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Several hours later, Peter and Andi found themselves in Berlin. They jumped off the train that'd taken them and swung their way down to the ground below. They stopped for a moment when they realized they had no idea where they were supposed to go to find Fury. Peter attempted to ask one of the locals, but was dismissed when she ran away from the pair screaming about "Night Monkeys". Andi simply grabbed him, and the two started running down the street. They didn't make it too far, though, as a slick black Audi pulled to a stop in front of them. Nick Fury was in the driver's seat, and he instructed the teens to get in. Peter hopped into the car without hesitation, and while Andi did get in, she felt a bit off.

"Mr. Fury—"

"You've got a lot of explaining to do," Fury said to Peter. Andi sat in the backseat quietly observing the two of them. There was something off about Fury, something off about his timing. There was no way he could've known the two were on their way to Berlin, and there was no way for him to know why. Andi wouldn't speak up on it just yet, however. She had a plan in place, and it involved wherever he was taking them.

Fury soon pulled into Europol Headquarters. The three of them made their way inside. Andi observed her surroundings rather intently, looking for anything out of the ordinary. She still felt incredibly uneasy, and that feeling continued to grow as they ventured further and further into the building.

They eventually stepped into a rather lavish office, where Maria Hill, or what looked like Maria Hill, stood in the far corner of the room. There was another body present, though, and the mere sight shocked Andi. She hadn't been expecting her there at all, and given what she'd learned about Beck in the last several hours, she wasn't so sure she was even real. She wasn't sure anything around her was real.

"Is there anything you two would like to tell us about your girlfriend?" Fury asked.

"He's talking about EDITH," Maria Hill clarified.

"Look, I made a mistake and I'm sorry, but he is not who you think he is," Peter informed the two of them, his eyes shifting to Aurora. "She can tell you."

"Tell them what, Peter?" Aurora asked.

"That Beck is a liar," Andi answered. "That Mysterio and the Elementals are all fake. But you knew that, didn't you?"

Aurora narrowed her eyes at the teenagers. She seemed to be in thought over the words that were just spoken, but Andi had a difficult time determining whether or not she was being genuine. She hoped Aurora didn't know, and that Beck had purposely kept her in the dark for some sick and twisted reason, but there was a part of her that continued to deny that hope.

"What do you mean it's fake?" Aurora asked them.

"He's been using illusion tech," Peter answered her. "It's how he tricked everyone, it's how he tricked me into giving him EDITH."

Andi pulled the projector out of her bag and slid it across the glass table. "This is a projector Peter pulled off the fire monster back in Prague."

Aurora grabbed the device to study it, while Fury's attention remained on the teenagers.

"So, all that death and destruction we witnessed was created by this?" Fury asked, gesturing to the device in Aurora's hold.

"Not just this," Peter said. "We think he's using drones."

"Well, if this is true then Beck's very dangerous and we need to be smart," Fury said.

Andi stopped and closed her eyes, focusing on the intense unease she began to feel. She could hear a very faint hum around her, and she knew it wasn't normal. Nothing around her was normal, and she couldn't take it anymore. Her and Peter were in danger.

"Who else did you tell about this?" Fury asked the teenagers.

Neither of them answered. While Andi had been aware something was out of place since Fury picked them up at the train station, Peter was only now becoming aware of it. He felt the same thing Andi did, though it'd hit him immediately, while it'd been building inside Andi over the course of several minutes. Fury, Hill, and Aurora noticed something wasn't right with the teenagers, and they spoke up.

"What's wrong, guys?" Aurora asked the two of them, rounding the corner of the table to get closer to them. "Are you okay?"

"Beck is here," Andi and Peter answered simultaneously.

The building around them began to disintegrate, as well as those inside. The only two that remained were Aurora and Fury, both of whom seemed incredibly confused by what was happening around them.

Fury noticed a drone behind Peter and Andi and raised his firearm, but he wasn't quick enough. The drone shot Fury, sending him flying back towards the wall. It then aimed at Aurora. Andi noticed this and tackled Aurora in an attempt to protect her. Though the blast of the weapon didn't strike them, the shockwave was enough to send them both flying over the side of the building. She held on tightly to Aurora as the two fell, and ended up breaking their fall once they hit the ground. Andi coughed and was immediately met with the metallic taste of her own blood. Aurora rolled off of her and onto the ground, her worry for Andi growing by the second.

"Andi, are you okay?" Aurora asked.

Andi nodded her head and pushed herself off the ground. She wasn't worried about herself. She was far more concerned with Aurora's safety, as well as Peter's. She'd heard another shot after falling and could only assume it'd been meant for Peter. Looking to her left proved her assumption right. Peter stood about 10 yards away surrounded by drones. Andi made an attempt to help him, but was stopped by the sound of Beck's voice.

"Andi, Andi, Andi," Beck tsked. "I knew you'd be the hardest to fool between you and Peter, but luckily for me, I found a way to fix that."

Andi took a deep breath and eyed the drones closing in on her and Aurora. She backed towards her sister protectively, her stance defensive.

"The look on your face when Aurora walked into the room was priceless." Beck laughed when he remembered the moment he spoke of. "I knew then you'd spend your time trying to figure out how she was even alive. I didn't have to worry about you meddling in my business, because you were so focused on having your big sister back, but here we are now."

Aurora's eyes widened slightly, and she looked at Andi, who still stood protectively in front of her. "What is he talking about, Andi?" she asked, a certain desperation in her tone.

Andi didn't provide her with an answer, though. She was focused on making sure the two remained safe from harm. "Why don't you come out of hiding and we'll see where my focus lies then?"

"I never wanted to do this," Beck said. "Not to you or Peter. But you know too much."

Andi shot a web toward one of the drones, but it disappeared into darkness. Andi turned around to find that Aurora was gone as well, and she panicked. She was no longer in the building she'd been in before, but instead she was trapped in the darkness. She glanced over to see Peter and started running toward him, only for him to disappear as well.

"Peter!" Andi called into the darkness, though she didn't receive the answer she wanted.

"Peter's gone, Andi," Beck's voice snapped her out of her trance. "Just like your parents, just like Aurora, and just like Tony."

Andi's surroundings changed yet again. This time she could see her parents and Aurora hanging on for dear life as the Chitauri zoomed around them. Fire and chaos ensued as a result of the attack, and Andi watched as the building they were in began to collapse. She ran to save them, but she never made it. All she could hear were the terrified screams of her family as they met their ends, and her heart ached inside her chest.

"No, no, no, this isn't real!"

"Isn't it, though?" Beck was taunting her and she knew that, but her emotions were taunting her as well. She was having a difficult time separating illusion from reality with her ever-changing surroundings. "Didn't Stark die because he chose to save your life over his own? And for what? You can hardly keep a sixteen-year-old boy safe."

Andi was forced to watch her Uncle Tony die again as her surroundings shifted. Of course, Beck had no way to fabricate the exact memory that played on a constant loop inside Andi's head, but he was not afraid to try.

"T-Tony..." Andi's voice faltered as she spoke to the illusion of her Uncle. He was on the ground in front of Thanos, his face battered and bruised. He looked over at Andi with familiar brown eyes and opened his mouth to speak.

"It should've been you," Tony forced out.

Andi swallowed the lump in her throat and started toward Tony, stopping only when Thanos plucked him from the ground by the throat. The Mad Titan squeezed the very life from Tony, while Andi stood there and watched with tears in her eyes. Her anger peaked, and she ran towards Thanos. Before Andi could make an attempt to incapacitate the Titan, he raised Tony's armored, lifeless body and threw it towards her. Andi's eyes widened, but she didn't have the time to move before she was struck. The impact sent her flying backwards yet again, and she crashed through what she felt to be rock.

"You were meant to be Tony's legacy, but all you've managed to succeed at is being a complete disappointment," Beck practically spat. "Your own friends and family have to walk on eggshells around you because they don't know if the next thing they say will finally be what breaks you!"

"Shut up!" Andi screamed. She shot a web at anything and everything in an attempt to locate Beck's drones, but she was unsuccessful.

"Even Peter is better off without you, and you get to live with that knowing in the end you still couldn't protect him."

Andi's surroundings faded away to reveal a construction yard. It looked real, but Andi was focused on the fact that it felt real. Up until that point, nothing had. She looked around for any sign of Peter, though, and her heart lurched in her chest when she noticed him on the tracks. There was no time at all for her to even think before he was struck by an oncoming train. A scream of anguish left her mouth, and she fell to her knees on the ground. There was no fighting the tears in her eyes, and she ripped her mask off, taking in as much fresh air as she could. Her eyes found Beck's figure, and she noticed he was making his way towards her.

"You've watched everyone you love die," Beck said to her as he grew closer. "I figured it was only fitting to let you watch him die, too."

"Go to hell," Andi forced out. The tears continued to fall over her cheeks, and she grabbed her chest tightly as the pain began to radiate throughout her body. There was no amount of physical pain in the world, however, that could drown out the emotional pain she felt. It was as if everything she'd been feeling for the last eight months had made its way to the surface at once, and she could no longer hold it inside. At this point, she was desperate to let go.

"I'll meet you there."

Beck readied the drones to finally get rid of Andi, and she closed her tear-filled eyes, more than ready to meet her end. A gunshot sounded, but there was no pain on Andi's end. She opened her eyes to see what had happened and noticed Beck falling to the ground. Andi looked over to see Aurora standing with a gun in her hands, and she let out a breath of relief.

"Are you okay?" Aurora asked, kneeling down to Andi's level.

Andi shook her head this time and let the tears continue to fall. She stood up with Aurora's help, her attention falling on the man that'd taken away the last little bit of her heart she held onto. Beck was still alive. Aurora had shot him in the thigh. His biggest enemy now was time, and Andi wasn't too sure he had long left before he bled out. She didn't care, though. The only thing she felt as she looked at him was pure hatred, and along with her other emotions, she couldn't seem to contain it either.

"EDI—"

The sound of his voice sent another wave of anger through Andi, and she cut him off by shooting a web at his mouth. Without an ounce of hesitation, she kicked him in the face, sending his body flying back a few feet. There was so much more she wanted to do to him, but before she could even think about starting forward, Aurora grabbed her arm gently. Andi turned to look at her, her eyes now red from the amount of tears she cried.

"It's not worth it," Aurora told her softly. "It's not you."

Andi's lip trembled as her emotions began to overwhelm her. When Aurora noticed this, she pulled Andi into her arms. The gesture sent Andi spiraling, and she began to sob. All she felt was an endless nothingness. She'd succumbed to the wave pulling her under, and she no longer wanted to find her way back to the surface. The most important person in her life had been torn away from her, and she wasn't sure how to come back from that. She wasn't sure she wanted to.

"C'mon," Aurora said to Andi, pulling her gently towards the Audi she'd shown up in. She opened up the passenger's side door and helped Andi inside before heading over to the driver's side. She wasted no time at all in taking off down the dirt road and onto the highway, while Andi sat next to her sobbing quietly. The sight of it caused a dull ache inside Aurora's chest, and she wondered if it had anything to do with what Beck said back at the construction yard. She wondered if what he said was true, but the only one that could provide her that truth was not in the appropriate mental state to give it. She figured it was worth a try, however.

"Andi?" Aurora spoke quietly. "Can I ask a question?"

"Hm?"

"Are we—are we really sisters?"

Andi wiped her face, though the tears didn't stop. She knew the conversation was inevitable, but she didn't think it'd happen just yet. There was nothing she could do but answer her, though. It wasn't like she had somewhere to go to avoid the conversation, though she wished she did. In fact, she wished she had somewhere to go to avoid everything.

"We are," Andi finally answered after moments lost in thought.

Aurora was obviously perplexed by the information, and she took a deep breath. "But how? I mean, how could I not know I had a sister?"

Recalling all the trauma that she'd been through yet again was not the easiest on Andi, but she pushed through it for the sake of providing answers. "Um, to be honest, I think whatever happened to you that day in New York affected your memory."

"What happened in New York?" Aurora asked her.

"You really don't remember?" Andi's voice was quiet as she focused on sifting through her emotions, as well as her conversation with Aurora.

"All I remember is waking up in the hospital one day with a doctor standing over me," Aurora started. "He told me I'd been injured in some sort of extra-terrestrial accident. I suffered from a severe traumatic brain injury. I couldn't remember anything about myself or my life or anyone I loved. The only reason the doctors knew my name was because of the necklace I was wearing when they found me."

Andi remembered that necklace clearly. It was the one she'd picked out for Aurora's fifteenth birthday. Andi had a matching one. She wore it every day up until the point she thought she'd lost Aurora. After that, the emotion associated with the piece of jewelry became too much for Andi to bear.

"They called me Aurora Doe." Aurora laughed as if it was a joke, but Andi knew it wasn't.

"We spent so long looking for you," Andi revealed to Aurora. "Everyone told us you were dead, even though your body had never been found. Apparently there were a lot of cases like that after the conclusion of the battle."

"I didn't know anyone was looking for me," Aurora said. "I didn't even know I knew anyone that would look for me. I waited and waited for my memories to come back, but they never did. It was like my life had ended and began again that day in the hospital. For years after that, until I turned eighteen, I spent my time in-and-out of foster homes. When I turned eighteen, I got out of the foster system and focused on nothing else but building a life for myself."

Andi could only cry as she listened to Aurora tell her story. They'd lost so many years together, and neither of them had known until now.

"It took me five years to finish school and get my MD," Aurora continued as she drove through the crowded highway. "Despite losing my memory, I was still the smartest in my class."

"Intelligence seems to run in the family."

"Beck told me how smart you are," Aurora said to her.

The sound of the name angered Andi, and she shook her head. "Beck doesn't know anything about me," she remarked.

"Do you really believe that, Andi?" Aurora glanced over at her. "He knew enough about you to know you were a threat to him. You—a seventeen-year-old girl—were a threat to him. You remember what he said, right? He knew you'd be the hardest to fool of you and Peter, so he used me to eliminate that obstacle."

"My question is how did he know you were my sister to begin with?" Andi asked her. "And how were you not aware of what he had planned? Weren't you his partner?"

Aurora shrugged her shoulders. "I really wish I had an answer for you, but I don't know how he knew about me. And all I knew was that this attractive and charismatic superhero needed a doctor at his side to help those in need after the initial job was done. I promise you I had no idea anything to this extent was happening. I had no knowledge of his intentions for you and Peter."

Andi took a deep breath at the sound of Peter's name, and the tears began to flow faster. She was surprised she had any left to cry, but after months of containing her emotions, she figured she had a while to go before her tank was finally empty.

"P-Peter, he t-took Peter away from m-me," Andi cried. She wiped her face aggressively. The moisture on her face was starting to aggravate her, but so were a lot of other things. All she wanted to do was scream and cry until she couldn't anymore. She was tired of feeling so much pain. She was tired of living a life she had to struggle through for the sake of happiness, only for that happiness to be ripped away from her.

"I am so sorry, Andi," Aurora apologized quietly. And she truly was sorry. From the moment she met Andi and Peter, she knew the two of them to be good kids with two very good hearts. They also cared deeply for one another. Aurora could see how much Andi loved Peter just by looking into her eyes. She was distraught and absolutely heartbroken over his loss.

"Can I borrow your phone, please?" Andi asked Aurora through her tears.

Aurora didn't answer. She simply took the device from her pocket and handed it to Andi. Andi unlocked it and dialed a familiar number, while Aurora sat in her seat wondering who exactly she was trying to contact.

"Who are you calling?" Aurora asked.

"Someone to help us with our little Beck problem." Andi pressed the phone to her ear as it began to ring. "You wouldn't let me kill him, so I'm gonna go ahead and assume he has a plan in place to help maintain this façade of his."

"Unless he bled out," Aurora suggested.

Andi shook her head and wiped her face again. "He's smart, but he's not smart enough to pull this off on his own. He likely has a few someones on the inside helping him."

Aurora didn't have the chance to respond, as Andi had answered the phone. She listened to her speak to the person on the other line, but she couldn't quite understand what was being said. It was as if she was speaking in code, and it was not at all a code Aurora knew.

Andi hung up the phone a minute later and turned her attention to Aurora, who was still curious about the conversation.

"What was that about?" Aurora asked. "I couldn't understand a word you said."

"That's the point of a coded message, Aurora." Andi rolled down the window and held Aurora's phone up in her hand, earning a questioning look from her sister. "I'm sorry about your phone, by the way, but it's safer this way."

"What—"

Aurora's mouth fell open as she watched Andi crush the phone in the palm of her hand. She tossed it out the window and put the window back up.

"Andi!" Aurora exclaimed. "I still had a year left on that contract!"

"It's a good thing I have the means to get you another phone," Andi remarked.

Aurora rolled her eyes and turned her attention back to the road. "Where are we going, Andi?"

"To see Happy."