam at an alien. Our comms had unlimited range thanks to Shuri and her genius. Using my powers I pulled off the head of an alien that ran towards me. Strangely, they attacked the others, but not me. It was like they were fighting to take me. Kidnap me. They haven't hurt me, but I wasn't taking any chances. I was covered in red blood. I was getting tired. 

"Let me take over."  said Ivy.

 I relinquished my control and let her come out. I felt the familiar ache in my body but nothing more than that. I opened my eyes and my vision was instantly sharpened to a point. Ivy let out a screech and jumped on the nearest alien, ripping it's head off. She continued to do that until there were no aliens for the next 34 blocks. 

"Ivy, you are being relocated. The president is being taken to a secure bunker with an undisclosed location. We need you to go with him to make sure that he stays alive. Bullets from his bodyguards guns won't do anything so, you are being sent to protect him. We need you to meet him at the White House." said Steve, his voice cracking over my comm unit. 

Ivy screeched and opened her wings in conformation and I watched through our shared eyes as we shot into the air and flew to the White House. Twenty minutes later we arrived and landed on the roof. There were some aliens surrounding the house but we quickly got rid of them. One of the guards said something into his radio and then the next thing I know Ivy is following an motorcade of cars with blaring sirens. We flew ahead of them and got rid of anything in our way. After arriving at the secure and undisclosed location, we made our way back to the rest of the Avengers. I felt a sudden pressure enter my mind. It was Knox. 

"Mom! Help! They're here! Please hurry! They're everywhere!" 

Ivy let out a loud screech and shot off to the tower as fast as she could. His voice entered my mind again. 

"Hurry!!!!" 

My heart ached at the fear in his voice. I landed at the tower and saw that it was on lock down. Windows and doors were locked and barred and sentry Iron-Man suits were distributed around the outside of the tower shooting repulsor beams at the beasts. I walked to the lobby doors and once J.A.R.V.I.S identified me, the bars were lifted and doors were unlocked. I shifted back to human form and opened the door to the stairwell. I was exhausted, but the knowledge that those beasts were going after my family and friends gave me a new sense of energy. Like the beasts from before, these ones only seemed to want to contain me. Not kill me. I didn't care. I slaughtered them all. No one messed with my family and got away with it. After killing them all I knocked on the panic room door and yelled out that they were all dead and they could come out. The door immediately opened and I was knocked over by three people hugging me all at once. I resisted the urge to flinch and hugged my sons back just as fiercely. 

"Is everyone okay? Are you hurt?" I asked.

 "No." said Raelynn, emerging from the panic room.

 "We are all okay thanks to them and Peter. They did very well."

 I sighed in relief and gestured for them to follow me. I shifted back into a Griffin and the boys and Raelynn got on my back while Peter followed us, using his webs. Pepper followed in her Iron-Woman suit. I was tired. Exhausted actually. Having so many people on my back only made it harder. I had a plan. But first I needed to get to Wakanda. I poked and prodded at Pepper's mind until she let me in. Unless I was the Red Queen, I usually liked to have the good guys permission to go into their mind. 

"I need you to call Shuri and get her to send a jet to take us to Wakanda. They have a secret underground base there that will keep you safe." I sent to her. 

I felt her accept the command and I heard her talking to Shuri over the comms. Within 6 minutes a jet was hovering in front of us with the cargo door wide open. I flew inside and shifted back when everyone was off me. Hitting a button to close the door I made my way to the cockpit and plotted a course for Wakanda. After that, I have no idea what happened because I was asleep. All too soon I was woken up and I sleepily gestured for the others to follow me. I walked into the palace and after taking a couple of twists and turns I reached the door that would take them to the base. 

"Go down this hall, take two lefts, one right, another left, 3 rights and you will be at a door with a keypad. Enter the code 58996 and it will let you in. You will then have to say a key phrase to get past the guard. The phrase is 'Wakanda nonsense is this?' Say that, and he will let you in."

 I explained. 

"Now go, all of you." I said shoving them towards the door. 

"No." said Elias defiantly. 

"We are coming with you and you can't stop us." 

I raised my brow at him and using my powers I shoved them through the door and locked it. The boys immediately ran to the door and pounded on it, yelling at me to let them out. I ignored them and walked away, despite everything in my body telling me not to. I closed my eyes and concentrated, picturing the place that I wanted to go to. When I opened them I was in front of a huge mansion. It worked! I teleported. 

I walked to the front door and eyed some guards who hadn't noticed me yet. Imbeciles. I decided to have some fun. I leaned against the wall and inspected my nails. After a minute I heard a loud:

"Hey!"

 I looked up and smiled brightly at the approaching guard and waved wildly at him. He went to speak into his radio but I slammed him against the wall with a flick of my wrist, knocking him unconscious. Another guard must have heard the thumping and yelling because he charged towards me, gun in hand. I squealed and went to run inside the house but I smacked my head on the door. I rubbed it and smiled at the guard who was now in front of me. 

"Palu-li-la-la-lulu."

I couldn't seem to find the word I was looking for. 

"Parlili." I thought for a moment.

"Nope, that's not it."

"Parsnip, Parsley, Partner, Partner?"

"Parley?" he offered, boredly.

"Yes, that's it!" I exclaimed excitedly. 

I guess I didn't hear the person behind me because the next thing I knew I felt a sharp sting on the side of my neck and then nothing.

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*A little longer than a few minutes later*

"You know..."

 I started, my head throbbing and vision swimming.

"...I generally try not to make plans for the next day because then the word 'premeditated' gets thrown around the courtroom, but I know I definitely didn't plan for this." 

I looked around the room and saw that I was in one designed for interrogation. Although, anyone who has seen a cop show once in their life knows what an interrogation room looks like. At the other side of the table was a man. A very handsome man.

 Ew, incest. I'll explain later. I was hooked up to a machine. A lie detector. How cliche. My hands and feet were cuffed to the chair. Various bloodied tools were hung on the walls. Torture devices. Oooh, I'm so scared. 

"Let's start off simple. What's your name and how old are you?" he started, leaning back in his chair.

 "My name is Dumbledore and I'm 150 years old. I was born in 1881 and don't know the month or day of my birth." I deadpanned. 

The man looked more amused than anything. 

"Okay Dumbledore. Humour me. What's your real name?" 

"Okay..." I sighed. "...You got me. It's Chuck Norris."

"Your name is not Chuck Norris." he stated.

"How do you know that?" I smirked.

"Unless you are an 81 year old white boy, you are not Chuck Norris."

I huffed at him.

 "You're no fun." 

Using my metal arm I snapped the cuffs and flung the Mafia boss Ryder D'Angelo into the wall, knocking him out. I went to open the door but it suddenly flew open and 6 tall and muscular men barrelled into the room, towering over my 5'5 frame. One of them pointed a gun at me and I swiped it out of his hands and pointed it back at him. He raised a humoured brow at me and lifted his hands in a surrender position. I kept the gun pointed on them and told them to take out their weapons and put them on the table. After putting them on the table I holstered them on my clothes and walked out the door, closing it behind me. What I didn't count to was over twenty guards to be on either side of me pointing automatics at me. I huffed and chucked the gun on the ground as well as my other weapons. I knew I could take them, but I honestly couldn't be bothered. I again, felt something pierce my neck and I slumped to the floor.

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I woke up alone this time. And wrapped in chains too. Joy. I laughed mockingly. 

"Oh look, I'm Ryder D'Angelo. Big, bad mafia boss. Hur-hur-hur"

I strained my left arm and reached into a hidden pocket, pulling out a bobby pin. 

"I'm a big scary man who you don't want to mess with. Hur-hur-hur."

I began to work on picking the padlock that was keeping the chains in place. 

"Gonna be original and kidnap a girl. Hur-hur-hur."

"Gonna lock up the girl instead of kill her because she's not really dangerous to my evil master plan. Hur-hur-hur."

After getting free, using what little strength I had, I kicked down the door. 

"Oh look! Oops! She got out. Hur-hur-hur."

 I suddenly felt a familiar pressure in my head. It was Knox. He was trying to mentally locate me. I blocked him out but I was too late. He had a lock on my location and they would be here any second. I took a deep breath and counted to ten, dimming my anger. Suddenly they appeared in front of me. Now, I was naturally really not good with jump scares, so understandably I let out a scream and felt myself lose balance and topple to the floor. I grumbled under my breath as I heard them hysterically laughing. Picking myself up off the floor I walked to the place where some noise was coming from. Pressing myself to the wall I listened to their conversation.

"How in the hell did she get past the gate?"

"She could be a threat. We need to get rid of her."

" Did you know that playing dance music can help ward off mosquitoes?"

"Shut it, Nikolai"

" I agree with Ronan. She's a threat. A threat we need to get rid of."

"Did you hear the tinge of Russian in her accent? For all we know she's working with the Russians, the Bratva."

"Is it just me, or does something feel familiar about her?"

"It's just you Rhys."

"No, no, I'm with Rhys on this. There is definitely something familiar about her."

"Do you want to know why I feel familiar to you?"

 I asked, stepping into the room. Instantly, guns were pointed at me. Real ones, not the night-night ones from before. I rolled my eyes at them. 

"Oh, yes wise one. Please do, tell us." That would be Ronan. 

Suddenly their guns were ripped out of their hands by a dark looking force and floated next to me. I looked behind me and eyed a sheepish looking Knox. He had created a shadow and made it grab their guns. 

I grabbed them and removed the magazines and loaded bullets and put them on the coffee table. 

"First things first, I would like you to meet my kids: Knox, Elias, and Rawiri." I introduced them, pointing to each of them. 

"What about you?" That would be Sterling.

 "About 16-17 years ago two kids were dropped on your doorstep with nothing but a letter saying their names and that Ryder and Ainsley were the paternal grandparents of these kids. Now, seeing as they were not Sterling's, Ronan's, Rhys', Nikolai's, Donatello's or Ezra's that would mean, you had to have had another sibling. One who was taken 26 years ago during the mafia wars. That sibling was me."

I got the reaction I was expecting.

Nikolai passed out, Ronan collapsed, Ezra and Rhys went pale, Ainsley nearly fell, but stayed upright because of Ryder holding onto her, Donatello also collapsed and Sterling went pale. This was the only other major secret I had besides the triplets. Yes, I had two more kids. They were 16. A boy and a girl. Their names were Evelyn and Azron. Evelyn could manipulate metal. She could protect herself from physical harm, and can stretch her fields to protect a large group, and can suspend persons or objects in the air. She can also suspend herself in flight by riding the Earth's magnetic field. She also has electromagnetic sight. By concentrating she can perceive the world around herself solely as patterns of magnetic and electrical energy. She can perceive the natural magnetic auras surrounding living beings, as well. Evelyn can focus her magnetic energy into powerful concussive blasts.

 She can also overload or short-circuit electrical systems. She can destroy warships with single magnetic pulses. That's why I was here. Her and her brother were very powerful. Had this been a normal mission, the thought to bring my children out into the field wouldn't have even crossed my mind but I had no choice. This was bigger than me. Anyway, Evelyn can also absorb energy. She is tied very closely to Earth's EM Field. As is it affected, so is she. She knows instinctively all that happens to it, and with this link, is granted an odd sort of immortality. Earth lends her strength by it's simple existence. She draws on this strength all unconsciously. 

She can also manipulate the iron inside living beings. It was like blood bending. She can reverse the flow of a crowd's blood making them fall unconscious. She has a great ability to be able to levitate objects metallic and nonmetallic, with her electromagnetic field she can levitate objects and destroy them in the air, or through a small manipulation of gravity, can also cause non-metallic objects to levitate in the air and manipulate it through electromagnetic energy. She has the ability to indirectly manipulate non-metallic objects via metal ores they may contain. She can perceive and manipulate matter at the sub-atomic level. Evelyn has the power to physically bond metallic substances to other elements at an atomic level. This technique allows her to blend alloys to earthen, watery, gaseous and even organic substances, which was pretty cool.

 She also has a connection to the electromagnetic field, allowing her to handle various types of energies such as electric, gamma, x-rays, ultraviolet, visible light, lasers, and more. Her brother was a shifter. He could shift into a blood red dragon. He also had enhanced senses with superhuman strength, stamina, durability, self sustenance, healing, and transformation. He has the ability to get stronger the angrier he gets. Like the Hulk. He can also use his dragon's wings in human form like me. He has the ability to manipulate fire too. Fire cannot burn him and he can produce it in human form too. 

(A/N: Azron's Dragon Azazel below.)

Surprisingly, the triplet's didn't look at all shocked. I'm guessing that when Knox hacked into HYDRA he found out about them, but decided not to tell me. Elias whispered into my ear:

 "Sheepers woman, how many kids do you have?"